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Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30

will be followed by the 4
troop meeting, for which ID
ents are invited to remain. :
Others who will be present
dinner in addition to the boi
their parents will be Rupert
fin, scout master Of the troo
members of the Elks commit
scouting, which includes Col
Phillips, Chairman, M. w. G
I. A. Thomas, Rodney Jenkin
Mont J. Reid. Is
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30
MEMBERS TO SELL
GAS APPLIANCES
TO ASSIST CLUB

Appointment OF committee TO
take charge Of business arrange.
mcnts connected with the offer of
the Inland Empire Gas co. to furn-
ish large gas range for the club
house of the Woman 5 Ten Thou
sand Club has been announced by
Mrs. Albert w. Hale, president.
Mrs. Charles $. Thatcher, chairman,
Mrs. Tom Gill and Mrs. a. Is. Han
sen are members of the committee.
The special offer made by the
gas company provides that the
group of notes covering the price Of
the stove are to be paid with cred
its, instead of cash. These credits
are accumulated by crediting the
club with five per cent of the pur.
chase price of all gas appliances
purchased from the company by
members of the club and prospects
whose names are turned in by the
club.
The range has already been in
stalled in the club house, and with
tank gas, has been given Il practical
trial and found to do splendid work.
Members of the club who used it
for a recent dinner where - peo-
pie We're served We're enthusiastic
regarding its efficiency.
Any persons who are planning to
buy gas ranges ar other appliances
may communicate with one of the
membcrS of the club 5 committee hy
telephone, and their names viii be
turned in to the gas company, whp
i'll turn will be glad to give demon
strationS. This does not obligate
the interested party to make pur-
chase, nor does it incur any rcSpon-
sibility either with the gas company
or the club. 1t simply means that
residents of this city have au oppor-
tunitv to help one OF its leading
community carnations, without
effort or expenditure on their own
part.
Members of the committee have
been calling ON a number of pros
poets, and report that they have
found much interest in the plan.
There II be no plumes on hats this
year because Of the big demand
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30
Boy Scouts To
Give Dinner For
Parents Tonight

Boys of Scout Troop 7. sponsored
by the Elks lodge, will entertain
their fathers and mothers at a din
ner at the Elks hall tonight Din
ncr will be served at 7 o'clock, and
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30
ENecutiUe Board CT
Reiterated Clubs VIII
Meet in Corona .AEyH l

Tie executive board % the Fed
Grated Women Clubs o. The South
crn district VII mrrt in Corona on
Friday, April /. The sessions will
b" hold at the Women : Improve
mont club.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30
Temperance Legion
VIII Meet Tomorrow

The Loyal Temperance Legion
will meet tomorrow afternoon ut the
Methodist Social hall at 500. The
regular studs Of the lesson will he
conducted. All children are invited
10 attcnd.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30
SOCIETY AND CLUB NEWS

Fenton are giving an informal din.
ner for Mrs. Leland ut their home.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30
Shrine Clubs
Dance Will! Be
Merry Affair

Startling stunts is the phrase
used by members of the entertain
mont committee who are III charge
of the Imperial Valley Shrine Club $
dance, to be held in the blue room
Of the Hotel nsrbara Worth on Fri
day night. AS the dance has been
planned for april Fool $ day, spe-
cial entertainment appropriate to
the day has been planned.
Preceding the dance, which is TO
begin at $50, a number of members
of the club and their ladies are
planning to gather in the private
dining room Of the Hotel Barbara
Worth for dinner. Any members or
visiting ShrinerS wishing rescrva-
tions should place them with W. l..
Garrett, telephone Ill.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30

a racing yacht, 50 feet long, to
cost $4,000, is being built at Stock
ton, to compete in the San Francis
co. Hawaiian race.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30

Money &c Loa., on Automopiles
Sterling Securities &c. Inc. Fred Il
Cross, Mgr. 6GU Main ST. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30
WAGNER, the Seer

Without asking a single question
and before you speak one word, this
strangely gifted man calls you by
name, tells your age, mother
maiden name and exactly what you
called for OR MAKES NO
CHARGE.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-03-30

