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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-24
WHEAT VALUES
SWING UPWARD

CHICAGO, April 24.-values took a
lecided upward swing today in the
wheat pit Influenced largely by unfav.
,rable advices regarding foreign crops.
france. Italy. Spain and the Scandi.
lavian countries in particular com.
planned Of adverse field conditions
There were also reports that much
Illinois winter wheat WIS being blow.
ed up, and that the winter crop in
iowa was virtually q failure. Prices.
which ranged from 1sc decline to a
like advance, with May at $231H to
1899 and July at $1.S8 to $l.98%, were
followed by sharp gains all around.
Corn firmed up with wheat. Trade
was chiefly local. After opening n Oft
to gain of ", the market scored q
general rise to well above yesterday
finish
Oats reflected the strength OF other
grain. Commission house business
was nearly at standstill.
Advance of hogs and cereals carried
provisions along There was but little
pressure to sell.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-24
Dent Let Soap
Spoil Your Hair

When you wash your hair. be care
full what you uee. Most soaps and
prepared shampoos contain too much
allSali, which is very injurious, as it
dries the scalp and makes the hair
brittle.
The best thing to use is just plain
mulsified cocoanut oil. for this Is pure
and entirely greaseless. It's very
cheap. and beats the most expensive
soaps or anything else all to pieces
You can get this at any drug store,
and a few ounces will last the whole
family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub it in. about teaspoonful is all
that is required. 1t makes an abund-
ance of rich. creamy -lather. cleanses
thoroughly, and ,rinses out easily. The
hair dries quickly and evenly. and is
soft. fresh looking, bright, fluffy,
wavy and easy to handle. Besides, it
loosens and takes out every particle
of dust, dirt and dandruff.-Adv.
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INDIANAPOLIS

INDIANAPOLIS. April 24--Hogs-
Best heavies, $15.60016.00; mixed
and mediums, $15.5o@15.60; good tc
choice lights, s15.50@15.55; common
to medium lights. s14.00@15.00; bulk
Of sales best hogs. s15.50@15.60;
roughs, $15.00@15.25; light pigs. SIG
STA. 90; best pigs. $13@13.5o. Receipts
1000.
Cattle-Prime steers, $12.00013.25;
good to choice steers, S11.50@12.00;
common to medium, $8.00@11.50;
heifers, 5000. Receipts, 1900
IS o0@11 90; common to best heavy
sS. 00M12.00, common to best heavy
S611O.50. Receipts, $50.
Sheep and Lambs---Good to choice
$11.00@12.5C; common to medium
lambs, $10W13.75: good to best lambs,
$15@15.50. Receipts, SO.
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St, Louis.

ST. LOUIS. April "a. - Hogs-Re
ceipts, 1900; steady; lights, s15-25@
1855: pigs, s10.75@14.25; mixed and
butchers, $15.35@15.S0; good heavy
$l5.7S@15.85; bulk, 1540@15.75.
Cattle - Receipts, 3.0o0; slow, pros
poets steady; native beef steers, $3.50
G13 90; yearling steers and heifers,
sS.50M1200; cows, s6@11; stockers
and feeders, s6010.15; native calves
S6G13.
Sheep - Receipts, SEQ; higher;
lambs, $13@15.90; ewes, s9.50W12.25;
yearlings. $12.75@14.25; clipped lambs
S1201275.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-24
Local Citizen
Receives Benefit
Says Crocodile Liniment Is
Marvellous.

Mr. NJ Gilladams who lives at 1915
n. East ST., Richmond, Ind, makes
statement:
l have been bothered with Rheu-
matism and swollen joints for the past
two years and have tried in vain to
find something that would give me re-
lief. My knee would swell up making
it difficult for me to walk and at times
the pains would be almost unbearable.
bought bottle of Crocodile Lini-
ment and used it on my knee and aft
er the first application l noticed de-
cided change The swelling soon dis
appeared, and the pains gradually
ceased and from that day l have not
had pain in my knee. l think CROC-
OD1LE LLNIMENT is the greatest
remdy there is for Rheumatism and
pain.
Crocodile Liniment is now being ad-
vertised at Thistlethwaite's Drug store
Sixth and Main st. Where special
representative is lecturing and demon
strating the remedy this week only
This week only two bottles for &c.
Adv.
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East Buffalo.

