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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 21, 1920 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Aug. 5 two men were 
killed and 35 wounded in riots at Denver, 
Col., due to a street car strike. Troops 
were hurried from Fort Logan to take 
possession of the city and restore order. 
During the early rioting five street cars 
were wrecked and the plant of the Denver 
Post damaged by the crowd. Aug. 10 
order was restored, and traffic conditions 
approached normal. 
Robert J. Ilellawell of 31 Prospect 
Park West, Brooklyn, his wife and 10- 
year-old daughter were killed Aug. 5 at 
the Newberry, N. Y., railroad crossing of 
the Erie Railroad, when an automobile 
he was driving was struck by a passenger 
train. 
John Alexander, alias John La Grance, 
said by Federal authorities at Chicago to 
be the most important prisoner taken in 
their search for anarchists since the sign¬ 
ing of the armitice, was seized Aug. 5 in 
Chicago and turned over to Harry Landis, 
Immigration Commissioner. lie will be 
arraigned as an enemy alien and his de¬ 
portation sought. Alexander is charged 
with evading the draft, circulating an¬ 
archist and Communist literature, spread¬ 
ing Germaji propaganda and obtaining 
false passports for two brother members 
of the German Communist party. He is 
said to be an I. W. W. agitator and has 
edited several radical publications. 
Five persons were killed at Orion, 
Mich., Aug. 8, when an automobile in 
which they were riding was struck by an 
interurban car. The occupants of the 
automobile, all members of one family 
■were hurled 200 feet and with one excep¬ 
tion were killed instantly. The dead are 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward -Spies, their son, 
Arthur, his wife and his son. All lived 
near Pontiac. Mich. 
Two persons are known to have been 
killed, five are missing and several re¬ 
ported injured in a railroad wreck on the 
Lexington division of the Chesapeake and 
Ohio near Ashland. Ky., Aug. 8. The 
cars of the train, which was carrying a 
carnival from Olive Hill. Ky., to Lexing¬ 
ton, were derailed and were buried under 
the wreckage of eight other cars of the 
train. 
Two all metal airplanes that left New 
York City on July 29 to blaze a trail for 
a transcontinental aerial mail service 
landed at an Oakland, Cal., flying field 
August 8. J. M. Larsen, owner of the 
planes, delivered to Postmaster Joseph J. 
Rosebrough a package of New York mail, 
constituting what was said to be the first 
transcontinental aerial mail delivery on 
record. 
The first case in the history of Chicago 
in which women were charged with vote 
fraud ended abruptly Aug. 9 when Grover 
Neimyer. Assistant State Attorney, ad¬ 
mitted that the prosecution had no evi¬ 
dence. and submitted not guilty verdicts. 
The defendants, Mrs. Lillian Voss Howe, 
James B. Downey, Mrs. Mary O'Brien, 
Ellsworth Parker and William C. Krum- 
bine. Seventh Precint officials in the Fifth 
Ward, were charged with conspiracy to 
make false returns of the mayoralty 
primary election of February 25, 1919. 
Eight directors of the Dtah-Idaho 
Sugar Company charged with profiteering 
in sugar were bound over to appear at the 
October term of the Dnited States Court 
for the eastern division of Idaho by a 
United States Commissioner at Salt Lake 
City. Aug. 9. Bond was fixed at $10,000 
each. 
Thirty million dollars was added Aug. 
10 to the nation’s express bill. The United 
States Railway Labor Board awarded * 
the 80,000 employees of the American 
Railway Express Company an increase 
of 16 cents an hour. The decision is 
retroactive to May 1, 1920. Under the I 
terms of the Esch-Cummins Transporta- j 
tion Act. the express company _ will be 
permitted to raise its rates sufficiently to [ 
meet the increased labor cost. Arguments 
in the rate case already have been pre¬ 
sented before the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. 
