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CITY EMPLOYES
TUKNED DOWN
By Council for IncreascThey
Asked—Told to (Jet
More Money in
Treasury First
At the meeting of Trades Council
held Tuesday night, the delegates
from the City Firemen's Union as well
as those of the Stationary Firemen
reported that their request for an in
crease in salary had been "turned
down cold" by the city council. One
of the delegates reported that when
they went before council one of its
members advised them "to first go
before the county commissioners and
have that board order a reappraise
ment of the property values so that
there would be more money in the
city's funds." It is said that this
same member of council didn't offer
this advice when the stenographers
and clerks in the city's employ asked
for an increase.
The city firemen are asking 60 cents
an hour. They maintain that they are
trained in their work for which they
are now receiving but 34 cents an
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hour while common labor is being
paid 48 cents an hour.
The stationary firemen point out
that they are receiving much less
than is being paid for the same work
in other plants.
The service department employes
also presented a petition in which they
ask for a 22 per cent increase. The
petition was signed by about fifty of
the city's employes. They say that
the increase is an absolute necessity
if they would combat the present high
cost of living successfully.
It means just this. Unless our city
servants are granted at least living
wages, the city is going to lose some
of its most valued employes, as it is
utterly impossible those men having
families to support to live decently
on the wages they now receive,
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BAKERS WON UNION
SHOP
Dallas, Tex.—When the employing
bakers attempted to force their union
employes to surrender their cards and
accept unfair conditions, a strike re
sulted, closing all the bake shops in
the city. The contest lasted three
days, when a settlement was reached,
the members of the union returning to
work with a signed agreement, de
feating the effort to make the baker
ies non-union.
David Webb *mm
We carry a full line of Western Casket Co.'s Caskets
Suits and Dresses.
THESE ARE UNION MADE GOODS
BACK UP YOUR UNION CARD WITH
"Dunlap Tailored Clothes"
«5to$45
—The uni' n mar who doesn't wear clothes with
the lanei remmas us of the old-fashioned fellow
who usee, to sa 'Don't do as I do, but do as
I say. i»uniar Clothes are no more in price
than tne at Hand-me-downs but they're
better mr.de to your measure—and
they have me label.
New All Wool Fabrics are waiting for
your order
Suitsjop Coats, Overcoats, Trousers
—bench tailored Dunlap
style I
THE DUNLAP TAILORS
"The Shop with new ideas"
1$ South 3rd St. HAMILTON
holbrocK Bros
iliablc Dealers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Clocks, Qiuei sx* art
Millinery. House Furnishings
VToss-Holbrock Stwmp? with
Opened
FOR BUSINESS
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June 1st
Hamilton's Newest Industry Is Now
Ready to Serve the Public
We have rebuilt the property of The Cincin
ati Brewing Company and equipped it witji a
horoughly modern ice manufacturing* and cold
-torage plant.
Our trucks and wagons will give reliable daily
service to all parts of the city.
Our cold storage department is prepared to re
ceive fruit, vegetables, meats and other articles re
quiring storage at low temperature, and we solicit
inquiries from merchants and other persons hav
ing perishable articles.
When You Want Ice Call
327 SOUTH FRONT STREET
Phone 2580—Private Branch Exchange.
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PLUMBERS' UNION
FLOURISHING
All Shops in the City Have
Signed Agreement With
Exception of Three
The plumbers' delegates, at th6
meeting of Trades Council, Tuesday
night, reported their organization in
flourishing condition, both as to mem
bers and financially. They say that
all members have more work at the
present time than they can possibly
do. They also report that all the
shops in the city have signed their
agreement with the exception of
three, who are: Fred Farr, Charles
Gressle, and Donald Metzler. These
three not having signed the agree
ment, do not employ union labor and
are not considered fair to the organi
zation.
BUY A BUILDING BOND
Our Growing
Sweet Tootn
Public Paying Highest Price for
Sugar SKace Days Following
Civil Wat
The public Is paying the highest
price asked in this country for su.'rar
since the days following the Civil war.
