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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-07
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By Williams

You see, Mamie, thought no one
in the world cared for me and | had
received great Raging from my
secretary that afternoon. She told
me that l was neglecting my bust
ness and drinking too much. l was
just drunk enough to think the world
was all right again when you said
you were glad.
When asked you why you were
glad l was drunk, you answered.:
Drunken men may be divided into
two classes-good and bad-natured
animals-and you're good-natured
one. Please take me into your
house. I'm hungry and very cold"
| took you in, Mamie, more per-
haps because was lonesome and
filled with self-pity than because you
said you were hungry. l don't need
to tell you at this time that l am a
very selfish animal.
DO you remember how we sour
ried around and found something to
eat? That was the beginning.
From being poor little sick kit
ten, you became a gorgeous, playful,
purring, sleek parlor cat.
From the first, Mamie, you were
my exhaust. l only went to the
apartment / took for you when
was drunk or tired--when l was in
a state of silly self-pity. You we're
amusing. told you the truth about
myself. l told you l was rotter
and that some day would leave
you and 60 back to being respecta-
BILE. I'm sending you my check for
five thousand dollars and this is
gOodby.
l would feel more of a cad than
do, but you do not love me any more
than ] love you. We were derelict
ships. l have been picked up as
salvage and hope am being towed
into the port of decent men again.
Don't try to write me or see me.
We are now sailing in totally diff
ferent directions.
JACK.
Telephone Message From Mamie
Keller to the Office of John
Alden Prescott
~ would like to speak to Mr.. Pres
colt.
"You say Mr.. Prescott is not in
the Office. When will he be in?
"You don't know? Please let me
talk to someone who does know.
would like to speak to his secretary.
as this Mr.. Prescott's secretary?
"Will you please let me speak to
Mr.. Prescott?
"Oh, you say he is not in town?
When will he be back?
"YOu are not sure.
"No, I'll not leave message for
him. I'll call him up
"Have you any idea where he will
be the middle IF next week? 1t is
quite important
"Oh, at Atlantic City at the Tray
more Hotel? Thank you. will
write him there.
"You are sure that he will be
there by Wednesday? ! want him
to get the letter. without fail.
THANK you. If I do not catch him
there will call him up. at his office
the last of the week.
"No, it isn't necessary for me to
leave my name"
Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Incl
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Aerial defense probe has ended
It's words for 10 weeks placed and
to end reached no conclusion.
Navy says our aviators are all up
in the air. Aviators claim our navy
is all at sea. That leaves our de-
Tense up tree.
The Democratic party is out Of
debt, SO we look for more predic-
tions Of the end of the world soon.
They are still arguing over Muscle
Shoals. Much water has gone over
the dam since they started.
---s =
A squirrel bit two people in A..
bany, Pa, and we can prove it.
A school for parrots has bee :,
started in Texas. Teach them to
talk. Hope it eliminates the static.
News from Turkey. Doctors have
found man with his heart on the
right side. This will make the
Greeks mad.
A mad married man tells US the
preacher should have asked him
"Any previous military service ~
Auto makers are seeing which car
can do 1000 the fastest, but it isn't
| that far to any golf links.
It's an i'll wind that blows no good.
If radio worked perfectly all the
time who would plant our crops :?
Deepest spot in the Atlantic is
27,965 feet. What an excellent place
to drop saxophone overheard.
Oxford (Miss.) man shot at bas-
kctball game. Shooter may plea he
thought the man was referee.
In Italy, they are digging for a
buried village. We know where they
can find dead one without digging.
Prince of Wales is going to South
Africa. If he sees summer on the
way he can tell her we have de-
cided to keep spring.
The paper says a swindler caught
in Chicago is wanted in Los Angeles,
but hasn't Los Angeles enough 0:
them?
And. of course, the first breath
of spring is spring onions.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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She had heard of doctors giving
such messages as that. 1t had never
seemed that she, herself, would be
told this about her husband, not for
a long, long time at least.
But there were the Smiths, friends
Of Mrs. Jones, who lived over on
Cherry street. For the last five
years they had had the doctor look
them over every year.
They seemed proud of it. Every
time the two families got together,
Mrs. Smith would tell what the doc
tor said. -
"Well, some folk are just that
way" she mumbled to herself. IF
the doctor tells them they have ap-
pendicitis they want it published in
the papers," %
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other in surprise. They knew very
we'll that Mister Peg Leg had no
squcaky shoes in his pack, and how
he could say such thing they
couldn't understand!
But they were soon to know all
about it.
"Where is your son?' asked the
peddler man looking around.
"Pll go and get him so you can fit
the shoes on him." said Mrs. Bear.
And out she went
quick cried Mister Peg Leg to
the Twins. $50 out and get me two
big crickets-loud chirpers and bring
them back as fast as you can"
The Twins laughed. Squeak fac
tory. indeed" they cried as they
disappeared
When Mrs. Bear returned with
Buster, everything was like apple
pie again. You wouldn't know that
anybody had moved
The fat little bear boy sat down
and the little peddler man tried on
pair of shoes. >
Couch! They hurt!" cried Buster.
"They're too tight"
Off they came in a hurry.
Excuse me-" said Mister Peg Leg
turning his back as he took out an
other pair of shoes. 81 have to do
little magic trick to make the
squeak work right"
But all he did was to take the
CrickptS mt Of tho fret Sbooc o,j
shove them away up into the toes of
the second shoes where they wouldn't
get squeezed too much.
The second pair were just right.
"Now walk in them" said Mrs.
Bear proudly.
SO Buster walked across the room
and at every step the crckets
chirpcd out, "Ouch-ouch-o
ouch! Although they weren't really
hurt bit Only scared.
'lf you take them off they will
stop squeaking." said Mister Peg
Leg, $50 keep them on till you come
home from the party"
II WILL" promised Buster Bear.
SO he went to the party and had
good time and Peg Leg got enough
money to buy new peg leg.
Ito Be Continued)
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Portrait models in wax are the
latest novelties in Paris. These fig
urcs are dressed and supplied with
jewels in imitation of their owners.
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FORTUNATE:
(Florence Borner)

