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Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
Oh Yeah?
by FRANK WAT A NERVY
HOW GOMEZ


Sometime | observe how different is
woman from gentman husbands about
money. You say to man Kiwanis or
Rotary Pay twenty-dollar yearly dues
right-nowly." He hand in S1O0 bill with
smile and say, Keep change please"
You say to Honorable Lady Ten Thou
sand Club, Dues six dollar in place
one time five dollar because tax so
Nightly" and she resnort snootingly,
i no more play marbles in club back
yard"
When Honorable Lions or Twenty
Thirty boy wish raise money they look
for club Dude and say to misfortunate
member you got too giddy necktie two
dollar please" Honorable member pull
out five smackers and push back change
disdainishly.
Elk's Charity Fund big all same like
Presidents budget. Elks Boys make
cinch to collect by calling member big
insult like yellow Dog.
When lady clubmember need big mon
ey Heap Much they say, I'VE work hard
three day to give extra stylish dinner
worth $3.50 but charge bargain price of
four bits Then Honorable ladies stay
home all weekend recooping.
| observe most sad depressingly-how
is girls so savingly when men so spend
ingly. p .
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
Ell CENTRO DAY BY DAY
By Anne DaViS
Thoughts While Strolling:

Thoughts While Strolling:
If you can call the daily mad race
TO the court house strolling).
Why is it that those females whom
nature least designed for slacks
seem to have n passion for wear
ing them on the street? And why
oh. why. must these same ladies
wear high heeled shoes and lace
blouses with their slacks? am the
last to deny the comfort of slacks.
but Ell Centro's main street is not
the place 70 be seen in them. dear
ladies. if your proportions are on the
generous side.
Except for the slack wearerS. who
probably like all of us have that
happy illusion that though We now
wear size Is We are still that girl
ish slim 70 or IA of our earlier days,
We women there's no use denying
il are the vain sex.
Who among us would loll in state
in shop window with her hair done
up in curriers'. face shiny and pow
derlesS. nodding unconcernedly 10
friends Is they pass by? Yet men
seem to have no c0mpunctions about
reclining. all lathered-faces, in the
barber chair in fun view OF pas
serSby. Whenever I pass a barber
shop I have that uncomfortable
feeling that in decency I should
avert my eyes TO avoid embarrassing
any of my male friends thus ON
display. | must admit that il seems
to embaraSS me more than il does
them. but I still advocate Venetian
blinds as an asset for a barber shop
50 that men could perform those
beauty rites in quiet and Seclusion.
And speaking of beauty rites, who
has seen the Warren Curriers' Scot
ty, Speck, who, after a weekend at
the coast is a product OF all that
the canine beauty shops can do for
a lady: she is now all manicured.
stripped and ready for the sum-
mer competition.
As for dogs. with no reference to
Speck, who is q perfect lady. hate
these yappy dogs that have a fiend-
ish ability to tell. just when you
have on your newest. sheerest hose
and before you can protect your
self. have reduced your latest ex-
travagances to ShredS, their own
ers mildly saying. Don't. doggie. 3"
while you try to smile pleasantly as
if it We're a cunning little trick.
OF course, in pure justice. I
might add that our dog Sooky, pro-
nomced. please, to rhyme with
bookie, or cookie, is nothing that
We can brag about. Early in life
she developed 4 definite anti-Social
complex which causes her to seek
protection under the nearest bed if
stranger, or even a person she
knows well. comes in the house. I
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Nav 10. 1922
tNII v
sssA u

Mrs. j. r. Stevenson of Imperial,
will be hostess TO the Twice Told
Tales section of the Ten Thousand
club Monday afternoon with Mrs.
Don Bitter telling the story OF the
day. This will close the work OF the
section for the season. Meetings will
de resumed in October. The section
had an interesting and successful
season under the leadership of Mrs.
Thomas M. Gill Those desiring
transportation TO the meeting Sat
urday may call Mrs. T. II. Gebbie or
Mrs. Gill.
The Ten Thousand club will hold
its annual luncheon Thursday at
the Barbara Worth hotel, business
session to be held in the morning
at which time reports of standing
committees will be given and all
unfinished business closed before
adjournment for the summer
vacation.
Heretofore the luncheon program
has been one of the most enjoyable
of the year and the majority of the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
Americas S Ideal
CIubuOman
Blu MRS. ID. b. ROBERTS

