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Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-19
sANouEr roNIGHT.

The social session and banQue,
OF Martinsburg Counc1, No 80, j.
o. L. A. NJ, will be held at S:15
o'clock tonight, The Daughters OF
America and wives and sweet
hearts Of the Juniors have been in
vited. The social function will fol
low the regular council meeting
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-19
HOLD UP IN LEWlssURo

Lewisburg, Sept. 15.-Three arm
ed men walked into the Bank or
Rupert at Rupert, twelve miles
from here, in Greenbrier county, at
/ o'clock this afternoon, held up
the cashier, stole $4,000 in cash
and after cutting the wires in the
town, made their escape.
Deputy Sheriff Robert Hunt ia
trailing them, officials said.
Information in the hands OF coun-
ty officers is that the bank rob-
bers headed for Rainelle.
Information obtained here ID
meager, as the telephone wires
we're cut.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-19
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Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-19

Miss Della Burris. Of the local
division, attended the annual State
meeting Of the Ladies Auxiliary to
the Ladies Auxiliary to the Ancient
Order OF Hebernians in Clarksburg
Sunday.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-19

to a meeting OF the exhibitors be-
ing called for the purpose of pro
hibiting the films. but they have
simply accedcd to the wishes OF
heir patrons
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-19

AZ Pays To Advertise"-in the
Ia"tnsburg journal.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-19

Miss Constance Sharp1es left Sat
urday morning for Morgantown
where she will enter the West Vir
ginia University.
Evening journal., 1921-09-30

peppermint in it, and had absolute
ly refused to swallow II.
"she used to laugh and tell how
my father had exclaimed that 1 was
a chip or the old blocki
THAT was the only time. my
mother said, that they ever at
tempted to make me drink water
Really. / haven't the least idea how
it tastes. II must be very insipid,
indeed"
you do not approve very strong
ly of the Volstead act?"
Il do not approve OF it at all. and
II you do, you might just as well end
this visit nov.
Il would walk three miles to vote
against these deluded reformers who
would take our beer away from us.
How do they know beer is harm
full? Most of them never drank it,"
Let Women Smoke,"
DO you approve OF woman smok-
ing?" was asked.
That is entirely up to the wo-
men. II they want to smoke, they
should be allowed to smoke"
Mrs. Erbstoeszer, despite her ad-
vanced age. is unusually active. She
still does her own housework and
takes care OF a large garden. She
reads without glasses.
Il attribute my health and ad-
vanced age" she said. Ito the fact
that have always taken good care
Of myself, have done plenty OF good
Evening journal., 1921-09-30

training department OF the local
High School has arrived and has
been installed in the rooms donated
by William b. Jester, for that use.
The rooms are over Mr. TESTERS
Drug Store. on Clifton street near
Front street.
The baseball season having closed,
the sport-loving portion OF the city
population are advocating the con-
struction OF several tennis courts
One has already been completed on
Canal Athletic Field. where il is
expected several tournaments will
played. In connection with this a
tennis club is being advocated. There
are many tennis players in town in
cluding Ralph Mulligan, J, 'mea and
Frank Schaeffer. George Clark. f.
Earl Baum. John Larkey and
George e. Holiday.
The South Side-Eden football
team Of Wilmington, will play the
soldier team at Fort DUPONT, sun
day afternoon. at 3.15 o'clock.
Captain NJ. Hickson, recently as
signed TO duty at Fort DUPONT, ar
rived at the fort from Camp Dix
yesterday.
Captain S. Filkins. who on re-
turning from overseas where he had
been serving with the army of occu-
patton, was assigned to Fort Dupont
has been granted a months fur
Tough. At the completion OF the fur
Tough Captain Filkins will take ur
his assigned duties at Camp Dix
n. ].
William II. Patterson. OF Balti-
more. and Roland Patterson, OF Will
mi9gton. recently of California. are
the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred d
Bender at the Robinson House.
Mrs. f. d. Bender. OF Clinton
street, who has been confined to hei
bed through illness for the pas
week. is improving.
Evening journal., 1921-09-30

