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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06

ToExtend City
Water Mains

At a meeting of the Water com
mission Tuesday evening in the
city hall, it was decided to extend
the water mains on two streets in
the city.
Six inch mains will be extended
on Mulberry street from Lake to
Grove and on Blake street from
Grove to Walnut.
The contract for the work was
awarded to Otto Schadde & Son.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
Capital Publisher, so,
Marries Woman, 80

Madison-Frank C. Billed, so,
president of the Billed Printing Co.,
which publishes the Wisconsin
Botschafter, and Miss Amelia
Breitenbach, so, Madison. were
married here Monday morning at
the Holy Redeemer Catholic
church.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
ALLOW SlO,OO0
IN DISPUTE
(By United Press)

Washington-An allowance of
$4,000 was announced today by
the war department for investiga-
ton of the Rainy Lake water shed
in connection with the boundary
dispute.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
Tanks Smash Way
Through Riff Lines

Fee, French Morocco-F'rench
tanks have been guided into ac-
ton against the Riffian tribesmen.
Many were left dead on the cap
tured ground.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
LADS DROWN
At ROCKFORD
(By United Press)

Rockford Robert Mckinney, IL
fully clad, plunged into the Rock
ford river yesterday in an effort to
save his brother, Earl, 8, who had
stepped into a deep hole and gone
under. Both boys drowned.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
Plants React To
Rum Like Humans

London An Indian scientist has
discovered plants react to whiskey
and thyroid extracts much like
humans.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
CLEAR NAME
OF CHICAGO
(By United Press)

ChicagoNMayor William e. Dew
er announced today that he will
open a fight to clear the fair name
of Chicago. The mayor declared
that the public has been given a
greatly exaggerated account of
Chicago's crime wave and automo
bile killings.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
MAC MILAN
MAKE HOP
TOMORROW
lRY United Pressl

Washington-The three naval
planes of the Macmillan polar ex
petition are assembled on the
heath at Etah, Macmillan notified
headquarters here today. He stat
ed that the first exploration flight
will probably be made tomorrow.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
Select Members Of
Waterway Committee

Chicago-Members of the COM
mittee to plan merger of Chicago
and middle west waterway inter-
ests has been selected.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
Elks To Convene
In Superior Soon

Superior, Wis.-About 1000 state
Elks will convene in Superior,
August 13 to Is.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
Chinese Mob Raids
HangchOw Hospital

Peking-A Chinese mob Taided a
hospital at Hangchow. Nurses
were beaten.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06

, Madison--After being in session
since 10 am. today the University
of Wisconsin board of regents at
2:30 this afternoon were still
strongly debating the question of
reconsidering the acceptance of the
$12,500 Rockefeller Endowment
fund.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06

$4,000 GIFT
Regents Vote To De-
cline Rockefeller
Proposal Today
(By United Press
BULLETIN

Madison-The university board
of regents voted 8 to 6 to refuse
the acceptance of all further dona-
tions of incorporated endowment
funds in the future.
This decision came this after
noon after a long fight arising out
of the reconsideration Of the &C
ceptance of the $4,000 Rockefell.
er Endowment fund.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06

The Baraboo Weekly News is
Now the Only Weekly paper pub
lished at Baraboo, the COUNTY
SEAT of Sank County You get
ALL the county news in the Bara-
boo News (daily or weekly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14

was an increase of less than five per
cent in the yield. And yet, because of
this estimated increase, the price de-
clined in the market twenty per cent!
This meant that the total crop of the
larger estimate was worth less in the
market by three hundred million dol
lars than the crop by the lesser esti
mate.
Nov there, is no music sweeter to
my ears than the patter of rain drops
upon the roof breaking drought in
the summer time, and yet, to save my
life. cannot tell whether that rain is
sweet and fragrant bearer OF bene
flor Bankruptcy When the hot sum
mer winds scorch the fields do not
know whether to pray for rain or to
thank the Almighty for the unbroken
drought
Something is wrong with our meth
DDS of marketing when the aggregate
money value of larger crop of prime
necessity is smaller than the value of
a smaller crop.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14

