The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-19
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A committee appointed by the
National League of Woman Voters
reports a list of twelve greatest
woman in the United States to-
gether with the profession or occu-
patton of each. The list is as fol-
lows; Jane Adams, philanthropy;
Cecilia BeauX, painting; Anna
Jump Cannon, astronomy; Carrie
Chapman Gait, politics; Anna Bots
Minnie Madden Fiske, stage;
Louise Homer, music Julia Lathrop,
child welfare; Florence Rena Sabin,
anatomy; NJ. Carey Thomas, educa-
tion Martha Van Rensselaer,, home
economies; Edith Wharton, litera-
ture.
DR.. Eugene Fisk, diagnostician
and author, says, "The average
person does not stand the best
chance of living long. The man or
woman who weighs twenty or thirty
per cent below the average has the
best chance for long life. 1t is safe
to say the average individual
reaches the ideal build at thirty. If
he can keep near that build for
the rest of his life, he increases
his chances of longevity"
Forestry clubs, formed by boys
and girls, are becoming popular,
according to the United States
Forest Service. Beginning with a
forestry club, organized last year
in Crestone, Colorado, the move
ment has spread to many other
localities in that state. The clubs
are formed under the direction of
local men and women interested in
both forestry and agriculture in CO.
operation with the county agent and
the Forest Service.
The little town of Djal-Ogli, in
Armenia,is the proud poossesor of
the only modern electric lighting
plant in the country. This is due
to a young American. a resident
director of the Near East Relief.
He discovered an abandoned water
mill perched on the banks of a
swiftly running stream. He repaired
the mill and installed a dynamo
which generates eighty-five horse
power. Now the orphanage, the
hospital and nearly every house in
the village is lighted with electricity,
to the astonishment of the natives,
many of whom had never seen an
electric light before.
A replica of an old-time Hudson's
Bay fort, such as was once the
nucleus of the western posts of the
great company, and which still exist
IN the Far North, will be erected
1T the Calgary Exhibition grounds,
July 8 to IA, as a part of theStam-
)ede feature. Special arrangements
will be made to provide a COM
nodious camping ground for the
old-timers who will attend with the
old-fashioned chuck wagons and
cowboy equipment.
Fossil remains of a dinosaur
found near Ehrlien, Mongolia, by
American explorers, prove that the
animal was carnivorous. Evidence
Of this is indicated by the teeth and
and the structure of the skeleton.
The creature stood on legs ten feet
high and its body was about 80 feet
long. 1t weighed almost 10000
pounds and is regarded as inter-
mediate between a lizard and a
bird and of the same common stock
as the present-day alligator.
Thousands of foreigners are
waiting on the Mexican side of
the Rio Grande to be smuggled in
to the United States, according to
immigration inspectors of Federal
District No. %. Organized bands of
smugglers put the foreigners over
the line for ten pesos $50 a person.
The inspector stationed at Laredo
estimates that 800 foreigners at
Nuevo Laredo are waiting transpor-
cation across the border.
At midnight, in Dawson City.
Yukon Territory, as the celebration
of Empire Day was at its height.
tidings were brought to the dance
halls and gambling places of the
discovery of a silver ledge at Happy
Creek, forty miles south of Yukon.
Immediately the rush began and
soon the waterways leading to
Happy Creek were filled with row.
boats, canoes and launches carry
ng eager prospectors.