FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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Urnumia Euglr
Mother
Birkenfeld
vision I saw you, my darling;
a moment, then you were
gone.
Your presence was sweet, like a
flower;
Your voice like some strange,
sweet song.
Mr». Estalla Jones
Mother’s club of the grade
school held their last meeting of
the season at the home of Mrs.
Member of National Editorial
Hazel Skaling. Mrs. Mabel Narver
Association and Oregon State
was awarded the quilt blocks made
Editorial Association.
by the members of the club. The
club has met with great success
I tried to keep you beside me,
Issued Every Friday
$2.00, Per Year in Advance But your vision faded away;
but will discontinue until next
fall when the hot lunches, etc.,
Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922. at the post Now I’m praying to God, the Al­ handled by the club will begin.
mighty,
office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879.
That you’ll come back forever to Later lunch was served by Mrs.
DoTis Hallam, acting as hostess.
stay.
Advertising rates—Foreign, 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch;
Hugh M. Jones, Jr., and daugh­
legal notices. 10c per line first insertion, 6c per line succeeding
insertions; classified lc per word, minimum 26c first insertion, Forgive me, my precious, my ter Beverly of Portland are visit­
16c succeeding insertions; readers, 10c a line.
darling,
ing with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
For the lines that I placed in Hugh M. Jones.
RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
your brow;
The Vesper Tea ladies surpris­
May the hot tears in some way ed Mrs. Eric Hanburg, the occa­
atone
sion being her birthday. The af­
For the anguish I’m suffering ternoon was spent playing games
AN UNFAIR LAW
now.
social talks and. Mrs. Estella
Jones, in behalf of the members
The laws of Oregon require that the state property When I had you. I tho’t ’twas presented, Mrs. Hanburg with a
forever,
gift similar to a gift presented to
tax collected by the counties be paid in full. In times Little
dreaming some day you’d each member on their birthdays.
like these, when only forty, fifty or sixty per cent of be gone;
Later lunch was served by the
the taxes are being collected, the result is ruinous to the Your life seemed so eternally hostess. Those present were Mrs.
Norstrom, Mrs. O. Johnson, Mi-s.
general funds of the counties, for the overdrafts have to lasting;
When I scolded, it never seemed C. Anderson, Mrs. J. Hansen,
come out of those funds. When food on the table is scanty wrong.
Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Boglund, Mrs.
because the family purchasing power has dwindled, the
Rosenburg, Mrs. E. Jones, Mrs.
oldest and huskiest boy gobbles a full meal, and the rest Forgive me, my loved one, for­ J. Johnston, Mrs. E. Bee. Next
give,
of the children are gaunt from malnutrition.
regular meeting will be held with
For the hands that look toilworn Mrs. Connie Nystrom,
Such a law is manifestly wrong. Possibly it was left with care
The! community field day in
the way it is as a club to force endorsement of the sales And the light in your eyes that which four schools participated
had
faded,
tax, which of course would end this particular grievance And the gray that I placed in was enjoyed Thursday of last
week at Birkenfeld grade school.
because the state property tax would thereby be abolished.
your hair.
The visiting schools were Mist,
But if the sales tax does not pass, there will be an inde­
—Rene WerschkuL Natal and Deep Creek. The morn­
finite continuation of robbing Peter to pay Paul. And
ing was spent in a short program
of songs, music and reading by all
Peter, be it said, will have his pockets turned inside out
the school followed by a declama­
and his clothes will be threadbare while Paul has spending
tory and spelling contests. Those
money and a couple of good suits.
winning in the spelling contests
were Lawrence Wickstrom, Sth
Which is the worse evil is hard to say, the added
grade; Olive Hansen, 7th grade;
burden of a sales tax, or the injustice of a state property
Ruth Ek, 6th grade; Adeline Sax­
Vernonia
Eagle,
May
11,
1923.
tax as now imposed. Either way, it looks as if the tax-
ton, 5th grade; Louise Ek, 4th
payer were in for a little more gouging.
