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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
NARROW ESCAPE
From BAD INJURY
Train Frishtens Team and Man Has
Narrow Escape From Being
Killed by the Runaways,
Suffering dissertations

Thomas Reeves, a rancher quite
well known and living in the Para
disc Valley district, suffered badly
lacerated head, necessitating DR..
Marc Crocker taking several stitches
in the scalp, and several severe
contussions and bruises on his chest
and shoulders, this morning, while
loading coal into his wagons, at the
house tracks of the Verdi Lumber
company, as the result of his team
taking fright from the whistle
blasts of a Southern Pacific pass
ing freight train.
At the time the train frightened
the horses Reeves, who had COM
pleted the loading of the wagons
having two coupled together-was
on the ground making some adjust
ments Of the coupling and was
without control of the team. With
their first leap forward the brake
lever on the trailer-wagon struck
Reeves in the head, just back of
the left ear and made a jagged
laceration of the scalp, rendering
him semi-conscionus and he was
not able to tell just in what man.
ner he received the hurts to his
chest and shoulders.
While the injuries sustained were
very painful and required quite a
little attention in the way of sur
gical dressings, they are not of so
serious a nature that the injured
man will not be able to pursue the
even tenor of his ways, in a COM
paratively brief time.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
RURAL DISTRICTS
To Be CARED FOR
Country Schools Must be Given Bet
ter Teachers Than Those Who
Measure Up to the Poor
Average at Present

The effort now being made to
provide children in rural districts
with educational opportunities equal
to those for city children is evil
dence that the American public is
taking the slogan Equal educa-
tional opportunities for all children"
seriously. This is promise of
better things since there are many
inequalities that need removing be-
sides those between city and coun-
try children. One Of the greatest
Of these seems inherent in the or
ganization of a school system to a
greater or less degree.
The inequality in question is that
which exists between the high school
and the elementary school. 1t is u.s.
ually the high school that citizens
have in mind when they speak of
she educational advantages which
heir city affords. 1t is the high
school that is generally pointed out
20 visitors. AS proof of it's excel
ence, their attention is to called
20 its fine auditorium, its labora-
tories and workshops, and its gym.
lasium supplemented by a we'll
equipped athletic field. Incidentally
the fact may be mentioned that all
the members Of the teaching staff
are college trained.
Do not the children of elementary
school age need the opportunity
for physical development which gym
nasimus and Fairgrounds offer as
much as those of high school age?
Because habits and attitudes are
formed early do they not also need
the opportunity for directed obser-
vation which a laboratory offers?
Do they not need the opportunity
which a workshop gives for ex-
pertinent and instruction with ma
terial all the more because of their
exuberant activity? But how many
elementary schools are there that
have facilities for physical exercise,
experimentation, and construction?
If the GOAL AGO children enrolled
in the elementary schools of the
cities of the United States in 1918
are to have educational opportuni-
ties equal to those which the 922,-
131 enrolled in the high school for
that year, material improvement in
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
NEW SOCIETY WILL
Be FORMED HERE
State Manager of Brotherhood of
American Yeomen IL Orsanix-
ing q Strong FraternaI
Order Here

Mr.. H. M. Wolfe, manager of the
western district embracing the states
of Utah, Nevada and Idaho, is per-
fecting the organization of a local
lodge of one of the strongest fra
ternal orders in the United States
and the indications are that the
Winnemucca lodge will have for its
membership most, if not all, of the
established citizens of the town.
The Brotherhood of American
Yeomen is an Incorporated fraternal
beneficiary order, the parent organi-
zation having been perfected at
Des Moines, Iowa, full quarter
century ago; and since that time
it has grown, by leaps and bounds,
to total membership embracing
more than a quarter million of
high type men and women, who
participate in all of the benefits ac-
cruing from association with people
of high moral standards and, in
cidentally, have the qualification Of
knowing that they are carrying in
surance in a company that is as
strong as the Rock of Gibralter, em-
bracing withdrawal and loan value,
disability and double indemnity fea-
lures.
As president of the Utah chapter
of the National Fraternal congress,
which just recently held a conven-
ton in Detroit, Michigan, Mr.. Wolfe
is widely known in the insurance
world and recognized as an au-
thority of marked attainments in
everything pertaining to insurance.
Mr.. Wolfe is quite enthusiastic
relative to the interest manifested
by the people of Winnemucca in
fraternal insurance organizations
and he has no hesitancy in saying
that he is quite sure that the per-
sonnel of the Winnemucca lodge
will be of such high type and so
inclusive of all Of the best men and
women of the city that the local
lodge will start off with an enroll
ment of members surprising that of
any fraternal order in the state, in
any town of size like unto that of
Winnemucca.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

