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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23
Cult Priesfess Jailed
for Burning Sacrifice

Kitchener, Ont.-Anna Reynolds. re-
puted priestess of cult known as "the
faith of the holy light" was taken
into custody charged with having pre-
sided over a weird midnight cere-
monial at Bluevale, Ont, in which ten
hogs were sacrificed as IAN Offering
to devilish spirits"
Constable P. C. Whiteside arrested
her on the charge that she was lin
sane and dangerous to be at large"
Earl Underwood, who furnished the
hogs and who told authorities he
would do anything Anna Reynolds
said to do" was held for questioning
The woman, a professional nurse,
came from Toronto to the Underwood
farm to attend Mrs. Underwood dur
ing an Illness. UnderwoOd's story is
that she ordered him to build a great
pyre Of logs. Then she ordered that
ten of the farmers choicest hogs be
trussed upon the pyre At midnight
the priestess ignited the pyre and as
the blaze mounted she made queer
gestures and uttered strange mean
tations.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23

Four farm boys Of East Baton
Rouge Parish, La, have placed hogs
Of improved type on 81 farms in their
own parish in three years by means
of the four gifts with which they
started boys club work. In addition,
according to reports to the United
States Department of Agriculture,
they have sold breeding stock in eight
neighboring parishes and an adjoin-
ing State.
These young stockmen, Hermon AL
ford, Archie Robinson, and Archie
Fitzgerald, bought their gifts in
1922, obtaining money for the pur-
chases on their personal notes which
were endorsed by their fathers and
business men Of the county intereste /
in the boys progress. One of the
boys also bought a purebred boar.
With the aid Of the agricultural ex-
tension agent who conducted the club,
they began feeding and caring for
their pigs by the best methods known
in swine management. The young
pigs responded by growing into
strong, healthy hogs in record time
In 1923 the boys raised 62 pigs from
their four sows. This year, too, the
boar was shown at a number of fairs
and won a State championship in
open class. The 1924 season was
equally successful. Because the club
members are conscientiously following
the advice of the extension agent and
will sell for breeding purposes only
the stock which comes up to a stan
dard in type, they have established
reputation as source of good hogs.
Their butcher stock commands top
prices because of its high quality.
The business side Of the enterprise
has also been successful. The boys
were able to pay their notes prompt,
ly and have made net profit of ST.
018 from sale of stock, with num-
Der of cash prizes in addition. Two
of the older boys have entered the
State agricultural college and are
paying their expenses through their
club work.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23
MAN COMES HOME
AFTER BODY WAS
BURIED AS HIS
Corpse Claimed as Father
ard Husband Proves
That of Woman.

New Orleans.-The family Of Franz,
Muller, Sr.. reported 10 the police
recently that they were mourning his
death after having buried What they
thought was his body, when he walked
into his home and hardly had thai
mystery been settled when the coru
ner announced that a body recovered
from the Mississippi river and identi-
ted by one man as his father and b.,
Ii wife as her husband was really thai
o. a woman.
Frank Muller, ST.. a man of tifty-si:.
years. had been separated from his
wife for some five years. and when
tie body Of a man about his age and
bearing papers with the name Frank
Miller was discovered in a gas-fllpd
room. Mullers son and wife identified
it and gave 1t burial.
Read of His Funeral.
Muller read of the funeral in the
newspapers and went home to tell the
family he was still alive. The mys.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23

terry Of Frank Miller's" identity re-
mains unsolved, except that the room
ing-house keeper said she heard him
say he was from California.
The other body, which apparently
had been in the water for months, was
found floating in the river here, and
Charles w. Burdette, Jr., whose faith
er. according to police records, jumped
into the river here May q, 1924, iden-
tilted it by a belt buckle and false
teeth.
Body That of Woman.
Mrs. John Fisher visited the morgue
later in the day and said it was the
body of her husband. who disappeared
January 2S last.
Then DR.. f. J. de Bergeau, assist
ant coroner and physician for an in
surance company, decided to investi-
gate and discovered the remains were
those OF a woman. Police have no
record of any woman disappearing
here.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23

