Grand Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - May 21, 1920, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin DAILY T THE RAPIDS LEADER FIFTH YEAR NO GRAND WISCONSIN FRIDAY MAY 21 1920 CENTS GROCERY MEN IN CONFERENCE ON SITUATION PRICKS WITH STATE DIVISION OK NEW YORK STORK MANAGERS UK I'll SIC TO ORDER JOBBERS HIGH PRICKS Milwaukee Wis May Milwaukee grocers predicting a heavy drop in the price of potatoes dealers and shippers met at the city hall day with representatives State Division of Markets to discuss the present grading and shortage tion in Wisconsin Grocers Have re- ported the public has been so adverse to buying nine cents per pound toes that not more than one-third of the normal amount is disposed of With new potatoes 011 the market nt a higher rale refusal to buy has been nearly unanimous and as the market continues to receive the new crop are bound to collapse grocers say N Y Merchant's Si and New York May and buyers of department stores here in connection with the price cutting movement stated that their ments refused to purchase from bers until substantial reductions were made The department stores claim to offer reductions of from teen to fifty percent now demand wholesalers to make concessions to hem An of one of the largest department stores with branches in six cities We arc not buying future stock now and will not until manufacturers and wholesalers come down with their prices Formerly we bought of furs on our initial purchase So far we have refused to TO LET BRIDGE A LINGERING Sweeney ten year daughter of Sweeney her home nt Thursday at A M illness funeral services will be nine o clock A M Saturday al the S a Paul's Church Rev Win the services will be in Hie Calvary Cemetery STATIONS ALIKE STATK TO In In sent lo from the Stale Hoard nf Health Sec C 1 of I he Chamber of Com- merce has been given some eif he that aro required and others that are suggested In of a comfort station sonio of which may apply lo when they they erect a station in this city While Iho Slate Board sent out a make suggestions that may be lowed if the city desires One suggestions is lint a similarity be followed and in regard to that the Board Suggest Design As lo uniform design ol so that the traveling public at a may modern conveniences permit ur to slate that City of Milwaukee purchase a single piece this lino You will statements were made by of j however each community lo have a problem by other stores Say it Is Artificial Some wholesalers of apparel declared ed the price culling movement to artificial and uneconomic asserting il has stimulated buying without a increase in production and f reaction is bound to come Meanwhile merchants in lines pears lo have However it is the writer's opinion that the exterior of the comfort llon should carry u l scheme by would as a Under It was with the hope that many ol tho communities would do so that a station as sh would servo for purpose 01 than food stuns continue to ofTer e roo be of a b I he reduction food orange color announced yesterday when one of or walls of I h tv 1 nan u- ly the root be of a buff -or i SCHOOLS CLOSE IN CITY TODAY of Choice The Board adds thai matter of color scheme is a jlinn and can be carried out or as the lit The Board of Health will a lo iranel sonfe time WEEK WILL IJE DEVOTED M the near when the TO A Ml NATIONS IN GRAND of Iho construction and most RAPIDS SCHOOLS jable design will he taken up Thc schools ol cily officially closed today with thc expiration of the school study year next week to be voled to examinations in both the grades and high school and Com- exorcises at tho high school While schools have been levelling the weeks lo review I sessions have been regular up to A lhn Association llt ron j ror al the Port school house PORT EDWARDS TO HAVE MEET AM Te AT- bers of thn of avc been asked o about The past year has been a favorable one for carrying on thc school work as weather has been cool up until the both students and teachers Often the early spring and warm weather brings inclinations to play hookey into the j minds of the students and seriously j interferes with school work a lion which has nol been as apparent j this year as in some thai have cd stale j Successful Year Reviewing school activities the football lean al the high school FER successful tieing the Stevens i Point highs who considered i Vf selves for the slate SCOUT EDITION M and defeating Merrill who j APPE ANCE TO were considered a strong valley team ill give a talk on Tho school h sixty different garden in which children will take care of On the basket ball floor locals did not produce as heavy a team as they have but made a fair showing Thc first event of the Tho Troop Reporter I he Hoy Seoul paper made its second ance today when Vol 1 Nos 2 and came in one edition The front ii i n in I I If i I will occur carries a cut of Birch description of the properly evening when thc Senior Class play Nothing But Will there