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(9t State Revenue Stamps
Found On Cancelled Checks
Ever see a revenue stamp put
out by one of the 48 states?
I never had until last month.
Didn't even know they existed
until I came across some cancel
led checks that were stuck in
an old book I had bought as one
of a lot.
The checks were drawn on the
Bank of California in the year
1868, for the account of the Era-
pire Mining Company, of Vir-
gmla City, Nevada. They were Since, however, that valuation
paid by the bank's Gold Hill was made on the basis of pre
Agency. World War II markets, I prompt-
In addition to the very com- ly concluded that the stamp
mon U. S. Internal Revenue and I had found six of the checks
two-cent stamp was another of
which I had never even
dreamed.
It was an orange colored item
printed on a thick, white, wove
paper. In an oval were two sup
erimposed five-pointed stars, the
top one containing the figure 2.
Above the oval was the word
Nevada. Below, it read State
Revenue. On the opposite sides
were the words Two and Cents.
' I started thumbing through
rny catalogues. No trace of the
item. Then, I called on six stamp
dealers. Only one of them had
tteard of it, and all of them said
there was no catalogue dealing
with state issues. field.
EARLY MARYLAND COIN IMPRINTED IN LATIN
"A study of Latin can help
an amateur coin collector," Jim
laid, "Not so very long ago I
went to a small sale one day
nd found a fellow I knew al
ready going through the coins.
He collected only American
coins, and he was buying almost
Bll of them.
"Just as I was getting a little
gore over how this fellow seem
ed to be hogging things, he flip
ped one out of the little pile in
front of him with the remark
that he didn't want any foreign
coins.
"Naturally, I glanced at the
piece and then picked it up to
eee if I could tell where it came
from. There wasn's a clue that
I could see. On one side there
was a bust of someone named
Ceciliuc and the words Terrae
Mariae. On the other was a Lat-
In motto, a coat of arms and the, by Lord Baltimore in 1659 and
Roman numeral XII. Not even a catalogued at one hundred and
ate. fifty dollars."
BENNINGTON PITCHER BOUGHT AT HALF VALUE
"No," said a small woman
U-ith a big rasping voice, . "I
don't care if you do think it was
jnade in Bennington. What I
vant is an absolutely authentic
bound pitcher."
And with that as her final pro
isouncement she marched out
the door.
The pitcher was of a mottled
brown glaze, typical of the kind
turned out by the United States
Pottery, at Bennington, Ver
mont back in the middle of the
1800s.
On one side it showed a lively
deer hunt and on the other an
especially realistic bringing of
a boar to bay. Over the neck and
shoulder of the piece, which
stood about eight and a half
inches high over all, trailed a
grape vine design.
Just to make sure it was the
Same one from years before, I
turned the pitcher over and
looked at the bottom. It was free
of any identifying marks, quite
blank.
As I replaced it, a man came
ever and picked it up. After re
marking it was a nice looking
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Fortunately, however, one of
them suggested that I get in
touch with Roy Taylor, a San
Francisco dealer who concen
trates pn western items.
Mr. Taylor knew all about
them. He even had a catalogue
- the only one ever printed on
the subject he believes. This
valuable book, published in 1939
under the title "State Revenues
Of The U. S. ," informed me that
my find had a value of $10.
was worth at least $20 while
still on the check, which they all
are.
It may be, of course, that al
lowance is too generous. But I
don't believe so, and in any case
it is a pleasant find even with
the old valuation,
There are plenty of items
among the state revenues that
are worth a whale of a lot more.
So if you have any state stamps
among your family documents.
or come across some the way
did, hang onto them. You may
have made a luckier find than
did in this apparently much neg-
lected section of the philatelic
"For a moment, I thought the
piece might be a silver medal,
and I began tothink of what Ter
rae Mariae could signify.
"Fortunately, though I didn't
have enough Latin to translate
the motto, I did have enough to
correctly translate those two
words as Lands of Mary. And
as I mulled that one over, it sud
denly hit me. Terrae Mariae was
nothing other than Latin for
Maryland.
"Price of the coin was only
two dollars. The owner had in-
herited an accumulation of coins
rather than a collection, and he
thought it too small to have ap
praised. "It didn't take me long, after
I got home, to find out what!
had got was a shilling put out
hound the handle consists of a
hound whose front paws are on
the brim of the pitcher and rear
paws low on the side he in
quired. the price.
I couldn't tell which was fast
er when he learned it was. $75
the way he arched his 'eye
brows or the manner in which
he whipped out his wallet.
"Authentic Bennington," he
said when the transaction was
completed. "But too cheap.
Really, you should get double
the price."
The proprietor said something
about having kept it for three
years, but the customer hurried
on.
"I've looked at so much of
this," he said, "I can spot it at
one hundred yards. It has the
lines of what Daniel Greatbach
turned- out both at Bennington
and in New Jersey. Note the
way the dog's head is lifted up
off the forepaws? Well, that's
Greatbach, all right. Take my
word for it. Marks or not makes
no difference."
