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, Rochester, Pa. .
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on Friday the iaxpaYing voters OF
the city will by their votes on the
$3.50 bond issue say whether the
Greater Guthrie spirit shall prevail
and Guthrie take iis place with the
progressive municipalities Of the South
west
The feeling Is general that Guthrie
has far outgrown Its public utilities
ind that the city may keep pace with
is rapid and steady growth the bond
issue must be voted
During the past few years Il IS need.
less to say thai the city has been
evolved from an overgrown county
seat town TO the manufacturing cen
| ter Of the state, with the most sub.
,tantial factories IN the Southwest. as
weIl as the best paved city Of IT'S size
IN The entire Southwest II has also
kept pace with its rivals as among
the most progressive and enterprising
cities in the state, with a population
ranking third
The past year has Witnessed the
erection OF hundreds of comfortable
and permanent homes. Along with
these improvements came the erection
1f modern store buildings, which are
/ q credit TO any city of 10000 poDula.
ton and the founding OF three large
substantial factories that furnish EN-
oloyment to hundreds Of workers
Many small factories with the lncreas
ing OF the capacity ol the factories
founded three years ago have alse
added many more to the weekly pay
roll
A million dollars worth Of munici
)al improvements. including twenty
niles OF street paving, has also beer
completed. or contracted for during
The past year
! Within the past two years the Cap
i 'tal Heights. William Heights, Haylg
horst. Belvea. Hainer and Oak ParF
/ additions have been brought into the
corporate limits OF the city All ol
these additions are now being thicls
settled and although the PROPERTY
owners are paying their share Of th'
/ city's taxes. they are without flr'
protection and have no water mains
TO connect with
City Without Adequate Fire Equip
nent.
Citizens generally concede the neef
~ modern fire equipment. as the clt'
practically has none II Is true Guth
rie has no serious fires, hut the De
paltment has always been lucky 4
getting to fires heforp they gaine'
headway. The growth Of the cltl
aud lack of modern fire equipment I
causing the cost Of fire insurance Z
Z he raised from year to year
The city has never purchased an
fire apparatus what little apparaiu
! there Is was secured by public scrlr
ltion. The great building activity i
East Gnfhrie and the bie improve
/ lmentg recently made on Capitol squar
| demands the reestablsshment of
! fire station in that vicinity Petiiio
. after petition has been presented
J the city council by the property owl
} ers IN East Guthrie asking that thl
! be done 10 protect their property. hu
the city has had no funds to meet th
! renuest.
The residents In the many addition
|. are wilhoui fire protection. IN cas-
I Of a fire IN the southeast part Of th
u. s1s.r.e rw-er~ e@n +h4oht'
E II withou, protection. as Il Is over
CONTINUED on Page Eight
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WEATHER FORECAST

Sew Orleans. Nov, Tonight (
= increasing cloudiness and warm
g er. Thursday generally cloudy.
. warmer ia east. colder Ia extreme
z. "a. tef
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CITY HAS 0UTGROWh
PRESENT LIMITATIONS
EnIaTgemsnts Must Be Made
to Keep Pace With
Rapid Growth
WY BOND ISSUE is NEEDED


The city is without modern fire
equipment.
Residents IN additions to city are
without any fire protection.
Great building activity in East Guth'
rie and Capitol Hill demands re-es'
Enlistment Of fire station on Capitol
Hill.
City has outgrcwn water system.
Many miles OF residence streets
have been ordered paved on streets
which are without water mains.
West Guthrie citizens have but one
srge water main for fire protection
II fire should occur when main wa;
out Of repair the entire district wouIe
suffer.
The ono water main from filtration
1Iant and pumping station 70 the busl
ness district is inadequate TO give
pressure and TO carry volumn uf W.
ter or feed other mains throughout
city.
Filtration plant Is now being run
beyond capacity; additional filteri
must be installed before another SUM
mer to supply consumers.
Storm sewers needed 10 drain resi-
dcnec streets ordered paved ~ Eas
and West Guthrie
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DURANT SCHOOL CONTRACT LET

Tho state board Of public affairs
last evening awarded contract to
the Daughefty and Campbell Con-
slruotiOn company Of sulphur for the
erection Of ihe building e Ne
Southeastern Norma scho Is
rant The contract Yicee X
The Manhattan G ~ "
pany Of Chandler io' -
Construction cumpay Law
we're Bae other Mtmcnt OF Z
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In neg
stand
As lwents(
condenlnf
il was j
repaired
CfnbefA
through 3
an official
pair Tho
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going to stand for any interference in his
rescuing stunt. He viewed himself as the
main squeeze in the rescuing line at that
particular point along the Shrewsbury
river. and. moreover, he had been SO
thoroughly rehearsed in his Job OF pick
ing up the little girl for the film that he
meant to go through with it or bust.