Recently the pages of our newspapers
carried the picture of a sweet faced
elderly faced woman bearing the cap
ton, Americas Ideal Mother" We see
frequently the photographs of "Ameri-
cas- Sweetheart SO why not Americas
Ideal Clubwoman"?
Possibly the first qualification for
that title is balance She must be able
TO accept and perform the duties Of club
life without neglecting the greater obli-
cation Of home life. She must be able
to think sanely on questions that may
arise, see both sides and act for the best
interests of everyone involved.
The ideal clubwoman must be well
Informed, not only in the matter of club
activities but on current problems Of
government, civics, state and national,
and new developments in science as they
affect home and child welfare.
Perhaps tolerance is the next virtue Of
which she should be possessed. Toler-
ance for the opinions and beliefs of
Others but intolerance toward the de-
structive forces abroad today which seek
to undermine and destroy This intoler-
ance causes her to exercise her right of
franchise at every opportunity, for she
knows that only by the exercise of this
right can destructive forces be curbed.
Therefore our good clubwoman is good
citizen in every sense of the word.
This clubswoman is reverent, recog-
nizing the need for the guidance and
help of a power higher than her own.
She combines with these virtues very
human qualities which endear her to
those who come in contact with her.
Summing up the qualities which go
toward making up the ideal clubwoma,n1'
we find that she is well-balanced, well,
informed. tolerant. reverent and good
citizen in the highest sense of the word.
Have we an ideal club woman in the
Woman's Ten Thousand Club? Several.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

shall always consider Col. W r.
Nicholson a true connoiSSeur of dogs
as he is the only person. outside Of
ourselves. who have ever been able
to discern the noble traits Of our
pet and who won his way 10 our
hearts by pronouncing her 4 beau
tiful dog To most OF cur friends
She IS just one Of those pei ,nat
only the owners can loye.
y
To get back To the geatlor sex.
perhaps Kiplins whose the fe-
male OF the species is more deadly
than the male" won for him the
protests and the ire Of womanEini.
was right after all. for / Sec that
the Basque women have joined their
men. the Spanish Layalis,s, IN
fighting the Rebels. Who for the
first time are learning what VAR
really Is.
And nearer home, in MeXicah, it
is only the women now who are
maintaining the sitdoWn strike
against the Agrarians. the men ap-
parently having Abandoned the en-
campment in front of the PalaCio.
The women. however. nave done
nothing of the sort but are still
protesting. maintaining rigid picket
lines about the camp and permit
ting no one to enter without prop
er Identification and credentials.
And again, woman won the Pull
itzer prize this year. Margaret Nit
chell with Gone With the Wind.
and To my mind deservedly so for
never have I known of book which
has so taken modern America by
storm. and never can n heroine who
was SO real TO people as Scarlet
In Scarlet. and in the historic
background the book mas real
worth.
Bagateiles: Songs I don't 7arc if
never hear again, "Chloe' am
old Man River
The ralo Verde trees are in bloom
and what's become Of tne palo
Verde festival?
;
Now that the tailors have picked
their 10 best dressed men in the
United States, how would your list
go for FL Centro? Two names would
certainly appear near the top OF
mine: Leroy Holt and j. II. Edgar
who combine conservative good
taste with originality.
y = y
As for women. my list would take
more than 10. but among them would
be one of the Ten Thousand clubs
members of many years standing.
Mrs. Leroy Holt whose appearance
denies the theory that the valley
climate destroys ones looks.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

Com piled By
Women of The
Ten Thousand
Club
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Nav 10. 1917

