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Entered a* aecond-clau matter August 4, 1822, at the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879
VERNONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IB, 1924
Volume 2, Number 28
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MOUTHPIECE oi the NEHALEM VALLEY
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This week we report from the
real estate firms of Kavanagh Co
and G. B. Richmond the follow-
ingchanges in Vernonia proper
ty: G. C. Sale buys four lots in
Park addition’and will build a
a home at once; C Corey buys a
lot in Park’addition to build on
immediately; Mr. Lararnore is
another Parkjadditionibuyer who
intends building, and Mr. Beals
of the Light Co. buys’one to e
rect a homejon. Two lots sold to
strangers who have their houses
partly consttucted. Mr. and Mrs.
W. N. Hollett, of Portland, have
purchased two lots on Weed Ave.
joinging Mr. Sessinan’s’property
and will at once build a large new
laundry we understand. Mrs,
Mattie Brown, recently of Idaho
bought a Rose avenue lot to erect
a home on. The Dale residence
was sold to Mrs. J. W. Brown;
the Cleveland residence < ccupied
by Mr. Culbertson was sold to E.
H. Washburn; two lots in Han
son addition were sold to Mr,
Berg; and a Mr. Smith has pur
chased a lot of Mr. Se sman on
which he is building a New and
Second hand store. The corner
on Maple and Second street sold
by Mr. Cleveland is now a busy
one with workers building a gar
age. Mr. Lincoln of Silverton has
purchased the small lot joing the
White Lunch an'1 will build a con
fectionerv store. New buildings
are going up in all parts of our
city. But it is almost impossible
for newcomers to find a place to
live.
Another Large
Fire Proof Structure
We just hear of the Hale of the
Clevi'laud lot, well of the Blue Bird,
to E. Spath who will move here and
bulk! nt once a large flreproof building
60 x 100 to be occupied by a modern
garMge. Mr. Spath in a big berry
grower of the Willamette valley
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le of of Work Done By Vernonia Wood J. S. HAIE OF VERNONIA
working Establishment
IS CALLED DY DEATH
Edwin North, one of Vernonia** moat
prominent and re a pec tod citizen* pain
ed away at his home Monday evening
Feb. 11, 1924 at 10:30 p. m Hi* death
wa* due te cerebral hemorrage, follow
ing the measles.
Mr. North wa* born in K*n*a* in
1881 but hi* family moved to Oregon
seven month* after hi* birth and he
ha< resided in thi* atote since He was
married to Anna Cole in Portland in
Deeember of 1905. They immediately
moved to Vernonia where their home
ha a l>een for 19 years.
Mr. North's characted whs irre-
proachable and he was a friend to all.
He stood for the highest and best in
terests of his community He was a
director on ihe Board of Education of
Union High School District No. 1 ar <1
a 3 ember of the school board of the
district in which he lived. He was sl-
so an active member of the Christian
church , was a I Kia rd member of the
Telephone Co. and belonged to various
fraternal organization*.
Funeral waa held from the family
reaidence at 2 p. m. Feb. 14, and the
body was laid to rest in the family cem
etary on the home place The number
in attendance and the profusion of
flowers indicated the love and *ym-
pathy which the entire community ex
tend* to the bereaved family.
Deceased is survived by his wife, a
son, Francis, an aged mother, two sis
ters and one brother,
Mr. J. S. Hale, General Fore
man of Guthrie Construction (Co.
passed away Feb. 12 during the
night, of apoplexy at O.-A. camp
Mr. Hale was the ¡on of Dr, J
P. Hale of Philadelphia, born in
Roanoke, Va., 1875.
At the age of 16 he came west
to Southern Oregon wltere he
was married to Ordelia Nole in
1907. To this union were born
Elds, now a girl of 14, and Dal
las, a boy o, 12.
Mr Hale has spent his married
life in the west engaged as Supt
of R. R. construction. He is re
spected and loved by his work
men and many friends.
His immediate friends have
noticed his likeness indisposition
principals and personality to
Abraham Lincoln whom he so
much admired and his earthly
life closed on the birthday of Lin
coin.
Deceased is surrived by a wife
and two children, one brother,
Robt. E. Hale and one sister Ma
mie Hale both of Salt Lake City.
Puneral services have not yet
been arranged for.
All friends extend their heart
folt sympathy to the bereaved
family.
Evangelical Church
Not Crazy About Party
Paint tip and clean up. It will pay
you. It makes your holdings more
valuable.
Vernonia needs a brick yard. A
“push club” of two members sends
such a want ad to Portland papers
this week. Some people say wc have
the clay here that will make good
brick. It should be investigated at
once. Here might |je a gohlen oppor
tunity for some one, anti Vernonia
sure needs the brick.
• Quite a few from Vernonia attended
the Lincoln Day banquet at St. Hel
ens, last Tuesday.
Did you ever drive into a corn
Plan to attend the “Old Maida Con- pletely dark city after night? il so
vention“ the night of Feb. 22.
you were bewildered as well as dis
gusted, and probably made some re
Parent-Teachers Meeting, to Organ mark about it being one heck of a
ize, thia Saturday at High School at town. Then when ypu drive into a
2:30. Thia iaimportant and you should city well lighted with street lights on
every prominent corner, your opinion
lie there sure.
of that city is good from first sight.