There II be no plumes on hats this
year because Of the big demand
from the hearse people in Chicago.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18

issues breaking below their previous
1927 minimum prices. The list in
Guided advance Rumely common and
preferred, Autostrop Safety Razor,
Lackawanna Railroad, Dodge Bros.
preferred, Eaton Axle, Lima Locomo-
tive, Loft Candy, Pierce Arrow COM
mon and preferred, Rand,
Sinclair Oil and Vivaudou.
In the railroad group, Erie common
duplicated the years high, but later
lost the days gain. Union Pacific, New
York Central and a few other recent
favorites lost Q points or more.
Time money and commercial paper
rates were unchanged.
Foreign exchanges were strictly re-
dictionary, sterling cables ruling just
under $487 and French francs just
under 1922 cents. I'D
Wheat futures dropped more than a
cent a bushel under the pressure OF
offerings inspired by a large increase
in the available supplies of the COM
modify Cotton fell back 81 to So a
bale in reflection of disappointing
foreign cables. Coffee and sugar prices
held fairly steady.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
UTILITY
OFFICIAL RAPS
u. C. CONTROL

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Oct.
II GA plea for the continued pros
perity for the American people by keep
ing the management of the public
utilities out of the autocratic hands
of federal bureaucracy, was made by
HI. Sans, president of the National
Light association, and vice president
of the Electric Bond and Share COM
pany of New York, here today He
spoke at the convention of the Rocky
mountain division of the National
Electric Light association.
Sans scored the movement advocat-
ing the transfer of regulatory and
other powers over public utilities from
the state governments to a federal
commission on the ground that such a
program would violate all states rights.
Warning that the so-called advocates
of federal control are disgusting their
methods in the hope that once the
government is started it will be easy
to transfer authority, was sounded by
Sans. He said the outstanding eX-
amples of such methods are the Bould-
er dam, Columbia river basin, st.
Lawrence river and Muscle Shoals
projects.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
wheat visible sunplv total showed a

wheat visible supply total showed a
big increase, and the corn visible sup
ply figures decided falling off.
Closing quotations on wheat were
unsettled, 7sc to 114c net lower, with
corn at &c to 1c advance, oats &c to
A-5sc up, and provisions varying from
sc decline to rise Of Csc.
Announcement that the domestic
visible supply of wheat had piled up
APPS, 900 bushels enlargement in the
last week added today to the bearish
effect of better weather for thresh-
ing in Canada Word was received
that threshing had been resumed in all
provinces. Furthermore, export de-
mand for wheat from North America
lacked volume, European purchases to-
day amounting to only 100000 bushels.
Under such circumstances, wheat
values here had a downward trend eX-
cept at the start, when some notice
was taken of Liverpool quotations
higher than due and of the fact that
world shipments for the week but a.
$4,000 bushels, compared with 49,
, 953 5000 bushels the week previous.
Corn rallied sharply from an early
decline that was associated with faV-
orable weather and with larger country
offerings. Liquidating sales of future
deliveries, however, had apparently
been ended, and spirited buying de-
veloped based on talk that 35c decline
of late was more than sufficient to
discount all bearish conditions. Civ
ing further strength to the market
was 2,123,00O bushels decrease in the
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
Blosser

industrials. General Motors, U. S..
Steel common, Allied Chemical, Cen
eral Electric and American Smelling
all sold down points or more, final
quotations being around the lowest
of the day. Brooklyn Union Gas, Case
Threshing, Commercial Solvent S
new, Dupont, international Harvest
er, MathieSon Alkali, Mullins Body
and U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, all closed 5
to 9 points lower. Weakness of the
chemical shares may have been due to
selling inspired by the announcement
of the formation of new international
chemical trust in Europe to compete
with American firms in foreign mar
ketS.
Unofficial predictions OF poor third
quarter earnings for the American
Sugar Refining company were reflect
| ed in another point break in that
stock, which carried it close to the
years low. Punta Allegro fell back
nearly 2 points but losses in the other
sugars were held to fractions, although
several of them sank to new 1927 lows
! Coty Inc, Fidelity Phenix Insurance,
Frank G.. Shattuck, Inland Steel pre-
I! ferred, and International Shoe all
reached new high ground. Some OF
the public utility stocks also developed
independent strength, pa tt u ar ly
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit a
Philadelphia Co.
For the first time in many months
the number of new low records for
the year largely exceeded the number
of new highs, no less than a score
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
COTTON MARKET

