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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Vernonia, Oregon
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Attorney-at-Law
Oregon
Vernonia
DR. W. H. HURLEY
DENTISTRY AND X-RAY
Evenings by Appointment
Office over Brown Furniture Store.
Vernonia
Oregon
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DENTIST
Vernonia
Oregon
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