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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-09-09
insects Have Own Tools
- to Bore Holes In Wood

i Insect egg-laying requires many
.ltools, of which some are surprising
,lys like man-made tools. The Sirex
saw-fy, for example, says writer
in Pearson's London Weekly, uses a
gadget very like a gimlet, with
which it bores holes in wood to
house its eggs. Another type of saw
fly has at its tail two tiny saws
fitted with sheaths. These cut Sits
in stems or leaf veins in which the
eggs are placed.
The ichneumon fly works hard for
an hour to drill hole more than
an inch deep in tough wood.
And the ichneumon fly is well
aware, in a way mysterious to us,
that it will strike a grub in the
wood on which to lay it's egg. It's
young will then have living food to
eat when they are Matched.
Also there is a locust which lays
its eggs in the earth by boring the
soil with a tool like the cobbler's
awl, and working on the same prin-
ciple.
The hypodermic syringe of the
surgeons injects fluid under the skin;
so does the sting of an insect. Ac-
tually, when we knock the bee off
our skin, his sting, and part of his
body, are left behind. Consequent
ly, the bee soon dies. And that is
why it was thought bees could sting
once only.
But, given time, the bee can re-
move his sting and fly off to do more
damage with it. The remark
able apparatus he uses to inject
poison has barbs which attach it Sc
curely to our flesh. 80,
The wasp, as it happens, stings
a caterpillar, not to kill it, but to
paralyze it-as by our anesthetics.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-09-09
Commentator Fellow Is
Traced to the Caveman

Less than ten minutes after in
strumental music made its first ap-
pearance in the world the common
tators were on hand to start reading
meanings into it. That hairy ances-
tor Of ours who discovered that you
could blow fine blasts through an
animal horn had barely got back
to the cave and begun to strut his
new accomplishment before his lady
when a pair of shaggy neighbors
dropped in to dispute about the sig
nificance of his music, observes Ed
ward Barry in the Chicago Tribune.
According to one, the louder blasts
expressed courage and defiance,
while the more sober tootlings car
ried a suggestion of the blowers Sc
cret fear of the very tribes or beasts
he was defying. The other scofted
at this Interpretation and declared
that the widely spaced tones repre-
scented the steady tread OF men and
that the quicker sections depicted
the mincings Of women an3 chill
dren.
The astonished composer hemmed
and hawed, then guardedly admit
ted that each commentator was
partly right. He could not offend
his guests by disclosing the fact
that both interpretations were COM
piete surprises to him!
There never has been time in
the history Of instrumental music
when self-appointed commentators
were not busy explaining meanings
and concocting stories. Because of
the many vivid and undisciplined
imaginations which have engaged in
this very dubious work some Of the
worlds best music is loaded to the
sinking point with cargo Of nom
musical meanings.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-09-09
Growth OF the Flea

Fleas, like all insects, 60 through
stages, from egg. through grub and
pupa, to adult insect. The grub
feeds on the bodies of dead beetles
and other stray animal matter.
Then it turns to a pupa, which
never eats, but just Hes in the dust.
in cracks and creviees in the floor
boards in houses 1t is very sensi-
i've 10 vibration. Directly a foot
step touches those boards, the vi
bration makes all the pupae wake
up ana match out. From each pops
a hungry flea.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-09-09
The Name CordeIia

The name Cordelia has two ORR
gins and meanings. The Celtic
meaning is Jewel of the sea- and
the Latin warm of heart" Despite
these attractive meanings, the name
is not common. The story of Cor
della, the Welsh princess, has been
told by Shakespeare in king Lear
although the dramatist gave the sto-
,ry different ending than the fact
that Cordelia committed suicide
when taken prisoner by her sisters.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-09-09
Insurance Parceled Out
IS Checks Total So. OS

ELYRIA, OHIO.-Lorain county
officials wished that they had not
been so careful when taking out in
surance on county buildings.
During a recent storm hog pen
at the county infirmary was dam
aged. The total loss was $22.08.
The county commissioners did not
run into trouble, however, until they
began to collect the insurance.
Blanket windstorm insurance had
been taken out with 46 different
companies and separate checks for
48 cents were received from each.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-09-09
Bullet Recovered From
Tree After l22 Years

ALAMEDA. CALIF.-A Social
Der bullet fired back in 1916 into
an oak tree that was Just a sap
ling at that time has just been
recovered here. It was found in
the heart of a mammoth oak tree
cut down. BY counting the rings,
it was established that the bull
let was fired into the tree l22
years ago.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-09-09


