Bori And McCormack Thrill Unseen Millions, Paving Way For New Era In Radio Music — rfLETS"...1 n 'BOR! MU-HkHtJ John McCormack and Lucrezia Bori sang to their greatest au diences on New Year’s night. Mil lions heard their golden voices over the radio, inaugurating the first step in an extensive plan to give radio fans an opportunity of hearing the musical notables of the world. The voices of McCormack and Bori came as a 1924 New Year greeting to a vast mfiltitude as the result of the desire of E. R. John son, president of the Victor Talk ing Machine Company, to improve the standard of radio programs and to stimulate a taste for bet ter music via the ether. Their voices were transmitted simulta neously from eight broadcasting stations in the United States. Mr. Johnson arranged the plan with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company whereby America's and Europe’s best artists, represented in the Victor ranks, were to appear in person before \ the microphone of the radio studio, beginning with McCormack and Bori. As a result of this experi ment the major musical artists will [ be heard this year—that is, if Mr. Johnson finds that the experiment I is successful, if the air audience wants something more than a Jazz diet. FLEAS ANT VIEW ITEMS John Hinkle was in Emmet Tues day. Walter Bohee was in Emmet Tues day. Mrs. Elmer Warner returned home Wednesday. Aca Worley delivered hogs in Em met Tuesday. Dell Johnson and Art Sterns were in Emmet Tuesday. Miss Dorothy Bruner is teaching in District 53 near Phoenix, Nebr. Bill Steskal assisted Elmer Warner to deliver corn to D. M. Armstrong on Saturday. A. Klingler expressed a Burbon Red Turkey to Brunswick, Nebraska on Tuesday. Albert and Amel Heeb were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Strong and family. Mr, and Mrs. Henry Winkler and daughter Dorothy were shopping in Emmet Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Strong and sons •were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Klingler Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klingler and Ed. Heeb spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Heeb. Miss Katie Ulrich spent a few days last week with her brother Leonard and wife south of Atkinson. Siebert Bros, shelled corn for F. Barnes last week. The corn was de livered to O. C. Morrell near Atkinson Mrs. Robert Fulcrton and son Geo., Bertha Killinger, Mr. and Mrs. John Babl called on Ed. Heeb family Sun day. Mr. ajrjd Mrs. Fred Siebert and sons Ixmis and Harold were dinner guests New Year’s day of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Alfs. Mrs. J. B. Fullerton returned to her home Saturday after spending the holidays with relatives in Gordan, Nebraska. Mr .and Mrs. Herman Klirigler and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Walnofer were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed .Steskal. Miss Clara Nebor returned to her school work after spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Neibor. Herman Klingler, and Mr. and Mrs. Alf McDonald and daughter Hazel were dinner guests of Mrs. McQuellen and family Thursday. Mrs. Katherine Ulrich and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ulrich and daughter were guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Mullen and family New Years day. Mr. Floyd Heeb of Minnesota who has been visiting his uncle, Frank Heeb and family left ’Saturday for a visit with relatives in Boyd county. Misses Cecelia Bruder and Helen Troshynski went to O’Neill Monday where they resumed their school work at St. Mary’s Academy, after spending the holidays with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hershburger re turned home Wednesday night after a few weeks visit with relatives in Il linois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. They report cold weather there but not as much snow as in Holt County. TAKEN UP Taken up, Wednesday, December 3, seven head of shoats, weighing about fifty pounds each. Owner can have same by paying for advertising and keep. 27-tf MRS. VIOLA MORGAN. I WANT SOME FARM AND RANCH loans. If you want money come in and see John L. Quig. 32—tf An Extension Telephone Saves these Steps . Why get out of bed at night s and dash down stairs to answer i the telephone? An extension telephone up- 1 stairs saves these trips. It costs N but a few cents a day. Just call our Business Of fice and say that you want an extension telephone. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company .