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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-06
Skunk Cabbage, First
| Harbinger Of Spring,
Points Cap Skyward

ASHINGTON, MARI P--The
skunk cabbage, gnome among
wild flowers, pokes it's red spattercG,
curl.d ana pointed cap out Of snow
bank At the base of a wooded slopc.
THE spring" paraphrases the
American Nature association, can
not be far behind
For that hardy flower, with it's
grotesque, beauty and unpleasant
scent, is The first messenger sent by
spring to carry promise of color
and release to thawing world.
1t appears in late February or
early March, and soon come pussy
willow buds and the trailing arpu-
tus, which hides, fragrant and shy
beneath matted leaves or snow Thus
heralded the prodigal season then
opens a scented purse and scatters
it's wealth over hill and valley, wood
and field.
Thrift has no place in the eco,
romics of spring, and extravaganza
is contagious For that reason, some
of the seasons greatest treasures
are becoming more and more rare;
the trilliums, the dog tooth and white
vio1ets, the marsh mari9old, the
anemone, Jack-in- the Pulpit, Saxi-
frage, Dutchmans breeches, and
numerous others.
Perhaps the automobile has a good
deal to do with it by making the
woods and fields more accessible to
the city dweller. The flowers there
seem to invite the strangers to take
them home to make their rooms
more gay.
And in recent years, the associa-
tion feels, too many have been ac-
cepting that invtation. Therefore,
the blooming of the skunk cabbage
is the signal for renewal of it's an
nual campaign to induce the public
to enjoy the void flowers where they
grow and leave them to adorn the
countryside for others to see. Only
in that way, it holds, can they be
saved for future springs.
Disnqtoh tToIpnhO ,oc-S1 and 90
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-06
Texas Vermont Fowl
Now from Connecticut

HARTFORD, Conn, Mar 6.-lP -
Roast young Vermont turkey" may
soon come from Connecticut instead OF
Texas.
Birds from the Lone Star state at
10 cents a pound less, have filled gaps
in the declining ranks of birds from
the Green Mountain state recently, but
Connecticut is taking steps to produce
volunteers for the holiday trade in
quantities
A Young Gobblers club" has been
formed here, banks are arranging to
buy and distribute the best turkey eggs
procurable, and one banker has offered
5000 in prizes to youngsters who raise
turkeys successfully.
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'No Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-06
BOOZE FROM GASOLINE

alcohol which is virtually 100 per cent
pure. About 100000 tons of potatoes
were used last year for the manufac
-ture of alcohol for motor fuel, or 10
per cent of the total crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
FIRST SHIPMENT
OF LETTUCE MAY
LEAVE TONIGHT

Imperial Valleys first ears of
lettuce for the l927-l92S season are
expected to roll during the next -
hours, the Earl Fruit Company, the
VIII s. Fawrett Company and Saw
dcv and Hunt being among the
firms p-anning To s:Gp. The Faw-
cttt Company : shipment will be
radc from Heber, Sawdey and
HUNT 5 from Holtville and the Earl
F-uit Company s from Calcxico.
According to last minute inform
alton, the Peppers Fruit Company is
loading a car at Brawley, which
they expect to ship tonight.
While Imperial Valley lettuc"
will meet with competition from nov
until after the first of the year, T..
\. Harrigan, horticultural commits
sioner, states that indications are
that there will be little lettuce roll
ing from other territory during the
J, nuarv u to March Is period.
This wear s total acreage is esti-
rated at 24,400, while that of last
year was 3+,297. Last year : total
number of ears shipped from the
valley was II, ,122.
The United States Market News
Service opened its Phoenix office
this week, and shipments for tn
last week are reported to range FROM
100 to 200 ears daily for the entire
United States. Market prices at the
present time are good, Chicago sell.
ing mostly around $44.50 for good
quality, with ordinary at $2-3. New
ork is around the same figure.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Railroad Builder
Called By Death
by United Press Leased Wire

