Daily Free-Lance (Henryetta, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 135, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 13, 1920 Page: 4 of 4
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FARM LABOR SUPPLY
MORE THAN ADEQUATE
By Associated Press
KANSAS CITY Mo July 12—
The harvest labor situation in Kansas
nd the southwest is generally good
ocording to officials of the federal
free employment bureau in Kansas
City Kan and the Missouri bureau
©f farm labor conducted by stale au-
thorities with federal aid in Kansas
City Mo
At the opening of this month a
rurplus of farm labor was evident
There were a number of instances of
men who came back from the harvest
felds declaring that they had been
Unable to find employment At the
end of the first week in July scatter-
ed requests were received for more
harvest laborers to be sent to coun-
ties in northwestern Kansas a need
HARVEST SITUATION IN
l S IS MUCH IMPROVED
By Associated Press
KANSAS CITY Mo July 13-A
survey of the harvest situation in the
southwest at this time shows wheat
cros better than were forevast six
weeks ago excellent corn prospects
a surplus of harvest labor and i By Associated Press
bripht promise of im)roed traffic j PARIS July 13— Paul Adolphe
conditions with plenty of cars tojl'arde awarded the envied Paris Su-
cars to move crops Thnt in brief Ion national prize for his marbles
is the situation as revealed by re-' Faun” and "Eternal Suffering" is
ports of the state board of agricul- greet ?l by critics as a genius in the
ture of Kansas and Missouri reports real sense of thnt abused word
assembled by the Atchison Topeka Parde in the simple telling of his
A Santa Fe railroad and reports career stands out among artists lie
made to federal and state free em- is not trained in the academic way
condition of the corn crop at present and almost distorted aa if with pay
is Excellent The board forecast is aical pain
20162000 bushels of wheat as Mis- Parde works directly in martde
souri’a 1020 production without a wax or plaster model
DR W C GRIFFITH
Morgan Building
Phone 409
Dr Sanderson's Office
ploynient bureaus
Kansas with an estimated wheat
acreage of about) seven and a half
millions cres has hd a decidedly brt-
I!e was s shepherd in the region of
Lodeve in the wine country of south-1
em France Son of a small farmer1
he watched a flock or worked the
Which is being filled according to the t‘r thln ws ant ieipatel in May j ground until he was 20 He fought
federal employment agent June rains are larpely responsible for in the war and today famous he i3
Generally speaking the southwest "'is iement as el1 a f"r th 31
has been supplied with all the harvest j'reint eXle ‘‘'ll condition of corn in The big powerful blond-bearded !
labor necessary as soon as the wheat Kansa- Mmou1'1 1 ’’V''1 Arknns!s- Tho peasant begufi drawing he says
crop was ready for cutting this sea- j !yro'et e con' f when ho was eight but felt his own
con Indeed a number of men wlw "n the KawAslleIr Totato cr”PWay until he took a drawing course
came west to work in the harvest ! 11 M0-1- I ln Ilcve high school and later
fields were kept waiting for some Kep-uts just received from Arksan- j studied at Montpciler getting as ho
time because of rains that delayed a f'odffrn crop m th:!t fays guidance in his first steps Thru
the wheat harvest
MONEY TO LOAN
Insurance Bonds Real
Estate to Sell
SEE US FIRST
Campbell & Stephenson
Phone 20 Room 10 Morgan Bid
ASK ENGLAND TO WITH-
DRAW TROOPS IN IRELAND
By Associated Press
LONDON July 13— The proposal
to employ direct action if necessary
to force the government to withdraw
its troops from Ireland and cease
manufacturing munition for use in
Ireland and Russia was defeated to-
oay in the special union congress
called to hear labor attitudes on the
Irish question
state although Arkansas com counwi 0f hii tw0 art teachers 1
somewhat behind the crop in other ( ke cane to Paris He spent five weeks
v states owing to excessive eariy rains hpr Jn the government art institute
wV VTtTVv" " hU "'’s'’'' according to these reports and workpd thrPe dv9 Rodin
Wheat belt of Kansas and announced exporting large quantities of gar- ftudio With that slim grip of the'
thru the state labor commissioner n produce and eariy apples are be-1 fisic achoI and the modernity of
rd attracted manv i f )nnlng to come into market The l:odin Dardc began the working in i
apple crop ir estimated at 50 to 60 rlarbejanj metal that made experi-j
percent of normal Peaches suffered ence jjs teacher I
Samuel Crawford attracted many
Workers There have been repeated
Teports which are credited by the
federal farm labor bureau workers
©f wage-cutting on the part of the
farmers who found for the first time
In years that the farm labor supply
waa mere than adequate and who de-
sired therefore to save money "by
paying smaller wages than those
which had been advertised
In regard to the car situation op-
erating officials of the leading roads
thru the wheat sections agree that
there is at present an inadejuate sup-
ply of available cans Tlenty of cars
have been ordered west it is stated
lot as yet they have not arrived in
Sufficient number However an of-
