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, 1925-01-21
CHEVROLET DRIVERS
TREATIN' EN- ROUGH

Evolution of the new Chevrolet
which made its initial bow at the New
York Automobile show this month
was marked by hard, exacting yet in.
teresting labor extending over a peri.
cd of more than a year.
As for back as 1928 automotive and
metallurgical experts started draw
inging plans for the new automobile.
Sample cars were made, containing
the forty-odd new improvements, in
GLIDING disc clutch, springs, axles,
manifold etc, and these ears were
turned over to selected drivers work
ing directly under the engineering
staff for the hardest tests human in
genuity could devise. Every detail
in the new car was forced to prove
itself more than adequate for any de-
mands it might be called upon to full
fill.
The new semi-elliptic springs und-
erwent harder usage than any car
owner could give them in five years.
Day and night drivers tore over rough
roads, taking railroad crossings, ruts
and inequalities at high speed. The
drivers were working under orders to
"bust those springs if you can"
The new axles, front and rear,
were subjected to similar trials. Ev-
cry strain expert drivers could think
of was placed on the axles, which
had already withstood severe labora-
tory tests. Stresses that ordinary
driving never would cause were plac-
ed on the new channel steel frame
and its five sturdy cross members.
In fact every detail that is incor-
porated into the new Chevrolet was
tested, improved and re-tested until it
scored 100 per cent before it was a.
dopted. In this way it was possible
for the Chevrolet company to go into
quantity production at once, secure
in the knowledge that the new line
would more than meet any fequire-
ment that a owners could place on
il.
, 1925-01-21

covered with snow which lasted until
noon.
In a recent army test in France
it was found that only two out of
every ten recruits twenty years old
were educated in the ordinary sense
of the word. OF the remaining eight
five upon an average knew how to
read and write a little.
The German farmer, rather thar
sell his grain for paper marks of prac.
tically no value, prefers to use it fol
fattening live stock.
The Merite Agricole is to be con.
ferred on French families that have
titled the same soil for three centur.
les. There are $50 such families ir
France. One family has held the
same land since the reign of Char,
lemagne. Another family at Colon
bes neal Gap has worked its farm fol
a thousand years.
Vermeer, the famous Dutch land,
scape painter of Delft, painted hi.
masterpieces in his kitchen and sole
them to buyers who came there.
Mrs. Jennie E. Croker, of Clifton
dale, Mass, holds a captains license
for an ocean sailing vessel, She alsl
holds a certificate emitting her tc
act as first mate of any steamship
afloat.
A quarter million dollars damage
was sustained by the Leviathan wher
, 1925-01-21
, LOWer Sane Creek

Gordon Nisely of Paint Creek spent
several days at the II. F. Bates home
the past week.
Nina Milstead, Gladys and Irna
Horner spent Friday night with the
Bates girls.
MI. and Mrs. v. F. Rotter were
Sunday guests at the ]. Britton home
in North Cody.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Richard, John
Fowler, Ebert and Jean Siddle, &C.
Gil and Marold McMillin and Ken
meth Knight were Sunday callers at
the d. d. Stall home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mclaughlin were
Powell visitors on Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. v. F Rotter were
Sunday evening callers at the D. D.
Stall home.
Mrs. AL Beam and daughter Pearl,
and Jesse Horner were Sunday din
ner guests at the Carroll Ross home.
John Mclaughlin is loading a car
of hay at Corbett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Hempstone called
at the Joe Black home Sunday.
V. F. Rotter has been doing some
! repair work on the engine at the
Mohny oil well north of Cody.
o. L. White and Ed Hempstone
were Powell visitors on Friday.
Harold Bradbury called on Law
renee Siddle on Sunday.
Mrs. Floyd Noble called on Mrs.
w. Phelps Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. A. L. White spent
Saturday evening at the Jake Horn
err home.
Vern Stall, Medford Knight and
Cecil McMillin entertained a crowd
of young folks at a dancing party
at the school house Friday evening.
Lower Sage Club will meet with
Mrs. G. A. Ebert on January 22nd.
, 1925-01-21

The Seventy Mile Kid, an old sour
dough miner of the early Alaska min.
ing days, has charge of Mount Nc
Kinley National Park and is said to
know more about the mountain than
any other man.
, 1925-01-21

