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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

A conservative is one who thinks
all the plots to disturb the scheme
Of things are Matched by bad eggs.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

There wouldn't be great deal
of striving after fame. however. II
one couldn't cash it at the paying
teller'> window.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

The Shah of Persia spent a mil
lion in Paris. Aw, Shah.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22
To-day's Best Jokes
and Stories

Impossible happenings No. @:
s.Look, John. That woman has on
a. hat just like mine. l wish all
women woulud wear them ~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

Eternal smashing of fanatics
the price Of liberty.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

Nothing so enrages wicked
man as the discovery that the pure
in heart are not SO easily buncoed
as their piety would indicate.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

Very few men who long for tho
good old days. eat througf SIC
inches Of mustacte. :
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

Alter mixing business and pleas
ure business never looks the same.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

Correct this sentence: 'HoW
dare you kiss me-" cried the flap
per; Il am not that kind of a girl
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

Some people would elevate the
stage and the movies, but pedes-
trians are content merely to ele-
vate their hands as required.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

A man with q house. full of
kids can go to a show and sleep
through a shooting act q
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

- a magazine writer says there
is little genuine ,humor in America.
Did the gentleman ever hear of the
Congressional Record?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

Funny. things happen. Some
body beat UP a lion tanner in Bcs-
fon
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

The significant fact is not that
ilnies occasionally convict an inno-
cent man. but that occasionally
they convict guilty one.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

One half the world doesd' know:
why the other half lives :.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

No girl is an old maid until she
gives up the porch swing to let
her young sister have. a chance.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

. You never have TO go 10 any
trouble taefnds trouble
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22

with profits is the number Of un-
employed on the pay roll.
There's one fine thing about mere
ordinary singers. They get by with
!. without revealing their tonsils.
If a man is down in the mouth
let him sit where a mosquito can
get at him and he'll soon come up
to scratch.
A lot of men who think they are
| broad-minded are simply too shall
/ ow-minded to afford anchorage
for an opinion.
Fixing the price of coal. leaves
the dealer conscience-free to charge
what ne will for the common va
rieties Of slate.
rhe rights of minority are de-
fined as follows: ID it may keep
its mouth shut, or CD it may take
to it's heels.
twenty-five years ago the old
folks were worrying about our NOR
ais, and yet think how pure and
guileless we are now.
It would be fine. as the COM
munists say. if every man could get
all that is coming to him. But II
might require enlarsing the jails.
There wouldn't be great deal
of striving after fame. however. II
one couldn't cash it at the paying
teller'S window.
Some people would elevate the
stage and the movies, but pedes-
trians are content merely to ele-
yate their hands as required.
Nothing so enrages wicked
man as the discovery that the pure
in heart are not so easily buncoed
as their piety would indicate.
The significant fact is not that
iuries occasionally convict an lnno-
cent man. hut that occasionally
they convict guilty one.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16
lr mats oi the character, as shs,.

here, indicate something of the dI
ity to be found among them
group leads off with a shape Of ]
lisere faced with blue crepe and
simply trimmed with sash Of
ribbon and a handsome ornamerl
can afford to be simple for It 7
possessor of most becoming lines
ly all faces are fiattered by It.
below 1t at the left is a fabric .
a crepey material trimmed With
kinds of beads and a little ornan
stitching. Its shape suggests thl
bonnet and is best suited to voc
faces. Next is a hat made Of aH
millinery fabric with an odd sss
hanging ends of crepe. Little !
sea shells are set about the upE
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16

pany and takes its stand among those
models that have made compromise
between one extreme and the other.
There are wonderful colors this
season and women have grown cour-
ageous in using them. When consid-
ering dinner and evening frocks they
may allow themselves to be daring,
but for the street they refuse the
reckless and have approved beige, tan.
wood and other browns, green and
dark blue. Gayer colors and many of
them make afternoon and dinner
frocks and they are elaborated with
embroideries and contrasting colors
In fabric combinations. When black Is
used 1t is worn over color or bright
ened with vivid colors in embroidery
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16

WITH a reservation in the matter
w of length, this handsome dinner
gown undertakes To accent the modes
of the season. 1t Is made of crepe de
chine and georgette, it takes advan-
tage of the continued vogue for bead
trimmings, the sleeves make the most
OF their opportunity to be featured
II affects the last thing in neck lines
and the approved low waist lne-Dut
II is shorter than the length decreed
by style arbiters In this one particu-
lar 1t Lays, with plenty of good COM
pany, behind the very long skirt com
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16

Vt banded with a gay color. Light col.
ors lor evening often make use Of
crystal beads and the deeper tones
S zoos, oeadS In shades Of .heir own
ooior' sometimes combining them with
crystals 'n Win
.., hne gown pictured is developed in
atnoer-colored crepe de chine and has
sleeves and drop skirt of a tighter
zone IN georgette. The beads haeir
win this light tone and shade I, rms.
eo,or' Deep cuffs of the crepe de chIns
s, L~e up the unused width in the
. .r ana the girdle is made of the
crepe de chine. u 'le
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16

