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Jhf  RURAL  NElVr. YORKER 
Crops  and  Farm  Notes 
Countrywide  Produce  Situation 
now  MUCH  CAN  FARMERS  HUY  ?  GRAIN 
AND  MEATS  LOW  ;  MEDICINES  AND 
CURES  ;  TAKING  ONE’S  BEARINGS  J 
STORY  OF  THE  ONION  SPECIALTY  J 
MEETING  THE  FARM  ON  ITS  OWN 
GROUND. 
The  buying  power  of  farmers  has  been 
picking  up  slowly  but  steadily.  At  the 
worst  stage  in  1921  a  dollar’s  worth  of 
farm  products  would  buy  only  two-thirds 
as  much  as  before  the  war.  Now  it  buys 
nearer  three-fourths  as  much.  It  makes 
quite  a  difference  whether  the  farmer 
sells  mostly  wool  or  cotton  which  will  ex¬ 
change  for  even  more  goods  than  in  1918, 
or  sells  wheat  and  live  stock  which  bring 
only  enough  to  pay  for  one-half  to  three- 
fourths  as  many  goods  as  10  years  ago. 
It  matters,  too,  what  he  buys.  Clothing, 
building  materials  and  furniture  are  still 
very  high,  but  machinery,  fertilizer  and  a 
lot  of  miscellaneous  supplies  are  within 
easier  reach.  The  situation  is  still  hard 
for  a  young  farm  couple  who  have  to 
build  a  home  and  provide  the  amazingly 
long  and  costly  list  of  things  needed  be¬ 
fore  the  new  enterprise  is  in  smooth  run¬ 
ning  order. 
EASY  SELLING,  HARD  BUYING 
The  unluckiest  chap  is  perhaps  the 
man  who  sells  hogs  and  buys  clothing. 
Compared  with  the  year  before  the  war, 
his  dollar  is  worth  only  48  cents  in  this 
trade.  On  the  other  hand  the  sheep 
farmer  can  swajj  his  wool  for  twice  as 
much  iron,  steel  and  copper  goods  as 
formerly,  that  is  if  he  happens  to  want 
any,  but  the  sheep  man  doesn’t  need 
much  machinery  and  the  hog  raiser  will 
not  care  for  fancy  clothes  in  his  line  of 
duty.  Whether  any  farmer  is  doing  bet¬ 
ter,  depends  on  many  conditions,  but  the 
fact  that  the  great  mail-order  concerns 
whose  customers  are  mostly  country  peo¬ 
ple  are  reporting  gains  in  amount  of  sales, 
indicates  that  the  farmers  as  a  class  have 
a  little  more  money  to  spend. 
Because  of  the  inequalities  just  spok¬ 
en  of,  it  is  plain  why  the  grain  and  meat 
producing  sections  still  feel  sick  after 
the  political  doctors  have  done  what  they 
could  for  them,  and  like  other  ailing  folks, 
they  want  to  try  all  sorts  of  loudly  tooted 
cure-alls,  very  much  as  they  did  in  the 
nineties.  Just  as  in  the  days  of  “six¬ 
teen  to  one,’’  various  schemes  for  money 
inflation  come  to  the  surface.  Cheap 
money,  like  patent  medicine,  is  full  of 
stimulating  dope  that  makes  the  patient 
feel  better  af  first,  but  with  Russia,  Aus¬ 
tria  and  Germany  as  illustrations  of  the 
effect  of  the  treatment  in  the  long  run, 
it  seems  unlikely  that  the  financial  quacks 
will  get  as  far  as  they  did  80  years  ago. 
Financial  health  comes  not  through  stim¬ 
ulating  doses,  but  requires  time,  skill, 
patience,  common  sense  and  the  working 
out  of  natural  laws. 
WHY  FARMING  IS  SICK 
The  trouble  is  too  deep  and  too  gen¬ 
eral  for  the  politicians  to  set  it  right. 
One  reason  why  we  are  feeling  sick  is 
that  the  rest  of  the  world  is  getting  well. 
