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Larde “ Wnumia entered aa second-class mailer Auguat 4, 1022, at lite post office at Ve.-, jais , O.^u, nnder the Act of Marc a 3, \&TQ Volume ls Number 28 VIRNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1923 Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner MOUTHPIECE of the NEHALEM VALLEY "GOOD ENOUGH" IS NEVER WELL DONE any timber owner is going to give us anything we don’t ask for or go and get. This school district is lucky in that it is spread out for miles, taking in millions of feet of timber that will build our schools and roads. It’s really too bad we can’t use a TIMBER OWNERS WILL DO IT; $100,000 school building at present. LET’S GET THE BEST When this timber is gone, and it is going fast, we won’t feel like taxing In the old settled communities the farmers for necessities. And, on where the same farmers and their second thought, Mr. Tourish and sons, from generation to generation, other big timber men will get this make the town, and year in and year tax money from foreign nations that out through a lifetime the town is a buy their products. splendid berg of the same population Timber holders would probably be today and a hundred years hence—in against a good ten-room school house, such a town, and there are many of they would have friends in the dis them, any citizen would be flattered trict that pay no taxes themselves, to know that on his tombstone those vote against all these improvements. left would read:, "He was a most con The timber men are wise and they servative citizen.” We, at one time, I are shrewd business men; it is up to in a small town, would “write-up” our us to be as shrewd toward our own business men occasionally and for interests. This is a timber country years we would say in our little piper today. Get what we can. In ten that Mr. Gillies was one of our most years it will be more of a farming conservative citizens. country and we need the roads and It tickled Mr. Gillies; he was put on the schools. the council; he took up the collection in the church and was on the school BUSINESS MAN HAS A SAY board. He was conservative, and that was all we could say—and it was all. It is the rank and file of the resi The same yesterday, today and to morrow. The little, town, last we dential sections that keep up a city. heard, is the same size it was thirty The laboring man who keeps the years ago. Mr. Gillies has gone to wheels going and the substantial his reward, one of the most conserva home owner who builds to the im tive men in town, and the town is still provement of the community. In city affairs, the business man, too, dreaming in the same way, a pretty is certainly entitled to a “say.” It is place of the Rip Van Winkle type. It is mighty hard to 'ransplant a sleepy safe to say that “Bridge” street is at village into a thriving city over night. present paying two-thirds of the taxes It has been done in the boom days to be collected in Vernonia for the of Oklahoma or the Klondyke, but the running of the city of Vernonia. It citizetis composing the populace were is the business man who is constantly donating liberally to every worthy not over-conservative. To be conservative is a splendid cause; it is the business man who trait; we need that element'in our pays for his lot. his building, and his citizenship, but like all things, it can stock, as well as for the privilege of be overdone to the detriment of the doing business. It is the business city. Many of the leading men of man who is interested in our city, this community are too conservative; our schools, our administration, just they don’t comprehend the fast as much as the vacant lot owner or growth; they can't realiez that Ver the home owner. He is entitled to nonia is a city now and will mors his “says.” If the business man is than double within a year. They renting his building he pays taxes, have heard the statement, but are like and higher taxes, than if he owned it. the farmer at the circus looking at a FORGET IT giraffe and remarking that there wasn't any such animal. What you get new you must pay for, but if we “If you see a tall fellow ahead of a crowd, have two thousand new citizens to help pay, it will be cheai>cr all around, A leader of men, marching fearless and proud, and mean the improvements neces And you know of a tale whose mere sary. telling aloud The main street here must be gotten into shape before spring, our walks Would cause his proud head to in an guish be bowed, in, our water system completed, and of equal importance, our school It’s a very good plan to forget it. buildings large enough to hold the If you know of a skeleton hidden ayvay children. The teachers are turning children away now. Some thought In a closet, and guarded, and kept from the day four more'rooms would answer the purpose—that is axpensive conssrva- In the dark; and whose showing, whose sudden display, tism. Four rooms this summer would mean four more rooms next year fol Would cause grief and sorrow and lifelong dismay. lowing. Why not do it right in the first place? All under one roof and It’s a very good plan to forget it. at the same time. Why not a new ten- If you know of a thing that would darken the joy room school building with a large (LARGE) auditorium. It would be Of a man or a woman, a girl or a boy. full in three terms if the present in That would wipe out