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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1925)
BiffgttLIttk City In Oregon VERNONIA EAGLE ONE CORNER OF VERNONIA grown by leaps and bounds. A big wagon load of . arrives daily. Postmaster Messing, who has been post master for the past few years, was crowded out or the former small building, and erected the present postal home which is better able to handle the big business. Two clerks and several substitutes assist in the daily task. STATE LAUNDRY CO For Good Laundry Work. Cascade Locks—Contract let for ADEQUATE PROOF We call and deliver TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS. new school building, to cost $15,983. --------- 4---------- Isn’t it funny. A ruse is a blind, a Leave orders at the Columbia Barber Shop. Klamath county’s experimental blind is a shade, a shade is a shad ow, a shadow is a ghost, a ghost is crop of sugar beets yielded 24U0 tons, worth $8 a ton. a shade, a shade is a color, a color ------- «------- The things you think you get for / About ‘ the first real sign of win- is paint and paint is rouge. There* Eugene—S.P. feright division is fore, by Euclid, axiom one, rouge to be moved here from Junction City nothing cost more than those you ter is when you start wondering why _ r think you pay for. in the world you cussed summer. must be a ruse. And curiously enough next year. , it is true.—Yale Record. --------- *---------- A HUSBAND-LESS CLUB. PIPE LINE OF VERNONIA LIGHT & POWER PLANT In'the foreground can be seen the Nehalem and the Vernonia hotel, with the Odd Fellows lodge hall, looming in the back ground on the right hand side of the picture This part of the town is on the east side, comprising resi dents of the citizens, who are both employed in the mill and in the business district of the city. Also in this part of the city is the outlet that leads from Vernonia going to Keasey, located ten mills east. Within a comparitively short time this part of the city rose from practically no houses to the largest home part of Vernonia. VERNONIA’S FAST GROWING POSTOFFICE “Hello, Is my husband at the club’* No, lady, your husband isn’t here.’ “But how do you know? I haven’t even told you my name." “Say, lady, there ain't nobody’s husband ever here.' ------- «------- City Boy (looking at his first wind mill)—“Gee, Uncle Tom, that’s some electric fan you have out there cooling the cows.” ------- ♦------- SAFETY FIRST. A fifteen-year-old girl of De troit ha» written these slogans _ for automobilints: “Drive right and more pedestrians will be left.’’ “Watch your step on it.” "Six feet have awaited many a driver who wouldn’t give an inch.” “Just because you see its tracks, is no sign that a train has just passed --------- *---------- WE HAVE SOME. Some men we know get up and go Soon as they’re through eatin*; They say: “You see, we’re busy, so Can’t bother ’bout no meetin,.” _________ — ♦ ----- --------------- In a couple of years, Ve nonia’s postal business has Ef cleanliness is next to codttaess then th’ .average small boy must feel a long way from his Maker! This picture is the pipe line carrying water from the dam of the Vernonia Light & Power company, located one mile from Keasey. The pipe line from the dam to the power house is 2650 feet and is four feet in diameter. The power house itself is is made in an “L” shape of reinforced concrete, 25 feet square. The dam supply ing the water is 20 feet high and 60 feet long, also made out reinforced concrete. The water being secured from Rock Creek. The turbine of the plant is rated at 350 horse power. 30 per cent of the capacity of the plant is now being used at this time but the output could be increased to twice its output at the present time. George R. King, with the help of little “Teddy” the watchful dog are in cliaugc ci the generating plant. t Always t>n the Job/ OLKS are spending a lot of money today'for insurance. You buy protection against loss by ’• fire, windstorms, theft, injury and even death. Premiums may seem high, but you know the benefits are worth the price. There is one form of protection, however, all of us in this community enjoy every day it does, not cost us one cent! We never can know Z: how many lives it has saved, how much sickness £ it has prevented, how many hours of content- ment it has brought to our homes. t This protection is the service rendered by the • business nun of our town, who quietly and faith- fully meet our daily needs. No matter what emergency may face us, they continue to supply us with food, shelter, clothing and the other necessities of life. You will find their ads in this paper. They solicit—and deserve— your generous patronage. They art your friends in time •fitted! Read the Ads in this Paper and save yourself money by trading at home A Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring to you Health, Happiness and Prosperity 4 VERNONIA BAKERY ft k> i
