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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
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during the past five years, those which we have measure up to the 
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are received. So we advise you to place your order early. 
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Garden 8-10 ft. Trees for $3.50 1 Bartlett Pear 
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Garden Trees a Specialty Dansville's Pioneer Nurseries 
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HARDY FRUIT TREES 
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KEITH BROS. NURSERY Box 600 SAWYER, MICH. 
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We have a largo stock of tine plant* and offer gome 
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BRIDGMAN NURSERY CO., Box 7, Bridgman, Mich. 
Thrifty, Sturdy Trees 
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vines r.nd berry bushes that they 
are thrifty* vigorous growers and 
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exclusive sale of the new Ohio 
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Our extensive line of ornumenHl shrubs, bushes, 
and perennials are of the same dependable quality 
as our trees. 
We sell seeds for the vegetable and flower garden. 
Illustrated 1921 Nursery List contains valuable plant¬ 
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WOODLAWN NURSERIES 
879 Garson Ave. Rochester, N. Y. 
New Ohio 
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for 2921 
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DOMESTIC.—The State Capitol at 
Charleston, W. Ya., was destroyed by 
fire January 2. The lose virtually is cov¬ 
ered by insurance. The destroyed build¬ 
ing cost $389,923.58 when the original 
Capitol, which cost $71,000, was remod¬ 
eled in 1S84. It was occupied May 1. 
1885, when the seat of government, which 
had been transferred to Wheeling several 
years before, was moved back to Charles¬ 
ton. 
The naval aviators who left the Roek- 
away, N. Y., flying field December 13, 
and were then lost for three w T eeks finally 
were located in the forests of Northern 
Ontario, where they landed on the ice of 
James Bay. After wandering in the 
wilds for three days they were found by 
Indians, who informed the Hudson Bay 
officials at Moose Factory. They re¬ 
turned 300 miles to the railhead by dog 
sleds, after spending Christmas at Hud¬ 
son Bay. 
The Lewisburg Seminary for Girls at 
Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W. Ya., 
was destroyed by fire January 2. with a 
loss of $100,000. The seminary was con¬ 
trolled by the Presbyterian Church South. 
The Supreme Court of the United 
States January 3, in a measure reaffirmed 
the famed Danbury hatters’ case when it 
held that a secondary boycott by organ¬ 
ized labor was not legal under the pro¬ 
visions of the Clayton act. The decision 
was given in a New York case, that of 
the Duplex Printing Company, appellant, 
vs. Emil J. Deering et al., individually. 
It was the case of a printing company 
against the machinists’ union. The lower 
court had decided in favor of the union. 
An attempt by Communists to create 
trouble among Detroit’s unemployed is 
seen by local secret service agents in the 
summoning of Ford employees January 3 
to the plant in Highland Park. About 
1.000 men. assembled there in response 
to a circular distributed January 1, call¬ 
ing upon the Ford Motor Company to 
turn the plant over to its employees 60 
they could make automobiles for them¬ 
selves. Nothing developed, however, and 
the men dispersed. 
During 1920 the railroads of the coun¬ 
try spent $349,500,00 for new equipment, 
Robert S. Binkerd of the Association of 
Railway Executives announced Janu¬ 
ary 1. The largest item was $135,000.- 
000 for 45,000 freight cars, and the rail¬ 
roads are trying to make financial ar¬ 
rangements to secure 80,000 cars. Pur¬ 
chase of 15.000 refrigerator cars for 
$07,500,000. and 1,500 locomotives for 
$105,000,000 is planned. Contracts al¬ 
ready have been made for 1,200 passenger 
cars, to cost $42,000,000. The Pullman 
Company is building 500 cars. Mr. Bin¬ 
kerd declared it would be impossible for 
the roads to make large capital expendi¬ 
tures, even if the new rates bring the 
roads a six per cent return, as they would 
be forced to go into a seven, and eight per 
cent money market to secure funds. 
Motion pictures portraying criminals at 
work have been barred in Chicago. Chief 
of Police Fitzmorris announced January 4 
that three weeks ago he had issued or¬ 
ders to censors not to issue permits for 
any photoplay that showed a crime, com¬ 
mitted, even though the end of the picture 
might show the criminal in a prison cell. 
The order became public when three 
youthful robbers, sentenced to the State 
Reformatory at Pontiac, said that their 
crimes had been inspired by a “crook” 
motion picture. 
Rpresentative L. L. Twitehell of 
Fargo, aligned with the independent fac¬ 
tion. was elected speaker of the North 
Dakota House of Representatives at the 
organization of the Legislature January 4. 
Twitchell’s election came on the first bil¬ 
lot by a vote of 58 to 53, disclosing that 
the independents have a majority of five 
votes in the House over rhe faction af¬ 
filiated with the Non-Partisan League. 
FARM AND GARDEN. — Grasshop¬ 
pers are planning an invasion of the 
United States from Canada, according to 
official advices received at Washington 
January 4, suggesting an entirely new 
immigration problem. Canadian ento¬ 
mologists say the western provinces of 
Canada will be overrun with this plague 
in the Spring, and that in Manitoba 
alone as many as 3.000 grasshopper eggs 
a square foot have been discovered. This 
threatened invasion is regarded with seri¬ 
ousness by agricultural experts, as there 
is no established method of preventing in¬ 
sect immigration, nor any scientific 
method of keeping the grasshoppers out 
if the country. 
