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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1951)
r Old Man Refuses Loan of Gun... Mr. O. J. Sprague Binghamton, NY. Dear Friend?: To paraphrase a well known biblical quotation “greater love hath no man than he who offers to loan his gun to a friend.” That is, if he is sincere and has no malicious or ulterior motives, which I strongly suspect is the underlying incentive that prompts you to offer to loan me your gun. The sacrifice would be too great; the worry as to the treat ment your gun might receive at alien, though loving hands, would send your Dressure blood up above the danger noint. man W The Old M«" man. that j vr’d you. and as such On Th* Hill your affection for your gun is great and you would not. thus offer to loan it to a friend—let clone me, without an ace up your sleeve. NO mv scheming friend, even though the strings hang limp in the smoke-house and the lar- dar is low, even though Ma is scraping on the bottom of the flour barrel, I must decline your offer. THe lesson of the Greeks and his gifts is not lost on me. Disaster, swift and sure, would follow; even though your con science may b? bothering you— which I doubt I’m still taking no chances. If you were just stopping into Old Charons’ boat for your trip across the Styx and a bright idea should strike you as to how you might put a fast one across on me, you would scramble right out and tell ths old boatman to hold everything as vou had a little unfinished business to take care of. Nope, I’ll not risk it; even though I smack my chops at thoughts of all th» steaks on that buck that pets into my garden and eats my kale and rutabagas, not to mention scaring the day lights out of Bingo, still I must decline. Ev< n though I long to cuddle the butt of that rifle to my shoulder and line up the sights on that buck I have been feeding all summer, I still say NO. I’m playing it safe. You speak with pride of the kicking ability of your ‘Aunt Jenny’ shotgun, but the first gun I ever owned. I’m sure could outkick Aunt J?nnv at her best. I was 12 years old. living in a sod house in South Dakota when my dad gave me my first gun, a cow horn filled with powder, a leather Doucb of shot and told me to keep the table supplied. It was a muzzle loading musket and Oh! how it could and did i > ;eese to come over. Finally I saw a flock coming, flying low, as they did In those days. I ran in and got the mus ket and was standing behind the RIVERVIEW — Mr. and Mrs. house trying to make up my mind as to whether or not I W. F. MacDonald have purchased would dare shoot and run the the former George McDonald risk of being driven .into the home on Beaver Creek and are ground like a peg, when dad ran improving the house preparatory out and said “let your old father to moving there. Guests of the show you how to bring down a MacDonald’s from Friday until goose." I gave him the gun Sunday evening were Mr. and gladly and awaited results at a Mrs. Marvin Emerson of Port safe distance. The geese passed land and Mr. and Mrs. Fred directly overhead and dad let Schrecengost and son, Larry, of go. The old musket joyously Salem who helped with the paint- did its stuff. Not only did it at the new home. Sunday even knock dad on his rump but it ing guests of the MacDonalds kicked so hard it broke th? stock were Mr. and Mrs. J. A. May and drove a splinter half through and Mrs. MacLaughlan of El lensburg, Washington. his hand. Nate Huntley and sister Mrs. Dad had a very uncertain temoer and when he got through Mary Unroe of McMinnville spent Sunday at the Louis Hunt- with the old musket, its kicking days were over, its barrel bent ley home. to ? hoop over a lop. I ob Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Malm- served all this from the cornfield st<—i and family spent th? Fourth my place of refuge in times of peril, for I feared he might con outstanding as a kicker in nect the kick of the gun to the effete East, but it would heavy load I had put in. even be mentioned in the Your “Aunt Jenny” may be days in South Dakota. Home Purchased On Beaver Creek kick. It knocked me down about three out of four times I fired it. My greatest ambition was to shoot and still stay on my feet afterwards. One time I braced myself against an oak fence post and fired it. I never did that again. I loosened the “post, almost broke my shoulded and could not use my arm for a week. It would sometimes hold fire for a second or two and one time, when I thought it had missed fire, 1 had just taken it from my shoulder when it went off. It rammed the butt of the gun into my stomach like the kick of a mule and the breath went out of me like an exploding balloon. How long I lay in the grass try ing to get mv breath back I don’t know: I still think that old musket did it intentionally. But it finally kicked inself into a sudden and dramatic end. I had put in an extra heaw load of buckshot for gees?. It had stood in a corner for a day or so while I waited for a flock of Libby — Fruit ENJOY THIS GREAT STRAIGHT / famous for OLD TIME QUALITY! "The Bourbon Buy of the Century STRAIGHT IOUIION WHISKEY* *1 PROOF NATIONAL DISTILLERS HOD. COIP., N.Y. Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher Official Newspaper of Vernonia. Oregon Entered as second class mail matter. August 4. 1922 at the post office in Vernonia. Oregon under the act of March 3. 1879 Subscription price. $2.50 vearlv I A difference in the way the world looks at you ... A difference in the way yee look at the world! Bring A to us today for the eery beNt >n cleaning. Vernonia Cleaners Make sure your cigarette is out — KEEP OREGON CREEN. It s Packed in Brine 2 y 45« 3-lb Lipion's Froslee DeMr 2 Apricots The parade of "hits” you’ll find at Safeway this week can help keep your food costs sweet and low. It will pay you to pick your favorite selections from the numbers listed here and shuffle off to Safeway. Booth brand unpeeled halves—No. I can Guaranteed Meat Values Swiss Steak fohÄade ib. $1.06 Glenn-Aire Segments—No. 303 can Grape-Ade 29« Hi-C brand Delicious chilled—Bic 46-oz. can Values in«Delicious DUDE RANCH PINEAPPLE JELLIES IN MUGS Libby Tidbits Strawberry Apple 25« CRUSHED Libby'» No. 2 can 25 C Del Monte 2 buffet cans 25 C 15-oz. 37c Red Currant ib. Pork Sausage S£try ib. 55c Spare Ribs Lean POrk ib. 55c Lunch Meats Ninety ib. 59c Skinless Wieners ib. 65c 15-oz. 37c FILLET OF COD lb. 45c FILLET OF SOLE lb 57c HALIBUT STEAKS lb 69c SALMON STEAKS lb 79c Saleway Garden-Fresh Produce Apricots Bananas Peaches Northwest crop 12-lb. Perfect for Flat canning ORANGES 5-lb. bag 39c Golden ripe, blemish-free Early Elbeitas and Red Havens from California lb. 19c GREEN ONIONS lb. CANTALOUPES 8c Full of Flavor bunch 5c RED RADISHES 2-bu. for 15c ZUCCHINI SQUASH Ib. 15c SEEDLESS GRAPES lb. 29c lb. 15c LEMONS lb 25c TOMATOES Sun ripened Heavy with juice lb. 4’c WATERMELON DRY ONIONS Ib. 15c CUCUMBERS Crisp and Cool POTATOES Economy pk. 10-lb. 59c 2-lb». 15c Yellow Real ripe LETTUCE lb. 15c Bright Gre:n Leaves GOLDEN CORN On ths cob 65c VALUES FOR YOU IN SAFEWAY FISH 15-oz. 37c Concord Grape Ground BeefFresh daily Valencias The Vernonia Eagle CLEAN SUIT MAKES TUNA FISH Royal Satin Shortening 2 4 WHAT A GLORIOUS DIFFERENCE A Fancy Solid Pack COCKTAIL Just like the GOOD OLD DATS! at Spirit Lake, Washington. Mrs. Olof Jacobson’s daughter, Mrs. Alice Tock, son Laurel Whittwer and a friend, Dwight Parkons, drove down from Wen- achee Saturday taking Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson home with them for a few days visit. Fney re turned home Wednesday by bus. The two little Stubblefield boys of Tillamook spent a week at the home of their aunt, Mrs. Louis Huntley, while their broth er, Jim Williamson. was in the Jones hospital at Hillsboro. Their mother staved at the hos pital with her elder son during his stay there. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lindsley and son. Kenneth, and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Hunt and son, Den ny, spent a couple of days visit ing Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hib- ler and Mr. .and Mrs. J^ Lind sley at Springfield. Broadmindedness is just mindedness—which has beer» M tened by experience. SAFEWAY values will be Grapefruit I VERNONIA, ORE. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 195Y « THE EAGLE, lb. 19c MARGARINE Sunnybank lb. 34c, 2-lb. 67c MARGARINE Delrich, E-Z Color lb. pkg. 38c MARGARINE 1-lb. pkg. 33c Dalewcod FRESH BUTTER Spring House lb. 83c Sweet cream GRADE A’ LARGE EGGS Candled doz. 73c Breakfast Gems WHIPPING CREAM Sweet and fresh, half pt. 34c NOB HILL COFFEE 2-lb. bag $1.71 1-lb. bag 86c AIRWAY COFFEE 2-lb. bag $1.65 1-lb. bag 83c EDW ARDS COFFEE 2-lb. can $1.81 1-lb. can 9ic PEANUT BUTTER Peter Pan 12-oz. jar 35c STRAINED HONEY Bradshaw 3 Bears 24-oz. jar 45c MAYONNAISE Nu Made Flavor Whipped pint 82c BEEF FANCY CHUCK BOASTS SMOKED HAMS Arm or Blade Half or Whole -73* -63* SMOKED PICNICS Short cut shank lb. He ■*- SLICED BACON fancy KQ Stand, pic. lb. 49c lb.***^* FANCY FRYERS Ready for the pan FRYER TURKEYS Fancy eviscerated .„73 PASTRIES Ruth Ashbrook ea. varieties SODA CRACKERS Busy Bakers, crisp 2-IF j . CHEESE FOOD Breeze, mild cheese 2-lb. SALAD OIL Mayday For cooking too qt. LIQUID STARCH Fauntleroy For speedy starching qt. 30c 57c 94c 68c 20c CLOTHES BLEACH White Magic h gal. jug 29c POWDERED BLEACH Vano’s new bleach 16-oz. pkg. 39c FRISK IE DOG FOOD For a hungry dog ECONOMICAL CANNED MEATS SNACK PREM 12-oz. 12-oz. 43c RATH’S 12-oz. 43c Prices in this ad are effective through Saturday, SAFEWAY
