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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
FARM INVENTORY URGED
Indiana Bankers Commend Plan,
Purdue Expert Says.

Many Indiana bankers have COM
mended the plan Of Hoosier farmers
to make inventories of their farm
business as a foundation for increas-
ing efficiency of their operations,
according to Lynn Robertson, State
leader of farm management demon
STATIONS at Purdue University.
Robertson said the movement Is
an excellent one and should receive
support of all banks interested in
agriculture. Dec. % to Jan. 2 was
designated as farm inventory week.
The support OF all agricultural forces
in the State Ia being enlisted to get
at least $4,000 farmers to make In
ventories during that week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
Nelu Use for Health Seal

fT7UDGE Theophilus J. Mol
Of Superior Court Five
GJ has solved tho problem of
what to do with left over Christ
mas seals They have been util-
lied as seals at the foot of court
orders
Thursday a court order from
Judge Mol was received by AL
bert FL. Losche, county clerk,
bearing the following greetings:
"Such a number Of htigants of
this community feel that their in
terests will be best SUBSCRIBED by
depriving the judge of the OPP
portunity to decide their cases
that they have demanded juries
Of their peers from this locality
to try their matters. Pursuant to
such demand and consonant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26

with the law in such cases made
and provided you will call to
your assistance the Honorables
the Commissioners of Juries of
this County and State and with
them draw a dozen regulars and
an equal number of talesmen to
report to Room rs, being the
domicile of Room 5 of the SUI
perior Court, on Tuesday, the
fifth day II January in the year
of our Lord the nineteen hun
dred and twenty-six at nine o.
clock in the forenoon, then and
there to act as Jurors, good and
true, between their disputed
brethren and others.
''In witness whereof we have
hereunto set our type and the
great anti-tuberculosis SEAL"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
Puzzle a Day

Important people and events make
certain numbers memorable. We
always think of Christopher Co.
lumbus, together with the discovery
Of America, and the year 1892.
During the last few months the
country at large has been as
sociating football with Red" Grange.
and the number n. Those two
numerals are inscribed on his
famous football sweater.
Let us now form another associa-
ton with the number n. Can you
add a pair of sevens to these two
sevens in such a way as to make a
single unit?
Las puzzIe answer:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
SISTERS THANK FRIENDS
Gratitude Expressed to Those Who
Made Gifts.

Sisters Of the Good Shepherd, Ill
w. Raymond St., today issued a
statement expressing appreciation
for charity they have received in
behalf Of their younger charges
from the generous hearted people
of Indianapolis.
contributions from merchants
and individuals who have helped to
make our work of caring for the
children an easier task have the
esteem and gratitude Of our COM
munity."
Knights Of Columbus, Elks and
other organizations which contrib
uted were also mentioned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
AID NEAR EAST FUND
Mayer Chapel Young Folks Con-
tribute Sill

Real sacrifices lie behind a Christ
mas offering for Near East orphans
from young people of Mayer Chapel,
community church at West and
Norwood SITS
AT the suggestion of the Rev. w.
l.. Clark, pastor, neighborhood
young folk placed movies, candy and
pop corn on the taboo list for
week. "And they stuck manfully to
it, said the pastor.
Result A check for 81 in the
hands of Thomas c. Day, Near East
Relief treasurer. This will feed two
orphans for month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
WOMAN spy
is RELEASED
Italians Refuse to DivuIge
Their Charges.

Bu United Press
PALERMO, Italy, Dec. 26.-Mrs.
Ella Briggs, New York architect,
held by police here for an unre-
vealed reason, was released from
custody today
Previously, police admitted to the
United Press that detectives Of the
political squad had detained her but
declined to divulge anything on the
case.
Berlin and New York Thursday
claimed Mrs. Briggs had been held
incommunicado at Palmero on a
charge of being Germany spy. Her
New York employer, Paul Wenzel
of an architectural book publishing
concern, explained that she had been
making pictures Of Italian re-
naissance structures for his publ
cations and was in no way engaged
in Spying"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
WISHES FROM ABROAD

Indianapolis citizens received
wishes for a Merry Christmas from
abroad in more than 100 cablegrams,
G. Morgan. Office manager for the
Western Union, said today.
One was from Calcutta In India.
Mora than 1000 messages were
sent out from here, Morgan said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
CRASH FATAL TO FIVE
Train Strikes Automobile Killing All
but One of Family.

