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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
Long Story Told in Short.

How Galena stepped on the gas I'M
til it hurt is g long story, but it can
be recounted briefly to illustrate this
tale which has no gas illumination.
The year Grant finished the job I'M
der the old apple tree, the possession
in GaIena Of a gas-illumined house
was greater evidence of a regular
bank balance than the ownership Of
a gas-propelled limousine is today.
Gas retailed then at S. a thousand
cubic feet, and that rate was not con
sidered excessive.
As gas manufacture became more
scientific and more economical, the
local gas company voluntarily reduc-
ed the rate until 1912, when Galena
business houses and users Of gas
ranges paid only $1.50 a thousand,
while light consumers got off with a
charge Of S1.65. In 1914 an explo-
sion necessitated rebuilding much Of
the plant at great expense. Then came
the world war,-prices for coal, coke
and oil scared and shipments became
in creasingly difficult to obtain. The
Ilionis Public Utilities Commission,
while recognizing fully the company's
difficulties, reduced the gas rate 10
$l.40 net for the first thousand cubic
feet, the rate ranging downward to
$l.2O a Thousand to large consumers,
The prices for essential gas-making
materials increased to the point where
the operators had to seek relief. The
Utilities Commission, in view Of the
facts, raised the rate to $1.65.
Plant Went Into R~eceiyership
But this new rate failed to make
gas selling a paying proposition, and
the plant went into the hands Of a
receiver. Experts called in by tbs
receiver reported a big deficit. Their
Galena's citizens saw the light they
felt they soon weren't going to see
and petitioned the Utilities Commits.
sion to do anything-even to raising
the rates Ii they only could be assur.
ed of gas. But the Commission de.
MED their plea and the plant, th'
second oldest in the state, was forceC
to shut down.
And then, Galena's Gasless Age be
gan. Fortunately for the residents
this city does not have the big acre
age Of apartment houses to be founs
ia scores of larger cities all over n,
country. In most Of Galena's homes
there are chimneys and hues, whil'
in the majority Of homes in cities lik'
New York, Brooklyn, Boston, anl
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06

parlor is at night. No complaint has
been registered by burglars, either.
Galena is not the City of Dreadful
Night, but the rate of peevishness has
risen to an alarming height.
The Illuminating situation is bad
enough, but it isn't as provoking as
the cooking problem. Going back to
the dark ages involves more than hav-
ing to do without light by which to
sit up late. Maybe what helped make
the Dark Ages dark was the diges-
tons ruined by cooking over print
tive fires, burning up the temper of
the cook and the diner. The modern
housewife, accustomed to a modernly
equipped kitchen, with a handy gas
stove that can be turned on when
wanted, and turned off when not,
shudders at the thought even Of stok-
ing a coal or wood range when tenn
per and temperature are at the boiling
over point.
Keeping the Old Gas Stove Ready
Women, as the chief sufferers, are
keeping their old gas stoves ready
for the joyous moment when the gas
is m%iraculously restored. A Presi-
Dental candidate, who could guaran-
tee the return Of the old reliable gas,
could carry Galena unanimously, re-
CARELESS of his stand on suffrage, pro-
hibition or the League of Nations.
The women, who have had TO go back
to the coal range or the oil stoves,
which flavor the food with a touch
of petroleum, are in rebellion, end
those who have shiny, new electric
cookers are not convinced and handle
their wired stoves without enthuai.
assn. That eyery-ready and always re-
liable gas flame that win broil a 1920
steak just to the right nicely, or turn
out a pie that will smother Friend
Husbands Crouch in its very luscious.
ness, is worth the price, they feel
and Home without It has a big, bis
void.
Galena wal not always Gaslesl
Town. It didn't voluntarily elect it.
self as a horrible example Of whai
a modern city is like, when Il reverti
to the Light Of Other Days. It hat
gas for Illuminating and fuel from
the year that its then leading citizen
who had become General U. s. Grant
settled that little matter with Lee a
Appomatox, until February, 1920
And persons with even the shortest O.
memories recall that that was a RICH
cold February.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
HELPED MAKE BOY CRIMINAL
Judges Harsh Structure Discouraged
T%ounoster Sent to R~eformatory
at Age Of Nine.

