VERNONIA EAGLE
THE CACTUS FLAT CATAMOUNT
VOLUME
1
LAURENCE LOCKNEY, Editor
:r.r
NUMBER
3
I head and turned around at the first
ths of the yawning chasm. >
BIG BOULDER BAFFLES
CHAMBER OF CONVERSE
This was done the next morning stopping place and came back to
About twenty paid up members by Archimedes Puck, who practic­ Cactus Flat. He stopped In front
of th* postoffic* and told the as­
and three dogs assembled en masse ed sculpture while in college.
sembled citizenship what he thought
at the municipal hall Monday night
of California and mountain road*
Local New*
to discus* the big rock which rolled
off the middle of the Cactus Flat-
Ebenezer Squills, a dirt farmer in general, and said that anybody
San Francisco highway, completely, of upper Mud creek, says he wishes with a lick of sense would straigh­
blocking all traffic except goats this flexibile tariff he has heard ten out their roads so that tourists
would be attracted to the country.
and burros.
so much about would flex occasion­
Rattlesnake Ike told Mr. tourist
Constable Twist Newton, who ap­ ally in his direction.
that
the only way to straighten
Prof. Flyleaf Adkins states that
pointed himself a board of super­
Out a road up the side of a hill
visors to log the rock, reported a chair of United States History
like WUldsat Mountain would be
that the rock was of gigantic stat­ is planned for the University of
to tie a rope to the lower end of
ure and also spread out considera­ London, and that we can at least
the road and pull it down into
bly. He suggested that the only tell them who won the Revolutlon-
the valley where the land is level,
method of surmounting the dif­ 'ary war.
and he would take the matter up
Hurd Howe writes from Wash­
ficulty was not to surmount it at
with the next legislature.
all, but'to go around it. He said ington that the Honorable William
This answer did not seem to
that the most feasible plan was Hoots, who has been talked of
satisfy the tourist, who turned
to begin construction of a new as a presidential posibility in 1928,
away in disgust and headed off
road at the head of the canyon will reopen his peanut stand in
in the general direction of San
about a mile above the rock and that city.
Francisco.
Henry
Eckles
writes
from
Shang
­
cut across the canyon, building
the new road on the hill across hai that despite the barriage laid
Social News
the creek from the rock and in- down by non-participating nations,
Miss Goldie Boone, the charming
secting the old road about three the Chinese are still threatening to daughter of Bearcat Boone, the
quarters of a mile below the rock. take the city.
tonsorial barber and expert horse-
Hobe Towner writes from Chic­ shoer, returned from San Francisco
He estimated that the new road
would cost about ten thousand dol­ ago that the bootleggers have land­ Monday with a new fur coat, which
lars for labor and material and ed and have the situation well in set her back nineteen dollars and
dynamite to blast a tunnel through hand.
ninety-eight cents. She will ap­
Scotty MacPherson went over to pear in person at the big dance
a sharp point of the hill where
it was too close to the edge of the hot springs the other day to at Whiskey Slide Saturday night
the bluff to go around and too boil a pot of coffee.
at which time Bob Cutler's Cow-|
Miss Goldie Boone had the hem bell orchestra will fill the air with!
steep to go over if a man had
of her skirt torn by a giraffe at all the latest jazz features in music
any sense.
Bearcat Boone raised un ob- the circus Tuesday.
and dance tunes. The management
Rattlesnake Ike’s bootleg empor­ of the dance wishes to state that
j ection to the constable’s plan,
maintaining that the new road ium was raided by officers Sat- bootleggers will, not be allowed to
would be an economic waste of urday night and twenty quarts were peddle their wares inside the dance
the taxpayers’ money, in that it consumed.
hall. Constable Twist Newton will
Stokes Cole, who lost the road bo there with hiB posse of intrepid
would traverse no agricultural coun­
I
try, while a road around the base the other day while driving to deputies to enforce the order.
of Piute Peak, which, on account the village dump, has decided to
MESCAL BILL’S FAMOUS
of the lay of the land, would go run his car for another year,
HOUND GETS CHEWED UP
Wild Bill Mullens, a successful
around the mountain about half
Great excitement prevailed in the
a mile below Cactus Flat and back bandit of the foothills district, has
UP to the town, which said road gone to Chicago to take a post­ household of Mescal Bill Sunday
mck-ning when his wonder dog, Lop-
not only pass by three homesteads graduate course.
