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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1927)
VERNONIA EAGLE » Thursday July T, lt27. THE CACTUS FLAT CATAMOUNT NUMBER 6 LAURENCE LOCKNEY, Editor VOLUME 1 A Cube Root has taken out a licen the scales at exactly twelve pounds. SUMMER IS NIGH HERE The trout is destined to go down The most profound coincidence of se to operate a lawn mower. in history as the only big fish LOCAL NEWS which nature is capable, to our that was ever weighed on a pair, of Archimedes Puck, who studied mind, is that the season of the scales to prove that the fisherman year called “Summer” generally I architecture while in college, has was not a liar. gets around at about the same been commissioned to draw up the The trout was landed with a split Mescal plans on a new bridge for each ami every year. That time bamboo rod and a silk line with time is ripe now. The other day Bill’s fiddle. While playing golf last Sunday an ordinary steel hook and a worm when we saw the thermometer on the front porch of the butcher shop Abe Withers sliced into the rough that Bearcat dug himself over back shoot up to 110, we realized polg- when his ball hit Alf Stude on of Alf Stude’s hog pen. It took two hours to land the fish, so nantly and with deep conviction, the back of the neck, ’ ----- I Miss Tootle Tatum caught her Bearcat says, and when the fish that summer would ■ ■ be • here soon. the robin is the harbinger toe in the chandilier Tuesday night was at last pulled out on the bank, I. Just as t.„ ------- — both Bearcat and the fish were of spring, and the frost-covered while interpreting a. dance. punkin tells us in words as hard i Postno Bills, who used to wrangle sweating like a nigger at election. y as ’• billiard balls that winter is horses on the Waukeen Plains, hasj Archimedes Puck, who studied p:s- ■ t 1 ’ been offered a position as usher catoriaology while in college, told well on its way, we know that the Bearcat that he was wrong, for thermometer harbinges summer in a i San Francisco roadhouse. Mescal Bill won an argument scientists teach us that fish do when it gets up to around 110 to Me in the shade. It does not with his wife Sunday and has filed not perspire, Bearcat retorted that 1 « '112 is here - on the . ’ another . notch on the index finger the scientists may be right in some mean that ....... summer —...... — ---- .* i _ ! V, , a ri’irht nnnj things, but that he caught that spot, but it does mean that sum-, of his right hand, Please turn to page 2 mer is coming and that we had bet- Cliff Gilmore fell heir to a team ter prepare to welcome a hot spell.1 of mules this week and states that Summer in Cactus Flat Is not'hereafter he will throw in with as welcome as it should be. Some-, the capitalist class. While searching for antiques last times when ye editor is reading I a poem about summer, which bears Friday, Archimedes Puck picked up W. 0. W. Vernonia camp No. 655 all the earmarks of having been I a valuable piece of glass with his meets every Monday night at seven written under an electric fan, with, rear tire. Rufe Slocum heard the call of the thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting maybe a cold glass of something or other at the writer’s elbow, | wild today when he saw the sheriff members welcome. A. F. KOSTER C. C. we say sometimes it seems that a 1 looking for him with a subpoena, C. C. DUSTEN CLERK. good, scorching Cactus Flat sum i Centipede Clark wrecked his car mer is not properly appreciated. late Saturday night while trying Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A. Basky dells do not sound poetic to negotiate a tree. Hog-Eye Haines was badly in F. & A. M., meets at Grange when the aforesaid basky dells are full of mosquitos and gnats and jured on the fourth of July dur-1 Hall every Second and poison ivy, and the sun shinning in a raid on the lemonade barrel. C ‘ VS^Fourtn Thursday nights. Great excitement was manifested down with the terrific force of an Xr ' Visitors Welcome 4 acetylene torch. If it didn <----- ’t _ get during the race on the fourth of' McNeill, Secretary. so blasted hot here in the sum July, in which Bearcat Boones black horse won by a stumble. mer, we would advise our numer-, Wiley Hawse writes from Bos ous and sundry readers to rave about the beauties of our sum ton that he heard quite a bit I. O. O. F.