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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-02

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The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
WANT TO DANCE?

Prof GlI Americat Foremost Dancing Mas
ter. can a h you the ID test ballroom dances in
n few le Dus, if you can be taught. He 10 As
yted by Mss Fitzhugh and Miss Hodges both
ell knowll teachers of Washington. teaching ex-
.Iusiyeiy ut the
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
D. {. Policemen S Union
Enrolling New Members

An enrolment of nearly 400 members
OF the Metropolitan police department
is expected to be on the books of the
newly organized National Association
of Policemen by the time of the next
meeting. to be held on February Il.
The policemen are seeking to estab-
lish a six-day week and an eight-hour
day. They now work seven days a
week, and some times sixteen or eigh-
teen hours a day. Officers of the or
ganization are: c. A. Strobel, presi-
dent; d. r. Housley. vice president;
E. H. Warder, recording secretary,
and J. II. Lee. treasurer. c. c. Wise is
financial secretary.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
RED CROSS RALLY
OF JUNIORS TODAY

More than 1000 boys and girls of
Washington schools have been dele
gated by their comrades to attend
the Junior Red Cross rally at the
Central High School, this afternoon
A similar rally will take place at
the Dunbar High School next Satur-
day.
The programs, which are identi-
cal. were arranged by Miss Mabel
T. Boardman, vice chairman Of the
District Chapter, American Red
Cross; Miss Anna NJ. Cooling. chair
man of the chapter school commit
tee. representing the Junior organi-
zation, and Miss Mineola kirkland
who will preside at Dunbar High
School.
One of the features of the rally
will be the exhibit of the toys made
by the children of Italy, France and
Russia and sent here as a token OF
their gratitude Photographs of the
devastated areas of France and of
the distribution of clothing in the
refugee centers will also be shown.
On the stage the boys and girls
will exhibit specimens of their han
dicraft. J. n. Rule, director of Ma
tional Junior Membership and c. W.
Dickinson, jr., director of Junior
membership. Potomac division, will
deliver addresses of welcome. Nov
ing pictures of Our Juniors Work
Overseas Among the Rumanian
Children" will be shown.
The Chapter School committee
consists of Miss Cooling, chairman
Miss NJ. NJ. Hendley, treasurer. and
Mrs. a. McB. Peoples. secretary.
with twelve members representing
the public and private schools of
the city on the following subcom-
| mittee: Mrs. Peoples and Miss A.
Lamborne. home service; Mrs. F.. T.
Moore and Miss l.. E. Campbell. hos
| pital service: Miss J. McWilliams
and Miss NJ. p. Shadd, membership; !;
Miss +. l.. Hendley and Miss NJ.
| kirkland. finance: Miss M. B. Pear
son. production of garments; Mr.. ].
A. Chamberlain and Mr.. Z. L. Thurs
ton. boys work: Miss Emma Jacobs.
health, and Miss c. Watkins and
Miss NJ. kirkland, publicity.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
1854 PUPILS
TO TRY ESSAYS
D. c. Children Study Topic
Of Army Recruiting
Contest.

1t was announced from the ONCE
OF Ernest L. Thurston. superintend-
ent OF schools. yesterday that 7,045
high school students and 6,5ss sew
enth and eighth grade pupils in
the District of Columbia will enter
the national school essay contest
February 20. conducted by the War
Department for the Recruiting
Service.
Instructors in high schools and
teachers in grade schools are de-
voting time in the classrooms each
day for discussion and study with
the children on the subject of What
Are the Benefits of Enlistment In
the United States Army?" The es-
says to be written on this subject
will be 400 words in length, under
the contest rules.
Maj. Gen. =. c. Harris, Adjutant
General of the army. heartily In
dorsed the contest yesterday.
Judges in the local contest wYi
soon be named. First, the essays
will be read by three teachers in
each school and the best compost
tion sent to a board of judges in
eF ch of the twenty-three school di-
visions. The best essay written in
each division will be forwarded to
Capt Hunter Harris. recruiting off,
GER in the District. and in turn the
winning essay in the District will
be submitted to the last board of
judges. together with the essays
from the fifty-five other recruiting
districts in the United States.
Secretary of War Baker. Gen.
March and Gen. Pershing will real
them. and the announcement of the
three national winners will be made
April &c. Presentation OF medals
will be made personally by the Sec
retary of War on May 5 in WASH
ington.
The local prizes will be awarded
as one essay is judged best in
school, division and district re-
spectively. Second and third prizes
will also be awarded.
New prizes announced today are
a watch chain. a vase. $500 in mer-
chandise, a pair of cuff-buttons, $40
in candy and a picture. This makes
total of twenty-five prizes put
up by local merchants. The thea
ters have united in Offering as
prizes for contest winners admis-
sion tickets for the children
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
Rightway School of Dancing.
1918 New York Ave. tbet. 12th-1sth)

