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Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
MARRIED WONEN'.S NAMES

The National Women's Party, which is always on
war path about some feminist grievance. is fighting
now for the right Of all women to use their
maiden in business and professional life and
in travel.
Many do that now, particularly actresses and mu-
sicans. But in most such names have no legal
sanction For legal documents, and many other pur-
poses of record the married is required to
her husands name.
Recently the feminist gained victory in the state
department, when they obtained a ruling allowing
married women to their maiden names pass
ports. Then they made frontal attack the regis
trar of copyrights who denied the right of welded
authoress to use her original name.
1t does seem unjust when cannot get copy
rights her stories and poems except under her
husbands name when the husband hasn't anything
to do with them. This looks like extreme case.
Yet any other arrangement generally adopted seems
likely to cause social and business confusion and
plicate the ownership and transfer Of property.
It is hard to how anything is gained by
refusing TO follow the ongestablished custom of using
her husbands name especially when it is possible for
her to make that name merely an appendage to her
Thus when Mary Adams marries John Jones she
can follow growing custom and call herself Mrs.
Mary Adams Jones. making the whole situation OBJ
vious without losing personal identity.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

Uncle Wiggily was hopping past \.
hollow stump, he heard a voice
shout:
Hold on there, Wait minute!
Not so fast.
Dear me, One OF the bad
chaps,'' thought Mr.. Longears.
This is an adventure all right, and
not a very jolly one, either,
He was wondering whether it
would be better to run and try to
get away from the bad chap, or 10
Try to play a trick on him, when n
jolly laugh sounded and out of the
hollow stump came Uncle Butter.
the goat, who, when he WASH 7 at
home, was a traffic policeman.
"Ha! IIa!' blcated the goat with
n laugh. II guess I fooled you that
time all right; didn't |, Uncle Wig
Gily''
"You surely did, was the an
,wer. II thought you were the
Wolf OF Fox. But In glad you
alen't,'
80 an l. said the traffic goat.
Then he hoped on his wa 70 tell
the New Year = celebration autos
which way to 20 aud Uncle Wig
sily dGcidcd he would 90 to the
bakery and get the white cakes, for
he had had adventures enough.
When the bakery eat had put the
white cakes in a bag for III" bunny,
Mr.. Longears wen. next door and
bought bottle Of ink for Nurse
: Jane.
"Bluc ink is all / haze" said the
little mousic girl in the store.
Blue ink viii 90 very well, =
said the bunny.
lie put the bottle Of blue ink III
the same pocket with the whitc
cakes, and then started to hop home.
+ Tn" path was Il bit siippe ry, and
once or twice Crcl" Wiggily tripped
! and fell, sitting down rather hard
each time. But be was brave and
. didn t mind that.
soon he was al his hollow stump
( bungalow.
Did you bring my white cakes'''
asked his vita
Here they are, said Mr.. Long
! ears, taking out the bag. But
I when it was opened every rake in
, II was u bright blue!
: son, blue cakes. The idea!'
cried Mrs. Longcars. - told you
TO bring white ones, my dear
$50 you did, and : got white
ones, - said the burny. But
oucss when / fell | broke Nursa
; lane = bottle Of blue ink aud that
has made the cakes a different col.
N. Let's loOk'' And when he
lrokcd surely enough the ink was
I out Of the broken bottle and all
/ r}cr the cakes
: Oh, well, never mind, said Mrs.
L"ngears. "Perhaps blue cakes viii
be just ~ good or even better for
Ncw Years than white ones" So
.ac wished her husband Happy
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
New Years Day
Reaches Chatham
Island Tod a Y
BY United Press Leased Wire

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand
Dec. 31.-New Years Day commenc.
ed in the Chatham Islands, 11i
miles Southeast of Wellington.
Australia. at 7 o'clock this morning.
Eastern Standard Time. By the
time the New Year s sirens shrek In
New York those of the Chatham
Islanders, who have been able to
get up following their festivities.
will have laid away the wet towels
from the fevGrish heads, will have
had breakfast luncheon and tea
and be thinking about what their
Stomaehs will stand for the evening
meal of January l, 1927.
OF all the people in the world the
little colony of go Britishers in
the Chatham Islands are each year
the first sto greet the New Year.
Theoretically the symmetrical 1S0th
meridian from Greenwich is the
starting point of every day. But
this meridian cuts through several
islands and the northeast corner of
Asia. and its use for time purposes
would Involve awkward calendar
complications.
To avoid this, an arbitrary mcri.
dian has been adopted called the
Admiralty Date Line, and made to
curve east and west of the geogra-
phieal lS0th meridian in such n
way that it lies always in the ocean.
Chatham Islands lie near enough to
the line to see the New Year born.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD r. GAFIS
Copyright, 1925. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY'S BLUE
CAKES

