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Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
Says California
Average Car Fee.
Is Near Loves

SACRAM NNTO, Calf. Jan. p
California's S average motor vchicl
fee is the lowest in the United
States, with exception of the Dis
trict of Columbia, data gathered by
viii II. Marsh, chief of the state
division of motor vehicles, shows
The average fec in California is
$3.50, he said. Oregon, which tops
the list, receives an average of
$24.90. The fee in the District of
Columbia is $3.50. California ex-
acts Il flat rate of So from owners
of passenger ears, but the average
is raised by weight fees charged
on commercial vehicles.
The charge in California will be
reduced further next year, Marsh
said, when an amendment to the law
will become effective permitting
owners of commercial vehicles. to
register them on rates based on the
number OF months remaining in the
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
Grant Authority
For New Bridge
Over Mobile Bay

san ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. >.
Another big step toward complct-
ing the big bridges on the Old Span
ish trail along the Gulf coast was
announced this week when the war
department granted authority for
the eight mile bridge across Mobile
bay. This, according to OST head
quarters, will be the longest NIGH,
way bridge in the world.
The financing of three other big
Old Spanish trail bridges have also
been agreed upon BY federal, state
and local authorities, Sabine river
and marsh connecting Texas and
Louisiana. 81. miles; the bay of
St. Louis in Mississippi, three miles,
and Biloxi bay in Mississippi, / y
miles. This is total of - miles for
four bridges. The total cost will be
somethins likes -*i.5a0, ,g0a.s These
bridges illustrate anew, according
to OST officials, not only 'the extra
ordinary problems involved in put
ting the Old Spanish trail across
the continent but also the remark
able progress that is being made.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARIs
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE RED
GLASS

"Childrcn, come herc.'' called
Uncle W;ggilv one morning after
breakfast in his hollow stump bun
galow.
From nooks and corners, from un-
der the stairs. from out on the
porchcs and from out in the yard
came hurrying, scurring, flurring,
and twirling the forty 'levcn little
hoy and girl rabbits who made up
the family. With them came Baby
Butv, the cutest little bunch of
fur YOU can imagine. a little or
phan rabbit was Buntv, and part of
The time she lived with Uncle Wig
sily. his new wife and Nurse Jane
Fuzzy WuzE. the muskrat lady
housckeeper.
"Oh daddvcums, cried Wingle,
who was 4 twin brother to Wranglc.
are you going to give us some
New Year prcsents?'
Better than that exclaimed
MIR. Longcars with twinkle of his
pink nose. ''Prescnts only make
You happy for a little while. am
going to tell YOU to be happy all the
while -
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

SO Buntv took run and slide
and before she could stop herself
She had bumped into the old rabbit
gentleman from behind. Down she
knocked him-out from under him
his paws slid and down he fell. He
dropped the bundle aud there was a
crash of glass.
cont cried Baby Bunty. -,
- "Ql.-.,. cried UAcle WiggiIY,-fpl
it was Uncle Wiggily who had been
CARRYING the package.
'What have 1 done!' gasped
Buntv. L wanted to do a good deed
by helping you carry the bundle. 50
| slid to reach you quickly
"You reached me quickly, all
right said Uncle Wiggily. "But
you have broken a lot of red glass
tumblers l was bringing home for
my wife. Oh, sadness, the red
:umblers are smashed" And truly
enough they were.
Scattered about on the ground
were pieces of broken glass. Baby
Bunty picked up red pieces and
hardly knowing what she was doing
she looked through it.
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!' she cried.
See how lovely the red glass max
es everything-it s like fairyland!
Lcok!' The bunny gentleman gaz-
ed through the piece of red glass.
$50 it docs!" he cried. Glow
beautiful everything is. You have
given me a happy feeling, Bunty.
That is kind deed and it does away
with the accident you caused. Hur-
ray! How lovely things look!'
Again the bunny gazed through the
red, rosy glass. Then he picked up
the tumblers that weren't broken
back he hoped tO the store to get
others in place Of the shattered ones
and Baby Bunty went with him,
helping him carry the glasses home.
And this time she didn't slide, so
none were broken.
So everything happened for the
best you see. And if the ice
pick doesn t try to put peaches in
stead of apples into the cocoanut
pie. II tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily an dthe blue glass.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
scurried

