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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1928)
FOUR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 192« VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Urnuntia Eaijlr Issued every Thursday $2 per year in advance Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922 at 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 WHO WILL YOU VOTE FOR? (whose champion of course is no other TELLS HORRORS OF LIFE IN SHADOW than “Al”) for a modification of the prohibition laws, reminds one of the story QF DEATH CHAIR of the negro who had a hound dog that was continually howling. A friend of the negro said to him one Boy, Sentenced for Murder, Is Saved by Sister and day: “Mose, why is that dog continually Sweetheart. howling? Is he hungry?” “No, boss, he haint hungry!” Brooklyn.—The shadow of the death “Well, is he lonesome?” chair, the wooden and wire and iron contraption which Is In the clean, “No suh, he haint lonesome!” white room at Sing Sing, hung for 13 “What do you suppose is the matter months over Robert Weiner, But It's with him, then?” gone now; nt least, he Is out of Its “Boss, I’s tried every way to figure out immediate shallow, and believes that troubles are over. what’s de mattah with dat dawg, and I’s his There are not many men In New finally ’eluded dat all dat’s ailin’ him is York state who have spent long lag dat he jes smells suthin’, and doan know ging months, waiting and watching for that last trip through what once what it is.”—Myrtle Creek Mail. was "the little green door.” It Isn’t Are you going to vote for Herb? Are you going to vote for Al? Interested as you may be in the presi-i THE CHAMBER SHOULD FUNCTION dential election and the state, county or city election, you will not vote for anyone Vernonia’s Chamber of Commerce has had a long vacation and now it is time to unless you are registered. Many learned to their sorrow in May get into action again. Meetings should be that they were unable to vote at that time held as before every two weeks on Thurs because they were not registered. Oregon day, for there is much work to do. now has a law which makes it obligatory The secretary has been busy all sum mer attending road meetings and confer to register in order to vote. The registration books close thirty days ences in relation to getting more and bet prior to the election, which is November ter highways through Vernonia, and much 6. So you must be registered by October has been accomplished. 6, which is little more than three weeks But meetings must be held and an in away. It is not only a duty, but a privilege terest shown by local business men before long, or the chamber will cease to exist. to take your part in the election. Dues will not continue to be paid into an THE NEW EAGLE ROCK organization that does not function more than this has the past few months. An airplane owned by local men now The work of advertising Vernonia has calls Vernonia its home port. It is not to 'been given a good start. But it must be be regarded as a luxury brought to town, [continued indefinitely in order to realize but a new business, and one that may the best results. Support by the business grow far beyond present expectations. men in particular and all property owners Those who may scoff at the practicabil as well is something that should not even ity of flying will lose all the force of their need solicitation. They will be immeasure- argument if this plane is ever called upon ably benefitted in the years to come. an errand of mercy, such as taking an inj While the beauties of the Columbia jured logger to the hospital. river can well be advertised to attract the And so Vernonia will continue to grow, tourist trade. No district has a stronger as long as we have citizens of vision and drawing card than the fertile Nehalem val ley for attracting settlers. Since the migra imagination. tion of people is always westward, those JUST HOWLING IN PERPLEXITY ' communities in the west will be most ben- 1 efitted who advertise their natural This clamor of the pro liquor crowd 1 sources for making a good living. NOTICE OF MASS MEETING Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 24th day of Septem ber, 1928, at the hour of 8 o’clock p.m. on said date a mass meeting of the legal voters of the city of Vernonia will be held in the Ameri can Legion ball for the purpose of nominating the following officers for said city: Mayor, four council man, and treasurer. All of said officers to be elected at the general election to bo held November 6, 1928. Dated this 18th day of Septom- her, 1928. By order of the City Council. G. R. MILLS, Mayor. Attest ; I». B. Reasoner, Recorder. NNSf PIN MONEY FOR HOOVER FUND Sat., Office Hour»: 10 n.m. to 4 p.m. THREE DAYS ONLY No charge for consultation I)r. Mellenthin is a regular grad uate in medicine and surgery and is licensed by the state of Oregon. He does not opernte for chronic ap pendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful results in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kidney, bl older, bed wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcer and rectal ail- mcnts. Below of his many satisfied patients In Oregon who hive been treated for one of the above named causes: Elmer