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with copy. Rates. one cent a word;
initiale and figures count aa words.
Minimum, 26 canta an issus.
WOOD—You need it. I have it to
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Phono 638
FOR SALE—8 year oid Jersey
milk cow. Price >50.
L. L. GRAVEN,
Parker Addition,
Vernonia
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Typewriters
Late Models
For sale on
easy terms
or for rent.
Vernonia Representative
Wholesale Typewriter Co.
G. C. Olsen
Beall Electric
Building
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ELECTRIC SPARKS
A sordid money grabber is any
body who grabs more than you can
grab.
men
Those who say busbv
should run our government do not
understand how suickiy Washington
can turn a business man into a poii
tician.
Enjoy an hour at the new
O. K. CARD ROOM
next Horseshoe Restaurant
Good Front Office room for rent.
In fireproof building. Cali Hoffman
Hardware Co.
FOR SALE—Snap for >600. 2
■mall houses on one lot, woodshed
and partly fenced. Lot 2, block 1, 2
blocks back of Square Deal Garage.
Inquire Owner, A. Tessier.
('ash paid for false teeth, dental
gold, platinum and discarded jewel
ry. Hoke Smelting A Refining Co.,
Otsego, Michigan.
FOR SALE—Gurasey cow com
ing fresh in April, also two calves
—bull and heafer—since last spring.
Sam Bjornson,
Just above City Pump station.
Sale or Trade—160 acres, 45 in
cultivation, 7 room house, large bam,
out buildings, 3 springs, lots of out-
lide range, in Clear Water Valley,
Idaho. What have you to trade?
C. H. Brown, Rose Ave.
FOR SALE—4 Room House with
buth, garage on Rose Ave. C. H.
Brown.
FOR RENT—60 acres in Yamhill
Valley, 3 miles from town. Stock
and equipment included.
Box 330 Vernonia.
HAY FOR SALE—First class hay
for sale at >18 per ton at A. B.
Counts place.
27-2t
S. C. SALE, Prop.
Everything New
A Man’s Resort
MONUMENTS
From now on you can
purchase
Monuments and Markers
In both Marble and Granite
For a great reduction in price, a
saving to the purchaser of
from 10 to 25 per cent
McAdoo says
a to the White
which to live,
he pouted when
preference.
he prefers Californ
House as a place in
which explains why
Davis was given the
Scientitots are debating whether
an extinct species can be revived.
Let’s have a few remarks from the
cross-word puzzle makers. They re
vived the ancient moa, the auk and
the dodo.
Coma and ba convinced
M. N. LEWIS A CO.
Cor. 4th and Main Sts.
Hillsboro,
Oregon
VERNONIA
Population, 2000.
High School and Standard Grade
School.
Pay Roll City—Mills, Logging.
Farming, Dairying, Fruit, Vegetables
P. A. A P. Ry. Town growing fast.
On Inland Loop Highway Between
Portland and Astoria.
A Large Territory to Draw From.
49 Miles From Portland, 35 M:les
From Forest Grove, 27 Miles
From St Helens.
Many Opportunities in Vernonia.
Best Hunting, Trapping and Fishing
in the Northwest.
An Industrial Center.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Many sealskin coats being sold
this winter were worn by rabbits
last winter.
Italy is willing to do any or every
thing about her debt except pav it.
Why do not people who contem
plate suiciding just take up resi
dence in Herrin, Illinois instead.
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A man isn’t old until he begins,
constantly to feel a draft some
where.
People of the United States should
own 87 per cent of the world’s auto
if they were paid for.
The Chicago minister who said
the Bible was “inspiring, but not in
spired,” is not resigning, tho not
resigned.
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MEATS YOU CAN RELISH
Cuts from the choicest beef, pork and lambs we can buy, our
meats are thoroughly seasoned and handled in a clean, sanitary
manner. Order the meat you prefer for today and see how we
handle your order.
Mass and Sermon on the third
That Kansas Governor who is
Sunday of each month, at 11:30 a.
PIANO LESONS—Latest modern m. Week day communion Maas to charged with paroling convicts for
methoda for children. Popular mu
ba announced. Joe. P. Clancy, Pae pay must have confused the word
sic if desired.
parole with pay-roll.
tar.
MRS. CULVER.
Over Emmott A Culver Market.
