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4 1«22, at the post office at Ver
nonia, Oregon, under the Ait
. f March 3. 1ST».
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single column measure, each we k.
We collect tor advertising the first
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PAUL S. R BIN'SON
E ditor and O wner .
This Saturday, June 14, is Flag Da}
A power greater than any munici
pal water plants extinguished the want it there. Two splendid buildings ! Dawes,
threatening forest fires last week. A
The result is that Paul Revere is
power greater than the “Weather are already on the East side, The known to every schoolboy. You could
near
present
grade
building
i
snot
Man”, at Portland visited the West
sell a Paul Revere cigar fur a dime
ern part of the state a few minutes large enough so build there also, where equally good William Dawes
after the populace read the predic Hence vote on the lcth for the first cigars would go begging at six for a
tion of “No Rain in Sight”. An All proposition to buy the Cass Berger- nickle.
Wise Providence saved the day. The son acre (the best school location in
William Dawes, Jr., was hardly
crops-in western Oregon are looking town) and build a modern four room heard of until his great-grandson
fine. By due caution the fire danger Luilding there and one on the present came along to link his name up with
has passed. It always rains on trie ite also. We will see them both full current events. Paul Revere had been
just and unjust alike. To which we to overflowing within a year. Mark famous for years.
are duly thankful.
!the prediction.
Because—Paul Revere was well ad
—
vert is ed.
You will notice that the school
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Editor Morton, of the St Helen’s
has called a meeting for June 16, to Mist, is on a little trip and vacation,: The youthful murderers and kid
vote on the building of new school down San Francisco way. Mr. Mor- nappers of the Franks boy, in Chi-
building*. There are two propositions ton-s (lau(rhter is returning from a cag(, are millionaire. It is announced Washington during the convention,
submitted, which means two school trip to Honolulu, and he is planning that they are not being abused in leaving it to his friends to look after
houses—and probably that is the to meet her in San Francisco.
jail anj that their hotel bills are his nominations, the actual drafting
best plan. A few weeks ago the Board
$100 per day. For a common thief of the Republican platform and the
called a meeting to decide where to
The Coulmbia County Republican in out county jail his hotel bill won’t other convention details. A special
build and the citizens voted 3 to 1 to Central Committee has partly plan amount to over a dollar, and he ser telegraph wire is to be rigged up
build west of the R. R. track. Now ned the pre-election campaign. One ■ ves pretty well at that. Wake up, : from the White House to the conven
they submit the proposition again in f the task- is the uniting of the par
tion ball in Cleveland to keep the
America.
a different form for June 16. They ty. It is a fact, although unaccount I
President advised of all developments
give you the chance to vote for a able, that long time professed Repub
A newspaper seldom gets any cred- as they occur and so that he may is
Modern 4 room building west of the licans insist on jumjing to the wrong
sue orders to his political lieutenants
for what it DOESN'T print.
track and a modern 4 room building column occasionally, and voting for *
if the occasion warrants.
on the present site, Two buildings a democrat. Columbia County Re
It is easy to see an opportunity
each four rooms.
Or they give you publicans have repeatedly elected after somebody else has grabbed it.
Some doubt still remains as to
the chance to vote on only one eight Democrats. Poor habi'.
whom will be selected as the Repub
room building on the present site,
We wonder if the gallant Sir Wal lican vice-presidential candidate. A-
o.ily; ignoring any site west of the
STRAIGHT FR M HISTORY
ter Raleigh, after he placed his coat mong those prominently mentioned
track. The first proposition will, we
on the muddy road for the beautiful for the second place on the ticket are
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believe, carry. People believe in fair
You’ve heard of Paul Revere, who lady to walk on, said “Step on it, kid” former Governor Frank Lowden of
play, and it looks fair that a build took the famous “midnight ride” I
Illinois, Major General James G. Har
ing should be west of the track, as that the poet Longfellow Xells about.
It has been our observation, that bord and Senator Wm. E. Borah,
there will be hundreds of small pri
Y’ou’ve heard of General "Hell- a lot of people who consider the,. - but there are a host of other possi-
mary children there the coming term and-Maria” Wawes, once Director of ¡selves “hard boiled” are only half bilities.
It is needed there and the people the Budget and more lately investi 1 baked.
gator of European finances.
Senator La Follette’s activities in
a ffiaramrmaram: vest w. But did y.-.r .-er happen to hear To make an occasional mi t ke the direction of the Presidency re-
& of the picturesque General’s great I not so bad as not to make anythin)
main a constant subject of specula
i
grandfather, William Wawes, Jr.?
CORRECT
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tion among the politicians of all par
I
The chances are you never did.
The man who has nothing but his ties. No one believes that La Follette
POPULAR PRICES
And therein is an advertising lesson. dignity to stand on, is scheduled for has any chance of being elected Pres
For William Dawes, Jr., back in a spill.
ident himself, but his determination
1775 did exactly the same thing that
to run as an independent candidate
Designing and Dressmaking
Paul Revere did.
means that he may carry enough of
There were two riders through the
the states to take the election out
night to arouse the Middlesex farm
of the Electoral college and throw it
READY HAT SHOP
ers “up and to arm.” One was Revere
into the insurgent-controlled house
The
other
was
Dawes.
They
did
the
of
Representatives, where no one
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same thing. But—
knows what might happen. It is not
Evening*
A famous poet wrote a famous po- A Weekly Panorama of Events in the expected he could carry more than
em about Revere. (Perhaps his name National Capital By Peter Keegan ten states at the most, most of these
was easier to find rhymes for.) ’ o-'
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in the Middle West.
body but historians ever mentioned
President Coolidge will remain in
The Grave Consequences threaten
ed by the Japanese Ambassador in
the event the American Government
went ahead with its exclusion plans
has developed so far in some jingo
talk in Japan and a formal protest
handed to Secretary of State Hughes
There is nothing that can wow be
done about it. regardless of how
much the Pre ¡«lent disliked to sign
the exe' j ;ion bill. The excitement
| over tl ' ..stern question has given
big Navy men in Congress an op-
portui ity to rush through a building
orogr. ni involving the expenditure of
I about $150,000,000 for new ships.
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EVENTS AT OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
J-.-.e fifth has been set as the date
for publication throughout the coun
try of the application forms for the
soldiers bonus insurance certificates.
The War epartment estimates that
it will be the I -tter part of June be
fore the official application blanks
will be ready for distribution, but a
number of newspaper* have arrang
ed to print them before that time.
The insurance certificates will not
begin to reach the veteran* until ear
ly next year. < ash payments will be
gin in March, I »25.
Democratic Senators are playing
Alphonso and Gaston in the cloak
room* now. So many of them are po
tential presidential candidate* that
it keeps them busy announcing that
they are not running and that they
are supporting someone else. Many
look upon Ralston of Indiana a* the
likely Democratic choice.
Job printing of *nv
done at the Eagle office.
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1 1924 Chevrolet Demonstrator
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1 1920 Ford Roadster
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