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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-18

for good band music all over the
United States. During this past WIN
ter General Hunter Liggett was a
guest at the Tampa Bay Hotel which
is located in the same beautiful park
where Mr.. Bachman and his band
played every afternoon and evening
tor the entertainment Of Tampa's
thousands Of tourists and winter
visitors. General Liggett attended
r'any of the band concerts during
his sojourn in Tampa and Mr.. Bach
man was very much honored and
gratified by receiving a note from
him before he left in which he said,
Il still believe hat what / said abo"
your band in France is true" This
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aNew Yorker.
90 IL Paris 30

Paris, Oct. 18.-At lie Bourget
field, if you didn't see the huge birds
of transit uarting in and darling
out, you'd swear you were in the
neighborhood of a railroad station.
The same scurry of porters and
baggage and taxis drawing up; the
same consultations of train times
the same weller of trunks as the
buses draw up from hotels, the
same last minute arrivals.
Bourget field is the Grand Central
station of the airways. Here you
see passengers taking off for Wen
ma, Prague, Munich, Moscow, Lon
don, Nice, Rome almost any
place on the face of Europe as
casually as merchant jumps the
night train for Chicago. Tourists
are whisked over the European map.
as though the magic carpet was still
available.
All about you can hear the whirr
of the propellers and the rising
rhythm Of the motors. Out Of no.
where comes great bird, descends
in its particular lane; out pile the
passengers and into taxis, busses or
private cars and are whisked away.
Or passengers transfer to another
destined in a few minutes to take
off for Zurich. !,
The Europe N is astounded at the
Americans surprise. Having seen
the Americans amazing air ex-
PLOTS, having read Of the scores Of
air derbies and long distance flights
and such, the European cannot un-
. derstand that we have no such air
transport at home. The European
has had it so long that he expects
planes actually to leave and arri
on train-time schedule. And, for the
most part, they do.
What is more the planes come in
and out with startling rapidity and
regularity. In the morning, at least,
there are few minutes Of leisure;
something seems to be doing all the
time. There is that same undercur-
rent Of excitement that one finds at
the biggest railroad stations and,
since a hundred or so folk may be
departing in various directions and
as many coming in, while friends
come down to see them off or greet
their arrival. you have in miniature
an open-air replica Of scenes at any
American depot, from Pennsylvania
Station to Los Angeles.
=
Listen to the Americans and you
find most Of them wanting to live
in Europe. Listen TO the Europeans
and you find most q them wanting
to live in America.
And you can't blame either.
Drop an American, myself for IN.
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DULUTHlAN KILLS SELF

Duluth, Oct. 1s.-(P-Melancholy
is believed to have prompted Mrs.
ALI koivu, 81, mother Of three small
children, to commit suicide late Sun
day night by inhaling gas, Coroner
c. F. McComb, declared after in
vestigating the case. She did not
leave any note of explanation but
in the past had several times threat
cned ''to turn on the gas and end
il ALL" DR.. McComb says.
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How Bachman's Band
Received It's Name

Bachman's Million Dollar Band,
which will play in Bismarck on Oct
ober 81 at the city auditorium, orig
mated at the outbreak Of the World
War and was originally part Of the
Second Regiment, North Dakota Ma
tional Guard, which was stationed
at Bismarck before leaving for over
seas service. This band was later
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attached to the 10th Engineers

attached to the 10th Engineers,
41st Division.
On a certain occasion while serv.
ing in France with this regiment
General Hunter Liggett said, THAT
band is worth q million dollars to
the American Army" This occasion
was commented upon around the
division until the band became known
as "The Million Dollar Band" Sever
al members of the original Second
North Dakota Regiment band as
ISOLATED themselves with Harold
Bachman in the professional band
which he now conducts and the nj
name given this band in 1917 in
France is now taken as synonym
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certainly gives the stamp Of anthem
ITCHY to the story Of how Bachman's
Million Dollar Band got its name.
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LOTS FOR SALE

