Thursday, January 5, 1928.
VERNONIA EAGLE
THREE
»
went under without scratching a
Vernonia Post
"Her Wild Oat”
hair, But the dog didn't have such
119. American Le-
Bluffing pays—sometimes, if you, ÆSE
VOLUME 1
NUMBER 32. luck, The dog was just ready to have something to back it up with.
LAURENCE LOCKNEY, Editor
j lion. Meets second
grab the raobit when it went un- Colleen Moore shows the troubles
fourth Tues-
OLD YEAR PASSES INTO,
| oil in the crank case. Bearcat j went over to the furniture factory der the fence. He made a des- that can befall a bluffer in her
each month, 8
SO TO SPEAK, HISTORY, Boone, our tonsorial barber and in the county seat today to have parate lungs for the rabbit and new comedy, “Her Wild Oat,” at.
H. E. Mc­
Graw, Commander.
truck head-on against the bottom the Rose theatre Tuesday and Wed-j
The year of 1927, which passed expert horseshoer, added a number' his determination upholstered.
Bearcat Boone, the barbering de- j wire of the fence and was thrown nesday.
into history on the 31st of Decem- of new features to his tonsorial
Nehalem
her, as you will remember, if you barber shop, including an art pic­ rmitician, has taken a contract to i backward for a clear loss of about
“Ten Modern Commandments”
remember anything that happened ture of Vesuvius in action, on an shave the whiskers off of Fatty ¡ten yards. He sat up and looked
Regular communi­
How to “crash the gate” into
I rather foolish for a couple of
on that memorable night, was a impressive calendar, and he also I Hooper’s cheese.
cation first and
| The Hot Dog & Hip-Pocket .econds, but he soon regained his the theatrical business has long I
had
his
front
windows
washed,
third Wednesdays
year fraught to the brim with
of each
month.
progress and prosperity, as we which were getting so dirty that House, near Whiskey Slide, which | equilibrium and legs and started been the bugbear of stage aspirants.
past
padlocked
for
the
Bearcat
could
hardly
lamp
the
girls
has
been
All
visiting
sisters
Esther
Ralston,
however,
solves
’
after
the
rabbit
again
pell
mell
might say. Throughout the nation
and brothers wel­
the problem with amusing finesse
there were numerous signs of pro­ as they flitted past. Fatty Hooper,i year, will reopen soon for a short I for electfon.
come.
gress. The steel trust split some the grocer, added a new line of run.
The chase ended when the rabbit in her latest starring vehicle “Ten
Quite a line formed at the gen-
Modern
Commandments
”
a
Para
­
Catherine
McNeill,
W. M.
handsome dividends, while Standard fly paper to his growing stock dur­
became wedged between a couple
Oil, of which Mr. Rockefeller owns ing the spring and summer of eral delivery window at the post- of almost empty barrels behind mount picture of backstage life Leona McGraw, Secretary.
a small share, showed a satisfact­ 1927 and also soaked up his bar-| office Tuesday when the last shlp- Rattlesnake Ike’s bootleg establish- which starts next Thursday for two
ory gain, while Mr. Calvin Coolidge ! rel of prunes to make them present- ment of mail order catalogues were ment. The dog stuck his long and day run at the Rose theatre.
Mountain Heart
made several interesting speeches able for the fall trade. Horsehide distributed.
continuous nose between the* bar-
Madras buys 16,400 feet pipe Rebekah Lodge No. 243
The
piano
tuner
from
the
county
Hopkins
replaced
the
pane
of
giass
to the farmers of the nation, which
rels and grabbed the rabbit gently
No. 243, I.O.O.F., meets every sec-
will insure bigger crops and bet- I in the front window of his palatial seat was in Cactus Flat Tuesday but firmly by the haunches and for waterworks pipe line from
(.ond and fourth Thursdays in
Metolius.
log
shack,
which
was
broken
out
to
tighten
a
clothes
line
for
Mrs.
ter prices for 1928.
pulled
him
out,
after
which
I he
I some ten years ago by a carelessly Bearcat Boone.
Incendiaries started .03 of the i Grange hall, Vernonia. Visitors al-
Here in Cactus Flat there was 1 thrown snowball. Horsehide had
The horseshoe course did a rush­ shook the rabbit a bit and then 778 fires in forests under Oregon1 wa>’s welcome.
more real progress during 1927 I been intending to fix the window ing business last Sunday, several dropped him on the ground and
Mrs. Viola Trehame, N.G
than in any one year since pho- for a number of years and it is stobs being rung.
went on about his business. Alf state supervision in 1927.
Mrs. Hazel Thompson, Sec
hibition- set in. Mescal Bill, who with pleasure that we announce
Stude, who was an eye and ear
Twist
Newton
’
s
dog
Constable
MARK
EVERY
GRAVE
makes his living traping skunks on that his wife finally goaded him
witness to the whole affair. sa vs
this week for chasing
Roaring river, reports the largest into the deed. Centipede Clark was arrested
, that the most surprised rabbit he Memorials in Granite and Marble
Widow
Flanders
’
the
pig.
J. MASON DILLARD
At Reduced Prices
catch of his career in the fall of added an awning to his dog ken­
j ever saw when he found out he
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS
1927. and as a result of his good nel, made out of an old barley GIL HIGHTOWER’S DOG
was still alive, with no dog in sight.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
fortune his wife will have a new sack split in half, which imparts
MRS. M. N. LEWIS & CO. Next to Carkin Cb an?