There are reports from that time of
sugar selling as high as 50 cents a
pound, and that, of course, for an ar-1
tide much inferior In grade to what
some persons have been paying 2-11
cents a pound for within recent weeks. I
But there is this notable difference:
In Civil war tiroes the high price of
sugar caused a uoticeable diminution
In Its use now, with the price four
fold what most persons consider to be
normal, we are using five times as
much sugar for each person as we
were In the year after the Civil war. I
That year, the per capita use of
sugar was 18 pounds. In the decade
from 1SG0 to 1875 the price material
ly improved, and In response the use
of sugar doubled to 35 pounds a per
son. From 1876 to 1885 it had In
creased to 42 pounds. In the decade
from 1880 to 1S95 the price of sugar
went as low, probably, as at any time i
in our history, and for the excellently i
refined article. Then we were using
It at the rate of 57 pounds a person
each year. Steadily the use of it In
creased in the following decade, de- i
spite a somewhat rising price, to 67
pounds.
Seaweeds of Millions of
Years Apo Resemble Algae
Now Growing in the Sea. i
That many of the algae or seaweeds i
of the Middle Cambrian epoch of goo
logic time, some 2.1,000,000 to 30,000,000
years ago, closely resemble the algae
growing in the sea at the present time,
is a statement made by Charles D.
NValcott. secretary of the Smithsonian
institution, in describing fossil re
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mains of these ancient sea plants dls
covered by him in the Middle Cam
brian rocks of the Canadian Rocky
mountains.
In the remote time when these
plants were deposited on the muddy
sea bottom the rock formations that
are now thousands of feet above sea
level, formed the shoreline of a Mid
die Cambrian sea.
The fossil remains from which these
primitive plants were Identified oc
cur as shin.v black films on the
surface of the hard, dark siliceous
shale. The mucous or gelatinous
mass of the plant has been replaced
by a shiny black siliceous film contain
Ing Iron pyrlie in varying proportions.
It Is evident that the origin^ organic
and inorganic matter was removed by
solution and replaced by the black film,
the convexity and relief of the plant
being lost in the process and by subse
quent compression.
SCOUTS FIRST AID 8AVE8 LIFE.
The first aid help given by a boy
scout at the time of the Injury prob
ably saved the life of Ernest Whipple
of Leona, Ore., whose arm was severed
by a rut-off saw at a lumber mill. The
boy was Howard Lea, an employee of
Jhe mill, mid when other men left the
victim helpleSs because of their Igno
rance of the care that sltould be given,
young Lea bound the wound after the
method tuutfht all members of the boy
scout organization, and the resultant
stopping of the flow of blood is be
lieved to have saved the young man's
life.
D01NG8 OF THE BOY 8COUT8.
Gaffney (S. C.) Troop No. 1 was par
ticularly successful In collecting books
for service men and raised $115.00 for
a poor family.
Des Moines, la.," scouts, during the
student volunteer convention met
0,000 delegates at the railroad depot
and escorted them to registration bu
reaus, checked their baggage, and sup
piled information at official booths.
The Pennsylvania state game com
mission called upon the boy scouts to
enlist In the movement to feed the
birds, whose source of food was cut
off by snow. The department had a
force of men at work feeding q^ail
and wild turkey in the central Pennsyl
vania' districts.
Scouts of Troop No. 2 of Effingham
guarded a disabled mall airplane both
day and night.
Andover (N. H.) boy scouts ran the
snow plow through town and saved
wood for the poor.
Naugaluck (Conn.) Troop No. 2 re
turned a lost child to Its parents, and
searched for a lost aviator.
Identification cards for boys scouts
have been prepared by Mayor Stauffer
of Heading. Pa. They contain the seal
of the city, and will be numbered and
listed so that the city knows to whom
tach card has been Issued.
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
TIME TO LAUGH
Invisible.
"Yea, they have Invisible ink.*
"I must have gotten hold of some of
It by mistake."
"How so?"
"The magazine people can't seem to
see the poetry I write."
HI* Heroic Act.
Mrs. Henpeck—To think that ©nee
considered you a hero! Oh, la-la-la!
Mr. Henpeck—I suppose the thought
struck you on the evening I performed
the death-defying and foolhardy feat
of proposing marriage to you.
Between Friends.
"Why are you
pawing over the
library?"
"I'm lookln* up
the term, con
genital idiot."
W a s e
a e a s
somebody called
you oneT*
Considerate.
Her Father—I hear you've been look
ing up my rating. What for?
Her Suitor—I wanted to see if 1
should be the right sort of son-in-law
for yon.
The Situation.
Parent (from the adjoining room)—
Edith, aren't you going to light the
gas in there?
Edith—Tes, mammal Charlie and
I were just speaking of—er—striking
a match.
Doomed to Dumbness.
"Money talks/*
said the political
grafter.