This is In reply to your letter OF Aug
uSt 31st, requesting a Recommendation
and report from this Board to your
Honorable Body requesting the transfer
CT n Class ''C'' license issued to y
Woodward and z. DeSana, 2349 Eure-
ka to u. Woodward and Bauba ra Sa-
danOwicz. same address. =
The Board Of Police and Fire Com
missiOners recommend this transfer he
approved.
Yours very truly,
Board OF Police and Fire Commission
erS.
Ralph +. WahOwiak.
Secretary.
Referred to Council.
Honorable Mayor and City Council,
City Of WyandOtte
Gentlemen:
Relative to the communication from
Mrs. Della Beaubien, allow me to re-
port as follows:
In 1884 1885 1895 and 1887 Lot 2
Block 80, which Is the Beaubien prop-
erty, was exempt because such a course
was recommended by the Mothers Pen
sion Bureau to the Board Of Review.
This year, Mrs. Beaubien was not re-
ceiving a Mothers Pension and 30 her
exemption was not recommended. Fur
Their, she expected, from a conversation
/ had with her, that the exemption
carries on from year to year and so
she did not apply in her own name.
Therefore, the recommendation not
having been made and there being no
application to consider, there was no
exemption granted by the Board of
Equalization and Review.
Respectfully submitted,
Edward w. Kane,
City Assessor
Received and placed ON file.
Honorable Mayor and Council,
City of Wyandotte.
Gentlemen:
With reference to the petition for
grading, paving and curbing of Sixth
Street, Sycamore TO Maple, we beg 70
report as follows:
The total frontage of this section is
$500 feet Of which $500 feet, or so
per cent, is represented in the petition.
With reference to the petition for
grading, paving and curbing Of Sixth
Street, from Maple to Elm we beg to
report as follows:
The total frontage involved is 5000
feet of which 1900 feet, or Is per cent,
is represented in the petition.
If these two petitions were combined
the total frontage then involved would
be 1900 feet, of which 1000 feet, or
81 1-2 per cent, is represented in the
petition
Respectfully submitted,
F. w. Liddle, City Engineer
John 7. McWhirter, City Treasurer
Referred to Council.
Bills and Accounts.
WyandOtte, Mich, Sept. 6, 1898.
To the Honorable Mayor and
COuncilmen.
Gentlemen
The following claims have been ex.
amined, audited and found to be cor.
rect.
l therefore recommend that they be
approved and payment made.
G..ll
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
~bAwAM wEN~@~~ WNU Service.

MOST times, here in Gallos
AVA county, a six guns a-got just
a leetle the best of the argument,
but there was one time when the
difference between two gun toters
was a box of carpet tacks.
See that tree a-standin' out
there, there at the bend in the
road. Well, that's where they
finally lynched Butch Manton.
Folks just heared that some Of
Butch's friends was a-plannin' to
ride in to town and take him out
O. Jail. And Butch a-bein' cow
thief like he was, they just up
and taken him out and strung him
to that there tree. And Butch'd
been Twin right, like as not, if it
wasn't for them carpet tacks.
1t was right here in the Happy
Hour where things was a-begin-
MIN. Butch was at the bar when
Johnnie Rucker comes in and was
a leetle slow when he said some
thin bout Butch stealth so head
of steers from Johnnie, but John
ME did nick Butch's right foot as
the lead from Butch's gun went
a-tearin' through his own heart.
Course, Butch'd shot Johnnie
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
Here and There

BECAUSE of his excellent con-
- troll, Carl Hubbell is the Giants
favorite batting practice pitcher :.
Statisticians have figured out that
only 10 per cent of the 1000, 900
golfers in the United States break
80 consistently i. +. Concessionaires
in major league ball parks say fans
buy more peanuts when the home
team is winning Irl Tubbs,
Iowa football coach, is analyzing the
play of each of his Hawkeye players
this summer by watching motion
pictures taken during the spring
game He follows one player
each day, making thorough check
on each of his movements in slow
motion -. Man Mountain Dean
has reduced 81 pounds and he now
weighs only 240 Cy Young, IA
NOUS old time pitcher, has left his
farm at Paoli, Ohio, to become a
greeter for a Boston hotel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05

