Thursday, March 10, 1927
VERNONIA EAGLE
i
is r.ow ready for occupancy. Three
Leading Sport
golf grounds in the city comprise
Riga. N. V.—Wild dog'hunting Is the
297 acres.
leading sport here. Several packs of
Issued every Thursday
$2 per year in Advance
While but few new houses are wild dog- have wandered through the
construction,
development countryside, attacking domestic ani
under
work now under way includes im- mals und even chasttg people.
Entered as Second Class Matter, August 4, 1922 at the
provement of streets and clearing
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
Act of March 3, 1879
of grounds, dredging canals, and
building a south seas lagoon at Ta
hiti beach, the south end of the
MARK E. MOE, Editor
municipality on Biscayne bay. The
collapse of the real estate boom or
ON A TELEPHONE POLE
the hurricane have in no way in
W.O.W. Buxton camp No. 655
terfered with the plans for complet meets every Monday night at seven
All of a sudden, when the earlier sun
ing the building program of Coral thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting
Gables. Large contracts are being members welcome.
wakes you one of these March mornings,
completed, and the place has such
your mind unfolds to a sense of change.
C. A. BARNES C.C.
a good start, with the backing of
The room’s the same; the task of filling
substantial financiers, that its suc
C. C. DUSTEN CLERK.
out your income tax blank still taunts you,
cess is assured.
you remember that the leavings of the
We spent Sunday _ on a trip to
one from here.
Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A.
12th ton of coal won’t last the week out—
Miami has forgotten the hurri Royal Palm park, 42 miles south
WHAT MAKES PROSPERITY
F. £ A. M., meets at Grange
cane. taken off her coat and gone of Miami on the Dixie highway, and
but something is different! Not exactly
to work rebuilding the city, with within 40 miles of Cape Sable, the
that, but something is there that wasn’t
Hall every Second and
Prosperity
optimism and a faith in the future. farthest south on the mainland of
means
good
business,
and
there yesterday. Nor is that just it. What
Fourth Thursday nights.
the
United
States,
except
the
low
The state has no bonded indebted
ever it is, it’s new and not new. It’s like good business means active buying. Buy ness and a surplus of $15,000,000 est point in Texas, which is about
K. A. McNeill, Secretary.
a memory come to life—a delightful ing moves in a circle.
Visitors Welcome
in the treasury. Postal savings at the same latitude. The drive fol
There are four factors in the circle of Miami are nearly a million dollars. lows the Florida East Coast rail
memory.
road as far a? Florida City, where
You trace it to the tip of the nearby tel buying, the manufaturer, the jobber, he Bank clearings since the storm have the
railroad turns southeast and
averaged $32,000,000 a month. The
retailer
and
the
buyer.
Together
those
ephone pole—and the clear trills and rills
country is full of wealthy men goes over the keys to Key West,
factors
constitute
the
public.
The
maiu-
of the song-sparrow send thrills all
who still have faith in the country The drive is an interesting one, go
through you, and you know the birds are facturer, the jobber or retailer is in a sep and will continue to build it up. ing through several small towns. I. O.O.F.— V ernonia L odge , No. 24«,
arate class from the buyer only so far as The boom has left many specula- with a few cultivated areas of gar
beginning to come back.
meets every Tuesday night at 8:00
stranded, yet legitimate busi- den truck, mostly tomatoes, which
Some other morning soon the chorus his business is concerned. In every other tors
o'clock, in Grange Hall
are
now
ripening.
ness
has
not
faltered
and
build
will be full enough to waken you—song relation in life he is one small individual ing, drainage and road programs Leaving Florida City the road
O. E. Enstrum, N.G.
will outdo the sun. As it grows from day in the great mass called the public, and are going ahead as usual.
goes through a portion of the
G. B. Smith, Scc’t'y.
he
is
affected
by
the
same
living
condi
to day, you’ll hear in it a promise of no
There is a rivalry between the “high glades,” or land that is good
east and the west coast, with each for farming purposes when drained
more tending the heater—for six months tions that affect the latter. Outside
grubbed, then occasionally low-
and no more trudging through snow and own business he, too, is a buyer, so he claiming its advantages, Both or
r.
Vernonia Post
coasts seem to be getting the tour- er lands. Ditches along the road
joins
with
the
public
in
starting
the
buy
________ American La-
mud; no more cough drops, camphorated
ists in about
numbers with in the low lands are filled with
J; 8>on. Meets second
oil or mustard soaks. Also more fresh ing impulse that sweeps around the cii le. a season total equal
of about a quarter water and are full of small fish.
