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VERNONIA
Issued Every’ Friday
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Miffett Little City in Oregon
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VERNONIA EAGLE
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large fat men of fifty being young again in knickers. Hilt
one is not surprised to see anything these days. We saw
a lady fishing recently. She wore blue overalls and sus
penders. We could forgive the overalls but not the suspen
ders. W’e thing she should have taken a sporting chance
and left off the suspenders.
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HITCH ON, PULL AND PUSH
YflLOW PENCIL
■««/A tha
RED BAND
$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
you ever hear of a farmer buying a binder, and then
D D finding
fault with the dealer because it didn’t go out
and cut his wheat? No. He hitches on to his binder, and
guides and directs it, and the job is done.
It is just so with your cooperative organization. It will
Editor and Owner serve you just so far as you hitch on t oit and give it the
Paul Robinson,
benefit of your thought and co-operation. The amount of
personal interest that the farmer gives the co-operative
organization to which he belongs will be the measure of
the benefits which the organization will render to agricul
ture.
Grocers and dry goods merchants have to pay for a lot
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of automobiles they don’t own.
GIVE HOME MERCHANT A CHANCE
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The groom at the wedding, like an automobile engine,
OMMUNITIES grow only in proportion to the support
is unseen but very necessary to make the thing go.
they receive from the people w’ho make up the com
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munity. Vernonia has no chance to improve in quality
Twenty-seven years have elapsed since the Spanish and size by the inhabitants investing their money or buy
American war.
ing the necessities of life in other localities. People’who
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cling to the misguided policy of “doing better” away
It is not too early to start mailing Christmas present* from home often lose dollars in trying to save pennies.
. The home merchant is honest and offers honest values.
bound for distant points.
He can’t afford to be otherwise, though he might be in
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clined
to. He depends for his living from the community
And, it may be, the next U. S. Senator from Oregon
which
he
serves and he must give the community what it'
hasn’t been named yet.
wants
at
a
fair price.
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When you are tempted to trade outside and buy some
It is easy often to condemn actions of the younger set.
thing
“just as good” at lower prices you should think
but let’s remark that the actions of some parents are more
twice
before acting. If you are disappointed in merchan
disgraceful at times.
dise
bought
at home, you ca nalways get an adjustment.
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The merchant himself may have been cheated and he is
Oregonians have much to be thankful for. The climate, generally willing to take the loss rather than have a dis
their health, their wealth, their resources and the rain satisfied customer. But the out of town merchant is not
that makes so much possible.
personally interested in you. His only hope is to sell you
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perconally interested in you. His only hope is to sell you
Did you know that more than two thousand meeting are once and he does not have to take precautions to preserve
held every week in the U. S., at which a plot against youi your good w ill.
life, property, family and government is being hatched?
More than owing it to your community to trade at home
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thus keeping your money in circulation at home you
Every automobile seller claims to feature the bigges; should give the home merchant the first opportunity to
feature of his particular car, but the biggest feature in any, serve you, from a sound economic viewpoint.
cars is its depreciation, which no seller seems to mention.
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FLORIDA BOOM CONTINUES
Perhaps this generation doesn’t know much about the
constitution of the United States because it has to devote I H. SIMON of Fem Hill got off the train Tuesday
all its time to studying the tiaffic rules.
J* morning on his way home from Orlando, Floriada,
w’here he went last November. Mr. Simon is mightily
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If you get down to work regularly after eight o’clock in glad to get back to Oregon after a year spent in “the Land
the morning, you are eithei a capitalist or else you have* of Flowers.”
“I was tired living on tin cans,” said Mr. Simon, “for
made up your mind that you never expect to be?
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that is all we have dow’n there.” Produce grow’n in Flori
They who never felt a wound jest at scars, likewise da is not fit to eat, avers Mr. Simon. Lettuce is as tough
those who talk most glibly about the fanner’s problems as dry cabbage leaves and pota*
cannot he
’ e*
and panaceas where never on a farm.
» all. Everything has to be shipped in in tin cans. Even
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flour must be kept in a sealed receptacle to keep insects
Veincn> c"
..eeds a creamery. Such an institu and worms from pitting into it.
tion if established, would soon be a money making prop*
Poison snakes ai^o came in for a pail of Mr. Simon’s
; osition. We are losing new settlei-s every week for the objection to the boom section.
lack of one.
Mr. Simon further says that prices are so high that one
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cr.nr.^t
due to the big boom now on and the great
i-ush
to
mat
section from all pai is of the United States.
The annual Red Cross drive is on. This is probably th-i
“
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couldn
’t live there, so I came home,” Mr. Simon
most worthy of all national institutions for good. Gr_?.
said
in
conclusion.
—Rainier Review.
the Red Cross solicitor with a smile and a dollar—it is
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=’• indeed money well parted with.
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THE BETTER CITY
There is always fear of low wages or a desire for higher
wages. How would our mill men of Oregon enjoy living
'iE encouaiging thing about American life is the in
in New' Mexico where an Alberquerque saw mill is paying
tense local patriotism of most citizens. Nearly every
$1.25 and $1.50 per day for ten hours work.
¡nan you meet is always ready to defend his home city or1
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town, r and on occasion to do all _________
he can to make it a better'
Another Thanksgiving day will soon be here. Time goes' - place.
