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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH Perils and Thrills Faced in Postal Service Just Little Smi DISAPPEARING Adventures Are Not Confined to Air Mail Alone. TRICK At a party a necklace a woman was wearing was much admired. She took it off to show it better and It was passed from hand to hand. Later, It was not forthcoming. The Joke has gone far enough, said the host. Ill put this silver dish on the table, turn out the electric light, count one hundred, and expect to find the necklace on the dish when I turn up the light again. When he turned up the light the dish also had vanished! Ideal Neighbor Smith entered a big London store and made his way to the gardening I want three lawn department mowers, he said. The assistant stared hard at him. Three, sir? he echoed. You most have a very great estate. Nothing of the kind snapped Smith grimly. I have two neighbors. Pearsons Magazine. No Sense of Humor Weary Sam Alas, Dusty, what caused the family to throw you out on your ear and call the dog? Dusty Rhodes Alack, Sam, 1 scarcely know. I was to saw some wood in return for a pie, and when I asked the lady was it all right with her if I sawed the pie and ate the wood, all at once she seemed to get sore. Running Small Phil, who had a chest cold, was being properly doctored before going to bed. His mother put her ear to his chest and listened for a minute. After being very quiet, he asked : Am News. I running? Indianapolis AND NO LONGER Customer Would I get much wear In the window? Tailor We aim to make clothing that will last a customer until he saves enough money to buy another out of that suit suit Sadly Different Meaning "Yes, said the gloomy man, fore we were married she used to aay By by so sweetly when I left ner. Now Its Buy-buy- ! Ah," said his friend, she puts a different spell over you. Stray Stories. A Useful Drawback Shes a girl to have got a job in such a big shop, and she has such a squint too. plain-lookin- Yes, but g shes useful for keeping away shoplifters; they never know Dublin Opinwhere shes looking! ion. The Hussy See that girl over there? Sure very pretty girl." She takes rings from men she dont even know. You dont mean It! How shocking. Fact shes a telephone girl. Late Proposal Ive come," said the woman politician, to ask you to support me. Im sorry, miss, replied the man, but youre too late. Ive been married for years. Toronto Globe. Washington. A vivid picture of the dangers and thrills of flying the air mail has been impressed upon the American public during the past month. This picture Is only one of a long series Illustrating the history of the postal service. The winter struggle against storm and Ice, driving snow and weather Is shared alike by the mail pilot aloft, the Alaskan musher with his plodding dog team, and countless carriers on rural routes in western and middle-wester- n states, says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. In Alaska there Is as yet no federal air mall service. Through private enterprise some mall is carried by plane, but the winter service still relies mainly upon dogs and sleds. One of the longest dog mail routes Is e the run from Kotzbue to Point Barrow Uncle Sams northernmost post office. The mall team leaves Point Barrow early In November, as soon as there Is snow enough for travel, and is expected to complete the round trip of 1,300 miles by Christmas. So regular Is the arrival of the north-boun- d Christmas mail that it rarely disappoints the children of Point Barrow. Supply Own Dog Team. On one of the more southerly routes, from Nenana to Iditarod, a distance of about 350 miles, a weekly service Is maintained. For each round trip, requiring 35 days, the pay Is $864. Over 900 pounds of mail and supplies are carried, so the driver seldom has the luxury of riding. He must, of course, supply his own dog team, equipment, and food for the trip. Some of the most dangerous and difficult routes are much nearer home thaq the barren lands of Alaska. Records of the Post Office department shows one of the worst to be from Sandusky, Ohio, to the nearby islands in Lake Erie. Winter storms In this district are severe, and Ice conditions singularly treacherous. The best craft for the Job Is a combination sailboat, rowboat, ice yacht and sled. When water is open, or the Ice strong and smooth, the sail can be used, but more is often progress discouraging-dragg-ing slowly over rough ice cakes, or breaking Inch by inch through young ice. A similar route In Lake Michigan, known as Deaths Door, runs from Ellison bay to Detroit harbor, Wisconsin. Then there is the Idaho route from Rocky Bar to Atlanta. Carriers there make the winter trips on snow-shoepacking 50 pounds of mail. The smooth speed of city delivery Is in sharp contrast to these tales of persistent and courageous effort One of the most efficient systems is New York citys blow-gumail which handles half the letters received in the metropolis. Beneath the streets of Manhattan are 27 miles of parallel, pneumatic tubes. Through these tubes at Intervals of ten seconds, shoot carriers, each holding 400 letters, and traveling at a rate of 30 miles an hour. They are propelled by compressed air. Worlds Biggest Business. The United States postal service today Is the biggest business in the world, employing over 232,000 workers; but Its purpose has not changed since the days mail took six weeks when stage-coacto go from Boston to Philadelphia. An inspector, reporting on the efficiency of the colonial service at that time, remarked that the public good was the sole inducement for taking so much trouble as we do. When Benjamin Franklin was made deputy postmaster general, of the British