"Well, If this
daes any talk
ing," said the
ribe giver, hand
ing it over, "it
will be the last
you will ever
get"
Advance Two Theories In
Origin of West Indies
The origin of the West Indies is to
be studied by a naturalist who recent
ly sailed from New York City for Ja
maica. Scientists bold two support
able theories in this matter The first
theory makes Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti
and Porto Rico mere fragments of the
American continent It supposes thut
they were isolated by depression be
low sea level of the surrounding areas.
The second theory sees the islands as
independent uprisings from the ocean
bed, caused by a combination of vol
canic upheavals, foldings In the earth's
crust, and coral growth.
RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS
Doing something for others.
Doing It without expecting a
return.
Always look on the bright
er side.
Keeping eternally busy at
something.
Never taking too much of any
thing.
Contentment with your lot
Iteverence for older folks.
Making your middle name
•Cheerfulness."
Companionship of a good dog.
BOY
SCOUTS
(Conducted by National Council of Dm
Bov SUvmts of Am«rl«a.)
WHY PERSHING WAS MISSED
Two Lincoln (Neb.) sconts lost out
in shaking Pershing's hand by living
up to the scout mandate: "Do a good
turn."
Scouts Oeorge Kennedy and Norman
Pickell set forth on the eventful day
of Pershing's visit with one all-consum
ing desire. They wanted to shake
hands with the man whose leadership
had made him boyhod's Idol.
They skirted the crowds—a boy's
paradise.
They left the gay downtown streets.
They knew their only chance would
come when Pershing arrived In his
own door yard.
The two scouts hurried up the
street. They saw the procession com
ing. They increased their speed.
Just then the scouts ran Into two
baby girls. One said her name was
Mary. Both were crying with the
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The procession moved on. The ba
I bles sobbed some more. The scouts
took them along. By the time the llt
tie group reached Pershing's street the
babes had tuned up in great shape.
The scouts turned into the "white
house on the corner."
"Please, lady, will yen warm these
lttle girls? They are cold."
The babies were taken In. The
scouts hurried on. Just one more
block. Perhaps they could make It.
They reached the coveted spot In
time to see the front door clOM.
Pershing was gonel
8AVINQ 8ERBIA THROUGH BOY8.
The Serbian boy today stands be
tween his nation and its extermination.
His fathers died defending their coun
try against the Turk in 1912, the Bui*
gar In 1913 and the Hun invasions
since 1914. The preservation of the
race must depend upon the boys grow
ing into manhood.
General Mlhallo Rashitch, Serbia's
VwMse tACttdaa ud strategist, tUL
i"tii'i rifhflrifi'' r* f'iTflrtirf• li^p, ,'f
MR. AND MRS. LA CROIX
Expn»«re to Sun, Wind,
Ousi leal, Cold. Oases
mut Lad Lighting is Injur*
ious to your yes. Sore,
lutlained l'ves Quic Uy
Relieved by Murine Ey#
Remedy. At all Drug
Stores. Write for Lye Care Book, free
NurlneCye teaedy Co., 94£. Ohio St., Cbicags
Just announced that he will devote his
life and energy from this time to the
boys of Serbia. There were hundreds
of boys who literally belonged to no
body, who had lost all trace alike of
family or friends.
It was to meet this crisis that Gen
eral Rashitch, the crown prince of
Serbia and a few philanthropic citizens
decided to revive the organization of
the Boy Scouts of Serbia. Colonel
Popovltch became the commander, and
In thirty days the ragged, unkempt,
dirty, thin, hopeless refugee orphan
lads were transformed into erect, trim,
alert scouts—wide-awake, with new
hope and ready to serve.
FIND 8COUT GRAVE IN FRANCE.
Through a search carried on by the
Boy Scouts of France at the request
of scouts In Newark, N. J., the grave
of Edward G. Lauer, who was killed In
action nine days before the siguing
of the armistice, has been located In
an American cemetery In Suresnes.
Location of the grave was made by
scouts of the v'.clnity of Boulogue-sui
Seine, who, in common with troops
throughout the country, were called
upon by the heads of the scout move
ment In France to visit all cemeteries
in which United States soldiers had
been burled.
Lauer, who was a member of New
ark Scout troop No. 25, enlisted In the
spring of 1917 and was assigned to
the First ammunition train of the
First division. While it was known
that he had been killed, relatives and
friends wished to learn the location of
his grave.
8COUT8 KEEP OUT OF COURT.
