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Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
SCHOOL, TEETH

A taxpayers brought suit recently--in supposedly
enlightened community too-to stop the school board
from paying for dental inspection and care in the pub
JIG schools The high light of the suit was the testl-
mony of school principal to this effect:
She found an Improvement of 99.8 per cent in the
mental ability of school children who were taught to
take care of their teeth The percentage arrived
AT bv painstakng observation and checking OF their
work before and after the dental instruction.
Call it 100 per cent Improvement Or call 1t nail
that much if YOU like If it will effect only 70 per
cent Improvement or only 10 per cent, in the mental
keeness and studous accomplishment of the pupils
such work is we'll worth paying for. Still more val
liable possibly is the better morale that is likely to
GO with a clean well kept outfit Of teeth
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD r. GARIS
Copyright. 1926, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY IN A DARK
HOLE

Perhaps YOU may remember how
| told YOU, in story last week,
about Uncle Wiggily S secret closet
beneath the stairs in his hollow
stump bungalow. From that closet
YOU know. the little bunny boys and
girls. including Baby Bunty, were
told to keep away.
"And YOU always must do what
mother and daddy say, declared
Jingle, little rabbit girl.
"Most specially around Christ
mas time, said Jangle, her sister.
So, though from his secret closet
at times, came noises, not one
of the little bunnics would SO much
as try to peer through the keyhole
nor would they even stand very
close to the door.
What did il matter if, sometimes,
there sounded the rattle and rustic
of paper from the closet.
1T is only Nurse Jane putting
away some scraps : Toote- would
say.
What matter II, sometimes, thore
came from the secret closet the clai'
ter, whizz and click as if play toys
were being wound up and tried to
sec how they ran-engines, motors,
tops. ships, toy automobiles and
the like of that-what matter
1t is ONLY the squeaking and
creaking of the hinges on the door
Of the secret closet, - Scooter would
say to his brothers. Then the little
boy rabbit would take hold of his
own ears and lead himself away
from the closet and the other bunny
BOYS did the same.
And as the days passed aud
Christmas came nearer and nearer
more noises seemed to come from
the secre.. dark closet under the
bungalow stairs.
But we must keep away from
it. we must not 60 near il, We must
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Dec. 21, 1911

DSC. Il, lSl1
After many months Of weary
waiting, FL Centre has received
word that work on the new post
office will be started April /. The
building will be 25Xl0O feet in size.
}. T. Douglas of Los Angeles IS TO
build the building and the govern
ment will rent from him at $1,000
4 year.
Miss Fern Campbell, a student at
Pomona College. has returned from
that place TO spend the holidays
with her father and mother, Nj and
Mrs. y. q. Campbell
Miss Julia Conkling is expected
home from Stanford university to
spend Christmas with her parents,
NJ. and Mrs. NJ. W. Coakling.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
TEN YEARS AGO
Dec, 21. 1916


Two candidates for the office OF
district assessor announced their in
tentiOn of entering the ring today.
One was William Hodge Of the Mes,
quite Lake district and the oth6r !.
u. McGary of this city This brings
the total numbcr UP to three, John
>. Loofborough already having an,
nounced his candidacy,
L. }. Thomas, president Of thc
Farmers and Merchants bank Of I'm
perial, was a visitor in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. }. Il. Graham return,
cd from a visit to Los Angeles.
\ front page advertisement in the
FL Centre Progress suggests, MAXI
Your Child a Christmas Present Of
a Calipatria Lot
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

Co. started the price boosts, AT
nouncing a two cent per gallon in
crease for Southern California and
VARYING Increases in other sections
of the coast.
Associated and Richficld have al
ready copied the increase, and other
oil companies were expected to fol
low suit
The new price to the motorist
here was IS II cents. including the
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
4 BILLION CHRISTMAS CARDS

