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Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-25
Last Minute
Bulletins
GREAT IDAHO
IN SERVICE.
(By Associated Pressj

(By Associated PressJ
Philadelphia-The uper-dread-
naught Idaho, the largest fight
ing vessel afloat, has been placed
in commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-25

Where to go is no longer prob
lem. Mehlburn's Tavern, Imperial,
offers real enjoyment any evening"
Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-25

or tomorrow. The wedding will prob
ably take place in Pasadena.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-25

Advance showing of Old Hickory
porch and yard furniture. McCune's.
ADV.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-03-25

Sec H. P Fites & Co. about good
used Holt Tractors.-Adv.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
KILLING SONG PETS IN WEST
Butcher Birds Are Carrying Off canar.
les by the Score in Cali
fornia.

San Francisco.-Scores of canaries
have been carried away from their
cages during the last week by butcher
birds, who by the thousands have
taken up their winter abode here in
the Businesses of Sutro forest.
The Dutcherbird is described as
first cousin to the hawk, is about one
quarter the size and possesses preda-
tory bill. 1t is his habit to circle high
in the sky until his sharp eyes catch
sight of a canary as it perches in a
cage hung on some veranda. Then,
when it Is satisfied that its move
ments are not being watched, it swoops
noiSelessly down, thrusts its taions and
hooked beak through the bars Of the
cage, pulls the luckless bird from its
domicile and flies swiftly away with its
prey. Sometimes the butcherbirds
seem to be satisfied with the mere
killing of the songbirds.
The butcherbirds ALTERNATE each
winter in the Sutro forest, but their
number this year rs greater than
ever before. In the summer they fly
to warmer climates.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
NEW WAY TO GET RICH QUICK
Man Charged With Shipping Bibles to
Dead Persons C. o. D. and Col
tecting IS Thereby.

Seattle, Wash.-A new way to get
rich quick is alleged to have been dis
covered by #. ]. COmeau of this city,
whose complaint led to the arrest in
Tacoma of I'll. A. Jourdan, who is ac-
cused of shipping Bibles to dead per-
sons c. o. ID. and then waiting for the
cash to roll in from relatives.
Jourtian is alleged to have obtained
the names of dead persons in the
Northwest from obituary notices in the
newspapers. AS soon as the names
and addresses were obtained Bibles
were shipped with a bin for IS each.
In almost every case the Bibles would
arrive on the day of the funeral and
the relatives would Immediately send
the So. The Bibles are said to be
worth about rs cents. To add dignity
TO the scheme the name of "Rev. Ira
Worth" mythical person, is alleged
to have been used.
Comeau says he discovered the
scheme when he received a Bible and
bill for 81 when his daughter died re-
Gently.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
SIX CLAIM BODY OF chubby"
Philadelphia Coroner Called Upon to
Perform Judgment Similar to
That of Solomon.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Coroner Knight
has been called upon to perform a
judgment similar to the one that made
Solomon famous in biblical history.
Six widows" have put in claims for
the body of Anthony Oster, thirty-four
years old, who died in the West Phil
adelphia Homeopathic hospital on De-
cember 26, of injuries received while
fighting for one of them.
Each of the "bereaved" emphatically
states that Oster was married to her.
1t is the herculean task of Knight to
decide whose claim is legitimate.
1t is likely that the body will be
given to Mrs. Anna Oster, who says
that she was married to Oster IL
years ago and that they had two chill
dren. The woman with whom the de
ceased was living at the time of his
death is known as Mrs. Frances Oster.
Two 'widows" and four children in
Lancaster, Pa, and two "widows" and
four children in Reading also claim
the body.
Oster was killed by Henry Eugene
Loomis, boarder, after Oster ac-
cused him of insulting the woman with
whom Oster lived.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
Embellishments
Don't Spoil a. Good Meal
With a Bad Stomach

Ifa physician. specialist in stomach dis
eases. came tn you and said: 81 will nix up
that miserable, worn-out stomach for you or
money back.
I VIII MIA Ike it as good as new you will
not suffer from any distress and can eat what
YOU want without fear or suffering or money
back" would you turn down his offer?
And when you offered Mi-o-na stomach
many of the stomach specialists know how
to write, are you going to be narrow minded
and continue to suffer from indigestion, or
are you going to be fair TO yourself and try
Mi-o-na on the money back agreement?
Mi o. ma stomach tablets are offered to you
on this basis, that if they do not put your
stomach into such good shape that there is
no dizziness, sour stomach, biliousness, sick
headache, and stomach distress, your money
will be returned. For sale by Chas. Il.
Alexander and all leading druggists.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
WEST FREMONT.

