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Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
NEWS FROM SEELEY DISTRICT
Mrs. S. T. Robinson, Staff Correspondent

at their cottage in Jacumba over
the weekend.
Bill and John Du Bois, Temple
and Harold Robinson attended the
dance given by the Sub Deb club at
the Barbara Worth country club
Friday evening.
Miss Freda Hyers was hostess
to a group Of her friends Wednes-
day evening at her home. Ihe
young folks enjoyed a swim, Weln-
er roast and a social evening. 1hose
present we're the Misses Louise
Shaw. Mary Cook, Jacqueline La
Vine. Caroline Paine, Marjorie
Hovey. Jerry Blackard, NADIA Brown;
Messrs. Joe Badger, Robert knaoe,
Jack Morgan, Philip Van Slyck ana
Rex Richards
Mrs. George Wooliscroft accom-
panied Miss Louis Huff to San d.
ego for the Gay Saturday.
Miss Mabel Wooliscroft was an
over night guest at the home OF
Dorothy Paine Thursday.
George Campbell, after spending
a day or two at home, returned FIJI
day to Harrison Canyon where he
is doing some work on his brothers
cottage.
Mrs. A. r. Fergason's sisters, af-
ter a delightful visit, left SATURDAY
for their homes in San Diego ana
EScondido.
Mrs. ]. T. Oftelie will remain
two or three weeks with her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Frances Moore, in Las
Vegas as Mrs Moore is still at the
hospital having had to undergo ma
operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Nc
Cain. Alonzo and Dick Mccain,
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Mccain ana
children. and James Mccain mot
ored up to spend the day at Boul-
evard Sunday to attend the Spring
Festival given by the schools IN ana
around that district.
Miss Freda Flyers accompanied
Miss Ethel Pearl Cross to Descanso
Sunday to take home Linda Mae
Morris who spent several days WlCh
her cousin, Ethel Pearl.
Clarence Napier received several
bad bruises from motorcycle ac-
cident he had last week.
Mrs. Robert York was VISITOR
in San Diego over the weekend.
MIR. and Mrs. L. d. Hanks enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. water
man and Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Iaylor
of Ell Centre Friday evening.
Troop 5 of Seeley Boy Scouts VIII
hold their court of honor Wednes-
dav evening in Community hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

A group of young people who met
Thursday evening at the c. E
Daley home spent a jolly time
dancing and playing games. Re
freshments of punch, sandwiches
and ice cream were served. Those
present we're the Misses Alene
Smith, Kay Broadbeck, Leota Der
rick. Clara Mae Davis, and Bessie
Marie Daley Messrs. Clarence and
Eugene Napier, Blaine Stafford.
James McHone, A. B. Britton, and
Harland Daley.
Mrs. o. Schieber and Mrs. E. L.
Norris attended the Eastern Star
Friday evening in Ell Centro.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Armstrong and
daughter, Patsy Lee of Ell Centro,
were guests at the M. L. Boone
home at Elm Friday evening.
Lonnie Murphy was a visitor
here from Coachella over Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Robinson and
son, Harold, motored to Ramona
Sunday to spend the day with rel
atives.
The Dixieland bridge club met al
the home of Mrs. E. S. Small Sat-
urday evening and were treated to
a delicious turkey supper late in the
evening after the bridge game
Member were Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Won Flue, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Beeson, MI. and Mrs. Ben Thomp-
son. and Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Small
High score was won by the Won
Flue family and low went to MI
and Mrs. Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bel! anc
family have leased a ranch neal
Holtville and are moving as soon
as the Elm school is out.
Miss Stiple, county nurse, was q
caller at the Elm school the pas'
week.
Mrs. R. Claypool of National City
was calling on friends in Elm TINS
past week.
Miss Henrietta Blank was a guest
over the weekend at the home oi
Mr.. and Mrs. David Blank OF I'M
perial.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Ferguson en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. l.. D. Hanks
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
UNCLE WIGGILY AND BIG EYES

