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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-20

About thirty friends and neigh
bcrs of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ring
dahl gathered at the Ringdahl
home in a surprise party last We'd
nesday night helping Mr.. Ringdahl
TO properly celebrate his 54th
birthday.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-20

Little Barbara Sake celebrated
her fifth birthday Tuesday by in.
viting in for dinner some of her
little friends, among whom We're
Mr.. and MIS-. B. p. Nelson, Mrs,
C. G. Swanson, Mrs. Godfrey and
others. The dinner was given
at the home of her Aunt, Mrs. Il,
II. Smith.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1925-06-27
''Safe Drivers" Club
Now Being Organized
Metal Tag Bearing Slogan,
Cross Crossings Cautiously,
Furnished Members

A "Safe Drivers Club" is being Or
ganized among the officers and en-
rioyees of the Pennsylvania Railroad
System who are drivers of autonlo.,
hiies. The purpose of the Club is TO
warn motorists to exercise proper
care when approaching or driving over
iailroad-h;ghway grade crossings, to
prevent being struck by trains. To
become member one must agree to
drive carefully, approach all railroad
highway crossings cautiously, and be
assured that no train is approaching
before crossing the tracks.
A neatly finished metal tag, bearing
the slogan "Cross Crossings Cautious
w." is furnished each member of the
Safe Drivers Club, to be attached to
the rear license tag of his car, as a
reminder to following motorists. The
background of this tag is blue, with
letters of orange, matching the pres
ent Pennsylvania State automobile
license tags.
The Safe Drivers Club is a feature
Of the Careful Crossing Campaign be-
ing conducted on the Pennsylvania
! | Railroad, and other railroads in the
United States, under the auspices of
the American Railway Association,
culing the months of June, July, Aug
usi and September. The object of the
campaign is to bring to the attention
of the American people the necessity
for exercising the greatest possible
care to avoid bing struck and killed
or injured by trains while travelling
over highway crossings, and to i'm
press upon locomotive enginemen,
firemen, conductors, brakemen track
foremen, crossing watchmen and all
other employees the necessity for doing
everything within their power to pre-
vent such accidents.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1925-06-27
HEALTH CENTER
IS IMPORTANT in
EVERY DISTRICT
Advisory Nurse Gives 1t First
Place At Recent Baltimore
Conference
is ALSO CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY PROGRESS

A we'll equipped health centre for
each district, and eventually one fo1
each community, were given first
place among the essentials for success
in public health nursing work, by Miss
c. Ethel Monroe, Advisory Nurse at
the State Department fHealth, in a
discussion of Rural Nursing at the an
nual conference of Health Officers
and Boards of Health at Baltimore,
last week.
The ideal health center, Miss Mon
roe said, serves not only as the head
quarters for the nurse, affording
space for her desk and her supplies,
but it is also center for community
health activities-mothers conferen-
ces, classes in home nursing, health
clubs, committee meetings and ex-
hIbits.
Such center may be only a single
room or it may occupy whole build
ing. But no matter how simple it
may be, one of the most important
features of its equipment, is the loan
closet for use in emergencies and in
sudden Illnesses. The closet provides
a place for the safe keeping of the
necessary supply of sheets, pillow
cases, blankets, towels, nightgowns,
layettes, obstertical packages, hot
water bottles and covers, ice caps,
and other sick-room requisites in
such order that they can be packed
up and lent on short notice to the
household, suddenly demoralized by
unexpected sickness.
Unlike Mother Hubbard's cupboard
with its proverbial baroness, the loan
c,oset usually holds a reserve supply
also Of simple delicacies to tempt the
appetite of the convalescent-the sick
mother, the little girl or boy just get
ting over long illness, the t. b. pa
tent away off from the main road.
Home made jams or jellies, jars of
freshly put up fruit, and other dain-
ties from the household stores OF
friendly neighbors, often find their
way to the nurses supply closet for
uses of this sort.
Forty-four nurses are engaged in
public health nursing work in the
counties of Maryland. Allegany heads
the list with six; Baltimore county
comes next with five; Washington
county has four; Anne Arundel and
Frederick county, each have three
nurses Out of the twentythree coun-
ties in the State, St. Mary's and Queen
Anne's are the only ones at present
without public health nursing service.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1925-06-27