In the raising Of calves, one Of the
most important requisites is good
sanitation. In discussing this timely
matter, veterinary specialists Of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, United
States Department of Agriculture,
point out that adult cows may toler-
ate certain organisms which will
cause serious disturbances in the di-
gestive tract of calves. The main cor
stituent of calf's diet is milk, which
also is a favorable medium for the
development of bacteria.
When faulty sanitation exists, some
of the bacteria that gain access to the
milk intended for calf feeding may be
Of the disease-producing type. For
this reason department specialists say,
sanitary measures must apply not on
ly to the quarters where the cows and
calves are kept but to the calf-feed-
ing equipment as we'll. Clean and
scalded milk utensils are needed to
safe guard the handled calf against
possible disease. Ventilation and sun
light also are essential to the we'll
being Of calves and should receive
the most careful attention of those
engaged in the rearing of calves.
In addition to the daily cleaning Of
the calf quarters, periodical disinfec-
ton is advised. By so doing, infec-
ton has very little chance to estab-
lish a foothold and many of the more
common ailments of calves will be
avoided.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23
AGRICULTURE

A total of 1,164,657 fowls-ail
breeding stock-are listed in a report
just issued by the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture as under
going improvement by the use Cf
pure bred male birds. The fowls con-
sist principally of chickens, but in
clude also turkeys, geese, ducks, gul-
nea fowls, and pigeons. The report
deals with the progress of the "Better
S.res-Better Stock campaign con-
Quoted by various States and the de-
partment for the improvement of do
nestle animals.
1t is noticeable, however, that fowls
outnumber other stock by more than
2 to 1. The number of cattle, horses,
asses, swine, sheep, and goats totals
slightly more than half a million as
compared with considerably over a
million fowls.
Department livestock specialists
point out the educational effect which
improved poultry has on the breeding
of larger animals and cite examples
in which a well-bred poultry flock
was the means of causing the better
ment Of other animals on the same
farms. Being prolific, poultry re-
spond very quickly to good breeding
practices, including the use of high
quality pure-bred males. The report
shows also that the use Of bred
sires in poultry breeding stock re-
suits in the ownership Of more than
ten times as many purebred female
birds.
The small investment necessary to
establish breeding pens of well-bred
fowls makes poultry a popular class
of livestock on which to begin a pro-
gram for improvement.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23
Mapping Caddy's Head
Used as Golf Tee

Pensacola, Fla.-Use of his head as
a tee sent Johnnie Gates, fifteen-year-
old negro caddy at the Pensacola Coun-
try club, to the hospital with frac
tured skull.
Play was dull on the course and
Johnnie was taking a nap. A fellow
cadly, Juggling golf sticks, placed a
ball on his head and after taking a
couple of healthy swings, drove.
He missed the ball.
Doctors despaired of saving John
MES life.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-05-23
Sleeps in Pool

Salt Lake City.-The police found
K. N. Jensen, sixty, naked and asleep
floating around in a four-foot deep
pool Of natural warm sulphur water in
a cave just north Of Salt Lake City. A
by Jensen to keep his head afloat. He
told the police that he had spent his
nights for months in the pool because
it afforded relief from the cold
weather.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
Proper Plan of Packing
VIII Prevent Breakage

Careful packing prevents breakage
In market eggs. The poultry depart
ment of the New Jersey experiment
station recommends this plan of pack
ing First, place an excelsior pad in
the bottom of each compartment of
the crate. Directly upon this pad
place a filler and fill with eggs as
usual, packing the eggs small end
down. If no fiat is placed over the
pads the eggs will bed themselves
in the excelsior and ride safely. Three
layers should be packed as usual, al
ternating flat and filler, with an eX-
celsior pad instead of a fiat on top
of the third layer. Continue to fill
tue crate, using filler, fat and filler.
On the top use an excelsior pad with
no fiat.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
I'()lJ.EilI Try
!: '.A'|!'IS!s,[1S
RAISE POULTRY FEED
BY HAVING TWO LOTS

