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The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
PARENT-TEACHE TO HAVE
GRANDMOTHERS' DAY FRIDAY

"Grandmothers' Day" will be
celebrated at the regular meeting of
the Parent-Teachers' association Fri
day afternoon, in honor of the many
elderly ladies living here. A cor
dial invitation is extended to all
elderly ladies and the general pub
lie to attend.
The following program will be
rendered: Selection. Oats Park
orchestra; Welcome, Mrs. Cam; re-
sponse, "Grandma" Dodge; recita-
ton, Granny" Freda Bingham;
solo, when You and | Were Young
Maggie" Mrs. Harrison Smith;
reading, Mrs. Coleman; How
Grandma Danced" Betty Shaw; vo-
cal duet, "Silver Threads Among
the Gold" Mrs. Mel Price and Mrs.
J. Howser. Refreshments will be
served after the program.
Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Vaughn, Mrs.
Cam and Mrs. Coniff have announe-
ed that they will gladly furnish
transportation for all the guests
who will notify them.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Hoover Exonerated
OF Federal Charge
ID. w. Mckenzie and o. A. Black
wood Waive Preliminary Hearing;
Bound Over to Grand Jury

c. M. Hoover, arrested Saturday,
March 11th. was discharged by Unit
ed States Commission ID. Z. Will
liams at the preliminary hearing of
the case held last Wednesday and
the bondsmen were exonerated. The
commissioner stated that IL the
United States attorney deemed the
evidence against Hoover sufficient
he could later bring suit and that
there was no doubt but that Hoover
woud be in Fallon when wanted.
Hoover, proprietor of the Barrel
House, was arrested in a raid by
federal prohibition enforcement Of
ficers. The officers were unable to
find any liquor at the bar but on
searching a room in the rear obtain
ed a quart. Hoover held that he
was not responsible for the liquor
being there and that he knew moth
ing about it,
ID. w. Mckenzie and o. A. Black
wood, arrested the same evening at
the Well, waived preliminary exam
ination and were bound over to the
federal grand jury. They were in
dicted on two counts, of having liq-
uor in their possession and selling
it.
Deputy United States Marshal T..
A. Sawyer was present at the hear
ing and two of the federal officers
appeared a s witnesses in the case.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Electric System
Profitable; says
City Light and Power Works Result
in $24, 900 Earnings; Good Prof.
Its Are Made
SURPLUS GIVEN TO OTHER
DEPARTMENTS; CREHORE
Tenth Year of Municipal Control Is
Completed; Tends to Reduce Tax
Is Says City Engineer

The total earnings of the city
electric system for the year ending
December 81, 1921, were $24,-
342.33. according to the annual re-
port of City Engineer L. w. Crehore
to the city council and the state
public service commission, which
has recently been complied. The
system has been in operation for
ten years.
The gross earnings of the system
for the past year shows an increase
of almost $4,000 over those of the
previous year which were $22,627.
The report states:
The expenses were as follows:
operation $13,46O.10, depreciation
at six per cent ON the original $15,-
900 investment 5000, leaving a net
operating revenue Of $14,36O.1O.
The incorporating revenues were
$36.32 making the gross revenue
$1O,01S.55. Expenditures from this
gross revenue were 5000 interest on
the original $4,000 bond issue
floated in 1912 to build the original
system leaving a net income Of So
1856. OF this amount $5,129.78
was appropriated to new construc-
ton and betterments of the system,
and $4,000 were transferred to the
city sewers, sewer construction and
park funds. leaving a surplus for
the year of S688.77.
1T is interesting to note that cost
of delivering electricity to the GUS
toners was sixty-fve one-thousand-
tbs of a cent more per kilowat hour
this year than it was the year be-
fore but that the revenue was sew
enty-one one-thousandths of a cent
more, which indicates a profit of six
thousandths of a cent greater per
kilowat hour than on the previous
years business. This fact is ac-
counted for by the fact that large
consumers were conspicuous by their
absence while the number of small
consumers was increased, the reve-
nue. from the small consumers more
than replacing that lost from the
large consumers" Crehore explain
ed.
THE $4,000 appropriated to city
funds from the surplus is reduc-
tion of taxes in as much as the 9TH
er improvements have no income of
their own," he added.
THE cost of the system, begin
ming with $4,000, the actual cash
invested, to date is $48, ,486.62, all
of which in excess of the original
1000 has been earned by the sys-
tenn, which If approximately $10,-
600 were deducted for depreciation.
would leave the physical value Of
the system at more than $4,000.
''The total assets are $63,130.21,
and of that amount 11,429.15 have
been invested in civic improvements.
The sewer, park and sewer construc-
tion funds receiving $4,000, city
permanent Improvement bonds we're
purchased with s5,129.15, $1,000
were transferred to the construc-
tion fund of the city water system
and $1,000 to the general fund.
during the ten years that the sys-
tenn has been operating"
Approximately six hundred homes.
business houses and plants are serv-
ed by the city electric system. Gre
hore added.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Best Showing Made
In Field Says One
Diamond Company Strike Brown Oil
Shale ut Depth of 148O feet;
Union Has Heavy Seepage

