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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-14
GENERAL sTo1D BURNED.

Elkins. W. Va. Sept. l3.-Word has
been received here o. the complete de-
struct!on b. FIRE Of the big general store
OF Sherman Cooper. at lob. on the Dry
Fork railroad The store In which was
also located the job postoffce. was a
completely equipped village store and
the loss IS placed at S9.5on partially
covered by insurance. The origin Of
the tire has not been determined.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-14
WILL not RECOVER

East Liverpool. O.. Sept l3-Physi"-
ians at the. City hospital tonight eS-
pressed no hope for tho recovery OF
Samuel Kerr. 66. laborer. believed men
tally deranged. who cut his throat with
a razor in an attempt TO end his life
at his homo today.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-14
SUIT COMPROMISED

Circuit Court Judge r. NJ. Add!eman
entered an order yesterday afternoon
Diminishing the case styled fana-Straw-
La, incorporation. va. Herbert O. Baer'
1t was announced In court that
compromise was made satisfactory 70
both sides.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-14
WRECK Is PRoB1D.

Atlanta. Ga. Sept. IA special COM
mittee appointed by Governor Hard.
wick. to-day started an investigation Of
the wreck OF an Atlanta. Birmingham
and Atlantic freight train near herc last
Wednesday which resulted in tho death
of two employees.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-14
B1sHoP o'ooHMAN HAS STROKE

Sioux Falls. =. y. Sept l3.--Right
Reverend Thomas O'Gorman, tho ven
cradle Catholic archbishop OF the east
ern diocese OF South Dakota. today sus-
tanned stroke OF paralysis and at noon
was in An unconscious condition. lie Is
* years old.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-14
Alleged Whee|ingite
Gives Himself Up As
DeSertpr From Marines

Special Dispatch TO Tho lntc!IiG"r"rr.
Buffalo, y. y. opt. ~ 4 man giving
the name ~ r'rHEK !. Moran. ng''i s..
and claiming that his home IL IN "hc"'-
NIX, W. Va, Declared that II" deserted
TIA. United States marine" carly mis-
wear white stationed At charleston, ;.
&. and last night asked for lodging Ia
iha polio" station ~ Addison. y !. lie
told ratruln;au James Edwards. whom
he aCcpSted IN the street At Addison.
that he had enlisted IN IA" marines In
Syracuse. y. Y IN lHl7. and that wh"n
he left the post at Charleston this Year
he had only IL few months yet 10 serve.
having enlisted for the r"ur-year term
He says he could not obtain work OF any
description and consequently snrTch'
dered in Addison No that lie would not
have I" 4" Through winter In h!S pres
-nt condition. Addison police telegraph
ed to Washington for Information re-
gurding Moran. whu - laxative. Hnd
willingly answers all questions asked
him.
Wheeling police headquarters stated
early this morning there ~ no Frank
Moran known h"r" Of the age OF S2
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-09-14
RIVER NEWS

Tho Helen F. departed yesterday
morning a, 1880 o'clock on her regular
. run 20 New Matamora-. She will return
late this evening. THIS boat has been
carrying some very heavy cargocs and
has been making all waypoint stops.
TIE General Fershtng will dock this
morning at O'Clock at tho local wharf
from Pittsburgh enroute 70 Ashland.
Ky. She IS reported loaded N the
guards with shipments AMI will MAJ"
I'll wuypoin' stops.
The senator CordtiI will arrive early
;niS morning from Pittsburgh and after
,ak:ng on additional shipments will
i.a.r a. 3 O'Clock on her way 20 Char.
lesion.
rhe General Beach Will dock this
oy"u,ng AZ . o'clock from GAINESVILLE on
hr~ way 20 Pittsburgh. This boa. -
rarv!nG a worry heavy cargo OF fr"igh:
nos, % which IS consigned :" dealers
"a. he smoky city district
TIE General Wood will dock Thurs
49,. evening on her way 10 Pittsburgh
fr"tn cincinnati. This IS her Hrs, trip
after beng lied up for two weeks al the
Queen t:tE" wharf on aCCnun. NJ the
low sage o: wafer.
A stage o: nine feet OF water and sta
uonary was registered late last evening
1T the loca! wharf.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
MAKERS Nor READY
TO REDUCE PRICES

