Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 306, 5 November 1921 — Page 8

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WILLIAMSBURG MAN OWNS LARGE FLOCK OF BROWN LEGHORNS - rThe extistence of an efficiently ! managed and large flock of Brown "leghorn chickens, which bo far as known is the only large flock of that breed, for a radius of 20 miles, was revealed by a recent inspection of the plant of Grant Watkins, of "Williamsburg. . With his flock increased to nearly 1,200 by the 1.000 pullets which he kept over this fall, Mr. Watkins has had to adopt extraordinary methods to house them. The problem was partly solved by the liberal size of his house, and for the rest some space was found in a barn near the poultry house, while on another recently .'purchaseed lot, another old barn has been re-modeled and Incorporated in -a new and modern poultry plant. ; ' . t . . . 1 This riant has one room given over ,io a laying flock which is as large as the ordinary farm flock. A num.ber of pullets are housed in one of "ihe three brooder rooms. Each of ' these rooms Is large enough, and has fa stove with the proper capacity to J :iaice care or emeus. Jir. wai- , kins has never kept more than 700 in ;them however. This building is on a side hill and 'has a ground level entrance to the basement, which Is well , adapted to ' its use as an incubator room. The incubator, 1,400 egg capacity, with ' eigth units, is of an accepted make. ;An automatic egg turner is usied which will turn all the eggs in less vthan a minute. Hand turning, which is .'practised in small incubators, would ;be an all day job with this plant. To Enlarge Next Year ? This incubator may have additional : units placed at the end, and also may be double decked. Mr. Watkins expects to enlarge it next season as he ; had to refuse numerous requests to do t rustora hatching this year. The incubator has a hot water system, with regulation of dampers by a i copper float actuated by the expansion or contraction of the water in a tank. . Additional temperature regulation is provided by relief dampers in each I ' trolled by thermostats above the eggs. ; One end of the basement is set aside ' as a root cellar. Sand is kept at a depth of several inches and carrots placed in this will grow during the winter having tops a foot or more in 1 height by spring. Cabbages and other : vegetables are kept as well. These .? vegetables are sliced and fed to the f chicks in the spring after they are 10 i days old. Feeds Pumpkins All extra space in the basement this fall is occupied by several wagonloads of pumpkins which the poultryman uses as winter feed for the hens. That the birds relish them was proven by the eagerness with which they were working at them. Other feed which is kept for them includes whole corn, a mixture of oats, what and rye, and the mash. This is I made up by Mr. Watkins himself ac- . cording to the formula of 100 pounds . each of bran, corn meal, and of shorts, r with 35 pounds of tankage or meat scraps and three pounds of charcoal. 'Lime is used in the drinking water - and insecticides are mixed in the dust v: bath. ' : The original poultry house, which ' was built some years ago, is remark- , able for its depth, which i3 much greater than usual, and for a laying . alley seen for the first time on this farm. Instead of taking up space in - the house, nests are placed in a threefoot extension at the back of the house behind the roosts. , This alley, three feet wide and the length of the house, has entrances at each end and in the center through doors cut beneath the roosts. This alley is easy to work in without disturbing the flock, being entirely separated from the body of the house by the solid wall behind the roosts, find this location also provides the seclusion from the rest of the flock, end the darkness, which the hens love for their nests. There are three tiers of nests, 13 to a tier, each five inches deep and two foot lor.g. This length keeps hens from breaking eggs when more than one try to get on the same nest. Four inch boards, forming the front of the nests are dropped behind small blocks of wood and fastened with two or three hooks so that can be removed for easy cleaning of the nests. The house is 30 by 26 feet, semimonitor type, well provided with the conventional hopper type of self feeder. Besides the mash kept in the feedrr. Mr. Watkins feeds liberally of alfalfa, and the vegetables he keeps on hand. The liens and pullets are thrifty looking and continually busy, while the cockerels are high-headed, proud-stepping, iiride&eent feathered birds. A number of the hens are as large as five pound, although the Leghorns are an especially small breed. . A profitable side line on the farm is the growing of hares. Mr. Watkins having 91 ready for the market at this !im Both the New Zealands and the Ttufus Beds are kept. One doe weighs f ight pounds. A Bufus Bed buck that was ki'l?d lately weighed 12 pounds. Two of, the Bufus Red, does are pedigreed .and one of the bucks. Corn, oats, and alfalfa are fed and very little is needed for each animal so that cost of production is small. The only labor necessary is feeding and cleaning the pens. j, .... CEMENT WALL FALLS AT NO. NINE SCHOOL - A cement 'wall, extending along one fide of the Number Nine school house on the Henley road, southeast of the ity. crumbled recently, as a result of (oo hurried construction. As a result, the wall will . have to 'he rebuilt. It was 15 feet high, 70 feet long and 16 inches thick. According to reports of the accident, the supporting mold had been taken away from the wall, and the space on ihe outside, between the earth and the wall, was being filled with gravel, a protective layer of which was necessary to allow the surface water to drain away from the cement. - The wall crumbled because it had not been allowed to "set" long enough. The expense of the accident is borne by the contractor.

