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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-05-01
Farewell Reception

Farewell Reception
The Methodist Ladies' Aid society
rendered a farewell reception to
Mrs. Elsie Gates Fletcher last Mon.
day evening in the social rooms of
the. church. The ladies presented
Mrs. Fletcher with ring. Refresh
ments were served.
The men of the Congregational
church met on Tuesday evening in
the social rooms Of the church for
supper and a general good time. w.
G.. Spence acted as POSTMASTER.
Toasts were responded TO by Rev. J.
O. Thrush, Pres. ]. H. Ames, Jay
Grimm and Cotton Whitcomb. A
quartette consisting Of Messrs. ia
cobson, Shepard, Hanna and Ramer
rendered several selections.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-05-01

Shower Party
Tuesday evening, April %, Miss
Helen Pratt's home on Cascade ave-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-05-01
At the Parsonage

Rev. and Mrs. Thrush entertained
the members of the Junior Christian
Endeavor of the Congregational
church at ti.eir home last Friday
AFTERNOON, from four until six
O'Clock. Light refreshments were
served.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-05-01

informal Coffee
Mr.. William Gibson entertained
at anAnformal coffee last Wednes-
day afternoon; Mrs. O. C. Webster
on Thursday afternoon and Mrs.
Walter Elliott on Friday afternoon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-05-01

Bridge Club
The Bridge club met with Mrs. A..
p. Jenson at her home on Third
street last Saturday at one o'clock.
Mrs. Frank Spalding Of st. Paul and
Mrs. Percy ApRoberts of Hudson
were luncheon guests.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-09-06

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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-09-06
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-09-06
FINANCIAL


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flrnlur. owners our easy payment u.aI.
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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-11-06

was locked in their isolated room,
the department was watching over
the inviolability of its own crop news.
There are ten crop specialists for the
different leading crops, and about
175,OOO voluntary crop reporters.
Some of these are farmers or farm
observers, while others are buyers
and handlers of grain and livestock.
The returns for each class of reporter
are tabulated and averaged separate
ly for check on the rest. So much
for inclusiveness and accuracy: To
insure secrecy, even the tabulators and
computers who make up the totals
do not know to which State they per-
tain. And the final telegraphic re-
ports and comments of the field agent
are kept locked up in the office of
the Secretary of Agriculture until
they are turned over to the Crop Re-
porting Board in its guarded room.
members of the board and all other
members of the department concerned
with crop estimating are under heavy
penalties not to speculate in any pro-
ducts of the soil, not to give out ad-
vance information, and not knowingly
to compile or issue false information >
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-11-06

of the people in any areas which may
be freed from Bolsheviki control as a
resnlt of current military operations.
Stores of food estimated to be ade-
quate for the relief of Petrograd for
nearly one month were delivered to
Russians by the American Relief AS
sociation and are now at Viborg, Fin
land, whence they can be transported
to Petrograd whenever that city may
come under the control of authorities
with whom it is possible to deal. Def
mite arrangements have, moreover,
been made with the United States
Grain Corporation to provide further
shipments of -four for this region, in
the event of it's liberation, and for
the people in the north of Russia
which is under the control of DEM
ocratic government"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-11-06
Guarding the Crop Reports