The saying mind your P's and Q's'
meaning BE careful" originated in
printing offices. When type is set
up the letters are reversed, and small
p's and as were liable to be mistaken
for each other. Machine typesetting
has made the warning obsolete.
, 1925-01-21
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that county
certificates of Indebtedness. to-. and
including No. 3940 are hereby called
in for payment. Interest will cease
10 days after the second publication
of this notice.
Dated at Cody, Wyo. this 18th day
of January, 1925.
q. A. HOLM.
1924 County Treasurer
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
MARRIED 81 YEARS

Our old friend A. d. Kingsbnry
of Maury island celebrated his
54th wedding anniversary on
Wednesday of this week at his
home, spending the day quietly
with his good wife who has shared
with him life's sunshine and sha-
dow for four years more than half
a century. Mr.. and Mis-. David
Mackie called on them leaving q
box Of candy. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kingsbury were married at In
dependence, Iowa, January 18th,
1871 and have lived on this island
for 36 years. A host Of ncighbors
and friends from here and else
where join with us in wishing we
may have this good couple with us
for at least IS years longer.
We just called the "boss" up
to extend best wishes, and he said
tie only message he had for his
friends was that he opposes the
move of Tacoma to name the
MOUNTAIN "GOV VERNOR
HART" He prefers to have it
called MT. Lydia e. Pinkham,
he says,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16

"You can depend on this, said
Manager II. M. Boykin of the Pu-
get Sound company to the Editor
last Tuesday, "if there is anything
that can be done to improve SER
vice to our customers on Vashon
Island, we are going to do it. For
instance, we have already ordered
a brand new cable to be laid be-
tween the island and the main
land. This will be larger, better,
heavier and in every way superior
TO the one now in use. We expect
to have it delivered to this com.
pany in March and it will be laid
Immediately. In this way our Gus
toners on the island will have a
better guarantee Of service for, in
event of accident TO one cable, we
will be able to send our energy
over the other and it is hardly
likely that both will go out at the
same time
1t is also our intention to in
crease the voltage from 2200 volts
rs at present to $500 volts. This
means that we will have TO install
i heavier distribution system every
where ova. the island to replace
much that is now in-eXistence, and
it also means that Vashon Is
ianders will be able to install
electric ranges and other appli.
ances with assurance which has
hitherto been denied them, In
;hort, it will place Them on pretty
nearly the same footing as far as
alectriea! conveniences are con-
,erncd as residents of the main
land.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
FAIR WARNING

When the radio knobs You re
twirling
For wave lengths long or
brief.
And you hear an awful skirling
That seems static-past belief,
Just pause in reverent wonder
AT the sound that greets YOU
While the air is rent asunder
As by music of the spheres
Realize howl grand and handy
AS its dial no longer turns.
Your machine tuned in on Sandy
While he celebrates for Burns
Oh generous land that gave him
birth
We all your comforts share,
You broadcast pipes around the
earth
Your " Scotch" fills up-THE
AIR.
"A. W. S.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
POWER COMPANY
TO DO Big THINGS
FOR The ISLAND
New Gable Ordered and with two
Mainland Connections Vashon
Island will cope with Tacoma
and Seattle

The electric cable connecting
Vashon Island with the mainland
having now been repaired, steps
are being taken by the Puget
Sound Power & Light Company
to relay it with the result, it is
hoped, that normal service will he
restored during the week. 1t was
found that the cable, which is
about three and one half miles in
length and which was recovered
fro ma depth of about 600 feet of
water, had been injured in no
less than nineteen different places.
When the original interruption
of service took place during the
recent cold spell the company be.
lievcd the repairs could be made
without the necessity of taking
the cable up and in this way somr
time was lost. Immediately il be
GENE evident that the entire cable
would have to be lifted from the
water, steps Were taken to char
ter tug to give temporary relief
This, in itself was no easy task
but resulted, finally, in the char,
tering of the 500 horsepower
ocean-going vessel, Roosevelt.
Then came the necessity of secur.
ing a steam driven generator, con.
Meeting it with the engines, in.
stalling it on the deck of the boat
and making connections with the
distribution system. While all of
this took time and caused quite
little inconvenience, it was the
best that the company could do
under the circumstances and, as
matter of fact, entailed an eX-
pense many times i'll excess of
the revenue pielded from Vashon
consumers.
In connection with all this.
however, it is to be noted, that
neither the defective cable nor
the distribution system on Vashon
Island were originally built or de-
signed by the Puget Sound Pow
er & Light Company but came in
to its possession at the time of the
acquisition of the properties of the
Washington Coast Utilities Com
pany. Generally speaking, neith-
er the cable nor the distribution
system are up to the standard rc-
quired by the Puget Sound Com
pany and, a complete survey of
the needs of the island having been
made, steps are to be taken i'm
mediately to improve the service
and safeguard it in every possible
way, regardless of expense.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
DocKToN CITIZEN PASSES

