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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1929)
Page Eight Visitor’« Request Left City Manager Guessing wDEÙiMBERw The city mannger stepped out of the City hall and started towards ' mon ' tuss uro TUli' FRI SAïJ Ills office. A man carrying two RXl T 5 67 heavy grips addressed him. “Pardon me,’’ he said, “how much '9 10 h 12 13'141 do you know about this town?" “Why, I am falrl.v familiar with 1Ö 17 18 192021 It," the city manager replied. “Why 23^ 2o27w| do you ask?" “Well. I've asked three police ¡3031 men how to get out to an address lu Ingleside, and they told me to take a bus on this street,” the stranger said. He was perspiring somewhat, and It was evident that «2.00 per year in advance Issue every Thursday he whs not a little peeved. “I got on a bus and the driver told me he Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post didn't go thnt way at all. I want office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. to know Just where I stand, any Member of Oregon State Editorial Association how.” "All right, sir.” the city mana Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; ger replied; "you come with me." legal notices, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding And the city manager took oue grip insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 25c. and started down the street. He MARK E. MOE.......... PUBLISHER stopped at the health department, LEE SCHWAB....................... EDITOR called an Inspector and told hltn to get a car. ‘"Take this man where he wants to go,” he said. SAFE AN!) MERRY CHRISTMAS When the car had gone the city Let us have a safe and Merry Christmas. ' manager confided to bystanders that a matter of fact he couldn't Scores of human lives are cruelly sacrificed, mostly have as told the man how to get to innocent children, and hundreds of thousands of dollars the Ingleside address, either, and in property values are annually destroyed on account of that he’d look It up right away.— Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. • TACOMA portlanì S^- OEUGENÊ Hmtnttia izaylr carelessness in the use of holiday illuminanty, and decora- tions. Let us be extremely careful this year of fire. Last year three young girl students of an Oregon educational institution were horribly burned to death be cause of the caieless use of holiday illuminants and de- corations. Exercise great care and precaution in the prepara- tions for the Yuletide celebration, that the spirit of joy and thanksgiving will not be overshadowed by the pall of death or injury to any person, or the destruction of property. Vernonia « Leading R x DDINO q Store / SANTA ROSA f » OSACRAMZNTO REITHNER’S ’OAKLAND °STOCKTON O MODESTO JOSE MERCED • Quality Merchandise For Christmas Gifts gRESHO OBISPO Silk Hose J M G I (fihriaiutatì (Smtings Lindley & McGraw p I (Grrrtiitu Z ’fl I JO V SR Theatre “Half Marriage’’ “Chasing1 I hru Europe Feature Picture and “The Manhattan Player», Friday December 20, Only Cleaning Steel Pent The bureau of standards says the deposit left by the drying of ordi nary writing Ink on steel pens con sists of iron «biplane, gallic anti tannic acids. dye. phenol and per haps some gummy matter. There may also be substances formed by the oxidation anil polymerization of the gallic and tannic acids. No one liquid will remove all of these substance* Hydrochloric or sul phuric neld will loosen the depos it, hut will corrode the pens and be bad fur the skin and clothing. Makes A Perfect Christmas (iift Buy Your Wntchr# at Home and Receive Real Service A. I Ktillfii ider Expert Watchmaker and Jeweler Swiss Watch Repairing a Specialty Silk Undies LOS Al Great Writers Worked O LOH Under Odd Conditions A new game for the students of the history of literature, writes the Taris correspondent of the London Observer, Is to examine the physi cal conditions under which famous , SAN DlEKÜTjo writers did their work. For some, tobacco was Indispensable. Ver laine used to smoke almost Inces santly. So did Francois Coppee, and Huysmans was a great ciga rette smoker. Both of those men also found the society of cats a stimulant to their Inspiration, as did Theophile Gautier and Bau delaire. The sturdy and vigorous SANTA TAKES cation in Portland. RICHFIELD PLANE Itlcliepln, who reproached Good catches of cut-throats Jean camp c regor Paul Bourget for drinking nothing have been made here the past Imt water, used to do twenty min Bearing Christmas remem week. utes of gymnastic exercise before brances which will be distribut A community Christmas tree John Axtell is to be watch- sitting down to work, and Mistral ed December 23, and 24, to chil will be enjoyed by the residents man at the • I.