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Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
NEBRASKANS QUIT
 BURNING UP CORN
Expensive Fuel, Experi-
 ments at State Univer- sity Prove to Them.
(By International News service)

(By International NeWS SerVlce)
 Lincoln. Neb., Oct. 10.-Even if the grain bears succeed in caop- ping two or three more cents off the price of corn, Nebraska farm CTS will continue to burn coal. The only corn that will go into fuel bins this year will De damaged goods. unfit for consumption as human or livestock food.
 Nebraska had an epidemic of corn buying last year and found il lidn't pay, even with coal prices 70 to 20 per cent higher than they ad ever been in this state.
 To determine the relative merits Jf corn as a fuel in comparison with coal series of experiments have just been completed at the University of Nebraska. The tests disclosed that it takes fifty bushels of corn on the cob or sixtythree bushels of shelled corn to produce bitNminous coal. At present prices for corn in the crib the farmer who burned his grain would be paying at the rate of $44 a ton for fuel.
 Indications are that farmers who cant feed out" their corn will mar ket it at whatever price they can get, buy their winter fuel from the ,oal merchant and still be dollars ahead.
 More corn will be turned into beef in Nebraska this year than at any time since the end of the war. At present prices a bushel of corn is worth approximately eighty cents when scientifically transformed into steak or pork chops.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
BANKERS BEGIN
 11TH ANNUAL CONVENTION IN
 DEL MONTE; TOUR CALIFORNIA

board of governors. He was nomin- ated for vice-president at the gov ernors' meeting in Toronto last July, and it has been the practice of conventions to confirm selections of the governing body.
 Significant of the character of the organization, no weighty papers or formal speeches are to be on the programme. The framework of the convention is entirely built upon annual reports of standing commit tees, eighteen of which function throughout the year. With the sin gle exception of the committee on constitution and by-laws, every com mittee, through it's chairman, is scheduled to give an account of it's activities on the floor of tho con vontion. The discussion and con sideration of these reports will be the life of the sessions.
 The convention will be in ses- sion four days, meeting in the morn 1HSS Ouly. AuJOuIilHleHJ WILL De taken at 1 o'clock to provide op= portunity for recreation and sight seeing. During the convention hours, however, the members will be "all business and the golf courses will be closed to men.
 The convention and transconti- mental trip will come to a climax in San Francisco on October 13, after a motor trip from here the after noon before. Sightseeing trips and other diversions will precede dim ner and jinks at the Bohemian Club Here again the order will be no speeches.
 The ladies in the various delega- tions are to be taken to Muir Woods and Mount Tamalipas, with visits to Chinatown in the evening for those who may still be fresh enough for more sightseeing.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
1mprovised Parachute
 Brings Grief to Boy
(By International News serviceJ

(By International News Service)
 Urbana, Ohio, Oct, 10.7KStrapping an ordinafyys5im mlrel1;A tS his body, twelvoyeafr6ld Ralph Anlfaon fhapM off the top of a 25-foot building here.
 Hitting the gaound with a heavy thud, the child lay in a heap with the wrecked improvised parachute on top of him.
 lie was carried to the home of his mother, Mrs. Frank Ammon, North Russell street, where it was found that, apparently, his only injury consisted of a temporary loss of speech, due to his breath being knocked out of him.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11

Coy, back around 1908. From year to year sanguine reports have had the Bulldog coming back to past greatness, but he never has quite arrived
 In 1916 he beat both Harvard and Princeton, with Harry Legore in the .backfield, but previous defeats by Brown University and others oock-marked the seasons record. Last year a victory by Harvard ruined an otherwise impeccable season.
 The 1922 ensemble, however, seems to be fool-proof. Mac AL drich is the only player of any con- sequence lost by graduation. Mac, of course, is by way of being some thing to lose, but those remaining are so gifted and numerous that the team should carry on, regardless, or forever hold it's collective peace.
 What college, for instance, can muster three quarterbacks of the calibre of Charley O'Hearn, who runs, kicks and passes with the best; Beckett and Dynamite" Murphy? A set of veteran backs like Jordan, Mallory, Kelly and Neidlingor. who may be the sensa- tion of the year, to say nothing of Bench and Knapp, new entries of no slight prominence?
 A quartette of ends-Hulman Blair, Cutler and Mike Eddy--vet- orans all? Or set of forwards in- cluding Cruikshank, Landis, Cross, Quaile Norris and Diller, not one of whom hass had less than a sea son of varsity experience?
 With the exception of O'Hearn
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
Hog Buried in Straw
 9 Weeks Loses Weight

