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The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-02

new amendment and the reasonable
exercise OF power actually posse 5cd
than any other OF the myriads Of
pies underlying the Nolstcad act were
originally upheld. | have always held
that certain clauses in the Volstead
law are unreasonable, arbitrary and
unconstitutional and will not stand the
tt st in law or equity, and therefore
cannot be maintained in the very ma
ture of things because the Volstead
act lies.
GEORGE A. RITTER.
st. Louis Mo.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-02
(No. 9s02D
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

In the Circuit Court Of Buchanan County,
Missouri, 10 the January Term. A. D., 1923.
State OF Missouri, County Of Buchanan, SIS.
Margaret ]. Ryan..,.......,........Pl Plaintiff
We.
Ralph Ryan ,......,.........,....De Defendant
Now at this day comes the plaintiff by her
attorney and It appearing to the satsfacton
Of the Circuit Court that said defendant
Ralph Ryan, is non'resident Of the State Of
Missouri, and does not reside therein, and
has absconded and absented himself from
his usual place Of abode IN this State, Il Is
ordered that said nonresident defendant be
notified by puhlication, as required by law.
that Iaid plaintiff has commenced her suit in
this Court against said defendant by petition
and affidavit, the object and general nature
Of which - 70 obtain decree Of divorce an
the ground that defendant has offered lain.
th SUCH indignitiss as render her condition
In lie intolerable, In coming home druak, and
asSaulting her and striking her. In cur sing
her and gambling and accusing her Of infi.
delityi and on the ground OF vagrsncy IN that
he has failed 20 support and provide for
plaintiff. That unleSi the said Ralph Ryan
ghlll be and appear at the next term q this
ESlrt, 70 be begun and held at the Court
House, In the City Of 81. Joseph a. Buchanan
County. State Of Missouri. on the first day OF
! January. ig2i on ur beiore tie thlrd day ot
said term, to answer plaintiffs petition, the
same will be taken ior confessed as TO him
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-02
DEMOCRATS WILL CON-
TROL SENATE AND HOUSE

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an, which had four, lost one In the re-
apportionment.
Democrats also wrested control OF
the state senate from the Republi-
cans. who captured it in the landslide
Of 1920. The Democrats will have I9
and the Republicans Is state senators.
Democrats have one more than a con-
stitutlonal majority in that body.
Democrats apparently will be pow
erless to repeal any of the Republican
legislative program enacted by the
Republican legislature of 1921. be-
cause Gov. Hyde can interpose his
veto and Democrats are without two
thirds majority to pass a measure
over his veto.
Change i'm the Iinc-Up
Only a serious breach in the Re-
publican lineup would enable the
Democrats to muster two-thirds upon
bill.
lineup as compiled by Becker, but
Democratic control in any event is
assured. William Job, Of Nodaway,
and william Prlchard. of Davies,
Democrats, were elected by and
votes, respectively. But the slim ma
jorities were given them on the Of
ft.tz1 ,o,,,t o,J Cn1,. q coptes+ bofora
the legislature could unseat them.
william Turbett, Of Cole, Republican,
was declared elected on tho face of
returns by votes. by the two Republl-
can commissioners appointed by a
Republican county court to count the
absentee votes The two Democratic
commissioners who helped count the
absentee votes. filed another report
with the county court declaring c. b.
Corwin elected by 16 votes. 121 bal
! lots In the Fifth ward Of jefferson
City are In controversy. being without
numbers Turbett may be unseated
by the Democrats II his election is
contested by his Democratic opponent,
c. y. Corwin,
VIII Probably Skip Hyde
During the campaign Senator Jas.
A. Reed. while denouncing alleged
police oppression in Kansas City. re-
peatedly suggested that the Demo-
Gratis institute Impeachment proceed
ings against Gov. Hyde. provided they
controlled both branches OF the gem
oral assembly. 1t Is extremely un-
likely that such a movement will now
be inavguratsd.
Several Democrats are candidates
for tho leadership Of tho House.
among the active contendera being
Oak Hunter. Of Randolph county.
who is reported to have many pledges,
and H. o. Maxey. OF Bates, who. too.
will make q strong showing In the
Democratic caueus ID. L. Bales. OF
Ssnahnod oourey VIII eJrnv with srrone
! following from South Central Mis-
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-02

