The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-04-07

so. At the sight of the horrible
a skipping over the white caps.
= out Tapping its wings. and splitting
IS from both sides of It's body and
4, ing like 100000 bulls we all took ia
timber. where we remained for
u ut four hours We only came out
h we saw a foreign gentleman pass
- near where we were hiding They
u lght the NEG was a huge bi,d
s CHI had come in search for some un.
innate mariner who had offended it
etWeen 5000 and 1000 boys and grill
I Lafayette, Ind, have taken a pledge
Kill no birds brighten them, or drive
m from their nests. and to keep 9TH
from doing so. In addition they are
building bird boxes.
he pile of flowers and wreaths above
grave of the unknown soldier
led beneath the Arch of Triumph in
ris is fed with fresh contributions
m early morning until late at night.
e gifts come all the way from little
Up girls with their punches of violets,
statesmen from foreign countries who
ar great wreaths as tributes from
cir countries. Since November II,
len the body was placed under the
CHI, there has always been a group of
burners at the shrine. A movement
on foot to arrange that a representa-
& re Paris school shall send delega-
On to place flowers on the grave On
.ch day Of the year.
Decrease in the total population of
ate prisons in the middle and south
estern states is attributed in part to
.ohibition by number of state prison
lthorities. Other reasons noted in
uded high wages and shortage of la
or, the indeterminate sentence and the
ierit system. The falling off for 16
tnt A>1 L.
> nearly an eighth of the total on De-
ember l, 1914.
The health commissioner of Boston
as announced that line dropped to the
municipal health information bureau
viii bring in the next mail a diagnosis
With advice for self treatment, or for
ecourse to clinics or specialists without
cost. Communications will be conf
lentiaI. The only requirement is that
self addressed. stamped envelope be in
closed for reply. 1t is believed that
much benefit will accrue to those really
afflicted who would not take time to see
a doctor.
The Dutch Indian mail steamers have
Just been equipped with floating safes
large enough to contain all of the ships
and registered mail. They are
1uipped to ring bells, shoot off sky
.ockets. flash lights and blow horns.
The safe is claimed to be absolutely I'M
and, If cast overheard in event
its ship went down, would go floating
about the seas attracting attention to
itself until its clockworls machinery ran
down.
Miss Robertson, of Oklahoma. has APP
pointed woman postmaster. Most of
the applicants were men," she admits.
There was objection when l made man
Il
l woman for postmaster. I had charge
If the postoffice eight years myself
Strawberry growers of Louisiana, con-
ronted with surplus crop worth
s5,ooo,ooo appealed to Washington for
permission to make it into wine ''for
medicinal purposes" and have, received
the desired permission. The growers
Of surplus raspberries and piackberries
are figuring on obtaining like permits
sion.
( "A cable to the New York Herald says:
Half of Frances youths are physically
unfit for military service, owing to lack
81 opportunity to take physical exercise
according to reports by medical boards
which have been examining the class
of 1921. Paris, for instance, with
|. 100000 population, possesses only four
swimming pools.
number of licensed chauffeurs and ap-
plfcants for licenses who have criminal
records is rapidly increasing. There
were 242 applications with such records
q 1920. and thus far in 1921 there have
been H. The magistrate considers
cabs menace to the morals of the
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Thirty million kronen belonging TO
american firms taken as 20 per cent.
evy on bank deposits is to be released
py the Hungarian government upon rep
reseHtations by American Commissioner
Grant. The question whether the au-
lhorities had a right to levy on Amer
lcan capital in Hungarian banks has
been long argued.
! After many complaints about receiv-
ing hard boiled eggs in their ship
ments, Delaware merchants inyesti-
rated and found that certain farmers
Who raised expensive chickens and did
Dot wish their neighbors to benefit by
buying their eggs, had been dipping
lne eggs they sold in boiling watDr, to
prevent their Matching.
I To mark the line where the German
auvance In the spring Of 1918 was stopped
France proposes to erect monuments
kiong the entire front bearing the in
ycription: Here was arrested the rush
1f the barbarians'' The number OF
pyramids and the places where they are
g be erected will shortly be determined
~ Marshal Petain.
Great progress has been made in Pal.
Fpgrad in the manufacture of clothing
rom rags and old pieces of cloth. to
which is added small amount Of new
|naterial. There are Ia concerns in
working up various waste
Two well know neurologists of Belle 4
Eue hospital, New York, have issued !
|eport on Mental Hygiene, which saws
|lsss has decreased insanitv
as New York state. The decrease has
leen steady in all the IS hospitals for
Mental diseases in the state.
/ A.ss p. McCable. state insurance COM
Of California, has declined
|he office Of first assistant postnas STA,
General, offered him by President Hard.
ng. because as state insurance con.
(ntssioner. his salary is $4,000: while "a
(rst assistant postmaster general II
Eould be 81. 900 q year less.
James Eads Howe, ..the millionaire
(obo who Is engaged in forming an
OF unemployed" in SAT-
Ike City, declares that 1t is probable =
~ dolcGatiOn will shortly u,o;t ~, ~.