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Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
Bard Men Are
Arrested Under
Child Labor Law


BARD, Dec. 1J.-Luther w. Lee
Bard rancher, and Andres Ramos,
labor contractor, are the latest to
run afoul of the state labor commits
sioner. Arrested ON charge of EN-
plcying c. l.. Montgomery, aged IA,
Joe Crawfor, IA, and Antonio Luna,
II wears old, in violation of the law,
both men entered plea of guilty
in Judge Henson 5 court here.
Labor Officer Stanley NJ. Cue
made the arrests He testified that
Re found the three children in ques-
ton working during school hours.
luev were picking cotton in a 1leld
hidden from the road by row OF
bushes, he said, while the men and
women pickers were working near
the road in plain view.
Because Lee was not ON the place
at the time the children were found
and because he said he had told his
foreman Ramos to discharge the
children. Judge Henson suspended
Lee sentence of $l50 Ramos,
who was present, was also fined $50
of which $50 was paid and $l20 sus-
peneded on condition that there be
no further violations.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
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McCABE
Uy Press staff Correspondent

McCABE. Dee. 15.-Tbe MeGabe
school is publishing monthly paper
called the - Echo which dos ere
dit to a larger school.
Pearl Pearson of Fl Centre spent
the weekend with her grandparents
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Moore.
The high school boys of McCabe
were hosts to the seventh and eighth
grades at a party at the McC9De
school on the evening Of December
l2
Word was received from Mr.. and
Mrs. c. \. Hagerty that they have
bought beautiful home in Pasade-
ma where they will live.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. Houser OF
Los Angeles are guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Austin.
Miss Delta Phillips was the guest
Of Mrs. L. J. Pearson Of FL Centre
oycr the weekend.
Boy Scouts to Camp
Bow Scout troupe No. - aud
Scoutmastcr j. L. Brock are plan
ming a great time at Painted Can
yon where they will camp Saturday
night and Sunday.
j. c. Mack has traded his Silsbe'
property TO San Diego Company
who have bought most of the Sils
bee townsitc, using the Mack noih'
as the ranch house. Mr.. and Mrs
Mack will make their home in Ma
tiOnal City after tho close OF th'
school term. Mrs. Mack is teach
| ing in the Elm school.
Alondro Moore Of Fresno is vi
sitting at the home his sister Mrs
| William Blunt.
On Tuesday evening Dceembc
16 there will be a Communlil
Christmas trec and program at th'
McCabc school.
Walter Austin has returned from
a few days spent at the Finncy Gu
Club at Calipatria.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
CITIES OF DREADFUL SIZE

Things have cone to point in New Iork, says
the World where most people use up more energy
in going to their work and coming from their work
than on the work itself. They jammed together,
suffocated and frazzed beyond all reason They waste
time temper and strength wallowing in great crowds
It so, only in less degree in all the big elties.
And it is so not only in regard to the work done IN big
cities but in regard to the pleasures and recreation
sought there. Yet people invite and endure the DIS
comforts of such human anthills, as New York Phla
deluhia Chicago ETC.. not from necessity surely, but
from false notion of the benefits derived theretron
or from sheer slavishness in following crowds and
customs.
This illogical wasting of life cannot last There Is
no economic reason why should last with the present
organization of business, transport and communlca-
ton which makes it possible to distribute industries
and decentralize cities.
The human inertia, the state of mind, which to-
crates metropolitan life is the hardest thing to over
come Happily there many signs OF dawnmg IN
telligence and freedom in that respect.
The desirable city of the future, we may assume,
will be city with only thousands tens of thousands
instead of millions lacking the dreadful inconvenience
of the present metropolis and yet possessing all It's es
sential conveniences and opportunities
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
HOLTVILLE
fBv Press Staff Correspondent)

