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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
Lone Seed Potato from Alaskan Garden
 Surprises Eastern Folk

With a single Alaskan grown seed potato, Wisconsin man recently reaped a harvest of six bushels, accomplishing this feat in two growing seasons. The seed potato was grown in Ju- neau, coming out of the garden of Frank A. Boyle, harvested in 1918.
 The potato was of the Early Rose variety, and when dug weighed two and three-quarters pounds. To show just what can be done in Alaska in an agricul- tural way, Mir. Boyle sent it to John Lee, of Milwaukee, Wis. the father of his wife. Mir. Lee in turn sent it to his wife's sis. ter's farm where it was planted in the Spring of 1918. All the yield of that one potato was saved and replanted last Spring. The result! A short time ago MT. Boyle received a letter from Wisconsin saying that six bush els of fine, big, rosy, Early Rose potatoes were dug this Fall all. direct descendants from the one big fellow he sent East in the Fall of 1918.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
ELkS PLANNING
 K|DD|ES' TREE
 CHRISTMAS EVE
All Children Invited--Mem- orial Services Sunday,
 Dance New Years Eve.

At the meeting of the Elks last night final arrangements were conn pleted for the memorial services to- be held next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, in the Elk's auditor ium, and preliminary arrangements were made for the Riddles Christi mas tree to be given on Friday night, December 24th, which is Christmas Eve. Plans were also be held on New Years Eve.
 The memorial service will be con- ducted by the various officers of the Elk's lodge and Simon Hellenthal will be the orator. The Elk's mem orial services are held in honor of deceased brothers. There will be- special music, etc., the complete pro- gram to be announced tomorrow. The services are open to the public.
 The Riddles Christmas tree will be the big noise for the big kids, little kids and just ordinary kids end all kids of Gastineau Channel will be asked to attend the exercises anu lCCciFC HUH Oduld Claus who has made special ar engagements to be present Parents of the Gastineau Channel children are also asked to attend and help their off-springs return safely toI their homes with the nuts, candy, fruit, etc, which will be distributed. The general committee to make the Christmas tree exercises a big suc- cess comprise Mark Russell, James E. Barragar, John Mclaughlin, Z M. Bradford and c. P. Jenne.
 The annual ball on New Years Eve will be in charge of a committee whose chairman is P. J. F. Boivan He will name his associates. Already Chairman Boivan announces that special preparations are contem- plated. Invitations will be issued within few days for this event recording to announcement made this morning by Chairman Boivan and Secretary J. A. Davis The dance is one of the big events of Elkdom for the entire year and will be on a scale well up to the stand a-d set by the Elks in former years
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
aMOOSEHEART LEGION
 4 PARTY BIG SUCCESS

The first social event to be given by the Women of the Mooseheart Legion which was their basket social last night at the Moose Hall, was one of the greatest successes of the season The hall was crowded with people and most of the ladies brought baskets that were auctioned off to the highest bidders. Approximately $4O0 was cleared at the party,
 The record price of thirty dollars was paid for one basket, while sev- enteen and eleven dollars were the next two high ones. The average price was around five dollars. Many fine lunches were contained i1 the baskets.
 Dancing to fine music was kept up until two o'clock this morning.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
Germany Fails to Restore
 Lo0ted Louyain Treasures

NEW YORK. Dec 2.-Germany has not yet restored a single book oc manuscript. of the collection carried off or burned during the sack of tEc historic library of Louvain, the rec tor, r. Ladueze, has informed the National Committee of the United States for the restoration of the University of Louvain. The value of the stolen treasures whose rr. turn was pledged by the treaty Of Versailles, may be fixed by the Germans at 5,OO0.O00 francs, he said in letter.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
ALASKA JUNEAU GETS
 FINAL CERTIFICATE
 FOR MINING CLAIMS