The chic small hat arrive.
and has many devotees mia.
mer brings hats with generou, y
that compel our alteration hs
tween them stand hats thar -.
happy medium. They go hand n :
with summer the length of lis h,.'
and mirrors reflect them more -
than falls to the lot of these sm.s /
large rivals: for they are the ~.
ing and useful trimmed hats th, !.
designed to fit in with many ~
grounds.
Four hats Of the character ., !.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16

HIS spring about 100000 Ameri-
cans received free packages OF vege-
table aud garden seeds from their
senators aud representative In con.
gress. Uncle Sam-not the member
OF congress bought the seeds, tied
up the packages. put them In the
mall aud carried them free TO every
nook and corner of the land. OF
course, In the last analysis. the
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16

ALLURING DINNER GOWNS:
HAPPY MEDIUMS IN HATS

=='7TTrTgf3 Hn|
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-16

portion of the brim. This - :
lines that matronly weare's
The fiower-trimmed hat
crown that bells and nal
great favorite in many pc"
shown with a sash of picV'
bon that is arranged in fo@
two longer ones slipping
slash in the brim.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
STREETS TOBE
KEPT in REPAIR

Members of the Gardnerville fire
department have interested them
selves In a movement for the bet
terment Of street conditions and
this week AL Holm was engaged
to harrow and drag all streets
and the Improvement Is already
exceedingly noticeable.
1t is quite probable that the
services of Mr.. Holm and his
teams will beengaged throughout
, the coming summer. for the pur-
pose Of keeping the streets clean
and in repair as we'll as operating
a sprinkling wagon.
Under state law, the board of
county commissioners are not al
lowed to expend single penny on
the streets of unincorporated
towns, and unless the property
holders interest themselves in the
care OF streets. they are allowed
to remain In deplorable condition.
Many property holders have al
ready commended the action of
the fire department for its de-
cision to keep the streets in
decent repair and hope that the
work will be continued.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
IT HAS BEEN JUST ONE RAID
AFTER ANOTHER In THIS TOWN
Gndnerville is .NoaO as
Dry as a Desert Waste
and Officers Say That
We Must Watch Ont

During the past several days the
prohibition enforcement officers, as
sisted by local peace officers, have
swooped down on Gardnerville es-
adjustments, and as a result the
town is now claimed to be the dry
est spot in the United States.
Saturday night, while dance was
In progress in Gardnerville. prohi-
bition officers raided the East Fork
hotel as we'll as the French hotel.
No liquor was found at the East
Fork but at the French hotel a guam
tity of Illicit booze was seized and
the proprietor, J. Bilbo. and William
Borda, the 'barkseper, were placed
under arrest.
This raid followed the one last
week at which time H. H. Babcock
and T. J. Williams were arrested at
a ranch near Sheridan where still
was found in operation.
1t was believed that the COM
munity would rest in peace for a
short time at least, but such was not
the case and Monday noon. un-
the dry squad again slipped into
Gardnerville and raided the estab-
lishment of VIM. Starke, where sew
eral cases of beer and liquor were
secured
Mr.. Starke was given q hearing be-
forethe U. 8. Commissioner at Car
son Tuesday and was held under
bonds.
H. H. Babcock and T. ]. Williams.
charged with operating q still were
given a hearing in Carson. Williams
was represented by Attorney Swan
son and was given his freedom while
Babcock was held to await action Of
the federal grand jury and being
unable to furnish bonds. remains in
custody of the federal officers.
AS a result Of raid at the prem
ises Of F. Elges last week, at which
time a quantity Of stun was found
in an out-building, q warrant was
issued for the arrest OF Mr.. Elges
and. Monday he was given a pre-
liminary hearing in the justic court.
He was represented by Attorney
Chartz who brought out that the
premises belonged to. and was the
property of Mrs. Elges. No evidence
was adduced to prove that the stun
found was the property Of the de-
fendant and the case against him was
dismissed.
A few residents Of this community,
who have kent small stocks OF
liquor in their cellars since the days
preceding the Volestead Act, have de-
veloped an attitude of uncertainty,
since the numerous raids haveAaken
place, and 1t is reported that the
liquor has been removed for inter-
ment in secret graves at the brow Of
a hill where not even a sprig Of an
acacia was planted to mark the hid
ing place.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
DANCE WAS A
GREAT SUCCESS
Big Cr0zOd Was IN Attend
ance at Masque Ball
Saturday Night

