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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21

revealing black or brown coat, worn
with English Bedford cord breeches.
Then there are those cheerful red,
green or black flannel coats to be worn
with white breeches. Coats are all
straightline and split at the back to
accommodate the saddle.
Among those present-and always
welcome for midsummer-are linen
habits, with their coats sometimes
sleeveless but quite as often having
sleeves. One Of the sleeveless models
is illustrated here, of impeccable style
and finish. Note that the high boots
are straight and tight about the top.
Colored shirts are worn and powder
blue, yellow and green are In demand
In hats straw derbies or tricorns are
fashionable and practical but there
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21

stand Tubing, and any little lady Is
sufficiently well dressed in them for all
her usual occupations. A very pretty
model for Bingham frock Is pictured,
with collar, cuffs and trimming Of a
heavy white cotton cloth. This may be
made as skirt and jumper or as a
one-piece dress. Skirts Of plated serge,
to be worn with jumpers of white drill,
do wonderful service for outdoor
frocks. Blue jean Is used for collars
on these jumpers.
Pongee, which is made in several
colors, is thoroughly practical and very
pretty for dressier frocks, and flannel
lends itself to the simple cross-stitch
and other needlework decorations
that are used. Fine voiles appear to
lead for party frocks. with cross-st,tch
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21

Is never a year when the mode has no
place in its heart for the fine panama
or banded sailors.
This seasons story is not told until
the rainproof coat, Of shagmoor cloth,
discloses its sterling worth. 1t is I'M
shrinkable and in a position to defy
even a downpour. Then there is the
cheerful waistcoat Of plain or checked
flannel, with which one may add a dash
of color to q quiet ensemble.
The world Is full of number
of things which the little miss of five
and upward is entitled to enjoy, and
for which she must have the right kind
of frocks. All her relatives are OF one
mind In tia matter and nearly all little
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21

embroidery or organize frlls furnish
ing the decorations. But taffeta, crepe
de chine and georgette are never out Of
the running: All these fabrics are
shown in lively colors-yellow, powder
blue, rose, light green, lilac and tan.
and linens and cottons are equally svl.
orful
American manufacturers have made
great progress in the art of using
dye stuffs. The sturdiest cotton fab
RIGS are to be found everywhere, In
the gay pretty colors that look so well
on children. They are expensive aud
will stand Tubing.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
&C. 1924, Western Newspaper Union)
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
"Churchyard" Is Older

Both the word cemetery and the
word churchyard have been used for
many centuries In England. The word
cemetery was originally applied to the
catacombs in Rome. 1t is found as
early as 1887 in England. The word
churchyard. on the other hand, PIP
pears in the old English chronicles at
about the year 1854.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21

| folks fare about equally well-it takes
so little to make their clothes and the
stuffs used are within everybody's
reach. Much more depends upon the
Ingenuity and efficiency Of the seam
stress than upon the size Of her allow
ance for spending when the business of
making chlldren's frocks Is In hand.
When the talk Is of play frocks 1t is
also of ginghams, which hold first
place, year after year, as the best
choice. Checked plaid and plain glng-
hams, in many stable and pretty col
ors, are unrivaled for dresses that must
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
Luck That Changed

An insurance agent found a quarter
on his doorstep, his wife picked up
half a dollar and his daughter rushed
in announcing the discovery Of dime.
At supper their toast was MAY our
good luck continue" and then the
father found that, owing to hole in
his pocket, he had lost about dollar.
London Tit-Blts.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
In Iceland

Many Icelanders have never seen a
train nor trolley car, drama nor
masterpiece of art nor have they ever
seen a tree; only saplings in some very
sheltered nook. They have no gar
dens, fruit or grapevines.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
The Poor Cockroach

A naturalist declares that a cock
roach has 2,9S7 teeth. AS the odd one
has no corresponding tooth to meet
1t, it is not surprising that these poor
little creatures suffer so much from
ndigestion.-Boy's Life.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
He Got His Hot

A tang man who has lost his new
hat states that unless 1t is returned he
will forward 10 the wife of the per-
son who took 1t the note found con-
cealed in the lining Of the old one
left in its place.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
Sacred Staircase

The Scala Santa, or the staircase by
which Christ went up into Pilates
house, is preserved in a chapel near
the Lateran, Rome. Its % marble
steps are assembled by devout visitors
on their knees.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
A Version Often Fo!Iotved