1
! HOLTNILLE, Dee. 15.-M. Y.
Oakley. who has been in this city
on business, has returned to his
home in San Diego.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Lester were
dinner guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. 0. c. Harris recently.
Mary Maine, former resident of
Holtville and now attending Cum
mock 5 school in Los Angeles, will
be the guest of Eau Clair Lester
during the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Lewdala Cromwell and child
rem were recent visitors in FL Cen
tro. Mrs. Cromwell is leaving with
her children for Newbarg, Oregon,
today.
\ number of the young people Of
the Baptist church attended the
weiner roast given by the Baptist
church in Brawley Friday evening.
The Woman S Study Club met
Friday afternoon at the Civic Cen
ter. Mrs. Dagg, Mrsas Waiter Rey-
nolds and Miss Margaret Gentry
g:sc, seysgg g9e2s u hwbeEs. 4 LEY
interesting, taif Vas given ~ Kiss
Ada York, country superintendent
of schools, ON the 10Th amen lment
and educational lines. Mrs. II. n.
Terwilliger, Mrs. f. B. Hatfield
and Mrs. Elmer Hartzog were hos
tesses. There were 81 present and
after the meeting lovely refresh
mentS were served.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
FINAL FIGURES
ON MEASURES OF
RECENT ELECTION

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 10
Official tabulations of the vote east
at tl' general election ON Novem-
Der 4 for constitutional amendments
and initiative measures were made
public today by the office of state
Frank G. Jordan. The official count
on the measures which were passed
IS as follows:
No. >, salaries and expenses of
the legislature, yes S6,l93; no
39l 1898.
40. ), deposits of public moneys.
yes 5l5,4l2; no 279,S30.
No 4, inferior courts, yes 5lS.a92;
no 266,24l.
Nc. &, personal property .aNes,
yes 490,7s2; no 533,311.
80. :, boxing and wrestling CON
tests, YES 5l8,63l; no 9S,217.
No. s, county Officers, yes 423.-
o2l; no 3l9,325.
No. ., taxation, yes 499,O3l; no
36s,Ol4.
No. II, Klamath river fish and
game district, yes $50, ,7s5; no a63,-
65S.
No. l., municipal courts, yes
47j.2l7; no 267,sS7.
No. l2, poll taxes, YES 5O1 ,jjl /;
no 4S6,l34.
No. l., eminent domain, US A.
1l3; no 3S3,20l.
No, Is, suffrage, yes d99,dS7; no
97,G57. ~
The following is the Official vote
on measures which were defeated:
No. !, taxation of highway trans.
portation, yes 1882; no 541,241.
Ne. ), transtots of funds, yes 26i,.
464; 10 80, -.
No. 10, state taxation, yes 2sI
19l; no 4sT126.
No. Il, bonds, yes 31f,75O; nc
jll ,36i.
No. l5, tax exemption, yes 2o7,
S13; no 533,775.
No. is, water and power, yc'
2o,5s5; no 751,9S5.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
TEN YEARS AGO
December Is, 1914

The meeting of the Presbyterian
Ladies Guild, held at the home of
Mrs. ". \. Cook on Wednesday af-
telnoon was very well attended and
proved a most enjoyable occasion
for all present.
4. Wood, wei. known on tac Pa
citi" e&ast for his many long dis
,ance hiking feats, arrived here last
night after Il strenuous hike across
the desert from san Diego.
The Fraternal Brotherhood 5 regu-
lar monthly dance last evening, was
most pleasant affair and was cX-
ceptionallv Wen attended. Mrs. c.
II. Merrill gave several splendid vo-
cal selection
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Decemher 1E. 1909

c. I. Lathrop of Imperial an.
nounces that So lemons have been
picked this season from a 5-year-old
lemon tree ON his place while there
are many still left on the tree.
Z. {. Ellis has purchased five
acres of land on the Kloke ranch
near CaieNieo and has already begun
to build Il new home there.
\. l.. Bliss, who recently made
purchases of real estate i'll FL Centre
and vicinity, is expecting Il number
of friends from the north aud east
to come to Imperial Valley to pur-
ehaSc lands.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
MILLIONS FOR COLLEGES

The Kansas City Star remarks, 'if there is sole
requirement of the present-day university II IS an en-
do1rnoon+ of several million dollars Not even a million
or two in resources would permit institution to be-
come university except in name
The earliest universities grew up naturally. lhey
ware snnv assenblages or students from many coun-
tries taught by men Of genius ~
The university today is that and it is also collec-
lection of fine and expensive buildings extensive EQUIP
ant in laboratories scientific apparatus libraries and
research facilities to mention large and expensive
staduns.
Chicago University, with resources valued at ap-
oroyimatev so millions dollars announces campaign
to double those resources Harvard University mas al
endowment of SO million dollars, but it felt the need
of raising 10 million dollars more and started cail
naon for that nurpose last June. Other institutions
are doing or already have done the same thing.
All of this is very fine. True education IS un,
doubtedlv worth all the millions spent Tor It, ana
many more But often individuals both inside and out
side of these institutions of higher learning forget tha
the material equipment is really only the tool OF edu
cation and not the main thing
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
Even Convict S
Will Shop
Early -

