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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

the home maker, the surprise guest.
Every woman has had the experience
of welcoming an unexpected visitor
when supplies were at low ebb and
has searched high and low to find
something presentable to put on the
table The emergency shelf in the
pantry does away with such worries In
short order.
A can opener and-presto-a veri-
table banquet can be prepared in a
few minutes. The housewife may
have her choice Of many excellent
meats, corn, tomatoes, mushrooms. If
she Is short of milk or cream, can
of evaporated milk, which is simply
fresh cows milk sterilized in the can
and with sixty per cent Of the water
removed will do the trick. In fact she
may have two hundred or more savOry
dishes ready to her hand.
When the surprise guest does ar
rive the hostess naturally wishes to be
hospitable. She doesn't want to be tied
to the kitchen range half the after
noon. She wants to entertain as she
has been entertained.
It isn't possible If she mas to phone
frantically for the butcher, the grocer
and the baker.
But that's only one Of the places
where the emergency pantry comes
in. Backed by well-stocked emer-
gency shelf, the wife can get together
a splendid luncheon or dinner in
jiffy. The spontaneous wish that
comes at the last moment to informal
ly invite few friends for lunch can
be gratified at once with the aid of
the new pantry.
Afternoon tea for the bridge club
is an equally easy matter A glass of
preserves or jelly, platter of bread
and butter, tea, and dish of cookies
will meet the ordinary demands OF
the casual caller and can of evap-
Grated milk will answer the milk or
cream need.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

The chestnut tree, which is found
in the mountain ranges of the Blue
Ridge and Alleghanies, supports the
communication system of the country
and. plays an important part in light
ing the way in the cities and towns
OF large areas of this country. II l
could feel that were going to be q
part of things-important things like
that would feel that ] had not lived
in vain.
A chestnut tree was my nearest
neighbor in the forest grove, where
we formed a real friendship.
A short time ago he was taken
away and we separated forever. He
too will be something useful, while l
will be an ornament for short time
and then will be discarded.
One day crew Of men came into
the woods and following along'a path
that led from the road into the forest,
stopped at this tall, shapely chestnut
tree, and after looking 1t over, de-
cided that it would serve a useful
purpose as pole in one of the lines
of the country's best known COM
munication system. After sizing up
the way the tree should fall, the big
cross-cut saw began to bite into the
bark and, as it cut deeper and deeper,
1t seemed to the chestnut tree to be
the dirge of his dreams and to put
an end to his hopes for all time to
come.
Finally with q crash the tree fell
headlong to the earth, and soon his
limbs were clipped from his body by
the clean strokes of axes in the strong
hands of the woodsmen. Then the
smooth, clinging bark was skinned
away, leaving the tree bare trunk
that apparently could serve no useful
purpose.
But soon the long white timber was
loaded on a truck and hauled away
from the mountain where it had
grown and fiourished. After miles of
travel the tree, which was to become
q pole, was set up in a line as a
support for the highways of speech"
that extend north, south, east and
west over the country and carry mes
sages here, there and everywhere, day
in and day out, year after year.
After being set in the line, linemen
came along and gave the pole new
arms to take the place of those that
had been trimmed away by the woods
men. Later these arms were covered
with glass insulators, on which shin
ing copper wires were placed. Over
these wires messages are carried back
and forth across the country.
Soon the pole heard the hummins
noises produced by the wind--sounds
not unlike the stunning OF the
strings on gigantic harp. Then It
realized that 1t had become part OF
the country's system of commu- ga
ton, and that at last it had reached
its objective and would now serve 6
far more useful purpose than beint
one OF the many trees Of the forest. !.
a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

turing purposes. Another committee
from that country has been studying
textile mills in Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts,.
Admittedly, there is great need In
Russia for farming implements as
the Russian farmer now has prac-
tically all the land he wants, but is
unable to develop all of his ground
because Of lack Of farm machinery.
Another great need is dairy ma
chinery such as milking machines.
cream separators, pasteurizing ma
chinery. horse and COW clipping ma
chimes and butter-making machinery.
M. Pereferkovitsh said he intended
to buy more than 5000 sheep, but
owing to misinformation as to the
best buying season, he arrived in this
country too late to get all he wished,
and so expects that next year as
many as twenty men will be sent to
this country to make these pur-
chases.
Russia is doing everything possible
to improve farming and dairying
methods. Graduates of agricultural
schools are teaching farmers and
dairymen modern methods and the
use of modern machinery.
Many things point to Russia az
one of the worlds great future
sources of dairy products.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01


