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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1927)
— t| V TWO Thursday, December 1, 1927, VERNONIA EAGLE for the future has in view, for Kiernan, “the complete the situation; that is, there NUMBER 27 some mimic BREAKDOWNS BREAKING check! INTO PUBLIC FAVOR .ire fr fn ! 1 There will be another one of I the old time dances over at Mescal arday t iglit THE CACTUS FLAT CATAMOUNT VOLUME 1 LAURENCE LOCKNEY, Editor CATAMOUNT URGES BACK TO LAND MOVEMENT With so many ot the youth of our fair country pulling up. so to speak, stake**, and leasing the old homestead to seek j ■« - in the wick- tr Local and Long Distance News tus Flat to< la inch ime Utt i ing C y ek when Hr mp Jiggs raked the ill b ent put m to whole danci see The old time uvei at his i illjng station. and the C amount editor Constable Twist Newton was foil gain ini in fs or once mori and it elded to girt up hi s lions ed this week in an attempt to ar- ii with a feeling of pride that the tack this fount of inquity at editor of the Catamount and Hen i-vst the flight of time. source. ry Ford acknowledge the responsi- Hercules Spindleshanks went vp The cities of the country are to snowline today to freeze a bopJbility, full and complete, for having ^‘restored them to their proper place sapping the vitality of the nation , per of ice cream., in the annals of history, which is by luring the sturdy farm boys in lost being made as w*e go to press. It to their vicious midsts. The glare I Archimedes Puck recently writ was us and Henry who spent wake of the white lights are forever urg i the thread of a story he was ing the young men of good farm ing for the newspapers, and has ful days and sleepless nights try ing ability to leave their several offered a liberal reward for its ing to bring the old dances back to the hearts of the people, for native heaths, where the birds sing return. The Rev. Ananias Etherblazer neither us nor Henry could cut the and the corn waves, and to take a job driving an ice truck in the preached another hair-rising sermon mustard in the new dances, and we cold and cruel city, teeming with last Sunday on “Fundamentalism had to popularize something to vs Short Skirts.” which we could shake a rheumatic myriads of, so to speak, people. Rattlesnake Ike, pioneer bootleg hoof as well as the best of them. This will never do. The big cities Henry hired an orchestra to are swelling almost to the bursting ger, has been appointed deputy ana the me rich ncn farming jarming districts districts 1 sheriff, with ....... full authority -............. to ™ r — brush up on the old breakdowns point I and pro- left to shift __ for them-'tect his establishment from raids.'as his part of the program, which are being 1___ „ ___ _ ____ ____ selves. The brain and the brawn, Advices from Mexico state that! orchestra broadcasted quite fervent- the sinew and the thew the muscle :ie candidate is still left in th,. ly over the radio, while \v<> wrote couple of editoi of the nation i being crushed in I race for president, on accour noli, I the poor mi ksmanshi the seething jam of tli< while the ol< ul emies I farm sturdy needs • men and stalwart who are willing to forego the soda fountain and the picture show, while they sweat qopious gobs of honest perspiration in the wake of a pair of perverse Missouri mules in an effort to bring the produc tion of their crop up to bumper magnitude, and it wants the kind of young men who are willing to sell that crop for less than cost and go to work the next spring on another crop. CHICAGO PATRIOTS WILL READ BETTER BOOKS Wild Bill Mullens writes from Chicago that a five foot shelf of 100 per cent American books will be placed in the public library in that city, but that suitable ma- terial is hard to find, as a great many of the books printed today contain words that had their origin in England. HOLLYWOOD DECLARES BAN ON POPULARITY OF MURDERS Sycamore Slim writes from the, little frontier village of Los An geles that the citizens of Hollywood j are making an effort to change the name of that suburb in a last! minute attempt to stop murder and other forms of amusement. So much charming and whole- Monday school Stude, who recently eputedl portunity to beco from the city, where he spots - Old Quib Skills to have been hitting the is seeking reinstatement the way to see the silver lining is to bosom fo his family. get on the inside. Artie Watson, the boy tenor of Cactus Flat climbed up on a chair DEVIL’S DEN CITIZEN HAS AFFECTIONATE COW TO SELL today and reached high C. Scotty Macpherson went over to FOR SALE—One good black ar.d white spotted milking cow, which the tailor shop in the county seat cow is capable of giving two gal today to have his pants halfsoled. Centipede Clark, who went to lons of milk per each and every the hospital today with three ribs day in the hands of a person who broken stil insists that the right of has got sense enough to handle her and who doesn’t believe in being way was his. Ham Sutherland of the Devil’s kind to dumb or any other kind Den country, has been making some of animals. This cow is the one large talk against Rattlesnake Ike. that has been breaking down all He will leave a wife and three the fences in the Devil’s Den coun try and the neighbors have threat children. Another shower fell this week, ened to shoot her if I don’t get which would have been welcome rid of her muy pronto, or toot sweet, as one of the ex-soldiers has last June. Herb Miller is over in the county said on occasion. This is a good opportunity to get a good gentle seat on a change of venue. “If consistency were a jewel,” cow at a bargain if you don’t mind said Old Quib Skills today, it would using a club on her to keep her mean one more article to be sold from hooking the stuffing out of you. Will sell cheap for cash or on the installment plan. Flapjack Flynn of Slapjack Can will trade for one of the New Fords ■ yon went over to the county seat if it ever comes out. DORT BLOP- | KINS, two miles east of Hank Wil today to get bids on a haircut. Lawyer Lilikell tried another case kins alkali farm, near the gusher I this week, but he said it wasn’t asj that didn’t pan out, or leave word! good as the case he emptied lastj and cash with the postmaster at! weak. 1 Devil’s Den. I |_ Standard School Tests Topic of U. O. Expert Our Displ of GIFTS So many times you wish to give a friend some dainty little remembrance at Christmas time. Our gift display w a 8 purchased with just this idea in mind. Prices are little, assortments are large. Mac's Pharnuicx UNIVERSITY OF OREGON — Eu gene—Nov.