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New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-02-24
DENUDED TURKEY "CAME TO"
chIoroformed Bird, Minus Feathers,
Very Much Alive When the An =
esthetic. Had Worn"Off. 49,

One Of New Jerseys most con-
sentative towns is consumed: with
mirth, and the objects Of said mirth
are a young, kind-hearted bride and
bridegroom. The bridegroom, 1t ap-
pears, took a chance on a turkey that
was being ratified off in his New York
Office and a few days later was notified
that he had won the pompous bird.
Highly delighted, he gave his address
and ordered the prize sent out to his
New Jersey home.
In the course Of time the bird ar
rived at it's destination, and arrived,
much to the surprise Of the bride and
alive, remarks the New York Sun. AS
their experience in executing birds was
nil and the bride couldn't bear to
have it's pretty head chopped off"
they decided to chloroform it. Con-
s%equently, the next night, when the
bridegroom got home from the office,
the anesthetic was administered son a
lovely lace handkerchief and then the
bird was plucked and put into the
ice box. About 9 o'clock that night
the peace and quiet around the library
lamp were disturbed by strange noises
in the kitchen.
Hand In hand the newlyweds bravely
descended upon the kitchen expecting
to find the eyer-looked-for burglar.
But no burglar was to be seen. L0-
eating the noise in the direction Of the
ice box the brave young bridegroom
swung open the doors and out stepped
a very naked turkey. After a few
rounds Of the kitchen with consider
able Tapping Of wings he began pick
ing up the crumbs on the floor. The
bride and bridegroom looked at each
other in horror and fled from the
kitchen. An hour OF so later the
services Of a neighbor were called
upon and this time the turkey was an
esthetized with an Ak.
New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-02-24
Show Aero Development.

A remarkable collection of pictures,
which will be more highly priced as
years go by, is the series of American
aeronautical photographs which ex-
Major Ernest Jones, army air service,
has gathered during his fifteen years
in this work. They the develop
ment OF aeronautics, particularly avia-
ton, from 1863 to 1917. The 1,8OO
photographs visualize the successive
steps; made by the Wright brothers,
Curtiss, Thomas, Wittemann n other
pioneers in. this country. Some Of these
are the only pictures in existence OF
certain machines and events 1T Is
probable" say United States Air Ser
vice, "that this is the most complete
collection. Of air photographs tn Amer
ica."
New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-02-24
Llovd Georges Jokes on Himself.

Lloyd Georges Jokes on Himself.
What has saved Lloyd George is his
sense. of humor. He knows how to
laugh at himself. His favorite story
now a chestnut-was of the man whe
saved a drowning person In the
Thames and explained, "Yes-]
jumped in after him-got him by the
neck-turned him over and found he
wasn't Lloyd George-and then
pulled him out" His next favorite is
of the old Welsh farmer who walked
many miles in Criccieth, where Lloyd
George lives. I'm going to have a
look at David" said this admirer.
"David's now a great man." "Why
yes. he gets $4,000 a year" answered
his friend. The farmer looked
thoughtfully and replied-"it's not the
$4,000 a year that matters. Our Da'
vid lives near the pile."-P. w. Wilson
in Worlds Work.
New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-02-24
Bird Strictly in Fashion.

Thelma's folks had been taking her
to vaudeville quite a bit and the
youngster enjoyed the dancing acts
especially.
One day she was out in the back
ward playing with her dolls when she
suddenly noticed a sparrow taking it's
daily dust bath-ruftiing out its feath-
ers and shaking out the dust.
Thelma came running in, her eyes
sparkling with fun, saying, ooh, mann
ma. look at that little bird out there
in the yard, shimmying in the dust"
New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-02-24
How Bio was rtY.
81 don't know whether to accept tn:

81 don't know whether to accept this
testimonial or not" unused the hair
restOrer man.
whats the matter with it," de-
manded the advertising manager
""Well," explained the boss, s"the
mar writes: I used to have three bald
spots on the top of my head. but since
using one bottle of your hair %restorer
I have only one.'' STRAY Stories.
New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-02-24

JOSEPH j. SPERL,
Com. LIST. District.
Ohm M. JOHNSON,
Com. End District.
H. j. MEYER,
Com. 3rd District.
C.. L. PALMER,
Com. 4th. District.
HERMAN POLKOW,
Com. 9Th District.
New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1922-02-24