FOLSOM, Cant, Dec. 15.--
Even convicts art to be encour-
aged to do their Christmas shop
ping early. The state parole
board. in session here, decided
to release on December Is, all
convicts at Folsom and San
Quentin penitentiaries whose
indetermiIats sentences or pa
role terms start during the period
between December Is and De-
c,-aher 81.
Tho custom in the past has
uecn TO releae these prisoners
u cceL.1er 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15

You know II will soon oe Christ
mas went on Susie. .'I am go
ing 10 hang up rtv stockings to
have Santa Claus fill them with
presents. But if nv stockings have
holes IN, all the presents will fall
cut. >
THAT is very likely TO happen. ="
agreed the bunny gentleman..
/ But l don t know how TO mend
these stockings very WE'LL, = said
Susie. "Mothcr told me to darn
them, so I brought them here to
! the woods.
why did YOU do that, Susie7'
asked Uncle Wiggily.
u thought perhaps 1 might see
! the Darniug Needle bug lady md
she would mend my stockings for
me, " answered the rabbit girl.
''Well, the Darning Needle lady,
or Dragon Fly, might mend your
stockings for you, if she were
here, said Mr.. Longears. but
this IS winter and the Darning
Needles have gone down South,
where il is warm. However, per
haps I can mend your stockings
for Won, Susie
"Oh, can you' How?" cried
Susie.
IN ,how YOU, spoke Uncle
Wiggilv. He found "a pine tree
with some sticky gum trickling from
hole in the bark. The bunny gen
! tleman took some OF this sticky
gum, and then be guawed a bit OF
bark from the white birch tree. Tn
Gle Wiggilv gummed pieces OF bark
over the holes in Susie : stockings.
"There! he cried. You can t
see The holes any more. 1t isn t
as neatly done a> if they Were darn
ed, but perhaps it will do.
"Will ny stockings hold Christ
mas present now." asked Susie
i"I'm going TO try. Ill fill their
| with stones and see if any fall ou'
of the places where the holes were
If no stones drop out then III b
sure no presents will fall out. =
So Susie fillad both stocking
with stones, and the patches whicl
Uncle Wiggily had gummcd on hell
tightly. Susie swung her stocking
around her head and cried: ''Hur
ray!13 w. .,..,. ,,.,,4
say." growlcd the Wooli1 VOL
suddenly popping out of the bushes
i ''Hurray, for I'm going to nibbl
Uncle WiGgily's ears today
"Ob, no you arcn ~ sweet,
said Susie. 80 No you aren't, yol
bad old Wolfe, you." With tina
she once more swung her stocking
filled with Stones, and brought :hen
down Sock" on the Wolf 5 nose
"Kazinka.rink! howlcd I h
Wolf, holding his paws on his nose
"Oh, what happencd?'
"My stockings happened 10 hi
you-my Christmas stockings tina
= Uncle Wiggily mcnded for me s
they will hold rocks. They hap
pcncd to hit YOU" laughed Susie
Then The Wolf ran away, tho litti
rabbit girl cmpticd the stones fror
her stockings and she and Mr. Long
ears went home. And if the mill
bottle viii give the gas stove
drink Of tea when il dances o.
one leg, III tell you next ibou
, Uncle Wiggily and the lost pig.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
Durant Makes
Millions ON
Wall Street
pv tIn,ted Press Leased Wire

By United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK, Dec. 15,-W. G.
purant, head Of the Durant
Motors aud once affiliated with
General Motors, is one of the
big winners in the post election
stock marked speculation, ac-
cordlng to gossip, which prevail :
ed in Wall Street. 4
Durant, now spending his va.
caticn in California, has person
ally directed his speculative
movements by toiegraphone
from an uptown office. AS
many as Is brokers have been
handling his business. N
Wall Street estimate his paper
profits on United States cast
llon pipe alone to be near the
S3,00O,060 mark.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This Date
In Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
December Is. 1905

