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The Nome daily nugget., 1937-12-13
FIRsT.AID TO AILING HOUSE
sv ROGER 3. WHITMAN

and finds its way under the floor. The pressure that is created drives water through weak and porous places in walls and floor. Pressure may be sufficient to crack the floor. To remedy this, fill the cavity out side the walls with solidly packed earth. There will then be no spaces in which water can collect; pressure will not be created, and this cause for cellar wetness will be complete. ly avoided In addition, the outside of the walls should be coated with tar or asphalt.
 The filling of the excavation is not the only cause for cellar wetness, but it is the commonest. Avoiding it will add little or nothing to the cost of construction. But whatever the extra expense might be. it would not compare with the cost of mak. ing the cellar dry after the house is finished.
 @By Roger B. Whitman
 WNU Service.
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5 S;BEEDT!ME s10RK'A. K'A:|. ME4OBy THORNTON w. BURGESSSMN

my never had heard of such stranger in the Green Forest. He couldn't quite believe there was one even after Unc Billy had said so. But he didn't like to say so. You see, Unc' Billy was an old friend and he didn't want to hurt his feel ings
 T think I'n go up to the pond of Paddy the Beaver and see if l can see anything of this stranger, said Jimmy.
 "Ah wouldn't if An was yo'. Br'er Skunk Deed An wouldn't. Yo' don know what he may do to yo' with those great claws. Nah goodness, An cert'nly does hope he can't climb trees!" Inc Billy looked so anxious that Jimmy had to turn his head so as to hide a smile.
 "Tll go ask him if he climbs trees and then I'll come and let you know, Unc' Billy" said he.
 Now, Unc' Billy knew that Jimmy Skunk is afraid of nothing and no- body unless it is Farmer Browns boy when he has his terrible gun, but he also knew that Jimmy had never seen and had no idea of this great stranger who had given him such a fright. and he couldn't be- lieye that Jimmy would dare ask him any questions. He watched Jimmy march off into the Green Forest and he grinned just little.
 "Br'er Skunk never hurries. but An reckons Ah'll see him hurry right smart if he meets up with that stranger. muttered Unc' Billy
 Jimmy Skunk went on until he came to the pond of Paddy the Bea- yer, which you know is deep in the Green Forest. Jimmy was tired and
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cult packer for the National Biscuit company. None of her jobs lasted long, for her eyes were always on the stage. She sang occasionally in cabarets and finally got a job through Ziegfeld in the chorus of Sally" Dissatisfied, she quit, and Billy Rose hired her to sing in his Backstage club
 That was Helen Morgan's lucky chance. The Backstage club was so small that she was forced to sit on the piano! Most of us would con. slider it a disadvantage. and per. haps she did, too. But the public was interested; she became a sen. sation, and speedily rose to fame. Musical comedies and motion pie lures starred her, and soon she was singing in night club named for her, at a salary of $1. 500 per week. Today she is known the world over.
 Perhaps, if Helen Morgan had not had to sit on the piano in the Back stage club, she would never have risen to stardom. Perhaps. she would have sung comparatively un- known for a couple of years. and gone back to manicuring or biscuit packing. But, remember, she had something worth delivering when she sat on that piano. ..',..
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he sat down to rest. It was very still there. Paddy the Beaver was nowhere to be seen. Neither was the stranger. Jimmy grew sleepy. He made up his mind that he would take a nap before he looked any further, and he started to find nice soft spot to curl up on when he heard a heavy step behind him. Jimmy whirled about and there just coming out of the bushes was the stranger of whom Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow and Unc' Billy Possum had told. and he was just as big and just as black and had just such great cruel claws as they had said.
 II don't know who you are, but I'm very glad to meet you" said Jimmy Skunk politely.
 CT w Burgess.-WNU Service.
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had seen deep in the Green Forest by the pond of Paddy the Beaver. He was so big! And he had such great cruel-looking claws!
 'Ah-Ah hope he can't climb trees!" said Unc' Billy.
 Now Unc' Billy had spoken aloud, for he didn't know that anyone was near. So he jumped almost out of his skin when a voice said:
 ''Who is it you hope can't climb trees. Unc' Billy?"
 Unc Billy looked down to find his old friend Jimmy Skunk looking up at him. He hesitated few min utes. He knew that Jimmy thought that Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow were crazy or else were tell ing untrue stories. and he didn't like to tell Jimmy what he had seen himself. You see, he didn't want to be laughed at or thought crazy But he felt that he just had to tell someone, and so finally he told Jim my Skunk all about it. Jimmy looked at Unc Billy very sharply. but Unc' Billy was so very much in earnest that Jimmy had to believe that Unc' Billy really thought he had seen this terrible stranger. Jim.
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JIMMY SKUNK MEETS THE
 STRANGER