Vernonia needs, at least, street lights
The new church building is going ' the full length of Bridge street, at the
churches and school ami at the turn -.
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You Are Fortunate
it is t >ur privilege and good fortune to live in
the fastest growing town in Oregon. What you
make of this opportunity depends entirely up
on you. Does your pay chech go into the Bank
regularly to prepare yourself for the golden op*
portunity or is it spent without you knowing
where it went?
Start
omrt your savings account at inc
the i>an*
Bank OI
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Vernonia, not tomorrow but TODAY and be
ready to grasp the forelock of opportunity.
BANK or VERNONIA
Vernonia. Oi^n
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Vernonia Men in Auto Wreck
One aerinusly injured, two others
Vernonia people and the Ne
halem Valley generally, are not badly cut and bruised when the auto in
which they were riding skidded on the
hide bound when it cornea to wet pavement of Terwillinger boule
county politics. True, this is a vard, a few hundied feet thia side of
Republican precinct and w 11 vote the intersection of Slavin road, plunged
on state and national officials as over the bank, rolled over four times
straight as a string. County oifi and came to a stop bottom side up, 100
feet below in the middle of Slavin load
cials, also, will no doubt have O. H. Lyle, 3. P. & 8. locomotive en
preference by being republicans, gineer of Bend was taken to St. Vinc
but it is the man who knows how I ent's hospital with severe internal in
and who sees the needs of this juries. E. Lyle, and J. E. Repass own
part of the valley who will get er of the car, both of Vernonia, are at
the Oregon hotel under the care of a
the vote here. Vernonia territory doctor.
needs roads and road v.ork now.
They were bound for Vernonia where
It is more urgent here now than E. Lyle is ownes of a pool hull and Re
in any other part of the c unty. pass ia a contractor.
Mrs. C. E. Jones of Pori lai d who
The Cory hill needs cutting down
was driving by saw the capsized ma
and new gravel; Beaver Creek chine and with her daughter, ran to the
road must have attention to the rescue. Unable to assist them she ran
couty line; Rock Creek needs im- back to the road and flagged other mu-
mediate attention as far as Keas- I tosists who freed them - Wednesday’s
ey; Rock Creek Bridge in Ver-1 Or*go,1,“n-
Sunday school at 10 a. m.,
Christian Ende vor at 6:30 p. m.
andpreaching services at 11 a ¡m
and 7:30 p. m. Subject in morn
ing, "Exploits of Faith” and will
be in keeping with the observ
ance of Weshington’s birthday.
In the evening the subject will
be "The Egypt of Life”. Prayer
meeting Thursday night in con nonia must be straightened and
nection with Teachers Training widened. These things we want
class. Everyone invited to these and will vote for.
services.
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$2.00 PER YEAR
After March 1st the subscription
price of the Eagle will be $2.00 a year.
All the weekly papers are $2 00. They
can’t exist any lower. Rainier, St.
Helens and Clatskanie each charge
$2.00 per year, and the Vernonia p.-.per
is as good as any of them and Ver
nonia is as good a city as any of
them. Until the first of the monih
our subscription will remain $1.50.
One can pay for as many years in
advance a: that price as they wish,
or you can pay whether your time is
up or not, the full credit from rhe
time of your expiration will be given
you. But after March all subscrip-
tions sent any place in the U. S. will
be $2.00 per year. No use for us to
go into details and tell you how high
paper is, how high the interest and
insurance is on a $10,000 plant, how
high rent is, wages, and the many
articles connected with a modern
printing office. We are trying to
keep up, and to boost the Nehalem
valley and to give Vernonia as good
a paper as possible. The Vernonia
E. gle, as other papers, is $2.00 a year
in advance.
Road district nine, with their com*
mittea in charge, are planning for the
beat and moBt timely improvement,
this early spring, that we have henrd
of. They expect to spend about $5000
on the Rergeraon Bluff, or that steep,
narrow, ddngerous spot in the Timber
road where the passage goes around
the hill abovefthe river It ha? king
been the dread of all travelers and it is
a wonder no one has gone over the
bluff. The plan is to shoot the hill
d>wn to a road level about 18 feet a-
bove the river.
FIREMEN’S SMOKELESS SMOKER
On Wednesday night, February 20,
the Vernonia Fire Department will
give a splendid five bout.smoker for
the delight of all men and women in
Vernonia and the Nehalem Valley.
Be there. Each event of the evening
promises to be fast and square. Make
it a full house, an evening’s carnival.
It will be more than interesting, and
it is for a good cause—your cause
Go.
FUNDS FOR I ORLL1 ROA£S
AND TRAILS
Tuesday the 12th, the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln was fittingly celebrat
e<i in St. Helena with appropriate
spe .chea, and a program at a big ban
quet, enjoyed by 150 Columbia county
republican*. F. C. Hriibaugh was
toastma’ter of the evening and pr< -
All XlAU&l pl.UBslA^
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STANDARD OIL CO.
BUILD IN VERNONIA
Modern Distributing Station
Erected on Rose Avenue.
