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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-01-07
Entertains A. Is. Club.

The members of the A B. Club were
guests Of Mrs. Harold Gompf Tuesday
night, when prizes at the bridge games
were won by Miss Louise Gay for high
score, Mrs. Ralph Tone for the con-
ISOLATION and Mrs. Don Hargreaves for
the highest score by guest Refresh
ments were served.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-01-07

John Brooks was a visitor to Pull
man, Wash, last week.
An old time dance will be given BY
the Royal Neighbors at Woodmen hall
Friday, Jan. 8, Admission Soc. II
Mrs, Jos. Greenbury of Fortine spent
Christmas III Libby visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Fred Clark and family.
Miss Eleanor Jewell returned to Lib
by Sunday from Spokane where she
has been employed for several months.
Mrs. Gladys Bergen has returned to
Spokane after spending the holiday va
cation here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. E. Bateman.
P. J. Friesinger of Troy was here
Saturday comforting with Libby men
regarding location of the new high
way to be built through these parts
connecting with the Idaho highway at
the state line.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-01-07
Few" Literally De6u ed

In the first EpIstle of Peter, 8 20,
few is defined MS being "eight."
When q few, that Is eight souls, were
saved by water"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Visiting Judge To
Address Chamber

Two short talks will be given at
tomorrow's Ell Centro Chamber of
Commerce luncheon meeting. The
speakers will be Arthur L. Mundo,
judge of the superior court of San
Diego, and Roy WomacK, prominent
Ell Centro business man.
Judge Mundo, who is at the pres
ent time hearing a case in El
Centre, will tell of observations
made concerning present day con-
ditions and opinions formed from
his bench in the superior court
and, as he is a speaker of note,
his talk promises to be of interest
TO all.
Womack is well-known for his
keen observation of current affairs
and his talk on business conditions
will be well worth hearing. Wo-
mack does a great deal of careful
thinking about So-called prob
lens and his solutions" always
cause interesting discussions among
local business men.
R. B. WhitelaW, president of the
local chamber, states that tele-
phone calls are often received pre-
ceding a luncheon meeting and in
quiries made if chamber members
only can attend. These luncheon
meetings are open to the public,
Whitelaw states, and any persons
interested in the individual pro-
grams will be welcome.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Praise Data On
Canal Contract

Transcript of proceedings of the
All-American canal project recently
submitted by the Imperial Irriga-
ton district, was declared to have
been the most complete and most
perfect of its kind ever submitted
to the United states department of
the interior, according to word re-
ceived here today from department
officials.
District officials and employees
who prepared the mass of data,
received this information with con-
siderable satisfaction as weeks
were spent in accumulating the eX-
haustive history of events leading
up to the present time.
The transcript contained maps,
affidavits describing every act in
connection with the election and
events prior and after that event.
SubsecretarieS are declared to have
gone over the material in search
of any possible error but were
unable to discover any.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Seeks To Halt
Change OF Venue

Judge Vaughn N. Thompson yes
terday afternoon issued an alterna-
tive writ Of mandate directing
Judge w. H. Lorenz of CaleXico
justice court either to proceed i'm
mediately with trial of labor
claim brought by L. Ortiz against
Charles Ellis, or to appear in SUI
perior court March 25 to show
cause why the case should not be
transferred to the Brawley justice
court on a change of venue.
Ortiz began an action in the CAL
eXico court February % to collect
S299 alleged due him for carpenter
work, according to the petition.
Charles Ellis, defendant in the ac-
ton, appeared to enter a demurrer
and a demand for change of venue.
The demurrer was overruled, but
the demand for a change venue to
the Brawley justice court was
granted, according to the petition.
Ortiz asked an alternative writ
of mandate directing Lorenz to
proceed with trial of the case in
the CaleXico justice court. If he
does not do SO, the petition con-
tends, he will deprive Ortiz Of his
statutory right to hearing in the
township in which matters concern
ed in the suit took place.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Editorial Page
and
Features
TINE FOR ADVERTISING

