Thursday, March 17, 1927.
Shr Brmmtia taijlr
VERNONIA EAGLE
CLEAN UP!
I
ío Be Hostess its for Galveston
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the pits removed and the cava­
ties stuffed with cream cheese
seasoned with salt and thick cream.
Dates and figs can be nsed in the
same way.
There is nc “sure sign” of spring, b it
spring should be a “sure sign’’ of the ar­
Entered as Second Class Matter. August 4, 1922 at the rival of that time for the community to
Post Off lea at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
clean-up. There is no supeisitition of pro-1
Act of March 8, 1879
phesying about this clean-up sign.
MARK E. MOE. Editor
When warm weather has come to stay
(until cold weather returns in the autumn)
W.O.W. Buxton camp No. 656
SPRING
every owner of property and tenant should
meets every Monday night at seven
instinctively feel it ’ their duty to remove
thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting
Before we speak of spring itself, we the evidences of winter’s ravages and to
members welcome.
wish to say that spring fever, which is aid and augment nature in her work of
C. A. BARNES C.C.
going to be quite common during the rebeautification.
C. C. DUSTEN CLERK.
next month or two, is not explained in Every spring clean-up program should
the same way by all the psychologists and include disposal of winter’s accumulation
Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A.
physicians, but without regard to what ! of litter an. 1 decayed vegetation, repair­
F. A A. M., meets at Grange
these learned folk say the people who get ing and rep . inting of buildngs, and land­
Hall every Second and
it will heartily agree that it is a very real scape gardening. Landscape gardening is
Fourth Thursday nights.
and not exactly an unpleasant thing.
no longer associated with large estates
Visitors Welcome
Some writers tell us that it is nothing alone.
Work in the M. M. degree to­
night.
but a lethargic drowsiness, caused by the
Cleanliness about the person of the
K. A. McNeill, Seoretary.
poisons by taking long inaction of winter. home costs nothing. A community cleai-
Mury
l.ua
mid
Essie
Dec
Collins,
charming
debs
of
the
present
season,
We can help nature to eliminate these up need involve no expense, except of a who have I i n cho en .is "Miss Port" and "Miss Playground." representing the
poisons by taking long walks, breathing moderate amount of labor on the part of two principal u sets for Galveston's tld for fame. They will act as hostesses
deeply of the fragrant spring air, or start­ the householders. If there ever were ex­ In th - Intelna.ional-Pageant of Beatty to be staged In May. Entries from
Enn....n countries, and Australia. New Zealand, Cuba, Canada and
ing to hoe the garden.
cuses for uncleanliness they were removed six
Mexico ylll compete with over i'ir.y American beauties for the title of
long
ago.
There is reason to believe, however,
I. O.O.F.-V eknonu L od «», No. 246,
and
In prize money.
Beauty Qu.-vii of the Lniver»
meets every Tuesday night at 8X10
What is the compensation of a corn-i
that spring fever is not entirely physical.
yolk, yellow cheese, browned meats o'clock, in Grange Hall
"Inside" Information
There is a good deal of the psychic in munity-wide clean-up campaign? It im-|
it, also. It is partly psychic insofar as it ¡proves the general health of the commun-j Ruffled tie-back ourtains of or bread or cake crusts, are all
E. Enstrum, N.G.
B. Smith, Sec't'y.
is a reaction from winter. The contrast ity by removing deposits that are breeding! eream-colored voile or marquisette examples of appetizing colorful
between the frst warm weather and the places of disease carrying insects. A clean over n glazed chintz shade are foods.
cold of winter unconsciously reminds us town is a better place in which to live, charming for a girl’s bedroom.