A mans work is. so often we'll done
because he does it himself.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-22

that fell until winter A carload of
aid from central Kansas saved hun
dred lives in Fountain county that
year.
When the spring of 1893 opened,
Barringer looked ten years older than
he looked the spring before.
1t was his habit to sit on the front
porch of the deserted hotel and look
across the prairies to the southwest
and watch the breaking clouds scatter
into the blue of the twilight He could
see the empty water tower silhOuetted
against sky. The frame buildings that
rose in the boom days had all been
moved away. He sat and waited, hop
ing fondly for the realization of
dream which he feared could never
come true.
There were days when the postmas-
ter's four-year-old child sat with him.
The old man and the child sat thus
one evening when the old man sighed:
IF it would only rain, there would be
half crop yet If it would only rain !"
The child heard him and sighed imi-
tatively: ''Yes, if It would only rain
what is rain, Mr.. Barringer?" He
looked at the child blankly and sat
for a long time In silence. When he
arose he did not even have a pretense
of hope. He grew respondent from
that hour, and a sort of hypochondria
seized him.
That fall when the winds piled the
sand in the railroad "cuts" and the
prairie was as hard and barren as the
ground around a cabin door, Barrn-
gers daughter died of fever. The old
man seemed little moved by sorrow.
That winter the postmaster left The
office was discontinued. The county
commissioners tried to get Barringer
to leave. He would not be persuaded
to go. The county commissioners were
not insistent. 1t gave one of them an
excuse for drawing four dollars a day
from the county treasury; he rode
from Maize to Aqua Pura every day
with supplies for Barringer.
The old man cooked, ate, and slept
in the Office of the hotel Day after
day he put on his Overcoat in the win
ter and made the rounds of the vacant
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-22

NIGER held on and lived rent free, in
lhe two front rooms of the barn of
hotel His daughter, Mary, frail,
tanned, hOllow-eyed and withered by
the droughts lived with him.
In 1890 the hot winds came again in
the summer and long and steady they
blew, blighting everything. There were
only five hundred people in Fountain
county that year, and they lived on
the taxes from the railroad that
crossed the county. Families were put
on the poor list without disgrace-it
was almost mark of political distinc-
tion-and in the little town many de-
vices were in vogue to distribute the
county funds during the winter
There was no rain that winter and
the snow was hard and dry. Cattle on
the range suffered for water and died
by the thousands. A procession from
the little town started eastward early
in the spring. White-canopied wagons,
sought the rising sun.
Christmas eve, 1891, the entire vii
ldSe, ullccu SOulS III dll, dSScluDlcu ut
Barrlnger's house. He was hopeful,
even cheerful. and talked bitterly of
what zone good crop" would do for
the country although there were no
farmers left to plant it, even if nature
had been harboring a smile for the
dreary land The year that followed
that Christmas promised much There
were spring rains, and in May the
brown grass and the scattered patches
of wheat grew green and fair to see.
Barringer freshened up perceptibly.
He sent an account of his Indebtedness
on home-ruled MANILA paper-to his
creditors in the East, and faithfully
assured them that he would remit all
he owed in the fall. A few wanderers
struggled into Fountain county, lured
by the green fields and running brooks.
The gray prairie wolf gave up the dug
out to human occupants Lights in the
prairie cabins twinkled back hope to
the stars. Before June there were
thousand people in Fountain county.
Aqua Pura's business houses seemed
to liven up. There was Fourth of
July celebration in town. But the
rain that spoiled the advertised fire
works in the evening" was the last
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-22

night he walked to the red clay grade
of the uncompleted "Air Line" and
looked over the dead level stretches
of prairie. He would have gone away,
but something held him to the town.
There he had risked all. Here, per-
haps, in his warped fancy, he hoped
to regain all. He had written so often,
"Times will be better In the spring."
that it was part of his confession of
faith-that and zone good crop will
bring the country around all right"
This was written with red clay in the
old mans nervous hand on the side
of the hotel, on the faded signs, on
the deserted inner walls of the stores
in fact, everywhere in Aqua Pura.
The wind told on him; it withered
him and Slapped his energy.
One morning he awoke and a strange
sound greeted his ears. There was a
gentle tapping in the building and a
roar that was not the guffaw of the
wind. He rushed for the door. He
saw the rain, and bareheaded he ran
" lhC VI llC ollCClS NueIe IL
was pouring down. The messenger
from Maize with the days supplies
found him standing there, vacantly,
almost thoughtfully, looking up, the
rain dripping from his grizzled head,
and rivulets of water trickling about
his shoes.
Hello, Uncle Dick" said the mes
senger. Enjoying the prospect?
Rivers risin'; better come back with
me-"
But the old man only answered,
johnson? Not here Nickols7 Not
here Bemis? Not herel Bradley?
Not here Hicks? Not herel And
Barringer? Herel And now Gods
moved the rain belt west. Moved so
far west that there's hope for Lazarus
to get irrigation from Abraham"
And with this the old man went into
the house. There, when the five DAYS
rain had ceased, and when the great
river that flooded the barren plain had
shrunk, the rescuing party, coming from
Maize, found him. Beside his bed
were his balanced books and his legal
papers In his dead eyes were a thou
sand dreams.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-22

