The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1928, Page 4

a pede PAGE FOUR “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspa; THE STATE’S OLDEST N SPAPER (Established 1873) Published by tho Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and_entered at the postoffice at Bis- marek as second ciass mail matter. George D. Mann . -President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year .. o06 87.20 Daily by mail, per ae (in Bismarck) 1.20 Daily by mail, per (in state outside 2 Bismarck) aeeeeece Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota Weekly by mail, in state, per year ...... Weekly by mail, in state, three years for Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, Member Acdit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Pre: oan ae entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other mat- ter herein are also reserved. shad Representatives aoe ve, a CRICAGO ‘BeTROIT Tower Bidg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) WINDOW SHOPPING Store windows, now suggesting Christmas, are more than a gentle hint to make early purchases for the day of gifts, still several weeks in the future. Whatever the urge in that direction may be, store windows, Christmas dressed, are an appeal in themselves, “Win- dow shopping,” always an alluring occupation, never is quite as delightful as it is in the days when there is an atmosphere of expectancy, the spirit of cheeriness and the glow of benevolence that somehow work their marvels at this season of the year. No matter how matter-of-fact we may be 11 months of the year we all become more or less sentimental with the approach of December, and the gay windows, the rich windows, even the plainly dressed windows, brave or sedate in their Christmas attire, sing to us a siren’s lyric that is ® challenge to pass them unheeded. And who gets the most fun from window shopping, the juveniles or the elders? Silly question! The more mature, of course. Even those windows dressed especially to appeal to the children are so crowded with adults at times that a poor youngster has little chance of seeing what therein is. These, of course, are the more shameless—glorying in their shame. Oth- ers who envy them their brazenness pick up a young- ster some place, and push to the front, thinking, like a man who takes a kiddie to a circus he wants to see himself, that he has acquired merit. What foolish- ness! How much more honest he would be if one such would just acknowledge to himself that he hungers to see the window show and to justify himself with the re- flection that there will be plenty of time for children to see such spectacles after they grow up. Yes, we old- sters have not too many Christmas fetes ahead of us, so we hasten to take advantage of what opportunities we have. What is the impelling motive? Memory, the treas- ury of all that is hallowed and dear and cherished. We will see Alice again—Alice from Wonderland. If the display is nothing but leather goods, Alice will be there amidst the wares and her message will be of “shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.” Kings of fairyland and nowhereland and everywhereland. Kings of the wintry day and glowing coals and the bulging stocking on the mantel. Kings among whom you were a monarch when you glanced through the panes of another window on a Christmas morning and saw in the frosted snow more gems than any living king ever possessed. How they glistened and sparkled, send- ing their rays heavenward, far into the realm of ro- mance and anticipation. No wonder we like window shopping. TOO BUSY TO SMILE Charles M. Schwab, foregathering at Biloxi, Miss., with other steel magnates, tells reporters that among the lec:ons that life has taught him there has been nothing much more valuable than the importance of the slogan, “keep smiling.” “Ah, that is the thing,” says Mr. Schwab. “Be happy, boys. Enter into your work good-naturedly. If you succeed, laugh. But, better still, if you fail, laugh, too.” This, coming from one of the country’s leading indus- trialists, must be accepted as sage advice. Yet it rep- resents a philosophy, popular as it may be in this country, in which we Americans do not really believe. Ever since the Declaration of Independence, or there- abouts, we have prided ourselves on our national sense of humor. That old doggerel about “the man who's worth while is the man who can smile” probably can be repeated from memory by three Americans out of every four. Yet, for all that, we don’t really mean it —and we aren't really so very light-hearted. The pioneer humor of the country had a kind of gaunt, grim quality to it, as if laughter were only the momen- tary easing of a great tension. Nearly all of our jokes are built about stories of someone's misfortune. That “traditional American humor” has never had much to do with quiet, tolerant smiles. It is more apt to be fierce and