which as a Scout bc produced at Daly s Camp The of the paper is devol CO THIS 1 j HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING ON THURSDAY SItt Mil BIDS TO BE TAKEN AT HOUSE NEXT ON ERAL WOOD STREAMS Contracts on several bridges in Wood County the value of which will total several thousands of dollars will be let at the of Highway Com- Morris next Friday when from all over Wisconsin ben are expected to take a part in trying j Recitation to secure the jobs Two of tho new bridges which are to be built this year are within the city limits but not in llu contracts thai will be let Friday coming under work that thc Mathis Company bin on this tercel ty be designated as thc county system which will be paved with concrete un- dor the bond issue lo he Buill The Iwo bridges which will bc built within the city limits and which conic under the local construction company's work aro on Seventeenth Avo and the bridge known as the Nash bridge a short distance within the city limits Doth are ten foot span bridges aim will cost about apiece mill pond bridge at Arpin will be built At the annual meeting of Fraternal j lay hull was well ito lislen lo an by Mr Orrin Thompson of of Iho who gave address The following program was Win LIVE ON BIG MARSHi and las Piano Dorothy T Nixon Vocal Wales Address and Introductory T Nixon Dancing followed Hie program and ice cream and cake was served ls The others aro I thru several towns in the U A 11 on the highways which are HEARS SPEAKER SOCIALIST SPEAKER BY PEOPLE IN ENCE DURING TALK FROM THE HAND STAND til a cost of about it being a anri A crowd of people at The tho wesL skle evening to hear the talk delivered by twenty fool span bridge Thc dein bridge one-half mile south and one mile east of Arpin is a fool span bridge and will be erected at an estimated cost of The Mill Creek bridge four miles oast of and the bridge south and cast of Arpin are both thirty-five fool and the mated cost on these is There are also two small bridges north of Hindquarters in Washington C F H Shoemaker of New London so and Leaguer who is candidate for Congress from this district After his introduction Shoemaker gave a creditable imitation of the old fashioned democratic and republican boss speeches and then launched his attacks on the existing state affairs in politics and economics He told several stories to illustrate his Vesper eight and ten foot spans which will cost about apiece Grading Progresses Mr Shoemaker in describing the government said Whenever the i lining i i UIM A T Thompson engineer with the Washington want to know tho in Wall Street Mathis Construction Company states that they have completed about two miles of grading on their contract with lo flml county and have the cement mixer i on the ground ready to start ed a want they send a delegate down there lie described the lite frequently and on Roosevelt hi T speaker 1 suppose ho will be elected on the program he kept us out of Peace the Legion After saying that he had not come where the construction is taking place The grading on this road is not very extensive most of the cuts and being but a few inches deep lo light the capitalists Shoemaker said lies had come to fight the common people who were duped by the capi and were continuing to allow I to he bamboozled j and tho like Hc then became ven Kr over Legion de HOLDS AM I on thc SMOKER FOR SERVICE MEX IN i American Legion AT ARMORY THIS He declared that the rank and file i of the American Legion was being i fooled and used as lools to inter- This evening at o'clock the big lo blame rally of the service men in Grand will bc hold A parade headed by the city band will march to thc ory from the Dixon Hotel corner where a short program will be given and refreshments served A large was predicted today by he Legion membership committee Final SI mil of Week The membership drive of the Legion has been going on all wock in the city and the United States each post seeking to enlist all the service He brought in the discussion thc facl The American Legion had ed his engagement from the Armory and said thai thc Legion was afra lo let him talk the Government During his speech Mr described the League and then staled that he was one of the organizers Hc also said he had bee one of the three men to start thc In of the government air sei vice and Hog Island Scandal The I mi Hi u I VIJ C 11 men who arc not at the present time I several of thc aud members of the Legion Thc program tonight will bc a short one as there are oilier events scheduled which will interest the men and the committee decided lo hold only a brief smoker for thc men No Injury In to pass the hats for a collection after which some of the crowd ed Shoemaker Some remarks were ex- changed between people in the crowd and I he speaker and he was ed several times Hc challenged the audience lo produce a man lo debate INQUISITIVE REPORTER FINDS GARDEN SPOTS i VACANT LOTS Reporter properly Are you AND the