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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1923)
OREGON, WHERE VERNONIA EAGLE THE TRAIL ENDS The Bank of the Manhattan Co., New York, is advertising Oregon on some of their hank literature, thusly: "Oregon—Where the Trail End« Issued Every Friday. $1.50 Per Year. Entered as second-class matter August 4, 1922, at the post office at Ver nonia, Oregon, under the A et of March 3. 1879. Advertising Rates-25cts per inch, single column measure, each week. We collect lor advertising the first of every month. PAUL S. ROBINSON. Editor and Owner- “Within the memory of men now living the first prairie *schoonet crossed the plains to Oregon. Today we see the vindication of the faith that bore the pioneers onward through hardships. Luscious apples carry the state’s fame afar; her salmon fisheries help feed the world ; Oregon raises more raspberries and loganberries than any other state and is second in plums and prunes. From her forests come the nation’s largest production of shingles and the third large t output of lumber. Oregon’s inanuf. during total at the last census was over $350,000,000.” Proposed District niprovement ot Rose Are., ET AL. Notice it hereby given that the Coun cil of the City of Vernonia, Oregon, on the 27th day of August, 1923, adop ted the following Resolution. RESOLUTION No. 1 i lotion as provided for by the Charter • and Ordinal :s f the City of Ver nonia. Notice is further given that remon strances against said proposed im provement may be filed> in writing with the City Recorder within twenty days from the date of’the first publi cation of this notice, which date of first publication is the 31st day of August, 1923. CHAS. D. WHITE. Mayor. I Attest: BEN S. O\\*ENS. Recorder. Suppplied with 4 RETAIN JUNGLE INSTINCTS Wild aulmuls in gapUvlly live al night iu an imaginative life entirely dliterent from their dull day hour« I when the curious die by In front ot their cages, according to ll. T. 1‘ocock. superintendent of the zoological gar- deus of London, who Is attout to retire after many years of service, says Sci entific American. At night, he says, the Inborn habits of the juggle show themselves in striking fashion, and the beasts throw off the sleepy veneer ot Indifference they seem to adopt when humans stund tn front ot their In closures and speculate upon what might happen were the auimals sud denly given their liberty. "If you go Into the lions’ house durlug the dny you are nearly always Impressed by the peaceful way lu which the animals regard you. But visit thpin lu the darkness and distantly you aye awqre of the change. As If by magic their instincts to hunt and to kill have re turned. Nothing Is more yveird than to walk past the cage of a lion or a tiger and then turn around. To your I astonishment you see that the animal has been stalking you just as If he were still living In natural surround ings. The instant you turn your tfbad he drops flat on the floor df the cage.” Mr. Pocock believes that wild animals neier make good pets and that man has domesticated every animal worth while. Whereas, The Engineer of the City of Vernonia, Oregon, on the 27th day of August, 1923, filed with the Re VERNONIA corder of the City of Vernonia, Ore Population. 1250 gon. two sets of plans, specifications High School & Standard Grade school and estimates for the improvement of Pay Roll City —Mills, Logging, work Rose Avenue from the north line of Farming—dairying, fruit, vegetables Bridge Street, north to the north line P. A. & P. Ry. Town growing fast. of Sunrise Addition, for the improve On Inland Loop Highway between ment of Columbia Street from the Portland and Astoria. cast line of Rose Avenue north to the A Large territory to draw’ from. city limits, and the improvement of 49 miles from Portland, 35 miles from Second Avenue from the north line of Bridge Street north to the city r'orest Grove, 27 from St. Helena. limits, as hereinafter specified, which Many opportunities in Vernonia. Best hunting, trapping and fishing in sets are endorsed as hereinafter stated and have been duly examined the Northwest. by the Council, therefore be it Resolved, That the Council of the City of Vernonia, Oregon, finds each and all of said sets of plans, specifica The human frame has always been tions and estimates to be satisfactory and does hereby approve and adopt and will always be liable to disease, the tame and determines the boun and the long history of mankind ■ w The Morning Astorian is 50 years daries of the district benefited and to shows a continuous fight against the old. The splendid pa er celebtated be assessed for such improvement as many Ills which flesh Is heir to. The contest is. Indeed, an unequal one. for the fact by publishing a 58 page paper hereinafter specified. Resolved, further, that the Council In the long run disease always gets the last week, telling the world about does hereby declare its purpose and upper hand and brings on death. The Astoria and her territory. It was well intentions to improve Rose Avenue oretically, the elimination of all forms illustrated with views of the city be from the north line of Bridge Street of disease would mean the indefinite fore and after the tire; and told how north to the city limits, to improve prolongation of earthly existence, un Astoria was rebuilding better and Columbia Street from the west line more substancial. To condense our of Rose Avenue west to the city limits less it were terminated by violence or opinions, it was the best “Special and to improve Second Avenue from accident, but while that Is an Ideal to Edition’’ we have seen. the north line of Bridge street north be striven for, though never attained, i to the north line of Sunrise Addition, the discovery of means to prevent or by grubbing