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VERNONIA EAGLE Thursday, January 20, 1927. (Ehr 'thriuniia Hayle Issued every Thursday $2 pei’ year in Advance —X.---------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Entered as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879 MARK E. MOE, Editor BACK UP NEWSPAPERS Frequently we are so closely associated with institutions or a commodity that we do not appreciate their worth. This ap plies in general to newspapers. Every city, town and hamlet has its newspapers. Even sometimes a few houses and a store and garage at a “wide place in the road” con stitute excuse enough for the starting of a newspaper and not infrequently that wide place in the road becomes a town and when it does one may rest assured that that newspaper that seemed to have had no excuse for beginning life had a veiy important part to play in the com munity’s unexpected development. So it is all along the line of progress. No city ever gets far without the sincere cooperation of newspapers. Yet no insti tution in a city ever gets less thanks or receives more abuse. Probably no other one thing is a bet ter index to a town than its weekly pub lications. Very often that is about all the stranger has to go by in making up his mind about a community. If the newspa per that falls into his hands is a bright- looking sheet, full of news and has a pros perous air, the stranger is certain to judge that it was published in a live, progressive town. Those who read their weekly newspa pers and carelessly throws them aside, overlook the fact that they are not doing all for their town that the can. If those newspapei-s instead of being destroyed were placed in wrappers and mailed from time to time to friends and relatives at a distance, the good that could be ac complished would soon be reflected in the city’s growth. Chambers of Commerce are frequently blamed for not getting out more boost literature to be sent abroad. Those who raise these complaints could do a great deal themselves by sending out the litera ture that comes into their own hands in the form of local periodicals. Rest assur ed there is no business individual in a town more interested in the growth of his community than is the editor or pub lisher, for as the town grows he grows. at Devil’s Lake. Representative A. E. Allen is working J. Sportsmen H. Bush, Wayne Lappe, Vir hard at the state capitol. Reports have gil Drorbaugh and Emil Messing took advantage of the last week been received here from him on many for duck hunting this season by bills already, with requests for instructions driving to Devil’s lake, where Dror baugh in case there are objections to the measur honors. and Messing carried off the es proposed. The chamber of commerce Jack Bush was unanimously elect deep sea fisherman, taking high took action on the proposed bridge bill ed score at catching crabs. The party and Mr. Alten was duly informed of Ver-1 I reported a successful and pleasant nonia’s posdtion on the matter. He can j trip. ___________________ be depended upon to work for the in SNAG FETTERS’ GANG terests of the whole county—they should OF OUTLAWS be glad they elected him. Snag Fetters had the most des- perate gang of outlaws in Hnr- rington county. The sheriff and his deputies were at their wits’ The character of the individual may be end for a solution to their prob Just that day the outlaws very largely guaged by the measure of lem. had stolen 8000 head of cattle from loyalty he exercises toward the person or right under their noses. The sher institution that provides him with employ iff’s posses were scraping the hills ment. A real ingrate is the person who is for a trace of them. But they disloyal to the one to whom he owes the were too slick for old Sheriff Jim. Sheriff Jim had a deputy that obligation of service. he had nicknamed “Talker Tom.” The test which may be applied to the And he surely lived up to hi«- individual is equally good when applied name. Indeed, it was thought that could do nothing but talk, •But to a group of persons, organized to act he soon found out better, as you as a unit. An act of unfairness is no less they will soon see. Talker Tom wns writin" a letter culpable because it is committed by a to h's wife, when Snay Fetters ;roup rather than by an individual. came up the stens. gun in hand, commanded them to “stick 'em There are perons who feel under cer and up.” Everybody’s hands went tain obligations to be loyal to an indivi toward the ceiling—all but Talker Tom’f and he kept right on writ dual who is their employer though they ing. When he had finished writing, have no such feeling when their employer he said ns though nothing had hap pened. “Thar now. that’s done; is a corporation. It is the same idea that nnd if she don’t get this I will be tules the man who believes he is honest in a pretty pickle. Wouldn’t you hate *o be in my place if she but would ride free on a public convey (don ’t?” ance if he could. Here he broke off and looked around. “Hsr, har! Well, what Many manufacturers and other employ- ’ | you all doin ’, pickin’ grapes or I annlnot*' ’ He looked all around ers complain that they are paying the;anoles? on Snag Fet / their bus- — h with £ i eyes his rested highest wages in the history of gun in his hand, laughing his head off. iness, but say that production has not Tom had $40 Ivins’ »•> increased and that the quality of the work, the Talker table beside