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VERNONIA EAGLE
Thursday, November 17, 1927
The Cactus Flat Catamount
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HIGH SIERRAS HAVE
and night and a part of the next
MANTLE OF SNOW day. The next afternoon when we
Sheet of Virgin Witne». Cover.
about ready to give up hope, with
Protuding Peaks Nine
the snow three or four feet deep
Feet Deep
on a level and still falling we
With the ending of the tourist stumbled up on a little flat place
season it is customary for the in the head of a canyon, and right
mountains in this neck
of
the in front of us was a man sitting
woods to become covered with a waist deep in what appeared to be
coating of snow as heavy and as a solid sea of snow.
“Hey, you tarnal fool,” said Ed.
universal as a mortgage, and to-
ady when one casts one’s eye to- “What are ye settin’ there fer?”
“Why, mister,” replied the man.
ward the distant peaks at all for
the distant peaks are snowed in for “I live here. I’m settin’ on top of
the winter, which usually lasts un my house.”
til about the fourth of July in
ODE TO NATURE
that region. According to scientists,
(By
WAMPUS PETE)
the snow is directly caused by the
congealing of moisture from be The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the season,
coming too cold while exposed to
the open air, and this is probably When doeful poets write their stuff,
With neither rhyme nor reason.
true, for any fool knows that it
is much colder the higher up you
SOCIETY PAGE
go, and by the time you get up
To ward off the rigors of the
to about eleven thousand feet any coming winter, Miss Tootle Tatum
kind of moisture is liable to freeze has purchased a pair of hose of
solid before it hits the ground,
a little darker shade.
To see the mountains covered
with the first snow of winter al-
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
ways reminds us of the time we
Mrs. Bill Plewe, who has been
were hunting for deer with old Ed operating her home on the budget
Judkins some few years back. We plan, states that the only draw
took the Roaring river trail and back to the system is Bill’s inabil
camped so far back in the hills that ity to make enough money to meet
the chipmunks were gentle enough the exigencies of incidentals that
to eat out of your hand and even she forgot to budget.
the wildcats would steal grub out
from under your pillow. We got CLEM MOSHER HAS GOOD
LUCK WITH PHEASANTS
lost from camp in a heavy snow
storm and wandered around all day
Along last spring some time Clem
Mosher invested heavily in a set-;
ting of Chinese pheasant eggs, with
intention of rearing a group of
fowls from same and selling them
on the open market this fall at a
profit that would be astounding to
behold. His eggs hatched all right,
due to the parental care of his old
uCNG DISTANCE
brood hen, Biddy, but when Clem
LOCAL AND TF l EGPAPM
made his mistake was in letting his
pheasant chicks run wild over his
160 acres instead of cooping them
up in a pen like any man with av
erage horse intelligence would do.
When the pheasants got a few
weeks old Clem couldn’t get within
a hundred yards of them, and be I
fore the summer had folded its
wings of gold the pheasants had
scattered out over the sagebrush
in groups of one and two and ?
Your telephone company, belt
Clem couldn’t have found them with
owned by a steadily a search warrant. However, he ran
across a couple of them the other
growing list of individual day and got a good look at them
I before they left for parts unknown,
stockholders, has only and he says that he figures a pro
fit of several dollars on the group
one function to fulfill. as a whole, as they have reached
considerable size, and as long as
That is to serve to the (they
are on the range they are
best of its ability the ter his, and that he figures he made
a good financial venture after all,
ritory in which it oper even if he never does get in shoot
ing distance of them.
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we serve the opportunity to take
full advantage of the larger sav
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distributing foods. The enormous
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than 1000 stores and markets is
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Macaroni
Sugar
Pure C. & H. Ber
ry
pound
I CQ
cloth bag .... 1 0*7
or
5’Sd......... 45 c
Skaggs brand. Full
Cream
2
Safeway Blend, You
will like this high
grade blend. We grind
it as purchased. Which
assures you full streng
th.
1
3
45c
pound ..
n
Prunes
Fancy Oregons, large
size
pounds
Currants
Maxium Brand
Imported new crop
2
Raisms
TOMATOES
BEANS
69c
cans
Fruits
Body by Fuhrt
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138
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durability that men demand.
2
Canned Fruits
Large 2i/> size. Extra
good quality. Pineap
ple, peaches, apricots,
Bartlet pears.