Curtis Davis of Prospect Is visitsng his
son Fred.
Mrs. Leslie Gott, who fell on the ice six
weeks ago, is just getting about on
crutches.
w. HI. Lunt, who has been employed
the past four months at Otter Creek radio
station, Is home.
The ladies' aid society, under the man
agement of Mrs. Jasper Norwood, had a
concert and box sociable at the Methodist
church Monday evening, Feb. II. Pro-
ceeds, S14.70,
The community was shocked Sunday
by the sudden death of Julia, widow OF
Henry T. Webster. Mrs. Webster was
taken suddenly ill Thursday evening
suffering shock. She was beloved by all.
She leaves two sons, W. II. and S. C..
Webster, and six grandchildren and three
great grandchildren.
Feb. "a. THELMA.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26

scant belongings of Herman Mener-
wirtch, ffty-eight years old, an au-
parent pauper, who died recently in
the Philadelphia hospital, guards
found more than $1,000, part of which
was hidden in the leaves of book.
For more than thirty years the de-
ceased posed as penniless and lived
upon the charitable assistance of his
landlady.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
DEDHAM.
III ELMA.
Feb. "a.

A program appropriate to Washington's
birthday was enjoyed in New Gem ury
grange, Feb. %. The grange will serve
dinner town meeting day, March 10.
The community was saddened by the
death Feb II, Of Daniel c. johnson, aged
thirty-one years, after brief illness of
pneumonia. Five brothers survive him
Melvin of Dedham, Herbert of Column bia
Falls, Everett OF Bar Harbor and Frank
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
pes Moines Youths "ead.n

Des Moines. Ia.-Des MOines has
more bad kids than ever before, &C
cording to records of the Juvenile
court. Complete records up to Oc-
tober l show $50 boys and girls have
passed through the hands of the
court, while last year but S61 cases
were handled. Most of the cases
were for delinquency, larceny, break
ing and entering property and de-
struction of property.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26

and Harvey of Beverly. Mass. The funeral
was held Feb. ~, Rev. Hugh Penney of
Holden officiating. Two selections were
sung by eli ford Burrill, with Mrs. Marcia
Penney acc ompanying. The bearers were
four of the brothers. Beautiful flowers
testified of the. esteem of many friends.
Feb. "a. B.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-02-26
Nimrod Uses Booze to
Make His Bait Lively

Winsted, Conn.-How Kerney
Haywood succeeds in catching
big strings of fish through the
ice when others fishing in the
same waters and using the same
kind of bait fail has long been
a puzzle to local fishermen.
Moved by the prospects of a
dry nation, Haywood unfolded
the secret of his success. In the
pail of water containing the bait
fish he places a little John Bar
leycorn. The spirits make his
bait more lively than sinners
and clubs used by others, Hay
wood explained, and the pike,
bass and perch cannot help but
be attracted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07

