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Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

his long shoe laccs. AS Skipper had
said il mcndcd the little cart very
nicely. Then Jingle and Jang!c, two
OF the little girl rabbits, called to
Nippcr and skipper to come and
play with them, down by the brook
/ aHd away raced the two bunny boys
taking with them their mendcd cart
and Uncle Wiggily' 5 shoe lace.
Well, when Mr.. Longears awaken
ed little later he felt how loose
. enc shoe was and looking. he saw
i that the lace WAS gone.
''Oh ho!'i he cried. .'Somc of
my little bunnies have done this. =
For we'll he could guess what had
] l;I pened. But how am | to hop
/ along and look for an adventure
j when one shoe Will drop off because
j it ism t laced on me 20 he asked him
sell. Il $ impossible. :
Nothing is impossible, Uncle
Wiggily! said Il dragon fly. or
Iarning needle as perhaps you may
call them. The dragon fly was fit
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
ELECTRIC CORD
PERIL STRESSED
BY FIRE CHIEF

Warning against fire menace
that prevails in Imperial Valley t.
considerabl extent during The
summer time is given by Chief Fer
guson of the FL Centre fire depart
llcnt.
The menace. according To- the
Chief Is the apparent innocent clcc-
tllc cord which comes in so hHndiN
when the summer weather makes il
necessary to use electric fans. Good
cords, properly attached, are given
a clean bill of health by the chief.
However, the makcshift cord or
even good cord which is allowed to
rest on wire hooks or nails. receive
his forceful condemnation as Being
too risky. Such arrangements as
these cause short circuits which may
be responsible for serious fires, Fer
guson said.
AT this season of the wear many
people run their fans during the
night, in order to be sure of ii com
Portable Sleep said the chief,
land i'll number of eases where
people sleep on p0rchcS. the fan is
connected with a socket inside the
house by cord. which may rest
against several pieces of metal be-
tween the socket and the fan. That
is where the danger comes in and we
have had at least one Serious fire
this summer resulting from such i'm
arrangement.
''Of course don t discourage the
use of fans, in fact sell them in
nay business. but | do warn fan us
crs to be. careful of the way they al
low their electric cords to be hung.
Ii they must rest on some support.
hc sure that the support is of wood,
then YOU are playing safe. and not
exposing your house to possible de-
stluction by fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
MASCULINE COSMETICS

The male fapper is coming, cosmetics and al,
declares speaker at the convention of the American
Cosmeticians' Society in Chicago This may we'll be
So since the 'cosmeticans hitherto scarcely noticed,
evidently here and fiourishing Where there
>.eps0eticans, why confine their mnisrations
Men are already using cosmetics, many as 5OO,-
of them in the United States, says the spokesman
these cosmeticans. Many will feel like ask
for more definite specifications along this line.
monstmust admit the soft impeachment of pow
and soothing lotions for shaving, and cold cream
sunburn; and are not these cosmetics? 1t seems
short step to the of facial rouge and pstick,
nretold by the authority quoted. SO he-men may
I'll prepare for the worst.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
'Chickie' Will Be
A Alirdome Feature

"Chickie' adapatcd from the
great newspaper serial, will be the
feature attraction tomorrow might a t
tire Palace airdomc. Chickic' III
brief, is the story of Chickie Bryce,
Il poor typist, who wants "A million
aire husband not w.th thought of
love. but with the sole idea that he
can give her the things she has
wanted so long. She meets her
millionaire. but discovers tnd- she
loves II poor but ambitious law
clerk.
Dorothy Mackaill plays thu title
role, supported by Hobart Bosnorth,
John Bowers, Paul Nicholson and
others of note.
Harry Carey in 1.-The Bad Lands -
aud another episode of the '.Fight
ing Ranger will be shown tonight
at the Palace airdomc.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
CIVIC SELF-BETTERMENT

New Orleans is calling its various civic groups TO-
TO wage campaign of national scope to adver
It's own attractions. Commercial and civic organ
- DCons. private firms and interests, individuals and
officials, planning concerted action to put New
Orleans in the front rank of metropolitan cities.
In summing up the advantages to be derived from
such effort the mayor mentions the quickenng OF
the civic and business pulse within the community it.
self and the building up of civic spirit and pride.
That s whatever else the campaign does, is likely to
make New Orleans better city even for its citi
Zcns.
When community starts in to tell the world
about its good points it becomes conscious of any
bad that may exist With civic pride aroused,
there greater effort to change bad conditions and to
remedy many evils.
Sometimes the private boastcr is deceived in him
self and has less to brag about than he believes. This
may be true of city too but it is more likely that when
lot of public spirited citizens begin to take stock Of
their home town they will do it critically and with open
eyes If it were otherwise, their advertising to attract
newcomers would react against the city very soon
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
August Is, 1910