When open range Is not available
and hens must be confined, we recon-
mend the division Of the hen yard into
two lots, so that green food can be
grown on one side while the other
patch is being grazed. AS soon as the
green stun is two or three inches high
the hens may be turned on 1t, while
the other lot may be prepared and
sowed again This plan provides
plenty OF green, succuent feed
throughout the year for the average
farm flock. Sooner or later we will
have two or more such lots fenced IN
on our farms, with the hen house so
placed with reference to convenience
for the caretUker. Lots containing an
acre or more divided by fences, and
large enough to provide considerable
pnsturage for the family COW and II
growing heifer are very desirable for
growing farm poultry. The pigs
should not be turned in, however, for
as a rule pigs and chickens do not go
well together.
There are times when the poultry
do some harm to some of the crops at
or soon after planting time, but hiter
they nave sood start TINS is not very
often the case. Take corn, for in
stance after 1t is foot hlsh ana
from theh on II is hard TO ma
better run for poultry. They help
~,
WORK tile crop destroy insects anu
the corn IN turn FURNISHES Tue ''iuel-
heeoeu si'a"e, na"hs' Wy '"e "'s'
Gun no 'ittie Marin 10 oirus oh range
III corn heio'
ne green 'iops " We s,oN'' ''o"'u
oe s"i.e" " 'oe"' son"i',o's 90 W.
"s " '"e l'opo. ''''e " pm ~ o."el
W nav s"eee's'on VI s'e~ pN
'"io"s'"o"' '"' yea
ihere are tunes "iien .'iese io's
snoui" not ne sraHeu 'oo cioseis' o"l
allowed 10 get d lfeS', start 50 i,e'e
20 "''e,e ~. o','., - so'ie ~ ~,
piius e"h pe s',iitou i,oiAi ". " ~.
o'ne' ."'' s"''"s oo'' '"9
'''u.'' ioNse''
lh.cNiS so"h crops iu',''s'' s'eI'
ieht leeo ana summer s''"ue
FROM April TO july l on growing
yard l-oats, chard or lettuce clover
or Vetch' suhiioWers' co"peas' rape'
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09

In the Superior Court of the
State Of Washington, for The
County of King. In Probate. In
the matter Of the estate of George
Ampusait, deceased, No. 35162.
Notice of hearing final report and
petition For distribution,
Notice is hereby given that Alex
Stewart, administrator of the es-
tate of George AmpuSait, deceased,
has filed in the office of the Clerk
of said Court his final Report and
petition for distribution, asking
the Court to settle said Report, dis
tribute the property 10 the per-
sons thereto entitled and to dis
charge said administrator; and
that said Report and petition will
be heard on the 14th day of Janu-
airy, 1925, at $3.50 a. M, at the
Court Room of the Probate De
partment of said Count.
Dated this 18th day of Deem
Der, 1924. George A. Grant, Clerk
of said Court. BY II. c. Gordon,
Deputy.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
ALEX STEWART, Atty.
805 Arctic Bldg, Seattle, Wn.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT or
THE STATE OF WASHING
TON, FOR KING COUNTY
IN PROBATE. NO, S6345
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Matter OF the Estate of
Peter A. Petersen Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed
and has qualified as EXecutriX Of
the estate Of Peter A. Petersen,
deceased that all persons having
claims against said deceased or
against said estate are hereby re-
CURED TO serve them, duly veli-
fled, on said EXccutriX or her at
torney EFF record ut the address
below stated, and file them with
the clerk of said Court together
with proof of such service, within
six months after date of first pub
LEGATION of this notice, or they viii
be barred.
Date of first publication Jan.
8, 1925,
Anna Petersen,
EXecutriN of said Estate,
Address, Cove, Washington
Alex Stewart, Attorney Tor estate
S05 Arctic Building, Seattle,
Washington.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
NOTICE OF SHERIFF 8 SALE
OF REAL ESTATE.
slIERIFFs OFFICE


10y virtue ol nm order OF SAFE
ISSUED oul 81 lhe llonora'D'e super
iof Court OF hlhg county, on the
ora day OF January, l92o, by inc
clerk thereof IN the case OF
Maude A. FISHER, PiaIntlff, Vet-
S'lS Vera a, All2ni W ~ WMppie
and Jane pee Whlppie' ms w'ie
whose lrne NhliSlian name IS 10
plamtIiI unEnownj George H.
WClter and Jane Doe "etter' ms
"lte' whose true Chl'sIlan name
Is to plamtlii unknown, DEFEND
ants,
NO IL'ooa
ana TO me- rs oneriL'' uirecleu
al', delivered;
NOIIIn Is lIhlNisbf GIVEN
mat Wll proceed 10 sen AT p.h,
nc a'Ic'.an 10 we n'gileSb OiouG'
lor cash, w'ihln the hours prescllp-
ed by Jaw tor Sher!Ll 5 safes, -,
wiz! II Ten O'Clock a, m, on the
l'fth day OF fepruary' 1872, pe-
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
Sell Old Hens Early

