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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1925)
Splendid Schools VERNONIA EAGLE City of Homes VERNONIA EA'LF, Advertising Rates 25c ta per inch, single column measure, !, each wozk. We collect tor advertising the first of every month. THE COST OF A HOME I. Quite a few Vernonia people have doubtless gone through the winter contemplating plans for building PAUL S. R BlNSON. homes, and weighing the respective advantages of rent E ditor and O wn ph . ing and of home-owning. They will be interested in the testimony of a local man after four years of owning his Issued Every Friday. rhe Original H r.ie Paper, Standing own home. He had been a rent payer most of his life, $2 00 Per Year. for Progress, Fair Play, Home Pat when circumstances influenced him to buy a home of his ronage, Law Enforcement, Good own. The house needed a good deal of repairing, which Entered »s second-class matter August Schools and The Homo Beautiful. was done, and at the end of four years the man figured 4. 1922, at the post office at Ver nonia, Oregon, under the Ast all of his expenses, including loss of interest on th< All Accounts Mint Bo Settled in Full of March 3. 1879. Every 30 Days money invested, taxes, insurance, coal, etc., and the) total was just about the same he would havepaid in rent for four years. But he declaies that the advantage is in favor of owning your own home, because at the end of four years he has a house that he can sell, whereas he had no title to the property he lived in during the years he DRUNKEN DRIVERS rented—the rent money was gone forever. Not only that, but he reaped benefits by living in his own home We have just read where a Columbus, O., judge fined he could not have had in a rented house; he had the a man $500 and ordered him to the workhouse for six I comforting knowledge, too, that no one could walk in months for driving an auto on the street when he was so1 at any minute and boost the price of his rent, or refuse, drunk he could scaicely i emember his name. It oc when repaiis badly needed, to make those repairs. curred to us that here is a judge entitled to a little praise, The fact that it may be as cheap to lent a house as so we are taking this mans of extending it to him. it is to own a home should not discourage the man who is Personally, we never like to see anybody in trouble, planning to build. For there is more than actual dollars but this thing of driving an auto while intoxicated, or and cents to be considered—there is happiness and con even while drinking, is too serious a matter to overlook. tentment. And people are always happier and more The motoring season is opening up around Vernonia and contented when they know the house they live in is their more cars are appearing on our hihgways daily. No house. — matter how careful or how skilled a driver may be, he is powerless to protect himself against a drnken driver.] We like to see our neighboring town of banks in He cannot leave the load and avoid the oncoming ma-! joyful mood, and reports are encouraging for that com chine that is wabbling from one side of the highway to: munity’s future. Talk to any Banks man and he will the other, and even if he stops and pulls as far to the] will tell you they are going to be the center of a big oil; side of the road as possible, he still is in danger ofo being boom—and they believe they have the oil. They have , run into. interested a Mr. Miller, Los Angeles capitalist who is The public streets and public roads of this country- drilling for oil now between Banks and Buxton with Then another ad must be made safe for the public, even if our jails and I prospects declared “excellent.” I vancement for Banks is a new newspaper plant. workhouses have to filled to capacity with those who I disregard their own welfaie and place no value on the The “Banks Tribune” h is been printed in Foerst lives of others. We repeat that we dislike to hear of, Grove, but we hear that a newcomer has purchased the anyone being in trouble, but that if an officer of the law, Tribune and is putting in a good plant. Good for Banks, in this communitv wants to sentence every drunken: may she be the “Oil Metropolis of Washington county.” driver who comes before him as severely as the Colum While new oil excitement is arousing interest at bus judge sentences them, then we are for him, and so will be every decent, self-respecting citizen in his juris Banks, Buxton and Scappoose, Vernonia is right in line, situated between oil prospects. Vernonia will be the diction. “main entrance.” “A MAN WITHOUT HONOR” A “Man without honor” displayed his callousness be fore a listening court room this week when he raised his right hand and said “yes” when asked to swear on his honor “to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” His evidence that he then submitted in his own be half was as far from the truth as the north pole is from the south pole. His own confession when he found that his falsehoods were of no avail proved ’.hat there was no honor in the man. This action raises the question regarding the laws pertaing to perjury. Have they become obsolete ? Have the many laws that clutter our statutes crowded out the enforcement of the one law that should be en- foiced to maintain the dignity of our court system? Or has the administration of the oath become a mere matter of foim that can be ridiculed and scoffed by every scoundrel in his efforts to outwit justice? Possibly the laws regarding perjury have been so clouded with technicalities that the “intent of the law” is no longer effective as a main-sav of the seriousness of our court proceedure. A man who is not as good as his “oath” is a man without honor and the “truth is not in him” regardless of his position in life.