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Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD &. Ga3IS
Copyright, 1928. by Mcclure
Newspaper SyndieaSe
UNCLE WIGGILy'S TOOTH
BRUSH

Where are you going, Uncle
Wiggily,' asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzv one morning, as she saw
the rabbit gentleman hopping down
the path in front of his hollow
stump bungalow. care you GO
ing to the six and seven cent
store to get snow shovelF For
I think it is going to snow
m not after a snow shovel,
nor even rain shovel, this time,
Nurse Jane answered the rabbit
gentleman. 81 am going to buy
! myself new toeth brush at the
drug store. -
"What's the matter with .ToaT
old brush'' asked the muskrat
lady housekeeper.
cit is worn out, said the bum
ny, and he smiled, showing his
white teeth. For rabbit gentleman.
and squirrels, dogs, eats and guinea
pigs keep their teeth very clean. Or
course they don't all use tooth
brushes. for they don I need to. But
Uncle Wiggily did.
So off he hoped to the barber
shop. Oh, listen to me; would youf
/ IN thinking about Sister Sallie
going hippity hop, l think. Any
how Uncle Wiggily didn't go to
the barber shop, not even for loiiy
pop. He went to the drug store
and bought himself new tooth
brush and bottle of ink.
"Oh, no, m not going to clean
my teeth with the ink!'' laughed
Uncle Wiggily, when the dog gen
tleman in the drug store asked him.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
TEN YEARS AGO
November 13, 1914

Sheriff Meadows made a trip to
Calexico yesterday for Lawrence
Stewart, sentenced to the county
Jail for 80 days on a petty larceny
charge.
o. d. Gibbons of this city reports
a sale of 1S acres ON the Dahlia
ranch canal, five miles southwest of
Ell Centre, to DIR. John ID. Gibbons
of Danville, Kentucky. The acre
age sold for $4,000 cash.
George w. Ely and X. y. Bean,
travelling passenger agents, accom-
panied by c. w. Runge of Riverside,
are making tour or the valley to-
day W. +. Wilsic is also member
of the party.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for THIS Date
In Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
November Is, 1905

J. II. MeKim is out from Pomona
for a visit at his big 500 acre ranch
east of town and also to attend the
regular monthly meeting of Imperial
Water Company, No. l, of which he
is director. Mr.. McKim S ranch
is one of the largest enterprises of
its kind in the valley and he now
has it all in cultivation.
j. F. Boyd, formerly of the Boyd
Lumber company, Holtville, left this
week for Redlands for visit.
DR.. Blackington S family has been
suffering from an attack of the
grippe this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13

. am going TO write a letter a1tef
I clean my teeth. The ink is for
the letter.
With his tooth brush and bottle
of ink, Uncle Wiggiiy hopped back
home to his hollow stump bungalow.
s "You III have to hurry called
Nurse Jane to him. Lunch is al
most ready and have fried carrots
with maple sugar sauce sprinkled
over them.
"sThat's fine!" said Uncle Wig
gilv. 81 love maple sugar on car
rots. But before 1 eat I'll 60 up
in the bath room and clean my
teeth. -
The fried carrots smelled most
delicious like, and the window OF
the bungalow, being open, the smell
floated out. The Bob Cat happened
to be passing just then, and as he
shifted the air the Bob Cat said:
"Ha. Uncle Wiggily is going to
have something good for lunch!
Well, / think III have something
good myself. III slip in and nibble
some of Uncle Wiggily's ears for
my lunch. -
So the Bob Cat went softly into
the bungalow. Nurse Jane heard
him enter, but as she was busy
pouring maple sugar over the fried
carrots she didn't look up to see
who it was.
"Where's Uncle Wiggily'" ask
ed the Bob Cat, speaking so much
like Uncle Butter that Nurse Jane
thought it was the goat gentleman
"uncle Wiggily's up in the bath
room cleaning his tecth," she an
swered.
"I'll go up and catch him, - wils
,pered the Bob Cat to himself.
AS the cat entered the bath room
Uncle Wiggily had just finished
cleaning his teeth. The bunny look
cd at the Bob Cat and shivered.
ssI've come TO nibble your ears! -
howled the Bob Cat.
"Have you cleaned your teeth to-
day'" asked Uncle Wiggily. 81
can I let any one nibble my ears
who hasn't cleaned his teeth. Open
your mouth until L look at your
teeth"
Hardly knowing what he was do
ing, the Bob Cat opened his mouth
| And then, all of a sudden, Uncle
Wiggily took the cork out of th'
| bottle of ink and poured the BLACK
stuff down the Bob Cats mouth
and over his teeth.
I "Seoozie Scoozic! - howled tn
Bad Chap.
"You II be long while gcttinI
'your teeth clean of iuk'" laughe'
Uncle Wiggily as the Bob Cat jump
ed out Of the window, gurgling
"Gurra. Gurra, Oh, what terribl
taste in my mouth"
So the bunny WASH I nibbled tina
] time. And after he had eaten hi
maple sugar carrots he bought an
other bottle of ink with which t
write a letter. And if the postag
stamp doesn't try to stand ON IT
head and make the policeman laugf
IN tell YOU next what happene
when Uncle Wissily wrote his let
/ ter.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
November 13. 1909

Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. East have come
from Berkeley to make their home
in FL Centre. Mr.. East is an Off
Ger of the Imperial Valley Alfalfa
Meal Milling company, which will
soon be operating its large plant in
Ell Centre.
T. Robinson of Mineola, Kansas, is
in Ell Centre visiting True Veneill.
Mr.. Robinson is an uncle of Mr..
Venoill.
l. A. Sell of Jameson, Missouri,
has been spending the past week in
Imperial Valley, visiting all of the
towns and numerous ranches. He
plans to locate here.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
Famous Hen Is
Dead at Age
of Seven

CORVALLIS, Ore, Nov. 13.-
"Old Peggy the first Barred
plymouth Rock hen to make an egg
record of more than 800 eggs year
in the O. A. c. flocks, is dead at
the age of sexen years.
"Old Peggy completed her first
record of 303 eggs on November y,
1918. In seven years of production
she laid 1886 eggs.
The world s record Barred Rock
hen, K.-24, with 324 eggs IN her
first year, is the daughter of Peg
gy s son.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
POLITICAL FIASCO
UPSETS ROMANCE
NY United Press Leased wire

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 13--Un-
less fate intervenes, political ro-
nance OF last summer will come to
an end today when Mrs. Edna
Schaum O'Connor appears in court
here to ask divorce from Thomas
V. o 'Connor, Democratic politician.
Last April O'Connor employed
Mrs. Schaum at McAdoo's IS campaign
headquarters, they fell in love and
were married. They decided to
postpone the honeymoon until after
the campaign.
Now Mrs. O'Connor declares that
no honeymoon was Forthcoming
when the campaign had ended and
her married life has been a disap-
pointment.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
PONZI MAY NEVER
BE TRIED AGAIN
Nv United Press Leased Wire

BOSTON, Nov. 13.--Charles Pom
ii may never be tried again on
charges growing out Of his in,erna-
tional coupon operation IN 1920, AS.
sistant District Attorney D9land
zaid today after q jury had dis
agreed in the present trial.
The trial concluded today was on
ono VI several charges againyt Fon-
Il aud involved charges OF larceny.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
WESTMORELAND ADOPTS
RESOLUTION TO PAY COST
ON PAVING MAIN STREET

WESTMORELAND, Nov. 10
Strong resolutions committing
Westmoreland to pay its full share
of paving costs on Main street have
been adopted and sent to the state
highway commission. The trans
continental highway passes through
the town which is unincorporated.
The work is expected to begin
within the next few months.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13

Now with winter coming on, and driving out in the
country less alluring people could go to church on
Sunday, if the weather wasn't disagreeable.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13

Now history shows that Captain Kidd was not
swashbuckng pirate at ALL but an honest nan and an
enemy of pirates the Kidd story is nothing but
kid. Ia
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13

Political campaigns wouldn't be SO bad if there
weren't much politics in them.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13

They're building "skyscraper churches" in Chicago
and New York, which is way to get nearer Heaven.
May they have better success than the plansmen of
Shinar did, long ago, with their Towel of BABEL
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13
ANOTHER TOURIST PLAYGROUND