FARM AND GARDEN—Application 
was made to Federal Judge A. N. Hand 
August 9 by the Hildick Apple Juice 
Company and the Duffy-IUott Company, 
both manufacturers of apple cider, with 
plants in Westchester County, N. Y., to 
determine judicially if the products of 
these companies fall under the ban of the 
Volstead act as beverages containing more 
than one-half of one per cent of alcohol. 
The Hildick company several weeks ago 
applied to the United States District 
Court for an injunction to restrain pro¬ 
hibition enforcement officials from inter¬ 
fering with the manufacture, sale and dis¬ 
tribution of its cider on the ground that 
cider which is preserved cannot be classed 
as an intoxicant. The application was 
refused on the ground that it was a ques¬ 
tion for the Collector of Internal Revenue 
to decide as to the issuance of permits to 
manufacture such beverages. Recently 
both companies applied to the National 
Prohibition Commissioner for permits and 
were refused. The present application is 
for the purpose of obtaining a judicial 
declaration that cider which is treated 
with preservatives does not fall within 
the provisions of the prohibition laws. 
Judge Hand reserved decision. 
New York City authorities are again 
investigating the so-called kosher poultry 
trust. Joseph Hasenfrutz testified Aug. 
5 that he had been compelled to sell his 
business to the alleged trust by threats of 
violence and of deprivation of supplies. 
He testified that since this time officials 
©f the so-called trust have told him that 
he would be “killed just like Barnett 
Baff,” a Washington Market poulterer 
who was assassinated by gangsters in 
1914 as the result of a bitter trade war 
between Washington Market merchants. 
Morris Liebowitz, president of the 
Brownsville Retail Dealers Association, 
testified that the alleged trust is asking 
12 cents a pound above actual market 
price for poultry and 20 cents above the 
market for Spring chickens. Morris Gor¬ 
don, a former independent, testified that 
he had been compelled to <sell out to the 
“trust,” of which he is now the sole em¬ 
ployee in a branch boasting four mana¬ 
gers at from $100 to $150 a week each. 
A referendum upon the proposal to con¬ 
tinue control of Australian wool after 
June 30. 1920, the date of expiration of 
the' contract with the imperial govern¬ 
ment, through a pool directed by repre¬ 
sentatives of growers, brokers and the 
Commonwealth Government, has failed to 
bring out a sufficient number of favorable 
votes. New proposals have been made by 
the Prime Minister for the resumption of 
auction sales after October 1. 1920. under 
restrictions which would prevent the wool 
owned by the British Government being 
sold in competition with the 1920-21 clip, 
which would be free of Government con¬ 
trol. The main features of the new plan 
are as follows : Export of 1920-21 wool 
to be prohibited until October 1, 1920; 
public auctions of wool in Australia (new 
clip only) to be resumed after October 1, 
1920; and auctions of Australian wool in 
London to be suspended from October 1. 
1920, to May 1, 1921. About 1.500,000 
bales of the four clips acquired by the 
imperial government remain unshipped in 
Australia. Of this amount 500,000 bales 
are low grade. It is provided in the new 
proposals that the 500.000 bales of low 
grade wool shall not be shipped until 
after May 1. 1921, unless the British 
Government is able in the meantime to 
sell it to the Central Powers at three 
times its appraised price, taking payment 
for one-third in gold and two-thirds in 
three-year bonds, against which negotiable 
certificates could be issued to Australian 
growers who wish to anticipate the dis¬ 
tribution of dividends (Australia being 
entitled to half the profits on pool wool 
sold over the appraised prices). 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Vegetable Growers’ Association of 
America, twelfth annual meeting. Colum¬ 
bus, O., August 25-28. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, August 30- 
31-September 1-4. 
Hornell Fair, Hornell, N. Y., August 
31-September 3. 
Hoosac Valley Agricultural Fair, North 
Adams, Mass., September 3-6. 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Septem¬ 
ber 3-12. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, Sep¬ 
tember 13-18. 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield. 
Maes., Sept. 19-25. 
Agricultural Society of Queens-Nassau 
Counties, annual fair, Mineola, N. Y.. 