Just as the young fellow reached for
the little girl. therefore. the dog. ugly
over his job being taken away from him
snapped at the young man. The young
fellow then made the mistake of trying
to fight a large and angry dog In the
water. This worked the big dog up SO
much that he forgot all about his child
rescuing job when he got a hard poke
between the ideas from the young fell
lows fist. and he promptly dived and
seized the young fellow In a mighty firm
tooth grasp BY the slack of his panta-
looms. It wasn't all trousers that the dog
got hold Of, at that, so that the young
fellow found himself to be quite a few
lacerated up when 1t was all over. The
dog was so sore on the butting-in young
fellow that he tried his doggedest to
drown him, and one of my men had to
row in a boat and pry the dog loose from
his fine hold by using an oar on him.
while the little girl swan and waded
ashore. That Slam-in OF the young fell
lows queered q fine lot of films for us.
and, additionally. he was the most cha
Grined-looking summer resorter that ever
/ clapped a wick upon when we told him
of the situations
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things for us, but that doesn't get US
anything, and sometimes it doesn't help
them, either.
EARLY in June, at a place on the
Shrewsbury river in New Jersey. l ar
ranged to have little girl fall out Of the
stern Of a skiff into the water and pre-
tend to be struggling around in the cur
rent, while q Newfoundland dog. thor
ougtly trained at this stuff. catching
sight Of the child from the shore, sprang
in and grabbed her by her top clothes
and dragged her ashore, dripping and
realistic. 1 rehearsed the dog and the
child in this act good many times. SOS
to get just the right kind Of kinks into
the performance. When they were both
letter-perfect in their parts l had the
machines planted and gave the word for
the swapping to begin.
''Well, the little girl fell out of the an
chored skin all right. and the big New
foundland piped her off from the beach
and swan out to her. when something
happened. A young fellow on the shore.
who didn't understand what was coming
off. saw the little che-iid fall out of the
boat, and he ripped off his coat and
struck into the water after her at the
same time the dog did. He accepted our
wells, which were meant to have him
sheer off and behave himself. as cries OF
announcement. He reached the little girl
who had been tauS.-t how to swim, by
the way, though the water was shallow
Just about the time the dog did and made
a grab for the child. But the dog WASH
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gave hin, spank on the arm add told
him to behave that stuff.
Say, If you go to that Cabba1lo
cheese again TIL wire your folks to
have the truck for the nut factory
backed up against your arrival home in
New York" said the dead-wise one, and
then the New Yorker. to the disgust of
Cabbajio's owner. squeaked.
He couldn't do it; just couldn't. thai. S
all, he told Jim. The field was better
one than Cabbajio had ever gone
against before, and his friends were
handing him the siren boot, and-well.
he Just couldn't blow any more In on
that ones chance. that's all. The price.
SO to I, looked right enough, and it was
a get-it-back figure, at that, but-weI,
he hated to crawl. but that's all there
was to it; he was crawling, and that
ended it.
And so the New York angel, per-
suaded off by a spank on the arm.
stayed off the race. after vamping all
the way from New York to get hunk on
the badge horse, and the owner himself
didn't have a copper to send along on
the plug; and then, Of course, the old,
old thing happened.
Cabbajio. all but left at the post this
time, picked up his horses as If they i
been tethered to prairie schooners, went
off by himself at the top Of the bend.
and waltzed down to the finishing tape
pulled to the shape of the letter S. with
the shoemaker Of a boy on him saving
on the bit like Wilbur Wright pulling
at the levers OF his alr-buzzer.
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DR.. Evans went on, they will get little
more than the Atlantic City excursionist
who would have got 1t if-but listen to
the story.
"A Philadelphia gentleman was very
bald. Onion juice was recommended him
as an infallible hair restorative. Accord
ingly. every morning. he split two onions
and rubbed their juicy flesh very thor
oughiy over his nude white scalp. The
odor was very strong. but the gentleman.
after time. got used to 1t. Throughout
his Atlantic City vacation he saw no
reason to abandon his daily onion tonic
We'll, one hot morning on the Board
walk. spying a vacant place beside an
excursionist who was lunching out OF a
paper bag. the Philadelphia baldhead
seated himself. unbuttoned his waistcoat,
removed his hat and exposed his head to
the cool breezes and the sunshine.
IAN overpower.ng odor of onion arose.
The excursionist beside him, pausing in
his repast, froWned and shifted. The gen.
tleman famed himself calmly. The other,
sandwich in hand, kept on shifting and
frowning.
