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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

rights of way and property neces-
sary for the construction and COM
pletion of said building.
AND WHEREAS the estimated
cost of the proposed public i'm
provement is the sum of Thirty
Five Thousand ($35,O00.0O Dollars.
AND WHEREAS it is further pro-
posed by said City to pay a part OF
the said cost of said municipal i'm
provement by money to be obtain
ed from the United States from
relief funds administered through
the Federal Emergency Admins
tration of Public Works; and where
as an application is about to be
made to the United States for such
relief funds on behalf of said public
improvement; and whereas the
amount of the principal of the
bonded indebtedness to be incurred
for said municipal improvement is
the sum OF Thirty-Five Thousand
(s35, 100000 Dollars; and whereas
the interest on said indebtedness
shall not exceed the rate of six
per cent (6%e) per annum. payable
semi-annually; and whereas said
amount will be too great to be paid
out of the ordinary annual income
and revenue of the municipality
SECTION II: NOW, THERE
FORE, by virtue of the power vest
ed in them by law and by the Act
of the Legislature approved Febru-
ary 25, 1901, the City Council do
further ordain, that an election be,
and the same is hereby ordered and
called, to be held in the said City
of Ell Centro on Tuesday the Goth
day of April, 1897. for the purpose
Of submitting to the qualified voters
of said city the said proposition of
incurring a bonded debt for the
purposes set-forth in said Resolu-
tion No. 538, and hereinbefore re-
cited In all particulars not recited
in this ordinance, such election
shall. be held as provided by law
for holding municipal elections in
such municipality. The polls Of
said election shall be opened at
six o'clock AM. of said day OF
said election, and shall be kept
open until seven o'clock PM. OF
said day, when the polls shall be
closed; provided. however, that II
at the hour of closing there are any
other voters in the polling place, or
in line at the door, who are quail
flied to vote, and have not been
able to do so since appearing, the
polls shall be kept open a sufficient
time to enable them to vote. The
ballots to be used at said election
shall be printed and in form as
provided by law; and in addition to
any other instructions provided by
law, shall have printed on the top
of the face of the ballot the fol-
lowing directions, Mark an x on
the ballot ONLY WITH RUBBER
STAMP never with pen or pencil.
No. -----
ITO vote on any question or pro-
position, stamp a cross (x) in the
voting square after the word YES"
or after the word mo-. All marks
except the cross tx) are forbidden.
All distinguishing marks or erasures
are forbidden and make the ballot
void.
IF you wrongly stamp, tear or
deface this ballot, return 1t to the
inspector of election and obtain
another.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
a on Sol says
a FRANK WATANABE
n" BY ED HOLDEN
BY Ee HOLDEN

UNCLE SIL0
Uncle Silo had a farm
He plant fruit tree
And planted corn
The flood come here
The blight fall there
The dry spell dried up every year
The wheat go sour
The bird eat the flower
He try luck with potato
Potato bug say NO no no
The onion fail ..-..
Cabbage collapse
The bank start visits
Rap rap rap
Uncle Silo had farm
He try plant squash
He try plant best
And now he got worms.
Oh for the life of fireman.
Thank you, please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