committee dsregarded all precedents and
indorsed the candidacy of Judge Patter-
son; and in spite also of the charge of
some of the leaders that he was trying
to disrupt the party. He insisted, how
ever, that he was trying to unite the
party by giving to the voters an oppor-
tunity to decide for themselves whom
they wished to nominate.
The police count of the primary vote
gave the nomination to the congressman,
and the official count has sustained the
police count in so far as it gave a ma
jority to Mr.. Moore. The attempt to
change the verdict has been futile, and
Mr.. Moore will go before the voters in
November as the regular nominee of the
party with the support of the city COM
mttee.
The men who opposed him are tum-
bling over one another in their haste to
climb on the band wagon, for they have
discovered that a majority Of the voters
in the party have decided that they want
a new leadership.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. Bulgaria was the first one of the Gem
trail Powers to quit In the world war.
2. John Tyler, who had been President Of
the United States, became citizen
of the Confederate states. He voted
for secession in the Virginia conven-
ton, served in the Confederate pro-
visional congress and was elected to
the Confederate house of representa-
tiyes, but died before he could take
his seat in 1862.
8. Plankton is the scientific name for the
forms of drifting or floating organic
life, found at various depths in the
ocean, taken collectively.
4. The Arkansas river runs through the
Royal Gorge in Colorado.
s. The Gulf Stream flows east and north
east.
G. DORIS rebellion was revolutionary
movement under the leadership of Il.
w. Dorr to introduce a new state
constitution with more liberal fran
chise in Rhode Island.
7. 1t occurred In 1912.
8. The, existence Of Venice as an inde-
pendent republic was terminated by
Napoleon in 1897.
8. The fly of flag is the division of 1t
farthest away from the pole.
10. 1t is now generally conceded that the
vital mistake made by the Germans
in the FIRST part Of the war was In
driving toward Paris instead Of seis-
ing the channel ports Of France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
HOLED OUT!

THE Philadelphia Orchestra endow-
ment campaign is like nine-hole golf
course: 1t is to have nine luncheons and
at each it must report minimum of
100000 if it is to get its million dol
lars. 1t played its first hole last Friday
and holed out with 100000. Today it
plays it's second hole at its Ritz Carlton
luncheon.
The workers report that the zap
proach" is good Let US hope so. But it
is a game in which every man and woman
in Philadelphia must take part in order
to hole out at the ninth. In this par
ticular kind of golf game the second
and third holes are the most difficult to
-Snegotiate," If the playing there is
good, an impetus carries along, and the
other six holes are not so difficult.
Both of those two holes will be PLAYED
by the six hundred and odd Orchestra
workers this week, one today and the
other on Friday. Let us all help them to
hole out on both. 1t is a game in which
each and all may well be proud to take
a hand. 1t is worthy in the best sense
of the word.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07

cleaning up plague-smitten Havana.
Within six years the city was absolutely
free from yellow fever, Cuba herself
learned the wondrous new lesson and now
Havana is one of the healthiest commune
ties on the earth.
There were two miracle workers at
Panama, each indispensable to the other.
Goethals built the waterway and Gorgas
by his anti-yellow fever sanitation en-
abled him to use the man-power. With
out his control and suppression of the
scourge the continents would never have
been severed. We should have failed
there in a tropic graveyard as France
had done.
Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro took
up the mighty hygienic arms which we
had forged. The Brazilian littoral was
purged of the pest. Full credit must be
given to Latn-America in the last stages
of the age-old conflict.
Guayaquil remained, seething with
disease, menace to the entire continent.
Upon an invitation from the city, Gen
eral Gorgas assembled his heavy artil-
lery and finished the job as conclusively
DIS L tISIlUB lOOh ONtI luC ~
salient.
Not all of, Americas intrepid warriors
carry a sword.
zone hundred years from today" de-
clared Generalissimo Gorgas in 1915, "a
case of it (yellow fever) will probably
be regarded as a medical curiosity" He
underestimated his powers and those of
that marvellous army of benefactors to
mankind who have shared in the victory.
1t is conceivable that, as the clash of
battle in the military sense becomes more
and more archaic the world will under
take to redefine war. 1t may realize then
that strife is not only by poisoned gas,
Browning guns, trench knives, aerial
bombs, submarines and "Big Berthas."
In time the peace of Guayaquil may be
comprehended in its epochal majesty.
And, if the anachronistic diplomats
are still unsatisfied with performance
which merely safeguards the lives of mil
lions, perhaps they will understand what
the end of some three hundred years of
struggle means when they behold the
transformation of the tropics.
If the Gorgas principles of sanitation
are respected, as, despite some inevitable
backsliding, they are in the main certain
to be, torrid America. made habitable for
white men, will play an entirely new role
in the worlds destinies.
1t is hard to forecast the favor Of fame.
And yet, despite the skeptic, the world
does slowly grope toward truth. Almost
timidly it learns to think, but in the end
its judgments attain proportion. And
when it takes in the significance of the
surrender of the yellow scourge there
will be no doubt about who triumphed in
one war. 1t was among the most fright
full and the longest conflicts of history.
And the victor, with all respect to heroic
allies, was America.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
When autumn Comes Along

