The Ordway new era., 1921-12-16

bined carried hut 629,121, 900. accord
| ing to S. l.. Squire Of the Canadian
Good Roads Association, as quoted in
Canadian Motorisu The number OF
passengers carried is %, 100000 annu-
ally.
GENERAL
Thirty-fiye-cent breakfasts and dol
lar dinners on dining cars of the Chi
cago Great Western railroad have been
announced at Chicago. Travellers are
given a choice of eight menus at the
new prices.
More than 1000 bales of long staple
cotton We're destroyed by fire of unde-
termined origin in the warehouse of
the Greenwood Compress and Storage
Company at Greenwood, Mass. The
loss was estimated at ST50,000.
After sleeping continually for 1ss
hours, Mrs. Harvey G. johnson, so
years old, was dead at her home in
Granville, New York. Her physician
declared she suffered from no disease.
She fell asleep Nov % and never
awoke.
a charter was filed at the State De-
partment in Delaware for Great
Southern Steel Company, capitaliza-
tion one hundred and five million dol
lars. The concern is authorized to
manufacture iron, steel, copper coke,
lumber, etc, and to acquire lands con-
tanning the same. A state tax of S5,-
$50 was paid.
Police records of New York COM
piled for the month of November
show that 1887 persons were arrest
ed in the month. The largest number
arrested during any month in 1921 was
1883, the record for April. Increases
were evident in the number of persons
arrested for drunkenness and vagran-
cy during the month just past.
Requests of $4,000 in jewelry to
each of her children and grandchildren
amounting to approximately 100000,
and the bestowal of her two town
houses in New York City to her hus-
band, so long as he does not marry,
are the major items in the will of the
late Mrs. George ]. Gould, filed in Sur
rogate's Court at Toms River, n. j.
Damages of 81, 400 for the death of
Charles f. van de Water, congressman-
elect of Long Beach, on Nov 20, 1920,
against the owners of the truck into
been entered by stipulation in the Los
Angeles Superior Court.
The annual Methodist conference in
session at Pine Bluff, Ark, adopted a
resolution urging Congress to pass the
proposed law forbidding operation of
trains and newspapers on Sunday and
requiring closing of all business and
amusements on Sunday.
DR.. Adolph Lorenz, famous Austrian
surgeon, has announced that in view
of the opposition to his professional
activities In this country from the
medical profession he would discon-
tinue further free clinics and return
to Vienna as soon as possible.
Davis Sandles, 2-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Fl. Sandles, who had a
needle removed from his heart on Nov
| Z, in what surgeons said was one OF
the most remarkable operations ever
performed in the Northwest, died at
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hospital in Minneapolis. The needle
pierced his heart when he fell on a
sewing basket.
Automobile thieves are reaping the
biggest harvest in history. Best esti-
mates show cars stolen this year in the
United States will number 10000, their
total value being $7O.000,0OO. Insur-
ance agents say depression impelIed
many to abandon high-priced cars and
collect insurance for theft"
One solid carload OF liquor was
seized at Richmond, Va, by revenue
agents on the Atlantic coast line. The
liquor was shipped from Georgia and
was destined for New York. The reve.
nue. officers refuse to divulge namea
until the warrants are served.
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