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Show Friday, October THE SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN 29, 1937 THE SUGARHOUSE Oaks Have Long Been in Tree Family Popularity BULLETIN Oaks have been 'respected ever since Hercules packed his big oaken stick. Oaks are more than just materia from which giants clubs are made, barrels are shaped, or houses are built. They have played a conspicuous role in building this nation. Historically, declares a writer in the Chicago Tribune, none h ss played a more important role than that old hollow white oak that stood for so many years on Wyllys hill in Hartford, Conn It became famous as the charter oak where Joseph Wadsworth stuffed Connecticuts charter to hide it from Sir The Bulletin. Edmund Andros, governor of the dominion of New England. That was in 1687. The old oak, handicapped by being hollow, stood for WHAT TUB TABULATIONS SHOW J69 years after that, and was blown There are 249 taxing units in Utah exclusive nf special im- down by wind in 1856. How long the charter oak actually provement, mosquito abatement and metropolitan water districts. lived nobody knows, but it was es179 Of this number, there are incorporated cities and towns, 40 timated to have been 1,000 years school districts, 29 counties and the st.ate govenment. In the Jd. White oaks mature in from matter of taxing units. I.'tali is favorable situated. Idaho,, for in- 1JJ0 to 400 years and it is not stance, with similar population, has some UO) units compared Uncommon for them to live COO to A WEEKLY PUBLICATION o Printed at 2044 South 11th East Sugarheuae, Utah Issued every Friday p. m. Business Office and Plant at 2044 South 11th East Advertising Rates on Application O. C. CONNIFF, Publisher Salt Lake City, Utah Phone copy for news items and events of Interest to "The Bulletin" or Commercial Printing Company Hyland S64. Copy for news items, social and sport activities, must be in tbe offloe not later than noon Wednesday, for publication in the following issue of . with our 249. During the past two jears, the number of incorporated cities and towns was increased by 24. This growth has been due largely to the desire of these communities in bond for special improvements. From now on their levies will be from 4 to 20 miils higher than they were before. TIRE SALE ENDS SOON f i X J5j?3v5J The origjfepf glgsg is lost in myth and romance but there are many legends told in regard Jo it. One of these credited to Pliny, notes a writer in the Los Angeles Times, is that it was accidentally discovered by some Phoenician merchants who landed on the coast of Palestine and cooked their food in pots supported on cakes of niter taken from their cargo. They were greatly surprised to find this solid matter had become a fluid and mingling with the sand had produced a transparent substance now called glass. Cold fact says the temperature of the fires could not have been great enough to melt the sand, but science has ever had a way of interfering with romance. America began its story of glass before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. A glass house was established in the English settlement at Jamestown, Va. This was the first factory built on this continent. Its first products were bottles. Later a considerable trade was established with the Indians in 800 years. When mature, oaks are 60 to 80 feet supplying them with colored beads tall and 3 to 4 feet in diameter. Un- with which they were greatly der extremely favorable conditions enamored. Years later glass facthey reach a height of 120 feet and tories were established in Massachusetts, New York and other New may be 6 feet in diameter. The white oak (Quercus alba) is England and states, found from Maine southwestward to but it vfras not until after the AmerNebraska, and southward to Texas ican Revolution that the glass inand Florida. dustry really took root here. Over three centuries have passed since the first rough bottles were Savages Go Victorian, produced at Jamestown. Today ws all manner of glass products to Explorer take According as a matter of course which in the London, England. Explorer Rex early days of the industry would Hardinge arrived from darkest Afhave seemed impossible to produce. rica and reported that he found, hundreds of miles from civilization, a tribe whose women attired themThree Methods Are Used selves in the fashion of the Victorian Bustles, high waists, high necks sleeves graced and the voluminous gowns of the Hottentot women, Hardinge said, while women of other tribes in the country wore nothing at all. It was believed that missionaries Introduced the fashions more than a generation ago. Electricity Hard to define in a scientific way it can simply be said that electricity is composed of electrons, the unit of 'i CAR OWNERS SHOULD the extra savings availably to auto--, ANTICIPATE WINTER ists on batteries and oil. Everyone MOTORING NEEDS knows tbe need for switching to tbe For the take of comfort and safe- use of winter grade oil in his autoty the motor car 'owner should an- mobile engine, and will appreciate ticipate his winter motoring needs tbe opportunity to stock up for tbe now and completely equip his car winter on high quality lubricating before winter sets In, and for tbe oil at distinct savings. The battery undergoes terrific sake of economy he should do this be fore October 30th in order to stral In cranking tbe car when wintaka advantage of the extra savings ters cold has congealed the oil, and offered during the Western Auto loses even more power through the Supply Companys Fall Festival of extra use of lights, car heater and Values, which ends on that date, ac- othes electrical accessories. Hie Fall cording to Mr. J. W. Halllday, local Festival of Values affords motorists greater trade-i- n allowances on old manager of the accessory firm. 