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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
Figures Reveal Marked
Decline in Birthrate

The United States is fast becom-
ing nation Of oldsters. DR.. o. e.
Baker of the bureau Of agricultural
economics reports.
With fewer births every year and
immigration constantly lessened,
"there are now about 10 per cent
fewer young children in the coun-
try than there were five years ago
and about II per cent more persons
over sixty-five years of age" accord
ing to Doctor Baker.
Continuation of this trend will
bring about a decreased population
after the 10-year period ending in
1915, the doctor predicts.
"Decline in births has been from
nearly 100000 in 1921 to about
100000 in 1884," Doctor Baker
said, but added: "a temporary bios
soming in 1888 of many marriages
postponed because of the depression
might have caused more than the
average number of births In 1888"
However, he said, weddings in 1884
were back to pre-depression numbers
and ''births seem unlikely to increase
after 1885,"
The birth decline is greater in cit
les than in rural areas, the investi-
gator found, because of the greater
monetary outlay necessary to raise
a child in the city.
The most backward group about
having children is the "so-called mid
die and upper classes" Doctor
Baker decides:
Families of professional classes
have 3 to 10 per cent fewer children
than those of business men, business
men about Is per cent fewer than
skilled workmen and skilled work
men 30 per cent fewer than I'M
skilled laborers."
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

Your grandmother crocheted chair
backs, and now this generation Is
doing the same thing. Chair backs
and arm rests are strictly modern.
When you enter room the chair
with crocheted set attracts your at
tention first. 1t is distinctive and
really looks good. The wreath shown
above is made in the large filet
stitch; shows up more lacy and the
work Is completed in less time.
Other designs in chair backs have
been shown in past editions, and
Judging from the response for direc-
lions how to make them we feel
sure this design will bring equally
large requests. The home needle.
workers know what to make to i'm
prove home decorations.
Instructions and black and white
diagram how to make this set will
be mailed upon receipt Of 10c. If
you want the complete package No.
2505 containing sufficient cream
Mountain Craft cotton, crochet hook,
directions and diagram, send this de.
partment 4Oc and you will receive 1t
by mail.
ADDRESS HOME CRAFT COM
PANY. DEPARTMENT. B, Nine
teenth and st. Louis avenue, st.
Louis, Mo.
Inclose a stamped addressed en-
velope for reply when writing for
any Information. ,,.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

consent they watched him go slowly
down the street. When he turned into
the garage at the far end of it., they
moved to the lunchroom door.
The ladies had disappeared. Pulsi-
pher stood at the cashiers desk choos-
ing a cigar from the box the propre-
tor offered him. The proprietor,
decent little body with a wide grin,
one misdirected eye, and a birdlike
desire to please, nodded welcome as
they came in.
Come far today?"
proudly.
"Noo York city," the man repeated
with polite interest. FIGURING folks,
'ey?" He looked pleasantly at Kerri-
gan.
Travelling folks" said Kerrigan, his
rich voice gentle and friendly. Share
expense"
"Ohhhh," said the man, deeply i'm
pressed, even a little worried. "And
you say your drivers outside? Amt
he going to eat
Hes gone down to that garage at
the end of town to see about REPAIRS"
said Kerrigan. Have you got a good
hotel here-cheap?"
"Why, yes, yes-I guess So" said
the proprietor. He looked at Pulsifer,
around at the others, and back at
Kerrigan. "Say," he went on diffident-
ly, II don't like to butt into you folks
business, but-but has this Teller got
your grips an all with him."
eyes," said Crack, his Incidence
pierced by direct interest; land our
fares to California"
There was a moment of silence, and
the proprietor's attention sharpened
on Kerrigan. "Well," he said, "you
folks are probably all right, but they
was a party like you-what dye call
-share-expense? They was party
over Lewistown way got hung up by a
feller't went to get some repairs. They
never did see him again. An the
Chambera Commerce had to chip in
to get a couple Of 'em back t'Noo
York"
Kerrigan looked round at Hal in
grave inquiry. In the newly empty
silence, Hal felt Barry's eyes on him
and he turned to her, ready to mock
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
SYNOPSIS

