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Imperial Valley press., 1907-09-07
Back to Stay

H. c. Wolfsen, accompanied
 by four of his children, arrived in Fl Centro Sunday night. MT.
 Wolfsen has been here three or four times in the last two months, but he is here to stay this time. The valley fever has got hold of him, and runs as high as 1O4. He is not in danger how ever, for 320 acres of fine land in No. ' helps as a tonic. He has leased the Roman dairy ranch,
 8 miles southeast of Holtville and will make the Eastside his
Imperial Valley press., 1907-09-07
At San Diego

District Attorney Eshelman was in San Diego the first of the week on business pertaining tC Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1907-09-07
Has Been Busy

I1aS been busy
 H. c. Wolfsen, the district or ganizer of the Woodmen of the World who recently organized a Camp of that order in El Centro, instituted a thrifty little Camp at Cotton Cal. last night. The Camp starts out with a charter membership of thirty-five and in- dications are good for splendid Camp. Mir. Wolfsen has met with unusual success as an or ganizer since his connection with the Woodmen and it is with re- gret that we are informed that his interests in the Imperial Val ley are going to take up his time to such an extent that he will be compelled to dOop the general work, although rumor has it, that he will be given charge of the interest of the order in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1907-09-07

future home. Mir. Wolfsen will also have charge of the w. o. w. affairs for Imperial county, and will be the county organizer.
Imperial Valley press., 1907-09-07
Locate in No. !

No. 2 water district has lately proved popular place for new locations. Recent locations were made there by Prof. P. l.. Evans, w. c. Burns, B. G. John son, A. J. Leonard and R. A. FairchiId, all of Redlands.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
PROTECT VALUABLE PAPERS

For the protection of valuable docu-
ments, papers and other articles to be
preserved, there will be installed in the
different offices of the court house steel
fre-proof filing cabinets. This matter
has been decided by the Levy Court and
Tuesday plans and specifications were
submitted to that body by W. A. Schenck,
a Washington engineer and architect.
Bids will be asked for in short time,
and no delay will be made in placing the
many valuable documents beyond the
possibility of destruction.
The installation of these cabinets was
possibly hasteued by the slight fire which
occurred in the court house some time
ago. Had it not been for the timely dis
covery of the blaze the building might
have been badly damaged. Immediately
the Levy Court took up the matter. c.
Candy Hopkins, chairman of the public
building committee, together with Com
missioner Harry A, Brown have been
working on it. Mr.. Sehenck, who has
drawn plans for some of the largest
propositions of this kind in the country
was communicated with and has submit
ted his plans, which meet with the ap-
provai of the commissioners. Big steel
concerns of the country will be asked for
bids upon the work, and it is likely all
told that the installation of these cabi-
nets will cost in the neighborhood of $l2,-
900.
At first it was thought that complete
fre-proof furniture and doors would be
placed down stairs in the court house,
but this part of the improvements will
be considered after the cabinets have
been completed. Steel doors opening
upon the corridor and steel desks have
been suggested and may later he placed
in the different offices, but there will be
a feeling of uneasiness until the papers
are secured by the Innovation now COL
templated.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
HE WANTS 4 WIFE

Charles w. White, a prosperous farmer,
who lives about two miles from Newark,
wants wife who is not scrapper, and to
that end he has advertised for one.
White, who is At years old, was d.
voTced from his wife seven years ago, and
their failure to get along is evidently re-
sponsible for the mo scrapper" clause in
his advertisement. White also wants a
small wife and one who will assist him in
''pulling in the dollars"
He inserted this advertisement in a
Philadelphia paper Sunday.
WANTED, A WIFE-WANTED, BY A
gentleman, AZ years Of age, a farmer,
sound and vigorous, FIVE fept eight and a
half inches tall, weight 158 pounds, dark
complexion, absolutely alone, sober. never
used tobacco, Of good family, Of strictly
moral habits, possessing a will Of iron
and an a<hy temper, little woman for a
wife, who is willing to try and make me
happy aud assist me in pulling in the dol
lars. She must be of gooi IN ,rai ciIarsc er
and have fair education; no chronic
scrapper need answer this advertisement
mean business to the right woman.
Charles w. White, Newark, Del, Route
3, Box 2.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
RIVER WORK

