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The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22
INVENTS DEVICE FOR
 PILOT HOUSE CONTROL

George A. Harmon of the Harmon Ma chinery Company, of Cordoya, has re- gently installed a pilot house control device in the sea going gas boat Rolfe IL, that is marvel of perfec- tion.
 The entire plant was not only in stalled but designed and manufactured by Mr Harmon at the local shops of the Harmon Company. It is highly practical, mechanically perfect, and is also beautifully designed. MT. liar mons efforts merit the greatest com mendation.
 A patent has been applied for and it is predicted that the device will be universally used in the near future.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22
BOY SCOUT NEWS

The regular weekly meeting Of Troop 1 was held last night at the home of Assistant Scoutmaster John Rosswog. Five Scouts and two off cials were present.
 William O'Neill and Cecil Waln made application for admittance into the troop. Two Scouts were appoint ed to supervise the learning the ten derfoot test for the applicants.
 A combined boating party and hike is planned for this evening. All boys of Scout age and wishing to be mem bers are invited to attend the hike. It will not be an overnight camp. All wishing to go should be down at the lake at o'clock sharp.
 After a short business session the Scouts adjourned for the social part or the evening. Refreshments were served and games played. A good time was had by all.
 There are at present only eleven registered Scouts in the troop. we need more Scouts. All boys between 12 and IS years are asked to be pres ent at the next meeting which Will take place Friday night at 7:30, at l.. c. Pratt's office.
 M. O'LOUGHLEN, Scribe.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22
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B: Kilkenny has accepted a position
 J. M. Webster of Seattle, is busi- ness visitor to Cordova.
 Ten thousand knats and mosquitoes, also eight ball players turned out at the ball park for practice last night.
 SMile with Nile. The Shriners are due to leave Seattle on the next sail ing of the Admiral Evans, which is now to the westward.
 The Admiral Evans is due in Cor dova from the westward sometime on Monday.
 Wm. Canavan and Fred Schiller, fish stream wardens, were arrivals in town from the flats this morning.
 A party composed of Miss Shannon, Miss Dean, Mrs. Satterlee, Mrs. Safer and Mrs. Jas. Clarke, spent the after noon at the Humpback power station.
 There will be a train from Chitina and interior points tomorrow after noon. The next train north will leave after the arrival of the Alameda from the south
 Mrs. J..-V. Lydick and two sons, who have been visiting relatives at out side points, left Seattle on their re- turn trip home. Jack says that being a bachelor is not all that it is cracked up to be.
 Miss Helen Downing, who has spent the winter attending school outside, is returning home to CordOva on the Alameda, which left Seattle Wednes- day evening.
 Mrs. James Simkins and son Jimmie, who have been outside for some time are returning home on the Alameda and as a consequence the head of our local cable office is wearing broader smile than ever.
 Miss M. Eadie and Miss G. Stewart are passengers on the Alameda for Cordova and will be employed in the Cordova general hospital.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22

W. c. Douglas, wife and two chil- dren, Jean and William, are passen- gers on the Alameda for Kennecott, where MT. Douglas is superintendent of the Kennecott Copper Corporation. Miss l.. Hallett, of Kennecott, is returning passenger~en the Alameda after visiting outside points.
 G. W. Seay, an old time Alaskan, who has spent the past several years in the states, is returning to Alaska on the Alameda.
 c. P. Heitan who was formerly em- p1oyed by the Carlisle Packing Go. is staying at the Windsor until the ar rival of the next southbound steamer.
 ANCHORAGE WANTS GAME
 The following telegram was re- ceived last night by the baseball man. agement from Anchorage:
 Bring ball team any time before August f. will guarantee $500 for three game series. Anchorage team leaves for Fairbanks August 9.
 "J. E. ROBERTS" It has not been definitely decided at the time of going to press when the boys will leave, but they will try and make the grade about Monday night
 The plan is to leave here in small boat for the one game at Latouche, then to Seward where it will tie up until the Anchorage games are over. No word has been received from either Nenana or Fairbanks in re- sponse to the message sent from Cor dova.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22
The Alameda sailed north from Ket- chikan at 5:30 o'clock last night. :.

