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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-08-07
HEAT VICTIM
At JAMESBURG
Man Fatally Hurt-City Swell
ters, but Some Relief
Is in Sight

JAMESBURG, Aug. 1.-THE heat
claimed another victim yesterday
when Louis Gorga. sixty-eight years
old, of this borough. tainted from
the sweltering humidity while sitting
on the basement steps of neigh
bor's home and suffered a concus-
sion of the brain as he fell into the
basement and through a glass door.
Gorga was given first aid by DIR.
John L. Suydam. He was later rush.
ed TO the Middlesex General Hospi-
tai where an operation failed to save
his life.
Funeral services Will be held Sat
urday from his late home. The de-
ceased is survived by a wife and
daughter Marion.
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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-08-07

WEATHER

Local thunder
showers this af-
ternOOn or to-
night; cooler to-
night. Friday fair
and cooler; fresh
southwest a n d
west winds.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
CRASSHOPPERS
SERIOUS PESTS
An Expert Called to Mason
Valley to Wage War on
Hordes of Invading Pests

"Grasshoppers are cleaning up the
crops in Lyon county," said John D.
Yeager, president of the Lyon Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, who was in Reno
a few dyas ago and made arrange
ments with Cecil w. Creel, head of
the agricultural extension work in
Nevada, to visit Mason Valley and
start mivement for an extensive
poisoning campaign.
Mr.. Creel states he also received
reports that the hoppers were bad
in Lander and Eureka counties and
that he would start movements at
once toward poisoning them, re-
ports the Reno Gazette. He plans
on carrying out the work through the
farm bureau organizations under di-
rection of the county agents and
states poison and ingredients will be
bought in large quantities and a
systematic fight made to kill the
hoppers, which will be worse next
year, if not killed off this.
Bran in which white arsenic is
mixed and flavord with molasses and
scented with almy acetate will be
used in the work.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
HAY BRINGS
HIGH PRICE
Springmeyer Company Sells
Two Hundred Tons at $40
per Ton in the Stack

Twenty dollars a ton, in the stack
hase just been paid for two hundred
tons of 1928 alfalfa hay in Douglas
county. The sale was madde by M
Mack for the H. H. Springmeyer
company and the hay will be ship
ped to California. The baling, load
ing and transportation of the hay,
it is estimated, will bring the de-
livered price to a figure near $35 a
ton, says the Reno Gazette. Several
California buyers have been in the
Nevada market during the last few
weeks, but this is the first large sale
to them that has been reported.
Several small lots of baled hay
have been sold in Carson valley re-
Gently at prices up to $22.50, but the
figure of 500 for unbaled hay in the
stack is the highest figure so far
reported Ranchers are anticipating
a considerable higher figure before
fall. 1t is anticipated by some that
the Nevada market will reach $35
ton before fall on account of the
sharp demand in California where
pasturage and hay lands are suffer-
ing severely from the water short
age. The first cutting of alfalfa is
under way in Carson Valley, the
yield ranging from about half crop
in the fiat between Minden and Car
son to approximately normal crop
on the old ranches upstream with
earlier water priorities.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
.D0NNELLEY HAS
INNING IN COURT
Fights to Quash Indictment
and Files Counter Charges
Against Federal Attorney

Accusing George Springmeyer
United States district attorney for
Nevada. of knowingly and wilfully'
misadvising the grand jury in res
pect to matters Of law and of re-
framing from introducing evidence
that would have exhonerated the pro-
hibition director, J. p. Donnelley,
suspended head of the dry law en-
forcement officers in Nevada, Mon
day made his first move against the
district attorney since his indictment,
when his attorneys filed motion in
the federal court to quash the indct-
ment in which he is accused of fail
ing to report certain alleged law Vi
olations and of misconduct of his
office.
Backing up the motions filed by
Donnelley are affidavits signed by f.
F. "Dry") Jones, superintendent of
the Nevada Anti-Saloon league, and
John l. Petersen, witness before
the grand jury.
The motions will be considered by
Judge harrington June "a, he an
nounced. Donnelley will also make
his plea to the charges contained in
the Indictment against him at this
time.
Donnelley, in his motion, asserts
that Springmeyer did not have the
moral courage to be willing to stand
unjust criticism, as far as he was
concerned, and for the purpose of re-
lieving himself therefrom malicious
ly conceived the purpose of using the
powers Of his office to cause the de-
fendant to be charged with various
and sundry derelictions of duty and
of criminal acts and to himself per-
form acts which would in themselves
impute dereliction Of duty upon the
part of the defendant.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
FUMICATION
STATIONS BACK
ON STATE Line
Officials of California Make
Strenuous Objections and
Force Nevada to Move
Fume Stations Back on
Sagebrush Soil

