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THE MAIMI RECORE-HERALD
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Official Democratic NVwbpaper of Ottawa County
Office: The Martin Building on
EUGENE P MARTIN
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In th "county 1 ia( 1150 Outsit t- the cunty 1 year 20J
In the county 6 montl 80 outside the ounty 6 montha-ti2
In the county monl hs 46 1 All subscripMons cash In advance
OUR ALL IMPORTANT FOREIGN TRADE
There are three big problems before the people of the
United States just now: Foreign trade taxation and rail-
roads Of tlie three it is beyond the mark to say that the
first is of primary importance and the result of the effort
to organize and get in working shape The Foreign Trade
Financing Corporation must he awaited with no little con-
cern "
"j The United States can not cxnect to prosper as it should
unless our foreign trade is maintained and substantially de-
veloped This applies to the entire United States not to
any particular portion The middle west is no less depend-
ent upon our foreign trade than f lie east and west where
shipping might at first thought seem to infer and increased
dependence on foreigu trade development Foreign coun-
tries particularly those in Europe are needing the products
of our farms and of our factories but they will not be able
to buy them unless the business men of Americt revise and
improve the present machinery of foreign trade
f It is to be kept in mind that it is not the governments of
these foreign countries that are to he dealt with in interna-
tional trade It is the business men the manufacturers and
distributors of Europe with whom we have to deal and for
this reason it is not a situation for the government of the
United States but for the business men of the United States
lienee the plan of organization of the Foreign Trade Fin-
ancing Corporation the stock of which bankers and business
men are bping asked to underwrite
The plan is new in American financing The corpora-
tion is to he a combination or co-operation of all interests in
America's productive establishment — bankers farmers mer-
chants and manufacturers It will rcII its securities to the
general public and from the funds realized wilt make loans
for six months a year two years to foreign purchasers of
American goods or to American exporters who need help in
sending American goods abroad
It is the biggest private business enterprise America
has kgown and if carried out as planned will mean more to
American prosperity It will get accurate information as
to the credit standing and ability of foreigu buyers to pay
the debts they incur It will ge amide security for every
dollar advanced- It will mate loans to American shippers
only so no money will go outside this county to he used by
foreign business men in trade with other nations And it
will finance the export of American goods to any foreign
country provided prospective purchasers can and wDl give
ample speurity for the payment of the debts incurred by
them
Success for the Foreign Trade Financing Corporation
seems probable-for two reasons: First because of the great
need for it and second because of the high class business
men who have been enlisted in supporting the plan The
committee on organization includes many of the leading
bankers and business men of America and it is scarcely
believable that they can fail More than this it is bei'ng
organized and will be operated under the supervision of the
Federal Reserve Board and there is every reason to believe
it will be as carefully and ably managed as the federal
reserve banks All that is necessary is that the people of
America as a whole are brought to appreciate the tremen-
dous importance of a new system of financing our foreign
trade and of the facilities of the Foreign Trade Financing
Corporation for putting such a system into practical effect —
Joplin Globe
EASTER SUNDAY
“lie has risen he is not here”
Today the world is celebrating the resurrection of Christ
A man w ho was crucified The day is observed by not only
mere man hut by every living object including the animal
and the plant
Easter Sunday is the birth of new life The world en-
ters another lap in its life's journey
To man it is a feast day equal to that of any other hol-
iday of tlie calender year Like Christmas Easter comes but
once a year Religious sen ices in our churches are appro-
priate for the day Hymns are sung and bells are rung
It is a rebirth of the old In our cities mid towns Easter
Sunday lias its place Old and young wear new clot lies
Fifth Avenue folk parade in tlie latest of styles and here on
the streets of Miami the latest in ‘‘Easter styles” are worn
Flowers bloom and the buds of the trees are busting
It is the end of winter and the start of a new and always
welcome season
The Easter parade was scheduled to take place on Main
and Central streets today A large number of Miami women
will take part and everything but the brass hand lias been
entered
“Dislike of winter is a sign of old-age” “Not necessar-
