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Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-04
CITY ELECTRICIAN
PRAISES CONDUIT
WIRING SYSTEM
Ell CentrO's Ordinance Is
Designed for Maximum
of Protection.

According to city ordinance No.
295, IAN electrical conductors in
stalled inside or outside of any
building within the City of FL Cen
tro, for the purpose of conducting
electricity must be enclosed in APP
proved rigid iron conduit, armored
cable or metal moulding.
Conduit wiring, according TO Il.
II. Mckibbin, superintendent Of the
water department and city electric
ian, is the safest method of wiring
up to date and is the method used
in all the large cities Of the coast.
With open wiring, if wire becomes
exposed, il can easily set fire to
any wood; but the conduit method,
even if wires do become exposed
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-04

should certainly clean m for APP
pcarauccs a> VIII as for fire pre-
Vcrtiou is his belief.
I'VE have. he stated. :" fire
zone where property is most valu-
able and congestcd, and in cas, of
fire, financial loss Is great. In
these zones certain classes Of build
;rgs are prohibited, as thew are
easily fired by trash. rubbish and
wooden sheds. Many sheds in this
zone are Of tin and not so hazard.
Gus, but they present poor APP
pcaranrc and therefore the city is
tlying to prevent tn" building Of
sheds except On rear 20 feet Of
lots. -
In addition. knights made the
following statements on the subject
of cleaning up Trash is Il men
ace to health and to property. The
cleaner property is, tn" better; not
only because trash is a menace, but
because any property, whether oc-
cupied or vacant, is worth more
ttfiE lEtH u.llN. - tFiN uD lt'
town j. to add to its value in every
way, even financially
Dirt Spoils Property
For example. one persons takes
rains and cXpends money to keep a
nice clean yard; the person next
may take no care of his property.
That one dirty lot can affect the
whole block, and the whole street
National clean up week is OBJ
served all over the country. Ii has
been observed for number of
years in connection with fire pre-.
vention and we wish to continue IT,
If people will collect their trash and
pile it near the street during this
week, the city win have trucks and
wagons out next Monday which
viii call and collect all trash. The
city council and all the city is in
tercsted in getting I'll Centre clean.
Cd up this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-04
KNIGHTS URGES.
CLEANING UP OF
CITY PROPERTY

Phillip w. knights, city cng-
neer, in an interview today stated
that fire prevention brings to mind
the thought of cleaning up. We
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-04

Kings county claims that its 1926
peach crop, in fresh and dried fruit
will bring $l,000,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-10-04

The crop on 80 acres Of Kadota
fig trees near Escal0n, San Joaquin
county, is being harvested.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
SHAWMUT

The Campfire Girls gave a Christ
mas party, Wednesday evening, to
the Sunday School The young
ladies prepared an entertainment
which was very entertaining and a
well-Iaden Christmas tree was much
enjoyed by all.
Leon Lord passed the week end
in Benton, the guest of his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Black
well.
William Cbatfield has returned to
Boston. where he has employment.
after passing Christmas with his
family,
Frederick Hicks passed Sunday in
Clinton, the guest of friends.
Mrs. Eleazer Emery and daughter
Edna, were Christmas guests of Mr..
Emery in Unity.
Mrs. Gladys Nichols is confined to
the house with severe cold.
Harold Durgin, who passed a few
days in Gardiner and vicinity, has
returned to his duties as operator
in the power plant.
Mrs. A. S. Burke, who has been
suffering from an attack of grippe
is somewhat improved.
Mrs. Maude Chase entertained as
Christmas guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert Bickford and children. of Fair
field and Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Wilson.
Mrs. Amos Priest has gone to
Portland for several weeks stay with
her sons and families.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Quincy have
moved into their new home which
they recently built.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
Dillon, Read & Co.
Reported in New
Financial Affair

