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SOLDIER AND HIS ARMENIAN BRIDE
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DIE FROM I M i l E.XZ I
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Port laud. Feb.
Three deaths!
from influetua were retxirted today. |
making a lutai of seven in the city, i
EinMy-etx new case« were reported,
making a total of 52U reported since |
the present eitidetui
VENTILATION OF HEN HOUSE
For Success With Poultry There Must
Be an Abundance of Fresh Air
Without Drafts.
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Printing that pirase*
trier Job Department.
Minin« blanks at
Poultry raisers have come to real-
tie that the ventilation of the poultry
house Is a very Important matter.
There must be an abundance of fre«b
air without extreme heat or cold, and
without dampness and draft. Proper
conditions cannot be had with the
makeshift, wrongly used ventilators
frequently employed.
One method, which has proved suc
cessful Is to use the straw air strain
er.
A second celling Is built about
six Inches below the regular ceiling
1n the form of a latticed framework.
A trapdoor In the center of this mukes
it possible to change the straw which
Is packed between the lattice ami the
original celling. Vents, or wide, low
1
1
»Vewtem
Unlimited supplies of iron pre have
been reported to exist in the Trane-
vaal by a government geologist.
Equipped with its own electric
lights, a camera lias been designed to
enable police to photograph linger
prints.
A bulb operated syringe with a tube
liittt fit* tightly over :hc !«■'.!- lias
been patenusl for ck-ju«):s-
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GAVE “SHOW” UNDER GUARD
Peculiar Experience of American Mu
sical Comedy Company in the
City of Vladivostok.
A belated story of how an Amert-
can lyusical comedy com puny whlcTi
had volunteered to give an entertain
rnent for the troops at Vladivostok
was caught tn that city while the
"reds" held sway, has been received by
the Knights of Columbus from Gurry
McGarry, who is in charge of the wel
fare activities of the order In Siberia.
The troupe was in charge of W. R.
Bandvsrd anti had come from China
to the Russian senport, where they
were held up for several weeks await-
Jng a steamer.
During their stay, every one went
around with a revolver, and the city
took oh the appearance of a «Astern
"boom" town In pioneer day«. During
the period tile bolslievlsts kilted about
22 persons, and many of the actors
had narrow escapes. Several of the
women actresses had to he taken to
and from the theater guarded by a
squad of allied soldiers, and at the
hotel where they stayed a guard was
constantly
posted.
However,
the
American troupe “carried on” for the
doughboys amid al! the panoply of war
anti revolution. There were armed sol
diers Inside the theater, outside be
hind the scenes, and in the box office.
All the audience brought their rifles
with them nr carried side arms anti
I hand grenade«.—Chicago Post.
SCORPION ON BABOON’S MENU
COVER WINDOW WITH BURLAP
Animal Seems to Consider Insect a Del
icacy and Consumes It With
Most Excellent Plan to Keep Out
Much Relish
Wind at Night While Fowls
Are Roosting.
FATTEN FOWLS FOR MARKET
Poultry Will Sell for Higher Price Per
Pound Because of Increase
in Weight.
If any stock is to be sent to market
be sure that it if> fattened well before
It Is shipped, It will pay to do this
because the poultry will «ell for a
higher price per pound and It will
weigh more.
I
The chacma baboon of South Africa
Is very partial to certain kind« of ani
mal food—scorpion«, spiders, centi
pedes. Insects, lizards and the eggs of
wild birds all befng eaten with re!1«h.
The scorpion la evidently regarded
as a tidbit. If one Is released near a
captive baboon, the latter will hold Its
hand extended over the prey until a
suitable opportunity for attack of-
fer«. Then the hand will descend with
a sweeping slap, which Is followed by
n swift, circular, rubbing motion. This
disables the scorpion, which Is then
picked up and carefully examined un
til the sting is located. The latter Is
then picked out between finger anti
thumb and thrown nwny as far a« pos
sible, after which the scorpion' Is
munched with every apfe-anince of
satisfaction.—William C. Scully, in At
lantic Monthly.
Harmless Superstitions.
MAN’S
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70 as at 35 if he aids his organs in
performing their functions. Keep
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After dodging the bullets ul the liiui. ami
lie« of tie luirinlng
French luaidetis. Private Ernest Lockwood fell a victim to tile
i ! » from
the besutiful black eye« of this Armenian girl, whom lie promp:'\ m .'e Mrs.
I.ockwtwxl. He couldn't even pronounce her maid n name, he ..
■«
Lock-
w.Mwl drove 11 motor truck under tire in Frame, aa.l Inter wn« pm n, charge
of the Near East relief garage In .<'onstnntim
,, r |H- met the future Mrs.
I.m'kwoou
He is here on furlough. Imt soon exp. « to return to Constanti
nople and his Armenian bride.
Muslin Ventilators Can Be Used in
the Poultry House to Secure Abun-
dance of Air Without Either Drafts
or Extremes of Temperature.
