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, 1925-10-21

plication, followed by the filing of
water right or water rental appli-
cation, when either is provided for
on the particular project involved.
which feature the board shall COW
er by appropriate notation on the
application, will entitle the appli-
cant at the designated local land
office for the farm unit assigned
to him. Such homestead application
shall be made within Is days from
the date of approval of the appli-
cation, except in those cases where
a preference right is being evercis-
ed, in which event the period pro-
vided by law shall control. Failure
to so make such homestead appli-
cation will entitle the board to ap-
prove another application for the
same unit, allowing the applicant
to make homestead entry; this pro-
cedure continuing, if necessary, I'M
til approved applicant make a home
stead entry.
The above regulations relate in
the main to the entry of vacant
farm units upon existing projects
and existing divisions thereof. and
while suggestive of the procedure
to be followed in the opening of
new projects or new divisions. each
public notice or order opening new
projects or new divisions will con
tain detailed instructions on the
subject of the qualifications neces-
sary for prospective entry-men and
the procedure under which such
qualifications will be determined.
, 1925-10-21
LOWER SAGE

The farmers having small bands
of sheep took them to the Pearson
dipping pens last week.
Oliver Knight and son Milford,
and Ebert and Lawrence Siddle
spent a few days last week in the
mountains hunting.
]. N. McMillin is driving a new
Chevrolet a which he purchased
recently.
The Frank Ives family visited at
the Riddle home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richter and Miss
Nellie Williams called on Mrs. H.
+. Bates on Monday of last week.
The party given by the members
of the young peoples bible study
class at the Mountain View school
house Saturday evening was report
to be a very enjoyable affair.
d. D.. Stall came home from Bur-
the latter part of the week.
Bert Coe and Bert Stevenson
took dinner at the Joe Black home
, 1925-10-21

Mrs. Donald Jefferies has been
absent from the ~Jefferies Service
store for the past few days suffer-
ing from a severe cold.
H. E. Williams and daughter Ven
eta left Thursday of last week for
their old home at Newark, Ohio,
for an indefinite stay. They are
making the trip in their new Chew
.rolet coupe.
A. S. Nelson received the sad
news of his mothers death at Grove
Hill. Alabama. last week.
Fred Miller has been confined
to his home the past week, suffer-
ing with a sore throat.
st. Johns Guild was entertained
at the l.. NJ. Hammond home Tues
day afternoon.
Mrs. j. R. Jackisch attended the
funeral of her grandmother at
Fromberg last week.
Ralph Elder and family and Mrs.
Wilbur Katzenback and children,
came in from Big Piny Saturday,
Mr.. Elder and Mr.. Katzenback have
been in the employment of Tag
CART construction Co. the past few
months.
J.. F. Cozzin and family moved
from Byron this week into their
home recently purchased from John
Stick.
The Powell foot ball team was
defeated at Lowell last Saturday,
Sc to 0. However, the Powell boys
are not in the least discouraged
over their defeat of Saturday.
The Methodist Sunday school is
planning its annual Harvest Home
festival. for Friday evening of this
week. when at this time donations
of all kinds will be auctioned off
by Colonel Wright and sold to the
highest bidder. proceeds to go into
the Sunday school treasury.
The potato market is still soaring
upward. Canaday and Hawley buy
ing four carloads at $500 per hun
dred, last monday reported S2.25
per hundred.
Mrs. Tom Moore and baby left
left Saturday for Metz, Missouri.
l.. E. Peterson is on the sick list.
a bust of George Washington
was presented to the high school,
by the class of 1925. This is the
third bust now adoring the Assembly
room. Theother two being that of
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson.
A number of Powell radio fans
listned in on X. f. L. Los Angels
Sunday night to a specially arrang-
ed program while Miss Laurine
Smith, formerly of Powell, sang a
very pleasing soprano solo.
Superintendent S. N. Erwin Miss
June Shelby of the normal depart
ment and Miss Irene Abrahamson
of the home economics department
of the Powell high school attended
the meeting of the state teachers
association at Casper last week.
They returned to Powell Saturday.
, 1925-10-21

