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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1941 VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Donkey Basketball Slated Teachers Sponsor Gunmen Go to Fun Game SPORTS Post Office Loses, Wins Portland Fri. One loss and a win was the re sult of the last two bowling meets for the Post Office, the loss being suffered at the hands of the Town Te. m last Wednesday evening and the win being made over Sam and Bob Monday evening. The Town Team won by a score of 1573 to 1510, both scores being the total pins for the three games of the evening. Hal Fowler was high pin man for the post office with 332 and Harold Howard for the Town Team with 352. lS; m and Bob lost to the postmen Monday by 1466 to 1630. High man for the losers was Ed Horn with 336 and high for the Post Office was Hal Fowler with 382. W P L Team 18 30 Post Office 12 15 Kings 9 21 14 13 27 Ti wn Team 19 8 27 Sam and Bob ■Members of the Vernonia Gun Club will go to Portland this Fri day evening to engage in the third rifle mutch if this round. Hill Mil itary Academy will provide com petition which will take place on their range. The Vernonia club so far nas suffered two defeats but have hopes of winning Friday evening. Ten “shots” turned out for practice at the local range Tuesday eve ning. Strange Contest Will Be Seen Monday, Feb. 3, at Washington Grade School Who ever heard of donkeys on a basketball floor? Sounds like a wild dream, but next Monday night 15 circus-trained donkeys will wheel, prance, and do everything but stand on their heads on the gym floor at the Washington grade school. Jack Bartlett, star of radio and screen, is bringing his famed troupe of animals to Vernonia and astride the backs of the buckin’ beasts will be local millworkers, Low gasoline mileage is not al business men, and teachers, engag ways caused by faulty carburation, ed in a brand of hoop shooting that according to the emergency road promises to produce a lot of fun. service of the Oregon State Motor Teacher* Sponsor association. Some of the more com The game, if it can be called mon causes of low mileage are : un that, is being sponsored by the der-inflated tires; dragging brakes; Vernonia teachers. The fun starts faulty ignition, poor compression; at 8 o’clock. Who are the riders of clogged ccrburator screen, and in Bartlett’s donkeys? Well, they correct spark gap. haven’t been announced as yet, but indications are that some of Ver nonia’s leading citizens will make a stalb at outwitting the braying, swaying brutes. Holly Holcomb and Ed Carter of the Oregon-American mill' have promised that a bunch of the ndin- A New Modern est lumber shufflers in the West Deposit Plan to will emerge from the confines of the O-A plant to pot baskets Mon save your Time day night—if the teachers and bus iness men of Vernonia headed by Quick - Easy - Safe Paul Gordon, and the donks aon’t throw a hoof into their plans. Write or call for complete information— St. Helens Branch or the United States National Bank Head Office, Portland, Oregon Donkeys Protest Referee and trainer will be Happy Wamack, an Osage Indian, whose decisions on the floor, they say, are often protested vigorously by the donkeys themselves. Bartlett’s animals are known throughout the nation. They strut ted in Mr dison Square garden in New York City, they tromped the maple floors in the leading nigh schools and college gyms in the mid west, they brayed and butted be fore standing-room-only crowds of soldiers last month at Fort Lewis, and are now playing before Oregon fans in the school gyms of this state. No, they won’t scuff the slick basketball floor in the Wrshington grade school gym, because they’re fitted out with the latest of donkey basketball shces, and have given the board of directors a guarantee that the floor will be left in per fect condition. Do the donkeys wear basketball trunks too? Well, now— Convention Is Attraction Mon. DRY CLEANING Prices Reduced We Call and Deliver MAN’S SUIT .................................... 75c MAN’S OVERCOAT ..................... 75c PANTS ............................................... 40c SKIRT (Plain Style) ..................... 40c LADIES SUIT .................................. 75c LADIES OVERCOAT (Plain) .... 75c —•— Cash and Carry MAN’S SUIT........................................ 69c MAN’S OVERCOAT ..................... 69c LADIES SUIT .................................. 69c LADIES OVERCOAT....................... 69c —•— All Work Guaranteed Free from Germ» V er nonia-S easide Laundry & Cleaners Phone 711 RIVERVIEW—(Special to The Eagle)—.Mrs. Clifford Fowler was in Portland Monday to attend the “Women’s IClass Church Conven tion.” Mrs. Merle Cline and Mrs. Nan Hail from Waldport were Monday visitors of iMr. and Mrs. P. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cobat spent the week-end at Lebanon visiting Mrs. Cobat’s sister, Mrs. S. E. Johnson. Mr. and .Mrs. Russell .Cline, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams and Bert and Katie Williams motored to Washington on business Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Gibson sipent Saturday and Sunday at Forest Grove and Hillsboro. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buckner were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Willhite Sunday evening. Clifford Fowler motored to For est Grove for the 99 Mens’ meeting of the Christian church. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner and daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. Tom Turner and Mr. and Mrs. R. Hall Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Buckner are the parents of a baby girl, Nancy Ray, born January 22nd at the Forest Grove hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marston attended the ballet performance in Portland Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Devine and family visited in Hudson Satur day. Mrs. A. Hernan from Rainier Is visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Devine and family for a week or two. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Stevenson and daughter, Mary, and niece, Vir ginia, were fishing at Keasey Sun day. C. Fowler is confined to his bed with the flu. Mrs. Tom Magoff was in Portland Monday ou business. Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Short of Prineville, Mr. and Mr*. B. G. Brown of Ridgefield, Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Art Taylor and two daughters of Portland visited at the J. M. Peachey home on Sunday. PAGE FIVE at Sunset camp. 5tl— to A. E. Jones and John Hay. Re- ____________________________ __ ward offered for return. Finder LX.1ST—Lineman’s hand hatchet just get in touch with Mr. Nekton or beyond Kern’s Bluff on Rock write W. O. Workman, Westfir, creek on or about New Year’s. Re- Oregon. 3t3— ward for return to The Eagle of- — 413 Bush Funeral Homo ----------------------------------------------------- FLOWERS STRAYED—A two-year-old cream- Corsages — Cut Flowers colored Jersey Guernsey heifer Potted Plant* belonging to Walter Workman Sprays for Funerals from the farms formerly belonging Phone 592 6tf— NOTICE Dog licenses will be delinquent cn the first day of March. Owners may obtain new licenses at the city hall, Vernonia, Oregon. 5tl— Classified Ads............ FOR SALE—Two rocking chairs, with pads, $2.50 each. Also floor lamp, $1.00. C. W. Erven, Corey Hill. 5t3 FOR SALE OR TRADE—Good farm work horse. $60 in cash or trade for good milk cow. Inquire Etgle office 513— FOR SALE—-Size 38 ladies winter coat; worn very little. See it at 1158 Columbia Street. 4t3 FOR SALE—Baled hay or will trade for heifers. Will also pay cash for heifers. Ray Delsman, Hillsboro, Ore. Phone 2102. 2tf— WANTED TO BUY—‘Cows, fresh or coming fresh soon. Inquire Eagle office. 4tl— FOR SALE—Scratch pads in con venient assorted sizes. Your choice, pound 15c at The Eagle of fice. 4t3 FOR RENT—Four-room house. See Harry Culbertson. 5tf— REWARD OFFERED—For return of one Manchurian Pheasant. Al bert Schalock. 5t3 LOST—Two, one-year old hound dogs, one white and one black and brown, near old Olney CCC ctmp last week. 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