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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1924)
* > VERNONIA EAGLE Dairying and Farming We Are S till Doing uslness In Our Old Warehouse THE SHOOTING OF DAN McGREW "A bunch of boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music box was hitting a jag-time tune. Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, Ai.„ wat. hing his luck was his light O-love, the lady that’s known as Lou. Next To the Cash Vari ety Store, While Our Stock Last When out of the night, which was filly below, and ii.to the din and the glare, There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear. The High School Band Which Has Joined With the Town Band and Will Furnish Music This Summer He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse, Yet he tilted a polk of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house. There was none could place the stran ger’s face, though we searched our selves for a clue; But we drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan Mc- Grew. Streets Always Crowded That one of you is a hound of hell— and that one is Dan McGrew.” And hunger not of the belly kind; that’s banished with bacon and beans, But the gnawing hunger of lonely men for a home and all that it means; For a fireside far from the cares that are, four walls and a roof above; But oh! so cramful of cozy joy, and crowned with a woman’s love— A woman deared than all the world, and true as Heaven is true— (God! how gastly she looks through he rouge,—the lady that’s known as Lou). There’s men that somehow just grip your eyes, and hold them hard like a spell; And such was he, and he looked to me like a man who had lived in hell: With a face most hair, and a dreary stare of a dog whose day is done, As he watered the green stuff in his glass, and the drops fell one by Then on a sudden the music changed, one. * so soft that you scarce could hear; Then I got to figgering who he was, But you felt that your life had been looted clear of all that it once and wondering what he’d do, held dear; And I turned my head—and there watching him, was the lady that’s That someone had stolen the woman you loved; that her love was a known as Lou. devil’s lie; His eyes went rubbering around the That your guts were gone, and the room, and he seemed in kind of a best for you was to crawl away and die. daze, Till at last that old piano fell in the ’Twas the crowning cry of a heart’s way of his wandering gaze. despair, and it thrilled you through and through— The rag-time kid was having a drink there was no one else on the stool, “I guess I’ll make it a spread Mis- ere,” said Dangerous Dan McGrew So the stranger stumbled across the % room, and flops down there like a The music almost died away—then fool it burst like a pent-up flood; In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw his sway And it seemed to say, “Repay, re pay”, and my eyes were blind with Then he clutched the keys with his blood. talon hands—My God! but that man could play. The thought come back of an ancient wrong, and it stung like a frozen Were you ever out in the Great alone lash, when the moon was awful clear, And the icy mountains hemmed you And the lust awoke to kill, to kill— then the music stopped with a in with a silence you most could crash, hear; With only the howl of a timber wolf And the stranger turned, and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar and you camped there in the cold, way; A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck Then his lips went in a kind of grin, and he spoke, and his voice was called gold; calm, While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Light swept in And "Boys” says he, "you don’t know me and none of you care a damm; bars? Then you’ve a hunch, what the music But I want to state, and my words are straight and I’ll bet my poke meant------ Hunger and night and they’re true, the stars. * ROBERT PARKER Then I ducked my head, and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark. And the woman screamed, and the lights went up, and two men luy stiff and stark. Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan Mc- Grew, While the man from the creeks lny clutched to the breast of the lady that’s known as Lou. that’s known as Lou. Shown at the Majestic Theatre on Sunday and Monday nights. After the exercises of the 8th grade at St. Helens Friday Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coyle and family and Miss Ruby Jessie motored to Rainier where they spent the night at Miss Jessie’s home returning late Satur day. Mrs. Chas. Steel, Mrs. Chet. Alex- ander, Miss Ruby Jessie and Mrs. Walter Coyle motored to Hilsboro These are simple facts of the case, where Mrs. Robert Nelson joined and I guess I ought to know. them going to Sheriadn to spend the They say that the stranger was craz day with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Coyle. ed with hooch, and I’m not deny ing it’s so. A few of the ball players and their I’m not so wise as the lawyer guys, friends were entertained at the Walt- but strictly between us two— ■er Coyle home Sunday evening. Re The woman that kissed him and ! freshments were served and Music pinched his poki —was the lady ’ r.nd songs were enjoyed. White Enamel Range Box Cast Iron Heater No. 22 Cast Lined Heater 3-4 Pound Dead Felt Paint Best Prepared Varnishes, Stains Kalsomine .... Handles— All—Kinds »Hickory Rim Locks Inside Locks 3x3 Door Hinges $56.00 $10.00 . $13.00 $1.60 S3 15 gal. 21c up . 48c pkg . 38c up • 53c 78c 27c Í 4 Everything we have left going at cost. Take advantage of thesv prices W. A. Arnold Formerly Vernonia Hardware Co. « . * MILES COMING Great Dramatic .Orator Brings Famous Lecture to Chautauqua —Opening Night. * It Is a big jump from a |2 factory Job to personal acquaintance with kings, emperors, presidents, statesmen and the |M>pe, but that Is what Robert Parker Miles accomplished within u comparatively few year* after landing In America as an emigrant lad with “fifty cents in his pocket, a hole in hla shoe and the toothache." He is now one of the most talented and popular lecturers on the platform and la scheduled to deliver his famous classic, “Tallow Dips,” here on the first night of Chautauqua ' Mlles* career is spectacular and Illustrates what heights can be sttalned by those who recognize the opportunities America affords and will accept them. Self educated, he finally reached the pastorate of a great church, leaving it at the Insistence of a New York newspaper to widen the scope of his work by be coming religious editor and conducting a vice crusade. This he did with such success that he was sent on two world tours to study conditions and men in foreign countries. From these rich experiences, combined with an uncanny gift nt words and greAt natural dramatic ability, he has fashioned one of the greatest verbal pictures of the world’s great men ever presented. “I have a better and clearer vision of these men through hearing Dr Miles than I obtained tn many years of study,” was the tribute of a great scholar after bearing "Tal low Dips. ’ W »