SHERBOYGAN, Wis.-Hale and
hearty at 81, though she has never
tasted waterl That's Mrs. Ernestine
.Erbstoeszer of Sherboygani
Il don't know how water tastes.
never drank a drop of It in my life
and / never expect to. know Il
would make me sick" she said, as
she stood over an ironing board at
her home here and deftly smoothed
the wrinkles out OF pillow case.
Heaven gave us water to moisten
the ground and cause the plants to
grow; to wash with and to quench
the thirst of the beasts. But why in
the world does anyone want to
drink It when better things can al
ways be had?"
Her visitor recalled that we are
now living In the year A. V. (after
voistead) and wondered how it
could be done.
What She Drinks.
well. If you are interested in
what l drink, will tell you. If I
am quite thirsty, there is nothing so
good as beer--made with real hops
and yeast" she said.
with my meals, always drink
coffee or buttermilk. Coffee some-
times keeps me awake II drink too
much OF II in the evening. so usual
ly do not have IL for supper.
During the day, when 1 feel a bit
hungry, ] have a piece of cake and
some homemade wine"
"But are you real sure that when
you were a very little child. you
we're not inveigled into dallying with
Adams ale? she was asked.
mo. indeed / remember hearing
the collie. she tried to give me some
water with a drop or two OF oil of
Evening journal., 1921-09-30

tempted to Jump en- a moving truck
operated by Samuel @. Campersen.
Monday aftereen. on the Newport
Pike The jury eKenerated the
driver Campersen Is under so, 900
bail for his appearance In Municipal
Court next Tuesday.
Little additional evidence was Of
fered In the death OF James N. Daw-
son, whose body was found In the
woods on the farm OF william e.
Booth, near Tnlleyville, Wednesday
night, death having been tho result
Of gunshot wound, accidentally
received.
Evening journal., 1921-09-30
1AE EVENING JOURNAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER. 30 1921

hard work, kept regular hours and
abHtained from water"
Mrs. Erbstoesser was born in Ger
many In 1870. Bhe was married
when 20 and came to America with
her husband In 1855. settling on a
farm near here. Her husband died
80 years ago. She Is tho mother of
IL children, six OF whom nre living.
Evening journal., 1921-09-30
THESE TWO DEATHS
FOUND ACCIDENTAL

Two cases OF sudden deaths were
investigated by jury of inquest
summoned by Coroner Bullock last
night, in each instance a verdict of
accidental death being returned.
Wayne Layton Irwin, 1918 West
Fifth street, was shown to have at
Evening journal., 1921-09-30
Healthy At 81, and
Neuer Drank Any Water
MRS. ERBSTOESZER'S
RECIPE FOR LONG
LIFE AND HEALTH.

II you want to live to a ripe
old age. enjoy good health and
have peace OF mind:
Don't drink water.
Don't worry about other peo-
pies faults.
Don't be afraid OF hard work.
Don't waste you time think
Ing about reforms
Drink plenty OF buttermilk
and wine-and beer, too. II you
can get IL.
Evening journal., 1921-09-30
PAINTING TO CHARITY

DUNDEE, England. - Winston
Churchill, the famous statesman.
has given Dundee Art Gallery one Of
his Palestine paintings. to be sold
for the benefit Of the unemployed
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Nature Still Paints Grandest
OF All Havana's Night Scenes

Yes, Havana has undergone a wondrous
change with the influx of Americans since
the United States adopted prohibition. But
the most enhancing sight in Cuba now--as
always-is the night. Not the kind of night
life for which the special writers-there is
a legion of them here-say they are looking.
but the night itself. with which every visitor
falls in love.
The nights in Havana are the same balmy
blue evenings that caught the admiration
OF Columbus when he first broke into these
silvery waters The stars seeming to lower
their twintling lanterns so that tho heavens
may look more closely upon the beauties of
this gay garden spot of the Atlantic, shine
alluringly-as they shone upon the dog tents
OF the Americans who camped at San Juan
in their campaigns against the Spaniards.
No Neapolitan night. with its guitars and
gondolas, ever presented a grander spectac e
than the purple sweep Of the Cuban skies
as twilight unges the horizon with a pris-
matte glow long after the fiery ball of the
sun has tumbled into n couch of purple and
golden clouds. The city of Havana. over
looking the warm, rustlng waters throws
it's windows open to the soft winds and the
population marvels at the splendor Of the
armament
What the special writers say, however, as
soon as their attention is directed to these
glories Is that they care not whit for
Havana's heavens; they want to look into
Havana's hell. They wish to be led through
the narrow. gas lighted ways. They ask
about murders and mysteries; they long for
n moment In the death chamber of the peni-
tentiary. where the most hated man in Cuba
Is employed as executioner 10 break the
necks of doomed criminals.
The journalists insist on seeing Havana's
Chinatown. II is n district that may soon
rival New Yorks old time Tong Town. Car
load after carload of Chinese are being
shipped across the Southern states from the
Pacific. They are transported "in bond
prohibited from even stepping off their
coaches on American territory.
In Cuba the Chinese arc employed chiefly
I'm the sugar mills but many OF them, pre-
ferring city work. are crowded into dngy
little quarter where they have their own
newspapers and shops. Whether or not they
are supplied with opium. they sit contentedly
enough In their doorways, each putting his
pipe as he gazes solemnly up at tho passing
strangers.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