Il consider IL the best showing
that has yet been made in the field,'
said w. b. Nichols In speaking of
the brown oil shale that was reach
ed by the Diamond oil company last
week, 1T is the real, genuine
thing" he added.
The drillers pierced the shale at
a depth of 1870 feet and the Big
Four company struck it at a depth
of 1900 feet, Nichols stated. 1T is
the next best thing to having actual
oil here"
Nichols returned last week from
San Francisco where he has been
working in the interests of the Big
Four company for the past three
weeks. He stated that his trip was
successful and that he was ready to
ship in the new casing. The Big
two or three weeks, he added. THE
people with whom l had dealing
while in San. Francisco feel we'll to-
ward the field and are confident of
satisfactory results" Porter said.
The Syndicate company is putting
in eight-inch caseing. their showings
are reported to be exceptionally
good.
AT last reports the Union oil com
pany was practically through clean
ing the hole and expected to be in
a position to know what is to be
seepages of oil are reported in the
hole. which is at depth of about
six hundred feet.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
No Objections Made
To Road; Rush Work
City Council Insfructs Engineer to
Proceed With Plans; Budget for
Year Is Outlined

There was no opposition to the
proposed paving of the streets of
Fallon at the meeting of the city
council. held last night for the pur-
pose of permitting the property
holders to object. Only few tax
payers were present at the meeting
and all were in favor of the plan to
pave the main streets OF the town.
connecting with the Lincoln high
way, with government aid.
The paving will be eighteen feet
In width extending along Williams
avenue from the city limits on the
West to approximately the center of
Maine street on the East; thence
Southerly along Maine street to ap-
proximately the center of Center
street. thence Easterly along Center
street to approximately the center of
East street; thence Southerly along
East street to approximately the
center of Saltwater avenue, thence
Easterly along Saltwater avenue to
the city limits.
Ii WAS moved and carried. by the
council, that the proposed route be
accepted and the city engin or was
authorized to prepare all work pre-
liminary to the construction of the
road.
The city council authorized the
city clerk to give all uncollected
bills to Marshal j. M Smitten for
collection and the marshal was told
IL necessary to take the delinquent
payers before the police judge.
The purchase of two acres from
the Williams estate was sanctioned
by the council. The land Is that on
which the new city water wells are
situated and the sale will be made
in accordance with an agreement
previously entered into between the
city and the estate.
The city engineer was instructed
to obtain plans for the pumping sta
tion and estimate the cost for the
necessary changes in the sewer
system.
The financial budget for the city
was prepared, to be submitted to
the county commissioners for ap-
proval. The budget calls for a
slight increase in expenditures over
last year.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
To Elect Directors
For School April |
Two Trustees to be Chosen; One for
Two Years and One for -Four; to
Be Held at Oats Park

There will be an election of
school trustees for the Consolidated
School District "B'' ON Saturday af-
ternoon, April l, 1922, as required
by the school laws of Nevada.
At this time two trustees will be
elected, one for two years and one
for four years. The law requires
that candidates for the Office of
school trustee must file their names
with the county clerk not later than
five days before the day of election
and no names shall be placed upon
the ballot unless filed within the
time specified. Also the candidate
shall specify If he is candidate for
long or short term.
George ID. Ernst is the present
long term trustee and will hold his
Office until 1924. The election will
be held in the Oats Park school
house and the polls will be open
from l o'clock until O'Clock.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Treat Wood Alcohol
for Beverages; Say

