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Washington telegraph., 1924-07-11
his second queyll9l

recorded as voting
725 as no" Many refratnalI
voting ON this question bdcause( IA
der the present rules they are in
eligible for membership
Some replies voiced certain crit.
icisms of the System. but these uni
versally dealt with details of admin
istration or of the rules and not with
the principles of the institution.
Washington telegraph., 1924-07-11
Z Ou1lty Correspondence

dav with Mrs. Fred Smith
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tyner Of Pres
colt spent the afternoon,at Mr.
and Mrs. Puryear's Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray and family
spent Friday at Fulton.
Miss Lois Sutton is visiting
in Blevins.
Mrs. Bess Timberlake and
daughter, Ruby Fac, spent Fri
' day evening at Miss Wiiiie
Blacks.
Mr.. j. C. Sutton spent tn
ourth at Fulton.
AIr. j. C. Timberlake AM
ghter, Olwen, spent Sun
sau kternoon with Mr.. an
uay alW. Timberlake.
Mrs. H. ~
uryear is visi
Miss Opal Hrs. Mae Liv
ing her sister. M -
ly. -
Misses Dellie and Mary a
k.ns just armed, home afte
ing in ElDorado- fas,
Washington telegraph., 1924-07-11

week with Misses e gie Lewis
and Audria Bearden
Mrs. ,Grey Carrigsn, Misses
Vera Moses and Grace Levins
anG Mr.. Ruffin Richardson mo
tored to Hope Sundas.
DR.. Louis C. Bernsys. Little
Rock optician, will beat Bates
Drug Store "Wednesday, July
23rd. Eyes tested fAe.
Mr.. c! M. Lewis ad family
spent last Friday VII Mrs.
Lewis parents, Mr.. nd Mrs.
j. T. Toilette, near lashville.
Mr.. William E. Biwn of
Little ROCK spent froS Thurs
day to Saturday of lst week
with the family of ". A. F.
Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. LRhodes
and Mr.. Lester Rhodesf Hope
spent Sunday night VII Mrs.
Rhodes parents, Mr.. ID Mrs
j. w. Moses.
Messrs. Chas. S. Lvthorp,
Jr., and E. M. McNliams. |
jobbers of Hope, shipp a car |
of hay to ElDorado fin here
Wednesday.
Miss Charlotte Men 70
turned Monday to hel home
on Route l, after a thrweeks
visit to her uncle, MrS w
Holt Jr., of Little Xix.
WanteG:-Men ofbmen to
take orders for gedle guar.
anteed hosiery for n women
and children. Elimi g darn
ing. Salary $75 aeek full
time, $1.50 an hour ere time
Beautiful line, all cd Inter-
national Stocking n Nor
ristown, Pa.
Mrs. Albert Evaund son
Dacree, arrived Tue1 morn.
ing from HaynesviE for
a visit to Mrs. Eva4 4arents
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A,oveIis
and Mr.. Evans pal Mr..
and Mrs. Josh n The :
Washington telegraph., 1924-07-11

Read the TELEGRAPH.
Washington telegraph., 1924-07-11
1akajoneS

Jakajoffes July 9.-Nr. ant
Mrs. Carl Coffee and Raugh
ter, Melba spent Sunday af
ternoon wi th Mrs. H. W. Vim
berlake.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. D. JeffS u
and family have been visitir
relatives at \Belton. \
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Sutton
spent Sunday afternoon with
their daughteE, Mrs. Thelma
Cobb, at BlevAps-
Mr.. and Mrs H. w. Timber
lake made a business trip to
Hope Monday.
Miss Opal an1 ODESSA Pur-
year spent the d - at the pic
mic at McCaskil1Friday.
Mr.. Alexander1Fmith spent
Sunday in Washii igton.
Mrs. Jennie Ray returned to
her fathers aftervvisiting rel
atives here.
Mrs. David Holt NJ *
son, Luther Bostici1 ~
Washington telegraph., 1924-07-11
ESlDGgea|
10y I
Uncle ,J0hNa

