The Leon reporter., June 03, 1920, Image 3

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Farm Bureau Notes.
The past week has been one "of
mftch activity by the farmers as
tliey 'all liave been working overtime
to get the corn planting: done. Much
of the corn is coming nicely but at
this date May 31st there is about
one third of the corn still' to plant.
This is a very 'backward season es
pecially for those who nave ground
that is ipcliiied to be wet anyway.
Oats and wheat are not showing up
like they should but if the sun still
continues to shine and we get some
needed showers all things will come
out alright in the end.
It rarely happens that we get two
"good crops of corn and small grain
both in the same year for what is
good for one crop is a setback to the
growth of the other and so it goes.
If we have warm weather it is not
conducive to a good crop of oats of
wheat and if we have cool weather
it is not good for the corn.
With the present high prices be
ing realized for grain of all. kinds
and the decreasing prices for cattle,
hogs and sheep it is a great tempt
ation for all farmers to sell the grain
and gdt out of thevM'vestock end of
farming. The cattle market was
lower last Wednesday than it has
been for three years and men are
not figuring now how much they
are going to make on their feeding
operations hut how much they are
going to lose. We know personally
of one feeder who marketed twenty
three head of prime beeves last week
that lost him fifteen hundred dollars
on the proposition.
Any commission man th^t you
talk to will tell you that the prob
ability is that you will be able to
buy stock cattle any where from two
to three dollars per hundred cheaper
next fall than now. It means that
you are going to feed those cattle
all summer for nothing. The gam
they -make on fcrass will just about'
offset the loss you will be compelled
tbJUJwu/
Many farmer fruit growers are
taking pains in producing better and
cleaner fruit this year by the judic
vl- lous. use of lime'sulphur and
arsenate. Thus far this season we
have purchased and distributed
nearly one thousand gallons of lime
••I Bulphur and nearly fifteen hundred
\r pounds of lead arsenate. Surely
there is no reason why the farmers
of Decatur county canwot produce as
-Kf fine fruit as grows anywhfere if they
V. will /only give reasonable care to the
trees
Now is the time of year when all
apple trees should be gone over
and the apple tree borers removed
from the base of the trees. This is
one of the hardest pests to control.
Take a sharp knife and dig' them
out, it is the only safe way.'-You oan
V: not get any poison to them that
will kill or drive them out as they
v'f) are, under the bark too far and you
cannot reach them.
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We now have completed the
planting of our soy bean ipxperiment
fe al plots and we have eleven dtf
ferent varieties growing on three
different farms in the county. Cer
:^tainly *his win give us some very
definite information which variety
*4'- is best adapted to this locality at
harvest time.
Not verv much, interest has been'
shown in the pig club work and we
'••.•.'very much doubt if anything is go-
IHng to be accomplished this year in
the work. The corn club and the
calf club are coming along fine how
•.OiVever arid the bovs and girls in these
vtwo clubs are showing some excel
,Ient work.
Ttie Decatur countv branch of the
v'
Idwa Fleece Wool Growers Associa
board of
tion will meet with the
directors next Saturday afternoon at
"'•county agent's office to .determine
the date to be set for poohng the
wool clip. We will provide for hav
wool aa
buyers here on
"wish or we will get ready
.-:-v3to afcip you* wool.
if you
cars
Come out to
this meeting and let\ us know what
»you want o* to do. We are not your
J^Jboss but your hired man kfeep us
*^usyr.•
Chas. Knott Parolexl.
el a re or a
WnitaL lan Wednesday gave out the
S H. fcnott h-rf
tnornlMl bv the governbr. It
Telegraph reports, from the state
-nS '^apitaL li
news tha
paroled by.Uie
lendfalr a Fourth of July celebration
inan
intoXlcated condition run down.
had been
will be
by the governL_. ,,
Knott' while at-
Mary, Dusen, an Sfed negro woman
Wi lli Bethany .two jreara %go, .details of
•which readers of this papers are pore
--cto. inrm familiaT. .Th© associated
OTeM^fepOrt aent out from JeffersonJ
•City if as follOwa:
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•n City, May
19—£ovenior
ited. a parol^, this after-
Soon"to "charies H. Knott of Hw
jtTfiMB county, who is serving two
^^yean In the penitentiary for run
firing Over and_ fatajlly
thnfi *knd tie has been In the
wwecuting of HMrison
-cooiity, many citizens, and tne state
prison board.-*-Bethany CUppeFr
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the clothes look as nice as they look when you buy?"
AMERICA'S WAI!
TOLD.
KMCOIil) IS
Wonderful Achievements of the War
Department. Told in Volume by
IJeiiedict Crowell.
Washington, Dt C.—America's
"Munitions" is the titIe\of an iiilercst
ing volume from the pen of Assist
ant Secretary of War Benedict Cro
well, 'just lrom the press and con
taining a most interesting and il
luminating story of America's
achievements in production during
her participation in the great war.
Secretary Crowell's stor^ contains
many facts yiat^are new to the aver
age American. Many of these facts
will be acc-pted with surprise because
they concern accomplishments that
appeared well-nigh impossible, 'they
are some of the things Germany be
lieved America could not do. They
are achievements that, coupled with,
the wonderful.fighting spirit of the
army overseas, made "it possible to
end the war eighteen months before
most people believed it would be
brought to a close with an enormous
saving of life and treasure.
The following are some of ,the
more important facts chronicled in
Assistant Secretary Crowell's his
tory.
Troops at the Front.
That America had more trqps in
Prance than'the British at the sign
ing of the armistice.
That the American artillery in
France fired more than four times
as many rounds of jvrtillery ammun
ition as the Union army did in the
Civil War.
