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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18
HOG MARKET FREAKS

The sharp break in the hog mar
ket last week caused considerable
anxiety among producers, but when
the facts of the situation are known
it becomes evident that slump in
prices was unavoidable. Good prices
paid for hogs have attracted
heavy receipts, and while August
has generally been a light hog re-
ceiving month, figures thus far this
month show that receipts have brok-
en- all records at the leading mar
kets. Last weeks Chicago receipts
totaled around 10000 hogs, which
is about 10000 more than the ten
year average for the same week.
These liberal receipts, which were
far beyond the demand, and the big
breaks in provisions during the
week are the principal reasons given
for the break.
Although export demand for pork
has kept up, the runs were too heavy
for good prices to hold, but IL light
err runs prevail during the latter
part Of this month, it is likely that a
change for the better will be brought
about. However, hogs are still we'll
above the level of corn prices and
will show a good profit at present
market prices.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18
HAS SECOND MAIL ROBBERY
Depot at Malvern Entered and Mai
Sack Ripped Open to Secure
VaIuables

For the second time within a few
months mail robbers have raided the
town of Malvern, according to in
formation made public by federal Of
ficials Tuesday, the last robbery be-
ing perpetrated on the night Of Aug
ust IL, when the thieves broke into
the Wabash depot and stole one
pouch of first-class mail which had
just been brough. in on train No. 3
from st. Louis. The extent of the
loss was not learned. The pouch,
ripped open and looted, was found
Sunday on the outskirts of the town.
The robbers performed their work
without molestation, and the loss
was not discoveded until next morn
ing, when it was found that a win
dow had been smashed during the
night and the pouch taken from the
depot. Nothing else in the station
had been touched. The thieves had
evidently taken the pouch out of
town to the point where it was later
found, and here cut open and the
contents thoroughly searched.
The first mail robbery at Malvern
was executed on che night of May 2,
when robbers broke the glass over
door of the Burlington depot, pried
open a strong box and stole two
pouches which had been dropped
from two night trains going east and
west. At this time bloody finger
prints were found on the end door
as we'll as on broken glass, and these
were secured and photographed by
Postal Inspector Glenn of Council
Bluffs.
The two pouches were recovered
by the postmaster at Malvern about
a month ago, when they were found
under a bridge about two and a half
miles east of the town. No looted
mail was found, but there was evil
dence that these pouches had been
unlocked by some one possessing a
regulation key.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18
FUTURE PROSPECTS
LOOKING BRIGHT
UNCLE TED SAYS 1T Is SOFT
TIME GOING, NOT HARD
TIMES COMING.

Such people make me sick and
tired, always complaining, always
knocking, never boosting" 1t was
Uncle Ted talking more or less to
himself as he sat in big rocker on
the front porch, gazing into space.
whats the matter, Uncle Ted"
called Ruth from the front room,
where she had her whole doll fam
lily spread out on the floor.
ooh, nothing much, Ruth. I was
just thinking out loud about the
people who are always talking hard
times but who are never willing to
exert themselves to help keep the
hard times away. 1t is the same
old story about needing a little sun
shine and less clouds in the world. 1"
''Tell us that story, please, Uncle
Ted" said Jack, who who was sit
ting on the porch putting tape on
the handle of his tennis racket.
"AH right, Riddles, will, because
We sure need to think about it. Here
Ruth, you can sit on my lap this
time and Jack you sit down there
on that pillow. There, that's fine.
Once upon a time there was a big
country that had grown very fast
and made lots of money. Older
countries were very jealous but it
did them no good, for the new coun-
try was made up Of people from all
over the world who went there to be
free and live their lives as they saw
fit. There were wars now and then,
as there always will be so long as
human beings are human"
But, Uncle Ted, won't there be
some way to help stop them?" ask
ed Ruth.
Now Ruth, you are stopping the
story. President Harding has called
big conference, as l have told you
before, to be held in Washington
to try to cut down the big armies
and navies. That is a real start.
The rest remains for time to tell.
But to go on with the story. The
people had to pay for these wars, Of
course. Some years were not as
good as others. Some years the
crops were bad and there was not
enough for everyone, which made
the cost of food very high. Some
times taxes grew higher in order to
pay the cost of armies and navies
and war, but always the country
grew. No matter how bad things
looked; no matter how many people
were out of work for a time, things
always came out we'll in the end,
and the men at the head of that
great country kept faith with God
and their people, and the sun would
come up in the morning instead of
sky of black clouds.
"Kiddies, that country is the
United States Of America, and we
have gone through a terrible war
and lost many splendid men. It
has cost millions of dollars but not
one inch Of our soil has been in
vaded by the enemy. We must be
taxed heavily in order the more
quickly to pay for it, but is not that
easier than the condition that con-
fronts the people Of France and
Belgium who awoke from the war,
not only to find their fathers, sons,
husbands, sweethearts and money
gone, but their very homes in ruins
everything they held dear in the
world wiped out. Yes, we are facing
serious times in the United States,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

