Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1920, Page 5

FARM WAGES 0 1990 HIT HIGH MARK FOR US, Labor, with Room and Board, Was Paid Average of $39.82 in This Country, With West Leading in Wages (By. Associated Press.) WASHINGTON (By, Mail)—Farm wages, were the highest in the history of the United States last year, the de- partment of agriculture announces. For labor hired, by the month with board, the average for the country as a whole was $39.82, without board it was $56.29. Harvest wages per day with board reached the top figure of $4.48 in the north central states west of the Missis- sippi riverf The lowest farm wages are in the south Atlantic states, with the south central states next lowest. Month- ly, wages with board were highest in the western states, Including the mountain and Pacific states where the average was $62.96 while without board it was $87.12. is Farming operations of 1919 produced drops that had a value at the farm that was 11.8 per cent above 1918, and ani- mal products 9.9 per cent above, but the gain In wages of farm labor was rela. tively greater, Wages by the month in- creased 14 per cent, without board, 15.3 per cent and day wages in harvest, 18.9 per cent. a “These figures irfdicate,” says the de- partment of agriculture, “that the farm laborer is still regaining the ground he lost, relatively, early in the rapid up- ward movement of prices of farm prod- ucts after 1915. This wage recovery was evident in 1918 as well as in 1919, but full recovery has not yet been ac- complished.”” LIGHT SHIELD PROTECTS THE ‘AUTO DRIVER A new auto glare light shield made of unbreakable’ glass is gaining in popularity in Casper following its al- «most instant suecess in Denver during the five days of this show there’ $660.- 000 worth of these shields were sold. Tom Crilly, B. C. Whitcomb and F. R, Whitcomb are agents of the company in| Wyoming, J. C. Bartley, president and inventor of the shield, was living in Plateville, Colo., when the idea uf the glare shield ‘was conceived. There »was a_ bridge. and ar> embankment leading up to it near his home. The result was many neccidents, 12 machines being ditched in six months and two men being kill: ed during that time, Mr. Bartley de- cided an .non-glare shield would pre- vent such accidents. He invented the shield. The shield is. an oval glass affair “Which is. colored.” Th 1s adjusted” so.as | OF to fit on the stecring wheel. During the day it folds down beneath the steer- ing wheel out of the way. KINR'S RORY GIARN AF GIANTS NEF MARF MEN LONDON (By Mail)—King George's bodyguard which before the war con- sisted of 200 grenadier guards, the pride of the regiment, averaging 6 feet 4% inches in height and 211 pounds weight per man, now musters only 18 such men. An urgent appenl is heine mace for 200 tall men to make up the strength of the guard, a SS , REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, Phoebe Annie Hamblet et vir to Harry L. Kapelas on lot 5, block 77, Butler's addition, $300. Charles T. Demorest et ux to Han- nah M. Demorest on part lot 10, block 101, Casper, $5,000. Jules 8S. Venason et ux to J. F. Jones et/al on lots 3, 4, block 127, Casper, Con. $1, ete. Butler corporation to Edith B. Me- Dowell on lots 26, 27, block 9, North Burlington addition. Con. $400. James McDowell et ux to Sewart Mc- Gregor on lots 10, 11. Butler addition. Con. $1. Butler corporation to James McDow- ell on lots 24, 25, block.9, North Bur- lington addition. Con. $400. | Casper Realty company to Nellie Powers on lots 76, 77, block 22, North Casper addition. Con. $1. Quit Claim Deed Beatrice Marrion to C, G. Holden on an undivided one-eighth interest in /oil Placer mining claims ‘“Marrion’ Nos. 1 to 4 inclusive, being all section 29- 35-79. Con. $1, etc. Beatrice L. Jones et al to Robert C. Marquis, on lot 12, block 56, Butler's! addition, Con, $1, te, isd | | L. Larsen et ux to K. R. Jorgensen, on lot 5, block 74, Butler's addition. Con. $1, ete. PHONE 18 BLONDY’S TAXI Chandler 7-Passenger Che Casper Daily Cribune LIVE NEWS OF WYOMING MANSHOTFOR {UAAINAGE FIGHT. [MAN 80 YEARS INTERRUPTING | HLS JP ROAD| OLD USES AXE nd who commanded a Brazilian navat| division in European waters during the | recent war, has been appointed chief of | the Brazilian naval staff, He succeeds Admiral Gomez Pereira, | panrese Te GIVES ‘WIFE ADLER-I-KA! | “My wife was pronounced incurable | by physicians unless operated (compli- cated bowel’ trouble). I began giving | Adler-i-ka and she is improving. T shall) (Signea) MINE OWNER FORCED TO QUIT Moves to Coast Seeking Health— Takes Tanlac and Will Return Home a Well Man. TIMTHE TAILO Do Your Tailoring Also Cleaning arid Pressing 20 Years’ continue until she is cured,’ J, H, Underwood,, Marion, Ala, _Adler-i-ka empties BOTH upper and suffered terribly from indigestion, my appetite was