Regulations for the selection of
settlers on Federal irrigation prof.
ects in accordance with the terms
of subsection c. of the act of Dec
ember 5. 1924. were approved on
September i2 by the Secretary of
the Interior. The regulations are as
follows:
Subsection C of the act referred
to is as follows:
"That the Secretary is hereby au-
thorized. under regulations to be
promulgated by him, to require of
each applicant including preference
right exservice men for entry to
public lands on a project, such quail
ifications as TO industry, experience,
character. and capital as in his opin-
ion are necessary to give reason
able assurance of success by the
prospective settler. The Secretary is
authorized to appoint boards in
part composed of private citizens.
to assist in determining such quail
f%ications.''
Hereafter no entry for public
lands within a Federal irrigation
project shall be accepted by the To-
cal land office until the applicant
therefor has satisfied an examining
board, tosbe appointed on each pro-
iect to consider such matters, that
he is possessed of such qualifica-
lions Tin addition ito the qualifica-
tons required under the homestead
laws) a. to industry, experience
character. and capital. as in the
opinion of the board are necessary
to give reasonable assurance of sue
cess by the prospective settler.
Each applicant for entry of such
public lands, including preference
right ex-service men, and success
full contestants under the act of
May IA. 1880 (21 Stat. 140), shall
file an application with the Bureau
of Reclamation which, among other
things. must state with respect to
the applicant, his or her age, status
as to citizenship. whether married
or single. number of children, and
their sex and ages, other depend
ents. ownership of farm lands else
where and the value thereof, farm
ing experience. assets and liabilities
and give references as to character
and industry. The application may
state the particular farm unit de-
sired and may also include a second
INT third choice, and when practi-
cable. the choice of a fully quail
fled applicant will be approved.
However. the intent of the law is to
select the best qualified applicants
for all farms available nj the Gov
eminent must therefore reserve the
right to distribute the farms to
those best qualified, regardless of
individual preferences.
Applicants must possess good
health and vigor and have had at
least two years actual experience in
, 1925-10-21

the coming year. She plans on go
Ing to California a little later to be
with her o Tom. who is enrolled
at Leland Stanford.
, 1925-10-21

Sunday callers at the n. F.. Bates
home were Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin
Downs. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Chase
and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N. McMillin.
, 1925-10-21
SEC. OF INTERIOR ANNOUNCES
REGULATIONS FOR Sci LECTION
LANDS IRRIGATED PROJECTS
Haphazayd Methods Tabooed in Selection of Farmers for
Federal Reclamation Projects
New Reclamation Era

farm work and farm practice. The
applicant must have at least $4,000
in money free of liability, or the
equivalent thereof in livestock, farm
ing equipment or other assets deem
ed by the examining board t be
as useful to the said applicant as
money.
The above minimum required as
to capital and experience shall not
apply when the farm fractional
farm until applied for is 10 acres
or less in area and the applicant
can show to the satisfaction of the
examining board that the develop
ment of the farm is feasible from
the capital the applicant may rea-
sonably be expected to obtain as a
wage garner.
An examining board of three
members or more shall be appoint
ed on each project by the Secretary
of the Interior, or such officer as
he shall authorize to make such
appointments, to consider the fit
ness of applicants to undertake the
development and operation of a
farm. The members of such board
shall serve for a period of one year,
or until their successors are appoint
ed, unless otherwise ordered by the
secretary or such officer as he shall
authorize to make such appointment
Each superintendent is requested to
submit recommendations for mem
bership on the board of examiners
for HE nraiSof OF fhn n rIinCt nroa-
ltical date.
A member representing the Blu
eau of Reclamation shall keep the
records of the board shall meet to
deal with applications. in order that
applicants may personally submit
additional information as to their
fitness for the undertaking.
The examining board shall note
the date of receipt by it of each
application filed, and interview the
applicants who appear before it, to
determine the qualifications of pro
spective settlers. Careful investiga-
ton shall be made to verify state
ments and presentations made by
applicants to the end Thai no mis-
understanding may prevail either as
to the applicants fitness or his ap-
probation of the problems before
him.
After decision by the board its
conclusion, if adverse to the appli-
cant, shall be reduced to writing
and a copy thereof forwarded TO
the applicant by registered mail.
Evidence of service of such notice
shall consist of registry return re-
ceipt signed by the applicant, or
his agent, or registered letter ad-
dressed to applicant at his record
address and returned unclaimed.
The boards decision as to the rel
alive qualification of each applicant,
based upon a percentage rating of
the elements of industry, experience
character and capital, shall be final
unless appeal from such decision
be made to the Secretary of the In
terror within 80 days from receipt
of notice. and such appeal should
be filed in the project office where
the lands are situated.
The relative standing of appli-
cants will be based upon a percent
age rating, determined as follows:
Each of the elements of industry.
experience, character. and capital
will be considered as having a pos
sibIe weight of 25 per cent, and APP
plicants will be rated according to
the following scale:
Industry: per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
.AT THE THEATERS

