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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
By United Press

$500; market. 15a25c lower; 10000 lbs.
ss.s0G7:l5: 2lo-250 lbs. s6.5096.T5; 26o-320
lbs. s5.e046.35; packing sows about
Cattle-Receipts, 700: market slow
generally ESQ Soc lower: medium and good
yearlings- S5.T5G7.50 common cows S4d
5; ms11dnl to common bulls S3T514.50:
Calvss-Receipts. 1905 market mostly soc
lower; good and choice vealers, $3.50 s. So
Sheep-Receipts. 1,250: choice spring
lambs Sll.5oQl2; better grada shorn
Lambs Sa6s-5o.
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STOCK SHARES
DRIFT DOWN IN
QUIET TRADING
United States Stee! Leads
lnduStriaIs to New
Low Ground.
Average Stock Prices

Average Of thirty industrials for sat
uefoay was 1890. OF l.5e. Average Of
az twenty utilities was 55.6T. Of "a Ave.
age OF forty bonds was ashS. un "a
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New York Bank Stocks
(By Thomson 81 McKinnon)
Net Changes

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, May 25.-Closing
prices and net changes on prin-
cipal stocks traded today on the
New York Stock Exchange fol-
low:
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Bank CIearingS
INDIANAPOLIS sTATEMEN

INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
May as
Clear1ngs s..........s.s....'.' d90 W. W
OeplJS .s-r....ss.N ...' .ss'..'s d '@'IVVV'OO
CHICAGO STATEMENT
clearinRs Observation-Disclosures $50, 900 900 90
Blances NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S,fOO,OOU'UO
TREASURY STATEMENT
May Is
Net balance for May 90. Sill .e93, 249 g
Expenditures o.5Oo OotsO9
Customs reefs. mo. to date. 2s7773.S7
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By United Press

CLEVELAND. May 25.-Hog+Receipts
than Friday. top steady with SATURDAY at
SIS on bulk 16o-21O lbs. pigs. ST; 22o-
SIS: common 2oo-lS. averages. sS2s; Pousb
sows, $780,. stays. 81. CattIe-Receipfs.
700; generally dull; undertone weak to
steady: common to medium, s5'75GT25
heifers at outside; few good light steers
Calves-ReceiptS. 100: near steady. sorts
considered: bulk light vealers. So. 50a9: odd
choice decline sorts higher; choice weightv
veals. So. little under $3.50: occasional
culls, So. Sheep-Receipts, /. 500: ciipped
lambs, soc or more lower, sprlngers. SOC
to 75c spots 81 of; best clippers. SS.5O
ewes, So down sharing weakness.
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Local Wagon Wheat

City grain elevators are paying Csc for
No. ! red wheat and SAC for No. hard
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Following is the explanation of
'Ripley's Believe 1t or Not"
which appeared in Saturdays
Times.
Friedrich II Spent 100000 for
Snuff Boxes-Friedrich II (the
Great), King Of Prussia (1712-
1880, who was a talented ruler,
legislator, and general, was rather
eccentric in his financial conduct.
Regarding himself as ''the first
servant of the state" he practiced
the most rigid economy in his
private household.
When he died, he left behind
him the best filled treasury in
Europe, q personal wardrobe
worth $40, and 400 snuff boxes,
each of which was worth at least
$4,000.
An Ant Tagged a Train
During September, 1880, Southern
Railway train No. ii, a crack fast
train, reached Bearden, Tenn, and
was run on a siding, stopped by
''red board" After a long wait
an investigation showed that
tiny red ant had crawled into
the signal box and caused the
automatic signal to switch from
green to red. This was reported
to me by Mrs. Roy N. Ernert, of
Sweetwater, Tenn.
Tuesday: "a Judgment for More
Money Than Exists"
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BIZ United Press

CINCINNATI May -Hogs-Receipts,
mostly steady: better grade f6o-22S-ib.
averages. largely $500; some $50 to around
250 lbs. s6.50@6:75; 275-300 lbs. s696.25;
Receipts, 800; calves. $50: slow; bidding
25Q50c lower on steers. heifers mostly Csc
odd lots common and medium heifers' $3.50
q6.75: some better finished yearlings. S76
$50; short load of choice lghtweights
cutter cows, s2.5064; bulls, $3.50 down;
vealers about steady. except weights above
100 lbs. which were Disseminated against:
good and choice lightweights. S7.5OnS:
heavy. 81 So: lower grades, 81 down. Sheen
Receipts. 600; spring lambs steady to
good to choice eve and wether Iamhs
$40. SOC II; strictly choice kind ouotable up
TO 81 so; common and medium sS@9;
ewes mostly $3.50 down.
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BIZ rnited Press

