THE PATTON COURIER BLEW OFF TODAY AT 120 DEGREES z | JEST CAME BACK FROM SAND PRAIRIE, AND TWO M Wuz INJURED IN TH' MELON PATCHES BY EXPLOPING WATER MELONS ~~ LIGHTS of NEW YORK By Walter Trumbull The Long Island home of a New York society woman is famous among her guests for the fact that all rooms are supplied with flowers from her garden and the manner in which they are arranged. There is a reason. At a certain fashionable resort hotel, some time ago, it was noticeable that one dining room table always had #ovelier flowers than any of the others, “This was peculiar, as the flowers came Zrom the hotel gardens and were al- dotted by the head waiter. A watch- man solved the mystery, when early one morning he discovered the waitress assigned to the table in question, in the garden picking the choicest blos- soms. She had formed the habit of getting up at sunrise, stealing out of the dormitory which housed the fe- amale heip and gathering the flowers she loved. The girl was discharged. “The Long Island woman, who was among tha hotel guests, happened to fear the story, seat for the girl, talked to her and hired her. Now the girl's «chief duties are to keep the rooms in the Long Island place bright with floral decoraticn. The girl originally came from a section of New York where the only flowers are puny speci- mens in the pots on fire escapes. * * * Almost every one has a favorite ame. Baseball, football, golf, chess, «checkers, cross-word puzzles, poker, anagrams, hearts, backgammon, and solitaire all have their devoted fol- fowers, but the hobby of William P. Carey, head of Madison Square Gar- den, is pinochje. This is the game he is never too busy to play. Once when Carey was building a railroad In South America, he took a man all the way to the Argentine with him, just s0 he would have a pinochle opponent on the boat. The other day, Carey and a friend had been playing pinochle at the Carey apartment so long that they felt it might be a good thing to get a little exercise by walking in Central park. The friend kept insist- ing that Carey had been exceedingly ducky. “Nothing of the sort,” said Carey. “That was skill, If we had a pinochle deck here I~ could beat you right now.” “We have,” said his friend. “I put a pack in my pocket.” So a couple of the best known men in New York picked out a nice spot on the park grass, sat down and com- menced to play pinochle. In a few minutes they were surrounded by a ring of interested spectators which bothered them not at all. The presi- dent of the garden vindicated himself by winning again. » » - Arthur Houghton, who has managed musical comedy troupes for Dillingham and Ziegfeld, had a new experience last season, He headed a company which was largely English and seven of the chorus men had hyphenated names, Houghton thinks the most un- usual name he ever encountered be- longed to a girl. She was programmed as Mwyafanwy Jenkins. - - - Apparently you don’t have to be mad at a person to throw acid at them. One of our city boys explained that he heaved acid on his sweetie, be- cause he was, infatuated with her. It probably was just an affectionate gesture, but the judge couldn't see it. The girl will get out before the boy does. - -. * A New York lawyer has employed in his household for several years a maid who was born abroad. Recently the domestic obtained a leave of ab- sence to go back to the old country and see her parents. She came to her employer with a diamond ring, which she said belonged to her, and asked him if he would have it appraised, as she might want to sell it to get more money for her trip. He agreed and put the ring in his pocket, The next day he looked for it and couldn’t find it. This worried him considerably; first because he had no idea of the ring's value, and secondly because he didn’t very well see how anybody ex- cept the maid herself, whom the fam. ily always had trusted implicitly, could have known he had the ring. After he had worried about the ring for a couple of days, the maid’s hon- esty was demonstrated. She brought him the ring for the second time, hav- ing found it in his handkerchief draw- er, where he hasn’t the faintest recol- lection of putting it. Now he is wor- rying about himself. * - * The English have their own fashion of pronouncing names. There is the famous Marjoribanks, pronounced Marshbanks, and Derby, pronounced Darby. The name of Evelyn Laye, star of “Bitter Sweet,” is pronounced Eve-lin Lay. Evelyn is a family name in England, but in that case it is pronounced Ev-lin, (©. 1930. Bell Syndicate.) 