EAST BUFFALO, April 24.-Cattle
Receipts, $50; fairly active.
Veals-Receipts. ESQ; active; $500
@1200, few $12.25.
Hogs Receipts 5000, active and
steady: heavy, s16.15@16.25; mixed
$l6.00@1615; Workers., S15.S5@16.00;
light Workers., $14.50@15.50; pigs
$13.75@14.00; roughs, s14.00@14.25;
stays, $11.50@12.50.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 3,400;
slow and steady. unchanged.
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. Chicago

CHICAGO, April 24-Hogs-receipts
$4,000; market strong; bulk OF sales,
-s16.4 o@ S15.S5; lights, S14.60@S15.75;
mixed, $15.15@S15.90; heavy, $3.50
$3.50; rough, $15.15@15.35; pigs.
S9.75Q 1910.
Cattle Receipts, 1000; market,
steady; native beef cattle, $500
1910; stockers and feeders, S7.109
$50; cows and heifers, $5.60@11.00;
calves, S8@12.50.
Sheep - Receipts. $4,000; market,
steady; wethers. s10.60@13.0O; lambs,
$12.16016.10.
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Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, April 24.-Hogs-
Receipts, $4,000; higher; bulk, $500
@15.75; heavy. s15.70@15.S5: packers
and butchers, s15.45@15.75; light
$14.S5Q 1916; pigs, $11@14.25.
Cattle Receipts, 10000; steady ;
prime fed steers, s12@12.75; dressed
beef steers, $9.00@11.75; southern
steers, S750@11.00; COWS, $500
1o.75; heifers, $S@11.5o; stockers and
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Feed Quotations

corrected Daily by Omer Wheian.)
Paying-Oats. CSC; corn. $1-40: rye,
$3.50: clover seed, $9.ocQlo.OO a
tushei. straw. $500 ton.
SellIng-Cotton seed meal, $500 q
ton, $3.50 a cwt.; middlings, $500 a
ton, $3.50 cwt.; bran, $47.00 ton.
$40 cwt.; salt. s2.25 bbl.: Quaker
dairy feed. $500 ton. $500 per cwt.
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feeders. $725W1075: bufls. $7.25@10.-
IS; calves. $7.0O@13.75.
Sheep Receipts. 5000: strong;
lambs. S12.50@16.OO: yearlings, $500
@14.25: wethers. $12.0001315: ewes,
|41AQ13.
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! $10.75; top lambs $3.50. Calves-re
ceipts 200; market steady; top $3.50
Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 24.--Hogs
Receipts 1900: market steady; packers
to choice $s@$14.S5; Pigs and lights
SS@$14.S5. Cattle-receipts zoo; mar
ket steady. Sheep--receipts 100, mar
ket steady. Lambs-market steady.
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LIVE STOCK
Pitts hllrWl,

PITTSBURGH. Pa. April 24--HoSs,
receipts 1000; market higher: heavies
s15.S5@ 1890; heavy workers. $15.50@
s15.75; light workers. s14G$1A.25; pigs
k12.50@$13.00. Sheep and lambs, re
ceipts 500;market steady: top sheep
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Range, S1.7591.92.
Chicago CaSl,
Toledo Grain

TOLEDO, O.. April 24.--Cloverseed
Prime cash. April $1,000.
Alsike: Prime cash, April $11.50
Timothy: Prime cash. April $500.
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Produce

Produce
Corrected Daily by Edward Cooper,
Old chickens, dressed, selling, 90 to
35c; young chickens. selling, 80 to
35c; country butter, selling, 35 to 40c:
creamery butter, selling, 53c; fresh
eggs, selling, SIC; country lard, selling
csc; potatoes, selling, $1.00 a peck.
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PRODUCE
Chicago

CHICAGO. April 24-Butter: $40
41c.
Eggs: Receipts, 51,0s6 cases; mar
ket, S1@S3L.
Poultry alive: Fowls, 23c.
Potato market: Unchanged; re-
ceipts, IS cars.
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Cincinnati Produce

CINCINNATI, O., April 24.--Butter:
Creamery, extra, 48c; centralized ex.
ira, 451sc; do firsts, 42c; do seconds,
39c; dairy fancy, SOC; packing stock,
2S@35c.
Eggs: Prime first, Sic; first, 32hc;
ordinary first, SEC; second, SIC.
Poultry: Broilers under ~ Tbs.
44c; fryers over 11s lbs, soc: turkeys,
21@26c; roosters, 16c
Potatoes: Michigan, S1O.50@11.O0;
Wisconsin, $10.5O@s11.
Sweet Potatoes: $1.75n2.25 per
hamper.
Cabbage-$7.Oo@7.75 per crate.
Onions-Spanish, $6@65o per 70-lb.
crate; white, $9.5U@10.00; yellow,
Sa.5o@10.00 per 100 lbs
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GRAIN
Chicago Futures
',afi (Irai},

