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Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
TIFTEEN YEARS AGO
February 9, 1912

One hundred acres of water mel
ons are to be grown this season by
the members Of the San Pasquale
Valley Growers Association, under
the cooperative plan. R. f. Athey
Of Yuma i. to be the general man
ager and sales agent.
The first shipment OF asparagus
sent from the Imperial valley to
the 10. Angelo. market consisted or
a crate Of six packages, totalllng
II pounds. It was sold to Pasa-
denan for $3.50, or little more
than IS cents per pound, and retail
ed for 81 per pound
Workmen are today placing the
heavy joists for the roof OF the
Rehkopf building at Sixth and
Main streets. The timbers being
placed are sufficiently heavy fo'
carrying . floor when the second
story is added. The middle brick
partition wall is about completed
and the end walls are up.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

Rearranging the Ten Commandments is becoming
favorte pastime, not perhaps taking the place of
word puzzles which still persist in popularity
but furnishing unlimited opportunities to question:
naire promoters.
A recent Encouragement comes from Simmons col
ege in Boston, when the director of the School Of
Secretaral Studies gave the problem to so young
women of the school, Of course, the answers varied,
but there enough agreement to make possible the
compilation of list meeting the approval Of the
iority of the students In this arrangement honorng
parents received first place while keeping the Sabbath
Day holy came last.
Here is puzzle for the gray boards who shake their
heads over the waywardness and wldness Of present
day youth They say, 81 told you SOL" about
neglect of Sunday observance. But what can they
say about these independent young women who never
theless give honorng their parents first place in the
Decalogue?
Any dispute about the relative Importance Of the
respective commandments is frutess Precise defini
ton of the terms employed would be difficult to ar
rive at. Individuals interpret the commandments
differently today and the Interpretation
is different from that of Moses day. One two of
the commandments may be regarded by
persons as covering all the others. Also, there may
be people who would throw out of this ten and
write in something different.
Yet in all this upheava of old Standards it is surely
remarkable to find supposedly rbad and unfiial
generation in America coming into agreement with
the immemorial ethics of China, and agreeing that
chldrens first duty is honorable regard for their
parents.
The commandment" logically followed, may really
most of the Others 1t may also impress parents
with the necessity of proving themselves worthy of
honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09

Gro, 33, native Of Mexico and resi-
dent of Calexieo. Amelia Lopez, "a
native of Mexico and resident of
Calexico.
Williams Stanley. Homer vii
liams, "a, native Of Pennsylvania
and resident of Brawley. Sedelia
Stanley, 81, native of Texas and
resident Of Brawiey.
Teal -McMeans. John W. Teal
%, matte of Georgia and resident of
Yuma. Victoria A. McMeans, 1S
native of Arkansas and resident OF
Los Angeles.
/ Rinz-Flores. Bernardo RIM, sS
native Of Mexico and resident of
Brawley. Micalea Flores, 46, nat
i've Of Mexico and resident of Braw-
ley.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
TEN YEARS AGO
February 9, 1917

George L. Campbell, pioneer mer'
chant of Seeley, was in FL Centre
today. =,
Mrs. W. E. Cox, who has been
quite i'll at her home on Brighton
street. is convalescent.
Grove Tyler. mother and brother
have moved into their new home
southeast Of town. They are deve-
lopine a model ranch and are doing
all Of their work with big Samp
son tractor.
F. f. Steele, of Edgeley, n. D.
who has been visiting relatives here
for some time, has returned nome
Mr.. Steele was here looking for q
location, and was so impressed that
he expects to return shortly and in
vest in valley real estate.
J. C. Ordwav. manager of the I'm
perial baseball team. was a vlsl'o
in the city last evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD E. GARIS
UNCLE wIGGILY AND SUSIE
SASH

