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Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GAR1s
Copyright, 1927. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
MONEY VINE

Goodness gracious! Why, it :
SAM began Cocle Wiggily
when. after hearing the rustling
roise in the bushes he looked around
and saw strange sight. as | told
YOU in the story Hast night.
Hush, Not that name, Call
me anything but that-at least until
December twentv-fifth, or maybe
the twentv-fourtht' whispered =
short, fat Jolly old gentleman, wear
ing red and white suit and whose
long. white beard waved in the
breeze.
con, so YOU don 7 want to be call
Cd SAN began Uncle Wiggilr.
=. Do. please, hush!' begged the ioi-
lv old gentleman. "Oncc the AMI
nal children, or the other children,
for that matter, hear you use my
name they II be flocking out to see
RE and il 5 nearly two weeks until
Christmas.
$50 it is,' chuckled Uncle Wig
gily. "All right. SAN, mean
Mr.. Whiskers-l'u call you that, #
You don't mind
No. don't mind, = said the jolly
I'D fellow, shaking some snow cut
If his beard. but why are YOU out
rcre in the woods, Uncle Wiggilr
trying TO make gold combs out OF
pine tree cones? 90
I'm tell you, - answered the rah-
Lit. SO he told San-There, near
" let his name slip out myself
mean the rabbit told Mr.. Whisker-
about coming to the woods to find
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14

tnev can be used for that they must
be turned into gold and silver. y
But how can it be done''' asked
The rabbit gentleman.
Every easily. III show you, Of
fcred MIR. Whiskers. ~ have some
gold and silver paint in my pockets.
brought the stuff along on purpose
10 use in making gold and silver
Christmas tree ornaments. And !
can easily make one of these cones
golden for you so you can give it TO
Baby Bunty and she can comb out
ll.r doll s hair with it.
please do, begged Mr.. Long
ears.
So San-there | 90 again! What 5
tie matter with me, | wonders Any
how, Mr.. Whiskers gilded two cones
FOR Uncle Wiggily, one for each side
o. the head of Shooie the rabbit
clrl s doll, and then, thanking the
Old Gentleman most kindly, Uncle
N:ggily hoped back to his hollow
stump bungalow, having had some
jolly adventures.
"How will these do, Bunty''
asked Uncle Wiggilv as he gave tho
cute little orphan rabbit the gilded
pine tree cones.
ooh, they are lovely.' she erie |
in delight, clapping her paws. "I u
comb Shooie s hair and | think she
r-lll soon get we'll.
Surely enough that's just what
Happened. Shooie was all over her
Illness in a moment. OF course II
WAS only make believe sickness
and that is the easiest kind to cure.
, And of course the pine tree cones
were only make believe gold combs
but that is the very kind that were
needed. so every thing came out al
( right, and Uncle Wiggily was going
! to hop away to look for another adj
venture, when, all of sudden, hi.
+ forty 'leven little bunny boys and
/ girls came hopping home from school
CRYING:
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
COTTON GROWERS
TO HOLD MEETING
HERE SATURDAY

The newly y-formed Imperial Valley
Cotton Growers will hold its first
regular meeting at the FL Centre
Chamber of Commerce room next
Saturday afternoon at l:30. An or
ganization of cotton growers was
effected last Saturday at gath
cring which comprised representa-
tive cotton men from every section
of the valley. C. B. Collins, Clark.
Adair and Robert Hays were named
n committee to draft bylaws for
the government of the organization,
to be patterned largely after the by
laws of the San Joaquin Cotton
Growers.
AS the ginning and oil mill inter
csts have agreed to deposit with the
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
HERE'S YOUR HAT (?)

Sometimes that section of the Constitution which
readsthe citizens of each state shall be entitled to
all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the
several states-can be a confounded nuisance
In the main it is agreeable thing for citizens of
Maine North Carolina Utah any other state to be
on equal terms when they from one state to
another
However, there exceptions and California APP
pears to have two such exceptions within its boundar
les at present.
We refer in one instance to the scapegoat of
Pittsburgh Millions who in company with couple of
llghtheaded girls young enough to be his daughters.
and old enough to have more sense, accompany him to
the Pacific coast.
In the other instance have in mind gentleman
bearing rather lurid nickname, who has been mixed
UP considerably ana notorously with Chicago's civil
war the questionable right to supply the western
metropolis with illegal liquor and here
for vacation.
California could we'll withstand the departure of
these two persons from her boundaries. But the
stitution gives them the right to stay here and here
they may stay until they desire to leave or falling in
to homelike habits, they afoul of the law.
The pity of it is that many honest foreigner who
might well become through himself and his descend
ants, valuable contribution to Caforna's popula-
ton, is prohibited by law from coming here.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of I'm
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
EeC. Ia. 1907

