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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1923)
=3E! ANNOUNCING THE NEW ADVANCED OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENL1U INTEREST An excellra t way lo make hard Herbert West, 15 year-old^Porflai.d | times is tS Principal Events of the Wte: Briefly Sketched for Infor* motion of Our Readers. Vernonia Bakery Second Street ALEX DIEPOLD, Mgr LET’S GET ACQUAINTED Step in and See More of Our Specials in Canned Goods Canned Goods Week March 3 to 10 COYLE & COYLE Grocery V 3 Cans Black Cherries a$l 00 3 “ Royal r’lql. Peaches 1.00 3 •• “ ■* Fears 1.00 6 ‘ “ Pumpkin 1.00 5 “ Singapore Pineapple 1 00 1.00 5 “ String Bean« 5 “ Tomatoes 1 00 1.00 2 J ars M ince Mi al 7,’Pkgs Raisins 1.00 11 “ Blue Bell (lorn 1.00 Flakes All 1 lb. Can Coffee .43 • Throop Bldg Vernonlfi a Mi^K Class Resort JHE yERNONIA pjAZELWOOD Confectionery, Cold Drinks, Ice Cream, Flash Lights, Magazines Cigars and Tobacco Pool Room io Connection GOD BLESS THE LAWYER Said Jack to his lawyer, ‘‘1 want a divorce, It's all her fault as a matter of course; My wife can't cook any kind of meat So it’s even fit for a dog to ent; Just say that my dinner is al'-’ay tough, I reckon that ought to be grounds enough. Said the lawyer to Jack, “I will bet my life. That you're in the wrong, nnd not the wife; If you get meat lo roast, bakfry or broil. It will prove all right if you get it from Coyle." From Coyle, now, Jack buys al) of his meat, And it's just like his wife —both tender and sweet. Meet Your Friend Real Pool Hall THREE FINE TABLES A Real Place to Spend an Even ing in a Card Game Vernonia Pool Hall A. L. FENNER go about it with a youth, who was ccrnmHuat to; state training school for boy.Jct .M three months ago after he Iliad «■«- fussed to participating in of robberies, made bls second* ^scagie The Harrisburg sawmill will resume operations within a few days. The bankers of Linn county met at Albany and formed a county bankers* association. The 33d annual convention of the Clackamas County Sunday School asso ciation was held In Oregon City. Lincoln county will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its becoming a division of the state on March 9. The ninth death from sleeping sick ness since January 1, 1923, was report ed to the city health department of Portland. William Duby, former county judge of Baker county, has accepted Gover nor Pierce's appointment as state high way commissioner. Postmasters nominated by President Harding include Robert N. Forbet, Al bany; Claude E. Ingalls, Corvallis; and Darwin R. Yoran, Eugene. The Charles K. Spaulding Logging company of Salem has announced that It has raised the pay of its common laborers from $3 to $3.40 a day. The civ* service commission has been requested by the postoffice de- partment to hold an examination for the selection of a postmaster at Marsh field. President W. J. Kerr of Oregon Agri i i ; cultural college has gone to Baltimore, Md., to attend the session cf the Grand Council of De Molay, a Masonic order for boys. He will return in two weeks. Thirty pairs of Hungarian partridges which were received from the state game commission, were released in various parts of the Grand Ronde valley by the Wing, Fin and Fleetfoot club of La Grande. The executive committee of the Willamette Valley Chautauqua asso ciation has voted to provide Independ ent attractions for the 13 days’ Chau tauqua at Gladstone. July 10 to 23, in clusive, are the dates fixed for this year. Albany retail merchants represent ing 20 firms have organized with Ben Bartcher chairman and W. A. East- bprn secretary for protection and co operation. The association will act as an auxiliary to the chamber of com merce. Nineteen head of full-blooded Hol stein«, the property of George A. Mc Carter of Harrisburg, were shipped to Portland, all marked with tuberculosis ear tags. They will be slaughtered In the presence of a government In spector. Eugene made a good record in build ing last month, according to the re port of W. H. Alexander, city build ing inspector. Twenty-seven permits were issued during the month and the estimated value of construction is $184,395. Mayor Baker of Portland has issued a proclamation designating the week April 9-14 as "Home Beautiful” week. All citizens of Portland are urged by the mayor to co-operate In the plans made to promote home ownership and home Improvement. | Governor Pierce received a petition signed by several hundred citizens of Umatilla county requesting that a pa role be granted to Elvln Nelson, who was received at the penitentiary in Salem last month to serve a term of two years for larceny. A survey of the proposed $300,000 high-line from Pasco, through Uma tilla to Pendleton, has been begun by engineers of the Pacific Power A Light company and actual construc tion will start early this summer. The work will be completed before next winter. Without waiting the outcome of ne gotiations of the Building Trades Coun cil with the Building Construction Em ployers’ association for a 10 per cent increase in wages, members of the painters' union of Portland went on strike, refusing to work for less than $8 a day. There was