Playing in the woods near their
hollow stump bungalow one day
Baby Bunty, Jingle, Jangle and
some of the other rabbit children
heard a strange noise up in a tree
as if some one called out:
"Whoo! Whoo Whoo!"
IT'S one Of the boys up in tree,
calling to scare US said Jingle.
Maybe Tommie or Joie Kat, "
said Jangle.
And they're pretending not to
know our names and they're asking
Who? Who? Who'?" laughed Baby
Bunty. And then, all of a sudden,
she exclaimed: "Oh. no, it isn't,
either. 1t isn't Tommie or Joie Kat
up in the tree calling at US
How do you know?' asked jim
gle.
Because 1 see two big eyes an
swered the little orphan rabbits.
Two big eyes up in the tree look
ing down at us and neither OF the
pussy cat boys has big, round eyes
Tn going to tell Uncle Wig!"
Wen go with you" said Jingle
and Jangle, who we're also afraid OF
theb ig eyes.
Two Big Eyes
Uncle Wiggily listened 70 what
his little rabbits said, how they had
heard the Who! Who! Whol
sound up IN the tree and how Bun
I ty had seen the two big eyes.
What do you s'spose it is, Dad
dy?" asked Jingle.
L know what it is" said the rab-
/ bit gentleman. up in the tree is
a big brown bird. Owls have a way
of calling or hooting, and it SOUNDS
as if they asked Who? Who?' Owl.
have big, round eyes. The ow
needs extra large eyes, for he flies
about at night to hunt for food anc
he can see quite we'll when it is al
most dark. An owl, even with his
big eyes, cannot see in complete
! darkness. No animals can, not eV-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
Pitcher Injured
When Hit By DriUe

WASHINGTON, May 30. tUP) -
Buck Newsom, Washington Amer
ican league pitcher purchased 1or
$4,000 recently FROM the ST. Louis
Browns, will be out of the lineup
for at least a month, as a result
of knee injury, club physicians
said today.
Newsom was hit on the kneecap
by a drive off the bat of Earl
Averill in the third inning OF the
game yesterday between the Sena-
tors and the Cleveland Indians. Ice
packs were applied to his knee be-
tween innings and he finished out
the game.
Immediately afterward he was
taken to a hospital where an *
ray revealed a severe fracture OF
his left knee cap. Physicians said
had the drive struck him an inch
higher on the leg it might have
ended his pitching career.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
Graduation At
Seeley School
Monday Night

SEELEY, May 20. (SpeciaD-The
graduation class this year from
Seeley includes Wynona Womack,
Jackie Yoshida, Shizura Yoshida,
James Corbin, Hilda Finkbinder'
Warren Euchler, Lucille Klump
The program planned by them
and the rest of the classes will be
given Monday evening, June 3, at
! 8 p. m.
The program from the eight
classes is, first and second grades:
THE Safety First Trains" play;
"A Dillar, A Dollar" a song; "A
Model Child" a playlet; THE Lit
tie White Tooth" a song; Doctor
and Patient" playlet by EDWARD
Kato and William Eads.
Third. fourth and fifth grades
THE Golden Goose" a play; songs,
"Texas Cowboy" "Oh, Susannah.
Santa Fe Trail"
Sixth, seventh and eighth grades;
Two songs dramatized, "Oh Soldier,
Soldier" and "Oh No, John, No;
foretaste of the future, elghth
grade; "Barcarolle, song, girls dou-
| BILE trio.
Before the program begins there
will be tricks on the bars and tum-
bling tricks on the ground present
ed by the boys of the Seeley schooI
out on the play ground.
All of the graduates and most OF
the seventh graders passed the con-
stitution test Friday given by Mr.
Hanks.
The first and second grades are
making word-books to study during
the summer. They are going tt
draw pictures, paste and color flow
ers. in their books. Next year they
will bring them to school to show
to their friends. They are colorint
designs on match boxes. This sum
mer they will rut crayonS in then
to use on their scrap books.
They are glad to have Lee Cor
don Frowiss back in school agair
after his absence with a broker
arm. He can use his arm almos
as we'll as before he broke it,
Elaine Graham, Wynona Womack.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
Westside Country
Club EntertdinS
Their Families

SEELEY, May 20. (SpeciaD-
Members Of the Westside Country
club entertained their families and
number of friends at Community
hall Thursday evening, May 20.
The entertainment was in the
nature of a circus, having all the
features of regular big top. Ami
mails, clowns, the fat lady, the wild
man and -arious others were eX-
hibited. Sideshows and games COM
pleted the program.
There was plenty of pink lemon
ade, hot dogs, pop corn balls, and
frozen bars for everybody.
Those present were Messrs. and
Mesdames j.. F. Gallaher, George
Cannon, Roy Westmorland, G. l..
Allender. G. H. Ferguson, Ray
Kramer, Gene Higgins, George
Woolliscroft, A. H. Sheldon, o.
Dickson, T. r. Lytle, M. Lowe, Will
liam Schultz, M. L. Curtis, Dave
Green. Mrs. Ed Diehl, Mrs. Victoria
Rich, Mrs. Mamma Herrick and boys;
Messrs. Judson Payne, Joe Green
Brenton Gallaher, Mabel and Mer-
lin Woolliscroft
Visitors we're Mr.. and Mrs. A
Plecher, M. and Mrs. r. j. eleven
ger, Mrs. F.. l.. Norris, Mrs. Martin
Mrs. Inez Sigmund, Miss Harmon
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dubois, Miss
Katherine Steele, Mrs. Margaret
Handy Mrs, o. Shieber, Miss Louise
Huff, Miss Ann Halloran, Miss Dor
phelia Deardoff, Miss Henrietta
Blank, Miss Pauline Zimmerman
and Mr.. and Mrs. l., d. Hanks
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
z$|SEIK1l'S!!S'd''y'|3H| O
WOO.McInfyre

