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Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23
.tOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate Of Louis o. Hoffman,, de-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given by the I'M
dersigned, administrator of the Es-
tate of Louis O. Hoffman, deceased,
to the creditors of and all persons hav-
ing claims against the said deceased,
to file them, with the necessary
vouchers, in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court at El Centre,
California, or to exhibit the same, with
the necessary vouchers, within ten
G0) months after the first publica-
ton of this notice, to the said admin
istrator, at the law office or Phil
ID, Swing, 6, and 8, Security Sav-
ings Bank building, Ell Centre. Cali
fornia, which is hereby designated as
the place for the transaction of the
business of said estate.
Dated November Is, 1917
ALBERT M'GOVNEY,
Administrator of the Estate of Louis
0. Hoffman,, Deceased.
Ncv. 1928 3-30Dec7-14.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23

Petrograd, Thursday, Nov. 22.--The
Bolsheviki issue da decree today pro
viding for requisitioning from the
wealthier classes of warm apparel for
the army. Tenants of residences the
rental of which is 24OO rubles or more
yearly are required to furnish one
blanket and one article of clothing in
good condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23

shall be awarded shall within ten davs
after the acceptance of his bid, make.
execute and deliver to the Board of
Directors written contract in form
satisfactory to said Board, for the
performance of said work within the
time and IN the manner stated in said
notice, plans and specifications, and
also furnish it an accepta ole bond in
the sum of 25 per cent of the total
contract price, based on the Com
panla's estimate of the amount of
work to be done, for the faithful per-
lormance OF the said contract, and
also furnish an additional bond in the
sum of so per cent of the total con-
tract price, based on the Companies
estimate of the amount of work to be
done, as a guaranty that the contrac-
tor will pay in full the claims of all
persons performing labor upon or f -
nlshing material to be used in such
work.
Each bid shall be accompanied by
a certified check for ten thousand
O,00O.0O) dollars, made payable to
the Treasurer Of the Compania, and
to be forfeited to said Compania
should bidder fail for ten DAYS after
the acceptance of his bid to enter
into said contract with the said Com
panla and furnished the required
bonds.
The contract will be let to the low
est responsible bidder, but the Board
OF Directors reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
By order of the Board of Directors
of the Compania de Terrenos v Aguas
dc la Baja California IS. Az.
r. ID. McPHERRIN,
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23

of Directors reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids
BY order of the Board of Directors !,
of the Impeial Irrigation District.
F. H. McIVER,
Nov2ltoDecl4 Secretary. i
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23

Auction at 10 o'clock Saturday, No.
vember 30, in rear of Oregon hotel.
One Buick roadster, one Overland
touring car. Both guaranteed in good
order. These cars will be sold
reserve or limit. Terms cash.
j. G. Bradley, auctioneer.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23
POUI.TR

TURKEYS WANTED-Pacif cific Poultry
Farms Co., r. o. Box 212, Phone 81;
on Broadway opposite oregon hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23
GERMAN WORK BLOWN UP
Large Chemical Plant at Franklin
On-Main Destroyed.
(By Associated rressl

Zurich, Wednesday, Nov. 2l.-
Frankfort dispatch says an explos
Tuesday destroyed one of the larl.
and most important German chem]
works at Frankfort-on- Main.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23
Daily including Dec 13 Secretary.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATORS
SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PRI-
VATE SALE