Other  countries  are  again  raising  farm 
products  and  oversupplying  markets 
which  cannot  use  or  pay  for  as  much 
stuff  as  they  once  could.  Nations  that 
were  starving  two  years  ago  are  now 
shipping  grain.  Some  other  nations  that 
were  buying  our  foodstuffs  at  that  time, 
have  no  good  money  left  to  pay  for  our 
supplies.  “Raise  less  grain  and  less 
meat  stock”  some  people  advise,  but  it 
would  be  hard  to  shift  any  number  of 
farmers  from  wheat  and  hogs  to  wool, 
cotton  and  dairying  without  overdoing 
these  and  making  general  conditions  as 
bad  as  ever,  and  by  that  time  conditions 
may  have  changed  again. 
Still  it  is  worth  while  for  every  farmer 
to  take  his  bearings  once  in  a  while  and 
see  if  he  couldn’t  do  bettor  by  producing 
a  little  more  of  what  has  paid  him  well 
most  years  and  a  little  less  of  something 
else.  This  means  knowing  what  things 
cost  and  nowr  is  a  time  when  the  figur¬ 
ing  farmer  has  some  advantage.  Any 
farmer  will  be  astonished  to  find  where 
some  of  his  money  goes  and  where  it 
comes  from  when  everything  is  set  down 
for  a  year.  Something  can  be  made  to 
pay  on  any  farm  if  handled  right.  When 
the  farmer  finds  it  out  and  puts  his  mind 
to  it  he  begins  to  really  play  the  game 
and  enjoy  it. 
THE  ONION  SPECIALTY 
Take  the  onion  specialty,  just  as  an  ex¬ 
ample  at  random.  Almost  any  farm  may 
produce  a  few,  but  there  is  nothing  much 
in  it.  The  real  business  is  mostly  in  six 
States,  Texas.  -California,  New  York, 
Masachusetts,  Ohio,  and  'Indiana,  in  about 
that  order  and  is  confined  to  from  one 
to  half  a  dozen  big  onion  counties  in 
each  of  these  States.  All  the  great  onion 
sections  are  of  rich,  mellow,  level  valley 
soils  or  reclaimed  muck  land,  the  kind 
of  land  which  produces  biggest  onion 
crops  at  least  cost.  The  onion  counties 
have  had  ups  and  downs,  but  have  been 
prosperous  in  the  long  run.  Twenty 
years  ago  most  of  the  fresh  onions  in 
Spring  came  from  Bermuda.  Now  they 
come  from  half  a  dozen  irrigated  valley 
counties  in  Southern  Texas  which  ship 
about  one-fifth  of  the  nation’s  onion  sup¬ 
ply  at  a  cost  for  freight  which  would 
discourage  a  Northern  grower.  Some 
years  their  crop  was  hardly  worth  ship¬ 
ping,  but  it  appears  that  nearly  all  the 
old-timers  who  stuck  to  it  have  made 
money.  Much  the  same  is  true  in  the 
North  where  less  is  paid  for  freight  but 
more  for  fertilizer.  Onion  growers  in 
the  Connecticut  River  Valley  raise  large 
crops  per  acre  and  make  as  much  profit 
as  any  growers,  in  good  years.  Many  a 
Polander  who  started  there  as  a  weeder, 
with  no  capital  except  a  numerous  family 
with  nimble  fingers,  now  owns  some  of 
the  land  and  runs  a  motor  car. 
THE  EIGHT  KIND  OF  WORRY 
This  does  not  mean  that  more  farmers 
should  raise  onions.  Only  a  few  locali¬ 
ties  are  just  right  and  there  are  plenty 
being  raised  now.  The  point  is  that  many 
a  section  and  many  a  farm  not  doing  a 
paying  business,  may  do  so  when  the 
right  men  fit  the  conditions  with  the 
righ  crop  or  product.  Some  discon¬ 
tented  people  who  are  worrying  about 
the  nation  and  its  policies  and  not  study¬ 
ing  their  own  business  much  are  living 
right  on  a  farm  that  they  or  somebody 
else  might  change  into  a  big  success. 
