The Murder of Valentine Hoy
Old Time Centre Countian
Larry Curtin, Former Centre Countian Tells of the Murder
of Valentine Hoy During Pioneer Days
in Wyoming
From the Rock Springs, Wyoming,
Rocket, of February 8, we take the
following thrilling story of the life
of the cattlemen of the northwest in
the latter years of the last cenutry.
It is the story told by Larry Curtin,
well remembered by many Centre
countians, to George L. Erhard, as-
signment writer for the Rocket.
For thrilling narrative and hair
raising situations the dime novels of
our boyhood days had nothing on this
story. It is about the Hoys, who
left Centre county in 1870, and hav-
ing been told by a Centre countian
who punched cattle for them on the
Wyoming plains, it holds peculiar in-
terest for their relatives here as well
as other readers who love a thrill.
The foul murder of Valentine Hoy,
old time cattle king of the Brown's
Park country south of Rock Springs
in November 1894, practically ended
feuds and outlawry along the cattle
frontiers of Wyoming, Colorado and
Utah.
Harry Tracy, desperate and notor-
jous outlaw who shot Hoy down in
cold blood, found the going too hot
after that; so he fled to safer haunts.
The lesson of the edict of the law
backed by a united determination of
the people who rose in arms to stamp
out the border evils of the day, put
a chastening clamp on the drifting
scum of humanity that infested the
unpoliced and open spaces of the
thinly settled western plains.
A WANTON ACT.
Billy Strand, 16-year-old Vernal
youth, employed at the Red Creek
ranch near the Wyoming-Utah State
line along Green river, was killed a
few days prior to Hoy’s death. The
youth one morning carelessly kicked
the covers from Slim Johnson, his
bedmate. And Slim, ranch hand and
cattle rustler, cursed the innocent
lad, then chased him outdoors and
callously shot the kneeling lad as he
plead piteously for his life.
Johnson's cruel shot echoed over a
100 mile area as an outraged public,
incensed over the wanton cruelty of
the awful deed, became so aroused
that the whole country-side rose to
arms in an effort to avenge the foul
deed.
Larry Curtin, veteran cattleman of
those hectic days—Hoy’s foreman at
Brown's Park—was there and is fa-
miliar with all the details of one of
the most stirring happenings record-
ed in Wyoming's annals.
ion. Larry Curtin, nephew of the
famous War-Governor Curtin of Penn-
sylvania who was a close pal of Abra-
ham Lincoln, knew the Hoy brothers
He told the | : 8:
story again this week in graphic fash- after the desperados. While ascending
who came from near Bellefonte, Pa.,
where Larry Curtin was born.
EARLY CATTLE DAYS.
"The elder two Hoy brothers, Valen-
tine S. and J. S. came to Wyoming
in 1870 or ’71 to range their cattle
in the fertile Brown's Park, a winding
valley 25 miles long by from two to
six miles in width, in the northwest
corner of Colorado. Each fall they
trailed many head of their choicest
steers to their feeding yards at Fre-
mont, Nebraska, to fatten them for
market. While visiting his old Penn-
sylvania home in the winter of 1881-2,
Valentine Hoy induced Larry Curtin
to migrate into the dreamland west.
Curtin accordingly, listening to the
siren call of the west, reached Fre-
mont in the spring of 1882 and his
first task was to trail a bunch of the
Hoy ponies back to Brown's Park, the
Utopia so gloriously painted by Hoy
in Curtin’s mind.
Curtin, young and vigorous, endur-
ed many hardships getting through
the plains and mountains that spring;
but he brought every horse through
safely. After working with a Gov-
ernment survey party for a time,
Curtin returned to Brown’s Park and
remained 15 years as foreman for the
Hoy Brothers outfit, then ranging
10,000 head of marketable cattle on
their own lands. Meanwhile three of
the younger Hoys joined their elder
two brothers. The Hoy outfit was the
biggest in this part of the country
then.
