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VERNONIA EAGLE
NOT
FACTS
Vernonia as County Seat
is Closer to the People
Issued Every Friday.
$1.50 Per Year.
Entered hh second-class matter August
4, 1922, at the post office at Ver
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
of March 3. 1879.
Advertising Rates 25c ts per inch,
single column measure, each we:k.
We collect lor advertising the first
of every month.
PAUL S. R3BINSON.
E ditor and O wner .
We know we are shy on news
this week, but the editor and
family have been inavoidably
c tiled out of town most of the
time.
Your property, worth $200 two
years ago is now worth $2000,
and in that proportion. Every
dollar you spend in Vernonia tax
enhances your property ten fold.
Needs for our city now will be
worth much to you. (Jet behind
the men that can put us in good
shape and give us a city people
would like to live in. Sewer,
strets, water. L?t’s do it right.
The cost only makes it worth
more. But forget that and think
of health, pleasure and appear-
ence, as well.
A plan to break off a part of
Columbia county and join it to
Multnomah county is brewing
among lesidenta of the section
that would be affected, according
to reports that have reached the
ears of local city and county of
ficials.
So far, at least, all proponents
of the idea are Columbia county
folk.
Those in the strip that would
be annexed—including Columbia
City, St. Helens and the munici
palities this side of it—who fav
or the move, do so in hope of
getting Bull Run water.
Those in the section that would
stay in Columbia county, who see
merit in the idea, would have the
county seat brought closer to
them if it were moved to Rainier
In addition, it is argued that
if St. Helens came into Multnom
ah county it might eventfully be
come a part of Portland and a
very i nportant unit in the city’s
waterfront development.
City Commissioner John M.
Mann, in charge of the water
bureau, has told St. Helens offi
cials that the city will not supply
Bull Run water to any more com
munities outside of the county.
When they suggested the idea
of coming into Multnomah coun
ty he told them that if the an
nexation were made the lower
river communities could get Bull
Run wuser as soon as the new
pipe line increases th? supply to
the point of excess over visible
needs. —Portland Telegram.
New Sickness
A new sickness has appeared re-
Vernonia is making, daily, the cently and is known as Morkus Sab-
best little industrial city in Ore baticus, or Sunday sickness. It is a
gon. How can we succeed and disease peculiar to church members.
attack comes suddenly every Sun
how can we grow and expand? The
day. No symptoms are felt Saturday
It is going to be done. Co-oper night. The patient sleeps well, and
ation is the word. That means eats a hearty breakfast, but about
we must one and all get behind , church time the attack comes on and
continues until services are over in
the City Council and back them the
morning.
in every undertaking. What | Then the patient feels easy and eats
they do or what they advocate a good dinner. In the afternoon he
we must help put over. It will feels much better and is able to walk,
i talk about politics or read the Sun-
be done right with a united ef I day papers. He eats a hearty supper,
fort. We can’c run this city and and about church time he has another
build a city on $3000 per year. If 1 attack and stays at home. He retires
our taxes for Vernonia are a do! - j early, sleeps well and wakes up Mon
day morning refreshed and able to go
lar higher it will mean our prop i to work, and does not have the symp-
erty and business is of a hund ' toms of the disease until the following
red dollars more value. One and I Sunday.—Square and Compass.
EAGLE FEATHERS
L H. D mtow and wife went
to Portland Sunday.
Mrs. E, E. Hayes and little
daughter were in Portland Mon
day.
Miss Blanche Berarerson spent
Thanksgiving at the Wilson home
doing justice to the turkey,
(“Eagle Feather«” are not patented
or copyrighted but are written exclus
ively for the Vernonia Eagla. Any ed
itor using the scissors on them will
please give ua credit)
Sheeley of the local chamber,
to make a canvass of the busi NOTICE or SCHOOL ELECTION TO
INCREASE TAX MORE THAN ■LX
ness men and merchants of Ver
PER CENT OVER THAT OF THE
nonia i order to determine if PREVIOUS TEAR.
there was any material objection
to the installation of this service.
Notice ia hereby given to the legal
The officials suggested that there 1 voters of Union High School District
might be some objection by rea No. 1, of Columbia County, Oregon,
son of the fact that Vernonia 1 that an election will be held in said
i district at the High School bnilding
purchasers might buy in Port on the 29th day of December, 1*20, at
land instead of at home. This two o’clock in the afternoon, to vote
matter will be taken up formally on the question of increasing tbs am
at the next regular meeting of ount of tax levy in said district for
the Chamber of Commerce, and the year 1*23, by more than six per
cent over the amount of such levy for
any suggestions will be welcorn-1 the year immodisnoly proceeding.
ed by the club before final ac It is necessary to raise this sddition-
tion is taken.
al amount by spepial tax for the fol
lowing reasons:
Mise Thelmo Pietyjohn spent
the holidays with her parents on
Ro”k Creek, returning to Ver
nonia Sunday, ready for fchoo
|
again.