How the crop reports of the de-
partment of agriculture are kept from
leaking out" that they may not
be used for speculative purposes, is
told by Irving Chandler in "The Fore
cast" New York;. Mr.. Chandler
tells amusingly of the precautions
that are taken to ensure that the
aewspaper men shall have access to
the reports at precisely the same in
slant, ami Shat one shall not see them
q second before the others. If the
spvernment has not yet reached the
point of prohibiting speculation in
foodstuffs, says Mr. Chandler, it at
least provides s-rupulously for "a fair
field and no favor" The reports re-
veal to those buying and selling grain,
cotton, tobacco, ETC., the probable fu-
ture supplies and the consequent
trend of prices. Bribes too enormous
to seem probable surely would be of
fered for 'tinside" information at
times, if there were any laxity in the
handling of crop reports. But there
is not. We read further:
"The government carries to the ex-
treme its protection of those figures
which may seem to the average house
holder rather dry MYSTERIES, but which
are written in letters Of gold and
and have the magic of guiding voices
TO the food spectators. .
at locks the Crop Report Board
into room with guards stationed at
the doors and telephones disconnect-
ed until the very minute when the re-
mort is issued. Each member of the
board prepares his own individual
and Independent estimate for each
crop and State. Then all are COM
pared,l discussed and explained, and
final figures adopted. Then the fun
yegins.
"In an outer room is group OF
newspaper men, each with a telephone
rear by, already connected with his
office. Shortly before the moment
appointed for che release of the crop
report, copies Of it are placed, face
downward, on a table, and each man
gets his hand on one, like a runner
set on his mark. They point for their
telephones like dogs indicating game.
A signal is given by high official Of
the department, and the men make for
the telephones as if their lives de-
pended upon it-as indeed their live
Moods may.
"Then all over the country the news
is posted, printed, read almost with
almost with bated breath by some,,
but passed over for the score of the
htest ball garle by others whom it
nevertheless affects most acutely.
"Even before the reporters began
taier lively sprint, before the board
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-11-06
THE COMING CIRCUS

Sparks World Famous Shows are
billed to exhibit at Lake City We'd
nesday, November IL, and from the
newspaper reports proceeding them
their exhibition will be worth going
many miles to witness.
Of the many features carried by the
show this season, some of the Animal
Acts are without doubt the most Won
derful and thrilling ever presented to
an American audience. The big
group of fighting forest-bred hons'
all full grown males, give an exhlbl-
ton that is full of thrills, and the
audience is left with positive feel
ing of awe at mans wonderful mas
terry over the brute creature.
Another extraordinary feature with
the show is Capt. Tiebor's troupe OF
educated Seals and Sea Lions. These
interesting sea animals perform the
most seemingly impossible feats; bal
ancing chairs, umbrellas and whirl-
ing brands of fire while climbing lad
ders, walking tight ropes and riding
the backs of galloping horses. This
feature battles description and must
be seen to be appreciated.
Many other wonderful things are to
.-, ,,,;+h tb;e roammoth show, and
the main performance beneath the big
tents will present a number of the
most marvellous foreign acts of the
country.
The menagerie of wild animals car
ried with the show is complete in ev-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-11-06

Lap robes for Buggies and Auto
mobiles at PEOPLES MERCAN-
TILE COMPANY, Kingstree.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10

and how many other acres of land
there are on his farm that could be
made suitable for cultivation il they
were tile drained or ditch-drained.
When these questions are asked you.
remember that they are asked every
one of your neighbors. Possibly
you have a tract of land that would
be the most productive field on
your farm if you could get the sur.
plus water out OF it, but you can
not do it because. to be effective,
the drainage ditch would have to
90 far beyond the borders of your
own farm, would have to be a coun
ty enterprise, and the county has
not seen fit to do anything about it.
If that be true, several of your
neiehbors have land that should be
drained. II all of you tell the census
enumerator how many acres, you
have that need drainage. the De-
partment of Agriculture will have
the facts to show what is needed in
your community. When the op.
portunity offers, it will be in posi-
ton to do what it may to secure
for you what you need.
Those things are fairly typical ol
the questions that will be asked il
taking the agricultural census. II
order to answer all of the question;
intellieently, the farmer will have
to think about the matter a little
before the enumerator calls on him
He ought to give enumerator thu
most accurate information he can
What the individual farmer tell:
the enumerotor is likely to benefi
that farmer individually, but it il
certain to benefit any number oI
other farmers. 1t is not too early
now to get the facts straight in you
mind.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10

a cool dark place and shipped with
in five days, need not be recandled-
The law of this state controlling
traffic in eggs was passed for the
purpose of taking out of commerce
eggs unfit for human food. The
Legislature passed two seperate
laws, House Bill GIT. known as the
Uniform Good Egg Law and House
Bill 833 known as the Egg Breaking
Law, controlling egg breaking es-
adjustments. Both of these acts
forbid the keeping, offering for sale.
storing, shipping or having in your
possession eggs that are unfit for
human food unless they are cssed
and sealed with proper identifying
strips to be shipped to tanners for
tanning purposes only, or broken in
the shell and denatured There.
fore, under the proper construction
of these laws, this department for
bids the return to any farmer or
other person. of eggs that are not
fit for human food, unless they are
broken and denatured as the law
requires. A small amount of coal
oil added to these eggs renders them
unfit for human food ant does not
prevent them from being used for
stock or poultry.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10
About Food Prices