There is a case of a well Unknown
criminal who started on the down.
ward path because a Judge sentenced
him, at the age of nine years. TO a
reformatory, Margaret E Sangster
writes in the Christian Herald.
you're bad" said the Judge, as he
delivered the sentence. you'll
never know what it is to live a clean
decent life-you'H never know what
II is to have a really decent emotion.
You'll come to a bad end--you can't
10 otherwise
And then he dismissed the case
with a wave Of his hand, And,
doubtless, he forgot all about it.
Bur the nine-year-old boy did not
forget. He served his term, sullen-
", in the reformatory and when he
was released he went back to wrong
doing as naturally as a bird flies
south in the winter time. At the
age Of fifty he had served countless
other terms in Sing Sing and vari-
Gus state prisons he had been a
thief, and bIackguard, and a muir
derer. He had done u~nspeakable
things. And when he was asked
what had really started him on his
life OF crime he said eff that Judge
long ago had expected ME to reform
| would have turned over a new leaf.
But he was so sure that | was ut.
terly bad hat he convinced mel"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
lRELAHD's WATER POWER

At County Donegal the believers
in water power for Ireland hold that
$4,000 horsepower could be made
available.
Galway, again, is said by SIR
John Purser Griffith to possess =
watershed the streams Of which
could be harnessed and made to pro-
duce 9,400 horsepower through 9
ten-hour day, and the Falls Of Kill
lsloe are declared potentially equal
to about 1000 horsepower.
All told, the low-head water pow
ers might add up to a considerable
total, and although before the war
the question was considered more
conversational than anything else,
the high price and scarcity Of fuel
are now giving it another aspect
Christian Science Monitor.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
GaIena Blew Out The Gas.
GaIena has blown out the gas!

Galena has blown out the gas!
Since Ulysses s.. Grant, once the
town tanner, gave up his private
practice to take up that little task OF
preserving the Union, as related in
all school histories, nothing of such
nation wide interest has emanated
from this river city of northwestern
Illinois. Galena, the Oldest city in
the state, learned in a few days that
one of the most elusive and necessa-
ry servants of modern mar is gas.
Galena hasn't quite gone back to
the talow dips and to hewing down
frewood in the manner Of its pioneer
settlers, but that, perhaps, is parti-
ally due to the fact that said pioneer
had used up most of the aforemen-
toned frewood and had died off, tax
ing with them their secret of making
tallow dips of the kitchen leavings.
Refuse to Cook for Men Who Made
Town Gasless
Through the hot summer days its
housewives swelter at their cooking
over coal or wood fire ranges
bought at 1920 prices-those who
have any stoves at all. The women
who just won't roast themselves cook
ing with antique equipment for men
{. who were not foresighted enough to
save the gas before it was too late,
have fed to other cities. In practi-
cally every kitchen, besides the insult
ferably hot coal range or the smelly
oil stove, stands a gas range, like the
little tin soldier, covered with dust
and rust, awaiting the return Of gas.
AS evenings shadows melt into
nights darkness, the Galena windows
are not suffused with the mellow glow
from the gas mantle. Not to any
appreciable extent are they suffused
with any kind Of glow. Kerosene
lamps smoke nd flare in hundreds
Of households, lnd when there is a
sudden gust Of wind, the lamp chin
neys blacken or crack as the mood
and wind strike them. And the house.
holders, accustomed for years TO de.
pendable gas light, slam down their
newspapers or books in despair and
20 TO bed early. Summer daylight
has helped some, but as the months
Of early darkness approach, the gloon
Of the Galena populace thiekens tC
a consistency that could be cut only
with a,knife.
Great Joy for the SpOoners
OF course, spooners are excepted
They don't care how dark the from
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
ENDED EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE
japanese Authorities Put Stop to sslf.
Destruction by Sign at Rail-
road Crossing.