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Writes "Take It From Me" r e v S 7 t i xS Will R. Anderson Will - R. Anderson, who composed "Take it From Me." the successful musical comedy, is reported to be a former Richmond resident. The show is to be seend matinee and night, Nov. 10, at the Murray theatre. In a recent interview, Mr. Anderson said that as a small boy he was not much interested in music, but later became interested and studied in New York and in Europe. "Take it From Me" probably is his most popular composition. OHIO ORGANIZATIONS TO BACK CELEBRATION OF ARMISTICE DAY (By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 5. Armistice will be observed in Ohio this year as never before. In many cities of the state, the celebration will be synchronized with exercises for the unknown soldier dead at Washington. Religious denominations, labor bodies, women's clubs, chambers of commerce, in fact practically all organized bodies either will sponsor or join in the celebration in all localities, a survey by The Asso ciated Press shows. Cincinnati's observance of the day will center in a great parade, which is to start at the same time as the Wash ington exercise. Only men and women who served in the world war are to march. The parade, an announcement says. will be in the nature of a protest to Civilians, who may, through forgetfulness, become indifferent to the service rendered by the men who fought dur ing war years. In Columbus, exercises at Ohio State University will form an important part of the observance of the day. They will be held on the campus oval. and will be in the morning. The Reserve Officers Training corps will form a line, m front of a reviewing stand. The'reviewing party will consist of students in the university who have been decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross, and members of the faculty who served during the war. After the brigade is brought to parade rest, a 21-gun salute to the dead will be fired, the last gun of which will be fired at 11 o'clock, or 12 o'clock, Washington time, at the precise moment when tho unknown' soldier is to be lowered into his grave in the Arlington national cemetery. Armistice Day in Dayton will be featured by a disarmament parade, sponsored by the Central Labor Union, and the American Legion posts. Tamil Hindus Walk on Live Coals as Sacrifice When a Tamil Hindu recovers from a serious illness he sometimes makes a vow to do something entailing discomfort and pain to himself as a sort of manifestation of gratitude combined with self-sacrifice and self-abasement. These vows take different forms, such as rolling over and over on a hard metalled road, lashing himself or being lashed on the back or wearing a hair shirt, but walking over live coals is the means most commonly chosen by the devotee, this being very often accompanied by other forms of selftorture. SB

