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Arizona republican., 1920-09-21
Local Weather Yesterday

ENcess- m temperature yesterday, 4 degrees.
 Deficiency in temperature since the first of the month, g degrees.
 Accumulated excess in temperature since Jan. 1, 31 degrees.
 Normal precipitation Jan. 1 to date, } 62 inches
 Actual precipitation Jan. to date, 575 inches.
 Excess since Jan. 1. IS inches.
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

Tn London is a firm of wine mer-
 chants with q continuous history since 1867
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

Ostrich feathers valued at $2,50o,000 were imported into the United states in the last 12 months
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21
ARMY BACON

We have sold to date one thous- and and thirty two cans Army Bacon with only three com plaints. Some record, don't you
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

The difference between the tallest and shortest races in the world is ] foot Az inches, and the average height is feet inches.
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

Scotland Yard now employees N-raYs in searching suspects for hidden pa pers. valuables, weapons and posons.
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

X-rays are being used successfui'F to bring out erased parts of ancient palimpsest writings.
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21
Phone 1887 Marvin Smith Grocery Co.,. DELIVER YOUR GROCERIES
 TO YOUR DOOR


Sugar, R0 Per lb ..............' AOO Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? That is just what we are selling sugar for. Our proposition is as follows: With every $500 order of groceries we will sell you lbs of Sugar 7Ro snaps -. ............. 0Sc sos[sI sosns Lemon 39c
 SOME PRICES ON FLOUR
 nsn 9a lbs, r,dgr T9mous ] Blue S1.85 4s lbs. Famous Blue QO E0 Bell Flour .......... VOsOO 98 lbs. Famous Blue QH OF Bell Flour -. ....: OO.JO Blue Bell is the Finest Bread Flour we can buy give your family a treat. Use Blue Bell
 for your Bread.
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

More than one-fifth of the popula- tion of the United States lives m S5 cities
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

Not long ago an eruption on the rhn of the sun threw up material to a height of 500.0O0 miles
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

,,,.,,.,,s was the first country 10 Aa,-a Christian governor
Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

.,--+ heet sugar factory in cor me llsS ,',ened in 1901, but the in a,1ltgv ma sy V did not get firm hold uhQi
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22
Oldest Mason in Iowa.

The members of Mt. Ayr Lodge
No. 179, A. F. & A. NJ, make the
claim that j. S. Shepherd of this
city, is probably the Oldest Mason in
Iowa. Mr.. Shepherd was made a
Mason at Keosauqua sixty-four years
ago and has never allowed his mem
bership to lapse. He made applica-
ton for admission to the lodge just
before he was twenty-one years OF
age and soon after reaching his ma
jority was received into membership;
He is, therefore, eighty-five years OF
age. In the early days Masons who
were thoroughly familiar with the
work were few and Mr.. Shepherd ap-
piled himself to gaining thorough
knowledge of the work, and was
known as one of the brightest Ma
sons in southeastern Iowa. Mr.. Shop
herd moved to Corydon in the 70's
and in 1885, while serving as coun-
ty superintendent of schools OF
Wayne county he came to Mt. Ayr
and bought the Mt. Ayr Journal and
after completing his term as superin-
tendent moved with his family to Mt.
Ayr and assumed personal charge OF
the paper. He is remarkably hale
and hearty for one of his years. Mr..
Shepherd attended lodge last Friday
night and the members sprang sur
prise on him after lodge and present
ed him a box of cigars and purse
containing $23.-Mr. Ayr Record
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22
NATIONAL BANK EARNINGS Bill
LION DOLLARS IN 1919.
Great Gain in Resources-NO Loss
to DepOsitOrs.

Washington, D. C.-The number
of banking institutions under the
supervision of the Comptroller of the
Currency at the close of business
December 81 was exactly 5000, in
Guiding 794S national banks in the
United States, Alaska and Hawaii,
and 81 savings banks, building and
loan companies and trust companies
in the District of Columbia, There
have been chartered under the pres
ent administration, or since March
4, 1918, more than one thousand
new national banks.
The year just closed was for the
national banks of the country the
most successful in their history. Re-
sources and deposits showed an I'M
precedented growth. On the date Of
the November II, 1919, call, the
compilation of which has not yet
been completed, the national bank
resources Appropriated $22,OOO,0O0-
900, nearly one billion dollars more
than ever before reported. The
growth of these banks has been great
er in the last six years than during
the entire fifty-year period from the
Inauguration of the national bank
system in 1868 to 1913.
Increases in deposits and total as
sets are shown to Oe widely scatter
ed throughout the country. Tile in
crease in the resources of tho social
ed country banks, those national
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22
Another Bold Bank Robbery.

