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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Poli Review

Poli patrons are looking forward new PoH Palace but while waiting are enjoying the shows of the highest calibre at the other PoH House. This season the shows have been excep- tionally good and the bill the last half of this week is no exception. Tracy and Mcbride are the headliners and in their little act entitled "Bits of Elk c1us1vensss' causd quite a sensation.
 Another real good act was Tom Brown in his act called MeIodyland, Tom Brown one of the famous six Brown Brothers who scored such a hit in Fred Stones Tip Top which played in New York and Boston and also who caused a sensation in New York at the Hippodrome and else where. has certainly a capable com pany in this novelty skit. Pretty girls full of vivacity and life give added zest to theact.
 Frank Shields opened the show in showing of rope manipulation and reminded one of the famous movie star. Will Rogers. His act was good and went over big
 Dorothy Dalton starring in '"The Crimson Challenge" opened for a run Of three daYS A woman deter mined to kill in square gun-fight the man who has cold bloodedIy murdered her father There is real punch in the story and is an old time tr;ller
 Pathe News is up to the standard and with a comedy entitled Rag Doll
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Early Coal Mine Seizure To Safeguard Against Fuel
 Appears Next Strike Step

must be secured and distribution soon or else people will freeze to death this winter
 Senator Borah. Republican of Ida ho, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, said he hoped the gov ernor of every state threatened with 8 coal shortage would follow the ex- ample of Governor Miller of New che legislature to secure immediate relief and to prevent a fuel famine.
 Borah to Press Action.
 Borah planned to press for i'm mediate action by the Senate today on his bill providing for a, Coal Com mission to be appointed by the Presi- dent to investigate the whole coal industry with a view of "nationaliza- Standardization of the living and working conditions of the mines. The Senate Labor Committee of which Borah Is chairman, voted to substitute his bill for the Winslow measure, passed by the House.
 Chairman Cumniins of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, was prepared to also push the bill to en- large and extend the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission to tissue orders. for prior:ftieS. embah- goes and other suitable measures for the, equitable distribution of coal "during the emergency which the bill would declare existed because of the coal and railroad strikes.
 The bill would create a federal fuel distrt button agency, under fed eral fuel distributor, to assist in car rying out the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commissio on and to ascer- tain the extent of coal shortages, prof1teeripg and other evils growing out of the strikes.
 Cummins plans to have his com nnittee report the bill to the Senate tomorrow and request immediate con- siderat tion Of it.
 A similar biN is before the House Interstate Commerce Committee, which also planned to report it promptly in order to expedite the drive of the administration and Republican leaders for the early en- actment of such legislation into law.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Indemnity SnarL Faces
 Grdue Crisis Ln Germany

Berlin, Aug. 25-ChancelIor
 Wirths government today was
 confronted with the gravest crisis
 since it took office as result of
 the indemnity snarI. It is learned
 that decisions of the gravest inn
 portance are impending.
 Germany offered to place fifty mil lion gold marks at the disposal of the inter-aIlied separations commits sion as a guarantee to pledge coal and timber deliverfies, but M. Mau- cler.e, chairman of the. guarantees Bradbury, British representative on the separations commission, who came to BerLln with M. Mauclere to exam inc Germanys pledges, was willing to accept the offer, but he was over ruled.
 The cabinet was in session through a great part of the night. Subse- ouently, A. B. Houghton, the Ameri- Tor Wir-th and made inquiries regard ing the situation. The Chancellor made no effort to hide the seriousn ess of Germany's position, and admitted that catastrophe confronts the na- ton. The Chancellor said that he feared it would be too late to do anything good even if a five months moratorium were granted now.
 Later on Hugo St1nnes, the great industrial magnate, called upon Chan .cellor Wirth.
 World Declaration Coming
 Belief was expressed that the only thing that can save the present cabi- net from humiliation and resignation is flat declaration to the world that Germany has abandoned the policy of fulfillment'-that is, the policy of meeting the allied demands on indemnity. Such a declaration. it was pointed out, would give the Wirth ministry united political front regardless of all consequences and even if the French should carry out their threat to occupy the Ruhr coal fields with troops.
 Following the recent speeches of Premier Poincore Of France, it is re- garded as certain in some govern ment circles that France will send her troops into the Ruhr within a very short time.
 That Chancellor Wirth is strongly considering the open scrapping of the "fulfillment policy" was intimat- ed in a declaration to International News Service, when he said:
 ''The governments policy has now reached a limit where the very brea q of this generation is threatened.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Mother And Sons Separated 58 Years
 To Meet Again
BY KENNETH HARRIS, International News Service Staff
 COrreSpOndent.


