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MIST NEWS
Interesting Items from Dairy
and Farm Center, Adjacent
Miss Olya Holmstrom was called
to Astoria Friday on account of the
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serious illness of her father. She
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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.
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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
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Putting Money in
Your Own Pocket
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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.
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