New York, Dec. 31-(AP)-Dillon
Read & Co., bankers, who startled the
financial world with the purchase of
the Dodge Brothers interest, over the
DID of j. +. Morgan, are now reported
to have arranged another financial coup
in the purchase of large interests in
the National Cash Register Company.
Clarence Dillon. 43-year-old Texan
and head of the firm, which has come
into prominence only in the last de-
cade, has been conducting negotiations
involving between 100000 600 and s7O,-
100000 of securities and the deal is
expected to be consunmated this week.
Control of the cash register company
las been sought by many bankers
since the death in 1922 of John II. Pat
terson, it's founder. and the reported
acquirementof stock by Dillon, Read
&, Co. is regarded as second only to the
Dodge purchase in industrial financing.
The main office of the National Cash
Register Company is in Dayton, Ohio.
where it has % buildings and makes
100000 machines a year. 1t makes
about IS per cent. of the worlds cash
registers and does an annual business
of about $4O.o00,000.
Although Mr.. Dillon has been known
chiefly for the Dodge deal which in
volved $146.000,000, lie has handled
many financial undertakings noted for
their boldness and is one of the young
est bankers in New York. Among his
important deals were $4,000, 600 Bra
lillian loan, a Dutch loan of 50,000,0O0
euilders, a s50,000000 fotation of the
American & Foreign Power Co. and
underwriting of the s25,000.000 Ameri-
can Continental Corporation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
Claims Husband
Kind to Her Only Once
During Married Life

Chicago. Dec. 31.-(AP)-In the A
years of her married life, her s.
year old paralytic husbands one kind
act was to buy her ice cream once,
while John Walton Vim, former
convict, loved her and waited Is
years for him to die.
- This was the defense of Mrs. Eliza
Nusbaum, SO year old grandmother,
in confession, police say she MADE,
of plotting with Winn and three 9TH
ers, to kill her husband, Albert,
whose battered body was found yes
terday on a South Side prairie.
Internationally and without regret
the police said, Mrs. Nusbaum tolo
how she and VIM had planned for a
long time to kill her husband. after a
stroke of paralysis had failed to be
fatal.
Several months ago, she told the
police, she had persuaded her hus-
band to put title to his property,
valued at about $4,000, in joint
tenancy with her, so that it would
pass to her at his death.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01

il told. Where it originated / do not
know, but it is most admired in Ge-
neva.
1t is the story of an Englishmen,
Frenchman, a German, a Russian,
and a Pole all being asked to write
treatise about the elephant.
The Englishman got the suitable
hunting equipment. went to India.
and at the end of year came back
and wrote a book illustrated with
numerous photographs entitled, 1.-THE
Elephant, and How to Shoot Him."
The Frenchman went to the Jardin
des Plantes and observed the ele-
plant, made friends with his keeper,
asked him to lunch, and in six weeks
wrote Les Amours des Elephants"
The German studied all the books
written on the elephant and all the
documents, and then wrote a work
in three volumes entitled. IAN Intro
duction to the Study of the Ele-
plant"
The Russian went to his garnet,
consumed quantities of vodka and
many samovars of tea and produced
a small volume, 1.-THE Elephant
Does He Exist?''
The Pole aset to work and in six
weeks produced A pamphlet. THE
Elephant and the Polish Question. -
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
Half of Fall River
Textile Corporations
Passed Dividend in '25

Fall River. Mass, Dec. 31-(AP)-
AT least half of Fall Rivers textile
manufacturing corporations passed
their dividends in 1925, it was dis
closed today in a summary of Fall
River cotton manufacturing stocks
covering 81 corporations with an
aggregate capital of $4S,5s5, 900.
Five other companies, either pri-
vately owned or controlled by inter-
ests outside of the city, did not re-
port to the brokerage firm Of G. NJ.
Hatfards & Co., which compiled the
report.
OF the 81 reporting, u mills passed
their dividends. Payments of 81
192.250 We're made on capital stock
invested, net return of more than
five percent. This included, how
ever, two extra dividends, one of 20
percent. totalling s450,000 by the
King Philip Mills and another of
two percent totalling $4,000 by the
Pilgrim Mills. together with a Al
percent payment of $30,7O0 in the
distribution of the assets of the Te-
cumseh Mills. Deductions of these
items left net rate of of IA per-
cent.
The extra dividends declared We're
the first given by any Fall River
textile corporation since 1928, when
the King Philip mills paid % percent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01

city dweller, Il came as a surprise
to me to learn that the average
farmer does not look upon radio as
a means Of entertainment because
he does not have the time to sit in,
his rule being early to bed and
early to rise.
What appeals to the farmer is
the broadcasting Of weather, stock
and market reports. The stock and
market reports enable him to dis
pose of his products at the best
time, thus insuring a maximum
price. Getting this information
from day to day stops him from
shipping his produce in to a glutted
market.
During the long winter months
the farmer has more time for radio
as an entertainment because work
on most farms is light and confined
mostly to chores. A friend of mine
who owns and lives on a farm,
when asked why he did not have a
good radio set said, 81 did have one
but couldn't keep the women folks
at work, so got rid of it," Which
was new angle of looking at it.
dare say that any farmer who
owned radio set could pick up
Questions OF general Interest to
bY iF- Chapman, space permitting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
Indian Life Elevated
By Teaching New Ideas

