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The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
CADRON VALLEY.

Health is very good in this con- munity at present.
 The apron party at R. N. Smith s Wednesday night was enjoyed by a large crowd. Several from Needs Creek were there.
 G. A. Tozer spent the week at Guy.
 There is one more week of our school. We intend to have an all-day rally and picture show at night.
 On account of the snow we had no Sunday school and preaching Sunday.
 February 23.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
100000 MEN WORK
 TO SUPPORT RATS
(Ry Tinted Press)

!, Washington, Feb. 24.-You can save $2 by killing a rat.
 The United States government says
 "This country produces S2,000,000,- 900 worth of food annually to feed our rats," w. B. Bell of the biological survey declares. ''In another way 2,000,000 men in the United States are devoting their labor to maintaining 100,000,000 rats'
 Bell then sent out the following rat facts:
 That they have caused more deaths than all wars.
 Carry bubonic plague and other dis eases almost as fearful.
 Are mans most dangerous animal or insect enemy.
 Breed five or six times a year, pro- ducing about 10 each litter.
 Bell recited that rat borne diseases had cost 9,000,Q00 lives in India Tn one epidemic and about 25.0O0,000 in Europe through the Black Death " Rats like David Harum's dog, have enough fleas to keep 'em from wor- ryin' over just bein' a rat Bites of these fleas, he said, spread bubonia plague
 Olo papers Tor sale at this Cffice
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
PRICE SLIDE HITS
 CLOTHES FOR MEN
(By United Yress)

New York, Feb. 24.-New York wholesalers of mems clothing are booking orders at the same rate as in the most prosperous period before the war, according to leading mer- chants today. Buyers from all sec tions of the country have flocked to the New York market and are buying heavy to take advantage of the low prices qpoted on apparel for delivery next fall.
 For the mems stores, wholesale prices average 40 per cent lower than those in effect last season. Hats are 25 to 40 per cent lower, collars 20 per cent, scarfs 20 to 55 per cent, suits 15 to 45 per cent, hose 20 to 50 per cent, shoes 10 to 55 per cent.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
NEW ALPS TUNNEL
 TO BE OPENED SOON
By Henry Wood

1 (United Press Staff Correspondent
 Rome, Feb 24-Announcement has just been made that, barring accident the second tunnel under the Simplon pass, the Alps, and which runs par allel to the present one, will be open ed for traffic during the coming sum- mer.
 It's operation is expected to stimulate an increase immensely both passenger and merchandise transportation be- tween the channel ports and the Medi- terranean and Adriatic. Work on the second Simplon tun- nel has been in progress since 1912. Despite the war a certain amount of work was at all times kept up.
 In building the present tunnel, the engineers were able to utilize the gal lcry which had been built when the first tunnel was constructed for the purpose of ventilating the latter. Tn fact, the new tunnel is little more than an enlargement and adaptation of this gallery, although the engineering problems involved were fully as great as those of the original tunnel con- struction.
 The first tunnel was pierced at a cost of over s15,00O,0Oo, whilst the second one will cost only about ST. 00O,000.
 The two tunnels now have a total of about twelve and one half-miles Of which five and half are on Swiss territory, and the remainder on Italian soil.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
DOUBLE-DECK STREETS.
tBy United Press)

Chicago, Feb. 24.-Chicago will have elevated or double-decked sidewalks to relieve congestion in the loop district, if the proposal of George F. Cole, engineer, is favorably acted upon by the city council. The plan is identi- cal to the one presented to the council ir 1894. After arousing considerable interest, the scheme died in committee. Cole proposed that the upper landing would be reached by means of moy- able or stationary stairways.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24

The little poem on spring has been postponed until spring has come" as the little boy with adenoids would say.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
THREE MAKE BOND
 ON BOOZE CHARGE

Bonds by Rufus Lucas, Bob Henson and Ed Holderfeld, all of Martinville, indicted by the January grand jury for having liquor in their possession, have been completed. At the sheriff's office today, it was sai dthat bond of $500 was required of Holderfield and S200 each for Henson and Lucas.
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
THE CORRECT DIAGNOSIS.