Two hold-ups entered the home Of
H. Friedman, Eleventh and DoRiphan,
Thursday night and at the point of
revolver tried to get money from him,
but as he had none they soon quit and
departed
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-02

souri, and c. NJ. Edwards, of Dunklin.
also is a candidate. Just now the
fight seems to be centered around
Hunter and MaXey.
Two women will occupy seats in the
House, these being Miss Sarah l..
Turner of Kansas City and Mrs. Nell
GENE T. Smith OF St. Louis county,
both Democrats.
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-02

and judgment rendered accordingly.
II is iurther ordered that a copy OF this
order be published in TIE ST. Joseph oh.
server, a Newspaper published in the Coubty
Of Buchanan, ior four weeks successi .ely, the
last insertion Of which to be at least fifteen
days before the next January, 1923, term oi
this Court.
A true copy. Atteeti
LMsaETf }. GROUSE.
tSeaD Clerk.
BY Z. > McNeramy. Deputy Clerk.
Morte VI Cra.G, Attorney Tor Plaintiff. ann
The St. Joseph observer., 1922-12-02

va al tIdAs
Clcmcnccau now tells us Germany is
getting ready FOR another war That
[ am not willing to believe. "Ne well
der Krieg" is Gcrmany's motto today.
Tho Socialists, now in power in Ger
many, are opposed to all wars. So
it is reasonable to believe that Glenn
cncoau, the. Tiger. is mistaken in his
demonstrations The world could not
survive another war. Besides the
world is too busy hunting for food and
other necessary things that it has no
time to 60 to war. Fighting is done
with the brain and heart more than
with armies. Let us not tall, war, but
think Of and preach peace on earth
good will to mon"
Germany must not drift into Boil
shcvism ANA anarchy If she ever hopes
to become one of the powerful and
influential nations i'm the world OF to-
day. Germany will yet take her right
ful place in the sun. The Germans
are great race factor. The world
war was stupcndous military and
naval blunder on the part Of the I'm
pcrial government of Germany. 1t
was a crime. Tirpitz, head OF the
German Admiralty, was largely to
blame for the war on the high seas
and Germanys ruthless method OF
submarine warfare, which finally
dragged. forced ana pushed the Unit
ed States government into war with
Germany. This is history. It is the
truth.
It is now charged that the Anti
Saloon League is tied up with Wall
street, that its leaders have Joined
hands with bootleGEors and moon
sinners and that the league has for a
quarter of a century deceived the
American people and blackguarded,
browbeaten and corrupted men in pub
lie life. Yes. and these same fellows
have invested in tax-cxcmpt securi-
ties and the government is cheated
out Of its taxes.
Democratic victory is an asset to
the party aud nation. Newberry re-
signed Just in the mick of time" He
is a wise old guy and foxy, too.
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri
Is "in the making" and his public
record in life will be Of great inter
est to the people of the Mississippi
Valley in particular. However, we
shall see what we shall see. II he
keeps close 70 the hearts Of the COM
mon people he will not go far wrong.
That much is already certain.
The people Of Missouri found more
good points and qualities in Senator
Reed than bad. especially after the
Ku IIlux Klan vigorously denounced
him in Kansas City.
Germany says England deserves to
exist because it produced a William
Shakespeare who was of Teutonic ori-
gin. whether or not he was of Ger
man extraction, he made England live
forever in literature. art and civiliza-
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07
HAGUE 8 AIDE
SEES STR|CKER
Baker Confers With Stricken
and John Kelly on County
Slate, is Report
CANNON FACTION MAD
County Republicans Are Also
Threatened With Serious
Split in Fall Election
CANNON FACTION MAD