somewhat bitter. Today it is the same. Our favorite clown is Charlie Chaplin; and, in his pictures, this chap goes continually from one buffeting to another. He exists only to be kicked by fate. His comedies easily could be made into tragedies, The lands of carefree gaiety and easy smiles are older lands than ours. We are still too young to be great humorists. Life is too intense and real. We have too much to do. The American who makes a failure of any given venture does not, as Mr. Schwab advises, grin and retain his sunny happiness; instead he grits his teeth, becomes grim and desperate, and charges in again full of dour determination. This is not to say that Mr. Schwab's advice is not good. ‘t is. To cultivate a detached philosophical spirit that does not make happiness depend on worldly success is an admirable thing. But we can’t do it. It simply isn’t in us. We are too busy. For America is still a hive of workers. Our laughter is only iacidental, and is fierce and sardonic when it comes. The job is still all-important to us. Probably we are right. Some day this land of ours will indeed be a place for easy-going philosophy and smiling contentment. But that won't be in our genera- tion. Our job is to be grim and energetic and fright- fully in earnest—so that that easier environment may exist’ = on children, FRUIT CAKE ‘Ma's makin’ fruit cake! Don't dare to get under her Kresge Bldg. t or raisin, its mysterious valleys that are full of sweet congealment, its browned crustiness—oh, gee, Ma, can’t we have just one piece apiece tonight, and make the rest do for Christmas? Ma is ‘irm. She has had these sumptuary supplica- tions before, and she knows how to be firm when firm- ness is required. The fruit cake is the first thing she prepares for Christmas dinner, just as it is the last thing to be consumed. And the best part of it is, that usually when you come to the fruit cake part of the main Yuletide meal, you're <o full that there’s no room for as much fruit cake as you'd like to eat, and so there’s always enough of that, at least, to bring the New Year's dinner to a fitting and fine conclusion. “XMAS” Now that Christmas is just around the corner again one expects to encounter the abbreviated “Xmas” in many places, and hear many complaints and protests from those who object to this shortening of the word “Christmas.” One objection to shortening Christmas to Xmas is the pitfall of pronunciation. With the use of the brief form has grown a tendency to read it “Exmas,” an un- pardonable bax! m. So pronounced, the word is quite open to the criticism of it which clergymen and others have expressed. X, however, as an abbreviation of Christ, has a his- as old almost as Christianity. In catacomb in- ptions it stands for Christos, the first letter being chi. The letter X, the English equivalent of chi, mean- ing Christ, has the sanction of ancient usage unques- tionably. Dictionaries and encyclopedias include Xmas among the abbreviations of recognized standing, also Xn for Christian. They do not stigmatize it as colloquial or vulgar. Still, there is a fecling for words that impels most persons with a verbal conscience to spell Chr mas out in fuil. To many Christmas is a beautiful word, while Xmas is not. On the score of good taste the appeal for the disuse of Xmas is persuasive. However, circumstances can alter cases. Certainly not even the ministry object to use of the contracted form in the newspaper headline, where space is 2s precious as it was on the tablets of the catacombs. Xmas is a respectful term to those who look upon the X as symbolical of the Christian cross, and it is unlikely any would object to its use if this symbolism were universally recognized. GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY Religious controversies precipitate vague reports that the church-going population was in rapid decline. That the contrary is true is not known better than by the millions of church members in the United States. An eastern clergyman discloses that at the time of the American Revolution there was only one professed Christian in Princeton University and two in Harvard University. Today nine-tenths of the university and college students of both sexes are members of some Christian church, Diminishing church rolls are almost unknown in the United States, while millions of dollars are expended annually for new church edifices in the cities, towns and rural sections of the country. Every denomination is annually reporting increased national memberships. Evidence of the stability of the church in America may be found in the general financial status. There has been a decisive increase in the salary standards of the ministry. Church buildings are better maintained and more luxuriously furnished. A few years ago only the most exclusive city churches could afford paid chor- isters, pipe organs and skilled organists. Today these are not uncommon in the