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u don't have to be good" said Sil.
yer King, the Polar Bear. 'for am 10
handsome.
Il can be magnificently SUPERIOR"
he ended as he plunged into an Icy
bath which was his great Joy.
I'm beautiful. too" said Dolly Pea.
cock. who was strutting about. my
keeper says that haven't many
brains, but that doesn't matter when
I've so magnificent tail. Truly, tall
Is a word which does not half describe
II.
In the winter time attend to my
plumage and see that II Is at It's best.
Sometimes, though. ! have a great
deal Of trouble with II.
'You see we love to roost near the
ground and sometimes when we are
asleep In the winter time the snow
falls on my beautiful. exquisite tall
and when get up find have to drag
around a lot Of snow as well as tall
until ! can get rid Of II.
u don't mean until get rid Of my
tail, Of course. m6kn until | get rid
Of the snow which has fallen on my
tall! My keeper thinks It Is stupid
OF me to rOost so near the ground in
snowy weather, but then It is true, I'm
not very sensible and I'm not very
bright.
I'm not sociable bird. ! don't
care for others. No. I'm the kind that
rather enjoys being alone In her
beauty. ! like to strut about In my
own solitary splendor."
In the monkey house Gabong, the big
ape. was amusing the children.
The keeper likes me. I like him."
Gabong was saying to himself.
"And the children like me. And /
Ike them. So I'll amuse them"
Gabong had seen other monkeys
turning somersaults and SO he learned
these tricks and the hair upon his head
ard upon his shoulders had worn IN
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-08-16
THURSDAY, AUGUST le, 1928.

taking the same stand that the Gov
ernor takes today. In the face Of
the many complex problems Of today,
there is plenty of room for honest
difference Of opinion. 1t is we'll that
is So Difference Of opinion should
lead candid and enlightening discus-
sion. But just such wise changes Of
mind as Governor Sweet has made,
tas we are pursuaded President
Harding made) end such opportun-
ity for razzing that we, have all
fallen into the habitj much to de.
triment OF careful consideration Of
questions Of vital Importance to the
.fs
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-08-16
Wheat and Corn Land Auction

Friday afternoon. at 2 p. m, Aug,
18th, Col Shook will sell 3O5 acres
II Wheat and Corn Land; adjoining
the town site Of Keota; Legal Mum.
bers' VIZ Of Section 2, Township
8 North Of Range go West Of the 9Th
+. NJ.
Here is a big opportunity for you
to make money en- this land.
For the Hammer Hits It! And
the High Dollar Gets II!
p Terms: Part cash; Balance 8 years
at per cent.
Buy land now.
Ahlstrand Auction System. Gree.
ley, Colorado.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-08-16

Another rain .-Iast evrnfng 1n1akes
roads no better and harvesting a bur.
aen' II there has been anybody,
praying for rain he past month. We
dont Know where they are. They
must ot know when they have got
enough. ...g -, ea. ..'
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-08-16
WHAT IS COOPERA-
TIVE MARKETING
By BRUCE LAMpsoH

NOTE: This is the first OF series
Of eight brief articles on cooperative
marketing by Bruce Lampson, mana.
ger Of the Colorado Wheat Growers
association. Mr.. Lampson, who is
considered an authority on the move
ment. will describe from week to
week. Its. history. development and
purpose.
The Raymer enterprise., 1923-08-16
RefreshIno lnnocence.

Dealer-Lobstersi Certainly, M
dam. Just step this way.
Mrs. Youngbride (gazlng at window.
full Of squlrmlng crustaceans)-Yss,
but arc they frsshi ,...v ~
Evening star., 1923-04-11
Modern Eden in Virginia Hills
Flourishes Beyond World Gaze

