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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31

Fannie Hurst's greatest story,
"Humoresque. has been adapted to
the screen and will be shown at the
Rex theatre soon. II Is tale of
youthful genius and mother-love.
with the scene laid chiefly In New
York's Ghetto and Fifth avenue. Miss
Hurst as is well known. is right at
home In portraying with a realistic
touch the characters of New York's
humber inhabitants, and "Hnmor-
esque" is said to contain intense
heart-appeal. Humor and pathos are
deftly mingled In the picture.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
ALI. BIDS FOR HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION REyBCTED

At a meeting of the highway col
mission yesterday all bids for co
slruction of highways betveen be
and Reno were rejected ssys the @,
son News.
The lowest bid on grading and
creting the stretch btveen thsh
limits and the connectioo with
View grade was by Pitt-TayloiS
pany. The bid was for ~, 900 -
the engineers estimate Wa /
thousand dollars below that Mkh
AS concrete and Labor hps t-.,
downward curve the bighvay .
figures that contracts 3Aonlc
the same line. ReadvestisIng
will be started as the work v
to be held until spring, owing New
ther conditions. -
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
RENO BANKS TO MAKE MONTHLY
CHARGE FOR SMALL ACCOUNTS

Banks OF Reno and Sparks have
agreed to levy q charge OF so cents
a month on checking accounts on
which the monthly balance falls un-
der $50 Notices have been sent out
by the Reno Clearing House Associa-
ton stating the rule has been adopt
ed by that body and agreed to by
each of the banks. One banker ex-
planned that the banks have been los
ing money by handling small ac-
counts as the clerklng work. station
cry. etc. cost more than the returns
from the money on deposit.
Who can remember when eggs were
the poor mans breakfast.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
ELk0 PEOPLE WANT FEDERAL
AID FOR LANDING FIELD

The people of Elko will ask a Fed
eral appropriation to perfect landing
fields and hangers for the aerial mail
service. At present the mail planes
stop at Elko and should be provided
with conveniences. The present con-
gress will be asked to appropriate
si5, 900 for this purpose.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
PEOPLES N. /. CHURCH

Sunday School every Sunday at 10
a. m.. sermon at II a. m. and 1880 p.
m. Epworth League at GAS p m.
Services at Minden one week from
tonight. Friday, Jan. 7th at s p IN.
You are cordially invited to all SER
vices. p II. WILLIS. Pastor.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31

-GARDNERyII.LE NEWSPAPER .
} ISSUES CHRISTMAS NUMBER .

. From the Reno Evening Gazette :
THE Christmas edition of the :
: Gardnerville Record Courier Is :
the most elaborate In the state. :
Besides an extra quantity of :
local news, 1t has several spec :
ial articles that the of great Z
> value. notably those on the daily :
life of the pioneers of Douglas Z
county. on the future of agri-
culture and mining In that Sec Z
tion and on the agricultural out Z
look OF Nevada. Z
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The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
NEVADA RAILROAD COMMISSION
DEFYS NATIONAL BODY
(By Sampel NJ Ewing, in San Fran
cisco Bulletin.)

tBy Sampel M. Ewing. in San Fran
cisco Bulletin.)
The political and business sensation
OF the week Is found in a report of an
examiner for the Interstate Commerce
Commission at Reno that the Nevada
Railroad Commission, under Chair
man J. F. Shanghnessy by defying the
the national bodies requested to raise
Nevada local. or intrastate rates to
the level of the increased interstate
rates ordered last summer, Is favor
ing the Standard OIL Company of Cali
fornia, the big Jackling Copper inter-
ests. the mining interests of Charles
NJ. Schwab and others by giving them
lower or discriminatory rates under
the national body's tariff.
With this accusation OF discrimin-
alton, the Interstate Commission Is to
sue the Nevada Commission in the
Federal courts here to compel it to
raise Nevada locals up to the level Of
interstate tariff. California and most
other states did as requested by the
national body. Nevada's attitude will
force the national commission to test
the powers of the two bodies over all
national rates In the United States
Supreme Court.
Bankers and railroad officials as
well as the Republican leaders are
watching the matter with the utmost
interest because If the national body
wins, state commissions will be shorn
OF practically all control of railroad
rates.
The Nevada commissioners are
standing on what they consider the
rights Of each state over local rates
and have ppealed 70 theUnited States
Senator Key p.ttlnan and Charles B.
Henderson 70 protect the railroad au-
thority OF the state. Other coast SEN
ators will alec A.e appealed to, includ-
Iow fhnooX &o~<. 4.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31