IN connection with the value Of newspa-
! per advertising to the retail merchant, a
nationally known advertising concern,
whose accounts run into millions each
year, reminds merchants that there is :;
wide difference between economy and
reducing expenses.
Says this agency: 1T is to be remem-
bered right about now that-a store can
do such a thing as 'save-mOney' itself
out of business; there is considerable
difference between sound retrenchment
and scared retreat; it is one thing to
make a good sound expense budget that
trims out all the weeds of extravaganza
and waste, but it is quite another thing
to clip so close that the business itself
is deprived of essential nourishment."
Furthermore, this concern points out
that the merchant who feels he can get
along without advertising during strin-
gent times, usuallr finds out that he can
also get along without advertising in
good times or any other times and that
business eventually gets along without
him.
When he overlooks his home town
newspaper, which is part Of the com
munity and family life OF hundreds of
prospective buyers, he should not be sur
prised if these buyers go to other cities
to purchase their goods.
The "buy at home movement works
two ways In order to be able to buy
at home, the purchaser must know what
there is to buy. If the merchant will not
tell him through the columns Of the pa
per he reads every day, and upon which
he depends for his buying as we'll as Tor
general information, the merchant is de.
feating the aim of the buy at home
movement, which he is so anxious to
foster.
Proper advertising is judicious in
vestment, equal in every way to buying
new display racks, new stocks or other-
wise improving the appearance OF the
merchants store.
The biggest concerns in the country
have long since proved that advertising
pays. The non-advertising businessman
is bucking up against a stone wall when
he says he doesn't need advertising.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
WestmOrIand To
Hold Election
On Incorporation

Their mid-month meeting passed
into history for the Imperial coun-
ty board of supervisors yesterday
afternoon without any occurrance
of exceptional interest, and after
the supervisors had re-checked re-
districting lines set out in an ordi-
nance adopted at the last meeting
of the body.
Routine business dealing with
county affairs was transacted both
yesterday morning and yesterday
afternoon, with break in the mon
otony only when the supervisors
entered into a discussion of Imper-
ial Irrigation District affairs.
They were informed by Edward
H. Law, county clerk, of an cleo
ton in Westmorland Friday to de-
termine If that town shall incor-
porate within a mile square area.
Election supplies were ordered
yesterday by the county clerks
office, and must be distributed be-
fore the Westmorland election.
Another item of business trans
acted by the supervisors was the
setting of precinct lines, and the
submission to the county clerk of a
list of polling places and election
board officials. This list will be
announced later, the clerk said, af-
! ter it has been thoroughly checked
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
BEDTIME STORIES
BY HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1928, BY Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

Mr.. Stubtail. Jump down on that
and you'll spring up and do such a
flip flop as you never did before.
There you gol"
Before Uncle Wiggily could stop
him, Mr.. .Stubtail gave the rabbit
a push and Uncle Wiggily fell off
the top of the hill. He fell down
on the old bed spring, but he wasn't
hurt a bit for he bounced up like a
rubber ball, made a flip flop or a
somersault in the air and came
down in a bunch of ferns as soft
as a feather pillow.
There's a spring for your cried
the bear, laughing.
We'll, that isn't just the kind of
spring I meant" said Uncle Wig
gily, but before he could say any
more, Mr.. Stubtail cried:
Look outl Here l comel" And
down he jumped off the top of the
hill upon the old bed spring. Then
the bear went bouncing up in the
air like rubber ball and he, also,
turned a flip flop, or somersault,
and came down beside Uncle Wig
gily in the clump of ferns.
Wasn't that a fine spring?"
chuckled the bear.
Yes" said Uncle Wiggily. But
it wasn't what I wanted. I wish
I could"
"Hark' whispered Mr.. Stubtail.
Quiet! Somebody's coming" So
they hid in the ferns to see who
it was. And you shall know about
it tomorrow night when you read
the story Uncle Wiggily and the
Jumping Fox.
And 1 do hope the teapot will
stop trying to pour milk out of the
molasses jug for the cup OF coffee.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Court Restraints
Dairyman From
Doing Business