'Sure gripping tires are of para- batteries when they are turned In as mount importance to motoring safe-t- part payment on power, new Westduring winter months, Mr. Halil-da- y ern Auto Batteries. Mr. Halllday declares, and In order to aid declares that Western Giant and motorists in replacing smooth, worn Wizard batteries are built with tires, we are offering extra trade-i- n ample power for every winter need. In addition to these major motorallowances on those old tires when traded in on new Western Giants ing needs, the Western Auto man '"allv designed treads for asserts that there are many other d traction on any high- articles for touring safety and comsaie fort which are offered at special reway. Two other features of our great duced prices until the end of the Fall Festival of Values Event are great fall event on October 30th. y non-ski- Exclusive Line negative electricity, and protons, the positive electron. Both units are so inconceivably small they may be regarded as mere charges of energy. To Dr. William Gilbert, who became physician to Queen Elizabeth in 1601, goes the credit of calling that something' electric. He originated the term electric as a name for any substance such as amber that was stimulated by friction. Electric" comes from the Greek Elektron," meaning amber. This was because Thales, a Greek philosopher, way back in 600 B. C.( discovered that a piece of amber rubbed with cloth possessed the power of attracting feathers, pieces of paper and other light bodies. , Tea was discovered in 2737 B. C. by an emperor if the Chinese know what they are talking about, and named after "Thea," the goddess, by Linnaeus. Tea is the drink of China, England and Russia. We import about 74.000,000 pounds annually, which makes many cups of a gentle and exhilarating drink. Jefferson Cut Hnge Cheese On New Year's day, 1802, in the presence of his cabinet, and foreign diplomats, Thomas Jefferson red ceived and cut q cheese made at Cheshire, Mass. The cheese was made by Jeffersons admirers, taken to Hndsoif, N. Y., by sled and there put o. n trot for Washington, 1,235-poun- D. C. Used Stamps Upside Down General Salomon stamps of Haiti were only good for postage when pasted on upside down. The general fled the country in disgrace and the natives added insult to injury by ordering inverted use. Letters delivered with the stamp in normal position were marked postage due. of Beautiful Order now while our Stoc is Complete. DIRECT PRINTERTOYOU PRICES Hy. 364 pc Maelstrom Described by Poe on Norwegian Coast The Maelstroms existence, as de- scribed by Edgar Allen Poe and other writers, is indisputable, although its dangers are often exaggerated, states a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is a remarkable whirlpool on the Norwegian coast, just southwest of islands. The strong currents rushing between the Great West fjord and the outer ocean through the channels of these islands produce a number of whirlpools, the Maelstrom being the largest and strongest. The name means "grinding stream," and the grinding is done between the island of and a large solitary rock in the middle of the straits. Such extravagant stories have been told of this great eddy how everything that enters the border of its current is instantly sucked down to a bottomless abyss that its very existence has been doubted. Its perils, of course, were greater in the daya of smaller ships and no steam power. As a matter of fact, steamships may cross the Maelstrom in calm weather, at any state of the tide, without difficulty. And in the summer, at change of tide, the current is comparatively calm and even small boats may venture upon it. But in winter or in a storm It is highly dangerous for any vessel to try to pase. During a storm from the west the current runs continually to the east at the rate of six knots, without changing its direction for rising or falling tide, and the stream boils with such mighty whirls and eddies that a vessel of any size would have great difficulty in getting through. The danger is not of suction into the heart of the whirlpool, as legends have supin the Curing of Pork posed, but of being dashed to pieces There are three methods of cur- against ths rocks. Dead whales are sometimes thrown up on the coast, ing pork the sweet pickle process, killed in this way. The depth of the the dry salt method, and the dry is whirlpool only 20 fathoms, but cure, states a writer in the Chicago Tribune. In the first, used for hams, just outside the straits soundings the meat is soaked in vats contain- reach from 100 to 200 fathoms. ing salt brine, a sweetening agent, and