'.That is worth knowiug. said
Baby Bunty. though, truth to say,
she WAS nearly always bright,
Jolly little bunch of sweetness.
''Thc way is this went on Tn
clc Wiggilv. Each day try to dc
something good for some one else
and you will be haIpy Begin ngM
the second 1la1 Of the New Year,
and see what happens. Remember
this. \ good deed each day keeps
unhappiness away.
I'VE II remember chanted the lit
tie boy and girl rabbits, and away
they scattered, singing: a good
deed each day keeps unhappiness
away.' Each one was eager to do
the first deed.
81 m going to do good deed all
hv myself thought Baby Bunty.
" For so MANY of the others go in
pairs | would have no chance.
And this was true, for Jingle and
,Iangle. the rabbit girls, were always
together, as were TOOter and Scoot-
or, the bows. to say nothing of
lngIc ana NahGie, ana each one
could help the other do a good deed.
So Baby Bunty started to hop by
herself. Over the fields and
through the woods she scurried,
wondering what adventure she
might have or what good deed she
could do. until, all of quickness.
she saw just ahead Of her, an old
gentleman rabbit.
She knew he was IL rabbit for she
could see his ears. but that was
about all she could see, for this rab-
bit carried a large bundle that al
most hid him from sight.
"Oh, the poor old rabbit man. y
exclaimed Baby Bunty kindly. He
bas such heavy load. | must help
him, That will be my one good deed
for today and l will chase unhap.
pincss away. | will also chase my
self down the lev slide" went on
Eunty. for in front of her and be
hind the old rabbit gentleman with
the bundle, was trip if frozen
water that made a wonderful slide.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
HARD COlL LOSSES

Substitutes for hard coal multiply as the strike
goes The anthracite industry is losing its market
New England, which formerly used hardly any
soft coal, is using soft than hard Foreign
fuels coming in large quantities. Bitumnous coal,
fuel oil, gas and briquettes are dspacng hard coal
over large from the Atlantic to the Mississippi
Much of that market will be regained but by no means
all of it.
One of the notable results is the impetus given to
the Ignite coal industry North Dakota, which has the
chief deposits of that fuel turning record guam
titles of it for in its natural form and in brquetes
This is a highly important development, because of
the vast quantities of Ignite available at low cost.
There is said to be enough in North Dakota to supply
the whole country for many decades if the transpor-
tation problem solved. Pressed in briquettes
is rated as superior to anthracite.
So the country has profed perhaps, more than
it suffered from the anthracite strike The operators
and miners, instead of hurting the public as usual
have hurt each other and injured their own industry
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
PROGRESS STORY
IS WELL TOLD IN
WINTER EDITION

Again the Los Angeles Times has
performed its annual service to
Southern California in the publica-
ton of midwintcr number more
colorful and graphic in its pictorial
representation of the southwest
than ever before.
Th.e seven sections of this year ;
mi.wintcr differ from those of
r.fcvious years in several marked
RESPECTS: there are two beautifully
printed rotogravurc picture sections,
the one depicting the delights of the
out of doors, and the othr conduct
ing the reader on Il remarkable tour
of industrial plants in which South
ern California manufactures by
most modern methods practically
every comodity that human beings
use. The great southwest section
classifies geographically every town
and city over 5000 inhabitants in
Southern California with writcups,
maps and reference tables.
The keynote of this years mid
winter is " Forty Years of Pro
gress,' this being the 40th ami
versary of the first publication in
1856. The story of Southern Cali
fornia's growth during that period
is presented in Il manner to make
even the old timers open their eyes.
When one looks at Charles II. Ow
en- double page of picture of los
Angeles in 1856, il seems scarely
credible that any city could havs
grown so much in less than an aver
age human life time.
This growth has brought TO tthc
southwest many nationally known
writer's, Us will be seen by glancing
over the table OF contents. Mon
taguc Glass, Zane Grey, Frank
Spcarmm, II. G. Wilmer, Edgar
Rice Burroughs. DR.. Robert \. Mill
kan and others of national fame
are now Southern Californians and
contributors to the midwinter num-
Der.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
SKULL FOUND IN
PHOENIX MAY BE
THAT OF TEXAN