smaller towns and are cus- tomary in the smaller cities. Whatever the present ecclesiastical debate may have done for good or evil, it manifestly has not detracted from church attendance, Editorial Comment | FISH FOR SLAVES (Des Moines Tribune-Capital) In Baltimore it will soon be legal for the masters to feed their slaves terrapin oftener than once a week, There are no slaves in Baltimore, but such a law has been on the statute books since the days of slavery. Three hundred and fifty such laws are to be repealed by the Maryland legislature. Newer states, such as Iowa, do not have an accumu- lation of laws, and occasional code revisions eliminate them as they grow obsolete. But they continue to occur, and the revision has to be kept up. Law, as well as and those who mi: 3 resistible force. Change is bound to come, in the most determined of societies, A NEW KIND OF CRUELTY (Time) They led Julius Shaefer, 10, onto Curtiss flying field, Long Island. They dragged him close to a plane. He tried to resist, digging his heels into the earth. His big brother climbed into the plane’s cockpit to show that the monster would not bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror the clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastented it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings, but could only force his hands slightly upward. The plane went up, R. F. Cullman piloting. It roared, it swooped. It turned loops, it careened. It slipped sideways, it banked, it circled. Then it returned to steady earth. The 10-year-old boy was unbound and lifted out, speechless and faint. Futile had been the attempt to cure the young mute by the sudden changes of air pressure incident to so wild an airplane ride. Such cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was function- al. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had Pat her child through the ordeal, stub- bornly faithful that science could cure all. THE HIGH COST OF WEATHER (Nation’s Business Magazine) it does weather cost us? It is an amazing, in- credibie fact that nobody knows or has ever even at- te tere to find out! All humanity gains, and loses by weather. In the » every in- conduct of every man’s life, every busine: dustry, weather assets and weather liabilities are recog- nized but not gauged, except in an imperfect, frag- mentary way. On both sides of the account the fig- ures are large—but we do not know how large. Here are a few ‘gestive examples of weather cost: Some go the International Institute of Agri- culture thered at statistics of hail losses in.certain coun- tries. ese indicated that hail costs the world on an average about $200,0000,000 a year. Later figures seem to show that this was an underestimate. The United States department of: agriculture has. recently stated that ten leading agricultural crops in the country alone aoe yy hail to the tune of $47,500,000 ir e in an average t hail is a minor item among weather vis- ation. © found to. be vitall, Sty tesentte a oe iting the reer vi ly nt upon gettir it amount of rain in the month of July. It iS cause puted that a deficiency of half an inch during that month—not a drought, but merely a soma he ena nomal supply of moisture—reduces the value four states of the Corn Belt by 150,000,000, has been a subject of controversy. It may a ea ite cost of weather, ir ? lize the world’s pasineed Ife Americanism: ss eee PSYCHIC CAUSES OF DISEASE The human mind has many powers which we are just beginning to un- derstand. It is intimately connected through the brain and nervous sys- tem to every part of the human body. We know that the mind can have a powerful stimulating effect toward either health or disease. When the mind is properly used and controlled health may be maintained under many adverse conditions, but when the mind is torn by conflicting de- cells it is supposed to guard over and control. Some of our thinking is conscious, but by far the greater art is unconscious and can only be Feit through our emotions. When ore is happy or enthusiastic, | one can digest a meal of rich foods in wrong combinations and suffer | few bad after effects; if one is de- pressed, sorrowful or worried, even | the best of foods may lie heavily up- on the stomach. In health the normal wastes from tissues are expelled quickly, because they would otherwise be poisonous | ag | BARBS | ceansiminanesintiinaiaitsl Diiaacarcnlily ‘The man who pushed a peanut 11 miles with his nose ought to make a good reporter. He has a great nose for news. * . Lady Astor says it took a great war to show men what women can do. Wonder what peace would show? 8 Henry Ford insists that the air- plane never will replace the auto- mobile. At least not so far as pe- destrians are concerned. Actors in the talkies cannot wear mustaches or whiskers, as they in- terfere with speech. Some of the plots, however, will furnish the whiskers. pus Nearly every American family has its Lindbergh. We mean the young man who lands in out-of-the- way places and doesn’t report it. Russia will stage an international chess tournament next summer. Looks like they were calming down over there, (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) Viscountess Rhondda, who succeed- ed to her father’s title as well as to his fortune, is one of the busiest of Britain’s wealthy women. She per- sonally manages her father’s col- leries and vast business holdings as well as acting as director in numer- ous other concerns. CABBAGE, OF COURSE Tobacconist (to complaining cus- tomer): But that cigar is made from the choicest leaf. Victim: Yes, but what kind of plant ?