GLAMOUR OF THE PLAINS.
And there in the vast open spaces,
Larry Curtin roamed, expanded his
mind and became accustomed to ev-
ery detail of the natural grandeur of
that interior country. In that great
spreading wilderness, the wizardry of
the deep solitudes practiced its en-
chanting sorcery on the receptive
mentality of young Curtin until he,
like the shepherd in Virgil, grew at
last acquainted with Love and found
him a native of the rocks. And today
Curtin, possibly like the rest of us,
seared with age, is possessed of a
marvelous and uncanny memory
which instantly brings the misty past
enchantingly into view when the stir-
ring old scenes again present thefii-
selves to the retina enlarged, per-
haps, by the glorious magic of old-
time thought. And while in a remin-
iscent mood this week at the city hall,
the veteran of the plains gave an in-
teresting recital of his many adven-
tures, including the exciting Hoy kill-
ing which is best told in his own free-
dom of expression as follows:
LARRY CURTIN’S LURID TATE.
“It was late in November, 1894,
as I recall it, when Valentine Hoy was
killed in Brown's Park. Snow covered
the. ground. Rustlers had driven off
many of Hoy’s cattle and evidence
of poachers, who would kill a fat
steer for a few pounds of meat to
eat, incensed cattle owners. We miss-
ed a big steer and immediately sas-
pected one of the roving bands of
thieves. Angered beyond endurance,
Valentine Hoy, Charlie Crouse and I
gaddled up one morning to search
for the missing beef. After driving
through the snow for a short distance
we found the missing beef in the wil-
lows along Green river close to our
ranch and corrals where the brazen
thieves had butchered it.
“Hoy was determined tc have the
outlaws brought to justice. While
near the Red Creek ranch that day
we learned that Billy Strand, a mere
boy, had been cruelly murdered by
one Slim Johnson, a tough ranch
hand. Bennett, cowboy companion
of Johnson remained at Red Creek
ranch until the boy expired the next
day. Johnson, of course, fled imme-
diately after the shooting and Ben-
nett joined him the next morning.
“Meanwhile Hoy notified Sheriff
Charlie Nyman at the county seat of
Routt county, Hahn's Peak. Following
that episode, Johnson and Bennett
went to the cattle rustlers rendez-
vous, Powder Springs, to join the no-
torious Harry Tracy and Jim Lant,
both outlaws and bad gunmen. It
was then learned that Johnson and
Bennett killed the butchered steer.
Powder Springs, with its hell-like
murky water, was the hangout also
for Butch Cassidy and Tom Horn who
exchanged weird tales in their camp-
fire chats.
OVERTAKES FUGITIVES.
“Sheriff Charlie Nyman and his
deputy Farnham returned on horse-
back with Val Hoy leading. Before
their arrival, Charlie Crouse, Tom
Davenport and Jim McKnight follow-
ed Bennett and Johnson, which arous-
ed the suspicions of the Tracy gang.
So they retreated up Lodore canyon.
While Sheriff Nyman and deputy
Farnham were heading for the Hoy
ranch, they sighted Tracy, Bennett,
Johnson and Lant in the distance but
continued on to their destination.
“Soon after their arrival they got
particulars and organized a scouting
crew of sure-shots—intrepid he-men
who knew no fear and understood all
the frills of gun-handling. The posse
was composed of Billy Gibson, Hi,
Meeks, Charles Crouse, Jim Mec-
Knight, McFarland, Ed and Jim Bas-
sett. Billy Priest, alert sheriff of
Vernal, Utah, also came over to ar-
rest Johnson for the murder of the
Strand boy.
OVERTOOK FUGITIVES.
“Next morning the party spread
out and started like a military squad
the east escarpment of Lodore can-
yon, a gradual slope, they perceived
the four fugitives higher up in the
distance. I could discern a pony
branded “BB.”
