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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-09-23
CARCO RvTTTER

Fargo. N. D.. Sept. 23-tP)-But-
ter fat. churning cream ~; packing
stock "a.
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DRHSSllAEuNGa
DRESSMAKlNC done at reasonable
psioss.- Pierre 1lA1l. liz Ave. G. .
n0AnDnRS WANTED -.
TIE MOHAWK specialises In. cso1
thinGs to eAt. Phone llk.
WANTED 20 aUtsT
WANTED a SIX OF ssysn room,
house to rent. Also three light
housekeeping rooms. Write TriS-
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D0uS1s AND fEXs1.
FOE SALE--5 room bungalew. @.
rage. Small payment down, and
moNthly payments at q very pea.
sonahlee Price. For saae b. owner
direct. Phone 92l.
FOR SALE-A one story SOFAS house,
34x64 barn and I acres Of land 10.
Gated northeast Of the country club
Michael Hilscher. Bismarck. n. D
FOR RENT--A modern 6 room housl
furnished. 702 Second st. Phone
FOR kENT-A modern fVfnis hed
bunGslow. ell Fourteenth street.
COOP. DEPENDABLE USED Cars
Here you will find. used, cars, carefall,
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Ford Ono TON Truck; Buick Six Tour
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Ford Light Delivery: Ford Coupe
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BARGAINS ron SALE

& ROOM modern house. 2 bed rooms.
full basement, hardwood floors
down stairs, heat. water and sew
er. east front, So fopt lot, q. bar
gain for $500, on good terms.
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NICE 80 foot lot In Riverviese. Addi-
ton, south front, for 1896. Cash.
Many other houses and lots for
sale.
GEO. NJ. REGISTER.
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GEO n. KE0ls14R.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23
DOLLAR is AT
!. APREMIUM IN
INLAND CHINA
Daughter of jamestown Col
lege Dean Writes Of Money
Standards There

jamestown. N. o., Feb. ,23.-LP)-
The American dollar 10 at ! premium
in interior China % we'll - else.
where, according to i letter received
here by F. B. T6ylor. dean Of James.
town college. from Ai6 daughter who
is . missionary in DE southern part
Of the oriental republic.
wages and prices ere always .
great puzzle here" the letter re-
lstes.
'There is great diffespnce Of opin-
ion as to what We should pay servants
and laborers. The standard is sup
posed 10 be copper cash, but the
changes in the price Of the dollar do
affect prices. though not quickly. 4
year age dollars were LOO to 1900
cash, ordinarily, 400 cash to the
dollar ives considered high. Now.
since the unsafe roeds have cut down
trade, dollars are 2.A00 cash. more OF
less. Yesterday was the first time
they have been down to $500.
"A day laborer used TO get 200 cash
. day, and now he receives 100.
Prices Of meat, vegetables, etc. have
risen, but not that much. The price
Of rice has scarcely risen at al (good
crops and no way Of getting II out).
Cloth and other things from outside
are paid for on . dollar basis. The
Mexican dollar Is used and American
gold exchange brings premium OF
Is cents on the dollar"
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ducah, ky.ss About half way in this
G00-mle course at the toe of the
curve, the river makes it's principal
plunge from the level Of the hills to
the lowlands. 1t drops 1874 feet in
81 miles.
Rich Mineral Region
This stretch Of rushing. shallow
river is Muscle Shoals. 1t is almost
in the center of quadrangle cor
nering on Memphis, Birmingham,
Chattanooga and Nashville. 1t has
open waterway to the Gulf Of Mexi-
co and lies in the bosom of one of
the richest mineral regions on earth.
1t was fought over repeatedly in the
Civil War, and history tells Of a big
federal cavalry detachment, hot in
pursuit OR Forrest, which forded the
river at the shoals and carpeted the
stream with horseshoes pulled off on
the rocky bottom.
Muscle Shoals once was simply
barrier to navigation and a nui-
sance. Today it is one Of the fairest
of prizes for hydro-electric power
exploitation and the promise of mar.
velous industrial prosperity.
There was an Indian legend that
beneath the rapids, bound by the
/ river. was a beautiful waterspite
/ Some day, said the medicine man, 5;
| magician in human form woule
stretch forth his wand and the sweet
captive would rise from the river.
thrall to ioin her lover in the air
Propagandists Of Muscle Shoals de
velopment will agree loudly that thu
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23