| The minimum charge for water grade; and Priscilla Hansen, 3d
t will be about $1.25 per month, it grade. In the declamatory contest
I
was stated at the city council were Norman Peterson, 1st grade:
ROOSEVELTS TWO MONTHS
| Monday night. $12.50 will be the Lois Harmon, 2d grade; Ted Bel­
I charge for tapping water to resi- lingham, 3d grade; Louise Ek, 4th
' dence ProPerty- The council de- grade; Robert Keaton, 5th grade;
Some of President Roosevelt’s measures for COmbat Icided
to install drinking foun- Izel Winslow, 6th grade; Leon
ting the depression—the economy bill as it affects veter- 'tains and furnish water for any. McCormick, 7th grade; Ruth Bry­
ant, 8th grade. A generous lunch
an’s benefits, beer revenue, inflation, farm relief—are ¡one furnishing the fountains,
was
partaken at noon in which
naturally the subject of controversy; other measures not: A powerful steam shovel on
250 persons partook. Owing to the
yet tackled—the tariff, war debts—are likely to provoke its way t0 the mill site and too rain, the athletic events were held
as much opposition, and as to what the ultimate effect he“vy ,{°T ,the bridi?e attempted in the gym, but in spite of the
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ford Rock creek, but the gravel weather every one present enjoy-
of . any or all
of them may , be only
the future can J-
disclose.
; t0
proved
t00 goft and the wheels
eld the day and expressed the de­
Apart, however, from differences of opinion on various
in tb* *J*rt two feet deep, sire for another field day next
year.
measures, unqualified commendation is due the president piyer t0 drag it out
The pupils of the upper grades
for his courage in facing perplexing problems and his j Tuesday night Cass Berger-
are reviewing in preparation for
initiative in formulating plans and starting them on their son’s car collided head-on with final
tests. School closes May 19.
way. He has had the will, the daring and the leadership a car that was on the wrong side Miss Houghton and Mrs. Narver
to act in behalf of a people perishing from want in a land,
st[eet- Mr- Lafso"’ driver of the grade school will spend
of plenty. He has seen the futility of ballyhooing us back I severe cuts on the face and the their vacation in Portland and
into prosperity—to borrow his own expression—and has Bergerson car was damaged about Vacouver and at the beach,
The Vesper school pupils were
sought a cure by getting at the causes. The president’s! the radiator and front fenders.
taken to Astoria to see the U. S.
The
chamber
of
commerce
went
two months have been packed with action, and action is
Frigate Constitution. Also Albert
on record Friday as favoring a Rosenburg, Howard Jones, Alen-
what the country needs.
deep well of good water instead of'
experimenting with creek water . dale Malcolm, Emmanuel John­
ston, Wesley Mills, Frank Pegard,
for city use.
INTERURBAN RAILWAYS PASS OUT
of the high school of Birkenfeld
O. W. Hodges, who recently went.
purchased
the
Twin
mill,
will
put
Protest against discontinuing the last of the Oregon i in a sash and door factory. The At the Sunday school services
and Christian Endeavor Lyle Pe­
Electric passenger trains shows a rather peculiar strain in Twin property, now known as the terson was leader. Mr. Von Bro-
secured
Vernonia
Mill
Co.,
has
human nature. Nobody wants to travel a short distance
1 gen led the devotional services,Mr.
considerable timber and the mill I Smith the music. Song service
by train, and yet the non-patronizers do not want the is busy sawing.
in the afternoon was led by Mr.
trains discontinued.
Clarence Reed moved into his ; Peterson and also the Christian
Twenty years ago when the Oregon Electric was extend­ new pool room building this week. Endeavor and Mr. Von Brogen
Mr. Timmons wrenched his back was leader of the evening ser­
ed from Salem to Eugene, traffic on interurban electric
severely Wednesday while rolling vices. Mr. Peterson, Von Brogan,
lines was heavy. Population grew, and potential traffic a pole for the electric light com­ and Mr. Smith are all of Port-
grew with it—but the public took exclusively to the high­ pany.
land. They are expected to be
A new baby arrived at the in Birkenfeld soon again to con­
ways. Where passengers had been hard put to it to find
a seat on three- or four-car trains running every few home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert De- duct services.
pue last week.
