Bethany Republican-Clipper from Bethany, Missouri • 1

Rtatarieal Society X'" 193 Bethany Republican- rsal Igtra oat nod ood A Continuation of THE BETHANY REPUBLICAN and THE BETHANY CLIPPER Te hot Lot Volume 4 BETHANY, MISSOURI, 'WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932 Do You Cook by rEar9 or by Note R-C. School Tomorrow Shows You Shanghai Is New York of the Says Bethany Man Who Knows It Well SCHOOL MONEY TIGHT WITH REDUCED TAXES AND LACK OF TUITION HU in IMS it atm mi mih less non ma a et o-id tai 10 dd I era talMi Sot pi ry Yo fro la -3- Plaa Is for Oomljy-'Wldc -Gathering at Bethany March 23 Trade MM Scheduled for Forenoon aquarefy into tha interior of China, and is tha outlet for much of its wealth in trade. The Whangpoo river, upon which Shanghai is laid out, la navigable only to the dty. Bhanghal la a port of call for all ships that ply the waters of the Orient After the European style, the business blocks of the dty are of buildings six or eight stories in height, but the trolley lines are modern, the streets of the main business section are up-to-date, and Bhanghd to the gathering spot for thoae who seek the atmosphere of citiea of thdr homelands. It to a dty of bright lights and of lavish entertainment VanHooaer aaya ha never saw any racial bitterness evidenced during his long stay there, between nationals of any countries.

The Japanese, he said first session of the school will open. Doasns of women have telephoned the Republican-Clipper, mmmiu1Iii thia newspaper tor sponsoring such a welcome affolr. Bo that everything will be In readiness for Mrs. Kennedy when aha arrives, the mode! kitchen baa bean installed In tha ball and long list of groceries has been purchased to her order. Tha following bueinera firms are cooperating in tha school, many of them assisting in furnishing displays and materials; M.

Haas A Bon, Cels Hardware company. Bethany Steam bakery. Northwest Missouri Bkelgas Equipment company, Otto Hacker'S dairy, Moulton Grocery company, Bethany laundry and eteansn; Bartlett Grocery company, Butter pharmacy. Place's Bethany store. Cuddy A Temptemaa, Vance Grocery company, J.

CL Penney company, Bethany Trust company. Myers Drug company. Ruby's Ladies' store, Cos tins Cash store. Nidi Bros. A company, Bethany lee A Storage company.

Now Hampton, Larabsa Mining company, W. H. Haas A company and Jaques Manufacturing company. Vo Poult tgewi IBS! greet from back a dot-a the a di-i Juat after pell right faring want the II cod iftara lisq raran ironhs I 1 -if v- 1 r.y-j v-f urnim mo Finish of I Nday I Guo January Term Waa Afternoon Gripe and Crossan Vs. Bulk Action Set Oyer With the January tana of circuit court ban closing Friday afternoon, a apodal aeealon win be held baglnr nlag March 7, to dlapoae of two caaea that ware act over.

One of thaaa ia the caaa of tha dty of Bethany va. the Cripe Baking company, for tha collection of licence money which tha dty aaya ia due it by the defendant company for operating a bread wagon hem. In violation Of an ordinance. The defendant ia contacting the auit on conaUtutlonal grounds. Thia eaae la aet for March 7.

The aaoond caaa aet ahead ia that of Li. M. Croaaan va tha Firot National Ridgeway. It involvea the quoa-tion of erbether Croaaan, aa a stockholder In the bank when It was closed, to be permitted to examine the hanka booka and audit them while the bank la in the proceaa of diaaolu-tion under receivership. Other legal budneaa win doubtleaa come before the court at the apodal One suit of interest at Bethany waa settled at the dose of the term.

By agreement of the parties, tha case of Dr. Eva Wood va. Clyde Glah and Fred Allen waa erased from the records, which noted that it had been settled by paying Dr. Wood $700. This case arose out of an automobile collision in the east part of Bethany, in srhlch Dr.