"Well." said Uncle Wiggily to
himself and partly to his wife as he
hoped out of the hollow stump
bungalow one afternoon, II am 60
ing after my last adventure,
Your last adventure exclaim-
ed Mrs. Longears in surprise, for
well she knew how fond her husband
was of such happenings. You
don t mean to say you are going to
give up adventuring, my dear' Why,
what will the children 30 for bed
time stories if You don't have ad-
ventures -
ooh, I am going to have plenty
more, / hope. - ehuckled the bunn?
gentleman.
But YOU Just said. went on his
wife, that you were going To look
for your last one.
IL should have said my last ont
this year. went on her husband
This is the last day Of the year
you knOw. Tomorrow it will be
the new year OF 1927. and, of course
! then shall start having new adven
lures.
Il hope YOU have many jolly
ones, said Nurse Jane Fuzzy WIZ
, Y, who was sweeping the porch fol
the last time in the old wear.
THANK YOU, answered Cncl;
. Wiggily. The same to you.
. He WAS about to hop away to look
> for his last 1926 adventure when his
wife called him:
"'Oh, how about some white cake
| this time' White cakes for oui
New Year callers What about
! thcm''
"IT bring some" promised Mr.
Longears.
Rcmember- white ones moi
/ red ones, his wife added For ths
last time the bunny brought New
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
Looking Backward
What the Press files tell Of I'm
perial Valley for this. date
in past years
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December 81. 1911

Friends here are much interested
in the news that has been received
regarding the success which has been
won by William Lorenz, a Coachella
Valley boy. Lorenz went east some
months ago to take up theatrical
wcrk. He is now a member of the
east of Kismit' in which Otis
Skinner is making a big success.
Miss Alice Mitchell and Miss
Evelyn Putnam left for their homes
in Riverside following n visit with
Mrs. j. c. Allison at her home at
Calcxico.
Mrs. Warren Currier of Holtville
was an FL Centre visitor.
Supervisor }. j. Carr Of the I'M
perial district was elected chairman
of the board of supervisors to serve
for the coming year.
The fine program showing at the
L. Il 5. theater includes Jimmie S
Midnight Flight, - " Ajaccio, Birth
place of Napoleon, Jack S Um-
brella,' and Love Moulds La
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
THE SHADOWED STUDENT

John Coolidge may need secret service to tro
around with him SO he won't be tempted to let his
grades slide lower than the family dignity demands
but at least the poor kid is going to have vacation
in peace.
Instead of finding favor in the Chinese toast May
v,ur shadow never grow less, what John enjoys most
Us discovering that his shadow sometimes grow
little that there's none Of him at all"
If this surveillance is really necessary for Johns
safety all right. Otherwise it isn't right to treat
presidents son. any other respectable American S
respectable son, like suspicious character. The
Prince of Wales, when he in college, had more
freedom than that.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
Ransom Demanded
For Americans

MENICO CITY, Dec. 31.-J. W.
Wiley and Z. b. Connor, American
miners kidnapped Tuesday night by
Mexican bandits, toay were being
held for $4,000 ransom, advices re
ceived by the United States embassy
said. No details of the kidnapping
had been received.
Wiley and Connor were employees
of the British owned San Francisco
mine near Parral, state of Chihua
hua.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
TEN YEARS AGO
Decem,ler 81 1919

Ami Singh, Hindu, was pain,
fully but not seriously injured when
the horse which he was driving
baked on the railroad tracks and
his wagon was struck by Southern
Pacific switch engine. Siugh. who
saw the engine coming, had suffic
lent time to cross. However, the
horse baked and the driver refused
to leave the animal, remaining TO
try to coax the animal, remaining
to try to coax it across. Singh ~
an employee of Charles Eustis, Ca
lexico rancher.
Mrs. B. P. Hemcon, who has lust
returned from spending the holidays
in Los Angeles. has as her guest
Miss Helen Thompson of Park Falls,
Wisconsin.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