Thomas Christie Barclay died
at his Dockton home Tuesday
night at the age of 50 years from
paralytic stroke he sustained
"a few days previous, He was
born in Scotland January 18th,
1910 and came to America about
fifty years ago. For nine years
he has been a resident Of the is
land and was a grand old man.
He was the father of Mrs. Stucllcy
Mrs. Captain Phillips. and Mrs.
L. Tuirbull. His widow also sur
wives. Funeral services will be
hell at Dockton community house
OF Saturday morning and in Ia
coma in the afternoon. The bu-
rial viii be held in Tacoma.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
BURTON BAPTIST CHURCH

Services next Sunday as follows :
10 a. IN. Bible School.
IL a. m. Morning worship, theme
"Thc Son of Man" F."
6:30 p. m. Young Peoples meet
ing.
7:SO p. m. "An Assured Wei
come.
All are invited to these serv-
ices.
On January 81 Mrs. Jay C.,
Smith and a number of friends
from Seattle will give an enter
tainmcnt in the church. Mrs.
Smith is quite well known on the
island and a good progIam is as
sured. Details will be announced
later. Hold the date.
7. S. Fretz. Pastor
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
RECIPE FOR CUTTING TAXES

Cut all state, county, city and
school district expenditures.
Cut the expenditures of all state
institutions.
Cut off the useless and unneces-
saly taXeaters.
Cut out the frills and eXtrava-
gances..
Cut out inefficiency and waste.
Cut off the payroll parasites.
Stop hunting new sources of tax
revenue.
Stop the demand for unneces,
sry appropriation of public funds
Mrs. Mcgowan and Lola Jane
have been sick for several days
but at present are convalescing.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
LEoNA CAROLYN LESLIE


George Leslie, proprietor of the
Cash and Carry store is looking
unusually happy this week and is
passing ont good cigars right and
left to all who enter his place of
business. The reason seems to be
that Mr.. Stork dropped down ON
him early Sunday morning and
left a fine baby girl in the arms
of Mrs. Leslie She was a welcome
lit lie lady, named Leona CAROLYN,
md while Mrs Leslie is getting
along lust fine, the usual smile on
Papa Leslie's face is brighter and
broader than ever.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
PLAN FIFTH ANNUAL
BURNS" FESTIVAL
Will be held at Burton High
School Saturday night, Jan. "a
Big Program and Supper

The committee on Burns Nicht
net in the Ncws-Record Office
and made final plans for the com
ing festival which will be held al
the Burton High School on Satur
day night, January 24th beginn
irg promptly at s o'clock. 1t is
expected the evening will cclips,
even the high standard OF this an
nual event in the way of music
entertainment, and banquet. W
B Maclsie has engaged Piper Iron.
sides of Seattle and his daughter
for the evening. Mr.. Ironsides is
one of the best pipers and Scotch
dancers in the state and his daugh.
ter, delightful young lady, will
also do some fancy dancing. Mrs,
Major Ross who charmed the au.
diencc with her sweet singing last
year will sing again this season.
Mr. Cowan will sing couple Of
songs of the poet and little Miss
Margaret Petersen will surprise
the audience with graceful High
land Fling dance, David Mackie,
who came from the immediate
neighborhood of Burns, will tell
us something about the "'bligs of
Doom" and Alloway Kirk. /"
Prof. Parkes will be chef again
this year and all remember what
a wonderful dinner he served the
last time. Mrs. w. B. Maclkic
will make the haggis, and it will
start from the other end of the
able this time, so everyone will
get helping of this "great chief
tain of the puddin' race. s"
Membership will again be limit
ed this season so that everyone
will be assured seat at the table.
The first who come forward with
the s will be served first, and after
the table capacity is sold, there
will be no more tickets available.
Tickets may now be ordered of d.
Mackie, chairman. They may be
obtained at the island stores or
the News Record office. A phone
call will reserve them up to next
Tuesday at noon. Payment
should be made and tickets OBJ
tanned on or before that time.
This annual event is without a
penny's profit to any person, and
is held for the purpose of keep
ing alive the memory of Scot
land s sweetest singer, and giving
a thoroughly high grade banquet,
with musical and literary features
added for guide measure. " These
tickets will sell quickly, so be a.
Il1ng the first to call up some
member of the committee and say
"put my name on the list of the
elect"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
G. A. BARTON SPENDS 18th.
BIRTHDAY WITH DAUGHTER