NEW BRUNSWICK, July T.
Developments in political circles
here today give every indication that
county leaders of the two major
parties are drawing further apart
and chances of a settlement in the
ranks of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, are slight. A split is
expected at any time.
Followers of Bernard M. Cannon,
recognized leader of Middlesex
county Democrats, see an effort on
the part of Hudson county to pre-
pare a local ticket for Middlesex
county. in the meeting of James
Baker, president of the state board
of taxation and lieutenant of
Mayor Frank Hague. of Jersey City,
with Prosecutor Joseph z. Stricken
and Water Commissioner John w.
Kelly. of Perth Amboy, in this city
today. The Cannon mon are out
spoken in their objections, claiming
that the meeting today is for the
purpose of making up a county slate
for the coming election.
There is considerable feeling in
the Republican ranks as result OF
the story made public yesterday that
F.. William Hilker, would be the &.
o. p. machine candidate for surro-
gate, and the naming of four new
candidates for the assembly slate.
AS a result of this action. there is
every indication that an independent
Republican ticket will be placed in
the field this year.
Charles Forman, who was ex-
pected to run for surrogate as the
regular machine candidate, will not
| be entered on the independent tic
land Park, will be the independents
candidate for this Office. The three
| men who were mentioned as the
| machine candidates for the assem-
! bly,, Edward Peterson, Wilton Az
| plegate and Franklin Richie. early
| this year, were not mentioned in
| the announcement of yesterday and
| it is probable they will be inde-
! pendent candidates for these offices.
William Klein, of South River.
and either Robert Carson, of this
| city, or Ferd Garretson. of Perth
Amboy, will be the independent
| Republican candidates for freehold
er. Louis Belloff and Clarence
Haight are the machine candidates,
and it appears as if these men arc
satisfied to accept the defeat of the
entire Republican ticket, with their
own exception. political observers
| here claim.
State Committeeman Frederick
Schneider and Sheriff Elmer Wye
%off are known not to be on good
| terms with majority of the pres
ent freeholders, and State Senator
| Morgan Larson recently had an out
break with the members of the coun-
| ty board. Schneider and Wyckoff
| are recognized as Larson men.
| Sheriff Wyckoff has been active in
circulating petitions of United States
Senator Frelinghuysen, candidate
| for reelection, and William Run
| yon, candidate for governor, but the
sheriff makes it known that he is not
| doing this work in an effort to as
sumo the leadership of county Re-
| publicans, but as Republican in an
| effort to assist two friends, who are
seeking election.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07
P. A, BUILDING LOAN
REFLECT ALBERT LEON

At the annual meeting OF the
shareholders of the Perth Amboy
Building & Loan Association held
last night Albert Leon was reflect
ed president; Carl Christensen, vice
president; Abel Hansen, treasurer,
and Harry E. Comings. secretary.
The directors reelected were isaac
Alpern, William P. Bradley, JACOB
Greenspan and Abel Hansen. With
Carl C. Christensen, Harry E. Com
ings, Adolph Greenbaum. Morgan
f. Larsen, Albert Leon, Victor w.
Main, Charles NJ. Peterson and Sol
Rubenstein these compose the en-
tire board of directors.
The association has grown from
assets July /, 1921, OF s325,000 70
assets of 100000 July 1, 1922. The
association now has an Office fully
equipped to handle all business dur
ing banking hours and man on
duty during this period, permitting
the payments to be made at any
time instead of on the last Thursday
of the month as formerly.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07
BUILDING
. To START SOON
Grouse Gets Big Contract
To Tear Down Old Structure
Starting July Is