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MUKKAY VAUDEVILLE The Five Merry Minstrel Monarch, an aggregation of old-time minstrel performers all of whom were featured In the days of Primrose and West, Bar- j low TrvtVica at r will ViooIIna bill opening at the Murray Monday,) matinee for the first half. An elabor-l ate first-part stage setting is carried,! and while these artists may be well along in years, they still retain the fire and vigor of days when they were the reigning sensations in minstrelsy. They "black up' 'in full view of the audience, and Billy Golden will sing his internationally famous hit "Turkey In The Straw" just as he did with Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels in years long in the distant past. The completing acts will be Fitzgerald and Carroll billed as "Two of The Four Hundred" and Kale and Indetta who are known as "Hawaiian Melodists." Geraldine Farrar in "The Riddle Woman" will be the screen attraction. As the minstrel act consumes a half hour in playing, three acts will be played this half. The following is a brief synopsis of the acts opening Thursday for the last half. "Hawaiian Novelty Five," since the advent of the first troupe of native Hawaiian artists to the mainland of America, there has been no curtail ment as regards the hearty welcome accorded these people from one of our colonial possessions and rightly so, for aside from the fact that they are part and parcel of our country, their splendid entertaining qualities are so de lightfully, enjoyable as to bespeak for them the most cordial and friendly greeting possible. Emma Francis and Harold Kennedy are a duo of artists who have achieved distinction and earned an enviable reptuation in vaudeville for their splendid ability as entertainers. Emma Francis, is a talented comedian, excellent singer and a wonderful dancer, who for several seasons headed a terpsichorean offering called "Emma Francis and Her Arabs" which met with unprecedented success on the big time circuits east and west. Her clever partner Harold Kennedy equally as well known for his unrivalled stage impersonation of a "drunk," was also principal comedian with the late George Primrose attractions and while it was not generally known acted as understudy for Mr. Primrose, substituting for this well known star in his famous dancing specialty. Joe Fields and Bobby Harrington, two exceedingly clever and well known vaudeville artists, conceived the idea of reproducing some of the actualities happening them aboard ship while in the service. The offering is called "In The Navy." The characters depicted are an officer and a "gob" a pretty scenic drop representing the deck of a battle ship furnishes the requisite setting that serves to introduce Joe Fields, a comedian of established reputation who . has been seen in many of the big successes of recent years. DeLisle juggles furniture, balls, instruments and feathers, and when one can juggle a feather you must admit he is a super-man in his art. The act runs for 10 minutes and every moment is worth while, for it is instructive, amusing and highly entertaining. RICHMOND And again, in "The Mark of Zorro" Fairbanks' latest United Artists Production which will be shown at the Richmond Theatre, Saturday, no expense was spared in constructing a replica of the City of Los Angeles during the time when its destiny was guided by the Spanish. The San Ferando Valley said to resemble the space about the Plaza in Los Angeles during the above period, was carefully selected for the j purpose of duplicating the old city. It next necessitated thoughtful col lection of all the available data a task as fully important as the construction of the entire "set." The work of transforming the little valley into what was once Los Angeles during the Spanish regime was left to several hundred skilled workmen. Exclusive of the scenes enacted by Fairbanks and other members of the company upon this particular site that provides numerous thrills in "The Mark of Zorro," the scene is of great ! historical value owing to the careful and painstaking effort made as the most diligent research work couid provide. MURRETTE. The admirers of Elaine Hammerstein and they are many in this community will find her at the Murrette for Saturday, where she is presenting "Remorseless Love." Miss Hammerstein does not come this time in ball dresses and evening gowns, but swings across the screen as a self-reliant and

