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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27

woods. 1t was one of those days
when Iowa was at her best-one Of
Bryant's melancholy days, not the
saddest possibly, but the most lone
some, for the fading year was show
ing death on every hand. We only
got as far as Luccock's grove at late
dinner time, so we stopped there on
the old stamping ground. 1t seemed
to me that the woods never looked
nicer and more beautiful, and with
such perfect weather, the late noon
hour was a most pleasant one.
had the pleasure of attending a big
4th Of July celebration on that same
spot nearly forty years ago, when
but a little boy. My, how things
have changed since then! The same
old elms are still standing there,
towering way up in the sky and are
dressed in yellow now, Just as pretty
as they can be. The old Botna flows
on just like it did then, only not so
full, for in the early days when this
country was prairie and the sloughs
we're unbroken, the streams we're al
most clear and contained much more
water than they do today. When at
the celebration there those many
years ago, the biggest event 1 can
recall now was chasing the creased
pig. Whoever caught this poor spec
linen from the swine-herd-for they
were usually very poor-was its
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27
AN AUTUMN RAMBLE
Delightful Day Spent by Audubon
County People in IOwa's Great
October Weather.
Editor Republican:

Editor Republican:
Last Sunday week we attended
Sunday school and meeting at Eden
Valley, as usual. A nice audience
was present TO enjoy the fine ses-
sion of Sunday school and this was
followed by good sermon, so we all
left happy, hoping that the old
church would do as we'll every Sun
day and become one of the central
attractions of this excellent commun-
ity, as it should be. So 1 want to
break into print again just for few
moments and make some miscellan-
eous observations. / have been quiet
for long time, not having said any
thing in print since our triangular
argument last spring on the high
cost of living in regard to here and
the far west.
The Sunday in question was al
most perfect day-just about an
average southern California day
ard 1t made everyone feel good So
we threw our dinner baskets into the
auto, put jug (of water) among
the traps and off we went for the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27

course, until conditions change, I
would not be in favor of much pub
lie Improvement, for it is all the peo-
pie can do to get along today and
meet their necessary expenses. But
am writing on a basis of that hap
py day for the farmer-and everyone
else-when corn was near the two
dollar mark, hogs from fifteen cents
up; cattle, poultry, oats and labor
correspondingly high; the business
man was doing well, and everyone
had that grand and glorious feeling.
But l must close now, for when
started to jot down these rambling
thoughts, / had no intention of be-
ing so lengthy. But the beauties OF
the present day, and just what one
can see in a little auto ride in Audi
bon county is enough to turn anyone
away from the work and daily cares
for little while and look on the
bright side of life. When this turbu-
lent spell is over and everything is
moving along in the same old way
again, predict that we will again
enter into a long period of prosper
ity just as We have after all previous
wars. An opinion handed to me a
few years ago by well-posted gen.
tleman was, I believe, correct. He
said that in the way Of agricultural
production, Iowa was the unques-
toned leader of the Union, and in
his mind, Audubon county was the
banner county of Iowa. And start
ed to say that Cameron township
was the peer of all townships in Au-
dubon county-but that won't do.
for some other township booster
might object. But we can all agree
in saying that Audubon county is
entitled to the finest bouquet that
loving hands to gather.
Audubon Shelley.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27