Old Silas Perdue is a sc
feller, and favorably knew
good story-teller. On
tive occasions he's sure to atte
and certainly gives 'em as q
MS they send. He'll pick out
feller that's glum as an owl, 9
fell him a yarn that win SCI
a bowl-There's many a hy-w
that snaps from his tongue--cr
minnit he sees ye, his sreelin'
! sprung-a humorous hit, caik'
| lated to stir ye,-fer instance he
asst, as IL hot enough fer ger
In the long, summer month
when she's heated an dry besi'
min we'll say, with the four'
| o. July-an' lastin' well into Il
shank of the fall, old Silas ali
grouchy ner crabbish at all, !.
| lie may sweat like a Sambo,
blister his neck, but he'll
all the neighbors a-smi
Heck as IL hot enQXIA
he'll asst every mas
| bandanrer the sa1H
Sim wfnklerby
Washington telegraph., 1924-07-11

Messrs. Chas. S. Lvthorp.
Jr., and E. M. McNliams.
jobbers of Hope, shipp a car
of hay to ElDorado FIN here
Wednesday.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27
The Mystery Road

his love affairs. This Is certainly tht
first time l remember him to have
been mysterious"
II don't think he has seen anything
Of Mademolselle de Poniere since tbs
tragedy at the Sporting club" Chris
topher remarked.
Really" Mary sighed, "you young
men who should be our greatest com.
fort are actually our greatest respon-
sibility. First Of all you pick up q
peasant girl on the road. over whom
you both seem to have lost your heads
more or less, and now Gerald is be-
having Ike a lunatic about this young
foreign woman"
HAS Gerald told you Of the latest
developments with regard to MyrtiIeY'
Christopher inquired. 81 have some
friends In London who have promised
to take her for nursery goveness.
Are either Of you in love with herr
Mary asked, raising her eyes and look
ing her companion in the face
Cnr stopher hesitated for several
moments before answering Mary be
gan 70 tear Into small pieces the sprIg
Of oleander which she was holding.
Her face seemed suddenly to have be
come very white and tired
~ am sure that Gerala Is not" Chris
topher answered. "As for newell,
that sort of thing is a little out of my
line, isn't lt2 The most serious part
Of the situation is that ! am afraid the
child Is In love with Gerald"
"She will get over that" Mary said
dryly Most Of the girls / know have
been in love with Gerald at some time
or another Sooner or later, the wise
ones find him out and the butterfly
ones fit away somewhere else. II may
seem unsisterly, hut / am more con.
cerned about you, Christopher, than
Gerald"
lie passed his arm through hers, an
action which their increasing intimacy
seemed 10 render perfectly natural.
Mary" he began. you are just the
one person In the world to whom !
could confess an impulse Of folly, and
this is, suppose, the one place could
do 1t In. frankly don't understand
what You mean by being In love. When
have thought Of marriage. 1t has been
In connection with some dear woman
friend who would make a home for me
and be companion. OF course.
expected 70 care for her and all that
but-promise you won't laugh at me?'
81 shall not laugh" Mary promised
For the first time in my life, that
child has made me think of other
things" Christopher acknowledged
simply. 81 don't know that II amounts
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27
YOUTH MAY BECOME
WORLDS STRONG MAN

An extraordinary display Of strength
was shown recently by a London
(Eng) youth He crushed a firm.
rosy-cbeeked apple TO pulp between
his fingers. drove nail at one blow
from his hand through two thick
planks, broke chain with his teeth
made horseshoe out of an iron bar
II inches long and. lastly. allowed Eve
men. two trolleys and an anvil, a quar-
ter OF n ton in weight. TO pass over
boards supported solely by his chest.
Slight fn build. he looks much young
er han his years. He attributes his
great strength to his chest develop
ment As a boy he was puny. and az
ter his father died of consumption his
mother urged him To do chest exer-
clses. which he did with simple home
made apparatus. consisting OF a single
elastic strand with a metal ring az
either end. But his chest muscles
alone do not make him keep his title
Of the Worlds Strongest Boy" as he
showed when he lifted an ounce
weigh. with his ear standing with
feet apart he hardened his muscles
aud the ring at the end Of the clip.
which had pulled the top q his ear
downward as ne stood easy, gradually
rose until the ear was upright. He
repeated the feat several times; each
time The body relaxed the ring fell
sgalh.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27
FIND SECOND MOON
AND BECOME FAMOUS

