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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
PROTECT THE AMERICANS
Cruiser Salem and Destroy
er No. PIG On List
STRIFE AMONG NATIVES
Indians Have Signified Intention
To Support Obregon For
President
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1

er No. 276 were ordered by Admir-
al Hugh Rodman, commanding
the Pacific fleet, to sail immedi-
ateIy for Mexican waters. It was
announced the vessels would stop
at Mazatian. 1t was expected, ac-
cording to word from the flagship
New Mexico that these or other
vessels would also call at Topolo-
bampa. Both vessels are at San
Diego at present.
Aqua Prieta, Sonora, April %
More than 1000 Mayo Indians, vet
Grams of the last revolution in Mex.
leo which put President Cac:Gnza il
power, are enr- ute here to join as
many more Yaqui and Mayo Indians
already in this district in the attempt
Of Sonora to overthrow the Mexican
president, according to information
given out at military headquarters
today. >
The vanguard of the Carranza
troops that are expected to attack
Sonora from Chihauhau last night
were encamped at Ouitos Chihauhau
according 10 Geographic information
received here. No attempt yet has
been made to force a way through the
mountains.
Presence of the Yaqui and Mayo
Indians in eastern Sonora was said tC
indicate the state government expects
its hardest battle with the CarranZa
forces in this section.
Official Is Detained.
Douglas, Arizy April 2S.-Ignacic
Pesqueira chief justice of the Mexico
supreme court, said TO have been ap-
pointed military governor of Son
ora, was arrested by United States
OFFICERS as he stepped off train here
today: A woman, said TO have been
brought here by Pesqueira from Mex
leo was detained
Details Are Withheld.
Washington, April 23.-Details as
to the requests of the American
agents were not made public Advices
today said that $50 Mexican fedora
troops with two cannon had arrived
at Mazatlan, but there have been NJ
reports of disturbances there or a.
the other two ports.
Americans Ask Protection :.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch
Washington, April 23.-Americar
government representatives in Mexico
have asked for the dispatch of war
ships TO that country to protect Amer
lean citizens and their property.
The requests came from Mazatlar
and Topolobampo on the Pacific coast
and Frontera, on the gulf coast. Of
fcials of the state, war and navy de
partments are investigating the re-
quests for warships. In times of dis
turbances in the southern republic, il
is not unusual to receive requests fol
warshfps when there is no need fol
them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
Raises Bread Price
TASSOciatad Press DiSpafch

IASSOCIaCed PreSS D1Spatcn.J
Chicago, April 28.-Bread may
reach eighteen cents loaf in Chi
cago, master bakers predicted today,
followed granting of $48 scale to union
bakers with 81. 25 cents an hour for
overtime. The bakers asked $50 per
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
livinu Cost Advance,

Associated Press Dispatch
Boston, April 2S.-The average cost
of living for American wage earners
advanced seven per cent between
November 1919 and March 1920, said
q, report Of the National Industrial
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
SPIRlTUALISTS IN MEXICO.
They Have Enlisted Many Converts
There In Past Few Months.
Especial to Free Press

Especial to Free Press.l
Pipestone, Mimi, April 23.-To the
most far away points in Mexico the
Spiritualists have spread their doc
trines and have enlisted many con-
yerts during the past few months,
according to Rev. Bruce Campbell,
former Methodist minister at Lam
berton, who has just written a letter
to his mother in Pipestone telling of
his work as missionary in that coun-
try. Church societies having workers
in Mexico are now putting forth eff
forts TO get the spiritualist converts
10 return to their own faith. At one
place Rev. Mr.. Campbell and other
missionaries found that local people
were even acting as mediums for the
spiritualiSt congregations.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
SET MINIMUM WAGE.
North Dakota oBard Fixes Rate For Wo-
men EMPLOYEES.

Fargo, N. D., April 24.-The state work.
mems compensation commission today
announced that minimum wage conferees
had agreed to recommend a minimum
wage of $3.50 as the weekly wage for
women employed in factories. For ap-
prentices also from s12 to SIS week is
advised The schedule is subject to re-
view at the hands of the state workmen's
compensation commission. Today con-
ferees are studying the wages of laundry
workers and Monday they will consider
the schedule for nurses.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
ELECTED THE OFFICERS.
Martin County "Aggie" Society Held
Its Annual Meeting.

