THIS COURT BARS
~ TRIVIAL CHARGES
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Applicants for Divorce Must |
Have Real Cause.
Council Bluffs, Iowa.—Eating with
a knife, failing to shave for two days
in succession or using an improper
shade of face powder no longer are
reasons for divorce In the District
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court for Council Bluffs and surround |
ng counties.
Judge J. S. Dewell of the Fifteenth |
lowa Judicial district has served offi-
elal notice that something more than
these will have to be forthcoming be-
fore he will Issue decrees to newly-
weds who suddenly discover these or
other “trivial” reasons why they
cannot live with their spouses,
Must Have Real Cause.
It will take at least a sock on the
jaw or a poke in the nose, or some-
thing equally as aggressive, to get a
divorce for anyone married less than
A year.
Judge Dewell says he is startimg |
a one-man campaign of not only dis
couraging hasty weddings but also to
cut down the divorce rate.
The new ruling becomes effective
September 1, when the fall term of
court opens. Judge Dewell says he
makes the announcement at this time
80 that attorneys In his district may
know what to expect and may look
up other testimony for divorce cases
before coming to court.
The court's order applies only to
those wed less than twelve months.
Couples married for years, and still
unable to get along together, may
plead “mental anguish” and the usual
run of reasons for divorces and get
away with them, Decrees will be is
sued, as usual, to the old-timers.
Mzkes Mockery of Law,
“Under the Iowa laws, one of the
statutory grounds for divorce Is ‘cruel
and inhuman treatment such as to
endanger life” the judge said. “Par
tiles try to get In under that clause
with all sorts of foolishness, such as
sour pancakes, hard-boiled eggs, burned
bacon, failure to attend picture shows,
and kindred matters of no greater im-
portance, They then try to sum up |
with a general conclusion that such
treatment, long continued, endangers
the life, causing a nervous breakdown
and other indefinite or, rather, imag-
inary troubles.”
JU. S. Picking Merchants
for Its Model Townsite |
Reno, Nev.—Boulder City, the new
government townsite at the Hoover
dam in southern Nevada, is not be
ing established on a basis of “the sur
vival of the fittest,” for Uncle Sam
says who can go into business there
and picks those that the Department
of the Interior think can hest serve as
workers.
The Interior department has take
the position that following the estab-
arder of the Cistercian order, instl-
lishment of Boulder City on a perma-
nent basis, and after the hysteria of
the boom period has passed they will
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remove all restrictions and allow the |
laws of economics to operate.
Actording to Louis O. Cramtom, for
mer congressman and the city's “czar”
“the situation is greatly aggravated | here It met with such instant favor
by the present economic condition of
the country, where every one is look-
ing for a more fertile fleld and is like
ly to let his hopes get the better of
his judgment.”
“Had we thrown down the bars”
ne sald, “there is no question but
that 1,000 business houses would have
opened up without any sort of Invest!
gation beyond the roseate stories in
the newspapers depleting opportunity
that is not here.”
Husky Longshoremen
Fashionable Life When
Georges Ruled England
The “English Lady's Catechism”
presents a smart caricature of how
a lady of fashion spent her day:
“How do you employ your time
“I lie In Bed till Noon, dress all the
Afternoon, Dine in the Evening, play
at Cards till midnight”
“How do you spend the Sabbath?”
“In chit chat!”
“What do you talk of 7"
“New Fashions and New Plays!"
“How often do you go to Church?”
“Twice a year or oftener, according
as my Husband gives me new
Cloaths I”
“Why do you go to Church when yov
have new Cloaths?”
“To see other People’s finery, and to |
shew my own, and to laugh at those |
scurvy, out-of-fashion creatures that
come for Devotion!”
“Pray, Madam, what Books do you
read?”
“l read lewd Plays and winning
Romances !"
“Who is it you love?
“Myself!”
“What, nobody else?”
