Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1926, Page 14

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BIGRRNRESON0D WASHINGTON'S LEADING FLORIST “say It With Flowers Say It With Ours!” DRYS WERE ACTIVE AS EARLY AS 1805 MR CUTTLEFISHP OR YES, You'hL FIND HiM IN ROOM FORTY ONE OWN THE THIRD FlooR. GO POOR OL EZRA' 1 KNEW HED WrT T SKIDS If HE WEPT ON DANCIN' AROUND THESE NIGHT CLUBS MWiTH TH DOBBED HAIRED BANDITS! Ol GEEZER; 175 TougH TAFPy TO BE SICK IN A STRANGE CITy WITH NO FRIENDS To DROP \N AN’ SAY . YES THEY Took HiM AWAY THIS MORNING ' HE HAS A NERVOUS DREAK DOWN AmD & BAD CASE OF RHEUMATISM ! RO UTTLE FISK 'S N THE osPiTaL 7 Aquatic Society in That Day Made History, But Not at Water Sports. By the Associated Press. SIMSBURY, Conn., October 6.— Hard liquor drinkings in the’ young United States was frowned upon by cold water advocates as early as 1505, for correspondence just brought to light tells of the formation of a tem perance society in that year, claim for which is made that it was the first of its kind in this country. The body called itself the Simsbury Aquatic Society, although it had nothing to do with water sports. Had “Fighting Spirit.” The correspondence was brought out by Nathan L. Miller of Bloom- fleld, grandson of Benjamin Ely, au- thor of the records and letters, and clerk of the society. The letters showed that the “drys” of 1805 were fully as earnest in their efforts to promote sobriety through non-use of liquors as those of the present gen- eration, and they had the fighting Bpirit in trying to enforce their rules. The notes tell of early skirmishes of prohibitionists of that day, who were treated with contempt and scorn by most of their neighbors. Although the letters fail to reveal the total membership of the soclety, one dated August 13, 1805, showed that three kept their vo In an early letter Mr. Ely suggested that the co-operation of school teach- ers be sought in the movement, say ing: “There would be an end of balls, gambling, tavern hunting, etc., and the money now wasted@in these wicked vanities wouid be laid out in| g the purchase of useful books and the time spent in dances would be em- ployed in reading.” “Fared Better” After Pledge. Another exhibit is one “to Asa Humphrey—about 25th June, 1805, entitled “First Book of the Chronicles | of the Aquatics, Chapt. 31st.” This’ letter, written in biblical phraseology, told of a neighbor who, having taken "HOMDY" WELL 1 WONT Go BACk ON HIM, TLL BEAT J RIGHT UP T & ™ HosptaL g PARIS DEMANDS GERMAN AID IN STABBING CASE French Order Arrest of Man Who Stabbed Poilu Sergeant in Rhineland. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 6. in the Rhineland occupied the French government vesterday. Aid was de- manded of the German authorities in apprehending a man who stabbed a French non-commissioned officer at Neustadt. The opjntion among officials is that the multlplying of such incidents in occupied Germany the result of concerted action by ist agents, who are seeking to ruct the nego- tiations for closer relations between Germany and France. A new incident telling_of the arf.ur at said the Frenchma stabbed ane m.nm cycle. s wounded in the region t fa sergeant w tally. of the hes the pledge, fared much better physi- | [ cally, mentally and financially. It warned against one Jesse ho *hath Joined himself to R. U. M ~ The hope that the ety may | “continue and increase till the copper | stills in America shall be coined into | cents” is expressed in another letter. The letters showed that a temper- ance pledge was renewed monthly. Other requirements for membership were: That a member guilty of pro- fane swearing should be admonished for the first offense and expelled for the second: that each member should read at least 31 chapters of the Bible | monthly, and that each should read something composed by himself, or relate a story he had read in some book, or pay a fine of 3 cents. a1 CHAPEL IS TRIBUTE TO FRANCIS PEABODY Widow and Son Reproducing Port Tuncula of Assissi in Suburb of Chicago. By the Associated Prese. CHICAGO, October 6.—In a leafy hollow at May a Chicago suburb, ! ed in memory of Frandis Peabody, former head of the | Her Hair Fairly SPARKLES Now! The woman who knows what to do after waving her hair doesn't fear the effect of hot irons. Nor of frequent washings. A few drops of Danderine —on comb .or towel—and the hair is tifuily. A bit of Danderine rubbed lightly into the scalp, is the one sure way to dissolve every particle of dandruff. 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Alvaro Obregon, former President of Mexico, is in Navajo, So- nora, a free man and enjoying perfect health, according to his nephew, Fran- cisco Obregon, who arrived in San An- tonio yesterday to become vice con- sul of Mexico here. “I received a telegram from my uncle yesterday,” he declared, “in which he said he was not a captive and never had been kidnaped by the Yaquis.”- Transferred here from La redo, the former President’s relative is the first vice consul in San Antonlo since the days of President Carranza’s regime PAIN IS THE DANGER SIGNAL When the pain-warning your teeth give you goes unheeded, you ing, UNLESS you have immediate dental Olll‘ GRADUATE REGISTERED DENTISTS are each a his branch of dentistry and can give you the best service BY DR. FREIOT OF EXPERT, CAl SKILLED DENTISTS. Hand-made plates in - gol orcelain, GOLD CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK, PER TOOTH. $6 & $8. GU may be sure of future suffering, attention. specialist in at a most reasonable cost. 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