 Kansas City, Mo-, Aug 25.-Just when the clouds of adversity hung heaviest over the pathway of life of Mrs. Mary Margaret Roper, eighty, a resident at the county poor house. a ray of sunshine pierced through. For the aged woman has Just round her two sons, who were Kidnapped fiety-eight years ago. Nearly sixty years she had spent alternately hop ing and despairing of finding her boys who were literally snatched from her arms when they were scarcely able to toddle. More than $10, 0OO-thirty years back pension-wi11 be her if nancial compensation for. the heart have elapsed since baby fingers car essingly toyed with her locks Of a mothers tress whose marital craft at that time was sailing upon a calm sea.
 Bluebird Comes
 There is spring in Mrs. Roper step these days, and she is all smiles. Her "Bluebird of Happiness appar- cheap calico dresses which have graced the hooks in the little room at. the home of the aged, where Mrs. Roper has made quilts for the last ten years have been discarded. In their stead several black silk ones, with lace fringes around the collars have appeared.
 This woman, whose three score 
 tibly halt her step or dim her vision received a letter from one of her which he expressed himself as overjoyed, she said, to ed her a cordial invitation to come live him and his family. z This Mrs. Roper has planned to do. Her other son, Charles. is married and has two children.
 A prominent local attorney. who often visits the poor house and whose phi1anthropic actions keep him con- stant1y in the Emelight. received a cheery greeting from Mrs. Roper when he visisted her. This man has been a marketing agent for her handiwork for some time.
 Won't Make Quilts.
 Smiling she shook hands with her plained. That money I was saving to bury myself with I've spent in buy ing clothes to go to my son. You see, I have family now.'
 She then showed the attorney sew eral photographs of Charles and children were one and four years old respectively. Her friends-and they are legion-wagered that no woman in Jackson County is any proude1 f Shortly after Lee surrendered to Grant at Richmond, Mrs. Roper's husband returned to Springfield, Ohio their home, she said. Scarcely a wife quarreled. Roper departed for parts unknown the following day, talk ing the children with him. The strain of the separation from her loved ones proved too much for the deserted wife and mother. She went to the home of her sister to re- cuperate and made her home there until her sisters death.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Index Issued On ss.~
 Health Of Business

washington, Aug. 25-A health of { business index based on the postal re- ceipts of fifty selected industrial cities of the country is to be issued monthly by the Post Office Department, in addition to the list of the fifty leading cities in amount of postal receipts which has been issued for more than 20 years. -
 The first announcement of the busi- ness health index by Assistant Post master General Glover shows July postal receipts for the selected indus trial cities increased 10.45 per cent. over July a year ago, while in the hfty leading cities of the country the in crease was 11.62 per cent. The postal receipts of the fifty industrial cities totaIed S2,164,441 compared with $1,959,547 in July last year.
 Albuquerque, New Mexico, had the largest percentage of increase with 4O.59 per cent, whtue South Bend, Ind, increased SIPS per cent. Tren- ton, N J., z27.51 per cent. Topeka, Kans, 25.45 per cent, Pueblo, Colo. 2O.49 per cent, and Tampa, Fla, 21.21 per cent.
 < The fifty industrial cities selected for the business health index with their July postal receipts and the per centage of increase over the July, 1921 receipts, with Bridgeport rank ing nineteenth, are:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
RACE HORSE DOPING IN
 PARIS TO BE PROBED: VI AMERICANS ARE BLAMED

