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Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Rcy Walter RocA will preach TO-
morrow evening on "Who Will VIM
and he advertises it rs a real baseball!
sermon. Rev. Reed also takos eXcen-
tion to the Press statement that he
owned cat, merely stating that he
was befriending the Presbyterian min
istcr, Rev. Geo. Hartman, who owns
a cat, from Rev. Palmcr's dire threats.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

METHODIST CHURCH SERVICE

Sunday school, 9:45.
In the absence of the Pastor, Rev.
Q. L. Snow will preach at the morning
service at II O'clock
Epworth League at 2. III.
Evening worship at 8 p. m.
Prof. II. &C. Warner will speak on
THE League ofHNations."
Everyone welcome.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04
lRST EVANGELICAL Oh
18th and Euclid

Services in the German language at
Il m. Sunday school Immediately aft
er the service Everybody cordially In
vited
Ladies Aid meets Thursday after
noon at go.
Carl Saenger, Pastor.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Mrs. Robert Wade and daughtcr-in-
law, Mrs. Porter from Centralia, Mo-,
are visiting at the home Of Mrs.
Wade's daughter, Mrs. Walter Swan
berger.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Mrs. Robert Campbell from Los An
geles is visiting Ell Centre friends for
few days.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04
ocZRK6

Mrs. Swyhart of st. Joseph, Mo. is
visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Kluck. She expects to make FL Centre
her home.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Miss Antionette Rebhausen is OK
pected to return tomorrow from Beau
mont where she has been for the past
four months, She is very much i'm
proved III health.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

u. S. Vice-consuI Smale, Of MeXi-
cali, was in this city yesterday trans
acting business.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

The hot lunch that is served at the
Valley Drug Co. is the best ever.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04
Farm Advisor

When you are tired and feel little
off, try a cup Of hot chocolate at the
Valley Drug Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

J. H. Ray, shoe buyer of the B. Sa-
lcmon store, returned from Los An
geles last evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

All the regular services will be held
The pastor, Walter S. Reed viii preach
morning and evening. A special base
ball sermon will be the feature of thl
evening program. At this service Her
bert G. Thomas, Ell Centres best ten.
or will sing.
Morning worship at. II O'Clock.
Evening service at 7:30 p. m.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
All are invited.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Southwest Corner 5th and Orange
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
No morning service.
Evening Prayer and sermon at 1880
p. m.
Seat free.
All welcome
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Mr.. II. P. Cripps leaves tonight for
keene Camn to spend a week or ten
days with Mrs. Cripps.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

berger.
J. H. Ray, shoe buyer of the B. Sa-
lomon store, returned from Los An
geles last evening.
Mr.. II. P. Cripps leaves tonight for
Keene Camn to spend week cr ten
days with Mrs. Cripps.
Mrs. G. J. Phelps will return next
week from Los Angeles whore she has
spent the summer months visiting her
sister.
Jazz perfume, the new one, at the
Valley Drug CO.
Jean Turner of the Valley Hardware
company is reported much better to-
day. He has been confined to his bed
with a severe attack of "flu.'
Mrs. Lydia Christopher is located at
the Park View for the winter.
Francisco Martinez, convicted of
robbery in the superior court this week
was sentenced by Judge Cole to from
one to five years in the state peniten-
tiary.
Yesterday was law and order day
in the two sessions of the superior
court, presided over by Judge Phil
Swing and Judge Franklin j. Cole.
Thomas Brown, who was placed on
probation last spring, because of de-
linqucncies, this morning was ordered
back to hs parents in Los Angeles
bN order of the superior court.
f. B. Breston of Yuma, is spending
a few days in FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Mrs. G. J. Phelps will return next
week from Los Angeles whore she has
spent the summer months visiting her
sister.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Mrs. lydia Christopher is located at
the Park View for the winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Jazz perfume, the new one, at the
Valley Drug Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-10-04

Jean Turner Of the Valley Hardware
company is reported much better to-
day. He has been confined to his bed
with a severe attack of "flu.'
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1919-01-03

