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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1927)
Thursday, March 24, 1927.__________ (Ebe Hcnumiu Saglr 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 CALL TO PRAYER The Easter season is one of more than usual saciedness to the adherents of the Christian religion. Easter marks the close of the Lenten season, the period of self denial practiced generally by the Catholic bodies and partly by some Protestant de nominations. It recalls the recorded events accompanying the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The time has passed when men may scoff at the effectiveness of prayer in the national and individual life and at the same time maintain a reputation for sound judgment. Whatever may be the explan- aton for prayer, whether it be the res ponse of a supreme being to the requests of men or whether the effect is purely psychological, results of unequivocal char acter are seen in the lives of men. All the sin and injustice in the world is the result of selfishness in the hearts of men. No individual can enter sincerely into the practice of prayer without the surrender of the mind and disposition that would prompt the doing of things that would work harm in the lives of others. Prayer as it is revealed in the Holy Scriptures, makes for a serenity of mind and a fixedness of purpose to do right eously that can not be easily destroyed by the ordinary experiences of life. The most outstanding men and women in his tory have practiced prayer for themselves and for the interests to which they gave themselves. MARBLES AND SPRING There is a time for all things, and this happens to be the time for marbles. une of the positive signs of spring is the advent of the marble season. No soon er does the warm spring sun melt late winter’s snow from pavements and side walks than there appears on them mystic chalk marks around which squat boys like Indians about a camp fire “Knuckle down,” “Trade you two shoot ers for a glassy,” and “Your shoot” now become the language of youth, and the tell-tale signs of the season are bulging pockets, cardboard boxes filled with some thing that rattles suspiciously and having a hole in the top through which a marble might be dropped, and the clatter and roll of marbles on schoolroom floors as solely stiained pants pockets let go. In his games is the boy “the father of the man.” The marbles of youth prepare the way for the tennis, billiards, golf and other sports and pastimes of maturity. Marbles is the kindergarden of good sport smanship. One wonders if there is a normal boy today who does not feel the ii resistible urge to play marbles dr a normal man who did not as a boy “shoot” the little spheres of colored glass and clay. So in separable is the boy from the marble one sometimes thinks to deprive the boy of his marbles would work an irreparable loss. ROVINCE OF A NEWSPAPER It would be comical, were it not some what pathetic, the way newspaper of fices are besieged every day by their friends, urging them to “roast” this and that; to “see to it” that this and that is corrected; to have this and that done in the city or county; to start this and that kind of movement to correct evils in the state government. These friends actually appear to believe that it is the newspaper’s business to handle all these affairs. But a self-respecting newspaper, though ready and willing to carry all reasonable responsibility, must remind its readers that they, the people, are the authority upon whom rests the responsibility for the pres ent state of affairs local, state and nation al. A self-respecting newspaper tries to re port the news of what actually happens, not what it might wish had happened. The relat’on of a self-respecting newspaper to the general public is not always under- stood. It is the duty of a newspaper to be in a position to support anv good act an<l criticize any bad act of public policy. This relationship cannot exist where favors are asked and granted. Honesty is the only policy for a newspaper. If objectors don't like the way things VERNONIA EAGLE are going, they should qualify as voters, and then » raise ___________ cain about it. NEW METHOD PREVENTS SKIDDING 1 A new method of finishing the surface of a paved highway with stone screenings has been devised to prevent skidding. One of the first projects of this kind is a 7.8 miles highway leading out of Modesto, in Southern California. The original pavement was widened to 20 feet by cement concrete shoulders plac ed on either side of the existing 15-foot base which was then surfaced with as phalt concrete, averaging 2y2 inches to 4 inches in thickness. Two-foot rock bor ders four inches in thickness were placed alongside the concrete shoulders. The screenings used for top finish were such as would pass through a one-fourth inch square screen with not less than 90 per cent of the total being retained on a standard No. 10 screen. The amount ap plied averaged from 10 to 15 pounds per square yard. The cost for this 7.8 miles of recon structed highway was $163,500. VERNONIA NEEDS GARDENS In the Circuit Court of the Slate frequently divided. The roots are of Oregon For the County of divided so that each new plant has Columbia a well formed root, or with Iris a section 5 or 6 inches long with Alma Urie, (Plaintiff, SUMMONS a bud from which the leaves grow. VS. Nursery plants received by Ore gon gardeners before the ground Charles H. Urie, Defendant. in dry enough to work are heeled- To Charles H. Urie: In the name of the State of in for a while. Heeling-in is done Oregon you are hereby required by digging a trench deep enough to appear and answer the com to cover the roots and part of the plaint filed against you in the stem as the plant lies cross the above entitled suit on or before trench. In making boiled icings for a the 12th day of March, 1927, and if you fail to answer or otherwise cake, if it does not seem to be