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Show ,1 a s outh Cache. Courier VOL. II. CUSS ED III COAT E Some two weeks ago at a Citizens a committee consisting of Jack Wright, John A. Israelsen and A. D. Allen were selected to get into shape, the long agitated movement of getting a cement sidewalk, curb and gutter on the south side of the Public Square. Meetings have since been held by the committee, the Board of Education, the Hyrum Irrigation Co. and the City officials. The Board of Education re ponded liberally to aid in the building of the cement walk, but could not do the curb, on account anything of it being out of their jurisdiction. The Irrigation Co. volunteered a liberal amount, the City officials likewise assumed a liberal responsibility in the matter. However as the matter now stands, and in view of the liberal reresponse made thus far, some money is till needed to complete the job. The committee has prevailed upon the 1st. Ward Geneological Committee to repeat their 7 big acts of Vaudeville at the Rex Theatre Thursday night are being April 6th. Committees organized to canvass the town, selling tickets for the performance. , Every parent in town should be more than interested in this move. Our children have been forced to travel this block during the winter and spring months ankle deep. Now is the opportune time to assist just a little in overcoming a bad condition on this street. The 1st Ward show is well worth the admission asked. Dont turn the committee down. The community as a whole should be just as broad-minde- d in the matter as the Board of Education, Hyrum City officals and the Irrigation Co. Club meeting, FISH & GAME LOOK! MIC Thursday, April 5th TO BE CONDUCT hO A very successful class in coat making was held at the court bouse in Logan, March 21st and 22nd, under the auspices of the Farm Bureau Anx-illiar- y. Those attending from Local No. 2 of Hyrum, were Mrs. C. F. Olsen, Mrs. Roy Baxter and Mrs. Hugh Foster. The people of Hyrum do not real, ize how fortunate they are in having in their town an expert such as Mrs. C. F. Olsen, in the tailoring line. Mrs. Olsen is the county clothing leader and goes to all towns giving help and instructions in Next Thursday at 1 p. m. a spring coat making class will be held at the stake house. Machines will be provided and anyone contemplating the making of a spring coat will be delighted with results when she learns how to put in a tailored pocket, make the lapels roll, the collar stand up in the back, and all the little Knocks that make a tailored garment. Anyone is invited whether member of the Farm Bureau or not. Mrs. Foster and Vesta Allen conducted a class last year in Local No. 1 and it resulted in the making of 15 coats. Let us make a good showing, coat-makin- A FAREWELL g TESTIMONIAL FOR ALLEEN NIELSEN A farewell testimonial will be leld in honor of sister Alleen Niel- ASSN HOLD EIK FEAST sen who is called to fill a mission in the California field, at the 3rd ' Ward chapel, Friday, April 13th. The Hyrum Fish and Game Assn lancing will be enjoyed after the lived up to the expectations of the rendering of the following program: community last Thurs. night, when Congregational Singing. 100 loyal sportsman partook of the Prayer- elk banquet at the High School CafeSolo, Lenard Larsen- teria. The officials of the organizatReading, Member of Mr. Porters ion are to be complimented on the Class- efficent manner in which they handled Piano solo, Elva Parker. the affair from beginning to end. Duet, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R, following the banquet the Parker. crowd assembled to the picture show Farewell Address. where a room, Saxaphone Solo, Mr. Winn. spicy program was carried out, after which a picture was Male quartette, 1st. Ward. shown on Utah's, resources as a FishResponse, Missionary. erman's and Hunters Paradise. State Let us honor the call for missionGame Warden .Aurthur Mecham, ary support. Everbody invited. Local Warden Ted Seeholser and Mr. Johnson Supt. of the Logan Hatchery, were guests of the local organization. The Annual of Notice to Stockholder the Hy Meeting rum Amusement Co. will be held Tuesday April ,3. 1928 at 2:30 SPECIAL WED. NIGHT oclock p. m. at the Elite Hall. The purpose pf the meeting will SHOWS AT REX THEATRE be to elect five directors and transact any other business that may properly come before the One for 25c. or two for 26c. is the H. R. Admas meeting. new order of business at the ticket window of the Rex Theatre on Wed nesday nights. Mr. West has booked for his Wednesday night shows some, of the best pictures obtainable. The comedy features for these Wed. night shows, are some of the cleverest that are made by the Pathe Co. The local show house has survived the lean winter months and will continue with the best line of pictures shown. Wednesday night April 4th. Sally of the Sawdust will be shown, with such favorites as Carol and Dempster C. Fields playing the leading roles, new serial feature has also started on Wednesday night. Freaks An