which the younger matrons and the society
buds find much enjoyment.
The "old crones" find their evening
amusement at the British and American
clubs along the Prado. Many of them, who
have old friends in Cuba, are established by
their Cuban friends at the exclusive Union
Club. where you may enjoy n game among
other things. as gentlemen should.
Amusement parks are springing up. with
those outdoor attractions that have been the
drawing power at Coney Island for years.
Real American diving girls perform nightly
at one of these outdoor places on the world
famous Malecon. and the crowds arc hieing
down there now.
The Malecon at night against whose curv-
ing wall dashes the gulf spray. is the favor
lite evening boulevard Hundreds of auto
mobiles drive there for hours each night.
IL has been well named. at night The Dia-
mond Necklace" for the brilliant lights
against the dark waters of the gulf and
along its two miles OF curving grandeur re-
semble no other thing as much.
There'i Is Cuban lawn tennis. a new game
TO Americans. played each night. The teams
are composed of young girls And here
too. arc the pari-mutuel machines and the
5ookmakers. And you SIT and gamble while
the girls gambol and the band plays and
there are many sweet nothings mouthed In
Spanish, and the girls don't seem TO care
bit. but play as IL their little lives depended
upon IL. and you find a merry evening "out
OF the usual run"
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Wine Flows There Freely
As in Old Days on Broadway

Wine flows freely at the Gran Casino. And
why not, when the choicest of brands are
on sale at 81 to SO a quart? No dinner is
complete without sparkling Burgundy or
champagnes, and the famous labels of the
Old World vintages that have long since dis
appeared from Broadway are pressed before
you here every night by the obseauious cap
tain. whom you recognize as your former
servitor at the Waldorf or tho Beaux Arts
or Rector's or some other well known White
Light resort
Spanish is spoken here of course, but the
Language" is the regular old United States
with the Broadway slant
Then there is Jai-Alai (Hi-Alie), n game
the United states does not know. And, Of
course, there is speculation there too
Played upon a great court. 100 yards in
length. with one long side wall and two end
walls. IL is something like handball with
he swinging action Of court tennis the
roughness OF that great sport OF which our
Canadian friends have made so much--la-
crosse-and the speed and skill of our Amer
ican baseball
The players are Spaniards, imported for
the team and individual plays, recipients OF
huge salaries and possessed Of as much tenn
permanent as the average prima donna.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

You tumble into the ever present totinOoes
(Henry Ford make) and drive out along the
Malecon and up through Vedado and on and
on to the FL Carmello Cafe, where the cab
aret continues for long hours and YOU drink
and they sing and you dance and everybody
meets everybody and sees that famous
horse owner there" and "this great Jockey
here" and that famous qunela player
there that We bet on tonight at JaiAlai'
and that plunger over yonder from New
York" and May King, the hostess.
You like night tennis? Never played IT?
Well, we1l fix that Get friend to put
you up at the Vedado Tennis Club, ultra ex-
elusive sport organization, and you are I'm
right. You think The tropical sun IS too hot
to play under. So here at night YOU will
find the best courts you ever trod upon as
brilliantly lighted as by the midday sun, and
you will be able 10 get some Of the swiftest
tennis action you ever had in your life, for
these players down here go at the game to
win all the time.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Visitors From France. England
And South American Points