Does suicide end 1t all or is 1t the
toll the devil exacts? See "The Devil
to Pay" at the Rex Sunday.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
Noteware Clues Data
on States Expenses
BY W. c. NOTEwARE

I'VE are glad to accommodate you
at any time with any information OF
public accounts that this Office can
supply. Very respectfully yours.
GEO. A. COLE,
"State Controller.
The statements referred to by the
are necessarily clogged
with figures and space will not per-
nit of going into detail. so have con-
denses same, which. however, will
give the desired information.
State Highway Fand-Jaly !, 1917,
to December ], lseo
Reeelnfa
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
Total -----------------,s.aa4, ,s7b.2e

lotdi -----------------$1 ,SIb.zz
Another matter OF interest to the
taxpayers is the amount Of federal
aid. which. instead Of so per cent as
we have been repeatedly told. Is 24.26
per cent. the counties paying 1880 per
cent and the state 5s.84 per cent In
justice to the highway commission
they claim that the federal govern
ment will reimburse the state but the
(Contiued on page four)
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
CHANGE IN MINING ASSESS
MENT LAW is GOOD

Mrs. Margaret L. Graves has sold
to Nelson L. Salter the property
known at Emerald Bay Comp. The
property is located on the shores OF
Emerald Bay Lake Tahoe. u he's
been one of the popular resorts 5n .ha..
lake. 1t has been conducted ny ele
new owner under lease for SGT Inc.
The property contains about tel acres
with improvements. Tie 4 IL sarries
$50 in revenue stamps, / lleaf 9 a
price of $2o,o0o--Placerviile Req hi
can. B
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31

FOR RENT-Room suitable for one
or two school students. Inquire OF
f. r. Howard.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31

s2.o5s. .sol.s7 100. 90

$2.056.S04.57 10000
Note: The s1.2Os. .sss.o5. being the
total of the states percentage, Is
made up from the following state
funds:
Appropriation u917) - 10000 90
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31
HOISTEIN ASSOCIATION TO
BE ORGANIZED At RENO SOON

The organization of the Nevada
Holstein Association is we'll under
way at Reno. 1t is proposed to take
in all OF the registered animals In
the state and promote breeding Of this
high class of cattle. A number of
purebred stock have lately been i'm
ported into Nevada. All animals In
the association will have to be regis
tered
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31

The pessimist thinks that fair
deal is rare deal.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-12-31

rh Car.
enehal1
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

tons. They recalled their big house
and their i.indliness and the love of
the children for them. In broken
English, but with many adjectives,
it was explained to the Mortons,
whose impoverished condition was
known, that 50 week would be
gladly paid for the care of each
child during working hours.
First they boarded three. Their
customers were highly satisfied and
said so through the neighborhood.
This kind of advertising paid. Other
families, even from as many as two
blocks away, which is long dis
tance in a neighborhood so crowded,
came to park their young ones with
the Mortons.
AS many as thirty and forty chill
dren are boarded in the house. on
single days. This means between
$50 and $40 week for the Mortons
and all the happiness which comes
to people Who arc real and sur
rounded hs children.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

$25 or $50 a week-a fortune in the
old days-began to look like not near
enough.
The want ads in the morning
papers began registering appeals
for women workers in a score of
lines of industry--all with good
pay while learning. The families
held conferences and the Inevitable
was greeted and pted--not cor
daily, but under necessity. MA"
must 60 to work, if she was young
enough. Many of these women in
the houses around the Mortons had
children, several of them, although
they could not vote, even with
woman suffrage.
The problem of what to do with
the children loomcd up in scores of
cases. Who would take care of their
babies in those hours when the
streets were filled with wagons and
autos? Most of the mothers were
unwilling to trust to q public kind
Of nursery.
Somebody thought Of tho Nor
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
" Neighboring" on the East Side

