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Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

OUR RECORD FOR THE LAST -
DAYS IS 1S GOOD USED CARS
WE STILL HAVE a FEW REAL
U Guys LEFT ASD M 1T Toox WILL rrI PAY IE1
OVER BEFORE BUYING ELSE
WHERE WE INVITE COM
PAR1soN AS TO PRICE, QUAIL
TY AND TERMS WITH ANY
HOUSE IN THE VALLEY.
A used car IS no better than the
house you do business with.
ALSO BEAR IN H1IND THAT WE
ARE NOT IN TIE USED CAR
BUSINESS FOR A PROFIT. WE
TAKE THESE CARS IN ON NEW
CARS, REBUILD THEM, PUT
THEM IN FIRST CLASS CONDI-
TION. THEN SELL THEM TO
YOU AT THE RIGHT PRICE. WE
KNOW THEY ARE RIGHT
WHEN THEY LEAVE OUR
PLACE AND THAT IS THE WAY
WE SELL THEM AND BACK
THEM UP.
No. Wire wheel Overland 80
model. Completely overhauled, new
top with plate glass and gypsie
side curtains. Finished in beau
tiful brown, with upholstery to
match, and cream wheels. This is
the classiest 4-passenger car in
the valley and the biggest bargain
we have had to offer in the history
of our business, $685.; 1-3 cash,
balance easy monthly payments.
No. Ford roadster in very
good running order. Good uphol-
stery and very good tires, $3.50.
S125 cash, balance $3.50 per
month.
No Baby Saxon Roadster. the
very latest, in excellent shape. has
been run very little. Only 100000
the first customer. $125.00, balance
SIS per month.
No 4.-Ford spcedster, a dandy
will be out of the paint shot
Tuesday New tires, new body,
new upholstery, new tires. Large
oval gas tank and metal tool box
mounted on rear. $3.50. $3.50 cash
balance $50 per month.
No. 5.-Ford, 5 passenger, just
been completely overhauled, block
reground, new pistons, wrist pins,
rings. crank shaft and all, Gear
driven Bosh mag, new seat covers
and new paint; to the first party
$3.50. $3.50 cash. balance $50 per
month.
No. 6-Baby Grand Chevrolet,
like new, only been driven 5000
balance easy monthly payments.
Here is your chance to get one of
those high grade cars at big
discount.
No. 7-LeXington Six, in the pink
of condition, just been completely
overhauled, painted; new top and
seat covers put on. Tires like new
including extra, 1855. .00--14 cash,
balance in easy monthly payments.
MIR. SPEEDSTER BUYER
No. S.-Three Ford speedsters
each one a bear, special new
bodies just made and are now
being painted. If you want a real
job at the right price and on terms
why just give these the once over.
No. 9.-Willys knight, like
new. has been driven very little
and can not be told from a new
car. Just been refinished, new
tires put on, has special top with
. large plate glass, easily worth
customer at $1,750.o0 13 cash,
balance IN onthly Here IS your
chance to get one of those high
grade cars at a big discount.
No. 10--Ford touring, in the
pink of shape, excellent rubber,
top, upholstery and equipment,
with Hassler shock absorberS;
1865. $125 cash, balance $24.5O per
month.
FOR FURTHER PARTICU-
LARS SEE MR.. HACKEIT.
DAVIES OVERLAND co.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR RENT-A HOLT t75) BY THE
hour, day or week or will contract
plowng, discing, floating and land
leveling. Brown Bros, p o. Box 154,
Calipatria, Calf.
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SPECIAL NOTICES
HOTEI, ITpAS

A Family Hotel; steam heat, hot and
cold water, Rates $1.00 per day up.
Meals so cents. Also A La Carte, situ-
ated Fifth G. upas, adjoining Balboa
Park, San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE - OUR HOME, BUILT
just two years, five rooms, large
sleeping porch, bath, stationary tub.
fireplace, hardwood floors throughout
entire house, front and back lawn,
shade trees, also young fruit trees,
chicken yard Located 9 in best resi-
Dental district on paved street seven
minutes walk from Fifth and Main
street. Will also sell furniture Call
mornings 712 South Fifth street.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24
POULTRY