nitrate of soda. The cure re," Ball Game, quires 20 to 75 days and a constant 40 36 of to Rivals the Bull Fight degrees temperature must be maintained. "Jai-ala- i, better known as The second method consists of ball in Spanish), is (meaning putting layers of salt between piles a game somewhat similar to handof meat. The third is used largely ball, which in the Basque for bacon and consists of soaking provinces oforiginated France and Spain. In the meat in a light brine containing parts of Spain, it rivals bull fights in sugar and nitrate of soda. To finish popularity, says a writer in the Deoff the cure the meats are placed in troit News. Originally "pelota" was smoke from burning hardwood played with hand, naked or gloved, which adds to the flavor and color. or with a stick, but now a stout The salt used prevents spoilage, basket-wor- k gauntlet, called a cesi the sugar offsets the taste of the tus" or "chistera" is used. This salt, and the nitrate preserves the basket, a Basque Invention first color. used at Ascain, France, revolutionLard is made from hog fat, either ized the game by increasing the proby boiling in an open kettle or pelling power of the players and the through a steam pressure method. carrying force of the balL It is cooked, filtered, and chilled, The may be played either the cooking separating the meat fi- indoors game or outdoors and requires a bers from the fat. The remaincement court, 200 feet long and 65 der, cracklings and tankage, is used feet wide, with at least two walls as stock and poultry feeds. 36 feet high. Four walls may be used. There are usually four players and among the professionals are of ths "Annie Oakley" Origin men who have done little else since According to "American Tramp The ball is of solid ruband Underworld Slang," edited by boyhood. small and weighs about four ber, Godfrey Irwin, the phrase "Annie ounces. During play, the ball is Oakley" means a free ticket or pass bounded from wall to "cestus" and to an amusement or entertainment. be must motion. The game in kept The passes were punched with holes is very popular in the Basque provto prevent their being sold as reguSpain, Cuba and South Amerlar tickets and to prevent money be- inces, ica. According to the Americana if refunded the show did not go ing Encyclopedia, "It is claimed for this on, as is customary with paid adgame that it requires a better eye, missions. Thus, they resemble the more speed, activity and surer concards that were used for targets, after the famous rifle shooter, Annie trol over every muscle of the body than any other sport." Oakley, finished shooting at them. Annie Oakley performed with the Buffalo Bill circus for 17 years. The Original Glass Bottles Valuable term originated in the circus world, It has been commonly acknowlbut is now included in the slang of edged that glass bottles, shortly stage, screen and boxing circles. after their invention, were worth their weight in bold." But an item in the American Magazine indicates Polar Eskimos Friendly Polar Eskimos are a friendly, tHat these transparent containers highly than happy people who live farther north were valued much more than any other human beings. They the yellow metal in old Egypt, rove the Arctic from Greenland to where a price of $3,500,000 was set and paid on one glass bottle. OrigiAlaska. Skin tents are their habimade only by master craftsnally tation during the brief summer; men and used in the packaging of snow igloos their winter homes. rare attars and cosmetics, glassTheir food, save for a few birds 40 centuries of study eggs and berries, is exclusively ware required flesh the. seal, bear, fox, whale, and refinement to reach its present superiority and inexpensiveness. walrus and reindeer being the provTha common foodstuff bottles on ender. They are prodigious eaters, our shelves today are more- perfect hence their plumpness and perhaps by far than the crude bottles of their good nature. long ago yet they cost us practically nothing! Silver Whitest of Precious Metals Silver is the whitest of precious Ancestry of Cameo In Doubt metals. It is susceptible of a lusThe earliest ancestry of the and has excellent worktrous polish will cameo In its state always be a matter of it pure qualities. ing is too soft for uses wherein it is conjecture, according to Cyril Davenport of the British museum whose subject to wear; so it is usually alwith The book, "Cameos," is the illuminating terms "stercopper. loyed result of extensive study and reling silver" and "coin silver" indisearch. But for really skilled work, cate alloy proportions. Sterling silver is alloyed in proportions of 925 we need not go farther back than to parts pure silver to 75 parts copper. the Egyptian scarabs, which were seals with the backs cut into the Coin silver contains 900 parts pure silver to 100 parts copper this is semblance of the sacred beetle. The outline of the scarab cameo persistthe standard for United States coined for a long time. age. Lof-fod- en Mo-shon- es mid-Atlant- ic era. Demonstrating (h &0d Cor replacing old smooth worn tiros before wintor ots tn. and explaining tho extra savings ailordod by tho currant Fall roohval of Values, now in oifod at tho local Wostsra Auto Stora. Hoyt Aldnchf