(Released by McClure Newspa
per Syndicate)
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mas dinners near Colusa, Calix. They proudly show off
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In and Around
Table Rock The Bert Pierce
family, Bert, Inice, Anita, and
Lorieta, got off to an early
start about 1:30 Sunday morn
ing on their long motor trip to
spend the Christmas holidays
with relatives at Harrison, Ark.
They went by the southern
route but if weather conditions
permit ma return by another
route.
Several Table Rock residents
heard the rumblings and felt
in a small way the earth quake
shock of Tuesday noon which
did so much damage at Eureka,
Calif. A box of bolts and wash
ers in a local, garage was dis
lodged from a shelf and . scat
tered on the floor.
The Carl, Morgan family re
turned last week from a two
weeks visit with relatives in
Texas and Mr. Morgan .reports
that recent rains there have
caused fields to green up a bit.
Wayne Smith, installing en
gineer for the Columbia Utili
ties, was busy last week in this
district installing dial telephones
in the homes of those that have
signed up for the new service.
rne cnange over to tne new
system is expected to take
place about the middle of next
January which will include se
lective ringing and free toll
service to Medford, Eagle Point,
White City and to Central Point
when the Bell company com
plete construction work there
about April 16, 1955.
Last Saturday morning's fog,
frost and ice was felt more
keenly here than any day for
some time. When our Scotch boy
who works for us Saturdays
came to work we noticed his
"slip" was showing, so we
asked him if he had on- two
pairs of pants and he replied
that he had on three pair be
sides his underwear. One pair
didn't show.
Bill Glass, the Arkansas trap
per, had to come in that morn
ing to warm his hands after
tending his" traps. Besides get
ting musk rats in his traps, he
gets many skunks, rabbits and
coons, recently one weighing
18 pounds. Sknuk hides he says
have no value this winter, and
are not listed in the bnuyer s
catalogue.
While warming his hands he
told us of a man he knew back
in the Sugar Loaf mountains of
Oklahoma who raised mule
footed hogs but wouldn't eat
any of the meat himself because
according to the Bible people
are : forbidden to eat the flesh
of any animal not having a clo
ven hoof.
Word has been received here
of the passing of Ernest Pike
Sundayv. in Minneapolis, Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. Pike are well
known here. She is the former
Maude Sage living here several
years with her parents and
brothers and sisters in what
Time
Jupiter Now Splendid
Br HUGH
Astronomer, Extension Division
Oregon Hither Education System
"Sunset ran, one glorious blood
- red,
Reeking into Cadiz Bay . ,
While Jove's planet rises
yonder.
Silent over Africa." - -Far
from home and evidently
lonely, the poet Browning thus
describes his observations at sea
o brilliant Jupiter coming over
a foreign sky line. But any clear
evening now we are privileged
to' view this splendid object
wherever we may be.
Several have recently in
quired about this luminous "star
of the east," which outshines
everything else in its locality
or in the entire evening sky.
This planet is now a splendid
Christmas star and attracts the
attention of all who have learn
ed to look up. The best views
are obtained outside our lighted
cities.
Rise Earlier Nightly
Jupiter now clears the hori
zon nearly two-thirds of the
way from the east to the north
east about one and one-half
hours after sunset. Each night it
Table Rock
is now the Bosworth home. The
Pikes visited with relatives here
in the valley last May, Present
relatives here now are Robert
Sage and Mrs.-Wm. Bishop.
The Country Gentleman for
January has made its appearance
here dressed in a smaller suit
and with a new. name. It will
be known as Better Farming
hereafter and living up. to the
name will proceed to tell farm
ers how to double the number
of eggs and gallons of milk they
are getting and how to increase
the yield of grain and all farm
products some 70 per cent. So
with Ezra cutting down crop
acres, and farmers being told
how to increase yields it looks
as though at the year's end we
might be right back where we
started or worse.
Among those from here at
tending the Christmas program
Tuesday night at the Gold Hill
school were Mrs. Frank Myers,
Mrs. J. S. Richardson and the
Robert Sage family.
Sgt. Willard Taylor, home
from the Marine camp at Santa
Anna, Calif., for the holidays
is visiting relatives in the val
ley including his sister Mrs.
Aubrey Taylor.
The song of chain saws can
be heard in many directions
these frosty morning as many
home owners prepare to keep
the abode warm through the
winter without burning so much
high priced oil or using so many
of Copco's ' kilowatts.
The annual Christmas pro
gram held Friday night at the
school house was well attended
with several visitors from other
places including ' the Herman
Mattison family of Medford, Mr.
and Mrs. Knapp and children of
Central Point, and Mrs. Dale
Schulz of Sams Valley.
The program consisting of
Christmas songs, poems, skits
and readings was well received,
also was the reminiscing of Mrs.
Frank Myers and Mrs. Sanford
Richardson which took the audi
ence back quite a few years to
the first community Christmas
tree at Table Rock and a family
tree in the Bigham home when
the family was much smaller
than now.