Championship lawn tennis recently
was played by artificial tight for the
first time at Queens Club. London.
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j. A. STILLMAN
SETS UP TRUST
FUND FOR SON
BCy and His Mother, Mrs
Florence Leeds, Adequate.
ly Provided For

New York. Feb. 23.-lN-James A.
Stillman, banker. now in Paris with
his wife, has established a substAn-
tial trust fund for Jay Ward Leeds,
his eight-year-old son, whose mother
is Mrs. Florence H. Leeds.
William NJ. Sullivan. attorney for
the banker, admitted today that the
fund had been established last Novem-
Der. The exact figures were with
held. Mr.. Sullivan declined to con-
firm or deny that the fund was for
$4,000 u year. until the boy is 81
with a principal Of $l5O,O0O upon his
coming Of age. Mrs. Leeds also will
be taken care of adequately.
Establishment of the fund was VOL
untary on Mr.. Stillman's part, Mr..
Sullivan said. There were no threats
Of legal action by Mrs. Leeds.
In the divorce proceedings brought
by Mr.. Stillman in 1922, Mrs. Still
man charged that he was the father
of Mrs. Leeds two children, one OF
whom died.
Mr.. Sti.lman lost his suit, and a
referee upheld Mrs. Stillman's con-
tentions regarding Mrs. Leeds.
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MUSCLE SHOALS, THAT TAXED THE
INDIANS Drawn, IDEAL OF AN
EXPLORERS DREAM $50 YEARS AGO

EDITORS Note Congress is fight
ing out the big issues Of Muscle
Shoals, a government hydro-electrlc
power investment Of $50, 900 600.
How shall this huge power. plant,
err, be administered? BY the federal
government? Or by private capital,
under long lease? And to what
uses shall the plant be put? The
Tribune publishes herewith the first
of a series Of three stories by George
Britt, written after 4 careful survey
Of conditions at Muscle Shoals. These
articles tell Of the romantic story of
building this gigantic set of harness
on the Tennessee river, Of the great
engineering problems conquered, and
throws some light on the present
status of the project.)
BY GEORGE BRITT
Especial Correspondent
Washington, Feb. 23.--The Cnero-
kee Indians gave the name Muscle
Shoals to the rapids of the Tennessee
river because it took a lot of muscle
to push canoe upstream at that
point.
Well they might complain at its
being tough pull, for they we're
torrent which at flood stage rei,e-
sented nearly million horsepower.
The Tennessee river. forming in
the Appalachian highlands neal
Knoxville, swings south in horse
shoe curve into Alabama and north
again to empty into the Ohio at Pa
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23
RECORDS SHOW
VETS SHIN E
IN SOUTHLAND
Wilbur Good, Big League Star
Dozen Years Back, Led
in Hitting

Atlanta, Feb. 23.-Poncc de Leon
evidently got off his course when he
landed in Florida in his search for
the fountain Of eternal youth.
Instead he should have struck the
coast Of the Atlantic several hundred
miles north of St. Augustine and then
struck due west, journey which
would have brought him to Atlanta.
Keeping on with his wanderings in
land and turning thence southwark
to the Gulf. he might have found still
more fountains in which bath would
guarantee youth and vigOr.
The Leading Hitter
For instance. the playing averages
of the Southern League. recently is
sued, show that the leading hitter of
the league in 1925 was J. Wilbur
Good. He was so full of energy and
verve that he played in no less than
1853 games and halted for $40 with
the Atlanta team, whereby he beat
out by several positions that other
venerable adjunct Of baseball. ]. Car
Isle Smith, who had led the league
in hitting the year before. Good was
a big Lacquer Is years back.
And then, turning over to the
, nitc.hing records of the Southern, who
do we find listed in the 10 most ef.
fective pitchers? They are led by
Vean Gregg, 4O-year-old exponent OF
left-handing; he is followed b,
| "Rube" Robinson, who is even cider
and, then comes Hugh Redient, who
was seasoned star when Boston
played in worlds series in 1912. OF
some Is years ago.
!, Best Pitchers
And, in the first 10 best pitchers
occurs the name Of Jim Bagby ane
that of Guy Morton, and Jim Scott
who was q competent pitcher SO IA
back in the game that it must have
!; been about the time the American
! League was declaring its majority. ;,
But the vets do not carry OFT 81
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SUBSTITUTE
FOR VOLSTEAD
ACT is ASKED
MOdilicd Prohibition System.
I,egalizing Wine and Beer.
Is Wanted

WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.--t4),- sub .
stitution of modified prohibition
system. legalizing light wine and
beer. for the present Nolstead act IS
10 be asked Of congress.
Recommendations incorporating
sentiment expressed at the second
"face the facts" conference conclud- !
ed last night by the association
against prohibition amendment, w'!i
be drawn and presented to congress
by committee Of Il prominent per
sons selected bv the conference. nc
committee was appointed after num-
bers of speakers, including members
Of congress and men, and women well
known in business and club life ana
the clergy, condemned prohibition
under the Volstead law as failure.
COMPRISING the committee are
Senator's Bayard, Delaware ana
Broussard, Louisiana. Democrats,
Representative, Hin, Republican,
Maryland. Benedict Crowcll, Oh
Cleveland, former assistant secretary
Of war; James Duncan. first VIC"
president Of the A. +. q. L.; l.. ).
Dupont. Wilmington Del; VIM. +.
Emo, Washington: +. Franklin, wash
ington. DR.. julius Friedenwald, Bal
timorc; Archibald Hopkins, Washing
ton; Rupert Hughes, the novelist;
J. N. p. Murphy, New York; Henry
s. Priest; ST. Louis; Charles ).
Rockmann, Boston; Charles I. Stout,
New York; VIM. NJ. Sloane, Prince
ton. n. j.; DIR. J. J. Seelman. Milwau-
kee: NJ. o. Terry, Coronado. Calf:
Augustus Thomas, New York: Calvert
Townlcv. New York. and Il. +. Wood,
Philadelphia.
Beer Receipt Read
The conference, after hearing al
afternoon and night sessions repeat
ed demands for rewriting oil the
prohibition laws, concluded after the
George Washington beer receipt was
read bv Representative Hill. The
formula had been given to the dele
gates on menus ut the afternoon
,nncneon. after William S. Siayton,
National chairman Of the assora-
ton had tailed To receive from the
department Of justice ruling ne re-
auestcd as to the legality Of making
it public.
MIR. Hill, who was toastmastcr ad
yised the delegates that II ans o.
them feared that by taking home :;
COPY of the receipt he would be Vio
laLlnE the law, tncn inc sctie't
of agriculture is equally guilty 10
having printed receipt for unier
mented grape juice Concerning th'
beer formula. MIR. Hill said Georg
Washington was not small bottle
mamie made 80 gallons ut time.
Three New Jersey congressman
Present
New Jersey. known as one OF th'
..wet" states, was well represented u
the conference, having three member
of congress present. They were Sen
ators Edwards, Democrat, and Eds.
Republican. and Representative Mar
r. Norton, Democrat. Senator Ed
wards, principal speaker at the III
tcrnoon session. declared the publ
was "rcaay and willing to follow on
leadership in behalf of modified pro
hibition." while his senatorial col
league ut the later meeting said tn
drive of the modificationists wa
mot Il campaign for booze hut rath
or 4 practical effort for temperance
unohservable today
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23
BENCH MUDDY
RUEL, YEARS
BEST JOKE
Washington Senator'S Star
Backst0p Has a Most Re-
markable Record