ily it may he a sign of a golf idiot He hates winter too” —
Hamilton Herald
A dog arrested Saturday
sentence and shot at sundown
stealing chickens
Central Avenue Miami Oklahoma
Editor and Publisher
'Rwldence Phone 6
Vea'esday noon to insure publication in
by tlie police was given a jail
Tlie dog was found guijty of
Louis Bollen 75 Shoots
Ora Rowe 30 and Dying
Man Kills His Assailant
Tragedy Occurs Near Wyan-
dotte in Dispute Over Land
! Tied Up in Estate
SHOOT AT 12 FEET
Aged Man Secures Two Shot Guns
When Ho Discovers Gate Locked
Wrestled in Wagon to Ob-
tain Weapon
Two lives were snuffed out Tues-
day afternoon when Louis Bollen 76
shot Ora Rowe 30 with a shot gun neighbors of the shooting
and Rowe in turn shot his assailant The county officers were notified
with a 45 calibre Colts revolver The after 9 o'clock last night County
two died lying on the ground within
six feet of each other
The shooting occurred on the
Rowe farm four miles from Wyan-
dotte before two eye witnesses the
grandson of Boilen and Rowe's neph-
ew shortly before 6 o'clock Tuesday
within five was shot and friends had removed
shot while' his body to the Rowe home Bollen’s
Rowe lived about 20 minutes after j body was carried into the house
the shooting which stands about 75 yards away
The shooting was caused" by a from where the shooting occurred
standing controversy over a piece oft Lying on a bed in the Bollen home
land and originated last November today is the dead mans wife She
The r1 ory tuld at the scene of thesis 55 but she looks older One side
shooting un relation to the contro- s paralyzed Her mind is blank and
versy ia that the county court dis-
posed of a piece nf land to satisfy
the right heirs The land at thoPlCIty- If 8 Jus- ® natter of a few
time was being occupied by Louis days when she will also die
Bollen and his wife Ora Rowe pur- Just a quarter of a mile from the
chased' the land but could never getBcene shooting is the Rowe
possession of It according to th6jh°me- Surviving Roige is Mrs Rowe
neighbors of the two and county of- ®n(l iw0 children one seven and the
fleers here This created the enmity
between the two
Tuesday afternoon Luois Bollen
with his nephew Rodney White 22
went to Seneca which is two miles
from the Rowe place after stock
feed They were gone the greater
part of the afternoon
In their absense Ora Rowe with
his nephew Lovey Rowe 20-year-old
son of Alva Rowe went to the 40-
acre tract to do a little spring clean-
ing up of the the premises The two
spent the greater part of the after-
noon burning brush
Shortly before sundown Tuesday
Do'len and his grandson returned
from Seneca During their absence
Rowe had locked the gate leading
from the public highway to the prop-
erty according to the story told
Tuesday night to the county officers
Bollen on his arrival seeing that the
gate was locked turned the team over
to his grandson
"Just hold ’em until X come back"
he tuld his grandson Going Into the
house he secured two shot guns a
double-barr'dl and a single Return-
ing to the wagon he p'aced one the
single shot gun In the wagon while
he kept the double-barrel H® then
took down the wire fence and told
his grandson to drive in He next
replaced tne ience In the former po-
sition Rowe and his nephew had left
their work when they saw Bollen
drve up In from of the house and
had gone over to within a few feet
of Be len end Wii'p When Wrdte
drove in Rowe according to the
at ly (old the county officers Jui: oj
inti tii wi mid a tempted to
the siligc-barre! shut gun whiei njs
left in White's care by Bollen
"Give me that gun or I’ll break it
in two" said Rowe The two men
wrestled over the gun Both men
not knowing each' other’B intentions
to possess the shot gun fought over
it to throw it out of the reach of the
other Finally they succeeded in
throwing it to one side and out of
the wagon The argument and the
wrestling in the wagon by the two
men frightened the team causing it
to run away
Rowe Jumped from the wagon and
turned toward Bollen who was ad-
vancing toward him with tho double-
barrel shot gun raised to the level
of Rowe’s body
"Don’t shoot put that gun down"
commanded Rowe of Bo len Bolloii
walked within 12 feet of Rowe and
tired The load from the shot gun
struck Rowe to the right and below
the heart knocking him to his knees
Bollen didn’t stop but advanced on
the wounded man and attempted to
club him with ihe butt end of the
heavy shot gun He swung at Rowe
who was down on his knees support-
ing himself with hie left hand on the
ground The awing of the gun car-
ried Bollen nearly off his feet It
was then that Rowe shot Bollen
Rowe lying on his knees hid drawn
his 45 calibre Colts revolver when
Bollen had struck at him He tired
Immediately tlie shot striking Bol-
len at the left of the back and even
with the left arm "I’m done for”
said Botien as he (ell to the ground
Kowe than turned the gun on the
White boy Bollen's grandson The
hoy was In the wagon attempting to
stop the runaway team and had part-
ly succeeded and was clrclnlg ahd
