VERNONIA
Thursday, February 24, 1927.
EAGLE
I neatly and not fadishly, and we can dress
Tell us a news item an J v.e
well with out expensive clothing. We can 1
will tell the public. Drop it ia I .
be neat in appearance without a new suit;
$2 per year in Advance
Iseut:! every Thursday
box outside the door, or phone .
i we can be clean; our shoes can be clean,
your convenience.
En.-red as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the land net ran down at the heel, and our
i hat can reflect good taste.
1. c Off:« at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
From page 1
Act of March 3, 1879
i “The first thing I notice about a woman have certainly had very good nights
is hei hat and then I look at her shoes,” rest.
Chevrolet Light Delivery
MARK E. MOE, Editor
is the observation of a Vernonia man. Yesterday we took a drive to fin A-l condition. Suitable
who dresses well, but not expensively, and St. Petersburg, 19 miles the other
BOOSTERS WANTED
of Tampa bay, going across for creamery, or hauling of
W.O.W. Buxton camp No. (1'5
whose wife dresses well, but not expen side
the- famous Gandy bridge, which
meets every Monday in ' ! at ■
a
¡produce.
Small
down
pay
sively.
is six miles long from the end of
A town has no place for the knocker;
nt tho Grange Ila'I' Vi-
“A good front” gets one by; it carries one approach to the other, and ment, your own terms on thirty
members welcome.
a knocker is hardly a man Without a coun- an introduction by itself; it inspiies con about three miles over the water
try, but ns country, his town, or his com fidence; it brings business; it is an am-' of the bay. It is a toll bridge, balance.
C. A. BARNES C.C.
shortens the distance around
munity ha.;, little use for him.
C. C. DUSTEN CLr.RH.
Gilby
Motor
Co.
bassador of commercial progress; it is but
There are all kinds of knockers, as vital to a young man or a young woman; vile bay -about 3U miles. The bridge
is a wide concrete structure
many as there a>e kinds of people. The it is vital to tne middle aged; it is de a very pretty drive.
Vernonia Lodge, No. 181 A.
thriving city is filled with boosters-Mjoost- cidedly pleasing in people of old age. st _ Petersburg is really
F. A A. M., meets at Grange
eis who so cut number the knockers that We, all of us, like to meet folks with “a tourist center of this part of
,'.I
every
Second
and
their knocking does not count for much. good front.” We ought to cultivate the state, although there are many
from
where
people
mirth Thursday nighes.
We like the boosters. Sometimes they habit of always having “a good front.” places
north spend the winter. The
K. A. McNeill, S< cr
. .
are super-enthusiastic, or, rather, overen- “A o
__ front” will a put a man or a of St. Petersburg lies on a
good
Visitors
Welcome
thusiastic is the better word. But they are woman" to the front in a" community, and insula between Tampa bay
always enthusiastic for their home town “a good front” is never “down at the the Gulf, while low sand islands
or the cause in which they are interested, heel.” “A good front” is slang for being or keys extend along the Gulf
shore line and have bathing beach
and they are never to be found hanging well dressed.
es, hotels and small settlements.
♦ * V- «
around somewhere knocking this and
It is said about 100,000 tourists
winter
at
St.
Petersburg,
and
dur-
i
knocking that. No, a booster is not built
I. O.O.F.—V eknonia L oi ge . No. 24’,
ANONYMOUS CONTIBRUTIONS
ing the summer season the city
meets every Tuesday night at 8.<
that way.
is practically deserted. The streets
o’clock, in Grange Hall
We must have these boosters; they are
Communications of all natures are re are neat, the stores up-to-date and
just as necessary to the successful enter ceived 'either through the mail or left more attempt made in beautifying
J. W. ROSE, N. G.
the homes than we have generally
pci- as daylight is to the earth.
M. L. GAINES, Stc.
on the editor’s desk by well-wishing per seen around here, They have an
Knockers are found everywhere just the sons with the evident intent of helping outdoor
postoffice, claiming it to
m«- as the boosters, but, let us all be the newspaper, and many of them are be the only one in tiie United
<3
Ihiu.l iid for it, the boosters ae always not signed. A poem was received last States, but they overlooked Hono
Vernonia Post
119, American Lc-
far .
v in the lead; usual!7, the knock week through the mail with a beautiful lulu. It may be the only one on
On three sides of the
gion. Meets second
ers • ■ “ he found in the rear, where it is thought expressed, and the poem is wor mainland. postof
f ice boxes are open
and fourth Tucs-
« • fp” f. r them, perhaps. They flock to- th v of being printed, but with the meaning build:ng
to the eornuors from the Streets,
days each month. 8
geth • hut even then they fail to m: ake
' of a few words not clear and no way in with general delivery wuiaoe.a
p.m.
11. E. Mc-
Grew.
, Co ■r mnder.
one side also.
a crowd, as a rale.
which to get in touch with the author, From the city we drove a
Lee Schv ab, Adj.
But ti e greatest booster is he who
..... con-
..... the effort is wasted.
Amciican Legiun Au::
y
Please turn to page
Meets first and third Sb; »..-. ’
verts the knocker into a booster-—“makes
Any signaure that the author wishes
month
at
I
egion
I.
, . -.
him see the light” so that both play the will be printed with a contribution and
Visitors '“eij-ome.
game as team-mates ever after.
II. K. McGri
1 ■
articles or news of any constructive or
Earl Washburn, Scc:-<: > .
