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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1932. VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON gon now with snow on the ground this morning, the first in Verno nia this year, and people going (dressed thinner than we would have done in Missouri fifty or Pacific Coast Repräsentativ« sixty years ago. Children must be hauled to school in busses. If we Arthur W. 3type«, Inc. San Francisco . would go back to the old way, I part of the way anyhow, times would be altogether different. Member of National Editorial I have said, and want to say Association and Oregon State again that the Fair Play Advo cate is a feast to my soul, and I Editorial Association. want to thank Warren Akins and I family for sending it to me as a Issued Every Friday $2.00. Per Year in Advance present.—From Aunt Sally Ann Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post t Tindle Gillihan Spencer. office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Umuitiia Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; legal notices. 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line succeeding insertions; classified 1c per word, minimum 25c first insertion, 15c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line. MEETING FOR RECALL FLOPS (Clatskanie Chief) About 65 interested taxpayers . attended the recall meeting here in Fogel hall Tuesday evening | but as far as the recall part of NO WAR FOR AMERICA | it was concerned, the meeting ' was a complete flop, for as chair- Despite the fact that war has broken out in the Orient 'man A. E. Veatch, of Rainier, and American interests are in jeopardy there, sentiment stated, he was plainly in the camp that this country should mix in the fight is conspicuously of the enemy. After unsuccessful efforts to limited. nominate a chairman, Mr. Veatch Tim < n ituation of this kind would have pro- took the chair and Mrs. Lillian of Rainier was secretary. ■>‘d . for upholding American rights re- Daniels After a few opening remarks gardle - : onsequeroes, and for blowing into the ocean by the chairman, Orris Kellar of an_> n. • h e that ini inged. Experience of the world war Fern Hill was introduced as the has beeti a dear teacher, but she has brought her lesson principal speaker and he devoted home. War now stands out as it is, a terrific holocaust most of his time to the last re leaving black debris and the skeletons of the unfortunate call. Veatch spoke again and al who are caught in its path. Though it may speed up busi so Mr. called on L. E. Gulker to say ness temporarily while the engines are pumping and men a few words. He then asked if are plying their hatchets, there come years of bleakness anyone had anything to say and when the property is ruined and the owners are too poor County Commissioner J. N. Mil to rebuild. It is just such a period that we are going ler explained every charge that had been made. through now, a period of paying the tremendous cost of war. Others spoke later in the even It is to be sincerely hoped that China and Japan will ing against the recall. reach a peaceful settlement of their dispute, for their own A few of the high lights of the meeting were: sake and for the sake of other nations that may unwillingly Mr. Veatch stated that the be drawn into the maelstrom of the conflict. county was facing bankruptcy and that in a few years practical ly all of the land in the county THE LOCAL RECALL would be owned by the county. It was then brought out and admitted by Mr. Veatch that he To judge by the number of signatures on the recall had advised citizens of Rainier petitions now being circulated in the city, neither the pro not to pay their taxes as the pen posed recall of the mayor nor of the council members is alty was only eight per cent. He explained it was for local pur arousing any great public enthusiasm. poses, however, that he gave the Recalls should be a last resort, to be used only when advice. Mr. Veatch stated that every gross incompetence or betrayal of trust have come to light. bank in the county was refusing They breed ill feeling and resentment, settling nothing ex to cash county warrants. H. B. cept temporarily, for the defeated side is likely to ache Hager, cashier of the First Na to be up and at the combat again, and dissatisfactions tional Bank of Clatskanie res ponded that his bank was cashing smoulder. warrants for local people without Mayor Tapp has shown a commendable spirit of con discounting them and had never ciliation in advising discontinuance of the office of water refused to cash a warrant for a collector, and an end to the deadlock without recourse to person in need. Mr. Kellar also made some in the threatened election would be desirable. sinuations that Mr. Miller called very heatedly and demanded proof. Mr. Kellar could not prove The proposal to establish a hatchery on Rock creek them and said he would try later is now before Congress, and the daily doings of that body to do so. The Chief will be glad to print his proof. will be scanned with interest by Vernonians. Much was said by the propo nents of the recall about the Rai AUNT SALLY ANN SPENCER nier Union high district. It was TELLS OF DAYS GONE BY pointed out that that had no Aunt Sally Spencer wrote the bearing on the county court and following letter to the Fair Play also that Mr. Veatch had advo (Missouri) Advocate