coming toward the two men' Rowe
tired three shots in quick succession
and then tell back to the ground '
White who was excited and fright-
ened rushed to the house while
Lovey Rowe walked over and picked
up the single-barrel gun He then
went to a telephone and notified
Attorney Ollie Mason Sheriff Neil
Harr and Deputies Wise nnd Lee
immediately on notification rushed
to the scene of the shooting In auto-
mobiles They found the neighbors
gathered at the two homes Rowe
had died within 20 minutes after he
has been since January 1 of this year
when she suffered a stroke of appo-
other four Rowe was pne of the
most progressive farmers in Ottawa
county
He had many friends and al
though he was a young man he was
well known in farming circles here”
said County Agent Jim Lawrence
Wednesday “I’m aorry to hear of
the shooting”
No funeral arrangements had been
made today
SALES DAY IS
EXPECTED TO
DRAW CROWDS
(Tuesday’s Daily)
Monday is sales day
Irl Brite secretary of tho Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday stated he ex-
pected a large crowd from all parts
of the county and from outside of
Ottawa county to attend the monthlj
salesday Monday '
The last sales day was considered
the most successful ever held here
The weather conditions were favora-
ble and more than 1000 people gath-
ered at the corner of Second and
South Main in search of bargains
Tho crowd next Monday is expected
to be equally as large as there Is a
large quantity of household goods
and other bargains to be offered
here
PIG CLUB MEMBERS
INTRODUCE NEW METHODS
Instead of tying a rope to one fopt
of the pig and tethering it to a tree
or stake which is the general custom
In Gism the boy and gril pig-club
members of the Island build pens for
their pigs This method' new to many
of the islanders is being encouraged
by the Guam agricultural experiment
station and through the club mem-
bers it is being introduced Into many
parts of the island Berkshlres are
raised almost exclusively According
to reports pig club members In the
island raised 204 pigs last season and
made 74 exhibits of pigs at district
fairs
Moisture Absorption of Wheat
A recent report made by the Portland-
Ore office of the grain divis-
ion of the bureau of markets indi-
cates that some of the statements
published with regard to the amount
of moisture absorbed by sacked grain
during the “rainy season” in the Pa-
cific northwest are extravagant
Tho report in question was based
on 2034 cars of wheat receipts cam-
pled during recent years ’ The wheat
of the Pacific Northwest region Is
very dry at thrashing time and from
then on until about March gradual-
ly absorbs moisture Between March
and August some of this moisture is
given off Tho average moisture con-
tent of wheat for the three years dur-
ing which studies were made was 91
per cent in August 113 per cent in
March and 106 per cent In July The
data for each separate year and sec-
tion show the same relative changes
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BETTER FARMING
editor Advises
ACTS NOT WORDS
Everybodyi Has Been Stung
During Last Few Months
and Sell According to
One’s Needs
(Monday's Daily)
Editor Better Farming:
In your January issue you again
urge us to stock up on sheep I can't
see it 'I hjd 114 ewes but sold
them I have 1000 pounds of wool
tor which 1 have been offered 20
cents and 6 and 7 cents is all I can
get for lambs Price of good ewes
hereabout Is 53 t o$5 a head This
is a good section for sheep but I
can’t see where a farmer can make a
cent on them - Yours truly
New York State H C L
My dear friend the farmer isn’t
making a cent on much of anything
right now
Let us admit it
But are we down-hearted?
Yesi for the moment but no! when
we stop to think
While we are thinking let us ask
“Who In the dickens Is making
much money right now? Are the
railroads? Ask Uncle Sam who is
called upon for $600000000 to make
up the railroad deficit for 1920
Are the packers? Why Armour
Company paid a niggardly two per
cent on their common stock last
year but only by cashing in on the
reserves of their foreign subsidarles
Are the textile mills which chew
up our wool and cotton? They are
actually standing idle or running part
time
Are the nfhrchants little and big
who have been profiteering off us
for the past year or two? Yes they
3itre have made money and are mak-
ing it still Yes they are not Those
who persist in high prices are losing
their -trade and those whose stores
are full are dumping their high-
priced stuff at figures which will
wipe out last year’s profits And
at that they are wise because they
can now stock up with new goods at
perhaps half the cost of the old
Now my farmer friends nobody
wJth a heart can be indifferent to
our present plight We produced a
crop at top cost and must sell It on
a falling no a fallen market It
isn't falling now I think it has
struck ibottoin But say follows
are we the kind to bclly-ache and
whine and baby-cry Just as though
ours were the only corns that are
pinched in these days of shrinkage
and deflation?
