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The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

Governor Sweets measures have been
treated. Free and open discussion of
the merits of the proposed code bill
was given before its defeat.
In the senate, the cooperative mar
keting bill, which has the support Of
large number Of farmers organiza-
tions, was passed on third and final
reading with only four dissenting
votes, and sent to the house. Altho
numerous objections were made to
some sections of this measure, parti-
cularly in regard to those which i'm
posed severe penalties on persons who
might not be fully acquainted with the
provisions of the law, the Republican
majority was anxious to enact any
legislation which might be of assist
ance in providing relief to the farmers
and livestock men of Colorado. 1t
is possible that the measure will be
materially amended before passage by
the house.
Action on the administrative code
bill in the house clears the way for
discussion of the Lambert consolida-
ton bill, which will be brought up
early this week This measure will
eliminate more than a score of state
boards and bureaus, and make pos
sible decided reduction in the cost of
administering the state government.
The support of the entire Republican
membership in the house, and there
fore its passage in that body, is as
sured.
The senate, by acting on the cooper
ative marketing bill, likewise cleared
the way for consideration of the Colo
RADIO river compact, which will be
brought up the first of this week.
Lieut.. Gov. Robert F. Rockwell, presi-
dent of the senate, has received tele-
gram from DIR. Hubert Work, secretary
of the interior, urging ratification of
the treaty in order to make possible
further development of Colorado's re-
sources. Quick action on the compact
is expected in the senate.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
LEGION DISTRICT MEETING
American Legion Holds Valley Meet.
ing at La Junta Last Monday
Evening.

Lieut. C. p. Childress, Commander
of Walter l.. Bennett Post, American
Legion, went to La Junta Monday to
attend the district meeting of the val
ley posts, which was held that night
Department Commander Leo p. Kelly
of Pueblo, and Dept. Adjutant NJ. NJ.
David of Denver, were present at the
meeting. 1t was an interesting ses-
sion and resulted in the formation of
temporary district organization
which will probably at the next meet
ing be made permanent.
1t developed at the meeting that the
Lamar Post is now the largest in the
valley with a membership of 101. Fort
Lyon comes in as strong second with
an even 100. Las Animas is third
with Sc.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
LAMBERT BILL WILL PASS
Defeat of Sweet Bill Paves Way for
Passage of the Cole-Lambert
Code Bill.

Denver, March 19.-From the stand
point of legislative accomplishments,
last week was the most important of
the session of the Twenty-fourth gen.
eral assembly.
By refusing to pass it on second
reading, the house definitely killed the
Sweet administrative code measure
and thereby prevented the creation of
another series of boards and bureaus,
with resulting burdens on the taxpay-
ers. This measure was copied from
the Illinois and Nebraska codes, which
have proved costly failures, and ex-
perts on economics predicted that its
enactment into law would have trans
ferred to Colorado all the ills which
Illinois and Nebraska have suffered in
recent years, with increasing tax bur-
dens and multiplied bureaucracy.
By permitting the administrative
code bill to be reported out first the
Republican majority on the rules COM
mittee, who are supporters of the
Lambert consolidation measure, ex-
hibited the fairness with which all
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
Address

Major H. c. Byrnes was a Lamar
visitor several days the past week
j. c. Johnston left last night for
Los Angeles to spend few weeks va
cation.
Mrs. D. b. Kinkaid left last Satur-
day for Cofreyville, Kansas, to visit
relatives.
w. ]. Johnston left Monday for
Kingman, Kansas, called by the sud-
den death of a relative.
NJ. j. McMillin returned today from
Denver where he attended the session
of Stock Inspection Board.
Isaac Dewitt, one of our pioneer
citizens, left the first of the week Tor
Kansas City to be gone some time.
Messrs. f. H. Gerecke and H. NJ.
Noble were here the first of the week
attending the sessions of the Granada
Drainage District board.
NJ. X. Sunday has been in Denver
several days this week attending the
meeting of the Lincoln Motor Car
agents. Mr. Sunday expects to drive
back Lincoln car.
Mrs. Fred Marx entertained the
ladies of the Tuesday Evening Bridge
Club this week at her home on Par
menter street. The evening was very
pleasantly spent by all present.
Frank A. Cox returned from trip
to Cheney, Oklahoma, last Saturday
evening, and his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. f. Cox, came with him. They ex-
pect to visit here for the summer and
may decide to make their home here.
Mrs. f. w. Sayler and Mrs. c. S.
Wilson entertained a number of their
lady friends on last Thursday evening
at the home of the former. The party
was given in honor of Mrs. Celia Read,
formerly of Lamar, but now of Mon
tana. The evening was spent at cards
and the party was one of the most
enjoyable of the season.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
FARMER PUTNAM'S PHILOSOPHY

