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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
BOARD OF TRADE TRANSACTIONS

BOARD OF TRADE TRANSACTIONS
Wheat.
May, 1OOss, 1OO5s, 1915, 1OO1s.
July, 95I4, 951a, 944, 947s.
September, 1915, "a, 93as, 1895.
Corn.
May. 64s4, 65as, 6434, G51s.
July, GAS, 6514, GAS, 651s.
September, 6514, 654, 65i4, 651&.
May, 49ss, 1875, 491s, 49h.
July, 454, 45A, As, asa.
September, 4O5s, 4O5s, 40i4, 4O3s.
Pork.
January, closed 1900.
May, 1920, 1850, 1920, 16.45.
Lard.
January, 9.37, 9.45, $50, 9.42.
May, 9.55, 9.65, $50, 9.G5.
Ribs.
January, S.57, S.G5, S.57, sos.
May, SIT, S.92, SIT, $50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
CHICAGO Estimates Tomorrow.
Primary Movement.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Openinu of Market.

Hogs $4,000. Left over 1890. Slow
al yesterdays average. Light $500
6.25. Mixed 590G6.37h. Heavy 5.95
d640. Rough 5.95G610.
Cattle $500. Steady.
Sheep $4,000. Strong at yesterday S
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
Great Seacoast Expeditions.

Burnside's Roanoke expedition had
been planned by himself and approved
by Mcclellan in October. 1861. and the
rest of the year taken up in getting
together the troops and vessels. All
the soldiers were selected from the sea-
board and were men used to the sea.
River barges and propellers were over
hauled and converted into gunboats,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11

night bout15 degrees

tends southwark to northern Missouri
and eastward to Maine. The eastward
movement of these conditions will be
attended by generally fair and con.
tinued cold weather in this vicinity to-
night and Friday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
OBSERVATIONS

prices. Bulk 61O9630. Light $500
6.25. Mixed 5.9OQ637k. Heavy sos
@6.40. Rough 5.9596.10.
Cattle slow Top $50
Sheep weak. Top 500. Lambs easy.
Top 740.
Western Live Stock.
Hogs. Cattle. Sheep.
Kansas City ......13,000 1000 5000
Omaha -. ....15,OOO $500 5000
Estimated Chicago Tomorrow.
Hogs. Cattle. Sheep.
Chicago -. 10000 5000 $4,000
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
TOday'S Market Quotations

(By wire from F. W. Wagner x Co.
Grain, provisions, stocks and cotton.
Local offices at Rock Island house, Rock
Island. Ill. Chicago Office. 9S-9S-100.
Board of Trade. Local telephones. No.
west 1900
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
.NtI ut
Nine O'Clock Market.

Hogs steady to strong. Light 5.9OG
625. Bulk 6.105s6.30. Mixed 5.900
6.37a. Pigs 4.s5G5.65. eHavy $3.50
$40. Good 6.10Q6.40. Rough $3.50
.610. Workers 6.1066.20.
Cattle steady. Beeves 4.750S. so
Stockers 3.3OG5.90. Texans 4.SOd So
Cows 2.00QG.65. Westerns 4.5OG795
Calves 6.0OGS.75.
Sheep slow at Wednesdays close
Natives 3.25@5.OO. Lambs 475aI25
Westerns 3.50G5.O0. Yearlings $3.50
6.25.
Close of Market.
Hog market closed slow at opening
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
THE GRAIN MARKET.
CHICAGO Cash Grain.

Corn-No. W 614 @62, No. Y Gig
@62, No. 4 W 61@G1H, Sym STAG
5S15, sgy $3.50.
Oats-No. , 4S%, No. 2 W 50I4 q
51ss, No 1880, No. 3 W 4S@591a,
standard 5OG5OR.
Wheat-No. 2 97@9S1a.
Liverpool Cables.
Wheat opened Is to u higher; clos
ed y to Is up.
Corn opened unchanged to IS lower;
closed Is higher.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11

Lard. 121ac.
Feed and Fuel.
Oats, soc.
Forage-Timothy hay, 500 to $22.
Glover hay, SIS.
Wheat, soc.
Wild hay, $14 to SIT.
Straw, IS.
New corn, 55c to 5Sc.
Coal-Lump, per bushel. 15c; slack,
l0c.
Potatoes, 90c.
Seattle - Governor Walter E.
Clark of Alaska, enroute to Wash
ington, d. c., declared that he was
opposed to outside interference in
political questions upon which Alas
kans themselves are divided"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11
Real Estate and Stocks of
Merchandise.