“Seeing that their pursuers meant
business: and that it was a life or
death hegira, Tracy and his crew
abandoned their horses and continued
afoot up the winding trail of the can-
yon closely followed by the posse.
The Hoy vigilance party was bent on |
rounding up everyone of the vicious
desperados. First they reconoitered,
then spread out in a crescent in order
to close in strategically on the sullen
rustlers.
TRACY KILLS BOY.
“When Valentine Hoy, leading the
posse, got close enough he command-
ed the outlaws tc throw up their
hands and surrender. But the wily
Tracy turned, quickly aimed at Hoy,
then shot him through the heart. Hoy
fell dead and laid in the snow for
two days before they returned for his
body which was frozen stiff.
“Soon as he shot, Tracy ran to
Hoy's prostrate form, grabbed the
fallen man’s rifle and made away.
Jim McKnight was closely behind
Hoy when the latter fell, but was un-
able to fire quickly owing to his dan-
gerous position on the edge of the
rocks. He did fire at Tracy a mo-
ment later without hitting the des-
Derate character with the charmed
e.
“Of course the Tracy gang escap-
ed for the time although the pursuers
kept after them relentlessly, all
bound with renewed determination to
rid the country of the cut-throats
forever.
A DESPERATE MAN-HUNT.
“It was the greatest man-hunt ever
made in that country. Tracks in the
snow were traced with difficulty; but
they finally tracked Bennett to Griff
Edward's cabin at the mouth of Lo-
dore canyon. Bennett was the con-
federate who guided Tracy down the
difficult canyon. He was known as
a quick and accurate shot who would
take desperate means to protect his
life. But they wanted him. Ed Bas-
sett knew Bennett and went ahead to
inveigle the latter to visit his house
in order to trap him. Unsuspectingly
Bennett stepped into the trap. Offi-
cers and posse secreted themselves in
Bassett’s cabin in readiness.
“Soon as the door opened, upraised
and levelled guns were pointing at
Bennett’s body; and he was stern-
ly, if not gruffly, ordered to throw up
his hands high as he could reach.
Bennett, chagrined, hesitated mo-
mentarily. The sure-shot tough was
dazed by the suddenness of it and the
realization of his betrayal. That fate-
ful moment meant perhaps etern-
ity. Then realizing that he was cov-
ered and it was useles to struggle,
he raised his hands and submitted to
arrest. He knew there was no chance
to escape.
DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL!
“Bennett was hanged that night by
the inexorable law of the open spaces,
without trial, recourse te law or any
subterfuge. The mystery of it was
never revealed. Just who performed
the tragic act is known to only those
who committed the deed. Bennett
{was hanged on general principles—
| because he was a recognized outlay.
«But I always felt that they exe-
cuted a man at least innocent of
Hoy’s murder. Bennett did not even
know Hoy was killed!
| POPULACE ALL ARMED.
|
| «By this time the whole lower
country was up in arms and an in-
| surrection against all cattle rustlers
| was on in earnest. Charlie Sparks,
| hearing of the mess, rushed down
| horseback from Rock Springs with
! several crack shots to aid in the
| clean-up. In two days forty or fifty
‘men, armed to the teeth, were or-
‘ ganized to scour the country for the
' fleeing fugitives who were hiding in
| the mountains. The incensed cattle-
| men were determined to make an end
of thievery and to drive the bush-
| whackers out effectually and forever.
i ‘Vernal, Utah, sent 15 men to
avenge the death of the Strand boy.
They started out with resolute deter-
mination to get their men dead or
alive. They soon struck the trail of
{the three escaping men and followed
|it until they found the carcass of a
horse the desperados killed
| Leading on they followed up a wind-
|ing trail on Lookout mountain where
j they surrounded and surprised the
criminals.
