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PAGE EIGHT MIAMI NEWS RECORD MIAMI OKLAHOMA 4 fc i 1 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28 1931 S1EDISON MIAMI OKLAHOMA was CARDIN and in RADIO 'C COMMERCE DAY DAY SHOPPE MIAMI OKLA orchestra has radio set to night: one in 3:52 Read the advertisements 606 Phones 607 THE NEW What a THE GOLDEN VOICE $96 Al din Harrah Millner ribley DRUGS Miami Oklahoma THE 7 DRUG STORE To Major Hammer was intrust OR A JOLLY $4950 $7950 $5950 $8950 $8950 $9975 has to job of 259 110 as Hammer through the electric light City Mrs Mrs birthday at the daughter Airs well went the scene of wild confusion Edison at his side paraded and Susan of on the meeting at church Smith of Zincville Other Models Priced As Low As $6280 $150 Day $100 Half Day 88 light 7 Surprises Mrs uller Mrs A uller North air view district was pleasantly sur VERYTHING to make the I event successful alse aces Spooky Adornments a 1 1 i es Place Cards Crepe Paper Etc GAS GO LOSES 0 RANCHISE I ma Nash were Coghill in There were 459 conventions in Chicago the first eight months of 1931 Celebrates Birthday Relatives and friends of Mrs Hall of Mi Mrs Carl Above Prices Are Cash A Small Charge Will Be Added for Term Plan of 12 18 or 24 Months Ohio with 39582 surfaced milea of local road ranks second in the United State's A Meeting The Cardin Parent Teacher asso ciation met riday afternoon with the president Mrs Sanders in charge The meeting was open ed by repeating the Prayer in unison The program was as tol lows: Primary band and songs spook drills second grade violin solo Mrs McConnell rhythm band second grade songs second grade piano solo Mary rances Horn A report written by Miss Dot Ander son on the National A con vention was read by Mrs Guthrey report was read and approved Twenty nine parents were present Mrs Coffee's room won the prize by having the most mothers present The meeting was closed with prayer by Mrs Coffey The Cardin A meets the fourth riday of every month and all parents are urged to come and help make our association the best in the district and others on awav with Edison this great invention The year Edison was born two inventors Gardner and Blossom took out patents on an incandes cent lamp Before that two Ameri cans had showed Michael araday the celebrated English physicist a candelabra of 26 lights each repre senting a state of the Union PENNY will records of the when Edison Edison began working on the in candescent lamp in 1878 In that year he attend the transit of Ven us Exposition in the west He had gone there to attempt the measure ment of the heat of the star Arc turus which is at one of the farth est points in the heavens To do this he had devised what he called a This consisted of a piece of carbon mounted in such a way as to be tremendously suscep tible to heat The tests did not turn out very well but on the expedi tion he fell in with some of the leading scientists of the nation On the way back they suggested that all go and see "old man laboratory in William Wallace was one of the pioneer figures in electricity in the nation rie had a wonderiully equipped laboratory So they to see Wallace Kas was a guest Sunday evening of Miss Geneva Leslie The senior of the irst Baptist church motored to West Commerce Sunday night and attended i the Mount Zion Mrs Thelma visited Juanita Keeling Wednes day Mr and Mrs Glenn Miller of Sims Mrs Phone 640 Mr and Mrs Parker and children visited relatives in Hinds ville Ark Sunday Mr and Mrs Galyon of Pich er and Mfs Steve Leslie' and daughter Dorotha Jean were guests Sunday evening of Mr and Mrs Jack Martin and family of Galena Kas Mr and Mrs Charlie Edwards of Miami were guests Monday of Mrs Hugh Sallee and daughter Pansy Stoffer Miss Kell of Treec: North Miami visited the former's parents Mr and Mrs Mil ler Thursday Miss Aliene Hartman of Picher visited Miss Pansy Stoffer Monday Mr and Mrs John Schaumleffel of Cardin visited the sister Mrs Jim Moyer and Mr Moyer riday night Mose McWilliams of Carthage Mo and Mr and Mrs John Mc Williams and son Richard of Jop lii Mo visited