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The following society item from the
Sherbrooke Daily Record. S~herbrooke.
Que. Canada. will be read with in
terest by tho many friends OF the con-
tracing parties here. Mrs. Fraser
is a sister Of H Leslie Parker. for
merry of Casper. and has visited in
Casper.
"a quiet but one OF the prettiest
OF June weddings was solemnized at
loon on June so. at the home Of Mr..
n Mrs Charles II Parker. ~
Brooks street. Sherbrooke. Quebec.
when their youngest daughter. Win
nifrcd Eliza. was united in holy mat
rimony to James Rowan fraser OF
Casper. Wyo. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Alfred Bright of
St Andrews Presbyterian church. in
tho drawingroom. which was deco
rated with masses OF roses, white
daisies and ferns. The wedding march
was played by Miss p. A. Parker, sis
ter OF the bride.
Following the ceremony a recep-
ton was held after which the bridal
party left for a motor trip to Quebec.
Tho bride travelled in a navy blue
serge suit. dark blue hat. and veil.
After returning from their wedding
trip. Mr.. n Mrs Fraser viii leave
shortly for their future home in Cas-
per. Wyo."
Regular Meeting of
OF Young Matrons' Club.
The Young Nations club OF the Y.
W. e. a. will hold its regular meeting
"Wednesday afternoon at $50 in the
pariors Of the Y. w. c. A. All mem
bers are urged to attend. Special bust.
ness will lie considered in arranging
for the anniversary meeting next Wei
nesdny.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Marvin of Shcri-
dan are here attending tho /. o. o. II.
sessions.
Visiting Rebekahs TO
Witness Degree Work.
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GREEK DRIVE
is LAUNCHED

ATHENS. July 1:-onic!aI o
firmation OF the beginning OF the
Greek offensive against the Turkish
NatIonalists was supplied in q Q
crnment statement last night an
n~ouncing a preliminary movement in
the operation
, 1921-07-13

Roiia Buckles and family have re-
to their home in olney. Ill
, 1921-07-13

Realtor Goes TO Convention
Mr.. and Mrs Cecil Bon, left yester-
day for Chicago where they will spend
n short vacation. Mr.. Dor Will at
ten h convention OF the National
Realtors as a representative OF the
See Ben Realty company and as n
representative OF the Casper Real Es-
tate beard.
, 1921-07-13

Tribune Classified ADJ
.-Bring Results--
, 1921-07-13

FOR SALE-Ford touring car; good
running order. Price. 5000. 212'
O.S Bldg, or $40 South Melrose st.
7-12-,ts
, 1921-07-13

Mrs. and Mrs. ]. r. Jones and o
are leaving tomorrow by overland
route for a visit with Mrs. Jones
folks at Oakley. Idaho They will go
, 1921-07-13

Mrs. Gus Holms. wife OF the well
known Cody Dad enthusiast. is In
Casper visiting with friends while at
tending the Rebekah assembly.
, 1921-07-13

GoWNS-Made of fine quality cambria very neatly
ssis r fns embroidery trimmed, Red Tag $500
Gh1v asd ceiars and Se six Ta sl ssis p slseE' $500
, 1921-07-13

AS here we're IN he opening day of he ed tag sale last aturda n armyo u
people came in from SO miles nd more, cam in from the round owns and
camps n from everywhere and shared mt the great savings. Every nook an cor
nera mi aisle of this big bargain louise vas jammed with enthusiastic buyer from
the minute our doors swung openu until late hourso OF ue nght MANY stou arounu
m hu anxiously awaiting their turns to be waited IN N the cHnk mt
of buying vas dafening all day. 1t was almost impossible to handle such
, 1921-07-13
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

FOR RENT-Onc furnished front
ROOM: for one or two gentlemen.
40 East Second. 1-12-2t
, 1921-07-13

WANTED-Young working couple
to share fine room. modern house;
desirable location. Reasonable. Phone
1555-M. 7-i2-lt'
, 1921-07-13

A very large assortment of
all silk Blouses, in variety of
beautiful colors and styles,
made of fine quality georg-
cite, fancy trimmed....-.-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23
HIL.LSDALE

