VERNONIA EAGLE
Thursday, June 2, 1927.
PRAYER:—Thou knowest, Lord, I
that the tongue can no man tame.
VOLUME 1
LAURENCE LOCKNEY, Editor
NUMBER 1 Bring our thoughts in accord with
thine, and our tongues will speak
FLOODS STILL RAGE IN
CACTUS FLATIANS REVEL
MISS CREME DE MENTHE
only wisdom.
IN COOLING POTIONS
DEVIL’S DEN COUNTRY
ENTERTAINS LAVISHIL
How
are the steps of a good man
Gimlock Jones, of the Devil’s Den
Miss Creme de Menthe, one of
A monstrous and gigantic cake of
directed?
io«, weighing one hundred pounds country, was in Cactus Flat Monday our budding society bells, entertain
Answer, read—Psalm 37:23, 24.
fahrenheit, was received jointly by after a barley sack to stop up a ed the members of the Cactus Flat
the Mett Market and' the Palace of hole in the levee which he said Bridge Club Tuesday afternoon, at
Forest Grove—Western Oregon
Bans Saturday night. It was hack- threatened to let the flood break which time it was explained to
ed in twain with Horsehide Hop through and swamp the residential several new members of the club Packing corporation will raise $15,-
kins’ crosscut saw and delivered Im district of that famed metropolis. that trumps were used solely' for 000 building fund.
partially to the two respective pur Gimlock said the ditches are full one to trump one’s partner’s ace.
chasers. The cake of ice came by to the brim and if the water keeps An elaborated luncheon was served
SUMMONS
train »nd was met at the station by rushing down from the mountains between hands. Spring flowers and In th* Circuit Court for the State
the gophers and bullfrogs will have greasewood fern adorned the lunch
a coraon’’ of Enthusiastic citizens.
of Oregon for the County ot
eon tables and a goblet of foam
The 50 pound chunk which was to take to higher ground.
Columbia
ing root beer was anchored at each Katarzyna Jablonski,
taken to the meat market was put
SOCIAL NEWS
plate. After the dainty luncheon
in the big dry goods box which is
Plaintiff,
Rattlesnake Ike has just finished
used as a refrigerating plant, and making a new batch of imported had been devoured the club mem
vs
bers
adjourned
to
the
back
porch
several hunks of freshly killed cow Scotch whiskey, which will be placed
Adam Jablonski,
to continue the play, but the card
were wedged in with it.
Defendant,
on the market just as soon as he game was abandoned with any fur
To Adam Jablonski, above named■
The manager of the Palace of can get the bottles labeled.
ther action, as they had forgotten defendant:
Beans took his half of the ice and
whose deal it was.
LOCAL NEWS
In the name of the State of Ore
put it in his huge ice chest, which
Horsehide
Hopkins,
who
built
a
NOTED ORATOR WILL ORATE gon, you are hereby required to1
he had made out of the derrick
capacious one-room log cabin on
Prof. Flyleaf Adkins, principal appear and answer the complaint
when the oil company went broke,
:and an Sunday the soda fountain in his lot nine years ago, is going of the Cactus Flat high school, is filed against you in the above suit
the Palace of Beans was running to chink up the cracks in same preparing to deliver an address to on or before six weeks from the
the senior girls on “The Three date of the first publication of
full blast. This is the first time when he gets time.
Hog Eye Haines, who is farming R’s—Robin,’ Ridin’ and Rouge.”
this summons, to wit, six weeks
the soda fountain ' has: been In op
from June 2, 1927, and if you fail
eration for two years, on account a large plot of ground in his back
EB.
SQUILLS
WILL
to so appear and answer said com
of its being too hot in summer to yard, says that his cucumber vines
GROW CORN MAYBE plaint, for want thereof the plain
have' codd drinks without ice, and are being attacked by green aphis,
Ebenezer Squills, who is farming tiff will apply to the court for the
in the winter time when ice is black nphis, brown aphis, pink ap
this year on the bonnle banks of relief demanded in plaintiff’s com
plentiful there is an alarming pau his, pink aphis and range cattle.