XNIHEN at last Unc' Billy Pos w sum got safely back to his hol- low tree he knew. of course, that Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow and Peter Rabbit were not crazy. as he had so often said they were Anyway. if they were, why he must be himself for hadn't he seen the very stranger Sammy and Blacky had told about? If Unc' Billy couldn't believe what they said he felt sure he could believe his own eyes. He just knew his own eyes couldn't fool him like that.
 It made Unc' Billy shiver every time he thought of that stranger he
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THE INDIAN BOY By DOUGLAS MALLOCH

the plain the Indian boy V Is playing with the white mans
 toy
 And talking in the white mans
 tongue. An Indian boy whose fathers sprung From a long line of braves of yore Who now are legends, nothing more But now and then he lays aside The white mans toy and looks with
 wide, Wide eyes across the ancient plain, Now ripening with the white mans
 grain, Forgets awhile the white mans
 school. The white mans bounty. and his A frightened bird stirs in her nest, And something stirs within his
 breast
 Beneath the white mans clothes he
 wears. From plain to ridge to hill he stares, Yes, seeking in the sky above For something he is cheated of. Only a legend, not a land, A boy finds hard to understand, Only a legend he recalls That echoes like far waterfalls, The people of his form and face Only a legend. not race.
 Douglas M alloch. .-WNU Service.
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SINGER WAS A BISCUIT PACKER

USUALLY we are inclined to give V too much credit to chance or luck in analyzing the success of prominent people, forgetting that without the talent to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity they could not have risen. Helen Nor gan's sudden rise to fame is an ex- ample.
 Born in Danville. Illinois, her fa- ther died when she was very young, leaving Helen Morgan and her mother practically penniless. When she was five years old, paint thrown by another child partially blinded her, and she had to spend full year in a dark room. She sang to herself to pass the long dark hours and later she sang in church choir in Chicago. There. she worked as a manicurist, waitress, comp tometer operator, and model. She was a ribbon clerk at Marshall Fields department store and a bis.
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francs. He and the group with which he associated himself, all fa- nous now, were called "the wild beasts" because of their mad style. Their paintings outraged conserva- tives of the art world. Matisse was accused of willful eccentricity, senseless disregard of nature, and a deliberate intent to advertise him. self. His paintings were refused exhibition space in many galleries, but slowly he built recognition for his work. In 1927, his Fruits and Flowers" won first prize in the Car negie International exhibition. In 1928, the Luxembourg galleries bid BOG, ,000 francs for his picture, Side board" but the man who once could hardly buy enough bread with the few francs his work brought could now afford to donate the picture to them, accepting only one franc in order to make the transaction le' gal.
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WayBackWhen
ARTIST WAS A LAWYERS
 APPRENTICE
By JEANNE

IT ENRI MATISSE. one of the l greatest of modern French art ists, whose works now sell for hun dreds of thousands of francs, might have been a commonplace lawyer had not Fate stepped in when she did. He was born in small town in Picardy in 1869, son of a wheat dealer. His childhood was unevent- ful and he became a lawyers ap- prentice. Then, Fate came along with an attack of appendicitis which left him an invalid for many months. In order to keep occupied while convalescing. he took up painting; and it proved so fascinat- ing that he never opened another law book.
 Matisse's first paintings, in the early 1900s. brought but a few
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Summer Sun Below Florida