Wood reedved Injuries and her car was damaged. Other proceedings of the last week included: O. H. Bridges vs. Clayton Sharp and H.

Sharp; settled and dismissed. Lawrence E. Klllen vs. Wayne B. Smith and Mary EL Fluke; change of venue granted to Mercer county.

Charles O. Weir vs. Wayne B. Smith and Mary- E. Smith; change of venue granted to Mercer county.

Bethany Savings bank vs. E. H. Frisky; change of venue granted to Putnam county. M.

M. Cooper vs. Charley Twedell; motions for a new trial and for ar-j rest of Judgment overruled. Warren Ludlen vs. Arthur Lewis; dUmlMed.

Ridgeway Building A Loan Asa'n vs. The Fidelity Phoenix Ins. defendant files answer. James England, administrator, va Joseph England; sheriff, as garnishee, turns over $200.13 te clerk of the court and to released. Judgment given for plaintiff for $319J2, same to Ae satisfied out of the attached property.

Charles H. Ed son va Ray Bondu-rant et al; default Judgment rendered against G. L. Nally for $187 JO add at-tonMjr fofc State ex rel J. W.

Bhumard va. M. W. Venable; dismissed. State ex rel J.

W. Bhumard va O. Hammack et al; continued. State ex rel J. W.

Bhumard va ipharies Edmon Leasenby; continued, 8tate ex rel J. W. Bhumard va H. Burrows Rogers et al; continued. State ex rel J.

W. Bhumard va William Laundy et al; dismissed. Edgar Skinner and Blrt 8. Alien va Mary Crase et al; sale of tract in ethany township, to Oscar Stratton, approved In partition. Lela J.

Folley va Sarah Smith et (Continued on last page) WIDOW GETS $5,500 FROM FATAL CRASH Damages Awarded Mrs. Pearl Bohisan of Sheridan After Death of Husband, Killed by Fast Train A widow was awarded damage of $SJ00 here Friday morning by Jury in circuit court for tha death of her husband, who waa kilted November a 1980, when the truck which he driving wae struck by a fast train at Sheridan, Mo. The plaintiff in tha caaa waa Mrs. Pearl Robison, who had sued tha Great Railway company for $10,000 and tha coats of the action. The defendant company filed a motion for a new trial.

I The ease went to trial Wednesday, sand that day and the next were required for the bearing of testimony and tha arguments of counsel. The Jury wae excused for Thursday night, and brought in the verdict early the next morning. Tha husband, James I Robison, aa kilted Instantly when his truck waa bit by the train at a crossing In Sheridan, which to in the western part of Worth county. Tha scene of the accident to a crossing about 330 yard from tha depot there. The contention of Mrs.

Robison waa that the engineer of the train did not sound tha whistle fra the crossing, even though the train waa running nt an estimated speed of 80 miles an hour. Mr. Robison was 43 years oldi Besides Ms widow, who to 39, he left two children: Lillie, 13 yean old, and Beatrice, 11 yean old. The Jury who heard the caaa were rise Adair, J. J.

Patman, Albert Robert F. Easton. G. Toung-Leonard Trammell, O. F.

Wiliams. H. M. Shepard, Roy Mullins, Paterson and J. V.

Courtney. NECK FOR A FINGER Bewat the oeiil Ha nature, it may bo dangerous, aa the mea found who slipped ow a benaue peel and was totally hart, after having gone ever Niagara ia barrel. at the day afternoon. that one of Ida Hagen meet ha broken. A visit te the doctor showed thia to he A tentative date for Harrison tys rural school day, aa each spring that to attended by I its ad thair parents frera ev school district to March 35.

