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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-07-13

LUCKING-To Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Lucklng, Friday, July 6, daughter.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-07-13

TuTTLE-To Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
futile OF Ripley, at St. Gabriel's hos
p1tal, Thursday, July -, a daughter:
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-07-13

ANDRUS- Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Andrus of st. Cloud, Tuesday, July
10, son. Mrs. Andrus was before
her NJ, marriage Miss Clarabel Kaye of
this city.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-07-13

BELANGER-To Mr.. and Mrs. Err
nest Belanger, at the Hall hospital, on
Thursday July 5, son. 49,, \
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-07-13
R(lRN

WETA-To Mr.. and Mrs. Vernice
Weta, Saturday, July Z, daughter.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-07-13
M. E. CHURCH TO BE OPENED ON
SEPT: g

According to present plans the NJ.
E: church, which is now being remed-
e1ed and redeeorated, as well as en-
larged, will be opened again on Sun
day September g.. DR.. Service, pastor
of the church, will make an effort to
get Bishop Mitchell Of St. Paul to at
tend the opening.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-07-13
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS
TAX LEVY MADE-BRmGE CON-
TRACTS LET-RESURVEY OF
CUIDRUM GRANTED

The county commissioners met in
regular July session Monday and Tues
day with all members present.
A. II. Kerich was appointed janitor
for court house and grounds from July
l, 1917 to July l, 1918 at a salary OF
$4,000 per year, the auditor to issue
warrant for $4,000 each month for the
above time
The following amounts were levied
levied upon all real and personal
property in this county to meet the
various expenses for 1917:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
MISERY AND MONKEY
"MASQUE OF LIFE"
Woe-Drenched Heroine Contends
With Charming Simian to De-
light of Garrick Audience"

Misery Is a common emotion Among
screen heroines. rhe leading woman Of
The Masque Of Life" ia the sunrsr,. 49,.
ample or Just how wretched one can be in
'ne movies The audiences at the Garrick.
"here this seven-reel Italian feature onensd
yesterday, saw Evelyn GO through a series
VI tragedies that would have baff'ed Ophe
ha' made Lady Macbeth pea-green with
envy ana Juliet seem like the leading char
"''er IN sunshine comedy OF the "sappy-
doodle variety.
N' 'hls righteousness must not be taken
Tor contempt, THE Ma soue OF Life" after
the rush Of weekly Amercan.made photo.
plays to which the established vice OF over
production has accustomed US is rather re.
treshing. 4 has all tie leisureIy deyelop.
ment Of the old Pathe and Gaumont pic
lures, which nonmovie fans profess 10 fnd
exercising and intelligent. It has been
very well Photographed indeed Some of the
actlng' in the expressive continental fashion,
Is quite moving and always dignifed And
1t offers as Il final nllip Of sensationalism
TO blase public the speu;acis of a monkey
apparently good fellow he is, too) steal
ing a royal baby and climbing tremen-
dously tall chimney with his living burden.
This monkey is Pete Montebello and he
is bully little actor. neither camera
conscious nor piggish about his entrances
or exists. Pete must be credited with a
distinct hit, and the lady with the pa
thetic face who played Evelyn. the circus
charmer might get an assist also.
"The Masque Of Life" sounds symbolical,
and. there are for a fact some artistic in
terludes in which Fate plays with human
beings as puppets, and a series OF tableaux
and scenes in the circus. IN which the
heroine's dire career is symbolized by dance
and pantomime. All Of this is capital stun
Of the old cinema school, and also not
without its humorous side with Evelyn
suspended from an enormoIs chandelier
and machine-gun pepppering her with bul.
let's, intended by her crazed father for the
King, i'm a nearby box (for the King had
married Evelyn and deserted her for a
more regal brde), the finale may be said &c
be the last word In the "melleTs" If you
crave excitement and don't find It here
you might as we'll give up the movies and
return to the hreside and fairy-tales-ol
the corner grocery store.
There is not room enough in the paper
to relate all Of the frightful facts of Eve
lyn's life. The scenario writer simply
soaked her in sorrow. Those Y no like tC
contemplate the woes Of others. and thos,
who 50 in for plotting that spells hysterla
will compose the Garricl's audiences" dur
ing the run of The Masque Of Life" which
by the way, originally was called THE Cir
Gus of Death" No wonder. b. d.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22