w 7 HEN the high cost of lIv-
Nv ing dropped in on
w Roosevelt Street it
knocked part Of the
contented happiness out from under
the old Morton couple.
The Mortons have a small an
nuity and small house where most
members Of the old Yankee stock
are a rarity. Instead of moving
away when foreign strangers moved
in, they just remained and learned
about the newcomers. They found
them simple and affectionate people,
who remembered kindncsses and
who only occasionally got bit
peeved and threw a mite Of dyna-
mite.
Like scores of others in the city
who have about 81 500 year from
some old family estate, they were
panic-stricken when 1900, because
Of labor's demands, n war and other
things. began to look like 5000 or
800. They didn't know just what
to do To keep the old house, stately
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

but friendly in a setting Of houses
which seemed to exude children, in
repair and their table supplied with
food enough
Things began looking hungry and
sodden for the Mortons. Their ltal-
ian neighbors noticed the change
quickly, seeing it first from the thin
cookies which their little ones
brought home after visits to the old
people.
These neighbors were and are
compassionate. They recalled That in
days when the master Of the house
had earned 20 cents an hour the
Mortons had fed the kiddics on
enough bread and butter with sugar
to make their young lives happy.
But the awaiting cost of living
began TO hit the neighbors also
Even though father was making 30
cents an hour, there we're strikes
and things which kept the income
down to an uncomfortable minimum.
With shoes for children at 81 and
for mon" at Sc and even So, even
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Birds With Teeth

1.-The earliest known bird-the Ar
chaopteryx-had no beak: it had
row of teeth in Jaw like a rep
tiles. 1t had three claws at the fo,-.
ward corner of its wing. Its tai,
too, was peculiar. All modern bird
have their tail feathers set in a
short, compact, bony rump; the
Archeopteryx had long bony tai.
with row of feathers along eacn
side"
All of these creatures have dis
appeared from the face of the earth.
They ended abruptly. 1hey were
extinguished, as though by the wav-
ing of a magic wand. perhaps in or
der to make place for man; ard
Wells says that the ending Of the
reptiles is beyond all question the
li1ost striking revolution in the whole
history of the earth before the com
ing of mankind.
"It is probably connected with the
close of vast period of equable
warm conditions and the onset Of
new, austerer age, in which the win
ters were bitterer and the summers
brief, but hot
Here Wells leaves the first install
ment Of his story. The reptiles are
gone and the stage is set for the
coming of man.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
MesOzOic Monsters

"The earliest known reptiles were
beasts with great bellies and not
very powerful legs, very like their
kindred amphibia, wallowing as the
crocodile wallows to this day; but in
the Mesozoic they soon began to
stand up and go stoutly on all fours.
and several great sections of them
began to balance themselves on tail
and hind legs, rather as the kanga-
roos do now. Another division was
the crocodile branch, and another
developed toward the tortoise and
the turtles. The Plesiosaurs and the
1chthyosaurs were two groups which
left no living representatives. PHO
sauras, one of the largest Plesio-
saurus, measured 800 feet from
snout to tail tip-of which half was
neck.
"The Mosasaurs were third
group of great porpoise-like marine
lizards. But the largest and most
diversified group of these MesozosS
reptiles was the group we have
spoken of as kangaroo-like, the Dino
saurs, many of which attained enor.
nous proportions. In bigness these
greater Dinosaurs have never been
exceeded, although the sea can still
show in the whales creatures as
great. Some of these, and the larg.
est among them, were herbivorous
animals; they browsed on rushy
vegetation and among eferns and
basheA or thsy stood UP ahd grasped
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

trees with their forelegs while they
devoured the foliage.
Among the browsers, for exam
pie, were the Diplodoccus carnegii,
which measured "a feet in length,
and the Atlantosaurus The Gigan-
tosaurus, disinterred by a German
expedition in 1912 from rocks in
East Africa, was still more colossal.
It measured we'll over 100 feet,
These greater monsters had legs,
and they are usually figured "a
standing up on them; but it is very
doubtful if they could have sup
ported their weight in this way out
of water. Buoyed up by water or
mud they may have got along.
"Another noteworthy type we have
figured is the Triceratops. There
were also u great number of flesh
eaters, who preyed upon these her
bivores. OF these, Tyranrosaurus
seems almost the last word IN
frightfulness' among living things.
Some species of this genus measured
40 feet from snout to tail. Appar
emily it carried this vast body kan
karoo fashion, on its tail and hind
legs. Probably/it reared itself up
Some authorities even suppose that
it leapt through the air. If so, it
possessed muscles of quite miracu
lous quality. Much more probably it
waded, half submerged, in pursuit of
the herbivorous river saurians."
And along with these terrible
beasts were batlike creatures.
"These bat-lizards We're the ptero-
dactyls. But birdlike though they
were, they were not birds, nor the
ancestors Of birds The structure of
their wings was that of hand with
one long finger and web; the wing
of a bird is like an arm with
feathers projecting from its hind
edge. And these pterodactyls had
no feathers"
But there were birds to go along
with the other creatures of the
Mesozoic age.
"These were, at first" says Wells,
"by all the standards of classified
ton, reptiles. They developed into
true birds as they developed wings.
and as their reptilian scales became
long and complicated. fronds, rather
than scales; and so, at last, by much
spreading and splitting, feathers.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

