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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
GASOLINE CAN AND
BEARER CATCH FIRE
Man Drops Five Gallon Can Of Gaso-
line In Front Of Open Furnace
And Still Lives.

Great excitement was caused in the
Norris Auto Co., Monday afternoon
when August Kentop and a can of
gasoline caught fire at about the
same time. An open furnace door
and five gallon can of gasoline with
no stopper in it are some of the fea-
lures of the accident. Chemicals
were brought to bear on the gasoline
and a coat was used to extinguish
Kentop. The man fortunately was
not badly burned, but the can he had
tried to rescue was total wreck.
Kentop had gone out to fill the five
gallon can and was carrying it by
the open furnace in the shop when,
as luck would have it, he dropped the
can. Some gasoline spilled on the
floor and ignited from the fire in the
furnace and flames also leaped to the
mans sleeve where some gas had
splashed. Kentop, thinking only Of
the can and quite unmindful of him
self picked up the can and dashed
toward the hydrant. He dropped it
again when flames showed great ten
dency to come out of the can and his
clothing was forcibly extinguished
by bystander.
An alarm was sent in and the fire
department arrived, but there was
little left beside smoke when the men
appeared. The crowd gathered in
front soon dispersed when it was
learned that the fire was out, and
Kentop was taken to doctor to have
his burns bound up. Such a fire
started in a garage not fire proof
might have been serious, but the con-
crete structure known as the Morris
Auto Co. gave little encouragement
to the blaze and very little damage
was DONE
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
Mrs. Albert Clair Passes Away.

Mrs. Albert Clair who has been i'll
for a long time died at 1880 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon at Fergus Falls
that she was failing rapidly and he
had spent several days with her. He
returned for two days, but returned
to Fergus Falls Tuesday afternoon
and was with his wife when she died.
Little Selma Clair left yesterday for
.Brainard where she will meet her
father. Mrs. Clair's body will be
taken to Grand Rapids where the
funeral will be held today.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02

of the chief problems of these asso-
Citations to reach the consumer with
as little expense as possible. Far
mers ought to be given a chance to
do that. The high cost Of living can
not be solved by discouraging agri-
culture. 1t must be solved by fair
treatment of those engaged in that
pursuit. To maintain his self-re-
spect and the dignity Of his occupa-
tion the farmer must be given an op-
portunity to deal in selling his pro-
ducts on an equal footing with those
who purchase it. He should be given
an opportunity to help solve in a RAJ
tional and fair way the problems in
volved in the high cost of living.
@ "Both the great political parties in
their last national platforms pledgd
their support to this legislation"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
NEW COUNTY NURSE /
GETTING ACQUAINTED
Miss Brubaker Reports First Three
Weeks Work: Make Business
Calls and Inspects Schools

Report of Stevens County Nurse
for October 1921. Miss Bertha Bru-
baker, who succeeds Miss Irene La
Brie as Stevens County nurse, sub
mits the following report of her first
three weeks work in the county.
Some of the time has been spent in
the Office becoming familiar with the
records and literature on hand. Also
many business calls have been made
to get acquainted with co-workers
and to learn something of the county
activities. {
An effort has been made to pick up
the work where the former nurse left
it and to answer calls for assistance
which could be given by a county
nurse.
The roadsbhav been passable and
some school inspection and instruct
ion work has been done in districts
4, Sc, and IL.
1t was gratifying to find Hot Lunch
served in one country school visited.
About fifteen minutes before noon
dismissal, two of the larger pupils
went quietly to the small room used
! for a kitchen and prepared hot
corn soup. At dismissal, sanitary
paper napkins were placed on the
desks. The pupils took out their
lunches and spread them out upon
the napkins, while the cooks served
the soup in cups. The children sat
quietly and ate slowly as they should
in order to properly digest their food
The Health Crusade has been
launcher in many of the schools
Some schools are waiting until after
the holidays so as not to have break
in the crusade.
The Statistical report for Novem-
Der 1921.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
Memorial Room Open Saturdays.

