Vernonia eagle., January 22, 1926, Image 2

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fUUMONlA LA<UJL
' uries of another day are the necessities now
The peo­
ple are extravagant and the t ix-eatei-s are leading the
parade. The note of warning sounded from the White
House goes unheard.
The example set by the federal
government is wasted in the states and cities."
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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
Paul Robinson,
About the only winter sport that seems to interest some
of our people, is eating breakfast, dinner and supper.
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We are told to acquire breadth of view, but the young
men can’t obtain that gift merely by breadth of pants.
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in olden times the buggy they went sparking—in pres­
ent times an auto they go parking.
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Some folks whose credit is worthless are perfectly will­
ing to buy everything of their home stores in Vernonia
and have it charged.
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Idea of highway maintenance held in some places, is
to let the roads get so bad no one will travel on them, in
;which case they need no repairs.
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Prosperity has the right-of-way along the 1926 Boule­
vard of Business. All signs point to a good year of pro­
fits. Looks like the market will be firm and success will
come to those who deserve it.
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LOOKING AHEAD
HESE early weeks of 1926 are a good time to look
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ahead into the coming year, with some effort to plan
the things we hope to accomplish.
Che foxy old timers knew that if they simply told a boy
in i general way to saw up that wood pile, the whole year
might pass before his tired saw would have severed the
last stick. But if they intimated that his reputation as a
woodpie artist depended on finishing the job March 1, the
neighborhood would resound with the buzz of the saw
and the clip of his axe. Boys and girls of an older growth
also do well to cherish definite aims of achievement.
Some may say that 1925 was a punk old year for them,
and 1926 will be no better. All t ley can do is to drill along
in the old rut. Such ones might well think back to the old
pioneers who built up this country, and ask how far they
would have gone if they had manifested that same spirit’.
Those folks toiled and sweated, they cut the forest and
ploughed the fields and built cities, meanwhile fighting
the savages in their odd moments. And when they had
nothing to do, they fought two wars to establish indepen­
dence. They had a glorious old time working 12 to 16
hours a day, but we pity ourselves as enslaved toilers if
we have to play the game for eight.
With their superb energy, they fought the good fight
and enjoyed it. They created he most abundant indus­
trial opportunity and the best government on earth, and
handed the same over to us as a free gift.
With a little of their spirit, we shall set some big stints
as the old timers used to say,for ourselves,both in our in­
dividual occupations, and in our efforts to make better
towns and a still grander country. There is a wide open
opportunity in the golden days of 1926.
FABLES IN FACT.
I it al® no much that wlA»q a
n abed the middle of thu cl ll^M*’ It
Introducing th® little nn>u> - (hut
Ju . turn around to crul
lived in a cheese factory period
pet
iod
trapped comma by gol
Every night it would «tart at the
“■i” J r.t
• utcr edge of a whole cheese and cliinintion mark but comma'
nibble its way to the middle period then the cheese fell on the floor
but comma ulu* comma one night gemma broke in two comma and
saved the mouae’n life period and
thus the mouse learned its lesson
colon every time it nibbled on a
whole cheese thereafter comma it
would «tart nibbling in the middle
of the cheese and eat it* way out
comma instead of in period whi* h
leave« you to gucH* how «aid luouae
got into the middle
of the cheese
period.
WHOTb GO
NEW
WINTE
STANDARD
OIL
COMPANY
STILL THEY BITE
CCORDING to reports in a Portland paper of last Fri­
day, several prominent Portland business men were
duped out of sums ranging from $5 to $100 for member­
ship'into a socalled “Optimists club" that is declared a
fraud. This will be a good time for them to show thei"
optimism and smile at what has happened.
People from time to time have made funny remarks
about the people from the country biting at everything
that comes along, and we are reminded from time to time
of the ignorant foreigner who comes over to this country
and some swindler takes his money from him by Celling
the Brooklyn bridge or the street car lines to him,’but on ,
the average there are more suckers in the cities than in the
country. If they bite this easy, why not organize a new
club at membership of $25, to join the “Flag Staff club
of the Sahara Desert for Broken Arches.”
