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Hartford, Oct. 27 L49 - Navy day was informally observed here. Banks and public buildings hoisted the flag. The Hartford Yacht club and craft in the Connecticut river also f1eW the flag, as did a number of private citizens formerly in the navy The local naval division will refer to the day at it's drill this evening.
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National Observance New York, October 27 GP - To- (Continued on Page 15)
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to build seven more. That saved Nova Scotia
from becoming an island but the tides in the
Bay of Fundy haven't subsidized yet.
Nothing more is heard about Pauls early his
tory until he appeared in the Maine woods, full
grown and ready to work. BY this time he had
acquired his most valuable ally, Babe, the Big
Blue Ok, who, according to one authority, was
seven axhandles wide between the eyes (others
say f0rty-two axhandes and one plug of tobacco)
and who could pull anything that had two ends
to it. Paul used Babe to pull the kinks out of
crooked logging roads and once Babe pulled a
chain of three links out into straight bar. But
Babes most valuable feat was this: Paul hitched
him to whole section (640 acres) of forest and
he hauled it to the landing where Paul sheared
off the trees at his leisure and dropped them into
the river
OF course Babe had tremendous appetite
and In one day he could eat all the feed crew
could tote to the camp in year. Between meals
he was accustomed to eat a snack of so bales
of hay and it took crew OF six men with pick
axes to pick the wire out Of his teeth. Babes
tracks were so deep that once settler, his wife
and baby fell into Of them and the son finally
got out when he was hfty-seven years old and
reported the accident. All of the thousands of
lakes in Minnesota today. are nothing more than
Babes tracks that filed up with water.
No less interesting an animal than Babe was
Benny, the calf who was very much under
nourished when Paul got him from farmer in
Bangor, Maine, and weighed only two TONS Paul
drove from Bangor to his headquarters at Devils
Lake N. D., and led Benny behind the sleigh. In
the stimulating western air Benny began to grow
and every time Paul looked back the calf was
two feet taller. That night Benny was put In
the barn and the next morning the barn was
gone. Later it was discovered on the calfs back
as he scampered about the camp. Benny finally
died Of indigestion. He was very fond Of pam
cakes and once made the fatal mistake of swa-
lowing a red hot stove as he ate the pancakes
from it's top He lies buried in South Dakota
the Black Hills form the mound.
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there is another type of the lumberjack new style
From the lumber camps of Canada comes the word
that the swashbucker of the past has been sue
ceeded by race of collegiate lumberjacks earn
est and ambitious youths who are hewing trees to
gain funds for college education He is no longer
a two-hsted fighting type From visitor to some
of the Maine lumber camps comes this word:
shades of the old daysl He has springs on his
bed and music is served to him. He's so pam
pered he hardly fights any more, but listens to
sermons. He finds literature motion pictures and
al comforts awaiting him in the woods the food
served him is excellent, he washes three times
a day, takes diurnal shave and bathes at least
every Saturday night
But for all these changes brought about by
Industrial conditions which have ~revolutionized
the lumber industry, it's safe bet that this
winter, when the days work is over and the
lumberjack, modern though he is in every respect
retres to his clean bunk house with its individual
BIRDS, he will still swap yarns with his fellow
workers, and some of these yarns will tell of
the mighty deeds of Paul Bunyan. Ever hear Of
Paul? If you haven't you've missed a real treat
For If the lumberjack had contributed nothing
else to history before he passed on into oblivion,
his contribution of Paul Bunyan should be enough
to give him immortal fame. Paul Bunyan is the
only native American myth hero the super
lT.mberjack He originated in the imagination OF
tie lumberjack and the oid-timers used to tell,
tAeir "whoppers' about him to overawe the
-'stuff" the tenderfoot with all sorts of impos-
sible information. Paul's exploits weree never re-
counted in narrative form The old-timers made
their statements impressive for the green
horn by dropping their remarks about Paul in
ofr-hand, casual manner though referring to
matters of common knowledge, and when two of
them remembered meeting each other in one Of
Paul Bunyans camps they usually established
the exact time and place, such as ION the Big
Onlon the winter Of the blue snow" or "at Shot
Gundersons camp the Tadpole the year Of
tie sourdough drive"
The stories about Paul Bunyan increased
The years went until the tales of his exploits
are innunerable Students of mythology saw in
these yarns epic material, or as some one mas
expressed it., ''the professors got interested in
Paul." and scientific studies have been made of
him. In fact so great has become the interest in
this superumberjack that within the last year
or two two books have been written about him.