“My Page, my Moukey and my Lap
“Why, because I am an English lady,
and they are Koreign Creatures, my
Page from Genoa, my Monkey from |
the Egst Indies gnd my Lap Dog from |
Vigo !"—A. E. Richardson in Georgian |
England.
Seek Church’s Blessing
on All Undertakings
The Slav people throughout the
world hold more to religious customs |
than any of the peoples of western
Europe. Many of these beautiful old |
customs were created and preserved
| by the Bulgarians during the five cen-
turies under Turkish rule. The peo-
ple, as a rule, also call upon the
clergy to perform a ceremony for what |
would appear, in western Europe, most
trivial things. In addition to the cere-
mony performed in the case of mar-
riages, births and deaths, the cutting
of the first sod and the laying of a
foundation for a new house or public '
building, the opening of a new street,
building, public garden, or a factory,
ete, without a religious ceremony is
considered as an {il omen. Immedi-
ately the roof is placed on a new
house or building, a gross, blessed by |
the priest, with a wreath of flowers at-
tached Is hoisted and remains until
the work is finally completed. In the |
villages certain ideas are carried to |
extreme limits, and the parish priest
is called upon to perform all sorts of
ceremonies, such as blessing the land,
prayers for rain, storms and the har
vest, ete.—Detroit News.
Trappist Monks
The Trappist monks are a reformed
tuted In 1 J2 by Armand Jean le Bou-
thellier de Rance. Assuming control
of the abbey of La Trappe in 1660, he |
found it In a most deplorable condi-
tion. The main purpose was to re-
store the discipline of the monastery.
| From La Trappe this austere rule
Called On to Explain
Boston.—Explanations were In or-
der the other day in the homes of a
number of husky longshoremen; for
night as bleached blonds, the gray
haired ones with green whiskers and
spread into other parts of Europe,
that some of the most flourishing mo-
nastic houses in the world are now
those of the Trappist reformers. In
the United States there are three
Cistercian abbeys, La Trappe at Geth-
semane, Ky.; New Mellarey, near Du-
buque, Iowa, and Our Lady of the
Valley, Cumberland, R, L
The Pomp of Power
Nicholas II (of Russia) liked living
in a small South German palace rather
than anywhere else, . . . In Hesse
the czar knew that he was safe
against attempts on his life, which
| were always possible in Russia, and
| then on the banks of the pretty stream
of Darm, he could live the free, quiet
the black haired ones came home at |
locks and the light haired men as
red heads.
Unable to account for the phe
nomena to the satisfaction of curi-
ous wives, some of the men tele |
phoned to their foreman, Mike Furey.
His explanation was something like |
this:
tons of TNT into the hold of the S. 8.
Nitro and the tinging of their hair
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The men spent the day loading 1,400
was due to the minute particles of the |
explosive in the air in the ship's hold. |
He said they had been paid double
for their time, $14.45 per day.
Cheaper to Hit Woman
Than Man in Mena, Ark.
Mena, Ark.—It's $10 cheaper to hit
a woman, Everett Wimberley found
out here. Wimberley, arraigned in po-
lice court on charge of assault and bat-
tery, was fined $15 for striking Grace
Pipkin, but was fined $25 for hitting
Ernest Miller, Police Judge Smith did
pot explain the difference in the fines.
Mere Youth of 110
Weds Maiden of 72
Melbourne. — Robert Stevens,
aged one hundred and ten, mar-
ried a social visitor at the old
folks’ home, where he was an In-
mate. She is seventy-two. After
the ceremony the happy couple
left the Institution and started
life In & cozy little apart-
ment In the heart of the city.
life of a private gentleman. Is there
hetter proof of the worthlessness of
all royal pomp and circumstance than
the fact that what the autocrat of all
the hundred million Russians loved
most was to go in a slow train from
Darmstadt to Frankfurt, incognito as
far as possible, and there buy ties |
and gloves In the street?—From Von
Bulow's Memoirs, Page 195,
Policies Out of Date
The insurance policy issued by |
Lloyd's on marine risks has undergone |
but little change in the past century |
und a half, since It was first printed, |
| says an article in Fortune Magazine.
