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...Cedar County (where President Hoover was born) President Jake Lenker of the Farmers' Protective Association boasted: "They'll test my cattle only over my dead body." Last week in the village of Tipton, Veterinarian Malcolm assembled Sheriff Foster Maxson with 62 deputies, hoisted into a truck a saddled pony to use in rounding up the cattle, and set out for Farmer Lenker's place...
Next day the militia detrained at Tipton, marched through crowds of hostile farmers to the Cedar County fair grounds, where it encamped. General Findley sent his men throughout the county posting Governor Turner's proclamation of martial law. Guarded by the militia, veterinarians returned to Farmer Lenker's place determined to test his cattle. When they arrived the cattle were gone. Farmer Lenker had sold them rather than submit to the testing. He was arrested. On other farms, machine guns were set up while the veterinarians did their work. The revolt collapsed into a campaign of "passive resistance...
...AMBROZ Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
John A. Reed, brother of onetime Senator Reed, is vice president of Iowa Railway & Light Corp. ($35,000,000), centring in Cedar Rapids, selling electricity to central Iowa cities, operating a Cedar Rapids trolley system, an interurban line to Iowa City and a statewide bus line. Iowa Railway & Light is, as yet, nowhere in competition with Vice President Reed's brother's foe's Cities Service...
...transfix rabbits with their points but they are familiar with the graceful phraseology, the wayward ceremony of their sport. If someone were to shout "He! He!" they would answer in kind this time-honored hail of one toxophilite to another. Their bows are made of lemonwood, their arrows of cedar or pine. Last week, 150 of the foremost U. S. toxophilites gathered at Canandaigua, N. Y., for the 51st annual championship of the National Archery Association...