Who la the government anyway?
Why the farmer people are still
about 50 per cent of it Can any-
body -figure how unnatural values
can be put upon farm products -without
the farmer paying for at least
une-half the increase? Tiie other
half will be paid by his customer
consumers who will wait: ultimately
take It out of him in bigger prices
for what ha buys
Now for a word to everybody!
We are in the dumps! Confess
it Farming is the backbone the
keystone to industry You know it
Business is off its stride very large-
ly because it thinks that the farm-
er is in trouble peculair trouble
acute trouble since our leather-
lunged flannel-mouthed self-appointed
representatives have said so
But we know that wg are not
broke nor even badly cracked Not
many of us are mortgaged to our
necks and moBt of ns have some-
thing to sell Let’s sell It If we need
the money Let’s buy what we he-
ally need to live mere comfortably
and farm more efficiently Perhaps
we are handling too much land
Perhaps we would do better to haul
in and concentrate on tower acres
It would also give the tenant farm-
er a chance to buy on easy terms
He Is the fellow who suffered most
In the present slump -Anyhow
"Let’s Go!"
Start selling and buying etrictly
according to our needs If it moans
a temporary loss we will take our
medicine and not with angry ges-
tures because we know that when
fifty million farm people begin do-
ing business on both sides of the
counter fifty million- other people
will begin doing business and we will
be rid of this torturing nightmare ot-
ghosts and goblins
$ack to Normalcy!
Harding said it It sounded funny
Perhaps he said somethiug after all
— Better Farming
New Y’ork — Ceneaiogists drew up
a complicated design for a family tree
when Gaitano Accardi married Gae-
tana do Mareo and Galtano's son mar-
ried Gaetana's daughter
Hull sleet and ice were ail In evi-
dence Monday morning after the
storm Sunday and Sunday night
FATHER OFMIAMI
MAN DIED SATURDAY
AT OSWEGO KAN
(Sunday’s Daily) '-
Word was received here by B L
Baldwin Satprday morning to the ef-
fect that his father Col E B Bald-
win had dler at 6 a m Saturday at
Oswego Kan He was 87 years of
age
Besides B L Baldwin of this city
he Is survived by a widow three sons
and one daughter The others are
M N Baldwin of Princeton 111 E
B Baldwin Jr of Washington D
C and Mrs O W Ball of Oswego
Deceased Is a pioneer of this sec-
tion and came to Kansas in 1868
When the Civil War broke out ho or-
ganized the 36th Illinois regiment of
Infantry and took an active part from
the very beginning Later he was In
charge of the Eighth Missouri cal-
vary It is understood the funeral will
be held at Oswego Sunday Mr Bald-
win of this city left Saturday morning
to bo In attendance '
' EAST SIDE BRIEFS ’
(Wednesday's Daily)
T P Green Chasr Hedges and
Frank Trigg went to Seneca last Sat-
urday Bill Albro and family of Miami
spent the week-end with his brother
and family )n Moccaslnvllle
Ernest 1 Sparlin is attending court
at Miami as a Juror
D C Green Whalen Munson and
Benn Bail each took a load of corn
to Seneca last Friday
Mrs Frank -Trigg was a Seneca
visitor last Tuesday
After fishing all r day Saturday
30 pounds of nice fish were caught
for the annual fish fry which has
been held here for several years
When the weather permits the fry Is
held at the lakes but for several
years past It ha3 been held at the
home of Nelus Sparlin as Easter
has been stormy Those who were
hungry enough to bravo the storm
last Sunday to attend tho fish fry
were Gilbert Parkison and family
Elmer Farrier and family Ernest
Sparlin and family Ben Ball and
family Bill Albro Ern Albro Tim
Trigg and their families Uncle Char-
lie Albro Miss Keilhofer John Burk-
hart Will Burkhart Elza Lankard
Frank Trigg and 'wife They all met
at the home of Nelus Sparlin where
the fish were fried Every family
had a well filled basket and all kind I
of good things were placed on thel
table in the Sparlin dining room and
served cafeteria style There were
more fish than could be eaten as
more people were expected to be pres-
ent but were prevented by the weath-
er B Sparlin and wife of Seneca
"laid out” the first tlmo for years
and were missed by us all Every-
body bad a fine time Tho day was
spent in eating old fashioned visit-
ing singing and Victrola music
We are thinking we had just as
well order David C Cook to not send
our Sunday school literature for next
quarter as we are to have seven rainy
Sundays
Planetary Relations
Cause of Blizzard Is
E Vincent’s Belief
(Monday’s Dally)
E H Vincent close student
weather conditions is authority for
the statement that the Easter storm
was the result of planetary condi-
tions Hfs explanation is as follows:
It seems that I cannot forbear
making a few remarks on the pass-
ing of this very disastrous storm