Registers final certificate for 15 lode mining claims and seven mill site claims was issued today from the L. S Land Office to the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, ac- cording to a statement made by Register Frank A. Boyle. These claims comprise the company's local holdings
 The certificate covers lode claim. Q, R, Queen, King, John D.. It, Wit Bit, Gerald and Bear Nos. 1 and ', and mill site claims M, s. Bear Captain, It, Bit and Wit. The is suance of this certificate gives the company full title to the ground il covers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
LIGHTS BEING PLACED TO
 GUARD AGAINST ACCIDENTS

Linemen from the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company today are strineing wires and installing lights It the various intersections of the streets upon which coasting will be this winter Red lights will flash their warning to teamsters and automobile drivers to go slow at the crossings.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
PRETTY GIFTS TO BE OBTAINABLE
 AT LADIES' AID SALE

An excellent opportunity to secure Christmas gifts of needlework and fancy articles will be afforded next Saturday when the Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church will hold it's an rual Christmas sale in the parlors, of the church. The ladies have been busy in preparing for this sale for many weeks and the result of their work is great number of beautiful and useful articles appealing to many varied tastes.
 Besides the articles on sale for Christmas gifts there will be a goodie sale and a merchants lunch will be served from noon until D. m. with many dainty home-cooked article; on the menu card.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
League Assembly Refuses
 To Consider Amendments

GENEVA, Dec. 2.-The Assembly of the League of Nations in esssion here, yesterday unanimously adopted q resolution rejecting consideration of proposed amendments to the League covenant at this session but provid- ing that the committed on amend ments study suggested changes and report at the next session.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
Four Bandits Rob Train
 After Looting Postofice

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Dec 9 Four bandits, masked and armed, last night robbed Chattanooga and Cincinnati train of an undetermined amount and escaped. Previously they robbed the postoffice at Oneida, Tenn.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
ATTENTION SHRINEPs.

There will be short huSinesS meeting of the s. E. Alaska Shrine Club at Odd, Fellows Hall, Friday fvening, Dec. 3, at 7:15 o'clock. immediately preceding the meeting of the Scottish Rite Bodies. All Nobles are requested to be present. a JOHN BENDEL, Secty
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
CHIEF OF POLICE WANTS
 VALISE BROUGHT TO HIM

Chief of Police T. F. P Keegan has asked the person who was seen to pick up the yalise belonging to Walter B. King return it to him and he will see that it reaches the owner It is said that at the time that the person found the valise he made an attempt to find to whom it belonged but was unsuccessful.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
CHRISTMAS SALE

The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist Church will hold it's Christmas Sale of fancy work and goodies SaturdGy- Dec. 4, in the church paliors. Hot lunch seryaf from 12 to 5. adv
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
OIL APPLICATION FILED.

One application for an oil leasinl and prospecting permit was filed today in the local U. S Land Office The claim k located in the Col Bay field and filed on by Lloyd F Nelson, of Rremerton. Wash.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
Federation of Labor to
 Fight Open Shop Move

CLEVELAND. O., Dec. ,. - The State Federation of Labor last night voted 10 raise fund of S30000 to fight the open shop in Ohio.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
PLEADS GUILTY AND
 IS GIVEN $10O FINE

Hugo Bergstrom yesterday after noon appeared before U. s. Commits sioner N l.. Burton and entered a plea of guilty to a charge of gam bling and was fined $100 including costs of the action. The fine was paid this morning.
 Bergstrom was arrested by De- putty U. s. Marshal w. R. Garster. He was charged with being impli- cated in the gambling taking place at PIP Ferry Way where a raid was made Tuesday evening.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

Better than ever-the Winter & Pond line of ready-to- mail art prints. -adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

The Juneau number Of the Path finder is on sale at Britt's Pharmacy. Butler Mauro's, R. P Nelson,s and Zynda Hotel adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02
Ii your real estate is good value make that fact clear in your Gas sified advtrtising-and you'll sell it

The Juneau number of the Path finder is on sale at Britts Pharmacy. Butler Mauro's, R. P. Nelson,s and Zynda Hotel adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

Largest stock of new and used aeaters at Sanitary Plumbing adv
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

Ivorytypes are special, ready-to- mail art prints. Ter sale by Win ter & Pond. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

Largest stock of new and used leaters at Sanitary Plumbing atiy
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

Old papers for sale. 26c per bun 'ie at Empire office,
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

Buy best heaters at Sanitary Co. -adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-02

A good heavy quality of butcher linen, 36-inch width, $l.75 value Special SIPS yard.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14
MOTHER GAVE IT
v.,iuia Lady Suffered With Ache,
~, and Pains Until EZotber Began
Giving Her CaFssi.