Downtown there is the great ballroom of
the Hotel Sevila crowded nightly with the
best dancers Of Cuban society the resident
English speaking colony, and every one who
is any one from the United States or Eu-
rope. For you may not realize II, but this
enchanted isle of winter pleasure is drawing
a goodly quota OF visitors from England and
France. as well as from Mexico and points
in South America.
The best orchestra In Cuba is at the Hotel
Sevilla, especially loaned for the winter by
John Nee. Bowman. And the dancing here
is of the gayest and best. Resident Manager
Holland B. Judkins Is there every evening
TO see that the dancers enjoy an excellent
service, and the house manager, r.. y. Jouf-
fret, so long associated with Jim" Regan
at the old Knickerboc<er, has friendly hand
for the great host Of American society folks.
There are yacht parties every evening In
and around the harbor. Just now the Eagle
has arrived in port, with Capt. William K
Vanderbilt at the wheel. He has enjoyed
fortnight of deep fishing with his party
off Cienfuegos and old Santiago de Cuba. but
is back at the capital for the winter gayety.
Clarence II. Mackay is expected this week
with a gay party, and the social life of the
season is In full swing
Every night parties are made UP for dane
ing or other diversion at the Country Club
or the Havana Yacht Club or the magnificent
now home OF the Cuban-American Jockey and
Automobile Club. These are lively affairs. In
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

the left. Here and there in the traffic is an
old fashioned coach with horses. Dusk eyed
senoritas brush coyly past the dandies OF
the island. Carnival Is the spirit as the
damsels with their "impertnentes" join in
the merry game of Irritation, at which none
is more artful than the cabalero in his
pongee suit or white flannels.
In the hotels the dance is on. American
jazz has replaced the old songs OF Spain.
The popularity of ragtime is ascribed TO the
American made electric pianos which enliveu
the whole island. Nearly every home has
it's pianola. and the music, too, is American
made, except for the grand opera bursting
from narrow doors or barred windows here
and there.
Where is the old fashioned tourist who
used to go through every tower and turret
of Morro Castle?" the elderly guides are
asking.
Where are those that liked to spend a
whole day in a cigar factory?" All. where
are the sad, sweet old songs of Spain? The
new tourists come on quest similar TO that
Of Ponce de Leon. who sought the fountain
of youth in Florida. In Cuba they have
found fountains-w whether of youth or not
An American Paris is what the pleasure
seekers are looking to find in Havana these
days. With the spenders have como the
soldiers of fortune, the adventuresses and
the familiar parasites.
In the motley, modern Havana even the
life of our oldtime West is represented. Out
side the ground of Oriental Park, where the
Cuba-American Jockey Club Is erecting one
of the handsomest homes in North America
the Jockeys and stablemen have n little col
ony all their own. 1t is a safe distance from
the track where the thoroughbreds run daily
before enthusiastic crowds.
In this tiny village are old scenes and
characters which no longer exist elsewhere
I'm America except in motion pictures. The
barroom, the old signs tho old pianos the
old paintings, the cheerful, ruddy faces OF
American adventures and their sweethearts
cluster nightly in this little community. II
is a care free crowd, full of "reminiscences OF
mining days and prize fights and desert
caravans-all part of hearty. vigorous era
of American life.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Shark Hunting for Those
Seeking Thrills at 4 A. M.

Night tennis is one Of the most popular
OF sports, and the winter visitors soon pile
up the long waiting list at this famous club.
There is surf bathing by moonlight II you
are inclined TO get party together and run
down by automobile to In Playa, some seven
miles. Those who fear the sunburn Of tho
day seek this diversion at night Others
cross the ferry TO a point back of old Morro
Castle and take the automobile run down 70
Cojimar
There is another semi-night auusomcnt-
shark hunting. You do the actual hunting
atter daybreak, but you must start along
about o'clock. If you happen into Babe
ltutn ask him: he knows. Mlny's the time
Babe sat up all night i'm order not 10 miss
the launch that takes the shark hunters.
armed with rifles and other ammunition for
the happy hunting ground a mile out at sea,
You come upon the sharks when they arc
skirinishing for their early breakfast and
you must get II over with and back before
sun up-that Is. the real sun up. when IL
hits you vertically. And yon are certain
10 nave the most thrilling thirty minutes.
after shark Is hooked. that you have had
III Southern waters. n you are crack rifle
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Where They Sing and Dance
While the Night Fades Away

Perhaps you are looking for a place aside
where there is reminder Of the old Fiji
tieth Street Restaurant of New York. All
right Come on over TO the McAlpin I'm
the early evening, hear the singing walters.
or rather the fellow who stands before your
table and sings while you wait and the
prima donna who doesn't care for the stage
any more. and hear real jazz string band
orchestra and sip your drink and dance a
while and enjoy yourself you used to
could up North.
Then comes the later hour. when many
places are closing and you still looking for
amusement.
"Out to Carmello goes up the'cry. And
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
New York and New Orleans
Are Well Represented There