In a decision returned by Judge
A. c. Finney and filed in the
county clerks office yesterday aft
ernoon, R. r. Mayo was restrained
and enjoined from engaging in the
business of selling and distributing
milk and cream in the townsite of
Westmorland during the time G. w.
Seymour is engaged in business
there.
The Judgment follows a suit
brought by Seymour, in which he
sought to restrain Mayo from en-
tering into competition with him.
Judge Finney held that Mayo
sold his business to Seymour in
1926. and that one of the condi-
tions of the sale was that Mayo
should not later compete with Sey-
mour in Westmorland. Evidence
introduced during trial of the suit
showed that Mayo has carried on
a creamery business in Westmor-
land since November, 1890, when he
assertedly violated the terms of the
agreement between himself and
Seymour.
The case was tried before Judge
Finney, March 4, with the firm of
Hickcox SJ Trude representing Sey-
mour, and Utley & Nuffer as at
torneyS for Mayo.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
By United Press


WASHINGTON, March 22.-For
the moment, at least, Fiorello Il.
LaGardia, one of the interesting
characters of American politics, IS
booted and spulred and rlolng
strongly in the saddle in the mouse
of representatives 1t is his lead
ership, more than that Of anyone
else. that the house has been foI-
lowing since last Friday While II
tore to shreds the tax bill so care
fully drawn up by its more conserv-
ative WAYS and means committee.
LaGardia has been in congress
for some IS yeals. His parents
were Italian born. He himself Is
native of New York, but, strangely
enough. he obtained his elementary
education in Prescott, Ariz,, and IS
a graduate of the Prescott hlgh
school. Then he returned to New
York and was graduated as a
bachelor of laws from New York
University in 1910.
There is nothing orthodox in his
career. Before beginning to prac-
tice law ne held such unusual pos
itions as interpreter at Ellis Is
land, New York, consular agent at
Fiume, Hungary, and attache in
consulates at Trieste and other
places.
He first was elected to congress
in 1917 from the 14th district OF
New York. Later he was elected
from the 10th district, which he
now represents. But in the con-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
County c. NJ. I. {.
Quota Is Filled

Information has been received
by the Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce that the quota Of the citi-
zens military training camps to be
held this summer, one at Fort Nc
Arthur and one at Monterey, has
been filled and no more applica-
tions will be accepted. These
camps have become more popular
each year and already more ap-
plications have been received than
can be taken care Of, according to
the informant Of the chamber
staff.
Application blanks and literature
had been supplied the El Centre
chamber. but the quota was filled
before any of these could be used.
This does not necessarily mean,
however, that there will be no per-
sons from Imperial county at the
camps. as DR.. N. E. Dupont, county
representative for the C.MT.C., has
had a supply of application blanks
since the first of February and had
received close to 100 applications
before the quota for the state had
been filled. He states that Imperial
county's quota is 81 and that ne
has sent in three times this many
applications, which indicates the
growing popularity of the summer
training camps.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
TEN YEARS AGO
March % 1000

The first definite result of the
agitation for better herds of dairy
COWS that has been Going on in
the valley for some months will be
the bringing into the county of
two carloads of registered Guern-
sey bulls for distribution among To-
cal dairymen.
FL Centro's Campaign of Con-
fidence" in its American Legion
post was launched today when a
drive for $4,000 was initiated by the
lodge of Elks and other organiza-
tions. The fund is to be raised and
presented the post to lift its present
Indebtedness.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Fire Insurance
Policy In Court

Denial that Mrs. Evelyn Hagin
lost $1,000 because of fire May
26, 1881, in Calexico is contained
in an answer filed in the county
clerks office yesterday afternoon
by the ST. Paul Fire and Marine
Insurance. company, rebutting the
complaint of Mrs. Hagin that the
company had failed to pay her the
amount due on an insurance policy
taken out a few days before the
fire.
The answer denies any sum at all
is owing Mrs. Hagin, although adj
mitting she submitted the required
proof of loss after the fire. A dis
agreement between the company
and Mrs. Hagin over the amount
of loss caused the company to
withhold payment of the policy, ac-
cording to the answer.
1t is also contended in the answer
two appraisers were selected, one
by the company and one by Mrs.
Hagin, to determine the amount of
actual loss. The appraisal still is
pending, the answer said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Prisoner Must
Serve Life Term