us in order that we may make our plans
accordingly.
Very truly yours,
ELL SAMES BALLARD,
General Counsel Philadelphia RAPID
Transit Company
Mr.. Lewiss address was an explanation,
buiIt up step by step, Of the four bills now
before the Legislature. They are the Cans
hill the two Hecht bills and the Salus bill.
Three Of them Mr. Lewis drew In behalf or
the city,
The Salus bill Mr. Lewis pointed out is
framed to relieve the city Of the limitations
that bind It; to give 1t the power to find
more favorable means OF operating the
vast transit system that II has voted 70
build.
High rent paid by the Rapid Transit
COMPANY to its subsidiaries, and the water
In the subsidiaries stock was referred to by
Mr. Lewis, who gave figures.
"This burden" he said, may make II
virtually impossible for the company to
n,al,a 10 the city an offer for the operation
~ the clty's lines, which the city can in
iustIce 20 itself accept Thus the city,
tbouph II may be anxious to deal with the
connany. may be obliged to operate its
own lines or secure an Independent operator
not burdened with onerous obligations TO
subsidiary companies"
TRIBUTE TO MAYOR
High praise for the city administrations
oonduct Of the transit question was ex-
pressed by Mr.. Lewis thus;
II Mayor Smith had allowed these ne
syotIations with the company to continue
Sithout making any effort to secure legis-
iation which would place the city in
nositIon to negotiate with the company
without having its hands tied, he would
have betrayed the people of the city In
tha most important matter which has
coma or is likely to come, in our day,
before any Mayor Of Philadelphia.
Tha salus bill, Mr.. Lewis said. gives
.ar,ain powers 10 the Bubble Service Com
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22

mission which it does not now possess, and
also other powers which it is now doubt
full II the Commission possesses. He out
lined these powers thus:
First When REASONABLY, to eEtab-
lish transfer points at such places Of
crossing, and make just and reasonable
Joint rates for passengers transferring
at such points Thus, II it were reason
able that free transfer tickets should be
issued, the commission would have power
10 order them to be issued
Second. When reasonable, TO order
switch or other connections at such points
of crossing, and establish through
routes that is, a route on which pas
sengers may, without changing cars pass
first over the tracks operated by one COM
pany and then over tracks operated by
the other company or municipality.
THREE METHODS OPEN
There are three possible methods Mr..
Lewis said, "of operating the high-speed
lines--a lease to the Rapid Transit Com
pany, independent operation by the city
or by another company and the operation
by the city or another company of the
city's hlgh-speed lines ana the lines now
operated by the RAPID Transit Company
The Mayor :s fundamentally right when
he insists that before Councils finally de-
termine the important question of the
method OF operation Of the city's lines the
statutes OF the State should give the city
a fair opportunity TO choose any one Of the
three possible methods.
THE Mayor" he continued. does not de.
sire the city to gave power to force even
a fair contract upon the Rapid Transit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
POTPOURRI OF COMEDY
POURED OUT AT KETTH'S
Florence Moore Central Figure
in Good Bill With Lion-Tam-
ing Drama as Climax

Florence Moore and her brother Frank
carried the largest leaves Of the palm from
the arena at Il. f. Keith's Theatre last
night in long program that contained
plenty Of good things TO laugh at or to
chuckle over afterward
Florence Moore is astounding as usual
Fun fairly bubbles over when she treads
and trips over-reallv trps--the boards.
Unlike so many eccentric condolences, for
whom eccentricity is a last resort and a
charitable cloak Florence Moore is real
In her talent, her charming personality.
her satire, her wit and her faces" Her
brother is a pleasing foil for her FUN.
Full Of music and laughs, the bill be-
gins with an animal and ends with animals.
The juggling dog with the funny Three
Bobs, who couldn't twirl hoop on his
tail II he were bob-tailed, made his bow
WOW TO Philadelphia audience, and the
four lions, Georges Atarcks "The wild
Guardians" furnished thrills for the lion.
tanning act that came as a climax to the
comical outlay. Marcks lions are intro.
duced by an elaborate drama. including
motion pictures illustrating the capture Of
lions
very clever comedy is presented IN
The Night Boat" in which Elsie Glynn
the communicative: Joseph Robinson
her skipper-husband Frank W. Taylor
Frank Herbert, Horace Cooper and william
Mooney execute the skit with amusing cf
feet, Fred Warren and Efne Couley. IL
Fun on the Boardwalk" exhibit funn,
dancing and Introduce a new "kaintucky'
song that pleases.
The Durkin Girls stand out in even bril-
liant program with their song-and-dance
Excellent violin playing by Jules Rome
and Just as excellent singing by Grace car
Isle make Just Song a: Twilight"
much encored presentation with plail
slapstick prologue, abe second-slght an,
mInd-control exhibition Of Harry and Emmi
Sharrocks offers a funny incident in the lif
OF Playground fortune tellers and at tn
same time battles the spectators who's
watch numbers names and other supposed
secrets are revealed in rapid-fre order b,
thn blindfolded woman Dunbars Old.tim
Darkies, with their plantation melodies
are most agreeable in their FIRST appearance
here Such acts never grow tiresome, how
ever old they may be
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
married by Wireless"-Penn