“Johnson, covered by several rifles,
started to obey the ukase of his reso-
| lute captors by raising his arms trem-
|ulously. But the desperate Tracy,
courageous to the core, unwilling to
yield, and ready to die fighting, aim-
| ed his gun at Johnson and command-
led him to not surrender—and would
|
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| have killed him on the spot had he not
| been overpowered by those who rush-
ed in on him. If Tracy had a dozen
| eyes that day he might have escaped.
| Thus the three culpable rowdies were
at last under guard. They were
marched toward the Hoy ranch.
When confronted and accused of
killing Valentine Hoy, Tracy squinted
out his eyes and said:
«The murderer of Valentine Hoy
is here among you!” That was all he
vouchsafed.
«The trio was taken before J. S.
Hoy, who was justice of the peace
at Brown's Park and remanded af-
I ter a preliminary hearing. All after
|a vigorous four-day’s man hunt.
county took Johnson to the Green
River jail because his crime was com-
mitted within the county. Johnson
later received a long term in the
State prison on a murder charge.
ugheriff Charlie Nyman and his
deputy took Tracy and Lant to the
jail at Hahn's Peak city.
TRACY ESCAPES FROM JAIL
“Soon thereafter, Tracy and Lant
effected a desperate jail-break by
knocking Nyman insensible with a
club and making @ bold dash for
{liberty. When the brave Nyman fell
| prostrate, Tracy bent over him and
| was about to send a shot through his
head. But Lant interfered and beg-
‘ged Tracy to save his life. That ap-
| peal saved Jim Nyman’s life.
«After Tracy and Lant fled, Ny-
man revived soon thereafter and
| courageously started in pursuit of the
| escaped men. And recaptured them
{after a terrific struggle; then took
them to a safer jail at Cripple Creek.
| Tracy maintained a sullen attitude
, but behaved himself for some time.
Then suddenly an opening came for
the bad pair; and they made another
! sensational escape from the power-
i fully guarded Cripple Creek tank and
made away for keeps. Lant was
never seen afterward. It is still a
mystery and many believe that Tracy
murdered him to keep him forever
quiet.
«But Tracy reappeared at inter-
| vals, committed various depredations,
| kept in hiding much as possible until
'he became such a dreaded criminal
that a high price was put on his head.
He served several prison terms un-
der aliases and finally was sent to
the Salem, Ore. penitentiary for a
long term. At an opportune time he
made his most daring break from
that institution about 15 years ago
and killed about half a dozen guards
and pursuing officers. The desperate
{nature of the man, his long criminal
‘record and the possibility of his ap-
pearing almost any place to commit
a fresh horror, alarmed the whole
State. Large posses volunteered
from all sides until an invincible of-
fensive force of more than a thousand
armed men tracked Tracy through
fields and over mountain passes north
to the Columbia river where he cross-
ed in a skiff hotly followed. He elud-
ed his pursuers for a few hours, rest-
ed, then attended a country dance
where he made a girl named Baker
dance with him several times. She
did not know him. But he intimi-
dated her by threats to kill. Then he
dashed away seemingly mindful of
the shocking destiny awaiting him.
WRITES WITH OWN BLOOD.
“As the story goes, he finally was
surrounded in a field near Summer,
Washington, and so riddled with bul-
lets that he was slowly bleeding to
death. Rather than surrender even
in such a state of collapse, the re-
doubtable and lion-hearted criminal,
fearless and audacious to the end,
scribbled a brief note on paper using
his own blood for ink, then commit-
ted suicide. His criminal career, so
far as known, began in northwest
Colorado.
“The Hoy and Strand murders,
happening so closely together, star-
tled inhabitants in three States at
the time and aroused law-abiding cit-
izens into a determined stand to pro-
tect their peace and happiness by
vigilance committees if necessary.
Thus the border escapades with the
outraged sense of three States. par-
ticipating, attracted the attention of
the entire country as front page
news. It is now historic and will re-
main in the annals as vital grist of
early history.”
POWDER SPRINGS HANG-OUT.