II you are interested in popular as
tronomy and II you own or have ac-
cess to small telescope, YOU have
the opportunity of lifetime to make
momentous discovery, one that
might eclipse the discoveries Of the
worlds greatest observatorieS. writes
Scriyen Bolton, F. Il. A. s.. in
Popular Science Monthly. You have
good chance to find a suspected
second moon to the earth-a com
paratively tiny meteoric ironstone ball.
some four or five hundred feet across.
without atmosphere and frozen to the
core.
This strange little body, pulled from
its course by gravity, is believed to re
volve around our earth once every
three hours. travelling at a speed Of
about three and one-half miles q sec
ond. Its orbit may lie about $500
miles from the earth's surface. A
modest threeinch telescope should re-
veal It.
Watch To see II q small black speck
ever passes across the solar or lunar
disk. If the suspected second moon
really exists. 1t Is reasonable to as
sumo th7t occasionally it mus; pass
between Us and the sun and moon.
moving rapidly across in six or eight
seconds. Reports have been received
that such a bodg has been observed
but these must be substantIated
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27
Where Carelessness Cost
400 Lives

At the opening of the War of 1912
there lived at Lake Tensaw, near Mo
bile, Ala, wealthy half-breed named
Samuel Mimms. His house was built
on low, sandy ground, surrounded by
marsh, and around it he had con-
structed stockade with an uncom-
pleted blockhouse at one corner.
When the Greek Indians Joined the
cause of the British the settlers gath
cred at this fort and in July, 1913,
General Claiborne sent a force of 175
soldiers. under Mai. Daniel Beasley,
TO hold the fort. At first Beasley ener-
getically obeyed Claiborne's orders to
strengthen the fort, then allowed the
work to slacken when the Creeks
failed to make any hostile move He
even became so negligent as to fail to
post guards, except at night and one
day when two slaves brought news of
having seen signs of a large body Of
Indians, Beasley ordered them fiogged
for spreading false alarm
The next day, just as the drums beat
the noon mess call, a horde Of Red
Sticks" Greek warriors) dashed out
of ii little ravlne near the fort and
were within 80 yards of the gate,
which stood wide open and unguarded,
before they were discovered. Beasley
saw them first and ran TO shut the
gate As he put his shoulder against
the heavy log door the sand, which had
drifted against 1t, held It open for
second. In that instant the Indians
struck it. hurled 1t back. fell upon
Beasley with their hatchets and cut
him down.
Then the red horde led by Chief
Weatherford. poured into the fort. So
desperate was the defense Of the sol
diers that at frst the Creeks we're
driven back. But Weatherford rallied
them and they soon gained full pos
session Of the fort by burning the de-
tenders out from house to house In
the Enclosure. The slaughter that fol-
lowed was appalling WeatherfOrd
tried to control his maddened warriors,
but he could not hold 10 check the
storm Of destruction that be had
loosed. Men, women and children went
down before the Ratchet and scalping
knife ana, except for L soldiers who
broke through arl escaped into the
woods, not a white person OF the 40
in the fort survived.
The defenders Of Fort Mlmms sold
their lives dearly, however. More than
400 Of the 1000 Creek warriors who
attacked the fort were killed or badly
wounded. A year later Weatherford's
people were forced TO pay IN full for
the Fort Mimms massacre when ~Old
Hickory" Jackson defeated them at
Tohopeks aud blotted out forever the
aOwer Of the Greek dahtlng torcA
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27

