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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1946)
6 THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1945 About Nothing Of Importance RONA MORRIS WORKMAN ROCKING W RANCH VERNONIA, ORE. I am sure that in the far be ginning of time upon this earth I must have been an earthworm or perhaps a sleek furry litt'e mole, because I do so enjoy the feel of fresh earth. I like to dig in dark rich soil, and when the first scft warm day comes in spring, I want to rush out of the house and start spading. The Big NEED A NEW SIDEWALK? Get a free estimate of the work now. Also carpenter work by the job or hour. ALL WORK GUARANTEED E. M. YORK I CONTRACTOR & BUILDER 108 A St. jo Traintng-Wi/rtst Travet 7eZ Faid White Vau learn How would you like to step into a job that gives you good pay ... gives you an opportunity to study one or more of 200 skills and trades,includ ing such advanced sciences as avia tion, radar, television, electronics, radio, jet propulsion, atomic science ... permits you to travel to the far corners of the world ... gives you 30 days’ vacation with pay a year? • A 3-year enlistment in the Regu lar Army means that you can choose your arm or branch of service’at id your overseas theater. It means thorough training in the skill of your choice. And it means that, under the GI Bill of Rights, if you enlist for 3 years, you may have 48 months of college, or business or trade school education, with tuition up to $500 per ordinary school year paid and $65 a month living allow ance ($90 if you arc married) paid by the Government. THE EAGLE, IVERNONIA, ORE. Boss—perhaps never having been an eaahworm—tells me firmly that the soil is still t o wet for working and that I will have nothing to show for my labor but a bed cf clods. Sometimes, being a reasonably obedient wife, I wait, but more frequently the u-ge is too strcng and I puddle blithely about in the dirt, get ting all gummed up with mud, and wet and cold, but I am quite unconcerned, because I have the feel of the soil again. Seme folks have a “green thumb” and every thing grows for them, even house plants. Ap parently I do not possess that magic. I read of red geraniums on a window sill and think what a pretty picture it is, but when I try to have them on my own window sill I forget the silly things and soon they begin to look like refugees frcm a con centration camp and a reproach to my conscience. I did have a sweet potato vine once that climbed all over the kitchen win dow. However, it was practically fool-proof and even my lack cf care couldn’t stunt it’s prolific growth. Bet the grow'ng things out of doors fill me with del:ght. There is a joy when the first rose-red point cf a peony pushes through the earth, or the soft pale fin gers of my bleedinghearts reach for the light, and when the gold en cups of daffodils spill sun shine into a gray rain-swept day, I go about with a wordless little song in my heart. Have you ever noticed 'new many of the earliest spring flowers are yel low and blue? It is as if nature offers us a preview of sunshine and blue sky to keep us patient until the rain is past. Always, no matter whether in logging camp or city, the Big Eoss and I have planted things— shrubs and roses and a bit of garden and hopefully set out a fruit tree or two. But never have I lived more than a few years in one place, never quite long enough to sit under my own “vine and fig tree,” yet I do not mind that too greatly, for we left a touch of beauty, of clved growth, wherever we have been and per haps others here loved and cared for the things we planted. Some times, ot' course, they do not. Send your Laundry & Dry Cleaning W0R10 TMVFl/ couece encATrtH! to Portland’s most mo dern plant. Two •pick ups and deliveries weekly at Vernonia at your home or our local agent— BEN BRICKEL’S BARBER SHOP INVESTIGATE TODAY! NO OBLIGATION OREGON Laundry Match thi, against other opportunities open to you today. It', one you can't nffortl to miss! Get al! the facts at your nearest Army Recruiting Station. I recall the sharp pang I had when, driving by my former home in Fore.-. Grove, I. «aw tf at th • pecple who bought the place from us l ad cut down the cedr.s decdur:.. It was like the untimely demise of a loved friend. I had planted it, a slender young tree, and it had. before I left, grown into tately giacious beauty in front of the wide living-roc m window. I had loved the seclu sion it gave, but the new owners wanted to see folks going by, so they cut it down. O’ well, each one to his cwn idea. The Big Boss says that if I would quit moving things around they would gr.w better. Of course he is perfectly right. He so frequently is, to my great an noyance, but when sipring comes I trot about making new arrange ments. The dark blue delphini ums need the pink climbng rcse for a background, and the thick green vine by the woodshed cries aloud for a flaming clump cf orange day-lilies t keep it com pany. The gray Stones of the terrace wall need more dark- red peonies to touch them with rich cclor and the white-washed dollhouse, where the gulden Banty rooster and his harem lives, needs a rose vine as well aa a silverlace. Perhaps, if I stay long enough