Thursday, January 13, 1927
VERNONIA EAGLE
you. And y< ur digestion will be better.
But don’t keep up the morning smile
Issued every Thursday
$2 per year in Advance too persistently. It may degenerate into
a simper. Having let your temperament
go
to both extremes, take control and reg
Entered as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
ulate it. Let the balance hang just a trifle
Act of March 3, 1879
on the side of the smile, ana you will be
joyous
without becoming chronically san
MARK E. MOE. Editor
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ALL CAN HELP
IF ADVERTISING STOPPED
THRIFT
WEEK
SPLENDID
IDEA
By ROBERT TUCKER
Judse of the Circuit Court
Multni niah County, Oregon
Whoever conceived “Thrift week"
gave the world a splendid idea. It
combines the practical and ideal and
should
have
the
earn est attention
and full co-operation
of every thinking
person.
Sharing with oth
ers, one of the card
inal principles of
thrift as j program
med by the Y. M. C
A., the Oregon Bank
ers' association and
Robert Tucker the other fine organ
izations affiliated with the movement,
features the thought that it is more
blessed to give than to receive. Then
there are other phuses worthy of
adaption, such as careful saving of
funds; maintaining a home budget
making housekeeping more business '
like; prompt payment of bills; keep
ing in force life insurance; owning a
home and making safe and conserva
tive investments.
Nurses’. Report For December
Visits to schools 19, Pupils in
spected 1060, Pupils weighed and
measured 756, Pupils 1% or more
under weight 145, Visits to homes
16. NINA H. LITTLE—County
Health Nurse.
National and commercial banks
consolidate, with $1,250,000 assets,
at Hillsboro.
Westport plant of people’s west
coast hydro-electric company will
supply electric current here, over
new $25,000 line at Clatskanie
FOR SALE
PYROTOL, the .surplus
war material, for stump
ing purposes. Price $7.80
per 100 pounds.
Place your order now
What would be the reaction upon the!
Business is after all a reciprocal matter.
with the County Agent’s
Stores are not alone for tne me; chants cost of living if advertising ceased and
who own them nor are they onlj for its beneficient force were stopped?” This
office at St. Helens for
For that
the people who trade with them. With question, asked by the Fourth Estate, pro
next shipment.
out the other the merchant cannot sell vides much food for rumination.
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and the customer cannot buy. And reason It is an interesting conjecture. Adver
ing in the negative, if the merchant does tising largely takes the place of person
not satisfy the customer the customer will al selling effort, which is very much more
J. MASON DILLARD
trade elswhere, and if the customer trades expensive.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
elsewhere the merchant is deprived of the A California editor cogitating on the
Next to Carkin Cleaning Works
opportunity of striving ty satisfy the cus possibility of a cessation of advertising
Here Every Wednesday
tomer.
say»:
By trading at home with the home town
“It would mean that our railroad trains THRIFT —THE SUCCESSFUL LIFE
OH. ELLA WIGHT
merchants tne people of Vernonia become would be thronged with salesmen whose
try
I .. C. J. WIGHT
p.y c. c. COLT.
does not fail in meeting it. It is always h<.'neward bound mail would carry fewer Vice-President. First National Bank
< HR. TRACTORS
of Portland
the architects of their own business' plac oi del’s, all of smaller volume than now. Not parsimony,
Rheuma, m,
Jeuritis, Stomach,
but conscientious
“Distribution upon the present scale and continuous effort toward the con
es. They create the demand and the
Liver : -.1 intestinal Troubles
Del;/cd Menstruation
more convenient to trade at home, and would b e impossible. Manufacturing serva\ion of all that goes to make life
happier and brighter
home town merchant, thus being assured, would fall off, with a consequent de
and to advance the
improvements begin with the improvement crease in labor demand. Jobbers would
Interests of all. Such
LESTER CHEELEY
to meet every merchandise wish.
rind their business proportionally limited.
is the real meanim-
of thrift, it seems tc
Every citizen of Vernonia is interested Retailers would make fewer and slower
Attorney-at-Law
me.
in the growth and improvement of the ¡turnovers. Prices of all commodities would
If thrift meant to
; V emonia
Oregon
community, but many of those who trade take a rise that would make war prices
hoard, or if it meant
only
to
save
money
and
ante-war
prices
seem
low
by
com
out-of-town do not realize that community
;t would be of little
imprvements begin with the improvement parison.”
DR. W. H. HURLEY
value. It means far
of its business. The business of a town
more than that when
DENTISTRY AND X-RAY
C. C. Colt
you consider It care
or city is its life-blood. Knowing this no
At present price, the advice of an ap-
Evenings by Appointment
fully.
citizen will stunt the natural and des ’.’V- pie a day was not a windfall.
at
Mac
’
s
Pharmacy
Office over Brown Furniture Store.