Officers for the coming year will
be elected by the Ten Thousand
club on Thursday afternoon. A tech
nical violation of the Bylaws of
the club rendered null the election
held March 90.
1t is expected that tomorrow's
election will result in the confir-
nation of those chosen before, with
the exception of two board members
Mrs. A. H. Grisowld and Mrs. Vio-
lette Campbell find it impossible
to serve because of personal reasons
and ask that others be chosen in
their places
The coming election of officers
reminds citizens of Ell Centre of
the outstanding work done in the
community by the Ten Thousand
club during the past year. Their
programs have been exceptionally
well attended and have been of
interest and benefit to every
member. figH
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
LOOKING BACKWARDS
What The Files Tell of Past Club Happenings

club, and Mrs. Hugh T. Osborne,
president elect, today were most
enthusiastic regarding the gathering
Mrs. Cali Harrison was elected
president of the Women's Business
and professional club at a meeting
yesterday.
First announcement of the break
fast which will formally complete
the activities of the Women's Ten
Thousand club for the season was
made today by the president. Mrs
Albert w. Hale. The breakfast,
which will take the place of the
former luncheons, will be served at
II o'clock Thursday with Mrs. N.
A. ContoS as hostess.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
The Woman's S Club
In the Community
Ru LESSIE 4. CURRIER

In the days of our grandmotherS there
were no women's clubs. at least not in
the modern understanding Of the term.
There was, in fact. no need of them. In
that era people lived, for the most part,
their entire life in the same community
so that everyone knew everyone else and
there was no need of the club rs a
means of getting acquainted.
The civic and political problems of
those days were few and far between.
Opinions could be formed and action
taken after months of leisurely fireside
chat, whereas today we have to whirl
into action often at a minutes notice,
and unless months of proper schooling
lie behind this action serious mistakes
are made. So the club has become an eff
fective training school and an important
mobiliZing force for our fast moving
civilization.
In advancing community spirit and in
discovering and developing individual
ability the club is unsurpassed. Lucky
is the community that possesses a wom-
ans club that is a good talent scout, and
fortunate is the woman of undeveloped
potential ability who finds herself in
such club membership, for she will not
be long friendless nor without proper
sphere of activity, even though she may
be completely new to the locality. The
modern club is most truly the community
hostess.
To the woman's clubs, and in fact all
the progressive civic organizations of to-
day falls large share of the task of
stabiliZing civilization through a period
of ruthless change If the world revolu-
ton now going on proves to be blood
less one in America, We may in no small
degree thank our service clubs and our
kindred women's organizations for the
balanced thinking, broadened vision, and
courage of conviction which have been
engendered by their training.
Are we not often asked what is the
use of this or that organization? The
answer is that they are useful just in
proportion to their service to the higher
humanity. If they are developing good
citizenship, making their town finer
place to live in, and training their men,
bers to meet the demands of adawning
civilization, then they are useful.
Every normal human being deeply
desires to be doing something construc-
tive, but only time will pass on the mer-
it of their work. In this we are not un-
like those skilled craftsmen who made
the celebrated Gobelin tapestries by ply
ing their needles day in and day out
with infinite care and artistry. They
worked always according to very ex-
act pattern, but always from the wrong
side of the tapestry, so that not until
their labors were completed and the
whole tapestry turned to the light did
they ever have any idea of the magnifi-
cence of the completed design. So we
labor at seemingly trivial and trying
tasks, doing our bit patiently and ac-
cording to our special bit of the great de-
sign May future generations say that
we have wrought well in the pattern of
he Creator, bringing out a better humani-
ty and a higher Christian civilization.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

members make it a point to be there
Plans under consideration for
Thursday indicate the occasion will
be as delightful as usual. Plates for
the luncheon must be reserved be-
fore noon, Tuesday by phoning
Mrs. Howard p. Meyer. New officers
will be installed in the afternoon
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
TEN YEARS AGO
Nav 10. 1927

Returning yesterday Afternoon
from Sacramento where they attend
ed the annual convention of the
California Federation of Women
clubs. Mrs. Albert w. Hale, presi
dent of the .Womens Ten Thousanl
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20

n.oots former constable,
nrer the store and pool
Ssen os ~ r. Davidson, Com
q He took possession
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20
BREAD PRICE UP ONE CENT
Advance, Laid to Greater Costs,
Applies to Large and Small Loaves

