TWO
VERNON A EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
THURSDAY, FEB. 11,
and disagr ?euble, and we needed a 2-cent gas tax to pave the ionally one sees large i lantation board boosting the country said:
all our w nter wraps on to be state roads, so an improvement mansions, with man;
negro “Land of sunshine and flowers.”
is certain.
comfortable.
shacks along the way. Most of We would suggest that they take
it down in winter, as we saw no
We got into San Antonio
The distance from San Antonio
about noon und it had cleared ¡to New Orleans is 618 miles. It the buildings appear to be eold, flowers and no sunshine on the
perhaps
back
in
the
days
of
slav
whole trip.
up some, so we started east. The I is an interesting drive, through
(By A. D. Moe)
road is good to Houston, but different kinds of country. Part ery.
New Orleans. La., Feb. 4, 1929. there is one dirt road to pass of it is cattle grazing plains,
At Berwick we had to ferry Chief Surgeon
We left Corpus Christi in through. A detour to another then agricultural land. Between across the Atehafalaya river. This
Moves Offices
threatening weather, with cloudy road helped out, as there was a San Antonio and Houston is a is in St. Mary’s Parish, the land
sky and a cold north wind blow little gravel on it. We hit rain part of the country over which of “Evangeline,” the heroine of
The chief surgeon of the Ore
ing. Winter weather in this coun again so stopped at a small town the Franciscan Fathers toiled, Longfellow’s
beautiful -poem.
try is different than on the in the middle of the afternoon. The fierce Comanches roamed From there most of the way to gon American Lumber company,
Coast. January and February The next morning it was still in painted thousands, imperious New Orleans is swamp land. For Dr. James C. Zan, has moved
have much frequent rains and cloudy with high fog, but no and warlike savages who fought miles along the highway run ca- his offices from the Corbett
fogs, while most of'the cold spells more rain, although the road was with the sanguinary Apache for nals and bayou», and boats are ‘building in Portland to the Medi-
in the middle west reach down »vet in places, but sufficient the mastery of that country. The used in carrying frieght and farm cal-Dental building.
towards the gulf. Like all roads gravel so we got throgh without Mission founded by the priests products. The last 20 miles the |
of any distance in Texas, there trouble.
on the San Saba river in 1757 road goes next the enormous dike Camp Fire Girls
is always a dirt road somewhere.
Texas claims to have more for the Apache was accepted by of the Mississippi river, so far
Meet At Cabin
Most of the road from San An miles of paved roads than any those cunning aboriginals for the above the road that the river
tonio to the lower Rio Grande state in the Union. Perhaps it sake of Spainish help against the cannot be seen until the road
valley is paved, but there is a has, because the state is as large Comanches, but the latter, 2000 ►crosses the dike to the ferry
The Wolopla group of Camp
dirt road both north and south as several other states put to strong, swept down on the mis that takes the traveldr into New Fire girls met at the cabin last
of Corpus Christi. When it rains gether. The Old Spanish Trail is sion and massacred priests and Orleans.
Wednesday for their regular bus
it is difficult to get through, Rain over 900 miles through the state, followers to a man, excepting
An advertisemnt on a sign- iness meeting. Plans were made
was threatening and in less than while the distance from the ex two or three who escaped. All
a hour after we started a mist treme northern part of the state trace of the mission has long
began to wet the windshield, und to Brownsville is about the same since vanished. ,
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a little later the pavement began distance. Yet there are no com-
Beyond Houston are a great
to be wet. There was 17 miles of nlete state highways in the state. many
cotton fields. Near the bor
dirt road we had to pass through Each county has to vote bonds
a little gravel but not enough in to pay for half of the roads, with der is Beaumont, a prosperous
many places to keep from slip- the state paying the balance on and good sized city, with many |
ping.We hurried on and were the state roads, So there are beautiful homes. Then at the
lucky to get through before it got counties all over the state which border is Orange. A bridge now I
too wet. The weather was cold are blocking the roads by refus- crosses the Sabine river, elimin-
The dollar mark is not the only
ating the old ferry. East of the
¡ng to vote road bonds.
fiver in Louisiana is a stretch of
means of measuring your suc
A 2-cent gas tax is used for swamp land, quite similar to some
cess in life, but it does go a
the state highway work, and can of the everglades in Flordia. The
be used anywhere in the state. highway is all well graded how
long ways toward, proving to
As the state highway commission ever, and is raised high above the
yourself how successful you
is said to be a political organ- swamps. Beyond the swamps are
zation, some counties having the the southern pine timber.
have been. Acquiring a substan
best “pull” get the best roads.
Lake Charles is an interesting
tial balance task. Let us show
The state of Texas has every city on a lake shore, where many
kind of road that was ever built. people in nearby territory spend
you how easy it is to save.
There is no uniformity in any summer outings. A stretch of
road that goes through separate level farming country, then mag
•ounties. One can generally tell nolia, live oak and moss covered
when he gets to a county line, trees begin to appear. A very
because when he is on a dif large area of sugar cane fields
ferent road. There are but a few being in this section. The new
concrete roads, most of the pave shoots are coming up, while occas-
ments being asphalt, with many
Dr. J. A. Hughes
oiled macadams. The new gravel
roads are fine, but they soon
Physician and Surgeon
get washboardy and full of
Office Phono 6u3 Vernonia, chuckholes. The state is realizing
Res. Phone 664 •
Oregon the necessity for through paved
highways and a bill has been in
troduced in the legislature to
bond the state to build Ehem. If
it passes, Texas will soon have
M. D. COLE
completed roads.
