VERNONIA
The Majestic
Thomas Meighan joined the rush
to Florida some months ago. He
went south to make a motion pic­
ture called “The New Klondike,’’
written especially for him. It is a
story of baseball and real estate
and will show Saturday.
Louise Fazenda in ‘Finger Prints,’
supported by John T. Murray and
Helene Costello and an excellent
cast, comes to the Majestic theatre
Sunday.
William Boyd and Elinor Fair,
popular screen favorites, play op­
posite each other in Peter B. Kyne's
“Jim the Conqueror,” which will
be on view at the Majestic Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Jetta Goudal’s new star picture
“Fighting Love,” which comes to
the Majestic Thursday and Friday,
is said to be highly dramatic and
thrilling. The action transpires in
Italy and Africa.
Wild Ponies ot the banks.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society. Washington. I>. C.l
HILE many Southern states
are feeling the burden of a
huge cotton crop at low
prices, North Carolina, which
not only raises cotton but has also
«owe to manufacture cotton goods on
• hirge scale, can see the other side
of the picture.
North Carolina is passing through
a senalssance. Due to her steadily in­
tensifying wlilft from cotton fields to
mtol centers and from once-ldte
•t>«ama to throbbing dynamos, she has
•uidenly rediscovered herself on the
theeshold of industrial power.
The legendary North Carolinian
who In the '00s called Ills three
daughters Rosin, Tar and Turpentine,
would today be naming them after
el^irette brands, furniture trademarks
UM cotton-goods patterns.
Charlotte, situation between the big
hydroelectric developments along the
Catawba and Yadkin rivers, is a
lllexus of this new industrialism. In
Hie last 25 years the number of tex­
tile mills operating within a lOOmlie
radius of that city has been increased
fivefold, with a present spindleage of
10,000,000.
An hour’s ride beyond Charlotte is
Gastonia, one of the largest textile
centers in the United States. Of its
20,000 people, about three fourths are
workers In the 42 mills whose tall
Stacks cut the sky. Yet. In the town's
bcead, tree-shaded streets, lined with
neat cottages on well-kept, flower-
fringed plots, one feels no oppressive
•ease of concentrated industry, but
rather the restfulness of some model
•uburb. widespread to sun, air and
surrounding countryside.
With mill workers’ cottages rentable
at $d a month, with water and electric
M*t free, and a mild climate, neces- j
dieting little fuel, which Is obtainable
at cost, ft Is not uncommon for moun­
tain families to work at Gastonia long
enough to pay off their farm mort­
gage and then return to the Blue
Ridge. Gaston county contains 93 j
teatile mills, which represent one-
alcth of the state's total spindleage
aad consume almost one-third of her.I
cotton crop.
Winston-Salem's Factories.
Another center of Importance in
North Carolina's new Industrialism is
Winston-Salem. It has been designat­
ed “the twin city" since its component
towns were merged in 1913, but no
twins ever showed greater dlssimilar-
i«r than old Salem and youthful Win­
ston.
Here one has the stately
Eighteenth century and the industrial
Tiventleth century side by side, with
a mere street or so acting as the
hyphen.
Salem signifies that "peace” which
was sought by the persecuted Morav­
ians who founded It in 1753. And that
2 eace” has never forsaken old
lem. Cross a few streets and one
is amid Winston’s humming bee­
hives of industrialism, where 15,000
•rage-earners are turning out their
daily trainloads of manufactured to­
bacco. furniture and textiles on a
anU. that leads Uncle Sam to rate
Winston-Salem as the South's second
ladustrlal city.
A atrelu enclosing Winston-Salem
wttii the denims center of Greensboro
ln4 fibs furniture center of High Point
felbuilts an Industrial patch 30 miles
across, representing an annual prod-
sets value of more than $300,000,000.
Winston-Salem’s stamp-sticking ma­
rines consume annually the most ex- :
»nslve meal in the world—a matter
* $100,000,000 worth of Uncle Sam’s
kmUlar blue Imprints. That is the
0» of her federal tobacco taxes,
yftlch represent one-half of those paid
ly North Carolina.