TO anything. l dare say really Il Is an
unsuspected vein OF kindness which
she has touched: bt there Il is.
have an absurd feeling Of fondness for
her The idea Of her becoming a play
thing for Gerald or anybody makes IA
madman Of me-"
And she?'
Looks upon ne as kind person
but an intolerable nuisance. She
dreams Of nobody but Gerald. II he
lifts his little finger. She is his"
Really" Mary drawled coldly.
Please don't judge her too harshly. :"
Christopher begged. MYRTLE is tenn
permanently Incapable Of a mean or
an immoral action. She is Just child
OF nature. only instead of being swayed
by the lower Instincts, she Is swayed
by the higher ones She loves Gerald.
and nothing else counts with her. She
would have thrown herself into the
river sooner than have given herself In
marriage 70 the lnBkeeper She Is
equally capable Of giving her life and
her soul to Gerald. IL he requires the
sacrifice"
Mary turned her head towards the
window.
y think that father wants his game
Of backgammon she observed we
had better so In. am afraid. We
must talk OF this again some time.
VIII YOU 80 first and say that shall
be there directly?"
Christopher stepped obedientlv
through the window. and Mary passed
on 10 the farther end II the terrace.
where the shadows were deeper For
moment her self-eontrol slipped
away. Her fingers gripped the ivy
stalks fercely. There were tears In
her eyes. her rather firm but sensitive
little mouth Quiyered passionately Il
seemed SO many years since Chris
topher had first represented 70 her all
that she desired in manhood man
C character. q worker q sportsman
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27
Famous Forts In
u. S. History
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
The Fort That Was Built by
Indian Slaves
@. 1sa4. western Newspaper Unior

Among the interesting sights in st.
Augustine, Fla. (the oldest town in the
United States) is a tablet over the en-
trance to Fort Marion, bearing the coat
of arms of Spain and the following
legend: Don Ferdinand the Sixth. Be
ing King Of Spain and the Field Mar
shall, Don Alonzo Fernando Hereda.
Being Governor and Captain General
of This Place, ST. Augustine, of FIori-
da, and Its Province, This Fort Was
Finished in the Year 1856, The Works
We're Directed by the Captain En-
gineer, Don Pedro De Brazos Y Ca
ray"
But this ancient inscription does not
tell the full story of the forts In st.
Augustine. From the day in 1866 when
Pedro Menendez erected there the first
rude fertilization to hold Florida
against the French, there have been a
series of fortresses here. And they
have been connected with some stir
ring scenes in Florida colonial history
with the massacre of Jean Ribauts
Huguenots by Menendez, with De
Gourges' terrible revenge and with
other incidents which gave this land
Of flowers baptism of blood.
The first fort erected on the present
site of Fort Marion was an octagonal
wooden structure named San Juan de
Pinos built as early as 1856. 1t was
this fort which Sir Francis Drake, the
famous British navigator, captured
without resistance during a flying raid
on the Spanish Main" in that year A
little later a more pretentiOus struc-
ture of stone was begun and II was
named Fort st. Mark In 1888 tie
Spaniards were at war with the Apa.
iachian Indians, who lived near the
Suwanee river, and, having defeated
them, forced their captives TO work
on the Notifications for more than 60
years. When Cen James Oglethorpe
the founder Of Georgia, laid siege to
st. Augustine In 1740, Monteano, the
Spanish commandment, had a large
force Of convicts from Mexico at work
on the fort and by this time it was SO
strong that Oglethorpe gave up the
attempt to capture the town.
At the close Of the French and In
dian war Spain, Frances ally, was
forced to cede Florida to the British
In 174S it was given back to SPAIN
who held il until 1919, when the Unit
ed States purchased it for S5.000000
On July 10, 1921, the Spanish flag,
which had foated over St. Augustine
for more than two centuries and a
half, was lowered and the Stars and
Stripes went up over Fort st. Mark.
Some time later it was renamed Fort
Marion in honor of Francis Marion.
the famous Swamp Fox" of the Rev
olution, and as Fort Marion the an
cient fortress remains to this day.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27
Birth of Christ