Keeping pace with the rapid
development in the industrial
field at Vernonia, the Standard
Oil Co. hast jusd completed a
modern equipped distributing
plant on Rose Avenue opposite
the depot, where a complete line
of its petroleum products are to
be carried, and delivery eervice
maintained under the direction
of Mr. C. C. Clay, the local agent
The Standard Oil Co. has al
ways shown an anflagging inter
est in the affair? of this common
ity and have grown wit’i it from
the beginning, making deliveries
first from St. Helens, later from
Clatskanie, and now as a furtier
and substantial manifest of their
faith in the stability and future
of this locality, they have estab
lished a station here with a local
representative in charge, and
whose organization will expand
commensurate with tke local de
mands.
1 he Standard Oil Co. is a corp
oration, progressive in ii® polici. s
the ramifications of whose dis
tributing system reach every sec
tion. This system calls for a lo
cal station and resident agent
who becomes an integral part of
the community. Such expansion
as this is to be aqpreciated and
can be measured in terms of bet
ter service to this community
w..ieh is rapidly forging ahead.
Christian Church
good talk and wit* Prosecuting At
torney Foote read the Lincoln Gettis-
berg speech and Judge Campbell gave
the principal address of the evening.
Judge Campbell* speech was immense.
He dwelt on the importance of two po
ii ical parties and referred te the freak
laws exacted ws a result of the work
of new parties, non-porties and the ev
il of straying from the fold. A united
and solid Republican line-up was the
scenae of the evenings program. In
some eases the Direct Primany law
wal blamed for ticket scratching. Me n
and women from various parts of tt e
county spoke, and the affair waa an
old time ralley without the torches.
The Columbia County Lincoln Club was
formed and the banquet will hereafter
be an annual affair.
The next Sunday morning and
Oregon gets $136,686 and Washing
evening
services will be held in
ton $85,741 for cooperative road and
the
high
school auditorium. Bible
trail projects this year, according to
word from District Forester Geo. H.
school, Mrs Ethel Ray superin
Cecil. Twenty-eight states in which
tendent, convenes at 10 a. m.
national forests are located wholly or
Sermon at 11 a.m, subject, "The
in part will share in the distribution
durin gthe current fiscal year of the
Ideal Congregation”. Evening
$1,000,000 fund appropriated by Con
sermon at 7:30, topic being "The
gress. This is an annual appropria
Audacity of Faith”. The public
tion for the construction of roads and
is cordially invited to attend ail
trails within the national forests in
cooperation with local authorities, ac
services. W. A. Gressman, min
cording to advice recently received of
ister.
the approval by the chief of the for
est service and the secretary of agri
culture. Alaska and Porto Rico will
Build a house. It is surely needed.
also share in the distribution of this
fund, commonly known as the Section
Eight Fund.
CstlioN* SscvioM
Last year 27 states shared in the
Mass and Sermon on the third Sun
federal moneys, Pennsylvania having
Let the Eagle print your envelopes, day of each month, at 11:30 a. m. Week
been added to this year's list follow cards, letterheads, bills, statements, day communion Mass to be announced,
ing the establishment of the Alle menu cards, butter wrappers, etc.
Jos^J\jclanc£^astor.
gheny National Forest in that state.
This particular fund is expended only
under cooperative agreements with
state and local authorities and should
not be confused with other road
building funds expended upon roads
and trails within the national forests.
It is entirely separate from the 25
per cent fund which is turned directly
over to the states to expend.
Following are the states and the
amounts each will receive from the
Section Eight Fund: Arizona. $54,209;
Arkansas, $9,732; California, $126,822;
Colorado. $67.537; Idaho, $114,764;
Montana, $64,889; Nevada. $17,164;
New Mexico, $37,945; Oregon. $136,686;
South Dakota, $7,495; Utah. $.«,319;
Washington, $85,741; Wyoming, $45,-
201. Alaska receives $43,919.
Florida. Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
WINTER COMPLEXIONS
braska. Oklahoma and Porto Rico will
together share in $13.980. Alabama.
February and March are months of the v**ar v hen
Georgia. Maine. New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South
women who value their appearance, give special at
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and
tention to the care of their complexion.
West Virginia will together share in
$35,597. The sum of $100,000 is re
served for administrative and equip
Our display of preparations permits the choosing of
ment expenditures and speciat con
cosmetics to suit every condition.
tingencies.
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The new fireproof building for the
Evarything in thia line worth having,
Hoffman Hardware Co. is rapidly
nearing completion. It is, so far, the
best building in the city. Mr. Hoff
man is to be congratulated in build
ing such a substantial bnsiness build
ing; he shows his faith in Vernonia
by so doing. Several more fireproof
buildings are being planned for im
Wm. Folger, PhannaeisL
mediate construction. It is the dawn
of the “stone age" for Vernonia.
VeriLVnia,
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Oregon
A good place tn live and getting bet
Nearly all the children have had
ter every day—that’s Vernonia.
the measles.
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COMMUNITY SHOCKED
VERNONIA LOTS
CHANGE HANDS DEATH OF EDWIN
New Homes, New Laundry.
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Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner
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