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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-21
Leather and Suede Coats

Not % large line 1T them. but
they are the biggest value, ever
offered 10 amarillo. II you are
booking Tor q coat oi TN, Kind.
don't overlook tin, upporliiuii,
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-21
Union Made 0vcralls.

Heavy Blue Denim. Np. :
uuaIit, high backs. $500 value.
reduced 20 - !5-all Size.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-21

Buy That Hat Now and Save
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-21
SILK SHIRTS
HOSIERY SPECIALS

Mc1's Lislc and silk Hose IN Tan, White
\ayy. Black aud Fancy. Nj sizes.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-21
TRUNKS AT COST

Ne are compelled 10 CLOSE cut our trunks
ON account IT room. and every trunk will go
IN TN, sale at absolute cost
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
De soto's Route.

Council Bend, Miss, has taken from
Memphis, Tenn, the honor of being
the point at which De Soto first saw
the mighty Mississippi. DIR. ]. G. Row.
land of Jackson, Miss, who has
traced De Soto's route clear across
Mississippi. guided by the narratives
Of De Soto's companions, in which the
topography Of the country was fully
described has located the great In
dian mound at which the adventurous
explorer and his followers camped
the night before they saw the Fa-
tller of Waters. On this, the highest
Indian mound in Mississippi, monu-
ment will be erected to De Soto.
Doctor Rowland is convinced that
De Soto first beheld the great river
at Council Bend. The explorers IA
nous trip from the point where
Tampa, Fla, is now located, was
made in 1911. "a years before St
Augustine was founded, and IS be
fore the Mayflower completed Its first
voyage.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
EVENING
e FAIRY IAL I .
I w SMMAY RAKAMTA
! B : q gSlN|
DOG AND CAT.

"Chink, the dog, and zeppy, the cat,
were talking" said Daddy.
"Chink was sitting inside screened
piazza and Zeppy was sitting out
side.
"Of course, they were great friends
and the reason one was outside and
the other inside was because Chink
had been mapping and Zeppy had been
out for an airing. They belonged to
the same lady and they were very
happy and very friendly.
81 really would be ashamed said
Zeppy, If / had to have screens and
mosquito netting put up because of
me. Why the mosquitoes and flies
haven't got any decent pride.
""Tley don't mind if they're not
seEed in. They don't even mind II
they ht>'e screens put up on piazzas
and in windows to keep them out.
eff they get chance to get in they
will just the same. Now am outside
of course, but all l have to do is me-
ow and am allowed in, and if you are
out you know what you have to do to
get in
"'Of course said Chink, call I
have to do is to stand in front of the
door and wag my tail and they let me
in. l am really invited in whenever l
want to go in. am member oe the
family as you are. But I cannot ,in-
derstand the ways of mosquitoes ana
the ways of flies who will come in
even when things are made so plain
that they must stay out.
"'Now it Is true that here on the
farm they put up scarecrows to look
like men to scare the crows away.
But the actions of crows are lit
tie more easily understood. The crows
simply want a meal, they do not want
to come around ara bite people and
make them uncomfortable.
EVERY time though that look at
the make-beieve crow on the entrance
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
Trying to Economic.

I visited a cash-and-carry grocery.
Their leader for the day was rice. 1
bought five pounds and several other
articles and asked to have extra pa
per on the rice, but 1t was refused
Struggling up the high steps of a
street car with my many bundles, I
stumbled; something pierced the bag
of rice, and it began to ooze and fall.
OF course the car was crowded, and
as / squeezed in it suddenly lurched
ahead. / made frantic effort to
save my rice, letting everything else
go.
Kindly fellow passengers tried to
help, hiding their laughter as best
they could had the misery of being
commiserated and laughed at, besides;
losing all my rice, and this has fin
ished my efforts at trying to beat the
old high cost of living.-Chicago
Tribune.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09