Chicago, Feb. 23.--Clark Griffith
probably was misquoted, or misun-
derstood, when he was made to say in
a newspaper dispatch that he would
bench Muddy Ruel the coming season.
along with Roger Peckinpaugh.
What the head of the Washington
club meant, doubtless, was that Ruel
wouldn't be called on to wear him.
self out catching practically every
game the champions play.
For Ruel is far from the Affections
of age that beset men like Peckin-
paugh, and others, on the Washing
ton team. Albeit he is rather deli
cate Of mold for such steady catch
ing as has been imposed upon him.
However. he has borne up as
lighter built backstops often do to
confound the dope. wherein he is as
notable an exception as is Ray
Schalk of the Chicago White Sox.
Ruel hardly will reach the record
made by Schalk for durability and
effective work, but he will come
about as near it as any catcher in
modern day baseball.
Always a Hard Worker
lie was a glutton for work before
he got into the major league circle
and he never has spared himsel,
since. As youngster from the st
Louis lots he went to Memphis il
1916 and caught l05 games in tina
climate; the next year he caught 1873
which were about all Memphis played
He went into service in the wa
period of 1918, and then in 1919 h
became a Yankee. He caught 8
games that year as a recruit, caugh
81 the next year and then started
durability record.
In 1921, having been traded to Bos
ton, he caught 113 games for the Re
Sox; handled 1l6 in 1922 and the
he went to Washington, where h
amazed the critics by the way, slief
as is his build, by the ease with whic
he handled Walter Johns0n's tcrrifi
speed.
He caught 1856 games for Washing
ton in 1928; in 1924 he helped tn
Senators to pennant by catchin
ali sorts Of pitching in LAT game
Last year he caught l2G games *
the tWo-time champions OF the Anne
lean League.
Bench him now for Tate or SIEVE
cid or any other backstop? Gri
must have been misquoted or havir
4 nightmare.
Ruel won't reach the 3O-maTk
are until February 20 Of this yes
He's as sound rs dollar and ~ fu
Of pep and ambition a. > couple
ID wildcats.
Nohody's going 10 take MUDDY
3ob ~ regular catcher Of ~ Was
inKf0n team away from him for sor
| time yet g least nothiAg n stg
- ~ Senators.
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the honors. Several young stars. who
are TO get major league trials, show
up prominently. Among them Is Toll
son, the Nashville first basemsn;
Jeanes, who is back in the big show
for q second trial; Buddy Mycr, who
hopes to take Peckinpaugh's job with
Washington, and Leroy Jones. who
also will get trial with the Sena-
tors.
All in all, however. the prominent
PLAYERS in the Southern League the
last season were men whose names
, have been familiar to the fan for 60
inc on 10 or 20 years.
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spirit Of the rapids just now is be-
ing freed and that she will scatter
grateful favors upon mankind. The
glad day has been long enough COM
ing, anyhow
The Explorers Story
Back about 100 years ago an old
explorer by the name Of William
latham wrote the governor 0f-Vir-
ginia that the shoals were natures
masterpiece for an immense and
powerful city" Florence, Sheffield
and other somnolent towns grew up
on the banks, but the prophecy still
seemed fantastic. Canals were OPP
ened in 1886, and again in 1890.
General Goethals, builder Of the Pam
anna canal, engineered the latter
canal. But neither venture amount
ed to much, because boats could get
by the rapids only when high water
flushed the canals.
Realization of the sites value for
waterpower came about 20 years ago.
Army engineers made a survey in
1907, and boom development began to
shoulder.
Wartime emergency brought ac-
ton. Munition factories needed nj
trio acid for explosives. President
Wilson ended a deadlock as to the
site by deciding in September, 1917,
upon Muscle Shoals. Work started
on the big dam which was to pro-
duce waterpower. It was realized
that this would be a five-year pro-
! ject, however, and two nitrate fac
tories were built to operate by steam
power until the hydro-electric gen.
orators should take up the burden.
This was the beginning Of the
great work on which the government
was to spend about $1O0,000,00O for
the nitrate plants and $50,O0O,O00 on
dam and electric generating equip.
ment. It's immediate object was to
turn out munitions. One Of the
| plants produced its first nitrate two
weeks before the armistice; the 9th
err, on the day after. Then followed
months of uncertainty, during which
it appeared that the way to salvage
the works was to manufacture fer
tilizer. Now opinion has shifted un.
til it seems clear that the signifi-
canoe of Muscle Shoals is tremend
ously and almost entirely in tn.
realm Of hydro-electric power.
! Mighty Wilson Dan
The Wilson dam, nightiest dam il
the world. today is virtually com
plete. Four generators began grind
ing out electricity last fall, produc.
ing about 10000 horsepower, which
is being distributed temporarily b,
the Alabama Power Company. -Four
other generators, to bring the tota
present installation up to a capacit!
of 268,0 horsepower. will be com
pleted this spring.
The entire full-power capacity o
the shoals is estimated at 100000 t
100000 horsepower. At the loves
/ low-water stage it is not expected t
drop below 100000 horsepower.
This power, it is estimated, can b
produced by the government at
cost of only 2.3 mills per kilowat
hour. It can be delivered to manu-
faeturers and individual customer
for s cents per kilowatt hour. Thi
is comparison with the prevailin
rate throughout the south Of frol
to 20 cents per kilowatt hour
This great power can be used to cas-
the burdens Of 15,OO0,OOO peopl,
scattered within q radius Of coo mile
OF the shoals. ~
Just how TO go about this .distri
button is what is perplexing Cor
gress right now.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23
Many Cases Of
Grippe Reported
in Bismarck
Local People Urged to Use
Vigorous Measures to Com.
bat Further Spread Of Deep
Grippy Colds.
PNEUMONIA CHIEF
DANGER !,
Grippe Attacks Weaken Body's Re.
sistance to Germs of Pneumonia
ALI Colds Should be Treated
Promptly.