see what happens to me. Can't do
much worse than Ilhave DONE" he add
ed, laconically.
"Some stunt, dad; mothers pretty
shrewd, / think. What are you re-
solving, grandma?"
cts pretty late for an old lady OF
eighty-six to be resolving anything.
Guess I'll just try to be as good as I
cam
you're not so slow, grandma. You
can't break it, because no matter
what you do you've always got an
alibi-being just as good as you can
be-"
snow it's up to you, mother. Bet
you never thought of resolving, did
you?"
"Bet I did," mother retorted. "But
l hadn't expected to broadcast it."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01
THE STORY OF THE
CHRISTMAS TREE
THOUSANDS OF HOLIDAY GREET
INos EXTENDED THROUGHOUT
THE NATION OVER THE HUM
MING WIRES

am the spirit Of Christmas. Dur.
ing the happy holiday season am
found In millions OF homes where
make the old young, and the young
happy, and lend color to the glad
season of the year. / am the Christ
mas tree.
For years have been growing
shapely and symmetrically with the
thought in mind that some Christmas
would be a part of the big things
of life and do my share toward in
shilling happiness into the world.
When !. am properly decorated with
tinsel, colored lights, sprig Of holly
or mistle-toe here and there, not to
mention wonderful presents, l am a
thing of beauty that none can help
but admire. But the sad feature OF
1t all is that within a few days. a
week at most, my beautiful plumage
begins to droop, l wither and the orna-
ments are stripped from me, and all
forlorn l am thrown on the trash-pile
because l have, no further value or
usefulness.
There are many trees, companions
with whom l have grown up in the
forest, who are not nearly 80 shapely
or attractive as l, who serve more
useful purpose. The stately oak, the
long leaf pine, and the chestnut, all
immediate neighbors, play an i'm
portant part in the growth and de-
velopment of every community. They
not only make lumber which is used
in office buildings and homes, but are
used for many other purposes, too
numerous to mention here.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01
he New Year
Byffances
|M4H4 DC M'kinaon Morton. In
Christian Advocate


IN the sunlit hills OF time
fhe New Year comes on joyful
Feet:
the night the sweet bells chime
e of hope and promise sweet.
! e dead past with our dead
i've the old, old year away;
we have had and tears we've
bhed,
we'll beloved yesterday.
are In thy ageless hands;
/ once was ours now is thine.
wrong upon the record stands
1t with they love divine!
{ber not the petty sins
marred our troubled yesterdaye;'
b us as this year begins
Head US on by fairer ways.
"a the dream before our eyes
ped eyer clear and sweet,
bid our spirits rise,
In to our stumbling feeti
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

you've got TO
though. It's only
fair"
"All right. I'm
going to stop
complaining"
sc o M pl a lining,
m o ther? I've
never heard you
complain. Have
you, dad?"
"Not that I'd
recognize" Ben,
senior, agreed.
"Y e s, l do.
We've had a hard
We ar. Finances
have been most
stringent. Moth
er broke her hip
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

and we had a nurse for months.
Fathers partner wasn't square
Some folks didn't do their part, etc.
I've enumerated those things; thought
about them and talked about them"
"But, mother, you never whined
You always said things jokingly."
"That may be so, but in my heart
was .rebelling and complaining
then, last week, your father came
within a half hour of being asphyx-
iated-I thought a good many things
in those hours he was fighting his
way back. Two days later, son, you
were in an automobile accident-the
same kind of an accident in which
many lose their lives. I've done lot
more thinking the last few days. ]
might have faced this New Year, a
widow and childless; instead l am
blessed with my loved husband and
equally loved son, and mother is still
with us. Hereafter" she resumed her
usual bantering gayety, IT complain
no more of everyday trials"
"There, dad, didn't tell you, you
resolution was good one. Guess II
word mine that way. meant to sa,
I'd work hard to please my believe,
parents. I'll add, follow mothers ad
vice. as an amendment"
"All right, son, we'll follow mother.
advice this year. The whole famil.
will quit complaining. How's that
mother?"
And mother laughed. "Have SOM,
more coffee?"
20. 1925. Western Newspaper union.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

business world.
The emergency
pantry, latest in
novation In the
cuisine of the
modern house
wife is particular
ly indicative of
the truth Of this
statement.
This new sort
of pantry-it may
just be a shelf in
the regular larder
does away with
that hugahOO of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

erful New Year.
smiled gayly at her hand
| beloved only child. Grand
|ooked adoringly across the
her idolized grandson.
guesses?' Father laughed.
Eoing to get out of bed in the
:" Ben grinned. II haven't
hg it this vacation, I'll ad-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