Ell Centre, and of said consolidate
voting precinct B are hereby ap-
pointed election officers in their
respective precincts, as follows, to-
wit:
AS Inspector. June De Vore
AS Judge, Mrs. Louise Finney
AS Clerks, Berenice Modem ano
Eudora Swanson.
voting precincts numbers 13, ID
ID and Is established for State and
County elections as regular election
precincts shall be, and the same
are hereby consolidated into one
precinct to be denominate,i Voting
Precinct c. The polling place for
said Precinct c shall be, and the
same ig established at Goodrich
SilvertoWn Stores, 4th and Olive
Streets in the said City of FL
Centre. The following named per-
sons, residents and registered elec-
tors of said City of FL Centro. and
of said consolidated voting Precinct
c are hereby appointed election Of
ficers in their respective precincts
as follows:
AS Inspector, Isaac Mayfield
AS Judge, ,Margretta Thacker
AS Clerks, Lillian Ehmke a
Mrs. Marie Scheniman.
The compensation of said election
officers shall be Five tS50O Dollars
each for all services as such election
officers, and which amount the said
City Council deems to be just.
The said several persons have
been found, and they are hereby
declared to be qualified for such
respective positions as requirei by
law, and they are hereby appointed
as such officers to conduct such
election, and to constitute the cleo
ton boards for said election.
Said election officers hereinbeforc
referred to, shall conduct, and they
are hereby directed to conduct, saiG
election as by law and this ordin-
ance provided and to canvass the
votes given and cast at said election
and to make and deliver returns
thereof to the City Clerk of saf1
City; and it is further ordered that
said City Council of said City shl
meet at the usual meeting pla(
of said Council, to-wit, the City
Hall of said city, on the first Mon
day after said election at 7:30 o'clock
PM. of said day and proceed to
canvass the election returns and de-
clare the result thereof.
SECTION VI: That this. ordin-
ance and the publication thereof
shall constitute notice OF said elec-
ton.
SECTION VII: The City Clerk
shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this ordinance by
vote of two-thirds t2I3 of all the
members of saii City Council Of
said city at an adjourned regular
meeting of said Council and shall
cause said ordinance to be published
in the Imperial Valley Press.
newspaper of general circulation.
printed and published in said City
OF Ell Centre in each of seven con-
secutive issues OF said newspaper
prior to the said goth day of April,
1887, and thereupon, and there
after this ordinance shall take ef-
feet and be in force.
Passed, Adopted and Approved
this 18th day of March, 1887 -
HERBERT w. FAWCETT
Acting Mayor of the CiSyV
of Ell Centre.
ATTEST:
c. G. MOUSSEAU, City Clerk
of the City of Ell Centro.
tSEAL) m19-28-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

Look out for the horse cars took
on a new meaning for Jack Oakie,
when the long waistlined comic
figured in a runaway as a horse
car driver in Toast of New York" !"
Car jumped the track and narrow
ly missed overturning.
"Oakie's masterful driving pre-
vented a catastrophe" said Oakie.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
The Peoples Voice

The editor disclaims responsibility for OPT
mons and statements expressed In this column
and retains the l. -ivilege of summarizing COM
munications of more than $50 words. No con-
tributions will be acceptable unless accompa.
MED by the name and address of the writer
which, II desired. will be withheld from publ
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

PROPOSITION: Shall
the City of Ell Centro
incur a bonded debt
in the sum of Thirty.
Five Thousand $685.
100000 Dollars for the
purpose of the acquisi-
ton. construction and
completion by said city
of a certain municipal
improvement, namely.
a building for munic-
ipal uses, to-wit, the
housing, maintenance
and operation of a
municipal free public
library; and the acqui-
sition of all rights
of way and property
necessary for the con-
struction and compile
ton of said building.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

comedy, Topper" It's the most
elaborate Roach effort to date, and
key to the locked custard pie cup
board has been thrown down the
well.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
By HENRY SUTHERLAND


Gladys George, blond, 34-year-old
stage and screen actress, will go to
England this summer to search
court records for an estate left
her father 20 years ago.
The inheritance consists of land
and old buifdings-possibly castle
somewhere in the south of Eng
land. Miss George believes
Presumably it was willed by a
members of his family to Sir Arthur
Evans Glare, the actress father,
who never pressed his claim.
Sir Arthur, a Shakespearian actor
knighted by Edward VII, is ill and
living in southern California. At
the time the estate matter first
came up he. was manager of the
Hippodrome theater in Dallas, Tex,
and was not in position to take
action in English chancery courts.
An attorney. Sir Francis Moses,
who set out from England to ac-
quaint Sir Arthur with details OF
the estate, died on shipboard.
II have shrugged the matter Off
for years, chiefly because l didn't
have time and means for a lengthy
legal action Miss George explain
ed. Now. however, I have 'both'
and have arranged a vacation in
England this summer during Whlcn
I hope to renew the claim
Bob Burns staggered the Para
mount music department by turning
singer. composer and lyricist all IN
day and giving the world an
immortal ballad titled Down IN
Arkansas"
Burns whooped out the tune Tor
Sam Coslow on his Bazooka, out
Coslow couldn't make head or tall
of it until he called Charlie Kisco
into consultation and traded Off the
Bazooka for guitar.
When they had it all down IN
musical pothooks, Kisco reeled the
thing off on a piano while Bob
sang the lyric. and it turned out
m he all about hillbilly who LETT
his old man down we'll while he
went coon-hunting, because the Old
cent would wait and the coon
wouldn't.
Starts like this:
"One night my pa went hunting
with me,
Down in Arkansas.
THE dog chased big coon up
tree.
Down in Arkansas
Tune is cut from much the same
cloth.
Edward Arnold has been ordered
nm a salad and tea luncheon diet
nv Director Rowland V. Lee, VINO
believes the favorite Arnold dishes
beef steak and corned beef ana
"a abbage-dull the emotions. Actor
has lost two pounds in two days
and has two weeks to go. He SAID:
"This is breaking my heart
White ce1iophane tuxedos, to be
worn by Eleanor Powell and en-
eeu,ble ladies of broadway Melody
of 1927" is the last word in choral
costumes Merrill Pye, Metro art
,director fathered the idea, and
gave tailors some bad half hours
until they learned how to suck
the stuff together. Now II nooooy
lights a match the transparent
trousers may be okay.
porn to Sing is next for Nino
Martini with Jesse l.. Lasky pro-
ducinp. It's an original story by
James Edward Grant and Maxwell
Shane, about tired opera singer
who spends his time leaping out
of the clutches of sordid movie
makers.
Cary Grant is garnered by Hal
Roach to romantic lead opposite
Constance Bennett in the screwbal'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
. Strolls Thru Hollywood

