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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Pluc!h:ed From the Plains
"TTIE NEWSI WEEKLY PAPER
FROM THE Ola HOME TOWN"

"THE NEWSl WEEKLY PAPER
FROM THE Ola HOME TOWN"
Talk about your literature
And papers up-to-date,
About the legislature
And doin's through the state;
To me they amt comparin'
Though l look the world aroun',
To the newsy weekly paper
From the old home town.
Ma comes into the settin' room
And let's the dishes go,
And listens while / read about
The folks we used to know;
For births and deaths and land deal
And weddin's, too, abound;
All are mighty interestin
F'om the old home town.
know it amt so classical
AS these big dailies are
That tell about the world court
And latest movie star;
But jist for my enjoyment
There's nothin' [ have found
Like the little newsy paper
From the old home town.
Mrs. EFFIE CRAWFORD.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Sixteen Years Ago

H. A. Kimberley of the Copper
Queen store is quite i'll at the
Calumet hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Barb of
Deming are in the city for short
visit with Mrs. w. A. Greene.
Albert Stacy returned yesterday
from a months visit with his
mother in Minneapolis.
Miss Florence House and grand
mother will leave today for the
coast to spend the remainder of
the summer.
Conductor Wattles made two
trips with the motor car just re-
ceived to Bisbee yesterday. Pas
sengers who made the trips were
much pleased with the new serv-
ice.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
LEGION COMPLETES IT'S
DISTRICT ORGANTZ ArToNJ

PHOENIX, June II. - Organization
of Arizona into nine American legion
olstrlcts with district commander
Tor each was completed today with
the appointment of the last two dis
trIct commanders--A. r. Kleindienst
OF Winslow for district number 6.
and r. r. James of Camp Stephen
d. Little for district number 2.
The plan for dividing the state
into districts was formulated at the
lats state convention of the legion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
The Day In Washington

Adjournment of congress was
tentatively fixed for June &c.
The Illinois project in the
rivers and harbors bill was de-
fender before the senate COM
merce committee
With Wayne b. Wheeler on the
stand, the senate campaign COM
mittee inquired into Anti-Saloon
league activities.
Department of justice policy
toward recent oil mergers was
assailed in the house by Repre-
sentative Connally of Texas.
Discussion of the McNary farm
bill continued in the senate with
Borah of Idaho and Ransdell of
Louisiana lining up with oppon-
ents.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
{6SIl!EA(i!(4E|S

i TFE VOVS III q SNOG UuTInW the
summer are one or two toes too manly.
In Afghanstan, kids of five years
marry; while in America married
couples often act that age.
Once politicians tossed their hats
into the ring. Now they use them for
megaphones.
In Turkey they have Sunday on our
Friday, so by the time we have our
Sunday the Turks have recovered.
Kangaroos are decreasing in Aus
tralia. Pedestrians decrease here.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Incl
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE
TO A YELLOW HAMMER

TO A YELLOW HAMMER
Time was / thought l. did you wrong
When, mornings more than L can
number,
You thumped my elm tree hard and
long
And reused me from my pleasant
slumber,
Because maliciously I said
My temper reused to savage keen
That by some evil instinct led,
You made that racket just for
meanness.
thought it might be that you hewed
The tree with such profound disquiet
To find the writing insect brood
That forms yellow hammers diet
And later. as I watched you quest
For slugs and grubs around the
garden
And, toiling without pause or rest
1 thought I ought to beg your
pardon.
But I was wrong, today at dawn
Down from the elm 1 saw you
n1ulISI
To beat a loud tattoo upon
My new and shining copper gutter.
No insect life could hide in that
No bug, no worm, no ant or weevil!
You beat your ringing rat-tat-tat
Because your heart was base and
evil.
No more in spring with lifting lays
When on the elm I hear you drum
ming
VIII T sing peans in your praise
And celebrate your glad home-com-
ing.
Nor will again a single qualm
OF gnawing conscience overtake me !;
know you break the morning calm
With your rap-rapping just to walks
mel
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Abe Martin

If tn best man would win Oc-
casiOnally in this country it might
have healthy effect. Premier
Baldwin is gittin' lots o. cOmpIi-
meRtS fer stopping TIN general
strike, but wait till lac tries t.
stop exactly where his wife wants
Out.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
M GOssiu

