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Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
METHODIST POTLUCK SUP
PER WILL BE FEATURE
OF ENTERTAINMENT
Meeting at Christian Church Last
Night Was Full of
Interest
Dist. Attorney Simon and Press
Editor Were Principal
Speakers

The Wednesday evening meetings
Of the Methodist church continue to
grow in interest. This week the
meeting will begin as usual with the
pot-luck supper in Social Hall, Chas.
Z. Sones of the city council being the
after-dinner speaker. Mr.. Sones vii!
talk on Getty Government" with
which subject he is most familiar.
having served for several years on
the board of city trustees.
There will be music, Volley ball
for the young people and other fea'
lures of interest. The public is cordi
ally invited to this and all of the
Wednesday night meetings of the
church. The hour announced for the
supper is $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
The Social Side
Society, Clubs Notes and Comment
By Mrs. Violette S. Campbell
Married ct Cotton

Married at Cotton
Two well known and popular 81
Centre young people were married a.
Cotton on Friday, the 18th, despite
the suggestion of the jinx attached
to that date. They were Miss Helen
Reardon and Mr. John Console, Jr.
The wedding, which was originally
planned to be church affair, was of
a quiet nature, owing to the recent
death of the groom's brother William
The bride is product Of the r
Centre city schools in her education
and is young lady Of many accomp-
lishments, her school graduation being
from the grammar grade. Mr. Con-
sole is young man Of energy and
with fine business record. The
young couple will settle down to
housekeeping in this city, where they
will be warmly congratulated by their
hosts of friends and welcomed %
ranks Of the newly
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17

American Legion hall, Thursday, Jan
uary, 10; and will address union
mass meeting at the Christian church
Ell Centro, Friday, January 20, at
1880 p. m.
, Col. Smith, whose Battalion was
known as the Battalion Of Death be-
cause Of the desperate position it oc-
cupied during the st. Mihiel drive
when it was surrounded by three
German regiments, will tell of his
experience overseas. He will give d
graphic account of the part the Bat
TALON took in the st. Mihiel drive at
Faye-en Haye when it advanced on
Hill No. 350-4 Les Quatre Chemins,
and fought its way through.
The meeting will be held under the
auspices of the California Anti-Sa-
loon league. Admission will be free
and all are invited to attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
POULTRY SPECIALIST is
COMING TO VALLEY
this WEEK

DR.. J. r. Beach, Of the University
Of California, Veterinary Science Di-
vision, specialist in poultry diseases,
will give lectures and demonstrations
On control and eradication of diseases
among Imperial Valley poultry floclis
January 10, 20 and u.
The principal diseases of poultry,
including gapes, roup, chicken pox,
tuberculosis and scaly leg, fowl chol-
era, white diarrhea of chicks, cocci-
diosis, brooder pnpeumonia, and
others have worked havoc annually
among the poultry Of Imperial Valley
for many years, without any cam
pagns of control or eradication be.
ing undertaken. Success in poultry
raising is impossible to attain with
out fundamental knowledge of the
symptoms Of the more common dis
eases, and the methods of treating
poultry for the same.
The highly contagious nature OF
such fowl diseases as roup, chicken
poX, and others makes it necessary
that flock owners should make caro-
full study of the problems involved.
Quick recognition of any disease AMI
speedy treatment will often save an
entire flock.
Of course, it is more desirable to
prevent such diseases from occurring
but this IS usually a more difficult
thing to do than is generally recog
nized.
DR.. Beach in his lectures and tem~
onstrations will explain in fullest de-
tail the symptoms of all the poultry
diseases, and will demonstrate the
most successful methods of prevent
ing or eradicating them.
Times, dates and places of meet
ings will be announced in this paper
within the next two or three days,
or can be had from the Agricultural
Extension Service, FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
Celebrates It's
Second Birthday

The Community church at Imperial
celebrated it's second birthday Sun
day morning at the. usual place Of
worship. Oscar Sweeney of this
city delivered the anniversary ser
mon. There was special music and
other enjoyable features which all
thoroughly enjoyed.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
COLONEL D. MORGAN SMITH
COMES TO Ell CENTRIC

