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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

A government employee says the
boil weevil is blessing to mankind.
The parties lined up at his door, wait
ing to retain his services, In the order
named, are the flu, sciatica, the banana
song and a suit of wooden underwear.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23
TELECRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
4 RESUME OF THE WEEKS
oolNGs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit Of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

c. s. Dimes, said to be an oil oper.
Ator OF Denver, Colo, was shot ant
probably fatally wounded in his
apartment at Los Angeles. II. A
Kelly, alias r. G. Greer, chauffeur
for Mabel Normand, motion picture
actress did the shooting, according to
the police who also held Miss Nor
mand and Edna Purviance, also OF the
screen, for questioning.
Four unmasked men, entering a
grocery store at Wendover In the
extreme western part of Utah. Sun
day night lined up the clerks and
proprietor against the wall and took
$4,000 in currency including the West
ern Pacific railroad payroll.
Seattle and vicinity produced more
than 100000 worth of dairy and
poultry products in 1923 according to
estimates by producers organiza-
lions, dealers and shippers here.
Dairy products led with approximate
ly $20,OOO,0OO
Major George w. Fishack, former
ly in the United States diplomatic
service in South America, and his
wife, were killed near Santa Barbara,
Calf. when their automobile was de-
molished by Southern Pacific train.
More than thirty tremors were felt
In the Imeprial valley Of California
between 8 80 o'clock Monday night
and o'clock Tuesday morning. None
was heavy, few jolting buildings
sharpely, the general movements be-
ing lateral Each shock was accom-
paied by thunderlike rumble which
was also noted when no shocks were
felt. No damage was reported.
Billy Miske, st. Paul heavyweight
pugilist died late Tuesday at a st.
Paul hospital after a weeks illness
from an acute attack of Bright's dis
ease. He was 20 years OF age.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Man, according to a doctor, Is but q
machine made up of 28,OOO OOO, O0O,OO0
electric cells. This would indicate tkat
many have made the mistake Of going
to hospital instead of to 4 battery
service station.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

The state board of health has sent
out warning about the fatal results
Of breathing too much automobile ex-
haust gas. After the automobile has
passed the pedestrian is usually too
excited over his escape to think about
anything else.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Sea captains complain that every
time they take a good-looking young
sailor to the California coast he de-
serts and becomes a movie actor.
Some of the movie actors do occa-
sionally look as If they expected any
moment to be called from a scene
representing a fashionable drawing
room and told to 60 and swab the
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Moving picture producers say that
the scenarios offered them are terri
BILE. Perhaps some day they will
come to the same conclusion about the
ones they put on the screen.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

The Nobel prize awards serve one
very valuable purpose. Every 80 often
they bring to light one or another val
liable American for the first time.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Perhaps that Berlin report that Ger
tional loan is based on the German
notion that If anything is said often
enough and loud enough it will be SO.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

officers In Washington have ~
quested permission to leave of spurs
while dancing. Unless the War de-
partment's desks are fitted with stir.
rups why wear them at all?
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Mexican statesmen who were going
to fight a duel have now agreed to
postpone hostilities until after the
July election. Figuring, no doubt,
that one or the other is likely to get
killed in the election, and the duel
won't be necessary.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

A statistician who probably learned
his trade in Los Angeles figures that
New York will have a population Of
2sOOO,OOO by the year 1000.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Papyrus took home the good will Of
this country. He WAS the only English
visitor we have had for long time
who didn't go ON the lecture platform.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Paris proposes to tax tourists. This
will come as a great surprise to the
tourists, who thought that that had
already been attended to.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

Electric lighting is to be put into
the tomb Of King Tut. This Is one
luxury that the old Egyptian mon
arch, with all his magnifcence, could
not command.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

When brigands attack an italian
mission the incident is likely to prove
more profitable to the italian govern
ment than to the brigands.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

There is talk of an international
loan to Germany, but nothing Is said
about how much France would be e1-
pected to put into the pool.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23
WASHINGTON