Teaeher-"How many wars can you
remember?"
Young Thing-"Ma told me that I
mustn't talk about family affairs. -
The Wasp (San Francisco).
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Possibly Social

Today is the last of Polish Week
in Brooklyn department store, we
note from The Brooklyn Eagle . /.
though whether Shoe, North or Pilsud ,
ski we are unable to announce.-tEd~
ward Hope in the New York Herald
Tribune.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18

Motor roads sometimes skip some of
the best scenery but they always skirt
the most attractive bill boards.
Copyright, 1926, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
SLANG IS TABOO
in SCHOOLS FOR
FRENCH MISSES

/ PARIS, June II. - Slang is to be
+ taboo in French girls schools. Anti
slang clubs are to be formed on the
model of one founded by a pupil at
/ PuteaX, suburb OF Paris. This has
been named "the benevolent league
against the corrupt and vulgar words
which are causing degeneration of the
French language" Members of any
branch of the club are fined so cen,
times for every banned word used by
them The money taken in fines is to
be given to charity
I Sarah Bernhardts statue, the first
with which Paris has honored her il.
! lustrious daughter was unveiled today
in the presence Of all literary ana
! theatrical Paris. The monument shows
the famous actress in one of her most
celebrated roles, that of Phaedra in
Racine's tragedy.
The monument stands in the place
Malesherdes, a residential quarter, ana
near the house in which Bernhard
died. 1t is situated in a green square
which already contains three statues
of three Alexander Dumas-General
Alexander Dumas, his son the noted
author and novelist and the latters
son, famous as a dramatist and novel
ist
The ecclesiastical splendors OF Euro-
pean prelates bid fair to dazzle the
| Eucharistic congress at Chicago, for
the old world church is sending treas
ures of art in the suites of it's princes.
| Every cardinal will carry his own coat
of arms, each being a most elaborate
work of art, while richly embroidered
and braided banners, hand worked in4
sigma, tapestries and other symbolic
marks of the church's sovereignty are
being shipped by pilgrims and re-
ligious organizations in France, in adj
dition to those being taken by the
great prelates.
How Marshal Pilsudski's seizure of
power of Poland put an end to the
flight of Captain Georges PelIetier
Doisy from Paris to Tokyo has been
explained by the famous French avi-
ator.
A torrentiaI rain flooded the avia-
ton ground at Warsaw after Doisy
landed in the Polish capital and he
from which he could again take the
air with his machine. He found a
suitable place near the field, but sep
arated from it by ground on which
there had been heavy fighting be-
tween the Pilsudski and anti-Pilsud-
ski forces. Six officers were killed in
this fighting.
Doisy moved his plane to this SPOT
and started to take off, He did not
notice in front of the machine a shell
hole filled with mud The machine
plowed into this and turned over on
its side, disabling it. Luckily, the
aircraft was moving only about six
miles an hour so that the machine
was not completely wrecked 1t was
so badly damaged, however. that
Doisy returned to Paris
The billboards of the Coincide Fran
calse, temple and sanctuary of French
dramatic art sometimes shocked the
high brow tastes of it's patrons who
would prefer programs limited to the
classics. The titles Of three ponular
plays, belonging to modern repertoire.
We're on the billboards of the House
of Moliere during the week. The title
or one of the posters was what Do
Young Girls Dream OFF" The posters
announcing the other two plays were
The Kiss and Zig Boy"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Her LITE Fad

Cautious Lover with limited in
come Tell me, dearest, are you
very fond OF clothes?"
The Beloved = Clothes! My dear
boy, I'm the dowdiest little old fash,
toned trump. No, my vice is pearls"
Punch.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
a "Shiner',

Father (reading letter from his
son at seat, to mother) "Myopia says
he's got a beautiful lamp from box
ing
Mother-"I just knew he'd win some
thing from his athletics. Sea Bag
GU. s. S. Oklahoma).
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Her knights ArmOr

Girl (to phlegmatic lover) You
ave got a ard cart, George
George Ca taxi driver)-"No, I amt
Maude. That my number plate youvs
got your cad against"-London Opin-
ion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Fair warning

On first nights sentry duty in the
late war a colored doughboy called:
Halt! Who goes there?"
"Officer of the day
The officer advanced few steps
when he was halted, whereupon he ex>
claimed: This is the second time
you've halted me. What do you intend
to do?"
"Nevah you al mind what Ahm
gwine to do. Ma orders is, Say hall
three times an then shoot!"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18


we'll America his call humble
officer
acting o distinguished
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
II uZZIimg