C. A Fisk was a caller in Moline
Sunday and when craHkfng his car
was struck across the face in two
places. suffering two bad cuts.
Miss Josephine Repp left Monday
for Galesburg where she will at
tend Knox college this year.
j. E. Bryants, Misses Helen and
sJulia Kempsfer were Moline shop
pefs On Thursday.
Dave Waddeii and family spent
Sunday at the Walter Gibbs home in
Davenport.
Members of the community league
are invited to meet at ths Ekholm
home Friday evening for a social
time.
The entire Sunday school attend
ed in a body at the convention OF
Sunday school held Sunday after
noon at the country home of John
Hauberg. The afternoon was one
OF interest and the speaking was
Mrs. ]. F. Butter, who has beer
in Chicago for the past 10 days, ar
rived home Monday evening.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23
WASHINCTONTO
CLOSE SEASON
streckfus Excursion Boat on Final
Trips Of Successful
Summer.

River excursion season will be
officially closed Tuesday and We'd
nesday evenings when the Wash
ington of the Strecldus feet, ap-
pears for its final outings. The
Washington Thursday morning viii
ioin the J. s. and St Paul in the
Nahant barhor.
The Capitol, which was used ex-
csusiFely In the northern river dur
ing the summer season, is now in
New Orleans, the only one of the
streckfus fleet to be in year-round
service.
Tho Washington returns to the
tri-cities from southern tour and
the Capitol orchestra, which has
been aboard it since the Capitol
vent south, will end its engage
nent with the final tri-city cut
hgs. Following the usual sched-
ules, the boat leaves Rock Island
at $3.50 o'clock on the last eve
nings of its trips.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23
Boy Scout News

Paul Preston, former Scout com
missioner, will be sceutmasteF Of
the Scout band. Quincy Mcneil
was elected band manager at the
last meeting. The band viii play
the Scout Pow-Wow next Friday
evening.
Troop No. 8 of the LongfeiIoE
school had a poppy meeting last
evening with ScoHtmaster Arnele
Hauerwas and the Scout executive
d. B. BergQuist- The troop is com
posed of high school boys, frs
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23

Troop No. % is starting its sea-
sons activities in the same splen-
did manner in which il carried on
its work last year. II holds meet
ings in the Evangelical Church Of
Peace under the leadership of E.
II. Miehae1is. Walter Enorr and
Ludwig kutz are the patrol leaders
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23

ferent nights of the week.
The Scout Dispatch, q bulletin
made up at Scout headquarters, is
being sent out to all men and boys
connected with the local council
This bulletin will be issued to in
still enthusiasm for various actiY-
tiles promoted BIZ the local council.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23
kEiTHsBURG

Mrs. Ella Payne, this city. bought
the drug store at Seaton ewned By
the late ]. f. Hurst MS Payne
took possession yesterday noon.
She will run the business, assisted
81 her nephew, Leo Logan
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23

class Scouts They play an over
night hike to Camp Winuie-Taska
Friday evening, Oct 4.
Troops Nos. % and % will meet
at St Joseph's school this evening
with Scoutmaster Steve Miller and
his assistants. Meetings OF the
three troops will be held on diff
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23

Streckfus officials say the season
has. met their forecast and they
expressed pleasure at the patron
age given their boats s!ong the
upper river and delight at the
apparent favor with which excur-
sionists greeted the new boafa,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23
Ewes Strained!

!. II your eyes arc worlz-strained OF
Ered; IL your vssioA Is dim or
aurred; IF it bothers you % reaa
your eyes burn or itch or aches y
Iou wear glasses, get a bottle OF
san-Opto tablets from your drug
psf, dissolve one in q fourth or u
fhss-of watsra and use from TWO 70
our times d day to battle the eyes
ol-0pto has brought comfort ana
Hlef TO thousands and thousands
Note: Doctors say Bo1Opto ssrengthcns eye1
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23

Miss aingHeEits Newell is sub
stitutine for the 1rst grade teach
er at Decatur, who was unable =
open her school on account OK
sickness.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-23