WANTED-WE WANT YOUR POUL-
try. Will call anywhere. Ell Centre
Poultry Co. Phone Ala.
POULTRY WANTED-ANY QUANTI
ty. viii call when not more than
eight miles out, where you have so
head or more. Prices l cent per pound
less than price paid at our store. Coops
furnished free, where We purchase
poultry from ranch. Write or phone
Ell Centro 35. Rath & Marshall, 126
south Sixth ST.
FOR SALE WHITE LEGHORN
pullets, now commencing to lay;
S125 piece, also Case threshing
machine almost new, size 1924. Mrs.
G.. Yukawa, Phone 79-W A.
DAY OLD CHIX. CAPACITY $4,000
per week Barred Rocks, Rhode
Island Reds, Orphingtons, Ancoras,
Black minorcas, Buff White and Brown
Leghorns. Enoch Crews, Seabrlght
California
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE-SUBURBAN HON E-SlN
rooms and bath; IL acres S5,71o:oo.
Terms. Also have some modern hVe
room houses. furnished and nfurnlsn-
ed One four room nouse, $2,10OQ.0 90,
$4,000 cash. For this and other city
property, see
va1lev Land Co. 634 Main st.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

Classified advertising CHARGED TO
ACCOUNTS will be at the rate of "
per word, with a minimum charge of
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24
WANTED-REAL ESTATE

wANTED-LIsTING OF IMPROVED
and unimprovcd farms direct from
owners. have buyers for several
ranches Give full description price
and terms Address f.. S. Gregg, 243
East Ocean Ave, Long Beach, Cal;
run weekly excursions to the valley
and can sell your farms.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24
FOR RENT--HOUSES

FOR NT-UNFURNISHED HOUSE
$1,000 -420 Orange Ave.
FOR RENT--SEVERAL ONE AND
Two room tent houses for nGh'
bouseleeping. 706 Broadway.
rOR RENT-APARTMEN ENTS MODERN.
Close in 412 Olive.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE-s0 ACRES; so ACRES AL
falfa; well fenced good house; only
S16O acre; prompt possession. II you
need feed this is your chance.
CLARENCE T.. GAGE
GOA Main street Ell Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH Il. M.
Moore and j. B. Morgan for sale or
exchange, city and ranch property
Downing, California
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24
UtasssSSassD
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE-8O ACRES ON MAIN
road half mile from highway and
San Diego & Arizona Railroad; good
drainage; now in cotton; for sale
very much under value at 500 an
acre. This IS good piece of land. and
will make you paying investment
and attra ctive farm.
CLARENCE E. GAGE
GOA Main Street Ell Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE-OR RENT. FOR CASH,
SO acres of SPLENDID soft and med
ium land on county highway, miles
south of Seeley. Well furnished 5
room house near school. Easy terms.
Price $3.50 per acre or $25 rent per
acre. This is great bargain.
HARRISON & Gray, Se-ley, Cal
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WANTED GIRL TO CARE FOR 4
year old boy during day only. Also
to assist with housework. Inquire
Press office.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE-16O ACRES IN NO. 6;
All cultivated; house, shade trees,
fully water stocked; only $11O an
acre; reasonable terms. This is a
good piece of land much below value.
CLARENCE L. GAGE
604 Main Street Ell Centro
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HELP WANTED--FEMALE

WANTED-WOMAN TO COOK ON
ranch for four men and lady. Phone
HoltVille 49-F-31.
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LIVE STOCK

FOR SALE-FIFTEEN MILCH COWS,
all fresh 25 head of heifers and a
2 year lease on 100 acres Of alfalfa.
Chalupmils G Henderson, Calipatria,
California.
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WANTED - TRACTOR FLOWING,
djscing. fresno york or will put in
corn on shares. O. S. Proctor Phone
l49, Ell Centre.
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FOR SALE-MISCELIANEOUS

FOR SALE-25O OR 500 SHARES
James Oil Well Stock. Best bid
nothing less than so cents accepted.
T. S. W., Press.
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Classified advertisements accepted
according to the following rates and
rules:
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FOR EXCHANGE-REAL ESTATE

FOR EXCHANG ESQ ACRES GOOD
land in Indiana. Ga So. Eighth ST.
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SITUATION WANTED-MALE

WANTED SITUATION--EXPE ERR ENC
ed married milkcr wants steady
Job. Box T.. Il.
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SITUATION WANTED-FEMALE

WANTED - WORK ON DAIRY OR
ranch by experienced married man
with three boys that can milk a few
cows. Call at 1901 South Fourth.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE-WEANING PIGS. G. D..
Willoughby & Sons, Calexico, Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE ? ROW CORN AND
cotton seed planter. S21 Holt Street.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-24

FOR SALE p HOLSTEIN BULLS
with papers, one l 12 years old, one
years old; 1 bucKrake and hay
stacker. j. Hornback place, 4 miles
west of Ell Centre along highway and
"a miles south.
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
626 N. 5th Ave.
3-In-One