The great problem of modern educa
ton is to find out something to do
with children between boarding school
terms and summer camp time.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
WeII Trained

With more than million caddies in
the country there will be no shortage
of material for future diplomats.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18

The wages of sin is death, plus
whatever the story will bring.-Flor-
ence, Ala, Herald.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18

A specialist is one who has his pa
tients trained to become i'll only in
his office hours. a general practi-
TONER is likely to be called off the
golf course at any time.-Kansas iCty
Star.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18

The town of Teller needn't feel so
bad about the publicity it didn't
get. What was the name of that
Montana town that staged the big
fight a few years ago--F. p A. IN
New York World.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18
Everybodx Hnnnx

kINcTSUCuy H1NpDy
Senator Gore of Oklahoma while
addressing a convention in Oklahoma
City recently, told this story, illus
trating a point he made:
"a northern gentleman was being
entertained by a southern colonel OF
fishing trip. 1t was his first visi.
to the south and the mosquitoes were
so bothersome that he was unable to
sleep, while at the same time he could
hear his friend snoring audibly.
''The next morning he approached
the old fellow VINO was doing the
cooking.
Jim, he said, how Is it that the
colonel is able to sleep so soundly
with so many mosquitoes around?
"I'n tell you, boss, the cook re-
Piled de fust part of de night de
kunnel is too full to pay any 'tenshun
to de skeeters, and de last part of de
night de skeeters is too full to pay
any 'tenshun to de kunneI."
Realistic
Representative e. Hart Penn of Con-
necticut was praiGing a Connecticut
novelist.
Hes q brilliant writer" said Mr..
Penn, "and he's a brilliant talker too.
A critic was criticising his style the
other day.
"'Your style the critic said, is old
fashioned. You use old fashioned
phrases. For instance, in that scene
in your last novel where the villain
steals a kiss from the heroine, you
say, "a blush crept slowly over her
face" That's bad, you know - very
prosaic.
But look here, said the novelist,
if BLUSH tried to run nowadays
think of the dust it would kick up"
Kind Father
The teacher of Juvenile class had
been reading about shepherd who
went after a lost lamb during a blind
ing snoWstOrm and eventually found
the little creature half frozen. TAX
ing off his coat, the shepherd wrapped
it around the lamb and carried it back
to the fold, where it soon revived.
Now said the teacher, does any
one know of any similar acts of kind,
ness
'Yess, MISS" piped a small voice.
i've often heard father say he's go
ing to put his shirt on q horse"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18

but he is r&ansIc a@ sOaduct of the lower clae4
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-18

TFG VOEs III q SnOe UUTIng the
summer are one or two toes too MANY.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14
Chair Part in Movies
 Recognition of Ability

Hollywood, Cal, May 14 GP) - A "chair part" is something for which every newcomer in the movies hopes.
 It means that the actor so dis Itinguished is gaining recognition and with continued progress may become Ia star.
 4 "chair, part" is so called because when the player arrives on the set he CT she is given a portable chair. The name of the actor is inscribed upon the chair and no one else is allowed to occupy it.
 Hundreds of persons have worked before the camera many years with out reaching q "chair part" On the other hand. there are occasional quick successes"
 When Doris Hill arrived on the set to play the leading role opposite Syd Chaplin in "Thc Better Ole" nov in production, she had never Eefcre appeared before the camera and had experienced only six months work as a dancer in theater pro- Iogucs.
 Chaplin and his director arranged a ceremony for presenting her with the chair, which costs two dollars,
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14
Bamboo Pipe Organ Still
 Good After 100 Years

Manila, P. l., May 14 P)-Tuneful melodies of sweet, well rounded tone still flow from the pipes of the bam- boo organ built into the church at Las Pinas more than 11O years ago by the Augustinian fathers.
 This ancient instrument Of sacred music is constructed wholly of bam- boo cut from a jungle near the church. The builders treated the bamboo to make it impervious to the clements. The pipes were buried in sand for six months for seasoning and hardening as protection against both the atmosphere and white ants, which attack nearly all articles in this climate.
 In 1863 and again in 1882 the or gan was damaged, the first time by an earthquake and the second time by q typhoon which blew off the roof of the church. It was silent for 29 years until in 1917 Father Faniel, Belgian missionary had it repaired and since that time it has been in constant service,
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14
MEDICINE MEN OF SIX NATIONS TO
 CHANT FOR RAIN AT CEREMONIALS