Something like billion greeting cards are expected
TO change hands in the next two weeks. Every kind
of card will be in the mail, from the simplest little
printed affair at two three cents to hand painted
or individually designed cards and etchngs and copies
of famous paintings, selling as high $50.
Once in a while some one is moved to ask what it S
ali about Certainly it helps to make the postnens
life harder one month every year. 1t is also an un
pleasant but pabe fact that good many reel
pents of these cards glance at the of the send
ers feel pleased a moment and then throw the cards
into the nearest wastebasket.
However, the greeting card industry has become
big one and the popular demand for It's product SHOWS
no weakening If it really adds to true Christmas
10y and good WILL then is probably worth the s1o,-
600 900 at which it is now estimated.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
Tuesday, December Il, 1926

news early this morning VIII
toners were informed that g
at the service stations woul
Il 1-2 cents, tax included.
field followed suit later on
day. Pan American, AssC
stated that while they expect
ccive instructions of a price
that none had been rcceiv
time of going to press. In Il
lihood these viii FOLLOW suit
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

Quoting Chinese sage, Bruce Barton writes: 1T IS
better to wigge ones tail in the mud than to have
brass effigy of one stuck up in the Hall OF Fame
That's what the dinosaurs thought when they ruled the
earth: and where are they now?
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

Either Ferdinand is royal fourflusher, Marie
is more of wonderworker than she's been given
credit for. She had to rush home because he was
dying and then he went and met her at the station.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

They've just been celebrating the centenary of
of vaudeville But vaudeville shows can't be really 100
wears old. They only seem that old.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
Auto Owners Get
mice Present" ;"
Nv United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, Dec. 2l.-Gaso
line increased from one to two cents
per gallon at most Pacific coast
filling stations today. Standard Oil
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

The United States is planning to spend S70O0O,0o0
irrigating arid lands Ontario is planning to that
much irrgating arid Americans
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21
CHARGE CAPTAIN
OF DEATH BOAT
WITH HOMICIDE

NEW YORK, Dcc. u. Captain
John Rohwcdcr, 20, was undor arrest
here today on u technical cbargc oi
homicide and negligence 'r aoanrc-
tion with the sinking ycsJrrlay Of
The launch Linsced King, and the
drowning Of at least % laborcrs in
the icy waters Of the Hudson.
He will be arraigned in homicide
court later in the day if he is able 10
leave the hospital, where he Was sur
fcring from submersion.
The development Of pneumonia
WAS feared The guard was pl.ccr
over him at the hospital last might.
The young captain, VINO jumped
from the launch before it plunged,
then swan to shore, denied that the
boat had more than so persons on
board but some OF the Survivors
paced the number AS high as lJO.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

state tax Of two cents gallon.
The Automobile Club of southern
California announced that the two
cent increase meant &9,00C0o0 moro
annually TO the oil territories from
this territory alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

In conformity with the price
boost at other points, the local
branch of the Standard as well rs
the Shell company broke the glad
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-21

The use Of less irrigating water
in a trial plot by the Orange eoun-
ty farm advisor brought great I'M
pro, cment to the orange trees.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-07-02
NOTICE OF HEARING or SALE
OF COUNTY PROPERTY

Notice ], hcrehy given, thai DE
Board Of County Commissi aees OF
King County Washaleto wilI
meet IN their rooms in tie King
County Court House, seatDE
Washington, on the 2nd day 8
August, 1926. at the hou1 II ten
o clock n. m, for tile purpose Of
hearing and determining The ad
visibility OF selling the following
described property;-
The So Of NEH Of NEA Of
SEA Of Section %, Township %
4 2, containing 5 acres more OF
less"
4 hearing viii be granted tl
persons Interested
Dated at Seattle, Washington
This 18th day Of June, 1926.
Board Of County Commissioner,
OF King County, State of Wash
iagton
y r. Ferguson, Clerk oflBoa-d
BY G. F Gage Deputy
90 6-7-30-20
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-07-02
ROBERT D. HAAILlN, Attorney
9O5-900 Arctic Bldg, Seattle, Wn