Their Resolution
y Agrees Mothers Sug-
|tion Is Best One to
| Be Followed.
|pRENcE HARRIS WELLS

ELL, T Of K $, I've
made a New Years
resolution" B e n,
home from college
for the holidays,
announced as he.
took his place at
the breakfast table
the morning Of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

James Baltimore. colored, wait
er at the Green Spring Valley Hunt
Club, died Saturday night at the
Johns, Hopkins Hospital from burns
due to his falling asleep while
smoking in bed,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01
STATE & COUNTY TAXES

State and County Taxes for the
year 1925-26, are now due and
payable.
All Taxes Bear Interest From
October list, 1925
at rate OF u per cent per month.
Taxes may be paid at the National
Bank of Rising Sun, and receipt
obtained for payment.
JOHN H. TERRELL,
s25tf Treasurer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

Anybody without money knows
that there is a nAonezppwer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

If dreams came true we'd all be
dead-haven't you ever been shot
or dropped on a. clif in your
dreams
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

boy WHO ildu always
Ear younger brother
he nearest, mother.
TART, but I'm going to
year with a bang
ketting through as in
Bugh that isn't exactly
y resolve. Now what
my fond family resolv-
delve any deeper into
about you, dad?" Ben
one. not waiting for
verdict in regard to his
!, laughed boyishly.
ed not to resolve any
you insist, I'm going to
~ leaf and follow my
whole year and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01
Emergency Pantry
Meets Home Need
BY META Il. GIVEN

NItUHS ECUHufHISI.1
Efficiency and economy go hand and
hand in the home as well as in the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-01-01

wage earners are the ultimate
beneficianies of all industrial
progress.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10
The WinslOW Mail
To Blossom AS Daily

Announcement of another daily
newspaper in the Arizona field was
made this week when Giragi Broth
ers, publishers of the Winslow Weekly
Mail, announced the launching of q
morning daily to be known as the
Winslow Daily Mail.
The first issue of the Daily Mall
the publishers announced, will be off
the press Friday morning, December
10th. 1t will be a six day paper with
no Monday morning issue, and will
carry the leased wire report Of the
Associated Press.
According to announcement of the
publishers this will be the only daily
newspaper published in Northern
Arizona on the line of the Santa Fe
railroad and will be the only daily
newspaper, morning or evening, on
the Santa Fe, between Albuquerque,
New Mexico and San Bernardino, Cal
ifornia Need for daily to serve the
cities and towns within a radius Of
300 miles east and west as well as -
through trains daily, is given as the
impetus for launching of the Daily
Mail
Besides the city of Winslow, the
largest town in northern Arizona on
the Santa Fe, which is rated at over
5000 population, the new daily viii
serve on the west the city of Flag
staff with like population and fur
ther on will cover Williams, Grand
Canyon, Ashfork, Kingman, Selig-
man and as far west as Needles,
reaching that point by the afternoon
of publication day. On the east the
publishers announce their intention
to go as far as Gallup, New Mexico,
reaching that field by $50 a. m. Hol-
brook and the Apache county country,
including MeNary, where the big saw
mills are located will be reached be-
fore noon on publication day. Pub
lication of the weekly will be contin-
ued with Monday as the publication
day.
Although located in Winslow, bare
ly year, the publishers in their an
nouncement this week, say that it
did not take them long to see the need
for a morning Associated Press news
paper in the northern Arizona terri
tory, and soon after establishing
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10
JAMES 10y FORMER
RESIDENT HERE DEAD

James 10y, one of Yavapai coun-
ty's pioneer attorneys, died at his sis
ter's home in Phoenix Monday morn
ing following a lingering illness which
had kept him confined to his bed for
many months. He was 70 years of
age.
Prominently connected with the
history of the Yavapai County Bar
association, of which he was mem
Der since its organization, he was
well-knoWn in court circles here un-
til i'll health caused his retirement
from active practice about three
years ago. Since that time Mr.. Loy
had resided with his sister, Mrs.
Brown of Phoenix, during the great
er part of the time spending only a
month or so at a time at his home
at Phoenix.
He is survived by Mrs. 10y and one
son, who are now living in California,
a daughter, Ruby, whose home is in
Phoenix, and his sister. The remains
will be shipped Thursday morning to
Camp Verde for burial in the ceme-
terry there.
Mr.. 10y was a resident of Flagstaff
for many years and at one time coun-
ty attorney of Coconino county.
He was a brother of former super
visor John 10y Of this city.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10

