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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1926)
VERNONIA EAGLE Thursday, December 16, 1926 I latest western release for F. not hinder. It is the business of the in- AUTO SERVICE CLUB his B. O., which comes to the Maj PROMOTERS ACTIVE estic theatre on Monday. dividual, if he be a good citizen, to have Issued every Thursday $2 per year in Advance always a keen regard for the economic “While London Sleeps,” Rin-Tin- A number of questionable auto side of community life. He should use his mobile service clubs are being pro Tin’s latest picture for Warner Entered us Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at thej best efforts to foster going concerns here, moted in Oregon and Washington Bros., at the Majestic Tuesday and ! knowing that every concern that leaves according to the Portland Better Wednesday, is a stirring tale of Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879 the city, that every worker who goes els- Eusiness Bureau, which has been in Limehouse, the underworld of Lon where with his labor, subtracts from the vestigating the attempts of the pro don and the part that a heroic MARK E. MOE, Editor to sell memberships to motor dog played in aiding Scotland Yard wealth and the culture of the community moters ists. Memberships in these so-called to outwit and capture its king. he leaves behind. Civilization today can automobile clubs or associations cost In “Spangles,” the Universal-Jew GIVING OF GIFTS not be fostered by “floaters.” The city ear owners from $2 to $20 a year. el to come to the Majestic Thurs must have its industries, it must have its The promoters promise discounts on day and Friday, you will get an After all, it is a matter of sentiment and contented CLEANING workers, that it may have a oil and gas, tires, repair work, free entirely new view of the people sense rather than of dollars—all this cus greater production, legal advise and in some cases claim of the circus who are known as more wealth, more op PRESSING they will settle legal difficulties a- "freaks,” for you will see their tom of holiday gift-giving. portunity and more culture. rising from accidents in return for life, and their hopes, loves an am For the many of us the exercise of judge DYEING fee. bitions as they appear after the ment and the expression of sentiment in The fostering of established industries the The membership bureau states that most of "big top” is struck and the crowd and the development of new industries is CUSTOM this peculiar time will be dedicated by the these fly by night concerns rent is gone. the “common purpose” to which all cit desk means available. It is pretty sane as a gen izens space in a well known Portland TAILORING. of Vernonia should assidiously de or Seattle office building, send out eral rule, anyway, to pack a great deal of DR. ELLA WIGHT vote themselves. These are the foundations salesmen over the state and disap good common sense in the holiday package DR. C. J. WIGHT pear after they have made a clean CHIROPRACTORS WE CALL FOR AND and wrap it w’ith a wealth of fine sentiment. upon which our community life rests. up through the sale of memberships. Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach, The season is one of shaip contrasts and One concern with headquarters in DELIVER Liver and Intestinal Troubles PAY DIRT everything that can be done to help those Seattle recently sold several thous Delayed Menstruation and memberships in Oregon, repre who are needy at this season is a double relief. The season is one of the child sup A bit of yellow ore or a spurt of black senting that well known garages and stations were under contract reme, and everything done to add to the liquid from the bowels of the earth will service DR. W. H. HURLEY give discounts to their members. CURLEY’S TRANSFER delight and the pleasure of childhood is a attract thousands eager to invest their cap to None of the concerns represented as DENTISTRY AND X-RAY COMPANY good investment for all the coming life ital and labor in the hope of reaping for official stations had been signed up Evenings by Appointment Office over Brown Furniture Store. j by the club. The club went into Local time of these growing little folks. Hauling and all kinds of tunes. A rumor and the rush is on. I Oregon i team work. leaving the members Vernonia Holiday giving has been too burdensome What is true of the gold rush and the bankruptcy with nothing but a worthless mem Office at Gordon Furniture Co. in the past. The swapping of gifts means oil boom is true of communities. Let the card for' their money. nothing; the “obligation” ought always to outside world know that in Vernonia it bership A club operating out of Portland M. D. COLE be eliminated. If a relative wishes to give will find good wages, prosperity, unusual is selling a year’s membership at SPECIAL CARE WITH FURNI DENTIST another member of the