Bismarck. n. D.. Dec. (AP)-
North Dakota's last frontier is fading
as the new generation of native In
dams is taught the habits and bene-
fits of the white mans life. Through
the Indian girls in the government
school here. of which Clark r. Dickin-
son is head, the uplift of the Indian
family is being attempted.
Substantial houses already have re-
placed the tepee as the home of In
dams living on North Dakota reser-
vations. A knowledge of sanitation
is helping to increase their life span,
said Mr.. Dickinson.
At the school, where 125 girls are
taught domestic science and house
hold arts in addition to subjects or
dinarily in The grade school cirricu-
lum. special emphasis is laid on those
things which the adult Indian needs
most to know about his living.
at is hard to induce the old time
Indian to sleep with windows open,
but we teach the girls here to do it,"
Dickinson declared. "Some of them
continue the practice after they have
returned to their own people.
"Of course the tendency IS for the
girls to fall back into the ways of
their people rather than for the old
folks to adopt the methods which the
white man has taught the new gen.
Grafton. Like white people they are
inclined to follow the line of least re-
sistance. But by persistent training
we will elevate them.
1.-THE Indian has come a long ways.
Imagine the plight of the white man IL
the civilization in which he had al
ways lived were obliterated and he
found himself forced to . meet the
conditions of an Indian civilization.
The white man has expected too
much of the Indian. | am sure that
our red brother will eventually find
himself and arrive at a place where
he will be able to take care of him
self, but 1t will take time"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
1ST. JEANS OUTFIT
| SWEEPS BERLIN. OFF
| ice IN 12-1 win
Especial to Kennebec JournaD

Waterville, Dec. 31.-The Waterviile
season swept the Berlin Wanderers
before them for an overwhelming II to
/ win on the Community rink last eve
ming. The game was attended by a
crowd which filled the stands, and all
though the ice was a bit s-ft, the con-
test was fast enough to ,dtisfy the
most rabid fan.
The Jeaneys were after the bacon
as soon as the game opened and at the
end of the first quarter the score was
Z to 0. J. LeClair was in the spot
light for the greater part of the setto
and in Lamirande he had a brilliant
running mate. The home aggregation
played a steady, strong game, each man
carrying out his assignment to a tee.
For the Wanderers, Gauthier played a
stellar brand of hockey, as well as did
Lanning. The losers one goal came at
the very end of the game and a spirited
struggle in front of the goal.
ST. JEANS BERLIN WANDERERS
Lamirande, Ivy ........... lw, Rivard
j. LeClair, ............ c, Gauthier
Brooks, NV ............. NV, Lannlng
Millett, Id .............. Id. Lapo1nte
Paganucci, I'd ........... I'd, Bergron
G. LeClair, ........... &, Langlois
Substitutions: ST. Jeans, Poulin,
York and Bourgoin; Berlin, LeF1eur
and Mckee. Goals by, j. LeClair 8,
Lamirande, Brooks, Paganucci, Lam
ming. Referee, Breard. Goal referees
Butler and Pelky. Timers, Rancourt
Collins, Poulin and Geagon. Time,
three EOS.
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ST. ALBANS

Harry Greene had the misfortune
to break his arm again in the same
place as before, it having been out
of the splints for day. when he fell
in such a way as to break it again.
Mrs. Eta Stevens of Guilford
Mrs. Carrie Weymouth of Skowhegan
and Miss Doris Smell Of Corinna are
visitors at Frank Heath's for the
holidays.
Clair Woodman is on the sick list.
Mrs. Oral Field still remains quite
ill.,
Christmas guests were as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Babb of Dover-Fox-
croft at Alton Emery's; Mr.. and Mrs.
John Weeks at z. E. Woods; Mrs.
Rose Robertson. Maxine Robertson,
Floyd Varney. Freeman Butler. Mr..
and Mrs. Earle Robertson and family
at Fred Finson's: Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn
Hanson and family at George En-
ery's; Misses Irene Libby and her
moher. Mrs. Emmie Libby at George
Libby's: Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Aus
tin and family at Will Richards.
Miss Gladys Bigelow and the
Misse Robinson of Newton. Mass.
are passing the Christmas vacation at
A. P Bigelow's.
daughter Mrs. Grin Parkman In
Skowhegan.
Miss Ethel Moore is visiting with
her father, over the holidays.
Miss Ethel Ward, teacher in Wa
terville, has been passing the Christ
mas vas-S ton wit her father, Albert
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
GrotOn Gets Away
In Last Period and
South Gardiner Wins
(SpeCial to Kennebec Journ;

