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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-06-12

Bring your wool to Alton & Hook
ing.-adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence B. Medley
have rented the May residence on
third street for the summer.
Mrs. C. v. Scott was business
visitor in st. Paul last Thursday.
Work shirts with quality; all sizes,
S5c, at Bjerstedt & Benson's.-adv.
Miss Esther Hutchinson came
down from Duluth last week to spend
her vacation at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Otto Sombke.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. B. Kruger and
children and Mrs. w. T. Churchill
and son Lawrence spent few days
last week with relatives at Rock
Elm.
Mrs. Louis Osborne and daughter,
Miss Pauline Severson, returned to
Superior Saturday after visit with
relatives here. They made the trip
in their car.
The Improvement League ladies
spent the first of the week cleaning
up the Main street park and plant
ing flowers and foliage plants in the
curb garden.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Kruger and
children, of Wells, Mimi, are spend
ing the summer at the home of Mrs.
Churchill's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
t. Churchill.
Duly Smith, who las been employ
ed as linotype operator at gellaire,
Ohio, the past year, returned home
Ohio, the past six months, returned
home Monday.
A barn on the Ed. Cole farm, in
the town of River Falls, was destroy
ed by fire last Friday. The blaze is
said to have been caused by sparks
from the house chimney.
Mrs. Lucy Mapes, of Searles, N.
D., and Mrs. Sadie Greffin and grand
daughter, Miss Margaret Beroun, Of
Darlington, N. D., are guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. WATSON.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-06-12
Local News
Strutwear hosiery at Scott's Hat

Strutwear hosiery at SCOTS Hat
Shop adv.
Guy Wright and family visited in
Hammond Sunday.
King Of OveralIs, Sl.50, at Bier
stedt & Benson's-adv.
Miss Pauline Norseng, who taught
at Hammond, returned home last
week.
One-fourth sleeve, ankle-length
underwear, CSC, at Bjerstedt & Ben
son's.-adv.
Miss Pauline Penn, who taught at
Menomonie, arrived home Friday for
the summer.
Miss Helen Churchill returned
home last week from Frederic, where
she had been teaching.
Have your porch curtains made
| now by A. w. Lurd Co. Quick SER
vice. Correct fit guaranteed.-adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Kruger drove
| to Red Wing Sunday to visit the lat
ter's sister, who is in a hospital there.
An up-to-date Beauty ParlOr will
be opened in the Paris Novelty Hat
Shop soon. Watch for the opening
date.-adv.
Two boot owls have been added to
the Glen Park zoo the past week
One was caught and donated by
Howard Taylor.
Professor r. A. Karges and son
Burton and Miss Ida Karges returned
home Monday from trip to Brook
Park and Duluth, MINI.
INTERIOR WALL. CLEANING!
We will be here short while only.
Will contract to clean any inside wall.
phone Adams BROS, 39S.-adv
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Patton, Miss
Nell Charlton, Mrs. Gross and Miss
Ann Spalding, of St Paul, were re-
cent visit ors at the Spalding home
A petition is being circulated in
Chippewa Falls TO have the abolish
ment of the commission form of
government voted upon there next
September.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-06-12
Bring your wool to Alton & Hook

Bring your wool to Alton & Hook
ing.-adv.
Rev. o. A. Graham is spending the
week in Minneapolis.
Ladies' House Dresses and Aprons
at SCOTS Hat Shop.-adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Fritz of St. Paul
visited in the city few days last
week.
Harold Person caught 81 pound
trout from the Kinnickinnic the first
of the week.
Special for the weekend: big ship
ment of suits, $19.S5, at Bjerstedt &
BensOn's.-adv.
Warren Adams caught a " Found
Brown trout from the Kinnickinnlc
the first Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. T. Paynter and
son are visiting relatives in the
southern part of the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Fletcher, of St.
Paul, visited her parents, Mr.. ana
Mrs. G. w. Pomeroy, Sunday.
Can save you money on new Plow
Shares and Clutivator ShOvels.
Order now. H. w. ThompsOn.-adv.
Mrs. w. S. Davis and daughter,
Miss Esther, and Mrs. Percy Ap
Roberts, of Hudson, visited in the
city yesterday.
Misses Marcella and Beatrice
Beschta, of Clintonville, are visiting
at the home of their grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Beschta.
Rev. Paul Nygren Of the Mission
church will take part in a church
conference to be held at Ogilvie,
Mimi, the remainder of this week.
Beldenville is staging big cele-
bration, with many feature attrac-
tions including flying circus and a
ball game, there on Sunday, June Is.
Flanders are coming back, bett a,
than ever, to the Fair Ground Pavil-
ion at Ellsworth, Friday, June 18th.
The orchestra you've been waiting
fOr.--adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-06-12