plan according to their own ideals.
Colony Growing.
Little has been heard Of them
since Inquiries, however, have re-
vealed that the project has been
definitely established, and that the
colony is growing. One Patrick
county man, who climbed a noun
tain from which he could look
down on the winding stream Of
to the six farmhouses built by the
pioneers the framework Of other
homes stood out. and that there
were several other buildings. One
of them had the appearance Of
school and the other of church.
Such contact as the few Patrick
county fruit growers have had
with the colony is said to have re-
suited in favorable impression.
The men are described as hardy
and earnest workers, and the
women, some of them beautiful,
well developed in the art Of home
economies. The group is charac-
looking to Mr.. Stickley as their
leading advisor.
Hope to BE self-SupportinE.
The trend of the colonist is along
agricultural lines entirely. dairy
ing and stock raising included.
They have acquired pure-bred
stock and now are growing grain
in the rich valley. They also have
established apiarieS and cultivat-
ing orchards. 1t is their plan ulti-
mately to become entirely self
supporting. The colonists are said
to have no tendency toward great
financial gain. but are satisfied
with a cloistered existence unique
In state annals.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE, Md, April IL (Spec-
laD.-On statutory grounds, Judge
Edward c. Peter, in the circuit court
here, has signed a decree granting to
Mrs. Laving Dawn Edwards OF ns .nls
Joseph Robert Edwards, also OF this
county. The decree also allows Mrs.
Edwards to resume her maiden name
Of Hill.
According to the bill. the couple
1919, and lived together In Washing
ton and this county until January 81.
1921 There are no children. Mrs.
Edwards was represented by Attor-
ney John A. Garrett of Rockville.
Zachariah Harding. lifelong and
wideiy-known resident of this coun-
ty, died at the home of his son. Ell,
mer Harding, at Langdon. d. c., aged
ffty-four years. He was 1ound
dead in bed from heart disease. Sur
viving him are his wife, Mrs. b.
Harding, and four children, and sew
eral sons and daughters by former
marriage. The funeral took place
Monday afternoon from Grace Meth
odfst Church, Gaithersburg, the serv-
ices being conducted by Rev. George
r. Mays. pastor of Emory Methodist
Church at Oakdale. Md. Burial was
in Forrest Oak cemetery, Gathers
burg. At the grave the services
were in charge of the Gaithersburg
Lodge of knights of Pythias.
The county commissioners have
appointed B. Ashby Leavell OF Chevy
Chase a. tax assessor for Bethesda
district to assist with the reassess-
snent of all personal and real prop
erty now in progress in the district.
A license has been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for the
marriage Of Miss Ethel Lee watson
and James ]. Powell, both Of Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
Physician Fights
Vicious Attacks
OF Big Police Dog
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, April IL
DIR. w. Harmon Evans, a well
known Lynchburg physician, was
severely lacerated about his left
arm and right leg in a battle with
big German police dog. which
was kept at the home of G. e.
Wood, manager of the Edgewood
farm. Campbell county. where DIR.
Evans was going to make a pro-
fessional visit.
The dog attacked and knocked
the physician down three times,
the first time biting his left arm
near the shoulder. the second time
his right leg below the knee and
the third time in the left fore
arm. The last lunge the dog
made for DR.. Evans throat, but
he warded off the attack with his
arm and fell with the canine
chewing the forearm.
Luckily DIR. Evans right hand
came in contact with the dogs
throat and he clutched 1t, cutting
off his wind. DR.. Evans held on
and called five minutes for help
before Mr.. Wood found his friends
plight. DR.. Evans gave himself
first aid and was then hurried to
A hospital, suffering badly from
shock.
Evening star., 1923-04-11