store buildings. He walked up and
down in the little paths through the
brown weeds in the deserted streets,
all day long, talking to himself. At
night when the prairie wind ratified
through the empty building, blowing
snow and sand down the halls, and in
little drifts upon the broken stairs, the
old mans lamp was seen by struggling
travellers burning far into the night
He told his daily visitors that he was
keeping his books.
Thus the winter passed. The grass
came with the light mist OF March.
BY May it had lost it's color BY June
1t was brown, and the hot winds
came again in August, curving the
warped boards little deeper on the
floor Of the hotel porch. Herders and
travellers, struggling back to the green
country, saw him sitting there at twi-
light, looking toward the southwest, a
grizzled, unkempt old man, with a
shifting light in his eye. To such as
spoke to him he always made the
same speech: Eyes, it looks like rain
but 1t can't rain. The rain has gone
dry here. They say it rained at
Hutchinson, maybe so, | doubt It,
There Is no God west of Newton. He
dried up in 80. They talk irrigation.
That's an old story in hell. Where's
Johnson? Not here Where's Nickols?
Not here Bemis? Not here! Brad
ley? Not here! Hicks? Not here!
Where's handsome Dick Barringer,
Hon. Richard Barringer? Here! Here
he is, holding down hot brick in
cooling room Of hell! Yes, it does
look like rain, doesn't it?"
Cattle roamed the streets in the
early spring, but the stumbling of the
animals upon the broken walks, did
not disturb him, and the winds and
the drouth soon drove them away.
The messenger with provisions came
every morning. The summer with its
awful heat, began to glow. The light
ming and the thunder joked insolently
in the distance at noon; and the stars
in the deep, dry blue looked down and
Knocked the old mans prayers as he
sat, at night, on his rickety sentry box.
He tottered through the deserted
stores calling his roll. Night efter
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-22
A BOYS POINT OF VIEW

Aunts will be lIissers.
In uncles there is money.
All the world SOLIDS boy.
There's no accounting for girls.
Life is one whipping after another.
A watchers place l. under the sofa.
Castor oil casts its errors before 1t.
A haunted house Is thrill forever.
Luxury, thy name is gsing barefoot
Blots will happen in tn, best of let
ers.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-22
The Story Of
Aqua Pura
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
Copyright, 1922, by the Macmillan Co.

.EOPLE who write about Kansas,
as rule, write ignorantly, and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
A. n. s. WINS

Alexandria High School opened up
its winning streak against the base
ball team of Leesburg High School
Saturday, defeating the Loudoun
County boys by the score Of 7 to >.
Dreifus pitched for the Alexandrians
and allowed the opposing team only
six scattering bingles. while the local
boys slammed the Leesburg pitcher
for eight hits, every man on the team
save the catcher getting one.
Tullock says that his team has
found itself and that the fans may be
sure Of seeing good games whenever
the High School is one of the con-
testantS. Tech High of Washington
will try it's luck against the locals
on Baggetts field tomorrow after
noon at $3.50.
The teams line up follows:
AleXandria-DySon, If; Rector, Oh;
Crump, If; Dreifus, p; Petit, ID;
West, 3b; Ramage, IS; Watkins, cf;
Lawler, c.
Leesburg-Drake, W, If; Galleher,
n; Litus, B., IS; Litus, J., 3b; Drake,
l.. 10; Tressle, c; Johnson, %; Titus,
c.. Of; Atwell, IF.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
Del Ray Wins

The Del Ray A. c defeated the
strong Palace A. c. of Washington,
Sunday by the score of q to i. The
pitching of Butler, the Del Rays ace
and the all around fielding and hit
ting Of Corl, SUunkel, and Hodges,
were the features. Next Sunday the
Del Ray lads will take on the Harlem
A. c Of Washington, ut Del Ray.
The Del Ray team has three wins out
of as many starts safely tucked
away in the old records. having let
the Yankee A. c. down - to ,. The
Spartan A. c. % TO ., and the Palace
A c., II to /. Del Ray is smuggling
the pill, A runs in 3 games and that
proves that.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
Dreadnaughts Lose
The Local Club Loses in Its Third
Game to the QuanticO Marines