The Stevens County War Records
Commission announces that the Mem
orial Room will be open from 800 to
500 o'clock on Saturday afternoons
for all who wish to inspect the col
lection there. This should be an es-
pecially favorable time for visitors
from out of town to see this most in
teresting exhibit.
The Commission is receiving added
donations and loans every week. Re-
cent accessions are a number of
French war posters from A. o. Clave,
fruit napkin presented by Mrs. Alb
raham Lincoln to her grandmother
from Mrs. P. French, and file of the
New York Tribune during the Civil
War from Rev. F. H. Richardson.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
MORRIS WOMAN TELLS OF
DISARMAMENT PARLEY
Mrs. Alfred Bredesen Visiting In
Washington Describes Interest
ing Meeting She Attended

Word from an eye witness 9t the
Disarmament Conference now being
held in Washington was received this
week when Mrs. Alfred Bredesen
who has been visiting in Washington
for several weeks in q letter to her
husband described the parley as she
saw it on Monday, November 21 when
seated in the fourth row, center aisle
she heard representatives of the Unit
ed States. England, France, Belgium,
Italy and Japan speak on land dis
armament She described the meet
ing as follows:
Monday evening, November FL.
Washington, D. c.
To-day has been wonderful. Just
think had ticket which admitted
me to the Hall in which the famous
conference is being held; and as my
reserved seat was right near the CEN
ter aisle, 4th row from the front,
had wonderful view.
"Mr. Hughes opened the meeting
by stating that wonderful progress
had been made in limiting sea arma-
IL llOW W W
an agreement with reference to land
armament. He spoke of the whole
sale manner in which America has re-
duced her standing army, since the
signing of the armistice. He spoke
of the necessity of moral disarma-
ment. After him, BRAND from
France spoke with great apparent
T,1o+
think an interpreter sat translating
Brands address into English as fast
as he spoke. When this interpreter
got up to give the translation he did
it with a marvellous freedom, ease
and eloquence, gesticulating freely
and showing considerable ader. When
anyone spoke in English as did both
Hughes and Balfour, he very ardent
ly and fluently rendered the speeches
in French. To me the whole thing
was immensely stirring. The repre-
sentatives of all the allied nations,
France, Belgium, Italy, England, and
also of Japan, spoke in turn. The
japanese gentleman, Mr.. Kato, ad-
dressed the conference in japanese.
L A40 "c1O dU4y IL 1CI11O1dLCu 4uLO
lish by his secretary and afterwards
delivered in French by the interpre-
ter. A universal language would
have cut the whole thing in less than
two as to time and effort too in a
measure
well, every representative spoke
to prove that the standing army
which his country maintained was
absolutely necessary to protect and
maintain the peace so much desired.
I felt as if whatever good has been
gained by previous meetings of the
conference was fast being lost. Old
wounds were freely barred and
opened and an atmosphere of sus-
piciOn and more or less enmity seem
ed to prevail. 1t was then that
Hughes rose and made a very clear
and tremendously effective statement
of the situation. He was interrupted
again and again by loud applause.
I nearly split my gloves, I was so
pleased to hear of his firm stand. He
said there could be no talk of land
disarmament unless there was the
will to disarm. I thought he hit the
nail on the head exactly"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
Assistant Druggist Arrives

M. M. Reeve, registered pharma-
cist came from Britton, S. D. Mon
day to take the position of assistant
to G. B. Sylvander in Sylvander's
Drug Store. He is a graduate of the
Minnesota Institute of Pharmacy. Mr..
Reeve has been a registered pharma-
cist since 1914. He had five years
experience in drug stores prior to
gaining his degree.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
PLANS ARE MADE FOR
CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
Committee Organizes Drive For Coun-
ty At Meeting Held Monday:
Mrs. Bagstad Chairman.