In pioneer country, the question
of fair prices is taken care of by
the law of supply and demand. II
there was a shortage on any staple
article, the producer of that staple
got much higher prices. He was
rewarded for his forethought in pro-
ducing that article and in raising
it under the difficulties that created
that scarcity.
The result always was to make
the production of that article very
much more attractive Those al
ready in the business of raising it
would raise more. New people were
induced to 90 into the business.
And business men with money
to invest would lend money to buy
better equipment and thus pro-
duce more.
Thus the high prices we're a stim-
ulus and reward that acted inn
mediately to produce a plentiful
supply of the articles. as result of
which the prices would come down.
In these times the speculator
gets the principal benefit when a
scarcity exists in any commodity.
The food producer may not get
much more for his product than
usual. The high prices consequent
ly do not operate to stimulate pro-
duction as much as they formerly
did. Their effect is rather to induce
people to 90 into the business of
specializing in these staples, thus
adding nothing to the production Of
the country.
With the speculator pocketing a
big share of the high prices, there
is no great inducement for the pro-
ducer to produce more. or for other
producers to raise that article. On
ly when the producer gets the prin-
cipal benefit of the high prices re-
sultine from a scarcity, will produc-
ton h2 greatly increased. And
uuul production Is stimulated and
there is a sufficient supply on hand
prices will inevitably be high. The
big problem of the food price ques-
ton is how to eliminate the specu-
lator, and if he performs any ser
vice at all, how to get this service
. performed for far smaller tax.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10
Tully &c Hawker

The Daily National Live Stock
Reporter last Friday contained the
following:
Tully & Hawker. probably among
the largest shippers to any market
from the state of Missouri, sold a
load of swine at the top today.
Their offering embraced 76 heads
that averaged 213 lbs and sold for
$1675. The Krey Packing Co pur-
chased the hogs. They are seen on
this market weekly and a reputd-
ton of beine among the largest
porcine dealers in the state of Mis-
souri, is justly awarded them, The
shippers reside in Monroe City.
Why not become a regular sub
scriber to the Democrat?
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10
ANSWER CENSUS QUERIES
Important that Full Answers
be Given

When the census eDumerator
comes around to the farm shortly
a fter January / next year, he will
ask some questions that may sound
like pryiDg into the purely personal
affairs of the farmer. Now, the
farmer, like every other self.respect-
ing man, dislikes having his private
affairs peeped into and, unless he
thinks about this thing in advance,
m ay have a disposition to be unre-
sponsive if not actually resistant.
In actual fact, every question that
the enumeT aror will ask is an es-
sential question and has a direct
bearing on the personal welware
and prosperity of the individual
farmer as well as upon the advance
ment of the agriculture of the Ma
tion as whole.
When the Bureau of the Census
decided to take the farm census in
January instead of in April, it did
SO upon the advice of the United
States Department of Agriculture
The farmer is less likely to be very
busy in January than at the spring
planting and breeding season, and
his products and live stock are in
bettershape for statistical treatment
Also, every new question-and there
are q number of them-inserted iI
the agricultural schedule was placed
there after consultation with the De
partment of Agriculture end for the
purpose of clearing up some specific
situation in which the Department
of Agriculture is trying to aid thu
farmer.
Here are some questions that viii
be asked: DO you own all of thiI
ia rm"? DO you rent from other
part but not all of this farm?" ID
you rent from others all of thi
farmY" IF you rent all of thi
farm, what do you pay as rentH
IF you own all or part of this farm
was there any mortgage debt o
other encumbrance on the land 8,
owned on January /, 1920H" .Wha
" as the total amount of debt or en-
umbrsnce on land on this farm
owned by you. January 1, l920?"
What the Sam Hill." you ma.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10
State Egg Law

