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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
RAID WAS TIPPED OFF
Dry Agents Given the HaiIlns Sign in
Booze Establishments

st. Paul, Sept. lin the largest
raid in the twin cities since the eigh-
teenth amendment becme effective,
twenty federal prohibition agents
swooped down on 100 soft drink es :
Establishments in St Paul Thursday
night, only to find that the raid had
been tipped on" They obtained ev-
idence in seven places. they reported
today. In SO places warning Of the
raid had been given, they said, and
no evidence was found.
Elaborate preparations to thwart
the prohibition raiders were discov-
cred in several of the places visited,
the federal agents reported. 1t has
long been reported that liquor has
been openly sold over the bars in st.
Paul as well as in other large cities
of the country.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
Ship Oats pIrect-Lake

Ship Oats DIrect.-Lake Crystal
Union: 1t is not until conditions
reach the limit that q way ID found
to get from under" Not being sat
isf1ed with prices offered for grain,
A. =: Elkins @. F. Faulkner and W.
day and billed IL to q commission
house in Milwaukee, the sale there
giving them to 10 cents per bushel
more than local offerings. They used
small farm elevator to convey the
grain from the wagons to the cars.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17

Opens Plano studio.-Miss Gladys
Randall has just returned from Chi
cago where she has had a normal
training course at the Sherwood Mu-
sic School Miss Randall announces
the opening of a piano studio in the
Coughlin- Hickey building.
Suspicious of HoId-up Attempt
Wells, MINI: The Princess orchestra
believes hey were nearly held UP be-
tween Wells and Alden Saturday
night when they were driving home
from Albert Lea, where they played
for dance. A man stepped out into
the road and Tagged the car with one
hand and held the other one behind
him. All were saved, however, by the
level headness OF Lesley Carlson, who
stepped on the accelerator and speed
fly drove into Wells.
Monster Auto Parade.-Austin Her
aid: Two thousand cars in mon
ster parade representing every part
of the county is the aim Of the Now
or County Good Roads association, In
making the plans for the Babcock
amendment booster tour, which will
be held on September 16, r. ], Thorn
son president of the association said.
Found euiIty-B. Bergeson. buyer
Of cream at Triumph for R. e. Cobb
guilty In justice court at Fairmont
Thursday of wilfully, wrongfully and
nnlowfully over reading, falsifying
and manipulating the reading of the
Babcock test for ascertaining the
butter fat content of milk and cream
Ind purchasing cream on a mis- read
ng Of such test.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
TAKE OVER COMPANY
Prudential Trust Company In Hands
OF Bank Commissioner.

Boston, September 10.-The Pru-
Dental Trust company Of this city,
with a capital Of 100000, was taken
over by Bank Commissioner Joseph
C. Allen today.
The troubles of the bank are not
connected with those Of other bank
ing Institutes recently closed by HIM,
the commissioner said.
He said the bank had been subject
to steady Withdrawals OF deposits for
some time and that its loans are not
in good condition.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
SUFFERS GREAT PAIN

Lord Mayor OF Cork Passed Bad
Night In Prison.
London, September 10.-Terrence
MacSwiney. lord mayor of Cork, pas
sed a bad night In Brixton prison,
where he is continuing his hunger
strike, which began August IL, says
bulletin issued this morning by
the Irish Self Determination League.
He Is suffering great pain in his
arms, legs and back and feeling OF
conscious.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
Lone Time Rail Employee.

Peter A. Peterson of Sherburn has
been employed by the Milwaukee
Railway company for the past thirty
years, all of the time O. section lab.
orer and foreman. It 81 said that the
roadmaster has never found. any fauk
with that part of the road bed under
Mr.. Petersonss charge.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
Protest Was Effective.

