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» VERNONIA EAGLE « Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A. T. W. LARA WAY | w ill prompt and impel us to let the world i F. 4 A. M., meets at Grange know. Cany the message to those who Physician and Surgeon .Hall every Second and j fhursday $2 per year in Advance 'seek new homes and field in which to Vernonia Oregon | work. The message needs no exaggera Fourth Thursday nights. K. A. McNeill, Secretary. iutered as Secund Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the tion but it needs to be delivered. Visitors Welcome Basic conditions are essentially sound Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879 J. MASON DILLARD and with the strengthened credit the country is in a condition for a forward Chevrolet Light Delivery ATTORNEY-AT-LAW MARK E. MOE, Editor movement. There will unquestionably be in A-l condition. Suitable Next to Carkin Cleaning Works IJere Every Wednesday a great renewal of business activities in ¡for creamery, or hauling of DO YOU BELIEVE IN STEALING the coming months. With this removal we produce. Small down pay I. O.O.F.—V ernunia L odge , N o . 246, are entitled to our full share, nothing less, i SUGAR meets every Tuesday night at 8:00 DR. ELLA WIGHT We are so very much the creatures of ment, your own terms on DR. C. J. WIGHT o'clock, in Grange Hall We have all hearel the complaint voic our own will that the determination to balance. CHIROPRACTORS J. W. ROSE, N. G. Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach, ed that insurance companies delayed set make a better and greater Vernonia, ac Gilby Motor Co. M. L. GAINES, S;c. Liver and Intestinal Troubles tlement of fire losses in order to “beat” companied by real effort,- will assuredly Delayed Menstruation the insured on his claim. No more settle prove successful. Keep this ever uppermost in your mind. ment was ever made. In their effort to Vernonia Pott be fair and eliminate just such criticism, Your city is going to be just what you 119, American Le- LESTER SHEELEY gion. Meets second insurance companies generally make choose to make it. Attorney-at-Law and fourth Tues- speedy settlements. In many cases they i days each month, 8 Be WeU Vernonia IT WAS AN EYESORE ONCE have found themselves almost without p.m. H. E. Mc- Oregon Endocrine Glands are the source public support in claims where they felt Graw, Commander. of Prostate, Kidney, Bladder and Constipation troubles, caui- Lee Schwab, Adj. The hitching post has taken its place they were being imposed upon. ing High Blood Press ure, Rheumatism, Loss of Vitality. American _ Legion Auxiliary The public will close its eyes to rob with those other departed symbols of an DR. W. H. HURLEY My remarkable treatment re Meets first and third Mondays of energizes these glands, restoring bery of an insurance company through older civilization, the hansom cab, the each month at Legion hall, 7:3Q health and vitality. Send today DENTISTRY AND X-RAY for FREE descriptive book. . p.m. Visitors welcome. padded loss figuies, when it would hold cigar store wooden Indian, the watering Evenings by Appointment Mrs. II. E. McGraw, President. D r .H.Z .THARP. MJ), Office over Brown Furniture ■e Store. S its hands in honor if some poor devil trough and the livery stable. Those who sts Mrs. Earl Washburn, Secretary. PjtttvR. Bloch. ^Portland.,Ore. Vernonia Oregon stole a sack of sugar from a grocery store have lived to see the home town grow Neither offense should be countenanced from a village of the horse-age to a city Nehalem but why wink at the insurance robbery of the motor-age and those who have ï r 153, O. E. S. M. D. COLE Regular communi * Î nigiated from village to city will remer; Ä any more than the store robbery? cation first and Payment of excessive or unjustified in iei the old hitching post with its iron Brown Truck third Wednesdays DENTIST surance claims not only robs insu anci horsehead, or the hitching rail in front of each month. and Transfer companies, but it robs the general pub i the gene1 al store in front of which Old All visiting sisters Vernonia Oregon and brothers wel lie which must pay increased insurance Dobbin and the