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Show THF PAYSON POTOMAC RIVER IN HISTORY Intermcuntsisi Briefly rmmMfl.F. PAYSON. rTAIj To Be Formal Gown Must Be Long fisws By CIIERIE NICHOLAS Headers Told for Busv nm RECEIVE Cl r WATER DEVI LOIMLNT IIHWY Hie: I.OS E H'UiTS U Til HUE I L.V I HIES COWS ON PA ST Up p vm SHOULDHm, p 'ATEI.T.i ID. Fifty feder!! w ill ho af-bal employ s in the icy furlough ffiun riM.m! by the l.i t emigre.-- ;. Those are employed in tbe Iist-offna rt Uielit, prohibition b. illogiand irrigation cal flinty and railway men. m . WiUInCt ? -- arf.-'-oi- By IVAN MrKEimp lou Sric,. -, l 'VNU n (h-- ; po-l-- il l$jsTOf 7,5-- Canoeing rrMar'l Ly National WHILE i. C.) A. Investigation of OAKLEY, of the umloveii d water this section will lie conducted by the reclamation dt partinem, accord- on the Potomac River. Owotfraphlc Society, WNU rvi Washington has been to many thousands of during the of tin; George Washing-tot- i bicentennial, tlie historic Ioto-mariver, gateway to the National Cajiitul from the sou, also has enc joyed the spotlight. Interest In the Potomac Is on the march Instantly one realizes that It Is the river of Washington; of Washington the man, the greatest figure of our national history, and of Washington tlie city, the capital of the nation, the focus of our national administration, and tlie dty of our history In the making. and our Interest Is accelerated as e realize that tlie old river presents other great names of celebrities who Mvt-on the plantations along Its Fiores: the Lords Baltimore, who planted the first settlement of Maryland, near the river's mouth; the Calverts, the Lees, the Carters, the Hansons, the Stones, the Fltzhughs, the Masons, the Mercers and the Fairfaxes. There seem to be several Ioto-nme- s. There Is freshwater and there is tidewater Potomac. The former is all thut water coming down from the mountains and over the falls above Washington city. That river Is soon lost In the brine of tidewater Potomac, which extends from the point of mingling to the mouth of the river, at Chesapeake hay. Here strong tides rise and full, sometimes three feet above the wharves of Washington. Here, too, the water Is briny. It Is so Impregnated with the salt of the sea that, even at the head of tidewater, steamer euptulns dare not Introduce It Into the boilers of their ships. This briny reaeh Is really not a river; it Is an arm of the Chesapeake. Then there Is tlie surface Potomac and a secret river hidden In Its depths. The surface waters express themselves In broad readies between banks of engaging loveliness. They ary In width from one to seven miles. The hidden river Is often only a few hundred feet wide, and unseen it serpentines Its wny hack and forth from one shore to the other In a way that teases and often wrecks the InIt Is called experienced mariner. ves"the channel. Up It ocean-goinsels of considerable size come to the docks of Washington dty. How to See the River. It is In Tidewater Potoiuac that one finds the river of the greater Interest, the Potomac of history, of the landings, of the old plantations, of the celebrities who have made It one of the most distinguished rivers In America. Curiously, the better way to see this river Is not to start where It appears to begin, and so float down on Its currents to where It ends In merging with the bay; but rather to start where It ends and be carried up by Its tides and by that Interesting tide of Its history which entered here, at Its mouth, three hundred years ago. The story of this trip up the broad readies of Tblewuter Potomac Is actually a coiiqKisite of many trips, by many kinds of laud and water craft, but here, for brevity's sake, reduced to Its simplest terms without the Inconvenience of delays, whether of boat schedules or motor trails, without the disappointments of weather or of the many futile side trips which anyone must make In order to find out where are the points of genuine Interest and how to reach them. Approaching the mouth of the river, one speculates on such questions as, who was the first white man who ever came Into It, where did the river get its name, and where In It Is the dividing line between Maryland and Virginia? The last question troubled the dwellers on both shores for more than Then, In 1877, a commis250 years. sion of arbitration finally placed the waters of the river wholly within the boundary of Maryland. The name Potomac Is Indian. The first explorers found a tribe of that name living on the rivers shores; but one cannot be quite sure whether the tribe took Its name from the river or the river took its name from It Is now generally acthe tribe. Potomac Is the Indian thRt cepted word for Traders; hence the Potomac river means the River of the g Traders. Inis boon given to tlie claim that Spanish explorers, known to have coi.ie into tlie Chesapeake between 1565 all'! 1570, sailed up the lotoiaac in far us (iccoquan. The eoutontion is based largely on tl:e appearance of tlie place named Axaean In tlie Spanish chronicles and its assumed identity with ir ing to word received here. It is that thiuiigh (level. quo nt of the Oakley prnj.i t sufficient water supplies rimy he epere-- to augment present sources during dry y. ars. The following are typical of this Home Study indent body. No. 6 is a go ting reporter ready to enter law school. No. 7 is a raesman of thirty-twyears recently made sa'es manager of a large organization, who with only hi3 high school background has pasture: For bluegruss. m the ordinary run of Chin ! four parts ground oats, and cottonseed meal by F weight ver pasture a good supplement Wt be made by J mixing equal new.