one by Mrs. Esther Shepherd of Reed college,
Oregon. and the other by James Stevens, whose
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HARRY's VIOLIN

Harry, as you can easily guess, was
a boy. He was not particularly studi-
Gus, yet he was very bright and quick
and so always had good luck with his
lessons. 1t was not all luck, of course.
A good share of it was brightness.
He was as fond of playing as any
boy could be. In fact he was more
fond of it than many, and had so many
ideas about games and amusing times
to be had and adventures.
Harry was full of ideas when it
came to having good times. He was
always ready to share these ideas
with others, too.
Now Harry had friend who was
a few years older than he was and
who had lately been taking violin
lessons. Harry thought it was mar
velous to hear the other boy as he
began to learn how to play. for the
other boy was musical by nature and
learned easily. His family were
musical, too
Harry's family were not musical in
any particular way but Harry had
always loved music Fond as he was
of games and play, out-of-doors, canoe
ing, swimming and tennis, he had
sometimes said that he did not believe
he could really like any one who
hated music.
The thought kept persisting in his
head He, too, wanted to learn how
to play the violin.
He thought about it fer at least two
weeks before he spoke.
Then one day he went to his father
and said:
"Pop, I'd like to learn to play the
fiddle. Couldn't l take 1essons?"
His father was not sure whether
Harry really wanted to learn to study
the violin. or whether it was just from
having heard his friend play with so
much natural talent that he thought
he could learn easily.
But his father thought it would be
nice if his son could really play the
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Paul Bunyan, Superb umberjack

One other animal was included in Pauls barn
yard galaxy, Lucy, the COW, who Paul declared
was part Jersey and part wolf She, too had
tremendous appetite and Pau had to turn her
out and let her shift for herself. The Winter Of
the Deep Snow, when even the tallest pines were
buried under the snowdrifts, Paul QUILTED her
with two pairs of snowshoes a pair of green
goggles and turned her out to Craze on the snow
drifts. At first she had some trouble with the
snowshoes, but as soon as she learned to shift
gears without wrecking herself she began to run
all North America. Finally Paul had to
hang church bell her neck so that he would
know where she was When the Deep snow
melted Lucy began to feed the evergreen
trees and her milk got so strong of white pine
and balsam that Paul's UNDERTAKES began using
1t for cought medicine and lnament.
Pauls chief helpers in his numbering opera
tions were the Seven Axmen. They sharpened
their axes by rolling stones downhill, running
alongside of them and holding their axes on the
revolving stones. They hung their axes long
ropes and as each of the axmen marched through
the forest he whirled his ak around him until
the hum sounded like one of Paul's foreand-aft
mosquitoes Che had produced them by crossing
them with buInblebees), and at every step quar-
ter section of timber cut. Finally the Seven
Axmen left Paul's employ so he had Big Ole (the
blacksmith, whose principal JOB was to punch
holes in doughnuts) make him Down Cutter.