Paris. Aug. 25--The biggest doping Scandal since pre-war days, involving according to report. several American trainers is the sensation of that large part of Paris known as the racing world. Stewards of the racing clubs have the cases under advisement and it is expected that several trainers Ewill be barred for life from French racing stables.
 Frequently, throughout the sea- son. dark horses have come in as winners upsetting all predictions and -aH dope based on records. The saliva of some of the horses " htch had been acting peculiarly was, examined by a veternarian pr. Kauffmann.
 L'Eclair pointedly states that these examinations were directed especially at several American trainers. Accord ing to the sporting editor of this pa per doping is an American custom and, despite their energetic denials, if doping has been introduced into France the Americans are reSpon- sfb1e
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Rv T. BART CAMPBELL.

By J. BART CAMHBELL.
 Washington, Aug. 25-Stam-
 peded into decisive action by the
 rapidly increasing peril of a fuel famine this Fall and Winter, Con-
 gross dropped everything today
 for consideration of drastic
 supplied with coal during the
 coming cold months and to pre-
 vent a recurrence of existing or
 impending coal shortages due to
 the anthracite and bftuminous
 strikes.
 The grave danger of intense
 suffering and sickness-even
 freezing-among the people or
 those states where Winter is, most
 seyere-dinned into the ears of
 Senator and Representatives alike
 by torrent of telegrams-gal-
 vanized both Senate and House
 into grappling with a situation
 which threatens to become even
 worse than that of the terrible
 Winter of 1917-191S.
 Gone was the thought of the Senate concentrating it's attention upon tho Soldiers Bonus Bill while the House did little or nothing until the Tariff measure is out of conference and be- fore it again. Senate debate turned from the Bonus to the coal crisis and to the railroad strike. sas
 Calder Leads Move.
 Seizure of the mines by the PreSi- soon settled, urged by Senator Calder, New York, was before the Senate Interstate Commerce Com mitt;ee in the form of a joint reSolu- ticn offered by Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, of Massachusetts, to empower the President to take over all mines wh lose products are shipped in Inter- state Comm er'ce in order to open them up and furnish coal to the people. While the Walsh resolution was aimed at all mines it was intended as a weapon to be used by the President to deal particularly with the anthra- cite situation.
 "A desperate situation confrontS the country" Senator Calder said. ''We are but sixty days from the usual period of frost and anthracite coal
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
German Money Slump

The plung of the value of the Ger man mark downward six hundred points in a single day constituted a death blow to German industry. Many factories will be forced to close within the next fortnight throwing hundreds of thousands of wor1Smen out of employment. Already there is much misery among the working classes and there Is a growing dis position to believe that increasing un- employment will lead to dangerous troubles.
 The collapse of Germany's money can best be visiualized by Americans when it is realized that twenty Ger man marks of the normal value of nearly $5, can now be bought for one American penny.
 The negotiations of the reparations committee continue, but no relief is expected from them. Not even by pated that the negotiations would end today with a further plunge down ward in the value of~the mark. The sudden tohogganing of the mark on clere's flat rejection of all German counter proposals. M. MaucIere who is Frances delegate on the g,1aran- tees committee and also chairman French seizure of all German state owned forests and coal mines and military occupation of the left bank of the Rhine. M. Mauc1ere called
 
 anteeS."
 Secrecy in Proceedings.
 The negotiations which have been carried on here in behalf of the Re parations Commission by NJ MaucIere and Sir John Bradbury of England have been conducted with great secrecy, opening the way to all kinds Of rumors and resulting in a yeritahIo orgy of speculation.
 The new panic on the exchange market has exceeded anything tbat ever went before. The rise in nrices Of all commodities is keeping pace with the rise in value of the dollar Butter, meat and sugar have increa sad thirty per cent in price in 4S ho11rs crowds are beleaguering the food stores. It has become necessary to restrict the hours of sales to nreye,,t being outsold within a few hours aftar the opening in the morning.
 Ihe entire press had adopted a most sioomy and pessimistic tone
 Germany seems doomed to cb.os ?, sald the Loka1 Anzeiger today
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Europe Dulled From Effects
 Of Conflict
By DAVID M. CHURCH, News Service Staff c
respondent.