—Answers. GRANDPA’S-TURN Old,Man:, I never see a blush on a girl’s facé.now. In my day it was very different. Flapper: Oh, granddad, what did you say to them ?—Tit-Bits. to the body, but when the nervous system is run down or upset, one lacks the needed vital force to ex you can see that a do to waste your rill a retention of these poisons a! eir gradual | accumulation may lead to serious almost immedi processes of 2 and seriously interfere with working of the kidneys. Harmful hatred and worry itality to such an are frequently fol- attacks, headaches ymptoms of autointoxic: tion. These unpleasant symptoms | are almost immediately stopped it one can fill oneself with joyful! thoughts of friendliness, courage | and love. The powerful, unpleasant emotions always result in a toxic poisoning of | the body. In many cases they result in actual disease and there have been a few instances where sudden death has ensued from these causes. It is said that, the famous surgeon, Vesal- ius, while dissecting a woman, was so affected by seeing her heart still faintly beating as he was cutting through the tissues of the chest that he, immediately dropped dead, and it and other sy roducen senny RA ‘AIRS | | ashe repulses, inder cover of Ri When Alester cunnot take her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVIII printed: chiffon, for her mother. Paris creation. color all the time. phone rang. Halfway she paused. said to herself. the ring she saw Jerry thete. latter gave her a furious look. VEY, but Alester ith her beauty and a gown for a her to, Ji ERRY had dressed herself in her She had no evening. clothes and. did. not wish to buy any until she had saved enough money to get a winter coat But Evelyn had said her party was to be informal and that it would break up early. Jerry was as excited and happy a3 though she'd had on the latest Perhaps it added to her satisfaction to know that she owned a good looking new street dress to wear the next day, and that Alester had promised to érive her down to Atlantic City. Life was certainly taking on new If Dan would call her, come and tell her that he was glad she was getting on... At seven o'clock sharp the tele- Jerry flew down the stairs from her room to answer it. “He might think I've been sitting there dying to hear from him,” bh When the landlady came up from the basement apartment to answer “Why didn’t you answer it if you expect a call?” she grumbled, taking the receiver off the hook, Jerry put a finger to her Ups. “Sure, she’s here, sitting right ‘on top of the steps,” the landlady said when Dan asked for Jerry. The “It's a good thing for your dress that I wiped them steps today,” the ‘woman went on, speaking to Jerry, but heard by Dan. “You must be folng some place, but you ain't in a hurry, are you?” she added as Jerry ‘came slowly down the rest of the stairs. She had planned to be even slower, but there was no point in that now that Dan knew she had been. waiting for his call. eee wee she would be frank, any: way. He wouldn't be flattered when he knew why she was going to ask him to Evelyn's party. “I suppose you know that Ales- ter is kept at home tonight,” she said after greeting him. Dan maintained a discreet sl- lence in regard to that, merely murmuring an inaudible reply. “He was going to take me up town to a little party a friend of mine is giving,” Jerry explained. Then she hesitated a breath, hop- ing that Dan might offer to take .|his place. All she heard was a slight hum on the wire. “I'm at liberty to invite some- one in his place,” she went on, not 80 confidently now. “Yes?” Dan said unemotionally. “Oh, don’t be so mean,” Jerry eried. “You know I want you to go. But not if you aren't inter- ested.” Dan laughed... “How do I know whether I want to go or not?” he asked. “Who is giving the party, and where?” “I don’t think you know her,” Jerry said, piqued because he hadn’t accepted unconditionally. “Her name is Evelyn Starr. She's in. . . she works where I do,” she explained, averse to telling him her big news over the telephone. “Ob, a chorus girl,” Dan said. Jerry gasped. “Who told you?” she asked. “Alester?” “Of course,” Dan replied. “Did you think, Jerry, that I didn’t know what you were doing? Re- member, you