The Citizens Savings Bank at
Benton was robbed last Wednesday
night in much the same manner
as was the Tingley State Savings
Bank about three weeks ago. After
gaining admittance to, the bank the
robbers used an acetylene torch to
burn off the lock of the vault. A
hole about ten inches in diameter
was burned around the lock and the
safety deposit boxes were opened by
inserting a. punch in the keyholes and
hitting the punch will a hammer,
thus knocking the locks off on the
inside. 1t was undoubtedly the work
of experts. AS was the case in Ting
ley bank robbery. Liberty Bonds,
amounting to several thousand dol
lars were taken. The exact amount
secured by the robbers will not be
known until reports are received
from the Liberty Bond holders
Among the valuables taken was
Cashier Lawrence Quiett''s discharge
from the army Mt. Ayr Record
NnwS
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22
Farm Bureau Notes.

The names of the winners of the
prize trips to Ames Short course IN
| the boys corn club will be announced
next week Watch for the names OF
the winners boys. Next year we
hope to have large club of boys in
you wish to enter the calf feeding
club enroll now. Send your name to
the county agent who will give you
all the particulars.
For the farm folks of Iowa, all
roads will lead to Ames the week OF
February 9th. That is the time OF
the big farm and home annual short
arranged a great program dealing
with vital after-the-war problems,
but something like thirty different
state meetings and conferences will
;be held, each with it's own special
program All these will be farmers
meetings and should be attended by
every farmer in the state.
Among the state meetings during
the short course will be meetings, OF
stein Friesian, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayr
shire, Hereford, Shorthorn, and
Shropshire sheep. There will also
be a meeting of the Iowa Beef Pro-
ducers association and of the Iowa
Dairy Association. The Iowa state
Poultry breeders association will
also hold forth during the week.
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment
Association has over 1900 members
who will meet to discuss results OF
the experimental work over the state
that has been carried on the past
year. The Iowa Corn and Small
Grain Growers Association will have
a days business session in connection
with the, big state corn show at
! Ames. The Iowa Farm Women's as
ISOLATION, organized several years
ago at Ames will hold it's annual
meeting on Wednesday of short
course week.
Two especially important con-
ferences will be getting together on
| livestock marketing, perhaps with
the result of forming a state assOcia-
ton, and the annual midwinter rural
life conference. Livestock market
ling will be presented from the stand
point of the local livestock market
J ing associations, of the big packers,
/ and OF the producers of beef.
| We are planning on having a good
I; large party of farmers from Decatur
county and their wives attend these
meetings stort course week and /
you wish to go with the party let
| to keep tab on all those who CO.
! Make plans to go February 9Th to
| 14th. Stay all week. The expense
for the whole week will not exceed
$500 for one person. Go and keep
your club boys company, you ought
, to take some pride in the boys who
can wi nthese club prizes enough to
go; we will guarantee you come
| home satisfied with the trip.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22

banks outside the Reserve bank
cities, since June 80 last, has been
close to 100000. The country
banks in Texas alone have increas-
ed in the last six months $l34 ,OOO,-
900 or "a per cent, and in North
Carolina the increase for the same
period was more than $59,000,OO or
SO per cent
The record for immunity from
failure for the twenty-five months
from Jan. 1, 1918, to the close of the
last fiscal year, October 81, 1919,
was thirty times, or 5000 per cent,
better than the record for forty years
prior to 1914 There was no failure
involving a dollars loss to a de-
positor in any national bank during
the fiscal year ending October 81.
National bank earnings during the
last year also exceeded all previous
records. They appropriated one
billion dollars, gross, and not far
from 100000 900 net,
This record furnishes further
testimony as to the high efficiency
and invaluable aid of the Federal
Reserve System to the country's
commerce, industry, agriculture and
business of every kind.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22
Notice of appointment.

In the District court of the state
of Iowa, in and for Decatur county.
In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Per-
ry Worden, deceased.
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed and
has qualified as Administrative of
the estate Of Perry Worden late of
Decatur County, Iowa, deceased. All
persons in any manner indebted to
said deceased or his estate will make
payment to the undersigned; and
those having claims against deceas-
ed or his estate will present them
ouired, for allowance and payment.
Dated this 18th day Of January 4.
D., 1920.
Alice WOrden,
23-2t Administrative of said estate.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22

human body as we'll as to nations. A
bottle of Prickly Ash Bitters on the
shelf at home is the best and cheap
est form of preparedness for indiges-
ton, constipation and kidney trou-
bles. It is the dose taken in time
that wards off sickness and saves
money. Price $1.25 per bottle. E.
E. Bell, Special Agent.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22

A woman's idea of good luck is
to find in the pile a pair of socks
that doesn't need darning.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22

The girl who whistles and the boy
who sings help to make life lot hap
pier for us old dodgers.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22

No matter how much patience a
man has he never uses any of it at
the table when he wants the salt.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-22

