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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1925)
KACLt ■ VUNOMA ns VERNONIA EAGLE Advertising Rates-25ets per Inch, single column measure, each weak. We collect lor advertising the drat of every month. • « they who get their copy in early, for thye shall occupy a warm place in the editors heart. Blessed are those who co-operate with the editor in his efforts in behalf of the community, for their town shall be known far and wide as a good place in which to live. PAUL S. RJBIN8ON. E ditor and O wnbr . JULY Issued Every Friday. The Original Heme Paper, Steading for Progress, Fair Flay, Homo Fat- renege, Law Enforcement, Good Entered aa second-class matter August Schools and The Hoose Beautiful. OUR FIRST BILLIONAIRE $2.00 Per Year. Birthstone Ruby” ITTER thoughthe pill must be, Wall street is forced to declare that Henry Ford is the country’s first billion AU Accounts Must Be Settled ia Fait aire. Wall street watches Henry like a hawk watches a Every SO Days chicken—and hates him. But it was Wall street that first called attention a few days ago to the fact that the balance —Rubies are the stones for you who are bom in sheet of the Ford Motor Car Co., shows a valuation of July—they invest your speech with elegance and $863,000,000, and that in addition to owning almost all save you from disloyal friends. of that plant, Ford owns a railroad- a steamship line, —Can any July bom person afford to miss the several big lumber camps,a string of Kentucky coal mines charming sentiment that the ruby brings its lucky THE MEANEST HABIT and goodness only knows what else. Last year was Ford’s wearer? —Wear it in the stick pin or the ring or the brooch HIS may sound a good deal like preaching, but we best year. He sold cars at the rate of 260 an hour, 24 hours but wear the ruby, your birthstone, you must. want you to read it because of all of the blessings a day for the 300 working days. He paid his employes in salaries during the year. And when we —We are making a speciality of birthstones. Vernonia enjoys there is still an inclination on the part $253,001,528 of realize that the Ford company was incorporated only 22 m few to indulge in that most damnoble of all vile habits years ago with a capital of but $22,000 it knocks the wind —the habit of gossiping. out of the Vernonia young man who complains that “there An Illinois man, addressing a class of graduates, asked isn’t a chance for a fellow to get anywhere in this coun how many of them could lay a feather in each yard in the town one day and go back and gather up each feather on try any more.” Expert Swiss and American Watch Repairing Done the day following. The class agreed that it could not be done, that the wind would have blown many, if not all NOW THE CHAIN FARM the feathers away. “So it is with gossip,” declared the speaker. “It is easily dropped—but never again, no Reserve District No. 12 OW they are considering the question of “chain farm Charter No. 267 matter how hard you try, can you gather back the words REPORT OF CONDITION OF ing”—onebig corporation operating a whole string you thoughtlessly scatter.” THE BANK OF VERNONIA We lose patience with the man, who, dissatisfied with of farms just as others now operate chains of drug stores, conditions here, goes about knocking the town and its groceries, clothing and five-and-ten cent stores. They at Vernonia, in the State of Oregon at close of business June 20, 1025 people instead of picking up and moving on to a location argue there is a vast saving in machinery, since it can be RESOURCES that better suits him. But with all his knocking he is not transported from one farm to another and used on all of 1. Loans and discounts, including rediscounts as hurtful to the community as the gossip. We can get them in the chain; supplies can be bought more cheaply shown in items 29 and 30, if any 1106,619.32 at the man who knocks and try to point out his mistakes where they are bought for a whole big bunch of farms in 2.3. Overdrafts secured and unsecured 702.57 U. S. governeintn securities owned, in to him, but it is different with the gosisp. The latter works stead of each farmer buying separately. A Chicago man cluding those shown in items 30 and 35, if any ..................................... .......... more or less secretly, and in whispers. Every now and then is now organizing the “chain farm” company, and offer 24,060.00 bonds, warrants and securities, in some of this gossip gets to our ears—and it is always some ing stock in it to anyone who wants to buy. So far we 4. Other cluding foreign government, state, thing detrimental to someone’s character. It is the one know of no Vernonia man risking his money in the centure municipal, corporations, etc., including thing, and the only thing left, that keeps life in a town On the other hand we are inclined to believe the average 6. those shown in items 30 and 35, if any 20,417.72 Banking house, 613,431 11; furniture and this size from being ideal. Isn’t there some way of ridding local citizen with any money to invest would prefer to put fixtures, 310,505.64 23,930.75 the community of the man or woman possessed of the it where he could occasionally see the farm and, perhaps, 7, Real estate owned other than banking house ................................ ’................... 4,840.13 gossiping habit? If you know of a way, try it out—we’ll have a little something to say as to exactly how it shoulc V. (ab) Cash on hand in vault and due from be run. banks, bankers and trust companies desig all be interested in seeing how well it works. 