The sun never gets as far north as Florida during the summer months. Its rays strike the north side of buildings far up in the tenn perate zone.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26

of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Barnes in Accomac. Her guests in
cluded Ann Mock, Lynwood Tyson
Mock, Littleton Wales Johnson, Jane
Edmonds, Betty Edmonds, Tom Ed
minds, Dick Hall, Peggy Drummond,
James Daniel Barnes, Elizabeth
Barnes, Herbert Barnes, Jr., Bonnie
Garner and Martha Gayle Garner.
Miss Peggy Hickman spent Thanks
giving in Baltimore, Md.
Miss Verna Cropper has returned
from a visit with relatives in Balti-
more, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. R. Molesworth and
children, Marilyn and Bobby are
spending two weeks with relatives in
Baltimore, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Beery and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred E. Leroy motored
to Philadelphia this week and spent
several days with Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Ayres Coard.
Miss Laura Burroughs has returned
from a visit with relatives in Ports
mouth.
Mrs. Robert B. johnson and son
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26
Accorr1ac News

Mrs. Horace Ingersoll of New York
City spent several days this week with
her sister, Mrs. S. J. Ross.
Miss Helen Bond spent the week
end at Atlantic with Miss Helen Con-
quest.
Mrs. S. Earring Rev spent Thanks
giving in Baltimore, Nd, with Mr.
Rev, who is employed at the Lord
Baltimore Hotel.
Mr.. and Mr.. Lester Poulson OF
Philadelphia, are spending the holi-
days with Mrs. Poulson's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William T. Bond.
Miss Mary Rose Fisher has return
ed, after spending week with rela-
tives in Eastville.
Miss Ann Mock of Onley spent the
weekend with Miss Virginia Barnes
and Miss Elizabeth Barnes.
Miss Virginia Barnes entertained
several friends at a party in honor
of her 9Th birthday, last Saturday af-
ternoon, November goth at the home
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26

Littleton of Concord Wharf spent the
weekend with Mrs. Johnson's mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Martin.
Miss Emily A. Gunter, student at
State Teachers College, Fredericks-
burg, is spending the holidays with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben T.
Gunter.
Mr.. James Daniel Barnes spent the
past weekend in Onley with Mr.. Lyn-
wood Tyson Mock.
Bishop and Mrs. Norman Binsted
of Japan spent the past weekend with
Mr.. Binsted's brother, the Rev. and
Mrs. j. H. Binsted.
Miss Edna Nelson of Baltimore
Md, spent the weekend with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Nelson
Miss Hortense E. Kelley of New
Church spent the weekend with he1
aunt, Mrs. Thomas w. Twyford.
Miss Emma Sue Mason is spending
two weeks in Norfolk with Mr.. and
Mrs. James Allard.
Mr.. James Crockett has returned to
his work in Baltimore, Md, after
spending two weeks with relatives in
Accomac.
Mr.. James H. Fletcher returned
home Saturday from New York City
where she had spent several weeks in
a hospital for treatment.
Miss Jan Ross and Miss Virginia
Parks are spending the holidays in
Richmond with Miss Dorothy White
Mr.. Tillman Woodard spent Thanks
giving in Baltimore, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Tracey Gardiner,
Mr.. w. Gwynn Gardiner, Sr., Mr.. w.
Gwynn Gardiner, Jr., and Mr.. Alger-
non G. Gardiner, of Washington, D.
c., are spending this weekend with
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26

opens up into double bed provides a
comfortable seat for the operator.
Above the operators head as he works
are the vital telephone connections
concealed in cabinets. Since Wire
photos are transmitted over telephone
wires, these connections are the life
line of the trailer.
In the cabinets are terminals for
common battery and magnetic sets
and a dial telephone, which enables
the operator to connect with every
kind of telephone now in use in Mary
land.
The physical appearance of the
"front room" is definitely pleasing.
Dome and side lights provide illumi-
nation. The studio couch and three
cushions are upholstered in light blue,
while the floor covering is of dark
blue. Ivory venetian blinds with blue
control cords cover each of the seven
windows and upper half of the door.
In the rear is the photographers
dark room. Light-proof when closed,
this room contains chromium sinks for
developing, built-in rack for a half
dozen bottles of chemicals, portable
enlarger, heater for drying of mega
tives and prints and sundry other
tools of the photographers trade.
Water flows into the dark room
sinks under pressure from forty-five
gallon tank. An ice box with a capac-
ity of seventy-five pounds has been built
into the dark room, providing a place
to keep chemicals at the proper tenn
perature. There is a ventilating fan
which circulates warm air when the
heater is turned on and cool air when
the heater is not operating.
The trailer is equipped with extern
sion cords and built-in electric plugs
and can be plugged in on any regular
110-volt power line. However, if the
portable equipment should be needed
at some remote point, where regular
electric power is not available, gen.
orator built into the rear of the We
hicle provides it.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26
RITCHIE MEMORIAL IN
ANNAPOLIS VICINITY