POLI'S-Artists and Models, Sec
ond edition.
BELASCO-"Is Eat So?" second
. week.
NATIONAL-Lowell Sherman, In
THE Passionate Prince"
KEITH'S-Alice Lloyd; other acts.
EARLE - Homer Lind Revue;
other acts and films.
STRAND-Pr Primrose Semon;
others, and films.
GAYETY-"Talk of the Town."
burIesque.
M UTU AL-"Speedy Steppers,"
burleque.
PALACE-Mary Pickford, in lit
tie Annie Rooney"
COLUMBIA-"The Pony Express"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Banky,
Ronald Colman. in The DARK
Angel"
RIALTO ~ Madge BelIamy, Fin
Thunder Mountain"
Never the Twain Shall
Meet"
AMBAssADOR-"Th THE Iron
Horse" -.
@CENTRAL,-"The Lucky Devil"
sAVOY-"The White Desert"
AVENUE GRAND-"Pretty La
dies.r
APOLLO-"The Home Maker"
YORK-"siege."
HOAEE-aThe Home Maker.n
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
.....e.......IN kOsTybodys Ge'1
THE GATE p OST
.By Harold Phillip

every four the time II pinges the Avenue
Nina Wnke has It absud Of belief asst s that
Manager Garrison firing all and wants the historic
renamed Avenue Say OFF and Give Us Chance
The police played ring with Mr. Garriscna
troupe te along about Wednesday
night when Garrison wondered mind
precinct had taken quarters in his theater
ago Monday the two comedians and girl dancer were
Tuesday night another SRI dancer arrested On Wednesday
night detached from the home comforts Of her
dressing room charged with presenting obscene dances
Mr. Garrison he occasion, watched the little
troupe spanked air Of who had cd the
last Had he been Russian he might have wrung
his hands and walled:
my peopIei What this they doing TO to poser
the deatless art Of the Land f the Little Father
Mr. Garrison but Of general practice in
wnng serious things Of today which turn out to be rva
ties tomorrow.
arm and said:
ig my girl you'll Thursday and send two girls back
to my office Friday and Saturday appearances"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
MIDNIGHT PEEK
AT BELLSNE
PICTURE

Monta Bell, the former Wash,
ingtcn newspaper man, who
recently Joined the Famous Play
ers-I4asky staff OF directors after
a highly successful directoral
career with Charlie Chaplin,
Warner Brothers and Metro
Goldwyn-Adayer, will entertain
large company OF his former
friends and associates IN Wash
.ington at e. private showing Of
Mr.. Bells first Paramount pic.
ture, "The King on Main Street.
starring Adolphe Menjou, ct
L.oeW's Palace tonight at Ills
b. M, Immediately after the
close Or the regular night per-
torrance at Loew's- Palace.
Manager Lawrence Beatlls OF
Loew's Palace, himself d friend
OF Mr.. Bells during the latter's
newspaper days in washington,
has rendered Mr.. Bell the use OF
the theaLer and its protection
facilities and the guests will
number practically all Of the
Neutrality-suspicious. who feted Mr..
Zen at 3 testimonial dinner az
the New willard last Saturday
night and who gave him roils-
ing reception at the Union sta
ton last Thursday afternoon.
Bell left Washington Tor New
York on Monday night to obtain
and bring back TO the Capitai
finished print or the new pro-
duction and the young director
will be present at the showing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
KEITH'S QUARTET
TOURNEY OP EMS
SUNDAY

Roland s. Robbins, manager Of
b. IL. Keith's Theater. Is re-
ceiving many entries Tor the
National Quartet competition TO
start at K.eith's Sunday. October
is, to continue for one week.
More entries are wanted The
winner will receive q beautiful
silver cup and a seasons book
ing on the Keith Ibee Circuit.
The contest is nationwide and
Is undertaken to foster quartet
singing and to find new Intisi-
cal talent. Eight quartets, In
GLIDING the winner here, viii
compete at B. II. Keith's The
ater In Philadelphia for the
championship sof Zone No. ~
during the week commencing
November is. Similar zone con-
tests will be held in four other
cities, and the five winners. one
from each zone, viii compete Tor
the national championship the
week OF December IL at THE 3.
r. Keith-Albee New York Hip
podrome There are no limits
to the number Of entries, but
entries must hurry. Application
blanks can be obtained from Mr..
Robbins.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15