to the gate of the garden feel like
talking to him and saying
""Wen, old boy, those two scare.
crows in the fields beyond are put up
for YOU
"'He looks so real sitting there on
TIE fence
81 knew he wasn't real,' said Yep
py, for / sat and watched him for
ever so long and he didn't cav. l
went up to him and asked him if he
couldn't cav.
"'"Ny dear fellow" said to him,
"are You quite dumb, can't you speak?"
And he didn't say word.
$50 l knew he was make-believe
crow for between not answering and
not moving one could tell.
"'And then day or so afterwards
I saw the lady who looks after us all
pick up the crow and fix him so he
looks in another direction as she put
him and then | knew he wasn't real.
az am glad I'm not a malse-believe
cat. If We're a mnke-believe cat
wouldn't he given any milk.
"'You wouldn't want any milk IL
You were a make-believe cat said
Chink.
ooh, but once l passed house,
and outside were two make-belieye
lions. Their mouths were open and
felt so sorry that they couldn't be
given bones and big chunks of meat
and that they couldn't roar
"'Well, / never before knew you to
care so much for other creatures
laughed Chink.
"I'm feeling sorry for make believe
creatures, not for real ones grinned
Zeppy.
".Dd You hear that the youngest
kitten of Mrs. Black Cat was playing
with a key she got out of the pantry
door and that she lost it and that no
one could get into the pantry and
there was terrible time? They had
to break the lock-
"'Why, what exciting news you
have Ia soil No, I didn't hear that.
We'll, well, and did they send the kit
cen TO bed without any milk for sup
per-?
They didn't for she was too young,
she didn't know any better
"'Ah. it is nice to be friends, isn't
it, ZeppyT
"I'ine, fine, meow, meow said
Zeppy. But it is beyond me as
said in the first place to understand
creatures like mosquitoes and flies
who get all the hints that they aren't
wanted and still haven't pride enough
to stay away
at is something I cannot under
stand either said Chink."
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
WORLD ABOUT THE SAME
Today, as In Ages Past, There Are
Those Who Seek the Simple,
"OId-Fashioned" Girl.

A London correspondent, remarks
the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser,
discovers rollicking satire upon peo-
pie Of the day, that is of those of us
who gravely shake our heads as we
contemplate the manners and dress
Of many young folk of the day. The
correspondent finds that in the Satur-
day Review Of fifty years ago the fol-
lowing article was printed.
1.-THE girl of the period is creature
who dyes her hair and paints her face
as the first articles of her personal
religion-a creature whose sole idea
Of life is fun, whose sole aim is I'M
bounded luxury, and whose dress is
the chief object of such thought and
intellect as she possesses. Her main
endeavor is to outlive her neighbors
in the extravaganza of fashion. If
sensible fashion lifts the gown out of
the mud she raises hers.
Call men whose opinion is worth
having prefer the simple and genuine
girl Of the past, with her tender little
ways and pretty bashful modesties to
|
with her false red hair and painted
skin, talking slang as glibly as man
and by preference leading the con-
versation to doubtful subjects =
| All we can do is to wait patiently
until the national madness has passed
out and women have come back again
to the old English idea
Not few writer's and private talk
ers have said things to the same effect
as the foregoing. We hear it every
day and hearing 1t we may accept 1T
as q scathing Indictment of the new
| girl, Just as our forbears accepted the
foregoing article as a just indictment
of the girls of half century ago.
Headstrong, forward and disobedi-
ent young people were known long
before the time of the Reviews edi-
torial. Readers of the Last Days Of
Pompeii," may recall the lamentations
of chief character that young peo-
pie of his time were not as reverent
and respectful in the presence of their
elders as they had been in a former
generation. Neither were they as re-
ligious.
Certain 1t is that the Apostle Paul,
in writing those epistolary messages
thought it pertinent and timely to re-
mind women not to be too forward in
church. AS itappeared to him it was
necessary for him, as an authority. to
repress women. warning them specific
ally against bobbing their hair.
1t seems that the race has always
stopped to ask now and then: "What
has become of the old-fashioned girl
who," etc.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
The Sun Volcano.

Not long ago at the Yerkes Observa-
tory an eruption was observed land
photographed) on the rim of the sun
which threw up material to height
of 100000 miles One cloud of it,
which appeared as If floating detached,
was reckoned to have some thousands
of times the volume of the earth.
We are accustomed to regard great
volcanic explosions on the earth as the
most appalling of natural phenomena,
but they are feeble and trifling dis
turbances compared with the outbursts
which are continually taking place
all over the body of the sun.-Kansas
City Star.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
Compete with pyramids.