G.  B.  F. 
Marketing  Small  Clips  of  Wool 
As  to  wool  the  dealers  here  have 
paid  45  to  47c  per  lb.  cash  for  wool  this 
year.  The  Boston  prices  average  from 
50  to  55c  top  price  for  wool.  Most  of 
our  dealers  handle  wool  on  a  2c  per  lb. 
margin.  It  costs  about  3c  per  lb.  to 
grade  and  market  wool  through  the  State 
Association.  You  can  see  our  dealers 
pay  very  near  to  the  top  price  for  wool, 
with  the  possible  exception  of  a  fancy 
clip.  I  can  see  that  it  might  be  hard  for 
owners  of  small  clips  in  sections  where 
there  are  few  flocks,  to  obtain  a  fail- 
price  for  their  wool.  There  might  be  so 
little  wool  in  their  locality  that  they 
would  not  have  any  dealer.  Their  only 
outlet  for  their  wool  is  to  consign  it  to 
the  State  Association  where  it  is  graded 
and  sold  direct  to  the  manufacturer  in 
carload  lots.  H.  c.  beardsley. 
New  York. 
BOYS  AND  GIRLS 
(Supplement  to  Page  1097) 
Our  Artists 
An  especially  fine  lot  of  August  head¬ 
ing  drawings  were  sent  in  and  your  edi¬ 
tor  regretted  that  only  one  could  be  used. 
However,  the  others  will  be  kept,  'for  per¬ 
haps  next  year  none  so  good  will  come 
for  August.  The  choice  this  time  fell  to 
William  Smith,  a  16-year-old  New  York 
boy,  but  the  drawings  sent  by  Anna 
Mayers,  14,  of  Connecticut,  and  Helen 
Ryan,  Catherine  Zadril,  and  Margarette 
Sehroeder,  12,  of  New  York  State  were 
all  worthy  of  a  place  on  Our  Parge  had 
there  been  room. 
As  for  the  “crow”  drawings,  they  were 
more  numerous  and  better  than  those  of 
any  month  recently.  I  have  found  room 
for  11  of  them,  and  you  will  certainly 
be  interested  in  each  one.  Notice  how 
different  they  are,  yet  all  grew  out  of 
the  same  little  four-line  rhyme.  The 
names  of  some  of  “our  artists”  are  be¬ 
coming  quite  familiar  to  us.  though  each 
month  brings  new  ones  who  have  never 
been  in  before.  Those  who  succeed  sev¬ 
eral  times,  however,  do  so  not  only  be¬ 
cause  they  have  special  ability,  some  of 
course,  do  have  that,  but  fully  as  much 
because  they  persist  month  after  month, 
and  always  see  that  some  work  of  their 
is  on  hand  when  it  comes  time  for  your 
editor  to  make  a  selection.  I  try  to  be 
as  'fair  as  possible  in  producing  the  best 
and  most  interesting  page  from  the  ma¬ 
terial  you  send.  Everything  is  consid¬ 
ered — the  artist’s  age,  the  quality  of  the 
work  itself,  the  way  it  will  fit  in  with 
the  other  material,  whether  the  same 
“artist”  had  work  in  last  month,  and 
so  on.  Every  single  drawing  is  kept  un¬ 
til  the  final  selection  is  made.  This 
month,  in  addition  to  those  printed,  hon¬ 
orable  mention  belongs  to  Arlene  Col¬ 
burn,  13,  of  New  Hampshire;  Eugenia 
Powrers,  10,  of  Vermont ;  William  Johns¬ 
tone,  16,  of  New  Jersey;  Matthew  Young 
of  Pennsylvania;  Alice  Page,  14,  of  In¬ 
diana  ;  and  Novella  Swartout.  13,  Mar¬ 
garet  Burger,  14,  Carlotta  Baker,  16, 
Alleine  Swartwood,  13,  Marjorie  Allen, 
14,  Mary  Ennist,  16,  and  Nat  Lewis, 
13,  of  New  York. 
In  drawing  it  is  especially  true  that 
practice  brings  improvement.  Only  by 
trying  and  trying  again  can  you  develop 
skill.  It  is  interesting  work  and  trains 
the  hand  and  the  eye  together.  So  each 
month  study  the  drawings  that  are 
printed,  note  how  the  objects  in  them  are 
arranged,  how  the  lines  are  made,  to  be 
clear  and  sharp,  and  how  much  can  be 
told  in  a  few  lines  when  one  knows  how. 
Then  try  your  own  hand  at  it  and  don’t 
be  afraid  to  send  in  the  result.  YTou  will 
have  credit  on  the  list  of  contributors 
for  helping,  and  it  may  be  that  your 
drawing  will  be  just  the  one  needed  for 
a  special  place.  The  right  spirit  to  have 
is  expressed  by  a  Connecticut  boy  who 
wrote :  “This  is  the  first  time  I  have 
ever  sent  a  drawing  to  you.  It  is  not 
very  good,  'but  I  will  improve.” 