'“nSanii fourth
'
—
Tues
He
buys
the
comforts
and
necessities
of
vegetables, and motoring along country
Quite
a
few
were
fishing
along
the
million each, scattered around the
days each month, 8
life,
and
he
wants
reasonable
prices
the
road.
many resort towns. From a re
roads fringed with a green mist, and dan
H. E. Mc-
The park is an area of a few
view of the papers each day it
Commander.
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delions—which no longer are allowed to same as the public doés.
Lee Schwab, Adj.
Not all Vernonia merchants are us:ng would seem that all of the noted hundred acres owned by the Wo
linger, because of Mr. Volstead—and
American Legion Auxiliary
of the country come to men’s clubs of Florida, and open
cherry and green apple pies, and magno- the local papers to unload their shelves. personages
Florida at some time during the to the public. About 300 acres of Meets first and third Mondays of
But it can be depended upon that the ones season, Many are here now, some high ground is being devoted to each month at Legion hall, 7:3G
lious things without number!
p.m. Visitors
’*
welcome.
“How fine to have the birds back!” who are the ones who are anxious to join at their estates, others established the preservation of native trees, Mrs. II.
E. McGraw, President.
hands
with
the
public
in
bringing
a
and
all
trees
and
shrubs
native
to
at
the
Mrs.
various famous hostelries.
Earl Washburn, Secretary.
you’ll say to yourself. Have you ever
the West Indies and tropical Flor
stopped to think what would happen if prosperity and keeping the community
Miami, Fla., Feb. 20, 1927 ida not already there will be plant
they didn’t come back? Well, in a sea prosperous.
We were taken through ths Co ed. Many native Royal palms are
Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S.
son or two it would mean the end of life
coanut Grove and Coral Gables dis- in the park. The jungles are a
Regular communi
Some
people
insist
in
buying
wild
cat
mass
of
fallen
and
tangled
trees,
- tricts and saw the wonderful im
on this planet. That’s all!
cation
first and
stock as if their bank rolls had nine lives. provements that have been made brush and vines left by the hur
third Wednesdays
ricane, but a few large trees sur
in
the
last
few
years.
When
the
b’IS OWN CREATION
of each
month.
vived, with occasionally a Royal
There a.e no goose-stepping stones to boom struck Miami most of the palm
All visiting sisters
showing
on
the
skyline.
citrus groves were turned into sub
and brothers wel
The park manager has a com-
•coiv-'* t'me. patience, greatness.
divisions and the groves abandon
come.
modious house and serves meals
ed.
STV'C’al !'T'O m’.-rn always are
Bessie Tapp, W. M.
O
V
and
refreshments
to
visitors,
and
The
larger
a
man
’
s
hat,
the
less
he
mo’P thin
Cocoanut Grove, a suburb five
Leona McGraw, Secretary.
‘Yr’«! produced
miles south of the business district small grounds,with tables for picnic
in a haphazard wav Qnil’i-v can not be talks through it.
of Miami, is now a part of the parties are laid out each side of the
imita* "d pnr p-'-n )•»•>£/* ’p
be disguised,
city, and is developing into a very road. Quite a few cars were there,
After
all,
a
hypocrite
isn
’
t
guilty
of
TH b-- is always the C 1 apest in the
pretty residence district. The Bry some of them fishing parties, others
anything except synthetic piety.
VERNONIA GRANGE
lor
an Memorial M. E. church, named merely picnickers like ourselves. A
ia the depth”. of the Wp’cal jungle,
for the late William Jennings Bry half-mile trail has been built thru-
The Vernonia Grange meets on th
jungle which make«, a mfaue
Many a chicken has crossed the road to an, is located in that section. Many “ the
among savage bn,'rt V'-» riot's reptiles
second Saturday of every month a
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artistic homes have been built, and
and
-“‘I • • o r
dis
."spase, grows give us an object lesson in the perils of grounds
7:30 P. M. Any members of th
beautified and planted with fill'd in this region, they are ra' *y
that wonde’ful flower i ie orchid. To jay-walking.
, vu .. y
•
i.- Grange living in or near Vernonia
citrus trees, royal palms, avocados, rec...
or visiting in the community, ar
bring it forth means hiving dangers in
and flowering trees and shrubs, mouth i.ioc.i 3 ( ..a Le tcc.i ..i .
cordially invited to attend.
ditches,
but
they
co
not
stray
far
Necessity
is
the
mother
of
inventing
while many fences built from coral
a score of foims and v.hei it is secured,
Mrs. Minnie Malmsten, Secretary
from the water. We saw two
evrn at the greatest risks, the plant re some way to keep house these days with rock form an artistic enclosure to while
walking along the edge of
fine
gardens
and
large
estate».