Bg United Press
NORFOLK. Neb., Dec. 26.-Five
members of a family Of six were
killed Christmas day when their
automobile was struck by a pas
senger train near Pilger, Neb. The
sixth is badly hurt and there Is little
hope for recovery.
The dead: Fred Won Seggern, So,
a farmer, his wife, a son, Emil, %.
and two daughters, Anna, 20, and
Louisa, 16. Fritz Won Seggern.
another son, is in a hospital fighting
for life
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
POSTOFFICE ENLARGED

Bu United Press
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 26~-
Plans were being pushed today for
eniarging the Anderson postoffice.
The addition proposed will increase
the working space liz the postoffice
nearly rs per cent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
MARY GARDEN HAS COLD
Famous Opera Star win Not Appear
Tonight.

BIZ UnIts.1 Press
CHICAGO, Dec BINARY Gar
den, famous Chicago opera star, is
slightly i'll and will not appear to-
night as scheduled, the Chicago Civic
Opera Company announced. Word
from the stars hotel suite was that
Mary was suffering from a slight
cold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
JACKSON IN WASHINGTON
Visits Capital to Spend Several Days
With New Senator.

After spending Christmas day
with his family. Governor Jackson
late Friday left for Washington, D.
c.. where he win spend several days
as the guest of Senator Arthur r.
Robinson and family. The Governor
will return to his official duties the
latter part OF next week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26
THRIFT WEEK is SET
Bankers Asked to Cooperate in OBJ
seryance Jan. 17-23.

servance Jan. 1923.
Hoosier bankers have been called
upon to cooperate in observance of
National Thrift week, Jan. 1928, by
Miss Forba Mcdaniel, Indiana Bank
ers' Association secretary.
Thrift week affords a. favorable
opportunity for bankers interested
in school savings and public educa-
ton work. There is no better chan
mel than the public school" Miss Nc
Daniel said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26

Depth of the water in the London
docks is kept at from 3S to AZ feet
by constant dredging.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-26

Selection Of o. G. Herdrich as
secretary Of the Kiwanis Club,
succeeding Mervin j. Manned, new
president, has been announced
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
SCHOOL CAFES
FEED $1,000
STUDENTS
EACH DAY
Nutritious Meals Served
Pupils at Nominal
Expense.
Feeding 1000 people a day.

Feeding 1000 people day
And feeding them in approximately
one hour time, or less.
That's what the biggest cafeteria in
San Antonio is doing, and doing it five
days n week.
This is the record set by the cafe
terra department in the public
schools of San Antonio. operating -
cafeterias in the schools.
Excellent meals are served for 20
cents, composed or meat. vegetables,
soup and desert, or fruit. A nutri-
tious lunch can nc bought for five
cents, such us a bowl of soup and
crackers or mashed potatoes, gravy
and bread. These two prices repre-
sent the extremes. Other lunches can
be purchased at prices in between.
The menu is worked out daily on
dietary lines and varied from day to
day. Expert cooks prepare the food,
scrupulously sanitary conditions are in
sisted upon in the kitchens and lunch
rooms and the whole is supervised by
the cafeteria director of each school
in cooperation with the principal.
Only such food as is best for a healthy
growing, normal child is served.
Wholesome sugar candies are sold,
as are cold drinks. Sandwiches are
prepared fresh daily. Fresh milk is
supplied. In some of the elementary
schools, under-nourished children are
supplied with special milk twice daily,
until they regain normal weight.
1t cost $12,929.47 to operate the
cafeterias during September. Re
ceipts for the same period were $12,-
059.34. Of these expenses S3596.71
was for salaries.
Mrs. c. w. Satterfield is chairman
of the cafeteria committee of the
school board and Mrs. Mabel Noble
director of cafcterias.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
ARMISTICE SERVICE
is CONDUCTED BY
AMERICAN LEGION