The Alameda sailed north from Ket- chikan at 5:30 o'clock last night. '.
 The government supply ship, Gold Star with large force of men, is ex- pected in Cordova the tenth of next month.
 Word was received on the last boat that baby girl had arrived at the home of Mrs Malloy in Seattle. Mrs. Malloy will be remembered as Miss Bessie White, who taught school here three years ago. The report stated that both she and the baby were doing nicely.
 Miss Frances, daughter of Post master and Mrs. c. H. Scheffler, cele- brated her fourth birthday yesterday afternoon by inviting several of her friends and playmates to party. Games. followed by refreshments were enjoyed by all. Her guests in cluded Harriet Hazelet, Elinor Phil lips, Pat Tom and Robbie" Dooley, Betty and Catherine Scheffler.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22

All Shriners in Cordova and vicinity are requested to meet at the office of Edward F. Medley on Sunday after noon at 9 o'clock. 21-2t
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22
BLACKSMITH WANTED

A first class blacksmith is wanted to go in partnership with the under signed in contract for excavating on the Eyak road.
 CHRIST GEORGE, Camp 9.
 21-3t.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22
FISH QUOTATIONS

KETCHIKAN, July 22.-Fish prices today: Halibut Sc and 4c.
 SEATTLE, July 22.-Fish prices to- dayj Halibut 12c; chickens, 6c
The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-22

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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

a new day and age and that young girls
are merely trying means to express
themselves in decent, sane manner
in keeping with the times.
"And right now | want to define a
Happier Lots of grown-ups think she
is girl with plenty of speed and some
control,> but that isn't so. A fapper is
just twentieth century woman who
is honorable and courageous. She pre-
fers doing what she does do in the
open, and not behind peoples backs.
eve stand-zall of us-for moral liv-
ing, but we lalso think that many of
the present-day conventions are obso-
lete and should be discarded"
Just now Miss Pursell and her CO.
horts are angry.
We've. been lied and lied about
they say. $50 please tell the world
that we're out in earnest this time and
mean to show it.
All of the two dozen members of the
society in Chicago agree with Miss
Pursell. They take the organization
and intent of their society seriously
and are pushing vigorously to extend
it to other cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

"A fig for convention, and fig for
dress, if one cares!"
That's the motto under which Chica-
so fappers have banded together into
the country's first Flappers' Protective
Society.
Miss Margaret Pursell is president
of the Chicago local, which is laying
plans for national representation in
the principal cities for the purpose OF
mutual protection Of flapper principles
Immediately after forming and get
ting under way their fapper organiza-
ton, Miss Pursell and her fiapper com
patriots started hot and heavy after
dissenting opinion launched from the
city's numerous Sunday pulpits against
them. They called on Mayor Thompson
in body and wrote letters to their
congressman demanding that antagon-
istic "fapper propaganda" be stopped.
"We're neither fools nor young in
discreets," says Miss Pursell, who, be-
sides being fapper president, also
holds title to the honor of "fippant
happer," the highest fapper recogni-
ton. "These silly people who are de-
nouncing US are making big mistake
They fail to comprehend that this is
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Henry J. Metten
Called by Death
Veteran Machinist Succumbs to Long
Illness at Home on Division
Street.

Henry J. Metten, aged Sc years, for
twenty years machinist at the Balm
Wagon company and later a machinist
at the Frank L.. Wells Machine Shop,
died Friday night at his home, 27I
Division street, after more than a
years illness from complication of
diseases. He was born in Kenosha,
October 80, 1865, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Metten, pioneer residents of
Kenosha, and had lived in this city
all of his life.
When young man. he entered the
employ, of the Balm Wagon company,
where he was a machinst for twenty
years. For the past seventeen years he
has been a machinist at the Frank L.
Wells company, where he held the es-
teen of his employers. At both indus
tries he had been known as an indus
trious and efficient workman.
Surviving the deceased arc his widow,
Mrs. Angeline Metten; three sons, ia
cob, Arthur and John Metteh, all of
Kenosha; and two daughters, Mrs. An
geline Feehrer Of Racine and Mrs,
Marie Smith Of Kenosha.
The funeral services will be held
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the
St. George church with interment fol-
lowing in the family plot in the St.
George cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Told Two Stories
of Cistern Murder
(By Associated Press Leased wire)