Guards Fined
Julius Woods and Gordon Howard,
young fellows who served as rail-
road guards, at time when the
late strike was at its highest fever,
and were arrested and fined in the
city court here for carrying con-
eealed weapons, and appealed the
cases to the district court, were
fined by Judge Callahan $50
apiece, slashed $3.50 from the city
fine for each one of the men.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

800 Tons Hay
John Yribarnes, a good ranchman
living about twenty miles north Of
Golconda, where he is running quite
a large number of cattle, is in town,
attending to some personal business
matters. He says that he had an
out-of-the-ordinary good hay crop
this past season, cutting and ricking
about 300 tons of a most excellent
grade.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
Civic Club Meet

Civic Club Meet
Mesdames Sadorus, Stauffer an,
Leonard are serving as hostesses t,
their associate members of tn
Civic Club at the Chamber of Com
merce rooms this afternoon, enjoy
ing refreshments and a general dis
cussion of those things of peculiar
interest to their members.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
OFF To Chico

OFF To Chico
Theodore Grady, who just re.
Gently severed his relations as sec
retary of the Chamber of Com
merce, accompanied by Mrs. Grady
and their two children, leave here
tonight for Chico, California, where
he has accepted a position similar
to that which he held here. To him
The Silver State has only words of
congratulations and best wishes for
his success in the new environments
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
New Boy Arrives
Thop,ac MsJJ1af1, a,

New Boy Arrives
Thomas Middleton and wife are
entertaining a new American and
future presidential possibility at
their home and seem thoroughly
pleased over his presence, notwith-
standing the fact that he bids fair
to be a regular boarder at their
house, free of charge, for the next
twenty-one years. The young fell
low arrived Sunday morning, under
the careful chaperonage of DIR.
Crocker, and the latter is authority
for the statement that the young
fellow didn't have a stitch on his
back, but tipped the scales at eight
pounds.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

the elementary schools of the coun-
try will be necessary. More ade-
quate equipment, more effective
organization, and better teachers
mean larger educational expendi-
lures. There are many cities in
which the improvements indicated
are already under way. The or
ganization of junior high schools,
new elementary school buildings
that make provision for children's,
and an increasing number Of kin
dergartens furnish evidence of a
new attitude toward elementary
education.
The question, "Shall we save
money or save children?" is already
being answered in the right way in
many cities. The eyementary school
has been characterized as the great
est instrument of democracy the
world has ever known. To the ex-
tent that the people recognize this
high purpose will they cooperate to
make it function effectively.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

On Saturday, December 9, the
Ladies of the Episcopal Guild will
hold a sale of fancy work, aprons,
cooked food, cakes, pies and candies.
Sale will open at 2 o'clock, at
Parish Hall. Adv D5t2 C
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
Weather Today

Temperature, 5 a. M, 50; Q a. M,
40; lowest temperature today, SO;
normal temperature today, 80; pre-
cipitation, rain, to 3 p. M, .01;
precipitation for storm, .01; pre-
vailing wind direction, southwest.
Weather forecast for the twenty
four hours ending 5 p. m. tomor-
row: Rain tonight and Wednes-
day.
Weather Yesterday
Highest temperature yesterday
Al; lowest yesterday morning, 10;
average temperature yesterday, 26i
normal average yesterday, 33.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
Weather Yesterday
To Have Office Here

o Have OHice Here
DIR. j. T. Reese and wife of Nc
Dermitt are spending a few days
in the city. DR.. Reese contemplates
making Winnemucca his office head
quarters in the very near future,
unless plans that he is now consid-
ering are altered.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

