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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1924)
VBRNONIA EAGLE TT J NrWX ITrM\ ' The wocl m,rket fa saining la >*•’ ULflV 11 LITIV strength and the world demand la b«- ■X onrpi A I |L| TED EOT comlng keener, according to a telegram '/fjl UltulAL HlILIlLvI received at Pendleton by Mac Hoke, -ACREAGE dM FIRE, LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE » J --------------- —------------------------------------------------------------------- rt KAVANAGH LAND CO.,; WEST OF BANK £ ^9 Also barin L mh I h You will always find plenty of the best foods await ing you here. We buy the best quality, cook it and serve it in the best manner. The Manhattan Cafe PUT IT UP TO US— When you have an> repair work that you want handled in a prompt and ef ficient manner— put it up to us. Our shop is completely equipped to care for this work, our men are thoroughly experienced, and when we turn the work back to you you can bank on it being done right. VERNONIA BRAZING & MACHINE WORKS 2»' c o ORDER c o A L A L The price of Coal is lower now than it will be later, and you can get the kind of Coal in the grade you want if you order now. We will take your order today, delivering it whenever you say. Phone and tell us what you want. Tipton Lumber Co Vernonia, uno » former church sheds Phone 431 Or 5 secretary of the Oregon Wool Grow- Q . . _ . ..______ * . ers’ association from the headquarters Drier Resume Of Happenings Of of the National Wool Growers' asso ciation at Salt Lake City. the Week Collected for • # I Cummings & LaPoint, contractors, Our Readers have completed the concrete paving from Monmouth south to the Benton Twelve new fires broke out in the county line. This completes the last Deschutes forest as a result of s K*P i** the west side Pacific highway, I Albert Amort, state engineer, has set lightning storm. ' the date for the opening of this pave The box factory at Prairie City was totally destroyed by fire with a loss ment to traffic for September 10. I According to Olin Douglas, druggist estimated at *25,000. Fire destroyed the Implement and at Lakeview, Malheur and Harney oil store of D. Pohle & Son at Salem, lakes are dried up, as is Deep creek and several other good fishing streams with a loss estimated at *22,000. I in that district. The drying up of The Eugene Woolen Mills have re these rendezvous of the finny tribe sumed operations after being closed will necessitate restocking and has for the greater part of the summer. spoiled fishing in that district for Approximately 50 carloads of green several years. prunes will leave the Salem district i Oregon Elks in the seventh annual for distant markets, according to an* convention at Tillamook indorsed and nouncement. 1 decided to take an active part in During the past few months Albert National Defense day program, Sep- Fisher has shipped 11 cars of horses , tember 12, outlined an Americaniza- and mules from Haines to Denver, all tfon program to be carried out during raised on the Fisher ranch. ’ the forthcoming year, and adopted Hade heck artists again invaded several resolutions outlining other The Dalles during the last few days, constructive work. obtaining *160 from two local mer The Eagle Point irrigation district chants before the fraud was discover haB requested the state Irrigation and ed. drainage securities commission to ex Fore'gn shipping of lumber from tend for a period of one year the In Coos Bay during the last fiscal year terest guarantee on bonds issued for totaled more than 100,000,060 feet, the development of the project. The with an estimated value of nearly state previously had guaranteed the *4,000,000. I)r. Joseph E. Hall, former stat« commander of the G. A. R„ was elect | The South Umpqua river above ed surgeon general of the G. A. R. at Roseburg is not to be closed to bath the fifty-eighth annual encampment ers, the county health department has in Boston. announced. Samples of river water The body of John Pustejovsky was show that although the stream is un found in a house on the Pacific high fit for domestic use, its water may be way near Albany, with a bullet hole used for bathing. Below the city all through the lungs and an army pistol bathing is forbidden and swimming holes inside the city limits are for- by his side. E. Done is critically ill in Reeds ' bidden by order of the city council, port as a result of drinking a quarter as the water was found to be very of a pound of commercial ether, which highly contaminated. A party of men, members of the he purchased, he said, for use in start Dukhobor organization, a Russian ing an automobile. Picking of fuggle hops is under way 1 sect, with colonies in Canada, has ob in Oregon and so far the yield is com tained options on farm land near Junc ing down lighter than usual. Picking tion City. It has been known that the of clusters will start about August 25, sect has been planning to emigrate to Lane county for some time, and the earlier than customary. American Legion at Eugene has been Two persons were killed and three protesting against the move. The ex- injured when an automobile driven by service men are expected to take James Beattie, 27. left the highway steps to prevent the Dukhobors from and overturned at Johnson’s bridge, entering this country. five miles east of Tillamook. i The fruit harvest of the Hood River Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian valley is under way, although it will and secretary of the state livestock be mid-September before picking to sanitary board, is in Des Moines, I*., any appreciable extent will be start to attend a national covention of live ed. While the Apple Growers' asso I stock