won the pennant seven weeks after
he took hold.
AS Hartnett took command, re-
Gently, the Cubs were laundering
once more. They were in third
place, five games behind the Pitts
burgh Pirates. So Gabby has a
brilliant precedent to live up to If
he would make history repeat itself.
Hartnett may or may not per-
form this magic. AS the greatest
catcher in the game, he has the
genuine backing Of the fans and the
best wishes of everybody who knows
baseball. But he will have to con-
tend with some of the same factors
which made Grimm's job untenable.
Unbiased baseball men will tell
you frankly that an inadequate sup
ply of playing talent-particularly
in the outfield-was the principal
cause of the Cubs flop in the first
half of the season. They will point
out, too, that the failure of Dizzy
Dean to pitch for ten straight weeks
was an almost fatal handicap. And
they will add, finally, that 'front.'
Office dictation which hampered
Grimm, might likewise stymie Hart
nett.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
A CaILOs County
Story

without givin' him a chance, but
Butch still had that gun in his
hand when he backs out of the
Happy Hour.
Fore long after the shootin,
Sheriff Tom rides into town and
hears bout the shootin'. 1t kinda
hits him hard on account Of john
ME bein' a pal of his'n, and he
don't wait for reason why there
amt been no posse after Butch.
He lights out for the Diablo can
yon country down close to the bor-
der where Butch and his gang
has holed up for years.
Butch oughta gone right on to
the border, but he don't. He
stops by the shack, sends them
riders of his'n on with them
steers he stole from Johnnie and
waits back to see if he can't do
somethin' bout that foot Of his'n.
He's doin' a leetle doctorin' of
his own when Tom rides up. Tom
amt never been a fool fore, but
a-thinkin' bout Johnnie musta got
him off, cause Butch gifts the
drop on him and takes Toms gun
but Tom does manage to kick a
table over and put out candle,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
WHO'S
NEWS.
THIS
WEEK
Bv LEMUEL r. PARTON

NEW YORK.-The British lion
~ has been taking kicks from all
corners lately, but it stiffened up
and began looking a lot more her.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
Popularity Grows

But golf became a rich mans
game in the early ninetieS. There
was not single public links and
the upkeep of private ones had
mounted enormously. Players at
the swanky clubs began wearing
knickers, CATERS and plaid hose.
Golf didn't remain in the hands of
the 400 for long, however. BY the
end of the nineties Americans had
begun to get out into the open. BY
the turn of the century golf had
really become popular. In 1900 there
were about 1000 clubs in the United
States. There was at least one in
every state and public links began
to come in, where people could play
the game for small fee.
As the game grew I'm popularity
changes in balls and clubs were nat
ural developments. Probably the
greatest Of these was the substitu-
ton of the rubber-cored bali for the
gutta-percha ball. This change
made it possible for the average
dub player of that day to begin to
drive with the best of the experts.
And because the rubber-cored ball
had little effect on the game of the
top flighters, it increased interest in
the game all along the line.
BY the time the World war start
ed, America had 1000 golf courses.
Interest in the game was dimmed
somewhat during the war, but i'm
mediately afterward, in the 1905 it
began to come back with a vigor
that has endured to this day and
that has given it a place of univer-
sal interest among people of all
ages and occupations. Golf has
grown up. 1t is a great game and
a great business. But perhaps its
greatest appeal is that it is sport
in which the people themselves per-
form, instead of sitting in a grand
stand or stadium watching a big
league baseball game or prize
fight.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05

West to San Francisco, Seattle, or
Los Angeles in something like ten
hours.
Big league bah would undeniably
be success on the Pacific coast.
Los Angeles and San Francisco are
not good minor league towns, but il
big league baseball were given to
them, they would be gold mines,
according to those on the inside.
Pressure in at least two big league
cities vainly trying to support two
major league teams would be lift.
ed, provided the National and Amer
lean leagues moved some franchises
westward. We refer to, st. Louis
and Philadelphia.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
of Sports
Main Street
Boasts Many
Golf Courses
By GEORGE A. BARCLAY