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. :. -
William 3. Premier, former president
Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and one Of the builders
d! the Canadian Pacific Railroad
died at his home here today.
Premier was known throughout the
country for his activities in railroad
huilding. He had been an official
Of the brotherhood for 80 years. lie
succeeded Warren s. Stone as pres
tdcnt when the latter died in 1925.
Prcnter's death was laid to nerv-
nus exhaustion and i'll health aggra
waited by injuries sustained m
motor accident six weeks ago in New
York.
He had been i'll since last summer
when he suffered a physical break
down and subsequent attack Of
pneumonia at the triennial conven-
ton of the brotherhood held in
Cleveland. Premier was born in
Philadelphia. May l., 1850.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
SUPERVISORS VOTE AGAINST
AN ADDITIONAL OFFICER

Members of the Board of super
visors wound up their regular BIZ
monthly meeting at the court house
yesterday afternoon by disposing of
several minor business matters. \
request that an additional traffic
officer be added to the Imperial
Valley State Traffic squad was re-
iected by the board. The clerk was
instructed to advertise for bids for
the burial of the INDECENT dead. The
board ordered $1,000 transferred
from the Motor Vehicle fines fund
TO the General Road fund and order
ed $72,500 to be taken from the
road fund and distributed equally
among the five road districts.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Aged Man Loses
Life In Blaze

Los ANGELES, Dee. 7.-Eilliam
Carlisle, aged employe of the county
charities, was burned to death here
in mystery fire which consumed
his home and garage.
Neighbors said the fire blazed in
the garage for 10 minutes and then
leaped to the house. Firemen were
summoned, but both buildings We're
beyond saving when they arrived.
In the ruins of the house the fire
men found Carlisle s charred body.
Neighbors said they could not give
any reason why Carlisle was unable
TO leave the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Film Star Must
Answer Questions
By United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, Dec. 7.-Lillian
Gish, noted screen star, said to be
enroute here from New York, has
been ordered by the Superior Court
TO answer questions she previously
avoided as defendant in n lawsuit
brought by Charles H. Duell, her for
mer producer and fiance.
Judge Walter :. Gates handed
down decision that questions pro-
pounded by attorneys for the plain
tiff were relevant to the ease and
must be answered. He ruled that
Miss Gish must appear upon five
days notice that her deposition may
be taken.
In his suit, which names Miss
Gish. Louis B. Mayer. Nicholas
Schenck, Metro o-Goldwyn-M Mayer Pie
lures Corporation and others, Duell
charges a conspiracy to break
contract. He asks $5,000,o00 dam
ages. Efforts made by Duell to col
lect the amount through New York
courts failed.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Hampton Sent
To San Quentin

w. i. Hampton is on his way to
San Quentin Pcnitentiary this morn
ing. Hampton entered a plea of
guilty here about two weeks ago to
charge of robbery and was sen
tcnced by Judge A. c. finnev to the
penitentiart for the term prescribed
by law. He was denied probation
following hearing.
Hampton was arrested in CalcXico
after having grabbed purse from
n woman at the Southern Pacifi;
depot.
Deputy Sheriff Wright is taking
Hampton to San Quentin.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Remus Kept From
Court by Hysteria

COURT ROOM, Cincinnati, Ohio
Pee. c.--Screamlng, crying, convuls-
"a by emotion, George Remus be-
came so hysterical in the courtroom
where he is on trial charged with
the murder of his wife that, when
reaction set in, he sent word he was
unable to appear for the afternoon
session.
RemuS was examined by the three
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Canadians TO
Honor Drury
by United Press Leased Wire

LONG PEACH, Cal. Dee. -
Canadian tourists now in Southern
California will meet in a big reun-
ion here December is to honor Il
fellow countryman-Mo Morley Drury.
captain Of the Southern California
football team.
The Trojan all-American quarter
back is descendant of an old Can
adam family Of Drurys and was born
in tie Dominion. The Long Beach
Chamber Of Commerce and the Cah-
adam Tourists Society have joined in
inviting lrury and Governor {. {.
Young to attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Couples Apply
For Licenses

Two notices of intention to wed
were filed at the county clerk s Of
flee during the last "a hours. They
are as follows:
Montesde Oca-Padilla. Fernando
Monies de Oca. -, native Of MeXi.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
DEATH PENALTY ASKED