Sheridan, Wyo., May 14 GP)-Medi- cine men of six Indian tribes of Montana, South Dakota and Wyom- ing will weave their charms and sound their chants trying to con- vince the God of Thunder" to loose rain from the clouds in 8 fea- ture event of the scmi-centennial celebration of Clusters Last Stand to be held in June at the battlefield site of the Little Big Horn river.
 They will contest 10 see who can make the best medicine" on the last day of the celebration.
 The medicine men, each repre- senting a tribe-the Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet. Assinibone. Flathead and Sioux-will be more than three score and ten years. The chief medicine man of an Indian tribe must be one of the oldest members of the tribe.
 Their bodies covered with white clay, and faces and limbs painted with red, orang and yellow hucs in weird designs, lach Indian will car Iy d SldlAl NlPtNu N It'll bA AtAtfhiALAJ colored feathers. With a whistle in his mouth he will ride through the Indian camp on the battlefield blow ing the whistle and chanting weird phrases. All the while his arms will be outsretched 10 inc Great Spirit. Each medicine man will be allotted thirty minutes to mix the medicine" that will preciDitate rain.
 In Bear Tail, oldest medicine man of their tribe, the Montana Crows of the Pryor reservation have par ticipant who is expected to mix heap big medicine" Five years ago, Bear Tail warned the tribe that it would rain on a certain day when a rodeo was to be held. He was jeer- ed by the younger members. But when rodeo day approached, he mixed medicine" and had his
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

squaw make the tepee fast warning her a big storm was coming.
 Not a cloud obscured the sky so the youths prepared for the rodeo. Just as it started drenching rain occurred. supplemented by strong gale, which blew away all the tepees not securely fastened.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

Chinese import from this country old newspapers by the ton. A re- cent shipment was comprised Of l. 700 bales. Most of the papers re- turn 10 the United States wrapped around goods Americans have bought in Japan.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14
Broadway successes.

London - With hair-nets no longer needed on Eyes bobbed head, the gossemer nets of grand mothers day are to be used as stockings.
 Hair-net hosiery was a feature of the Drapers' exhibition. It is mere ly leg-shaped net like a fine fish net, worn over the bare skin. For the more modest it is worn over flesh colored stocking. The stocking style-makers of England, who are men, say all the reddish tints in flesh colored hosiery are to be eliminated for the coming season. The popular shades are to be fresh green" flesh mauve," "dol- lar shade" "Bacchus," Char trcuso" and "Manon."
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14
EMBROIDERY MUCH
 USED ON DRESSES
This Is One Of the Leading
 London Novelties

London -- Hand-embroidcry was shown on many Of the most at tractiye gowns worn by manequins at the Drapers show. Repp, satin, hop-sacking linen, muslin and even the finest chiffons and voiles were embroidered. Most of the de- brings, chiefly rather delicate col brings, chciehy rather delicate col ors. The embroidery was principal ly on the cuffs, collar and skirt edging. The daruing stitch was used in trimming many of the summer models.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14
Lenglen Does Not Think
 Impossible Is Possible

Paris, May 14 PJ - A frequently heard dictum in France declares that Impossible" is not a French word and many French notable folk
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

London - Regimental brooches. so popular during the great war, arc being brought into favor again. Society women are wearing them mostly at sporting functions on dresses and pinned into small felt hats which are very popular at race meetings.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

\ tobacco plant may produce 360,- ,UO seeds in one season.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

seem 10 believe it.
 Miss Suzanne Lenglcn is cate eoric: No. I have never in my career as an athlete had the inn pression of having run up against the impossible, l believe that with detcrmination-nervcs-and cour- age, the impossible does not exist"
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

but means so much in the ranking of players.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

New York - The trend toward masculinity in womcn's clothes will not continue, believes Charles Lc Maire, the designer, who has just returned from Paris and other fashion centers of Europe.
 He is of the opinion, however that bobbcd hair and short skirts are here to stay, milady having cX- pcrienced the ease Of dressing in the former and the freedom Of wearing the latter.
 Le Maire has designed the clothes of many famous stage and movie stars and costumed numerous
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