Canadas great province of Ontario has an anlbi-
ton to become the playground Of the American CONT
nent Nature endowed it rather generously With=some
of the first requisites for such
fine lakes and streams plenty of lovely trees and op
portunities for all sorts of sports.
Ontario however, does not intend to leave every
thing to Nature. 1t is planning fine highway system
and is going to advertise such parts of that system
are already open for tourists.
Recently organization Of southern Ontario
towns has been formed for the primary purpose of
raising $1,000 to be used to advertise the Lake Erie
north shore route from Windsor to Niagara Falls
Tourists from south of the international boundary line
are cordially invited to try this route Cana
dians themselves.
Of course the Canadians not wholly altruistic
in this matter. They know that their vacation oppor
tunties are delightful and that anyone who tries them
is likely get full value for his time and money Ma
tural however the Canadians want the trade and ad
versing that come with tourist travel in country
in any other
Instead of begrudgng the money he must spend
during his travels the tourist in any land should
joice that the world has many lovely places where he
can travel and play. Commerce and prosperity work
right along with vacation lovers to open to the public
the beauty spots of this earth
Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-13

The worst aftermath of the election is the kicks
from voters who didn't vote.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
NORRIS POINTS NEED
Of i. s. Operation
At MUSCLE SHOALS

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Chair,
man Norris, Of the senate agricul-
ture committee, which will decide
next Tuesday whether to hold public
hearings on the Ford Muscle Shoals
bid, hopes to make Muscle Shoals a
vehicle for the declaration of a gen
eral policy on the part of the federal
government in water-power develop
ment.
Both the Boulder Canyon dam
project on the Colorado river and
the Muscle Shoals problems, in the
opinion of Chairman Norris, require
the adoption of policy of federal
ownership and operation.
There are several controlling fac
tors presented in the two projects
which in my opinion require the fed
eral government not only to COM
plete both" said Senator Norris to-
day, "but to operate them. We should
not turn over either to private eX-
ploitation. Muscle Shoals is necessa-
rily a national enterprise because of
its relations to our wartime actlVl-
ties, and Boulder dam is in my opin-
ion of such vast Importance to the
protection of Imperial Valley Cali
fornia and the development of the
far southwest, as to make it neces-
sary for the federal government to
construct the dam, control the lrrl.
cation resources it will develop, as
we'll as the electric power.
"At both Muscle Shoals and Boul.
der dam [ would have the govern
ment committed to the sale of the
electric power to municipalities and
public utility corporations. We al
ready have assurances that all the
power we can develop at Boulder
dam would be contracted for in ad-
vance by Los Angeles and nearby
cities and towns, while in my opin-
ion there would be no difficulty in
finding such a market for surplus
electric power developed at Muscle
Shoals"
Senator Norris said he was OPP
posed TO the recommendation of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States recently submitted to him urg-
ing the development of government
controlled water-poWers under the
federal water-power' commission to
be operated by private industry.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
HUSBAND WIFE
SUICIDE PACT FAILS
AS WOMAN L|NCERS

RICHMOND, Va, April S-Holmes
Cummins, Sd, well-known local bust
ness man and socially prominent,
shot and killed himself, and Mrs.
Cummins dangerously wounded her.
self when the couple, respondent
over Cummins' continued poor
health, attempted to carry out a sui
eide pact in their fashionable apart
ment here yesterday.
Police, who broke in after neigh.
bors' suspicious had been aroused
over prolonged silence in the apart
ment, found Cummins dead with a
bullet through his head, a SO caliber
pistol clutched in his hand, and Mrs.
Cummins suffering from wound
over the heart. Belief was expressed
that the tragedy had taken place
fully II hours previously.
Mrs. Cummins, a short-story
writer of prominence, told the story
of the affair at the local hospital to
which she was taken. They had
been contemplating double suicide
for some time, she said, because oil
their unhappiness over Cummins'
failure to obtain cure for asthma
with which he was troubled for some
years.
II shot myself. then Holmes took
the gun and shot himself" she told
the authorities.
Mrs. Cummins expressed the hope
that she might live when attending
physicians informed her that her
condition was serious.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
General Wright Suffers
Pains in His Foot
Severed 90 Years Ago