Under the provisions of Missouri's
new egg law, approved by the Gov.
ernor on May 26, 1919, any person,
firm or corporation that shall en-
Gage in the business OF buying. sell
ling, dealing or trading in eggs, in
cludine those retailers who buy
direct from the producer, shall pro-
cure a license from the State Food
and Drug Department. So for less
than carload dealers and $40 for
carload dealers. One license will
not be sufficient for several establish
ments, but each and every person
dealing in eggs. including hucksters
must have a individual license in
the name of the person owning the
business, and bearing the address of
the place where the business is To-
Gated. Each license will bear a
number. The producer on whose
farm the eggs were produced is not
required to procure license unless
he buys eggs for resale. Carload
shipments is construed to mean car
load rates without regard to quantity
The department is using every eff.
fort to notify all concerned of this
law, and is allowing reasonable
time for all to procure license and
those persons who deal in eggs after
such time has elapsed, do so at their
own risk. as the law will be rigidly
enforced. The intent of the lHw is
to prevent unwholesOme eggs iiom
being placed upon the market fol
human food; and also to prevent
Gambling out good eggs under the
pretext that they are bad eggs anC
then putting these candled eggs on
the market for good eees
Eggs must be candled the entire
year. from January 1st to Decembel
31st. Every person, firm or cor
poration engaged in the business o.
buying eggs in this state for resale
or consignment shall provide anC
maintain an adequate place for th'
accurate Gambling of eggs and G
suitable place for the proper hand
ling of eggs which are intended fol
human food.
A complete and accurate candlini
record must be kept in such form
as will show when ana where anC
from whom the eggs were candled
how many were in the shipment
, what the dockage was in each 10
and how many candled out as unfi
for human food; disposition of ba,
eggs as well as disposition of goot
} eggs. Eggs if candled and kept il
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10

inquire, has the Government got to
do with how much money owe on
my land?" Well. two of the things
to which the Department of Aeri-
culture has been giving deepest
thought during the past several
years are farm tenancy and rural
credits. The past three censuses
have shown an increase in the
number of tenants. Alarmists have
felt-and said-that the country is
going to the bow-wows by the land
lord route. The Department of
Agriculture, however, looked into
the matter as well as it was able,
and refused to be alarmed. Where
it was able to make surveys it dis
covered that while the number of
tenants IS years old was greater in
in 1910 than in 1900 or 1890. the
number of tenants As years old was
considerably smaller in 1910 than
in 1900 or 1890.
The inference is that tenancy is a
step toward ownership. that the
young fellow who becomes tenant
farmer when he marries. say, is
likely to be farm owner before
his first child is grown-the farm
p aid for end the money that used
to 60 to pay off the mortgage avail
a BILE for sending the children to col
lege.
Now, to the Department of Agri-
culture, that looks like thoroughly
normal, healthy, and beneficial pro-
cess. To just the extent that tenancy
leads to farm ownership, it is a
good thing for the country and fol
the individual.
But it has not been possible tC
get a complete, nation. wide survey
of the situation. The forthcoming
census offers the opportunity fol
doing that. If every farmer will
nswer the enumerator's questions
fully and fairly the Department o.
Agriculture will have the data from
which to analyze the situation &C
curately and TO determine wha
things can be done to best advent
age to help the tenant in his aspira
tion to become a farm owner.
One of the directions that aid may
take is encouragement of rura
credits finding all of the ways pos
sible of helping the young farme
to get the money that he may neeC
to borrow. 1t is necessary. there
fore. to know what proportion o
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10

