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Thursday, February 17, 1927. cilir Urrnnnia Eagle Issued every Thursday $2 per year in Advance 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 VERNONIA EAGLE like other loans and investments,, how ever, these accounts do not bear interest or pay dividends. This loss to the mer chant is ultimately paid by the public through higher prices. Credit statistics indicate that the great Majority of people pay their bills prompt ly. but the “good pay” must pay the same prices as the “slow pay.” It is another case where the many suffer for the few. SEED CATALOG TIME THE FULL PAGE AD 25' r ann tai conferences held at Cor vel! s in which the school of com- me: ee at the college will cooperate. I vo general topics for study and discussion this year are “The Store,” and ‘•Buying »«o and Selling, ” Delegates will be divided into groups according to the nature of their business, and this is done in the agicultural economic con- ferences. The six groups are gro ceries, department stores, hardware, furniture, drugs, and general stores. Reports of all groups will be com piled and published in bulletin form following the conference. Whether the seed catalog is a supe stition or a bad habit is a much dispu ;e I As the newspaper man looks over ex- quetion and worthy of the consider i.it :, hanges coming from various parts of Oregon Girls Champion of any Wednesday Night Debating Club, the country, he is impicssed with the Wins Calf Club Honors but that it is as inevitable in January i; great use tnat is being made of advertis \ picture and story of Carmen New Year’s day is indubitable. ing. The advertising space used in nevvs- r. n:.' 1? of Union county, decl:.red Next to a certain mail order house cat iupp s has greatly increased. the national all-round champ’on alog and before the almanac it is the most % Take the big city dailies, for instance, Ho stein calf club girl for 19SC read of the family shelf of free literature. you took the newspaper which before appears in the December issue of It might be suggested that it is also th > ■ war us' d to tun an average of abou the Calf News, a monthly paper most popular picture book on the sitting p -gi s, the chances ate that that papei published by the extension service the IIohtein-Freisan association. room table. • ' be running today from 24 pages to of Me. e than 25,000 boys and girls What visions of giant com stalks, bal- 2 The enlargement is not primarily due receive this paper, as it is sent to loon size cabbage, over-populated potato : > the use of more news, though the space every club member owning a Hol hills, tender lettuce, dazzling beautiful iver to reading matter has increased, stein animal. During 1927 Miss flowers and trim hedges are reared in th The big share of the increase is due to Daniels’ picture will appear in each issue of the paper in the upper mind’s eye of dad and mother when the advertising. t hand corner of the f ont new catalog from the seed company ar It is interesting .. also to see how many rigt page. rives. They pore through its leaves select concerns and interests theie are that are As a result of her outstanding ing the vanties they will plant in the aldng big ads of a half p or full page record in the northwest she was the Hollywood special back yard garden in the spring. r two . pages. The fact th _ J many con- awarded heifer offered each year by Harold And the kids are not immune from th’, r». ms ate willing to put up the money Stimson of Hollywood Farms, Wash seed-mania. They fight for the new seed ¿or this big display shows how thorough- thorough ington, at the Pacific International catalog and thumb through its pages in ly standaidized advertising has become, Livestock exposition. Bearch of good things to eat and the plant' *ind how much it is depended upon for and vegetables they will have in thei’ results by those who use it persistently For SALE or TRADE fgardens in the spring. With the s ■ d cat? anrl with judgment. Fortunes are being ogs the kiddies extend the planting, cui made every day through advertising, and I have a 40 acre ranch that 1 tivating and harvesting over all 12 month by this means a multitude of business men will sell, or trade for town property. of the year with the best results attained aie rising out of small and inferior posit- Thirty acres under cultivation and when the garden patches of the grown-up ions into leadership in the business com- 10 acres in timber. Good house and nicely fixed inside. folks are lying idle. munity. It is the former Mellinger ranch The erroneous impression that spring you know where it is call and see fever is first contracted in the spring from Gold is one of the few things in the If it. It is 1 Mt miles from town on the early buds or the twitter of the north world that can either a disease or