By GEORGE A. BARCLAY
NEXT time you drive one of the
1 Y tee at the country club, remem-
Der you're helping provide a job
for somebody. Maybe it will help
you get birdie. For golf has be-
come a business as well as game
Ia billion dollar business, In case
you're interested in figures. Hard
to believe? Well, not so hard, when
you consider that there are more
than 5000 golf courses scattered all
over America.
Uncle Sam has two-thirds of the
worlds golf courses, a large per
cent of which are located in rural
communities. Scarcely town any
where is more than a few miles
from a links. And nearly every
body, whether he lives on Main
street or Riverside drive, has had
a golf club in his hands at one time
or another and knows who Bobby
Jones and Ralph Guldahl are.
This business of golf gives en-
ployment regularly to nearly half a
million men, including the people
who work at making golf balls and
clubs, building links, tending green's,
playing professionally and selling
golfing equipment. The nations
5000 links, including those in small
towns as well as big cities and TAX
Ing in public courses as well as
private clubs represent an invest
ment in excess of LOCO, 0O0, 900. So
it's perfectly plain that every time
you tee off, you're making bust
ness contribution as well as an in
vestment in good health.
This game which has Influenced
American habits, set new styles and
taken millions of people out into the
open, hanks back about so years.
The first golf links in the United
States was established near Yonk-
ers, N. Y, in 1883. The boys first
played in a cow pasture. Then as
now it was game of trials and
tribulations. Players were subject
ed to jibes and ridicule. Those who
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05

watched the game said it was a
tame affair, and the players in ordi-
nary garb fit for roughing it were
not even picturesque.
In the early days the cost Of up
keep was naturally low. Records
kept by the first club show that only
S58 was invested in 1888 in cutting
the fairways, smoothing down the
greens and giving them an 0cca-
sional rolling. Dues amounted to
$40 a year. Caddies could be hired
for 80 cents a day or more likely,
the player carried his own bag of
clubs around the eighteen holes and
thought it was no hardship.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
History to Repeat?

THE baseball world is wondering
: whether the elevation Of Gabhy
Hartnett to the managership of the
Cubs will mean another National
league pennant for Chicago. If it
does, then an odd set of parallels
will be completed. For Gabby came
into possession of the job under al
most the identical circumstances as
his predecessor, Charley Grimm,
who took it on in mid-season, 1882.
At that time the club, under the
management of Rogers Hornsby,
was f1oundering five games behind
the Pittsburgh Pirates. Grimm put
new life in the faltering Cubs and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05

the only light that's in the room.
No sir, Butch don't get away
from Tom and Tom lives to
bring Butch Manton right to the
Jail from which he was taken and
hung on that tree at the bend Of
the road, down yonder.
You see, Tom, he's been out
a-tackin' up signs when Johnnie
was shot. Well he'd just brung
them tacks long with him, and
them tacks is how he catched
Butch.
He just spread them on the floor
quiet-like while he was movin'
around there in the dark and
a-fore long Butch steps on one
with his foot that amt got no boot
on.
Butch's kinda surprised and lets
out a hoop and Tom just grabs in
the direction Of that hoop.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
Aerial Baseball?

NIHEN Howard Hughes circled
w the globe in 81 hours recently,
he probably FASTENED the day when
the Pacific coast will be represent
ed in the major leagues. Talk Of
this is being revived. At the rate
that Hughes flies long distances with
complete safety, q major league
club could be sent from the Middle
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-05
Along the HighwaY

Don't let ownership Of an
automobile rob you of your po-
likeness.
Probably the worst fault In
driving a car is believing you
haven't any fault.
In these days, ON the roads,
it's case of the survival Of
the flittest.
Thinking about one thing
while doing another causes ac-
cidents. 's ~ -'A''
The Washington times., 1938-11-26
HEURICH CAGERS
TO MAKE DEBUT

washington returns to Ameri'
can League basketball and Ameri-
can League basketball returns to
Washington within the next sew
eral nights.
Tonight in Philadelphia, Heu-
rich Brewers open their season
against Philadelphia league
leading Sphas.
Heurich invades Kingston, N. Y.
for a game with Kingston Colon
ials next Wednesday night and
returns to Washington the follow
ing night, Thursday, for a game
with Jersey Reds, defending
American League champions, at
Heurich gymnasium.
Barring last minute develop
ments it appeared as If Heurtch
would line up with Whitley Wilson
and Mickey Schonfeld, forwards;
Ed Kweller, center, and Arthur
Zahn and Ed Hargaden. guards
Captain Ralph Bonnie, Ben Gold
fadden and George Freilicher will
remain in reserve.
The Washington times., 1938-11-26
C. U. TILT OFF
TIL MONDAY

