Vernonia eagle., December 21, 1923, Image 2

VERNONIA EAGLE
A cow testing association in one
Newspaper editor* always have
western state gives further evidence their eye* and ears open. This fact 1
of the value of a pnre bred sire. Of had doubly impressed upon me when
24 herds in this association eight were I was in Philadelphia and listened to
headed by pure bred sire* and 16 a ten-minute uninterrupted volley
headed by grade* or scrubs. The from a nationally known writer who
average fat production in the eight had just returned from the coast. Here
herds with pure bred bulls was 267 are a few of the high spots be poured
pound* and in the 16 herd* it was 212 forth to substantiate his contention
Issued Every Friday.
pounds. That difference of 55 pound* that Oregon was to him a new found
$1.50 Per Year.
of fat. valued at 40 cents per pound, land with the greatest potential pos­
made a difference of $22 per cow per sibilities of any state in the Union.
He began by saying that Oregon
Entered as second-cUss matter August year in favor of pure bred bulls.
has the greatest diversity of climate
4, MUt, at the p<Mt office at Ver­
From ocean to ocean there isn't a of anv state; one section has more
nonia, Oregon, under the Art
city or small town but what ha* it* sunshine than Los Angeles; another
of March X 1879.
little factions and sometimes jealous is drier than Arizona: another is the
fights. Vernonia is probably as free wettest spot in the United State* ; an-1
Advertising Rates - Z5cta per inch, from such as any town, but it is ap­ other has the lowest wind velocity of I
«ingle column measure, each week. parent if the searchlight is turned on any recorded point in the United'
We collect tor advert.-.ng the first in every corner. It is the duty of the State*—whatever climate you desire!
city's paper to avoid this a* much as can be found in Oregon, from perpet-,
of every month.
possible, and the Eagle always en­ ual snow to 325 days of sunshine al
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deavors to boost all and each alike, year. Then he got into figures. He'
PAUL S. ROBINSON
and censuring the individual for noth­ said:
ing.
“I asked one of your leading min-'
E ihtur and O wner .
In city affairs, like all papers with ing authorities about the steel in-'
the town at heart, we advocate that dustry’s possibilities and found you j
which w-ould be of benefit to the have, in an Oregon county not very
Q
whole people. In city officials wr far from Portland. 250 square miles |
hope for the best, This paper ha* underlaid with coal—an estimate-'
never mentioned a candidate for the total of 1.000.OOOlOOO tons; while in
head of the police department. We counties adjacent to the lower Colum­
have never mentioned in these col­ bia is a body of iron ore averagingi
umns any name for marshal, never better than 50 per cent iron, estimated
even suggested any certain man. All at 1.00U.UUU tons. You have not at-i
CALL IT MOONSHINE
the Eagle is interested in is a good tempted to develop the greatest of the'
citizen,
trustworthy, world’s industries with all of this!
Written by One of ti»e World’s Moti law-abiding
nervy
and
square.
In
school
matters raw product right at your door.”
Fluent Orator* and Writer* Some
we trust to the board, in which we
He mentioned the hydro-electric i
Year* Ago.
have all faith. In church or religious power, the timber, the wool, the cat­
matters this paper has never in its tle. the hides, the wheat, the fruit, the;
A Warn* ng to Young Men.
existence advocated anything favor­ wonderful roads, the state’s invest-,
-jirdice against any able to any certain denomination, or ment in educational institutions and.'
the manufacture of detrimental to any belief. Personally all of the tremendous natural re­
that from the tim< we car not what a man’s religious be­ sources. He closed by saying: “When ;
coiled and poison- lief. If he is a business man. this the capital of the East really under- j
• distillery until it paper has boosted him time and again. stands w hat Oregon possesses you’ll |
11 of death, that it Every man has the right to worship see a change in the situation on the
to everybody that according to the dictates of his own Pacific Coast.”—Oregon Business.
ntucho H. from h e source to where conscience. The Eagle prints all church
it ends. 1 <lu pot clicvc that anybody notices handed it gladly.
PREACHERS AND EDITORS
From the business end we are run­
can contemplate he subject without
beinv prejudiced agaln«t the crime. ning a paper for Vernonia and Ver­
A preacher came at a newspaper
All they have to do i« to think of th ic nonia people and we believe the col­
man in this way: “You editors do not
umns
of
our
files
will
demonstrate
it.
RECAPITULATION
wreck'* on vitiicr side of the stream
tell the truth, if you did. you could
of death, of the suicides, of the in- We are not a stranger here, or in Ore­
Total estimated expenses
•anity. of the povi erty, of the destruc- gon; we give more than we take; we not live; your newspaper would be a
for the Year
114.120.00
tion. of lh«- little vhiMren tugging a it ire your neighbor and interested in failure.” The editor replied: “You are
right,
and
the
minister
who
will
at
Total
Estimated
Receipts
your
success.