Especial to henneDeC JOurndl)
South Gardiner, Dec. 30.-The To-
cal Community Club defeated the
fast VickeEy and Hill basketball
team of Augusta in fast game here
tonight. The game was closer than
the score would indicate, only some
sensational shooting by Groton in
the last quarter clinching the game
for the Community Club. The Wis
itors showed a well balanced often
sive and put up a hard fight for the
game. Alfred Hall made his first
appearance this season after a Sc
we're illness and showed up we'll. The
score
HinckIey. RI ,...... lb, Mclaughlin
c. Hall, Webb, If $3.50. rb. NJ. Hall
Prime, ..-............. c, Rogers
Mccall, RIB 49,. If, A. Hall, Spearin
White, Clary, lb ........ RI, Gorton
S. G.. c. c. 43, VII. %. Goals
from floor. Gorton II, Prime 3, Rog-
ers 3. q Hall >, Hinckley >, Spear
in ., c. Hall >, Mccall Clary. Goals
from fouls Prime /, Hinckley /,
White 1, A. Hall ., Rogers >, Nc
Laughlin l. Referee. Canter. Scorer,
Z. Prime. Timer, Barker. Time, ,
los, SIS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
EDDIE TRYON TO .
PLAY PRO BALL
new YORK TEAM

New Haven. Conn, Dec. slap
Edward Tryon, captain the past
season Of the Colgate football team,
and the leading point scorer in the
East this fall, today said that he ex-
pected to play professional football.
He was here to meet James Crowley,
one of Notre Danes -four horse
men" and go with him to Miami
where the New York Giants are to
play. Tryon expected to be signed to
play with the Giants.
Tryon said today that he had only
a few more months at Colgate before
graduation and he anticipated that
the faculty would be horror stricken
when they hear I am playing pro-
fessional football at Miami. My peo-
ple are against it too. But this Is
the opportunity of making money in
a short time and that can't be over
looked. I'm not rich mans son by
any means. and what / can earn on
the professional gridiron will come in
mighty handy"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
See a Radical
Change in Gotham
Boxing Commission

New York, Dec. 3l.-( Az
James A. Farley and William l..
Muldoon, complete their two year
terms as members of the New York
state athletic commission today and
followers of boxing are specializing
as to the possibility of a radical
change in the personnel OF the
board.
The powerful influence which the
commission yields in boxing circles
throughout the country gives the
present situation a national stamp.
No other board enjoys the power or
scope of the New York body.
Leaders close to the boxing situa-
ton who were instrumental in bring
ing about the enactment OF the
Walker law, legalizing boxing in New
York state are said to have been dis
pleased with the rulings of the pres
ent commission and a cry for an en-
tirely democratic membership has
been sent up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
Numerous Protests
Against Bull Fight
At Florida Today

Tampa, Fla. Dec. 31-(AP)-The
twenty wild bulls who will meet the
worlds most famous troupe of
matadors and banderilleros from
Spain and Mexico" here on New
Years Day in a.. arena built by the
Cuban and Spanish clubs of this
city, are arousing widespread COM
ment.
Perry Wall, Tar2pa's mayor. has
been appealed to by various socie-
ties in the United States protesting
against the bull fight as "a thing
brutal AID reverting to the prime
val, even immoral"
Among the communications re-
ceived by Mayor Walls was a tele-
gram from the board of temperance,
prohibition and public morals of the
Methodist church with headquarters
at Washington.
Another protest received today
was from the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals and the American Humane
Society and 500 other humane So
cieties of America.
At the city hall it was stated that
each of the protestants will be ad-
vised that a Tampa bull fight is a
mild affair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
Training Uniforms
Of Blue Considered
For u. S. Soldiers