NEW YORK, May 29.-The tele-
phone, considered by many civili-
zations greatest boon. often be-
comes life's most serious irritation
in the Big Town. Of inestinable
value in emergency, it nevertheless
becomes an instrument from which
the busy man must shrink to sur
vive.
The most ingenious defenses are
built up TO turn the telephone call
er away without offense. For in
stance, should someone try to call
up J. p Morgan Or a person Of
similar Importance, he finds him
self in q maze of buck-passing that
really becomes ludicrous, yet no
suggestion Of slight is implied.
Prominent men who are married
often have their telephones listed
in names OF their wives This is
known to their intimates who are
thus able to reach them. There are
many III apartment houses whose
phones never ring. The operator
instead takes the name and num-
Der Of the caller.
Cali slips are Immediately sent
up and the recipient may call
those to whom he or she wishes
to speak. Then, Of course, there are
the telephone enthusiasts-such as
Rex Cole who not only answers
every call but installs private
phones for his individual use IN
the homes Of intimates.
Theodore Dresser is in Hollywood
for the summer but not TO write for
the movies. He is on another sort OF
writing assignment. He has been
the most conspicuous spurner OF
movie gold. Once he listened anc
professed to have become so out
ragged when ne saw the finished
product he offered back all the
money paid TO scrap the picture
That could not be done, but ht
will never, never make another try
The sidewalk cafe. catching It's
second wind. is far more numerous
this summer than last. Every nook
and granny blooms with few tub
bed trees and several brightly Gov
cred tables The larger places -
Chatham Walk, Park Lane Gar
denS, etc.--heve been augmented
By the largest Of all the formel
sheep fold, surrounding the TaverT
on the Green in Central Park. TIT
old Claremont, refurbished, on Z
sweep al the Drive. suggests som'
~ ilsc popular places Ia The Bois
Anu then there's the Firth Ave
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
! see Two BIO eyes.

bit gentleman. Mr.. Cav Cav, the
crow bird gentleman, and his
friends don't like Big Eyes. Owls
catch and eat too many little crows,
and so I'll get Mr.. Cav Cav TO drive
this dangerous bird away"
"Then we'll wait until he does
before we play in the woods" said
Bunty, as Uncle Wiggily hoped
away to get Mr.. Cav Cav.
p The black crow gentleman bird
said he would be very glad to
bring some of his friends to drive
Big Eyes away. In a little while
half dozen crow gentlemen flew
into the tree where Big Eyes was
hidden.
Cav! Cav! Caw!" shouted the
crows, darting at the owl.
who! Whol Who!" hooted Big
Eyes. He ruffled up his feathers
and looked very fierce, staring at
the crows. But there were six OF
them and only one owl, so they
chased him out of the trees. Away
flew Big Eyes. After him flew Mr.
Cav Cav and his friends, darting
at the rabbit-eating bird and pick
ing him with their sharp beaks
The owl flew far away to another
part of the woods and hid himself
in a hollow tree where the crows
couldn't get at him. Then the lit
tie rabbits could safely play in the
woods. Big Eyes was gone. And
if the fork doesn't stick the knife
when they're at dinner together
IN tell you next about Uncle Wig
pily's Decoration day.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
Tomorrow Also
Ascension Day

Thursday is not only Memorial
Gay but it is Ascension day as well.
Accordingly Holy Communion will
be observed at st. Paul's Episcopal
church, Fifth near Orange, at 10
a. m. says the Rev. Charles Bailey,
vicar.
St Mary's Catholic church will
also observe the day with Holy
Mass at z and at a. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

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Associations.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fair east and cloudy west portion
tonight and Thursday; unsettled
over mountains; cooler east por-
tion Thursday; moderate northwest
to west winds off the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
MISPLACED CLERENCY