Following his fathers bitter criti-
cism of his idle life. and the with
drawal of financial assistance, Hal Ire
land, only son of wealthy banker,
finds himself practically without funds
but with the promise of situation in
San Francisco, which city he must
reach, from New York, within a def
mite time limit He takes passage with
a cross-country auto party on a share
expense" basis. With five other mem
bers of the party, an attractive girl,
Barry Trafford middle-aged Giles
Kerrigan; Sister Anastasia, nun; and
an individual whom he instinctively
dislikes,. Martin Crack, he starts his
journey. Barry's reticence annoys him.
To Kerrigan he takes at once.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
"Embalminp" Lopa

Logs are preserved for use as tele-
graph and telephone poles by forcing
a fluid into the grain Of the wood
by air pressure. The sap Is forced
out Of the log by the pressure Of Is
pounds and a rubber cap is clamped
on the butt. Thus the preserving
fluid replaces the sap.-Popular Me,
chanics Magazine. 37r
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
Minds Pos .ibilitie.

The mind is invincible when she
turns to herself, and relies upon her
own courage. What then must
her strength be when she is fortified
with reason, and engages upon
thought and Deliberations From the
writings of Marcus Aurelius.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

Soft rubber usually is vulcanized
with 8 per cent or less Of sulphur,
whereas in hard rubber as much ~
so per cent sulphur may ba used
The Washington times., 1935-02-02
STEAM SHOVEL LOST

ASHLAND, Pa, Feb. 2 UN.s0.
Employees Of an excavating com.
pany are probing for their 'Iost"
steam shovel. The piece Of heavy
machinery was believed to have
been engulfed by a slide Of $4,000
yards Of earth and rock, which
occurred during the night.
The Washington times., 1935-02-02
BAPTIZED AT 1O1

CISCO, Feb. 2 Q.N.SO.
Mrs. Isabel Rodriguez, 101, was
baptized in the Baptist Church
here. She was not, however, the
oldest woman to join the church.
That honor Is held by a Mrs.
Parkerson, who joined in 1912, at
1T.
The Washington times., 1935-02-02

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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1935-08-02
Konec brace.

V herne jednoho nejpTed-
n6js1ho newyorskeho klubu,
velkoobchodnlk Libbers, WASN'T
w hrac, velkymi ztratami We
hfe Sc tax r~ozcilil, re Sc zblaz-
nil a pocal Sc v herne svlekati.
Neil mu mohl nekdo tom "a
braniti, byl dplne nahy. Byl
dan do blazince.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1935-08-02
Dslnici opousti praci - plno
bIech.

Blechy jsou vsude V Jersey
okresu. Nerad tento napadl
fanny a rozmnozil Sc tax, re
farmafSt1 deln1ci nechavaj1 ra-
deli praci neil ably pracovali.
Psi a Rocky drbajf a kousou
Sc pry az "ku smrti' a sluzeb-
ne nestacl vlasy rozcuchavati.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1935-08-02