This was like moving machine and with 1t Paul
could drive around eight townships and cut
swath 500 feet wide
At different times Paul had different numbers
of men in his employ and feeding them a
big problem. The winter he logged off North
Dakota he had 500 cooks, making pancakes for
the Seven Axmen and the Little Chore-Boy On
the Big Onion he had crew so big that he
never knew within several hundred either way
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version of Pauls exploits started him on the
road to literary fame The Red River Lumber
company also has published "for the amusement
Of friends" little booklet called paul
Bunyon and His Big Blue Ok" and to this the
writer Of this article is indebted for some of the
illustrations and many facts"
just where Paul Bunyan originated is not
known. AS to where he has been and worked
everywhere! You can hear Paul Bunyan yarn
in Maine and the same one with slight variations
in Michigan, North Dakota, Oregon or California.
"As long as he stayed around the camps his pre-
vious history was treated with the customary
consideration and he was asked questions, but
when he broke into college and the professors
got after him, it was all off. Then he had to
have ancestors birthday and all sorts of vital
statistics" According to Mrs. Shepherd, he was
born in Maine. When three weeks Old he rolled
around so much in his sleep that he destroyed
four square miles of standing timber. Then they
built floating cradle for him and anchored it
off PASSPORT When PAU rocked in his cradle
it caused a 75-foot tide In the Bay of Fundy
and several villages were washed away. He
couldn't be Weakened, however, until the British
navy was called out and fired broadsid1. for
seven hours. When Paul stepped out of his
cradle he sank seven warships, and the British
government seized his cradle and used the timber
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violin, and perhaps he could Who
would ever know unless he was given
chance to try?
And yet he did not want him to
waste time learning something that
would be difficult if he really did not
show talent About that his father
had doubts.
But no one really knew how deeply
Harry cared about music. That was
because he said very little about what
he cared TO-, most and the thoughts
and feelings that were the strongest
he kept little bit shyly, and very de-
cidedly and quietly, to himself
So he began his lessons He took
them twice a week after school was
over. 1t was surprising how he man
aged to take lessons and practice
little and do his lessons little and
get through all right. and still have
plenty of time for play
But he did And quickly, very
quickly, it was only too clear that
Harry had great genius for under
standing the violin he was studying.
His violin was not an expensive
one. But from it Harry brought forth
music that expressed so much. 1t ex-
pressed beauty and rhythm and gayety
and charm and loneliness and sorrow.
too.
1t seemed as though he could do
almost anything with his fiddle.
And better and better he played all
the time, more and more did he draw
forth from his beloved instrument.
When ne put it up under his chin
there was affection for it in the very
way he held it.
He had far greater talent than his
friend. When they played together
Harry's violin could always be heard
above the other, singing out with so
much beauty
Yes, it was really quite wonderful
that Harry had thought of getting
violin and of taking lessons, for not
only Harry was happier because Of it
but everyone who heard him play was
thrilled and admiring and delighted.
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that ate the prune pits got big that they killed
all the wolves and might have attacked the lun-
berjacks next
At one of his camps Paul had "a griddle for
making the cakes of which the Seven Axmen
We're 50 fond, that large that you couldn't
see across 1t when the steam was thick The
gridde was creased by coored boys who skated
around on it with hams tied to their feet They
had to have c9lored boys to stand the heat The
batter YES stirred In big drums like concrete
mixers lg0t was poured on with a crane and
spout IW soup was served the cook put a
stern-wheh steamer which Paul had shipped up
the Red River for that purpose, In the kettle tc
stir it.
Paul had some trouble keeping cook. One
cook got lost between the -four bin and root
cellar and starved to death. Another used
so much grease that he had to wear calked shoes
to keep from sliding out of the cook shanty, and
rub sand on his hands when he picked up any
thing. One cook, Sourdough SAM made every
thing except coffee out of sourdough. He had
only one leg and arm. The others had been
blown off when his sourdough barrel blew up at
the Tadpole River camp the year Shot Gunderson
took charge for Paul. Finally Paul sent for his
cousin, Big Joe, who came from three weeks
below Quebec. Big Joe had Big ole make him
dinner horn with which to call the crews to their
meals. This horn was big that the first time
Joe used it he blew down ten acres of pine. The
next time he blew straight up in the air, but
this caused such storms at sea. So Paul bad to
junk the dinner horn and ship it east where it
was made into tin roof for big Union Depot
Paul great inventor. He invented the
round turn on logging roads and the grindstone
to save the Seven Axnen from running down hill
This griRdStone was so big that working at full.