NEW YORK, Oct. II (R-An early
decline of 20 to 81 points was followed
by rallies in the cotton market today
on an uncertain weather outlook and
reports of a firm spot basis in the
south.
Near months were relatively firm
selling several points above Saturdays
closing figures, while later deliveries
recovered most of the early loss, but
advances seemed to meet further
southern selling or hedging, and were
not fully maintained. Active positions
were S to 10 points net lower in mid
afternoon.
Spot quiet; middling 21.25. Close:
January, 1904
March, 2O.8l-83.
May, 2100-O1.
October, 2O.52-53.
December, 2061-62.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
Los ANGELES LIVESTOCK

LOS ANGELES, Oct. II R)--(Fed-
eral State Livestock Market News
Service)-Hogs 600; estimated run just
arrived; few sales 35-50c higher; 2
loads desirable weight butchers 1926
and 1890; packing sows 950-1000.
Cattle 1900; moderately active. ear
ly sales steady to strong; top steers
985; bulk 8.4O-9OO; several cars Mex
leans 8.5O-9.5O; bulk she stock $50
TOO; all cutters 250-475; bulls largely
55O-625. Calves 800; slow, steady to
Csc lower. bulk 250-3OO pound south
westerns 1050-1125.
Sheep 300; slow, nothing sold early;
supplies mostly lambs and yearlings
with nothing choice included.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18

NEW YORK, Oct. II tP-The stock
market was subjected to steady bonn
bardment of selling orders today with
the result that prices of many leading
issues sold down 2 to 9 points. A few
rallies developed, but they proved fee
BILE in character Pools, in general,
showed little disposition to take stocks
on the way down, although they sue
ceeded in lifting few specialties in
which the floating supply is small, to
new high records Total sales ran over
two and quarter million shares.
In the absence of any specific news
developments, the reaction was attri-
buted to the disappointing character of
fall business. Some effort was made
to associate the early selling with the
higher call money renewal rate of Az
per cent, but the lowering of the rate
to a per cent around midday failed
to stem the tide liquidation.
Selling pressure was particularly eff
fective against some of the popular
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
SELLING MOVE
HALTS ADVANCE.
ON n. Y. MARKET.

Total stock sales 2,Sl9.7OO Shares.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, Oct II (#9-Active stimuli
famous selling of wheat and buying of
corn, largely for traders who were
undoing previous spreads between the
two cereals, governed grain prices to-
day. Meanwhile, the United States
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
C0MPANY MUST PAY

WASHINGTON, Oct. II F--The
Business Mems Assurance Company
of America, a Missouri corporation
was refused review by the supreme
court today in case against Dora
A. Scott, coming from Colorado TO
test that section of it's policy which
makes suicide a ground for refusing
to nav accident insurance.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
METAL QUOTATIONS

The average daily quotations for
copper, silver and New York lead as
carried by the Engineering and Mining
Journal for the week ending Oct.
10, are as follows: Copper, 1898. Sill
yer, 1922; N. Y. Lead, 6.25.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18

corn visible supply Incidentally, there
were few requests for export corn
offers, although prices are still out of
line. Oats followed corn.
Provisions were easier at first, but
rallied later, sympathizing with corn
strength.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18

"No Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch"
Dispatch Telephones-81 and 81.
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18
STOCK QUOTATIONS.

Closing Quotations Furnished by
RICE & COMPANY, Brokers,
929 G Ave. Phone II
Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-18

you'll find it in Dispatch want-ads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17

desk the
cherished moments ones lite and should be appropriately ne Desks with
noble Qualities gdy
sale prices There's hardly the variety They Lifetime DESKS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-17
A Faithful Spinet Reproduction
From the Russell Sage Collection

The prototype this fine old Solid Mahogany
Russell Sage collection Of Metropolitan Museum of New
York Very So inches WIDE deliberately carved and
and drawers The chair matches exactly the $780,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Thinkers Haze Euer
Seen Trouble Ahead