An the News-An The Time
The Argus
The mirror., 1921-04-07

had spent most of his life hunting
gold.
1t is an easy thing to become lost
in the desert. Confusion follows
quickly when the brain is once
fevered. There n sameness in the
buttes and mountains when they are
viewed from a distance, through a
superheated atmosphere, and a uni
form sameness too among the gorges
and mountains themselves that bor-
der the deserts edge. The vegeta-
ton is uniform. 1t is hard to remem-
Der a rock so as to distinguish it a
half-hour later from another rock
that looks like it; and where there is
one rock looking like it there are a
hundred. As a consequence of all
this, the victim soon becomes confused,
and generally wanders in circle un-
til he falls from exhaustion and dies.
This happens sometimes almost with
in calling distance of help.
1t won't be long before the last of
these interesting old desert derelicts
will be laid away under a little
mound. Most of them were squaw-
men when they were young. They
came to the frontier when men of oak
and iron were needed to subdue it.
Their halfbreed children are scattered
God only knows where. They
may have loved their squaws; per-
haps they didn't. However they may
be condemned, most of these men
never had a home. They had an op-
portunity as others have had to build
home. Their life has been hard,
with little warmth and joy in it.
They have always been children of
the wilderness, and they are children
still in their old, old age. One of
these old, old children once remarked
to the writer, "The only wish | have
left, the only thing | ask, the only
thing l have left to hope for, is that
when l die l may look into some kind
face with my breaking eyes"
The mirror., 1921-04-07
Petrified Forest

Within the stretch of Arizona's s
desert lies sixty square miles of petri-
fed forest. There lie preserved for
all time fallen tree monarchs, millions
of years old, turned to rocks. Nam
moth trunks, sometimes five feet in
diameter and fifty feet in length, or
cracked smoothly into blocks, are
transformed into everlasting stone,
beautiful in quality and coloring-
quartz, agate, chalcedony, jasper and
exquisite opal, infinite in the variety
of delicate tint and rich shading.
The method of petrifcation, by
which the giant trees became rock,
was one of the strange alchemies of
nature. Probably the wash of water
from hot mineral springs rich in
silica was the cause. The chemical,
permeating the tissues of the plant,
acted as hardening agent, preserv-
ing the original structure and detail
of the tree with astonishing perfec-
ton of detail.-Ex.
The mirror., 1921-04-07
DERELICTS OF THE DESERT
Selected

OI11I tlldI SOuSHl tICdSuIC
~ island in desert and became
derelict, is the prospector, still
drifting over hot, shimmering sand,
like specter that emerges from the
old fevered, fortune-hunting days.
Most of his pals lie under some
scrawny bush. Strangers buried their
bones in a nameless grave. A few
stones piled at the head, and perhaps
the rusted canteen leaned against
them,-that's all.
A solitary, blurred figure is seen,
coming through that blush, culver
ing curtain mile or so ahead be-
tween your aching eyes and the hori-
zon. You are lying in the shade of
some scraggy palm beside brackish
spring. 1t seems impossible that hui
man being could live beyond that mar
row, dark strip that stretches itself
along the ground. Blistering heat
comes from all about you. 1t arises
from the cactus-dotted glare. 1t seems
to sweep in an invisible deluge from
a Aeckless sky. 1t rolls toward you
like a storm that started in circle
and is rushing to the center. Yet
there he comes, plodding steadily and
carrying heavy burden.
He is an old man. His face is
burned black, but his beard is pure
white. His eyes squint. The lids
are drawn close together to protect
the eyes against the fierce light. A
canteen with little water is slung
over one shoulder, bag witb-some
specimens of quartz over the other.
On his back are his scant provisions
and his bed. He is desert derelict,
"a prospector on gold hunt.
He may not stop at your spring.
He may want to reach some noun
tain ten or twelve miles beyond to
make his camp for the night. Some
day he will try to make a distant
camp like this one and will find dry
hole where he expected to find water.
He will stagger on until he sees trees
and then he will stagger little
farther and join his pals. Desert
derelicts who have been snatched
from death agree that shortly before
they fell they imagined they saw
mesquite trees. Wherever these
trees grow, water exists. 1t may be
ten or twelve feet under the surface,
but the tortured, dying man thinks
he can dig down to it with his fingers.
This is the type of man who has
found nearly all the wealth the world
enjoys. He pursues his vision while
death stalks at his side. He never
looks up. He keeps his eyes on the
ground, where he hopes with almost
every step to pick up the first bit of
quartz that will betray the hidden
millions.
Prospectors seldom make rich
strike, and when they do, almost in
variably lose the wealth they have
found. They sell their claims, and
five thousand dollars is a big price.
Often they are paid a few hundred
dollars in cash and the rest in notes.
If the claim developes into a paying
mine, the notes are redeemed, and if it
gives out, they are let 60 by default
The mirror., 1921-04-07
POSSIBILITIES OF CYPRESS
Selected
OFTY and massive is the cypress.