Stuart S. Janney, chairman of the
Ritchie Memorial Commission, last
week announced the memorial would
be located in the vicinity of Annapolis.
Mr.. Janney said the commission had
about $4,000 to spend on the memo
rial. Declaring he could not discuss
plans at present, he intimated the me-
mortal might take the form of some
sort of park.
He said the plans were being work
ed out with state officials and that
definite announcement was expected in
the near future.
Shortly after the death of former
Governor Ritchie the legislature au-
thorized the appointment of a COM
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26
TOP TELEPHONE MEN
STARTED AT BOTTOM
Eighteen Company Presidents
Began In Humble Jobs
And Worked Up

Of the eighteen presidents of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company and the associated telephone
companies which make up the Bell
Telephone System, not one started his
telephone career with an initial salary
of as much as $1,000 year.
All of them grew up in the Bell
System, and their starting salaries
ran all the way from $144 to 1898
yearly. Most of them for their first
year of service received $500 or less,
and only three exceeded $700 year.
The first salary of Walter S. Clifford,
now president of the A. T. & T. Co.,
was at the rate of SIC week.
The first jobs of these presidents of
Bell System companies varied greatly.
Two of them began as night operators,
and four, including Walter S. Clifford,
started as clerks. Several began their
service in the construction or plant
departments, one as a repairman, an
other as a cable splicer's helper, and
q third as wireman.
The president of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Companies,
with headquarters in Washington, D.
c., began as q night operator at
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26
Still Coughing!

No matter how many medicines you
have tried for your cough, chest cold, or
bronchial irritation, you can get relief
now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble
may be brewing and you cannot afford
to take g. chance with any remedy less
potent than CreomulSion, which goes
right to the seat of the trouble and aids
nature to soothe and heal the infiamed
mucous membranes and to loosen and
xpel the germ-laden ph1egm.
Even If other remedies have failed
mt be discouraged, try Creonaulsion.
Your druggist is authorized to refund
your money if you are not thoroughly
satisfied with the benefits obtained
from the very first bottle. Creomulsioi1 Is
one word--rot two, and it has no hypnar
in Il. Ask for it plainly, see that tn
name on the bottle is C"eofnulSion, ar
you'll get the genuine product and III
ceijef You want. <Adv)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26

lattsmouth, Nebr. The new head of
he Southwestern Bell Telephone Com
pany, with headquarters in st. Louis,
started as night operator at Spring
field, Mass. The man who leads the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany began as clerk in Boston, while
Walter S. Clifford, head of the system,
started in the payroll department of
the Western Electric Company in
Chicago.
The present presidents of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele-
graph Company and the Michigan Bell
Telephone Company began as stenog.
raphers. The head of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany was collector. Other first Jobs
included that of general canvassing
agent, salesman, special inspector,
service inspector, traffic student and
craftsman.
The president of the New York Tele-
phone Company began as a wireman
in Philadelphia, and the leader of the
Indiana Bell Telephone Company was
traffic student at Syracuse, N. Y,
in 1906.
All these Bell telephone company
presidents began with humble jobs,
most of them paying about $40 or $12
a week, while one of them was glad to
secure an initial salary of $12 month.
The oldest of the Bell telephone COM
pany presidents in time of actual
service began work in 1894 and the
youngest in 1911.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26