SUMMERTIME was mighty sweet,
~ But autumn comes along,
And that's when winds are hard to beat
At singin' Of a song!
They seem, beneath the sun and moon,
To raise rollickin' good tunei
And when the winds have gone their ways
Just all too tired to sing
We greet the dancing nights and days,
And hear home music ring
Joys in the old home place abound
The fiddlers call for "Hands around!"
Oh, then there's higher hope and heart,
And tables that are spread,
With Love to play the happy part
To break and bless the bread.
And then 1t is the joy we know
That makes us love sweet Autumn so!
Houston Post.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
WHERE EVERYBODY WINS

ORGANIZED labor in the British rail-
~ way strike was under the influence of
the most conspicuous radicals in Eng
land. Yet, from the very first, these
radicals were conservative enough and
decent and reasonable enough to fight
every trend that might have brought
British trades unionism into dangerous
conflict with the collective will of the
people or the institutions upon which ma
tional welfare is dependent.
Arthur Henderson and John r. Clynes
are among the major prophets of British
liberalism. Yet it was they who, as men
most ardently devoted to the trades
union cause, did as much as Lloyd George
to make an amicable settlement of the
strike possible. They were not amateurs
or adventurers in the labor movement
They sought permanent rather than tenn
porary benefits, and, by refusing to per-
nit sympathetic strikes in other indus
tries, made it plain that they wished to
base settlements upon moral grounds
rather than upon the purely accidental
advantage of strategic strength. British
labor is stronger because it suddenly
abandoned warlike attitude to reach a
friendly working agreement with the
men who have to bear the esponsibili-
ties of government and industrial leader
ship.
Men like Henderson and Clynes are
too rare in American trades unionism,
which, because it is younger than the
trades unionism of Great Britain, is often
more Incorporate, more emotional and
more willing to be a refuge for philo-
sophical vagrants and the propagandists
of futile violence.
1t is difficult to imagine sharper con-
trast than that of the British labor lead
ers at the recent successful strike con-
ference and the aloofness of the United
Mine Workers of America from the in
dustrial conference which opened in
Washington yesterday. Upon the British
side is evidence of a national view.
Upon the other is definite acknowledge
ment of class consciousness.
The United Mine Workers leaders do
not like the personnel of the conference.
Do they want packed jury? The rep
resentatves were named by President
Wilson, who obviously believed that the
instincts of justice in Americans gen.
orally representative of labor and capital
alike could insure some method of ap-
proach to better mutual understandings
between the two halves of the industrial
world.
Progressive opinion in the United
States is, like progressive opinion in
England, opposed to class consciousness
in any quarter, 1t is opposed to the
D'Annunzios of labor and the D'Annun.
zios of capital 1t wants no raids either
on the common resources of the country
or on the rights of people. And it wants
! peace.
Neither society nor the land itself car
provide all that people seek while the
world is full of idleness and turmoil
The British railway strikers could no
win, yet their demands were more rea
sonable and their methods fairer thar
those of Foster and his associates a
Pittsburgh.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
ZONE FARES AND FAIR PLAY

"THE record of the first day was be-
yond our fondest expectations. Our
best hopes were surpassed. The system
will work better and better as it becomes
familiar"
That is what John L, O'Toole, in charge
of the zone-fare system on the Camden
street car lines, said at the end of the
first day of the troublesome experiment.
Mr.. O'Toole lived and learned.
The State Utilities Commission lives.
but it doesn't appear to learn. In reply
to the general outhurst of indignation
and as preliminary to the hearing or
dered by the Governor to show cause
why they should not be ousted, the COM
missioners have issued statement.
They still insist that the zone-fare sys-
tenn is Scientific" They raise cry for
fair play.
The gentlemen composing the commits
sion may in a final analysis prove to be
deserving of sympathy. They seem to
be in the wrong jobs. They know too
much of politics and too little of street.
car operation. The Camden lines needed
larger revenues. In Washington the
osiei ueS eAPeltS were IelllHS IHe L eu-
eral Railways Commission that the pri-
mary need for efficient and profitable
street-car service is scientific manage
ment. They didn't say that it was in
creased fares.
5 1t is to be hoped that at the hearing
Of the Jersey Utilities Commission some
one will ask the members what they
know about scientific street-car manage
ment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
What Do You Kno,u?
QUIZ

