VERNONIA EAGLE
Advertising Rate«-26eto per Inch,
single ooiumn measure, each work.
We collect for advertising the flrat
of every month.
PAUL S. ROBINSON.
E ditor and O wnbb .
Issued Every Friday.
$2.00 P®r Year.
Entered *■ aecond-claaa matter August
4, 1922, at the peat office at Ver
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
of March B. 1879.
Editorial
when all were put together It meant a goodly sum to one
man, and enough to enable him to pay his own bills and
meet his needs. Things went on thus. The man got to
feeling so badly that he fell out of bed and awoke. Run
ning to his granary he found the 1800 bushels of wheat
still there.
And the moral is this: The next day he went to the
publisher of his home-tow’n paper and said: “Here, sir» is
pay for your paper, and when next year’s subscription is
due you can count on me to pay you promptly. I stood in
the position of an editor last night, and I know how it
feels to have his earnestly-earned money scattered all
over the country in small amounts.”
E MAS achieved miccef» who has lived well, laughed
often iind loved much; who has gained theaeagLt
H
of intelligent men and the bve of little children
has left the world better than he found it, whether by an
improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who
has never failed to appreciate earth’s beauties and given
the best he had; whose life was an inspiration, whose
memory a benediction.—Oregon Sportsmen.
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?
HITS NAIL ON HEAD
T ISN’T fair to imagine that all editors of big city
papers do not know what they are talking about
LARGE portion of our readers were bom and brought when they comment on conditions in our small towns.
up in the country, says the Democrat and Watchman The editor of the New York Evening Post proves his
of Circleville. No other building on the old farm was so
wisdom of small towns and their people when he writes
delightfully familiar as the old barn, of varying types of the following words, recently printed in the big New
construction.
York paper:
It was the citadel for the farm crqps, stock and sup “The small town does not live by the mere sufferance
plies, essential in carrying on the work of the farm, and of the city. Nor does it run to the city for every good
in the maintenance of the home and family.
thing to eat,to hear,to wear. It is afare of books and ab-
On the old farm among the hills, where the writer reastof fashions. It has churches, served by ministers who
was bom and brought up, the log-barn, is the only build are compensated by the devotion of a flock for their rela
We’ll Save You Money
ing still standing. In days agone, a hundred swallow nests tively modest income. Moreover, that income is not al
on
anything
that goes on your auto—and
lined its rafters. In harvest time, its huge pens were frag ways small when weighed in the balance with the cost
we can save you money on repairs. We’ve
rant with clover and timothy of the near-by meadows. of city life. One of the peculiar satisfactions to the small
a line of the BEST tires and accessories—
In its nooks and comers, on rainy days and Sundays, we town dweller is the neighborhood consciousness—the
the kind that are cheapest in the long rm
knowledge
that
next-door
neighbors
and
those
beyond
played hide-and-seek. Within its walls and secreted a-
because they are BEST in the first-place.
next-door
will
eagerly
mobilize
to
help
in
time
of
need.
mong its mows- were hen’s nests and fresh eggs galore.
Don’t tinker with your car and do some
The
little
town
offers
its
own
abundant
compensation,
In lean-to sheds w ere stored the wagons, buggies and farm
thing that will make a bigger bill later
implements. And in stall and at stanchion, meek cows and best known to its own citizens.’’
on—let an expert look after it
patient horses munched contentedly from well-filled
and save both the life of the
>
ANY
RECORDS
HERE?
mangers. Verily, the old bam was a great institution.
car
and
your
money
Some poet in the Fann Journal enshrines it in verse:
RTHUR STEDMAN, of New’ York, recently came
The ancient barn with its clapboards gray
forward in the newspapers to declare that he has
Has for well-nigh fifty years
worn
the same collar button 50 years, or longer than
Sheltered its wealth of fragrant hay
any
other man ever possessed one. And he has started
And wealth of golden ears.
something. Now comes J. B. Williams, of Maryland, to
&■
state that he han’s lost his collar button for 54 years,and
The swallows dart thro’ the open door
i
1,00
the«« »«• n t
that record appears to stand. At least we haven’t seen OUT OF DOORS IN
Just the same as in years gone by,
OREGON
VANISHING
“'”l the
it disputed in the “collar button contests” now being
When we rode around o’er the thrashing-floor,
space in hundreds of papeis throughout the country. Out of Poor« in Oregon is vanish Shall we permit the entire <ie«truc
And trod out the wheat and rye.
We
’ve lost so many that keeping one a year would be a ing; Vanishing so fast that within tion and annihilation of the lant <it
J s-.fi
■ thene wonder «pot«?
record for us, but it may be that someone in Vernonia a few years it will be gone.
On rainy days oft a merry throng
has learned far better than we have the art of hanging Blackened, charred stumps will If Pythiantom ig to survive th.i
Of children gathered here,
onto them, keeping them from rolling away to an obscure stanj like tombstones in a grave storms of the times, it must be ac
through service, and
And with hunting eggs and games and song,
place just at an inopportune moment. Therefore we are yard of tin cans, cartons and pol complished
every
Pythian
can make it his
wnter courses, where once
The gloom gave way to cheer.
calling attention to the “collar button contest’’ in the luted
beautiful spots with shade and cry special business to serve the stall?
hope that possibly someone around here can gain nation stal streams which beckoned to the of Oregon by making it his individ
In its lofty mows we often played,
wide fame by displaying a colla” button that has seen weary traveller to rest in nature’s ual business to assist in the preser-
In the days of long ago,
lap of luxury, were the glory of ! vation of the natural wealth ami
more than 54 years of service.
i beauty of the hills and valley«* and
And peered ’neath the rafters half afraid,
this state.
streams of Oregon.