Then Gov. Lowden proceeded to
show how the farmer is caught on the
horns of his marketing dilemma.
THE cause of this lesser and in.
ferior crop was a cold, wet summer
he said 1T was a summer disastrous
for corn, but very favorable for the
growth of grasses. There was there
fore an increase in the production Of
milk with the result that something
Like hundred million pounds mora
Of butter was produced lii 1924 than
in the year before. Ghji was only
tive per cent of the total annual pro
d,,ction of but ter, but It created a sur
plrs of two and half per cent, and
this resulted in a decrease in the
price of butter from twenty ca twenty
five per cent. And the D"lCn of butter
let it be remembered largely controls
the price of all dairy products
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14

boil Weeyil is not the farmers friend,
if the drought should not be welcom
ed In place of the rain drop. Index
number, he declared, are totally mis-
leading when applied to agriculture.
Whatever may be the popular opin.
ion in the cities he said, the ablest
farm economists generally agree that
the farm situation is desperate. 1t
will take twenty years to adjust the
difference between what the farmer
has to pay for what he buys and what
he gets for what he sells if nothing is
consciously done to relieve the situa-
ton. At the. end of that time, they tell
us, there will be another maladjust
ment of prices, but this time in favir
of the farmer, with great and I'M
wholesome increase in the cost of
living to the so called consuming
classes, with it's attendant distress. Z
Next Mr. Lowden dissected the fal
acious reasoning of the city folks
when it comes to judging the farm
problem from their economic standard
Accordingly to the classical ecOnO
mists of a century ago, he explained
and our political economy today is
based largely on the teachings-the
competitive principle is the all power
full and controlling factor in tn busi
ness world. They deducted from this
the Iron law of wages" under which
wages never could rise above the
point of bare subsistence. Under the
law labor was doomed forever to 2
life little above that of the beasts OF
the field
"They now see that the iron law
of wages" has gone into the discard, =
said Gov Lowden. Former President
Hadley of Yale, one of the foremost
economists of his time, says; "Those
of us who were brought up on the old
fashioned text books of political econ
omy can hardly conceive how small
part of the prices or wages or rents
of the world have actually been deter
mined by competition We are com
ing to learn that unrestricted compel
ition is not clothed with all the vir-
tues it was once thought to possess
Unrestricted competition is a form of
warfare. Whether among the nations
of the world for larger ornaments, or
among the producers of useful COM
mod1ties, it has been found to entail
losses to society far beyond the bene
fits it has conferred
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14
Same Juggling in Cotton

Last summer the cotton crop, par
ticularly in the southwest. was suf-
fering severely for lack Of rain. And
then one day the heavens opened and
the rain descended. As 4 result the
go, eminent which befoc5 had esti,nat
e. the crop at twelev million four nun
dred thousand bales, increased the es
innate to thirteen million bales. This
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14
Hiah Prices. No Crops

illustrating his point Gov. Lowden
called attention to the recent state
ment issued by the Dept, of Agricul-
ture on the estimated value of farm
crops for last year which was herald
ed in the cities as another proof that
the farmer had come into his own.
for it was found that the total value
of farm crops for the year was three
quarters of billion dollars in excess
of the value of the crops the year be
fore. Welcome news-but the corn
crop was twenty per cent smaller than
the crop of the proceeding year. The
total value however exceeded that of
the preceding year by two hundred
million dollars. The quality of the
crop was far below that of the proceed
ing year.
"And yet under marketing system
which it sclaimel is one of the most
noteworthy achievements of this com
mercial age, the smaller crop of In
terior corn was worth more in the
market than the large and superior
crop of the year before
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14
Title, at Least

Title, at Least
Diggens: well Bill, hear that you
have a white-collar job
Billkens: "Yep. went to work at
the laundry Monday"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-14
Ex-GOV. LOWden Pleads
For Better Marketing
SKATERS CITY IDEAS AS TO
FARMERS SURE AND
EASY LIFE
BY Edward Percy Howard