lowing close to the Botna until near
Extra, then wandered off east and
put in the afternoon passing from
one patch of timber to another The
oaks are especially pretty now, be-
ing covered with every color of the
rainbow. l said that Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one
of these. At this season of the year,
Iowa's climate somewhat resembles
the southern California winter, but
the fading leaves here now are a
great contrast to that country of
endless flowers and continuous verdi
ure. But be that as 1t may, the nat
ural conditions as they exist today
have gotten the landscape painter
bested, for the variegated colors of
the average Iowa woods presents
picture of beauty unexcelled any
where. My only regret is that it
lasts only few days instead of all
through the year. But the day was
dlhO0l SpClI anu lhC GUN 700 bCbNAho
low in the west, so we started for
home. OF course nothing eyentful
happened on the way, but there was
beauty on every side for anyone who
could see it. Coming by way of
Hamlin, the road improvement was
an item of interest, for undoubtedly
in a few short years that magnifi-
cent stretch of roadway will be paw
ed and one won't be safe on it unless
the speed demons are all dead by
that time. In the near future l i'm
agine that thoroughfare will carry
nearly all manner and description of
freight and passenger traffic known
to mankind. But if you happen to
live away from that road a few
miles, am still wondering just how
you are going to get to it in your
auto during a muddy time when you
need it worst. That fact leads me to
say that I would vote for paved
roads every day in the week, If I had
a chance to-that is, If times were
normal and the road was near my
home. Selfish, you say, but while
everyone is looking out for himself,
you have got to do the same. 1t
would make taxes higher for a time,
but the thousands of dollars which
are now spent on temporary work,
would be saved. No one is to blame
for this temporary expenditure, for
under our present system 1t cannot
be helped. But l would like to see
Iowa beautified. When times reach
normally again, as President Hard
ing says, 1 would like to see at least
a narrow paved roadway leading out
in all parts of the country, so that
the outlying districts would not be
isolated on account of weather con-
ditions Late last fall I saw little
paved road winding through the San
Bernardino mountains, which was
very narrow, yet it answered the
purpose we'll, and would here in
Iowa, too. A paved track wide
enough for one conveyance vita a
strip of gravel three or four feet in
width at the sides, does pretty well
for the little country roads. But, of
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27
most terrible the world has ever

most terrible the world has ever
seen"
"Was the Armistice with Austria
signed then, too?" asked Jack.
mo, Jack, the Armistice with
Austria-Hungary was signed Novem-
Der 8, 1918, but the short time be-
tween the two made little difference.
From November IL, 1918, until July
2, 1921, the people of the United
States, who believe in the teachings
of the founders of this government,
were forced to fight the most dan
gerous enemy ever formed to attack
us. That enemy was worse than an
enemy of war because it was clothed
in the costume of peace and was
made up partly of well-intentioned
but misguided Americans. We have
talked that over so much I am sure
we all know what 1t is. We know
that because of the foresight and
courage of wise statesmen in the
United States senate and out, the
United States was not allowed 20 en-
ter the deceptive world club and to-
day we find that club in even worse
condition than we thought it would
be.
There was only one way to make
temporary peace until treaties d.
rect with these countries could be
formed and that was by Joint res
olution written by the late Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, was approx
ed by the President on July I'd of
this year. In August the two treat
les were signed and on September 81
they were sent to the senate by the
President.
"But the friends of the world club
were not dead even then. They
made every attempt possible to get
the senate again to take up the old
treaty which brought with it the
world club plan. But there were 6
votes against 20 and the Treaties
were ratified, thus bringing the war
technically to an end.
And a remarkable thing to me
is this: Senator Hitchcock who was
the hardest fighter in the senate for
President Wilson and his world club,
had to admit on the floor of the SEN
ate before this vote was taken that:
cit cannot be said that this
treaty fails to protect American
interests or provides for Amer
lean claims. Confessedly it pro-
tects American interests to the
same extent that the Versailles
treaty does
THAT is saying mighty big lot,
coming from Senator Hitchcock.
His words are true. Peace is here.
The interests of the United States
are fully protected. We are not
dragged into false alliances with
Europe. We are still free as Wash
ington and Lincoln would have us,
and President Harding has kept an
other promise, probably the greatest
of them ALL"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27
u. S. PEACE TREATY
WITH GERMANY
LASTING PEACE ESTABLISHED,
WITH UNITED STATES STILL
A FREE NATION.

