Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 2

icons SiS EMR OI 4 nn BS ra Saturday, December the 25th, 1920 Ends our PRE-INVENTORY Sale. Take advantage of these last few days. Special Discount on all Xmas toys IANOQOOEQEERUUAOOUUUAOGNOTOOLEUTEARERU ALES 2 We wish to extend to all our patrons a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year J. V. BAKER & SON “Where Quality and Prices Meet”’ UNFAIR TO GROOM Why Should Man Be Denied “An- cestral Harness?” Bride Allowed to Take Pride in Wear. ing the Gown in Which Grand- mother Was Married, but for Him, Nothing Doing. Why does a man never get married ip ancestral harness? asks a writer ip the New York Evening Sun, One reads in the report of a recent wedding in New Haven, Conn, that “the bride (Miss Dorothy W. Day) wore a gowu which was worp by her grandmother when the latter was married fifty years ago.” in other cases It Is not the entire gewn, but the “bridal dress was trimmed with rare old lace that was part of the wedding finery of the bride’s great grandmother when that estimable lady was married, about seventy-five years before.” “But who ever read, “Mr. Bridegroom wus quite handsome in a suit of black which was worn by his grand- father, the Hon. John Bridegroom, when the latter married Miss Mehita- ble Spanker in 18607" Nor does one ever learn from @ modern wedding report: “The bride groom's feet were clad In shoes that his great-great grandfather, Capt. Peddedian Timkin, wore at Bunker Hitt and Valley Forge. The shoes, with only slight restoration necessary, ure in marvelous condition and tent # distinctly revolutionary flavor to the bridal occasion.” In fact, the bridegroom's clothing never geta mention, beyond “the con- ventional black.” If tt did it would be only to relate some disaster too tm portant, unusual or ridiculous to be omitted, even in a wedding narrative. Two chief rensons are advanced for the tack of ancestral male garments at the bridal altar, One reason ts the difficulty of making a man look even passable tn his grandfather's = riz, whereas a girl becomes more beautt- ful tu the quaint garments of a by- gone day. Moreover, a man appear ing for bis wedding In a John Han- cock coat and knickers would claim more attention than the bride, and that would be fatal at any wedding. But the real reason why a man does not marry tn his grandfather's acenery is because tt ts not. Grand: mother put her wedding dress” care fully away and preserved It for her children, Granddad put his away for the nonce, but he was tn no circum: stances to preserve a perfectly good suit for another generation. Ile needed it in his own business. So eventually his bridal attire went the way of all men’s clothing. Rut tt would be refreshing, some ‘erities of the times say, to rend once in a while in wedding reports: “The bridegroom's svelte shape was admirably set.off by the bridal pants worn seventy-five years ago by his maternal grandfather, the celebrated Squire Ringlewhiffle. on the occasion of his marriage to the beautiful Prudence Winterbottom.” —— Madrid Jammed With People. Spain's abstention from the war has not prevented housing crisis In that - country. In the large cities the de mand for apartments fs so great that new buildings are leased from roof to basement before construction Is fairly under way. In Madrid the population has In- creased 80 per cent since the outhrenk of the war. The recent arrivals are not only newly enriched Spaniards. but also refugees and_ visitors from belligerent countries. who during the war sought the Spanish capital as a peace oasis, The popniation of the city is now approximately one million, or an average of seventy-two for every building. Its density of population is believed to be greater than that of uny other large town tn Europe, or 271 per hectare (more than 100 per ncre) as compared with 200 per hee- tare in Paris and 128 in London, In the central part of the city the population reaches 773 per hectare, It should be recalled in this connection that the buildings do not as a rule con- tain so many floors as in our country. —Living Age. ach's sake, what about your head?” “My head can take care of Itself, sir.” replied Colonel Jagsby. “I have the good fortune to possess, sir, the eapacity of a southern gentleman.”— Birmingham Age-Herald. “Does your Gusvhnd cusvy” prying golf?” “Yes, but I don't understand how he can. It Is beyond me how he can get any plensure out of u game which irritates and angers him so.” | SPOS OSSD WILL MAKE IT UP. Thru a misunderstanding with the publishers we did not receive our calendars for 1921, however, we will try to make up for the error she coming year HOENE HARDWARE POPE I POOLE PEPE OD POPES PSPSPS ro rrrrerrGd MIDWINTER TERM BE- GINS JANUARY 3 Positions guaranteed to Graduates Write for Catalogue LINK’S BUSINESS COLLEGE Boise, Idaho KELSEY’S FIFTH LETTER. My stay in Chicago would not be complete without a trip to the McCormick Works, the greatest of its kind in the world. The sights are amazing and the man- ufacturing operations of such magnitude that I felt more than compensated for the days time spent there. A representative of the company called for me at my hotel and a taxi whirled us a few miles to the Deering Works and later to the McCormick Works. When we realize that the McCormick Works covers 229 acres and has many factories of various descriptions included therin it begins to dawn upon one that manufacturing of har- vesting machinery is a mighty big industry. We started in at the foundry which has an output of 10,000,000 castings annually a thousand men being employed. The core making room resembles a huge bake shop. Here sand is formed into molds and baked at a temperature of 500 degrees. Into and around these cores the hot metal is poured and the cast- ing is made. Next we went through the Malleable Found where pig iron is annealed, which takes seven days and will then withstand breakage toa great extent. Ina year they turn out 60,000,000 castings and a le Simon Bros. Wholesale BUTC “Dealers in Hides, Pelts, COTTONWOOD, IDAHO and Retail HERS and all kinds of Poultry 73,000,000 chain-links. waste heat thrown off by melt- ing furnaces is used to produce steam, up to 24 horse power be- ing generated. The Forge de- partment is a very noisy place, here giant drop hammers with one or two blows form all kinds of steel shapes from hot and cold steel. Making knife sections is a very particular work and goes through many operations before | 5 fl it is ready to go in the harvest field. This