Comptroller General William A.
wright, who lost his right leg in the
second battle of Manassas, August
so, 1862, suffered paroXysms of pain
as il in his right foot Wednesday
night, and the unusual visitation an
noyed the general at intervals Thurs
day morning, as he sat at his desk
in the state capitol.
It's a queer thing" said the gen
eral, after a manifestation, occa-
stoned by the pain in his missing
member. For many years after my
right leg had been amputated, l suf-
fered occasionally from pains in nv
right foot. About twenty-five years
ago, however. the trouble. ceased,
and until Wednesday night 1 have
never been bothered
But Wednesday night, my right
foot began to trouble me again, and
I had but little sleep. Every time
went TO sleep. was awakened by
severe pains in the foot which has
been missing since 1 was 10 years
old
TT feels, for a few seconds, just
like I had a cotton hook in my foot
and that someone was twisting it
around. l haven't an idea what
causes the mysterious pain in the
foot I haven't had in over sixty
years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
The Weather

Forescast for Saturday.
Virginia .-Showers
North Carolina.-Showers.
South Carolina.-Showers; warmer
on the coast Friday.
Georgia. - showers: not much
change in temperature.
Florida little change in
temperature.
Extreme Northwest Florida
Alabama and Mississippi. Cloudy;
not much change in temperature.
Tennessee. - Cloudy and cooler,
probably showers in east portion.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
siana.-Probably showers.
Enthusiastically showers, lit
Tie change in temperature.
Oklahoma.-Probably showers in
east portion, partly cloudy in west
portion; not much changed in temper
ature
East TeNss.-Probab bly, showers.
West TeXas.-Partly cloudy.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Behave or Take Train,
Says Iowa Mayorette;;
Bans Flags for Girls

COLUMBUS CITY, Iowa. April g..
Eva Bretz, school teacher-mayor Of
Columbus City, and her cabinet Of
women today served notice on all
w-breakers here to come irtc the
fold or get out of town.
we shall not tolerate bootlegging
or any other form of law breaking. )"
she declared.
Mayor Bretz is also against bobhed
hair and cigarettes for women.
Every elective Office in town fell
10 women, Two other teachers, Miss
Mary Moore and Miss Nellie Moore
occupied the posts Of treasurer and
assessor. respectively.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
WEEKS CALLED TO ANSWER
CHARGES OF HUSH PLOT
E. D. BIGHAM, ALLEGED SLAYER
OF FIVE MEMBERS OF FAMILY,
IS GRANTED ANOTHER TRIAL

The case was carried on appeal four
times to the supreme court of South
Carolina, finally resulting in an or
derfor hearing on the motion for
new trial.
Bigham, indicted for the murder OF
his mother, Mrs. Amelia Bigham,
widow of former state senator, his
sister, Mrs. Marjorie Black. and
two small adopted children of the
latter, was convicted of the murder
Of his brother. L. Smiley Bigham,
which automatically carried the SEN
tence of electrocution. He was taken
to the state penitentiary in Columbia
n 1921, when his attorneys began the
fight for a second trial
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Soldier Is Jailed
In Carolina Killing;
Inglesider Is Freed

LEXINGTON, S. c., April g.
James e. Smith, private, Second field
artillery Fort Bragg, n. c., late
Wednesday was held by a coroner
jury to answer to the charge of hav-
ing murdered Floyd r. Mason, St.
Adams, VT, itinerant salesman,
whose body, with the head battered
and throat cut, was found beside the
lexington Columbia highway, near
here, March %.
At the inquest w. T. Taylor iden-
titled Smith as the man who on the
supposed night Of the killing, left
Mason's light car on the highway,
about twenty miles from the place
where the body was found, and J. H.
Crawley, farmer, living near the
scene, identified Smith as the man
who accompanied Mason to the
Crawley home on March 16, the day
of the Staying.
Clarence Rodgers, of Ingleside,
Ga, at one time arrested in connec-
ton with the case, testified that he
was with Smith in Augusta, Ga, on
March II, when Mason hired the
man. This Smith denied, emphasiz-
ing that he never had seen Rodgers.
Sheriff Roof, of Lexington county,
testified that an entry in Mason's
diary stated Mason was returning
from Augusta with Jim" whom
the sheriff interpreted as meaning
Smith.
Colonel J. D. Smith, of the United
States army, stationed in Column
bia, testified that he was at Mason's
camp in the afternoon of March 16,
the supposed date of the killing,
and that Smith, according to his
best recollection" was the man who
was with Mason there at that time.
w. Fl. Covington, of Ingleside. Ca,
one Of the travelling companio Of
Mason, who has been under arrest
since soon after the discovery of the
body, testified flat he left Mason on
March II. He was released from
custody and left for his home last
ri,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Woodbury. Policeman
Dies Of His Wounds;
Slayer Is Lynched

