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Thursday, May 12, 1927
VERNONIA EAGLE
¡Jhr llrniuuia Eaglr
Issued every Thursday
$2 per year in Advance
deed they are through—through with hope
and through with ambition and through
with advancement—unless they now com
mence.
THE LESSON OF
TREE
lent
(Continued from last week.)
About the cabin and in the sha
dow of the old stumps were a
myriad of young Douglas fir trees
STRAW HAT TIME
from 30 to 60 feet in height. Their
delicate green branches pointed up
promising that some day they
MARK E. MOE, Editor
One may now inquire without being ward,
too would be far above the ground.
premature, what kind of a straw hat his “Who planted these hundreds of
neighbor will wear this year. But the ques trees
in the clearing?” she asked
ON BEING A HOME-TOWN BOOSTER tion will not provoke a discussion of the wonderingly, thinking of her toil
new sping styles in straws and their re some tree planting as a little birl.
lative merits and popularity. Invariably “We do not plant many trees
This paper believes in Vernonia and such an interrogation will bring one of out here,” answered the old man
Vernonia’s future. It believes that Ver two answers, either “a new one” or “last of the cabin. “Mother Nature ’tends
to that for us. We cut our big
nonia is destined to be a much greater year’s.’
trees, some of them have stood for
city than it is today. It believes that the
hundreds of years, since before
The
straw
hat
has
developed
among
great majority of people living in Ver the members’of the stronger sex a strange white men came. I do not mind
nonia have an abiding faith in the city’s
cutting them when I think of the
future and in tiie Vernonia of today. It inconsistency. Men may venture forth in ■nany comfortable homes they build
is faith that has made Vernonia and it is a refurbished last-year’s model but the all over America.
this same faith that is going to continue most unconventional, whether the owner “I cleared this land 30 years
of a new or resurrected grass kelly dare ago to make my home,” he con
to make Vernonia a greater city.
not treat with disdain the calendar limits
“I built the cabin from the
No one need talk of “putting Vernonia fashion has erected around the straw hat tinued.
biggest tree of all and we lived
on the map.” For, all the world knows, season. To appear in public wearing a here five years. Then we had to
Vernonia is already on the map; it has straw hat before the season opens and go back to the city. The little
a conspicious place there for many years. after its fall closing is to invite suspicions trees had already begun to carp»t
the clearing with green. I returned
And it is going to remain there—forever. of eccentricity or rusticity. Only country this
summer to find they had grown
Vernonia is already a great place in squires and retired judges can violate into the young forest you see here.”
“You did not need to plant the
which to live. If one were to look all this fashion decree with impunity.
trees,” repeated the girl. "That
aiound the world, none better could be
It may be true that men observe the
very wonderful to me. But
found. When evarything is considered, no rules and edicts of fashion less strictly seems
who watered them and took care
one honestly can say that any other town than women, but the women could not of your young forest all these
is a better place than Vernonia.
observe any one of their multiplicity of years?”
For that reason, if you have any money vogues and modes more rigidly than man “The fogs and rain of winter
the soil soaked with moisture,
to invest, invest it in Vernonia. It is safer conforms to the calendar limits on the kept
the summer days brought sunshine.
at home than it is any place else. Keep season for wearing straw hats.
Mother Nature ’tends to growing
out of the clutches of the oily-tounged
our trees as well as planting them.
stock salesman who comes from a distance
She does a good job of it. T'ne
foresters tell me there is no place
and wants your money to invest in an en- THE VERNONIA-HARMON FIELD
in America where trees grow so
tei prise, the merit of which you know
as they do on this west coast.”
Receipt of the marker for the Vernonia- fast “Nor
nothing save what is told you by the man
as large,” echoed the girl.
or men seeking to “separate you from Harmon field, which is locally known as “Why, your young forest is bigger
the city park, recalls to mind the often- than our old forests back home.”
your coin.”
The old man smiled. “I remember
If you have any money to invest, think expressed need of making improvements vour
land grows fine, tall corn
it over—and then invest in Vernonia. Ev 'here for the benefit of the most part and and
oats. The broad leaves of the
and
folks
in
general.
ery resident of Vernonia ought to be a
corn used to seem as far above my
booster for Vernonia and Vernonia enter The suggestion has been made that the head when I was a small boy as
prises. Owing Vernonia real estate will mayor declare a holiday at some time this these trees do now. The hot nights
the black soil back there are
go a long way toward making all citizens summer, when donation labor by the and
mighty
for growing and npen-
a booster for the home town. Build or townspeople would clean up the field, ing corn fine even
if they arn’t much
level
the
bumps,
fill
in
the
gullies,
plant
buy a home—and grow with Vernonia,
good for growing tall trees.
and enjoy to the full all the benefits of shrubs, build a swimming hole, construct “We can’t grow corn like yours
dressing rooms, and perhaps even tennis on our steep, rocky slopes or down
being a Vernonia home owner.
courts, for the benefit of young and old in cool, dark canyons. But we
,can grow trees. The winds, full
alike.