Only up-to-date Dancing Academy South Of
New York City. Private lessons any hour, nc
you need no appointment Open g. m.-u D
n Phone Franklin f5A
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
Kolchak Killing Is Confirmed.

London. Feb. l3.-A dispatch to the
Central News said today it had been
confirmed that Admiral
Kolchak, former head of the Russian
anti-Bolshevik Government, and his
premier, was shot and killed in the
prison yard at Irkutsk February Z,
following conviction by a military
. martial. presumably of their
own troops.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
Asks Immediate Action
On Patent Office Raises

A special rule for the immediate
of the bill to increase
the force and salaries in the patent
Office was asked in a resolution in
troduced in the House yesterday by
Representative Nolan of California.
The resolution was referred to the
Committee on Rules.
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
DR.. Leon Vincent Speaks
Of Career of Napoleor

DIR. Leon Vincent lectured before. the
students and patrons of the SidwelI
Friends School, 1911 Eye street north
west. Friday afternoon on the sub
Ject, Napoleon and England"
DIR. Vincent told of the original
sources of historical information re-
garding the great Frenchman. 49,
The Washington herald., 1920-02-14
Wife Sues DR.. J. D. McCue.

Mrs. Margaret V. McCue yester-
day filed in the District Supreme
Court suit for maintenance against
DR.. Joseph ID. McCue. They were
married in New York November %.
1906.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
JAP HIGH HAND
IN MAMC!'IIURIA
They Are No Longer Restrained
by Allies, Says Chinese
Newspaper.
CALLS IT "REIGN OF TERROR"
Semenoff Troops Assisting the Jap
anese Tcrrorize Inhabitants of
khaiIar-Secm Bent on Brew
ing Trouble, Says Paper.

Peking, China.-Reports reaching
here Indicate that the Japanese are
carrying things with high hand in
Manchuria now that the other troops
of the allies are virtually out of the
country. The Peking and Tientsin
Times has received from it's CORE
spondents reports which it presents
under the heading Reign of Terror in
Manchuria." 1t says that at Imanpo
two Russian worl1men. who made some
disparaging remarks about the Jap
aneSe soldier in the Russian railway
hospital, We're seized by Japanese SOL
dierS and ''summarily shot on the
spot"
At Hardin, the newspaper says, Jap.
anese Sentries stationed on bridge
threw one Russian off the bridge
breaking his collar bone, and stabbed
another in the face bayonet when
the Russians insisted upon crossing the
bridge.
The Japanese are reported by the
newspaper TO have taken full posses
sion of Khailar and arrested there IL
Russian workers and handed them
over to the representative Of General
Semenoff and the Times adds that by
this time mo doubt they have been
shot by Baron Unger Steinberg"
Local Population Terrorixed.
The japanese are declared to have
brought TO Khailar and armed 500
Semenoff troops. who are reported to
be actively assisting the Japanese and
helping to terrOrize the local pOpu
lation. The Times predicts that sim
liar incidents are likely to increase as
the Japanese hold on the Russian far
east becomes more intense, and states |
that the Japanese garrison at Hardin |
is to be increased by 1000 more men. |
This reinforcement is declared by the !
paper to be absolutely unnecessary "as |
the Chinese troops stationed there are |
sufficient to maintain order"
The situation along the Chinese
Eastern railway was characterized by
the Times correspondent as very crit
cal. He stated that the Japanese
military authorities had decided to
place their own guards and sentries
along the whole stretch Of the railway,
which crosses Upper Manchuria. be
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
GLASS OF SALTS
CLEANS KIDNEYS
If Your Back Hurts or Bladder
BOthers You, Drink Lots of
Water.