When the battle of Antietam was
reenacted recently, Photographic his
tory was repeating itself in one corner
of the original battlefield, a mile and
a half from Sharpsburg, Md. But 1T
was Photographic history with a de-
cided difference.
Back on September II, 1862, when
the Confederate forces at Antietam
met Federal troops in the most deadly
single days battle of the Civil War,
Matthew B. Brady, the famous pho
tographer of those days, was on the
field with his cumbersome wet plate
cameras and his covered wagon dark
room.
In September, 1887, the reenactment
of the famous battle on the same field
was recorded by the most modern
equipment known to science for the
taking, developing, printing and trans
mitting of pictures.
The modern Photographic parapher-
MALTA is housed in new automobile
trailer built for the Sunpapers OF
Baltimore for the purpose of trans
mitting photographs by portable
Wirephoto from any point where news
may be in the making, to the news
paper building at Baltimore and
Charles Streets.
From the Sunpapers' building, pic
lures of more than local Maryland
news interest can be transmitted over
the national Wirephoto network to
dozens of newspapers from San Fran
cisco to New York, from Dallas to
Minneapolis, and points between. The
newspapers hooked up to the network
receive identical negatives simultane-
ously within few minutes after the
portable transmitter begins operating.
Outwardly the trailer looks about
like thousands Of others on the roads
of the country today, but inside the
picture changes. A broad built-in
table across the front of the trailer
supports the two units of the portable
Wirephoto set.
A studio couch which incidentally
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Bond.

Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Bond. >
Mrs. Andrew Kelpin has returned
to her home in Belle Haven, after
spending several days with er parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeff Davis.
Mrs. H. E. Coard is spending sew
eral weeks with her son, Mr.. w. Ayres
Coard and Mrs. Coard in Philadelphia.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1937-11-26
mission to raise funds for a memorial.

First PIOws of Tree Branches
The first farm plows were made
of crooked tree branches and
worked by man power.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-06-03
FINLAYSON SCHOOL NEWS

Baccalureate services for the class
of 1887 will be held at the high
school auditorium Sunday evening,
June 6. Rev. Andrew Doe of Super
ior has been selected by the class
to preach the sermon. Special music
by the Girls seXtet and a solo by
Ardyce Downey will be part of the
services.
On Tuesday evening, June 8, the
10 seniors of this years class will
receive their diplomas. Dr. Wesley
E. Peik of the College of Education
of the University of Minnesota will
deliver the commencement address.
Musical numbers will be given by the
Girls Glee club. Also on the pro-
gram will be the valedictory address
by Mae Wallio, and the salutatory
address by Lilly Pajala. Superin-
tendent Peltola will present the class
for diplomas which will be presented
by Board President c. L. Smith
Mrs. c. L. Smith will play the pro-
cessional and the occasional. Invo-
cation and benediction will be given
by Rev. H. Sporleder. Miss Nygaard
and the junior class have charge of
decorations for baccalaureate and
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-06-03
AskOy

V. S. Petersen and family of Min
neapolis, visited with relatives here
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Skov and
daughter of Luck, Wis, were week
end guests at the V. Heininge home
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Petersen
and daughter of st. Paul, were week
end visitors at the Clarence Mattson
home.
And. P. Jensen and family of Min
neapolis, and son, Harry, from Racine
Wis, were guests at the N. S. Peter
sen home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Dietz and
daughter of Chatfield, were here Sun
day and Monday as guests at the
Anton j. Dietz home.
Martin Hammer and family of Du-
luth, and Mr.. and Mrs. c. o. Ables
of Cloverton, were recent visitors
at the Walter Hammer home
Mrs. P. G. Petersen of Westby
Mont, and daughter, Miss Alice, who
has been in Wisconsin for some time
came Monday for visit at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Nielsen.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-06-03
DuxburV

girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Swanson Thursday, May q.
r. J. Shute accompanied Leon Ccle-
man of Markville, to st. Paul Wednes-
day of last week. Mrs. Adrian Shute
and baby, who had been in Mime
apolis a few days, returned home with
them.
Carl Wegwerth was quite ill for
several days recently. r. ]. Shute
and Leonard Wegwerth took him to
the Veterans hospital Friday night
for medical treatment.
A girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudis Ohnstad Sunday, May 30.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ludwig and child
rem spent Friday evening at the G.
Longstrom home in Keene.
Max Lampsen of Carlton, visited his
brother, Clyde, and old neighbOrs last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glienke and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bjork helped Karl Roscoe cele-
brate his birthday anniversary Tues
day of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glienke recently re-
Ceived word that boy arrived at tie
home of their daughter, Mrs. Ed Line
han, last Thursday, in Minneapolis.
Sunday afternoon lightning struck
the barn on the j. Hatleli farm and
killed hog.