Albert Leon, local dealer in fur
niture and household goods, this
morning awarded the contract for
the erection of new six-story
building to be built at Smith AMI
King streets. The new store, to be
the largest in Perth Amboy and
one of the largest in the state. will
be entirely devoted to Mr.. Icons
business.
Ira r. Grouse, of this city, was
the contractor whose bid was low
est and who will construct the
building. Other bidders were con-
tractors of Perth Amboy. Trenton,
New York and Newark.
Work of dismantling the struc-
ture at present on the Smith and
King street site will be commenced
shortly after July is, the presect
occupants having been notified that
they must vacate not later than
that date. Construction of the fur
niture establishment will begin ms
soon as the old building has been
removed and present plans of Mr.
Leon call for its completion by
February 1 Of next year.
Mr.. Leon has expressed his graft
fcation at being able to have the
work executed by local contractor
and announces that by agreement
with Mr.. Grouse. local union labor
will be employed insofar as possible
The plans and specifications.
drawn by Architect Benjamin Gold
berger of this city, call for SIX
story building of steel and brick
ftreproofed throughout and with
smoke and fire towers. The first
floor will be twenty feet in heigh:h
with a mezzanine floor to be wholly
devoted to the phonograph business
OF the concern. Show windows will
stretch across the front of the store
and for sixty feet on the King street
side.
Modern features of the building
will include a sprinkler system an6
passenger and freight elevators. The
lot on which the store is to 20 vi
il 40 by 125 feet and the six stories
will place 10000 square feet of fiooi
space at the disposal of the business
Mr.. Icons new quarters will con.
stitute triumph in merchandising
establishments in Perth Amboy anG
the state. None but the most mod.
ern features of such stores will bs
embodied in the building.
Mr.. Leon began his furniture
business in Perth Amboy eighteer
years ago, His first location was il
the quarters at present occupied By
the Reynolds dry goods store, al
134 Smith street. Outgrowing thai
building he moved to the Smith anc
State street site nine years ago, bu
that, too, proved inadequate for the
growing business and new quarters
became essential.
Some months ago the new site
was acquired and preparations tor
the construction of the new homo oi
the Leon store have been going
ahead steadily since that time.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07

preliminary surveys for the change
in the tracks of these railroads
through this city and the solicitors
OF these companies are now pego-
tiating with the owners of property
which must be secured by the rail-
reads in order TO put through this
Improvement.
ties along the proposed route of tha
Central and Pennsylvania railroads
will cost these companies hundreds
of thousands of dollars. all of which
is paid by the railroads without any
financial assistance from the city.
The city must. however. paw the
cost of relaying the water mains,
sewer pipes, curbs and other similar
changes which must be made as a
result of the grade crossing elimi-
nation.
AS soon as the actual construction
work is commenced on the grade
crossing job Perth Amboyans will be
greatly benefited. The railroad en-
gineers in charge of the work will
establish offices here. make their
residence here during the entire
length of the work, local labor will
be hired to do the large amount of
common labor required in excavat-
ing and filling for a project of this
kind.
The new route will be directly
west of the present tracks, thus
making it possible to carry on the
work of putting the new system
without interfering with the pres
ent rail service except at the time
| when the tracks will be connected
with the main line at the Raritan
| river railroad bridge and on the
| northern outskirts of the city.
The plans, as approved by the util-
ity commission, call for depression
of the railroad tracks and an eleva-
ton of the street at each crossing
These elevations will differ consid-
erably, the highest bridge being that
at Washington street where the road
will reach an elevation of about 80
feet above the present street level.
Approaches sufficiently long to al
low of vehicles to pass over these
bridges with the minimum effort are
called for in the plans. The only
place where the street will go under
the rails will be at New Brunswick
avenue, where the Lehigh Valley
tracks will pass over the road.
The future aspect OF the city will
be entirely changed by the new
grade crossing plans, and. although
there was strong opposition by some
local residents to the adoption of the
plans as approved by the utility
board. many prominent and infiu-
entail men maintain that the change
will be the biggest thing in the city's
history and will be the means OF
making Perth Amboy a greater city.
The continued delay to both pe-
destrians and vehicles caused by the
gates being down at the various
city's grade crossings. will be thing
of the past with the completion of
the new system and this item alone
is an important factor in favor of ths
change. to say nothing of the in-
creased safety to human life, resi-
dents here say. The toll paid by per-
sons who have been killed on this
citys grade crossings in the past
will cease with the installation of tho
new plan.
Perth Amboy can now be consid-
cred as passing through a period OF
transition and upon completion OF
the grade elimination project will
have a new lease on life, so to
speak. with opportunities for de-
velopment and expansion greater
than before.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07
MILK COMBINE HERE, SAYS STRICkER
Make FIRST MOVES TO END CROSSINGS
BOY ROBBERS CAUGHT
and LOOT Recovered
IN DESERTED HOUSE