When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore. don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts
which removes the body's urinous
waste and stimulates them to their
normal activity. The function of the
kidneys is to filter the blood. In "a
hours they strain from it 500 grains
of acid and waste, so we can readily
understand the vital Importance of
keeping the kidneys active
Drink lots of water-you can't drink
too much; also get from any pharma-
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in glass of
water before breakfast each morning
for a few days and your kidneys will
act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to clean
and stimulate clogged kidneys; also
to neutralize the acids in urine so it
is no longer a source of irritation.
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
Jure; makes delightful effervescent
llthla-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep
their kidneys clean and active. Try
this, also keep up the water drinking,
and no doubt you will wonder what
became OF your kidney trouble.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02

cause they were about to send froOI
trains and military supplies along tina
railway and were afraid the Russian
railway workers, who were Opposed
TO Japanese intervention, might try tt
stop the japanese from carrying Out
their plans.
THE Japanese seem bent upon brew
ing trouble among the Russian popu-
ation residing inside The railway area
by giving them a series of principles
so as to bring about open strife which
will give them an excuse to take de
ermned action even to the Selling and
working of the Chinese Eastern =
wrote the correspondent.
The correspondent admitted that the
Japanese had the right to send troops
over the railway TO protect the from
tiers against invasion. but that this
did not confer the right to occupy set
Elements along the line. or interfere
with the rights of local populations.
He declared that the purpose of the
Japanese to seize control of the rail.
way called for an immediate protest on
the part of the allies.
Forced to Work at Bayonet Point.
In Nikolsk. he reported. the rail
way workers having gone on strike
Japanese soldiers were rounding them
up and forcing them at the point of
the bayonet to do the work of labor
ers.
Since the foregoing situation was
described, information has been made
public in Moscow that Chinese and
Russian military commissioners in
conference at Verkhne Udinsk. Trans
Bakaia, have reached an agreement
under which inherent rights of the
Russian soviet government in the
Eastern Manchurian railway were rec
ognized and the Chinese guaranteed
to withdraw their troops from along
the railway lines" 1t was pointed out
that Chinas agreement thai the Rus
slams should retain possession of its
road deprived the japanese of one OF
their best excuses for keeping troops
Gil it.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
Mr.. and Mrs. Priddy Coming

Mr.. and Mrs. Priddy, well known
Moscow people who left here last
year for Stockton, California, are
expected to reach Moscow next Mon
day. Mr.. Priddy has been represent
ing the Idaho National Harvester
Company at Stockton and through
out California, and is coming back to
make his final report and check out
before entering business for him
self. This firm has sold number of
combined harvesters in California
this year and much of the harvest
work is over there. The crop was
below normal Mr.. and Mrs. Priddy
will remain in Moscow for a short
time to visit friends here.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02

Miss Cliffie Littleton, who for the
past year has been employed at the
Fashion Shop, left yesterday for
Portland, where she will make her
home.
For Homes, see display ad, ON an
other page. Metropolitan Invest
ment Co. 81
| Mr.. James Magee of Genesee was
IN Moscow yesterday on business
trip.
Inland Market will be closed all
day Monday, July 9Th. 37-8
Mrs. Monahan went to Spokane
this morning to spend the Fourth
with relatives.
BOY TO LEARN TO BE A PRINT
er. This office. If
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Black Of Spo-
kane are Moscow visitors today.
Miss Bertha Huffman is visiting
fof few days with friends in Lew
iston.
Armours Fancy dry summer sau-
sage at Inland Market. 37-8
d. A. Enger, farmer of Deary. is
in town this week on business.
Mis- lay Meek went to Lewiston
today to visit for some time with
relatives and friends.
Piano lessons. Call Alice Peter
son, 1894. 34tf
Cart Davis of Spokane was in
Moscow yesterday on a business trip.
Mr.. Don Piper left this morning
for Spokane and Occur dAlene,
where he will spend the Fourth.
R. G. Cartwright of Wallace is in
Moscow to visit with friends for a
few days this week.
The Mothers Jewel Band of the
Methodist church will meet in the
basement of the church SATURDAY.
afternoon, July 8, at 2:30. Missionary
barrel stories will be told.
Roy Hallen of Palouse was in |
Moscow yesterday on a business trip. /
E. B. holland Of Lewiston is a Mos
COW business visitor for a few days.
J. E. Pickard, undertaken and
garage owner of Troy, is a business
visitor in Moscow today
John Nisbet, prosecuting attorney,
made trip to Kendrick Thursday
IN official business.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
I * * ~