There is wnsome little maid, ...
Who stole my heart, and hid it, -.
/ have not found 1t to this day,
And yet, III not forbid it; l
Because I have one in return,
A heart that beats Shyly,
lit sets the joybelis ringing out,
And makes my face all smiley.
The evening when went to call,
On Susie and her sister.
] surely never thot that Fate,
Would hantb me such a twister:
But when once had seen Sues face
With dimples all around II,
/ wished to shout right then and therei
Eureka l have found it."
And. would you ask me what found,
That was so very pleasing?
A little girl pretty girl,
With brown eyes full of teasing Il 49,
Her cheeks were like two roses red
She looked just like a fairy,
! reared that she would float away,
She seemed SO light and airy
And SO, our wedding day is set,
Then Sue will wear the token.
f!hat Dl4ds, true. hearts with Loves sweet chair
And never will he broken: 80
think am a lucky hloke,
With Fortunes sgiGts, all laden
because a. iWooed. and won Tor mine.
T1k w1peome little maiden.
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talk-mostly bluff about deals and
dollars$$$$$$$$$ Everywhere you 60
you hear somebody talking about. a,
"big deal' they've just put OVERSEES
Millions of lights on Broadway in
garish, fantastic designs. Men play
ing god and feeding the devil. $500.
Street takers. :. Bookmakers. 800.
Mendicants. ..... Gamblers$$$$$$S
Hard boiledness. 80. Hard faces.
Painted faces. Sin-seamed faces. .
Clang and clamor, roar and rush,
hurry and scurry, buy and sell, cheat
and sneak-reflections Of a cynic in
world of cynics.
JAMES w. DEAN.
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Editorial Review

Comments reproduced In this
column may or may not express
the opinion Of The Tribune: tn. y
our readers may have both sideO
OF important Issues which are
being discussed In the press OF
tho DAY.
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SUSPICIOUS
OF EXPERTS

