Walkerton Independent, Volume 55, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 October 1929 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Publlnh^.i Everv Thursday - by " THE IyPtTEMIENT-N KH's CO. — Publishers of the WALKEBTON INDEPENDENT NORTH I.IKEBTI NEWS THE ST JOSEP 11 _CO UNT Y W EEK LIES' Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Ch axle. M. Finch Editor SUBSCRIPT ION RATES g» Tear |I.S» Months 90 ree Months ~,, .00 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at th« post ofHce at Walkerton second-class matter. Many a professional funny man | doesn't know how sadly funny lie । really is. We often wonder what Necessity, [ looking over some of the inventions, j thinks of tier children. If people do not like the crowded conditions in federal prisons, it is easy to keep out of them. Probably if the full truth were known, there is a vitamine G or 11 1n fried chicken and gravy. Parents do not have to worry about the children’s setting up exercises in the morning. It’s the getting up. If the sleeping car porters feel insulted when offered tips at least they pocket their insults very gracefully. Do we understand that the underslung pipe is to be considered the sign and seal of the new type of diplomat? Frequently an expert is a man who charges one hundred dollars for doing what anybody else would do for ten. After all the philanthropic efforts to make penitentiaries pleasant, a prison mutiny appears downright ungrateful. The office cynic says he wouldn’t be surprised if the world came to an end shortly, no one having prophesied it of late. Transatlantic ships have become so fast nowadays you have only four days and a few hours in which to mislay the passport. So live that at the age of eighty you can brag of something besides having worn the same collar button for 61 years. One of the older 18-day diets, which doesn’t include grapefruit, is when a family of three has to clean up a Impound turkey. Let us turn for a minute from the quaint names in the Manchurian war area to a Nova Scotia report that a railroad is proposed between Shediac and Pugwash. “Fish that change from black to white have been discovered off the Bahamas.” We have known of many fishermen who could do this with a story, but never of fish. Things could be worse, though, on the Manchurian front. Suppose they had given each of those towns three or four different names, like characters in a Dostoievski novel. Sickness costs Uncle Sam about $4,060,000,000 a year; yet the old boy seems to get down to office every morning and does quite a bit of work in those same 12 months. A song 1,760 years old has been found in the ruins .of an ancient temple in Greece. Let’s see —1,700 years old—would that be the one about sawing down and going boom? A new record was set recently on one of these child-size tables in a tea room: It seems an absentminded I diner ate three salads under the im- . pression that they were bis. The joke about walking back from 1 a ride in the country seems to have : reached the New York Times, which heads a letter from a nature lover. “Rescuing Roadside Beauties.” Having been served a hot dog at a ( New York gas station, a tourist says ■ it is now possible in the East to buy I a lunch of some kind at every place of | business, except possibly a quarry. Explorers of the Amazon headwaters | have found a “lard tree” and a “sugar tree.” and if there is an orchard in the neighborhood they will j have pie. “Modesty is a beautiful word.” said j the shocked mid-Victorian. But it j would be much more beautiful if it were less often used as a synonym for “prudery.” Passenger services across the conti- . nent by plane are now regular and firmly established. At least, we assume so: Their time-tables are full | of asterisks ami becoming almost in comprehensible. Having taken up the suntan vogue In a big way. one of oui local loafers is applying among art collectors for work as a bronze. “Asbestos frocks are as lustrous as silk, light as cotton and wear like j wood.” And v<m can pit a lighted | pipe in the pocket. Scientists have just unearthed tl • remains of a prehistoric animal with joints that worked both ways, possibly an early vetsiou of the fifth passenger j in a taxicab. A western goat damaged an airplane by munching the wings. We should I imagine, though, the white meat would I be on the fuselage. “That's just a joke, about stuffing J a handkerchief into my face, isn't it? j asked the nervous victim. “Yuh,” said j the burglar, “it's just a gag.” Something we wonder about. In con nection with suntan powd r. is wheth er being caught in a shower would j give one a bird's-eye map e com I olexion.

Caligula’s Barge Recovered From Lake Nemi rw-A ' V 1 ' ' 1 - . r I 1 g£ Sc* U- *** X’’ Is*** —. *?♦. ^.I < Js fe - .. One of the barges of Caligula, sunk at the bottom of Lake Nemi, Italy, for 2,000 years, as it now appears after the waters of the lake have been drained away. View of Nassau That Was Hit by Hurricane BL | T < * I U . i 4 J® . View in Nassau tn the Bahama islands where the recent hurricane killed a number of persons and did great property damage.

She Is the Farm Girl Champion / *;*»>■ • Wi ' vlilßl j k mIo Jrf> ;■ \ : F / > z: \ Bti ix*- '/ ; Mr< v z W ir ' - a- ■ Here is Miss Dorothy Marshall, aged seventeen, who won the title of American farm girl champion at the Los Angeles county fair, Pomona, Calif., by proving her ability at milking, dexterity with the pitchfork ami hay rake find familiarity with the controls of farm tractors. Flow Mr. Stimson Keeps in Condition » id a i WK SC ■kl . wW* -' t” -X 'W? - I W' - ■ # ’ \ Long before official and social Washington is awake, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson is on his favorite steed and <»IT for a brisk canter in Rock Creek park, before beginning his arduous day of guiding the affairs of slate. OF INTEREST TO EVERYBODY

Almost GOO languages and dialects are spoken in Europe. Cloudless weather is necessary tn making photographic maps from airplanes. Farmers’ co.-operative associations In the Netherlands have a total membership of more than 150.000. The American Alumni council Is composed of 250 leading colleges of the United States and Canada.