But
out
indulging
in
luxuries.
quires the utmost care and scientific
MOUNTAIN HEART
t'ew large trees are standing after the ditches.
knowledge to make it p roduce its precious
A shower came up while we REfiECCA LODGE No. 243. I.O.O.F
the storm and a vast amount of
A lighted match finds gas leak, says wreckage on vacant property still were on the road, but soon passed Meets every second and Fourth
blooms. Tt must bo sn^c’allv potted in
over, and when we reached the Thursdays in Grange Hall—Vernonia
peat and living sphagnum moss, kept in a headline. It is a quite dependable remains, although most of the fine park
grounds a warm summer sun
Visitors always welcome
means
of
locating
trouble.
homes
have
cleared
away
the
de
a carefully tempered room and under a
bris, trimmed the trees that stili and blue sky made it ideal, while Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G.
dim light.
a stump standing, or reset new we aat in the shade and read the
MRS. IRENE SPENCER. Sec’y
The suggestion has been made that had
That is why orchids cost, and are worth,
Sunday Herald, which told of the
trees and shrubs.
men
be
permitted
to
smoke
in church, In Coral Gables, west of Cocoa- blizzards and cold waves in the
several times as much as ordinary flowers.
T. W. LARAWAY
No hint of winter weather
It is not so much the plant itself, but what Perhaps on the theory that it is better to nut Grove, the storm damage ha» north.
Physician and Surgeon
smoke here than hereafter.
been entirely cleared away. They was there and the stories of cold
goes into its production.
in the north seemed a far-off
started
work
with
a
large
forca
at
And the story of the orchid is not un
Vernonia
Oregon
and “cleaned house.” A few dream.
It is stated there are 2000 organizations once
like that of every other thing prized or
wooden buildings in the corporation
“lasida” Information.
coveted by humanity. And the same con- represented at Washington by lobbyists. that were demolished or damaged
Unbleached sheeting makes ex
J. MASON DILLARD
ditions apply to human beings, The men Everybody appears to have an advocate were set afire. There is not a cellent
slip-on covers for matress-
wooden building in the whole of
and women who can perform the tasks except the plain citizen.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Coral Gables, I am told.
which require time, patience, skill and
Next to Carkin Cleaning Works
Coral
Gables
is
one
of
the
as
A speaker says that 95 per cent of the tonishing achievements of tropica] Try hot gingerbread, split and
special knowledge always are worth more
Here Every Wednesday
spread with cream cheese mixed
people want to play the game fairly. The Florida.
than the men and women who can not.
It is unique among Am with chopped dates and nuts.
The only difference between the orchid remaining 5 per cent cause commot-’on erican cities. Its founder is Geo.
DR. ELLA WIGHT
and the valuable workman is that nature entirely disproportionate to their numbers. E. Merrick. In November of 1921 When drop cakes spread out too
DR. C. J. WIGHT
his
holdings,
including
a
160-acre
much in baking the trouble is
gave the orchid its value and the good
CHIROPRACTORS
tract
of
his
father,
who
came
here
sometimes that the oven is not
Yes, men are vain, just as the president
workman creates his own value.
over 30 years ago and started a hot enough, rather than that the Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach,
of the Photographers’ association of Am citrus grove, consisted of 3000
Liver and Intestinal Troubles
mixture is too soft Drop cakes
Delayed Menstruation
erica says they are. You never saw a I acres. He set out to build a mod bake
SWAT!
best on a baking sheet with
man showing a picture of himself in a el city. So greatly did he succeed out high sides, or on an inverted
that in April, 1925, Coral Gables pan.
The first warm days of spring when bathing suit.
LESTER SHEELEY
was incorporated as a city in its
the plant and insect worlds show the first
The sheen on properly mercer-
own right, adjoining the city of
A
minister
says
the
girls
of
today
in
cerized
cotton
is permanent. True
signs of returning life are an opportune
Attorney-at-Law
Miami, which extends east and
mercerization makes cotton fab-
time for hunting the fly swatter, cleaning looking for husbands do not care par north. It now consists of 16 ries
Oregon
stronger, and very attractive Vernonia
the yard and ridding the premises of ticularly about a man being educated. No, square miles of territory or about in appearance.
For summer dress
10,000
acres.