but no more serious than they have
been for two years or more. What
we need is more sunshine and hard
work and faith to come out on top
as we always have in the past.
1.-THE pessimist and crouch says,
oh, hard times are coming No,
children, hard times are not coming.
1t is simply SOFT TIMES GOING.
President Harding, Congress and ev-
cry member of the cabinet are work.
ing night and day to put their gov
eminent back on its feet. To put
1t back to a country under the Con-
stitution--a government by law and
an America First where domestic
troubles shall receive first consid-
Grafton.
ITO the crouch l would say: Get
to work. Give an hours work for
an hours pay. Throw your whole
soul into your work and accept your
place in the world as the best there
is. Look on the bright side. Do
few kindly acts for the other fell
low and tell your neighbor you
know business is not only better,
but that the year 1921 will be BAN
ner year
There are several reasons why
hard times are not coming. Money
is cheaper than it has been for
months and there is less demand for
capital. The prices of commodities
have come down and labor costs are
automatically reducing. 1t is cost
ing less now to run our railroads
and public utilities. But one big
factor that is still more encouraging
is the fact that the 1921 food crop
will not only be good but it looks
like a record breaker year in several
sections.
1T is just as president Harding
said when speaking to a group of
New Hampshire people while on his
vacation.
I'm a century and a third of
American national life, we of the
United States have outstripped
every record of civilization in all
the world
"Kiddies, when you hear the
crouch talking, remember that. Re-
mind the knocker that it might be
well, no matter how dark things
may look to him, to reflect as to
just where else he would want to
live! II we would think more that
way, we would soon discover that
we would be helping each other and
the general conditions of the coun-
try at the same time. If you had
seven players on your ball team,
Jack, who were boosters and hard
workers and two who knocked the
team and lay down on the job all
TEDDY TWO 1885,. .-.... ..-... -..... ......
the time and kicked when seasons
were dull but stuck when things
were good, how far would the team
get?"
mot very far" said Jack.
well, it's just the same with the
country. We need more boosters,
more workers among the people.
President Harding and all his help
ers cannot do IL by themselves. They
are working hard but we must help
to tighten the burden and shorten
the time until we are back on level
ground again. Now run along to
bed and I'll tell you another story
soon"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18
ATTENTION. MAsONs

There will be a special meeting
of Veritas lodge No. 392 on Friday
evening, Angst 10th. Work in the
first degree. A good attendance is
desired. w. J. Kness, w. NJ.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18
ODD FELLOWS TO MEET

Regular meeting OF Aretas Lodge,
No. 800, I. o. o. F. in their hall on
Monday evening of each week. All
visiting brothers are invited to at
tend. Leo. Riggs, Sec.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

Jack-Didn't you see me down
town yesterday? / saw you twice.
Jacqueline-I never notice people
in that condition.-Ex.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

For Sale-Hard coal stove in good
L. Dee Mallonee. 1928
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

Always Good Shows at the Crescent
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