| seen item of news in the Atch-
ison Globe about the oldest cockroach
in the world, his or her age beis' IA
years This here inseck was found
in iron safe that was opened fur the
first time in twenty years. When they
roach inside the lock, so they looked
up the date when the safe was made
which was 1S49, and they figgered, of
course, that they was no way in which
the roach could-a got inside the lock,
so it must-a been thar since 40, which
would make it now at least "A years
of age.
1t was a little weak when it first
saw daylight, but revived and become
as peart as a flapper in few min
utes.
OF course | can't say nuthin' on this
subject from scientific standpoint,
but Pm turnin' this information over
to the Entomology department fur in
vestigation. However, I'd like to say
that | believe it's true. I'll believe
anything about a cockroach that's told
me after what happened to Cactus
Charley when he was on his homestead
in Prowers county.
He had a pet cockroach that Used
to set on the other chair in his shack
and watch Chuck eat and then git the
leavin's. His folks used TO SEND him
cake and him and Red" which was
his nickname fur the cockroach, both
liked cake. One time Chuck cleaned
up the maple iceing on the plate with
out thinkin' about his inseck pard,
who was settin' thar patiently waitin'
fud his share of the crumbs. Darned
if Red didn't hop right up and bite
Chuck in the hand! Without stoppin'
to think Chuck slapped back and nash
ed the life outen poor Red and it made
him, (Chuck,) sad fur many days. So
say. you can't be sure about what a
cockroach will do, or how old they are
and if our entomologists has anything
scientific to add I'll give it to you
folks next week.-Thos. jefferson Put
nam, Specialist in Rural Devilmert.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
Corn Money.

Boxes OF American grits are passing
as currency In Georgia, Armenia,
Azerbaijan and the Russia Of the eau
casus- The laborers Of these coun-
tries will not take job to be paid
In currency of the country, but 120,-
600 Of them are laboring earnestly
on roadbuilding. farming and santa
tion for two and half pounds of
grit week. This is said to he worth
more than basket OF rubles.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

CREAM-Bought at Union Ice and
Storage near ice plant. Your can
steamed out clean and your check back
promptly.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd NJ. Wilson en-
tertained forty of their friends last
Friday evening at their handsome
home on East Parmenter street. The
home was handsomely decorated for
the occasion in st. Patrick's Day de-
signs and color, and favors and re-
freshments carried out the same
scheme. Progressive Five Hundred
was played and the merry crowd en-
joyed one of the most pleasant par
ties of the season.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
VISITING ON TELEPHONE
TABOOED BY COMPANY
Women Are Declared Chief Offenders
in Useless Conversation That
Often Lasts I5 Minutes or
Hour-'PreposterOu
Says Fair Ones.

Boston, March 16.-Visiting on the
telephone must stop. That is the edict
Of the New England Telephone COM
pany and it has been given the offic-
ial sanction of William II. O'Brien,
chief of the telephone and telegraph
division of the Massachusetts public
utilities commission.
The telephone companies are deter
mined that what they term useless"
conversation must be limited to five
minutes and in pursuance to that, they
have issued ruling to party line sub
scribers that no call be longer. To
make the ruling doubly effective, it
was mailed out with the monthly bills.
Discontinuance of the service is the
penalty for refusal to comply. The
action was the answer to hundreds of
complaints from party line patrons
that they have been forced to park"
themselves and wait for half hours
and even hours in some cases to get
important calls thru while "gabby'
women chat.
These complaints are borne out by
the files of the telephone company,
which reveal that women are the chief
offenders in the so-called useless"
conversation, while business men are
the chief complainants against the
delay in service. When a man calls
his home, he snorts a few monosyl-
lables and hangs up, telephone experts
say, but when woman calls one of
her female friends, she talks about
everything from King Tut and his
day to his influence on modern styles.
The latest dress must be described
on the phone, from bodice to sequins;
the party of the afternoon must be
detailed at great length with the lat
est shocking scandal of the community
losing none of its saiacious details by
the retelling; newcomers in the neigh
borhood must be discussed at length
as to previous condition of social
standing and behavior and given either
the sanction or rejection of the "set."
A woman telephone company research
men have learned, talks about every
thing she can think of, including the
plot of the latest movie, when she is
comfortably fixed before mouth
piece.
Twenty eight minutes is not unus-
ually long for them to converse; while
if given a good start, forty-five min
utes is an easy matter. With 4 loqua-
cious woman, an hour is merely a
mice little chat"
The women plainly do not like the
new ruling.
"What," they have reason to in
quire in their wrath, what can you
say in five minutes?
Perfectly preposterous," they term
the stand the telephone company has
taken. They are Joined in this by
their flapper daughters who talk chief
ly of their love affairs and their dates
on the telephone and by their love-
sick sons, who hang on one end of a
party line and pour sentiment into the
ear of the young Juliets at the other
end
The telephone companies stand flat
footed on their ruling.
Say it in five minutes or not at
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
High for Both.

