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Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21
ORIGIN OF WORD SCHOONER
Gloucester Said to Have Been Birth
place Of vssssl Known a.
"Sehoonsr."

Besides ranking as the country's
greatest fishing village Gloucester de-
serves recognition for the invention
Of the word schooner. now used to
designate a type of sailing craft. This
quaint town. with Its long street, Its
smell of tar and hemp. where you en-
ter q restaurant and order Rdelicious
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21
CHANCELLoR sTREsEMANN. in

CHANCELLOR STRESEMANN. in
" an address to group of editors,
made public his plan for reparations
and settlement of the Ruhr problem.
He said in part:
According to the Versailles treaty,
Germanys Indebtedness is guaranteed
by national property. What propose
concerns direct collaboration of pri-
vate property and therefore goes be-
yond the Versailles treaty. Our call
ing upon private property In Germany
creates realizable security, whereas
the securities under the Versailles
treaty cannot he cashed at present.
If mortgages are inscribed MS first
mortgages on state and private prop
erty of the entire economic system of
Germany in favor of the German state
to a certain nercentage-thesem mort
cages can be considered realizable and
movable value-and brought into
trustee company in the administration
of which reparatlons the creditors
would participate. The interest on
this mortgage would 60 to the trus-
tee company, which would take up the
loans after issuing obligations based
on these mortgages and their interest.
This would give France possession OF
big sums as well as turn the interest
payments into cash in set time
"Such fufllment certainly is not
theoretical nor general guarantees, but
real facts free from omhiruitv This
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21
Low Fire Loss in North State.

uS6l Dy state INSURANCE SOAliHiSSioH
er Stacy W. Wade in announcing that
the fire in North Carolina in August
was $S4,6S9 from SIS fires, as compared
with the former low record of June,
1922, when there was loss of S105,90S
in So fires.
In August. 1922, there were l26
fires. representing a loss of S22l, ,29S,
according to records.
Analysis of the detailed first re-
port issued by Commissioner Wade
gust, this year is valued a Sl,526,OO0.
on which insurance was carried in the
sum of $1,S25,0 600 OF the total loss
OF $S4,6S9 $4,000 was due to seasonal
and extra hazardous risks in a rela-
lively small number of fires. accord
ing to the report, which gives as losses
in this class saw mill and lumber
plant burned at loss of $4,000;
fires due to lightning, $1,000; and to-
bacco curing barns. S1l500.
The actual normal fire loss was
given as $271S9 OF this loss, 50
town and six rural dwellings had
damage OF s21, . leaving the normal
fire loss in all the factories stores.
warehouses. garages churches scboo.s
and other bnildinps AT s55a5 accord
ing.
Besides the destruction of one
store. Inv Hqhtnine there were only
three store fires in Appust and the
total 1oss in these totalsd nnI, S195
the raport stated
Nyt 4 single hotel fire was renortea
in August. although there were hun
drads of mountain seashore and
snrine resorts omen hesidas the regu.
lar commercial bostelries In this
connection Commissioner Wade said.
.Tf every month conld shaw rho ab.
sance of high LOSSES from business ard
Industrial fires as had the month of
Ausu.r North Carolina wouIa bs at
The haad of the national fro loss ust
svarv month as if doas This r,onth
and millions of dollars would he saved
in hoth nropertv and insurance costs
II shows everv month thar the masses
nj tho Daonla ara hainq most careful
with fire while the losses reaIlv cona
from the bnsiness nonuIation general.
Iv conceded to he the nromoters and
conssrvators of wealth and nroqress
and more largely concerned for safety.
frat nrovidsnca
Our of los orqanized fro denart.
nant towns and citias +, tho state
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Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21
Chinese Like Vegetables.

