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EN SAWYER always came down
the back stairs the same way.
New Year's morning was no ex-
ceptlon. There was a rush, a clatter
and a general tumbling noise—and
Ben emerged into the kitchen.
His mother was just putting the
last things on the table for breakfast.
"Happy New Year, mother!” called
Ben. disappearing Into the dining
room.
His mother, strange to say, did not
reply.
Polly Sawyer, the youngest of the
family, and Harry were standing
around the dining room waiting for
breakfast to be served.
"Mother’s sort of queer this morn
ing,” whispered Polly to Ben. "She
looks just the same, but there's a kind
of difference about her. She hasn’t
said 'Happy New Year' to one of us.”
Ben frowned and looked at his
boots. "Oh, well. I guess she's a little
tired after the party last night
Shouldn’t l lame her.”
Ben really began to feel uncomfort
able and he attempted a timid ques
tion.
"Mother, don’t you feel well this
morning?" he asked.
Mrs. Sawyer looked up, surprised,
"Why, yes. Ben.
What made you
ask?"
“You seem so—
so sort of, well”
-he floundered—
sort of quiet.”
"Quiet?" asked
Mrs. Sawyer.
Harry and Pol
!y looked at each
other uneasily i
What was the i
matter with break I
fast, anyhow?
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"Yes,” said Ben. I
“and you haven't I
wished one of us
a Happy New
Year."
m e,
“D ear,
smiled Mrs. Sawyer, "I’m sorry. . I for
I now.
got all about it Well, I’ll do It
Happy New Year, Ben and Harry and
Polly?' -
But this was not at all what they
wanted. She did not say it that way
when she meant it. She shouted It up
the stairs the first thing In the morn
Ing, to get ahead of everybody else.
The children felt strange and out
of tune. Mother was always so jolly.
It took all the fun out of things to
have her this way.
"We had a fine party last night,
didn't we?" asked Polly. “Every one
•aid they never had a better time.”
Ben looked hard at his mother. H<
was the oldest and, though careless and
noisy, loved her very much. "It was
because mother worked so hard to give
It to us," he smiled. "Those little
cakes were just the ticket, and the Ice
cream—oh, boy!"
The other children nodded. “Sure
thing,” mumbled HarrA looking as
solemn us an owl.
Mrs Sawyer glanced from one to
another. "Children," she said, "Tve
gut something to say to you New
Year s morning. I think this Is the
beet time, for It Is the very beglnnlr
of the New Year.”
"Yes, mother," they all agreed.
“It Is the custom to say that wo
make new reso
lutions, but I
wish we could
make new faces.”
“New faces!”
exclaimed
the
children together.
"Yes—just that.
But new faces are
not made from
the outside; the
molding has to
come from with
in. Faces are
mads by thoughts,
and thoughts are
our only tools. I
worked for two
days to make It
a happy one for
you and your
friends. I grew very tired, but I did
not mind that. If It gave you pleasure'.
You say you had a good time, but this
morning is the first I have beard about
it."
“Oh, mother!" they walled, con
science-stricken.
"You take too much for granted,
children. And If you don't begin to
think a little about other people and
what they are doing and feeling, you
trill grow up having very disagreeable
faces I want you all to try to have
•new faces' this year. Make your eyes
see nice things about others; make
your mouths say kind words when
•ver you can. Next New Year’s morn
ing I'd like to shout a ‘Happy New
Tear,’ and mean it I want to use
happy faces not because you have a
good time, but because yon have
helped to ‘shine up’ the world for
others. ■’
"Yes, mother,” replied all the chil
dren. and then they got up with one
accord and ran around the table and
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T WAS New Year's Day and the
snow began to fall In blustery
fashion about the street corners
of Milltown. At the Simmons Corner Lime, Brick, Plaster, Cement
Grocery the morning business wus
rather dull and It was now ten o'clock,
when Isaac, or "Ike" as he was famili
arly called, sat in his dingy, dusty of
fice, shut off by himself, looking over
his past year's accounts. The young At the Warehouse South of
clerk, “Bill" Wilkins, was a little more
the Depot
idle than usual and he sat quietly on
a cracker box. Interested In the story VERNONIA TRADING CO
of “Huck Finn,” having a broad grin
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upon his round, mischievous face.
“Ike" Simmons, it was true, had a
sour disposition, even to a sense of
meanness, and sometimes if his friends
greeted him kindly, to be obstinate
SUMMONS
and hateful he would think of some
act of meanness to counteract good la the Circuit Court of the State of
ness and generosity. If it were not
Oregon for Columbia County.
for bargains “Ike's" trade would go on Bank of Vernonia, a corporation.
FEED, GRAIN AND HAY
Plaintiff, vs. J. J. Edwards and Mary
Edwards, his wife, Defendants.
tlie decline, but he possessed a keen
Insight for business and often marked
his goods some pennies below the
selling price of his competitors. So,
on New Year’s morning, “Ike" Sim
mons was in no pleasant mood, and
who would dare to wish him a "Happy-
New Year," and especially in a snow
storm and business dull?
All was quiet within the little
grocery office and a great stack of
papers was eagerly examined, when
“Ike,’ with his specs laid up high on
his brow, leaned over quietly onto his
desk in a thinking way. In a few min
utes lie saw the trapdoor open and un
arm with a revolver appeared. Then
a face, with a handkerchief covering
It, showed to the horror-stricken “Ike"
Simmons. A real burglar sprang out!