The Christian era was first figured
out In about oo2 by a monk named
DlonySlus Exiguus. At that time the
actual date OF Chrlsts birth was only
4 matter OF speculation. Later. when
the calendar took more definite form.
the birth Of Christ was pu; % the 18th
Of December. but II was found 20 be
impractical TO change the date Of the
era which was already fairly we'll es-
tsblished As a matter Of fact. Il is
now believed that Jesus was born
three or fouy years before the begla-
ming OF TIE era known as the Chris
tian. So we have the anomalous fact
that Christ was born about four years
& c But the exact date u Carlsss
birth 10 unknown
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27
Chapter X

II was after dinner al the villa
Acacia and Lady Mary and Christie
pher. hardest Of the little gathering,
were strolllng back and forth on the
terrace In the violet darkness The
two were old enough friends 10 speak
intimately on many topics. They were
talking tonight Of Gerald
Gerald, as a rule" bis sister de-
clared ~iN almost over-cAndid about
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27

The FieTaled 5eaverboo is beast with eyes of blue;
His red, his hide is heiotrope;
His tongue is pink and longs his bark sounds like song;
And his whiskers look like strands Of yellow rope
This beasties ambition j addition
To his bungalow Of breadth the whole year through
He's forever working hard, the woods at his back yard
With his tail. a-filng big tree-trunks in two.
He will thump and and hammer tIl he spreads
Which attracts his foe, the SharpT oothed kattayae,
Then through the door, and he will
Till the bad old Kit gets tired goes away
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27

per UnIon.)
20-Inqufre
2I-CrOoked
23--Imasinary belt in the heavens
26-COnhrm
3O-OVer
Sl-Part of "tO be"
35-BtbIicnl character
36-FOOd brought back TO be cheVved
second time by an animal
3S-Untt of measurement
3D-Ttdy
41-WOman's quarters in MOham-
medan residence
42-EjaculatiOn
43-'Titanium tabhFD
44-InIt of length
4I-TO twist out of shape
4S-ResemblinE lace
50-The first woman
52-Organ of hearing
The solution will appear in next issue
Solution Of Last Weeks Puzzle.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-12-27

Horizontal.
1-SiarinK
liking of the beasts.
1O-Lure
12-ENpressIng neEatiOn
I3-End of day
I5-Drain
midday nap
20-TO affect with pain
22-Stnring
&f-PrOceed
25-COwbOy's rope
27-ROman emperor
2s--Beehtve (ssbbr.l
=8-Perf0rm
3I--Ifke
32-NOt out
33-Greek letter
34-south American Indian
37-Tear
4O---SmaII diyan
42-Near
44--Fray
45-PosSeSsed
48--FOr a short time
IA boy
5O--Period of time
5i-COnSumed
53--State
J4-Variety of apple
t5--One who hires workers
Vertical.
J-Appendage of "A fsh
Not tight
Opposed to
8-EncOuraGe
7-Pertaining to a fleet of ships
S-FO make a knot
1i--SaIRry
14--TO get up
15-picnic deIicacy
IG-EquaI
iS-For example Cabbr.)
19-ThuN
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-13
Unsuccessful Wives
The Slattern
BY CYNTHIA GREY