4, 1922, at the poet odBce at Ver noma, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Editorial T I KULLANDER’SJEWELRYSTORE N à nated and approved reserve agents of this bank...................... AIN’T WE GOT FUN OMING out of Portland Sunday evening, two reliable passengers counted the machines we met between C ASN’T it a Glorious Fourth? Didn’t we have fun? Portland St. Helens, thirty miles. By actual count we Prosperity reigns supreme. Money mad citizens of met thirteen and W hundred and eighty-five cars all going at a all races, sexes and ages were traveling, yelling, spendnig money like a drunken sailor on the bowery. Everybody went someplace and all resorts and oil stations did a capacity business. Cars were wrecked like toy trains in a smash-up. Fishermen and swimmers drowned, auto speed ers came out with scratched faces, the foolish of small towns got drunlj and fought and threw money away. In Portland it was more rushed and more exciting- but no liquor in sight or a drunk man noticed—they have out grown it there and are better educated. At the Oakes park were ten thousand people anxiously waiting in line to hand over their money for baloons, rides on contraptions, root beer or anything they would take money for. Thous ands and thousands of cars were on the Oregon Highways traveling in a string, all going around thirty an hour. In a few years the oil companies will own the United States, and even now they could afford to give the cans away for the gas they eat up. But it was the Fourth; no one regrets the tiresome day after; no one gives a thought for the money spent—we spent it on purpose—it was fun, it was a short vacation, it was the Fourth of July, the* Day We Celebrate. high rate of speed—a solid string of them, not a one dar ing to stop. What does it mean? Several meanings, bu; the greatest need brought to the surface is the fact that another route from Astoria to Portland is a necessity. The Columbia River Highway cannot safely handle the great traffic longer. Why not a hard surfaced highway—the Inland Loop—from Astoria to Portland by the way of Vernonia. This will come some day. It is the most im portant of all highway needs today. When the Roosevelt highway is finished- what will become of the cars after they get as far as Astoria? HE Central Oregonian of Prineville in a writeup of the recent American Legion Convention says: T Characteristic of the seritiment of the Legionnaires who came to Prineville for the convetnion last week is the statement of M. E. Carkin- commander of the post at Ver nonia, who said: “It is the unanimous opinion of the delegates from Ver nonia that they have never as yet found any place where the hospitality excelled that shown them at Prineville. The housing was well managed, the welcome extended was courteous and sincere, the entertainment was unusual delightful and just what we most enjoyed. Your people certainly know how to make us feel comfortable and at home. “Mr. Carkin had dropped into the Central Oregonian office to extend greetings from Paul Robinson, editor of the Vernonia Eagle, who was detained at home and his expression of appreciation was made voluntarily and without a suggestion on the part of the local scribe. It ¡9 typical of expressions overheard everywhere during the tnree days.” AN EDITOR’S BLESSINGS are the merchant« who advertise because they believe in it and are in their business; for their B LESSED prosperity shall increase many fold. Blessed are the coun try correspondents who send in their well-written items every week, for fame of their friendly neighborhood shall go abroad in the land. Blessed is the women who sends in a written account of a party or wedding, for she shall see the details of the function and the names of her guests conreetly reported. Blessed are those who do not expect the editor to know everything, but who call him and tell him whenever an interesting event occurs to them, for they shall have a aewgy paper in their town. Blessed are Total 6298,393.81 LIABILITIES 16. Capital stock paid in .... fund .............. 17. Surplus * ‘ * It. (a) Undivided profits (b) Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid ............................................................ 23. 24. 26. 2«. 27. 28. 68,027.32 810,656.13 825,000,90 6,000.00 2,619.38 8,130.76 DEMAND DEPOSITS, other thnn banks, subject to reserve: Individual deposit subject to check, in cluding deposits due the State of Oregon, county, cities or other public runds Demand certificates of deposit outstand- ing .................................................... Cashiers checks of this bank outstanding payable on demand Certified checks outstanding TIME AND SAVING DEPOSITS, sub ject to reserve and payable on demand or subject to notice: Time certificates of deposit outstanding Savings deposits, payable subject to notice j................... 202,062.14 171 91 4,980.90 74.49 9,019.02 49,676.91 Total ..... 6298,393.81 County of Columbia STATE OF OREGON r I. *■ H. E. McGraw, cashier of the aboce named bank, «io solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. H.E.McGRAW, Cashier CORRECT —Attest: Peter Bergerson, F. E. Malmsten, G. R. Mills, Di- rectors Subscribed and «worn to before me thia 7 day of July, 1926. EUGENE E. MARSH, NoUry Public. My commission expires Aug. 19, 1928. I Don’t Let ‘Em “Gyp” You Doesn’t it cost you enough to operate your car as it is without letting “gyp” tire andac- cessory dealers lure you into their trap? When we sell you TIRES or TUBES we are not selling “seconds.” Every one carries a mileage guarantee—and we are here to make good if the tiresdon’t. If you buy from the cheap mail-order tire and accessory dealers you have to put up with what they send you. YOU WOULDN’T BE SATISFIED WITH “SECONDS” IN SUGAR OR MEAT. WHY NOT BE AS PARTICUL- ABOUT THE MONEY YOU SPEND ON TIRES? We’ll Save You Money on anything that goes on your auto—and we can save you money on repairs. We’ve a line of the BEST tires and accessories— the kind that are cheapest in the long rm because they are BEST in the first-place. Don’t tinker with your car and do some thing that will make a bigger bill later on—let an expert look after it and save both the life of the car and your money