The only competition Of the pyra-
mids, says the Automobile Blue Book,
is the famous painted rocks near Mari
copa, Cal. These rocks are what re-
main Of the magnificent old Sun Wor-
ship temple where thousands Of In
dams gathered each year. The rocks
were discovered by early Spanish ex-
plorers in the seventeenth century,
and 1t is believed that the group was
nine or eleven dozen centuries old
when the American Indians first
saw It.
Ornamental Thlmbies
At one time, apart from the shape,
which is imperative, thimbles were
decorated with all kinds of precious
stones at the tip-and these were, Of
course, designated more for ornament
than use, when 1t was the fashion, as
Sheridan remarks, for fine ladies' to
play 'at fine work." according to the
Irish WorlS Ladies' In our grand.
mothers days. besides seeing to the
household and personal linen. gen.
orally worked In delicate materivl in
silks and satins. when smaller Thin
Die was bought into plny and used
with some of the witchery of the fan.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
Romantic Bohemia.

All Bohemia is n land of romance.
In the hills and mountains there are
picturesque castles perched upon the
craggy mountains or concealed clever
ly in rocky clefts. The very name b.
hernia is associated with wild and Won
derful legends of the rude barbaric
ages. 1t has been the battle-ground of
nations. To-day it is the land of story
and legend, as in the olden days it
was the land of loyal knights and rob
Der barons. Youths Companion.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
succinct Information.

Friends of ours have family
Of three children, Elizabeth and twins
James and Joseph. The twins re-
semble each other so much that it Is
hard to distinguish them. One day
while the children were playing in the
yard neighbor asked Elizabeth which
of the boys was James. and she very
promptly received the reply that James
was the one standing next to Joseph
Exchange.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
Forge Pay Checks.


More than 100 convictions have re-
suited from the work Of the secret SER
vice agents in running down persons
who obtained fraudulent possession
of government pay checks during the
war and cashed them after forging an
Endorsement. Hundreds Of checks also
were passed in cases where the blank
forms We're stolen from the offices of
disbursing officers and filled out false
ly. Many Of these checks were stolen
from mail boxes. where they had been
left by the postmen for disabled SOL
diers or dependents of soldiers, bu.
this form Of thievery has all but
ceased.
Because Of the billions Of dollars
disbursed from Washington and of the
inexperience of many disbursing Off
GERS who did not safeguard their rec
ords properly, the national capital be-
came rich field for crooks and the
secret service found plenty to do right
at its doorstep. The latest piece of
criminality to engage the attention Of
the bureau there has developed in the
bureau of war risk insurance. where
number of disabled soldiers were in
duced 10 part with part of their
money due from the government on
the ground that by such method they
could get more than the government
would otherwise pay them.
Investigation has shown that the SOL
diers were the only losers as the en-
ployees Of the bureau have no power
to increase the amount the disabled
men are paid. Only minor employees
of the bureau have been involved.
The large issues Of Liberty bonds
duties in tracing stolen registered
bonds. Theft of coupon bonds does
not directly concern the bureau any
more than the theft of currency, but
as registered bonds cannot be trans
ferred or the interest collected with
out the signing of the rightful owners
name, they come in different class.
Climate and Longevity.
The general death-rate is found to
Increase with rising temperature and
to diminish with falling thermom-
eter. These conclusions are result
of study of about 100000 deaths In
New York in connection with the
weather on the day of the death. The
peculiarities seem to apply to all sea-
sons Variety, as in English or Ca
L III, p.,t tim,
ulating. and it is believed that some
variability is MS essential as proper
humidity.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
SECRET SERVICE
JOBS in DEMAND
More Than 1000 Applications
for Every Vacancy.
WORK APPEALS TO AMATEURS
correspondence School" sleuths
Eager to Show Their SkiIl-service
Is Recruited From City Detective
Forces and None Is Accepted Until
He Has by Years Of Work Proved
His Ability as Crime Investigator.

