Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-16
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May / unless society girls quit using
the yarn to knit golf sox, Red Cross
officials have announced.
President d. d. Mckay of the Utah
state farm bureau has inaugurated a
movement that has for its object the
solution of the farm labor problem.
1t is expected that labor conference
for the various farm bureaus will be
held in Salt Lake about conference
time to discuss the matter.
When potatoes are cheap plant pota-
toes, is advice now being given to the
farmers of Utah by Mark II. Greene
of the Utah Agricultural college, field
agent in marketing And because this
spring is witnessing slump In the
price of potatoes, now is the time to
prepare for big acreage of potatoes.
A jury in the district court at Denver
found Frank H. Mulligan, a former
city detective, guilty of robbing Mrs.
Irene Nolan, Denver society woman, of
jewelry valued at $1,000 in a holdup at
the Model roadhouse.
Aaron Hansen of Honeyville, Utah.
was electrocuted Friday near his home.
Mr.. Hansen was engaged in cutting
down trees near the line furnishing
light and power for HOneyville and
nearby towns when tree fell on the
wires, one of the wires striking Han
sen.
Descendants to the number of 119
assembled at the Marriott meeting
house at Marriott, Utah, to observe the
one hundred and first birthday of John
Marriott.
Mrs. LeOla LETTERS was held to an
swer to the Utah authorities by JUS
tice Hinshaw at Los Angeles on
charge of contributing to the delin-
quency of Ruth McGrath, IA years old,
by inducing her on February to leave
Utah and cOnie to Los Angeles.
DOMESTIC
New Jerseys experiment of "ridding
the human hive of its drones," was in
augurated Saturday by Governor Edge
when he issued a proclamation calling
upon the police power of the state to
enforce the provisions of the recent
''anti-loafing act"
The Michigan war preparedness
board has closed contract with Henry |
Ford for 1000 farm tractors, to be de- |
livered May 1. The tractors will be |
resold to Michigan farmers without |
profit.
Reports received by Brig Gen.
Chauncey B. Baker, head of the war
departments motor transport division,
show that ninety factories are work |
ing to capacity on the standardized
parts for the Liberty truck" and that |
the entire program will have been COM
pleted before August l,
Two more persons are expected to
die as the result of the collapse of a
moving picture house at Winchester,
Ky. The total loss of lives thus far is
placed at eleven.
Eight hundred women in dance halls
at Omaha signed a pledge to give up
dancing one night a week and devote
that time to Red Cross work.
For one little pig, which he picked
up on the roadside while riding in an
automobile, George Lynn of Chicago
will pay dearly. He was found guilty
of theft by jury and faces sentence
of from two to fourteen years In
prison.
1.-THE kaiser has no more chance OF
winning the war than celluloid cat
has of catching an asbestos rat in hell,
said Senator Kenyon of Iowa in an
address at Baltimore before members
of the Maryland League for National
Defense.
An average reduction of 30 cents
ton in the retail price Of all anthracite
coal sold for domestic use between next
April 1 and September 1 was an
nounced March by the fuel admin
istratiOn.
Five of thirty Mexican bandits who
raided the Tom East ranch. south of
Hebronville, Texas, have been killed by
posses headed by Texas rangers.
Property in the United States owned
by the kaiser himself, former Chan
cellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg, the
German "junkers" generally and the
1eTuldu government ItScu Will NC the
first to go under the hammer under
the plans of A. Mitchell Palmer, alien
property custodian, to sell German
owned property to the highest bidder.
A bomb, which made much noise and
smoke, but caused little damage was
Get off at the side entrance of the un-
completed Al 81. Woods theatre and
office building at Chicago while the
downtown streets were crowded.
The duration Of the war can be
shortened only by tremendous prepare
lions, aid it is manifest that the
United States is doing this very thing.
That is what Lord Reading, British
high commissioners and ambassador to
the United States, told the largest