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CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
WEALTHY WIDOW BUYS
Now Itz 50 Citizens Take
New Lease on Life.
Garber, Mo.—Mrs. Ada Clodfelter,
wealthy widow, is indeed mistress of
all she surveys,
Garber was in the “dumps” until
Mrs, Clodfelter came along and bought
the whole town, lock, stock, barrel and
everything, Her possessions include
160 acres of ground on which are lo
cated the post ofiice, railroad station,
a general store and a cluster of
houses.
Now Garber has a new grip on life,
Its 50 inhabitants are hopeful that
under the guidance of their new bene
factor the town will soon grow by
leaps and bounds., Mrs. Clodfelter
outlined an ambitious program for
the town’s welfare and already the
lethargy that has kept it in a rut these
~many years has been broken by the
spell of new activity.
' Elected as Mayoress.
In recognition of her services thus
far, townspeople held a meeting and
elected Mrs, Clodfelter mayoress.
Then she made known her plans to
inject some snap into the affairs of
this dozing, picturesque little settle
ment. She said she would build a
summer resort whose fame: would
spread far and wide.
t Once before Garber experienced the
thrill of notoriety. That was when
}Harold Bell Wright chose this scenic
; settlement for the picturization of his
‘ “Shepherd of the Hills.” One of his
principal characters was “Old Matt”
;(J. K. Ross), postmaster, who also
operated the general store. But after
‘the first wave of popularity had
lpwssxed Garber settled back again and
dozed.
Plans Large Tourist Hotel.
The town nestles in a valley a short
ldistance frora Mutton hollow and
Roark creek, and is one of Missouri's
oldest settlements, Before Mrs. Clod
felter took hold of things it looked
as if Garber would always be in a
rut. But right off she said she was
going to put the town on the map for
keeps, and townspeople pitched in to
help carry out her plans,
Mrs. Clodfelter plans to build a
large tourist hetel, some tourist cab
ins, another general store and some
other improvements, She has applied
for the position of postmistress in the
same store where “Old Matt” worked
and she hopes to transform Garber
into a suitable memorial to the “Shep
herd of the Hills,” !
Mrs. Clodfelter operates two board
ing houses at Springfield. Just as
soon as she can dispose of these she
g&wlfia‘wm homie in the
rt of her paradise settlement.
Test Yellow Pine for
More Hardy Variety
Placerville, Calif.—Yellow pine trees
from all over the United States are
being tested and cross-pollinated at the
Eddy Tree Breeding station here, in
an effort to obtain choice varieties of
forest trees that will grow faster than
the present wild stocks and hence pro
duce a crop of timber in fewer years.
Nursery plantings made last season
include seedlings of forty-nine species
and nine varieties from seed obtained
in seventeen different countries and
extensive additions are now in hand}
as part of this season’s program. |
The program of the station includes
gathering tree stocks from as many dif
ferent localities as possible, compar
ing races of the same species, selec
tion of the best individuals in native
stands as breeding stocks and artifi
clal pollination both within given spe
cles and between species in an effort
to produce hybrid varieties, Cross
pollination thus far has ylelded hy
brids of western yellow pine with
Swiss mountain pine and with the
digger pine of California,
The second tree genus on ‘which the
experimenters intend to work is the
black walnut., They now have a stock
of the black walnut species of north
ern California established, but have
not yet reached out for the eastern
and old world walnuts, due to their
preoccupation with the pine work.
Eventually they wish to add other
timber trees to the two now on their
experimental schedule,
The work of the station Is under the
divection of Lloyd Austin, a graduate
of the University of California,
Richest British Pastor
Works in London Slum
London.~The well-known Courtauld
family, whose great artificial silk man
ufacturing business has made four of
them millionaires, Includes a clergy:
man who Is probably the richest curate
In England,
He Is the Rev, Maltland 8 Cour
tauld, curate of St. Peter's, Wapping,
whose holding In the Courtauld con
corn is sald to represent about 2000,
000,
Wapping s an area of main streets,
poverty-stricken homes and numerous
drinking saloons and here Mr, Cour
tanld for twenty years has devoted
his time to the service of the poor
and of the church at which be Is »
subordinate minlster,
‘ Has High Speed
Frankfort, Germany.—Optimistic In
yentors have vislons of new speed
records by alrplanes, alrships and
pallway cars, A gas turbine operated
“on the principle of a rocket enabled
a motor car to go at the rate of G 2
miles an hour elght seconds after
starting.