Then. after minute or two. the ex-
cursionist leaned over and said:
Excuse me, boss, but would ye mind
il / rubbed this here cheese sandwich
on yer head so as to give II a flavor Of
onions? I'm awful fond of ohions.'
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'.Oh, it's NICE commented the former
Wasfingtonian 10 the squeaked New
York angel when Cabbajios winning
number went up. Its right nice. L
like it. A buddy wearing 4ss-sizs hat
takes hold of your fin when you're
ready to get rich. and you wabble around
like hoptoad OH q hot rock and now
Just wait q minute-Tll be right
back" said the New York man, gather
ing himself into a bunch and striding
away with glare In his eye and the
purple veins standing out on his forehead.
ring he came upon the man who'd raped
him on the arm and told him he was
crazy for thinking of betting on Cabbajio.
and he walked right up to that wise one.
Say, you,' said the New Yorker. grab
bling the wise one by the coat lapel, that
cash In your map that you make noises
with has just cost me about twenty thou
sand iron bucks There's no chance OF
my getting that much out of your pelt.
but I'm going to get what I can. and"
Bango! He swung on the wise ones
nose. and the punk adviser went domu
like a rock He was UP right away, and
down he went again. Then the ring COPS
grabbed the New Yorker and pinched
him, and he had to leave so collateral.
to be forfeited in the morning when his
case was called.
Cabbajio is still badge horse owned
nv former Washingtonian, but the Ian
guage thai the former Washingtonian
employs when you mention Csbbajios
name to him wouldn't look we'll in pub
location.
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strong that he was at the track the next
morning to see if Cabbajio was q re-
peater on that quick-work stuff
WE'LL Cabbajio was. He put away the
five furlongs on a lumpy track and with
sharp turn in something under a min
ute. and naturally Jim became earnest
then with the dream that he had an hon.
est-Injun horse.
So the former Washingtonian blew down
to New York city to see man he knew
there with the change, and he took the
kale-swaddled one back with him to the
Fort Erie track. Cabbajio was asked to
do that dawn trick once more, and he did
1T like cadet on parade. The New
Yorker with the dust, Jim's friend. said
the work was good enough, and Cabbajio
was entered in soft five-eighths spot.
The railbirds who knew about the morn
ing works of Cabbajio were taken aside
and properly subsidized to keep the stuff
under their hatbands. The New Yorker
with the money sent six men out to diff
ferent poolrooms from Chicago to Coving-
ton, and from Louisville to New York, to
get the nuggets down. the agreement be-
ing that Cabbajio must not be played at
the track at all.
Something like $4,000 Of the New York
er's money went down in the poolrooms
at Cabbajio's opening figure-30 to land
then Cabbajio stepped out and ran like
you'd expect to see Mr.. Taft run in a
sack and spud race. At no part of the
journey was Cabbajio going fast enough
TO keep his hoofs from falling asleep.
However, that didn't prevent the dope.
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the mutt or the track authorities will be
asking you for the stall in which your
badger is hayed down. And SO Jim Fol-
lowenl-that isn't his name. either-the
owner of the Cabbajio plug, being wise
to all that stuff, got into the habit of
stalking stable boy to two bits once in
a while of mornings to breeze Cabbajio
around the track just to make a noise
like as If that one was sure enough being
pointed to some kind of selling race.
Jim, the owner of the badge horse,
never saw these morning works himself,
for he was always in the shucks till rae
ing time. He had stable boy staked
that he could depend upon to take the
Cabbajio crab out for phony whirl three
or four mornings a week, and he let It
go at that.
One morning, however. this stable boy
gave Cabbajio the heel gouge at the be-
ginning OF the IA. turn. and Cabba jio
shot out like an Alpine chamois doing
getaway from an avalanche Some rail-
birds saw the streak a-coming, and, with
out knowing who or what the horse was.
they timed the workout. They thought
when they saw the time the horse had
made that their clocks must be out Of
order.
cabbajio had broken with some other
real horses that started with the dropping
of the flag at the tive-furlOng pole, and
Cabbajio had come home abiding from
all Of them. When Jim was told about
this on his appearance at the track that
afternoon he figured his informants to be
kidders. But they threw it at him so
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of pursuers. Before three blocks Of the
route had been covered the pursuers
numbered hundreds OF men and boys,
and every one OF them actually believed
that he was chasing a sure-enough pick
pocket.