NEW YORK. May -Potatoes-Market.
steady; Long Island, s1a3.25 per barrel;
Maine $2.25d3 per barrel. Sweet potatoes
MARKET, firm jersey baskets, 75c@S3. so;
southern baskets. $1q3. Flour-Market,
dull and unchanged spring patents,
s4-6oQ4,90 per barrel. Pork-Market,
quiet; mess, $23. Lard-Market, easy
middlewest spot, .0775@. o785. Tallow-
o3s4c Dressed poultry-Market, steady
to firm; turkeys, 25G44c; chickens. asa
Island ducks. 17G19c. Live pouitry-Mar-
ket. easy: geese, 9912c; ducks, Isaac;
fowls 2fq23c; turkeys, $4,000; ROSTERS
l0Gl2c: chickens stays, 10c broilers, l6@
milk. fancy to specials, l2G22lzc; Young
America, 1871 nl9hc
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Cash Grain
May 25

May 25-
The bids for car lots of grain at the
call OF the Indianapolis Board OF Trade.
+ 1oe Q: b.; shipping point, basis 4l1zc New
wheat-steady; No. red, 72a74c: No.
2 red, 7l@72c; No. 2 hard, 72974c.
Corn-Steady: No. white 50G52c. No
NJ white 4sa soc; 10 2 ,yellox 4a1s Sole;
az g 1875: No. 3 mixed, 4ais9 471Ec.
- Oats-Steady; No. ? white, 25is 2eJzc:
Hay-Steady q: 0. B. country points
taxing 25h2c or less rates to Cincinnati
No timothy. sl3Gls.50: No. 3 timothy.
sl2gl3; No. light clover mixed. si3
q $50; No. 1 clover mixed, Sl5di5.5o: No,
l clover hay, s12Gf2.50.
Inspections
Whsat-.No. l red. 9 cars; No. 2 red.
car; No. hard. % cars. Total "a cars
Corn fnew)-No. 2 white, 5 cars: No.
white, 3 cars; No. white. I car; No
white, l car; No. 2 yellow. 8 cars: No.
yellow; cars; No. yellow, / car.
oats-No. 1 white. cars; No. white.
8 cars; sample white. 1 car. Total ID
SNA1s
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BIZ Times Special

LOUISVILLE I'LL Ky. May. Hogs-Re-
80 lbs downs 2s $685. $685.? r asU5s0
stays. S2.75. Cattle-Receipts. $50; mar
ket 25@50c lower; prime heavy steers. $76
and plain steers. $5a6; fat heifers, S6.25@
$50; common to medium heifers. S4.506
SIS; good to choice cows. $3.5od5; me
@3; Gamers s20250: bulls, s36425;
feeders. s647.25; stockers, s4.5o6 rs.
sood to Choice SsassS fancy S. ouss s
down. Sheep-Receipts. 1900; market not
yet established; prospects lower. Satur-
calves. $50; hogs. 95; sheep. 1857.
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Produce Markets

Eggs Country run)-Loss of delivered in
Indianapolis, i2c; henery quality. No. /.
Poultry buying prices)-Hens weighing
lbs. or over. tic; under 5 lbs. 15c: Leg
featheyed IL lbs and Up 29c : Under "
lbs. Csc; bareback. Ice; Leghorn broilers,
2Sci ducks. Sc; old cocks. 869c; ducks, full
prices are for No. top quality. quoted by
Butter (wholesalel-No. 1. 26G27c: No.
2. 24025c.
Butterfat-21c.
Cheese wholesale selling price per
pound -American loaf 22c; pinento loaf
sac; Wisconsin f1rsts 19c; Longhorns. Ice;
New York hmebrger, soc.
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Other Livestock

