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Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

Howard Curtis, local agent for the
Southern California Automobile Club.
has gone to Los Angeles on business.
He will be gone a week or ten days.
Ia his absence Mr.. Sherwood will be in
charge of the office.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30
PERSONAL and LOCAL MENTION

Spot dance at woodland Park open
air pavilion, Saturday, june 80.
Attorney Walter kibbey returned
from a trip to Los Anee.- today.
]. D. Meadows left last night for
trip to the Grand Canyon and Phoe
NIX.
Brawley collected $500 for the Red
Cross funds yesterday. according to
reports from local headquarters.
John L. Rice of Imperial has en-
tered the engineering corps of the
army.
The residence of Victor Rivers at
alexico was destroyed when his stove
blew up yesterday. None of the house
hold goods were saved.
Lee Ferrell, formerly marshal of
Calexico, died in Los Angeles recent
", according to word received by L.
c. Fuller.
Mrs. Owen Morris left this morn
ing for Los Angeles. From that city,
after weeks visit, she will go 20
san Francisco and Portland, to visit
with friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

Brawley collected $500 for the Red
Cross funds yesterday according to
reports from local headquarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

turn soon, accompanied by his wife.
Mrs. Leo Hetzel has been called to
Porterville, Cal, by the illness of an
aunt.
Mrs. w. S. Lee, wife of local
bridge builder, will visit with relatives
at lockwood for a few days.
Lillian johnson of Holtville stopped
in FL Centre this morning before leav-
ing for her vacation.
Robert Hayes has gone to Los An
geles to visit with his parents until
after the Fourth of July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philley and Mr.. and
Mrs. Gill will spend Sunday together
in the mountains.
Bob Blankenship, who has been i'll
the Valley on his hog ranch for SIX
weeks, returned yesterday to his home
in San Diego.
C. E. Sprouse leaves tonight to join
Mrs. Sprouse and Bonnie in Los An
seles, where they are spending their
vacation.
The Sones Lumber Company has
filed suit against S. S. Langdale to
foreclose a material lien on certain
property.
William Hammers, with his sister,
Mrs. Sam Rottman and her little
daughter, all of Calexico, visited FL
Cehtro today.
Anderson and Exc confessing to the
crime of burglary, were given year
apiece in San Quentin this morning
by Judge Cole.
Justice Williams of CaleXico yes
.erday sentenced Charles Giller to l80
Iays and Antonio Calderson to 80
lays, on the charge Of petit larceny.
Miss Ethel Chestnut and her sister,
Mrs. H. O'Hanlon, left Ell Centre this
morning to take their vacation to-
gether in Los Angeles.
Carl Pine, Liberty agent in Ell Cen
t,o, returned to Los Angeles last
evening, where he will remain until
fall
Charles Whitlow, Jr., will leave
Sunday for Florence, Ariz. The other
members of the family have preceded
h,m to this city, where they will make
their future home.
Howard Curtis, local agent for the
Southern California Automobile Club.
has gone to Los Angeles on business.
He will be gone a week or ten days.
In his absence Mr.. Sherwood will be in
charge of the office.
Miss Matte Cronen and mother will
leave Monday for the summer. They
have planned to visit in the mountains
for a few days and then will go to
San Diego and later sail to Vancou-
YER, Wash.
Judge Cole late yesterday granted
injunctions against the use of certain
houses in Brawley to j. Edgar Ross
of that city, who alleged that they
were be ing used for immoral pur
poses.
Readings Of the river yesterday were
as follows: Needles, 1885, drop OF
one-t<hth; Yuma, 292, a rise of half
foot; discharge, 10000 feet, an in
cl ease of 1000 feet; Volcano Lake, Al
feet, a rise of .15 of foot.
A fine testimonial to the worth and
popularity of Walter Packard was the
dinner given in his honor by Imperial
Valley friends last night at the Bar
lara Worth There were forty at the
board. Phil Brooks was postmaster
President Lotus Of the Farm Bureau
and local newspaper men eulogized the
guest of honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

Charles Whitlow, Jr, will leave
Sunday for Florence, Ariz. The other
members of the family have preceded
h.m to this city, where they will make
their future home.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

Readings Of the river yesterday were
as follows: Needles, 1885, drop OF
one-t<hth; Yuma, 1872, rise of half
a foot; discharge, 10000 feet, an in
cl ease of 1000 feet; Volcano Lake, Al
feet, a rise of Is of q foot.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