=
1t was decided at meeting of the
Martin County Agricultural society
Monday evening to erect an exhibition
hog house. A committee was APP
pointed to make all arrangements to
have a building ready for fair time.
Officers were also elected as follows:
President, j. c. Musser; vice presi-
dent, A. T. Crowther; treasurer, F.. c.
Gould; secretary, e. r. F1ygare.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
FUNERAL OF MARIA SANFORD.
Services Of Noted Minnesota Woman
Were Held Today.

ASSOCIATED Press DISPATCH
Philadelphia, April 24.-The funeral
of Maria Sanford. noted woman edu-
Gator, who was found dead in bed at
the home of Senator Knute Nelson,
Minnesota, in Washington last Tues
bers of the family attended the serv-
ipoc
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
DIED AFTER ACCIDENT.
II. SheIdon's Death at Owatonna; New
Resident There.

Sheldon, proprietor of the HIGHWAY
Tire Shop, 113 West Rose street,
Owatonna, was killed Wednesday
night when a vulcanizing machine
which he was operating exploded and
wrecked the building He died at
$40 o'clock, twenty minutes after
the accident Mr.. Sheldon came to
Owatonna from Mankato about three
weeks ago and opened the shop. Mrs
Sheldon lives in Mankato and was
notified of the accident shortly after
it happened.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
WOULD LYNCH NEGROES.
Mob Is Forming For Purpose
Georgia Community.
TASSOCiated Pres

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.]
Savannah, Ga, April ga mob
said to number more than thousand
men, gathering here today was threat
ening to force an entrance to the
county Jail where four negroes &C
.used of implication in the killing of
larry Allen. a raarchant ara confined.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
HOW TO CUT LIVING COST.
Mrs. Genevieve L. Bursan Will Ad
dress Mankato Women.

dress Mankato Women.
The women of this city are urged
to be present at the home of Mrs
w. ]. Morehart, 104 Pleasant street
Monday afternoon at three clock to
hear Genevieve L. Burgan of st. Paul
tell how to reduce the high cost OF
living. She will discuss the work OF
the women's division of the depart
ment of justice and will center her
talk around the question of the
cheaper cuts of meat, and the need
for the cultivation of gardens.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
WHEAT PRICE SCARS.
Market Reaches Top Limit In Arsen
tine, Is Report.

IIEESI 70 FNCPOTI.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l
Buenos Aires, April 23.-The price
of wheat today reached to unpre-
cedented quotation of twenty six
to 1856 pesos gold bushel. More than
eight million bushels of wheat were
exported in the past seven days,
pesos a hundred kilos, which is equal
breaking all records
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Mrs. II. w. Carpenter of Greenfield
Mass, spent Friday with. her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j.. Nichols.
G. r. Prentiss went Friday to Wind
ham to spend a vacation with his
mother, Mrs. Hannah Prentiss.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richmond Thomas, who
had been visiting relatives here, returned
yesterday to their home in Ware, Mass.
Mrs. Fanny Ward. who had been a
guest two weeks OF Mrs Henry Knight,
has returned to her home in Providence,
r.. /.
Miss Katherine Exert, teacher in the
academy building, who had been rooming
at Miss Stedman's, has moved to Henry
Stockwelrs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace w. Houghton
of Lyndonyille, who had been visiting
Mr. and Mrs Z. w. Chase, returned
home Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Clisbee and
family of Revere, Mass, left Saturday
for their home, after spending two weeks
with his sisters, Mrs. Alice Richmond
and Mrs. Emma Niles.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Chase of Lyndonville,
who had been visiting in the home of
their sons, p w. and w. Il. Chase, have
gone to Boston to spend a few days. They
will return for a visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs Miller and party of
friends from South Hadley Falls, Mass,
who had been spending a vacation of two
weeks at Sunset lake, occupying the b.
5. Miller cottage, returned home yester-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. Squires re-
/ turned yesterday from Springfield, Mass,
where they had been since Thursday at
tending the Easteran States exposition
They visited their daughter, Mrs. John
Peck, while there.
Mr.. and Mrs H. K Hamilton and
daughter, Minnie and Miss Emma At
kinssn went to Cavendish yesterday to
visit Mr. and Mrs VIII Atkinson Mr..
and Mrs. Hamilton returned last night,
but Miss johnson and Miss Atkinson
will remain until Thursday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