The purgative process is said
to have had a decided effect on
the current week sentertainmen
] There is more incense than sui
phur to the comedy: the house
staff dons that choir boy air
whenever the sentry sings,
'Look out, here come the damn
police" and everything is SO
well contrived as to warm the
heart cookies Of John Golden,
himself.
"God knows / do the best.
can,' says Mr.. Garrison. Il
have endeavored to clean up the
shows playing here, and although
/ have ordered bits out here and
there, the minute my back is
turned, back they would go into
the show"
The most salutary effect on
the business of deodorization,
thinks Garrison, is the fact that
hereafter the company members
themselves will have to pay
their own fines; assuming that
there will ever be cause anon
for such messy business.
George Arliss, who'll shortly
be here at the Belasco in Gals
worthy's "Old English" was in
terviewed in Philadelphia, a
week ago by a lady reporter
who did as neat a piece Of inter-
rogating as one could meet out
side the woodshed after dad has
gone into conference with Junior
over depletion of the jam re-
serve.
Mr.. Arliss spoke about the
drama, wives, the English stage
and the American, and the need
for cleanliness on stage and
screen.
81 remember" he said, "there
was an excellent American
movie taken from a play of life
in the mines, which was called
The Last Shift And when it
was shown in France they
translated it into LIE Derniev
Chemise,,"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
AT Ii PARADIS A
BUCKY HARRIS
NIGHT

Washington's hero, BueIky Hart
ria, will be the guest Of honor
at LIE Paradis on Friday night,
which has been christened 'sBuclxy
Harris Night" Az much Of Wash
ington as Fcan. crowd inside the
doors OF lie Paradis will doubt
less assemble to do honor to
the Capitals most popular young
man..
All preparations are being made
toward having the big night more
than g gala affair. A half dozen
clever vaudeville speciaities viii
be interpoIated between dances.
Charming souvenirs of foreign
workmanship will be presented to
all guests and dancing win con-
tinue until two in the morning.
Al number Of the specialties to
be presented will celebrate the
Nationals baseball triumphs in
dance, song and shit. Rush re-
hearsals lAre under way so that
these novelties win be presented
for the first time as smoothly as
though they had been rehearsed
for weeks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
SENTENCES DEFERRED
ON AUTO THEFT CHARGE

Convicted Of housebreaking and
larceny by jury in Criminal Court
No. /, Stanley M. Amy and Terry
Coler, were remanded by Justice
Bailey to await sentence tomorrow.
1t was charged that Amy and
Coler burglarized the garage and
accessory plant OF the B. C. r.
Motors Company, Twenty-second
and M streets northwest, June 6
last, and stole an automobile valued
at 1900 and several hundred dol.
lars worth Of accessories. Evidence
introduced by the prosecution con-
Quoted by Assistant United States
Attorney Raymond Neudecker. tend
ed to show that the defendants had
possession OF the stolen automobile
when arrested at the Canadian
border in Derby Line VT
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
CENTRAL
sPlaying With Souls

playing With Souls" a Ralph
Ince feature, win be the feature
at Crandaii's Central next Sunday
and Monday, with Charlie Chase
in mo Father to Guide Him. and
q Pathe Review added. Later
bills will include, on Tuesday and
wednesday, Gloria Swanson in
'gThe Coast of Folly, z an Aesop
Fable and a scenic; on Thursday
and Friday Lewis s. Stone, Vir-
gfnia Valli and Nita Naldi In The
Lady Who Lied" and Art Stone
In tame Men and Wild Women"
and on Saturday, ''Tn the Name
of Love-" Spat Family comedy,
Excuse My Glove" and a Sport
light.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
Heavy Worries

u Nine youngsters are playing
with Mary Pickford in Scraps"
her baby farm story. All have
long hair, and wear the most be-
draggled outfits.
In the epilogue, at the close
Of the picture. they have their
hair cut and appear AL spruced
up.
Now Miss PicEford is afraid
to order the hair-cuts, for fear
it may be necessary to make
some retaLes or added scenes In
the original costume and with
the hair long.
The hair comes off easier than
It grows back on, and the prob
lem hasn't been solved yet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
Over the Globe

Eugene O'Neill, author Of
Desire Under the Elms," the
widely discussed tragedy which
comes to the Shubert Belasco on
Sunday night, October IS, for a
q weeks engagement, is one OF
the few American dramatists
whose plays have won interna.
tfonal recognition The Piran-
dello Theater in Rome has all
the OtNeill dramas in its roper
toire, and Anna Christie EN-.
peror Jones" and 1.-THE Hairy
Ape" have been produced in Lon
don, Paris, Stockholm and Rer-
Iin..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
STRAND
Alice In TnHIand',