Waukesha, Wis.--Mrs. Frieda Zim-
norman told two conflicting stories
of the drowning of her two step
children in cistern and admitted that
she had had quarrel with their father
about them just a week before their
death, Coroner L. F. Lee testified to-
day in the trial of Mrs. Zimme rman,
charged with first degree murder in
connection with the deaths. "Mrs.
Zimmerman told me she was some dis
lance way from the children when they
fell in the cistern at Oconomowoc on
the day of the tragedy" the coroner
said. Later in the Jail, she said she
had held both of them, but was un-
able to hold on and they slipped into
the cistern."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
(By Roy Gibbons)

Chicago.-Harry L. palsey (right)
had twelve reasons for building q
S3OO,oOo apartment house here which
ne designed especially for families hav-
ing large numbers of children.
He was one of them and his brothers
and sisters constituted the remaining
eleven.
Dalsey today is a prosperous archi-
tect, but 20 years ago, when he was just
youngster, he remembers countless
landlords refusing his own parents a
place to rent merely because they had
a large family.
"Wait till 1 get big" Dalsey fire.
quently remarked during those days
"I'll them then"
His threat was intended for all land
lords in general.
"And now I am going to have my
revenge" he says.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

TIE '4id castle" which ne designed
and is erecting for both Glove and
spite" WILL have special 'perambuIator
garages" roof play gardens, rocking
horses, permanent see-saws and other
delights for his Juvenile tenants. And
what is more, Dalsey stipulates in the
lease that for every time Mr.. Stork
leaves one new baby thereTl be cash
bonus of $25 and double that amount
for twins.
The apartment house is going up in
an exclusive section of the town from
which children are usually barred.
"ThereIl be 80 fats in the place and
hope draw couples with at least
five children each," Dalsey says. "The
more the merrier. I just love kids.
They make place look human. hope
the neighbors boiler. It'll do 'em good.
I've waited 80 years to put this over
and now's my chance"
| Dalsey isn't married.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

terday in Tangku on the north side
of the river, where their demands to
convoy them to Mukden were fruitless,
no locomotives being available. Should
WI accede to the allied demands to
leave, he would have to move back
towards Peking as rail communication
to the east and north has been severed.
British Cruiser in Danger.
A tug conveying the commander of
the British cruiser Curlew to this city
yesterday came between the hostile
troops on river banks who were fir
ing continuously. The British gun
boat Narration was sent down river to
convey the tug.
Numbers of Manchuranian soldiers
we're discovered last night south of the
former German concession h ere e.
American and Chinese kuards armed
with a machine gun, were ready to
beat off any attempt at invasion but
the men proved quite docile and agreed
to lay down their arms if given food.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
WI ATTACKED
BY NEW REBEL
Successful in Northern
Campaign Now Faces
New Dissension.
ORDERED FROM PEKING
Allied Generals Order Chinese
Chieftain Out of Picking in
Keeping with Protocol.
(By Associated Press Leased Wire


(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
y Hankow-The Picking Hankow rail-
way north of Kwang Shut has been
cut and it is reported that Chao Ii,
military governor of the province of
Honan, has started hostilities against
the forces of WI Pei Flu.
Fighting was proceeding today at
Sing Yang Chow, one hundred miles
north of here and some occurred yes
terday at Cheng Chow.
The above dispatch would indicate
that WI, while successfully in his cam
paign against the Manchurian general,
Chang Tso-Lin in the vicinity Of Pc
king, has been attacked from the south.
Cheng Chow, the northern most point
mentioned in the dispatch, is in Honan
province, about one hundred miles
southwest of Picking on the Peking-
Hankow railway.
Chao III has been governor of
Honan since June 1916. He was born
in 1870 and educated in the Peiyang
military academy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Five KenOsha Girls an
Waukegan Man in Mo-
tor Mishap.
ONE KENOSHAN HUR'
Miss Anna Piehl. 16S Lyma
Ave, Receives Deep Cut
Over Eye.