mare—impatient to start come. or home—had stamped deep hollows in rates to make up such losses. c* o a ‘i/t? i F^ssie lapp, W. M. Local and Long Dist The desire of insurance companies t; the earth, which formed mudholes a great- MARK fvcdv LVLKi UKAVCi Leona McGraw, Secretary. hold down excessive loss claims shouk ,-r part of the year. Memorials in Granite and Marble ance Hauling. Yes, now that the hitching post is pass- have public support. The National Board At Reduced Prices '-------------------------------------- of Fire Underwriters has already lister ng into absolescense and extinction there WRITE FOR PARTICULARS ' some 1200 experienced loss adjusters tc is sentiment and romance attached to it VERNONIA GRANGE recommend to companies to considei and remembrance of its lowly state be Icc and Cold Storage ■ • MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO. The Vernonia Grange meet« <n th Fourth and MAin St. Hillsboro. claims, in preference to inexperiencec comes sweet. How different was man’s second Saturday of every month a eaction to it while it dominated village outsiders. 7:30 P. M. Any members of th Storage for Furniture If insurance companies were half ai .uibs! As long as there was a hitching Grange living in or near Vernonia strict in rejecting questionable claims ar lost or ¡ail in front of every store and or visiting in the community, ar and Baggage the housewife of the merchant is in re before the more pretentious homes in Ver- I cordially invited to attend. F. E. MALMSTEN, Sec iecting damaged or inferior goods, fire íonia they were commonly considered eyesores and traffic (pedestrain) obstruet- losses would be materially reduced. W.O.W. Buxton camp No. 655 MOUNTAIN HEART Tel. No. 683. ons. Like so many other things nobody Office meets every Monday night at seven I REBECCA LODGE No. 243. l.O.O.F WE ARE NOT A SPENDTHRIFT issociated romance or tradition with the thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting Corner Bridge and Meets every second and Fourth members welcome. Hitching post until it was in disuse. NATION Weed Ave. Thursdays in Grange Hall—Vernonia Until the historical society lobbies C. A. BARNES C.C. Visitors always welcome During 1926, American savings banks hiuugh a law conserving and restoring the Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G. C. C. DUSTEN CLERK. MRS. IRENE SPENCER. Sec’y gained almost 3,000.000 depositors, ar.c litching posts the sentimental and roman- $1,522,140,000 deposits. There are now ic can see rare specimens of the original 46,762,000 depositois, with $24,696,112, hing by departing from the main motor roads and seeking out the isolated vill- 000 deposits. New England has the largest percent iges of which there still exist a few. age of depositors, with (he highest pel ST. VALENTINE’S DAY! capita deposits, almost $500 per deposit or. In contrast, New Mexico has but $1! What delightful memories it brings to per inhabitant and Texas only $31. February has been designated as the month of BETTER BUSINESS after Some of this apparent difference ir chose wjio have older grown, what tnrills the January inventory and annual lull by Vernonia merchants in general. saving is merely a difference in invest anti hopes to the younger! Spring is coming, with the new spf ng styles in men’s and women’s wear. There is none too young to feel ment habits, and does not represent actual Save your dollars by trading he.e and taking advantage of our constant low conditions of prosperity. But everywhere hiob of the gentle passion; none so prices on general merchandis? guodi < . all k nds. savintrs-bank habit grows; crows; the vast but that his memory goes back to the the savings-bank volume of such funds shows that the day when he first slipped beneath his country is amazingly prosperous, am youthful sweetheart’s door a token of his that it has formed the savings habit and tender feelings for her. I “ 1 is belter io have loved and lost than NAVY BEANS SOLID PACK APPLES found it good. 25c 79c never to have loved at all,” wrote the 4 pounds .... Gallon ........................ poet, and it is true, whether the loss be WHAT OF THE FUTURE? TEA GARDEN BRAND RICE $1-49 25c chat of the lover who has seen his sweet SYRUP, gallon ........ 