The report of the state dairy COM
missioner for February shows the
Model Dairy at Holly with high COW
for state and Turpin & Dewitt Of La
mar with high herd for state. That's
going some for the Prowers county
,fairymen.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

Rubber stamps; daters; seals. c. A.
Hansen, 1929 South Main. Call af-
ternoons.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

Major H. c. Byrnes was Lamar
visitor several days the past week
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21
For Sale.

Potted Flowers and Porch Boxes at
11th and Park streets, Maxwell addi-
ton. Come look over the flower house.
Mrs. Il. J. Harker. 39-42.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

Rubber stamps; daters; seals; brass
and enameled door signs; prices right.
Call afternoons. C. A. Hansen, l12lA
South Main
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

Office door signs; enameled, brass.
Call and see sample. C. A Hansen,
112k So. Main. Any afternoon.
The Lamar register., 1923-03-21

LAND BOUGHT AND SOLD--Money
to loan on dry land. A. H. Filkins,
Lamar, Colorado. 32-'23u.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
NORTH NANKhIOTO
GET NEW FACTORY
st. James Comasny 10
Locate There
PLANS BEING MADE
Industrial Propositions Discuss
ed BY Commercial Club at
Meeting Last Night

Final arrangements ere expected
10 he made within the next week
whereby The ST. James Auto Cab and
Douy company will be assured of the
erection of factory buildings in
North Mankato. Fifty members Of
the, North Mankato Commercial club
were present at the very enthusiast
tic meeting held in the city hall last
evening. '. ..-
Mr. Virgil Dunning chairman of
the industrial committee reported on
the results of the two propositions
which have been worked out by the
committee and Mr. Erickson of the
st. James concern. Mr.. Dnuning said:
Mr.. Small OF this city has a very
fine proposition TO offer which meets
with the approval of Mr.. Erickson of
st. James. IL arrangements cannot
be made with Mr. Snail we have
another proposition that has been
looked up fayorably."
"We have been waiting to hear
from North Mankato," said Mr..
Erickson OF the st. James Cabrand
Body company. Mr. Smalfs propo-
sition looks very good to us. He. has
made a sketch of the buildings he
expects to erect which will meet
with our requirements We need a
factory building and We want you to
Continued On Page Sevenl
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
HOUNDS PLACED ON
TRAIL TWO NEGROES
White Woman Seized BY colored
Men AS She Was AIiehting From
Car In Memphis Outskirts
TAssociated Press Dispatch, !

lkAtSSOCldlCu blSplSICH.I
Memphis, Tenn, JanuayT 4.-Po-
lice were searching today for two
negroes, one of whom seized a white
woman as she alighted from a street
car near the city Tuesday night,
dragged her to a r3vinel nearby, cut
and beat her and attacked her dur
ing hours in which he held her a
prisoner. Believing her dead, he car
ried the unconscious woman to a
bluff and threw her into the Missis-
sippi river. She recovered suffici-
emily to3crawl to the river bank and
summon help. "....
The other negro sought, held up
Mrs. Thelma Cunningham, young
widow, and her fiance, with whom
she was riding near the city, and
when the young man failed to obey
an order to halt the automobile the
negro fired three shots, one of which
wounded Mrs. Cunningham, probably
fatally. .,-..
Bloodhounds On Trait.
Posses with bloodhounds searched
the section all day yesterday. In
both cases the dogs took the trail
and lost it at street car track
where the negroes are believed to
have boarded i car and escaped to
the city. 49,.
The attacks on the two women,
occurring almost simultaneously have
aroused intense feeling throughout
the city, and police have arranged TO
throw heavy guard around the jail
in the event of The arrest OF the ne
groes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
FIRST SHOTS CAME
FROM STRIP MINE
ibis Was Claimed By Wit
ness Herrin Trial
CROWD FIRED ON
Man On Stand Testified To See
ing Jordy Henderson, First
Killed, Fall