The regular meeting of the share
holders of The First National Bank
of Winnemucca will be held at its
banking office, Monday, January
15 at 10 o'clock a. m., for the pur-
pose of electing a Board of Direc-
tors to serve for the ensuing year,
and the transaction of such other
business as may come before the
meeting.
J. SHEEHAN,
D5J13. Cashier.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
AMERICAN EDU CATION WEEK
This Week-December 3 to Inclusive
EDUCATION is PRODUCING
WEALTH FOR INDIVIDUAL.

1t is coming more and. more to be
the case that mans chances in life
are poor indeed without the formal
training given in our educational
institutions.
According to a study of the 100
wealthiest men in the United States,
considered with reference to the
total population, there were PIT
times as many college-bred men as
there were noncollege-bred men.
Less than one per cent of Ameri-
can men are college graduates, yet
this / per cent of college graduates
furnishes So per cent of our Presi-
dents; 36 per cent of our Congress-
men; AZ per cent of our Vice-Presi-
dents; 62 per cent of the Secretaries
of State; so per cent Of the Sec
retaries of the Treasury; 81 per cent
of Attorney Generals; and SO per
cent of the Justices of the Supreme
Court.
Mr.. James M. Dodge calculated
the financial value of different
grades of education by comparing
the earning capacities of common la
borers, shop-apprentice trained men,
trade-school graduates, and techni-
cal-school graduates. The money
value was taken to be that sum
which at 5 per cent interest would
yield an income equal to the sum re-
ceived as salary. He found the
education of the common laborer
worth $4,000; that of the shop ap-
prentice SIS, 800; that of the trade
school graduate $4,000; and that
of the technical-school graduate
$43, 900.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

Justice On Deck
Justice of the Peace Ritchie is
returned from San Francisco, where
he has been for the past month
undergoing treatment, following
surgical operation for a goitre.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

Woman Homesteads-
Mrs. Hannah Nolan of Pronto,
an old lady aged 80 years, has filed
on 160 acres of land in the vicinity
of Pronto.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

Ladies' Aid Society
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
at the home of Mrs. L. G. Campbell,
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

John Peterson, popular Golconda
boniface, and assemblyman-eIect is
here today attending to business
matters.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
Photo Finishing

Photo Finishing
Send me your films for prompt
and careful finishing. Films should
be mailed to me or left at Weather
Bureau office, as l am not doing
this work for either drug store.
RAY L. FISHER, Box 167. N10tf
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

Four-line wantads-JOc for issue.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05

Bigger and Better
It was promised that
The Silver State would
be made bigger and bet
ter. Observant folk will
recognize fulfillment.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-05
Commercial Printing

New machinery, type
and equipment put The
Silver State in an envi-
able position to take care
of your printing needs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28
FIJiANS POLITE TO A FAULT
In Some Respects, It Might Ee Criti-
cized, They Garry Desirable
Quality to Excess.

So eager are the Fijians to be pO-
lite to visitors that if Il guest slips
and falls they most Immediately fol-
low suit. If Il guest slips and hap
pens to fall in the presence of many
Fijians, there will be a great scram-
bling, as everyone tries to place HIM
self PROSTATE upon the ground first.
Instead of hastily getting up and
looking around in an embarrassed
manner to see if any one saw the mis-
hap, guest in Fiji has the satisfac-
ton of feeling that he is not the
only unfortunate one.
In many other ways the Fijian
shows his respect for his guest.
When the subjects of ruler in Fiji
hear that the tribe is to be visited
b. chief from another tribe, or a
person from another country all vol
unteer to help entertain the guest.
Each man begs to be allowed to
ConEibute something toward the
feast, or in some other way to add
to the comfort of the visitor. The
chief is at liberty to command any
thing the Fijian has for the comfort
of his guest. The ruler seldom abuses
this privilege. He is very DESTROYS to
win and hold the favor Of his sub
jects, and. as a rule. rewards them
literally for their services.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28
HAVOC IN HOUSE OF DEAD
Egyptian Mourners for Departed
Break All Mirrors and the Choicest
CT the ChnaWare.