The masquerade dance held at this
place Saturday night under the
auepices of the Society Dania, was
largely attended and without ques-
tion was one of the most enjoyable
social affairs held here this winter.
There was a large number of
maskers on the floor, and according
to an old established custom, those
not masked. were not allowed on the
floor until ii o'clock. Beside the
dancers, large number of spectators
were present.
Geo. A. Montrose, Mrs. Lena Gale
and Mrs. B. Selkirk acted as judges
and awarded prizes as follows:
Best sustained character. Fred Jep-
sen, a rag-time coon; best dressed
man. Mrs. HaIvov Jacobsen as a
Spanish cavalier; best dressed
lady, Miss Grace Brockliss as a
Chinee girl; best sustained characters.
Mrs. Nelson and Miss e. Nielsen of
Reno Danish peasant girls
The supper served at Odd Fellows
dining hall by the Danish ladies was
of the very best while the music by
the home orchestra was better than
ever
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
NEVADA.S SHARE FEES
FOR GRAZING RECEIVED

A check for $1S,S67.94 as Nevada's s
twenty-five per cent share of money
collected by the federal government
as grazing fees in the national forests
Boyle Monday. The payment is from
was received at the office of Governor
deferred collections of fees, $6258.S3
already having been received, says
the Appeal.
The payment this year is smaller
than that for last year, s2S,7O9 having
been received last year.
The money will be apportioned by
the governor to the counties accord
ing to the amount of forest grazing
collections in the counties. Elko
county will receive the greatest bene-
fit from the collections.
The funds go for highways and
school expenses.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
KINCSBURY TO
Be BEST ROUTE

The Carson Valley Highway
Association has not altered Its de-
cision to make the Kingsbury
grade not only the shortest, but
the best route to Lake Tahoe from
the eastern slope of the Sierras,
and just as soon as the snow be-
gins to disappear from the lower
attitudes, work will commence in
putting the highway in the best
possible condition.
Work was started last fall but
no sooner had the association CON-
pleted arrangements for improv-
Ing the road IN the canyon, when
snow began falling, putting an end
to the work until more favorable
weather conditions arrived.
While the entire six miles of
grade will receive attention and
improvement at the hands of the
Carson Valley highway association,
the main object will be to lessen
the grade on the sleeper portions
of the road, or at least improve it
such a manner that solid road
bed wiu make 1t possible for all
automobiles to negotiate the climb
to Lake Tahoe without difficulty.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
PRICE OF LAMBS
ON THE INCREASE

Information received by Secretary
Metcalf of the State Livestock asso-
citation during his recent trip to San
Francisco and since returning, points
to a considerable strengthening in
anticipated prices for the 1922 crop
of Nevada lambs California sheep
med advised that offers to contract
fat lambs at as high figure as $7.75
had been made in the San Joaquin
valley section. A report was also re-
ceived Monday that buyers seeking tc
contract 1922 Nevada lambs had Of
reded as high as IL cents per pound
for eastern Nevada and that some
lambs had already been contracted
for at that figure in Wyoming. Prom
inent California sheepmen whom he
met at San Francisco are looking for
sS lambs or even better and say grow
ers are not contracting but holding
their lambs, confidently expecting
strong prices when the lambs are
ready for market.
Information from all sections based
on the known shortage of sheep in
the entire country and the outlook for
less than normal spring lamb crop
in many sections of the west, indi-
Gates strong lamb market. Top quo-
tations for fat lambs at San Francisco
jumjed up within the last few days
from 12A to 13 cents per pound and
milk lambs dressing out around 35
pounds are being sold by the whole
sale butchers at 81 cents and better,
bringing $10.S5 a head to the slaught-
erer.
A lull is being experienced in the
buying of wool, according to coast
wool buyers, general contracting in
the west being discontinued, it is
claimed, by fear on the part of the
wool buyers as to the attitude the
manufacturers of woolens are going
to take with regard to the prices they
are willing to pay for wool Outside
of the extreme possibility that a
tariff on wool may be set low as to
admit a tremendous amount of for
eign wools, dealers cannot, however,
advance any real reasons as to why
the wool market should weaken be-
for the 1922 western wool crop is
shorn.
Coast cattle interests are all look
ing for fair increase in prices for
fat cattle, 1t being claimed that fat
steers being shipped to California
from mid-western markets are cost
ing only S1s cents laid down as
against top quotations at San Fran
cisco Of tx cents. 1t is claimed that
California will have no surplus of fat
cattle above its own market needs
during 1922, and that there is a con-
siderable shortage of cattle on feed
in the middle west which situation it
Is confidently expected will soon re-
suit in stronger market at Chicago
and elsewhere. The California Cattle
association also reports that there are
not so many Canadian cattle being fed
In the northwestern states as was at
first supposed and that they do not
anticipate much of run on the San
Francisco market from those points.
Early California grass cattle, 1t is
claimed, will be scarce and six weeks
later than usual.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
HAS
GOOD LAND