The Nevada fumigation and disin-
fecting stations that went over the
top and penetrated goodly number
of miles into the enemy's territory,
on California soil, could stand the
onslaught rapid machine gun criti-
cism and bombardment of officialdom
Of the poppy growing commonwealth
no longer, and last Saturday the
personnel Of the evading company in
Mono county, made hasty but
honorable retreat to the Nevada
state line. Straightaway the guards
set up their spray cannon and gass-
ing machine and henceforth automo-
bile tourists will be shot with sheep
dip and formaldehyde and if they
survive, they will continue their
journey into Nevada, smelling no
longer like a poppy or rose.
A. B. Gray, of the Placerville
Democrat, who has put up wicked
fight for the misused and abused
auto tourists, will now feel that the
laurel wreaths Of victory are resting
upon his honored shoulders for hav-
ing moved back the Won Formalde-
hyde line.
To be serious in this matter, it
would appear from the present out
look that the Nevada quarantine
stations will be withdrawn not later
than July 1st. This step is advocat-
ed by George Russell, Jr., president
of the Nevada Livestock association,
who believes there is no further
danger. 1t is true that new out
break of foot and mouth disease oc-
CURED in herd of 800 head of stock
in Tullare county Monday, but it is
also fact that the U. S. government
officials are keeping strict quaran-
time an all present infected districts
and have the disease well in hand.
Nevada officials are also taking a
more optimistic view of the situation
as time goes by, probably for two
reasons. First the disease is not
spreading in California as was
anticipated, and second, the fact that
the Nevada quarantine stations are
costing $1,000 a day to maintain, is
an item to be reckoned with, since
there is no grave danger of the
disease crossing .the Sierras. The
matter of discontinuing the quaran-
tine stations has been placed fully in
the hands of DIR. Records, head of
the quarantine board of this state,
by Governor Scrugham. That Of
ficiars actions, in the matter of dis
pencing with the quarantine stations,
will be guided wholly by conditions
as they exist in California.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
WEATHER
REPOR T
United Staes Weather Bureau
Reports Conditions in Ne
vada for the Past Week

H. F Alps, of the U. S. Weather
Bureau reports that the mean tenn
perature for the week was about
2 per cent above normal, and there
was precipitation. The sunshine
and wind movement were above
normal, and relative humidity was
unusually low. Morning tempera-
lures We're low at the close of the
week. and thin ice was observed at
places in the northern two-thirds of
the State. The elevation of Lake
Tahoe in the 18th was 6224.80 feet
and the discharge at the dam was
100 second feet. The evaporation for
the past week was LOO inches. The
fall in the lake during the past Is
days was only 0.l8 feet.
Drying winds during the past
week were detrimental to crops,
ranges and pastures. Irrigated lands
dried more rapidly than usual. Wat
er in streams is at the lowest stage
for this season of the year known in
the past 35 years. Rotation is being
practiced in the use of water, and
only the more important crops are
being irrigated A fair to good
yield of the first crop of alfalfa is
being cut. but there will be no water
for the second crop in many locali-
ties. In the west portion, the small
supply of water will be used in an
effort to save the wheat, potato and
crops. Cattle and sheep
are in fair to good condition, though
feed is becoming scarce on the range
and rains are greatly needed to pre-
vent grass from drying up. Early
lambs and calves are being rushed to
the market earlier than usual, be-
cause of short pastures. Roads are
dusty for this season of
the year.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
UNITY OF FAITH TO
BE LUTHERAN TOPIC