If the poultry house is narrow SO
that the wind blows In through the
open windows on the fowls on the
roost put a piece of burlap over the
open space at night, but do not close
the windows until the weather gets
cold.
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We du IV
Courier
office
VOTR E OE BOXI» til I.E
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openings, must be cut in the «hie of
the Imus*- ns close under the eaves n«
possible. The air, entering at the«e
vents, filters through the straw, and
thus into the poultry nouse.
No
drafts are po««lble. and the tempera
ture is kept very nearly constant. The
straw also absorbs a great d»*a! of
moisture.
Another method. In rather wide use.
Is to rover an ordinary window frame
with muslin, instead of using glass
An improvement on thl« type of ven
tilntor is shown at the right of the
drawing.
A Ugh' wooden frame cov
ered with muslin is hung from a wire,
which serves ns a track. The frame
can thus le moved sideways over or
away from the window- opening. Screw
eyes on tin- frame allow It to slide
easily over ibe wire. The wire itself
may be fastened either to screw eyes
or ovgr blocks at cither end. To the
left is shown a similar frame, mov
ing up and down. In this case It will
be necessary to arrange some mean«
of holding the frame at the In ight de
sired. Either the |>eg« that fit into
hole« in the wall, dr a hook lifting into
screw eyes, placed al various lieigli;«
in the wall, may be i,-ed for this pur
pose.
The advantage of the air strainers
over muslin-covered frames is that tin
latter have to be adjusted accurately
to the weather, while the air strainer
raqtilra« no attention whatever.—.1. T
Bartlett. Fort Collin--. Colo., in Populai
Mechanics Mngiiz.’i
commenced.
FASHION GARAGE
& MACHINE SHOPS
A Gentian manufacturer has put on
the market a "serial liosmu" paper
shirt Merely by tearing off H sheet
of t!
paper bosom the wearer of the
«•mt
«l.ii
.-an -how a fresh clean front
ev cry • lay
The total number of new postage
stamp •">■■ « .«Ince December, 1918. Is
nuw i.,! i. ui hlng 2.000. Of these near
ly 1 ■*' : re accounted for by the Qrst
«tuie; - • > the new European states.
n noiny was guaranteed by
th--
•« c-inference.
An
Notice Is hereby given that «»*alml
bi«l« will be received by the under-
signed Secretary of Grants Pass Ir
rigation District at the office of Mid
District In C.runts Pass. Oregon, un
til the hour of 10 o’clock a. m . the
2nd day of Mandi, 1920. and
im
mediately thereafter publicly open
ed by the Hoard of Director.« of said
District. tor an issue of bonds of said
District In the sum
of
,1 S4.00.0,
same belnx In denomination« of $ I ,-
000 each, numbered 107 to 200 Inclu-
she. unti maturing serially in nil*
mertcal order as follows:
110.000.00 July 1st. 1920:
*12,000.00 July 1st. 1930;
»H.ooo.oo J it i y 1st. 1931 ;
» in.tioo.oo July let. 1932;
» 1 S, 000.00 Jnlv tat. 1933;
»20,000 00 July 1st. 1 934 ;
»21.Otto.00 July tst. 193.1:
»23,000.00 July 1st. 1936: *
a
,24.000.00 Ju ly tst. 1937:
*26,000.00 July 1st, 1939;
said bonds to bear interest at (he
rate uf 6 per «'ent per annum. pay
[ able seiul-annually on the first day,«
1 of January and July, prtactpnl anil
interest ixiyable at the Flsi-al Agen v
lot the State of Oregon In New York
city
Each bid luuet be accompanied by
'a certified check for at least 5 per
cent of the par value of the iion.ls
■ bld tor.
The Roard reserves the right to
reject anv or all bids
<J®O. A. HAMILTON,
Secretary.
SERVICE .1X1» MAjTKIt l< TIOX t»l R MOITO
W b carry a »’ill line of liras mid Acceesorle* al the lic«l
pi li i s on the mccker-
•
Xow I« the time to niMl.c your «| ring repair«,
lie make a »lu-clrtltj <(f all I.nul» of Istilli- mut Miit'li tic
work and general n-pal”*
liso all kirnt« of i Hot st tel
anil illuminimi wrMlnu.
Urine lu
your iiiei-liiinlt nl
1 rouble*. IV e ran help ya.
C. F.BURKE and . E KNOX, Props
TACOMA GUN STORE. INC.
CHICHESTER SPIL
Taconia, Hush.
I.BfgeM Stork of Hiiutnni *n<l Tr»t'l“'rl
Suupllra In ibe Northwest K.pei'lsl
niirnllon 1« molt onler« SKNtl ONK
cent stamp fok cat a i.<Mi r e
n SKAXU l-tl.11.