Inereace in teachers’ salaries *1,800.
Gated thia bth day of Doc., 1*23.
O. G. WEED
Chairm in Board
of Directors.
MRS. CHARLES MALMSTEN
District Clerk.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Faultinat,
of Vader, Washing, spent Thanks
giving at the Webster residence.
Mrs. Wm. A. Smith of Bridal
vale, Oregon, has been visiting
The commandment to ’love thy her sons, Omar, Lester and
neighbor as thyself" was written be
We ton Sheeley.
fore cornets were invented.
Henry won’t say whether he will
run or not, but Hiram shouts aloud
"I will. I’ll try it out a few times
more, but I’ll never try as oft as
Bill.”
Mrs Marv L. Ferris of Portland
visited at the home of her daught
er. Mrs. Minnie Malmsten. for
several days.
on
WOMEN’S APPAREL
10 Per Cent and 20 Per Cent
Reductions on All
Merchandise
Give Onyx Hosiery for
Christmas
The Missionery Soceity met at
In Germany they are doing their
Christmas shopping early before the the church on Monday, The la
dies tacked a quilt to help along
mark gets any lower.
You can’t make
a sow’s ear, but
farmer back east
boots in his auto
with the building fund.
a silk purse out of
we knew a stingy
The Thanksgiving dance was
who used ’em for a great success. Mr. Matt Mil
casings.
That policeman who had an eye
scratched out in Portland by a woman
while arresting her husband, will
probably be more gallant next time
and take ladies first.
ler and daughter, Mrs. Paramore,
received the prize for best Waltz-
ers. The judges being Miss El
len A. Enstrom, Mrs. Gussie
Cady and a gentleman, name not
known.
Young ladies, did you ever try
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Shaw en
combing your hair with an egg
beater?
tertained the following: Mr. and
One advantage of living away out
west is that all the popular songs
don’t get out this far.
Famous last words: “I guess I will
have time to take another loop be
fore I get too close to the ground."
Over in Arabia the sheik is the
brainy man of the tribe. Over here
the sheik seems to get along without
brains.
The German scientists now have
something to compare the size of the
atom with.
The reason that bloodhounds never
get results any more is that all auto
mobiles smell alike.
Edison has 1000 inventions to his
credit but we still have to eat grape
fruit by hand.
The reason a rabbit's hind legs are
stronger than his front ones is to
bring his tail on a level with his ears
like other animals.
Judging by the results that some
bootleggers get from their brew it
looks like they had discovered the
long sought for universal solvent.
all, get behind the City Council
and we will improve and build a PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES
Gee, I'd hate to set up a bank state
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home city, our home, where new i *
ment
in Germany. Bet I’d use up all
Martineau, the jeweler, sas:
comers will delight to locate a- There
is nothing the matter with the cyphers in the office.
mong us.
Oregon except—that entirely too many
of us get up the morning at the alarm
of a Connecticut clock; button a pair
In a recent conférer cc between of Ohio suspends to Chicago trous
put on a pair fo shoes made in
the traffic officials of Portland ers;
Boston, wash in a Pittsburg tin basin,
Astoiia & Pacific railroad and the using Cincinnati soap and a cotton
Vernonia Chamber Of Commerce towel made in New Hampshire; sit
it was proposed to run a through down to a Grand Rapids table, eat
1 pancakes made with Minnesota flour.
passenger train between Portland and Kansas City bacon fried on a St
and Vernonia at approximately Louis stove; buy fruit put up in Cali
the same time that the mixed fornia, seasoned with Rhode Island
trdn now runs. It was pointed spices; put on a hat made in Phil
adelphia; hitch a Missouri mule fed
out this service would permit the on Iowa corn, in a Vermont harness
residents and business men of to an Ohio plow, and work like fury
Vernonia to go to Portland in all day on an Oregon farm covered
the morning, transact their busi wtih a Massachusetts mortgage; send
our fire insurance money to New
ness and return the same day. York, San Francisco, London and
Under the present arrangemert, Shanghai; and at night crawl under
two nights and a day must be I a New Jersey blanket and be kept
by a howling dog—the only
spent in order to allow the nec I j awake
home product on the place—wonder
essary time in the city. The of ing all the while why ready money
ficials asked secretary* Lester I isn’t more plentiful in Oregon.
Real Savings
Plucked by John D. Burt.
We suppose limericks arc plumb
out of date, but we just can’t help
writing one once in awhile. Fer in
stance :
There once was a man in Tacoma
Who took home a funny aroma,
His wife took a whiff.
Then she hit him a biff
That sent the man into a coma.
