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The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-14
HALTOM-THORNTON

Miss Alice Haltom of Emmct, was married to R.. s. Thornton of Larkin, Florida, this afternoon at o'clock 1t the First Methodist church, the cere- mony being performed by Rev. J. A. Parker, in the presence. of only few friends and immediate relatives.
 The couple left Prescott immediate ly after the ceremony on number 6 for Larkin, where they will make their home.
 The bride is we'll known here, hav- ing visited her friends in the city many times, all of whom wish her we'll in her new far-distant home.
 Prof. w. B. Baker of Henderson Brown College, Philadelphia, was q visitor to the city today in interest If the college.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-14

Guarantee absolute satisfaction. All work called for and delivered. Prompt attention. Star Pressing Shop. Phone 268. 13d3
 FOR SALE-About one acre of ground, two good four room houses, two blocks west of the passenger sta tion and two blocks south of the pub lie school. A bargain-terms. Are now renting for $500 per month each. c. N. Autry, city. 13d6w
 LOST-One gold watch, ladies size, on streets of Prescott. Finder please notify H. Russell at Rosston, and re- ceive reward.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
ANOTHER CERTIFICATE Of IsssIclERcY

Statistics offered to the traffic club
of the Cincinnati chamber of COM
merce by Guy NJ. tTeer secretary OF
the Central Coal association afforded
some very interesting data and shed
light on the problem" Of car shortage.
1t is the old story OF ineffiC!ency in
administration which has been told
and retold so many times and Of which
the telling has but only begun. He
gave the following figures.
In 1917" he said, freight cars
were travelling at the average rate OF
2S6 miles a day, while tt the present
time the rate is 2l.4 miles u day. In
stead of this being the fault Of the
merchants in loading and unloading Of
cars the car shortage is due to the slow
operation of the fre!gh: cars. Return
to the old rate of monitor by efficiency
and we shall relieve the car shortage"
It will require more than a s5,o00,000
campaign fund to indce the voters OF
this country to continue the mai ad-
ministration of it's affairs by the re-
turn Of an administration that will re-
main the horrible example of mis-
management and ineficiency and in
competence thru generations OF Am
erican political history.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
CHAtIGnp~N rS,o 40 rOLiCem~N.

GULLY Porcupine was very quiet
person, hut he liked "a good jokc-if II
wasn't on himself so he laughed
when he saw that those Tascals hadn
eaten n bite of the hcmlock bark nc
had gathered for tho party for the por-
cupines.
ChaterboX was cross and angry, but
GULLY made him promise to keep the
loss of all that good food secret. the
next day GULLY started off early for
more provisions and he left Chatter
box on guard to see that no one else
found a way into the cellar.
ChatterboX looked everywhere and AT
last he found the new door into the
hall of the Porcupine house and then
he knew how those rascals had gotten
in and what had happened.
Before the day was over all those 1T
tie rascals came sneaking back again.
to try and get in and see If there could
be n crumb left.
ChatterboN ran back and forth In the
tree tops. and talked and grumbled and
seemed very excited about something
but nobody could tell what he was
talking about.
Jimmy Coon felt worried and Won
dercd II Chatterbox knew anything
about the door into the hall that he
had made or anything about all the
food those rascals had taken.
When Jimmy Coon tried 70 find out'
all Chatterbok would talk about was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
LET'S USE GOOD COMMON SENSE.

The righteous demand for lower
prices should be tempered with the
understanding that comes with knowl-
edge Of conditions. 1t is both idle and
unjust to charge profiteering against
the merchant or the manufacturer
whose goods are placed on the market
to be sold at the price offered in COM
petition.
TIE other day in Chicago one OF the
largest sellers OF shoes at wholesale
was approached by an Italian agent
who wished to know how many pairs
Of shoes Of all kinds this seller had
available He figured up and stated
that he could furnish at most for
quick delivery 5000, 900 pairs Of shoes.
Asked the price, he stated the price
he was selling TO his trade in largest
quantities. III take all Of them at
10 per cent advance" said the Italian.
But the shoe man refused to sell all
of them. He did, however, sell $780,
600 pairs to the Italian agent at the
higher price.
1t is related by Richard Spillane that
a Philadelphia merchant who was in
New York the other day was informed
that within the last forty-five days
clothing of a value Of 500, 100000 had
| been sold for export from that city.
He says the demand for goods ts in
valume almost unbelievable and the
! buyers have come from all quarters Of
| the earth. In one establishment he
met a man from Norway buying heavy
| clothes for work people; a merchant
! from Patagonia, who was purchasing
anything or everything he could oo-
tain, and a woman from Calcutta, who
was buying children's wear. The wo-
man from Calcutta told him the stuff
she was getting was for peripatetic
statesmen who go wandering over the
country with packs on their back
peddling in towns and villages.
When, If ever, shall we realize that
the world is short Of goods and bidding
against itself for them. And when,
finally, we do acquire that understand
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
uNcIEshM PROElIEER.