it was almost demolished. The truck
was loaded with empty bottles return
ing from Cape Charles, which were
strewn up the track a distance of sew
eral hundred feet. Belote was not in
jured.
A few miles further up the road, at
Kendall Grove, the 10 A. M. train
struck Chevrolet coupe driven by
Walter Morris, a travelling salesman
out of Onancock. According to an eye
witness, Morris was driving close be-
hind a large truck and was almost in
the path of the oncoming train be-
fore he saw it. He Immediately turn
ed his car short to the left but was
too close to the track to avoid being
sruck and the train tore off one front
wheel and a fender. The driver was
considerably shaken up but was not
injured.
No blame is said to be attached to
the engineers of the trains and it is
reported that neither Belote nor Nor
ris stopped before attempting to cross
over the track as required by law.
At it's one hundredth and forty
ninth commencement held on June
18th, Hampden Sidney College gradu-
ated its largest class in it's history and
conferred ten honorary degrees. A
mong those honored by this old insti-
tuition of learning was Miss Mariana
Parramore Higgins, a native of Ac-
comack, Va, now principal of Mary
Baldwin seminary and dean of Mary
Baldwin College located at Staunton,
Va. This is the first honorary degree
conferred by Hampden Sidney Col
lege on a woman and by coinci-
dence, so far as is known, Miss Hig-
gins is the first Eastern Shore woman
to be honored by having an honorary
degree conferred on her. Miss Hig-
gins was conferred the honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Letters.
Miss Higgins has been connected
with Mary Baldwin since 1908, when
she accepted the position of teacher
in that school, giving up position in
the College for women, Columbia, S.
C. In 1916 she was made head of the
school. When the school was taken
over by the Presbyterian Synod of
Virginia some two years ago she was
made dean of the College department.
The comforting of the honorary de-
gree on her by Hampden Sidney is a
tribute to the remarkable educational
growth made by the school since she
has been in charge of it. Already the
Presbyterian Synod of Virginia is
making arrangements to take care of
the growth of the school by enlarging
the plant and giving it a liberal en-
dowment.
Miss Higgins many friends on the
Shore will learn with pleasure of the
honor she has recently had bestowed
upon her. Miss Higgins is spending
two weeks with her sisters Misses
Emory and Halle Higgins, at Acco-
mac, at the end of which time she
will return to Staunton to make ar
rangements for the next session of
the school which begins in September.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1925-06-27

Northbound trains No. 418 and No.
462 leaving Cape Charles at 10 A. NJ,
and 1890 P. NJ, respectively, Mon
day struck two vehicles within a dis
tance of five miles.
The huge Pepsi-Cola truck of the
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Works at Exmore
stalled on the crossing at Cobb's sta
tion directly in the path of the on
coming train. The driver, Charles T.
Belote, of Exmore, jumped from the
machine to safety a moment before
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1925-06-27
Summer Millinery

We are showing the
very latest in summer
Millinery and to make
your selection here will
prove very satisfactory.
The styles are those
which have the approval
of Dame Fashion and the
prices are most pleasing.
White Felts, combina-
tion trimming and in all
white at $3.50 to $3.50.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1925-06-27