Good Show at the Crescent
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

Air Tight Tins of so
Ask your dealer to show
you the new vacuum
sealed tins of so Chester
fields. A compact con-
Venient and absolutely
AIR TIGHT packing
the cigarettes keep fresh
indefinitely.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

PROFESSOR HAskINs.
| WAS A kindly soul.
BRIGHT ON some subiecta
BUT so absent-minded.
THAT ONE day at the BARRIERS.
HE TOOK off his collar.
TO GET shaved.
AND FORGOT where he was.
AND KEPT right on.
TILL THE cash-girl screamed.
AND A barber stopped him.
HE WAS a great smoker.
BUT HE'D often put.
THE BURNT match in his mouth
AND THROW away.
|
THE CIGARETTE.
/
HIS STUDENTS loved him.
|
HE WAS so full.
lOF FUNNY surprises.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-18

ONE DAY he had a tube.
OF RADIUM and he told.
THE STUDENTS all about 1t.
AND FINALLY, by mistake.
INSTEAD OF the tube.
HE PULLED out one.
OF HIS cigarettes.
AND ASKED the class.
"WHAT is the one thing.
.
WHICH DISTINGUISHES.
THIS MARVELLOUS substances.
FROM all others on earthr
AND THE class roared.
THEY SATISFY"
IXNTHAT is it you've always wanted
| w acigarette to do? You know the
answer. Chesterfields do it they not
only please your taste, they Satisfy
It's all in the blend-a secret blend of
fine Turkish and Domestic tobaccos.
1t puts CheGterfields where none can
touch them for quality and value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
Choosing Official Language For Disarmament Conference

a little more preparation than Sen- ator Waterous seems to have done. Monsieur Neuf, if you please"
 Neuf: "Legouvernmentital en- voyaunmemoire."
 Interpreter: "In English, if you please Monsieur, ,-in English. Senator Waterous has been trying very hard to be nice to you and speak in yo,,r language, now the least that you can do is to say what you can in his"
 M. Neuf: "Eet ees wis a gr-gr-gr- gr-grand plaisier sat How you say -'av come"
 Interpreters: Have come Monster, I have come, you have come, he has come, we have come, yours have come, they have come. Win you please write that out 20 times for me tomorrow and hand it in at the beginning of the session? Now con- tinue, if you please"
 Senator Ruggle (interrupting, {: Just a moment. please. I would like to ask the representative of our sls- ter country question, if you will be SO Kind as to, tell me if an English infinitive preceded by used to" can be translated by the descriptive past. as, for instance, Whenever they used to see us in the park, they would call to us: 'Toutes les fois qu ills nous voyaient dans le pare. ils nous appelainet."
 Interpreters: That would be cor rect in some cases. senator, except in those in the spbjunction if pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
With he Newspaper Boys
 At the National Capital

press come into compare their scores in the practice rounds.
 The regular White House confer ence on Friday afternoon was~taken up almost wholly with a discussion of the tournament.
 It all started out In a quiet little, way, few enthusiastic young news / paper golfers having a dinner down- town and discussing the merits of their respective drives, puts. ap- breaches and most of all, their slices and their inability to get eternally perverse golf clubs to do what is expected of them. A former Wash ington correspondent, George M.Cook, of Indianapolis, having come into more or less affluence since he stopped writing pieces for his valu- able papers, allowed that he would participated in by the active news paper men of the capltal GUY. 90 we'll and good.
 Then some one suggested the Pres ident, having presented the national open championship cup to Long Jim Barnes of Pelham, recently, could do no less than confer such an honor upon the champion scribe of this fair city. This also was weal and good.
 Complication Ensued
 But a complication ensued. The President demurred. He said 1t would be unfair to ask him to present cup to himself, for he not only in- tended to play insthe tournament. but to win the cup, provided the demo- cratic members of the handicap com mittee did not rate his golfing ability too high and his handicap too low.
 Since that time Washington has been buzzing with nothing but the tournament It Is to be. held next Thursday. with medal play through out and handicaps running all the way from zero to 70 strokesa on lo holes. The beginners are demanding that maximum allowance. It will De the first time a President ever has participated in tournament. group of newspaper owners and editors among the senators will be invited tt serve as officials. Chief Justice Taft has sent regrets that he will not be here to act as judge. He wired cor respondents at the White House say ing he would have been delighted to start his new judicial career with decision in a matter of such supreme importance Doubt as to why Con eress has decided to recess is swept away. The correspondents are too busy at golf to write anything about the proceedings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
By BETTY BANTER Special Correspondent Of The Age-Heraid. (CopyriEht, 1891, by Tho Age-Herald)