"Dear me, Susie,' said Mrs
Littletail the rabbit lady, one morn.
ing as she was getting her child
ready for school, "you are getting
to be quite q big girl. You are pos
itively getting fat!' and Mrs
Littletsil grunted bit as she tried
to make the two ends Of Susie &
red silk sash meet around Susie Z
waist.
"Yes, mother, I am getting big
GER answered Susie. 81 guess l II
need a new sash soon. Please could
l stop at the six and seven cent
store on my way home from school
and order ones'
"I'm afraid not, Susie" Mrs.
Littlctail answered, shaking her
head as she fastened the sash to-
gether with two safety pins. Once
the red sash would easily have gone
around Susie with enough left over
for a bow TO be tied with the ends.
But now-well, times change,
why can t l get a new sash,
mothers' pouted Susie.
Because your father hasn't the
ulOHCN, was duSWST. L IL 10
been a hard winter. We shall scarce.
ly have carrots enough to last until
spring when we can get green clover
to eat Your father must save his
money to buy carrots, and they are
very dear. He cannot afford to get
you a new ribbon sash.
"Oh. dear!' thought Susie, but
she didn't say it out loud, which
shows that she was thoughtful
little rabbit child.
"There, now, run along to
school," her mother said. But don t
stoop over
"Why mott" gasped Susie. think
ing what she would do if she were
princess and could order as many
sa,hes as she pleased from the six
and seven cent store.
"You must not stoop or bend
over warned Mrs. Littletail, "be-
cause If you do you are 90 tat you
may burst your sash, which l had
to pull pretty tight to get around
you. And the safety pins may snap
loose and hit the Lady Mouse
Teacher on the nose. So don't bend
over.'
81 won't, mother" promised
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09

Susie, and then she ran on to school
so she wouldn't be late. Half way
to the hollow stump where the Lady
Mouse Teacher taught the animal
boys their lessons, Susie caught up
to Uncle Wiggily who was going to
visit the school.
My goodness, Susie!' exclaim
ed the rabbit gentleman, looking at
her You are all out of breath! You
don t need to be in such hurry. 1t
is early yet-you won t be Late
''It isn't running that makes me
out of breath!' painted Susie. ''It S
my sash that is too tight
"Why don't you loosen it then''
asked Mr.. Longears.
Because, said Susie and that
was all she would say. She didn t
want to tell about the sash being
too old and too short, for fear
Uncle Wiggily would think she was
ninting for a new one.
Just then the last bell began to
ring, and Uncle Wiggily, looking at
his watch, found that it was slow,
so, after all, Susie had 10 run 80 she
wouldn't be late, and Uncle Wig
gily hoped along beside her.
Running with a tight sash around
her waist, made Susie more out OF
| breath than ever, and when she and
the bunny gentleman reached the
school yard, Susie could hardly
| breathe, to say nothing of talk. But
no one seemed to notice her, for al
the animal boys and girls were run
/ ming up and down and sideways and
| around, very much excited, and the
Lady Mouse Teacher was switching
| her tail around also much excited
and when Uncle Wiggily asked what
was the matter, Miss Mouse said;
"Baby Bunty has fallen down the
WE'LL" -.
"Oh, my pink, twinkling nose!'
cried Mr.. Longears.
"It's all right-she ism t drowned,
for the water in the well is frozen
said Miss Mouse. "But we can It
pull Baby Bunty out of the
well without a rope or something
"Here's my sash-take--take--
that!" painted Susie, stopping over
and bending SO that the two safety
pins bent, pulled out and off drop
ped the red piece of silk. Luckily
the safety pins hit no one.
Uncle Wiggily quickly caught uE
Susie s sash, dropped one end into
The school well to Baby Bunty who,
far down, was standing on top OF
the ice and rabbit called.
"Catch hold of the sash, Baby
Bunty, and II pull you out of the
weH,' And this he did as nicely
as YOU please. Baby Bunty, who
had fallen in the well when she
leaned too far over to look down
was very glad to be up and out or
it. not at all hurt. And when susie
went to to put on her sash again.
Ia and behondi 1t had stretched SO
that it was large enough for her and
she didn't have to buy new one
So it all came out right, thanks to
the pulling Uncle Wiggily and
Baby Bunty gave the red sash. :.
And if the tack hammer doesn I
hit the cabbage on the head when
il is trying to make an automopile
out of the dishpan, III tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily and JOHNNIE 3
jump. = .---7, 1--l--
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
Stage Schedule
Is Speeded Up

The new stage schedule inaugural
ed by the Pickwick Stages system
between Los Angeles, FL Centre and
Ell Paso, is meeting with success, it
was announced this morning by w.
j. Riedy, manager of the local Of
flee. More than An hour in tho
running time has been clipped by
the new system, it was announced,
and plans are underway to bring
about a still speedier trip.
In connection with the new sched-
ule new line has been taken over
by the company between Roosevelt
and Amarillo in Texas. This line
connects with the line running be-
tween FL Paso anr Carlsbad by way
of Roosevelt.
The company is planning to pu.
on faster stages in Texas, it was
announced, and to make switch
in the schedules which will cut al.
most two hours from the present
running time.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
THEATERS

