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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1923)
PERSONAL DOINGS IN THE LOCAL FIELD Items Gathered From Here and There Sense and Nonsense. If we don't see your personal- Miss Hilda Webster was out ly, and if it should happen that from Portland for Sunday. you are not a regular subscriber Mrs. Thjw. Tucker visited her to the Eagle, wont you consider chilbren in Warren for a couple this an invitation to subscribe? week. Send your name; $1.50 per year. Mr. and Mrs. Folger were called to Salem last week. Mrs. J. R. Lee had to bring I s The new depot is beautiful. Shortage of feed is giving IJarrfa- Folger,s mother, Mrs. H. L. bob sled to the aid of Uncle Si hi burg dairymen much concern. la^t week and go after the mail, The new cottages ior Messrs Martin, died (here last Friday. where autos feared to tread. Total receipts on the Columbia river Interstate bridgs last irtonth amounted J.iy and Brown are being sturttd The funeral services were held at the Portland Crematorium to more than 119,000. Thos. L. Timmcns has ju9t re The Seventh Day Adventists of this A. Corey is buildinir a large Monday morning. turned from a trip east, through state will hold their annual camp meet new residence. Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado, The Win O' e Club met last ing in Eugene next June. visiting friends and relatives Thursday night in H >ffman Hall Odd Fellows of Marshfield have de Mrs. W. E. Walker of Banks about fifty strong. They re and t ki g in a big Insurance cided to begin Immediately the con struction of a $25,000 lodge building. has been visiting at the home of port the best time ever. convention at Tulsa. Late registrants have raised the her daughter Mrs. H. E. McGraw number of students for the spring WANTED—1 want to buy a Heard several remark that if term at Willamette university to 539. I N J. PirKer was transacting good used 120 to 150 egg incu the council is to meet in the A $50,000 appropriation for control busini ss in Portland t..e first of bator. Will pay cash. Inquire sch >ol building, why not in the of northwest white pine blister rust th • week. Eagle office. building, and not down in the up to July 1 has been made by the federal government. cellar. The spectators like to Mr. Twinehan is out from see the councilmen and hear G. ii. R'chmo.id has returned During the year ending February 1. 1923, the loss by fire in McMinnville from Portland and has assuran Portland, this week. their remarks, instead of being was only $1500. The department re ces >hat the big mill will be lined up behind a furnace. sponded to 11 calls. H W. Smith was Uansactir.g built in the spring. Petitions are being circulated in the business at Portland this week. Bend and Harper school districts for Begin to think of gardens. Coyle B.-us, were in Portland a special election at Bend March 3 to Read each week the “Ccttage None of the outside bidders vote on creation of a union high school this week arranging for a new Gardener ” that we will run in came to hear the returns Mon district. ice making plant the Eagle. Articles worth many The Eastern Oregon Osteopathic as day night. The Astoria com- 0. zV .Vids was a Portland oany culled up the Mayor’s of times the subscription price of sociation met in La Grande Monday. Osteopaths from Wallowa, . Baker, visitor this week. fice the following day for re the paper. Real helpful hints Uhion and Umatilla counties were Attorney Sheeley was a Hills port, but otherwise industry on your home gardens. present. Governor Pierce has announced the boro and Portland visitor Mon throughout the state wasn’t Read our garden talks. They hampered, nor was the pipe appointment of William Pollman of day. are new each week. Every Baker as a member of the state high- market effected. Mrs. J W. Rose spent the first cottage can have a garden. why commission, to take the place of < f the week at Portlund. W„ B. Barratt, Camas, Wash., Feb. 14.—The A protest against any cutting of the The Eagle is censured <>c Mrs. Rhoda Hall of Prescot voters of Camas yesterday pass $56,000,000 appropriation for rivers casionally when sonuone and harbors was telegraphed to Presi Wash, mother of Mrs. B J. Cline ed a municipal bond issue of dent Harding by the state chamber was vi-iting relatives in town $158,500 for a new water system imagines their toes are step of* commerce. • last week. for Camas by a vote of 232, ped on. 