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Show THE BULLETIN FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1938 RAGMAN SELLS ART GEMS. FpR NICKEL THE SUGARHOUSE BULLETIN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION Printed at 2044 South 11th East gugarhouse, Utah Issued every Friday p. m. Business Office and Plant at 2044 South 11th East Advertising Rates on Application O. C. CONNIFF, Publisher The Bulletin" Subscription Price One year (52 weeks), in advance 1.50 man Amsterdam. A named Couvreur from the town of Breda, in southern Holland, has revealed why so few canvases of Vincent van Gogh have been found. This Dutch painter, who ended his tragic life a lunatic, was a prolific producer during his younger years, although his fame is based on the genius he showed during the latter years of his short life. Thirty-fiv- e years ago, Cduvreur street of relates, on a cobble-stone- d Breda he was loading his hand-cawith odds and ends he had bought from a carpenter who asked him as a favor to take away some rubbish. He explained it was cluttering up his loft, where he had stored it after it had been left behind by a painter who had lived there for some time. Traded Some for Beer. Couvreur obliged the carpenter and took away two cartloads of the rubbish, chiefly paintings and drawings, all signed Van Gogh" or V. G.," or sometimes only with a V." or a G." I used to have a stand," Couvreur told newspaper men, a couple of days each week in the local market. I tried to sell the paintings. Nobody wanted them, although I offered them as cheaply as ten Dutch rents apiece (about .05). "I sometimes gave them to children to play with. It took me 30 years to get rid of the stuff. Sometimes I traded them at local pubs for a glass of beer, although the innkeepers were not all keen about them. Got 35 Cents Apiece for Six. A couple of years ago somebody must have heard about my paintings, because a local art dealer sent around a man to buy all I had left at ten Dutch cents apiece. 1 had only six left. Somehow I sensed there was a demand for them and refused to sell them so cheaply. In the end I got 35 cents for each painting. Now I realize I could have become a rich man had I known the meaning of the name Van Gogh. My son, however, has kept two of the paintings and probably he can make a little money out of them. LESLIE DAVIDSON R. LOUISE HOGGAN R FLOYD YOUNG ASSOCIATE EDITOR . ADVERTISING MANAGER rt (Continued from Page 1) COMMENTS TIME. TO BE ' . THINKING In a short time there will Le held a primary election, at which time you will decide by your votes who is to be placed on the var iojs party tickets for election this fall. Have you though ahou' wiom you are going to select? Have you weighed the variou; candidates to see which one, regardless of party, is worth Dont wait till the last day and then cast your vote as the poli tician, with an axe to grind, tells you to. Assert your right as ar American citizen to cart your vote as you deem fit. Just because someone SEEMS to have authority it, does not necessarily follow that you must take hi;' judgement as yours. TEMPUS FUCITS June 24, just halfway to Another Christmas, Lord, how time does fly. Just a short time uow and the snows of winter will be piling up their fleecy whiteness along the highways; the householder will be going down to the basement to shake up the furnace fire to warm the house up before the children are called. Two more months and the kids will be going back to the house of learning A short two weeks, then the Fourth of Julv.1 Jack Frost will be soon painting Autumn colors aty over the landscape, the festal season of the year will be with us again. Truly, time flies. WILL DO MOST ANYTHING FOR THE KIDDIES City Commissioner Pat Goggin, ever since he has had anything to do with the Parks Department, has bceft1 there and over when it r- - ic to riving the young folks pleasure.' On! a two-da- y notice he tickled to come out to Sugar IlDtise and lead the parade of .ing folks, and although he weighs in the neighborhood of 200 pounds, he is always willing and tickled to play with the Girl Battlea Icy Water ; to Save Sister and Dog Plandome, N. Y. Nancy Whitmore, twelve years old, was saved from drowning when her sister, Jane, twenty-on- e years old, rescued kiddies. her after she broke through the ice on Manhasset bay in Lond Island sound. The girls are daughters of Carl Whitmore, a wealthy New York telephone company executive. THERES A REASON TOWNS GO AHEAD The girl broke through Towns that get ahead are the towns that! when a plan is pro the iceyounger 150 feet from the shore posed for comunity development, get behind it if it is sound anr when she went to the aid of her spaniel. Piny. Jane, an expert good, and uniting their forces, put it over. who was on the beach of Towns that do not get ahead are the towns in which when one swimmer, the Whitmore estate, ran on the ice group proposes something for the betterment of the town and until it began to crack, then the promotion of trade area good will,- another group, because o crawled to the hole where Nancy jealousy, rejects the plan and begins to find fault and criticize it was struggling. The Ice broke when Jane tried to In the end nothing is done by either side. sister out. Treading wapull