Col. Dan Morgan Smith, leader of
the 1st Battalion, 35Sth Infantry,
goth Division, A. E. F., will deliver
number of stirring lectures in the
Imperial valley during the week be-
ginning January 16. He will speak
in Calexico, M. E. church, Monday,
January 16; Brawley, high school
auditorium, Tuesday, January II;
Holtville, high school auditorium,
Wednesday, January 18; Imperial,
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
Open Meeting of
EiStnrv Section

Open Meeting of
History Section
The History Section Of the Ten
Thousand Club which has been pop
ular this winter under the leader
ship Of Mrs. William Fleming, held
an open meeting yesterday after
noon at the Chamber of Commerce
offices.
Professor Templeton Of the hiSh
school faculty delivered a mastery
address on "Washington Conferences
which was listened to by the large
group of cluJ women with marked
attention.
The speaker gave most coprehen-
sive resume Of the Conference, quot
ing copiously from speeches OF Sec"
rotary Hughes, El'iand, Balfour kato
and others. The program OF reduc-
ton of Armament presented at the
opening Of the Conference by Se@-
retary Hughes was detailed and It's
reception by the representatives OF
other nations was commented upon.
BRAND Of France was the only
Premier sitting at the Council Table.
His great speech which stirred the
Council members to the depths was
pronounced a classic in statesmen
ship oratory by Prof. Templeton,
who also commented on the fact that
when the statesman orator return
ed to his own country, he discovered
that his own people were ready to re
pudate him. In like manner, Wood
row Wilson who had such a large
part at the Peace Conference assem-
bly, in France after the World War,
returned to find himself repudiated
By the Congress of the United States
In both instances, politics partisan
politics was the cause.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
CITY TAX PAYERS
ASSOCIATION is
ORGANIZED
Executive Committee Elects Officers
for Coming Year and Perfects Plan
or Constructive Work

The Ell Centro Taxpayers Associa-
tion was duly organized at well
attended meeting Saturday night.
Officers for the organization were
elected by the "a members of the ex-
ecutive committee who were appoint
ed at the preliminary meeting last
week. The active business of the as
sociation will be conducted by its ex-
ecutive board.
J j. Simmons of the Imperial Val
ley Title Company was elected chair
man and Walter l. Stone, secretary
of the organization.
1t was decided to form five stand
ing committees which will be: finance
membership, law and elections, puo-
licity and public meetings.
The membership committee was
named as follows: J. G.. Hamilton,
B. T. Cox and T. C. Jones. The other
committees will be filled upon the
nominations of q committee appoint
cd for this purpose, the personnel of
which is Robert G. Hill, A. NJ. Buck
lin and Mr.. Orrick.
The chairman, J. J. Simmons, says
that the work of the new organiza-
ton will be directed along construc-
tive lines and that there is no in
tention of harrassing or unduly crit
icising officials in charge Of the
city's business. The law and elections
committee will look carefully into
the ordinances and other statutes
under which the municipality is gov
erned, to learn the exact rights CT
such organizations before any step is
taken. 1t is the hope of its pro
moters that the organization may
work in harmony with those WHO
serve the city in official capacity to
the advantage both Of taxpayers and
officials.
Of course it is the primary purpose
to keep taxes down as low as is con
sistent with good government, to pre-
vent waste of public funds if any
waste there be, and to study all
bond propositions that may be under
consideration or which are proposed
by city authorities.
Earnestness and enthusiasm pre-
vailed at the Saturday night meet
ing and both tht chairman and secre-
tary believes that the Ell Centro Tax
payers Association will serve very
vital purpose during the era of de-
velopment which is approaching. A
minimum of 81 was fixed as the
membership fee. The executive com.
mittee will meet at least once each
month, probably oftener during the
period of construction An effort will
be made to have the membership roll
include every taxpayer within the
city limits.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
Colorado Daily Guage

YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 17.-Mean daily
guage heights in feet and mean dis
charge in second feet of the Colorado
river at Yuma, Arizona, for the week
ending January 13, 1922.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17
FERGUSON C0MPLlMENTED

