NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1921, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

RECORD POOH-BAH. NEW YORK, April 12. The 115th annual election for municipal offices in the village of Peru, Massachusetts, has resulted in the reelection.of Mr Frank Creamer, who, as tho' holde,. of 13 offices out of 17, claims to be the record Pobh-Bah of the world.

Ho is public weighter, library trustee, measurer of wood and bark, sealer of weights and measures, town moderator, pound keeper and tax collector. He is a justice of the and as town constable frequently gives evidence before himself. As further proof of his versatility ,he officiates as Fence Viewer and forest fire warden. For all this work Mr Creamer, who is a village shopkeeper, is paid £25 a year. Mrs Creamer has much of her husbands capacity for public affairs. Besides being village schoolmistress, she is a member of the school board and manager of the telephone exchange. ■ DANCE TO FAME. VIENNA, April 12. Baroness Otto Ende, a gipsy dancer, has been arrested in Budapest in connection with the cashing at Zagreb, in South Slavia, of a £I,OOO cheque. She declares she is innocent and was duped by a man described as a Chicago merchant for whom the police are searching. A very lieautiful woman and daughter of a gipsy named Farkas, the baroness, when a young girl, ran away from home, danced her way to fame and fortune, became the favourite of a Roumanian prince, and met Raron Ende, aGerman, in Petrograd. She married the baron in London, ran away from him at Nice, and has since lived in Paris, Vienna, RerTin, Munich, and Geneva, sometimes taking dancing engagements, and, on her own admission, forming liaisons with men who could afford to keep her in luxury. In Austria during the war she was acquitted by a military court of a charge of being a spy.