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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
First Diuorce Court

The first divorce court In England
was instituted in 1858. The court con-
sisted Of three judges. At the first
sitting five marriages were dissolved,
and In the first year of the courts op-
GRAFTON 38 divorces were granted out
Of 2S8 petitions. From the time Of the
Reformation up to 1858 there had
been but 317 divorces in England,
granted by acts of parliament. Until
the passing of the divorce act in 1858
the theory In English law regarding
divorce was the same as that of the
Roman Catholic church, although in
practice this rule was not strictly ad-
hered to, and wealthy and influential
persons, through parliament, secured
freedom from CALLING ties. The divorce
act provided that the wronged hus-
band could be released from his obli-
cation to an unfaithful wife, but gave
no such recourse to an injured wife,
unless the husbands offense in this
direction was aggravated by other Of
fenses.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
Middle Ages Heroine
Had Practical Mind

One of several fortresses formerly
owned by Lord Castletowns ancestors
is Morett castle, now ruin, but at
one time place of immense strength.
Concerning this his lordship tells
grim story in his book, Ego" The
castle was besieged by the Irish, and
the owner was unluckily captured in
a sortie. He was brought up by his
captors outside the walls and parley
demanded His wife came on the bat
Elements, and the enemy herald an
nounced that unless the fortress was
surrendered within an hour her hus-
band would be hanged. Give me time
to think it over" requested the lady.
"One hour" said the Irish. "One hour
will do" replied the lady. AT the ap-
pointed time both sides returned, the
lady on the battlements, the prisoner
with a cord round his neck and sur
rounded by his guard. II have de-
cided," she said. II can always get
another husband, but never another
Morett. You can hang your prisoner"
Which they promptly did.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
Tracing Surnones

Surnames offer most convenient
method of recalling forgotten trades
Who would guess that Thacker or
Thackeray was the man who thatched
the roof with straw; that Tyler was
the one who tiled it, or Slater, he who
rooted with slate? A few other names
as Collier, the charcoal burner; Chan
dler, the candle maker, and Fuller, the
cloth cleaner, will show how numerous
were the ancient crafts Blacksmith
has no equivalent among English
names, unless it be the abbreviated
Smith, though in German there is
Klingensmith, the Changing smith. ;"
But the horseshoer was Farrier,
dropped In our dictionaries but re-
tained In the directories.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
UNITED FRONT CRY
Is Only Intended To Deceive,
Says Labor Paper

Edmonton, Canada, mo more in
sincere cry was ever uttered than when
the communists talk about a united
'front.'" says the Alberta Labor News.
The labor paper declares the commu-
nists do not want united front and
their actions speak louder than words.
''That is not only the experience in
this country, but all over the world" !"
says the Labor News.
Their aim is to smash the trade
unions and keep the workers con-
fused. They employ band of col
lection grabbing windbags to go
around the country.
The communists actions at the
present time in endeavoring to under
mine officials of miners district 18
while strike is in progress is as
traitorous as it could we'll be, and if
the strike does not turn out to be as
successful as it should, the commu-
nists alone will be to blame.
''The miners should understand that
unless they hold steady and display
the fortitude which won for them in
1922 they are likely to be beaten.
Strikers who have been stampeded
into rash and ill-considered action
have enver gained anything"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
Manufacturer Breaks Agreement
With Organized Labor
Dsregards Their Signed Contract and Declares For
"Open Shop"

regarding their pledges and their
agreements.
Now comes a manufacturer, prob
ably member of the Manufacturers
Association, the Eugene Berninghaus
Barber Chair Company, and deliber-
ately breaks their signed agreement
with organized labor.
After many years of effort on the
part of organized labor in assisting
and building up the business of this
company, why shouldn't an action of
this kind now be given the fullest
publicity?
The Metal Polishers' international
Union requests organized labor every
where to enter protest against this
company breaking their agreement,
against this company violating their
union agreement, and we urge every
member of organized labor to visit
their respective barber and others to
write this firm condemning their
action and urging them to again
establish friendly relations with
organized labor, and above all point
out to them their responsibility in
this matter
We believe if this is done at once,
it may assist organized labor in ad-
justing this grievance.
respectfully submitted,
METAL POLISHERS INT'L UNION
Chas R. Atherton,
General Secretary
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