Kit, ya.-Miss Mary Alice
p lDr" residing on Route .. near
husH' recently told a visitor Of her
hel,,sstipg experience with o~lA.
intt 'Unrbett said: Il had been suf-
MIS- MIS- Tor some time with painful &.
iefLs male. didn't feel like ga1x.
~. m lust drag around. and sssi&At
N o. ~ do any good. I would s0fsr
70. &C. a month with my back. sides
GA GA head. My limbs would ache and
n ma know what to do. but knew
, mnst do something. for I dtaAt Sst
.eI By letting it run On:
' auv mother is a believer In Cardvi
sbe saw what it did for others IS
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sfr wasn't long before I saV .
.,onre 1t was rust what I needed.
:. -eTrlated me. began to eat 80
,isan and the pain stopped.
"Cardui is without doubt tie hast
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- recommend it to others.
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ssstsblished by successful use for more
than 40 years.
Try Cardui!
Your druggist sells II &Cr4SS
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14
Stop, Read. Think, Do.

suppose il you get right down to
brass tacks, q man can live a fairly
useful life without having any more
thought of trees than the lumber or
fire wood they have IN them. But such
q man can not be as happy as another
who can see in trees-and other things
OF nature-some Of the beauty that
poets find in them. A man who car
appreciate trees properly-vhose soul
is stirred by their majesty and their
mysterious whisperings, who can sit
beneath their shade and 60 back in
memory to carefree boyhood days Of
hunting, nutting, whistlemaking, "sug-
airing off" in the maple grove, and other
things like that-that man is going TO
have more pleasure in this life than
you can measure in terms Of stove
wood or any other material thiag.
We ought to plant mere treoA We
ought to put them out around our
houses and buildings and care for them
any learn to love them, il it doesn't
come natural. Our farms would be
better places to live on, would be
worth more money, and we would be
refined and uplifted and improved as
citizens and family persons. And in
years to come someone's grandchildren,
II not our own, sitting beneath the
shade of great spreading branches,
would think kindly and with bless
ing, Of those who planted the trees
there for them to enjoy. Maybe the
good Lord, who must have loved trees
greatly to make so many OF them, will
give US credit along with our othe:
good deeds for planting some and
caring for them. ! imagine He looks
more kindly upon man who tries
to make His world beautiful, than He
does on one who leaves a spot OF it
bare and cutters it up with junk piles
and similar offenses to the eye.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14
French Thrift.


what the French may be able TO do
IN reconstruction work is suggested BY
the methods of thrift that they an
pied during the war. | visited one
OF the towns, says an officer in an
English weekly, in which the work of
salvaging the wreckage of battle is
proceeding day and night. Thousands
OF French women and girls are EN-.
ployed on il.
10 this hive Of industry and "heal-
ing is brought all the jetsam of bat
tie, from broken rifles or bicycles TO
tattered tunics and derelict boots-all
TO be renovated and made service,ble
again in ways that seem almost like
magic. In one place saw shed after
shed piled to the roof with discarded
boots, most Of them in such q de-
plorable condition that it seemed tina,
only miracle could restore them. In
former years they would all have been
consigned to the rubbish heap. Not so
now.
Stage after stage saw these boots,
broken ih the war;" converted again
into splendid boots, soft and strong.
watched these clever and industrious
Frenchwomen soak them in some mix
ture and pass them from hand to HAND
until the leather became pliable. They
were then scrubbed and rubbed and
patched, and soles or heel, we're put
on. They were next immersed in a
bath of boiling oil, Strengthened and
shaped; and when the last process wa.
finished you could hardly distinguish
them from new boots. This repairing
shop turns out two thousand pairs
every day.
In other enormous workshops khaki
uniforms, tattered, mud-soiled, and
some of them blood-stained, were made
as good as new. After the rags are
passed through a bath Of hot water
they are handed to the women, who
cut off the sound portions with sharp
knives. These fragments are then
washed in disinfecting fluid. and
when they are dry a small army OF
tailors takes them in hand, and with
wonderful cleverness remakes them,
fit for more service.
A few minutes walk distant is the
hospital, where furnaces blaze night
and day, and the Vulcans work amid
thunderous crash and roar. Here
are mountains of broken rifles, to
which a new lease of life is to be Civ
en-. The butts and wooden parts arc
repaired or renewed; the damaged
metal parts are replaced by new ones,
rusty barrels are freshened up, and so
on; and in day or two these heaps of
old iron are so many brand new rifles,
for all practical purposes, doing deadly
execution in the trenches.
Close by you will see thousands OF
broken bicycles-so much scrap iron
to look at, beyond all hope OF repair.
Here again the magician is at work;
with amazing skill and rapidity the
damage is repaired. broken parts are
replaced, and the machines, restored
to usefulness sagain, are returned to
their units.
- .
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14