DANVILLE, Va, April 11.-Pro-
tected from intrusion by the lofty
clefts of the Patrick county noun
women under the leadership Of the
Rev. Mallen Stickley, is quietly at
work founding a modern Utopia
On the fertile slopes of Smith river
valley. a veritable small Eden,
hemmed In on every side by the
fir-clad hills, the purpose OF the
colonists is to establish Christian
community, and now, after nearly
years labor. they are preparing
Tor the arrival of new families.
Shuns "Recklexs World"
Mr. Stickley. who held several
charges in Virginia, announced
last spring that the time had ar
rived for his people to get away
from the temptations Of "reck-
less world" He stated his inten-
ton of going into the remote sec
tion of Patrick, where "close COM
and wVre daily religion, based
on the fundamental truths of the
Bible, could be practiced."
Not many months later the colo
nists bought large stretch of
Smith river valley. which is ten
miles north of Stuart and far from
any community and railways. and
began work. There were six fam
lilies. from Georgia. Maryland.
minister declared he was mot
courting publicity" and asked to be
left alone" in order that he and
his followers might develop their
Evening star., 1923-04-11
S350,0DO SASKED
FOR BETTER ROADS
Jefferson District, Arlington
County, Asks Court for
Special Election.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CLARENDON, Va, April 11.-Road
development estimated to cost $780,
600 is proposed in jefferson district,
Arlington county.
A definite step in this direction will
be taken this afternoon, when the
board of supervisors will submit
resolution to Judge Samuel G~Brent
of the circuit court asking that a
special election be held in the dis
trict SO that the voters may express
their sentiment at the polls as to the
authorization of the necessary bonds
to cover the project
Details Prepared.
Commonwealth Attorney Ball. with
Zens of the district who favor road
development, Is this morning whip
ping into shape all details of the pro-
gram, which must accompany the
resolution of the board to be sent to
the judge. Mr.. Ball. when asked to-
day for Information regarding the
character of construction and the
roads to be improved, stated that the
plan in its entirety had not been
completed and probably would not be
until late this afternoon. Full de-
tails are to be made public just as
soon as possible, he said.
Inquest Tonight.
An inquest into the death of Annie
Leonard. colored, who was found
dead Sunday morning near the tracks
of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac railway, with her skull
crushed. will be held at the Arlington
county courthouse this evening. Cor
oner Swain has summoned the follow
ing as his jury: J. Thomas Manning, J.
Wills, Il. o. kines, Emery Murray,
William Thompson and A. NJ. Dawson.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
from Various Communities Throughout MARYLAND and VIRGINIA
Page Jack Tobin,
Old Salt, or He'll
Be Out Just $500
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, April Ii
Fate's playing with old Jack Tobin,
bo'swain and seventy. 1t may do
him a mean trick; it may not Mrs.
Charlotte Rush, 1919 Shakespeare
street, is trying to see that 1t
does not
Jack. grisly old veteran OF many
voyages. with a walk like the roll
of an elephant, can't stay away
from ships. When they torpedoed
his vessel in the North sea and
dragged him off to a prison camp
in Germany for two years he near
ly died OF worry. He'd almost
rather have Joined the German
navy.
And when he comes back to Mrs.
Rushs house, where he rooms be-
tween voyages, he's restless and
unhappy before week is out.
Three months ago he shipped. and
that's the last Mrs. Rush has heard
of him.
Last week a letter for him came
from the British admiralty office.
Mrs. Rush opened 1t. 1t contained
check for 5000, old Jack Tobin's
compensation. But it contained
also the provision that If it isn't
cashed within three months 1t will
be void
Mrs. Rush has asked the police
to help her find Jack. He's some
where in this world, probably, she
says.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
new FAIR GROUNDS
FOR CUMBERLAND
Campaign Started for $4,000 for
Purchase of 100 Acres-An-
nual Dinner Held.

Special Dispatc to The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Nd, April 1l.-At
the annual dinner given by the Cum
berland Fair Association, at the
Queen City Hotel, a project was
launched to raise at least S50.O00 by
the sale of bonds. for the compile
ton of the purchase of the new fair
grounds, situated near the Ameri-
can Cellulose and Chemical Company
plant, and consisting OF about 100
acres, adjacent to McMullen highway.
Duncan r. Sloan. Homecoming, presi-
dent OF the fair association, presided
and Judge Albert A. Doub was toast
master. The dinner was-dttended by
more than 200 men and women of this
city. and other points in Allegany.
Washington, Frederick. Garrett. and
Baltimore counties and nearby towns
of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
WORK STARTEDON
TAkOMA SCHOOL
Ground Broken, With Mary
land Officials Taking Prom
inent Part.

Ground was broken for the nev
public school to be erected at Ia
koma Park, Md, yesterday after
noon at ) o'clock. brief ceremoniei
taking place in the presence o
school officials of Montgomery coun
ty and members of the Takoma Parl
Community League.
DIR. G. G. Galloway. president
the Takoma Park Community League
acted as master of ceremonies and
George Edmonds, chairman of the
county board of education of Mont
gomery county, in which the schoo
is erected. He was followed by DR.
George E. Lewis of Rockville, wht
is the custodian of all school prop.
erty in Montgomery county.
Begin Work Today.
At the conclusion of the brio.
speechmaking DIR. Galloway handet
moved the first spadeful of soil. II,
was followed by DR.. Lewis, the las
spadeful being taken out by DR.. Gal.
81 of Takoma Park were preSen
with the national colors. Toda!
j. w. Shade, the contractor. who ha'
the contract for constructing the new
school, is busy with a force of mer
digging the foundation.
The new school building is TO bt
completed in time for the fall term il
September 1t will be built of rec
brick, in the center of All eight-acr,
tract, and in the central part of Ta
koma Park. 1t will contain eigh
rooms, with four rooms in the base
ment In addition there will be {;
large auditorium, which will seat sew
eral hundred persons. The play
grounds will he attractively laid out
through assistance volunteered by ex
pert landscape gardeners. members o.
the Takoma Park Horticultural Club
connected with the Department d
Agriculture, who have likewise beer
interested in seeing this growing
community provided with a modern
up-to-date school.
Evening star., 1923-04-11

"If l only had
the money!