The price of white bread increas-
ed one cent on both the small and
large loaves in Wilmington and
throughout the Delmarva PENN
sula Wednesday. The advance cor
responds to increases made in sur
rounding states during the past
several months. The increase is
from seven to eight cents whole
sale, or from eight to nine cents
retail on the 16-ounce loaf, and
from nine to ten cents wholesale,
or from IL to II cents retail. The
new wholesale prices will be equiv
alent to two ounces for one cent.
Wilmington bakers explained that
not only the prices of ingredients
have been steadily advancing, but
that the labor costs are higher,
with all the larger baking compan-
les. The advance is objected to by
some down-state merchants as the
gains to the bakers are much
larger in proportion to the retail
it is said, the latter be-
ing obliged to sell at only a penny
profit a loaf, so as not to put a
greater burden on the public than
possible.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20
SEEK
TOMATO PROFIT
Continued From Page one)

in the field greatly influence the
yield and quality for canning pur-
poses, according to demonstrations
which were conducted on a number
of farms in Kent county for sever
al years by County Agent Russell
E. Wilson, and many farmers are
now following this practice with
satisfactory results. In checking
over these field demonstrations it
was shown that those plants which
were set during the last two weeks
in May produced on the average
2.3 tons more marketable tomatoes
per acre than did those plants of
the same varieties that were set in
June and grown under similar con-
ditions. It was shown also that
early plants are able to make con-
siderably more growth before fol-
iage diseases check their develop
ment, and the plants likewise have
the opportunity to set a larger per-
centage of tomatoes before high
temperatures occur in mid-sum-
mer. Although the setting of early
plants is one step toward the pro-
duction of greater yields per acre
and higher quality tomatoes, farm
ers should not increase their acre
age if this crop is to be placed and
maintained on a profitable basis.
The growing of more tomatoes on
a fewer number of acres will reduce
the cost of production and thereby
increase the profit provided that
the yield Is sufficiently high and
the quality is well above the aver
age for processing in cans. For a
few years farmers in this county
grew their own early tomato plants
in cloth-covered coldframes, but in
recent years they have been pur-
chasing southern grown plants
which could be obtained cheaper
than it cost to grow these plants
In this section. Many tomato
growers are purchasing these early
plants through local canning fac
tories with which they contract to
grow q certain acreage each year.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Rev. Nj. A. Mayer, Pastor, An
nounces Services For the Week

The Smyrna Church of the Naz-
arene, Rev. Matte Mayer, pastor,
announces the church had weIl-at-
tended meetings Sunday. Rela-
tives of Miss Haines, the pastors
assistant, were visitors from Phila-
delphia and participated in the
morning church service. The John
son brothers rendered special vocal
numbers in the evening service to
the delight of all. On May the %,
at 7:30 p. M, the annual church
meeting will be held. Members
are requested to be present. The
pastor announces services for the
week as follows: Cottage prayer
meeting every Tuesday evening at
7:30; Mid-week prayer meeting
every Thursday evening in the
church at 7:30; Sunday School,
9:45 a. m; preaching, IL a. m;
Junior service, $50 p. M; prayer
and praise, 7:30 p. m; preaching,
500 p. m.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20
ASBURY M. E. CHURCH NEWS

Rev. DIR. j. w. Colona, Pastor, An
nounces Services For the Week
The services at Asbury Method
ist Episcopal Church next Sunday,
May 23rd, will be as follows: the
Church School will convene
promptly at 10 o'clock, the Gener-
al Superintendent, Mr.. Harvey G.
Jones, in charge; the morning wor-
ship service and sermon at IL. The
theme of the sermon will be Char
les Wesley, An Interpretation"
This service is the beginning of an
observance of our entering upon
the 20Oth year of the history of the
Methodist Church. The Epworth
League service at 6:45 and the ev-
ening worship service and sermon
at 7:30. Prayer service Wednesday
evening at 7:30. The public cor
daily invited to all the services.
Any member or friend of Asbury
Church willing to present one or
more copies of the New Church
Hymnal to the Church in cooper
alton with the effort now being
made to provide the church with
the new hymnals is requested to
place their order with a member
of the following New Hymnal
Committee: L. M. Price, w. w.
Hynson, H. c. Jones, E. t. Porter,
Mrs. E. S. Mattiford, Mrs. Frank
H. Hynson, Mrs. ]. w. Colona,
Elmer Passwaters, Mrs. H. w.
Sherwood.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20
Barcus of near Cheswold, to Mr.