New York is well represented in the life
Of Havana. Hotel keepers and restaurant
proprietors made New Years Eve the occa
sion for moving the corner of Broadway
and Forty-second street to Havana" and
they have succeeded pretty well in their Of
forts TO make tho moving a continuous per
formance The greetings and handclasps OF
that holiday season and it's aftermath
warmed the town with the conviviality OF
college reunion. Bartenders and walters
were almost as busy shaking hands as serN--
ing drinks Veteran walters OF New York,
smartest hotels grills and cafes are max
ing the same old cocktails at night and the
same old "picl, me ups" on tho morning
oftor-and frequently serving them to the
same old customers
Next to New York. New Orleans Is por-
haps the American city most frequently
mentioned here. The Louisiana metropolis
has bequcathed many relics OF its prepro-
hbition glory TO tho Paris OF the Western
Hemisphere Coming from New Orleans
ono bartender here uses tho recipe which
he says was tho original mixture for anoiut-
ing Kentucky colonels.
Havana must have night life. 70 be sure.
But one must not believe all he hears Of H.
After all, we cannot improve on nature as
some ono may have said before. Tho wine
may become bitter. the women grow old and
the songs discordant but I'm Havana one can
always 20 10 tho window by night and lct
the cooling zephyrs caress him as they sins
a never palling lullaby.
To look out over the city at night makes
the visitor sigh for the courteous, zealou.
Cuban people. They are living simul;a-
neously a comedy and a tragedy. While
tourists toss their pesos on the colored
wheels bankers and business men are bend
ing over tables, struggling through the prob
lens Of a. moratorium which has clung on
and on since October.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06

shot. well and good; but if not some one
else i'm the party had better be.
There is a movie show on almost every
downtown block and other diversions Of the
lighter sort TO break your monotony of any
evening. In fact there is so much night life
in Cuba that many Americans get tuckered
out long before they have rounded it all
up and leave signing because there are so
many more amusement places to conquer
that they never reached. And open air din
ing is prevalent that only full season
guests ever make the entire round from the
great beer garden TO the most exclusive cafe
restaurant.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Betting Fast and Furious on Jai-Alai and
Tennis Courts and in Casino, While
Total Lack of Dryness Enlivens
Supper and Theatre Parties

lating and shouting. never never still, are
the boolSmakers, who urge you to wager
upon every toss of the ball.
Talk about the internal racket of the Stock
Exchange or the Curb MARKET Not in it at
all with an industrious Jai-A'ai game. Any
American who has sat or stood through one
of these contests will tell you so. And the
size of the wagers that are made over your
head or across your lap your
shoulders will cause your eyes to pop open.
Juan Ygnacio or Federico may look to
YOU as if he needed the price for a good
pair of shoes as he shuffles into the place
in front of your choice box seat upon a top
gallery bench But soon you will be in
itiated into the fact that many snug wal
let rests beneath a shabby coat For when
your Cuban friend gets het up and inter
ested he may as not draw out the proverbial
bundle and excitedly wave $1,000 bill until
he gets the attention of the nearest book
maker and exchanges it for a white or blue
slip.
"4All that on the gamer" you ask incredu-
lously
'Oh no. not ALL" explains your escort
with laugh ''but upon the next point"
Boy, howdy! and there are thirty points To
be made in the contest!
Some game. this Jai-Alai. Haven't heard
much boasting lately, but within recent
months 1t has been asserted that the wagers
passed there in a single night totalled
100000.
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Dusk Eyed Senoritas Make
The Prado a Flirting Ground

Only few blocks from tho squalid Chi
nese quarter is a promenade that rivals the
Champs Eysees or Fifth avenue. II Is the
broad, marble bordered Prado. where every
maid and man In the city either rides or
walks for the evening pdseo
The Prado Is a double sidewalk with
wide highway for vehicles on either side.
a stream Of automobiles flows down the right
hand side, round La Punta. overlooking tho
sci In front Of MORO Castle, and back up
The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Bookmakers and Pari-Mutueis Rival
HurIy-BurIy of Stock Exchanl

The spectators sit In boxes or upon rows
Of benches facing the long back wall. Be-
hind them are batteries Of great pari-mutuel
machines for betting upon the teams-by
color--white or blue and for placing your
bets upon selections of the individual win
ners Of the "auintelas" which arc played off
icstween the team contests.
And In front Of you. ever dancing gosticu.