There are about GJW.OOO farm families in the United States. The edible part of a crab makes up about 4! per cent of its we’ghl. A penalty for failing to vote in elections is exacted in Czechoslovakia. Whether an individual who owns a piece of property also owns the air above it, and whether he may sell or b ase the air. Is a disputed legal matter.

' HEADS THE BANKERS V **** |^ ^SBi ■ ■<■■7 Mr < \ WKTjMi ® JU< » JPiM ISKr f /SRfii gaßgs .. jM i'^£9^^^MEnSMHDMSg£ . ■ v\ v^ / John G. Lonsdale, head of the Mer-cantile-Commerce bank and Trust Co. of St. Louis, is the new president of the American Bankers association. He was officially elected to the office at the annual convention of the association. BUSH TO PILOT SOX fg? J & h v > 3 * \ r^Xx -■ r *> X a ’ o ;; . / L^-tra^*^ ' "‘ l, ^‘ r, " , ^ '.., Donie Bush. former manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, will pilot the Chicago American league baseball club next year, the White Sox management announced. Bush succeeds “Lena’ 1 i Blaekburne, and has signed a two-year contract beginning in 1930. Beginning of “Derby” When the “Derby" was organized 149 j years ago. the most visionary had no | idea of the extent to which the race j meet would grow. A few hundred sporting men attended the first Derby, i in 17S0, and it was won by Sir Charles . Bunbury’s horse I domed. Its present ! glittering life was painfully absent. : and at that time London had no tele- : phone, gas or railway. It was frequenti ly 38 hours before even the larger j towns knew the winner. The guard of | the mail coach spread the news, and in some Temote villages the winner was I not known until a fortnight after the : race.—London Mail. (London’s Oldest Bank London s oldest bank is Hoare s, the age of which cannot be certainly stated; but there is in existence a receipt dated 1G33 for money deposit ed there in that year with Lawrence I Hoare, who was in business as a gold I smith. । I In a Nutshell He Is happy whose circumstances r suit his temper, but he is more ex . I cdlenf who can suit his temper to any j circumstances.

Illinois’ Oldest College Building — N ■ i "" I ■ ' ~ 4 : f - - ri 71,^2 0p- B'l ■ IllSSf XJ S V.. J I This building, known as “Old Beechwood.” erected in 1529, was the attraction at the centennial celebration of Illinois college at Jacksonville, 111., Rich in tradition, it included among its students William Herndon, law partner of Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan and others who became famous. Sergeant York’s Feat Is Reproduced ^||||^ i ^£^2 - - A--One <>f I’e main features of the annual carnival held nt the War college in Washington was this reproduction of the n • t feat of Sgt. Alvin York who. with a small force < f men rushed a machine gun nest at Chateau Chateehe 11 ur , I r ’ .0. capturing four German officers and one hundred twenty-eight men.

TO WED SHOP GIRL - ■ C i I IM 11 B / -« : ; M Ji ■FA ■ r jffllL .MNH Jik JMi WMWk i x * WxWgWMlk His Highness, Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad Shah, better known as the "Aga Khan." Moslem religious leader of India and Africa, and famous racehorse owner, who is to be married in November to a brunette girl who first attracted his tittention in a candy store in Chambery, where she clerked. The ceremony will be performed by the mayor of Chambery. ISHBEL MAC DONALD ~ Mw Hr fBMI « jUHM HSi * JBf : .. . ■MMmM >. :>F ' jgllßb flip ■■ jfISK IJIM A new and hitherto impubli-’m d portrait study of Miss Ishbel MacDonald, the attractive daughter of Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, who accompanied her father on bis Defining the Soul The soul, if it is not regarded as which affirms the value of loyalty to that which is unseen. —Woman’s Home True British Accent It is said that Englishmen fear the disappearance of the true British ac--1 J cent on account of the gradual Americanization of Europe. There's no dan ’ ' ger—a lot of Americans practice it so i carefully that they'll never let it die | out. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. — Tree’s Slow Growth : ' Dwarf willows that struggle to stir ! vive in Greenland sometimes grow less ■ than an inch in diameter in the course I of 50 years.

War Hero Receives Medal of Honor /MM . ♦ WL T , :• - t - Wr-pp. . 2,^ Michael Valente, formerly private. Company D, One Hundred Seventh । infantry, Twenty-seventh division during the World war. receiving from Pre>ii cent Hoover the Congressional Medal of Honor, at the White Hou-e. Valente received the medal for bravery while in action against the Hindenburg line. I He enlisted at Ogdensburg, N. Y„ but is now a resident of Long Beach, N Y Arena Built for National Dairy Show i ' i 4 ! f pr > ih s j .. .;v -v \ /*.% r f I S' .-*• T i : A ■•..-« ^5.?; .■ ‘ ’.y •.:*■>* : * 4 "’ '" «i ‘& & * F' * *«’*' •- ' z < CiS : ' ’■ yj i i. •» : 1 ” TC< is the now Arena in ft. Louis. l.tCit es ..Lilly for the V i,.nal n I\tiry exposition, tho National Poultry - v. :’ ; N; •: :d H r-o sh w. .• 'Flic hu^e structure co<t SL’^lo ; *. : -I v • :■ a- 1 f 7 . . as I THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ~

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are F* s-c ies of mosquitoes W r p os j n ancient Rome w?re made of wood. 'A -o desertion has been mad* * felony in Texas. T e average life of an oil fi e ] d ah >ut three years. The souther; »ine beetle has do stroll a mt w „ rth i p.ne timber in the JSouth since 1891