The government closed its financia
books for the year Monday night
when a record of having received $4,.
| 1874, 905,200 almost half a billion dol
lars more than was paid into the
treasury In the calendar year 1922
Its expenditures were $3,SSS, 063, 0S2,
leaving net balance of $276, S42, SIS
A draft of a new immigration pro-
viding for selection OF Immigrants
abroad, for extension of the quota
restriction to all counties in the west
ern hemisphere, and for various modi-
fications Of the present entry require
ments, was sent to the senate and
house immigration committees by
Secretary Davis, under whose depart
ment the immigration bureau is adj
ministered.
News from India that the world s
greatest barage Is to be laid down in
the Indus valley does not mean that
new World war is in progress with
an inferno of bursting shells, but that
Great Britain's engineers are going
about the peaceful business of tanning
a great river and adding millions of
acres to the earths tillable area.
The armored cruiser Rochester,
flagship of the United States special
service squadron in Central and South
American waters has been sent to the
port of Amapala, Honduras, and will
remain in that vicinity until the pre-
sent disturbances in Honduras and
southern Mexico have quieted.
President Coolidge began the new
year by undergoing probably the
greatest physical strain which is plac-
sd upon the chief executive, the New
Years reception.
The American people produced
more, spent more and saved more in
1923 than in 1922, tile federal reserve
'oard said in it's annual review of
economic conditions for the year.
Asserting that complete failure
las attended the efforts of four years
4 attempted prohibition enforce
nent," Captain w. II. Stayton head
( the Association Against the Pro-
ibition Amendment, announced the |
alling OF face the facts" confer
nee here on January 81 to recon-
lend an "enforcible substitute" for
he Volstead act.
Effective Of the Panama canal as
leans of nationl defense will be put
, the test next month when the Blue
eet from the Pacific attempts to use
le big waterway to enter the Allan
C against the Black, or enemy fleet
.ationed there. Army forces in the
anal Zone, 5000 strong, both the
tlantic and Pacific fleets, and an ex-
force of marines from
Va, will participate in the
int maneuvers the first Of the kind
yer attempted.
The Washington government has
freed to sell a quantity of war ma
rial to the Obregon government in
exico.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

There is vast accumulation OF
American humor that Is now 30 old
that It had better be let alone. Name
your own examples.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23

The only German war spy in Amsrs-
ca has been released and returned to
his country. He will miss the quiet
life In Leavenworth.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23
GEN ERAL

A partial milk strike was effect In
Chicago when the producers failed
10 deliver milk at shipping points as
result of deadlock reached in me-
gotiations between distributors and
producers. Large distributors de
clared however, that no shortage need
be feared.
Nine persons were killed In fire
that destroyed farm house at Ty-
iersburg, near Shippenville, Clarion
county, Pennsylvania.
Damage estimated at close to ST.
100000 was done by fire at the
Whiting. Ind, plant of The Standard
OIL company Of Indiana.
Lynchings in the United States
decreased more than so per cent dur
Ing 1923, as compared with 1922. ac-
cording to figures made public by the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitute OF Alabama. During 1923 there
were twenty eight lynchings, as COM
pared with fiftyseven for the pre-
ceding year, these figures showed.
Twenty-six Of the number were ne
groes and two were whites. Two
women were among the victims of
mobs.
George e. Henry OF Winchester,
philanthropist and one of the pio-
neers who revolutionized the lumber
industry In New Hampshire, where
his family owned the entire town of
Lincoln valued at $1S,OO0,O died OF
heart disease.
Three persons were killed and five
were seriously injured when two
autos filled with guests returning
home from New Years watch parties
crashed together on the National pike |
near GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Thirty-two degrees below zero-64
degrees colder than temperature that
causes Ice to form-is the low tenn
perature record for Montana so far
according to word from Havre. Other
states In the northwest did not find
It quite 80 cold, but zero was general
over a wide expanse of country.
United States Senator Charles Nc
Nary OF Oregon, and Miss Cornelia w.
Morton Of Boston were married quiet
ly Saturday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph b. Morton.
Charles G. Dawes, former director
of the budget and Owen ID. Young of
the General Electric company, sailed
Sunday on the America, to set with
a Preparations commission committee
in Paris to prepare means Of balanc-
ing the German buget. General Dawes
smoking his queer pipe, the bowl of
which. always seems upside down,
was in one of his peculiar moods and
refused to talk finances.
Counterfeit $40 federal reserve
notes, Of a face value of more than
100000 are being circulated between
the Atlantic coast and the Rocky
according to federal secret
service men, who recently unearthed
300 Of the, bogus bills in an under
ground cache near Chicago.
Four special trains carrying s12.-
100000 worth of silk, the largest and
most valuable shipment ever to cross
the continent arrived in Chicago over
tie Birmingham railroad this week.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-01-23
FOREIGN