"The Little Stranger" next fall
Marian Marsh is also leaning
towards Broadway in the fall {.
Bing Crosby shipped eight nags to
Tanforan Ronald Colman fell
heir to Marlene Dietrichs portable
dressing room trailer on the Selznick
lot
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
MISGUIDED CONSIDERATION
AN ANCIENT IDEA?

There is one bill before the state as
sembly that will be opposed by every
woman with any self-respect, and every
man who considers woman anything but
anachronisms. 1t is Assembly Bill NO.
2435 proposing an act to limit 10 Az
hours a week the time that any woman
can work, regardless OF her profession,
calling or trade.
The bill. at this writing, is before the
committee of social service and Wel1are.
If it is reported out favorably there Is
something wrong with the committee.
Women's organizations throughout the
state. including the Business ana fro-
fessional Womens Club and the Wom-
ems Ten Thousand Club of Ell Centre,
have gone on record opposing the DILL
because they feel it would create an
infringement or their rights.
There may have been one OF TWO rea-
sons for drafting of the bill. 1t may De
that the authors were guided by ms,
conceived idea that women, weak ana
frail. should be protected from the nor
rible slavery of industry by maximum m
hour limitations; or, it may be tnat the
authors believed the old maxim, "Wo,h-
ans place is in the home, ana are 40
ing their utmost to keep her there. ;,
The bill, if enacted into law, Woulo
do nothing so efficiently as keep women
at home-or on relief. 1t is next TO IN
possible in many endeavors-especiaiIy
tbe professional and semiprofessional
lines-to get through a days work IN
s;x hours The result would be that
women would not be employed.
Women on jobs do not want discrlmi-
nation either for or against them. They
want a fair break-and the pending Dill
would not give them anything more than
the very short end of the deal.
The legislature may waste its own
t;,,e without too much criticism-but
# should not waste the time of every
ono alca
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
Horoscope for Sunda,

Horoscope for Sunday
Persons whose birthday is to-
morrow usually are steady work.
ers. They win by plodding rather
than by occasional spurts of bril-
lance.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

One Minute Test Answers
l. Salt Lake City, Utah.
2. William E. Dodd, formerly a
professor at the University of Chi
cago.
3. Antarctica.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
GRAB BAG
Onc-Minutc Test

l. What city in the United States
was founded by the MormonS?
2. Who is United States ambas-
sador to Germany?
3. Is Little America situated in
Central America. South America,
or Antarctica?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
A Law THAT WOULD
pPOTECT THE PUBLIC

In the welter of bills facing the state
legislature at Sacramento is one deserv,
ing of public support, because 1t would
90 farther toward remedying one grave
defect in the states liquor setup tnan
ANYTHING else could. 1t is Senate Bill
No 425. the new Alcoholic Beverage
Control Act. -, ,,a
Among other things, the bill would
proyide that all applicants for on-saie
liouor licenses shall, within five days
after filing their application with the
hoard of equalization, publish notice OF
the application, giving their names, the
nlace where their business is to be con-
Quoted. and other details. 1t is informa-
tion to which the community is entitled,
and it should be made public before, not
after the license is granted.
Where its saloons and liquor dlspen-
sares are located is of primary lmpor-
lance to any town or nelgnborhood. IL
is often too late to correct an evil after
the license has been granted and the
business set up. Often there are draw
hacks of which the board OF equaliza-
ton know nothing, but which might
readily be pointed out by members OF
the community if they knew the appii-
cation was pending.
Ii is only fair to give the community
warning of possible dangers to its moral
health - and the proposed law wouio
have that effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
TOtlaY's HOrOScOne

