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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—An airplane piloted by 
Lieut. J. M.' Grier of the "United States 
Navy, with Sergt. P. J. Saxe of the 
United States Army, as a passenger, 
went into a nose dive September 
6 while circling the tennis grounds at 
Forest Hills. L. I., and plunged 500 feet 
to earth in full view of the 8,000 or 0,000 
persons who were watching the national 
championship matches from the grand¬ 
stands. Both Lieut. Grier and Sergt. 
Saxe were killed, the former instantly. 
Two women and a man were crushed 
to death and two men were injured Sep¬ 
tember 6 when a slide of shale forced out 
a bridge leading to one of the stairways 
in the Cave of the Winds under Niagara 
Falls. A hundred or more tourists who 
were in the cave at the time had narrow 
escapes, many being bruised and cut by 
the falling rock. The dead and injured 
were members of a party of tourists just 
completing a tour of the cave. With a 
guide leading, the party was in the mid¬ 
dle of one of the four bridges in the cave 
when the slide came, its noise drowned 
by the roar of the cataract. The guide 
was not touched by the slide, and his first 
intimation of it came from the screams 
of the women. The accident is the first 
of the kind that has occurred in the cave 
since the first stairway was built in 1883. 
There have been slides before, but only 
in the Winter or early Spring. 
Two little boys were crushed and killed 
September 7 and four others were ser¬ 
iously injured when an automobile which 
was being driven past a corner of Fifty- 
fifth Street and Eleventh Avenue, New 
York, ran up on the sidewalk and pinned 
them against a building. The driver of 
the car was injured himself, but despite 
his injuries managed to escape in the 
crowd which gathered. 
Chineotecgue, Va., a town on an island 
on the eastern shore of Virginia. w T ith a 
population of 2.600, was entirely de¬ 
stroyed by fire September 7. Only the 
walls of a bank, a few chicken houses 
and several isolated shacks remain stand¬ 
ing. Two children are reported lost and 
Elmer Watson, a coast guard, has a 
fractured skull. Coast guards from the 
Chineoteague stations and the Assateague 
Island brought fire fighting apparatus 
across three miles of rough seas. They 
rescued many from burning houses. 
The United States disciplinary bar¬ 
racks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., was 
ruled by a “council” of prisoners from 
January to July, 1919. and this method 
of administration was adopted on orders 
from the War Department, it was as¬ 
serted in a report made Sept. 6 by Oscar 
C. Schmitz, special agent for the Depart¬ 
ment of Justice. Testimony set forth in 
the report indicated > that, the “prison 
council” system was discontinued in July, 
1919, after it failed to restore satisfac¬ 
tory conditions to the prison. Colonel 
Rice was relieved as commandant of the 
prison shortly afterward. 
Ten persons were killed and more than 
50 were injured near Globeville, Col., 
September 6. when an outbound train on 
the Denver & Interurban Railway going 
to Eldorado Springs, a mountain resort, 
crashed into a heavily loaded Interurban 
train coming to Denver from Boulder. 
Nine bodies have been recovered from 
the ruins of a fire which destroyed the 
Hotel Houston and Opera House and 
burned two blocks of dwellings and busi¬ 
ness houses at Klamath Falls, Ore., Sep¬ 
tember 6. , _ ,, 
The Federal Grand Jury in Brooklyn 
returned indictments September 3 against 
William P. Tiernan, brother of County 
Judge J. Harry Tiernan of Richmond 
County, and Henry Hugot, proprietor of a 
roadhouse at St.. George, S. I., charging 
them with conspiracy to violate the V ol¬ 
stead act by illegal transportation of 
liquor. The indictments are the result, of 
an investigation of alleged bootlegging 
activities on Staten Island following the 
murder of Frederick P. Eckert. It is 
charged that three barrels of whiskey 
found by revenue agents at Hugot’s road¬ 
house were received illegally by him from 
Tiernan. 
Total expenditures of the United States 
Committee on Public Information, which 
functioned during the war under direc¬ 
tion of George Creel, were $8,245,249, 
according to a report filed with the United 
States Senate by the Council of National 
Defence. The net cost to the Govern¬ 
ment was considerably lower than this 
because of receipts from the sale of mo¬ 
tion picture films, and was fixed by E. Iv. 
Ellsworth, the liquidating officer, at $4.- 
954.200. The film sales made under the 
committee’s direction amounted to $2.- 
394.073. The committee was financed by 
Congressional appropriations of $1,250,- 
000. the report said, and by the allotment 
to it from President Wilson of $5,650,000 
from funds placed in hie hands for use 
for national security purposes. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A record for 
Southern Alberta has been made when 60 
acres of rye were thrashed yielding an 
average of 49 bushels to the acre. # At the 
present price of grain the crop is worth 
approximately $100 an acre. 
A credit for Germany and other Cen¬ 
tral European countries equal to the fund 
held by the Alien Property Custodian, less 
existing claims, will be requested when 
Congress reconvenes, the American Farm 
Bureau Federation announced. It is ar¬ 
gued that the net figures will be well to¬ 
ward $1,000,000,000. According to the 
plan, the farmers would send their sur¬ 
plus wool to the Central European coun¬ 
tries and the credit would finance the 
7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
transaction. Only the coarse grades, 
which are not utilized for clothing here, 
would be exported. 
A public hearing was held in Washing¬ 
ton September 10 in regard to a proposed 
quarantine against the Japanese beetle of 
the States of Pennsylvania and New Jer¬ 
sey. This measure will place restrictions' 
upon the movement from those States of 
(1) farm, garden and orchard products 
of all kinds, including all fresh, perishable 
fruits and vegetables; (2) grain and for¬ 
age crops of all kinds; (3) nursery, orna¬ 
mental and greenhouse stock and all 
other plants, including bulbs and cut 
flowers; and (4) soil, compost and ma¬ 
nure other than fresh manure. 
