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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-01-06
High Prices for Farm
Products. The Cause,
LEO.

Products. The Cause
BYLEO.
That farm products commanC
a high price is we'll known, es
pecially to people who have th'
purchasing of supplies for the
family or boarding house; but
what is the cause of the high
prices is not so clear.
Hon. Champ Clarke. leader OF
the minority in the House of Rep
resentatives, thinks one cause is
the fact that so many farmers
leave the farm and move to the
towns. This, he thinks, converts
them from producers to consum-
ers. Making less production and
more consumption he claims en-
hances the price of farm prod
uets.
This would hold good if the
farmers on leaving the farm
made no provision for its occu.
patton or tillage. Some farms in
New England are abandoned.
But usually when a farmer at an
advanced age leaves the farm he
rents to some younger man, and
production continues, and often
times with better result. So that
leaving the farm bv the older
men can not be the cause of the
higher prices. Furthermore, this
leaving the farm, renting it and
moving to town has been going
on for many years, and will con-
tinue, simply because old men do
: not feel able to do the farm work
efficiently.
Secretary Wilson, our very able
farmer, who is at the head of the
Agricultural Department, thinks
that there are too many go-be-
tweens-too many agents be-
tween the producer and the ulti-
mate consumer. Each go-between
exacts so much profit on hand
ling the goods, and the consum-
er has to foot the bill. This, he |
thinks, enhances the price.
This is no doubt true; but does
not account for the high prices
just at this time. Middlemen or
go-betweens we have always had
to support. There were such
when corn sold for twenty-five
cents per bushel and wheat at
fifty. They will be on hand no
matter what be the price.
The tariff on imports is given
as the cause. But this cannot
be except in very indirect way,
because there was a tariff when
farm products commanded just
about one half the present prices.
Setting aside the causes above
mentioned as insufficient, we
think that two facts are at the
bottom of high prices for farms
and farm products, to-wit, the
gold supply, and liberal consum-
ing Of food.
Gold is our standard of value,
and when gold abOunds as it has
for the last twelve years. it be-
comes of less value. This shows
itself in the greater value of real
estate, farm products and labor.
When VIM. J. Bryan proposed
the free coinage of gold and sill
yer at q certain ratio, it was ar
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-01-06
Gettysburg.

The earth is dofing her white
mantle. The snow has almost
disappeared, and has given US q
covering of ice instead, render
ing locomotion somewhat diff
cult.
Prof. H. L. Sullivan returned
from his visit to Brown county
last Friday and this morning op-
ened our village schools.
Feeser & Miller are now run
ming our restaurant, instead of
]. E. Miller.
Last Saturday the estate of
Barbara Patterson was sold by
it's administrator; the real estate
brought $505. Earl Myers was
the purchaser.
Rev. George Carey of Urbana
filled our M. E. pulpit yesterday
morning. Rev. Walcott of Hunts
vile will preach for US on next
Sunday night.
Our M. E. Sunday school elec-
ted officers for TIE year as fol-
lows: Supt., P. B. Moul; Asst
Supt., l. M. Petersime; Sec'y,
Clara Burns; Asst Sec'y, Iva
Morris; Treas, H. M. Dershem;
Organist, Lizzie Moul; Asst Or
ganist, Esther Kneisley; Librar-
ians, Thelma Burns and Boice
Dershem; Chorister, Earl Luz
ena.
]. L. Palmer and wife of Piq-
ua were visitors here over Sat-
urday night and yesterday.
H. E. Kent and Helen Horner,
of our city, were married yester-
day by and at the home
of Elder J. H. Christian, after
which they took a trip to New
Paris, returning home last night.
Our new municipal officers as
sumed the duties of their respec-
tive positions last Saturday and
for the discharge of
their duties. l guess it may be
fairly assumed that the interests
of our city will be duly cared for.
We may rightfully expect i'm
provements to increase and our
village to extend it's usefulness
under the new regime.
Shall we say here lies the body
of 1909, cut down by the re-
morseless scythe of time? Yes,
another year is gone and here we
are in 1910, and, so far as can be
seen, it is well begun. This is
the time that resolutions for a
better life are usually formed,
but the passage of time alone
tells how we'll they are kept.
How many of us will carry out
our promises for a better life re-
mains to be seen. Some persons
say it is better never to make
such resolutions than to fail to
carry them out. Not wishing to
controvert such notions, I feel
like saying that it is the proper
thing for every person, not only
on New Year day, but as often
during the year as it may be ne
cessary, to depart from the wrong
path and turn to the right way,
and follow the right way with
the best endeavor and purpose
possible, and failing only indi-
Gates the weakness of the flesh.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12

