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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
.|NTRACOAST Al
CONVENTION
ON FRIDAY
1000 Delegates Expected
to Attend Meeting
at Port Arthur.

HOUSTON, Oct. 11.-Business and
entertainment will be combined at the
twenty-first annual convention Of the
Intracoastal Canal Association OF
Louisiana and Texas. which will open
at Port Arthur October % and con-
tinue through October "a.
Association officials are expecting
one of the largest crowds in the his
tory of the association, Ind the pro-
gram promises to be interesting.
Registration of delegates, OF whom
approximately 1000 have been APP
pointed. will occupy the first hours OF
the opening day, Friday. The con-
vention will get under way with an
Invocation by the Rev. I. A. Davis OF
Port Arthur and an address of well
come by Mayor ]. z. Logan. Re
sponse on behalf OF the delegates will
be made by Martin Behrman, mayor
of New Orleans.
REVIEW PAST YEAR.
Following the annual address by the
president. c. s. L. Holland Of Hous-
ton, and the report of the treasurer,
c. j. Palmer, a review Of the past
wear. describes as the greatest from
the standpoint of results in the annals
of the association, will be given by
Roy Miller, active vice president.
APPOINTMENT of the credentials,
nominations, and resolutions commit
tees will conclude the business OF the
morning. At / o'clock the officers and
directors of the association will be the
guests of the Gulf Refining Company
at a luncheon. =,
With the exception of the report OF
the credentials committee, the after
noon session will be devoted to num-
Der of addresses by men prominent ID
legislative and administrative WORK
and leaders in the advocacy OF inland
waterway development.
The speakers will be ]. ]. Mans
field of Texas, member of the rivers
and harbors committee of Congress;
Senator Morris Sheppard Of Texas,
whose address will be on The lntra-
coastal Canal; C. \. Newton of St
Louis. m. Ter of the rivers and har-
bors committee, who will speak on
The Importance of Completing Our
Waterway Project; Senator j. Z.
Ransdell of Louisiana, member OF the
Senate commerce committee; General
r. Q. Ashburn, chairman Of the adj
visory board of the United States
Inland Waterway Corporation, who
will speak on Utilizing Our Water
ways"
At s 80 o'clock Friday evening the
delegates will be guests at dance
at the Plaza Hotel. arranged BY the
Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce
and Shipping.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
DOUBLE SPUD CROP
BY ELECTRICITY

LONDON, Oct. 17.-That a potato
yield can be doubled by using electri-
city is shown in the experiment Of r.
!. RushfOrth, n school principal, at
StubbingtOn. near Portsmouth.
He placed wires in the ground in On
experimental potato patch and con-
nectcd them TO batteries. The crop
grown was nearly twice as large as be-
fore the electric currents were sown in
the soil ..f
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
RED SUPPLANT IS
BLACK AS HUE .
Of GRIEF
Soviet Color Decks Biers
in Russia in Place Of
Somber Trappings.
By L. KNICKERBOCKER
Universal Service staff CorrespOudent.

Universal Service Staff Correspondent.
MOSCOW, Oct. II. - Red as a
mourning color is taking the place of
black in Soviet Russia.
Funeral professions ere distinguish
ed by the flaming red hats on the
heads of those who walk in the lead
as honorary pallbearers, the red dra-
peries which decorate the hearce and
the red banners which wave over the
mourners.
Once upon time every well-to-do
citizen hoped to be buried with the
funeral cortege in heaviest black. In
the old Russia black as funeral color
was lie sign of opulence. White was
favored BY the poorer classes. Coffin,
hearse, horses and flowers we're al
in purest white. Priests in purple,
swinging censcrs, walkers before the
procession. Relatives and the mourn
ing friends walked behind the hearse.
dominates the living it is the sign of
the new era. As red is the color that
dominates the Twin" it is the sign Of
death and mourning for the proletari-
an ruling class.
At the funeral parlors of the "First
Moscow Comradeship" the director said
that already 30 per cent of the fun
erals are carried out in brightest red,
with the white or religious burial ser
vices numbering about 65 per cent.
The remaining 5 per cent are in
black.
FUNERALS PRIVATE.
Funerals are not yet communist
enterprise. The supplies in every I'M
dertaker's establishment are rented
from the Moscow common house.
hold.' The buildings are likewise
rented from the state. But there the
specialization" Of the undcrtaker's in
dustry ceases.
The state has not yet taken upon
itself the duty of settling its dead
citizens in a communal grave.
The taxes an undertaken must pay
have recently been reduced following
an agreement with the government to
bury paupers free of charge. So it
is in an indirect way, through tax
exemption that the government takes
the burden upon itself of burying the
homeless and the penniless.
Red funerals" are the last honors
given not only members of the COM
munist party but their supp Jrters and
sympathizers too. Much of the pomp
of the religious burial has been Dor
rowed and the startling combination
of red and white remind of holiday
pageant instead of a procession of
death.
Ornate funeral cars of white with
red traDpings, and mourners in red,
startle the stranger in Russia who
light-heartedly stops TO look at a pa
rade and discovers with a shock that
it is funeral.
BLACK FUNERALS FEW.
Clack funerals are fast disa ppear-
ing. Sign Of wealth and prestige
they are seldom seen.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
ALL CITIZENS INVITED.