Near Kobe, Japan, is a "Stopl
Look Listen sign at a railroad
crossing that has saved 100 known
lives within the last six months, ac-
eording to verifable record, these
being the lives Of hat many VINO
had gone to this particular railroad
crossing TO commit suicide. The big
signboard is placed where it is ex-
pressly for those intending to take
their own lives, this particular juno
ton of highway and railroad track
being one Of the popular spots for
the people of Kobe and vicinity to
end their earthly existence by either
jumping in the nearby sea or by
lying down on the rails aud waiting
for the express.
Suicide in Japan is as much 9
matter Of fashion as the color Of .
sash or the shape Of a mans hat,
and different places and different
methods are the mode from time to
time. At one time the life-sick folks
of Tokyo used to climb to the elev-
enth story of the only history
tower in the city, that in Asakusa
park, and dash themselves to Mir
yana by jumping wei he balcony
railing. The authorities ended thSt
by inclosing the eleventh balcony
and windows with wire netting. The
ninth, tenth and twelfth stories
we're left open for suicides, but were
never taken advantage Of.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
Public Notice.
STATE OF MISSOURI.
Adv.
COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE.

COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE.
In the matter of application Of
Harry Briscoe, for parole.
Notice is hereby given that l, Har-
ry Briscoe, convicted Of the crime
Of Murder, End degree, in the County
of Lafayette, State of Missouri, on
the 9TH day of September 1913, and
sentenced to rs years imprisonment
in the penitentiary at Jefferson City,
Missouri, where | am now confined,
have made application for Parole and
will be given a public hearing before
the State Prison Board at the hearing
Office in said %penitentiary on the sec
ond Monday in August, 1920, same
being the 9th day of said month,
when reasons in favor of or against
the granting Of said parole will be
heard by said State Prison Board.
All persons who favor or oppose said
application are invited to communi.
cate with said Board on or before
said date, giving in writing such facts
as they would have considered in this
matter.
HARRY BRISCoE,
Applicant.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
A IN TWO r

As a means of lowering the cost
u. transportation, a French naval
rchitect proposes to build freight
arriving boats in two parts, the
Stern carving the engine and fuel
md the orepart carrying the
freight. A's manner the power
plant vii able 10 serve two OF
more hulls. which represents a con-
siderable economy for the reason
that the engine is rarely idle while
the boat is being loaded.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
CITY GOVERNMENT IDEA.

Washington was the first city b
have a commission form Of govern
ment, June IL, 1878. In this cass
the commission form grew out Of
the peculiar conditions at Washing
ton, a city without votes and wholly
under the control Of congress. Il
was not intended to be a model for
other cities. The next city to set
the example was Galveston, Tex, in
1901.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06

Chicago, there are no provision for
the coal stove. Loss of gas service in
such circumstances would mean ac-
tual cooked food deprivation before
other means of cooking could be pro-
vided. Adv.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
ENERGY M~lsAppLlED.

Mrs. Pester-0h, dear l paid
IS for this steak and it's 50 tough
We can't eat it. And pounded it for
half an hour, too.
Her Husbsnd-Pounded the
steak Why didn't YOU pound the
butcher?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
SHIP OF TWIN ruBEs

A vessel is being built for the
French government at New Orleans
Of structural shapes consisting Of
two huge metal cylinders side BY
side. II either is damaged the other
side will keep the boat afioat.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
WAS \ TRUTHFUL WITNESS

Counsel Now, tell me-. where did
he kiss YOU:
plaintif-0n the lips, sir,
Counsel-No. no; YOU don't un-
ierstand, | mean. where were you ?
Plaintiff tblushmg)-ln his
arms, sir,-London Tit-Bits.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
Il uKEL1R.

Teacher-Give the meaning Of
peruke and write 8 sentence contain
ing il.
pupil-The HawOiisns sell their
stringed instruments at SO much per
uke.-Cart6Ons.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
IMPOSSIBLE

4The man has got no spirit in
him.
How could he have when il IL
sic a quart, with the booze hounds
on the watch At thatY'
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
BETTER TO Be poor,

Il used to envy the rich, but /
lon't any more
Whats she natter
"l.ooa d; ail The trouble they're
having With their help
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06
Beat the h. c. Of L.