With the Forth of July only a
short while distant and staring
us in the face as you might say,
what would be more BETTING than
for us TO set down and roll up
our sleeves and dash off a editorial
on "The Glorious Forth, It's Cause,
Effeckt, and What It Is to UsP
They is great many people not
only in Bingville. but also else
where, who, when the Forth comes
along. jumps in and hollers and
sweats themselves all up and gets
their fingers and whiskers burnt
like as not without having any idee
what they be doing it all for.
There's Ranse Smiley, one of our
most respected citizens, for in
stants. Ranse come into our office
tother day and asked us eonhden-
chially what the Forth of July was
for. He said he had a argument
about what it was for in Hen
Weathersby's store with Jed
Peters, our intelligent school,
teacher, witch almost led to blows.
Ranse said he told Jed the Forth
of July was to celebrate the dis
covery of the United States by
Christopher Columbus and that
led said it was to celebrate the
Declarashion of independence.
Ranse wanted us to say that he
was right and that Jed was wrong
so as he could go and gloat over
led, but as painful as it was for
us we had to tell Ranse right to
his face how ignorunt he was and
that he had went and made a fool
outen hisself over a little question
witch a 2-year-old schoolboy ought
to know all about.
That's just the way with some
folks on the Forth-they holler
and shoot off frecrackers and raise
helleloojah when they don't know
what they be raising it about. We
desire TO say to the readers of the
Bugle and to the world in general
once for ali and without fear Of
contradickshion that the glorious
Forth of July was invented and set
aside to celebrate the Declarashion
of independents witch made these
United States free and independent
as a hog on ice and lifted from our
bent necks the yoke of tieranny
and royal oppression. The Forth
of July is the day and date on
witch the American eagle shakes
out his tail feathers and flaps his
wings and screeches forth in
clarion tones to ali nashions of the
earth a challenge to fife. The Forth
Of July is the day when you sec
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12
Local Items

A big drove Of cattle passed through
Bingville on the way to the county
seat last week and one of the steers
strayed into Eph Hills farm and
stayed there Ever since then Eph has
been keepin the critter in the barn out
of sight so as it can get rested up.
Gabe Hooper fell through the barn
scuttie tother day and landed on a
mess Of young pigs, surprising all con-
eerned. Gabe was uninjured except he
swallered his chew of tobacker while
he was falling and slIun his elbow
some.
Eggs is scarcer than hens teeth in
Bingville at present, being as every
body is sending their eggs to the Co.
seat where they can get / ct. per doz.
more for them than at home.
Alb Wood has took off his sweater
for the summer. Alb has sweat a awful
lot just doing nothing sinst the warm
weather set in and he got alarmed
about Il fearing il was night sweats
he had. Last week his wife happened
to think 1t might be the sweater witch
he has been wearing all winter that
made him sweat so, and so Alb took
off the sweater and now he feels better
Lime Peters discovered a pr. of
skates in the loft of his house a short
spell back, and when. he found same
he was terrible disguised. Lime has
been looking for them skates every
winter for the past II years, for he
likes to skate awful we'll, and now
when he's found his skates they amt
no ice.
Yves Woodruff has sold the balance
of his slcunks' oil and bears grease to
! Doc Livermore. who viii use same in
his business.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12
Country Correspondence
ZION CROSSROADS,