says, by George Newnes, Limited,
of London. The first part covers
thirty-two pages of text and illus
trations, and it takes the reader
from the time when "The sun was
a spinning, flaring mass of matter,
not yet concentrated into a COM
pact center Of heat and light, con-
siderably larger than it is now, and
spinning very much faster, and as
it whirled a series Of fragments
detached themselves from it which
became the planets. Our earth is
one Of these planets" to the ex-
'tinction Of "the monsters that wal
lowed rejoicing in the 'steamy air
and lush vegetation of the Meso-
zoic lagoons, or crawled or hoped
or f1uttered over the great river
plains Of that time"-a period of
from 66,000,00o to 100000, 900
years. Mr.. Wells allows the reader
to decide for himself whether he
will have few hundred millions
of years more or less.
Well Not Sec 1t
And in the course of his thirty.
two pages, or 660,00O,00O years,
Mr.. Wells contrives to indicate cat
aclysmic changes in the earth and
unbounded hope for the future-a
future, that is, some half million
years away. Still, it is pleasant to
contemplate the delights among
which our descendants will live.
eve find," he says, 'sfrom the
record in the rocks that there have
been long periods of expansion and
multiplication when life flowed and
abounded and varied, and harsh
ages when there was great weed
ing out and disappearance of spe-
cies and genera and classes and
the learning Of stern lessons by all
that survived. Such a propitious
conjunction it must have been that
gave the age of luxuriant, low
grade growth Of the coal measures
such an adverse series Of circum-
stances that chilled the closing mons
Of paleolithic time"
For the prophecy:
"It is probable that the warm
spells have been long relatively to
| the cold ages. Our world to-day
seems to be emerging with fluctua-
tions from a prolonged phase of
adversely and extreme conditions.
Half million years ahead it may be
winterless world with trees and
vegetation even in the polar circles.
At present we have no certainty in
such a forecast, but later on as
knowledge increases it may be possi-
BILE to reckon with more precision, 80
that our race will make it's plans
thousands Of years ahead to meet
the coming changes"
In this first part Of his Outline
Mr.. Wells merely touches on the
advent Of man, touches with a dew
astating hand. The ancestors Of the
human race, he says, "seem to have
been all obscure little beasts of the
size of mice and rats, more like q
downtrodden order of reptiles than
a distinct class" and with another
sweep Of his pen he destroys an
other favorite illusion.
Away Goes a Myth
"And here the genius Of q great
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

creatures, it was not very different
from, and rather less various than,
the kind of life a student would
gather from summertime ditch,
nowadays, for microscopic examina-
ton. Such was the life of the shall
low seas through a hundred million
years or more in the early Paleozoic
period. The land during that time
was apparently absolutely barren.
We find no trace nor hint of land
life. Everything that lived in those
days lived under water for most or
all of it's life"
Mr.. Wells lays it down as a prin-
ciple that "there seems to be a limit
Of growth for every kind Of living
thing" and this is fortunate, for
after describing the age of fishes in
the Later Paleozoic he comes to the
age of reptiles in the Mesozoic, the
things before which the rat ances-
tors of man fled in terror. And well
they might. See what Wells says of
them:
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Mans Obscure Origin