BY Edward Percy Howard
Boarding the financial lion to his
den, Ex-Gov Frank o. Lowden rich
farmer of Illinois, who declined to run
for Vice-Presidency on the Coolidge
ticket recently invaded the big city
Of New York, and made few pat
statements relative to the situation of
the farmer in this country, that made
the city folks forget the cabarets for
minute and realize that if the city
interests are determined to exploit the
farmer, then the city folks will have
to pay the price.
The former governor literally tore
the hide off the metropolitan news
papers, explaining in moderate but
clearly understanding language that
either through ignorance or design
the entire farm problem is misrepre
scented in the great metropolitan cen
ters.
Our agriculture is decaying,' said
Gov. Lowden. Farm bankruptcies in
recent years have increased more than
six hundred per cent. According to
the Department of Agriculture the
farmer could have obtained larger
income since 1920 if he had hired him
self as farm hand"
The former governor said that in
considerable portions of the country
farms cannot be sold today for the
value of the improvements the farm
ers have installed. The new fence has
gone, he said Old barns, old fences
old houses going to ruin for lack Of
paint are to be found on every hand.
And yet despite these facts which
are gathered from the records" he
said, there has been persistent eff
fort during all these years of farm dis
tress to minimize the seriousness of
the agricultural situation.
Interviews from prominent finan-
ciers, articles in magazines one going
so far | recall, as to characterize the
agricultural depression as a myth
have appeared with astonishing regul
arity during all this time, denying
there has been a serious situation on
the farm, or announcing confidently
that the farmers troubles were over
and that his future was assured"
The manner in which the city pub
lie is misled by the city newspapers
was brought clearly to the front
IF the price of some major farm
product as cotton, for instance, goes
up, as it did the year before last on
account of the ravages of the boil we
vil,o Governor Lowden explained That
abnormally high price has been EN-
ployed to reconstruct the modern magi
cal index number so as TO show the
purchasing power of the farmer has
been restored. And this despite the
fact that during this very time, yield
was so low outside the two states of
North Carolina and Texas that the cot
ton farmers of the south found them
selves in as desperate a situation as
they ever faced"
Before he finished, Governor Low
den rather wondered if even so the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
CHEESE.
FRESH VEGETABLES.

Parsley: so cents per dozen bunches
Rhubarb: 10 to 1914 cents per pound.
G cents per pound; yellow onions, $3.50
per CWt.
Wax and string beans: 1900 TO $3.50
per bushGL
Green peppers: 10 cents per pound.
Hot peppers: 10 cents per pound.
Lettuce: California: $500 per crate.
Cabbage: 4 cents per pound.
Carrots, beets, Tadlshe3. 60 cents per
dozen punches; mustard. rs cents.
Black-eyed peas: $500.
bushel.
Cucumbers: $500 to to $3.50.
Okra: $3.50 bushel.
Tomatoes: $1.75 per crate.
California celery: $500 to $3.50 per
crate.
California soft she'll English waInuts:
Fresh washed Brazil nuts: 20 cents per
pound.
Fancy fIIberts: u cents per pound.
Texas new crop pecans: Is TO 20 cents
per pound.
FRESH FRUITS.
Lemons: Red Ball, s7.25 to s7.75 per
box.
Sunkist Lemons: $500 per box.
Bananas: 10 s cents per pound.
Red Ball oranges: &C.25 to 1875 per
box. E..F
alberta peaches. '2.25 to $3.50 per
bushel.
California cantaIoupes: $3.50; flats,
800
Texas pears: $500 to .s2.75 per bushel.
Texas grapefruit: S7.5G.
California grapefruit: $3.50.
Pineapple! 1875 per crate.
ApHcOts: $500 per crate.
SEEDS AND FEEDS.
Milo maize. S2.75 per cwt.
Oats: so cents per bushel.
Corn: $3.50 per bushei.
Sudan grass seed: $3.50 per cWt
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
KISSING GRAFT"
STIRS VIRGINIA

BRISTOL, Va, Aug. 1.-The state
highway department today is plan
ming to investigate Bristol's kissing
graft"
Following the arrest Of a girl and
a boy. both of prominent families, it
has been learned that scores Of couples.
including a number Of married persons,
have paid as high as $65 to fec
frisking officers who caught them
petting in automobiles.
The agitation began when two high
school students were arrested in n
car and forced to put up SO to keep
from going TO Jail.
Their names went on the police
docket as charged with disorderly con-
duct. The young mans offcnse con-
sisted of having placed his arms
around the girl and attempting TO kiss
her as two deputy sheriffs looked on
A kiss, witnessed by persons 9th
ers than the principals, is a crime in
Virginia.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
By B. c. FORBES

