VERNONIA EAGLE
City of Home«
VERNONIA EAGLE
Issued Every Friday.
12 00 Per Year.
Entered »» aecond-eUM matter August
4. 1922, at the post office at Ver-
noma, Oregon, under the Art
of Mart h X I <79
Washington was the father of this country, but there
was
precious little country then compared with today. |
We eoUect tor adterua.ng the first UH... — — X
.1.
anzi Z»alaltrutA
Why
not pick _„x
out the eleventh
of February and
celebrate
of every month.
the birth of Daniel Boone to, the man who gave to pros-
PAUL S- R JBINSON.
teriyt the biggest part of the country, w’ho blazed trails
E ditor and O wner .
into the wilderness and made it possible for his fellow-
men to get to the Mississippi, and to cross it and go to
Tba Original
P.H», Staadia« the Pacific coast?
Insofar as Vernonia is concerned,
for Progress, Fair Play. Homa Pat* i we celebrate as many holidays now as our people can
roaaga. Law Eafarcameat, Good
afford to celebrate. But if there must be one more, then
Schools »«d Th« H«oso
let it be in honor of Old Daniel Boone, the pioneer who
blazed
the way to the millions of rich acres west of Vir
All AccoeoU Masi Bo Settled ia Fall
ginia, and whose blood still courses through the veins of
Every 30 Daye
thousands in the West and Middle West.
idrertiatng Rate*
25c ls
per
Splendid School,
$
inch. |
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Editorial
LETS TRY THIS
Time for spring cleaning and shining up the town is
here, so let’s see if we can’t vary the old custom a little
this season and try something new’. Individual house
cleaning is all right, and not one house-wife should post
pone it for any reason. But we can’t brighten things as
they should be if we look after private property and iet
public improvements go by the board.
So why not have a public meeting, as we note in ex
changes they are doing in other communities, a sort of
an open forum where every fellow can tell of improve
ments he would like to see made. There are
streets and sidewalks in various parts of Vernonia de
manding urgent attention. Some of us know where a
few of the bad places are, but none know the location
of all of them. Then why not have a friendly town
meeting, where every fellow can “speak his peace”
and tell just what he would like to see done, as well as
how he thinks it could or should be done.
We are not contemplating anything that would mean
voting an extra expense on our citizens. We are merely
insisting that if we get together and talk over needed im
provements we will quickly find a way to get them at
tended to. The result would be, we frankly believe,
the greatest clean-up season and the best job of towm
improvement in the history of the community. Isn’t
there someone public-spirited enough to take hold right
here and arrange for a public meeting in a convenient
place at the very earliest date possible?
Our dear friend, Paul Robinson of Vernonia is mak
ing a strong plea for the Crown-Willamette people to
locate their new proposed paper and pulp mill in his city.
May we remind him that we have heard it gently whisp
ered that he has some competition for their location. In
fact it is noised around that the matter has sifted down
to three locations, of which Clatsop County holds two of
them.—Warrenton News.
Very well, brother, if the proposed paper and pulp
mill concludes not to build in Vernonia we will take
pleasure in “Pulling for Warrenton.”
“Better Business,” the splendid publication spons
ored by the State Chamber of Commerce in stating op
portunities, needs and wants of various Oregon cities,
failed to mention Vernonia. It could, with no exagera
tion, chronicled Vernonia as wanting a paper mill, a
furniture factor}’, bath house and lodge hall.
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To Auto Owners
O---- 0—0
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WITH
New Shell Gas
—AT THE—
SQUARE DEAL GARAGE
AND NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE. YOU’LL
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SQUARE DEAL
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I
“Service Is Our Motto”
The Forest Grove News-Times oft insinuates in an
ambitious tone that it is the best or largest weekly paper
in Oregon. Sorry to disagree in the least with our neigh
bor, but we will be charitable enough to rank it second.
We belive the Hood River Glacier a wee bit ahead in
honors mentioned.
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Can’t Vernonia interest some one in her oil and coal
prospects Where is Dr. Miller, who is doing the
work at Buxton and Scappoose; he musn’t overlook a
good bet like Vernonia.
Vernonia can be noted as a beautiful city with little
trouble. Nature has been kind to us in this respect,
and a little work by man can make this a paradise.
A GOOD BAROMETER
Baseball season is about here again. Vernonia fans
are
getting in shape. Clean athletic sports are the life
You’d be surprised how strangers, and especially
business concerns doing business with Vernonia judge of a city; let’s all lend a hand.
a town by its newspaper. They seem to know that the
The Banks Tribune is a real paper now. Mr An-
tow’n is reflected in its columns as accurately as the look
ingglass reflects your likeness. The editor may work derson, the new editor, will make a winning with the
12 hours a day seven days in the week; he may get out Tribune. Banks needs it.
the best paper in the world so far as news and reading
It is just a year ago today that I started a
Gales Creek is now hoping to secure an oil well or
matter is concerned, but if there is no advertising in his
Savings
Account with the Bank of Vernonia and
columns the outside world is quick to say: “That must two. Oil leases are being saught.
today
I
have a neat balance to my credit. I’ll
be a dead town—they don’t even know’ the power of
tell
CATHOLIC
CHURCH
you
what, it does make a fellow feel good
printer’s ink.” When will merchants learn this impor
to know that ee is ready to meet an emergency.