There's a remark that's more common
than any about the weather.
A thousand topics call it forth-busi-
ness, pleasure, sport, travel, the training of
children, the improvement of the home.
Even intangible blessings often come
from money. And that's not material
istic view to take, for money in turn is
based on such intangible things as fore
sight, thrift and good Judgment.
The foresight to see the value of saving,
the thrift to keep it up, the good Judgment
toinvest savings prohtably.
Use the foresight today by starting a
savings account The thrift will come easy
with little practice, and we will help sup
ply some of the good judgment when the
time for investment comes.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
PLANS ARE COMPLETED
FOR STATE ROAD CONTROL
Manv Rural Residents Gather at
Hagerstown to Consider
Special Tax.
Special Dispatch to The Sar.
r1,cTnuTN Md

Special DiSpa tch to Ihe Star.
HAGERSTOwN, Nd, April IL
Forty representatives from various
county districts gathered here anu aa
presented an approximate figure Tor
the June levy to improve roads IN
their section of the county; our,rtv cam dme :
meeting of the board or county com
missioners and county road super
visors was held ua at the courthouse; co., house
HnIzanfei. president Of the board, who
stated that arrangements have been
made whereby the state was to take
over the principal highways IN
Washington county and that the Wv
600 hitherto used for maintenance OF
these roads will be used to improve
subsidiary highways throughout the
county.
,rnnr;ated from both state and fed
erai funds to improve roads oads. in nff1n fhis
Sbarnsburg and other highways will
have to be entirely rebuilt to with.
stand the heavy traffic and when put
in shape will be taken over and
maintained by the state.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
BONDS OF VIRGINIA
RECOGNIZED IN N. Y.
Discriminating Statute on Trust
and Savings Bank Funds Re-
moved by Legislature.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispa tch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, April 11.-For many
years bonds of this state have not been
recognized in New York as securities
in which trust funds or savings bank
funds could be invested.
Second Auditor Page began the in
vestigation years ago. and the informa-
tion has come that the Legislature of
New York has repealed the discriminat-
ing statute, the securities of Virginia.
along with those of municipalities of
the Old Dominion, being acceptable for
investment by all agencies that have to
make report to the courts or to the
state when such funds are invested.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
RICH IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE.
234 Norwegians and Swedes Start
for Farms in West.

NEW YORK. April 11.-Another
"million-dollar steerage" arrived yester-
day from Scandinavia on the Oscar IL.
en- route to the farmlands of the west.
The 234 Norwegians and Swedes. like
the 400 who preceded them last week,
showed customs inspectors cash, notes
and letters of credit totaling about
s1,O0O,000. Some rode first class. some
second and others steerage-any way
to get here together and get here quick.
Unlike some immigrants with less
definite aim who have come hero in
finer cloth but with poorer lined purses.
the Scandinavians went through the i'm
migration tests like reapers through
wheat fields. Many Of them were snug
ly asleep in Pullmans, westward bound.
before the bright lights of Broadway
began their nightly flicker.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
STATE SENATOR DIES
IN CAUCUS Meeting
r. P. Shinn Had Just Finished
Speech When Stricken at
Charleston.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLESTON, w. Va. April IL
Senator r. P. Shinn of Jackson coun-
ty was fatally stricken at noon yes
terday in a republican caucus. expir-
ing three hours later at Kanawha
Valley Hospital.
Senator Shinn was sheriff of Jack
son county twenty years ago and a
prominent stockman, farmer and
banker at Ripley. He was elected to
the senate in 1920.
Mr.. Shinn had just finished a
speech when he was stricken with
paralysis. He never regained con-
Sciousness.
The West Virginia legislature ad-
journed yesterday afternoon as a
mark of respect.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
MAY STILL BE SEARCHING
FOR RUSSIAN JEWELS
Federal Agents Trip Revives
Rumors That Hot Trail Has
Been Picked Up.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 11.-A revival of re-
ports that federal Treasury Department
agents still are industriously on the
trail of the reported lost Russian crown
Jewels, which, a few months ago, were
reported to have been buried in a Brook
lyn cemetery, was in progress as a re-
suit of a trip westward of William
Williams, special agent of the depart
ment. He was reported on his way to
Los Angeles.
Williams, who worked on the case
in New York at the time Of the reports
that part of the Russian Jewels had
been buried with an American seaman
after hectic sea adventure between
two factions fighting for the Jewels, was
in Chicago Sunday.
The local treasury office dfscredlted
any belief that new clues had devel-
oped in the jewel mystery.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
INDICTED AS EMBEZBLER.
Former Farm Loan Official Held
on Sixty Counts,