4 pounds .... What are you going to do about it’.1 heart throw herself into the arms of a One Half gallon 79c The development of your home city ivai swain, or who has stood by her CRACKERS 15c ROGERS GOLDEN SYRUP <1.29 oier in the later years to say a last fare so that it may take the position which 1 pound Gallon well. In either case the mellowing in- it is entitled is st? ictly up to you. GEN* NUT OLEOMAR- One-Half 25c Gallon 65c A vein of gold or a gusher of oil at iluences of love leave their tender mem GARINE, 1 pound ..... SEA LION SARDINES ories, and life is made up of memories. tracts crowds quickly. The word goes as 24c BACON 3 cans ............................. 25c the wind for there will always be the Memories brighten life’s dark corners, af- 1 pound BOCANCO BRAND PEAS 15c throng whose ears are attended to alluring foid solace to the wounded heart and are SWIFT ’S JEWEL 17lZ’r Per can ......... news of that character. To get rich quick ihe things dreams are made of. SHORTENING, 1 lb. LIPTON TEA, is their dream and goal. A rumor is suf 94c EGGS The world is becoming so democratic ficient to send them on what they know 1 pound ....... 95c 3 dozen .......... that the grand manner would be extinct One-Half pound is probably a fool’s chase. 46c BUTTER The most optimistic booster here does except for traffic cops. PINK BAND — BRAND 20c 49c not claim that fortunes may be made 1 pound ........ SALMON, 1 can for ........... without effort. There is no desire among Since the first four years is supposed LOGANBERRIES MOUNTAIN VIEW CORN 25c 79c the people for the development of Wall to form a child' character we can report Gallon can .... I 2 cans for there will be no wild man shortage. ingfords. There are however, a large number o: Smart Style. Lo1 Ladies’ Shoes, all sizes, $4-95 industries needed. legitimate enterprises Physical culture in this country has SHOES up-to-date style ........ from which the returns on the investment progressed to the point where very few will prove highly remunerative. Outside people say “athalete.” CHILDREN’S SHOES $1-39 investors have sensed some of the attrac Large assortment . Few things in the world taste as good tive opportunities. They have their eye on the city and if sufficently encouiaget as they look, and it may be that this is MEN’S OVERALLS $1-29 they will come here and invest. Ot course true of flappers, too. All sizes ............. we want them and will welcome the out Civilization is a complicated system side capital but why wait for them; why MEN’S SHIRTS $1.49 not accept the opportunities < urselves? that defeats its own ends by making it There is something more to be done for easier for weaklings to survive. $3.50 value for your city. Something which is more im portant right now than the investment of Another good way to keep from eating MEN’S AND CHILDREN’S <9.39 dollars ... ............... and cents and that is the awaken- : too much is to buy a used car and keep SWEATERS ...................... ing of a great local . pir;t. Thesni’it which it in running order. .«imita tagle 4* BARGAIN Aland ; Specialist Lodge Directory Better Business BARGAINS ¡N GROCERIES Broome-Hom mock The wedding of Mis* T mer Broom ami Note Homnwck both of thi« city, occured in Kel*o S um day, according to late repoit . Both young people are well known in Vernonia and will make their home here. Shower For Bride Mrs. C. Nicar and Ml*. R. Tv-. rone were hosts at a shower given I Blankenship, Mrs. McKillop. Mrs. nt the home of Mrs. Nicar on the ’f. Gründen. Mrs. H. V. Holcomb. A. J. Hnghes, Mrs. Judd O.-A. hill Tuesday tor Mrs. Note < .1rs. reenman, Mrs. Knight. Mrs. Fred llommock who was Miss Tamer Wahlater, Bride and two hostess Broome. Home was beautifully de corated. Refreshments -were served. If you have anything you want Guests were Mrs. 1». Church. to sell, rent or buy. Advertise in Mrs D Marshall. Mrs. A. Miller. the Eagle classified columns. Mrs. .1 E. Cropper. Mrs. McGrcgo-, Mrs. M. Ruhl, Mrs. R. Lilly, Mrs. I Has your subscription expired. A Large Line of Men’s Suits have just arrived— Your inspection is cor dially invited. THE PEOPLE’S STORE M. MURRAY, Manager.