Armistice Day services of Alamo
Post, American Legion, were conduct
ed Sunday morning in Woodlawn
Presbyterian, Church, Michigan and
Woodlawn avenues, with Chaplain j.
Stuart Pearce, pastor. officiating.
"The Foundation of a Nation" was
the Rev. Mr.. Pearce's subject for the
official service of the members of the
Legion. Special music was played.
An Armistice Day message on "Re-
ligion Reproduced and the Church
Challenged Both in the Starting and
Stopping of War;" was delivered Sun
day by the Rev. NJ. o. Lambly, at the
First Congregational Church. Miss
Edna Wallace directed a young ladies'
chorus.
The Rev. Otto George Gerbich, as
sociate pastor of the Grace Lutheran
Church, spoke on christian and
World Peace" in connection with OBJ
serving of Armistice Sunday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
VICAR
263 Meters-8:OO p. VI.

Monday nights program over
THE Friendly Station" will be
divided into two sections Of one
hour each.
From s 10 Q, Miss Fannie Mil
grom, pianist; Eddie Martinez,
cellist; Rudolph Haderer. luke
lele Rudy ukelelist and Harvey
Miller, banjo soliist will give a
program Of the latest song hits.
These artists. with the excep-
ton OF Mr.. Miller. are already
well known to VICAR fans, hav-
ing appeared before the micro
phone on several occasions with
large response from listcners-in.
Mr.. Miller was formerly
member of Mohnkern's "Sun
Dodgers" orchestra, and is wide
ly known in San Antonio as a
banjOist of unusual talent.
In the second section OF the
program from o TO 10 o'clock.
VICAR will present in recital
Miss Jeanette Levytansky, So
prano. and Miss Fern Hirsch,
pianist.
Miss Hirsch needs no intro
Guction to the family Of VICAR.
On the occasion Of her last APP
pearance in the studio Of The
Friendly Station" the telephone
operator was besieged with calls
for more Of her musical offer
ings.
While Miss Levytansky makes
her premier appearance before
wears microphone Monday
night, she is already well-known
to radio audiences, as well as to
other music lovers, as possessing
soprano voice Of exceptional
beauty and clarity.
The station may be reached by
telephones Crockett 4O41-X and
Travis 53eS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
DETECTIVES FIND
GNAWING' BURGLAR
ISLONELY ARMADILLO

"A burglar is trying to gnaw his
way into my house, an excited WON
an told Detectives Carver and Ruhnke
Sunday night.
"Set mouse trap for him." Carver
suggested to his partner.
Right under there" the woman in
distress indicated a spot beneath her
bedroom.
The officers prepared for a tortuous
crawl beneath the house when
frightened little animal scurried far
under the house. A flashlight re-
vealed its steps.
IAN armadillo," the surprised off
GERS chuckled.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Gay Little Dresses Delight
Children in Orphan
Homes Of City.

Eager fingers are plying needles
in the city Jail, fashioning gay little
dresses for tiny San Antonio chill
dren whose parents are poor.
They are the fingers of unfortunate
girls who have found life a difficult
problem. The work affords them a
chance to forget their misfortunes
and, according to Matron S. C. Oker-
land, they actually sing and make
merry as they sew.
"Who knows but the making OF
these little dresses is a partial fulfill
ment of forgotten Dreams" the matron
observed, as she watched her busy
charges.
Material for the little dresses are
furnished by the newly-organized City
Community Board. More than 100 of
the garments already have been CON-
pleted.
The dresses are being distributed to
the San Antonio Mission Training
School, the Protestant Orphans
Home, the Wesleyan Community
House and the American Volunteers.
And you should see the kiddies
beam when they get all dolled up in
(Continued on paze 20 Part ~
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
NAVY PILOT KILLED
WHEN SHIP CRASHES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-R-
Lieutenant William II. Beyrer, navy
air pilot, was fatally injured and his
passenger, Ensign Shane Ii. King,
sustained numerous minor hurts in n
plane crash yesterday at Caimuera,
Cuba. reports today to the Navy De.
partment said. Lieutenant Bcyrcr
who died, was from Bertrand. Ncb-
and Ensign Kings home was Mary
vile, Mo.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
PRIMITIVE INSTINCT.

