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i I ’I ' pc ' TMC I OCAL FIELD n m - .. .V mid There and Nonsense. OREGON NEWS NOTES < OF GENERAL INTEREST ft Principal Events of the Wee 1 Briefly Sketched for Infor Vernonia is a good town to tie Mrs. Clarence Coyle and baby mation of Our Readers. returned home this week. Mrs, Nelson went to Woodburn to ac The number of persons of school age Mrs, J. Emmons, is home to company them. in Lane county when the census was spend Christmas with home fo ks to. < e e 4 e t • < f i THANK you all for the substantial eviJe ice of ’ ' your appreciation of your efforts to locate and estab lish our place of business in this locality. We have re- ceived many kind words of encouragement ana cheer from our customers, friends and acquaintances of Vernonia dur- ing the short time we have been here. For the future and for you our main policy and endeavor, at all times, and wit’.out shouting fiom the house tops, will be to use and ul’Ply Gie Golden Rule in this place of husines. Thank ^ou’ U 8. Hoffman taken last month was 11.921. The latest cold snap has threatened a tieup of a large crew engaged in Good Paint packing apples near Imbler. Is necessary for a good job of The Roseburg turkey market is by Alvin Parker is home on his far the mos Inactive the Umpqua val House Painting. We carry a ley has known for many year. Christmas vacation from Corxal- 118. ' large line of the best paints on The annual convention of the Oregon State Teachers' association will be held the market. in Portland December 27, 28 and 29. Mr. McChesney, went to Albany Plans of incorporation for a $300,- to spend the Holidays with home 000 tourist hotel at Ashland have been folks. drawn and were sent to Salem for fil ing. Good heavy team, wagon and Scott Ward. 75, native of Oregon and pioneer resident of Linn county, died harness for sale. S e Weaver at bis home In Albany after three Necessity of increased facllltt Clark. Vernonia. handling the rolling stock of months' illness. Salem Heights received first prize , Southern Pacific company at Communications are not senti for the best community exhibit of veg . Brooklyn shops In Portland has ro- ments expressed by the paper in etables, Including corn, at the Marlon- . aulted in active construction work be- which they appear. Ing started on three new bulldtnge, Polk corn show held at Salem. Th- Bank of Woodburn has compiled which will cost approximately 150,000, Mr. and Mrs. Sitts of Keasy I statistics, showing the berry pack In according to officials of the company. Resolutions requesting the state Woodburn in 1922 amounted to 3,988,- have moved to their new home legislature to do nothing to disturb 594 pounds, valued at $201.284.54. in Vernonia. Contract for the construction of the , the workings of the present state com Griswold union high school at Helix pensation law were adopted at a con Mr and M s L. J. Garner Observations by an Observer has been let to the Waale & Shattuck vention of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen at Springfield. The Construction company of Portland. Salesman for the Burrors Adding The Southern Oregon Hampshire meeting took up several problems of Machine Cx and resident of As We have noticed eome wonderful Swine Breeders’ association was form legislation and also the matter of an toria was in town a few days happenings among our city officials the ed at Grants Pass, when 35 breeders ( advance in wages. A warning was issued to all dance this week. past few days and believe that the from Jackson and Josephine-counties hall managers in Douglas county that public should be informed about the met. marvelous efficency of the Department The Eugene chamber of commerce In the future the presence of an Intox Miss Lucy St- nton, who is tea h- of Public Safety. Cm of the Plain directors voted to back Astoria’s re icated person at any dance held within the Beaver school was in towr Clothes men who evidently is in charge quest for a $3,000,000 government ap the county will mean the immediate this week she is goinv to St Hel of the Morals Squad, discovered a 15 propriation to assist in reconstructing forfeiting of the license issued to the dance manager unless a warrant is ens to take the teachert examin year old girl beastly Intoxicated and the city. by promut and courageous action im Because of the heavy snowfall and secured for the arrest of the person ation. mediately brought the matter to the unfavorable weather conditions in cen disturbing the dance. A poison campaign against the jack attention of the child's parents. The tral Oregon, work on a number of Irri rabbits of the high desert In Deschutes matter was investigated by the said gation projects has been abandoned for Heck’s Express county will be started within the next parents, and several other people, and the winter. trunks, baggage, Deliveries any no evidence of intoxication was appar Jesse P. Webb was pardoned by Act few days under the direction of an time. Leave orders at R & L ent to those who looked into the mat ing Governor Ritner after serving expert sent out by the United States ter. Also the peace and dignity of the more than 11 years for the murder oi biological survey In order that the barber shop. We’P haul it. city