Asked by her Sunday school teacher
to give the Bible verse for that days
lesson, a little western girl replied:
go We into all the world and spread
the gossip to all the people. boston
TRANSCRIPT
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
Fair Warning

The Aggressive Youth (before the
fight began)-Look ere, before we
start I'd better warn you that one Of
me uncles Is in the undertaking bust
ness. 'Es me favorite uncle, too, and
I'll do anything to help 'im.-London
Passing Show.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
Rriehten Fnded Corcet

Add half a cupful Of vinegar to half
a pint of water, wiring large, clean
cloth out of this and go over your car
pet with wide strokes. You will be
greatly pleased with the improvement
in the color.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
Got q Ride Anyway

"a man got hisself some loaded
dice" said Uncle Eben, "'spectin' to
win hisself plush-lined flivver, Std
O. which he got muffin but a one-way
'.de In de ambulance"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
The Cnrnerstone

1.-The hearth has ever been the cor
nerstone of the family and of society,""
John Bellows.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
Loeiciun q Pygny

Alypius of Alexandria, a logiciar
and philosopher, was said to be one
foot five and one-half inches in height.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
Protection From Floes

Eskimos use inflated sea leopard
skins to protect their craft from Ice
foes.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
WASHINGTON

Senate Republican organizatio,
leaders have moved to save as fal
as possible the principle features Of
the committee revenue bill in tho
light of word from President Cool
idge that he disliked some of the
proposed amendments as well as
others already substituted in the
measure.
The provision in the immigration
bill for Japanese exclusion was
agreed upon by senate and house con-
ferees to be effective July 1 next,
when other provisions of the bill be-
come operative, and was met immed-
lately with indications at the White
House that the arrangement was IN
satisfactory to President Coolidge.
A move to force at this session the
issue of American participation in
the world court was made from the
Democratic side of the senate.
President Coolidge, on recon-
mendation of Secretary Work, has
set aside the "Craters of the Moon"
lava wonderland near Arco, Idaho
as national monument. The rea
covers thirty-nine square miles and |
was given its name because of the
similarity of its surface with that OF
the moon as seen through telescope.
Further consideration by the house
of the Barley bill to abolish the
railroad labor board, Speaker Gillett
ruled, must be deferred for two
weeks.
Chairman Burton of the house CON-
mittee which investigated criminal
charges against Representative Zihl-
man. Republican, Maryland, said in ii
statement that he had found mo evil
lence," that Mr.. Zihlman had i'm
received money to exert Of
'icial influence.
There will be a showdown in con-
sress this week on the extent to
which President Coolidge is able to
pending legislation. Wheth-
# congress will pass over the presi-
lent's veto the Bursum pension bill
Increasing civil war and Mexican war
tensions by $5S,OOO,O0O annually will
e decided.
With the picturesque emphasis that
nade him famous long before base
all took him from the federal bench
D become its high commissioner,
,enesaw Mountain Lands gave the
enate Daugherty committee his opin-
IN of prohibition enforcement and
Ter administrative questions as they
ave been dealt with in recent years
Y the federal governmnt.
Acquitted of q serious statutory
large by Virginia jury, Represen- re
tive Knutson, Republican, Mime W
TIA. is on the job again at the capitol. r
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Elephants Easily Trained
Wild elephants can be trained 10
work in six months after being caught
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-05-21
FOREIGN