COURT ROOM, MAYS LANDING,
y. j., Dec. IA verdict of first de-
gree murder carrying a penalty of
elcctrocution was asked today by
Prosecutor Samuel Hinkle in the
trial of Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl
and Willis, Beach for the murder of
DR.. William Lilliendahl.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Warrants Signed
For Film Stars
ny United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES. Dec. Two
film celebrities were being sought
~ police warrant officers tcdar
after they had failed to appear il
traffic violator's court. Reginald
Denny and Hedda Hopper brcczel
through different 20-mile zones at
81 miles an hour. Denny must also
face a charge of driving without an
operator s license.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Wednesday, December Z, 1Sz'

alicnists who have been attending
trial ot the bchest of Judge chester
p. Shook ana they recommended
adjournment of the triaI nh'l '"'
morrow morning.
Judge Shook ordered the adjourn
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07

A magazine suggests that the ar
dent swain make his sweetie
Christmas present of credit at
beauty parlor this year. But there
would be ladies who could cry over
that, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07

co and resident of Calexico. Quad
alupe Padilla, 23. native of Mexico
and resident of Calexico.
Garlic Ermandez Desideno Ca
rillo. ~, native of Mexico and res
idcnt of MeXicali. Guadalupe Ern-
andez, 26, native Of Mexico and res
ident Of Mexicali.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07

Northern counties have started
'all wet The record of SOP inch-
t. in Cclusa county to Nov. 10 was
we'll above normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Cold Wave Over
Middle West

CHICAGO, Dec. "A cold wave,
sweeping eastward from the Rocky
mountain region lowered over the
middle west today and temperatures
will drop to near zero before tomor-
row the weather bureau here an
nOunced.
The cold spell reached into Ne
braska, and parts of Iowa and Mis-
scuri last night.
CALGARY, Alta, Dee. -Four
persons were known TO be dead and
7-year-old boy was missing today
in a blizzard which has caused 1t
complete tie-up of all Alberta since
Monday.
Three of the men were frozen to
death and a fourth was killed when
he was struck by a snow pIow.
John Hucalul, I, was believed t.
have succumbed to the cold when II"
became lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07

Forty per cent of the colonists in
the Durham, Butte county land set
tlrment are delinquent in payments
to the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07

Lake County is out of debt, tie
last $500 bond being paid Nov. l.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07

We Are Arranging Just
About Our Best Program
Surrounding an Amazingly
Good Feature Film-But We
Cant Tell You a Word About
1t!
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
BANK STOCK
Fy United Press Leased Wire

L. A. First Nati. l041a 1913
Bank of Italy 243 243A
Bancitaly 1864 137
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07
Mid-Winter Fair
Opens at Brwaley

Continued from page one)
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07

We Can Merely Say Take
n Chance With Us Today
and Tomorrow. It Will Be the
Happiest, the Biggest Sur
prise Party You Ever Attend
od-AND WE KNOW!
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-07


should be called, on display this
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
VINELAND POULTRY
Show IN JANUARY
Many Cash Prizes Offered in
Exposition Sponsored by
Poultry Growers

Cash premiums and special prizes
totalling between $1,000 and $4,000
are being offered By the Nineland
Cooperative Poultry Association
at is 10Th annual exhibition and
poultry show, to be held in Cresci
Hall Vineland, Jan. II, y, Is and
II
Primarily show conducted by
practical poultrymen for practical
poultrymen and for the sole object
Of advancing the poultry industry,
this annual Vineland event always
attracts wide attention in poultry
raising circles OF New Jersey Low
entry fees have been fixed to Ell
courage the widest representation.
Judging out loud in the open Will
prevail and viii be a valuable edu-
cational feature OF the slow. John
H. Weed, manager Of the recent
Atlantic City Poultry Exposition, is;
in charge OF arrangements. En-
tries close January 5, and premium
lists may be secured By writing
him at Vineland, N j.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
PENNINGTON

