Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, November 16, 1923, Image 8

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salvage
Slow and Two Slow Account! and Moton
at Our Own Kxpanae
KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT COMPANY
Fully equipped and skilfully Managed Offices for Collection at
McMinnvtlle
Hillsboro
OREGON NEWS ITEMS
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Carpenter Tools
Hunters' Supplies
Stoves and Pipe
Shelf and Heavy Hardware
Paint, Brushes, Fence
VERNONIA RAKERV
PATRONIZE HOME
Our Bread, Cakes,
Cookies, Pies, etc.
As Good as the Best Made.
We’re for Vernonia.
Are You With Uh?
When purchasing your daily rations, be sure to aek
for Vernonia Bread,
ALEX DIEPOLD, Prop.
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Knights of Pythlaa. -
M abdinq L odgi , 11«,
Vernonia, Or.—Meets
every Friday night in
Grange Halt All visit­
ing brothers cordially
invited.
E asl 8«nw,C.C.; P.M.Nasa,K.R A8.
I. O.O.F.-VERNONIALODGR, No. 24«,
meets every Tuesday night at 8:00
o’clock, in Seaasman Hall, opposite
Depot.
M. J. J ohn , Noble Grand.
E.F. M bsisno , Secretary.
EAGLE READERS
The Eagle is aet a ««andel peddler,
grinta the truth ehout the thinga yen
are interested In. Stands for law na-
fereooMot but leaves enforcement tn
the ceurU ef justice.
John 8. Herman baa boon appointed
postmaster at Clarno, Wheeler coun­
ty.
The annual mootlng of the Douglas
County Taxpayers' league will bo held
In Roseburg December 30.
The pleat and equipment of the
Haines Record, a weekly newspaper
published at Heines, was destroyed by
fire.
Large shipments of stock wore made
from the upper Wallowa Talley, M car­
loads being shipped from Enterprise
and Joseph.
The Southern Pacific company re­
ported to the Oregon public service
commission that tt has a shortage of
approximately >30 cars.
The Eastern Oregon Light A Power
company haa filed with the public
service commission application tor re­
valuation of Its properties.
Fire broke out la the basement of
the new Baptist church at Corvallis
and before it was subdued had done
damage estimated at 310,000.
Work Is being rushed on the McKay
dam near Pendletoa. About 300 men
are employed and double shifts are be­
ing used on tunnel and rock work.
Tuesday’s special election In Oregon,
which resulted la approval of the In­
come tax law, oost the taxpayers of
the state between *73,000 and 3100.-
000.
The Hood River Traffic association
composed of all fruit shippers in the
county, have potltioaed rail lines to
adopt a practical emergency rate on
applet.
Five hundred Kalghta of Pythias
from southern Oregon attended a dis­
trict conventloa of the order at Med­
ford at which 70 oaadldatee were in­
itiated.
Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, Portland
physician, haa been decorated with the
legion of honor by the French gov­
ernment for her boapltai service dur­
ing the war.
Operating and maintenance of way
officials of the Southern Pacific sys­
tem are expected to arrive this week
on the usual prs-winter inspection trip
of the lines of Oregon.
One hundred and sixty-three car­
loads, or approximately 70,100 bead of
central Oregon lamba, have been ship­
ped out of Bead thia fall to be fatten­
ed for the spring markets.
The dryeet tall ia the U years dur­
ing which rainfall records have been
kept by the United States weather
bureau, with only one exception, is
the preeent num ia Portland.
The Portland Railway, Light A Pow­
er company haa been granted a fran­
chise by the public service commis­
sion to construct a pole line along the
Columbia River highway between Port­
land and Scappoeee.
Mary Seymour, the Met ef the Waaco
tribo of Indiana, which once inhabit­
ed the basin whore The Dalles Is now
located, and from which Waaco coun­
ty was named, died at The Dalles at
the age of 113 yearn.
One hundred and twenty-nine mills
reporting to the West Coast Lumber­
men’s association for the week to
November 3 manufactured 103,354,044
feet of lumber, sold lUll.Hi feet and
shipped 10t,M*.SM tout.
An extension of time to July L
1934, haa been granted the Southern
Pacific for construction of the Maplo-
ton-Cuahmaa rend, which la being re­
built to replace the erne taken as a
roadbed for the Coon Bay line.
The constitutionality of the law re­
quiring a county to return to a city
70 per cent ef the rood taxes collect­
ed on property tn the city limits is to
be tested in a salt brought by the city
of Astoria against Clatsop county.
The Cottage Grove city council and
the forest service practically have ar­
rived at an sgrssmsat whereby the
sale ia permitted of about two Millon
feet of timber open the Laying crook
watershed, which oupptlee the city.
Officers st the TlUamook County
can Railway Rxprsas sempssy to ex­
tend its free delivery sene in the city
of Tillamook.
La Oraads la planning its future
water supply frees MUI creek, near
Summerville, where three springs
come out of the ground, supplying
each day aero than 7,000,000 gallons
ef water. The system will require a
15-mUo pipeline.
The Stout Lumber company, oper­
ating two sawmills at North Bend, is
preparing to open a largo area of ox-
collent timber la the Seven Devils dis­
trict, fifteen miles eeMhwoMoriy from
the eRy. Bersani mttae of logging
railway from the timber to the bead
of tidewater sa Booth inlet will ho
coeetrooted gat two logging camps
will be epertgpd.
I
Your Battery
Tillamook
Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
$5.00 PRIZE
Don't Let
The Vernonia Hazelwood Confectionery and Pool I
Room Want-» a New Name. We are Going to Change I.
the Name of Our Store Within 30 Daye.
Every 50 I
Cents Spent on a Box of Candy £u titles You to One
Name for Our Place.
For the Moat Appropriate Nume that We Choose
From all Suggested, we Will Dive a Present of $5.
Die of Thirst.
FREE
Distilled Water and
INSPECTION
Vernonia Battery Servlet
Verronla Braxlng and Machine
Works, on Rose Ave.
Vernonia Hazelwood
McDonald A Thomaa
—AT YOUR SERVIO
C. R. WATTS
City Delivery
«o Transfer
Freight, Baggage Express
Office Opposite Economy Store
Welcome, Strangers o
EVERY FLOUR NEED
Our Service la maintained with the
It is not only convenient but economical to
use Flour we handle, since it is so blended
that it can be satisfactorily used for prac­
tically every Flour need. Good for Bread
and Pastry, it is also excellent for the many
other purposes for which you need Flour.
comfort and welfare of guest
Uppermoat ia mind.
COLUMBIA HOTEL
Vernonia,
Oregon
Lit Me Estimate Tour Job
Gat Our New Flour Prices
Palming, Papering
Felting, Decorating
| Bergerson Bros. |
F. A. HILL
Let Me Know Your Waste.
$
Vernonla’e Old, Reliable Comer
& Across from the Bank.
RHOME 242
$