The Ulster cabinet has recided to
maintain it's position and refuse to
appoint representative on the COM
mission to delimit the frontier be-
tween the north and south, as pro-
vided for in the Anglo-Irish treaty.
was requested by the British govern
ment.
Germany's famous former "heads,
man" and executioner, Lorenz Sch
weitz, who held record for behead
ing with an AK in true medieval style
1913 criminals on the block, commit
ted suicide in his home at Breslau.
He was "a years of age and was
formerly a butcher.
Three hundred more Hebrideans
have left their native primative is
lands to settle in the provinces of
western Canada. Like the several
shiploads which left the islands DUR
ing the last three years, the newest
contingent will settle near Red Deer,
Alberta.
The German governments reply to
the protest of the Russian ambassa-
dor, M. Krestinsky over the raid on
the Russian trade delegations office
at Berlin, declares Germany cannot
accept the reproach of disregarding
existing treaties.
Farmhouses in the bush bordering
on the northern Rhodesian frontier
of England have recently been in a
state of seige owing to the activities
of lions. The animals have come
out of the jungle in daylight and at
tackled the farm animals carrying off
many of them.
The Tashi Lama, head Of the Budd-
hist religion in Thibit who was re-
GENTLY forced to flee from his mon
lstery at Tashilumpo. has reached |
incognito and Immediately
s now on his way to Pekin where he
hopes to find refuge in large Budd-
list monastery which sheltered the |
Dalai Lama who fled from Lhasa ten
ears ago.
For reasons of economy, and to
make use of some of the inmates, the
.ondon zoo authorities are starting
eese and lamas to trim the lawns.
Me geese are kept from straying by
wire fencing, and the lamas are
ethered by long rope which gives
hem a twenty-foot grazing circle.
Lifeboats of the new German liner
Columbus are to be equipped with
ado. The power will come from
lotors carried on board and the
ave length will be from 300 to 600
leters. The Columbus will run be-
ween Bremen and New York.
Sadoa Saburi, former counsellor of
he Japanese embassy at Washington
, to be appointed Japanese minister
oH7-,eden, Norway and Denmark,
newspapers Of Japan stat
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-30
Squirrel Island
Livingstone of Them
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

Especial to Kennebec JournaD
Squirrel Island, April 2s-After
having had snow in the middle OF
last week, the weather has changed
greatly and burst into the fairness of
June. The warmth Of the air is
worthy of any day in July and The
skys are as bright and clear as those
OF September. But so few people
are here to enjoy it that 1t is shame
fui. The birds have already arrived
and at early morn one can hear q
regular battle of songs. any one OF
which deserve a prize. In fact, IL ma
ture lovers are in want of a place to
revel in. they would choose wisely by
coming here.
The island withstood winters
storms and is none the worse for
them except slight damage done to
the wharf. which has already been
repaired by having new cement
foundation on the western side which
also acts as a breakwater.
Every fall, many Of the old board
walks have been ripped up and re-
placed by new ones. This year 5000
feet of cement walk have been laid
in places most used and most need
ed. This was at an expense of $1,000
to the corporation, which Is a bit
larger than they had expected. The
Row has all cement sidewalk now.
Also 1t has been put in up by the
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HINCKLEY