Thousands Of acres of the best
land In Nevada have never been re-
claimed for the production of crops.
writes Newton Hibbs In the Winnie
mucca Star.
Before abe public ranges were over
stocked there were large areas of
sub-irigated natural meadows in all
the important valleys which sup
ported luxuriant wild hay grasses.
Unharvested crops of this wild hay
accumulated and formed a heavy
mulch which prevented evaporation
and promoted capillary action to such
an extent that these valley soils
were always moist to the very sur
face. The ground water mingled
with the surface water from precipi-
tation and occasional overflow and
carried OF all the alkali that came
with the silt to these ancient lake
beds.
After the natural grasses were
killed by over-pasturing these wild
meadows became "alkali fats" be-
cause the surface water was evapo-
rated by the sun and wind from the
denuded soil surface; and the salts
were left behind. There was no per-
collation. or capillary action to carry
the alkali to the underground drain
age gravel strata after the grass was
tramped to death and the soil be-
came impervious to precipitation and
capillary movement.
The original wild meadows in
these Nevada valleys were we'll
drained areas. The ancient rivers
which traversed all these valleys left
diverging and continuous gravel bars,
better than any tile system, to drain
these lands. Until the cattle, horses
and sheep robbed the soil of these
valley of its humus and tramped 1t
into the consistency of adobe no
alkali was deposited In the drainage
centers OF these valleys. The pri-
mary alkali deposits of these lake
bed valleys is In the sagebrush slopes
where the salts were left when the
ancient lakes receded.
Well-drained soil never carries
detrimental content of alkali or other
salts. Reclaimed alkali land is the
very best. The natural meadows of
Nevada were over great gravel de-
posits which the bars left by the
changing channels OF the ancient
rivers which traversed these valleys
after the old lakes receded. The
alkali of the fats was deposited by
the processes of erosion after the
soil Of the old meadows was made
impervious by the killing of vegetation
and the baking of soil.
The water table under these old
meadows Is within the limit of capil-
larry attraction. The cultivation of
thes oil and the use of even a linz
tied amount of irrigation water will
re-establish the sub-irrigation sys-
tenn which was destroyed by the
tramping of the soil and the de-.
struction Of the root system of the
natural grasses; and the large areas
Of the natural meadows of Nevada
will be as rich as the lit soils of the
valley of tine Nile.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
co. TO
START WORK
Ore already Blocked ont
In Nine VIII be Milled
this Summer

e. w. Carman, who recently re-
turned from Detroit, Michigan, where
he went to straighten out the affairs
Of the Longfellow Gold Mining COM
pany, reports that he was successful
in perfecting a reorganization, the
Longfellow company being taken over
by the Detroit Gold Mining company
Through the reorganization the
financial difficulties of the Longfel-
low company, have been cleared up
and sufficient money raised to carry
on work at the property, which will
commence as soon as the snow per.
mits the renewal OF operations.
Mr.. Carman has spent many years
in developing this property, which is
located near the summit of the Pine
Nut range and in the Red canyon
district The property is equipped
with gasoline hoist. air compressor
and all modern machinery, while a
mill capable of caring for all i'm
mediate needs has been erected at
Carman Heights.
Several well developed ledges have
been opened up, and according to
assays. carry gold in paying quanti-
ties. 1t is the intention of Mr.. Car
man to start the mill crushing ore
that has already been blocked out in
the mine and hopes to put the prop
erty on a paying basis before the
season ends.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-03-24
GOTHIC N PICKED
THE GIRLS TEAM
Block N Society Had
Nothing to do With
Selection of Players

w. II. Church. president of the
Block N Society OF the University OF
Nevada, informs the Record-Courier
that the Gothic N Society and not the
Block N Society had the choosing OF
the All-State basketball team. This
correction is cheerfully made and at
the same time admit that through
the similarity Of names, believed the
organizations one and the same.
The Block N Society, we are in
formed by Mr.. Church, is composed
of men athletes of the University,
while the Gothic N Society Is COM
posed of the Womens. basketball
team of the school. The former pick
ed the boys All-State team and Mr..
Church states that from comment In
different parts of Nevada, they did
their work well, naming a representa-
tive team.
Last week the Record Courier stat
ed that followers and Supporters of
the girls basketball team of the
Douglas high school, we're not salts
fed with the decision of the Block
~, which should have read Gothic N.
Society (there 1t is in gothic type).
Mr.. Church, president of the Block
N Society states in his letter to the
Record-Courier, that"from our points
of view l may say that the picking
of this team was not what 1t might
have been had the Block N done the
work but that the picking of that
team was beyond our Jurisdiction"
The statement of Mr.. Church tends
to support the opinion of the sup
porters Of the Douglas girls team