City Marshal Jenkins arrested las
night Bert Elek, a cook, and Bob An
derson, bartender, on the charge
tf stealing a large quantity of soap
from the plant of the Imperial Valley
Soap Works at Imperial. The plant
has been closed down for some time
The men are accused OF hauling away
soap in truck and attempting to sell
it to Ell Centre firms.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

A fine testimonial to the worth and
popularity of Walter Packard was the
dinner given in his honor by Imperial
Valley friends last night at the Bar
lara Worth. There were forty at the
board. Phil Brooks was POSTMASTER
President Lotus of the Farm Bureau
and local newspaper men eulogized the
guest of honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

John L. Rice of Imperial has en-
tered the engineering corps of the
army
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-30

Carl Pine, Liberty agent in Ell Cen
t,o, returned to Los Angeles last
evening, where he will remain until
fall
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
Improving Telegraph Sounder

From the Poular Science Monthly.
On long telegraph lines. the current
coming into station is generally so
weak that il cannot even pull down the
magnet OF the loud sounding instru-
ment. The current can, however. oper-
ate small magnet on very sensitive
telegraph instrument BY making this
small magnet close a heavy battery
circuit In which the loud sounder is
placed, the sensitive instrument acts
as a relay and overcomes the diff
ficulty.
Extra batteries and instruments are
therefore needed at every station. In
any large size telegraph system, the ex-
penses of their upkeep are considera
BILE.
A clever invocation of r. A, Circuit and
|B M. Grout Of DAVENPORT, Ia. does
away with this expense by simplifying
the weak relay clicks directly BY means
of a diaphragm and horn such as are
used in all pronograph instruments.
The weak clicks are transmitted to the
diaphragm whose vibrations act upon
the air and shoot their corresponding
sounds out through tina horn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23

we'll as in the fearless sWiftness at his
action. Esalas Tegner. the Swedish ma
tional poet, In his famous address on
Luther a century ago, brought out that
side OF Luther in bold relief. Similarly
did it appeal to that lover Of iconoclasts,
Thomas Carlyle, who compared Luther
to the rugged granite cliffs in whose
hollows green pastures afford home sites
for men and food tor beasts
But popularity without substantial
achievement us mofnentary The four
hundredth reformation anniversary did
not celebrate man. It celebrated ideals
land principles that today are still at
the basis OF true religion and free gov
|ernment.
Z Luthera fought his way through the
formal practices and outward rites of
the old church to the conviction that re-
lligion Is PERSONAL the intimate relation
|of the child Of God to his heavenly
Father. That thought he expressed in
the theses. stating that when our Lord
Jesus says Repent ye,'' he means "a
change Of the heart and q new life.
More beautiful and at length he ex-
pressed this In the reformation thact on
the Liberty Of the Christian Man
Through Christ we are free men and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23

Rev O. II. Pannkoke. IN the Cnristian
Herald
The proposition Of Luther, which mas
become the veriest commentaries Of re-
ligious conviction, meant changed
world order. Medieval religious life cen-
tered around church officials 81 the rep
resentatives Of God on earth and the sole
means Of approach to God. The early
tradition Of Peter. as the leader among
the apostles, had grown tn the ambi-
tious SUCCESSORS Of Peter until they be-
came the rulers OF church and state
They claimed the right Of interpreting
and teaching Gods word. Through the
sacramcnts. especially the mass, they
claimed every opportunity Of reooncilia-
ton with God. Within the church was
salvation. The church officials were the
church.
Many people see in the medieval
church nothing more than mistaken
flea. No idea without ORGANISATION will
s1ag continue The strength Of the
+ edievAl church Law In IL erganizatlon
more compact than tho Roman empire,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
held together by the haunting fear Of


eternal damnatiop.
Luther's claim Of personal union with
God crumpled with one mighty stroke
that massive structure Of medieval eccle~
siastical organization. 1t made superfiu-
Gus the churchmen by opening free ac-
cess to God. We love Luther for teach
ing us that we can go directly and fear
lessly to our Savior. We love him more
because he was the fighting man that
broke the sniritual tyranny Of the Middle
Ages.
To the sksptic, changes in religious
convictions have little significance. He
likes to think Of progress az going on
independent Of any religion or church
influence. a. matter Of fact the de-
spised Christianity Of the first centu-
ries conquered the Roman empire and
changed the civilization Of the Mediter-
ranean basin. The lightning Of the monk
Of Wittenberg blazed the way for the
madern day.
Comment Is frequently made on the
popular striking personality Of Luther.
and that Is adduced as the reason for
the abiding Interest in him. There is
some truth In this. Luther appeals to
the imagination IN his personal traits IS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23

