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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1944)
■ni .. T* . . • School 1 edestrian 1 rotection— Safety Christmas Shopping Tots Learn Thru Posters There pre times when I wish I were back in some-year-or-an- other B. C. and such periods al ways occur during my Christmas shopping. I have heard of people who really did get their shopping done early, and actually enjoyed doing it. I even know one wo man—perfectly normal otherwise —who buys things all through the year and puts them away for Christmas gifts. I admire such forehanded folks; I look upon Trafi c accidents in Oregon clai lied a toll of 22 lives during the month of November, accord ing to Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, who' said this was three more deeths than were re ported in the same month last year. “This slight increase indicates there is a greater danger of ac- cidents this year, despite the ctmmon supposition that danger has lessened, due to wartime re strictions on the vse of motor ve hicles,” Farrell said. them with respect and wonder, but I can’t emulate them. In the first place, if I bought things all through the year, I’d cither forget where I put them or find there wasn’t anybody for whom they would be appropriate as a Christmas gift, and in the sec- ond place I can’t get the Christ- mas feeling until about the sec ond of December. Then ■comes the first faint stirring of interest and I get out my pencil to make a list of names, Nothing but names, not an idea for any gift do I have to jot down for them. About December 10 I find I’ve lost the list and have to make another one, and maybe Aunt Martha would like a lunch cloth—or did I give her one last year? A week later I start prowling a- round a bit through the stores, after I finish buying the week’s groceries and before loading up with cow feed. My mind is a blank so far as ideas are con cerned, but I fondly hope that maybe I’ll see something which will help. I don’t, and I begin to get a bit nervous. After all, there’s only a week or two more, Next year, decide firmly, I real- ly will begn shopping early. About the 20th I go to Big Citv. determined to do whole thing up at once. I smashed in elevators, Sampled on bv every fat w-man with a shop ping hag and f’fteen bundles in the whole place, my feet hurt, my hat gets knocked over ope e-r and I iust leave it there, and at the end of an apparently end less day I limp homeward, p led to the eve brows with bags and bundles full of stiff that,, judg ing from th-> way I feel at that moment, nobodv could ever want rr use. and only rn idiot would bvy. I hate my fellow shoppers with a fierce vindictive loathing and nothing on earth seems so desirable to me as my old house slippers and a soft chair, plus the day after Chri-tmas. But th't old Christmas spirit keeps right on working. Next dav I open the bundles and dig cut the Christmas wrappings' and reals, decide things aren’t so bad after all, and hadn’t the Big Boss better start looking for a tree, and isn’t this a lovely vase for Aunt Nellie, just right for vipkts. and won’t the baby love that cute doll, and don’t you think I should go back to- morrow and get those spures we talked of for Bob, and if I hur ry I can get that apron for Mary. Then I start wrapping and ty-" ing and the floor is littered with gay paper and the packages look so pretty and tuck some away on the top shelf before the daughter comes in and slip an other in a drawer where I’m al I v *CHEER I Hearty and cheery And happy and true, An ever so fervent Merry Christinas to » ★ VERNONIA BAKERY ach E mas Vernonia Eagle Thursday, December 21, 1944 Of the 22 fatalities in Novem ber, six were pedestrians, seven were killed in two-car collisions, cne died in a motor vehicle train accident; two in fixed-cb- ject collisions and six in non collision accidents. For the first eleven months of the year, there were 215 traffic fatalities in the state, an increase HOLY NIGHT C hrist as it comes and goes proves anew that love is the only binding power of the world. In these dark days of late Decem ber when the bright ness of smiles make ample amends for lack of brightness overhead, we again send our most hearty Christmas Greetings. SQUARE DEAL GARAGE FROM US TO YOU! most sure the Big Boss won’t be looking, and so on untill the 23rd and the 24th come. The tree is' the loveliest we have ever had—it always is— and the lights are so gay and the presents heaped below it are so interesting that you can’t resist shaking or pinching them a little bit—well, just to see—and the house is filled with the rich, smell of baking cakes and cookies, the spicy odor of the tree, the salty, buttery aroma of popcorn, and there is confusion and laughter, hurried wrapping of last-minute gifts and frantic hunts for some that have been too-well hidden, and then at last THE GREAT MOMENT comes. We sit around like good children while the Big Boss puts on his glasses and turns slowly toward the heaps of lovely packages on and under the tree, lifts one and reads the name on the little gift card. That is the time I know I have never really grown up inside. I still have that little-girl feeling of eager anti cipation. I like Christmas. I like the fun and the laughter, the secrets and whispering, the planning and wrapping—in fact I like every » ; SILENT NIGHT Li r.TVwn : j a a i igei ■& The message cf gocd will ihaî emanated from Bethlehem 2,000 years ago not only transforms the world at Christmas but is the foundation of every honest trans action. We depend upon your good will;you depend upon ours. Your good will has been a price less asset to us during 1944 and Carry on the tradi tion that is America. Be thankful for the many bjessings God has bestowed upon us HERRIN’S GROCERY other years. We thank you for the confidence you have placed in us and wish you the manifold blessings of a happy Yuietide MILLER’S Department Store, VERNONIA soöotf ö Greetings To all our good friends everywhere we send our deepest best wishes—for the health and safety of loved ones; for the welfare of our great nation; for a speedy Victory and a pist peace JOY TO ALL BUY WAR BONDS A. L. KULLANDER Watchmaker HAT clatter out on the porch means Santa Claus ... or maybe it’s only Uncle Joe in his annual role of St Nicholas. T Yes, there IS a Santa Claus, and there will always BE a Santa Claus in the good old ILS.A. Jewe’er We wish for you and your family this season of 1944-45 American Christmas. a typical SEATTLE BREWING Since 1878 7 of about three percent over the toll of 208 deaths for the same period a year ago. Railroad crossing fatalities, the dark spot in the traffic picture th s year, total 23 for the first eleven months, compared to only five for the same period of 1943 This is an increase of 360 per cent. part of it but the shopping. May be there is something to this “shop early” business. Next year, I swear—but what’s the use— I know I won’t. |94d || » Traffic Deaths Up for 1944 Si c k , Pres