Thirty-one Moros were killed in
clash with go soldiers of the Philip
pine constabullary at Malunda, in La
naoprovince, island of Mindanao, on
December 16, according to a dispatch
received at Manila from Major F1et-
cher. commander OF Philippine scouts
at Zamboanga.
A fragrament of silk found tangled
in the branches of a tree in garden
near Sciacca was identified by M.
Poubert, French naval attache, at part
of one of the sterilization balloons
carried by the vanished dirigible Dix
nude.
A gold brick weighing about $50 OF.
and valued at $4,000 was brought to
Halifax recently by E. S. r. Smith,
general manager of the Clark Gold
Mines corporation, Matague, Halifax
county.
Another step forward toward clear
ing the governmental offices in Spain
of all the favorites of the old political
P"i 'iCo OCCUPYING PooiliVh VI ic
sponsibility is being taken by the
military directorate under General
Primo Rivera.
Alexandra Gustave Eiffel, the en-
gineer who built the famous tower
that bears his name, is dead. He was
81 years of age.
fo loo aI iy,1n q ito
sources that Mustapha Renal, head
of the Turkish government, is so i'll
he has been ordered by his physicians
to leave Angora and go to his own |
house at Smyrna for rest
of several months.
"Try the kaiserl ~ This cry, which |
was swelled to chorus by the allies
at the close of the war and then
died away into tomblike silence, at
ter guilt for the war had been fasten-
ed by the popular judgment of the
world on Germany, now is being
raised in Germany itself
Failing health, due to injuries re-
ceived in the World war, has caused
Sir Auckland Geddes to resign his
post as ambassador for Great Britain
at Washington and it is the expecta-
ton in informed circles that Sir Esme
William Howard British ambassador
at Madrid will be named as his sue
Col. Ismael Ruda, chief Of the for
ces in the port Of Mexico, Joined the
revolutionary movement Saturday. ac-
cording to the revolutionary press
bureau and the port now is under the
control of the revolutionjsts. 1t is adj
led that headquarters looked for this
chiefs adhesion, but that he was un-
able to initiate the movement while
here were in the petroleum zone
Obregon forces which
would have taken Tuxpam immedt
ately.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Every InhGbitaE.t Of
TOWn Helps Make NusIin

Practically everybody in the little
town of Tarare, with its 1900 inhab-
itantS, in central France, recently re-
ferred to in By the Way, is interested
in the making of muslin. Quite half
the population are actual workers in
the mills or in their homes, where mus
lin is either made on household looms
or covered with most beautiful en-
broidery.
Although the population of Tarara
has diminished in recent years the mus
lin industry is still very remunerative
and theer are some streets in which
ones guide will point to the houses
of men who Gin France) are multi-mil-
liOnaires-men of great wealth who
continue to live side by side with less
fortunate citizens, who "thee" and
thou" their rich neighbOrs as they
pass them in the streets. All these
people are ready to admit that they
owe their prosperity and livelihood to
the work and perseverance of NJ. An
tome SimOnet; but they will also tell
one that something is due to the water
of the river Turbine, which gives the
light cotton materials Of Tarare Ger
tain Incompatible qualities as regards
texture and color which are recognized
by women the world over.-DetrOit
News.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Campaign for Better
Live Stock Is Shown
British Farmers Taught Ad-
vantages Of Pure BREEDS.