LOTS FOR SALE-Colonel Maus Of
the army, we'll known to old Bis
markers, offers some choice lots in
Flannery and Wetherby Addition.
He advises young men to secure
lots now for their future homes,
believing that property in Bis
marck will never again be sold at
such low prices. Taxes on these
lots have been paid to date. For
information call on the Hedden
Real Estate Agency, Webb Block,
Phone @.
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DIAMONDS set in very latest
mountings. Engagement, we'd
ding, dinner cluster, two and three
stone rings, brooches, bracelets,
pins, earrings, combination lava
Heres and brooches, $25 and up.
Cash or credit. Buy now for
Xmas. James w. Marek, exclu-
sive diamond dealer. Office at
108 Third street, Bismarck, N. D.
FOR SALE-Fancy large solid cab
bage,. one cent per lb. Large
dry onions, two cents per lb. Or
ders must be 100 lbs. or more.
Cash with order. Prices F. o. B.
Washburn. Sacks free. Clarence
Burg, Washburn. N. Oak.
FOR SALE-Choice Imported Ger
man Rollers and Hartz Mountain,
also native singers. Cages, seeds,
treats, etc. Phone 115-J, Jacob
Bull. Dickinson, N. D., Box 72s.
FOR SALE-12 gauge Remington
automatic in excellent condition,
little used. Opportunity to try out
pattern if desired. Price $4,000.
EOS Ave. B or phone 9S3-J.
FOR SALE-One registered short
horn bull. Priced reasonable, Of
splendid line of breeding. service
able age. Call at 718 Fifth. Mr..
A. c. Small.
FOR SALE-Confection and lunch
room, all modern, good business.
Part cash, balance to suit pur-
chaser. Address Box 1O3, Garri-
son, N. d.
FOR SALE-Pool hall located in
small lively town. Just the thing
for some live wire. For informa-
ton. Write G.. F. Pelke, Center,
N. D.
FOR SALE-Up to date cleaning
plant. Call and look the plant
over or write Caroline Greenwood
at Hettinger, N. D., for informa-
ton.
FIXTURES priced for quick sale.
One candy case, two National
Cash Registers. Inquire The car
cade,' Mandan, N. D.
GERMAN POLICE DOGS-Well
bred pups for sale. Male $500,
female $1,000. E. J. Schaeffe1,
Ashley, N. D.
FOR SALE-A II gauge repeating
Winchester gun in excellent con-
dition. Price reasonable. Phone
1893.
FOR RENT-A garage. Call at
1O4 Thayer Ave. West.
to tourist trade, lacks general pros
perity. Most folk are content to live
from hour to hour. A few francs,
so carelessly tossed about by tour
lists, is greedily seized upon. Lon
don, being bigger, seems even poorer
and when you hear the shopgirls
tell of their few shillings week,
you wonder how they live.
A fur coat on an American
woman actually causes faces to turn
about and, in an out of the way
cafe, the display of money in any
quantity still causes an uneasy ex-
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CHARACTERS OF THE STORY
PHILO VANCE
JOHN FIX. MARKHAM District
Attorney of New York County
ALVIN H. BENSON. Well
known Wall Street broker and
nan-about-town. who was mys-
teriously murdered in his home
MAJOR ANTHONY BENSON :.
=. Brother Of the murdered man
MRS. ANNA PLATZ
Housekeeper for Alvin Benson
MURIEL ST. CLAIR
........... A young SINCE.
CAPTAIN PHILIP LEACOCK
::::...... Miss St Glars fiancs
LEANDER PFYFE
$3.50. Intimate of Alvin Benson's
MRS. PAULA BANNING ....
-. A friend Of Pfyfe's
ELSIE HOFFMAN Secretary Of
the firm Of Benson and Benson
COLONEL BlGSBY OSTRANDER
..::...... A retired army officer
WILLIAM H. MORJARTY ....
cEoRGE G. sriTr "a" .'uefmA"
........ OF the firm of Stitt
end Mccoy, Public Accountants
MAURICE DINWIDDIE
80. Assistant District Attorney
ERNEST HEATH ........ Ser
geant OF the Homicide Bureau
BURKE, SN1TKIN, EMERY 90.
Detectives Of Homicide Bureau
BEN HANLON 49,. Command
ing Officer Of Detectives as
signed to District Attorneys office
PHELPS, TRACY. SPRINGER.
HIGGINBOTHAM
-. ............ Detectivcc as
signed to District Attorneys office
CAPTAIN CARL HAGEDORN
80. Firearms expert
Ok. DOREMUS -. .....
Medical examiner
FRANK SWACkFR :. Sec
rotary to the District Attorney
CURRlE ............ Vanoe's valet
s. S. VAN DINE -. The Narrator
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FURNITURE FOR SALE

