LeMars Globe Post (Newspaper) - July 5, 1928, Lemars, Iowa LeMars 1885 Monday and Thursday LE JULY 5, 1928 Official County Papei VOLUME 46, NO. 54 Long-Sought Farm Equality Is Pledged By Democratic Platform FIND ALL NIGGER LABOR IN SOUTH Virginia Hodapp Makes Interesting Observations of Lite in Texas Miss Virginia formerly of now living at 912% Main writes the following interesting receive the regularly and sure enjoy the home I Moler sent me here from to this climate to July 5.-Criticizing our local classes of republican party for its treatment of the farm problem at the Kansas City George N. chairman of the executive committee of twenty-two of the North Central States Agricultural conference tonight described the democratic plank for agricultural relief new declaration of Peek had just returned to Chicago from where he attended the democratic national convention last Ho also attended the republican gathering at Kansas Peek were given the greatest consideration in every Their reception was most their views on a platform were solicited and a real plank was adopted which is the most favorable for agriculture ever written in the platform of any political party in our Asks Democratic Vote it recognizes the right of farmers to lead in the adoption of farm points out the needs of pledged the party to enact the necessary legislation to give agriculture complete economic equality with assures equality of treatment as to tariff rates between agriculture and and reaffirms its 1924 platform to enact legislation to prevent the price for the surplus determining the prices of the whole Peek plainly was making an appeal for the farmers to vote the democratic ticket in November when he said of former party affiliations farmers must fight for such a platform if they wish to save their farms and Agriculture has come to a parting of the November will decide whether American farming of the future is to be conducted by farmers or in the livestock and cotton Peek recognize in the democratic plank for agriculture a new declaration of He said the farmers were advised definitely at Kansas City that protective system is not intended for republican he made and supported by the farmers of the the party has turned its back upon the Nominated Arch Enemy Insult to the party nominated as its standard bearer a deal for ment solution of the farm problem is to keep on starving out farmers until production is reduced to the demands of domestic England herself were directly prescribing an American agricultural policy she could hardly do better for England because policy means that the 200,000^,000 bushels of for that we raise annually for export will be grown probably in large parts in the British Canada and while American farmers are being starved out and American business deprived of their buying Peek would maKe no predictions on tbe outcome of the November election but said tbe strength of farmers In eleven is represented .in tbe for executive of twenty-two was formed in Des Moines in 1926, with of the north central states Gov. John invited the of the eleven states which comprise the com belt to join in a conference Since that North Dakota and Montana have been the committee consisted of two representatives from each The purpose of the committee is to support farm organizations in an attempt to stabilize Dead At Fire Mrs. M. J. Bixby has received word from a Mrs. Dunbar that Darnell dropped dead at Tacoma while trying to help put out a fire at the home of a The funeral was held a Mr. Dunbar was a former LeMars ler Of ff beauty of the in the United ' people of the south are certainly different from the type I used to know at I find it very bard to know just how to take what I it is almost Impossible for a white man to get a position as laborer Everything is done by negros and they work for to a They won't hire a white but they expect a white man to patronize climate is surely very but I must say there is always a cool breeze and the nights are so cool and much different from the sultry nights of hope this finds LeMars still and that everyone is satisfied with the Things were very exciting Details of City's Fine New Fire Fighting TrucK Something Like Four Million Fewer Porkers Littered This Year MUCH FUN IN STORE FOR 4-H CLUB GIRLS No Jewelry or Silk Dresses Allowed in 9 to IS is the Date The 4-H girls of the county who plan to attend the camp which will be held at Y. W. C. Sioux July 9-13, are insured of a good time and the best of talent the Bring ukeleles or harmonicas if you have No silk silk or jewelry allowed in No high heeled shoes wear only approved Bring your own Send or phone your reservation to home demonstration Edna at once if you have not already done so. Be registered by 4 July 9. Stay all week and be sure that every member of your club comes for rally the last Miss Sioux City girl scout will be In camp all week to assist with hikes and Miss