From beneath a broken board in
the flooring of a dusty garret in the
deserted building at 254 Smith
street two undersiZed and woe be-
gone youngsters of ten and eleven
years. respectively. last night drag
ged forth stolen goods to the value
of several hundred dollars.
The loot was uncovered in the
presence of Detective Lieutenant
Joseph Gutowski, Detective Michael
Muska and Chauffeur William
Buchan, who had just arrested the
two juvenile offenders while they
were feasting their adventure
loving souls upon thrilling motion
picture drama in one of the city's
theatres.
Confronted with certain facts i'll
the possession of the detectives the
frightened infants broke down dur
ing their examination and revealed
the entire story in connection with
at least six robberies that have been
executed in Perth Amboy within
the last month. They made COM
plete confessions, the. police say, of
the whole series of unfortunate ex-
cursions after excitement and then
conducted the officers to the place
where they had hidden the stolen
goods.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07

From the hole in the flooring,
just large enough to insert BOYS
hand. the lads drew out flashlights,
film for toy moving picture ma
chimes, knives, gold and silver PEN
ellis, and numerous other articles
which they had carried off from the
robbed stores. In another corner
Of the garret were two express
wagons of the coaster variety. toys
that no boy of such tender age could
resist.
From the tale of iniquity related
by the youngsters it was conclusive
ly shown that both possessed over
developed ingenuity that might bet
ter have been applied to other activi-
ties. The little shavers had forced
windows, removed panels in inside
doors. broken locks. and in one case,
that of Mccormick hardware store,
they had even opened safe.
Sunday was the favorite day for
operations, they said, although one
job that involved the two express
wagons was done on the Fourth of
July, in broad daylight. The boys
calmly stole the express wagons and
pulled them through the streets to
the hiding place in the garret of
the vacant house.
CONTINUED on page ~
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07
NEW HOSPITAL
SITE OFFERED
FreehoIders Act to Dispose Of
Property by State Health
Board

NEW BRUNSWICK, July T.
Middlesex county's $4S,000 tubercu-
lar hospital site, which has been re-
jected as unfit for the location of
such an institution by the State
Board of Health, is to be sold by the
Board of Freeholders, while owners
of other lands are losing no oppor-
tunity in their endeavors to inter-
est the county fathers in purchasing
a new piece of ground for that pur-
pose.
A resolution was introduced at the
meeting yesterday authorizing the
sale of the property, which having
been declared unfit for the purpose
for which it was purchased several
years ago, is now declared to be
useless to the county. The board
members were unanimous in favor
ing the sale and the clerk of the
board was directed to advertise for
bids on the property.
Two communications were before
the board offering land for such
hospital at distance of not over
two miles from the rejected site
though no action was taken in the
matter, the letters being filed with
Freeholder Louis J. Belloff, who is
chairman of the committee on asy-
lums.
The New Jersey farm exchange of
Newark offered a thirty-six acre
farm along the Pennsylvania rail-
road about two miles from Metuch-
en-. This tract is priced at $21 900
and an agent of the company who
appeared at the meeting asserted
that the existing buildings on the
plot could be readily converted into
a hospital.
The second offering was for an
eight and three-quarter acre site be-
tween South Plainfield and New
Market, also on the line of the
Pennsylvania railroad and though no
price was mentioned by Mrs. C. H..
Lawrence, of Metuchen, she assert
ed that the property could be bought
very cheap.
Just what course the freeholders
propose to pursue in acquiring hos
pital for the treatment of tubercu-
losis patients Is not known as there
was no discussion of any kind when
the resolution was presented and
adopted authorizing the sale of the
Menlo Park tract.
Though the settlement of this
question seems a long way from
solution, the number of patients
cared for by the county continues on
the increase, seven new commit
ments being authorized yesterday
for Bonnie Burne and White Haven
at a cost per patient of $1S week.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-07
Railroads Act To Acquire
Property For Ending Of
Grade Crossings Here

Two propositions, Involving the
expenditure of about $4,000. 900, are
now under way which will have a
great beneficial effect on the future
of Perth Amboy. The railroad
grade crossing elimination project,
which, according to the estimates of
local experts. will cost in the neigh
borhood of $6,000,000, is now rnder
way and the construction of the rev
state highway bridge across the
Raritan River to Perth Amboy will
represent an expenditure of more
than $3,000,000.
Engineers of the New Jersey Cen
trail, Pennsylvania and Lehigh rail
roads. have been at work for sew
era, months making the necessary