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at such speed we hardly realize the holidays are upon us
Too often, however, w’e fail to have a good understand
This year with the radio, auto, jazzo and boozo, it will be ing of just what it takes to make a city a better place. Be-|
hard for some to stop long enough to decide what to do cause it isn’t simply a matter of getting more population/
. to be thankful for.
more facories, a new railroad or a deeper harbor.
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It is something deeper—something that depends on the
,
The Tillamook Headlight, always a good newspaper in individual heart and conscience of the individual citizen.
r a good county, is going to be improved and is going to It can’t be expressed in dollars or steel—few really worth
do more and better things for the “Land of Cheese.” Our while things can; but it makes the difference between a
prediction is well founded from the fact that A. L. Mal- city that is winning to i itcllectual and moral development
•- lery is the new editor and publisher. We know’ Mallery; and one that isn’t—Astoria Budget.
he is the president of the Oregon State Editorial associa
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tion, and one of the real sound w eekly paper editors of COME IN AND SEE THE LATEST SAMPLES OF
the West. Success to him.
CHRISTMAS CARDS NOW IN STOCK. YOUR
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ORDERS WILL BE GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION.
Balked by politics, revolutions and anti-investment
laws in Central America, Mexico and the Philiy xr'",
■ Harvey Firestone, the Akron, O., rubber manulacvt. I
will establish a rubber plantation in friendly Liberia
which, it is expected, will ultimately grow hnlf the
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world’s rubber. This is the American answer to British
. rubber restrictions on output which is costing American]
QUALITY WORK GUARANTEED
lubber users a billion dollars a year. The project is ex-!
pected to give employment to 300,000 Liberians now idle.
Ther ewill be model towns, railroads, harbors and high
A Vernonia Institution, Modem in Every Respect
ways. This gigantic undertaking calls for an investí • t
of $100,000,000.
WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER
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Quick Service—Watch for Our Car
STYLES HAVE CHANGED
STATE LAUNDRY CO.
For Good Laundry Work
We call and deliver TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS.
Leave orders at the Columbia Barber Shop.
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C
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CRAWFORD MOTOR CO.
LINCOLN—FORD— FORDSON
You can now buy your Ford on the 18 months
payment plan
Payments as low as $21.88 a month
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Gasoline, Oil, Storage, Tires and Accessories
Battery Service
Ambulance for Towing
Phone 612
YOU
AFFORD
CAN
note youngsters apparently not over four years old in T long I TRADE AND WANT QUICK RESULTS, PLACE AN
trousers just like their fethers used to wear and we ‘ see I
AD IN OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMNS
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COLUMBIA COUNTY AT THE
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STOCK SHOW
Where
fireplaces
dont reach
your*-
eater
Pearl Oil in a port
able oil heater is an
auxiliary to the fire
place and furnace, and
of many daily uses —
warmth to dress by,
bathe, or dine, etc.
Pearl Oil is the highest-
grade kerosene only—re
fined and re-refined by the
Standard Oil Company’s
special process. Clean burn
ing— no oily odor—and it
wont corr«>de the heater I
Ask for Pearl Oil by name!
STA'DAXD Oil. COMPANY
(C.Uimma)
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That Columbia county had th«
finest exhibit of any county in th«
state nt the Pacific International
stock show helj ■* Portland last
week was generally conceded. Th«
exhibit wax the work of County
Agent Geo. A. Nelson and .Miss Min
nie HeimuUer of Scappooa" and was
the pride of all Columbia county peo
ple who had the pleasure of attend
ing the show.
The exhibit was artistically «r-
CUNTY EXHIBIT CON | ... | I .
ing an arch for a background Ar
ranged with graine and grasses form-
ned fruit and vegetable». the work
of Mina Heimuller, extended th« en
tire distance across the exhibit.
There were 60 jar» of canned fruits
and vegetables all of which except
, the com, were grown on the H«i-
itslkr farm a mile back of $cap-
;>oose.
The background was composed of
grass, red and white clover, vetch,
timothy, rye grass, orchard graia,
mille nnd cheat.
A large amount of Clatskanie
cheese was in evidence, as was also
Rainier butter, th« product of th«
Rainier creamery, and St Helen«
butter, the product of the St. Hel
ens creamery. Milk in bottle» from
the Boesel farm of Warren, and
eggs from the Chilberg ranch, alto
of Warren. A generous exhibit of
broccoli from a Jap gardener near
Clatskanie formed a part of th« gar
den display. Than Brown of Yank
ton, always an exhibitor, had pota
toes, com and artichokes on display
There were mangel wurtxels beets
from Troxal brothers farm near De*
Island, and Paul Adame of Warren
bad squashes on exhibition.
Dr. Blatchford of Scappoose had
3R trays of apples and pears, artis
tically arranged, which went a long
way in adding to the attractiveness
of the exhibit. The doctor also had
filberts, and there were walnuts
from the Grant Lynch farm.
The honey men wore not absent
for there were displays from A.
Mortensen of Clatskanie, K. D. Ba
ker of Goble and also from the Mil
ler farm of Seappooee.—Review.
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The Eagle recently added 600
* il scrihers. Certainly a “Shoppers
] Guide" worth while. Read Eagle ads
’•efore buying for Christmas.
Time now to prepara Christmas Ad
copy, jf you Wii] haVe any Christmas
| offerings to submit to 3000 Eagle
j readers.
VERNONIA STEAM LAUNDRY
to the latest approved styles, little boy3 LLLJ,--L—- — ' — - ■-—'——-
A CCORDING
wear long pants and big boys wear short pants. We J IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SELL. RENT OR
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