"Whe.. the runner finally reached the
point .=aera he was to pretend that he
was exhausted. there 10 let the crowd
close in on him and nail him-and this
was right in front Of where the final
machine had been placed to get the wind
up of the chase-he finished the job up
in great shape. He pulled off a realistic
stumble right In front Of the machine.
and as,,i1t thirty Of the pursuing men and
boys e.: e front of the crowd fell on
top 81 rim. and then a couple of cops
we had engaged to rescue the phony pick
pocket at this stage Of 1t slammed In
and got him to his feet in no time, pre-
lending to yank him of In the direction
Of the ceiaDoose. while the machine snap
ped the f.-.....d-up. When the chasers got
wise to IL that the thing was only a coun-
terfeit lHtie game for the moving pic
lures and that they'd run at top speed
for about three-quarters of mile just
20 help the bogus s0oa thing along Ter
VS., they were q sick-looking crowd, sure
enough. But all hands have got to serve
some :seru! purpose in the world, even
the sla n..E:sfis.
occasionally the meddlers get them.
selves into trouble. OF course, they're
generally actuated by the right IDEA
when they get busy and start In to spoil
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about like young quail learning how
to fly And yet they went to CaDDa1io
every time as IL they had an ace In the
cistern AMI the makings of royal flush
In plain sight. and every time, for about
half a dozen occasions one after the
other, Cabbajio ran like the kind OF
horse ridden by the grand marshal at
f3s mems parade.
tnd every time, too, the former WASH
inston owner of Cabbajio, getting hold
Of a little currency with the expenditure
of horrible rains. would send these ex-
CIRCULATING eieanirgs along on Cabba1io,
climbing over the tops of folks heads
in the betting ring to nail the top price,
for Cabbajio was invariably hammered
down to walk-over figures at post time.
Came a morning when Cabbajio worked
six furiongs in such dazzling time that
the New Yorker who had lost the pre-
viSns bup6!. or tire crab was induced
Is visit Fort Erie once more with the
ueA of recoupinS on the first big bet.
Cabbatio was by this time sort of a
Joke in the columns Of the racing pa
pers. the tip had been wrecked so often,
and Jim and his New York angel were
sort Of glad Of that. for 1t meant price
for them Just before the race was to
happen. however, the New York angel
weakened.
He wouldn't have crawflshed himself.
but as he numbered UP to one Of the
main booths OF the line and mentioned
Cabbajio's name. with the idea of bet
ting a lump right there and then at the
traek. wtserheim acquaintance Of his
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printing papers from coming out with the
tale of the big thing that had been at
tempted with Cabbajio. and they printed
all sorts of bhang and hasheesh stories
Of how Cabbajio had been burning the
track to lava and gneiss in his morning
works: and that set all of the walters
and things at the Fort Erie track a
spinning. They waited for Cabbajio 8
next appearance in race, and they
coal-mauled his price down from 40 to !
to to / at post time, and layers with
light wads who got in deep on 1t before
they realized 1t were fumbling around
for knot holes in the fence to go through
in case Cabbajio should run In con-
formity with his sunrise works.
However. there was no danger. Cab
bajio. beating the post by five lengths.
ran like lumberjack wearing four suits
of underwear. and finished with the also
thrQng. The one-time Washingtonian and
his New York angel had sent In aacinnk
this time, too; and when It was over
the New York man went back to New
York under reefed topsls and a jetti-
soned cargo. Jim being still there with
the price OF cigarettes, but that's about
all. But. still, he yet owned Cahbajio.
From then on Cabbajio became sort
of habit with the racing mob that bite
on tips. And always the answer was
the same. Cabbajio could and would
outwork any horse on the grounds when
the sun was popping out Of the orient
east, but at the real races Cabbajlo was
a German carp anchored at the bottom
OF an ornamental pond; ana he ran just
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their indecency in showing up their sex
by fighting on the street, as she squeak
ed at them. OF course, the machine had
to be stopped again. for the incident as
I had framed 1t up didn't call for any
stuff of that sort. I had it arranged that
after the whipping had proceeded for q
space the guilty hubby of the homely
wife was to rush in and attempt to sep
arate the two women. whereupon his wife
was to turn upon him with the lash,
causing him to make humorous beat-it
down the street Then the fiirtatious girl
with the languishing wicks was to seize
the whip from the other womans hands
and start in to get hunk for the cutting
she'd received. the scene winding up that
way. But had to get a Gordon Of the
restaurant employees and cops around the
front of the restaurant before we could
pull off. without interruption, the horse
whipping part Of the set, and by that
time the proprietor of the restaurant was
out on the sidewalk. storining around and
dead sore on account Of the notoriety he
said we were bringing upon his place of
business.
That, of course. was an instance where
the slaminskis grabbed our films. but. as
I say, there are plenty of cases where
the butters-in involuntarly serve us good
turn.
For example, a while back, over in
Newark. n. j.. fixed up a pocket-pick-
ing scene-it has been shown in Wash
ington-that was a vertically dandy by
reason Of its extreme naturalness, and