The physician had been called in haste to see a small negro who was i'll. After a brief examination the doctor announced; "This boy has eaten too much watermelon"
 "Oh, doctah,' eXpostulated the parent of the ailing one, "dey ain't no such ting as too much watah-million. Dat niggah jus ain got 'nough stomach
The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-24
FRUITS AT LOWER
 WHOLESALE PRICE
CRY United preesl

San Francisco, Feb. 24-Sweeping reductions in the wholesale prices of canned fruits were announced by Cal ifornia packing corporations today including firms which are among the largest in the state. Apricots were reduced from $4.55 per dozen to $2.15, cherries $5.30 to $3,20, peaches $4.90 to $3.20, and pears $5.50 to $3.65.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11

exists. He owns farms in the section
where Jap labor has rendered farm
ing by Americans a useless venture
In an address before the bankers o
Baltimore, the senator said:
There are now 100000 Japan
csc in California. They have
sixty-fve Shinto temples in
which their children are trained
to worship the emperor of Japan.
They own or control 100000
acres of arabic land, or one acre
in every eight. One child in
every 10 born in California is a
Japanese.
The japanese control the bulk
of production of many vege-
tables and fruits, fixing the
prices. Last year they took $685.
100000 out of California soil and
sent it to Japan to build Japan
csc industries to compete against
US, and to build ships which may
fight against us.
This ultimately means conflict
if the problem is not settled.
California will fight for its land.
The only way war can be avert
ed is by remedying the evil, and
the only time to remedy it is
now.
One thing he did not say, but
which he knows to be a fact, is that
the Japanese government is today
spending more money in the United
States every year for propaganda than
Germany spent in any ten years.
This propaganda is insidious. 1t per-
meates the churches, the Sunday
schools, literary societies, the Chau-
tauqua and every commercial organ
ization. 1t was revealed few years
ago that a platform speaker in this
country had spent two years in Japan
at the expense of the japanese
government. When he returned to
America he delivered lectures on the
beautiful character" of the Japan
ese. When he could not get pay for
MS lectures he gave them free of
charge.
One of the most difficult problem
IF the day is in keeping lecturers of
This sort, filled with love for the
Japanese, off the lyceum platform.
Their addresses have to be watched
carefully by the managers in order
hat propaganda may be eliminated.
More printed matter, in the form
If magazines, syndicate articles and
boosting Japan has come
out of New York in the last year
than in the previous years, indicat-
ng that the Japanese propaganda de-
oartment is lavish with its funds.
Japanese may have commenable
qualities, but it is safe to wager if
you see them extolled in the least
hat so-neone somewhere obtained a
Dit of Japanese money for putting it
across. Those who have been in most
intimate touch with the japanese,
and who are honest, have yet to tell
If single commendable trait.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11

70 years on Jan. TO- beating his nearest
competitor in that line, Senator Knute
Nelson of Minnesota, who was rs on
Feb 2. Senator FACES colleague, Sen
ator William F. Dillingham;, will be Is
in December, making him one of the
three oldest men in the Senate. The
House has the two oldest members of
Congress in the person of Gen. Isaac
Sherwood of Ohio, IS years old, and
"Uncle Joe" Cannon, year younger.
hosea Fage of Groton has kept a
record for the last 10 years of the date
on which he boiled the first sap Of the
sugaring season. For nine years, since
1912, the record includes the depth of
snow at the time of the first boiling and
the date when the last boiling took
place. The earliest season recorded since
1905 was 1918, when sugaring commenced
March is. in that year, too, there was
the lightest snow recorded, eight inches.
In 1907, Mr.. Page did not boil until
April Z. Last year sugaring opened with
the heaviest snow since the record was
kept, SO inches. The record is as follows:
1915, boiled first sap March "A; 1906,
March 80; 1907, March %; 1908, March
25; 1909, April 3; 1910, March q; 1911,
April 7; 1912, March 80, 10 inches snow
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11