Many persons whose birthday is
today are noted for their extreme
patience. They seem unperturbed
by the vicissitudes of life.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
PROPOSITION: Shall

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21
Words of Wisdom

All is not gold that Glisteneth.-
Middleton in "A Fair Quarrel
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

DcfinitiOn-a Day
A "larcenist" is one who conf
mits robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

Cary Grant is garnered by Hal
Roach to romantic lead opposite
Constance Bennett in the screwbali
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

Born to Sing" is next Tor Nino
Martini with Jesse L. Lasky pro-
ducing. It's an original story by
James Edward Grant and Maxwell
Shane. about a tired opera singer
who spends his time leaping out
of the clutches of sordid movie
makers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-21

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-07-15
The Indians In Garrett County
Part II. The Shawnee Indians
BY CHARLES E. HOVE

Fort DuQuesne in 1855 and during the
next four years they roamed the glades
and mountains at will Over the noun
tain trails they came-around Fort
Cumberland-sweeping the Potomac
valley clean of white settlers as far
down as Conococheague Greek, in
Washington county. Frederick was
crowded with refugees and even An
napolis was alarmed, but Garrett had
no settlers yet, hence none to flee, none
to suffer.
POntiac's War
After the capture of Fort DuQuesne
by the army of General Forbes in 1859
and the end of the war, there was a
brief period of peace. British traders
began again to move westward across
the Alleganies. But the Indians soon
rallied around Pontiac, an Ottawa
chief, to stop the white entertainments.
In June, 1853, the blow was struck.
Washington wrote:
Another tempest has arisen upon
our frontiers, and the alarm spreads
wider than ever. In short, the inhabi-
tants are so apprehensive of danger
that no families remain above the Con-
ococheague road, and many are gone
below. The harvests are in a manner
lost and the distress of the settle
ments are evident and manifold"
Even as late as July, 1864, the In
dams committed a number of massa-
ores along the Conococheague, and in
the same month an expedition of five
hundred men was sent to reinforce
Fort Pitt, which had been cut off from
all communication. In this expedition
against the Delawares, Mingoes and
Shawnees there were two companies
of Maryland volunteers.
Evan Shelby, of Washington county,
was the most noted Maryland officer in
the three Indian wars of this period.
On November 16, 1765, resolution
was passed in the Maryland House of
Delegates to pay Captain Evan Shelby
for his spirited conduct in the war.
1t was in 1772 that Shelby had the
Buffalo Run" tract surveyed and the
settlement made there was called
"Shelby's Port"
1t was at the close of Pontiac's War
that the Friend brothers came up the
Potomac River from their home near
Shawnee Old Town and bought of the
Shawnees their camp ground and corn
fields on the Youghiogheny River
This was probably in the year 1865
The Friend settlement was made the
following year-the first within the
bounds of Garrett county.
Here on the west bank of the Yough-
iogheny was enacted the drama of the
red and white mantle settler came
the Indian went.
Only two Indian names remain in
our county, viz: Potomac, from "pa-
towmek, meaning "place of the
burning pine" and Youghiogheny, g
corruption of the Indian "juk-wiah.
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again for the Blooming Rose In that
neighborhood there were some thirty
or forty families who were not so
easily frightened"
In 1894 General Wayne badly de-
feated the Indians. Tecumseh fought
bravely with his people. The following
year treaty was signed and eighteen
years of peace followed, Tecumseh liv-
ing peacefully with his people on the
White River in Indiana.
In 1905, Tenshwatawa, known as
"The Prophet" brother of Tecumseh,
announced himself as holy man,
given power by the Holy Spirit to cure
diseases and to prevent death. He de-
nounced drunkenness and the changing
of the old Indian customs. General Will
liam H. Harrison was then Governor
of Indiana territory. To break the
Prophets power Harrison suggested
that he do a miracle. The Prophet an
nounced that on certain day he would
darken the sun. Presto! On that day
an eclipse did darken the sum-
In 1911 General Harrison attacked
the Indians at Tippecanoe. The red