Miss Fern Campbell, a graduate
of the Central Union high school
last year, has entered Pomona col
legc, at Claremont. for the four
year course. Mrs. Campbell is at
present with her daughter.
II. }. Messenger of Holtville. has
returned from Il sojourn of several
weeks in Pennsylvania and various
eastern cities. While absent he
visited his mother in Philadelphia,
whom he had not seen for 30 years.
Mrs. S. +. Wilcs, the first woman
TO undertake cotton growing III the
Imperial Valley, and who has a large
ranch east of Hebcr, has come down
from Los Angeles to spend the Win
ter in El Centre. She is a guest
at Hotel Oregon.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
TEN YEARS AGO
AI1p11cf 1E 1Q1S

T. T. Cook, cashier of the First
National bank, leaves today for Los
Angeles, where he will meet his fam
lily, and thence will motor to San
Francisco.
f. Girard, an FL Centre contrac-
tor, leaves this morning for San
Francisco by way of San Diego and
Los Angeles. He is accompanied by
his wife and family.
M. o. King will spend the next
week or ten days at Live Oaks
Springs.
Ray Edgar of the Edgar Realty
company is spending the weekend
in the mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
AIR DEVELOPMENT

The new overnight air mail between New York
and Chicago reports big and profitable business Air
mail officials al Brunswick, N j. say that branch of
the postal service has earned in the first month,
west bound postage alone, much the local post
office makes altogether in four months. Cities all
along the line show big volume of air mail patronage
SO the service grows, with rapidity all the more
surprising because of the long delay and indifference
in this country between the invention Of the airpane
and its practical use.
The post office has been the pioneer. Its develop
ment of air mail routes has shown the way. Its
growth is now being supplemented rapidly by CONNER
ca air service started by private capital The govern
men lays out routes and provides lighthouses. City
after city is helping by providing adequate airports
The country is evidently the of great air de-
veoRment which may rival that of the railroads half
century ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

stems until they are like Il cord, or
little rope, which is what your Shoe
string was, sand the four-wingcd
creature. ."Takc some long stems
Of grass and ,raid them together
into one strand, as little girls braid
their hair.
SO Uncle Wiggily did this and
after making sad mess of it two
Or three times, soon he had braided
himself Il grass shoe lace, which he
put through the holes III his shoe,
lacing it up.
'Thanll you, Dragon Fly, for
telling me what to do, said the
bunny gentleman. Now l can hop
along and have an adventure.
So he hoped along until he was
near the edge of the brook and all
OF Il sudden. he heard voices cry
ing:
Nippcr has fallen in. Oh, Nip
per has fallen in the brook -
Uncle Wiggily raced down to the
edge of the stream. Away out in
the middle, far from shore. WAS poor
Nippcr, who WASH t at all Il good
swimmer.
wait! I'll save YOU! cried
Uncle Wiggily. Remembering how
he had braided Il shoe lace out of
fine grass stems, the bunny now
took some large. strong grass stems
and quickly braided rope. He
threw the end of this grass rope to
Nippcr and the little rabbit boy,
catching hold of it, was soon pulled
to dry land.
But if some one had not taken
MY shoe lace. so that | found out
how to make a grass rope, you might
noC have been saved, said Mr..
lungcars. So this teaches us that
even ice cream cones have their uses.
And if the little dog doesn t
catch hold of his own tail so hard
that he can t let 60 to put on his
roller skates, l II tell YOU next about
Uncle Wiggily and the Honker.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Toll OF
Imperial Valley for This Date
in Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
August Is, 1906