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and
only Savior of sinners, says Matt.
Is, 9: "In vain do they worship me,
teaching for commandments the doc
trines of men," Thus he makes it
rather clear that vain are all the
works of piety and idle is all wor-
ship of God which God has not COM
manded in His Word. A thing which
God has not commanded, which is
only invented by men, can never
more be an acceptable worship of
God. If | have a servant and give
him instructions what work to do,
and how to do it, but he goes and
does something else which he himself
thinks right and good, or what
another man tells him, | will GER
tainly not be satisfied with such a
servant. For l want him to do
what l command him and not what
he pleases. In His Word God has
told us what to do and what is wor-
ship in which He delights, and it is
vain and idle thing, if we think to
serve Him by doing something else
which He has not commanded us.
Vain and idle it also is, if we in.
deed do what God has commanded
but not in agreement with His Word
as He has commanded it. God
called Israel "rebellious people" at
one time, because they brought sac
rifices, which was according to His
commands; but they brought them on
altars of brick in gardens and groves,
instead of in the temple. where He
had commanded them to be brought.
Hence, we must worship God after
His Word; from this we must not
deviate, then alone it will be pleas
ing unto Him. To worship after our
own thoughts, in violation of His
Word, is wickedness and not godli-
ness.
This general rule for all worship
of God obtains also in the admins
tration and reception of the Lords
Supper. If we celebrate the Lords
Supper we must celebrate it in
agreement with the Lords words
and institution, else it can never
more be pleasing to Him. There
must be unity of faith among COM
municants. This the Lutheran church
demands as requisite for participa-
tion at the Lords Table. 1t there
fore practices what some are pleased
to call close communion, and not
opes or mixed. Basing his remarks
on l. Cor. 10, 14-1S, Rev. Felten will
speak on this question Sunday morn
ing, when the confirmation class of
1924 will partake of the Sacrament
of the Altar. Rev. Felten will set
forth, why unity of faith is necessary
and answer some objections. The
Sunday School of Trinity church will
meet at $3.50 a. M; services begin
at 1890 o'clock.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
THE SPOILERS TO BE
FILMED AT MINDEN

''The Spoilers" the most famous
and most exploited story by Rex
Beach, has again been transferred to
the screen, this time as a big super
feature, produced by Jesse D. Hamp-
ton, didrected by Lambert Hillyer.
The picture will bethe attraction at
the c. V. l. C. Theatre, Minden, Sat-
urday night.
"The Spoilers" is the greatest story
about the Klondyke gold rush ever
written, and one of the most widely
read of American novels. 1t estab-
lished Mr.. Beach's reputation as one
of our most yirile authors, and start
ed the school of out-of-door writers
who have been so popular in Ameri-
ean magazines and books in the past
decade, school in which no one has
surpassed Mr.. Beach. Then, too
"The Spoilers" is true picture OF
early Alaskan history.
When Rex Beach's novel was first
picturized ten years ago by Colonel
Selig, it was the most talked abou,
and the biggest financial success that
the films had ever known. But since
that time, motion pictures have made
gigantic strides forward in technique
in direction, in setting and acting
and this new screen version of "The
| Spoilers" is as far ahead of the
original one as that production was
ahead of other features of that day
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
Skaggs Store
ToOpen Here

o. p. Skaggs, head of the Skaggs
chain store organization, already
operating many stores throughout
California, Utah and Idaho, was in
Gardnerville last week and while
here negotiated for a lease on the
store formerly occupied by Carl
Bechtel in the Graunke building, ac-
cording to reports.
The Skaggs company already has a
store at Reno and intend to open
seven additional stores in Nevada, in
cluding Gardnerville, Carson City
Sparks, Lovelock, Winnemucca and
other towns.
Mr. Buchanan, representing the
Skaggs stores was here from Reno
yesterday, and announces that a
branch store will be opened in the
Graunke building Saturday June %
and on this date the stores at Cars
son and Sparks will also be opened
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
Vim. Settelmerer
Takes Bride
at Elko
I. Son of MIR. and Mrs. VIM.
Settelmeyer of this Valley
and is Well Know Here

w. H. Settelmeyer, assistant coun-
ty surveyor, and Miss Louise Dewar,
a native of Elko, were married Mon
day at the brides home in that city
hv the Rev. Swandler.
Both are we'll known in Elko
county and Mr.. Settelmeyer is also
known in southwestern Nevada,
having graduated from the Univer-
sity of Nevada.
They left on a honeymoon to
points East and will visit relatives
of the bridegroom in Colorado be-
fore returning to Elko.
The groom is the eldest son of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Settelmeyer Of
Carson Valley and is well known in
this section. After graduating from
the University of Nevada he went to
Elko county and aside from being
assistant county surveyor, Is follow
ing his profession, that of a civil
ENGINEER in that section.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
JUDGE QUICKER HEADS
NEVADA MASONS

