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VERNONIA EAGLE
U6LE FEATHERS
Emmott & Culver
No. 225
VERNONIA, OREGON
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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
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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.
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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
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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..
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MEAT DEPARTMENT
GOVERNMENT INSPECTED MEATS
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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
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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
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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.
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Red Cross Nurse Washington, D. C.
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for every scheme that comes along.'
bite
at
the
bait
of
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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|
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“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
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$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
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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.
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