Pullets make the most profitable
layers. Hens are always good price
If sold just before the breeding season
is over, but they drop fast when
farmers are selling their stock after
they drop down in production. Eggs
at this season are low in price, and
It will pay to sell two or three weeks
before they stop laying rather than
risk sudden slump in price Feed
heavily of corn for n week or ten
days before you sell, and keep off free
range.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
Pullets in Quarters

The reason some pullets are late in
laying in the fall is because they get
started wrong in their winter quar-
tiers.
Pullets should be established in
their winter quarters before the egg
organs are developed; otherwise a
change of house disturbs them and in
terrupts the egg yield.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
Separate Late Molters

Late melting hens should be sep
arated from the pullets about ready
to lay. These hens have performed
well and now need plenty of futten-
ing feed to build them up ready for
early spring laying. Eggs from these
hens will be valuable for Matching
and should be reserved for that pur-
nose.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
Winter Schedule
West Pass Transportation Co.

West Pass Transportation Go.
Seattle to Tacoma run, in cffcc
Sept, 4, 1924; freight, mail and
passengers. ~,(vIRGINIA w o
West Side of Vashon Island
Leaves Seattle daily $3.50 nm;
Sundays 8 a. m, and 5 as ;, ~.
Leaves Tacoma daily except 0
Sunday at 100 am.
Leaves Point Defiance Park fo
Seattle and Way Points I' GO
pm. Saturdays only.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09

Mrs. r. Morford and children
of Seattle spent New Years Day
and the remainder of the week
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Morford.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09

Mr., and Mrs. w. P. Morford en-
rtained at dinner ON Sunday,
january the 4th, in honor of Mrs.
@. c. Bridgemans birthday, Mr.,
and Mrs. c, G. Bridgeman and
MIS-. Il. Morford and children.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09

The News-Record is printing
more classifieds ads, each week.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09
CENTER NEWS

\ (Mrs. Dunlap and Mrs, Hearst)
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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-23
Boys Vests Suits

Four-piece suits in clever new
styles including coat, vest and
two pair of trousers; in all the
wanted fall patterns; double and
single breasted models; sizes
SIT.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-03-15
SALMON PRICES

Since our earliest recollection of salmon prices, which dates back to the year 1902, the subject of salmon prices has been one of great contro- versy, fishermen demanding more and the salmon packers refusing it, on the ground that any increase would bankrupt them. This was true even in the early days when fish were so plentiful that the pack CTS paid their fishermen per diem and not per fish, for the reason that fishermen could be hired at S2.50 a day to catch all the salmon need ed. Some times deliveries of 1O,- 900 and 15,OOO sockeye salmon were made per day by fishermen whose total per diem wage was $12.5O.
 Then came the era when the pack CTS paid fishermen 12c each for humpbacks and Sc each for sock eyes. Last summer humpbacks sold at Ketchikan, Alaska, at Sc each, ard sockeyes at 35c each.
 On the West Coast, Prince of Wales Island, and on the Portland Canal, where one or two canneries have full control of the district, the price paid was only SC. But from the earliest times until now the can~ nerymen have always protested that any increase of price would bank rupt them. It is therefore interest ing to follow the price these same
 
 Sound for the same species of sal mon, and so we reprint from the Bellingham Herald of December 3l, 1924, the following item:
 Indicating that prices of raw fish at the traps will be high in supposed to be the big pink year-W. A. bowman, head of the Crest Canning Company, yesterday announced that he had closed con- tracts for the whole catch of his company's traps at the following prices: Sockeyes, 80 cents; echoes or silvers, 50 cents; dog salmon, 30 cents; humpbacks, 20 cents; spring salmon, 10 cents per pound at the traps. Buyers of cannery fish will pay the state fish tax in addition.
 "Mr. Lowman's companies operate a number of traps, but will sell the catch and will not operate a can nery here. MT. bowman believes that his contract practically fixes the price to be paid for the vari- ous grades of fish on Puget Sound in 1925"
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-03-15

public schools, to pay taxes here, build and maintain homes here, pat ronize local merchants.
 It can be done and will be done because it is right.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-03-15