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SATURDAY Murray Alice Joyce in "The Inner Chamber" Vaudeville. Murrette Elaine Hammerstein in "Remorseless Love." Palace Wm. S. Hart in "Sand"' also Mack Sennett comedy. Richmond "Doug" Fairbanks in "The Mark of Zorro." Washington Jack Bessey Stock "Kindling." SUNDAY Murray Alice Joyce in "The Inner Chamber" Vaudeville. Murrette 'Danger Curve Ahead" Palace Wallace Reid in "The Love Special." -Sixth episode of "The Son of Tarzan." Richmond Wesley Barry in "Dinty." Washington Jack Bessey Stock "What's Your Husband Doing," V - vigorous girl of the mountains who teaches school, shapes the morals of the rising generations and rebels against the outrageous dictates of feudal hatreds and retaliations. Illustrative of how little things can stop production on even such splendid j comedies as those written by Rupert Hughes, is ah incident which occurred during the filming of the story, "Dangerous Curve Ahead!", which comes to the Murrette theatre for four days, commencing Sunday. E. Mason Hopper, the director, was all ready to "shoot" the scene at the breakfest table in the Jones apartment. Helene Chadwick was daintily gowned in a becoming negligee, and Richard Dix. who plays opposite her was right into the sentiment of the scene in which he plays the late-for-the-offtee business man, swallowing his breakfast in hurried gulps. , "All right," said Mr. Hopper, "Camera!" Then as quickly he motioned the cameramen to cease grinding all because the egg cups did not match the rest of the china! It is just such fine details of production that go to make Goldwyn pictures par excellence. MURRAY. "The Inner Chamber," which is being shown at the Murray theater is a motion picture version of Charles Caldwell Dobie's well known novel, "The Blood R?d Dawn." The cast includes such well known names as Jane Jennings, Pedro de Cordoba. Holmes E. Herbert, John Webb Dillion, Grace Barton, Ida Waterman, Josephine Whittel and Mrs. De Wolf Hopper. Edward Jose, who has directed many of the greatest productions upon the screen and who has been Alice Joyce's director,in her three previous productions, again directs the star in "Tha Inner Chamber." A vehicle entirely worthy of the range and intensity of Geraldine Farrar's dramatic powers is "The Riddle: Women," the Associated Exhibitors' feature which begins its three day enLast Time Tonite, 8:15 JACK BESSEY STOCK CO. presents "Kindling" Tomorrow Matinee and All Next Week "What's Your Husband Doing?" A Laugh From Start to Finish BETTER CALL 1683 AT ONCE ABOUT SEATS Coming Soon PEG 0' MY HEART

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There are dangerous curves that every married couple must take. What are they? How can they be rounded without a crash? Perhaps you think you know. "Dangerous Curve Ahead!" shows them to you cleverly, lightly, yet with a deep insight into human hearts. Author and director worked for one year on this picture. Together they evolved the many little touches that make it so amazingly life-like. This picture lives. It is something refreshingly new in the art of the

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gagement at the Murray theatre Monday. The plot is woven by a masculine vampire, who had perfected a wonderful system of blackmail which took the form of betraying women and then blackmailing them. The story 13 most concerned with his serpentine trail around two victims and a third, little more than a child, who was just beginning to slip into bondage. William P. Carleton is the debonair parlor peril. Miss Farrar is the first victim and rnns the entire gamut of emotions with skill and finesse. Adele Blood portrays the second victim who wanted the first to adopt her child and Madge Bellamy is the young girl upon whom the he-vampire was about to spring. Montagu Love is a forceful figure as the husband, and Frank Losee and Louis Stern complete the cast with excellent characterizations. STATE ARSON DEPARTMENT CHIEF DIES AT MARION MARION, Ind., Nov. 5 Anthony M. George, 50 years old, chief of the arson department of the state fire marshal's office, died at the Grant county hospital, Friday afternoon, after an illness of several months. He was operated on Aug. 29, and had never been able to leave the hospital. He is survived by his widow and a son.

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Animals Mentioned In Bible Are on Exhibition At the South Kensington Natural History Museum, in London, there ia a special exhibit of the plants, birds and animals mentioned in the Bible. From the descriptive handbook pertaining to this exhibit it appears that the common fowl is not mentioned in the Old Testament, having probably been introduced into Palestine after the Roman conquest; that the "unicorn" of the Old Testament was probably the now extinct Syrian aurochs; that the "tares" mentioned in the New Testament were, darned grasses, whose seed3 are poisonous, and that the "rose" of the Bible was probably the narcissus. , .

HOOSIER YOUTH, RUNAWAY, SUFFERS LOSS OF LEG MARION, Ind., Nov. 5 Harry McCoy, 18 years old, who ran away from his home at Montpellier, Ind., fell between the bumpers of a Big Four freight train here Friday. His right leg was severed at the knee. U. S. TO RETURN FORT WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 Historic Fort McHenry, Maryland, will be returned by direction of Secretary Weeks to the city of Baltimore, as soon as the public health . service vacates the reservation.

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