CINCINNATJ Arril "a. Wheat
No. 2 red w,ntel. s3.S1G2.S4; No. 3,
s2.7562.s2; No. 4. s2.50@2.77; sales,
I cars.
Corn - No. white, 1857; No. 3
white, $1.56: No. 4 white. S1.54G LBS;
No. 2 yellow. $1511a @1.52; No. 3 vel
low, s1.51@1.511s; No. yellow, $3.50
m1.51: No. mixed, $1.511a q 1.52;
enr corn, S1.5191.57.
Oets-No white. 73c; No. 2 mixed,
tic.
Gye-Kange. s1.7511.92.
Chicago Cash
CHIC AGO, April 24.--Whoat: No.
red, nominal: No. red. nominal; No.
Q hard. nominal; No. 8 hard. nominal.
Corn. No. 2 yellow. $3.50 50; No.
. yellow, nominal.
Oats: NO. 8 white. 6sA gro; Stand
nrd 6oM70A.
rye: No. 2. nominal.
ard: $21.05@21.15.
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New York Exchange Closing
Quotations

American Can, 1885,.
American Locomotive, 66 y.
American Beet Sugar, 91i.
American Shelter, 97h.
Anaconda, IS.
Atchison, 1925.
Bethlehem Steel. $50.
Canadian Pacific. 159N.
Chesapeake & Ohio, 591s.
Great Northern. pfd., 1897.
Lehigh Valley, 65h.
New York Central, 93A.
No. Pacific. 1031s.
So. Pacific, 93A.
Pennsylvania. 52zs.
U. S. Steel, CON-. 111A.
U. s. Steel. pfd., 117s.
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PALLADIUM. WANT ADS PAY
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
NEGRO SELECTIVES
WARMLY WELCOMED
AT ATLANTA

Atlanta, Georgia. Some parts
of the South may be opposed to
the Negro Soldier, but Atlanta
located in the South, gave as
warm and as cordial a welcome
to the Negro draft men as it did
to its White draft men when they
began to arrive last week. The
Atlanta Constitution calls atten-
ton on it's first page to the ar
rangements made for the recep-
ton of the colored men, and to
the camp activities for their en-
joyment which are being organ
lied. The Constitution,says that
these camp activities for colored
men will vary in no way from
those organized for the white Sc
lectmen. Every effort will be
made to minimize friction and
misunderstanding.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
HOWARD TO FURNISH U. S.
ARMY WITH SHOE POLISH

Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. PA. c. How
ard, shoe polish king and formerly
Chicago business man, has recently
been awarded the contract to furnish
the United States army with shoe pol
ish and various other requisites per-
tanning to the upkeep of footwear.
Mr. Howard's manufacturing plant
consists of two brick buildings of five
floors each and an annex at 21-23 Full
ton street. His exhibits won the first
prize at the Paris exposition, 1900,
and also at the jamestown exposition,
1907 Mr.. Howard has been advised
to offer the public shares in, his in
dustry, and those interested should
communicate with F. H. Gilbert, 21-23
Fulton street, Brooklyn. Mr.. Howard
has paid over 100000 to race men
and women since establishing his bust
ness.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
JACK JOHNSON WOULD "Do BIT"

American Army Headquarters in
France, Oct. 4.-(Delayed.) il Jack
Johnson, former heavyweight cham
pion of the world, is eager to fight in
the trenches, box for the Red Cross or
do anything possible to help win the
war for the United States and the al
lies. This word was received here
today from Madrid, where the former
champion is staying:
Maybe 1 am getting little too old,
but l amt as old as Colonel Roose-
welt, Hindenburg and others. l think
can still put away few 'Fritzies.
Johnson's white wife is reported to
have left him. Despite reports that
he is financially broke. Johnson dimes
daily and extravagantly at the Palace
hotel, often accompanied, according
to the report, by two or three Spanish
beauties
He has given up his attempt to be-
come a toreador and announced that
he is running an advertising agency
with offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
The exact source of his income is un-
known
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
Texans Adds Another
Page To Dark History
Some of Best White Citizens of
Harris County Lynch
Bert Smith.