Saturdays program will open with
invocation By the Rev. II. r. Yelder-
man of Port Arthur, followed by an
address by John McDuffie OF Ala
bsma, member of the rivers and har-
bors committee. James il. Smith
president of the Mississippi Valley
Association. will speak on 1.-The Mis-
sissippi Valley System of Waterways
and What Their Development and
Use Means to the Nation" and an
address will be made by Senator
Edwin Broussard of Louisiana. Brief
talks also will be made by the other
members of Congress from Texas
and Louisiana.
The committees on nominations and
resolutions will then submit their re-
ports, an" five minute talks by dele
gates will conclude the business scs-
sions of the convention.
Saturday afternoon will be given
over entirely to entertainment. At
o'clock the delegates will be taken
on an automobile trip over Port Ar
thur and on an inspection trip through
the oil refineries, the largest in the
world. The concluding event will be
boat trip through the intracoastal
canal TO Orange, where the delegates
will be guests Of the city of Orange
at n dinner.
While we have requested mayors,
county judges, chairmen of police
juries, presidents of chambers of con-
merce and other civic bodies to ar.
point delegates, and while official lists
Of delegates have been prepared, =
President Holland said today, I'VE
want it understood that all citizens
Of Louisiana and Texas interested il
the project, whether they receive Of
fetal appointment as delegates or not,
will be considered as delegates il they
attend the convention and will be
recognized as such"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
BLACK FUNERALS FEW.

clack funerals are fast disa ppear-
ing. Sign Of wealth and prestige
they are seldom seen.
There was a time when all Moscow
would know that a member Of the no.
bility or Weather class had died
Elaborate we're the rites with which
the privileged were buried.
Beggars kept their ears open for
the tolling Of the death bells. Then
they congregated at the stricken home
They gathered from the far corners
of the city to pray for the soul OF
one who had departed.
For this service they we're repaid
with n feast.
Such customs are dying out. for the
families who could once afford "a
bury their members in state, now live
and die quietly.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18

James B. Duke, the tobacco king
who has just died, always struck me
as very rich man who was a very
poor man. as a man with whom one
would not want to change places.
, 1925-03-19
OLD TIMER FOR
A DIRECT ROAD
TO SARATOGA

The Republican is in receipt of the
following LETTER from an old-time
resident of Carbon county in which
he calls attention to the direct road
which formerly went from this city
to Saratoga and recommends that it
again be placed in good repair.
Editor Rawlins Republican
Rawlins, Wyoming.
Dear Sir:
In the early days Saratoga, Wyo.,
was reached from Rawlins in a di-
rect line going southeast from Raw
Inns via the old Nevins ranch, the
kindt sheep ranch and on the west
side of the Platte river into Sara
toga, an approximate distance of rs
miles: road fairly good and grades
not very hard. Since travel ON this
road has been discontinued the Gull
verts have been washed out and at
present road probably impossible
The present road to Saratoga is
about AZ miles, and it can readily
De seer that the old oad is from
twelve to fourteen miles shorter and
practically means an hour shorter
time in making the journey.
The main point is that it would
place Saratoga in quicker touch with
Rawlins from a business standpoint,
and bring business to Rawlins which
to some extent is now lost, 1t would
also be the mean of Rawlins resi-
dents who now go out in the sum
mer of having a shorter route and
time gained so that they could easily
make the trip on a Sunday and have
more time to spend in the country
than they now do.
If this matter could be given pub
licity in your valued paper and also
have it brought to the attention of
our County Commissioners and also
the Commercial Club, it might be
that much good could be accomp-
lished in having this old road re-
vived. An Old Timer.
, 1925-03-19