-P. headquarters could only write poetry after a dren of the Pacific west at ev of Camp McGregor .at the scL^j camp. Mr. ] walk. Ernest Itonnn used to Richfield service station, Nixon and superin- 'sharp house playshed, Friday evening, stare Into the palm of his hand as ery tendent L. A. Young are leav- df Ills ideas came from there. Bal- Santa Claus, as represented by following a program by the ing this week. replica representatives, taac, who could eat with a gargan-, three school. Santa Claus himself will. I James Iler of the surveying yuan appetite when he had finished took off in a fleet of Richfield be present. (working, needed the help neither1 planes on December 19. Here Miss Viola Phillips, teacher of crew of the O. A. company and <>f wine nor tobacco, which he de- are photos showing scenes at the field, Los Angeles, and map of wjH land with their Christmas the Inman-Poulson school con- wife moved away this week. Mr. jtested. although Lamartine falsely takeoff at Western Air Express cities where the various planes surprises. eluded her term of school there Iler expects to attend O. S. C. accused him of showing teeth black December 6, and returned to ; again after the holidays to com ened by the nicotine of cigars. Wednesday, December 11. He (Chateaubriand, when he dictated SANTA TAKES OFF the home of her parents at j plete his course in forestry. FROM LOS ANGELES IN has been named Robert. Genevieve, the little daughter Ito bls secretary, used to walk bare- Joseph, Oregon. RICHFIELD AIRPLANE of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Amato, | {foot up and down the cold stone I M. E. Carkin attended the dis- Miss Phillips will attend ^e'is i [floor of Ills room. trict conference of the Ameri- eastern Oregon Normal after I' theiill recovering from her recent LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.— iness anil is home from the can Legion at Gresham, Ore., holidays, from which she expects Santa Claus—a 1929 model aero-1 ’ Cucumber Lon3 Delicacy to graduate next summer. She hospital in Forest Grove. nine pound boy arrived Monday night. nautical Santa Claus—took off ; De Candolle says that cucumbers here today! has successfully taught in tht. I,-1 | Monday morning, December 16, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. McGraw P. district over 12 months, and i U. S. Department of Agriculture were originally from the East In ground While “talkie” cameras c______ „ _____ tit the home of Mr. and Mrs. and Mary Lee visited relatives dies, hut other botanists ascribe — • *” • “‘ 7 Point in Banks, Tuesday. has endeared herself to the com Hunting migratory game birds, them to Asia and Egypt. Litera out the sights and sounds of Bert Woods on the Stony munity. from automobiles is prohibited ture proves them to be more than the picturesque event, three jol- road, Mrs. Marvin Eby and daughter Ernest Bemis and family of by a recent amendment to the 3,000 years old in Asia, and It Is bewhiskered fellows, packs of i M. E. Carkin visited his home the upper I.-I’, camp moved to [federal regulations under the mi known that they were brought into gifts upon their backs climbed at Camas, ,Wash., over the week Loise, returned home Sunday af ter spending several weeks vis i’lilna 140-86 B. C. They were into airplanes here today and Portland last Thursday. They s’. ratiory-bird treaty act. iting relatives in Vancouver, B. known to the Greeks and Romans roared away on the important end. were one of the last families to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reed C. It. is not especially important j and were mentioned by Pliny, who business of taking Christmas leave this camp, logging opera they were grown In Africa, G. W. Ford left for Portland are to be congratulated upon whi it breed of dairy cows you I says tions having closed recently. and tli.it they were such a favorite presents to children of the en the arrival of a nine pound boy, Wednesday on business. selort — the important thing is I An enjoyable birthday party with Emperor Tiberius that lie had tire Pacific coast, There were was tendered Mr. Estey, at his to choose good individuals of a' them dally on liis table. Charle plenty of “sound” effects for home Saturday evening, Decem breed, However, it is usually j magne ordered them planted on ills the noise-hungry camermen of best to choose a breed that is estate in the Ninth century, and the audible news weeklies, in- ber 6. they were grown by Columbus In eluding the voices of children, Misses Upson and Patrician common in a community. Haiti in 1494. Capt. .John Smith spent the week end in Portland. Livestock often suffer from mentions them as being cultivated the jingle of bells, the roar of the big motors. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Estey re : lack of water rather than go in Virginia in 1584» There’s only one real Santa turned Munday after spending ala I a long way for it. especially in Claus, of course, but it was ex few days in Portland. | very cold or very hot weather, Authors Who Despised Books ' plained to the wide-eyed young Mr. and Mrs. Joe Doyle have ' Horses», cattle, anil sheep should gone to Portland where they I get a good drink once or twice • While It Is natural to assume sters who gathered at the Wes will spend their vacation with j daily. Hogs and poultry should that ell authors are devoted rend tern Air express port today and advocate rending for] that these three aeronautical the latter’s parents. have water much oftener, pre ers It is pointed out that de “Saint Nicks” were really assis The Goodwin and Kellogg [ feraEly where they drink Olliers, Maupassant said hooks “made one tants to Santa arranged for by families are spep.dmg their va-, whenever they want narrow, they misrepresented life. In-| dulged In deception and gave the the Richfield Oil company of mind false direction,” and Rousseau California. And, thanks to this declared that he “hated books ; they arrangement, every child in Cal Vernonia teach people to talk about things ifornia, Oregon, or Washington, they do not understand." Further, will be able to get a Christmas Emile Zola compared authors In present on December 23rd and general to "sausagemakers who pre 24th merely by visiting any ser lids pared their staff for others while sedulously not eating any them vice station which offers Rich field products. selves." The three planes which took off here today with the pseudo Napoleon No Scholar Santas and their loads of gifts were the big Richfield Fokker Napoleon did not himself In school. As cabin liner, piloted by Tommy Napoleon’s puts It: Fowler; the Stearman J-6, new not brilliant career was est o Richfield’s planes, piloted reived Ills commission by Dudley Steele, head of the tlllery In 1785 with« given evidence of any marked abil company’s aviation department, ity, except, perhaps, that <>f hold and a second Stearman, piloted ing his own counsel and to carry by Rufus Pilcher, assistant to BROWN Fl ing through to the end any attitude Mr. Steele. s. adopted. These trails, which after QV< /. Me» -IBI (jgggigj) The entire Pacific coast will ward made him feared equally In be visited by the planes within ASSOCIATED the council chamber and on the bat the next three days. In every tlefield. Inherited from center, Richfield branch mana mother. gers will immediately arrange the distribution of the gifts brought by the planes, so that every Richfield station in the Pacific west will have presents All Talking Picture, Thursday, December for every youngster that visits 19, Only a station on the two days be fore Christmas. JEWELRY and adjoining store space, and the building on Third and Bridge to be for J. C. Penny, said R. B. Early, who spent Thursday in this city consulting with Mr. George McGee of Hillsboro, McGee and his representatives. formerly city engineer here, spent Thursday of last week in this city with a crew of en- “ gineers, staking off lots for Klamath Falls—Weyerhaeuser buildings on Bridge street. Lumber company’s mill, under The lots on the upper end of construction four miles west of Bridge street will be used for here, will start operations in the building of the postofficc January, 1930. Engineers Stake Out Lots For New Buildings Whistler’» Extra Monocle Whistler could pi ty the actor, too, writes Rolle Wa ter Brown tn •‘Lonely Americans.” One day. while he lectured Informally, his monocle slipped from his eye and rolled across the floor. A dozen ardent disciples rushed to rescue It form the dust and bread crumbs, lie deigned not to touch It. hut with an easy flourish drew a fresh one from Ills waistcoat pocket and ad justed It to his eye as be proceeded with the lecture. Martin & Forbes LEADING FLORIST 387 Washington St. Portland, Ore., Phone BEacon 3162 “Hurricane’' 100 Per Cent Talking, First all talking Sea Story featuring Hobart Bosworth. Saturday Evening and Sunday Matinee December 21, 22. ■ “Hallelujah” All Talking, Singing and Dancing. Sensa tional Featuring Colored Players—Ju«t Completing three Weeks Run in Portland. Sunday and Monday Evening« Dec. 22-23 I I “Imagine My Embarrassment” Talking Picture and also an all talking comedy. Tuesday and Wed., Dec. 24-25 COMING SOON—Will Roger« In— “THEY HAD TO SEE PARIS” And Don’t Mis« “Madame X” Coming to the Joy Theatre Soon. Cifts of Real Quality Dancing Sets Silk Robes Beautiful Pajamas Silk D i esses New Shoes Men’s Robes Handkerchiefs Socks MANY OTHER GIFTS OF QUALITY