On Sunday, January 11th Mr..
and Mrs. Graham Maloney enter
tanned with family dinner at
their home, "Olympic View," at
Lisabeula. The occasion being
the 18th birthday of Mrs. Malon-
ey's father. Those participating
in the happy event were; Mr..
Barton the guest of honor, Frank
A. Barton of Seattle, and Mr.. and
Mrs. l. o. Thompson and Miss
Marguerite of vashon.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
Vashon Federated Church

Bible School at 10 a. m.
Sermon at II a. m. Subject
The Barren Fig Tree.
Junior c. +. at 3 p. m.
Senior c. Z. at 6:30 p, m.
Sermon at 80 p. m.
Community service at Mr.. G
Mathisen's home at 2:30 p. m.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23

NHUTTER - Well, well, Mr..
IVA humble, what's the idea in all
the bandages, were you in an ac-
cident?
Mumble-Yes.
Mutter-What hit you?
Mumble-My wife.
Mutter-What was the trouble?
MumbIe-We decided TO separate
and j called on her to talk it over
peaceably.
Mutter-Did she lose her temper7
Mumble-No, she had it right
with her.
Mutter-what did she hit you
with?
Mumble-All her might.
Mutter-she didn't strike you
with her fist, did she7
Mumble-Wcll, whose do you
suppose she used, her mothers!
Mutter-Was her attack unealled
for? ~
Mumble-Certaiuly. Do you
think / ordered il?
Mutter-Didn't you ask her TO
stop?
Mumble-No, / knew it wouldn't
do any good.
Mutter-Why not7
Mumble-she never does anything
/ ask her.
Mutter-When she started hit
ting you, you should have run.
Mumble-I couldn't, she was
standing on my foot.
Mutter-Why didn't you tell her
10 get off.
Mumble-She told me she didn't
want me 10 talk TO her.
Mutter-When you first walked
into the house did you give her an
argument?
Mumble-No, she had ono.
Mutter-Were you nice and po-
lite?
Mumble-sure, / even took my
hat off.
Mutter-well what caused her TO
strike youI
Mumblc--I forgot TO find out.
Mutter-You should have shown
her who was boss
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
canine Concerts"

Voice that they even disturb the
other dogs in the neighborhood.
One dame moved to Europe last
year so that her Fox terrier could
study abroad.
Hes coming back here next
month to give some concerts.
And all the rich people are plan
ming to take their dogs to the re-
cital.
There will be a chorus Of rs
canine voices.
This will be the biggest event In
any dogs life since the day the
poundman was run over.
Jack Yellen, the American COM
poser has written a special number
for the occasion entitled There,
Ettle puppy. don't cry, you'll De a
Hot Dog next July"
Yellen sang the song over for
the committee the other day and
was bitten in the leg three times.
The next time your favorite dog
presents you with a litter of puppies
don't drown any, maybe there's a
famous tenor among them.
iss5. King Feature syn. Inc
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
By J. P. McEVOY