while it looked as if the Greybull team
would be able to overcome the lead.
Engstrom was again taken from the
game on personal fouls. He was the
only man ON the Rawlins team who
committed a personal during the
game. Conley got hot for Rawlins
and looped through foul field goals
and a free throw. He was high
point man for his team. Kirk could
not hit the basket for Greybull, and
this classy little forward was blanked
for the first time in the tournament.
Douglas did the scoring for Grey
bull and turned in the best game he
has yet.
Rawlins "a, Buffalo 9
Rawlins had an easy time defeat
ing Buffalo last night, In the last
game of the series. The game was
all Rawlins from beginning to end.
Rawlins started scoring early in the
game and took a lead that Buffalo
never challenged. The first quarter
started out like a basketball game,
but Rawlins turned 1t into a rOut.
Rawlins was able to pile up such a
lead in the first half that 1t loafed
through the second frame. The game
was not finished until after IL
o'clock, and but a small crowd stay
place Immediately after the last
game. Monahan and Engstrom were
the stellar performers for the win
ners Conley could not get started
last night. Long and Masters were
the best men on the Buffalo team, but
they could not solve the Rawlins de-
Tense. This was the last game in the
series and eliminated Buffalo.
Cheyenne II, Rawlins IS
Cheyenne and Rawlins furnished
the feature game OF the mornings
play and Cheyenne was able to beat
the warriors Of Rawlins ~ to 13 in
a wellplayed and hard-fought game.
Rawlins showed the most class 1t has
so far. and gave Cheyenne a hard
run for the game. Both teams dis
played a good brand Of basketball,
and at no time in the game did they
let down for a minute. Monahan
started the scoring in the game when
he dropped a short shot through the
net. King made the first counter for
Cheyenne by way of the free-throw
route. Pearce tied the score with
a free throw. and King put Cheyenne
ahead with a pretty field goal. Mon
ahan tied the game III at 4-all with
a field goal and then converted a free
throw. and Rawlins took the lead
and was ahead Mt the quarter, 5 10
, 1925-03-19

are located are TO the erect that
there are many novices available in
each of those cities for the Pilgrim
& across the Hot Sands of the
Desert.
At the regular monthly meeting
of korein Temple held last Friday
evening Potentate c. A. Brimmer APP
pointed the following committees to
have charge of the various features
of the Ceremonial:
Ceremonial Call w. Dinsmore,
chairman, r. II. Alcorn AID C. C.
Carlson.
Entertainments. L. Armstrong,
~Breitenstein.
Banquet - e. NJ. Rogers. r. H.
Hopkins, w. NJ. Morris. Henry Lar
sen, A. j. Roster and Peter Sill.
In charge of Novices- Otto
Gramm.
Marshall. NJ. CONFESS.
Reception Past Potentates DR.. A.
F.. Thode, w. w. Daley. II. |. Turner
N. r. Greenfield, X. H. Hadsell, w. J.
Edwards. DR.. X. Barber, E. f. Ben
nett, +. w. Rendle, /. j. Rendle, II
II. IiophihS, ~. IL. llOuSe, l.. T.. AIHl-
strong and A. J. Roster.
Paradox. II. Hadsell, c. w
Marks. Gus Fleischli, Ray Ball, II,
ID beverley, Carl Aman.
The members of the Divan who
will assist Potentate Brimmer in
staging this Ceremonial are:
DR.. +. A. Kell, chief rabban.
F. NJ. Johnston, assistant chief rab
ban.
r. II. Alcorn, high priest anC
prophet
|. NJ. CONFESS, oriental guide.
Chas. Miller, recorder.
A. F.. Thode, treasurer.
G. NJ. Bergen, first ceremonial
master.
II. B~reitenstein, second ceremonial
master.
Jas Potts, marshal.
o r. Conley, inner guard.
/. w. Dinsmore, outer guard.
Chas. S. lnnes, director.
Korein Patrol are practicing faith
fully for this Ceremonial and those
who attend can be assured that the
patrol work this year will far sur
pass anything in the past history of
the Temple. The Patrol will leave
soon after the Ceremonial for Los
Angeles where they will attend the
Imperial Council.
Noble Geo. Coulson, director OF
, 1925-03-19
MINING COMING STRONG

