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The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21
BURTON

4 quiet home wedding was solemn
lied last Sunday AT the Hofmcister
home in Paradise Valley when Miss
Lena Hofmeister was married to Mr..
Harry Wetmore.
The Klos Tillicums held basket So
cial in w. o. w. hall the latter part
of the week at which goodly sum
was raised for our unfortunate neigh
bor. Mr.. Lofgren. Many very lovely
baskets were for sale and were eagerly
purchased by the large crowd. After
the supper dancing and games were
enjoyed to late hour. The hall,
which was donated 10y the Woodmen.
was very prettily decorated. Come
again, Klos TillIums.
The B. & H. Preserving Company is
now fairly started and we predict for
it great future. Such jams and jel-
lies better than mother used to make.
Our boat builder, Mr. Chas. Taylor,
is about to leave us. having accepted a
position as superintendent of a large
shipyard to be started near Port Blake
ley. We understand he will also take
with him a large number of our able
bodied men.
The Passion Play" depicted with
lantern slides ard descriptive lecture
by Prof. Nash of Bellingham. given Of
the high school building last Friday
evening, attracted good audience in
spite Of counter attractions and all
were well repaid, AS it was fine.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21
Things Seen and Heard
at a Dealers Convention

G. f. VanOlinda and 7. Han
sen are gradually getting down
to earth again after their me-
morable trip to the Overland
Dealers Convention in Toledo,
Ohio. Summing it up briefly,
their experience at the huge
plant is best told by Mr.. Van
Olinda:
Nothing was ever so impressive as
our tour, along with 5000 other Over
land dealers, of the great plant that
turns out vii. ys-Overland cars.
Our Pullmen's all parked in the
company yards. There was room and
to spare, for there are seven and three
quarter miles of track within the plant.
Each dealer received card contain
ing picture of Mr.. WHY'S and an au-
tographed message of welcome from
him. Next thing knew we were lined
up on the steps Of the new administra-
tion building getting photographed.
Elevators shot us to the company's
own restaurant on the sixth floor (3Ss
persons can be fed here at one time).
There we had corking breakfast.
Then started our tour of the plant in
company with carefully selected guides.
Twenty-Five million dollars are tied
up in land, buildings and machinery,
to say nothing OF stock of parts and
raw material.
From the roof of the wonderful adj
ministration building, which stands
out like state capitol. YOU get a < ca;
panorama of the plant You can read
lily believe it occupies lO3 acres with
4, ,4s6, $50 square feet of floor space and
capacity Of 1000 cars per day. The
growth: from 80 employees in 1908 to
1890 in 1915. Every thirty days an
average of 1000 tons of steel arrive.
A magnetic crane enables two men tC
! handle it instead of thirty as formerly
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21
TIDBITS FROM WEST SIDE

A Merry Xmas to All. That
means you.
1t is fine to think that the great
Fathers gift to man SO works on
the hearts of people that once a
year at least they loosen up"
as it were and think and provide
for others. Remember. if we
only give to me, my son John, :"
etc, and no more, we have not
the Xmas spirit. For God SO
loved the world that he gave his
Son to ALL who will accept Him.
Teachers and scholars are pre-
pairing for Xmas entertainments
and they are busy. The Col
umbia school will have an en-
tertainment Friday afternoon.
Cove NJ. E. Sunday school will
have a tl'ee and a good program
Friday night.
Everyone on this side should
Continued on pise four.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21
SOUTHERN HEIGHTS

Miss Erminie Warren of Tacoma is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. S. H. Berry.
MIR. John Pace, who has been spend
ing The past six months at Wenatchce,
has come to stay over the holidays
with his parents.
Mrs. Mummey went over to her Gig
Harbor home last week for a brief
visit. Mr.. and Mrs. John Mummey
and Master Orville Mummey accom-
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

A well-to- do Scottish lady one
day said to her gardner; Man
Tammas, ! wonder you don't get
married. You've a nice house,
and all you want to complete it
is a wife. You know the first
gardner that ever lived had a
wife y
Quite right, missus, quite
right" said Tammas, but he
didna keep his job long after he
got her" From Fun and Fro
lic," in The Peoples Home Jour
nal for January.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21
VASHON HEIGHTS

Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Vernier, of Seat
tie. spent the weekend with MIR. and
Mrs Conrad Tjomsland.
The stone foundation under Elmer
Harmeling's house is finished and adds
considerably to its looks.
Mrs. John A, Corbin and son, Albert,
went to the city "Wednesday and did
some Christmas shopping
Mr.. Cow,ey is contemplating building
an addition to his barn. The lumber
is on the ground and ready.
There is good, better and n best,
and we should not contented be nor
rest until our good is better and our
better best.
We might all of us give far more
than we do without being bit the
worse. 1t was never yet loving that
cmptied the heart.
Donny and Naomi Tjomsland, with
their parents, went to the city Monday
to do some Christmas buying and take
a peep at Santa Claus.
So many have complained about the
generous donation of one hundred dol
lars to rebuild the county road. We
are glad it wasn't seventy-fivc.
Mrs Elmer Harmelng and the chill
dren went to Seattle Wednesday and
expects to remain until after the holi-
days. Mr.. Harmeling will join them
Sunday.
Isn't it sweet Christmas thought
for the mother and wife to know that
her son and husband will not t-cannot
celebrate the birthday of our Savior
in saloon?
Mr.. Elmer Harmelng reports that
he raised eighteen hundred pounds of
beans on two acres and one hundred
sacks OF rutabagas on one acre. The
price for which they sold was u i-2c
per pound for beans and thirty-fivc dol
lars per ton for rutabagas
James ]. Hill said ten years ago that
it wasn't the high cost of living that
ails us, but the cost of high living.
There are sixty-five theatres in Seat
tie and the receipts are $1,000 day,
Mr.. President, desire to make mo.
tion that we form another eggless club.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

Vashon Heightcrs read with envy of
the fine egg yields of island poultrymen
who use electric light to lengthen the
working day for their biddies and
straightway applied for the juice for
their own hen houses and incidentally
for their dwellings. Did they get it?
"The revenue to be derived from the
proposed extension would not justify
its cost was the polite answer. But
does not the company's franchise cover
this territory? Yes, and expressly linn
its the company's right to extend its
poles and lines into any territory COW
cred by its franchise to two years from
the date of granting same. The fran
chise was granted May I. 1915. So, then,
will Vashon Heighters have the cleo
trio service by next May? Wait The
records reveal that the County Com
missioners have dented the future by
kindly consenting TO extend this date.
SO, when will Vashon Heighters and
other outlying sections get electric
service? Ask the electric company.
All of which serves as reminder that
an application for telephone franchise
for the island comes up before the
County Commissioners on January
at II q. m, and that the applicants
are supposed to be the owners OF the
electric company. Meanwhile Vashon
Height hens will continue to scratch
on daylight schedule.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

The Lisabeula school will give
a Christmas entertainment at the
school house on Friday evening
at eight o. o.clock. Everybody in
vited.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

Road Foreman Brockway is
having flight of steps put in
from the end of the Chrisman
hill to the beach road.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

Mrs. G. F. Ireland of Quarter
master is suffering from an at
tack of bronchitis.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

Ifyou want a good work horse
cheap, see G. H. Taylor, Burton,
Wash. OSLO
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

The Vashon post office will be
open Christmas Day from 8 to 10
a. m. and from $50 to $50 p. IN.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21
A christmas Garnl
By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

What this glory round our feet,
The Mag mused more bright than mom?
And voices chanted clear and sweet,
To-day the Prince of Peace is bom
What that STAR the shepherds said,
THAT brightens through the rocky gen?"
And angels answering overhead
Sang Peace earth, good will to men"
Tis eighteen hundred years and more
Since those oraces dumb.
We wait for Him, like them of yore
Alas He slow come!
But it said in words of gold
No time eer shall dim
That little children might be bold
In perfect trust to to Him.
All round about feet shall shine
A light like that the wise
If we our loving wills incline
To that sweet Life which is the law.
So shall we learn to understand
The simple faith of shepherds then
And, clasping kindly hand in hand
Sing Peace earth good will to men!'
And they who do their souls wrong,
But keep the faith of morn,
Shall daily hear the angel song,
Today the Prince of Peace is born!'
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-21

If you have but little to bestow,
you can at least dispense smiles.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Second Time.