Vegetables are used very freely BY
the Chinese people. In addition to
the common ones such as spinach, Do
tatoes, cabbage and the like, they eat
many plants and weeds that are not
considered food In America.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21

let 1t bel" And thus the name came
into our marine vocabulary.
Scoon was the word used In the dia-
lect Of that day to describe skipping
or skimming motion and Is of Scandi-
navian origin. o.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21

IAPAN'S earthquake disaster has lost
- nothing in gravity or horror with
the receipt of more complete details.
Numbering the victims is still impos-
slhle, and probably always will be,
but the total casualties are estimated
by the japanese home office at consid-
erably over million, and it is thought
the deaths are more than 100000.
Having restored order quickly, the
Japanese government is devoting IT.
self to the vast work Of relief and re-
construction, with the cooperation of
the rest of the world, especially Amer
lea. Our Red Cross relief fund is far
over the $5,OOO0OO mark and increas-
ing daily for an immense sum will be
needed. The organization, besides
cabling $l.0OO,OOO for immediate pur-
chases in nearby markets, Is buying
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21
Italy Promises to Evacuate the
Greek Island of Corfu on
September 27.
FIUME DISPUTE DANGEROUS
Chancellor Stresemann's Plan to Mort
gage All German Property-Relef
Work for Japan-Spans Army
Revolts Against Government
American Oestroyers Wrecked.
BY EDWARD W. PICkARD

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Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21
CPA1N's internal troubles reached IA

SPAlN's Internal troubles reached IA
~ climax last Thursday when the
long threatened revolution began with
the revolt of most of the army, led by
the captain general of Barcelona, Gen.
Primo Rivera. That officer declared
a state of siege in the district, seized
the communications and issued a proc
lamation declaring the army called on
the sovereign to save Spain and asking
the dismissal of the present ministers.
Garrisons in other cities adhered to
the military movement, which thereby
assumed the Importance of a real coup
detat. The revolt is not directed
against the king The cabinet de
clared itself in permanent session and
said it would abandon its position only
under force.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21

A S MAY be supposed, the sessions
"A of the League of Nations last
week were not especially pleasant.
Delegates of the lesser nations were
impatient and dissatisfied. and repre-
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21

UN NE of the most tragic epochs in
~ American history relative to
law enforcement" is what Attorney
General Daugherty calls the Al months
that have elapsed since the enactment
OF the Vols ad act, in report sub
mtted to President Coolidge concern
ing the work of the federal judiciary
in enforcing prohibition. An otlicial
synopsis says the report reveals,
among other things, that the Depart
neut of Justice has been called upon
to prosecute Il member OF the Judiciary
prominent members of the American
bar, high officials of the federal and
state government, millionaires, scions
of the nations aristocraCy Sordid
story of assassination, bribery and cor
ruption that found its way into the
very sanctums wherein the inviolabll-
ity of the law was presumed to have
been held sacred"
Part of the general lack of respect
for the dry law may we'll be laid to
the pettiress of many Of the enforce
ment officers For instance: Last
week the British yacht Frontiersman,
commanded by Roger Pocock and
manned by members of the Adventur-
ers' club of London, entered San Pedro
harbor, California. in the course of her
trip to find round-the-world path for
British aviators. Federal officers
promptly raided the little vessel and
seized its private store of liquors and
attached the boat. That sort of thing
only disgusts those who know the
prevalence of bootlegging and moon
shining by our own citizens.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21

a NTHRAC1TE operators and min
ers settled all their differences
and signed a tWo-year agreement, and
mining is about TO be resumed. The
pact gives the men a 10 per cent wage
increase. the eight-hour day. collective
bargaining and revision of wage rates
and schedules. The workers gave up
the check-of system of collecting
union dues. AS usual the public will
pay for this as anthracite coal will
be advanced - cents or 81 a ton That
is, unless Governor Pinchot's plans to
avert this are successful. He believes
the interstate commerce commission
should consider a new anthracite
freight rate to help absorb the wage
increase, and wants the federal coal
commission to make public its findings
on profits and costs of mine operations
and in wholesale and retail distribu-
ton. He suggests the other governors
join him in seeking methods TO pre-
vent the higher prices. President
Coolidge has let 1t be known that he
and the federal agencies will do all
they can in this line, and when con
gress assemblies the President will rec
ommend such legislation as the coal
commission SPONSORS
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-09-21