I. Who said Nothing will ever be at
tempted If all possible objections
must first be overcome?
2. Who was Cavour? g
8. What kind of vegetable Is a sengreen?
4. What is the largest city in Georgia?
5. What is neurology?
6. What are isothermal lines2
7. What is the name for male lamb as
distinguished from a eve?
s. What fortress is known as the Key Of
the Mediterranean?
o. Who was Frederic Cuvier?
10. Which was the fourteenth state In the
order of admission into the American
Union?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
STATEMENT OF THE
OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT
CIRCULATION ETC,
Eueninn puhlir Iehner

AS or OCTOBER /, 1919.
Published daily except Sunday at Phladel
phia. Pa, required by the act of August
"a, 1912.
Editor-David e. Smiley. Philadelphia.
Mdndoing Editor--Morris NJ. Lee Phiadel
phia.
General Business Mdndger-John c. Martin
Philadelphia.
PubtSher-PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY.
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pany for assurances on Lives and Grant
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Anthony ]. DreXel deceased.
Average number of copies of each issue OF
this publication sold or distributed. through
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during the six months preceding the date
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The circulation figures in this report are
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sixth day of October 1919,
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
GETTING ON THE BAND WAGON

Z A RRANGEMENTS to invite Congress
"a man Moore to address the Republi-
can city committee as the regular party
nominee for the mayoralty indicate that
the Organization is preparing to accept
the inevitable with grace.
The congressman made his fight for
the nomination within the ranks of the
marty. He was candidate at the Re-
publican primaries, and he insisted that
he was seeking the Republican nominal
fion inkspite Of the fact that the sh'ity
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
Desk Notices


Tread softly and circumspectly in this
funambulous track and narrow path of
goodness Covetousness cracks the
sinews of faith, numbs the apprehension of
anything above sense. and makes a perad-
venture of things to come; lives but unto
one world. nor hopes but fears another;
makes our own death sweet unto others
bitter unto ourselves; gives dry funeral
scenical mourning and no wet eyes at the
grave. SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
We noticed that Judge Patterson said the
other day he had been too much in his shell
lately and was going to branch out.
If the genial judge, with his Dickensian
hlarty and unfailing humor, considers him
self chambered nautilus, all we can re.
mark (and we do remark) is that we would
like to be around when he begins to build
more stately mansions for his soul, as the
we'll known physician DIR. o. w. Holmes
phrased it.
Amy Lowell's new book OF prose is going
to 90 big we tentatively opine, even if the
publishers do insist calling it poetry
Here is the influence Miss Lowell has ON
one hardened man. The literary editor was
away on holiday recently, and in his alb
sence the book was handed to us to review.
Before we got round to it the l.. e. came
back He was nearly prostrated at the
news that this book had escaped him and
made us give it back.
A friend in Baltimore writes us that 1t
took him thirteen weeks to get Don Mar
uuis to answer a letter, even though he
inclosed stamped addressed envelope.
If he knew Don as we'll as we do he
would know that this was doing pretty well
vachel Lindsay wants us to go to Eng
land with him to help him share the deficit
of his lecturing tour. And yet it is said
that poets have no business sense.
If we were doing things on the Dan
nunzio plan we should have sent Vachel
Lindsay to mop up Omaha instead of Gen
eral Wood. And our own private opinion
is that vachel could have done it,
D'Annunzio, we might add, has written
the epic Of Fiume, but the league OF ma
tons will have "a Rad the proofs.
yocRATEs,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07

Much conjecture has been rife as to
the cause Of the fog which has enveloped
Philadelphia during the last few days
Well, the winds have been from the south
aad blew right over the Capitol at Wash
ington. Do you suppose that has anything
to do with it?