Bill Woods sharped his axe lAsa
week. This is the FIRST time Bill has
sharped his axe since last fall.
Ben Wade's wife cand some black
berries last week.
LATE Henderson's wife give birth 20
young son Friday last witch weighs
10 lbs. without no clothes on. It's
buster and LATE is passing his plug
of tobacker around anon. the boys
in celebration of the event
Jabe Parker complains that he don't
get his Bugle regular. Why is this?
Miss Jane Truman went shopping TO
Hardscrabble last week She didn't buy
nothing. VERITAS.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12

pastor Is going to ring the bell fog
services is a mystery. Cy Hoskins' lad
der was broke in two by the fall, and
Cy says If the Ladies Aid don't pay
for it he'll bring suit against the
church for damages. The Ladies Aid
says they viii never pay for the lad
der, and that If Lem Brown don't come
TO time and pay for the paint he split.
he'll git hisself into trouble Lem says
they can whissle for their paint far as
he is concerned, because he's agoing
to take his namo often the church list
for il he hadn't of been church men,
Der he wouldn't of got into sich mess
and come within a hairs breadth Of
being killed instantly.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12

pickchers in the newspapers of
Uncle Samuel drest up in his war
clothes with his hat tilted down
over one eye and a good seegar
slanted up outen the corner of his
mouth and him with his chest
throwd out and Miss Columbia on
his left arm leadin her down the
pike proud and imposing on the
grand march of the earth's ma
shions. The Forth of July is the
day when the Stars and Stripes
forever flaps and flutters in the
breeze til you wouldn't think she
had a flap or flutter left in her.
Long may she wave
Do not forget then, We citizens
of Bingville, the horrible import
of the Forth of July. Do not for
get its terrible signifcants. If any
body asks YOU what it is for, don't
hem and haw, but be able to tell
them right to their faces like a
true born and patriotick American
citizen ought to do. Let us of Bing-
vile celebrate this grand and ig-
nominious occasfion with a knowi-
edge of what we be doing and not
as through a glass darkly. Let us
rise to the occashion with fife and
drum and frecracker and buzz
wheel and holler ourselves horse
in order that we may httingly sele-
brate the birthday of Freedom.
In conclushion We desire to add
that the Bingville Bugle is the
newsiest newspaper published in
the county, also the best advertis-
ing medium. The subscription list
is now open to all who desire to
affix their names thereto. Do not
delay. Subscribe at once.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12
Personals

Hen Weathersby, prop. of our gem
eral store, is out of mItches Those
desiring matches will haft to wait until
he orders some
Jim Hendricks, our Oldest inhabitant,
saws we be a going to have a terrible
poor fruit crop this year. Jim. who s
81 years of age (if his memory serves
him right Is a good profet on fruit
crops, and we shouldn't be surprised
If he was right about this.
Seth Dewberry, our heroick town
constable, while cleaning up his revolt
yer tother day, had the blamed thing
to 90 off in his hands and shoot bullet
into the floor only about a inch from
his left foot. Seth could of hit his
foot if he had of tried-he is terrible
accurate shot with revolver.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12
HARDscRABBLE.

Bill Hayward who lives four miles
east expects to harvest a good crop of
potatoes this fall
Sim Goodwin, our accommodating
p. NJ, closed his Office last week, be-
ing as he was helping Hen Woodruff
single his. barn. Sim is quite a car
penter.
Jake Hanover sprained his back while
irving to lift a foundashion stone for
his new spring house
Bud Hinsley is building some fence
There is considerable building going
on in our midst.
This is all at present
More non. OBSERVER
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12
relDOrkS!
And Things for the
GLORIOUS
FOURTH

have laid in supply OF fireworks and
shootin' things for the Fourth. including flags,
fIrecraekers and crackers g. cheese
and gun powder and pinwheels and
vyhIrIygfgs and roman candles ana
red fire, et cekera, too numerous TO
mentchi0n.
why don't you be patrioticks
Do you love your country II so.
show IL By coming 80 my store and buying &
lot OF things 70 celebrate the fourth
have tried some Of .hess fireworks and they
work all right, being ss / burnt my finger
and sfnged my whiskers q result.
Don't put OF buying these fireworks until
after the fourth IS over. Then II win be too
1ste New il the excepted time 20 lay
in your supply.
Prices very reasonable considering
how much noise yea get for your money
Yours for fireworks,
BingvIiie. HEN WEATh EhsBfs
Psop. GeaI Store
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-12
Bright. Breezy. BeIIieOss. Busting

me cheapest advertising medium IN ne
county. II you believe IL advertising come
and see us. For further information can %
or address the editor.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17