The Vermont Wheel club field day
which was set for Wednesday of this
week at Pine Grove Springs, Spoffort
lake, has been postponed and no definite
date has been decided upon.
The CLEAN of the CENTRE Congrega
tional Sunday school Melted more than
$50 from the sale of outgrown clothing
conducted in vacant store on Hlgf
street Saturday afternoon. The money
is to help in a local charitable cause o
the church.
Twenty-Five young people of the Cen
ire Congregational church met in the
chapel last evening at z o'clock for
sing and to discuss the question of sun
day evening meetings for this year, II
was decided to hold n meeting each Sun
day evening at o'clock. to be com
posed of a song service and the discus
sion of various topics regarding demon
national beliefs and purposes. Waters
and orangeade were served.
4 lad of 10 years took fancy to the
Jersey Cattle club ribbons on display II
the office of Secretary ID. II. Tasker OF
the Valley Fair association and wanted
to buy one Saturday night. The secre
tary told the boy that under the rules
they could be obtained only by exhibiting
a Jersey at the fair. Determined to be
come the owner of q ribbon the lad LETT
with the assertion that he would be al
the fair with n Jersey cow, although the
cost of a COW made him little uncertain
as to just how he would secure her.
An unusually enthusiastic rally of the
Baptist Bible school was held Immediately
after the morning preaching service yes
terday. Nearly 800 crowded the school
rooms. which were beautifully decorated
with hydrangeas. An interesting service
was presented by various classes and in
dividual members of the school. Brief
addresses We're given by Rev. G. T.
Brownell and Henry Bond, and duet
was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. A. l.. May
nard. An optimistic atmosphere was
prevalent and plans are on foot for a
strong advance all along the line. The
pledges of loyalty which. in response to
the call of the pastor (prefaced in each
instance by assembly call by Mr.. Gustaf-
son on the cornet) We're made by the Off
GERS, the teachers and the whole school III
succession, gave proof of real devotion.
Promotion exercises and the baptism
of children made up the principal part
of the Rally day service at the Centre
Congregational church yesterday in the
place of the usual morning service. Al
1890 o'clock the entire Sunday school
marched into the auditorium of the
church, the procession going up either
side of aisle in single file and dowh the
centre aisle in double file to the front
pews, which had been reserved for them.
The first of the chldren's exercises was
the promotion from the cradle roll to the
beginners department. This was fol
lowed by the baptism of five children.
Promotions were then made from the be
ginners to the primary, from the pri-
mary to the junior, and from the junior
to the intermediate department. Bibles
were presented to two children, and the
pastor Rev. Herbert p. Woodin, told a
story for the children. The choir also as
sisted in the service.
Dancing, Island Park. Thursday-Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
ADJUSTMENTS.
'eNightie Night" Coming.

One of the most brilliant and laugAable
farce offerings of many seasons VIII oe
presented at the Auditorium on Monday
Oct 4 when Adolph Klauber presents
the wide-awake farce entitled "NIghte
Night" by Martha NJ. Stanley and AIDE
laide Matthews, which ran for over SIX
months at the Princess Theatre, New
York City 1t was proclaimed by every
metropolitan critic as being the most
wholesome and laughable attraction Oh
the season. The authors demonstrated
that farce can be really clever and stu
upoffensive to delicacy. This in spite OF
the fact that one of the young women
i'm the cast must romp in and out OF
tubs. bedrooms and closets dressed in 4
fiimsy night garment. No written de-
scription can adequately deal with the
Overwhelmingly numerous complications
involved i'm the hilarious plot, but III
brief it tells how Billy Moffat has admit
ted to his wife of harmless affair with
a certain dancer, TriXie Lorraine, before
his marriage He has met TriXie the day
the play opens, on Pullman train quite
by accident and although his sister had
witnessed the chance meeting, Billy
naivelv saws he has not seen IrlNle
within a year. The Motfats, who are
about to take a long journey, commits
sion BilIy's brother -in-law to rent their
furnished apartment, which he imme-
diately does to Trixie not knowing who
she was. Believing that his sister and
Billy will live in a hotel for a day or
two previous to their departure, he turns
over the apartment to TriXie, who takes
possession, sends out her only available
dress to be pressed and dresses for the
night. The brother in law neglects to
inform his relatives of his quick action
and they return to their apartment after
a theatre party, and later Billy discovers
the presence of Trixie in the guest cham
ber Mrs. Billy finally discovers the
presence of a strange woman in the
house and as Billy cannot explain she
leaves to spend the night with her
mother. Then Trixie's husband turns
up to get Billy's help to find his missing
wife, and learns that Billy has some I'M
explained woman in the house. The wife
returns the next morning and demands
that the woman be turned out. This
Billy cannot do as Trixie's husband Is
still with him, and for two hilarious
acts Trixie flies from one refuge to the
other, seeking to escape the wrath of
Billy's wife and her own husband. OF
course everything is ultimately straight
ened out to everybody's satisfaction be-
fore the audience is unable to walk home
through the weakness caused by exhaus
tive laughter.
Seat sale opens Thursday, Sept 30, at
the Z. j. FentOn store.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
Car Friends.