After having been suspended since De-
cember last the work of dredging the 80
foot channel in the Delaware River was
resumed Tuesday by the American Dredg-
ing Co., and the Maryland Dredging Co.
Major ]. G. Stanford, United States engi-
neer in charge of the work, said Monday,
that the dredging would be finished as
rapidly as possible, now that the break
ing up of the ice foes in the Delaware
River cause no further delay.
There are about 125, 900 cubic yards of
material yet to be dredged by the Ameri-
can Company above Wilmington, while
the Maryland Co., has about 500, GOO cubic
yards to excavate near Deepwater Point.
Sanford & Brooks Company will dredge
about 100000 cubic yards at Bulkhead
Bar. The government suction dredge,
now working in the Ambrose channel in
New York, will soon return here to rer
sumo operations.
While the amendment to the Rivers
and Harbors bill, adopted in the United
States Senate providing for survey for a
35-foot channel, was not accepted i'll con-
ference and therefore failed, those COM
mercial interests that are working to OBJ
tain the survey have not by any means
given up hope The Philadelphia City
Councils have appropriated $4,000 to-
wards securing the desired survey, and
Director of Public Works Hathaway will
probably consult Major Sanford this week
as to the feasibility OF tue project.
The Maryland Co. s equipment, now at
New Castle, will not start out until the
latter part Of the week
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
TAX-FREE AREAS

As an inducement for Iowa farmers to
set out aud cultivate fruit and forest trees
the last general assembly passed law
providing for tax exemption on such
tracts OH which trees have been planted :
In order to receive the benefit OF this
law the forest reservations must contain
not fewer than 200 trees to the acre, and
fruit tree reservations not fewer than 70
to the acre. Groves may also be coisid-
cred when used as border, shade or as
projections to orchards.
The assessors Of Iowa for the first time
will this spring secure all the forest and
fruit reservations and return the same TO
the county auditor, who will report to
the Secretary OF the State Horticultural
Society. Owners Of such reservations will
be obliged to pay tax on only one dollar
assessed value an acre.-C Clinton Herald
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
THE HUMAN BRAIN
It Neither Originates Word Nor Forms
Notion


Those physiological and surgical fac s
which show that brain matter has itself
no capacity for thought are OF such recent
| discovery that only relatively small
number of persons-mostly specialists
have the least idea that the brain neither
originates a word nor forms notion.
Anatomy and physiology alike indicate
that the brain is never other than the in
strument of what-in the present state of
science-must be called the personality"
The personality is as different from, as
separate from, the brain as the violinist
is separate from his violin. 1t is not
brain which makes man. Man makes
one of his brain henlispheres human by
his own labor II a human personality
entered Young chimpanzee's brain
where, by the way, it would find all the
required cerebral consolutions-tha ape
could then grow into a true inventor or
philosopher, for it is the great man who
makes the great brain and not the great
brain which makes the great man. This
is another way of Saying that We can make
our own brains-so far as special func-
tions Or aptitudes are concerned. Human
brain matter does not become human in
it's powers, indeed, until the personality
within takes it in hand to fashion it.
What is the che himself'' which thus
takes the mechanism known as the brain
and uses it for thought purpose as teIe.
grapher would use a ticker and a series of
wires for the transmission of messages?
In the present state of anatomy and OF
pathology, replies DR.. Thomson, in effect,
we have here the greatest mystery con-
nected with the conscious personality
or whatever one pleases to call it-has a
material organ to think with. The con-
scious personality does the thinking
The material organ is the instrument of
thought and that material organ exists in
two symmetrical halves. 1t is only one
half of this organ, however, which can
be used for speech or for recognizing or
knowing anything which is either seen
or heard or touched-in the sense of the
touch which is educated.
All acquired human endowments there
fore are acquired by modifca ton of the
material comprising the speaking half of
the brain. This speaking half of the
brain did not originally have single one
of these functions, not a single place in |
it for them, any more than its fellow hem
isphere has to the end of its life. They |
are all stamped, as it were, each in its re-
spectiye place in the speaking hem
isphere, by single creative agency. All |
words and all knowledge are put in the |
brain and arranged there for use, like SO
many books on their brain shelves by the |
brains librarian. Where he goes when |
he locks this library up and leaves for the
night-in sleep-we do not know. But
one thing is certain not one of the books |
made itself or put itself where it properly |
is.-Currem Literature.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS
j. H. Nutter Again Named as Presiding
Elder of Wilmington District