Mr. Condit, our county superin­
hours, two-coach trains taveling at long intervals ran prac­
tendent, was in Birkenfeld last
tically empty. At the hearing before the public utilities For real bargains—watch the 1 week with the test papers. He al­
commissioner Wednesday it was brought out that the one classified columns of the Eagle. so called about the commuity.
Ten Years
Ago * * « *
train on the Oregon Electric is handling an average of
four passengers a day at Salem, one at Albany and two
at Eugene. One cannot blame the railroads for curtailing
and finally abandoning service. It is only natural that they
should wish to conserve their supply of red ink.
Just why some considerable number of people did not
prefer riding in electric trains to the expense, hazard an/
sometimes the fatigue of automobile travel or the cramped
accommodations of stages, is hard to explain. Perhaps it is
a matter of fashion that may conceivably swing back to
the railroads—if there are any railroads left to ride on.
Natal
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90c
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Women and Children
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President
Office Phone 663
Res. Phone 664
Ringlette Permanent Waves at
$3.50 and $4.50
Vernonia,
Oregon
Willard Batteries
violet ray gasoline
MILADY’S BEAUTY SHOPPE
Mrs. E. H. Turner
Oils . . . Expert Greasing
VERNONIA
SERVICE STATION
Vernonia Hotel Bldg.
492 Bridge St.
Phone 1261
VERNONIA
TRADING CO.
We Deliver
Roland L. Treharne
JOHN A. MILLER
Expert Automobile Repairing
General Contractor
WELDING
TWIN FIR
M?»on Work, Building
BAFFORD BROS
General Plumbing
Vernonia
Nothing quite so
.
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PHONE
Printing
• Art •
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M. D. COLE
Dentist
Vernonia, Oregon
service
STATION
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Portland-Vernonia
Truck Line
W.
A. DAVIS, Proprietor
Daily Service
Office with Crawford
Motor Co.
Telephones
—_ 611, 1041
WESTON radio sales
* SERVICE
New and Used Radios
191
we’ll call We
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u.
can supply you with
Roland D. Eby, M. D
Physican and Surgeon
Complete Service Laboratory.
FREE—Tube Testing
Kenneth Wh-te, Tech.
929 BRIDGE ST.
Paterson Furniture Store
Town Office 891
moderate cost.
Phone
Walnut 7686
R. G. Thornburgh
Cashier
Physician end Surgeon
$3.40
Advertise Your Finn
high grade stationery at
J. A. Thornburgh
DR. J. A. HUGHES
LET YOUR LETTERHEADS
quite so effective
'The Roll of Honor Bank”
Osborn, Mrs. Mary Burris, Miss
Beatrice Perry, Mr. and Mrs. J.
Neurer, Lincoln Peterson, Noble
Dunlap, Wm. Pringle and Dave
McMullen.
Robert McMullen is recovering
slowly from a severe siege of
pneumonia. He is up some this
week but is still very weak.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bush and
Chancey Whittig of Mist were at
Natal on business Tuesday.
One of Dave McMullen's farm
horses while in pasture last week
somehow fell between two logs
on his back and had to be help-
ed up.
There will be a dance at the
Natal hall on Saturday evening,
May 13. The Cameron orceshtra
will play.
For the pleasure of her house
Mrs. Jake Neurer
guests. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cady
and Zella Cady of Portland:, Mrs.
The new state road grader op­
L. H. Dewey entertained with
two tables of bridge Saturday erated by Carl Enneberg worked
on the highways here for sever­
night.
Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Cole, and al days last week.
Jim Hill, accompanied by Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Garner were
additional guests. First prizes Otto Bittner and her children
were presented to Mrs. Cole and from Mist, were Natal visitors
Mr. Cady, and consolations given Friday evening.
to Mrs, Cady and Dr. Cole.
Clarence Milton will plant a
A lunch of salad, sandwiches, ( vegetable garden at Mrs. Edith
strawberry shortcake and coffee Hill’s place this summer for com-
mercial use.
was served by the hostess.
Ella Caywood came in from
Portland last week to visit her
FEWER EARLY CHICKS SOLD
mother, Mrs. Mollie Wright, and
WITH EGG PRICES STRONG returned to Portland last week
' end.