Life to-day in the form of man
goes higher in the air than any other
creature ever has done, his geo
graphical range is from pole to pole,
he goes under the water in sub
marines, he sounds the cold, lifeless
darkness of the deepest seas, he bur-
rows into virgin levels Of the rocks,
and in thought and knowledge he
pierces to the center of the earth and
reaches out to the uttermost star.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

and shows conclusively that under
the most favorable circumstances
Adam could not possibly have lived
more than 40,0OO,000 years ago, the
extreme limit of the beginning of
the Cainozoic age, while there is a
gap Of several million years between
the traces of his ratlike ancestors
and man himself.
"There is not scrap, not a bone"
he says, "to suggest that there lived
any Mesozoic mammal which could
look Dinosaur in the face. Prob
ably they still laid eggs and were
developing only slowly their distinc-
tive covering of hair. They lived
away from big waters and perhaps
in the desolate uplands, as marmots
do now; probably they lived there
OSyOuu Vic pursuit. O1 lIlc CdTUlVOT-
Gus Dinosaurs. Some perhaps went
on all fours, some chiefly went on
! their hind legs and clambered with
their fore limbs.
"These little Theriomorphs, these
ancestral mammals, developed hair
Hairs, like feathers, are long and
elaborately specialized scales. Hair
is perhaps the clue to the salvation
of the early mammals. Living lives
upon the margin of existence, away
from the marshes and the warmth,
they developed an outer covering
only second in its warmth holding,
or heat resisting, powers to the
down and feathers of the Arctic sea
birds. And so they held out through
the age of hardship between the
Mesozoic and the Cainozoic ages to
which most of the true reptiles sue
cumbed.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Away Goes a Myth

"And here the genius Of a great
humorous artist (E. T. Reed) OBJ
liges US to add a footnote to clear
away q common misconception. He
was the creator of q series Of fan
tastic pictures, Prehistoric Peeps
which have had a deserved and i'm
mense vogue, and it was his whim
to represent primitive men as en-
gagged In an unending wild struggle
with great Plesiosaurs and the like.
His fantasy has become a common
belief. Az matter Of fact, millions
Of years elapsed between the vanish
ing Of the last great Mesozoic rep
tile and the first appearance Of man
upon this earth"
II makes one weep. What In the
use of having blue blood If St.
George never fought the dragon?
Mr.. Wells goes into thA first ap-
pcarance Of tbs ancestors of man
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic
time we find no certain memorials
Ct his ancestry. His ancestors, like
the ancestors of all the kindred
mammals, must have been creatures
so rare, so obscure, and so remote
that they have left scarcely trace"
What were the animals that pre-
ceded man on earth? Mr.. Wells's
chart indicates that the first ones
able to leave any traces behind them
appeared about 360,000,00O years
ago, but there was life 100000
or 0,000,00 years earlier still in
the form of jellyfish and animalcule.
The first life that left its mark on
the earth was the trilobite and the
sea scorpion. Trilobites were crawl
ing things like big sea woodlice that
probably were related to the Amer
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

MR. WELLS, avhose picture appears at the right fills
~ ms latest book a0th such horrferous creatures as
Re 1rcerotops IN the upper left hand coer Plesio
saurs d1spotang theselue obou on Mesozoic beach,
other Meso@oc reptiles IN the upper right hand corner axd
the pterodoctys shom beoao All these creatures dsap
peared from the earth long before the Eighteenth Amend
ment avent into effect.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-13

form Of a village, there were no
courts. The nearest one was at FIT.
Smith, Arkansas. About every five
or six months L. S. marshals with
possemen and chuck wagons would
come through thug country. If they
arrested anyone they took him with
them TO be tried at Ft. Smith. Some.
time afterwards the court was moved
to Paris, Texas, and commissioners
courts were established. The first
commissioners were Mathews and
Bradford
In 1890 the coal mines opened in
south and east Ardmore Many
houses We're built, shafts sunk and
slopes run in This caused large
part Of Ardmore's earliest growth
When the ranchmen found that this
was good larnins country, they
began moving here Their ranch eX-
penses were Hlue IL, ause the cattle
gra2ed and needed 40 feed. This
made ranch life } 4re very profit
able.
Later the old cCmmissary was tori
down and a large store Is 100 feet
was built This was a general mer-
caandise store and people came from
IS to 100 miles TO trade with them.
Some Of the later business houses
were grocery, drygoods, and drug
stores. The first hotel was located
where Whittington's hotel is now.
The second was the "Old Western"
and was located where Coopers Gar
age No. 2 is located. A blacksmith
shop run by S. \. Douglas was one
Of the largest business houses. K.
Hardy ran a big merchandise store.
w. 3. Frame and Reeves ran l
drug and book store where West.
heimer and Daube is row. Bert Fos
ter and Moritz started the ice plant
which was located by the old brick
yard
The first school and church was in
one house, locate where the Elk's