*1 have never heard of any boy
scout getting Into trouble and brought
before the Juvenile court," says CoL
J. E. Huchlngson, boy scout executive
Of Denver.
"On the other hand, we have had
scores of boys who have been In Ju
venile court before they became
scouts."
It Js Colonel Hutchlngson's theory
chat no boy Is hopelessly bad, but the
"bad" boy only lacks the opportunity
to express himself In the right way.
Colonel Huehlngson says that the
average boy is a democratic institu
tion, that he is for fair play and wants
to give another boy a chance to make
good if there is anything against his
record. The scout. troops elect their
own members and oftentimes take a
boy whom they know has a record
which the school authorities can't hold
np as a shining example.
SCOUT TO ENTER WEST POINT.
With aft, average of 93 per cent in
the competitive examinations for ap
pointments to West Point, Robert
Chester McCloud, a 17-year-old boy
scout of Roselle Park, N. J., won
signal honors all along the line. As
a boy scout he bears a high record.
Senior Patrol Leader of Troop No. 1,
he was always on duty when needed.
He Is also a veteran scout, testifying
to a five-year service from September
6, 1914. In each Liberty loan, Scoot
McCloud carried off a medal.
EARLY TO BED, ETC., WRONG?
Or at Least, Sometime* There Is
Something to Be Said on the
Other Side.
There la a reverse side to every
a'dage. Early to bed and early to rise
may make a man healthy, wealthy and
wise, but It does not necessarily fill
him like* bottle with the milk of hap
piness.
One of the healthiest, wealthiest and
presumably wisest men I know has
been beating the birds to the first peep
of dawn for 40 years, writes Herbert
Corey. But he has a temper that
would corrode copper.
Sometimes a controlled and con
servative laziness may go farther to
ward insuring content than the laying
up cf millions to be spent by the Eng
lish son-in-law.
"I have kept myself in training ail
my life," said one of the most impor
tant business men in the country to me
this morning. "I have to be in the
pink of condition to meet the day's
strains."
He began as an office boy. Today he
has approximately 50,000 employees
and Is the actual head of a large In
dustry. Of course he has millions.
Everyone has oowadays, so that Is no
distinction.
He likewise has a fine, upstanding,
four-square son who bids fair to be
come as big a man as his father has
been. But he has gone into another
business.
"I didn't want him in mine," the
father sighed. "I have risen early and
S°u* (p bed early all my life. I have
THURSDAY
FRIDAY and
SATURDAY
TWO FREE ATTRACTIONS EACH NKJHT. 8 and 10 O'CLOCK
$100 IN i'KIZES
.WORKERS UNION
UNIO^STAMP
Victory'
Boot and
Spring Festival
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Collis Lovely, General
been forced to go without the theater,
to miss concerts, to avoid social Inter
course, to give a dally hour to the
gym. I have been the hond slave of
my business. My day starts at eight
o'clock at the office and It ends at six.
I have been successful, but—"
Nix on those rhymed maxims. They
jingle too merrily to be true.
LAUGHS AT ANCIENT SAYING
Here Is One Retired Business Man
Who Is Not Afraid of
"Rusting Out."
The world seems to be full of cheer
ful oldsters. Hear this:
"They tell us," he says, "that if a
man quits work he soon rusts out but
I don't find that to be true. I haven't
done a stroke of work in four years,
but I don't feel a bit rusty yet not a
bit
"They tell us also that *they never
come back,' and I think that may be
true really I am Inclined to doubt
whether I could now, at seventy-five,
take up my work where I laid it down,
when I was seventy or thereabouts
but I don't want to take it up.
"I don't think anybody Is 'entitled'
to anything unless he works for It but
I think I have earned a rest. I worked
hard for fifty years In that time I
did about one hundred years' work. So,
as 1 figure it, there is still rightfully
due me about 45 years of leisure.
"In other words, I should have to
live to be about one hundred and twen
ty before that alleged rust law would
properly apply to me and I hope I
shall live at least that long and all the
time as free from rust, as comfortable
and happy, as I am at the present mo
ment"
Hundreds of Varieties of Figs.
The fig family, Moraceae, Is one of
the largest In the vegetable world.