The Henderson Brothers are con
templating going into the dairy
business.
j. d. Meadows returned Tuesday
frmo an eight day trip to Yuma,
Arizona on business.
G.. 4. Parkins, formerly assistant
general traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific, was in FL Centre
last Tuesday, Mr.. Parkins is di-
rector in the California Development
Company, and property owner in
the valley,
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
The Weather

FOR LOS ANGELES AND VI.
CINITY - Mostly cloudy tonigh'
and Tuesday, probably becoming un'
settled Tuesday. Moderate tempera'
turc.
FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNlh
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday. NO
important change in temepraturc.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
MANAGER OF BROOKLYN
DODGERS SERIOUSLY ILL

BALTIMORE, Md, Dee. l5,-Wil-
bert Robinson, manager OF the
Brooklyn Dodgers, who has been
seriously i'll for scvcrarweeks, will
be operated on today at the Union
Memorial Hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15

on al the meeting .nd decisiI
madc inat one accountant wo1
be necessary to handle the diff
cnt sets of books for all of the J
Centre banks, if the farmers IA
up this proposition. The OIL
charges made the farmers will
the cost of the accountant, viii
Mt the most would only be So or
per month for each set of books.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15

Plenty of people who shudder at the thought OF
ethyl gasoline for the family bus think It's all rght
to fill their own tanks with ethyl alcohol
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
Brand New Breed
of Bandit in
Bay City
rs United Press Leased Wire

SkN FRANCISCO, Dee. d. A
new breed Of "drug store bandit -
has appeared here.
The man held up the manager Of
a chain drug store, bound him in the
prescription room and after calmly
waiting On customers for half an
hour, escaped with $50, the content'
of the till.
If the man is captured, state gu
thorities may want him for operat
ing a drug store without o license.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15

Do your Christmas shopp;ng e2r.
". OF course you won I do il, Lut
anyway; ~ 2 timely wasn;ag.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15

Rev j. W, Wilson, presiding elder
Of the \. NJ. r.. church, Southern
California, conducted quarterly meet
ing yesterday with the local church
lie is visiting all the local churches
and will return to Los Angeles the
middle of the week. Io reports the
work in Imperial Valley progressing
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15
EASTSIDE NEWS

zThe girl reserves of the Eastsiie
schools rendered 4 program Of un-
usual merit last evening at the Sec
oud Baptist church. The occasion
was the Christmas vesper Services
The following program WAS reader
ed:
Prelude, Octavia Payne.
Professional, with lighted
candles Hark, the Herald Angels
Sing
Scripture reading and prayer, Mrs.
Matte ). Nelso-.
Solo, 80 Holy Night" Miss
Prince.
Violin solo, Andante Religioso, -
Mrs. John Culbcrson.
Christmas story, "Candle Light
Mrs. ". y. Payne.
Hymn, joy to the World, con
Gregation.
Quartcttc, "Slecp Holy Child, "
Phyllis Whcatley quartettt.
Solo, He Hideth Me, Mrs. Il.
Prince Augustus.
Song, ''Silent Night girl re-
serves.
Recesional, "Follow the Clean.
Benediction Miss Knox.
Postlude, Miss Octayia Payne.
The services were largely attend
ed and parents and friends are at
testing to the inspiration that the
work of the organization has been
to the girls. 1t is with regret that
they learn of the departure of Miss
Josephine Brown, the county Young
Woman 5 Christian association see
rotary to another field. She has
been of great inspiration to the
young people and the parents as
well, and in mother-daughtcr ban
quct given recently, they took occa-
sion to express their love and appre'
| citation.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15

Plans arc being completed for th'
community exercises and tree to b'
had in the school auditorium, Wed
nesday evening, December 2i. Com
mittccs covering the various activi
ties are appointed and arc report
ing their progress. The teachers o
the public school are training thu
children for the exercises. The See
ond Baptist and {. NJ. Il. Sunda,
schools are directing the campaigi
for funds for making it the bigges
Christmas ever. A number of dona
tions have been made, others ar
promised. The festivities will begiI
promptly with numbers by the East
side school orchestra.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-12-15

