FOUR
Uljr Wrttnnia Eagh
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¡takings sjell a new era in industri
ucat.cn. — Vlanul acturer.
Thursday, October 2.1, 1927.
4NIA EAGLE
ed-
AN EERIE NIGHT
Moon Farming
i
Moon farmin;;, accoro ng to the
weather bureau, is “mconehine.” It j
has absolutely
support from any!
scientific point of view. By "moon
fernnng” is me. nt sowing or reap
ing. breeding of b itchering, shingl-1
This s ¡phist.cated and maten itic
world no longer believes in ghosts, good
$2 per year in Advance i fairies, witches and magic charms but this
Issued every Thursday
has not detracted at all from the tradition
Entered as Second Clash Matter, August 4, 1922 at the' al observance of Halloween, the eve of I
All Saints’ Day and the night on which'
Post Office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
Act of March 3, 1879
the shadowy denizens of the spirit world,
return to earthly haunts.
MARK E. MOE, Editor
So this Monday evening when night,
draws her curtain across the world the
THE PUMPKIN
unbelieving wordlings will supplant the
“real’’ ghosts, black cats and broomstick
Long ago when vegetables were scarce, witches with a make-believe eerie realm
even in summer, and not to be had at all of cut paper, noise makers and pumpkin
in wintei, the pumpkin was put to extra faces. Halloween parties, street carnivals
ordinary diversified uses. With it New with masks, costumes and confetti, and
England housewives made pumpkin bread, prank-playing have universal permission
new a lost are. In her journal Mme Knight to monopolize the spotlight. And as the
wrote of eating “roast beef and pumpkin witching hour of twelve draws there will
sause for supper” at Stonington in 1704. be some unfaithful ones glancing covertly
And then pumpkin was also used in the back at their shifting shadows and jmnp-
making of beer, custards, molasses, vine ing at every squeak of the chamber stair
gar and pies. Small wonder the early New way. After all, Halloween wouldn’t be
Englanders, as it is related in Peters Gen half so much fun if there was no super
eral History of Connecticut, considered stition attached to it and the fact
th« pumpkin “one of the greatest bless that it is now all superstition of|
ings and held very scared in New Eng the fact that it is now all superstition ofj
land.”
suggestion does not make it any less af
Since earliest Colonial days the pump fective for t£ie purpose of Allhallow night.
kin has been the homely symbol in Ameri In its merrymaking let not the commun
ca of that season of mellow fruitfulness ity forget the double significance of this
that separates summer from winter. Al night. Primarily this will be an observance
though its name is of French origin the of All Saints’ eve, but it is also a harvest
pumpkin has become an institution typi celebration. The frosty pumpkin, the ust-
cally American. The etymology of the ling com shock and the bobbing auple I
ward can be traced from the French pom play an important part in this nocturnal
pon in use before the colonization of celebration and senarately link Halloween
America, through the stages of pompion vith the harvest time.
A wit has Dointed out that the rood
and pumpion to pumpkin. And except in
print and among precise speakers one to saints have shown rare wisdom by mak-
day will ecounter the colloquial “punkin” ing their annual pilgrimage back to earth
oftener than the literary “pumpkin.”
in the heart of the harvest season.
Thin generation has known the pumpkin
mor« as a symbol of the harvest season
OMINIOUS SIGNS
than as the vegetable of all uses. Pump
kin is still popular, and not only because
“Well, it’s just around the corner,” ob
it hi a substitute for what the Puritan Blue served a merchant the other day, referr
Laws styled “anti-Christian minced pies,” ing to the Christmas season.
but other than that their only use is for
And so it is. The Christmas shopping
Hallowe’en jack o’ lanterns and dairy fod season seems to begin earlier each year,
der. Eveiy year the production exceeds and this is no exception.
the consumption in spite of the discovery
Postal officials are already beginning to
by some that the pumpkin can be used worry. Last year, for example, a Christmas
to advantage by those who find them box sent by friends to a missionary family
selves between he eighteenth amendment in China arrived five months after the hwL
and the bootleggers.
idavs. and enroute some hungry chinaman
had helped himself to the sweetmeats,
FREIGHT RATES SHOW VERY
which was just as well, considering how
stale they would have been on arrival.
SLIGHT INCREASE
BILLBOARDS LESS UNSIGHTLY
While wholesale prices of all commodit
________ /
ies average 79 per cent higher than in
There
is
much
promise in the mere fact
1800, and wholesale prices of farm pro
that
the
Outdoor
Advertising association
ducts average 96 per cent higher than in
that year, the average freight rate per is turning its collective thought to the out
ton per mile is now less than 14 per cent door signboard with the view of saving!
higher than it was in 1890. In 1890 it both it and the landscape. To save the
coot .941 cents to haul a ton of freight billboard from banishment from scenic
om mile, while today the average cost highways those who own and use them
must find a way to make them less ob
is 1.069 cens.