An Irishman in the role of a
Russian grand duke! Not SO unusual
when it is played by Pat O'Malley,
as O'Malley proves in 1.-The Mid
night Sum-" Universal Super-Jewel.
This great picture Of pre-wsr Russia
was directed py D1mltri Buchouet-
xxi and will be the attraction at the
Valley theater tonight and tomor-
row night. O'Malley is one Of four
sterling players who head the pic
ture's all-star cast. The others are
Laura La Plante, Raymond Keane
and George Siegmann. The rest Of
the cast is equally well-balaneed
Among the players are Arthur Hoyt,
Earl Metcalf, Mikhael Vaviteh,
Nickolo Sous.anin, Medea RadEina,
Ce.are Gravina, Nina Romano, Dan
iel Makarenko, Victor De Linsky,
Charlie. A. Hancock and William
Won Hardenberg. The picture is
featured by wealth Of lavish sets
and dramatic situations.
Something new in realistic drama
will be seen at the Palace theater
tomorrow and Friday nights when
"Fle.h and Blood featuring Lon
CLANCY, whose memorable perform
anees in "The Miracle Man, and
"The Penalty stamped him i'm
mediately as the best character art
ist on the screen. Its thrills are
mixed with startling dramatic sit
uations. It carries big mighty
heart throb. It's human to the core.
Come and be royalty entertained by
this Irving Cummings production
with the incompatible CLANCY in a
role which YOU will never forget.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
STAND.PAT IMMIGRATION

The action Of the United States senate in voting
animousy to extend the present immigration restrc-
ton quotas for another year has been called Nordc
triumph 1t is not necessarily that.
The continuance Of the present quotas instead of the
plan proposed does prevent sharp reduction in
the number of admissible Germans, Irish and Scand
navians who mostly blonds Of the vaunted Nordic
type On the other hand it prevents the doubling of
the admissible number of British North Irish and Rus
slams, who also mainly blonds and Nordcs. Thus
the national origins scheme, temporarily defeated
would not have much difference in the relative proper
tion of Nordics Alpines and Mediterraneans admitted
though it would make considerable difference to GER
tain nationalities.
The senate vote is little more than stand-pat vic
tory actuated by desire to avoid trouble by keeping
the immigrant situation as it is.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Torres. Cervantes. Rcjeno Torres,
SO. native Of Mexico and resident
of CalexicO. Jerome r. Cervantes,
80, native Of Texas and resident Of
Calexico.
Romero-Lopez. Francisco Rom
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09

Some scientist suggests sending up sky rocket dur
ing thunder Storm in imitation of Franklin's cele-
brated experiment to whether the lightning will fol-
low down the trail it makes. He has our consent to
try it.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09

The printer who responsible for gorilla war
fare in Mexico wasn't far wrong at that When Won
get right down to facts how much warfare is human
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-09

When she get around to it, Nicaragua might rec-
procate by sending few marines to Williamson
county, Illinois.
Evening star., 1927-11-07