Water in the house for the farmers
wife and laborers in the field for the
farmer are the two necessities for the
improvement Of farm conditions. w.
l.. Nelson, assistant secretary of the
state board of agriculture, sen to 600
Missouri farmers, representing every
county in the state. a list of questions
on country conditions. One of the
questions vas What in your opinion,
Is the greatest problem with which the
farmer OF today must contend?' The
answers differed widely, but there was
one that outnumbered all others.
That one was the labor problem on
the farm; how to keep help in the
fields and in the house. Farmers
wives We're asked the question, What
one change or improvement about the
farmhouse would, in your opinion, be
Of the greatest benefit to the house
wife," In other words, What would
the housewife rather have?" Again
there were many kinds of answers.
But the substance of more than 30 per
cent was, water in the house" The
question Of farm help and home con
v%eniences enters into the discussion
Of all agricultural conditions.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
An Exciting Town.

Los Angeles is a truly exciting town
to live in. To say nothing Of its
heavenly climate and it's bombs. there
is always something stimulating in
the occult line going on. Just the
other day a widow of the angelic city
began to long for a sight Of n Of
her schoolmates whom she had not
seen for As years. The longing brought
its fulfllment. A spirit told her to
look for him in Brooklyn. She obeyed,
met him on the street a few hours
after she arrived. and promptly mar
ried him. It is worth while to live
in a city where things like this hap.
pen, even at the risk Of being blown
I'D now and then.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
Rack 70 the Wild,

There was a time when all dogs
were wild and when what we call
wolves were different from other dogs
only as a collie now is different from
a Newfoundland, for instance. From
time to time you will hear Of dogs
that have returned to the life of their
ancestors and have run wild with the
wolves Of the prairie or of the woods.
In the town of Sandy in Oregon a
greyhound one night made the &C.
quaintance of a coyote, which is q
kind of wolf, and ever since he has
lived away from the town. running
with the coyotes and approaching hui
man dwelling-places only to steal a
hen or two when he has been more
than usually hungry.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
Kansas City Theaters.

The ever popular play "In Old Ken
lucky" will be the attraction at the
Grand for a week beginning Sunday,
November 20. A good company and a
splendid new scenic equipment are
features in this years production.
At the Shubert for a week COM
mencing Sunday, November 20, Ed
ward Sheldon's remarkable southern
race problem play THE Niger" will
be the attraction. Guy Bates Post
takes the leading character. The play
Is thrilling from start to finish.
Adelaide Thurston in a new comedy
by Catherine Chisholm Gushing, en-
titled Miss Ananias," is the offering
Of the Willis Wood management for
the entire week commencing Sunday,
November 20. Miss Thurston is sup
ported by a company of we'll known
players.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
~lrnnorfanf TO Mofnera
What's in a Name?

See here, waiter" said Mr.. Crouch.
scowling deeply over his plate. II Or
dered turtle soup. There not even
a morsel of turtle flavor in this"
'Of course not, sir" returned the
waiter. What do you expect? Shake.
speare said there was nothing in a
name. If you ordered college pudding
would you expect a college in it? In
Manchester pudding would you look
for a ship canal or a cotton exchange?
Any tea, sir!"-Tit-BitS.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
LEWIS "slNeLE eiNpER.s

A handmade cigar fresh from the
table. wrapped in foil, thus keeping
fresh until smoked. A fresh cigar
made Of good tobacco is the ideal
smoke. The old, we'll cured tobaccos
used are SO rich in quality that many
who formerly smoked 10c cigars now
smoke Lewis Single Binder Straight
&c. Lewis Single Binder costs the
dealer some more than other &c cigars,
but the higher price enables this fac
tory to use extra quality tobacco.
There are many limitations; don't be
fooled. There is no substituted! Tell
the dealer you want a Lewis Single
Binder"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
The population Of Florida is 751,1Ss