Good investment, income property, close in, only seven blocks of Washing ton street and Central Ave. I can show you at least 20 per cent on your money. Close to High School as well as graded school. $3500.00 cash handles this property. Will bring in an income of $20o00 per month See
 A. J. HALL
 with F. A. JEFFERSON 32 South Central Ave. Phone 710 bl FIVE ROOM AND SCREEN ROOM brick pebble dash located northeast; all modern, built-in features, fireplace, hardwood floors, cement walks all around house; plenty old shade and lawn, for $4650; $500 down, $50 per month.
 WILCOX REALTY co.
 B N. 1st Ave. bn
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
S25OO

Will buy a neat rooms ard bath PD home northeast near carline. This is completely furnihsed ready to move in. Payments like rent. Owner Ieav- ing this week must be sold now.
 Apartment house 21 rooms doing good business. Owner leaving must sell. $2000 cash will handle.
 Both exclusively with
 Sandige Agricultural Co.
 323 West Washington St. Ph. 3321bl FOUR rooms and screen rooms. bath, toilet; northeast, F blocks from car; will consider automobile Call l149 E. Jefferson. Phone ITS. bp
 FOR SALE
 By owner, new 5-room modern house and garage: lot 50x14O; fine neighborhood. 2229 W. Monroe St. Price sS5o0; $500 cash, balance s45 per month. bI
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
Here's Another

10 Acres close in good 4-room mouse, mouse well and tank. water plpeo to ,d chicken house. Good shade- cos alu in cotton a fine crop Good soil :.A" water. 25O chickens. two l1cuoa. q, +ore all goes. The best 10 acre puy .lll Ih valley. Price Ss0O0-OO- small es'9' Dunt Easy terms.
 C- on = 9Dd Ave bm
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
LUMBER

20eo The largest discount ever of fered on any lumber in Phoenix. MONT ANDERSON LBR. YARD Just west of 7th Ave. on Jackson St.
 If
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15

--EV0R SATF@WeI located residence ,ot jn Kenflworth 70N145. Owner leaving. must sell immediately Phohe me I741
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
PHONE YOUR ADS TO 4ss1
AUCTIONS
Auction Auction

27 s. FIFTH AVE, EVERY FRIDAY We sell on commission or buy for cash. Phone 4779 or 4296.
 T. B. GUESS. AUCTIONEER If
 THE Taylor Auction House wants your furniture. We buy and pay cash We sell for you on commission. Sales every Saturday, l p. m. Watch our place See the big crowds that attend our sales. 241 w. Washington st: rhone 1917 If
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
Greene & Griffin, 
 Tel. 1894 124 N. 1st Ave,
A Real Bargain

If this is what you have been look ing for. here it is. An 8room modern brick pa,bble- dash, all built in features, hardwood floors, nothing cheap. the best of material. Garage. nice lawn, shade. cement sidewalk in front and around house. pavement. and all paid for And just seven blocks from cen ter of town. s10, 0,50O.0 .0O-$3, ,0O0.0O cash will handle See
 A J. HALL
 with F. A JEFFERSON
 32 South Central Ave Phone 7I0 bl
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15

30 ACRES of extra good cotton TOT TOT ea1e. team and cultivator- F mics oast of south Center on old Iefqpe lIS5 road
Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
Health Seekers

If you want a nice home on ten acres in healthiest part of valley we can show you a four-room house with screened porch and cemented cellar. garage and chicken house; splendid soil, rabbit tight fence all around, shade planted, some alfalfa, deep well with soft pure water ample pump and reservoir: under Paradise Verde water system. Price S350 an acre $500 down. balance easy.
 ASK FOR GARDNER, WITH
 WELDON REALTY co.
 110 North First Ave
 Phone 3083 It
The courier-index., 1920-10-15
LOCAL LEGISLATION

Col. J. E. Wood, veteran newspa- per man and recently nominated as one of the representative from Lee county in the next general assem- bly, of Arkansas, stated to the ed itor of the Courier-Index yesterday that he and Doddridge McCulloch, also one of the representatives from Lee county, had agreed that under no circumstances will they intro duce in the forthcoming session of the general assembly any local bill affecting the people of Lee county unless the bill has been printed in full in the Courier-Index at least thirty days prior to the time of its introduction. This is in conformity with very sane and wise provision of the state constitutions provision that has been ignored to the great harm of the taxpayers as has been the practice with other safety ap- pliances placed in our constitution by the long headed men who framed our organic law. While there are many articles and sections in the old constitution of 1873, under which we are now governed, that tend to retard the orderly progress and de-
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BOATING
 ON ST. FRANCIS
INTERESTING "REMINISCENCES
 RELATED BY MRS. MARGARET CLARK-JUDGE ROBERTSON, WHEN INFANT, NEARLY LOST.
(By Effie Allison Wall. ]