FURNITURE FOR SALE
FOR SA1E-Library dinette, ward
robe, daybed, kitchen cabinet, mat
tress, 9x12 administer rug, bridge
lamp, windsor rocker, orthophonic
victrola and kitchen stool, all prac-
tieally new. Phone 786-R, IA
Ave. B.
FOR SALE-One solid black walnut
four poster bed and dresser to
match, with marble dresser. Apply
Box 352. LakOta. N. D.
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OFFICE ROOM FOR RENT
OFFICES FOR RENT-Suite of two
desirable office room, in Hoskins
Block. See S. A. Floren at Bust
ness Service Co.
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THIS HAS HAPPENED

vance demonstrates by meas
urements at the scene of the
shooting that the murderer must
have been approximately six
feet tall and thus eliminates
Miss st. Clair as a suspect.
Pfyfc tells Markham that Lea
cock had threatened to kill
Alvin Benson. Markham begins
TO believe Leacock guilty. Then
word is brought that large
gray automobile that had been
seen outside Benson's house the
night Of the murder is listed in
Pfyfc's name.
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FOR RENT-One three room un-
furnished front apartment in Rue
apartments, all modern. Phone
697-J or call at I'll Ave. A.
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No S54
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Moffit State Bank at Moffit. in
the State of North Dakota. at the
Close OF business October 10TH 1927.
Loans and discounts ......$ 61.31O.S4
Overdrafts. secured and I'M mr..
w s9rarss stocks tax Ger. "
tificates, claims. etc. 2.656.s7
Banking house. furniture
and fixtures ............ 3,362.5O
Checks and other ,.,os
Cash and due
from 9th er
banks ........ 54,S00.32 54.922.3S
Total .................. s122.s5o.4s
CAPITAL stock paid In ....$ 100000
Undivided profits. less ex-
penses and taxes paid ;. 116.19
Individual de-
10 check .....:$ 5s.ss2.35
ou dena.iy fund aas.2o
Tine IN as sso:at'os!es $3.50,
Cashiers checks
outstanding -. 674.60 110,s34.24
STATE OF NN;oRI:TrHii DAKOTA, '''''0'''
County Of Burleigh--ss.
4, +. II. Pillsbury, Cashier Of the
above named bank, do solomnly swear
that the above statement is true, to
the best OF my knowledge and be-
r. H. PILLSBURY,
Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of Oct, 1927.
H. e. WILDFANC,
Notary Public. Burleigh County.
North Dakota.
Ny commission expires Jan. 4th,
1882.
Correct. Attest
VALENTINE BENZ,
C.. A. ANDERSON,
JASON HOOVER, Directors.
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FOR RENT-Furnished light house
keeping apartment. Geo. w.
Little, 801 Fourth street. Phone
1874.
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FOR RENT-Apartment 1t the
Woodmansee with or without gar
age. Apply H. j. Woodmansee.
Phone 1888. I
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FARM LANDS

FOR SALE-A clean partly i'm
proved quarter section between
Steele and Driscoll, in 140-74. $24O
cash, balance easy. Address Box
152. Detroit Lakes, MINI.
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FOR SALE-Pool hall located in
small lively town. Just the thing
for some live wire. For informa-
ton. Write G.. F. Pelke, Center,
NJ n
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FIXTURES priced for quick sale
One candy case, two Nationa
Cash Registers. Inquire The CAR.
cade." Mandan. N. d.
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FOR SALE-Up to date cleaning
plant. Call and look the plant
over or write Caroline Greenwood
at Hettinger, N. D., for informa-
ton.
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GERMAN POLICE DOGS-Well
bred pups for sale. Male $500,
female $1,000. E. j. Schaeffer,
shlev. N n
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statesmen