~ -
SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PRI-
VATE SALE.
In the Superior Court of the State
Of California. in and for the County
of Los Angeles.
In the matter of the Estate of John
Louis Vignes, deceased
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the Superior
Court of the County of Los Angeles,
State of California, made on the 9th
day of April, 1917, in the matter of
the Estate of John Louis Vignes, de-
ceased, the undersigned, the admin
istrator with the will annexed of said
estate, will sell at private sale to the
highest bidder, upon the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth. and
subject to confirmation by said Su-
perior Court, on or after the 9th day
of December, 1917, all right, title and
interest that the estate has by opera
tion of law Or otherwise acquired,
other than and in addition to that of
/ said deceased at the time of his death.
| in and to that certain lot, piece and
parcel of land described as follows, to
wit:
The Southeast quarter of Section
%, Township II South, Range Is East,
S. B. NJ. containing 100 acres. in the
County of Imperial, State of Califor-
mia.
Terms and conditions of sale of said
proeprty to be sold free and clear of
membranes, except conditions, re-
strictions and reservations of record
and purchaser shall take said prop
| o,.{x IL Al 10 oil fo1n ,
city taxes. for the fiscal year, 191S-19
, and all subsequent taxes, and subject
also to all assessments of whatever
, name or nature, which now or may
, hereafter become chargeable or lier
, against the property purchased by
him. The purchase price therefore tt
be paid in cash, in gold coin of the
United States, ten per cent GO pei
, cent? of the total price to be paid al
| the time of the sale, the balance OF
, the confirmation of the sale.
, The expense of the execution of the
deed. but not the recording thereof
. nor the recording of the certified copy
. Of order confirming such sale, to be
paid by the estate.
The expense of the continuing OF
the certificate of title, showing own.
ership of the property in the estate
to date of deed to be paid by the es.
tate.
All bids or offers must be in writ
ing and delivered to the Los Angeles
Trust and Savings Bank, at its Trust
Department, located on the second
floor of it's banking house, situated
on the northwest corner of Sixth and
. Spring streets. in the City of Los An
relcs, State of California, or may be
filed in the office of the clerk of the
court of said county, at any time after
the first publication of this notice, and
before making of the sale.
Dated November 16, 1917.
(SEAL)
! Los ANGELES TRUST AND saw
INGS BANK.
By w. r. HERVEY,
Vice President;
By b. III. GRIGSBY,
Assistant Secretary.
Administrator, with the will annexed
Of the Estate of John Louis Vignes,
deceased.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23

Expert Cleaning, Pressing, Rcp|
ing. Unique Cleaners, Princess I'll
Bldg.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-11-23
CLASSIFIED WANT ADS
FARM LAND TO LET.

FOR RENT--95-acre dairy farm; so
cows for sale. III. Kubler, No. dis
trict, Holtville
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06

The penalties of sedition are en-
Phatically shown by the 20-year sen
tenee Just passed in an Iowa court
upon ID. H. Wallace for utterances made
in the course of lecture in July. The
ease will be taken, it is asserted. to
the court of last resort. American
jurisprudence has u slender line of de-
cisions in matters Of this sort. The
presidents, happily, are few upon which
to base judgment; and we shall be
fortunate if we can finish the war
with no more cases of this sort than our
other wars have produced. The in
herent patriotism of the American peo-
pie has served, hitherto, to save the
pages of our history from the blot of
treason S record; and there is no rea-
son to believe that the American spirit
has changed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
GIVE CHILD
SYRUP OF FIGS" IF
TONGUE is COATED
II cross, feverish, sick, bilious,
clean little liver and
bowels

Children love this "fruit laxative, -
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach, liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result is,
they become tightly clogged with waste,
liver gets sluggish, stomach sours, then
your little one becomes cross, half-sick,
feverish, don t eat, sleep or act natur-
ally, breath is bad, system full of cold,
has sore throat, stomach-ache or diar-
rhoea. Listen, Mother, See if tongue
is coated, then give teaspoonful of
California Syrup of Figs and III a
few hours all the constipated waste,
sour bile and undigested food passes
out of the system, and you have 4 well,
playful child again.
Millions of mothers give California
Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly
harmless; children love it, and it never
fails to act on the stomach, liver and
bowels.
Ask your druggist for bottle
of California Syrup of Figs which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Beware of coun-
terfeits sold here. Get the genuine,
made by the ''California Fig Syrup
Company Refuse any other with con
tempt.-Advt.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06

The Boston Transcript favors Sena-
tor Mclean s bill tc have members of
the cabinet and certain other executive
officers given the right to take part
in congressional debates. The innova-
ton would be illuminating to the leg
islators and ii would do the members
some of them at least-good to be
heckled after the fashion which pre-
walls in the British parliament. The
Transcript lntimates that the President
ought to back the proposal because
'before he entered the White House
he favored more responsive form OF
government. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
Having With Hoover.
New York Sum \