There are more towns whipped by narrow minds and petty ter, her Jane lifted her sister upon jealousy than there are whipped by unfavorable economic con the ice and then rescued the dog. ditions. Wyoming State Journal. Almost exhausted, she was barely able to pull herself back on the ice. . - - A i.'olor Crrs Have Nothing on Ancient Wagon of 1877 - , Lansing. Mr. Drew, the inventor of trie Jerusa'em waon, would be vastly amused to hear us brag about the independent wheel suspension of our automobiles today. That was old stuff to him back in 1877. Drew, who lived just outside of town, created considerable excitement when he first drove hij wagon, entirely without axles, into town. The wheels were six feet in diameter and the running gear just two racks with each wheel on a gudgeon independent of the others. Posts were attached to the inner side of the racks to support the loads and beds attached to the posts on each side, making the contraption look like two large carts fastened togeth- er. However, Drew died without realizing his hopes of becoming rich from his invention. Robot Saves Time for JCanias School Teacher U. S. Government Assists West in War on Rodents Santa Fe, N. M. Its no easy thing to be a rat in New Mexico even if you have the inclination. Ranchers have become tired of planting and cultivating crops only to find their efforts are being eaten by Mr. and Mrs. Kangaroo Rat A citizen figured out that as long as the government was spending money, New Mexico might as well ask for funds for rat control. Director F. G. Carpenter, chief o: the division of grazing, Department of Interior, sent a crew of federa rat controllers to get the situation in hand. The experts estimate that eighty kangaroo rats will consume as cow or much forage as a three sheep. Elimination of the rodents is accomplished with two servings of oats. One straight helping and another garnished with strychnine. Over 130,000 acres of land have been cleared of rodent pests by this method throughout the western 750-poun- d Oregon Farmer, 85, Buys His First Loaf of Bread states. Molalla, Ore. . An eighty-five-year-o- ld farmer walked into a grocery store here. e I'll try some of that bread," he told the clerk. The clerk gave him the bread aid Hood Forwalt, the aged farmer, placed a nickel on the counter. "It's a dime, the clerk said. Hmm, a dime, huh? I always thought it was a nickel, but of course, I wouldn't know this is the first loaf of bread I ever bought. store-mad- Minister Wins Whisky, but He's Not Present Pittsfield, Mass. A bottle of straight rye whisky was the prize won by the Rev. H. Lawrence Snow in a drawing at the annual banquet of the Pittsfield's Sportsmen's club. He was disqualified, however, for leaving the hall before the prize winners were drawn. John Paul Jones Once an Actor in Stock Company Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I. Strange are the steps that lead to greatness. Eleven years before he of the Bon trod the quarter-dec- k Homme Richard in its historic engagement with the Serapis off Head, John Paul Jones, American naval hero, was an actor in a stock company in the island of Flam-borou- gh Jamaica. Jones, according to Richardson Wright in his recently published Revels in Jamaica, had left the British navy and had been serving as chief mate on a slaver, the Two Friends of Kingston. Disgusted with the trade, Jones left his boat in Kingston in 1768, hoping to book passage back to his native Scotland. In the meantime he took a job acting in a company then playing in theaters at Kingston and jdontego bay. Wichita, Kan. When the school day is over and the pupils at Central Intermediate school go home for the day, Carroll Joachim, vocational' electricity teacher, goes home, too. Joachim isnt bogged down by the tedium of grading examination papers. He used his electrical talents to perfect a robot which grades the papers for him, thus saving him about eight hours of work each week. The machine is used in checking answers of true and false or yes and no tests. Joachim places ten questions on a sheet and draws circles containing two answers adjacent to the questions. The pupil merely punches a hole in the answers he thinks is correct. The pupil is satisfied, because the machine plays no favorites. Wriggle Snake Only That of a t. Nap-Destroyi- REPAIRED We Repair Is an art obtainable rag-and-bo- Phone copy for news Items and events of Interest to r Commercial Printing Company Hyland 364. EDITOR VISION Finds Difficulty in Disposing of Van Goghs. ng 7-F- Capetown. Awakened by something wriggling on his chest, J. II. Meredith of the Tuan Bazaar Mine Filabusi, South Africa, learned that he had been sleeping with a deadly mamba snake, seven feet long. It was crawling across his body, its head almost on his face. Meredith had the presence of mind to remain perfectly still until his wife appeared. She called servants who enticed the reptile from the bed, then killed it. in Meanest Man Pours Glue Into Gas Tank Cincinnati, Ohio. A new candidate for the title of the worlds meanest man" was discovered here when James Louis, twenty-ninnegro, was sentenced to serve ten days in the workhouse for pouring glue into the gasoline tank of a neighbor's e, By L. L. STEVENSON Dusk on Broadway as seen by Benay Venuta : Night owls emerging A million from their aeries electric eyes starting to blink . . . Daytime toilers rushing homeward entertainers scurry, . . Night-tim- e Snarling trafing to their clubs . fic . Upping of prices at the movie palaces . . . Speculative, pasty faces appearing out of nowhere . . Bargain hunters scanning offerings in ticket agencies . . . Screeching of newsies peddling late of troleditions . . . through crawling cautiously leys restless mobs . . . Cab drivers parked hopefully at curbs . . . The changing of the police guard . Evening gowns and tuxedos mingled with more prosaic dress . . . Mobs of moles climbing in and out of subway kiosks . . . Queus lined of hit plays up in front of . . . Mounted cops galloping to chase motorists trying to park in Tricycles Irons Cleaners Vacuum Bicycles Washers only through real Lawn Mowers Optometry Sharpened and Repaired IDEAL ' REPAIR SHOP CALL ON 1986 ... So. 11th E. OPTOMETRIST of Clinic Foundation .. 1090 Funeral Designs Corsages East 21st South KINGS SUGARHOUSE Forget-Me-N- ot FLORAL Flowers That Satisfy RAZE SALOON WITH AMAZING HISTORY 2157 that once Codys most notorious saloons. During the dismantling of the lusty old frame structure wreckers d roof, discovered a the after damage of alcoA Fifth avenue department store patched and battles of alrecently featured as a window dis- holic celebrations a half ago. most century two paper play a stuffed skunk with The old building had a history carnations around its neck . . . Two new instructors at the free beauty reading like a Bret Harte novel. It clinic held weekly at the Jacob A. held a record number of firsts, Riis settlement are named Miss being one of the first saloons and Stout and Mrs. Ugly . . . Among gambling halls in the area, later the tenants at 1775 Broadway are converted into the first opera house Frank Buck, the Japanese army, in Cody and finally becoming one of four press agents, the Turkish con- the first filling stations here. down The building was being torn sul, a German firm, an Argentine service firm, an employment agency for but- to make way for a modern lers and the Society for the Advance- station and therein lies the tale of ment of Euthanasia . . . Just looked Poker Nells last laugh. Dam Brought Boom. It means an easy up euthanasia Or a mode of dying to death It was during the growing pebe desired . . . Buddy Clarks riod of the West that the old saloon son cries when his fa- was built. However, Cody's first ther tries to sing him to sleep . . . heyday came during the construcBut when Mrs. Clark serenades him. tion of the Shoshone dam in 1907 and Tommy smiles and is an easy cus- it was then that Poker Nell entered tomer for the sandman. the scene. Mrs. Katherine Primm, dubbed Little Europe in Manhattan folBlue Chip Katie" hy the boys who lows the same geography as in the tried to take" her in faro, founded Old World . . . Italians and Greeks one of the towns first establishon the south . . . French, a little ments of pleasure in the old buildfarther north . . . Germans and ing. She and her husband, Ben, Scandinavians farther uptown . . . for a time had a virtual monopoly Syrians are on the east . . . and on the local custom in liquor, gamChinatown is on the East Side . . . bling and license until another womThe Womens House of Detention, an muscled in with a similar estabdown in Greenwich Village, looks lishment directly across the street. The latter is remembered only as like a swanky apartment house . . . From the outside, of course . . . Poker Nell. Through the years her Oscar Bradley reports a movie trail- fame has lived in the minds of the for her ability to er so good the theater owner de- regions cided to hold it over for another keep up a vociferous, cross-streweek . . . Lyn Murray suggests argument with her competitor. During the wild boom years at the starring Johnny Weissmuller in another Tarzan picture to be called, opening of the century there was "A Star Is Borneo." . . . Allen planty of business for both houses. Prescott holds that Asta, the pup of However, when things were dull. The Thin Man" fame, hitched his Poker Nell and Blue Chip Katie would pass unpleasantries back and waggin to a star. forth across the street to while away A playwright was bragging that the hours. no one could hold a candle to his Acid Words ReesUed. works . . . And that," sighed AlMen who worked on the dam still len Prescott, is the trouble." . . . remember the acid" of their comA drug store near Columbus circle ments and tell of increased not only has a luncheonette, circu- vocabularies after richly to the listening lating library and all the other de- women exchange amenities. of a successful apothepartments However, Nell and Katie never cary, but also sqlls insurance, finished their debate and it became stocks and bonds . . . When Ruth only a memory when the town conCarhart left her home town in Kan- tinued to with the subsequent sas for wicked New York she prom- invasion ofgrow dozen more saloons. a ised her folks to attend church reguKatie Primmi saloon finally was larly . . . Shes keeping that prom- converted into an opera house. The ise because now, in addition to her project, a civic cultural movement regular radio activities, she is a led by Mrs. William F. Cody, wife o soloist in