McMillan Bros. of Bellingham, who have heretofore operated the small floating cannery "The Retriever" have purchased the schooner Sophie Christensen, and will continue to operate as the Westward Packing Company.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-03-15
HENDERSON VS. ROCCATI
Personalities Indulged

In his defense of the ToWner- Sterling education bill, Lester D. Henderson replies to Father Roccati and says in part, the Americaniza- ton program is the Inauguration of a more complete program of physical education in the public schools, pro- vision for better training for teach CTS, and a fairer equalization of educational opportunity so that the boy and girl in the isolated and less wealthy portions of the states may have an opportunity to secure what is the birthright of every American child, complete and liberal educa- tion."
 Further on he says: "Is it un- American for it (the United States) to assist the states in removing one of our greatest national menaces, illiteracy?"
 This sounds very different from the Henderson that proposed and lobbied for a bill in the legislature of 1921 whose avowed purpose was to exclude Indians or their descend ants from the public schools for which they were taxed, and which provided an increase of 5000 in his salary to compensate him for the additional heavy burdens this policy would entail.
 It is the duty of the state to care for all it's children equally and to provide for their education, to care for the orphans, and to elevate the unfortunate youngsters, for they will be, in time, the future state.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-03-15
ABOUT PROTECTING THE ANCIENT RIGHTS OF
 INDIANS"

WndCeVef OOngfeSS uOeS III the future relative to the fisheries in Alaska, it should be remembered that the Indian and his rights must be protected" d."-Hastings Neb. Tribune.
 The effort by special interests in Alaska is to make it appear that Indians are trying to hog all the fishing rights in Alaska as in "an- cient times."
 We are asked: "What are the In- dians' rights in the premises? Of what use did the Indians make of the fisheries before the coming of the white man? The Indians had the right to catch all the fish they required for food for themselves and their always too numerous dogs. That is all."
 Let us put it another way, The Indians had the right of subsisting off the country. This they did by killing all they needed of fish and game.
 "It is absurd to contend that the salmon traps interfere in the slight est degree with the rights of h. dians."
 The fact is that in scores of streams, due directly to the fish trap, no fish now ascends.
 "The Indians want a fishing mon opoly that will permit them to make enough money in two or three months to live as white men for twelve months. They want, in other words, three months of work and nine months of idleness."
 Is this any different than the canneryman and trap owner? Neither of these work over three months, but each must make his 100 per cent on the capital invested. Is it any more right for capital to make enough profit during the three months operation to cover the 12 months including the nine months idleness, than for a laboring man, be he Indian or White man?
 Or perhaps the trap interests can show us what there is to do in Alaska during the winter months so that our people will not be in "idle- ness." Do not the cannerymen and trap men crowd the boats going south and coming north every spring and fall?
 Items like these are very common in the press:
 J. R. Hickman is going to the states Sometimes California, some times Florida) to spend the winter.
 All we ask is that the cause of depletion of our fisheries, to-wit: the fish trap, be abolished and give every man or woman who wants to fish, the chance to earn his bread and butter, not to spend in Cali
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-03-15

In view or the SLUT W1l1cn the Ju- neau Empire has recently cast upon the missionaries and their interest in the Indians of the district we re- print the following from it's issue of April 10th, 1923. Bear in mind that the men referred to, with few eX- captions, are still the missionaries of Southeastern Alaska.
 WELCOME TO THE PRESBYTERY
 Juneau is this week host to the Alaska Presbytery. The guests in clude all the clergymen of the Pres byterian Church in Southeastern AL aska. And this is not slight honor to this town The Presbyterian Church has done a great work in Southeastern A Ia a, especially among the Indians, and it is doing more and more each year. Most of the clergymen who are here have devoted many years of unceasing toll in this section of the country, and several of them have spent the better part of lifetime here. They have devoted these years without thought of self for the benefit of others. Their rewards will be the consciousness that their work has borne fruit, that Alaska and the country are better because of what they have done.