6 THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 19*6 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
'With a Few
In terruptions’
KONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
This is groins to be short. The
reason is based on a chubby five-
month-old chunk of laughter,
tears, funny sound-attempts and
more energy per inch than any
other living thing You see, I
have a baby in the house. Years
ago my own mother gave me
brief holidays of rest by taking
care of my babies occasionally.
I cannot repay my debt to her, so
I pass it along to my own daugh­
ter, and thi» for three days I
have been playing foster-mother
to a little grancfeon. And have
I been having fun!! If the long
mirror in the living-room did not,
as I flash past lit, show that my
hair is gray instead of brown,
and -that I have angles where
there used to l>e curves, I would
think that the past twenty-five
years are only a dream and that
I am young again with my own
babies.
Babies are always the same.
Methods of feeding and care
change (and undoubtedly for the
better) but babies themselves re­
main the same. When they get
hungry they yell—and how—and
no amount of reasoning will con­
vince them that, according to
schedule, they should not be hun­
gry for another half hour. And
they still go into a “trance” while
you are stuffing them with their
milsh and vegietables and have to
be poked gently to recall them
to the business on hand. They
continue to regard a spoon as an
entirely unnecessary implement :A>r
putting in food, and they still
dribble and drip as you stuff
them. Furthermore, if you don’t
diligently scrape the overflow
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from their china they will prompt­
ly proceed to use it as face-cream
and hair-tonic. (Pardon me. I
take time out to remove the eat
from young Michael’s predatory
clutch. The unwary feline walked
too close and was promptly
grabbed by a front leg and an
ear and is now in the process of
being devoured Just why do ba­
bies reason that everything is
edible? Is it the age-old instinct
of combatting hunger by every
method known ?)
As I was saying—no, pardon
me once more. He has just poked
the handle of the potato masher
(which I gave him to play with),
so far down his throat that his
eyes bulge and he can’t seem to
understand what is choking him.
Well, as I was saying—-never
mind. I’ve forgotted what it was.
When I acquired Michael last
Saturday, complete with canned
foods, diapers, and a feeding
schedule, I surveyed the lot with
some trepidation for it has been
many years since I had complete
care of a young baby. I thought
they must have changed, become
as modern as the food they eat,
but a few hours convinced me
that I need have no fear. All
that I had learned from painful
experience many years ago still
remained a sound working knowl­
edge. Babies still eat and sleep
and howl, and like an unfailing
spring, they never go dry, and
they still prefer a bright tin pie­
plate and a potato, masher or a
big spoon to beat upon it, to all
their expensive toys and fan­
dangles made to catch a baby’s
eye, and they take every minute
of your time. Asleep or awake,
you have to be always on the job,
mentally and physically. (Oops,
he has the Cat again. Heaven
help me, that cat is a glutton for
punishment, but if I put him out­
side, then Michael will yell, so
I leave him to his fate. I never
heard of a baby really eating a
live cat, so perhaps this one is
reasonably safe.)
Fortunately I don’t have to
worry about the dogs. Reddie
comes in, looks at the baby with
a bored air, and retires to a re­
mote spot. Sheppie attempts to
ignore his existence, and when
you try to get him to notice Mi­
chael he gets the silly, embar­
rassed expression that bachelors
acquire when some fond mother
dumps her young pledge of af­
fection into their arms and says
“Isn’t he sweet” and they haven’t
the slightest idea of how to hold
the thing nor what to say to it.
Shep, being a dog, is more for­
tunate than they for he doesn’t
feel he has to be polite, so he
promptly pleads an important en­
gagement with a cow or some­
thing and departs with more
speed than dignity. (Oh, lordie,
now “Mike” has fallen over, pull­
ing the floor quilt over his head
and is apparently smothering to
death.) It’s no use. You’ll just
have to wait until I quit being
a mother. Taking care of a baby
is—as it has always been—a full
time job. I’ll be seein’ you later.
PI Premiums
Total $75,000
Premiums totaling $76,000 will
be awarded exhibitors at the Pa­
cific International Livestock Ex­
position, October 6-12, according
to a premium Lst published and
available to the public, it was an­
nounced by Walter A. Holt, gen­
eral manager of the live s.tock
show.
Prize awards at this year's Pa­
cific International are the largest
in 36 years the show has been
operating. This year’s premium
list is 1214 per cent greater in
value than in any previous year,
Holt announced. In addition to
$75,000 stock prize awards, $15,-
000 has been set up for Horse
Show prizes.