poor and everything I ate would cause so much gas in my stomach that I would be drawn almost double with pain, I got so nervous I couldn't write a letter and even the} wind blowing around the house at night! would upset me so I ceuldn’t sleeo, I lost 40 pounds in weight and finally had such bad attacks that I’ couldn't stay on the job another day. I just ‘ lower bowels, ‘flushing ENTIRE ali- . CONVERSATION ON DAUGHTER “TI was forced to give up my mining|mentary. canal, Removes Bet feral Experience i sabe business and move to Los Angeles seek-| mattér which * poisons system. ften : State Highway Commission Stops Ingohealth, but thanks to Sanilac. Tam |GURES- constipation.” Preventa appen- | CALL 467-R Work on Shoshoni-Riverton going back a well man,” said William|dicitis. We have sold Adler‘-ka many | LANDER, Wyo., March 29.—Glen Road. | ‘LANUIE. Weooss z H. Hart, who owns the Vindicator-| years. It is a mixture of buckthorn, 125 North Center Cooper, son’ of Mrs. Charles Stough, ones 1 ian Pp REE, Wro. March 29-—Will- H] pivido mine in Tonopah, Nevada, cascara, glycerine and nine other sim: a CG automatic in his hip ‘ x CHEYENN®B, March 29.—The state | highway commission has discontinued all further work on the Shoshoni-Riv- erton road in Fremont county, north! of the Chicago & Northwestern rail-/| way. crossing, north of Riverton until drainage matters in thet section are straightened out, The contractors have been’ ordered | to complete their work as fur as that) bois, charged with an attempt to kill his daughter, Mrs. Frank Foster, with whom he has made his home, Spurling, it’ appears, is subject to paroxysms of rage and several years ago was tried by a board of sanity. On several occasions, it is alleged, he has tried to Kill his daughter with an axe. Anvther sanity hearing @roba- bly will be called. and Dee St. John, proprietor of a soft drink parlor, is out on $3,000 as the culmination of a dispute which start- ed when Cooper found his: wife talk- ing to St. John onthe street. After chiding his wife for talking to St. John, Cooper turned on the latter and was met with a bullet from a re- volver: The wound will not prove serious. THE NEW YORK Hat Cleaning and The point only, and no additional work will) gave up and came out here, but the; ——— | be untaken in the Riverton Valley un- change, like all the treatments I had til _asstrances are at hand that the taken, seemed to do me no good at ai. 7 e e LY ROZEN Riverton drainage district is to be} PIONEER NEARLY “One day a friend recommended Tan- built, lac to me and I will never be able to Ining ar or thank him enough, for now after tak- ing four bottles I feet like a new man. I eat three hearty meals a day, my nerves are as steady as a rock, I sleep y Commission awarded for this construction last | ith the understanding that the} e district was to be built. Since | Ground Floor, O. S. Building QN LOSING WAY 1N STORM SO YEARS OLD AT DEATH that time it appears that nothing along | 19 a like a child at night and I am going = CAMBRIA, Wyo., March 29.—Labor-| that line is o havaone. and the cota DOUGLAS, Wyo., March 29.—Andrew| back to my mines feeling fit and fine $ ing under the hallucination that he was} mission hus stdbped all work in that| COP age nearly four score and ten|in every way. I am glad to nave a For Ladies and Gentlemen being retained at a ranch against his pection: and a pioneer resident of Converse will, Frank Lenig, 65. years of age, start- ed to walk to town in a raging snow- storm only to fail by the wayside and be picked up the next morning with his arms, feet and face badly frozen. Lenig started to following fences when he TWO PIONEERS |county, died at the home of his daugh- |ter, Mrs. James Wilcox, as the culmina- | tion of infirmities which ligot on illness. Cooper was a pioneer of Iowa where |he settled in 1864 and later took up his e in this state in chance to tell other people what a great medicine Taplac is.” » Tanlac is sold in Casper by Casper Pharmacy, in Alcova by Aleova Jier- cantile Co., and in Salt Creek by Sult Creek Drug Store. ‘Will Move to 124 West Second Street and Will OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN NEW LOCATION ON OR ABOUT APRIL 3 Those who have hats in our store will please call at our present location for.same. We will continue to give you the best of service at all times. OF FREMONT COUNTY DEAD, LANDER; Wyo. ,March week marked the passing of two, pioneer | residents of Fremont county, John Rogers, 83, whose death terminated a half century of residence here, and Adelbert Goodrich, 51, who succumbed to the effects of a cancer. Mr. Rogers leaves, besides his widow, four children, 37 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. ARCHBISHOP OF MENCD ASKS CHIT OF GHURC (By Associated Press.) MEXICO CITY (By Mail).