So with g5isaXs s 9az iSS
ss So $685. sgS sS &ssB to pasSsS5aSg
light Tf' lights, i4o-166 lbs good and choice
and choice, $685. @66o; medium weights,
heavy weights, 25O-35o lbs, good and
choice. $5.75@6.40; packing sows, 275-500
lbs. medium and good, $5@5.5o; slaughter
receipts, 1000 market on killing classes
not established; entirely too many cattle
here; few early sales common and medium
grades light steers and yearlings, weak to
Csc lower; most fed steers without bids,
the few bids made being sharply lower
than late last week; she stock sharing
Slaughter cattle and ,veaiers: steers, 500
900 lbs, good, and choice, $7@8;25; 300
100 lbs. good and choice, $7GS;2S; 100
1879 6 6 good goo nd a ThOiG oboss ss9
8:25; 6O0-1sOO lbs, common and medium,
Choice, $s.5o@75o; common and medium,
$50; Common and medium, ss75G $50 low
cutter and cutter, $2.50@3.75; bulls, year
lings excluded, good and choice, beef,
S4@5; cutter to medium, $3.25@4.25; veal
medium, s6.5O@7.25; Gull and common. $50
$50: stocker and feeder cattle; steers. 500
1880 lbs. good and choice, $6.75@7.50;
Receipts, 10000; slow. steady to weak;
spots lower; old crop lambs, very scarce;
few good clippers, So; native springs. SEA
1925; bucks sold at $s@9.25; CALIFORNIA;.
lambs, good and choice. sea So medium,
58@9; common, $6@8; lambs, 90 lbs down,
good and choice. $T75G8.5o; medium,
S6.25@8.5O: all weights, common. $5@6.50;
ewes. 90-150 lbs, medium to choice, $1.75@
3; all weights, Gull and common, $l@2.
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EAST ST. LOUIS. III. May 25-Hogs-
S sctHep TOP ao mogs so qBs s 5S5y
240-270 lbs. $6.4O66.50; around S0o-lb
average, $625;. sows largely -s5@5.15; light
weights up to $5.25. Cattle-Receipts. 5000;
ers, zoe higher at $S.75; few steers, some
light heifers, steady; most steers. cows and
cutters still on hand; indications steady
on medium bulls; a few steers, $6.4o66. so;
a few heifers around ST. Sheep-Receipts,
$500; market opened slow; run largely
native and southwestern spring lambs. in
Guiding three double decks Texas mixed:
no early sales; indications steady.
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Tuesday: "a Judgment for More
Money Than Exists"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25

their board9 Why not get notes from
people receiving Red Cross help if notes
are what the county wants for its files
OF course some of the committees
are going to disregard all this red tape
and issue coal orders regardless of appli-
cations Others will say, that wont be
legal" but when people need coal, coal
is what they want and not lot of red
tape.
The people in the court house are
worried about the coal situation. The
county funds are getting mighty low
and prospects of taxes very slim. What
is worrying them is that the time might
come when they can not draw their full
salary as they are doing no, and it would
be just too badly for the county if Dolly
Peterson could not keep on drawing her
$3.50 per month. So we must be
very saving on our coal. What differ
ence does it make if we freeze during
the winter SO long as we have the salts
faction of knowing that our elected
county officials are taken care of-are
drawing their full salary and keeping fat
and in good health.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25
THIS is FLEETWOOD

A FARMER went into the Northwest Service
IA Store the other day to buy Is pound sack of
sugar. He was told that the price was $780, The
farmer protested the price, saying the price at
the Comertown, at the Westby, at the Coalridge,
at the Dagmar stores was $1.65 for a 25-pound
sack of sugar. Whereupon the smart prune ped
dier replied: "This is not Comertown, or Westby,
or Dagmar; this is Plentywood-and you can take
it or leave it."
The prune merchant spoke the truth: "This is
Plentywood, take it or leave it." More and more
the farmers are "Heaving it." "This is Plentywood.
take it or leave it." is the Plentywood spirit-it
exemplifies the Plentywood idea of business Plen-
tywood charges 30 cents more for 25 pounds of
sugar than any other town in the county and As
cents more than the stores of Williston
The farmers down in the Red River valley are
selling potatoes for II cents per bushel. In Far.
go potatoes are retailing at 80 cents per bushel;
In Plentywood potatoes are selling for so cents
peck or two dollars the bushel. "This is Plenty
wood, take it or leave it."
Is there any wonder that Plentywood is coming
to be known among the people of Sheridan county
as robbers roost" and fewer and fewer buy any
thing here unless they absolutely have tol
There are an increasing number of Plentywood
people who drive to Williston to buy their grocer
les, paying for the gas and saving plenty on the
whole transaction
No wonder the theatre was closed down! No
wonder the wholesale houses are threatening and
preparing to close out several Plentywood stores.
No wonder stores are thinking of quitting and
leaving!
This is PlentywoOd take it or leave it," idea of
business that has made Plentywood as dead as the
dodo bird-that and two prices for everything
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Work Progressing on New
Buildings at State Prison