In spite of the fact that chain
stores in the larger cities are engaged
in ruthless price-cutting war in the
retailing of popular priced cigarettes,
leading manufacturers are not yet
ready to predict permanent revision
of prices.
As long as the leaf tobacco market
continues to hold to the present top
figures and revenue taxes continue at
the present schedule, it is declared, it
will be impossible to reduce manufac-
turing costs to a point where lower
prices can be announced.
This opinion is based on the pre-
vailing prices for leaf tobacco traded
in since August, when the local ware
houses of the famous Southern tobac-
co districts opened their doors for the
1921-1922 season. Curtailed tobacco
acreage and an unfavorable season
are said to be responsible for the
present high market.
AS is we'll known, the process of
cigarette manufacture involve from
two tosthree years of aging or season
ing, so that prevailing factory costs
must be based on the purchase price OF
tobaccos bought in the high markets
of 191S-19-20. Latest quotations
howeverar shrdluar hma hmb mhf
moreover, indicate a rising tendency
in the 1921 market with averages
that will come close to equalling the
best prices of the preceding three
vearS
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
MOST OBSERVED
. 10.F lFESTIVAL S

Christmas is of all the festivals the
most observed in the western world.
1t is the universal holiday Of Chris
tendon, and the general phases of its
observance are in their essentials
similar in all countries. 1t is a sort
of common ground on which we all
meet for, at least, one day in the
year..
In it's religious aspect the festival
is a remembrance of the Christian
faith-the gift ol God to the world
of a divine Savior. Out or that CEN
trail and dominant idea, no doubt,
grew up the practice of selecting
Christmas, above all other Seasons, as
the time for friends to bestow gifts
upon one another, and, for all who
can, to extend charity to those in
need.
Although not so old as the relig
ious feature, the domestic and social
fettures of the festival date back
to very early times. at any rate, to
times that are early in our history.
For centuries Christmas mas been
re-eminently season of home-gath-
ering, when absent ones return and
the family circle is once more COM
pleted, or as nearly completed as the
chances of life make possible. With
homecoming was associated good
cheer, and so Christmas came to be
a season of feasting and merrymak-
ing.
In England during the Middle ages,
and for many generations after the
Middle ages had closed, the Christ
mas season, which included at least a
whole week, and liturgicaliy 40 days,
was given over to merrymaking of
various kinds, some of which hay-
gone the way of many of the customs
of our forefathers. For instance, there
was the bringing of the Yule-log to
be lighted on the fireplace on Christ
mas eve with much ceremony and re-
joicing. We have no Yule-log for
there are but few fmer'hces now.
The name of the log recalls another
name for Christmas which was an
GENTLY called and is still known as
Yule tide or Yule-time.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
$4,000 PLEDGE
FOR PREMIUMS
At COUNTY FAIR
Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce Starts List With $1,000
Committees Plans Biz

Ross T.. Hickcox, representing the
Ell Centre Chamber of Commerce,
went to Imperial last night and threw
the biggest boost ever into the I'm
perial County Fair. 1t was in the
shape of $4,000 pledge by the Ell
Centre Chamber to the fund for the
greatest exhibit of it's kind in all the
Southland.
Besides pledging $4,000 from Ell Cen
tro and declaring that al Imperial
Valley would come in the same way,
Mr.. Hickcox proceeded to tell of the
advantages of the fair and what the
recent Ell Centro fair had accomplish
ed with scarcely any preparation and
no outside backing.
AS result, the fair committee is
going out with more energy. Secre-
tary jenkins of the Imperial Cham
ber of Commerce reported on his re-
cent trip to Riverside, where he met
Will Iit SCSICIdi VI ldIIS VI lIS.
state and explained that great things
are expected of Imperial.
1t was decided to have premium
list of $4,000 to be offered for vari-
Gus exhibits of all lines. J. w. Has
tain of Brawley explained about the
eye-openers that developed at the
Brawley citrus fruit and poultry show
and warned those present that Braw-
ley would be on hand to capture all
the first premiums, but might be con-
tent to let others have second and
third places.
The committee members now speak
of the fair as "our $4,000 fair" The
members also were interested in the
talk given by w. L. Childs of the
Brawley High School on citrus devel-
opment in Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
TRUE SPIRIT OF
CHRISTMAS DAY