(1rOWerS
The first shipments of East
ern Shore potatoes in bags
have reached destinations.
Last week six cars were
shipped by East Coast Po-
tato Distributors, Inc., to
buyers in Detroit and Cleve-
land.
To repeat the exact words
of the buyers "They arriv-
ed in splendid condition."
Of course they were prop
erly packed and loaded--
and the result was perfect
condition upon arrival.
And think of it---the grow
ers saved more than SOC
on every package or $50
saving in the cost of con-
tainers alone on every car.
And still some growers say
it can't be done! To every
grower still shipping in bar
rels we say---How long are
you going to literally throw
money away?
Get on the band wagon. Join
the growers who are making
an extra $4,000 to $4,000
on every car.
It's not too late. Get the facts
by writing to
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1925-06-27

Are taking advantage of the special
specially
for June
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29

The legislative session this year OPP
ened with a grand thrush of bills,
breaking the record of last year and
if the halt had not been taken there
would have been one of the greatest
floods of legislation in the history
of the state. This is not an idle pre-
diction. Everything pointed to that
ending.
There was no constructive legisla-
ton program offered. The senate lead
ers had failed to prepare one and the
house was going to simply mark time
and see what the senate intended to
do. Hence when the governor sud-
denly dropped his bomb out of clear
sky, recommending early adjournment
and special session later in the year
it found the older legislators more
anxious to join with him, and save
the state from what had started off
to be "jitney" session.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29
OUR OPPORTUNITY

HERE is the great Northwest. On
III the surface, in the soil and under
meath the surface she is veritable
treasure house of natural resources.
To our ports the waters OF the Pa
ciic bring the story of the awakening
and rapidly developing Orient. The
products of our forests. farms and
factories are needed over there In ev-
embarrassing volume as each year
rolls by. Here in the Northwest will
be the development of the next gen.
GRAFTON and succeeding generations.
All America is watching US with adj
miring eyes. Nobody now here will
ever go back, but many more will
come to us. Before long, more CAPT.
tai will come and industries new to
the Northwest will be established.
Here in the midst of progress lies
the Yakima valley. At the gateway
to the great valley lies Kennewick.
We are backed by our full share of
the good farm lands of the great
Northwest. We have roads and rail-
roads, water and power. The tourists
~ forerunners of those who come to
stay are coming this year in great
er numbers. All around us lies
state rich with timber, mines, fish
cries, fruit lands, wheat lands, un-
touched power resources. What more
do we need to bolster up our faith?
Let's forget our doubts and fears
and decide once and for all that Ken
newick and the state Of Washington
are as good places as there are on earth
in which to live and have home and
raise family, and spend our money
and invest our earnings. Then go
ahead and do the things we have
dreamed We would like to do. Every
circumstance, every line of reasoning,
justifies this faith in the future of the
Northwest
Now is the time to do your plan
ming. Plan to buy, plan to build,
plan to improve your property. Tell
others of the great resources and OPP
portunities of Washington. And show
that you believe in Washington your
self by building here for your own
future and the future of your child
rem. Fifty years ago this was an un-
charted wilderness. Today Washing
ton has eclipsed dozens of older
states. What will it be in another
fifty years?
Opportunity is here today in the
last best West. Take advantage of it.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29
AS an example let us take the IL
of a famous lecturer:

lustration of famous lecturer:
There was once man who owned
farm in Pennsylvania who became
dissatisfied with farming. This was
in the early days of the oil business,
and so he applied himself to all the
aspects of the then new and promis-
ing industry. He learned how petro-
leum was formed, how refined, and
how marketed. In short he learned
all he could about the theory. and then
he sold his farm for 1888. Shortly
after the sale, the new owner went
over the place to look after facilities
for watering stock. He found that his
predecessor had fixed plank across
the surface of little stream running
thru the farm, and this plank was set
at the right depth to hold back a
black scum thru which cattle would
not put their noses.
"This was unusual. With the as
sistance of experts, he conducted an
investigation. The black scum, they
discovered, was petroleum, and the
farm it was later found was one of
the richest oil fields of the East -
an oil field that biologists later de-
clared was worth 100000, 900 to the
state of Pennsylvania. Here the men
who studied the theory of finding,
refining and marketing coal oil, had
been damming back stream that
was pouring forth millions in oil. The
city of Titusville stands today on the
farm that he sold for 1888 = in order
to go to far away places where he
thought opportunity was awaiting
him."
No doubt this man was no more
blind than most of us here in Kenne-
wick. The writer is of the opinion
that there is plenty of wealth and
opportunity to be found right here in
our community, and some day some
man of vision will come along and
see what all of us should have seen
long ago.
Distance seems to add an enchant-
ment that lots of us cannot possibly
resist. Let's try to get this distance
business out of our system and make
our opportunities realities.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29
WHERE is IT?