went over to my neighbours, Mar.
gle Forbes, the other morning to get
my cooky- cutter that she'd borrow
cd Margie was sitting at the dim
ing-room table, still in her kimono
and bedroom slippers. although II
was 10 o'clock.
The table was Uttered with coffee
cups, crumpled napkins and the Ii.
brary book that Margie had been
reading.
II don't know what I'm sitting
here for. when I've got Il million
dishes to wash" she said. "All these
and the ones from last nights din
! ner, besides. But really I'm SO blue
! that l just haven't enough pep ,c
bulge"
Then saw that she had been cry
ing.
Erred was in one Of his mean
! moods this morning." she went on.
MEN are always grumpy in the
morning." I comforted her.
"That's no excuse for them," Mar.
gle said briskly. ''l'm grumpy. too
but that doesn't give me an excuse
not to get up and cheerfully get
breakfast without even taking the
time to battle and dress myself"
This was something new to me.
had never heard of a woman getting
breakfast in anything but 4 house
dress or bungalow apron before
They belong to the same class OF
clothes that chefs white cap does
'Jim should have married one OF
, these poison-neat women" Margie
| said slowly. "IIe has fit if l leave
the dinner dishes until the mex,
morning.
But we'd never get to movie il
I had TO do all that work."
The house certainly did not look
very comfortable. The rugs were
wrinkled up, and the chairs were
dusty. Even the ferns in their wick.
err basket seemed bedraggled and
sloppy.
f; Margie led me into the kitchen to
find the cooky-cutter. She found il
in the lower oven of her gas range
1t was quite rusty.
"This house is so damp that every.
thing in it rusts," Margie explained
went out through the neat back
yard toward my own house.
| The Forbes have the prettiest lawn
of anyone on our street. The vege.
table garden, where Fred Forbes
works until dark every summe,
night, is as tidy as checkerboard.
And now ! know why he keeps j,
that way. It's because it's the orc
and only thing in his home life that
clean and beautiful as it should be
It's his refuge-from Margie and
Margie's house.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-13

cations that draw the story to a most
colorful crisis.
to write the story Of the conflict OF
Germanic and American bloods in an
Anglo-German at the time of the
World War and Robert f. Mcclure
has done it in 1.-The Dominant Blood"
doubleday, Page). The mother IS
Teuton, the father is American and
the result shows in some admirably
written scenes Of his adolescence
and childhood. He is surely an un-
comfortable combination--although
this surveyor has seen many such
mixed ones who took it in no man
ner so hard. We understand that
Booth Harrington has referred to it
as "a big. fine piece Of work." and
who are We?
Jack Bcthea, for some years man
aging editor of the Birmingham
Post. is another newspapcrman TO
turn novelist, his first work being
BED Rock" (Houghton, Mifflin)
which, the survey is told, already has
been sold to the movie. The scene is
laid in the coal mine belts where the
young hero decides to come up from
the ranks by wedding the daughter
of the company president. This he
succeeds in doing. but the girl learns
his motive. her love turns to hate
and there is melodrama to burn in
the strike eXcitements that take
place before he has fought his way
back"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-13
POETS CORNER
4. SONG OF PRAISE

n. SONG OF .FkAlSE
BY Julia c. Moffit
When the shades Of night are falling
And the light is growing dim;
When you hear night voices calling
Then its time to turn within;
And begin q meditation on the song
of life sublime,
And thank your dear Creator for
gifts along the line.
When the dawn breaks and its morn
ing
And new day has begun;
When your heart is light and joyous,
As lark singing in the sun;
It is time to raise your own voice
in song Of love and praise,
And thank God for health and
plenty, in many, many ways.
Do not deseerate the silence
OF Gods time and place of rest;
For you'll surely pay the penalty
In lack and poverty's stress;
For there is time for working, and
for playing too.
And nights the time for praising
God: for being good to you.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-13
Examination To Be Given Agair

Examination To BE Given Again
The Civil Service Commission in.
vites special attention to the fact
that in an examination held recently
in Bismarck, North Dakota, and other
cities throughout the United States
for principal Of home economics. In.
.ian Service. applicants were not Sc
cared in the number desired, and
that this examination wills. be held
again on December 10.
Persons interested in this or other
examinations should apply to the Sc
cretary of the United States Civil
Service Board at the local post Of
flee for detailed information and ap-
plication blanks.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-13
CITY NEWS
How To Get Police

The quickest way to get the po-
lice, according to Chief Martineson,
is to call the telephone operator,
tell her you want policeman and
give your number. The operator
puts on the "police lights" and the
call is quickly answered, the chief
said. even though all policemen may
be out on their "beats."