Vernonia eagle., April 24, 1925, Image 3

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VERNONIA EAGLE
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A MESSAGE TO YOU!
- No. 225
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Best Cane Sugar, per 100 lbs.
$6.90
Big “K” Hard Wheat Flour, per sack
$2.55
$2.39
No. 1 Spuds, per 100 lbs.
Best Creamery Butter, per lb. 43c, 2 lbs. for 85c
Federal or Carnation Milk—
11 tins ................................ 11.00
per case ...........
$4.29
Citrus per pkg.............................. 25c
Candy packed in convenient one—
pound boxes
20c lb.
31c lb.
30c lb.
UPPER
Won’t you take the wore of these meh and be convinced that MO CHER'S
BREAD is as fine a loaf in every way as any loa! on the maket and t is made
here at home where it can have individual attention which is impossible in
the large shops.
Start using MOTHER’S BREAD today- you’ll not be d* appointed.
NEHALEM
Eila McKinster drove out from
Miss Millie McMullen visited with
Portland
in her new Star coupe to
the Rumbough family on the Burn
spend
a
couple of days with her
ii few days last week.
parents Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Ornduff.
Mr. John and Dave McMullen
The Ohler brothers are shipping
were Hawing wood for t he rock
the first car of shingles. They are
crusher lust week.
running at full blast.
Mr. Ed McMullen is staining the
Mrs. Jack Britten called on Mrs.
outside of hi house u chocolate I
Ornduff Thursday.
brown.
Jesse and Willis Ornduff' spent
Jim McMullen left Thursday for
the evening with Victor Bergeson.
Eastern Oregon,
He will sheer
sheep there until July.
Annetea Ohler is on the sick list;
Mrs. Nellie Deeds and son Floyd
attended the morning services at
Mist Sunday.
They say that MOTHER’S BREAD has a tine texture (which insures good
toast), that it has fine color and an unusually fine flavor and swet '.nes.-.
SENSIBLE MERCHANTS
KNOWS IT’S A FACT
also Thane Ohler.
Mrs. Deetz made a flying trip to
Vernonia last week.
Sunday guests at the Holdings
We are glad to hear that our Dr.
home were Joe Dhooge, Dick Ren- I Mary Cole is home again in our
icks. Lincoln Peterson and Forest neighborhood.
Hill.
Mr. Ornduff and family ■pent
On Sunday there were preaching Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Louis
services at the Natal Hall. Mr. Nelson.
Everett from Portland did the
preaching, He also called on a good
Mrs. Vada Rainwater has been
number of the people in this district. sick but is able to be around again.
The weather being quite wet made
Mr. Dick Doughty spent Sunday
a very sniull attendance at the ser­ with his sister, Mrs. Anna Blum at
vices Sunday. We hope more will Wapoto.
turn out the next time the minister
comes.
Mr. A. F. Ornduff shipped his last
car of 120 foot piling for the S. P.
company.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
DID YOU E7VER STOP TO THINK
THAT it to not always price that
counts.
THAT it is what you get for the
price that counts.
THAT at the store of advertised
goods you will And a community
of interests existing between the
store and its customers.
THAT right now every merchant
should pay particular attention to
his advertising.
THAT business is picking up and
now is the time to go after it.
THAT every sensible merchant be­
lieves in newspaper advertising.
THAT some merchants are not sen-
sible; they lose.
THAT advertising catcl.es the eye
and brings customers to a store;
it causes sales.
THAT ads are a simple means of
getting the seller and the buyer
together.
THAT advertising is conveying to
the public an idea as to what a
product is and what it will do and
how well it will do it.
THE BEST ALWAYS COSTS THE
LEAST IN THE LONG-RUN,
BECAUSE THE BEST LASTS
LONGER AND GIVES LAST­
ING SATISFACTION.
—By E. R. Waite, Sec’y, Shawnee,
Okla., Board of Commerce.
Down in southerp Illinois a few
years ago a man named Sloan from
Harrisburg established a general mer-
chandisc bn :ncs« to compete with ol«l
established concerns that had the trade
of th< county. Mr. Sloan surprised the
The Sunset Logging Co. are «et- conmiunity by taking a large ad every
St. Helens, Oregon, April 18, 1925.
ting ready to move in their new week in the local paper. His ads were
Sealed Proposals, addressed to the
cook house which is very nice and well written and prices featured in big
County Court of Columbia County,
figure«. The < ther merchants all
up-to-date in every respect.
