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VERNONIA EAGLE
Issued Every Friday
$2 per year in Advance
Entered as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
Act of March 3, 1879
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Paul Robinson, .
Editor and Owner
told to say : “Clean up your own dirty back yards.” But
no, the Eagle editor is not so inclined. We prefere, with
die most earnest motive, to say to our neighbors ami
friends. “Come over and visit us.” You will find a mod
em little city here, gentlemen; vastly improved and dif
ferent from the little Vernonia of former months. You
will find here, gentlemen, a city of nearly’ 3000 people,
workers, nome owners, busy people. A city of th’» size,
growing daily, has people in its midst that you or I prob
ably would not care to associate with. It isn’t necessary
that we do associate with them. No more of the undesir
ables here than in other cities of this size,however. You
will find here a clean-city in many respects. You will find
here also bootleggers, p^issibly a few degenerates, loafers
or would-be mashers, possibly some fallen women
You
have them in your towns also in accordance with your
population. Vernonia would appreciate being one hun
dred percent clean morally, but that is hardly to be ex
pected. Many in Vernonia would appreciate having a city
of one hundred per cent white Americans. But that is
nardly to be expected. The good Vernonia citizens do!
not uphold fights, drunks, or disorderly conduct. The
people of Vernonia really wouid prefere all white men at
ner big mill, but Vernonia isn’t operating that mill. Tak
ing an average, Vernonia is doing very well, than): you.
and we repeat, “Come over, Gentlemen,” and you will
agree with us. You havn’t heard the S. O. S. from Ver 6
nonia yet, so please “Hold Your Horses.”
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WANTED—MORE PEOPLE
Score one for the League of Nations.
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Let Oregon continue to ’’Produce the Goods” and
Florida can have the Real Estate Agents
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Didn’t see a picture of any Vernonia notables standing
in front of the electrical ‘‘Groo Home” in Portland.
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There was so little to cause eye-strain in the old days
that it is a wonder the occulists didn’t all starve to death.
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Looks like they were going to get a tunnel some day, T HERE is something lacking, something unattended to,!
under Council Crest into Portland. Now if they will grease * some unfinished business to be attended to in Ver-'
it and build it on a down hill slant, there will be no turn < uonia. Vernonia’s j reatest and crying need is being sadly1
ing off or backing out. Everybody will land in Portland. . neglected. A leader is wanted; a live commercial body is
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I necessary, cooperation is essential. To start this tale of
Seem to be having a hard time getting rid of a Mr. woe, let us relate the horable facts that from one to a doz
Kratz, as City Manage! of Astoria. Don’t know what they en letter? are Received eveiy day from prospective settlers
want to get rid of him for. or who wants to get rid of him. — farms -asking about Vernonia. These letters are un
answered. Again, last week a party of five Hollanders
Every week the Astoria papers are full of Kratz.
were
in Venionia looking for farm land on which to start
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or
establish
a daily. No one looked after them, no one
Frederick Steiwer, you have seen the name in print
several times of late. You nave read that he might be a seemed to care and some street stander told them this was
candidate for Senator. But who is it over here that knows not a daily country. The shame of it. Vernonia does not
who Steiwer is? What did lie do aod where did ne come need any more stores. We have plenty. But Vernonia
needs and needs barly, mere people. We need fa'iners,
from?
chicken
raisers, dairies. No b.tter place on this globe for
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Seen Art Steel’s new printing office building Sunday. chickens than right hete in and around Vernonia. No
Editor Steel of the Clatskanie Chief is the prosperous pen better daily land or climate in the world than right here.
pusher, whose woik is appreciated at home and whose I No better fruit county on earth than in and around Ver
busm^e permits him having an up-to-date and modem of-, nonia. What few “Milk Men” or dairies we have con not
begin to supply the ocal demand with milk alore to sayi
five. Mr. Steel has made good in Clatskanie.
nothing of the butter local market Hundreds and hun
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. another Columb
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Rainier
county city that is building; dreds of dollars go to outside points every month for eggs
fast and has a very bright future, a lasting, perminant city» that should be kept witn local Nehalem valley chicken
of busy business houses an 1 pretty homes. When the raisers. At lea>t five-hundred dollars go out each month
Rainier-Longview i idge is constructed, Rainiei will be for butter—do we need a creamery’? We sure do. More
the largest city in the county. She is headed that way now. people are needed; more farmers and fruit growers. This
is a vital subject worth thousands of dollars to tht coni-;
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Of course there will be a few coming from CaVfomia munitv; a subject that other towns spend thousands of
through Astoria on the Roosevelt highway who will con dollars on each year. Other towns reap the returns in re’ll I
tinue to Rainier and cross the new bridge there, going on cash. Consumers; why not go afte nioie of then, iur Vd
to Seattle without visiting or spending a dollar in Port-i nonia. Where is there a better opportunity for the land
land. That
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d. It could be avoided to a geeat seeker. It is about time Vernonia was waking up. And
extent, however, h the ..nland highway was completed looking tow ai d the future as well as the present.
from Astoria to Portland by the way of Vernonia.