We don’t like to print this one, but
if we don’t send a papei to Seattle we
might get by all right:
There once were two bums in Seattle
Got into a terrible battle;
They both were so full
And they spilled so much bull
That the cops locks them up with the
cattle.
Maud suggested this one:
There once was a sporty young mule
Kicked a dynamite keg quite cule
Then his boss with a rake
Picked him up with an ake
In his heart for such a big fule.
If any of our readers can suggest
a rhyme for "Vernonia” we will write
one about it. Or better still, we will
give a prize of a celluloid lamp chim
ney for the best one submitted in that
line. Come on, readers.
We would advise auto drivers to
stay sober when coming into town via
the St. Helens road after dark. We
came in over that road the other night
and the driver left the road at that
bad curve below town, but the fog
was so thick that we did not sink
before we hit the road again. Of
course the driver was sober, but that
is a wicked curve, as they say in
baseball lingo. When I get on the
town board I will have an illuminated
skull and cross bones sign put up at
the curve or else hire a man to shovel
the fog off the road.
One of Tommy's examination ques
tions was: "How many gills to a
pint?” Tommy didn't know what
kind of a fish a pint was but he
guessed it had as many as any other
fish.
Mrr. Roy Roycroff and daughter
of the Oregonian staff of Port
land, Mr. and Mrs. James Sum
mer and daughter, Virginia, Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Miller and son,
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Allman and
daughter, Laura Ross, Clifford
Summer, Dr. Mary Cole, Mr.
and Mrs Wm. Savage and son of
Portland. After an enjoyable
dinner Five Hundred was played
Goar’s Style Shop
Majestic Theatre Building
QUALITY MEATS
Butter, Milk, Cheese and Eggs
Modern Market Co.
In the F’rinjfle EluilclinK«
MRS. STRATTON
PASSES AWAY
Mrs, S. a . Stratton, mother ol
Mrs. Paul Robinson, passed a
way last Monday evening. Dec. 3
at the home of her daughter in
Vernonia. “Grandma” was 81
years old and was in the best of
health, apparently, for one her
age. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson had
gone to Portland that day, leav
Ing grandma in the best of spir-
ite and unailing. The end cam"
suddenly while she was sitting
in her rocking chair humming a
tune. Mrs Stratton was born in
Ohio moving to West Point, Iowa
where she lived with her hus
band for many years, and where
the children were all born. The
children now living are Herbert
Stratton of Portland, Walter
Stratton of Los Angeles and Mrs.
Robinson of Vernonia. The fun
eral and burial took place at
Banks, her former ome, Wed
nesday morning. Mrs. Stratton
was a life long member of the
Friends Church. Mr. and Mrs.
Robinson were notified in Port
land by the boys at home and
they came back in an auto with
Mr. Stratton. The sudden part
ing was a ha*d blow to the rela
tives and Grandma’s kindness
and her patience and loving ways
will be greatly missed. Appro
priate services were conducted
at the grave.
Boy Scouts
We hear that an organization
o' the B" v Scouts is being organ
ized in Vernonia.
It is a splendid thing for ener
getic young men or hoys, and
we hope for it’s success. Better
get in, boys.
,
Notice of School Meeting.
Notice is hereby given to the legal
voter« of Union High School District
No. 1 of Columbia County, State of
Oregon, that a «chool meeting of «aid
district will be held at the High School
Building on the 29th day of December,
1923, at two o’clock in the afternoon«
for the purpose of voting on the prop-
Corner of Bridge and Second Streets
Be sure and attend the Bazaar
and Dinner at the Grange Hall
Friday, Dec. 7th, given by the
ladies of the Evangelical Church
osition of levying a special district
tax.
The total amount of money needed
by said school district during the fiscal
year beginning on July 1, 1923, Io
June 30, 1924, ia estimated in the fol
lowing budget ami include« the am
ount« received from the county «chool
fund, state school fund, elementary
•chool fund, special tax, and all other
moneys of the district.
BUDGET
Personal Service
,5.780.00
Materia) and Supplies
2.666.00
Redemption of Bond«
2,5OO.Oo
Interest on Bonds
1.360.00
Transportation of Pupils 1,600.00
Insurance
26.00
MieeeilaneoiiR
300.00
Total
114,120 00
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Share of County High
School Tuition Fund
$ 800.00
Unexpended Balance '
275.00
District Tax levy
13.645.00
Total
Total
for
Tolal
not
*14,120.00
RECAPITULATION
estimated expenses
the Year
*14,120.00
Eatimated Receipts
Including Tax
675.00
Balance Amount t/tBbaia-
*'
ed hy District
*18,575.00
Dated thia 5th day of Dec., 1923.
O G. We ED
Chairman Board
of Director«.
MRS. CHAS. MALMSTEN,
District Clerk.