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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‘ .
.
.
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„
.
* 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
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