commenting cated and worked for the new on the article, “What a Differ expensive plant of that district. The usual criticism was made ence Fifty Years Make,’’ reprint concerning the amount of mach- ed in last week’s Eagle: Vernonia, Oregon, January 12. intry which had been purchased Don't Stone the Prophet« by the county during the past Dear Mr. Hartley: “In times of great religious Just read my Fair Play paper eight years and Mr. Miller called decay, it is not unusual for those and read what Asa Hartley said attention to the fact that eight suffering most to stone the pro the difference of fifty years was. years ago the county had very phets. Of course, at a time like I agree with him but I can go little machinery or good roads this, wisdom dictates that they back sixty years when we spun and that the machinery had paid should rally to their prophets and and wove our dresses, knit our for itself. give them unusual support, But Those who attended Wednes and stockings, even raised often people in distress do the sox day ’s meeting believe that if a our cotton, picked the seeds out things they ought not to do, and by hand, washed, carded, spun flyng squadron of those acquaint leave undone the things the they wove the cloth. What a hur- ed with county affairs attended ought to do. Hence, they go from and ry it was to get our new dresses these recall meetings and give bad to worse instead of getting to wear to church. We sheared straight facts to combat speeches on the road that leads them out our sheep, washed our wool and of the Kellar type, the movement of the wilderness. The county will soon die a natural death. sent it the carding mills to agent is the farmer prophet. At No mention was made of any make our winter clothes. My times like these the farmer needs more recall meetings but it is father, Uncle Billy Tindle as he all the expert knowledge he can understood that one is being was called by all, made our shoes. get. Expenses must be cut down, planned for the Nehalem valley I never had a pair out of the and economies must be adopted. in a short time. stores until I was big enough to But is is bad economy to dismiss So strong was the sentiment have a beau, but I don’t know as your leader at a time when you against the recall at the meeting I had one or not. Then anyway, are most in need of his leader here that no petitions were when I was married, February 5, brought out and no mention made ship. In prosperous times it is 1871, to Martin Gillihan, his wed of them. difficult for the agent to bring ding suit wss jeans, four treadle about real profit to the farmer. weave. His mother. Aunt Jane Read the Eagle classified adi While farmers are doing well Gillihan, wove the cloth. —there may be something that they are slow to make changes, What a difference here in Ore- will save you money. even when they give promise of substantial gain. But farmers are now anxious to receive instruc tions in anything that promises improvement. Hence the work of' the county agent will bring lar ger results in lifting the com munity to a higher plane of ef ficiency than it could possibly do in normal times. Don’t stone Radios for Rent and Sale your prophets!” —Southern Agriculturist. RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher What Other Editors Think Garrett Reports Year’s Activities Excerpts from the report made by Secretary Barney Garrett at the annual meeting of the Colum bia County Chamber of Commerce are as follows: Letters received: 227 for gen eral information, land, etc.; 42 for information on logged off land; 12 lists, 774 names of people inquiring for information on land, prices, markets, roads, etc., all written. Visitors: 311 merchants, own- ers of foreign cars, inquirers for land, community relief, etc. Telephone calls: 172. Out mail: 646, information on land; 42, information on logged- off land; 60, Scappoose Poultry project; 13, for information for this office; 79 newspapers and booklets; 64 news letters to news papers; 33 lists to realtors and others interest; 101 letters to members, dues, meetings, etc.; 160 cards on annual meeting. Field work: 2738 miles travel ed. Trips to Vernonia, Clatska- nie, Rainier, Scappoose, Portland and Salem. The total membership at this time is 153. This does not in clude the dual membership from the Vernonia Chamber of Com merce, which has not been sub mitted at the present time to this office, nor does it include the membership of several Portland firms who have not as yet defi- nitely paid money. Other projects that have oc- cupied the attention of this office, and which have had considerable work, with, I believe, definite progress, are as follows: Aid in promoting the Scap- poose-Vernonia-Hamlet s h o r t route to the sea. A great many letters have been written and I believe it has been brought to the attention of the highway commis sion that Columbia county is de serving of this improvement in case such a road is to be built. The attention of the highway commission has also been direct ed to the necessity of widening and straightening of the Lower Columba River highway. The work of handling inquiries for the Scappoose poultry pro ject has been handled largely through the office of the secre tary. Mrs. Tice, the stenographer who was hired the latter part of October, upon the recommenda tion of E. E. Wist, has done con siderable of this work for Mr. Wist, previous