An Englishman has invented an
apparatus to electrolyze sea water on
shipboard to form a disinfectant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-11
Spirit Honesty
Distrusted by
Medium Tester

New York. Feb. 11.-Joseph +. Rim
today explained on what conditions
Mrs. John H. Curran of st. Louis. me-
dium for Patience Worth" can win
the $4,000 he has offered for proof of
spiritual communication
II have received no word from Mrs
Curran and only thru press reports
see that she has agreed to accept my
challenge." said Rim.
'The conditions will make in order
to be convinced are these:
arrangements of letters on Mrs.
Curran's ouija board must be changed
THE board must be covered with
paper, upon which a number will be
placed corresponding to the letter be-
Meath
THE key to the board will be placed
on a table behind Mrs Curran so her
spirit friends can see it
"If. under these conditions. she can
produce Understandable communica-
tions from a person or persons in the
next world. will admit she has some
psychic or telepathic power and she
wins the $1,000. Until then. I will
continue to believe the Patience
Worth poems and writings are the re-
suit of her own personality"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-11
CLEVELAND PARTY TONIGHT.
Fifty From Ohio c. of c. Will Arrive
on Santa Ee.

The Cleveland delegation of fifty
men and thirty of their wives. from
the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
will arrive in Topeka at 1920 O'Clock
this evening on the Santa F'e. accord
ing to late changes in the schedule an
nounced this mornings
The party will come to Topeka from
St. Joseph. It is their plan to stay in
their Pullmans for the night. Mem
bers of the entertainment committee
will go to the station to meet them
tonight. Tired of remaining so long in
the coaches, there will probably be
some of the party desirious of going
up town to a. hotel
According to w. w. Eden, chair
man of the entertainment committee
the schedule for tomorrow has been
arranged. On Thursday morning, the
Cleveland business men will be taken
on tour of the principal Industrial
and manufacturing plants of Topeka
Plans for a tea party or entertainment
for the women of the party were given
up on account Of the flu ban. In the
afternoon the entire party will be
taken on a motor trip thruout the en-
tire city of Topeka. The visitors will
be entertained with a luncheon at the
Chamber of Commerce Thursday
noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-11
ARE MOVING Grain
Railway Administration Gets
BeIated Cars to Farmers.
Sugar and Print Paper Only
Given Preference.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Ra1lroad
administration regulations issued two
weeks ago providing special equipment
for movement of grain from the
middle west are proving successful.
officials said today. in remedying con-
gestion occasioned by storage of heavy
grain stocks in smaller cities.
Under the order. grain is given
preference in movement over nearly all
commodities. except sugar. print paper
and wood pulp from the great grain
producing area embracing fourteen
states extending from the Canadian
border to Texas and west from Illi-
nois to the mountains.
Some complaint has been received
from shippers of other commodities,
who declare the order had resulted in
losses because of delay in transport
ing their consignments, but officials
today declared their determination to
continue the order until February IS,
the original date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-11
Dr.. ST. CrunabineBacks Up
City Board of Health in
Flu Closing Orders Here
Points Out Sin of Attempting Stimulate Business by
Suppression of Publicity and Commends State Journal
on Its Service to the Public During Epidemic.