respondent.
 London. Aug. 25-The people of Europe have been physically stunted by the great World War and its after effects, according to pr. Royal S. Copeland. Health Commissioner of tour of Central Europe.
 The physical growth of Europe's population has been seriously re- tarded and shows in the everyday walks of nfe. Dr. Copeland said. Ba- bies who were undernourished during the war are growing up into unfit children. Adults who suffered from effects are greatly undermined in health, and their progeny must be weakened.
 Austria is in a pitiful condition" greatest poverty in Austria. People are not dying from starvation, but they are suffering seriously from the effects of mal-nutrition- I saw old university professors, proud men, whose backs were premature1y bent and whose fingers were gnarled and twisted. all because their bones were softening because of improper food. It was pitiful sight.
 stChiIdren are being born, am told, without finger-nails-a sign of lack ton which must seriously effect the health of the child and of the gen aration.
 se.sGermany is different. I have never seen Germany more pToSpeI- ous-
 %@sPoland is in a pitiful condition be- cause of the huge numbers of refu- gees who are returning to their homes from Russia, where they were de- ported during the war.
 .The children of the war present an interesting study. l am told that some of the children, mostly Che ch1l- dren of the poor, who were born un- der war stress are subnormal phy- sicaIlY and mentally. On the other hand I am told that the children or the wealthy, who were used 10 pam s,ering and overlooking and too much care. are abnormal both mentally end physically because of the re- strictions which were forced upon them during the war, making their lives more normal.
 ..The health of Europe has certain ly been lowered by the war, and the Europe will not be erased for years to come"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
MISSES HIS FIRST VOTE
 SINCE LINCOLN'S TIME

Middleport, Ohio, Aug. 25-Thomas Thorne is downcast. He recently lost the Ohio primaries-his only vote since he first voted His initial ballot was cast for Abraham Lincoln.
 Since that time Thorne never missed an election, casting his vote on every and could not get to the polls.
 Dating from the first adnainistra-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
ITALIAN VILLAGE PUTS
 BAN ON BAD LANGUAGE

Rome, Aug. 25-The little province of, Verona is becoming purist. An organization for the suppression of profanity has succeeded in reducing bad languages 75 per cent. within three months. Placards warning against profanity are. all over the city, and there is now a movement on foot to have the police take the names Of those who give vent to strong langu- age.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25

Romance an exceptionally good bill is completed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
Calais Docks Wiped Out By
 Conhagration

Calais France, Aug. 25-A large section of the Calais, docks and ware English Channel-were destroyed by fire today. An entire regiment of tn- fantry was ordered out to assist the flremen. Great quantities of British army supplies were lost and for time the blaze threatened to ignite 10000 gallons of army rum.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
MARK FALLS AGAIN.

London. Aug. 25-The German mark sGumped in today's dealings on the London Exchange market, being quot ed at more than 10000 to the pound sterling, or 2,200 to the dollar.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-25
DEATH OF Fl. O. NoBIE

Hartford, Conn. Aug. 25-How..rd c. Noble, president of the North and J udd Manufacturing company of New Britain, died late last night Sn the Hartford hospital. He was ssta years old "
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-11-16
Young Man Dies.

Darlington Republican Journal:
Hans Lauener, who had the misfor-
tune to have his right hand caught in
a corn shredder on the farm of Ed
ward Stauffacher near Calamine one
week ago last Saturday, and had sew
eral fingers and the hand badly in
jured, and who was thought to be
getting along nicely, developed lock-
jaw on Saturday morning. The best
medical skill could not relieve the
sufferer and he passed away at nine
o'clock on Sunday evening at the
home of Mr.. Stauffacher. The de-
ceased was 10 years of age and came
to America, and Darlington, on July
4, 1920.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-11-16
HOLL A ND ALE

