The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-08
Brought from the shores of Lake

Col. Ephraim Williams, founder If
Williams college, were laid to rest
in the college memorial chapel this
week. Over his flag draped casket-
for he was killed in ITS at the bat
tie OF Lake George-the college also
paid homage to its dead in the civil,
Spanish and World wars. The pro-
cession was led by Col. Archibald
Hopkins, Of the civil war, and Lieu
tenant Colonel Whittlesey. Of the
"Lost Battalion"
The faculties OF Harvard University
n the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology propose to do away with
he institution of final examinations.
In the ''Tech.," . committee oe cacu:-
~ members, alumni and undergradu-
ates have been appointed to investi-
gate methods of testing the college
mans knowledge and proficiency in
studies other than by the customary
examinations. This step followed I'M
successful attempts to have the stud
ents accept the honor system.
ELIMINATION OF the bodies OF 489
American soldiers which were
washed to the rocky Isle of Islay
after the sinking of the transports
Tuscania and Otranto, will be COM
menced next week, The Scottish
clan which inhabits the lonely spot
pleaded that the bodies be left on the
island, ana promised h a the clan
would look after the graves as their
own till the end of time. But rela-
tives in many cases wished the bodies
returned, and the commission decided
to remove them all.
On the subject of Limitation Of out
put" a writer in the London Times
says that before tn wal the total
cost of construction work was APP
proximated as one third for labor and
two thirds for materials; but now that
the present proportions are seven
tenths for labor and three tenths for
material; and also that the builders
only work about half the extent they
should reasonably work, and that the
output of all the building trades is
about 60 per cent of what it should be.
From Punta Arenas, which is at
the bottom of the world, where ships
call in weathering the Straits Of
Magellan to leave supplies for the
$4,000 inhabitants comes a dispatch
saying that the maritime workers of
the port have resolved hat in the
future they will not unload any liquors
containing alcohol. The dispatch says:
This resolution has caused serious
damage on account of having been
taken without warning the liquor
merchants"
A Chicago widow learns thai she
may sell her home, in which Is stored
her husbands $500, 900 stock of choice
wines, Wishes. ETC., but she can not
sell the stock. Neither can she move
1t. "Of course" said one authority,
'it is her privilege to pick the pur-
chaser and it is likely hat he might
be some n who would be willing to
pay a higher price for the place on
the chance he would yield to tempta-
ton some day. But 1t would be naugh-
ty-very naughty"
The citizens transportation COM
mittee, al organization of New York
business men, formed to prevent the
paralysis of business threatened by
the continuous dock and truckmen
strikes has completed it's second
week of activity, and formed the
''Citizens' Trucking Company" It
has a pledged fund Of SIS. 900 900. SUBJ
scrtbed by members OF the CONNER
cial associations Of tho city. In n
day it moved $3.50 pounds Of
freight on So trucks.
Not to be outdone by the goose that
saved Rome, a chicken--a dead one at
t-hat-caused the discovery of the
great opal mines Of Idaho, which are
about to be reopened. A woman found
fine opals in the crop of the chicken,
ord fhan cot ohnY,f IN 1aor-, xuhora ~
was raised. Investigation revealed the
opal deposit. II is also recalled that
q donkey, foraging for grass discov-
cred the great lead ana silver mines
of that state
Food riots have broken out in
Wurttenburg, Westphalia, Olden-
berg. Mayence and many other parts
of Germany. AT Bremen score Of
shops were plundered. Food on the
way to market was seized and dis
tributed to all Corners. A wagon load
of policemen were thrown into the
Rhine by the mobs protesting against
high prices.
"Gcrmany's greatest trouble at the
present time is her decline in produce
tion,' said Carl Friedrich Won Sie-
mens Nowhere in Germany Is the
imperative need for increasing pro-
ductive labor sufficiently appraised.
'Fsar too many people are engaged in
nonproductiye work; the number Of
officials in the state and private en-
terprises is excessive.
A suggestion comes from New York
City that a National Roosevelt party
be organized presenting as candidates
Tor the next presidential election, for
president General Leonard Wood, and
Vice President Mrs. Douglas Robin-
gOn
To relieve the monotonous evenings
the Inhabitants who have returned
to the devasted regions In Northern
France. the Junior Red Cross OF
America has provided q travelling
moving picture show operated by two
American women.
SIX hundred New York City sten-.
alu factory workers are go-
1n&st to take their summe VACATIONS nv