Edward A. Ducker, chief justice
of the Nevada supreme court, was
elected grand master of the grand
lodge of Masons at the grand lodge
session held in Reno last week.
Clarence L. Young of Lovelock was
elected deputy grand master; Wen
rell H. Churchyard of Yerington,
senior grand warden; Virgil M.
Henderson of Reno, junior grand
warden; w. J. Harris of Reno, grand
reasurer, E. D. Vanderlieth of Reno,
grand secreary, and Edward c. Peter
son of Carson, grand master of in
struction.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
Drouth General
Throughout
Nevada
Reports from all Sections
Tell of Extreme Shortage
of Water this Season

Drouth is the text of almost every
letter received by the Nevada Live
Stock Association, but notwith-
standing the dry situation the cattle
and sheep raisers do not appear to
be downcast, according to Vernon
Metcalf, secretary of the association.
From Ely word comes that the
weather has been dry, cold and windy
but that feed is good in the noun
tains. Irrigating streams are lower
than for many years. Lambs have
been practically contracted for de-
livery in September and October at
from nine to ten cents. Wool in the
ELY section is reported all sold at
from thirty-eight to forty-one cents.
A Wyoming outfit is reported to have
recently purchased 1900 head of
Southern Nevada cattle, grazing in
the Ely district.
From Lund come reports of n
water shortage and drought. The
range is reported fair, however.
Mrs.. E. A. Page of Keystone. who
is close to her eighty-third birthday
and who takes an active interest in
cattle affairs, has the same report
of dryness to make. Many of the
usually dependable water holes are
dried up, she writes Mr.. Metcalf.
The lamb crop is good, but the
calves not up the average. Wild hay
is delayed and light and there is
plenty of work at the Cold Springs
ranch, with wages for cow hands at
$50 month and found and pay in
1.-THE hay fields being $3.50 day.
From other sources Mr.. Metcalf
says he sees ahead a good season
for lamb and mutton producers.
From Los Angeles the market is
from fifty to seventy-five cents high
er for springers, some choice Cali
fornia springers selling at $13.25.
Indications are that lambs from
outside of California will not be
needed in that state for some time
to come, and California buyers are
said to have made recent surveys in
Nevada, Oregon and Idaho with the
idea of obtaining an estimate on the
future supply to be available July,
August and September. The ad-
vices also state that California buy
ers are being advised not to contract
for outside lambs until it is ap-
parent that a shortage will exist
in that state.
Inquiries have shown that only
100000 lambs were shipped out o.
California this spring, while last
year 100000 were shipped, and this,
it is thought, will leave a surplus in
California.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
MINDEN DANCE WAS
ENJOYABLE AFFAIR

The Carson Valley Day dance CIV
en- at Minden Saturday night under
the auspicies of the Minden Tennis
Club, was largely attended and was
one Of the most pleasant and enjoy
able dances given in this community
in some time. The music by the
Syn-Co-Pa.ers' orchestra, was Of the
best, while the midnight supper serv-
ed by members of the tennis club,
was enjoyed by all. The club realiz-
ed sum exceeding one hundred
dollars after all expenses had been
paid and this will be used for COM
pleting the new tennis court at Min
den.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
SPIDER BITE CAUSES
DEATH OF MRS. DAVID

The bite Of a spider resulted in the
death at Reno Monday morning Of
Mrs. William David, former well
known Carson resident also in Car
son Valley where she frequently Wis
tied with her husband.
On last Memorial Day Mrs. David
was bitten by a spider while on an
outing at Lake Tahoe and when she
reached home it was determined that
she was badly poisoned. In an at
tempt TO rid her system of the poison
through respiration she contracted
pneumonia and this disease resultd
in her death.
Mrs. David was raised in Carson
and before her marriage to VIM.
David. secretary Of the Nevada high
way association, was Miss Flora Hall.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
EXPRESS RATES ARE
TO BE REDUCED