Thrift really means a blending inti
ing expansion of his home town while
Vernonia
Oregon
the life of the individual or group oi
fostering that of another community and
The man who is contented with his lot the essential features which make a
well rounded, successful life.
its business.
usually lets weeds flourish in it.
M. D. COLE
If it must be done in a spirit of selfish
THRIFT BASIS OF PROSPERITY
ness, don’t buy at home to help the mer They gave Socrates hemlock to drink.
By RAYMOND B WILCOX
DENTIST
chant but to help the home community Moonshine hadn’t been invented then.
President Portland Chamber of
Commerce
and yourself. Thiust your business upon
As personal thrift is of course
Voinonia
Oregon
the local merchants and force them tc
The only time some folks’ minds are basis of individual prosperity, so also
and Transfer
prosper, that they, prospering, will make « not on vacation is two weeks out of 52. the thrift that embraces the conserva
tion of our natura
the community prosper and bring more
MARK EVERY GRAVE
resources and leads
prospering merchants and buyers into
When the train is coming, the driver
Local and Long Dist M< morials
to a spirit of co-oper
in Graniie and Marble
town to increase competition and through who tries to beat it over the crossing is
ation of all forces in
ance Hauling.
At Reduced Prices
the saving of time,
competition reduce prices, and inc r<
going.
as well as money, is
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS
quality and stocks to choose from.
the basis of com
MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO.
munity prosperity
A writer says that $800 a year is enough
Ice and Cold Storage Fourth and MAin St.
Thrift on a large
Hillsboro.
TESTING YOUR TEMPERAMENT
for a family of three to live on. This is
scale, on the basis of
too much!
community needs
You have a temperament. Everybody
and a movement hav-
Wilcox ing for its object
Storage for Furniture
has. Old-fashioned folk would call it
It must be remembered, however, that Raymond
education of the entire community
your disposition. But science is following; orthodox folk in Christ’s time objected the
in the meaning of co-operative thrift,
and Baggage
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a more modem style. So you might as to the way He acted on the Sabbath.
is deserving of the support of all.
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There
is
a
need
for
a
thoroughgoing,
well get in line and acknowledge that
W.O.W. Buxton camp No. 655
effort along these lines
you, too, are carrying a temperament con Many a man thinks he has an inspira painstaking
meets every Monday night at seven
in order to coordinate all the forces
Office
Tel. No 683.
cealed somewhere about your pei ;on.
of a community for the advancement
thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting
tion to work, as long as it is not the kind of
the large interests of all so that
Very well, then, how about getting ac that produces perspiration.
members welcome.
Corner
Bridge
and
there may be plenty for all who so
quainted with your temperament? It is
C. A. BARNES C.C.
Weed Ave.
plan their life course as to be worthy
the child of your moods and the
C. C. DUSTEN CLERK.
There is no sign that anyone is ever of the rewards.
child of your emotions. Want to ti t it going to be able to invent a tire patch
Oregon has 42 furniture fact
out? If you can stand living with yourself, hi t will keep air in over-nflation.
ories, with 1,562 employes, $1,922,-
If you have no use for an article
Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A.
do this for a month:
029 annual wages, and $6,618,614 and someone else would, advertise
F.
& A. M., meets at Grange
When you get up every morning, scowl
it in the classified column.
Another sterling instance of inverse yearly production.
Hall every Second and
at yourself in the minor. At the cm! of
the month, say psychologists, your 11 il ratio is the sense some men put into their
Fourth Thursday nights.
COLLECTIONS
K. A. McNeill, Secretary.
map will resemble a sector of o mar’s business and their love letters.
NO COLLECTION—NO CHARGE
Visitors Welcome
land in rainy weather.
KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT CO.
Turning a corner on two wheels, driv
Then start smiling at what you s
We Get Results.
ing with one hand and burning up a boule
the mirror on the thirty-first day.
Offices at McMinnville, Hillsboro and 502 Board of Trade build
vard
are
things
that
no
one
has
done
will perk up wonderfully. Friend
ing, Portland.
,
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more than a certain number of times.
OBSTINATE
COUGH
Mac’s
Cough Syrup
$1 per bottle
Brown Truck
Lodge Directory
I
Oregon Dairy Holds
A Strong Appeal
Farms for livestock other than
dairy cnttl" nl.-o receive their share
of inquiry in the Land Settlement
Department. When George Winkler
came to Oregon from California
last fall, he t.nd his bride found
it nn hi il honeymoon land. But
nmre th., i , :nt, they determined
<> build ¡he v future farm home
on
no of the promising unim
proved aci
■ they observed here.
They have now written for aid
in the r< lection of a 200-acre foot
hill ranch where they can raise
cattle, sheep and |mgs.
Ready to move to Oregon also
s J. B. Ba ti.- n, a Kansas farmer
who <li s*
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interest hie two
oils in Oiei. n where he is eager
poultry business.
