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Newspaper
Unionville Republican
Location
Unionville, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1919
Page
1
Announcement last week states five large packers will exit handling most commodities and limit to meat packing. They will sell stockyard terminals hotels and grocery lines and rebrand, liquidating one billion dollars in capital as they cede control of shipping facilities to new operators. Public concern grows over whether this breakup lowers or raises consumer prices.
Lionville High School bo ys opened the season Friday by beating Livonia 42 to 20 and Cincinnati, Iowa 44 to 21 in a doubleheader. Coach Bruner tried out many players as Unionville fields largely different lineups in each game. The squads showed flashes of classy play but could not sustain the pace and enjoyed the visit.
Plans outline enlarging the post office quarters and moving the Putnam County Journal office. A partition will create an 85 by 64 foot south room with plate glass windows, while the front room may be divided. The Journal moves to the Julian Brasfield building as the work proceeds, aiming for early January completion.
A disputed Supreme Court ruling on prohibition prompted gloom among John Barley’s supporters. Kentucky distillers reportedly hold 39,000,000 gallons valued at $400,000,000 awaiting shipment to the seaboard for Cuba before January 16 when constitutional prohibition takes effect.
Unionville Lodge No. 2190 A F and A M notes Leander Torrence Robison of Washington DC died December 5 in the capital. Resolutions praise him as a devoted husband father and exemplary public servant then state he worked at the land office. Also mentions a St Louis meeting of a forty eight committee and activities of a new party plus travel of Mrs Rebecca Cullum and granddaughter Addie to Chickasha Oklahoma.
Attorney General Palmer argues women could cut 90 percent of the nation’s food and apparel costs by boycotting today’s high prices. He adds that a 10 percent increase in labor by both sexes could drive prices down 20 percent. He cites a pending congressional bill requiring price stamping as a tool to beat price increases.
A bill before Congress would extend the Sugar Equalizing Board into 1920 to prevent wartime price swings. Observers warn that failure to renew could push sugar to 25 to 80 cents per pound, citing mismanagement of the Cuban crop and past 6 cent market levels.
Fragmentary text suggests the government did not answer a question, leading to sales abroad to Europe and creating an acute shortage at home. The passage implies national policy failures contributed to domestic scarcity.
Karl O Detzer, former army captain, and others face court martial on charges of cruelty to American soldiers in France. Detzer allegedly forced a soldier to swallow a lit cigarette as punishment. The article notes the severity of the alleged actions and calls for swift, fair trials and mercy only after conviction.
The Indianapolis News notes Mount Sangay in Ecuador as the most active volcano. It rises 17,196 feet in the eastern Andes and has spouted continuously since 1728, marking two centuries of persistent eruptions.
A social note recalls a dance at Bixler hall last Thursday hosted by the Dance Club. Miss Maéud Ruthen hosted friends Friday for Mr and Mrs Claud Yeager. Mrs Y is formerly Miss Roxie Fowler. A Christmas dance is planned for Thursday at Bixler Hall and Serosis meet date moved from Thursday to next Tuesday with guest Mrs J A Helferstine.
X rays are expanding beyond medicine with new tubes enabling rays powerful enough to reveal minute flaws in four inch steel, signaling growing industrial applications according to the Chicago Journal.
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