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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1925)
Bìggert Little City in Oregon T" VERNONIA EAGLE U6LE FEATHERS Emmott & Culver No. 225 VERNONIA, OREGON » VERNONIA MEAT MARKET Choice selections of fresh killed Steer Beef. Fancy Veal and Grain Fed Hogs Specials For Saturday Beef Boils ..10c-12 l-2c lb. Choice Steaks ................ 25c lb. Pot Roasts ....................... 15c lb. Fresh Hamburger .......... 15c lb. Pure Pork Sausage 20c lb. Weiners and Bologna 18c lb. Salt Pork ......................22c lb. Home Cured Bacon ___ 35c lb PURE OPEN KETTLE RENDERED LARD ................................. $1.85 10s Bulk ................................ 20c lb. Fresh Whipping Cream. 35c pt. _30c lb. Kippered Salmon Fresh Dill Pickles . 3 for 10c We Handle all Kinds of Fancy Cheese We carry a large v. r ct ' of Luncheon Meats - The airplane is 21 years old and in speed, highflying and recklessness it comes up to about what we would expect of that age. Most any Vernonia auto driver will tell you that sometimes the big gest nut holds the steering wheel. Uncle Sam says he will put 30,- 000,000 silver dollars into circula- tion. That’s going to create a brisk market for suspenders. An Ohio woman lost 20 pounds during her campaign for public office. So we suppose all the Women in the country will soon be going in for politics. , • So far as Vernonia is concerned it’s a race between the seed catalog and spring hats as to which is the real forerunner of an early spring. USED CARS PRICES AND TERMS WITHIN REACH OF EVERYBODY 1924 1924 1923 1922 1921 1918 1917 Willys Knight Touring. Lots of Extras Oakland Sedan. New Car—Guaranteed. Overland Touring. Ford Coupe. Chevrolet Baby Grand Touring. Ford Touring. Buick 6 Touring. —TRADE INS. ACCEPTED- Don’t Forget We Sell All Our New Cars On 18 Months Plan If You So Desire. Willys Knight Chevrolet. Oakland. Studebaker. Motor NOTICE To Auto Owners O---- O---- O FILL YOUR TANK WITH New Shell Gas —AT THE SQUARE DEAL GARAGE AND NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE. YOU’LL BE THE JUDGE If you like it buy a Scrip Book and save a cent on a gallon SQUARE DEAL GARAGE “Service Is Our Motto Skaggs United Stores 4 One thing about the radio, it never broadcasts family troubles. The party-line telephone still looks after that. An eastern doctor says “a man is as strong as his stomach.” It’s a good thing some of them are not as strong as their breath. If you want to see something fun ny set the Vernonia man who has dug up an old cimposition book h£ used at school and see how proud he is of himself. The average woman believes that when her husband begins to preach' economy around the house he has been doing something he shouldn’t | have done. . Right now our idea of getting-rich-1 quick scheme would be to have 10,- 000 hens and each one of them lay ing an egg a day. Most Vernonia citizens realize that family trees are no different iron1. the other kind. They all need pruning occasionally. Another reason for the growing popularity of Skaggs’ Stores is the distinc tive unvaring pleasant service receive another list of seasonable items at un- have certain ideas and ideals about merchandiseing which is reflected in their daily work. This week we have another list of reasonable items at un usually saving prices. PRICES IN GROCERY DEPARTMENT MISCELLANEOUS CEREALS 95c Prunes, 10 pounds......... Mother Oats (premium).......... 35c 98c Snowdrift, 4 pounds...... Carnation Oats (premium)....... 40c Car’n. Wheat Flakes (premium) 43c $1.95 Snowdrift, 8 pounds...... Shredded Wheat, 3 for................ 35c .. 45c Cheese, full cream. 2 lbs Roman Meal (Health Food)..... 38c Soapa and Washing Powders Aunt Jemima Hominy Grits...... 15c Chipso, in 35 c pkgs..................... 28c Large Pk. Quick Quaker Oats ... 29c White King, per pkg................. 53c CANNED GOODS Citrus, 2 pkgs............................. 48c Large cans Peaches................ 