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THE LETTER X GIRL
ORMERLY the poets used to spout mushy verses about
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woman’s slender waist. An old minstrel ditty will bi­
recalled by some, addressed to some mythical "Nut brown
NO COLLECTION------ NO CHARGE
KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT CO
Portland
McMinnville
502 Board of Trade Bldg.
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EXTRAVAGANT TAXES
USINESS men of Akron, Ohio, alarmed at rapid in­
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crease of state, county and city taxes, are .seeking to
form a national organization to oppose and call a halt on
unnecessary state and municipal taxation. The move is
based upon the fact that reduction in federal taxes is
more than offset by “increases in spending of states,
counties and cities."
Commenting on the situation, the I«os Angeles Times
says: ‘‘While the federal government is reducing taxes
and cutting expenses that states and cities are piling up
the assessments at an ungodly rate. Over $1,000,000,000
more of tax-free securities will be offered for investment
during 1926, in spite of floods of bonds already out. Such
bonds in the end draw materially from revenues of the
general government. All the states were tarred with the
same stick. In the way of public improvements the lux-
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one or two drinks, people are not
able to consider their neighbor's
rights, nor their familys rights und
therefore, we hud to have the eigh­
teenth amendment.
Nothing so
quickly, successfully and perman­
ently undermines our health as the
drinking of liquor—very particular­
ly the kind that is to be procured
now, for remember that no good li­
quor is availiable for beverage pur-
pose. As collector of internal re’ •
enue, 1 know whereof I speak.—
Mabel G. Reinecke, III.
Most men delight in boasting of the culinary ability of 0
their wives, though
i seldom that they are a wan* of ¿Q
the amount ol thought!' 1 planning and careful compari­
son of values nece- a>\. to the economical preparation of
the delicious meals they enjoy so much.
Aside from any profits we make, one of our greatest 3
sources of satisfaction is the assist™ ce which Skaggs
Stores are able to render these clever women by making
it possible for them to serve wonderful meals at substantial savings Planning
does it—their planning and ours
Let reverence for the laws be
breuthed by every American mother
to the lisping babe that prattle.» on
her lap; let it be taugh in schools
m seminaries and in college«; let it
■>e written, primer», spelling books,
and almanac«; let it be preached
fro mthe pulpit, proclaimed in the
!<<’i lntiv" halls and enforced in
eoort of justice. In short let it be­
come the political religion of the
nation.— Margaret B. Pratt.
When for the gratification of their
appetites, men and women disobey
I and scoff at this law or any other
I law, they are adding the cause of
anarchy. American Bar Association.
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That there is more bootlegging in
wet England than in dry America is
the opinion of Chief of Police James
Cavend- r f Des Moines, Iowa, re-;
cently r< turned from Great Britian
“bootlegging ia rampant” he said.
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Doubled Doiel
Doctor: Do you adhere
rules in regard to drinking?
Patient: Yes. six glasses a day.
Doctor: But I limited you to thro«
Patient: I know. But another doc­
tor also allows me three.
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The 580 acres of Oregon mint in
1925 yielded an average of $250 an
acre.
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Saturday and Monday Features
11-tins Federal ............
25-lb. cloth bag Sugar
¡r 100 lbs. Cane Sugar
.’..... $1.00
$1.59
5-lb. box Chocolates for
..... 16.18
b.
“SKAGGS” BEST BUTTER—
2 pounds ..............................
$1.49 G
10 bars White Wonder soap . ... 39c
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Dr. Sheldon—1st. Alcohol is not
The result of medical inspection
in the schools of New York as re­
vealed the fact that 53 per cent of
the children of alcoholic parent, are
“duilards” as compaired with 10 per
cent of the children of abstainers.
stores
MyWifeis aWonderful Cook” 8
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maiden" in very amorous terms
a food or a medicine, but a poison-
“Thou hast a slender waist" sang the writer of this lovv , ious drug. 2nd. Alcohol hastens di­ VJ
and impaires physical and men­
lorn ditty to his flame, and the thought seemed to stir his sease
tal efficiency. 3rd There is no rev- ()
beating heart with stormy emotion.