At the close of the forty-fourth annual
session Of the Delaware nj. E. Con-
ference in the Ferry Avenue M. E. Church
Camden, n J., Monday night, Bishop
Goodsell announced the appointments.
The changes in the various districts fol-
low:
Cambridge Misunderstanding Elder,
J. R. Brown, Milford, DEL; Airyes, G. T.
Townsend; Beckwitl, 6. R. Hollis; Cam
bridge Circuit, ]. L. Parker; Church
Creek. Jose Angelo; Crepo, J. D. Paine;
East New Market, NJ. H. HorsPy; Feder-
aIsburg, c. w. Moore; Hurlock, J. w.
Bowling; Preston, ]. w. Jewett; Centre
Vile District, Presiding Eder, N. W.
Moore; Centreyille, Md; Carmichael, c.
]. Hall; CentrevlIle Circuit, J. W. W.
Cox; Easton, c. W. FULLEST; Easton Cir
cult, j. T. Waters; Oxford, Fl. G. john
son; Ridgely, J. H. Blake; Salisbury Dis
trict, Presiding Elder, P. O'ConnelI, Sails
bury, Md; Box Iron, P. w. Price; Deals
Island, P. 7. Scott; Fairmount, A. L.
Henry; Greenwood, R. H. BoggS; Oak
Hall, S. 7. Parker; Pocomoke City, M. L.
McKenty; Princess Anne, w. E. Waters;
Salisbury, John Wesley Church, c. s.
sprigg; Whites Chapel, Moses 2. Sterling;
Snow Hill, L. w. Deakins; Wetipquin,
William Johns; Wilmington District, Pre-
siding Elder, J. Ii. Natter, Middletown:
Catlin, Marin Clark; Delaware City, c.
A. Norwood: Galena, J. w. Jefferson;
]. N. King; Port Deposit, J.
II. B. Hubbard; Smyrna, William :.
Johns.
The next annual session will be held in
Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
THE GIRL ON THE FARM

/ met her in the Springtime
When glow suffnsed the sky;-
0. the softness Of that spiendnr
Was as tender
As the luster Of her eye.
The morning dew was sparkling
As stars shine out in space;
But brighter than this cleaning
Was the beaming
OF the beauty Of her face.
The lilies bowed and whispered
As took her geLte hand:
But softer was my whisper
As ! kissed her,
For twas heavens border land.
The golden shades Of sunset
Softly rest upon us now,
And the glow of the Eternal
Is supernal
As it crests her sacred brow.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
An Exciting Town Election

The town election of Harrington was a
holly contested affair and 270 votes were
polled. R. D. Short, John P Masten, J.
Wilbur Powell, w. G. Wright and o. T.
Franklin were elected on the ticket
pledged to improve the streets and compel
property owners to lay new pavements.
The board organized by making Mr.. Short
chairman and it now looks as if Harring-
ton would awake to a new era,
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
Cures Blood, Skin Diseases, Cancer Greatest
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hot or full of humor, if you have blood
poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores,
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Co., Atlanta, Ga. B. B. B. is especially
advised for chronic, deep seated cases. as
it cures after all else fails.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
Some Timely Advice

A word to you sonny-you little twelve
or thirteen-year old boy who is smoking
cigarettes OH the sly. What do you want
to be when you grow up-a stalwart,
healthy, vigorous, broad d-shouldered man,
or little puny, measty, no count weak
minded dude? II you want to be man,
strong like man, with hair on your face,
brains in your head and muscles in your
limbs, yon Just let those cigarettes alone.
Il you want to be .hlng, pitied by your
folks, despised BY the girls and held in
contempt by the fellows. keep right on
smoking and end your days in an insane
asylum.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23