SALE OR TRADE
I have 160 acres good rolling
prairie land in Alberta—80 tn ìle i
east of Red Deer. Will consider any
trades you have to offer. There are
25 acres in cultivation. All of it is
fenced. House, good roads, good'
county and neighbora.
C. TODD.
Vernonia, Oregon
Services in Lent as follows:
Every Thursday night at 6:45 in
struction of children. 7:45—Way
of the Cross and Benediction with
the Blessed Sacrament.
Popular
lectures on the following topics in
the given sequence: Thursday, Feb.
26, “Is One Religion As Good As
Another?" Mar. 5 and 12: “Where
Did We Get the Bible?** Mar. 19:
“Confessions to a Priest,” Mar. 26:
“The Catholic Church, the Bulwark
of Society.”
The public is always very wel
come.
FOR SALE
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Bungalow >2500, half cash, *
* balance >25.00 per month and *
• interest.
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Inquire HOTEL VISTA *
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FOR SALE—Bed and springs ai.d
3 burner oil stove with oven.
Seo House 53 Millside.
PATENTS
Obtained. Send model or sketch
and we will promptly send you a
report. Our book on Patents and
Trade-mark* will be sent to you
6n request.
D. SWIFT & CO.
—_ PATENT LAWYERS —
305 Seventh SI., Washington, D. C-
Over >4 Year*’ Experience
NEW
AND
MODERN
BATTERY
SERVICE
Conveniently located in the center
of the town we have installed, at
our garage, all the latest devices and
equipment for the needs of the mo
torist.
An Eight-Hour Battery
Charging Service, you will be de
lighted with Ford Magnetos charped
while you wait and work guaranteed.
Yea, here you And a first-class Wil
lard Battery Service.
MONKEY WRENCH GARAGE
Mr. and Mrs. Bush and Mr .and
MODERN HOME FOR SALE
Mrs. Kullander and Miss O’Malley
were Portland visitors the first part
6 rooms and bath, first class
plumbing. 3 sleeping rooms, linole
of the week.
um, hot water tank. Well located
Jeff Turner is back among us for
on east side near school and church.
n few months at least. Glad to see Large out buildings used as garage,
him.
storage and wood. A home you will
Kessie Hall and Haskel Newsom enjoy. Offered for a short tima at
returned Monday from the I. P. >3850.00—H cash and terms.
VERNONIA REALTY CO.
Camp.
The Nehalem Meat Market
A food research expert has dis
covered that sauerkraut contains
more than one-half of one per cent
alcohol. This dangarous intoxicant
will have to go.
“Nothing makes the modern girl
blush,” says a woman writer. Yes
too true, not even the drug store.
ALBERT CHILDS, Proprietor
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Trotsky is publishing a book ( »
called “My Mistakes.”
It should,
start with “I was bom at--------- .” j
and the flower of the state of Color
E. L.—Why does n hen cackle
ado?
Ans.—Colorado’s nilkname is he when she lays an egg?
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* ‘‘Centennial State,” and the state
Ans.—Because she instinctively
believes in advertising.
flower is the columbine.
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QUERY AND ANSWER
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L. S.—Mr. Editor, who invented
Science can now diaipate rain-J the first printing press.
Ans.—The first printing press was
clouds by shooting sand at them; soj
we’ll have to carry umbrellas just invented by Johannes Gutenberg of
Mainz. However, his claim to this
the same.
distinction is contested by Jansroon
Chinese leaders are meeting in Pe Coster of Haarlam. Gutenberg was
kin to consider pressing financial af born in 1397 and died in 1468.
fairs. The recent war must have
played hob with laundry collections
O. P.—Mr. editor, can rotors be
used to drive airplanes? If so, please
A sunshiny spirit at breakfast is explain.
evidence of youth or good sleep
Ans.—“Rotor’’ is short for rotayp.
It is a part that revolves in a station
conscience and digestion.
,
ary part, and is also the rotating
Personally, we have more fear o member of an electrical machine.
coming to the end of our rope than We don’t know of any being used to
the end of the world.
drive aeroplanes.
C. J.—Will you please state in
your question column what is the
"Monroe Doctrine?”
Ans.—It was enunciated by Pres
ident Monroe to Congress in 1823
that it was dangerous to our peace
and safety for any foreign power to
attempt to extend their system to
any portion of the western hemi
sphere. Congress passed the law,
and it became known as the “Mon
roe Doctrine.”