—Southern Ortgo Spokesman. GOOD AS A TEXT BOOK Mac Says One Kansas editor, re marked a few weeks ago that “another b ig wheat crop in Kansas with price ranging over a dollar will Boys put diamond pants buttons will be on Kansas farmers.” That boys, is remark came in February, when wheat topped aP an old records since 1868, and saying but equalled the war prices ob TRUE. tained from 1916 to 1921 , Don’t let Huge fortunes were made your boy by speculators last month, be behind but the average Vernonia the rest citizen is wise enough to when it know that the men who ac comes to tually grew the wheat did BASEBALL. n’t profit to any great ex Everything tent. And on top of that, in baseball there are a good many who supplies for realize that this price was the youngster for last year’s wheat—and at the three-fourth of the farm- M. & M. Pharmacy ers in Kansas marketed their grain last November Corner Across from Gilby when the price was right Motor Co. around a dollar, instead of $2, as it was in February. Just how much of the latter profit went to Kansas farm ers is unknown, but they **Zkeep e/x Aone«f, eervfof men; probably know, along with ( They tnuifht me All 1 Kncvr)t Their nemey are WHAT and WHY fanners of other sections of •nd WHEN, •nd HOW end WHERE end WHO" the country, that when there WHAT was the Declaration of London? are any “diamond pants WHY does the date for Easter vary? buttons” worn it will be the WHEN the great pyramid of Cheops built ? speculators in the Chicago HOW can you distinguish a malarial mosquito ? wheat pit that wear them. V/HI.RE la Canberra ? Zc-bru^ge? «1 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 OF VERNONIA Vernonia, Oregon Get your Job Printing done at the home printing office. The Eagle office can handle all your commercial print* ing. Only up-to-date, classy work done at Eagle offic e. VERNONIA STEAM LAUNDRY QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED A Vernonia Institution, Modem in Every Respect WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER Quick Service—Watch for Our Car wan WHO was the Millboy c* the Sir. shoe? Are the«« “six men servin r ycu too? Give them an opportunity by placing ■a W ebster ' s N ew I nternational D iction / I in your home, school, office, [ - club, library, p Thii'Suprcfhc Authority” in all knov.-l.d^e ui!c r3: immcdiJ?, cone t I r.nr, t ,-u<U- worthy. Answer .-JI Undo <.l ouc.-»- ticr>s. A century c< developing, enlarging, cr>J perfecting u.ijer ex acting core on 1 /¿•»’»-Tt xl.'.Ursnip insure» accuracy, completeness, cor.’.pactr.c. authc riiy. tV-Hr-for? Kavk'r ,, f. I.'orda, npeciew n rl Pr tu. J ir’H.i t < s. alM t -okl- • "Y g - -, f . tr J; ' f r»e> < te. To r. -ct: riit-. .»!. R ’’'‘Cto -g.’ pa. Q. ac Sp-i. tfi 11 i .4 oo. till I “Service I» Our Motto” BANK KIPLING TION PICTURES Some Slick “Perfume Bootlegger’ with exquisite Smelling samples sold the “elite” society dames, fast Radio talks, now being women and movie actresses common, every-day tea arranged, will reach an au »epresenting it to be exclusive, imported perfume. They dience of millions from im paid as high as $200 for a small bottle. Any woman so portant broadcasting sta foolish should lose—she should go broke. That’s more tions of the country, simple and rediculous than paying $2.00 per pint for Oregon motion pictuies poison “Moone.” ■ will be shown will be showi before many civic clubs and Clatskanie and St. Helens are each planning on a other organizations in var large new public hall or auditorium, for lodge purposes, ious eastern and middle public speaking, etc. The K. P. lodge in St. Helens will western cities, Northern Pa Built there, annd rent their new hail to various lodges. cific representatives now In Clatskanie a stock company is being talked of. In being engaged in “booking” the films. both cities treiy realize it a good investment o--- 0--- 0 It is entirely up to you. Do you want to spend the best years of your life in a wild goose chase for a quick-rich plan that will leave you in poverty in your declining years, or do you want to start on a plan of systematic saving that will bring you financial independence? We will be glad to help you plan a savings scheme. I W. F. Bond, state superintendent of schools of Mis sissippi, recently sent a letter to every ehool teacher in the state, and for the lienefit of our teacher friends around Vernonia we are reprinting it. They will find it embodies a sensible suggestion. Mr. Bond says: The country newspapei is in reality a country educa tional instituion that does moie to reform public senti ment than perhaps any othei agency in the country The children of every school should read the paper regu larly and discuss with the teacher issue of vital import- ance to the people of the county. Once a week, there fore, the paper should be a sort of textbook on good citi zenship. There should be in every school a rejpilar corres pondent for the paper so that worth-while things accom plished by the school may be gotten befoie the people of the county generally.” I RADIO TALKS AND MO To Auto Owners A Comparison of Conditions -------- w--------------- - ----- •------------- -- ------------------------------------------------ “WEARING DIAMONDS” NOTICE HOUSEWIVES ATTENTION! SPRINGTIME IS HERE AND WITH IT COMES HOUSE CLEANING. LET US HELP YOU WITH YOUR CURTAINS, BLANKETS, FEATHER PILLOWS, WASHABLE RUGS AND ALL KINDS OF LAUNDRY WORK PROPERLY DONE STATE LAUNDRY CU. I PHONES: EAST 0857-EAST »387 VERNONIA, ORE. THE BROADWAY LINEN SUPPLY WILL SERVE YOU WITH THE BEST LINEN IN THE CITY —Same Phone.—