I enue from a liquor license, the,
people pay all the money afterward i )
That nut brown maiden has vanished. Probably she is ' collected.
4. The only remedy is the I I ;)
taking reducing exercises now. If she has any of her old prohibition of all the manufacture; ]
gowns tucked away i nthe attic, the nut brown maiden.-,, of alcohol. All other remedies arc i I r)
superficial and partial. In 191# the; X
of 1926 would have to be put into a mechanical compres­ supposedly
“good” liquor sold'by the I ( Q
11,000 saloons of New Yrk, killcji V
sor in order to get them on.
for 100,000 in 1017, 10.3; fX
Just why it was a beautiful thing for a woman’s figure in 13 persons
1924, 8.5. Alcoholic cases con»ti-|W
to be shaped like a letter X was never quite explained by tuted but 3,7 per cent of the totali K
to hospitals for the ii.sene;
connoissuers in that branch of aesthetics. Just now they admission
in he U. S. in 1922 as against 10.1, IL
apparently want her modeled <♦) a letter I made with one per cent in 1910 according to new 1,11
straight and narrow line, but that may pass also. Any­ statistics of th U. 8. census bureau
way, the Letter X girl was never a golf or tennis player A study of the British board of
and she would have bust a number of laces had she tried control in London found a large pro-, <*
portion 39 out of each 100 drunk
to do the Charleston
on beer and wine alone.
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Maybe it was almost two o’clock
in the morning when friend hiubard
arrived home on
this
partlciilni
night period and comma cun you
imagine
question mark he h ><|
lost his il or key exclamation nun«
oh comma well comma thought h>'
I comma I'll just ring the door bell
| and arouse the iniss«» period «<» lie
rang comma and rung comma and
. rung comma but the mlksua didn't
arouse worth a darn period naturally
he wondered why «he didn't answer
the bell i
mm but there really
wasn't anything strange about it at
all period she wasn’t home yet per­
iod.
COLLECTIONS
If even body obeyed ail the laws what a wonderful I
W. C. T. U.
precise country we would have.
We believe in law en
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forcement. Sumtimes we think too much stress is put in ♦jr
"Ou, Motto—For God, our Country
some laws while other disobediances is overlooked or un­ and
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searched for. For instance we have discovered that Ver-; Laws of government art but the
nonia has at least one milk bottle thief and that we have rules of the game of life—nothing
more—notning less—rule» whereby
at least one fuel thief. Small matter, but very inconven­ each
one of us is permitted to do
ient at times when the coffee is ready and the milk bot­ the things we like best, provided we
do not interefer with our neighbor»
tle gone or when the tire is low and the coal bin empty.
doing likewise. Unfortunately, after
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Splendid Schools
ROLLED OATS—
$1.05
9-lb bag for . ................................ 6yc
PEACHES—
PINEAPPLE— Hawaiian Sliced
large tins, 2 for
per dozen tins
PRUNES— 3-lbs
.. 55c
$2.98
... 35c
No. 2i 2 tins, 2 for......................... 55c
ORANGES— Sweet Navels,
large size, per dozen
Medium size, per dozen
SPANISH ONIHNQ
WIN 1UIX5—
q
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' '-*’,P, -»IDS.................
25c
COFFEEr—“White Wrap—
A DDI r DI ,TTrD
Ar 1 Lt DU 1 1 tIC—
1 pound for ....
3 pounds for
‘Happy Vale’ No 2'/2 tins 2 for ... 49c
9
.... 49c
$1.45
TOBACCO & CIGARETTES
For the convenience of the men wjio patron :.(> our stores we carry the
following popular brands
Camel, Chesterfied, Luck Srike cig­
arettes,—
2 packages for
... 25c
Carton of ten pkgs
$1.25
9
Tl iXF.no TOBACCO—
in tins
10c
PRINCE ALBERT and VELVET—
2 *■' '
25c
MEATS
SPECIAL SATURDAY ONLY
Shortening, 2 pounds
Beef Pot Roast, pound................ 121/5
Pork Roast, pound
35c .
Quality Meatg at Reasonable Prices
23c
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