Mining Is being revived all over
the west: properties both old and now
are being developed A. they have not
been in years. The demand for
metals for industry promises to be
as staple as the demand for wheat or
wool. the big investments for mines
and mills seem as safe as money put
into banks or bonds.
This mining activity must have n
profound effect on transportation. on
agriculture. on every other American
Industry. during the year 1925.
There never was a series OF years
that promised better for our United
States than the years lust ahead
, 1925-03-19
IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES

The improved condition OF agrI-
culture has been the most important
change during the past year.
Although all farm products are not
bringing higher prices than last year.
and a very few lower. the general po-
sition Of tho farming community il
decidedly better.
Looking At the matter from all
angles. Indications are for a return
to more normal relation between
farm products and other commodities
than have prevailed over the last sev-
eral years.
, 1925-03-19

game Felix has been a strong favor
lite with the fans w. Davis played
a good game.
Hanna Fl, Hillsdalc Is
Hanna was able to defeat Hillsdale
and eliminate it from the tournament
in the first game in class b. The
game was hard-fought throughout,
but Hanna had the better team. Hills
dale made a game fight to exist, but
The first half put Hanna in the lead
IA to 10. The last half was more
even. although both teams seemed
to tire. Hanna scored 6 and Hills
dale 8 points in the last half. The
game was rather slow. and both
teams were wont to play more de-
~fensive ball than they really needed
to. The game was a nice one to
watch, although the final outcome
Was obvious all the way. Lehti play
ed the best basketball for Hanna,
scoring four field goals. Combs was
the outstanding man on the losers.
He scored W field goals and sever
free throws.
Lyman 23. Hanna \
One of the earnest little teams in
the tournament was eliminated when
Lyman hung a defeat on Hanna by
the count of 23 to s. With p. Rollins
and his bum ankle leading the attack
the Lyman boys showed an unexpect-
ed scoring strength and outplayed
and out-fought Hanna. The game
, 1925-03-19

one Of the players whose playing
was a delight to the eyes OF all
basketball fans at the tourney last
year was Carl Engstrom. of Raw
Inns. Carl Is on the side lines this
week roofing for his old teammates
and wishing that he were back in
the game.
And Carl's presence in the lineup
would have helped n lot Wednesday
morning when Rnwlins met Douglas.
The score made the game look like
a one sided affair but the score didn't
tell the story. Douglas had enough
chances at the basket to win three
basketball m II was "A sltua-
ton In which Rawlins was showing a
fraction OF the class she was capable
OF showing while Douglas was pass
Ing down the floor repeatedly shots
at tbs basket
, 1925-03-19

A marriage license was issued to
Mrs. Adeline Taylor and Clinton c.
Wilbanks last week Mr.. Wilbanks
Is a resident of Rawlins and his
wife Is registered as having lived
in Tulsa, Okla.
, 1925-03-19
Spring CEREMONIAL tn Re
HELD IN RAWLINS APRIL 20
K0REIN TEMPLE EXPECTS To INITIATE LARGE CLASS
ON The 10th OF NEXT MONTH. POTENTATE
BRIMMER WILL HANDLE CEREMONIAL

Korein Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, have decided
upon Monday, April Goth, as the date upon which the big n
nual Spring Ceremonial will be held.
This Spring Ceremonial will be held at the Temple in this
city and Potentate G. A. Brimmer and the members of his
Divan state that it is going to be one of the biggest and most
enjoyable Ceremonlals ever held by Korein Temple.
Reports already received from Cheyenne, Casper, Lusk,
Rock Springs, Kemmerer and other cities where Shrine Clubs
, 1925-03-19
LARAMIE HIGH STATE
BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS
RAWLINS, HANNA and SARATOGA ENTERED TEAMS
In STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT AS The
REPRESENTATIVES OF CARBON COUNTY

In the State basketball tournament held in Laramie all
last week the Laramie high school quintet came out as the
winners, that team having won first place in the ''B' division
and on Saturday evening last they beat the Worland five by a
score 25 to ID. The Rawlins high school team was eliminated
on Friday when it lost a game to Cheyenne, score II to 13 and
was defeated by Worland five IS to 9. In the academic con-
tests RawGns high school entrants failed to place for any of the
, 1925-03-19

