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Hyder weekly herald., 1926-12-27

among the pupils. The school was also closed earlier in the season as a result of an out break of measles.
 The Seward Memorial Asso- citation, sponsored by the Sew, ard Chamber of Commerce has been incorporated under the laws of the Territory O Alaska, and will erect a mem orial to William H. Seward former secretary of state, who negotiated the purchase O. Alaska. It is hoped that Pres. dent Coolidge can be persuad ed to act as the honorary presi dent of the Association, ant that the governors of all the states of the Union can be in duced to accept the offices o honorary vice-presidents. A national membership drive will be started soon.
 The Juneau office of the Alaska Game Commission an lounces that a case was file6 against Mrs. Fred Matson of Juneau, for serving venison to boarders in violation of the Alaska Game Law and regu- lations. She entered a plea O. guilty before U. s. Commission CT Paine and was fined $25.
 Executive Officer Ernest P, Walker of the Commission states that the sale of game has so often led to its exter- imitation or near exterminatior throughout the world that it has now become one of the basic principles of wild life protection to prevent sale and commercialization of game in any form.
 Mir. Walker also called at tention to the fact that the deer season closed November 30 instead of December 15 as has been the case for a couple years past. The season closed earlier this year as a result Of the recommendations submit ted at the last annual meeting of the Commission by numer- ous parties in southeastern Alaska who were interested in maintaining the supply of deer.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-12-27

Charles Peterson, an oldtimer of Douglas, passed away re- gently. MT. Peterson was for many years an employee of the Treadwell Company.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-12-27

Reports from the interior in- dicate that ptarmigan are scarcer this year than for
 years. In some sections e depredations of hawks and agles is given as the cause of e decimation of the ptarmi- n. Some observers claim that 1e birds are inflicted by an ni1emic at intervals, which ills them in vast numbers. A Gcarcity of spruce hens is also reported.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-12-27

or DOuSlaS, passed away re- gently. MT. Peterson was for many years an employee of the Treadwell Company.
 The News Miner reports that the gold output of the Fair banks camp this year was $482,000. Only a few men, comparatively, were mining in the camp last year. Now there are probably ten to fifteen times as many.
 The first snowfall of the pres ant winter occurred at Ketchi- kan November 25. Fairbanks had it's first dose of ''the beautiful" November 2Oth.
 AlaSKa mas three IlceilSeO radio broadcasting stations at Ketchikan, Juneau and An chorage.
 Charles Younger, a Kenai Peninsula fox farmer, was drowned recently. Getting coal from the beach near Bluff Point he had loaded his dory and started back to his gas boat which was anchored a short distance from shore. The dory was swamped enroute and Younger was drowned. A
Evening star., 1926-04-11

Nickel-plated with cast
aluminium grids, extra deep
to make a thick fluffy
waffle. Cooks both sides
at once in two minutes.
Edge trough to catch run
over batter. Usually 1895.
(First Floor.)
Evening star., 1926-04-11

My, what hornets nest can be
stirred up, innocently enough, over
the question of whether or not one
can put any faith in signs, omens,
charms and "superstitious" cures for
warts, fits and numerous other
ailments.
No sooner had Robert (Shorty) Will
son, we'll known colored authority on
mysticism and, on the side, able jani-
tor of The Star news department.
granted an interview on the powers of
the moon and the efficacy of fetiches,
than DR.. Walter Hough, head curator
Of the National Museum, came forth
with a barrage of scientific opinions
extremely damaging to the followers
Of signs" etc.
The venerable Shorty" remains un-
shaken in his beliefs. however. He
challenges all the scientists in the
world to disproVe that potatoes
planted in the dark of the moon have
a great handicap to overcome, or that
a bag containing a chestnut, an
onion and a piece Of sulphur won't
cure cramps. Shorty knows, because
he has tried ii out.
Signs? Yassuh, | do believe in EN-, .
Shorty declared Folks don't pay as
much attention to EN- any mo-, like
they useter. They'd be bettah off if
they did. though. See this hand? |
had a wart right there and tied a
string aroun' it, and now it amt there
no mo- l put the string beneath the
gutter-spout and when the rain washed
1t away, my wart went, too.
And cramps, lawdy, how l useter
suffah with cramps in my laig. But a
hoss chestnut, onion and a piece o
sulphur chased 'em away in no time.
I'll tell yuh sumpin' else is good fo'
cramps. Go down to tn fish market
and get a eelskin and put it on yore
laig while it's green, like a garter.
You'll nevah have cramps any mo-
How do you explain it?" Shorty
was asked
well. sub, you see it's this-a-way:
eels nevah have cramps. That's tn
Evening star., 1926-04-11