The Eugene Berninghaus Company,
of Cincinnati, Ohio, makers of barber
chairs and distributors of other bar
Der supplies sold under their name,
defiantly and deliberately abrogates
their signed agreement with the
Metal Polishers' International Union.
This agreement went into effect in
March, this year, and should not ex-
pire until 1925, but this firm openly
Haunted organized labor, refers to the
union agreement as mere scrap of
paper and justifies their action in re-
pudiating their own signatures by
saying that they can get the work
done cheaper in the open shops that
employ unskilled and non-union men.
The Berninghause barber chair
built up their reputation on the union
agreement, and starting almost at the
very beginning conducted union
shop, and every chair bore the union
label. Organized labor everywhere
boosted the product of this company,
their business increased and during
the last two or three years have run
night gang as well as day shift.
Greed for greater profits predomi-
mated, and the company frankly ad-
mits that the only reason for their
change from the union to the nom
union shop is for greater profits, and
they boldly add that the few extra
dollars they save on each barber chair
made will be diverted to their own
profits rather than to lower sales
price for the barber chair.
On Friday, May 10Th, the Berning-
haus Barber Chair Company, after
declaring for the open shop, discharg-
ed all their union polishers, buffers
and platers, giving them about five
minutes notice, and Immediately be-
gan sending the barber chairs to the
non-union shops to be finished and
plated.
Every possible effort was made to
point out to this company their moral
and legal obligation, but to no avail.
Local committees waited on the firm,
the international officers of the
Metal Polishers' International Union
waited on this company, the interna-
tional organizer of the Journeymen
BARRIERS international Union with the
officers from the local BARRIERS
Union waited on the firm, the griev-
ance committee of the Central Labor
Union of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the
department of labor in Washington
detailed two u S. labor conciliators,
but this company remained obdurate.
The answer was the same. .It is a
matter of dollars and cents with US
we will get our work done in the nom
union shops where we can get it done
cheaper, and we don't care how those
cheap men exist or how their families
live"
In the past, the Manufacturers
Association, collaborating with the
chambers of commerce, have run full
page advertisements in the leading
newspapers of this country, condemn
ing organized labor in general and
charging them particularly with dis
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
Forethought

The small boy entered the shoe
makers shop, and, unwrapping
small parcel, produced a size II shoe,
very much the worse for wear.
The shoemaker took 1t from him,
and, after looking at it, asked:
well, what do you want me to do
with this? 1t doesn't want mending,
does it?'
YES" said the boy: that's fathers
slipper, and there's a nail sticking up
in it. l want you to put it right be-
fore he notices It."
you're a kind little boy" said the
old man, beaming You must be
fond Of your father"
"'Tain't that quite" replied the
small boy calmly. you see. the
nails sticking right through the sole,
and this Is the slipper father spanks
me with"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

The unionists found that the company
was paying 3 cents for having the
bark of the railroad tie peeled. The
ties are dry and the bark is hard to
chip off. Workers must remove the
ties from a pile and replace them
after the bark is peeled To earn So
in one day 100 railroad ties have to be
peeled and handled. The unionists
visited the plant at o'clock in the
afternoon and found that so ties was
the highest number peeled that day.
The workers had earned $1.50
Men accept this employment be-
cause they have been out of work and
are told that good wages can be made
when peeling experiences is acquired.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

The largest quota is 51,227 for
Germany. Next is $4,000 for those
born in Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, while the Irish Free State is
third with 28,567. Italy obtains 3,845,
while for Russia-E European and Ash
atic-the quota is 2,248.
The annual quota of any nationality
will be 2 per cent of the number of
foreign-born individuals of such ma
tionality resident in continental
United States as determined by the
1890 census.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
IMMIGRANT QUOTAS
STATED BY PRESIDENT

