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li t CA.G2 six ; THE PERQUIMANS WEEXLT. HERTFORD, N. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 1937 CrGON CO:X!UNITY . IK ixaLle Nwett Ar Found In t i Back YwrdsA vV JscksonviEa. Ore. The Methodist church here, built in 1853 and said to ,m the oldest Protestant church west : bf the Rocky mountains, may be razed to make way for another of 'Jacksonville's "back-yard" mines. I During the depression almost ev ery resident of Jacksonville, the second oldest city in Oregon, sunk 'a shaft in his yard and went into gold mining on a small scale. Some made as high as $500 in a single 'day working over territory that had been combed fifty years before. !, It has been estimated that more -.than $1,000,000 in gold nuggets rests in the three unexploited spots .in Jacksonville the site of the old church,1 the old courthouse grounds now abandoned since the county seat moved five miles east to Med ford, and California street, the main thoroughfare. The County court has rejected hundreds of applications to mine the courthouse grounds, the church bad refused mining rights, and the city council had vigorously protest ed all efforts to mine under Cali fornia street, which in 1850 rang to the boots of miners at one of Ore gons richest gold strikes. Two rich creek beds run through the ' town Daisy and Jackson streets carrying placer gold. The church and the courthouse are near these creek beds, but their grounds are as yet unworked and a mys tery as far as the yellow metal con tent is known. , A few years ago, despite the ef forts of the city council, amateur miners, "riftedj'if their tunnels un der California street and a large block of paving caved in. Caveins over abandoned mines are not un common. - If the church is sold to private interests and the Methodist coun cil has announced it is on the block the building probably will be razed and several shafts sunk. Res idents hope to retain the building as a historic landmark and make a museum of it. It is said gamblers helped to build it. War Orphan Establishes Identity After 21 Years Avignon, France. Maurice Men ard, known in France as "the man without a country," finally has solved the 21 year old mystery of his identity. Menard, apparently a war orphan, was too young when captured by Germans to remember his full name, his identity or nationality. He remembers vaguely the disappear ance of his mother and his life in a German concentration camp for for eign children. From there he was transferred to Switzerland. He could remember his last name but not his first, so people called him Louis. When he grew up, he became a sub-officer in a Swiss infantry regi ment. The mystery of his true iden tity haunted him and he decided to return to France. He was arrested, for French -authorities said that if he considered himself French he had no right to escape military serv ice. He was court martialed and acquitted of desertion and then caUed into service. After a lengthy investigation he finally got in touch with the French consul at Liverpool, who was able to send him his birth certificate and clear up the mystery of his identity. ; He was christened Maurice Men-: ard, son of Francois, a gardener, and Berthe Menard, They lived in Spofforth, England, until 1914, when they crossed to France that his fath er might join the army and go to the front Apparently he and his mother moved to a small French village which was captured by the Ger mans and upon her death he was placed in the children's camp. Plain Old Locomotives - Gloried in Fancy Names Milwaukee. Railroad locomotives back in grandfather's time may not have been as pleasing to the eye as the modern streamliners but their names were just as fancy. A framed sheet dated 1869, which hangs; in the Northwestern railroad station here, lists the names of 268 wood-burning locomotives. At first the railroad officials ap parently had little trouble in nam ing their engines, butas the road expanded names grew scarcer and they were forced to dig into myth ology: for such names as Achilles, Mars Mercury and Cyclops. v The first locomotives listed had . comparatively simple names such as Pioneer, Union, Active and Res ; cue. But by the time the road had , more than 200 engines they were knowfi as the Maquokeeta, the Pe catonia and the Keweena. Crocheting Job Uses, ; jf 57 Miles of Thread f-Quincy, Mass. Mm Margaret Glass figured she used nearly 57 miles of thread to crochet two-4 bedspreads, set of curtains, t!.Ir sets, bureau scarfs and . a t Vectoth." ' - ' ' I rs. Glass says the bedspread - - tick 2,003 yards of thread i J ,'T?omn knots. The i , . j L-oni i-t tock hvr 13 rr-cntlJ to r&ke. QheSNAPSHOT GUIL IT'S UP TO YOU J' 4' 9 -v e Child's-First Teeta -t..us .,, The sbt-year molars are the first of the permanent . teeth to appear in a child's mouth.; There are eight molars which are temporary, and back-of these are the four molars which are cut when a child is about six years old, forming the keystone of the dental arch for the perma nent teeth : ' It's the man behind the camera that count. This picture, fer" example, was snapped with an inexpensive and simply operated camera. that the same picture could not have been snapped equally as well with a simple camera by the same per son. If a certain picture to be takes should be snapped at til with a shutter speed of 125 of a second, it might take an expert to determine which of two prints of this subject was taken with a beginner's type of camera and which with one of the type used by the experts. So much depends on the person behind the camera. If you will make a study of pictures appearing in magasines, newspapers and picto rial books you will learn much about the fundamentals of good picture making. You will find pictures ol gardens, buildings, homes, people, animals and pets, close-ups and, in fact, just about every type of picture you will ever want to make. Study these pictures and note carefully the different angles from which some of them are taken. Study the lighting, the shadows and the very natural appearance of people in many of the pictures. Tou will soon develop an "eye for pictures" and when you do you will find that even your inexpensive camera will pro duce the kind of pictures you thought were possible only with an' expensive instrument. . So you see, much depends on the man or woman behind the camera. John van Guilder IT'S a Joy to own a fine precision camera with a fast lens and shut ter. No one will deny that. Such cameras are versatile and open the way for picture taking under many conditions. Extremely fast action holds no terror for them. They laugh at poor light If you want to special ize on speed photography or indoor shots without special illumination, or shoot under adverse conditions In general, a precision-built, ultra fast lens camera is the thing to own. If, however, you want a camera to snap pictures under ordinary con ditions, a simple, Inexpensive one will serve admirably, afford a lot of pleasure and, as far as recording the subject is concerned, will make average snapshots just as well as the more elaborate type. Remember, I am referring to snapshooting un der ordinary conditions. Artistic composition, shooting to capture fascinating and artistic shadows which always add so much to a picture, interest appeal and lighting are strictly up to you. There isn't a camera made at any price that can tell you how, when or where to make a picture of rare quality and appeal, but experience will teach much. The fact that an unusual, interest compelling snapshot was taken with a "tricky" camera does not signify i .8. Uses Much Salphorio Acid Every man, woman and child in . the United States accounts each ' year for the use of seventy pounds of the oily corrosive liquid weigh ing fifteen pounds a gallon known as sulphuric acid, according to ?. the American Chemical sOcietyr" ,v it, ZZ M,. tfv MEETS JIONDAY The W. M. UoV the Hertford Bap tist Church will meet in the Sunday School auditorium on Monday night at 8:30 o'clock. All members are requested to be present. - .', ,- Federal Capitol Building ' The southeast cornerstone of the original Capitol, building at ' Wash-, ington was laid on the 18th of Sep tember, 1793, by President , Wash ington ' with Masonic ceremonies. The north wing was finished in 1800, and . the government, 7 which ' came from Philadelphia, took possession in October of .that. year. - BIRTHDAY PARTY,.- ' R. R. kailes was honored,, with a -delightful surprise birthday, party on Monday night by the employees of . Rose's. ' t- , . - J Mr. Malles, who is manager of the t i Rose Store here, together with Mrs. -Malles, was at the store, where he r . was working, when the group of . young ladies appeared, -v bringing a ' big birthday cake on which there J were 29 candles, and a freezer of ice . s a cream. Those present, in addition to Mr. ;, ,; and Mrs. Malles, were Misses Ruby ; Keaton, Blanche Butler, Katherine Britt, Hazel White, Sarah Mae Chap pell, Elsie Copeland, Lizzie Lee Hof fler and Marion -Eaper. lfln 1 1 l ll ll Will v W n AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO NORTH CAROL. NIANS-No. 1 1 Our NM ESPONSIBILITY PURSUANT to a special act of the 1937 State Lecbla ture, advertisements will shortly begin to appear bt national magazines and metropolitan newspapers of tbe East, Middle West and South inviting visitors and tourists to North Carolina, THE VARIETY VACATIONLAND. 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