Thursday, April 7, 1927.
übr Hrrnonia Eagle
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
DOLEFUL PREDICTIONS
When the automobile came it was pre
dicted it would make the horse extinct.
Horseflesh costs more than ever an eq-
uestrainism continues to grow in favor.
Now the oracles say the aeroplane will
eliminate both automobile and horse, but
like the horse the automobie grows in
number and favor. The saturation point
in the automobile industry is always be
ing predicted but never reached. It will
be found that horse, automobile and air
ship each have their purpose and will
increase in number as new needs are
found for them and the population grows.
From an article in a current magazine
are taken a few quotations on the subject
of the automobile.
“The automobile stands unique as the
most extravagant piece of machinery evei
devised for the pleasure of man.”
“The people are becoming car-poor as
their ancestors became land-poor.”
“In this craze for automobile owner
ship the joy of security in the future is
sacrificed for the pleasure of the mom
ent.”
“The whole scheme of domestic life
centers in the motor car.”
“Once the man who borrowed in order
to buy a car was looked upon as danger
ous.”
With some of these statements some
will agree, but it is invariably the care
less who predict disaster and shaos be
cause so many of their neighbors are or
wheels and exchange old cars for new
every year.
It is manifest fiom the popularity of
the auto, from the universality of its
use and from the jealous tenacity all car
owners cling to their cats, whether pal
aces on wheels or decrepit derelicts, that
there are satisfactions derived from the
automob.le which the critics of the auco-
mobile-age have not discerned.
PASSING OF THE PORCH
VERN O N I A E A G L E
project must be created and it is easy
to create this sentiment if the proper com
munity spirit prevails.
The man object of this life should be
to make the world a better place in which
to live but this cannot be accomplished
with a citizenship pulling in different di
rections. The lesser differences should be
forgotten when a project is put forth
wheieby the entire community will pros
per and be benefitted. If every citizen
of this community would get together and
eliminate minor prejudices, work with but
one object in view and that to make Ver
nonia the best city in their state in which
to Eve, the things accomplished would
form a monument to the present gen
eration that would live through the ages
and be an inspiration for future genera
tions to continue the good work.
INDIANA CONSERVES OLD
TURNPIKES
The Anderson, Indiana, Herald, in a
recent editorial, comends the policy ad
opted in the hoosier state of surfacing
old “turnpikes” with suitable waterproof
material.
It points out that these old roads are
packed down accumulations of gravel that
oim a better base than any man can
make.
Utilizing old road base in this manner
.fives a community a hard road free from
dust and easy to travel, and enables a
county or state to build two or three times
he amount of road that could otherwise
be secured.
With modem road machinery and trac
tors powerful enough to level up hard
surfaces and with plastic mixtures to make
a waterproof top course, thousands of
miles of country roads can be improved
in a satisfactory manner where entire new
paving costs would be prohibitive.
TELEPHONES EXPENSIVE IN JAPAN
When a new subscriber in Tokio wishes
.o have telephone service, it costs him
1500 yen, or about $750, for installation
alone; after that he must pay regular cost
of service. Last year number of telephones
n the United States increased 800,000. If
each new subscriber had been required
o pay $750 for installation, it is safe to
say the increase in number would have
oeen much smaller.
Notice to Contractor«
St. Helen«, Oregon March 24th,
19 27. SEALED PROPOSALS, ad-
dr s«ed to the County Court of
C< lumbia County, Oregon, at St.
Hi len«, Oregon, and endorsed “Pro
posal for doing the following work
in Columbia county, to-wit:
The construction of a Howe
Truss together with the necessary
approaches and pier protection,
across Westport Slough at Wood
sen, Oregon, will be received by
said county court until 10 o’clock
A. M., April 9th, 1927, and not
thereafter, and at that time will
be publicly opened and read.
All proposals must be made up
on blank forms, to be obtained
from the Roadmaster, at his of
fice in St. Helens, Oregon. Must
give prices proposed, both in writ
ing and in figures, and must be
signed by the bidder, with his ad
dress.
Plans and Specifications are on
file with the County Roadmaster,
Clatskanie Chief, and the Vernonia
Eagle, and may be examined in the
office of the County Clerk.
Each bidder shall deposit, with
his bid, a certified check for an
amount of at least five (5) per
cent of his bid, payable to the
County Clerk, which shall be for
feited to the county in case the
award is made to him, and he
shall neglect, fail or refuse, for
a period of five days after such
award is made, to enter into a
contract and file the required bond.
The right is reserved to reject
any and all bids.
John Phillip, County Judge.
T. B. Mills, Commissioner.
J. N. Miller, Commissioner.
G. G. Hall, Roadmaster.
J. W. Hunt, County Clerk.
a 1 to a 8.
NOTICE OF
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE
In the County Court of the State
of Oregon for the County of Co
lumbia.
W. O. W. Vernonia camp No. «58
meets every Monday night at seven
In the matter of the Estate of Wil thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting
liam Thomas Hatten, deceased.
members welcome.
A. F. KOSTER C. C.
Notice is hereby given, that pur
suant to an order of the County
C. C. DUSTEN CLERK.
Court of the State of Oregon for
tl.e County of Columbia, duly made,
Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A.
dated and entered on the 21st day
of March, 1927, in the matter of
F. A A. M., meets at Grange
the Estate of William Thomas Hat
Hall every Second and
ten, deceased, authorized and em
Fourth Thursday nights.
powering the administratrix thereof
Visitors Welcome
to sell all of the real property of
K. A. McNeill, Secretary.
said estate, at private sale, will,
llorn and after the 25th 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
I. O.O.F.—V ernonia L opgb , N o . 246,
sale, until sold, the following des
cribed real property, belonging to meets every Tuesday night at 8.00
the Estate of William Thomas Hat I o'clock, in Grange Hall
ten, deceased, to-wit:
O. E. Enstrum, N.G.
G. B. Smith, Soc't’y.
Lot numbered one (1) in block
numbered twelve (12), original
town of Vernonia, within Columbia
county, Oregon, for the purpose of AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
paying the claims, costs and ex
Meets 2nd and 4th Wed
penses of administration of said
estate; terms to be: Cash in United
nesdays at the Grange hall.
