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The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
Names Eight Causes
of Action in Suit
Hump Mines Company for
S65,600 by David Erkid

Eight causes of action are named
in a suit filed last Thursday by Dav-
i'd Erkid against the Dromedary
Hump consolidated mines company
for approximately s65,600.00 for
collection of money alleged due.
The complaint states that the
company is a corporation at Fair
view, Churchill county. Nevada
The first charge is for sS98.70 for
goods said to have been purchased
by the defendant from the plaintiff
and for $72O for work done for the
company The second cause of ac-
tion states that the company is in
debted to Sylvia stratton for s3100
for services rendered. The claim
having been assigned to the plain
tiff
Other charges made in the com
plant are for, $500 alleged to be
due to Edward Stratton for work
and $4,000. s16.795. sS,595 and
$4,000 on promissory notes to II.
Il. Montelius. The complaint fur
ther states that all claims mention
ed have been assigned to the plain
tiff.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
Moody to Represent
Nevada at Meeting
Joins Scrugham at Reno To Attend
National Committee Meeting
of American Legion

Lester Moody, finance officer of
the Churchill post No. 16 of the
American Legion left Friday morn
ing to attend a meeting of the ma
tional executive committee of the
Legion that is to be held in Indian
apolis, January 20 and 81.
Moody is to represent Nevada in
place of State Adjutant Harold Bel
linger. Bellinger was unable to at
tend and appointed Moody to repre-
sent the state in his stead.
Nevada will also be represented
by ]. G. Scrugham who will attend
I'm his capacity as national vice COM
mander.
Moody planned to meet Scrugham
In Reno Saturday morning and jour
ney with him to Indianapolis. They
were to leave Reno Sunday night
and stop in Elko Monday night for
the purpose of confering with the
members of the Elko post concern
ing the adjusted compensation bills.
The purpose of the meeting is to
frame more definite plans of com
pensation for ex-service men, partic-
ularly the land settlement clause.
Following the meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee it is planned to
send a legislative committee to con-
fer with President Harding.
Moody stated that he expected to
leave Indianapolis about the day
following the convention.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
May Start Campaign
To Destroy Rodents
United States Biological Survey Of
fers to Carry on Extensive Fight
Against Rodents

Plans for an extensive campaign
against gophers were broached at a
recent meeting of the Newlands pro-
ject board of directors. A letter
from the national biological survey,
in which the offer to start a cam
paign that would include the entire
district was read.
According to the letter a similar
campaign was carried on In a project
in Arizona over an area of approxi-
mately $4,000 acres at cost of
about 5000.
The secretary was authorized TO
investigate the proposition.
1t is stated, by those who are ia
miliar with the work of the gophers,
that practically all serious breaks in
bitches in reclamation projects are
due to the work of the rodents.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
History of Pioneer
To County Is Told
Miss Anna Johnson Chased as In
Magazine; Life's Story Given

