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Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

More students are out for athletics
now than ever before in the history
of the High School. Every afternoon
one may see two basketball courts,
four tennis courts, baseball diamond
and track all filled, and many people
wandering around with hopes of get
thing in when others have to go home
Everybody seems anxious to do some
thing in athletics this year. Girls as
well as boys are turning out to get
the benefit derived from the various
sports.
The basketball courts, however, are
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07

Pianos moved with best Of care any
where in valley. Ed Royce.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
MONDAY

ing big league ball players, will be
shown. The story is from the Satur-
day Evening Post.
After Observation-Disclosures Ham
ilton of the Irrigation District is pre-
pairing a bill to be presented to Con-
gress, declaring the Colorado river in
the United States to be non-navigable,
with view to giving the valley a
more definite claim to the water, thus
reviving an old question of the status
of the valleys filing.
X X y
Grape Cuttings-Pruning will start
on the vineyard on the Experiment
Farm at Meloland within a few days
and anyone wishing to secure cuttings
from any of the lis varieties that are
growing there can do so by going to
the station or by writing to Mr.. Pack
ard, superintendent of the farm. Any
one wishing cuttings should apply at
once.
Palace Theatre PrOgram-Tonight
at the Palace theatre David Belasco's
great dramatic hit, "The Woman" will
be shown. The play was produced un-
der the direction of the Jesse L. Las
ky Company for the Paramount pro-
gram and is considered one of the
strongest dramas on the screen to-
day. Theodore Roberts heads an all
star cast. "The Woman" will be shown
at the special children's matinee to-
morrow and at the big performance
given in honor of the visiting excur-
sionists tomorrow night. A big special
program is being arranged for the
Los Angelenos, consisting of special
moving pictures of the cotton indus
TRY, cantaloupe growing, etc. There
will also be a stereopticon lecture by
Charles w. Kay. Mr.. Kay illustrates
his story with $50 views Of all the
industries of the valley, showing the
water system, schools, churches, the
different cities of the valley, Harold
Bell Wright home, Salton sea and
other points of interest. A part of
the lower floor of the Palace will be
set aside for the accommodation of
the visitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
SENATOR FALL LEADS ATTACK
WILSON'S MEXICAN POLICY

Washington, AIN. 7.-Senator Fall
of New Mexico led the promised Re-
publican attack today on the admin
istration's Mexican policy with =
speech urging the adoption Of his res
olution calling upon the president to
place before Congress information on
which he had based the recognition of
the Carranza government in Mexico.
The resolution was agreed to unani-
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07

the center of attraction and that sport
is king of the present season. The
stage will be held tomorrow by some
ten boys and ten girls while the big
round ball appears in the spotlight.
The bleachers seem mighty desolate
and barren now, so it will take quite
bunch of people to fill them. They
should all be filled, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
Patents.

u. S. A. to James S. Jones, lot 5 and
SW a NE a section 2, and lot !
and Sc a NE u of section 3, 16-
16, 16O.2O acres.
u, S. A. to Arthur Fuller, tract 81.
1914, 320 acres.
U. S. A. to heirs Of Clara S. Trool-
Ter, SW a Sc u and S " SW n
section l and Sc u Sc a Of section
2 and NE u NE n section II and
NV n NE a and N " NV a Sec
ton 12. 1916, 32O acres.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-6O0 tons No. loose al
falfa in stack. F. L. Powell, 87F12,
Holtville. x2ZZ
FOR SALE-Bargains in slightly used
pianos at s75, 500 and $125; all
good makes. Marvin Moore Music
Co. 2l4
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
To those Raising Poultry

A full line OF sweet souhu "r@ih
and Poultry Supplies awaiting your IN
spection. Fair weights faif rti'es'
and what we have not got III s'oeA
we will gladly get for you: yo1:--------r-
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
DEATH NOTICES

STRATTON-In Water District No. 8,
January 6, Mrs. Alice Washburn
Stratton, aged 25 years. Funeral
services at the family residence this
afternoon under direction of c. A.
Shafer.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
To the Consumer