The Fourteenth Annual Christmas
Seal Sale will be on in Stevens Coun-
ty within few days. The commit
tee under the leadership of Mrs. c.
M. Bagstad held meeting Monday
afternoon at which plans for cover
ing the entire county were made. All
the material is at hand and posters
have already been put up all thru
the business section. Miss Vina M.
CLASSY will have charge of the drive
in Donnelly, Mrs. r. Lundberg in
Chokio, Mrs. G.. H. Fougeron in AL
berta and Mrs. w. H. McNary in
Hancock. Assisting Mrs. Bagstad in
Morris are Mrs. G. G. Dickey, Mrs.
George Geenty and Mrs. Will Frame.
Booths will be placed in the post
office and places of business by De-
cember IL when the drive will be
at it's height. School children in both
the town and country schools will
contribute thru their schools. The
supplies will be in the hands of the
teachers by December IL, and they
are already preparing their students
the big work done by the public
health association in the state and
county. A house to house canvas will
be made in Norris and the towns of
the county.
Next Sunday will be Health Sun
day in Morris. All ministers will
take at least a few minutes to touch
upon the Importance of public health
work and the significance of Christ
mas seals. The proceeds of the sale
will be used to continue the work of
combating tuberculosis and all other
diseases by an intensive program of
education, demonstration and legis-
! lation.
Last year, 1920 Minnesota had the
lowest tuberculosis mortality in her
history. The reduction in the death
rate was accomplished by the educa-
tion Of the public in the truths con-
cerning the prevention and cure of
tuberculosis by the clinics which dis
cover the cases and the sanatorium
facilities for the cure of tuberculosis
Through education, people have
been made to realize that there is
hope for one with tuberculosis if the
disease is detected early enough, and
in an enormous number of cases the
disease is detected early enough and
the patient sent back into the world
able to earn livelihood. The dis
ease is being diagnosed earlier and
earlier with the result that thous,
ands who are today living would be
dead, if the older order still existed
For many years the National Tu.
berculosis Association and it's affilia.
ted State and County Public Health
Associations have been teaching
preaching and educating so that the
people would realize the Importance
of preventing tuberculosis. And each
year as Christmas draws near, the
little penny seal is offered to all. The
constant hammering year after yeal
on the subject of tuberculosis has
made the people realize that some,
thing can and is being done. The re-
suit is that last year the death rate
was lower than it has ever been in
the history of the State.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
Pope County Fair Gets So, 500.

Because it rained more than one
tenth of an inch on the Pope county
fair, the fair association received $2,-
500 insurance. Under the terms Of
the agreement the fair association
was to receive the insurance If it
rained more than one-tenth of an
inch on any day Of the fair between
z a. M and p. m. For this pro-
lection the fair association paid 5000.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
Nov. 9Th, 1921.
U. S. Naval Hospital,
Fort T,vOn Colo

u. .. Naval Hospital
Fort Lyon, Colo.
Mrs. H. O. Eames,
Morris, Mimi.
Dear Mrs. Eames:
Your letter and check came today
and please accept my thanks for them
both. 1 was transferred from Mime
apolis about six weeks ago, and, oh!
Mrs. Eames you can't believe how
lonesome I am. This is my twenty
ninth hospital since Nov. %, 1918,
and guess this is my last. did en-
joy myself while in Minneapolis dur
ing my stay there of seven months at
Hospital No. 68. The Ladies of Min
neapolis sure do everything in the
world to please us, and for one sure
do miss the every day call, and the
flowers and the visits. l have no
home, my parents are dead and my
only brother was killed in France.
guess my last stand is here. I have
lost twelve pounds since I came. I
wish could in Minneapolis when you
make your call at the hospital but
there are lot of my friends there
you can see.
am to have another operation on
my limbs next week. I haven't been
able to do any work on Hand Bags
since I came here as the trip put me
in bed again, but have leather and
beads to make four more if get able
to do the work. Do they sell well in
Morris? used to railroad thro Nor
ris on the G. N. r. r. and I worked
out of Benson for four years between
Benson and Huron, S. D., but those
days are over for me and guess all
other days Of happiness.
Well, Mrs. Eames, guess will
close for this time and I want to
thanks you again, and the auxiliary
for your service to me, and If you
ever get time to drop line or two,
will be very glad to hear from you
or any of the members. beg to re-
main
Yours very truly,
John A. Erving.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
High VS.. Aggies.