Years cakes something happened
as / told You in the story before
this.
White cakes il shall be- said
Mr. Longears. He was hopping
down the path when Nurse Jane
called TO him:
will You please bring me bot
tie of ink' I want to write some
New Years cards.
Ink you shall have, promised
Mr.. Longears, and on he hoped,
over the fields and through the
woods. looking for an adventure.
Pretty soon. all of 4 sudden. as
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
Sheriff Sued for
Heavy Damages
BY United Press Leased Wire

MADEIRA, Cal, Dec. Sl.---Claim-
ing his constitutional rights were
violated when Sheriff j. II. Barnett
Of MADEIRA county, attempted to ar
rest him for violation of the Wright
act without warrant, Jesse X.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

Goss has brought suit. against t
peace officer for 100000 damage.
Goss, in his suit, claims he W
shot and permanently disabled
the sheriff when he resisted ARE
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
INVESTMENT MONEY

Over 153 millions of dollars worth of securities Of
ered the public in the second week before Christmas
was gobbed up by investors pup gobbles tltblt
and looks cheerfully and eXpectantly for another
Nearly half as much had been absorbed the week
before.
New bond issues to the tune of about s20,OO0OoO
have been offered within the last few days and are
finding takers as if the previous offerings mad not
existed.
There seems to he good deal of money in the coun-
try one way and another. And good deal of pro-
duction of one commodity Ind another And quite
lfe-siZed demand for things of assorted varieties.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

Ontario is being overrun by SNOW
owls from the arctic, lately. WI
old owlsl
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31
THE WEATHER

Los Angeles and Vicinity: FAN
and warm tonight and Saturday.
Southern California: Fair tonight
ard saturday; normal temperature
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

New Year, which ! wish all of YOU,
and when 1927 comes, which it viii
very soon, then | shall have som
new stories for YOU.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

Money to LON cn utomobila
Sterling Securities Co. Inc, Fred 4
ross, Mgr. GO Main st. ada
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

The saving fact about the present session Of cong
ress is that i expires automatically March 1.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-31

How in the world do all these people make liv-
ing?" people from little towns always asking when
they visit big cities. Evidently by selling real estate
to each other.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
SAYS STORIES OF
 TRAGEDY NOT TRUE
Eye Witness Of LinCOln'S ASsaS-
 Sination Gives His Version

Baumur, Feb, l9 tPl-W. J. Ferguson one or the few surviving members of the cast of "Our Amcri- can Cousin" which was on the boards at Ford's theater, Washing ton, the evening President Lincoln was shot, Is visiting friends in Bal | timorc.
 He is slowly recovering from n fracture of the hip, suffered year ago while he was on location with q motion picture company in Cali, fornia.
 Mir, Ferguson, who says he "is about so years old" described the slaying of the president and de- clarcd that hardly any of the many accounts of the assassination wcr" holly correct. Thn stories of Booths actions after firing the fatal shot, he said, were particularly in- accurate.
 He was standing in the wing with Laura koonc, about 10 mako an en- trance when the shot was fired, Ferguson said.
 He declared that Booth did not shout sic sompor tyranns" as ho arose 10 his feet after his leap from the presidents box. as has so often been stated. Not more than q min Utc elapsed from the time the shot was fired until he mounted his horse and was out of sight.
 Equally untrue, he sail was the story that the orchestra leader ] William Withcrs, Jr., engaged in n i hand-io-hand battle with Booth in an effort 10 stay his flight. Pic turrs showing Booth kncoling on Withcrs' body with his knife raised to strike have been printed frequent ly," he said. "Utterly false"
 "Withors in late years had scar cn his throat popularly believed 10 be q knife wound inflicted by Booth but I saw him q month after the assassination and there was no scar on his throat at that time. "The story that Booth turned a lever and plunged the stage into darkness also was incorrect" Fer gIson said,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
POORBOX THIEF TELLS
 OF GETTING $40 WEEKLY
"Somc Other Crook" Was Ahead Of Him in One Church, He
 Informs Judge.