Boston, Mass.-Crude dramas of
the frontier unrolled Monday before
the probate court here, which is con-
sidering the claim of Mrs. Carlotta
Cockburn of San Gabriel Calf, to
relationship with the late Lolita Crab
tree, wealthy actress and to right of
contest of the will which disposed of
nearly $4,000,00O.
There was the story of Mrs. Cock
burn herself-the arrival of John A.
Crabtree, whom she claims as father,
and his wife, in the struggling town
of Tombstone, Ariz., her birth shortly
afterward, her abandonment, first by
her father, and then her mother, and
finally, when her luck changed, of
adoption and education by grace of
the man who had been her fathers
partner in livery business.
Then there were the stories of the
witness, of Mrs. Mary J. Deerwood,
who escaped the murderous assault
of her husband, and married the man
who killed him. The story of the
frontier physician, who tended dy-
ing boy who cursed because he died
unavenged, also came in.
The testimony was by deposition,
but it was nevertheless vivid. Nelson
S. Gilberson of San Francisco, who
practiced medicine at Tombstone in
the eighties, remembered when ''the
Cranton boys ran into the Earps
crowd and old Doc Halliday, and got
shot up. I think they were all killed
but one"
''That happened right in Tomb
stone?' he was asked.
"Yes."
Fright in the center of the town."
"Wen, | could not say that. | do
not know what the center Of the town
was. l was called to the 1S-year-old
Cranton boy. He had a charge of
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10
WILD AND WOOLLY FRONTIER DAYS
IN ARIZONA ARE DEPICTED IN COURT
IN. FIGHT OVER CRABTREE ESTATE

,buckshot in his heart, and | suppose
you wonder why he was not dead.
He had one of those silk handker-
chiefs. 1t was in summer time. That
silk handkerchief was there and the
bullet carried it into his body. 1t was
sinners death bed and he said:
Doc, if I could only get my teeth
into that : throat, | would die
happy Seventeen or eighteen; he
was only a boy"
Gilberson told also that it was
common along the border for men TO
live with women who were not their
wives. But in the case of Jack Crab
tree, he declared, Crabtree always
spoke of the woman and baby as his
wife and child. "There was few
marrying people in Tombstone, you
know" Gilberson explained.
Mrs. Deerwood in whose care the
baby was left when the mother went
away seeking Crabtree, began her
story at the time she was the wife of
Mike Killeen. Mike, she said, start
ed shooting at her, and one OF his
bullets struck "Buckskin Frank" Les
lie. So Buckskin Frank started
shooting and he killed Mike Killeen.
Then she married Buckskin Frank,
but later got divorce.
The adoption papers were shown
whereby Ed Bullock, then stock rails
er but formerly partner of Crabtree
in the livery business, took in the
homeless baby girl and gave her his
name. There was also brought in the
marriage license of Lottie, Lota or
Carlotta (the name appeared with all
three spellings) and Robert Cockburn.
There were still other dispositions
of persons who remembered John A.
Crabtree and his wife and baby in
those days, and some remained to be
read when the court day closed.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10
NAMED IN
HONOR OF MAYOR AND
MESA SOCIETY GIRLS

Social Note: Miss Agnes Johnson
and Mr.. Jed Peterson, who have been
attending the Flagstaff Normal, have
come to Mesa and enrolled in the local
high school, Miss Mabel Passey and
Miss Becky Pomeroy, former stu
dents at the Tempe State Teachers
college, have also become residents Of
Mesa and are continuing their stud
les at M. U. H. S.
For the above item of educational
and society news, the Journal-Tribune
is indebted to Mr.. Haryev Granville
Bush, better known as Buffalo"
Bush.
Before the reader dies of curiosity
it may be well to explain that the
names of the three popular young
women, and the Mayor of Mesa, have
been bestowed upon the four buffa
loes that have just been added to the
Bush zoo on the high school grounds.
Miss Passey, Miss Pomeroy, Miss
Johnson and the mayor are numbered
by Mr. Bush among his most intimate
friends. Desiring to do them the
greatest honor lying within his pow
er, he gave their names to his hum
pies"
The buffaloes are attracting almost
as much attention as the deer of the
Bush zoo. When they first came they
were little shy but they are rapidly
getting over that and soon will be
mixing and visiting around like reg
ular home folks.-Mesa Tribune.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10