time within a month, the new Savoy
Hotel has changed hands, the con-
sideration this time being $4,000 and
the purchaser comes from Po'keep-
sic, N. Y. The Savoy is a three
story cement building and contains
sixty-tWo rooms The remarkable
thing about it is that it was put up
in a record time, having been COM
pleted on the fifty-frst day from the
day it was begun. There is no bad
weather to delay things down this
way.
Sunday, our neighbors went deep
sea fishing and Mrs c A Hall was the
champion fisher of the season She
caught the largest sailfish of the
season and she landed it unaided
which is more. 1t took forty minutes
and two blistered hands to perform
the feat but those who know what
sporty fish the sailfsh is realize that
it was a real sporting event. The
fish weighed a little better than
seventy-tWo pounds, being seven feet
in length. The next largest sailfsh
which has been brought in this
season weighed something over fifty
pounds.
Clddy, nlI ctilNl oil al NlIo
w S Huntington, Miss Sara Parker,
Charles Parker and myself started on
an automobile trip to st. Peters
burg to see section of the state
unfamiliar to part of the party
The first days run to Stuart was in
some ways the easiest day of the trip
for we had the fine roads of Dade,
Broward and Palm Beach counties
which means practically boulevard.
We will see some travelling which will
not measure up to it, but when we
get over on the west side we will
find some more good road as they
are developing their road system
over on the west side fully as rapid
ly as we are on the east side, taken
as whole. Next week, we will tell
you more of our trip which has now
just begun.
Sincerely,
H. E. Parker
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11
Oldest Daughter of Thomas jefferson
Attracted by Quiet Life Within
Convent Walls.

Martha jefferson, oldest daughter
of Thomas jefferson, third President
of the United States, came near TO be-
ing catholic sister. She was a stu
dent at the school of Abbaye de Pam
themont at the time the French Revo-
luton was in progress. The daring
and flppant infidelity Of the French
frightened and disguised her, and she
chung to the calm and serene life Of
the convent with all her strength. Her
mother had taught her in the ways
of the Church of England, but the sur
roundings at the school overreached
this. and she decided to become a
nun.
She wrote to her father asking his
permission to adopt the veil. No
answer came for several days, and
then Jefferson appeared in person.
He greeted the girl with a tender
smile, interviewed the abbess. and
then came out and told the girl TO
pack her things. Her school life
was ended at that moment. and the
next day she was introduced 70 So
ciety and made the mistress Of her
fathers household. She declared years
afterward that neither she nor her
father had ever alluded to the SUBJ
jet by a single word from that
day on.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11
Head
Total
$34.S44.OOO

The number of horses remains the same
as in 1920, but shows a loss of 1000 from
1919, and 1000 from 1918. Vermont ranks
second in New England in number and in
value of horses.
Vermont is far in the lead of all other
New England States in number of milk
cows, and among the forty-eight States
ranks twenty-slXth in number and twenty
eighth in total value. The number is the
same as last year, but is smaller than that
of 1919 by 5000 and $1,000 less than that
of 1918. The value per head 1861 is a
little larger than that of the average for
the United States, which is S63.97, but
only Maine among the New England State
shown a smaller valuation $500 than
Vermont
In other cattle Vermont's number is
1000 less than in 1920 and 1919 and 900
greater than in 1919. Vermont exceeds
the other New England States in number
and value, but in value per head is the low
est in New England. The total value of
Vermont's milk cows and other cattle is
$50, 432, 600, which is only a few thousand
dollars (S210,76O less than the value of
all Vermont's domestic animals, poultry,
and bees, according to the census of 1910.
nc uecTcdse III nuIIlDeT Ol Sneep goes on
as it has with few exceptions for many
years. The number is 5000 fewer than
in 1920, 5000 fewer than in 1919 and
1900 fewer than in 1918.
The number of swine is 10000 less than
that of 1920, 10000 less than in 1910 and
1900 less than in 1918. Owing to a de-
crease in values of farm products and liz e
stock since the close of the war, the total
value of domestic animals in Vermont has
decreased. In 1920 the total value was
SAL l25, 600; in 1919, $40, 233, 900; in 1918,
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11