WHERE is opportunity? Are we to
" believe that all opportunities lay
in far away lands and that to grasp
them we must travel? That idea is
wrong. The usual preventative that
stands in the way of most of us
grasping the opportunities that are
offered here is the fact that our vi
sion is trained to see things devel-
oping in distant places more quickly
than those that are close at hand.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29
POPULAR
GOVERNOR Hartley has appL

GOVERNOR Hartley has appLar-
~ emily struck popular chord IN
his request that the legislature cur
tail its activities and adjourn on Or
before February ID and the members
have also, through joint resolution,
placed their approval upon it.
Of course there are few who are
opposing this course. The majority
of these are serving their first term
and have not yet had time to thoroly
appreciate the full significance of the
governors recommendations. There
has been growing demand thru the
state for less legislation and greater
economy in administration, not. only
as to the state but in the local tax
expanding districts.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29

self. Let's take the editors advice,
turn over new leaf, stop lying about
how much our bum COW gives and get
her out of the country. When we do,
let's see that good cow takes her
place. By bringing in more good cows
we will help the town and community
and we have the editors word for it,
that he will get behind us.
r. A. MITCHELL.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29
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letter. From The People Z
= = = = = = = I = . . = Z = = J

Dear Sir:
Your editorial "Shall We" is along
the right line. You say that if any
body will start thing that will make
the town little better you will get
behind him. am going to contribute
few lines, and if you think that the
town or community, or both might
benefit print it. If not, please do
not return unless postage is fully pre-
paid. Ny subject is Cows" I have
been convinced for a long time that
this valley needed more cows. Too of
ten in expressing myself to neighbors
and friends along this line, the reply
has been There is nothing in cows"
Why? There may be several reas-
ons. I will only try to point out what
to my mind is one Of the main reas-
ons. We have not had enough of the
right kind of cows. 1t seems to be
hard task to get the poor ones thru
the lines to the Gamer or the race
tracks where they belong. / believe
that some of the poor bossies would
become conscious stricken and COM
NIT suicide if given the opportunity.
Others are of such low type that they
really think they are good.
am not against the cattle dealers.
i hope / am the friend of all. What
I ask of them is not to stop the scrub
in transit, but let her continue on
her way. If they must sell her back
to the people Of this community, let
it be in cans, not as milk cow. At
ter farmer has supported one of
these CRITTERS" as long as he can,
it is quite natural for him to get all
that he can in return for her. So he
hunts cattle dealer, and perhaps
gets five or ten dollars more than he
could from the butcher, by simply
saying she is good cow. Bye and
bye she is back on a neighbor's farm
to be supported by him, until she
again loops the loop. I am not pass
ing this as advice to the other fell
low. have done the same thing nv
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29
RUSH FOR LICENSES
One-Third Increase in Motor Vehicle
Licenses for This Year

An increase of nearly 33 per cent is
shown in the number of motor We
hicle licenses issued this year. Taking
January IL as comparative date for
1924 and 1925 the records of the de-
partment of licenses shows 1924
licenses issued in 1924 as compared
with 104,6 94 this year. The number
of licensed private automobiles in
creased from $1,000 to s7,400 and
trucks from $500 to $4,000. However
the number of licenses issued by the
second week of January was only one
third of the total for the entire year
1924.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29