was rudely shattered by a party W. A. Johnson in a Portland hotel on stores of hay saved for winter feeding of cattle may not be devoured by the of young men rectntly who were sing June 20, 1910. We hear that W. 0 Galaway, in.» in various parts of the city, and Ground was broken for the first cot voracious rodent hordes. It was reported at Salem that the Presiden' o’ the Bank of Verno these viscio is rascals were promptly tage of the W. C. T. U. children's farm nia. is under hospital treatment arrested and wd hope pun-shed as they home near Corvallis Saturday after Eastern & Western Lumber company Portland has purchased approxt- for a week or so with ulcer- of deserved. We a e at a loss however noon, according to announcement by of to understand the f ilure of the Poiice officers of the farm home corporation. mately 1,000,000,000 feet of timber in the stomach. We hope to see Dep; ttment to function properly in re Articles of Incorporation were filed | the Cascade range in Marion and him feeling fine in a short time. gard to a disturbance near the dance in the slate corporation department at Clackamas counties from the Foster hall where two men were stripped of Salem by the World’s Electro-Industri Timber company of Milwaukee, Wls. their coats and trying to fight, but al exposition, to be held in Portland The tract lies north of the Silver Falls A Chanc“ to Plav Sant : If both so intoxicated they could hardly in the year 1927. The capital stock Is Timber company holdings. you know of any children in -tand on their feet, and the vile lan The state labor department sent a $5,000,000. Vernonia mho will not see Sant t guage used could be heard a city block Snow, varying in depth from two to representative to Astoria to invnoti- Claus this Christmas, will you away. Several people witnessed thia three feet, forced suspension of the I gate the labor situation there. Reporttf notify the Eagle before Saturday and ail say that the Department of Pelican Bay Lumber company’s log , reaching C. H. Gram, labor commit* night. A good Santa has asked Safety was represented, but cannot ging operations near Kirk. Two camps sioner, indicated that a large number 1 of men were headed for the lower Co this paper to report any names understand why no arrests were made employing about 280 men, were closed lumbia river city, while others in this case, Also we knovof another for the winter. that may possibly be missed. case where a man had to be escorted Francis T. Wade, prominent attor were employed there before the rome by a minion cf tha law as he ab ney of Moro, was appointed district are leaving for other cities. Action In the lower house of Miss Hazel Malmten, who is solutely was unable to navigate by him attorney of Sherman county to suc . gress for relief of Astoria fire suffer self. We recall however that laboring ceed C. M. Huddleston, who resigned. | attending school at Willamette man wno was mildly intoxicated Wts The appointment was announced by ers will follow upon a telegraphic re- University, was in a coasting fined $15. in the past few days and i Acting Governor Ritner. j port of the conditions requested by accident at Salem last week, A this was all the money th s man had I The grading on the Shea hill cut-off . Secretary of War Weeks, it was decid string of sleds were being pulled -ad could secure. We will have im on the Lebanon-Cascadia road is about ed after a conference between Repre- behind a i auto when another provements in this city if t e s :pply completed, and the rocking will start entative Hawley of Oregon. Majority Leader Mondel! and Chairman Madden car ran into them. Miss Malm- of laboring men hold out and our brew in a few days and will continue this 1 of the house apnroprlations committee. masters and distillers bring in a sutti- winter, until the road is fully complet-1 sten was bruised, but not seri cient supply to cover demands, That <-d. TI i I h new road is 3.8 miles long. ' The Association of District Attor ou ly hurt. also reminds us that one of the most Vincent Astor of New York city, . neys of Oregon, in annual session at horrible dens of iniquity has been head of the Astor family and a direct i Eugene, went on record as favoring closed by our city dads. Some of us descendant of the Colonel John Jacob I 1 the repeal of the present woman Jury Nearly everybodv has either a common foUs have seen the manage Astor who founded Astoria as a furl i law on account of its cumbersome pro- job or a business If everybody ment of the dance hall eject persons trading post in 1811, telegraphed the* cedure and impossibility of procuring attends to that job or business under ti • influence of liquor and know Astoria relief committee $5000 for its ' - a Jury in many statutory cases wherein and leaves gossip alone, what a positively that this same management fund. I the law requires that half of the Jury busy and congenial world we has refused to admit persons who evi ’ Announcement of the letting of the j shall be women and also favoring a would have. A' talking, wag dently had liquor in their possession, contract for reconstruction of the cen-1 I law compelling women to serve. There were four fatalities in Oregon ging. gossiping tongue not only and has paid the Dept, of