Washington.--With the passing of
the old immigration law, President
Coolidge issued a proclamation to put
the new law into effect and proclaim
ed the quotas-according to nation
pursuance of the provisions of
the act. The quotas were established
under the act by Secretaries Hughes,
Hoover and Davis. Only aliens ELI
gible to citizenship are included.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
Read the Press.
Baerfacts
By ]. M. BAER, The Congressman Cartocnist
International Labor News Service
Poor Wages Bring Mail Robberies

service to replace discharged
employees, practically none
were discharged, and there
fore discipline was impossi-
BILE. This lax method of en-
ployment brought many
questionable character into
the service.
These men were en-
ployed in every department,
and in Chicago at one time,
over 100 of them were en-
ployed in the registry divi-
sion, where valuable mails
and assignments of money
were handled.
About that time robberies
of mail trains and trucks be-
came so numerous that it
was necessary to call upon
the marines to guard mail
trains, trucks and loading
platforms. Since that time
the marines have been with
drawn but chauffeurs and
clerks have been required to
carry sidearms.
Many of these robberies
have been shown to have
been planned by temporary
employees who were in the
service, or in collusion with
them. This was true of the
Whiting robbery.
The recent mail robbery
in the vicinity of Chicago is
said to bc an inside job"
First Assistant Postmaster
General Bartlett has stated
in the press that there is to
be a cleanup of the postal
service. The best way to in
sure honest and efficient en-
plOyes is to create conditions
of employment that will at
tract that kind of men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
DAYS WORK
In Canada Brings Less Than
$1.OO

Edmonton, Canada,-Trade union
list award the prize for labor exploita-
tion to the Canada creosoting COM
pany, which has paid men as low as
go and 85 cents for six and onehalf
hours work.
When told of these conditions, the
trades and labor council refused to
believe that men were earning 81 a
day and less at this plant. A COM
mittee was appointed to investigate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
Our Wills

Our Wills are queer things. They
are like plaster Of paris; for after
they have been melted into liquid
form they tend to "set." They do
thus preserve the contour of that about
which they have been nodded. II it
is good cast, well enough; we make
a cast for a permanent possession.
Here 1t is-ixed and final Is the
matter how excellent it may have
been at one time, to prevent any future
change and growth 1.-THE Living
Church.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

The veto by President
Coolidge of the postal salary
bill presages recurrence of
conditions of a few years ago
when because of inadequate
salaries SO many regular en-
ployes left the postal service.
In an effort to get men into
the service examinations
were simplified and stand
ards lowered. This meant a
great lowering of efficiency
and burdening of the loyal
employees who stayed in the
service with extra work and
overtime.
Despite this it was impos-
sible to get a sufficient num-
Der of civil service employees
and the employment of tenn
pOrary men was resorted to
III order to keep the mails
moving. Temporary en-
ployes were put to work
without examinations, and in
most instances, without prop
er character references. The
riff-raff of humanity, espe-
cially in the larger cities and
industrial centers, were sud-
denly thrown upon the postal
service.
In Chicago there were
over 1000 of these tempo
rary employees, and other cit
les had about the same pro-
portiOnal number. All of
them were inexperienced.
Most of them were ineffi-
cient, and many of them
were incapable of perform
ing the kind of work required
of postal employees. Owing
to the fact that it was so
difficult to get men into the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

After several days they realize they
have been tricked and quit. Other
unemployed are secured.
The ties are creosoted for the Can
adian national railways, government
owned institution.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11
STREET CAR MEN GAIN

Hartford, Conn.-Street car men of
this state have re-established the CO.
cent rate that was taken from them
in 1920, when rates were cut to 81
cents an hour. The Connecticut
company made several compromise
offers, but these were rejected by
statewide referendum.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-07-11