n NE of the most serious disasters
" that ever befell the American
navy was the wrecking of seven de-
stroyers off Arguello light Is miles
north of Santa Barbara Cal The YES
sells were travelling south in formation,
at 20 knots, in a heavy sea and dense
fog. They crashed on the rocks, and
We're total loss Twenty-three mem
hers of their crews lost their lives.
The destroyers were of the latest
models and cost, when put into serv-
ice few years ago, $5OOo0O apiece.
THE eclipse of the sun was a dismal
failure, so far as the scientists
were concerned. 1t came off accord
ing to schedule. as eclipses have
habit of doing, but the phenomenon
was so obscured by clouds that all the
photographs taken in the path OF total
ity, at the southwest corner OF the
United States and in Mexico, are prac-
tically useless.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-11-09
HOene Hardware
AND VICINITY
See "Fools First" Sunday.

See Fools First" Sunday.
Men may live Fools, but fools
they cannot die. Fools First"
Don't forget the American Lee
gion play "The Man Without a
Country" at the Orpheum, Sat-
urday, November 18th. 46-1
Lewis Goecmer and Lawrence
Terhaar departed Wednesday
morning for Portland, Oregon
where they plan on spending the
winter.
E. M. Iekes, who last week
sold his personal property at a
public auction, departed with his
family for Lewiston where they
plan on residing.
Frank Simon and daughter,
Miss Margaret, departed yester-
day in their car for Spokane,
Wash, where they will meet
Mrs. Simon.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Creelman
of Lewiston spent several days
in the city the first of the week
visiting with old friends. They
returned to their home yester-
day morning.
Herman Uptmor and B. H
Luchtefeld returned Wednesday
evening from FIT. Benton, Mont.
having been called there last
week owing to the illness Of
their brother. They report hin
doing as we'll as could be expect
ed.
Vern South, who is now locat
ed in Lewiston, accompanied by
Charles Houchins of the sam,
city, arrived in Cottonwood Sat
urday evening and departed tn,
following day for the Salmon
river section on a hunting ex
petition. They plan on beinl
gone about a week.
Avery Gentry returned hom
from Lewiston where he ha
been confined in the st. Josepl
hospital for some time. Avery i
now on his way to recovery an
is feeling very well but he show
all signs of having gone thru
severe seige of sickness. Hi
friends are indeed glad to Sc
him back home.
R. H. Kendall motored to Kan
iah Wednesday and returne
home the same evening accom-
panied by his wife and littl
daughter, who have been visit
ing with relatives and friends 8
Kamiah for some time. M
Kendall returned via Nezperc'
Craigmont and he still is of TIL
opinion that Cottonwood is tn
best town on the mountain. c
course we heartily agree wit
i him.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
FREE LECTURE
ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

by George Shaw Cook, C.SB., Chicago,
III. Member of the board of lectureship
of the mother church, the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. Mass.
Main Avenue High School auditorium,
Sunday afternoon, February II, 1928,
3 o'clock Adv
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery, not a
Graveyard. a beautiful. well kept burial
park. Crockett 1885, Adv
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
Evening Service. s:45.


prelude, Hymn of the Nuns 49,.
.............. Lafebure- Wely
lDuet. abide With Me" ..... .TOsti
Mes1ames Leonard and Holdings
worth
.Postlude, Fanfare Dubois
Choir Director r. s. Hollinsworth
Organist, Mildred Hardy Duggan.
~ ~ ~
Mrs. ]. W. Holt, chairman of the
\ prize competition committee of the San
Antonio Musical Club, has received re-
splies from Frank Vanderstucken, Wal
bter Damrosch, and Percy Granger, the
Ethrec celebrated musicians who were
requested by Mrs. Holt to act as judges
3 on the compositions submitted.
Percy Granger wrote that he would
tbe most delighted to act as judge but
flor the fact that he was remaining for
several months longer in Europe where
HE has just completed n tour of IS
Concerts. He praised the club for its
."splendid venture" and wished them
teycry success. Frank Vanderstucken
Wrote: IL gladly accept the invitation
Ito act as judge in the San Antonio
Musical Club prize contest, and beg you
Ito send me all Of the compositions en-
ltered." Mrs. Holt feels that they are
! particularly fortunate in having Sc
Toured Mr.. Nanderstucken to act as
Judge, not alone because of the distin-
ieuished place he occupies in the must
4 cal world. but because he also is a
,Texas composer, born in Fredericks-
tburg. and is bound. on that account, TO
feel a marked interest in the work of
other aspirants who are, as yet, less
well known than he. Mr.. Wander
stucken is selecting a group of well
known musicians whose names will be
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Sunday.
Special music in all churches.
Organ recital, Mildred Duggan,
p. M, st. Marks.
Choral singing, Liederkrantz, 8
,. M, Gunter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
Monday.