SUSPICIOUS
OF EXPERTS
1t is true that suspicion of the ex-
pert has always been characteristic
American fault.
We trust mechanical experts. If
we want an electrical plant, we get
an expert to design it.
Some of US trust medical experts,
but the others regard us as one sect
and themselves as another. and in
sist that science and anti-science arc
dogmas of equal right.
Business is only gradually and
hesitatingly learning to trust ex-
perts.
Government, which needs them
most of all, actively distrusts them.
Which means that government is
still the most medieval Of our men
tai processes.
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A Thought

To speak evil of no man, to be no
brawtlers, but gentle, showing all
meckness unto all men.-Titus 3:2.
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil
ord.-Shakcspeare.
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And congressman who now think
that they can gain more votes by
Offering their constituents a plausi-
bly, painted stone than by giving
them real bread, might find that
after real presentation of the
truth, the votes would be on it's side.
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ODD

Life offers stranger condolences than fiction. Cleve
land judge, placing wreath Washngtons tomb at Mt
Vernon Washngtons birthday, see his
wife drop to the ground, dead.
Heart failure said the doctor.
Thus the judge paying homage to dead man in the
name OF Ohio Masonry, remains to his dead.
You read this and Interested But it is not death
that is interesting It is how you die and where Floyd
Collins example,
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But there is no emperor, and no tenn
porally sovereign Pope, to decree it,
and democracy clings to the old
things.
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Summer is better than winter because in summer YOU
can And the ice pick when you her burglar,
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PRODIGAL

NJ PRODIGAL
AS Lew Fields humorousy used remark as the stage
villain picked his pocket of lifeme's savings easy
come, easy CO."
Lieutenant Osborn c. Wood of the distinguished
General Leonard Wood broke into headlines months
after cleaning fortune in Wall Street. Now he is
back in prnt-this time broke.
News from Spain that he may be extradted for
passing worthless checks
To appreciate the value money you must work for it,
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Portrait models in wax are the
latest novelties in Paris. These fig
urcs are dressed and supplied with
jewels in imitation of their owners.
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TESTS
One thousand freshmen at the Pennsylvania State Col
ege this year took psychological test to determine their
general knowledge They were required to 23O
questions in 40 minutes.
Results were little surprising in view of results college
girls have been making in scholarship competition with
The students in this test made average score of
1873 and students IT,
Many will seize this bit of information as something
that Will give them good laugh Let them - the laugh
lstely has been much the side of the other SEX
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COFFEE

One and third billion pounds of coffee entered the
Omitted States last That's about IS billion cups gur-
ing at the rate of 40 cups to the pound.
Despite steady rise in coffee prices during the year.
PORTS higher than in 1928 Wholesale price of stand
brand II cents in January 1924 At the end of the
year it had risen to about "a cents.
you have bent for statistics will interest you to
know that each person in the United States according to
capita estimate about 500 cups Of coffee yearly
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Aerial defense probe has ended
Its words for 10 weeks placed and
to end reached no conclusion.
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25
J. Il. HOLT is
OLDEST MASON

The many friends of Mr.. j.
Hannie Holt, one of our oldest
citizens of the north end of the
county, will be glad to know
Father Time is dealing kindly
with him and he still enjoys
good health at his farm home
at Bingen. He celebrated his
Sind birthday on Nov. 5th.
Mr.. Hollis parents settled on
the farm on which he now is
lviiing when he was four years
old and he has maintained his
residence there continuously
since, which is perhaps the
record for Hampstead county.
He has been a member Of
Pleasant Valley Masonic lodge
at Nashville for 81 years and
an active member of the Ozan
Baptist Church, Bingen, for
50 years. Is there one in the
county who can show a longer
record of usefulness
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

The band who robbed the bank here Tuesday night
crossed Red River Fulton at 1880 o'clock Wednesday
night Pat Mclaughlin operator of the ferry thor
oughy convinced before he landed the men on the Mil
ler County side that they were the robbers and he
'phoned to Texarkana officers as possible 1t
is believed the turned into the Dooeys ferry road
instead and posse from here and Fulton spent Thurs
day in the Miller County bottoms in fruitess
for the men.
There were five men in the party and one of them
had flour sack wrapped around the right hand They
were cold and told the feryman of having been stuck
in the mud for hours, but had no mud on it, was
1924 model ford He unable to the license tag
the would get in front of him every time he at
tempted to see it. Brooks Shuts, of the of
the ferry reached the river from Texarkana twenty
minutes after the bandits had been put he stated
that he did not meet Ford on the road
The robbed bank resumed business Thursday morn
ing Money deposit at the institution is fully protect
ed with insurance
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

