VERNONIA EAGLE
A New Hou— a
VERNONIA EAGLE
On Inland Highway
Advertising Rates 25c la per inch,
single column measure, each week.
We collect tor advertising the first
of every month.
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A NEW EXPERIMENT
be a criminal and to be hunted is the worat of all
T O mental
strains. When Kelley was captured
Q INCE the price of rubber tires started soaring a few Urday’ his first worda were: “Thank God.”
months ago, due to England’s control of the crude'
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PAUL S. RJBINSON,
rubber market and her desire to do a little job of bandi-| Q ATURDAY night in Vernonia resembled a street
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simply because
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ists of this country have been doing some rapid expert-
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Issued Every Friday.
cpert-1
The Original Home Paper, **rrA1sg
menting. We learn that as a result they are now o: •f the T HE radio will prove its worth as a convenience at
$2.00 Per Year.
for Progress, Fair Play, Heme PM*
least on the night of September Seven. Vice-Presi
opinion
that a composition
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iposition similar to rubbt.,
rubber, «»d
and bciy
service-j
ronage.
Law
Enforcement, Coed
dent
Dawes is to speak in Portland. The public audi
able
for
auto
tires-
can
be
produced
from
ordinary
field
i-
Entered «« aecond-clasa matter August Schools and The Home Beaatifei.
4, 1922, at the post office at Ver
torium
will only hold a small per cent of the people wish
com. The experiment has not gone far enough to be re
nonia, Oregon, under the Act
Ail Accounts Must Bo Settled ia Fall ported as a complete success, but it looks good as far as ing to hear him, but through “K.G.W.” you can hew
of March 3. 1879.
Every 30 Daye
m
it has gone. Germany used a composition made
from him in your own home if you “tune in.”
grains when the war shut her off from her rubber supply
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—and she met with considerable success. So it may be
ACH of the Portland papers was “first with Convict
that Uncle Sam can yet break away from the clutches of
news,” relating to the capture of the three escaped
Great Britain and her Congro Free States rubber mono convicts—according to the report of each paper.
poly; it may be, after all, that the vast cornfields of the
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THE “PORE” BAKERIES.
west will solve what is today one of the most serious of
NOTHER week of vacation for the Vernonia school
all our problems.
pupils. The world seems to be more contented and
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From the Rainier Review.
affairs more steady and reliable during the months that
HE editor of the Review will become a convert to the
AFTER THE QUACKS
schools are in session.
evolution idea if certain individuals continue to shed
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The news of your home town and
ABOUT MULES.
crocodile tears because the Portland bakeries have been C* VERY citizen of \ ernonia has been told by his family
county, the coniings and going», the
On mule« we find
tuck for $120 a year each for the privilege of-selling Lu physician at some time or another that the medical
activities and doing« of your friend«
Two legs behind
bread and cookies in Rainier. These “weepers” might fraternity does not believe in advertising. In fact, the]
and neighbor« are chronicle.1 briefly*
And two we find
chip in and pay the license for the Portland concerns if medical profession has held out against newspaper publi-,
und interestingly in the homo paper.
Before. '•
they have their real interest at heart. Too much! too city longer than any other class. But the break has come.}
The Engle is always pleased to rt-
We stand behind
ceive item« of new« front ill readers.
much! yell the friends of the outside institutions. Not at Texas medical men have endorsed clean, dignified news
Before we find
, The contribution« add Rroatly to
What the twe behind
all. What is $10 a month to those big concerns who are paper publicity—in fact, they have expressed the belief
make the paper intereating io a con-
Be for.
htuntly growing number.
trying to and have succeeded in annexing the business of that it must be resort'd to if the growing army of quacks
practically all the small towns around Portland? Incident is eliminated, and the health of the American people more
ally, Portland might have more friends in the country carefully preserved. They know that almost every man
and woman in America is a newspaper reader—and that
about her if she (lid not hog and bulldoze everything.
Yes, those “pore” bakeries are to be pitied. Drop a they generally believe what they read. So they are going
crocodile tear on the bosom of the driver—it will make to talk to them, instead of staying closed up like a lot of
clams, in an effort t ooffset the growing sales of “quack”,
him feel better anyway.
What is $10 a month? Is it anything near what the preparations. And the step to be taken in Texas will soon'
Rainier bakery is paying for rent? Ask Joe Bourne, he we venture to say, be followed in every other state in the
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knows. Is it anything like the electric bill the Rainier union.
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bakery pays? Ask the Puget Sound Power & Light com
INDICATIONS POINT TO STILL
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pany, they know. Is it anything like the wages the local
NEW COMMANDMENTS.
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bakery is paying for his head baker? Ask Geo. Shaber,
ANOTHER BOOST
the proprietor, he knows. Indeed, it is hardly the amount
E want the Vernonia people to tick to the original
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the Rainier bakery spends for advertising in the Review.
ten commandments, but here are a new ten now go
Oh, $10 a month—it’s a big sum, especially whne it ing the rounds of the presq that you can also observe with
A serious shortage of rubber on the world’s
has to come from our friends who drive in from Portland profit:
market
and the impossibility of quick in
in great flock every morning, some of them too early for
1—Honor thy town and keep its sanitary laws.
crease
in
rubber production has forced
the marshal to get them.
2—Remember thv house-cleaning days and keep them
tire
makers
to set new and higher prices
God bless you, the Rainier bakery pay sover $8 a month
holy.
for the fourth time this year.
in local taxes. Let a Portland bread wagon exhibit a Col
3—Love thy children and provide for them decent'
And another increase is now being predic
umbia county tax receipt if it can.
schoolrooms.
ted.