Owatonna, Mimi, September H.
AS a result Of protests against the
wearing of army uniforms by cadets
by the Owatonna post of the Ameri-
can Legion, the Owatonna High school
cadet battalion will disband after this
year, and the Pfllsbury cadet corps
will adopt some other style Of uni
form
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17

Buys Property in Mankato.-Ely
sian Enterprise: Mrs. H. L. Coffin
has bought piece Of property at 401
Clark street, Mankato, and will move
there next month, when her daughter
Dorothy will attend high school in that
city.
er Oleson is going TO assist In the
big noise that will be made at Fair
mont on the night Of September %
when Larry Hodgson delivers his key
note speech for democracy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
CAR STALLED ON TRACK.
Cannon Falls Man Was Severely In
jured In Minnaapolia

cannon falIs Man was severely IN
jured In Minneapolis.
Only by leaping headlong from his
automobile when 1t became stalled on
the Milwaukee tracks at Smelling
avenue, Minneapolis, did Olaf Mitnes
of Cannon Falls. Minnesota save
his life. He was severely bruis-
ed by his fall and Is In the North
western hospital. HiG car was
smashed between two boxcars. Nit
mes is visiting in Minneapolis for
the state fair. He will recover, It
was reported at the hospital.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
WeIIs Versus WInnebaao.

Wells and Winnebago wdll meet
on the gridiron In Wells Saturday,
September 26.
Y,eso IoI sIqlsuodssH "a o. ,q6noqL
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17
BETTER|NG OF ROADWAY
WHAT THE ADOPTION OF
BABCOCk PLAN MEANS
PUTS BURDEN ON AUTO
Federal Government Lends Aid
= To Improvement of County
Trade Arteries

Plan to be voted on Novem
Der 2, 1920. Relieves the coun-
ties and townships or the bur-
den of maintaining the state
highways and leaves all county
and township ROAD funds for the
construction and maintenance Of
gravel or secondary highways in
each county. Will put every farm
In the state within q short dis
lance of q gravel surfaced road
leading to the main concrete higf
way only q short distance away.
Note-This road plan will be
designated as Amendment No l
on the ballot.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-17

l.O
fee or total of $7.2s. Raising this
to $18 means an increase of $1074.
What He Gets For His Money
But what does the motor vehicle
owner get for his $1Q74.
1t Is fair to estimate that the av-
erage cost of operating cars over un-
paved roads, charging gasoline lu-
IRRIGATION tires and depreciation is
10 cents rer mile. There is no ques-
ton but that one can operate mo-
tor car over paved road as compar
of 20 per cent or cents per mile.
Many actual tests have proved a
greater saving on gasoline alone.
But you argue all the roads ara
not going to be paved but only 1000
miles. Let US assume that half your
seasons driving is on rayed roads
and half on unpaved roads. This
then would mean an average saving
Of cent per mile on the seasons
mileage. II the owner drives 1,074
miles year and saves cent per mile
because of the increased license fee
and consequent road Improvement he
what his increase is. II he drives
$500 miles a year he would save
$50 or have net profit of $2426. 1t
is said the average mileage Of all cars
in Minnesota is 5000 so the adoption
OF the constitutional amendment
means a return to the motor vehicle
owner Of So for every dollar expend-
ed in increased license fees.
Since the submission of the consti-
tutional amendment there have been
some who have been afraid that there
and retirement charges on the bond
issue. In support of this fear they
cite section 4 of the pending amend
ment which reads AS follows:
"In case the trunk highway sink
ing fund should not be adequate to-
meet the payment of the principal
interest Of the bonds authorized by
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19
Drive
Gains Speed; l
Donation is Big

With keener interest being taken
by the numerous campaign solicitors
the Salem General Hospital campaign
for 100000 gained speed today. Al
though committee captains had not
made reports as urged by noon it was
stated by Publicity Chairman Walter
Denton that the campaign had taken
on a more optimistic aspect, and that
partial unofficial reports indicated
good progress.
Among the donations contained In
reports at headquarters today that OF
r. p. Boise for $1,000. This is one OF
the largest personal subscriptions yet
made, and lent great encouragement to
campaign leaders because of the gener-
GUS spirit manifested.
Thomas b. Kay was among the So
licitors working today, as was I. Green
beam. They had made no definite re-
port up to late hour of the activities
of their aides.
1t was reported at headquarters that
labor in the city continues TO rally,
and that report en- masse by the
workingmen of the city at the heao.
quarters is expected within a few days.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19
Motors Gradually
Replace Horses