Very sweet foods have a tend-
Vara onia Pest
of the sluggishness of the tropics, home than one that is unsanitary and unsight-! A pretty garnish for salad is ancy to blunt the appetite for
11», j American La-
made of sharp-flavored club cheese other foods that supply materials
of our prehistoric ancestors. Or perhaps ly. And the best community advertising I i'dlled
gios. Meets second
the shape of a carrot, the body needs. It is best, there-
spring fever is an inheritance from the is the appearance of being “cleaned-up, i with a in sprig
and fourth Tues-
of parsley at the fore, to serve sweets in small
times when the cave man, after a long painted-up and planted-up.”
days i each month, 8
big end.
quantities, or toward the end of a
p.m.
H. I. Mc-
and monotonous winter in his den, strolled
During the war American towns and Colors in foods add attractive­ meal.
Graw, , Commander.
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out to bask lazily in the warm spring cities learned the marvelous possibilities ness to a meal. Green or other An appetizing dessert or salad
L m Schwab, Adj.
sunlight.
American Legiea AaaiHary
of community organization. There is no bright fruits and vegetables, egg can be made of cooked prunes with
Meets first and third Moadays of
Agreeable as the gentle lassitude of better place to use that experience than I'
each month at Legion han, 7:30
p.m. Visiton welcome.
spring fever often is, we must not sur­ I in a community clean-up drive.
Mrs. H. E. McGraw, Praaidant.
render ourselves to it too readily, for
Mrs. Earl Washbarn, Secretary.
there is more work to be done in spring
OVER THE TOP
State Laundry Company
than perhaps in any other season, the
man who abandons himself to spring fev­ Vernonia Post, American Legion, is go­
Nehalem Chapter 183, Q. H. g.
FOR GOOD LAUNDRY WORK
Regular eommuni-
er will not do his share of it.
ing over the top in their membership drive
cation
fleet and
With this warning emphasized, permit this year with a larger percentage than
third Wed* and ays
We
call
and
deliver
TUESDAYS
and
us to observe that the delights of spring the one conducted last year, according
of
each
month.
FRIDAYS—Leave orders with S. Wells,
cannot easly be exaggerated. It is then to Adjutant Schwab. The contest is par­
All visiting listen
Tailor, Phone MAin 891
and brothers wel­
that sap starts rising in the trees. Grass ticularly keen at this time because it ends
come.
sprouts green. Plant life buds. Chirping March 31 with the race for the greatest
Bessie Tapp, W. M.
birds pause on their way north. The bear percentage over the allotment as establish­
Leona McGraw, Secretary.
leaves his pit. Timber w< Ives stop run­ ed by the state headquarters of the depart­
ning in packs and mate. That is spring, ment of Oregon. Last year the local post
the sunrise of a new p ri d of life. The won the state cup, but it is necessary to
backyard gardener : 1 ■. F; mer whistles win it three years to retain possession
VERNOMIA GRAHGI
in the fields. Golf bug si nicks his lips of the trophy.
Atwater Kent
The Vernonia Grange meets on tit
Fisherman goes ov< hii tackle. Small
With new members coming hourly, it
second Saturday of every month a
boys swarm with marbles, baseballs, kites. seems, the number signed up at the time
7:30 P. M. Any menibeaa ‘of th
Spring is the time to take a new lease of going to press was 175, or thereabouts,
Grange living in or near Tara onia
or visiting in the eomnmnltg,' ar
on life, to get a Lirii ¡start. Fill yoiir M. E. (Jack) Carkin, in charge of the
.1
cordially invited to attend.
lungs with fresh air and go to it. The drive, has set 200 per cent as the goal,
Mrs. Minnie Idalmaten, Secretary
best thing about spring is that it is a which will mean 234 members. With that
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prelude to another round of intense hu­ amount it is quite probable that the local
MOUNTAIN HEART
man activity. Except, of course, for the post will beat Klamath Falls, who seem
REBECCA LODGK Mo. M8. i.O.Of
gentleman who has spring fever 365 days to be working hard for the cup.
Meets every second and Fourtk
BATTERY CHARGING
of the year.