at the Recking W, I shall have everything ar ranged to my satisfaction and let them rest and grow, but I rather doubt it. Changing is too much fun. I get tired of the same old pattern. Most women, I think, are a bit that way. Men are more conservative. They wear the same type cf clothes and bats, hold :n to the same an cient political ideas and howl to high heaven if you move their favmite chair to mother corner. Eut women are always willing to try something new. If it doesn’t work out, they throw it into the junk heap and try some thing else. I sometimes think if it were not for this trait in thp females of the Tace, men would still be squatting over a smoky fire in a cave and bath ing the heads of their neighbors with a knotty club. The poor things have been compelled to learn new tricks in order to keep ip with their wives. It was the only way to live in peace with the changeable wenches. Of course, Miey take all the cred't for any new thing that turns out well, but women, being wise, only ¡mile and let them swagger and boast. After all, woman gets what she wants, it doesn’t matter to her who gets the apnlause. As the old saying gees, “There are more ways than one to make a cat jump,” and I have an idea that through the centuries women have learned most of them. • a At the Churches ASSEMBLY OF GOD —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morping worship. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30 —Wednesday, prayer meet ing. 7:30 — Friday, Bible study. FIRST CHRISTIAN t45—Bible School led by M. L. Herrin. 1:00— Junior church, Bernice Tunnell, Sup’t. 1:00—Morning communion ser vice. 7:30 Wed.—Prayer meeting. LATTER DAY SAINTS Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und er the direction of Charles Long, Branch President. Polly H. Lynch, Superintendent. 7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. J. H. Goodrich Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first Sunday in month—Mass at 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. EVANGELICAL —Rev. Allen II. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sunday school. 11:00 — Morn ing worship. Endeavor and Evangelical Youth Fellowship. 7:30 p.m. — Evangelistic service. 7:30 Thursday—Bible study and prayer. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devo tional service. Sermon by district leader— First Saturday of each month. A cordial invitation is extended to visitors. NAZARENE CHAPEL Services each evening through the week at 7:30. Evangelist Coryell telling his life story Friday evening from lum ber woods to pulpit. 10 a.m. Sunday—Sunday school. Message following. 7:30 p.m. Sunday — Message. Public invited. Outside music this week. (Reg ular pastor wil sono be here.) The gauge is breakable and should be well padded and wrapped in a tin can or card board box, and name and address attached directly to the back of the gauge with tape, not muci lage. A piece of cardboard acres the face is desirable. The cost way to detach the gauge from the cooker is with a flat wrench. Pliers may damage metal. This test’ng peri: d is limited '.his year to the period from April 1 to April 30, and gauges sent in after that time cannot be test ed. Gauge Testing Service Told Safe caning of meats, fish and non-acid vegetables require a pressure cooker with an accurate pressure gauge. If your pressure cooker gauge has not been tested for two years or more, says Mrs. Maud C. Casswell, home demon stration agent at St. Helens, send or bring it to her office by April 25. The food technology department of Oregon State col lege will test your gauge during the month of April only. The charge is 50c which includes re turn postage. Send gauges with money either to your home dem onstration agent or directly to Mr. E. H. Wiegand, food tech nology department, Oregon State college, Corvallie, Ore. we have the new PLYMOUTH on display! we’re taking orders! Greenwood Motors Vernonia Phone 1121 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. ’ 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. Oregon-American LUMBER CORPORATION Vernonia, Oregon Is a treat for every member cf the family—ahd its highly ATTENTION! nutritious too. The Cozy Bus Depot Ph. 582 FISHING FOR EAPGAINS? DROP YOUR LINE IN THE CLASSIFIED COLUMN. ► BASKET SOCIAL AND DANCE Legion Hall • Friday, April 5 LADiES BRING BASKETS AUCTION STARTS AT 9 P.M. Sprn'-ored by Vernonia Aerie 2324 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES and Dry Cleaners Everybody Welcome Longview, Wash. U. S. Po.t Office Bldg. i æ ; £ . a 1 £ 3 Ì £ i X . $ I > £ II. 3 1 £ 1 i ’ . ' I i, SUPERIOR ! PRINTED PRODUCTS InL on paper •—* ♦ in combinations to signify exactly what you wish to be conveyed. A message, a greeting or a record is not complete unless it bears the unmistakable characteristics achieved by EAGLE Yes, spring is here officially and so is the time to spruce up every meal for the changing tempo of the season by placing the new sea son’s foods before your family. Let King’s be your servant in supplying these needs. composition. THE VERNONIA EAGLE KING’S Grocery - Market “Where Your Money Buys More’’ At the Mile Bridge Phone 91 Riverview n n n r n ~ r n r n n n n n ~ R mil ■■■■■■ IE min