L gu, POCdld JOOIl OPI VuOV
pocitovati jakousi lftost mad
tim, re nekdo takto mohl po-
chybiti k Will mne = a poprve
cd te dolby, kdy ono spiknutf We
skutek bylo uvedeno, zapome-
nula jsem byti rozhorlenou.
"Komnaty v l'Hotel Angle
terre byly objednany a jsou to
komnaty, jez by molly uspoko-
jiti elena kralovske rodiny,"
psal Petr dale. "Cyrillo, mil
drahousku, prosim neodm1tej
jejich zaujmut1. Mil zivot bu-
de ode dneska smerovati k to-
mu, abych vymazal ten ukrut-
ny zert, kteryz Tebe ucinil mou
a kteryz Te ma vzdy odloucil
cd Glyffitta. Yer mi vsak, m1j
drahousku,z re bych takto nikdy
vice nezhTesil; ucinil jsem tax
stejne bezdecne jake vedomky
a mohu-li I'll nyn1 pomoci roz-
vazati ten uzel = a Ty ma tom
setrvas- radeji Tt tom ohle-
du pomohu, nez abych pozbyl
I've 1cty. Promluvfme vsak O
tom obsirneji-az Sc setkame.
Nejdele O IL. iodine z%1trejsiho
dine zcela jiste budu u Tebe.
Mic jineho nez smrt mi v tom
NIUE Zabraniti.
TVGj v6rnV P. c..
"Nic jineho nez smrt mu
niue zabraniti" a on zde do
sud nebyl!
Mrazen1 mne pTejela pri spa
trent .vaznych tech SLOW. Jak
podivno, re Petr, jenz byl mel
ky a lehkovazny SLOW takovych
pouzil. Vzdor tomu nevzbudi-
la We mne slova ia zadnou zvla-
stn1 pfedtuchu.
"Neco jineho nez smrt jej
zdrzelo," uvazovala jsem, u
pustivsi jeho psani a naz1rajfc
do ohne.
Jak dlouho lady Rawnsleyo-
va Sc zdrzela! Ona a Grain
ger opravdu dlouho Sc loucili.
Mona, re il musel sdeliti mno-
no novinek.
Pojednou pTisla celia roze-
chvena.
Lord Glyffitt jest Ease zpet
CVrillO !" ZVOlala. "Grainger
S MIN mluvil, drive nez pfiseI
sem. Nalezl stopu Royovu, =
zcela bezpecnou stopu a jest to
jeho matka, jez jej unesla. Ii
de f1kaj1, re jest silena a ="
"Ze jest Silena, = lady Rawn-
sleyova!" vzkrikla jsem, vyskc
civsi re <sveho sedadla. Cell
tomu tax, jaky Dude osud Ro-
yGv?"
Byla jsem nyni k Will hocho.
vi mnohem vice znepokojena
nez kdykoliv drive.
"Oh, matka nikdy neublfz:
vlastn1mu diteti," odpovedels
lady Rawnsleyova chladne
iona ="
"Je-li vsak silena," vyrusils
jsem il 1zkostlive, "nebude
zodpovednou "a sve jednani
Oh, proc jen Sc lord Glyf
fit, vratil domG bez dieter"
MONA, re je nemohl dosta
tt = ostatne nev1m. Co vsak s
mystic, re Granger myslf !
Je-li ia z~enstina sllena, zda-li5
pax nemohla ona - chapete-
z~astreliti Jana.
Zrovna myslenka Oswaldo.
va. Mohlo v tom byti necC
pravdy, paklize nestastna re.
ma nebyla pri zdravych smy.
slech. Neverila jsem vsak, ze
nalezajic Sc pTi zdravem rozu.
mu byla by mohla zkTiviti je.
diny Was ma Have lorda Rawn.
sleyho. Paklize ale zlovolne
usmrtila sveho manzela, mo.
hlo il byti svereno jej1 dfte?
Znepokojujfcf upominka VII.
rala Sc mi ma mysl: lord Rawn.
sley sam v poslednf osudne ra.
no sveho zivota o nj mluvil ia.
ko O osobe S1lene.
V tn dobu jsem to pokladals
pouze "a bezvyznamne slovo
tax maly to ma mne tehdy uci
milo DOZEN, re jsem 81 ma to ne.
vzpomnela az dnes poprve.
DEFINE tomu vsak, re byla
s1lenou, = jak hrozne to bylc
pro uboheho Roye a jak jsem
Sc obavala, nebylo mono V
dnesn1 noe k nemu Sc dostati
nebot Oswald Sc vratil.
"Kdyby ona- ia zenstina-
Janova skutecna zena = jej
byla zastrelila, MONA re bych
-s1rI~- H..
Evening star., 1935-10-27