a stony point road below city resevoir. bound birdlife is corrected every Januan remedy. « If you don’t know where it is, in when the mail man delivers the fit st se> quire at the Eagle office for Rat cliffe and I will be glad to show you catalog, with its appetizing picture c Now and then you see a fellow who where it is. , fresh garden vegetables, early flowei ’ eL 'O become a howling success by com on the cob, red luscious strawbe r nothing but howling. mellow Canteloupe, and ripening f u VERNONIA MILL The mail order seed houses know the Only a short time now until we will be FOR SALE busines as well as man’s failings. co sick to work and too well to stay Including the timber, homo from fishing. I teams, and all equip A PAYING POLICY I _____ Golf won’t take the place of basketball ment. Lindsay Lumber Co. While the program for national thri as long as most men think golf scores are week set anart only one day for the ob typographical errors. servance of “Pay Your Bills Promptly,” business interests in one city considered With eighteen hours a day to worry this phase of thrift so important that the; about everything some people spend it PHOTOS turned over the entire week to preachiiw all worrying about how they look. this creed of good credit. The week w:> also re-christened “Pay Your Bills Prom Here’s a bit of refreshing news. The Let the Picture Tell The ptly Week.” United States eats almost $300,000,000 Stoiy. This campaign was not conceived an;’ worth- of ice cream every year. engineered as a collection scheme. Thi HERB M. SALT husiness men sponsoring it expected to The man who thinks he cannot be benefit from it, but they also saw in thi fooled already is. Next Door to Postof- Jdan profit for their customers. Creditor inanced the campaign to the mutual A .cynic is a man who mistakes cheer benefit of both creditors and debtors. ss for ignorance. fulness Mercantile accounts are not carried for thirty days or longer without expense o Only thing vou can tell by some watches the business holding them. Until paid is what time it isn’t, every store account represents an invest- -------- ment by the merchant and is the equil i- Gasoline was never plentiful, so look I ent to a cash loan to the customer. Un- out for an increase in price. Knights of Pythias Regain Membership In announcing the two monthf campaign to save membership, th< supreme chancellor is following n program adopted by the suprem lodge at the recent session. The effort will not be confined t< reaching the members of nny lodge who still live in the city when they became members, but will through a clearing house establish ed in each state and province make an effort to reclaim those who have lost contact with the order by moving to other state - and cities. The grand keeper of records and seal will report to lodges the names of such former Pythians living in the jurisdiction of the lodge, the reports beinv compiled from data supplied by every keeper of records and seal in such grand domain. Under this plan the master of finance and the keeper of records and seal of each lodge are the hay men. They will supply the local committee with data regard- ing every resident member who has been lost to the order and the names and last known addresses of those who have moved away. By using check, supreme lodge of ficers except to save fifty per cent of the losses sustained during the last five years. Among the activities of the or der expected to interest the man who has lost contact in recent years, is the concerted movement over the supreme domain to estab- ish orphan’s homes and homes for he aged Pythian and his wife. Eighteen such homes are now bo ng operated an I more than 3,060 children and adults are being cared 'or under grand lodge jurisdiction. Another feature is the broad and iberal provisions offered the Py thian membership for protection or he family through membership in the insurance department. This branch of the order has recently announced seven new plans of protection offering exceptionally lib eral options for cash loans, sur- render values, double indemity and total disability benefits to insured members. The department, now nearing its fiftieth year, has paid o widows and orphans of members more than $3,300 $3.300 daily for the half century. It is recognized by the parent body as the home sav- ing station of the order. 4L Employment Survey Shows Increase in 1926 showed 12,000 more workers in 1926 than in the previous year. For mining and minerals the fig ures were approximately the same. Fishing activities showed a decrease of 1000 workers from 1925. Agriculture, in which for the purpose of the survey are also included live stock and dairying, showed a gain of 3000 workers during 1926. The total employed under this heading was 332,000 workers in 1925 and 335,000 work- ers in 1926. This is the largest group in the survey, General manu- facturing is next with 261.000 em ployed: then “merchandising, bank ing. investment, etc.,” with 146,- 000 eniployed; and then logging and lumber manufacturing with an average of 107.000 employed during 1926. At the employment peak of the year, late September. 