Executors of the Henry c. Prick es-
tate on Saturday last paid SCOOPS
into the West Virginia State treasury.
the amount Of the inheritance tax due
on coal lands and other property he
owned in the State. II is the largest
inheritance tax ever paid into our
treasury.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14
Hardware Department.

Bar Iron, Nails, Horse Shoes, Large
Iron Wash Kettles, Brass, Copper
and Porcelain Kettles, Skillets, Waffle
Irons, Trace, Bait, Cow and Halter
Chains, Farm Bells, Screen Doors
and Windows, American Fence Wire,
Barbed Wire, Saws, Black Hawk
Corn Shelters, Lawn Mowers, Files,
All Sizes Bolts, Loaded Shells, Pow.
der and Shot.'
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14
Paint and Oil Department.

Raw and Boiled Enseed Oil, Harness
Oil, Machine OIL, Black Strap, Tm-
pentine, N. c. and Gas Tar, Gasoline.
varnish, Japan Dryer. Knot Killer,
White Lead, Red Lead, Spanish
Brown, Calcined Plaster, Portland
Cement, Lard Oil, Piastcring Hair.
Coal Oil, Neat Foot Oil, Fish Oil.
Bath Brick Soap. Sulphur, Copperas,
Borax.
Patent Pasteridg prepared tor immediate
use.
International Stock Food and Gleasou's
Horse and Cattle Powders.
Flank Ml'lef's Harness Dressing. Whale
Oil Soap.
Black Lambs FootHar ness Oil.
The Perfection Blue Flame Wicklees Oh
. Stove-safest andb
Inc -Four Leaf Clover Cream Separator.
where the milk is not mixed or d.
luted with water, leaving II pure and
81, sweet for family use.
wall Paper furnished on short notice nj
reduced prices.
Moqeed Prices on Haying Tools and
e. Barn Door, Hangers and Track.
roree Pumps, Deep Well Pumps, Gal
anlzed Bucket Pump and Water
Further, X L Chais Fvnns.
aLarge Stock of Cooking and Heating
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14

For any pain, burn, scald or bruise,
apply DIR. Thomas Eclectic Oil-the
household remedy. Two sizes soc and
Coo at ell drug stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-10-14

~ years which can he used for MAIN
senance and building additional roads.
We cas take the state Of Iowa as q
criterion. Ii now has one auto for ev-
cry Six people. This increase has been
achieved since IL built a road system.
West Virginia now has one automobile
Tor every thirty people 1t is sure
Oct that automobiles and trucks will
not decrease in numbers. We are not
going back 10 the o1-team or the prai-
RE schooner as he would have one be-
iiere. This is 9 progressive age and
trahspsrtaioa Is the problem OF the
day. He would have one believe we
are going back 10 the stone age. Con
eioons have changed since his early
days in Virginia.
He states that he has always been
Talianuy trying To help West Virginia
IN the years gone by. II he had had
the interests OF the state SO much ut
heart, why did he not devise this state
system planT No, that was not his
policy. His position Was one OF oppo-
siten. Instead OF wanting to do some
thing constructive for the state, his
desire rs to throw q monkey wrench
into the machinery. The people can
think for themselves. They are not
takiag him seriously.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-16