London - Jam-pot hats have palled on the millinery trade and London designers are trying to find some kind of larger hat which women will accept.
 The toreador hat has heen se- lected by many makers as the most likely successor. It is q mannish type suited to the mannish way in which some women wear their hair, The brim may be turned up bit more than 8 real toreador and it may be decorated with
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

few flowers and trimmed with bright colored silk in Spanish col ors. The trimming is mostly under meath the brim.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

London - Crossword puzzle forms have made their appearance in the decoration of shawls, which are being generally used in London this spring with all sorts of cos tunes, They are of silk, wool and tissue and painted and dyed de- signs rival embroidered patterns.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

London - Eton crop hats are displacing bandeau for the average young tennis player this season. The swathed headache hcaddrcss instituted by Mile. Suzanne Len glen, is being given up. This new style consists Of a black satin crown fitting exactly 10 the shape of the head, finished off with d simple trimming of swathed silk, and looks from a distance like a tennis bandeau on an cton-croppcd head
New Britain herald., 1926-05-14

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Evening star., 1926-11-10
MUCH COTTON WILL
REMAIN IN FIELD
Market to Be Faced With
Less Than 1900, 900 Bales,
Experts Believe.
BY J. c. ROYIE.

Special Dispatch 70 The Star.
NEW YORK. November 10.-Cotton
experts throughout the South eX-
pressed the opinion today in tele-
grams from various sections that de-
spite the prediction of l1,9l8,0Oo-
bale crop. the market will be FACED
with less than J. ,000, 900 bales OF the
staple.
Much cotton still is in the fields.
large percentage. the growers say, is
strained and of a low grade and
would barely pay for the cost Of gath
ering, ginning and marketing, to say
nothing OF the cost Of growing 1t.
The cost of picking cotton now
averages So 80 a bale. and in some
sections shortage of labor is forcing
higher prices. Then, too, few people
outside the cotton belt realize that the
actual producer seldom receives In a
market like the present one the prices
which the principal exchanges quote
s,:d Five Times.
1t y, estimated every bale OF cotton
Is sold on an average Of five times
between the time it leaves the planta-
ton ana the time it is received by
the spinner. Usually it is sold hrSt
hv the producer to his local merchant,
who advanced him the money to make
his crop The next is usually TO a
largest buyer, known as an interior
cotton buyer. who makes his head
quarters in the large towns or con-
centration points.
These interior cotton merchants
usually ship the cotton to the ports
for resale or sell to exporters or larger
merchants, who MAINTAIN heiadquar"
yers at the ports or mill centers. Cot
ton frequently is sold several times
while at these concentration points
before it finally is bought by the spin
ner
The usual method Of selling or buy
!ng cotton in the interior Is to buy
or sell it so many points "on" or on
the most active trading position IN
the New Orleans or New York future
markets.
Sell Now at Discount.
The IONS" and "Offs" are regulated
by supply and demand. If the de-
mand is high, the producer gets a
premium If demand is below supply,
as it is at present. he has to sell at
discount from the futures quotations
Frequently of late this discount has
amounted to q cent to a cent and a
half a pound. The above facts give
an indication of how many people ana
how many businesses are involved In
the adversely or prosperity or the cot
ton industry.
1t is fitting circumstance that the
United States Shipping Board steamer
Tampa should carry as her first cargo
q shipload of Southern cotton to Eu-
rope The Tampa is the first of the
IA vessels of the Shipping Board fleet
80 lie converted into motor ships and
the first vessel ever to be propelled
by American designed and built Diesel
engines The Tampa is now at Savan-
nah. where she is relieving ware
house congestion Of $4,000 bales or
cotton called for Bremen.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
STATISTICS ON ZINC.

NEW YORK, November 10 @.-
Stocks of zinc at the end Of October
tons over the month before, the Amer
lean Zinc Institute reports. The
months production was 54,979 tons.
Shipments were 54,769 tons, Of which
4,160 tons were exported.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
A Fool and His Money.

The fact that a stock certificate Is
printed in fancy green scrollwork Is
no proof that it Is worth any more
than ordinary wall paper. Thousands
of people in Washington would nave
saved their money If they simply had
asked their banker to tell them what
he knew Of some supposedly wonder
full investment.
Evening star., 1926-11-10
EARNINGS DECLINE.

NEW YORK, November 10 R).-
Earnings of the Pacific Coast Co. for
the first nine months this year de-
clined TO $2G2, ,909 from $348.09S in the
Snme neriOd of 1925.