If we are to sterilize the mouthpieces
Of telephones every day, to kill the hac-
terra and prevent infection, and are to
scfuD the door-knobs every day for the
same reason, why not be consistent and
go on scrubbing and scrubbing every
thing with which we come in contact?
If these bacteria must be cleaned out
once a day. why not once an hour, OF
elce a minute? The pestiferous things
are apt to get in any second
OF course everybody knows that drink
ling water must be not only boiled, but
distilled.
We have all ofssa enough been warned
that hand shaking is dangerous and
kissing il deadly. All OF which warning
we have all duly observed, of course.
Now afeer having long and virtuously
refrained from raw water and from the
Rother enticements it is hard to be in
formed by bacteriologists that we still
Eare in momentary danger from microhes
unless we scrub. scrub, scrub.
+ And when we get used to the scrub
hing and learn to look upon IT as mat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
Telephones Under Their Hats

New York man, Jesse 4. Spence.
has invented a helmet for the use Of
aviators which not only provides them
with head covering but a telephone
as we'll Any one who has ever tried to
talk while in an airplane knows how
difficult it is.
The loud noise made by the engine
and the high wind pressure make con-
versation well nigh impossible
The type of helmet invented by Mr.
Spence has a pocket which holds a
telephone receiver. ear tabs and d
daring tube leading away from the
pocket which connects with an opening
inside of the ear tabs. When two or
more persons are in the airplane each
wears helmet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
Care for the Crazy

In the orient the crazy fan Is privi-
legged person, to be tolerated. given
food, allowed to go where he will. but
never cured. He is supposed to be
peculiarly holy person But Il IS
Americans who in 1872 founded tho nrst
hospital for the insane east OF Sue1-s
The Kerr Refuge at Canton. with 500
patients, who come from all CLASSES
here you will find the mandarin, the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
His Sacrifices
expenses.

Are YOU reducing your expenses.
Biu?"
Indeed / am. A man can't stand this
high cost of living on the salary he.
gets. I've cut out the wife's weekly
matinee. countermanded her new fall
suit, discharged the nurse, made tho
kids give up moving pictures and ice
cream, stopped the high priced milk for
the baby and chloroformed the cat to
save its living expenses. But If this
sort of thing keeps on / may have to
step buying cigars and stop my club
dues
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
course instead of a hardship, m,

ter of course instead Of a hardship, may
not the microbes steal another march,
on us through the scrub brush?
Maybe We shall have to steriize the
soap and then sterilize the sterilizer.
Psychologists are Unsuitable. They
never know where to stop.
We may seen become as ridiculons as
the old Salemites in the days of witch
craft
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-23
Luther's Personality and Achievement

lords af All things. taken into the very
bosom Of God.''
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-02
HERE'S CHANCE TO GET RICH
Set Lot of Mice to Making Threal
for You. 49,.

I Mice, until recently. eNerted all
their energies in CHASING women on
to chairs. furnishing exercise for
eats and filling cupboard shelves
with finely cut paper. David Hut
TT noted this waste of eJergy and
mased upon it. The result was that
he has taught mice to weave thread.
II had occasion to be at Perth
S6ctlapd," Mr.. Hutton said in relat-
ing the story. while inspecting the
toys and trinkets that were manu-
featured there, my attention was at
tracted by little toy house with 4
wheel in the gable that was runnins
RAPIDLY around, impelled by the ac-
uvity of common mouse For one
shilling ! purchased the house, the
mouse and the Wheel
Having spent shilling CA centsl
Mr.. Hutton. who is Scotch, at once
Wa puzzled as to how he could turn
his purchase TO practicable purposes.
The manufacture of a sewing thread
seemed the most profitable to him
So he experimental
A mouse weighs one-half an ounce,
en- an average. That rave him one
Lalf ounce power. He found that Il
mouse will run about ten and half
miles a day Mr. Hutton also dis.
covered that a half-penny's worth
Of oatmeal was sufficient fer thirty
I've days food for one mouse. which
during that time ran 367 miles.
For more than a year Mr.. Hutton
kept two mice constantly engaged in
the making of sewing thread The
mill was so constructed that tie
mouse was able to twist and real
about 100 threads a day. He worked
his mice in every other day shifts
One of the mice on the half-pen-
ny's ration of oatmeal which lasted
for five weeks. made 1850 threads
each twenty-five inches long Since 4
penny was paid to women for every
hank made by hand the mouse at
that rate earned nine pence fs1.0SD
overy siy weeks After deducting the
cost + food and machinery. there
was clear yearly profit on Mr. Hut
tons books Of more than six shillings
tSl.ti1 from each mouse
MIR Hutton has no patent on the
idea. Anyone who wants 10 get
rich may corral a herd of mice and
epen a thread factory Kansas city
Star
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-02
SAVE THE BABIES"