And today Powder Springs bears a
mystic aspect as old-timers point to
it as the former rendezvous of wild
characters of other days. It now
ranks in with the notorious Hole-In-
The-Wall seclusion, an impregnable
fastness in the center of Wyoming
for food.'
«Sheriff Swanson of Sweetwater
a. i
where desperate criminals congre-
gated after their crimes to defy the
officers of the law.
H. A. McKay, manager for the
Charles Sparks’ interests was born
at Rawlins and recalls the many
criminal escapades attributed to
those who frequented the mysterious
Powder Springs where the Tophet
waters gush from the ground in the
startling color of inky blackness, al-
though men and stock drink it free-
ly. Mr. McKay tells of the sensation-
al break made from the very portal
of the Rawlins penitentiary one
Sunday afternoon about 15 years ago
when 20 daring and desperate con-
victs made a dash for liberty and ran
through the streets of Rawlins ter-
rorizing its citizens.
“I recall the day very well,” said
Mr. McKay; “at the very outset,
Chas. Stressner, a barber, going to
the traps to shoot, saw the uprising.
He rushed into the street and lev-
elled his gun at the approaching con-
victs and commanded them to halt.
But they marched on. When Stress-
ner pulled the trigger of his gun he
discovered that the magazine was
empty.
“Crack! Crack resounded two shots
from the fleeing convicts—and Stress-
ner fell dead! The convicts scatter-
ed among the railroad tracks while
a gib posse was formed. The sher-
iff and others managed to shoot two
or three of the fugitives. But the
others eluded the posse and com-
mandeered a buggy south of town
and got a good start in the gather-
ing darkness.
| “Later one dead convict was found
five miles south of town. He was
wounded in the city and finally suc-
cumbed. The posse picked up tracks
of the escaped men and trailed them
several days. They knew the num-
|
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OBERAMMERGAU PLANS
NEXT PASSION PLAY.
Roaring airplane motors and the
whirl of propellers will be heard
above the flapping of angels’ wings
at the next Passion play in Oberam-
mergau in 1930. The Lufthansu, Ger-
man Civil Aviation company, is now
surveying real estate near the famed
Oberammergau the latter with a view
to building an air drome and landing
field. Visitors to the coming Passion
play will hop to the biblical Oberam-
mergau scenes in the latest models
of German planes.
This is, however, merely one &vi-
dence of the modernizing of the lit-
tle Bavarian town where, for 300
years the local citizens have perform-
ed their drama of the Passion of tne
Savior. A structure of ultramodern
technology is being imposed on the
quaint primitive character of Ober-
ammergan.
Although the next Passion play will
not be staged until May 15, 1930,
(there will be three performances)
the Oberammergauers are busily
starting preparations. The historic
theatre itself has been enlarged so as
to seat 3,000 instead of 4,200 specta-
tors will speedily carry all stage re-
moved from the wings and placed un-
derneath the stage. Electric eleva-
tors will speedily carry all stage re-
quisites to the Jerusalem scene. The
stage floor has been mounted on roll-
ers, so that the story of Judas, the
disciples, and Martha will be enacted
with the up-to date facilities of a
ber of men they were following un-
til one track wholly disappeared. Fol-
lowing the remaining two men they
surrounded them as they hid in a
sheep wagon at Powder Springs. Or-
dering the herder to keep away, the
posse fired boldly into the covered
wagon until no response came. The
sheriff then approached the badly
splintered wagon and found that the
two men had been penetrated by so
many bullets it was difficult to iden-
tify them.
“Five or six years ago a skeleton
was found northwest of Rawlins by
a sheepherder which was thought to
be one of the escaped convicts. It
was a sensational escape and alarmed
the whole country. But the officers
“acted promptly and the escaped men
| did no further harm.”
| Future Will See Great Change in In-
terior of Homes.