my great advice to you Is, to be
guarded against giving or receiving
| little provOcations. Great matters OF
offense ! have no reason to fear either
| from you or your husband"
After this, we turned our discourse
into a more gay style, and parted,
| but before we did so I made her re-
sign her snuffbox (all ladies took
snuff habitually at this time) for.
ever. and to half drown herself
washing away the smell of the
But the wedding morning arrived,
and. our family being very numerous,
| there was no avoiding the inconven-
| ience of making the ceremony and
| festival more public than the modern
way of celebrating them makes me
approve Of. The bride next morning
came out of her chamber dressed
with all the art and care that Mrs.
| Toilet, the serving woman, could be.
! stow on her. She was on her wedding
day three-and-twenty; her person is
| far from what we call regular
| beauty; but a certain sweetness in
| her countenance. an ease in her shape
and motion, with an unaffected mod
esty in her looks, had attractions be-
yond what symmetry and exactness
can inspire without the addition of
| these endowments. When her lover
entered the room, her features flushed
withjoy; and the ingenious manner so
| full of passion and awe, with which
Tranquillus approached to salute her,
gave no good omens of his future be.
| havior toward her.
The wedding was wholly under my
care. After the ceremony at the
church, i was resolved to entertain
the company with a dinner suitable
| to the occasion, and pitched upon
the Apollo, the great room of the
| Devil Tavern, as the place sacred to
| mirth tempered with discretion, where
Ben Jonson and his sons used to
make their liberal meetings.
AS soon as the company were come
into that ample room, one, Wagstaff,
began to make me compliments for
choosing that place, and fell into a
discourse upon the subject of pleas.
ure and entertainment, drawn from
rules of Ben's club-that convivial
group of laws laid down by Ben Jon.
son for such gatherings, and which
may be seen in gold letters on a
board over the chimney. Wagstaff
has way very uncommon, and speaks
on subjects on which any man else
would certainly offend, with great
dexterity.
Wagstaf gave us a large account
of the public meeting of all the we'll
turned minds who had passed through
this life in ages past, and closed his
pleasing narrative with discourse
on marriage, and a repetition of the
following verses out of Milton's Para
disc Lost.
Hail, welded love! mysterious law!
true source
OF human offspring. sole propriety
In Paradise, of all things common
else.
Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets,
Here Love his golden shafts employs:
here lights
His constant lamp, and waves his
purple wings:
Reigns here and revels...
In these verses, all the images that
can come into young woman's head
on such an occasion are raised; but
that in so chaste and elegant a man.
ner, that the bride thanked him for
his agreeable talk, and we sat down
to dinner.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Handwriting.

It is hard to say which Of the many
attempted short cuts 20 the reading of
character is tho most worthless. X
may be palmistrY. which goes by the
lines that nature put in your hand, or
phology. which goes by tho lines
the schooltcaChcr taught your hand
to write. They are foolish and vain
for so many reasons that one doesn't
know which 10 put first. IF these svs.
TENS stopped with rouch.aud-readv
gueSses or estimates Or typcs of hand
writing, 'Nov might not he 50 mislcad-
ing. It's the details which they insist
upon that give the folly of the system
away.
The Handwriting" books, like the
dream books or paImistry books or
fortune-tclling books that keep them
company, tell you such nonsense as
this: 'If you write with an upward
slope, it shows that YOU have amhi-
ton or pride, want to get up in the
world: if you write with fine strokes
it shows that vOu are Of Il fine, scnsi-
tive nature, timid, shy; nr. if YOU m s
and ms are narrow, you, too, are sort
of narrow in character. shrinking and
drawn into yourself; If YOU white with
heavy, bold strokes and cross YOUR is
with a heavy bar, YOU are forceful.
anu il JiidL DdI - i'fil%. . 'iA4 htf " fit
things long or are perSeVering, If yOu
leave your as and O's open. you are
open hearted or generous. and If You
close them, you are close That sort
Of reasoning will do we'll enough for
q Joke. but as science it is ridiculous.
Yet SO many people believe this. or
something like it and just as baseiess,
that it seemed worth while for some
body to get out his microscope ana
measuring scales and 90 to consider
able trouble to test the belief For 1t
is Just the man from Missouri. or any
other State, who says, SHOW me. >"
in most things who falls for this sort
Of sham science.
Prof. Hull and Mr.. Montgomery Of
the University of Wisconsin got each
of II students Of medicine. who knew
each, other well, to rate his Is COM
panjons according to the above quail
ties-hoW ambitious or proud each
was; how shy, how forCefuI; how per
severing: how reserved or generous.
and got the average rating Of each
man.
For samples of their handwriting
they all copied the same paragraph.
Next, with minute care, the slope, the
width of the line, the heayincss Of the
stroke, the opcnness of the letters
were measured, actually under n mag
nifying glass, measured to the nearest
one-fiftieth of an inch.
Now arrange these students in the
order in which their companions rated
Evening star., 1927-11-07
THE CUSHIONS ARE AS. DAINTY AS CAN BE,