one fatality la Oregon due to an industrial accident in the week ending March 1, according to a report issued by the state industrial accident commission. The victim was Walter Scott, choker setter, of Silver- ton. A total of 563 accidents were reported. « Under a ruling announced by the state superintendent of schools, the teachers' training course offered through the last year of the standard high school hereafter will be consid ered equivalent to the 24 weeks' course provided at the eUte normal school nt Monmouth. Adjutant-General White has return ed to Salem from Tillamook, where he Inspected the efte for the propoeed new armory whieh ie to be erected there during the p? sent year. The recent legislature made an appropriation of $10,000 for this structure. A similar amount will be appropriated by Tilla mook county« • I long face arid talk about money ' being close land times hard and ! getting worse. Do this with every ooe you meet. Keep it up and in a short while you will from the Institution last week. have all the hard times you want. Roley Swyter, who was arrested ' in If you do happen to be in a lit a raid on his farm home near Albany ¡ tle hartf pinch yourself why in when 150 gallons of wine were neiaed, larnation do you want to cast was sentenced to serve six I montjhsi in everybody else into black des- the Linn county jail and Ifined $600 ipair by trying to shift your own whM he pleaded guilty tol having |in- i troubles onto the “times?" Any- toxtcatlng liquor in his possession. !way, if you need help you stand Street improvements comprising a mighty slim chance of getting grading, surfacing with crushed rock, it from your neighbors after and Installation of curbs, were recom they have listened to your woe mended by the streets committoe of the ful preachings about what a sor- Bend city council, the entire improve rowful plight the country and ment Involving an estimated expendi the “times” are in. If you will ture of $125,000 for the coming year. make the correct invoice and The state highway commission will proper diagnosis no doubt. you furnish Astoria with ail the trucks, will find that both the country wheelbarrows, picks and shovels it and times are all right, except will require in cleaning the streets and perhaps they have been too leni in reconstruction work in the burn ent with you and 3'lcwed you ed district free of charge, the only a little too much privilege in expense to the city being the cost of overdrawing on the financial re- operation. sources. Contract for the erection of the Port land unit of the Shriners’ hospital for A Canadian war veteran«’ club wu crippled children was awarded to Steb- inger Bros., general contractors of organized at Bend with 19 member«. Portland, for approximately $175,000. A round-up of bootleggers staged at were awarded. The Albany resulted in four arrests and Sub-contracts also I total cost of i the hospital will be al- fines totaling $820 with two 30-day most $260,000. jail sentences. Berry growers from all parta of The Lane county grand jury has Coos county organized at a meeting recommended construction of a new held in Myrtle Point, at which about county jail or enlargement and altera 15 were present. They effected the tion of the present one. organization for the purpose of secur Will Moore of Portland was appint- ing better marketing facilities and gen ed state Insurance commissioner to erally improving conditions. Much succeed A. C. Barber. Mr. Moore as larger areas of berries are to be put sumed his new duties March 1. out this year. >r The Douglas county corn and potato H. J. Overturf, member of the lower show was held in Roseburg last week. house of the state legislature from the Exhibits of potatoes and corn from all 21st district and a former member of parte of the county were on display. state bonus appraisers, appeared at H. J. Roosa, a government trapper the United States marshal's office in In the Powell Butte section of Crook Portland and accepted service on a county since last fall, reports that he warrant charging him with use of the has caught 123 coyotes and 19 bob malls to promote a fraud against the cats. M M' ■— ■ - Oregon bonus law. Mr. Overturf im The second biggest Mystic Shrine mediately gave bond in the sum of activity in the history of Oregon is $2500. I to be staged in Salem May 5. Between The Lane county court is planning 4000 and 5000 Shriners will be in at to sell a block of $400,000 of its high tendance. way bonds at once. This will take Jack Fulton, brother of Fred Fulton, care of all bond projects planned for heavyweight boxer, has escaped from this year. The- projects to be worked the Lane county jail where he was this year are three sections of the serving a six months' sentence for old territorial road, a section of the bootlegging. high pass road to Lake creek valley, According to the supervisor of the the Glenada-Ada road, the surfacing of Whitman national forest reserve, $31,- the North Ford road and the Coburg- 000 has been alloted for the next year Linn ccur.ly Er.!? r al. for construction and upkeep of roads The I’aciilc S ...ts Lumber company, in the reserve. known better as the Coos Bay lumber The old Vale flour