tits all over now! It's all over
now!" 1t was Jack who was proud
" pounding his side of the peace
question into his chums who had
made fun of him through the many
months past. Freddie had been
away and it was the first opportun-
Ivy Jack had to talk to him about it.
whats all oyer?" asked Freddie.
well, wher have you been, any
way?" answered Jack. Don't you
know THAI the treaties made with
Germany and Austria last August
have been ratified, as Uncle Ted calls
ii. by the Senate and now we can go
right ahead and start business go
! ing in even bigger way and feel
that the war is REALLY over?"
"Ill just bet can guess what you
Riddles are talking about, with one
guess" said Uncle Ted who had just
appeared on the scene.
What is your guess, Uncle Ted?"
asked Ruth.
.'PBACE answered Uncle Ted.
That's right" said Jack. eve
been telling Freddie little about
il. He's been away and don't seem
to know what has happened"
Riddles, said Uncle Ted, NOW
that the treaties of peace with both
countries with whom we have been
at war have been signed and ratified
by the United States senate, and the
last step has been taken to end the
greatest war in all history, I'm going
TO make my story historical review
Of the whole business.
"Goodie," said Ruth. Lets all
sit on the floor in the front room. T"
"How many Of you can name the
year in which the war first started,
long before the United States went
in as a fighting factor?"
81 can" said Jack. 1T was in
1914"
That's right, Jack. In 1914 the
great war started with German in
vading the soil of Belgium, trying to
make her way into France. Eng
land soon Joined hands and before
long practically every country in
Europe was fighting ostensibly be-
cause of the trouble started in the
Balkan States by the murder. OF a
prince In April, 1917, on the sixth
day OF that month, the United States
declared war on Germany and be-
came potent factor in the war. On
December 7, 1917, the United States
declared war on what was then Aus
tria-Hungary. From then until No
vember IL, 1918, when the ARMS
tice was signed, the day that will be
celebrated all through the United
States this year, the fighting was the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27

Eat short and live long; even pigs
would live longer il they didn't
make such hogs of themselves.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-10-27

Last of the Mohicans" tonight
The New York herald., 1921-07-28
EIGHT WHITE SOX LEAVE
CAPITAL FOR THE TRIAL
Are Subpoenaed as Witnesses
for the Defence.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Eight mem
bers of the Chicago American League
club. subpnnaed as defence witnesses in
the trial of the former White Sox
players for alleged conspiracy to throw
the 1919 worlds series, left tonight for
Chicago. where they are to testify Fri
day.
Those receiving summons were Ray
Schalk, Eddie Collins. Urban Faber,
Dick Kerr. Roy Wilkinson. Harvey Nc
Clellan, Manager Gleason and Trainer
Stephenson.
Word Is being awaited from President
Johnson as to whether the games sched-
uled for the White Sox here tomorrow
and Friday will be moved forward. but
postponement is not expected. as Faber
and Kerr already have pitched in the
present series, and Schalk and Collins
are the only regulars called away.
The New York herald., 1921-07-28

No, sir. / didn't mention any reward to
any one in any way. shape or form.
@. How did Burns happen to come to
you to pick him out n bunch Of gam
blers? A. He thought I would know
where to send them.
Q. Would you know where to fnd a
bunch In Chicago? A. No. sir.
Q. But you would at Philadelphia
A. Yes. sir.
@. Are YOU gambler. A. NO. sir.
O. 1t was your theory that the ball
players weren't entitled to any money.
just the gamblers? A. II wasn't my
theory 1t was the gamblers.
@. Did Burns tell you tney were going
to win the third game? A. Yes.
@. But they couldn't win behind Kerr?
A. No. sir
@. Then these men couldn't win or
lose as they please? Collection made
and sustained.1
Q. They told you Bennett was Roth
STEMS lieutenant? a. Yes. sir.
@. Did you see Rothstein at the race
track? A. No, sir. I saw him later at
the Astor.
Q..Isn't it true that Attell said to you
I'VE don't care about the ball players ;
We'll give them $4,000 poor saps?' A.
No. sir.
thing? A. No. sir.
@. Did he say he'd help loosen Comis-
key from the 10000? A. No, sir.
Q. You say you never sent a telegram
to Comiskey. telling him you would
talk? A. No. sir.
Q. Did any one send II for you? A.
Izzy Mayer sent 1t, didn't know It. He
told me after he had sent it that he was
going to call Comiskeys bluff.
Q. When was that? A. A couple of
days after the story broke.
@. And you didn't see Ban johnson
until the next March? A. No, sir.
@. Did you fight in Philadelphia un-
der the name of kid Graham? or Zone
Punch" Graham? A. No. sir
Q. Did you know Bill Burns had been
indicted? A. Yes.
@. Did you tell him Johnson wanted
him to come and testify? A. No I just
told him TO come and testify.
Q. Did he agree to come? A. Yes
@. Did you tell Tyrrell and johnson
what Bill knew? A. had already told
them
Q. Did you see Bill last night? A.
Yes.
Q. How long have you been with Bill
Burns at the hotel? A. Two or three
weeks
Q. Did he tip you off concerning what
kind of answers to make? A. No.
Attorney Thomas Nash took up the
questioning
Q. What day was it you saw Gandil
in New York? A. September IS.
Q. Before September IS, 1919. did you
know Gandil? A. No.
Q. You had seen him? A. Yes.
q. Did Burns tell you how he was
going to get $4,000 on the side lines ?
A. Attell told me he was going TO give
T. to Burns. and he would signal the
players with his hat or something
Q. In the talk with Tyrrell and John
son and Burns in Texas was anything
said about getting Comiskey by hav-
ing you and Burns testify? A. No.
The New York herald., 1921-07-28
SMALL UNDECIDED
WHETHER TO SUBMIT
Refusal of SangamOn Officials
to Go After Him Has Up
set His Plans.