(By InternationaI News Service.)
 Lexington, Mo, Oct. 10.-Nine weeks Imprisonment in straw stack took about 100 pounds from a Missouri "porker."
 During August Ryland Hicklin, living near here, started threshing. AS tho separator tossed out the straw hog weighing about 500 pounds was seen near the stack. After rhrcshing was over the portly annnal could not be found.
 Just nine weeks to the day had elapsed since the threshing, when the hog appeared at the food lot, having reduced some hundred odd pounds. The hog had been buried during the threshing and had final ly emerged from it's temporary tomb"
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
Kansas City Man Wears One Pair of
 Pants for E Years; Still Like New

fcept at such times as lie takes em Ioff to let Mrs. Hook launder them.
 Then he's got to wear a pair of store trousers!
 And, believe me, he's always glad to get back in his home made pants. Although he's worn them quarter of century there isn't a button off or hole in them or that they are not. good fer twenty-five years more.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11

F. Hyae; road overseer, Elmo Hol loman
 Lake: Justice of the peace, G. w Wood and George Spillman; con stable, John Elmore; road overseer Harry George.
 Main Shcre: Justice of the peace J. M. Smith and G. Vaughn; con stable, John Collier; road overseer H. M. Wilkerson.
 Salem: Justice of the peace, w. T Hicks and s. A. Willcockson; con stable, Carroll Tillman; road over seer, William James.
 Union: Justice of the peace, J M. Johnson and J. R. Miller; con. stable, N. F. Cotton; road overseer w. G. HanIey.
 Hopewell Justice of the peace: B l.. Walker and J. A. Coffee; con stable, c. N. Landis; road overseer s. II. Yancey.
 Cache: Justice of the peace. W F. Walker and J. B. Cooper; con- stable, w G. Johnson; road overseer U. G. May.
 Spring Grove: Justice of the peace r. Ii. Honnell and A. J. B. Stewart constable, E. Burlington; road over seer, J. F. Crooms.
 Friendship: Justice of the peace, W. E. Sanford and C. H. Burton; constable, Van Brewer; road over seer, H. P. Coin.
 Poland: Justice of the peace, A. Pillow and F. W. Newsom; con stable, T. McMillon; road overseer s. D. Edwards.
 St. Francis: Justice of the peace, J. A. Mcdaniel and S. w. Atkinson l; constable, Elnert Williams road overseer, Tom Barnett.
 Collier: Justice of the peace, E. B. Mangrum and R. Vanover; con stable, L. E. Tate; road overseer. M. Potter.
 Sugar Creek: Justice of the peace, Artie Hall and J. R. Granting; con- table, w. w. Martin; road over ger, B. F. Pickett.
 Evening Shade: Justice of the 2 peace, w. s. Battenfieid and G. Wheeler; constable, T. J. Hancock; road overseer, J. F. Willcockson.
 Reynolds: Justice of the peace J. W. Rogers, J. w. Purcell and J. H. Poppe Gone vote each); con stable, Bill Williams: road overseer Martin Stone.
 Breckenridge: Justice of the peace R. H. Robinson and J. G. Banner; constable, Andy Davis; road over seer, J. V. Parson.
 Hurricanes; Justice of the peace J. R. Gossett and F. M. Carroll; constable, C. c. Cupples; road overseer, Vernie Cuppies.
 Bryan; Justice of the peace, J. A Parker and Gene Carter; constable Sam Greet; road overseer N. NJ Stone.
 Crowley: Justice of the peace F: R. Stallcup and A. Compton; constable, O. H. Cooper; road over seer c. w. Boyd.
 Jones: Justice of the peace, M F. Niceley and R. c. Trowbridge constable, J. s. Conner; road over seer, A. J. Crown.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11

that team is now be- ing jockcyed into con dition within the shad- ow of the famed New Haven elms. Yale
 hasn't had a cham
 pi'onship outfit since
 the salad days of Ted
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
(By international News service)

(By International News Service)
 Kansas City, Mo, Oct. 'As good as the day they were made"
 That's what J. N. Hook, of Full ton, Mo-, says of his twenty-five year-old pants
 Why, he wouldn't give that pair of pants for a dozen of the modern day lightweights such as some of our nifty "cake eaters" sport.
 Hook wears lem every day, ex-
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
The United States imported 426,- S47,256 pounds of crude rubber in
Financial Outlook.