expect the support of every patriotic
citizen. including the public press, in
their efforts to bring about such re
suits.
Those who are opposing closure are
wont to quote Doctor Copeland, city
he declared at the Chicago conference
last fall that he kept the schools and
theaters- of New York City open. This
reminds me of the devil quoting Scrip
ture, in that they only quote Doctor
Copeland in part, and in way to best
suit their purposes. happened to
hear Doctor Copeland make this ad-
dress in Chicago. and he said the rea-
son why he did not close the schools
was that out of the one million school
children in the city of New York, 700,-
900 of them came from tenement
houses OK the tenement house districts.
where the only opportunity they had
for play or recreation is in the halls
of these crowded tenements or in the
dirty courts or back alleys, while on
the other hand, the school buildings
were modern, sanitary buildings, with
trained nurses and medical inspectors,
detailed to each building so that chill
dren had daily physical supervision.
Copeland Did Right In n. Y:
THESE conditions are quite unlike
those in Kansas. where. great open
spaces and yards are available to the
children, with almost entire absence
of tenement houses on the one hand.
and on the other the absence of physi-
cal inspection of the schools.
Beyond question, Doctor Copeland,
under those conditions, did the right
thing.
Concerning the theaters, Doctor
Copeland said that as matter of fact
he was obliged to close a great many
of the theaters in New York City, be-
cause they refused or neglected to
obey the sanitary rules of the board
of health. Only such theaters were
permitted to operate that complied
with some very definite and strict
sanitary measures, laid down by the
board Theaters operated in accord
ance with the New York City sanitary
code, is of course, more desirable than
the mingling of people in the crowd
| ed tenements and equally crowded
saloons and other places of vice, to
which many might resort if the pic
| ture shows were not open.
In other words, the condition. in
New York City are SO dissimilar to the
conditions in Kansas, that they will
| not allow a fair comparison, nor can
| they be adopted as a precedent for
the guide of health officers in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-11
UP TO DEMOCRATS
G. o. p. Senators Anxious for
Pact Ratification,
Lodge Makes New Reservations
to Pact Mild.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Senator
Lodge offered in the senate nine
amendments to the Lodge reservations
to the peace treaty today
The amendments are those worked
out in the bipartisan treaty confer
ence recently held in Lodges office.
They affect the preamble, withdrawal,
domestic question, Shantung, naming
OF American representa- tives to the
league, payment of the United States
share of the league expense, disarm-
ament, status of foreign nationals un-
der Article 16, and voting power
Senators Change Front.
Irreconcilable Republican senator's
are about ready to concede that the
senate will ratify the treaty as a re-
suit of the discussion which will be-
gin next Monday. it was indicated to-
day.
A canvass OF the senate has shown
the bitter enders." they said. that
ANY loophole which can be squeezed
thruP will be used by some senators
in changing front on the reservations
and ratification
The 'irreconcilables' are convinced
that Senator Lodge and his supporters
do not want the treaty in the presi-
dental campaign. One of the cir
reconcilables" said today that the sup
porters of the Lodge reservations are
willing to agree to any reservation on
Article 10 which will save their faces.
They have changed places with the
Democrats in this respect, he declared,
and are visibly weakening since Presi-
dent Wilson's letter to Senator Hitch
cock became public.
Check Up to Democrats.
The plan of the Lodge program sup
porters, this senator said. is to offer
proposals for compromise on Article
10 so mild that if the Dem mocrats re-
ject them, the responsibility for failure
of the treaty will clearly be upon the
Democrats. In that case and the
treaty does become a campaign issue,
Lodge can show by the record that he
did all he could without actually sur
rendering. to agree with the Wilson
forces, this senator said.
Lodge is understood to have a thorc
knowledge of the situation among the
Democrats and to know in a general
way at least just how far they will &C
next week or later in meeting him or
Article TO-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-11
BY DIR. S. j. CRUMBINE
(Secretary State Board of Healthy

The increasing number of cases of
influenza occurring in Topeka and
thruout the state, with the mounting
monias and deaths, is occasion for
serious consideration of putting into
operation by local health authorities
every reasonable measure that may
give hope or promise for the control
of the spread of influenza or the re-
duction of its complicating pneu-
monias or the virulence of the infect
ing organisms.
Among the means for the accom-
plishment of this latter purpose is that
of publicity. by which means the peo-
pie may be daily advised as to the
real situation, that they may not thru
ignorance of the facts. unnecessarily
expose themselves to danger.
1 believe The State Journal has
given the people of Topeka and the
state conspicuous service along this
line, and every citizen should feel
grateful to the attitude of The State
Journal in thus keeping the public
advised of the true situation.
A number of years ago when Bu-
bonic Plague appeared in San Fran
cisco. an attempt was made by the
city authorities thru their newspapers
to suppress the facts. on the ground
that it would injure the business of
San Francisco. The suppression of
the facts would necessarily curtail and
minimize the efforts in the suppress
sion of Bubonic Plague, with the re-
suit that, the disease got firmly in
trenched. and cost the city. eventually,
millions of dollars to suppress the dis
ease, and finally the whole country
had to be apprised of the actual con-
ditions.
Even if closing does not eventually
reduce the influenza. cases, yet it is a
well known biological fact that any
measure that will retard the rapid
transfer of pathogenic organisms from
person to person, reduces the virulence
of those organisms. while on the other
hand. if conditions favor the rapid
transfer of these organisms from per
son to person, the virulence and, there
fore, the deadl!ness of the organisms
are increased.
Board of Health Justified.
The boards of health are, therefore
justified in using any reasonable meas
ure that promises hope for the preven-
ton of dangerous disease and the con
sequent conservation of human life
and boards of health have the right tc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-11
Deaf and Dumb
Minister To Hold
Service. For Mute

Probably the first funeral in To-
peka for mute. conducted by man
also deaf and dumb. will be held to-
morrow when the funeral of J. w.
Kirkpatrick. of 106 East Sixth street.
will be held at Penwelrs chapel with
the Rev. Harshman. of Lawrence. Of
ficiating.
Kirkpatrick died in local hospital
on January 49, He had number of
relatives scattered about the United
States During the time his body has
been held. search has been made to
locate relative
Reverend Harshman is one of few
mute ministers in the middlewest. He
will arrive in Topeka Thursday morn
ing to conduct the funeral service that
will be held at o'clock at Penwelrs
chapel. Two services will be held.
The first will be in sign language. An
ordinary funeral service will follow
the very unusual mute service.