So we've been blufting all the time
about this business OF being serious with
kidnapers. At least the state of Mis-
souri, has
A jury in that state convicted Walter
MCGEE of kidnapping Miss Mary McElroy
and sentenced him to pay the extreme
penalty, as provided in the laws of Mis-
souri,
Immediately after sentence a battle to
save McGee's neck started and was sue
cessful Monday when Governor Guy B.
Park commuted sentence to life imprisi-
onment.
One of the strongest pleaders for Nc
Gee was his victim. Miss McElroy, who,
with her father, made a visit to the gov
ernor to intercede for the kidnaper. She
claimed that the thought of being even
indirectly the means of mans death
would cloud her whole life. At first we
believed that to be a "grandStand play,
but have since decided that the young
lady is entitled to credit for her attitude.
1t is what we expect of good women.
But we cannot say so much for Cover
nor Park. He should have been made of
firmer stuff and let the law take its
course. A kidnaper deserves only death,
and if the orderly process Of the law is
to be disturbed because Of mlsdlrected
sympathy Tor them, we are not going 10
put a stop to kidnapping and we may have
repetitions of what happened up in San
Jose.
California has two or more men await
ing execution now for kidnapping. Every
effort will be made to obtain clemency
for them and if it should come that the
decision is put up to Governor Merriam,
we hope he will show more consldera-
ton for just jury verdict than did the
governor of Missouri
We have read eight accounts of the
Ross-McLarn battle in today's papers,
not one Of which cited the fact that last
nights battle took place exactly one year
from the first meeting of these two war
riors.
The state might do something nice for
San Diego by permitting it to change
the song to read "San Diego Here We
Come
Who's who in Washington is not as i'm
portant just now as what's what.
-O-
Tomorrow is the day when the Veter-
ans face the task of trying to squeeze
that bay window into 1917-1S o. d.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
Rotary Club Will
Not Hold Meeting

Because of the holiday tomorrow,
there will be no meeting Of the Ell
Centro Rotary club, Bob Fahs, act
ing president, announced today
A meeting was planned as usual,
but believing that many members
might wish TO visit the exposition
at San Diego, or enjoy the holiday
in some other manner. it was de-
clded by the directors to omit this
weeks meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

Modoc county officers have final
ly caught a part of the gang that
has been stealing cattle III thaI
county for several years,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
The Weather

LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Generally cloudy tonight and
Thursday; seasonable temperature;
light variable wind.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

The University Farm creamery at
Davis is manufacturing Bel-Paese
type Italian cheese. the first ever
made In this country.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

nue's Amen Corner bar near Wash
ington Arch.
The flock of grazing sheep that
once ranged the South meadows Of
the park, with the patriarchal
shepherd like a figure out of
Bible land scene and magnificent
collie, a gift Of the elder Morgan,
offered a pastoral vista that was
the city's last touch with rural
simplicities. I used to stop occa-
sionauy to chat with the shep-
herd. At that time, benefitting his
role, ne had never been to the
theatre or ridden in an auto and
was devoutly religious. He was a
ringer for Edwin Markham
One notices, TOO, a thinning Of the
sun-do walkers who made
circle or two Of the grayeled path
Of the reservoir a vesperal hour
rite. Andrew Carnegie, an unfail-
ing regular. Of course, is gone and
George NJ. Cohan has been out
trouping for a year as has Bert
Lyteu. both reservoir addicts. Edna
Ferber was often seen as were Fan
ME Hurst, Rockwell Kent, Howard
Chandler Christy. Steffanson, the
explorer, and it was probably the
only place where at rare intervals
Mrs. Fiske was seen IN public But
firemen are always there-seVeral
Of them at all hours Of the day
It's tneir exercise and promenade
| ground.
The most romantic Of the older
/ taYerns is The BreVOort-now a
freshly painted battleship gray with
a green facade. 1t still maintains
/ a concierge platform and direc-
/ tor in cutaWay graces the foyer
with a continental scatter Of jack
knife bows. Until a few years age
IL had only dinky push-Dutton
/ elevator. Nearly every famous Am
erican novelist and those from
abroad have tarried there. It's tuck
ed-away registers would reveal sig
natures of William Dean HoWells
Edith Wharton, Hugh Walpole, Hill
/ laire Belloc. Marx Twain. Booth
Harrington, Harry Leon Wilson
Meredith Nicholson and such mod
erns as Dresser, Lewis, Heming
way, Nina Wilcox Putnam and Ar
| thur Somers Roche. II admitted
we'll l-nlannered dogs long before The
| European-minded Ritz Carltor
broke down the canine resistanc,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

that once afflicted most smart New
York hotels.
Those of US who become hope
lessly flustered at a policeman's
baWling out will appreciate this
scrambled taunt Of a rebuked m1-
torist TO the crossing cop near Dun
tons on the avenue: Nothing tc
do but stand still doing nothing or
walking around listening Tor any
thing you can see"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
"DONT QUOTE
ME"
BY United Press

