VERNONIA EAGLE
City of Home*
had grown “cold” and yet they presumed to inflict such a
scrawl on others.
Plain, legible handwriting helps to bring joy into the
world, and if our school teachers could only spend a few
months in a newspaper office where even’ kind of writing
good, bad and indifferent—is received, they would cer
tainly lay more stress on its teaching and insist that at
least two studies receive particular attention, above all
’ others, and that would be writing and spelling. They can
do the pupils under them no greater favor than to impress
them with the fact that clear, legible handwriting is one
of the world’s greatest business assets.
VERNONIA EAGLE
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PAUL S- ROBINSON.
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Issued Every Fridays
12 00 Per Year.
Vines, rose bushes, green grass and plentty of paint
used extensively by each lot owner would make V’emonia
a beautiful home city. If each home owner would clean up
in front and in the rear of his own property it would solve
the “city beautiful” idea. It is time to paint and paper and
time to plan on beautifying your lawns. Might be well for
TRAGEDY RECEIPT
some Civic Club to offer a prize for the prettiest yard in
1 ake one natural-bom fool; add three drinks of bad towm this spring.
An occasional bright warm day
liquor. To this add a fast, high-powered motor car. Allow makes us all want to dig and “fix up”-
the fool to soak well in the liquor and place him in motor
car, then let him go. After due time remove from the
Vemania girls are some Basket Bell Players—they can’t
wreckage; place in black, satin lined box and garnish be beat. Now, we suggest they go after the State
with flowers.—Ex.
Championship.
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked
H hen Asked by a fellow Passenger why, after spend
ing Millions of dollars in advertising, he did not stop and bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they
add the money thus saved to his profit, Mr. Wrigley, of make pouring it out.—Pope.
Chewing Gum fame, said, “We are now traveling west at
WORTH REMEMBERING
sixty miles an hour. Where would we be tomorrow at this
time if we took the engine off the train?”.
In conversation with a Vernonia carpenter recently we
asked him how he managed to avoid mistakes, and he an»-
FRIENDLY TOWNS
wered: “I make it a rule to measure twice before I cut
Small cities and towns that do not have a “Welcome” once. “We’ve studied over that answer, and we believe
sign on every main road leading into the place are regard that it would apply well in everything we do—measure
ed as “slow” and out of date.
twice before we cut, think twice before we speak, and so
And as a rule, the sign emphasized friendliness regard on There is more time and energy and raw material wast
ed in this country from lack of forethought than one can
less of wheather the community has it
Once upon a time it is related there was a man w’ho be even estimate. No one can do his best work when hunt ing
lieved insigns, and taking the one at the edge of a strange and what is done in a hurry often has to be done over.
town literally, he drove in and prepared to be real friend Taking time to think over w hat you are about to do means
ly. He sat on the curb for an hour and not one person even that you can besure of haring it right when it is done.
looked friendly, much less asked him any questions about And haring it right saves time in the long run. The car
penter has given us a thought well worth keeping in mind
what luck he was having among strangers.
I he touring season will soon be here- Thousands of “measure twice before you cut once.”
motorists are going to pass through. Some of them will
WHY WORRY?
stop here if they get the right kind of a reception; more
of them will be our guests if we show ourselves hospit-
There are quite a few people around V’emonia who be
abl.e-
“Welcome’ signs are the most expensive things a town lieve that “what wall be will be.” They can now find en
can have if the welcome is not there when the stranger couragement in the story of Mr. E. N. Cooksey, of Clarks
rille, Tenn. Mr. Cooksey is 83, a civil war veteran, and
arrives.—Bend Press.
despite numerous serious accidents is reasonably hale and
Among unsolved problems before the public is the fact hearty. He was wounded four times at the battle of Miss
that one Rev. Olsen of Cottage Grove and Eugene is in ionary Ridge. He has been struck by lightning and in two
vestigating for oil and says it exists near those cities and train wrecks. His skull was fractured when he was hit on
that some California Capitalist says oil will be found near the head with a brick in a fight- Recently he fell off of a
Buxton—but, neither parties have visited the really oil bridge, breaking several ribs and his jawbone. And he
country in and around Vernonia. It is up to some one to still lives to tell it. A peaceful death in bed will probably
inform Mr. Olson of the indications arround Vernonia; be his end. Not all of us will be so fortunate,but it does not
pay to w’orry over what may happen. The “what will be
We believe he would be glarl to investigate.
will be” philosophy is good, if we do not permit it to en
courage carelesness. Personally, we believe in it a good
STAMPING OUT DIVORCE
deal ourselves. But we always look both ways, just the
Anything pertaining to divorces interests the average same, before we start to cross a street.
man or woman everywhere.Here in Vernonia divorce gos
sip is second in interest only to a murder and, for that
Water and Wood—Pulp Mill need
ed—Vernonia.
matter, so it is in all other towns, big or little. This being
true, we feel our readers will be interested in a bill offer
ed last week in the Ohio legislature, a bill that strikes the
hardest blow' that has ever been struck at divorces.