George Tibbetts was in Augusta
Monday calling On friends.
Luther Allen of Wells was in this
place calling on friends Sunday.
Mark Johnson of Skowhegan visited
at n: e. Bessey's several days, return
ing home Monday.
The families of p. A. and l.. p.
Kicker were in Canaan calling Sun
day, alsQ Miss Addie Merrill Of Clin-
ton accompanied them.
George Tibbetts loaded a car of Do
tatoes the past week.
George Kelley. who has passed the
greater part of the winter with rela-
tives in Canaan is at his farm home
on the east side of the river and
plans to remain In this vicinity the
following sumtner.
Mrs. Roy Hicks and daughter, Miss
Florence, were Sunday guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George Ouiton
of Skowhegan.
Miss Faith J. Hnickley and Mrs.
Melvin Palmer, members Of the Eu.
nice Farnsworth Chapter, d. A. R..
were in Skowhegan Monday after
noon to attend the April meeting of
the chapter at the home Of Mrs,
Florence Waugh Danforth.
Miss Ida b. Kelley OF Wateryilie
was the weekend guest of her
mother, Mrs. Alice Kelley.
Mrs. Jennie Bean Boston of Ca
naan, has gone to Fairfield to keen
house for her daughter, Mrs, Johf,
shaw at the Sanatorium.
Ralph Cain was the guest of his
mother, Mrs. Annie B: Cain of Wa
sterville over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J. Hall and Raw
mond Sullivan, Mr.. and Mrs, M. L,
Chase and sons, Marley ana Leigh.
with guests from PittsfieId. were
Sunday guests at the home Of Mrs..
Bertha Brooks Of Clinton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan n. Benner
and two children, accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Bessey were III
Burnham Sunday.
Carltor NJ. Holt and son of SHOW.
began, were Sunday guests at the
hDme Of Mrs. Annie Holt.
The new blacksmith, Mr.. white
was in town Monday getting ready
for business.
Mr.. and Mrs.. w. v. Totman WIN
passed the winter In Winthrosp nsar
their sors. Arthur and John Totinan
are expected home early in Nav.
The Kenneberside club was enter
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tanned Saturday afternoon at Willow
wood, Mrs. G. w. Hinckley and MIS-
Melvin Palmer being the hostesses
The answer to the roll call was
Bring or describe picture Of q
Maine Artist" paper, Artists O
Maine" by Miss Georgia Merros
which was very interesting, Ta
next on the program; magaIlh
article, 1.-THE Greatest Genius of His,
tory. Leonardo Da Vinci." was rea'
by Mrs. Justin johnson. Refresh
ments served. This being the blrtn'
day anniversary of Miss Gladys Coz
frey she was presented with q birtn'
day cake which she cut for the as.
sembled guests. Eighteen members
were present with little Miss Gusls
Marie johnson as guest The neA'
meeting will be at the home Of MIS
Johnson. Mrs. Edith Pratt assistipS
as hostess.
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hotel. In fact there remains but two
or three stretches Of board walk,
and by next year there viii be
nothing but cement.
Mrs. G. w. Griffith and her son
are here for a short stay.
Walter Emerson of Portland.
who acts as librarian at the Squir-
rel library stayed in Boothbay Har-
Dor all winter and has been over
here a few times already. is expected
to arrive permanently sometime dur
ing the week.
Stanley Miller is expected also
this week for q short stay to talk
ever business matters for the coming
summer with Supt. Fish.
Supt. Fish has been busy all win
ter and has had as many as $50
brush fires burning up underbrush.
Captain Greenleaf Is running his
boat the Norman II from Bath to
Boothbay and all the intervening
landings, carrying freight and pas
sengers.
Captain A. C. Williams will start
his trips to and from Squirrel and
Boothbay, the last week in May.
The T. c. Ingrahams are planning
to make q sojourn here this week.
end.
The farm house has been painted
this spring the same color of gray.
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are 9-11.30 and 1890 to 9. On Sat
urdays the bank closes at 1880. Bust
ness is opening up in a gratifying
manner and the management is
much pleased with the way the peo-
pie are taking hold of the enter
prise.
Mrs. clayton Topper was called to
West Mills on Friday by the illness
OF her mother, Mrs. Kennedy. On
Sunday Mr.. Topper went to West
Mills accompanied by Mrs. Small
of Mercer who will act as nurse
for Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Topper
returned with him to their home in
| town. =,
Mrs. Anna Harris returned last
week frem a several weeks visit
with relatives in Danvers, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Blaisdell and
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Blaisdell of
Mercer have moved into Percy
Quimby's house on Welch street.
Beatrice, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bernard Hutchinson has been
confined to her home, by illness.
There was a meeting on Sunday
afternoon at Firemans Hall OF the
Memorial Day Commission. The
following officers were elected
! chairman. Henry George; secretary,
Mrs. Josephine Whiting; treasurer,
William G. Soule. 1t was decided to
hold the usual Memorial Day eXer-
cises at 0 o'clock in the morning in
I stead of in the afternoon as former
ly in order to secure the presence of
the Skowhegan band. The speaker
| of the day is to be Rev. Ralph Lowe
of Augusta. The Sunday memorial
/ services will be held this year at
the congregational church and will
occur May '25th. -
1t is reported that Ralph futile
has sold his farm. and that he will
move to the village.
| Frank keene was quite sick last
week with quinsy sore throat.
| Harold Pierce of Bangor and Albion
Blake of Oakland were recent
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. NJ. Pierce.
Frank Hartford has moved his
| family to the Howard Brown house
| on Mercer Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Hussey of
Pittsfield were guests last week at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George
| Hussey.
DIR. and Mrs. J. T. Lancaster of
Madison visited Sunday at the home
| of Mrs. Lancaster's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. d. +. Taylor.
| John Neil has moved TO the Orrin
Jones farm, so called, on the Show
! hogan road.
Mr. and Mrs. Cony Russell and Mrs.
Henrietta Wood returned last week
| to their home in town after passing
the winter in Portland.
Raymond Carter and Alan Hoar
are working on the section of the NJ.
| c. i. r. for George Brown.
! Services will be resumed at the
! Congregational church next Sunday
the church having been closed since
. the first of the year.
! Amos Holt, Jr., left last week for
! the State Agricultural College at
Amherst Mass. where he Is to take
! 4 course of study.
Miss Florence White and Walter
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OAKLAND