Washington has had its full share
Of so-called haunted houses. and even
the buildings erected by the first Presi-
dent on North Capitol street between
Constitution avenue and c streets.
where he expected to make his Winter
residence, were said to be infested
with spirits. They were not COM
pleted at the time of Gen. Washing
tons death, and in later years became
boarding houses. Admiral Wilkes
once made his home here. and in one
of the buildings the novelist, Mrs.
Southworth. was born.
lust what occurred to cause these
buildings to be called haunted, the
writer cannot say, unless 1t was be-
cause probably they had been vacant
for a considerable time during their
existence, and empty property is
usually looked upon as queer by
many persons. About 40 years ago,
when the buildings were known as
the Hillman House. noted murder
occurred there, but this was long after
it was regarded as haunted.
In this same vicinity was once the
Old Brick Capitol. at First and A
streets northeast, where was con-
fined Belle Boyd, famous Confederate
spy, and where Capt. Wirz, well known
as having been in charge of Anderson
Evening star., 1935-10-27

with the Congressional Cemetery
transaction.
"'CHARLES ST. v. ZIMMERMAN.
as. L. JOHNSON,
az. c. PARSONS.
"'HENRY LIDDELL,
az. N. OLIVER. JR..
&C. BURTON HEINECKE.
"'DANIEL CONNER.
Washington. D. c., December IS.
1882
Daniel Conner. whose signature Is
attached to the paper, is the janitor,
and the other signers are students"
The writer interviewed one of these
students recently-who Is now q we'll
known physician, and although he
could not shed any further light on
the incident other than reported by
The Star at the time. yet he vividly
recalled the occaaion.
Beall, according to the newspaper.
before practicins medicine. kept q
barber shop in East Washington,
where he also extracted teeth. He
later received q diploma to practice
medicine. Fortunately for us NOR
tails, 1t Is not quite 50 easy now to
secure permission to practice medicine
as formerly.
Besll. in due time, appeared in
Police Court. where Judge Miller held
him on $1,000 bail.
Evening star., 1935-10-27
Duck Hunting Curbed.

THE duck-hunting season has opened
= and with its opening hunters
find themselves set about with regu-
lations stricter than usual and cer-
tainly more energetically enforced.
The heavy slaughter Of birds, together
with the loss Of breeding grounds. due
to drought, has 50 seriously cut into
the migratory bird population that it
has been necessary to limit hunting
until the trend starts the other way.
The season this year will last 80
days, with hunting permitted only
from 2 am. to pm.
The daily bag limit is 10 ducks Of
all or any kind and the weapons 70
be used are limited to shotguns which
contain not more than three shells. :,
Evening star., 1935-10-27

the neighborhood attributed to ghosts.
Just when this sewer was built along
this avenue no one seemed to know,
but its discovery and filling in had
the effect also Of doing away with
the bad spirits that at times annoyed
the guests of the old Varnum Hotel,
from which, when 1t was known as
Conrad and McMunns, Thomas JET
ferson went to be sworn in as Presi-
dent in March, 1901.
Another house where Thomas Law
resided, at Sixth and N streets south
west, was years ago given . bad
name by people who believed in COM
muning with spirits. After being va
Gated by Mr.. Law 1t was occupied by
Richard Bland Lee, uncle OF Gen.
Robert E. Lee, and later by z. g.
Wheeler. According to an old ac-
count in The Star, q German musician
once tried to lay the ghost with piano
music all night. but signally failed
and left ingloriously. But since this
building was close to the river, rats,
no doubt, were also to blame for
any strange sounds that might have
been heard hereabout. At any rate,
when the writer visited the house some
years ago, the occupants seemed to be
happy and contented.
A famous old house said to have
been haunted once stood on the
n-rthwest corner Of Pennsylvania ave-
nut and Sixth street. As early as 1885
it gained considerable notice when
what Is historically known as the
snow riot occurred there. The ground
floor Of the original building on this
corner was FIRST occupied by William
Duane, printer and publisher. the
upper floors being used for many years
as 0 gambling estabiishment where the
celebrated character, Beau Hickman,
practically made his headquarters
Later o restaurant and eating house
was conducted here by William Wal
ker, William F. Benter, p. M. Dubant
and others. In 1892 it was removed
in order to make way for q building
for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
THE Snow riot, which occurred just
a century ago, was brought or
when the word was passed around
that the proprietor, Beverly Snow
had made improper remarks about
some white women. S1bw was mu-
latto, so we are told by Miss Josephine
Seaton, and was "at the very heae
of the respectable colored population.
Until this time he was popular ant
was.held in high repute by every one
and we are further told: "Au tht
gentlemen Of the city protected Snow
as far as they could, not believing
him guilty, and even had such beer
the case they were the friends Of onl!
law and order"
It Is said that order was restored
by the crowd becoming fatigued il
following the many rumors as to th'
whereabouts of Snow, and this, to
gether with a heavy rainstorm, had I
Evening star., 1935-10-27
Mrs. Surratt, whose spirit
might have troubled Judge
Holt, who convicted her.

