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CASH GRAIN
ST. LOUIS Me-, May 16.-Cash wheat:
12s c 20 Ne white. s5 @s5Ac; No
4elac; No white. ASH @45%c.
ST; LOUIS. Mo. May 15.-wheat: May.
Slil7; Jnly. sI.lsss. Corn: May. sshc
44ac. '' 'f"'' july
M MIN nn5iaeen M NJ May 1s-wheat
as@ Sao%c: Flax; No. i. ss os Wal's'
:1;ss Alsike, prime cash, 1885, 1885, S May.
81 rs: October, s1l.so. Timothy, prime
cash. 1880; May, $40; October. a.66c.
~ KANSAS Ss CITY, Mo-. May 15.-wheat:
i.sl. Corn: No. yellow w. s7@ ea e1 No Z
mixed, SEC. Oats: No. white, 46c; No.
white. 43la @44c.
CHICAGO. May 15-wheat: No. sales.
Corn: No No. mixed, soh asoHc: No. vel
Barley. e1@s7c. Timothy seed sSas.25.
GLOVER seed. si2@ls: Pork nominal. Lard.
1887; ribs. IS. 5oG9.S7.
PRODUCE AND POULTRY
NEW YORK. May 15.-Live and dressed
poultry steady and unchanged.
KANSAS CITY. May 15.-Butter. eggs
and poultry unchanged.
CHICAGO, May 15.--Butter UNCHANGED.
EGGS unchanged; receipts, $3.50 cases
46@ 4sc; ROSTERS, 1870.
NEW YORK. May 15.-Butter steady;
receipts. 1l,240; creamery higher than ex-
tras 43A q 44c. Eggs steady; receipts
81. 1856; New Jersey hennery whites closely
selected extras, 37640c. Cheese firmer:
receipts. 2S4.017 pounds; state whole milk
diats fresh fancy. 22Q23c: average run.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May 15.-Butter, 42hc,
poultry and eggs unchanged.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May 16.-FIour
unchanged. Bran. S27.
CHICAGO VEGETABLES
CHICAGO May 15.-Onions: Texas
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FIRMER TONE Isl
SHOWN BY BONDS
In QUIET SESSION

NEW YORK. May 15.-Bond prices
displayed a somewhat firmer tone In
today's quiet trading, price changes
generally being of a fractional charac-
ter The principal activity took place
in speculative issues. there being
comparatively little demand for the
high grade mortgages.
\ gain of ! point in Italian 61as
was the only outstanding change In
the foreign exchange group. United
States government issues moved IT.
regularly within a radius of one-six-
teenth of l point
The active railroad mortgages
showed only narrow and generally
unimportant changes.
In the industrial list. Montana
Power SIS advanced / z points, but
losses of l to ia were registered
by Marland Oil SIS, with warrants,
Midvale Steel convertible IS and
Brooklyn Edison Is. Series B, Total
sales, par value, s7,4S5,000.
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SAVANNAH. Ga. May 15.-Turpentine
firm, 81 OF; sales. 1852: receipts. SOL; ship
ments 35s; stock. 3,776. Rosin firm;
sales. $50; receipts. 2.s42: shipments.
$3.50; stock. 66.145. Quote: B. $40; D,
81. so: E. H.s5: F, $40; @. $40: H.
s4.75: to H. $4.75: N. IS: VIC. IS:
WV. IS.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. May ,15.-Tur.
pentine strong. sl.o7 sales. 24s; receipts
e77; shipments. 1876; stock. 1926.
Ros,n firm; sales. GIG: receipts. 1874:
shipments, 1856; stock 1os,s2S. Quote:
to D. 1865; r to I, S4.72h; X S76; NJ
N.so: N. $50: VIC. 6.25: WV. IS. 20.
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standard. crates. yellow Bermudas. best,

standard. crates. yellow Bermudas. best
50 5O@2.75 poorer, s175@225
Cabbage Alabama barrel crates, flat,
5000. rs; few. SO. SO; Ala bama and Mis-
sssippi pointed. $3.6093.75; few. So. 90.
Tomatoes Florida repacked skies fancy,
Sc rs; few. 1920 o. so: choice. $3.50
s; few. IS rs q 6 so; originals fancy. 81 rs
@4.50.
Sweet potatoes: Tennessee busliel hamp-
ers Nancy Halls. s1.75@2; ordinary, $40
/ 05.
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GASOLINE BOOSTED
Kansas City Distributors Raise Price
Two Cents n GnJIOu

KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 15.-All
the larger gasoline distributing COM
panies in Kansas City except the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana had
tonight raised the price fgasoline 2
cents a gallon to 1874 cents. The gen.
eral increase was precipitated by the
announcement yesterday by the
White Eagle company that it would
increase it's price despite price
war" which it's officers declared was
causing losses.
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NEW YORK. May 15.-Raw sugar was
with Cubas quoted at SIC. cost and
freight. equal to osc for centrifugal.
Raw sugar futures were nervous and
Irregular owing to the slow movement of
refined sugar as result OF the unsea-
sonahle weather and uncertainty over the
governments legal proceedings. There
were declines early of IL points on active
positions. but offerings were not particu-
larly heavy and prices rallied on cover
Ing and at best showed net advances OF
few points from the best and from /
to 6 points net lower. This volume OF
business. however was light. Closing
May 6.12c. July else, September 6.2Sc.
December 5.70c.
Refined unchanged at s.764s. 500 for
fine graduated. The demand was light.
Refined futures nominal.
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WASHlNGION, May 1b:-Imports into
to s4O2 100000 compared with ssos,412,-
s2G in February and 1886, 177.79s in March,
1922.
PITTsBURG. Pa. May Unfinished
steel products enough TO fill $50 freight
600 started south on the Ohio river today
for Louisville, Evansville, St. Louis and
Memphis II was said by the Jones &
Laughln company to be the largest steel
tow 1t has ever sent out.
RICHMOND, Va, May 15.-A az per
cent cash dividend on the common stock,
payable July 10 to stockholders on record
Of juno 49,. was declared by the board of
directors Of the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road at meeting here today The ac-
tion followed the annual meeting of the
stoekholders Of the road at which a reso-
tors to negotiate for the lease of the Caro-
lima Clinchfield and Ohio railroad for a
held and on obo ye rairo. me Carolina Clinch
line operating between Spartanburc s. C.
and Elkhart Ky.
NEW YORK, May 15-The Railway Are
reports that the American LOCOMOTIVES
company has received orders for 40 Mikado
engines from the Missouri Pacific and for
20 Pacific type, 10 from the Lehigh VAL
ley and 10 from the seaboard Air Line.
NEW YORK May 15.-Baldwin order,
reported were five o-6-0 switching type en-
gines from the Utah Copper company; two
SIX -Wheei sMltch1ng type from Perro Car
rillees de Norte de Cuba and two Mikado
type from Louisiana and Arkansas.
NEW YORK. May 15.--w S. silkworth
vas today reelected president OF the New
York Consolidated Stock exchange.
GALVESTON, Tex, May 15.--An up
ward tendency in cotton exports from Gal
weston is noted. Figures for the week
ending May IL show exports were 1919
bales. Exports for the season to May II
We're 2,229,6l6 bales, a decrease of 29.042
bales compared with exports to the same
date last year Coastwise shipments dur
Ing the week ending May II were 3.15l
bales. Stocks on May IL were sl,070.
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J. S. STEEL AND
BETHLEHEM DROP
TEAR YEARS LOW

NEW YORK, May 15.-Heavy SELL
j 3; of the steel stocks again upset
t lays stock market after relative
~ firm opening.
United States and Bethlehem Steels
{ tch dropped to within a small frac-
ton of the years low prices. closing
at net losses of IA and ~ points,
respectively. Suspension and can
collation. of large building projects
has been a disturbing factor in tho
trade and has caused some uneasi-
ness on the part of holders OF steel
stocks.
Republic. Crucible and Gulf States
steels also lost point or more.
4 bear attack on Studebaker, which
vas aided by some of profitaking,
forced it below 10 to a new low for
The year but it rallied to HOS. off
. Is points. Other automotive shares
also lost ground.
Other so-called key stocks such as
Baldwin. American Can and American
Wooden were sold rather freely by
ihe short interests but they offered
more stubborn resistance to pressure
than they did last week. Baldwin was
depressed to 1864, and then rallied
half a point for net loss of PA
American Can was off 4 at 94A and
American Wooden was off l at 81.
A decline in copper metal prices in
London was followed by an easing
of the price here. small quantities
of the metal being available for Is l2c
= pound or &c below the years high.
Copper shares eased In sympathy,
American Smelling dropping IL
points and kennecott. Chile, Utah
and Anaconda y to q Zinc shares
made no response to the report of the
American Zinc Institute showing that
surplus stocks of the metal at the
end of April totalled only S,976 tons.
the smallest in years. This compares
with 10.021 tons last month and 3d.
12S tons a year ago.
Several high grade railroad shares
were buoyant at the opening but
they also declined in the later trad
ing. Losses of a point or more were
recorded by New York Central.
Chesapeake and Ohio, Atchison and
New Orleans, Texas and Mexico
Woolworth dropped nearly points
and Dupont closed l lower after
fluctuating within a siX-point radius.
Wall street heard rumors of dis
tribution of the General Motors stock
held by the DUPONT company.
Call money again held at AZ per
cent. The time money market yeas
dull with only a few loans arranged
at 5A per cent. the bankers asking
price. Brokers are looking for
) per cent market before long The
bulk of prime commercial paper con-
tinues to move at per cent.
Higher rates again prevailed in
the foreign exchange market. De-
mand sterling advanced "a to S462%
and French francs sold points
higher at 6.67c. German marks also
rallied slightly to .0022a4 C Another
new low was made by Norwegian
kroner 1880, off points.
Days total sales 66S,300 shares.
Twenty industrials averaged 1886
net loss SO.
High 1923, 105.3S low $40.
Twenty railroads averaged S2.22;
net loss. 40.
High 1928, 9O63; low so37.
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Hubbard Bro.. 4 Co.