BABY DEATH RATE
CUT TWO-THIRDS
United States Healthiest Place
for Infants. :
Washington.—A two-thirds reduction
in the infant mortality rate of this
country is the chief accomplishment of
public child welfare work, which this
year celebrates ite twentieth anniver
sary.
Dr. Josephine Baker of the New
York public health service and the
Child Hygiene association, after a con
ference with representatives of the
children’s bureau here, announced that
while the maternal mortality rate had
remained static during the-years,” the
infant death rate had declined until
the United States has become the
healthiest country in the world for
babies and children.
The New York association was the
first public health service organized
with preventive meuasures as its main
function. It came into existence in
1908.
“This association was not only the
first public health service to deal with
child welfare, but it was also the first
one that considered seriously the
theory of keeping’ well people well
rather than waiting until healthy peo
ple were sick and then trying to make
them well,” Doctor Baker said.:
“Now it is quite a common practice
for every public health service to ex
pend its energy in educational prac
tices to make the public realize the
need of keeping healthy.
“The decrease in the infant mor
tality rate shows the eflicacy of the
world-wide movement. Every health
center in the country now. every baby
and prenatal clinie, the children’s bu
reau, the state departments of health
and various municipal organizations
are all flooded with requests by womi
en from every part of the country,
from every walk in life for informa
tion about child care.”
Light Airway from
Berlin to London
Hanover, Germany.—Berlin business
men who have need to make trips to
London soon will be able to close up
their offices as usual at the end of the
day, if necessary confer with their
boards of directors in the evening, and
yet reach the British capital by 10
o’clock the next morning.
Such a possibility will become a
reality with the perfection soon of
a system of night lighting of the air
routes for planes from Berlin to Han
over, similar to that in use between
Berlin and Koenigsherg on the route
to Moscow. The regular plane will
start from Berlin at 2 o’clock in the
riorning, reach Hanover by 4 a. m.
The night ligh system is also
about to be introduced on the pas
senger routes of Berlin-Munich, and*
Berlin-Gleiwitz, on the Polish border.
The Berlin-Hanover route is to be ex
tended to Cologne, with a view to
making it possible to travel from Ber
lin to Paris partly by night.
Every three miles there are strong,
red neon lamps; every twenty miles,
a revolving searchlight of 150,000,000
to 250,000,000 candle power. At inter
vals of twenty to thirty miles emer
gency airdromes are provided for
forced landing.
Wisconsin Legion Aids
in Hunt for Veterans
Madison, Wis.—The American Le
gion is helping in the search for two
Wisconsin ex-service men who have
been missing for some time,
Phillip Mark Phinney, who served
in the navy in the World war, has
been missing since November, 1924,
when he was last heard from in St
Cloud, Calif. He is 5% feet tall, slen
der and has light-brown bair, [n
formation concerning him should be
sent to Neal Phinney, Lancaster, Wis,,
according to the Legion PPort of Miss
ing Men, a publication devoted to this
work.
Arthur Weldman, the other missing
Wisconsin man, has been gone siuce
November 18, 1927, The Port asked
that information of his whereabouts
be sent to his wife, Addye Weldman,
Mirror Lake, Wis,
Ideal Secretary
New York.—Evelyn Resnik, seven
teen, has been getting some attention
as the ideal secretary. She would go
to Jall for her boss, She appeared
for him in court for a traflic violation,
Not having enough money for the fine,
she told the Jjudge: *“You'll have to
put me in Juil,™ He didn't, of course.
Farm Hands Increase,
but Pay Rate Holds
Washington, D. C.=There are
more furmin hands than there
were at this thime o year ago. but
the pay Is ebout the same. ;
The lower volume of ludustri
employment s probably respon
sible for the Inerease of farm la
bor, the bureaun of agricultural
sconomics of the Agriculture de
partment explains In describing
the situation. The pay has been
held steady by the relatively
high industrinl wages.
The bureau reported the gen
eral level of farm wages on
April 1 at 166 per cent of the
prewar plane, the same as on
April 1 last year. The demand
for farm hapds was alse re
ported as about the sam: as at
Jls time last year,
“LINDY” MORE THAN
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Colonel Serves Many Gov
ernment Departments.