a smile, or the least bit annoy. crease would fall off 50 per cent. Friday night a little school play A fellow or cause any gladness to cloy, was given in the High School Audi torium, and it proved not half large- It’s a very good plan to forget it.” enough. A contract is let for 200 new Mr. Van Blaricon has some mighty residences in Vernonia. That means 200 more families besides the natural good ideas, and "Hy” is as well versed growth and increase. That means at on Vernonia doings as the next one. least two children to the family and One good trait about him is that he 400 more children, enough new ones isn’t above being convinced. “Hy” by fall to fill six new rooms. Now, says what Vernonia needs now is four throw up your hands and yell TAXES I new rooms on the present school That is the all-important part of it. house and a new eight-room school Don’t even think for a minute that on Vernonia Heights. Constructive Talks HIS advertisement marks the start of a series of constructive talks with you and your banker. They will deal with every phase of your financial problems, and the solution of them. T Advertising Medium of a Big Pay Roll Community I Birds Our Friends ( Nehalem Valley Song Birds il BANK of VERNONIA \ LILLIAN CONDIT, Editor I. i i Grove m the deba'e last Friday Some mightv good effor;s night.of which ».he quest on was were made toward getting the | They are Hungry and Dry Resolved: That the U. S. should Roosevdt Highway extended to grant the Philippine islands Portland via the Nehalem. The their Independf nee. Isabel Con- Bill introduced by Mr. Mile» Let Each Family Throw out Feed as Long dit and Bessie McDonald upheld was defeated in the House J uee.- as Snow Covers the Ground the affirmative side of the ques day. All that we can do now ft tion and argued their way to a in this respect is to "Forget it’ '. victory f. r Vernonia. Our nega- Pass it up with other dr» an >« i rive team, composed of Ruth like the 1927 Fair dream. 'A .• COUNCIL PUTS OFF AWARD Heverling and Fiorian Mills, de can spend our surplus ener> v bated Beaverion’s affirmative in figuring how to pay an ><.- UNTIL NEXT MONDAY NIGHT team there, the same night, but come tax. We have still g> c lost bv a two to one decision. lots of Timber land left and w e At the special Council meating held Thursday five bids A-ere Miss Holiday, who accompanied might put more of our road lax read on the construction of the Vernonia Water System. The them to Beaverton, reported along fi his route. Eventtmhy. Council decided to wait until Monday night, however, before ac that the score was very in years to come, getting it pa' - cepting any of the bids. eve.n and that our team commit ed. Astor a and Clatsop County The Vernonia Con st .'uctio’1 Co. was a bidder on the Water System. Their time limit to nmaa the job was 75 days. Conside- ted itse’f very creditably. say liftle but keep at ip With ing everything, it I j »ked lik? tp • home company’s bid was the The High School play, which this years appropiations Clatsop was given in the H gh School will have 15 miles paved this best, ind would be the quickest. Auditorium Friday evening, was <way. Their policy is five miles a decided success in more way« a year. Columbia and Waaing- LITTLE DAMAGE ON PITTSBURG ROAD than one. The ticket sellers re ton Counties might do som« - ported $99 65 as the total dqor thing toward it; The Highway Acting Roadmaster «J. E. Eilertson, i receipts. Commission might help us, but who is also county engineer, reports that the storms of January did little A Girls’ athletic meeting wag for present, it uont look encour- damage to the grade of the St. Hel- Mr. Blakely informs us that he .1 at 12:30 Tutsday for the agin ens-Pittsburg road. In some places, he said, the grade had settled, owing Mr. Martinaux, a first class j w purp is : of deciding wheth ?r or to the heavy rainfall but this was eler, is moving a big stock of I not to stage a game there.»b- Mrs. H. E. Hodges has been quite expected and the grade could be re jewelry here to occupy the ruary 23, as suggested ill then iick w.th a severe cold, threatening established at little cost. Blakely building. Be lure next recent letter. No d»fi‘ii.e con pneumonia. The grade from Trenholm to a point 1500 feet west of the Little Clatskanie week. elusion ‘as to the matter was School Dist. Bond Election bridge is rocked and no damage was reached. done on this stretch of the road and You Can Build a Wark As mt st of the students coula STATE OF OREGON,» it is being traveled each day. »xjuniy of Colombia, 5 SS. The grade from that point to not att« nd school Wed esday on Se(iooi No 47./ within two miles of Pittsburg is in Anyone wanting a sidewalk account of the deep snow, mi st No ice District is hereby given that at ihe good condition, Mr. Eilertson stated and with favorable weather rocking built, will do well to see Mr. of the classes were dispensed Sch.ol Dibtrict No. 47 bond eiecii i> of the balance of the road should Fowler. hereby called to be held at ihe Gr«de with. begin about April 15th. Joplin & Elder School i>ouse in and for School Di>- have a contract for the rocking of H, V. Gates n* IL.';-I»,;r-, ar d Our Commercial teacher. Miss trict No. 47. of Coiurrbia f'rwntv. i'r - about five miles on this end of the Gleason, wa-, ,h Wednesday . no gon, on ¿M>turuay, U.r 441 im . . I . - road and it is expected they will re W. A Rotcliff of Chicago, are was unable to attnsd school. ruary, A. L/., laZS, imscwuum «.. u among the engineers and con ! I Hew Big Jewelry Store For Vernonia Soon sume work as soon as weather condi tions permit.