Mass and Sermon on the third
tant business truth—that w’hen business is bad is the MAKE A HOME
It is so easy to start saving, and by following a
IN
OREGON
Sunday
of
each
month,
at
11:30
a.
best time to advertise. Then is when they need trade
' m. Week day communion Maae to
reggular savings plan it is easy to save. Better
more than who» business is good. When buying slows
be announced. Joe. P. Clancy, Pae
start saving.
up is the time to advertise and bring it back. We want The State of Oregon com
our merchants to get u hat is coming to them, but we also prises 96,699 square miles
Services in Lent as follows:
wish we could make everyone of them understand that which is about equal to that Every Thursday night at 6:45 in
the surest and cheapest way to get it is to ask for it of New York and Pennsyl struction of children. 7:45—Way
the Cross and Benediction with
through the home-town newspaper.
vania combined, but where of
the Blessed Sacrament.
Popular
Vernonia, Oregon
as these latter two states lectures on the following topics in
support a population of the given sequence: Thursday, Feb.
SHORTAGE OF WHEAT
more than tw’enty million, 26, “Is One Religion As Good As
Another?” Mar. 5 and 12: “Where
Cattle breeders, feeders and packers if this country Oregon has a population of Did We Get the Bible?” Mar. It:
declare that the nation is facing a meet shorage which less than one million. There “Confessions to a Priest,” Mar. 26: Get your Job Printing done at the home printing office.
will reach its peak next fall and bring very high prices. is room in Oregon for five "The Catholic Church, the Bulwark The Eagle office can handle all your commercial print
They say this has been brought about by the high cost times its present population. of Society."
ing. Only up-to-date, classy work done at Eagle office.
The public is always very web
of grain, with feedstuffs climbing upward. Already hog The natural resources of come.
prices on many markets are higher than they have been Oregon are almost without
for years. But for the benefit of the Vernonia citizen limit and their development
who may feel like starting in to worry over high prices is in its infancy. It has coal,
I
we w ould say—don’t do it. There are two ways to keep gold, silver, copper, lead,
meat prices within reason. One is to raise more live one-fifth of the standing
stock and the other is to cut down the amount of meat timber in the Unied States,
eaten. The livestock people may not agree to the tremendous possibilities for
QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED
former, but when priles commence to soar the consumers the development of water
of this country can be depended upon to do the latter. powr, great natural harbors
When Americans join in reducing the amount of meat on the Pacific Ocean thru
A Vernonia Institution, Modem in Every Respect
eaten you can safely bet that the packers will reduce which flows a great rapidly ‘ To DIE
prices accordingly.
growing commerce with the > and yet
Orient, the millions of acres j LIVE, sounds
WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER
Business is not Bad; business is Better; business of fertile soil which will i impossible
is Good. Everything points to a good summer. Gamps produce anything that ; but just before
Quick Service—Watch for Our Car
working, mills running, much road work and city street grows in the temperate zone I I Easter, most of
work to be finished, new enterprises to be established —from Central Oregon’s i us DYE in some
and buildings going up all around. Business could be cattle, sheep, and sturdy way or other, if
a good deal better than it is, but one of the best ways to grains to pears, prunes, ber . its only a
make good times is to talk good times. One would be ries and the world famous i mustache.
surprised today to walk over the resident part of Ver apples of Western Oregon The kiddies
nonia and note the little property improvements going acres whose prices average are dyeing
on in all directions, several new houses are going up lower than those in the East Easter eggs
also. A half dozen homes have changed hands in the and which return high and the ladies
SPRINGTIME IS HERE AND WITH IT COMES HOUSE
CLEANING. LET US HELP YOU WITH YOUR CURTAINS.
past week—always a good sign of approaching prosper yields of exceptionally n^h their Hats.
Chick-Chick
BLANKETS, FEATHER PILLOWS, WASHABLE RUGS AND
ity. Vernonia is one of Oregon’s best towns, and quality
Easter
Egg
ALL KINDS OF LAUNDRY WORK PROPERLY DONE
Oregon
is
a
land
of
many
travelers tell us it is the best bet of any they know of.
Dye, and
scenic wonders.
the
The Oakridge Review is inquisitive enough to com A poor husband always makes a Colorite
perfect
hat
dye
ment in a questionable way about the Vernonia party pBor husband—but a rich one
at
the
having at last produced a foimular that will actually not always make a good one.
PHONES: EAST 0657-EA3T >387
VERNONIA, ORE.
M. & M. Pharmacy
cause hair to grow on bald heads. Yes, brother, it’s a Occasionally a married man
THE BROADWAY LINEN SUPPLY WILL SERVE YOU WITH
THE BEST LINEN IN THE CITY
proven fact now beyond the experimental stage. Ver so used to lying to his wife that he
—Same Phon««—
nonia is growing, so is hair on formerly bald spots, and can’t toil the truth when he talking Corner Across from Gilby
fame will come to the city of Fertile heads.
to his friends.
Motor Co.
Just a Year Ago
Today
BANK
Mac
Says
OF
VERNONIA
VERNONIA STEAM LAUNDRY
HOUSEWIVES ATTENTION!
STATE LAUNDRY CO.