family a gift, it business opportunities and industrial ad $19.50, for which it gives the mem TURE HAULING ber a contract that specifies dis should be one of service, practical and sen vantages and it will buy its own ticket. Vernonia Oregon Phone 672 counts on gas and other automotive Res. Phone 653 sible and useful. Remembrances to the cir Why do not more communities take this necessities. The last paragraph of Vernonia Oregon cle of friends and acquaintances outside the lesson from the ^old rush? Many can the long contract is so worded as to i - immediate family ought to be reminders of pace their growth in population and great allow the club to fail to give any LESTER SHEELEY 1 - i ' courtesy, sympathy, compliment and feli er prosperity to that day they decide to of the promised service without in Attorney-at-Law , citation that will represent more than cost. broadcast the news that they had some- curring any liability. Better Business Bureau points The cost-plus system in general giving thting the world wanted. Notable examples The Oregon that these clubs are not cooper Vernonia in the holidays ought to be adopted; and have been Los Angeles, the Floroida re out ative associations working in the in plus takes in this higher value which does sorts, Detroit, all of which sprang into terests of members or the motoring J. MASON DILLARD not deplete the bank roll and which does prominence almost over night. public, but are promoted by profess PYROTOL, the surplus ionals, many of whom have previous ATTORNEY-AT-LAW give more back to the giver than it ever Every city and town has its “vein of records of failures, for the money Next to Carkin Cleaning Works war material, for stump transfers to the recipient. gold” or its “oil gusher” and Vernonia is there is in the sale of memberships. Here Every Wednesday ing purposes. Price $7.80 no exception. Too frequently, communities Prosecution of promoters of sim HELP VERNONIA TO ADVANCE ilar clubs in the east is causing many wait to be discovered from the outside. high powered salesmen and promot per 100 pounds. T. W. LARAWAY They do not even know themselves. ers to come west to a virgin field In ancient times a city was a place There is no more propitious time than or this type of scheme. Car owners Physician and Surgeon Place your order now where confedeiate families gathered foi the present for Vernonia to discover it should carefully investigate the Vernonia a common purpose, that of worship oi Oregon with the County Agent’s record of the officers of any of protection and so on. Today we have the self and then to tell the world about what these so-called clubs aid determine office at St. Helens for incorporated city with its government, it discovers. There is not a citizen who whether or not the club is sufficient ANNETTE BEAUTY its industries, its schools, its libraries, its Joes not believe that this is the community ly financed to deliver the promised next shipment. d!6 SHOPPE cnurches—a much more complicated af for which many are even now searching service before joining. MARCELLING fair. But that expression “common pur Even those who have not yet discovered All lines of Beauty Work Phone 431 pose” still applies. A city cannot thrive :ts natural resources do not doubt their Upstairs in Pringle Bldg. The Majestic «“nd grow and prosper unless that common existence. Community prospecting always 1 purpose is he base of its life and growth. produces “paying dirt.” ¡ It is the base of its pleasures aid recreat MARK EVERY GRAVE comes into its own in ions. Only the man who js financially in The most serious mistake on earth is the Comedy W.O.W. Buxton camp No. 655 thrilling drama based on n Memorials in Granite and Marble At Reduced Prices dependent can enjoy his hours of leisure being too serious. meets every Monday night at seven dog's life, “Wings of the Storm,” WRITE FOR PARTICULARS thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting to the full. Idleness is not happiness, as which is to be the feature film at innumerable peisons know who are Cui's The height of ignorance is thinking you the Majestic theatre, Saturday and ! MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO. members welcome. Fourth and MAin St. Hillsboro. Sunday matinee. C. A. BARNES C.C. ed with too many unfilled hours. know everything. England, a country which has' C. C. DUSTEN CLERK. Have we in Vernonia a common pur sent many talented men and women | I pose? Are we all desirous for the advance Most persons who are in a hurry to get to America, again scores in “The Fresh Sweet Oranges ment of the city as a whole By this we somewhere probably do not know why. Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A. Lily,” Fox Films version of David' $3 per box of 300 large Belasco’* gripping drama of sister- [ mean the advancement of the people as A. ?.L, meet* at Grange love featuring Belle Bennett, at size. Sound fiuit and a while. When a man or a corporation take The old toll gate has nearly passed, but the II < very Second and Majestic theatre Sunday. the initiative and establishes a business the highways still take their toll. satisfaction guarantee! 