List  of  August  Contributors 
These  are  the  readers  who  answered  the  July 
page  before  this  one  went  to  the  printer.  The 
name  itself  indicates  that  a  letter  was  received 
from  that  boy  or  girl.  Following  each  name  is 
the  age,  whenever  given,  and  a  series  of  alpha¬ 
betical  symbols  referring  to  various  contribu¬ 
tions  according  to  the  following  key: 
l) — Words  for  the  box. 
d — A  drawing, 
e — An  essay, 
g — A  game. 
k — A  new  book  puzzle. 
1 — Correct  answer  to  last  book  puzzle. 
m — A  new  nature  puzzle. 
n — Correct  answer  to  last  nature  puzzle. 
o — -An  original  poem. 
p— A  photographic  picture. 
r — A  rhyme  for  drawing. 
s — A  story. 
v — A  memory  verse. 
x — Correct  answer  to  last  riddle. 
z — A  new  puzzle  or  riddle. 
Colorado:  Fern  Berd  (x>. 
Connecticut:  Norman  Hallock  (15,  d),  Clar¬ 
ence  Palmer  (12,  d),  Frank  Schatzle  (12,  d, 
k.  m,  u),  Edith  Stowe  (d,  1.  n,  x),  Doris  Basto 
(11,  d),  Elizabeth  Steed  (IS.  d,  n,  x),  Charles 
Stefanec  (12,  n.  r,  z),  Anna  Donblik  (11,  d,  n), 
Mildred  Vosburgh  (14,  d.  e,  m.  n),  Myra  Lloyd 
(13,  d),  Margaret  Kimberly  (12,  d.  r),  Mable 
Seymour  (14,  d,  k,  1),  Helen  Wasilesky,  Albert 
Kirk  (b.  n,  x),  Cora  McLaughlin  (d),  Kuth 
Dudley  (15,  d,  c),  Nina  Anderson  (fo,  d,  n), 
Marjorie  Ritchie  (15,  d,  e,  1,  n),  Alice  Rose  (b, 
n,  r,  x),  Torrey  Fuller  (d),  Florence  Andrew’s 
(12,  d,  r),  Charles  Ballard  (9,  d,  r),  Michael 
Soldberg  (10  d),  Helen  Thrall  (n),  Gustave 
Anderson  (11.  d).  Edna  Kellman  (10.  d,  k,  n, 
x),  Nellie  Chillington  (13.  d),  Helen  Upson  (10, 
d),  Evelyn  Stewart  (14.  d),  Martha  Sear  (d,  1, 
r,  x),  Anna  Mayers  (14,  d,  x),  Lois  Smith  (11, 
p),  Ruth  Sodergrea  (e,  1,  x,  z),  Clifford  Soder- 
gren  (6,  d). 
One  or  at  the  most  two  sets  of  twins  in  the  same  family  is  a  rare  occurrence  in  the 
average  American  family,  but  four  sets  of  twins  in  the  same  family  is  a  record 
probably  not  equaled  in  the  country.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Watkins,  residing  on  a 
Pennsylvania  farm  lay  claim  to  this  unusual  record.  They  have  13  children.  12 
of  whom  appear  in  the  photograph.  The  last  pair  arrived  a  few  weeks  ago.  They 
have  been  married  18  years. — victor  erlenmeyer. 
August  25,  1923 
Delaware:  Margaret  Ruth  (11,  d),  Elsie  Gras- 
selly  (12,  x). 
District  of  Columbia:  Nellie  Fealy  (1). 
Indiana:  Alice  Page  (14,  d). 
Illinois:  Anna  Graham  (d),  Sarah  Graham  (d), 
Charles  Graham  (d). 
Kansas:  Dorothy  Miller  (13,  r). 
Louisiana:  Ruth  Duffy  (15,  d,  n,  x). 
Maine:  Ruth  Bates  (14,  d),  Edna  Place  (15, 
d,  r),  Lorna  Stontamyer  (14,  d,  n,  x),  Louise 
Gould  (12,  d),  Winnifred  Pinkham  (14,  d), 
Lucy  Wittiam  (10,  x). 
