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VERNONIA Widely Quoted Weekly 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, .................................. ..—Editor and Ownei Editorial Miracles of Nature, Achievements of Man, In Pacific Coast States Go Hand in Hand. -------- +-------- Is Vernonia going to celebiate the Fourth of Julv? ------ *------ Senator Stanfield is gaining support every time a new candidate announces himself for U. S. Senator. -------- ♦-------- “Governor Patterson,” won't sound so bad, but to Ore gon the next Governor will be known as “Ike Patterson, the Governor.” ------ +------ The world is beginning to like the “bob,” but those “Boyish bobs.” Ouch! Won’t someone put them out of their misery. •o When a College Coach receives $10,000 a year, only about fifty students receive actual benefits from his great knowledge (?). The rest of them make good at yelling and singing the inspiring sport and school songs. ■o--------- The newspapers of the county welcome the new born weekly in St. Helens. The “St. Helens Sentinel,” is the new arrival that will appear next Thursday. The owners are J. M. Cummins, Frank Keating and Lew’ Cates. EAGLE Best Weekly Ad Medium " but take notice. Sinply as a Vernonia institution and in is a new education to millions. -------- o-------- the best of Brother! y feeling toward the good will of all Just put your goggles on and you will observe that some firms, the Eagle would suggest the enforcement of the of the office seekers who are endeavoring to create pre Sunday closing in this instance—not as a law enforce judice against the milling interests and the timber own- ment, rather as neighborly business ethec and a moral ei s have been chewing on these interests for quite a num move for all concerned. Only a friendly suggestion we ber of yeai’s. We think that the milling interests and the know will be received by all in the light of business asso timber owners are deserving of a vote of thanks for pay ciation talk. ing 75 per cent of the taxes for a number of years, and TWO BIG FIRES for now furnishing employment for thousands of men, causing a large afnount of money to be circulated every ONDAY’S Portland Telegram announced in two inch month. That’s a pretty good record, and it is only narrow head letters: “Seven Die in Hotel Fire.” “Volstead minded people w’ho attempt to arouse enmity with the' milling interests and the timber owners—F. C. Baker in Act Under Fire.” -------- o--------- Garibaldi News. HELPING ONE ANOTHER -------- o--------- The Longview-Rainier bridge across the Columbia is ROM ancient times, down through the middle ages creating considerable discussion without any solution so and into our modem era, the one method of com fur. The Portland chamber of commerce is fighting the pioposition and the State Highway commission and Dock munity development whic hhas withstood the test of time commission seem to be opposed to the bridge. Now the is cooperation; helping one another. It may mean help in Washington Congressmen have introduced bills eliminat a financial way, a business way or a physical way, but in ing the powers of the state highway commissions having whatever way the help is rendered results are equally any voice whatever on the subject. Let them build the valuable. It is the basis upon which is built a feeling of bridge. Portland will not be harmed if the Portland friendliness that is of untold aid toward making this a chamber of commerce and the state highway commission greater and better community for all of us. -------- o-------- will get behind the proposition of hard servicing the In “I can’t tell you much,” began J. E. Frank, at the land highway from Astoria to Portland by the way ol Vernonia. This will be an absolute need as soon as the Hotel Oregon, “except that Vernonia is a good town. Roosevelt highway is completed. The Columbia River When I first went there the streets were mud and I was highway can hardly handle the traffic at the present time. disgusted, for you know how machines and trucks cut up dirt roads. Well, now Vernonia’s main street has a hard- There are laws, written and unwritten; there are cer surface pavement and the side streets are covered with tain priviledges that most business men allow competi gravel, so a machine can get around easily. It makes all tors without words of censure and there is among pro the difference in the world. The sawmill is the mainstay gressive and fair merchants certain business ethics that of the town, for it furnishes the payroll, which keeps the merchants alive. The mill is running two shifts, and in they uphold on their honor instead of fear of the law. For three years the business men of Vernonia have some departments three. I estimate that the output is be had a more or less understanding that they would not tween 500,000 and 600,000 feet of lumber a day. The open their stores at night except Saturdays and that lumber is transported over the railroad. There is always they would not open their stores on Sundays or certain work going on. I worked with the construction crew and holidays. These plans have worked pretty well. With only- this crew has been steadily pegging away all winter. The one exception have we ever noticed the grocery, hard winter, I may observe, hasn’t slowed down the work at ware or geneial stores being open on Sundays or holidays, the mill or in the town for a minute. “It is claimed that Vernonia has 2500 population. May It may be a state law to close Sundays, we are not cer tain, but it is poor business friendship to do so.. One gro be it has. Those who live in Portalnd and have never cery store that we pass daily is an exception to this Sun visited Vernonia should do so. A beautiful country road day closing, as we repeatedly see people in this store on leads from St. Helens to the town and it goes through Sundays. Other merchants say little about it as they the mountains. The back track can be made by way of probably refrain from business gossip against a competi Forest Grove. If you want a nice loop ride sometime, go tor, but_citizens passing the said store cannot help out to Vernonia.”