"Why do you object to children in the houses which you have to let?" "As matter of kindness. People who are raising families can't be ex. pected to pay the rent l require"
Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11

soft answer may turn away wrath, but it is absolutely wasted on the bill collector.
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Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
TOTAL VOTE IN GEN. ELECTION
 OF OCTOBER ]

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Paragould soliphone., 1922-10-11
YALE'S ELEVEN
 LOOMS LARGE
 FOR THIS YEAR
Veterans of Several Years Standing in Formid- able Bulldog
 Lineup.
By DAVIS J. WALSH.

News Service Sports
 Editor
 New York Oct. 10.-If ever a team faced form-fitting outlook or successful football season
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29

never was known to hold social conversation
with anybody He was a bachelor, and in his
mansion on his ranch he always dined in state,
with only several servants around him. His
business associates knew him in a business
way only.
Nevertheless, Kearney had certain natural
qualities of leadership, and he was made the
president of the California Raisin Growers
association, organized in 1898, the forerunner
Of the cooperative body that is thriving SO
magniicently now.
Raisin prices in the 90's were down to
three cents pound. Kearney preached con-
tinuousy that ie the growers would stand to-
gether, if they would build their own packing
houses and market their own raisins they could
obtain five cents a pound. His day was the
day of low wage costs, and five cents pound
meant a substantial profit. Kearney never
lived to see that price. He could ~ get the
growers to realize that their salvation rested
in doing their own packing. He resigned from
the association after serving as it's president
for five years. This body grounded upon the
rocks of inefficiency. 1t was too loosely organ
'zea and could not finance its operations. And
Kearney died.
Just Miss Hatch fairly earns credit for
being the mother" Of the raisin industry, SO
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29

Beside Miss Hatch stands another figure in
this raisin industry-the figure of NJ Theodore
kearney. He was not related to the family
that gave America it's military parsonage of
that name. This Kearney was person of
mystery. Little is known of his antecedents
Raisin growers had been going along gam
bling with markets and generally losing money.
1t was in the '90s. that Kearney appeared. He
engineered colonization scheme employing
tract of several hundred acres west of the City
of Fresno. He sold small tracts that COM
pletely surrounded a large tract Of his own,
part of which he had planted as a magnificent
park, developing the rest into splendid farm
property.
Most of the tracts that he sold were planted
to vines They were sold on long term con-
tracts, and when payments fell due and were
not made Kearney promptly regained posses
sion. The result was that he came into cx-
elusive ownership Of more than 100000 acres
of bearing rasin vineyard, and probably was
the leading individual grower of muscats at
that time in the world.
kearnsy, physically and facially, somewhat
resembled Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, al
though perhaps a trife taller and heavier
He was always Immediately dressed and his
beard was always carefully trimmed. lie
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
Jack Rabbits and Soldiers.
Ranchmen and Prospectors

Fort Mlllerton was the Headquarters for
cattlemen and prospectors 1t USUALLY held a
garrison OF blue-clothed infantrymen-the in
fantrymen of the type Remington painted
when ne wasn't too busy painting cavalrymen.
The soldiers hardly were needed. They wore
handed down from an earlier period-the
period OF the emlgrant trains and wagons that
frequently after escaping the Indians east of
the Slerras, were pounced upon by bandits of
the Murietta and Vasquez type who f1ourished
on the California side of the snowy range.
Southern Pacific builders figured that If
FRESNO County ever developed regular town
such town would be reared at the juno
tlon OF the railroad and the San Joaquin River,
ana at this point a station was built It took
the prospectors and cattemen quite while to
qult the fort" but when they did town be-
gan TO grow where the railroad had calculated
one would most likely come into being The
station had been called Fresno. Fresno means
white ash. The name taken from the
character of the soil through which the South
ern Pacifics rails were running.
Prior to Eisen's experiments p rancher
named Church promoted the building of an
irrigating canal that would bring into the
heart Of the San Joaquin Valley the abundant
waters held in the slopes of the stern but
kindly Serras. This was beginning. People
he interested and who took farms of ten.
twenty and thirty acres included group of
New England school ma ans" They had
come West to invest their savings, and among
them was Miss Lucy Hatch. She realized
that Esen knew his book and she decided
she would become grower of raisins And
grower Of raisins she became. This school
teacher became the mother of the now gigantic
ralsln industry. She is alive and prosperous in
Fresno to-day, and her heart must glow when
she gazes about her and instead of jackrabbits
sees wealth springing up out of the irrigated
white ash soil in miles upon miles of green
and then brown raisin-bearing vines Miss
Hatch is more than eighty years old. 1t was
from her modest little "parcel of land" that
the first raisins produced in the San JOAQUIN
were sent into the market
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
The Raisin District Was
Once Nearly Bankrupt