The frugal woman will delight in
the UNIQUE idea Of coffee as filling for
dainty pin cushions, for the boudoir
and for the work basket. At first,
this sounds anything but economical,
but when YOU hear how the cushions
are made YOU will agree that 1t is one
of the most economical ideas of which
YOU ever heard. The coffee that is
used to fill the cushions is the
grounds" left after the beverage has
been brewed, and apparently all the
good has been extracted. 1t is the
part hitherto consigned sto the refuse
that is wanted.
This new use has been discovered
by a clever woman who declares that
needles and pins will not rust in such
a cushion. 1t all sounds so reasonable
and simple that the wonder is it has
not been a discovery" a long time
ago. PERHAPS in isolated cases women
may have used the grounds in this
way. for it appears to be an obvious
use-that is. after YOU know of it and
how to prepare the grounds for the
purpose.
Preparing.
IT matters not whether the coffee
be ground fine or coarse, nor how the
beverage is MADE. 1t can De USED IOT
the filling In the first place, all the
LIQUID must be drained from the
grounds Then they should be spread
out in a shallow pan and placed in
some spot where they will get bone
dry" They may be quickly dried or
slowly. The matter of importance is
that they are absolutely dehydrated.
An easy way 70 do this is to place the
nan containing fhn coffee oVpr como
radiator where it will not be con-
spicuous. The fragrance from the
coffee is faint but pleasant. 1t is
well to stir the grounds about once in
a while TO quicken the drying process.
The quantity Of grounds will in
crease with surprising rapidity where
there are several in a family who en-
JOY coffee once or twice a day. An
old tin cam makes sa6 good. container
for the dried coffee. Perhaps the
very can in which the coffee came can
Evening star., 1927-11-07
REHHENME GT1NpEEG BY THORNTON
OAXA| L4FAA ~ OAO1Alo W. BURGESS

clover. Her back was to Reddy Fox.
The wind was from her to Reddy.
1t was clear that she did not suspect
danger. Mrs. Peter looked back at
Reddy. He was just beginning to
steal out. His whole head was be-
yond the bushes now. His eyes were
liked on Mrs. Pete. and such an eager,
hungry look as there was in those
eyes. He was grinning Just a little.
His black ears were cooked forward.
He moved ever SO slowly. Each black
foot was put down so carefully that
there wasn't the slightest sound. A
few feet more and he would be within
jumping distance. Even now it was
doubtful If Mrs. Pete would have time
to reach safety If she We're given a
warning. Mrs. Peter could thump the
danger signal, but she knew that
Reddy Fox would understand that
signal also and that he would waste
no time when he heard it.
"Oh, deari What can 1 do? What
can I do?" cried Mrs. Peter under her
breath.
Then she did very brave thing.
She hoped right out in the open.
She hoped exactly as if she didn't
see Reddy at all. At the first move
on her part. Reddy turned. Such
queer look as there was on his face.
He crouched fiat down and waited.
1t was plain that he didn't know Just
what to do. Here were two rabbits,
either Of which he might get. He
didn't know whether to keep on after
the one he had started for, or whether
to lie still where he was and wait
for this other one to come nearer.
He decided to wait, for little Mrs.
Peter hnpylT fn TsIn nd
was nbbling right straight toward
him. Very slowly, very carefully. he
managed to turn partly toward her.
II declare" said Reddy to himself,
that looks for all the world like Mrs.
Peter abbit. But what is she doing
up here? I didn't suppose she could
be induced to leave the dear Old
Briar Patch. Well, it looks like a ral-
bit dinner for me this time. If Mrs.
Reddy had only come along. as ]
wanted her to, we would have two
rabbits instead Of one"
Now, as Mrs. Peter slowly hoped
along, stopping between hops for a
bite Of clover, she was hopping to-
ward Reddy, but she was also moving
nearer TO the bushes. If Reddv
should remain right where he was.
and she should keep right on where
she was heading she would pass be.
tween Reddy and the bushes. When
she saw out Of the corner of her eyes
that Reddy was giving all of his atten-
tiOn to her, she felt greatly relieved.
She was getting TO the danger point
now. She reached out and nibbled a
! leaf of sweet clover. Then, suddenly,
with her hindfcet, she stamped the
! Danger signal with all her might, and
darted for the nearest bushes.
Evening star., 1927-11-07
Mock OYSTER Scum.

Two lunches vegetable oysters or
satisfy, three-quartors cupful chopped
celery, one and onc-half tablespoonfuls
margarin, two tabIospoonfuls flour,
one quart cold water. one-half cupful
craporated milk, salt and pepper to
taste, two CUPS milk, two tablespoon
fuls shredded salt Goldfish.
Scrape the vegetable oysters. Cut
in Crosswise slices Add the celery
and cook in the water for about three
quarters of an hour. Add the Goldfish
and cook 10 minutes. Add the milk,
the evaporated milk. undiluted, and
bring to r boil. Have ready the mar
garin and the flour. which have been
rubbed together. and bind the mixture
with this. Season and serve with
toast strips or croutons.