On inland Highway
in department stores and in some of
the largest specialty stores in all tne
leading cities. A full list of commod
ities available were supplied to the
diningcar service of the Northern Pa
cific a few days ago by the land set
Washington. D. C.—The house pass tlement and publicity committee of
ed the McFadden bill which would re the Portland Chamber of Commerce.
vise the national banking laws.
“There are several aspects of this
The bill, the banking policy of campaign’* said Mr. Cuthbert who
which had been Indorsed by the Na j has personal change of it so far as
tional Association of Credit »Men and Portland and Oregon is concerned,
the American Bankers’ association, “which will create perhaps more in
is designed to put national banks on terest in Oregon than was conceived
a better competitive basts with state of at the time this program was
institutions, particularly with regard launched.” Arrangements for these
to maintenance of branches. As report special features are not yet compet
ed to the house, the measure gave na ed but when they are there will be
tional banks the right to maintain no doubt about Oregon in the minds
intra city branches where state banks of the eastern people, not only as
are permitted to do a branch bank a state in which to live and to farm,
ing business, but the amendments put but one in which to establish and de
forward by Representative Hill, repub velop industries.”
lican, Illinois, which the house accept
“This campaign also” said Mr.
ed, placed restrictions on the mainten Cuthbert, “must not be looked upon
ance of these branches.
as the usual advertising campaign
which these roads have put on for the
FAVORS LOANS TO SETTLERS Pacific Northwest during the past
two years. That is an entirely dif
Approval Is Given Senator Kendrick’s ferent and additional campaign and
Bill by President Coolidge.
I have in my office now a partial
Washington, D. C.—Administration summary of the advertising that is
approval of the bill introduced by Sen going to be done by these railroads
ator Kendrick, democrat, Wyoming, during the spring and summer which
proposing government loans to settlers will even eclipse that of last year.
of reclamation projects now under There are those who think that this
construction, was transmitted to the Oregon month campaign will take the
senate reclamation committee at the place of the usual advertising for
opening of hearings on the measure. tourists by these roads. I don’t think
Secretary Work gave his support to there will ever be a substitute for
the measure and Director Lord of the tourist advertising by and road, least
budget made it known that the pro of all by the roads in this campaign.
gram did not conflict with President Notwithstanding this Oregon month,
Coolidge's financial plans.
notwithstanding the large number of
Under the revision, the measure conventions we will have in the west
would propose loans up to |3000 for this year there will still be this in
settlers on the basis of 60 per cent of
tensive tourist advertising campaign”
MEASURE TC RtrlSE
BANKIN6JS PASSED
the improvements made by the settlers
or cattle owned.
Oregon Prohibition Probe Under Way.
Salem, Or.—Legislative probe of the
state prohibition department and the
enforcement of the state dry law start
ed Monday night. After Inviting sug
gestions from anyone interested, from
the governor down, the committee
plans an executive session during
wbiclj the scope of the probe will be
outlined.
Washington Wool Chief Re-elected.
Ellensburg. Wash.—Thomas Drum
heller of Walla Walla, Wash., was re
elected president of the Washington
Wool Growers’ association here for
his eighth term.
Mr. McGriffie,
Yakima, vice president, and Joseph E
Sears. Yakima, secretary, were also
re-elected.
Conviction In Hersy Case Sustained.
Cleveland, Ohio.—The review court
of the Protestant Episcopal church
unanimously affirmed the heresy con
viotion of Bishop William Montgomery
Brown of Galion, Ohio.
BIGGEST OREGON ADVERTIS
ING PLAN EVERY ATTEMPTED
Between now and the end of
March the Pacific Northwest and par
ticularly Oregon will be advertised
as never before in the history of the
state. Advices have just been receiv
ed by the Publicity department of
the Portland Chamber of Commerce
from the Burlington, Great Northern
and Northern Pacific Railway comp
anies of the particulars of the cam
paign that those three roads are put
ting on in connection with the Ore
gon month for March 1025. Full page
advertisements will be carried in at
least 20 magazines reaching the far
mer and the men who lives in the
country. Those publications have a
circulation of seven million people or
twentyone million readers. The mag
azines to be used are as follows:
Breeders’ Gazette, Country Gentle
man, Semi-Weekly Globe- Democrat,
National Stockman and Farmer, In
diana Farmers’ Guide, Hoard's Dairy
man, Iowa Homestead, Praisie Farm
er, Weekly Star, Wallace’s Farmer,
Wisconsin Agriculturist, Wisconsin
Farmer, Capper’s Weekly, Dairy
Farmer, Orange Judd-Farmer, Okla
homa Farmer-Stockman, Successful
Farming, Farm Journal, Farm and
Fireside, Capper’s Farmer.
This is practically only the begin
ning of the campaign. For months a
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce of Portland, presided over by
W. D. B. Dodson and consisting of
representatives if the marketing,
land settlement, industries and pub
licity committees, and representa
tives of the State Chamber of Com
merce, has been busy discussing the
plans with the railroad companies
and an immense amount of work has
been done by the publicity depart
ment in the preparing of ideas, copy
and general advertising material,
results will be fully demonstrated in
th« month of March when radio talks
and illustrated lectures will be given
all over the coast by representatives
of the three companies and by pub
lic men of Oregon. Window displays
will be made in the railway offices.