We have not seen a paved
Dentist
highway in Louisiana yet out-
dde of cities, but the 300 miles
Vernonia, Oregon
>f the Old Spanish Trail from
''Jew Orleans, is a good graveled
oad, except about 100 miles
vhere the gravel has soaked into
DR. W. H. HURLEY
he dirt enough to make it a little
lippery when wet'. The last end
Dentistry and X-Ray
if the road is coated with crush
Evenings by appointment. Of
<1 oyster shells, and makes a
fice over Hoffman Hardware.
•ood road. This state has added
Vernonia, Oregon
Winter Also Hits
Louisiana Section
for a candy sale to be held at
the high school gymnasium after
the basketball game last Friday
night. After the meeting games
were played. The next meeting
will be Friday afternoon at two
o’clock at the home of Margaret
Nelson.
FOR SALE
UNDERWOOD
BANK
OF
sale, in good condition. Phone
LOST
271’tf LOST—Rat terrier pup. Black
283, Mrs. F. Hartwick.
white with white button
FOR SALE—One Guernsey cow, on an<l
tip of tail. Reward. T. C.
five years. See J. W. Morti Johns.
291»
mer, Riverview.
291 *
LOST—A brown kid glov«, be
FOR SALE—Team of 1600 pound
tween February 1 and 15, in
Geldings $250. 15 6-weeks old Vernonia. Finder please return
pigs $5.00. 22 Ten-weeks old to Eagle office. Reward. Mrs. A.
pigs $6.00. Also 10 brood sows. B. Counts.
____________ 291’
Write or see Omar Sheeley.
tf
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE—1 Ottawa saw. two
saws and circular saw and at LINCOLN School would like the
tachments in good order $30.00
loan of a piano or organ for
cash price. Jake Neuier at Na about 4 weeks. Phone Mr. Thom
tal or Phone 10F53.
291 as at Lincoln school or write
Box 22 Vernonia._____
*291?
FOR RENT
HIGH SCHOOL BOY wanted to
3-ROOM furnished house for
learn printing trade, working
rent, apply <rf Mrs. E. S. Cleve- after school and Saturday*. Ap-
land, St. Denis hotel.
291 ply at Eagle office.
Typewriter
Baker’s Place
Cigars, Tobacco, Cigarets
Candies, Soft Drinks
Pool Tables
The Dollar Mark
Business
& Professional
Directory
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VERINOINIA
McCormick-Deering Triple Power
RS
LESTER SHEELEY
Attomey-at-Law
Vernonia, Oregon
GORDON R. WATT
Attorney-at-law
Joy Theatre Building
Vernonia, Oregon
Vernonia Chamber Of
Commerce
Regular meeting and lunch-
evcry second Thursday.
MARK EVERY GRAVE
Memorials in granite and marble
at reduced prices
WRITE FOR PARTICULARS
I
on Your Lights
See Our Stock Of
New Edison Lights
Aspland Plumbing &
Electric Shop
Phone 193
Oregon Monument Works
Fourth and Main St., Hillsboro
Hauling and Delivery
To All Part, of Town
QUICK SERVICE
Phone 293
Curly Buffmire
TRANSFER
Auto Tops, Curtains
Cushions, Seat
Auto, Sign and
House Painting
Annette Beauty Shop
Shampoo, Marcelling, Finger
waving, Permanent Waving.
Over Horseshoe Cafe.
Phone 431
Decorating, Tinting
Calcimining
Re-Roof With
SHINGLES
From
Vernonia Auto Top &
Paint Shop
Johnston-McGraw
Vernonia Trading Co
You 3 Per Cent
McCormick-Deering tractors are mak
ing it possible for farmers to realize great
er returns from their time and effort.
More work in less time with less labor is
the result of placing increased power un
der one man’s control.
The McCormick-Deering line of trac
tors, the famous ball-bearing crankshaft,
including the 10-20, 15-30, and Farmall,
offers a size and type of tractor for ev
ery farm. All these tractors are four-cylin
der. triple-power units that have the fam
ous ball-bearing crankshaft.
McCormick-Deering 10-20, 15-30 and
Farmall tractors have back of them over
twenty years of tractor building experi
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to meet the urgent need for high quality
tractors for all kinds of farm work.
Unit construction is used throughout
in the design and assembly of McCormick
Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors. By the
application of this construction, overhaul
ing and replacement effort is reduced to a
minimum. Each unit can be removed,
should the occasion arise, without disturb
ing other units to any great extent. For ex
ample, the transmission may be lifted out
intact without removing the engine or
final drive; likewise, the final drive can
be inspected and removed without disturb
ing the transmission. This feature of acces
sibility is a decided advantage when it be
comes necessary to overhaul the tractor.
OWELL
Farmers and others will find this is the
Tractor they have been waiting for
him; for he was our most chivalrous
enemy in the World War. He turned an old
sailing ship into a raiding vessel which sailed
through the Allied blockade disguised as a Nor
wegian lumber carrier. He scuttled twenty-five
million dollars worth of Allied shipping with
out taking a life. His story is as thrilling as
any pirate’s tale—more thrilling, because it is true.
Manufactured by International Harvester
Company ’
Vernonia Trading Company, Agent
J. E. Tapp
Next door to Brown Fur
niture.
Phone 1021
The Story of This Remarkable Man
Will Run Serially in
Cass Bergerson
The Eagle starting February 28
VERNONIA
FINNEY OF THE FORCE
Essie Nance’s
BEAUTY SHOP
Marcelling, Scalp Treatment,
Manicure» and Facials by
Appointment
Phone 222
J. R. McKEE
Builder and Contractor
Vernonia, Oregon
DR. HARRY A. BROWN
Eyesight Specialist
Eyes tested, glasses fitted
Consultation free
Watch date of next visit
Br F. O. Alexander
Western N< wmmw * U„iart
Twenty-three Cents to Spend
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