Maryland:  Ruth  Rohrbaugh  (10,  d),  Josephine 
Van  Pelt  (14,  d),  Esther  Wright  (9,  d,  x,  z), 
Charlotte  James  (10,  d). 
Massachusetts:  Evelyn  Haskell  (13.  d,  e,  1) 
Verda  Dunn,  (11,  n,  x.  z),  Genevieve  Hobbs  (12, 
n),  Priscilla  Hertel  (12,  b,  d,  r),  Marion  Cate 
(12,  d,  k,  m),  Carleton  MacMackim  (12,  d), 
Florence  Field  (r),  Nellie  Skyloski  (12,  x), 
Katherine  Sullivan  (13,  1,  x),  Myrtis  Dill  (12, 
b,  d,  li),  Ethel  Hart  (12,  d,  v).  Eleanor  Hart 
(12,  b,  d,  v),  Eleanor  Church  (1,  x),  Caroline 
Powell  (14,  b,  d,  n,  z),  Blanche  Ileadlv  (9.  p), 
Esther  How'e  (12,  d,  x),  Elmira  York  (13,  x, 
z),  Frank  Blaikie,  Catherine  Fowler  (12,  x). 
Mildred  Gillfether  (14,  d,  m,  v,  z),  Beatrice 
Stevens  (15,  b,  1,  n,  r,  x),  Mary  Vennto  (9,  b). 
Michigan:  Violet  Zeller  (14,  d,  e,  1). 
Missouri:  Freddie  Backhaus  (10,  d). 
Nebraska:  Helen  Custer  (12,  d). 
New  Hampshire:  Patricia  Sawyer  (10),  Grace 
Lathrop  (d),  Mildred  French  (p),  Marion  Smith 
(d),  Arline  Colburn  (13,  d,  e,  x). 
New  Jersey:  Dora  Helmert  (d),  Rudolph  Hel- 
mert  (8,  d),  Mildred  Marinus  (11,  d),  Alice 
Stinson  (14,  d,  p),  Ethel  Dean  (11,  1),  George 
Stewart  (14,  x),  Mildred  Croshaw  (d),  Lydia 
Schober  (12,  d,  z),  Virginia  Weiss  (12,  x), 
Katherine  Eckert  (14,  d,  n),  Edna  Neumann 
(14,  x),  Goethals  Van  Lenten  (10,  d).  Kathryn 
Jones  (12,  d),  Dorothy  Courter  (10,  r),  Regina 
Herold  (13,  n,  z),  Grace  Hoekenbary  (n),  Ruth 
Ashcroft  (11),  Frank  Brueckel  (12,  d,  e),  Laura 
Mixner  (14,  d,  x,  z),  Georgine  Beisel  (14), 
Elizabeth  Haas  (9,  d,  n),  Arthur  Bobb  (12,  d>, 
Corinne  Bobb  (10,  d),  William  Johnstone  (10, 
d),  Jeanette  Lambert  (10,  n),  Elsie  Apgar  (d), 
Amy  Barton  (11,  d),  Frederick  Hunziker  (12, 
d),  Adelaide  Joachim  (12,  n,  x),  Lillian  Dietrich 
(n,  o,  r),  Mary  Kenny  (14,  d,  x,  z),  Mary 
Capcho  (15,  z),  Louise  Wuelfing  (11,  d,  r,  v, 
X,  z). 
Hattie  Ruoff  (e),  Elsie  Gutheil  (12,  d),  Karl 
Brooks  (10,  d),  Julia  Scheible  (13,  d),  Lawrence 
Benton  (12,  d,  x).  Pearl  Wakelee  (x),  Marie 
Petty  (12,  x),  Edw’ard  Cokelet  (12,  d),  Lillian 
Thomas  (9,  d),  Lyndon  Lee  (10,  d),  Marjorie 
Allen  (14,  d),  Dorothy  Paige  (12).  Catherine 
Morse  (13,  d,  x),  Ina  McClatchie  (13,  d.  r,  x), 
Alleine  Sw’artwood  (13,  d,  x),  Margaret  Burger 
(14,  d),  Agnes  Burger  (x),  Marietta  Pletcher 
(15),  Mabel  Clark  (15,  d,  x),  Althea  Stevens 
(10,  k),  Marie  Kopaskie  (I,  m,  n,  o,  x),  Annie 
Bedell  (d,  n),  Gertrude  Andrews  (14,  e,  I). 