the son Charley McWilliams and family Sunday Mrs Billiie Burger visited her niece Mrs John Eddy in Baxter Springs Monday Elmer ulcher Ted Dryer and Walter alk were in Springfield Mo Thursday where they visited the uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs George alk and attended the music and games the honoree was showered with dainty handker chiefs Refreshments were served to Misses Marcell Smith Clytia Lewis Jo Ann Todd Lucille Stroud Jane Todd Lucille Morrison Jean Ralph Imogene Boyd Helen Hack ney Millie David the honored guest Miss Pickerel) and hostesses Miss McWilliams and Miss Nance These giving handkerchiefs but un able to attend were Miss Maxine Black and Miss Chloe Butterly Honors Mother Mr and Mrs A Bradford 118 North Cherry street very ap propriately entertained a group of relatives in courtesy to Mrs Brad mother Mrs Wilson Sunday A lovely dinner was serv the following relatives: Mr and Mrs Wilson of Treece Kas Misses Mary and Margaret Wilson of Miami host and hostess Mr and Mrs Bradford and honor ed guest Mrs Wilson It was here that Edison greatly stimulated in his ideas on incandescence Wallace was pottering away on arc lights trying to improve them said Edison "I be lieve I can beat you making an elec tric light I think you are working in the wrong Edison went back to Menlo Park and in 1879 the world was greatly startled to hear that Edison had solved the problem of the subdivis ion of the electric light by incan descence But the problem was still unsolved The experiment of 1879 was simply one step to the final step But the final step did not come until a year later NEXT: Experiments with sew ing thread paner horseshoes and bamboo in the long long search for electric lamp filament to substitute for platinum which cost more than Success at last! The first commercial incandescent lamp factory The discovery of tungsten or results use want ads! It could stand but little without melting And it the current shot too What was needed to per incandescent lamp was to Union NORTH 1:22 10:25 AM AM PM PM PM Loss 94657000 128174000 22570000 30667000 550000 Insignificant They cheered They They Mo Mr and Mrs kint and children of Mr and Mrs Bryan small daughter Mr and Mrs Lee daughter Winifred relatives ana inenas oi airs McCombs South Cherry street gathered at her home Thursday bringing cakes pies sandwiches and coffee in celebration of her birthday and who received several nice gifts Those present were: Mr and Mrs Hugh Haynes Mr and Mrs John Baker Mr and Mrs Tom McCombs Mr and Mrs George McCombs Mr and Mrs James McDowell and iss Nadine Wilcox help you keep your IKX1T1 TO14BI1CU The JOHNBUW Electric Waxer helps to pre serve the floor a well i add high gios nrusn ASK BUUUU serv ice 4 South Main Miami Phone 22 ami continuing Gus will nluv fill Tuesday nights Wayne King from Chicago on Thursday nights and Andy group from New York on Saturday nights It is the plan to provide a variety of tempo in place of the rather fast rhythm with which the nolle become associated Rolfe is to take NEARLY every day we are shipping ranges and heaters to other properties not affected by an anti merchandising law Before they are all gone avail yourself of a modern gas range at a price never before offered Murphy and guests of Mrs Anna Quapaw Sunday Mr and Mrs ami visited Mr andlamps Mondav night Mr and Mrs Paul Olson of Neo sho Mo were guests of the form uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Baker Sunday Mr and Mrs Clay Lair were guests of Mr and Mrs Lair near Melrose Kas Sunday Mr and Mrs Murrell spent the day Sunday with Mr and Mrs Wil liam Thompson in Cardin Those attending the Get Together Thursday night at Twin Ranch were: Mr and Mrs Mack McGoin Mr and Mrs red Collard and nephew Junior Shockley and Mr and Mrs A Rector Mr Cochran of the Baker hotel spent the week end in Seneca Mo Mr and Mrs Hoskins at tended a music party at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Demo in airview district Monday night Clifford Doak was an all day guest of a cousin in Treece Kas Sunday Leonard Hall of Picher visited friends at the Baker hotel