Katherine home economics editor of the People's Popular Miss Eleanor home furnishing Mrs. Edith 4-H girls Mr. instructor of nature study are some of the fine who appear on the camp There will be solo dancing and The camp comes under the direction of the home demonstration the club and leaders of Plymouth and of Woodbury Hog producers in Iowa report a decrease of slightly more than eleven per cent in the numbers of sows which farrowed this This general downward movement was indicated last December by Iowa farmers as shown by their intentions report of sows bred for farrowing in the spring of 1928. In the eleven com belt sows farrowing this spring were nine per cent less than a year and the decrease for the entire United States is 7.7 per cent. The pig crop is reported to be 7.9 per cent smaller in Iowa this 7.0 per cent smaller in the corn belt and 7.1 per cent smaller in the United These decreases are equivalent to about four million pigs In the United Assuming that Iowa farmers usually produce about of the hogs entering market the decrease in Iowa is equivalent to more than one million Every district in Iowa reported a numbers of sows districts have reported decreases In actual farrowing of sows as Northwest 9:5 per cent North Central 12|3 per cent Northeast 17.9 per cent West Central 9.1 per cent Central 10.7 per cent East Central 9.8 per cent Southwest 7.4 per cent South Central 17.8 per cent Southeast 12.3 per cent It will be noted that the smaller declines in numbers of sows took in the one-third of the wherein production Is heavier than In other areas of the state and was not affected as by feed supply shortage last The just completed showed an avenge state of 11.7 sows per and an average of 5.5 pigs per The slaughter of hogs in the United States in 1928, was the largest for February on record and the largest for any of the winter months of 1927-28. This heavy February slaughter was followed by a March the largest for the month on The long-continued low level of hog prices came to an end in April but it remains to be seen if the higher prices can be maintained this summer in the face of the large volume of products in The unfavorable feeding ratio has recently affected the average weight to which hogs are being fed. These factors enter partly into the forecast of a slight upward swing in production in Iowa next sows bred for farrowing in the fall of 1928 being reported at 112.4 per cent of the last Similar reports for the United indicate a decrease in the pig crop next While the survey shows an increase in sows fall farrowing in the Unit the fall reports of always been much below ing intentions as Farmers desiring this report in detail for the com belt sUtes may write to Leslie M. Federal Agricultural Des M. Agricultural Dealings In Dirt William Kilker to Anna and 30-92-45. Rex J. Frolkey to Clara lot 2, block 9, Normal Park George R. Hemminger to Traction Realty part 1-92-44. Henry Husted to S. lot 7, block 87, Mike Weber to George lot 3, block 6, St. Paul's M. E. July 9th: 9:45 Sunday German and English 10:45 preaching 8:00 union park July 12lh: 7:30 midweek Leopold A marriage license was issued in Sioux City to Dean B. age 30, LeMars and Anna E. 20, both of this R. C. F. For some time the city of LeMars has been considering the purchase of a new fire truck and after considerable Investigation of the various on the the city council placed their order with W. H. representing the W. S. Nott company of The new truck is of the all service type and is the very latest type of fire This truck every weapon that exists for fighting fires under any and all conditions and the chassis is built for speed and dependable heavy duty It has an 85 six-cylinder equipped with two ignition sets as required by the National Board of Fire The tires are providing lots of clearance and traction for travel in the Protection for the driver is provided by a large heavy one-piece The fire truck is primarily a triple the same as used In large and includes a motor-driven fire pump that will take water from water mains or from stock ponds or any other source and deliver the water through two lines of fire hose at a capacity of 600 gallons a minute at pressure so high that at least three men are required to handle each Included with the triple combination equipment is a 40-gallon chemical tank with discharge hose and two 2V2 gallon portable chemical a fire hose body of 1000 feet carrying a set of service pike pick up electric siren and such other miscellaneous equipment as is usually carried on a high-grade This outfit is of sufficient power and capacity to cope with large such as are likely to occur in any city or two and sometimes in the It is a well known that in many instances in towns and particularly in the country there Is no available water with which to supply a high capacity fire pump and to meet such conditions the combination includes an 