vile Prison, was hanged in the rear
yard. The Supreme Court now oc-
cupies the block in which the build
ing stood until q few years ago.
Other soldiers beside Capt. Wirz were
executed in the yard of the Old Capitol
Prison by which name it became
known during the Civil War. OF
course, with all the noted prisoners
of State who were confined there and
the executions which took place on
the premises, the structure Just had
to be frequented by nocturnal spirits
who amused themselves by running
up and down the stairs, rafting the
door knobs and by doing other strange
things attributable only to restless,
evil spirits.
On the New Jersey avenue side Of
the House Once Building, where many
prominent people lived from time to
time, nearly all the houses were sus-
pected of being inhabited by the
spirits of departed residents. and
strange tales are even told today Of
the peculiar antics Of the invisible
beings.
This was particularly true Of the
Thomas Law house. where this gentle
man moved in 1900 with his wife,
the granddaughter Of Martha Wash
ington. It stood near the northeast
corner of New Jersey avenue and c
street and was sold by Law in 1878
to DR.. Frederick May and became the
property of Judge Advocate Holt in
1857. It was Judge Holt who In
sisted upon a death sentence for Mrs
Surratt and was largely to blame for
the execution. Remorse, we are told
caused him to return occasionally to
this earth after he had been trans
ported to realms elsewhere. Other
houses on New Jersey avenue to the
south of the Holt house are declared
to have been visited by supernatural
beings.
HOWEVER, when ground was
L broken In 1871 for a building to
house the Coast and Geodetic Survey
an old abandoned sewer was dis
covered. It led down to the river and
was swarming with rats Of unusual
size, and, no doubt, this had much
to do with the noises the people Of
Evening star., 1935-10-27

Virginia for spooks or hobgobblins,
for we can find plenty Of tradition Of
ghosts right here in Washington, and
strange stories arising from the re-
turn of spirits back to the earliest
days of the city. Indeed, the execu-
ton and burial Of James McGurk IN
1902 was responsible for making the
ghosts of North Washington keep
their nightly vigil in the Vicinity Of
old Holmead burying ground and the
nearby 'slashes. Indeed, the stories
of the nightly walks Of the spirit Of
this criminal were kept alive many
years after he had been put to death
and until the graveyard was oblit-
Grated and a block Of houses erected
on the site. Thereafter the phantom,
who killed his wife, ceased to make
further appearances.
When the writer was youngster
and was won't to sit out on the COM
mon with the boys of the neighbor-
hood on warm Summer evenings and
listen to fairy stories, some one Of
the older boys usually took the Joy
out of life by telling blood-curdling
ghost story, which had the effect of
sending the youngsters home out OF
breath and scanning each tree box
for fear a SLAP doctor" would grab
them and take them away. And when
they arrived home and went to bed
they did not forget to cover up their
heads as well as their heels, all Of
which reminds me Of James Whit
comb Riley's poem, Little Orphan
Annie"
HOWEVER, there was some excuse
- in those days for being afraid Of
"gobble- and slap-doctors, since
this was during the days Of the grave
robber-and this individual was by no
means an imaginary one, either. for
every now and then the press would
announce where this or that cemetery
had been entered at night and the
graves desecrated by ghouls, and nat
urally this kept the children pretty
well scared, and the older people con-
siderably agitated.
Unfortunately. grave-robbing was
carried on here-and elsewhere as
well-to an appalling extent. even less
than so years ago. Vigo Jansen Ross.
a white man, and several colored as
sistants being the most noted violators
of the law.
Occasionally others were accused OF
engaging in this outrageous business,
and shortly before Christmas, 1889, .
body of woman was taken from Con-
gressional Cemetery to be used for dis
secting purposes at one of the medical
colleges. In some way or other, 1t
seems, after this body had been OBJ
tanned, together with the body Of q
colored woman from potter's field, the
two hfeless forms were abandoned in
buggy in the vicinity of the jail, the
Evening star., 1935-10-27
Beau Hickman, celebrat.
ed hummer, whose spirit
returned to its old haunts.
.obbers, no doubt, being frightened