We
always
solicit
the
breast i w reping and de-pairing wifi
What is Better for ChriHtniaH than a Beautiful
not Including Tax
575.00
asking or bread, «-i the man strug- moral support of our readers and are all times and under all circumstances
Mahogau v
tell
the
whole
truth
about
his
mem
­
gliug with tmaginary serpents. pro- glad that we have many friends in the
bers.
alive
or
dead,
will
not
occupy
valley.
Of
course,
we
can
’
t
run
a
Ralance
Amount
to
be
Rais
­
dneed by the devilish thing; and
ed by District Tax
»1X57X00
w hen you think of the jails, of the lawless sheet, and in accord with goo! his pulpit more than one Sunday, and
Dated this 5th day of Dec., 192X
ahnshonses. of the asylums, of the government, the Eagle is for law en­ then he will find it necessary to leave
at coot. Form rlv $160 Now going al $105
prison« and of scaffolds on either forcement and a clean city. We don't town in a hurry. The press and the
O G. WcIED
Some Records thrown in
bank, 1 <fo not wonder that ever» y favor “rubbing it in,” but we leave pulpit go hand in hand with white
Chairman Board
wash
brushes
and
pleasant
words,
such
matters
to
the
officers
and
to
thoughtful man is prejudiced again - •t
of Directors.
the court. We don’t "butt in.” It is magnifying little virtues into big
the vile stuff called alcohol.
ones. The pulpit, the pen and the MRS. CHAS. M L’ISiEN,
' Intemperance cuts down youth in our earnest wish to keep busy with
grave stone are the great saint mak­
District Cl..«.
it« i igor. maiih»'od in its strength and our own business, and to make more !
ing
triumvirate.” And the minister
business
for
our
business
men.
ag<- in its weakne««. It breaks the
Let us all work. We can find went away very thoughtful, while the
father's iieart. bereaves the doting
plenty
to do. There is always mis- editor turned to his work, and told of
mother, extinguish-, natural affec­
the unsurpassing beauty of the bride
n
tion. erase« conjugal k»vc, blots out chief for idle hands.
while in fact she was a« homely as a ‘
iilial attachm» nt. blights parental
AMERICAN TELEPHONE
mud fence.—Chanute Tribune.
hope and bring- down mourning age
SERVICE
ir. sorrow to the grave. It makes wives
widow*, ch.’dren orphan, father«
"Nowhere else is there any such NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION TO
liviids, and all of the paupers and telephone development as in the
INCREASE TAX MORE THAN SIX
Pegxar, It feed* rheumatism. nurses United States and nowhere else is the
PER CENT OVER THAT OF THE
gout, welc. lie. epidemics, invites telephone so much used, so well used
PREVIOUS TEAR.
cholera, imports pestilence and em- and such good telephone service
oraers con im pit ion It covers the land given.”
Notice is hereby given to the
■' with idlene-
poverty, disease and
This statement has been heard be­
crim» It fit’- your jails, supplies your fore and we will hear it again. As voters of Union High School District
alm-' >u«< « and demands your asyl­ the man who gazed in unwilling won­ No. 1, of Colombia County, Oregon,
um«. It er - nders controversies, fos­ der at the ship in the bottle remarked, that an election will be held in «aid
district at the High School bnilding I
ter« <,uarr» ! and cherishes riots. It the trouble with it is, it’s so.
crowd your penitentiaries and fur-
When we feel like kicking at our on the 29th day of December, 1929, at|
nishe the victim« for your scaffolds telephone service it is time to go two o'clock in the afternoon, to vote
It is tl ■ life blood of the gambler, the abroad and try it there One would on the question of increaaing the am-
ailment of t ie counterfeiter, the prop never kick again.
ount of tax 'levy in «aid district for ;
< i the highwayman, and the «upport
the year 1923, by more than aix per­
of the midnight incendiary. It coon-
cent over the amount of such levy for
tenances the liar. r» -pects the thief,
the year immedianely proceeding.
and » teems the blasphemer. It vio­
It ia neceasary to raise thia addition­
lates obligation, reverences fraud, and
al amonnt by spepial tax for the fol­
honors infamy. It defames benevo­
lowing reasons:
lence. hate* love, scorns virtue and
Inereace in teachers’ salaries »1,800.
slanders innocence. It incites the
Gated
this 5th day of Dec., 1923.
father to butcher his helpless off­
O. G. WEE'«
spring. help the hu«band to mas«a-
Chairm in Board
cr<- his wife and aids the child to
of Directors.
grind the parricidal axe. It burns up
MRS. CHARLES MALMSTEN
tnan, consumes woman, detests life,
s
curses God and despises heaven. I
District Clerk.
suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, <|e
files the jury box and «tains the ju
Notice of School Meeting.
dicial ermine. It bribes voters, dis
"By
the
blessing
of
the
upright
the
qualifies votes, corrupt* elections,
Notice ia hereby given to the legal J
pollute« our institutions, and endan­ city is exalted; but it is overthrown
voters of Union High School District |
gers our -.’overnmant. It degrades the by the mouth of the wicked.”
citizen, debases the legislator, dis­
No. 1 of Columbia County, State of'
A lady at the depot yesterday asked Dragon. that a school meeting of said 1
honors the tat--man. and disarms
the patriot
It bring «harm-, not igent Oxley what time the next train district will lie held at the High Sehool '
honor; terror, not safety-; despair, not left. He told her 2 JO, and she said, Building on the 29th day of December, '
hope ; misery, not happiness. And "make it 2:28 and I’ll take it."