megapbone, he covers the city an
nouncing the ball game.
Texas lays claim to having $780,
600 miles of highways, the largest OF
any state in the Union. 1t has more
miles of improved state highways
than California and almost as much
as New York. Under the federal
aid system, Texas has expended $42,'
100000. or more than Pennsylvania
and twice as much as New York or
California.
The average expenditure for high
ways in Texas for the last four ycars
has been $54,000,000. The state high,
way system is being improved at the
rate of 1000 miles per year, and
county roads at the same rate.
Texas assuredly goes in for the fig
urcs. And it is really only beginning
to get steam up.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gincers aspircs to establish, in time
a bank in each of eleven southern
states. This ambitious project is be.
ing undertaken by the Southern 3. of
L. E. Securities Corporation, con-
trolled by the parent brotherhood,
which has already been instrumental
in organizing banks whose combined
resources now tosaf S135, 100000.
One bank was organized last JAN
uary by the Brotherhood at Birming-
ham, in its own building, with $780,
600 capital. By the middle of July
deposits has increased to 1,30O,-
600.
In Fort Worth, I met Roy G. Har-
ris, representing the Southern Securi-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
! ODAY = MARKET REP0RTS|
Forbes Lauds Novel Advertising
Scheme of San Antonio Store

ties Corporation, who has launched o
campaign to place S250,O00 worth OF
the corporations stock in Texas.
Said Mr.. Harris: "The policy OF
the securities corporation is not only
to do general underwriting business,
but also to invest its capital in banks.
However, this can be done only when
it can secure at ieast 81 per cent
ownership; banks will be established
only when they are warranted econo-
mically.
I'VE are bringing to the South not
only an effective instrument of bank
ing that will coax idle dollars from
hidden places and put them to work
while teaching those wage earners
who have boarded the dollars, the
mechanics of finance and how to make
money. but we are getting up as well
a needed underwriting syndicate to
handle both long time bonds and short
term commercial paper"
Here's a pointer for shoe stores and
perhaps other stores:
When in San Antonio I went to
buy a pair of shoes at the Guarante
shoe store, and alongside the seat was
a tasteful stand containing an ash
tray, matches and cigarets.
/ mentioned this novelty to several
people in the town and discovered
that it had made great hit. Every
body seemed to know about it.
Can you think of any less costly
way of obtaining a great deal of fav-
orable publicity and of winning good
will?
Copyright, 1925, by B. C. Forbes.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

IN THE SOUTH, Aug. IA. p.
Giannini, whose upbuilding of the
Bank of Italy has been one of the
modern wonders of California, re,
marked to me that, in his opinion, all
indications point to the last half of
1925 being the best six months in
many years.
June business was better than a
year ago; bank clearings continued
to establish new records; employment
is at the peak; the canning season
will materially increase the demand
for labor, and real estate, he declared,
is particularly active with respect to
business property.
Although Mr.. Giannini has achieved
extraordinary success both in bust
ness and in banking, he is an instance
of big man who has not had million
making his ambition.
OF all the money he has been in
strumental in making, he probably
has not retained single million for
himself. A very large percentage
of the Bank of Italy's profits is dis
tributed among the employees over
and above their salaries.
They still have town criers in
some cities. In San Antonio this
relic of pre-newspaper days makes
his rounds on horseback, quantity
dressed. In Fort Worth, the pub
lie crier uses-what do you think?
A street car. He hires a car for
himself, and, armed with a huge
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
San Antonio Markets