Mrs. Howard Trueland, Mrs.
Fred Larned, Mrs. Archie Adams
Mrs. Edward Libby, of Mckee
City, and Mrs, Charles Larned,
motored to Philadelphia last week
end on a shopping tour.
George Barrett is slowly improv-
ing aft:r being i'll at his home
with euro-pneumonia.
Miss Ethel Libby, of Mckee
City, speht Thursday with her
sister, Mrs. Archie Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Larned, of
Philadelphia. passed Sunday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Larned,
Mrs. William Johnson and child
rem visited in Atlantic City on
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Anderson
and daughter. Thelma, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Adms, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Burley, of Linwood
Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jervis Mexwell
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson
visited aCpt. w. A. Maxwell in
Wading River on Sunday. r
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

from Dearborn, but the pilot
Harry Brooks, and his assistant.
Harry Russell, displayed no more
concern prior to the take-off than
if they were preparing for a short
jauntAver Detroit. Since the plane
is heatd, they were dressed in con-
ventioual business dress instead OF
flying clothes.
Brooks is so attached to planes
that he flies TO work each morn
ing in a tiny "flivver" plane, which
he parks in his back yard. He Is
said to be the only pilot Henry Ford
will allow to fly the miniature ship.
Sometimes, Swimming along barely
30 feet from the ground, he startles
friends by swooping down upon
them as they walk along the
street, waves a greeting, and ICONS
upward again.
The sixth member of the party,
Adrian r. Lajous. is a special rep
resentatiye of the Mexican govern
ment, and manager of Ford's plant
in Mexico City AS he waited for
Mrs. Lindbergh to arrive, he told
of the beautiful journey over
Mexico awaiting her. Beginning at
sea level at Tampico, plane must
ascend to an 11,000-foot elevation
to clear the ranges between there
and Mexico City. The hills are gor
geously colored. and the vegetation
in the vicinity of Mexico City is
luxurious The two cities are &c
hours distant by rail. A plane can
easily traverse it in three hours.
Perhaps Mrs. Lindbergh would
prefer to have her son to herself
in her modest home in Detroit on
Christmas day, but the mother of a
hero must sacrifice. Naturally re
served and retiring, she would pre-
fer to shun cameras, interviewers
crowds But she is Lindbergh's
mot her
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
Eva Lake Union
ToGive Party
Activities Include Christmas
Programs At Almsh0use
and Pine Rest


Many Christmas activities are be
ing participated in ny members OF
the Or. Eva Lake Union Of the w
G. e. u. The annual Christmas
party at the alInshouse will be held
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock and
at Pine Rest on "Wednesday after
noon. at o'clock, both parties be
ing under the direction OF Mrs. X.
J. FIendlich. president oil the local
and county union.
Talent from the churches OF the
city will feature the program and
refreshments will be served. Unions
assisting in the entertainment are
Atlantic City, No. /; Ami Steel
man Gnion. Connie Page Union,
.Absecon Union. Hammonton Union
A delegation from Somers Point
expect to render their services.
The members OF the DR.; Eva
Lake Union have been preparing
Christmas baskets for the needy
this week at the home Of Mrs.
George II. Adams, director Of the
Mission and Relief work. The
Union is cooperating with the
Pleasantville Welfare bureau in
this work.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

tried to board the ship. The Ma
guire was tea ship plying to the
East Indies. The natives used to
bother the crews of the old vessels
some.
Eyes, it was mighty tough
night the Mcguire piled up. The
wind was bowling a gale. 1t was
Christmas Eve. you know, and ]
guess even Santa Claus was afraid
to be out. / was busy watching the
light to see it was kept trimmed
and bright when | heard the crash
of the schooner above the shrieking
of the wind and the roaring of the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

Talk of a bridge from Townsends
Inlet and Avalon is said to fore
shadow such a structure within a
short time. a company having been
suggested to build along the same
lines that are being used to span
the Great Egg Harbor Bay between
Ocean City and LonSport
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
DADDY OF LIGHT KEEPERS RECALLS
By r. e. COUSINS