80-gallon water tank which serves as an emergency water The water tank is constantly connected through an suction line to tlie fire which is in turn constantly connected with a line of 150 feet of small size discharge hose and For fighting small fires or for fighting large fires where no water supply is the fire pump takes its water out of an 80 gallon tank and discharges it at a very high which makes the though very effective and The water tank has a large at the top and can be kept filled by pouring in water The chemical tank can be used at the same find both of these streams can be with only such amount of water as can be furnished by a bucket brigade supply from cistern or well The All Service combination combines all the advantages of the chemical combination only and the regular standard type triple combination high capacity fire truck with full equipment of standard fire etc. The fact that all cities and towns are now giving serious attention to the matter of fire protection equipment is an indication that the American people are determined to eliminate or at least greatly reduce the tremendous waste of unnecessary fire L BIG PICNIC Farm Bureau Unit To Celebrate July 10th Program Announced picnic baseball and dancing will be the order of the day at the first annual picnic and crop festival of the Stanton township unit of the Plymouth county farm bureau which will be held July 10th, at the grove and township baseball diamond located one mile east of the Stanton center According to Chairman Paul Riter the program will begin promptly at 10:30 in the morning with a game between the Stanton township girls and another picked The noon hour will be given over to an old-fashioned picnic dinner and free coffee will be furnished by the township Following the dinner hour the address of the day will be given by Oscar of Eleventh district executive committeeman of the Iowa farm bureau A varied program of sports and running races has been prepared by the committee in charge of the sport These will be run off at the close of the speaking and at times during the The program Sprint races for boys and girls of all centipede women's egg men's sack fat man's fat women's men's wheel barrow women's potato women's paper free-for-all pole three legged races for girls and free-for-all 100-yard free-for-all 75-yard dash for nail driving contest for women's blind women's peanut baseball throwing contest for etc. There will also be a hog calling contest for the and a chicken calling contest for the The committee is planning to have a horseshoe pitching A large dance floor will be erected on the grounds and a bowery dance will be the program for the Music will be furnished by the Becker The public is cordially invited by the farmers of Stanton township to be present and take a part in the township celebration next LENIENT ON DRUNKS FOURTH Knowing that the Fourth of July always brings more or less LeMars police were very lenient on than placing a fine against the violators of Uie ISth the police took care of those that took in a little too much Several were arrested yesterday and placed in cool jail to sober and were turned loose without placing a charge against day out of the year ain't so said Chief Frank we saw to it that they were taken care of the best way Dry Head In Soo July 4. Ida B. Wise Women's Christian Temperance Union national vice president and president of the Iowa W. C. T. is spending this week in Sioux She will visit the W. C. T. U. auxiliaries of Rock Orange Boyden and Sioux While in Sioux county she will be the guest of Mrs. Agnes TePaske county president of the W. C. T. U. at Sioux LOCAL BOYS BECOME LeMars now enjoys a distinction this town hod that of the home of some or as they used to be caled In the world The local are Kenneth and Marion sons of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. While in Sioux City the other day they bought a balloon from the Anderson Flying circus at Sioux paying for a 40x60. The balloon is practically having only been used once or The big bag is made of and is quite At the bottom end is a rope collector ring to which is fastened the parachute which is used for making The boys are now scheduling jumps at When preparing for a a trench is dug in the ground with a Chimney at one The balloon 18 brought over tbe chimney and a roaring fire ik then built in tbe which Is covered over with 1 and dirt smoke and highly the inflate it fuel moat used is which Is thrown into the trench a cupful at a While the balloon is slowly filling a man known as the stands inside the collector ring and sees to it that the fire which streams up through the pipe does not touch the If are thrown up and alight on the inside of the balloon he throws a little water on His is the dirtiest job on the and when he finally steps out of the filled bag he iS as black as a In the mean time spectators have been recruited to hold