Deer Lodge, Sept. 21.- Warden
Middleton five weeks ago started
work on a building inside the state
prison walls to replace the old fed
eral building torn down early last
spring. The new structure will be
of reinforced concrete 1872 feet
long and so feet wide and two
stories.
The entire lower floor will be
used as dining room and guard
cage.
Due TO lack of funds only half
of the second story will be COM
pleted this year. This part of the
upper floor will be 50x10O feet and
will contain offices, visiting room,
lobby, barber shop, deputy ward
ems room, photograph room, fling
erprint departemnt and a kitchen,
50x60 feet. More than one half of
the side walls are window space
far exceeding the concrete separa-
tons.
An experienced foreman is in
charge of the work which it is ex-
pected will be completed about the
first of November.
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Friday, September Is. 1881.
LEGAL AND LAWFUL

We are told about legal rate of inter
est legal this and legal that. There
seems to be no end of legal ways pro-
vided for by which one person can steal
from another in legal and lawful man
ner.
A farmer bought some machinery
from a PIentywood firm. Two years
ago the farmer owed $4,000 on the
machinery and signed note for that a
mount. One year after, when the note
was due, the farmer had no money and
the note was renewed. Lawful interest
and othe Regal hocus pocus amounting
to $3.50 was added, bringing the a
mount up to $352.82.
This year the note was again renewed
with 26.4@o legal stuff added, bring
ing the amount up to $446.l2 Two
years ago the farmer owed $4,000 on
the machine, now he owes $446.l2.
When additional security was demanded
this farmer gave crop mortgage on his
pasture land
The banker borrows big sums of
money from the county at 20; handles
lot of money on which he pays no in
terest at all; the banker goes broke and
nothing much is said about it but when
the farmer is not able to pay his $3.50 in
terest he is called poor business manag-
er.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25
FIRE THE COUNTY AGENT

A PERUSAL of the last commissioners proceed
n ings will disclose what it cost the taxpavers
for the luxury of county agent. The budget for
the county agent is some less than $4,000 per
year. The poor budget is a little more than $1,000
The county is spending almost as much to feed a
county agent it does to feed the poor people of
the county-feed the women and babies. The Door
don't get much to relieve their poverty. but the
county agent lives in luxury-has swell home
wears fine clothes, lives the fat of the land, and
is one of the Plentywood nice people-one of the
400 If you please. If the county agent budget
were added to the poor budget it would almost
double 1t for 1t costs much to have a county
agent swelling around as it does to feed the Door
We cannot get rid of the poor, but we can the
county agent-that is, it look as if we could, tho
we have to confess they are harder to eradicate
than quack grass; and by the way, quack grass
and county agents compare we'll
Last month the county paid the agent s1O6, the
countys share of his wages, the state paws him as
much more, plus another $1O6 for mileage at the
rate of 10 cents per mile or for 1860 miles that he
Travelled for what? Besides this the county paid
stenographer to do the work, besides lighting and
Janitor cost for his office. The county agent lux,
ury cost pretty penny
Now is good time 10 get rid of the county
agent. The money he costs can be better used tn
iced and cloth the hungry and naked children of
men and women who produce-men and women
VINO work and perform useful function in soci-
ETY., instead of feed a parasite.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25
MORTGAGING THE FUTURE
(FrOm The Helena independently


If Secretary Andrew Mellon applied
the same policies to any one of the bus
mess enterprises with which he is con-
nected that he has applied in managing
the governments budget-issuing bonds
to meet deficit-he would be prompt
ly kicked out of tn eside door by his as
sociates.
Depression is today's problem. We
cannot and must not borrow against the
future. This wise observation was made
by Gov. Roosevelt in outlining fiscal
measures to the New York state assem-
bly,. Passing the burden of today's de-
preston along to posterity, as MIR. Mel
lon has done, is an act Of political cow
ardice.
Secretary Mellon has sold something
like $l,l00,000,00000 of depression
bonds The bulk Of these are long
term bonds and when the interest they
will draw is accounted for and COM
pounded in the final reckoning, admins
tration extravaganza will have cost the
taxpayers of the country, not one billion,
one hundred million dollars but nearly
twice that sum. That is fine for the
bankers but pretty tough on the taxpay-
ers.
Depression is bad anough, but why
pay interest on it2 Why not clean house
with the bureaucrats, cut government ex-
penditures to the bone and live within
income2 States and municipalities are
trying that. Corporations and individu-
ais have come to it. 1t is high time for
the federal government to get in line.
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cans to provide it with more millions of dollars.
Some months ago it asked for millions Ame1i-
cans all over the country pnched for ready money,
offered food instead. The Red Cross refused the
offer.
Once again the West has pelnty of food; but not
much ready cash.
Once again it offers the Red Cross, as great,
wealthy distributing agency, all the food it can
handle, for the benefit of felow-Americans.
Respectfully, we ask the directors of the Ameri-
can Red Cross to abandon their food-refusing,
mOney-demanding attitude and accept what west
folks will be quick to offer if the fear of an
other snub is removed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25
WHAT DO YOU SAY RED CROSS?
From the Spokane Pressl

