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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1928)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 192 VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON FOUR Umunna Eaiilr Issued every Thursday $2 per year in advance Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922 ;< the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879 ADVERTISING RATES Foreign: 30c per inch. Local: 25c per inch. Lo cal readers 5c per line. Classified lc per word. MARK E. MOE, Editor UNFOUNDED CRITICISM that fines from this source alone more 1 ¡than pay the salaries of the marshals and ¡city recorder. I Supposinj that during the administra* tion of A. 1 . Veatch as mayor of Rainier, the State Bank of Rainier had been held up by a robber and the man caught by i the marshal and soon sentenced to the penitentiary. And if this man had taken la drink before holding up the bank, then would it be fair to accuse the city officials of Rainier of collaboration with bootleg- Igers and moonshiners? No. They wouid be entitled to a compliment for meting out quick justice as an example to others con templating such crimes. SCHOOL DAYS The following is an excerpt from the Rainier Review of August 31, and is pail Again the school bell sounds. It sound of an editorial concerning the recent homi ed, or some other signal was given, for cide in St. Helens and the bank robbery Roman school children centuries ago. The in Vernonia: children of the present are following the “Over at Vernonia, if we have it law of civilization. In tender years they right, at least a part of the official must be prepared for the business of life, machinery of that municipality is in that they may be able to pick up the bur league with bootleggers and moon den where their elders leave off, and car shiners, and with this condition, what ry it on. more could be expected than just The vacation is over for the children. what happened—a bank robbery with They had a good time while it lasted. many lives endangered.” There was fishing and bathing and ram Such a wild flight of imagination as this bles through the woods and camping and is hard to understand. It would not have trips through the country and mountain been possible under the circumstances for climbing and baseball and tennis and the Vernonia police force to have worked field games and other play. But life is any quicker or more efficiently than they not made up of such things. Some of it is did in the recent bank robbery case. And grim. That last is what makes schooling the fact that the bank was held up cer the order of the day. tainly can not be laid to negligence on the Life never stands still. The children of part of local officers, nor can it truthfully the present will be the-controlling, achiev be said that the local officers or other city ing citizens of later years. Hence the officials are in league with bootleggers schools, that the needs of the future may and moonshiners. be met, that the men and women of to Gross injustice to the mayor, council morrow may be efficient, capable men men, city attorney, treasurer, city recorder and women. and marshals is being done by such an accusation, for these men are all of excel MRS. McGEE lent character and local folk are well sat- isfied with the present administration. It is expected that there will be several.! The passing of Mrs. George McGee last changes in the elective offices next year, | Wednesday in Portland is a loss keenly because those now in office are not I felt by her many friends in Vernonia. She anxious to run again, But we doubt I had a generous nature, enriched by a whether the city will be benefitted by the beautiful soul, and her untimely end change, for none could administer tiie leaves many sympathizers for the bereav ed husband and children. town’s affairs more conscientiously. Mrs. McGee’s death is Vernonia’s loss. To go into a lengthy discourse on the But we are proud to say that Vernonia is enforcement of the ISth amendment in better for her having lived here. Vernonia would be to presume to know more about the proper course to pursue than present city officials whose duties No youth gets very far who burns the midnight oil in an automobile. include that work. 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