BY. d. Time; S5c, at Bierstedt &
Benson's.-adv.
Harvest panamas from Mexico,
l5c at Bjerstedt & BensOn's.-adv
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Deneen of Ham
mond will celebrate their Golden
Wedding anniversary at their home
in that village on Wednesday, june
IS.
Mrs. E. E. Buck will leave next
week to visit her daughter, Mrs. II.
j. Young, at Houston, Tex. She will
accompany Mr.. and Mrs. Young on
their annual summer auto trip to
River Falls the latter part of the
month.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-06-12

All summer millinery at reduc-
ton, at SCOTS Hat Shop.-adv.
Miss Mabel Bridges left last
Thursday to spend the summer vaca-
tion at her home in Lincoln, Ncb.
Walter Currier, a brother of
Messrs. John and Elbridge Currier
Of this city, died at his home in
Santa Cruze, California June 2, from
injuries received in a fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Rife and sons,
Harvey Arthur, and Warren, and
Mrs. Ella Toby left last Wednesday
on motor trip to Buffalo, n. Y,
where Mr.. Rife will attend a credit
mems convention.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05

eral-liquor hopes They organized first
to oppose the Eighteenth Amendment.
They lost. They announced that they
would repeal the national prohibition act.
They lost. They boosted that they had
sufficient congressional votes to legalize
us per cent beer. They lost. They have
promised all sorts of things to their thirsty
followers but they have not delivered any
goods yet. In this new drive they merely
hold out hopes to modify the Volstead
act.
THE vets are right in one part of their
advertisement: The new liquor traffic is
like the old license traffic in that it knows
no restraint. Booze-barons were always
lawless. But today no licensed saloons
tempt our youth and no advertised bev-
erages seduce the weak The drinker has
to hunt his liquor A few years ago
1890 licensed bars and twice as many
speakeasies invited him to become booze
addict.
Other nations have their beer In
place of beer America has decided by a
big majority to have prosperity, decreased
crime, lower death rates, sweeter home
life, larger futures for children and all that
makes America Promised Land Only
the beer fanatics or the brewers who seek
their vanished profits would trade pros
porous prohibition America for any beer
or wine-soaked land in the world
"The vets are starting their campaign
too late In the first 81 states where
congressional primaries have been held,
the former dry majorities of two 10 one
in House and Senate have been increased.
Each Congress has seen more wet men,
bers replaced by those who were loyal to
the Constitution rather than to the old
beer saloon. The next Congress will
maintain this record"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
FLAGS DO NOT SAVE HIM

L. II. Ryan, passenger on the liner
France, tried to pass the customs lines, in
New York by enfolding TASKS of liquor in
American flags which were furled on their
STATS and tied top and bottom Mike
Lean of the customs service and his part
ner were standing at the gate The thing
looked phoney to Mike. He investigated.
Ryan was fined ten dollars and the liquor
was conhscated.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
BOOZE EXPLODES- DEALS DEATH
Confiscated Booze Being Removed
From Detroit Police Station
Explodes; Two Prisoners
Burned to Death

About IS gallons of confscated liquor
IN storage in the Vinewood police station,
Detroit, exploded about noon August u,
killing two prisoners and seriously burn
ing II others. Flaming liquor flowed
through the cell doors and they could not
be opened until the fire subsidized.
Only one passage leads from the cell
block to the station proper, and not until
the rescue squad from the fire department
arrived could the cell doors be opened
and the burned inmates taken cut.
None of the prisoners in the cell block
escaped injury. One died instantly and
one died after reaching the hospital.
The explosion occurred during the re-
moval of the confscated liquor by four
patrolmen. A fve-gallon can of moon
shine exploded in the hands of the patrol
men, setting off the rest of the liquor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05