Sunday Miss Lulu Spillers of Cardin spent the week end with Mr and Mrs Jess Larkin Mrs Clarice Shockley and daugh ter Rose Mary of Joplin spent the week end with Mr and Mrs red Collard Basil Baker was a business visitor in Miami Saturday night Paul Williams and son Paul Gene visited their mother and grandmother Mrs Williams in Mi ami Saturday night and Sunday Mrs Condor and children of North Miami were guests of their parents and grandparents Mr and Mrs Hoskins yes terday Mr and Mrs William Anderson and children Willa Gay and Opal spent the week end with Mr and Mrs Carlis Pruitt at Sedan Kas Mr and Mrs Arric and Mrs Hilda usselman motored to Arkansas Saturday where the Ar spent the week end with rela tives in Siloam and Mrs ussel man with her parents in Maysville Ark They were accompanied home hv Mrs sister Mrs lorence Steward of Prairie Grove Ark for a visit Mrs Surface and Mrs Anna Glasscock of Webb City Mo are visiting Mrs Boon Dodson and Mrs Otto Smith and families this week Burger of Joplin visited her brother Billie Burger and Mrs Burger last week Mrs A Syemour and daugh ter Mrs Don Sitton and baby were guests of Mr and Mrs Walter Slayman in Baxter Springs Satur day afternoon Mrs Hart of near Jay Okla visited Mrs Sarah Kniskern Thurs day Mr and Mrs Alva Callis of Bax ter Springs were guests of Mr and Mrs Gordon Odell and Mrs meda Odell Sunday Mrs Sylvia Buck and Mrs Eva Norns of North Miami were ner guests of Mr and Mrs Edgar Wind Monday Mr and Mrs John Schaumleffel attended the I and Re bekah assemblies at Guthrie Okla last week and visited Mr and Mrs John Cassity in Norman Okla on the return home Mrs Alice Vaughn and grandson and Pickwick Ticket Office Bus Station WEST 2:13 7 :53 10:10 12:15 4:15 9:23 I $6000 Vulcan Range $14000 Detroit Jewel Range close out $8750 Detroit Jewel Range close out $11950 Detroit Jewel Range close out $11950 Roper Range close out $10500 Magic Chef close out rest tour ed all the tests and i incandescent lamp was pondering on the problem I That is why Hammer rushed up I stairs 'he night the first successful commercial incandescent lamp had been created He had been watch ing a lamp test for weeks and for over a year he had been tinkering Voters Decide Against Re newal Grant to Okla homa Natural WEA 6 Special girl scouts program: 6:13 Harold La orchestra 830 Olive Palmer and artists 9:30 ly Culbertson contract bridge expert interviewed by Grantland Rice VA BC CBS 6:13 Lillian Roth and Pilzer orchestra 9:00 Miss Patricola guest of the personalities program 9:15 Concerts program with Dino Borgioli and Nevada Van Der Veer 11:00 Romanelli's orchestra from Montreal WJZ NBC 7 :00 College mem ories by the ireside singers 8:30 orchestra and Oliver Smith tenor 9:00 Rochester civ ic orchestra 11:00 Mildred Bailey and the Jesters prised last Sunday with a dinner in observance ot ner new home of her Tim Karleskint and Mr Karleskint Those present were: The honored guest Mrs uller and husband and daughter Willera Mrs rancis Karleskint and sons Tony and onso host and hostess Mr and Mrs Tim Karleskint This sketch shows kn 1 i rr fill 1 1 Slid laboratory on that night in 1880 when commercial was born AM AM AM PM PM PM OKLAHOMA CITY Oct 2P) Oklahoma voting jority wore a smile of victory to day as the result of the defeat of the Oklahoma Natural Gas corpor bid for a 25 year franchise renewal by a margin of 4327 votes yesterday Opponents of the franchise poll ed 13259 votes against 8932 for the renewal by complete but un official returns The result constituted a victory for the Daily Oklahoman and Times over the News which upheld the contention that the renew al at this time was necessary to enable it to finance needed im provements Opponents contended the present 45 cent rate was too high and that the company would make further reductions during the next thjee years its present irancmse run in order to retain the selling the city its fuel The rate recently wa reduced from 57 cents a thousand cubic feet but the Oklahoma Natural which serves 50 state cities saw competitors win franchises away from it at Guthrie and Shawnee The