Sheriff Bearden arrived at this
time and had Smith taken to
the hospital, where his wounds
.receivd attention.
Smith, whose home is -
teryilless eas.Nf HsQa
ed for burglary aGa grand S~sX
ceny in this county and on four
felony charges and resisting of
ficers in Nevada county, it is
said. He has served a term
in the state penitentiary for
5tabbing a man by the name of
Milligan to death in a theatre
in Hope six or seven years ago.
Reports obtained at the time
we go to press are that Smiths
condition is improving and that
he has a chance to recover. -
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25
LAWSON SMITH
is IN CUSTODY

Lawson Smith, white man,
aged about 30 years, victim of
an automobile accident, a fight
and resisting arrest on the
stree.5 of Hope Sunday night,
is in the Julia Chester Hospital
of that city in a serious condi-
ton.
1t is alleged that Smith and
Reginald Bearden, son of the
sheriff, were each driving on
Division street, when the car
driven by Smith struck the
Bearden car, sending it to the
ditch. AS Smith did not stop,
Bearden followed as soon as he
got his car back in the street.
The Smith car stalled at the
Frisco railroad crossing on
Louisiana street and Bearden
recognized Smith. Knowing
that Smith was wanted as a
fugitive in both Hampstead and
Nevada counties, Bearden Sc
cured the assistance of the Of
ficers.
Officer Eugene Schweizerhof
was soon located and he and
young Bearden returned to the
car to arrest Smith. At their
approach Smith is said to have
drawn a gun, placing the muz-
z1e in Schwei7erhof's stomach,
but the weapon snapped. He
then disarmed the officer.
At this juncture Bearden
again left and found Deputy
Clarence Baker. AS they near
ed the scene Baker jumped off
The Barden car in the dark and
Smith, thinking Beardell clone,
jumped on the running board
and struck Bearden ova the
hsad---;4h- his reynlyer, and also
began choking him. Baker
walked up behind the car,
Upon seeing him Smith opened
fire and he and the officer cN-
changed two Shots each. Smiths
going wild. One of the shots
from the officers gun st~uck
Smith in the abdomen. 1t was
found that Smith had two guns
on his person, besides The one
he took from the officer.
Hearing of the trouble,
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

leading out of this city, it is
believed the men got together
about two miles south of town
and went ou1 the Guernsey road
TO where it inter sects the Hope
an0' Columbus road, and from
there through Fulton and per-
haps Saratoga and Mineral
Springs. The robbers were
trailed a half mile out of town
by The blood stains left on the
walks and ground by the woun
ded Tobber. Near here then
automobile was parked and
those who first reached the
machine sped rapidly away
without, waiting for their COM
panions about two miles out
on this road. This belief is
strengthened by the fact mat
a blood hound from Texarkana,
-ushed here to assist in the
search, picked up the trail at
the point where it left the
Neutrality-suspicious. highway and
followed it out for two miles,
where it ended abruptly in
front of a tenant house on the
w. B. Nelson farm. Just at
this point one of the searchers
picked up a ten cenE coin and
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