a special train Of cotton Tor New
England mills, consisting of so cars,
5000 bales OF cotton, arrived at st.
Adams from the Grand Trunk Railway
and was moved over the Central Vermont
railway to White River Junction and there
delivered to the Boston d Maine for
forwarding to Fall River and Matuppa,
Mass, and few cars for Manchester
and Dover, n. Ii. There were four
banners on each side OF the train which
read as follows: This train loaded with
5000 bales cotton shipped by G. 5. Tiffany
d Co., st. Louis, MO, via Chicago "
Eastern Illinois r. h. and Grand Trunk
Railway"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11
LIVE STOCK ESTIMATES, 1921. Fg

The following live stock estimates for
the February " number of Of the n,' Monthly Won't
Crop Reporter, publisheedI by the Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture.
Number Value Total
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-03-11

A B Farquhar says MY sixty
five years in business have car
ried me through nearly every
crisis of the country. | have
never seen a period when. Amer
lea in the opinion of competent
observers was not going to the
dogs-or when it was not actual
ly growing bigger and better
We reckon he may be right
about that.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-20
DEFINE PURPOSE OF
WILSON FOUNDATION

Washington. d. C.. Aug. i9.-Ths
purpose OF the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation. recently organized as q
tribute to the former president. have
been definitely defined by Franklin
d. Roosevelt. chairman OF the nation
{, al foundation committee. together
with the terms OF awards. as fol.
lows:
Created by public subscription in
recognition of the national and In.
ternational services OF Woodrow
Wilson. twice president OF the Unit.
ed States. who furthered the cause
OF human freedom and was instru.
mental in pointing out effective
methods for the cooperation of the
liberal forces of mankind throughout
the world.
'"The award or awards from the
income OF the foundation will be
made from time to time by a nation.
allv constituted committee to the in.
dividual or group that has rendered,
,snn.n specn.ed period, meritor-
ious service TO democracy, public
welfare, liberal thought or peace
through Justice"
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation
is non-partisan; in fact, non-poli-
tical organization. and will endeavor
to raise $1,OOO.OOO, upon which to
base awards. The appeal for funds
is to be made to all admirers of the
former president. democrats, repub.
llcans and independents.
Cleveland II. Dodge is chairman OF
the executive committee and Hamil.
ton Holt. editor of the New York In
dependent, is executive director. The
headquarters of the Woodrow vii.
son Foundation are at No. 150 Mas
sau St.. New York City.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-20
London Fight CLUB
Staged 20 Rounds
For Cup of Coffee

BY DAVID l.. BLuMENFELD
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
New York. Aug. l9.-It Is a curl
GUS thing that Great Britain cannot
produce many boxers with a really
hard punch. Old London certainly
tad-and s,ll has--some pretty
rough boxing rings. where the purses
for twenty.round contests range from
half dollar to cup OF coffee and
a piece OF cake.
The old Judean Club in the East
End was just such a one as those.
rackety old barn with an under.
cellar, where cows chewed the cud,
above which wooden floored ring
was rugged. 4 row of two shilling
"ringside' seats, and a crazy. wobbly
gallery.
That's all there was 10 II. Many
famous boxers started their careers
there, nevertheless. Wilde and Wally
Packard. Jim Driscoll and Joe Bow.
ker all tasted tleir first wallop on
the chin to the tune OF bellowings
from the cattle beneath them and
the shower Of eggs, bottles, and ham
bones, which a grateful audience of
costers showered on them from the
gallery
The old Judean is no more. One
night during the war Zeppelin
bomb. demolished. 1t, cattle and all.
There was no audience at the time,
but couple of boys. sparring
around, were picked up out of the
cattle pen, dead.
It is an education to see a prize
fight in one Of those London old-time
rings. Imagine three or four hundred
coster boys, very dirty, without col
lars, yelling blue murder at the top
of their voices both hands full of
fried fish. They cram their mouths
with fish and when then open their
jaws to shout, like as not the fish
drops out again.
They swill beer out of bottles and
when the bottles are empty they voice
their disapproval by dropping them
on the "ringside's seats-or the box.
ers below.
What with side fights going on In
the audience, others picking any
pockets they can lay hand to, whist
ling Dear Old Pals" whenever the
fighters go into clindhes, an East
boxing ring is anything but draw
ing room.
The Blackfriars ring is tough
enough, but the boxing there is good.
1t is a large circular building, about
five minutes from Waterloo railway
station. Originally it was church.
built by a 'queer" pastor named
Rowlands Rowlands made it circular
So that there were no corners where
the devil could get in.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-20
"Horrid" Playlet
Disgusts London