Packers played the game on a speculative
basis. That was how they knew it. Their
thought was the thought that had animated
private business from the beginning Of time
to buy as cheaply as possible and to sell
dearly as possible. They did their buying from
day to day. Occasionally grower was lucky
enough to sell a rising market, and would
come through season with profit, but it is
a matter of records kept in books that few
twenty-year period preceding the forma-
ton Of the cooperative corporation which has
achieved such wonderful success.
1t is shown by books of vneyardists who
kept accurate accounts that the cost of pro-
ducng rasins during this period about
three and a quarter cents a pound delivered
at the packing house. Prices averaged about
two and three-quarters cents. Frequently they
sank as low as two cents, occasionally to
and One-half cents and once to the low-water
mark of three-quarters of a cent. This was in
1910. Thousands of tons Of raisins went into
the putting uf more pork on hogs. Growers
who could afford to do it, and they were not
many, pulled up their vines and planted their
lands to crops of more profitable character.
The majority hung on because that was all
that they could do.
The raisn district virtually was bankrupt.
But during all this time few continued cry
ing in the wilderness and their cry for
operation Some of the vineyardists never lost
their faith in their Nslscats even though they
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
,"e own That Roisins
Fut on the Map

son" impossible to discuss the raisin without
ass"g Fresno. Fresno is a California city
S"' entirely surrounded by the vines that
T. ,e Us the grape. Ninety per cent Of the
f., sio"h in America are grown within
ssrt. 'niies of this municipality Fresno is
xy. .',.'aa ,a exact geographical center. In the
p,,s p~ oQs the city was hardly more than
,.ss, "hefe trains stopped and passengers
s,as, between San Francisco and Los
sns ss'es paused to visit the railroads dining
ana Fresno to-day probably would be
on.l D.ss''eo village but for the raisin. for the
,.s efh Pacific, which first put Fresno on tho
sr \. III later years made its newer line alono
e., c. coast its main way between the Co]den
a,t ~ me orange groves. Only the fact
S"e faisln had made Fresno one of the
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29

n EJECT1NG as frivolous the question
whether there are or there are not
Y those who believe that the War Of the
xss was fought with petals and thorns. it
8 fact that this summer may see a mighty
{ aact in which the munitions will be the
ksbrated double jointed, hump backed peanut
! circus and bleachers fame and the raisin.
tich recently has been causing the Jaws of
Z land to work overtime.
There is something insinuating about the
Iod old goober, and for generations DAVIS
jiday hardly has been passed right unless
i properly roasted peanut helped out.
).t since last fall more than 3O0,OOO,O00 of
kel packets of sun cured grapes have been
|nsumed by the great American consumer,
|nd Investigation has developed the fact that
large slice of the SIS, 100000 expended for
! ssse raisns has trickled back to the grower
i the Thompson seedess, the grape from
Fhch most of these raisins are made.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
Exit the Grain Grower,
Enter the Fruit Raiser

In the California SOS the grain grower was
supreme, but his days were nearing their end
The green or orchard vineyard began to cut
into his yellow and tawny tracts and packing
house and cannery appeared beside the ware
houses holding their stores of wheat and bar
ley. California was entering her fourth epoch
the epoch of glorious golden fruit
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
Collecting a Million
For Cooperation