—V ernonia L odge , N o . 24C, mers that" have“ come and went,” but «bout a tea party during the four- meets every Tuesday night at 8:00 as it stands at present, we feel¡th of July speeches, but he wasn’t o’clock, in Grange Hall that it is best to just simply brag invited. 0. E. Enstrum, N.G. about our wonderful climate and Slocum> wh° forSot to take G. B. Smith, Scc’t'y. his overcoat when he spent the let it go at that.. fourth of July in Los Angeles, AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY THE GOLDEN GATE MOSQUITO came home threatened with pneu Meet* first and third Mon- (By Wampus Pete, the Silver Pen monia. day* of each month at ned Poet of the Sierras) the Legion Hall. Siskiou Kid Amble, into Town O, the Golden State mosquito —---------------- ------ *---- - flits -- a The iie oisKiyuu 1. E. McGraw, President Siskiyou xviu, Kid, wnu who viaiius claims w to among the trees and flowers, have s;x notches on his gun. drifted Vornonia Post And he soars on pinions fleetful into Cactus Flat this week and o’er the marshy salt-grass flats,1 took a job inking the Washington 119, American Le- gion. Meets second And he lights upon the native, with handpress for the Catamount. The and fourth Tues- his steel-like harpoon gleaming, Kid hadn’t had a square meal for two or three days and as a con ¡BS days each month, 8 And the selfsame native slams p.m. H. E. Me- him with a hearty “Dog My sequence he was on the verge of Graw, Commander. becoming somewhat hungry, but Cats!” after he got a couple of plates of O, The Golden State mosquito beans under his belt he began to Nehalem Chapter 153, O. E. S', knows of dark deeds prehistoric brag about his exploits and soon Regular communi- If he only spoke our language, had a number of our prominent I cation first and what a message he could tell,' citizens standing around in open- third Wednesdays Questions that we put to moun-| mouthed awe. each I of month. tains and to trees and rocks' All visiting sisters The Kid will sleep on the bed and rivers, and brothers wel of the press and take his meals at But the Golden State mosquito the Palace of Beans, and as soon come. knows the answer just as well. I as his stomach gets in condition Bessie Tapp, W. M. O, the Golden State mosquito !» he will make a social call on Rat- Leona McGraw, Secretary. the oldest "Oldest Settler,” tiesnake Ike, Cactus Flat’s most VERNONIA GRANGE He was here before the days obliging bootician. The Vernonia Grange meets on th ’Forty-Nine; second Saturday of every month a Yet the bearded ’’Forty-Niner fills BEARCAT BOONE LANDS our inspiring pages, TWELVE POUND TROUT 7:30 P. M. Any members of th While the Golden State mosquito Bearcat Boone caught a trout on Grange living in or near Vernonia never gets a single line. Roaring River recently that tipped or visiting in the community, ar cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Minnie Malmsten, Secretary * Studied Economy Lodge Directory q I I A1 20 % Reduction on Ivory Single Piecest Sets DIANA STATIONERY 69c Per Box NEW LIFE Wine Tonic Tonic and System Builder $1.00 per Bottle BOX CAMERAS $1.00—$1.50 Picnic Supplies PAPER PLATES NAPKINS CUPS WAX PAPER ICE CREAM DISHES FORKS I J. MASON DILLARD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Next xt SUGAR—Pure Cane 15 lbs. limit ......... MILK—Federal Brand, tall cans, limit 11 for. SALAD OIL—Wesson Mazda, 2 qt. tins Í LESTER SHEELEY Attorney-at-Law Vernonia Oregon SOAP—White Wonder, 33 bars ................. $100 $100 CREME OIL Toilet Soap, 16 bars ............... $100 WASHING POWDER— Swifts quick naptha 4 for $100 MATCHES—Safeway Brand, strike anywhere 30 boxes ........................ $100 $100 CRACKERS—No. 5 boxes Sodas, Salted or plain... 2 for .................................. $100 JAR CAPS, Mason or Economy, 4 doz. for $100 FLOUR—Big K Hard Wheat 2 No. 10 sks for.. $100 TOILET PAPER—Tissue, 1000 sheet rolls, 16 for.. $100 GRAHAM—Coarse or fine 2 No. 10 scks for .......... CORN MEAL—White or Yellow, 3 9-lb. bags for.. CERTO, for good jams and jellies, 4 for .... «pl’vv $100 Canned Vegetables | $100 CORN—Golden Sweet, No. 2 tins, 8 cans for ,........... $100 PEAS—Utah June, No. 2 tins, 9 cans for ................ $100 PEAS—Early June, No. 2 tins, small peas 6 cans.. $100 TOMATOES—Standard te Puree, No. 2% tins, 9 for TOMATOES—Solid Pack, No. 2x/z tins, 6 cans for.. SPINACH—Maximum Brand, No. 2% tins 6 cans $100 $100 $100 [tjl Canned Fruits PEACHES—Hunt’s Supre me Yellow Free, No. 2J/2 tins, 5 for ......................... $100 M. D. COLE LY SPRAY DENTIST Vernonia $100 SALMON—Alaska Pink, No. 1 tall tins, 7 for .. $100 SALMON—Libby’s Red Alaska, No. 1 tall tins 4.. $100 TUNA FISH—White star, No. Vz tins, 5 for ............ $100 SARDINES—Booth’s large oval tins, limit 9 for ...... $100 CLAMS—Minced tall cans 4 for ................................. $100 NORWEGIAN—In olive oil, small fish, 9 for..... $100 SHRIMP—American beau ty, dry pack, 7 cans for $100 Canned Beans CAMPBELLS— Medium tins, 12 cans for ........ $100 $100 VAN CAMPS—Medium tins, 10 cans for ....... $100 PINEAPPLE—Broken Slic ed, No. 2 tins, 6 for........ $100 « HEINZ’—Oven baked, 7 cans for ......................... $100 PINEAPPLE—Extra Fancy Sliced, No. 2’/2 tins, 4 for . $100 HEINZ’—Red Kidney, 6 cans for ......................... $100 At Our Market BACON SQUARES— 5 pounds .................. Oregon OYSTERS—American beauty, 5-oz. tins, 7 for.. PEACHES—All Gold Brand, sliced, No. 2 tins, 5 for ........................... -..... DR. W. H. HURLEY hOronite BAKING POWDER—Cal- umet, 5-lb. can for ........ «pl OO Sea Foods CORN—Iowa Standard, No. 2 tins, 9 cans for DENTISTRY AND X-RAY Evenings by Appointment Office over Brown Furniture Store Vernonia Oregon flies -mosquitoes, roaches ¿’moths, etc. $100 or OLEO—T ropicnut, 5 lbs..................... to Carkin Cleaning Works H I Here Every Wednesday DR. ËLLA WIGHT DR. C. J. WIGHT CHIROPRACTORS Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach, Liver and Intestinal Troubles Delayed Menstruation tofore unknown economy of op eration didn’t “just happen.” It came about through a long-studi ed and carefully worked out plan to constantly reduce overhead to the minimum. Combined with a purchasing power that enables us to save great sums in buying, this economy of operating accounts for our ability to consistently of fer you better values. Effective July 8 to 12 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. See’y ! At Mac’s Pharmacy The unequaled ability of Skaggs- Safeway Stores to supply you with the highest quality foods at substantially lower prices is due, in large part, to the fact that they are the most economically opera ted of any similar stores in Ameri ca. We actually and successfully do business for less gross profit than the bare operating costs of the average merchant. This here- Dollar Features MOUNTAIN HEART Drug Store Items A AA UU COMPOUND—White Rib- bon Brand, in bulk, 7 lbs. $100 BACON—Fancy Eastern Sugar Cured, light sides (fl nn 3 lbs..................................... $1'00 LARD—Open Kettle Ren- AA dered, 6 lbs. for ............ $1'00 MARK EVERY GRAVE OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Memorials in Granite and Marble At Reduced Prices WRITE FOR PARTICULARS MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO Fourth and MAin St. Hillsboro Phone 741 No. 225 Vernonia 0 I