R. r. Stratton, locating engineer
of the San Diego and Arizona rail
read, is in Imperial today and it is
understood that he is making a pre-
liminary survey with the view of
locating the railroad line.
George A. Parkyne has let con
tract to William Kelley to plant and
care for his ranch near Holtville for
y period of three years. There is
to be vineyard of 80 acres, an or
chard of apricots and oranges, AMI
40 acres of asparagus. The remain
der will be put in alfalfa.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Dec. IA, 1912
Miss Nell Farmer of New York
has come to spend the winter with
Mrs. DR.. Peterson.
j. Y. Wachter, county tax collCc-
or, who has been confined to the
hospital with pneumonia for some
time, is now getting along nicely
and will be out soon.
FL Centre has new music teach
er, Prof. Kuhn having opened his
stldio at 80 BroadWaV
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
GOOD JUDGMENT USED

The local police officer who permitted prisoner to
get away rather than take chance of hitting some in
nocent bystander if he shot at the fleeing convict de-
serves, at least, to be complimented upon his good
sense.
Too often officers become stampeded under cond
tions like this and their guns without stopping to
consider that it is usually the innocent bystander'
who becomes the victim.
In the present instance the escape happened in a
school section while many pupils on their way to
school 1t was much better judgment to allow petty
prisoner to escape than it to bring
home by unfortunate shooting episode
There may be who will criticize the officer
Such is usually the case. However believe that
sober reflection will prove that he acted wisely and is
not to be censured for his failure pull his gun and
start shooting.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
THE MISSISSIPPI CONES BACK

Secretary of War Davis after inspection tour Of
the Mississippi water route from ST. Louis to ST. Paul
is enthusiastic the plans for expansion of the
Inland Waterways Corporations barge lines.
Cities all along that stretch of the big river, he
finds building permanent docks and terminals
to handle the expected increase of water traffic In
a few months gateways will be opened in many
Mississippi ports, and great population will be able
to avail itself of lower freight rates, resulting from
joint rail-and-water routes The farm districts will
have better outlook for their products and better
inlet for the manufactured goods they need, profng
both way, through larger receipts for what they sell
and less expenditure for what they buy.
when these avenues of cheaper transportation ex-
st he says, these farmers may expect to compete for
export of with South America, and for export of
wheat with Canada and in addition to those served by
the existing lines, thousands will enjoy the benefits
of cheaper coal and coke cheaper steel products nseed
oil and yproducts nseed meal and cake, essential
beef and mch cattle cheaper furniture woods and
furniture cheaper sulphur coffee sugar cotton, to-
bacco sisal hemp jute, agricultural implements, fer
lizers potash and nrates phosphates, strap moass-
for stock food plants oyster shell and products,
essential to poultry and eventually petroleum pro-
Ducts
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
Wednesday, December "a, 1872

Intermediate Credit bank at Der &,
ley the necessary guaranty sccu
ties, it is now assured that memp' ~
of the association can have . "
per cent federal loans for thelr
ton during the coming season Ih
will be Of much help to the cott'
industry here, where higher intercs'
rates have heretofore prevailed
is believed that there will be
greatly increased cotton acreage
next wear in this locality.
II. A. Thompson, field manage
of the San Joaquin Growers, M
promised to attend next Saturday
meeting and give the Imperial w
lev growers the benefit of his lohl
experience in the handling and pr
ccdure of cotton associations. 1t
thought that large gathering o
cotton growers and land owners VIII
be present. Thompson was one o
the principal speakers at the mrs
meeting of the growers, ana gaN
them much helpful information AZ
advice about their problems al
their solution.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14

pen TO guess his real name YOU viii
please not tell, for it's secret.
Mind, now, please.
"Rut | don t see how ! am going
to make these pine cones become
golden combs to cure Bunty's doll :
said the rabbit. You said YOU d
show me.
And so | will,' chuckled the
Old Gentleman. "In fact came
! ere to gather some Of those pine
cones myself. | want them for .Orna-
rents on Christmas trees, and before
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14