The Goddess of Liberty pretty girls and
a romance that has to do with airships are
sharing well-earned honors at the William
Penn this week. The sketch, the plot Of
which is clcverly unfoded, is called Mar
ried by Wireless" The musical numbers
registered with "A bang and the people who
put them over came in for a goodly share
Of hearty applause.
Pietro offered some of his popular old
time selections. and had some new ones
that called for as many encores as the old
favOrites. Others on the bill to whom the
audience came back for more were the NAL
lla-Bart company and Chapelle and Trim
BILE. Happiness" a photoplay, concluded
the program
During the latter half of the week the fol-
lowing numbers will appear on the William
Penn program: Emma Smiley and COM
pany, Fenton and Green and Ward and
Payne. The photoplay The Snarl" will be
shown
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
NOT AS SAFE AND SANE"
A FOURTH AS EXPECTED.
Director Wilson Modifies "No Fire
works" Order at Request
of Dealers

Philadelphia will not be as safe and
sane as II expected TO be this coming
Fourth of July. Due to the persuasion
or twelve local fireworks dealers who called
on the Mayor week ago to ask for a
partial repeal of the no fireworks and
firearms order issued by the Department
OF Public Safety two weeks ago, Director
Wilson today issued an order permitting
the sale Of pnwheels, Roman candles. sky
rockets, sparklers and other nominally
harmless fireworks.
In maTng their appeal to the Mayor,
the dealers claimed that they were bound
up by thousands Of dollars worth OF con-
tracts for fireworks and that the carrying
out Of the order Of Director Wilson would
bring complete financial disaster.
The order prohibiting the sale of fire.
arms blank cartridges and cannon crackers
will be strictly enforced it Is said,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22

total amount paid In by all the companies
exclusive Of the Rapid Transit Company is
Sb3, 3,0O0 600. The rental on this provided
in the present proposed lease TO be paid
chiefly out OF the revenue OF the city's lines
Is per cent on 5000 900 900. In other
words the public treasury OF Philadelphia
Is asked to guarantee interest on that much
water for 800 years out Of its own invest
mcnts made with the public money"
The four measures considered at the
hearing and the provisions are:
The Cans bill, which would give the Pub
lie Service Commission the right TO compel
the Rapid Transit Company to through-route
trains between the Frankford and the Darby
u" lines over the tracks Of the Market
street high-speed line, irrespective of what
concern Ia the operator OF the citys system.
THE sALUs BILL
Tho Salus bill. which would give the COM
mission the right to nx and regulate Joint
service between the city's system and the
=. r. T. lines, to determine the Joint rate
| Of fare, to compel the company to accept
| passengers transferred from the city's sys-
| TEN and TO regulate through routing Of
| trains where switch connections between
| the two systems is physically possible.
| The Hecht eminent domain bill, which
| would permit the city TO take over by the
| exercise OF tho power OF eminent domain,
| tho existing transit facilities within the city
| limits in adjacent counties provided the
| local authorities outside Of the city should
! consent to the taking OF their facilities and
| II such adjacent facilitiec were necessary
| as constituent parts Of the eitys system
| The price for the properties thus taken
would have to be approved by the Public
| Service Commission or, II no agreement
| could he reached, by the courts The act
| would further enable the city TO operate
any facilities taken by eminent domain un.
der the powers conferred by the act of 1919
HECHT AMENDMENT
| The Hecht constitutional amendment
/ which would make it possible for the city
| 10 exceed the 10 per cent borrowing limita
tion. II the proceeds were to be used In the
| construction, purchasing or condemnation
! Of any public utility or part there Of. or
| public Improvement the sole condition betns
that the utility or Improvement may rea
sonably he expected TO yield revenue in ex
cess Of operating expenses sufficient to pa,
the interest and sinking fund charges
thereon This would finance the ACQUISITION
Of the transit facilities should they be taker
over under the IIeCht eminent domain bill
As the Salus bill contains all that th,
Cans bill provides and other importan
features in addition, It is certain that tn
Cans bill will be dropped entirely In orde
not to pass the same legislation twice
| II is the plan of the committee then 4
merge In so FAR as is possible. the Salu
and the HcCht bills In order to make on
measure instead Of two 10 be brought VI
for final action. The HeCht constitutional
amendment, however, will have TO remai
a separate and distinct piece of Legislation
All except the Cans bill were drafted b
Mr.. Lewis,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
KNICKERBOCKER PRESENTS
THE WOMAN HE MARRIED"
Dramatic Story of Love and Romance
This Weeks Show at West Phila-
delphia Playhouse

