* /
4
/
VERNONIA RAGLE
Place Your Ad Here
VERNONIA EAGLE
Advertising Rates-26cts per inch,
■ingle column measure, each weak.
We collect lor advertising the first
of every month.
PAUL S. ROBINSON.
E ditor and O wner .
"!
Issued Every Friday.
~~
The Original Home Paper, Standing
$2.00 Per Year.
for Progress, Fair Play, Home Pat
ronage, Law Enforcement, Good
Entered as second-class matter August Schools and The Hoose Beautiful.
4, 1922, at the poet office at Ver
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
of March 3. 1879.
All Accounts Mutt Ba Settled in Full
Every 30 Days
Editorial
THEY’RE ONLY JOKING
’S nothing unusual around Vernonia to hear some
I hear T one
wishing for “the good old days,” and we never
them but we wonder how long they would put up
with the discomforts suffered by their grandfathers with
out raising a huge and cry for the things they now enjoy
Scarcely 50 years ago residents of this section had
mighty little in the way of comforts and conveniences. To
day they have labor-saving devises never dreamed of
then; they have the radio, the telephone and the tele
graph to keep them in touch with the outside world; they
have railroad trains, autos and airplanes instead of slow-
going farm wgons nd buggies; they have music and pict
ures and books and newspapers enough to bring enjoy
ment every leisure moment of their lives. And, above ail,
they have greater medical science, to relieve pain and
prolong life, with modern doctors mastering and curing
diseases that were once considered certain death if con
tracted.
This thing of lookin backward, or wishing for “the
good old days” is just a form of sentiment and the man or
woman thus expdessing themselves wouldn’t be happy
for an hour if they should suddenly be robbed of the com
forts and conveniencesthe y now have. Stop and think
of the blessings you now’ enjoy and you’ll be heartly glad
that you were bom late T hese are the “best days” the
humane race has ever known, no matter how many pe >ple
may wish for “the good old days,” and all argument to
the contrary wouldn’t shake us in that belief for a single
second.
won’t hurt them” and of ignorance being bliss. There is
but one New York, and of course the United States is
glad to possess that one. It gives us some place to point
to when we want to compare community blessings. But
after the comparison has been made we of the smaller
cities and towns, something like 105,000,000 of us 'pre
fer not to live in New York.
OLUMBIA County School Teachers and school pst-
vx rons regret that Co. School SuprentendentJ^gj^th
Perry has resigned. Miss Perry has accepted
the state Normal College at Monmouth. T
Court will appoint a new Superentendent, a all will
end well.
ANOTHER MIRACLE
is one of the really good cities Prei,an^
M EDFORD
it’s citizens are rustlers and very ambitioyA; Bui Mefl*
ford has so many fine attractions that it necJ not try to
NOTHER record smashed, an automobile driven claim the only route to Crater Lake. The f^’hs Valley
from Los Angeles to New York- a distance of3960
miles, withou the engine stopping or tht wheels being route from Gold Hill cuts off 15 miles and th* road is
permitted to quit turning. First we had the coast-tocoast good^ondition—Go^ne^ way and back the other* —•
nonstop airplane flight, then the coast-to-coast dawn to
darkness flight, and now the coast-to-coast non-stop auto
run has been accomplishtd. It leads the thinking citizens
CRAWFORD MOTOR Clk
of Vernonia to wonder what will come next in the way
of modern miracles, and to ask if the old world isn’t mov
LINCOLN—FORD—FORDSON
ing a little faster than it is safe for one generation to go.
You can now buy your Ford on the 18 months
We’ve crossed the continent now in about tvery way im
payment plan
aginable and yet this is such a restless age that we need
Payments as low as $21.88 a month
not be surprised any day to hear of other and far more
o—o—o
daring stunts than have yet betn attempted. If the nexti
Gasoline,
Oil,
Storage}
Tires and Accessories
generation works out as many miraculous things as thisi
o
—
o
—
o
one has, what’s this old world going to resemble about
Battery
Service
Ambulance
for Towing
a hundred years from now’.
Phone 612
A
ENLARGE THE ASYLUMS
HE insane asylumns wall soon be full of murderers in
T
stead of insane patients. The crazy people can run the
streets—and there are lots of “nuts" at large. The new
crop that is attracting attention by their idiotic appear
ance is confined to the masculine sex and is a late addit
ion to the vasoline headed schiek that imagines he is
handsome in the “new oxford pants” or the “bags" as
they are known. The late ones measure 36 inches around
the bottom and would look better if worn by the modem
girl as a skirt. The poor boys are indeed pitiful looking
and how they must suffer when running at large unpro
tected. Some big hearted polieceman- out of charity,
should shoot them to put them out of their misery, or a
job in the harvest fields to guide their minds in a more
sound channel.