Eared Lizzie, limped into the house
and an abandoned mining claim,
FLAT LAND TOURIST
in a fearful state of delapidation.
but would give the people five
OBJECTS TO CURVES
more miles of road to brag about.
Lizzie had been out on the trail
A tourist from the middle west, of a wildcat and had not been
The debate promised to wax
warm, when Prof. Flyleaf Adkins, who has spent all of his life where home for two or three days, and
principal of the Cactus Flat high the country is flat and where a when she did come homo she look
school, suggested that i't would be bump on the landscape no bigger ed as downeast as a ripe tomato
a far better plan to take a sledge than an ant hill is called a moun­ that had been run over by a truck.
hammer and break the colossal rock tain, tried to negotiate the sinuous
Her left ear was torn to shreds
into minute chunks and heave the curves up Wildcat Mountain the and her right eye was closed and
fragments into the cavernous dep- other day, but he got dizzy in the swollen up with a lump as big as
a prizefighter’s demand. The skin
had been ripped off her back in
several places and both forelegs
THE NEW
;1 .
look like they had been run through
a sausage mill. Her neck and shoul­
der* were chewed up and clotted
with blood and she looked as for-
lorn and despondent as a native
son who has been defeated for
office. It is feared that Lizzie has
met with foul play.
CACTUS FLAT PLUMBER ............
..................... ATTENDS CONVENTION
Slocum Hoppin, Cactus Flat’s
handsome and talented plumber, at­
More Miles per Gallon
tended he plumbers’ convention at
the county seat last Friday, at
which time, he states, many impor­
More Power------- Smoother Operation
tant matters were almost finished.
No record was kept of the meeting
Easier
Starting
Less Carbon
stated Mr. Hoppin on account of
the secretary having forgot to bring
. Less Crankcase Dilution
his books.
Slocum said that the matter of
who owned the pipe that was left
Bring in your Ford today and let us put one on,
over from a job was threshed over
considerably but no agreement was
reached. It was agreed, however)
that the man who had the plumb­
ing done was to pay fer the pipe,
and that unless a law suit was ln-
• i.
Installation
stituted, the plumber waa entitled
to all the pipe left over. He is
entitled to his, said Slocum, for
his sagacity in making the pipe
stretch as far as possible and for
using economy where economy is
needed. As long as the plumber
gets the left over pipe, says Slo­
cum, it will not be necessary to
figure too close on a job and the
downtrodden plumber and his fam-
ily can stave off the wolf from
their door.
Hot Plate Vaporizer Will Give You
$9.00
Extra.
Crawford Motor Co
ORONITE
"Kills 'em dead"
flies,mosquitoes,roachesjnoths
OAKLAND, PONTIAC,
CHEVROLET, STUDE­
BAKER.
Goodyear Tires
Th. Hall of Fame
Jeff Jones, who was in instruc­
tor of recruits in the late war,
has accepted a commission to drill
postholes for Horsehide Hopkins.
Lawyer Lilikoll, our local orator,
has decided to adopt a more forco-
ful manner of speaking and will
take up golf.
Herb Price, leader of the Cactus
Flat Silvar Cornet Band, is revis­
ing the chromatic scale, to meet
the requirement* of a piece of
music he has written.
At a meeting of the Literary
club held recently several delight­
ful hours were spent in social
conversation. Miss Goldie Boone’s
short skirt* coming in for their
share.
(From page 1)
measure on the ballot which can
be shown by the votes cast for
the two measures. And to behold
the Morning Oregonian can see
the light and favors the income
tax in the coming election; but
some of the followers of Chap-
nftn’s Oregon Voter are toe dense
to see the light or learn.
Thursday, June 16, 1927
A wise man changes his mind a tax and let the non tax payer
sometimes but a fool never.
continue to be on the free list.
