Friday, March 27, 1931.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
MONEY
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observed. “Kiss me.” she com-
manded fiercly.
Elmer dutifully obeyed, “Now
go forth and make your fight
for school trustee,” Nellie order-
ed. “See to it that you win. If
you’re defeated I’ll cry.
(Continued
Next
Week)
Pioneers Meet
In Clatskanie
Days of kerosene lights and
oxen; days when St. Helens was
a heavily timbered strip of land;
SER.VICE.
ft. KuM
the days when a wild party con
sisted of throwing hay in the box
of a sled and enjoying a straw
CHAPTER VI
own obsessed me. Nellie.” he art ride to a farm home, where the
mitted. “I have been scrimping
eanwhile rimer cinrke’« more than usual lately. I wanted evening was spent in roasting ap
final period of service at the to get going—to be independent ples in front of a fireplace and
Smoke Shoppe was drawing
.<
and
make enough money to enable telling stories; and when there
close. Hnring that two weeks one me to marry you and give you was a small town, Milton, on the
Incident alone upthrust itself in El everything you desired.”
present site of the Fir-Tex plant
mer’s consciousness as n pleasant
“But darling—I would have mar
recalled Saturday
variation from the orderly proves ried you on far less. I would have I —all were
when Columbia County’s Pioneer
Sion of morning, noon ami night.
been a help to you, not a source of association met at the First Pres
On the third da.v following the expense.”
W. N. U.
M
great news, the editor of tile Clar-
ion fathered a thought truly bu-
colic. Remorse for the light man-
ner in which he laid once offended
Elmer Clarke in his local brevities
column now overtook 1dm. What if
Elmer should take a notion to hack
some smart metropolitan journal
ist in a new I’llarcitos paper and
run the Clarion out of business!
Horrible! A vaenney occurring on
the board of trustees of the Union
high school at tills time, the Clar
ion came out with Hit editorial
blast In bold brevier with a three-
column head, suggesting the elec
tion to the board of that sterling
and distinguished citizen, Elmer
Butterworth Clarke. The propo
nents of another candidate to the of
fice, which was without salary,
promptly pointed out the inadvisa
bility of shattering an ancient and
well-established custom of electing
to the school board only those men
and women who had demonstrated
their fitness to superintend the ed
ucation of the young by providing
the community with young to edu
cate.
In an indefinite and roundabout
wny Elmer sensed a covert slam
in this. At any rate it aroused
all of his new-born antagonism to
provincialism.
Egged on by his
friends, he decided to demonstrate
to I’llarcitos that a young unmar
ried man should, and would, func
tion on that board or know the rea
son why. Immediately he announced
himself as a candidate for the of
fice.
Nellie was delighted, because this
evidenced on Elmer's part a subcon
scious decision to continue to live
In I’llarcitos and grow up with the
town. She advised him to conduct
a furious campaign against the
mos shocks of tlie community, to
prove that he had Its interests at
heart as truly as did his opponent,
Henry Tlchenor, who was the fa
ther of twelve children. Indeed. In
the midst of her subtle blandish
ments she suddenly conceived the
Idea of making Elmer the leading
citizen of the county, if not of the
State.
In one illuminating Instant she
caught a vision that caused her to
tremble. As the sole proprietor of
Elmer’s place, she knew her man
couldn't be elected town dog catch
er, but as president of the I’ilar-
citos Commercial Trust and Sav
ings hank she coulu elect him mayor
at the primary election. From
mayor to the state legislature, from
the state legislature to lieutenant
governor, from that to governor, to
congressman, to United States sen
ator, to the Vice Presidency—to the
White House!
“It’s a big dream,” she reflected,
"but only those who have the abll-
lty to dream big dreams ever
amount to anything. Just as easy
to dream big dreams as little ones
—and Ansel P. Moody has battened
on this community long enough. El
mer is right. He's a pawnbroker,
not a banker, and a hanker should
be the big man in any community.
He should know better than any
man its needs, its aspirations and
his duty toward it. When the time
comes I'll tell Ansel P. Moody
where he gets off. He’ll sell his
controlling Interest In that bank
to me at a fair price, or I’ll start
a new bank and run him and his
competitor out of business in ten
years.”
With difficulty she repressed a
cheer. “I'll open my bank with a
hundred thousand dollars capital,
fully paid up. I'll start with my
own deposit of at least four hun
dred thousand dollars and I’ll be
come a member of the Federal Re
serve bank, which no banker in
this town has sense enough to be
come. I'll take over every loan
Anse Moody has as it falls due.
I’ll cut the Interest rate on those
two bloodsuckers and I'll lend
money on honesty, ability and in
dustry ; in the long run III consol
idate the other two banks In this
town with mine—I mean Elmer’s
and mine.
Oh. Elmer darling,
you’re playing Into my hand, and
that means you'll wear out your
Ufe. not drag it out and rot It out!
And nobody shall ever know who
put up the money."
At their next meeting, after In
culcating in Elmer such a sense of
power as he had never known be
fore, Nellie adroitly shifted the
conversation to a subject which is
never very far from pleasing to
nine men out of ten, to wit. him
self.