New York SUM-
Having with Hoover is not so difi
cult as il appears before you try.
For instance. \ fair sized loaf of
white bread made at home takes about
SIX cups of wheat -four The same
sized loaf Of rye bread takes only one
cup Of wheat -four; the rest is rye
dour. We have plenty of rye. The rye
bread IS more apretizing
Saving an ounce of sugar every day
IS certainly no terrible act OF seif-dep-
rlvation. The chief puzzle is 10 know
now many ounces are in a cupful Will
some one give us a ready scale of
equlvalents-ounces, pounds and 50 on
rendered III terms OF spoonfuls, cup
tuis, pints and the like?
You don I save sugar and wheat un-
less you deliberately withhold them
from dishes, or use substitutes for
them. II you find pound of butter
lasting you twice as long as before
YOU have proof Of your saving. But
obviously before a house keeper can be-
gin to save and have evidence of il
she must know with reasonable exacti-
tude how much OF each commodity she
has been accustomed to use. And not
every good housekeeper does know lust
| that
a reader has suggested in letter
10 The Sun that one meatless meal n
day and wheatless meal a day are much
| more manageable for the ordinary
! household than two meatless and two
/ wheatless days "a week There can be
| no doubt OF it. If there is TO be a real
meat saving however, most families
will have to adopt two meatless meals
/ a day, for the number of Americans
who eat meat three times a day cannot
be great. Eggs for breakfast count as
meat, though.
/ The substitutes for sugar are insult
! dcientlv availed of in this eountry
Maple sugar is one, syrup is another.
honey is u third There's plenty of
buckwheat for griddle cakes.
lt is extremely doubtful if the most
fastidious person can tell the differ
ence between first class cake made with
oleonargarine and first class cake made
with butter.
i The per capita consumption of sugar
IN this country is four ounces day
an excessive figure. A family of three
can have all the sugar il wants for
table use as well as for cookery on two
pounds week, or about one and 8
half ounces person day.
There are million families in this
city. If half Of them save an ounce
Of meat day, particularly beef OF
mutton or lamb. they make available
100000 pounds a week for our mer
IN France. If they save pound OF
flour each week they furnish $500 bar
rel' Of flour to make bread for THEN
lighters.
Halve with Hoover This 5usiu, :
has nothing TO do with prices. It ha.
everything to do with making food %
around. II has as much to do witf
winning the war as the Liberty Loan
for the reason that no amount Of none,
III the Government $ hands will enabl,
1t to make two pounds of mea. on
of one, or two barrels of -four out 81
each one from the mill
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
DADDYS
ARY TALL 01
~ MARY CDAUAM BONNER
THE TURTLES.
W MARY GRAHAM BONNER

"Mr and Mrs. Turtle" said Daddy,
were taking walk.
How about paying call on our
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Swapping Tur-
tie? asked Mrs. Turtle.
Yes. let's go said Mr.. Turtle. In
fact, we might make n round of calls
We could see all our cousins and our
friends and at each place they could
ask us for tea. We could go around
like this for a number of days and not
have to do any marketing at ALL
"A very bright idea said Mrs Tur-
tie. 1T is an excellent time to do such
a thing. too, for everyone is talking
about the high prices the grocers and
bakers and butchers and all the rest
are asking for their meats and breads
and fruits
"'To be sure said Mr. Turtle. we
don't have to pay high prices for our
goodies, for we get them ourselves and
thus far there have been no grocers
or butchers in the turtle world
"'There may be soon,' said Mrs
Turtle. Everyone is talking as though
the prices would go so high no one
could pay for things after a time
How high do they expect them to
go? asked Mr.. Turtle. To the sky?'
Perhaps said Mrs. Turtle. we
couldn't reach them even If they went
into the trees
"'Well,' said Mr.. Turtle, we needn't
worry as yet. for there are no crea-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06

to repeat the crime of 1914, and some
evidence that the German people will
never again follow their, war lord in
an attack upon all the adjacent nations.
These ends might be obtained without
bloodshed.
The prayer for victory is a prayer
that the German armies shall cease
their criminal conduct and be recalled
to their own country, and that the
German Government shall recognize, if
not the criminality, at least the fulfil
ity, Of its action. and shall ask the Al
lies, who are defending themselves and
each other, and fighting for peace
against the bully of the world, for the
| conditions of peace
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06