speed every time it turned around once it
payday. All OF his inventions were successful ex-
cept when he decided to run three ten-hour
shifts a day and installed the Aurora Borealis
After a number of trials he had to abandon the
plan because the lights were not dependable
At riding logs in the drive Paul a master
He could spin a log fast that the bark came
off and then he would run ashore on the bubbles
He once threw a peavy into the river at St.
Louis and standing on it, poled all the way up
to Brainerd, MINI. No matter how rough the
water was, Paul could ride log through it. He
could ride in water so rough that it would tear
an ordinary man in two just to drink out of the
river He mighty hunter and fisherman
In the morning he would row out into the
Atlantic in his boat and return in the evening
wading ashore with his ship. filed with fish, on
his shoulder. He invented gun that was so
big that it took four dishpans full of powder and
a keg of spikes to load each barrel With this
he could shoot wild geese SO high in the air that
they spoiled before they reached the ground
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just how many he
had. 1t was a big
job hauling tn e
prune pits and coffee
grounds from camp,
so finally Paul de-
cided that it would
be cheaper to move
his camp away from
them than to move
them away from the
camp. Lucky they did,
too! The chipmunkS
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Beginning to Boil

Bobby was stroking the cat that
dozed so happily 'tNefore the fire.
Selling pussy by the ii, the child
began dragging her away erom the
fire.
''You must not hurt Kitty" said the
mother.
''Pve got to get her away from the
fire." said Bobby, she's beginning to
boil"
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or less alien, mass
from the cities and
the farms, from fac
tories and villages,
from the plains and
the West Indies.
Physically h e is
smaller, swarthier,
weaker; Temperament
tally, he lacks the
fearIe s sn e SIS and
logged determination
of his hearty fore
runners mentally, he
is less alert, and in
dustrially more con-
scious and better
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By LING sco4r WATSON

WON'T be long now until the crews
q I !. !
RI R-N of lumberjacks will be going into the
LII HS, woods for their winter work for,
LJ@sI LsAN despite all the substitutes that mod
ETS - ern science has designed to take the
k1<l 5% place of wood the world must still
e.ATS have It's millions of feet of lumber
every year and it's the lumberjacks
Jop 70 harvest that annual crop. The lumberjack
OF today is very different person from the
Aumberjack of yore who takes his place with the
cowboy and the prospector as pioneer types
whose like probably wiz never be seen again
For, say those connected with the lumber Indus
Try of today, the picturesque, harddrinkng
hard-working, rough-and-tumble fighting shanty-
man, immortalized by such writer's as Stewart
Edward White and Holman f. Day is rapidly
passing away and soon there viii be no more
of him.
The lumberjack as a type originated in the
East and made history in Maine and New York
before the rapid advance of our so-caled civiiza-
tion crowded him west with the retreating fringe
of the native forests. He fourished in the lake
states during the white pine days of the seventies
and eighties and reached the height of his career
In the lumber camps OF Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota in that era. When the white pine OF
these states began to disappear, some of the old
lumberjacks drifted to the southern pineries but
the climate and environment were not to their.
liking Then the opening of the great forests of
the Pacific Northwest lured him and there but
under changed conditions, he made his last stand.
The old-time lumberjack was French Canadian,
Scotch, Irish or any of the other racial strains
which we commonly think of as making up the
native stock of Americans. Today he is in the
words of one authority, "a conglomerate
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Lie a Teacher

Why is a retired carpenter like q
schooImaster?
Because he is an explainer.
