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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1923)
VERNONIA EAGLE FRIENDSHIP CELEBRATIONS YOUR OWN TOWN COME HERE Towns are known for their char Any town is just what the men who acter. leadership and popularity, or for live in it make it. their lack, just as individuals are. Don’t sit down and condemn your Such towns advance beyond their ap town. A town is just as good or just parent opportunities. People like such as bad as the people who arc con towns, making them popular trading demning it. Every community is the Issued Every Friday. points. maker of its destiny absolutely. There $1.50 Per Year. But these towns do not "just hap is seldom to be found a town the re pen." They are the result of anibi sult of virgin, natural conditions. In Entered az second-class matter August lion, leadership, community zeal and any event, it was man who saw the 4, 1922, at the poet office at Ver careful planning. They develop natural advantages and utilized them. nonia, Oregon, under the A Ct through a growing community spirt, For instance, there is no reason of March 3. 1879. through organization, through genu why Cleveland, O., should have been Advertising Rates-25cts |»er inch, ine co operation, and the cultivation the oil center of the world. There single column measure, each week. of friendships in an ever-widening are no oil wells in or about the com We collect lor advertising the first circle. munity. So far as oil is concerned, of every month. The worst about a person or a town and as a shipping point, Cleveland is is usually known before making their no better than a dozen other towns. PAUL S. ROBINSON. actual acquaintance, hence, persons It was simply John D. Rockefellei Editor and Owner- ami communities have everything to ami his individuality and personality gain by enlarging their circle of that brought the oil to him and he to friends. As individuals hold little Cleveland. VERNONIA gatherings and parties to enlarge their There is no reason why Boston Population. 1250 circle of friends or to make intimate she '.d be the shoe market of the High School & Standard Grade school their casual acquaintances, so do com Pay Roll City —Mills, Logging, work munities and towns resort to picnics, world. There are no hides there. Sim ply one man who knew how to make Farming—dairying, fruit, vegetables home comings, celebrations and like shoes and wanted to live there made P. A. & P. Ry. Town growing fast. On Inland Loop Highway between events—for the same purpose. Some it what it has become—a great shoe panic’s and some celebrations fail in manufacturing center. Portland and Astoria. their purpose, from lack of tact, ab A Large territory to draw from. There is no reason why Chicago 49 miles from Portland, 35 miles from sence of proper plaipiing, or through hould be the meat-packing center of Forest Grove, 27 from St Helens. a display of ulterior motives. But the world. It could as well have been Many opportunities in Vernonia. properly conducted, these "friendship St. Louis or Kansas City. But Phil Best hunting, trapping and fishing in celebrations” arc wonderfully success Armour wanted to live there. the Northwest. ful. In almost every town there is some Their real object must be to make old, dried up cynic who says, “Aw. The Little Feller acquaintances and friends. The whole this ain’t nothin’ but an over-grown He's only some five an’ a half years community must be organized for this village!” and that's the sort of boast old, an' they say he’s bright fer his particular purpose. Even the skepti ing that makes the town stand still, size. He never fergets a thing he’s cal ones will get the spirit. The effort lhe resident of any town that makes told, ear what he may glimpse with may be handicapped by a few, but an such a statement wears whiskers and his eyes. So, I’ve got to be keerful h nest, sincere movement to create boots at heart. of what I do in front of my offspring community friends will smoke out a It is said that a woman is as old guest, fer I'm the chap that he keeps ! lot of mighty good people. Such a as she looks and a man as old as he in view—this feller that knows me plan will soon dissipate stiffness, feels. It might also be added, that best. aloofness, diffidence and suspicion. a citizen is as old as he acts. Every He’ll lean on the arm of my Mor In their place will come welcome town and city, and ours is no excep ris chair, with eyes wide open, yc smiles, friendly greetings, and ease tion, is unfortunate in having people know—an' he’ll ast me what tobacker everywhere. who have grown old before their time. is fer, an’ what makes the whiskers' "Friendship celebration” (whatever Comparatively young in years they grow ! And he'll mebbe inquire afore ; their name), not only create good feel ,eem to have fossilized and are at a he’s through, why 1 don't button my ing and real friendship among the dead standstill. They have lost all vest. He’s a little aristocrat, staunch community’s guestS, but it makes interest in their town. Their civic an’ true—this feller that knows me those who plan them and carry them pride has gone. They need to pinch best. out bigger men and better citizens, themselves and see if they are awake I’ve got to look pleasant around the with a wider viewpoint. Every com r asleep. house an' cultivate manners new. For munity celebration held in Vernonia On the other hand the town is "too 1 can't make a move that this little should be a "friendship celebration.’ dead” for some folks, and the only mouse don’t copy the thing I do. In way they can think of making it live- short. I’m living a constant prayer, We heard recently’ of a poet who 1 er is to invite in all the wild, flagrant, with anxious heart in my breast, an’ wrote about the "window jn his soul” sporty elements that can be brought I reckon it’s nothin' more than fair—' and wondered if he was any relation together, but if your town isn't sporty to the guy who had a pane in his to the feller that knows me best. enough for you, you can move—that stomach. isn’t the town’s fault. If you get too sporty you will have to move anyhow. You often hear people in the Far West, in mercantile,, industrial, artis tic and scientific pursuits, saying. “If we were only in Chicago we could do or get so and so.” In Chicago you hear them say. "If we were only in New York.” When in New York you hear them wishing for something in Paris or London. Chicago, New York, London and Paris arc the results of their citizens taking the conditions and materials at hand and doing the best they could with them. That we al! can do. 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QUALITY if it does cost less.” A Place to Eat When in St. Helens Vernonia Meat Market. Oils, PAINTING ! Emmott & Culver Gas, Outside and Inside forms less carbon, gives greater gasoline mileage, and reduces friction and wear to a greater extent than any other automobile lubricant we have seen and tested or been able to produce. Therefore we say,“Insist onZerolene - even Livestock, Beef, Veal, Pork, Chickens “Courtesy and Quality” Oregon. Why let a LOW TRICE keep you from using the BEST? Any New proprietors of the former Coyle Meat Market. PHONE 222 Vernonia, WANTED The Rainier Re view is a w 11 supported paper, and the suppo. t is appreciated, evidently, as last week’s Review was a column larger—now a st ven column paper. Eainier, like Vernonia, is a good town. F. Lana L H. Detrow £ Vernonia, Orego ? Bergerson Bros. I Vernonia’s Old, Reliable Corner : ---Î D Aerosa from lhe Bank. 4 PHONE 242 * » « r i* ■ We’re on Weed Are. aero., from the Depot Bring ur your work. 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