"1f we had million dollars we could r1,n
a company of own,'' was the comment of
growers.
But that million seemed unattainabe until
the "vlsionaries came out in 1912 and launched
their campaign to get it. They found the
growers ready to enter into any sort of CO.
operative body, for the principal reason that
even If such body failed they could not
suffer. The growers could not dig up the cash
themselves. They could not pay even the pro-
posed assessment of $40 an acre OH their vine
yards, but by enlisting the aid Of bankers and
merchants and by canvassing their districts
in an appeal to every man and woman who
could contribute a dollar to The project the
organizers raised their million
One OF the chief faults of the previous CO.
operative efforts had been the lack of central
lied control. Mass meetings that were held
annually had attempted to settle all the big
questions met with in selling raisins and had
failed. There were too much talk too much
politics, too much pickering and too much
bantering without definite action
The present organization, with its voting
power held by trustees and it's operations con-
Quoted by seven directors has centralized
power and has attained fexibility and gained
legal standing necessary to success. Dividends
are held to per cent annually. This makes
the stock a good, conservative investment and
keeps all speculative elements away from it,
The Stock a matter Of fact. means nothing
to the $4,000 growers. Their benefit comes
solely from the cooperative marketing of their
products The average investment in stock is
only 5000.
The first million dollars was raised in 1912
The first year was one Of heart-breaking
trials. Less courageous persons than those
who were leading this movement would have
hunked in the face of so many discourage
ments. The million in hand was represented
by 100000 in notes given by growers who
had no cash at all, and 100000, the greater
part of which had been raised among the COM
munity's business people.
Contracts provided that there should be a
fixed price delivery of 3A cents if IS per
cert of the growers joined the parade One
CT the independent packers who in 1910 re-
jected the proposal Of a 3 4 cent pool proved
he was sincere by signing a contract for
five years at a 4 cent price, which he
insisted was all that he would ever want
for his raislns. He insisted upon eliminating
a provision in the contract which provided for
the pro-ratlng among the growers of any
profit above the contract price after operating
expenses had been deducted. Inasmuch as in
the three years of the tive-year period raisins
averaged cents pound, this particular
packer, whose vineyard was Of more than
1000 acres, lost nearly $4,000 in each of those
years by his insistence the elimination Of
this particular clause.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
gThe Next War in Sight
ii Peanuts Us. Ruisins

s While both peanuts and raisins are munched
Ssore or less all year round, this war that
Eight be waged between these products won't
k likely to reach its crucial stage until we can
bread out under a tree or under a "straw" in
Emmer and keep our masticatory departments
Employed while reading light fiction or hoping
Fat Ruth or Kelly Will bust a fence or two
ferever these sockdologsts happen to be
Iperating
All have been familiar with the peanut for
j-sny years, but it was only a few months
lso that we began to put down our nickels
Ind take away the little carton whose printed
later tells us that in eating rasins we are
|tlting iron into our blood Reports to the
1aOOO growers in the cooperative association
3fat markets 90 per cent of Americas raisin
zrops are that these containers, even as you
cad this page, are being put out of their
Packing houses at the rate of 100000 a day
5hSbrings us to point highly more impor-
1ant than the matter of whether the goober
u to be ousted by the raisin-the highly i'm
0ortant point of cooperative marketing, a
system which when adopted by these $4,000
|Nneyardists in California lifted mortgages and
lIltO lIllHleIlSc dSSclS
In the message Warren Gamaliel Harding
I'd to Congress last December the President
|afd:
There Is actual depression in our agricul-
f1al industry, while agricultural prosperity is
fsolutely essential to the general prosperity
i Tue country. Every proper encour-
1'genent should be given to the co-operative
8lstketng programs e.. No one chal-
] Ages the right Of the farmer to larger share
the consumers pay for his product"
There was actual depression among vine
sfdlsts, who few years ago were not get
/ @ae fair return for their capital and labor,
null they adopted the cooperative system of
s1outlng their output, and the history of
%e rasin in California attests the soundness
i me Presidents recommendation that this
operative marketing plan be tried generally
'ooKs OF the association handling the raisin
y" mat IN an average year Figures for 1919
- employed) wholesalers paid S25487
lor the muscat type and that growers
Ne'ed S2O77S ton. That was giving to
&c larmer, or grower, a share of S1.5 per
s~' o. what his agency received for the clus-
Ss mat were taken from vines These figures
"' De fattened considerably this year when
returns are in on the stupendous sales
w are beng made of the raisin that has
e'Foody chewn' it now.