IIubbdf0 bfo6. C GO.
Members New York Stock Exchange, New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, New York Pro.
duce Exchange, Associated Members
Liverpool Cotton Association. Orders SO.
lcited for the purchase and sale of Cotton
and Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery.
Special attention and liberal terms given
for consignment of spot cotton for de.
livery.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGES

: NEW YORK, May 15.-Foreign ex-
changes irregular. Quotations in cents:
Great Britain. demand SIS. cables 4.63.
mand SCI. cables 6.67ls Italy, 4s5la
and 4.s6. Belgium. 5.74 and s, "A Il. Ger
many. .0022a. and .0o23. Holland 20. 10
and Se13. Norway, 16 30. Sweden 26 65
Denmark. 1880. Switzerland. is 031a
Spain, Is 23is. Greece, IS. Poland.
.o020A Czech Slovakia. 2.9S12. Argen-
tine. as.l9. Grail. 10.4o. Montreal.
IL
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DRY GOODS

NEW YORK. May 15.--Large orders
were placed today on denims to be made
for delivery in June. July and August. and
some mills allotted their output to con-
form with the required deliveries, In
quires for goods better. Yarns were
steadier, carpets and floor coverings were
Quieter Wool goods were quiet. SuS-
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-Yrr, -,

& CHICAGO. May I5-Armour o. Nela-
ware. %: Armour preferred S21a. Com
monwealth Edison. 1eSi4 Libby Mcneil.
61a. Middlewest Utilities. a. Standard
Gas. PIN Swift Il Co. l04i4 Swift In
ternational. 1s%: Union Carbide, 59i2
VAIL 4Sis Western Knitting, 8 Yellow
Manufacturing B. ESQ: Yellow Taxi. 49,.
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inches, s4@4.75, depending on

dozen punches, s4G4.75, depending on
quality. -
Cucumbers; Florida bushel hampers
fancy, 81 .5065; choice. So 1904.
Beans: Louisiana bushel hampers, green
best s393.25 wax, So 5o93.75.
Peppers: Florida standard crates fancy,
s4p4. SO; choice, s35o@3.75.
Florida grapefruit: Brights, 50 80 @3ss;
Goldens, s294.50 Russets. 81. 1904
Florida Oranges: Brights, So. 3046 20;
Goldens, s3@6.10; Russets, s3q5.s5.
FLAX SEED
DULUTH Mimi, May 15.--Closing flax:
May. 50 "a bid; July. s2.971a bid Septem
ber s2.4s1a bid; October, So 41% asked.
RICE MARKET
NEW ORLEANS May 15.-Rough rico
quiet: sales none: millers' receipts, 2,01o
SACKS Clean rice quiet: sales 1850 pock-
cts Blue Rose, 81 Q37sc. Receipts, 3.03i
pockets. Bran and selfish unchanged.
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NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK, May l5.-Foilowing are
todays high, low and closing prices OF
bonds the New York Stock Exchange,
and the total sales of each bond
HALLWAY nnd Miscellaneous
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Typewriters came into oeing in the
comm ercial work in April. 1873, when
Christopher L. Scholes, the inventor,
made his first contract for their
manufacture.
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NEW YORK CURB

NEW YORK, May 15.-Following is tho
official list of transactions on the Now
York Curb Exchange. giving all stocks
and bonds traded in:
IndustriaIs
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electrolytic. spot and futures IS 2 a 1874 c.
Tin easy. spot and futures, II lie. Iron
steady: prices unchangedH Lead steady;
spot. Tm7.25c. Zine steady East st.
Louis. spot ami nearby delivery. G soc. An
timonY Spnt. 500.
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BOND MARKET
UNITED STATES BONDS
ln.. GAl. Il.