LABOR BANK GOOD
Since the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers established the
first labor bank in Cleveland, 29 ad
ditional labor banks have been form
ed, seven are in pocess of formation
and preliminary organization steps
have been taken for 60 more, accord
ing to Frederick J. Haskin, in the El
Paso Herald.
When labor banks were first or
ganized, it was predicted that their
resources would be pooled and the
banks would fight Capital as repre
sented by the employers of labor.
Persons said the labor banks would
be used to finance strikes and other
industrial controversies.
As a matter of fact, nothing of
the kind has happened. When a labor
bank is opened it makes itself liable
to its depositors to safeguard their
money and return it to them when
they ask for it. This being the case
its officers and directors find that
they have assumed a tremendous re
sponsibility and that instead of air
ing their own views or following
their own hobbies, they must conduct
their bank along well recognized
business lines which safeguard their
investments and deposit«.
Nothing will so quickly destroy
radical ideas in the labor world as
the starting of labor banks and the
assuming of business responsibilities
by labor leaders. They soon find that
a “labor” bank is not much different
from a “capitalist” bank. Both banks
are responsible to the law and the
penitentiary waits fir the man who
unlawfully jeopardizes the interest
of depositors in either institution.
Capital and labor are synonomous
therms—one cannot exist without the
other.
A NEWSPAPER PEST
Many things come up to try an
editor’s soul and to make him wish
that in his youth he had learned to
carry a hod or drive a dray. But of
all things he has to contend with
nothing serves to shake his faith in
humanity more than the habit some
people have of subscribing for the
paper, letting it come on until they
get behind, and then refusing to take
it from the postoffice or settle the
bill. The average editor dislikes to
lose a subscriber, of course, but he
doesn’t expect anyone to take the
paper unless he wants it bad enough
to pay for it. What he does dislike
is such a mean method of side-step
ping a bill. He ahs to figure very
closely and he counts on so much
each year from his subscriptions.
Then each time a subscriber refuses
to pay for the paper after he has
ordered it, and received it, it only
means that the editor is out revenue
he had figured on and that he has
to set about making up the defici
ency from some other source. We
haven't many of these bill-dodgers
around Vernonia, but we would like
to go through 1925 without en
countering a single one.
160 acre ranch m Idaho for sale
or trade. Also a 4-room house and
lot on Rose Ave., in Vernonia, op
posite depot, for sale cheap.
C. H. Brown.
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Mrs. Wallace Reid, who announced
over a year ago that she would devote
her life to the production of moving
pictures that would make the world
better, and whose first effort was
“Human Wreckage,” has a new play
out entitled “Broken Laws”, which
is said to deal with “mother lovo and
the law” showing the necessity of
law observance that our children
may grow up to be law abiding cit
izens.
Lay in a Stock Make a Note of
of Neckwear These Bargains
The United States Attorney Gen
eral says that prohibition enforce
ment is steadily improving and that
the outlook is growing more bright.
Thtse statements are found in his
annual report issued in December.
“The stntences imposed have
shown a gratifying advance and the
You cannot afford to pass by this It affords you the chance to buy Under
!
tightening up in enforcement is re
wear
that
you
need
right
now,
but
at
pric
opportunity
to
buy
an
article
of
ev-
flected in the heavier punishments
es much less than you expected to pay.
meted out by the courts.
,
ehyday use like Neckwear when We are a bit overstocked and must clear
“The average jail sentence has
jumped from twenty-one days to thir
you can buy it at such low prices.
our shelves at once.
ty-four days.
“The difficult problems presented
by liquor smuggling have been given
extended and seriius consideration.
“The recent treaty with Great Brit
ain was designated ti aid in the pre
In New Location
A. W. PETERSEN
Opposite the Majestic
vention of smuggling intoxicants in
ti the United States. Similiar treaties y
with other countries have been or
are being negotiated.
“Siezuers of vessels engaged in un
tained Manhattan 'suds’ on Clark “«ingle-handed” farmer has found
lawful enterprises are being made in
street.
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out that on fewer acre« he can reap
increasing numbers.”
greater dividends on his investment,
SMALLER FARMS
because he can give his crops closer
From an editorial in the Union
attention and secure better produc
The day of the big farms of hun
iSgnal on the past year’s achievement
tion. If he is content with a good liv-
dreds of acres for the ordinary far
we clip the following paragraph:
ing and a few dollars more in bank
Late Models
“The past year has demonstrated mer is-fast passing. This is true cf at the end
of each year, he sticks to
every
section
of
the
United
States.
the truth of the Scriptural passage.