THE REAL COMMENCEMENT
of moisture from the ocean, the
With but a small sum upon which to heavy winter rainfall, the even
The seniors are graduating. From the draw for expenditures, the improvements climate, the soil made by grinding1
domentary schools, from the high schools, ments this year must take the form of glaciers of centuries ago, these
are as good for tree growing
from the <
and universities they labor. In that we shall be able to claim the things
as is the climate of your old state
a>e b'-’iig ushered forth to new fields of help promised by the Harmon foundation, for corn growing.
activity, new experiences, new problems. which takes the form of equipment for “Nature made this country
Some of them are through with school. playgrounds. The improvements must be for tree growing, it seems to
For them this is a real commencement of made before May 1 of each year for a From these rocky peaks in
you see them ehere on
park to benefit thereby, thus Vernonia Cascades,
the battles of life.
the skyline, to the foothills facing
But though some are through with school is eliminated for this fear, since nothing the
blue Pacific, trees, the tallest
none is through with study. Though some has been done in the past year. But this trees in America are the greatest
are through with scholastic preparation, summer is the most reasonable time for crop we can grow.’
nonn is through with that continual, sus the work to be done, and next year the The little girl, now grown to
womanhood, saw that what the old
tained application which is the accumula playground equipment will be available. settler
said was true. She remem
tive preparation of all who are fired with The Harmon foundation will do nothing bered the
slow growth of the little
the ambition and zeal of which success until the citizens themselves take the in elm tree and marveled anew at
itiative.
is born.
the wonderful work of Mother Na
ture in this country of big trees
Whatever the field of action to which
and widespread forests.
the Graduates now seek entrance, they
Entered as Second Class Matter, AugUBt 4, 1922 at the
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
Act of March 3, 1879
Bv the time all the states get their
good roads programs finished the world
will be riding in airpanes.
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Meets 2nd and 4th Wed-
Credit
nesdays at the Grange hall.
Mrs. II. E. McGraw, President
Mrs. Earl Washburn, Secretary.
Vernonia Po.t
119, American Le*
gion. Meets second
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and fourth Tues,
days each month, 8
p.m.
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Regular cominnni-
cation first and
third Wednesdays
of each
month.
All visiting sisters
and brothers wel
come.
Bessie Tapp, W. M.
Leona McGraw, Secretary.
When you stop
at the receiv
ing window of
this bank and
pass in a part
of your earn-
the a-
mount is cred-
ited to your ac-
count, starting
to earn money
for you from
the day you
place it in our
care.
VERNONIA
GRANGE
The Vernonia Grange meets on th
second Saturday of every month a
7:30 P. M. Any members of th
Grange living in or near Vernenia
or visiting in the community, ar
cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. Minnie Malmsten, Secretary
MOUNTAIN HEAR T
REBECCA LODGE No. 243. I.O.O.F
Meets every second and Fourth
Thursdays in Grange Hall—Vernonia
Visitors always welcome
Mrs. Edna Kilby, N. G.
MRS. IRENE SPENCER. Sec’y
R. I. HALL, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Phone 891—Residence 2S4
Vernonia, Oregon
BANK OF
J.
MASON DILLARD
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
VERNONIA
to Carkin Cleaning Works
Here Every Wednesday
Next
young tender shoots and tips of
the more mature stalks are excel-
DR. ELLA WIGHT
DR. C. J. WIGHT
CHIROPRACTORS
Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach,
Liver and Intestinal Troubles
Planting; Time
F; hion note .-ays a woman should have
a hat to match every costume. Still, she
would never have anything fit to wear.
Earliest of all Certified Seed
That bulletin of the department of ag-i
riculture which read “The cat crop ranks,
third in importance” would not have been
so far from the truth had the last two
words been omitted. Even the printer
should have known the difference be I
tween oats and cats.
Lodge Directory
Oregon has 225,000 horses, 4,-| meets every Tuit<l:.y night at 8:00
000 more than a year ago.
__ ! o clock, in Grange Hall
Is Here at Last
An experienced wife is one who can
dream or other things while pretending
to listen to her husband’s description of
his symptoms.
the
Don’t work a slow horse and a
fast horse together. There will
Be friction and loss of power, in '
addition to iiritation to both drlv-<
■r and horses.
Be not deceived! The car that comes
out with new designs has the same ones
on the pedestrain.
The girls seem to have adopted the slo
gan ol the paint trade and imagine that
when they save the surface they save all.
of
¡3 usually thrown away after the
poke shoots have boiled a few min
utes. Do not over-cook them. Serve
in any of the ways asparagus is
W. O. W. Vernonia camp No. C$S
is served.
meets every Monday night at seven
Have lots of Saturday or week- thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting
end picnics this spring if you own members welcome.
a ear. Take the whole family along.
A. F. KOSTER C. C.
Keep a special box or picnic kit
C. C. DUSTEN CLERK.
equipped with paper or unbreakable
plates, cups, silver, paper napkins,
and waxed paper. Then a lunch
Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A.
can be picked up in no time at
F. i A. M., meets at Grange
all together after the picnic spot
is reached. On your emergency pan
Hall every Second and
try shelf keep always in stock a
Fourth Thursday nights.
few thing3 in cans or cartons for
Visitors Welcome
these occasions.
K. A. McNeill, Secretary.
“The last shall be first” may apply to •,
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will find that the price of advancement, baseball at the end of the season.
’’Inside” Information
Here are three fine points in
of service and reward, is needed the com
frying potatoes: Use a heavy skil
mencement of study and preparation up Tlie only check an extravagant woman let;
let the pieces brown on one
on an ever-increasing scale.
wants put on her activities is a bank check. side before turning them; and cook
Some there are, no doubt, who like to
only enough at one time to cover 1
think that they now are “through.” In- The multi-millionaire with chronic in- the bottom of the skillet, in a '
fairly thin layer.
¡digestion is one man who wants little Do you know poke shoots? They1
here below.
grow wild in many localities. The
Unless a man gets a geat deal more
than money out of his job, he is missing
a lot of satisfaction.
as
PLANTING slightly bitter taste, the first water
Delayed Menstruation
LESTER SHEELEY
Attcrney-at-Law
Vernonia
Oregon
DR. W. H. HURLEY
Potatoes
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Evenings by Appointment
Off.ce over Brown Furniture Store.
Vernonia
Oregon
BURBANK ANI) WHITE STAR
M. D. COLE
No. 3 Malotte, slightly used cream
Separator.
DENTIST
$110.00—Cost
Vernonia
new $145.00.
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