Readers should note that Liberty bonds
are quoted in dollars and thirty seconds
of dollars instead OF dollars and cents.
The fractions designated by giving the
numerator only.
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RAW SILK

NEW YORK, May 15.-Raw silk easy;
prices per pound: Kansai double extra
crack. ss.450e.55: Kansai best No. !.
ss.1o@s.15; Kansai No. filler. sa@e.1o
Shinshu No. l. So. sb a Q 90: Canton ex-
ira A. 1916. se99.10: Shanghai China
steam filler. gold double deer. IS. 75Gs.so
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Short Market Flashes

NEW YORK, Nav 15.--The Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey today declared its
regular quarterly dividends of 81. rs on pre-
ferred and o5c on common stock, payable
June Is.
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Stock Market, Opening Firm Is Upset BY Heavy Selling
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, May l5.-Following are
today's sales. high. low and closing prices
of stocks listed ON the New York Stock
Exchange:
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! MONEY MARKET

NEW YORK. May 15.-Call money
steady high AZ. tow AZ. ruling rate ~
closing bid 4 II. offered at a. last loan
Az. call loans against acceptances 4. time
loans easier. mixed collateral 60-90 days,
5G5h4 As months. 545l4 prime COM
mercial paper, 5.
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BUTTER MARKET

CHICAGO. May 15.-The butter mar
ket here today was easier with supplies
more liberal. and demand rather
quiet The medium to underscores were
cleaned up in fair shape. but a surplus Of
top scores was carried over Dealers were
free sellers IN some offering CON
SESSIONS. while buyers took nothing beyond
current needs. The car market also was
we'll supplied and in the buyers favor
Cars were offered at quoted prices.
Fresh butter: 90 score 41isc, 81 score
41c. 90 score 4o%c. SO score 4oisc. So
score 40c 81 score IS NC, Sc score asAc
Centralized car lots; % score 4ls.c. SO
score 4oiac. So score 4oc.
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WASHINGTON, May 15.-Imports into
the United States during March amounted
to s4O2. 100000 compared with $So3412,-
500 in February and 1856, 177796 in March,
1922.
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Victory Notes

Victory Az per cent
Notes mature on May
Goth and interest will
cease on that date. We
will be glad to cash these
notes on presentation and
to recommend conserva-
tive bonds for reinvest-
ment.
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CITIES SERVICE QUOTATIONS
LONDON MONEY

EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. May 15.-Hor,
and mules steady. unchanged.
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LONDON. May 15.-I3ar silver ~ 3lsd
per ounce. MGney. ! >, per cent, Discount
months bills. 2is a S-16 per cent
STEFI.
NEW YORK. May 15.-SteeI prices I'M
changed.
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METAL. MARKET

NEW YORK. May f5.-Foreign bar sill
yer. e67s Mexican dollars, sic.
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NEW YORK. May 15.--w S. Silkworth
was today reelected president OF the New
York Consolidated Stock exchange.
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Total sales of bonds today we're s7.4ss,-
900, compared with ss,es7 900 previous
day and sl6.697.o00 year ago.
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CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS

CHICAGO, May 15.-FoIIowng are the
pen. high, low and close on Chicago grain
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TUBERCULAR HOSPITAL MEMORIAL
Gigantic Sanitorium To Cost About
 $12,5OO.OOO

NORFOLK. Va, August 30.-The Veterans of Foreign Wars will foster a movement to erect somewhere in the(United States a gigantic tubercu- losls hospital, as a memorial to war mothers and to other women in America who made sacrifices for the cause in the World war.
 A resolution placing the organI. zation behind this movement was presented to the annual encampment here today by J. H. Toulouse of AL bnquerque, N. NJ, the commander of the department of New Mexico, which originated the plan. The vet erans adopted the resolution with a cheer.
 MT. Toulouse. taking the platform and of the plan on which he has been at work for year and a half paid a glowing tribute to the women of America who endured silently the bitterness of war and of wars sac rifices. He called attention to the fact that the only memorial to war mothers America has erected is in an obscure spot in the city of Washing ton.
 Drawings showing the proposed memorial hospital, which is to cost in the neighborhood of SIP ,500, 900. were presented to the convention. They showed an enormous institu- ton, so constructed as to cover many acres of land and equipped to care for hundreds of tubercular pa tients in comfort and with efficiency.
 The Veterans of Foreign Wars will apoint a strong committee to handle the details of the movement
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MOST HUMILIATING TERMS