SOI D BY MtWCl's MRYWW«
Old Newspapers, 5c and 10c Bundies
Ail-Nations Case.
John Pappas, a Creek has been ar
rested <111 a charge of grand larceny.
Habld Heide, a Turk ntqkes the ac
cusation.
Heide had some Russian
money, how much he doesn't know, lie
exchanged it for 100 English sover
eigns.
An Italian friend Introduced
him to Pappas, the Greek.
A trip
through the Botanical gardens was un
dertaken. During the walk a man who
looked like h Swede anti who talked
like a Swede appeared and assumed
the role of hold tip man.
Pappas
dh'n't help, said the Turk.
Detective
Hagerty, an Irishman, arrested the
Greek. The preliminary hearing was
held next morning before n magis
trate who was born In Wales.—New
York Times.
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Extra Fine in Metals
Extra Fine in Mileage
Cuba Starts War on Rats.
The Cuban sanitation authorities
have undertaken a vigorous campaign
against the rat pest to prevent the
hitlHinlc plague from entering Cuba,
Thousands of traps have been set
and every precaution is being taken.
Ships coming from port» under su«
pinion will not be permitted to unlond
nt the wharves, but must discharge
their cargoes by means of lighters or
launches while nnchored in the bar
bor thereby lessening the possibility
of plague-carrying rat« ranching shore.
Ashes Make Good Fertilizers.
The technical authorities for the res
toration of France anti Belgium an
nounce that they have discoverei! that
furnace ashes frwtn glass,
■
anti
steel works stimulate vegetal»’ • growth
enormously tliro’'"!-. carbonic m ¡<1 fer
tilization. All plant I f" is -.'id to tie
spurred to mitt- ml growth. Thc-e a !■
es mr la* app! •■<! to restoration of the
dev toti'd d .triefs.
Royal Railroad Engineer.
There Is no cleverer locomotive en
gineer in Spain than the duke of Sara
gossa, a wealthy member of H ip
nobility, who is closely relat.il to the
royal family.
Since the unrest in
Spain h:>« bet mile so tict entuati il. each
time that King Alfonso foti-u
train th.- Itammotive I* condo •!
the duke.
A Maxwell car weighs 2130 pounds
It is made of the finest materials
that may be obtained.
on .cannot find in any car a
better crankshaft, better bearings,
better axles or better gears
M »r» utifol
M.r, fUtlfi
<//•«
Urti
Neither science nor
money can produce them
better.
Do you know why such
fine materials arc used in a
car like Maxwell?
Wc had to
Keeping its weight down
andyetmaintainings rength
mean the use of only those
extra fine steels and metals.
For a metal that is light
in weight and yet strong,
as any user of metals knows,
is a high priced metal.
The use of these fine
graded of steel has been (he
foundation of the business,
Maxwcl I has grown in
numbers and friends,
The latter countless; the
former well on the road to
400,000.
Concerning Mum nlcs.
Mummifying 1.« a proct-«; of dehydra
tion, signifying merely the withdrawal
of till moisture from the body. In the
Peabody museum at Cumbridge, Mass.,
is a liaby that may tic thousand- of
years old. It wits found In a cliff
dweller's cave, fastened to u hoard
cradle, and so perfectly preserved that
even the eyes are intact. Interesting
experiments have recently been mnd-
n tin- "restoration” of miimmlc« oh
lained from cnvel In the Southwest.
So shrunken are they by desiccation
that the body of n TS»-pound man Is re
duced to about fourteen pound«, the
pnrcliinent-llke skin holding the bones
like n bag. When such u mummy Is
placed in a closed box, and steam is
slowly Introduced, It gradually absorbs
the moisture and resumes somewhat of
the contours of the person in life, giv
ing a notion of what lie looked like.
But thereafter It must be kept in al
cohol, else decay would set In.
Everybody is superstitious and gon-
ernlly our super«!itions are trivial and
do no harm.
To carry a coin In the
pocket for luck; to comment about
seeing the moon over the left shoul
der, to refuse to walk under a ladder;
to believe that It Is bad luck to turn
hack; to make a wish at the appear
ance of tile first star of the evening;
to suppose It Is not «el! to break a
mirror, which It Isn't well to do. But
the point 1«, everybody Is superstitious,
regardless of what he says about it.
lie may not really know th: t lie Is su
i
perstitious; he may bn hones* In be I Much U. S. Food Shipped to Poland.
More than 250.000 tons of foodstuffs
lieving that lie 1« not. But the fact
remains that superstition was bred
nml raw cotton have been shipped
from the United Stutea to Poland since
Into the race away back tn the jungle,
where little was understood, where
last February. For a time these sup
Importance was attached to the shape
plies were arriving In Poland at the
of ttie clouds, where trees and stones
rate of 5,000 tons daily.
and mountains and rivers had • per-
« mallty^ and we can't get It out of
Mining blanks—Courier office.
the system.
Collins Auto Co