The story of a pioneer of Church
i'll county, Miss Anna Johnson, is
told in the last issue of the Sunset
magazine, in the department deyot-
ed to Interesting Westerners."
A picture of Miss Johnson and
her ranch accompany the article.
The history of Miss Johnsons ven
ture which was written by Shelia
O'Neil, follows:
Eleven years ago Miss Anna John
son, a church deaeoness and teacher
of manual training and agriculture
in a boys school in Illinois, faced a
discouraging future. She was brok-
en- in health and possessed a bank
account of only three hundred dol
lars. For the previous eleven yea-a
she had given her services in re
turn for room, food and a small
sum monthly. One day, having
watched the boys troop happily out
into the fresh air she listlessly pick
ed up magazine lying on her desk.
A line caught her eye:
''Truckee-Carson Project Open at
Fallon, Nevada"
Within an hour, having absorbed
the main facts of the article, she
had made definite plans. She would
go to Fallon, take up a homestead,
engage in the poultry business, be-
come economically Independent and
rest her tired nerves with the sight
of great wide spaces and distant
purple peaks.
Two months later, having left the
deaconess' cap and the sehoolroom
behind, Miss Johnson alighted from
the train at Fallon and surveyed a
small town which boasted no side
walks, no lawns and few painted
houses but which had an unmistak-
able atmosphere of bustling prog
ress. She felt in the air that inde-
Unable something which exists
where men and women, leaving old
established customs and comforts
behind, dare to build a new life in
land of greater possibilities. A
few days afterward, having selected
her homestead and made entry, she
borrowed a horse and wagon, hauled
lumber from Fallon and began the
building of a bridge across the big
irrigation ditch which ran in front
of the site upon which she intended
to build. That first year she hired
five acres of land leyeled and seeded
to ALFALFA today she has forty-fiye
of her eighty acres under cultiva-
tion and until quite recently did all
of the irrigating herself.
During the first year of loneliness
and readjustment Miss Johnson be-
gan a turkey-erop. Few scientific
reports upon the subject were to be
found, so she spent as much time
with the first seventeen turkeys as
she now spends with four hundred
and fifty. That first turkey-erop
was like bringing up the first baby
in a family. She walked an unblaz-
ed trail. Each year for eleven years
she has steadily increased the num-
Continued on page A.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
Swine Industry
Good He Claims
Federal Agricnlturist Tells of Ad-
vantages of Hog Raising; Project
Affords Excellent Opportunity
PRODUCTION Is NOW LOWER
THAN IN DAYS BEFORE WAR
Twice Year Crop That Affords Sure
Return to Farmers; Urges Men
to Adopt Intensive Method
(By l.. b. Cline)

1t would seem that in an agricul-
tural community such as we have,
such staple farm products as can be
easily grown should be produced in
quantity sufficient to meet at least
home consumption. With reference
to the swine industry on the New
lands project the only statement that
seems to apply to it is, that 1t is
getting no better fast" There seems
to be determined effort on the
part of all ranchers to eliminate
swine production from their pro-
gram. The year 1921 shows the
smallest number of hogs on the pro-
ject for the past seven years.
During the high prices of grain
the inexperienced hog grower was
skeptical of his realizing profits in
growing hogs, but now that grain
prices seem to be determined TO hit
bed rock, there should be a renewed
interest in this industry. In 1916
we had our biggest production of
hogs in the history of the project.
During that year the reclamation
census showed 6092 hogs on the pro-
ject AS this census figure did not in
clude the cooperative shipments
which were sent out prior to the TAX
ing of the census, the actual num-
ber of hogs on the project for that
year was approximately 1900. Dur
ing the year 1921 the reclamation
census shows only 1893 hogs at the
close of the year and to this figure
should be added 400 hogs that were
marketed comparatively at the be-
ginning of the year in order to com
pare the figures for these two years.
II we take in consideration the
amount of cured pork used In this
project made from hogs grown in
the corn belt in the east our valley
is not self sustaining as far as hog
production is concerned.
At the present time hog prices
and grain prices are practically the
same as they were in 1916 when this
project was making good headway
in swine production II would seem
that If project farmers are going to
live up to their opportunities they
CONTINUED on Page Four
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
LONGHEATH COW PRODUCES
MORE THAN TWENTY-THREE
POUNDS BUTTER PER WEEK

H. J. Long, owner of the Long
heath dairy farm, is at present test
ing what he expects to be record
breaking COW before many months
are past. The COW, Longheath Col
antha Ormsby by name, finished
fourteen days testing period last
Sunday with 47.41 pounds of butter
to her credit and more than 500
pounds of milk.
The COW is now in the two year
old class. Long stated that he ex-
pected her to be producing more
than thirty-fiye pounds of butter per
week soon.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
University Advises
Men To Raise Beets
yestigates Blight; Says Ii Is No
Native to County