Mr. and Mrs. Noble Dunlap,
Fewer commercial chicks were
hatched during the first three Mrs. Mary Peterson, her grandson
The regular meeting of the
months this year than last, but Floyd Deeds and Jake Neurer
later orders booked indicate an were Portland business folks this library board scheduled for this
week has been postponed be­
increase for the eastern part of week.
The Forest Grove creamery has cause of conflicting functions
the country over last year, ac­
cording to a review of the poultr established a cream route in the during the first of the week and
ysituation issued by the Oregon Nehalem valley, making three the absence of several members
trips each week.
over the weekend.
State college extension service.
Deputy R. L. Shreve, county
Mary Kato and son Charlie left
Heaviest decrease for the first
three months was in the north assessor, was working in this Tuesday for Portland, where they
central United States where the community last week, assessing will make their home.
produciron of salable chicks was real estate and personal property.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cady and
L. Wedell is working for Math­
10 per cent under a year ago.
daughter Zella Cady of Portalnd
ew
Bros,
helping
them
load
cars
The Pacific coast is maintaining
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. L.
a fairly even trend being 3 per with lumber which they are haul­ H. Dewey Saturday and Sunday.
cent under last year for March, ing to Vernonia this week.
The Natal school was invited Mrs. Cady and Mrs. Dewey are
with indications of 4 per cent
to
join the school track meet at sisters.
below for later bookings. Bookings
Mrs. E. J. Douglass returned
for the whole country for April Birkenfeld Thursday of last week. Monday from Portland, where
Mrs.
Jim
Moran,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
and later showed an increase of
Ira Peterson, Mrs. John Thomas she had visited for three days
16 per cent over last year.
and Mrs. J. M. McCormick ac­ with her daughter Vivian, who is
Egg prices are in a favorable companied the children to Birken­ working in the Portland office
position for producers in Port­ feld for the day,
of the Miller Mercantile Co.
land compared with a year ago.
JOY THEATRE
Clarence Milton played with
Instead of the usual heavy decline the Sundland-Berg orchestra for
Richard Dix in THE GREAT
■they have held up so that early in I the dance at Birkenfeld last Sat­ JASPER, Saturday and Sunday,
May quotations were back to the urday evening,
May 13 and 14. Admission 10
level of a month ago and two
Adv.
Jake Neurer butchered two veal and 25 cents.
cents above the same period a for himself and two for Noble
year ago.
Dunlap this week.
JL SPECIAL — Your old
Coast production has been in­
Radio Tubes are worth
Miss Maggie Triplitt, Natal
5c each when traded in
creasing slightly but remains school teacher, has been sick in
from 13 to 16 per cent under a bed for a week with a bad cold.
on new ones at
year ago. Middle western produc­ Mrs. Gladys Moran is teaching in
PATERSON’S
tion has been declining for the her place at present.
FURNITURE STORE
PM
I
last few weeks.
Vernonia, Ore.
I Weekend business visitors in
Butter markets
Veronia were Mr. and Mrs. Lee TT
have also
trend this spring from that usual-1
ly followed at this season. Prices
early in May had gone higher
than the month previous and were
as much as 5 cents above the cor­
responding time a year ago.
Nationally the butter market
To Us For
was nervous and unsettled as
dealers tried to anticipate the ef­
fect of the inflationary legisla­
tion. Reports were that the rise
You’ll be pleased at our service, and the price is reas­
of 15 to 27 per cent in prices
onable. . . Phone 711—We call for and deliver.
there was largely due to such an­
ticipation of the currency legisla­
tion.
Phone 681
impressive
The Forest Grove
National Bank
PAGE THREE
MRS DEWEY ENTERTAINS
FOR HOUSE GUESTS
Vernonia Eagle
Res. Phon«
Walnut 2911
Willard H. Hurley, D. M. D.
DENTISTRY
1729 Denver Av«. at Kilpat­
rick St., Portland, Ore.
Parchment butter wrappers 10
cents for 26 (pound she) or
30 cents for 100; printed, 100
for $1.76, 200 for $2.26. Ver­
nonia Eagle.
(Adv.)