him. One of *he eang esme over to pick it up, but if anything, has deteriorated. couldn’t get that far. Up came It is plain that there is need of a return he Talker Tom’s two 25.30’s. Two to the principle of “an honest day’s work orange spurts of flame, and Snag ’ guns crashed to the floor. for an honest day’s pay.” Any person who Fetters All of them took to their heels as fast as they could go. takes wages without an effort to give Tom had saved the money adequate return should not profess to con of Tnlker the saloon keeper and his own sider himself in the class of honest men. $40 to boot. But all he cared about it was his own money. By CHRISTINE RAINEY. ABHORRENCE OF THE SLOUCH ______ Sixth grde, Vernonia. LOYALTY IN SERVICE be ignored even though it cornea The number of people using the about mainly through free exer national forests for recreation in cise by the people of their right 1925 was one-third greater than. to enter upon the forests as they in the preceding year, and five | choose for all proper and lawful times as * great as in 1917. This ’ purpose». form of use represents in the pro-j I As has been repeatedly pointed perties as a sort of by-produc*. out before, the primary i.’uiaite The economical anti social im- to meet this hazard is, Xiproved portance of thia by-product is of camp grounds made fire-proof, far too material consequence to supplied with pure water and pro- RECREATION Anita Stewart, who plays the Vernonia Oregon daughter of the man who is mur- dereed by telephone in “Whispering Wires,” Fox Film version of the J. MASON DILLARD stage play at the Majestic Saturday ATTORNEY-AT-LAW which Albert Ray directed, is known in Filmland as “the good Next to Carkin Cleaning Works luck” actress. She has never ap Here Every Wednesday peared in a screen drama which was not a success. DR. ELLA WIGHT The love of a young district at- DR. C. J. WIGHT torney for a young adventuress CHIROPRACTORS wso is a member of a gang oi jewel thieves, leads to some very Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Troubles interesting as well as amusing sit Delayed Menstruation uatioqs in Fox Films screen ver sion of Golden’s stage hit, “Going Crooked,” at the Majestic Thur» LESTER SHEELEY day. For poignancy, sweeping drama Attorney-at-Law and comedy of the highest order— for geed, wholesome entertainment, Vernonia Oregon in othr words—see Fox Films ver sion of “The Return of Peter Grimm,” at the Majestic Friday. DR. W. H. HURLEY DENTISTRY AND X-RAY Even njs by Appointment Office ov. >• Diuvvn Furniture Store. Thq Ashland American, now be- Vernonia Oregon ing published by Paul Robinson. Former pub. aher of the Eagle, has reached the exchange desk. It has M. D. COLE the same make-up as the Central Point American, the same equip ment being used. He states that DENTIST only two days were permitted for issuing the paper, owing to the 1 Vernonia Oregon time taken up by moving and set I ting up machinery. He says, “Noth ing suits us better than sociability. MARK EVERY GRAVE Come in the American office ar.d meet us, roast us or welcome us. Memorials in Granite and Marble We’re gentle. At Reduced Prices WRITE FOR PARTICULARS Publishes Ashland Paper. j”...... PORTUND - VERNONIA I MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO. Fourth and MAin St. Truck Line Veinonia Office At trouble. E. A. Russell, Klamath Falls, I appendicitis. Remember the above dnte that consultation on tills Lip will b< free and that hia treatment is dif ferent. Married women must be ac companied by their husbands. Address: 211 Bradbury building, If you have no use for an article and someone else would, advertise Los Angeles. California. 243* it in the classified column. vided with sanitary toilets and means for garbage disposal. The cost of such improvements is re- iatively small. All told, 148 ad- ditional camp grounds were at least partially equipped during the year, increasing the number to 599. the E azing Works Avenue. on Portland Office A.uto Freight Terminal E. Water and Yamhill Streets EAst 8226 Office No. 11 YOUR Lodge Directory V/.O.W. Buxton camp No. 655 Rose meets every Monday night at seven Phone MAin 3 13 DELIVER TO Hillsboro. I INSURED CARRIER For SALE or TRADE The hunchback, through illness or in jury, is to be pitied, but there should be I have a 40 acre ranch that 1 only censure for those who through care will sell, or trade for town property. lessness or lassitude grow up and go Thirty acres under cultivation and through life with their chests hollowed 10 acres in timber. Good house and nicely fixed inside. between slouching shoulders. Tramps and loafers slouch because they It is the former Mellinger ranch you know where it is call and see lack that self-respect which braces a If it. It is 1 *4 miles from town on man’s shoulders, but it is undoubtedly true stony point road below city resevoir. that the slouch habit is more often a men If you don’t know where it is, in tal attitude. It is a habit of mind as well quire at the Eagle office for Rat as of body, and reflects slack thinking and cliffe and I will be glad to show you where it is. , slack muscles. Why does one say “he’s no slouch?” Be HELP LITTLE TOWN BUILD BRIDGES cause society has come to associate with Coming to Portland the slouch all that is unbecoming in hu < An act is to be introduced into the Ore man beings. The dictionary defines a gon legislature soon to provide that the slouch as “an awkward, heavy