ficial of the local terminal company
In cloe touch with the interstate
commerce commission declared that
although the car supply is still some-
what short it is better than in other
sections of the country and hotter
than it has been here In past years
Railroad officials were not inclined
to agree with this rather optimistic
estimate
The 1920 wheat crop Is beginning
to reach Hutchinson Kan It is said
to overage better than for many
years testing from 60 to 62 pounds
to the bushel and bringing f 240 to
J260 per bushel Yields run from
12 to 20 bushels to the acre farmers
declare
“Grasshopptv planed” wheat is
leported to have turned out well in
many place In their attacks on
wheat fields lat fall grasshoppers
cut the heads off the wheat causing
them to drop to the ground which
resulted In tracts of volunteer wheat
Near Lyons a grower reported 20
bushels to the acre yield from a
grasshopper-planted” tract Exten-
lion of credits to farmers unable to
market last year's wheat because of
car shortage has been promised by
federal reserve boards according to
member of the Kansas committee
Wrho have returned from Washington
after conference with the interstate
commerce commission
Ideal growing weather prevailed in
most of the farming country of Kan-
las and Missouri during the first
week of July according to federal
Weather report issued weekly by S D
Flora feleral meterologist for Kan-
sas The weather wma favorable for
harvest work and com made a vigor-
ous growth In the southeastern coun-
ties com is now four to six feet tall
and in the northwestern section of
Kansas one to two feet Potatoes
and garden produce are also reported
a making good progress Alfalfa
ihow slow growth
A W SCOTT
AUCTIONEER
LIVE STOCK SALES A
SPECIALTY
Many years on the block Mini-
mum consideration $20 per day
and expenses Over $1000 on per
cent
Phone or write me for datea
Lamar Oklahoma
Monuments Made and Sold
In Henryetta
Let us ligure on your
Cemetery Work
L 0 MILLER
Corner 6th and Main Sts
severely Jn southern Missouri Okla-
homa and Arkansas because of late
spring frost In northern and cen-
tral Missouri peach prospects are
tetter
Reports gathered by the Santa Fe
railroad’s agricultural agents indi-
cate an increase in the Kansas acre-
age devoted to alfalfa nnd sorghum
feeds and a consequent increase
“I have no preference in schools”
Darde says “I love all thnt is beau-
tiful in art as in life” He has been
likened most clcsely to Rodin but he
admires first of all the work of Jean
Goujon and secondly that of Barye
and Rodin of modem art
The "Faun” is a massive vigorous
conception sneering cynical and sen-
sual "Eternal Suffering” repre-
sorg um peanu j merits a woman’s head snake-entwined
with a face upturned in anguish
Simpson Hummer & Foster
f Attorneys
Stale Bank Building
REAL ESTATE
If ypu have say thing to do with
any kind of Real Ewtate yon aod
os Ws represent every phrase of
legitlmsto Real Easts transi-
tions Ws especially need fsv
good farms for real farmers Jast
now See ns at ones
Phone 183
Dollins & Rorex
Perry Bldf Henrietta Okie
a
acreage in com
and potatoes with wheat and cotton
acreage about normal
New Mexico h? shown great agri-
cultural activity with heavy increase
in wheat alfalfa and bean acreage
and indications of much heavier live-
stock production Arizona has in-
creased its farm acreage 15 per cent
this year
Missouri's com crop this year
shows an increase acreage of 11 per-
cent over last year according to the
state board of agriculture which es-
timates the acreage planted to corn
in the state at 6389000 acres The
For Rugs Congoleum Furniture and Stoves Call
atsw:-lin W A McClellan
Phone 813
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Rugs and Pathe Phonographs
HENRYETTA FURNITURE CO
PHONE 520
top - Look - Listen
and Read
2 3 4 5 and 10c on each item you buy
isn’t much saving But in Dollars and
Cents means 5 to 20 cents to you on
each dollar you spend
Lemons the dozen 20c
Oranges Sun Kist doz 58c
Oranges doz 28c
Cabbage lb 07c
Onions Fancy lb 05c
Royal Cream Corn can 12c
No 2 Blackberries can 24c
Small Oat Meal 1 12c
2 1-2 lb can Pure Honey $100
Butter creamery best 55c
Tall Can Salmon 18c
No 2 1-2 Can Pine Apple 39c -
No 1 can Pure Fruit Apricot Jam 26c
No 1 can Pure Fruit Peach Jam 26c
lOoz Bottle Catsup 13c
Small Can Real Milk 06c
La’rge Can Real Milk 15c
6-lb Can Crisco $180
3-lb Can Crisco $100
Small Can Crisco 53c
Real Flour 48-lb sack $340
Real Flour 24-lb sack $170
Compound Lard lb 23c
Seeing is believing Help Yourself saves you time and
money You get just what you want Our thousand
silent salesmen tell you at a glance the price of each
item
Where you save as you spend The more you spend
the more you Save
Help Yourself Grocery
115 South Fourth Street First door north Bryants Garage
HENRYETTA OKLAHOMA
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Hall, George Riley. Daily Free-Lance (Henryetta, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 135, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 13, 1920, newspaper, July 13, 1920; Henryetta, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2327171/m1/4/: accessed June 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.