use of your vacum lols to I AhL LITTLE the school children for garden Poses and received DIGGING I I National Wo will bo glad to turn over to the for Ibc lots we own J A They arc welcome to Charles N and Robert L Nash and all of this city three young wolves on the asl marsh Thursday afternoon after considerable digging and the bank of the ge I ly The little fellows on of a cat are on exhibition in Nash Hardware display window I where they arc in captivity in a The older wolves were not seen by thei hunters but Mr is keeping a1 lookout for him Worked For Prey The capture of the animals was made only after a great deal of work on thc part of the local men Mr the wolves ing along the bank of llm ditch knew where their hole went into the ground Armed with spades Hie men started digging little fellows but found that most of the holes lead nowhere Time after time they would HERE SATURDAY REPRESENTATIVES FROM GATHER IN GUAM RAPIDS FOR GUM'S EVENT lig out a hole to lind Hint it only ran into another which proved to be a series of underground passages After practically giving up tho idea of finding the wolves Mr set Ins shovel down and felt it go into a hole An investigation revealed tho fact that hey had run into Iho holes where the three little wolves were housed Reaching down into their little compartment the animals were taken An investigation showed thai interior of the home was finished as nicely as if a er had done the The walls were smoothed up with mud and the house completely hid from intruders One Is Vicious When brought lo this cily two of Hie animals were found to be very tame and can be handled and without trouble bul tho third of thc cubs is quite vicious and will not mit thc people to him little fellows look like cats and will probably be kept on exhibition for eral days The county and slate ty on wolves is which the local men will probably collect on their game There has been some question ed on the part of some of the local sportsmen as to whether or net the animals taken are wolves or foxes Frank Lessig who is a hunter of con- experience states that the animals have the appearances of being foxes while other marks would cate that they are wolves The sion on the little fellows faces boars a similarity lo that of foxes being a Members of Legion stales lo him at any time to be set by Tribune today thai did not crowd he agreeing to pay for the ball the speech by Shoemaker bore land the advertising Scout Executive last night would have any effect em the i James F Knapp said he would produce j or the drive for members a man al p m whereupon I though speaker denounced the I speaker wound up his talk in a few in general terms as being minutes and left the stand American Shoemaker today said he did nol conic here to attack the Legion and regretted had made any tion but said that he did it on account f being heckled by a member of thc Mr and Mrs J B Masloff leave I'd to Scout news of to the Legion He said he believed in the Saturday for Tacoma and Seattle attractive manner is and Portland and Cascade every month and carries rank and file of the Legion members There has been no here j between the Legion and labor boys and which is prepared in very i as organizations No group has used any influence to the Locks Ore for a visit friends and relatives advertising from local merchants as he nowe signing of new members in live city or community from any impersonal In an interview this morning Dr C A who was chairman of the meeting stated that the speaker said he did not come here lo knock the but only did so after bc heckled BOUGHT RESIDENCE has closed a deal with McCarthy buying a re- sidence from Mr McCarthy on Oak street Mr will take i ion of the place immediately BASS SEAS OPENS little brighter and than a wolf sharper featured Indian representing the tribes this entire Indian District and from down in Nebraska arc ar- riving in Hie city today making prep j ration to celebrate the of F J They may have tho i wllch wi bc on the i property along the river near the Green Hay railway bridge day According lo Leonard Walker and Chas both Indians of this cily the val spring will be a big one and south or thc from practically every Lincoln school which I am clad U- tribe will be here to help observe it for USD and will furnish i Tho gentlemen completing of my vacant lots hoy wish I P We arc glad to en- i- such lols as wis have if the will use of I- P I have some lols I HIP Daly Addition lot COMMISSION HAS DATE HACK A MONTH TO CUT DOWN HEAVY INROADS ON SUPPLY OK GAME FISH with the city day lo gain permission to carry on the activities which will be held all night Saturday Go All Night According to the Messrs Walker and Hindsley the activities will start up there about nine o'clock and will be carried on until twelve The ceremony consists chiefly of beating and carrying on their version of the religious ceremony They will ably stop about twelve o'clock for about ono hour then start again aro