-pape- o There is tietter evidence that an r.ngli.-d- i explorer tuny have been In the river before 15,V,, for Its exist-eneat least was known at that date, as revealed by a map published In London In thut year, on which Tidewater Potomac, though unnamed, was sketched In with recognizable lines. Put how did tlie map maker get his sketch at first hand, on a visit to tlie river, or at second hand, from description from the Indians? Sailing Into tlie mouth of the river, one Is reminded of tlie first white man definitely known to have sailed Into those waters. On the left, the south lip of the mouth of the Potomac, Is Smiths Point, named for the original authenticated white pioneer here, the gallant explorer, Capt. John Smith. Founding of Maryland. A few years after Smith, in 16.81, there came Into the river two other ships, the Ark anil the Hove, with Lord Paltimores colonists to found Maryland, on the north side of the Potomac. Even now one can feel these pioneers cautious apprehension In an unknown wilderness Inhabited by savages. They did not at first trust themselves to the mainland ; they sailed up tlie river for Ml miles, until they came to a small Island, now culled Plackistone island, where an attacking enemy might at least he seen. Here Lord Paltimore's brother, Leonard Calvert, left the Ark, and in tlie Hove and another boat, procured In Virginia, sailed up Into the narrower reaches, where, at PIscatHway, Just opposite the hilly banks where later rose Mount Vernon, he found the Indian emperor, with whom he wished to discuss a site for his colony's capital. Calvert found only Indians on the river. Their occasional towns were Indicated by the clearings In the forests, where they raised their corn and tobacco. In one such town dwelt those Potomac Indians who gave their name to tlie river or perhaps took it from the river. It is not known precisely what that Imperial party said to Calvert, but obviously It was something so poisonous that the newcomer couldn't settle far enough from that Indian. He returned to his ships and sailed them Into the last Inlet on the northern side of the river, Just ten miles above Its mouth. This beautiful body of water he called St. Marys IUver, and there he began to build his capital, which ha called St. Marys City. Within 35 years St. Marys City was laid out with streets and a square, and In addition to Its frame and log structures, It had more than (50 brick buildings, which Included the statehouse, the governor's mansion, churches, public offices, private dwellings, and commercial buildings. St. Marys Has Disappeared. Today not one of the buildings of old St. Marys survives. The visitor finds grain and tobacco fields, a few j green pastures, and a graveyard where the first Maryland lawmakers sat In the midst of the sprightly colonial life of their capital city. Where the plow has turned over the soil, or where a well or cellar has been dag. a few bricks have come to the surface, the only physical vestige of the brick capital of 3(H) years ago, j Those from Maryland's first state- house have been used In building lit- tie Trinity church on a part of the 6lte of the vanished city. Westmoreland county, Virginia, on the Potomac, has the distinction unrivaled by any other In America, for It was the birthplace of three Presidents of the United States the first, the fourth and the fifth George Washington, Janies Madison, and Janies Monroe. Here, In their many ramifications and over a period of more than 230 years, lived the great Carter, Lee and Washington families. Here, though few survive, were some of the finest mansions of colonial America. The distinction of social and Intellectual j life in Westmoreland before the Revolution earned it the title of Athens of Virginia. Every ship toils its bell ns it passes the Mount Vernon mansion with the eight slender columns, snr- rounded by Its village of minor do- mestie buildings, high on the Virginia hank, for It Is the home and last rest- Ing place of George Washington, his and our Mount Vernon. e j j j , Who First Entered It? Who was the first wldte man to en-tthe river Is a question less easily At one time a claim was answered. set up, based on "a runic Inscription" said to have been found below the falls, for an Icelandic widow buried Itather more credence here In 1051. E., 8., therL T p-- ,,r ., , reeding grain to media producing covv8 on Increase milk yields. J.U ,n lng pasture with numbered that tein in the grain ration neeXit Shine as for winter 11 V' . ' ' ' taken course after course in Home Study. Ho has all the appearance of a college graduate anil successful busino-'- s man. No. 8, a third grade teacher in Texas, fifty-tw- o years old, taking a course to get new and bptter methods in primary reading. No. 9 is a prisoner in the State Penitentiary doing work in Philosophy and writing that would put many a college graduate to shame. Courses are offered in regular University work, in high school work and in general cultural fields. All the efforts of the Home Study Department are centered In this one aim to reach the largest possible number of adults that they may become and continue to be educated men and women. TAItK CITY, UT. Officials of the Fnrk Utah Ontario Mines company estimate that $100,000 damage had been Incurred by fire which overran the workings of Ontario No. 8 mine. Although firemen were able to keep the blaze from seriously damaging the underground timbering, the hoist, carpenter shop, stable and one residence were destroyed. LOGAN, UT. Cache county Is showing the greatest drop In assessed valuation of motor vehicles of any district In the state In 1932, according to figures released by the state tax commission. From an average valuation per machine In 1931 of $218.61 the figures dropped In 1932 to 111. 