MCGRATH'S CELEBRATION
OF FOURTH OF JULY WAS
ONE OF BEST EVER HELD
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pool, second prize, $2; Rose Vander
pool, thid. prize, $3.
Hoys’. Relay Race^—200.. -yards-—Re
lay each 50 yards—Four in team—Joe
Oates, Bob . Vanderpool, .Bnd Hanson,
Paul Lisky; prize,^10
Women’s Rotate . Race—One dozen
potatoes, two. feet apart—-Mrs. N. G.
Hanson, first prize, $5; Avis Vander
pool,. spcop$, prize.*; Lora Konig,
.. third, prize $1.
Hoys.’ and Girls’ Hop, Skip and
. Jump—Joe. .Liskv, .first prize, $4;
Jim Brown, second prize, $3; Bob
:. Vandecpool.'r third prize, $2.
.. .Inboard Motors Race—Over 8-mile
c. «DB'.„rse—Fritz Tittel, 59 minutes 58
e seconds, lrst prize S50; Bob Stone, 1
.. hou 2 minutes, second prize, $25;
, Miaka andD'ui McRae, 1 hour 10 min
. ntes, third prize, $15.
MOTOR BOAT. RACES.
.4 H, P. Johnson Motors.
.First prize. N. G. Hanson, 14 min
. atesf.prize,. gold, trophy ring.
Seoond prize, Peter Snow, 15 min
_ ntes; prize, box of cigars.
Third prize, Chester BrinU, 15 min
utes, 30 seconds t prize, fancy shirt.
,.. 2 .1 -2 H. P. Motors.
First prize. Joseph Oates, 20 min
. ates. 25. seconds; prize, Elgin watch.
Second prize, R. Dulak, 20 minutes
. j.251-2 seendg; prize, fountain pen.
Third prize. Woodrow Vanderpool,
.,..22 minutes; prize, pocket knife.
. Notes.
Dick McArthur and Bobbie Jones,
from up the Kuskokwim, have been
.in town .Tor the past few days.
Herman Olson and Ed Carlson ar
rived oa.the.2d from the North Fork.
Game Warden Oddie Hallson, who
arrived :here from Bethel a few days
. ago, gave an exhibition of speed with
his Jaunch, which is powered with two
four-cylinder 18 h. p. outboard mo
.. tors.
Carl Lottsfeldt left for Flat by air
plane on the 2d.
Harry-Laur.was among those visit
. ingvhere on the- 4th.
Tom Conley-left for Big River on
v the*.3d.
Matt, Beilin is taking a short va
. cation in McGrath.
George Bishop, Charlie Smith and
Ora Barnhart arrived from Tatlu- j
v wiksat a few .days ago, and were
-Observers, of. yesterday’s Fourth of j
July .exercises.
Frank Lang is a recent arrival
. from Salmon, river.
Jack Stewart and A. J. Hosmer are j
■„ among recent arrivals in town.
Lon Wilson is paying McGrath a
short visit.
Charlie Hood and Tim Marquam
are tamong those recently arriving,
,. for a short visit.
Mr. Von Frank arrived a couple of
days ago, coming from his headquar-.
r ter*, up the Nixon. j
Ed Gjolme, from up the Niron, is
.- • a recent .arrival.
Billy McGowan, who arrived from!
the North Fork, a few days ago, has !
. again taken his departure. j
. SEEK CLIMATE DATA
THRU STUDY OF TREE
WASHINGTON—A gigantic curve
which is described as “fairly reliable
; hack, to a date before the beginning
.. . of the Christian era and “moderately
reliable” for a period running tfeck
several hundred years farther has
been worked out by Dr. Ellsworth
Huntington, of Yale University, thru
studies of growth rings of trees.
Following the method developed by
Professor Andrew E. Douglass, of the
University of Arizona, Dr. Hunting
x iton emd his assistants measured the
i rings in the stumps of 451 giant Se
t quoias whose dates of cutting are
known. Some of the trees were only
a few hundred years of age when
felled. Nearly 100 were close to
SjOOO years of age. Three had lived
more than 3,000 years, while the rings
at the oldest registered 3,210 years.
From ithe measurements obtained,
~ Or. JEIiWitington was ableotn work-out.^
the climatic curve.
The Carnegie Institution, which isi
interested in the work, says it is of
significance that Dr. Ernest Atitevs,
of the University of Stockholm, made
a restudy of that part of Dr. Hunt
ington’s Sequoia material which re
lates to the period from 1000 B. C. to
the present and although the methods
which he employed in constructing a
climatic aurve were entirely different,
the curves of fluctuations for the
period drawn by both correspond in
striking degree.
DOCTOR GIVES GLOOMY
VIEW ABOUT FATNESS
CHICAGO.—There is no such
such thing as being “fat and healthy,”
according to Dr. Robert W. Keeton,
associate professor at the University
of Illinois College of Medicine.