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It was an appreciative and encouraging Halloween mes
sage some Venionia men. who are interested, re reived
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from southern Oregon, saying the Kelmar-Vanpet drilling
had struck high paying free gold. The success of a bro
ther townsman is always baled with delight by the com
munity. The mining industry of the Gold Hill district is
QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED
now coming to the fore at a rapid rate.
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The Fifteenth Annual Pacific International Livestock
A Vernonia Institution, Modem in Every Respect
Exhibition is on full blast, in Portland Visitors report it
bigger and better than ever. Oregon has a great show,
WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER
America has ? gieat show in this exhibitions. It is a Live
Quick Service—Watch for Our Car
stock World’s Fair. It has grown in fifteen years to be the
best of its kind ir. America. The Horse Show, in connec
tion, is world famed and draws the best and most famous
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breeds in the countiy.
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1926 u ill be the best year that Oregon and the North
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Words of praise and favorable comment is often r»e&. J
The only razor tha* strop.; its own blades auto
from returned visitors to the city of Longview, Wash.
matically. This special lasts for eleven days only.
After a visit to that city one readily sees that much of the
Now
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enthusiasm and splendid (»pinions is received from the
first impression the visitoi gets in viewing such a clean
What you get
Oregonian.
city. No trash is visable; streets as neat and ciean as a
kitchen floor. It is generally the first impression that
r?aor (Gold Plated)
Oregon Journal
counts and that is 1;;* ting. Longview knows this and sees
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Telegram
to it that their pavement is absolutely clean, it« K’c-L?
clean, it’s alleys, lawns, walks and all surrounding neat
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’ It has been suggested to the Eagle editor that he ask a
couple county editors, who have recently seen.it their
“duty” to condemn some things in Vernonia, not to their
liking. “What i> it yo; ■ business?” and we have been
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We call and deliver TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS.
Leave orders at the Columbia Barber Shop.
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By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, Univeraity of
Illinois.
RS. GIDDINGS »11 rnlng away
M for • visit to her mother for two
or three week» out tn Kanns« and wna
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leaving Joe. her husband, to take rare
of himself. This was the first time
she had left hltn during the twent' -
five years that they had been married,
nnd she was a good deal eoocarned
a* to how he womd get on. She bad
always looked after him and her own
household affairs, and aha was con
vinced that If «he were not In charge
the entire mennge would go upon the
rocks
It was only the fact that her
mother was seriously III and neede’d
Il • r >.:n- that Induced her to leave
I I • ■ »■• a,. in<| n«>r husband for so long
In ti-
»»•it «he had a reliable mtlJ.
;.od U.v’u untten out specific direc
tions for the guidance of her bus
hand1« movements with regard to his
meals and hla clothing and 11« eat
and tlie canary, nnd she thought that
things could be allowed to di ft for
two weeks without serious dl vaster
She knew, however, that she'd 1« ter
ribly missed.
Her stay wss prolonged to a month,
and when she finally got awny and
started hack home It was with the
feeling that she would find the hon»--
a mens and her husband mehiucbol'
and unkempt from lack of attention.
She came In on him unexpectedly
The houae seemed In as perfect order
as when she left It. nnd Joe wna just *
going In to dinner, «lean shaven, bls
clothes carefully groomed, and the
table set with all her beet thia«-
Whoever had ordered the dinner bad
shown good Judgment
Mrs. Giddings was disappointed; Bt>-»
was almost on the verge of toau
She had expected to find -household
affairs all topsy-turvy, and apparently
they had gone as smoothly during her
absence as when she had the steering
wheel In her hands. It was annoytn,.
to say the least.
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“Didn’t you miss me at aUT ahe
asked Joe.
“Oh, yea. of course," he aaM; “h”’
Katy and 1 got on very well. In fitet.
I gave n dinner party to half a doaen
of our frlenda while you were away
You «co a man has to do something
to entertain himself."
She had supposed she was abeo-
lutely essential to the running of the
house. nnC «he found that things bad
I been running a« «moothly during her
!>ari>cc ns when she had been an th>
Job. It was humiliating: H took ttu
conceit out of her.
Nobody la lndis(>enaabie—not etna a
baseball player, or a college praeMsni It.
"T the king of England. Yon may bo
doing your Job well with the tbonght
that there 1« no one quite like yon in
the world, Imt If yon die things will
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go <>n Just the same. It any take sU
,0 do
work that you have
been doing, but they will be waiting
to step into your ahoee ag seen as the
funeral la over. If we can only add
•n Idea to the world’s Steck of
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Nlg<- or do our Job a little
dently than it has been d
wo have made It pneelblo
go on better rather
wo are gone.
(A UM. Wsstsra N
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