000000000000000000¢ 0000009 THE QUEER ONES By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. C0-0-00000000000000000000000 If things went on normally in every community and every one was regu- lar and conven- tional and fol- lowed custom, life would be duller than it is. It is the unusual that gives zest and color and in- terest to life, It gives one some- thing to talk about, it changes the dull monot- ony of a regular WE routine to have some one in the community who re- fuses to go the regular road which the crowd follows. We should have missed a good deal if we had not had Horton in our vil- lage. He ran the grocery store in town. Long after every merchant was delivering his merchandise by automobile Horton continued to drive his old piebald nag to & rickety deliv- ery wagon, He did not care for auto- mobiles. He did the delivering him- self, sitting on the high seat of the cart as unrelaxed as a wooden Indian, his frock coat tails hanging over the back of the seat and his old “stove pipe” hat cocked at a perceptable angle on his gray head. He was a figure that no one ever forgot. He kept to his old ways and his old dress until the undertaker conveyed him to the cemetery, but as long as he lived he gave class to the town. They have automobiles and electric lights and furnaces and running wa- ter and radios and safety razors and telephones in most of the farm houses in the community in which I once lived—that is they all do but McGin- nis. He lets his whiskers grow, he rides to town still in a glittering sur- rey behind a span of spirited horses. He wouldn’t trade a good horse for the best automobile he ever set eyes on. He is the richest man in the com- munity who could have everything he wants, but the facts are he wants nothing modern. The old ways are good enough for him. He has no use for! a telephone and the radio drives him crazy. He carries all the water NEW ZEALAND CHAMP, - Gordon Bridson, outstanding swims- ming champ of New Zealand, who will be a member of the team representing the dominion at the empire games in Canada. Bridson holds the New Zealand swimming championships for all distances from 100 yards to one mile, he uses from a spring a hundred yards or so from the house. Why dig a well or put in a force pump? He still clings to the old base thinks a kerosene lamp qaite good enough for any of his purposes. He is just a freak, the neighbors say, but it is immensely interesting to see, in a community where every one else is crazy to get some place else in a hurry, one man who is satisfied to go slowly and contented with the same conveniences as his grandfather had. Mrs. Clester, who leads the social procession in the town, like Queen Mary, has never followed the styles as reproduced in the pages of the fashion magazines. She sets her own, She has never fallen for short skirts or the uneven hemline or bobbed hair or even silk stockings. Lisle thread ones are good enough for her, and she still wears these big wide brimmed floppy hats covered with waving feathers and flowers. But she attracts attention when she walks down the street. ’ They have courage these queer ones. They help to stabilize custom and to keep the radicals from going wild over social and sartorial novel- ties. More power to them. (©, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) Love Found Way to Beat Will San Francisco.—So she took the $160,000 and remarried her divorced husband. As a denoument to the spectacular affairs of Dr. and Mrs. Roderic O’Con- nor of Oakland, the divorced couple re-entered the marital state in Reno, The prominent Oakland physician was divorced by his wife, the former Gertrude Gould, last December, in Reno. She charged him with fault finding and nagging. In Januage Meg O'Connor appeared in Superior conrina asked that the “divorce clause’ will be fulfilled. This will made by the late Charles B. Gould, former president of the Cali- fornia fish and game commission, pro- vided that his daughter should receive in her father’s United States Claims Polar Lands Washington.—The United States is planning to lay claim not oniy to the 3ryd discoveries in the Antarctic but to various islands in the Arctic and to establish ownership to some fifty islands in the Caribbean and the South seas, With Her Diploma Safeguarded EL AAS Sand This German shepherd dog, Alma, has completed a four months’ training course as a guide for the blind and is holding the diploma she received at the f.ighthouse, an institution for tle blind In New York city. While it was stated that the Arctic and Antarctic wastes are of little value or concern to the United States, this country would claim certain por- tions by right of discovery. Senator Tydings (D.) of Maryland has a reso- lution to this effect pending in the senate, Ahout the islands in the Caribbean little is known, and the State depart- ment is to name a commission to make a study to establish ownership. Some of them are inhabited and of considerable value as coaling bases. Others are barren and little more than coral reefs. There are also is- lands in the South sea group which American mariners of former days laid claim to, but which have never been placed under the American flag. An interesting instance is the