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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1944)
The Return Rons Morris Workman Rocking W Ranch She has come home to the ranch from the Big City. A few Ladies soles and heels are a wise invest ment in smart appear ance and economy. FRANK LINES SHOE REPAIR MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION m nths ago she was tired of the land. The city called, offering new experiences, new people, a different way of life, and so she followed the siren voice. She found congenial work in an of fice, she found a pleasant apart ment with another girl, she found friends. At first all was exciting and interesting. Crowd ed streets, new faces, her first work away from home, the forced intimacy of apartment life, all were strangely fascinat ing after three years of quiet on the ranch. Then the change began. Eight hours a day for six days a week in an office, the morning and evening jam in over-loaded bus es, the thin apartment walls hiding no detail of. the neighbor’s dome, tic quarrels in the evening, the lonliness of a great imper sonal city, the hardness of ce ment replacing the soft clean soil, these began to tkea the zest from the new experience. One week end she came home for a visit. “Next week I’m go- '—Here's Your— Chance-Get Range NOW! OLYMPIC WOOD RANGES. New shipment. Full enamel. Not rationed. $8995 WOOD HEATING STOVES. Not rationed. $2895 CIRCULATING HEATERS Unrationed $7995 OIL HEATER. Rationed $4995 BISSELL CARPET SWEEPERS DAVENPORTS AND CHAIRS $595 $14993 to $19995 COIL SPRINGS. Single and double New shipment 1 080 GIFT SUGGESTIONS- New Brownie Ware for Cooking. We have Casseroles, mugs, mixed bowl sets, Teapots, and Juice Jugs. ing to quit my job and coma home to itay,” she announced quietly. Her mother smiled. "Has the By Edna Engen big city lost its glamour?” she asked. The girl laughed shortly. "Ev "UNITED THROUGH BOOKS" This is- the slogan for Nation ery bit of it. There’s no time, no place for living there. People al Book Week. It is a timely one herd and mill and trample each as all wan-weary peoples are other worse than crazy cattle. looking hopefully into the future Fou work all week for money to towa ds a peaceful world ard live on and buy things with, and one in which war will have been then find that the money can banished by knowledge and, un not buy the things you want, derstanding. nor is there time left over for I thought the following lines living.” would bear reprinting as it Now she is home gain. The seems to tie in with the above earth was soft beneath her feet theme. when she returned, and the fal While yet the Citadel of Know len leaves were a carpet of gold ledge stands, under the big maples. The fields No despotic greed for power and were green with the fall seed gain ing, and in the pasture the hors Can wrest this precious freedom es greeted her with soft whin- from our hands nys and the touch of velvet nos And Tyranny will storm our es. The river slid softly between gates in vain. banks that wore the green and ' E. E. gold and flaming red of late Among the more recent books autumn, and in the dark waters that have been added to the li flashed the rose-red sides of brary shelves are an interesting spawning salmon. Thé- air was pair: “A Bell for Adano” and crisp and clean and the fall wind “Who Could Ask for Anything sent more leaves scattering down More” by Kay Swift. and swung the green boughs of These are entirely different the great firs on the hill slope. according to subject matter and There was no constant tumult of treatment but they go together restless people, no grind and roar well like a substantial meal and of traffic, but only the sounds a light dessert. of flowing water, the wind in the The substantial meal is "A trees and the pleasant homely Bell for Adano” and is well noises of comfortable animals. written and thought provoking. It was good to be home, good to It is a story dealing with our be alone again sometimes, to troops in a little town in Italy. work with the soil and’ to see There are two outstanding char things grow. acterizations in the book. That Change is vitally necessary for of the “Major”, who is supposed all of us. Often we wust leave to have a counterpart in real the good things of life in order to find them again. We cannot life and who is representative of all the fine qualities that we, as value peace as we should unless Americans, want to be represent we have known war; we cannot ed as having. The other portrait understand the soothing quiet of a still evening unless our ears is far from sympathetic, that of have at sometime been tortured the “General”, and is supposed by constant rasping noises, and to be a fictionized picture of one we cannot really appreciate the sweetness and strength of the earth and the calm of the woods unless we have moved with crowds of weary humanity and felt only the hard unyielding ce ment of endless streets beneath our feet. She sat by the warm fire that first night of her return and ca ressed the soft ears of the dog who lay sleeping at her feet. A cricket chirped just outside the window, the soft lights glowed on books and dear familiar old furniture. She looked slowly about the quiet room. "It’s so nice to be home”, she said softly. Book Talk LARGE INVESTMENT Establishing a typical tree farm may require an investment of as much as $100,000 for road building alone. Everything for the Home on EZ Terms at Portland Prices Phone 802, Vernonia Free Delivery Daily INSORE^Ä- Ç m WITH WAR MR EXTRA SHIPMENTS CorbyXfei OREGON Here-» Great Newt about the whiskey with the Grand Old Canadian Name — more and more is being shipped to this state. To Corby's friends and friends-to-be, this means that its pre war quality, its light-bodied sociability, ¿will be available more often. Ask for Corby's next time! A Grand Old Canadian Name PRODUCED IN THE U. S. A. under the direct our expert supervision Canadian of blender 86 Proof—61 4 7« Grain Novfrol Spirit* JAS BAtQAY I CO, UMlTfD, PfOtlA. IUINO1S far Bi/V Vernonia Eagle Thursday, November 16, 1944 of our officers now much in the news. This same man also made the headlines in a rather discred itable .incident about a year ago. The light dessert is Kay Swift’s amusing “Who Could Ask for Anything More.” This is Miss Swift’s own story of her change from a sophisticated New York “City Gal” to a Central Oregon Cattle Rancher’s wife. Many are the amusing inci dents that arise to confound her. However, some of the things, that she finds so strange and “I LOST 52 Lbs.! WEAR SIZE 14 AGAIN” MRS. C. O. WELLS FT. WORTH A« Pictured H«ro ■> You may loac pounds and have a more olcuder, :;raceful figure. No exercise. No drags. No laxatives. Eat meat, potato*.-*, gravy, butter- The expedience of Mrs. Wells may or may not be different than yours, but why not try the Ayds Plan? Look at these results. In clinical tests conducted by medical doctors more than 104* persons lost 1* to 15 pounds average in u few weeks with the AYDS Vitamin Candy ReJu-inß Plan. With this Ayds Plan you don't cut out any meals, starches, potatoes, meats or butter, you simply cut them down? It's simple and easier when you enjoy delicious (vitamin forti fied) AYDS betorc each mail. Abso lately harmless. .10 days supniy ct Ayds only S2 25. K not delighted resufts, MONEY BACK with the very first box. i'iione NANCE 5 confusing, are commonplace to us native Oregonians* but the book gives us a chance “to see ourselves as others see us” and makes highly interesting reading as well. HEY FOLKS! When you think of confections, think first of us. When you’ve got. a heavy date to treat’, treat her right; treat her at the COZY! The Cozy Bus Depot Ph. 582 PHARMACY MEATS And that is only the beginning! Won’t you come in and give our whole market a careful examination. You will find hundreds of choice items, besides the fine* meats, from which to choose. SAM’S FOOD STOKE Groceries, Fruits & Veg.— A Home Owned Groc. Ph. 761