That America was the only country
that succeeded in building recupera
tors for French designeu guns, ex
cept France herself.
That between Anril 6, 1917, and
November 11, 1918, AmeHca manu
factured as m'uch smokeless powder
as France and England combined.
That between two and three miles
were add^d to the range of the
American army's six-inch guns.
That America produced two of the
three airplane fixed machine guns
lead
U8ed
successfully against the Huns.
That America developed five air
planes the eoual of pr better than
anything in Europe.
That America brought down 4! 1
German airplanes and lost only 271
during the war.
That the United States built almost
as many avialion engines of other
types as she did of the Liberty.
That America reduced the cost of
helium gas from $1700 per cubic
foot to ten cents.
That'America shiped 533 locomo
tives to France on their wheels,
'packed in baled hay, in the holds of
ships.
That American troons alone had
hot coffee under fire, due to the in
vention of soluble coffee in the U. S.
Millions Saved.
That packing economics saved the
country $"5,000,000 in the shipment
of clothing alone to "France, and by
saving ship space, offset the opera
tions of U-boats for several months.
That salvage during the last nine
months of the war saved $100,000,
000.-
That the total war construction in
the United States amounted to more
than $1,000,000,000 in cost.
Tha America produced over 75,
000 miles of oupost wire for signal
ing purposes at the front, a,, material
never manufactured until America
entered the war.
That America developed a substi
tute for salvarsan, formerly produced
onlv in Germany, and which proved
to be better than the German pro
ducti
Hound l)ogs On Wrong Trail So
Murray Xeighbors Love \ei|?h
bors.
The report is traveling the rounds
at the court house that a citizen of
Muray some days ago missed thirty
odd little chick% that had been re
cently hatched, and instead'of inves
tigating very thoroughly he secured
the blood hounds from Crfeston, they
with the owner arriving at Murray
post haste by a high poVered motor.
The hounds were put to work and
they took a scent and landed at an
other prominent ^citizen's barn not
far away, when the dogs
refused
to
worfr any furtHer. The chickens
were not discovered however, but
the owlier of the dogs claimed they
had done their work faithfully and
well and collected jthe costs amount*
ing to 135 or more, returning with
the canine? to his creston home.
Gossip and talk began to spread un
til things began to get Seated up
when the officers of the town decid
ed to take a hand in»the matter and
a search of Murray Was about to' take
dace when the owtoer of the little
stopped
made a more thorough look and had
Diddies the procedure. He
found the remains of the chick! dead
in .their coops with their throats
lacerated and the- blood sucked away.
pro lis little city to our west
Osceola Tribune.
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XHX UtblT BBPOBTJB, fHVBSDA JUNE 3, 1920.
That's where Hart Schaffner & Marx all-wool quality and fine tailoring come in \those
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I)I'FJ:XIANTS WIN SUIT.
I)a\1is County Ked Ooss Workers
Are Xot Conspirators.
The now famous slander suit
brought by E. G. Dickson against
thirty-five of his neighbors in West
Grove township is a matter of record
in the district court of Davis county.
The case occupied the attention of
C. \V. Vermillion the presiding judge
for twelve days. The end came Sun
day morning after the jury had de
liberated together over the evidence
and instructions of the court for 19
hours. The verdict read "\Ves the
jury find for the defendants."
This case has attracted attention
all over the state. The Sunday
morning Register contained pictures
of all the defendants and also a cut
of the nine women who have brought
slander suits against W. C. Dickson
the brother of this plaintiff, and a
pen .picture of E. G. Dickson, and a
good photograph of the court room,
showing the .decorations. Each day
the court room has been filled by
eager crowds listening to the evi
dence closed by both sides resting
their case Friday morning at eleven
'o'clock. .Toe R. Jacques opened the
arguments to the jury in a speech of
forty-five minutes, the climax of
crowds ^was reached when court con
vened at 1:30 Friday afternoon,
standing room being" at a pre
mium, when Ellsworth Rominger
opened the arguments for the de
fense with an address of three
hours. He was followed by Buell
Mc-Cash with an argument of one
the best clothesI
OU'RE going to find out, in the next few months, that it does make some difference what sort of clothes you buy. You're
attracted by a style, or a pattern or a fabric maybe the price'looks very nice to you. But the
are the qualities that .endure. That's where we come in we have these clothes fDnyou.
"Buy Now!"
G.B.PRICE
The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes
hour. Saturday morning T. A.
Goodson closed the arguments with
an address of one hour. The de
fendants being iven throe speeches
to the jury by the court. Bob Haines
of Des .\li ines closed the arguments
for plaintiff in talk of one hour
and a Iialf.
It is rumored that, the jury stood
10 to 1' for defendants early 'Sunday
morning for two jurymen "not un
derstanding the
o'clock Sunday
was called anil
jury asked for
A few minutes
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further instruct ions,
afterward the unan­
imous verdict was returned.
This v.-as one of the most closely
tried cases that was ever heard in the
Davis county district court. The
legal talent employed could not be
outclassed. Tlie defendants were
represented by H. C. Taylor, E. Uom
inger, John P. Scarborough, T. A.
Goodson and Buell. .McCash. The
plaintiff by Joe K. Jacques of Ot
tumwa. Bob 1 laines, of Des .Moines,
Lloyd Duke, of Ottuma and IJ.
Bence of the local bar. Duke never
appearing at the trial table of a
plaintiff. The decision of the jury
will do much to clear the atmosphere
of Davis countj.—Bloomfield Demo
crat.
The George Bros, farmers living
west of Perry, set what is believed
to be a world record far speed in
plowing when tliey plowe-1 35 acres
of land in two days. A searchlight
was attached to the tractor for night
work.
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