Five Kenosha girls firted wit
death late Saturday evening while re
turning home from Round Lake on tt
McKune road, about three miles sout
of Waukegan. Andrew Carey, of WaU
kegan, escort, and driver of the auto
mobile in which the girls were beins
taken home, was slightly injured whe
the machine struck a culvert an
turned over hurting the occupants int
a ditch on the side of the road. Mis-
Anna Piehl, the only Kenoshan VIII
was seriously hurt, was struck by
piece of glass from the windshield an
received a severe cut over the left eyt
The other four Kenosha> girls wer
badly shaken up and for time it wa
feared that internal injuries woul
make the accident more serious.
passing automobile picked the part
.up and rushed them to the Memoria
hospital in Waukegan. Here a phys,
elan was called and after an invest
cation it was found that there wer
no serious injuries other than tn
cash on the head of Miss Piehl an
several minor cuts on the hands an.
arms of Andrew Carey.
Was Miraculous Escape.
The members of the party include,
the Misses Thelma and Edna Fred
erickson, 826 Erie street; Betty an,
Eva Fret, IT'S N. Lyman avenue; Mis-
Anna Piehl, 1853 n. Lyman avenue, anC
Andrew Carey, of Waukegan.
That the party did not receive more
serious injuries was regarded as truly
miraculous by the physician in at
tendance at Waukegan. He remarked
that there had been many similar ac
cidents which had cost the lives Of
several, and because there were NJ
fatalities in the accident Saturday
evening the girls may be seriously
thankful, he declared. The condition
of the injured people was such that
they were allowed to return to theil
homes Sunday morning.
The party had attended the opening
dance at the new pavilion at Rount
Lake and were returning to Kenoshs
just before. midnight when the acct
dent happened. 1t was not explained
how the accident occurred, but it wa:
said that it was probably due to the
abrupt change in the surface of thu
road near the bridge
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Former KenOsha Man
Dies i'm Milwaukee
Fred Krause, Former Well Known
Simmons Company Employee
Dies After Long Illness.

Fred Krause, aged Al years, former
resident of Kenosha and for years an
employee in the buffing room of the
Simmons company, died at the home
of his brother-in-law, William Krause
in Milwaukee this morning following
along illness from cancer. Mr.. Krause
had been taken i'll nearly year ago
and last December he left Kenosha to
Igo to Milwaukee to make his home.
He was born in Milwaukee but much
of his life was spent in Kenosha. He
is survived by his widow. Announce
ment Of the arrangements for the
funeral have not as yet been made,
but it will probably be held on Wed
nesday at Milwaukee and interment
will be there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Prisoners Shot
in Prison Mutiny
(By Associated Press Leased wire)


Columbia, S. C. Several convicts
in the South Carolina state peniten-
tiary were shot today by prison guards
in putting down mutiny, according to
Chief May of the city fire department
who was called upon to aid the prison
authorities. Chief May said that che
tween 10 and IL" prisoners were shot.
Il The fire chief said the disorder
started when>a group of prisoners re-
turning from lunch in the main dining
room attacked the guards who were
escorting them. The mutiny was put
down in short order he said.
Later information confirmed the re-
port that number of convicts had
been wounded but it was said that none
were fatally hurt, Between 800 and
400 prisoners were involved in the
attempted uprising, it was said.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Ordered Out of Picking.

Tien Tsin-General WuNPei Flu, who
came to Tien Tsin from Peking,in pur-l
suit of the Manchurian general Chang
Tso-Lin, was ordered yesterday by the
allied military commanders here to
leave the city as his presence was held
to be in violation of the 1901 protocol.
He refused to leave on the ground that
he was the acting governor of Chilli
province and would remain as long as
necessary for his purpose.
The bridges between this city and
Taku on the south side of the Hun
river were burned by the retreating
Chang Tso-Lin army. Two thousand
of Chang's soldiers were reported yes
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
WORKING HARDER.

Employment in the iron and steel
industry gained-5b per cent in March
says Bureau of Labor. This indicates
increasing labor productiveness, for
pig iron output increased 10 per cent
in March, while steel ingot production
gained 35 per cent.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
JOLIET HOTEL MAN
KILLS STENOGRAPHER
Robert S. McROberts Shoots His Form
er StenOgrapher and Then
Kills Himself.
lBv Associated Press Leased Wire.l

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.l
Joliet, Ill. = Robert S. McRoDerts,
prominent citizen and owner of the
Woodruff Inn, Joliet's largest hotel,
shot and killed Miss Mabel Kerwin,
formerly his secretary, and then killed
himself today. Miss Kerwin had been
employed by McRoberts for six years
but resigned few weeks ago. She
since had refused to return despite
numerous pleadings of her former en-
ployer,
False fringes and wigs were worn by
the, women Of Egypt 5000 wears ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
KING GOES TO BELGIUM.