Safety to tral Oregon irrigation district main ' due to industrial accidents during the keep order in the place and has com flume south of Bend has been made, | stirs up strife genera ly, but it plied in every wa with the require* the Warren Construction company’s week ending December 14, according ruins the person, socially and in ments of the law. We are also foolish bid of $136,098.90 being accepted by to a report prepared by the state in dustrial accident commission. The a busimss way, that harbors enough to think that the majority of | the directors. victims were: H. H. Nestle, mill work Th«- cost of commodities in Oregon the people who patronize the place are such a habit. respectable citizens, and the hoodlums has increased approximately 10. per | er, Eugene; W. W. Mead, logger, Ma are in the minority. There his never' cent during the last year, according pleton; A. H. Johnson, fouudryman. At tip' 1 ant regular meet been at any time to our knowledge a to bids received by the state board of Portland, and Frank Arnott, wood A total of 605 ing of I he Woman's Relief situation where it could not be con control for supplies to be furnished ; bucker, North Bend. reported for the week, accidents were trolled by tha Dept, of Safety. The to the state institutions during the ' Coip“ No. 49, Dec. 16, 1922, time elaborate summer club- Plans for an next six months. is not far distant we hope when the fol owing officers were the citizens will demand that each and Alvin M. Owsley of Texas, national , bouse and hunting lodge, to be the of any game association club elected for the coming year: every violator of the law be treated commander of the American Legion equal without favoritism and even those who and rated as one of the foremost ora- i house in the northwest, were drawn President Mr». Sarah A. are vinlators admit, that there is justice tors of the country, will arrive in Ore- - up at the meeting of the Santlam Fish Spencer; Senior Vice Pres) in this i equest. We also would use gon on January 4 and -will address a and Game Protective association held care in destroying the reputa mass meeting in Portland on Friday at Albany. The association, which ‘lent, Mrs. Minnie Johns; extreme comprises several sportsmen and am tion of young ladies as this is coo-ider- night, January 5. Junio.* Vice Preii lent, Mr* ed a dangerous passtime and not The state highway commission, un ateur huntsmen clubs of Linn county, to build the clubhouse at Clear Kate McDonald; Chaplain, classed as an indoor sport. If the der the laws of Oregon, has authority plans lake, one of the moot beautiful loca to condemn lands for right-of-way pur situation is beyond control of the offi Mrs. Emm i W^oi; Tre.iaur cials of this city we will gladly organ poses within the boundaries of incor-, tions in the west. er, Mrs. May Mell ng r;Cuii ize a viligance committee and will porated towns and cities, according toI To move the entire perishable fruit decision by Judge Percy Kelly of the crop in the states of Oregon, Washing ductor, Mrs. Emma Greener; straighten out matters to the en ire a Marion ton and Idaho would require every re county circuit court. mtisfaetion of all those concerned Guard, Mrs. Louanna Rog By the way, do you suppose that an Because the Pacific Telephone & frigerator car in the United States for trip between the place of produc ers. Mrs. Gladys Ges» II inquery by the Grand Jury into several Telegraph company refused to comply one situations in the past 60 davs would with an order issued by the public tion and the markets, according to H. Smith was chosen by th« assist the de *ent element in arriving service commission requiring the cor H. Corey, a member of the Oregon pub newly elected officers as the at the truth? We have been hearing poration to set up and keep a separate lic service commission, who has bean many strange and weried stories about depreciation reserve account, the com In Washington for several weeks at Installing Officer. Inscal a conditions and it is a safe bet that mission sent a letter to John Carson, tending the railroad merger hearing lion of officers will be to ld s meonu will tell the truth, no matter district attorney of Marion county, before the interstate commerce oom how painful it may be, and lets give it urging that he institute proceedings mission. Mr. Corey said ho was told the th.rd caurduy in Janu> • try. in the courts for the enforcement of that the recent car shortage was not I^eas Rose, ary. the penalty provided by law in such due to a lack of carriers, but was the Harrison Kose. result of insufficient motive power. s •Met. J. P. McDonald spent a few days in Portland last week. i < ■ A Christmas and New Years Greetings HOFFMAN HARDWARE CO We are Here to SERVE YOU LANE & CO i a « 1 t « » < t 1 I » i > I 1 « I I I I $ J I 1 i i 1 1 i 1 1 « 1 1 i j i Í ./ L _&-j IftdTitft ïT’’ i \ J Guarantee Everything We Sell Both Hardware and Groceries Both Stocks Absolutely New My Grocery Stock is the est Obtainable G. C. MELLINGtd, Groceries •‘The Home of the Market Basket CARDS Ladies Calling Cards Baby Birthday Cards, Plate Cards, Business Cards % The Eagle Has Them Let us print your cards Live and Let Live Patronize Home. 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