1.-THE four members of the congregation
lin police court. Mr.. Vivlon protested
that he was not ready to proceed but
the powers that be put che motion to
sustain the charges, and they were
sustained BY practically the same
Complimentary" vote as accorded
Rev. Frye.
Later IN the meeting d motion to
grant pardon for Rev. Frye for his
alleged indiseretions carried.
A nominating committee Of seven
members was appointed to make up d
ticket Of officers for the year 1919.
This committee viii report at another
congregational meeting TO be held
Tuesday evening, January Ia.
A motion to the effect that the keys,
and property of the church, including
the communion set, be turned over t6
the proper officers, carried. The mo-
ton was amended to appoint Phillip
Hatcher Is the person to see that the
object is carried out ii detail.
The resignation Of Clerk Estel was
accepted. He has served six years.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1919-01-03
The Negro and
SeIf-Governrllent

Now that the Negro has succeeded
IN giving articulation and publicity te
j his legit mate aspirations for a place
| in the sun of democracy, it is to be
expected that the capitalists and their
servants the imperialists will rush for
ward with arguments and explanations
designed to show the Negroes unfit
ness to govern himself better than
he can be governed" by the superior
white man.
| In meeting this propaganda, it #,
well to remember that the Negro III
Africa got along fairly we'll before the
coming of the white man cast ovel
that continent the pail Of hell, that
the dawn Of civilization occurred IN
| Africa and among q people Of the
Negro race; that Negro nations and
lempires some Of them dating back
! for thousands Of years and with dy
snasties almost as old-were existent
4 in Africa before and at the time OF
| the beginning If the slave trade; that
| the then powerful Portuguese king
dom sent an embassy TO the brilliant
court of the King Of Kongo"; that the
Songhai Empire and its civilization
{ spontaneously decreed, evoked, prop
agated BY man Of the Negro races,
while mot attaining its fullest prom
! ise' owing, not SO much to the native
successors, as to the civilized (some
say white) peoples, who ruthlessly de
stroyed this good seed. and caused the
tares Of barbarism to sprout anew,
still held considerable place for q
period of nearly a thousand years. Il
comprised three dynasties, the Dia,
the Sunni, and the Askia, and was not
1 without it's hour Of glory; that (ac-
lcording to Leo Frobenius) "the people
which created the Nupean Empire and
gave it strength and constitution were
nation rich in culture and power.
Those who, long before the tenth CEN
tury, fashioned and inspired it with
vitality must have been deep thinkers
with weil-developed brains, bearers Ct
d higher nature and q nobler culture
and that this as Frobenius took
care to point out, lis Of quite special
Importance for the verdict 10 be
passed on the power Of selfgoyern-
ment Of the so-called Negro races =;
i that even white authorities (Lugard
ouoted) have admitted that when the
history cf Negroland comes to be
written in detail, it may be found that
the kingdoms lying towards the east
ern end of the Sudan we're the home
Of races who inspired, rather thar
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1919-01-03
AMERICAN W0ODMEN
Hon. C. Nj. White, OF Denver, Colorado,
Supreme Commander American Woodmen

Will visit Dayton Camp No. A. January and g. During
his stay in the city he will deliver the following addresses
Sunday afternoon to members Of Dayton Camp at Ma
sonic Hail. 8 o'clock
Sunday night public address at Eaker Street Church.
D.
Monday night January o. reception in honor of Supreme
Commander at G. D. A., Elks Bldg 3rd and Jefferson Sts
from 10 IL Admission tickets will be furnished those in
vtedto the reception at SOC per plate
All neighbors of Dayton Camp urged rally their
colors
E. r. MARCHANT Commander
HARRY GRAYSON, Secretary.
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NE%8kEXYZZZZZZ ZZZZZzZZZZzzA201
TS@G&XT LADY MARCUS 6ERESFORO
- From PsDotIoP BY CEHCbS