worked for me. Perhaps the person
who started that story really found
q hair snake in the water. but If
he did 1t got there In the form of an
egg. which he scooped up in the
rain water.
"The moon always has been 4
source of superstitious beliefs, most
ly of an ominous character. While
1t Is true the moon has remarkable
influence on the tides, and that it
may even have some compressing or
expanding effects on the ground, 1t
Evening star., 1926-04-11
LADY LUNA'S LIRE STILL HOLDS
DARK DISCIPLE DESPITE SCIENCE
Mystical-Minded Janitor Assures World DIR. Hough
Speaks Without Due Research in Dscrediting
Influence of Moon Over World.

reason yo' won't get 'em if eel skin
is wrapped around your laig. Oh.
they's lots o. cures I know or. FltS
is cured several ways. / think one OF
'em is to make a hole in the wall
slightly higher than you're hald ana
stick a piece of yore hair in the hole.
When yo' grow up to the hole yore
fits II be gone. I've heard of putin
a frog in a bottle and hangin' 1t In
the chimney corner for fits, too. or Is
it Group? l amt sure bout that one.
Hair Turns Into Snake.
"Furthermo,' did you know that a
horsetair will turn into snake If you
leave It in rain watah? 1t sffo' will,
cuz I've done it, But it's gotta be
rain watah. TIL root o tn hair will
be tn head of the snake. Horse-hairs
is full o. life"
Shorty is not alone in his beliefs.
Many of the farmers down at Center
Market will tell you that If you XIII
a hog on the wane of the moon the
ham will shrivel up in the frying pan;
that potatoes planted in the dark OF
the moon will be mostly tops and the
potatoes will come out of the ground
and turn green: that fence posts
erected at the same time Will be
squeezed out of the ground; that
chickens run around and carry on
before a storm and that squirrels lay
up a large supply Of nuts before d
long Winter
DR. Hough. who has made a study
of such folklore, smilingly expresses
grave doubt that any of these beliefs
may be depended upon. But he does
admit that they may have had some
sort of basis, in fact, when they hrst
started.
Origin of Superstitions.
while these superstitions. for they
are nothing else, are absolutely un-
reliable, ] have no doubt that they
had a scientific origin. so to speak,
DR.. Hough says. For example, some
body whose warts were about to go
away anyway. tied a string around
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Musical Instrument Made of Acorns
Found by Explorer Among Old Indians

in the mouth between the teeth. AS
the string is swung and pulled taut by
the other hand, the acorn between the
teeth vibrates with a clear tone, and,
by alternating the acorns, a tune is
played as pretty as flute music"
Mr.. Harrington is bringing back to
the Smithsonian a specimen of this
new discovery among Indian musical
instruments, but refuses to promise to
play it correctly. 1T is harder to
play than the open-end Indian flutes,
he says, and l have always had to
1raw the line at them"
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Hot Milk Cake.

Beat two eggs, add one cupful q
sugar and one cupful Of flour with one
teaspoonful of baking powder. Flavor
as usual. Let one-half cup Of milk
come to the boiling point, put into it
one scant tablesoonful of butter and
add to the first mixture. Beat well and
bake Immediately. The result is loaf
light as sponge cake, but a little more
moist and so easier to keep.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

An Indian musical instrument made
of a string of acorns is the latest dis
covery to be made by ]. y. Harring
ton, ethnologist of the Smithsonian In.
stitution, in his researches among the
80 and 100 year old elders of the
southern California Indian tribes.
The instrument consists of string
Of acorns, carefully tuned according
to their size" says Mr.. Harrington in
a report to DIR. j. Walter Fewkes,
chief of the Bureau of Ethnology.
zone end of the string is held in the
hand and each acorn in turn is held
Evening star., 1926-04-11

them and gave the string the credit
for the cure He told his friends
and they told others. If they didn't
go away fer others they wouldn't tell
about it, because of their fear of
being laughed at, but If a wart did
happen. by pure chance, to disap-
pear. SO much the better for the
'hokum.'
That old one about the horsehair
turning into a snake always has in
terested me. l tried 1t many times
While a youngster, but 1t never
Evening star., 1926-04-11