1 Shanghaied abroad a cattle boat Fourth Thursday night*. or money back. We are we optimistic and helpful in our at and kidnapped at a picnic are only W. rl. HURLEY, Master. pay express charges. A titude towards him and his undertaking? As the world grows wiser and wiser, it two of the experiences Tom Tyler Wm. PRINGLE, Secretary Or do we say with a sorrowful look and finds more and more ways to make a fool goes through in “Wild to Go," j box of these makes an Visitors Welcome appreciated Christmas a sigh, “Well, I hope he makes a go of of itself. gift. Remit with order. it, but I don’t think he will?” Classsified Advertisement j Acme Orange Farms, There is not an adult in this city that We are reminded, sadly, now and then, FOR SALE—2 bedroom seta, sew LaGrange, Texas. cannot help or hinder in its prosperity anil that the aviation stunt has not been per ing machine, davenport and some it behooves each one of us to help and fected. I. O.O.F.-V ek N3NI a L odc «, N o . 24«, chairs, at Vernonia Woodworking û-br Wrnonta Eaglr Vernonia CLEANERS FOR SALE Lodge Directory Co. We have some repair work not called for. Owners please call be 191* Jones—Sorry, old man, that my fore Saturday, Dec. 18. hen got loose and scratched up LOST—White, bob-tailed female your garden. fox terrier. Licensed. Mike And Smith—That’s all right ; my dotf ers. 191* ate your hen. Jones—Fine! I j ust ran over FOR SALE— A concert grand your dog and killed him.—Witt. Kimbal piano. Mrs. W. J. Gooding. , 182* At If you have no use for an article and someone else would, advertise IN VERNONIA will sell or trade it in the classified column. 1 4-room house, 4 lots. Take team and 4*4 lease on small farm. Whitsell, 056 tve. , 182* PORTLAND - VERNONIA Evening Up Low Round Trip Christmas Holiday Fares via United Railway» and Spokane, Portland and Seat tle Railway. S310 Portland and Return Tickets on sale Dec. 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, inclusive. Return limit January 4th 1927. Albany, $6.10, LaGrande, $18.00, Astoria, $7.60, Salem $5.35, Baker $21.60, Seattle $12.95, Boise $29.70, Spokane $23.35, Corvallis $7.50, Tacoma $10.95, Walla Walla $16.20. Porportional reductions between other points. Trains leave Vernonia for Portland and beyond at 1:05 P. M. daily. General Agent. and Transfer FOR SALE: Six-weeks-old pigs. Mrs. A. B. Counts. Phone 8F525. 182 NASH CAR FOR SALE.—Inquire Frank Keith. Riverview grocery, tf. ROUND TRIP FARES J. J HOYDAR, Brown Truck Local and Long Dist ance Hauling. Ice and Cold Storage Storage for Furniture and Baggage R. M. ALDRICH Agent UNITED RAILWAYS COMPANY NEW Oregon strawberry plants for sale, $4.00 a thousand. Chas. Schmidlin, Vernonia. 162* —Stamping and Hemstitching cot ton 6 cents, silk 8 cents. Mrs. Wm Lanway, 1228 Bridge St. W. ltf WILL party kindly return black handbag left in car December 8 in taking two men from wrecked Ford sedan one mile north of Yam- I hill to town of Yamhill to J. J. Doerfler, Silverton, Oregon? 192 HIGH grade piano near Vernonia will be sold to reliable party at big saving. $10 monthly will han dle. A real buy. write at once for particulars. Tallman Piano Store, « »♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦«♦♦»>> M I II IMU Salem, Oregon. Tel. No. 683. Office Corner Bridge and Weed Ave. Truck Line VERNONIA TEMPLE No. 61 PYTHIAN SISTERS Meets every Wednesday night on thd lower floor of the Grange Hall. AO Rose visiting Sisters and Brother* wel come. MARJORIE COLE, M. E. C. PEARL WILKERSON, K.ofR.C INSURED CARRIER Vernonia Office the Brazing Works on Avenue. Phone MAin 343 I meets every Tuesday night at 8:90 o'clock, in Grange Hall J. W. ROSE, N. G. M. L. GAINES, S jc . Portland Office Auto Freight Terminal J CHAPTER NO. 153 O. E. S. — Regular communication first E. Water and Y:.mhill Streets third Wednws- EAst 8226 Office No. 11 of each month, DELIVER TO YOUR DOOR visiting elater* brother* wel come. ALICE GOODING, W. M. MAE BERGMAN, Sec’y. NEHALEM NOTICE Special trains leaving Vernonia for Porxland 6:02 P. M. Saturdays and 9:08 P. M. Sundays as well as those arriving Vernonia from Portland at 3:37 P. M. Saturday and 7:38 P. M. Sundays have been discontinued until further notice. Reg ular train will :un as us ual leaving Vernonia :.t 10:5 P. H. daily. UNITED RAILWAYS VERNONIA GRANGE The Vernonia Grange meet* on th second Saturday of every month * 7:30 P. M. Any member* of th Grange living in or near Vernonia or visiting in the community, ar cordirlly invited to attend. F. E. ilAl.MSTEN, S m MOUNTAIN HEART REBECCA LODGE No. 243. I.O.O.F Meet! every second and Fourth Tliurs.' ,y* in Crnrge Hi.ll—Vernonia V-i.cr* al ..ays welcome A tiie C aulkom . N. G. MRS. IRENE SPENCER, Sec’y.