Washington Mar. 19.-The extent
to which motor vehicles are supplant-
ing the horse on farms is problemati-
cal, department of agriculture experts
declare, after recent survey, which
disclosed that at least $4,000 farmers
in the country own motor trucks which
they use on their farms Passenger
cars and trailers were excluded.
In many cases the introduction of a
truck on farm indicates provision for
increased hauling rather than an ac-
tual reduction in the number OF horses
used Horses on farms reached their
maximum in 1913, and since then'have
been gradually decreasing. Their num-
ber on January 1, this year, was 21,-
100 900, decrease of $4,000 head
from January / last year. The horse
market is regarded as unsettled and
the future equally uncertain. The best
demand during the last year has been
in the south.
JOURNAL WANT ADS BRING EN-
JOURNAL WANT ADS-TkY THEM
| JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19
Dirigible OF 80
Tons Is Planned

Philadelphia. Mar. 1.-THE worlds
largest dirigible will be built at the
Philadelphia navy yard. In it COM
pany of navy' men will attempt flight
across the Pacific.
Fifty-two craftsman gave their ser
vices to the work of designing the
great airship. Work will soon be begun
on the plans.
1t will be developed along lines sim
liar to the R-34 which made the sue
cessful trans Atlantic flight.
This dirigible will weigh about 33
tons, and will have a carrying capa-
city of 80 tons, ....
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19
High Winds Hurt
Kansas Wheat CrOr

Kansas City, NO., Mar. 1s.-High
winds continued to prevail early to-
day over the greater part Of Kansas.
where. according to reports received
here. they have caused considerable
damage to the growing wheat crop. In
addition to crop damage. wire com
munication is impaired at many
places
The winds have swept up volumes Of
dust from the freshly planted fields.
Kansas apparently was receiving the
brunt of the high winds. although the
dust storm area embraces the greater
part of the southwest.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19

The directors Of the Union Count,
Telephone company have accepted
bids for their lines In Union and Wal
Iowa counties.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19
Nebraska College
Professors Given
Salary Increase.

Lincoln, Neb. Mar. 19.-The aver
age annual salary of $1927.50 of each
of the University OF NebraslIa's teach
ing staff Of 211 professors is to be in
creased to $24S3.50, or approximate
ay 26 percent as a result Of passage
by the board of regents Of a salary
budget to raise the pay of all univer-
sity employees. Most of the increases
are effective April l.
Lincoln, Neb., Mar t9,--Ienry r.
Schultz has been reelected head
football and track coach Of the Uni
versity of Nebraska with an increase
in his salary from $500 to $4,000 a
year, while Paul j. Schissicr has
been re-employed as head basketball
and baseball coach with u pay ad-
vance from $4,000 to s25OO, the uni
yersity board Of regents announced
today.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19
$4,000 Motor Cars
Given To States
To Aid Road Work

Washington, Mar. 1s.-Approximat-
ely $4,000 motor vehicles intended for
war purposes have been turned over to
the department of agriculture by the
War department for distribution am
ong the state highway commissioners
for use in road building. allotments be-
ing based on the amount of Federal
aid for roads which the states re-
eeive.
Already $4,000 have been delivered
to states and the remainder will be
distributed as fast as railway cars can
be secured for their transportation,
which will be probably two or three
months.
This equipment promises to be OF
great aid in carrying out the large road
building program for 1920.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-19

An allied alumni composed of stu
dents Of the University of Oregon,
Oregon Agricultural college and the
Oregon State Normal school have
formed a joint organization at Hood
River.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29