and grading all of said cure certain specific maladies goes on VERNONIA IS PROSPEROUS streets, in accordance with the sets of apace. plans, specifications and estimates therefor which the Council shall here New York City will have over 100,- Every business in Vernonia has ex after designate of the sets filed with 000,000 Inhabitants In the Year 20B3. perienced a wonderful increase in the City Recorder on the 27th day of business in the past few months and August, 1923, one of which sets is if it maintains its present rate of every concern is gradually increas indorsed plans, specifications and pre growth. This is announced by l’rof. ing in volume. The stores are con liminary estimates of the work to be Ogburn of Columbia, rising from a stantly rushed, the eating houses and done, and probable cost of said im great mass of paper on which he has hotels have more than they can easily provement, and the said other set is been doing statistics. However, “if’ is a very big word. In the year 2033 accommodate. Newcomers are con indorsed the same. stantly arriving and new families lo The said streets to be grubbed and New York City will not have more cating every week. Vernonia is a graded the full width of the said than 25,000 Inhabitants at night, and prosperous city, and from every cor streets as above set forth. they’ll 4>e police and watchmen. Air ner of the state one will hear the The cost of said improvement shall planes, destined to destroy our great statement that Vernonia is the best be assessed as provided by the Char cities, will enable people to live far and most promising city in Oregon ter and Ordinances of the City of out In the country and quickly fly today, outside of Portland. Vernonia Vernonia upon the property specially hundreds of miles to and from work. has gained over 501) per cent in popu and peculiarly benefited thereby, and lation in the past twelve months. Can which is hereby determined and de One day on Broad street, In Phila you beat it? clared to be all the lots, parts thereof delphia an old man was selling pen and parcels of land within the dis cils. A young man approached, and. Hit the line; hit it hard—work like trict bounded and described as fol choosing one from the stock on band, lows: Beginning ¿t the southeast c r- the very devil, study and learn all asked the price. When told It was you can, but GO STRAIGHT. Let nr of lot 2, block six (6), Central Addi three cents the purchaser, wishlrg to tion to Vernonia, thence north par there be no bitter dregs when, later, be good hearted, gave six cents. Im you quaff the cup of success. Build lei to the east line of Rose Avenue to up your character. Take stock of the city limits, thence west two hun agine bls astonishment when the old yourself first and find out what's lack dred seventy-five feet, thence south man said: ’’Young man, you will be ing—then supply the deficiencies; in parallel to the west boundary line of selliag pencils at my age If you squan other words know yourself, because Rose Avenue to the north boundary der your money In that way. When self-knowledge is absolutely essential line of Bridge Street, thence east two , I was your age I was the same way. hundred seventy-five feet to the place I could not hold on to money, hence in building character. of beginning. my present position. I now only ask Beginning at the southeast corner a living, lleed my warning in time.” of lot seven, block four, Central Addi THANK YOU, GEORGE —Thrift Magazine. tion to Vernonia, thence north paral-, .el to the eas^ boundary line of Sec-; Another slander against the fair sex The Vernonia Eagle has just cele ond Avenue to the city limits, thence nailed in a New York case In which brated its first birthday. Paul Robin west two hundred sixty feet, thence son is getting more and more news south parallel to the west boundary the court upheld an obligation for and more and more advertising. As line of Second Avenue to the north secretiveness on the part of the fem Vernonia grows, the Eagle is spread boundary line of Bridge Street, thence inine obligee—that old one to the ef ing its news and advertising pages. southeasterly to the place of begin fect that a woman cannot keep a secret—has been proved false. She Two weeks ago it put on another re ning, also Beginning at a point one hundred kept a secret, and for so doing was porter and added a cut service—Ore feet north of the southeast corner of promised half interest In a $3,000,000 gon Exchanges. block eight of Central Addition to estate. That promise has been or Vernonia, thence west parallel to the dered fulfilled. One half of $3,000,000 north boundary line of Columbia HOME-BUILDING BOOM Verily, secretiveness is street to the city limits, thence south —$1,500,000. ■ virtue In woman that is its own re The home-building boom now in two hundred sixty feet, thence cast I t evidence is stimulated by abnormal parallel to the south boundary line I ward plus. rents, made still more abnormal by of Columbia street to the west boun i renters’ demands for expense in con dary line of Rose Avenue, thence There wax once a man who still struction, ornamentation and conven north two hundred sixty feet to the holds the record as the smartest man II iences not asked for a generation ago. place of beginning. the world ever produced. And there While landlords, like everybody The City Engineer's estimate of the I was another man who must stUI be else, will get the highest price possible probable cost thereof, according to regarded as the bravest man ever for what they have to sell, just as each set of said plans and specifica i ! known. The first was the man who tenants, when things are their way, tions is as follows: Invented Interest on money. The other pay the least they can, there is no Charing and grubbing three acres at $150.00 per acre....