The san Francisco Advocate, pub
lished out in the prune district Of CAL
ifornia. cites the government as the
arch profiteer OF them all in its hand
ling of prunes and canned pineapple
and incidentally sheds some light on
the cause of high prices which can De
traced directly to the government
enormous purchase of food products
during the war.
The United States government COM
Wandered 100000 pounds Of prunes
and 10000 cases of canned pineappies
last year ut 9la cents per pound Tor
prunes and $3.50 per case for the pine
apple. The government is now SELL
ing its 81 cents prunes at 20 cents and
its $3.50 pineapple for $1,000 and stands
TO make a profit of $4,000 on 5000
600 pounds of prunes and profit OF
S4Si.5Oo on the pineapple, profit OF
more than 100 per cent on each COM
modify, according to the estimate OF
the San Francisco newspaper.
Instead of giving the common citizen
the benefit of last years prices on
prunes and pincapples the government
is trying to protect the wholesaler
and Gamers market now and II may
he presumed that all wholesalers III
prunes and pineapples are selling 9lH-
cent prunes for % cents and $3.50 pine
apple for $1,000 for they all bought
last year at the government prices. VI
course, they may have sold out on
last years prunes and pineapples ana
will have to pay higher prices TO the
producer this year but the government
is altogether too careful in protecting
the market for the producer.
So much for profiteering. The gov
eminent then undertakes to prevent
wholesalers from profiteering on sugar
and limits the price of sugar TO such
small margin that there is not money
enough in it to justify wholesale
houses buying sugar in the spring to
put in storage for the summer canning
season. The result is that the house
wife who depends upon the retailer
can not get sugar for Der canning
while the candy manufacturer can go
to the brokers and get sugar by pay
ing the broker an extra commission.
The sooner the government gets out
of the grocery business, out of the rail-
road business, out Of the shoe market,
out Of the money market and out Of
the way Of legitimate private industry,
the sooner will prices become stabil-
lied by the memorable law Of supply
| and demand.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18

a party.
you see the front door of this house
Is so close to the water that it Is u
lovely place TO have Uncle Bullfrog'
orchestra Isn't II lucky, Jimmy coon,
for Uncle Bullfrog hates to take MS
orchestra on a long trip for party
He says they never do as Welt"
Jimmy Coon couldn't think what was
the matter with Chatterbox. WhS
didn't YOU go with GULLY today when
he went out after food for the party?
"Oh got so tired yesterday thai
GULLY thought l ought to stay at nome
and rest. He Is nearly ready anyway
but he wanted TO get a little more let
tuce 50 that he would be sure and have
enough for old Mrs. Rabbit. and ne
thought he would try and have one
more fish-for he said he was so fond
of you. Jimmie Coon, and 1t would DE
dreadful not to have enough"
Jimmy Coon swallowed hard when
he heard what GULLY had said and ne
felt ashamed of himself for taking
those little animals into the cellar and
eating all the nice things on the pan
try shelves when GULLY had worked
so hard.
Come on, Teddy Postum, Tn sorry
Let's go and get something nice FOL
GULLY and make up for all those things
we have taken. I'm glad he doesn't
know what we have done!"
Tomorrow-Jimmy Coon Does the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
WOMEN, DRYCLEAN
THINGS AT HOME

Save five to ten dollars quickly by
dry cleaning everything in the home
that would be ruined by soap and wa
ter-suits, coats, waists. silks, laces.
gloves, shoes. furs. draperies, rugs
everything.
Place a gallon or more of gasolene
in a dishpan or wash boiler, put in the
things to be dry cleaned. then wash
them with Solvite soap. Shortly, ev-
erything comes out looking like new.
Nothing fades, shrinks or wrinkles.
No pressing needed. Do not attempt to
dry clean without Solvite soap. This
gasolene soap is the secret Of all dry
cleaning.
A package OF Solvite soap containing
directions for home dry cleaning costs
little at any drug, grocery or depart
ment store. Dry clean outdoors or
away from flame.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
ENERGY By WlrsIsss Studied.