With a membership of more than 200
Thursdays in Grange Moll—Yaeaonia
Visitors alwaro wateoaia
it is likely that the local post can claim
Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G.
the largest percentage of membership ni
THE NEHALEM’S AGRICULTURE
MRS. IREN1 SPRNCMR. Sec’y
the United States for towns of aroui d ■
Come in and See Our Line of
2000 population. Local members are en-l
T. W. LARA WAY
At the chamber of commerce luncheon titled
to
much
credit
for
their
time
and
Friday when Representative A. E. Allen effort if they attain this distinction by
Physician and Surgaen
of Columbia county, spoke on the advis­ putting Vernonia on the map in a little
Vernonia
Oregon
ability of planting strawberries and beans bolder type.
in the Nehalem valley as the opening
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wedge for the developmei nt of local agri-
J. MASON DILLAVD
LESS AVOIRDUPOIS
cuture, a movement was started that if
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
pursued will result in this southern sec­ Is the trend among American men away
Next to Carkin Cleaning Vorka
tion of Columbia county being a great from
obesity? A Washington observer n
Here Every Wadueeday
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agricultural center in years to come.
I looking ovtr the official city with an
We have the soil, the climate and, if ¡eye to avoirdupois has noted that its puo-
DR. ELLA WIGHT
necessary, irrigation could be developed. : lie men are growing thin. He has four di
DR. C. J. WIGHT
But one obstacle stands in the path of I the l senate uncommonly lean and long
CHIROPRACTORS
quick settlement: Stumps. Better and I and was impressed by the paucity of
Rheumatism, Natrrrtia, Stamach,
per ' means of clearing land are be- fat men in the house.
cheaper
Liver and Intaatiaal Troubles
demonstrated
each year, and still many I This is riore to be expected than to
ing d
...... .........
Delayed Meaatroatia*
hold that it is prohibitive to prepare the be surprised at. The nation is working
stump land here e for cultivation.
cultivation But there faster and playing harder than any an­
LESTER SHEEL1Y
is a quantity of land already cleared that tecedent generation or civilization. A s
can be used for production of these com­ [activity, both physical and mental, is ; 1-
Attorncy-at-LaW
modities. Hundreds of acres of it are not [ways associated with thin men it would
Vernonia
being used. As soon as those are tried i be natural that this high speed age should
Oregon
out and the prod
productivity
lie
of Nehalem val­ I produce a race of lean and hungry Cas­
I, settlers will come aplenty , siuses.
ley is provec,
DR. W. H. HURLEY
to reclaim the cut over lands and utilize
There are some 2,200,000 golf players I
our natural resources.
DENTISTRY AND X-BAT
[in the United States, and golf is recoin-1
Evening by Appointment
Mr. Allen was modest in his claims mended as a fat-reducing agent. Indus-1
Office over Brews FimiHre Store,
as to what local farmers can do with their trial and commercial America is produce j
Vernonia
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property. It is now the place of the agri­ ing more in eight hours than it formerly |
cultural committee of the chamber of com­ produced in twelve, and the fast worker'
merce to secure statistics from many who1 waxes thin.
M. D. COLS
have cultivated local soil as to what it
will do. Then let the publicity committee The practice of some congressmen of,
DENTIST
circulate pamphlets with information and. having printed in the Congressional Re-1
Oregon
Vernonia
prospects truthfully stated. Two years will cord speeches which were never delivered
will see the awakening of a new kind of. has been generallly deplored. That this;
district here, with cooperative organiza-1 may be a lesser evil than delivering them;
MARK EVERY GRAVE
tions of the farmers organized for the appears to have been overlooked.
Memoriali
in Granita and MarM,
purpose of marketing their products.
At
Reduced Friona
So help yourselves. Nehalem valley folk, [ Hail and snow during the third week
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to bountiful profits, but don't expect them in March in the Nehalem. At least we a,-e i
to come, like gold rush of Weepah, in a ¡assured plenty of water in Rock Cre.'k I
MRS. M. N. LEWIS A CO.
.and the Nehalem river for this summer, I
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