Handsome EIlnor Fair, the screen
star, was brought up in the midst Of
motion-picture production. Although
born In Richmond, Va, she went to
the coast when but small child. She
studied the violin In Germany until
the war broke out, when she returned
to this country. Her first theatrical
work was In Los AnoeIss theater.
Her beauty and talents brought her
good opportunity to enter the
movies" in which she has been seen
to good advantage. Miss Fairs favor
lite hobbies are dancing and playing
the piano.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12
Brands Fruits and NUTS

one of the most resent applications
of electricity to agriculture is the de
vice which will brand various kinds
of fruits and nuts with the growers
trade mark. 1t operates on current
obtained from an ordinary electric
lamp socket and is set next to the
grading belt in the packing shed. The
product to be marked rolls from the
belt onto q miniature escalator which
carries it over eiectrically-heuted dies.
These are kept at such temperature
that they will melt the natural wax
in the peel or rind of the fruit and
when thus prepared, other dies inn
print the desired trade mark. The
electrical fruit brander is now being
used on oranges, water melons, apples
and pecans to prevent substitution of
inferior products for advertised brands,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12

Schools begin to-day with the
same teachers as last fall.
VIII Merchant broke camp last
week, and moved out of the woods.
Unless we have some cold weather,
others will move out this week.
Miss Lila Knight, who has been
Hill, has gone back to Mrs. Minnie
Wilburs so she can attend school.
Mrs Vernon Haslam entertained
the Help-Some-How club from Wal
than last Thursday, and served dim
ner to thirty. The same day, Mrs.
Minnie Wilbur entertained the Busy
Bee club in town, and a dozen mem
bers and several children were
present. The club will meet Thurs
day with Mrs. Leslie Wilbur.
v. Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood DeMeyer
spent the weekend at Macomber'
Mill with Mr.. and Mrs. Anon
Googins.
Mr. and Mrs Percy Goodwin have
broken up housekeeping in Franklin
and are with her people here.
Another wedding Saturday eve
ming, this time at the home of Mrs
Minnie 10y, when her daughter Liz
zie was married TO Lawrence Ashe of
Sullivan. The ceremony was per-
formed by Elwyn Wilbur esq, after
which light lunch was served and
later, when the curfew should have
rung and all been in bed, the newly
weds were called out to enjoy what
they have been helping others to this
winter.
March II. Gem"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12
March 10

Mrs. E. NJ King spent the week
end in Ellsworth.
Mrs. Mary Leach, who has been
with her mother, Mrs. Julia Convey,
for several weeks, has returned to
Wilton.
An interesting meeting of the
Farm Bureau was held March 4.
Nineteen ladies were present, the
subject being meal planning. Dinner
was cooked at the hall, and was "a
balanced meal. The menu was:
Ham timbals, mashed potato, canned
corn, bread aud butter, tapioca pud-
ding and coffee. In the afternoon
Miss Howe gave a talk on food val
ues. The ladies presented Miss
Howe with fine colonial looking
glass.
MI Harding is transporting the
school children to North Lamoine.
March II. c.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12
Conductor Found the
LuSnber;ack Too Li0ely

The wood burned by the locomotives
in the early days of the railroads was
piled at points along the line and from
the platforms the conductor and brake
man had the duty of throwing it
aboard the tender. Educated first in
the rougher work of freight train run
ming, this task was handled without
complaint by most passenger tralnmen,
but it must have been viewed different
ly by a certain conductor who had
come from the East and who soon af-
ter had an experience that gave him
an enduring desire to go back to more
civilized communities.
This conductor came out to Wiscon-
sin believing that his acquaintance
with Eastern railroad operations would.
make him invaluable, shortly, to his
new employers. He got flying start
through influence that landed him a
passenger conductors post, says the
st. Paul Pioneer Press. He might
have known all about the technical re-
quiRments of the job, but he knew lit
tie of human nature as presented in
types common to the Northwest. On
his first run he encountered the lum
berjacks, rough, good-hearted fellows
who, when travelling in gangs on the
railroad were as prankful as school
boys and with little intent to do harm
The conductor started to collect
fares. The first lumberiack that he ap-
preached withheld his ticket. The con
ductor could not see the joke, when
the passenger only grinned response to
the repeated demands for his fare. He
forthwith grew angry and was for using
force to compel the passenger TO de-
liver. But suddenly he found himself
precipitated violently into Il seat on
the coalbox, while lumherjacks amid
much hilarity stripped off his con
ductor's uniform and placed on him
the boots, macEinaw and cap of their
occupation. HIS own clothes were
donned by member of the gang.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12
Lnrgest Grain ELeUator