by W wv
t Restlessly the tides of the Allan
| tic ocean storm the entrance to
the harbor at Portland.
And as restlessly have the eyes
of Joseph Woodbury. Strout. keeper
OF the Portland Head Light. Port
land. Me. watched the tides for
so years.
! Cam Strout is one of the oldest
lighthouse keepers, from point Of
.service, in the employment OF the
i government.
What's more, he has an idea
that he may be the daddy of all<the
veterans who guard the ships o.
all nations the length Of Uncie
Sans storm swept coasts.
! But there's more than the ira.
dition of Cap'n Strout's brief span
of years on duty wrapped up in the
Strout genealogy.
The Capn's Dad watched the
sails Of the old schooners come and
go for So years before him. That
makes some IS years that the
Strout family has kept the lights
blinking to warn mariners CT the
cruel lodges.
The Cap'n himself is a bronzed,
hardy little man, comfortably in
clined to corpulence and some
where i'll the 70's."
His kindly eyes light with pride
when questioned as to the mean
ing of certain curios which hang
about the walls of his little office
in the base of the light tower With
pride, he paints to the copy of the
first commission issued the first
lighthouse keeper back in 1871.
The document is signed by
George Washington and, by virtue
of the customary whereass, greet
ings and wherebys, it is given I'M
der the hand of the first president
of the United States that one
Joseph Greenleaf is appointed
keeper of the lighthouse at Port
land. District of Maine, State of
Massachusetts.
The light itself crowns the rocky
pile of Jagged ledge which marks
the end of Cape Elizabeth.
The 'ceaseless song of the sea is
music in the ears of Cap'n Stout.
Away from it he would be lonely
he fears.
The cap'n hanks back to the days
when his grandparents first came
to Portland Head Light.
That was about so years ago,
and the Cap'n's grandmother came
to keep house for the family of
Joshua Freeman then keeper of
the light 1t was after Freemans
death that the Cap'n's father was
made keeper.
''My grandmother came to work
for 80 cents a week" the Capn
"reminiscences, tipping back in his
big chair and putting sturdily at a
cigar. She used to point out the
cupboard to me where the keeper
once kept his rum.
''T4e used to sell it for three cents
glass to people who came out
here and fished. The best was kept
for the minister, of course. Yes,
times certainly have changed In the
lighthouse keeping business
In one corner of his office hangs
what looks like an old Roman
spear. It's the only remaining relic
of the schooner Annie T. Mcguire,
which went ashore in the head
Dec "a, 1886
It's a boarding pike" the Cap'n
explains, FUSED probably to bust
some poor natives head when ne
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

In one corner of his office hangs
what looks like an old Roman
spear. It's the only remaining relic
of the schooner Annie T. Mcguire,
which went ashore in the head
Dec, "a, 1886.
It's a boarding pike the Cap'n
explains, FUSED probably to bust
some poor natives head when he
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

waves. Then l heard the crew
hollering.
ut was terribly thick night,
snow in the air so you could hard
ly see ten feet ahead But we got
line to the boat all right and
saved every one of the crew. The
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

Make your wants known
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

ship was ground to pieces by dawn.
That pixies all / saved"
A memorial tablet, crude white,
letters painted on black rock by
the Capn himself, marks the spot
where the Annie T. Mcguire met
her doom.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

Proprietors of some of the gamb-
ling houses in Lakewood have not
needed the warning of the new
Sheriff. Joseph Holman, that violat-
ors of the gambling laws would be
promptly arrested, and several OF
these have been raided and the
others have since closed.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfred Ahlee and
daughter, E izabeth, spent Satur-
day in Atlantic City.
The Washington times., 1927-12-05

Tin Staff Photo
MRS BLANKENSHIP AND SON
ON THE WAY to the store to buy ice-cream for her
little son, E. Blankenship r Mrs Nancy Blankenship
GOT Q st. N w. was attacked by purse-snatcher who
struck her with black jack the head and escaped
with her purse, containing 70 cents. Mrs. Blanken-
ships hat saved her from fractured SKULL physicians
The Washington times., 1927-12-05
PLJTSH()PE5
IN RlJTH'S
SECRET

ossINING, N, r. Dec. 81.
nother ofsthe slender threads
upon which Ruth Snyder bases
hopes Of executive clemency
broke today when DR.. Clarence
"A. Neymann, Chicago psyche.
analyst, left for home without
seeing her,
Feels She Has Case
But the neurologist, brought
here to examine Ruth in a test
Of her mental fitness, left one
consolation behind. He declared
he made sufficient inquiry through
relatives of the condemned woman
and otherwise to convince him
self Ruth has mental character
istics which should weight heavily
with anyone considering a plea
of clemency in her behalf.
To Report Findings
The physician said just before
be left New York:
81 will embOdy my findings in
D report to be sent to Judge
HazletOn from Chicago. l learned
something about Ruth Snyder
hitherto concealed"
DIR. Neymann said he would re.
turn to examine Ruth il legal con-
sent gained for such a step. But
State Commissioner of Correction
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