Give me a penny, Daddicums!
Give me n penny!
My goodness! - exclaimed Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzv. "There arcn I
pennies enough in the world to give
so many little rabbits one each. Run
along and don't bother your Daddy ="
squeaked the muskrat lady.
But the little bunnies only cried
the louder:
"Give me a penny | want "a
penny for lollypop!''
What in the world shall | doo'
asked Mr.. Longears, turning his
pockets inside out and finding not d
penny. 'What shall do"
=" You had better go look for the
money vine,' said Nurse Jane.
"You can pick bright pennies off
that for the BOYS and girls. Look
for the money vine.
Il shall!' decided Mr.. Longcars.
( and whether he found il or not and
what happened afterward, | shall
lave the pleasure of telling vou to-
tomorrow night, when if the rubber
boot doeSn t scoop up so much snow
that there S no room for the rag
dolls foot, the story will be about
Uncle Wiggily buying a squcezic.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14

a gold comb to make Baby Bunty :
doll well by combing her tangled
lair. And Uncle Wiggily told how
h frightened away the Bear by
pretending to pull out his gold teeth
with a buttonhook.
But it was no pretending when
I scratched his nose with one of
these rough pine cones!' chuckled
MIR. Longears.
Il should say mott" laughed Mr..
Whiskers, as | must call him until
Christmas. And if any of you hap
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14

Somebody has said that the old
fashioned husking bee has vanished.
hut don t take that as final until
you've asked at the corner drug
store.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Dec. IA, 1912
TEN YEARS AGO
Dec. Ii. 1917

Public installation of officers OF
the Eastern Star was held, with
Nina Luckett installed as worthy
nlatron and Ernest r. Simon as
worthy patron. Other officers who
will assist them are: Katherine
Francis, Ida b. Reid, Lavinia North
cott, Zelda North, Eva Bair, Mary
Atkinson, Lenna Oft, Clarence Fox,
Josephine b. Fleishman, Lula Col
l;ns Maud Catherine Anderson.
Elizabeth Adams, Lillian Bucklin
ard Mary WOLF.
Mrs. Guy LaTouche is entertain
ing the Friday Bridge Club at her
home on Len Rey avenue today.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-14

The way to disarm is to disarm but everybody wants
10 disarm the other fellow instead of himself.
Evening star., 1927-09-23
Local Radio Entertainment
Friday, Sept. %, 1927
NAi-WasliingtOn Navy Yard H34.5
MeterS)
WRC-Radio Corporation of Ameri,
(168.5 Meters).

WRC-Radio Corporation of America
(i68.5 Meters).
p.m.-De Stephano Trio, assisted
by Justin Lawrie, tenor.
p.m.- -Sorey'S Orchestra.
pm Waldorf Astoria dinner mu-
sic.
5:55 p.m.-Base ball scores.
p.m-The Rovers.
$50 p.m.-Irwin Abrams Hotel Man
ger Orchestra.
ESQ p.m.-"Food," a talk by Anita
Hawkins.
p.m.--Cities Service Concert Or
chestra and Cities Service Cavaliers
s p.m.-Correct time.
8 p.m.-Musical Miniatures, opera
soloists with orchestra.
$50 p.m.-W., b. & A. Quartet.
9 p.m.-Whittnll Anglo Persians.
9:30 p.m.-Lorh Calvert Ensemble.
10 p.m.-Hotel PENNSYLVANIA Roof
Orchestra.
1890 pm. to II pm.-Greenwich
Village Orchestra.
Early Program Tomorrow.
Gas a.m.-Health exercises.
7:15 a.m.-"The Roaring Lyons"
1870 a.m.-"Cheerio."
11:30 aldorf- Astoria Orches-
ira.
1890 p.m.-Palais dor Orchestra.
1870 p.m.-Hofbrau Orchestra.
, p.m.-Organ recital
Evening star., 1927-09-23
.AUS|CAL COMEDIES
IN WRC PROGRAM.
i:avorites of Earlier Age
Scheduled for Tonight-Lo-
cal Features Also Listed.