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agriculturo)
That the United States Department
of Agriculture and the various states
are not alone in carrying on a cam
paign for better live stock is shown by
results collected by the bureau of ami
NAL industry. The ministry of agricul-
ture for England and Wales has been
working for nine years on Live
Stock Scheme" which is a combination
Of the Better Sires-Better Stock"
campaign, cooperative bull assOcia-
tiOns, cOw-testing associations and reg
lister of merit of the United States.
British farmers are being shown the
advantages of using pure bred sires
and the ministry of agriculture also is
giving them financial assistance to
enable them to use the improved meth
DDS of stock raising.
The scheme" is now operating In
practically every county of England
and Wales. The latest report shows
S31 societies and one individual using
TAT bulls; and 93 societies and 451 in
diViduals using $50 bOars. This is an
Increase of 1O5 societies and 100 bulls
over the previous years enrolment.
One large dealer in Yorkshire says
that he believes that cattle values in
his district have increased fully $13.20
per head as a result Of the work done
by the British government. The same
plan is being applied to the improve
ment of sheep and light horses.
Reports from countries in Europe, |
South America, Asia and Africa, where /
various methods for improving live
stock are being used, also show a gen.
9ral activity in this field. The work
Is prompted, it is believed, by a grow
ng recognition of the economic value
Of well-bred live stock.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Penitentes a Strange Set

The Penitentes, or Penitent Brothers
were once very numerous in New Mex.
leo. They were Mexicans-very ignO
rant and fanatic ones.
Their strange brOtherhOOd-a rem.
nant and perversiOn of the penitent or
ders Of the Middle ages-was active
only forty days in the year, the forty
days before Lent At that time they
flOgged their own naked backs with
cruel scOurges of aloe fiber, carried
enormous crosses, lay on beds of cac.
tus, and performed similar self-tOr.
lures, making pilgrimages thus. On
Good Friday they redOubled theh
CHASTITY efforts, and finally crucifed
upon a real cross, one of their mum
Der who was chosen by lot.
In the Middle ages nearly tie Who'll,
Of Europe had a strange epidemic-s
fever of penitential self-whipping. The
Flagellants, as they were called, pa
raded the streets, lashing themselves
with scOurges, or used the whip al
home. Even kings caught the infec
ton, and abused their own roya
backs. 1t took centuries to eradicate
this remarkable custom. - DetrOil
News,
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Lichens Are Descendants
of Prehistoric GrOIUth

The world has more than once been
startled by reports that a descendant
of the monster animals which inhab-
tied the earth before the Ice age has
been seen either lifting its head out
Of the ocean depths or lurking in the
darkness of "a primeval forest.
Hitherto none of these reports has
been confirmed. But when we come to
plant life we find in the lichens real
prehistoric growths. The lichens we
can see and examine today are SINH
lar to those which existed tens of
thousands of years ago.
The grOwths which spread them
selves over rocks and old walls are a
combination of a fungus and countless
thousands Of algae. The fungus, un-
able to make its own way in the
world, has enmeshed huge numbers
Of green algal cells, living on the food
material which they produce.
That many of these plants are tens
of thousands of years old is proved
by the fact that by scraping away the
crust Of Hchens the abrasiOns caused
by the passage of ice during the gla-
cial period are as fresh as though they
had been made recently. The Iichen
has protected them from the weather
ever since. The Glacial age is said
by some scientists to have ended over
$4,000 years agO.-LOndOn Tit-Bits
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Lilac Buds PrCteccel

Lilac buds, containing twigs, le.ve
and blossoms in embryo folm are ten
der and delicate and full of Nater
yet they are able to survive extreme
ly cold weather in which they are fro
zen solid and even come uns~athet
through long periods of alternati
freezing and thawing. Examination
under the microscope rOyeals the Sc
cret of the extraordinary hardness o.
these buds The outer sheath cover
ing the bud is coated with wax, 81
that the tissues inside are hermetical
ly sealed against outside moisture
Inside are layers Of cOrky sub.tanci
which prevents the escape of waite
from the tissues. Here and ther
throughout the bud are spaces int
which the water expands when it
converted into ice. so long as TIN
outer sheath remains closed and in
tact freezing and thawing can do NJ
harm whatever.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Trinity
(near BridgeVille)