about one The activities will probably be conducted the balance of the night When asked if the affair would be Local bass fishermen who accustomed to spending their holiday on Memorial Buy casting along the lilly pads and racky shores for black j a one if bass which have to restrain their see tho ceremony sire for something more than a month this year County Clerk Sam Church states The fishing season nony iir that any people in the city who wished lo see the could do so by visiting the grounds The fact that it is the JUNK SIXTH SKT AS DATK FOR DEBATE BETWEEN ATTY T AND Following the mass meeting held in Iho band stand on First Avenue South last night at which F 11 Shoemaker of New London was a speaker a de- bate has been arranged and will in all probability take place in this city on June G next when Ally T will uphold the in the question Resolved That Socialism is Un-American and Mr Shoemaker the negative Armory lo be Used Armory will give the hall for the de- bate Mayor C K has ed to act as chairman at the on July 1st this year rather May as has boon the the past few years Change AIL Dates season for pika anil pickerel has been changed and instead fishing thorn over the annual holiday the season will open June 1st a month before the bass season The changes have brought forth sor-.ic protest from the fishermen thc stale who consider the month ol July and August not very favorable from a fisherman's viewpoint June and September have been considered thc ideal months for catching bass Gives Opinion One authority on the question has given his opinion as Opening day for bass was pushed back form May to July 1 because the conservation commission believed their hatching program could not maintain bass supply to its present standard Mori people arc- going than ever before methods aro being something had to bc done The general opinion is that the fishing in some of the lakes in the southern part csf state is gone by July 1 and anglers who lakes aro naturally worried large crowd will witness it The mony was held last year in LaCrosse and has been held in other cities in to that Eat Buttons The affair which the Indians will hold here is called the Mescal Feast and gels its name from a Mescal ton which the Indians eat during the The buttons grow on the can border and are said jpc and after the son who eals it to be affected similarly to the effects a drug will produce The consumer is said to have visions which are very pleasant to the mind after eating the buttons ML TRAIN IS OFF TRACK ENGINE AND TANK LEFT RAILS AT SWITCH DELAYING MAIL SEVERAL HOURS It has been suggested that be- soiled and fishing in southern part on Msy with a later opening date for the northern Unfortunately I would not work out in because the spawning of bass de- pends on the temperature of water and that si not a mailer of latitude in northern that arc shallow before they do in much south that arc- deep and spring fed The morning St Paul train which arrives hero at a m from Lisbon left rails at thc switch near Nekoosa this morning and arrived in this city about twelve o'clock seven hours Hie scheduled time No one was injured and train was placed back on the track by the train crow and section men the assistance of thc wrecking crew not being i sary Going Slow According to Agent Leonard Bender in this cily Hie train was traveling very slowly when the engine left the th j n l Jy alv out i m iaw have bc Thc debate was arranged al thc j longe of Shoemaker who offered it makes Ihc meeting to mccl any speaker from j of us like catch the city on the platform II is under- bass foss stood thai regular rules governing j washing the experiment wit'i debates at meeting Expect Large Crowd There will undoubtedly be a large MAV crowd in attendance at this debate as Ally Brazcau is well known for his from only con- i loop to main line was in process o and of taking lo thc main line H j the engine straddled the rails Several done j tengor telephoned to this city and had spite of their cars gel or came up on the news part on Americanism having been thc Liberty Loan tive draft board and having been State Senator On thc other hand Mr Shoemaker is not especially well known in this cily bul he has ed himself to bc as staunch an ican as any other man and being a socialist naturally has a following among local socialists Washington D c May i louse War postponed tion on the resolution giving the House tomorrow u was announced oday favorable tion before the convening of street May Return on Time This noon coming the north passed thc morning train in the city after which the northbound train continued its Mr Render slated that they had received to word as to whether thc train would continue the trip to Minocqua or stop at sau which might mean that it would return to this city about on time night House tomorrow was uncertain Plans hour -11 order i the before adjournment THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday woi MUCH in