From the tobacco standpoint. North
twaitos s ulvlo twins are really Win
•on wad Durham. At Durham the
•f* perfected cigarette-rolling ma
At« was used, and her fame for the
'Makings” dates back to the Civil
war.
fiarhHin finely symbolizes education
aygloglng out of Industrialism, for It
bi to. seat of Duke university, which
le deatkied by recent bequests to be- .
Mas* one of the country's greatest '
centers of learning. Social welfare .
springing out of education Is as finely
•yssbnlfzed by the nearby state unl-
stoy at Chapel Hill.
Land of the Sky.
But ail la not Industrialism la North
Carolina. In the west is ‘ishertUs. I
the gateway towhat North Carolluiam
have well named the Land of the Sky
Never was an altitude of a half mile
above sea level so unobvious, in all
but the tonic atmosphere. Set in a
vast bowl, Asheville Is encircled by
mountains whose 20 highest peaks top
all altitudes In the Eastern states.
It was on the Biltmore estate, near
Asheville, that, with the founding of
a forestry school, the first steps in
American forest conservation were
tnken. Today there are. established
in tills region, for the protection of
watersheds and hardwood reserves, the
Cherokee, Nantahala, Unaka and Pis­
gah national forests. With a boundary
which encloses more than 1,700,000
acres, the government had acquired,
up to July, 1925, somewhat less than
a fourth of this area. In the Pisgah,
established in 1916 as a game pre­
serve, native bear and deer roam,
trout streams are stocked, and herds
of bison and elk have been emplanted.
Surrounded by the modlshness of
A; lievllle, one scarcely realizes that
on'.v 50 miles away mountaineers are
living a ruggedly simple existence be­
hind hand-hewn timbers and on small
“switchback" farms, with revolution­
ary looms and spinning wheels along-
sl le their chimney pieces of native
rock.
It was a far-seeing woman from
among the "boiled shirt” life of Ashe­
ville who persuaded these remote, al­
most forgotten, mountain folk to set
tlielr long-idle looms going again. To­
day there are half a dozen handicraft
centers scattered through western
North Carolina. Mountain Illiteracy
In North Carolina Is passing rapidly,
in the last 15 years the state wide
ratio has dropped from 185 to 135
Illiterates In every 1,000. Of late
years about 4,000 one-teacher schools
have been scrapped for modern-type
buildings, and North Carolina's edu­
cational budget has risen to $11 per
capita, or exactly midway between
the. per capita cost of $8, as averaged
throughout the Southern states, and
$14 throughout the nation.
The Coastal Region.
A totally different part of the state
Is the coastal region with Its low
lands. Its numerous sounds and chan­
nels and Its off-shore islands of sand—
"the Banks.”
For centuries wild
l orses have been roaming the Banks,
end current tradition has It that they
i re descended from Barbary ponies
which wore brought over by Sir Wal­
ter Raleigh’s colonists. From time to
time these "banker ponies” are round­
ed up aril driven Into corrals made of
timber from old wrecks. It Is a scene
with a far Western tang, flying hoofs,
swinging lariats, and the flash of
branding Irons. After the branding
and calling out, the likeliest animals
are auctioned ofT. They bring now
only $6 a head. A few years ago these
putative descendants of Raleigh's "lit­
tle Barbary ponies” were bringing
from $50 to $125 apiece. The auc­
tioneer In explanation, complains:
“Tew much gasoline abaout naowa
days I’’
On the ocean side of the Hatteras
banks one finds the greatest wreck
area on the Atlantic coast. Along the
beach hre the skeletons of what were
once ships, now blanched victims of
the sea and sand, their upstanding
ribs resembling files of gravestones,
their forests of protruding spikes be­
ing the grisly grass of the deeert-
lfke expanse. At one point there are
14 wrecks within 100 yards.