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. "A hui
man skull, believed to be the re-
mains Of John j. Knight. wealthy
Texas oil operator who disappeared
here four years ago. was sent to
Dallas, Texas, authorities today
that they might identify it by the
teeth.
The discovery of the skull was
made bv f. J. Battles near the place
where knight s abandoned ear was
found. Sheriff John Moore made
a search near the place the skull was
found for other bones, but re-
turned to Phoenix today unsuccess-
full.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
new BOOKS AT
LOCAL LIBRARY
Fiction

Fiction .J.
"The Annexatioas Society,"
!: $. Fletcher. Mystery story Involving
the theft of Enggsand's srt treas,
| .:1suben. aid Ixx Sen -,n'-Louise
~. Min. The delightful Mrs. Sen
and, her children are the central
figures in this new story. which
treats dramatically of the results
of marriage between east and west.
1.-The Black Joker. Isabel Os-
trander. A new mystery story.
''Octagon Housa' - Gertrude
hnevels. A cheerful young report
er solves a mystery.
"Thres Farms. ''-Cynthia Stock
ley. A story of South Africa.
1.-THE Madonna of the Barri-
cades. y. st. Loe Strachey. Paris
street fighting in the revelation of
1s4S is the central theme of this
story
"The AMMAN Jewel ''-Patricia
Wentworth. Another new mystery
story for holiday reading.
Non-Fiction
"Fourteen Years of Diplomatic
Life in Japan. ''-Baroness dame
than. The annals of the diplomatic
career of the Minister from Bel
gium to Japan.
"The Busy Woman Cook Book
Mabel Claire. Meals that can
be prepared in from fifteen to
thirty minutes, with recipes.
"John Citizen s Job. '-Hcnry
II. Curran. The Commissioner of
immigration at Ellis Island gives
details of political life.
American Patriotism in Prose
and Verse. ''-Gathany Selections
that will aid in Americanizing the
youth Of the country. whether of
native or foreign birth.
"The Negro Around the world. :"
Willard Price. A summary of the
Negro world situation, with all the
essential facts of negro life and
progress.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
NOTICE OF ESTRAY

Notice is hereby given that there
weresahen up at my place on De
ccmber 10th, and are now being
kept at my said place, 3h miles
southeast of El Ccntro, the follow
ing described animals:
-Four heifcrs about two years old,
one llolstein, more black than
white, one IIolstcin, more white than
black; one Guernsey with horns, one
,JelscY~ aeAornsd, with ear ring. ,-,-
Noticc is hereby given that unless
said animals are claimed by owner
within thirty days from this date,
and the cost Of keeping and damage
paid rs required by law, / shall turn
same over to the constable of FL
Gcntso township for sale according
to act loGO OF the general laws of
California.
NMae about 5000 each.
Dated December 10, 1925.
- IS j = j. VI. GRAFTON.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
January 9. 1911

j. B. Lonsberry purchased the in
terest of his partner, Charles r
Fairbanks, in the Imperial pharm
acy.
w. ID. Abbott of Riverside pur
chased from A. II. Griswold 80 acres
in the east side G:strict, on which
the new owner planned to raise
cotton and live stock.
Denver ID. Pellet, former FL Cen.
tro city trustee, who had moved to
Brawley, joined his sister, Miss
Nellie Pellet, postmistress of that
city, in putting ten acre subdivi.
sion on the market. The subdivi.
sion, located on the edge of Braw-
ley, was to be sold for residence
lots.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
TEN YEARS AGO
January g, 1916

Walter Frazier came home for a
visit from San Francisco.
City Recorder r. B. Whitelaw and
I. T.. Sprouse returned home from
hunting expedition in the foot
hills near Indio.
After spending the holidays with
relatives in Ell Centre, Mr.. and
Mrs. Buck Estes left for their
home in Yuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
Looking Backward
What the Press Files TEL ~
ymveriG Valley for This date
n Fast YeAlS
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO
January 2, 1908

Building activity was going on
briskly as the year opened. The ex-
ira brick buildings on the south side
of Main street which were being
built by. W. F. Holt were progress
ing well. Plans for a brick passeng
er depot and frame freight depot
had been approved. The addition
to the Hotel Franklin was complet-
ed and rooms for so guests were
available. Work had been started
on a 20 room addition to the Ell
Centric hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02
THE LONG UNIT