----- (Special)—The uses of standard tests and scales by the school administrator is described in an article in the Oregon Educational Journal for November by Dr. Harl R. Douglass, pro fessor of education of the University of Oregon. Practical purposes for the use of testa by the school administrator are listed by Dr. Douglass as follows: Stock-taking and the measurement of annual production. Supervision of the course of study and the teaching staff. Diagnosis and the improvement of inst ruction. ic improvement of the classifiea- of pupils into homogeneous groups the purpose of instruction, iucational research. r. Douglass takes the position in article that schools should be con- red ns productive enterprises, and f an inventory of the school system, arrived at bv teats, promotes eft'i- of testing programs in the article, and a are cited for use of Physical Development at I . O. Tolti in Magazine TUBERCULOSIS IS BEING ERADICATED While more than one million dairy cattle, out of thirty million heud test ed for tuberculosis, have been de stroyed, the industry Is In better con dition today than It was ten years ago when the campaign against the dis ease was inaugurated, Such was the R. opinion expressed by Dr. John . Molder, chief of the bureau I of ani null industry, United States Depart meat of Agriculture, at the recent Eastern States Tuberculosis confer ence. Fear expressed by many people in the beginning that the campaign would turn the public taste against milk con sumption has proved to be unfounded, according to Doctor Mohler. On the other hand, he said, the annual con sumption of milk in the United States has increased more than 49 quarts per capita since 1918. During 1926 the public consumed fifty-six billion pounds of milk and cream, an in crease of two billion pounds over the quantity consumed in 1925. Skepticism as to the outcome of the campaign has given way to a feeling of assured success. Today the subject of tuberculosis eradication is popular and there are few individuals con nected with the dairy industry who have not expressed publicly or private ly. their belief in the success of the campaign. Although we have reached the point where we can look forward to the time when this disease will no longer be the cause of serious lo<s«x. Doctor Mohler said th mt it is necessary to maintain ant surveillance over the dis< to keen it finder control, Somewli the *ame Idea w.is ex pressed Dr. J. A. Kiernan. In chart federal eradication work, aid that “notwithstanding more than 50 per cent tie have been f finishinc the e: r Pendleton had only two fire I alarms and $80 fire loss during! October. SIX Malheur County is new schoolhouses this s Astoria—Pacific high builds electric line into ley. A cannery is proposed for the season at La Grande. T ¡II rum divided so Him each would he able to tubercull herds In his district each I Circus and indoor Carnival High Scoring Butter Is Necessary for Success The difference in price between lilgb and low butter makes it imperative for co-operative creameries to produce a high scoring butter in order to make a success of their enterprise. Good butter can never be made from poor cream. No matter how skillful the buttermaker may be, he can never expect to place high scoring butter on the market if lie must churn cream which has been practically spoiled through careless handling. It is not a difficult problem to keep cream clean and sweet. Cows should be clean and healthy and stabled In a well ventilated, well cared for barn. The milk should be drawn hit< scalded Dec In New Legion Mali Sideshows, Entertainment, Dancing, Days of ’49 Revived Big Time, Lots of Pun Sponsored bv American Le. ■ i he can easily make the grade of butter that has brought Minnesota its enviable repu tation.—Harold Macy, dairy division. University of Minnesota. ? > E o H b I Give Daily Cows Plenty Water for Best Results Dairy cows should be watered at least twice a day and best results are obtained when cows can have water at will. The higher the production the greater the benefit to be derived from frequent watering. A heavy pro ducing cow requires from 75 to 150 pounds of water daily. When It is not available, many suc cessful dairymen have arranged some type of tank heater to remove the chill from the water, and they find that their cows drink more and pro- luce more heavily. Oregana Contract Given To Koke-Chapman Firm UNIVERSITY OF OREGON — Eu gene—Contracts for printing the 1928 Oregana, Campus yearbook, were award ed by the executive council to Koke- Chapman Printing company, Eugene. The council adopted a resolution pro posing an amendment to the constitu tion of the student body which will make it possible for the editor and manager of the Oregana to receive more than $100 compensation from the earn ings of the yearbook. Heretofore, the limit has beer $100. Six Seniors Elected By Phi Beta Kappa at University of Oregon UNIVERSITY OF OREGON — Eu gene—Six seniors of the University of Oregon were pledged to Phi Beta Kap pa, honorary scholastic society, at the regular fall meeting of the fraternity. The six selected rank highest in the present senior class. Approximately 10 per cent of the class will be selected in the spring at the final election, it is stated. Elton Edge, Healdsburg, major in zo- ology, 1 ate.l highest with aa average of 1*352 Maxine Koon, Portland, was second with a standing of 1.402. Oth- ers are Edna 1 Elizabeth English, math- ematics, 1.631; Francis Schroeder, bot- any. 1.7 10; Chris II Boesen, law, 1.783. all of E higine. Phi Beta Kappa, which was founded in 1776 is rated as the foremost hon or society in higher institutions. Only Students with the highest scholastic standing and outstanding achieve ments in other l:r»«‘ ore considered for membership. Reed college has the ont other I‘bi Beta Kappa chapter in Ore gon. Military Students at V. O. Organize Club gene—Military s Reserve Officer the University < ized an honor si tition Scabbard honor society, it ’iaess, Glendale, Other officers elected are William C. Rutherford. Eugene, president; Ed Johnson. Eng' one. chairman of charter committee; Wa de Rutherford. St. Hel- ens, chairman of name c ommittee: and Eugene llowe, Eugene, chairman of membership committee. 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