the children form habits needed in and out of school, but one grows in the formation of such habits only through the exercise of independent action.
 Children in all grades should be free to carry out play problem so long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others, Experience in the Trenton schools has shown that in no other way can a child be taught to sacrifice his personal interests for the group of which he is a number. Co-opera- ton, fair play, and justice cannot be acquired if one is never subjected to temptation, and only wrong habits are taught when children are constantly watched, as if under the eye of po- liceman.
 The Trenton teachers have depart ed from the old rigid class regime. Each one allowed to use her own in- dividuality, and the school projects in each group have grown out of the dailt experiences of the children themselves.
 Too much stress can not be placed on physical education, which should take the place of the ordinary recess ; there is no place where the teacher is more needed than on the playground.
 Exercising personal responsibility is the keynote of the Trenton Fourth grades, and their work includes the use of large and small blocks, wood tools, sewing materials. paper. clay pictures, toys, housekeeping materi- als, puzzles, balls, etc. A very fine and happy atmosphere pervades all the schools.
 Teachers can reach individuals with a small group better than a large one and in Trenton plans are being made so that no one grade will con- tain. more than thirty pupils. New Jersey has a splendidly organized campaign for better schools and high CT salaries. A law vii go into effect
 this year which will make $11o0 the minimum salary with $1SG0 for the maximum salary a year. Another l law peculiar to New Jersey is, that 1T all schools at least five verses from the bible must be read every morning
 At the end of the school year, each kindergarten child is sent on with Q
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-16

list of his studies and individual tastes classified for the next teachers
 benefit. The Trenton school board and teachers have proved to their own satisfaction that co- ordination of grades is a e-~451 success It is both npportune and urgent that we edu- ea~t Jl.e ,fea-ss e4..4u so that he may learn the attributes which will make for good citizenship later. A series of lantern slides were ! shown depicting the children of schools under Miss Barwis' supervi- sion at work and play in their school rooms. There is a directed lunch pc riod, which is one of the best ways of meeting the mothers and doing a little Americanization work among the foreign homes.
 An interesting assortment of gaily
 painted modern toys, automobiles,
 cars and engines, cleverly made by some of the Trenton children, was 1 exhibited as a sample of what may be taught in manual training projects and cooperative problems.
 l At the close of her address, full of help and valuable suggestions, Miss Barwis was given a rising vote Of thanks by the teachers, after which the meeting of the asgociation ad- l jOurned.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-16


 butt of his pistol; as he was lying on
 the floor, probably unconscious from
 shock and the loss of blood; and rush. ing to the hat-ract took his military
 cap and his wife's cloak and escaped.
 This cap marked with bloody finger
 prints was afterwards found on one
 of the streets, but the cloak has not
 been seen, and the murderer has not been arrested.
 An ambulance having been hurried
 ly summoned. conveyed Harold to one
 of the best hospitals in the city where he tarried, until 4.S5 of the clock, Saturday morning, the third inst. when he withdrew from his good work here and left us all in inseper- able sorrow and grief. A clot of blood
 on his brain prevented it's normal ac- tion and killed him.
 He was the only child of his par ents who early sought to prepare him for usefulness in the world, not only teaching him themselves but sending him to some of the best schools in the country; and that one who was sc well trained to do good and who gave himself so earnestly to what he en-
 gagged to do, and was so popular with his associates, and was still in his
 early manhood should be assassinate6 l in his home while striving to protect himself and his family. by an intruder whom he did not know and none oi | his family know, is exceedingly har6 | to bear. Colonel Derby. who held fol Amany years this position which liar. Hold assumed last August, says he was l just the man who was needed for tht work and he would have made a sue
 cess of it; but alas, he was rudely