—. ~=J? Sim Spalding's Vacation By JANE OSBORN — e:' (Copyright.) CJIMSON SPALDING had worked for the Bradley Building company^ for two years. He had done all the tilings that are frequently said to lead to eventuul success, and so far had remained on the bottom rung of the ladder. For all his Industry and serious ness, Sim Spalding was something of an office funny man. His comments on office occurrences were never espe cially funny or clever when repeated, but Immensely funny when uttered by Sim Spnldlng himself. Rose Atwood, who was secretary to Mr. Rogers, the president of the concern, found him especially amusing. SImson felt re sentful at this sometimes, and again felt glad that he was able to amuse her. Otherwise he feared she would not have noticed him. “Where nre you going to spend your vacation, Mr. Spalding?” she said one morning In June. “I know you will be original.” Simson Spnldlng looked up gravely. “I'm going to spend ten days of the two weeks right here. I shall pretend for those ten days that 1 am someone of consequence, enough consequence to come In at half-past nine, ten—eleven, if I choose. And I shall take two hours for lunch, If I like, and I shall read the paper at my desk and use the office phone to make dates for supper at the coun try club, and I shall knock off to play golf any afternoon* I like. I’ll have the thrill of pretending 1 amount to something. I once thought maybe I would some day. But I guess it isn’t in me. So 1 am going to pretend.” ‘‘Mr. Spalding,” she said one day shortly before Sim's vacation. “It’s none of my business, but I’m going to give you a bit of advice. You aren’t going to make a bit of a hit with Mr. Rogers spending your vaca tion the way you said you intended. He’ll think that you are doing it be cause you want to make an impres sion on him. He won’t see the joke of it, and he’ll despise you for it.” “That’s something,” said Sim. "Up to now lie hasn't regarded me of suf ficient importance to do that.” “But lie may discharge you or some thing,” warned Rose. “What difference would that make —to you?” asked Sim with unexpected seriousness. “None to me, I suppose,” she said. And before Sim could say any more she had sped out of the room toward her little office beside that of Mr. Rogers. Despite the warning, however, Sim began his vacation ns he had said he would. He had a new suit and he wore a white carnation in his button hole, and even carried a walking stick and smoked an expensive brand of cigarettes. A friend amused at the adventure, lent him a high-priced mo tor car for the ten days. And great was the diversion that Simson Spald ing offered to his associates. Two or three days had passed and Sim was still carrying out his plan. He had lunched until four and then re turned to ids desk where he sot read ing the afternoon paper. At half past live nearly all the office force depart ed, but he remained. So did Rose At water and an office boy to finish up some lpte dictation. It was then that a distinguished looking middle-aged man entered the office. “I want to see a member of the firm,” he demanded. "I am not willing to wait. It is most Important. I—” “At your service—” said Mr. Spald ing with a slide wink at the office boy. Thereupon the stranger sat down in close consultation with Mr. Spald ing. He wanted to build a house and he wanted to build it right away—not a mere house but a sort of castle on the outskirts of the city, ^jim Spald ing forgot that he was the oTftce joker playing a pa ft. He caught the man’s ideas promptly, made sketches, sug gestions, talked prices and went to dinner with the stranger. That eve ning in the moonlight he drove him, in ids borrowed car, to look at a par cel of property owned by the concern on the outskirts of the city. He lulked as he never knew he could talk, making the stranger see the castle of his dreams already built. Next afternoon the deal wasVlosed. The stranger signed the contract for Hie purchase of the porperty at a'high valuation and had accepted a tempo rary agreement with Spalding for the erection of a l.undred-thousand-doilar mansion. Spalding carried the deal to his su perior, Mr. Rogers. “He wanted to see a member of the firm,” he confessed. “I beg pardon for forgetting my position.” Mr. Rogers was looking over tl;e tentative agreement with knowing eye. “Say. if you can close a deal like this in less than a day I guess you ought to he a member of the firm if you’re not. And say—what’s come over you —good clothes, flower in your button hole, fast car—why, you always acted like a grubber until lately—” Outside Mr. Rogers’ door stood Rose Atwood waiting to greet Sim Spalding when he came out. “I listened to what lie said,” site said, almost tearful with joy. “I "as afraid he’d he cross. Oh, -fsu't it wonderful? Rut it wouldn't I ave made any difference to me. Slim—” “You mean you—you would have carts I 1> r me—anyway—” “Anyway,” ; aid R<»: Atwood. Served Turn