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.
If your town i not to the liking,
g. t busy. It-is all up to us. The first
process in improvement in any town
i to get rid of the croakers who are
■ ondemning it.—News-Times.
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Saturday Specials
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cans Corn.............................. $1.00
cans String Beans .
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cans Milk _______________ 1.00
lbs. Coffee_______________ L00
cans Tomatoes..............
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4 cans Spinach
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Across from Post office
is our watchword, and
this applies to workman -
ship as well as material.
DALE & ENOS
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(California)
Fern Cafe
Repair Work.
QUALITY
if it does cost less.”
A Place to Eat
When in St. Helens
Vernonia Meat Market.
Oils,
PAINTING
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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.
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