Reduction In express rates recent
ly ordered by the Interstate COM
merce commission will amount to
from thirty-fve to thirty-eight per
cent, according to figures compiled by
the state public service commission
from a copy of the commissioner
order. The new rates, however, will
not be effective until January 1st,
1925.
The reductions affect first and
second class express rates, inter-
state, between points in all. zones.
Frank Warren, secretary of the Ne
vada public service commission, has
worked out the percentages in zone
four of the intermountain territory,
where reductions are larger than
will be those on the Pacific Coast.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
NEVADA'S GOLD STAR
WILL SOON BE READY

Copy of "Nevada's Golden Stars"
is now in the hands Of the printer
and the book in which will be
found biographical sketches, and in
most instances, cuts of the 1877 Neva-
da men who gave their lives in the
country's service in 1917 and 1918
will be ready for delivery in July,
according TO information given out
this week. The last legislature made
an appropriation Of $4,000 for the
book and provided for distribution of
1900 copies In accordance with the
act.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
DR.. SOUTHWORTH
ON TRIP TO CANADA

DR.. Stoddard Southworth, who
spent the past few months visiting
his son Hartford at Florence, Arizona,
arrived in Reno few days ago and
with his son, George Southworth of
Tonopah left for Toronto, Canada,
where the latter goes to attend a
national gathering of Rotary club
members, he being president of the
Tonopah organization. DIR. South
worth will visit his boyhood home at
Brockville, Canada, it being his first
visit to that section in over fifty
years.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
DEFICIENCY FUND FOR
QUARANTINE WORK

The state board of examiners, sit
ting at Carson City, has authorized
a deficiency of 100000 as a supple
mental fund in defraying the expense
of quarantine against spread of the
foot and mount disease into Neva-
da, according to reports. The or
iginal quarantine fund of $4,000,
taken from available moneys of the
state bureau, the stock commission
and the sheep commission, has been
exhausted. A bill will be introduced
at the next session of the legislature
carrying an appropriation covering
the deficiency.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
CALIENTE SUFFERS
FROM BIG FIRE

The town of Caliente, in the
southern part of this state, was al
most wiped of the map by fire We'd
nesday.
The fire started in a frame building
and owing to terrific wind was soon
beyond control In three hours from
the time the fire started, a general
store, two hotels, three pool halls,
one restaurant, two rooming houses
and three dwelling houses were in
complete ruins. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. part of which is
covered by insurance. The origin of
the fire has not been determined.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
CARSON CITY FACES
WATER SHORTAGE

Z. S. Daugherty, manager of the
Carson water company, declares that
the water situation there is rapidly
becoming serious and is at present
the worst he has ever known.
Carson depends upon mountain
streams for its water supply and
these are said to be fast drying up.
The water is stored in reservoirs
west of town. City officials, realiz-
inng the seriousness of the situation,
art planning methods of conserva-
ton,
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
KU KLUX KLAN In
LANDER COUNTY

Lander county is the present scene
of activities for Ku Klux Klan organ
izers in Nevada, according to travel
ers from that county arriving in
Winnemucca. says the Silver State.
Last week the frey cross of the
organization was seen burning near
Battle Mountain. an indication, ii is
said. that the khan is in process of
local organization. II also is said
that according to the ritual of the
khan, the cross must be ignited two
or more times before the klan be-
comes a functioning organization in
Battle Mountain.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-06-20
TRAVELLER GIVES
THIS VALLEY BOOST

Declaring Washoe and Carson val
leys to be the "best and greenest
looking territory I've seen on my en-
tire trip" T. C. Greir, western man.
ager for an advertising concern,
stopped in Reno yesterday on his
way back to Seattle.
Mr.. Grier drove from Seattle to
San Diego on the Pacific coast high
way and reported that all of the
country passed through was unusu-
ally dry. Returning by way of
Bishop and Bridgeport, he was sur
prised at the fertility of the farm
land on this side of the Sierras, says
the Journal.