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VERNONIA
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HOW LAND SWINDLERS AND LOAN Mac
SHARKS DEFRAUD THEIR PREY Says
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W. R. Morehouse Reveals Further Schemes by Which Pool Black Fly Powder
Widows Are Bereft of Their Savings—Unbelievable
or Liquid
Frauds Are Worked on the Uninformed.
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By W. R. MOREHOUSE,
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Public Relations Commission, American Bankers Assoolatlon.
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orated in flowers of pastel shades
and a delicious supper was served
During th eevening each guest did
a stunt, the prize winner being Mr.
Laurence Dickson, who was awarded
a box of candy. Those present were:
Misées Cecilia Bell, Mirabel Good­
in, Lygia Burt, Lillian Ross, Lena
Gibson, Margaret Smith, Florie Kel­
so, Louise Malmsten, Louise Lester,
Jessie George, Mrs. Lolo Nance,
Messrs Thor Roberts, Charles Hoff­
man, Lawrence Dickson, Eben John
Donald Brady, Mr. and Mrs. Austin
Ruth Holaday and Lora Smith as-
—You simply cannot surpass Mother,
Bread for making sandwiches. Ask
for the long loaf—it is square as a
sandwich loaf should be and you
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT i
will be surprise^ how long the sand­
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wiches will stay., fresh—Vernonia
Beet Corner Location in
Bakery.—adv.
Vernonia
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John W’ardle as Ragman and his
MEALS, LUNCHES, BANQUETS
eight raggedy boys are lots of fun.
Suggestions agreeably received
Hear them sing at the' high school,
June 1, 1926.
EAT AT THE WHITE LUNCH
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Mr. and Mrs. Herb Salt
Don’t fail to «a« “The Snow-
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kill flies.
ARTICLE NO. Ill
and
AND
swindles are almost as common as sand on the sea-
it’s non-poisonous
shore. shore.
Here Here
is one.
is one.
A widow
A widow
was left
was alone
left alone
in the in v the world
L _ "with
but $6,000. She was urged to take a free ride into-the
country to look over a new town site. Just a
pleasure ride, she was told. No obligation on
her part. She accepted the invitation with no
intention of parting with her precious $6,000, but
she fell among high-pressure salesmen and in an
unguarded moment she affixed her signature to a
contract to purchase a vacant lot for the $6,000
dash she had in a savings bank.
/; Thirty days after she drew out her account for
what she supposed was a business lot she re­
ceived a notice that her monthly instalment of
$6,000 was due, being a $1,000 payment on each
w r u.r.hauu °f six $6,000 lots. Strange as it may seem, not
until she received t|iis notice did she read the
contract she had signed. Instead of buying one $6,000 lot and
paying for it, as she meant to do, she had signed a contract to
buy six $6,000 business lots and the $6,000 she drew from the
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ment of *1,000 each on the six lots
this same shylock for assistance and
Had she gone to her banker she j this is how he handled the case. He
would have savqd herself the loss of , led the woman to expect that he would
her inheritance, 3ut doubtless the rea- lend her the money but kept deferring
son she had not consulted her bank making the loan from day to day.
was because , she was not aware that , Finally, on the day she must make
bankers render suth a service.
1 her payment or lose her furniture, he
and easy to use
Just dust the
powder or spray the
liquid any where,
then sweep up
the flies and
put ’em in the stove.
In Vernonia it’s
MAC’S PHARMACY
tional has filmed under the tile of
“What Fools Men” with Lewis
Stone and Shirley Mason in the lead­
ing roles. Aside from being one of
the screen’s most polished actors,
Lewis Stone is a major in the reser­
ves. He mobilized and led Hollywoods
big contingent in the laBt Defense
Day parade in Los Angeles.
