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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1925)
Place Your Ad Here FEATHERS VatNONlA, EATJE of the juries are no better than the fellow being tried. About the only time a Vernonia fisherman ever tells the truth is when he calls another fisherman a liar. Th’ old-faahluued man with a lot of nerve, now baa a From newspaper reports Turkey has but one fixed national policy—and that is hunting for trouble. We heard of one man not far from Vernonia who bought a radio so he Maybe President Coolidge prefer* could hear Sunday sermons. But sausage for breakfast because it repre his neighbors say it is because the raido can’t pass the contribution box. sents a little bit of everything. Just let the average Vernonia citizen get the idea that boot-leg- ging is conducted by a heartless trust and he’ll start yelling his head off. The papers refer to Rockefeller as an uplifter. We notice around Ver nonia that he uplifts the price of gaso line every now and then. The one difficulty about cutting off the expense of government is that molt all of tlic expense can vote. A Kansas editor admits he is a regu lar reader of the Congressional Rec ord. Now we know what’s thé mat ter with Kansas- We don't want to start anything, but isn’t it about time someone around Vrrnonia was starting the annual re port about the fruit crop being killed? If you smell gas or gasoline and start looking for it with a lighted match it’s a sign you’re going on a long journey. It’s wonderful what science has done for us. Nowadays you don't have to spit into a box of shoe-blacking to make it stick to the brush. The average Vernonia husband doesn’t sneer so much at housework when his wife gets sick and he has to fix his own breakfast and dress the kids. Keep the Flies Out « A tue made /rtheitest- intheVfesy The big book, the sixth Biennial Report of the State Highway Commission, is a wonder, and shows many miles of beautiful highways, but as usual not a word about the “Inland Highway from Portland to Asaoria, Via Vernonia. Why should it, when there is no such highway. But why i s n’t there such a highway?. A church is opened with prayer, but We’ve some smart citizens in Ver nonia but how many of them can tell it’s different with a printing office. Mrs. Ethel Davidson is the new why a chicken lays its eggs at home It is opened by the "devil” and closed clerk at the Miller Mercantile store. by the sheriff. but goes into a neighbor’s yard to do Mrs. Davidson is a sister of Mrs. its scratching. Bergman. Some men can't stand prosperity, 1925 Queen of Paris Mr. and Mrs. G. It. Amick left for but most of us never get a chance to find out whether we can or not. Portland Sunday where they will make their home. Mr. Amick having Our advice to all young men is to employment there. keep in mind tho fact that you never get ahead of anyone so long We heard a man remark, this as you follow in their footsteps. week, that he stood in the Portland Hotel lobby and heard three wealthy The average Veronia man thinks men, investment seekers remark:, his neighbors dull, but they can’t “Where is Vernonia, I never heard tell the difference between a social of it.” called and a ciilecto. Vernonia wants a pulp mill, a If they Bent every autoist to jail brick yeard and box and furniture for not knowing his license tag num factories. We get nothing if we ber where would they find a don’t ask for it. big enough to hold them? The Woman’s Relief Corps met Music is getting so you can’t Thursday, April 18. A nw member, M tb . Brendle, was initiated. Plans if the neighbors are playing were made and committee appointed phonograph, fighting, crying tor the proper observance of Mem washing the dishes. orial Day. The Corps and John Bucher Post G. A. R. earnestly ask It’s pretty hard to understand that there be no amusement that are I some Vernonia women’s tastes when not in keeping with the spirit of you see the kind of husbands they Mlle, (ii orgetle r relgneuux, elected queen of queens for Ibe year 192S I d the day. A dinner and bazaar are jealous about. the mld-l.enten fete of Ml Careme. be held in the ear future, date Mlle Erelgncuux was selected from 2C be given later. When a man falls in love very girls representing 20 arrondissc-'ienU hard he naturally breaks something, In the French metropolis. A. L. Morris was over from War even if it’s only himself. ren this week. One thing the world war did for America is to make future warfare a strictly cash-in-advance proposition. The trouble with prohibition en forcement icrnij to be that too many Many OpportunW«, Ar* H«r< We make the Screens, Doors and Win- dows just to fit and make them right. Place your order now, that we may measure up and beat the flies to it. About the only news this week is that every body is sick. Flu, Grippe and bad colds has hit the community Advertising is telling others things you would' like them to know. and many are “under the weather.” Speaking to the multitude instead of to the few. Deputy Game Warden Willitm Telling a story in a day that would Brown was in Vernonia Monday. otherwise take a year. Saving time by multiplying your Thomas Solomon has rented the sales-appeal. Letting everybody know what only Malmsten farm and moved on same. a few people know about your goods. Two Pittsburg farmers were be Telling the world why you are proud fore Constable Kelly this week ac of your goods. cused of cruelty to animals. After! Going to the public instead of wait giving them a good lecturing on the‘*n8 f°r *he public to come to you. care of stock and on their promise1 Making your busmess safe for suc- to do better in the future, they wero'ce?.s‘ . . . . ., .. . „ . * Sowing the seeds of ideas that grow allowed to go. into sales and what is more—good will. A wholesale reminder to the public of what you have to offer.. Telling again and again the things that the public ought to know. Re-creating in the minds of the pub lic, the sales ideas in your own mind. Increasing the radius of your success by increasing the radius of your sales- appeal. Telling the story in print instead of in person. A method of multiplied telling of facts that is the most economical. A means of making personal effort more productive. Making your voice reach from house to house.----- Greater Clairton (Pa.) Progress. MATTERS we gladly hand the Eastern friends, g subways and sky- i—ye»! rootball — possibly. Climate—Improba bly. Pleasure auto driving no! We drive more months of the year............. have greater scenic attractions. The “great open spaces” draw us farther from home. We know roads — and autoe — and tires I Which, in a way, account* for the success of C-T-C tires. They are built in the West to meet Western condition*. Eastern engineer* came We*t to build them -but they make them for the West a* well as in the Weal Today they are ranked a* one of the three or four really fine tire» in America. I bey are the largest-selling tires made in a Western-owned factory. Motorist* in the nine western state* know what a tire should do. Their purchase* show that C-T-C doe* It! • Come in and let u* show you this remarkable tire. “Quality will never be sacrificed to meet a price" President • ' Columbia Tiro Corporation Gilby Motor Co. CLATSKANIE. ST. HELENS VERNONIA CTC CORDS Hand*buil t__ Full Balloons — Berni-Bal loons Heavy-Duty Cords—Omise Cords 1925 Star Sport STANKEY & SON Vernonia Woodworking Co. Sedan with the Million Dollar Motor Vernonia 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 —FIRST CLASS MECHANICAL WORK— Quick Pick-up means POWER * The Car for the Millions with the MILLION DOLLAR MOTOR When a car can accelerate from 5 to 25 miles an hour in 4i seconds, it means power. That’s what the Million Dollar Motor in the 1925 Star Car guarantees. Power—abundant power—power for speed, power for hills, power for the tough going, sand, mud. It cost a million to build, but you’ll say its worth it, every cent of it. For the first time, real power has been built into a low cost car. Drive this new motor. Get the thrill of real power —that’, all we ask. Today—at your Star dealer’s—test out this new motor. VERNONIA BRAZING & MACHINE WORKS [See It at Your Dealer’s. SQUARE DEAL GARAGE “Service Is Our Motto” Drive It, Compare It]