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caùliQljt THIS ISSUE 12 PAGES GIVE “OLD PEOPLE’S PARTY’ Iceland Young Folk Hold Entortaln mont Once a Year, and Call It Qamalmennaaamaati. What a word! Ti-isualaled II iiieuus “old people’s party"—an Institu tion that U held once a your routul Christmas in the little fishing town of lsufjord In Iceland. The party, which Is given by a union of Ut> youug peo pie, Is tile one big event iu the live..-, of the old people of the place. They begin to talk about it In March, and tt is their chief topic of conversation untll December. Karly in the year, too. the W> members of the union begin to make preparations, for. as there are to be between »Ml and 4(M> old people, much preliminary work U neeeesury. For example, the young men and wom en must see that good "party" clothes are provided for all the old people who need them; It would not do for them to go In aliabby cloth*«. The party must have an air of prosperity as well as good cheer. The festival starts at five o’clock in the evening and does not dose un til on the following morning. First there Is a big tee. Then wheti all are Mtlstied and things have been el wired away comes a play, which the old peo pie dearly love; then there is u con cert, during which all the old Icelandic and Danish songs are sung. After the concert the yuung mee and worn«; play games with the old people, and then wind up with all the old-fnshloned dancee. And they must see that each Old person has at least one «lance wtth some member of the union. During the war the old people would often ask anxiously: “Wlll there be a party this year?" For they realised that It was almost impossible to get fruit of any kind or the sugar with which to make the great variety of little cakes of which the old people are s<> fund. “Oh, yes,” was the cus tomary answer, "the party will take place at the usual time.*' And it did. for the 90 young members denied them selves sugar and fruit so that the olil people would not be disappointed.— Youth's Companion. to talk to you. Finally the young woman at the telephone, In n tone men nt to be frigid and crashing, snld • “I’m glad you're glad you and slammed the receiver down with s hang.--Indianapolis Newt- OBJECTED TO BEING BROILED 'Straddle Bug" Walked Off the Grill as Often as Coak Recaptured and Replaced It. A frtornl of mln* Is very fond nf lolister, hut, litre Lugpy men. has xir> Idea how such food Is pTc ired His wife had occash . to be al,'»nt from home one day last week and she told the servant girl to broil a lob.iter for my friend’s dinner. She left a note telling her husband of the treat she had provided for him and requesting hint not to wait dinner for her. He was quite hungry when he readied home and, after’ reading the note, said to the aervi nt: “Is that lobster ready?" “No. air. It isn’t,” said the girl "Well, hurry up with tt gry as a hear," said he. “I can't, sir," said the girl. "The mistress said to broil the lobster, and I got him on the gridiron after a deal of fnss. The more I poked the fire the more he walked off, and I thought he was haunted nnd no good would enme from cooking a straddle hug like that." "What did you do with It?" mild my friend getting mad. “The last I saw of him he wn« going oct the buck door with his tall up. tike the maniac he was.” He had sanline« for dinner.—Judge. FEW BIG BANKNOTES IN USE Those of Flvs or Tso Thouasnd Doi lare Practloally Flourish Only to Fiction. Banknotes of $5.000 or $10.000 size flourish only In fiction. They rarely figure In real life outside of bank transactions. Occasionally a mnn of the Gute« type likes to flash a note of dassllng dimensions I snyv “Charlie“ calmly USE OLD ROMAN RESERVOIRS hand a $5,000 bill to the cashier of a Philadelphia hotel, observes “GfranT' Souroee of Water Supply Constructed In the Philadelphia Inquirer. The young man In the brass cage Centuries Ago Employed by Peo had been trained by the Boldt system, ple of the Holy Land. ^tnd he was quite us matter-of-fact as The Pools of Solomon—which linve the son of the man known us “Bet-yon- tjg hij pyvlj yjv nothing to do with tliat monarch ex a-tqllllon" G^tes. cept that they are located near th* $5,000 as If it were an hourly habit, gardens named for hi m every con and paaved back the change, amount structed by Roman engineers to supply ing to about $5,985. a population that must have been much You can tell that we use few $5.000 the sise of that which occupies the and $10.000 bills by the small number Holy land today. They consist of of them which weir out The federal three large reservoirs with a total