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VERNONIA EAGLE
Advertising Rates-25ets per Inch,
single column measure, each weak.
We collect lor advertising the drat
of every month.
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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
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KULLANDER’SJEWELRYSTORE
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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
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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
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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:
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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.
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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