The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-06-21
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SMALL DOSES

Of booze left on hand July l.
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If you owe your sweetheart let
ter you can save one cent by waiting
ten days to write it.
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The Kentucky Press Association
will meet in Louisville next week.
Sorry we can't be with the boys
AaFheodode N. Vail has resigned as
president Of the American Telephone
& Telegraph Co., but will continue as
chairman of the board.
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Judge Rhea is now holding court
at Franklin for equity cases only.
Up to late hour last night he had
not put any more newspaper men in
Jail.
Prof. E. B. Weathers comes out Of
the, school book legislation with sew
ersi Feathers in his cap. He has
many friends here who believed all
along that Bruce new what he was
doing.
Governors of 26 States have
agreed to call extra sessions Of their
Legislatures to pass on the woman
outrage amendment in time to let
women vote for president, il So
States ratify the amendment.
$3.50
Alex Tibbell Of Louisville and Miss
Dazey Porter, Of Lexington, were in
troduced by the Rotarians as Mr.. and
Mrs York when the war hero decid-
ed he could serve the Lord best by
fighting shy Of the Rotarians attend
ing the convention at Salt Lake. The
farce ended in moot court divorce
trial held on the train.
DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, the Wash
ington food expert, addressed the
graduating class Of 104 young men
and women at the Kentucky Uni
versity and talked to them mostly
about who ought to get married and
how young babies ought to be fed. If
the girls didn't blush it was because
everything goes in cO-educational
school.
The "daylight-savings" act will go
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out Of existence Oct. 26 and will be
rememDereu as the silliest piece Of
legksiation the government ever
enacted. It caused people to get up
an hour earlier, and enter the days
duties feeling the lack Of sleep. To
Offset its bad effects, many business
houses were compelled to advance the
opening hour from seven to eight o.
clock, which was in reality the cor
rect time. It
After the Pro6teers.
The following item sappeared in
the papers from Washington June
12th1
Charges that Chicago meat packers
are unlawfully maintaining present
high prices of meat by keeping huge
quantities in cold storage were made
in the House today by Representative
Fess, Republicah, Ohio, who declared
that Congress should pass "persua-
siVe" resolution which would make
the packers understand that the peo-
pie no longer would tolerate such
''high-handed practices"
The Ohio Representative present
ed figures which ,purpOrted to show
that the packerSnow have on hand
1905 OO,0OO pounds of meat. This
amount included, he said, $1,000
600 pounds of frozen beef, 27,000,-
600 pounds of curade beef, 7,000,-
600 pounds of frozen lamb and
mutton, 1875, 700, 600 pounds of froz-
EN- pork, All, 100000 pounds of dry
salt pork, APT, 100000 pounds of
lard and 113, 100000 pounds of mis-
cellaneous goods
This caused the packers at once to
sit up and take notice and under
date Of June 18th the following was
sent out from Chicago:
Mr.. Consumers larder got another
jolt today, this time for the better
Swift and Co. announced that it
had 2O;00O,0OO pounds more meat
70 rsase than for the same month last
year.
And the price is considerably low.
er. as 9. result. records show.