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Al Tongue TuDister

Sammy Smith saw seventy-six sing
yrs. sweetly singing slumber songs
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Deer Rams Auto
A Minnesota motorist tells tale OF
a buck deer committing suicide by
running into the automobile he was
driving. The tale is garnished by
many interesting sidelights on the PEE
culiar accident which caused $50 dam
ages to the automobile. He got this
deer
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The late Bishop Williams was in a box at
the opera one night, when after looking
around, OF the ladies' exclaimed; MY
dear Bishop, did you ever see anything like
1t in your lfe?' Never" gravely replied
the Bishop, "never since was weaned-
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PHONE 1872
LEsTERvILLE

Our school closed Friday, Sept H.
with good program After the pro
cram. ice cream was served by the
teachers. ~,
Among those who visited school rrl-
da- afternoon were Mrs. X. c. EsK-
ridge. Mrs. Bill Brown, Mrs. hiram
Brown. Miss Violet Crownover, Mrs
Rettis. Mrs. T.. Cooper Mrs. Jesse
white. Mrs. Crownover and others.
we are always proud of visitors III
our school. as 1t proves you are III
terested in your community.
Among those who didn't miss a Gay
of school this term We're as follows
Hugh Moore Cleo Triplett, Thelma
Trinlett. Hester Golf. Elmer COL
NIaudic segraves, Bill segraves, Robert
lee Williams and Stella Ratliff.
Every pupil keep reviewed ana Try
70 retain what you have learned thn
| term of school and let's make our mex
+, school more successful than ever.
Next Saturday night, Sept 70. tner'
win be a program and ice cream sup
ner given at Lesterville for the hene
AT of the church. Everybody conn
and help Lesterville out. They Ger
tainly will appreciate 1t.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior, U. 5. Land
Office at Little Rock, Arkansas, Sep
TENDER IA, 1926.
Notice is hereby given that John >
Athey of Ravenden, Arkansas, who'
on August Bird, 1922, made Home
stead Entry-Section 22S9 RS, NO
O1751s. for Nw1-4 Section "a, Town
ship 81 N, Range w, 9th Prin. Meri-
dian. has filed notice of intention &c
make year Final Proof to establish
claim to the land above described, be
fore W. II. Phipps, County Clerk Ran
dolph County, at Pocahontas, Arkan
sas, on the 25th day Of October, 1876
Claimant names as witnesses; JONI
Newton Chas. NJ. Moore, George Wat
son. L. +. James all of Route 2 Raven
den, Arkansas. J. NJ. Gibbons,
est. Acting Register
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There is no open or model Of make OF car when sells
money than Ford Coupe of Tudor Sedan mere
open touring that sells for the same price DIS
Ford Tudor Sedan but its engine has smaller rated morse
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PHONE 1872
CARTER

Picking cotton and working in the
hay is the order of the day.
Henry Golden returned home Sun
day from a weeks visit with relatives
at Oil Trough.
Several from around here have been
attending the meeting at Shannon this
week.
Misses Vica Westfall and Eula ROg-
ers, Clyde and Lymon Alphin, Jess
Timer, Fuel Mansker and wife and
Hubert Williams and wife were guests
Of Charley Poe and family Sunday
John Timer and wife were guests of
Mrs. T. ]. Timer Sunday.
Nit Brown and family RUFF Wal
dron and family and Joe Brown we're
callers at Jess Browns Sunday.
John and Less Hogan were seen in
this part of the country Sunday.
We had a large crowd to visit our
school Friday. We entertained them
with nice program. a nice display
and refreshments. Friday was the
last day of our school. We hope Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Baker will be back
with us in the near future.
| w. NJ. SnOdgrass and son, Howard,
were guests of Hurley johnson Sun
day.
Several from the hills have been
down here this week picking cotton.
Mrs. Cleve Underwood is visiting
homefOlks this week.
We were very sorry to hear of Mrs.
Joe SnOdgrass getting one of her an
kles broken.
Will Bonner has bought the land on
which w. NJ. SnOdgrass, Cecil and
Clyde Eaton live.