AS chairman OF the Good Roads
Committee Of Virginia Bankers Assoc
citation, H. N. Phillips, president OF
the Broadway National Bank, of Rich.
mond, has just addressed an open let
ter to the women voters of the State.
He declares that the good roads
amendment is one thing all of the new
voters can agree upon, regardless If
creed or party utilization. Bad roads
are row heavy handicap to pleasure
travel, to rural education and social
intercourse, and source Of great ex-
pense and loss to the agricultural i'll
terests, he says.
The letter Of President Phillips to
the female electorate follows:
"On November End, many thousands
Of the women OF Virginia will cast
their first ballot in a general election,
and to you this appeal is directly ad-
dressed.
There, will be many differences of
opinion among you as to the policies,
platforms and candidates. 1t is we'll
that it should be so. ..
But there is one thing to be voted
on at that time upon which all can
agree regardless Of creed or party
afiliation, for it is a matter In which
all are interested and in the same way.
All Of us travel, more or less and
know the bad condition OF Virginia
Roads-a heavy handicap to pleasure
travel, to. rural education and social
intercourse, and source of great ex.
pense and loss to our agricultural in
terests. : ~.
( Better, roads must be had.
Eat the coming election you will
vote on an amendment to the consti.
tuition which if passed will give to
our State Legislature the authority to
issue bonds for road construction
when and as in their judgment an is.
sue seems advisable. - b s"<'
a., "Without a bond issue, most of us
who are now beyond middle life will
have passed away before any com.
prehensive system can be completed.
With an issue, large sums Of FED
ERAL AID become available, work can
be pushed to early completion, and
Virginia's roads will cease to be the
plague spot Of tourists, the shame of
her people, and the source Of great
loss to all engaged in rural pursuits,
. please cast your vote FOR the con-
stitutional amendment"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29

-
SHOWING GROWTH OF DOLLAR
How Benjamin Frarkin's Request Of
$4,000 to Boston Has Increased
in Century.

How the dollar invested works for
the Individual himself has been best
illustrated by that first great Ameri-
can teacher Of thrift, Benjamin Frank
lin, remarks Worlds Work. In 1871
he bequeathed $1,000 to the common
wealth of Massachusetts and to the
city of Boston as a mark OF lis #ppre-
citation for having appointed lin as
agent in England at the handsome
salary of $4,000. And to make his be-
quest really valuable, with his great
foresight Franklin provided In his will
that this Fl GOO should be put out at D
per cent interest for 100 years; that at
the end of that time 31-131 Of the fund
accumulated should again be put out
at interest for another hundred years
and then the fund be divided one
fourth to Boston aud three-fourths to
the state.
Let us see how we'll that $1,000 of
FranklIn's has worked. At the end of
the first hundred years it had grown to
$431 ,3S3G2. 1t was then divided in &C.
cordance with the will; 29,30O.4S
was set aside for public work" and
$102, was started on its course
Of earning interest for another hun
dred years. That was in 1891. On
Jan. !, 1918, this sum had grown to
$2G7, S05.15 and at this rate OF in
crease the fund should amount to at
least $6.0C0,000 when the second Pc
riod is completed, and may be conad-
erably more,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29
ONES JOB MUST COME FIRST
Salary Should Be Secondary Object
for the Man Who Is Anxious to
Advance.

have never known young man TO
about his salary while at work, or who
let that salary have anything to do
with the interest lie was putting into
his job. The job is the chance, the op-
portunity, to show what you are made
of, to show what you have for sale
your ability, your personality.
If you have something unusual for
sale you may be sure you have what
Every employer IS always looking for.
K you are alert, enthusiastic, original,
L. you Try to stamp everything that
gc.3 through your hands with Superior
!ty, you may be sure that YOU VIII
soon find place at the trout with
conn ensurate salary.
On the other hand, the man who
drags through just enough wor!; TO get
by, who gets to his Job when he has
to and watches the clock for time 10
go home will not see his salary envcl-
ope fatten very rapidly.
Quibbling over ones salary has
spoiled many a career. 1t is not what
you are paid for doing, but what you
do that you arc nOt paid for that is
the key to the position above you.
This is almost invariably the case.
The service you render which you are
not obliged to give Is the thing that
attracts your employcr.-Orison SWEET
Marden in Chicago Daily News.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29
Famous Mine Nav "Con1e Back"

The ComstocE lode, once known rs
the richest silver mine in the world,
and from which millions of dollars
were taken during the height OF its
fame, Is about to come back to its
own. For years the lode WAS almost
deserted and Virginia City, New, lived
along in lethargy that included the
slow crumbling Of its buildings and
the rOtting of its sidewalks, until what
was one of the most colorful, blazing,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS towns in the
United States, became a monument to
dead hopes and Il mockery Of Its for
mer self.
1t has been discovered that thou
sands of tons of grade ore now
are standing in giant dumps. and yet
other thousands of tons resting in the
mines themselves, can be made to yield
as high as $40 ton under modern
methods of extraction.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29
Peter and Paul Were in Rome.