Tomorrow's furniture will be sim-
pler, of richer material and smaller
proportions, says M. Mallet-Stevens,
well known architect. All useless
knick-knacks and bric-a-brac will
have disappeared, chairs, tables and
beds being the only furniture in evi-
dence. These will be made of metal
that will follow graceful flowing lines
‘instead of the rigid ultra-cubist style
that is so much in evidence at the
present time.
M. Maurice Duffrene,
French interior decorator, tells us
that in thirty years from now,
squeaky doors will be replaced by
silent sliding panels. All heating and
lighting apparatus will be concealed
in the ceilings and the walls, whereas
floors will be made with cement and
covered with rubber carpets thus do-
ing away with boards and dusty
cracks. Walls will be covered with
stucco or some other material beau-
; tiful to look upon and there will be
! curves, beautiful curves everywhere.
M. Duffrene claims that furniture
lines follow those of the coutuirer.
When the feminine silhouette is slim
and angular the furniture outline is
straight with sharp corners.
famous
a
Fortune is Made in Jackrabbits.
Koon C. Beck, of Hutchinson, “the
man who his friends say will buy
anything,” has made a small fortune
because he saw in Kansas jackrab-
bits something no one else saw—a
paying proposition.
Fifteen years ago Beck launched
the marketing of Kansas jackrabbits
and cottontails. With his brother,
John Beck, he treked over the
prairies hunting rabbits. When
they had killed enough for a ship-
ment they packed them, and sent
them to Chicago. Their first ship-
Max Reinhardt or Belasco theatre. A
glass roof will cover the whole stage,
and improve the lighting. There are
now 13 exits, so that the theatre can
be completely emptied in four min-
utes.
Hitherto tourists attending the Pas-
sion play have been obliged to reside,
for the most part, at medieval inns;
by 1930 these hostelries will have ac-
quired running hot water and other
conveniences.
Spectators formerly traveled to
Oberammergau by train. Besides the
airplane, the automobile will bring
many visitors to the next Passion
play. The State of Bavaria and the
municipality of Oberammergau are
collaborating in improving the roads
for motor cars. Roads from Munich
Kttal and Fuessen, leading to Ober-
ammergau, are being bettered and
provided with asphalt. Three park-
ing places, each with a capacity of
several hundred automobiles, are be-
ing built near the scene of the Pas-
sion play. Streets in Oberammergau
itsef are being asphalted and equip-
ped with new street lamps.
Special luxurious trains will also
be running before each performance,
bringing guests to the religious spec-
deadly pestilence.
tale in snug comfort.
Players have not yet been chosen
for the main roles, Christ, Mary and
John, but it is certain that there will
be many changes from the last cast.
George Lang, wood carver, has
been selected as director and stage
manager, and the musical accompa-
iment will be contributed by the head
school master, Sattler. ;
Strangers visiting Oberammergau
during coming weeks, on walking
through the tranquil village streets
of an evening, will already hear ac-
tors rehearsing their parts in almost
every house. The visitors will also be
struck by the bearded visages of the
local inhabitants. For at least a year
before the play begins every actor
must foreswear razor and shears and
let hair and beard grow in full abund-
ance. In fact, there are many in-
habitants, from birth destined to as-
sume roles in the Passion play whose
hair is allowed to grow unshorn
from childhood.
Nothing will betray the romantic
origin of the Passion play, which
dates back to 1634 when the hamlet
of Oberammergau was swept by a
The inhabitants
‘then made a vow that, if the grim
“harvest of the plague were checked
ment made them $300. The follow-
ing year they made a contract to
supply 100 dozen hares every week
ito a Chicago commission house.
bit King” received and filled the
largest order he ever received. An
order to supply 1,200,000 rabbits
for cantonments.
Later Beck had a felt manufac-
‘turer test the jackrabbit fur for
| felting purposes and found that the
{ test proved very successful. Since
| that time several mililon pelts have
gone to market through Beck’s hands
alone.
“The harvesting” of jackrabbits
begins in November and lasts
| through until spring at the Beck
. place.
ener ——— eee
Motor Casualties Mounting.