lowering to tremnedous
height, it rises majestically from
the swamps and, extending stout,
spreading branches, filings its light,
feathery foliage to the breeze.
The swampy lands of the Southern
states are the favorite habitat of the
cypress. Sometimes the tree is found
growing in shallow water, sometimes
on low-lying land subject to periodi-
cal Aooding-but always where the
soil is permanently moist.
To the character of its natural en-
vlronment, cypress owes its outstand-
ing feature as commercial wood
its extraordinary resistance to mois-
ture and dry rot. This characteristic
of cypress makes it particularly suit
able for trellis, pergola and general
outside work, where wood that will
not decay, warp or crack readily is
needed. Similarly, its moisture-re-
sisting properties fit it for use in kit
chens and bathrooms, since contact
with water will not injure it.
AS an interesting instance of cy-
press durability, and immunity against
decay, "pecky" cypress is an excellent
example. "Pecky" cypress is the name
given TO tie wood which has been at
tackled by species of dry rot. The
heart wood of such trees is pitted
with small holes, giving an appear
ance similar to the marks of smallpox
on person. Such wood, however,
seems to possess the maximum amount
of durability and is aptly termed
"The eternallest part of the wood
eternal"
Cypress so marked of course loses
its desirability for fine interior finish,
although some remarkable effects have
been obtained with it. This wood
finds its principal outlet for use in
greenhouses; as railroad ties in
swampy country, and large num-
Der of other places where moisture is
the chief obstacle to be overcome.
A peculiar grain, ranging from the
straight or comb grain to intricate
and highly ornate markings, distin-
guishes cypress from the other woods.
While it is classed as soft wood, it
is commonly used for floors and stands
up we'll under heavy traffic. The
comb-grained variety is best adapted
to this purpose.
For interior work cypress can be
finished to represent the most attrac-
tive of hardwoods, and thus permits
of treatment that will harmonize with
any decorative scheme.
The uniform, soft-toned effects, so
much desired in present-day decora-
ton, are readily obtainable on cypress
by improved methods of finishing.
Such effects, grays and browns, are
produced by subduing the yellow
grain of the wood without obliterat-
inng it completely, yet giving an ef-
feet that is characteristic of the wood
and at the same time conservative in
appearance.
Many finishes on cypress have
gained great popularity. The natural
finish is widely used, page 8, Col. 81
The mirror., 1921-04-07

and the prospector takes over his now
worthless property in lieu of them.
Even if he should be paid big sum
in cash for his claim, he won't keep
the money long. He always has
claim that is little better than the
one he sold, which he keeps secret
for himself. He always looks for
ward to the day when he will have
money enough to follow the ledge to
the fabulous wealth that he thinks is
hidden a few hundred feet beneath
the surface. Every dollar he can raise
goes into his pet claim, and it general
ly gives out long before the one he
sold.
Mohave Desert and the desert of
San Diego and Imperial Counties in
southern California are continually
traversed by these interesting fortune
hunters, who appear once in while
at some favorite haunt where they
sometimes borrow enough for grub
stake. The never-failing honesty of
these old fellows always entities them
to credit. Out they 60 again into the
desert, where for months they lead
the hardest kind of life. When they
return to civilization they pay their
grubstake bill; what is left goes too,
most of it in the same place-and then
again the round as before.
They get gold in the desert, and
sometimes come in with several hun
dred and even Thousand or two in
rare instances. 1t is gold that is
found almost pure in pockets. They
will find an outcropping on some
stark mountainside. The quartz is
faxed heavily with gold, and the
ledge, as rich as the outcropping or
richeryis followed few feet with
little pick, and then gives out. Mug
gets as big as peas and sometimes pea
nuts are found in the crystal or dis
integrated granite which crumbles
easily away.
The long months of continuous
hardship and unbroken solitude seem
to disturb the mentality of a good
many of these wanderers; at least
they seem at times to be what might
be called little queer. They are al
ways pursuing a vision, and their
fancy often runs wild. They are al
ways on the hunt for places and
things that exist only in fiction, like
the famous Peg Leg Smith Mine.
One old fellow, mounted on
burro, with two others spiked behind
it, appeared at desert camp one
morning to trade dried apricots for
sugar. His burros had eaten his
sugar. The camp was startled. He
wore long linen duster and goggles
that looked as big as saucers and he
carried large green umbrella. He
was after a pertifed turtle, which he
thought he had discovered some
months before along Coyote Creek
when he had no means of bringing it
back with him. He felt sure that if
he could find it again and bring it
home he would make fortune ex-
hibiting it throughout the United
United States. That man had COM
Portable ranch on which he raised
apricots, but he could not keep off the
desert. As soon as enough apricots
were ripe to keep him in food for
awhile, he would pick and dry them
and on hack RI the desert. where he
The mirror., 1921-04-07