Whenever possible. women wear
their nails long-following a print
tive instinct to show the world how
little they have to do, how we'll groom
ed they are-and though some for
tunate. blue looded and idle women
cannot raise long nails. as a rule it is
only the working women who trim
theirs. 1t is usually impossible 10
have long nails and Il job, or have
long nails and do Homework. The
manicures of San Antonio have
found, therefore. that the preference
for long nails is confined to society
women and women who have no dish
washing or actual labor to do.
The typewriter. ruinous to long
nails. has reduced a good percentage
of the dainty feminine population TO
short nails. As a rule, clerks and
miscellaneous business women wear
short nails. too. the manicures say.
Pointed finger tips catching in mer-
chandise are not pleasing to bosses.
But women who merely display mer-
chandise-such as clerks in ready-to-
wear departments-usually wear long
nails. often unconsciously reflecting
in the fingernails the class of goods
they handle and the type of trade
they have.
4 beauty operator who handles hun
dreds of manicures every month for
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
SPITZ DOG REMAINS
FAITHFUL, EVEN AS
MASTER is IN JAIL
Faithful even unto jail"

Faithful even unto jail"
This can be written of a small
Spitz dog, arrested with his master
Monday morning as he lay asleep in
his automobile on Matamoros Street.
The animal followed the policeman
when he removed the man. He was
satisfied, however, with n seat in his
masters car when it was towed into
the station.
All through the morning the little
white Spitz kept his vigil at the steer
ing wheel while the master slept off
his drunk in Jail.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
CUT
MAY RESULT FATALLY

Roberto Suniga, 132 North Frio
street, may die from what otherwise
might have been an inconsequential
cut on the wrist.
He nearly lost his life from bleed
ing before he reached the Robert b.
Green Hospital Sunday night after
being slashed on the Conception road
near the Second Mission.
Suniga's critical condition is trace
able to his lack of medical atten-
ton.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Who or Where +?

When J. Pierrepont Moffett, Of Rye,
n. y, got the job of social secretary
at the White House. was it his two
front names. or the place he hailed
from that attracted Mr.. Coolidge?
Anyway, he seems to provide social
promise.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
GARDENS ESCAPE COLD.

SAN SABA, Nov. o.-Fecd crops
and fall gardens have not been injured
by the cold at San Saba. There is a
large amount of late feed hardly ma,
tured still in the fields here.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
TANGO DANCE CRAZE
GRIPS BRITISH ISLES

LONDON. Nov. 9.-R)-Dancing
is being done more slowly and leis-
urely these days, say dance experts,
partly because of the increasing
vogue of the tango, with its unhurrf>l
and effortless steps. The tendency
in bathrooms is TO dance little more
slowly, and some dance bands work
on the basis of As and 80 bars TO
the minute.
The tango craze has spread from
London to the provinces.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
LEOPARD. ARRIVES
AT BRECKENRIDGE
The Brackenridge Park Zoo was

The Breckenridge Park Zoo was
agog with excitement Monday.
A leopard, arriving Sunday from
New Orleans. is now occupying Il
home in their midst.
Park employees declared the animal
is unusually large, crowding the five
foot cage in which he made his jour
ney to San Antonio.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
MESSENGER Funeral

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah J.
Messenger. 81. who died Saturday
night, were held Monday at her home.
100 Howard street. Mrs. Messenger
is survived by a daughter. Miss Edith
of San Antonio, and a son, Harold
Messenger of San FARncisco.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
The Best Evidence

Lancaster, Pa, claims to have
the Oldest cigar store in the coun-
try. If it has, let it trot out the
wooden Indian that will prove the
assertion.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Beats a Birdie

After shooting several crows caught
stealing golf balls on a course at VIII
shotgun to bring down an erne, so he
could claim an "eagle."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Wants to Talk