These are authentic quotations
Fl, M the pamphlet on babies by DR..
l. Emmett Holt of Columbia and
Or. Henry l., X Shaw of Union
University
Regularity in bottle feeding is
very important. Hold the BEETLE
while the baby eats. After he eats
place him upright and pat his back
to bring up the air he has swallowed
Then place him in his crib. but
DON'T rock him NEVER play
with him after his feeding. Don't
let him suck an empty bottle. Don't
let him sleep with the nipple in his
r,Outh.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-02

No. l. whom he had divorced. and
Mrs. Trip No. 2. formerly his ste
nographer.
Have you women ever received
any presents from your husband? ?"
asked Judge Lands. after he had
looked over a long list of jewelry
named in Trips petition as having
been purchased from one of his cred
itors.
Mrs. Trip No. l confessed she had
received a $500 diamond horseshoe
pin from him.
/ Where is it?" asked the Judge.
Weller. Judge, L"
Never mind" replied the Judge
You may go into my chambers and
remove il"
She did
To wife No. the Judge shot the
same question about jewelry.
Wife No. said she had received
a lavalliere from Trip.
Well. you can get along without
II in cold weather. can't your" asked
thejudge
Judge Lands asked how much the
lavalliere was worth. He was in
formed that il could be bought for
$3.50.
Mrs. Trip No. l laid on the
judges desk five pieces of jewelry
which. she said. had been given to
her by Trip, Mrs. Trip No. / is
now living at the Hyde Park Hotel
as Mrs. Blanche Trip. The value of
the jewelry turned over TO Judge
Lands was estimated at sl.26O.-
Chicago Post.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-02
Stirring Days In Shipping
Circles Of Falmouth, Eng.

the busy shipping, and they stand as
eniblems of what naval power meant
at the very outset of British suprem-
acy on the seas.
Under the escort of the officer in
charge The Associated Press CORE
spondent went over both of these old
warriors. 1t was hard climb up the
slippery moss-covered sides of the
old Implacable. formerly the Dougy
Trouin which fought at Trafalgar.
The heavy oak sides of the ship are
deeply indented and eaten away, and
yet the staunch timbers are substan-
tally intact. Both ships have lost
their fine fgureheads, and while each
retains single mast they look lone
some without their yard-arms of the
cd days. On deck there is a great
sweep sixty feet across and nearly
200 feet deep with portfolios for the
cannon at regular intervals. New
decks have been laid. but the side
bulwarks are the old oak. apparently
as substantial as ever.
On the lower deck there is a sec
ond no wof portfolios. This was the
main fighting deck. all the crew be-
ing between the two rows of guns. un-
til an enemy ship was grappled, when
all the crew went aabove to form
board parties.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-02
LIFTS" WIVES JEWELS
Women Forced to Surrender Hus-
bands Gifts for Benefit of
Creditors

Federal Judge Lands forced two
women to strip themselves of their
iewelry in court and turn it over to
him for the benefit of creditors of
William II. Trip. an advertising
salesman. who filed a petition of vol
untary bankruptcy. Trip was ac-
companied into court by Mrs. Trip
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-11
Senate Afternoon Session