Fo rthis Sunday night all will be
more than pleased to earn that beau­
tiful and charming Laura LaPlante
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movie star who created a sensational
is the star in “The Beautiful Cheat”
Maritza Chernovska, noted Russian
stir in New York society circles when
she appropriated a whole country es­ I
From
tate in order that she might enter­
American
Bankers
tain her friends at a week end party
Association
is here now. This Beautiful Cheat is
Journal
none other than Mamie Callahan
Fell Among High Pressure Land Saleemen
who rapid rise t fame is due to the
Sad is the lot of the savings de telephoned her to call. It was now efforts of Laura LaPlante, Ameri­
post tor who, after losing his savings too late tor her to make any other ar­ ca’s cutest movie star. If you want
through wild-cat speculation, is driven rangements for borrowing the funds. a joyful evening brimful of happi­
to desperation for funds and finds It The shylock had planned it so that ness and laughter you’ll come see
necessary to borrow money to meet she would be at hts mercy and would Laura LaPlante as Maritza the Beau­
an emergency such as sickness or un­ have to accept his terms He charged tiful Cheat. It’s a whimsical fantasy
paid rent. Let me give the facts her *650 for a loan of *165!
with the magical touch of charm and
about two cases of the many with
How the Shark Does It
cheer.
which I have come'ln contact.
Doubtless your curiosity 1 b aroused
as
to
how
this
sbylock
can
get
away
The Loan Shark at Work
Next Monday night is that big pro
The principal characters in the with such a deal Here are the facts. duction “Forbidden Cargo.” A slip
He charged a large commission lor of a girl, captain of a rum-runner,
first case are a man. who must bor- making the loan and also Included a
row *350 to place hts wife In a hoB- wide range In fees such as for draw- a revenue officer Bhe despises, a
desert island in the Gulf Stream,
pital to Bave her life, and a loan shark, ing up paper? and notarial fees On hate, burning into love with the heat
who demands every ounce of blood. top of this he required the borrowers of the tropic sun blazing down upon
In desperation the borrower applies to to buy stock tn his company which them, the mealstrom of emotion in
thia loan Bhark for the loan of *350. was worthless. Then he required them hearts tossed like empty bottles into
This is what It costs him—the to take out through him lite Insurance the open sea, danger, the rescue,
amount is almost unbelievable but I to about one hundred times the and two fights on shipboard that
obtained the exact figures first hand amount of the loan for which he re­ are classics!
and I can .vouch for their correctness ceived a liberal commission. In tact,
Next Tuesday and Wednesday
—this man was obliged to give hie he resorted to every Imaginable
note fob *925 for a loan of *350! The scheme in order to bleed them of th. nights, one of Zane Grey’s will be
day he got the note the shark sold it last drop of blood they had to give. shown. It is “Riders of the Purple
to an Innocents holder and It became And the unfortunate thing about it all Sage.” the Fox motion picture is
an obligation binding upon the bor- Is that the borrowers tn these two based on the novel, brings Tom Mix
• rower. ’Think of paying *925 for a casoo found It necessary to meet such back to the West after his success-
exorbitant terms because they had fulforay into merrie England as Dick
loan of *350! , *
Here is another. This time there is already lost their savings through lll- Turpin. In this latest picture, Mix
outdoes himself in the originality and
a woman In the case. The woman advlsed investments.
(Article IV will pive methode bp wMoh
ingenunity of his feats of horseman
needed $165 to,meet a payment on people
ran be protected from fraudulent
ship. Tony, of courss, does his share
her tyrnitiire or lose it. She turned to op er at tone.)
of the work. Mix is supported by a
cast including Mabel Ballin, Marion
Dated
at
St.
Helens,
Oregon,
May
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24th, 1926.
425 Nixon, Wilfred Lucas, Warner Oland
Legáis—Summons and
Beatrice Burnham and Harold Good
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PUBLICATIONS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE OF SHERIFF SALE“ In the County Court of the State of
And now the big sensation for
Oregon for Columbia County
next Thursday and Friday nights.