gong to the switchboard while
she knew a sentinel, member of
the bandit gang, stationed just
ktside a window, was "coverl
her with his gun, and
Phoning news of the rob
J, in a whisper, to Hope and
- |hville.
Awakened by the frs tblast,
Mr.. c. N. Trimble, president Of
the bank, dressed hurriedly and
staated out. Before reaching
his front gate he was ordered
togo back and the command
was emphasized with a shot
fram the dark. Deciding that
"a 1scretion is the better part of
vaior" he obeyed.
Mr.. P. @. Lovelis ran TOT his
porch and the same guard, sta
toned near the Presbyterian
church, answered promptly
when he fired at him. Mr.. Love
lis decided there was not so
much personal enmity between
he and ,he sentinel afta4 al.
and went back in the house.
Elk Circuit Clerk Luther F.
Higgason, nearby, turned on a
light to see what it was all
about and a window was in
stantly shattered by a shot; he
decided that he loved darkness
rather than light" and turned
off the light.
Mack Atkins, mattress maker,
who has apartments upstairs
in the Garner building, watch
ed progress at the bank across
She street from a window. He
reports that he saw the bandits
touch off several charges of eX-
plosive and saw a guard sta
toned in front of the w. ].
Johnson & Co. store, another
in front of the Telegraph office
end still another az the foot of
the outside stairway in the
Gamer building. He had nc
gun, he said, Druggist M. S
,,atcss diraealy in front of tbs
bank, was in a similar predica-
ment.
Mr.. c. C. Stuart, Attorney l.
F. Monroe, M. G. Monroe, Dep
uty R. A. Carrigan and R. w
Paterson, west end residents
had better luck in leaving
their homes, as no guards
were on the job in that part of
town. They secured firearms
and attempted to reach vantage
points. Messrs. Carrigan and
Continued on 3rd page)
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

blood stains were found on the
ground. John Samuels, COL,
whose home is just below where
lhe trail ended, stated to th4
possee that a car passed hls
home at 5 o'clock, travelling at
terrific speed. AS the robbery
was completed at A o'clock, it
F? thought most of the inter-
ing hour was required for
~ >bbers to gdt together.
. ,p,,>AhN Nelson farm The
car was trailed .tU the Hope
Columbus highway intersection
where it turned toward Colum-
bus. Which way they went when
intersed.ing the Washington
and Fulton road is open for
speculation.
Fifteen charges of nitro
glycerine were used in opening
the safe and the robbers were
on the job fo. two hours. The
safe, furniture and fixtures of
the bank were almost totally
wrecked and a very large plate
glass window was shattered by
the explosion. The building,
however, was practically UNI
injured.
Perhaps there are many who
are wondering what the popu-
lalion of the city was doing
all this time. 1t was a time
when events succeeded each
other in rapid succession.
There were several would-be
heroes whose ardor was some
what dampened when they
would be saluted by a shot
from the dark when attempting
an exit from their homes,
Nearly everybody in town was
awakened by the repeated
blagts and the conclusions of
all seemed to agree that the
good and peaceable old town
was experiencing its first bail
robbery. An organi ed resist
ance, however, was considered
impractiea, by our slevel-headed
citi ems because of the vigilance
of the robba' sentinels, who
seemed numberless.
The bandits had cut mort of
The telephone wires to crippl
The service, but failed to sever
the cable carrying the long dis
tance lines to Hope and Nash
vile. Miss LaVerne Wilson,
opator al. the exchange, per-
formed an act of heroism by
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

Yeggmen entered the Wash
ington State Bank in this city
at 2 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing, blew the safe, and. made
their escape with 100000 OF
he institutions money, most of
which was in currency. About
$1,000.00 of the banks silver
money was not disturbed by the
robbers, one of whom was shot
and wounded as he and his com
panions were leaving with the
loot. 1t is believed that five men
were in the banG and one of
them was hit either by R. A.
Carrigan, deputy sheriff, or R.
w. Patterson, both of whom
fired on the bandits as they
~.
The robbers are believed to
have parked their car a half
mile out on the Hope pike, Just
off the highway. They were
scattered by the shots fired at
them and from reports of the
sheriff, his deputies and a posse
of citizens, who spent the entire
day Wednesday in search for
the bandits in a dense woods
three miles south of town, and,
up and down the various roads
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

Mr.. j. G.. Collier and Miss
Sallie Thompson, both of Hope,
were united in marriage at the
county clerks Office at The court
house last Saturday, Rev. S.
C.. Dean officiating.
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25

Miss Kathryn Holt will ar
rive today from Presbyterian
College, Milford, Texas to re-
main with homefolks until af-
ter The holidays.
Washington telegraph., 1925-12-25
Bank Robbers Cross River At Fulton Wednesday Night

going to the switchboard while
she knew a sentinel, member of
the bandit gang, stationed lust