Island of Roncador, off the coast of Colom bia. Two years ago it was discovered Chicago Weman to Boss Far North Trading Post Man. — Agnes Powers, college - trained reporter Winnipeg, twenty-five-year - old Chicago woman and former in Des Moines, Iowa, has gone through here on her way to Mile 214 on the Hudson Bay railway, frontier rail line being built by the Canadian National railways from the Pas to Churchill at tidewater close to the Arctic circle. Miss Powers, who has been a school teacher and stenographer, will take charge of a trading post at Mile 214, Later in the summer she will go out on a prospecting expedition, also HHH HHH HH HH HHH) POTPOURRI 3 HHH HHH HHH WH Beef Cuts mn : Po you know how mavy “cuts” there are in a beef after it has been slaughtered and dressed? Fifteen. They are: neck, chuck, ribs, shoulder, fore shank, bris- ket, cross ribs, plate, navel, loin, rump, round, second cut round, hind shank. From the Jible we learn beef was eaten before the days of Abraham. (©. 1930 Western Newspaper Union.) flank, SHH HHH HHH HOH RHE that the United States was the right- ful owner. It developed, however, that it was populated almost entirely by Colombians. Although the United States established its ownership, Co- lombia was permitted under a treaty to retain its trading station there and the United States limited its rights to erecting a lighthouse for the safety of navigation. There are several such islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic adjacent to the entrance of the Panama canal and the entrance of the proposed Nicaraguan canal, which later may be- come of great strategic value. The United States archives, it was stated, contain many claims of discov- eries, and they are to be carefully studied with a view to flying the American flag over any which may be desirable, only the income from a $160,000 trust fund. If she were widowed or divorced, hwever, she was to receive the $160,- 000 principal immediately. She got the money by order of Superior Judge Lincoln S. Church. Shortly thereafter persistent ru- mors were current among friends of the couple that they were shortly to remarry. that they were *‘close friends” but no more. The wedding ceremony recently was performed by Rev. Brewster Adams, leno Baptist minister. The couple have one daugnter, who inherited $20,000 from Gould's estate, Dream Restores Hearing to North Carolina Man Goldsboro, N. C.—A Goldsboro man who lost his hearing in an accident six years ago regained it through a “dream” aceident, The man jumped out of bed, dreaming he was in an accident, and hit his head against a rocking chair, The second injury re- stored his hearing. An interesting pas- time is to be curious about tomorrow; Yea, to be curious about the next hour. What will happen at that time? The Political Back Seat Driver WoT 30 Pes nt 1a7e! burner and | | Reinforcements Both denied this, admitting | SECON COCO COE % Youth Takes 11,000 Volts; Still Lives Tremonton, Utah,—A ten-year- old boy here had something even better than an operation to tell his playmates about when he emerged with his life after an encounter with 11,000 volts of electricity, He was forced to re- main in bed and receive treat- ment for severe burns, but he was proud to know that he had been touched by four times the amount of electricity used to ex- ecute criminals, and had been able to crawl to a house unaided. Dean Yoder was a hero to his playmates after his experience. The youth was playing on the roof of a barn near his home. He slipped, threw his arms ap to regain his balance, and his arm hit a wire carrying 11,000 volts of electricity. The shock hurled him off the barn, to the roof of a slanting shed, and to the ground. He immediately started crawling to the back door of a neighbor. . Physicians and officials fa- ‘» miliar with the effects of electric shocks were of the opinion that the fall from the barn acted as a comnter shock. They could think of no other factor that en- tered to save the boy's life, * K¥ SELES EESTI SCNT C CTS ENN COCO S CONN o. BANDIT BEATS ROPE BY SHOOTING SELF Cornered by Armed Men, He Cheats the Hangman. Rome.—Cornered by carabineers and militia and determined to cheat the | hangman, Celio Pace, an Italian mur- | derer and bandit with a black record. | committed suicide in full sight of the armed men sent out to capture him. Pace had squandered the riches of his family, robbed his rather and | killed him, and tried to kill his sister. | A marked man, an outlaw, he fled { to the mountains in Trento, northern | Italy, where, hunted like the animal | that he was, he lived like a dog in in- | 3 . | accessible caves, which were strong- holds of the Italian army during the war. For many weeks he escaped justice, but at last he realized that his moun- tain fastness had been penetrated by carabineers and militia. Undaunted still, he sought refuge in a cavern Situated on a mountain top, below which yawned a great preci- pice, 1,000 feet deep. however, and machine guns were | trained on the murderer's cave, leav- | ing him no loophole of escape. were brought ap, | But Celio Pace scoffed at death and | | defied the hangman to the last, | | | He left his lair and climbed a moun- | | tain ridge, where in full view of his | besiegers he put a bullet through his gesture of scorn, | heart and, with a plunged headlong to his doom in the depths of the abyss. | Feline Heroine Braves Winnipeg.