In the Superior Court Of the
State Of Washington for KING
County
No. 1882. Summons by Pub
LEGATION.
Mary Bernard, Plaintiff, VS.
Andrew l. Bernard, Defendant
The State of Washington
To Andrew Bernard, Defendant
You are hereby summoned to
appear within sixty (60) days af.
ter the date of the first publica
ton Of this summons, to-wit with.
in ixty l60i days after the III
day Of june, 1926, and defend tl
above entitled action in tbe ahog,
entitled court. and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff and
serve copy of your answer upon
the undersigned attorney f1r iht
plaintiff at his address below
stated, and in case of yout failur.
So to do, judgment viii he render
al against you according to th,
demand of ihe complaint which
mas been filed with the clerk OF
said court.
The object of said action j, d
obtain Judgment of said court
granting 4 divorce To- ihe plaintiff
from You upon the ground of non
support aud failure TO make suit
able provision for the support o.
ymr family.
Robert %. Hamlin. Attorney fen
plnutiff Office and Post OF
flee Address. sos 900 Arctic
Buldiug, Semitic. King County
Washington
6-1l-26-7-16-26
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-07-02
ALIEN STEWART, ATTORNEY
sos Arctic Building, Seattle, Wn.

In the Superior Court of the
State OF Washington, for King
County (In Probate)
Notice to Creditors No. 39S37.
In the Matter of the Estate OF
Addie Thompson, Deceased
Notice is'hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed
and has qualified as administrator
Of the estate Of Addie Thompson,
Deceased; that all persons having
claims against said deceased are
hereby required to serve same,
duly verified, ON said Alex NJ
Stewart, administrator or his at
torney Of record at the address
below stated, and file the anne with
the Clerk OF said Court, together
with proof of such service with
in six months after the date of
first publication of this notice, on
same will be barred
Alex NJ. Stewart Administrator OF
said Estate. Address Portage,
Wash,
Alex Stewart, Attorney for Estate,
500 Arctic Building, Seattle.
Wash.
7-2-26-7-16-26
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-07-02

The News-Record is printing
more classifieds ads. each week.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-07-02
NOTICE OF SALE OF STATE
TIDE LANDS


NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN.
That on Tuesday. the 9th day OF
july 1926, commencing at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon of said
day. in front of the main entrance
door to the County Court House
in the city of Seattle. county OF
King. State of Washington, by
the County Auditor of said eoun-
tv. the following described state
tide lands. together with The i'm
provements situated thereon will
be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder therefor, to wit:
NOTE-No one except citizens of
the United States. or persons who
have declared their intention to
become such. can purchase state
lands.
AnnIic,t;o, No sam
An tida lands of the secoud
class owned hv tbc State az wish
inoton 1,,inn hety eon +be limo of
mean low tide and tba line Of OK
trema low ida and in front II
LOT 4 SECTION % townshin D
north range cast NJ
NJ with frontaoa of
9114 linaal chains more ar los.
maarnrad along tbe meandor limo
accord;ng N . cort;fiad conv of tbe
govern,nent fold notes Of Tho chr
Tav thereof on file in tbe office
Of tba Cnmmissioner Of Pnblic
T'ands AZ Olym,,;o Wasb;ngtcn
annra;sod ~ & M no,. linoal oSsiu
or e1o5 N
SD lands viii bo sold for moi
loss than tbo onnraisod yoJ,1e
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and conditiops forlauino.
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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-07-02
ALEX STEWART, ATTORNEY
9C9 Arctic Building, Seattle. Wn.

n ~ u....:
IN 'he superior Court OF tlie
state OF ~, W 4snlngton, Tor hlae
County (iu Probate
Notlee 10 Creditors NO. 39So3.
~ tNe Matier OF inc Estate o.
iattich MlCorlnick, deceased
Sol'ee IS herepy gwen 'hat lhe
UNDERSIGNED IN mas been appointej
aad mas Qualified a Administrator
II the estate OF Patrick Nc
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
THE TAX QUESTION

TREASURY department estimates
American people will pay for
all kinds of taxes, direct and in
direct, the round sum of 10 billion
dollars in the current fiscal year.
This means that about 81 out of
every 81 of the national income
goes for support of various forms
of government-federal, state, mu-
nicipal and county.
The tax burden cannot go on in
creasing. 1t is doubtful whether it
can be maintained at the present
rate without serious consequences.
Federal taxes are being pared
from every angle and it is now up
to states, counties and cities to
follow the xample-Arizona Ga
zette.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
THE READING HABIT