For fat people are suffering from a
disease, obesity, for which there is no
specific cure. Obesity can be con
trolled, however, Dr. Keeton points
out, and fat people should be con
stantly subjecting themselves to ex
ercise and diet.
“Obesity, while serious in itself,
leads to a number of conditions of the
body that eventually may become se
rious and endanger life,” he ex
plained.
“Fat is dead weight and it re
quires energy to carry it around
which might be directed toward prof
itable work. Also excess fat often
leads to fatty depositions in the
heart and high blood pressure. Other
symptoms of unrestrained obesity
are mental sluggishness, bloating,
shortness of breath, stuffiness and
muscular pains.”
Excess food must either be worked
off as heat or stored in the body as
fat, the doctor explained. Appetite
is controlled by the speed with which
the food disappears from the blood
stream, and food is more rapidly
stored as fat than eliminated as heat.
“It follows that thin people have
little storage capacity and a small
iippetitte, while the fat person wants
to eat constantly and gows fatter.”
D. Keeton recommended that obese
obese people “weigh their meals” and
eat only the amount of food they act
ually require. If they eat less than
is needed for the work to be per
formed the fat is absorbed, but will
accumulate again unless the diet is
continued, he said. }
“BOLL WEEVIL ORATORY.”
The Atlanta Journal undertakes,
with some success, to prove that the
“old time oratory” of the younger
days has not totally departed from
the earth:
“It took a Catiline to inspire Cic
ero, a Warren Hastings to arouse the
full eloquence of Burke, and political'
issues of great moment to call forth'
the best of Webster and Calhoun.’
But Representative Buchanan, of thej
Lone Star State, has soared to the,
empyrean of oratory and held high |
festival in the thunder’s home on the
wings of a boll weevil. Those who
lament the silver-tongued days when
Congress produced speeches that
charged the ear and warmed the
heart should read his masterly plea
for a five-million-dollar appropriation
wherewith to combat the cotton de-;
vourer. Here we can give only hia
final flight:
“ ‘Gentlemen, in conclusion, I think
that when God Almighty created this
world and when He created the
United States, He was in.. a good
humor and smiled. He gave, us a sa
lubrious climate;. He gave us fertile
soil; He implanted within the bowels
of the earth every minei'al that is
useful to mankind; He abundantly
fructified it with teeming water, so
that the sun, in its majestic course,
does not look down upon a fairer land
or one more capable of administering
to the needs and wants '■hndvgratify
the luxuries of mar. W-httu-He cre
ated it He gave-us cotton.; dig gave
us a climatte ip fc--ns* productionof
cotton, that fair'white staple by Al
mighty God to clothe a naked world.
Ah, it is. fairer, better, and more ser
viceahle than the fleece which Jason
sought! Now, after being blessed
with this great gift, are we going to
sit by and permit an insignificant bug
from India to rob us of God’s price
less gift? I thank you.’
“If that could not move his listen
ing colleagues, nothing could. Praise
be for such oratory in this all too
’ack-luster age!”
EVOLUTIONISTS WILL SEEK
ANEW TO CANCEL RESTRICT
IVE LEGISLATION, TENNESSEE
MEMPHIS-—The American Civil
Liberties Union, New York, •will* be
asked to make a new fight on Ten
nessee’s anti-evolution law, Roger N
Baldwin, its representative, said to
day. Memphis will be recommended
as the scene of the battle. Baldwin
said be had decided to recommend
that the matter be taken back into
the courts after conferring with
friends of the Union in this city.
“I was sent to Mephis to ascertain
two things,” Baldwin said. “First,
if there is a practical way to get the
anti-evolution law into the federal
courts and through them on to the
United States supreme court.
“Second, if there is a disposition on
the part of Memphis friends of the
union to take up the fight.
“I shall report to each of them,
but whether or not the fight will be
attempted immediately I cannoot.
say.”
In order to get the case back into
the courts it probably will be neces
sary, Balwin said, to get some
teacher to consent to violate the law.
FORT GIVES UP WEAPONS
DATED BACK TO 200 B. C.
LONDON.—The remains of a
blacksmith’s shop, fully ornamented
bracelets, objects like napkin rings,
and implements' that might possibly
have been used for writing are
amongst remarkable discoveries made
in the vitrified Dunagoil Fot in the
island of Bute, on the west coast of
Scotland. The weapons and utensils
date back to fro m200 B. C. to 100
B. C.
Sacks filled with bones of red deer,
the early Scottish ox, swine and
other animals help to show what food
was eaten over 2000 years ago.
The walls of the fort were 12 feet
thick, the interior being filled with
rubble or land-gathered stones. These
were covered with brushwood, and
the whole sealed up with clay. The
brushwood was then ignited.
The smothered combustion stopped
the stones from fracturing, but al
lowed them to become viscious and
run together, thus forming a kind of
concrete of immense strength, to
which the two dry-stone settings be
came fixed. This was the forerunner
of our modern reinforced concrete
and cement structures.
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