clownish Dr. Mellenthin SPECIALIST territory within the limits of any incorpor- fellow” and the act as “lazy carelessness, In lotarnal MsdMiw tor ths Past iated city as now existing or as may be shiftlessness, or indifference.” So of those Fifteen year« thereafter extended out of the jusisdiction who have none of these qualities one says of the county court or commissioners “he’s no slouch.” DOES NOT OPERATE Slouching is a mark of weakness, dis court of any county for the purpose ot Will b. at BENSON Hotal levying a tax for the constiuction of ease, old age, mental or moral deficiency, roads or bridges outside of the limits of indolence or thoughtlessness. In addition Wednesday ind Thursdiy, Februiry 9, 10. it promotes all of these. Physicians warn Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. such incorporated city. It means that if Vernonia wants (and against drooping shoulders and hollow certainly needs) a new bridge across Rock chests and tne public schools for years Two Day« Only creek tnat the $25,000 cost of such a have trained pupils in right posture and No Charge For Consultation structure will have to paid entirely by the erect carriage. Some may acquire the necessary streng residents of the city if this Wil pa os is a regular gradu- Word has been sent to Representative A th to hold their head up and their should , ate Dr. in Mellenthin medicine and surgery and is E. Allen of Columbia county to use his ers back in the thought that one of the licensed by the state of Oregon. He characteristics which distinguishes man efforts in defeating the bill, and try an does not operate for chronic appen adverse report on the bill when it comes from the lower animals is that man walks dicitis, gall stones, ulcers of stom ach, tonsils or adenoids. from the committee on roads, of which erect. He has to his credit wonderful re he is a member. sults in diseases of the stomach, liv Going broke is a short auto trip. Just because a town has a bridge within er, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart its city limits is no reason why it should ! kidney, bladdtr, bed wetting, catarrh Being at the bottom isn ’ t so bad if you be held up as an unfortunate example. weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments. More than half of the travel over the use it for a foothold. Below are the names of a few of local bridge is made by other than resi You can make most any man feel at • his many satisfied patients in Ore dents of Vernonia. Certainly they should gon: bear a part of the expense of the neces home by starting an argument. Mrs. L. L. Peetz, Moro, heart sity of having a bridge. If this bill trouble. make a It takes all kinds of people to ’ Mrs. F. F. Hager, (daughter should pass, this district would necessarily Marie), Walton, tonsils and ade- have to postpone the building of the world, but only one kind to ruin it. noids. bridge, which is needed right now, in Mrs. E. C. Mulloy, Hillsboro, ul- It is alleged that talk will cure disease. definitely. cer of the leg. Secretary Sheeley of the chamber of Hearing too much talk also tends to make Mrs. Nels Peterson, Skamokaw^, Wash. tonsilitis. commerce has been getting in touch with one sick. Grover C. Gouthier, Coquille, legislators this week in regard to trying to get them to see the light for the sal Many a school child has reason to note colitis and ulcers of stomach. Carl Johnson, Marshfield, vation of small towns to whom this ques the deficient education of its parents when ear Mrs. trouble. it seeks help with its lessons. tion is vital . J. W. Turner, Dallas, stomach T. W. LARA WAY Physician and Surgeon The Majestic thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting members welcome. C. A. BARNES C C. C. C. DUSTEN CLERK. Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A. F. A A. M., meets at Grange 'tall every Second and Fourth Thursday nights. K. A. McNeill, Secretary. Visitors Welcome DOOR For that OBSTINATE COUGH I. O.O.F.—V f . rnonia L odgb , N o . 246, meets every Tuesday night at 8:00 ' o’clock, in Grange Hall 1 J. W. ROSE, N. G. M. L. GAINES, Sac. V.iRNONIA TEMPLE No. 61 PYTHIAN SISTERS ’S Meets every Wednesday night on the lower floor of the Grange Hall. AU visiting Sisters and Brothers wel come. MARJORIE COLE, M. E. C. PEARL WILKERSON, K.ofR.C Cough Syrup $1- per bottle at Mac’s Pharmacy Vernonia Post 119, . American La- (ion. Meets second and fourth Tues- days each i month, 8 p.m. H. E. Mc- Graw, , Commander. ______ Lee Schwab, Adj. American Legion Auxiliary Meets first and third Mondays of each month at Legion hall, 7:30 p.m. Visitors welcome. Mrs. H. E. McGraw, President. Mrs. Earl Washburn, Secretary. Nehalem Brown Truck and Transfer < Local and Long Dist ance Hauling. Chapter 153, O. E. 3. Regular communi cation first and third Wednesdays I of each month. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. j Bessie Tapp, W. M. | Leona McGraw, Secretary. VERNONIA Ice and Cold Storage Storage for Furniture and Baggage GRANGE The Vernonia Grange meets on th ; second Saturday of every month a i 7:30 P. M. Any members of th Grange living in or near Vernonia, or visiting in the community,' ar cordially invited to attend. F. E. MALMSTEN, See MOUNTAIN HEART Tel. No. 683 Office Corner Bridge and Weed Av 2. REBECCA LODGE No. 243. l.O.O.F M. ets every second and Fourth Thursdays in Grange Hall—Vernonia Visitors always welcome ILs. Fdna Kilby, N. G. MRS. IRENE SPENCER, Sec y