WANTED-Retail automobile sales
man. Good opportunity for the
right nan. Super Six Motors.
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FOR SALE-A II gauge repeating
Winchester gun in excellent con-
dition. Price reasonable. Phone
1893.
FOR RENT-A garage. Call at
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ROOM AND BOARD
MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED-Roomers and boarder,
at SIG Main Ave.
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FOR SALE-Confection and lunch
room, all modern, good business.
Part cash, balance to suit pur-
chaser. Address Box 1O3, Garri-
son. N. d.
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FOR RENT-Seven room modern
house, full basement, hot water
heat. Also garage. sos w. Broad
way. Phone 676-M after 500
p. M.
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FOR SALE-One registered short
horn bull. Priced reasonable, OF
splendid line of breeding. service.
able age. Call at 718 Fifth. Mr.
A. C.. Small.
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FOR SALE-Choice Imported Ger
man Rollers and Hartz Mountain,
also native singers. Cages, seeds,
treats, etc. Phone 115-J, Jacob
Bull. Dickinson. N. D., Box 728.
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FOR SALE-12 gauge Remington
automatic in excellent condition,
little used. Opportunity to try out
pattern if desired. Price $4,000.
2OS Ave. B or phone 9S3-J.
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LOST-Shell trimmed glasses If
leather case. Finder please phone
996 or Is.
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FOR RENT-A beautifully fur
nished sleeping apartment, com.
Portable summer and winter, suit
able for one or two persons. Phone
948.
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FOR RENT-Three room modern
furnished apartment. 721 Third
street. Phone 678-R.
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Tribune Classified Advertisements
HONE 82-
HOUSES AND FLATS

FOR notwithstanding house, 422
Fourth street. Apartment city heat
ed, three rooms with private bath.
Also garage. For sale. Iron top
for gas range. Phone COS.
FOR RENT-To June 1st. Dietrich
cottage completely furnished.
PIG Thayer Avenue, SOS month.
Inquire The B. me Agency, Bis
marck Bank Building.
FOR RENT-Three room house with
finished basement. All modern
except bath, located on Fifteenth
street. Inquire at 210 Main or
phone 1913.
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APARTMENTS

FOR RENT-Furnished or unfur-
nished apartment in modern home,
on ground floor, private entrance,
lights, heat and water furnished.
415 Mandan street. Phone 1853.
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obviously a reference to Tetraz.
zini's performance in La Boheme It
the Manhattan Opera House in 1905.
Ito Be Continued.)
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FOREIGN STUDENTS
END WEEKS STAY
First Group to Visit U. s. Under
Exchange Plan Goes to
Philadelphia.

The first group of foreign students
to come TO the United States under
the exchange arrangement with the
National Student Federation of Amer
lea. left Washington yesterday morn
Ing after u weeks stay. during which
they obtained some idea Of the opera
ton OF the Nations government and
the beauties Of it's Capital.
Each year 1t is planned to have d
group of students from America visit
Europe and be entertained by the
international Students Federation of
Europe, and group of foreign stu.
dents come to the United States under
the auspices of the American fedora
ton.
This years quota of foreign stu
dents, under the guidance of Miss
Eleanor Dodge of Boston, are spend.
ing month In this country and have
visited New York, Boston and Buffalo,
from which they have travelled to
nearby points Of interest and colleges
in the vicinity. They have been con-
Quoted through Harvard, Vassar, Uni.
versity of Virginia and Swarthmore.
From Washington, they went to
Philadelphia, where they will stay
until the latter part of this week,
when they will return to their homes
The members Of the group are: Miss
Kate Lay, Miss Kathleen Menhinick,
Miss Helen Archbold, Miss Iris Fisher
and Miss Mary Locke of England:
Gustav Jansson Of Sweden. Nicholas
Grobler Of South Africa, Tony New
man of Luxembourg and Karel
Marecek of CZcchoslovakia
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between Cabin John and Great Falls.
Charles Spong keeps the FIRST one, at
Cabin John. He has been there IL
years. Charles Stewart watches over
the fourth. Stewart IL probably the
oldest timer OF the lot In point OF serv-
Ice His mother used to tend the lock
and when she died no inherited the
Job. That was when he was young
man. and he In no longer n boy. Jack
Speaker guards the seventh lock. He
II no novice, either. Down nearer
the woman lockkeepers. She also in
herited her Job.
A mile above Chain Bridge In the
only lock- that still Is used. This is
at The outlet of the canal where ii
empties into the river, and William
j. Penner's Job is to keep the water
in the canal level with the water in
the river. He has been on his job
since the flood four years ago, al
though a veteran riyerman. having
worked on the. canal for about 80
years. He also has n job doing con.
struction work on the river at George
town. with Penner lives his brother.
Isaac r. Penner. another canal man,
temporarily idle.
VIII Talk Of Grand Old Days"
All Of these old lockkeepers will
tell you about the grand days when
the canal was packed with boats from
Cumberland to Washington. with
others waiting to get in. II you stood
ON any lock, they say, and looked up
and down the canal you could see as
many as Is loaded boats and Is empty
ones. Penner once counted 1872 boats
in Is days. They stretched all the
way from Chain Bridge down to the
Aqueduct Bridge.
When George Washington helped to
survey the land for the canal it was
thought it would be the main artery
Of traffic between the West and the
sea. Time changed all this, but for
long time the canal carried it's full
burden of freight. Gradually. how.
ever. the railroads began to eat into
it's prosperity. but as late as five years
ago it was doing fair coal carrying
business.
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The total length of one of the big
12-inch gums at Fort Monroe. where
c. M. T. c. students are in training is
AZ feet.
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CANAL GUARDIANS
STILL STAND BY"
c. &. O.. Lockkeepers at
Posts, Hoping Ancient
Waterway Will Resume.