-i It to announced that thto year xnpetitive exhibits la number as a result of tho fir destroyed tho Libers! Acta TiuHiteg at the fair grounds, whan they always have been shown. Than waa plenty ot then for varied are no booths at tho tori urn, where it to probable they tof be displayed thto tima aad ton room at the eourthouaa, to It to datoded the exhibits wfll be placed than: The exhibits will be WmHod thto year to those objects of work that ais helpful hi school effort, be limited to one entry in each Then wfll be two contest! ia health posters, fra students lx grades five to eight and la grades one to four. Aa agriculture poster con test will ban entries that represent some phase ot that course studied thto year. A aaap drawing contest will be btod, with mape not to be larger than Hill inches. In the penmanship contest judging wfll include the nee of capital letters, small letters; figures aad numbers, and a standard specimen will be used.

Another contest te for the beet cover for quarterly awards, and ia in two divisions, for gradro five to eight and grades one to four. The literary contests will be divided into three groups. One is recitations for students In grades one to four either girls or boys. Another to for boys' declamation, grades five to eight. The third to in girls declamation, grades five to eight A track and field meet will be held in the forenoon, beginning at 9:19 oclock.

It will be in charge of Kendall Longfellow, who to chairman, Rue-11 Miller, Lloyd Glenn, Jasper Vaa-derpool. Byrun Nichols, Clarke Rinehart, Stewart Whisler, Albert Bpenee end Georgs lor. Each school may enter but one pupil in any one event The meet will be in six dlvteioao fra boys under nine yean, boys arid 12 years, and boys over 12 years; sad for girls of tot same agon. Events fra boys under 12 years will be the 50-ysrd dash, oroad Jump, baseball throw and running broad Jump. Tor boys over 12 years tha dash will ba one of 75 yards, aad the high Jump takes tha ptoco of the basebaU threw.

Tho oven for girts under 12 yean are the as for the feqys of tho same age and the events (Or the girls over 12 yiato alto are Identical with those for try of that agt In addition to tho contosta, then wil ba music numbers by a oounty chorus and a county rhythm orchestra, showing recsM developments ia those primary music fields. Tha atadeats wfll sing and play to tho accompaniment of record music. CRITICALLY HURT BY FALLING WALL Ricketts, a Former New Hampton Men, Victim of Bad Injuries in Accident at fit. Joseph Faille Ricketts, 46 years old, a former resident of New was dangerously injured Monday afternoon at St. Joseph la the collapse at a wall ot a civic center triangle building which be and other city 1 were razing, according to tha St Joseph Gazette of yesterday.

Ricketts, whoa borne ia at 1815 ditchell avenue. Is at tbs Missouri Methodist hospital. Ha suffered a fracture of tho pelvto, even broken ribs and shock when he waa pinned under a pile of fafli trick. Only two other man wen engaged with him at that spot, aad both of thorn escaped injury. The building waa one of several the dty te razing to clear tha property tor park purposes, and It had been unoccupied for soma time: Cinders dumped by former occupants of an adjoining building betosan tba wan and tho second building caused a bulge ia the wall, according to Fir Chief Loo UrbanskL With rapport torn away in tho rasing, tho wall Firemen extricated Ricketts sad be was taken to tho hospital.

Roof Fire Discovered in Time to Save Houae A roof fire at tho Chester Bacon homo in the south part of town wan discovered Friday by a neighbor bo-tor it had gained headway, aad wsa extinguished with only slight damage. Floyd Stevenson arrived at the a little In advance of the fire truek, and had the blase pretty wen under control by the time ba was given aid from chemical apparatus. Tba fin evidently caught from a spark aa tha fine waa "burning out" NATURE MAKES CANE Ia tho aoat window of tho Bo- pwbHeaw CBppra la a by nature which' la lots of attention Mnea to It la a A modern dty after the European fashion. aa large or larger than Phltar delphla, the moat cosmopolitan dty of tha Orient tha dty termed "The New York of the East, where tonguaa of all natiooa are heard, where da-foot Slkha are high-helmeted policemen, a dty of operas, native and European cabarets, and the city where wealth pours In and out of China thia ia tha picture given of Shanghai, war-torn object of the world's eye, by Gather VanHooaer of Bethany, who has spent many months there and knows it welL VanHooaer served one naval enlistment of four years on a destroyer in the Asiatic fleet, and during much of tha first half of this period was stationed at Shanghai. Tha attack of the Japanese upon the dty ia much like aa attack upon New York or Baa Francisco would be In our own country, bo aaya.