For Sale on
the small farm. And the fact that
‘The ways of the wicked he tumeth It has been demonstrated that in the small farm is annually becoming
easy terms
upside diwn*. The plans of the Amend most states twenty acres are suffici more popular is going to prove a bles
ment to secure the endorsement of ent for an excellent living if planted sing to the entire nation.
or for rent.
at least one of the leading political to the right crops at the right time
Representative
parties at their conventions and to and with poultry as a side line. Many
Vernonia
elect a ‘personal liberty’ Congress farmers have found this true and are
Clarence Nance, trunnt officer, Wholesale Typewriter Co.
failed to materialize. At every turn diversifying their crops and cutting has been quite busy looking up ab
the advocates of wine and beer have down the acreage. Of course, there sent pupils. The attendance is stead G. C. Olsen Beall Electric
met defeat. We enter upon the New are still many who want to go in for ily improving and several pupils have
Building
Year with high hope and confidence “big money” and farm on a big enterel the first time this year. All
that the work so well begun will move scale, preferring to keep several thou will be treated the same. Sickness is
forward even more successful in sand acres under cultivation. But the the only excuse.
1925.”
PETERSEN’S POPULAR PRICES
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Typewriters
Anna A. Gordon. National and
World’s President of the W. C. T.
U., in her New Year’s message says,
among other things, that “unques-
tiinably. in the acute moral struggle
of today, the best defense of the
18th Amendment is an aggressive
campaign for law observance an dlaw
enforcement. Let us deeply impress
home-loving women with this fact as
we win them to our gleaming stand
ard Together we have covenanted
that during 1925 we will emphasize
all phases of our department woi| ;
that very specially we will endeavor
to rally the youth of our colleges
and communities that we will do our
utmost to win a million children to
sing our songs, shout our slogans
and understand and ibey the laws of
the land whose flag they patriotical
ly salute. Only thus can we be true
to the holy obligation and inheri
tance that is ours and for which
daily we thank God. Only thus can
a great host of youth and children
be impressed with the tremendous
significance of the 18th and 19th
Amendmtnts as mighty factors to
be used in the building of a better
nation and a redeemed worll.”
The president of the National and
World’s W. C. T. U. has been the
recipient of many rare gifts. Bue one
that surpassed in uniqueness all oth
ers was received by her Christmas.
Learning of her interest in the glass
receptacles that were used i certain
saloons of Chicago before prohibi
tion became the law, former Aider
man Michael Kenna, commonly call
ed “Hinky Dink” who conducted the
“Workingman’s Exchange” on South
Clark Street, presented the chief ex
ecutive of the W. C. T. U. with a
huge schooner or “tub”, which had
many times crossed Hinky Dink’s
bar, filled with the product of Ann-
heuser Busch’s breweries. The glass
is eight high, sixteen inches around
the bowl, four inches deep, four and
one-half inches in diameter, and
weighs, when empty, three pounds
and eight ounces, and holds one pint
of liquid.
Aiderman John J. Coughlin, also
an ex-saloon-keeper, who was present
when Mr. Kenna consented ti part
with the treasure, wrote the follow
ing poem, to accompany the gift:
“Dear gentle, gracious, effieiept
president of the W. C. T. U.
This souvein if pre-Volsteadean
days I beg to present to you.
My compliments go with it, and as
you gaze upon it filled with flow
ers sweet,
I prithee remember that it oft con-
Skaggs United Stores
No. 225
VERNONIA, OREGON
We think a lot of the business we are in —to our minds the economical distribu
tion of food is just as important as mak ng laws, running a bank, or several im
portant things.
The love and enthusiasm we have for our work is reflected in our store ap
pearance, service and prices, and has made ou rorganization the largest and
fastest growing of its kind in the Northwest.
Hundreds of Vernonia people have found that they can trade at our store
pleasantly and profitably. How about you?
THESE ARE OUR EVERYDAY PRICES IN GROCERIES
Best Milk, per can .
... 10c
Best Milk, 11 cans .
$1.00
Best Milk, per case
$4.29
Fancy Maryland Sifted Peas 12%c
Per case .............................
$2.95
5 pounds Pure Extracted Honey 79c
10 lbs. Pure Extracted Honey $1.49
CEREALS
CRISCO
Grape Nuts........................
Puffed Rice........................
Puffed Wheat....................
H. O. Quick Cooking Oats
Post Branflakes ................
Bellows Saradines in Oil...
17c
17c
14c
18c
14c
.. 5c
FLOUR
Best High Grade Pattent Flour $2.68
Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour..... 18c
Swan Down Cake Flour
37c
HONEY
1 pound
3 pound
6 pound
8 pound
can......................
can......................
can......................
can......................
9
... 28c
... 80c
$1.57
$2.13
MOZOLA OIL
1 pint can.........................
1 quart can .....................
Va gallon can .................
1 gallon can ....................
.. 30c
.. 55c
$1.05
$2.05
MEAT DEPARTMENT
GOVERNMENT INSPECTED MEATS OF QUALITY AT VERY REASON-
ABLE PRICES
SATURDAY FEATURES
Pure Kipperd Chinook Salmon 30c
Corn Fed Salt Pork....................... 20c
Swift Premium Hams
33c
Steer Pot Roast........
15c
Pork Roast ................
18c
Picnic Hams, while they last
Fancy Veal Roast.................
Veal Stew..............................
Fresh Columbia River Smelt
SKAGGS UNITED STORES
16c
22c
15c
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