Bought. sold and exchanged. II you
want to buy or have anything to sell
or exchange let us hear from you.
NATIONAL BROKERAGE co.
40 Ohio street Terre Haute, Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11

(Board Of Trade building. Chicago
took fire at 1:40 p. m, and these were
the prices at that time)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11

LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
Jan. 11.-Folowing are the quota
lions on the local market TODAY:
Eggs, 35c.
Butter-Dairy, Csc; creamery. 45c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11

Observations az seventy nth merialsn
isoR.s through points o. eceie.s
CT dotted lines pass points Of equal term
pruture; they drawn only for zero ana ~
SYMBo1e indicate of weather: y clear; - parity
oiondy; . cloudy; q rain, g snow' % report
,nn~ Arrows ay wind. First agurs lowest tenn
nersure Tor past second rainfall Il II eous
IN ina. third wind velocity IL 10 miles hour or mora
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-11

Hog market closed slow at opening
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22

the fraternity getting up minstrel
show this spring are requested to meet
at the lodge rooms at s o'clock on FRI
day evening of this week.
Mrs. Oliver D. Medcalf, who suffered a
paralytic shock about two months since,
is making progress toward recovery, She
is at this time able to sit up few
hours each day and is beginning 70 get
the use of her limbs, which have been
completely paralyzed This news will at
ford her friends here, as elsewhere, I'M
limited pleasure.
William c. Goodwin, who has had en-:
ployment with contractor w L. Jackson
on the new Aldrich block at the june
tion of Main, Washington and Elm
streets in Barre City since early last
spring, arrived in town Monday evening
and is stopping at the home OF his
brother, Fred f. Goodwin.
The remains of Charles G. Mourcroft.
who died at his home in Barre werl
brought to this town for interment OH
Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by mem
bers OF his immediate family, The IN
torment was in the cemetery near tho
west hill church, which is near the homo
of his wife, who is daughter OF the
venerable George Bradshaw
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
LOOK AFTER YOUR ELECTRIC
WIRING.

According to the Mortified News, a
stoneshed fire was started there the 9TH
er night in the same manner as the fire
which caused the entire destruction OF
the Pelaggi plant some weeks ago; and
the cause was defective wiring. Only
the fact that the fire broke out at a
time when. persons were about saved
Mortified from a second serious blow in
the same winter, just as Montpelier suf-
fered short time ago. In the case of
the latter stoneshed fires, there has, we
believe, been no satisfactory solution Of
the cause; but it is possible, perhaps
probable, that one or more was caused
by the same defective wiring. AT any
rate, in the case of the most recen. FIRE,
the trouble was due to crossed wires in
tine building.
Such being the case, it behooves Barre
granite manufacturers, now that the
subject of better IRE protection is sumo.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
Amended.


| think as read of that old oaken
bucket
How hard it would be to maintain
one to-day.
Ihere'd have to be one for each member
OF the family.
And that, you'll admit, seems unlike
ly to pay.
With parents and children, an old-fash-
toned dozen,
With guests that were frequent and
thirsty as-well,
'Twould cost like the deuce to have
separate buckets
Individual buckets would crowd the
old we'll
Go burn that old bucket, the half
public bucket
Individual buckets should hang in
the well.
Ell. Box says the vessel that's commons
a menace,
And most legislatures have said he
was right
According to that what fool, that old
poet),
The old oaken bucket was surely
fright.
But think OF well with curb fairly
covered
With buckets each labelled pa
"Henry" or Nell"
Folk nowadays dare not drink after each
other,
And separate buckets should hang in
the well.
The old oaken buckets, the numer-
Gus buckets
Individual buckets must hang in the
we'll.
Satire
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
A Great Lincoln Poem.