Off the great apex of the Banks are
those dreaded quicksands, the Dia­
mond shoal. They are the more to
be dreaded because off Hatteras, due
to the enormous tonnage of steel balls
embedded In the Diamond, there Is a
magnetic deviation sometimes amount­
ing to eight degrees.
TYe farther northward one follows
the Banks, the more remote and re­
sourceless seems the life of the peo­
ple. Often It appears to be mere ex­
istence, as of castaways who have
taken root on this two-mlle width of
sand bar, 40 miles off shore.
Feline Amenitiee
First Lady—You'll have to use mere
powder, my dear; you're getting quite
burnt. I
n't suit you.
Hocond Ditto—How cruel you are,
darling, ai d I was Just thinking how
tweet you l< ■ id with those freckly
spots.—London Opinion.
Tourists Thrang
Cuban Metropolis
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speeded so that it keeps just ahead
of the dogs and stopped just af­
ter they pass the judges’ stand.
A long line of booths underneath
the large grandstand are filled
with bookmakers, who were doing
a big business. Most of the crowd
were placing bets on their fav­
orites.
Pryor’s band gives a concert
every afternoon and evening at
Royal Palm park, where Beats ac­
comodate several thousand people.
Saturday evening the concert is
broadcast. Perhaps some of the
radios in Vernonia have tuned
in on it. Last night we attended
and in addition to the music heard
speeches from prominent men who
were in Miami. The announcer took
a delight in telling the radio fane
in the frozen north how we were
enjoying the pleasant, balmy ocean
breeze under the stars, with the
palms gently swaying, listening to
the band and the singing of birds,
while he suggested they put more
coal in the furnace.
Following the snow storm in
Georgia last week we have had a
cold north wind that caused us
to lay aside our straw hats and
light summer clothes and put on
our winter wraps for about three
days, but the wind is again com­
ing from the east and bringing
back the warm air that comes across
the Gulf stream, which flows north
close to the shore here at the
rate of four to five miles an hour.
It was cold enough for frost in
a few places around here one
morning. The tomato harvest is
in full swing here now, and the
cold has retarded the ripening, but
did no damage. ’
Tomatoes are the principal farm
product in this section, about 17,-
000 acres being planted this year.
Long lines of refrigerator cars
stand on side tracks and are tak­
ing tomatoes north by the train­
load. Glade land containing more
or less black soil is the best to­
mato land, but requires two or
three tons of fertilizer per acre,
which must be applied each seas­
on, as the heavy rains during the
summer completely eliminate it
from the soil. There are also pests
and plant diseases to fight, so that
the crop is expensive to raise. But
at this season of the year there Is
little competition from other gar­
den sections, so that they bring
a good price in northern markets.
They are retailing in local stores
now at about 10 cents a pound.
NOTICE OF
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE
In the County Court of the State
of Oregon for the County of Co­
lumbia.
In the matter of the Estate of Wil­
liam Thomas Hatten, deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that pur­
suant to an order of the County
Court of the State of Oregon for
the County of Columbia, duly made,
dated and entered on the 21st day
of March, 1927, in the matter of
the Estate of William Thomas Hat­
ten, deceased, authorized and em­
powering the administratrix thereof
to sell all of the real property of
said estate, at private sale, will,
from and after the 26th day of
April, 1927, sell at private sale,
to the highest bidder for cash and
subject to confirmation by said
Court, and continue to offer for
sale, until sold, the following des­
cribed real property, belonging to
the Estate of William Thomas Hat­
ten, deceased, to-wit:
Lot numbered one (1) in block
numbered twelve (12), original
town of Vernonia, within Columbia
county, Oregon, for the purpose of
paying the claims, costa and er-
ponsea of administration of said
EAGLE
estate; terms to be: Cash in United
States gold coin, ten per cent to
accompany bid, balance on confir­
mation of sale, ail bids to be di­
rected to the undersigned at Verno­
nia, Columbia county, Oregon.
M. B. Hatten,
Administratrix of ths Estate of
William Thomas Hatten, deceased.