$
á
pounds ..
.....
69c
pounds ........
2
3
heads ............
bags ......................
Matches
Safeway Brand
box carton . :......
pounds .... ...............
2
i9c
pounds ....
Large Heads
2
pounds .................
Gum Drops
25c
39c
Satin Mix
3
pounds ................ .
45c
Chocoates
California Jesreys
23 c
pounds ............... ..
Hand made
Cream centers
5
pound
1 4 Q
Christmas box ........ 1 "XU
......................$
Catsup
2
5
Bottles .................
*
Bottles .................
39c
89c
Ripe
Olives
Lindsay’s picnics
45c 2
35c
49c
95c
Maximum brand, made
from choice, ripe
tomatoes
’ 55c
peanut Brittle
Lettuce
pounds . . .........
3 Cans
53c 6 Cans
99c 12 Can,
pound bag ...............
French Creams
15c
Sweet Potatoes
6
Oysters
This is the first arrival
of our Xmas sweets.
2
for
35c
$100
$189
American Beauty
brand
Extra Cream Mix
Large crisp heads
Cans
2 Cans
6 Cans ..
198 12 Cans
789
Flour
33c
Celery
49c
95c
* •
Cans
American Beauty
Brand
Candy
Cranberries
29c
pounds
Shrimps
189
box
Big K brand
Layer
$273
3
6
Pancake
35c
210 6
4 pound bag
25 pound box
PEAS
Peanuts
Fresh Roasted
Tuna Fish
49 pound bag
4 bags ......................
8
2
45c
pounds .................
Flakes—Mission brand
Flour
Fancy Seedless
CORN
STRING
35c
pounds
Standard grade
WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARB BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM
cans
Brazils
Big K hard wheat, our
old reliable brand
39c
packages ... ..............
2
29c 2
79c
Fancy face and filled
Delicious or Rome
Beautys
Bulk Currants
Vegetables
Del Monte Brand
No. 21/» size
cans
pounds .... .............
New crop, well filled
Apples
1
1 Pounds Citron ........ 39c
Orange or Q *)
1 pound
Lemon ...................... 0 3 C
2
Canned
97c
pounds .....
Glazed Peels
25c
95c
J pounds ....
15
48c
95c 2
pounds .................
6
Oleomargarine
'
pounds .................
29c
55c
Per pound .... ..................
29c 2
139
Pumpkin
Tropic Nut
our exclusive brand
5
I. X. L. paper shells
2 pounds .........
55c 10 pound box
pounds .................
$133
pounds
LOCAL NEWS
Mrs. Mescal Bill suffered a severe
loss this week when one of her
speckled dominecker fryers
was
spirited away by a voracious hawk.
Jeff Jones, an aviator in the late
war. went into a tail spin the other
night when he slipped on the dance
floor.
1
2
Almonds
Figs
Butter
Coffee
Nuts
49c " C pounds ................. 39c Per Pound ...................... 29c
95c 10 pounds ................. 39c 3 pounds .... ............. 85c
5 pounds .... .............
10 pounds ..........
Cheese
6 ^"d„:45c
Beans
or Spaghetti
Small white or Red Walnuts • — fancy large
Best quality semolino.
Mexican
Oregon Franquettes
POWDERED
Sugar
Brown Sugar
We Serve
ates.
backofthisevent. Preparations are
made far in advance in order (hat
we may give you the maximum
in values, quality and selections.
Coming at this season it affords
a real opportunity to make more
than the usual savings by buyin
in generous quantities for fall an
winter requirements.
Cans ..... .................
29c
Strawberry
This is a pure fruit
product
3 pound
Jar ... _______
69c
Rolled Oats
Mother’s china
premium package
large size
2 Packages
... _________
78c
When you think of Meats, think of Skaggs-Safeway Markets. Think of the _ good Meat you have
seen there and the crowds around our meat counters buying. There is a reason. Ask your neighbor
and she will tell you it is because our meats are always fresh and good, and^the desire of our sales
markets the most popular wherever located. Be one of our satisfied
men to serve you makes our
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customers.
BACON
Eastern sugar cured
1 j or whole
Pet pound
Astoria. Oregon
V
PURE LARD
8 pounds $1.38
2 pounds
ROAST PORK
BACK BACON
Fancy juicy pork
shoulders
Trimmed — no waste
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