You know II will soon oe Christ
mas, went on Susie. ".I am go
ing 10 hang UP r1y stockings to
have Santa Claus fill them with
presents. But if my stockings have
holes IN, all the presents will fall
out.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-13
Sill YER
FASCNVATES
BUYERS
Marks Of Historic Makers
Prevent Fraud Types Exc
planned by Expert

There is probably nothing more
fascinating to the collector and COM
noisseur than pieces Of historic sill.
YER OF the Colonies The makers
marks on Colonial silver OF the sew
enteenth and eighteenth centuries
y an interesting study. The earliest
adopted naturally followed the con-
Temporary English custom consist
Ing Of initials enclosed In q device.
To attribute the marks, consist
ing Of initials only, Is a compare
lively easy matter for the seven
tenth century, as there were few
silversmiths with the same initials
and these attribntions have been
made with satisfactory accuracy.
But in the early eighteenth CEN
tury the difficulty begins and vastly
Increases, after the middle Of the
century, with the growing number
Of silversmiths The positive proof
lof Identification Is where these ini-
tials are found In conjunction with
the full name.
The mark. IN with g. cross below
i In q shield for John Noyes (1674-
l749l on the flagon in the Brattle
Street Church, Boston, seems to
need no further proof, as he was
member of that church and
would have been likely to be com
missioned to make IT.
Another instance where sufficient
proof exists is the mark IG
crowned, with a fleur.de-lis below,
In a shield for Joseph Goldthwaite
t1706-S0l. The initials Sc In a
Irectangle, attributed to Samuel
Gilbert who advertised in 1898 at
Hebron in Connecticut, Is undoubt-
eddy correct, for considerable silver
with these initials was found among
the old families of that town.
Where sets of spoons are in the
same family the stamp with initials
on the small spoons viii usually be
found to correspond to the fun
name on the large ones. This
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-13
NEW YORK PLANS FOR
2O.OOO.oOO IN 1875

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Nov. a.
New York is planning for a popula.
ton of 10000, 900 in 1876, and has
charts Of transportation and building
development worked out on that
basis, Thomas Adams, general d.
rector Of the plan Of New York and
Its environs. told the National Mu.
nicipal League.
There are $4,000 persons com.
|muting into Manhattan now, he said.
III SIX or seven years that number
will be doubled and 100000 persons
will be passing in and out of Man
haitian daily. The great problem is
not SO much the solution OF present
conditions OF congestion as to Ero-
vide solution that will care for
the situation twenty-five years from
now
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-13

NEW YORK. Nov. rs. Rivalry
Of Miss Belle Dacosta Greene. buy.
er and librarian Tor J. n. Morgan,
and Doctor sA. 3. wv. Rosenbach
forced the bidding Tor the manu-
script Of tyxenty.seven chapters 81
Robert Louis Eteyenson's kid.
mapped the book had thirty chap
ters-up to $4,000 before Miss
Greene retired az the sale Of manu-.
scripts and autographs OF the late
William Harris Arnold In the AM
derson galleries.
Miss Greene for $1,000 got four
folio pages Of manuscript in the
hand OF Laurence Sterne, written
December %, 1761, as q supplement
to HIS win In case he should die
aboard. on the eve OF his departure
for France for his health.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-13

VAN ESS LABORATORIES, INC.
Is E. KinziS St., Chicago. Iilinois
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-13
DREADlNc HYDRoPHoBIA,
MAN TRIES TO END LIFE

WILKES-BARRE, Nov. H.
Crazed by the thought that he
might 20 mad from a dog bite,
William Wildsmith, sixty, tried to
end his life by loosening the tube
leading to the gas stove in his
room. He may recover.
bitten late yesterday at Port
Griffith, near here, while canvas.
sing. In the pockets OF the man
when he was found, were a few
crusts Of bread, $500 in cash and
a bank book which revealed that
the man had $3,9S4.54 in q Halle.
ton bank. It was reported that he
was frugal In his living.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-13
Y. s. ARMY ON CASH
BASIS. REP RT STATES

The United States army now does
business on 4 cash basis.
Brigadier General Kenxie w.
walker, chief Of finance and bud
get officer OF THE army. Ia his an
nua1 report to the Secretary Of the
War, made public today, reveals
that for the first time in history
the United States army Is paying
its accounts as they TALL due and
thereby avoiding q great deal Of
the fred tape" customary IN Gov
eminent financial affairs. .
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-13
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