According to the evidence and dis
coveries Of two famous archaeologlsts
Of Rome, Professors GrosSi Condi and
Orazio Maruechi, there no longer re-
mains any doubt that the Apostles Pc
ter and Paul both went to Rome and
suffered martyrdom there.
That doubt has been raised several
times IN controversies between various
schools Of archaeOlogists.
1.-THE Apostles Peter and Paul." pro-
fessor Marucchi said, "did go to Rome.
have found traces Of their burial in
a catacomb hewn out of the rock on
the Appian Way. behind the ancient
church of st. Sebastian.
"There are graves In this under
ground burying place, which Of course
prove nothing. But there are also writ
ings on'the wall, and these writings all
invoke the aid of Peter and Paul, de-
scribed as lying there"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29
Italians Melt Up Small Change.

The second hand dealers all over
Italy have cornered the bronze 10 and
5 centime pieces, which they have
melted down and sold as ingots for
soldering ut two and three times the
price the pennies cost them. This has
caused great deal Of annoyance, rs
small change is scarce, and in some of
the cafes stamps have been given ~
change. The government has reduced
the size of the new 10 and centinIe
pieces. but even that has done little
good, so it has now decided to coin tic
new pennies out of a compositia
metal which cannot be used as soldep
if melted.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29
Organized to Fight Plant Pests.

The Plant Protection institute is the
name of 4 body formed recently for
the purpose of waging relentless war
on the pests that afilict field and or
chard crops, shade trees and orna-
mental plants. This it will do by sup
porting and directing scientific re-
search, by fostering cooperation be-
tween investigators and manufacture
ers, and by disseminating information
about the control of plant insects and
diseases. The members are all scicn-
tifc experts or manufacturers of the
insecticides, fungcides, apparatus,
ETC., used in this work Of eXtcrmina-
tion.-Popuar Mechanics Magazine.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29
NOW PREFER USEFUL GIFTS
Younger Generation of Women Said
to Look for Utility When Presents
Are in Question.

One must mingle with the younger
generation to comprehend the chang
ing standards of domestic life. Those
things once the hearts desire Of wom-
en- have not lost their charm, we are
told. While the proverbial route to
mans heart has not changed its road
bed, and good cooking IS still the
trademark Of a desirable wife, yet
anniversary expressions of hus-
bands love are said to be changing in
form.
The new note Is utility. This is eN-
emplificd by story that comes to us
from one who recently visited young
couple while they discussed their ar-
preaching anniversary. 81 think
shall get Ruth a necklace" the young
husband said. Ruth demurred. What
then did she wish, was his query, with
the suggestion Of Il diamond or piece
of mahogany furniture, or some other
establishment for the home.
"If you really insist on present"
she said, II have always wanted an
electric washer and vacuum clear
err" /
This suggests the story IF the neTo
bridegroom who, when the honeymoon
waned, brought home heavily rni--
rored dressing table md G washtu5.
"Now, Mandy" he said, lyon can sid
down la front of this and wu;ch yo'sesf
starve to. death, or you can use shfs
tub and earn yo' livin'."-Omaha bee.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-29
Amusement for Both.

"Aiarriagc--it is wonderful!" CUR
gled the happy Smith. at is blissfni,
joyous! 1t IS heaven! Ah--but | for
get" he exclaimed, suddenly serious.
you have found it a very different
thing-eh?'
Eyes. Personally I considGr mar
riage a tossup," said Jones. !
poor fellow, poor fellow y, NUT
tered Smith. "How you manage to pit
up with that tartar of wife = on
know" b
at might be worse" said HJont'
1--WE have lots Of fun"
"How is that?"
"Well, you see, when my wife gets
into passion she always hurls things
at my head. Every time she hits me-
she's as pleased as Punch, and every
time she misses I'm as pleased IS
Punch. SO between us we are never
short of amusement"