Taiban Valley news., 1921-12-16
GENERAL

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Thirty-five-cent breakfasts and dol
lar dinners on dining cars Of the Chi
cago Great Western railroad have been
announced ut Chicago. Travellers are
given choice of eight menus ut the
new prices.
More than 1000 bales of long staple
cotton were destroyed by fire of unde-
termined origin in the warehouse OF
the Greenwood Compress and Storage
Company at Greenwood, Mass. The
loss was estimated at S750,000.
After sleeping continually for 1Se
hours, Mrs. Harvey G. Johnson, sc
years old, was dead at her home in
Granville, New York. Her physician
declared she suffered from no disease,
She fell asleep Nov. % and never
awoke.
A charter was filed at the State De-
partment in Delaware for Great
Southern Steel Company, capitaliza-
tiOn one hundred and five million dol
lars. The concern is authorized to
manufacture iron, steel, copper, coke,
lumber, etc, and to acquire lands con-
tanning the same A state tax of So
$50 was paid.
Police records of New York com.
piled for the month of November
show that 1887 persons were arrest
ed in the month. The largest number
arrested during any month in 1921 was
l,8S3 the record for April Increases
were evident in the number of persons
arrested for drunkenness and vagran-
cy during the month just past.
Bequests of $4,000 in jewelry to
each of her children and grandchildren
amounting to approximately 100000
and the bestowal of her two town
houses in New York City to her hus.
band, so long as he does not marry
are the major items in the will of the
late Mrs. George ]. Gould, filed in Sur
rogate's Court at Toms River, N. j.
Damages of So, 400 for the death OF
Charles f. van de Water, congressman
elect of Long Beach, on Nov. 20, 1920
against the owners of the truck into
which his automobile crashed, have
been entered by stipulation in the Los
Angeles Superior Court.
The annual Methodist conference in
session at Pine Bluff, Ark, adopted G
resolution urging Congress to pass the
proposed law forbidding operation Of
troipc ond namcpnnorS on Cun6ou a ND
requiring closing Of all business anC
amusements on Sunday.
DR.. Adolph Lorenz, famous Austrian
surgeon, has announced that in view
of the opposition to his professional
activities in this country from the
medical profession he would discon
tinue. further free clinics and return
to Vienna as soon as possible.
Davis Sandles, 2-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. John H. Sandles, who had {
needle removed from his heart on Nov
z, In what surgeons said was one O.
the most remarkable operations evel
performed in the Northwest, died a
a hospital in Minneapolis The needle
pierced his heart when he fell on {
sewing basket.
Automobile thieves are reaping thu
biggest harvest in history. Best esti
mates show cars stolen this year in tn,
United States will number 10000, thei
total value being $70,O00,000. Insur
ance agents say depression impelleC
many to abandon high-prlced cars an'
collect insurance for theft"
One solid carload of liquor wa
seized at Richmond, Va, by revenu
agents on the Atlantic coast line. Tn
liquor was shipped from Georgia ant
was destined for New York. The reve
nue. officers refuse to divulge name
until the warrants are served.