I love to ride in a touring car.
And zip on the old main road;
| love to tour the burgs afar,
And joke with the merry load.
| love to see the trees fash by,
And hear the good motor hum;
L love the rumble as on we fly,
With the sound of a kettle drum.
love the rush of the bracing air,
And the feeling of JOY it brings;
It's thrill that's quite beyond compare
And a sport that is fit for kings.
4 ses4h,. - = 49, &
It's the jolliest thing that / know b!
far,
And my heart in rapture melts;
| love to ride in an automobile,
When it's owned by some one else.
-Ex.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
MATCHES IN 1929.
Sticks Tipped with Sulphur Ignited by
finder Box

Previous to 1929 matches in use con
sisted of slender stick with pointed
end, which had been dipped in sulphur
and they were lighted by touching them
to a spark struck into finder by flint and
steel. In that year was invited what
was known as the Instantaneous Light
Box" which consisted of small tin box
containing bottle in which was placed
some sulphuric acid, with sufficient fl
brous asbestos to soak it up and pre-
vent its spilling out of the bottle, and q
supply of properly prepared matches.
The matches consisted of small splintS
of wood about two inches long, one END
of which was coated with a chemica
mixture prepared by mixing chlorate Of
potash, powdered loaf-sugar and powd
cred gum arabic, the whole colored will
little vermilion and made into {
thin paste with water. The splints were
readily infamed by dipping the prepared
ends into the sulphuric acid.
These matches were succeeded by the
lucifer, or loco-foco match, which was ig
nited by friction. That in turn, was
followed by the Congreve, which was
similar to the sulphur matches now il
use, and this was followed by the pres
ent parlor match.-Detroit News.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27

An automobile owned and driven by
Anne Boutin of Winooski, accompanied
by three girls and a Mr.. Guyett, struck
the carriage occupied by John Besset of
Colchester and his daughter on North
avenue late Friday night, smashed the
carriage to bits and horribly injured
the horse. Mr.. BeSsett and his daugh-
ter were thrown about 20 feet Miss
Bessett suffered injuries to her back
The Boston ear was said to be going at
terrific speed. The BesSett carriage
carried a light and was on the right
side of the road. The automobile also
bound Colchester way. hit the carriage
with terrific force and smashed it lit
orally into kindling wood. The horse
had to be shot.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL

Mrs. George Maynard Miner. national
president of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, arrived in Brattleboro
last night and was entertained in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r. Holden. To
night she will be dinner guest of Mrs.
]. J. Estey, who will be pleased to have
members of the ID. A. r. call informally
during the evening to meet Mrs. Miner.
Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Miner, Mrs. Estey
and Mrs. w f. Root will leave tomorrow
in the Holden automobile for Montpelier
4 to attend a state conference of Colonial
Danes, and the state meeting of the ID.
\. X. Wednesday. They will return
Thursday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
HARTNESS AND WHY.
Tells Why She Joined the Great Move
ment for Hardness.