venges and personal prejudices and
1t was not until quite recently that
Lord d'Abernon, after being repeatedly
piled" was able to secure election.
although he had maintained fine
racing stable and had been an en-
thusiastlc patron OF the turf during
more than quarter OF century.
Never Had own Stable.
Lord Marcus. being a younger son
of rather numerous family, never
had enough money to have racing
stable OF his own. The entire fortunes
or his family were bound up In it's
chieftan, his eldest brother, the late
Marquis OF Waterford. grandfather Of
the present schoolboy peer and owner
OF the Beresford ancestral homo OF
Curraghmore in County Waterford
His brother Charles the Admiral, mar
ried an heiress in the person of Nina,
daughter of the late Richard Gardner,
NJ. p. for leicester. while his brother
Bill, otherwise Lord William Beres-
ford. married money as we'll as beauty
In the Hamersley Dowager Duchess OF
Marlborough. The youngest brother
Lord Deleval Beresford, after making
his home during many years in the
Province OF Sonora. Mexico, was killed
in railroad accident in Canada in
1906. He left a considerable fortune.
concerning which there was n good
deal of litigation after his death, owing
TO the claims OF an alleged wife. But
the fortune had been OF his own maxi
Ing in raising cattle for the market
Lord Marcus. alone OF the Beresford
brothers, never had any money to
speak of, was frequently in financial
straits, and when at length he did
marry, in 1895. It was not to an beiress
or TO wealthy widow. but TO very
fascinating divorce who was quite as
impecunfous as hinself-indeed, even
more so.
Lady Marcus is a daughter OF Gen.
Charles Ridley, c. b.. OF the family OF
which the Viscount Ridley is the chief.
and was celebrated for her striking
beauty. She married in 1870 Col,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
Queer Money in Mexico

Tor some years past Mexico has
- been extensively engaged In the
-. agreeable pastime OF making
money. More than two billion dollars
worth OF engraved certificates have
been issued since the revolutionary
troubles set in. The notes are given
the curious name "billembiques, I"
which Is only Mexican effort to pro-
ppunce the American name william
Weeks"
y This William Weeks was once a
paymaster who used to give orders to
The poems for small sums to carry
them along until next they aligned
themselves before the cashiers win
VOW. The local merchants would ac-
eept tho notes with the signature of
tho accommodating paymaster as good
currency, and they were named "Bnl-
embiques." BY a simple transition
the term came to be applied to the
revolutionary paper money.
First, It is said. Carranza manufac-
tured paper to the nominal value OF
'oOO,OOO pesos, and those bills were
accepted for time at about three
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
New Chapter in Fascinating Story of the Hamersey Million
His Bequest Touching Tribute to
Uncle and Aur: in Whom His Whole
Life Was Bound Up Through
Strange Circumstances

Henry Kingscote OF the Royal Ar,h-
lery, from whom she was divorced
couple Of years later, becoming imme-
diateiy afterward the wife of the CO.
respondent in the case. namely, capt.
Charles r. Butler OF the Royal Horse
Guards.
This was a most unfortunate union.
For Charlie Butler. celebrated In his
dav for his wonderful prowess as a
cricketcr and as the handsomest man
Of his regiment, had run through all
his money in wild and reckless ex-
travagances, which had included his
taking an extraordinarily pretty
woman from behind the counter OF
Truefitt's haIrdressins establishment
on Bond street and launching her I'M
der the name OF Mabel Grey" as one
OF the most feted queens OF the Lon
don half world (the associate OF Cora
Pearl OF Paris. and OF the Philadel-
phia born Hattie Blackford, alias
| Fanny Lear" Of every Continental
capital), eventually to die In child
birth at Petrograd as the wife Of a
well known and multimillionaire Rus
sian Prince.
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Charlie Buffers marriage TO Lou
Klngscote was followed a few months
later by his bankruptcy and the con-
sequent loss OF his commission in the
army Ere long, his creditors rem
dered London too hot to hold him and
he migrated with his wife to Paris,
where for several years the couple led
sort OF hand TO mouth existence,
particularly cruel for her, woman OF
rare beauty, charm and refinement
all the moro cruel by reason OF the in
creaslng discredit OF her husband. who
subsisted almost entirely on loans that
were never repaid and upon money
which he was able to pick up on the
racecourse or at cards. King Edward,
then Prince OF Wales. who had been a
friend OF old Gen. Ridley and who had
known Louisa and her brothers and
her sister Alice since their childhood,
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quarters of the value OF a silver peso.
Then Villa thoughtfully provided him
self with a small hand press and q
tramp printer and also went into the
PAPER money industry. When his
stock of materials gave out he struck
of a quarter of n million notes on
scraps OF wrapping paper. The printer
saw an opportunity to favor his own
personal pocket; he struck off thou
sands Of notes on his own account,
and then loaned the apparatus to
various friends, who followed his
example.
The newspapers had it that Villa
shot the printer; but the notes We're
out and the mischief had been done.
Moreover. one rebel Captain after an
other hit upon the idea of financing
bis campaign by means of the printing
press and the die. with the result that
in many parts of Mexico at one time
a square meal cost 800. The new
Secretary OF the Treasury. at last ac-
counts, had taken steps to restore the
old and more stable system Of none
tary values.
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the time. proved the soundness Of her
judgment. For although Lord Charles
now Admiral Lord Beresford-was so
much away at sea or travelling abroad
on official or semi-official missions that
he was unable to give much attention
to the lad. who did not quite hit it Off
with the brilliant and gifted but some
what troublesome Lady Charles--yet
he found very happy home with
Lord and Lady Marcus Beresford.
He returned their kindly care and de-
votion to his welfare with the utmost
affection and when he died the other
day, more than a year after attaining
his majority and coming into his for
tune his wisely administered and con-
siderably augmented fortune it was
found that save for an annuity Ct
$4,000 to his uncle Charles. and hand
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