"Of the people. by the people, for thu
people," by Wilbur d. Nesbitt.
"0f MS. an by US, an for us"-they AIM
just the words he said,
But the sense Is there of the thought h,
had when he honored the coun
tries dead.
"Of us, an by us, an for us"--with the
old flag swingin' high
With its stripes o. red like sacred flame
that was blazin' in the sky.
He said it like one that waited the dawn
in a starless night;
1t was born of trust in nations truth
an l wonder if Abe was right.
"Of us, an by us, an for us"-an' who
is it pulls the strings
Till we walk in line to the ballot box
like a parcel o, we'll trained things
Why do we shudder at badness that's
done in some other place
While we shut our eyes to the wrongs we
know are alvin before our face !
"a government of the people"--he trust
ed in manhood's might,
But when honors are sold in the market
place, / wonder if Abe was right.
"of you, an by you, an for you"-Go
tell it to some worn child
That is toilin' hard for somebody's gain,
an has never played nor smiled
Tell it to them that wonders where they
will find bread an meat,
An tell it to them that struggles on
with wearyin hands an feet,
It's them that is sellin' suffrage that's
barrin' them from the light,
An when people can smile at grafter's
guile, wonder if Abe was right.
"Of us, an by us, an for us"--O broth
er, clinch hands with me,
For the land is ours from palm to pine
and from mighty sea to sea!
It's by us an for us, brother-the evil,
the wrong, the shame;
It's men like us that is guilty, too, an
we have our burnin' blame.
'fOf us, an by us, an for us"-God give
us the grace to fight
Till the whole world knows an the ma,
ton shows by its Twin that Abe
was right
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
Gov. Foss' Message.

Whatever else may be said about
Gov. Foss' message to the legislature
disappearing of the appropriations de-
sired by the Massachusetts agricultural
college at Amherst, there is no doubt
of its being a great shock to the farm
ers who voted for the governor at the
last election because of his declaration
that enough money was not being spent
by the state to advance their interests.
Plenty of Republicans were moved by
this attitude of the executive to help
bring about his reelection. The agrf-
cultural college has been more and more
devoting its energies to carrying the ex-
pert knowledge of its faculty into di-
rect contact with the farmers. More
than ever before in its history is it
therefore distinctly agricultural insti-
tuition. Because of these things the
message of his excellency comes as
clap out of clear sky-but il is quite
too late to recall those votes of last
fall.-Springfeld Republican.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
A Parcels Post.

parcels post appears to be one Of
the things likely to be bestowed on tbi:
country in the near future, and the prob
able effect of it is getting considerable
attention at the hands of the country
merchant.
Whether it is to take the form of q
general parcels post, or partial scheme
of that sort, remains to be seen.
Most of the merchants in this vicinity
believe general parcels post would
work decided hardships on the country
merchants and drive some of them ont oil
business.
While many of the statesmen al
Washington favor some kind of parcels
post, some of them look upon 4 general
post as likely to bankrupt the national
treasury, but there is a difference OF
opinion among them as regards its eff
feet upon the country merchant.
1t is possible that those who fear the
effect of a parcels post upon the coun-
try storekeeper and believe it means the
gradual decadenee of his business are
drawing unduly upon their imagination
and are Seeing things; and it is pos
sible too that even so radical a change
in the delivery system would not work
the hardship feared, because great chang
es do not always prove as detrimental
to public interests as they sometimes
to.
But the Tribune is inclined to be-
leve that general parcels post, while
comforting some benefit upon the buy
ing public, would prove hurtful to the
country merchant, and that if congress
is determined to try the parcels post OK
pertinent, the statesmen who compose
that body and who represent in so large
degree localities where the country mer-
chant flourishes and is an important
factor in the community, should see to
it that his interests are conserved to a
reasonable gree.--Ludlow Tribune
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22

| what prominent, to take this matter
| in hand and see that there is no likell-
hood Of fires from similar causes in their
properties. They would do well not to
! take it for granted that the wiring III
their plants is such as to prevent fire
breaking out; even allowing that the
wiring was done in the first place by a
competent and careful workman, it is
very easy for defects to develop either
through crossing of wires, wearing Of in
sulation or contact between wires and
woodwork. They ought to see to il now.
that the wires are in satisfactory shape;
and what is more, they ought to have
more frequent inspections to see that
everything is safe. We suppose that
the companies which place insurance on
the granite plants conduct their exami-
nations there just as they do in the
business blocks; but if they do follow
that practice it would seem that the
inspections are not frequent enough to
avert all danger, else fire would not
have broken out in Northfeld stone
shed the other evening. So manufac
turers might well take hand in the
matter and authorize Investigations OF
the wiring by local meehanicians. Such
a precaution will be every bit as val
liable as increased fire department equip
ment.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
CHELSEA.