Is pure bunk to say that the moon
will push a post out of the ground,
affect the frying qualities Of hogs
or other cattle, or control the crops.
Dried Human Hand.
1T Is surprising how extensive
these beliefs are, even today. We
have in the museum q dried human
hand. several Of the finger Joints Of
which were removed and sold In this
civilized city as cures for various
ailments. The gruesome Charm was
Evening star., 1926-04-11

The we'll known Mann
ing & Bowman make that
we regularly sell at $ll.
7-cup size, triple nickel
plated on copper base.
Guaranteed against burn
outs.
(First Floor.)
Evening star., 1926-04-11

else that IL 1t wasn't for the moon,
"hosschestnuts' and eeiskins he
wouldn't be hustling about the news
room Of The Star today, At as fiddle,
despite his threescore and some
years.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

Regularly sell for SIS.
NJ a S t er constructed
trunks, guaran a n t e e d 5
years. Contain all ward
robe conveniences.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

taken from a colored medicine man
here many years ago.
People are learning, however. that
they can't pin much hope on the
ground hog or the squirrels as weather
prophets, and science has proved that
potatoes will give just as heavy a
yield In one phase of the moon as in
another. Similarly, all the other old
ideas are being blasted and exposed.
You can't put any faith in signs"
Shorty Wilson. however. is willing
to prove to DIR. Hough or anybody
Evening star., 1926-04-11

The Bricklayers, Masons and Plas.
terers' International Union has
granted paid-up life membership
cards to 60 members whose names
have been on the rolls of the organ
ization for so years or longer.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Room SiSe
9x12 #.

Just seeking for vanda the boys bedroom
perhaps living during the Summer COOL
tokeepcn rug variety attractive pattensreprodued from
domestic But really have them
value the price little
Evening star., 1926-04-11
WardrObe
Trunks, $3.50

Regularly sell for
$47.5O. Made by the
largest trunk manufac-
turer in the country and
contain all wardrobe
features.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Steamer Trunks
s705

Regularly sell for
$14.50. Rounded edges,
studded all over. Gov
cred trays with heavy
hardware and sturdy
lock. Others $9.95 to $25.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
SiCilidn
Striped Awnings
Sl.69

On strong galvanized iron
frames. Cut full with long
drop and 9-inch skirt. Sizes
to fit spaces q to so inches.
Complete with fixtures.
Ncgv! Fringed green
painted stripe oatmingS, same
sizes. $3.50.
Wide black and orange
stripes, IT. the same sizes.
$3.50.
Porch drop dacnings, 8 feet
7cide and 8-foot drop. $2.o5.
(Sixth Floor
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
BOYS
AND GIRLS CLUBS

A meeting was held at Beck Lar
sens last Sunday, the purpose OF
which was to organize the Boys and
Girls Club work for the coming year.
A large number of parents and child
rem were gathered to give the work
a rousing start.
Two club were organized: one for
the boys and one for the girls. The
bows elected the following officers:
President, Alvin Larsen; Vice-Presi-
dent, Geo. Johansen; Secretary, Ell
mer Johnson; Treasurer, Carl johann
sen, and Martin SOrensen, director.
The following are the boys lead
ers for the coming year: Beck Lar
sen, Aage Andreasen, VIM. johnson,
and Nels SorensOn. The boys are
planning big program for the year.
Some are raising potatoes, gardens,
corn; others purebred calves, pigs,
and registered wheat and flax.
The girls organized with the fol-
lowing officers: President, Alfrida
Larsen; Vice President, Agnes Johan.
sen; Cecretary, Lenora Larsen; Treas
urer Dora Conradsen; Director, Myr-
tie Johnson.
The girls are also planning a big
year. First and second year sewing
will be taken up. The girls leaders
are Mrs. Ingor Larsen, and Mrs.
Chris Johansen.
The next meeting will be held May
10th, at Nels Sorensen's place, when
number of new members from this
neighborhood are expected to join.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
FIRST AMERICAN SHIP
SINCE WAR TAKES CARGO
TO SOUTHERN RUSSIA