Booker. Condon. IL H. Blake. Marshfield. Thos. Burke. Willamina. Mrs. M. R. Cooper, Oregon City. D. G. Horn, Bonanza. E. M. Hurt. Arlington. Mrs. George W. Mathes, Ashland. Remember above date, that con sultation on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different. Married women must be accom panied by their husbands. Shoes Fcr School Boy made to order any height Guaranteed to outwear any shoe on the market Good Year Shoe Shop Model T Ford Engine and Transmission Overhauled for a labor charge of only $20 to $25 Don’t sacrifice your Model T Ford, but bring it in and let us look it over. Maybe all you need is a complete engine and transmission overhauling to give you thousands of miles of additional service. We’ll do that for a labor charge of only $20. Other charges equally low. Crawford Motor Co. In Every Home —Complete telephone service is a convenience to every member of the family. Properly placed extension telephones save tiring steps for the housewife. Son or daughter, sister or brother, dad or mother—find them a year ’round comfort and satisfaction. And too, the telephone is an aid in emergen cies and a protection in danger. West Coast Telephone Co. A Terrible Feeling. in Internal Medicine for the past fifteen years NOT OPERATE Grants Pass—Long cherished hope of a railroad to connect Rouge with Eureka, Calif., again proposed by rail officials. Silverton—Proposed new Cascade highway would open up new coun- I try with assessed valuation of 35 million. Bob Weiner Watched Them. Dr. Mellenthin Will be at Benton Hotel Thu., Fri., and October 4, 5, and 6 Card of Thank, I wish to thank the many friends for their kind expressions of sym pathy and beautiful flowers sent during our recent bereavement. Ralph Clem. struggled is in itself a story. But they won when tile Court of Appeals ruled that Weiner be given a new trial, and tl>e district attorney In Manhattan ad mitted he couldn't produce the evi dence which would again convict the Brooklyn boy. Now Weiner Is home, Just trying to get acclimated. He isn’t going out. He is Just sitting around Imine, trying to realize that when night comes he will not have to sit in the seinldatk- ness and count the hours. He hasn’t yet, he says, understood fully that he will not have to play checkers through the bars, or hear the shouts and laugh ter of condemned men who are trying to appear carefree, but who are worry. Ing and counting. Coming to Portland DOES (The Pioneer Church) The Sunday school meet at 9:45 a.m. The pastor will preach at II a.m., subject, “ITU Do It For Jesus Sake.” Communion service will be held in connection with morning service. Young people’s meeting at 7 p.m. At 8 p.m. Rev. F. B. Culver, presiding elder, wil preach. Monday, 8 p.m., Rev. F. B. Cul ver will preach again, and hold the second quarterly conference. G. W. Plumer, Pastor. THEY AGREE ON POLICIES St. Helens—Board of directors elected for huge payroll industry. Fir-Tex mill to locate here. SPECIALIST green now, of course; it’s browned steel and it’s big and heavy. But the Idea Is there. For those men who have lived eternities each day and week there is no way out, once they have passed through the door. Twelve persons, eleven men and one woman, marched slowly, shuffling along through that door while Bob Weiner watched them. And now he shudders, and bls smile fades when he thinks of them. He saw Iluth Snyder slouch through it. He saw Judd Gray go, and several others. Two Women Aided Him. They sent him to the death house, under penalty of death, for his al leged part in the Tombs prison break and killing of 192G. He denied any part. But a Jury found him guilty. Then two women, indeed they are little more than girls, set out to prove him innocent. One was Ids sister. The other was bls sweetheart. The story of how battled against odds. fought officials, worked EVANGELICAL CHURCH “It's a terrible feeling," he says. "(Ids knowledge that some night Is coming and that you are going out of your cell and that you are not coming back. “I played checkers with these men. We had to play our own board, shout ing out the moves, because death house confinement Is solitary confinement And we would play, or talk, never seeing the men we were playing or talking with. "Then would come the night when we would hear the shuffling of feet. I think that was the worst We would hear the men shuffle down the cor ridor. I would see a dim form, then two or three others pass the cell. The men would cry out their farewells. The others in the cells would call out, too. But the man we had known. If only by voice, had gone." Weiner feels, he says, as If he had bet-a dead and had come back to life again. Mother Found Guilty; Attacks School Teacher Lafayette, Ga.—An Irate mother who whipped a si-bool teacher Is un der a 12 months’ suspended sentence on the chain gang. Mrs, .1. W. Groce pleaded guilty to an assault charge for an attack on Miss Bertha Harp, Chickamauga school mistress, last year. The whip ping occurred on the street after Miss Harp had punished the Groce boy for a schoolroom Infraction. A long switch was used by Mrs. Groce. When this was broken she used a club, ac cording to the victim. Grace Semple Burlingham, Missouri National Committeewoman, gives a check to John W. 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