The opening sentence formerly read |
“In the name of God, Amen,” but it |
has been changed to “Be It known
that.” This is perhaps the greatest |
change in the policies of Lloyd's, |
which are full of contradictions and
grandiose language; so much so that
it were drawn up today it would be
considered “the work of a lunatic en-
dowed with a private sense of humor.”
Machines in Vineyards
Machine-age methods are now used
in the large vineyards of northern
Africa, Whereas in former days the
spraying of the vines was done by
hand, great numbers of natives being
employed, each carrying on his back
a copper cylinder loaded with poison
ous dust, mechanical means are now
| coming to the front. Horses and
| mules, or motor trucks where the
| ground 1s favorable, carry a large
| metal apparatus which scatters pol-
| son by means of compressed air.
| This mechanization bas, it is said, in-
| creased the wine yleld per acre
| the outer one,
| she remembered the older ones bhe-
| cause she had known them longest
an English judge once declared that if |
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SEAWEED BOLSTERS-
UP GOULD FORTUNE
Iodine, Cow Food and Fertl-
Paris, France—Frank Jay Gould, |
selon of America’s multimillionaire |
family, having made money out of
Pyrenees dairy herds, chocolate, print |
paper, real estate developments, ho- |
tels along the French Riviera and |
| from the green-top tables, where bac-
| carat shoes clog gayly day and night,
has now turned to seaweed to further
bolster his fortune.
Simple, unadulterated seaweed, the
| kind that winds around your neck
when you dive too deep, hitherto al- |
| lowed to rot along the beaches, will
be converted Into gold dust, theoreti
cally, by the Gould process,
The waters along the Brittany coast |
where Gould owns a respectable num- |
ber of sea-front acres, abounds with
seaweed of a certaln quality, which is
called by the sturdy Bretons “goe |
mon.”
This sea wrack when burned and |
treated by a special process furnishes
fodine. It can also be treated to make
| a very tasty cow food. It can also
| undergo a certain drying process and |
become the finest kind of fertilizer
for the worn-out lands upon which
vines grow. Sea wrack is said to give
| an fodine flavor to certain wines,
All those processes will ve uscd by
| Gould In making his gold from sen- |
| weed, and In addition, in view of |
the medical qualities of the lodine- |
producing weed, Gould plans to build |
| the first iodine swimming pool in the |
| world for persons needing such medi- |
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cal treatment.
At Granville, In Brittany, he Is
| puilding a great pool along the ocean,
which will be filled half-and-half with
seaweed and sea water,
Pittsburgh Population |
Is Outweighed by Soot
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Approximately 107,
272,000 pounds of soot—an amount |
probably greater than the weight of |
the entire population of Pittsburgh— |
falls within the city limits during n
year, It has been estimated.
The soot falls at an average rate
of 986.5 tons per square mile each |
year, according to H. B. Meller, head |
of the bureau of smoke regulation,
This 18 an average of 157 pounds
tor each resident of Pittsburgh, it
was estimated, with the total prob-
ably exceeding the total weight of the
population of about 700,000.
Comparative charts show a do |
crease of about 50 per cent in the
sootfall in the downtown district In
the past eight years which was nt-
tributed to use of central heating
plants instead of a large number of |
individual furnaces,
The 1920-30 survey shows thaw
less soot fell than in 1928-24 when
the previous survey was made, but
| there still was more than in 1912-18, |
Special Vault Guards
Nation's Timepieces
Washington. — A special vault has
oeen built underground at the naval |
observatory here to house the clocks |
which keep the nation's time. i
It is a vault within a vault, The
mner vault is constructed of hol- |
low tile made so that hot water
can be run through it in order to
keep a standard temperature of 83
degrees. There is an 18-inch air
space between the Inner vault and
which Is constructed
of stone or cement. Both vaults are
placed below the frost line. |
By the time the new clock vaul |
Ss In operation the navy hopes to
have two more “Shortt” clocks, The
clocks now in use have been tell
ing the country what time it is for
the past 80 years, and while still in
good running order, will not suffer
from the augmentation of two new
clocks,
Children So Numerous
Mother Forgets Names
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The woman who
tives in a shoe had nothing on Mrs.