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Some
government officials may get lit
tie dizzy at the astronomical fig
ures involved in new deal" spend
ing programs. but it's all in the
DAYS work to Thomas H. Mac
Donald. chief of the bureau of pub
lie roads.
Long before the depression or
the new deal" came along, Mac
Donald was supervising expendi-
lures of two or three times as
much money each year as was
spent during the building of the
Panama canal.
Macdonald has been head OF the
public roads bureau since 1918,
when David F. Houston, secretary
of agriculture under President Will
son, appointed him to head the
newly created agency.
The fact that Macdonald was to
allocate some 400 million OF the
work relief fund for highway i'm
provements did not faze him at all.
He had just got through putting
out some 300 millions in emergen-
cy road expenditures in addition to
an annual roads budget OF around
200 million dollars.
Macdonald is probably the least
know of the big Spenders OF the
$4,000 100000 work relief fund but
he will have a hand in the dis
persal of about one-fifth OF the
total
Since he became chief Of the
public roads bureau, Macdonald
has spent Just about two billion
dollars. A large fraction OF Amer
ica's modern highway system has
been built by state highway en-
gineers with funds he allocated.
Sixty-five per cent of the regu-
lar department of agriculture ap-
propriations are dispersed at his
direction.
Macdonald is blue-eyed, stocky
bald-headed Irishman. He was
born in log cabin in 1881 at Lead
vile. Colo. His father was nat
uralized Canadian.
He first went to work for the
government at a dollar year tc
aid in an investigation of systems
of road management in Iowa. He
became chief engineer of the Iowa
state highway commission ano
went from there to his present post
He believes firmly in good roads
for farmers-says highways make
life more attractive for farm folk
and help to get the produce te
market.
He remembers when Iowa Mud
was proverbial and how the states
good roads system took all the
point out of the ancient jests di-
rected at the corn state.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
LO o kin g
B &C k w a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Nav %. 1915

A loss Of 81 900, partially covered
by insurance. was reported when
/ the barn belonging to 7. r. Lander
was destroyed by fire recently
Miss Lou Record and Miss Mar
/ tha Colby. teachers in the Ell Cen
tro schools. left yesterday for San
{ Diego by stage
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
May 20, 1920
I Three more concerns joined the
El Centro Chamber Of Commerce
at the Wednesday night meeting of
the directors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Z. Sones
and family left Friday for Long
Beach TO spend the weekend.
TEN YEARS AGO
May 20, 1925
EI Centro's first car Of watermel-
ons for the season left here yester-
cay.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w McEuen plan
y leave tomorrow for Live Oaks.
n
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Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
LOCAL TEMPERATURES

data compiled by Howard En-
mons, local observer for the United
States weather bureau).
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

The state might do something nice for
San Diego by permitting it to change
the song to read "San Diego Here We
Come"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

Who's who in Washington is not as i'm
portant Just now as what's what.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

Tomorrow is the day when the Veter-
ans face the task of trying to squeeze
that bay window into 1917-1S o. d.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

We have read eight accounts of the
Ross-McLarnin battle in today's papers,
not one of which cited the fact that last
nights battle took place exactly one year
from the first meeting of these two war
riorS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Nav % 1921
TEN YEARS AGO
NAV %. 1928

Mr.. and Mrs. w w McEuen plan
y leave tomorrow for Live Oaks.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-29

nue's Amen Corner bar near Wash
ington Arch
, 1935-07-25
u. S. Public Links Meet
Slated to Begin Monday

INDIANAPOLIS. July rs The
salesman, iron worker. policeman
and the clerk-representative pat
rons OF the municipal courses OF
the country-are coming here 10
play for the national public links
golf championship, starting Mon
day.
A sturdy group. they take the
fairways and the green's as they find
them, be they rough or ready.
There's word OF cheer here, how
ever for the Coffin course Is nken-
ed TO the best IN the country and
II will be In good condition.
Veterans OF the Is other public
links tournament that have been
played under the auspices Of the
USGA. are entered for the first
TWO rounds. which viii determine
the four-man team championship.
The renowned Los Angeles quar-
tet, consisting OF John NJ. Ross.
Bruce Mccormick, Don Erickson
end George Lance, Is after its third
consecutive team title. "A cup. award
cd by the late President Harding,
goes to the winning team over 80
holes Of medal play.
The team last year AZ Pittsburgh
established a meet record OF SIS. In
following days, however, 1t was the