While weeds grow undisturbed In
the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
that runs from Cumberland down to
Washington, the canals ancient
guardians still stand by. Forever
hoping that each year will see the
reopening of the historic waterway,
a dozen grizzled lockkeepers remain
at their posts anu now and then
pour little oil on the machinery
that moves the massive locks.
The machinery is rusted and rot
is beginning to eat into the wood Of
the locks. The towpaths that used
To hold mules have become foot
paths along which men have to walk
single file. Most of the 1874 miles
OF the canal run through barren and
deserted country. Only the old
timers are left to see it's degrade
ton.
A few years ago the canal was q
busy waterway. with boats oil along
1t bringing coal down to Washington
from the mountains. That was
before the flood OF 1928. Today it
is just dry ditch, overgrown with
weeds, it's banks caved In In many
places, but still guarded by a hand
full of men and a couple of women
who were raised on 1t and know no
other life.
Is Lockkeepers Out Of job.
There are IS locks between Cum
berland and Washington. Every one
used TO have "A lockkeeper. They
were clannish group. Father
hequeathed the job to son and some
times to daughter. Families built
their houses close by the canal and
u lock sometimes was tended by the
same family for three or four genera
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YEARS TRAINING CAMPS
GET RECORD ATTENDANCE
Fort Smelling, Mimi, Leads All
Others, With 1922 Candidates
for Reserve Commissions.

Attendance at Summer training
camps this year broke all records, a
total of 39.e49 having been recorded
in final reports on enrolment for the
So camps in operation.
The greatest attendance at any
single camp was Fort Smelling, Mimi,
with 1922 candidates for reserve COM
missions under instruction. The two
camps at Plattsburg covered total
attendance of 5000 youngsters.
The total number of applications for
attendance received was 1925.
BY corps areas the enrolment was,
first, 1852; second. $3.50; third, 4,S95;
fourth, 1883; fifth, AGO; sixth, 4,796;
seventh. $3.50; eighth, 1921; ninth,
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tons. Lockkeepers raised their old-
est sons to succeed them and put
the rest to work on tho barges or
driving mules. They seldom left the
canal. Demand for speedier trans-
portation changed all this ana then
came the flood. 1t ruined the canal.
but not long after the waters went
down It was repaired. Then came
another flood, more damaging and !
was announced that the old water
way would stay closed indefinitely.
The canal men began to move away.
Most of them stayed while, hoping
against hope that the canals owners
would change their minds. But as
the months passed and the weeds
began to sprout their hope dwlndled
and they began to leave. Some went
to work Mt other jobs and others
sought their old life in new sur
roundiny1.
Only Dozen Remain.
Today there are just about n dozen
left. These have been pensioned and
have the nominal task of watching
over the old locks until the indefinite
day when they may be put back in
use.
There is Charles s. Shaffer. who has
tended the lock near Glen Echo for %
years--25 years last March 90. He
was raised on the canal and has been
there day in any day out since 1868,
which is just SO years. He expects to
stay there until he dies.
Shaffer has the Job OF keeping an
eye on the old lock. but the old lock
will stay there without much assist.
ance. and so he is not overworked at
that job. Still he is one of the old
timers, and he gets a small pension
for 1t. He occupies his time in raising
pigs. and at that occupation he man.
ages to supplement his regular income
sufficiently to get along comfortably
He lives In little white house about
20 yards from the lock with his wife
and daughter and son-in-law. and sin
his work he has two very able assist.
ants. named Jack and Rough--both
canine
Shaffer is proud of his pigs. which
he says are the very best pigs around
these parts. But, after all. there is
not the same romance in pig raising
that there is in moving big barges full
Of coal and grain. and he wants to get
back into the transportation end Of
commerce. He is hoping the canal
will reopen. and hoping hard.
So are the rest Of them. There are
three more veterans at the seven locks