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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1924)
Dairying and Fanning CLEAN UP YOUR TOWN | If your tongue were coated, your ¡buck ached and you had chills, you A town looks like its citizens. I would go to u doctor. You would go Is thure anything wrong with your because you were sick. town? Your town is sick. It gets clogged Are the back lots filled with rub up like your system and is coming to bish? the only doctor it can come to. It is Aro the basements full of trash? coming to you. Is there rubbish leading to exits People judge a town by its looks. that people would have to pas< over? If there have been fires in your If thore are any of these condi town from moss on the roof, from tions existing then there is something defecti ■ flues or from rubbish in the matter with your town. the busement it is too bad. Do You Know VERNONIA EAGLE Street» Always Crowded Property that could have been taxed and thus helped to reduce your burden, is beyond the power of tax ation. Food that could have been eaten is destroyed. Gold with all its alchemy cannot substitute. It has purchasing power not food value. Clean up your town. It will mean dollars and cents to you. Your home may be destroyed by the careless act of a neighbor. His home is in the same danger as yours. Sunlight, fresh air and cleanliness never start combustion, lack of ven tilation und accumulation of filth and dirt will. This is your town. You live in it. It is what you make Remove those unsightly and dan gerous piles of rubbish. Clean up and fix up. This is your home town. Forest Grove News-Times TIRED OF RUNNINF FREE ADVERTISEMENTS that you have a strictly up to date FURNITURE r ; STORE at Home, where you can purchase any thing desired at a saving in time, convenience and money? BROWN & BROWN Furniture and Undertaking VERNONIA STEAM LAUNDRY QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED A Vernonia Institution, Modern in Every Respect WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER Quick Service—Watch for Our Car An Iowa editor is tired of running free advertisements, and in and ad vertisement of his own, tells the world about it as follows: “Here you will find a schedule of prices from which no deviation will be made, but we hope to donate a certain percentage if our earnings toward founding an asylum for those feeble-minded people who believe an editor has a soft snap. “For telling our readers a man is a successful citizen, when everybody knows he is as lazy aB a bench warm er—$2.76. “For referring to some gallavant- ing fellow as one who is mourned by the entire community, when he will only be missed by the boozers— $10.18. “Referring to one as a hero and t' man of courage and one who will stand by his convictions, when every body knows he is a moral coward, and would sell out for a dime— $4.13 “Referring to gossipy female as an estimable lady whom it is a plea sure to meet and know when every man in town would rather see Satan coming—$8.10. “Calling an ordinary preacher an eminent divine—54 cents. “Lambasting the daylights out of John Barleycorn, at the behest of the ’ocal dry forces—$6.77. “Whooping 'em up for the repeal of the Volstead law in the interests of the local White Mule Funnel Club —$6.77. “Referring to a deceased merchant who never advertised and who *vas too stingy to contribute toward need ed public improvements, as a leading citizen, and a progressive resident $344.99.” PUT BILL TRUE COMMUNITY SPIRIT My community is whert my home founded, where my business is lo cated, where my vote is cast, where my children are educated, where my neighbors dwell, and where my life is chiefly lived. I have chosen it after due consid eration from among all the commun ities of the earth. It is the home spot to me. My community has the right to my civic loyalty. It supports me and I support it. My community wants my citizenship, not partisanship; friendship, not offishness; co-opera tion, not dissension; my intelligent interest, not indifference. wun My community y supplies me with friends, edu- " law and order, trade, 1 cation, morals, recreation and the ' rights of a free-born American. I should believe in my community, work for it, and I will. MEMORIAL DAY A big summer’s business awaits advertisers who have the get-up to go after it. One of the tried and proven ways of going after business is through a liberal use of newspaper advertising. That this paper reaches the people you want to tell about your merchandise can be easily ascertained by a review of our sub- scription list. We will gladly show it to any present or prospective advertiser—and we will go a step farther. WE WILL HELP YOU OUTLINE AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN, supply you the cuts and copy for your ads, and cooperate -with you in evei y possible way to make the money you invest with us bring returns. Seasonable wares should be advertised in advance. Beat the Port- land merchants to it. T I <?- i> it ■v »* e « -x“ STANDARD OIL COMPANY [CALIFORNIA] 4 VERNONIA EAGLE O preserve the natural beauties of the great routes of travel of the Pacific Coast, we have removed all of these signs, 1200 in number, from the highways. Decoration Day