November 8, 1922.
Mr.. and Mrs Ed Hickey, spent
Friday at Blanchardville.
( Ernest Weidenfeller spent over
Sunday at his home at Madison.
Miss Leona Mediation spent over
Sunday at Ridgeway
Miss Ruth Ducey was a Dodgeville
caller Friday.
Misses Marie Slamer and Cleo
Rohr, who teach near here, spent
over Sunday at their home in Dodge
vile.
Miss Mildred McDermott has been
on the sick list the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ingebritsen
and daughter of West Salem, visited
here the past week.
Ed. Hickey had business at
Blanchardville Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Hues Of
Barneveld, visited here Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs Collins and children
Of Gays Mills, are visiting at the Ell
mer Collins home.
Mrs. Ray Toay is visiting at the
Toay home near Ridgeway.
Ernest Julson spent Saturday at
Dodgeville.
Tena Hendrickson of Blanchard
Vile, spent Friday here.
Ruth Ducey and Mrs. M. B. De-
Muth, spent Thursday at Blanchard
vile.
The Community Club will meet
Thursday evening, Nov. at the Ii
brary.
Mr.. and Mrs o. J. Strand and
daughter, spent Thursday at Argyle.
Don't forget the Stunt Program"
given by the High School, Nov. II.
Mrs Terry Of London, Canada,
is visiting here.
Miss Mae Uren of Waldwick spent
Saturday at the H. C. Blasdell home,
A number from here attended the
funeral of Joseph Klosterman at
Blanchardville Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Stanley and
Mrs. Josie Parks, motored to OAR
lington Monday.
Mrs. Ernest Julson and baby son,
returned from the hospital at Dodge
vile Saturday.
Miss Hutchinson of Chicago, us Wis
iting at the Pat Downey home,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-11-16
Service TO Sellers Of Livestock
An Opportunity for Breeders With Surplus Livestock tor Sale
To Get in TOUGH With Buyers by Calling at Local Banks

grades and purebreds of all breeds,
but only purebred sires, are handled
bv the Exchange. The largest de-
mand seems to be for grade and
purebred Guernseys and Ho1steins.
Supplying Carload Lots
We have large demand from
outside the state cattle in carload
lots. These buyers we refer to COM
munities that have one or more car
loads of surplus stock for sale. We
get them in touch with some reliable
local man recommended by the bank
or breeders association, who has an
auto and the time to take the buyers
from farm to farm, show the stock
for sale and when purchased, help
assemble, test and load the stock
that has been secured. 1t farmers
who have livestock for sale will re-
port to their local banks or to the
Banker-Farmer Exchange, Madison,
Wis, their stock will then be avail
able either for individual buyers or
for carload lot shipments.
FER EXCHANGE
.dbourne Ave-, Madison, Wis.
DoI~o Ct~oo% NH;~a~oJ Da;rf Wis
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-11-16

Mrs NJ T. Ward of Sparta, is Wis
iting her daughter, Mrs. Henry
Springer.
DR.. Corliss Toay and family OF
Stoughton, were guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Toay Thurs
day.
Mrs. Guy White returned last week
from a visit with her mother in Cuba
City.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Springer, 523 Maiden street,
November Z, 1922.
Misses Marion Jacka and Berniece
White returned to Whitewater Nor
NAL Sunday, after spending a several
days vacation at their homes here.
Mrs. Earl Pilling left Saturday to
join her husband in visit with rela-
tives at Kansas City, Kansas.
Mrs. Edward Stone of Willow
Springs, visited relatives and friends
here the fore part of last week.
Mrs. John B. Harker of Waldwick,
was the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Allen Tuesday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Heindel of
South Wayne, were the guests of DR..
and Mrs. A D. Brown Friday.
Harold Chamley came from Beloit
College Friday to visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Chamley and at
tended the football game in Madison
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Baxter, Mr..
and Mrs. John Callow, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. J. Kelly, Mrs. Frank Vivian, Mrs.
Jane Kirst and James Woolrich, at
tended the funeral of Mr.. e. G. Will
Jams in Dodgeville Friday
Mrs. Fred Nicholson visited in OAR
lington Wednesday.
Mrs Bailey Stevens left Thursday
for Chicago, to spend the winter with
her daughter Mrs. George Philips.
Dr. Lyle French of Benton, spent
over Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George French.