By virtue of~ an execution duly
You have read much of it, and have
issued by the Clerk of the Circuit In the matter of the estate of
noticed the big page ads of the big
Court of the County of Columbia. LAURA A. TUCKER, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. pictures in the big cities. It will be
State of Oregon, dated the 11th
It is “The Johns­
day of May, ^926, in a certain ac­ That the undersigned has been ap­ in Vernonia.
tion in the Circuit Court for said pointed administrator of the estate town Flood.” an absorbing photo­
County and State, wherein IL of Laura A. Tucker, deceased, by the drama produced by Fox films, and
Sessman a ■a plaintiff recovered County Court of the County of Co­ centering around the memorable dis­
judgment againts E. O. Harper and lumbia for the State of Oregon, and aster which overtook the Concmaugh
Evan R. Treharne, defendants, for has duly qualified. All persons having Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1889, which
the sum of ’-Three Hundred Twelve claims against said Estate are here comes to the Majestic theatre next
aria OOjOOO Dollars, and costs and by notified to present the same, duly Thursday an<j Friday, is ranked by
disbursements taxed at Sixteen and verified as by law required, to the historians as one of the most appal­
60'000 Dollars, and attorney’s fees undersigned, at his residence near ling calamities in the history of the
in the sum of 'Fifty and 00'000 Dol­ Vernonia, Oregon, within six month.« world. The flood, which swept the
from the date of hereof.
city of Johnstown, and neighboring
lars and the farther sum of .........
T. F. KEASEY,
towns from the map in less than fif­
Dollars on the 5th day of May, 1926
Administrator teen minutes, is classed with such
Notice is hereby given that I will W. A. HARRIS. Attorney
horrifying upheavals as the restruc­
on the 26th day of June, 1926, at
Dated and first published. May tion of Sodom, the Samoan hurricane
the West front door of the Court­ 28, 1926.
425 the eruptions of Vesuvius, the Jap­
house in St. Helens in said County,
anese earthquake, the Titanic disas­
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at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of
ter, the Louisville tornado, the des­
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said day. sell at public auction to
truction of Pompeii, the Bengal fa­
MOVIE NEWS AND
the highest bidder, for cash, the fol­
mine of 1866, and the World War.
lowing described property, to-wit:
COMMENT OF LOCAL Infinite care was exercised by Fox
The Southeast quarter (SE%)
films to make the film version of the
FEATURES
of the Northwest quarter
great disaster true in every deail
(XWU) and the North half of
The cast of a play tells the story A splendid dramatic narrative was
the Southwest quarter (SWh)
The theatre attendant learns the peo­ written around the great tragedy, di­
of .'-Section twenty-nine (29) in
ple in the picture and can general­ rected by Irving Cummings, with ■
Township Five (5) North of
ly tell about how they are going to superlative cast of players including
Range Five (5) West of the
like the program by the stars ap­ George O’Brein, Anders Randolf,
Willamette Meridian in Oregon
Florence Gilbert, Janet Gaynor, Paul
pearing.
containing’ one hundred twenty
Nicholson, Paul Panzer, Elmc Bill­
(120) acres more or less.
For this Sunday night all will be ings, Walter Perry and Geòrgie Har­
Taken and levied upon as the
ris.
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property of the said Evan R. Tre­ jestic will appear such stars as Lewi.--
harne, or as much thereof as may Stone, Shirley Mason, David Tor­
SENIORS ENTERTAINED
be necessary to satisfy the said rence, Barbara Bedford—whole flock
The senior class and faculty of the
• jqdgjnent in favor of R. Sessman. of noted ones and the show is “What
'"against «aid Evan R. Treharne with Fools Men.” Another of Henry Kit- high school were entertained at a
interest thereon with all costs and chell Webster’s fascinating stories lap supper Saturday evening. May 22
has been transferrel to the screen.
disbursement» that have or may
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at the home of Dr. and Mrs. M D.
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It is his new novel “Joseph Greer
accrue.
Cola. Ths house was tastefully dec-
j. H. WELLINGTON, Sheriff and Hia Daughter,” which First Na-
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