It
was
but
five
yean
give
them
the
man
and
they
will
do
the
stagnant pools. These are the days which
ago that the first lot was sold, and goods, mercerized cottons are hard
will decide whether man or insect will educating.
to equal. They are durable, cool
DR. W. H. HURLEY
it now has a population of 10,000,
rule the community next summer.
a thriving business community, up and easily laundered.
DENTISTRY AND X-RAY
The fly and mosquito are prodigious “War was h—1, but never like th s,’ wards of 4000 buildings and has
Evenings by Appointment
Painted furniture is attractive
said
a
candidate
during
the
local
40
et
8
invested
in
buildings
and
develop
breeders. Each one that survives the
and much used nowadays, but don’t Office over Brown Furniture Store.
Vernonia
•
Oregon
spring means thousands that must he kill initiation Saturday night. Perhaps he ment upwards of $150,000,000.
The city has been laid out by paint all the furniture in the house
ed later in the season if man is to rest would have preferred war to wearing competent
jest
because
you
like
to
paint.
engineers, with wide
in peace and health. Each one that falls ladies’ unmentionables in a dav.Cf hall.
streets, park boulevards, oanala, If yon have any furniture made
M. D. COLE
small artificial lakes, spacious, of beautiful wood, such as mahog
any,
walnut
or
others,
it
should
Mrs. Burris and Miss Perry vere beautified plazas, etc.
brother attended to their chore»
NATAL
A drive
Mist visitors one day last week.
DENTIST
Mr. and Mrs. David McMullen while they were gone.
through Coral Gables is one of the not be painted but refinished by
aa expert.
Miss Jenny Schooley spent the
and their niece Lola spent Sunday
sight-seeing trips of Miami,
AU
In making chicken salad let the buildings are restricted, and no one
with the Estus fpmily in Vernonia. week end in Scappoose with her
A rug that curls up and wrin Vernonia
Oregon
diced chicken meat stand several can erect a building without the ap kles on the edges needs resizing.
John McMullen called on L. A. I parents and brother.
Mr. and Mrs. George Divine eall- hours in n French dressing. This proval of the city architects, It Stretch it flat down on the floor,
reterson Sunday.
A party was held at the Carmi- ed on the Holding and Divine fam- is called “marinating" it. If you has six fine modern hotels, among tack it firmly and sprinkle gener MARK EVERY GRAVE
like to make the most of the cbick- them the Miami-Biltmore, a $10,- ously with a solution made by
cal home Saturday night and ev ilies Saturday.
ery one that attended enjoyed
The Divine children are able to en flavor, use chicken fat instead OO0.000 project, comprising the ho soaking and dissolving one-quarter Memorials in Granite and Marble
themselves.
be out of bed now after a two- of oil for this dressins:, and frfve tel. country club, golf grounds and pound of flake glue in half a gal
At Reduced Prices
it a suggestion of onion flavor by Venitian swimming pool. The Uni- lon of water. Let it dry for at
Sunday is grange meeting at Na we 'ks sietje of illness.
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS
soaking
a
few
slices
of
onion
in
vereity of Miami is being built at least 24 hours. The glue should
Mr. and Mrs. Osburn and Mrs.
tal.
Mr. and Mrs. Nuer were Portland Holding were Vernonia visitor» on the vinegar before mixing with Coral Gables, with a planned en not penetrate to the right side of MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO.
the fat. Use equal parts of chick- dowment of $15,000,000. One unit the fug.
Fourth and MAin St
Hillsboro.
visitors last week. Mrs. Nuer’s Monday.
en fat and vinegar.
.(D jp Urriuniia Eagle
victim to the swatter or chemical ext ?r-
minators employed early in the warm . a-
son means countless numbers which v il
not need to be dealt with later in the
Every housewife and property ow. er
(From Pa<e 1)
can do much toward alleviating the fly
and mosquito pestilences this year bj
by re-
to ^o south at a minimum expense,
.
j
•
' ' ’ matter
...
moving
all i decaying
vegetable
with the advantage of having his
making liberal use of i exterminating own
car when he gets there. We
chemicals and instruments wherever th -ie have seen license plates on cars
from every state east of the Mis-
is stagnant water and vegetation.
To a great extent the public is the rr is- sippi river, but not many west of
Have not seen one from
ter of its own destiny where it conce ns there.
Oregon except our town, and but
the pestife•ous and disease spreading fly one from California. In Tampa at
and mosquito. Now is the time to deter I the tourist headquarters there was
mine the summer status of these noxi .us but one registration from Oregon
besides ourselves, and there is but
parasites.
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