ambidextrous person Is one who can trim the nails on Stanford Chaparral. his right band. ad Secty Lewis of Salt Lake city, formerly of Logann, moved to Hyrum a few days ago and is employed by the Cache County Dry Farm Grape Growers Assn. Mr. W. A. The Sunday School of the 3rd, ward will present the Comedy A Cheerful Liar Drama Entitled Friday evening, April 6th. An exceptionally good cast has been selected and judging by the name of the play, something unusually good is going to be put over. We recommend that the community as a whole, support the 3rd ward Sunday School in this worthy REX THEATRE Cleverest Vaudeville on Record 7 Big Acts A Carnival of Fun Spasams of Laughter Karlhoffs Famous Ruskin Ballat Beautiful Dancing Wonderful Music Dont Miss It Volunteered by the 1st ward Geneological Committee, for benefit of Cement Walk on the South Side of the Public Square. Assist in Beautifying Public Square Old Paintings Throw Light on Indian Life Six paintings of American Indians made in the 1730s and forgotten for 200 years have been given to the world in reproduction for the first time in a publication, released from the Smithsonian institution. They are drawings of the life and culture of the Indians of Lower Louisiana made between the years 1732-3by A DeBatz, a Frenchman, presumably an architect or an engineer. The drawings are the earliest known to have been made in Lower Louisiana, and they are likewise believed to be the oldest pictures existing of members of the Acolapissa, Atakapa, Choctow, Fox, Illinois and Tunica tribes. The paper has turned yellow with age, but the colors remain clear and bright, and many details are shown with great exactness. The sketches yield an astonishing quantity of information on the clothing, habitations, temples, fighting activities, games and domestic animals of the Indians around the Mississippi. Though crude, they are very grapfcjc and prove DeBatz to have been a careful observer Interested in the customs of the Indians. 5, Men Like Coffee Beans? Life standardizes us. We are like so many coffee beans the same size, the same color, the same smell. Creatures of convention! The very buttons that hold our clothes together are sewed where they are by the dictates of convention. Every article of dress is prescribed by fashion and custom ; we eat what we do for the same reason, we get up in the morning, comb our hair, go to our offices, or cook breakfast, wash dishes, and perform the thousand and one things that make up our daily lives, because convention so decides. Some fortunate ones succeed in pursuing more or less independent existences, but the whole tendency of our American life is to make ns do the same thing, say" the same thing, and think the same thing. Charles G. Norris in Plain Talk Magazine. - Gas From Oil Wells Vapor that rise from oil wells and which has hitherto gone to waste is now being bottled and sold as fuel. This vapor is obtained from wells that are in production or from wells that have been pumped out, and burns with an odorless gas flame after It has gone through various processes. It is first refined and compressed until It becomes a liquid that reassumes Its gaseous form on being released from the steel bottles in which it is stored. These bottles are attached to heating appliances by pipes and tubes. When the valve of the jet is turned on the pressure of the gas forces it through an air mixer similar to that of any gas range. Confucius Great Sage The man whose memory has for 2,000 years aroused signal respect and honor In China was a sage, not a saint nor a founder of a religious Confucious took the best of faith. the various Chinese philosophers of his day and formed a cult of his own, using as a basis five cardinal virtues righteousness, knowledge,' sincerity, politeness and discrimination of good. The wisdom of the Chinese Solomon so delighted the people that temples were built in his honor, his wise sayings were widely quoted and came to be taught in the Chinese schools. The Hobo Instinct One of the primal instincts of man which refuses to be eradicated is the wandering urge. It originated, undoubtedly, from necessity. The need for changing hunting grounds and camp sites was always present in prehistoric and early historic times. Later when people settled down, founded towns, and agricultural districts became established, the necessity for this urge ceased to some extent The instinct of wishing to see new lands, however, has continued and undoubtedly that is one of the reasons for the present popularity of motor camping. Field and Stream Magazine. His Preference Just Another Container In Up bury, the of meeting lady, Mrs. the Years From Bloomsactor, George Arliss, tells in Boston a delighted old Bell, who was then eighty-four- . I met her at many gatherings. No dinner party in which she was included was ever dull. Sh generally kept everyone In peals of laughter and I never heard her repeat herself. She lived In a small house with a small back garden. For a time she kept a pig in the yard and when asked why on