comes exhausted sherbets are served
and-well. the dancing is free to all,
but the worshippers would be as null
titudinous IL the largess were insisted
upon by the master of ceremonies.
This feature and the fifty other at
fractions are making this the greatest
year in the history OF Luna, and since
this big resort Is tho Heart OF Coney
Island" that great playground Of the
country. may we'll be considered as
prosperous. There are rides after
rides In Luna, and II one desires to
acquire the NC-4 feeling 1t is the place
to visit. The Captive Aeroplanes give
1t. and the Whip. the Honeymoon Ex-
press, the Chutes. tho Red Mil. the
Witching Waves. the Luna Ride, the
Gyroplane. the Coal Mine. Treat EN-
Rough, the Virginia Reel--oh, what's
the use-twenty-fve different varieties
make Luna the Rideland OF the world.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
Lord William Beresford's Death Brings
Lord and Lady Marcus Into Pos
session: of His Fortune, Includ-
ing American Country Estate

in every sense Of the word a love match
Cross hero and universal favorite.
Before they had been married two
years she gave birth to o son. who
was christened William Warren de La
Poer Beresford. -Four years later she
became for the third time widow
and from that time forth until her
death almost q decade afterward she
devoted every penny that she could
save from her income to the building
up OF a fortune for her boy, In whom
she was completely wrapped up.
FAccumslated sB,ooo.ooo for BOY.
She knew that at her death her
income would cease and would revert
to her first husbands cousins. young
Louis Gordon Hamersley and his sis
ter Catherine, now Mrs. Samuel Mel
son Hinckley OF New York, and that
any provision made for her son would
have to be derived from the savings
Of her revenues and from her life in
surance, which was for large
amount. Thanks to this Characters
tically maternal forethought and pre-
caution she was able on her demise
just ten years ago to leave 20 him a
fortune amounting to close upon
100000. She vested the manage
ment of the property for the duration
Of his minority In the two favorite
brothers Of her husband. Charles, the
sailor. and Marcus, the racing man.
and also appointed them as his guar
dams.
The choice. although questioned at
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

extra equerry with special charge OF
his personal stables. OF his horse
breeding establishment at Sandring-
ham and of his racing stud. This
position Lord Marcus retained after
Edward VII. had come to the throne
and he has been continued therein
by King George, his clubs being the
Turf-which Is the favorite club Of
the present Prince of Wales-and the
Marlborough, n creation Of Edward
VII.
Curiously enough. Lord Marcus has
never belonged to the Jockey Club,
although he was for 80 long It's Of
fetal starter, He seems to have felt
that his position as the paid manager
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