Investigation OF the sugar beet
blight is being carried on by the I'm
iyersity of Nevada and the conclu-
sion that the blight is not native to
Churchill county has been reached
according to a letter received by
Fred Hinze, manager of the local
sugar factory, from S. b. Doten, di-
rector of the agricultural expert
ment station of the university.
Doten went to California for the
purpose of research work in con-
nectfon with the blight, according to
Hinze and later conferred with
Charles S. Knight, president of the
Reno chamber of commerce and for
merly dean of the college of agri-
culture at the university. Hinze
states that Knight was connected
with the local factory in 1912.
The letter from Doten is as fol-
lows:
Concerning the blight matter l
had long talk with President
Knight of the Reno chamber of com
merce who as you know was former
ly connected with the sugar CON-
pany and was later Agronomist and
Dean of Agriculture in the uniyers-
ity. Knight stated his belief that
the Fallon district is not located in
a permanent breeding ground of the
insect and the disease because ac-
cording to his observations the dis
ease has occurred only twice in a
period longer than ten years. He
thinks that the disease is brought
in occasionally by insects migrating
from a permanent breeding ground.
Under these conditions he be-
lieves that the farmers throughout
the Fallon district, Smith Valley and
Mason Valley should continue to
plant sugar beets.
According to his view there will
be a sharp drop in the value of farm
lands near Fallon if the factory
closes. He would estimate this de-
crease in value at an amount likely
to reach $25 per acre. He would
not advise any farmer to put his en-
tire farm into sugar beets but he
would advise most earnestly that all
farmers in the three valleys named
should plant small aereages, say
from five to fifteen acres apiece.
He states that a crop of six tons
will pay the cost of production.
Above six tons every additional ton
represents Profit. Thus an eight-ton
ornn ~ oava,, dolIaru nor ton xuauId
give $14 profit while twelve tons
would give a profit of s42. In his
judgment any practical farmer
should raise at least twelve tons to
the acre and an experienced man
handling a moderate acreage should
raise fifteen tons without much
trouble. In his own experiments he
had little difficulty in getting crops
OF fifteen to seventeen tons.
"Mr. Knight advises farmers in
the Falloh region to go in for home
gardens and berry patches to pro
duee some poultry, milk and cream
on every farm, to raise some pota
toes, a reasonable amount of sugar
beets and enough alfalfa TO carry
the live stock of the farm and per
haps to sell a little. Thus the fail
ure of any one thing would not
prove disastrous and the profit from
the whole should be good.
II quote Mr.. Knights view be-
cause l know it will interest you and
because in the coming conference of
your President and directors you
you may wish to call him in con-
sultation."
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
State Farm Bureau
Holding Convention
Churchill County Delegates Leave
TO Attend Annual Meeting of
Association In Reno

Approximately six representatives
from Churchill county left Tuesday
morning to attenr the annual farm
bureau convention being held in
Reno. The first session was held
Tuesday morning in the auditorium
of the educational building at the
university of Nevada. The eonyen-
tion is to last three days.
Among those who are attending
from Fallon are County Agent A. j.
Reed and President c. G. Swingle of
the Churchill county association.
Nine counties of the state are
now organized and have farm bu-
reau associations. Practically all of
the organized counties will be repre-
sented at the meetings.
Tuesday evening reports were
made by the representatives of the
various counties.
The following days will be devot-
ed to tours of inspection through
the Washoe valley and the territory
near Carson City.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18

Dance, eat and be merry at the
Naples, February 11th. 12-t1c
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-01-18
WEATHER REPORT

For the week ending January IA
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
HUNGRY MICE SAVED COYOTES
Rodents Interfered With War on
Pests in Wyoming by Eating
the Poisoned Bait.

Hungry mice In Wyoming have re-
Gently become such frequent visitors
to poisoned bait spread for coyotes
that the work of the poison squad
seeking to kill coyotes has been seri-
ously interfered with, according to
report to the biological survey, United
States Department Of Agriculture.
Owing to the extremely warm
weather." reads the report, coyotes
stayed in the rough and brushy places,
which made it necessary to put the
poison bait in and around these places.
It was noted that mice interfered ma
terially by carrying away and eating
the poison bats before the coyotes
could get to them.
Poisoned grain was used in an ef-
fort to kill off the coyotes, but in many
cases there was no end to mice coming
into poison stations"
Notwithstanding these difficulties.
the FIVE men assigned to poison work
made a satisfactory record, says the
Weekly News Teller. The total num-
ber of animals killed during one month
by government hunters in the district
is reported at $40.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
CANN!BALS IN BELGIAN CONGO
Government Has Not Yet Fully Suo-
: eeeded in Stamping Out
the Practice.