Remember the Red Men S bal
Saturday evening.
George Cline, zanjero of the Dog
wood lateral, has resigned and Sam
uel Moore has been chosen as his
successor.
The new dredger is being assembled
on the Eucalyptus lateral by }. 7.
Butler, the builder, and his son.
Postmaster Adolph Shenk is tax
ing his first vacation in three years
He was allowed three weeks off
duty by the government and is
spending the time on the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

lthp point: Mrs. Sylvester will be an
assistant t2ar1cr. they will be out
of touch with the world eight
months in the year-cxceps BY
radio.
The baby will be brough: mp on
radio diet, cleaning whit culture
it may from. broadcasts in many
American cities. The .Sylyestcrs
arc anxious to find cut just how u
baby raised on radio viii turn
| out.
! There are several score l.atiyss
and Il handful of whites at Barrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
BY NEA Service

by N6zt 0et VIC
SEATTLE, Aug. 15.-Baby Syl-
vestcr of Seattle is high-toning
everybody aboard a steamer enroutc
to Point Barrow, Uncle Sans most
northcrlv settlement in Alaska. He
will be the only white baby there
when he and Mr.. and Mrs. G.. II.
Sylvester, his parents. arrive late
this month.
The Sylvcsters are going &C Bar
row more as an adventure than any
thing else. Syl>oS,or will be prin-
cipal of the government school ut
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
VACATION SENSE

VACATION SENSE
This is poor time of year to start argument
on the proper length of vacations Anybody knows
that any vacation should be longer than is. But the
experts make it less simple proposition than that
What most people need is less time instead of
more of it for vacationing" declares public school
welfare director.
Vacations, to be effective" declares city health
commissioner, SHOULD period of several weeks
instead of the usual week or ten days.
The first authority bases his belief the fact that
workers today have time to themselves than their
fathers dreamed of having. But of them fail
TO use it in the best ways. If daily leisure rightly
used there would be need of extra time off for
cations.
The advocate of longer vacations believes that
people occasionally need entire change of environ
men- useful vacation is restfu to minds and bodies
needing rest invigoratng for those needing to be
stirred up.
The chief point is to know ones needs and to
choose nearly as possible the vacation that will
meet them Even the pocketbook, which is usually
siderd rather stern dictator in these matters is less
important than good sense.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
EAT PINEAPPLES
AND GROW THIN
is LATEST FAD
by United Press Leased Wire

LONDON. Aug, l5.-'' Eat pine
apples and grow thin
The unprecedented scarcity OF
p'ncapplcs i'll the London markets
this year is declared by importers
here to be due to the diversion of
shipments to Germany where q
grow thin vogue is on in full
swing.
1t is believed there that the fruit
has excellent anti-obcsitv proper
ties. English doctors however arc
warning their patients not to try
the pineapple route without first
seeking medical advice as under
some conditions the fruit may prove
harmful.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

tcring about in the sunlight. - If
you need shoe lace why don t you
make onc?' asked the dsrning need
lc.
'Twist together some fine grass
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

Maybe they tried to kidnap Il
movie star named Mary Pickford
Anyway, here 5 her name in our pa
per.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
SCHOLARSHIP FOR SCOPES

Scientists interested in the Scopes evolution
are trying 10 ob ain scholarship fund to enable young
Mr. Scopes to 60 to college for graduate study
along his chosen line. 1t is than fair to make
such effort
Scopes has teaching Job now, and money.
He appears to be modest, honest and capable young
man. 1t is to his credit that he has refused to capi-
tazc his sudden fame by accepting highly profitable
engagements for the stage lecture platform because
ton 1t is also to his credit to want more knowledge
His friends and sympahzers can hardly do less than
give him educational boost, and prevent his becom
ing lone martyr in scientific cregious that is
much bigger than himself
= After evolution is cleared up, why not submit the
Einstcn theory to popular referendum?
Prohibition proves to be more effective when pol
itics is prohibited
Some pessmists simply can't bear prosperity, and
so keep right trying to bear' prosperous business
reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

The trouble with the United
States is it has about run out Of
something TO blame everything on.
The smaller the town the more it
needs big men.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15
Brazilian Men
Follow Princes
Fashion Styles
BY United Press Leased Wire