Mildred  Kinser  (13,  d,  1),  James  Dunham  (11. 
r),  William  Harrison  (8,  d),  Gordon  Hornbeck 
(e,  1),  Mayone  Denton  (.12),  Doris  Dennis  (11, 
d),  Gladys  Feldberg  (12,  x,  z),  Henry  Crooks 
(12,  d,  x),  Elizabetli  Hoban  (11,  n).  Novella 
Swartout  (13,  d),  Everett  Male  (12,  d,  e)„ 
Margareta  Carlson  (14,  r,  x),  Randall  Miller 
(d),  Robert  Walters  (12,  d),  Jenette  Mills  (12, 
d,  x),  Anna  Tregler  (9.  d),  Joyce  Manison  (13, 
e,  1),  Carlotta  Baker  (10,  d,  1.  x),  Hazel  Duntz 
(16,  d,  e),  Gladys  Redmond  (14,  d),  Earl  Red¬ 
mond  (d),  Reba  Smith  (13,  x),  Nat  Lewis  (13, 
d),  Lois  Freeman  (12,  d).  Rose  Kaplan  (11,  x), 
Bessie  Catlin  (14,  e,  1,  x),  Janet  Rose  (10,  e. 
n,  z),  Edward  Rothschild  In),  Doris  Rainbo  (11, 
x),  Mary  Efinist  (16,  d),  Mildred  Esty  (12), 
Ruth  Mershon  (12,  n),  Dawn  Willis  (9,  x), 
Edith  Sheer  (12,  r),  Mildred  Metterwager  (x), 
Lillian  Kent  (x),  Olive  Biker  (13.  b,  d,  r,  x, 
z),  Norma  Burlingame  (13,  b,  e,  k,  m,  n,  z), 
Henry  Robinson  (13,  x),  Ruth  Teed  (10,  n), 
Ruth  Watts  (16,  d,  1,  x),  Margaret  Tower  (9, 
d,  1),  Doris  Pierce  (10,  n,  x),  Elizabeth  Sim¬ 
mons  (14,  b,  d,  r,  z),  Gilbert  Simmons  (12, 
d,  o),  Dorothy  Hart  (12,  d,  x),  Nellie  Nord¬ 
strom  (x),  Fauna  Chase  (10,  d,  r,  x),  Marie 
Roberts  (11,  d),  Chester  Roberts  (13,  d,  r), 
Irene  Peltice  (14,  n,  x),  Jean  Wilson  (11),  Ethel 
Rrush  (12,  d),  Gertrude  Kopaskie  (12,  e,  1,  n, 
r),  K.  Clapper  (13,  d),  Francis  Kopaskie  (9,  k, 
n,  r),  Ruth  Sears  (12,  x),  Dorothy  Springer  (14, 
d),  John  Tierney  (14,  d),  Catty  Atking  (16,  d), 
Bernard  Bolster  (12,  x),  Emile  Skidmore  (14, 
e,  1),  Frederick  Day  (12,  d),  Theodore  Day  (14, 
d).  Richard  Day  (15,  d),  Anna  Webb  (12,  b, 
d,  n,  o),  Abram  (d,  u),  Sarah  Lewington  (x), 
Louise  Gero  (8,  x),  Addie  Truesdell  (14,  x), 
Nettie  Freemantle  (13.  1,  x),  Helene  Ryan  (d), 
Nellie  Hubbard  (13,  d),  Dolores  Showalter  (12, 
n.  -x),  Verna  Colvin  (13,  b.  d).  Charles  Aker  (9, 
d),  Frances  Aker  (7,  d),  Franklin  Aker  (6,  d), 
Ethel  Dennick  (10,  v),  Dorothy  Butterfield  (n, 
z),  Natalie  Soulia  (11,  d),  Fannie  Puffer  (13, 
d),  Marian  Sehroeder  (10,  d),  Merton  Harwood 
(14,  d),  Mary  Cook  (14,  d,  e,  r,  x),  Elizabeth 
Johnson  (14,  d,  x),  Keith  Johnson  (10,  r),  Ellen 
Rickard  (n,  p,  x),  Anna  Fessenden  (11,  1,  x), 
Dorothy  Denton  (12,  x,  z),  Florence  Lee  (14), 
Fidelia  Stork  (12,  n,  x),  Charlotte  Saar  (12, 
1),  k),  Leon  Yaple  (13,  d.  r),  Josephine  Walker 
(15,  p),  Frank  Herbert  (12,  x),  Edna  Carlson 
(14,  d,  n,  x),  Junie  Jachimiak  (12,  d),  Catherine 
Zadril  (d),  Gerald  McNamara  id),  Marion  Pow¬ 
ell  (11,  d,  n,  r,  x,  z),  Iva  Sullivan  (11.  e,  n), 
Clara  Sturm  (11,  z),  Clara  Sehroeder  (k),  Mar- 
garethe  Sehroeder  (12,  d),  Margaret  Mackenzie 
(11,  d,  n,  p,  x,  z),  Barbara  Hoyt  (10,  x),  Helen 
Leighton  (12,  d),  Ellen  Sperbeck  (11,  m),  Ruth 
Wilkinson  (10,  d,  n),  Alice  Sayward,  Alma 
Ellsworth  (11,  1). 
