6 Steps to On-the-Job I raining O File application (Form 1950) with nearest V. A. office. V. A. will process It and send you a Certificate of Eligibility. Q Pick the trade you want to learn and the firm where you wish to learn it. HACH/UliT? Q Not all firme are cn the "approved" list. Most V. A. offices maintain a list tor their area. Q When you enter training, give the firm v your Certificate of Eligibility to be endorsed and forwarded to —-t • CT @ V.A. will then enroll you to receive a I Q During subsistence cllowance, tcols and supplies training you may receive up to 1 $65 mo, if without dependents, or $90 mo, with dependents, plus your wages. '1 ¥ ¥ Continue to Save — The Smart Way / PREVENT FOREST Flu Causes Some Illness In Riverview, Other Sickness is Mentioned RIVERVIEW—Sorry to have so many names on our sick list. They are Mrs. Merle Cline who is having her first bout with Mr. Flu also attacked Lee White this week; Louis Huntley, who returned Saturday from Em­ manuel hospital with instructions to return in thirty days for fur­ ther examination; T. C. Biggs, who was forced to leave his job at the O-A mill due to a heart that acts up occasionally; and Mrs. Clarence Fowler and Mrs. O. Robbins who are “just too miser­ able to work.” Cheer up, folks. House guests at the Frank M ils home this week are Mrs. Cleone Woodruff and infant son, Ronnie. Mr. Woodruff brought them out from Portland Saturday and re­ turned home Sunday. Rex Normand made a combined pleasure arid business trip to Portland over the week end. Mrs. Ethel Johnson and son, Kenneth, of Tenino, Washington, spent Sunday at the home of her sister, Mrs. L. L. Wells. Sunday visitors at the Merle Cline home were Mrs. Cline’s mother, Mrs. Mabel Burnham, and her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meyer, and daughter, Polly. Foremost enter­ tainment of the p.m. was berry gathering. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heath and daughters left Friday for a motor trip to Spokane in a brand new car. Three cars carrying twenty passengers, struck the end of the trail at Searide Sunday, They were Sister Hatch, Sister Hender and Polly Lynch with the pupils of their Sunday school class of the Church of L.D.S. A picnic dinner on the beach was an en­ joyable affair and all took part in the beach games. THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. home is Mrs. Roper’s daughter, Mrs. Elaine Reid, recently arrived from California. Floyd Libel was a visitor at his parents’ home last week end. MIST—The oiling crew arrived Mrs. Chas. Hanson visited her last week. They are oiling the sister, Mrs. Tiderman, in, Jewell new piece of road from the cor­ Thursday morning going down ner by the garage down river 2$4 with another sister from Califor­ miles. nia who came for a visit. Laurence Jepson was a business Miss Olga Holmstrom was a St. Helens visitor last Saturday. visitor in Portland Monday after­ Minnie ‘Hughes was up from noon. Mr. and Mrs. Walter King (Ber­ Seaside and spent a couple of nice Dass) arrived at her home days during the week end. Mrs. Clark Fenton came from by plane last Saturday from New Silver »Lake, Washington, and vis­ York. ited relatives and friends last week. She returned to her home Friday. The Wm. Bridget's are paper­ ing and painting the interior of their home. John Aldridge is visiting his mother and aunt and uncle, Emma THRIFT STILL PAYS, Aldridge, and Mr. and Mrs. J. O. so it pays to try Libel. He lives at Bend. Fowler’s first! Miss Olga Holmstrom spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Aus­ tin Dowling. Anyone see a goat wandering around with a long rope attached ? It belongs to Geo. Jones on the Lookout. A guest at the Earl Roper Crew Oils Road Below Mist FOWLER’S New &> Use! Store Thinking of Borrowing? THINK FIRST OF THIS BANK. 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