Our prices to you are made on a
wholesale basis. We select from our
daily purchases the best, in fact the
pick, for our Home Trade. The Price
is consistent with the Best Quality OBJ
tainable.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
CITY AND VALLEY

Service TOnight-At the Presbyter-
ian church at 1880 tonight there will
be special services preparatory to the
sacrament
X X X
InstitutiOn-Barbara Worth Lodge
No. 353 will hold it's regular meeting
and installation of officers this even
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07

ing big league ball players, will be
shown. The story is from the Satur-
day Evening Post.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
MAGAZINES AND NEW BOOKS
IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Current issues OF the following mag
azines may be found in the reading
room of the Public Library. After
month these magazines are circulate'
ad are in great demand. Gifts of du
plicate copies Of these and other goo,
magazines are greatly appreciated.
American Bee Journal
American Boy
American Cookery
American Magazine
American Monthly Review of Re
views >ost
American Poultry World
Annals of the American Academy
Atlantic Monthly
Bookman
Book News Monthly
California Fruit News
Century
Christian Evangelist
Golfers
Country Gentleman
Craftsman
Current Opinion
Delineator
Dial
Engineering and Mining Journal
Etude
Forum
Good Housekeeping
Harper's Bazeer
Harper's Magazine
Independent
International Studio
John Martins
Ladies' Home Joural
Life
Literary Digest
Little Folks
McClure's
Missionary Review of the World
Living Age
Modern Priscilla
Munsey
Nation
National Geographic
North American Review
Orchard and Farm
Outlook
Popular Mechanics
Physical Culture
St. Nicholas
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
Scribner's
Story Teller's
Sunset
Survey
System
Technical World
Travel
Vanity Fair
Worlds Work
Woman's Home Companion
Youths Companion
Gifts of books during the pas
month are:
Galloway, F. B.-Charm and Coul
tesy in Letter Writing.
Fox, John, Jr.-Christmas Eve o
Lonesome.
Holley-Samantha at Saratoga.
Prentiss-Stepping Heavenword.
Watch Tower Bible and Tract 81
Iciety-Plan of the Ages.
Watch Tower Bible and Tract 81
'ciety-At-one-ment Between God ar
Man.
The honors of these books are \
S. Philippe and Mrs. Genevieve Sn!
der.
Other new books are:
Child-Efficient Kitchen.
Epler-Life of Clara Barton.
Harris ris-Century's Change in Relii
ion.
Joos-.Success With Hens.
4 Klickman-Artistic Crochet.
LynchA Educating the Child
Home.
Robins0n-Domestic Birds.
! Webb-Famous Living Americans.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-01-07
nouslv .by the Senate.

mously by the Senate.
Chairman Stone of the foreign re-
lations committee saw no objection
to its adoption and moved that it be
passed.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
RAINBOW SHIRT LURES
ENVIOUS WIFE'S KNIFE
Martha Wanted Waist, but
Charles Had Spent His So.

With 50 in his pocket the Beau
Brummell Of the San Juan Hill colony
could not be expected to get by rain
bow shirt displayed in an Amsterdam
Avenue haberdashery. Charles BGrlin.
porter. almost got home 10 Martha a
$40 West Fifty-rAnth Street, but the
lure Of the shirt was too much. lie
had 10 go back 20 buy IL.
CLOSE yo' eyes. Martha, honey" said
Charles 70 the wife, who had been the
family's breadwinner when jobs were
scarce. use got a glorious surprise
for yo'."
Martha closed her eyes. Charles
AZ shed his purchase. Wien he eN-
planned that Martha's shirtwaist was 20
come from next weeks pay Martha
opened her eyes wide and stopped cut
ting bread long enough to stick the
knife in husbands chest.
After he left Roosevelt Hospital with
six stitches in the wound Charles re
fused to have his spouse arrested. II
she would promise not TO wiele the
knife again he would go back, he told
detectives.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
SEES WEALTH IN SEAL BONES
Redfield Describes PribilOf Deposits
in Support Of ship Bill.