$ 450.00 was the man wbe first ate an oyster. reason to think that landlords are ex tort ioners. Three culverts ....................... 350.00 Their names are loaf In history. No one knows who they were, although It But overcrowding in apartment Excavation, (»900 cu. yds., at $0.80 per yard............................ 5,520.00 is well known who Invented the uku houses makes a certainty of racial de generation. It means childless fami The probable total cost, according lele. and who It waa that first cooked History Is a great Institu lies, which is one evidence of degen to the estimate of the City Engineer, spinach. eracy. aggregate. $6320.00. tion, but here were a couple of times It destroys the habit of physical Resolved, further, that the time for when It was asleep at the switch. performance of homely tasks, which, the completing of the proposed im when cheerfully done within reason, provement be and is hereby fixed at In spite of the Introduction of en promotes health, comfort and happi 45 days from the date of the awarding durance contests Into piano playing, of the contract for said improvement some old-fashioned persons will con ness. Whoever can pay rent and has by the Council. tinue to believe that excellence Is a Resolved, further, the City Recorder saved anything can have a home, a matter of playing well rather than f the City of Vernonia is hereby di family and a happy life. Start plan playing for hours and hoars. rected to publish the foregoing reso- ning for one now. Fifty-eight Pages of History and Facts CAMPS the Purest and FRESHEST a GROCERIES « A Grocery Stoie Complete in Every Detail L. H. Detrow B. F. Lane i L► LANE & CO Vernonia, 4 PHONE 222 I Oregon p tor; Any man selling liquor and found AN ORDERLY HOME CITY with a gun or dangerous weapon on his person gets not less than one year in the penitentiary. No fines are Although Vernonia is probably the monkeyed with for this offense, ac cording to the new law now being fastest growing little city in Oregon, enforced for gun and liquor carriers. it is today a "clean town." One can bring one’s family to Vernonia now with assurance that it is a little above the average in respect to law enforce ment and order. \\ e have church society, good lodges, plenty of de In a’letter from C. W. Loudon pendable law enforcement officers, fine schools and good society. It is of Mist, this week, among other an industrial city where one would things he'says, “With the most perhaps look for a certain rough cle sincere'wishes of success for the ment of “followers” that follow a Best Newspaper in Columbia wage-earner like crooks follow a cir |>ut Vernonia today is rapidly County.” And he referred to cus, getting rid of them. We have a home the Eagle. town and invite you to make a home here. Any person owning a building where gambling is carried on in any room of that building is now subject to a ;;5(X) fine. This is a state law. Listen to Loudon ■ d. . .. N . R1 DiN^ Under a late state law any person with a bottle in bis pocket containing No doubt the most important read any intoxicant whatever i-> subject to ing matter to be found this week is a $200 fine. the advertisements in this issue. Some of our business men have taken sp< • A state law now in effect puts a cial time and subjects to interests you. Prices are guaranteed, all merchan moonshiner’s fine as high as $3fXX). dise is new, up-to-date and as good as you find in the city stores. Read I would rather be the poorest beg every ad and you will be impressed gar. the most poverty-stricken asker with the typographical beauty of each. of alqis, clothed in the most ragged, Compare these ads with any you see dilapidated rags that have ever been in any other paper. You will find cast away, and possess a clean body, that you will save several dollars, sev a clear conscience, a fearless eye and eral years’ subscription by carefully a soaring soul—rather that, than a noting each ad that appears herein. Mi'I .s and be a paradigm of pro Advertisements today arc simply talks, fligacy; a progenitor of prurient pros face to face with your merchant or perity, a Gibraltar of dishonesty, a business establishment. Every ad is a mountain of meanness, and the owner business talk absolutely to be de of a soul that is a cyst of sacrilegious pended upon. We can guarantee sabotage. them. Read the ads, all of them, and patronize home merchants. It cer tainly will profit you and profit the THE BOOSTER whole community. Boost and the world boosts with you, Knock anti you're on the shelf; For the world gets sick on one who’ll kick. And wishes he'd kick himself. Boost when the sun is shining, Boost when it starts to rain ; If you happen to fall, don't lie and bawl, Get tip—and boost again. Boo-.t for your own advancement. Boost for the thing sublime; For the chap that’s found on the top most round, Is the booster everytime. MRS. FORD RAPS WOMEN Girl« in Overall« and Short Stocking« Rebuked. MARQUETTE. Mich., Aug. 2L— Mrs. Henry Ford publicly rebuked a number of women and girls wearing overalls and short stockings—the cos- li tne of the city restorers in the upper peninsula—when they besieged her at Michigamme, a resort town near here yesterday, with requests for her auto graph. “You ladies and girls arc showing very poor taste and worse judgment in coming into the town garbed as you arc, without skirts or dresses,** | Mrs. Ford said. ”1 do not want to i sign my name for you and prefer not to look at you. I resent your idea of dress.” Outside and Inside PAINTING QUALITY is our watchword, anti this applies to workman’ ship as well as material. DALE & ENOS W.T. HATTEN i The Old Reliable Blacksmith f ieiicrn I I ihick sin it hi ng, j Horse Shining, Machinery Repairing k ot nil Kinds. M One I‘Jock South ot Hank | Ecrnon/fl, Oregon. H B