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4— Thou shalt not keep in disorder thy alley, yard or
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street.
BACK TO BOOKS
5—Thou shalt not endanger thy neighbor’s helath by
BETTER ACT NOW!
disease-breeding weeds or filth.
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SK any Vernonia boy which of the twelve months in
6— Thou shalt not let the deadly house-fly live.
It is to your advantage to buy tires now,
the year he would be willing to eliminate and he
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—Thou shalt not steal thy children’s happiness
will answer “August.” and when you ask him why the
even though you may not need them until
from them by neglecting their health.
chances are, he will explain that August only brings him
later. We will do the square thing by you
8—Thou shalt not bear false i umor and gossip in thy
around to September—and September brings school.
and sell you only tires that give more miles
neighborhood.
Yet somehow we can’t help feeling that the old dread
per dollar.
9—Thou shalt keep fresh air in thy house by day and
of school that once hovered over some of us like a night
by night.
mare, has disappeared.
We believe new methods of
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Thou shalt not spit on the sidewalk, nor on the
teachings- new foims of recreation during the leisure
floor,
nor in any public place whatsoever.
moments and, perhaps, more interesting text-books, have
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all served to make school attendance far more popular
and pleasant now than it was in earlier times. There isn’t
WELL KNOWN EDITOR CALLS
tne grind to the “three R’s” there fas when we were
young, and neither does the inclination to “play nookey”
ON. Fred C. Baker- of Tillamook, visited at the Eagle
appear as strong in the present generation. .
office and at the Robinson home last Saturday.
Teaching children thrift and what it means to be able
Fred C. Baker is one of the best known and most fre
to take a good position in the world at the close of their quently mentioned characters at the State Editorial
school days has had much to do with taking the sting out association meetings. For many years he was owner and
of school attendance. Examples of success are more num editor of the Tillamook Headlight. Mr. Baker is progres
erous than in days when opportunities were not so great. sive, a builder, a booster. He has served for some time as
So, all in all, the return of September and school days their Commercial Club secretary, has headed the famed
doesn’t mean as much grief among the youth of the land Tillamook Chees association, has been at the helm and
as it once did. And it means still greater things for the instrumental in all progressive moves of the city on the
world when those now of school age come on to take Bay. Tillamook owes much to Fred C. Baker and Tilla
charge of things.
mook acknowledges the fact. He was agreeably surprised
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at Vernonia and its growth and spoke very encouraging
for our future.
“HERE TODAY—GONE TOMORROW”
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OUSE-TO-HOUSE canvassing, or front-gate merchan
OROTHY Ellingson, seventeen year old “gad about,
dising as some have seen fit to call it, is growing to
loafer, dance crazed fiapper and modem girl,” will
be a serious problem all over the country, so much so, in spend a few years in ease with all the necessities of life
fact, that merchant? in many sections have found it nec provided free of charge. She will, in addition, receive
essary to co-operate in an effort to stamp it out.
many gifts from sympathatic friends and, on good be
More and more producers of kitchen utensils, toilet havior, will be released in a short time, giving her prob
preparatins- hosiery and other articles of clothing are ably an opportunity to “enter the movies.” All this is her It may be taid that everything totteg good when
pushing their wares through itinerant merchandise solici reward for simply killing her mother. The killing only •egt it added to appetite by the teem of the woods
tors—ordinary peddlers, as we called them before they took a short time and was easily accomplished by shooting or the tang of the tea-hut even then the outing
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coine dthe won! “solicitor.” Today, it is said by those
party will vote the tandwichet “extra good** when
who have gone carefully into the problem, forty per cent
E all advocate “free speech” and “free press,” abso made from baked “Frydt Delicious” Ham,
of househould furnishing sales in sme localities are door-
lutely- but doubts, or rather, disgust, is registered
yard trades.
And then when the party cornea
every Sunday when readers glance at the “feature sec
home there io the remainder of the
THI FRY1 LA—L
We feel that we cannot insist too strongly or too often tions” of the daily papers. What a waste of high priced
■ame Fry«'« "DeHciou.” H—i in the
upon citizens of Vernonia giving this matter serious paper. The influence of the daily press can sway the
cooler to provide acrumptioua slices
thought. The out-of-town concern selling by peddler and universe. These silly and vulgar illustrated “feature”
for the final repeat of the day—when
delivering by parcels post does not protect the customer page and some “movies” help to answer the question:
the exertion of the outing leave«
either in price or quality and his “guarantees” and mean “What’s the matter with the world.”
little inclination to prepare another
ingless. The price argument is not sound, because the
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agent’s commission ofeen exceeds the total mark-up of
N Englishman and an Irishman lived in a coast town
the local dealer. The out-of-town dealer does not con
and both owned boats. One day the Englishman de
tribute to the taxes of the county or the twn. The firm the cided to christen his, and on the stem painted: “Henry
solicitor represents has never done anything to help build the Eighth.”
up this community, and to make a sale the solicitor, or
“An’ wot the divvle will I name mine?” mused the
{•eddied, attacks our entire system of home co-operation, Irishman. Rejecting the suggestion of the others that he
f goods are not as represented by him there is no chance call his “George the Fifth,” he became suddenly inspired
of a personal appeal for justice. In other words, he is here got out brush and paint and inscribed the legend:
today and gone tomorrow. Dismiss the next canvasser with
“March th’ Seventeenth.”—American Legion weekly.
a smile—and tell him that you believe in buying what you
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need from your friends right here at home.
We will soon be thinking of Christmas shopping.
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