colonies in 1753, conditions were promptly improved. Weekly trips between Philadelphia and Boston were started, the time was cut in half, and new routes were opened. The postage rate, however, remained high forty dollars ($40) for three letters from Falmouth, Maine, to Boston ! , In 1775 the continental congress appointed Franklin postmaster general of the thirteen American colonies. He had previously franked his letters Free. B. Franklin, but now he changed this to B. Free Franklin. Through the years following the Revolution the history of the Post followed closely the history of the pioneers. Less than 100 years ago there was still no overland mall to California. The Mormons in Utah had a messenger system of their own, and there were a few post offices like the one at Ash Creek, Neb. This was a trapper's cabin where letters were left to be carried on by the next sub-zer- o 650-mil- n h Farmer Find Mill After 150-Mi- le A REAL CHAMPION LIGHT RATES PROBE WILL SAVE FISH PROHIBITION QUESTION CATTLE SHOW PLAN PLAN CIVIC POOL would be picked up by some one returning eastward. With the excitement of the great gold rush in 1849 everything moved rapidly, Including the mail There was soon a regular service, run by Feramorz Little and his wagon train, between Fort Laramie, Wyo., and Salt Lake City.' Even as late as 1858, Fort Laramie was Denvers nearest post office, and the men who staked out claims near Pikes peak had to send 200 miles for news from home. In 1860 the daring riders of the Pony Express reduced the distance between San Francisco and St. Joseph, Mo., to the amazing time of eight days; and nine years later the silver spike was driven which completed the first transcontinental railroad." A novel Birmingham, England. method of curing children born with a squint has been adopted by a hospital. The patients are given a sort of stereoscope. A model is placed In each lens and the children have to place a loon in a cage, a baby in a bath or a sheep in the exact center of a field. The eyesight of hundreds of children have been cured in this way. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A report from Washington, D. C. announces that power and light rates in Salt Lake City and Utah will be Investigated by a federal power commission. BRIGHAM CITY, UT. City and state game officials are pondering the problem of how to save the thousands of fish which are killed annually when the large headgate at the intake of the city power dam In Box Elder canyon is cleaned, thousands of fish go through the screens and are ground up by the power wheels In the electric light plant In his hand a medal, emblematic of his new honor; In his pocket, a check for the sum of $1,000, and on his face a proper smile, Henry Picard, pro of Charleston, S. C., looks every Inch a champion. Henry had just showed the way to the countrys best pro and amateur golfers, with a score of 283, In the annual North and South Open Golf tournament at Pinehurst, N. Cl New Robot Sleuth May Read Human Mind Electric Device Will Open New Era, Scientists Say. hand, Oscar D. Werwath, president of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, said : This little instrument is capable of measuring ohm resistance with as wide a variation as 10,000 ohms. It can pick out a resistance of one of an ohm. This makes its practical application unlimited. He went on to say that each person is more or less magnetic. The brain especially, he said, is an enormous creator of electricity. Inasmuch as each particle is in itself a sort of electric Milwaukee. Inquisitive science has developed an electric detective that is so sensitive that after it has been studied for a while it will undoubtedly be able to tell you what you are thinking about It was designed to tel) the resistance of matter under observation to an electric current It Is what Is known as the' Wheatstone bridge, and several of the devices are in use in Milwaukee cell. now. Marquette university has them Why," he said, it might be possible in the physiology department and in with such a delicate device, after years the college of engineering. The colof research, to be able to read a perlege of engineering uses them in Its sons mind, through the amount of electrical classes. current that one can send off In the The United States bureau of fishprocess of thinking. eries at Gloucester, Mass., has been able to tell, with this device, just how fresh a fresh fish really Is. It can Night Motor Racing Is be used to determine spurious coins Growing in Popularity from real ones because a standard Washington. Night automobile raccoin, which Is an alloy, has a standard ing Is rapidly becoming popular the resistance to electricity, and any other country over, it was indicated In a suralloy will vary from that. vey by the contest board of the AmerHolding one of these devices In his ican Automobile association. Introduced three years ago at the Ascot speedway In Los Angeles, before Buck Rabbit Inspiration the idea of after dark competition for Jugoslav Industry gripped baseball and football fans, races drew record attendances. Belgrade. A buck rabbit by the night However, not until recently have the name of Magnus has proved the Inlucrative possibilities of illuminated" spiration of a new industry for Jugoraces become apparent to eastern and slavia. Two years ago his owner, mldwestern speedway operators. on Professor Lebedev, a lecturer the Now race operators In these sections technical faculty of the Belgrade university, purchased him from Britain have made extensive, hurried arrangements to Install llllumlnating facilities for the purpose of starting an Angora in their speedways In time fpr the searabbit farm. Professor Lebedev had a few other son openings in