reserve bonk destroys each yeur just capacity of 40.500,000 gallons, and are about a billion dollars of Its own worn- situated about eight miles from the out notes, but In eight years It bus ‘ capital. canceled only 50 of the $5,UU0 and 150 Two have been cleaned out, the Irak* of tiie $10,000 denomination. It would seem from this that $10,- that have developed during centuries of disuse have been Mopped up. and 000 bills are three times as common Jerusalem has waterworks as modern as the $6,000. as the heart of an engineer could de sire. Unconqusced California Valley. Tiie discoveries of new territory are fiver, the surface aqueduct and tun nels that the Romans left have been comparatively few In the United repair«! and are In use. connecting Htatee. owing to the great activity of the pools with their source of supply, the geological survey, as well as ex a large spring rising in the cavern plorer« and mountain climbers. There nailed Blr I la rash. seems, however, to be an unconquered volley in Hlsklyou county. California,* Hidden valley. G. W. Pellepreau, the "Rat Tall" Cigars* Days Numtoersd. Four old men in Pittsburgh, ail up discoverer of the valley, said he tuul ward of sixty-flve, are engaged In roil glimpsed It from a mountain [>eak wtth ing u certain form of "smoke" known the aid of high-powered binoculars. as the "rat tall." The rat toil, which From all reports he believed the valley Is often «infused with the stogie, la had never been entered. Borne men be a long thin, handwrapped roll of to lieve It abounds In game and that min bacco similar In appearance to the ro eral deposits are likely to be found. dent's toll. These old men arc said Walls of sharp peaks surround the val- to have ^«*n trying to teach their art bey, standing like a barricade iignlast to younger men and women without man's advance. Once over the wulla, l’ellepreuu l>re- success The stogie, also Indigenous to Pittsburgh, differs in waist girth diets, scaling ropes and ladder* will and in other respects from the rat be necessary to get beyond th* tall. Rat tails are tightly wrapped and chasms. He estimates the valley con- stogies arc more closely rolled Th* tains W»' acres. —Scientific American. iotSacco also differs. The Radio In Politics. When the first t’onevtoga wag«»* U is suggested that the pre.« 'al rolled their wav over the Alleghenies -n- the Indians who lived on the site of campaign of 1934 will hnv« Fort Duquesne traded wtth the pio tlrelj new feature, due to tin- .. .el- neer* the rough outline* of what came optnant of the radio. It Is assumed later to be developed as stogie*, The that all of the national jmrtle* will name Conestoga became corrupted to take over one or more powerful broad easting stations anil till the air at all stogie. hours of the day and night with sta * - tistics. arguments and the speeches Indian Mummy Conturiss Old. Wrapped in tattered deerskin robes of candidates. There Is even the pos and covered by a piece of a course sibility that the Presidential nominees *rasa matting probably woven by the will be able to return to the old prac hands of an Indian squaw centuries tice of remaining at their homes and ago, the partly mummified remains of doing all of their si>«aklng from their front porches, which, of course, will a prehistoric Indian have been dtacov ere<l under an overhanging bluff on the be wired for broadcasting. Ttyis rev Oowskln river, near Noel, Mo., arche olution will have Its agreeable fea No on* need bother himself tures. ologists announced. The party making the discovery is with pollthu unie«« he whiles to in charge of M. R. Harrington and listen In.—Lincoln (Neb.) Journal. represents the Museum of the Ameri can Indian, neye foundation, of New York city “We regard the And as particular ly Interesting," Mr. Harrington said, "because It rwvenls the mode of dress of those early Indians, whom we have called. for convenience, the Ozark Bluff Dwellers.’' Everybody Glad. “ A long winded Inquirer for Frank Benle;. adjutant of the Indiana de partment of the American I-eglon, had been talking to one of the attaches of the department for about ten min utes, despite the fact she was trying to pet rid of him all that time. H* kept repenting: "TUI glad I called. anyway, I got PAGE FROM G üj SE 'Aorsons With Nimsa of F amona Ch in- «etera Before United Statis Civil Service Commist o». One would not think of Mother Goose in coniMH-tiini with Unde Sain, bat recently when a woman took to the Civil Servlc«' commission the re quest for her transfer to a different department. the clerk whose duty It was to pare on such matters noticed that her name wits Hprnt, and he asked, In his moat official manner: “Any relation to Jack Spratt' “Yea," was the quiet answer, “he's my hue band.'’ Then, laughing at his aston ishment. she continued: J’Hls name Is John, but everybody rails him Jack 8prat." The clerk scrutinized the pu- pers further mid udded, “I suppose you have learned to eat lean meat by this tlmeT' “Oh, ye»." she replied, "we try to live up to our na^e." All right, Hl order this issued." ami he affixed hl* official O K Anot’mr woman lirovud to have the olid ruHiie of Mrs. Eve Apple. Noticing the clerk’s Incredulous look, she re marked : “Yes, everylaxly smiles at my name, but you know history some times repeats Itself." “Only. In this caso, he Intorpoaed. “yon accepted an apple Inataii d of giving one." HARD TO DECIDE MEANING Preacher Might Have Had Either One of Two Things In Mind In i Hie Prayer. Representative John Gamer of Tex es, says: "< >ne of the storiea I Hire beat was told by old Hob Taylor, but I've found that of all the THylor stories this one la not very well known. “In the South there was a struggling preacher with a family so large that tt took all his meager pay to keep going. And besides that, ths children kept coming along. He was very poor. “One more baby arrived. So the congregation got up what is known in the South as a pounding. The idea Is that everybody gives a pound of some thing to stock up tiie family food sup ply. And In addition the congregation got up a purse for the preacher. Two mumtiere of the congregation, of a simrting turn of mind, made a bet on the Issue of what the preHChor would S|>euk of first In hl* prayer next Bunday morning, whether It would lie the arrlvtil of his son or whether tt would be tiie gift from the rongrega- tlon But when Sunday came th«y could not decide who hnd won. Th« preacher started off the prayer: •’ 'Oh. Almighty God, I thank you for this succor.’*—New York Herald. Metal Paper. it la reported that lithographer« here anil abroad have for some time been using plated paper instead of thin metal sheet.', preferring the former u* the piqier body gives a soft cushioned effect whlcl -iinnot he obtained wtth the solid ue-iai For this purpose the metal I* . ...... .«-plated on the surfacs of the papes « hlch has first been coat ed with a layer of graphite to give It a conducting Miirfnce. The principie thus employe«! Is old, but the difficulty bus always been that the liquid tn the pintlug bath would 4oak into the pa per and would loosen the metal film from It even while this was being de posited. Now the user* have learned thin by first coating the paper wtth s y irnlsh <>r lae«|iier Impervtama to n lure, they can make tt Immune against the direct action of the liquid, so that the film of metal will cling firmly to It.—Washington Star. Milk by Parcel Poet. Here is "something new under the sun.'' A dairyman at Franklin, Va., tins established a rural [mrcei poet milk service. He has thermic contain ers for bls fresh milk, and lias abol- lslied his own delivery system, substi tuting the parcel poet service on four routes. He gathers the fresh milk from the farmers and. without odsd - tng thè Individuai container». delirar» il io thè town custmners TUat beuta drlving nanny gouta freni door to door, uh they do In some «mutrie*. mllklng a* per orde*. 'eì -I TI» 1«'".,... l ?» uNibility betöre H luuatar generai, wlth thè view to on- llstlng natlon-wlde <-<>-operatlon of the post office In sprendlng thè System, untll thè whole lund wlll be llterally "flowlng wlth milk." If not wlth honey. —Washington Star. Odd Days and Lent. “Everything» ehunged nowadays," remarked Jones ut lunch, "due I sritr- pose to the wave of niodernlmi sweoi» tng the country. It makes one wonder continually wtiat'U happen next. “It’s had Its effect on religion as well. Why. this year, even Lent l»n*t normaL" "What? t-^w isn’t normal? What do you mean?” inqulrad "I should »uy It Isn't. Wednes day, the first day of Insot, was Vaian tine day. Sending comic valentllMB to your friends surely Is no rsilgtoaa way to usher in Lent, Is it? Easter, which marks the end of I<ent, is April Fool’s day. The way people have been acting of late seems to have had an effect on the calendar.