Henry Schmidt, butcher, of Hamilton,
Ohio, has been sentenced to Ohio peniten-
tiary to serve sentence of one year and
pay fine of $500 for having violated the
prohibition laws for the third time His
sentence was pronounced by United
States Commissioner Hylan.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
Wet CAMPAIGN IS ON
Many Good Dollars Will Be Spent in
Efforts to Influence Voters
of America

election is Oh IN earnest.
The principal field of activity is in the
East, where most of the wet organiza-
tons have their national headquarters and
their numerical and financial strength are
strongest
Already, good dollars and many of
them are being spent by vets in news
paper advertisements and the usual boast
is made that they confidently expect to
control the Congress 10 be elected in No
vcmber.
The Association Against the Prohibi-
tion Amendment leads in campaign &C
tivity, presumably because it has the most
money to spend. This wet society not
only announces its determination to carry
on the war for the nulli6cation of the
Eighteenth Amendment in the eastern
section of the country, but that ii will
battle for wet Congressman in Ohio and
other states of the Middle West. The
other day the following advertisement of
this wet society appeared in Washing
ton newspaper:
at is not criminal to like a glass of
beerl
And, Oh! How good it would taste
these hot summer daysl
Canadians have it. European nations
have it. But Americans have been tricked
out of it."
Among the Signers
After stating several arguments in favor
of beer and wine, the advertisement con-
tinucs:
"The distinguished citizens whose
names appear opposite, together with
hundreds of thousands of other patriotic
Americans in every state and community,
are banded together in non-partisan,
non-sectarian organization to fight this
year to elect a Congress with sufficient
courage to modify the Volstead act"
A list of "few leaders i'll the Volstead
law modification campaign" appearing in
the advertisement includes these promi-
ncnt names:
The Rev. Edmund Banks Smith, Chap
lain u. s. A.; the Ri. Rev. Mgr. c. F.
Thomas, Washington; Vincent Astor,
New York; Brig. Gen. w. w. Atterbury,
vice president Pennsylvania Railroad;
Rex Beach, author; Irwin S. Cobb, Mar
shall Field, banker, Chicago; John w.
Griggs, former governor of New Jersey;
George I. Mayer, ex-ambassador to Rus
STA; Major Gen. Hunter Liggett, u. S. A.;
DIR. Charles w. Norris, Chief Medical
Examiner, New York; Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, civic leader, New York;
Charles Fl. Sabin, banker, New York;
Charles Scribner, publisher, New York;
John Sullivan, labor leader, New York;
Augustus Thomas, author and playwright,
New York; Major Gen. William M.
Wright, u. S. A.; Senator Bayard of Del
aware and Senator Bruce of Maryland,
and dozen or more members of the
House.
The advertisement solicits contribu-
tions, with subscription blank at the
bottom with spaces to be filled in to in
dictate whether the money shall be used in
campaigning for wet Republicans" "wet
Democrats" or wet La Folletteites."
Fifty Needed for Majority
Reports from various committees at
work in the states are of a most encour-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05


cation forces but seem to have aroused
greater On one the days devoted to the vets
to @ 4 - n11a1 w =;
to
petitions
the hope of securing modification of the the petitions
yolsead law. circulated throughout the country re-
hearings being by S V me National oerai Alliance
Judiciary that million neone MORA ~
beer bills last week. the professional petition
agao endeavorng
to develop sentiment for the beer But while being
full to The
ee Amendment as @ b on the s as Amendment pan e1 neEt
Congressman today" bring The
pressure you can on your congressman present Congress apparently for adj
this progress
in
Vostead law "rp ovever ,Icv ~ ~;
just and unenf0rceabe legislation" thirsty
calls Congress weak for refusing that there
H the law The
The first
sembance
the land make prohibition less o Advertising
And o IS f1 o @ Volt. TO r kE T eAsS s on BEER
HAVE BEEN TRIcKED OUT
Beverages of moderate alcoholic
and actually PROMOTE temperance
by disOuagng boodegging illicit
-Four the Vosted
money spent and lives lost The new illegal Liquor traffic knows restraint
homes Our high false
hundreds in every
OFFER YOU REMEDY
The distinguished citizens whose opposite
fight modify
During
fare bought
for the boys when around.
Can't We Count Upon You again, NOW,
Free From Hypocrisy"
OUT THE BLANK BELOW AND RETURN US WITH A
CONTRIBUTION
ASSOCIATION AGAINST THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT Inc,
sl1 Eleventh St, N W. Washington. D. c
SUBSCRIPTION BLANK
enclose subscription o
t to
Wet Republicans
(Put opposite your partly Wet Democrats
Wet La Foietenes
We campaigning elect liberal candidates all
to of
who "X" in the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-05
DEFEAT In PRIMARIES APPARENTLY HAS SPURRED
NULLIFICATIONSTS TO INCREASED ACTIVITIES
Still Pounding Away This Congress With
Evidently for Publicity Purposes Washington Paper
Full Page Ad Urging Vets to Apply Pressure
HOT DAY" AID WOULD HOOK VOTERS WITH BEER STEIN A

Starting Campaign Too Late; Drys Can Majority Congress
Advantage Gained in Primaries is Followed Up; Danger
Dry Cause Is Old Foe, General Apathy"
The Republican., 1924-09-18
Browning Family Reunion Held
SATURDAY. Last.