BILL: Look me- Julette Peach would say ook how soft
how rosy how appetizng Iam Do you think anybody will
buy you when they get me? Absurd! Goofy Rid
dculum!"
MA: don't think you should teach Junior such words.
JUNIOR (helpfnHy): Nutty? Batty? Woozy?"
BILL: All good words and ulete Peach used them all and
always she would end each remark with scornfu shrug
Scum she would tell him her shoulder. Also,
"Clodp Just like that"Clod~ (To Mamie, acih superior
GESTURE: Tie that!
MAMIE: I'd tie it outside if was you.
BILL: "Were" not "was,"
MAMIE: Oh, shut upl
BILL Ito Junior: Now We may proceed with the story Well
let return to poor Julius Cocoanu How sad he was,
how lonesome, how discouraged What did life have to
offer Long days of refined from Juee Peach.
Long.nghts of homesckness for Madagascar maybe it
was Timbuctoo-
MAMIE: Did you hear of cocoanuts in Madagascar
BILL: No; did you?
MAMIE: No.
BILL: Then that makes it unanimous.
JUNIOR: Gwan with my story will you?
BILL: Certainly Where 1? Oh yes. Poor Julius Cocoa
nut was sad and lonely and discouraged
BILL: And goofy
JUNIOR: And batty.
BILL: That's right And just then lady into the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23

dozen miles from where the hunt
began.
1t is an immemorial custom Of
the sport that then whoever lives
closest by must invite the whole
field to eat. Sometimes the host is
a duke or a millionaire. Sometimes
a tenant farmer, sometimes
sporting parson" or a clergyman
with taste for outdoors.
But whoever he Is he leads the
way to his home and hearth and his
fellow hunters have tea with him
in his ancestral banquet hall or his
farm kitchen as the case may be.
They take pot luck-whatever is in
the house, and consume as a rule
far more strong liquor than they do
tea. They have all been riding for
miles and some of them have been
thrown and climbed up again, and
many Of them are muddy and all
are more or less disheyelled. There
is nothing ladylike about the gath
ering, and the tea, and liquor, is
often drunk standing from tin pan.
nikins. Such is a genuine pink tea.
Few people perhaps understand
that fox hunting is one Of the most
democratic Of sports and that part
of its etiquette is that everybody
talks to everybody else without
introduetions. While the hunt is
on all social lines are down.
Frequently our cartoonists and
funny writers depict the followers
Of hounds as riding down the crops
Of worthy agriculturalists while the
farmers themselves tear their hair
and rave about going 10 law. The
fact is that foxes are never hunted
except in the spring before crops
are planted and in the autumn after
they have been harvested. Remem.
Der, the sport originated in England
where most Of its devotees were big
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23

A NEW YORK woman has just
"A opened a vocal school for can
ines. This Is a college where dogs
can 20 and have their banks trained.
Nothing in the world Is more
disgusting than n bull dog with an
effeminate growl.
A watch dog needs voice that a
burglar has confidence in.
No robber is going to pay any at
tention to an Airdale who snarls in
falsetto.
This woman is marvellous
teacher. She can take n Pekinese
and make a basso out Of him.
She even makes Pomeranians
afraid Of themselves.
Dogs that cry at night only
bother people when they howl off
key.
It wouldn't be so bad If they
could carry tune.
OF course, the average citizen
can't afford TO hire a musical d.
rector for his watch dog.
A mongrel JUST opens his mouth
and bowls as is.
Some Of them have such terrible
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
What a Pink Tea" Really Means
BILL: Not a chance.

A MoNG the many terms and eI-
pressions which are much mis-
understood we find the "pink tea"
At the mere mention Of the term
the brovs of most self respecting
men go up and they begin TO laugh.
They think of a pink tea" man
and their minds begin to enTisage
a chap who lsps and whose brain
capacity is small and who does
nothing more useful with his time
than devote it to chatter and pas
ing tea cups in warm and eomfor-
table houses where women mostly
foregather and the lamp shades and
other table decorations are Of a
tender pink color.
One or two mayors Of cities elected
on reform tickets and without ez-
porienee in the rough and tumble
Ways of practical politics have been
cs1led ''pink tea mayors" The Of
ficerz on governors staffs are called
pink tea" colonies and majors now
and then. A few weeks ago a fight.
er in a New York boxing arena dis
played less than the amount Of
courage that the spectators thought
eempatible with his masculine pro.
fession. He went TO the floor when
his opponent fetched a full arm
swing to his jaw and the crowd
yelled take him to a pink tea"
However the pink tea is not what
most people think it is, but is an
ancient institution connected with
TIE sport Of fox hunting.
For some reason which the writer
has never fathomed the scarlet coat
which has been identified for cen
tnrios with the hunting field is al
Ways known as a pink coat and the
Solor as hunting pink.
Humorous writers sometimes
eho know nothing Of hounds and
heses-take a fling at the ancient
sport itself and 50 DO some car