earth she kept It, she said: Well, we must have something to put things in. Going Too Far city magnate the other day summoned his manager. Look here, Robinson, said he. Youll ha've to talk to that new fellow, Jones, you took on as shorthand typist. Why, whats the matter with him? said Robinson. I know he stutters rather badly, but you said I said I didnt mind that, but look at this. The magnate held out a letter which read: In reference to yours of the eighth ult. Then he continued: Stuttering on the typewriter I simply wont stand. London Daily Chronicle. A A Scotch member of a golf course near London took a business friend for a days golfing. After the morn- ing round they lunched very sparinglj on biscuits and cheese. Man, cried the enthusiastic Scot as he gazed through an open window, this is m.v favorite course. Isnt it yours? Er not exactly, replied the starving guest. I should have preferred a London Angood steak and onions. swers. Finale The lecturer was emphasizing the I demoralizing effect of divorce. Love, he said, is a quest; a proposal, a request; the giving of a daughters hand in marriage, a bequest, and marriage itself the conquest. But what is divorce? Voice from the audience The Inquest. L 10 EXPERIMENT MADE M, Green of Menan, was a Hyrum visitor last week. While here Mr. Green rented the home of Geo. Lemon and bought ten acress of bench land from Alfred Fallows one acre of which he will plant to grapes. He will shortly move here to make his home. 23 ALF-ALE- A SEED IRRIGATION BE The data secured from experiments irrigation practices as related to alfalfa-seeporduction on the Uintah Basin Alfalfa Seed Experimental Farm during the season of 1927 appear to indicate that when the plants and irrigated either immediately before or after clipping, the yield of e were clipped while in the seed was greatly reduced. This is especially true of the case where the water was applied immediately after clipping. Water and clipping are both stimulants to vegetative growth ana result in the production of a good hay crop rather than seed.' The general opinion prevails among growers of alfalfa seed that the growth of the alfalfa plant must be retarded, if it is to produce seed abundantly. Usually, this suppression treatments. of growth may be obtained by withChildren six months of age are holding the irrigation water from the susceptible to Diphtheria. From 1 to fields or by limiting the amount ap3 years of age is the most susceptible plied to one or two very light appliage wrhen 90 per cent are subject to cations during the season. The highthe disease and more deaths occur est average yields were secured at this age. After 3 years the immun- from the plats receiving no irrigaity increases so. that only 15 per cent tion. The seed from these plats had a to 30 per cent of adults are subject high purity test; the shrinkage in to the disease. reclaiming was low, and the amount treat- of vegetative growth of the plants in Diphtheria ment consists of three injections, one proportion to the seed produced was ' week apart, under the skin of 15 drops only moderately heavy. In general, of serum. As a rule there is no after the crop obtained from the plats reeffects of the Injections. Immunity ceiving no irrigation was superior to jection. that obtained from any of those where develops some time after the last in- - water had been applied. It has neen made possible through When irrigation water was applied the Hyrum Health center that' the the previous fall or any time during s the children of Hyrum have the 3 growing season the average yield of for 50c. of seed produced was somewhat less About two years ago there was a than when no water had been applied. threatened epidemic of Diphtheria in The time of applying the water or the the county and many children in Hy- amount used did not appear to Influrum had one injection of antitoxin ence greatly the yield of seed, except which gave them immediate protec- when it was applied in connection tion for two or three weeks only. with cdlipping of the plants. In the Dr. Bair dwill be at the school latter case the yield was reduced house Tuesday, April 3rd at 1 p. m greatly. to give the 2nd injection of toxin antiThe application of irrigation water toxin. at the time the flowers were in full Those who wish to be innoculated bloom or when the pods were formand did not receive the first injec- ing did not cause stripping to a very tion last Wednesday, may do so Tues- marked degree, it may have prevented the formation of new flowers day afternoon. Since children are most or pods to some degree, as is shown susciptable to this disease you are by a lower average yield obtained urged to see that they receive the nom these plats as compared with Anti-ToxiToxin at this time. thoose receiving no water.. The flowers and pods, already formed at the time the water was applied, appeared to continue their development the same as if no water was applied. The TO ENACT AUTO REGISchanges produced only conspicuous by the water on these plats was the TRATION LAW