Alvina Reut of Brooklyn, N, Y,, who
had so many children she could not
name all of them.
When Surrogate George Wingate
asked her to name her 11 children, |
and the younger ones because they
had required the most attention re-
cently, but she could not remember
the names of the others until they
stood up and she saw them.
Cop Rides Through Town
With Snake About Neck
Monterey Park, Calif.—John Ost-
oleh, police captain and motor cycle
officer, gave townspeople a few uneasy
moments when he rode down the main
street with a five-foot snake coiled
around his neck. Ostoich explained
that he had been called by a woman
to come quickly and protect her from
| a big snake. He found the snake was
| harmless and conveyed it In the easl-
est manner to the hills and released it
Woman, Aged 87, Boasts
172 Living Descendants
Deep River, lIowa.~Mrs, Margaret
Kerkova, eighty-seven, claims 172 llv-
ing descendants. She has 63 grand-
children, 98 great-grandchildren. and
one great-great-grandchild. :
She Is the mother of eight living
children, She came to America in
a sailboat in 1855, and married at the
age of sixteem.
Passions of Statesmen
The startling declaration of Bob
Toombs, of Georgia, that he proposed
to call the roll of his slaves from the
base of Bunker Hill monument—this
in derision of the Massachusetts repre-
sentatives who were fighting the slav- |
ery, was made in congress when the
slavery question was incidentally
raised In the discussion of a measure
to pyrchase Cuba, writes J. H. Gal-
braith, Ohio historian. It was on Feb-
ruary 25, 1850, and Gen. I. B. Sher- |
wod, who told the story, said it was
the occasion of his first visit to Wash- |
ington. He was in the senate that
night and heard the sensational de-
bate. Over the thrilling memories of
four years later in the Civil war the
memory of what he saw that aight |
stood out clear and fresh to his last
lays.
Toombs supported the purchase bill
and made a vicious attack on Senator
Seward, who opposed it. Senator Ben-
jamin sald that unless the purchase
. was made, Spain would free her col- |
| ored slaves and there would be no
tropical fruits, as these could be raised
only by slave labor. Seward moved to
tack on the homestead bill as an |
amendment. That roused Toombs to
anger. That “land for the landless”
argument was a scheme of the dema-
gogues.
sald, “but I despise still more those
who are driven by demagogues."—De- |
troit News,
Medieval Dishes That
Called for Condiments
An important reason for the appar- |
| ent vast thirst of the English of me-
dieval times, Willam Edward Mead
explains, in his volume, “The English
Medieval Feast,” is found in the dishes
common to their tables, wherein con- |
diments and spices played a major
part. Loaded with pepper, cubebs,
mace, saffron, cloves, ginger, cinna-
mon, nutmeg, galingale, cummin, Ii-
corice, aniseed, and other tart Ingre-
dients, they were prone to inspire the
consumer to frequent draughts from
the ale keg or beer mug.
Here again the element of necessity
tered. For, the author points out, |
{ fashion had In reality little to do with |
the extensive use of these elements.
Our ancestors, he reminds us, had not
yet begun to breed beasts and poul- |
| try for the table, except that the value |
of the capon was remembered from
former days. Mutton was apt to be
stringy, beef tough ; and men made use
of food from sources that today would
be avoided with a shudder.
In the hope, then, of securing an
ald to digestion, as well as to disguise |
the exact nature of many dishes, the
spice box came frequently to hand
as the cook worked. For natural |
| crudeness cried aloud for mitigation,
even at the feasts where kings ate
crowned and bishops dined in cope
and miter,
Agreed at Last
“Sam, where have you been?”