Washington.—Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh has become one of the most im
portant and influential government
officials, in an unofiicial way. He Is
serving half a dozen governient ée
partments directly and in advisory ca
pacities, and huas qualified as a super
lobbyist and salesman for the idea of
commercial aviation, in addition te his
“flying ambassadorship.”
The- Departments of State, Cem
merce, the Post Office, War and Navy
have employed his services in the last
few months. Dwight Morrow, United
States ambassador at Mexico City, is
credited with responsibility for the in
vitation which resulted in Lindbergh’s
nonstop flight to Mexico City, which
cuused .new expressions of good will
between the two Americau republics
and led to the flyer’s triumphal teur
of South and Central American ceun
tries.
Government Aids Flyer.
Lindbergh has appeared before
three congressional committees here
advocating bills to provide more pay
for military flyers and to provide for
extending the congressional frank to
the airmail
Practically all of Lindbergh’s activi
ties since his arrival in Paris have
been under direct government sanc
tion. It was at the government's re
quest that he returned immediately on
the cruiser Memphis, instead of fol
lowing his original idea of seeing the
world from an airplane. The flyer
himself disclosed this after his return.
The Guggenheim Foundation for
the Promotion of Aeronautics has offi
cially sponsored his flights in the
United States, but the government has
been active through its many agencies
in promoting his ventures. The Com
merce department provided an escort
plane, mechanie¢, and secretaries for
hi® nation-wide tour in the “Spirit of
St. Louis” in which he visited every
state: to make speeches in prometion
of aviation.,
.Took Up 1,000 in Week.
Lindbergh’s recent sighiseeing tours
for members of congress and diplo
mats in Washington, in which he set
a record by transporting more than
1,100 persons in seven days, were ar
ranged for by the Commerce depart
ment, Assistant Secretary William P.
MacCracken, eivil aviation chief, per
sonally ‘acting as dispatcher for the
flights. -
The army and the navy each fur
nished a huge transport plane for use
in this venture, and the army pro
vided field facilities which virtually
stopped their regular. military flying
‘for a week. Most of the Washington
notables who tlew had never before
gone up, and the undertaking is re
garded by friends of aviation as ene
of the most effective bits of aviation
promotion ever done,
All of which goes to show that the
tall young man from Minnesota meant
what he said when he announced, aftec
his return to the United States, that
his life was dedicated to aviation, It
is certain that his realization of his
potentialities for the promotioma of
aviation has turned his entire future
activities, for many years at least,
into this one channel. He may not
make large sums of money, but his
friends believe he will accomplish
- much toward attaining the end he has
- set for his goal—the further develep
\ ment gnd increased public support of
aviation.
Grade Crossing Deaths
Reduced 120 in Year
Washington.—Railroads have in
formed the Interstate Commerce com
mission that highway grade-crossing
accidents, fatalities and persons in
jured were reduced in 1927 compared
with 19206,
Last year 5,640 grade-crossing accl
dents took 2,871 lives and causeq in-
Juries to 6,613 persons. In 1026 the
toll was 5,800 accidents, with 2,491 fa
talities and 6,901 persons injured.
The decreases resulted despite a 5
per cent Increase in the number of
automobiles in operation in the same
period,
The Awmerican Rallway asociation
attributes the reductions to the safe
ty campaign work at the rail carriers,
the National Safety councll and the
American Automobile assoclation,
The rallroads believe, the asocia
tion announces, that further redue
tions can be had, and efforts are be-
Ing made by them to Increase safety
ut grade crossings. It Is sald that
complete elimination of grade cross-
Ings Is lmpossible becnuse of physical
and fnancial conditions,
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"« An Early Riger
Portland, Mapine.~<For years Mellen
C, Plummer, seventy, has seen the sun
rise dally. [le does not recall when
he folled to get up early enough. He
18, 0 eyclist who wants .to race any
man of forty across the country and
back.
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: Shoes of Flatfish
| New York.—Now come shoes made
of flatiish, but not for fiat feet. Ma
terlal from the Bay of Bengal Is go
lng fnto milady's wardrobe, but heels
will be higher thun ever,
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Buckle Saves Life
Detrolt.=A belt buckle which broke
the force of a bandit's bullet saved the
life of Earl Bowers. He was shot and
wounded for resisting holdup mea on
the street near his home,