This particular section OF the Bel
gian Congo through which we were
passing had been closed to white tray-
elers for many years because OF the
rampant cannibalism Of the natives.
We have been unable to detect any
signs of cannibalistic practice In the
umwatte ruled by Kabongo or Mutom'
bo Makulu, although trusted carriers
still often disappeared overnight from
caravans in these regions and teasts
always took place with suspicious Sc
uuence in some village near by. Fur
ther on to the north, where the strong
arm of the white mans law has not
vet reached, cannibaliSm is still In 1ts
palmy days. and slaves are fattened
for the regular feaSts of the year.
Here the government has not yet al
lowed white men to penetrate.
Even in the district through which
we were now passing Belgian trader
had been attacked only a few months
before. Shortly after leaving the vii
lage Of a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. had
received us with extreme cordiality,
we came upon a relic Of the recent
history of the chief and his village.
It was a phallic emblem post decor
ated with the bleached skulls of small
children. It had escaped the notice OF
government troops who have orders
to destroy them.
At several villages we found the ole
sort of Bachokwe natives still avowed-
ly hostile to all white people, who had
given up open cannibalism only when
they had to. The people and their
chiefs refused to have anything to DO
with us, although they did not open
hostilities. On such occasions we
quickly changed our plans as to set
ting up camp for the night. The trail
ahead seemed strangely attractive just
then, even to our tired carriers.-Helen
Z. Springer in Scribner's Magazine.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
Tnral JtpntH

Mr.. Lindsay Guy, OF Camden, was
a visitor here this week.
R%A
MIR. ]. w. Malloy spent Thursda!
in Pageland on business.
&4a
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. A. Ande;
son, March 9Th. daughter.
a&S
Miss Annie Coward, of Darlingto' ,
spent Sunday and Monday at home
s&s
Fresh Roe and Buck Shad on Fri
days at HORTON C HENDRIX co.
&#s
DR.. ]. ]. Norris has returned to
Ashville after a visit with mis- family
here.
Mr.. J. B. Gray, of Darlington, spent
Wednesday here visiting his son, Mr.
R. G. Gray.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. ]. A. Mckin-
non on Tuesday, Mar. 7th, in Florence
hospital, son.
Miss Laura Inglis left on Monday
- visit to relatives and friends in
r,r:rhurg, n. c.
MIR. w. H. Manning, of Spartan
burg visited his daughter, Mrs. Edwin
MallOy this week.
$50
The Mothers Club will meet with
Mrs. Alex Harrall tomorrow after
- 4 o'clock.
&&S
.ar. Robert Brown, of Fayetteyill
N. c., spent Sunday and Monday in
the city with friends.
Miss L. ~ Harrington is in New
York this week buying Spring Ready
% Wear for L. NJ. Evans Co.
Mrs. l.. Grimm, of Carthage, n. G,
IS visiting her son, Mr.. Harold Grimm
and Mrs. J. d. Wells.
##$
Mrs. Lucy Frye, of Atlanta, is visit
ing at the homes of Mrs. ]. D. Wells
and Mr.. Harold Grimm.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
Higher Education for Dogs.

A college for dogs has been opened
up in WeStcheSter. 1t is a place
where dogs are taught to live in a
crowded city. They are taught the
art Of ."heeling," which is to follow
closely at the masters heels. They are
also taught to eat from only one hand
the hand of the master. Then they
learn how to sit in the corner quietly
when company comes, how to cross the
streets at the proper signal and how
not to growl when they see some other
dog. The college course lasts for three
months and the proprietor guarantees
a perfectly trained dog in that time or
money-the fee is $150-returned.-
New York Sun.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
Walking to Walk.