A town has no place for the knocker, beneficial nature will likely be printed,
The
it matters not whether he knocks the town, but please let us know whom we have
-m ••spo. or its citizens. Show us n to thank for the courtesy.
ha erJpi-prises
ment oi the I..À..C bus Nchelem Cliff pter If?», o. T’ r
man wh I ’ K ’ ■
I
PHliUn:
Wnw
iness mtn in any com II A
w you t
'"•fiori
f t
a n
Absence often makes the heart grow.
-
; e.'.d’aA
citizen extant.
'
fonder of someone else.
munity
usually
desig
month
ASK FOR
ea-:i
7 A ’ 71 ili
■' V*
nates
the
home
bank
"Li.
The dogs of war seldom drag home I
bi-.re._-
anything except a deficit.
AT
cc-v.e.
in that community. We
at the hoe1”—it speaks
i » . V I IU i « n
Bessie Tapp, W. M.
are especially proud of Leona M.-Grav.. Seerstar;.'.
• in- character is judged largely J Judging by Monday’s papers, the best
g r ; •*•»»»’!
whole fortune may b? cleperd- safety zone on Sunday is the home.
the representative men i
h ■ so, young man, young woman, I
start in i' ht, and never bo “ran down i Gm den-spading marathons will become
of this community who
VERNONIA
GRANGE
at the hr eel.”
i popular when a new brand of human na
have made this their
Ail of i> ■ we it o ourseh’O;', our f.am- ture sprouts.
The Vernonia Grange me«t3 on th
p;(ia .t.vi o’.n- friends to dress well. This
banking headquarters.
second Saturday of every month a
7:30 P. M.
Any members of th
is not an advertisement for the clothing Waste basket: A receptacle in a news
Grange living in or near Vernonia
"
mé chant, or any other
merchant: it is! paper office to hold propaganda until the
or visiting in the community, or
foc bettor
bel I d dress and for what it i janitor gets around at night.
a pion for
cordially invited to attend
mean '. Bettor dress does not mean that;
Mrs. Minnie Malm .»n, Secretary
v s'i'i’l “flot- er mit” in a b'und newl A writer says girls of today do not
MOUNTAIN HEART
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fashion decrees a use more freely than their mothers did,
REBECCA LODGE No. 243. I.O.O.F
'I' ■ well bv dressing but anoearances are against him.
.uhi' lìvriumia tarili.'
BARGAIN
Lodge Directory
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PRODUCTS
Pharmacy
VERNONIA
Vernonia, Oregon
Meets every second and Fourth
Thursdays in Grange Ilall—Vernonia
Visitors always welcome
Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G.
MRS. IRENE SPENCER Soc’y
T. W. LARAWAY
SPECIAL SALE
Friday and Saturday Only
AT THE ECONOMY STORE
OU can go over the $1000 field
with a fine-toothed comb—-and
yost cannot find a r<i«* u hirh wn <i/>-
preachci tiie limiter Oakland Six in
preciafonconstruction and rigidly
controlled quAl'ty!
Diamond boring pitt^n pin buah-
inga to one tendhoutannth of an
Inch; matching all connecting rod»
for venter of gravity and weight; bal
ancing ail rotating parts from tran»-
misslon to rear aale — these are
Rmetier. which constitute the very
indameutals of long life and flaw-
operation and Oakland uses
•haru all I
Oakland*» BHpcr-preafoo workman-
•h<p, rigid ump «< non awd iram-hMtd*
ed
rrol oi
re new commoo
kfv'wlrdga
land. If
t« r»w rUtaf Heelf in rfc« anlendld
perform »«ew of tkcwwmdi of Greater
OaUand
In
phenomenally
•mall miinteeanw com being en-
j*' *ed by fkcweaode<*f Oakland owe*
ar» and—what U moaf fignificant —
1a
ever grawdng tatkiactiaa af
Oakland inwun avwry where.
“In the whole $1000 field
you cannot find a car
which even approaches it
in precision construction”
O..\lanJ 'ix,
J1294. Beaus by FUi<r. AMfrknal
fa. ory. Easy to pay on th* Gsneiad Mater* Time
j~r— Pls—
GI LBV MOTOR COMPANY
VERNONIA. OREGON
Qreater
Physician and Surge tn
Vernonia
J. MASON DILLARD
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Next
to Carkin Cleaning Work-«
Here Every Wednesday
DR. ELLA WIGHT
DR. C. J. WIGHT
CHIROPRACTORS
Rheumatism. Neuritis, Stomach,
Liver and Intestinal Troubles
Delayed Menstruation
LESTER SHEELEY
Attorney-at-Law
DISCOUNT
All goods will be sold at a
20 per cent reduction from
the original price on every
article in the store. For in
stance: An article priced at
$5. will go during the sale
at $4. Don’t miss this oppor
tunity as you know our prices
are always the lowest.
This great cut in prices
means a great saving to you.
Take advantage of it. All
goods will be sold at the
lowest possible price.
DR. AV. H. HURLEY
DENTISTRY AND X-DAY
Evenings by App
Office over Grown Furniture Store.
Vernonia
Or jon
M. D. COLE
DENTIST
Vernonia
Oregon
MARK EVERY GRAVE
Memorials
WRITE
WINNING AND HOI MNP (ydn UHI
Oregon
Vernonia
At
FROÜVX1 Oi C..NMIAL MOTORS
0. egon
in
Granite
Reduced
and
Marbl
Price i
FOR PARTICULARS
MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO.
Fourth and MAin St,
Ilii!-1 .ro.