to being placed with the County Chamber of Com merce and was familiar with the details of it. As the secretary of the organi ization Barney Garrett attended the meeting of the Oregon and Washington secretaries of cham bers of commerce held in Port land in November. He also attend ed the organization meeting of the Northwest Oregon Develop ment association and two meet ings of the Lower Columbia Asso ciated Chambers of Commerce, besides attending several lun cheons and chamber of commerce organization meetings within the county. Another project of particular Kachow Realistic I Permanent ♦ Annette From Father to Son Old Advice, Still Good The following appeared in the Bridgeport (Minn.) Post on June 15, 1886. The advice, though 45 years old, is as good to day as it was when it was first uttered. It says: “My son, there is nothing so mysteriously funny as an ad vertisement. The prime, first, last, and all-the-time object of an advertisement is to draw customers. It is not, was not, and never will be designed for any other human purpose. So the merchant waits till the busy season comes and his store is so full of customers he can't get his cap off, and then he rushes to his printer and goes in for plenty of advertising. I At die very first sign of • cold— GET BUSY We carry on hand—al ready made up at all timer a supply of "Our Cold Tablet» made after a formula Own" famous for quick re There are times when you could not stop people from buy ing everything in the store if you planted a cannon behind the door, and that’s the time the advertisement is sent out upon its mission. It makes light work for the advertising, for a chalk sign on the sidewalk could do all that was needed and have a half-holiday six days in the week; but who wants to favor an advertisement? They are built to do hard work, and should be sent out in the dull days when a customer has to be knocked down with hard facts, and kicked insensible with bankrupt reductions and dragged in with irresistible slaughter of the prices and other inducements before he will spend a cent. sults on ordinary colds. Aik for ARMITAGE COLD TABLETS The BEST in Radio GLENN E. DEAMER, SERVICE MAN Your radio repairing guaran teed — or no labor charge. interest to St. Helens, but which In handling the inquiries that Harris, LaVerne Kilburg, Mrs. may extend to other communities ¡the chamber received the index Harris and Mrs. Chamberlain, The girls finished their quilt in he county is the Bargain Fes ing system as used by the Ore tival, which is in progress at the gon State Chamber of Commerce blocks and talked about the sell- present time. Through the efforts has been put into effect. It can ing of the quilt. It was decided of the secretary and a group of I readily be seen that some method that the girls would entertain the merchants, 54 merchants were of easy access to those who have P.-T. A. ladies at noon Thurs- lined up for this cooperative sell made inquiry is necessary by the day. They planned on a Valentine ing event, which has had the large number that have been re- party having the Boy Scouts and wholeson$; effect of tying the ceived so far. Campfire Girls. merchants together and the added —LaVerne Kilburg, value of making them see the Timber Campfire press correspondent. worth of such an organization as the county chamber. The plan, as Girls Meet I Read the Eagle classified ads operated in St. Helens, has been The meeting of January 10 —there may be something that presented to both Rainier and will save you money. Vernonia merchants and it is ex was held at the home of Mrs. Chamberlain. The girls sewed pected they will desire the as sistance of the secretary in put quilt blocks until 4:30. Those present were Elvena ting over some similar coopera Flett, Sylvia Shiffer, Elaine I tive effort in those places. Brown, Maverene Tailman, La One of the best pieces of pub Verne Kilburg and the guardian, licity that has been obtained for With Mrs. Chamberlain. Columgia county was the motor RINGLETTE log in the Sunday Oregonian, ENDS The weekly meeting of the January 17, which was probably Kshilala Campfire Girls was held A Steam Wave seen by everybody in this county. at the home of Mrs. Chamber- $4 and $5 We have received a few com lain, Saturday, January 23, at pliments from other organizations' two o’clock. BEAUTY SHOPPE for this publicty, and also have; Those present were Elaine Phone 431 Bridge St. had some inquiries about the; Brown, Elvera Flett, Sylvia Shif-' Clatskanie district. fer, Maverene Tallman, Genevieve ' When the dull season gets along and there is no trade and he want* to sell his goods so badly he can’t pay his rent, he stops advertising. That is, some of them do, but occasionally a level-headed merchant does more of it and scoops in all the business, while his neighbors are making mortgages to pay the gas bill. Vernonia Radio Shop A total of 3,058,927 people visited the 22 national forests of Oregon and Washington in 1931. In 1916 this total was 354,800. PAGE THREE Armitage Drug Co Next to Pott Office 1 I That’s the aim and end of advertising, my son, and if you ever open a store don’t try to get them to come when they are already sticking out of the windows, but give them your adver tisements right between the eyes in the dull season, and you will wax rich and own a fast horse, and perhaps be able to smoke a good cigar once or twice a year.—Minnesota Press.