! Sheriff b. Fl. Adams was in Washing
ton on official business Monday after
noon.
Mrs. Abbie L. Sleeper has given bel
son. Milo L. Sleeper, his time during thu
remainder of his minority,
Fred f. Goodwin and son, Merland
spent Sunday in Washington as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. L. ID. Tillot
son.
Two or three cases of diphtheria are
reported in the family of Chester A
Kezer, who lives near the Chelsea lin,
in Corinth.
Deputy Sheriff James o. Kendall OF
South STAFFORD was in town Tuesday Ia
commit drunk to the county Jail for
twenty days.
Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Sprague spent
Sunday in East Brookfield as the guests
of the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John II. Sprague.
Harvey w. Spear was in Barre and
Montpelier on business Monday, as was
o FAY Allen in Barre City on business
on the same day.
Mrs. Nettie Hines of Orange, who has
been spending few days in town, left
Monday for Meredith, N. H., where she
will visit relatives.
Mrs. G. G. McAllister of Washington
is in town for time TO assist in the
household duties at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. B. H. Adams,
Nathan j. Hill, who is suffering with
cancer of the liver, seems to be in less
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
Montpelier Urged To Vote mo"

The time is approaching when the citi.
zens of Montpelier once more will be
called upon to determine whether they
win or will not authorize the sale of
Intoxicating liquor during the next year.
At the annual city meeting last year,
by very narrow margin, the city vot-
ed to license the sale of liquor. The
experiences of the past year are still
| fresh in the minds of the people. They
| know whether the contest over the
awarding OF licenses was satisfactory
and credtable to the city, or otherwise.
They know whether the city has been
better or worse as result of the Ii
oense vote.
1t does not require a very close OBJ
server to note that the controversy over
the awarding of licenses last spring was
distinctly demoralizing. 1t would not
be a difficult matter to name indivd-
uals who have gone to the devil the
past year as a direct result Of the Ii
cense vote, men who have fallen because
OF the temptation afforded by the open
saloon. Our police records as usual,
show large increase in the arrests for
drunkenness when compared with no IL
cense period.
As this paper has argued before, so
it maintains again, that there is a con-
siderable element of our population
which will patronize saloons when they
are open for business which will not
take the trouble to hunt up some IL
legal Joint or send away for a consign-
rnent of liquors. This element will re-
main comparatively sober under no Ii
cense, and as a result, the city will be
mere orderly and there will be more
money available for the payment of the
grocer and the butcher.
This paper believes that the local OPP
ton law is a good temperance measure.
Every year it puts the citizens of every
municipality upon their mettle to de-
termine a very important question.
While it may be true that in large
cities a no license regime would not be
in the interest of temperance, owing
to the extreme difficulty of enforcing
the law, it has been demonstrated that
in small city like Montpelier there
is greater quietness and sobriety when
the city votes mo-
Doubtless some liquor will be sold
illegally if no license is voted. There
are those who say that such eondi-
ton of affairs has prevailed under license.
We must judge in such matters by the
general effect upon municipal conditions,
and it seems to this paper that Mont
pelier is cleaner, safer, more de-
cent city when no license rather than Ii
cense prevails. For that reason The
journal urges that the city be put into
the mo" column once more.
The prevailing opinion seems to be
that the city will give substantial
no majority at the March election.
1t is not safe, however, to permit the
election to 20 by default. There are
always those who are ready to work for
license. The no license people will do
we'll not to relax their efforts this year
because the outlook seems more favor
eblc than it did last year. Our con-
fidence has lost many elections and it |
may lose this contest il INDUCED in
to any great extent.--Montpelier Jour
nal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22