Houston. Texas, Oct. 12.-
Eight hundred oil-field workers
whites, Mexicans, Germans
and Italians employed at Goose
Creek, a suburb of this city,
seized Bert Smith, member of
the Race, and brutally hung him
to a tree and riddled his body
with bullets and horribly m uti-
lated it with sledge-hammers and
butcher knives after cutting it
down. Smith was accused of COM
mitting an outrage (?) on his en-
ployer's wife.
Smith, who was employed as
cook on the oil reservation, made
complaint to the head of his
camp concerning the indecent re-
marks that were recited to his
sister and mother, who came to
see him occasionally, and point
ed out several men who had an
noyed them. A crowd of white
hyenas were standing nearby
and heard Smiths complaint,
and it is claimed that a henious
crime against Smith and his rel
atives was Matched by this bunch.
A week later Smiths sister was
on her way from Houston to the
camp at Goose Creek, and was
seen approaching by three white
brutes, who secluded themselves
behind some shrubbery. When
the girl passed they leaped out,
gagged and bound her, and car
ried the body into the woods, and
the three in turn committed out
RACES on her. After satisfying
their beastly natures they strip
ped the girl of her blood-stained
garments and hung them over
her head on the limb of a tree.
She was found late in the after
noon by several small boys who
were out berry picking.
The day following one of the
men came near Smith and said,
"Hey, niger, did you see that
ugly black wench they picked up
in the woods yistidy?" and also
uttered other horrible phrases
concerning the outrage that
would not look good in print. In
the midst of these remarks Smith
dealt this dirty white man a Wis
ious blow that felled him. The
argument was closely watched
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
DENVER, COLORADO. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 1919

cial sermons from time to time on the
conservation of food, and to keep our
people posted as far as possible on
the war conditions.
I'VE give our approval and hearty
Endorsement to the appointment of
Charles Stewart at the head of pub
licity bureau in the food administra-
tion, and believe that he will at the
papers give to our people full infor-
nation and instructions, and will do
his duty in keeping us informed"
The conference was presided over
by Bishop H. Blanton Parks, DID,, of
Chicago.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
NEGRO REGIMENT TAKES
$13o,35o OF LIBERTY LOAN

Bisbee, Ariz., Oct. 16.-Twelve hun
dred and ninety-eight enlisted men of
Negro cavalry stationed at Fort Hua-
chuca have subscribed s1S0,350 to the
second Liberty loan, according to a
statement made this afternoon by Cap
tain Dixon of the regiment This fig
ure amounts to an average per capita
subscription OF $1O042. Four troops
are on border patrol, and have not re-
ported in full.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20

by a number of oil drillers, who
Immediately attacked Smith and
placed a rope around his neck,
hammered his mouth in with a
sledge and pierced his body with
sharp instruments, and then
forced a 10-year-old white lad
who carried water around the
camp to take a large butcher
knife and unsex him. Smith
who was still alive, uttered sew
eral prayers and begged that all
his feelings be taken from him.
He was dragged down the main
thoroughfare near the camp
houses and viewed by women,
some of whom it is rumored,
were expecting childbirth. 1t
is also claimed that the treat
ment was of such an atrocious
nature that the severe shock of it
caused one of the women to give
birth to a child while standing on
the door-steps of her home.
She was spirited away to near
by town for medical aid.
When the news reached Hous-
ton sheriff's posse gathered
and started for the scene The
lynchers had good time to sus-
pend the body from a tree and
make their way into quarters in
order to patch up a miserable
crime against Smith in order to
deceive the law (?).
They met the posse near the
roadside and informed them that
Smith had ravished a white wo-
man, and threatened to kill her
husband. In spite of this lie,
fifteen were placed under arrest
and placed under $1,000 bonds
each. Chicago Defender.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
81 NEGRO SOLDIERS TAKEN
TO PRISON AT FORT BLISS

Fort Bliss, Texas. Oct 1S.-Ninety-
one Negro soldiers of the Twenty
fourth United States infantry were
prison stockade. Sixty-nine were held
on charges of participating in the
Houston, Texas, rioting. and twenty
two were held as witnesses. They
were brought here from New Mexico
under a heavy guard of troops. There
are 143 in the stockade now under the
same charges,
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
HOW TO HELP
WIN THE WAR
Plans Outlined by the U. S. Food Administration
Meeting With General Approval and People
Everywhere Falling in Line