Washington, Dec. sc = (AP)-A
careful survey of American resources
for the manufacture of khaki breecheS
has convinced army officials that if it
became necessary to put a force of
two million men into the field in less
than eight months, most of them
would have to fight in their shirt
tails.
Faced by this appalling possibility,
the industrial mobilization wing of
the national defense planning ma
chinery started a study of it's own.
1t found that it would be entirely
possible to completely uniform two
million men from head to foot in fif
teen days, provided blue cloth instead
of khaki was used.
The trouble with the khaki outfit
is that not enough cloth of that color
is in ordinary civilian use. There are
ample stocks of blue and gray, both
wool and cotton fabric. The result
has been the working out of a tenta-
tive blue training uniform which
could be supplied in ample volume for
a mobilization, to be discarded as
units completed their preliminary
preparation and moved out for final
training near the zone of operations.
BY that time complete khaki outfits
with tan leather trappings would he
ready for them, giving them the
necessary degree of low visibility in
the field.
The contemplated blue training
uniforms would consist of a four but
ton blouse dressed with red shoulder
knots to give a military touch. blue
cloth overseas caps: blue breeches.
tan canvas leggings of the lacing va
riety and black shoes. Tan shoes
would be preferable. but the survey
disclosed only a limited quantity of
tan Munson last shoes in the market
while there are always plenty Of
blacks to be had.
The matter has not passed as yet
beyond a study stage in the War De-
nartment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
PRICES HOCKEY
PLAYERS GO HIGH
ON BOSTON TEAM

Boston, Dec. 81. - (AP)N- The
price of Boston hockey player went
up $4,000 in five minutes the other
day and as result the Pittsburgh
Pirates of the National Hockey
League failed to get Sprague Sleg-
horn. star Boston defense man. ac-
cording to a story which is going
the rounds here.
The Pirates had made overtures
TO Manager Art Ross of the Bruins.
Sure I'll sell Cleghorn," Ross is
reported to have replied.
How much do you want for
him. queried Pittsburgh.
Forty thousand dollars, and il
you wait five minutes, I'll make it
$4,000"
The surprise which this occasion
ed, consumed the five minutes and
Ross announced the price had iump-
ed to $4,000. Thereupon negotia
tlons were broken and Cleghorn will
stay with Boston. He came here
from Les Canadiens of Montreal at
the beginning of the season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-01
WASHINGTON

NORTH-Donald Cunningham re-
turned to his work at Belfast last
Sunday. after a few days vacation
at home.
Sunday callers at f. w. Cunning
hams were Howard Leighor and sis
ter Mureta of South Liberty, Apple
ton Babb of West Washington and
Archie Lenfest of this place.
H. NJ. Lenfest started in with a
full crew, Monday, on his winters
numbering operation on his lot here.
Sunday was a cold day here. Il
below in the morning.
Christmas was very quiet here
Some attended a tree at Washing
ton Village. some at Palermo.
Mr. and Mrs. Uleric Peabody from
the village We're the Sunday guests
of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ.
Lenfest. Sunday.
w. A. Palmer made the 55-mile
round trip to Belfast, last Sunday,
in below zero weather, in 2 80
hours.
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And Now It's Said Dodger Dempsey Seeks Another po Seup
Fasteners Forge
To Front in Junior
Tennis at New York

New York, Dec. 31.-(AP)-The
midwest invasion inquest of national
juvenile indoor tennis titles, led by
diminCtive Warren f. Coen, Jr., of
Kansas City, was broken and routed
today by flashing eastern racquets in
the semi final rounds of boys and
junior competitors after four siren
uous days of brilliant matches at the
Seventh Regiment Armory.
Coen, the only play entered in both
events, fell in the boys test before
the hard driving and clever volleying
of the national outdoor champion,
Frank Shields of New York, 2-6, 81,
6-1. In the Junior tournament the
Kansas City lad, who has been called
upon to play IA matches. wilted under
the severe driving of julius Seligson
of New York and suffered elimination
scores of 6-2, 60.
The final round in both events to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock will
thus bring east against east. Shields
will meet Walter Thomas of Eliza
beth, n. J., the same foe he defeated
to win the boys outdoor title last
summer, while Seligson Will be pitted
against Edward Jacobs of Baltimore,
victor in the boys indoor tourna-
ment year ago for the junior
championship.
The defat of the midwest in both
singles events became rout in the
doubles, where Coen made his last
stand as the partner of Donald
Strachan of Philadelphia. They took
the first set in a semi final match
against Jacobs and Everett Smith of
New York, 81, but in the next two
sets the Kansas City youth and his
partner were beaten back, S6, CO.
BY their triumph, Jacobs and
Smith qualified to meet the hard
hitting New England team of NAL
colin Hill and Henry L. Johnson,
which has won the Junior doubles
crown twice previously, The title
holders won three matches impress
sively today. and will enter the final
round tomorrow outstanding favor
ties to retain the championship.