robbers. no doubt, being frightened
away.
Later, the bodies were taken to the
morgue and the white woman identi.
fed by . man as being his deceased
wife. The people Of Washington were
naturally Mortified, and a demand
made for the capture and punishment
Of the perpetrators Of the outrage.
According to The Star Of December
~. 1889:
"The trustees of Congressional
Cemetery have offered liberal reward
for the apprehension Of the person
or persons who desecrated the grave
Of Mrs. Thomas B. Cheek last Friday
night. Although Mr.. Cheek swore
out a warrant against DR.. Arthur G.
Adams, it Is evident that that ply.
sician took no part in robbing the
grave. The warrant was sworn out,
it is said. in order that there might be
o legal Investigation that would lead
to the detection Of the grave robbers.
DR.. Adams denies that he is or was
the owner Of the buggy in which the
two dead bodies were found. and men
tions the name Of Dr.. w. w. Beall as
its owner.
"Dr. Adams states that he was at
the medical college Friday night at
the time the body was stolen and Is
corroborated by the following paper:
WE. THE undersigned, most posi-
w lively assert that DR.. A. c.
Adams was at the National Medical
College on the night Of December 20.
1889, between the hours Of and IL
pm, and that we were In his pres
ence, and know that he could not
have had anything whatever to do
with the outrageous proceedings
charged against him In connection
The Bismarck tribune., 1935-03-04
That Williston Road

Proposal by the people Of Willis
ton for . more direct route between
that city and Bismarck deserves the
full support Of the Capital City. In
the very nature Of things all roads In
North Dakota must eventually lead
to Bismarck and the more direct the
better.
The arguments advanced by our
northern neighbors are sound. BY
constructing so miles Of highway be-
tween Sanish and Williston some so
miles will be saved in the mileage
travelled. This Is q considerable item
in view Of the present travel between
these sections and more particularly
so because Of the potential traffic.
This road would be the most direct
route to the great Fort Peck dam
which Is bound to attract thousands
Of tourists during the next few years.
To many Bismarck residents, how
ever, the proposal does not seem to
60 far enough. To reach its great
est benefit this proposed route should
be designated as the Lewis and Clark
trail and should more closely follow
the route Of the Missouri river, thus
making 1t one OF the few tree-lined
roads In North Dakota.
A modest start on such highway
has been made northward from the
Memorial bridge here. For approxi-
mately eight miles this road now is
the most beautiful drive in North
Dakota. Clinging to the bluffs on
the eastern bank Of the river and oc-
casionally rising to their heights, it
offers . change from the monotony
OF the prairie scenery which would
be welcome to visitors, just as 1t is
appreciated by local folk.
Such q road, carried northward to
Washburn, would not interfere with
the established and more practical
route already in use but it would
give US q road which would be a real
attraction and Of which the entire
state could be proud.
II public money is to be spent that
men may support their families It
could be used in far less laudable
efforts. for such q highway would
give pleasure to North Dakota and its
visitors for generations to come.