ANY Vernonia people, personal acquaintances of his
M
rejoiced to learn that E. I. Ballagh of St. Helens has
been appointed Master Fish Warden. The honor was be
stowed on Mr. Ballagh without any solicitation on his
part, and no mean part of the appointment is the fact
that it carries a $3600 yearly salary. We are glad of it.
V ERNONIA citizens will be interested in knowing
*
that weather conditions in all parts of the country, Oregon is fortunate in securing the man with 25 years
although abnormal this summer- have been such that on experience in the fish business.
the whole all kinds of crops are yielding more bountifu
lly than the government predicted early in the spring.
With but two exceptions, this will be the biggest corn
year in the history of the nation. Winter wheat has suf
fered, but spring wheat is fine. This year’s wheat crop is
short of 1924 but better prices are being advised to hold
as long as possible so as to cash in on another rise, which
seems almost sure to come.
Potato growing states report smaller crops than usua1
due to reduced acreage. But here, again, prices will make
up for the shortage. It seems to have been an off-year
for fruit crops, though some sections report better than
an average .
In his latest report Uncle Sam shows the per capita
production on American farms last year was $266. In oth
er words, enough food was produced and sold to mean
$266 for each farm, big and little. This is ahead of 1923,
and this year promises to average still higher. The rail
roads report record-breaking car loadings, more cars are
being used to move crops than at any simliar timein the
history of the country. In fact, all indications point to a
prosperous year for those who raise our food-stuffs and,
with unemployment conditions growing rapidly better-
the remainder f the year ought to see the entire country
enjoying a pretty fair measure of prosperity.
t __
‘
BETTER PROSPECTS
WORK AND BE HAPPY
OST people yearn for the day when they have ac
M
quired enough of this w’orld’s goods so they may
live in ease and do just w’hat they wish. Then when they
succeed, the fortunate ones finds that they would rather
be at work, that they are only happy performing the tasks
to which they have been accustomed. Take, for instance
Lester Norris, W’ho has been earning his living by draw
ing for a newspaper. Recently he married a Chicago heir
ess worth many millions, the richest girl in Ccicago. She
has more than enough for the two to spend the remainder
of their days writhout a lick of work. But Norris doesn’t
want it that way. The honeymoon is over and he has
bought a small newspaper in Illinois, so he can draw pict
ures for it ,and have something to occupy his time and
keep him busy. And if we know anything about it, he
certainly picked on a job that won’t give him very muoh
time for loafing.
WE’RE SATISFIED
EW York City has just taken a census of her pop
N
ulation, and it shows a toital of 6,103-384, of more
people than can be counted in Chicago, Philadelphia,
Boston and San Francisco combined. No other city now
approaches it in population and, to tell the truth, no oth
er city appears to be sorry along that line. New Yorkers
are happy, even though their happiness comes largely
through igonrance of the blessings that they could en
joy if they lived in smaller cities, or even in towns the
size of Vernonia. It is a case of “what they don’t know
*
C”T-C’s guarantee
creates a furore!
A new C-T*C Cord free if it
fails to outrun any other make
"^ATURALLY motorists are talking
about such a remarkable offer —
and we’ve put on a lot of new C-T-C
Cords since it was announced!
There are no strings to this offer ■— it
costs nothing extra. So certain are the
makers of C-T-C Cords, that their hand-
added mileage,
built construction gives
|_
e us
that they authorize
__ to issue a num-
You simply put* a
bered certificate.
I or
C-T-C on the wheel
_ wheels opposite
any other make of tire.
Come in and see us about it today I
GILBY MOTOR CO.
Vernonia, Oregon
YOU
CAN
a F f O°RD
A
FORD
z
BUY TIRES NOW!
INDICATIONS POINT TO STILL
ANOTHER BOOST
*
•
•
4
A serious shortage of rubber on i<he world’s
market and the impossibility of quick in
crease in rubber production has\ forced
tire makers to set new and higher^ prices
for the fourth time this year.
' \
And another increase is now being predic
ted.
•
♦
♦
♦
BETTER ACT NOW!
It is to your advantage to buy tires now,
even though you may not need them until
later. We will do the square thing by you
and sell you only tires that give more miles
per dollar.
VERNONIA BRAZING & MACHINE WORKS
sweet
and
punt
•f leaf lard and
Roue Lard m re
ly this popular
good, old-fash*
'.fr
x