Recent statistics show that 1866
artificial gas companies in the United
States are supplying more than 30O,-
900, 100000 cubic feet of gas of one
sort or another to 8,500,00O custo-
mers.-Ex.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-17

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saws II Ia awfuily tntere.tinx. And
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-17

~ N darling; ,@ So. taE4 800. E. S
III. How do you suppose can keep mosquito bite? Yes,
keep it, not il, but preserve always if possible,
cause its the incest little old bite that got the MYFLOWER
this afternoon tried to catch the mosquito could keep
her when to be great grand mother could show
heEo hnI guess is cause its the hims" that sing and bite
En it EN- could show him to my great grand children
and tell them that there's of Elk Pepsent and Mrs. Hard
ng mosquitoes and that he bit their great gandmohers
ankle cruise the Mayfower with Mrs. Harding and
then show them the proof Butt didn't catch him as he
flew in direction of General Sawyer and if 7 had he
Wouldn't have Kept after all that time and wouldn't be
skeeter skeleton by then would he And neither will there he
left af guess by tomorrow wont even be itching So
such sSiife! ,!f iH..l n a$. b
Soyou want to know what was doing the Mayfowef
don't ou' WE'LL wasn't taking cruise with just Mrs. Hard
ing and Gene, Dr. Sawyer but with whole crowd of
grown up ladies' Mrs Coolidge Senators wives, Miss Harlan,
Nj. Edward B. Mclean and some newspaper women.
And got the bite on the deck-no mean my ankle,
while Twas sitting the deck waiting for Lieut. Collins to
back from the to dance with he had to
fix something the orchestra started playing "Those eyes
ia know that cute jazzy piece that popular
And he had to chase off Just as he'd ask them especially to
play it for And there just enough officers go round
among the girls that danced te-sas " - -etys5
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-17

go down and feel just like I've had q
dose Of castor-oil, and then pretty soon
I get 10 sleepy / cant hold my eyes
open. 80 what. will you please tell me,
10 the use of taking them ask your
Make Friends With
the Cops.
You know EN- they have the incest
most sociable policemen in this town
and while Of course they arrest you,
a that's their.dsty. they are SO agree
able about 1t. and II isn't half 80 bad
to get pinched ifnthey are fun Of fun
and chat along in a pleasant way.
You know they have passed a law
that you cant park In the road in
Rock Creek Park, but only in the
grass plots that are marked for park
ing. but most people think when the
police arrest you that's its cause they
think you are spooning. and the other
stopped for a few minutes cause IL
was 80 lovely there by the water and
the moon was pretty and he didn't
know this girl very well. It was the
first time he'd ever taken her out, and
she was kind Of quiet and timid and
SO they were just sitting there talking
along and all. and a cop came up and
held a flash on them and told them
that they would have to move on. and
1t scared the girl to death, and they
argued with the cop that they weren't
doing anything and 80 he just laughed
and explained how IL was and they
joked and talked awhile with him
goodnaturedly and moved on, and 80
few nights afterward he was out
with another girl. one of last years
dsbutantes that he knew real well. and
he started telling her about how he'd
gotten pinched two nights ago for
stopping and that he guessed they'd
have to keep moving. as all the park
ing places were filled up. and she said
"Yes / know you did. the cop that
pinched US last night told me about it."
So some night soon Monty and /
think we win ride out there. and get
friendly with ono Of them and find
out some more people that have been
pinched. Betty says she wouldn't
dare ride out there because you know
Jerry 10 80 insanely jealous Of Frank
that he'd find out how many times
she went out with Frank.
she's Worried About
Bastile Day Fete.
EN- did you know that July IA was
the French fourth Of Juiy7 And they
call II Bastile Day. And wonder II
all the French people are flying
around to amusement parks. and bath
ing beaches and ball games to cele-
brate like we do?
Well Carpenter celebrated on