growth of weeds and a second crop of alfalfa which continued green until harvest time. In the United States there were deaths from Diphtheria in 1926 which was very much less than in any previous year. By the employment of antitoxin the death ratp is said to have been reduced from 150 to 100,-00population in 1894 to only about 8 per 100,000 in 1925. In practically all parts of the country and especially in the large cities there have been campaigns put on and a good portion of children of school and preschool ages immunized In N. Y. City over one million children have been so treated and in two years the deatn3 from the disease were reduced form 1239 to 714. The Utah State Bard of Health has been fosteringv a campaign to have the children of Utah immunized. No serious results have resulted from the 75,000 in d 0 bud-stag- . Toxin-Antitoxi- Toxin-Antitoxi- n n pre-scho- n From investigation made by the Utah State Automobile association the most authoritative information OF TOURESIS TO shows that New York was the first state to enact an automobile registration law. The law calling for the VISIT UTAHS RESORTS registration of automobies in New York was enacted in 1901, and during that year less than one thousand autos were registered. During the past Salt. Lake City. Forty four million people, spending three and a half bilyear this number has increased to lion dollars, will take vacation motor Illiteracy is decreasing, according tours during 1928, according to estito government reports. Yet there mates received by the Utah State seem to be more motorists daily who Automobile association, from the A. cant read traffic signals and road A. A., which body prophecies that an unprecented share of this motor misigns. on traffic accidents gration will enter the intermountain Information received by the Utah State Auto asso- territory. The estimate is based upon ciation indicates that women drivers year and allowing for a normal have fewer accidents than do men detailed study of figures for the past drivers. In the District of Columbia growth of 10 per cent in 1928. it was found that of all persons Reports for 1927 show that 29,000,-00- 0 licensed to operate automobiles 85 per people in 7,250,000 cars patronize cent were men and 15 per cent women hotels and tourist homes. On this Of the 83 fatal accidents in the D. of basis the total of this class of motorC. in 1927. 91.6 per cent involved men ists should soar to 32,000,000 this diivers and 2.4 per cent women driv- year. ers. The drivers in 6 per cent of the Figuring four persons to a car, and unidentified. fatal accidents-werallowing each occupant an expendiIn California a study of 1,000 fatal ture oof 7.50 a day, for an average motor vehicle accidents showed that jeriod of 10 days, the army of moto.-istmen drivers were involved in 910 hotels and resorts patronizing cases and women in 46. 44 of the would spend nearly $2,500,000,000 in ' cases studied were cases 1928. so that the driver was not identified. More than 11,000,000 campers used The California traffic authorities esti- about 2,750,000 cars, including house mate that 20 per cent of those hold- cars fitted up for housekeeping and ing drivers license are women. On as trailers. This would justliy the estithis basis, women numbering only 5 mate that more tuan 12,000,000 of the auto drivers o the state were campers Will use over 3,000,000 cars involved in less than 5 percent of the to visit the great outdoors this year. fatal accidents. The camper spends three times as To the two sure things, death and long away from home as the hotel taxes, the modern day motorist adds tourist, and on a basis of $3.30 per day a third detours. will per person, $1,250,000,000 It is better to be careful 100 times be left alongnearly the gasoline trail by than to be killed once. Mark Twain. this class of motorist. s . 1-- Odd Phenomenon G- - UTAH HYRUM. SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH, Mar. 30. 1928. HOVEIIBIT A FOOT TO HYRUM JOHN A. ISRAELS' Ph P.O.Box 208 The phenomenon known as the Solway moss disaster occurred on November 13, 1771, In a district of Cumberland, northern England, bordering on. Scotland. A rank moss covering 40 acres, swelled under a heavy rainfall and rose to such a height above the level of the ground that at last It rolled forward like a torrent, sweeping before It houses and trees It destroyed. about 30 small villages. "Chew Well to See Well , Chew well if you would see well, urges Sir Arthur Keith, a great British anatomist. Decreased exercise of the Jaws, and not eye strain, is causing short sight, he claims. Diminished use of the Jaws in masticating the soft foods of modern diet, he asserts, is changing the shape of he face, lengthening the eye sockets, thus elongating the eyeballs and weakening vision. Popular Science Monthly. An Original Comic Opera, will be Presented Under Auspices of the South Cache High School Music Department Popular Prices at High School Auditorium, Tuesday, April 3rd Enlarged Orchestra. Tickets on Sale at Hyrum Drug Store. v |