Income tax is only collected on
I challenge anyone to a senes
net incomes above what Is con­ of four debates on the income tax
sidered sufficient for living ex­ who is a legal voter in Columbia
penses but it is different with the County.
property tax. The bread winner
P. S. 1 hope that the editor of
may be sick or the family under the St. Helen* Miet will favor me
the care of a physician and still With a series of four debates at
the law requires the tax collector the following place* vis: St. Helens,
to sell their home at public auc­ Rainier, Clatskanie and Vernonia.
tion if property taxes are not
O. HENRY OLEEN
paid. Not *o with the income tax.
You are only required to pay on
From page 1
a net income above a sufficient most impossible for the fish to
exemption for a living expense.
reach grounds,
The state tax commission report­
We are informed that in no other
ed net incomes of $42,000,000 from state or country is net fishing per­
persons and corporations who did mitted on so small a stream as
not pay any property tax. The the Nestucca river. Opponents of
best way to reach these persons the pending bill are giving no
and corporations is by an Income thought to the future. The salmon
tax to help pay the expense of on the Atlantic coast have been
government.
practically exterminated by reason
It is not necessary to raise the of failure to use protective meas-
base for state tax levy on pro­ ures. We want to prevent such
perty if the $50,000,000 of asses- happenings in Oregon.
able property which is not now on
It Is for these reasons that our
the tax roll is assessed and the organization, in cooperation with
$42,000,000 net income pays a fair Similar groups and interested in­
tax to the state of Oregon,
dividuals, are bespeaking support
Other states have income tax for ihe measure before the voters
payers league ever suggested to of the state.
take care of the state deficit? Tax
Respectifully,
those more who are now paying
David Robinson,
I.
Chairman Nestucca River Referen­
dum Bill.
Radioed From USDA
An average of 12 dozen market­
able eggs a year from each hen
should give a good return. Hens
that produce less than 100 eggs
a year barely pay their expenses.
Leghorn hens will eat about 70
pounds of grain a year. Larger
breeds, such as Plymouth Rocks,
will eat about 86 pounds,
W. T. Pope, horticulturist of
the Hawaii agricultural experiment
station, says that recent investi-
gation shows that the banana was
one of the earliest food plants cul-
treated by man. It was formerly
known as “The Apple of Paradise.’’
If a well-fed animal becomes un­
thrifty, parasitism is to be suspect­
ed. Probably about 10 per cent cf
all livestock losses are due to
worms and other parasites,
There are 12 important pai v
sites of chickens in this country.
There are 40 or 50 parasites of
cattle, And there a e 50 to 60
found in horses.
Tillamook—Veneer plant opened
June 6 with 60 employes.
Ground broken for new Grange
hall at Fern Hill.
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^Difirihution "Without
If You Could Sit In
Meetings of all salesman,
managers, district managers
and others connected with
our stores and markets are
held in each district reg­
ularly. If you, as the patron,
coud sit in at one of these
meetings and hear the
plans and discussions of
ways and means for con­
stantly improving our ser-
vice to you and eliminating waste,
would readily understand why
our stores and markets are so much more desirable places at which to
buy all of your foods. The whole thought at these meetings is “How
can we give the public better merchandise and better service at less
cost?” and the free exchange of ideas enables us to solve this problem.
Saturday and Monday Features
Sugar
Fly Spray
Malt
Pure Cane
Black flag liquid
small size
“Blue Ribbon
can
10 lbs.
100»* $6.49
can
3
1
can
i
Large Size
can
3 for.......73c
2
1
lb tin......
38c
2
lb.
85c
for.... 43c
5
45c
59c
Quart Jars
jar
43c
Jar Rubbers
4
Campbells large tins
tins
Sweet and Juicy
doz..........
Sweet Pickles
1
Safeway Label
lbs. for
Pork and Beans
Malted milk
1
25c
Butter
Chocolate
GHIRARDELLIS
Oranges
45c
50c
PINEAPPLE
Large tins, sliced
15c
Medium Size
Pineapple
No. 2 tins broken
Sliced
cans for..
1
Double Lip
pks. for...
25c
Sunbiite Cleanser
0 cans
Unusual Values In Our Market
Pork Roasts
Choice shoulder cuts from
young hogs,
Bacon Back
Sugar cured, y2 or whole
Per pound
Per pound
Swifts
Shortening
2
8
White Ribbon
pounds
pounds
Weiners and Bologna
25c
99c
Per pound
pounds
20c
35c