COLQUITT. Ca, April Ill. W.
Gregory, former secretary-tre
of the Tri-County National Farm
Loan Association, an agency of the
Federal Land Bank of Columbia, s. c.,
stands indicted todaNby the federal
ment on sixty counts, a record COW
ering more than 100 typewritten
pages.
The total amount is small, the items
being for small amounts, 1t is
alleged that dividend checks on land
bank stocks, which each farmer who
secured loan was forced to take at
the rate of per cent of his stock,
under the land bank act, were sent to
Gregory for distribution, and that he
appropriated the amounts to his own
use. Gregory denied his guilt.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
U. S. RELIEF WORKER DIES
Death of Mrs. Crawford Fourth In
Near East Relief.
By the Associated Press.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April IL.
News has been received from Tre-
bizond of the death there of Mrs.
Olive Crawford of Hartford, Conn,
from typhus, contracted while en-
gagged in relief work among the
refugees. Her husband, Lyndon
Crawford, died in the same city dur
ing the Russian occupation in the
work, and Mrs. Crawford volunteered
to carry on his duties.
This is the fourth death among
the ranks of the American workers
doing refugee work for the Near
East Relief since the Smyrna dis
aSter.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
FIGHT TO RAISE SCHOOL
TAX 10 CENTS SETTLED
Provision Made to Take Care of
$685. 900 Loan for New School
in Berryville

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BERRYVILLE, Va, April 11.-One
of the largest crowds that has ever
gathered in the courthouse in Berry
Vile was that Of the taxpayers from
all over the county. who came to
attend the joint meeting of the coun-
ty school board and the board of
supervisors to come to some agree
ment as to how the ten-cent increase
on the school levy. which the school
board was asking, to take care of a
$4,000 loan, should be raised. The
same cry of hard times was heard on
the taxes.
Report OF Finances.
Leslie Kline. who is superintendent
of schools for Clarke and Frederick
counties, read his financial report for
the year in which was shown that
there were 2.016 children in Clarke
county attending the public schools
and the per capita rate for these
The total expenses last year in the
whole county amounted to $50,3S2.60,
including repairs, and owing to the
crowded conditions of the Berryville
High School. which had necessitated
for the last six years renting outside
rooms, which rooms are no longer
available, they were now obliged to
build a new school building and the
legislature had authorized the board
to borrow $4,000.
The school board reported that
they had just bought five acres of
land of the Rosemont estate. owned
by DR.. William Smith Cox, postma ster
of Alexandria, in the heart of the
residential section of Berryville for
$4,000.
Agreement Reached.
The only suggestion for raising
this ten-cent levy was made by the
county treasurer, w. A. Bradford.
who said that as the school tax was
sixty cents, twenty-five cents for
teachers salaries and thirty-five cents
for building, he would suggest that
they reduce the teachers tax. There
was violent protest to this proposal,
but when the board of supervisors
made their decision it was found that
they had taken five cents from the
teachers tax and five cents from the
road tax. this raising the ten-cent
levy asked for without increasing the
taxes.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
$4,000 DAMAGES ASKED.
Suits Filed for Death of Girl by
Auto.
Special Dlspa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, April IL
Perry Brinkman has filed five damage
suits for $1,000 each for the death of
his daughter, Lillian B. Brinkman,
aged twelve, on the night of March 3.
when two automobiles collided and
one was forced onto d sidewalk,
crushing the child against an iron
fence. The defendants are John T..
Bowles George w. Buoy. Dory F.
Robinette and George B. Bowles. and
George W. Buoy and John E. Bowles.
Jointly. The cars were owned by
Dory F. Rpbinette and George II.
Bowles, according to the bill filed.
George w. Buoy and John L. BoWles
were the drivers.
Evening star., 1923-04-11
SUNDAY CLUB TO MARCH.
1900 Are Expected in Procession
at Lynchburg.
eeial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG. Va, April 1.-THE
Lynchburg Billy Sunday Club is ar
ranging for parade of its members
here Sunday, April %, when about
1900 men are expected to participate.
The parade will take place just
prior to the monthly meeting of the
club. which Is to be held at First
RantiSt Church.