Are you willing to forget what
you have done for other people and
remember what other people have
done for you; to ignore what the world
owes you, and to think what you owe
the world; to put your rights in the
background, and your duties in the
middle distance, and your chances to
do little more than your duty in the
foreground; to see that your fellow
men are just as real as you are, and
try to look behind their faces to their
hearts, hungry for joy; to own that
probably the only good reason for
your existence is not what you are 60
ing to get out of life, but what you are
going to give life; to close your book
of complaints against the universe,
and look around for place where you
can SOW a few seeds of happiness
are you willing to do these things even
for day? Then you can keep Christ
mas.
Are you willing to stoop down and
consider the needs and the desires of
little children; to remember the weak
ness and loneliness of people who are
growing old; to stop asking whether
your friends love you, and ask your
self whether you love them enough to
bear in mind the things that other
people have to bear on their hearts;
to try to understand what those who
live in the. same house with you really
want, without waiting for them to tell
you; to trim your lamp so that it will
give more light and less smoke, and to
carry it in front so that your shadow
will fall behind you; to make a grave
for your ugly thoughts and a garden
for your kindly feelings, with the gate
open-are you willing to do these
things even for day? Then you car
keep Christmas.
Are you willing to believe that love
is the strongest thing in the world
stronger than hate, stronger than evil,
stronger than death-and that the
blessed life which began in Bethle-
hem nineteen hundred years ago is
the image and brightness of the eter-
nal love? Then you can keep Christ
mas. And if you can keep it for g
day, why not always? But you car
never keep it alone.--Dr. Henry Var
! Dyke.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
WHICH IS REAL
CHRISTMAS DAY?

Christmas Day seems welded to
December 25. A summer or a spring
time Christmas with no holly, no mis-
tletoe, no frost, no snow, would not
be the real thing at all, observes
London Answers. ~
The majority of our beautiful
Christmas carols, too, redolent as they
are of the winter-"Sunk Amid the
Winters Snow"-would be hopelessly
incongruous. Emigrants to Australia
from the mother country have confess
ed that it has taken them many years
before they could get in any way used
to what is practically mid summer
Christmas.
Yet December 25 is merely an ac-
commodation date for the birthday of
Christ-Christma Day. The year,
too, is wrong. Most people would
take it for granted that Christmas
born in A. d. literally, of course,
the year of our Lord, No. l.
But our chronology is four years
out. This should be 1925 and not
1921, because Christmas Day could
not, on indisputable historical testi-
mony, have been later than February,
B. c. A!
That settles the year of the first
Christmas, but all attempts to fix the
actual day and month of Christmas
have failed.
And, as regards the present date,
Christmas, like Easter, took some cen
turies before a settlement was arrived
at. In the first centuries of Chris
tianity, several important Eastern
churches observed January as
Christmas Day. The Armenian Chris
tians do so still.
| Gradually, however, uniformity was
attained but not before the Fifth GEN.
tury. In that connection it must be
remembered that for quite long
period this country was divided on the
question of Christmas. Some people
persisted in observing sold" Christ
mas Day.
But all will agree that December
I25, even if it is not the actual date of
Christ's birth, is happy choice.
Our present-day Christmas festival
and holiday breaks the long winter
and what better time could there be
for family reunions? The cold and
unpleasantness outside make it all the
more agreeable to keep warm and
snug inside. 1t keeps us together in
every sense of the word.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

Everything's ready! Everybody's
going! Hurrah! Whee! All of
which indicates that Ell Centre Lodge
No. 1925 today finished it's final prep
aration for entertaining all of the
children in Ell Centro and vicinity, the
rich and the poor, the black and the
white and the brown, of every race
and creed and condition in life. But
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
STOLEN CAR RECOVERED

A new Dodge touring car, the prop
erty of R. R. Snow, of the Southern
Trust and Commerce bank, was stol-
en- from in front of the bank Thurs
day evening within fifteen minutes
after the owner had parked it there.
Yesterday Deputy Sheriff O. s.
Greenwood found the car abandoned
on the roadside few miles west OF
'town. It had evidently been used
fer a joyrioe and then left where the
"ridcrs fcrnd it most convenient.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

the poorer they are the greater will be
the need of joy at their presence at
the Elks' Christmas tree festival to
be held tomorrow in the club rooms of
the lodge.
Promptly at II o'clock the big
Christmas tree will flash into blaze
of lights and colorful decorations, and
it will be loaded down with gifts for
al the children.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
HASSAYAMPA
s I UOE \ I s
MUST SEE
G A N {
University Boys Shy Cash
Took Box Car Route and
Arrived After Many Vi
cissitudeS

