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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1922
Page
7
The Spring Wheat Crop Improvement Association urges farmers to expand quality wheat acreage while avoiding slipshod methods. Emphasizing Fancy dark Northern as premier, the message links high bread quality to higher prices for Minnesota and Dakota farmers and warns against growing scrub wheat.
Bureau of Markets reports higher Chicago May wheat prices for the week ending April 14 1922 with gains in Chicago May wheat to 1.84 and Minneapolis May wheat up 3 cents to 1.44. Grain lift reflects bad weather and crop news, higher foreign markets, and exchange-rate gains alongside firm dairy and livestock trends across markets including hogs beef and lambs.
Washington announces that about 500000 international money orders issued from American post offices in 1916 and 1917 to German residents have been held up by British and American authorities during the war. They will shortly be returned to senders, per Third Assistant Postmaster General Glover.
New York bondholders have seen their Liberty Bonds increase by 1.69 billion dollars since last September. While stock market movements grab headlines, Liberty bonds steadily gained, with most issues near par and Victory war bonds slightly above par.
Medford hosts a dedication of a new $125,000 consolidated school with principal speaker Cashman of Owatonna a farm bureau leader and state board of education president EB M Phillips of St Paul as state high school inspector.
Swine breeders of Pipestone County held a meeting here and formed the Pipestone County Swine Breeders association to organize efforts and promote local hog farming.
Senator Capper Kansas presented the farm bloc program detailing long term farmer credits railroad rate relief tariff protection for farm products Muscle Shoals fertilizer projects and wool cotton labeling. He said the bloc seeks economic aims not political and to secure credit facilities for agriculture. The next step is farm credit legislation.
Fargo North Dakota Lilac Hedge Colantha Zubrod Holstein of Grand Forks set a state record for all breeds and classes by producing 28 963 pounds of milk and 814 pounds of butter fat last year. The cow, owned by J D Bacon of Grand Forks, is praised by dairy expert J R Dice of the agricultural college.
Howard Stevens leads a Commercial club committee to pick a shorter Hibbing to St Paul route. The Hibbing St Paul highway will be the shortest path and the total distance to the capital city set at 210 miles.
Washington reports the Senate voted to appropriate 500000 dollars to aid federal efforts in eradicating the common barberry bush the source of black rust threatening wheat crops. Other items note a tractor accident near Garretson where heavy equipment fell into a creek and a Genoa conference briefing denying disarmament or reparations actions against France and disavowing a military holiday proposal.
In Steele county the second day of the junior short course drew about 300 boys and girls to Owatonna high school for a one day session. In Conrad Chester Abbott, a teenage ranch boy, had a dull morning sliding down a hay stack when a concealed pitch fork pierced his body five inches.
Genoa observers report a new aim by the Russian delegation for an all Russian conference in Stockholm to address Eastern Europe economic reconstruction with US participation likely. The push grows amid British German Italian sympathy and a stubborn Genoa agenda. The repeated absence of the United States, the so called empty chair, darkens prospects for progress and complicates Russian committee meetings.
In New York General Semenoff leader of the Cossacks was kept jailed after Justice Delhanty denied Ezra Prentice’s bid to cancel the civil warrant. Attorneys said they will appeal and seek release as a new bail bond is prepared to replace a cancelled one. A bankruptcy hearing against Semenoff tied to the Youroveta Home and Foreign Trading company is scheduled.
A $17 million federal hospital bill clears the U S Senate enabling a new hospital at Fort Snelling for former service members. The Minnesota American Legion reports roughly $1 million of the funds will cover construction and equipment at the fort, following assurances given to the Minnesota department by Col. C R Forbes from the veterans bureau.
Two hundred fifty men of the insurgent section of the Irish Republican Army seized the Four Courts building in Dublin to use as permanent headquarters. They barricaded windows with sandbags law books and bundles of documents and also took the adjoining Four Courts hotel. A Sinn Fein party occupied the Sligo post office directing business to proceed as usual with orders to enforce the actions.
More than 1,000 delegates are expected to attend the Montana Stock Growers association annual session to begin in Butte on April 16. Delegations from the Twin Cities Sioux City and Omaha and many other centers will send representatives.
Sioux Falls notes that despite corn planting approaching for 1922, a sizable portion of last year’s corn remains unpicked in various regions of South Dakota, signaling ongoing stock remaining in the state as the new season nears.
Miles of farm land and at least nine villages are inundated as flood stages on the Lower Mississippi and its tributaries submerge about 250 square miles. Communities in Mississippi state Vicksburg area report rising waters affecting lives and agriculture.
The text presents a string of humorous and dramatic lines from Legion Weekly and notes a visitor at an asylum asking about inmate marriages. The keeper’s reply implies the inmates are not truly crazy, reflecting a satirical tone characteristic of the era.
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