appear, the plaintiff will apply to cooked enough after it has been the Court for the relief demanded taken from the fire, it can be in the complaint, to-wit: for the reheated in the top of a double dissolution of the bonds of mat rimony between plaintiff and de fendent, and for such other and further relief as to the Court may seem just and meet. Service of this summons is made upon you by publication thereof in pursuance of an order of the Honorable J. E. Eakin, Judge of the above entitled Court, made, dated and entered on the 25th day (Worth 10/) of January, 1927, ordering such publication in the Vernonia Eagle once each week for six successive weeks, the first publication there of being on the 27th day of Jan 3 - uary, 1927, and the last public ation on the 10th day of March, cakes of 1927. J. Mason Dillard, Attorney for WASH CLOTH Given. with boiler, even after the sirup has been poured over the egg white. Oregon and Washington prunes find good demand at Hamburg, Germany.____________ _______ Lorfge 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. & A. M., meets at Grange Hall every Second and Fourth Thursday nights. Visitors Welcome Work in the EA degree tonight, March 24. K. A. McNeill, Secretary. I. O.O.F.—V ernonia L odcb , No. 246, meets every Tuesday night at 8:00 o’clock, in Grange Hall O. E. Enstrum, N.G. G. B. Smith, Sec’t'y. Snnshinp started Mon- plaintiff’— Postoffice address aunsnine thiq rms week ween, which wnicn sidiieu mon ! Faili Bldg., portiand, Oregon. 404 day morning, is a good sign that spring: F24A7 CASTILE is really coming at last. The belated seas-1 „ v------------ ——— „ on has been announced for some Regular 400 with the showing by IQUny Vemonia con- i e(] now, where best results are ob- value for only cerns of countless varieties of seeds. More I tained, says the landscape garden fertile soil for the growing of garden stuff ing department of the state col VtRKONU MERCANIiLE GO. Iris and phlox are good ex and flowers can not be found than in the lege. Distributors—Holeproof amples of those plants that form Exclusive Nehalem valley, where the land re-forests clumps and do much better when Hosiery itself and vegetation grows on any land left to its own devices. 1 A little later, when the ground has dried out and warmed up some more, even the bottom land will be ready for cultivation. State Laundry Company Plant some strawberries, onions, potatoes, or what not. You will get beneficial ex FOR GOOD LAUNDRY WORK ercise and the pleasure of seeing things grow better than they probably did “back We call and deliver TUESDAYS and home.” FRIDAYS—Leave orders with S. Wells, Tailor, Phone MAin 891 Fire carelessness assesses an indirect tax of more than 25 against every man, woman and child ia the United States. 27c Russians ar# backward in the produc tion of motion ictwas, reports a com- mentator returnee Í from Moscow. Account- ed for by the scarcity of custard pies. Fada Atwater Kent A California motorist, aged 100, still drives his own car. No pedestrain of that ag« has yet bean reported. Fenner Radio Shop Miss Spring is expected to act a little bit forward. Sets - Service - Accessories All reports are not in yet, but the fruit crop has undoubtedly been killed. BATTERY CHARGING About the most expensive thing on earth is money. A man doesn’t reap what he sows un less he works the cron. The hardest thin^ about loafing is buy ing things on credit. Who remembers when the age of dis cretion was the parentage? Sometimes a man gets so mad he quits being a hypocrite for a few brief minutes. Middle-age is the time when the average man is going to begia saving next month. The old fashioned boy who had to drink sassafras tea was not, however, a tea hound. Summer is called the foolish season, but of all the months April is the most dizzy-headed. At times we fear that whatever killed the dead civiliaatiouH was something in I heritable. A husband’s spirit isn’t really broken so long as he thinks he gives in because he is chivalro». Still, most of the world’s big jobs are handled by men who are not classed as “intellectuals.” The playwright’s task becomes more ex citing. It becomes ever more and more difficult to shock people. You can’t trust some neople out of your sight. You can’t trust others until they are out of your sight *1 Vernonia Past 119, American Le gion. Meets second and fourth Tues days each month, 8 p.m. H. K. Mc Graw, Commander. Lee Sehwab, Adj. American Legion Auxiliary Meets first and third Mondays of each month at Legion hall, 7:3# p.m. Visitors weloome. Mrs. H. E. McGraw, Preaiduit. Mrs. Earl Washburn, Sosratary. Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. 8. Regular communi- cation finat aad third Wednesdays of each month. All visiting sisters and brothers wal- come. Bessie Tapp, W. M. Leona McGraw, Secretary. VERNONIA GRANGE The Vernonia Grange meet» 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 cordirlly invited to attend. Mrs. Minnie Malmsten, Secretary MOUNTAIN HEART REBECCA LODGE No. 248. IO.O.F Meets every second and Fourth Thursdays in Grange Hall— Vernonia Visitors always weloome Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G. MRS. IRENE SPENCER, Sec’y, Come in and See Our Line of T. W. LARAWAY Physician and Surgaan Sheet Music NEW MUSIC EVERY WEEK Strings and Violin Accessories Vernonia Oregon J. MASON DILLARD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Next to Carkin Cleaning Works Here Every Wednesday DR. ELLA WIGHT DR. C. J. WIGHT CHIROPRACTORS Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Tronbloa Delayed Menstruation LESTER SHEELEY Attorney-at-Lavr Vernonia Oregon _______ ——I II ■——— DR. W. H. HURLEY DENTISTRY AND X-BAT Evenings by Appointment Office over Brown Furnitnro Itore. Vernonia Om«o. M. D. COLE DENTIST Vernonia Oragou MARK EVERY GRAVE Memorials in Granite and Marble At Reduced Prioea WRITE FOR PARTICULARS MRS. M. N. 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