New York, Feb. 12 - Willard Purbs, q years old, a clerk who was earning s16 q week until he lost his job several months ago, was arraigned in Morrisania court yester- day, charged with robbing poor boxes in Catholic churches in Wash ington Heights and in the Bronx. Purbs, whose wife is an expnctant mother. admitted the charges before Magistrate Douras.
 He told of having averages ot $40 q week from the poor boxes. He said man had taught him the trick, which involved use Of screwdriver. It was possible to remove the cash from the box and replace the cover without traces Of tampering. he said. Usually he entered church at noon, when there were few Worshippers and emptied all the boxes,
 He would make the rounds Of sev- eral churches in the course of an afternoon. When he opened the boxes In the Church Of the Immac- ulate Conception at 150th street and Molrose avenue, he found some crook had emptied the boxes before me"
 When he lost his ioh Purbs enter cd on this activity with still greater zeal, until he was apprehended yes terday on leaving St. Margaret Mary's church at 161 East Fremont avenue. His suspicious conduct at tracted detectives, who found q screwdriver and SIS in small coins on him Magistrate Douras held him in $25o0 hail for the grand jury, Purbs lives at 125 West Forty ninth strncf
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
ANOTHER STORM TRAGEDY
Family Near Danbury Burned Out and Remain Huddle in Snow Un- til Help Reaches Them.

panbury, Conn, Feb. F t4' -- Word was received in this city to- day of the burning of the home of Howard Garrett, a maChinist, in Middle River, five miles west Of here last night. Mir. Garrett had been unable to reach home since Wednesdays storm and Mrs. Gar ret and her young son, who were alone in the house were driven into the snow, where they remained un- ii neighbor reached them with sleigh and took them to shelter, It was impossible 10 get help through thc snow choked country roads and the house, q ten room building was burned to the ground.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
POSTAL OFFICIAL WILL
 SPEAK HERE MARCH 4TH
First Assistant Postmaster General Will Deliver Principal Address
 At (. Of C. Banquet.

John Henry Bartlett, first assist ant postmaster general, will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Chamber of Com mcrcc, accol ding to an announce ment made this morning by Secre- tarv Ralph l.. Gould. Mir. Bartlett yesterday definitely accepted the in- vitation to come here and speak.
 The banquet will oe held in the Burritt hotel on the evening of March 4. There will be entertain- ment and other features on the pro gram.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12

(Contirucd From First Page) later, on January cG, both sides met again in Philadelphia at th" request Of President Lewis 10 consider a plan offered by r., J. I.ynct', publish- CT of the Scranton, pa. Times. These meetings also came to naught
 Many Measures OTCrcd.
 Many bills and rcsoutious were introduced in th" Tcnusylvaua lveis- lature. seeking to end rhn strike, but all were either kjjlol in committee or failed of passasr. The United States senate took a hand hy adopt Ing the Copeland resolution appeal ing to the president to bring about q resumption of mining.
 The president made if know that his policy Of non-mterycntion was unchanged
 In the meantime, the 15S,0oo miur workers and several thousand rail road men, thrown iIlo by th" strike. looked on. Tho pinch of lack Of in come was direly felt in mining com munitias and in som" Of 'hom soup Kitchens vero established. Local charities did considerable" charitable work. The United Mine Workers union does not pay strike h"nrfits
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
GlLPATRIC READY
Will Leave Federal Prison At At lanta Tomorrow To Come To Conn. To Give Testimony

Atlanta. Ga. Fob. r. Pl--G. Har- old Gilpatric former Connecticut state treasurer. who is serving q 1 year sentence in the Atlanta federal pnnitentiary for embezzlcment of funds from q Putnam. Conn.,, bank, will leave tomorrow for Hartford 10 testify concerning new developments in his case.
 Last Christmas Gilratric. who Is blind. was recommended by War den John W. Shook as the prisoner most deserving of clemency. but op- position from his home city is said 10 have prevented his release.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
BRAND ASKS VOTE
Overwhelming Majority Ta,ors His Administration Tn Finance
 Measure MuddlC.