Tobacco growers of Kentucky revolted 
Tanuary 4 against the low prices offered 
for their product. They forced every 
market in Northern and Central Ken¬ 
tucky, except one, to close its doors, with¬ 
drew enormous quantities of tobacco from 
the market warehouses; organized them¬ 
selves in many districts to stop all fur¬ 
ther selling this year and to cut the 1921 
January 15, 1921 
crop, and laid plans for selling their crops 
themselves. In Lexington, the world’s 
principal loose-leaf market, prices reached 
a new low level. All the large markets 
in the State are closed and the others 
are expected to join immediately in the 
boycott of buyers. Mass meetings of 
farmers held in various towns resulted 
in a general movement; to withdraw all 
tobacco in warehouses and to stoi-e it in 
private barns pending a rise in prices. 
The growers believe the buyers are hard 
pressed for money and offer low prices 
in the hope that the farmers will be com¬ 
pelled to sell. The growers expect the 
manufacturers to offer much higher prices 
immediately if they see the whole crop 
vanishing suddenly from the market. At 
Paris, Frankfort and Winchester the 
farmers met and agreed to hold their 
crops. Three thousand growers took part 
in forcing the market in Maysville to 
close. Other towns where all sales were 
stopped include Mount Sterling, Frank¬ 
fort, Danville, Covington and Winches¬ 
ter. 
Efforts to expand American exports of 
swine to Argentina and other foreign 
countries were urged before a meeting of 
representatives of swine breeding associa¬ 
tions of the country January 4 by E. Z. 
Russell, a swine specialist from the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. “United States 
interests should get all of the trade in 
hogs,” Mr. Russell said. “England is our 
only competitor in breeding swine, and 
many of our breeds are better than theirs. 
At a recent show in Palermo, Argentina, 
American hogs won many of the prizes.” 
All proposals so far advanced by the 
“Big Five” meat packers for divesting 
themselves of their stockyard interests 
were rejected January 4 by Justice Staf¬ 
ford in the District Supreme Court. The 
companies were given 30 days in which 
to submit new plans. At the same time 
the court warned that unless the defend¬ 
ants proposed plans that would meet re¬ 
quirements outlined it would “feel obliged 
to appoint officers to take title to all rue 
stocks of the stockyards in question and 
to hold the same subject to the order of 
the court until suitable agreements can 
be made to have it disposed of in accord¬ 
ance with the terms and purposes of the 
decree” agreed upon between the packers 
and the Government more than a year 
ago. In a formal statement regarding the 
court’s decision the Department of Jus¬ 
tice interpreted this as meaning “that if 
Gie packers did not divorce themselves 
from the stockyards the court would do 
it for them.” 
WASHINGTON.—Recruiting for the 
navy has been suspended temporarily. 
All new enlistments have been prohibited, 
and only re-enlistmente of men in the 
service are authorized. It was said at 
the department January 3 that the 
strength of 132.000 men reached several 
days previous was the maximum possible 
under the appropriation of Congress. 
President Wilson’s veto of revival of 
the War Finance Corporation, sent to the 
Senate January 3, was overridden by a 
vote of 53 to 5, one of the largest major¬ 
ities ever recorded in the Senate in dis¬ 
approval of the course of the Chief Ex¬ 
ecutive. Three Republicans—’Senators 
Penrose (Pa.), Sutherland (W. Va.), and 
Keyes (N. II.)—and two Democrats— 
Senators Gerry (R. I.) and Thomas 
(Colo.)—voted to sustain the veto, while 
29 Democrats and 24 Republicans voted 
to pass the bill, notwithstanding the 
President’s disapproval. Dispensing with 
further debate, the House January 4 
by a vote of 250 to GO. speedily overrode 
the President’s veto on the same measure. 
With the action of the House the meas¬ 
ure automatically became law. 
The request that Secretary of War 
Baker and Attorney General Palmer be 
called before the House Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee to disclose “the facts surrounding 
'the mysterious official silence which in¬ 
vests the war slacker situation,” was 
made January 4 in a telegram sent to 
Chairman Yolstead of the committee by 
F. W. Galbraith, Jr., commander of the 
American Legion. The House Judiciary 
Committee has before it the Watson bill 
to make non-applicable the statute of 
limitation in slacker eases. Repeated 
requests that a definite time limit be set 
in which evaders could remove the stigma 
attaching to their present classification 
as slackers have been refused by the War 
Secretary. He has persistently asserted 
that he did not desire to make any move 
that would bring disgrace upon any citi¬ 
zen who might have served his country 
without the knowledge of the military au¬ 
thorities. 
A Big Sunflower 
Mr. W. F. Reeder, of New Jersey, 
sends us this picture of a large sunflower 
which he raised. It measured 49 in. in 
circumference and weighed 8% lbs. 