When a member of an Egyptian
household passes away, every mirror
in the house is taken out and smashed
together with the choicest of ching
ware to be found in the home. 1t is
always the women who do the break
ing, while the men sit quietly in a
room on the lower floor of the house
and smoke.
Professional wailing women go to
the home which has suffered a loss
as soon as the news reaches them.
They are not invited, but go of their
own accord, taking with them drums,
upon which they beat a loud tattoo.
When the family, the professional
mourners and the friends are all
assembled at the house of mourning,
the preparing of the house in
honor of the dead begins. All of the
pictures are turned face to the wall,
the furniture is carried into the yard,
the mirrors are taken out and smashed
against stone, and the choice china
suffers the same fate.
While the women wall and break
the mirrors and china they beat their
faces until they are blacl, and blue,
and tear their hair until they are
completely exhausted.
During all of this time the men
have been silent, not even shedding a
tear.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28
MEN 40 OR MORE

Henry Ford speaking: "a mans
career doesn't really begin until he
is around 40. When he is 40 years
old, a man has Just about reached the
age when he may begin to think seri-
Ously about making money"
tord's idea Is that the average man
cannot expect to accumulate much of
fortune in the first 40 years of life,
so those who have reached this age
without much to show for it should
not be discouraged.
Up to 40, as Ford sees it. a mans
chief function in life is to gain ex-
perience. He should be learning all
he can; particularly HOW to spend
money As | told you two weeks ago,
the best advice | can give to a young
man anxious to succeed is: Spend
your money-on yourself; get all the
experience YOU can. Don't try to save
money and be miser"
knowledge and experience are
working capital to an individual, lust
as surely as money IN the bank. With
$4,000 and no experience. the aver
age man goinginto business for him
self Is more apt TO go broke than
make a success.
knowledge and experience are even
more important than money. To get
them, costs money.
Obviously, Ford is not suggesting
that we go out and fling our money
to the four winds. Observe that he
says, spend it ON YOURSELF. What
to buy? Good books, education, travel
that brings knowledge
Ford himself is SO. He was nearly
40 before he began giving much
thought to building up a fortune. Pre-
viously to that, he had been busy
spending his money experimenting
and increasing his fund Of informa-
ton.
He didn't spend on foolish amuse-
ment, billiards, baseball betting, rails
injack and clothes beyond his means.
lie invested his dollars in increasing
his mechanical knowledge, in devel-
oping a definite campaign Of action in
a certain industry, and in acquiring
the knowledge Of human nature nee
essary to enable him to market his
product, Ford cars.
Now he is "cashing in" on that ear
ly investment in himself. Indirectly
ne has always been saving and ac-
cumulating.
The thing to guard against is
spending on ourselves" in the wrong
way.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28
QUEER LIKES AND DISLIKES
Have Been People Who Hated the
Smell of Roses, and to Some
1t Was Fatal.

The ancient writer's tell US some
wonderful stories about, queer likes
and dislikes, and some Of the most
amazing Of these are about people
who dreaded to see or smell a rose,
says London Tit-Bits
According to Sir Kenelm D1gby, one
of the ladies of the bedchamber to
Queen Elizabeth had her cheek Bills
tered by placing a rose against it.
She was Lady Heneage. Afterward,
whenever she saw rose she would
fall into a swOon.
Cardinal Don Henrique de Cardona
became faint and i'll if he entered
room where roses We're placed; and
it is said that Laurentius, bishop Of
Uratislavia, was killed by the smell
of a rose Cardinal Oliverius Carassa
lived in fear of roses. He would not
allow a rose to be brought into his
palace, and dreaded to approach any
person who had rose about him.
The smell of rose Was considered
fatal by all the memI ers OF the noble
Venetian family named Barbarigi.
Doctors waraed them to remain at
home in the rose season. as if they
went abroad they were in danger of
being overcome.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28
INDIAN LEGEND OF TOBACCO
Believed to Be Gift of Spirit to Whom
Their Hunters Had Been
Generous.