States gold coin, ten per cent to
Mrs. H. E. McGraw, President
accompany bid, balance on confir
Mrs. Earl Washburn, Secretary.
mation of sale, all bids to be di
rected to the undersigned at Verno
nia, Columbia county, Oregon.
M. B. Hatten,
Vernonia Post
119, American Le
Administratrix <. of the Estate of
gion. Meets second
William Thomas Hatten, deceased.
and fourth Tues
Date of first publication March
days each month, 8
24, 1927. Date of last publication,
p.m.
H. E. Mc
Graw, Commander.
April 21, 1927.
Lee Schwab, Adj.
Nehalem
State Laundry Company
FOR GOOD LAUNDRY WORK
We call and deliver TUESDAYS and
FRIDAYS—Leave orders with S. Wells,
Tailor, Phone MAin 891
Chapter
153,
O.
E.
S.
Regular communi
cation first and
third Wednesdays
of
each
mwitb
All visiting sisters
and brothers wel
come.
Bessie Tapp, W. M.
Leona McGraw, Secretary.
VERNONIA
GRANGE
The Vernonia Grange meets ea th
second Saturday of every m«atk a
7:30 P. M. Any members ef th
Grange living in or near Vernonia
or visiting in the community, ar
cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. Minnie Malmsten, Secretary
VERNONIA LEGION RIGHTLY NAMED
Another great American institution is
paastng. Once thought deathless, it is re With a total of 308 members signed up
jected by the rising generation. Only a for 1927 and prospects of more coming
decade ago it was indispensable to the in, much credit is due Vernonia post,
American home but today it is wholly American Legion, for its efforts in work
luiergn to that home. For centuries it ing up one of the livest organizations with
was more than an institution, it was a which this town is likely to be blessed.
national tradition and an honored ideal. The publicity that will surely accrue to
Today it is ridiculed, maligned or, what Vernonia through the efforts of the local
post will prove a beneficial boon to the
is still more ignominious, forgotten.
town.
This tragic victim of progress is the
The building of the Legion hall this
f ont porch. No longer is it considered
by architects in the drafting of their plans week, only a few months after the idea
for the modem home, and with the “new” was suggested, is proof of the aggress
home-builder it is as obsolete as the wood iveness of the organization. Three hun
dred and eight members and no politics,
shed and out-kitchen.
While the solarium and roofless plaza rank, caste, or prejudicial line of any
which grace the modern home have re kind drawn. Ayid they perscribe for them
placed the old-fashioned front porch, they selves more work to do!1 They intend to
can never fulfill the ancient duties of superintend the clean-up day April 21.
the old “front porch.” Once the home They will help beawtify the city park,
was judged by its veranda. Formerly it and more that is not yet thought of or
was a coveted privilege to rock in a chair suggested. They are the American Legion,
on the fiont porch to see and be seen, in Vernonia their members are legion, and
but in this revolutionary of ageg it is con- they work for the good of the town aad j
sideed very bourgeois to expose one’s country in which we live.
self in such an idle mood and reposing
CLEAN-UP DAY
Kosture to the curious crowds. The Dorch
as been abolished, so the household can
April 21 has been designated by the!
not sit out to see the world pass by on
parade, and to perfect the conspiracy a- city council as Vernonia’s Clean-up day, I
jainst the front porch high walls and with a half-holiday to help the good cause I
ledges now prevent the “parade” from along. Last year it was decided sue-!
cess and the civic pride following wan
ooking in.
Some through sentiment will miss the justly evident. But somehow rubbish, cans,
old front porch along with the hitching debris of all kinds collects in the comera
post, cigar store Indian, watering trough and seldom used, but often seen, places
and blushing maiden, but the viewers-, of the city over the winter. Just at this
with-alatm with their customary pessim time, before the weeds have grown high
ism will see in it a confirmation of the on the vacant lots and incessant rains
report that people don't build porches have kept indoors the otherwise constant
because the modern home is only a place cleaners, much that is called an eyesore
to sleep in and the report that the auto is in evidence in our city. Without a con
mobile has supplanted the porch as the ceited effort to clean it all up, it would
great American perspective and rest-ie- not be done efficiently.
Another thing: The council says that the
SOl*t.
city cannot afford to hire the streets clean
TRY VERNONIA FIRST
ed. They are right, but that is a very good
“Try Vernonia First,” should be the reason for not throwing rubbish on the
slogan of every citizen who wants to see sidewalks to be swept into the road for
the firemen to clean up when they sluice
this city progress.
It is the community spirit that brings the streets occasionally.
the citizenship closer together and elim
inates the lines drawn by cliques. To ac That critic who says America does no
complish anything for the good of the fine imaginative writing doesn’t know any
community a sentiment in favor of the chamber of commerce secretaries.
Lodge Directory
MOUNTAIN HEART
REBECCA LODGE No. 243. I.O.Q.F
Meets every second and Fourth
Thursdays in Grange Hall— Vernonia
Visitors always welcome
Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G.
MRS. IRENE SPENCER. Sec’y
T. W. LARAWAY
Physician and Surgeon
Vernonia
Oregon
J. MASON DILLARD
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Next
to Carkin Cleaaiag Works
Here Every Wednesday
DR. ELLA WIGHT
DR. C. J. WIGHT
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