We still nave a few lots in
South Side Addition that we are
offering at old prices, which
make them look cheap in these
times of high prices. No better
investment can be made. Can
get one-half of your living out
of a garden if you don't care to
build now. Terms to suit pur-
chaser.
Aull, Wilson 4 Waddell.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06

He-lf l should propose to yOu
what would be the Outcome1
She-It would depend entirely
upon the income-BoSton Tran
script.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-08-06

NO man would approve Of the
recall if he knew it would be applied
to himself
ooh, yes; an actor would"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
The Speeders
Copyright 1920, by Kathleen Fox

on going, ever at faster speed, the idea developed in his mind that they might grow apart. At least there was danger of them drifting, and some times it scared him. But, trusting her as he trusted himself, he dis. missed the thought-till it came aghin!
 -- Re and Barbara got on beautifully tokether. Their home .life-what th3 Ire was of it--was ideal. There was never jar. They did not dis aghee.. Barbara had things as she w$nted them. He had stuck fast to his plan, formed on the honeymoon crhise, always to let the Admiral" have what she wanted.
 John De Haven made love to his wife-when he got the chance. But the opportunity came so seldom that at last their love, while still won derful thing in fact, became one talk eh.a matter of course. Not that either would have had it so, but that was a development of the hurried lives they lived. They did not have time to make love to each other!
 Above all, he trusted her. She, too, trusted him. She knew little of men, really, but she had idealized him and was satisfied. Whereas he, think ing her in all things perfect, never doubted. That would have been beneath him, De Haven, thorough bred.
 But the man was not happy. The only time he approached happiness was when he could plunge headlong into work at his office, for then he was absorbed in the tasks he always found. Recreation had had none for it is never recreation for one to do what does not please and satisfy The odd part of it all was that he made no effort whatever to rectify the mistake of his life and Bar bara's. He thought it right that she should have her way, that she should take her happiness in any form she wanted it. He erred in making Bar bara's way his way.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

New Orleans, Aug. 26.-The trend was higher in cotton today although there were periods of depression and the close was 35 to 62 points over the final prices of yesterday. Extensive covering of the short interest, because of general pairing down of August condition estimates, was the main factor back of the advance although late in the session there was a mod crate amount of long buying, based on private reports of crop deterio- ration in Texas and expectations of bullish condition figures from private bureaus.
 In the early trading prices were off to the extent of 15 to 25 points mainly because of poor cables. At the highest of the session prices were 60 to 92 points over yesterdays fi- nal prices. October fell off to 25.74 and reacted to 26.82.
 Reports of too much rain in Tex as and also in portions of the east ern belt coupled with the forecast of unsettled to showery weather in the western half of the belt helped the market attain it's best prices.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
By Kathleen Fox
Barbara's Way is His Way.

And even with the pasisng of the winter season, there was no rest for the De Havens. The big social events had come and gone with all their col or and daring, their gayety and charm, their atrtactiveness and bore dom, their pleasures and unhappiness But there remained for them, now firmly established with the gayest of the gay, lesser affairs that re- quired just as much of their time and made just as heavy demands of reciprocal character upon them.
 So John and Barbara kept going If they did not entertain friends at dinner at their home and take them to the theatre and supper afterward, they themselves, were invited out somewhere. They never stopped. They did not know after awhile that it was possible to stop nor how to do it if they had wanted to.
 Sunday morning breakfasts follow ed weeks of grinding steady work for John and nights of dinners and danc- ces and passing good shows. Often the telephone in his private office would summon him just before he finished for the day and Barbara would ask that he join her and some friends for tea dansant at one of the many popular places. And al- ways he went.
 Then home in hurry, bathed in hurry, dressed in hurry and driven in hurry to some rendezvous where they would meet their intimates for a night of revelry. That was the life they lived. It was wearing, tearing action for the man whose devotion alone made it possible for him to keep it up.
 Men paid lot of attention to Bar bara De Haven as was to be expect ed. She attracted them naturally, She had both beauty and an alluring charm of manner that brought men to her side and held them. Other women, more beautiful, perhaps, but never more charming, failed of the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
Coal Miners Plan Demand for New
 Wage Increase