through these that we must carry to
all of our people information about
the national need of conservation of
food. Our women must do their part.
They must willingly give their sigma
lures to the United States food ad-
ministration pledge. If you are at the
head of an organization, or even
member, whether it be local, state or
federal, see to it that Prof. A. U. Craig,
United States food administration. is
put in touch with your organization
at once and literature will be sent to
it.
Let us look at some of the things
we can do in the direction outlined.
We can help to win the war and to
furnish the necessary food by chang
ing our diet, by seeing to it that there
is no waste in our kitchens, in our
dining rooms and through our garbage
cans.
We must cut down on our dishes.
That is, we must not have so many
courses at our homes, and cook only
what can be used at meal, and if
there be any left over, use it in an
other meal. Have fewer banquets and
big spreads There must be common
economical living until after this war.
Use less sugar, less wheat flour, less
bacon and the like, and make your
Go, fhn
things produced in your own garden,
or in the community where you live.
This will help, and the request is due
to the increasing necessity of using
our transportation system for supplies
connected with the war. By this the
usual transfer of foodstuffs between
different sections of the country has
been interrupted, and this puts upon
every family the patriotic necessity
of increasing as far as feasible the
use of foodstuff produced locally.
Use your local vegetables and fruits,
those from nearby sources rather than
those transported from long distances.
Use what you have rather than buy
something. Make what you have last
as long as possible. We may have a
surplus of perishable material as the
result of our home gardens. Let us
adjust our eating habits so as to util-
ize this present crop.
The plans outlined by the food ad-
ministration are meeting with general
approval and people everywhere are
falling in line. We must not be be-
hind, for whatever concerns one con-
Germs all. Make feeding yourself a
study, keeping ever before you the
men in the trenches and their needs.
In this you are helping to win the war
The Kansas African Methodist Epis-
copal conference, in session in Coffey-
vile. Kan, September 2Sth. adopted
the following resolutions:
I'VE place on record our full con-
fidence in Herbert Hoover and his as
sociates and fully indorse the general
program of food administration.
1--WE pledge ourselves to cooperate
to the fullest possible extent with the
food administration by the reading of
any and all bulletins or any other
printed matter sent to us and to our
people from our pulpits for the in
struction of our people.
I'VE pledge ourselves to preach spe-
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20

Washington, D. C.-"What can l do
to assist in this great struggle into
which our country has been forced?"
is the question being asked by Negroes
all over this country, for while there
are thousands of them who have
passed the age limit for army service,
yet their loyalty, their love for coun-
try, ond their patriotism force them to
strive to do something
Through the weekly papers of the
ed States food administration is at
tempting to answer this question and
show each individual what can be done
in this direction-how to help to win
the war, for win we must.
Our soldiers who are to do the fight
ing must be fed and clothed, and the
feeding of the American soldiers is
up to the United States Not only
must we feed our own, but we must
feed the soldiers of the allies, and we
are now trying to make the supply
equal to the demand. The food short
age in Europe forces the peoples of
Europe to look to us for foodstuffs,
and we must supply it. To accom-
plish this, we must have the co-opera-
tion of every American citizen in the
matter of conservation of food. 1t is
hoped that every family, every man,
woman and child of our race will en-
ter into this work, and study well the
information which is being sent to
them by the food administration, free
of charge.
There is no doubt that food is the
deciding factor in this war. Then let
us furnish food and back it up with
money and men-men who are true
Americans, men who are not afraid
to die, men who will fight for the
right. Our country is reverently ded-
icating to the battle of free govern
ment the lives of some of our best
young men. Not white men alone,
nor black men alone, but men-young
men of both races, white and black.
With hearts full of love for freedom
and democracy, and tears of love for
their boys flowing down their cheeks,
our mothers are giving to their coun-
try their sons. These young men,
strong and vigorous, are willing to
spill every drop of blood coursing
through their veins, as did their ia
theirs when called upon in every con-
flict in which our country has been
engaged.
When these young men are out on
the battlefield or in the trenches, it
becomes our duty to see that they are
fed. Our allies must have more food
than they can raise, and to them we
must send more than we can really
spare. Looking forward to doing this
we must make change in our daily
habits, a change that can easily be
made and must be made. 4
1t must be recognized that we are
one solid America-not white Ameri-
cans, nor black Americans, but all
Americans. We have all been happy
together, and now come the hardships
of war Can we suffer together, il
need be? Can we go to the battle
with solid front? Within our race
we must unite-unite our local, state
and national organizations, for it is
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

blooded Canadian Race men can
stand this in their country, where
they claim equality?
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20

DIR. Anson P. Phelphs Stokes,
secretary of Yale University, has
been chosen principal of Hamp-
ton Normal Agricultural Insti-
tute to succeed the late DIR. HI. B.
Frissell. This is a very impor-
tant post and great care has been
taken in the selection of man to
fill it. Hampton is to be congrat-
ulated on securing the services
of DR.. Stokes, for he is man of
proven ability and will guide
this Institution along the success
full path mapped out by his pre-
decessor.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20

Shreveport, La. "A record
breaking price of $1.50 per hun
dred pounds, nearly three times
the usual price in past seasons, is
being paid by some planters in
north Louisiana. particularly in
the Monroe section, for cotton
picking.