London, Eng. King George and
Queen Mary with suite including
Field Marshal Earl Haig and Admiral
Lord Beatty, left today for Belgium
to be the guests of King Albert and
Queen Elizabeth for five days.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Another Negro
Lynched in Texas
(By Associated Press Leased wir,

Fort Worth, Tex. - The body of a
negro, Tom Cornish, brother of John
Cornish, one of the victims of the Kir-
vim mob Saturday morning was found
hanging to tree limb between Kirvin
and Fairfield this morning. Tom had
been making certain statements that
had led people to believe that he had
something to do with the assaulting
and numbering of 17-year-old Eula Aus
ley.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
ONE MAN DIES IN ToRNAD0.

(By Associated Press Leased Wire)
Ponca City, Okla. One person was
killed today. when a tornado struck
CERES, ID miles southwest of here.
The Christian church was demolished
and much damage was done to other
buildings. Several people are reported
injured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

One day last November in London,
100000 pieces of SCOT were found in
each cubic foot of air and the diane
ter of each piece was one of twenty
five thousandths of an inch.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

The surgeon fish of the West In
dies extracts blood from those who
handle it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

Omaha, Neb.-5ack Britton, welter-
weight champion, won a referees de-
cision over Cowboy Padgett of Colo
RADIO, in 10 rounds.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11

While the boosters were authorized
as statesmen by the Wisconsin laws
they did not appear in their communi-
ties as statesmen, but simply acted as
advisors in financial matters to the
people of the community.
The 5000 or more investors. in Wis
consin have purchased more than 50
100000 in stock. in the two oil com
panies through the efforts of the
boosters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-26
WEATHER.
(Continued from PaEe oneJ

CONTINUED from Page oneJ
during the past twenty four hours was
So, which occurred at 2;45 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. and the lowest was
81 at o'clock this morning. This
was an average of degree below nor
NAL
While no rain has fallen at Topeka
and over eastern Kansas during the
past twenty-four hours, It was raining
in western Kansas this morning.
Goodland. which reported a fail of IA
OF an inch up to O'Clock this morn
ing, is getting wetter. and the rain
continues at several western Kansas
towns. This is the same spell that is
threatening to move on the Pageant
of Progress tomorrow.
The highest temperature in Kan
sas during the past twenty-four hours
was 20 at Sedan, and the lowest was
50 at Dresden. The highest in the
United States was 81 at Tampa, Fla,
and Corpus Christi, Tex, and the low
est was IS at Duluth. Mimi. 1t was
showing this morning in South Da-
kota and Montana but no cold wave
is due here.
The highest temperature ever re-
corded here on this date was IS in
1913, ana the lowest was IS in 1907.
At 2 o'clock today the wind was
blowing from the east at the rate of
IA miles an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-26
NEW YORK. srOCK MARKET

Wall Street New York, April 26.-STOCk
Oils comprised fully so per cent of the
$4,000 shares traded in during the first
hour There were many substantial &C
cessions to the early advance in this group.
Standard Oil of New Jersey and California
Pacific oils, California Petroleum, Hous-
ton associated and Pierce preferred rose
1 to 5 points. Among rails, steels, equip
ments and motors. further selling was in
evidence. Louisville & Nashville fell Ia
points and the prominent trans-continental
grangers and coalers, Lehigh Valley ex-
cepted, were fraetiona1ly lower. Local
utilities reacted sharply, especially Man
haitian elevated and consolidated and
Brooklyn union gas. Mercantile marine
common and preferred, industrial alcohol,
Western Union, Federal mining and smelt-
ing preferred and National enameling
strong. Call money opened at $40 per cent.
The tone of the stock market was ir-
regular at the opening of todays session.
Issues of the same description showed con-
fusing gains and losses. The cheaper do
nestle oils continued TO strengthen on
further advances in prices of refined pro-
ducts but foreign issues, notably Mexican
petroleum, were heavy. BarnsdaIl AZ
soon rose 253 points. COsden making a
similar gain. Columbia gas advanced ia
points and Chicago & Eastern Illinois pre-
ferred represented the minor rails, gaining
one point United States steel was firm
but kindred shares as well as equipments,
motors and their accessories, eased mod
eratPlV.