—Mist. CROSSWALKS ARE IN The city marshal has put in several good crossings where they were badly needed around the city. Now, if you can jump from one crossing to an other, you can do your shopping with out getting your feet wet, and having to go to bed early with a mustard plaster on your chest. Property own ers can build their own walks if they choose, any time they choose. No law against building a sidewalk. tractors registered at the Ver nonia Hotel this week. Mr , Rode.iff is one of ihebidlers on the big mill contract here. White Japs "Joe Boon, Sr , of Medirian, has e >ld his farm to a Jan for $200 an acre’’.—Aurora Obser ver, The above little item clipp< d from an exchange tells WE CONSIDER IT IMPORTANT a story. The man selling this The Eagle will run each week a farm, according to the paper, number of different articles on "The evidently was not much interes- Cottage Garden.” Some will be illus trated and the reading matter will be ted*in the Japanese question. absolutely accurate from the best- He was more interested in the versed gardeners in the agricultural $200 per acre. Now, why blame world. Every home can have a garden. It the japs for overrunning the helps the family, the home, the com Pacific Coast when we have munity. Read the articles each week white men, supposer giy Amer as they will appear. icans, who invite them, who will A PARTY WE MISSED sell them farms and help them ' The Eagle failed, last week, to re to get a fcot-hold? There are port the birthday party given by his Communities that will not stand many schoolmates and friends, for for their citizens hiring Japs or Marshal Malmsten. It was a surprise renting to Japs. Would the and held in the Grange hall. Re freshments were served and the| above man patronize jap laund young people had a splendid time in ries, Jap barbers, Jap restau social games until a late hour. rants, etc and then will he All wished him many returns of the wondar^why the laboring man happy occasion. gets a cut in wages or why the DO IT NOW farm rs garden truck sells so Vernonia is growing fast enough cheap? for two school buildings. Two wards,* under one superintendent. A new eight-room building with extra large auditorium should be built this spring, some place west of Rock Creek. Good locations would be Mr. Van Blaricon’« property or on Ver nonia Heights, where over fifty fami lies are now living. Our Publicity for the coming year will all be built along this same line—a clear under standing of the many ways in which we may be of service to the community in general. k Vernonia High School NO PAVFD HIGHWAY BY LEGISLATIUE ACT Vernonia won tr«m Forest Mrs. Chas. White and son and Mrs. Walter Coyle were visiting in Port land over the week-end. Events and Schods ' ' '—.■■■ ..... . ............ 1 J Friday Night, Feb. 23 j Soman Hall, at 8:00 O’clock Sharp I Important! / I Call and Get Yours Our 1923 Almanac and Calendar are now here. Get Yours. Bad Colds are Numerous. PROMPT ACTION PREVENTS Folger’s Horehound Syrup, 50c and $l.oo. An Excellent Cough Remedy Schools all over America held exer cises last Monday—Lincoln’s birth day. Lincoln was born 113 years ago. MEETS NEXT Be There! of 2 o’clock p. m. ai d 7 o'clock p. m., there will be submitted to the legal vote.s thereof the question of con tracting a bonded indebtedness in the sum of $15,00(1 for the purpose of Schools today are good: they providing funds with which to erect are not run exactly as they were and furnish a school building in awl a few years ago-*at leatjt the for said school district, Vernonia school isn’t. We ask The vote to be by ballot upon wliieh ed sveral grade boys Monday shall be the words "Bonds----- Yea" "Ronds—— No" and the voter night if their rooms had any and shall place a (X> between the wohi • Lincoln exercises. Lincoln’s “Bonds" end the word -‘Yes” or be name wasn’t mentioned on Lin tween the word "Ronds" and the word coln’s birthday. In Prof. Wil “No", which indi< at s bis choice. The p'lls for l ie reception of the son’s room we he.ir the same re b port. No readings, no quest- Hots cast for or ag »inst the contrac tion of said indebtedness will or said ons, no mention whatever. It’s day rd date and a' the place afo>e- a shame, and we are 100 per said be open at the hour of 2 o’clock cent strong erough to declare it P. M and remain open until the hoar isn’t right; whether our ideas of 7 o'clock p. m. of .the same day are modern or not. May be this wh<-n the same shall be closed. Bv order of the District School Board isn’t a "Current Event.’’ of School District No. 47. of Columt in County, Oregon, made thiB 3id day of Mrs. H. E. McGraw in 'some way February. 1923 slipped and fell on a wash tub one Attest: H. E. McGraw, District Clerk day last week. It was feared that she P. 0. Mellinger, had broken some ribs, for awhile. C airman. District School Board. » Baby Cough Syrup 25c and 5Oc Folger’s Cold Tablets 25c Laxative Col J Tablets 25c A Proper Remed for Children’s Colds Weeks Cold Tablets 25c Nyal’s Combined Cold Remedy, 50c Vicks Vapo Rub 35c Beeg-Iron Wine,$1.25 Mentholatum, 25c,50c and $1.00 A Fine Winter Tonic Pure Drugs Vernonia Drug Co. Wm. Folger Vernonia, Oregon Phone ITti