Col. R. H. Soaper, of Henderson,
lost a crib filled with corn when the
building was struck by lightning and
destroyed. The crib contained H.
900 bushels of fine corn. The loss
was partially covered by insurance.
Five years ago a similar crib hali
filled with corn was struck by light
ming and destroyed. Both buildings
stood on the same spot. The second
stroke of lightning explodes the old
saying that lightning never strike.
twice in the same place"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Soft Lights.

No one can appreciate the wonder
full effect OF soft light from shaded
candles given to a room until one has
seen a room lighted in such a man
ner. Many women hesitate to buy
candles because they cannot afford to
buy the kind of shade that will look
best in the room in which the candles
are to be used BY closely examin-
ing a ready-made shade and by fol-
lowing directions any woman who can
WELD a needle should be able to make
suitable shades At any needlework
store foundations for the shade can
be bought already made or can be
made to order. Having purchased the
foundations, il is next necessary to
measure them 10 find out how much
material will be needed to cover them,
and the covering Of them will be
found a most interesting and easy
process. One thing to remember is
that neatness is essential to the
beauty of each shade.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
DOCTORS OF
THREE COUNTIES
To Be Entertained at Jennie
Stuart Hospital
Today.

The Christian County Medical So
ciety, with the medical societies Of
Trigg and Todd as their guests, will
hold the annual meeting to-day at
which officers for the ensuing year
will be elected.
The Doctors, about rs in number,
will assemble at the Rex theatre at 10
O'Clock and there will be an illustrat-
ed lecture, with Drs. Haggard, of
Nashville, and Welborn, Of Evansville
as guests of honor. Following this,
the body will go to the Jennie Stuart
Memorial Hospital for luncheon, by
invitation of Mrs. Wanda Williams,
the Superintendent.
In the afternoon. there will be
literary program in the assembly
room of the hospital.
This meeting is the most important
one of the year with the doctors and
is always looked forward to wish
much pleasure. The officials elected
will officiate when the State Medi-
cal Society comes next fall.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Mothers and Wars.

After leaving school l do not think
that women of the non-possessing
classes owe the state any other kind
Of service than they are already CIV
ing.
The life of the working woman,
loaded with the treble tasks of mother,
housewife and breadwinner, is more
than burdened, and it is a great in
Justice not to consider motherhood a
perfect compensation for any war
service OF men.
The men who fight battles are the
sons of mothers; the death Of every
one wounds a mothers heart, and sad
ness of war is so heavily felt by the
women Of any country that many of
them would rather give their own
lives than those of their sous.-Adele
Schneider, in Health Culture.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
ANCIENT FLAGS AND BANNERS
Some Kind Of Symbol Has Been in
Use as Far Back as There
Is Any Record.

The Standard dictionary defines a
flag as "a piece of cloth. commonly Of
bunting, and usually square or oblong,
either plain or bearing a device; used
as a standard, symbol or signal, and
generally displayed by being attached
by one edge to a staff, or to a hal
yard, by which it may be hoisted to
a pole" The same authority defines
banner as "a piece of fabric, Of
cloth, or combination of netting and
cloth, either suspended from pole by
a cross-bar, or hung from a pole by
between horizontal ropes, and bearing
some motto or DEVICE often carried in
professions as the ensign of society,
order or party" Notwithstanding the
difference here noted between a flag
and banner, there is a sense in which
flags are commonly and correctly
spoken of as banners. Tennyson re-
fers to the banner of England" and
the Star Spangled Banner" is a quite
familiar expression. Among the ear
Hest records of civilization are cary
ings and paintings showing that the
ancient Egyptians had their own par
ticular standards in the form of sacred
objects affixed to stats. The early
Romans used handful of hay borne
on a pole. Sometimes a cross-piece
Of wood was placed at the end of a
spear and surmounted by the figure
of hand, in silver, below disks with
figures of Mars and Minerva, or in
later times portraits of emperors or
eminent generals. The vexillum,
which was the cavalry flag. is de-
scribed by Livy as a square piece of
cloth fastened to a piece of wood fixed
crosswise to the end of a spear. The
labsrum, the imperial standard of
later emperors. was of purple silk rich
ly embroidered with gold. and some
times was not suspended as the veX-
illum, but displayed as our modern
flags, that is to say, by the attachment
of one of its sides to a staff
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
LATEST NEWS
OF Operations And Patients
AT Jennie Stuart
Hospital.