1923, at two o’clock ir, the afternoon |
with tin- malevolence of a fiend it
for the purpose of voting on the prop­
We
haven
’
t
a
radio
at
our
home,
hut
calmly surveys its frightful desola­
osition of levying a special district
tions; :u <
' .-t’.ited with havoc, it we have a graphaphone, and when we
»fon't
change
needle*
often
we
get
the
tax.
poison, felicity, kills peace, ruins
moral . blight, confidence, slays repu­ radio effect—scratchy.
The total amount of money needed
tation. and wipe« out national honor;
by
said school distrin during the fiscal
We went to a friend’s house one
then cur«» - lb* world and laughs at
year
beginning on July 1, 1923, to
night recently to listen to his new
its ruin.
radio,
June
30,
1924, ia estimated in the fol­
We
stayed
up
until
nearly
"It »fix-- that and tqore. IT MUR-
I
f Ji R ■■ TH I . SOI L. It i« the sum of midnight, and finally heard that there lowing budget and includes the am­
ounts received from the county schoot
all villame»; th» lather of all crimes; is a scarcity of bananas in Chicago.
fund, state school fund, elementary
75fi Wool H»’tTPr M po ’ h S ox , Fancy, Me a pair or 6 pair for $2.85
tb mother of all abominations; the
Among the things you need not school fund, special tax, and all other
curse of cflibo s; flu- deviT** best friend
75c
Silk Sox at 50c or 6 pair for $2.85
bother about giving us for a Christ­ money* of the district.
and God’s -worst enemy.”
mas present, is a pair of dancing
BUDGET
All available evidence supports the shoes. And neither do we need a
»5,780 00
Personal Service
DO NOT FORGET TO TAKE ADVANTAGE GE THIS SA LE BEFORE XMAS
com In ¡on that a pure bred dairy bull hand painted mustache cup.
2,665.00
Material and Supplies
pay « in dollars and cents.
Redemption of Bonds
2,500.0#
In Tillamook county the number of
It isn’t at all hard to write twenty
Vifit the ChriHmaR Store, two rtoriea of new seiviceable merchandise. Ixiw
1.350.00 *
Interest
on
Bonds
pur»- brt»l bulls is about 90 per cent of >r thirty paragraphs of slush like this
Transportation of Pupils 1,500.90 j
price« reign in every department.
the total in service. Average produc you are reading, but to think of what
'25.00
Inaurane»
tion of Tillamook c»r«nty cows, ac­ to write sorter gets on one’s nerve
300.00
Miscellaneous
cording to the 1920 census, is 240 TWO—Vernonia Eagle............... 20585
pounds fat In Columbia county 35 some times. Try it some day and
$14,120 00
Tote!
per cent of th«- dairy bulls are pure see how easy it isn’t.
fired« and the average fat production
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
in this eountv is 205 ixaunds- If Co­
HANDED ON
Share
of County High
lumbia county's 5000 cows averaged
I 300.00 1
School
Tuition Fund
hi;di in butter fat a* those in Tilla­ A foolish old man from Vernonia,
275.00 ;
Unexpended Balance
mook the annual income from dairy Purchased a quart of ammonia;
*
13,545.00
District
Tax
I-er
y
produti, in this county would be in-1 He drank it for ‘moon/
crea«ed $70001). assuming butter fat! They buried him soon;
»14,120.00
j
Total
worth 40 cent* per pound.
On hit coffin they laid a begonia.”
Your Grocery Store
For Dependable Groceries, Service
Prices and Quality
Consider this a Personal
I
Merry Christmas
to Each and All of You
Lane & Company
Groceries for Vernonia
VICTROLA
W. Martineau, Jeweler
The Economy Stors
Offers Startling Prices at Christmas
Buying Time
EAGLE FEATHERS
50 Dozen Ladies House
Dresses to Be Sold Al
most at Cost
This is to give an opportunity to the men of this commun­
ity to buy 'i Christmas present for their mother, sister,
aunt, sweatheart, wife or neighbor's wife.
This Will Only Last Until New Year’s Dajc
Men Get Busy.
Now
$1.25 Houses Dresses 85c or 3 for $2.25
$2.00 House Dresses $1.45 or 3 for #4.00
$2,50 House Dresses $1.75 or 3 for $5.00
Now Ladies get busy and tell your men folks about
these bargains
BUY SOX FOR MEN
We Wish You All A Merry Christmas end Hoppy New YeaN
THE ECONOMY STORE
A. CORY