The Local (lub Loses IN IT'S litFu
Game to the QuanticO Marines
The Germans couldn't and the
Dreadnaughts didn't. that's all The
most spectacular and exciting game
Of baseball ever played in this sec
ton by semi professional players
was staged in the Dreadnaught Park
Yesterday when the "Devil Dogs" of
Quantico trimmed the locals by the
score of ; to 4. The locals took q
lead Of two runs in the early part OF
the game but this was overcome in
the 5th inning by 4 series Of costly
errors and bad throws.
The locals with one exception
played below par. Alexander the
star left fielder, played perfect
game in the field and hit to every
section of the lot.
From the way the "D's" perform
ed it is only short Of miracle the
game wasn't put on ice for the yisi-
tors i'm the early sessions of the fray.
But as it was q bitterly contested
game from start to finish, every one
was satisfied and attributed the To-
coils defeat to the lack of practice,
The Marines represent one Of the
largest military posts of the country
and have an aggregation that COM
pose the most formidable OF Uncle
Sans athletes. The fans may expect
another visit Of Gen. Lejune's devil
dogs latter in the season and il is
hoped Coach Hayden will have his
team down to fighting weight.
Next Saturday at p. m, the
Dreadnaughts meet the Brookmonts
in their first Saturday game of the
season.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
A Good Picture

Just because a girl prefers silk
10 cotton, you call her hayward"
Indignantly says Anna Hedder 10 her
stern father in 4 powerful dramatic
scene in why Girls Leave Home. "
the stirring heart interest photoplav
which comes to the Idle Hour The
arte tomorrow and i'm that sentence
as revealed but one reason, and there
are many others, why many daugh-
t"rS have left their family roofs and
struck out for themselves.
This unusual photodrama reveals
with the clearneSS of Searchliqht
not only the reasons WHY Girls
Leave Home but is also points in q
direct manner to a solution Ct the
problem which many girls and their
parents are called upon to face at
some time or another.
PRESENTED by Warner Bros. who
are responsible for many great
screen hits, such as "My Four Years
m Germany and others. "Whv
(ririS Leave Home" is heralded as
33emg one Of the biggest screen pro-
auctions OF the current season. II
is not only big from a purely phvsi-
'"t standpoint but is big i'm theme.
=. staged under the direction of vii
Lam ). Nigh and produced by Harry
fKaPt with a cast headed by Anna o.
Wilson and n most remarkable com
pany OF stellar photoplayers: everv-
.Hi"g 10 make the picture a remark
able success has been done Tbo
@Ie,leS themselves are mavels of
realism whether +L.. VI
humble "parlor" Of the aver5go III ,,,g
or the gorgeous ballroom, Sc ;'o' Ie
PalaiS DeS Arts. the latter osotY '' =;
an accurate reproduction of Co..
Gus New York cabaret and ; !, u
claimed cost thousands of doi,ors l.. =
erect. ''''S 10
Another novel point, "Wbv cir,.
Leave Home is without the cor,. ,,aS
ttonal love story, but the interas.' :.
none the less compelling -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
ROSEBUDS WIN

Before a large crowd yesterday the
Rosebuds defeated the Warwick A.
c., by the score Of 10 to 4. Smith,
the junior star pitcher of the city,
retired l 4of the visitors by way of
the strike out.
The Rosebuds will try their hands
with the invincible X X. X. next
Sunday on the North Alfred street
diamonds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
CRYSTALS LOSE