next move in the gas situa tion here was not clear the Okla homa post election state ment merely thanked its support ers and promised continued ser vice Should no other provision lor gas service be made here at the expiration of the franchise the utility would necessarily continue to operate without a grant as it is now doing at Tulsa where the franchise expired last summer Okmulgee turned down a renew al for the Oklahoma Natural about a year ago and the utility still distributing gas Western Service corporation recently won a fran chise at Shawnee served by the and also gained operat ing rights at Guthrie where con sumers were served by the Lone Star on gas bought from the Okla homa Natuial Any move to call an election on another bid for a fran chise here or on a bond issue icr a municipal plant must start al the city hall The Western Service corporation made a bid here sev eral months ago contingent on the city buying the 0 distribut ing plant and selling it to the Western high school School will be dismissed Thurs day and riday as the teachers will attend teachers meeting in Tulsa on these two days Mrs Tom McCombs and Mrs George McCombs spent the week end in ontana Kas Miss Edna Mcerron of Picher and Denton Libsybee of Treece Kas were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Orville Parrish Sunday Mr and Mrs Ernest Pitcher and Vera and Ernestine Mrs Bessie Mills and Mrs Ran som Jameson with the ladies par ents Air and Airs Smith of Stepps ord enjoyed an outing and dinner on Neosho river Sunday Little Ilene Dorsey of Cardin is visiting her grandparents Mr and Mrs Baker Air and Mrs Al Nix and daughter Geraldine of Joplin were guests of Air and Airs Carl James Ihursday Lewis A Lee of Oklahoma visited his grandmother Sarah Kniskern and aunt rancis Anderson Thursday Mrs George Lundy daughter Miss Georgia and cousin Miss Anna Belle Stroupe and Le Neva Winfrey of Lowell Kas and Miss Lucille Patten of Baxter Springs Kas were guests of Mrs Clara Chambers and daughter Aliss Ruth Sunday afternoon Don Hays and Roy Wilmoth of Gravette Ark were guests of Roy Murrell Thursday Mr and Mrs red Parrish and children of Quapaw were guests of Mr and Mrs Orville Parrish Sat urday night Airs Roscoe Caulkins of Haw thorne Cal is ill at the home there and was ordered to bed by the attending physician for the lest cure Her son Billie has recently undergone a mastoid poeration but is doing nicely Mrs Caulkins will be remembered as Miss Ruth Campbell Sunday callers at the home of Mr and Mrs Tim Karleskint were Mr and Airs Karleskint and daughter Joan of Timber Hill dis trict Mrs Haley of Joplin raui Karies Commerce Webb and Starting next week on WEA i NBC and continuing tor i weeks Gus Arnheim orchestra i can(iescent light Many of them moreover highly dangerous Gas was particularly so There was the hanger of suffocation There was the inconvenience of leaks in the pipe the blackening of the ceiling and walls pipes freezing in winter the annoyance and cost of repair ing pipes into which water had seeped And then kerosene gas candles and the arc electric light were all liable to start a fire Major Ham mer made a tabulation of the num ber of fires in New York City be fore the advent of the Edison in candescent lamp They were nu merous and expensive as the fol lowing table shows ire losses York City: Caused by Kerosene Gas Matches for Candles Arc electric 1 Incandescent lamp 1 The arc electric light had in superable handicaps in the compe tition for a safe and luminous elec tric light This kind of a light had always to be burned standing straight upwards If it inclined at an angle it promptly burst into flames If it were rocked a little ignition resulted The incandescent lamp of Edison could be burned at any angle It could be shaken at will No ignition could result Now not only were there arc electric lights in existence long before Edison began work on his incandescent lamp but incandes cence was nothing new Major Hammer spent 34 years collecting the history of the incandescent lamp He sold his collection for $10 000 to the General Electric com pany which presented