“No place—just married.”
“Thas good.”
“Not so good, I'se stepdad to nine
kids.”
“Thas bad.”
“Not so bad.
money.”
“Thas good.”
“Not so good—held on it tight.”
“Thas bad.” -
“Not so bad—owns a big house.”
“Thas good.”
“Not so good—it burnt down last
olght.”
“Thas bad"
“Tain't so bad. She burned with
iH
“Thas good.”
“Yes, thas good.”
She's got plenty of
Backgammon in 3000 B. C.
The University of Pennsylvania mu-
seum has what is regarded as one of
the oldest dice in the world. The dice,
which is said to date from ahout 2750
! B. C., was found by Dr. E. A, Spelser
in excavations at Tepe Gawra, Meso-
potamia,
The dice is cubical in shape and f.
made of baked clay, The numbers
are arranged so that five opposes four |
and two opposes three on the cube.
The university museum has alo a
backgammon board among its collec-
tions which dates from about 3000 B,
C. It Is believed probable the dice
found at Tepe Gawra may have heen |
one of a pair used to play backgam-
mon.
Mustard
Mustard has many household uses.
Rub some dry mustard on your hands
after peeling onions, and then wash In |
the usual way. You will find that all
odor will be removed. Do the same
with the knife, although made mus-
tard is better thap dry for this pur-
pose. Place a little muslin bag con-
taining some dry mustard next to
fresh beets In the pantry. It will keep
the beets fresh for days, Mustard
freshly made will often remove ink |
stains. Spread thickly, leave for an |
hour, then sponge off.
Informal Greeting
Recently I attended a movie with |
my wife, who stood at one side In
the lobby while I bought the tickets.
Being in a hurry and having quite |
a lot of change to put in my pocket
I rushed up to “my wife” and ex.
claimed, “Here, hon, shake a leg and
help me out.”
Hearing a giggle I looked and saw
that “my wife” was a strange woman,
Needless to say I was in a greater
hurry than before.~—Chicago Tribune
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“I despise a demagogue,” he ||
WOMAN TELLS STORY OF
INDIAN HEAD ON CENT
Add to
bunkers,” Sarah Peck, 91-year-
old resident of Falls City, Neb.
For those Americans, who believe
the feather bedecked head, which
appears on the Indian penny, is
| that of some Indian, Mrs. Peck has
' this information.
The “chief” was not an Indian at
ali. The picture is that of a little
white girl, Mrs. Sarah Longacre
Keen, a distant relative of Mrs.
ur list of famous “de- | ployed
design for the new copper cent.
A number of Indians, with their
chief visited the mint. The chief
let the little girl wear his head-
gear. The effect was so striking:
that the father made a sketch, sub-
mitted it in the competition and
won the award.
——Read the Watchman and gek
all the news.
ment in the world’s progress.
again.
many centuries and, instead of ‘‘Capitalistic,’’ it should
be called ‘‘Individualistic.”’ )
of imagination, initiative and energy has been the vital ele-
T- PRESENT SYSTEM of doing business has endured for
At recurring periods doubts arise, confidence wanes, en-
terprise halts ; resulting in what we call hard times.
When these depressions come those who think that society
collectively could do better than the individual, clamor for a
change, declaring that the present system is a failure.
Experience has demonstrated that progress comes only
through the individual's desire to better his condition.
stroy this incentive, and progress stops.
Time will bring about a return of confidence, a resump-
tion of effort. History will repeat itself.
Last Summer, some people thought it never would rain
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
For individual effort of men
De-
Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
80 years in the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Crisp as a frosty morning.
a new hat peps up your appearance.
It’s time to chuck your straw.
like the new Fall styles we are showing—
Stetson, Mallory, and others.
Stetsons at $7.00 |
Mallorys at $5.00 |
Other Makes from $2.50 to $4.00 |
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The Lowest Prices in Over 10 Years
They are at, Fauble’s
Your Kind at. Your Prices |
It’s great how
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