Where
once
you
and
I.
as
boys
Lest some goblin lurked below.
THE “JAY WALKER”
A
I
A
VERNONIA BRAZING & MACHINE WORKS
together, roamed the hills and
streams. Ashing and hunting, ab
Hail! dear old barn, ’neath thy shelt’ring eaves
ON’T make the mistake of thinking that “jay walk sorbing the character building at
Sweet echoes dwell, and sing
ers” are confined to the cities alone. And neither mosphere of the great university of
To 'my list’ning ear- and my heart receives
is it wise to believe that every time someone is run down outdoors, our boys and Kiris will
bleak and barren hills and Ash
Fond mem’ries of youth’s glad spring.
and hurt or killed that it was the fault of the man who And
less streams, devusted by the ruth
drove the car. You don’t have to go any farther than less hand of the careless and unre
THE SILLY SEASON
Vernonia to find “jay walkers,” people who cross the strained.
street or highway without looking carefully in all direc What is everybody’s business is
S QUITE often run into a genuine case of silliness tions to see that danger is not near, people who cross nobody’s business and the business
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around here, and it may be that we are guilty of from one side of the street to the other without using of conserving and perpetuating
the camp'
beauty
spots
of
Oregon,
t..«,
the same thing ourselves every now and then. But we the
do regular crosing, or who change their mind and grounds, the groves, the big
'
hope we're never going to be silly enough to declare start back when they’ve reached the middle of the street and the greatest wealth of ail, trees,
the
that such catastrophes as recently visited the little city All of these are “jay walkers’’ of the worst type, and are wonderful streams in their natural
of Santa Barbara, California, was “a visiation from to be found here the same as in the large city. The only beauty which can never be matched
above,” as we heard one Vernonia man assert shortly difference is there are more of them in the city because by artiAcial means, has been rele-j
gnted to nobody and nobody has
after it occured.
there are more people there. But that doesn’t mean that attended
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to it.
We take no stock in “visitations-’ ’and if we did we death beneath the wheels of an auto is any more pleas-
It should be the business of every,
would always believe that anything coming from above ant one place than it is another. Watch your step!
red blooded citizen of the state of
is bound to be good, instead of bad. We are living on a
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Oregon, who loves the woods, the
sphere that is peculiarly constructed and about which Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coyle and Why leave a car standing on the streams, the birds and the Ash, and
man doesn’t know half as much as there is to be known daughter Opal returned last week main bUKineaa atreet all day, when above all, the spots along the hign-j
which afford special attractions
This old earth has a habit of doing peculiar things, ant from an extended visit through the side streets are shady, well way
for the tourists to enjoy the privil-'
Southern California—making side
when we are not expecting it to do them. The earth« pleasure trips Io old Mexico and rocked and almost as convenient; ege of a few hours in a camp close1
quake at Santa Barbara was another of these pranks, the adjacent
to nature, and special effort should
points of interest. Walter and considerably safer.
sam eas the tidal wave at Galveston some years ago, the says it is pretty hot down there dur
terrible quake at Japan, the Dayton flood in 1913 ant ing the days, but the nights are
the tornado that made thousands homeless in Indiana very pleasant.
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and Illinois a few months ago.
These things are a part of nature’s plan, they are
something we cannot prevent, and they are.just as apt
to strike at one point as another. We see churches wiped
out by fire and flood and tornado. So if it was “a visita
tion from above” why not the churches be spared? We
take no stock in such silliness, and we are glad to know
that a vast majority of our readers do not. We just go
ahead with hearts saddened by such occurrences, with
sympathy for those affected, and hopeful that our own
community may be spared from such deplorable events.
GORDON FURNITURE CO.
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Workers are busy with the paving
jobs.
Our main street is being
paved and before the muddy season
begins, we will be ready for a win
ter when we can cross the street
without getting buried in clay and
mud.
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Many Vernonia people are on
their vacation, some to the moun
tains and some to the seashore,
while a few have wondered to other
states. All will come home feeling
there is no place like home after all.
GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE
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Stores
are disposing of summer
4 CE a fanner had 1800 bushels of wheat which he goods in order
to receive fall goods
had sold, not to one grain merchant, but to 1800 now being ordered.
Where the days
■diffeient dealers, a bushel to each. A few of them paid
go It ia hard to explain.
cash, but far the greater number said they would pay
later. A few months passed and the man’s bank account You will loose money if you don’t
ran low. “How is this,” he said, “my 1800 bushels of follow the special prices found in
grain should have kept me until another crop is raised, •nr various advertismento
but I have parted with the grain and instead I have a
We are all pleased to see our
vast number of accounts so small and scattered that I streets
being paved.
cannot get around and collect fast enough.”
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So he posted a public notice and asked all who owed Hotels are all doing a big busi-
him to come and pay quickly. But few came. The rest neas
said: “Mine is only a small matter, and I will pay you
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sc,me other day.” Though each acount was very small, Soon be tim« for «chool again.
0
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If not for ourneive«—for the
generations that follow.
J. J. KNIGHT,
McMinnville, Oregon.
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New Band Manager
The band boys have secured the
services of Mr. George Thuy« to
act as their business manager. Mr.
_
’i a band man of many
Thayer
is
._r_.......-J l and is familiar
years experience
with
the - problems
confronting
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- ‘.lie
average smull town band. He will
be able to render valuable seivice«
to the band and the city in helping
to keep this worthy enterprisegmi-t
on II n business uumn.
On
basis. When
• •'-Il
Georg«'
talk« band to you. listen to him, he
knows what he is talking about.
Mr. D. Nickson, who is the first
man you meet when you go to the
big Inman-Poulsen camp, was m
town Monday, long enough to keep
the Eagle
_ visiting him with a y ear'll
subscription,
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