it to the Ed ison Illuminating association When Edison heard about the terms of the sale he remonstrated: sell that for $10000 Why worth a good deal more than But Major Hammer had agreed to sell it and today experts say that this collection consisting of four cases 10 feet long is well worth over $1000000 and getting more valuable every minute The Hammer collection set a useful fashion in the technical world When the Bell people beheld it they wondered why something like that been done for the telephone Those connected with the development of the tekphon were along in years Soon they would be dead So a wonderful col lection of the histtfvy of the tele phone was made Today this is be ing done with all inventions by CE BUTTERIELD (Time Central Standard throughout I NEW YORK Oct 28 CP Three orchestras are to replace for the time bein'! the organize tion built up by A Rolfe three and one half years of broad Service with a Savtiuj RENT A WAXER Ycur nearest Crown Stow1" offers you this unique cerr ice io Lawrence Barnett of Joplin were guests of Mrs Dora Collard ri day Mr and Mrs Jim Moyer were guests of Mr and Mrs Hoke near Oswego Kas Sunday Mr and Mrs Jess Larkin visit ed Mrs Joe Larkin in airview dis trict Sunday Bill Poteet who attends Norman university and Joe Henbest of Tulsa University spent the week end with the parents Mr and Mrs A Poteet They were accompanied on the return trip as far as Afton by Mr and Mrs Bry an Gregory Miss Hazel Hackney Miss Erma Goodwin and Miss Clytia Goin' Mesdames Emma Ryan and Vir gie Murrell visited Mrs' James Cable and Mrs Tom Howell in Douthat riday Mr and Mrs Max Sigle and sons Norman' and Marvin visited the sister Mrs Audrey Hughes in Joplin Monday night Bill Odell was injured in an ac cident while working on a pipe line at Salina Kas and is in a hos pital there for treatment Bob Green Virginia Duncan Opal Boots Mildred Turner and Merelda Green attended dance at the home of Mr and Mrs Tom Weems Saturday night Mrs Virgil Kennedy visited Mrs John Schaumleffel near Cardin Sunday Miss Alice Shamblin of Baxter Springs spent the week end with her mother Mrs Nellie Shamblin Mrs Ben Karleskint left several days ago to join her husband in Los Angeles Cal where they have secured employment and expect to make thejr home She was ac companied by her sister in law Miss Margaret Karleskint Mrs Bessie Mills spent the day Saturday with Mr and Mrs Walter Nelson at Ottawa in the afternoon Mrs Mills with Mrs Nelson and daughter Virginia transacted business in Miami Mrs Charley McWilliams trans acted business in Joplin Monday Mr and Mrs Alvin Hilderbrand and Mr and Mrs A Nash of aulkner Kas were 6 din ner guests of Mr and Mrs Lee Sims Monday Mrs Shackleford and Per cy Shackelford of airview district visited Mr and Mrs red Collard riday evening Miscellaneous Shower A miscellaneous shower was given in courtesy of Mrs Roy Mills 107 North Elm street Monday af ternoon After a shower of useful gifts refreshments were served to Mesdames Baker Vai Phelps and son Mary Cantrell Andy Mc Donald Irene Williams Iola Join er A Jackson and children Mills Clint Downing and daughter Amanda Downing 1 Gustin and sons Misses Gladys and Mary Join er Those sending gifts but unable to attend were: Mesdames A Poteet Clara Dorsey Audrey Cut birth Hazel Woody Charles Ward and Cleo Light to' But though incandescence had been studied for many years before Edison decided to make his lamp all such products were useless for commercial purposes Not only was the platinum used expensive but it was a poor con ductor voltage through rapidly feet the secure a filament inexpensive of high resistance to current so that more light would be given off in the passage of the current and ca pable'of standing high voltage without melting or breaking down Platinum failed on all these tests Close Out Sale of Gas Ranges BUY YOURS BEORE IT IS TOO LATE EVERYONE familiar with the Radio World knows the Quality of Operation Cabinet Beauty and Design made famous by Atwater Kent That is why we say get an Atwater Kent Radio and be sure of these fine and important features The new fea