The following prices to dealers for
produce were quoted by the Pruitt Com
mission Company Saturday morning:
Vegetables.
Green corn: IS 70 30 cents per dozen.
Beets: IS cents per dozen punches.
Carrots: 80 cents per dozen punches.
Radishc5: 20 cents per dozen punches.
Parsley: 50 cents per dozen punches.
Artichokes: s2.OV per dozen.
Texas squash: $500 TO i2.z5 per
Texas string beans: 1850 to $500 per
bushel.
Tomatoes: lL75 per crate; California
tomatoes, 1926 per 5O-poUnd lug.
Sweet peppers: EL25 to also per
California lettuce: $500 per crate;
fancy head lettuce. $500.
California celery: $500 TO $3.50 per
crate; $50 TO {2.5O per dozen
California potatoes: 400 to EL50i
call $3.50 to 1915 cgt.
California cabbage: 4 cents per pound
by crate.
Onions: White. 81 to 6 cents per
pound: yellow. $3.50 per cwt.
Pink black-eyed peas, $500; large
lima, siS' baby lima, SIS; Mexican
Blue Rose rice: ss.25 per sack.
Bhubarb: 10 20 1874 cents per pound.
Mustard greens: IS cents per dozen
/ punches.
TurHiDs: IS cents to 800 per dozen
punches.
Fresh green onions: IS cents per dozen
/ punches.
Ol,ra: $3.50 per busheI.
! Eggplant: SL25 per bUshel.
Black-eyed peas: s2.O0 per bUEheL
CucUmbers: $3.50 bUshGl.
fresh Fruits.
] Cantaloupes. SLOG flats; $3.50 stand.
ards
Waterrnelons: $3.50 per cwt
Bananas: 5 20 6 cents per pound.
Texas grapefruit: $3.50 per box.
| Plums. 32.25 20 1915 per crate.
California plums: 1875 to 12.75 Pc
crate.
Figs: 90 70 rs cents per basket
Cuban pineapple: ;h75 TO $500 per
Red Ball oranges: ;525 to tg.2s.
Red Ball Lemons: E7.25 70 E7.75 per
box
Apples: S2z5 per box.
Muscat grapes: $3.50 per lug; black
Spanish grapes. $500 20 1875 per lug;
Tokay grapes, $3.50 per lug.
liberia peaches: $2.25 70 81 30 basket /;
fancics. Ez.50; cling. 33.25.
Pears: $3.50 per box.
Texas Pears: $500 TO 42.75 per bushei
The following prices 20 producers for
poultry and eggs wore quoted by the
Snyder Produce Company Saturday
morning:
Poultry: Alive, Flyers, I5 70 20 cents;
ROSTERS, 8 cents per pound; turkeys, I2
90 &c cents per pound: hens u 70 10
cents. per pound.
Eggs: $500 per case. csndled.
Butter: Fresh block, % cents per
pound packing stock, IS cents per
pound.
The following prices % growers fot
seeds and feeds were quoted By the
Grasso Seed C0mpanT Saturday morn
ing:
sudan grass seed: $3.50 per cwt.
Milo maize: fZS5 Der cWL
Oats: 70 cents per buEheL
Corn; $3.50 per bushel.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
MINING.
SHIPPING.
CHEMICAL

Total saleg Today 20, 700.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

The following prices 20 growers foI
seeds and feeds were quoted By the
GrassO Seed C0mpanT Saturday morn
ing:
Sudan grass seed: $3.50 per cwt.
Milo maize: 81 IS Der cwt
Oats: 70 cents per bushei.
Corn; $3.50 per busheL
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
|NeWY Ork Stock Transactions

NEW YORK. Aug. Following is a
list Of stocks traded in on the New
York Stock Exchange today. Opening,
close and previous closing prices are
given.
Courtesy Whitaker & Coz
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
PRICES
HIGHER ON
STREET
Courtesy whitaker & Coz

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Stock prices
displayed an upward movement at the
close Of today's short trading, which was
featured by the selling pressure which
has been in evidence for the last few
days.
Stocks were in demand despite the alb
sence of some traders and brokers.
Oils gathered strength on news of a
government report of the same month a
year ago and a further decrease in sur
plus stocks. Among those who made
gains of a point or more were Standard
Gas and Electric, Childs Company and
Chrysler.
The closing was FIRM. Sales approx
mated $4,000
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
YOUNG GIRL F[EES
WITH CHINESE BOY

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Fascinated,
say her relatives, by Tang Fan Shun's
courtly oriental charm and sleek yell
low grace, Yolanda Noble Cantulupia,
fair Nordic student at Bernard Col.
lege, the women's branch of Columbia
University, after an elopement to Sy-
racuse, was today married in that city
to Saffron gentleman from Peking.
Tang Slrun described himself Chi
nese, naturalized in California.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
DECLINE FOLLOWS
RALLY ON COTTON
Courtesy Whitaker & Company.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1.-Hester's fig
ures showing a total consumption last
season of 14.247.O0O bales and a carry
over Of only $500 900 bales sent the cot
ton market up sharply after prices had
started at lower levels, but later values
dropped II to 81 points. where they
closed.
Reports OF rains in Texas caused an
early downward revision in prices OF nina
to thirteen points. Liverpool was not
a factor in the local market as the for
eign market was closed.
After trading down to well below yes
terday's final figures. the market bound
ed forward 20 to IS points on Hester's
annual report.
Prices easd off somewhat after the
bulge on further reports OF rains.
The close was steady at not declines
Of II to Fl points.