Weather - Idaho = Tonight ant
Saturday, fair; cooler in the south
east.
Miss Eta Eggan and Miss Geo
gia Suppiger are up from the
Lewiston Normal for the Fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. M. Snyder of Spo-
kane are Moscow visitors today.
A safe way to celebrate. Get a
18th of July special brick ice cream at
The Bon Ton. Made from sweet
cream. 37-S
Mrs. Henry Barclay of Pullman is
visiting friends in Moscow this week.
Fred Perkins, who was injured in
an automobile accident sometime ago
left the hospital at Colfax today for
his home at Genesee.
Piano lessons. Please call Glatha
Hatfield, Phone SO. 31tf
Frank Ebel returned today from a
weeks trip to Southern Alberta,
where he was visiting his brother.
Charlotte, little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Summerfield, is seri
ously i'll with typhoid fever.
B. 7. Livingston of Boise is visit
or in Moscow today on business.
Miss Isabelle Dickinson, who has
been employed at the Moscow Tele-
phone office, has left for Seattle,
where she expects to live.
Babe Sargent and Miss Clara Welo
CT Spokane are visitors in Moscow
today.
New potatoes IA cents per pound.
Rratton's Grocery. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Myers left
Moscow today for Southern Californ-
ia, where they will visit with Mrs.
Myers mother for sometime. Later
they expect to go to New York,
where they will locate.
Clarence Winton of Boise is a
Moscow business visitor today.
Miss Marie Osness, who for the
past two years has been employed at
the First Trust and Savings bank,
left this week for her home in Min
nesota.
F. R. Gooding, of Gooding, Idaho,
is in Moscow this week visiting old !
friends.
Bratton's Quality Grocery will be
closed all day July 9th. 37-8
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Beardsley and
daughter Irene, and Geo. Plckett,
left yesterday on fishing trip in
the northern part of the state. They
will be gone over the Fourth.
Mr.. Leo Buscher who has been
working at Pierce, is in Moscow
visiting for few days.
Miss Esther Nelson and Miss Avis
Drew went to Spokane yesterday to
be gone over the Fourth.
Cold. luncheon meats of all kinds
for hot days at Inland Market. 37-8
Mrs. D.. F. Crandall ard children
arrived in Moscow yesterday from
the coast, where they have been for
the past year. They have rented the
apartments above Samm's furniture
store, where they will live.
lbs. No. l Jap rice for $1.00. II
Bratton's Grocery. 81
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
Audience AppIauded as
Snake Crushed Trainer

Applause from large audi
ence resounded in the little the
alter at Serbruck, Switzerland.
while a gigantic python slowly
crushed it's trainer to death.
The trainer, u Hungarian girl
named Giro, realized her peril
and shrieked for help as the
coils of the serpent closed about
her. but the audience believed
her cries were part of the en-
tertainment and cheered loud
~.
Fraulein Ciro's manager rush
ed on the stage and shot the
snake, but not until the young
woman was beyond help. 1t was
not until after the performance
was over that the people We're
appraised of the fact they had
witnessed II grewsome tragedy
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
Hawley Family in Oregon.