About three hundred of the Brown
ing family met on last Saturday at
the Fair grounds adjoining Oakland
where the day was spent most pleas
antly, notwithstanding the unfavor-
able weather conditions which pre-
vailed almost the entire day. Mem
bers of the family from several states
were present. Garrett county, Mary
land, furnishing the greater number,
as was expected, as in this section the
pioneers of this family Of excellent
citizens settled and helped hew the
country out of the wilderness CEN
tury ago. A coincidence with respect
to the reunion of this family occurred
forty years ago last Saturday when
John L. Browning and his splendid
wife celebrated their fftieth wedding
anniversary at their home, Pleasant
Valley, this county. Mr.. Browning
was a son of Meshack Browning, the
famous settler and hunter and pro-
genitor of the family.
The Republican., 1924-09-18
ARTIFICIAL GAS PLANT FOR
OAKLAND AREA PLANNED
Northern Natural Gas COmpa-
ny In S500.000 West Vir-
ginia Deal.

Erection of an artificial gas plant
at an estimated cost of S500,00O is
proposed by the West Virginia and
Maryland Gas Company and the
Northern Natural Gas Company, sup
plying natural gas in this section, to
supplement the rapidly failing supply
of natural gas. The proposed plant
will be located on its pipe line near
the coal fields in West Virginia.
Negotiations have been in progress
for some time between the gas COM
pany and the Southern Gas and Power
Company, a Maryland corporation,
which owns and operates artificial
gas plants in Virginia, North Caro-
lima and Georgia and at Bluefeld, w.
Va, to obtain the cooperation of that
company in the erection of the arti-
fetal plant, which, it is planned, will
be in operation before the winter of
1925-26.
The West Virginia and Maryland
Gas Company believes it will have
sufficient gas to supply its customers
for the coming winter, but in view of
the fact that its wells in BraXton coun-
ty, West Va, are decreasing in out
put and no additional supply of nat
ural gas can be found or purchased,
it will be forced to use artificial gas.
BY using a small percentage of ar
tifcial gas with the natural the life OF
the company's wells, it is said, can
be prolonged for years, whereas if no
artificial supply was available the
wells would be exhausted within the
next two or three years.
Attorneys of the company are MAX
ing application to have the franchise
in West Virginia specify that the COM
pany can furnish mixed gas through
its mains. Maryland's franchise to
the corporation gives it this privi-
lege.
1t is understood if the plans are
consummated the Southern Gas and
Power Company will acquire con-
trolling interest in the West Virginia
and Maryland and the Northern Nat
ural Gas companies.
The Republican., 1924-09-18
GARRETT COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
To Be Held In Friendsville Sun
day, September 21st.

As heretofore announced in The
Republican, the annual Garrett Coun-
ty Sunday School Convention will be
held at Friendsville on next Sunday.
To this convention there has been eX-
tended a general invitation to all Sun
day school workers and a large at
tendance is expected.
There will be three sessions of the
convention, the first beginning at ten
o'clock Sunday morning and the third
closing about nine o'clock Sunday ev-
ening.
At the morning session, Rev. j, A.
Earl, pastor of the convention church,
will have charge of the opening devo-
tions and will deliver an address of
welcome. Addresses will also be made
by Rev G. A. Teske, President of the
Allegany County Association, on "The
Standard Sunday SCHOOL,; by Miss
Lillian E. Mccormick, State Elemen-
tary Superintendent, on "Williams-
ports Children's Week." and by Col.
J. H. Cudhpp, State Young Peoples
Superintendent, on "The Glasgow
Convention"
In the afternoon, beginning at 1'30,
county reports will be made and the
State Secretary, Abner B. Brown, will
speak on "The Ten Points of Stan
dard School Organization" Follow
ing this a series of conferences last
ing from 230 until 4:30 o'clock will
be held, during which time the con-
vention will be divided into groups
composed of the various sections of a
Sunday school and the problems pc
culiar to each will be discussed. In
former years these conferences nave
proven of great interest and value.
Each of these will be under the super
vision of trained leaders.
henight session, beginning at7:3O,
will open with the closing business
session, after which Col. ]. H. Cudlipp
will speak on Taking the Field" and
Rev. Wayne Monroe, of Mt. Savage,
will deliver the closing address, US
ing as his topic Goods Commission to
Teacher"
Superintendents who have not al
ready arranged to be present should
take up the matter at once and take
with them to the convention large
delegations. The plans and inspira-
ton to be secured from this conven-
ton will be of great help in planning
and carrying on the Sunday school
work in the county during the coming
year.
The Republican., 1924-09-18
TWO MEN ARRESTED FOR
POSSESSING A STILL
VIM. E. Wass and Edward VIII.
trout Taken By Prohibition
Officers Thursday Night