VIGOROUS attacks upon the legis-
lative program of the governor
are to be expected from those factions
in the state who feel that he does not
represent the so-called progressive
thought. Some indication of the angle
these will take is to be found in the
recent movement inaugurated in Sc
attic by William M. Short, president
of the state Federation of Labor, to
start recall against the chief execu-
tive. 1t is futile attempt.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29
Roland H. Hartley has

Governor Roland H. Hartley ha:
declared he personally intends
to make survey of the needs and
business conditions of every state de-
partment and institution. In other
words the new chief executive intends
to get his information first hand and
supplemental to the work of the ex-
perts, auditors and advisors who will
be called in by him.
The report that Governor Hartley
was going to personally supervise the
work has created a feeling of conf
dence throughout Legislative circles
and means that business and industry
will rest after long period of spec
ulation and fear.
There has not been any crying
need of any legislation at this time,
but there has been an insistant de-
mand that the legislature take some
action toward eliminating the ever
growing burden of taxation.
Governor Hartley declares that he
realizes he has large job on his
hands and that he can only work out
the economy program for the state
which is only a comparatively small
part of the tax expanding functions
operating in the state. The economy
cut must be carried into the counties,
cities, and school districts, just as
the present administration is con-
templating on doing in all the state
departments and institutions.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29

Spring showers and sunshine encour.
age the multiplication of the cabbage
and other vegetable worms. Unless
they are promptly checked they will
have accomplished their purpose be-
fore the season is well advanced.
Careful inspection every few days is
advisable. if a worthless crop is to be
had.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29

IF your vision requires distance look
up on the hill south of town and
see that new golf course that We are
going to build.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29

TT is NOT kicking that makes good
= team work, it's getting in the har-
ness and pulling.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-01-29

no NOT be short sighted enough
to knock your successful neigh
Dor in the belief that you will profit
by so doing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-10-24
Candidates and Friends
ION Their Toes" As End
Looms I'm Sight
Sounding of Gong Fatefu Third Period Now But Matter Of
Hours; Lead Secured by Closing Time Tonight Almost
Impossible to Overcome
TONIGHT AT MARKS END FOREVER FOR
BIG VOTE SCHEDULE; OFFICE OPEN It
All Urged to Have Subscription Stubs Filled Before
Reporting; Don't Hold Up Others While You Slowly
Write Up Your Stubs

Grlttlng their teeth with absolute
determination, candidates in The
TimesRecorder's circulation sales
campaign and $4,000 Gift Distribu-
ton are today going at top speed to
capture the leadership for the
coveted gifts. The gong sounds to-
night at o'clock on this last big
vote period. The campaign ends a
wweeA from tonight. Circulation
campaign headquarters will be open
tonight until 8 o'clock for personal
calls.
1t is now but matter of hours
something Lick or or hours. In
this short period of time candidates
have the best opportunity of landing
votes on the double quick" and lit
orally cinching the gift they desire.
A lead secured by the emo of this
period-before the gong soundst to-
night-should be almost impossible
to overcome.
Some Final Instructions
Be careful in filling out your sub
scription stubs, always writing OF
printing the names of the subscriber
plainly so there will be no mistake in
the name, address, amount OIL
length of slime in entering the sub,
scription. Extensions should he
plainly marked with the length OF
time of the first subscription anG
the period in which the subscription
originated plainly designated.
Candidates are urged to fill out
their stubs at home. 1t is likely
candidates will arrive at headquar.
tiers all in a bunch as they did on
the two previous period closes. The
circulation campaign manager will
be busy waiting on candidates and
if you take up unnecessary time fill.
ing out stubs after your turn arrives
you will be holding up everybody else
Fill out your stubs at home-count
your money at home. See that the
stubs and the money check.
AS To Mail Turn-ins
The special attention of candidate:
especially out of town candidates anc
those who are working out of twor
today, is called to the arrangement