The war has demonstrated that edu-
eational training does not make molly
eoddles. Harvard university has over
5000 men in various branche. of the
service, and the call TO arm. has met
with quick response from all of the
colleges. Probably some of the smaller
institutions, like our Vermont COLLEGES
have made as coed showing relative
ly as Harvard.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06

lures in the turtle world who ask US
for turtle money
GAS matter of fact, there Is not
any turtle money said Mrs. Turtle.
Correct my love; you are always
right
And then they both grinned, for
they had been talking and worrying
about prices and expensive living when
it didn't really bother them in the
least.
q 1t shows said Mr. Turtle, now
much we copy others. We hear peo-
pie say they are poor and then we
say we are, and we really make our
selves quite miserable about it
Just the same said Mrs. Turtle,
I would enjoy round of visits.
$50 would T. said Mr.. Turtle. And
We'll tell every creature upon whom
we call that we will be at home in
Turtle-Groye Pond after next week and
we hope to have the pleasure of see
ing them. SO, it will not be greedy
of US to have tea with them
"Where is TurtleGrove Pond?'
asked MIS-. 1uFlIe.
"'Our home, my love- said Mr.. Tur-
tie.
"'Have we moved?
"'Oh. no. but when we go calling
we must have a name for our place SO
it can be put on the corner of our
cards. That is the correct thing to
do said Mr.. Turtle.
"'Have you the cards ready? asked
Mrs. Turtle.
And to Mrs. Turtles surprise and
delight she saw a great many leaves
Mr.. Turtle had gathered near his pond.
In the corner was the name Turtle
Grove-Pond which no one could have
understood unless Mr.. Turtle ex-
planned. But he was quite willing 10
do that.
For the leaves had been marked
by family OF bugs who like to do
that work and who had made the liz
tie holes Mr.. Turtle said meant the
name of his home.
"And in the meantime, While Mr.. and
Mrs. Turtle went calling, the little tur-
ties came out themselves. Their
mother had buried the eggs in the
sand and had left them as turtle moth
ors do. They had Matched out all
alone and We're just as happy as
could be.
when Mr.. and Mrs. Turtle came
back they greeted the little turtles as
If they We're strangers. They liked
them but they did not make any fuss
over them. For, of course, how could
they be sure that the little turtles
were their own when they had left
them to come out into the world by
themselves?
But that is the way in Turtleland
and the little ones got along by them
selves and seemed TO be perfectly
happy.
And though ii seems very queer tC
us as long as the turtles are happy II
is all right. for they are the rulers OF
Turtleland, anyway"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE
By LEE PAPE

Us fellows Wunted to play game OF
ball with soft rubber ball yestiddav,
ony Flatfoot the cop was standing
down at the corner, and Pubs Simkns
sed, l tell you wat, fellows, lets ap-
point committy to 60 down and tell
him its onv soft rubber ball and ask
him if il wont be all rite TO play with
it.
Wieh rite away everybody wunted to
be on the committy. witch wood Of bin
too menv for a committv, so we lett
Pubs Simkins choose the committy for
thinking of it, and he choosed me and
Sam Cross and Leroy Shooster and
himself, him being the chairman on ac-
count of it being his ideer. Wich him
and me and Sam Cross and Leroy
Shooster started to wawk down to the
corner in back Of each other with our
hands on each others shoulders, say
ing, Committy, commltty. commltty.
Ony wen we got about half way down
we stood in frunt OF Flatfoot without
saying enything.
| Well watts it all about? sed Flatfoot,
Wich the rest of the committv looked
AT Pubs Simkins, being the chairman,
and Pubs opened his mouth and shut
it aeen without enything having came
out of it.
Well. well, watts the big ideef? sed
Flatfoot.
| Wieh the rest of tlr committyy
looked at Pubs agen, F'latfoot seeing
! ms looking at him and him looking
at him to, and Pubs sed, Please. wood
YOU mind telling us wat time it iss
| Wy dident YOU bring a few duzzin
more with you? sed FIatfoot And he
looked at us suspicious and then lie
took ont his watch, saving, Quarter
after 1.
Thank you, sed the committv all
| together. And we wawked back with
our hands on each others shoulders
and as soon as Flatfoot went away all
the fellows decided to play ball ely
wav till he came back and chased as
Wich he did in about II mnnits
proberly still be Suspicious.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
WHAT HARVARD is DOING.
University Has over 5000 Men in War
Service.