building has 78 automatic screw machines with a capacity of 15,000 pieces a day. These little machines are marvels and The nut and bolt screw is shop I found very interesting. | us a continous row of pins, col-| sn lars, set screws, small shafts and | SA many other parts were dropping forth from the various machines | U T stood there enraptured at the Oe ingenuity and capacity of these ff wonder machines. The auto-| matic nut tapping machines, tap | ¢ from 10 to 14,000 nuts a day. About a 1,000,000 nuts and bolts is a day’s output. Having seen AY we pause in our daily task at this time while all hearts are gay and thankful while we wish how the parts were made we/| next watched the assembly into | fe complete machines. The pro- gressive method is used each| man having a certain kind of | oq work to nerform, as the frame | 5f of a machine passes alone. T seen ore machine that punches 19|{e holes in one operation. Few reonle are aware that they are 3800 separate parts on a grain binder. assembled in units then into dif- ferent machines and all working parts tested. Lifting is all done by compressed air. Now we come to the department where binder canvases are made. Large machines that are so entirely automatic that all the girl oper- ator has to do is to feed the wood | 3f] slats on a cylinder and the apron comes out complete. These varts are first | 2 Every |& condition of sanitation, light and |e ventilation guarded in the interest of health and comfort throughout this ft vast establishment. They claim is carefully safe-| ff to have the second largest lum-| 2] ber yard in the world and 60,000, |; 000 ft. is used in a year’s time| SF part of it going into the con-|/U5 struction of harvesting machin- | ff es and the balance used for] fff crating and packing. 000 gallons of paint are made an- nually and used by them. Last but not least we come to the twine mill where a great many women are employed. I seen the Sisal leaves and Manila plants as they unpacked them the former coming from Yucatan, Mexico and the latter from the Philli- pine Islands. The fibre is put through several softening and combing operations which form the fibre into a continous ribbon. After the fibre in sliver form is finished it is spun into twine. I felt I could stand for hours and watch those machines wind the twine into balls. It was a great sight. With my work at Chicago finished I proceeded on my way to Canton, Illinois. I found it a beautiful city of 13,000 people. It was diffucult to secure hotel accomdations owing to the great rush of people. The P. & O. Plow Works is the big industry of the town and of course that was my object in going there to see how plows were made. This plow factory is one of the oldest and largest plow factories in the United States having started in 1842. I spent the greater part of the day seeing how plows and harrows were made but I am not going into a lengthly description of this manufacture. Suffice to say I gained much information A 2 In their | = paint grinding department 800,-| = and enjoyed my visit there very much. Of the many things of interest seen there I was deeply impressed with the making of the plow shave. They are forg- ed out of high point carborn steel with & soft center by means of big drop hammers, then they are laid ona_ brick revolving table heated with oil to a temper- ature of 1450 degres and are shaped and edged and dipped in brine, now being tempered they are placed ina hydraulic press under 2000 pound pressure and are further formed and fitted. This is called the French temper- ing process and is patented. Leaving Canton I stopped at Peoria over night on account of train connections. Its a clean city and of 80,000 imhabitants and has many factories. From there I went to Mattoon where I spent .a few hours and then went on to Sigel, Illinois. This is the former home of many of our Greencreek and Cottonwood people. I was royally welcomed there. The first man to greet me was Joseph Niemen one of Sigel’s most prominent and pop- ular citizens. I shall never a was accorded me on every hand. each of you a very Merry car to take me in the country. Mr Niemen showed me about the | town and I was deeply impressed with its beauty. It is one of the neatest and cleanest towns T’'ve seen. It is well laid out its steets are all paved and yet it has a population of only 300. A great deal of my time was spent onthe farms which I greatly enjoyed. I visited Ef- fingham, Tentopolis and Shelby- ville all progressive towns. In- cidently I visited the Greencreek and Lillyville setthements the former home of the Hoene’s and Nuxoll’s and many other folks of Cottonwood, Greencrek and Keuterville, Idaho. During the two weeks of my sojourn in that section of Illionois I felt right at home and enjoyed marked hos- pitality among the people at whose homes I stayed. the pleasure of meeting relatives of the Hoene’s, Nuxoll’s, Huss- man’s, Kaufman's, Arnzen’s Jen- sen’s, Willenburg’s, Schumach- er’s, Sonnen’s, Harmon’s and Krieger’s and all were prosper- ing nicely, I had the good for- tune to attend two weddings be- fore leaving there one of them being near to Tentopolis. After I had| » Christmas ing the afternoon I was treated to dancing on an open air plat- form and I might ad the warm rays of the sun were comfortable indeed. In the evening dancing was again indulged in under starry skies and the big crowd made merry. While Illinois has many miles of fine roads it also has a great number of highways that could stand improving. It was good news to me to learn that the state had voted 60,000,000 dol- lar bonds for good roads and they expect that the automobile license money to cover that amount. The new roads are ex- pected to be 60 ft. wide. Of course it is easier to build roads there than in our part of Idaho, as the former consists of level or slichly undulating vrairies. One unique engineering feat that was rought to my notice was the Chicago river which formally flowed into Lake Michigan has now heen made to flow in the opposite direction thereby be- coming a part of the Chicago Drainage Canal which ioins the Desplains river near Joliet. Tll- inois is larger than England and ranks next to Pennslyvania emg ni in th i riding in a surrey through the| © Production of coal while it tops the list in agricultural A good sized crowd formed about} mud a few hours finally reached, imp! i me and I was fast ac-|the place and sat down to a| products, steam alleen ns quaintances. while waiting a sumptous wedding feast. Dur-| cars. (To be continued.) >