late May. Track promoters at Long Island, N. Y. ; Reading, rabbits at that time, but he attributes Pa, ; Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Cincinnati, and most of his success to this prize wincomner, who has brought the population of Detroit all plan to feature the his farm up to 1,500 In two years. Due paratively new after dusk sport to the success of this first venture In the Angora wool business, Professor Mammoth Thermometer Is Lebedev expects to open other rabbit Placed on Eiffel Tower centers in Jugosalvia. Paris. With the Installation of a Part of his success he attributes to mammoth thermometer on the Eiffel the inexpensiveness of rabbit nourishment here, and labor In caring for tower, Parisians and other Paris dwellthem. High prices are obtainable for ers can tell exactly when to shiver and s rabbits both from Britain sink deeper into their mufflers and when to emerge and breathe a few and the United States. breaths of fresh air. Shortly before Each rabbit Is clipped approximatehis death, the Italian Jacopozzl, expert food bill his a and times four year ly disaverages not more than about 62 cents electrician and father of electrical In 12 months. The average wool replays on store fronts during the Christturn per rabbit is over $3.20 and the mas holidays, submitted the design for the huge thermometer. It was apupkeep is negligible. A flourishing inand for proved as a permanent fixture to the is Belgrade predicted dustry Citroen display and has been erected. vicinity. first-clas- Ancient and Modem on High Seas Hunt Grantsburg, WIs. Frank AnderFrederic (Wis.) farmer, ree trip in cently completed a search of a grist mill where he might have a load of grain ground Into flour. The circuit embraced nine towns and two states. He found that In each case mills either were converted into power plants, fish hatcheries and other projects or were out of operation. Despairingly, he started the long trek homeward, only to discover a mill suitable to his purpose In a village 25 miles away. son, m 150-mll- Retained in Albanij Albania, the Balkan state, is quaint mixture of the new and th, old. In place of railways they have air services, but the habitants still cling to their pictw. esque marriage customs. Youn. girls are not allowed out of their mothers sight nntil they are be trothed, but when hey are official, engaged they may queen it for j day or two over all their circle. Seated on a sort of throne they the homage and gifts of relations and friends. On the day of the wedding the bridegroom and the best man and friends form a procession and call for the bride. They take her, heavily veiled, to church, while her parents remain at home. The girl usually rides on a horse led bj the best man, and to keep up the pretense of capture the men dij. charge guns as they march along singing. Briefly told for Busy Readers traveler who came along. Often letters were stuck in notched sticks beside the trail on the chance that they Squinting Is Corrected by Use of Stereoscope Old Marriage Customs Intermountain News j0 Great Complexion Secret ! rro her friend sheet. 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The annual report of the Utah - Idaho sugar company as shown recently, justifies the position of the growers, in not negotiating a contract with the manufacturers on the same basis as 1933. In attempting to negotiate a more liberal contract, the growers are well aware that the Utah-Idah- o company would this year realize more than one million dollars as a net profit, said the growers association officials. All SALT LAKE CITY, UT. eggs displayed or offered for sale to the consumer in Utah after May 10 must be graded and labeled with the grade and the minimum weight per dozen, the state board of agriculture announces. Nine grades for eggs are allowed under the new regulations. LAS VEGAS, NEV. 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Five rods TREMONTON, of Box Elder county road through Salt Wells flat, two miles east of Cosmo, has settled several Inches and is covered with water as the result of the recent earthquake In northern Utah. The water, which has drained in from higher ground, has made the Toad impassahie, and traffic Is being routed through Hansel valley and via Tremonton instead of by way of Promontory. TOOELE, UTMore than 100 shrubs were planted. at the Tooele Central school as part of a beautification project .on the new school grounds. This Is to be an extended CWA project The seed has already been purchased and it Is expected that the help on the labor work will be furnished by the CWA. A special feature of the beautification project Is a rose hedge on the south side of the grounds. FORT HALL, IDA. Indians on this reservation will hold their annual sun dance, outstanding ceremonial of the tribe, August 1, 2 and 3, about two weeks later than the usual date. 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Offers of $1 an acre-fofor 1800 acre feet of water owned by Ogden City In the Itching of eczema, ringworm, chafing pimples, minor burns, etc quickly ot A glimpse of a century long past Is afforded us by this photograph of a large sailing sh'.p being towed through the North sea bound for the English ' channel HISPERED PRICE, UT. 30,000 people attended the Intermountain Music Contest held here. POCATELLO, IDA. A resolution urging the voters of Idaho to retain the prohibition clause in the Idaho state constitution; to oppose election of any wet candidates and to keep, if possible, the liquor plank from being adopted by either political party, was adopted here at a meeting of the Allied Civic Forces of Idaho in session at the Echo reservoir were accepted by the city commission at a special meeting held recently. |