themselves in Winslow they started
to lay plans for the daily. A new
building and new equipment were nee
essary before this could be accom-
plished. Last month th moved into
their new building, the first three
story structure to be built in Wins
low. A new Duplex pesfecting press
was installed along with new limo
type machines and other machinery
necessary to facilitate The production
of daily.
although Winslow Is what might
be termed small town or city," the
publishers said in their announce
ment, "it is not from 5t needs of this
field alone that the plans to launch
the daily emanated, hut the fact that
in the whole of northern Arizona,
there is not daily paper reaching
here under y hours TO serve a pop
ulation of $4,000 in This area"
The Giragi brothers, are we'll
known in Arizona Journalism and
have been credited with having made
a success in the newspaper business
under adverse circumstances.
They were for l3 years publishers
Of the Tombstone Prospector and
Tombstone Epi aph at Tombstone,
which they recc 1T / sold to w. B.
Kelly.
The new pape. viii ite on the night
Associated Pres .ir,a,it, and it was
necessary to e2ietr ihe a. P. loop
from Prescott tn fiuSinw in order to
cut the new daily IL On The wire.
Through the n,v a. p. member in
northern Arizona II follows that news
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10
KILLED NEAR
SKULL VALLEY MONDAY

J. S. Kennamer, 81 years old
freight brakeman, was killed instant
ly Monday morning at two o'clock
two miles this side of Skull Valley
when he fell between two freight cars
on a south bound double-header train.
The supposition is, according to infor-
,mation received from the local Santa
Fe officials, that he slipped on a wet
box car platform and fell between the
rushing freight train while turning
down a retainer, an auxiliary air
pressure brake, after reaching the
bottom of the grade near Skull Valley.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10
FEDERATED CHURCH
|. !. ). ]. j. : *+*** :. :


Last Sunday the Bible school elect
ed it's officers for next year. r. ii.
Harley was chosen superintendent;
Baxter Womack assistant, Mrs. A. w.
Brown. treasurer, and Harold Bur
man. secretary. The hearty thanks
of all given to the retiring officers for
their splendid and faithful services.
Nominations for next years cabl-
net officers were also made at the
church service. Same viii be elected
at the annual congregational meeting
January 8. Cabinet president, Judge
Jones. vice-president, j. w. Etter, Sec
retary. Miss Benson, education, Grady
Ganmage. choir, T. o. Bellwood, or
ranization. Mrs. Hudgens, mems work
and Baptist delegate, A. w. Brown,
Young people. Mr.. Womack, buildings,
Mr.. Pearson. Miss Vandevort, Mr..
Osborn, Mr. Hudgens; pastor, Kev.
Softley Sacraments, Miss beas1ey'
usher, Mr.. Rees; treasurer, Mr.. tAar-
nisch.
The Woman's society held annual
election of officers yesterday, Names
will be published next week. A social
program and afternoon was enjoyed
by large attendance OF ladles.
The Wednesday evening meetings
are proving interesting and better at
tended. Lectures are given each week
on the origins of church organlZa-
tions and activities. =
The choir is preparing a series OF
musical numbers for December 70
Sunday evening. The Christmas FRO
grams, Sunday school, Christmas eyej
church, Christmas morning, are also
in preparation.
Next Sunday morning the pastor
breaches on the Meaning Of Advent"
and in the evening H. c.. McCune,
head painter of the new hotel under
construction will give mans talk 70
men on the theme of Cooperation as
illustrated in the building of the no.
TEL" Mr.. McCune is Christian lay
man who has a message all will want
to hear.
The Coconino sun., 1926-12-10
MAYBE THEY DIDN'T HAVE
SCHOOL FOR A FEW DAYS

ST. Michael's college at Santa Fe
was visited by a $4,000 fire last
week which destroyed the main
building and one of the dormitories.
None of the students was hurt and
the cause of the fire is unknown. Ho-
tells and other large buildings are
housing the boys and classes are be-
ing held in one of the unharmed DOR
mitories. Flagstaff has five boys
there, Ed and Jack Metz, Bud Moor
man and the two sons of Salvador
Mier.