TT HAS commonly been said that
= the American people are so busy
with various excitements that they
have no time for reading. They
are supposed to be spending so
much time chasing around in au-
tomobiles, attending dances, movies
theatres, ball games, etc, and list
ening to their radios, that they
have no time left for books, news
papers, and magazines.
Yet we read some days ago that
the sales of books in Chicago for
the last six months of 1925 beat all
records. Also the Chicago public
library increased it's circulation
0,000 copies last year The news
papers commonly report increased
circulations. Magazine literature is
fiourishing. 1t looks as if the peo-
pie were finding little time in
which to read, in spite of all their
distractions.
We are beginning to get the first
results Of enlarged education.
Since the war, many more young
people are going through high
schools than formerly, and many
more are going to colleges and
such higher institutions of learn
ing These people, when they come
out, are not going to be satisfied
unless they know something about
what is going on in the world
A large part of the book circu-
lation of course, consists of rath-
er light novels. But even the per-
son who reads a frivolous story of
adventure may have gone up a step
from the one who never used to
read at all. Many of the people
formerly never read because they
could not take in ideas through
their somewhat thick heads. When
a person gets to the point where
he reads easily, he is going to fol-
low the newspapers pretty closely.
Thus popular intelligence is
steadily increasing Twenty years
from now, when a whole genera
i ton has had this advantage of en-
larged schooling, the difference
will be enormous. Ideas that up
to now have encountered invince-
ible obstacles, will be accomplish
ed without serious difficulties.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
THE INEVITABLE HAPPENS

CECRETARY of the Interior HUI
bert Work has given his ap-
proval to the Boulder Canyon dam
project and has suggested that
since Arizona has declined to rati
fly the Santa Fe compact, the state
and all it's citizens be deprived of
any rights under the dam.
One of the very poorest nd~least
consequential things that can be
said is 81 told you so,'' but occas-
ionally there is nothing else to say
and this is one of the occasions.
This paper has, for. years, insisted
that Arizona was simply putting
itself out of the running by its
action in the matter of ratification
of the river compact and that when
the time came, the federal govern
ment would proceed as it pleased
and without the slightest reference
to us. That time seems to have
come.
We had our chance and we have
lost it.
This paper has not changed its
opinion a particle; it still believes
that the rational development of
the river should have begun with
the building of the Glen Canyon
dam, at the head of the drop thru
the Grand Canyon, rather than at
Boulder Canyon, but we were pre-
cluded even from stating our
wishes by our suicidal policy in
refusing to ratify the compact. The
entire state is being punished
is exactly the right word-fOr the
asinine folly and stupidity of the
administration. California will now
reap the benefits that belong of
right to Arizona and we are left
completely in the cold. Boulder
Canyon dam will be built; the pow
er will be distributed throughout
California; water for city use and
irrigation will be diverted to Cali
fornia-and Arizona will have the
satisfaction of knowing that she
has been beautifully trimmed.
We will now, perhaps, have an
opportunity of seeing the value OF
the Opinions" that have been pub
1ished as to the states alleged
rights in an interstate stream-and
those rights will probably prove
to be all wrongs" 1t is too bad,
but we are simply paying the price
for a colossal mistake-Verde Cop
per News.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
NAMES IS NAMES

n L. GIRAGI is the new editor
of the Winslow Mail, but don't
get the idea he is a dead one"
because he comes from that mis-
named town of Tombstone, where
he and his brothers run the Epi-
taph. Names are deceiving in this
country
Old timers were perverse in their
methods. Once we clambered up
a steep, rocky cliff to spring
called Hot Spring" with a ranger.
1t was cold, clear spring water,
and when we asked how come il
got such a name, Jerry said: "Oh,
because a feller gifts all het up get
ting to it." That's the way it goes.
If man is long, lank, lean and
bald at the top they may call him
"Timberline, to show he has
grown through his hair, as noun
tains often shove up above the
timbered belt surrounding. If one
happens to look like a Berkshire
pork with the mumps, he may be
gleefully called skinny" Shorty"
is a favorite name too, but not be-
cause of his financial condition.
He NAV have a roll and q diSDOsi-
tiOn that would make a jackrabbit
fuss with a bulldog.
Just as a recommendation we
might suggest that a Tombstone
makes many think of a truthful
"Epitaph" they would like to have
written there to commemorate their
brief span here.-Coconino Sum-
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
COMPLETE 1T ANYWAY