79, a decrease of nearly fifty per cent. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. Larry Williams, 26, colored resident and part-timcoal miner of Dines, a suburb of Rock Springs, died after being shot three times by his colored companion, Alex Johnson, In an alleged street brawl started by a dispute over the wet and dry situation. e LOGAN, UT. September 26 has been set as the opening day of the fall quarter at the U. S. A. C. The buildings at the college are being renovated and repaired. Tlie main building has been wired throughout and all wires placed In conduits to make the building f In this respect. UT. In view of the OGDEN, fact that the Ogden Community Service may not be able to function this coming fall and winter, Mayor Ora Bundy is advising families of the unemployed to go to the farms in the county and secure products which have been offered free. SHELLEY, IDA. Officials of the Utah-IdahSugar company announced that the companys factory here, Idle last year, will operate this fall. Employment of 290 men and women for 60 to 90 days Is anticipated, wilh a payroll of between $75,000 and $100, on. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. An Investigation Into the dynamite blast which killed Rcbert Cornwell. Swan Valley, has been demanded by Cornwells relatives. A. V. Cornwell, a brother of Chicago, said he was not satisfied with the coroners finding that Robert was killed while attempting to dynamite a log jam In the Snake river. ROCK STRINGS, WYO. Tlie upper Own river valley of Wyoming has a bumper hay crop, said to Ik the heaviest In Its history. Indications are there will be an abundance of forage for winter. TOOELE, UT. Fearing funds might be insufficient to operate Tooele county schools this year for the full nine mouths, the board of education bas decided not to open school this year until September 19th, to allow more time to help In fall harvesting. fire-proo- g RICHFIELD, UT. Tlie state Elislnore and highway between Richfield will be oiled and resnnded by state road commission crews. The work Is a continuation of the genernl nmlnfenence work started last month below Kanab. BEAVER, UT. Word has hen received here that a Ramhoulllct sheep show will be hold In pa rowan during the month, under the direction of the outhorn Utah Ramhoulllct Sheep Breeders' M or So "tried on" the looked m on Alfalfa, soybeans, sweet clover, sudan grass, oats and peaa, second-growtclover are excellent then frocks and with uniiise at ourselves h emergency pasture crops. Silage it another very desirable succulent feed to supplant pasture. in the lnliror? Made in almost hold our breath at the transformation Research Has Put End to Dreaded Milk Fever they wrought In add lug to our dignity am our stature. W e 1, fashion must have liked the idea, at least when we're formal, for all our smartest evening gowns designed for the now are like t lint. It s umuzing I require some kind of suppletQW? pasture crop during dry periods. cial crops may be grown for web ture shortages, but compared with a. standard farm crops they usually k volve added expense and added E H way a season ago. when we long-lon- parts Er"a li how "divinely tali' skirts these snug' ait their floor length with hemlines uiaki us look. Tlien, too, when It comes to formality it's the length of tlie skirt which determines how formal six inches from the floor, says Paris, for nf'ernoon, while for evening the tieni line drops to the floor and for ver most formal it takes on a bit of a train. Tlie trio of do luxe gowns in the picture nm only demonstrate the efficacy of length in achieving formality ami stressing the coveted silhouette. Ini' they also toil a fascinating story in regard to the handsome and varied materials which go to make up tin best bioking dine, dance and other wise festive gowns. Also the continued stellar role which cunning colorful el vet wraps are playing uninistakahlv registers In this group of summer evening modes. Tlie thrill which the gown to the right and the one in the center imparts Is that each Is fashioned of pique This matter of silk pique for the evening gown Is a new chapter being writ ten Into the pages of fashion history by leading French couturiers. Note the bias cut of the skirt gracing the center figure and how snugly It clings to the hips points which are outstand PATENT LEATHER LEADS FOR FALL ing in the newer silhouette, Tlie flare which releases about tlie knees also Is according to tlie trend of lately acTlie short transparlines.' cepted ent velvet evening wrap trimmed with white fox Is one of tlie most attractive types brought out this season. Tlie white pique dress to right with broad belt of lacquered red straw (very new) may be worn correctly either for afternoon or evening. That adornhle jncquelte which sets it off" is made of transparent velvet, tlie exact red of the belt. Tlie hat lias a bit of Irish crochet lace for its trim together with a diminutive black bow by way of con Tlie entire costume carries trast. that quaint air about it which is so characteristic of many of tlie more recent fashions. It's the utmost simplicity ot this season's lace gowns which give them Indescribable charm, and the lovely dress pictured to tlie left proves ttiis to lie so. Again In fills exquisite frock of peau d'ange tace. whose color Is powder blue, we see artfully molded hiplines contrasting a graceful flare about the knees. The The length mildly suggests a train. soft silken flowers are in three similes of Patou blue. With this most winsome lace gown milady wears a smartly simple slip-owrap made of sheer velvet in a beguiling new blue. Its kinmnn sleeves claim attention, for they interpret a new and rapidly becoming popular movement. . 