An invitation has been received by
j. Wesley Gilman Camp No. 70 Sons
of Veterans to attend the class ini-
tiation of Garfield Camp No. l Of
Waterville Thursday. May LIST. Sup
per will be served at $50 o'clock in
G. A. r. hall. The members of J.
Wesley Gilman Camp are requested
to take the o'clock car from Oak
land.
Rev. Henry H. Hutchinson of Cam
bridge. Mass. was a caller on Rev.
Weston J.. Holman Monday.
Mrs. Weston p. Holman is still in
Leeds helping to care for her mother
Mrs. 0. E. Curtis who is seriously I'll.
Mrs. Harry Dame entertained the
NJ. S. T. A. Club Monday evening at
her home on Main Street. A social
evening was enjoyed and refresh
ments were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alec Balm of Sebat-
tus and Miss Caddie Shorey Of Lew
iston passed the week end at Miss
ShOrey'S home in town.
THE Dirigo Glass and Archie
Towle's Class of boys from the
Methodist Sunday School will meet
Thursday evening at the home of
Miss Phyllis Fowles on Grove St.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stott have
returned from a week end visit with
Mr.. Stott's sister and husband Mr..
and Mrs. Rueben Libby Of Lisbon
Falls.
Mrs. I.ottie Williams has returned
from a brief visit with her daughter
Mrs. Michael Hayes of Augusta.
The Catholic Ladies' Guild will
hold a sale of Maybaskets, aprons.
candy and cooked food on Saturday
afternoon, May 3rd, at the Song and
Gift shop of Miss Gloria Emmons
on Church ST The affair will be
in charge of the following commit
tee: Maybaskets. Mrs. Thomas Sui
Annie Vigue: Aprons, Mrs. Leona
Bush. hrs. Elizabeth Bean and Mrs.
Della Bunker: candy. Miss Mar
guerite Sullivan, Miss Mary ONeill
and Miss Thena Sullivan; Food. Mrs.
Nellie O'Reilly, Mrs. Hickman and
Mrs. LuflSin.
Mrs. Everett Cover and Mrs. Les
ter NJ. Andrews entertained their
class Of boys from the Sunday school
of the Tniversalist Church at a sup
per Monday evening at o'clock in
Murray Vestry. The menu consist
ed of baked beans, brown bread.
salads. jelly, jellO cake and cocoa.
After supper there was selections on
TIC piano NY hOHdm f1dbetL anu
Chester Blake. Games were played
and a general good time enjoyed.
The guests were: Clifton Bickford,
Chester Blake. Frederick Lord, EN-
cry Mann. Ronald Haleltt, Roderick
Miller. Raymond Simmons and Fos-
ter Thwing.
There viii be a rehearsal of the
Degree staff of Acme Rebekah Lodge
on Wednesday and Thursday even
ings in Odd Fellows Hall at 1880
o'clock. All members are requested
to he present.
The Ladies' OAid of the Methodist
Church will meet this Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the
Church vostry. All ladies of the
parish are cordially invited to at
tend
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Pulsifer, who has been criti-
cally i'll with pneumonia is much i'm
proved.
Mrs. George Wood and daughter
Miss iTellie Wood OF Portland are
visiting Mrs. Woods mother, Mrs.
Frank Whitehouse of Hifh ST., for a
few days.
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NURSE CHAPPELLE SAYS
TANLAC. BRINGS MOST
GRATIFYING RESULTS
Nurse With Is Years
Experience Urg es
Use of Tanlac-Tells
of Her Mothers Ex-
perience, with
Worlds Famous Ton
ic.

II have direct and personal
knowledge of so many cases where
TANLAC has restored health and
strength and helped weak. run
down people to get on their feet
that I know it to be an unusual
medicine" is the emphatic manner
in which Mrs. NJ. E. Chappelle, Blue
Mount and Thomas Ave, Wauwoto-
sa, Wis, a practical nurse of fifteen
years experience. pays tribute to the
famous treatment.
Time and again I have urged
TANLACS use and it always brings
the most gratifying results. My own
mother, now eighty years old. took
TANLAC five years ago, and it has
been her standby ever since.
Nothing helps her as TANLAC does
and she is as strong an advocate of
the medicine as l am. Only recently,
mother became generally run down.
Her stomach was disordered, her
appetite utterly failed her, and she
came near having a nervous break
down. TANLAC gave her a vigorous
appetite, corrected all complaints
and left her not only well and happy