Marion, Ill, January Addition
al defense witnesses in the trial of
five men charged with murder in the
Herrin riots were called today to
testify in support OF the defense'A
contention that the Staying OF 20
non union miners was due to aggreS-
siye actions of guards at the mine.
Fifteen witnesses yesterday &C
cused the guards Of various offenses
ranging from highway robbery to the
terroriZing of the surrounding com
munity. ...
Marion, ILL.,, January 4-The first
shots fired in the Herrin riots came
from a concealed gun at the strip
mine according to Grover Kelly, a
witness for the defense today at the
trial of five men charged with muir
der in connection with the riots.
Kelly, a miner, said he was near
the mine the day the rioting started
and saw a crowd moving toward
the mine, some OF whom had guns.
81 heard someone say: We don't
want to have any trouble, and two
men said they would go to the mine
and try to get the non union work
ers to quit.
The crowd then moved loWdTu
the mine and as they were advanc-
ing they were fired on from the
mine, the shots coming from a gun
concealed behind bush on top OF
the mine dump.
Saw Henderson Fall
"Then | saw Jordy Henderson,
the first of three union miners kill
ed that day, fall. 1t was not until
after Henderson was killed that the
first shots were fired on the mine"
Before opening OF the morning
session attorneys for the defense
expressed the hope that the case
would reach the jury by January
20, many witnesses having been
eliminated by the development OF
their case,
While expressing themselves as
pleased by the testimony given re-
garding the conduct of the armed
guards defense attorneys indicated
that evidence designed to uphold
the contention of "justifiable homi-
eide" was near It's end and that
future efforts would be mainly di
rected towards impeaching testi.
mony given by state witnesses and
proving alibis for the five defend
ants.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
GOPHER SOLONS GOT
BUSY THIS MORNING
tAssociated Press Dispatch.l
Both Branches Had Appearance
Old Hands at Business;
Recess Taken

ASSOCIATED PreSS Dispatch. =
st. Paul. January 4. = Both
branches of the Minnesota legisla-
ture got down to business this
morning in such prosaic matter
of fact manner that within fifteen
minutes after the sessions had
opened a spectator would not have
known but what the session had
been In full swing for weeks. In
each house the rules for the SEES
sion as prepared by the committees
were adopted as the first business
and then the grind was on.
The senators abandoned their de-
termination to hold pack bills until
the committees had been appointed.
and nine measures and one resollI-
ton were presented as soon as that
order of business was reached. The
house mainland its lead with eleven
bills.
Lieutenant Governor Collins and
Speaker Nolan expect to announce
theft committee appointments on
Monday, and then the consideration
of bills will begin.
The house confined its attention
to the ordinary business of receiving
bills. The senate diverted itslf to
the extent of debating the resolu-
ton which would require that the
union label be placed on all state
printing ~
The house adjourned at noon until
three p. m, Monday and the senate
adjourned at 1925 D. m, to eight
o'clock Monday evening, after re-
ferring the Devoid resolution to the
committees on rules
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
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ADVERTISING man
THUNDERSTORM
M. 5. Seder, Minneapolis,
Speaker At Meeting
PLAN STUNT NIGHT
Will Probably Be Held In Con-
nection With Proposed Man
kato Week" Program