The play in which Virginia Harmed once
acted as star, The Woman lie Married" 4"
was successfully presented last night by
the Knickerbocker players and will con-
tinue for a weeks run. Ruth Robinson
played the leading womans part with
emotional realism. and Howard Hall as
leading man did good work. An important
supporting role was presented by Philip
Lord, a former member of the Knicker-
booker Company. Strong support was given
by the company as a whole.
This successful drama by Herbert Bash
ford is a thrilling story of love and ro-
nance that is not overdrawn, but true TO
life While t. teaches a moral lesson II
has vein Of comedy running through it.
II is called by some critics dramatic at
tack on some of the social conventions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
Lilies Of the Lake"-Cross Keys

Lilies of the Lake" miniature must
cal comedy is the feature act at the Cross
Keys Theatre for the first part of the
week. II overflOws with pretty girls catchy
songs and is enlivened by good comedy
A number of youngsters-clever boys and
girls, sang and danced in a pretty little
playlet "Storyland" In which tho fairy
stories and nursery rhymes are pictured
The New York Comedy Four were enter
tanning with their songs and funny chatter,
while Edna Luby offered a number Of char
acter songs, Other acts on the bill were
Karl, Emmys Pets, an animal act, and
Murphy and Richards blackface comedi-
ans.
For the later half Of the week The
Garden Bellies" a musical act will be the
feature of the bill. other acts to ap-
pear are Jack Rose and Leland, songs and
paTologue Spursell Brothers and Mack,
comedy sketch Northland and War, and
Sultan, Chase and LatOur
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
Broad Street Hotels
Lose Fight on Bar
Confined from Pase One

Nonunued IRON Page One
presided. that there was necessity ana i.n.
tihcation for place where, as the count
put IT, there could be obtained a meal fhn4
was between n quick lunch and a banonht N
The court. however. merely signed a detfoo
granting the transfer and did not hand an
opinion giving special reasons for the trann-
fer. The applicant was represented ~
Louis HUT as attorney.
GRAHAM GETS STAND AT LAST
John F. Graham who for fifteen wears
conducted the Jamison Hotel. just around
the corner from the Kopp Restaurant ana
facing City Hall, finally succeeded in So
curing transfer to West philadolphln
Graham, who has had pocket licenses
since he was forced out Of the Filbert streek
place, was allowed transfer to the norfi,a
east corner Of Sixteth and De Lancoy
streets
Graham has been an applicant for n IL
cense transfer at nearly every session of
the court for the last two years but was
always refused permission 20 open a saloon
In West Philadelphia. He was several
times refused permission TO open a place az
Fifty-second and Ranstead streets
Time and again he has had 10 nght
clergymen and people of the neghborhood
TO which he asked 20 be transferred. AZ ono
session Of the License Court the Opposition
was particularly bitter against the transfer
to Fifty-second and Ranstead streets, and
Judges Stake and Patterson used local
option plan to assist them to reach de-
cislon. The neghborhood was polled and
the license was refused. There was much
criticism from both sides Of the manner in
which sgners we're secured.
when he appeared with the present appli-
| caticn four clergymen appeared In the court
| to oppose him, saying they had been dele
| gated TO represent their congregations to
| prevent the transfer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
Good Comedy-Nixon Grand