A place on the United States secret
service force is the most sought for DO
sltion in the United States. More
than 1000 applications are received
Tor every vacancy and every mail
brings new requests. Most of these
are from "sleuths" who have complet-
ed the course of some mail order de-
tective school. No sooner does the
average graduate" get his diploma
and star than he sits down and writes
TO Washington that he is qualified to
DO all kinds of detective work" and
asks for government position.
In all such cases the applicant is out
a 2-cent stamp, for the detectives in
the government services are recruited
from the city detective forces and
none is accepted until he has proved
by years of work his ability as crime
investigator.
The secret service was created in
1854 to trace and arrest counterfeiters
OF United States currency, principally
the old "greenbacks." and detection of
makers and circulators of spurious
money has always been it's chief func-
ton. Consequently it has attained a
high degree of efficiency in that line
and it has become automatic that mo
counterfeiter can get away with it."
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
Great Grandmothers

Mamma" said fve-year-old Charles,
looking up from his story book, what
does this story mean about great
grandmother? Amt all grandmothers
vreatp"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
Has Proper Regard for Rooster.

Charles Collins of Oak Hill, Litch-
field, Mo, thinks so much Of a White
Wyandotte rooster that he encourages
him to roost nights on the footboard
of his bed and feeds him every little
while. This is because Mr.. Collins
was awakened one night by the ex-
cited growing of the rooster, which
had somehow got into the house. and
found when he got up to investigate
that the house was on fire. Anything
that that rooster wants hereafter he
must have.
Great Men Actuated by Dreams.
Almost all the great characters Of
HerOdotus believed that dreams were
of supernatural origin. Kings re-
signed their scepters, Cambyses assas-
sinated his brother priests attained
great powers as commanders, cities
which had been destroyed were re-
stored by men who changed their plans
and performed these acts because
warned, as they supposed, in dreams,
and with the invasion of Greece by
Xerxes such night visions had much
to do.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
The eIiqhter BIiahted.
J. D. BROWN & SON

SuC OuSUtSI ouyuSeo.
There issnOthing that quite so quick
ly and so definitely marks man CT
woman as being ill-bred as inciviiity.
Being rude. nngracious, impolite. in
considerate. badmannered. is evidence
of the grossest ignorance and worse
is evidence Of utter contempt of man.
kind. The, unc,vil can and do blight
the happiness and comfort nf people
many times. but in the end they them
selves are the real victims-Silent
Partner. f.v
Had Him Sized Up.
Roberts mother warned him to be
arefuI not to offend the new hoy who
Z nd few days before moved into the
at in the rear. size saying: "He is a
nd fighter" Robert replied: .rve
ried him already. He has more blum
D him than the real stun."
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-09
cIeverness Against cIeverness.

But high wages for skilled and un-
skilled labor do not seem to have ap-
pealed to a number of clever men who
during the last few months have at
tempted to beat the high cost of living
by making their own money. In con-
sequence the secret service has been
unusually active, and five gangs of
counterfeiters operating in widely DIFF
ferent parts of the country have been
rounded up and their plants confiscat-
ed the government agents.
The war laid an extra heavy burden
on this branch of the governments ma
chinery, and hardly had the amount Of
work begun to lessen, when counter
felt bills began to appear in unusual
quantities, and the work of the crimi-
nails made their detection difficult
In one instance group of three
men, who had made some very fine
plates, We're caught before they had
put single piece of faulty paper into
circulation, their apprehension being
the result of lucky accident and some
clever detective work.
AS has been related already in the
daily press, a bather in Lake Michigan
at Chicago few weeks ago struck his
foot against something sharp, and on
investigating found it was copper
plate engraving of $40 federal re-
serve note. He turned it over to the
federal authorities, who saw that it
was an imperfect plate, but in the
light of long experience they guessed
that where that plate came from there
were others in process of manufacture.
With no other clew to work on, they
began an Investigation and soon ar
rested three men, who admitted that
they had been experimenting with
counterfeit plates for several months.
Twelve such plates were found in
their possession, some of them so we'll
made that bills printed from them
would have been very hard of detec-
The Delta independent., 1920-10-08
SAN DIEGO LEGION WRITES
"MoTHER OF WAR HERO"