Chief of the 2ire Department G..
F. Ferguson, is receiving many comp
limentary letters from chiefs of de-
partments in other cities on his
scheme of fire prevention in FL Cen
tro, the story about which was
printed in the Press a week ago. The
chief of the Bremerton, Washington
fire department wants Ferguson's
system complete and the chief of the
Yuma department wants all the in
formation possible
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17

1t is estimated that nearly 80 per
cent of the couples who married in
Great Britain during the stress and
excitement of the early days of the
war, have been divorced or are now
seeking legal separation.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17

There are now two thousand pri-
mary schools in Slovakia, three or
four normal schools and one universi-
ty. Before the new Czecho- -Slovak
Republic was formed the illiteracy in
Slovakia was eighty per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17

Sigrid Undset, novelist, is consid-
cred the foremost Scandinavian writer
of today.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-17

The many friends of Mrs. J. NJ
Hodge will be grieved to learn that
she is not we'll. Mrs. Hodge has
given such constant service to the
community that her health has brok-
en- and she is compelled to quit for
awhile. All hope she may speedily
recover her lost strength.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

Men, too, are slowly getting
misunderstanding tight starched
choker-collars, painful shoes and
plug hats that fit the head like
iron hoops.
Hygienists believe American wo-
men will be heal,h-wise enough to
keep their present comfortable way
OF dressing Also, they are cam
paigning to drive some Of the same
common sense into men.
Men, say the hygienists, should
copy the women and adopt clothing
that ventilates the body. This j,
especially advisable in summertime
10 permit quick evaporation OF pois
onous perspiratino.
The average person is haunted b,
a fear OF taking cold.'
How about the dangers OF tax
ing heat1
You have noticed in the movies
that the savages dress loosely, s,
the air gets easily to all parts o
their skin, That probably is tn,
chief reason they are as hard a
nails and as healthy as younl
wildcats.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
EDITORIAL
OF THE DAY



Nearly 900 boys and girls in the
country are enrolled as members of
boys and girls clubs The work done
by these various clubs is of such u
character as TO have tremendous in.
fluence upon these boys and girls. II
will be the means of making many Of
the boys excellent farmers and the girls
splendid home-makers. The opportunity
TO get vocational education through the
rural schools is so limited that the club
and other extension worR has a large
potential value.
According to a report of the Depart
ment of agriculture, 2O5, 600 club boys
and girls who reported results of their
work produced $500 600 worth of prod
ucts. including pigs, calves, poultry. veg.
etables and fruits in 1920. 1t is not
the amount Of money these young peo-
pie have made that has the great value,
but it is teaching them to think. 10
study. to plan, and above all creating
a desire TO do their work well. Too
much emphasis cannot be placed upon
the Importance of the work done by
the United States department of agri-
culture in assisting the boys and girls
in the production of farm products. 1t
is an extension service that will eX
press itself forcefully in the years &c
come.-Hoards Dairyman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

there would be majority rule. As long
as a family consists of two then one
of the partners must be senior and
the other junlor-they must agree
which shall possess the deciding vote
or there is no real peace"
Just then Jacks cap appeared over
the top of a distant bunker.
"The poor boy hasn't had much peace
the last year said to Me. He has
had happiness and excitement. And
whenever he's been worried his wife has
tried TO substitute more happiness and
more excitement for the peace he need.
ed. And where has our married life
come out?"
l answered my own question in a
single word:
'Stale.mate?"
(TO be cOntinued)
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
THE REFEREE


Landlords viii be thoughtful when
they read +. W. Dodge company's re-
port that contracts for 1852 $50, 900
worth of buildings We're placed during
May in 27 northeastern states.
About $141 100000 Of this goes for
home.building.
The big building boom is rapidly solv-
ing the housing problem. When sup
ply catches up with demand, and then
passes it. rents will tumble.
Like most problems. high rents are
being solved by evolution-slow natn-
raj processes. Little was accomplished
by the wave OF Big Talk against high
rcnts. Study this principle. 1t is the
key to most of mans activities.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
BE COMFORTABLE