There is pretty disturbance now over
the Reclamation Services, and charges of
fraud and graft on one OF the big recla-
nation projects in Idaho. This is the
first time since the service was instituted
in 1885 that there has been breath of
scandal abOnt the work. 1t is not be-
lieyed now that there is anything in the
charges. The situation, which is not
generally understood by the public is
this. The big Fayette Buise project is
dndtr the general control of one of the
Service Engineers named Ross. He is
all old and tried man in the service and
one OIL whom the officials in Washington
depend as absolutely square. Idaho is a
bad state for a public official SO far as
charges of graft and eruokedness go, for
the charges there are perennial. The
special report on which the present charge
is based was made by special agent Of
of the former Secretary Of the Interior,
Ethan Allen Hitchcock. A. r. Green
was the agent. lie Was seht out on land
fraud business and picked up the charges
against Ross incidentally while in Boise.
He made an elaborate report on the case
aud filed it with Secretary Hitchcock
some months ago. Recently Engineer
Ross was in Washington and called ON Il g
secretary to discuss the spending Of sew
eral million dollars on the Boise project.
The secretary listened to his plans and
approved them ALL At the same time he
had the report and charges against Ross
in bis desk. He never referred 10 the
charges and approved all Of Ross plans,
from which friends of Ross in the service
argue that lie could not have attached
much weight to the report.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
The W0MAN's PAPER

TIE SUN is the best type of news
paper, rorally and intellectually. In
additio. the news of she day, it pub
fishes the lest features that can be pre-
sented, such as fashion articles, and mis-
cellaneous writings from men and women
of note and prominence. 1t is an edhca
tor OF the highest character, constantly
stimulating to noble ideals in individual
and national life.
THE SUN is published on Sunday as
well as every other day of the week.
By Mail the Daily Sun, SO a year in
Guiding the sunday Sun, 81. The Sunday
Sun alone, 81 a year.
Address
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Publishers and Proprietors,
BALTIMORE, MD
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
WASHINGTON LETTER

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 10Th. 1907.
EVERYONE in town sspeculating as to
- whether or not the railroad Presidents
for whom an appointment was made by
]. Pierpont Morgan to call on President
Roosevelt, will do SO. There is something
rather mysterious in the way they are
backing and filling about the call at the
White House. Mr. Morgan made the ap-
pointment for them when he was in
Washington and it was presumed that it
was made by mutual agreement with the
railroad men and would be accepted
promptly. Then Mr.. Morgan took the
steamer in New York and started on his
vacation in Europe, leaving the officials
to make their trip to Washington alone.
Everything is ready for them whenever
they choose to CALL The President has
said he would be glad to see them and
hear anything they have to say. But
now President McCrea, one of the most
important of the quartette, says that he
will not come without a special invitation.
President Roosevelt is not going to issue
him any special invitation. The under
in Washington generally and
at the White House too, was
that the railroad men had something inn
portant to communicate to the President.
Ii they had. he was ready to hearit But
if their plan is to make it appear that the
President has invited them to confer
ence because he wants to see them. then
they are reckoning without their host,
and the conference will not be held.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
THE FARMERS PAPER

THE Suns market reports and COM
mercial columns are complete and re-
Liable, and put the farmer, the merchant
and the broker in touch with the markets
Of Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and all other
important points in the United States
and other countries. All of which the
reader gets for one cent.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23