William E. Wass and Edward Will
trout, both of Garrett county, the for
mer farmer and last fall candi-
date at the Republican primary cleo
tion for the nomination of Sheriff of
the county, were arrested last Thurs
day night by General Prohibition Of
ficer William r. Harvey and Deputies
Hopwood and Bittinger on charges of
manufacturing and possessing intoxi-
eating liquor, and were taken to Cum
berland where they were held in the
police station until Friday morning
when they were given hearing before
United States Commissioner Ander-
son, who placed them under bonds for
their appearance at the United States
District Court in Cumberland.
The two men are alleged to have
owned an old-fashioned seventy-five
gallon still, three barrels of mash and
a half pint of liquor. The still was
fitted with a wooden top.
When the officers went to the place
the still had been moved from its
original location, but the officers fol-
lowed wagon tracks to barn where
they are alleged to have found the
still and mash. Eleven empty mash
barrels found on the place had evil
dently just been dumped and were
still wet when the officers found them.
The Republican., 1924-09-18
Knights of Pythias Notes.

A large and enthusiastic meeting
of the members of Garrett Lodge, No.
113, was held last Friday night at
which time it was decided to arrange
for D. o. o. X. ceremonial to be
held in Oakland on some date in the
near future and to this end commit
tees were appointed to secure candi-
dates to travel over the hot sands of
the desert and be made acquainted
with the mysteries of this most enter
tanning branch of our organization.
Members, lookout, for we're coming
after you.
4, Our good brother Henry Lauer has
been appointed team master. He has
never yet failed in anything he has
undertaken and interest will be kept
alive so long as he is at the head of
the work.
We desire to impress the member
ship that it is their duty to be present
at every session of the lodge. This
is especially important at our next
meeting, as something will be doing
every minute.
The picnic committee made its re-
port on Friday night and it was a
most creditable and heartening paper.
The committee having charge of the
affair is to be congratulated for the
showing made, for by their endeavors
and hard work was the picnic a great
success financially and socially.
The committee on the club rooms
made a report to the effect that the
new quarters will be completed in
the near future.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.
The Republican., 1924-09-18
WORKMEN INJURED
Two Men Employed On McIntire
Building Painfully Hurt.

Charles Bradley, aged 35 years, of
Terra Alta, West Va, and Nelson
Woods, of Mountain Lake Park, who
were employed on the McIntire build
ing now under construction, were in
jured Monday afternoon about five
o'clock by the breaking away of a
derrick from it's fastenings on the sec
ond floor of the building, from which
position it fell to the basement where
Bradley was engaged, striking and
knocking him upon a protruding nail
which entered his skull to a depth of
two or three inches. He was immedi-
ately rushed to a hospital in Cumber-
land where it is said he will recover.
Mr.. Woods escaped with bruises to
his leg and a general shaking up.
The Republican., 1924-09-18
American Legion Sells Flags to
Oakland Business Men.

Under the direction and salesman
ship Of Miss Ruth Sallie, represent
ing the Shenandoah Flag and Deco
rating Company, Of Iowa, the local
post of the American Legion was sue
cessful in disposing of fifty large Am
erican flags to the business and pro-
fessional men of Oakland on Monday
and Tuesday of this week.
Early in the morning of September
3Oth, which is the first day of the
Garrett County Fair, the down town
section of Oakland will be arrayed in
all its glory as the members OF the
Post will deliver and place in front
of each business house its respective
flag.
All the flags will be held in socket
which will be sunk in the sidewalks
about eight inches inside the curbs
several days before fair time and will
be flown on 12-foot standards.
The Republican., 1924-09-18
Schools to Be Visited By Atten
dance Officer.

Announcements have been sent by
John L. Fitzwater, school attendance
officer, to all public school teachers in
the county that he will be at Friends
vile Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, September %, % and "a; at Kitz-
miller, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, October 6, and 8; at Accident,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oc-
tober 13, IA and Is; at Grantsville,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oc-
tober 21, % and %, for the purpose
of taking up with the teachers any
especially perplexing and difficult at
tendance problems which they may
have.