An Indian tradition as to the first
appearance of tobacco in North Amer
lea is to the effect that Swedish min
lister who took occasion to inform
the chiefs of the Susquehanna In
dians, in kind of sermon, of the prin-
cipal facts on which the Christian re-
ligion is founded, was thus answered
by an old Indian orator:
"What you have told us Is very
good; we thank you for coming so
far to tell us those things you have
heard from your mothers; in re-
turn we will tell you what We have
heard from ours. In the beginning
we had only flesh of animals to eat,
and if they failed we starved. Two
of our hunters having killed a deer
and broiled a part Of il, saw
young woman descend from the
clouds, and seat herself on a hill
hard by. Said one to the other: 1T is
a spirit, perhaps, that has smelt our
venison; let us offer some of It to
her They accordingly gave her the
tongue. She was pleased with its
flavor, and said: Your Kindness Will
be rewarded: come here thirteen
moons hence, and You shall find it,
They did so, and found maize grow
ing; where her left hand had been
kidney beans; and where she had sat
they found tobacco
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28
Hook and Eye Becomes Popular.

Hook ana Eye Becomes Popular.
In the Sixteenth century the manu-
facture Of silk, which had formerly
been imported from the East, was
taken up in Italy. and the vogue of
this lighter material created de-
mand for smaller and lighter dress
fasteners. The hook and eye became
more popular. Their manufacture
was also made easier now by the APP
plication of water power to wire
drawing, and from that time until the
present day they have been continu-
ally in use.
The first modern Improvement on
all these fasteners Of Old were the
attempts at spring fasteners made for
the close-fitting gloves when they sue
ceedod the gauntlet. About 1890 a
sewed-on fastener with a spring was
successfully tried out on all sorts of
clothes. and the making of these little
snaps has now become a world in
dustry.
They have their place in the mu-
scum at Prague, but what a long road
leads back through time from the
snap fastener to the bone pin of the
cavernS in the Pyrennees!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28

What a sunset, How golden, how
beautiful! The sun just disaP-
pearing, and the narrow liny clouds,
which a few minutes ago lay like soft
vapory sueaks along the horizon,
lighted up with a golden splendor
that the eye can scarcely endure
Another minute and the bril-
liant orb totally disappears and the
sky above grows every moment more
varied and more beautiful as the daz-
cling golden lines are mixed with
glowing red and gorgeous purple, dap
pied with small dark specks and
mingled with such blue as the egg
OF the hedge-sparrow. To look up at
that glorious sky, and then to see
that magnificent picture reelected in
the clear and lovely Loddon water is
a pleasure never to be described and
never forgotten. My heart sWells and
my eyes fill as | write of it and think
Of the unreasonable majesty of nature
and the unspeakables goodness of God
who has spread an enjoyment 50 pure,
so peaceful and so intense before the
meanest and the lowest of His crea-
fures.-Mary Russell Milford.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-28
Somewhat Odd phrases

1--WE use many phrases very glibly,"
said a college professor, (which have
an entirely different meaning from the
one we intended. We all speak, for
instance, Of a man being a scholar and
a gentleman. It's supposed to be
highly complimentary. Now / have
spent the most Of my life trying to
be a scholar and | hope l am a gen
tleman, but why should we make the
distinction? Another phase insults
d much larger class. 1t is the use
Of the word but in the phrase, poor
but honest This is a confession, Of
course, that it is remarkable thing
for poor man to be honest"