Chief of Police Albert Wells, of
Woodberry. Ga, died at local hos.
pital this morning from pistol
wounds said to have been inflicted
by Beach Thrash, a fifteen-year-old
negro boy of Woodbury.. who paid
with his ife at the hands of a mob
late yesterday.
Officer Wells was said by wit
nesses TO have been in the act of ar
resting the negro youth on a charge
of theft, when, turning in answer
to a telephone ring, the boy seized
the pistol. discharging it. the bullet
taking effect in the officers head.
A mob later in the day stormed
the Woodberry Jail, secured the
negro, and left in the direction of
Flint river where his body was later
found. Policeman Wells was rush.
ed to Atlanta for medical attention.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Wife Returns $75,820
OF $4,000 Stolen
From Navy by Mate

SAN DIEGO, Cal. April S.-Mrs
Ervine r. Brown, wife of Lieutenant
Brown, naval supply officer alleged
to have deserted his ship after TAX
ing $4,000 in government money,
today turned over $75,S2Q to the To-
cal paval authorities.
She came here by automobile from
Los Angeles, after taking a grip
with the money in it from her hus
band while he was unaware, she
said.
She met him in a Los Angeles
hotel and pleaded with him to give
up. When he refused, Mrs. Brown
said she fed from him with the
satchel full of money.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Workmen Race Death
When River Pours Into
Tunnel After Explosion

NEW YORK, April S-Twenty-
five men working in the vehicular
tunnel being built under the Hudson
river fled for their lives today when
a compressed air explosion blew a
hole in the roof and let in the river
Every one escaped and engineers
commenced forcing the water from
the workings. Work cannot be re-
sumed for three days.
The explosion occurred about 200
feet from the New York end of the
tunnel.
Passengers on ferrYboats saw a
geyser of water shoot up fifty feet
high from the river surface.
One wor.>man wa nearly caught
as the waters poured into the open.
ing. With others he raced through
rising water in the tunnel bottom
to safety.
The geyser-like effect on the sur
face continued for several minutes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Matchmaker Leaves
Estate to Mrs. Wilson,
Cutting Off Family

WASHINGTON. April 3.-Cutting
off bis relatives, Henry Bergheimer,
Swiss matchmaker who died here
last October, left his estate valued at
SIS 300, TO Mrs Edith Boiling Wilson,
wife Of the late president.
Bergheimer's will, filed here for
probate, conveyed life insurance and
other property to Mrs. Wilson. Berg
haimer once worked in the jeweIry
store of Gait Brothers here in which
Mrs. Wilson has an interest, obtained
through her marriage to one of the
former partners in the business.
Mrs. Wilson'S legal representatives
would not discuss the matter Thurs
day.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Rail Officials Find
Spot Where Engineer S
Head Struck Bridge

MACON. Ga. April 3.-The loco
motive in which J. F. Edwards, engi-
neer, was fatally injured Tuesday,
was run TO the scene of the acct.
dent Wednesday, with sheriff's depu-
ties and high officials of the Cen
trail of Georgia railway in the cab.
The locomotive was moved slowly
across Rocky Creek bridge and one
spot was discovered where the paint
had been broken at a point as high
as the cab window where Mr. Ed
wards rode.
The coroners jury reported that
Mr.. Edwards came to his death when
his head struck the bridge while
leaning out of the cab. Railroad
officials drew the same conclusion
after their investigation
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-05
Alaska on Saturday Is
Goal Of u. S. Fliers on
'Round-the World Hop

SEATTLE, Wash, April 3.-Sitka,
Alaska, by Saturday afternoon, is
the goal of four United States army
aviato@s no are prepared to leave
here at dawn tomorrow on the next
lap of the "round-the- world voyage"
The tentative schedule, rearranged
by Major Frederick l.. Martin, COM
mander of the squadron, calls for ar
rival at Prince Rupert, B. c., $50
miles from here, tomorrow night.
The filters plan to ascend again
early Saturday and clip off the 800
mile stretch to Sitka. before dusk.
Tonight Major Martin expects to
receive weather reports from sta
tons alor~ tho Pacific coast route.