Dairy farming in Oregon holds
a strong appeal to the dairymen
of Wisconsin and others noted for
their success in that industry. That
is the indication of numerous let
ters of inquiry received by the
Land Settlement Department of the
state and Portland Chambers of
Commerce.
From Green County, Wisconsin
comes a letter signed by J. S. Par
sons setting forth his desire to
dispose of his two hundred acre
dairy farm there and come to Gro i
gon where the winters are milder,
Of similar ambition is Henry W.
Notice of
<
Constable's Sale
Weitlieh who now resides on a
farm in Missouri where he has de-
NOTICE Is hereby given thut,
voted the working years of hh on Friday the 22nd day of Jan-
uary, 1927 at the hour of 1:30
life to dairying,
That their desire in justified v o’clock p. tv i’ . at Gilby Motor Co.,
ice St.. Vernonia. Ore-
borne out by the experience of garage. Bridg
one of Oregon’s recent new set- gon, 1 will -ell at public auction
th enbed personal
tiers, A. B. Van Monk, who came the follow h
from Wisconsin over a year ago property, to ' wit:
and was placed through the Land
Ono Ford c ei e automobile; Ore-
Settlement Department in Washing gon license 1 >_’»< No. 54856; Mo-
ton county. Mr. Vnn Mook is a tor No. 6.2; 26.297.
Hollander who arrived in Oregon
Sale purs
to an execution
after many years of successful ex issued out o the Justice Court of
perience in dairying. Encouraging the S’ate of Ore -on. for the fourth
other Holland farmers to follow District of Columbia County.
County, in
his example, he says. "Our cows an action at
;
law wherein Gilby
are doing well. We really get more Motor Compan
nn Oregon Cor-
milk here than we used to get in poration. obtained judgment a-
Wisconsin. We have better cows, gainst II. W. Stevens in the sum of
hut I believe that the climate is $168 00. with interest thereon from
the principal reason.
the 10th day of January, 1926,
to date; further sum of forty dol
lars; and costs and disbursements
therein incurred; Wherein judge
ment was entered and execution
issued on the 29th day of Dec
ember, 1926.
W. J. KELLY,
Constable fourth District of Col
umbia County, Oregon.
Record Membership In
Teachers Association
State Laundry Company
FOR GOOD LAUNDRY WORK
We call and deliver TUESDAYS and
FRIDAYS—Leave orders with S. Wells,
Tailor, Phone MAin 891
I. O.O.F. —V ernonia L odgb , N o . 24«,
meets every Tuesday night at 8:00
o’clock, in Grange Hall
J. W. ROSE, N. G.
M. L. GAINES, Sic.
t
VERNONIA TEMPLE No. 61
PYTHIAN SISTERS
Meets every Wednesday night on the
lower floor of the Grange Hall. AB
visiting Sisters and Brothers wet-
come.
MARJORIE COLE, M E. C.
PEARL WILKERSON, K.ofR.C
NEHALEM
The Parent-Teacher accociation of
Vernonia, who started holding two
meetings a month instead of one
in December, have outlined their
programs for the next five months
The program follows:
Afternoon Meeting: January 14
drug habits, music refreshments.
Evening meeting, February 7.
Diet for children and how to train
them. General discussion by moth
ers.
,
Afternoon Meeting; February 18.
Founders day. Special program.
Evening meeting: March 7. Dad
dy’s night program by daddies.
Afternoon Meeting: March 18.
Home economies, music.
Evening meeting: April 4. Hum
ane education.
Afternoon meeting. April 15.
Beautifying school grounds, homes,
town.
Evening meeting. May 2. Chil-1
dren’s
reading
months.
during
summer i
NEW
SERVICE BATTERIES
All Sizes
Now is the time of year your battery should
be kept fully charged and in tip-top shape.
Your battery recharged, painted with acid- <1-50
proof paint and acid adjusted, all for ....... *
Radio batteries and others not requiring Cl .Aft
removal or installation in car
Rent Batteries, per day
.... 25c
CHAPTER NO. 153
O. E. S. — Regular
communication first
third Wednes-
of each month,
visiting sisters
brothers .wel
come.
ALICE GOODING, W. M.
MAE BERGMAN, 3ec’y.
VERNONIA
GRANGE
The Vernonia Grange meets on th
•second Saturday of every month a.
7:30 P. M. Any members of th
Grange living in or near Veraoaia.
or visiting in the community, ar
cordially invited to attend.
F. E. MAI.MSTKN, Soo
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MOUNTAIN HEART
°°n
OTOR
G iLBY M otor
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r "LECCA LODGE No. 243. I.O.OiF
Meets every second and Fourth
Thui ii iy»in Grange Hall—Vernonia
' '«¡tor- :iwavs welcome
¡Mrs! I’d.a Kilby. N. G.
M.IS. IRENE SPENCER, Sec’y