The following article from San
Diego publication will be of interest
to the many friends OF Arthur L.
Peterson formerly of this city who
fell on the battlefields of France:
The second anniversary of the
st. Mihiel drivs in which Arthur
man to make the supreme sacri-
flee for his country, was observed
by the Long Beach post of the
Legion yesterday when Walter F.
Lineberger, president of the local
post. wrote Mrs. Otto Peterson,
mother of the Long Beach hero.
letter in commemoration Of the day.
Long Beach post is named the Ar
thur L. Peterson post to perpetuate
his name. He was a member of
company f, 117th Engineers. Rain
bow division. Approximately 500 Long
Beach Legion members participated
in this action. the first of the war
undertaken by the Americans as an
! independent unit and the one which
is credited with turning the tide of
the war against Germany. Major
Linebergers letter to Mrs. Peterson
| follows:
September IL. 1920.
Mrs. Otto Peterson,
"732 Molina Avenue.
My Dear Mrs. Peterson To those
of us who took part in that memor.
able drive, the reduction of the St
Mihiel Salient, and who survived the
II great conflict, the most vivid recoi
lection we have on the eve of St
Mihiel Day is OF those who went with
us two years ago to their last charge
I'VE cannot forget. Blue Tipped
smudged with sludge. chilled by the
wind and rain of the fox-hole and
trench. forming grimly and without
emotion in the merk which the ground
was throwing up. as heavy as that
which the skies were letting down,
they drove through to their objective
Ito the judgment seat of God. Vivid,
ly do we recall that your son and our
comrade. Arthur l.. Peterson, meu,
ber of the Rainbow division. gave up
his young life on that day. His
memory and patriotic sacrifice shall
ever be cherished by this Post which
us hohofel III pea' ihS MS mann
I'VE will not say that he has died.
He has but passed beyond the mists
that blind us here, and come to the
end of the beautiful Rainbow which
was exemplified in his divisional in
sigma
Please accept in the name of our
post. the sincerest regards and ap-
probation of some one thousand
members of the American Legion in
Long Beach. Very sincerely.
WALTER F. LINEBERGER.
President Post No. %, American
Legion of California"
The Delta independent., 1920-10-08
Reclamation Record September
1920 Uncompahere Valley Projec

Normal climatic conditions for
the month of September were favor
able for the maturing of most crops.
The first killing frost was on the
night of September 25th. following
a rainfall of about one-half inch over
a greater part of the project. Some
corn fields and late truck patches
were the only crops injured by the
frost
The harvesting of the crops has
progressed aVlong normal lines. The
digging of potatoes has been more
general over the project than the
previous month. although the amount
moved to market has probably not
exceeded that of August. The price.
however. has gradually declined un-
til buyers We're offering from S1.15
to S12O per hundred at the close of
the month.
The peach and pear crops were
gathered. and the harvesting of the
later varieties of apples We're in full
progress at the end of the month.
After the storm on the 5th and 9th
of September the supply of water has
been ample for all the needs of the
project. Since the cath the amount
of water carried thru the Gunnison
Tunnel has been gradually decreased,
until at the close of the month not
over one-half of the water available
in the river was carried.
Water was shut out of the Gunni-
son Tunnel on September 22nd for
twelve hours for inspection of the
concrete lining Of the tunnel and
the South Canal
The West Portal crushing plant
was started up the forepart of the
month and sufficient rock was
crushed for the South Canal repair
work which will be done this fall or
next spring. The crushing plant was
closed down Tor the season on Sep
tcmbcr 3Oth
Mr.. Ottamar Hamele, Chief Coun-
sci. u. S Reclamation Service, was
a visitor on the project September
2lst and 22nd,
Porter j. Preston,
Project Manager
The Delta independent., 1920-10-08

According to Countess del Garcia.
an American citizen, and reputed one
of the most brilliant women in Eu-
rope. arrived in New York Sunday
aboard the Imperator and stated that
she brought with her u positive cure
for tuberculosis. She stated that the
cure was the discovery of famous
French doctor who is preparing to
visit the United States shortly.
The Delta independent., 1920-10-08
DELTA PUBLIC SCHOOL
School CaIendar-1e2O 1921.

School opens September 9th
Colorado Education Association
November 3rd. 4th, and 5th.
THANKSGIVING Holiday, Thursday
and Friday 25th, and 26th.
Christmas Vacation December 2Oth
to January Srd.
First Semester ends January 2ist
Spring Vacation March 2Sth- TO
April 4th.
commencement week May S0th to
June 3rd.
School closes June Srd.