the New church on East Buffalo Bill, entailed great exstreet . . . and though pense. The Thirty-fift- h had to be rebuilding called the New church the New modeled, braced and counterbracec of one oldest in the to make the church is the opera house substantial city. enough so that the voices of the actors could be heard above the vibraThe theatrical trade paper, the tions set up by winds which Billboard, never mentions the sui- down from Shoshone canyon. swept Or a scancide of a performer But the town didnt take to culdal involving the theatrical people ture. Mrs. Cody's plana . . . The editor thinks that to do so could overcome the wind but they tears down the profession . . . couldnt overcome the of Sometime soon the last word in a customers who chose preference to find their weighing machine will be intro- entertainment in Codys 14 saloons. duced in New York . . . For a Meanwhile Poker Nell had disdime, it will pass out a card appeared from the scene. stamped with your weight, height In the years that passed the old and horoscope and the date and building was idle most of the time hour . . . and a 31.000 life insur- and finally was rehabilitated again ance policy good for 24 hours . . . to become one of first filling Cody's May Singh Breen and Peter stations. hold that if you don't believe it's illegal to sleep in a North Dakota hotel, look up the 1929 hotel Drafts 10 Commandments inspection law in Bismarck . , . for Personal Success and I guess Ill call it a day. Boston. Ten commandments to G Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. personal success, of which the first is be yourself," were outlined by College Profenor Notes Dean Everett W. Lord, of Boston Some Much Abused .Words universitys college of business adEvanston, 111. Chalk up one vote ministration. each for thing" and aint" as the They were: 1. Be yourself. Analyze your permost abused English words. Prof. Walter K. Smart of North- sonality; cultivate the desirable western university nominates these repress the undesirable. 2. Be alert. Look for opportunities words for first place and among to express yourself. other overworked words lists: 3. Be positive. In business Determine your proposition." awfully, ter- goal and the route to it. Among women 4. Be systematic. Take one step ribly, and similar words. pt' a time. Among writers so. 5. Be persistent. Professor Smart picks no" as the Hold to your most helpful word, stop" as the course. most dramatic and ubiquitous" as 6. Be a worker. Work your brain the ugliest. more than your body. I bullet-riddle- ssag EXPERT of Wild West Fame. Cody, Wyo. The ghost of Poker restricted streets . . . Early arrivword as workmen ing beggars grabbing off choice Nell had the last down the building started . . . work tearing for their evenings spots oldest and housed Highland Drive Hyland 8199 Recalls Days of Poker Nell box-ofllc- ... 522? CUT FLOWERS Clang-clangin- g Night clubs arranging tables for the (they hope) evening's rush . . . Finally, night with Broadway shaking the dusk from its heels. Hy. 2111 LU. Dr. W. H. Landmesser Member h WASHING MACHINES Shoe Repairing Quick Courteous Service PROGRESS SHOE REBUILDERS 1059 Eastlat So. Ily. 8775 WELDING? Just Bring In the Pieces" Granite Welding & Wire Works 2021 Sooth 11th East ... Hyland 458 nine-months-- old-time- rs et .... well-mea- De-Ro- se nt F. W. KIEPE THE TAILOR Suits made to order and remodeled for Ladies and Gentlemen Pressing Cleaning 1060 East 21st South TS Weather is Ideal Ye have - - the right product at the right price for any jo from roof to basement DROP IN THE PAINT POT We Make the World Brighter Hy. 8739 1074 E. 21st So. I j j i MISSIONARY SWAYS HISTORY OF HAWAII Minneapolis. The story of how an American missionary influenced the Hawaiian islands during the reign of King Kamehameha III was related here by Lawrence M. Judd, former governor of the islands. Judds grandfather, Dr. G. P. Judd, was the American who went to Hawaii as a medical missionary and stayed to become an integral cog in the territory's government. Doctor Judd, who married in order to go to Hawaii, as the church would not send a single man, arrived in the islands in 1823. Over a period of time, as the only medical man in the kingdom, he virtually became royal physician. And after he had been in Hawaii approximately ten years the king induced him to leave the mission and join the government, then a feudal despotism. My grandfather and a Frenchman named Richard were the only white men to renounce their citizenship and become Hawaiian subGrandfather jects, Judd said. became translator and interpreter in the royal court. That meant that he dealt for the kingdom with all foreign nations. He had great influence with the king and first induced him to grant Then a constitutional monarchy. grandfather and two others wrote the constitution, patterned after that of the United States." His influence with the king was illustrated by an incident in which a British admiral, feeling that England had a grievance, almost seized the islands. A roundtable discussion between the king and the British officers took place. Doctor Judd sat next to the king and, by prearrangement, when he tapped the kings foot once with his toe the king answered yes. Two taps and the king answered : no. ' |