Washington. Feb. 20.-Millions Of
dollars worth Of seal and sea lion bone
deposits on the shores Of the Pribilof
Islands, a vast store Of government
owned fertilizer available for practical
use, was called 20 the attention OF the
House Merchant Marine Committee to-
day by Secretary Redfeld as an i'm
portant source of cargoes for ships
that may be provided by the pending
Administration ship purchase bill.
With letter to Representative Alex
snder. o. Missouri, chairman of the
committee, the Secretary transmitted
report Of the Bureau of Fisheries
telling OF the PrbiloF deposits, repre-
senting the sccumulations of century
or more and constituting probably the
largest deposits Of bone in the world.
Although they have not been FULLY sur
yeyed, the report says, one OF the de-
posits il a mile long by half mile
wide and fully six feet deep.
Mr.. Redfield directs attention 20 the
fact that raw ground bone was bringing
$35 a ton in December.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
HOLD WASHINGTON SERVICES
Many City Churches Honor First Presi-
dent-SOcieties Attend Meetings.

Services in commemoration OF the
birth Of George Washington were held
Yesterday in numerous churches Of the
city. ..
Nicholas. Fifth Avenue and Forty
eighth Street, was the twenty-sixth an
nual service Of the Sons of the Revolu-
ton and was in charge of the Rev.
Frank Landon Humphreys, assistant
chaplain Of the society. There were
100 members present and representa-
tives from the Society of the Cincin-
natl. Aztec Club of 1647, Loyal Legion.
Society of Colonial Wars, Order OF
Foreign Wars, Colonial Danes o.
America. Daughters of the Revolution.
Grand Army of the Republic, Naval and
Military Order of the Spanish -Amerlca1
War and the Mayfower Society.
At the Church of the Divine Pater-
mir. Central Park West and Seven'y-
sixth Street. attended BY members 81
the same patriotic organizations, the
service was opened by procession
through the aisles of the Sons of the
Revolution. headed by the four ma
tional flags of this country from the
DAYS of the Revolution 70 the present
time. At the end Of the procession the
colors were blessed by DR.. Frank Oliye:
Hall.
The Rev. Robert Bruce Clark, state
chaplain of the Daughters of the Revo-
luton, spoke to members of that So
ciety in the Church of the Puritans.
Headed by Colonel Daniel Appleton. an
honorary guard from the Ith Regiment
attended
DR.. Clark, commenting on Washing
toms readiness to take up arms when
honor and human rights so demanded.
said: Courage in these days IS sadly
wanting. This nation has failed in ITS
courage TO utter protest on behalf OF
those high principles Of humanity for
which we are supposed TO stand.
ave have occasion to pause and
search ourselves, in order that we may
not fuctuate from the maintenance OF
our ideals and those Of our first Presl-
dent"
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
Tube Work Not More Perilous
than War, Says Mabey's Wife

Il guess it's no more dangerous beng
sandhog than a soldier in the
trenches. as my husband would have
been if we hadn't left England four
years ago" sighed pale-faced Mrs.
Mabey yesterday.
Around the four story tenement
where the Mabeys live, at 80 Theodore
Street. Astoria, there is a little colony
of sandhogs many of whom have been
miners in England. Yesterday after
noon the men had crowded into the
kitchen. where Marshall Mabey. who
had Just been dismissed from Brooklyn
Hospital. propped upon couch, was
telling of his miraculous escape. In
the bedroom sat a silent group OF
women. Mrs. Mabey, unable TO keep
her eyes long off her husband, kept
darting into the outer room.
"Sure. he'll likely be a sandhoS,
too.' She said. patting the haxen head
Of Marshall Mabey. jr, a year and sew
en- months old. "His folks have been
miners for long ways back. Am !,
scared 20 have him do it? What would
il pet me if was ?" In the room with
their mother. Amanda and Caroline
Mabey. eight and nine years old, us
tened TO the story of the accident
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
SANDHOG TRUSTED
HE'D LAND SAFELY
Continued from page |