CHICAGO. July 27.-Gov Len Small
indicted on charges of embezzlement OF
State funds while he was State Treas
urer.. left tonight supposedly for his
home at Kankakee after day OF con-
ferences with attorneys here. Following
the Governors departure his chief
counsel, Albert Frink, announced that
while several conferences had been held,
no decision had been reached as TO the
next move by the State Executive. >
Refusal of the Sangamon county au-
thorities to come to Chicago and arrest
the Governor and their expressed will
ingness to await his return to Spring
field upset the plans laid last night for
hearing on habeas corpus proceedings
before a Cook county court.
Gov. Small.s attitude toward "unc/h-
ditional surrender" had not been made
known to Sheriff Henry Mester of San
CANON county tonight.
There is no desire to embarrass or
humiliate him." Sheriff Mester said. land
we will not go to Cook county to serve
the warrant
He can come here and arrange his
bonds if he has decided to abandon his
idea of protesting against arrest
At the Governors office tonight IT
was said the State Eecutive was pre-
sumably still in Chicago"
Friends of Gov. Small said they be-
lieved he had not given up his inten-
ton to peacefully resist arrest" add
ing that he would probably exhaust all
privileges he could obtain from the
courts before making his surrender.
The New York herald., 1921-07-28
GAVIN'S CLUB FLAYS
STATE BOXING BOARD
Continued from First Page.

denounces this as '1nquisitorial" and not
called for under the law creating the
commission, for the passage OF which
act Mr.. Gavin and his club assume full
credit. He complains that while the
International was being held UP "ob-
scure and unknown promoters in The
Bronx and upstate were enjoying the
benefits of license" without red tape.
IL was only after a threat of legal
proceedings had been made, and then
only two days before the Herman-Lynch
bout. that the commission finally
granted the license. Mr.. Gavin says. He
contrasts the methods of the New Jer-
sey Commission. which acted very
promptly in the matter Of granting a
license to the club for the Carpenter
Levinsky fight, and, he says. cooperated
In every way with the International Of
ficials.
Having reached the conclusion that
such cooperation cannot be obtained
from the New York Commission, and
that on the contrary only obstacles and
difficulties" need be expected. Gavin
says. I'VE have accordingly decided TO
stage no more bouts I'm this city until
October next. when we will conduct In
doors all the boxing we may desire for
the entertainment of our members rree
from the interference of an unfrfendly
commission and certain baneful political
influences which have hampered and
harrassed us from the beginning In
the meantime the matches for the world
championships upon which we hold OPP
tions WILL for the reasons previously
stated. be staged in Jersey City
Plot Charged by Gavin.
Mr. Gavin's letter concludes with a
refusal to appear before the conmmissiod
In reply to it's summons for next Tues
day. Referring to the events or last
Monday night, which brought about the
suspension and the summons to the pro-
posed hearing, the Gavin letter reads
with regard to the studiously cir
culated reports rejecting on the man.
agement at Ebbets Field, they were in
most cases false, and in all cases pre-
posterously exaggerated. Perhaps all,
save one the wires of the electric lights
were out fifteen minutes before the time
due for the main bout to be staged; ana
had we not been forwarned that this
would be attempted and provision made
to circumvent it, hundreds of innocent
persons might have been hurled to their
doom.
"The plotter of this dastardly act was
also responsible for the reports which
were circulated on the morning following
the Carpenter-Levinsky match, casting
discredit on the bona fiides of the contes-
ants the malicious statements regarding
the clubs finances and the honesty of it's
officers. which have been put into circu-
laton from time to time, and lastly, the
delay in the granting Of our license"
When asked whom he had in mind as
the "plotter" against the club, Mr.. Gavin
declined to be any more specific than as
indicated in the letter.
Charles II. Ebbetts, in a statement is
sued yesterday, said that the published
reports of trouble outside Ebbetts Field
Monday night were greatly exagger-
ated," and that he assumed full respon-
slbllity for whatever transpired outside
the gates as the result of his own order
to close them when the lights failed.
The New York herald., 1921-07-28
OHIO GIRL MISSING
ON TRIP TO JERSEY
Fails to Arrive at IrUington
for Marriage to Veteran.