We are all more or less nervous at
when something
goes wrong with us-about what is
going to happen to the human race.
The psychiatrists are particularly APP
prehensive. DR.. Max Shlapp, for in
stance, told the Academy of Medicine.
at New York that he feared that the
whole race of tomorrow would either
be grossly damaged or lowered In gen.
eral efficiency as result of the high
tension lives we lead--thou2h. to be
sure, all of us don't lead that kind of
lives. Twas ever thus. Greece saw
trouble ahead; so did Rome. Those
who watched the moths flutter round
the Louis XIV candle in France were
gravely apprehensive. and SO were
those who frowned on the gayeties Of
the court of Charles II in England.
Trouble was ahead then as it Is now,
Some pretty bad messes followed. hut
humanity survived, and, on the whole,
improved. But trouble is always
ahead We never catch up with the
direst of it. Surely there is comfort
in the thought that the worst is yet
to come-and probably will never get
here.-Indianapoli News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Monk Not InUentor of
Musical Scale Notes

What Is the origin of these syllables,
Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, 81, as names
for the seven notes of the musical
scale? In histories of music their in
vention or discovery is attributed to
Guido d'Arezzo or Aretinus, a Bene-
LIFETIME monk who lived near Ravenne.
Italy, in the first half of the Eleventh
century. AS a music teacher of his
fellows In the Pomposa monastery he
was credited with the production of a
teaching of music which gave imme-
date results in singing that before
him could, scarcely be attained in ten
years.
Guido went to Rome to teach Pope
Iohn to sing and he met with COM
olete success by means of his new
iyllables; after but one lesson the
,ope was able to find the tone of an
intiphon and to sing it. Guido called
his system solmisation; it consisted in
part of the use of the now well-known
Syllables.
But deeper search into the history
of these syllables or kindred ones dis
closes that they were used by the Hin
ius long before. The earliest mention
IF the musical scale (the seven notes)
occurs in the Vedangas, the Chandas
and the Siksha. This early notation
preceding the Christian religion
passed from the Hindus to the Per-
slams, from these to the Arabs and
finally, in the time of the Crusades,
TO Europe. There is no doubt that
Guido d'Arezzo did not invent them,
but his is the honor of introducing
hem into European music.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Fly Stree Animal"
Not Pest-in Italy

In Florence you get over expecting
things to be done and learn to take
what is given in a mild spirit Of
thankfulness and to let the rest go.
The fly question is an example. We
were Americans and we were deter
mined that we were not going to be
tormented by flies, Italian flies at
that, lazy, insolent brutes unused TO
molestation. We combated them with
screens, with sticky paper. with de-
termined slaughterings. They merely
returned in slow, persistent clouds
the moment the holocaust was over.
1t seemed as though they were born
both wise and wary, for screens could
not keep them out nor fly paper en-
trap them. This was seemingly mex
plicable until we discovered the
kitchen windows invitingly open and
Litizia placidly peeling potatoes with
sort of black halo moving about her
head. She listened to the storm Of
expostulation unmoved and rather
amused.
"Ah, signora," she explained. but
there is no way to keep out a fly-a
f1yAhe is a free animal."-Frem
Railing Seeds" by Elizabeth G. Chap
man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Little Visible Charm
in Captured Mermaid

That the belief in mermaids should
have survived all these years is ex-
traordinary; but there is another
curious side to the matter-that each
successive mermaid seen through the
centuries seems to have been uglier
than its predecessor.
OF this there can be no doubt If one
contrasts the description of the "mer.
maid" Of the ancient Greeks with
those of more recent times.
In an account of mermaid" cap.
tured off the coast of Natal, a writer
describes it as having screamed like
a woman when caught, and goes on
to state that it had seven ribs on each
side, lungs, kidneys and a heart about
the size of an OK heart. According to
the writer, the mermaid" was II
| feet long, had huge tail instead of
legs, lacked tongue and teeth, but
had a heavy chin. fat nose, eyes, and
a kind of hair that grew in tufts. Not
a very prepossessing "mermaid"l
1t is more than probable that this
S00-pound monster was dugong,
which, though once a land dweller, is
now an inhabitant of the sea and un-
doubtedly responsible for many of the
mermaid" legends.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
What She Wanted to Knotu