Bhanghal ia the commercial cork that bottles the entrance to the Yangtaa river, near the mouth of which it ia located. Huge foreign buai- neaa interests fellow tha course of Che Yangtaa, which la navigable for tramp steamers, cruisers and destroyers for 00 miles, to Hangkow. The river cuts 1W06ETHANYSAH0RS IN ASIATIC FLEET, BUT I Emergency Would Have to Be Great in China for Harold England and Max Cornier to Be Shifted to Scene Harrison county's attention to the war theater at Shanghai and the difficulties there the United Stales and other powers are having In maintaining both liberty and neutrality, to more pointed because of the fact that at least two sailors from this section are stationed with the Asiatic fleet at Manila. Harold England, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Lloyd England of Bethany, to one, and Max Courier, a grandson of Mr. and Mix. W. H. Courier of Bethany, to the other of theee enlisted men.

At thia time It seems Improbable that they wW see the fighting now going on between Chinese and Japanese military fbreea fra the possession of Shanghai, aa both of them are mi submarines. England to on the No. 82, and Courier to on the No. 30. Several ships out of the fleet stationed at Manila have been ordered to proceed to Shanghai to protect American eltiseni and businesses there should that become necessary, but no submarines have been among them.

Primarily, such craft an considered defensive ones fra naval bases, and this leads to the belief bars among ex-sailors that the subs at Manila probably will be kept then unlsaa a vital emergency should arise. Oather VanHooaer, another Bethany young man, returned home some months ago at tha expiration of his naval enlistment after having bean with the Aaiatlo fleet fra several years. Other young men from near here in naval service are Bert Smith and Darryl Smith, emu of Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith, who live northwest of Bethany.

The Republican-Clipper has been unable to learn where Darryl Smith to stationed, but Bert Smith, when home on furlough a abort time ago, was with tha Atlantic fleet Don Stanton of the Mahaska neighborhood to another naval enlisted man whose station cannot bo learned at the moment. Lee Shipley, formerly of Bethany, had been attached to the Pacific fleet until recently, when hie enlistment expired. He to believed to be employed in Ban Francisco. SCHOOLS SHORT ON STATE EXPECTATION Only Two-Thirds Financial Aid That Had Been Estimated for Year Will Be Available, Now Said The high aehoote of Missouri will receive in financial aid from tha state under the new tax plan approximately two-thirds of the amounts that had been estimated payable under the first year of the plain's operation. This was the word brought bask to Harrison county last -week by Superintendents Patrick of Bethany, Lynch of New Hampton and Adams of Ridgeway, and Alva Allen, oounty superintendent of aehoote.

As a matter of fact, the plan to yet untried, and In tha opinion of tha Harrison county men the financial distributive results are somewhat "In the air." Tha first estimates had been: That Bethany would receive on teachers and attendance, and $4450 on tuition. That Blythedala would receive $1,578 on teachers and attendance, and $800 on tuition. That CalnsvMs would receive $4,406 on teachers and attendance: and $2,000 on tuition. That EagleviUe would receive $2,700 on teachers and attendance, end $1,000 on tuition. That Gilman City would receive $2l215 on teachers and attendance, and $2,500 on tuition.

That Hatfield would receive $1,853 on teachers and attendance, and $800 tuition. That Marti navllla would receive $3J48 on teachers and attendance, and $1,000 on tuition. That Melbourne would receive $1,243 on teachers and attendance, and $1450 on tuition. That ML Moriah would receive $2l210 on teachers and attendance: $1,250 on tuition, and $1J28 on transportation. That New Hampton would receive $2J20 on teachers and attendance and $2400 on tuition.