25c 50c Clean Easy Soap, 11 bars String Beans, 2 for................ 25c Per case, 100 bars ... $4.25 Hand Packed Tomatoes, 2 for.... 25c Fels Naptha, 10 bars.................... 69c Per case ...... $2.95 Pastry Flour, 49’s.....................$2.55 75c Gallon tins Peaches.. Big K Hard Wheat Bleached 55c Gallon tins Pumpkin Flour, per bbl............... $10.60 65c Gallon tins Spinach.. t MEAT DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT INSPECTED MEATS » SATURDAY FEATURES Tender Pot Roast of Beef Wholesale prices on Armor Star 15c per pound, 12’/2c to..: Hams, per lb..................... 31c Nice Rib Boiling Beef, per lb..... 10c ^icnic Hams, per lb 20c 25c Tender Juicy Steaks, per lb Best Grade Shortening 2 lbs for 35c 15c Hamberger, per lb.............. 20c All Pork Sausage, per lb.... Sauer Kraut and all kinds of Pickles SKAGGS UNITED STORES a £7 RED CROSS REPORT plug. who writes the ads or the man who buys the goods, if the merchant s Washington—Albert C. February 192S advertising does not inly keep his * Edwal:; spool rack. Ernest I .aw. South Bend; choker hook. Clarence trade from going to his competitor Pupils weighed and measured .1409 across the street but not also bring Schools visited..............................’ 18 P. Lee, Wenatchee; automatic fruit elevator. We certainly hope that we’ll 1 have to trade, not Pupils inspected ......................... 213 everlasting peace, so we can i go new people to town Any of our subscribers or reader* ahead and spend the balance of our only with him, but with merchants Pupils seriously underweight ... 87 may obtain a complte copy of any of other lines who do not advertise. Pupils seriously overweight. ...... 14 lives paying for the war. 6 of the above patents, including the Most merchants squander enough Cla&tes, Home Hygiene ............ drawings, by sending ten cents, the 4 The average Vernonia hoy’s idea money each year that they charge to Horae visits ..................... actual cost, to our correspondents, of a square deal is usually about advertising the conduct an honest NIKA 1J. LITTLE, R. N. I). Swift & Co., Patents Attorneys, to-goodness campaign. They fall ninety per cent the best of it. ’ < Red Cross Nurse Washington, D. C. k I. . ' * * ** for every scheme that comes along.' bite at the bait of ‘ t he specialty If all kisses lasted like the first • Old friends .and acquaintances of Last week, while in Portland, Mrs. one most of the courts in this coun salesmen and then do not see the w. A. Gressman were pained to hear opportunity of using the space in Spencer. Patriotic Instructor, visited try would close up and stay closed week. The first the local newspaper, saying that of his sickness the Ainsworth School and heard the Men are supposed to be superior they spent a wad of money for ad of the week word was received of Washington’s Birthday program. to women, but you never saw a wom vertising last year and are through Mr. Gressman’s illness. Rev. Mathis Mrs. Spencer never misses an op- went to' Eugene Monday to see him. an standing on » street corner clean because “it doesn’t pay.’’ portunity to gain new ideas and ¡n- ,If it was not for advertising the The following telegram will explain «pirations for her work. ing her ears with a match. Mr. Gressman's condition the best mail order houses could not exist. Our idea of a waste of time is list I have heard merchants say, “Why, we can: “Mr. Gressman very sick Wednesday’« freight train left 41 ening to a Vernonia man tell of the I can sell such and such as cheap as man. Operation for brain infertion. Ofcourse Conscious occasionally. Eight days empty freight car« in Vernonia to Id days when he could get a big Shcares & Sawbuck.” meal at a hotel or restaurant for a they can, but if Brown doesn’t know since operation. Has chance for re accomodate Vernonia shipper«. We covery. but slim one. We are hop quarter. it, what difference does it make to ing he may make it.” E. V. Stivers. are nformed that they will )a«t about three days. the merchant or Brown? The big HOW MERCHANT SUCCEEDED city department stores could not ex Tuesday another telegram