from which this country Is Just
emerging but to do so I know that
with many 1 will be placing myself
in the light of an “I told you so" I
need not say that I do not pose as a j Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
weather forecaster for all know by local applications as they cannot
that I am not ’ Rut fnr m than rt‘ach the diseased portion of the ear
I at X am not UUt Tor more than Catarrhal Deafness requires constltu-
twenty years I have been a verv tonAl treatment hall's catarrh
niAa uhwtnH) w MEDICINE ifl a constitutional remedy
C1086 StUdont Of the works and writ- Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an in-
inirs of soma mon ha t Mamed condition of the mucous lining of
mgs oi some men who have made the the Eustachian Tube When this tube Is
science of metorology a life work
For a long tlmo It has been very plain
to my mind that all our (woather
changes here on this little orb are
duo to planetary relations notwith-
standing the Weather Bureau at
Washington City to the contrary I
have on file the data which I tlilig
will prove to any reasonable mind
that weather forecasting on planetary
relations is not a fallacy If that
mind Is willing to accept a ninety
per cent of correctness as proof
"I noticed in yesterday’s' Joplin
Globe that the Weather Bureau at
Washington hurried out at the last
minute a warning In lieu of Its "pre-
liminary" forecast of nice fair
weather geyorally for yesterday
that an unheralded unforseen storm
of great severity had swooped down
on the country In their first and
"preliminary" forecast which was
GENUINE
DURHAM
tobacco makes 50
L cigarettes for
10c
made but two or three days before
they bad promised fine fair -weather
for tire feminine fashion fans ot the
country to parade the new styles but
black! and alas! But now let us
see if this 'storm was unheralded and
Unforseen I can show you In the
statements of a man which state-
ments were written and printed
almost a year ago wherein he
warned the country ot impending
danger and based his Judgment on
the fact that extraordinary planetary
relations at this time -were almost
sure to bring extraordinary weather
condition These relations were:
First a vernal equinoctial period of
the earth whoso Influence extends
from tho 11th of February to the
13th of April central on the 21st ot
March second nn equinoctial period
of the planet Venus extending from
tho 23rd of February to -the 5th of
April and central on the 17th of
March third an equinoctial period
of the planet Mercury extending
from the 8th" to tho 27th of March
and central on the 15th fourth an
equinoctial period ot the supposed
planet Vulcan which lies so close to
1 the sun that it has never been seen
but whose disturbing Influences are
plainly discernible in our system
every eleven days and therefore
almost all astronomers are agreed
that there is some celestial body
there which disturbing period be-
ginning on tho 27th of March ex?
tends to the 3rd of April All these
covered by equinoctial periods of the
great planet!) Jupiter and Saturn and
yet we are told that this storm was
unforseen add unheralded In clos-
-nS his remarks -on this particular
period after- summing Up all these
planetary configurations and enu-
merating what we might expect in
the way of weather this long range
woather forecaster who Is willing to
stake his reputation on planetary re-
lations says: - ‘Unless we miss our
calculations we may depend upon
seeing either rain hail sleet or
snow in our part of the field for this
period Possibly some parts will get
a share of all with earth tremors
thrown in for good measure’ We
shall leave you to decide whether it
was unforeseen and unheralded
"There are those here and plenty
of them to whom I hare said that I
confidently expected sorao of the
worst storms and most severe weath-
er ot the whole season to come dur-
ing this period In March While I
am keeping records ot the weather
bureau station here yet If you ask
me what the weather is going to be
of in tho future I will consult the
weather maps of a certain weather
forecaster who’ bases his predictions
nn planetary relations and will tell
you which will prove true nine
times in ten taking the country as a
while"
Falrview to get four new business i
blocks and many new homes this
spring
inflamed you have a rumbling sound or
Imperfect hearing and when It la entire-'
ly closed Deafness is the result Unless
the inflammation can be reduced your
hearing may he destroyed forever
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE acts
through tho blood on tho mucous aur-
fares of the system thus reducing the in-
flammation and restoring normal condf
tlons
Circulars free All Druggists
F J Cheney A Co Toledo Ohio
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