Little Miss Martha Rell Rives
daughter of Mr.. Geo. p. Rives, LEFT
the hospital Sunday.
Mrs. M. L. Moody, Of near Penn.
broke, is in the hospital for treatment,
Miss Mary Layne, of Fairview, who
underwent an operation Saturday, is
doing well.
Mrs. Jerry Porter, Jr., of Clinton,
KY, who was recently operated upon,
is doing nicely.
Mrs. Hattie E. Reynolds, the old
lady who sustained fracture of her
hip, is gradually improving.
Joel Roberts is convalescing from
an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Mamie Trice is in the hospital
for treatment
Macon Abbitt, of this city, under
went a slight operation yesterday.
Mrs. Lewis Dulin, who has been a
patient for some time, is now improv-
ing.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Pancs of Poverty.

The eldest daughter had returned
from a finishing school and was over
at the home of some neighbors where
she once delighted to slide down the
cellar door and play 81 spy" But
now she was on a more dignified mis-
sion and was the center of group Of
eager listeners as she gave wildly her
impressions of the year away from
home, remarks the Indianapolis News.
The mother Of the flock was particu-
larly interested in view of decisions
soon to be made in regard to schools
for her own daughters.
After a few minutes of enthusiastic
recital the visitor paused and her
countenance, changing, said with a
sigh, 20, dear, but it's awful to be
poor"
why" said another neighbor, that
is a strange remark after all the fine
times you have been telling us about.
What is all the trouble. my dear?"
"Well,' was the reply, Its Just this
way. You see | must have a dog b.
fore l go back to school, and father
agreed to this all right. but says 1
simply can't spend more than 800
for one. l know can't get dog that
the other girls will look at for that
pinchy sum-"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Feathered Music Box.

For that dainty household pet, the
canary, we have been largely indebted
to Germany. and the sweet tones of
this wonderful music box" have in
many cases been the result of long
and tedious hours of patient teaching
by some German peasant The little
feathered students are capable of at
tanning quite a degree of skill in imi-
tating tones. The German canary is
known under three or more different
names, given to denote the degree of
training. In this country the Hartz
Mountain canary is best known, partly
because of it's being less expensive
than some of the others, and partly on
account Of it's accomplishments as a
songster.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Bitten By Mad-dog.

DR., c. B. johnson, of Darlington,
who was bitten by vicious dog with
symptoms of hydrophobia on last
Sunday morning, had the dog killed
and sent the head to the state bacte-
biologist at Bowling Green for exami-
uation and on Tuesday received the
report that the animal was affected
with rabies. DR.. johnson has ar
ranged to take the Pasteur treatment
at home, and while he has thus far suf-
fered no i'll effects he will take every
precautiOn.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Wandering Bird.

The great albatrass deserves to be
called the wandering albatross. A
mounted specimen is preserved in one
of our museums of bird which, when
captured off the coast of Chile, on De-
cember 20, 1S47, had small vial hung
on string about its neck. This vial
contained piece of paper, from which
it was learned that the bottle had been
attached to the bird on December IL
1S47, by the captain of whaling YES
sci when it was about eight hundred
miles of the coast of New Zealand
The bird, therefore. travelled at least
3,400 miles in eight days-Frank Chap
man in st Nicholas
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
500 Reward. 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased TO learn that there Is at least ono
dreaded disease that science has been
CatarTh. Halls Catarrh cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system, there
by destroying the foundation OF the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength by
nature In doing its work. The prOprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that II fails 20 cure. Send
for list OF testimonials.
4Address Y. y. CHENEY a CO., Toledo, Ohio.
sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Effect Of Polishing.