Barcus of near Cheswold, to Mr.
Paul Carey.
Mrs. Howard R. Jones was host
ess to the Thursday Afternoon
Bridge Club last week at the Way
side Inn.
Miss Jackie Harris of Whining.
ton and Rehoboth, spent the week.
end with Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Roe
DR.. and Mrs. VIC. Deakyne have
returned from a visit with DR.. and
Mrs. Leroy Lampkins of Balti-
more, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Wells FAIRIES en-
tertained a number of their friends
Sunday afternoon with short
cruise in their boat on the Chesa-
peake Bay.
Mr.. Edward S. Dwight enter
tanned the Tuesday Bridge Club at
her home Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Harry B. Grieves, who has
been spending the winter at the
Delaware House, has gone to Reho-
both to occupy his cottage for the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Graham
and son Jack, and Mrs. Herbert
Fritz of Philadelphia, spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les P. Thornley,.
D
of Lieut.. and Mrs. w. M. Millican
at Annapolis, Md, over the week
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Egan of
Germantown, Pa, are visiting Mrs.
Egan's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. P.
Collins.
Mr.. Leroy Waters, Mr.. and Mrs.
John David, Jr., and daughter
Betty, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Short
of Clayton, and Miss Hilda David
of near Smyrna, spent Sunday at
the Geological Gardens in Phila-
delphia.
Miss Hilda David of near Smyr-
ma had as her dinner guest one
evening last week Miss Lucy Hill
near Townsend.
Mrs. Sallie Pleasanton and Mrs.
May Hickey were at Fora I'd. E.
Church Homecoming last Sunday.
Miss Ruby Green of Smyrna, and
Miss Dorothy Slack of Newport,
spent the weekend in Philadelphia
and Wilmington.
Miss Eleanor Keiser of Smyrna,
spent the weekend at White Crys-
tai Beach, Maryland.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20
Downs
Service Station

DUPONT Highway, Smyrna
Cars washed and vacuum cleaned.
Fully equipped to lubricate all
makes of cars. Rears flushed and
refilled with an air-pressure Hypoid
gun. Esso-Essolene Gas, Essolube-
ESQ Motor Oil, Atlas Tires and
Tubes.
HOMER II. DOWNS
Phone 277 Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20

body taken to Old Barratt'S Chapel
near F'rederica for interment.
Mrs. Adelia Wilson Quinn, Dead
Mrs. H. Adelia Wilson Quinn,
aged 80, widow of ]. E. Quinn,
publisher of the Ocean Grove, NJ,
Times, died suddenly at the home
of Mrs. Norris Truax, Mt. Vernon
Street, Thursday last, May 18th, of
general debility, a heart attack
taking her off. Mrs. Quinn was
the daughter of the late Alexander
H. Wilson, a prominent meat mer-
chant of Smyrna and Mrs. Wilson.
In early life she married John E..
Quinn, employed on the Smyrna
Record. Later he became publish
er of the Ocean Grove Times, at
Ocean Grove, New Jersey, where
they made their home for many
years. After Mr.. Quinn's death
she lived in Leipsic for awhile,
later coming to Smyrna to live
with Mrs. Truax. Of a happy, jolly
good nature, she made friends and
enjoyed life. Funeral services were
held at FAIRIES Funeral Chapel,
afternoon at one o'clock,
with interment in Glenwood Gem
etery, Rev. Frederick Marx Bar
ton, officiating.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20

= A. Thompson, pastor OF
. chapel, has been called
y. 4 ottawa, H., by the
l9 9;ol,ness of her daughter
In c. Brown.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20

|arv Aumack, Roxy Theatre
|,gsr, caught the Saturday
/ shoppers around "The Four
In Saturday night by throw
|lctures of coming attractions,
IN screen erected on the
|-srce Street side Of the A. &
Ls. This was done by means
pOrtable projection machine
window on the second floor
Jones Store Block, directly
E.s. Keep in touch with the
! for coming attractions.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20

uork for this college year
i. University Of Delaware will
4. T,Iesday Of next week. The
.,.rination will start on May
4, and June 8. The commence
/ .vsrcises will be held on
|sv. June Z.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20
Wore Prince Alberts

In the nifty nineties," most
United States senators wore Prince
Alberts. The frock coat was a SYM
boil Of craftsmanship and beard
was the mark of man of maturity
and substance.
Smyrna times., 1937-05-20

i store room in the Miss Clara
s.srsr -. building, Main Street,
I'M occupied by Y. Wallace
has been rented by the
1ce Cream people who will
/ i If their chain stores here.