''Dearie.” she charged suddenly,
"do you know that suit you're
wearing is beginning to look just
a little bit shabby? I don't like to
see my Elmer letting himself go
like this. You should be the best
dressed man In town—and usually
you are. I'm afraid you've been
trying too hard to save money to
equip Elmer’s place.”
He squeezed her hand grate
fully.
“The Idea of that business of my
“I know It. old lovable. But you
were doing as well In your job as I
was doing in mine, and It Isn't a
particularly striking evidence of un
selfishness when a man asks a
woman to give up financial inde-
pemlence to scrimp and save and
sacrifice with hint, I didn't want
you to do that. My mother had to
do that all her life and it hurt me.
I swore that when I married, my
wife should never have to say to
me. ‘Elmer, dear, may I have a
dollar and n half to pay the
bill?’ or 'Elmer, I’d like eight
lars to buy a new hat.’
“Nellie, that sort of thing Is
graceful. I want "you to have your
own private cheeking account and
I never want to know what you do
with the money."
Nellie now squeezed his hand.
“Never fear, Elmer, I'll have my
own checking account and nobody
shall ever know what I do with the
money. I agree with you thor
oughly there. But. Elmer, we're off
our subject. I want you to go up
to San Francisco and get yourself
a complete wardrobe. You must
take a vacation, Elmer.”
“I will—if you’ll take it with me.”
”1 shall not. On a vacation I'd
be a nuisance. You'd be working
hard just trying to assure yourself
that your wife was having a won
derful time—and I'm not ready to
marry you yet, dear. Really, you
must not bother yourself with a
wife and her trunks and bags, not
to mention your own.”
“Sure you can't be persuaded to
change your mind and marry me
before I go. Nellie?”
"Elmer Clarke, I'tn not even en
cored to von—yet. Remember that.
I have already explained to you
why.”
He surrendered. “You're a mean
woman, but I love you, so 1 sup
pose all of my life I’lJ be giving
you your own way about every
thing. The only comfort I’ll draw
out of that will be the knowledge
that you’re wiser than a tree full
of owls and probably know more
about everything than I do.”
“Omit the compliments, Mr.
Clarke, please. Are you going on
that vacation?"
“Yes—after I’ve cleaned up Henry
Tlchenor In this school election.
By the wny, Nellie, I’ve made one
new resolution since that lawyer,
McPeake, wired me I was a mil
lionaire. I’ve decided not to cook
my own breakfast hereafter and to
refrain from eating my luncheons
and dinners In restaurants. I’ve
engaged a smnrt gentleman of
color to look after me and the dogs.
His name Is Jasper and he swings
a mean skillet; he can buttle, drive
a car and play the banjo.”
“Good 1 Elmer, I think you ought
to buy yourself another nice pres
ent. You’ve been good for ever so
long and you deserve it. You’ll
want a new house, of course. If
you Intend to remain In I’llarcitos
long enough to complete your term
of office as chairman and member
of the board of trustees of the
Union high school. What do you
wnnrfor your bungalow and lot?”
“Ten thousand dollars. Got a
customer for me, Nellie?”
"Yes, but I’m afraid my custom
er cannot meet your terms. I know
n party who might be Induced to
buy your house if you will accept
two thousand dollars down, with a
first mortgage for two years on the
remainder at seven per cent.”
“Sold!” The word popped out of
Elmer’s mouth In much the same
manner he formerly employed when
giving orders to his patron. "I sup
pose you'll want a commission, Nel
lie,” he suggested with what Anse
Moody would have termed 111-con-
cealed humoroslty.
“Not from yon," she replied
breathlessly. They were lunching
at the time in a booth nt the Palace
grill. Nellie glanced around, saw
that for the moment they were nn-
PAGE THREE
byterian church at Clatskanie for the grants that make up Columbia
its first meeting of the year.
county was told by Judge Fuller
The morning session was called ton, who also mentioned one Nel
to order by Martin White, presi son Hoyt, who ilved in a very pre-
dent, who stated the aim and pur I tentious style on what is now
pose of the meeting, and the min known as Hoyt Ridge, across
utes of the pervious meeting were the bay from Warren. Early his
read by Grant Watts, Scappoose, tory of the Nehalem valley was
secretary-treasurer of the organi told by Judge D. W. Freeman of
zation. New members were enrol Clatskanie, a pioneer of the Ne
led, bringing the membership up
to 75 with many others waiting
to join.
At noon the visitors, as guests
of the Clatskanie Kiwanis club
were given a chicken dinner, serv
ed in an efficient manner by the
Boy Scouts. An addrees of wel
come was made by Rev. Dorris, to
which Judge W. J. Fullerton re
sponded. Mrs. Blanch Bunts sang
several old songs.
The principal speaker of the
afternoon was W. J. Powell of
Portland and formerly of Ver
nonia, who recalled much of the
pioneer days on the Nehalem in
his speech.
Other members were called up
on to make speeches and “Auld
Lang Syne” was thoroughly dis
cussed. An interesting history of
halem valley. Frank Peterson of'ago. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Jones
Nehalem, Ira Parcher of Hudson,1 anj Arthur Quigley were the mu-
G. W. Perry of Houlton, Mrs. I . .
Grant Watts and Walter Carl, of slclans'
Birkenfeld were others who gave
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Powell were
interesting facts about the early made honorary members of the
“60’s.”
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An old-time orchestra made up adjourned, subject to the call of
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