Monday.
Organ recital, Walter Durham,
IL, Scottish Rite Cathedral.
Piano recital. John NJ. Stein
feldt, 4 p. m, st. Anthony. .
Illustrated lecture, Sigmund
Spaeth, s p. m, st. Anthony.
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

those saami sausages, washed down with water from
the faucet in my room.
But every day that jail sentence the hotel man.
ager had promised me seemed nearer, and once he
went so far to bring the house detective into my
ROOM In desperation | sold all of the clothing /
could smuggle out of the hotel and borrowed all the
fifty-cent pieces could from my friends, the bell
boys. But the total of all could raise less than
ten dollars.
was beginning to get discouraged when hap
pened to think of my actor friends in the show.
Some of then1-the Stars-Were getting from $500
to 81 900 a week and felt sure that they would be
more than glad to loan couple of hundred dol
lOrs until could convince my guardian that could
be trusted with money. lost no time after getting
this happy thought in reaching one of them on the
long distance telephone and my spirits went back to
par when heard his cheerful consent at the other
end of the wire. The show still in Chicago
"Why, certainly, Danny" he said But why
bother with 5000? Let send you thousand"
| stammered my thanks and agreed that a thou
sand would be more adequate to my needs.
"All right; where you now" he asked !
told him. He turned away from the telephone and
began to address others who were in his room.
"Who do you thinks on the wire ?" he said. Its
Baby Rose (the name that given to me by some
of Jesse's friends in the show. He's broke, and
wants 1000. Well send him Il usand, won't
we, girls?"
There great commotion at the other end OF
the wire at these welcome words and felt wave
of gratitude toward my generous friends in the show
They were certainly nothing like my fair weather
friends in Cleveland, / thought
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

Pittsburg millionaire, the latter's valet and a show
girl. / understood that the only item of baggage
they carried was one five-gallon jug of gin.
When they left they announced that they Wer
going to Europe. The millionaire Instruments
in having their passports prepared and their passag
booked so that they would have them their arrVa
in New York the following day. few thousand dol
lars spent in the. right quarters did their work, an
everything was attended to when the party steppe
off the train and TAXED to the pier
The actor thought of good joke on the way to tn
his second wife to remarry him. That lady had jus
succeeded in getting legal separation from him. an
was in the process Of suing for divorce. After tn
hasty remarriage she left at her house. and tn
party proceeded to the pier
The train had arrived in New York in the morning
The boat on which passage had been engaged left
noon. The marriage over in time for the part
to reach the pier just as the gangplank was ben
pulled in
The actor was first aboard, and then the million
aires valet, still carrying what remained in the five
gallon Jug of GIN The millionaire and the little lad
he had elected accompany him had paid the taxica
driver and were preparing to follow when very deter
mined looking woman stepped out of the crowd
seized the millionaire by the collar. 1t was his wife
Somehow other she had been notified of what wa
going on and had taken this means of throwing we
blanket all the fun.
The chorus girl screamed. The millionaire trie|
escape and the crowd the pier and the
the boat witnessed an exciting little tusse in whc;
the indignant wife had all the honors In the mean
time the gangplank was pulled in and my friend tn
actor on the high with 81 in his poke
and long trip staring him in the face
To add to the irony of the situation he, had suit
OF four rooms and the services of the millionaire
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