In the opening game yesterday the
Crystal Athletic Club was showed
under by the Triangle Athletic Clubs
team Of Washington. The score was
IS TO II. Snoot pitched good ball
for the losers but the fielders did not
support him. This was the chief rea-
son for defeat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Mr.. and Mrs. George Newman an
nounee the arrival of fine zen
pound boy born this morning at her
nome in Queen street Both mother
and baby are doing nicely.
The Allison W. c. T. T., will hold
its regular meeting with Mrs.
Strauss, go South Washington
street. this evening at T:45 o'clock.
Members are urged to be present.
The board of police commissioners
will hold called meeting tonight at
chosen to fill vacancy on the force.
A still having capacity of fiji
teen gallons was captured yeSter-
day afternoon at house on lower
Wolff street by Sergt. W. J. Wilkin-
son and Policeman Magner. The po-
lice are endeayoring to find the
owner.
Two white men We're held for the
action Of ;he grand jury today in the
police court for alleged infraction of
th4 prohibition law. Each furnished
hond in the sum of $500.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester A Gwinn
are in New Orleans attending the
convention Of the Knights Templar.
Mr. and Mrs. George Goodwin, Mrs.
ChatmOn and the Misses Charmon,
of Garden City, l.. l.. who were
guests of Captain and Mrs. George II.
Evans, in South st. Asaph street,
have returned to their homes.
A called communication Of Alexan-
dria Washington Lodge, No. D, A.
f & A. NJ. will be- held tomorrow
evening at 1880 for work in the Mas
ter MaSons Degree.
Mrs William j. Morton, Mrs. Geo.
Ruddin. Mrs. +. + Baldwin and Miss
Constance Boush. attended the White
House reception to Lady Aston Sat
urday Afternoon.
Mrs. D. y. Swan and two little
daughters. Miriam and Ruth. have
returned to their home in Fortress
Monroe after visit of several weeks
with Mrs Swans parents, M. and
Mrs A. $. Doniphan, i'm the Fairfax
Apartments.
Mrs. Carl Davis Holcombe, of
Duke street, formerly Miss Ethel
Irby, left for Portsmouth this morn
my where Mr. and Mrs Folcombe
vii! make their future home.
Civil and Police Justice +. G.. Du-
vail, who several weeks ago under
went am operation, is able 10 be- out
again and presided i'm the police
court for the first time in several
weeks.
The meeting of the automobile bu-
reau of the chamber of commerce
which was scheduled 20 have been
held tomorrow night has been post
poned owing 10 the fact that the
Greater Alexandria Trade Exhibit
will open at the armory tomorrow
night
Guy Henry Pettitt, of Burke. and
Miss May Elizabeth Washburn. Of
Fairfax. were married i'm Alexandria
Wednesday, May 2G, at ; O'Clock in
Grace Church rector, with Rev Ed
gar Carpenter officiating.
Mrs. Lawrence Washburn neMotte
and little son. of Staten Island, are
visiting Mrs. De Notes mother.
Mrs. Horace b. Ramey, in Duke
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Frank Carlin. J.
Frank Carlin, Jr., and Miss Louise
Carln, have returned to their home
m ArctmuS after spending the Win
ter in Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01
MOTORMAN FINED
S25 and Costs Imposed For Exceed
ing Speed Limit

An investigation Of a westbound
electric car over the Washington-Vi-
ginia Railway striking bus of the
Alexandria Motor Bus Line at King
and Pitt streets early Saturday
morning was held in the police court
today before Justice Duyall and at
the conclusion Of the investigation
the court imposed a fine Of $25 and
costs on Motorman " l.. Irby, Of
the electrician on a charge of eX-
cecding the speed limit. The bus it
was stated by Attorney II. Noel Gar
ner, who represents the Alexandria
Motor Bus Line, was damaged to
the extent Of about $4,000. The bus
was in charge Of Driver Wexford Ay-
lor. Policeman Lawrence Padgett in
yestigated the case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-01

July 1G, 19lS-Czar Nicholas, of
Russia, killed by Bolshevist orders.
Evening star., 1922-05-31
FORESTS OF THE FUTURE.
What the Government Is Doing
With Denuded Land.

From the San Antonio Express.
National forests are among the most
valuable assets. They insure some de-
gree of timber production and stream
protection Where many original for
estS Were cut down, the land eroded
and the streams dried. The govern
ment-the people-did not realize the
extent of timber destruction until re-
cent years. Since then, it mas on
deavored to preserve large woodlands
as a perpetual safeguard against tim
Der and water famines.
Within the 10000, 600 acres known
as the national forest reserves are
25.000,000 acres of privately owned
land. Congress has authorized the
government to exchange forest-re-
serve lands for an equal value in other
tracts more desirable as public do
main. Government foresters estimate
that this new law will release l0,0O0-
0O0 acres better suited to farming
and stock raising than to timber con-
servation.
The government is reforesting ma
tional reserve tracts that have been
ereeleSS many years. One of these is
on the northern slope of Pixies Peak.
Fire swept over 500 acres there sixty
years ago and an unsightly scrub
growth replaced the destroyed trees
The foresters have planted Engel-
mann Spruce-a Rocky mountain and
Pacific coast tree-miXed with Doug
las fir. The latter also called Oregon
pine, is in much demand for lumber
and railroad ties The reforestcd trac.
is part of the Colorado Springs water
shed, and the larger. purer watsr-sup-
ply will benefit that city. The forest
service planted altogether 4,2l4 acres
of denuded land last year. 1t says
these should produce about 50.101, 700
feet of lumber-sufficient to build
some $500 fve-room houses-in
seventy-five to a hundred years.