farmers who advance from tenants
to owners have to borrow money to
make the change, and how much,
in proportion to total value of the
farms bought, they have to borrow.
The road toward ownership does
not necessarily start with tenancy.
A great many farm 5ewners were
first farm hands. then tenants, then
owners with mortgage, then own
ers debt free. The census will show,
if the questions are answered fairly.
how many years. if any, every
ia rmer worked for wages; how many
years he was a tenant; and how
many years he has been an owner
The Department of Agriculture will
have the basic information it needs
to help men to success in farm
ownership.
Here are some other questions
that will be asked: Has this farm
a telephone?" rs water piped intothe
operators house?" Has the opera
tors house gas or electric liehts?"
Now. that looks like an effort to
find out whether or not the farm
ia mily has the modern home com.
forts-and it is just that, but it
m cans something more than mere
iDquisitiveness. Several months
a 90. whtn the Bureau of Farm
Management was in process of reor-
ganiZation, the Secretary of Agri,
culture called a conference of heads
of schools, social workers, and others
from all over the country. When
the people were assembled in Wash
ington, he asked their opinion as to
the most useful thing that could be
d one by the Office of Farm Manage.
ment. For whole day those peo'
pie discussed the matter. Just be-
fore night, with a score of items or
the ballot. they took a vote. The
work of promoting the comfort and
co nvenience of the farm home re-
ceived an overwhelming majority
of the votes.
That. then, is one of the things
that the Department of Agriculture
is trying to do in aid of the farm
population Of this country. In order
to do the work intelligently, the de
p artment needs as full information
as possible as to how the farm home
of the country are equipped for com
fort and convenience.
Every farmer will be asked how
m any acres of drained land he haI
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10

Why not become a regular sub
scriber to the Democrat?
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1919-11-06
Walter & Shearer's Dates

Walter and Shearor announce this
following list Of sales which will BE-
conducted or taken part In by either
one or both Of them:
Nov james N Nelson. Farm sale
northwest OF tiler
Nov 10 u y Walter. farm sale
nuhl
Nov rs John Nrai Farm sale. north
west Filler
Nov "a lohn Raster. farm sale
northwest Filler
Nov "a wiliiam Parslow. farm sale
northwest tiler.
Nov I'LL. NJ Ennis. farm sale. on
Highwas between rtlcr and Curry.
Nov rs a n Crindstarf. farm sale.
Nov. 10 A. $ LaMonte. farm sale
Nov "A Hamuton's farm sale.
miles north OF Twin FANS
north Filler
Nov IS Walter Rrothars. registered
Percheron sale. Twin Fails
Persons desiring sale dates with
Walter and Shearer may phone them
70 the Record office.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1919-11-06
To Sail for Wales

tir aud Mrs Louis Roberts viii
l0sye Saturday Tor New York, where
y win take passage November 10
board tho White Star liner = $. ral.
bound for Liverpool. England The
Roberts are returning 10 their native
sih Ia Wales after having spent
ny years IN America. Mr. Roberts
nE been hero thirty-iwo years,
la Mrs Roberts has heen away ton
Neeare, Roberts Roe aud hrcm
70 q biz closing out sale At the for
fs ranch south of f'lior yesterday
Roberts viii 40 10 Tenrhiw. cafn.
s o Carnarvon Shire. North Wales
Great nritaln. wherv they win vislt
Roberts grandmother now ~
81 ola.
fney experienced difficulty In get.
passports from tho xoscrament AZ
lexington. 4 being necessary 20 pro
fe az photos each They have made
ifsnxgmcnts 10 have the Record sent
them tho coming year AZ their ad
s 10 Wales. a. they arr DESTROYS %
Ding posted on the advancement
inside IN this part Of Idaho They plan
cn returning 20. tilcr year hence
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1919-11-06
MunyOn Auction Dates.


Phone your dates TO the Record
office.
This enterprising and busy
auctioneering firm announce the
following additional sale dates.
Another list will DO found on
page four.
Nov. IA Andrew Rogerson, farm
sale, Buhl.
Nov. rs j. NJ. Boyd, farm sale.
southwest Filler.
Nov. 10 b. +. Radcliffe, farm
sale, north west, Filler.
Nov. 20 Pete Blanksma, farm
sale. Bull.
Nov. 22 Saturday sale, Bull.