Ohio:  Harold  Ludlow  (x),  Esther  Bowman 
(13,  d,  m,  n),  Louise  Roxning  (14,  n),  Ruth 
Roming  (11,  x),  Luther  Peters  (14.  x),  Doris 
Stobbs  (8,  e,  n,  r,  x),  Emily  Stobbs  (r),  Mil¬ 
dred  Poole  (d,  x),  Isabel  McLaughlin  (e,  I, 
x),  Anna  Kerr  (10,  n). 
Pennsylvania:  Anna  Cale.v  (15.  d),  Lucy 
Strauss  (10,  d),  Carl  Brossinan  (11.  n),  Elsie 
Brossman  (15,  n),  Emma  Conrad  (10,  d).  Emma 
Blakeslee  (15,  d),  David  Lehigh  (14.  d.  1,  n). 
Faith  Lehigh  (11,  r),  Katherine  Flynn  ill,  d). 
Vena  Parenti  (10.  n),  Erva  Housler  id),  Mabel 
Rolirer  (15,  o),  Mary  Rohrer  (11,  m).  Miriam 
Kaehel  (13,  d,  r),  Rachel  Michael  (15,  d), 
Victor  Held  (13,  x).  Corinne  Cole  (16,  d),  Mat¬ 
thew  Young  (d),  John  Sehoffstall  (10,  o),  Clar¬ 
ence  Heft  (9,  d,  n),  Elsiemae  Scbonour  (d), 
Dorotliy  Glass  (12,  d.  s),  Barbara  Heisey 
Rhode  Island:  Charlotte  Diptmas  (12,  d), 
Louise  Judge  (11,  e,  n,  o).  Hazel  Bailey  (12, 
d,  m,  n.  p,  v,  x),  Ruth  Cliace  (1,  x,  z). 
Tennessee:  Catherine  Winston  (14,  e  k  1 
m,  b). 
Vermont:  Eulalie  Powers  (11,  d,  m).  Eugenia 
Powers  (10,  d,  k),  Ruth  Brewer  (15.  d),  Eliza¬ 
beth  Thurber  (12,  x,  z),  Florence  Babbia  (11, 
d),  Dora  Babbia  (15,  d).  Mark  Crandall  (12, 
Virginia:  Cecilia  Zerkel  (12.  d,  r,  x)  Anna 
Zerkel  (14,  d.  in,  n,  x,  z),  Celia  Jones  (10.  n). 
West  Virginia:  Fredia  Wright  (d,  n  r), 
Everett  Allender  (11,  b,  z),  Helen  Couch  (i,  x), 
Bill  Fogarty  (14,  d). 
Wisconsin:  Ruth  Stockdale  (9.  x). 
In  one  of  the  banks  the  other  day  a  girl 
clerk  in  the  accounting  department  called 
a  customer  and  said  :  “I  just  wanted  to 
inform  you  that  your  account  is  over¬ 
drawn  eight  cents.”  There  was  a  long 
pause  and  then  an  excited  feminine  voice 
inquired  :  “Gosh  !  Do  you  have  to  have 
it  this  morning?” — Youngstown  Tele¬ 
gram. 
