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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1924)
On ¡aland Highway • a • sete Seattle, Washington and her sister, from Washington, D. C. MIST NEWS Interesting Items from Dairy and Farm Center, Adjacent Miss Olya Holmstrom was called to Astoria Friday on account of the * serious illness of her father. She • •see see came homo again the first of the Mrs. Chas. Webber and ■mall week. Her father was some better daughter from Molalla came down the last report. • Friday for a couple weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Mrs. Geo. Jones took Mr». Holms- Malto. trom’s place In the central office while she was away. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reynolds, Miss Iday Turner and Oscar Jones drove Mr. and Mrs. Austin Dowling were up to Salem Thursday. They return Clatskanie visitors Tuesday. ed home Sunday. Mr. Wm. Baker came back with them. Bernard Dowling was absent from school Monday being kept indoors P. DeDocks made a flying visit with a severe cold. with his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Bridgers over Thursday evening. Wm. Bridgers is digging spuds for Irving Knowles this week. Mrs. L. E. McGee from the burn spent the day Tuesday with Mrs. J. Miss Loretta Johnson spent the O. Libel. day Friday with Mrs. Austin Dowl ing. Lena Bachman Is at home from school confined to the house with a Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Johnson spent case of Chicken pox. Friday in Vernonia. Alt« Balhorn also is sick. Mrs. Geo. Turner and children Mrs. W. Wagner spent the after were dinner guests of Mrs. Ed Rey noon Monday at the Austin Dowling nolds Wednesday. home. A. R. Melis lost a cow recently by Carl Broolu and Geo. Jones were getting mired in the creek. She was digging potatoes for James Hill the dead when Mr. Melis found her. first part of the week. This is the season of the year that Mrs. L. Carmical has as guests, everybody is looking for something her mother and father from up near new in stockings. We read a good deal of unneces sary “sob stuff’ these days about, child labor, and now comes a propos al from an eastern organisation that a new amendment be adopted to the constitution to prohibit working children. Those favor it seem to be lieve that multitudes of smal ltots are sweating in the mines, and the fields and about machinery, and the opponents, mostly farm organisations argue that it is a scheme to deprive the farm of its youthful help. So far as we see conditions around Vernon ia both sides are exaggerating. We see children working, and yet have our first time to note any indica tion of “slavery" or cruelty or brut ality on the part of those whom work. We want them to have an op portunity to get an education, of course. But there is no reason why they should not attend to small tasks during the time they would oher- wise he idling. The child-labor argu ment looks very much like another attempt to foist a new “bureau’’ on the government, with a lot of fat jobs down at Washington—and the money coming out of taxpayer's pockets to pay the salaries. Know all men by thees presents (Christmas presents) tha‘ the milk of human kindness is still sweet. Petersen’s Men’s Store Has Put on Same Bin Bargains in Men’s Wear For your winter supply of Mens Goods—Overcoats, Mackinaws, Rain Coats, Cravanettes, Cooper Underwear, Shoes, West Coast, Forrester, and Bone-Dry Logger Shoes. Rain-Test Clothing. .te* * Big Reduction on Cravenettes, and Overcoats. Big Reduction on Pendleton and Ncuatadter wool Top Shirts, Stag Shirts, Etc. Boss of the Road Overalls and Work Shirts. We handle only teh best grade of Merchandise. WE SELL FOR CASH; OUR PRICES ARE LOW A. W. PETERSEN'S POPULAR PRICES •4 Putting Money in Your Own Pocket i 4 Trading with the merchants of Vernonia is one of the easiest and quickest methods of putting more money in your own pocket that i ou can devise. t is to your interest and to their interest to build up Vernoma. We all want to see good schools, good churches, good public buildings, good roads and good everything in our own home town —but good things cost money. If we send this money away, it is gone forever. If we spend it in to#h it will stay here and work with us and for us. You can make or break Vernonia. Let’s all pull together to make our town the best town in Columbia. • *■ V J VERNONIA EAGLE « When You Need Anything—Try First to Buy It at Home ' X ras