Ura onginoor of tho firm, is shown with potito Botty Flach. Tho ont with savings on many otho artidos bssidss tiros, onds on Saturday petobor 30th, according to tho local mauagor, Glass Was Discovered on tho Coast Of Palestine 2044 South 11 East Jai-AUi- pe-lo- ta - Glaciers "Rivers of Ice" Glaciers are really "rivers of formed in mountains where ice, more snow falls than can possibly melt. Eventually the ice piles up as high as 1,500 feet, gets so heavy it begins to flow iownhiil. Generally it moves about 1 inch every hour, though in New Zealand and Greenland glaciers have been known to bowl along 30 feet a day. Though a glacier creeps, its tremendous weight carries evciything before it St. Giles Cathedral Historic St. Giles cathedral, standing on the line of the Royal Mile" that medieval street which leads from castle to palace in Edinburgh has been the scene of many important events in the past of the Scottish capital.- The walls have echoed the thunderings of John Knox, the reformer, and it was here, according to tradition, that one Jenny Geddes, in 1637, flung a stool at the Dean of Edinburgh os a protest against the introduction of Laud's Liturgy. - Poor Eyes .Never Earned Good Wages v e 1st FIXATION miii Thera must be Image on each eye. 2nd FOCUS must Image be fairly well defined. There should be mental a single impression. conscious The COMFORT 4th attention must be free to concern Its self with meaning and Interpretation. Srd FUSION Dr. W. H. Landmesser ' OPTOMETRIST Member of Clinic Foundation 1090 East 21t South SUGARHOUSE TOURISTS FLOCK TO ACADIAN COUNTRY New Highway Opens Up Ro- mantic Settlement. New Iberia, La. With the recent conversion of the Old Spanish Trail into a modern highway across lower Louisiana, the Acadian country, in the south central section of the state, which long has been hidden from the outside world, is becoming a magnet to motor tourists from all sections of the United States, as well as Canada, according to Edward A. Mcllhenny, president of the Evangeline Scenic association. "The Acadian country, which extends over most of the Vermilion, St. Mary, St. Martin and Iberia parishes of Louisiana, provides an entirely new picture to motor tourists, as it is different from any other Section on the continent," Mr. Mcllhenny said. "The tourists find a land little changed in 150 years. The inhabitants are, for the most part, descendants of the Acadians who were exiled from Nova Scotia by the British in 1765, and whose traditions, customs and language have been maintained throughout the intervening two centuries. Many of the native women in the Acadian towns of New Iberia, Franklin, Jeanerette, Abbeville and St. still use spinning wheels and handlooms to make clothes for their families. "At St. Martinville, the scene of one of Americas most romantic lova stories, immortalized by Longfellow, are 'Evangelines Oak' and the tomb of Evangeline, the chief shrines of the Acadians, on the famed Bayou Teche. "It is the purpose of the Evangeline Scenic association, which is composed of citizens and civic groups In the four parishes, to preserve not only the natural beauty of this picturesque region, as well as the old landmarks and buildings, but also to perpetuate the customs and language of the Cajuns, as the Acadians are colloquially known." Mar-tinvill- e, Plane Bombing Crews May Navigate by Stars Soon London. The new bombers now being built for Britain's expanding air force may be flown by crews trained in the use of astronomical to natation as well as in ths Plan Permanent Memorial for Late Joyce Kilmer Black-robe- d Prairie du Chien, Wis. Jesuits at Campion academy, the adopted alma mater of Joyce Kilmer, quietly pushed toward completion plana for a permanent memorial to the man who penned, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree." Workers will soon begin remodeling a gymnasium into a library dedicated "to the memory of Alfred Joyce Kilmer," whose short but remarkable literary career was stimulated by visits to Campion and Prairie du Chien. In 1922, the movement for the memorial was begun by the Rev. Claude Pemin, S. J., who died last year. He donated a $25,000 legacy he. had received, and the fund later was increased by the Kilmer family. When completed, the library will be the largest of any private secondary, school in the United States. The Kilmer, a member of the 165th infantry, was killed in action near Ourcq, France, on August 1, 1918, not long after he had written: "Lord, Thou didst suffer more for me, Than all the hosts of land and see. So let me render back again. This millionth of Thy gift. Amen thirty-one-year-o- ld 13 Years of Overtime - Put In by Postal Man Utica. Tliirteen years of overtime for Uncle Sam is the record of Edward S. O'Connor, superintendent of mails at the Utica postoffice. Hard at work amid the Christmas rush, Mr. O'Connor said that he did not intend to try to collect pay for it, and that he was glad to put in the extra time to get the mail through. Mr. OConnor quit a law practice April 2, 1892,. to enter', the post-offic- e. "Since then I have worked 34,000 hours overtime," he said. "That makes 4,250 extra days or, with 306 days to the 'postal year, a total of more than 13 years. . - S |