Paris, Feb. 12 tPl-The chamber of deputies today gave the Briand government a vote of confidence in connection with the financial meas Ures 327 to 1S2.
 The premier announced that the votH would involve the question of coniidcnCe in the ministry.
 The budget must he balanced hc- fore the end of this month" the premier said, If the necessary re- sources are voted there will be cas- fer breathing in France and abroad"
 This is the first tim" N. Briand has put the question of confidence in the present debate over the pro posals for financial regeneration of the country.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
VICTIMS
 STORY CONFIRMED
Georgia AIienist Finds John
 White Told the Truth

Atlanta. Feb. 19 [P -- While en route from Homestead, Fla, to see his mother in the Hillside hospital, Bridgeport, Conn, everything went blank with John White, 2i years old, just after he had emerged from an Atlanta thca'or last Saturday, he told Dr. Nowdigatc Owcnshy, an At lanta alicnist today Last Saturday night White ap- pcarcd al the Atlanta police station and requested assistance in "stab- fishing his identity. Bit by bit, un- der examination by physicians, he has recalled his past life and how he came to be in Atlanta.
 But II was not until this morning, after 10 hours Of questioning, that q coherent story was gotten. 1 Previously he had stated that he vas sluggei and robbed near the railway station in East Setauket, Long Island while on his way to 1 visit his mother in the Bridgeport hospital.
 But today II was brought ont mat he left Homcstcal Fla, to visit his mother and remembered nothing after he had attended an Atlanta i thoatcT,
 Dr. Owonshy explained that a Flow ON the head which White said ho received in East Sctauket last fan probably indlc"d t recurrence of rhe mental fog which seized him rn that occasion.
 Last week Whit" arl another man were arrested in Fairbun, Ga, for driving au automobile without H. conso tag. White remembers the arrest,
 Dr. Ovonsby expressed the opin- ion that White was sincere in his statements and that Eo was the vic tim of amncsla,
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
ND. l2.Hid.


 Treasury Department. office Of Comp troller of the Currency.
 Washington. D. C.. November g, 1925. Whereas. by satisfactory evidence pre- sented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear that The City National Bank of New Britain" In the City of New Britain in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut has compiled with all the provisions Of the Statutes Of the United States required to bs com piled with before an association eflail be authorized to commence the business of Banking:
 Now therefore 1, J. ". Mcintosh, Comp troller of the Currency. do hereby cer. tlty that "The City National Bank Of New Britain in the City Of New Britain n the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut Is authorized to commence the business of Banking aA provided In Section Fifty one hundred and sixty nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
 Tn testimony whereof witness my hand and zeal of office this ninth day of November. 1923.
 J. ". MCINTOSH,
 Comptroller of the Currensy.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
LOUISE JAYES
 GETS THE DOLLAR
Herald Poetry Contest GallOpS
 Merrily On

The dollar goes to Louise JlyrS of l9l Jerome street for the hrs' oDrr- Ing today Some other choice bits are being held over for tomorrow because. as you know, inc liuruld gets out around noon anI popular demand secures tho poetry in the first edition, ENru the judge had to blush as he passed up some of the poetry for If the facts were out, some Of the writers know aorc Rbont poetry than ho who judges. Of course, that is strictly conGIrn- dial and for goodness sakcs don't aell anybody loust said about that the better From iu1.ciu, angle that may be an error Of judgment but who cur,S
 Already rallo sending mauag,rs are flirting with thc IuIec in orlor that they might g. some of tho poetry 10 read to inc radio fans, claiming that they too, want 10 do their little bit toward u bigger, better, greater literary circlo in, around and about New Rr'ain. once again, the judge finds himself pushing. Nowspapcrmen are so modest and retiring as q rulc, anl they hate 10 tell un,ruths, so please don't believe too much about that radio stuff.
 The judge has 10 write so much space day getting a cent and one-half an inch. so. by bearing with the judge, you are his helpers toward paying for his lunch The space must be filled sometimes it's bunk, and other times there arr gems of thought sparkling through out this column. Helpful hints fairly bristIe sometimes. Other times they are hidden. even harder to find than the gerundlye in Latin, or guessing the sex of French nouns. or 10 go deeper in the maj ter, to pick apart q nice long German word.
 There now, the 25 cen,s is made. Thank you for reading this column. Here's the winner, be sure you try today.
 Mrs. Frisbe wants 2 nurse
 This is the reason I write this verse. The child Is small. not much care, So watch the nurses going there.
New Britain herald., 1926-02-12
City Items

Former Assessor otto Rengston Is recovering from illness at his home on Esn'sCHl"r s'roct.
 Orar@. County Eu,tor 55c lh. Fresh made. National Tea Import ITS, toG Main str-ct advt.
 The Girl Scents prum Corps drill Will he held nrXt Wednesday even ing at I o'clock In tho Girl Scout of. hoe. All regular and new members are expected to attend.