Wireless biography and wireless
telephony, now commonplace, suggest
the possibility Of transmitting energy
by wireless waves. A Rumanian engi-
neer, M. Constantinesco, has been ex-
perimenting In England with method
that seems novel. He uses tube filled
with water or some such liquid, In
which vibrations OF the nature Of
sound waves, are produced at one end
and the energy 10 reconstructed at the
other end in mechanical form. The
details Of the apparatus are kept Sc
cret but Canstantinesco's researches
have been financed by the British gov
eminent. and It already has been APP
piled In the mechanism that stops the
discharge of bullets from the rapid
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
" RipplinSl2hymess2Nll
s54y|44sI Zwe!t n ssS2m&56eE
THE OLD JOB.

signs tired of wattng flies
When all fresh
the $
stick stay with
August stern
beneath the strain But
all his ros on
ghasty truth
stone that weighed a useful purpose ne ache
' andwh No
labors in other
like ting
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18

ing OF the situation shall We begin TO
save, shut of extravagance and strive
TO renew the wasted material Of goods
and men and wealth OF oil kinds In
the only way that losses and waste
may be overcome?
Forget to large degree the assump-
ton that legislation can make two
suits or two pounds of meat or two
pairs of shoes out OF one, Make the
enc do. That's the only way to pay
of the mortgage laid upon US by war;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Here in Iowa the state legislature
voted against giving the Iowa boys a
bonus. Quoting from memory, a GER
tain passage in an Iowa song goes
something like this: 'Thoull not for
get thy patriot sons, Oh, Iowa, my
Iowa" Apparently the legislature
thought It better to remember the Iowa
boys by singing about them rather than
Earring loose from any cash. COM
ments the TT. Dodge Messenger.
In Des Moines one Of the most
worshipful of the editors recently
called Mr.. Wilson the greatest minded
man of his times-and yet Col. House.
who has been reputed deadly close to
the president, told Mr.. Bullitt that he
Is a man with a single-traCk mind,
remarks the Cedar Rapids Republican.
The Nuscatine Journal says: the
continued debate on the peace treaty
and particularly the league Of nations
covenant. widens at least the definition
of the term Americanism."
Some old men believe the money
interests are after them" says the
Sioux City Journal. when they were
young and strong, they could get but
81 a day. Now, when they are old and
feeble, the wages are 81 day."
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil esti-
mates that by the end Of the present
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18

merCe. has prepared figures showing
that the wool grower gets no more
than $3.50 for furnishing the wool
which goes into a mans suit Of clothes
retailing at $50. and asks the depart
ment OF commerce If ii is not possible
to obtain figures showing exactly what
the wool grower. the wool dealer. the
wool manufacturer. the jobber, the
wholesale clothier and the retail
clothier receive out Of a $50 suit Of
clothes.
That Plumb railway scheme would
make a hit IN Russia II there were
any railroads left there and anybody
willing TO work.
County fairs seem to be unusually
successful in Iowa this year. Every
county should have one OF those little
fairies in its home.
But If It actually came To a show
down between the Pacific slope states
and the Japs, would the president be
willing to let the Japs have Alaska IN
the interests of an immediate peace?
Fact is its hard to buy a machine
without capital and harder to run
that machine without labor Seems
like they ought to get together at the
machine and arrange a mutual neces-
sity If either is to profit.
Some men don't expect to get an
old tima nickel cigar for less than 10
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
Topics of the Times