The twelfth annual convention of the 
Vegetable Growers’ Association of Amer¬ 
ica was held at Columbus, O.. August 21- 
28. The following officers were elected : 
President, I.. F. Miller. Toledo, O.; vice- 
president, H A. Dooley. Cook Co., Ill.; 
secretaries, Samuel W. Severance, Louis¬ 
ville. Ivy.. and H. J. Cheney, Grand 
Rapids, Mich.; organization secretary, C. 
W. Waid. 
At the recent annual meeting of the 
National Flower Growers’ Association 
the following officers were elected : Pres¬ 
ident, W. J. Keimel, Elmhurst, Ill.; vice- 
president. E. Allan Peirce. Waltham, 
Mass.; secretary, J. F. Amrnann, Ed- 
wardsville, Ill.; treasurer, W. R. Pierson, 
Cromwell, Conn. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, Sep¬ 
tember 13-18. 
Norfolk County Agricultural Fair, 
Norfolk County Agricultural School, 
Walpole, Mass., September 15-16. 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, 
Mass., September 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 Swine Show and Exposition, 
Des Moines, Iowa, October 4-9. 
Annual-Fair, Danbury Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, Danbury, Conn., October 4-9. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Ill., 
October 7-16. 
Farmers’ Week, Morrisville Agricul¬ 
tural School, Morrisville, N. Y., October 
12-16. 
New England Fruit Show, Hartford, 
Conn.. November 5-9. 
National Grange, Boston, Mass., No¬ 
vember 8-13. 
American Royal Live Stock Show, Kan¬ 
sas City. Mo., November 13-20. 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, Ill., November 27-D'ecember 4. 
Seventh Annual Farmers’ Exposition, 
Toledo, O., December 2-10. 
National Western Stock Show, Denver, 
Col., January 22-29. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Sept. 24—Purebred rams. Second an¬ 
nual sale, New England Sheep Breeders’ 
Association, Eastern States Exposition, 
Springfield, Mass. Sale committee: II. 
E. Haslett, chairman, Amherst, Mass.; 
II. L. Garrigus, Storrs, Conn.; A. G. 
Skinner, Storrs, Conn. 
Sept. 23—Eastern sale of Aberdeen- 
Angus cattle. Eastern States Exposition, 
Springfield, Mass. Iv. J. Seulke, secre¬ 
tary, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Oct. 13-14—Holsteins. National Dairy¬ 
men’s sale in connection with the Na¬ 
tional Dairy Show, Chiccago, Ill. E. M. 
Hastings Co. managers. 
Oct. 16—Holsteins; 125 head registered. 
John C. Reagan. Spot Farm, Tully. N. Y. 
Oct. 28-30—Holsteins. Green County 
Ilolstein-Friesian Breeders’ Club sale, 
Monroe, Wis. L. I. Hare, Monroe, Wis., 
secretary. 
Nov. 23-24 — Holsteins. Watertown 
Holstein Sales Company, semi-annual 
consignment sale at Watertown, Wis. 
Francis Darcey, manager. 
Come Out of the Kitchen, Farm Women 
Tiie Rural New-Yorker gives us two 
pages each week. A great many farm 
women are going to vote this yeai% or 
within a few years at most. Might we 
not profitably study some of the prob¬ 
lems that are confronting us at the 
September 18, 1020 
present time? Personally, I have lost 
interest in cooking recipes and dyeing 
and making over clothes. The average 
farm woman can prepare enough dishes 
to satisfy any normal appetite, provided 
she has the material to prepare them 
from. She has also shown a remarkable 
ability to make flour sacks and partly- 
worn materials into presentable clothing. 
There is more danger of her overworking 
the idea of cookery and economy than of 
her needing to be stimulated to further 
effort. When women place a value ou 
their time and energy they will be sur¬ 
prised at the expense of some of these 
economies. But as long as they are ex¬ 
pected to spend their time and thought 
on finding ways to make over materials 
that have already done duty, in soaking 
the paint off from old window shades, in 
comparing recipes in the hope of finding 
one costing a cent or two less than one 
already familiar, they will be compelled 
to continue to do it. There are better 
methods of salvage for old materials than 
at the expense of the best brain and in¬ 
dustry of the mothers of our country 
homes. 
For instance, take the sugar situation. 
How many of us know that it is con¬ 
trolled by enormous capital, mostly iu 
the hands of great financiers? Actually 
how great is the sugar shortage, and what 
does it cost to produce sugar? Was 
there actual loss when it was under Gov¬ 
ernment regulation and sold for 12 cents? 
What are the earnings and profits of the 
shoe and clothing industries, and of the 
cotton mills? What does it cost to pro¬ 
duce flour at the present price of wheat? 
Why do we hear complaint of Govern¬ 
ment price-fixing in regard to wheat, but 
nothing said about prices being paid for 
live stock, leading one to wonder if we 
would have gotten more for wheat had 
the minimum price not been fixed? These 
are a few of the questions I would like 
to see discussed. Could we not have an 
information bureau and get acquainted 
with some of these matters of vital in¬ 
terest? We do not live in our grand¬ 
mothers’ day, so why try to keep our¬ 
selves there, or why consent to be slaves 
to our kitchens? I can make a better 
apple pie when I get out of the kitchen 
part of the time, and it really tastes good 
to me then. ruth n. asiiley. 
'Jhe Most Popular Work 
Garment in America~ 
^Thet/re not Union-Alls 
Unless they'reLe& 
Dept. 4667 
The H. D. Lee Mercantile Co. 
Kansas City, Mo. South Bend, Ind. 
Kansas City, Kas. Trenton, N. J. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
' St. Louis, Mo. 
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