Miss Maize Ball, IS. got on train
a. Defiance. Ohio, last Friday for Ir-
vington, N. T., where she was to marry
Robert Widaseck, who was buddy OF
her brother. Harvey, when they were
convalescing from war injuries In the
Base hospital in the Greenhut Building,
this city The romance began last sum-
mer when Widaseck paid visit to the
Ball home. Recently he sent car fare
for Maize to make the trip.
But she has not arrived. On Monday,
Widasecll, who lives at 28 Twenty-sec-
ond street, IrviDgton. received letter
from the young woman's mother an
nouncing that the girl had left for Ir-
vington, and Tuesday he had another
letter addressed to her in his care.
Widaseck cannot imagine what has de-
layed his bride-to-be. and general
police alarm has been sent out for her.
The New York herald., 1921-07-28
SIX FIRMS DECLINE
TOPROSECUTEH HERO
Drop Forgery Charges Against
Man Who Fought in France
Five Years.

Six Newark firms dropped charges Of
forgery yesterday against Patrick H..
Leary of SOC Groad street, Newark, be-
cause OF his exceliene record In the war
with Germany and the difficulty he has
had In caring for his family since he re-
turned to this country. He was arrested.
however and sent to Somerville. n. j.,
where there are two charges of forgery
pending against him because of alleged
fraudulent checks which he gave as de-
posit on various purchases.
Leary served In France for five years
as a Captain In the Australian and New
Zealand Expeditionary Corps. and was
badly shell shocked. He returned to the
United States after the armistice and was
married in Brooklyn. Tnen he moved to
somerville and later to Newark. He
tried to find work but said he had been
aole to find only odd jobs which did not
bring in sufficient money to support his
wife and give her the comforts to which
he felt she was entitled.
Last week, according 10 the Newark
Police Department. Leary took out
policy of $4,000 with the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Company and gave a
forged check for S164 las the first
premium payment. He did this, he told
the police. with the intention of COM
mitting suicide so his wife could get
the money and be able to make her own
way. Besides this. NE is said by the
police to have admitted passing other
forged checks. aggregating 800. in
Somerville.
When he moved to Newark, the police
The New York herald., 1921-07-28
MAN MADE REFORMS FIND
NO SYMPATHY WITH WOMEN
Twenty-four Out of twenty-five Oppose Bill of Rep
resentative Johnson That Would Prohibit Them
From Smoking Cigarettes in Washington.

"The women of the country are sick
and tired OF this ceaseless agitation
about legislating as to what women can
do" she said. "Some want to fix the
style of their bathing suits, the kind OF
stockings they wear. the length of their
skirts and say how they shall do their
hair and what not. 1t is that kind of
stuff that the women resent more than
anything else"
Mr. johnson admitted that he believed
an anti-cigarette law for women should
be made nation wide. Thio aroused Mrs.
E. c. Atwood, director Of the Anti-Blue
Law League. who said the measure was
the opening wedge for lot of legislation
along blue law lines.
Representative Woods (va.), sug-
gested the women themselves would
right the cigarette evil. This caused
Mr.. Johnson to say:
"The very best man in the country Is
as helpless as child when in the hands
of woman"
'Why, the so-called smart set are
smart because they are smart enough to
cover up their devilment and not get
caught" he added.
The only woman to support the bill
was Miss Elizabeth Mcmahon. who de-
scribed herself as an old army nurse.
She said several cases of inveterate
women smokers had come under her
observation.
The New York herald., 1921-07-28
IN GREATER NEW YORK:

4 440 Fulton Street.
JERSEY CITY-tS Newark Avenue.
*HOBOKEN-120 Washington street.
tUNlON HILL 276 Bergeniine Ave.
tNEwARk-S31 Broad Street.
tPATERsON-a92 Market st., .,oor. .c,.r,
Dousjas shoss for Women,