Cardinal MERCER paid a noble
tribute" to the American spirit Of
and American manhood.
That's all the tribute the United States
requires. We desire no. territorial
tribute but Americans would still like
to run the American nation and
America themselves.
The newspapers in Iowa are urging
changes of city ordinances to permit
falling reckless drivers. Good enough,
but hadn't some little thing ought to
be done TO reckless pedestrians?
II you get too much you're a
profiteer; if you don't get enough
you're broke.
s. W. Mcclure, secretary Of the Ma
ti0nal Wool Growers Association to
the United States secretary Of COM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
HANDY DIRECTORY
- OF THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
Visitors Always Wsloome.
..u.,, .nnnr ma 1na A. 3.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1903 A. r.
A. NJ, special communication Thurs-
day. Sept. IS, 1870 o'clock. Third de-
gree. A. L. Frazer, w. NJ; John W.
Wells. secretary.
sIoNET CHAPTER. No. ss n. a.
NJ, Mondny, Sept c2, at 1880; fast
Masters degree. George Gregory, H.
p; John w. Wells. secretary,
STATED ASSEMBLY. King SOLO
mon Council No. 20, r. q S, NJ. MOT
day, Sept. e.. Business session. IRA
A. Davenport, I. NJ; John W. wells
recorder.
Stated conelave ST. Aldenar Corn
mandery No. 80. X. T.. Tuesday SEPT,
% at s o. m. Business and Oruer VI
Temple. ]. z. Frederick, COMMANDER
ybhn w. Wells. recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. Q. E.
Special meeting "Wednesday eve
ming. Oct. /, at o'clock for init,a''o,L'
Covered dish dinner at $50. Mrs. D.
r. Schultz. W. NJ, Mrs. Archer VAL
ton. secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
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cents but figure that the grocery bill
should remain at the pre-war status.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18

year we shall have enough autos IN
Iowa so that the count will be one car
for every six people. Looks -
though It was time to begin building
roads disable all the year round" re-
marks the Council BLUFFS paper,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18

firing gun OF an airplane each time
that the blade Of the propeller passed
before the muscle. This In what makes
II easy to fire 1000 shots minute
thru the propeller making between
1000 and 1000 revolutions u minute.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Four Automobiles
Entangled i'm Crash
AT Pelham Parkway
Boy Injured as a Result of
Triple Collision OH Eighth
Avenuc--a Fifth Avenue
Bus Kills Girl Aged 8

Four automobiles we're cntanglcd in
an unusual nss'dcnt Mt Pelham Park
way, nca, white Plains Avenue, yes
tcrday. None of the drivers or occu-
pants was injured, although the cars
came together with force.
Hugh G. Turner, thirty-six years old,
manufacturer, of 600 West 176th
Street, owner and driver of one of the
machines, was arrested by motorcvcle
patrolman, Alexander Schmidt, charged
with driving an automobile while in an
intoxicated condition. Turner was de-
clared to be intoxicated by Dr.. John
Sicipita. of Fordham Hospital, who ex
amlned HIM at the station house.
According to witnesses, Turner's car
swerved when 1t was passing along Pei
ham Parkway, about 200 feet west of
White Plains Avenue, striking the car
of Sidney S. Cohen, a manufacturer. of
33l Madison Avenue, which was driven
by Frank p. Curtis a chauffeur, of 1852
West 132d Street. ~,ohen's car was
driven sidewise into the automobile of
William A. Anderson. of 167 East
Eighty-third Street, which, in turn.
crashed into a car owned and driven by
Marl II. Brown, of 1911 Silver Street,
The Bronx.
The wheels of the four cars inter-
locked, and this prevented any of the
vehicles from turning over.
George Alton, eleven years DID, of
$50 West Forty-ninth Street, received
various abrasions as q result of a
triple automobile collision while stand
ing on the sidewalk in front of 783
Eighth Avenue yesterday. The boy
was injured when an automobile driven
by Samuel Zuckerman, of 1863 Eighty
fourth Street, collided with q machine
operated by Edward Ware, of 1852 Tenth
Avenue, and both cars in turn crashed
into another machine standing in front
of the Eighth Avenue building. Au-
gust Beck, of IL Broadhurst Avenue,
was in charge of the third car.
The boy was treated at Roosevelt
Hospital and sent home.
Winfred Varley, eight years old, of
1905 Third Avenue, was killed by a
Fifth Avenue bus as she was crossing
the avenue at Seventy sixth Street.
The body was taken to LcnoX Hill Hos
pltal by Harry G. Ross, of ST East
Seventy ythlrd Street, where she was
pronounced dead. The driver Of the
bus was arrested and taken to- the
Sixty seventh Street police station.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Panic Narrowly Averted
In Fire on Subway Train