Of racing stables Of members OF the
club, such as Sir Ernest Cassel, &c.
might have interfered with his cleo
ton. Moreover. being like all the
Beresfords accustomed to speak out
his mind somewhat bluntly and to
give expression to criticisms regard
less OF whom they hurt, during the
course Of his two score years career
on the turf, he has had occasion to
fall foul OF many people OF impor-
lance. to tread on their pet corns,
and generally to incur their enmity.
The Jockey Club In England, like
the Royal Yacht Squadron. by means
Of its secretly cast black balls affords
the opportunity for many petty re-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
Jazz at Luna Park

TIME jazz renaissance. stimulated
by the late Jim Europe and the
leaders OF many Of the army
bands. is now at its height at Luna,
Coney Island, where "Buddie's" Castle
House Jazz Band Is filling the expan-
sive ballroom with tho Indigenous
American dislocated music. the impos-
sibiMty Of initiating which has driven
members of famous symphony orches-
tras TO the verge OF artistic suicide
Instead OF playing from the orches-
trail choir as heretofore dais of
the Louis Quinze period has been
in media, as 1t were, that
Is to say. in the middle of the spacious
floor on which tho dusky kings OF
music jazz while the merry devctees
whirl around the throne Of tazzerino
And when the courtly orchestra be-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
Energy Released in Combustion

A CHUNK OF coal releases, during
n combustion, enough energy 70
lift itself about 1000 miles, or
say from New York to Panama, vert
ically upward against constant sea
level gravttation.
A chunk Of hydrogen. our most
energetic combustible, releases i'm COM
bustion an amount OF energy capable
OF lifting itself about four times MS
far, or TO a vertical distance against
sea level gravitation) roughly equal
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
The Knuckles as a Calendar

n ToSr persons remember the num-
WI Der Of days in any particular
month by recalling the rhymes
they learned in childhood. Another
method is practised in Iceland, and II Is
go simple and ingenious as TO be worth
knowing.
Shut the fist and let the knuokle
OF the forefnser represent January
with its thirty-one days. and the de-
preston between that and the next
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knucklc will represent February WIN
its smaller number OF days. A9d t3As
every month that correspond- 70
knuckle will DO found e. contain
thirty-one days, and every m"1"
that corresponds to a deQress.D"
smaller number OF days.
The little finger knuckle vii repre-
sent July; begin again with II, :,T''
finger knuckle, which stands '7r An'
gust, and from this on coH''' 'r
count through the months oi .'''
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

to the distance from New N"r" 20
Manila.
But chunk of radium em1naN''
yields without any combustion AL
amount OF energy in the process ~ IT.
evolution that would lift it agl.ns'
sea level gravitation not only % 'he
sun, but to tho orbit Of the planet
Neptune, the outside fcncepost u the
solar system. and which is about thirty
times further from the sun than the
earth Is.
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some requests to his tutor, to his old
nurse, and to his valet. he had left
everything that he Possessed 10 his
uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Mar
Gus, the property including his
mothers country place in Suffolk
county, New York. 1t may be added
that Lady Marcus is specifically men
toned in the will. On her death and
that Of her husband. the property OF
which they are to have full enjoyment
and control during their respective
lives is TO go to the testator's cousins.
the young Marquis OF Waterford. chief
of the entire Beresford family, and to
his brothers and sisters
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
Lord MRrcus's Career.

Lord Marcus, now In his seventy
first year. has become portly, sports
"A mustache and bears but little resem-
blance to the thin, lean faced. clean
shaven and extremely horsey looking
soldier-always punctiliously groomed
of forty years ago. He served for
n time as a subaltern of the Seventh
Hussars, was A. d. c. to the first
Duke OF Abercorn when Viceroy of
ireland and then retired from the
army to devote the remainder of his
lifo to the turf. For many years he
was the official starter OF the Jockey
club but gave up the Job In order
to undertake the management OF the
racing stud Of the late Baron Hirsch.
He also had charge of q number Of
other stud farms and racing establish
ments, including those OF Sir Ernest
Cassel, until King Edward, as Prince
OF Wales, who had always been one
Of his kindest and most loyal friends,
attached him to his household as an