ropes which keep the big bag down to the The parachute is laid out on one side and the jumper hangs on to Once the balloon is released it quickly attains a height of 5,000 which is the usual height from which jumps are Some times old and scorched bags will They do not burst at the but at a height of 300 due to the billowing of the air Just after the This usually causes a as there is not time for the parachute to HARRY HANSEN HURT IN AUTO CRASH Harry formerly of but more lately in tor accident when a car in 1^ which he was riding collided with another car Tuesday night Iof this He was conveyed to a Des Moines where 152 stiches were but it was said that there is grave danger of his losing an READY TO BIDS FOR PAVING LeMars Qty WiU ConTene In Regard To aty Paving Members of the city council will meet tonight to receive bids on the 18 blocks of paving in that have been ordered in a recent There were some protests on but none of the paving plans have been Nobody knows as yet who will or what the price of the paving will It is expected that several paving companies will submit the competing if do not want others to know existence and so they usually do not submit their bids until just before the time for opening MAC KNIGHT IS PLEASING SUPERVISORS TO HEAR ONS Hearings On Tax Raise At Kingsley and Merrill The Plymouth county board of supervisors will meet at LeMars some time tomorrow to head objections to tlic proposed tax boost of 25 per cent on merchandise stocks at and 10 per cent at Kingsley and The exact time for the hearing has not been but the board will be around the court house all and should any objectors call they would probably be met by The raise in tax valuations extends only to merchandise There was no change in real estate values as real estate is not assessed this Hypnotic Maker Is Circus All by Himself known as the hypnotic fun now appearing at the Royal theatre all this is pleasing every audience. His entertainment of hypnotism is clean and anyone has a standing offer to be one of his subjects for any or every Which WiH Get Four NEW PARCEL POST RATES GO IN EFFECT Postmaster R. E. Edmonds has put into the new schedule of eel pbst a reduction over the former The new rates becanne effective July 1. The schedule has been supplied by Mr. The suggests to its readers that they clip this schedule and paste it up Parcel Post Rates plus Ic for each additional 2 lbs. 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Up to fee 20c. for special handling not including special delivery separate from special delivery with special Special handling means the same Fourth of Picnic In Stanton Township Is Much Eln joyed Special MIsa Evelyn and Agnes Kounkel of on their way to LeMars saw a car approaching the main road from the west at the Hodgson The car was coming at a high rate of and in order to not be hit by the Miss Kounkel drove her car into the smashing it up but the escaped without Last Sunday the Stanton ball team played the team on the Mr. Eberhard who is on the Stanton got a badly sprained ankle while He is employed by Loyd Dobbert and will be unable to attend to work for some The Fourth of July picnic held in the Schultz grove was well attended and enjoyed by the surrounding A fine program was tbe pole wound with white and blue by a number of little girls was very Children's egg races and fat men's races were also ball games for both boys and girls and While playing in the men's Earl had the misfortune to break his arm above the Dr. Sheppard took the boy to town in order to set and care for his Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hodgson came out from LeMars to spend the Fourth with their Mrs. Jennie Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Bixby had for their Fourth of July Mr. and Mrs. Blue and Mrs. Earl Blue and R. C. Hodgson spent his Fourth at Belle la. A number from Stanton attended the celebration at Chicken thieves are again at Last Saturday evening while Mr. and H. Bixby were in LeMars shopping some dirty sneak thief took one hundred of their chickens Juat right for It is to be hoped that some day the country will get relief from this petty Hypnotic A dense crowd collected around one of show windows this afternoon to see Joe under hypnotic playing all One of the first comers was Mr. Murray is a crack checker and beat the hypnotized player As a demonstration of the powers of Mr. Heuertz will later play those who defeated under mental BOYS BE KEPT BUSY They Get Into Trouble If They Aren't By Father E. J. Flanagan Now that children have vacations with little or nothing to do all day great burdens of responsibility are added to parents and What to do for the boy and girl la the Children who live out in the country are for time will always find plenty to do for them under the wise and prudent care of but children in the cities are not so fortunate in this There is not enough particularly