Doctor joys Sanatorium," a comedy
sketch full of pep" at the Grand will in
short time dispel the worst crouch and the
deepest wartime gloom II is one Of those
sketches where you start laughing when the
curtain rises and you are still laughing
s-nen II falls. The keeper Of the sanatorum
would bring a smile to n gravestone and the
patients would make an owl grin,
Other excellent attractions are BroderiCk
and Crawford in q singing and talking act.
Henshaw and Avery in vaudeville table
dhote the Three Alex Dusty and Daisy,
bicycllsts. and Natalie Morgan. The pic
lures are very good this week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22

styles and superstyes and pretty girls,
quantities of em. are on display in the
sketch, The Gown Shop" this week at the
Globe, Some mighty interesting things
take place in The Gown Shop" things
which make the audience grip their sides
and shake with m'-th.
Another interesting sketch. entitled a
Dream Of the Orient" has many pretty girls
Of the languid Oriental type Other splen-
did attractions are Lotte Williams and COM
pany, Fisher, Lucky and Gordon, Jimmy
Reynolds, the Three Royals, Mahoney and
Rogers, Delmore Angel and company Hess
and Hyde, Adons and his dog
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
TO PROBE MEAT INSPECTION

Select Councilman Trainer, Of the Third
Ward, plans to ask Councils to authorize an
inquiry into the manner in which the De-
partment Of Public Health and Charities
conducts its inspection Of kosher meat in
both the Third and Fourth Wards. Rumors
have been current that a few favored butch.
ers are permitted to sell meat that does not
bear rigid inspection.
Trainers men declare that Or. II. Dunbar
Marticn, Of i035 Powleton avenue a veter.
marian, was permitted TO remain as in
spector but three days after he had con-
demncd 1000 pounds Of meat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
Woman Hurt in Auto Spill

HAMMONToN. n. j., May 22.-Mrs.
Peasants, of 5s5s Addison street, West
Philadelphia. and Margaret Bonsall and Mrs
Sharp, of Yeadon, Pa, were injured
when the car in which they were riding,
driven by Mrs. Peasants's son, turned tur-
tie on the White Horse pike near Elm. Mrs.
Pleasantss leg was broken Mrs. Sharp suf-
fered two broken ribs and Miss Bonsall has
a badly gashed head.
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Continued from Page One
will continue the hearing according to
schedule
MAYOR SPEAKS
Senator Dax then introduced Mayor
smith, the first speaker, who said;
The bills which you have before your
committee this afternoon are bills for
which | am personally responsible. In
my judgment a satisfactory agreement
Tor the operation OF our high-speed sys-
tenn can be secured only through the
passage of the various measures. The
bills were drawn by DIR. William Draper
Lewis and l am going to ask him 70 eX-
plain them to you in detail,
p. r. It's EXCUSE
Mr., Ballard's letter to Senator Daix
follows:
To Hon, Augustus F. DaiX, Jr,
State Senate, Harrisburg Pa.
Dear Sir:
note from the public prints that,
although there cannot be a full meeting
or your committee tomorrow, such MEM
bers as can be present will hear those
IaVoTtng the proposed transit legislation
as their plans for going 10 HARRISBURG
have been so far perfected that to have
postponed the date OF the hearing woulu
nave seriously inconvenienced them,
| assume that the reason the full COM
mittee cannot meet is that another impor-
tant legislative hearing has been hxed TOT
the same hour. In fact, Mr.. Schaner, one
OF our regular counsel, no is to assist IN
presenting our views, will be engaged IN
that other hearing. l therefore ask that
Following the precedent which the Coun-
ellis OF the city of Philadelphia have made
In this matter of having separate hear
ings for those In favor Of the matter In
hand and those against it, you NIX an
ather day when your committee VIII hear
those opposed 70 the pending legislation
touching Philadelphia transit matters
l will appreciate II II this further
hearing can be fixed for some day other
han a Tuesday, ana will be glad OF as
much notice OF It as Il Is possible 70 give
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-22
$40, 600, 900 Fiber Company Chartered

DOVER. Del, May 22.--The Universal
Rance Fiber Company, 10 chemically COM
pound and treat grasses and growths OF a
fbrous nature, was Incorporated here to-
day with a capital stock Of $4,000 600.
The inCorporators are John G. Madden,
Hiram Cavanagh and r NJ. Coulson, New
York city.