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In Rotation

"Papa," said little Mary, as they prepared to rise from the supper table, "I have a riddle I want to ask you."

"Go right ahead," said her fond daddy.

"Well" said little M"ry. "It's about a woman who got married four times. The first time she married a millionaire. The second time she married an actor. The third

Visit Los Angeles To See The Stars

George W. Gibson, Gibson Lumber Company, and William H. Eadie, certified public accountant, San Bernardino, drove to Los Angeles one night last week to see the stars, not the Hollywood celebrities, but the self-luminous bodies in the heavens which they viewed through the giant telescope in the planetarium at Griffith Park.

Mr. Gibson and Mr. Eadie devote considerable of their time to the study of astronomy which is the oldest of sciences, having been utilized from remote days in the formation of calendars, prediction of eclipses, etc. Mr. Gibson says about 100 stars have names rvhich r,vere given by ancient Greek and medieval Arabian astronomers, but the modern method of designating stars in order of their brightness in a given constellation is by making use of the Greek alphabet followed by Roman letters if necessary.

NETy\I YARD IN CASTRO VALLEY

Clarence Ellsworth, formerly manager of Martinez Lumber Co., Martinez, and Robert Wilson, who also was u'ith Martinez Lumber Co., have opened a retail lumber and building material yard in Castro Valley (Hayward P.O.).

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