l had time to think. That's funny,
isn't it?
u suppose / was a second coming
up through the river bed. But J had
time to remember that another fellow
had been caught in blowout over on
the Hudson and had reached the sur
face all right | thought 10 myself:
old chap, II he did it. you can
Then reached water, still going
sidewise. sort of up-ended then
and started toward the surface. Ny
leg was numb and wondered II !
would re able to swim.
"They say | went twenty feet in the
air when came up. ] don't remember
that, but | do recollect swimming to a
pier. The water was beastly cold. and
the pile | hung to was all ice and |
kept slipping. The crowd on the dock
was yelling at me, but they didn't seem
10 be doing anything. | called: II
you chaps are going to get rope, you'd
best do it SOON was getting pretty
tired
'I don't know whether I'll 60 back TO
work Monday" Mabey debated. "She
was mere last night, and I'll have TO let
her get over her worry little. And
then I haven't seen either of the kid
dies this Sunday. | wonder how soon
that doctor is going to let me so home"
The two other men who were blown
out of the tunnel are dead. Frank
Driver died before rescuers reached
rim. The body of John Mccarthy was
found late yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
u. S. BOATS RESCUINC
RIVER FLOOD VICTIMS
Weeks Work to Save All Ma
rOOned Persons, Is Estimate.
Broadway at 34th Street

Natchez, Miss. Feb. 20.--The govern
ment steamers LaFourche and Tensas
were due 10 leave Newellton tonight
for Natchez loaded with refugees from
the area flooded as a result OF the great
crevasse in the Mississippi River leyee
az Buck Ridge plantation.
The steamers Concorda and Uncle
Oliver left here this morning for the
crevasse, and will continue the work OF
rescuing persons marooned in the flood
ed sections. IL is estimated il will take
week to rescue all persons between
Newellton and the Tensas Basin.
A shpload of lumber was sent 20
Newellton by the Natchez relief COM
mttee. and work Immediately begun
constructing fatboats 10 navigate shall
low water The boats as soon as com
pleted are being rushed to the flooded
districts.
The water from the crevasse was re-
ported to be past Waterproof tonight
ard had covered all OF Tensas Parish,
with the exception Of few high points.
East Madison and Morehouse parishes
were also reported covered.
At least two thousand negroes are
camping along the Mississippi levees
from the crevasse TO a point twenty
five miles south.
New Orleans, Feb. 20.-All levees
along the rivers of Louisiana. with the
exception of the breaks in the Missis-
sippi at Buck Ridge plantation and in
the Atchafalaya below Melville. were
holding up we'll tonight. Indications
were that they would Withstand the
high water pressure, according to Major
". G.. Caples, United States engineer in
char0e Of this district
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
HURLS LAMP TO FIRE
PARTNERS HESITATION
Woman Disliked Slow Dance
Police Extinguish Victim.

L looked as il the birthday party at
2e Fifth Street. Williamsburg, was 60
ing 20 be g dull affair, when at 3
o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Bertha
Dubis announced that her partner
wasn't doing the hesitation properly.
The sudden accusation brought quick
action.
Mrs. Dubis stopped an arm jab from
the fist of her dancing partner, Peter
Serensky. on the tip Of her Jaw and
quietly awaited the police.
Peter Serensky was struck amidships
by burning lamp hurled, according
10 the police charge, by Mrs: Dubis.
The lamp exploded. anG Serensky
frightened things up until the police
arrived and extinguished him.
Eight other men and women, names
unknown. were struck or burned, but
20, away Mrs. Dubis and Serensky
were held by Magistrate Esterbrook
in the Bedford Avenue police court
charged with assault.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
Missing Sandhog's Body
Found Off Brooklyn Pier

The body Of Michael Mccarthy. OF
1902 Third Avenue. the missing victim
of the Brooklyn subway accident SaV-
tague Street by the police of Harbor A
Yesterday. Mccarthy was one OF three
who were blown up through the East
River. The body was found near the
bulkhead. a considerable distance from
the scene of the accident.
Travis II. Whitney, secretary OF tne
Public Service Commission, spent two
hours yesterday examining conditions
at the Montague Street terminal. lie
said that no work had been done there
Yesterday 10 repair the damage because
The water had gone as far through the
tube as it's own level and then stopped.
The work of repairing will start this
morning early. when scows VIII dump
clay end gravel into the hoie ID me
tmnnel until il is again able 10 with
stand the pressure of air. The water
will then be pumped out Of the tunnel
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
POST.MORTUARY BABY
WILL LIVE, DOCTORS SAY
Jersey City Child Normal and
Apparently on Road 10 Health.