told me when we drove up the river that you had lost your job. I’m sorry we part- ed—the way we did that night. It gave me no opportunity to talk to you about your hard luck. And the next day when I telephoned you were out.” | #Well, have you got anything against chorus girls?” Jerry asked, to keep him from thinking about the place where she happened to ‘be at that time. She didn’t want to think about it, either, or to talk about it. “Not a thing,” Dan replied, “be- cause I've never known any. But I certainly wouldn't. take you to anything like that affair at the Rolling Stone Inn. If this is to|and getting be @ whopee party you can count me out.” “It's just @ little gathering at Miss Starr's apartment,” Jerry said quickly, “She's a lovely girl, And her mother’s there, if that helps any.” “It helps a lot. I’ve heard of parties in bachelor girls’ apart- ments. What time shall I come for you?” “As- soon as you can get here,” Jerry told him. “We're starting early because none of us keep late hours.” “T'll_be around in a few min- utes,” Dan said. “I’m calling from the drug store.” * ee ERRY knew he meant the drug the subway,’ convinced that no one could be in danger of any Tomantic tempta- tions there. get tired,” Dan said, “but you look as fit as a mountain climber, Jerry. The stage seems to agree with you.” “I thought I’d drop dead on my feet the first week,” him; “but I'm used to it now.” crossed the street and were enter- ing the park. “Perhaps we should have taken Jerry said nervously, “We can.hail a cab when you Jerry told “Do you: like. it?” Dan asked structive emotions, it kills the very | ‘al states cause an | the | r, eriticism, | if | young is also said that Louis of Bourgon dropped dead from horror as he we nessed the exhumation of his father’s corpse. You must realize how potent the mind is as a factor in the produc- 1 Dr. McCoy will gladly afiswer personal questions on health and diet, hd to him, care of the une. Enclose a stamped addressed |] envelope for reply. tion of many chronic disorders. Sometimes this process is so insid- jous as to be unrecognized except by [the closest intention of a skill idiagnostician. In my practice, I | have seen a number of cases of par- | alysis which were induced by a slight | injury associated with fear. Al- though these patients had been to | many different doctors and under- gone many different types of treat- | ment, they were not cured until this fear factor was recognized, and then the cures took place almost instant- ly even in some cases of years’ | standing. This is undoubtedly the reason for some of the so-called mir- | acles that occur during religious re- | vivals. The real source of the dis- ease being psychic, the cure takes place as soon as the afflicted one’s a high enough ir reached pitch of exaltation. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS' A Sallow Look Question: Mrs. R. E, M. writes: “Kindly explain why my 312-year- Id child is getting a sallow look about her. It’s not sunburn or tan {from being out, but a horrid yellow pee She seems to be in good health jough. yt swer: Your child is undoubted- ly suffering from some serious dis- order for it is uncommon for such a child to become jaundiced. uu must have her carefully exam- |ined at once and not depend on any general information which I can give you through this column. Chronic Appendicitis Question: Mrs. E. R. writes: “I have had chronic appendicitis for seven years. And each year it is getting worse. Is there anything I 4 can do in a medicinal way to keep \» Me from an operation?” ° f Answer: You are doubtless suffer- ing from colitis or inflammation of the colon. Your appendix would al- so be inflamed but this would not necessarily require an operation. Do everything you can to correct the colitis, and the chronically inflamed appendix will respond as well as the rest of the intestines. The treat- ment:is mainly dietetic, but you must remember that it is necessary to stay on a strict diet for months and even a year or two before the colon will be completely restored to its nor- mal condition. Hardening of Arteries ry Question: Mrs. H. writes: “Please” outline treatment for woman 65, ap- parently in good health, who has hardening of the arteries, a little short of breath when climbing stairs and (what seems) a regular heart- beat in the ear, noticeable only when lying down.” Answer: This woman is no doubt suffering from high blood pressure which is caused by hardening of the arteries. Have her take a fast of about a week on plain water, with the addition of a little lemon, or- ange or grapefruit juice if desired, then: put her on a diet free from all starches and sugars. store in the neighborhood. She hung up the receiver with a happy smile on her lips. Ho might as well have come to her door! And his presence in the imme- diate vicinity of her house would give them time for a talk alone. “We can walk through