That Ridgeway would reoetv $4,717 on teachers and attendance, $1000 on tuition, and $1481 an transportation. There are two kinds of cooking cooking by "ear" and cooking by note:" Laura K. Kennedy, widely known homo economica expert, who to to conduct the Republican-Clipper free cooking school and homo makers' institute, which begins tomorrow In the K. P. Castle hall, win demonstrate the difference.

"Yon have known women who put in a little of-this and a little of that and then taste the mixture," aaya lira Kennedy. "Thats cooking by ear. You can never be aura of tha results. The chances are the flwlehed product will taste differently each time. Mow, cooking by note to positive eelraes.

You know Just what tba result to going to ba ia advance. You know what ingredients to use to achieve a certain flavor. Mrs. Kennedy, of course, cooks by "note." She knows bra ingredients. She knows her methods.

The Republican-Clipper is bringing bar hero to reveal tha secret of bra success to the isewivea of Bethany. Bcoree of women will be in the ban tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 oclock when the 2-YEAR RECORD GOES AS WE FEEL BITE OF 44EL0W COLD WAVE Zero Toadied for First Time Since All-Time Cold Record Set in January of 1930 Month Maximum 36.2 Bethany tasted sub-zero temperatures Saturday morning, when the official reading here was four degrees below aero, breaking a mark that had stood for a little more than two years. Not since the all-time cold weather mark of between 33 and 35 degrees below sero waa set here in the cold wave that had Its climax on tha the morning of January 22, 1930, had the temperature fallen to sera It came within a degree of it on January 14, 1981, and within six degrees of It on February 10, 1931. This winter the nearest approach to sero that Bethany recorded before the cold wave hat reached its lowest mark Saturday morning, was three degrees above. Elsewhere In the county it to probable that zero was touched then, as there waa snow on the ground in the north part, but non hero.

The latter part of January flirted with lower temperatures than had been experienced here during moat of the winter. Maximum readings ran from 41 degrees down to 32 degrees from January 24 to January 29, inclusive, and during the same time mimi-mums recorded hero were from 14 above, on the 24th, to $2 above, on tha 28th. On the coldest day of the winter the highest waa 10 degrees above. Sunday waa almost aa cold, with the maximum being 15, and the lowest three above. The mean maximum for January waa 36J degrees, a considerable drop from December, when it was 43.4 degrees.

The mean minimum for January waa 22J degrees, white tor December It was 3126 degrees. There waa only 131 Inches at precipitation here during the month, but it fell In a manner to create the biggest transportation handicap. Twice It sleeted, and then was a total of 9J inches of snow that fell not more than .7 of an Inch at a time, but on road that could not withstand any amount of moisture at all without becoming bad. State School Survey Men Coming Tomorrow Three men from the state department of education an expected to arrive here tomorrow to begin their work of making a survey of echoed conditions in the county, following a request mad recently by members of school boards in convention at Bethany. They have notified Alva Allen, county superintendent of schools, that they will require Information from hte office, and it to understood they will seek knowledge of valuations, enumerations, distribution of pupils, and tha practicability of thdr transportation In relation to distances and roads, to show how easy or bow difficult would bo their access to aehoote.

From tbs survey work a small bulletin and map will ba printed, and these win be distributed among school board members at a meeting beta during the summer, when the survey work wlU also bo explained. Home of Manley Salmon Ravaged by Night Fire The five-room residence of Manley Salmon In the southeast part of town waa ravaged at 12:60 o'clock Monday morning by a fire which apparently began from a defective flue. Salmon waa the only one of the family who had not gone to bed, and ba had Just filled a stove with fuel for the rest of the sight Tha blase broke out on one side of the chimney, then on the other, and bad gained groat headway before tha fire company could make a hoes connection and begin the play of water upon it Moat of the furniture waa ear with the exception of that In tba kitchen. Only part of the walla was left standing. The Bnhnoni are living with relatives tor the present Thdr loss waa partly covered by insurance.

