The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-05-13
The secretary of New YORK state

The secretary of New York state
Rays the dry law has resulted in
the states spending less on MAIN
tanning penal institutions. There were
1857 less convictions last year than
during the previous year, and 5000
more persons were put on probation
thar before the law was in opera
ton. At the close Of the veal. he says.
q total of 1856 persons convicted OF
various offenses were actually on pro-
baton in charge of 352 probation Of
f1cers. More OF the probation cases
were successful h ave been in
previous times. Out Of 21,352 who
finished their term last year, 1876
have apparently made permanent
reformation.
The North Sid and South Side
of Chicago will be brought together
when the double deck bascule bridge
across the Chicago river at Michigan
boulevard opens this month. For 20
years the miles of lakeshore drive,
north Michigan boulevard south,
awe been separated by a crooked,
narrow passage way at the river,
known as the bottle neck. The
bridge foreman has estimated that
loo, 900 men and women Of Chicago
have spent five hours each in watch
ing construction work on the project
since 1t was begun last October.
The statement that the Obregon
faction in Mexico mention General
Alvarado as the man likely to be
chosen provisional president, is wor-
rying a number Of those who remem-
her that pUJn1 pnUnrpnr Of V,1rnfan
extreme socialism; and that he is sus-
pected of ching in sympathy with
the general established principals Of
sovietism.
Use your eyes and your nose, and
never under any circumstances your
tongue to determine whether any
canned fruit Is fit to eat, is the adj
vice OF DR.. Ernest c. Dickson, OF the
Stanford Medical school. The BAG
Illus of botulism is destroyed by heat
and there will be no danger from this
source if canned foods are boiled be-
fore they are eaten, he says.
At the conference of colored bish-
ops Of the African M. e. church this
week, bolshevism was denounced as
the enemy of mankind and synono-
nous with decay, misery n hunger.
The conference declared for equal
rights for women, with the exception
of the ministry, and for prohibition
1t condemned divorce and mob vio-
lence.
Farm Loan bank officials, meeting
IN Washington, say Industrial devel-
opment is daily being retarded
through the inability of the system
to make further advances to farm
ers, while awaiting n rehearing OF
the suit testing the constitutional
ity of the system.
tigation, it was announced hat the
ton for the price Of $22.75 per 100
pounds of beet sugar" Nc a
for the advance was given other than
1t was made to coincide with the
price Of cane sugar at San Francisco.
A dispatch from Pittsheld, Mass,
says: 1t is understood that large tex
tile contracts involving thousands of
dollars have been Cancelled in Berk-
shire county the past week, due, it is
said, to the overall and patch clubs
that are being formed all over the
country.
At last, after many years Of pro-
posal, an Egyptian bank has cen
started In Cairo. The dispatch says
it is hoped it will Tend to make the
Egyptians trust each other, and prove
them to be trustworthy"
An organization Of former bI sw-
ers have taken over the old brew
cry at Atlantic City, in which to man
ufactcre temperance drinks. The con-
eeraAWil@ he ono Of ~larCast on
the Atlantic coast.
A curious instance OF extreme color
blindness recently came to light. A
D~estoffice clerk could never balance
his o nts; examination proved
tha he was unable to distinguish be-
tween the colors OF the stamps he
sold.
Health authorities at Saranac Lake,
N. r, believe that it is the only
f1yless town in the world. It cost
about $1,000 to eradicate the fly nui-
sance. It was done by requiring that
manure be screened. and frequently
removed.
Dandelion greens are extremely
popular this year. It is whispered
that according to many grandmother's
recipes, the blossoms and stems can
be made into something that ia PEE
culiarly good and possessed of a de-
licious kick" s---.rs,-~
A new batch Of propaganda Is be.
Ing sent out which reads. ''If things
get into a deadlock In Chicago, there
is Calvin Coolidge. He is only 49,"
A New Jersey autoist, who failed to
recognize the chief OF police when he
was dressed In the new overall uni-
form. had to pay for 1t one day last
week.
Ths Warsaw Press reports that ! i
German airplane recently came down
st Smolensk with 3 largo cargo OF
drugs and medical supplies for the
Oolsheyists.
An English debtor excused himself
at q meeting Of his creditors recently
by saying that since the munition ,
works ! n his district closed, there wast
little for for clothing ana 5ewelry.
Not = day passes Of your own LIE
but somewhere In India some 50 peo-
pie have died through the action Of
wild beasts, says A. w. AOvaetf
writing In the Manchester Guardian.
So much opium Il being imported