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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1926)
Widely Quoted Weekly VERNONIA A “Correct” Likeness of Washington Mac Says E A Cl LE Bet Weekly Ad Medium EIGHTH GRADE .GRADUATES OF The poppies bloom in the fields of than 48 hours. France, and the North sea waves THE VERNONIA GRADE SCHOOL Local anti-barberry am gray; The larks are singing in Normandy, ai»d Morro is years away; The grass is green where the crosses stand and the- sky bends smiling o’er— Should the world forget, your com rades won’t, you men who march no more. —William F. McGurk in Kansas City Star. --------- 4--------- The first farmer was the first man session and use of land—Emerson, and ali historic nobility rests on pos- Irene Anderson, i Norma Anderson, Carl T. Berg, Ne: il William Bush, Gladys Lorene Carrick, William Henry Culver, Ali ce Dübendorf, Max ine Elliott, Stanli ly Vernon Garner, Morris Graves, Pbioebe Louise Grein mna, Leonard Ha 11, Estel Hall, Mil dred Louise Hawi tins, Gleen Hieber, Kathryn A. Hoffn ran, Shelba Hopson Ralph Johnson, M arjdrie Helen Kelly Robert Laird, Ma ry Elizabeth Lara- more, Howard Leie, Birdie Lester. Edithmay Lindsle y, Merle Mills, Zel- ma Frances New, Mary Patricia Ob- erst, Olive Olsi in, Violet Phelps, Gwendolyn Pay nter, Julia Marie Neither horses nor sheep will eat Selig, Pat Sod rrberg, Dwight E. the “horse sorrel” or “sheep sorrel” Strong, Dorothy Genevieve Throop, that grows on thousands of acres of Mildred Tousley anj Beatrice Veal. acid land that lime wo.uld remedy. Headlights and tail lights on baby ---------- HP--------- carriages are necessary in Milwaukee, MRS. DOHA THROOP Mrs. Dora Thixiop, formerly a resi according to the literal interpreta dent here in th(e earlier days, died tion of city ordinances of that city The Bakarganj cyclone of >876 at Yakima, Wa4h., last Sunday, so we are informed' today. The funreal from the Bay of Bengal brought so was held in Vernonia yesterday. much rain that the loss of life from Mrs. Throop was the mother of drowning was 100,000 ih six hours. Napoleon traveled from near Vilnn Thomas Throop of this place and to Paris in 312 hours. An ordinary of Mrs. C. C. Mills. traveler could not have done - this distance in twice the time. Railways have, reduced the journey to Protect vour eves and keep vour head cool. Wear a visor for fishing. motoring. tennis base ball or street wear. RIVERVIEW NOTES ------------------------------- &. In Vernonia its laws were passed in France as early as 1660. The common barberry was com pletely eradicated from Denmark in 1903, since which time no black stem rust in wheat has been noticed there. In remote rural districts in Nor- way the bride dons the native dress of her district and rides to the church ceremony on a pony. Walking is not a “lost art” in Berlin, for hundreds of thousands of pedestrians fill the parks and boule vards on pleaasnt evenings and Sun days. The Chinese do not bury their Louis XVI was fastidious in some things but not all. Disliking the prevailing style of oblong handker chiefs he issued a decree ordering manufacturers to make them aquar* and square they have remained. The woi-j brain occurs for the fi»* time in the Smith Papyrus of the seventeenth century B. C. This papy rus gives the most important medi cal knowledge we have from ancient times. Carve,' ‘ones sometimes fnll to the earth from the sky. In lino •> stone cylinder fell at Westerville, Ohio. There arc over fifty English names for that lighting phenomenon commonly called “will-o’-the-wisp.’ Mrs. W. V. Kirkland bas returned to her home in Portland after a two weeks visit with her mother, Mrs. Clara Smyth. MAC’S PHARMACY MOVIE NEWS AND ; | COMMENT OF LOCAL | FEATURES ®------------------------ — — © The season of parties, entertain ments, receptions, concerts, etc., be ing over for awhile, Mr. Bush has prepared a good program for every night this coming week, beginning Saturday. They are pictures extern sively advertised and look like big runs all. For this Saturday night wil lbe “ The Reckless Lady.” Life and men Sylvia Fleming played against them and saw them, and around the baizf tables of Monte Carlo she was called The Reckless Lady. Reckless? She was a mother whose first gamble and loss was love. Then for fifteen year: she gambled for money that kept Dependable Watch Mrs. Clara Smyth has added a new Burroughs adding machine to her store, the Home grocery. Monday, May 24th being Clara Smyth’s birthday, she was pre sented with a fine birthday cake. Compliments of the Vernonia bakery which she appreciated very much. --------- +--------- There isn’t a song on the driver’s line as the caissons roll