Botanists have identified and de
scribed more than 600 species, mostly
tropical evergreens, frequently of gi
gantic proportions, often climbers or
epiphytic. The species Ficus carlca
thrives In Egypt, but is of little value
also Ficus sycomorus, the fruit of
which Is consumed with relish by
Egyptians Ficus roxburghfl, native of
lower slopes of the Himalaya moun
tains of northern India, produces fruit
of very large size, In massive clusters,
but of not very high quality Ficus
pseudocarica of northeastern Africa,
produces small, dark-colored, sweet
quite palpable fruit, the capriz form of
which Is receiving considerable atten
tion in California. The original home
of the cultivated fig conforms quite
generally to that of the olive.
Karakul Fur
Karakul, Persian lamb and Astra
khan furs come from the regions about
Bokhara, In Turkestan. Before the
war almost all of them were dyed and
treated at Lelpslc, where two houses
alone received 750,000 skins, with a
yearly value of about $2,700,000.
i The race of sheep known as Kara
kul is a native of Turkestan, and Its
special home is In the vast sandy des
ert plains of Bokhara. The lambs are
born covered with an abundant fleece,
dojrn to their hoofs and as far as their
eyes. This fleece is formed of black
rtrands tightly curled against the skin.
If the animal be killed within three
days of its birth and skinned at once
the fleece remains unchanged. As It
grows, however, the curls untwist and
after It once has been sheared the wool
grows with scarcely a trace of curl.
WHAT MUDGIE REMEMBERED
Mudgie, aged two years, was much
interested in the Mother Goose
rhymes, especially the story of Bopeep
and her sheep. At Sunday school she
was learning the Beatitudes. One day
her mother asked her to repeat them
to a visitor.
Mudgie began: "Blessed are the
pure in heart—" Here her memory
failed her.
Her mother thought to prompt het
"For they—" said she.
"For they shall come home," fin
ished Mudgie triumphantly, "frag
ging their tails behind them."
June 17-18-19, '20
For Twenty Years we have issued this Union Stamp for use under our
V O U N A Y A I A I O N O N A
O U S A I N S U E S
Peaceful Collective Bargaining.
Forbids Both Strikes and Lockouts.
Disputes Settled by "Arbitration.
Steady Employment and Skilled Workmanship.
Prompt Deliveries to Dealers and Public.
Peace and Success to Workers and Employers.
Prosperity of Shoe Making Communities.
As loyal union men and women, we ask you
to demand shoes bearing the above Union
Stamp on Sole, Insole or Lining.
5hoe Workers' Union
MMER STREET, BOSTON. ASS.
President... Charles L. Baine, General Sec'y-Treas.
Here you'll find only jew
els of valuable purity, and
design, enhanced by ar
tistic settings of fashion
able distinction, in rings,
drops, lavallieres watch
bracelets and brooches.
splendid selection of gifts
for June Brides.
Schipper
JEWELRY AND OPTICAL CO.
156 HIGH ST.
TRANSMOGRIFICATION
A young doctor who was called on
for a story at a fraternity smoker
replied:
"I cannot tell anything original,
nor do I know the source of the one
for which I will ask your indulgence.
An old colored lady was heard to re
peatedly call a little picaninny whose
hand she held, Diploma. When asked
the reason she replied:- 'Because it is
the child's name.'
'But where did you get such a
name?'
"'Well, my daughter went down to
a school in Kentuck and this little
chap is what she brought home with
her, so I calls him Diploma.'"—In
dianapolis Medical Journal.
fca to Ka
Ruth—She told me she slapped him
because he tried
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to kiss her good
night.
Helen—He told me she slapped him
because he didn't try.—'Columbia
Jester.
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PRACTICAL CIRCUMLOCUTION*
"I just called, Madam, to say—h*m
—how sorry I was to hear you had
lost your husband. H'm—h'm. But
we all have to tread the same path.
M'm, haw. And—h'm, h'm—I was
wondering if the house is to let?"—
The Passing Show (London)
RUTH
Irliit'Andrews, the newly elected city
clerk of Terre Haute, is active in Sun
day school work. Last Sunday he ad
vised the children of his class that the
morning study would be about Ruth,
referring,of course, to the gleaner.
"Now," said Andrews, after intro
dusing the subject, "who can tell me
anything about Ruth?"
Up went a littte hand in the rear
of the class.
"Well, Willie," asked the teacher,
"what do you know about Ruth?"
"He made twenty-nine home runs
last season," was the answer.—In
dianapolis News.
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STILL FOND OF THE RATTLE
Redd—So you've had the baby out
in your flivver, I see.
Greene—Oh, £es, I take, him o6t
every day in it.
Does he like it?
He's tickled to death! You know
he was brought up on a rattle?"-—
Yonkers Statesman.
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