For the second time here this
season, a collegiate football game
has been postponed.
After looking over the Brook
land Stadium playing field,
chucked with ice and snow, Coach
Dutch Bergman announced that
the game between Catholic Uni
versity and the University of
South Carolina scheduled for to-
day, would be postponed until
Monday afternoon.
Throughout yesterday, Assistant
Coach Eddie La Fond directed a
squadron of workmen to clear the
field of the debris, but when the
gridiron showed little improve
ment, the decision was made, upon
the approval Of Coach Rex En-
right of South Carolina.
A month ago, George Washing
ton University postponed its
game with Ole Miss in Griffith
Stadium from Friday night to
Saturday afternoon because Of
rain.
South Cardinals football team
arrived here this morning and are
quartered at the Mayflower Hotel.
A party of 40 made the trip of
which 80 are players.
The Washington times., 1938-11-26
T.C.U Battles S. M. u. in Vital Tilt

the State clashes involving Ore
gon and Oregon State, and Wash
ington and Washington State.
Both games are tossups and are
considered five-star classics in
their respective bailiwickS.
GRAND FINALE
Although the games today are
considered the grand finale Of the
football season, several topnotch
battles are carded for next week,
to ring down the curtain for the
1898 campaign.
Standout attractions carded for
next Saturday are the mtersec'
tional tits between Notre Dame
and Southern California, Temple
and Florida, and Oklahoma and
Washington State. Rice will close
out the Southwest season with
Southern Methodist, and Ole Miss
moves against Tennessee In q
game that may prove fireworks
to the high-riding Vols-especially
If Parker Hall has an unusually
fine afternoon.
Incidentally, the game between
Notre Dame and Southern Cal vii
have no bearing on the Rose Bow
Invitation for the latter should
it lose to the Irish.
The Washington times., 1938-11-26
DARTMOUTH 1913
CHOICE TO Win
FROM STANFORD

STANFORD STADIUM, CAL,
Nov. 26 QN.S0.-Stop Bob Mac
Leod!
That was the cry of the Indians
Of Stanford as they prepared to
take the field this afternoon
against Dartmouth.
Experts agree that Halfback
Macleod marked the only diff
ference between the two elevens-
the Big Green, who lost but one
game in two seasons, and STAN
ford, who reached its seasons
peak list week against California
after a dismal season.
Due to MacLeod's presence,
Dartmout was listed as a 1913
favorite. Several local experts,
however, were picking Stanford
to stage an upset victory.
Both Earl Blaik, Dartmouth
coach, and Tiny Thornhill, Stan
ford mentor, reported their squads
In good shape.
Bill Paulman, long distance
punting star, and Pete Fay, fleet
ball-carrier, were expected to car
~ the burden Of the Stanford
attack.
The Washington times., 1938-11-26

Continued from LIST Sports Page)
Oklahoma, and IL moves against
Oklahoma A. and NJ, and should
win easily.
In the East, undermining the
Army.Navy tilt at Philadelphia
are two games Of utmost tmpor'
lance Boston College plays Holy
Cross at Boston, and Fordham
battles New York U. at New York.
Both games will attract capacity
turnouts, with the possibility that
Fordham, should 1t win, Will be
offered a Sugar Bowl invitation.
Holy Cross, too, Is in line for a bid,
should it whack the Eagles.
HEAVY DLxEY ACTION
Activity in the Southeastern
Conference Is heavy with four
blue-ribbon classics scheduled. Loui-
siana State hosts strong Tu ane
team at Baton Rouge: Georgia
Tech tackles Georgia at Athens;
Ole Miss, with its great Parker
Hall, moves in to State College
for a game with Mississippi State.
and Auburn Journeys down to
Jacksonville for It's final game Of
the season With Florida.
The Washington times., 1938-11-26
Arrive
Detroit on Coast for
Santa Clara Game

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Nov. rs
(I.N.S.).-GuS DOraiS and his
Detroit University TitanS arrived
here today and found them
selves on the short end Of 2-tO-1
odds for tOmOrrOw's game with
the Santa Clara BrOncOS.
Lawrence T. Shaw, Santa
Clara mentor, declared the game
will not be played under special
rules which would eliminate the
try-fOr-pOint after touchdown, as
originally suggested.
Both DOraiS and I are OPP
posed to the extra point as a
means Of deciding tie games"
Shaw said. 1--WE both believe
that ties would be decided in a
fairer manner If the team that
rolled up most yardage was
called the winner.
"But DOraiS and I have not
had any official correspondence
regarding q test Of our idea In
tOmorrOw's game. So we'll play
it under the regular rules"