Coonty Physician Place Sought by Four Doctors Four physicians of Bethany have mad application fra the position of county health pbytoeten, which win ba fllted by appointment at tha pwoaat fora of oounty court The position la held now, and has been for some tlm. by Dr. W. J. Her-L Others who have made application fra are Dr.

A. L. Wanting, Dr. F. It Broyles aad Dr.

IX Ck Raid. The principal duty ot the county health pbytoeten to to taka aharga of quanatlao cases over the county, ba the control of Board Bays It Will Make It Through This Term Somehow, but Warrants Might Have to Be Held hi Fall The Bethany school district to cramped for funds, it bsnema publicly knawn last week, bat tba board of education announces its bdtof that It can carry through to tha cad of the present term without low of efficiency. The condition in whteh tha district finds itself to one that to common over the state, where high schools are aals- Fart of the trouble to due to a decrease la tax revenues, and part of it to eawed by-the foot that tuition payments for this term are not coming from the students themselves, but an expedad to be paid by the state about next August Tex edtoetloua hero have been about $4,000 less for aehod purposes than thqr wen Met prar, it to said by members of the board of education. A eonddaraMe per cent of the taxpayers of tba Hethauy district have let thdr taxes run, preferring to assume the payment of a penalty far late aetttoment or being forced by financial conditions to ass urns such a penalty. It depends largely upon when these back taxes an paid whether the district can go through tba term without some financial embarrassment.

The finance committee of the board of education baa been examining tax booka during the last week or so to form an opinion for the use of the board. Tha change in the tuition plan lias caused a loee of revenue for this period of the term of approximately $4400 more. There are about 20 high school tuition students here, and for each of these tha state has agreed to pay $50 tuition for tha term but the money to not due until neat August These two loeses thus place the district $8400 behind in revenue from year before. Grade non-resident students, it should be mentioned, are paying thdr usual tuition. Just what the state will be able to do In advancing high school aid under the new laws cannot be foretold.

Prof F. EL Patrick went to the state superintendents' meeting at Columbia last week in the belief that some definite information might be obtained there, but the 'discomforting statement waa made at the meeting that tha state apportionment might be expected to be a third tom than had been anticipated. Information as exact aa can be obtained must be found by tha time the school election to held, board members say, so that they may know what levy os; the voters. The sharpest lack of money to expected to be felt the first two or three months of the next term, when expenses go on, and tax payments have not begun. The question of school finance to graying tha hairs of directors every-whers in Missouri, and it la probable that not a school district In Harrison county to excepted.

One school, it to reported hero, baa been forced to withhold payment of half of its teachers' salaries. ramwi Notice Received Yesterday That Government Hai Made Decision to Give Mrs. Martin Davis Allowance A telegram waa received hero yesterday from Congressman J. L. Mini.

gan of this district that he had won a favorable report on compensation in the ease of Martin Davis, rural mail carrier fatally injured hero May 1, 1931, and that Mrs. Davis will raoetve a per cent of her husband's salary. The government had at tint rejected tha claim tor compensation on the ground that the carrier waa not on duty at tha time the accident oocurred. Milligan had taken tha matter up In detail sines that ruling waa iw, and had pressed the claim In the belief that it waa a Juat one. What per cent of her husband's salary Mrs.

Davis will receive each month to not known here, but complete Information to expected within a few more days. Estimates have ban made hern but they are not given out because then te not enough Information behind them to make certain they are correct or even nearly aa Postal employes hen had understood that when compensation was awarded in such cases It Included the minor children, but the three children left by Mr. Davis were not mentioned in the telegram from this district's congressman. Tba possibility te seen that they may have been eliminated from a settlement, by agreement It also to tba common understanding bare among postal employs that compensation for Mrs. Davis win continue tor no long as aha to a widow.