Only as Symbols of Kindness' Mr. Smith, writes a contributor tc the Youth’s Companion, had made i particularly good catch of hluck bass. Mrs. Smith picked out a nice big one and sent one of the boys with it over to their neighbors in the adjoining camp. "We won’t bother to clean It for them,” she said, "because that big boy of theirs can do it Just as well as we can.” A few days later the grateful neigh bor, not to be outdone, returned the favor by bringing across to the Smith’s back door a nice Juicy raspberry pie freshly made from the wild raspber ries growing in the woods behind the camps. That day the storekeeper across the lake had his weekly ship ment of Ice cream from the city, and none of the Smiths felt much like eat ing pie. The next day they all went on a trip down the stream, and tho third day when the pie was served It had become so soft und soggy thnt everyone refused to touch it. Wrap ping it up carefully in a newspaper, so that no one should see it, Mrs. Smith gave it to young Tom and asked him to take it out In the woods and bury it. The next morning Mr. Smith went out to dig worms for his day’s fishing. As lie turned up the moist brown earth there, lying side by side, symbols of neighborly kindness, were the black bass and the raspberry pie! New Microscopes That Have Marvelous Power The great world of little things re vealed by the microscope Is about to become greater still, fpr new Instru ments have been Invented which have enormously Increased the magnifying , power which is at man’s command. News of a new microscope which will magnify an object over GOO,000,000 times, or 25,000 diameters, lias lately come from two sources at once. One such instrument has been Invented by Doctor Siedentopf of the famous Zeiss firm of Jena; another, capable of giv ing even greater magnification, has been perfected by N. D. Chopra, a British metallurgist, who lias already solved with It the problem of avoiding corrosion in tram rails, a discovery which will save enormous sums of money in all countries. A good microscope of moderate pow er will magnify an object Hbout GOO diameters, or 260,000 times in square measure. Such a magnification as this is difficult tq imagine, but some Idea of the power of the new instru ments may be gathered from the fact that a tennis ball, If it could be viewed through them, would appear about one and a half miles In diameter.— My Magazine, London. Musician’s Fine Memory It is doubtful If there has ever been any one in the whole history of the art whose musical memory was so marvelous as Mendelssohn's. We are told fsays a writer in John o’ London’s Weekly) that he hardly ever needed a score on any occasion whatever and It is authentically recorded of him that shortly before his death he played through from memory the whole of Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”—a truly prodigious feat. Another well-attested anecdote of Mendelssohn tells how on one occasion when he was rehearsing without score a chorus from Bach’s “Matthew Pas sion” he called out at a certain point: “Please note that at the twenty-third bar the sopranos have C and not C sharp.” All Ages Have Suffered How often do we hear old people say that the world is less healthy now than It was in their "young days,” when most of the diseases which our doctors are lighting seemed to be quite un known. These aged pessimists will get rather a shock'as the result of discoveries which have just been made at Solutre, near Macon, London Tit-Bits says. Fifteen skeletons, some of them fif teen to twenty thousand years old, have been found, and many of these show that our modern maladies are by no means so new as our grandfathers imagine. Primitive man, for instance, seems to have suffered just as much from rheumatism, tuberculosis and den tal troubles as do his descendants.' Inconvenient “Currency” Economists tell learnedly why money j makes the commercial world go round, i hut a Parisian opera singer of a decade ago learned the lesson in one classic experience. She was determined to , lour the world thoroughly and she stopped ever in the Society islands, where her manager contracted to have her sing for one-third the receipts. Her share of "the box office” was 3 pigs, 22 turkeys, 44 chickens, 5,000 coco- j nuts and an uncomputed quantity of i bananas and oranges. She couldn’t convert her proceeds; the natives had no money. She fed the fruit to the animals and donated her barnyard to the community when she sailed away. Production of Tea The tea plant Is cultivated In two varieties in China—Thea hohea and then varides in the provinces of Kwang-Tung, Fu-Kien and Che-Kiang. The tea plantations are usually formed in a deep rich loam, never on low lands, but