men fought desperately, but when Te-
cumseh returned few days later from
journey in the South to rally the
tribes, he found his people defeated
and his plans ruined.
Our second war with England was
on, and in June, 1872, Tecumseh joined
the British in Canada. He was made a
general, and almost all the northwest
ern Indians Joined the British. After
the battle of Lake Erie, Harrison's
army crossed into Canada and at the
Thames River the British and Indians
gave battle. The British were soon
routed but the Indians stood their
ground until the battle cry of Tecum-
sch was no longer heard.
"Tecumseh fell dead and we all ran,"
testified chief. Tecumseh was then
forty-four years of age: Shawnee,
the finest flower of the North Ameri-
can Indian.
The spirit of the Indian tribes was
broken. In 1925 the Shawnees in Mis-
souri, sold their lands and moved to
reservation in Kansas, followed by the
Shawnees of Ohio in 1918.
A large part of the tribe left Kan
sas about 1916 and settled in the In
dian Territory, and in 1867 the re-
mainder followed. In 1869, the main
body of Shawnees became Incorporated
with the Cherokee Nation in the pres
ent State of Oklahoma, where they are
now residing.
1t is estimated that when the Shaw
nees went west across our mountains
about 1882 the tribe numbered 1,750
souls; the highest estimate of their
number is in 1817-2,000 souls. In 1909
the Shawnees numbered about 1400.
A Peoples Cry
Oh! listen to peoples cry
You've wronged for many year.
Did we not own this glorious land,
Each mountain, lake and river?
Were they not from Thy sacred hand
Our heritage forever
We cannot find our fathers graves
Our fathers! where are they?
Like bubbles, that on the ocean dance,
Our tribes are swept away!
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tionary army defeated the English and
their Indian allies in the Ohio coun-
try and took possession of the West
for his State and the American cause.
But even after our troops occupied the
Western forts small bodies of Indians
kept the frontier settlements west of
the mountains in a continuous state of
alarm for years, even after the treaty
of peace was signed with England.
After The Revolutionary War
After the war large numbers of the
Shawnees Joined the hostile Cherokees
and Greeks in the South, while a con-
siderable body accepted the invitation
of the Spanish Government in 1893
and settled on Spanish territory west
of the Mississippi. Those who remained
north of the Ohio had almost continual
trouble with the American Govern
ment until they were transported west
of the Mississippi.
The most influential Indian chief
during this period was Shawnee, Te-
cumseh, whose father had been killed
at the battle of Point Pleasant when
the boy was six years of age.
"Tecumseh was distinguished for
virtue; for strict adherence to truth,
honor and integrity. He was sober and
abstemious, never indulging in the use
of liquor or eating to excess"
In 1856 young Tecumseh took part
in the unsuccessful defense of the
Shawnee villages on the Mad River.
Later he went South to try to unite the
Indian tribes in a war to drive the
whites across the mountains, or at
least east of the Ohio, andto found an
Indian nation extending from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf. He was an
orator as we'll as a great and brave
warrior.
"The Great Spirit" said Tecumseh,
"gave this great island to His red chill
dren; he placed the whites on the other
side of the big water. They were not
content with their own, but came to
take ours from US. They have driven
US from the sea to the lakes; we can
20 no further Here we will
stay"
While Tecumseh was South, General
Harmer's army of 1900 men was de-
feated in Ohio. Blue Jacket, a Shawnee
chief, was one of the Indian comman-
ders.
In the fall of 1891 General Stellar,
with 14OO troops was badly defeated
at the headwaters of the Wabash, los
ing 300 men. Tecumseh was acting as a
scout and did not take part in the bat
tie.
At the time of St. Clair's defeat Me-
shack Browning was living with his
uncle, John Spurgin, in the old Friend
cabin at the Buffalo Marsh (Mc-
Henry.
In "a Hunters Life" he says:
''Things went on we'll enough until
the news came to us that General St.
Clair's whole army had been defeated
and cut to pieces. This was such fright
ening news that Aunt was almost
ready to leave all and seek some better
place of safety; and indeed 1 believe
uncle, too, was little frightened. Be
that as it may, he continued but a
short time until he took up his march