An increase of 10 per cent. in
deaths marked the January summary
of 3499 motor accidents in Pennsyl-
vania. Accidents numbering 174 re-
sulted in 185 deaths, an increase of
fifteen over that of December.
The month’s fatality included ten
children under the age of 4, twenty-
one children under 14, ninety-eight
adults between 15 and 54, and forty-
one persons over 55 years, and fif-
teen persons of unknown age. In
2670 accidents, forty-one children un-
der 4 years, 332 youths between 5 and
14, 1735 adults between 15 and 54
years, 243 over 55, and 319 persons
of unknown age.
Flagrant violations of the law, to-
taling 1849, were responsible for 60
per cent. of the month’s motor cas-
ualties, which included thirty-eight
| deaths and injuries to 1811 persons.
During the World war the ‘Rab- cess of bread-baking, decreasing the
they would each decade present a
play describing the Passion of Christ.
The pestilence was halted, and thus
began the relgious spectacle now
known throughout the world.
seer ees sent.
New Baking Bread Extract Just
Discovered.
A special secret formula for making
high quality bread, developed by B.
W. Dedrick, assistant professor of
milling at the Pennsylvania State
College has attracted wide attention
among bakers and housewives in this
country. Two years ago Mr. Dedrick
caused similar surprise in the bak-
ing industry when he demonstrated,
after five years of experimenting, a
way of shortening the time and pro-
time from five hours to less than one
hour.
Prominent bakers from various
sections of the country who have ex-
amined and tasted bread baked with
Mr. Dedrick’s extract in it, claim
that it is of exceptionally fine quality
and has wonderful flavor. With the
use of the extract, Mr. Dedrick claims
that bread will rise quicker and form
larger loaves when baked. He also
states that experiments have shown
that bread containing the extract will
bake in seven minutes shorter time
and that he has made bread in 45
minutes by using the extract and the
time-saving process which he discov-
ered several years ago.
The formula of the mysterious ex-
tract is a secret which only Mr. Ded-
rick knows. It is a light brown
powder made from wheat which
gives a creamy color to bread when
baked. The substance is added to
the yeast and water in the process of
baking. Mr. Dedrick claims that the
extract may be manufactured very |
inexpensively. :
e——— ee ——
— Two hundred and fifty thousand
trained aviators ready to be turned
over to the government at a mo- |
ment’s notice in case of emergency.
That is the aim of the American
Society for promotion of aviation in
plans which will cover a period of five
years cooperation with ‘the industry
and civilian aero clubs now being or-
ganized throughout the couiitry.
SLR RA RM CERI,
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
“A slip of the foot can be soon recover<
ed, but a slip of the tongue may never
be gotten over.” Far too many of us act
as if we know it all, whatever the subject
may be or the standing and knowledge of
the man who approaches us, who is simply
striving to do his duty with faithfulness
to his chief. Some milk gets sour over-
night, but some men’s nature sour in a
minute over small suggestions made in the
interest of the business. Think twice be-
fore speaking, or take a glass of water
and head off hasty speech. We can all
learn something from each other.
—John Wanamaker.
More and more complicated coats:
are coming in for clothes next spring
and give promise of a striking new
silhouette.
The so-called princess treatments.
are supple and youthful and flat hip-
lines are insisted upon. Waistlines:
are back to the top of the hips or
slightly higher, but because the up-
per part of the dress is cut straight
and supple, one does not get the effect
, of the old-time fitted frock, in any
sense.
.Because of this, fullness, both for:
day and evening, is usually mounted
quite low. Pleats are stitched down
to within a foot of the hem and circu-
lar flounces are placed on straight
foundation at the same height. Puifs:
of drapery for evening are very
smart when they are placed at either
side of the skirt just above the knee.
Fulness is usually at the back when:
the hipline is not flat. Even sports:
dresses have the skirt flaring at the
back and straight in front. Mutsle--
backs of 1880 and bowknot draperies:
are going to continue for spring wear,.
from all indications.