Take a piece Of cheesecloth, wrung
out in cold water, and clean the sur
face thoroughly. Then put few
drops of crude oil on a second piece
of cheesecloth wrung out in cold wa
ter and begin to polish, turning the
cloth in rubbing in order to distribute
the oil and prevent the wood from be-
coming oily. Always rub with the
grain. This gives lasting polish In
stead OF the more brilliant polish Civ
en- b. cheaper polishes.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
CAN'T BE TOO POLITE TO BOY
Nearly Everyone Tries to Be Worthy
of Consideration That Is
Shown Him.

From California comes the report
Of a high resolve of the school author
tiles of San Francisco. How shall
that mysterious, self-conscious, sensi-
tive savage, "the big boy" be ad-
dressed by his schoolteachers? The
wise of the educational leaders voted
for Mr." They were outvoted. The
big boy is to be called Master" a
name which will irritate. anger and
disgust him. Master" is "all wrong"
The exact cause of the disagreed
bleness Of Master" may be hard to
explain, but it seems to carry an i'm
plication of patronizing condescension
and superiority on the part of the
addresser. To the addressed 1t brings
sense Of goody-goodiness. 1t sug-
gests Sanford and Merton" sort OF
boy, boy in velvet cap with a tas-
sci, boy In a frock. II brands him
as an intermediate and a juvenile
person, whereas he deems himself a
man. and would be proud TO be called
Mr."
Address a letter to a big boy" as
Master" So-and-SO If you want to
make him unhappy. Call him "Mr."
and he will be happy, and he will
strive to deserve the manly title you
give him. You can't be too polite to
boys, yet you may be Internationally
insulting them all the time, from their
point OF view. Give them the full
image and superscription of the
grown up" status to which they as
Dire
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Liked Their Looks.

May II issue of the Hopkinsville
Kentuckian was real pictorial edi-
ton. That number of the paper con-
tained the pictures of 81 of Hoptown's
livest business and professional men.
The issue shows progressiveness on
the part of editor Meacham and his
fellow Observation-Disclosures Tele-
gram.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Conference Agreement.

House and Senate conferees on the
Army Bill agreed on a standing army
of 206, 900 men, capable of being ex-
pended to $4,000 and backed by
federalized national guard of Asa, 900.
A report to Congress will be made
early, and passage of the bill will be
the first of President Wilson'S pre-
paredness programme.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
More Common Sense Needsd.

Before our children draw their first
breath we start closing in upon them
with every kind Of theory. Theories
to the right of them, theories to the
left of them, they are often victims,
as really as were the immortal six
hundred, to the fact that some one
has Numbered" In taking our chill
dren conscientiously, why must we let
our idea of duty ride rough-shod over
common sense?-From the Atlantic.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Weather This Week.

Washington, May 13.-Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Sunday, made by the Weather Bureau
say:
"The indications are that this week
will be generally overcast and cool,
with occasional local rains throughout
the Atlantic States, the Ohio Valley
and the region of the Great Lakes.
Generally fair and cool weather
will prevail during the week over the
Rocky Mountain and plateau regions
and the Pacific States.
In the Gulf States the weather
will be generally fair, with normal
temperatures"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
LOCAL COMPANY
Awarded Railroad Contract
at AllensviIle, Ky.

Thd Meacham Contracting Co., of
this city, has been awarded the con-
tract for building a concrete bridge
by the L. G. N. railroad at Allensville,
Ky. 1t contains five spans and will
be built without the interruption of
traffic on the road, alongside of the
old bridge.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
Many More Indictments.

Indictments charging banding and
confederating for the purpose of in
timidating others were found against
fifty-one men Friday by the Hopkins
county grand jury.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-16
On Hot Trail.

Maj. George T. Langhorne, a Ken
tuckian, leading the dash for the
Mexican raiders who attacked Glenn
Springs, halted Saturday for re-en-
forcements when told that the BAN
dts, 500 strong, were concentrating
on line of march.