The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-12-23
CITIZEN REPUBLICAN,
p. A. BLISS, PUB.
1COTLANU. SOUTH DAKOTA


lis, us the most remarkably laid out
town / have ever seen, considering its
rapid construction" says Geo. G.
Ehrenborg, former government en-
gineer. Mr.. Ehrenborg is considered
an authority on engineering work IN
United States and Sweden.
Unless speedy financial relief is
given the mining companies, says II.
w. s;eaman, president Of the Trojan
Mining Company, gold mining in
this country will practically cease.
Every ounce of gold rrodUced cost1
the company So to $40 more than the
government price of s267, he says
A New jersey mar recently secured
a basket of fine perch by merely
SHAKING cha limbs of a tree The
water had raised so high that tho
branches swept the water and the
fish had taken advantage OF the OPP
porWnity 10 perch on the limbs. II
is SAID that this habit is what gave
the fish their name OF perch" Next!
Farmers within 200 miles of san
Fernando Cal, recently sold their en-
tire cabbage crop for cent per pound
as Les Angeles commission men re-
fused 10 handle the product 1t is
reDol ted that whole fields of lettuce
and other food products are spelling
foi lack of a market.
a corporation of Chicagos wealthy
business men will erect 1890 more
dwellings,, in addition to rs now COM
pleted, and will sell them to working
families for the cost OF production
plus per cent interest on money
invested Only men receiving small
wages and having large families will
be eligible to purchase them.
The man who walked into n wo1n-
ans barber shop in Kansas City, the
other day and asked to be trimmed"
complained TO the police because tho
woman charged him 81. He said he
was only Joking wher ne said hc
wanted to get trimmed. The woman
was fined $25.
According TO the opinion of the
Russell Sage foundation, the public
schools of the west are advancing
while those of the east are declining
in efficiency Montana has the best
system in the country, with Cali
fornia and Arizona following second
and third is their decision
A few square feet of space occu-
pied by soft drinks stand at the
Park Row terminal of Brooflyn
u
300 for one year and nine months.
The sight was recently auctioncd off
by the city. The proprietor has been
paying 1904 per year rent
Eighteen men were arrested and &c
cock birds conhscated when police
raided a cock fight at Ludlow, Mass.
Three birds had already been killed
About 100 men Were present. many of
whom had driven long distance to
( witness the fight.
Charles Longanecker and Richard
Leonard, aged II and 20 respectively
are the youngest ,aviators who have
ever made a cross country flight
They made the trip with civilian
aviator from Urbana, Ill.,, to Collision,
H., and return in 40 minutes.
A truck containing $4,000 worth Of
whisky, en- route to the Rainbow
Gardens, Chicago, was taken from
the chauffeur by two policemen. The
empty truck was found but the
policemen who got the whisky are not
known.
That pre-war prices in silk will soon
be reached, is predicted by a pfolni-
1 nent merchant of Osaka Japan The
prices are now only half what they
We're in@February and they arc still
going down.
Bathers at Coney Island, Atlantic
City and Chesapeake Beach may fight
| tiia IN cost or bathing as much as
they like this year No ban is placed
on the amount of material to be used
In bathing costumes. it is stated.
a movement is being begun to ask
congress for an appropriation of ST.
100000 with which to buy the Mann
moth Cave of Kentucky and $1,000
acres of timber surrounding il, as a
national park.
Rest and reading rooms haze beer
established by the Open Shop asso-
citation at Dallas, Tex, for the use of
laboreFs. New reports show that
there are now 81 cities that belong
to the Southwestern Open Shop asso-
ciation.
ThatStlle house shortage question
is not q national problem but world
problem and that it can only be rem
edled y back to the farm move.
nseHt is the opinion of q recent writer.
rrc Projected waterway from the
Grea. Lakes TO the Atlantic, is looked
On BY the western and mia-westean
employers as a means of more evenly
distributing the foreign labor
|thSousnout the country.
The British council of empire,
which functioned during the wslr as
the authorized advisor Of the eabi-
net, is; TO be revived fcrsa tine to per.
form a similar office in regard to the
Indemnity claims of the colonies.
One million gallons Of whisky have
been withdrawn from Kentucky
Narehosses since january. The law
|requirss that withdrawals be made
or N sdical purposes only.
The Arg tine Patriotic League has
called a cs gress of workers to ,meet
this lsonn In an effort to free -Argen
Tine lab rs from the spirit of be