Selections from favorite musical
comedies of an earlier age will form
the Musical Miniatures" presenta-
ton which WRC will broadcast to-
night in conjunction with other sta
tions of the National Broadcastin2
co. The program which will be pre-
sented by a mixed quartet and the
National Concert Orchestra will be
frightened by several humo1 Gus
numbers
Another feature will be an unusual
orchestral treatment of Kreisler's
Moi id-famed violin solo, 'Tambourine
Chin *. which will come during the
hour devoted to the weekly program
of the Cities Service Orchestra. This
selection is the great violinists i'm
preston of the various tinkling noises,
of the Orient and the radio arrange
ment has been made by Erno Rapee,
conductor of the Roxy Theater
Orchestra.
Three local features are on WRCs
program. In addition to the regular
Friday night offerings of the w, B.
& A. Quartet and the Lord Calvert
Ensemble, there will be the first of
a new series of talks on Food" by
Anita Hawkins.
The Anglo-Persians and the Penn
sylvania and Greenwich Village Inn
OrchestraS are other attractions which
will come from New York.
Vocal and instrumental music make
up the major portion of the program
tonight on WMAL. The artists in
clude Margaret Moreland, Phyllis
Ransdell, Phil Hayden. Les" Colvin
and Eleanor Furr. There also will be
concert by the Nordica Mandolin and
Guitar Club. and dialect readings by
w Alfred Falconer. The opening at
traction will come from Fields new
Ninth street store.
Although static cracked and sput.
tered, radio reception conditions last
night were excellent FOR long-range
dialing. Stations in all sections re-
sponded with good volume and a fair
times, the disturbance created by the
atmospherics did not interfere serious
~ with the incoming signals.
Fortunately there was no interfer-
ence with WRC's signals during its
broadcast of the DempseyTunney
bout, and its transmission of this event
was not marred in any way.
Daylight saving time in New York
ends Saturday, which will cause a
radical change in WRC's program
schedule. Beginning Sunday, all reg
ular New York features handled by
this station will go on the air an hour
later than heretofore.
Evening star., 1927-09-23
kIWANIS DELEGATES
TO ATTEND SESSIONS
Local Men Going to Meetings at
Martinsburg, w. Va, and
Wilmington.

Vocal solos by Rose Polio and
George Buehler of the Washington
National Opera Co., accompanied by
Victor Benham, conductor and coach,
featured a luncheon Of the Kiwanis
Club in the Washington Hotel yester'
day. The artists were introduced by
Eduard Albion, director.
Announcement was made that Roe
Fulkerson, first president of the
Washington Kiwanis Club, will be the
principal speaker at the annual con-
vention of Kiwanis Clubs Of the West
Virginia district at Martinsburg, w.
Va, Monday and Tuesday. Edwin F.
Hill of ths local club also is to attend.
Local delegates and other members
of the club are to attend the annual
convention of the Kiwanis Clubs of
the Capital district in Wilmington,
Del, October 20 to %. Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh and his Spirit of ST. Louis
are to be attractions. Local delegates
are James B. Edmunds and Charles
w. Pimper, with George H. Winslow,
John C. Wineman and Edwin F. Hill
alternates.
William S. Quinter, president, pre-
sided.
Evening star., 1927-09-23

When Harry E. Thomas, senior
electrical engineer in the Interstate
Commerce Commission, talked in
praiseworthy terms of Pearl in his
sleep, his wife, Effie Jean Thomas, of
914 Longfellow street, questioned him
about it and was told that Pearl was
to be his second wife, Mrs. Thomas
tells the District Supreme Court in
Evening star., 1927-09-23
Wife, Seeking Divorce, Says Husband
Lauded Pearl, Rival, During Sleep

a suit filed there yesterday. seeking a
limited divorce from her husband.
Through Attorney Vivian o. Hill,
the wife tells the court that the hus-
band, following his nocturnal praises
of Pearl, suggested that they get
divorce. She also tells the court that
IN July, 1897, when she met the de-
fendant at an indianapolis, Ind, hotel.
Evening star., 1927-09-23

she found letters from another woman,
written in endearing and intimate
terms. and when again questioned, the
defendant said they were from his
future wife, and then he numerically
assaulted and beat her. She said that
he deserted her on August Is. 1927.
She tells the court that he receives
salary of $4,000 a year from the
Government with Sc a day expenses
and that his average salary is S4,10o.
The couple were married at Frederick
Md, August II. 1922.
Evening star., 1927-09-23
COPY PULLERS WANTED.
Civil Service Positions Pay Salary
of 5000 a Year.

announced it will receive applications
until October Is for positions of copy
pullers in the Patent Office here. The
entrance salary is 5000 a year.
Full information and application
blanks may he obtained from the Civil
Service Commission, 1924 + street.
Evening star., 1927-09-23

A quartz lamp recently perfected
Is said 10 detect good pearls from bad.
Evening star., 1927-09-23
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Evening star., 1927-09-23
WMAI-WashingtOn Radio ForuI
l302.S MeterS).