John Bitsekas, convicted of sec
ond degree murder here in 1928,
must serve the remainder of his
life in San Quentin penitentiary.
This was the order of the state
board of prison terms and paroles,
a copy of which was received in
the county clerks office yesterday
afternoon.
Bitsekas was received at San
Quentin prison July 8, 1923, after
he was convicted for the Staying of
Jose Bonito Lucera May 8, 1923,
country store proprietor.
Judge Vaughn N. Thompson, who
presided at the trial, recommended
when passing sentence that the
Greek be confined for life, because
of his unruly temper. The verdict
of guilty had been returned after
Bitsekas pleaded not guilty and
not guilty by reason of insanity.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Veteran Auto Men
Combine Forces

Pontiac SKIES and eights now will
be sold by John r. Robertson,
w. G. Reed and Keys Mitchell in
addition to their Buick line at the
TIT Main street establishment.
All three dealers have been in
the automobile business in the val
ley several years and express them
selves as being proud of their new
line of Pontiacs.
Dick Dickson, who mas been
service manager at this place for
eight years, will service Pontiacs
as well as Bucks. He declares he
has fully equipped shop with
complete line of Buick and Pontiac
parts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Don't Quote Me-
-o~ BY United Press

eressionaI directory, where by the
way he gives no autobiography OF
himself, he records that he is a
resident of Brooklyn. No part Of
his district lies IN Brooklyn.
During the war he joined the
aviation section of the American
army and as a major commanded
the American flying forces on the
Italian front. Aviators still relate
that he was a daring fighter and a
fine commander. but he couldn't
learn to make a graceful landing.
They speak Of the 'Lagardia two
point landing" which they describe
as being made ION one wing and
the tail-skid."
LaGardia stands about five feet
six and weighs about l65 pounds.
His complexion is decidedly swarthy.
His hair is black. He wears it
combed close to his head and parted
q little to the left Of center. He
.accentuates his dark aspect by
wearing dark blue clothes and blue
or black ties. His eyes are brown.
He doesn't rise to speak. He
bounces. He puts tremendous en-
ergy into his oratory, bounding
around, crouching, rising on his
toes, and swinging his arms.
He is noted in a preliminary way
for three things. He has an amend
ment for about every important
measure that is offered. He al
ways votes for other peoples
amendments 49, thereby gaining q
measure of support for his own.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
He turned q Flip flop
20, sassafras, o, sassafras,
Thou art the stuff for me.
And in the spring
I galIy sing,
Q. SaSsafraS. of thee"

l gally sing,
o, sassafras, of thee"
Hal That's fine song!' ex-
claimed Uncle Wiggily. Il don't
know who made it up, but 1 used
TO sing it when I was a young
rabbit. Now if I could see who
was singing about sassafras and
spring I could find what I wanted -
So he waited in the woods. The
song sounded nearer and nearer,
and the rabbit gentleman wasn't
afraid for he knew it was none OF
the Bad Chaps. Then, all of a
sudden, Mr. Stubtail, the jolly ole
bear gentleman, came crashing
through the bushes and he it was
who was singing about sassafras
and spring. z.
Il didn't know you were such a
singer, Mr.. Stubtail," said Uncle
Wiggily. That was fine!"
1T isn't as good as 1 usually
sing" said Mr.. Stubtail. Truth to
tell I am a little hoarse-I don't
mean a pony or anything like that.
I caught cold and my voice is
hoarse so I can't sing really well
until I find some sassafras. I'll
chew the root of the sassafras
bush and then I can sing fine"
Good" cried Uncle Wiggily.
I'll come with you You look for
sassafras and I'll look for spring"
"Oh, so you're looking for a
spring, are you?" asked Mr..
Stubtail
YES" Uncle Wiggily answered
with a laugh. But 1 don't mean a
spring of water and I don't want
to see frog spring. I've already
found those. Johnnie and Jimmie
showed them to me. So if it's that
kind Of a spring you're think
ing Of"
1T isn'tl" said Mr.. Stubtail.
This is a different spring. Come,
I'll show it to you"
"Fine!" murmured Uncle Wig
gily. So he followed the bear gen.
tleman through the woods, Mr..
Stubtail still singing about sassa-
fras and spring, which always come
together.
All of a sudden, Mr. Stubtail
stopped and began shifting the air
with his black nose.
Whats the matter?" asked the
rabbit. do you smell a Bad
Chap"
mo. I smell sassafras." answered
the bear gentleman. ITS here,
and, at the same time, there's your
spring He pointed to the bottom
of little hill and there was an old
bed spring left by the trash and
ash man. There you arew cried
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Fresh SeafOOd
Offered Public