The population Of Florida Is 751,139
An increase Of 222,597. or ALL per
cent over 52S,542 in 1900.
The population Of Alabama is 2,13S,.
093, as enumerated in the thirteenth
census. This Is an increase OF 309,396,
or 1863 Der cent over 1,S2S,697 in 1900.
Figures from 1902 counties OF the ia
in Missouri and st. Louis complete
give CAN'T. Democrat, for Judge OF the
supreme court, f6S,S13 and Brown, Re
publican. 272,17S for the same office.
4 Eerious food situation has develop
ed in eastern France. The River
Muerthe and its tributaries are over
their banks. Many villages have been
inundated.
Another unusual feature of the vot.
ing in the East was the fact that in
a majority of the big cities the Repub-
licans gained while they lost in the
country.
The Democrats appear to have
swept the Republicans clear out OF
North Carolina. According to the
best returns available the Republicans
lose their three congressman.
A Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
passenger train, from Kingtisher, col
lided head on with an Atchison, To.
peka d Santa Fe work train two and
a half mile south of Guthrie. Albert
Wilson engineer was killed and Fire
man Williamson was badly injured.
Negotiations between the officials
Of the brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and the general managers
of CT railroads operating west of Chi
cago on the demand for better work.
ing condition for engineers has been
broken off. The brotherhood officials
announced that a strike vote would
be taken.
Connecticut has elected a Demo.
cratic governor for the first time since
1893, in the person of Judge Simeon
f. Baldwin. The rest of the state Of.
ficials will be Republican.
The proposed prohibition constitu'
tional amendment to the constitution
of Missouri has been defeated by a
large majority probably more than
100, 600.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
Capitalist Farmers Tauaht.

Teaching capitalists how to handle
farm lands to obtain the maximum re.
turn on the money invested is a new,
function that the Agricultural college
forming. A department of farm man
agement is being successfully operated
under the direction Of Prof. D. II.
Doane, who will figure with any land
owner on the best methods for him to
use to get interest on his investment.
The methods of farming in Missouri
will be much improved by teaching
farmers at short courses and students
In the university how to conduct q
farm on a business basis.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
An AGRICULTURAL Meet.

Prof. p. F. Trowbridge of the Agri-
cultural college has gone to Washing
ton, d. c., to attend a meeting of the
Association of Official Agricultural
Chemists, which will compare the re-
suits of experiments in progress at the
experiment stations throughout the
nation, and make recommendations to
be used in the national pure food laws.
Prof. Trowbridge is referee in expert
ments on moisture in foods.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
MISSOURI STATE NEWS
Nc PAY for Sunday Work.

In a sweeping decision handed down
by Judge j. NJ. Johnson of the Kansas
City court of appeals, newspaper con.
tracts for advertising to be printed on
Sundays are declared void and Of no
binding effect. The Judge declared
that such contracts were for work to
be done in violation of the Sunday
labor laws and, for that reason, could
not be enforced. The decision came in
the case of publishers: George W.
Knapp & Co., owners of the st. Louis
Republic, against jeremiah Culbertson,
president of the International Explora-
ton company, with offices in the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce building.
Unless il is taken to a higher court,
it virtually ends the matter, because
the Judge declares that the newspaper
has no cause of action. 1t reverses alb
solutely the decision of the circuit
court, which awarded a Judgment to
the Republic. All the judges of the
court c%oncurred. Culbertson had a
contract with the Republic for some
advertising to be printed in Sunday
issues of that paper. The advertise
ments were published as the news
paper agreed to do on April IL and 10,
1908. Culbertson avoided payment and
suit was brought. The legal point
upon which the thing hinged was on
the legality of a newspaper taking a
contract to do certain things when the
criminal laws said, or purported to say
that those things were not lawful. The
appellant relied, upon an old statute
which makes it unlawful to do any
work on Sunday except works OF
household necessity, etc. THE con.
tract is void,' said Judge Johnson, be-
cause 1t is against public morals and
public policy. The courts will not
lend their aid TO enforcement of con.
tracts in violation of the criminal
laws.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-17
Supreme Test.

81 thought you said this bathing
suit was in fast colors." said Binks.
Indignantly, to the bathing master Of
whom he had bought his dollar suit
that morning.
"Yes, that's what l said" returned
the bathing master.
"Well, every blessed stripe on the
blooming thing has come off on my
back, retorted Binks.
"Ah, but wait until you try to get
'em off your back" smiled the bath
ing master, %suavely. Then you'll
see."-Harper's Weekly.