Pessimist who says the world
Jonson Porter—I was bom on
doesn’t want the naked truth any
March 3, 1878. Will you please tell
more evidently overlooks the fact
that the censors wouldn’t stand for me what day of the week that was?
Was it an unlucky time? And was
it anyway.
it a leap year?
Ans.—March 3, 1876, was on Fri
Chicago may not be the world’s
day.
Only the superstitious believe
most homicidal city, but it seems
in
“
lucky
days.” Very few bora on
willing to take a shot at the record.
March 3 ever became very poor. The
Another thing Eve never had to year 1878 was not a leap year.
Bend—Pacific Telephone & Tel
Bid K.—Who was the founder of
egraph
company to spend large sum
the Christian Science religion and
on
local
improvements this year.
when?
Ans.—The
Christian
Science
Klammath Falls, Pacific Tele
Church was founded by Mary Baker
phone & Telegraph to spend 326,-
Eddy at Boston in 1879.
000 on local line.
W. T.—Will you please answer
Newpoi I—West Coast Power Co.
how many people there are in the
preparing to install now lighting
world
Ans.—It ia not known, but accord system.
ing to the 1920 census and estimates
If your business is exceptionally
where no census has been taken, the
good
and you have no room for more
population of the earth was 1,714,-
770,044—or about two billion in clerks, you don’t need advertising
on as large a scale. If business is
round numbers.
not as good as you want it you need
advertising, good advertising. Adver
P. B.—How can blind pigs see to tising in your home paper is simply
move around
talking to old and prospective cuet«»--
Ans.—Don’t know. "Blind pigs” mers in yourown language. Telling
here don’t have to move around.
them your store news; what you
have and how you sell it, and of any
H. B.—Where is the highest bridge new arrivals; as well as reminding,
in the world that crosses a body of it invites.
water?
Ans.—The highest known bridge
Marshfield—plans being prepared
that croaaes a body of water is one
for completion of large theatre
at the Victoria Falls and crosses the
building.
Zambesi river in northern Rhodesa,
Africa. It is 420 feet above the sur
Glendale—Glendale Lumber Co.
face of the water.
installs 200 horst power in electric
S. L.—I wish to ask in your ques motors for saw and planing mills.
tion column when and where Lord
Salisbury of England died?
Myrtle Point—Lundy Cheese Co.
Ans.—Lord Salisbury died Aug. builds addition to factory, anl cele-
22, 1903, at Hatfield House, Eng.
brtes with communtty picnic.
put up with from Adam was long
winded, stories about the girls of the
Clarence Beason — Did Europe
good old days.
send any relief after the big Chicago
fire back in 1871
If so, how much
A five-dollar bill has been found came from Germany,
in the craw if a Colorado chicken.
Ans.—Europe’s aid to Chicago
The featherleas. species, however, de* after the fire of 1871 amounted to
vours them much faster than that.
>973,897.30 in cash besides an enor
mous quantity of clothing and other,
The scientist who predicts that supplies.
some day we shall live on air doesn't
seem to have observed how many
Min Miller—To settle an argument
people have been living on hot air will you kindly answer in the Query
for yean already.
and Answer column if a Prohibition
ist was elected governor of Maine in
THREE FAMILIES FROM
1902. And what was his name?
CALIFORNIA SET-
Ans.—No. In 1902, John F. Hill
TLED IN OREGO*4
a Republican, was elected governor
Three new families from Californ of Maine.
ia have just been located near Gran
P. K.—Who named the Pacifih
ta Pass. They are: A. N. Beldon cL
Ocean?
Fullerton, Calif., who purchased 4C
Ana.—Don’t know his name, he
acres; A. B. Davis of Santa Ana i
got
killed in a fight.
who has bought 60 acres and J .. E
Moberley, of San Bernardino, who
Fred K.—What is the nickname
has located on a 55 acre farm,.
M. Y.—If I dearly love a young
man and he dearly loves me is there
any harm in kissing each other as
often as we please?
Ans.—Yes.
You never know
what the morrow has in store. You
may regret it when it is too late.
Be rational and discreet in all things
—even in your kissing.
St. Helens—officials approve site
for new Hawley paper mill hero.
Mill to be ready for operation with
P. W.—Can you tell us what is in six months.
the most remarkable thing in the
Gold Beach;—Completion of Ros-
world?
Ans.—The man who notices that sevelt Highway to Reuge River,
promised this year.
his wife has on a new hat.