Oregon, nt St. Hel< ns, Oregon, and I
laughedfand solid Sloan would go broke
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endorsed “Proposals for Doing the
We hear they have ■ new garage spending all his money < n advertising,
Columbia
ilT
Following
Work
nearly all the trade of the town and
I in Timber. Ruilt by McGowan & Tn a few years the new stere had pullerl
County, to-wit:
Anderson of Vernonia.
Clear, Grub ar.d Grade the Mist-'
county from the old stores. A little
later. Mr. Sloan organized the Rosen­
Clatskanie Market Road between
Miss Sybol Ornduff ■pent the thal-Sloan Millinery company on
Stations 270 and 190, in Section 14' evening with Miss Ohler
last Friday. Wa.lnngton avenue in St. Louis,, the
mid 23 Township 7 north, Range 5
I largest wholesale millinery house west
west of W. M.; und construct a tres­
The road work has stepped on of the .Mississippi river. More re­
tle brilge on said road between account of the rain of the past
cently he helped organize the Mc­
Stations 277 and 279, according to week.
Elroy-Sloan Shoe company a large
plans and specifications, will be re­
shoe manufacturing1 concern of St.
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ceived by said County Court until
Jesse Ornduff shipped his car of Louis. He is now worth two millions
10:00 o'clock a.m., May 9th, 1925, 125 foot piling to the Burnside of dollars. That’s the way he “went
mid not thereafter, and at that time hirdge in Portland today.
broke.**—Democrat. Marshall, III.
will be publicly opened and read. I
In a recent talk over the radio G. F.
All proposals must be made upon
The Sunset will move in the new
blank forms, to be obtained from the cook house Saturday and Sunday of Rinehart, editor and publisher of the
Covina (CaL) Citizen took a few­
Rondmnster, at his office in St.' this week.
swift kicks at the non-advertiser:
Helens, Oregon. Must give prices
Yow can always judge a town by its
propoped, both in writing and in
Mr. George Ohles is on the sick newspaper. You can judge the mer­
figures, and must be signed by the list.
chants of a town infallibly by the
bidder, with his address.
character and volume of their advertis­
Plans and Specifications on file in
A. F. Ornduff started grading a ing in the local paper. Every live
the office of the County Roadmaster, mile of railroad for the Sunset on merchant patronizes his local news­
paper, not as an object of charity, but
at St. Helens, Oregon, and may be the Lousingot creek this week.
as a matter of good business. He
examined in the office of the County
Clerk.
Mrs. Bert Ohles spent the after­ knows that it helps the town and
that it helps him. He knows that if
Each bidder shall deposit with his noon with Mrs. Ornduff this week.
the newspaper fails the grass will grow
hid, a certified check for an amount
Mr. C. A. Flowers bought him A in the main street, and the cobwebs in
of at least five (5) per cent of his new Chevrolet car, we htar.
shame will cover with the mantle of
bid, payable to the County Clerk,
silence and oblivion the business
which shall be forfeited to the
Mr. A Deetze is also going to got houses guilty of crucifyiug their best
County in case the award is made to a new Chevrolet.
friend.
him, and he shall neglect, fail or
There is no creature in the world
refuse, for a period of five day*
The Vernonia Union High School more depicable than the merchant who
after such award is made, to enter band, accompanied by Superintend­ fastens himself on a public street like
into a contract and file the required ent Wilkerson and a largo number a sponge on a rock to absorb every
of pupils, visited St Helena high thing that comes and give out noth­
bond.
The right is reserved to reject any school Thursday, the band playing ing in return- And yet there are thou­
in the high school auditorium and sands of these leeches absorbing the
and all bide.
trade drawn to the town by the enter­
John Philip,
later at the track meet. Band mem­ prise of the newspaper and the other
County Judge. bers making the trip were: Charles merchants, never spending a dollar in
J. N. Miller,
Hoffman, Dudley Spencer, Francis legitimate endeavor to win success by­
Commissioner. North, Robert Hoffman, Donald deserving it. This class ot merchants
Hodges, Ralph Reiter, Thor Roberts, is giving aid and comfort to the mail
T. B. Mille,
Commissioner. James Currie, Veldon Parker, John order houses who are gradually wip­
J. E. Eitortaon,
Larrymore, Rusaell Milla, George ing them off the mercantile map.