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur FOlmsbee OF
Chester, Pa, is spending some time
with friends here.
Miss Myra White Of Jefferson Hos
pital, Philadelphia, is spending her
vacation with her parents here.
Miss Hattie Warrington OF Bridge
vile, spent the weekend with Mary
Carey.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Adams and
son of Cannon spent Sunday at the
home Of R. J. Hastings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Wheatley and
son spent Sunday at the home Of his
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Warrington of
Bridgeville spent Sunday at the home
of E. D. Carey.
A. T. White lost a valuable hog on
Sunday, weighing about 25O lbs.
Frand Ricards spent Sunday at
AIillsborO and Georgetown.
Master Wilson Wheatley of Bridge
vile is spending some time with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Wheatley.
A heavy wind and rain STORM passed
over this section late Sunday after
noon, doing quite little damage to
fruit and other trees.
The people in this section greatly
the fine road which Mr..
Ricards of Greenwood, has made for
us. This is the first time in nearly IL
years since anything had been done,
which made the road nearly impas-
sable during the bad weather.
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
SeIbyvile

Mrs. H. V. Tubbs and daughter are
spending some time with Wilmington
relatives.
Mrs. John Davis is having a new
home built on Chuarch street.
VIM. r. Tubbs was operated on at
the Peninsula Hospital, Salisbury,
Md, on Friday. His condition is i'm
proving.
Miss Hilda Evans entertained at
dinner on Sunday. "A number of out
of towns guests were present.
The Aid met at the home OF Mrs. M.
PashaWatsOn on Tuesday evening.
The Children's Day services will be
held at Salem M. E. Church, Sunday
evening, June 22nd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Jarrett have
bought the property on lower Walnut
street and expect to occupy the same
in the early fall.
Oliver Long returned to the w. c.
l., Dover, on Monday after week
end spent with his parents
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
A Rogues' Gallery

An elderly man of ultra-convivia
habits, but withal learned aud boOkisE
was hailed before the bar of justice il
a country town.
"Yere charged with bein' drum
and disorderly," snapped the magis
trate. 'Have ye anything to sa,
why sentence should not be pro
nounced?"
"Man's inhumanity to man make
countless thousands mourn" began tn
prisoner in a flight of OratOry. 81 an
not so debased as Poe, so profigate
Byron, so ungrateful as Keats, so in
temperate as Burns, so timid as Tenny
son, so vulgar as Shakespeare, SO.
"That'll do, that1I do" interrupte
the magistrate. Ninety days. And
officer, take down that list of name
he mentioned and round 'em up.
think they're as bad as he is."-AmeI.
ican Legion Weekly
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Gravel Hill

Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Smith OF
Washington, D. c. are the guests OF
Mrs. Cora Prettyman.
Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Wilson OF Milton
and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Swain ana
David Warrington. of Glendale were
recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Palmer.
Sylvester Chestnut has secured a
position in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Wilson ana
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Pepper of Snow
Hill, Md, spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Walls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel McSorley OF
Holly Oak, were recent guests OF
Thomas H. Wilson and family
Clifford Steward of philadelphia
was the recent guest of Mrs. Annie
Steward and family.
Misses Pearl Koeppel and Myrtle
Wilson spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. James Calhoun at George
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson and
daughter Laura, attended the com
mencement exercises of Delmar High
School Monday evening of last week.
Mrs. Wilson's cousin, Miss Violet
being one of the graduates.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Snodgrass OF
Philadelphia were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Walls the past week.
Miss Gladys Clendanie1 has return
ed home after spending the past two
weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Ruth Yeas
Milford chronicle., 1924-06-13
Leghorn Pullets Should
Lay When 6 Months Old

Leghon pullets should weigh three
to three and One-half pounds and start
to lay when 1SO days or six months old.
The weight Of the Rhode Island Reds
should be five to five and one-half
pounds and it will take about a month
longer for them to mature than the
LeghOrns. 1t will take about seven.
and half months for Plymouth Rocks
to mature. Their weight at laying
should be five and One-half to six
pounds. If the pullets are to be forced
by artificial illumination, it is a de-
sirable practice to hold back pullets
until, the majority reach body matur-
ity as judged by the weights above.
Small eggs and lower annual prOduc-
ton result in having egg production
start before the pullets are mature.