—The arch- bishop of Mexico has Girected an appeal for charity to all Catholics in the re public... This was in response toa letter from Pope Benedict asking that con- tributions be made toward alleviating j hom: 1884. Three | daughters, 14\ grandchildren and three great grandchildren survive him. (ith. Skea “ea Se found that he was hopelessly lost in the blizzard and his hands show the effects of being seratched and cut by the barbs. He was picked up by a rancher where he had fallen exhausted on being unable longer to find ‘a’ fence. Only the mod- erate temperature kept him from freez- ing to death. OHO SCHOOL HOUSE IN LINGE CREEK DESTROYED LUSK, Wyo., March 29.—The Lance Creek oil camp suffered a serious re- verse when the two-room schoolhouse erected by the Ohio company for the benefit of its employes’ children, was de- stroyed by firé. Temporary quarters will be provided for the remainder of the school term. The loss is estimated at $4,000. Smallpox Is Fatal WAR VETERAN 1S NAMED HEAD OF BRAZIL NAVY (By Associated Press.) RIO DE JANEIRO (By Mail).—Rear Admiral Pedro Marques de Frontin, re- cently director of the navy war school, BOYS’ KNICKER- BOCKER SUITS —Last | Old Musket Used in Frontier Days Now Graces Teton Hotel RIVERTON, Wyo., March 29.—An old flint-lock rifile bearing the date of 1820, unearthed at the head of Sheep creek where it had probably rusted since a tragedy of Indian days, iga prized pos- session of the Teton hotel here. DOUGLAS. TEACHERS GET INGREASE I SILARY DOUGLAS, Wyo., March 29.—Douglas | teachers receive an advance in salary The Colorado Nursery Co. Established 1880—Incorporated 1907 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL OLDEST AND BEST to Douglas Youth}; sufferings of the children of central | aco . ; 4 Europe, Te ra regen Boh ed Western-grown trees for western planters. We le of pay adopted by the board of edu- h ki h Wh Beh bie SPAN RS DOUGLAS, Wyo., March 29.—Small-| ‘phe petiet in the lack-bringing power |°%tlom for this istrict: First year's ave all kinds of shade trees at $1.50 to $2.00. y pox claimed its first victim here in re-|of the horseshoe attaine its greatest Reevin $1,080; second pea $3,200; third pay more? cent years when Floyd E. Gordon, 21, | aiffusion’ at the end of the eighteenth | ¥°% 260; special teachers, $1,320; f , ‘ died of the malady at the pesthouse,| ana the beginning of the nineeenth cen-|?™ $1,380. a We have all kinds of fruit trees and berry vines, tury, Lord Nelson had. a. horseshoe | ~Pnailed fO-the mast-or the Victory; and in many towns it was not unusual to see half of the houses with horseshoes fastened over the door. shrubbery, bulbs and climbing yines. We make a specialty of ever-bearing strawberries and raspberries.. Don’t forget, our trées will grow if properly planted and cared for. S. H. PUNTENNEY, Agent 412 South Park Avenue Phone 760-J Bo 8 Nea Clarence EB. Hood, for the past year connected with the shipping office of the Midwest Refinery, has resigned : his position with the Midwest and isl. Grant Littlé of Cardington, Ohio, ac- making his headquarters In Room 23.) companied H. R. 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Contractors and Builders Planning Mill in Connection First and Ash §t. Phone 219 2-Quart to 10-Gallon Crocks at 35c Gal. While They Last LIEUT.CASPER COLLINS CAMP Mr. Business Man * Do you carry co-insur- ance (reduced rate con- tribution clause)? There will be an important meeting of this camp at the Court House tonight at 8 o’clock. All members Business of importance will be Phone 1127-R STAHL THE CLEANER CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRING Called for and delivered the same day. Your values are fluctu- Have Holmes Hardware Co. Phone 601 Second and Wolcott ating—-going up! you protected them? urged to be present. —Or have you left them discussed. unchanged? Unless you have com- plied with your contract to keep your insurance to the stipulated per cent, you’ll be penalized. R. T. KEMP CO. Insurance—That’s All 111 East Second Phone 370 Systematic Thrift Your future is being ‘determined now—today, to- morrow, every day! You are creating it yourself and it will be true to the pattern you specify—either the success or the fail- “TALK W! 5 Meet the issue square wife and children at your Suite 2, Lynch Building remedy furnished by the PENN MUTUAL BIFE. An Inquiry Entails No Obligation. WILLIAM E KING, State Manager ure model, There are plenty of good opportunities today for those who are in position to take advantage of them. ITH KING” Systematic saving will sooner or later enable you to be an investor and by reinvesting your earnings you can acquire wealth. ly; what would happen to sudden “taking off?” The You will have little chance of ever getting rich un- less you save systematically. The Casper National Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $190,000.00 Phone 120-3