The irregular hemline will also be a.
feature especially for afternoon:
frocks of soft formal type in printed
chiffons or plain georgettes. Midsum-
mer frocks are shown without coats:
and skirts are quite full, with points:
or rounded panels which dip the hem--
line, most often at center-back or di--
rectly in front and sometimes both."
When coats accompany these frocks:
they are three-quarter or hip length.
Champ communal is showing one
in black dotted crepe, with large-
white dots on the hand of trimming.
Necklines for daytime on both:
coats and dresses emphasize scarf
treatments, often quite wide and:
long. Lingerie touches at the neck
and sleeves are used on a number of
advanced models.
The very latest coiffures reveals:
that ears that are out are in again !
The elegant put a loop "of pearls:
through pierced lobes or dangle some
smart odd antique earrings, especial-
ly after evening has arrived.
The long short bob is pre-eminently-
correct. For, you see, it allows a wo-
man to change her mind. She can
wear the bob either short or long.
The sleek bob is excellent, but since-
waves do much to take years from.
waves. Indeed, there are now 24 dif- .
ferent ways to have one’s hair waved,.
a woman's face, many a head of hair"
bern straight now takes on kindly
Many of them look so natural that
one’s mother would probably think.
her memory is not what it was and
that she was mistaken in thinking:
that Jane's hair was straight.
These are merely the highlights of"
the Beauty Trade Show running here
now.
Most of the bobs that receive at-
tention are what beauty experts call
“fifty-fifty”’—that is, the long-short.
The hair in the back falls to the:
shoulders, while the front and sides:
are left short, like last year’s bob.
For that terrible in-between time:
when the back hair is growing, hé&ir-
dressers have produced little chig-
nons attached to.clips that hang on.
tight to even the shortest ends of’
hair. These chignons can be made in-
to little biscuits, which are very"
good now on the: neek, into a minia--
ture figure eight, cross-wise, or into-
curls.
When one’s. hair grows: out, the:
same choice presents itself. Various:
types of faces and necks bring differ--
ent solutions.
For the woman with a well-shaped:
head and a graceful, slender neck,
there is the new Hollywood beauty"
bob. This exposes the ears, waves:
the front and sides of the hair to fol*-
low the head’s line and curls back up--
ward in tiny ringlets the entire back:
long hair.
For the girl with natural curls,
there is a new beauty curl bob. This:
other ear and back. Catching it with:
a barrette in the back, the long ends.
are made into two or more Pickfordi’
curls.
The Princesse long bob is picked!
for the most popular bob of the sea--
son. This allows a woman to part her-
hair on either side or the:middle, to:
wave it about her face. and over her
ears or above them: as she prefers,
then to draw it back; Hhold’it fast at’
the neck with a barrette and let the
ends fly. One should never let the
hair grow longer than three inches
below the barrette with this.
Since the wind-blown bob has al-
ways been popular with girls with:
straight hair, a 1929 one appears:
that makes the sides more windblown:
than the bangs. The new feature:
about this one is that the back is no:
longer shingled but is grown long and’
the back hairline is cut ragged to:
conform with the front.
A fifth bob that bids fair to suit
many, is called the Temple Curl fifty-
fifty. This calls for one of the new"
finger waves that are wide, natural’
looking and easy to put in. Part the-
hair slightly to one side, bring it
down to form little temple curls remi-
niscent of the spit-curls of the 1905s
and swing the rest over the ear and’
gray to form a little chignon in the
back.
Stains caused by wet or hot dishes
can be removed if they are not too
deeply imbedded in the wood. Wash
the surface with suds. Rinse and dry
throughly. With a soft cloth dipped’
in a solution of alcohol (about one ta-
blespoonful alcohol to four tablesoon-
fuls water,) rub the area around the
spot with a circular motion, toward”
the centre of the spot.