According to the industrial alco-
hol division of the prohibition COM
missions department. there is an
organization engaged in wholesale
treatment of denatured alcohol for
the purpose of converting II into
bootleg" whiskey. Denatured al
cohol can be purchased in the open
market without restriction for 35
cents a gallon and this organization
purports to nullify the poisonous
character of the alcohol by chemical
treatment.
Government chemists have aseer-
tanned that the process of changing
denatured alcohol into so-called
whiskey requires the use of either
bichloride of mercury. lysol. formal
dehyde or some similar disinfectant,
and after this process is completed
the fluid must be colored, and in
order to do this, iodine is being used
in many instances, as well as lead,
copper and zinc poisons.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Plan to Improve
Roads Arbor Day
Chamber of Commerce Will Ask for
Big Turnout of People of County
to Work ON Highways
LUNCHEON WILL BE SERVED
IN CLUB ROOMS BY LADIES
Committee to Take Lead In Munich
pal Park Improvement is Named;
Will Meet In Near Future

Plans for good road day, April
14th, Arbor Day, were started at the
regular meeting of the Churchill
county chamber of commerce last
Monday night.
The local post of the American
Legion sent letter to the chamber
of commerce stating willingness to
aid in any way possible in the pro-
gram that the chamber of commerce
should adopt for the day.
The matter was turned over to
the road committee of the chamber
and the entertainment committee.
Tentative plans call for a turnout of
all people in Fallon to haul and dis
tribute gravel on the roads near
fallon. AT noon, it is thought, a
feed will be served by the ladies of
the town in the chamber of COM
merce rooms.
+. w. Dudley reported that the
county trucks were now working on
Taylor street and that half mile of
roads had been covered in the last
two days. He added that the two
county trucks had each unloaded
and carried to Taylor street, a car
load of gravel last Monday.
Three six horse teams are also
working.
A. ]. Reed stated that as eom-
mander of the Churchill Post No.
16 of the American Legion, he had
appointed the associated improve
ment committee for the improve
ment of the municipal park. The
committee is composed of represen-
tatives of all civic organizations in
Fallon.
The committee is composed of
the following members: DR.. f. A.
Hardin, Mrs. A. K. Berry, DR.. e. f.
Dunbar, Mrs. ii. Beiiinger, Tom
Hendricks, Fred Saunders, Mrs. Tom
Sanford, Earl Wooster, j. j. Beatty,
j. b. Layeaga, Rev. z. E. Petersen,
Rev. c. c. Hickman, Rev. Edward
MCGOWAN, Miss Fannie Painter,
Noble Waites Gs-J- Kenny, ID. Erkid,
Elder Hart, l.. w. Crehore, A. j.
Reed and Mrs. Ed Bingham.
Reed stated that the committee
would be called together at an early
date.
The primary work of the commit
tee will be to complete the improve
ments on the cemetery, that have
been undertaken by the Legion, and
to provide funds for the completion
of the swimming pool.
1t was announced that division A
in the membership drive, headed by
]. B. Laveaga was far in the lead.
The drive closes at noon today. The
team captained by j. f. Milton took
highest individual honors with ten
new members and $3.50 collected.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Assures Market
for Cantaloupes
William j. Hall Offers to Buy All
Melons at Prevailing Market
Prices or More
WOULD BUILD PLANT HERE
AND FURNISH ALL CRATES
Asks Growers to Plant Five Hum
dred Acres; Association Directors
For Year Are Chosen

A market for all cantaloupes
raised In the Lahontan valley at
prevailing market prices or better.
was offered to the growers in
Churchill county last Saturday af-
ternoon by William ]. Hall of Reno
Hall offered to establish a pack
ing plant costing several thousand
dollars. in Fallon and bring in be-
tween eighty and one hundred
thousand crates, provided the farm
ers would agree to grow at least
three hundred acres of the melons
II am confident that when l tell
the people in the East of the won
derful melon that is grown here,
can sell your entire CROP" Hall said
You will have something better
than any gold mine that was ever
found in the state, for it will con-
tinue to be more profitable through
out the years." he continued. THE
Heart of Gold melons are worth
twice as much as any melon l ever
tasted is his opinion.
Hall assured the growers that he
would pay cash for the melons at
the time they were delivered at the
station and that he would bring in
sufficient money to pay for every
cantaloupe that is grown.
VIII Plant 500 Acres
County Agent A. j. Reed stated
that there was little doubt but that
the farmers would plant five hun
dred acres of cantaloupes and that
number of growers had already
told him of their intention to put
in an increased acreage.
CONTINUED on page 4)
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Local Ball Team To
Organize Saturday