New YOrk-Carrying a cargo of oil
well machinery, motor trucks, trac-
tors, Irvine and other articles for agri-
cultural uses, the first steamship fly
ing the American flag to southern
Russia since the war is sailing. The
Rushville, 4,50O-tOn freighter Operat-
ed by Henry Kuntz of the Clifton Co.,
will bring back Russian cement.
AmtOrg Trading Corp, official ex-
port and import agency of the Soviet
government, made arrangements with
kuntz for the ship. The cargo has
been purchased in the u. S. for cash.
Kuntz reports that docking charges
in Russian ports will be considerably
higher for his American ship than for
ships of governments which have re-
ciprOcal shipping or trade agreements
with the Russian government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
IN THE LIMELIGHT
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
that time. If it did it would have
rested on its laurels and the fine men
and women who composed its per-
sOnnel then would be entitled to the
praise they deserved. But few
cheap jacks who are too lazy to work
and too cOwardIy to steal kept the
thing in existence so they could live
off the -dOles of well intentiOned
church ladies and what they could
get from big corporations around
election times. In other words the
whole affair is a colossal confidence
game that enables an army of plot
ting hypOcrites to live at the expense
of fools. The whole scheme by which
a cOterie of sanctified thieves live
like parasites off unsuspecting vic
tins should be rigidly investigated
A man who lives by such foul prac-
tices would have the gall to say
grace over a dinner paid for with
the gold coined from the false teeth
of dead paupers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
SECRETARY OF LATHERS
UNION DENIES REPORT OF
NEW WAGES AGREEMENT

Reports in the daily press that Chi
cagO Lathers Local IA with 1,500
members had broken the united front
agreed upon in wage negotiations by
the building trades unions were
stated at the lathers' headquarters to
be based on no information known to
the union office. The scale commit
tee, which according to these reports
agreed to a renewal of the $3.50 hour
ly rate for 44-hour week, will pre-
sent its work to the union April 26
for ratification. Renewal of the old
rate by the fathers would weaken the
demand of plasters, carpenters and
others for increases.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
Producers News
Enters Ninth Year In
Prosperous Condition

Continued from page One1
news, not found in other papers, dur
ing recent months, it is now read by
every politician in the state who
wishes to keep himself posted. It's
power and influence has spread con-
siderably. Every campaign it has
started, it has finished VIGOROUSLY.
Wiped Out Stephens Booze Monopoly
and StOOlpigeOns.
About year ago it started a cam
paign on the political domination Of
Daniels County by the Stephens
Booze Monopoly. When the cam
paign was started, Berry Stephens
was operating a large saloon in the
center of the town at Scobey, not a
hundred yards away from where the
Sheriff and County Attorney made
their hangouts. Gambling was ram
pant and nobody else was allowed to
start in illicit business in competi-
ton with the political boss unless
he had first received the o. K. of the
Stephens crowd. Stephens controlled
the baseball team, which was COM
posed mainly of notorious outlaws
which were kicked out of the Nation
al League by Judge Lands after a
terrific exposure which shook the ma
tional game to its foundation at the
time. Great crowds came to Scobey
to witness the games and the "Bucket
of Blood" run by Stephens was the
beneficiary. The political boss be-
came more arrogant and circled the
country roads in high powered cars
and whenever he stopped to talk to
anyone he remarked: ain spite of
Wallace and the Producers News ]
am running Daniels county and
will run Sheridan County before
am through" But the Producers
News won out in the long run and
Stephens was sent to Jail with sew
eral other bootleggers in Eastern
Montana. The political domination
of the politics of Daniels county was
broken and the Boss was forced to
look for newer and greener pastures
in neighboring state.
The Attack on the County officials.
The Producers News was instru-
mental in organizing the Progressive
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
OBSERVANCE OF MOTHERS DAY ANCIENT
CUSTOM -ANTEDATES CHRISTIAN ERA