M. S. Seder, a member of the
Minneapolis Advertising Club VIII
be the principal speaker at the
meeting of the Mankato Advertising
Forum on,-neXt Tuesday night, jan
uary 8, according to an announce
ment made today by w. e. Olson,
secretary of the cluD.. An unsuc-
cessful effort was made by local adj
vertising men to have Arch X.
Crawford, president of the ASCOT
ated Advertising Clubs of the eighth
district, address, the meeting, but he
is to attend Washington conven-
ton at that time. ~
Preparations, for Stunt Night
the gala community affair staged
each year by the Advertising club
will be made at the meeting. The
present program is to make the
stunt Night" this year far better
and bigger than the gay time pulled
of last year at the Heinrich Hotel
Date Undecided
"a Just when the Aseyent will take
place has not been decided, AMI
probably will not be until com
mfttee of citizens arranging for a
"'Mankato Week" have met and
made their plans. The present in
dications regarding the holding OF
the Stunt Night" are to hold ii
either on the opening night or the
last night of "Mankato Week"
Members of the Advertising For
uIn have already made several plans
for special stunts which will be
kept secret until the day of the af-
fair. The event this year will prob
ably be held along he same lines as
the one was conducted last year,
only in greater proportion. accord
ing to the "Ad" men. ...
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
ATTORNEY O'BR|FN
SHOT AT 81. PAUL
Ramsey County Prosecutor
Badly Wounded
MISTAKE IS CLAIM
Bullet Fired By West Virginia
Man As Lawyer Was Leav-
ing Court House
[Associated Press Dlspatch.I


st. Paul, January 4.-Richard
D. O'Brien, Ramsey county at
torney, was Shot and probably
MORALLY wounded by Dominik
BischigIia of Fairmont, w. Va,
as he was leaving his office in
the court house this afternoon.
Bischigilia claimed it was a mis-
take in identity.
MIR. O'Brisn was taken to MIL
Ter hospital, where ii was said
there was only slight hope of his
recovery. He is prominent So
cially, and Is member of
family of democrats long asso-
eiated with Minnesota politics.
Surgeons attending Mr.. o'6rien
said at two p. m. that they did
not believe his wounds would
prove fatal, though his condition
is serious.
BischiaIia, it was said, went
to the, county attorneys office
and requested warrant for
arrest of ST. Paul physician
who he claimed had left piece
Of steel in his throat after an
operation.
First accounts were that
O'Brien had refused to issue the
warrant and that BischIgIIa had
waited outside the office until
the county attorney went out.
>He was shot down In the corri-
dor Just outside his. office door.
MURDERER is SEIZED
Bischiglia was seized by for
mer detective Immediately after
the shooting. At the police sta
ton, the assailant said ait was a
mistake; thought he was the
physician" according to first
police accounts.
Persons who saw the shooting
said BischigIia leveled a revolv-
er at O'Brien as the latter
emerged from his office, but the
county attorney, thinking It was
a joke, merely smiled. Then, APP
parentiy recognizing his danger,
O'Brien leaped at his assailant,
who fired three times. O'Brlen'
was wounded in the head and
breast, and one finger was shat
tered.
Examination of the revolver
Bischigiia used showed he had
pulled the trigger five times.
O'Brien. had been county attor-
ney since 1906.
Bischiglia told the police that
after he had been refused war
rant for the physicians arrest,
he waited In the corridor. He
said he saw O'Brien come out
of his office, police say, and then
everything went black, and !
shot, thinking was shooting at
the DOCTOR"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-05
COAL MINERS AWAIT
OPERATORS PROPOSAL
COMMITTEES al2ansed sFoE Draft pH-
tracts Plan Fer Chicago Con
ference Today.
LAssocIated I,ress Dlspatch.l -.

Associated Press DispatCh.l.
Chicago, January 4.-Union BIZ
luminous coal miners here to con-
fer jointly with operators on ma
tional wage and working rules
agreement to replace that expiring
March 81, today waited for a tenta-
tive proposal from the operators on
the method of making contracts.
The operators last night appoint
cd committee of seven to draw up
a plan for presentation to them to-
cay at their session called one hour
in advance OF the joint conference.
Indications We're that the com
mittee would propose a method of
procedure differing from any dis
cussed in the two previous meetings
of operators and miners here. Oper-
ators said they drew this conclu-
sion from statements made by John
l.. Lewis, president Of the miners
that district plans of settlement, a
sliding wage scale and arbitration
would not be acceptble to his or
ganization.
Predictions Are Made
Several operators ventured the
opinion that the conference would
decide to return to the old central
competitive field as a basis for ne
eotiating, with contracts extending
the present agreement Tor one year.
Both miners and operators ad-
mitted their desire to reach an
agreement was stimulated by the
attitude of President Harding's fact
finding commission on the meetings.
IL was reported am agreement
reached would first be submitted
TO representatives OF the govern
ment for approval.