VERNONIA EAGLE
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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.„
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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
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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
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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
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Studied Economy
Lodge Directory q I
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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
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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
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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
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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
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