For a long time in this country
walking attracted less attention than
any other outdoor pastime on the
calendar. Indeed, once upon a time
a man who felt like going for a
tramp simply put on his hat and started
off. He carried no advertisement of
his game such as Englishmen did with
their knickers, heavy shoes, distinc-
tive hats and stout walking sticks. The
American simply went walking to
walk. Those times are passing. Walk
Ing Is coming into the recognition II
deserves. Hiking Is fashionable. Clubs
are formed to promote it-NeU Yorh
Herald.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
A GOOD
TONIC FOR
old PEOPLE
GUIDES Pepto.M .Mangan Restores Your
Strength and Prevents
Illness.

Aged people often need a good
blood tonic. When the blood be-
comes clogged with poisons from the
system, Guides Pepto-Mangan puri'
fies it by driving off the waste mat
ter. Good blood is full Of vitality
and prevents illness, giving the body
greater power of resistance. This
weaknesses of old age are greatly
helped by a supply of rich, red blood.
Guides -Mangan is sold in liquid
or tablet form by all druggists. ]
has been recommended by physicians
for 80 years and is a valuable tonic
and builder for the weak and run
down of all ages from childhood
old age. Advertisement.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09

District General Agent
for Cheraw, s. c., and adjoining
territory for the State Mutual Life
Assurance Company Of Mass, whose
annual statement shows assets of
72,219,112, Insurance in force Of
S33S,OOO,OO0, low premiums, large
annual dividends and most liberia
policy contracts. Our schedule or
dividends for 1922, makes the cost
of insurance in this company for
the right man to make a most pro-
6table connection, with an assured
income for the future. If interest
ed write us for our proposition.
LOUIS SHERFEsEE,
General Agent, Greenville, S. c.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
DRESSMAKING.

Get your sewing problems solved
by a first class dressmaker. Ladies'
and Children's clothes, Mems Shirts,
rdlling and whipping, embroidery
hemstitching, plating and all kinds
of fancy work. Your work done cleo
trically. "Promptness" is our motto.
MRS. NJ. B. ROBINSON.
311 Church Street
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09

the holes in the plates used for plan
ing corn. Such planters have beer
used for several years past at the
College Experiment Station and h
individuals in the state, and hav
given excellent results.
In one of the weekly News Notes
articles above referred to occurs {;
statement which we wish to repe@
with emphasis
"Delinted seed can be planted more
uniformly and seed saved thereb"
Delinted seed may be spaced in any
way desired, and by planting severe
seeds to a hill and spacing the hills
at the distance II is desired to leave
the plants, much labor and eXpens
may be saved in chopping."
The South Carolina Experiment
Station, with it's research facilities
and staff of experts and specialists,
is glad at all times to advise and he'll
farmers with the solution Of thei'
agricultural problems.-H. w. Barr"
Director of South Carolina Expert
ment Station.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09
Con Is linQuist.

Lynn, Mass, has a policeman who
has mastered seven different IAN
suages in the last seven years. He Is
Anthony DychiuS, a twenty-seven-
year old Lithuanian. who came to
America seven years ago. Since he
has been here he served in the army
and on tie Lynn police force. He
speaSi Russian, Jewish, Polish,
Czechoslovak, Serbian, English, and
Lithuanian.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-09

FOR RENT-Eight rooms and bath
room, electric lights and water
over the New ;. 10 & 9jc Store.
Apply to L. r. Cox.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-18
''Milk Route" Is Hooch Monger's
 Delivery Tour

PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 1S.-Fed- eral prohibition agents in Pittsburg have to step awful lively to keep up with the pace set by illicit whiskey traffickers The bootlegging gentry devise new means and methods of distribution every few days and usu- ally keep about lap ahead of Uncle Sam's men.
 Milk bottles, painted white, are being used to distribute whiskey over regular routes in the Pittsburg dis trict This camouflage for the illegal liquor traffic was uncovered by pro-
 hibition enforcement agents day or
 two ago.
 Much whiskey is being moved over
 Allegheny County roads, dry agents
 declare. It was said at prohibition headquarters that 100000 cases of liquor had been secured through legal channels and hidden away for
 months during the time permits were
 handed out right and left. Most of this whskey is cached in barns and other buildings and the reserve
 supply is drawn on as requirements
 demand. These caches cannot be
 raided because the prohibition agents
 lack eviderco of illegal transporta- tion or sales upon which to secure search warrants.