{ to 7:30 pm. Opening program of
Fields Ninth street store.
7:30 to $40 pm.--News flashes.
7:40 to 8 p.m.-Margaret Moreland
and Phyllis Ransdall, accompanied by
Edith Reed.
to $40 p.m.-Phil Hayden and
Les" Colvin.
$50 to $40 p.m.-Mabel C. Latimer,
soprano accompanied by Louie Leeds
$40 to 8 p.m.-W. Alfred Falconer
in dialect readings.
Q to $40 p,m.-Eleanor Furr. pianist.
9:20 to 10 p.m.-Concert by the Nor
dica Mandolin and Guitar Club.
10 to IL pm.-Continuation of pro
gram from Fields store.
IL p.m.-LateSt news flashes.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-07

from this procedure in order to come out
with a completed system at the end of the
period, because it costs more per mile for
construction in the mountainous sections
than in the open country.
After the establishment Of these opera
ton subdivisions, the next step is naturally
a calculation of funds TO be used in 1927.
And in this connection it must b. remem-
bered that the gasoline tax money for the
first quarter of the year will not come into
the highway fund, until May 1, unless the
legislature shall authorize anticipatOry
warrants to be paid by the gas tax reve-
nue. of the year as it to hand.
Following are the twelve districts of the
state for operation and the percentage of
expenditure for each in 1927:
District No. Lincoln, Flathead and
Lake, percentage, S.07.
District No. 2-Glacier, TOOle, Liberty,
Hill and Blaine, percentage, $50.
District No. 3-Phillips, Valley, Daniels,
Sheridan and Roosevelt, percentage, 7.6S.
District No. EMcCOne, Richland, Daw-
son, Prairie and WibauX, percentage, 6.38.
District No. Clarified, Petroleum and
Fergus, percentage, 7.OI.
District No. 5POndera, ChOuteau, Teton,
Cascade and Judith Basin, percentage, 1886,
District No. Lewis and Clark, Broad
water, and Jefferson, percentage, n44.
District No. ISLANDERS, Mineral, Mis-
soula, Ravalli, Granite, and Powell, per
District No. 9-Deer Lodge, Silver Bow
Beaverhead and Madison, percentage, SIS
District No. 10-Meagher, Wheatland
Sweet Grass, Gallatin, and Park, percent
age, TIT.
District No. I1-GOlden Valley, Mussel
shell, r~easure, Yellowstone, saltwater
Carbon, and Big Horn, percentage, 1853.
District No. 12-ROsebud, Custer, POwde
River, FallOn and Carter, percentage, 1868
The people of each district are further
interested in a translation of these per
centageS into concrete figures. 1t is es
timated that the gas consumption Of tn
state for 1927 will be 46,000,O0O gallons
yielding a gross revenue of $1,3S0,0OO. l
will require $275,0O0 or 100000 for main
~tenance Of the federal aid mileage alreed.
built. This work is now to be done b!
the state. Considerable equipment will b
required to carry on this maintenance. The
there will be the smaller items of admin
iStration surveys and plans. Perhaps tn
net amount of state construction money 70
the first year that can be used in cO-Opera
ton with federal aid will be $S45,OOO. Thi
sum will match VI against $1,O75,O0O o
government funds and will give a total am
81, 100000. The mileage of constructor
that can be done next year will then b
some figure between 200 and go miles. TIL
building program can become larger eac
year as the revenues Increase, enabling,
is hoped, the construction Of the Who'll
3,100 miles of the federal system within tn
~eleven-year period.
Upon this basis of suggested computation
the state and government construction nor
ey for 1927 will be as follows:
D1Str1ct NO. lOOsOt
DlSJrlcC NO. IOo,0l
District NO. lftsO OF