The son Of Mrs. Mary Dooley, who
was born after his mothers death in
the Jersey City Hospital Saturday sf
ttrnoon. is reported 10 be well started
on the road TO healthy life. DR.. Irwin
Mcskowitz. assistant house physician.
detected a faint heart beat in the blue
and apparently lifeless b.t OF humanity
that he brought from the operating
room.
After the doctor. end four nurses had
worked over the infant for half an
hour the pulse and breathing became
regular. Physicians at the hospital
said that this was the first case OF a
successful post-mortuary C8sarlan
operation OF that institution. They
also declared that not more than six
similar operations had been performed
in this country in the last ten years.
Within ffty-fve seconds after DR.
Noskowitz found that Mrs. Dooley had
died he had performed the operation.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
PTOMAINES FELL FOUR
Invalid Father Credits His Escape Il
Vegetable Diet.

The physician who prescribed a
vegetable diet for John Conway. 95s
Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, saying that
lie would suffer il he ate meat, was
d prophet.
Mr. Conway j. an invalid. and be-
fore his four children. Florence. Mil
dred. Irene and Ralph. began their
Sunday dinner OF lamb chops. potatoes
and spinach. they took to his bedside
his share OF the vegetables. and then
continued their more substantial re-
past.
Mildred and Ralph are now in Bush
wick Hospital. suffering from ptomaine
poisoning: Florence and Irene lie III
at their home. The invalid father
alone is in his usual state oflheslth.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
WATER WORKS CURE
FOR FITS IN JAIL
Prisoner Fakes Madness. but
Zero Chill Restores Reason.
IBy Telegra9h 70 l'he Tribune

Monticello, n. Y, Feb. 20.-lt was
discovered yesterday that Mike Nc
Carthy, OF Liberty, who is at present
in the county Jail here, has been hsv-
ing fake fits.
Once before Mccarthy was in the
local Jail, and every five days he would
have a fl. He would lie down on the
floor and bark like q dog, and the lail
authorities would have 10 push him
away from the bars with sticks. But
when physicians arrived they could
find nothing the matter with him. Med.
icine seemed to have no effect, and
every five days he would have the FITS.
when Mccarthy was brought here
last week it was determined that some
thing must be done. DR.. j. A. Cauthers,
the Jail physician, finally advised using
the hose as an experiment. Yesterday
when Mccarthy had one OF his fits. the
water was turned on. With the tenn
peratdre AT zero Mccarthy stuck 1t
out for twenty minutes, and then ne
pleaded to have the water shut on. IL
is believed that he is cured.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
d HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Jersey City Party Is Thrown Out
When Taxi Is Shunted into Pillar.