Do the bills press this year just the same? Have
all previous efforts gone to smash Is the account
book mockery, the budget broken reed? Are YOU on
the ragged edge, outWardy gay, inwardly in misery
which verges despair?
One family solved exactly that situation with what
the mother calls 'the long unit
"A wise woman once told US to begin by living on
last weeks income That done, we could edge on to
month, year, ahead She was then on the income of
year before last and feared man nor fate.
1--WE tried, but we never could stay the week ahead
blizzard burned up two weeks coal in three days. or
some cataclysm wiped out old gains, present margins
and future hopes. Finally took small Christmas
thrift fund, so l might be that one expense, at
least would be provided for. Then the solution broke
over US
eve couldn't begin today with last weeks bills on
the desk, to live Oh yesterdays income But could
make the first week Of next January live on crumbs
from this whole year. We did The next year we made
it two weeks, then a month. Now we are freed from
fear. We should worry about taxes The money is in
the bank.
"It seems like magic bat the main difference was
that the banks roncad contract supplied strong
backbone. A sensitive conscience could not draw out
everything to pay d single bill. One fund stood firm
"Ihe difficult part is to make the beginning The
fund you can't draw for a whole year does this When
started, abandoned hope for the current year
but we took long look towards the next one.
THE long unit has changed our whole psychology
One Christmas IS not the end Of the world. One lost
vacation does not ruin lie We do not piffle much
about small things All our units are getting bigger
We look four years in the eye without blink whether
the subject be Sheets soap, tickets college
educatons."
We are short-sightcd race. Perhaps we should
be less timorous, happier and more re5ourcefu if we
took civic deve opment and the biggest things in life
well the sheets soap and Christmas bills with
long look and prepared to handle them on the prin-
ciple Of the long unit.
The American people will Just naturally have to
80 in for aviation Soon there won't be any other way
OF getting to Florida.
If the dove represents peace, its cousin the car
rier pigeon should represent debt 1t always finds the
way home.
The worst thing about civilization is that it makes
vereyhlng lock Clean, respectable and inartist.c.
France has cot into financial hole by not facing
her debt francly.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

First tilings of the firing on
Fort Sumter was carried by pony
express and its connections from
st. Joseph to San Francisco i'll
eight DAYS, II hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

News has been received by friends
of Laurel (AIiss.) man that he
went hunting without knowing
how to fight.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

News from the Riffs. Soldiers
Getting butter a year old. That s
enough to make anybody want TO
fight
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

The worst thing about civilization is that it makes
areything lock so Clean, respectable and nartst,c
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

The American people will Just naturally have to
90 in for aviation. Soon there won't be any other way
of getting to Florida.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

If the dove represents peace, lis cousin the car
rer pigeon should represent debt. 1t always finds the
home
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-02

France has cot into financial hole by not facing
her debt franely.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25
(TO0 Late for Last Week.

Mrs S. Danders of Hastings, Neb.,
sister of w. F. Bowers, passed away
Tuesday noon. The funeral will take
place Thursday, but Mr.. Bowers is un-
able to attend.
Mrs. Hugo Wickstrom, Vivian, and
Harold went to Proctor Tuesday to
see Mrs. Wickstrom's mother who is
ill. Harold will return Wednesday
and Mrs. Wickstrom and Vivian will
remain until Sunday.
A benefit social was given at Nc
Grath recently for the Gust Gilbert
son family who lost their home by
fire a few weeks ago. Mrs. Gilbertson
who is a sister of Mrs. Carl Ryan,
was alone on the farm with the chill
dren at the time, her husband being
employed elsewhere. Part of the
household goods was saved but with
the residence gone they will have to
erect a small building to reside in at
present.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25
Milwaukee Brings $4,000 900

Butte, Mont.-Kuhn Loeb, National
City representative, bought the Mil
waukee for $140,0O0,00O at auction
here. A number of eastern finan-
ciers and railroad council, represent
ing wealth estimated at $500,000,000,
came from the east on a special
train to be present at the auction.
Preparing for any eventuality, they
had arranged for direct telephone
communication with New York
throughout the proceedings. H. E.
Byram, former president of the road
and present receiver, were among
visitors. The auction, disposing of
the largest corporation ever put un-
der the hammer in the United
States, was ordered in Butte because
actual properties of the Milwaukee
and Puget Sound holdings overlap
here. :: ~
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25
DEMOCRATS ASK
!. FLAT TAX SLASH
Tax Reduction Fight Looms As
Party Leaders Ask Cut of
1925, 100000.