Dean Lockwood tried to stop 'em,
and the railroad "bulls" tried it, but
the vanguard of the University of
AriZona-30 strong-will foregather
in San Diego Sunday. Eleven of the
Arizona boys got in yesterday morn
ing, and two arrived last night. The
rest are on the way down from Col
ton, Calf.
They spent Is sleepless hours in
box car filled with concrete dust,
walked along muddy roads, did manu-
al labor for a lift along the way-but
they'll see that Center-Arizona foot
ball game ON Monday afternoon.
| Thirty university students decided
THAT the Center game was worth ses,
ling: Finances were low. They deeid-
ed to beat their way.
They left Tucson last Tuesday night
lin box car that had carried cement
sacks and was billed through empty t6i
Los Angeles They were dressed like
tramps, but every man carried a suit
case.
The idea of university students
"beating the freight" is said to have
annoyed the sensibilities Of Dean
Frank C. Lockwood, acting president
of Arizona U. He wired railroad Off
cials to stop the delegation, arrest It's
members and send them back to Tue
son. Deans are like that.
But the train crew rather liked the
boys idea, it seems. Anyway, some
body sealed the car, to prevent any
body searching it, and two men were
in the ''look out" to unseal it when the
proper time arrived.
So the stowaways made Yuma, af-
ter Is hours of riding, in smother c.
concrete dust.
At Yuma the train was held up by
flood conditions, and the men-30 ce-
ment- powdered "bo's"-piled out of
the car. Great was the amazement of
bystanders in the Yuma freight yards.
Thirty hoboes all at once, and each
carrying a suitcase, is perhaps an un-
usual sight.
Twelve men crossed the border at
Yuma and entered California for the
purpose of inspect ing an irrigation
siphon. While they were there, a
trainman brought news that tie
other Is men had been arrested by
railroad policemen, and were being
held at Tucson.
The lucky dozen i.rompt!y "beas
it." By picking up rides an driding
freight on the S. ID. & A, they
reached the MexicEn borter at
Cantu. Here they foressw trouble
with the Mexican authorltio-who
are not football fans. They bought
tickets to Calexico and rode passen-
ger over that stretch.
Wednesday night they spent az
Calexico, sleeping in hotel and
"sawing off enought sleep 10 make
up for the previous night. Thursday
they hiked and rode into FL Centre.
+ In 80 minutes they got a JOB load
ing freight trucks 70 rSan Diego, and
in return We're given ride to the
city. Sixteen hours they spent, slew
ing over muddy roads, lodging over
hanging crooks, sliding down slippery
grades beside rocky gorges from 10
to 1000 fete deep. They didn't s.eep,
but they got to San Diego before
daylight yesterday
Back in Arizona u, in years 10
comet it's safe to say that this ex-
plot will rank ahead Of Xenophon'a
I"March of the Ten Thousand"
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
MAIN OFFICE
EDGAR BROS.
7 0 N Owe
/ { R {
Pioneer Mercantile Fir m
Will Establish Headquar-
ters in Ell CentrO Shortly
After First of New Year

Edgar Bros. Company will move its
headquarters from Imperial to Ell Cen
tro during January. 1t has leased the
warehouse and office building former
ly occupied by Varney Bros. Company,
which is located on East Main street
opposite the passenger depot, and is
having the premises renovated and
made ready for occupancy. Already
numerous cars Of automobiles. imp!e-
ments, fencing, etc, en- route to Im-
perial have been diverted to Ell Cen
tro. The great stock now warehoused
in the former place will be moved dur
ing the month and the managerial,
clerical and warehouse staffs, con-
sisting of some twenty-five people,
many with families, will take posses
sion of their new quarters late in the
month, it is expected.
Edgar Bros. Company is the oldest
mercantile firm in the Va,'ey, having
entered business in January, 1902,
when Imperial was the only town on
the local map, and was scarcely
worthy of the name, having u5t one
permanent building and cluster Of
tents and rag houses; Brawley was &
rather wide spot in the dusty ROAD
marked by tattered little tent in
which soon-to-be banke. sold crack
ers and cheese; CaleX;co boasted two
adobe buildings; I'll Centre, Hollvile,
Calipatria didn't exist, they had not
been pictured in the most fervid mag
nations, and there were some right
nimble imaginations in those days -
the man who lacked one such did not
linger long. AS there was no rail.
road, the finn hauled its merchandise
in wagons from a siding on the main
line to Imperial, and considered It
was doing a rushing business if it had
as customers as many as two white
men ("white' refers to their native
nationality, not to their aprearance)
and six Cocopahs in a single week.
In that period Of sidewinders, sand liz
yards and sandstorms, the company
undertook to sell almost anything and
succeeded in selling almost nothing.
1t was in 1901 that Mr.. Arthur Ed
gar, now president of the company,
and w. A. Edgar, now vice president
of the large company, came into I'M
perial Valley on their own desert
freighter, drawn by mules, In 1902
these two men and Ray Edgar, also
vice president of the company, con-
deceive the idea of an implement store.
In January, 1902, a 20 40 adobe
building was crudely although well
built for use as a store and is still
being used to advantage by the COM
pany. The logs in the building were
traded to the new concern for rler-
chandise in trade-the first sale
known to the company.
AS the Valley developed the busi-
ness grew, being Incorporated in 1908
New towns were laid out, branch
stores were opened, and today the
company operates two or more retail
stores in each of the principal towns
of the Valley, total of fifteen in
addition to the distributing or whole
sale house, which it is moving to 81
Centre. The company not only serves
the needs of the entire Valley on botF
sides of the international line, but fire.
ouently receives orders from practi-
cally all parts of this state and Ari.
zona.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