sanitary board officials. ciation has sold the bulk of its Bartlett James Kieth of Talent was horribly pear tonnage to canners, the organ burned while firing a donkey engine ization will ship a few cars packed. In a logging camp near Hilt, dying The harvest of Gravenstein apples be shortly afterward without being albe gan this week. Kings, too, will be to explain the cause of the accident. picked at once. The season has been Plans for construction of a natator- an unusually early one. ium and roof garden were announced It will require 363,233 pamphlets at Roseburg. A company made up en containing the various measures to tirely of local men has been formed go before the voters of Oregon at the and will incorporate for *100,000, it November election to supply the de was stated. mand under the law, according to a By hiding in a narrow space be statement issued by Sam A. Kozer, tween the body and the running gear secretary of state. Arguments for and of a motor truck that operates in and against the measure also will be con out of the state prison yard, Patrick tained in these pamphlets. Mailing Bishop escaped from the ■tat« peni- of the pamphlets began Monday. There tentiary at Salem are four proposed constitutional R. M Barker, driver of an automo- amendments and three measures to be bile that was seeking to establish a referred at the fall election. ■peed record between Seattle and Oak Men have been burned by an In land, Cal., was fined *410 by Judge competent and carelees X-ray oper I'.unta at Salem on tw« charges of ator; medicine ordered by the doctors speeding and racing. has not been given despite numerous Announcement is made that all mid demands for it, and some nurses and Columbia cities will participate on orderlies have slept at their posts Labor day in a paceant, depicting while sick men called for attention, early day history of the Columbia patients of the United States veterans river as a highway into the Oregon hospital No. 77 In Portland charged country, to be held at Koberg beach. in the course of an investigation start ed by the American legion, looking Just east of Hood River. The second Linn county employe toward the removal of Dr. Frank N. within a week met an accidental death Gorden, superintendent, md Dr. C. M. when a large rock from a bunker at Tinney, receiving officer. Accompanied by representatives of the county rock crusher near Foster dropped onto the head of John W. the United States fire service and Nye, road supervisor. The skull was members of hie own company, R. A. fractured and death was almost in Booth of Eugene, president of the Ochoco Timber company, was in the stantaneous. Both John W. Davis and Charles W. timber of Crook county on a mission Bryan, democratic candidates for pres of investigation with a view to buy ident and vice-president at the Novem ing the government holdings in the ber election, probably will give ad Ochoce national forest, which adjoins dresses in Oregon during the cam those of the Ochoco Timber company. paign, according to Dr. C. J. Smith, If this deal Is made it means ths chairman of the democratic state cen milling of ths timber and the estab lishment at Prineville of a yellow pine tral committee. plant equal in magnitude to the best Two cases involving the right of in the state. states to require children between the Governor Pierce sent a letter to ages of 8 and 1* to attend public Mam A. Kozer, secretary of state, schools have been docketed in the \ektng to borrow *25,000 from an United States supreme court. The appropriation authorised at the last appeals were brought by Governor session of the legislature with which Pierce and Attorney General Van to meet current demands oa the state Winkle of Oregon and District At- penitentiary revolving fund. The leg torney Myers of Multnomah county. islature at its last sessloa created a The first carload of apples for the revolving fund of *100,000 for the season, Gravensteins loaded at Van penitentiary, and also voted a fund of I horn, on the Mount Hood railroad line, *50,000 from which the prison could was forwarded to the eastern domestic borrow if there was not sufficient to market from Hood River. The Valley carry oa the work of the institutions! Short line also brought down the sea industries. The letter said that prac son's first carload of pears, Bartletts, tically all the *100,00« fund had been from the Vanhorn orchard of B. *. exhausted and that the *15,000 addi Pooley, which went to canners at tional waa needed principally to pay Hillsboro. for flag straw ter the state Dan plant. Why Not Own a Lot .4 £ IN THE FAST GROWING CITY OF THE RICH NEHALEM VALLEY? Vernonia has a bright future—an investment here is safe We have a few choice, big lots, close to the high- way for only $115.00—1-4 cash, balance $10.00 i i S j per month. Write me or call at my office for full p particulars. I also have some choice acre tracts and business lots G. B. Richmond General Sales Agent JUST AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS It is the choicest Steak cut of all—tender, juicy and of the finest flavor. We will be glad to send you one—simply phone you; order. A teal modern meat establishment, handling the best meat, poultry, butter, eggs, ice. EMMOTT & CULVER Vernonia Meat Market. * VERNONIA STEAM LAUNDRY QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED A Vernonia Institution, Modern in Every Respect WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER Quick Service—Watch for Our Car STATE LAUNDRY CU ALL KINDS OF LAUNDRY WORK Washable rugs Blankets Lace curtains Feather pillows Wagon Comes to Vernonia Daily Sox Darned Free “QUALITY AND SERVICE” Vernonia Agents Are: VERNONIA CLEANERS COLUMBIA BARBER SHOP *