RIO DE JANIERO, Aug. 10
Although the Prince of Wales does
not intend to visit Brazil on his
South American tour, simply be-
cause he has not as vet received any
official invitation to stop off at
Brazilian ports when he comes this
way, Brazilian men are dressed for
the occasion in event His Royal
Highness gets q bid later ON and
decides to call at Rio.
After Wales last visit to the
United States and the tremendous
change in the cut of men s clothiny
resulting from that visit, Brazilians
have also left the tight fitting trou-
scrs and corset shaped coats for the
wide and baggy. trousers and short
rounded coats long since so popular
in England.
Although the English gentle
man 5 cut of suits was known to
Brazilians for wears previous it wa,
not until Americans followed sui.
after the last trip of Wales to the
United States, and American films
showed what Americans were wear
ing, that the Brazilian men fell in
line and began cutting their breech-
cs wider and their coats roomier
and shorter.
Now, however, that American
films have shown Brazilians what
'hc American man-abouttow is
wearing, the brazilian is not con-
81 -hA
anything else but the Princes own
as introduced into Brazil by way
of the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

Williams, Colusa county, has just
accepted from contractors a COM
plcte sewer system, serving every
part of the town plot.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

The ideal hospital would be one
which could be destroyed as soon
as il was out of date, in 20 or 40
years.
The "carrion plant an Indian
jungle native, recently bIoomcd jim
Kew Gardens London. 1t has a
strong smell of tainted meat, which
attracts flies to il.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

After evolution is cleared up, why not submit the
nstcn theory to popular referendum?
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-15

Prohibition proves to be more effective when po
ticslis prohibited.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
I WENT ! DIE
IN Train
WRECK
Rails Spread and Coaches
Plunge 40 Feet Into
Ravine.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Oct. 27.-RD-
Twenty dead and more than so in
jured is the known toll taken when
the Sunnyland, fast st. Louis-San
Francisco train eft the rails today
near Victoria, Miss, and tumblcd into
tangled mass down 40-foot en-
bankmcnt.
At least 20 persons were killed out
right or died before n relief train could
reach the scene and possibly twice
that number We're injured.
The train, travelling at about 90 or
60 miles an hour, apparently spread
the track about 300 yards from the
station and about 200 feet from Il 40
foot trcstlc.. The engine cleared the
trestle, as did the first baggage coach.
The engine did not leave the track.
Three baggage coaches and nine day
coaches and Pullmans made up the
train.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
BATESVlLLE MAN
MISSING; OFFICERS
FEAR FOUL PLAY

Believing c. NJ. Perkins. Batcsvl!lc
beekeepcr. who left home a week ago
on his way to Glen Rose. Tex, Sam
tarium. is a victim of foul play. She
if ]. d. Williams of Zavala county.
arrived in San Antonio Monday night
to start search for the missing
man.
Perkins left Batcsyille in an auto
mobile. Communications with officers
there have failed TO locate him.
1t is feared by his family and the
Zavala county officer. that he was
slain and robbed of his automobile AMI
a considerable amount Of money which
he possessed at the time of his de
parture. Mr.. Williams said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
NE 7 / D DIST :
To CONVENE
IN 8. A.

Ratification of the unification plan
of American Methodism will be the
outstanding business to be transacted
by the sixty-sevcnth session of the
West Texas conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South, when
it convcncs in San Antonio, October
IS to November ., according to Mrs.
C. W. Turpin, of the church press
bureau.
Election of delegates to the general
conference in May, reports of Texas
Methodism activities, and presentation
Of correctional interests By official
visitors from headquarters ut Nash
vile. will share in Importance with
the question of unification.
Laurel Heighth Methodist Church
has been designated as the meeting
place.
DIR. ]. w. Perry. representative
from the board of missions. will ex.
plain the purpose of the "million-dol-
lar fund for-missionary- maintenance e
movement.
The Rev. Arthur J. Moore of San
Antonio. president of the conference
board of missions, will supplement Dr.
Perry's appeal.
Introduction Of official visitors will
follow the opening Of the conference.
Various committees and boards and
Bishop James +. Dickey and his cab
met of presiding elders. will hold bust
ness meetings. Bishop Dicbcy will pre-
side at the business sessions of the
conference.
This will be the eleventh time the
conference has been held in San An.
tonic.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
Prayer Leads
Indirectly to
500 Fine

Prayer led indirectly 10 a 500
fine in corporation court Tues
day. The fine. however. had not
been among the things sought.
An aged white man, frcquenter
of Bexar courts. went to trial on
a charge Of discharging firearms
in the city limits.
Judge, i was praying under
mesquite tree when they rocked
INC" the defendant declared. 81
81. : run and fired in the air
10 scare EN-"
But when neighbor display
ed a handful of buckshot which
she had taken from her garage,
Judge Onion declared the veto
ran must be practicing for an
other war. He was admonished
TO use the municipal range here
after.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
WORK
ON OLNOS To
START soon