September 21-25. 
Sussex County Fair Association, an¬ 
nual fair, Branchville, N. J., September 
21-24. 
Interstate Fair, Trenton, N. J„ Sep¬ 
tember 27-October 1. 
International Belgian Horse Show and 
Dairy Cattle Congress. Waterloo, Iowa, 
September 27-October 3. 
Vermont State Fair, White River 
Junction, September 28-October 1. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago. Ill., 
October 7-16. 
New England Fruit Show, Hartford, 
Conn., November 5-9. 
National Grange, Boston, Mass., No¬ 
vember 8-13. 
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a Shoe full of comfort, ” 
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wrote for a second pair. 
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ON ARRIVAL 
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HOSIERY SALE *185 
For 3 pairs of Ladies’ Mercerized Cotton Stockings. 
Marie from the best cotton yarns obtainable. 
Strongly reinforced at all wearing points. Seamed 
backs, in black anil brown. We are selling hosiery 
direct from factory to you, and are sure you will 
be pleased. Money back if not satisfied. 
We pay delivery charges. 
PETER VANDERBOK, Hosiery Manufacturer 
353 Clinton Street Haledon. New Jersey 
MAPES 
MANURES 
For Fall Crops 
Normal Conditions 
AMPLE POTASH 
Basis as Always—Bone and Guano 
Prompt Shipments 
Write us or see our nearest Agent 
for circular and prices 
THE MAPES FORMULA & PERUVIAN GUANO CO. 
143 Liberty Street, New York City 
T HERE’S no 
to rush grain to 
market. Yet your 
own experience has 
shown the necessity for absolute protection 
against storage losses. 
Rats steal millions from wooden cribs 
and bins. Rain, thieves, mould, fire and 
lightning too, exact big tolls from all grain 
60 stored. 
Stop this needless waste. Keep your 
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thoroughly ventilating 
as Money 
m the 
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Strong galvanized steel body and heavy 6teel 
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A. A. A. A. CO., 3023 Abel Ave., Baltimore, Md., Distributors 
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The Celebrated GILL Peerless Straight 
Straw Thresher witli Special Four-packer Binder 
Attachment. Threshes all kinds i f grains. Special 
prices on new and rebuilt machines, also Papec 
Ensilage Cutters. Must reduce our largo 6tock. 
Write us for catalog and. prices 
A. L. GILL AGK’L WORKS. Treutou, N. J 
Good 
COMMON-SENSE 
REASONS 
Why 
\ BARIUM-/ 
PHOSPHATE 
SHOULD BE USED IN THE 
ORCHARD THIS FALL 
Every orchard should have some Cover 
Crop growing in it this fall, preferably 
Clover, but Rye is most easily grown 
and can be planted late. 
Five pounds of Alsike Clover seed Is 
enough for an acre. Planted now, after 
a moderate application of our 
Barium-Phosphate 
a good catch Is assured, and next May 
you will have tons of organic matter, 
containing all the nitrogen needed for 
normal orchard growth, to turn under. 
Clover Cannot Grow on Acid Soils 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
Analysing 
28.00% PHOSPHORIC ACID 
7.00% BARIUM SULPHIDE 
Will Sweeten the Soil and Supply 
Phosphorus in an Ideal Form 
It will pay you to apply 500 lbs. of 
Barium - Phosphate per acre in your 
orchard before seeding, and to write for 
our little books: 
“PHOSPHORUS AND MANURE” 
“ B-P FOR FALL SEEDING” 
“B-P IN THE ORCHARD ” 
Headquarters also for 
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK 
and 
Agricultural Chemicals lor " Home Mixing ” 
Witherbee, Sherman & Company 
2 Rector Street, New York City 
Wonderful Strong Grower Recommended for F orage 
KUDZU VINE 
tw>-j ear-old roots. Three for 81—835 p*r 100. 
EDWARD M. POPE - Sewell, N.Jv 