He took a heavy rope und bound “Ike”
to the stool. “Now, old Sourhead,”
the burglar sqid, “I’m not here only
f<>* Fs"r inuneg, but to flog you—you.
who cares not for the pleasant things
of life. You are ugly to your friends.
Now I am going to beat you.” And he
thrashed “Ike" with a heavy rope, and
the pain was awful. He knocked
"Ike" from his stool.
There wns a «lull thud. The clerk
ran into the office and found "Ike"
Simmons struggling on the floor, sur
rounded by his Itooks and papers.
About the same time Lemuel Haskins
came into the store and exclaimed:
“A Happy New Year, Ike I” “Ike"
scrambled up and looked amazedly
about him. “Happy New Year, Lem.
and many more." Both persons stood
aghast! "Ike" Simmons was a trans
formed being. He had I a med, in a
brief dream, the lesson of the cost of
being unkindly, when the real cost of
being kind wa* noth'::. an 1 lx kept
the New Yea' appy, ... I other New
Years fol! wing, with
:i increased
business t< less bls efforts.
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HARE, McAlear & Peters
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Resident Attorneys, State of Oregon
Poat Office Address, Shute Savings
Bank Bldg. Hillsboro, Oregon.
by the assessment for the payment
of suit! improvement, may file his
objections to the acceptance of said
work, and such objections will then
be considered by the Council.
Dated this 2flth day of December,
NOTICE OF COMPLETION
1924.
Notice is hereby given that the
Ben S. Owens, Recorder.
City Engineer has filed with the Re
corder a Certificate of Completion maMrnritf nemr nrif
of the work in Improvement District
Number One in the City of Vernonia,
Oregon.
Notice is hereby further given that
the acceptance of said improvement Piano Tuning, Repairing, Rebuilding
will be considered by the Council on All work guaranteed to give sails«
the 5th day of January, 1925, at the faction or your money back.
meeting of the Council to be held at
H. R. Brown,
8 o’clock p. m. on said dnte, and that
Piano Tuner
an« ‘¡me prior to asid date fixed
VornoAia, Oregon '
for the hearing of the snme, any own-'
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er of any interest in, or the agent of I
any property owner to be affected
NOTICE
“from the Northwest’s
finest bakery”
the
bread
supreme
.
WHAT was the Declaration of London?
WHY does the date for Easter vary?
WHEN was th*s great pyramid of
Cheep« built ?
HOW can you distinguish a malarial
mosquito ?
WHERE is Canberra ? Zoebrugge?
WHO was the Millboy of the Slashes?
Are these ' six men” serving you too?
Give them an opportunity by placing
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The O.-A. c ipany is constructing
a dozen r -w Immes to be occupied
by fam'lies of mill workers. The
“Mill
v” addition to Vernoina is
one of the prettiest arranged and
neatest appearing resident districts
to be claimed by any town of the
northwest. And building never stops.
(They tau/fhf me All I Knewjt
Their nrmri ere WHAT and WHY
and WHEN.
and HOW and WHERE and WHO"
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The Time to Buy
a Hat
To J. J. Edwards and Mary Edwards,
his wife, the above named DEFEND r.
ANTS:
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IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON: You are hereby re-!
quired to appear in the above entitl
ed court, and answer the complaint' •ng to claim, asserting or attempt-
filed against you in the above entitl- ’ ing to assert any right, title or inter
ed cause, on or before the 31st day est in or to said property, adverse to
of January, 1925, said date being the interest and ownership of the
after the expivation of six weeks Plaintiff therein and thereto; that
from the date of the first publication the title of the Plaintiff in and to
of this summons; and in the event against all of your claims and de-
you fail so to do, the Plaintiff will' mands.
apply to the court for the relief
THIS SUMMONS is served upon
prayed for in its complaint, to-wit: you by order of the Honorable J. A.
that the Plaintiff be decreed and de Eaking, Judge of the above entitled
clared to be the owner in fee simple, court, made, rendered and dated on
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and in the actual possession of the I the 12th day of December, 1924,
following described parcel if real which said order directs that said
property situated in Columbia Coun summons be published in the Vernon
ia Eagle for six constcutive and suc
ty, Oregon, to-wit:
All of Lot numbered One, in Block cessive weeks, the date of the 1st
Six, in the town (now City) of Ver publication thereof being Dec. 19,
1924, and the date of the last pub
nonia, in said County and State;
And that you and each of you and lication thereof being January 30th
all persons claiming by, through « 1906, aad that you appear and ans
»Wider you, be forever barred and wer said complaint on or before
precluded from claiming or attempt- January 31st, 1925.
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IT IS NOT NATURAL for superior work to be done with
1 inferior tools. You have a right to expect superior bread
from a superior bakery.
Indeed, there is just one natural reason for the existence
of a superior bakery anywhere—and that is a dominating
determination to make supei ior bread.
Visitors are always welcome at the U. S. Bakery. East I I th to 12th and East Everett to flanders streets.
We are glad to have people see our plant and see how Bulter-Nut bread is made-—and it is really interest
ing to go through this bakery equipped to make ”75,000 quality loaves a day.”