Washington = Evidence that the
Democrats are getting ready for a
smashing tax reduction fight at the
approaching short session Of con-
gress was given when the ranking
Democratic members of the senate
and house committees which shape
tax bills agrees on a basic plan of
action.
Out of meeting between Senator
Furnifold Simmons of the senate fin.
ance committee, and Representative
John Garner of the house ways and
means committee, came a concrete
proposal for permanent taS reduc.
tion of 1926, 100000, which may lie in.
creased to $4O0,000,000. 1t would cur.
tail the corporation income tax from
1914 per cent to II per cent, or even
less; would wipe out the excise taxes,
and perhaps slightly modify the to-
bacco tax and lower the surtax on
incomes between $4,000 and $4,000.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to take this means of
thanking OUR friends and neighbors
for the kind sympathy shown during
the death of our beloved husband,
father, son, and brother, also for the
many beautiful floral offerings, and
especially do we wish to thank the
American Lutheran choir for the
beautiful songs rendered at the SER
vices.
Mrs. Hjalmar Norlund and children
Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Norlund
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. F. Norlund
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Johnson
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Jacobson
Miss Alma Norlund
Axel, George, Toivo and John Norlund.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25
OBITUARY

While at his work in an elevator
10, Hjalmar NOrlund, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Marcus Norlund, who are farmers
near Finlayson, met with an accident
which proved fatal. AS he was do
ing repair work, his arm became en-
tangled in the conveyor, tearing it
completely off at the shoulder. He
was taken to the local hospital where
the physician dressed the wound and
prepared it so that he might have an
artificial limb as soon as possible.
For a time he seemed to feel better,
but blood poison set in which resulted
in his death Saturday at o'clock in
the morning. AS his pain was so
severe he had to be kept under the
influence of opiates which rendered
him unconscious until the end. His
wife and father were at the bedside,
being Immediately summoned after
the accident.
He was born at Red Cannon, Wy
oming, February 26, 1891, and came
here with his parents. in 1896. On
the 9Th of October, 1916, he was united
in marriage to Miss Jennie Askelin,
whose parents reside on a farm west
of Finlayson. After spending several
years on a farm here they moved to
Minneapolis, where they were making
their home at the time of his death.
He has always been unfortunate but
bore his trials uncomplainingly.
Besides his parents, he leaves three
sisters, Mrs. Gust Johnson of Mime
apolis, Mrs. Arthur jacobson, and
Alma Norlund of Finlayson, and five
brothers, William, Axel, George, Toi-
vo, and John of Finlayson, his wife
and three little ones, the youngest
only three years of age.
The funeral services were held at
the home of his parents at 1 o'clock,
and at the Finnish National church
at 2 o'clock, Rev. D. Routsalainen
of Virginia, Mimi, and Rev. A. Doe
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25

of Superior, Wis, officiating. The
floral offerings were many and beau
tlful. An exquisite wreath sent by
his employer expressed more than
words the esteem in which he was
held. The hymns, abide With Me"
and Nearer My God To Thee, we're
sung by the American Lutheran choir.
The remains were laid to rest in
the Finnish cemetery. The sympathy
of the community is extended to the
bereaved relatives in their hour of
sorrow.
Gone before us, oh, our loved one,
To the spirit land;
IT'S hard to break the tender cord
When love has bond the heart,
Ills hard, so hard, to speak the words
I'VE must forever part,
Dearest loved one, we must lay thee
In the peaceful graves embrace,
But thy memory will be cherished
Till we see thy heavenly face,
Peaceful be thy silent slumber,
Peaceful in thy grave so low;
Thou no more will join our number;
Thou no more our sorrow know,
Yet, again we hope to meet thee,
When the day of life is fled
And in Heaven with joy to greet thee,
Where no farewell tears are shed.
Call not back the dear departed,
Anchored safe where storms are DER,
When we leave this world of changes,
When we leave this world of care,
We shall find our missing loved one
In our Fathers mansion fair.