BOSTON. Nov Give thousand,
four hundred and twenty nine Harvard
men are engaged in war service of some
sort, according to an Official university
bulletin just issued at Cambridge. Near
ly 1000 are in the army and 1l3 in the
navy. Otflcers training corps and 9th
e. military bodies have nearly LOCO
more, while there are l22 in foreign
armies and 420 in the ambulance serv-
lee. Four hundred and ninety-eight are
serving on national or state war COM
mittees and 229 are engaged in Red
Cross field work. Of the university
teaching staff ll6 arc devoting their
time to war work for the government,
while another 100 are engaged in ma
tional service while continuing their
classes III Cambridge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1917.
A PARTNERSHIP CRIME.

About the only reason that has been
offered TO excuse that discrimination in
the law which penalties the bootlegger
while cxompting his customer is that
it facilitates the efforts Of the officers
to get evidence with which to convict
the seller. The theory is that if the
buyer were also subjected to a penalty
he could not be made a witness against
the seller, and that therefore. both
would escape punishment. The idea
seems TO be that II is expediCnt 10 give
immunity TO one partner in the crime
Of Illicit liquor barter as a means TO
mtlicting punishment on the other.
Whether as an expedient this discrimi-
nation is SO serviceable as its apollo
gists assert is NJ least questionable. II
may in some instances afford the only
means Of getting convicting testimony.
But also it offers an incentive and a
temptation for the violation of the
liquor laws. and, in all likelihood, the
net result is to make violations of
the law more frequent than they would
be if the buyer were held equally guilty
with the seller. In other words, while
this discrimination may operate 10
bring about more convictions than
would otherwise be possible. it just as
certainly operates to cause more viola.
tionS of the law than there would be
if the man who buys were exposed
equally with the seller TO the penalties
Of the laws. Thus the argument OF
expcdicnce seems, on examination. &c
be sophistical.
But even if it were sound, it could
hardly be made to Justify the discrimi
nation morally. Certainly the man whC
buys liquor illicitly is not less culpablt
morally than the man who sells il
Some may feel, indeed, that since the
buyer offers while the seller only sue
cumbs to temptation. the buyer i,
morally the guiltier. But without 90
a., ing into this refinement Of the matter
a law which thus offers an incentiv,
! for its own violation, as is done wheI
/ the one who solicits another to sci
liquor illicitly is held guiltlcss, mus
\ he rcpugnant TO the ordinary sense y
/ Justice. Nor would such a sense O.
I Justice be reconciled even if it coulC
he demonstrated that the practical eff
4 feet is to make for the law s enforce
mont. Such law is morally Subtitle,
and can hardly claim more respect thar
the little that il receives. One ma,
very we'll doubt the sincerity of pun
/ pose of such a law. The law woul,
command more intellectual and mora
respect and, therefore, be more susccp
tible of enforcement, if the illicit pu,
chase of liquor were counted Grim
equally with the sale Of it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
First Congregational Church Of South
Wardsboro Files Papers

MONTPELIER. Nov G.-The Rut
land Marble Manufacturing Co, Of
Brandon has filed articles of associa-
,ion in the office of secretary of state
TO conduct a marble, granite, slate or
other stone business in Brandon. They
have capital stock of $4,000. The
subscribers are NJ. r. Brown and w.
Z. Minette of Rutland. and f. a. Bell
more of West Rutland
The First Congregational church of
South Wardsboro has filed articles of
association in the same Office The
subscribers are Ethan A. and John S.
Scranton. Eunice NJ Seeler, H. A. Reed
and L. X. Webster of South Wardsboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
Germany Retirement.
(New York World.l


Germany S confessed retirement -
from positions before the Chemin- des-
Danes sector is systematic but it
IA a retirement. 1t is d retreat. 1t
is not strategic except as the Ital-
ian Third Army S retreat is strategic.
II is not voluntary but forced by
French blows, the last Of which yield
ed over 10000 prisoners and $50 guns
and filled the cavcrnS of the Teuton
position with German dead 1t Is evil
IDENTIFY the prelude to further "retire-
mentS along up the line TO the Elan
ders coast, for which the Berlin mill
tary newspaper critics have been pre-
pairing the German public. There is TO
be new Hindenburg line back stin
nearer the Rhine. The first was TO
hold while the T-hoats did their
work, but the Uboats have failed to
do their work and that line has been
broken. The next line is TO hold how
long and for what3 Until her war
mad master succeeds in having several
hundred thousand more of Germany g
fiaxen haired youth put under the sod
Of coveted foreign soilf