In tha case at minor children it continues until they become of age Tha tuning point of tha with tha assurance of Mias Mary Wlghtman, postmaster, that the carrier had been called back by her to tha post office the afternoon of hte accident to familiarise himself mors with a change in service that had Increased the length of his rural rout. Inatetenoe waa made upon thte polnL and oa tba foot that bad it not been for this order from Mtea Wlghtman. Da via would not have driven bank to perk hte oar on the north aids of the building; whan the aaefdcnt ocean ed. Milligan's secretary waa sent to Bethany several weaka ago to obtain pictures of thia spot, sad of the pasta which tones have been erect-ed there to prevent a rapetltiaa of the In before tba would have been afraid to display any a aaildba roughness toward American Bailors or marines during ordinary times there, even had they felt like it; but there waa no reason for any dashes between them, and the dty waa a peaceful one aa he knew it The old Chinese dty adjoining (he international settlement where moat (Continued on last page) STUCK SELLS HIGHER THAN MARKET PRICES AT COMMUNITY SALE Event Will Be Repeated in Two Weeks, and Entries Must Be Made by Monday to Insure Getting In Bethany struck one of tha worst days of the winter to begin the community auction sale plan Saturday, but the results were satisfactory enough to bring the announcement that another such sale will be held February 13. The day was the coldest one of the winter, and a public unused to near-sero temperatures stamped cold feet on the inside of the large pavilion, where they were out of the harsh wind, but without tha friendly rays of tha sun.

They came and went, according to how raid they became, but the crowd averaged between 130 and 200 at all times, and the bidding was rapid. Moat of the large offering was livestock, and this ran strongly to cattls, there being a large number of beef calves, and a lesser number of raws. The calves sold for from $22 to $25 a head, and It was the opinion of men who had had stock on a weak market recently that tha same size and quality would have brought less than $20 a head in open selling at St Joseph or Kansas City. The same opinion -was expressed that stock hogs which brought $SJ0 would have gone for around $3 on tha terminal markets, but were, of course, worth more than that to the local buyer who had a place to put them at once. There were several head of hones, and tha prices obtained for these wen considered generally satisfactory.

All In all, considering tha weather, I think the sale did fairly laid one of the men who aided in its management. "Of coune tha weather was bad, and wa really expected we would draw more from the other counties. BtllL this was the first ala." Men who wish to make entries for the sale of February 13 murt have them in hen by next Monday night, February 8 in order to be advertised. However, anything will he accepted fra sale that can be brought in. Entriea should be made with OoL C.

M. Taggart CoL L. E. Caaady, the Cola Hardware Oo, Noll Bros. A or either of the Bethany banka.

Oilman Theater Fire Halted After Damage Fire which broke out shortly after 6:00 oclock Sunday evening nt the Rex theater at Gilman damaged the Inside of the building badly before it was extinguished by tha lira company. The theater to owned by Warren McClelland, wlio had built a fire in the furnace, and then had gone home The blase evidently began where the furnace register opened upon the stage, and that part of the theater, and tha curtains, were destroyed, while seats of the building were dun aged by smoke. Firemen bettered down the doors to gain entrance, after the blaze waa discovered. Former Gilman Mag Beats Robbery Charge Frank Elder, former Oilman City man who now Uvea across the Una In Grundy county, waa acquitted last week at Adell, la of store robbery charge. Elder was charged with being one of the persona who robbed a store VanMeter, la of large quantity merchandise.

He was taken to Iowa fra trial only after a writ of habeus corpus had been denied by Judge A CL ICnlght, and after an extradition bearing at Jefferson City before Governor Caulfield. Charles A. Miller of Trenton, who defended Elder, said several of the Jurors were women. Baser Blade in Bowl Brings Wound to Leonard Muriel Leonard waa the victim of painful accident one day last week that came when he waa engaged in a common task. Ha was washing out a bowl when a finger struck a raara blade and the contact brought a slash through the finger nail and along tha bone that was IK lncbas la length.