KETCHES FLEET RABBIT
W< .s
Fourth and MAin St.
Hillsboro
pair of shoes and his flivver will quite a rustic appearance to his
HEARD ON OUR STREETS
Here Every Wed.’.e. Jay
The usual calm of Cactus Flat
have a new set of tires and some, back yard, and it also keeps the
Old Quib i Skills say that by the
was invaded by a keen bit of ex­
: s
sun off his dog in hot weather. citement Monday morning when Gil howl going up from the old folks,
W. O. W. Vernonia camp No. 655
Tbe manager of the Palace of Hightower’s famous bear dog got one is apt to get the impression meets every Monday night at sev-
DR. ELLA WIGHT
;
generation of
Beans sharpened up his steak knives on the trail of a malicious cotton­ that the younger
thirty at the Grange Ilall. Visiting
DR. C. J. WIGHT
owing to numerous complaints from tail rabbit near the outskirts of today invented immorality.
CHIROPRACTORS
“Man can conquer lions and members welcome.
tourists who had to eat there; and town and finally jumped it out
ROBERT LINDSEY, C. C.
Blood Pressure Examination
he also made a cheese clotji cover from under a greasewood bush af- tigers,” says Cube Root, “but he
C.
C.
DUSTEN
CLERK.
Rheumatism, Neuritis, Stoma ,
to keep the flies off of his delec- | ter much trailing and sniffing. The can’t conquer mosquitos and fleas."
Liver and Intestinal Trouble-
table home foundered pies.
LONG DISTANCE
.
rabbit made a ferocious and un-
Vernonia Lodge, No. 184 A.
Delayed Menstruation
LOCAL AND TELEGRAPH
Taken all in all, as we mlKenviable leap for life just as the
F. & A. M., meets at Grange
say, the progressive citizens oi dog had his cold and clammy nose
Cactus Flat made more progressive about three inches from Mr. Rab-
I
Hall every Second and
“A Million Bid”
progress during the year just clos­ i bit’s skelp. The dog took after
Fourth Thursday nights.
LESTER SHEELEY
ed than can be summed up in one ; the rabbit and the chase wras a
Dolores Costello plays the most
1 Visitors Welcome
brief summing up.
Attorney-at-Law
I right lively one for several min- daring and emotional role of her Levert Goodin, Secretary.
Cactus Flat is indeed a generous "t“‘" the" rabbit not having time spectacular career as the bartered
nzlit- to ifcnl-F
’kto w/vrlrl
,
Vernonia
Oregon
credit
itself. T The
world mnvoc
moves to
jnake for its native haunts, if bride in “A Million Bid,” a Warner
forward by progress, so we have it had any, but scootedI straight Bros.
production,
directed
by
heard. The wheels of progress can for the very heart of the city and Michael Curtiz. “A Million Bid”
1.0.0.F.—Vernonia Lodge No.
be turned only by those intrepid bowled over everything in its path, comes to the Rose theatre next
DR. W. H. HURLEY
246 meets every Tuesday night
heroes who put their shoulders to except nothing got-in its path but Sunday.
nt 8 o’clock, in Grange hall, Vis-
DENTISTRY AND X-RAY
Your telephone company, the crank and grind like sixty. Let a barbed wire fence, which it
“Simple Si»”
itors always welcome.
Evenings by Appointment
it not be said that the stalwart,
Romance, thrills, laughter
and
Office over Brown Furniture Store.
owned by a steadily men and strapipng women who ’
M. E. Graven, N. G.
pathos comingle in “Simple __
Sis” . I
Vernonia
Oregon
John Glassner, Secretary.
hewed all of their hews in vain, j
T. I. E. D.
growing list of individual
Warner Bros, delightfully human \ —
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M. D. COLE
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Meets first and third Mon­
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I
one function to fulfill. grass
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without saying that these peerless
days of each month at
ful lawn in summer and cut hay,
DENTIST
mirthmakers extract the maximum
the Legion Hall.
prices
That is to serve to the from it in the fall.
$7.35 of fun from each droll situation.
H. E. McGraw, President
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Now is the time of year your battery should be
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Your battery recharged, painted acid
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Vernonia,
Oregon
In the County Court of the State
of Oregon For Columbia County
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF
J. P. SHEELEY, DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administratrix of the
estate of J. P. Sheeley, deceased,
has filed her final account in the
matter and court above mentioned,
and that Monday the 16th day of
January, 1928 at the hour of 2
I o’clock p.m. of said day, has been
' fixed as the time, and the court
room of the court above entitled in
Columbia County Court house at
St. Helens, Oregon, the place for
the hearing of objections to said
final account and the settlement
thereof.
W. A. Harris, Attorney. Ellen Shee-
, ley Administratrix.
Date of first publication Dec. 15,
I 1927.
I .Date of last publication Jan. 12,
1M
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Friday and Saturday Special
REMNANTS
REMNANTS
REMNANTS
Our January stock clearing starts all short
lengths, odd lots of piece goods go on the
Bargain Table
A Flyer on Men’s Overcoats, Reg. $15.00
Friday and Saturday Specials $11.95
Gordon
Hats
Vernonia’s Leading Store
Kirschbaum
Suits
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