1926, close to 1,400,000 men and women were employed. The low point of the year’s employment began with the New Year and continued through out January and February, rising gradually to the September peak and then rapidly falling to the December low, which compares with January and February. Tort land, Jan. 31 —A pproximate- ly 21.500 more mon and women wi-o gainfully employed in the Pacific Northwest during 1926 than there were in 1925, accordin'» to the 4L «•mplowuent survey ju.it completed by the organization and CORVALLIS FiOST TO published in the current issue of RETAIL MERCHANTS the Four L Lumber News. Employment in general manu O. A. C. Feb., 7—Retail mer facturing. in which is included chants from all over Oregon will woodworking plants and paper mills gather here Sunday February 13 showed a gain over 1925 of 14.000 for a four-day annual convention workers. The high point for log- and business conference. This will ging and lumber manufacturing be the first of a series of four During 1926, forest service built 53 miles road and 176 miles trail in Whitman forest. A : ARGAIN Chevrolet Light Delivery in A-l condition. Suitable for creamery, or hauling of produce. Small down pay ment, your own terms on balance. Gilby Motor Co, Lodge Directory W.O.W. Buxton camp No. 655 meets every Monday night at seven thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting members welcome. C'. A. BARNES C.C. C. C. DUSTEN CLERK. Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A. F. i A. M., meets at Grange lull every Second and Gland Specialist •'ourth Thursday nights. K. A. McNeill, Secretary. Visitor* Welcome Be Well Endocrine Glands are the source of Prostate, Kidney, Bladder and Constipation trouble«, caus- j ing High Blood Pressure,! Rheumatism, Loss of Vitality. My remarkable treatment re energizes these glands, restoring health and vitality. Send today for FREE descriptive book. DR.H.Z.THARP. MJ). ìzì Pituvft. Blcctc-Port land..Ore. I. O. O. F. —V eknonia L odge , N o . 246, meet* every Tuesday night at 8:00 >’cl<»ck. in Grange Hall J. W. ROSE, N. G. M. L. GAINES, S?c. Brewii Truck I Vernonia Post 119, American Le- gion. Meets second and fourth Tues- days each month. 8 p.ra. H. ____ E. ____ Mc- Graw, Commander. Lee Schwab, Adj. and Transfer * Local and Long Dist ance Hauling. Ice and Cold Storage Storage for Furniture and Baggage No. 683. Office Corner Bridge and Weed Ave. American Legion Auxiliary Meets first ai ____ _____ nd third Mondays of each month at Legion hall, *7:30 p.m. Visitors welcome. Mrs. H. E. McGraw, President. Mrs. Earl Washburn, Secretary. Nehalem >r 1S3, O. E. 8. Regular communi oation first and third Wednesdays of each month. All visiting sisters and brothers wel come. Bessie Tapp, W. M. Leona McGraw, Secretary. VERNONIA GRANGE The Vernonia Grange meets en th second Saturday of every month a 7:30 P. M. Any members of th Grange living in or near Vernonia or visiting in the community, ar cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Minnie Malmsten, Secretary MOUNTAIN HEART REBECCA LODGE No. 243. I.O.O.F Meets every second and Foartfa Thursdays in Grange Hall—Vernonia Visitors always welcome Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G. MRS. IRENE SPENCER, Sec’y T. W. LARAWAY Physician and Surgeon Oregon V emonia J. MASON DILLARD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Spring Goods Have Arrived to Carkin Cleaning Works ei e Every Wednesday DR. ELLA WIGHT DR. C. J. WIGHT The combined endorse ment of the better bus iness men in any com munity usually desig nates the home bank in that community. We are especially proud of the representative men of this community who have made this their banking headquarters. Weare going to put on A SALE Stalling Friday Feb- ruary 26 and running to Monday February 28. We invite you all to come in and take ad- vantage of the bar gains as we will have many things to close out at a big reduction. COREY ECONOMY STORE No increase will be demanded for ..itional forest grazing fees, thio year. BANK OF VERNONIA I Vernonia, Oregon CHIROPRACTORS l'umatism, Neuritis, Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Troubles Delayed Menstruation LESTER SHEELEY Attorney-at-Law Oregon Vernonia DR. W. H. HURLEY DENTISTRY AND X-RAY Evenings by Appointment Office over Brown Furniture Store. Vernonia Oregon M. D. COLE DENTIST Vernonia Oregon MARK EVERY GRAVE Memorials in Granite and Marble At Reduced Prices WRITE FOR PARTICULARS MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO. Fourth and MAin St Hillsboro.