DECREASE NOTED IN GERMAN SEER OUTPUT
production is less than half what it was in pre-war days. Last year there were only 33,000,000 hectoliters in the period immediately preceding the war. The beer production for 1922 was roughly 871,000,000 gallons, or nearly a million for each inhabitant of the German republic. Experienced bar beer. (A.)—Germany's beer output of beer out of every gallon, so at that rate every inhabitant of Germany might have had 120 glasses of beer last year, or roughly, one glass every three days. The brewers say the decline in beer consumption is due to the poverty of the public. Temperance workers say educational work as to the evil effects of alcohol is responsible for much of the decline in beer drinking, and beauty doctors say the world-wide desire of women to be slender in order to wear prevailing fashions has made women, especially younger women, more abstemious. In 1904 there were 442,000 persons directly employed by the brewing industry in Germany. The number is now 100,000 less.
DIVORCE ACTION CHARGES FAILURE TO PROVIDE
Cora M. Roderick has filed a complaint in the district court against her husband, Edward Roderick, asking for the dissolution of the bonds of matrimony. According to the complaint, the parties were married in Moscow in December, 1899. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant has utterly failed, neglected, and refused to provide.  The plaintiff with the common necessities of life. 