Deep grippy colds have been unus-
ually prevalent here this winter. The
situation is fairly general through
out the States. In some sections
these colds are called '.influenza,"
but the majority of health officers
report that they are much mildcr
than the original epidemic and re-
semble more closely the old-fashioned
IL grippe. They are usually accom-
panied by headache or achy feeling
over the body, running Of the nose"
sneezing and frequently by gastric,
and intestinal complications such as,
''hiccoughs. nausea. diarrhea. etc.
Colds are too often neglected until
they have lowered the vitality SUI
ficiently to permit the lurking germs.
which cause pneumonia. bronchitis
and influenza to attack the body.
Don't Take Chances
The only safe plan is to attack .
cold right at the beginning. A hot
foot bath, laxative, . sweat and .
Rub at bedtime over throat and chest
will often break up q cold overnight.
For hours after Vicks is applied
! the vapors Of camphor, menthol, eu-
calyptus. thyme and turpentine. re-
leased as vapors by the body heat.
are inhaled directly into the infected
air passages. At the same time 1t
warns and stimulates the skin like a
poulticc, drawing out" the soreness
and pain.
It is an obstinate cold indeed that
can resist this direct, double action.
/ Vicks vspor Steam
.If the air passages are badly
stopped mp, try the "teakettle and
tent treatment. This mcthod-tully
explained In the directions-conststs
briefly, OF vaporizine Vicks in > ter.
kettle and arranging newspaper
"tent" over the patients head 10 that
the combined warm steam and medi.
; Gated vapors can be inhaled,
1 Mothers especially Appreciatc vlekl
for the frequent colds Of cAiIdrpns d
tit can Aesusad freely and often, With
1 out disturbing the aiGSstion-yot
"just sxnhs st on.s QySr q nai4ioS
jars sfs used yearly. ~ s Adv
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body buys . cor the whole commu-
nifty benefits. The man who owns and
drives . car 10 Q better workman, mer-
chant, professional man. neighbpr,
friend. and citizen than the man who
does not.
"Any man makes more money.
spends more money and has more fun
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after he gets car than he did be-
fore.
conservative folks used TO- look
upon Z poor man who bought car as
an unmitigated wastret : Now the
acquisition Of car is an exhibition
of good sense, progress and achieve
ment."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23
HAIR TURNED -RED

Maryleb0ne, EnR-Fanny Curry, Q
dancing instructress, has made com
plsint TINT her dark hair became
brilliant red instead Of listed after
the application Of dissolved henna
powder.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-23
Everybody Should
Boost Motor Car
Sales, Says Lair

Every new motorist means q bet
ter town." says w. E. Lahr OF the
Lair Motor Sales Co. whenever any.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-11

Representative Louis A. F'rothingham
president: Mr.. George A. Herman. sec.
rotary: Miss Harriet NJ Cheney. treas
urer. and Mr.. Frederick w. Carmen.
;er. chairman of the executive com.
mittee. Miss May Murray and Rep
roSentative Charles l.. Underhill were
added to the executive committee
the other members being Miss Ellen
{. Lombard. Representative Charles L.
Clifford, Mr.. Albert Michaud and Mr..
w. 4. Gavin. A new membership
committee was. appointed. consisting
OF Maj. Frederic w keoush, chair
man: Miss Marion Kendall Miss
Eleanor Carleton, Mr.. James j. Hart
and Mr. ID. j. Johnson.
Mrs. Anthony WAYNE Cook. presi.
dent general Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, will be hostess
at dinner Thursday at Memorial
continental Han in honor of Mrs,
John T. sherman, president of the
''"Hefal Federation Of Women'S clubs
ana the members Of the Nationa |
EoHrd of the General Federation. To
meet the honor guest Mrs. Cook ha s
asked group Of distinguished WON.
on. including the presidents of vari.
Gus national and local civic and edu.
'alional orga nization
Assisting Mrs. Cook in the reception
of the guests and funCtioninc as as.
Slstant hoStesSeS AT the able will be
the members Of the National Boa rd
of Management Of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution
This dinner is one of series Of
delightful and brilliant entertain
ments which Mrs. Cook is giving in
The beautiful banquet room Of Me
mortal Continental Hall, first put into