Ebenezer Squills lost a valuable Mud Creek, near the growing me plaint to wit:
city of demand for cold drinks. The
For a decree of absolute divorce
manager of the Palace of Beans cow the other day by bloat, and tropolis of .Whiskey slide, reports
also laid in a supply of straws he has been going around since that the young com on his place dissolving the bonds of matrimony
and 'a rushing business was carired with a sad look on his face like a is now almost as high as the weeds heretofore existing between plaintiff
on all day Sunday. Several of our man who has just finished reading and at the present writing the and defendent, awarding plaintiff
leading citizens tanked up to capa the funny section of a Sunday two bumper crops are having quite all of the real property owned by
a battle for supremacy. Mr. Squills plaintiff and defendant in Wash
city on the cool and refreshing soda newspaper.
Centipede Clark was in an auto who has made quite a scientific ington county, Oregon, for the sum
water and it was a gala day for
pur thriving metropolis.
mobile smashup at the crossroads study of agricultural farming says of Nine-Hundred and Seventy-five
near Cactus Flat last Saturday that the land in the Mud Creek dollars, and for such other and
night. He was unhurt except for country is not adaptable to both further relief as to the court may
BAND WILL MEET
Weeds and coni at one and the seem meet and equitable.
The Cactus Flat Silver Cornet the loss of an eye and few ribs same time, and that usually it is
This summons is served upon you
broken.
Band will hold a rehearsel Wed
Miss Roseola Hicks, who has been nip and tuck between the weeds of by publication for six consecutive
nesday night in the poker room
the growing season, but that fin weeks in the Vernonia Eagle, in
over the Lightening Livery Stable, selected to play the part of Eve ally the weeds win the battle by pursuant of an order of Hon. John
in
a
pagent
called
((The
Dawn
of
Director Fred Price states that a
reason of their hardy growing qual Philip, Judge of the County Court,
full and complete turnout » re- Creation,” was seen persuing a fig ifies and their hearty resistance- to of Columbia County, Oregon, made
quested, as he has a couple of new tree Monday morning.
and entered on the 31st day of
Centipede Clark was arrested alien plants.
tunes which he learned to whistle
It takes more moisture, he says, May, 1927, in the absence of Cir
Tuesday
on
a
charge
of
reckless
from the radio in the county seat
to grow com than it does to grow cuit .Judge of said county.
and ha wants to teach them to the driving. He will resume his civilian weeds, and weeds also need less
Date of first publication Juns
band to be psed in summer concerts. duties in thirty days.
Constable Twist Newton left Fri cultivation than corn. Corn, how 2nd, 1927. Date of last publication
Aba Tyler has succeeded in dig- day morning to take up the trial of ever, states Mr. Squills, is of nio.< 14th day of July, 1927.
gingi the bird’s nest out of the the bandit who held up the filling value on the markets of the world
Lester Sheeley,
bell of bis baritone, which he left station Wednesday night. He was and brings a higher commercial
Attorney for Plaintiff,
hanging up in the barn for several accompained by a swayed-off shot- price. The corn has bpth proteams Residency and postoffice address,
and galleries, says Mr. Squills, Vernonia, Oregon,
months, and he expresses his in- gun.
whose spn has stqdied chemistry
tention Of being on hand with a
The big cactus plant in Fatty
for a couple of week» in high
full complement of wind.
Hooper’s back yard had one of its
Harry .Mooney, Cactus Flat's bass spines bent whe'n Fatty backed his school, while the weeds are ab- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE STATE OF OREGON
drum virtuoso, has had the drum truck into it, and Fatty called in solutely devoid of these two es
FOR THE COUNTY OF
head repaired where the horse step- the chiropractor from the county sential essentials. The weeds run
COLUMBIA
mostly to saliferous solubles, says
ped thrtugh it. Harry says that seat to get it fixed.
Mr.
Squills,
which
have
no
food
It sound* as well as ever, only the
JESSIE
EDITH
CAUGHRON,
Archimedes Puck, who studied
vibrstjon of the patch on it gives portrait painting iri Boston, has lan- value for either man or other
Plaintiff.
jt a .distinct jazzy flavor, and he ded the contract to whitewash Fatty beast.
SUMMONS
Mr. Squills says that it is al-
1* afWid he won’t be able to play Hooper’s barn.
vs
it ito ehnrctl any more.
Prof. Flyleaf Adkins requests us: most imposible to produce a good FRED CAUGHRON,
crop of com in* the weed belt, and
Defendant.