Word comes from Cottage Grove,
Oregon, that Mr.. and Mrs. N. M.
Hawley, and their daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Mary Hawley, one of Moscow's
most popular teachers, expect to
leave Cottage grove in a few days for
Ashland, Oregon, where they will
visit relatives and friends before pro-
ceeding to their destination, Los
Angeles. They are travelling by
automobile. Mrs. Mary Hawley, who
was reelected to teach in the Moscow
schools, has not decided yet whether
she will accept the position CT re-
main in California.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
New Experience for Somebody.

Franklin, OFF some queer tasting
whisky gets on the local market peo-
pie will know where it comes from
When revenue officers raided farm
three miles from here they found part
Of still, consisting of raisins and
mash. They couldn't find anybody to
arrest but they put Kerosene and soap
on the raisins and in the mash, and if
any of it is used it will develop a new
kind Of kick"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
Cubs Play Monday Afternoon.

The Moscow Cubs base ball team
will play the American Ridge team
at Hadden's grove where picnic
celebration will be held, Monday,
July 5. The game will begin at 2
O'Clock and promises to be a good
one. The Cubs have defeated the
American Ridge team twice, but
both games were close and well
played. An effort is being made to
arrange game at the fairgrounds
Sunday afternoon between the Cubs
and the Cornwall team, composed of
young men much older and larger
than the Cubs, but the latter
promise good game at that.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
Horizons Leave For Boise.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Horton left
at A o'clock this afternoon for Boise
where they will make their home, Mr.
Horton having accepted a position
with the vocational training depart
ment of the state board of education
They went on the O.-W. R. & N.
Their household goods were shipped
several days ago, occupying car.
Mr.. Horizons address will be 92O
East State street, Boise, and he will
be glad to hear from his Moscow
friends. The local paper will keep
the family posted on Moscow general
news
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
Down in the Coal Mines.

Fairmont, w. a.-Bloodhounds got
the best of Cupid when Miss Grace
McDougal. aged 16. eloped with George
Male, 10 years old. Parents of the
girl learned of the elopment and dogs
took the trail The couple led the
hounds circuitous route through a
number Of coal mines, but were finally
Overhauied.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02
This is Hottest Day.

At 8 O'Clock this afternoon the
thermometer in front of Willis drug
store registered SO, which is the hot
test day Of the season by one degree.
The rain and cooler" promised by
the weather bureau yesterday for
last night and today, failed to ma
terialize. Yesterday was Spokane's
hottest day, the mean temperature
averaging three degrees higher than
the previous day.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02

Lawrenceburg, Ind.-Capt. Wesley
l.. Moore, aged seventy-eight, river pi
lot. often said he hoped he might die
on the Ohio river. Death came to him
as he wished. He was found lifeless
In his cabin on the Ivory Wood. yes
sci he operated between Cincinnati
and New Orleans.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-02

Time is at hand for the application
Of the second spray for the control
of the codlin- moth. This should not
be neglected. E. H. Kroh, Hort.
Insp., Dist. No. 2. 1921
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
SaIesn,anShip And
Cotton Chasing To
Be Taught At High

Miss Susanna Webb has been named
as teacher of salesmanship for the APP
preaching term and viii conduct the
classes at the Crockett Vocational high
school, and at Central High school.
Craftsmanship will also be taught as
part Of the continuation work at the
vocational school. Retail merchants of
Memphis are supporters of the move
ment to have craftsmanship taught in
the public schools and during last term
sought to have this course introduced
but Prof, Wharton S. Jones, superin-
tendent of schools, was unable to Sc
cure a teacher.
Miss Webb is at present taking a
course in craftsmanship teaching at a
New York school, and when the course
is completed will go into the stores for
practical experience in salesmanship.
Memphis merchants it is understood.
will permit their clerks to attend the
classes in craftsmanship and will CO.
operate in every way in making this
new feature a success.
Cotton CHASING will also be taught
In the Vocational and Central High
schools during the coming term, and as
a part of the continuation school, Prof.
Jones has announced. A competent
teacher for this work will be secured
and his appointment confirmed by the
board of education. Prof. Jones has
been working on this new branch since
last year and say that he believes local
cotton men will appreciate the service
rendered and will cooperate with the
school authorities to the fullest extent.