—New York Sun. Information From Poetmaeters Tills may seem a novel method (Ji «•arching for rare meteoric finds, but it has proved to bi* efficacious. The curator of geology of the United States National museum corresponds with the nearest postmaster to a re ported find, and the latter is usually nble to pat him hi touch with persons who can give reliable fucta—Sclentlttc American. MUtaion or noiavionsnip. This conversation took place In a crowded elevator following a m<*»tlng recently of the Indianapolis liar as sodutlssi Judge James M, Leu filers remarked to William E. Jeffrey, an attorney, that he hud confuted his name wtth if at of PWrfik M. W. Jeierj, another lawyer. Is u case In court that duy. "You men are brothers, aren’t you?" Judge leathers asked “No, our mimes ore not even rqielled Hllke," Mr, Jeffrey replied "Nope, they are not brothers, they ure Just brothers-in-law," suld Judge T. J. Moll, from his corner of the elevator. Judge Hae a Grlevanoe. A local circuit judge with an eager, quick-working mind hue abuo lutely no patience with people who comment at length on the weather or discuss other trivialities. "Suppose a mon offered you some thing to ent, and then handed you some sawdust to put in your mouth," he said. "The food for thought that you get tn a lot of people’s conversation Is Just us worth mulling over or giving your attention to as sawdust."—I mt roll Nows DEAR TO HEART OF INDIAN Horses and Cslloo Always Among ths Gifts Exchanged After Cero- monial Vielt le Over. Urn-mu are ulwaya «malderod among Indiana the very th, eat present that can be_ given. and following a visit of FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1923 one tribe to another, us the liomewurd trek is In progress, each Indian family will have several leading behind, pres- ent* from their late hosts The I’on- ' 't «ea. Pawnees, ClieyenwH nnd Oie plnlDR tribe*, use r i > li ’I * ’’fim •’ ’’ ring \ 1IL- AZ Í'T r which to truvel about t: • < ’ nnd lu tiie warmer months of i! y< It Is not unusual to encounter 1 >ig string* of those going on a visit to some other tribe. Bolts of gaily colored calico con stltute tiie popular gift, whenever un «■ntertulnna'iit of any kind Is beiug given the Indian by white persons. Tt metiers not what the other presents may be, there ure nlways uiuny bolts of calico, nnd these ure always gratis fully received and uppreluted It lias been the cdrtom of many of the tribes for centuries for the squaws to curry their pujaHimw on their back, with the liable» strapped to boards and then placed upright over the women’s sliouhlera. Cnlloo Is always wrapped around board» which huiqieu to he about the right length for puiaxise < ur- the old duys when the traders bolts of calico for pelts the aquawa immadhitely grabbed these boards an which the cloth was hound, for their infanta, and this custom Is followed to the present day In fact, the squaws visit the mardbanto in I’on- ca City nnd other towns wham Indians trade, und have ell or boards wived for thia partlcuter pOP- pooe. qf; Iti i.i. 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It would precipitate It self when recombined with oxygen and become water again without man’s a»- slstance.—Brooklyn Eagle Worcester, Mass.— After being con fined at a hospital here two years, sup- jsised to be suffering from un incur able hip disease. Edneet Klnnnrf. elev en. decided it was time to leave. He biked home to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Klnnnrt He was then otUdaMf discharged from the hospital. ■ •ill J STOP READ A MUSICAL TREAT OPENING DATE, SATURDAY. JUNE 23 ORCHESTRA ATTRACTIONS Thermometers That Tell The Truth For a picnic or .summer va cation take along a kodak. With one you can preserve pleasant recollections and beautiful scenes hat money couldn’t buy—and they don’t cost much. Come in and look them over, we are al ways pleased to show them. Often the entire savings of a lifetime are entrusted to our care '• for investment. In all transactions we guard our client’s interest Kas we would our own. 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Our work is guaranteed. 24 hour service. Bring in your films or mail them to us for developing and CHARLES L CLOUGH CO w The Rexall Store The First National Bank TILLAMOOK OREGON TILLAMOOK, OREGON DIRECTORS C. J. Edwards A. W. Bunn John Morgan Henry Rogers B. C. Lamb W. J. Riechers C. A. McGhee OFFICERS B. C. Lamb, Pres. W. J. Riechers, Vice Pres, and Mgr. C. J. Edwards, Vice President C. A. McGhee, Cashier I. E. eldson. Asst. Cashier Henry Heisel, Asst. Carhies Our vaults are protected day and night by the most up-to date electric burglar alarm system made HILLSBORO TRADING CO. «■.' ' i? I s Tillamook, Oregon Now doing business in the Edmunds building, J11st I street, will carry a complete line of » DAIRY AND POULTRY FEEDS PRICES RIGHT ( ALL AND SEE I S CONNELL, FREEMAN & STOUT, Prop.» Bell Phone 114-.I Mutual Phone ADVERTISE IN THE HEADLIGHT—TILLAMOOK COUNTY’S LEADING ADVERTISING MEDIUM