Hundreds Of men. women and chill
drcn were panicstricken yesterday af
ternoon when the rear car of a crowd
ed Lexington Avenue subway express
burst into fame on the AZ" structure
on Westchester Avenue, between Simp-
son and Intervale stations, The Bronx
They were kept marooned on the trestle
for half an hour while the blaze was
being extingushed. A short circuit is
believed to have been the cause
The train was bound south from
Bronx Park and was composed of eight
cars. large proportion of the pas
sengers were children. Midway be-
tween Simpson and Intervale stations
those aboard the train and scores in
the streets below were startled by two
cannon-like reports, the fuses having
blown out. Before emergency brakes
could be applied the entire under part
Of the rear car was ablaze.
The guard on duty between the
burning car and that directly ahead of
=; opened the connecting doors and
permitted the badly scared folk to get
away from the immediate vicinity OF
he flames. An alarm was turned in
and fremen cxtinguished the blaze.
Southbound traffic above Intervale
Avenue was tied up for nearly forty
iiye'minutes.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14
Will Steam Up Bay in the
Morning and Anchor in
North River for a Visit
of Fortnight to the City
Big Welcome for ssCobs''
aSen Who Helped TO Defeat
Foes U-Boais Will Own
s,iiy During Their Stay

Americas Victory feet, comprising
ron, led by the super-dreadnought
Pennsylvania, Captain L. M. Mutton
commanding. will steam up the bay to
anchor in the North River about 10
u'clock tomorrow morning. Follow
iNg the Pennsylvania will come seven
ethcr drcadNoughts in single file Be
linA them VIII trail more than eighty
dostroycrs. four abreast, and stretch
ing over the water for miles. In the
9ear will be the mother ships, repair
ships and tenders.
More than 10000 sailors and marines
compose the personnel of the feet,
many of whom will see home waters
for the first time in more than a year.
The men aboard some Of the destroyers
have been in the war zone constantly
since the first contingent of Uncle
Sans U-boat chasers went across to
help put an end to the German naval
power. Several of the destroyers are
credited with accounting for one or
more submarines.
As the fleet comes up the harbor 1t
will be accompanied by poats carrying
the various welcoming committees.
Met Get Shore Leave at Once
The seven war work organizations
of the city have prepared to receive
the sailors and marines as soon as the
ships weigh anchor, when many of the
men Will get shore leave at once.
Representatives of the Knights of Co.
iumbus. the Salvation Army, the Amer
ican Library Association, the Jewish
Welfare Board, the y. NJ. c. A. war
camp service, and the y. NJ. C. A. prop
cr. will board the warships Immediately
on their arrival and distribute tickets
among the "gobs" for the many large
and small entertainments that have
been arranged for them.
All the welcoming organizations are
cooperating to make the reception to
the sailors ii record breaking one.
More than hundred dances have been
planned. They will range from small
affairs in the different canteens and
huts to the big armory balls and the
more formal affairs for the officers at
the Pershing Club and the Waldorf
Astoria
The Salvation Army workers will
meet the sailors when they obtain leave
on Tuesday with more than 5000
doughnuts and enough coffee to float
them down.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-14

March, Black informed a superior off,
Ger that he wanted to marry a girl in
Marsellles and asked permiss ION to go
there. You are a fool, Black, but go
ahead,' said the officer 81 won't stop
you"
He found he had to be a resident Of
the town for fifteen days before he
could marry and there was other red
tape to contend with. Black then took
the girl to Brest, but was unable to
have the ceremony performed there, so
he resorted to desperate measures to
bring her home to America.
Fair Stowaway Arrested
Some twcnty-four hours before the
Luckcnbach sailed, Alexandria parted
with her long black hair, smuttcd her
lace with coal dust and burnt cork, and
ciad III the dungarec of a coal passcr
went aboard the Luckcnbach She hid
in the bunkcrs until the ship was two
days westward on is way to New York,
and then, faint and seasick, sought the
deck. Her walk and figure revealed
rcr sex, and when her cap was blown
overheard % she faced a naval officer,
VINO knew at once she was n woman.
She and Black were at once made
prisoners. Bosn Black went at once
into the brig and his fanc6e to the
hospital. She was we'll cared for
throughout the trip, and will be taken
TO Ellis Island to-day. AS an alien
stowaway she will be Automatically
deportcd to the port Of origin. unless
naval and immigration officials con
sent to the marriage. In such nm event
the young lace maker Of Marscillcs
would become mn American citizen,
and would be beyond the reaches Of
the immigration law
Blacks mates have prepared n
thirty page typcwrittcn appeal In his
behalf which says he informed them
several months ago that he wished to
marry Mile. Boyer and that they be-
lievc him to bo sincere.