—From Oregonian. M F Let’s be perfectly honest, and correct a former state-! ment. We, in Vernonia, did see a flake of snow this win-' ter. During the rain Monday several flakes fell but failed to stay put. -------- o--------- Republican Whip With eleven inches of snow all over Kansas, that state is rejoicing and again shouting, “Kansas raisese the best wheat in the world.” We in Vernonia are rejoicing that we havn’t seen a flake of snow all winter. ---------o-------- Whoever started this Income Tax business, started a big bunch of worry and trouble. It is again time to make out your income tax blanks and half of the people know less alyiut it than they do about a cross word puzzel or the price of the Russian Crown Jewels. ---------o--------- Oregon has many resources and among them must be recorded “Cheese.” In Tillamook county alone, for 1925, 6,782,026 pounds of cheese was made. The sales netted Tillamook county $1,657,255.07. Hurrah for Tillamook county, the county of Cheese, Trees and Ocean Breeze. -------- o--------- From reports of recent trials in several cities, it is hard to determine which is the most undesirable, the bootleg ger or some pussy-foot prohi agents. Crooks can be crooks in any disguise. Money talks sometimes to the just and un just alike. New portrait of Representative Al bert Vestal of Indiana, Republican -------- o--------- Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase chased clear out to Ore whip in tlie lower house. gon to give the “once-over” to the U. of O., and was at Says Eggs Can Have Same Effect Which Toadstools Cause once elected as President of the University. Dr. Chase is, a southernor coming here from Carolino and if he accepts1 Cleveland, O.—Eating a hard- | the presidency, Oregon will long be proud of the day. ¡' boiled egg when angry produces the same effect as eating a toadstool, -------- o--------- according to Dr. Hilton Ira Jones, Oregon could not choose a better man for the big job noted chemist and psychologist. “The poison in toadstools is a chemical than Ike Patterson for governor. Mr. Patterson is a farm substance called muscarine.'’ (Dr., er, a real “Dirt” farmer, if you please, he is a successful Jones said. The greater part of an business man, an Oregonian with the whole state at heart. egg is composed of colin, a harmless “When a person is angered He is a State Senator without reproach, he is politician substance. the acidity of the stomach is in enough to konw his business and he has the ability to creased oxidizing the colin. When the colin of the egg be make the state the best Governor we have had for a long oxidized muscarine,, the poison in toad time. Mr. Patterson will, no doubt, be the next governor. comes stools. That is why the effect is the -------- o--------- same." -------—4---------- A Congregational minister in Los Angeles has em Nightgown, are Decreeing. ployed a dance orchestra to give jazz music at his Sun Belfast, Eng.—Londonberr- 's pu- day night sendees instead of the usual church choir. Just jama industry is booming, b it the i another freak, idea from a noted preacher that is poor J nightgown manufacturers are in des policy. There is a place for everything as well as a time. pair, because of woman’s growing fondness for the bifurcated sleeping This making a joke of religion is not relished by the old garment. Another effect of fashion’s sincere Methodist, who, for countless years have sang fickleness is seen in the closing of a' Londonderry corset factory, throw-, “The Old Time Religion Is Good Enough for Me.” ing 200 girls out of work. -------- o-------- ----------*---------- There have been columns written and a multitude of Everybody reads the Eagle. voices raised in praise and comment of the marvelous re sults of the radio. But the daily an dfamiliar words of wonder makes it no less a novelty. It is indeed a miracle of modern invention when Vernonia homes hear so dis-! tinctly every night, music and talks from Huston, Galves ton, Kansas City. Chicago, Denver, Canadian cities andl Main all coast stations. It is nightly passtime at the editor’s home as well as dozens of Vernonia homes. The radio is keeping the family at home evenings more than any other cause. It also is bringing Sunday sermons to many who All New« have not been in the habit of going to church. Grand opera, the best of music and lectures from the best plat Items form men, farm talks, science, and amusement. The radio Phone 192 I Work Together Ci? VERY thoughtful citizen of this com- munity is interested in its develop ment and progress. There’s no question about that! We all want our children to enjoy better homes, better schools, better parks — more agreeable surroundings and greater comforts. We all want our town to keep step with its neighbors, to take the lead in civic affairs. So there is only one sound plan for us to follow: He must work together to increase the wealth of this community by doing every thing we can to encourage local business. When you and your family patronize our advertisers — the stores and banks of our town — and keep your money in circulation right here at home, there is no power on earth that can prevent our progress. Read the Ads hi this Paper and save yourself money by trading at home