BY United Press.
London, Aug. 19.--London's Grand
Guignol, which for year at the
Little Theater has kept London buz
zing with its playlets of horror and
passion. has presented its master.
piece.
The morning after "The Old
Woman was produced, London
papers which hadn't agreed on any
thing in a score OF years unitedly
leaped upon it with screams of rage:
"Emetio So disgusting
debasing" "Ghastly beyond words.
"Sheer bestiality." ''If Mr.. Levy
could get hold Of a real corpse, dis
sect it on the stage and hand the
bits to the audience in the dark,
wouldn't that be thrill?'
All Of which means that the critics
didn't like Mr.. Levy's playlet, in
Whlcn three SlDDerlng lunatlc Olu
women put out with a needle the
eyes of beautiful young girl, Miss
Sybil Thorndike.
To the critics demands that 1t be
taken off, Mr.. Levy replied that
audiences were eating it up, and
some people saw it three times dur
ing the first week. Which led a
doctor to say in an interview:
"a pathological symptom. Some
people enjoy the shrieks of a. dying
pig. They usually conceal it, though.
If they didn't, their friends would
avoid them
The playlet is still going strong.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-08-20
King Protects
Monkey Which
Killed His Son

By United Press.
Washington, Aug. 19.-The monkey
which bit King Alexander of Greece.
causing the monarch's death. is alive
and the pampered pet OF royalty in
stead of plcklng in a surgeons vat,
as claimed, according to John Poulos,
American Greek, just returned from
Athens.
MY father Is a palace official, and
from him | learned the true story Of
the simian regicide,' said Poulos.
Poulos said that the guilty monkey
was Weeping Capachin. After it bit
the king it was turned over to a
court physician for observation.
THE monkey was little round
headed, humanfaced fellow, and OK
cept for moody eye did not appear
to be vicious" narrated Poulos.
when the doctors called in con-
sultation decided to kill the monkey
to. determine If it was suffering from
rabies, King Alexander himself inter-
vened and asked that the life of his
pet be- spared if possible. AS the
doctors were onfident their dag
nosis Of the kings illness was cor
rect, without further proof, and that
he did not have rabies, Alexander's
request was granted, although the
world was told that the monkey was
killed.
Alexander died. Constantine re-
turned. One day the reinthroned king
asked OF the fate of the monkey
which had killed his son.
He is Gagged in an unused room
IN the palace, sire, informed. a re.
tainer.
:" I will see him. said the king.
he went and gazed silently at the
monkey. Maybe it was a flea on the
monkeys head that made him raise
his hand as though in salute to the
king. Constantine thought not.
The instrument of the gods
he muttered. He Shall live Then
turning to servants Of the household,
Constantine ordered that the mon
key be put in more luxurious cage.
He detailed special servant to look
after its wants and ordered that no
harm should come to single hair on
its body"
At the Greek Legation here it was
said that the monkey assassin was
dead.