The first step toward the organi-
zation of the Fallon baseball team
will be taken Saturday evening when
all former players and new men
who are desirous of playing, will
meet in the Ross pool hall.
Irish" Ross, manager of the
team last year states that the pros
poets for a superior aggregation of
ball players this year are exception
ally good. The meeting is for the
purpose of outlining plans for the
season and getting organized so that
the men can begin practicing at
once, he stated.
A big attendance of baseball en-
thusiasts is expected at the meeting.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
Mutual Company to
Take Plant April |

The Churchill county cooperative
creamery will be turned over to the
Mutual creamery company of Salt
Lake City April 1st, in accordance
with a contract entered into by the
board of directors of the local plant
and that of the Mutual company last
Friday.
The sale of the plant was author
lied by the stockholders in the
Churchill creamery at meeting
held three weeks ago.
The purchasers of the Fallon
plant agreed to take over the stock
that is on hand at market prices,
Manager Fred Branch announces.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
METHODIST CHURCH WILL
BUILD LARGE AUDITORIUM

At a meeting of the members of
the Methodist church last night 1t
was unanimously decided to proceed
with the erection of thirty-fiye
hundred dollar building to be used
for class rooms for the Sunday
school and a gymnasium, Reverend
P. e. Petersen states.
The building will be fifty feet
wide and sixty-four feet long. The
large hall will be forty feet wide
and sixty-four feet long. Six small
rooms will also be constructed. The
building will be erected on Williams
avenue.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL
RESTORE RATES OF 1920

On April 2sth the Southern Pa
cific will restore the fares to local
summer resorts that were in effect
during the summer of 1920 before
the 20 per cent increase was added
Tickets will be sold in California,
Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico
to mountain, valley and seashore re-
sorts on the Pacific.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
National Welfare Depends on Sound
Agriculture Says Secretary Wallace

not give the greatest yields per acre
but which did result in the highest
yield per man.
Early in the Twentieth century it
became evident the tide was turning
in agricultural production as related
to domestic consumption. Our per
capita production was showing un-
mistakable signs of decline. City
population was increasing far more
rapidly than rural population. In
the twenty years following 1900
urban and village population in
creased by 26,600,000, while rural
population increased but 100000.
In 1900 urban and village popula-
tion was forty-eight per cent of the
total, in 1920 il was sixty per cent.
During the ten years, 1910 to 1920,
the cities and villages of the North
has increased in population by twen-
ty-three per cent, while the increase
in the open country in the same
region was but 1.5 per cent.
With the coming of peace and the
inevitable period of reconstruction,
the unusual foreign demand for our
agricultural products subsided. The
seas were opened and South Ameri-
ca and Australia, which had been
bottled up were able to deliver their
accumulated surplus. For year
and half American agriculture has
been undergoing a very serious de-
preston due to the production of
more foodstuffs than we can sell at
fair price. Farm crops have been
selling for very much less than the
actual cost of production and very
much below the prices which pre-
vailed during the five-pre-war years;
also they have been selling for very
much less relatively than other basic
commodities. This is but another
way of saying that wages of farmers
are far lower now than the wages
of any other group. This has re-
suited in a condition which, if con-
tinued, will within relatively
short period impose a heavy burden
upon domestic consumers. The farm
er cannot continue to produce at a
loss. Decreased production will re-
suit in prices so high that city con-
sumers will complain bitterly.
New Policies
During the next twenty years,
either consciously or unconsciously
the United States will adopt fairly
definite policies as to industry and
agriculture. We are approaching
that period which comes in the life
Continued on page 81.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22

Free Tickets. Free Costumes CIV
en- away at the Rex and Palace the
aters Saturday and Sunday, March
25 and 26, for the grand reopening
and carnival mask ball at the
Naples Saturday, April 1st. 21-t1p
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22

The maximum for the 17th Ii
slightly wrong, due, to the reading
on the 18th being taken later thar
usual.
u. S. EXPERIMENT FARM
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22

Uncle Sans presence at the Ge-
noa Conference might embarrass
some of his reditors.-Detroit Jour
nal.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22

II seems that. potentially, almost
every Gael is a tornado.-Virginian
Pilot.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22