to another companion of my prosperity who gave me
the hshermans eye, and said that he sorry,
heart broken, matter OF fact but that he did not
feel that he could help out Another and
other and another turned me down. and as for the
old and conservative friends of my family-well, l
hate to recall what they told me. 1t uncom-
plimentary
To make matters worse, | had engaged a suite of
rooms in Cleveland hotel. and the management
getting rather insisent about the BILL notwthstand
ing the fact that had spent thousands of dollars at
that very hotel in entertaining my friends of the
stage. | reminded the manager of this fact but his
look was as cold landlords heart, and he told
me that if l did not raise 5000 by the next day
would go to jail
Of course, could have gone to my mother but
that would have involved promise to settle down
and behave myself, and was not quite ready for
that did appeal to all the people who owed me
money. Some Of them quite wealthy, but all of
them were stone deaf.
Hard as it is to believe was starving in my home
town. where had $3.50 900 in a trust fund, where all
my supposed friends had their homes in a hotel in
which had spent fortune. Indeed, if it had not
been for the bcllboys think that | should have
starved. They were under explicit orders not to ad
vance me anything from the dining credit
but several of the boys whom had tipped literally
in days gone by took turns in going out to a nearby
dehcatessen and bringing salami sausage sand
wiches, on which lived for five days. In this way
some of the bread that had cast the waters dur
ing my free and easy days came back to me. 1t was
small return, but shall always be grateful for
The Washington times., 1923-01-21
A Group of Girls Ambitious to Join the
Follies," Who Have Stripped
Down Sufficiently to Undergo
the First or LEG" Test.
By Daniel o. Casweu.
CHAPTER XII.
(continued from Last Sunday

'' 1928 by Amf Rights wf Ssssylvi .Ge Great Britain
7 never rains but it pours, as discov-
cred when my show girl wife finally
gave me ''the gate and returned to
my home in Cleveland after four short
months of most unhappy marriage. Not
only the last dollar of my original
$250,000 gone but all the hail fellows
who had slapped me on the back during
my spendthrift career as the husband of
Jessie Reed seemed to have vanished as
well.
My bankers informed me that they
could no longer honor my checks. Ny
guardian refused to see me. In reply to
my frantic appeals for money, he sent
word that it would be great idea if
would go to work and see how long it
took to earn the money had squandered
in few weeks.
with good luck" he said. you
might get job at $25 week. If you
able to hold it that long, you could
earn what you have spent this Winter in
1913 years.
That started me thinking and began
to sympathize with my guardians point.
of view That gentleman had been going over the
checks had written during my career as husband.
He sent me some of them.
One, for $500, was drawn to the order of New
York policeman. l recalled that had entertained
some of my wifes show girl friends by demanding to
be arrested one night in a Broadway cafe The kind
hearted policeman had refused and it only when
paid him $500 for the privilege of riding to the po
lice station in the patrol wagon that he obliged
in the matter. l am glad that some of my money
went to an honest man.
Most of the cancelled checks mementoes of
equally silly experiences behind the of Amer
ica's great white light centre. My signature was
shaky them ALL in contrast to the very legibe
OF the pretty creatures to whom they had gone and
who now felt that beneath their dignity to rccog
nize me on the street. My guardian had looked
them and then decided that was not yet COM
petent to receive the interest $75OOO0 of my in
hertance which is still under his control to be paid
over to me when | am thirty-fve
My mother received me kindly, but did not react
to my appeals for more money to throw after the for
tune had already spent. For was far from cured
| still loved Jessie Reed, in spite of everything.
felt that if could only lay my hands few thou
sand dollars could win her back, after ALL 1t
seemed ridiculous that | could not raise a measy
two or three thousand dollars. Why, had often
spent that much in night
There a very wealthy manufacturer in Cleve-
land to whom l had introduced several friends of
my wife, at his urgent request. He had been my
guest at several costly affairs. i thought he would
be glad to show his gratitude by loaning me the
money needed to follow the show.
But when called at his office he sent word that
he out, and when called second time heard
him tell his secretary to inform that he had died
Slightly disillusioned, explained my predicament