Council Talks Rates, but Without Any Vote Tha dty council considered Information Monday night on light, rates at other towns in this section which It has been gathering for the last two weeks, but no vote was taken oa the reduction which baa baa promised Bethany wen. Tha aouaefl wfll decide npen haw much the reduction wtU be ia time to plaoo la effect before the dty eieo-tion, In tha early spring. F. J. HESSELTINE DIES FROM SIRM EFFECT: 4 TIMES LEGISLATOR Death Comes at 10:00 Sunday Night, Foot Honrs After He Is Stricken Elected Last in 1920 Freeman J.

Heaseltlne, four times Harrison county's representative in the state legislature, died at 10:00 o'clock Sunday night at his homo at New Hampton, four hours after he waa stricken with paralysis. He wa 71 yean old. He had long been one of the prominently active men of the county. He was born near Martinsville, August 9, I860, and was a son of H. F.

Hes-seltlne, who came to Harrteon county in 1854. His mother was Mary E. (Cranner) Hemtotine, who waa the first registered woman physician in Harrison county. Tba former legislator waa educated at Martinsville and at Normal college, Shenandoah, Iowa. He taught school and farmed for seven years, and to tha last of hte life was financially interested in forming: He became a writer of insurance, a director la the Farmers Bank of New Hampton, and in the Farmers Mutual Firs Insurance company.

Ha was a Justice of the pesos aad member of the board of Butler township for several yean, aad ia 1618 waa one of nine candidates who tried fra the Republican nomination for county clerk. In 1906 he waa elected representative from Harrteon county, and waa elected again In 1906 and 1910, after which he did not run again until In 1920, when he waa elected for the fourth time. It waa during that term that tha state legislators pszseii Its flnt of a series of road building laws, and this advanced legislation had his support Mr. Heaseltlne was married in 1891 to Mira Mary K. Christie, a sister of the Rev.

E. K. Christie of Bethany. Sha died in 1919 of influenza, as did a daughter, Mrs. Eva Lawaon.

He to survived by a daughter, Mrs. J. E. Bleber nt Ohktma, Neb aad two one. Carter Heaseltlne and Theodora Hesseltlne, both of Martinsville.

Mr. Heaseltlne was a member of tho O. O. F. and the Masonic fraternity.

Funeral services tor him were held yesterday afternoon at tbs New Hampton Christian church, conducted by the Rev. Frank GilUhan, pastor. Burial followed at Foster cemetery. LONGER COLD NEEDED TO KILL BUG MENACE Freezing Weather Should Be Prolonged, Low Believes Biggest Safety in Community Burning Tho colder weather Harrison county has had in tho last week has not bran enough to put to death tha hordes of chinch bugs, Hessian flies, caterpillar worms, and borers that sought security tor the winter In trash, weedy places and brush piles, fat the opinion ot Earls Low, teacher of vocational agriculture hero. A more prolonged interval of cold weather would help kill them, as well as to kin tba fertility in grasshopper gga and larvae that await only the coming of spring to hatch out and plague the man who grows the crops, be they field or garden.

Thto section is threatened with bug attack greater than that of 1988 unless cold weather comae and remains. In the opinion of entomologists, and bearing out this belief ia tbs fact newly hatched grasshoppers have already been found near Bethany, and In pitas of com stalks myriads of chinch bugs have been found to bo living through tba winter. Low cites his authority for tho statement one of tho beet preventive measure te tba burning of old brush and trash pitas, straw that has been near fields from which the bugs could have moved easily in tba fall, and weedy places, including in particular the fence rows and ditches that adjoin corn fields. Oa tha other band thto burning to Injurious to bird safety, quail, which mute bars good oovar to avoid their natural Bseuuae nt this the suggeetioa to suds that the burning be dona Just before vegetation becomes groan. Then birfe will soon have other cover, and tha bugs wfll not have left thair winter do any real good, authorttteo bat ouo termer Invade S-.