National welfare depends on
sound agriculture" states Secretary
of Agriculture Henry G. Wallace in
an article published in the Reno
Evening Gazette.
The article follows:
Most of the epoch-making ma
chinery, the plow, the corn planter,
the two-horse cultivator, the mower,
the reaper and the steam thresher,
we're invented prior to the Civil
War, but IL was not until after
1860 that these implements came
into wide use. They were especially
adapted to the great prairie country
where the farmer could turn a fur
row straight away for mile or
more. With the wooden plow, the
the sickle, and the fail week S
labor of one man was required to
produce twenty bushels of wheat on
an acre of land. With the i'm
plements the same amount of wheat
could be produced on the same
amount of land in one and one-half
days. Better machinery and larger
teams multiplied man labor by four.
The increase in the domestic and
foreign demands for food was one
of the most important factors in
stimulating agricultural production.
Our urban population, in 1860,
stood at sixteen per cent of the to-
tai; by 1900 1t had risen to forty
per cent of the total. Cheap food
and cheap transportation greatly
stimulated our industries and also
gave us access to foreign markets,
especially the countries of Western
Europe filed with large industrial
population and the cheapness of our
foodstuffs opened to US the markets
of the world.
AS a result of this extraordinary
combination of forces the produc-
tion of crops per capita of agricul-
tural workers was increased by
about fifty-eight per cent, and pro-
duction per capita of total popula-
tion increased about thirty-nine per
cent. We became the largest sur
plus producing country in the
world.
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
The Trouble Starts

Naturally such conditions made
for an extensive type of agriculture.
The richest large body of land in
the world was either free or very
cheap and the best farm machinery
in the world was to be had. Labor
was not plentiful, therefore, the
tendency for the individual to culti-
yate the maximum acreage and lean
toward a one-crop system which did
The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-03-22
WEATHER REPORT

or the week ending March 81
Evening star., 1922-08-22
FOR sALE-HOUSES.
Continued

BRAND-NEw. sIX-ROOM HOME: ANIL;
large hack yard to alley; price, $3.50: terms.
Address Box 162-L Star effce.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION: NEARLY NEW
7-noom modern house with garage near 10Th
and Columbia I'd. NV. Nice yard and Porches
Reasonable. No agents. Address Box ll5L,
Evening star., 1922-08-22
SUBURBAN PROPERTY

borhood: new semi-bungalow; ronms and
bsth; hallway pantry large cupboards: fur
mace heat: elec.: buift-ip garage cement
walks. Can be bought for $500 down and req
sonable monthly payments. Call Mr. WIN
TIERS Esanklin aa2
Evening star., 1922-08-22
COTTAGE CITY, MD.

A charming little 4-room and bath bunga
low: Thoroughly modern, including all city
i'm mprovemeuts; situated in a most desirable
locality on improved street; with attracfiTe
surroundings: having splendid lot, beautiful
lawn. shade trees fine garden: located just
on r. l. ave. extended: near boulevard and
two car lines: excellent condition " you
are looking for real bargain see inls at
once: owner leaving city: immediste posses
- No. 4D)
ONLY $550-EASY TERMS.
O.. B. ZANTZINGER.
91o 10th st. NV. Main o"'i-
Evening star., 1922-08-22
FOR RENT-wAREHoUsEs.

TWO WAREHOUSES;. BRICK, FOR SALE OR
spectiyely; electric elevator: 15lO-1516 Eek
ington. place me-. opposite b. &'o. freight
yard. Apply Room SOB. International bldg
Evening star., 1922-08-22
FOR sALE-APARTMENTs

SPLENDID NE. SECTION. OPPOSITE CITY
PARK: handsome structure. '"iXio'; - APIS.
annunI: price. $40 500. -
TIE JOSEPH SHAPIRO CO,
si4 New York ave. fr. h'Is.
THREE- STORY CORNER BUILDING. con
t,jniny ~ anartments ia rooms: gross rents.
80 500. Can BE- purchased for less lhah
seven times annual rent. Cash required. sio'-
roo Raildng VOL h"- need
BENTON, TRENHOLM &CO.
eoa 17t, &, Wv Main .,0c
Evening star., 1922-08-22
SELLING FAST.
LOTS! LOTS!
AURORA HILLS, VA.

80 II. wide, 135 Il. deep; note improve.
mepfs: Sewer to river: water under pressure;
electricity, graded streets; concrete sidewalks,
brick CUTTERS etc, car line and sta. on prop
erty; 15-minute service to I.ti, and Pa. ave
NV. Only 3 miles to White House: . good
auto roads. Prices. 1915 per lot Terms S25
cash and 81 per month. each lot; 30 fine
houses in subdivision. vIRGINIA's FINEST