 Copyright, 1921, by Tho Age-HeraId)
 Washington, August 20.-(Special) With the first hint of the coming autumn in the air Washington seems Just to be awakening to the fact that summertime is vacation time and that unless one hurries a bit fall and the disarmament conference will be upon us.
 The cabinet secretaries have been doing all their vacationlng on the in stallment plan. So busy have they been that none of them has been able to spare more than an hour or two, or at the most, day. away from his desk. And when one did manage to slip away for an hour or day of seashore or mountain air he came hurrying back, at the end of this brief holiday, as though he expected to find his particular department a mass of ruins and the wheels Of government at standstill.
 But now with the President back from a 10-days rest and Congress planning to recess for a whole month. one begins to hear of vacations in cabinet circles. Secretary of the Navy Denby was the first to get away.
 Secretary of War Weeks left on Friday for a weeks rest at his home. Mount Prospect, in the White noun tains.
 The Secretary of Agriculture, Henry c. Wallace. was able to com bine business with pleasure on his recent absence from the city. He went to Chicago to address meeting of the American institute of meat packers, which could hardly be called a vacation, and from Chicago went on to Des Moines, to meet Mrs. Wallace and with her to attend the marriage of their son, John Wallace, and Miss Margaret Powell. of Cedar Rapids Iowa in that city.
 dously interested In meeting the first of the cabinet circle brides of this administration, but it is doubtful if young Mir. and Mrs. Wallace will come to Washington for some time Secretary Wallace returned to Wash ington after the wedding and Mrs Wallace and their two daughters Miss Mary and Miss Ruth. returned to their summer home in Colorado.
 There will be another wedding in the Wallace family on September 8 when James Wilson Wallace another son of the Secretary and Mrs. Wallace, will marry Miss Vir- ginia Stubbs. daughter of MT. and Mrs. D. T. Stubbs, of DesMoines Miss Stubbs is said to be a very clever girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
By ROBERT c. BENCHLEY
 Associate Editor of Life . 'ecial Correspondent of The Age-Herald. (COpyrlght, 1921, by The Age -Herald.)

New iork, August 20.-(Special.)-- There seems to be little hard feel ing over the closing of an official language for the disarmament con of whom speak French fluently, think that nothing but French should be used. and are not a little hurt it the rumor that English is to be the sole method of expression,
 Why wouldn't 1t be rather q del : icate mutual compliment, tending to international amity, if the French delegates were to speak English and the English and American delegates speak. French? Of course, the speeches and conferences would have to be more or less elementary in form and substance. dealing with nothing more elaborate in vocabulary than the names of some of the mora popular household animals, near re- lations and simple edibles but at that 1t might not be bad thing for a disarmament conference to have the talk reduced to easily under standable terms.
 It would be necessary to have an interpreter In case of tie, and he might also act in the capacity uf the croapeceptor, giving encourage ment to the struggling diplomats and
  pie here or feminine ending there. Thus. the stenographic notes of a hot debate during the conference ses- sion might read as follows:
 Senator Waterous: Monsieur, Est ce que vous, CT, est ce que vous, ah, est ce que vous saves que mon oncle--
 Monster. est ce que vous sayez que La chat-''
 Interpreter: "LA Chat senator. chat is masculine. Now once again. if you please"
 Senator Waterous: Monster. est ce que vous savex que lie char de mon oncle m'aditqe."
 Interpreter: What's this. what's this, Senators? Your uncle's cat has told you something? Come. come, how much time did you put on this speech: I think that we had better hear from Monsieur Neuf now. l trust that Monsler Neuf has given the matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
Society M Washington