The back of the sphinx at Giza
is cracking, says a report from
Cairo. Probably it's the awful strain
of remaining a sphinx so long.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Matter of Weight

An Optimist is a fellow vino be-
lieves there would be no heavy
drinking il the use Of light wines
was permitted.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
They Stay Straight

kid Mccoy" has expressed the
fear he will get rOund-shOuldered
in San Quentin prison. Well, up
right men don't 60 to prison.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
"Fifty-Fifty"

,Hubb-"How much mush is there
in a mushroom"
Dubb-~As much as there is
room for
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Where Vest Begins

Women have begun to wear waist
coats in London. So That's where
the vest begins with them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Fast Work

When Southern Pacific train hit
truck loaded with tomatoes at
Bandini, Cal, it instantly converted
them into tomato chutney, ketchup
and PURGE of tomatoes with trimmings.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
Lots of Hair

A California girl has won a judy
ment of $3.50 for damage to her hair
in a beauty parior. She must have a
lot mode hair than any of the flap
pers we have seen lately.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
THEY NEVER SCRATCH.

Long, pointed filgernails on the
hands of those known by their
friends as "cats"-and even on the
soft dimpled hands of those more
kittenish than catty-have long in
spired terror in the simple heart of
man. All for naught this fear of
womans natural weapon is-for of
the many deep, dark secrets in the
story of fingcrnails. one of the truest
is that the woman with long pointed
nails will never scratch. If she did
She would lose about ten of her best
points-if her nails are normally
brittle.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09
BY FAIR MAID 5
F|NGERNA|LS
YOU SHALL
KNOW HER
Manicures Read Character
and Profession in
Milady's Hand.
By BESS CARROLL

BY their fingcrnails you can know
thcm-the women you meet. To the
manicure the secrets of the feminine
world are revealed in two prosaic
sentences: MAKE them pointed,
please" and "Trim them Short
The story of fingcrnails is as pic
turesque today as it was when cos
meticS grew on trees and shimmered
in mud puddles. The hand of the
modern woman is the index to her
Notwithstanding. castc-placinS.
No social register is needed when
the hand-clasp of the stranger-wo~
man is pcrfumed by rare scents and
pointed with long, glistening nails.
But if the tips have been trimmed
Il typewriter or n job lurk almost
inevitably in the background. Length
and points reveal idlencss, lack Of
either Of these two things-a Job, or
Il don't care"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-09

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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-10-29

Third grade pupils have arrang'
ed a nice little store in their room
with real miniature packages
Most of the material has beer
secured through letters writer
by the pupils themselves.
Herds and Sigurd Smidt check.
ed out of the Askov school about
a week ago. We are sorry TO lose
these two. They are now living
at 1909, 25th East. Minneapolis
and attending school there.
Attendance improved some
what last week but nothing ex.
ira. During the three weeks af'
ter Potato Vacation second, third
fourth and fifth grades have each
had one day perfect attendance.
Witches riding broomsticks,
black cats, Jack-o-Lanterns,
pumpkins, ETC., that are much in
evidence in the school room this
week indicate the nearness of All
Saints Day and All Halloween.
In order to correct the draft in
the chimney in the little school
house the chimney has been built
a little higher and an arch placed
over it and the small cupola has
been removed. Since this change
was made the stove has not smok-
ed.
The seventh grade cooking
girls are planning program for
Friday afternoon. Although their
nine-weeks' course does not close
till the next week it works out
best to have this little treat for
the mothers this week.
The boys of seventh and eighth
grades are getting their basket
ball courts into shape. After
some additional practice the sew.
enth graders are planning to
challenge the upper class for a
matched game and the boys ex-
pect to clean up the eighth
graders. Watch the preparations
for the game.
Proclamations issued by Pres
ident Coolidge and Governor
Christianson set aside the week
of November 16 to % as "Ameri-
can Education Week" This move
ment of setting aside an educa-
tion week has been sponsored
for several years by the U. S.
Bureau of Education, the Nation
al Education Association and the
American Legion.
Harold Bell Wright says of the
title of his latest book, "A Son of