states: “Gressman slightly improved. Recig- ist either if it was not for their ad LET’S BE CAREFUL A few years ago we had a meat vertising in newspapers. A year or nizes me, but cannot talk. C. R. Mathis. market and grocery in a good loca two ago you remenber when the| — » HllMI »«•«>’ “March makes all doctor« cringe,'’ tion that was neglected by the owner printers in New York city went o* who became disgusted and sold out a strike and the newspapers had t«| •eelarea a Michigan physician in a to a veterinary. The new owner combine and get out a four-page pa .ewspaper article that has just con e purchased a regular space in my pa per for six or eight of the metre! to our desk. And then he goes on per and every week he advertised politan newspapers combined. The to explain that our blood gets thin specials for Friday and Saturday. could carry a department store ad ner In the change from the cold Today he and his pardner and five vertising and the business of the? the warmer month«, and that col.is other clerks are on the jump from big stores with their overhead wer are more easily contracted than at morning until night. His sales for to the bow wows, and when th any other season of the year. He 1924 were nround $120,000 and in ntwspapers were back to norm; declares that a large per cent of a town of less than 1000 with nine again tly advertisers had to tai deaths would never occur If people stock of groceries. One Saturday turns. The demand for advertisin realized that the common cold is apt alone, he sold over 1,200 pounds of was greater than the abilityof tl to develop into a fatal malady over beefsteak and could have sold more newspapers to handle it. Beirk night This warning should be heed but ran out of that kind of meat. without advertising for a short time ed by everyone in Vernonia and This merchant tells me to my face convinced the big department «torts NORTHWESTERN IN VEN IORS ■ tpict attention given to warding off that he knows advertising pays that they must continue their adver colds during the next few weeks, the even though he uses less than a tising or go under. The following patents were issued most dangerous weeks in all the year I $6.00 space each week. My greatest problem is not get last week to fiorthwestern inventors: according to medical men. Don’t About 15 years ago two brothers ting the merchant to see the value Montang^-v- Peter Arena, White trifle with a cold. Don’t be content came to our town with $1,000 which J of newspaper advertising, but to get fish; shoe attachment for vehicle to belive that it will be gone tomor they invested in groceries and a lit him to buy right and prepare the wheels. William E. Crawford, Hav row. Listen to those who know more tle tin ware. . One brother was a copy for a steady campaign. The re; valve or well capper. Edward than you do about colds—get right good storekeeper and the other just results are certain; L. Sk’inner, Lewiston, fishing too after it the minute you feel it com * » loved to write attractive ads. They ing on. I would like to read an article in (soldi. now operate the largest store in The Auxiliary from some publisher Idaho— William G. Cdby. Wallace; town, own a fine home, drive a big who has devised some plan to stir up sanitary water glass. Louis G. Cham Thursday Feb. 26th W. R. C. held car and have their cottage at a near the procrastinators and merchants beriain. Setters; wrench. an all day social meeting at the home by lake. They still carry a big at who lack the ambition to put the Oregon — George Geisendorfer. of Mrs. Rogers. They enjoyed tractive ad each week in the paper. necessary pep n their own business Warrenton; attachment for deflated lunch together and spent the after These things teach me that there and for their own profit.—Printing pneumatically-tired vehicle wheel«. noon in sewing for the Soldier« Hos is something wrong with the man Auxiliary. Charles F. Wetzel, Sherwood; «park pital. It may be that a girl’s face is her fortune, but that doesn’t mean that she is twice as rich if she’s tWo- faced. A > *