1t was not till the coming of the steamboat to the St. Francis and L'Anguille rivers that the. interior of Lee county was settled to any great extent. We find the earliest settlement along the Mississippi riv- CT and along the eastern slopes of Crowley's Ridge near the mouth of the St. Francis river. These were made by pioneers who came down the Mississippi from the Ohio and Tennessee in large flat boats or keel boats.
 The first steamboat to go up the Arkansas river was Capt Pennywit's s Felicity in 1928, but it was after 1885 that the steamboat came into general use on the Mississippi and the Arkansas rivers.
 can find no date of it coming to the St. Francis but it could not have been long after 1835-the early forties at the latest.
 The first steamboat on the St. Francis was the Wheeling, an old stern wheeler owned by Col. J. c. Johnson. The Wheeling made so few trips before it was transferred to the Arkansas river trade that it can hardly be called St. Francis river boat.
 The pioneer steamboat man on the St. Francis and the L'Anguille rivers was Capt. Thomas R. Bow man. He came into the trade with little old stern wheeler called the Flow Boy. Mrs. Margaret Clark says that one of the very first things she can remember is stand ing on her Grandfather Harrison's porch on Bordeau Island to watch the Flow Boy pass loaded to the guards with hides, game and fur for the Memphis market. These had been purchased from trappers along the Mississippi and St. Fran cis rivers. That was about 1850.
 The Flow Boy was the first steam boat to course up the LAnguille.
 Anne, for years chambermaid on the Bowman boats and who after Mir. Bowman's death became a ser want in Mrs. Clark's home, told Mrs. Clark how the little boat had to force passage through logs and drift and how branches of the great trees that overhung the L'AnguiIle had to be chopped away. The gov ernment declared the L'Anguilie navigoble as far as Marianna in 1857.
 The Flow Boy was soon replaced
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by a larger boat, the St. Francis No. 1, and Mrs. Clark says that it was perhaps on this boat that the Witt family came to Wittsburg, where Madison now stands. Wits burg or Madison was the head of steamboat navigation on the St. Francis river. It is also called the Chickasaw crossing and is the near est point that the old Military road comes to Lee county. Some day a D. A. R. marker will be placed there.
 Capt. Bowman ran the St. Fran cis No. 1 three or four years then purchased the St. Francis No. 2, a boat still larger than the No. l. This he used till the war came on, when the Confederates took it into their service and it was burned at the fall of Little Rock-History of Eastern Arkansas, page 452.
 After the war Captain Bowman resumed business with the Molly Hambleton whose officers were MT. William H. Clark, MT. Payne and James Shell.
 In 1869 the Bowmans put all they had into the St. Francis No. 3, a fine boat built at Louisville, Ky.
 About this several other boats came into the St. Francis river trade and about 1871 Mrs. Bowman, who was the business manager, died, so to quote our history: trade failed to meet Captain Bowman's expecta- tions and not being able to meet all the demands against him he was forced to sell"
 The St. Francis No. 3 was run by Capt. Samson Basket till 1875 when it was sunk near Madison.
 Capt. Bowman nor his boat ever again appeared on our rivers. He died in Memphis about 1890.
 Mrs. Clark says ''the Bowmans were splendid people and Auntie Bowman as we all call her was much loved.
 Parties of young people were of ten invited to take the round trip on the Mollie Hamble and on the St. Francis No. 3.
 Boats were run on the neighborly plan before the day of schedules, unions and such, so if my mother
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velopment of Arkansas, it can not be successfully contradicted that the men who served in the legislative halls and in the body that framed the constitution of 1873 were more far sighted and certainly more jealous of the interests of the people than are modern lawmakers and consti- tutional delegates. Among the very excellent provisions of the constitution-one Gov. Brough re- peatedly stated to- his political friends and advisers he was fully determined to uphold-is that the governor shall not give consideration to. petition for pardon of con vict until he has placed before him certificate showing the petition has been published in some newspaper in the county in which the crime was committed, and if the felon was con victed in another county on a change of venue, the petition must be published in both counties. Yet only one man who has served as governor in Arkansas in more than quarter of century has had the backbone and common honesty to enforce this provision. That man was Marion Futrell Of Paragould. Brough said he would-while a can didate for his first nomination for governor-then forgot this, like he did many other solemn pledges and promises he made to the people.