Edison. the inventor, says the
chief reason he can work Is hours
a day without getting rundown
is because he keeps his body healthy
by never wearing tight fitting
clothes.
Edison wears baggy suits and
loose collars. He never wears
tight shoes, belt or anything that
would interfere with the circulation
OF blood through his arteries.
In other words, he doesn't saw
cross-grain on nature. Maybe ma
ture intended the human animal TO
wear clothes, maybe not. Anyway,
she certainly never intended us to
wear garments that fit like the cas-
ing OF a sausage.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

A bachelor is man who had
auto when he was young.
All little boys who play in mud don't
become politicians
IT SOUNDS FUNNY BUT THE
MEXICAN TROUBLE is HOTTEST
IN TOBASCO.
A man in love will do anything. but
he usually does nothing.
Moving all holidays up one day
would keep them out of bad weather.
What's In name? \ Georgia
girl named Lota Cheek has won
national beauty contest.
Only thing funnier than a man who
can't spit is woman who can.
a little cussing now and then is
relished by the best of men.
Soon after robbers school was
bIoheH up III inlcaBO an umplTe5
school opened in Philadelphia.
TIE WORLD GETS BETTER ONE
NEW MOVIE DOESN'T END WITH
I A KISS.
. II you are well bred, in shooting
yourself and wife you will always shoot
yourself first.
Most men want a heavyweight purse
for lightweight fight
They are selecting the 12 greatest
women In America. Any June groom
knows one.
The teams on the bottom are claim.
ing next years pennant.
Amundsen will spend several years
in the arctic regions. This training
will make him a good janitor.
| A flapper can't kiss the stamp on
letter without canceling IT,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
THE ARDMOREITE'S S
PLATFORM

Strict lal5 enforcement.
A population IN Ardmore Of
$4,000.
Better cooperation betl0een
the city Gald county.
Epery county road pGSSabIe
every day IN the gear.
Election of officers acho re-
gard duty abOre personal gain.
Consolidated schools IN the
rmdl districts.
Elimination of class fGctiOnG-
lism IN city and county.
DiUerSificatiOn of crops.
Pairing for every street IN
Ardmore.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
FORETELLING FUTURE

July will be a month Of big news
important happenings, also those
isss important events that are more
interesting. You can bank safely on
this. No witchcrait is involved in
the forecast. 1t will be the ineyit-
able reaction from the dull, un-
cventful conditions throughout the
world-whieh you have noticed
lately in reading the newspapers.
News has been running quiet"
very little breaking except rou-
tine events. So quiet, in fact, that
'ven editorial writers--who usually
lind no difficulty in saying much
about nothing--have been hard pu,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

deposits under the
ground. He believes
himself TO be the
only man in the
world who does so
by his peculiar
method.
1t is akin to that
of the divining rod.
He works with a
bottle of oil, a cork
and a silk string.
One end of the
string passes thru
the cork and into
the oil in the bottle.
The other end he
holds in his hand.
When he passes
over an oil pool he
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

4 negro philosopher, living on a
farm near Cleveland, Ohio, drew the
money end of a debate on this ques-
tion: (Which is the most valuable
an education or money!
The negro won the debate with this
line Of reasoning: Just go TO a
butcher shop, say. Gimme an educa'
tions worth o. pork chops-an' see
what you get
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
Swindles.

4 familiar old rat is dragged into the
open again Congressman Denison, ad
yocatlng his national blue sky law,
SAYS Americans lost s5OOOOO. 900 year
on worthless securities.
II is a deplorably large sum- and any
effort to lessen it is commendable.
However. based on the combined in
come OF all Americans in normal times
$500 900 900 Of plunder yearly means
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