OF course the panic in the stock market
this week had its effect in Washington,
and its reflex action was to loosen up the
vaults OF the Treasury to the amount OF
about $50, ,000,O which was released by
the new Secretary for the easing of money
conditions in New York. 1t was the first
stock market crisis that Mr.. Cortelyou had
to face and it came very soon after he
took Office. He had SAID that he intended
to divorce the Treasury from Wall Street
altogether, but the occasion was so sudden
and the need so severe that it was inpos-
sble to do anything except what other
secretaries of the Treasury has done in the
past, namely let out lot of coin to ease
money conditions. This was accom-
plished in several ways. The banks were
released from the necessity of retiring sew
eral millions of their extra circulation,
there was an offer for $25, 900, 900 worth
of Government bonds that might be re-
deemed. Itwas first like the expedients
of other secretaries in releasing cash, and
the sort of program that will have to be
followed in a financial crisis so long as
the monetary system Of the United States
remains what it is. However the new
secretary came out of the excitement in
very good shape. He is going to get the
bonds he wants at a reasonable price,
which was more than Secretary Shaw
could do when he advertised for them in
February, and he was congratulated by
the President and others at the Cabinet
meeting next day on the way he had
managed in the stress Of battle. Secretary
CorteIJ on says that he is going to divorce
the Treasury entirely from Wall Street
so that these government 'rescues" will
no longer be necessary. But how he is
going to do it is as yet secret, and one
that the general public would be very
glad to understand.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23

This does not mean that the President
has lost any Of his interest in railroad
matters There will be something doing
at the next session OF congress in railway
rate legislation. That is one ii he tlinge
the railroad men are afraid Of. AT the
same time they are more afraid that
drastic and perhaps hurtful legislation
will be INDUCED in by the states, and
rather than see that they would welcome
federal control. 1t has been suggested
t ,at one Of the things contemplated by
the President is all appraisement OF earn
ings through the medium Of the monthly
reports that the railroads will have to re-
turn, beginning in July and that on these
there will be arranged a scheme of freight
rates and maximum capitalization. OF
course such policy of close control would
be distssteful to the railroads, but what
they fear more than this is that the capi-
talization will be made dependent on the
actual "dry" valuation OF the roads.
This is one of the jobs that is cut out for
tile Interstate Commerce Commission this
summer, but it is huge task and it has
not yet been decided how they will go
about it..
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
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Its Washington and New York bureaus
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and give THE Suns readers the earliest
information upon all important events in
the legislative and financial centers Of
the country.
Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23

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Middletown transcript., 1907-03-23
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Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-05-30

The Democrat yesterday publish
ed, under the caption a Modest APP
peal" an article from Rev. c. 4.
Ridley, regarding the DR.. Brough-
ton meetings., which are to begin in
this city next Sunday. If you have
not read that article, please refer to
il and do so. II commends itself TO
us as a sane appeal to our business
men, and one that We can iIl-afford to
pass by unnoticed and UNDECIDED. Mr..
Ridley's interest in the business side
and our city's life has been second
to no man in our midst, and he has
done as much TO further our inter
ests as any man in Suwannee eoun-
ty during the past three years. The
modest request which he makes u
our business men is, We believe, a:
much for their ultimate success il
business as religion
Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-05-30

A man by the name OF Emory Lopp
in West Virginia has predicted that
the world is coming TO an end soon,
all caused by seeing series OF piet-
ures on the walls of his residence rep
resenting scenes of heaven and the
lower regions. West Virginia's hQ-
uor must be a different grade than
Florida booze( as about all a man
sees from imbiding too freely OF our
grade of corn juice are snakes.
Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-05-30

An Indiana editor who has taken
time despite his heavy duties as "a
moulder OF public opinion" to keep
track Of lis material and mental pro-
greSs during the year offers the fol-
lowing summary of his gains and loss
es: Been broke, 800 times; had mon
ey 65; praised by the public. g.;
damned by the public, 1874; asked to
drink, IS; refused TO drink, o; miss
ed meeting, 60; been roasted, 431;
roasted others. 81; washed Office
towels, 3; missed my meals, o; taken
for a preacher. IL; taken for a CAPT
talist, 0; found money, o; taken
baths, 6; delinquent subscribers paid
90; did not pay, 436; paid in ad-
vance, o; got whipped. s; whipped
other fellows, o; cash on hand be
ginning of year, s1.i1; cash On hand
at present, s cents.
Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-05-30

A sensational case growing out OF
the special election is the suit for
$4,000 for SANDER or defamation OF
character brought by Gus A Morton,
one Of the defeated candidates for
state senator, against John F. Jack
son, one of our prominent citizens.
Pinnell and Son are attorneys for the
plaintiff and the case promises 10 al
tract wide attention on account of the
prominence OF the partieS.-LeVl
TimeS-Democrat.