 But to return to the statement made yesterday by Col. Wood speaking for himself and Mir Me- Culloch. The Courier-Index wants to heartily endorse and commend this stand. It is eminently the proper thing to do-except, perhaps, in some emergency wherein the public's interest are in jeopardy. The last few sessions of the legisla- ture have been farces, so far as To- cal legislation was concerned. This is especially true of the hysteria of good road legislation that was en- acted during the regular and the two extra sessions. Bills placing wholly unwarranted and confisca- tory taxes upon the people were drawn in committee rooms and in the apartments of senators and representatives and railroaded through without the slightest re- gard for the wishes or interests of those who were to be taxed for pe- riods ranging from twenty to forty years. No normal minded, sensible man opposes good roads or other improvements in keeping with the progress and development of the country. And certainly there is no positive sentiment in Lee county against such improvements. But as long as we have a democratic from of government-as long as our con- stitution wisely provides that those , who are to be taxed shall have a voice in the amount of taxes they shall pay, for what they shall pay them, how their money shall be ex- pended and who shall be the custo- dians of these trust funds, our rep resentatives should at least be con- siderate enough to, give the people chance to express themselves re- garding any local taxing scheme or any other local measure affecting their interests before they enact
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wanted to visit across the river Capt. Bowman would take her over and land anywhere she wished or ii we wanted to send a letter on his boat he would wait until it was written. Often Capt. and Mrs Bowman and their officers on the boat would be invited to supper at some home along the river. The boat would be tied up for hours or these occasions. MT. Clark was ar officer on these boats for a long while and after our marriage I would take an occasional trip with him. remember on one of these trips we were all invited to supper by Mrs Ford who lived at Westwood.
 "How | do remember when the Robertsons came to Walnut Bend It was in 1859 think on the St Francis No. 2.
 "At the landing MT. Robertson had his hands full with his negroes household goods, stock and so forth Mrs. Robertson was occupied witt the younger children. The olo black nanny had been told that the baby was her special charge that nothing else in the world was expected of her but to get herself and the baby safely off that boat After everything else was unloaded and the boat gone entirely out ot sight and Mrs. Robertson had had time to get her breath she asked foi the baby.
 ''The baby couldn't be found. The baby simply was not htre. The black nanny was in a daze and had no recollection of a baby ever having been placed on her conscience or in her arms. The family was frantic.
 "In the meanwhile on the St. Fran cis the chambermaid had gone about putting the state rooms in order She found the Robertson baby sound asleep in a berth, the boat was promptly turned about and baby Ec was soon restored to his mothers arms. That was our own Judge Robertson.
 Many of the settlers of Lee coun ty who came in between the dates 1855 and 1875 came in on one ot
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it into law. This does not argue that the so-called "maj jority" of the people is always right. In fact, we have often believed the majority wrong and have fought them with out quarter. We did not believe the majority" right when it be- came engulfed in the wave of dem- agoguery that began with Dan w. Jones as governor and reached its fullest fruition in the regime of the late Jeff Davis. And we have al ways honored the former editor of the old Lee County Courier because he was one of the distressingly small number of newspaper men in Ar kansas who had the courage to fight the majority" But in the long run the people right themselves, even when they waver and follow false leaders, and it is proper that their representatives in the law making body give heed to their wishes.
 Because we hold these views we like the idea of split session of the legislature wherein during the first half of the session bills are proposed. Then recess comes, during which time bills of a local nature are published and the people are given. an opportunity to discuss and consider them, and make some expression of their decision to the representatives and senators. Dur ing the second half of the session all bills introduced in the first half are disposed of, and no new bills, except of an emergency nature, can be introduced in the second half of the session. But in the absence of this scheme of legislation the next best thing is to give the public due notice of local bills. If there is any considerable opposition it will invariably manifest itself in such way that those who represent a county know what to do.
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the Bowman boats. Everybodv bsd some pleasant association with Cant and Mrs. Bowman in one way or another. Perhaps it was a busip.s or pleasure trip to Memphis or Helena; or perhaps it was to ga down to the landing and dance for an hour or two on the deck of tbe Mollie Hambleton or on the St Francis No. B."
 Mrs. Jarratt, Mrs. Clark, Mrs McCulloch, Mrs. W. A. Johnston and MT. Grove all confess to have spent many an hour in just such pleasant pastime.
 The names of Capt. and Mrs. Bow. man will always be favorably a@e ciated with events of the past