mill has been compcr.y, will complete extensive en- taken over by experienced milling men largem -nt« and improvements of its and will be put into shape to start great riant at Marshfield about June 1 grinding wheat as soon as this year's and will then operate on a production crop is harvested. basis cf approximately 800,000 feet in Twenty-one hundred registered vot eight hours, according to announce ers in Linn county have failed to cast ment by William Denman of San Fran ballots during the last two years, a cisco, < hairman of the board of direc check of the three state elections held tors and executive committee of the during that time shows. concern. The market road fund in Douglas The Umpqua valley broccoli crop j county will be used to match the spe will be the beat from the standpoint cial road tax voted by the various dis of quality and quantity that has ever tricts, according to a policy inaugur been produced there, unless future ated by the county court. weather results In damage. With the The biggest moonshining plant ever largest acreage in the history of the taken in central Oregon was unearth industry in the valley, the weather has Robert* of Deschutes < ed when Sheriff Robei been very favorable for a good growth 500-gallon still in a county seised al. and all indications point to an unusual cave five miles south of Bend. ly fine crop. Heads of some of the During January Astoria moved up early varieties are beginning to come from 43d to 40th place among all the in already, but the bulk of the crop cities of the United States in the will net be harvested until the next amount of postal deposits, the gain be week. ing the third largest in the country. An investigation to determine why Collection of 1923 taxes in Mult the state bonus commission has re nomah county has begun so satis fused to grant loans up to 75 per cent factorily that a force of 12 night work of the value of the property offered ers has been placed on duty in the for security will be made by Umpqua tax division of Sheriff Hurlburt’s of post of the American Legion. It has fice. been reported that several ex-service The third unit of the Shevlin-Hixon men in Douglas county have endeavor company’s plant at Bend started cut ed to get loans and have offered prop ting March 1. The new unit contains erty of considerable value as security, a band saw and gang, the first to be the security in every case being suf used in pine milling eaat of th« Caa- ficient to gain a much larger loan cades. than was allowed by the bonus com- To protect the immense bodies of mission. pine timber in the arid Fox Butte Central Oregon sheepmen are opti- region of the Deschutes national for mtetic, for unless unusual conditions est, a three-ton fire truck will be »hould develop the winter season will placed at the Camin lake ranger sta have been almost ideal. This winter tion next summer. feed has been plentiful. In fact, many The Daughters of the American Rev ranchers will carry over large quanti olution Friday dedicated a huge rock ties of hay for use next season. Win marking the site of the pioneer trail ter range has been available part of by which the first settlers entered the time and with plentiful supplies of Salem. The boulder la located in Wil hay in reserve stock is coming through son park on State street. the winter in excellent shape. This in Fifty Umatilla county sportsmen turn should mean more and a better used 10,004 shotgun shells to kill 8000 grade of wool, which may be expected rabbits and the record kill was made to have its effect on the prices of the by one team of M men that shot 670 1983 clip. rabbits in 15 minutes la the Mg annual As a direct result of 1J« recent vic Pendleton rabbit shoot held last week. tory in the extra income tax contro Nearly twice the normal proportion versy the Union Flshermon's Co-Oper of pupils failed in their scholastic work ative Packing company of Astoria will distribute approximately $75,000 among in Bond last term, due to overcrowd Its 300 stockholders.. Rome years ago ing Incident to the rapid growth of the company created what was inown Bend’s population, said City Super intendent Ager. More than 10 per as the shareholders' redeeming hind eent tailed. and it amounts to about $300,000. For the years 1917 and 1918 the depart * At the present time there is 11,000 ment demanded an extra income tax acre feet of water |n (he Ochoco dam. With several feet of snow in the moun on this fund on the ground that the money was "borrowed capital,'' belong tains east end west of Prineville, there ing to the stockholders and not to the will bo plenty of water for Irrigation. oompany. The packing company con* Total capacity of the Ochoco dam le 47.000 acre feet. tested thia and won. L O. O. F,—Vernonia Lodge No. 246, meets every Tuesday night at 8;0O o'clock, in Sesseman Hall, opposite Depot.-P. O. Mel inger, Noble Grand: J. W. Rose, Secret iry. CHURCH SERVICES Vernonia Church of the Evangel cel Association, Sunday Service«; Preach ing il a. m, and 8 p. m. Sui day relieoi 10 a. m. Young People's Allia-'ce 7 p.m Prayer Meeting Thursdays 8 p. m. Choir practice Tuesday 8 pm. 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