the park to Evelyn's place,” she planned as she put on her hat and a light coat. She was ready when she heard his ring. And she answered the door herself, her pretense of indif- ference thrown to the winds. Dan’s hand came out eagerly to meet the one. she impulsively ex- tended. His grip on her fingers warned her that she had welcomed him too warmly. She had no in- tention of giving him any false hope. But it'was . . . well, pleas- ant, to have him back again, to be going for a walk with him. Their eyes met and Jerry read the love message in Dan’s as clear- ly as though it had been printed there, She experienced a sensa- tion as of physical contact that had nothing tp do with the touch of their hands. She couldn't put the feeling into words, but it was some- thing that made Dan different from anyone else she'd ever known. ‘Was this what was meant by falling in love? This quick re- sponse to another's nearness, this feeling of a union beyond the lim- its of physical things? It was like a drug to Jerry, a bitter sweet drug which she craved but feared to take. Why, the very turn of his shoulder had power to stir her, she realised as they walked along. She stole a glance at his profile when he took his eyes off her to watch the traffic for a chance to cross Central Park West in safety. How could she have forgotten that she tingled just to look.at his thin brown.face?. And this insane desire ~ Pgh baad hand into. his? Coul 'y Alester while she felt ‘ike mehle. about another man? No, no! She must stop this nonsense, It was the same old ho- kum the girls had talked about in Marblehead—the same silly blah was saying to her. They had quietly. -Jerry- sensed a double question behind the words. Per- haps he would offer her marriage again. “Yes, I do,” she said slowly, and then: “It got me out of the shop- girl class,” she added, to remind him of what had passed between them the last time they were to- gether, Dan understood her. So she still believed she had a chance to mar- ry Alester Carstairs. The evening suddenly turned from one filled with Joy to one steeped in wretch- edness. “We'd better ride, I think,” he said shortly as a cab hove into sight around a curve, ‘Without waiting from an answer from Jerry he hailed it. She did not protest, The walk had been a mistake. eee | tad A short while they were at'Ev- elyn’s. fore them, Jael Thane athong them. Evelyn had told her she was. in- viting him. Perhaps Jerry would have hesitated to be present et a party where Jael was an invited guest had she been less excited about the Atlantic City opening, for she had not forgotten the slur he'd cast in her @irection at the first rehearsal. And might have wondered that he had not in- fluenced Evelyn against her. Jael saw.her come in and his brows drew together in a scowl. He wasn't in love with Evelyn, but he knew her for what she was— the daughter of a fine old family —and here in her home was a girl like . . . like the little cheat who'd left him banging out jazz for re- hearsals! Although unknown to Jerry and wouldn't have occurred to Jacl to pearipe. this Ladigyaray ‘at the the- types her, but he.was. aware of the ex-. clusiveness ‘she in’ her ‘room and nodded in brief Eat ness. He merely glared at Others were there be-_ Jerry caught his eyes across the © | Our Yesterdays I : FORTY YEARS AGO A. farewell reception for Miss ¥ Annie Austin was given at the home of Col. C,.W. Thompson. IAAL GG TTT One of the most interesting ob- jects in Bismarck at present is the steam woodcutting machine in the yard of C. W. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Walker and children of Steele visited in Bis- marck, Among the citizens of Dakota who are booked for Alaska and the gold rush is Joseph Katz of the, Sheridan house. 4 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO E, S. Allen and J, F. Philbrick have gone to Hunters Hot Sprin, at Springdale, Mont., for a week’s vacation. Mrs. E. H. Wilson and daughter Helen have returned from a three months’ visit in Minneapolis. ‘red Peterson has gone to Des Moines where he will attend college. He will stop in Minneapolis to spend Christmas with his sister Mabel. Mrs. J. J. Jones has gone to Min-9: neapolis for a short visit. TEN YEARS AGO At a recent election of the Bur- leigh County Association; * Theodore Koeffel was named presi- dent, F. E. McCurdy vice president, and Benton Baker secretary and treasurer. Miss Deborah Hall of Elbowoods is ‘@ visitor ‘in the city. Frank Reed, Bismarck postmaster, hasbeen ill at a local hospital with an attack. of flu. | = Carl Peterson is.home from Fremont, Calif., where he spent months in military service. DECEMBER 1 Bite Sonneries surrendered claims to Lo ng Islan 1777—Congress at York, Pa., pt General Washington to a} int Lafayette to a command. 1811—First steamboats ran between bany and New York city on [sexe eee i icecated more — inaugurat gas lights; first city to dos 80. ©