We cannot see that because Major
General Ainsworth, who was recently re-
tired from the United States army to
avoid serious controversy with the war
department, was Vermonter that the
incident furnishes any disgrace to Yer
mont, as some newspapers intimate. AS
matter of fact, the situation throws no
reflection on the state at all. Were
Major General Ainsworth even proven
ir the wrong after hearing, it would
not react on the state of his birth. What
is true, however, is that our pride as
Nermonters has been wounded by the
fact that one of the sons of the state
should have become involved in an EN-
broglio with his superiors; but there is
vast difference between that and the
allegation that Major. General Ainsworth,
right or wrong, has caused the good
name of the state to suffer in the least.
Indeed, there is no connection between
the retired officers alleged lack of defer
ence to superior officers and vermont's
fair name.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22

stage OF perfection beyond the reach of
critics, let him read this news dispatch
published in the morning papers:
Washington, Feb 20.-Former Presi-
dent Roosevelt as witness in the Ray
ease was one Of the possibilities de-
veloped to-day in the investigation
which the House committee on expendi-
lures in the war department is making
into the charges which have been made
against Mai. Beecher Ray, an army pay
master. The committee has also de-
cided to subpoena Charles p. Taft OF
Cincinnati, brother of President Taft.
~ favor calling Theodore Roosevelt
and everyone who has had anything
to do with the retention of Major Ray
in the United States army declared
Representatives Difenderfer of Pennsyi-
vania, a member of the committee.
1--WE ought to know if Mr.. Roose-
welt used the same tactics in this case
that he did in fomenting the Panama
revolution. The Ray case has developed
since the committee began to delye into
ii, series of circumstances which should
be probed to the very bottom.
ION the face of such evidence as
we nave already utlOIt us bHtic. II dP-
parent condition in the army that
calls for thorough investigation. This
committee intends to go TO the very
top, whether ii be chief of staff or the
president of the United States !"
If Judge charged with the decision
of cause pending before his bench did
all this kind of loose talking before
or during the hearing. we should be glad
enough 10 invoke the "recalP' for his
special benefit. Yet congressman sit
ting in similar capacity can chatter
like parrot and get headlines in a
newspaper in consequence, and there
ii no talk of recall"
We need not lose faith in the great
experiment in government we are UNI
dcrtaking here in America If we adj
init to ourselves now and then that
it has yet to overcome many weak
nesses, the weaknesses more or less es-
sentially characteristics Of q democracy,
one of which is that lured by newspaper
notoriety, our statesmen talk too
much" st. Adams Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
For State Treasurer.

The Messenger has no reason to doubt
the probability that State Treasurer Ed.
ward H. Deavitt Of Montpelier will be
renominated by the Republican state
convention next June. II is true that
another candidate, former Senator Wal.
ter +. Scott of Brandon, has been sug
gested by friends and that, were condi-
tions favorable, from the viewpoint of
political expediency, it is not TO be
doubted that Mr.. Scott could command a
splendid support all over the state. Just
at this time. however, the impression
appears to prevail that Mr.. Deavitt is
entitled TO another term, under the Gus
tom OF the party and with the approval
of public sentiment And The Messen-
ger, for one, sincerely hopes he will get
it.-St. Adams Messenger
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22

Frederick A. Cook, arctic explorer. self
announced discoverer of the north pole
and now lecturer to the remainder OF
lis mortals who haven't the nerve or
the inclination to go up to see if he was
right or wrong, is having rather poor
reception in Vermont, his Bennington
date being cancelled for supposed lack
of patronage, Rutland giving him an au-
dience of less than one hundred people,
and now st. Johnsbury people urged to
withhold patronage by local press. But
it will take more than these reverses
and discomagements to drive Cook OH
the platform, we are convinced.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22

As yet, no one has recommended a
coat of mail and a helmet to match
for New York people who walk their
streets after dark; but nevertheless such
armament would not be unreasonable
in view of the thuggery which has been
going on there so boldly. And an enter
prising merchant who should set MP q
store for those wares next door to the
Grand Central station, so we could make
immediate purchase, might do thriving
business.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-22
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
More Baker Discussion.

Editor, Barre Times: In reply to c..
Canepa, the baker employed by P. d.
Molla, we wish to state that said +.
Canepa has been given dozen chances
to transfer his card from New York to
the local which has jurisdiction here,
namely local 1853. We have tried in
every possible way to have him affiliate
with the rest of the Italian and English
speaking bakers, but all to no purpose.
And when finally member of our UNI
ion was discharged from p d. Molla
and Z. Canepa retained, we felt we had
received unfair treatment and resolved
to leave p. D. Mola and his employee
alone, or. at least until such time as
the rights of our organization are recog-
nized.
Sincerely yours,
James Mcdonald, secretary, local 1853