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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1945)
Let’s Be Sociable Service Club Votes To Serve Dinners At the Vernonia Service club meeting held March 22nd, mem bers were offered the opportuni ty of serving the banquet for the Vernonia Booster club and they voted to do so, and if sat isfactory, to continue serving the dinners twice a month. At the March 22nd meeting details were also completed for the luncheon held yesterday, Wednesday, March 28. Another matter of business was the voting of $50 for the sttn room at Barnes hospital. This room is being furnished by the Columbia county division of the Red Cross. Club members will meet next Thursday, April 12 for an all-day session. Ownership. Rona Morris Workman Rocking W Ranch Vernonia, Oregon The other day I overheard the Big Boss telling someone that he owns the Rocking W Ranch. I laughed as I listened. That’s what he thinks, but I know bet ter. He doesn’t own this ranch. The ranch owns him. Of course it doesn’t have a little piece of paper tucked away in a safe de posit box saying that we belong to it and its heirs and assigns forever, but it owns us just the same. I know. I have belonged to it for three years now. Just let us try to get away from it on a trip, or even a shopping excursion to the Big City. It trots right along with us. We find ourselves wonder ing if the horses have pushed the gate down and Wre in the yard, or if the cows have taken advantage of our absence and decided to cat in a neighbor’s pasture. And of we want to stay and see a show the Ranch touches us gently on the should er and says, “But, my children, you won’t have time. You know you must do your chores. The chickens must be fed and the cows milked and there are the young calves, and Madam Gertie and you must remember that you can’t let the fattening pigs go hungry, if they are to do their share in the war effort.” We growl back, but nevertheless we hurry home in time to do those chores. And just let a neighbor ask the Big Boss to go steelhead fishing. “Sure. I’ll go,” chortles the B.B., and his eyes light up as he mentally checks over his fishing tackle and thinks of the fight he is going to have with THAT BIG FELLOW—the one that possesses the strange faculty of growing longer and more dif ficult to land for years after he is caught and eaten. Then the Ranch slips up and whispers, "Sorry, Bud, but you can’t go today. Have you forgotten that corral full of calves that have to be branded and ear-marlfed?” So the Big Boss says he’s sorry, but he just can’t go fishing to day, and the Ranch sits smirk ing on the top rail of the corral fence while he struggles with scared calves and gets kicked i.nd muddy and madder than any man has any right to get, and meanwhile, Mr. Nelson goes and catches the big steelhead. The Ranch has another cute little trick to show me, espec ially, just who is the real own er around here. When a nice little check comes in and I start looking at advertisements of be- utiful new suits, all in the lovely new shades that, are practically guarantied—according to the ad vertisement—to make one look young and fascinating, and now about a hat to go with it, and I’ve still got one ration stamp for shoes—then comes that darn hateful whisper: “Yes, I know, honey, that you really need a new Suit. You haven’t had -one for three years now, not since you came down here, and I’ll have to admit that you do look like something that came out of a missionary barrel, but you know that I really do need a coat of lime on the lower field if you plan to sow alfalfa, and ■ the fence around my south pas ture is getting frightfully shab by, so I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to put off getting the new suit just yet. I’m so terribly sorry.” So I slam down the al luring advertisements and start figuring the cost of fencing and of lime. It is always just that way. And yet, maybe after all, the Ranch isn’t too harsh an owner. I’d much rather be owned by a ranch than by a desk in some stuffy office, or a house on some noisy, crowded street. I know that the Ranch can't fire us, turn us out with no place to sleep, nor will it .let us go hungry or cold. We have food in plenty; the wind blows softly through the trees, the ground is deep and rich beneath our feet, the river slips quietly over smooth rocks in the summertime and over hanging branches trail green fingers in its cool water. There are many hours for fishing, for riding and long walks in the woods with their stillness and peace. There are long evenings after the chores are done when one may read and think while the wood from the Ranch dances in to flame and warmth and the wind and rain whispers around the house. Perhaps it isn’t a mat ter of ownership, but rather that we are in partnership together, the Ranch, the Big Boss and I. Each gives to the other, and, in th“ long run, we may find that the Ranch has given the most. Mist Helping Circle Members Conduct Their Meeting;Visit Ends MIST — The Mist Helping Circle met Thurs. at the home of Mrs. Bern Bliss. A lovely pot luck dinner was served at noon, GUARANTEED Watch Repairing W. T. JACOBS 941 1st Avenue, Vernonia Vernonia Eagle Thursday, March 29, 1945 after which business meeting was called to order by Pres? Carlock. Some little business was taken care of and a caretaker for the cemetery was discussed; two new members were voted in making <32 members; our new closing song w’as tried out; our next EXPERT Automobile Maintenance Work When you want a job done, and done right—bring it to Herb Sturdevant. Courteous Service Always! Rose Avenue Garage H. H. Sturdevant Get The MOST For Your Money In Our TEMPTING Easter Foods GRAVES* GROCERY WEALTH OF THE WEST... z Your popularity de pends upon the care you give your clothing! 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