Senate called to order promptly at 2
0 o'clock Senate joint memorial No. 5
by Wood, in which congress is asked
to pass the bill known as the volunteer
relief bill, giving the same aid, accord
ing to rank as any pensions they now
receive, was read, but in the absence Of
Senator Wood. the author of the bill, it
was laid on the table until Friday.
Senate joint resolution No. 2 was
passed 1t provides for commission
of seven to investigate the laws and
provide some plan for making justice
more certain and simplifying the laws,
Senate resolution No % was adopted, it
providing for furnishing copies of the
Oregon laws to members of the senate.
Four bills were introduced:
s. B. Nc. SO, by Olson. Providing
homestead exemption in certain eases.
S. B. No. 54 by Smith, of Josephine.
Amending the code.
S. B. No. So. by Dimick, For better
protection of ducks and other water
fowl, forbidding batting at their feeding
grounds,
The Multnomah delegation reported
hack bill providing kindergartens in
cities Of 10000 or over.
S. B. No 56, bv Orton. Providing for
the recording of chattel mortgages.
Adjourned at 2:20 until Friday morn
ing at clock
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-11
No Definite News
Of Army AviatOr's Fate

San Diego, Cal, Jap. 11.-Up to l
O'Clock this afternoon no definite news
had been received as to the fate of Col
onel Harry Bishop and Lieutenant W.
A. Robertson, Jr,, army aviators who
yesterday left here in an attempted
flight over the mountains to Calexco.
Calls to the aviation headquarters
brought the information that nothing
was known. A report from Campo, a
mountain town in the line of flight, said
the machine had been found. This was
not confirmed and nothing was seen of
the men. The only definite word is
from Rubio ranch that the machine was
descending last evening, but whether
it had met with an accident was not
known "t5
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-11
Prices We're Strong
In Wall Street Today

New York, Jan, 1.-THE New York
Evening Sun financial review today
says:
The stock market made instant re-
sponse today to the address Of Pre-
micr Lloyd George before the mass
meeting in the Guild hall in London ar
ranged to arouse public interest III
the huge inte national British loan,
the terms of which will be announced
tomorrow The course of prices in the
late forenoon and through the midday
period had been gradually recovering
land leading up to the brisk forward
movement that followed the pubhca-
tion ON this side of the views of the
statesmen on the German peace man
euyer.
The securities market was more act
live than in several days past, both in
the stock and bond departments, with
/ both lists strong except the foreign loan
issues, which have been heavy for sew
teral days past.
| After midday the forward movement
i'm stocks gathered force and advances
| in the industrial list not only covered
all the early losses of the forenoon, but
recorded gains of | to points above
| Wednesday 5 closing level,
/ There was a spectacular rally in the
new General Motors shares. The ship
ping shares did much the same, as did
the railroad lists In the last hour prize
les were unsettled and trading slacken-
led somewhat
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-11
German Government
Issues New Peace Note
to Worlds Neutral Powers

Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Jan.
1.-THE German government yester-
day sent a new note to the neutral ma
tions.
It first stated that the German gov
eminent had received the entente S re-
ply to the note of fsDecember 10, and
continuing, the press bureau said the
note contained proposition to enter
at once into peace negotiations.
The note, the press bureau said, con-
tinued:
"Our adversaries decline this PROPOSE
ton, giving as a reason that it is a
propositions without sincerity and with
out Importance. The form in which
they close their communication eX-
cludes answer to them, but the inn
perial government considers it i'm
portant to point out to the governments
of neutral powers its opinion about the
situation. -
"The central powers have no reason
to enter into any discussion about the
origin of the world war;" the note
continued, according to the press bur
eau text. History will judge upon
whom the immense guilt of the war
falls. History's verdict will as little
pass over the encircling policy of Eng
land and the revenge policy of France
and the cndeavor ~of Russia to gain
Constantinople, as over the instigations
of a Serbian assassination in Sarajevo,
and the complete mobilization of Rus
sa, which meant war against Ger
many
Germany and her allies" the note
continued, ''who had to take arms for
the defense of their liberty and their
existence, consider this, their aim of
war, as obtained.
"On the other hand, the hostile pow
ers. always went further away from
realization of their plans. which, ac-
cording to declarations of their re-
sponsible statesmen, were among
others, directed towards the conquest
of Alsace Lorraine and several Prus
sian provinces;- the humiliation OF the
Austro- Hungarian monarchy; parti'
tion of Turkey, mutilation of Algeria
''Tn the face of such war aims, the
demand for sanction, reparation and
guarantee in the mouth of our adversar
les makes surprising effect.
"Our adversaries call tire proposal OF
the four allied powers war maneuvel
Germany and her allies must protest
in most energetic fashion that their mo
tices. which are adulterattd (mis
stated( this way. They were persuad
ed tha. peace, which was just and ae
eeptable 70 all belligerents was possible
and could &c brought about by the i'm