Tpb« Wiler busted the bass to announce that there will be no
To Fred Caughron, the above
string on his boss fiddle and he further night classes at the High . that if it didn’t take so much man
ual
labor
and
hard
work
he
would
named defendant:
says ha can’t play again until he School qntjl the horseshoe pitching1
I take a hoe and chop some of the
In the name of the Stata of Ore
gets a new string from the county season is over,
! weeds down,
gon: You are hereby required to
seat, as the piece of clotheline
Rattlesnake Ike make a flying
he tried to substitute for a string trip to the county seat Monday
Scotty MacPherson has had a appear and answer the complaint
is d little flat in tone and Is not In charge of Constable Twist New partition put in his gasoline tank filed against you in the above en-
a Mt soulful.
ton,
so it will take jess gas to fill it. titled suit on or before Saturday
the 2nd day of July, 1927, said
CARE OF SHOES
Fuither suggestions as to the France production of the famous date being more than six weeks
care of shoes include attention to Jules Verne melodrama "Michael after the data of the first publi
(From page 1)
cleaning
and renovating, drying, Strogoff,” which comes to the Maj cation of his summons herein, and
that; it no longer is worth mend
oiling and greasing, and waterproof estic theatre Tuesday and Wednes if you fail to appear and answer
ing’. and from $2 to $5 will be ing. Several formulas for water
day, presents a striking contrast to or otherwise plead to plaintiff’s
lost-«by neglect.
proofing are given in the bulletin. the civilized magnificence of the said complaint, for want thereof
the plaintiff will apply to the
A copy of the bulletin may be Imperial Palace at Moscow of Alex court for the relief prayed for In
ander
II, Czar of all Russia in
obtained, as long as the supply lasts
her complaint, to-wit, for a decree
by writing to the United States 1850, which is also a feature of the forever dissolving the bonds of
Fastidious
department of agriculture, Washing huge spectacular photodrama. In matrimony now existing between
those days Ozar and Kahn were
ton, D. C.
plaintiff and defendant; requiring
absolute rulers. Their word was law
defendant to pay all necessary suit
for life or death. The Ozar had
money and costs in this proceed
fifty-three titles including such
awe-inspiring ones as "Emperor and ing ,and for such other and further
relief as' to the Court may seem
Autocrat of all the Russiaa,” "Czar”
equitable and proper:
He was a tiger of the sea. Slow "Prince," "Lord and Sovereign
This summons is served upon you
to anger, but a fury when once Prince," "Seignior,” "Governor of by publication for kix consecutive
the
Hyperborean
Regions,
”
“
Heir
started. See Milton Sills in "Ths
weeks in Ths Vernonia Eagle, in
Sea Tiger,” at the Majestic theatre of Norway,” “Duke of Schleswig- pursuance of an order of Honorable
this week. It is a First National Holstein,” and as officially stated J. A. Eakin, Judge of the Court
“many others.” The Grand Kahn
picture and it is a corker.
by comparison was a petty ruler, for Columbia County, Oregon, made
and entered on the 18th day of May,
Dorothy Gish stars in "London,” But his power was equally abso- 1927.
a Paramount importation to be seen lute, and the trouble his Tartar
Date of first publication Thurs
on Sunday at the Majestic theatre. hordes caused the army of the day, May 19, 1927. Date of last
Czar
was
sufficient
to
make
the
The story is an original for the
publication Thursday, June 80, 1927.
screen by Thomas Burke, author journey of Michael Strogoff through DILLARD & DILLARD, Attorneys
These
HATS that
of “Limehouse Nights.” Herbert his hostile territory one of the for plaintiff.
the «mart miss will
Wjlcox directed. It is said that the greatest adventures of fiction.
Residence and Post office ad
eagerly w ant, since
film is of exceptional interest be
A daring act or heroism—and dress, St. Helens, Oregon.
they ; present a most
cause of the authentic London back- the more daring because In spite
charming array of the I grounds seen during the story's ac of the clicking cameras that re
corded it, it was real—was per
tion.
newest styles at price*
formed by Ken Maynard, cowboy
much less than usual.
The gorgeous splendor of the star, during the screening of
semi-barbaric court of the Grand “Somewhere in Sonora,” his latest
Model Millinery
Kahn of Tartary shown In full First National production made by
color in the Universal-Film
Charles R. Rogers, which comes to
the Majestic theatre here next week.
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thy tongue from evil, and thy lipa
from speaking guile. Depart from |
evil, and do good; seek peace, and
pursue it. Psalm 34: 18-14.
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