Nearly a million head of live­
stock used summer pasture on the
mountain meadows and weed patch­
es of the national forests. of Ore­
gon and Washington during 1926,
according to the annual grazing re­
port just prepared in the district
forester’s office, Portland, Oregon.
The national forests of Oregon
and Washington thus made impor­
tant contributions of wool, meat
and leather, as well as timber crops
in the industrial life of these two
states. By this use of the annual
forage growth, this number of live­
stock also helped to remove a fire
hazard and produced economic con­
tributions from otherwise wasted
by-products.
Sheep show the largest numbers
with 612,000 head in Oregon, and
163,700 head in Washington, a
total of 775,700 head. The Ore­
gon forests also supported 95,500
cattle and 7,900 horses; while the
Washington forests gave summer
pasture to 13,400 cattle and 1,760
horses. The Siskiyou national for­
est in southern Oregon, reports
a grazing permit for 10 hogs. The
Siuslaw, in the Oregon coast coun­
try, reports 48 goats under per­
mit, while the Rainier national for­
est in Washington reports 65 goats.
Advertising is nothing more nor |
less than telling the people of this
community what you have pre­
pared for their use and comfort,
and invited them to come and
see it. A picture along with your
story helps to get increased re­
sults. Phone the Eagle, 192, and
we will bring the story and the
picture, all ready for your O. K.
Thursday, March 24, 1927.
Claskamas county cow testing as­ ditions at St Helens.
sociation showed 567 cows averag­
ing ^70 pounds milk and 34.5
a
pounds butterfat during January.
Southern Oregon placer miners
have operated 57 giant nozzle lines
this winter, best season in years.
Two steamers of Portland will
load 10,000,000 feet lumber for
Japan, during March.
New $70,000 public school bu ld-
ing to be built in Tillamook this
year.
E. Brodie, of the Oregon City |
Enterprise, recently bought St. Hal-1
ens Sentinel.
D R .H.Z.THARP. MJ>. I
Cooperative Creamery will spend
32A PituvA BUx-A-Port land.Ore. 1
$3,000 for machine and plant ad-
Aland
specialist
Headquarters for all
kinds of
SEEDS
Also Fertilizer for Gar­
den or Field.
Vernonia Trading Co.
FTTrnr
Distribution Without Waste <
Help for the House
cleaner.
cutomary spring house cleaning begins at
widely different times in the vast territory we
Serve. Spring may be well under way in one sec-
tion and just btginning in another. But, wherever
or whenever it comes, the housewife can always
count on the afeway Man to be ready with every-
thing she needs to help lighten her labor and
makt her work more efficient. And, he will have
these things for you at a substantial saving. Let
him supply your housecleaning helps this season.
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Friday, Saturday and Monday Features
BUTTER, Skaggs best
48c
1 pound ..............................
2 pounds for
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95c
SUGAR, pure cane
10 lbs. (limit) ......
SOAP, white wonder
10 bars ..................
Baking powder, Schillings
16 oz. size.........
JELLO—
3 for ................
Prunes 4 pounds
for ......................
58c
33c
QQC
25c
25c
Lima beans
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25c
3 lbs for .
Soap Ivory, medium bars
29c
4 bars ...................
Lettuce 3 solid heads
14c
for ..........................
Peaches, Del-Monte, Melba halves
8 big halves in rich syrup
No. 2'/2 tins 2 for...............
Com, Minnesota, Crosby
white com, 2 tins ..............
Peas, Com, String beans, 25c
No. 2 tins, 2 for .....
Tomatoes, large tins
25c
2 for .....................
MARKET FEATURES
SUGAR CURED HAMS, SMALL
10 to 12 Lb». By Half or Whol®
32c
MILK FED VEAL
ROASTS, per lb. ..
CUTLETS per lb.
23c
32c
CREAM FLAKE SHORT-
ENING, 2 lbs.
4 pounds for
FANCY HENS 3 to 5 lb.
per pound .........................
QQ-
65c
29c
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