Morris High School will play a
practise game of basketball with the
West Central School Of Agriculture
on the Aggie Campus at 500 o'clock
tonight.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
Farm Bureau Meeting.

Members of the Farm Bureau as
sociation from Norris and Darnen
townships will hold a meeting at
1870 o'clock tomorrow in the Farm
Bureau office.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02
AUXILIARY RECEIVES
LETTERS OF THANKS
Soldiers Express Appreciation Of In
terest Shown and Sales
Made.

The Women's Auxiliary Of Walter
Tripp Post have recently been most
successful in disposing of articles
made by the soldiers receiving treat
ment in the hospitals at Minneapolis.
The following interesting letters
from the soldiers who made the arti-
cles reflect their appreciation of the
interest which the Auxiliary has
shown in them. The letters are ad-
dressed to Mrs. Eames, chairman of
the committee in charge, and also be-
cause Mrs. Eames has visited the
hospital and met several of the SOL
diers who are there. The letters fol-
low.
Minneapolis, Nov. 4, 1921.
Mrs. H. o. Eames,
Morris, MINI.
Dear Mrs. Eames:
am very grateful to you for the
check and am more than satisfied
with the amount.
1t is pleasure to have something
to pass away the time with and then
when you turn our pleasure into fin
ancial gain words will not express
our appreciation.
Very sincerely yours,
Calvin w. Morris
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02

Signed, Bertha Brubaker,
Stevens County Nurse. (P. H. NJ
Approved.
Edna M. Morrison,
Chairman Nursing Committee.
Mrs. A. F. McKellar, Pro tenn.
Secretary Nursing Committee.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-02

Fort Lyon, Colorado, Nov. 6, 1921.
Mrs. H. o. Games,
Morris, Mimi.
Dear Mrs. Eames:
Your letter and check received and
it is much more than I ever expected
to get. I want to thank you for your
splendid work. The women of my
some state are doing a wonderful
work for her boys. Minnesota is at
the head of the list in most every
thing and especially for the welfare
of the boys. l am a Minnesota boy,
Brainard my home. I was in the hos
pital in Minneapolis for seven months
was transferred down here for the
winter. 1 am doing nicely since I
came here and will be feeling fairly
good again in six or eight months.
Mrs. Eames I want to thank the
auxiliary for your great work and
am sure we appreciate your lift.
Your friend,
Oscar F. Magneson,
U. S. Hospital,
Fort Lyon, Colo.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
FEDERAL RESERVE
AS FRANKENSTEIN
SENATOR SMITH, OF SOUTH
CAROLINA, ASKS INVESTIGA-
TON OF REGULATIONS.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Investiga-
ton of the federal reserve boards reg
ulation of rediscount rates was sug-
gested in the senate today by Sena-
tor Smith, democrat, South Carolina.
The people of the country are go
ing bankrupt and starving" Senator
Smith asserted, while we sit here
calmly, knowing that we have placed
the entire financial power OF the coun-
try in the hands of the seven mem
bers of the federal reserve board. In
that board have we created frank
enstein to destroy u.s."
Senator Smith attacked the boards
recent statement that gold reserves are
greater than in history, declaring that
while the nation is burning up wee
boast that there is more water in the
tank than ever before"
A bill providing, for loans of two
hundred million dollars by the treas
ury to the federal farm loan board
for loans to farmers on approved APP
plications was introduced by Senator
Harris, democrat, Georgia. The bill
directs that no federal land bank shall
loan the money at more than six per
cent and that. five per cent interest
shall be paid to the treasury fer the
sum borrowed.
Representative Crisp, OF the Third
district of Georgia, has also introduced
a bill along the same lines
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
AGES OF GEORGIA'S
POPULATION is TOLD
INTERESTING STATISTICS ON
THE SUBJECT GIVEN BY
CENSUS BUREAU.