Although the formal designation of
a specific day as Mothers Day was
but recently made in this country, the
custom of displaying filial veneration
dates back to ancient times. 1t ante
dates the Christian era, was display
ed in rites and ceremonies in pagan
days and strikes deep into primitive
emotions.
Authorities state that perhaps the
earliest recorded formal mother wOr-
ship lies in the tales of the ceren1On-
les by which Rhea, the "great mother
of the GODS" was worshiped in Asia
Minor. In this worship it was not so
much the tender paternal aspect
which claimed attention as the power
and majesty of motherhood. Rhea
was represented as traversing the
mountains in a chariot drawn by
lions, and the ceremonies in her hon
or were marked by wild dances and
wilder music. The lion, the oak and
the pine were sacred to her.
The worship of Rhea was intro
duced into Rome through Greece
about $50 years before Christ. Cere-
monies were held on the Ides of
March, when people made offerings
in the temple, and the occasion was
known as the Festival of Hilaria.
With the advent of the Christian
era the festival still retained its old
forms, but made a further advance
and became infused with a new spir-
it. There developed an observance
in honor of the Mother church. In
this celebration it became the custom
on mid-Lent Sunday for the faithful
to visit the churches in which they
were baptized, bearing gifts for the
altar.
From this festival of worship in
honor of the Mother church there
grew the observance of Mothering
Sunday, though the successive steps
in this development are not clear.
1t is certain, however, that long ago,
when young men and maidens were
bound out as apprentices and as SER
wants, mid-Lent Sunday was set aside
for them to visit their mothers, tax
ing for them some little present,
such as a cake or trinket. A youth
engaged in such pilgrimage VS.
said to go a-mOtheIing, from which
the day came to be called Mothering
Sunday.
It is far cry from this quaint
observance in England of mid-Lent to
our American Mothers day. There
is no unbroken line of descent to the
present observance. from the holiday
when English apprentices went a.
mothering, though the modern festi-
val is perhaps the most conscious and
deliberate effort nation ever made
to honor motherhood.
The observance of the second Sun
day in May as Mothers day has now
become firmly established in this
country. The object of the setting
aside of this day is to honor the
memories of mothers who have gone.
to brighten the lives of those who re-
main and to foster among men, wo-
men and children the love of their
homes and their parents.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30

thaler Linotype Company, and the
limited States Trust Company, the
claims of which amount to $272, 282.
The J. P. Morgan Company and
Thomas w. Lamont and Dwight w.
Morrow, two of its directors will
draw from the United States a COM
bined total of $5,968,840. J. S. Frey
linghausen, Otto H. Kahn, Paul M.
Warburg, T. Coleman Du Pont,
Charles M. Schwab, G. H. Reming
ton and Elihu Root are other fnan-
ciers or lackeys of that class who
will receive large sums if the bill
passes.
Mellon Lies Openly.
Secretary of the Treasury MELONS
defense of the measure is one of the
most bold-faced defenses of such a
steal ever witnessed in congress. He
wrote in substance that he had not
been aware that companies in which
he was financially interested stood to
gain from the bill. This is a lie on
the face of it, for Mellon is we'll
informed in all such cases. Then he
declared that it didn't make any diff
ference if he did benefit in this way.
RObbIng the treasury.
The crux of the matter is that the
administration knows that Germany
will net be able to pay the awards
of the Mixed Claims Commission for
many years, if indeed at all. Mellon
used this argument, declaring that
under such circumstances the delay
would amount to a virtual confsca-
ton of the property rights embodied
in such awards. Inasmuch, he con-
tinued his argument, as the policy Of
confscaticn of private property rights
is abhorrent to the ideals of our
people, these claims must be paid off
quickly by some agency capable of
raising the cash.
A Slick Scheme.
That agency, the secretary stated,
was the public treasury, Melons
scheme is to have the treasury pay
off the claims in cash at once. The
treasury would first get the money
through its hotation of a huge bond
issue, to be secured by an apportion-
ment of a similar amount due the
United States from Germany under
the Dawes plan.
A slick and clever plan, worthy of
the mind Of the third richest man in
America, who manipulates the fin
ances of this nation to benefit him
self and his class. The only trouble
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-30
Northern Pacific Has 2,415
Miles of Track In State

Helena.-Northern Pacific railroad
mileage in the State of Montana has
increased from $50 in 1893 to 2,415
at the beginning of 1926, according
to figures compiled for the Montana
Division of Publicity. The mileage
as given Includes secands. third
sidings, passing tracks, etc.
A total of $500 people ere employ
ed in the state by the company and
wages paid last year totaled $685.,
600.
The average number of freight
and passenger locomotives assigned
to Montana is 295, and the tremend-
Gus volume of business is shown by
the fact that in 1925 the number of
passenger miles in the state was 121,-
100000 of which Translate business
was 58,3O0,O0O.
The Northern Pacific handled in
1925, in Montana, 2,221 100000 ton
miles of freight of which translate
was 1,706,00O,00O. An average of
S275,000 per year has been expended
in advertising Montana and the
Northwest, since 1922.