Lenten food now is featured at the
fish market in Zurcher's store at
the corner of Seventh and Main
street where 80 kinds of fish are
available.
Fish food is recommended at the
market as being excellent food for
consumption during the warm
weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Scottish Rite To
Choose Officers

Election of officers for the Scot
tish Rite club of Imperial Valley
will take place at the annual meet
ing, March "a, as is the annual
custom of the club in connection
with Maundy Thursday.
The program will be held at the
Hotel de Anza in Calexico, dinner
to be served promptly at 7 o'clock.
Sojourning Scottish Rite Masons
are invited to join members of the
valley club.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
UNCLE wIGGILY's FLIP FLOP

UNCLE N1GGIL1 FLIP FLOP
Uncle Wiggily was out in the
woods looking for spring, when the
flowers bloom and little birds sing.
The rabbit gentleman had been
searching for spring some time,
but had not found what he wanted.
Once Johnnie Bushytail, the
squirrel, led Mr.. Longears to a
spring of water, thinking it was
that which the old rabbit gentle
man was looking for. Then Jim
mie Wibblewobble, the duck, took
Uncle Wiggily to see Bully Notail,
the frog boy. spring into a pond
of water. But that wasn't what
the bunny with the pink nose
wanted so he went on looking by
himself. Then in the woods he
heard a voice singing:
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
TURNLP SIZE OF MELON

RICHMOND, Va. U.PNA turnip
almost the size of a watermelon
and taken from a regular crop, was
raised on the Lee farm at Irving
ton in the Northern Neck of Vir-
ginia, and brought to Richmond
and exhibited. The vegetable
measured exactly nine and one
half inches in length.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

Published every evening Except Sunday by the
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This Dats
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
aHI- M rnrn

Owing to the continued cool
nights, cold winds and depredations
of linnets and blackbirds it is es-
timated that probably two-thirds of
the valley cantaloupe crop has had
to be replanted this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

Ranchers in water district No. 8,
will have about 200 acres of early
Irish potatoes this spring. New
potatoes from that district will go
on the market about the middle of
May.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

Negotiations are underway for
the establishment of a local branch
of fishing and canning company.
The concern furnishes fresh and
canned sea food, having a fishing
concession extending from Guyamas
north to the mouth of the Colorado
river.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
ARE YOU REGISTERED?

DEGISTRATIONS for the presidential
II primary election on May will close
on Thursday of this week.
The primary election is the citizens
means of expressing his preference for
candidates in the party with which he is
affiliated and is therefore as important
to him as the regular election next Nov
ember.
Republicans must be so registered, in
order to vote at the primary election.
Democrats must be registered as such
and members of other political parties
must be registered therein in order to be
eligible to vote.
AS all registrations expired on Decem-
Der 81, 1881, unless a voter has register
ed since January l. he must register be-
fore Thursday night in order to vote at
the primary.
1t might be we'll to call the attention
of voters TO the new law passed by the
legislature which provides that registra-
tions shall remain permanent just so
long as the voter casts his ballot at each
election or primary election. If he
passes up a primary in the belief that
it is not important, his registration is
nullified and he must re-register in order
10 be able to cast his ballot.
Citizens may register at the county
court house. at the city hall and at nu-
merous places about the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
March %. 1917

Papago sweet corn, derived from
the ancient sweet corn of the In
dians, has proven its exceptional
adaptation to Imperial Valley. 1t
excelled the average of all other
sweet corn many times over.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

The Southern Pacific will take
over the San Diego and Arizona
railway and make it the Pacific
terminus Of a new transcontinental
limo
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

1t is revealed now that one of the we'll
dressed Los Angeles judges also received
an overcoat He'll probably need it when
he finds himself out in the cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

It's not surprising that the income
tax receipts show a shrinkage. Incomes
showed the same thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

The self-starving doctor is declared q
"faker" That's only one OF several
things he has been called.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

Modern juveniles are to be pitied-
they never know the delights of red tlan-
mel spring itch.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

KMleATS OE TAE SAOOLE