The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-12-30
p. A. BLISS, PUB.
SOUTH DAKoT1


ing an enormous success. The city'a
penny lunch" business runs from 49,
600 TO $4,000 customers a day. Sales.
measured in pennies and nickles,
amount daily between $4,000 and $5.-
900 For cents" the menu runs
something like this: Soup, bread, milk
or cocoa, fruit or pudding, The bin
of fare at cents drops the milk. a
youngster can spend only a penny II
he wants TO, buying any one Of thess
articles for it. Or for cents he can
purchase a meat bali. beans. spagetti,
or rice.
Japan is going to try to block the
concessions OF territory in northern
Siberia by the soviet government to
group Of Pacific coast capitalists rep
resented by Washington ID. Wander
lin. IL will contend that the United
States can not protect the Nanderlip
concessions since it has not recog-
uized the right of the soviet govern
Inent 10 grant concessions; and that
the grant conflicts with treaty be-
tween Japan and the old Russian
government,
The Scots Charitable society set
new fashion in Boston few days
ago, when they drank the health OF
Governor Coolidge, their guest, in a
pinch OF snuff Soon afterwards Prof.
Charlton Black of Boston university
related an anecdote directed to de-
spondent victims Of the Eighteenth
amendment 1t was the warning OF
an old Scotchman to his son against
too liberal use of snuff, with the
statement that 'Tve been drunken on
sneezuln than / ever was on whus-
KY
For the first time in the history
nf the United States a special flag
of the secretary of state will be seen
on the high seas with Secretary Col
by, on mis- South American trip This
flag. which is dark blue with the
arms Of the department Of state In
white and thanked on either side by
a goid star, was designed especially
for Secretary Colby. The secretary
OF state Is the only executive Off
Ger vino has never had a flag OF
his own.
ON hillside overlooking the Mon
ongahela river in the heart of The coal
fields near Pittsburgh, two lights il
Eliminating the honor roll of miners
Of that district who participated in
the world war, are burning, every
aighs and have been burning since
the taplet was erected more than a
year ago. The roll bears the names Of
$50 miners and has six gold stars.
An interesting advertisement in the
london Times reads: Sporty boy
wanted, preferably Fltonian or Wyke-
hamist, age 1928. Should be resident
ri e.
country house, II miles from London;
father. benevolent autocfat; mother,
fat and good tempered; good wages,
trough and wash 1870 Claret some
times.
Canada's principal objection to Ar
ticle X Of the League of Nations is
that she does not wish to involve
herself in the preservation Of terri
torial integrity and existing political
Independence OF all the members of
the League of Nations, says Sir Rob-
ert Borden in a memorandum made
public today
A recent decision of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers union not
ta work IN an open shop or on piece
work may tie up the spring clothing
industry, says a New York dispatch.
The Worilers insist on abolition of
the piece work system which action,
the manufacturers say, in effect de-
ihorateiy retards production and
forces Up prices.
wheat. grain, wool, hides, and other
similar farm commodities" and the,
enactment of federal legislation to
''ns;t an end for all line to the gam
bins in grain futures" is advocated
by The directors Of the Missouri
l'afNnera association.
F:ftaen million men, women and
se3iidTcn of all social and economic
ciaasifi6ations, representing every
nationality in Europe, are lighting for
passage to the United States accord
iIte tc reports submitted recently by
II trans Atlantic steamship company
representatives.
its city LEADS tho whole world in the
lstanufaetuTe Of machinery. Its slIovels
built the canal, they construct the
largest nlne HOSTS III the world, not
tv ssseiatlon the locomotives it builds,
the saw mills it equips and the water
powe9 and ice making machinery it
makes.
a member OF the national commit
s Sec Of the I. NJ. g. A. who just res
turned to New York, says: 1.-The Cali.
foIpta japanese agitation is merely a
trick OF the Japanese miltarists to di-
Vert Americas attention from a
steady program of expansion in Asia,
which is Japan's real purpose"
go A MsssEeinber grand jury in New
York city recommends legislation by
congress that win prohibit the immi-
grafton into this country of "all who
cannot read and write English and
{ who do not possess an intelligent un-
derstanding of the fundamental ideas
4 of human liberty.
The king Of Siam, the first Of his
race TO renounce his right to a harem.
has chosen his queen. She is 81 years
old and is at present attending pri-
vate school in Boston. She is a first
cousin to the king. who is SO years
old.
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