for In a city and when there is not sufficient there will be plenty of time for idleness and for the devil to do his work of Statistics will show that a great deal of delinquency among children takes place during vacation Boys who are active during the school terms have had much to occupy their minds with recitations and school and whether conscious of it or were happy because they were they have nothing to Their parents are busy with their many duties at home and and naturally the boys are allowed a great deal more freedom out of than during school With this new they seek out companions who are in the same plight as and they concoct and plot out activities They wander away from go swimming perhaps in places that are they go down enter and perhaps are tempted by the things they see in the they enter parked cars and take anything that may boy learned to make easy Under tbe tutelage of an older boy he was instructed how to rob cars of packages left in cars which owners and during a period of six months had robbed hundreds of cars of hundreds of dollars worth of which he disposed of to parties who were Interested in getting bargains regardless of the encouragement to such children to keep up a lucrative business by Of course parents do not realize the danger and temptation which lie in the path of their children who enjoy much freedom and are not supervised during vacation If they they certainly would take more interest in them and keep them from the and then hypnotist says he can beat Mr. service between points as first j Special delivery means the immediate delivery at office of The combined features are called delivery The rates on newspapers mailed by the public have been changed to 1 cent for each 2 This cheaper rate will be welcomed those who mail copies of local by St. John's Evangelical Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Services in English at 10:30 a. m. Union services at Poster park at 8 p. m. Sunday school meeting Friday evening at 7:30 Choir meeting Friday evening at 8:30 The Aid society will meet on Thursday July 12th, at the farm home of Mrs. Fred east of Lions For Smith The Lions in their Thursday luncheon this noon held a straw vote on the presidential There were 25 votes and the vote was 16 for Smith and 9 for Victor Sieverding of Grundy and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sieverding of LeMars left a week June 23, for Salt Lake where they met the Misses Florence and Mary Sieverding who accompanied them on a drive through Yellowstone park and the Black They are expected home on Sunday or Mary Sieverding is working at Los Angeles at while Florence teaches school at Sees A Tornado Harry Weber of St. S. writes that he saw a tornado near S. from a farm about a quarter of a mile He took up two sets of buildings took all It blew horses out of their pastures and killed and it killed about 30 head of sheep and all of the The farm tools are all trees were by the roots or broken fences were ripped certainly looked never saw anything like it. Some of the horses that were not killed were hurt so badly that they had to be I took a few pictures and when they're developed will send you some Cars CoUlde While Prank Meyers and family of LeMars were returning home on U. S. No. 75 they met another an old which collided with their Both cars were badly but no one was W. H. Pecks of Elgin township was in LeMars on business Mr. Pecks agreed that it's but opined that it's good for the com. He has some small grain that gives promise of a remarkable Some of it looks as if it would go about a load to the he Miss Mabel Life and Gillette drove to Saturday and spent the first part of the Including the Fourth of with Mr. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. JOHN MC GRATH IS CALLED BY DEATH Pioneer of This City Since 1812 Dies at Home of his Mrs. John Following a brief of John passed away at the home of hit John on Sunday July 1, at the age of 78 Mr. McGrath was born In 1855 to LaSalle and later moved with his parents to Iroquois Ho lived there until 1882, when he came to LeMars and has been engaged in farming since Mr. McGrath was working on the farm of Dan residing east of LeMars when he was taken He was sick but a week failing to survive the His one Peter and three Mrs. Ellen Mrs. Hannah Kennedy and Mrs. Mary preceded him in Surviving to mourn his death are four Mrs. John Mrs. John Pleasant Mrs. Edward and Mrs. P. J. Rock besides many other relatives and Funeral services were held from St. James Catholic church on Tuesday at 10 Rev. L. J. Cooper Six nephews acted as Edward and Emmett Elmer and Eugene Kennedy and Ray and Will Among those from a distance who attended the funeral Catherine S. Cissna and Joseph Sleepy Minn. LE MARS MARKETS CORN NOW 880 GRAIN MARKinS Yellow Com 88c White Oats 56c Rye Barley 83c POULTRY Heavy Hens Light 14c Cox 90 Leghorn Hens 14o DAIRY PRODUCTS Cream 430 47