'Che Eagle nas no The stale highway commission, at a wish to be personal, nor does against 7 opponents. meeting to be held in Portland March Mrs. Geo. Olsen of Portland 1/ will open bids for the construction it stoop so low as to seek re roads and bridges at an estimated has been visiting Mrs. J. E. The largest office building in venge, or to wrong anj’one cost of $5004)00. Tapp for a few days. the world is at Detroit, Mich. unjustly. The paper is for The Union Oil company of California has purchased from Mrs. Anna Mack good; it will continue to .'180 feet of water frontage at Astoria work for good and to suggest for a wharf and warehouse. The price paid was $65,000. improvements and denounce Last Saturday night, a few The Whitney company at Garibaldi To the Editor of the Vernonia Eagle. wrong, whether it hits husi has a payroll of $42,000 a month. The Vernonia people enjoyed the best Dear Sir:— tune of their lives. Mr. and ness methods, ciuncil or town is growing rapidly and 42 em In view of the fact that upon two ployes of the firm are building perma- Mrs. Detrow entertained a few occasion* you have seen fit to slur the school. A newspaper has no hent homes there. of their rriends at t.ie Coyle su teachers of the Vernonia Grade preference. It is for the ‘ Astoria^btisiness men have establish burban home. It was a party Schools, the first being the remarks ed a community department store in that will long be remembered about the teacl era taking holidays public. .the old Lovell garage building in the from school work to attend the insti burned district as a step toward com- and one that the neighbors en joyed until a real late, or early, tute, when by law they are required to Several residence lots were •mercial renaissance. do so or forfeit theif certificate; (see Nine school districts in Coos, and hoi r. Splendid refreshments par. 75, page 33 Oregon School Law.) sold this week. Curry counties have consolidated for were served. Music, games and and second in regard to the observance .•the purpose of establishing a high Mrs. G. 0. Sale was a Port progressive “ 500 ” passed aw»y of Lincoln’s birthday, we, the grade school on the Roosevelt highway with land visitor Thursday and Fri the time. Mrs. White received teachers wish to state that your in in half a mile of Bandon. day. formation in regard to same was very- J Bruce Donaldson was found guilty first prize for the ladies, and incomplete. . last week of having Illegally possessed Waiter Coyle for the men. The The facts were that several of the Schools in Vernonia were dis beaver hides, hidden in the garret (of praise of the host was nani- Thursday— teachers did observe Lincoln’s birth missed at noon ' his cabin at Valset?, and was fined Washington ’ s Birthday. 191 meus. Eighteen guests were at day and others « ere for a week pre $100 by Judge Baker at Independence. vious, working upon a combined Lin years ago George Washington Modern Woodmen of America from the tables. coln, Washington birth-day program, was bora. j most of the leading.towns of western The Oetrows Entertain r Oregon assembled at Albany for a * district conclave and initiation. Ap- •’ proximately 100 candidates .were ini tiated. , Immediate precautionary measures to prevent the spread of influenza are , urged by Drs Frederick D. Strickler through bullet Ina being issued from . the offices of the Oregon state board of health. -r, , The annual'fire report of the fire ..* chief of La Grande shows that of a total of 58 fire calls during 1922, six were due to children playing with / matches and three from carelessness t of smokers. , * Members of the Associated Press ' in the state of Oregon will hold a special meeting at the University of Oregon at Eugene In conjunction with the annual Oregon newspaper confer ence, March 22, 23 and 24. Five cars of canned pears are be ing shipped from the cannery of the Eugene Fruit Growers' association to England, one^of them'going to Liver pool and four to London, according to J. O. Holt/manager of the asso ciation. Total deposits in the 281 state and national banks in Oregon on Decem ber 29, 1922, showed an increase of approximately $25,000,000 when com- pareu with the deposits December 21. 1921,.according to a report prepared by the state banking department. Total resources of the banks last December were $308,543,854.2!». Waste wood from sawmills can be utilised in a destructive distillation plant Installed in the mines building at the Oregon Agricultural college by J. R. Armstrong of Oregon City, a senior in engineering. Armstrong has been working on the project since the first of the school year, under the direction of Dr. F. E. Rowland, profes sor of industrial chemistry, who be lieves that the project can be carried on commercially on the Pacific coast with gbod results. There are several , large plants In the east but nene in the west, where wood is p!»ntlfnl. “1 hem Cays Are Gone Forever” ‘Thirty-nine years ago, when it really snowed. 1 carried mail to St. Helens from Vernonia through 16 feet of snow. I wal lowed in snow as deep as a well, but made the trip, two days go ing and two days coming; and people then thought I was slow. The trip t day to Timber in about two feet of snow is a pleasure outing, a heaven of bliss in comparison, and no ex cuse for missing. We could in the deep snow days get our mail on time but ‘them days are gone forever.’ H. D. VanBlaricom. The Philosophy of Bro. Ostrich There is something almost hu man about the ostrich. Rather than face the urusua1, he buries his head in the sand—thus ex posing himself, rather reckless ly, to the whims of chance. Lots of folks shut their eye? when they need them most. In the matter of buying something. Who gets the most for his money? The man who buys blindly—or the fellow who reads the adverisements and discovers the things he really wants and needs? There is no denying the great value of advertising to those who i»ad it. It protects you against fraud and inferiority. It tells you what ie new and good, miking you a wise buyer. It sr<ves you money. DCN’T BE AN OSTRICH. R ;il the Advertisements! I Home Guilders* I We are now in position to take care of orders for the following Building Supplies: Terra Cotta Chimney Pipe Cement, Lime By the sack or pound Roof Saddles, Flue Thimbles, All Standard Sizes Window Glass Building Paper, Roofing Paint Brushes, Putty FOR PUBLICATION as has boon the custom here. Also in regard to change in times of late years, the statement is not borne ont by facts as the law requiring the observance of the bi'days of famous Americans is of very recent origin. In conclusion allow us to state that patriotism is not taught on one day only but on every day in the Vernonia schools by teachers who aro 101 per cent. American. (Signed) the grade teachers. The above *'essay ” is a little off subject. If there is one institution in Vernonia the Eagle is partial to, it’s the grade schools. We are interested in them. We have repeatedly lauded their good work and have on numerous occasions “bragged” on them. The grade teachers we admire. We be lieve them splendid instructors, and are proud of Vernonia's half dozen school teachers in the Grade School. The above writer signed the article in only one handwriting with no name and called it “The Grade Teachers.” An entirely wrong ide * is expressed when this writer says this paper ever “slurred” the teachers. We leave it to all Eagle readers, who know better. This piper never hinted anything per sonal about Vernonia teachers taking vacations on pay to attend “Teachers Institute.” At one time we did insin uate that it was a queer law that de manded such and that it seemed the teachers could have their institutes any time, other than school time. Ninety per cent of our readers over the state will agree with us, too. As to the Lincoln Day observance: We didn’t state that no rooms observed it. But we stated that we had asked sev eral grade boys and they told us Lin coln's name wasn’t mentioned on Mon day, Lincoln’s birthday—not even toll ing pupils it was Lincoln’s birthday, in Prof. Wilson’s room, and at least one other room, we declared, thio was omitted and we are still 100 per cent strong enough to declare thio ten t right. But we leave it to an over sight on the part of the teachers and not a lack of patriotism. I JUST TO READ —Our friend Mr.---------------------- says when he married he thought he was going to be master of his house but he has discovered that he is only pay master. —They don’t call small towns, “one- horse places” anymore. They call them “four-cylinder burgs” now. —Wichita, Kan., Jan. 28.—(Special.) —Guided by intoxicated pigs and a “boozy” rabbit, Sheriff Chet Conner and a corps of deputies uncovered a hidden still, several barrels of mach and a quantity of liquor, concealed cleverly in the brambles in the center of a 40-acre grove on the William Bitzel farm near Belle Plaine. After several unsuccessful attempts to break through the brambles officers fol lowed the trail of tipsy pigs and a rabbit which appeared to have at tended a moonshine party, and located the still. —In 1844 two men arrived at the spot where Portland, Oregon, now stands. One man was from Boston and the other from Portland, Maine. Each wanted to name the place for his own home town and to settle the argument a penny was flipped. The Portland man won, according to the story. Pettygrove was his name and his de scendents still treasure the historic penny. $50.22 up $50, $75, $100 $150 ONE-FOURTH DOWN Corey’s Addition Best Residential Part of Vernonia Healthy, Sightly, and Dry I —They say that Crusoe was one of the first advocates of advertising—be cause NSr. Crusoe stuck up an ad in the form of an old shirt on a pole, and the result was rescue from a passing ship! Lots ■iw"“::“ Market —The United States, with only one- sixteenth of the world’s population, has one-sixth of the world’s live stock, fays the United States Department of Agriculture. It has one-half of the world’s 9,000,000 mules, one-third of the 169,000,000 swine, one-fifth of the 100,000,000 horses, one-seventh of the 492,000,000 cattle, and one-ninth of the 465,000,000 sheep. As consumers of meat per capita, we stand fourth in the list, with an average of 142 pounds per person per year. Also 2, 3 and 4 Acre Tracts. For More Information Call at Economy Stofa» 'a (