She is a graduate of Drake uni- versity.
 The Secretary of the Treasury very cleverly at the opening of sum mer located his family at Hot Springs, where he could spend the week-ends with them. At present the family consisting of Miss Ailso Mellon, and Paul Mellon are visiting relatives at South Hampton.
 The President and Mrs. Harding have accepted MT. Mellons invitation and will probably go to the Melons cottage in Hot Springs sometime tnls month or sometime in September.
 Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes do not expect to leave Washington at all this summer. They are charm- ingly located at Grey Stones, their home, overlooking Rock Creek park, and apparently are quite contented to remain.
 I heard an amusing story of photographers attempt to photo graph the Hughes family the other day. You know Secretary Hughes hates that sort of thing. and only | consented to let photographer | come after much plei. ng. The photo grapher found the Secretary and Mrs Hughes waiting for him on their front l porch. The Secretary was asked to | pose and the photographer suggested | that to give an informal air to the picture, the secretary appear to be , reading a book.
 Fine" declared MT. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes went into the library for a book. She picked up the first volume in sight and brought back the much discussed Mirrors of Wash | ington."
 "I am very sorry, my dear,'' re- marked the secretary, with broad 1 smile as he caught the title of the book, but I am afraid you will have to get another. It would never do for me to be seen reading that" l The photographer then noted croquet set on the lawn and suggested that the secretary pose playing game.
 No" he declared. T never play on Sunday" And that was the end of that suggestions
 Undaunted, the photographer again suggested a picture in the garden, with the secretary at work.
 But again the secretary refused. He declared that the real labor in the garden was done by the gardener. and that for him to be photographed with a spade would be too far fetched The poor photographer at last was forced to content himself with photo graphing the Secretary and Mrs. Hughes walking in the garden. reading (not the Mirrors) on the porch, and with the Hughes familys big white cat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
By VIZ ROBERT NAYLOR ecial Correspondent of The Age-Herald

tCopyright, 1921, by The Age -HeraId.)
 Washington, August 20.-(Spe- clal)-'I know the Silesian question Is In a terrible fix, but what handi- cap Is President Harding going to get?"
 There is no doubt that Lloyd George wants the United States to SC Into an alliance with Great Britain and Japan, but Is 1t fair to keep the members of the senatorial oli- garchy out of the tournament?'
 Yes, I was at the White House to- day, and the President, while discus sing the Legislative programme after tho recess. said he thought he ought to be second from scratch for he has done the municipal course in ninety something, and recently broke all his own and other presidential records by negotiating Chevy Chase in tidy SS"
 Where the Boys Gather
 These are typical bits of conver- saton overheard where statesmen and journalists gather together in these busy days at the national capi- tai. Washington is engulfed In golf. Men of affairs and writers who month ago didn't know niblick from a joint resolution, and to whom the uses of a mashie were as unknown as the text of the covenant of the League of Nations. are discussing nothing but the Vardon style of over- tapping grip. the differences and the diverse advantages of the open and the square stance, while some are even seeking a patent on a ahort- handled hoe as the best club to get a ball out of the high grass in Po- tomac park.
 cano, but that doesn't matter in
 The world may be sitting on vol Washington any more. There is to be an eruption of golf in this vicinity next Thursday with clouds of dust rising from the sun-parched fair ways that will make vesuvius look as va porless as an anti-cigarette crusader.
 "News Is Scarce"
 The public prints may well record the fact that news Is scarce" from Washington this week. Next week, or up until the dusk of Thursday evening, 1t will he worse, or if not that, 1t will at least be less. The Washington correspondents have lit- tie time to write. The press galleries of the Senate and House wear de- serted look until late in the after noon, when the gentlemen of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-21
A Woman's Way

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