—Winnipeg tiremen | fought the spectacular blaze in the | Thorkellson box factory recently tell | a stirring story of a feline heroine | which braved flames and smoke four times to rescue her kittens from their | home in one of the burning lumber | piles. The mother cat was first noticed by the fire fighters when the lumber pile in which she lived was a mass of flames. Appearing to be in great | distress, she meowed and raced back- | wards and forwards from the fire. The firemen tried to save her, think- and did safety. The cat refused to be caught, how- ever. and a moment later was seen com- ing out with a kitten in her mouth. She scurried across a field, but was | back again in a few seconds without the kitten. Four times tabby made the perilous trip. Her fur was singed, but she saved all her offspring, | | smoke is not known, for a search for her new home was unavailing. Two Tragedies Orphan Virginia Girl and Boy Richmond, Va.—Two tragedies with- in a year have deprived Doris and Monroe Reece, Caroline County (Va.) children, of both mother and father. HURRY ow vo THE £65 ¢ a saw mill operator, several days ago c SURE in 8 mill accid nt near Wright's Fork, °T Cas Se followed the burning of Mrs. Reece y about 12 months ago. 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Ano five minutes lost before hang up the receiver. Junior came clatterin reddened by play, a long s one chapped paw. He sr “Gee, mother! Ain't ready?” he asked disap] “It'll be ready very stairs and wash. And p ment on your hand. It's “Aw, that ain't nothing got me in a scissors h thundered up the polis] the bathroom. Sally was staring int Leftovers again, cold warmed potatoes, stale heelg clicked like castane tbout assembling the ma The door opened. *I looked in at his busy w fix any grub for me,” he ‘I'm going out to a swel looked up in consternati boss’ birthday,” went or boys are making a little got just time to shave a clean collar before Ed after me. Ed's got a ne: ran whistling upstairs. Sally stood motionless the wall. There was sounds of scuffling above appeared, grinning. But Ished at the sight of the ful of potatoes which his hashing. “Thought you said we have hot biscuit and hone bled. “Junior! If you say a about what I've fixed for you can go to bed just you've swallowed you snapped Sally. Junior tugged at a lock dark hair. When mother spots in her cheeks you’ out. Warmed-up potatoes Hank said they were go baked beans and hot corn house! Tom ran downstairs, c en, fresh as to neckwea horn tooted outside. He | and hat and was gone. Dinner was on the t: sat down with his mother the potato gingerly. “Si he remarked in exactly th his father often used. S CUP PV VV VV VV OVI OV VV VV. ¥ + lip. In her haste and dis she had salted the food f{ rushed to her eyes. But let the boy see her cry. At eight Junior retired. let herself go. She crun the sofa and sobbed int She had tried to plan everything had hindered. ly composed schedule h pieces through outside {i Aunt Ellen with a dress help with, a committee mn ers, telephone, trouble w which had necessitated plumber, some mending t be put off another minute ways that way lately, i might she couldn't make and her time agree. An e ency shelf and the fact ths been able to get to marke resulted in a hurried mea Tom. Tom had forgotten was. For the first time 1; years of their married failed to make her a lit kiss her, say the few wo sured her of his love and She still treasured a box held chocolates, his first gift. They were poor then ware well off, with their and a nice bit saved tow education. She remembe now how Tom had said th: derful day of their marr ever they forgot such imp as birthdays and anni would mean that all the r gone out of their union. S so sure they would never he had, and it could mes thing. The telephone rang. Si up from the sofa, blew he tried to speak naturally. Keene, Didn't Sally keep | order? Well, then, would look at the time? It was and she had promised t promptly at eight to fill ou Sally's stammered excuse impression on the angry w Keene hung up on her. Behind Sally the door or Ellen again, looking a with breaths of black cre over her arms. “This collar doesn't set way you fixed it, Sally,” said. “I wish you'd take the first place. Goodness n crying?” “I guess I've got a cold ¢ “No such thing. You'r
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