today, There isn’t the jest of the roaring ranks as the columns swing their way; The old home street is a sunny street and far from the wrath of war, But a flag leads on where he followed once—the man who will march no more. The blue of the fleet that swept the seas, the brown of the wild Ar gonne ; The men of musket and Mauser days come shoulder to shoulder on. inis heroic statue or the commander-in-chief of the first armies of tne United States was made for the city of Portland. Oregon, though not yet deliv ered there by the artist. The western municipality has loaned it to the Sesqui-Ceniennial International Exposition, opening in Philadelphia June I and continuing until December 1, to celebrate 150 years of American Independ ence. At the foot of the sculpture is shown Pompeo Coppini, the sculptor. Dr. Henry Waldo Poe, of Portland, declares the face to be the most correct lih.ness of Washington ever modeled. her child; and when the man who ped and almost control all higher ed had admired her loved her daughter ucation. Take economies for instance instead, the Rgckless Lady made her formerly we read Ricardo, Hamilton, last great gamble against the fate Mills. Smith, the sound theories upon that enmeshed the girl. And at Fate she cried “I’ll see you!” Wherfe but which this country was built. You Monte Carlo could such a tale be set do not find them in your schools and colleges today, but you do find For this Sunday night the big theories of economy built on the success “My Old Dutch.” A lesson in theories of Karl Marx, Engel, eVen love for young and old. A quaint, Lenin. The caissons roll and the columns romantic comedy-drama of the pic swing in the old “One, two, three “Take your histories! I was thrill turesque London Coster built on the four”; sound philosophy that life is what ed, as a boy, to read and learn about you make it. Screamingly funny the deeds of valor of our heroes who ‘And the ranks close in where the files are blank—the men who pathetically tender, whimsical, de did so much in the building of this march no more); lightful." A thoroughly human slice country. You do not find them in of life that will touch a responsive the histories of today, for they are chord in every heart. not represented as heroes. This is not all—for they are seeking to re On next Monday night his devo- write and rewrite your text books tess will be pleased to learn that it will be a Harry Carey picture, “The from the viewpoint of class struggle Man from Red Gulch.” A romantic The science of sociology is now Well thrilling story of gol,] rush days in taught from this viewpoint. the Sierras, an epic of the golden might it be called the science of my wqpt when the weak were forced ti thology. It is based wholly on the the wall and brave men won riches oci.-’istic theory. In the prefaces of and sometimes love. A dramatic pie turization of Bret Harte’s immortal the books in many cases it is even story, “The Idyl of Red Gulch” a stated that the theory is based on wonder picture of California in the the theories of Marx, Engel, etc., making, i photoplay of historic in even Lenin and Trotzky. terest. a theme of tremendous force “Read the daily papers and see and appeal. how many boys and girls are taking Next Tilesday and Wednesday their part in the crime wave. It is nights are both big nights. Then vou not a question of politics, not re-| will see the wonder picture: “Th* ligion nor as a controversy between Shamrock Handicap.” A drama of capital and labor, but a question of Pathos and Irish wit about a her oic Irish Jockey and a famous Irish Americanism. We have altogether too steeplechaser on an American track. many foreignized Americans in this country today. We can well under On next Thursday and Fridnv stand why the foreigner who has just nights will be shown Hoot Gibson in , come to our shores does not grasp “The Phantom Bullet.” A stir-in* what w< have. I cannot understand tale of a cowpuncher detective who tracks down a slayer in a relentless , why any American takes stand and altogether unusual manner.1 against this government. It is time With genuine comedy situations that this sort of thing was changed, gales of merriment and blood-tingling and’ it is up to you! Knowledge is thrills. Directed by Clifford Smith! necessary for underitading. who gave you the “Man on the i “But when a man is tempted to Saddle” and other Gibson successes. ; speak out he is subject to pretty --------- ♦--------- THERE’S SOMETHING IN BEING rough treatment, and I speak from experience. He is reactionary; he is OLD-FASHIONED old-fashioned. Thank God, I am old- Fred Marvin, of the New York fashioned. 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