Copies of the preliminary classi­
fications and premium list, a 60-
page paper bound booklet, are
available to all exhibitors and
other interested parties. Requests
should be made to the Pacific
International L vestock Exposi­
tion office, Wilcox Building, Port­
land, Oregon.
Entries for the show must be
posted at the Portland office on
or before September 20, 1946,
Holt announced. Horse show en­
tries are limited to September 16.
Entries received after that time
will of necessity have to be re­
turned, he stated.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McKee
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Fowler
spent the week end in Portland and sons, Delbert and Larry
and enjoyed several hours at the spent Sunday driving to Kelso
Washington park zoo.
where they spent the night with
Mr. and Mrs Middleton Craw­ Mrs. Fowler’s brother, Carl Biggs,
RIVERVIEW — Improvements ford and son, Dennis, and Mr. and
noted: A. F. Shalock had the Mrs. Weston Pemble spent the and family. They returned Mon­
Logan bulldozer at work on his week end at the T. M. Crawford day.
Mrs. Franklin Worley was in
berry ranch most of the week; ranch with Mrs. Elizabeth Brown.
Our new Journal carrier is Portland Thursday for a check-up
two good wells have been dug,
one on the Bledsoe property George Davis, a former carrier on her recent operation which
where Mr. Bledsoe was assisted in who took up the job again Sept. was satisfactory but was advised
the work by Mr. Falconbury using I, when the Normands decided to consult a specialist in regard
the windless method and the other to retire due to the opening of to her back which is causing her
much trouble at this time.
on the Everett Johnson place school.
Sunday dinner guests at the
where Mr. Johnson drove pipe and
drilled by hand to a depth of 19 J. A. Wirtz home were Mr. and
feet getting 12 feet of water; W. Mrs. Chas. Beacom of Vemonia
D. Steele’s residence has received who report the sale of their home
three coats of white paint, Mr. on Corey Hill to Mr. and Mr3.
Brush or Spray
Frank of Vernonia doling the work Luigi Critelli of S.W. Vernonia
Outside painting our
by the brush method; Glen Hawk­ and the purchase of a new home
Specialty
ins is having his residence sprayed for themseves at Newberg whicn
FREE ESTIMATE
with white paint and it will have they plan to occupy about the
Let u> Beautify Your Home.
a narrow red trim; Oscar Steele is middle of the month.
Walter Moore harvested his
just completing a big plumbing
job; a cement floor was poured garlic crop this week. He is
Contractor
for a fruit room at the Ed Buck­ well pleased with the result of
ner home early in the week; the his experiment
addition to Desey’s tavern is
grow.ng rapidly; a new residence
. . . this Chevron sign
is under construction on the
marks the station where
Owens place; and a large number
you get that pep-produc­
of our homes are undergoing re­
modeling and redecorating.
ing gas. It’ll do wonders
Patsy Jean Gibson accompanied
for your car.
Mr. and Mrs. Clare Sunnell and
ROSE AVE. GARAGE
Bob to the Astoria fish derby
Sunday. First prize was award­
H. H. Sturdevant
ed to a cousin of the SunnelLs.
Better Home
Changes Noted
PAINTING
E. P. FRANK
Gasoline Prices!
The Sunnyside Service Station will continue to
sell gasoline at the old prices of 22c and 24c
per gallon.
Try the Best at Preinflation Prices
IJ Official Berry Receiving Station
ä
Apply early for crates. Berry pickers will re­
ceive a substantial increase in prices over last
year.
Imperial Feed and Grain
Don t Forget- -
We give Valuable
Stamps
Green
SUNNYSIDE SERVICE & FEED
Phone 887
Near Treharne
NLY in the United States is the first Monday in September
officially regarded as Labor Day. In the year 1894 Congress
passed a bill making that day a legal holiday and for fifty-two
years Labor Day has been participated in by all the people of the
nation and, except during war time, observed by the closing of
factories and stores. It is in keeping with the American tradition
that this should be so. It has never been a part of the American
character to glorify the idler — it is to workers that the nation’s
respect and honor are given. On this fifty-second anniversary of
Labor Day, the men and women of labor can look back with right­
ful pride on their achievements in both war and peace. Through’
their skills and strengths America has been built — and in time of
peril preserved. The nation joins with Labor in celebrating this Day.
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Sicks’ Seattle Brewing & Malting Co.
F. G. Sick, President