Roadmax ter. Currie, Marshall Malmsten, Allen
Even if you are on the right track,
Ray, George Currie, and John
J. W. Hunt,
you can get run over if you just sit
County Clerk. Hatton.
there.
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men know bread and when they
Th e
is as fine a loaf as any they Lave seen.
say that bread is good, it IS good.
...15c lb.
... 23c lb.
12>/2 c lb.
Pot roast .....
Pork roast ...
Boiling beef
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MOTHER'S
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To confirm our contention we have recently had as visitors bakery experts
These mon visit
from the Fleischmann Yeast Co., and Sn^’
y tell us in all
bakeries throughout all of the Norths
sincerity that
Coma early before they are picked over.
MEATS
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Try the new “Pep”....................... 14c
Shredded wheat ........................... 12c
3 for .... -.................................... 35c
Comb honey well filled .............. 23c
Quick quaker oats........................ 29c
Campbells pork and beans—
3 for ......................................... 29c
Gem nut per pound .................... 25c
Pens, new potatoes, strawberries, asparagus.
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We Have Been Telling You That Mother’s
Bread Is Good Bread
CEREALS
Peppermint chocolate« ....) J J [J
Chocolate carmel« ...........)
Fancy Asst. Chocolates....) per box
Pork sausage
Hams ..........
Bacon ..........
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Vernonia
Brewer & Visnaw, Props
On 2nd street, half block south of Bridge street
Uncle Sam can’t enforce all h s laws,
Every 1 me the state finds a way to
but nobody has yet been able to break
:m- the taxpayer a little money, some
old Dame Nature> laws and not pay one conic i along and has it declared
unconstitv.tiona
Six Hrst-class highways could be the penalty.
ONE HOLE OR SIX HICHWAYS
built between Portland and the
Tualatin slope for the money it
would take to build the projected
tunnel. Which would be a more
useful result to obtain from the ex-
penditure of the huge sum involved?
And would a tunnel be of much
use after it was built? How could
it be ventilated? Might not hun-
dreds of lives be lost should there
be a motor vehicle jam in it that
would fill the tunnel with deadly
gas?
The tunnel project appeals to the
imaination, but has any method of
ventilation been perfected whereby
it could be made safe from noxious
gases?
And would people prefer a two-
mile ride through a hole to ridir.g
three or four miles over a fine, open
highway, aamid matchless scenic
beeauty?
It may be felt that the tunnel pro­
vides the ouly sure means of hold­
ing the main business center of
Portland to the West side. But
what good would the tunnel be if it
is open to the objections stataed
above?—Oregon Voter.
•eee-ving every day new
ch as
aes, Pearls,
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Chains, and Silverware suitable for
any
occasion
as
gifts.
pleased to show these and to offer
suggestions.
Price-*
mid
guaranteed to be right.
quality
We iuvite
you to come in.
HOLLANDER'S JEWELRY STORE
Expert Swiss and American Watch Repairing Done
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Time to get your pick of the New Spring anti Summer Clothing, Shoes,
Ties, Hats and Shirts before the stock has been sold down an I the very thing
you would liked to have had is on the other fellow’s back.
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WE ARE IN BETTER SHAPE THIS SPRING THAN EVER TO FIT AND
PLEASE THE MEN AND BOYS OF THIS COMMUNITY WITH
THINGS MEN WANT—UNDER GARMENTS ARE ALL NEW
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WE
BOUGHT
RIGHT
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We knew months ago what would be RIGHT for this Spring and Summer’s
Wear, and we bought RIGHT. We are going to pass the benefits on to you—
BUT A WORD FROM YOU CAN SAVE THE THINGS THE OTHER FEL­
LOW MAY GET IF YOU POSTPONE COMING IN.
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AND REMEMBER THIS—IF OUR CLOTHES DON’T MAKE GOOD,
WE WILL!
Petersen’s Popular Prices
A. W. PETERSEN
Across from Theatre
Second and Bridge street
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