Four persons we're injured early yes
terday morning in a crash between two
taxicabs at Sixth Avenue and Thirty
sixth Street. One machine was thrown
into an elevated railroad pillar ana
unset The injured, who were inside,
are DR.. Ralph =. Richmond, thirty-four'
and his wife, thirty-two, of 30 Sip
Avenue. Jersey City. and their guests,
William Holtz. forty-three, OF ~ Edge
wood Street, Hartford, Conn, and MIS-
Minnie Holt, his wife. Isaac r. BAN
nan the chauffeur. of 800 montgomery
street. Jersey City, was thrown out
bnt not hurt. Drs. Johnson and Iay-
lor from the New York Hospital, treat
ed the injured for cuts and bruises
Bannan was taking his passengers
from Jacks restaurant, in Sixth ave
nue' 70 the Hudson Tubes at Thirty
third Street, when his car struck the
rear wheel OF a machine driven by An
drew Mccarthy, of Al west fiitie'h
Street.
Mrs. Catherine Slater. Of Asoury
Park. was seriously hurt yesterday
afternoon when trolley car over
turned the automobile in which she
was riding at Ocean and "oodla"h
avenues, Jersey City. Five persons
we're in the machine, driven by the
owner. Albert King. of 9 Fulton Ave
nue.. Jersey City. Mrs. Slater was
caught under the tonneau, but the
others escaped injury when they were
thrown clear of the machine. The mo-
torman John Corcoran, was unable 10
stop the trolley car on the slippery
snow-covered tracks.
After being treated by DR.. F. L. Lam
bert Mrs. Slater was taken TO Mr..
Kings home. She received internal
A., t,ries
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
Mrs. Whiffen, Oldest of
American Stage Women,
Enters Vaudeville.
SEEKSRURAL SETTINGS
FOR REST OF LIFE
Chickens and Garden Furnish
Reason for Her Debut in
Golden Jubilee" To-day.

Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, the oldest sc-
t1ess on the American stage, wants .
chicken farm. That's why she will
make her first appearance in vaudeville
to-day, at the age of seventy-one.
In 1865, when Mrs. Whiffen started
her long career of fifty years. there
were no such things as stars 1t was
hard work for low wages, and now,
when she is rounding out her life, Mrs.
Whifen finds that, although in good
health and comfortably off, she has no
place TO retire to- Last summer sne
rested at South Weymouth, near Bos-
ton. on a chicken farm which took her
fancy. and she determined to buy 1t as
soon as she had the means.
"On this farm last year" said Mrs.
Whiifen yesterday afternoon at her
home, l62 East Forty-sixth Street. u
experienced my first Discrimination 70
return TO the stage. Before then
never thought OF retiring. As long as
7 feel we'll and able 10 work don't see
anv reason why | should retire. Of
course. il | were SO old that people
said. Poor thing, isn't she dilapidated!
I'd leave at once. don't want to worry
people. And if | found my memory
failing, I'd leave, 200. But I'm spry,
and can get M lines now rs quickly
as ever"
Mrs. Whifren 7aid she attributed her
lcng and active life TO the fact that
she was a sound sleeper.
Recent plays in which Mrs: Whltien
has been seen are "Moloch,' The
beautiful Adventure. Rosemary and
"Tante." In all of these she has played
the part which she specialized in thir-
ty-fve years ago-thst Of the old
woman. "I've acted the old woman so
much, Just naturally had to grow TO
be one" said Mrs. Whiffen, laughing.
In her long career Mrs. Whifen has
been under the management OF both
Daniel and Charles Frohman. and has
supported among others Henry Miller,
Margaret Anglin. Mary Msnnering,
James X. Hackett, James A. herne'
John Drew and Ethsl Barrymore.
Mrs. Whiffen will be seen at the
Colonial Theatre in one-act sketch
"The Golden Jubilee" by Edgar Allan
Woolf. all this week.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-21
FIRE ROUTS FIFTY FAMILIES
Factory Destroy yed-Truok Skids, In
iuring Two.

Fire discovered shortly after mid
night in the seven story brick paper
box factory at s, 10 and - Jones stree.
caused fifty families to fee from ad-
joining tenements in their nightclothes
ard gave Acting Chief Smoky Joe"
Martins men one Of the toughest jobs
they have had in months. Three alarms
were turned in, In addition to the
dense smoke that settled over the con-
gested district surrounding the burn
ing factory, the hremen were hsmpered
by lack Of room 10 utilize their ap-
paratus.
TIE factory. owRal by J. c. Hof-
man, was almost destroyed The dam
age Is expected to exceed $4,000.
On the way TO the fire the high press
ure truck of Engine Company is skid
ded on Bleecker Street and crashed
into a drygoods store window. Peter
Quinn. the driver. and one of the men
were thrown 70 the street. They were
not seriously hurt.