to it, for something to comment
about.
When born newspaper men OBJ
serve the news running into
slump like this. they begin to sniff
the air. Instinct tells them that
wave OF big news is about to
break"
This instinct is so highly devel-
oped in some newspaper men that
occasionally, when things are dull
est, they suddenly get a Fremont
tion that something important is
on the verge of happening. Then
they sit tensely, watching the tele-
phone and telegraph.
News runs in waves. It's either
a feast or a famine. A long, dull
streak always is followed by such
a congested and sudden outburst of
events that the big problem be-
comes one of elimination-deter-
mining the 50 best bets out Of 100
good ones.
You have observed these waves
in the past--crime waves, suicide
waves, the recent wave OF broker
age house failures. etc.
The impending wave OF news may
arrive before July-any hour.
Mysterious undercurrents are
constantly at work all through
mans civilization and in what psy-
biologists call the social mind, or
composite brain OF the masses.
Life is an endless cycle OF action
and reaction.
The highest prices come just
before the panic and smash. The
dullest existence is on the eve of
| eXhiarating excitement. The black
est hour is just before dawn. The
hour Of contentment and bliss pre-
cedes monotony,
All this is part OF the wise
scheme of things-contrast-with
ont which, life would be dull and
/ boresome.
The ocean tide runs out just SO
lar, then it turns and starts back,
so on forever. SO, too, with the
mental and emotional tides that
pulsate through humanity. Conf
dence, like pride, cometh before the
iall. Discouragement is the fore
runner OF better things.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
OUR FIRST YEAR
By a Bride

''Peggyl. You don't want TO earn
your living on the stage. Nor any
where else," said Mrs. Herrod. Dear!
In your secret heart you want TO let
Jack have his way"
II admit l do.' My tears washed
the powder from my nose.
Then admit it to Jack, not to me.
IL won'tr' l replied. II want to
but | won't! That's how the modern
girl feels about lots of her emotions,
.srs. Herrod.
In marriage she wishes to be free
only as man is free. I don't mean
that she wants freedom for the sake
OF liberty and license.
"She reasons this way: When you
depend upon anyone, when a girl de-
pends entirely upon a man for bread
as well as love, she is not free.
"As long as a girl is ruled by love,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

that on the average, swimdlers get
,nly 81 out Of each $40 of our income.
We are swlndled out Of many times
that much by the trickery Of some So
called Legitimate" business transac'
tions. Interest centers ON the delib.
crate swinder because he doesn't give
us a run for our money
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

In wintertime, on streets of cities
that have snow and zero weather
you see ilappers wearing silk stock
ings and shirtwaists with N-necks
cut so low they expose the throat
to the cold weather and icy wind.
A man, with high starched col
lar and wooden muffler around his
neck, marvels that the flimsily-
dressed flappers fail to die OF pneu-
monia.
The reason is simple: The flap
per dresses loosely, allowing heI
blood to circulate freely enough to
keep her warm.
Her grandmother, in girlhood
had to bundle up like an Arctic
explorer to keep from catching
cold, largely because she cramped
her blood circulation and other
bodily functions by lacing herself
into a wasp-waist corset.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

Louis Ledbetter, formerly of Ard
more, was in the city Monday on bust
ness. Mr.. Ledbetter who has been prac-
ticing law at Idabel for the past few
years moved his office TO Oklahoma City
in January.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

POSITION OPEN to young man WIN WIN
nreferred and must have at least high
school education. Able to write fair let
fer. some experience in business an ad-
vantaee' but not essential. but references
reaaiirea ai, 2O-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

says he gets a distinct vibration
through the string.
He is operating at present in the
south Texas oil fields.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
OIL SMELLER IS THE
LATEST IN TEXAS

HOUSTON, Texas-Henry Zachary
IL an "oil smeller" by profession. That
is TO say, his business is locating oil
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

An undertaken Of this county ad
vertises coffns at "live and let live
prices. He is humorist TO say the
least, says the Watonga Republican.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20

A drug store porter in Ponca City
has been called 10 preach the gospel,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-20
TEN YEARS AGO
Happenings In Carter County and
ArdmOre as told by the files
Of the Ardmoreite.

Frazier Ellis of Davis announced to-
day for state senator from this district.
Murray county has the selection OF a
state senator this year.
Coy. X. a. Sneed Of Lawton. member
Of the board of regents for the Con-
federate home here, is an Ardmore visit
or today.
With Hanks and Dierdoff pitching
alright ball Ardmore took both ends Of
double header yesterday from Bon
ham,
The Carter county Farmers Institute
met at the court house yesterday and
elected Jeff L. Banks of Berwyn. dele
gate to the state meeting which will be
held in Saltwater
The Democratic. Socialist series Of de
bates at Lorena park is creating much
interest ami drawing large crowds every
night.