The proposed measure w*ould make it illegal for any
man or woman to reman-y in the state of Ohio within two
years after securing a divorce. It is a proven fact that a
majority of divorces are brought about through the desirej
of the-husband or wife to marry again, but if the new bill-
becomes a law there would be, inone state at least, consid-;
erable hesitancy on the part of this class of divorce-see
kers, Besides, many would find their affection for this
the third party growing cool before the two-year period They say the Chinese had cross
word puzzles 3000 years ago. No The old
elapsed, anil this thing of getting a divorce one da/ just wonder they are slant-eyed.
time remedy—
to get married the next would not be so popular. We be
lieve such a law would reduce the divorce mill’s grist fif
Sulphur and
Scientist say work makes life
ty per cent-
The divorce evil has grown so rapidly in this country longer, but the average Vernonia Cream of Tartar
man is of the opinion thnt it only
that it has become a serious problem and one which makes
is just as
it seem longer.
threatens our homelife. Easy divorce has wrecked thous
effective a
ands of homes, and causeil the growing generation t° look
What has become of the old-fash
upon marriage as air adventures or a joke. We hope Ohio ioned man who used to think that Spring Medicine
passes this proposed law, because we believe it will do the way to keep something out of
more than anything else to eliminate divorces, and if it the paper was to “scare” the editor? as it was
works in Ohio then we can hope for its adoption here in
fifty years ago.
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our own stote.
Just when we got autos and bal
loon tires to get us away from home But it is
here comes the radio and cross-word
A BUSINESS ASSET
i much nicer
puzzle to keep us there.
If there is any one business in which handwriting shows Many Vernonia parents raise the to take, now’
up above everything else, then it’s in the newspaper busin deuce these days because their sons that it is
ess. We believe that, taken as a whole, the handwriting of and daughters are as wild as they
obtainable in the
Vernonia residents will compare favorably with that of were at the same age.
any other community, and yet if you could see some of the
pleasant tasting
handwriting that finds its way into this office you would The new game they are playing in
good many cities just now F tablet form,
wonder why so many people have apparently neglected a called
“Hiding the Bottle."
this important branch of their education.
at the
There is no occasion for anyone to write so it looks as if A man holds a woman's hand be
a fly had been dipped in ink and set loose on the paper. fore marriage, and after marriage
M. & M. PHARMACY
While many cannot boast an attractive handwriting, she holds the whip-hand.
everyone ought to write so that what they put on paper They aay sage tea will color the
from Gilby
can be read. Carless indifference is the cause of more poor hair, but Vernonia auto drivers know Corner Aero**
Motor Co.
handwriting than anything else. We’ve known people who that a close call at a railroad cross*
could not read their own handwriting two days after it ing will do it quicker.
IN HIS HONOR
Washington alive today nothing could
please him more than to know that every bank in
the country could forward him word that they had
opened a number of new savings accounts in his
honor. He wits a thrifty man, knew’ the value of
saving money. So why not pay your respects to
the Father of Our Country by starting to save
today. We have a plan that will tit your income.
BANK
OF
VERNONIA
Vernonia, Oregon
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Were striking the season now’ when the blood is
inclined to grow thinner. And
calls for some
thing to build up energy, to stave off the draggy
feeling that comes on as winter nears the end.
COME IN AND LET (JS RECOMMEND A TONIC
THAT WILL SHAPE YOU UP
IIP FOR
THAT
SPRING’S ARRIVAL
BE PREPARED
Rapid and frequent changes of weather are causing
moie than the usual amount of illness. Be pre
pared at t he *
1 rst sign of an approaching cold. Stop
in on your way home and get a cough and cold cure
that we guarantee it may save a life or a heavy
doctor bill.
REPLENISH THE MEDICINE CHEST WITH
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TIME-TRIED REMEDIES
nng your Prescription for careful compounding.
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VERNONIA, OREGON
On coiner across from Bank of Vernonia
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