1932. Western Newspaper Union.) CONTRASTING TOP Bt CIIKRIB NICHOLAS In the battle for supremacy in fall footwear, patent leather has again won out. according to tlie findings of the shoe and leather style conference held recently In New York. As a matter of fact, patent leather hasrNen to unprecedented heights since last fall when it was announced as a Tlie Paris stamp of spring winner. approval, coupled with tlie vogue for black slioes has had much to do with tlie present status of patent let her. It affords that dressier black shoe to take tlie place of colored or colored trim siloes when accessories mulched the costume. With the vogue for black shoes, accessories harmonize rather than match. While sandals arc the outstanding models for summer, fall shoes will turn to oxfords, step-inand pumps, witli stitchings. perforations, and some openwork, ('onsiderable patent and suede in rombination is predicted. Lizard and alligator In combination with patent again shows signs of creeping in. With the vogue for patent leather trims and accessories, hat bands, hand bags, belts, shoes and even gloves, in trodiieed this spring, and fashion pre. dictions running true to form, miladv will fairly scintilate from top to toe. The remedy Is exceedingly simple and very effective and the Missouri authorities claim that it never Interferes with the milk flow of the Agriculturist. Keep the Good Cows Of course we want to advise the elimination of the scrub cow and of the aged cow; but It does not follow that there Isn't a good opportunity feeright now for the fanner keeping, ding and milking his good cows. Those of us who know how difficult when It Is to avoid bringing In disease cows, new and out buy we have to go aI think will agree that it is good on to dvice to urge the farmer to hold beall the good cows he has, breed produce and feed liberally, tter ones, good quality milk and cream. .or We are stimulating a demand of mi very much larger quantities In W cream, butter, and cheese and,continue will estimation, we probably ft DAIRY NOTES bnffia1 Succulent feeds have a o tract feet upon the digestive COW. t ' he CP Milk and cream should milking soon ns possible after arating. Members of 71 ment associations sold offi unprofitable in tests during of water daily, nd cows need even moret - - . a associations Herds In testing tImP years show three con f ttie m thr crease In butterfat for oW as those that tested years. Velvet Now Being Used for Hats and Turbans Blouse Dark blue percale with sim.'.l vvi.'t,. dots goes o make one (pe bh'Uees to be with w.th a navy blue suit or separate skirt Tlie new method consists In injecgluconate Into the blood of a cow affected with milk fever. The disease, it has been demonstrated, ii caused by a lack of calcium in the blond and this is supplied by the calcium gluconate so rapidly that a cow suffering with milk fever will recover In from 15 to 20 minutes after treatment. ting calcium to get as satisfactory returns branc dairying as from any otherDepartment Frandsen. II. J. farming. of Dairy Industry, Massachusetts if rieultural College. s Now thut the heat of summer is in full blast women nre thinking about furs and wools and velvets. They nre not only thinking about velvet hats but nre wearing theni. Fn m b designers are using velvet for little turbans, small brimmed hats ami crowns of hats that have straw or other materials for brims. Milk fever is no longer a disease that need cause the dairyman serioaj loss, even though his cows may bt among the highest producers In tin land. After three years of research the Missouri experiment station has discovered a remedy for this disease. The new remedy Is superior to the air treatment which has been used for the last 25 years with fairly good result. There was, however, always more or less danger of Introducing infection into the udder by the air inflation method and of causing Inflammation that sometimes resulted in the loss of the udder and quite frequently caused i permanent reduction in the milk flow. ')WAv.'.vkw)'i.uMWMl In tile newer fashions the light top bodice continues to "carry on" In the advance fall showings a dress like Lie model pictured may be all of satin. black with white or tbe new extremely dark brown with pale beige. "r t I" all velvet, using pale blue, flesh pink or white or sheer for the draped yoke anil the sieves. Of course, other fabric may lo employed, but tbe P'M n ones are typical fer dressv after-h"owear. near-whit- s Lower butterfat fricC better c by keeping lntelligenf'.vlng them and - One hundred and state dairymen v pork thirty record club during tM tne , pure Xenia's Augustine v.,wl Tnrcor row In th tfc |