tures include the Pentode Tube Static Resister No ading hree Dialing Multi Mu Tube and Accurate Selectivity Xou must hear and see these new Atwater Kent Radios before you buy Enjoy one in your home while you pay By WILLIAM JOSEPH HAMMER Lifelong riend and Scientific As sociateof Thomas A Edison as Told to Willis Ballinger (Copyright 1931 NEA Service Inc) One night at Menlo Park light was born into the world real light Ended was the annoying tyranny of the fluttering wick and the danger from fire of the sput tering gas lamp But the nativity of incandescence as a usable light was unattended by any solemn wise men You might have thought they were collegians It was in 1880 And on the mem orable night the hands of the clock pointed somewhere between 10 and 12 A worker mounted the steps of the laboratory three at a time His name was William Joseph Ham mer and in his hand he tightly clutched a small lamp Searching out Edison op the floor he sped to his side with the momentous news The word spread like wildfire an incandescent lamp had actually burned for 1589 hours undiminish ed! Mechanics from the shops drop ped their tools and hurried to the laboratory Then began a ant procession At the head walked Hammer holding aloft the mother of rays that were to light a globe By his side marched Edison his face radiant In serpentine style the marchers swept around the lab oratory tables started downstairs and wove in and out of the build ings They Sone: veiled themselves hoarse clapped one another on the back Instinctively they sensed drama A religion of incandescence had been founded Sleeping millions count less of the unborn were to em brace its rayful ritual The incandescent lamp was un doubtedly greatest brain child But he did not regard it so He always maintained that his pre mier accomplishment was his great Jumbo dynamo And his favorite invention was the phonograph Now Edison was not the inventor of the incandescent lamp Manv people have claimed that he was But Edison himself never acknowl edged it In fact he told Major Hammer more than once that he was not What he did was to make the first incandescent lamp usable for commercial purposes He the lather of the commercial candescent lamp Many people put the origin the Edison incandescent lamp Oct 21 1879 But that was not lamp That lamp could never hac been used for commercial purposes Edison had merely made a few im provements on early efforts in that lamp It was not until 1880 that the real product was turned out The lamp of 1879 burned only 40 hours It stood only a feeble candle power charge It contained plati num and that metal was more cost ly than gold Edison had to dis cover how to extend the life of a bulb many fold longer how to sut ftiitute for platinum in the conduct ing of the current and how to in i crease the candlepower so that more light could be given off Atwater Kent WITH The Senior class of Commerce high school gave a party at the high school building Saturday night making candy and games were the diversions of the evening Those present were: Misses La homa Walton Edna Murrell Vivian erguson Juanita Campbell Har riett Walker Goldie and Clarence Smith Junior Simmons Odell Pennington Paul Ralph Up to the first commercial lamp Jimmie Noel James Campbell of Edison the world had reliel on I Alan Simmons Clyde Backman kerosene candles gas whale oil I Billie Price Bee Rogers Robert iokto All zvoz'H Print I zwei I Pelsup iovd Baker Inman Crow our I inefficient as compared with the in and Carl Lewis of Seminole and Mrs A speaker sponsor By the Man Who Knew HimBest As Told By WILLIAM' JOSEPH HAMMER His Lifelong Associate To Willis Ballinger Copyright 1931 NEA Swvico Inc Entertained riends Miss Charlotte McWilliams 217 North Cherry street assisted by Miss Ruth Nance entertained a company of friends riday night honoring Miss Doris Pickerell of Xnnthwpst Czitv AIi who is visit ing Commerce friends after the football game between the Com evening very pleasantly spent in merce high school and Springfield 1 LOWER AND GIT Mr a i is Const sCo WLY I Ct 1 1 1 i ci 1 rU IM is 1 LdHUlilUMlI A tsaar 1 1 rm I.