W the increase in the average freight noxious to society and less injurious to
rate since 1890 had been relatively as scenery. It is high time that constrv five
greet as the increase in average price of steps were taken to eliminate a condition!
al tommodities, the nation’s bill for that still remains an evil.
freight transportation would be 57 per The situation is not as bad as it was for
cent larger than it now is, or $2,740,000,- merly. When outdoor advertising camo in
0(10 more annually, and if the increase! to universal use there was no disposition
ia average freight rate had been as great! on the part of those buying and selling
ia jroportion as the increase in prices of this form of advertising to pay the slight
farm products, the nation’s freight bill est bit of attention toward preserving the
would be 72 per cent larger than it is, beauty of the landscape. Signs were elect
or almost $3,500,000,000 more annually. ed where they commanded the most at
The history of prices, of freight rates tention. and unfortunately that frequently
and of railway development during the was where they did the most harm to the
last 40 years constitutes an unanswerable scenery. Finally the public began to pro
argument for future regulation that v ill test against these landscape scars, but the
encourage ample investment of capital in advertisers paid scant heed to them until
they discovered the effect of their adver
railway improvements.—Manufacturer.
tising was being killed.
Legislation, public opinion, public-spirit
SCHOOLS FOR INDUSTRIAL
ed
landowners who refuse to allow poster
DEMOCRACY
boards on their property, and a will ng-
It is estimated more than 27,000,000 ness of advertisers to go half way have
boys and girls are attending public schools combined in recent years to correct a con
at an expenditure of $2.000,0 )0,000 from dition which was becoming intolerable.
the taxpayers to operate schools and Signboards are being reconciled to the
school property valued at $5,000,000,000. landscape by reduction in size, use or na
What al bout a more contented, useful, and tural colors and artistic designs, an;! dis-
practical result in the way of the citizen cretion in placing.
ship product of these schools?
One great honeful outlook for better Money is so close and yet so far.
results lies in he line of indusrial training.
A man is also judged by the sea’- Tais
In the San Mateo-Burlingame Union Hi- i
School District of California as high as ho keeps up with.
62 ner cent of the boys git lea’ning tra ’■ s <
and occupations necessary to the life of If every tenth door is padlocked it is
the community. Without interfering with a city of the first or second class.
regular studies, bnvs in the industrial de
partment are earning 30, 40 and 50 cents Pos. ossicn is nine parts of the law and
99 per cent of what interests the lawyer.
an hour.
Many fanning districts have courses
won't be . popular
be-
where bovs studv farm machinery and Talking
„ movies
.
.
erection of farm buildings, all such under- cause they drown out the audience.
in? or shearing, or any other farm
activities supposed to be affected
b; the “dark” of the “light” or
S' me other phase of the moon. The
cl ief t hings affecting the growth
o croj s at any stage are; kind and
intensity of light; presence; or ab-
V
r*i
Why ??
Did Earle jjet 47 new customers
in September?
Why?
sence, and severity, of plant di
sease; mechanical condition of roil,
loose or compact; fertility of the
soil, and quantity of other veg
etation, or weeds, present. Mete
orologists can show that the moon
has nothing to" do with any of
these conditions affecting crops.
It has no influence on weather or
soil.
Oregon’s products for 1926 were
worth more than $300,000,009.
W. O. W. Vernonia camp No. 655
meets every Monday night at sev-
thirty at the Grange Hall. Visiting
members welcome.
ROBERT LINDSEY, C.
c. C.
C. C. DUSTEN CLERK.
Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A.
F. & A. M., meets at Grange
Hall every Second and
Fourth Thursday nights.
Visitors Welcome
K. A. McNeill, Secretary.
Do his old and new customers
boost for him?
Because
He tries faithfully to do batter wark than the
fellow who is only working for small wages.
When you are not satisfied for any reason, Earl«
owns the place and is unxious to have you
pleased.
Repair
’s
Works
I.O.O.F.—Vernonia Lodg« Ne.
246 meets every Tuesday night
at 8 o’clock, in Grange hall. Vis
itors always welcome.
Work in the initatory degree Tues
day night.
M. E. Graven, N. G.
John Galssmer, Sec.
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY
Meets first and third Mea-
days of each month at
the Legion Hall.
McGraw, President
Vernonia Pott
19, American Le-
grion. Meets second
fourth Tues-
days < each month, 8
?»** p.m.
H. E. Me.
Graw, , Commander.
Nehalam
Oregon
American
Lumber
Company
Chapter
i'W~ 6.
C T.
Regular communi
cation first aad
third Wednesdays
of
each
month.
All visiting sisters
and brothers wel
come.
Bessie Tapp, W. M.
Leona McGraw, Secretary.
Mountain Heart
Rebekah Lodge No. 243
No. 243, I.O.O.F., meets every sec
ond and fourth Thursday« ia
•range hall, V«M«a. Visits«« al
ways weleerte.
Mrs. Viola Treharne, M.S.
Mrs. Hazel Thompson, See.
J. MASON DILLARD
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Next
to Carkin Cleaning Works
Here Every Wednesday
DR. ELLA WIGHT
DR. C. J. WIGHT
CHIROPRACTORS
Blood Pressure Examination
Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stomach,
Liver and Intestinal Troubles
Delayed Menstruation
LESTER SHEELEY
Attorney-at- Law
Vernonia
Oregon
DR. W. H. HURLEY
DENTISTRY AND X-RAY
Evenings by Appointment
Office over Brown Furniture Stsre.
Vernonia
Orego«
M. D. COLE
DENTIST
Vernonia
Oregon
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