Operations on the southwest end Of
the concrete retention dam, under con-
struction on Olmos creek in Alamo
Heights, were turned over to the Nc
Kenzie Construction Company Tues
day, Colonel S. +. Crccclius. flood pre-
vcntion engineer, announced
Providing everything breaks right,
Mckenzie will probably be pouring
concrete within the next two weeks, -
Colonel Crecelius said.
The length of the section turned
over by the city is approximately 1900
feet.
Olmos dam, which will protect San
Antonio from any flood waters which
might sweep from the creeks water
shed, will extend from bluff on the
east side of the creek to a sloping
hill on the west, a distance of 1925
feet.
In the center of the creek bed the
dam will be so feet high, according
to Colonel Crccelius.
The Olmos drive, now under con
struction, will extend across the toy
Of the dam, upon which a 2i-foot
roadway will be built.
1t is hoped to have the structure.
which will cost approximately ST..
10000, completed during the carly
summer.
The construction company can com
plete the dam in about 200 work
ing days, it is pointed out.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
FOUR u. S. SOLDIERS
BILLED In ATTEMPT
TO WRECK IGN,

LAREDO, Oct. 2.-R)-Six sol
dicrs of the Fourth United States
field artillery were indicted by the
Webb county grand jury today for an
alleged attempt to wreck two Inter
national-Great Northern passenger
trains near here September IS. Two
of the men made an alleged confession
that they tried TO stop the trains after
escaping from a guard house.
Those named in the indictments
were Fred NJ. Marine, Joe Parlsek,
James Green, J. 4. Davis, Frank Lar
kins and Walter i. Nicholson.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
u. S. BANKERS LEND
CZECHS S25.000,00O

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-P)-Hav-
ing made arrangements for funding
its war debt To the United States,
the Czechoslovak republic was grant
ed n private loan of S2J,0O0.OOO by
American bankers and promised an
additional S7J,0O0000. of which $50
900 is conditional upon repayment of
a state loan floatcd here in 1872.
The issue will be underwrittcn by
the National City company Of New
York in association with Kuhn. Loeb
and Company. Kiddcr, Peabody and
Company and Hope and Company of
Amsterdam. Leading CzechOslovaE
financial institutions elaborated in
the negotiations.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
FRENCH CABINET
RESIGNS OFFICE

PARIS, Oct. 2I.-P)-Premier
Painlevc's cabinet resigned today.
The premier informed the president
that the cabinet couli not continue
its work of restoring the French fl
nances without being assured of 4
favorable majority in parliament.
The decision Of the ministry to re-
sign was unanimous. 1t was caused by
the attitude taken by the radical and
Socialist parties at their recent con
gress in Nice, where the principle OF
tax levy on capital was adopted.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
ARTHUR w. MEYERS
NO BILLED BY JURY

Arthur W. Meyers. who followed
his sweetheart, Betty Barnes Gambler
to the grave. was no billed by the
Ninety-fOurth District Court grand
jury on murder charge Tuesday.
Meyers died in local hospital weeks
after he had shot his sweetheart and
wounded himself.
The grand jury returned eight in
dictments and fourteen "no bills
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
CARTER REOPENS
KING TUT'S TOMB

CAIRO. Oct. 27.-H0ward Carter,
the archaeologist, today reopened
King Tut-Ankh-amen's tomb and lift
ed the lid off the sarcophagus. The
opening revealed another sarcophagus
which is covered with linen and sew
eral bouquets of flowers in a good
state of preservation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
THANKSGIVING PIE
OFFERED COOLIDGES

WASHINGTON. Oct, TIP =
While Thanksgiving is month away.
the first offer of delicacy to grace
the White House dinner table-a huge
apple pie-has been received by MIS-.
Coolidge from the girls club Of Yer
mont University, her alma mater.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-27
SUBSTITUTE SERVES
DRY LAW SENTENCE

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 81
When John Conner was sentenced to
serve six months in Jail for a liquor
law violation he hired a substitute.
Tn, substitute served the sentence
while John remained at liberD-untiI
Federal Judge Sanborn learned of il.
The court today issued a substitute
sentence e year and day whel
Conner pleaded guilty to the decep-
ton.