Twenty-Five years ago this fall when
! married Johnnie Coocobodd a woman
wasn't expected to know anything ex-
cept homework and her husband was
supposed to furnish all the brains neces-
sary for the family. Maybe at that time
we was little mite dull, but times has
changed, and today we won't have to
take a back seat for no male person.
Here a spell ago John commenced
talking politics to me and telling me we'd
got to elect a new governor this fall
That's just the man of it-theyre never
satisfied with what they've got, always
got to have something else.
WHAT'S the matter with Clement?
says J. What's he done anyway?
Nothing, says John, nothing.
Then why amt you satisfied with him
says |.
/ be satisfied, says he Don't You
know that we have to elect governor
every two years whether We want one Of
not? hadn't thought of that.
Well says John, who you going to
vote for?
1 amt had much time to read the pa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27

pers lately, says l, and l shall have tC
do little looking up before l take my
stand.
Well I commenced reading the papers
and found out there was four men who
wanted to be governor and run the ma
chinery Of the state. / asked John who
he thought would be elected and he says
Babbitt
Because, says he, Babbitt is machine
man.
| didn't say nothing but I knew right
off he'd got 'em mixed, cause I'd read
that Mr.. Hartness was machinist and
worked over in Ludlow or Windsor OF
somewhere, and I guess I've used enough
of Mr. Rabbits soap to know what
business he's in.
Now that John spoke of it I could see
why a man ought to understand ma
chinery if he is to run the machinery
of the state / don't know what kind
of machinery they use but I guess il
amt anything for a soap man to fool
with Afterwards l told John this and
he laughed.
Why, says he, when I told him l was
going to vote for Mr.. HARNESS., you
don't even know one of Hardness
planks.
Says 7, why you poor fish if you'd
read the papers and not show your ig-
norance you'd know that Mr.. Hartness
is a machinist, and works over to Wind
sOr
Springfield, says John.
Well, Springfield, says I, it don't make
any difference, he's a machinist and not
carpenter nor a lumber Jack and don't
have anything to do with planks nor
logs.
John see they was no use arguing with
me- I've got a will of my own if / do
say it myself, but | did kind of feel sorry
for Mr.. Babbitt- because one paper
called him a straddler and I never like
to make fun of anybuddy's deformity.
I couldn't find out much about Mr.
Emery but Mrs. Laraway said she had
been told that his business was making
some kind of black sand paper and Mrs.
BIodgett thought he was some kind of
policeman or sheriff or something and OF
course in either case he confident be eX-
pected to know very much about ma
chinery.
I did so want to vote for Mr.. Agan,
he's such a pretty man and his PIC
lures look so nice, but Mrs. Holcomb
told me she'd heard he was once a po-
LenIate. uOh I KNOW just WHdC Il Do-
tentate is, and neither does Mrs. Hol-
comb, but I do know they are terrible
men and have harems and things.
Mrs Holcomh she thought he had re-
formed and become a good christian now,
but you never can tell. | never did
have much use for foreigners but Mr..
Agan looked So different that I was al
most tempted to vote for him, even aft
or Mrs. Holcomb had told me of his
dreadful past. | see that I was allow
ing myself to be vamped and my bet
ter judgment told me to put Mr.. Agan
out of my mind and vote for Mr.. Hart
ness.
1 received quite a lot of literature and
seen a great many bills posted around
and they all spoke very highly of Mr..
Hardness, and thought he would make a
fine governor, so I voted for him, but |
stin think Mr.. Agan terrible nice look
ing, and | hope he won't never be a po-
tentate again.
SOPHRONIA Q. COOCOBODD.
In Rutland Herald.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
RAILROAD DECIDES
TO BUILD SIDING
Will Begin Construction Work Soon to
Extend Service to New Milk
Plant on Bradley Farm.

Construction work on the side track
to the new milk plant on the so-called
Bradley farm win be begun as soon as
the traffic department OF the Central
Vermont Railway Co. has completed ar
rangements for service to that point, ac-
cording to a communication received by
Cooperative Milk Producers, Inc, from
the general manager of the Central Yer
company. who stated that his department
had taken favorable action on the app7i-
cation of the milk company 1t is es-
mont company, who stated that
his department had taken favor
able action on the application OF
the milk company. 1t is estimated the
cost of the siding will be about $4,000
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27
Why Birds Never Fall.

Birds cannot open the foot when the
leg is bent; that Is the reason they do
not fall off their perches when asleep.
If you watch q hen walking you will
notice that it closes its toes as 1t
raises the foot and opens them when
1t touches the ground.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27

Millions of native women in India are
born, live, suffer and die with no medi-
cal care whatever, for the reason that
their caste and customs forbid their be
ing attended by a male physician 1t is
said that ninety per cent of the women
and girls of India never saw doctor OF
nurse.