Kansas City Mo-, Aug. 26.--Dis- trict officials of the United Mine Workers of America from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas met here today and decided to ex- tend an invitation to coal operators of those states to meet them in q conference here next Monday. That announcement was made tonight by officials of the mine workers, who said that today's conference did not formulate new wage scale, as had been planned. After discussion it. was decided to hold joint meeting with the operators next week, August Dorchy, vice-president of district IA, United Mine Workers, said.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27

popularity that she won in just a few short weeks after she returned to New York from romantic honey moon with New York's catch of the season and now the lion of the young CT set.
 Meanwhile John De Haven saw less and less of his wife. He had kept his promise to himself made when he all but lost shis grip during the trying month at 'Buenos Aires. For he had seen upon returning to New York that social avenues opened easily to them and understood that they would have to accept the invitation. He was convinced that it made for Bar bara's happiness, and, when he got that far, the thing was decided for him. He would go when she elected to go and he would try his best to keep pace with her. Never should she know that there was other things that he preferred. That became in time religion with him. And if Walker down in Wall street had known his employers innermost feel ings, he would have had his answer to his frequent unspoken question: "Why does he go at his work so con- founded hard?"
 The fact was John De Haven was bored and worn by the gayeties into which he had been drawn. He had gotten used to dancing with other women, the latter of which he did ner and paying compliments to other women, the lattre of which he did with such an air at times that it sug- gested to some romantic minds the possibilities of flirtations. But he never went beyond the limitations placed by his honest love for Bar bara and his own understanding of the conventions. Some there were who pouted when he left them that he did not.
 Yet he never got to like these things, even if he did become accus- toned to them. The thing that still irked him was-doing without Bar bara! More and more as they kept
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
Turn in Expansion
 Tide Already Here

Washington, Aug. 26. Evidence of a turn of the tide of expansion was given tonight by the federal reserve board in statement which declared that further expansion of bank credit apparently has been checked" The board added, however, that appli- cation of the policy of restricting loans to essential requirements had not reduced the volume of loans and discounts of the country's banking int stitutions. According to the boards views, the people are taking stock, curtailing their expected loans and exercising generally more whole- some judgment"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
NEW ORLEANS RICE.

New Orleans, Aug. 26.- Rough rice dull; sales Honduras 2,899 sacks 450 0 6.25; early prolific 2,661 sacks 625 @ 700; receipts 9,212; milers receipts 577. Clean rice steady; sales Honduras 159 pockets 4 1-16 O 9 1-2; blue rose 2,229 pockets 3 1-2 @ 9; Carolinas $40 pockets 1-2 @ 10; bran per ton $40; polish per ton $55; receipts none.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
FURTHER RECOVERY
 IN COTTON MARKT; WEAKNESS FOLLOWS

New York, Aug. 26.-There were further recoveries in the cotton market here today, but nervousness over the general trade situation led to increased offerings on advances and the rallies were not fully main tained. After selling at 25.35 early, December advanced to 26.30, eased off again to 25.51 and closed at 26.00, with the general market closing steady at net advance of 30 to 75 points.
 The market opened barely steady at a decline of to 30 points under Liverpool, Wall street and southern selling part of which was probably promoted by uncertainty regarding the British trade outlook The decline was soon checked by renew ed covering for over the approaching end August crop report. There was also some trade buying on the ad- vance which carried October contracts up from 2690 to 2S.O3 and January from 24.75 to 25.5O during the mid dle of the day. This made an advance of 50 to 95 points from the closing figures of yesterday and recovery of 235 points from the low record of last Tuesday morning on the Oc- tober position. Reports of firm CT spot basis in the Savannah mar ket and scattering crop complaints from the southwest encouraged buy CTS but demand tapered off early sharp reactions on rumors that Geor- gia cotton would close down for ten days. After reacting to 24.85 for January, prices rallied again on re- newed covering.