The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-02-10
CITIZEN REPUBLICAN,
?. A. BLISS, PUB.
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An acre OF Sood tODacco Is WoI ia AV@
$500 to $500. With 9.226 acrcs planted "a
7os. 400 pounds. or an average Of 1,150 to
tho acre. Quebec's yield was 10. 600, 900.
All farm crops of the country were
valued at So 465. obs. 900 last year, based
on December prices paid to producerS.
the department of agriculture has ess~
mated. Texas produced crops OF the
greatest value among the states, show
ing total of s727. 100000. Iowa won
second place, with valuation of $685.
$4,000. Illinois was third, California
fourth, New York Nth, North Carolina
sixth, Pennsylvania seventh, and KAN
sas eighth.
w. A. Hartman, president Of the
United American lines, says he enter
tains grave doubts as to whether tho
ccuntry's privately owned merchant
marine will survive the enormous
handicaps" 1t Is facing. He declared
the greatest of these Is competition
from government owned vessels. Tha
high tonnage cost at which private or
Scators purchased ships from the gov-
eminent is driving into bankruptcy all
companies without sufficient capital re-
serve to absorb current operating
losses.
Organized labor Is warned to take
stock in it's policies and practices from q
thoroughly American standpoint by
tho president Of the national associa-
ton Of manufacturers. Frequent dis
Chalmers OF bolshevist beliefs are not
sufficient to conceal constant efforts to
stimulate unsound and dangerous in
Austrial theories" he declares.
On the subject of unemployment IN
England, the London Times sayH:
sNany thousand mattresses. charwomen,
and ,saretakers remain unemployed: but
the dearth Of servants proper, that is. of
cooks, house and parlor maids. is almost
- great as 1t was during and imme-
lfately after the war"
Declaring. in her opinion, that BE-
cause she Is unmarried she could not
give maximum services in the proposed
family relations branch of common
pleas court, Judge Florence e. Allen, tho
only woman in Ohio to hold q common
pleas bench, declined to permit her
name to be suggested for appointment 20
that branch.
Swedish employers are feeling German
competition keenly, and many of them
have been compelled to place before
their employees the alternatives of a re-
duction either In wages or in the num-
Der OF worknen. German wages are .
mere fraction OF the Swedish rates.
The mortality .is.s during the next six
months In the famine area OF China will
exceed the Total dead IN the world war
unless the other nations. and particu-
ariy America, come TO the rescue on q
tremendous scale, according TO a mis-
Gona-y who has just returned from
China
French socialists are demanding that
TIE government expel from the country
anyone who h2s no means of existence
aod also tina: II establish g heavy tax
On every foreigner residing in Franc
Ebo, thanks To MS personal fortune. ex-
empss himself from all regular work
The pseple OF Massachusetts, los. ssa-
ooe, 300 through con games of one kind
md another during a92e. and the legis-
lASure, now in session, viii probably
pass blue sky law designed 70 curb
fraudulent operations
Two bills have been introduced at
Washington designed 10 restrain lobby
isH- One requires lobbyists TO reporx
money received and expended and liz
source. and the other requires the en-
paoye-s Ct the lobbyists &c make the r.
port.
Nennonites of western Canada nav,
completed arrangements through reg
estate brokers 10 remove to the state OF
Mississippi this year if the elders apJ
BISHOPS can influence the younger gen
eratioa-
The Congregat ional church OF Aber :
Etwynth, Wales. recently voted unasii-
rnousiy 20 protest against the example
set by Premier Lloyd George in p.ayinR
golf On Sunday.
Fines aggregating s2.2T6 were collect
&c from III holiday shoppers for shop
Fitting Ii one New York city court last
week. One S2-year-old grandmother
Eas IN the insup.
The Missouri house has appointed a
>ou1mittee 10 investigate reported fur
niture thsfts in tbs legislative halls.
Furniture has disappeared between ses-
hons, II Is charged
A firm of prominent Welsh caterers in
London announces that it has decided to
Hose its chain of restaurants. 1t says
q explanation that 1t is sick and tired
4 constant wage trouble
a traveller reports that all the mon
lsteries in Riga have been turned into
sfis. and the upper story of a large
'ubber factory bas been fitted to ac-
,ommodate 10000 prisoners.
A Philadelphia dispatch states that
soynen jaries viii be drawn at the next
exm Of court in the hope of obtaining
more convictions Ii cases of alleged pro-
libition and gambling infractions.
a biz before the Utah legislature
would abolish the manufacture, sale, or
possession in that state of cigarets or
.igares ss1aa kings" and would rarai.sl.ik
rnokingsin any form in certain places.
After an exciting chase, during which
Ie followed q suspected burglar to a
Oof and captured him, New York
,olicenan found that he was holding q
ormer buddie OF the Lost Battalion"
The Chicago Daily News says that Bsr.
Harding viii use the same bible In tax
" the oath Of Office az president that
RAJ used by George Washington upon
- inaugural
By soviet decree the period Of train
~ for an officer Of the army is again
, be two years. As IN cxarlst days.
- clark IN the Warsaw postoffce was
satenced TO death recently for stealing
pacLAge Of food sent by mail frsm
21E3c4
ADtreAm Of protest against enactment
further busfneAs disturbing legisla-
- cpnttnsIes 70 pour into me records
- House agrtcnIture committee.
AIbert E0w5er. schoCaboy, was or
eSnN - receive nfy strokes with fhA