LONDON, August 50.-The Athens correspondent of the Exchange Tele- which, although not yet fully pub lished by the press, have become gen orally known. are considered to oe excessively humiliating and without precedent in diplomatic annals It is recalled that even Czarist Russia did not demand from Abdul Hammld such conditions when the Russian consuls at Monastir and Mitrovitza were assassinated by Albanians.
 A Central News dispatch from Ath- ems says that while the Greek gov crnment is ready to agree to the pay ment of indemnity, it declines such humiliating conditions as compul- sory funeral for the murdered off, cers and a compulsory salute of the Italian fleet.
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NEGRO CLAIMS FLOGGING
Martial Law Again ThreRtens Okmul-
 gee Following Complaint.

OKLAHOMA CITY, August 5O'- Martial law again threatens Okmulgee county because of alleged mob vio- lence, it was announced tonight, fol lowing a visit to the governors office of O. White, a negro, who reported he had been beaten at his home near Okmulgee early Sunday morning by a party of six men. In sworn state ment White said that he recognized three of his assailants, one of whom he alleges was a deputy sheriff The other two. he said, were Okmulgee citizens. White reported that he could identify the other three.
 After the negro's appearance a th- capitol. Governor Walton dispatched curt telegrams to the sheriff and county attorney of Okmulgee county demanding to know what they had 'done and what they proposed to do in the case.
 County officials will be given an opportunity to arrest and punish Whites assailants, 1t was said at the governors office, but it was added that troops might be returned to OkmulEee unless it was shown that local officials were doing all in their power to cope with the situation.
 At the same time it was revealed that requests had been received from Wagoner, Washington and McCurtain counties for state investigation into mob activities.
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No Connection with Bank.
HUMILIATION OF
 ITALIAN TERMS
 BALKS CREEKS
(Continued from Pafe One)

government will comply with some of tional sovereignty will be rejected. the Italian demands, and will discuss others.
 Those which infringe upon her na- tional sovereignty will be rejected, it is said
 Colonel Perrone. Italian military sttaehe at Athens. is leaving foS Epirus (scene of the assassinations) to participate In the investigation or dered by the Greek government.
 The fact that the Italian victims were not robbed is considered con- elusive proof that the assassinations were essentially political
 All newspapers support the gov- ernments action.
 The "Tribuna,' commenting on the note, declares that Mussolini has truly interpreted the sentiments Of Italy's 4O,OoO,OoO people. The "Po- polo D'Italia" declares that the ulti- matum to Greece restores Italian prestige and that a dear price will be extracted for Italian bloodshed in the Balkans
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FARMERS DEPLORE
 ACTION FEDERAL FORCE
Pass Resolutions lCondemn- ing EnCouChment Upon
 State Rights

Resolutions deploring the rapidly growing purpose and plan of the fed eral extension forces in their efforts to completely dominate the agricul- tural interests of Alabama, and through that channel to create a po- litical machine perilous to states rights and to the best interests of the people" were adopted Thursday by the Farmers Educational and Co., Operative union at the final session of it's two day convention. The union alleges that the extension and ex- perrin ental department a [ Auburn is attempting to make the state depart ment of agriculture a simple clerk ship" for it, and that it will result in "taXation without representation" ts considered. by the people Cf Alabama. The resolution was introduced by J. C. Hicks. A similar resolution providing for an extended fight on the proposed agricultural code was introduced by J. Q F. Scofield and unanimously passed by the farm body.
 G. T. McElderry introduced a measure expressing opposition to the millage tax. It Is stated In the reso- lution that if the tax is voted 1t will completely destroy the system of consolidated schools. which 1t Is said, Is the solution of the problems of ru- ral education. MT. McElderrys resc- lution was adopted unanimously by the body. It was also decided to give wide publicity to Legislation pend ing which affects the farmers, with the issuance of 1000 copies of the unions official organ among the farmers of the state,
 At the morning sessicn officers for the ensuing year were elected as fol- lows: c, T. McElderry, president; J. c. Hicks, vice president; Mrs. F. A. Painter, secretary treasurer. Mrs. G. H. Mathis, Mrs. W. B. Edmundson, c. P. Bales, R. c. Hicks, W. E. Notch kiss, executive committee. Sam Cant, chaplain; H. G. Smith, conductor; c. M. Dinsmore, doorkeeper.