From the Spokane Press)
MAY WE HAVE the attention of the American
IVA Red Cross for few minutes? We wish To
make suggestion:
This winter hundreds of thousands of our neopla
VIII not know which way to turn for food.
This month and next our western grain grow
ers fruit raisers and truck gardeners will produce
SURPRISES of food.
Our food producers out here although not very
prosperous this year, are fine, generous folks.
Nothing would give them more pleasure than to
give away their SURPRISES for the benefit of even
less fortunate people, who will need food badly
in few months.
You folks of the Red Cross have about 500 Ooo-
900 In cash and easily convertible bonds.
Why not take some of this money and use # 70
assemble our western food surplus; store If in
warehouses, and then, when it is needed Distribute
it?
We know the Red Cross asserts that our nrasort
trouble is not 'an act of God" and therefore No
business of the Red Cross
We think that attitude should he abandoned g
the Red Cross hopes TO regain in American &C.
TEEN the position it once held.
=
In few weeks the Red Cross viii ask Ameri.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25

it is long way from what they
should have in order 30 anywhere
near live through the month. Still
you take not a small profit but a
big one from them and leave them
so much less to live on. You
should be ashamed to do so. In my
estimation it is worse than taking
candy from a baby or stealing the
pennies from the eyes of dead
men. If there was the right metal
in you Mr.. Merchant you would
see to it that those small Red
Cross slips that are brought 10
you purchase every ounce of food
possible at wholesale prices. I
know if you will take it up with
the wholesale house they will al
low you a discount on the whole
sale price. In a case of this ma
ture and that you could also pass
on to the ones that so badly need
it now. You should make those
small allowances go as far as pos
sible. But do you?
Not so far. But do so from now
on-you owe it to humanity 10 do
so and if need be put in an appli-
cation yourself for your family to
live on. You are nothing but
flesh and blood like all the rest of
us and no better. You merchants
in all towns and cities advertise
that you are there to serve the
public. Now your opportunity is
here to do a real service.
Now then will you do it? If YOU
do not the multitude of the people,
myself included, must live and die
with the opinion we have of the
merchant class which is that you
are parasites on the body of soci-
ETY. and nothing else. You are
there to serve yourselves and no
one else. All you care for is the
profit you can extort from the
public and the public be damned
is your attitude.
Now, Mr.. Merchant, the time is
here fer you to prove to the multi
tude, myself included, that our at
titude of the merchant class is not
right. Now will you do so? You
can act collectively or individually
an dyou can do it by desisting
from taking any profit from char
ity funds. Taking profits from
these funds is the same as taking
bread from starving babes. AS /
have said before you should see
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-25

Outlook, Sept. %, 1881.
Editor Producers News:
am going to vote the Farmer
Labor ticket next year. The first
reason is because l voted for Mar
Jorie MarkuSon. Miss Singleton
had a married woman in her of
flee. thought, like many others,
that by electing Miss Markuson
we would have a new force. It's
true the new minister was in Plen-
tywood and John was there taking
up the collection with his lily white
hands that haven't done a days
work since his wife was or the
county pay roll. The only hard
work he does is coffin his mill
ion dollar Golf Pants and Outfit.
After next years election some of
these soft hands may have to do a
little pitching of Russian thistles
like some of we taxpaying farm
ers.
Yours truly,
AN OUTLOOK TAXPAYER
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No Coal Applications or
Notes for Frank French

Medicine Lake, Mon,
September 20, 81.
Editor Producers News:
Frank French's truck ran awav
down the hill west of Medicine
Lake with a load of coal from the
county strip mine and smashed u,,,
Seems French is the biggest pene-
factor of the county mine. He has
more places to keep warm than
any four or five poor families. If
he had to buy his coal from some
Of the poor, starving miners
around Medicine Lake it would
break his heart. That is French.
He puts in his time double
time) day and night, standing in
front of the Lake Cash Store in
speeding the poor who go to the
sale and try to save a penny. He
occupies portion of the sidewalk
as his beat by the corner of the
hardware and cash store with his
eagle eye peering through the low
er left hand corner of the plate