According to the census 1874 per
cent, or almost two-6fths, of the peo-
pie in the state of Georgia are either
infants or children under IS years OF
age; 100 per cent are young people
IS to 10 years old; $40 per cent, about
one-third, are men and women in the
prime of life, being from 20 20 A years
old; while 100 per cent beng As years
of age and over are well along in
middle life if they have not reached
old age.
The urban population as compared
with the rural shows some ~rather
striking differences III age, the per-
centage 20 to "A years of age being
44.8 for the urban population as com
pared with 315 for the rural while
the percentage under is years of age
is $50 in the urban population as
against 41.8 in the rural. These differ
ences may indicate larger families of
children in the country than III the city,
but probably indicate also the fact
that country children as they grow up
have a tendency to flock to the cities,
thereby increasing the active adult
population of the cities at the expense
of the rural districts.
lust about one-half of the popula-
ton, 491 per cent, are old enough to
vote, being Fl or over. The males of
military or fighting age, l8 to A, con-
stitute 37.4 per cent Of the male popu-
lation and 1877 per cent, or less than
one-ffth, OF the total population.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
FIGHTING TO KEEP
FAT FEDERAL JOBS
FLOOD OF PROPAGANDA IS
USED ON CONGRESS. OFF,
GALS ARE ALARMED.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Notwith-
standing President Harding's warning
that propaganda by government Off
Gals against department reorganiza-
ton will not be tolerated members of
the senate and house are being flood
ed with protests against the proposed
Encouragement of government bureaus
in the interest of greater efficiency and
decreased expense. Every mail is filled
with such protests directed not only
to the members of the congressional
joint committee on reorganization but
also those Legislators whose only part
in the scheme. will be to approve the
final recommendation The object, Of
hcials insist, is to poison the minds of
legislators generally against any
changes which might cost bureau
chiefs and others their jobs. Investi-
CATION shows that the most insidious
propaganda is afoot in other ways to
damage the program of reorganization,
although there has been some abate-
ment since the vigorous statement of
President Harding that all federal en-
ployes who interferred with the reor-
ganization plan will be dismissed if
found guilty. There is apparently no
way to control the receipt of independ-
ent letters on the subject, but there
is to curb the activities OF the govern
ment employees.
A Favorite Plan.
One of the favorite means of pro-
cedure is for bureau chiefs to give elab-
crate dinners to representatives in con-
greSs whose influence they seek. At
these dinners, which, OF course, are
staged under the most suspicious cir
cumstances, the merits of the bureau
in question are set forth with a view
of influencing sentiment in their be-
half
Every bureau chief has his friend
at court" Representative Revis, OF
Nebraska, a member of the committee
on reorganization, declared today. He
could be depended on when the time
comes to step up and oppose con-
solidation of the bureau in question
with some other bureau. These little
dinners which arc being held are not,
| of course, wrong in themselves. They
are not matters of petty graft, but they
are an evil thing, particularly because
through them the bureau chiefs seek
to spread their propaganda in an effort
to halt an unbiased consideration of
the great program of reorganization.
| The dinners serve as means OF con-
/ text between the chiefs who eventual
! ly will be affected and those who final
| ly will say what is and what is not
to be done"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Operation Upon Brain
Success Over Paralysis

DENVER, Colo-Deaf, dumb,
blind and .paralyzed in every limb,
so helpless that it was necessary to
feed him by means OF tube
through his nostrils, unable to feel,
smell or taste or even to think, to
all intents and purposes uncon-
scious, Luther Dionne was carried
into the county hospital here nearly
eight years ago. Today he can hear,
see, smell, taste, feel and in limit
ed fashion, he can talk. His right
side remains partially paralyzed.
Never was man nearer to being
dead though alive than Luther
Dionne eight years ago, say the
doctors at the hospital.
Dionne's brain was operated on.
Then, literally, he began to be born
again. Slowly the powers OF life
were redeveloped. Came the day
when Ane could move one finger,
then a whole hand, and, after weeks,
he stirred his head upon its pillow.
One day he spoke.
AS yet Dionne's speech is conhn-
ed to whispered yes" or mo"
but he can make himself under
stood. On a map he can point out
the town of his birth, and with a
pencil he can print, laboriously, the
name of the village.