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Boys Cause Annoyance

Salvation Army Complains of a Crowd Around Their Headquarters — Other Complaints.

A gang of boys every night at about 7 o’clock congregate In front of the Salvation Army rooms on New Brunswick avenue, and in many ways disturb the members of that religious body, and also the nearby neighbors. The youths with sticks pound on the sidewalks and houses, which seems to be their favorite amusement. Each night the noises are made by the same boys, and already a number of complaints have been received by the police in regard to stopping the nuisance. A policeman will watch the place, and the first time the disturbance is repeated, a raid will be made on the entire gang. It seems that in every part of the city, crowds of mischievous boys are continually annoying people, and as soon as one gang is dispersed, another one is complained of.

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Two Splendid Features Today at Johnson Opera House

Madge Bellamy in the screen version of the famous novel “The White Sin.” Every body has read the book; now the screen offers it with nothing left out, still censor proof. On the same bill the rollicking, good-natured cowboy. Buck Jones, in his latest picture, “Western Luck.” It’s a bill that will provide all the entertainment any fan could desire in one evening. Meet your neighbors at the Opera House.

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Federal Enforcement Officer Samardick Makes a Cleaning

Federal Enforcement Officer Robert Samardick, accompanied by four assistants, traveling in two cars, drove from Omaha to O’Neill Saturday and began collecting violators of the Volstead law for whom warrants had been previously issued. At the conclusion of the raid Sunday afternoon eleven citizens were resting in the county jail and two O’Neill men and three Spencerites for whom warrants had been issued could not be located.

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Radio Club With Twenty Charter Members Formed

Cover of June 1923 Radio News, showing a woman wearing a headset and adjusting the tuning knob of a radio.

With a charter membership of approximately 20 persons a Montgomery Radio club was duly organised Tuesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce and a constitution and by-laws adopted.

The purpose of the club will be “to band together those persons interested in the science of radio; to cause to be enacted laws, rules and regulations for benefit of radio enthusiasts; to uphold laws enacted by the United States and to promote the interest of radio in the community and further study of the science among members of the club.”

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Shafer Beaver Hide Trouble Near Resolution

State Game and Fish Commission Still Holds Mrs. Shafer’s Furs

Attorney General George F. Shafer and officials of the state game and fish commission are nearing the end of a game of button-button, who’s got the furs, which has created some quiet amusement in unofficial circles here.

It all began during the primary campaign when Mr. Shafer was presenting his plea for recognition by Republican voters as a candidate for the governorship and was the subject of considerable whispering in the latter stages of the campaign.

Several weeks before the primary election the game and fish officials of Minnesota notified the North Dakota Game and Fish commission that Mrs. George F. Shafer, wife of the attorney general, had shipped some beaver hides to a Minnesota furrier to be made into a coat.

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The Wild Man of Chilhowee

Tenn., Jan. 26. – Editor Forest and Stream: In your numbers of Dec. 14 and Jan. 4 you give descriptions of the “Lost Man in New Brunswick,” and ask correspondents if they can throw additional light on the questions, who is he, and where did he come from. Apropos of the question asked, I can give you a description of his first cousin. The subject of my sketch is known as “The Wild Man of Chilhowee Mountain.” To come to the real facts with as little circumlocution as possible, the man was found by a party of hunters several years ago. The four hunters were camped at the base of Chilhowee Mountain, on a deer hunting expedition.

The Chilhowee Mountain is a rough and very wild and brushy knob or single pinnacle that raises its head far above the other peaks of the Cumberland range of mountains. It stands somewhat aloof from the main mountain range and therefore has a name of its own. It is situated some miles west of Cleveland, Tenn., and ninety miles northwest of Chattanooga. This part of the Cumberland range is extremely difficult of access, as there are practically no roads into the wilderness. Nature seems especially to have ordained that this brushy, repulsive region should be the home of animals alone. It is entirely uninhabited by man, excepting it be an occasional “wildcat distiller.”

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Theatre Proprietor Fined for Allowing Minors to Attend

Photograph of the Bijou Theatre, Perth Amboy, NJ, circa pre 1913. It shows 6 men and one youth standing in front of the building.

The much questioned practice of admitting minors with adult strangers to theatres came up for a test before Recorder Pickersgill at 7 o’clock last night, when Morris Streiff was fined $15 for admitting six little boys to his motion picture theatre at 189 Hall avenue. The law permits that children under age may be admitted to theatres when accompanied by “parent, guardian or adult friend,” but Recorder Pickersgill contends Streiff did not have the right to permit a man to take in six boys whom he met outside of the amusement place, even as an adult friend.