Police Have Trouble
Giving Out 'Present' c
Xennewick (U.R) ' Police
found Friday night they
couldn't give away a "pres
ent." The "present" was a traffic
ticket, but the man who was
supposed to receive it appar
ently wasn't in the Christmas
mood. He fled to his home,
locked himself inside and re
fused to answer the knock of
either a uniformed officer or
plainclothesman.
Dead line for Sunday Classified la
at noon Saturday.
By Jimmy Hatlo
Sundty, December 28, 1954
PRUETT
rises practically ; four minutes
earlier than the previous night.
Its full glory is displayed after
it has climbed well up above the
low-hanging haze.
Jupiter is the giant among
the worlds that encircles our
central sun. Its visible diameter
is 11 times that of our modest
Mother Earth. Jupiter's average
distance from the sun is a little
more than five times that of
ours; its required time for one
revolution around the sun, the
Jovian year, is almost 12 of our
years. :
Through even ' small ' tele
scopes, Jupiter is a most inter
esting sight. A moderate power
makes it appear as large as the
full moon does to the unaided
eye. The luminous disk is band
ed with darker, rather irregu
lar lines, which runs generally
parallel to the planet's equator.
Distinct Little Stars
Most interesting are the four
larger Jovian moons. Since
these encircle the planet about
in the plane of its equator, they
usually appear telescopically as
distinct little stars in almost a
straight line, Their positons
change from day to day. One
night there may be two on each
side of Jupiter; the next night
there may be three on one side
and one on the other. Sometimes
all four appear on the same side
of the planet. Eclipses of these
moons, ' given to the nearest
tenth of a minute in The Ameri
can Ephemeris, are most inter
esting to observe.
Eight smaller Jovian moons
have been discovered since
1892. Number 12 was located
in 1951. Some of these revolve
around the planet in a direction
opposite to that ot most satel
lites. It has been suggested they
may be captured moons.
We do not see the solid sur
face of Jupiter but rather the
outside of the cloud-filled at
mosphere. This is illuminated
by the sun. Some have estimat
ed that there is a solid metallic
core 38,000 miles in diameter
covered with an ice layer of 17,
000 miles. Surrounding this is
an atmosphere 8,000 miles thick.
This atmosphere is known to
cantain methane and ammonia
gases.
Approximately 80,000 hymn
als printed in Korean and Chin
ese were distributed by the
Army to prisoners of war in
Korea.
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Soft Voices ot
Open Christmas
In Birthplace of Christ
Bethlehem U.R)r -Soft voices of choir boys opened a high pon
tificial mass early Saturday in this town where Jesus Christ was
born almost 2,000 , years ago. ,
The Latin patriarch Albert Gori wore rich robes of purple and
gold as he opened the midnight mass in the Church of St. Catherine.
Monsignor Gori bore the Holy Image in following a solemn
procession of choir, boys and priests that wound through the church.
The figure of the Infant Jesus was taken from St. Catherine's
to the Rockhewn Chapel of St. Jerome where the bible was first
translated into Latin.
Many Visitors. Refugees
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Arab refugees. ;
Diplomats in full ceremonial regalia and Upited Nations offi
cials came into Bethlehem after passing through a Jordan Arab
legion outpost and an Israeli checkpoint.
Then they continued on the road where almost 20 centuries ago
the three wise men rode in their quest for the Prince of Peace.
A mile down the road they passed the well of the magi where
the wise men saw the reflection of the star of Bethlehem.
Reach Church of Nativity -
Further down the road pilgrims passed Rachel's tomb before
reaching the Church of the Nativity built over the grotto of the
manger where the Christ Child was born.
In Nazareth, bells of the church of the annunciation tiealed
out Christmas shortly after midnight. The church is on the site
where the Angel Gabriel announced that Mary would become the
mother of God. . :
Arab choir boys sang "Christmas Natus," "Christ Is Born" in a
strong local accent as a priest bore the image of the holy babe to
the manger next to the altar. .
Warner To Become
Oregon Chief Justice
Salem -(U.R) ' Justice Harold
J. Warner becomes chief justice
of the Oregon Supreme Court
Jan. 1, succeeding Justice Earl
C. Latourette in that post.
Warner, selected for the No. 1
spot on the Supreme Court by
his fellow justices, has had a
long career in law since he re
ceived his bachelor of law de
gree from University of Oregon
in 1916 after graduating from
that university in 1913.
From the time he became a
practicing attorney until he was
named to the Supreme Court he
had offices ur Pendleton and
Portland. Early in his career he
was a member of the same law
firm as Frederick Steiwer, U.S.
senator from Oregon. He was
Pendleton city attorney from
1920 to 1922.
Hong Kong (U.R) Crew
members of a Canton to Macau
ferry said Friday they, spotted
two Russian submarines and
four torpedo boats atthe Chi
nese Communist port of Wham
pao last Monday.
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