Alice in Toyiand," wonderful
little revue with cast entirely
composed Of midgets, win be the
headline act at the Strand next
week, and as an added hi. Burns
and Wilson win offer q sketch,
The Unframed Nurse Jack
and Jessie Gibson in novelty
act, and Charles Forsytae and
Al Schenck in songs and dances,
are also announced. The film
/. hit wiz be Trio Productions
latest, with This Ring. in which
Alice Mills, Lou TelIegen and
Forrest Stanley are featured.
Short films win be added.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
BELASCO
s.Desire Under the Elmse

Eugene O'Neill's greatest
drama, Desire Under the Elms."
comes to the Belasco Sunday
night for weeks engagement.
after forty-nine week run. in
New York. Two companies are on
tour and this winter the play win
be shown in Rome. Vienna and Der.
lin. Frank McGlynn, the Lin
coin Of Drjnkwater's play, win
be seen as Ephraim Cabot, the
central figure OF the play. Alb
bic Putnam and Howard Merling
head the supporting cast. The
direction is by e. =. Jones. who
also designed the remarkable set
tings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
TIV0LI
.aThe Ten Commandments

Cecil B. DeMille's great spec
tacular production. THE Ten
Commandments, : win be the
feature st crandaIl's TivoH the
first three days OF next week.
followed Wednesday and Thurs
day BY Milton stills in The
Knockout. Hal Roach.s comedy,
"Solid Ivory, q Pathe Review
and Topics: on Friday by Ricardo
Cortez and Greta Nissen In In
the Name Of Love, q Spak Fam.
iiy comedy and Bruce scenic:
and on Saturday by Raymond
Griffith In He's Prince. plus
8 short comedy and a SpOrtlight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
COLUMBIA
MOnta Bell Feature

Monta Bells brilliant new Para
mount production. ''The King on
Main Street" based on Leo
Ditrichstein's stage success Of
similar title, comes to the Colum.
bia Sunday, following q private
showing tonight. The cast in
cludes AdoIphe Menjou, Bessie
Love, Greta Nissen. Oscar Shaw,
sCarI0tta Monterey and 9th er
hotables. Mr.. Menjou,s role Is
that OF bored monarch who
finds that b rich marriage is
necessary to save his kingdom.
al Mermaid comedy. The Spot
light the international News,
and other hits are to be added.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
AMBASSADORS
playing with Souls

Jacdueline Logan, Mary Aston
and many others win be seen in
playing With Souls. at Gran
dallss Ambassador the first three
days of next week, when "Scram-
bled Eggs. g comedy. and Paris
Creations" in color, will be added.
Following, on Wednesday. and
Thursday win come Anita
the Twain Shall Meet. and an
Aesop Fable. on Friday, Gloria
Swanson fiji THE Coast Of Folly,
ana the Spat Family in THE
ROYAL Four Flush" and on Satur-
day. Tom Mix IN 1.-THE Lucky
Horseshoe, Liee Conley In
Pleasure Bound" ana Sport
light.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
MUTUAL
"Happy Hours

Happy Hours" is the burlesque
attraction scheduled for the Mu-
tual Theater next week, presented
by Sam Raymond, who owns two
theaters in Brooklyn, and who Is
said to have produced an excel
lent show In this particular Of
fering. Madlyn Worth heads the
cast, with Arthur Mayors, said
TO be one Of the best In burlesque,
as the principal comedian. The
poppy chorus is said to be un-
usually attractive. and its mem
hers to have been picked for
their ability as singers and dan
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
Pirate Ships

Douglas Fairbanks IL building
four ships for his new photoplay,
THE Black Pirate" now In pro-
duction at the Piclxford- Fairbanks
Studios.
Three Of these vessels, ranging
from 100 to 212 feet in length,
are Of the type that sailed the
seven seas in the days Of the
Spanish Main, and the fourth,
seventy-fiVe feet long, a fantas-
tic craft propelled by hundred
oars, is the particular brain child
, OF the star.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-15
Magic of Makeun

Universal City looks like an
armed League OF Nations these
days. There are the officers Of
a Russian army for Buchowet.
zki's The Midnight SUM-" West
Point Cadets Of 1868 for the west
ern epic which Edward Sedgwick
has been directing with Hoot
Gibson and Dustin Farnum;
striped Sioux Indians, from the
same production; and squad of
English Tommies finishing up the
final scenes in my Old Dutch"