Rudolph Rossiter, an Oxford Uni
versity man, speaks six languages,
but drives a London taxicab for a liv-
ing. He does not think that his work
is mean, for his is the best built and
equipped public auto in the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

1t is going to be a huge holiday for
the youngsters in Ell Centre, and all
the children are begged to be on hand
PROMPTLY at II o'clock.
AS for the grownups! If any of
You know .where there is poor,
friendless little kid, no matter who or
where he or she is from, take your
car and hunt 'em up and bring 'e1n to
the tree. This is an order to you, if
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

you are member of the lodge, and it
is an urgent request if you are not an
Elk.
Scour the highways and the byways.
Turn the poorer sections of the city
inside out and get every kid who
needs a bit of Christmas to keep his
little heart and soul in touch with the
love of mankind and faith in the
Savior born this day.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
CHRISTMAS BALL GAMES

FL Centric and Imperial meet on
the local grounds tomorrow after-
noon. The game is going to be fast
one and every fan in the town ought
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

A. large party of American college
students will make pilgrimage to
Dante's tomb on the 600th ami
versary of his death.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

TO you, dear child, we wish the best
OF all good gifts that are:
Good health and wealth, and fame and love;
The last more precious far
So search you closely every branch,
When candles bright the tree,
And you will find our bit of love
Tied to our gift to thee.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24
CHRISTMAS IS
CHILDREN s DAY

The message of Christmas is love-
It's emblem is radiant, thankful, con-
tented childhood. Without love and
without children there could be no real
Christmas. The form might survive
but the substance would be lacking.
Unhappy must be the adult who
cannot make himself a child again in
spiritIat the' Yuletide. For Christmas
is the universal children's day. Men
and women are superfluous except as
they make themselves partners with
those whom the day glorifies. ..
Let us, then, lay aside the affecta-
ton and arrogance of manhood and
womanhood and be children again.
Let us adopt their point of view and
put ourselves in their piaces-in the
places of those sons and daughters of
ours and of the sons and daughters of
our neighbors. 1t was only year or
so ago, as it seems wnen we hung
our well-worn stockings in a row
along the mantel shelf, while our faith
ers and mothers looked on with un-
feigned pleasure at the innocent con-
fidence we showed in the morrow.
Even as you and l. 1t all comes
back in a flood of memories. Life was
simpler then. Our desires were less
pretentious than those our children
voice now. Modest remembrances
they were that bulged toe and heel of
the stockings mother knit.
Life and its circumstances change,
but the essence of Christmas never.
The same happy childhood, the same
restlessness, the same nail-like creep
ing of time as tn holiday approaches.
The same parenthood, too-the same
planning across the reading table af-
ter the boys and girls are abed, the
same loving consideration of what this
or that child most desires and how fa,
the family purse can be stretched to
permit some further purchase.
Every home is assured Christmas
| if it has a great, warm heart pulsat-
ing in tune with the hopes and joys
| Of childhood.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

to be there. Livingston it is expected
will hurl for FL Centre and if he is
right, there will be no doubt about the
windup of the game.
Monday Ell Centre goes to Calexico
to meet that hard hitting, fast run
ming, swift fielding bunch and Cooper
will lido the pitching. The game should
be wonder, and Monday being a holi-
day, no dount several hundred fans
will take the game in.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-12-24

When Santa Claus was hitching up
The reindeers to his sleigh,
We gave to him a great big bag
Of gifts, all bright and gay.
Dear Santa Claus, he took this bag,
And on our Christmas tree
He'll tie, with lots OF love,
A little gift for thee.