Enough wheat TO feed 100000 per
sons for one year can be stored in a
grain elevator recently built at Il rail
road terminal on the eastern seaboard.
The structure, said to be the largest of
it's kind in the world, will hold 1900,
600 bushels, Figuring the United
States average per capita consumption
at about five bushels per year, the sup
ply in this huge storehouse is sufficient
to feed some of Europe's hungry ma
lions for twelve months The quantity
that can be kept in this granary is csti-
mated to be about one-tifth as much as
the total crop of Iowa.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12
Always looking for bother
! +IOhnSOn'S
AAoDyNEI ininent
Always able to stop II.
South PenObScOt.

Mrs. Beulah Walker of New
Portland arrived last Saturday at her
old home, to spend two weeks with
her father, George l.. Leach
Nancy Hatch is quite ILL.,
Annie Hutchins is still confined to
the house with rheumatic trouble.
Ralph Woodbridge is employing
quite a crew cutting and saving
lumber for Mrs. Jane Ordway, for
building purposes on her premises.
The high school has been discon
tinued for a week, on account of
scarlet fever.
Next Friday evening the grange
will have supper.
The next ladies' aid society meet
ing will be at the grange hall March
10. Dinner will be served. Jennie
Grindle and Chrystal Carter will en-
tertain
March 10. II.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12
Method Devised 10
Detect Rereuved EGGS

new deception practiced on the
consumers of eggs is now attracting
considerable interest frcm the United
States Department of Agriculture
which, by the authority of the food
and drugs act, insists that the prod
net of the hen when sold rs fresh musa
be fresh and not merely look the part
Il it is to enter into Interstate com
merce. Large quantities ct eggs are
now preserved by first dipping in hot
oil to seal the pores in the shells and
are then Immediately placed in cold
storage. There is no objection to the
practice, but recently it has been
found that number of egg concerns
have been treating these eggs on re
moval from storage SO as to give them
the appearance of having been laid
lately
The treatment TO eemoye the telltale
oil gloss consists in "manicuring" the
shells with q blast of fine sand or in
treating Them with q bath in IN alkali
solution after which they are dried
and rubbed with French chalk or tale
Chemists Of the department. have de-
vised method for detecting eggs
which have been treated with oil and
then subjected to the restoration
process.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-03-12
West GOuldSborO,

jefferson Wallace has resumed his
duties with f. Crowhurst.
Mrs. f. *. Merritt entertained the
Happy Sewers Thursday afternoon.
The time was spent making dish
towel for the V. l. A. dining room.
Assorted candies and oranges were
served. Thursday, March l 3, Mrs. e.
X. Bunker and Mrs. Alton Young will
entertain at Mrs. Bunker's with 4
picnic dinner Each member, it is
hoped, will be present
Alpheus Kingsley, who has en-
uloyment in Sorrento, spent the
weekend with his family.
Miss Florence Hancock has gone
to Franklin to teach for two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs L. w. Sargent were
guests Sunday of Mr.. ana Mrs.
Charles Sargent in Sorrento.
1t is gratifying to know that Mr..
and Mrs. Simeon Hammond will
make their home here, having re-
Gently purchased the Jason Sargent
place of Mrs. Lena Benson.
Alton Jones, who is employed by
Harvey Dunbar, in Sullivan, spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs, John f. Jones.
Mrs. Mary Young, who is en-
ployed at Mrs. E. S. Shaw's, spent a
few days recently in Birch Harbor.
Miss Katheryn Rice was pleasantly
surprised Friday evening, when a
party of young ladies arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Kings
| ley, laden with two beautiful birth
day cakes, gifts and best wishes A
pleasant evening was spent playing
games, and the usual social chatting
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry p. Ashe were
! guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
b. Eddy in Winter Harbor.