A woman called up the Times office
the other day and asked the able and
efficient young woman in charge of the
telephone:
SIS there a bureau of information
In the Times officer"
"What do you want to knoww
asked the obliging young woman.
"That's what want to know"
swell, but what do you want to
known"
THAT'S what | want to know Is
there a bureau Of"
81 know. but what do you want to
know?"
.That's what ! want to know!"
''There's no bureau of information.
but if you'll tell me what you want to
know III"
THANK yen. That's what | wanted
to know by."-Leavenworth
Times
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
General Suspicion

tits strange thing" said New
York actor. but Rudolph Valentino
always had horror of appendicitis
operations. He always suspected
them Well. since his death this sus-
picion keeps growing sharper and
sharper in the general public's mind.
Fact is, the general public's atti-
Jude towards appendicitis is illustrat-
ed in paragraph in country weekly
that said:
"'Our esteemed fellow-townsman, II.
Smith Jones, president Of the First
National bank and proprietor Of the
Jones blast furnaces, will be operated
on tomorrow for appendicitis by the
world-renowned surgeon, Cutler Berry,
Nj. D. Mr.. Jones will leave widow
AMI three children. '"-Detroit Free
Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Wanted No Witnesses
to Theatrical Flight

In Sir James Barrie's play "Peter
Pam" Tinker Bell gets up on her
stage wings, hovers about the room
and flies out of an open window. The
playwright, watching one Of his re-
hearsals, expressed a desire to try the
mechanism by which this fight is
achieved. SO attendants attached the
wires to the distinguished gentleman
and prepared to hoist him in the air.
The amusing part Of the story fol-
lowed. Sir James, a veteran in the
world of the theater, was suddenly
struck by terrible and overwhelm-
ing stage-fright. He commanded that
every one leave the boards, and had
che front curtain put down and the
pass doors securely closed.
Then, alone in the room between
the backdrop, the curtain and the
wings, he was lifted up, Unanswered
over Tinker Bells route, and, in all
his disheveled dignity, scared out the
window unperceived.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Work in Locomotive Cab

Account was kept recently of the
effort exerted by the man at the throt-
tie and the fireman in making a run
Of less than 200 miles. On that 200
mile trip they perform 5,123 individual
acts, which are divided up as follows:
Steam throttle is operated 32S times:
the whistle, 26S; brake valve, 90;
blower valve, no; air fire door. 945;
bell ringer, 200; leech, 80; right In
iector, 700; left injector, 30; water
gauge tests, 80; and equalizing brake
and discharge valve, 752.
In addition to all these activities,
there is the road to watch with all its
signals, functions, highway crossings.
passenger stations, bridges, culverts
and tunnels. Taking all this physical
and mental work into consideration 1t
was estimated that 80 foot-tons of eff
fort are exerted In making the round
trip in question.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Johnson Fond of Books

According to that greatest of all
biographers, Boswell, Doctor John
son, upon entering a library, iran
eagerly to one side Of the room, in.
tent on porting over the backs Of
books" Because of this custom q
contemporary once called him "odd,"
to which accusation johnson replied:
''Sir, the reason is very plain. Knowl.
edge is of two kinds. We know the
subject ourselves, or we know where
we can find information upon 1t. When
we inquire into any subject, the first
thing we have to do is to know what
books have treated of 1t. This leads
us to look at catalogues and the backs
of books in libraries" No wonder
that such a man knew so well how
and where to tap the sources of
knowledge and give the world a great
and unique dictionary.-From "Pri-
vate Book Collectors"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-05-06
Bridge Easily Operated

An entire bridge weighing 100000
pounds Is folded up like jack-knife
or unfolded in 45 seconds by eight
S0-horse-power electric motors in
Brooklyn. N. Y. 1t is new bascule
bridge over Flushing creek-the
largest lift bridge in the world
which is now nearing completion for
electric train and vehicular traffic.
The bridge is composed of two leaves
152 feet long. each weighing 100000
pounds. and each counterweighted so
delicately that small amount of cleo
trio power will handle it. The bridge
has to be raised periodically to permit
the passage of vessels in the river.
The speed of the motors in opening
and closing the knife blades" will cut
down traffic delays.