was rather rough in spots, due to
the fast pace the boys set for each
other Time was taken out twice
because of injuries to members of
the Hanna team. Lyman took the
lead early in the game and kept scor-
ing heavily throughout the balance of
the anne The score at the end of
the first half was in favor of Lyman
10 to .. In the second half Lyman
increased its lead and outplayed
Hanna. The fact that Hanna lost
two of its best men on account of
injuries vas a material fact that
aided in its downfall. For Hanna
Lehti and Rider were the best per-
formers, while p. Rollins played the
best game for Lyman.
Saratoga 20, Linglc 8
Saratoga celebrated its entrance
into the state tournament by knock
ing Lingle off PC to s. The Sara
toga team proved to all concerned
that it does things beside fish in the
city by the Platte. Saratoga took
the lead early in the game. when
Butler got to hitting the hoop. At
the midway mark Saratoga was out
in front IL to A.. The second half
vas d repeater OIL lHt lITSl NAH anu
the Purple and Gold of Saratoga High
floating at the top of the mast
pole. Butler was the best man for
the winners, while Percy Kirk, son
of Senator Kirk, performed the best
for Lingle. Mark played a good
game for Lingle while he was in the
game, but he retired with four per-
Laramie 30, Saratoga 4
Laramie showed Saratoga under
with al avalanche of field goals, and
when the smoke of battle cleared
away Laramie was on the long end of
a 80 to 4 score. Laramie started out
and allowed Saratoga a field
goal in the first minute of play Lar
annie did lot tie the score until the
six minute mark had been passed,
and the quarter ended A to 2 in favor
of the local team. From the begin
ming of the second quarter on the ball
was played in under Saratoga's bas-
ket most of the time, and it was the
exception rather than the rule when
took the ball past the cen
ter of the floor. Laramie played an
exceptionally clean game, as it al
does, and committed but two
personal fouls during the game. In
a one-sided game OF this kind it is
impossible to pick any individual
players.
Mountain View 10, Saratoga 3
Saratoga was eliminated from the
tournament when 1t tasted the bitter
of defeat when Mountain View
hung it on the team 10 to s in the
game this morning. Saratoga,
in its first tournament, has hung on
well. but in the last two series 1t
has met two of the best teams in the
class, Laramie and Mountain View.
The game this morning was no cinch
for Mountain View, and the Saratoga
contested the game every min
ute of play. Mountain View had 1t
on Saratoga, but the team from the
Platte River showed that 1t has had
some good coaching. Aubrey Hous-
ton, a former Laramie high star. has
coaching Saratoga. and he has
the Laramie high fight into
his team. Mountain View has one
man that builds up its team, and
man is Felix. He is a good
basketball player and is the main
cog in the machine.
, 1925-03-19

Korein Band, states that at this Cere-
monial he will have a band of over
80 pieces and that he al guarantee
some mighty fine music for the &c
casion.
, 1925-03-19
Side Lights on State
Tournament by ]. Snow

Dave West, former Carbon County
Commissioner, is one of those real
sure enough tournament basketball
fans. Dave has reserved a seat on
the new auxiliary b~leachers close to
the judges bench in the basketball
s"'l of the new gymnasium. The
particular seat upon which the Elk
Mountain rancher daily perches had
a fine coat of enamel paint when
the tourney opened but the paint is
now worn away-anyway that's what
Rawlins friends of Dave are saying.
They are also saying that on the
opening of the tourney the Carbon
COMMISSIONS was on hand at the
gymnasium doors when the ~janitors
opened the building Monday. Dave
denies this however and says that
he never shows up any earlier than
1880 or s. But the fact remains
that former Commissioners West is
one of the most enthusiastic boosters
of Carbon County teams inc he
doesn't miss any tournament games
IL he can help it
Carbon county is we'll represented
at the Tourney this year. Rawlins is
in the running and folks who can
see only Cheyenne or Kemmerer for
first place in Glass A had better not
wage the family babycarriage on any
dope that does 10 consider Rawlins
in the running.
Hanna is proving one of the sur
prises OF the tourney. Little Captain
Rider is all owe the floor at once
and altho the Hanna lads can hardly
be included in the running TO beat
Laramie for first place in Glass b
they are making a very creditable
showing. Nor Is Saratoga so slow
altho they failed to get to going in
the game with Laramie Wednesday.
Rawlins had little trouble in out
scoring Douglas Wednesday but that
tells the story. The Rawlins lads
look fresher and better at the tourney
this year than last-they are SEEM
ingly not affected by staleness and
should go far. In the game against
Douglas. however, their floor work
was not what 1t should have beer
while Douglas was terribly off on
making baskets. Douglas got enough
chances to win three basketball
games.
, 1925-03-19

game Felix has been a strong favor
lite with the fans w. Davis played
a good game.