HERETOFORE taxpayers have
been urged to file their income
tax returns early. The filing of
returns this year is delayed pend
ing the enactment of the new rev.
enue act now before the senate,
which, as it passed the house, con-
tains changes in regard to rates
and other features. However, there
is nothing to prevent a taxpayer
at this time from closing his books
and computing his net income.
Such computations will not be af-
fected by any provisions of the new
act. The actual preparation of the
return itself, after the computation
requires, in majority of cases,
but a few minutes. Therefore, it
is advised that all figures and data
be assembled, pending receipt Of
blanks by taxpayers. When re-
leased, blanks will be sent to tax
payers and also may be obtained
at the office of Collector John r.
TOwles. at Phoenix, Arizona
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
Activity Begins Early
By Ceremonial Assn.
For 1926 Celebration

GALLUP - Work has already
started on the plans for the Inter
Tribal Indian Ceremonial, the an
nual, all-Indian ceremony celebrat
ed here each summer, in which ten
thousand members of the thirty
five tribes of the southwest parti-
cipate Growth of the celebration
during it's four years of existence
necessitates the completion of mi
tial arrangements earlier than
heretofore. The program of events
will be fully made up by early sum-
mer.
Charles P. Mason, former editor
of the Mail, Winslow, Arizona, has
been elected secretary of the Inter
Tribal Ceremonial association for
the coming year and this week
opened the associations office here.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

To say that Bolshevik Russia has
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
ROAD CONTRACTS
ARE AWARDED BY
STATE ENGINEER

Contracts for the construction Of
eight miles of highway east of Solo
monville on the Safford-New Mexi-
co line road and one mile of paw
ing in the city of Globe and the
erection of an overpass on the
Ashfork-Prescott road at Drake
were awarded this week by the
state highway department, accord
ing to an announcement made by
w. c. Lefebvre, state engineer.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

A farmer of Tonkawa, Oklahoma,
who few years ago had to bor-
row SIS with which to buy farm
implements, is now receiving ST.
100000 year in royalties from oil
wells on his land.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

A Winslow printer says he found
bed of petrified oysters. They
all look petrifed when the shells
are on them-Prescott Courier.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22

no men of strong brains is to be
foolish; but to say these brains
are used for the best interest of
Russia is to be ridiculous.
There was never time in his
tory when the outlook Of labor
was better than now. Labor and
capital are coming nearer together
now than ever before. Both are
realizing as never before that the
two are interdependent. Prosperi-
ty for one is prosperity for the
two. Adversely for one is adver-
sity for the two. Labor leaders,
and not labor agitators, is the
rule. Peace, and not war, is the
goal.
The Winslow mail., 1926-01-22
"HOT SHOTS"
(Written for The MailD
By "BOLSHEVIK" BILL

"The democrats and mongrels of
the opposition" is the way the
Times IL. Al classifies those whG
obstruct beneficial legislation and
tax reduction. A very colorful and
highly appropriate way of naming
the Opposition, but still one
would suppose there are yet num-
Der of staunch republicans who will
not like to see the democrats and
"mongrels" so closely associated.
Certainly the democrats will resent
it. Surely there are left some good
democrats in this country, but of
course the good in the mongrels
is so we'll hidden we seldom get a
chance to see it.
| has come to the attention of the
Los Angeles courts that certain
members of womens' clubs are US
ing their membership and their po-
spread the doctrine of Bolshevism
in the homes Of that fair city.
Some of these female propogaudists
have gone so far as to make re-
peated efforts to induce the clubs
to discontinue the salute of the flag
which is part of the ceremony
of the beginning of the meetings.
Truly, the female of the species is
more deadly than the male.
The Pennsylvania love-farm Of
Socialist Garland has a problem
on it's hands. They do not know
what to do with their crop of love
babies. A farm is usually identi-
fed with what it can, produce in
the way of corn and wheat and
such things. But this particular
farm produces only free-love and
unwanted babies. The farmers
are very fond of the love, but have
no liking for the babies which re-
suit from the love-making.
Now comes the sinologue, Le-
gendre, who says there is no "yel-
low race and never has been, but
that the so-called yellow people
are an admixture of whites and
blacks. However, this will prob
ably not lessen the yellow peril"
which the Kaiser and others have
been preaching about so lons.
To say that Bolshevik Russia has