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THE ABERDEEN WEEKLY, ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI
ISSISSIPF
EVENTS
Gathered from 11 Cor
ners of the State and
Told in Briefest Form
Holly Springs. The whisky traffic
in this county was struck another blow
when Sheriff Slayden, accompanied by
Deputies Jeffries and Woods and Coun
ty Attorney Wall Doxey, found a large
etill in operation about seven miles
southeast of Waterford on a farm oc
cupied Ly Robert Codey, a brother of
Anderson Colley, who was recently
sentenced to three years in the peni
tentiary for attempting to manufac
ture whisky. The men whose identity
is known to the officers were at the
Btiii and were making a getaway when
the officers approached. They were
chased some distance and one man
was shot at and probably wounded.
Arrests will follow in a short time, of
fkers way. -The still was of unusual
design, being made of wood except the
bottom, which was of galvanized iron.
It was eight feet in length, about three
feet wide and two feet deep, and said
to be about a 15-galIon-an-hour capac
ity. Two thousand gallons of mash, a
quantity of sugar and 2Z gallons of
white whisky in jugs were taken in the
raid.
Meridian. The Meridian trades
council has practically completed the
plans for the observance of Armistice
Day here with an elaborate patriotic
celebration. Invitations are to be ex
tended to all civic and commercial
bodies of the city to join hands in the
undertaking to make the occasion one
of completene ss in every particular.
The movement is a part of the nation
al program to roll up the most gigantic
appeal to the disarmament conference
at Washington to make disarmament a
reality and to afford a demonstration
of the fact that the people of the Unir
cd States want a real end of war. It
is stated that the celebration to be un
dertaken by the labor movement is in
no way peculiarly labor, but, on thi
other hand, is simply intended to bs a
community expression on a great com
mon problem, and will be staged from
a citizenship standpoint, purely and
simply. Every kind and class of citi
Een will be requested to take part.
Meridian. County and city officers
and a large number of other citizens
witnessed the total destruction of a
quantity of moonshine whisky, when
Judge W. D. Roberts ordered the stuff
seized in recent raids poured into a
city sewer. The liquor is said to have
been of good make and was retailing
a taround ?15 a gallon, the price hav
ing recently dropped from around $20
a gallon.
Biloxi. While playing with a shot
gun Wilbur Feekech, eLg.ht-year-old
son of Mrs. Joseph Leekech, received a
full load cf the shot in his left leg
above the knee, which resulted in the
youth losing much blood. The gun was
in the hands of Prank Bass, age 16,
w ho was with the lad near the former's
home on Elmer street. Young Leek
ech's condition was announced as se
rious from the Biloxi city hospital,
where he was taken.
Indianola. The trial of Tilmann
Montgomery, 24, charged with crim
inal assault upon the 17-year-old widow
of an ex-service man near Inverness,
Sunflower county, 10 days ago, took
place in circuit court, and he was con
victed by a jury and sentenced by
Judge S. F. Davis to be hanged Friday,
Oct. 2S. The grand jury returned the
indictment wltlfin 20 minutes aftor
court convened and Montgomery was
immediately placed on trial.
Crystal Springs. The traveling pub
lic is irritated over the condition of
the road between this place and Terry
on the big Jackson highway. The re
cent rains have made the road impas
sable and autoists are entirely cut off
from going to Jackson by automobile.
The road is being widened and gravel
ed, but the road will not be passable
this fall unless work is hurried.
t Valden. A. W. Ilolman and W. C.
Fowler, both of this place, are in an
infirmary at Winona, Ilolman suffering
from a bullet wound and Fowler from
several knife wounds as a result, ac
cording to reports, of the men taking
up a quarrel between their small sons.
Though both are In a serious condi
tion, hope is held out for their recov
ery.
Jackson. F. J. Hurst, assistant fed
eral farm demonstration work director
for south Mississippi, in charge of the
bojs' club work in this district, is in
George county assisting H. A. Hopper
in his two weeks' boys club campaign.
The banks of Lucedale have arranged
to finance the boys of the clubs in
their pig work, and signs point to
successful year for the young workers.
Jackson. Henry Martin, negro, con
victed of murder, whose death sentence
Is pending on appeal before the su
preme court, is making frantic appeals
to Sheriff L. B. Williams to come on
end hang him right away. "I just can't
stand it any longer," Martin told th
sheriff. "This suspense is killing me.
Walthall. The fall examinations of
teachers in this county has been con- j
eluded. The record's show -that there i
r ere 3S applicants for first- grade .li
cense, of which 12 fainted and fell by
ta wayside, and 26 land safely,
, Jackson. September 26 was the
eighteenth anniversary of the signing
cf the first official document in the
tew capitol building, according to Sec
retary of State Power.
Sena tobia. The remains of Mrs.
J5F83 Shanda Taylor, aged 62 yeare.
were interred at Sethesda cemetery
bare after funeral services at the MetL
n.iicfcb'irch, conducted by Rev. A. T.
Mcllwain. presiding elder of the Oko
1 na district and a former pastor of
this place, assisted by the local pas
tor, Rev. R. .O. Brown.
M
Newton. Considerable indignation
was aroused on ihe part of the citizen
ship of this community when it be
came known that Night Policeman Z.
J. Garvin had been murderously at
tacked, and narrowly escaped death
Mr. Garvin was making his roundd
of the town and while going along
the G., M. & N. railroad a short dis
tance north of the depot someone
called him by name and told him to
come to him, the -call being made by
a men sitting near the- sidetrack a
short distance away. Not suspecting
any trouble, the officer went to the
man and on reaching him his feet were
suddenly jerked from under him by
one man and at the same time another
larger man jumped on him and grasp
ed him by the throat- After choking
him for some little time, the two men
dragged him through a wire fence a
short distance away to the weeds and
grass where there was a pool of water
about 10 or 12 feet deep.
Meridian Through the efforts of the
Meridian rotary club the interest of
citizens is being awakened to the ne
cessity of an anti-ant campaign, Me
ridian homes being overrun by the
pests. The work will be undertaken
by the state plant board as soon as
$3,000 is subscribed for the purpo?.c.
Mayor Parker has authorized the an
nouncement that the municipality will
contribute 31,000 when citizens have
contributed the other necessary $2,000.
West Point. For several months thj
Christian church of this city has been
without a pastor, due to the fact that
the congregation had disposed of their
old church building and are in tempor
ary quarters Rev. H. T. Young cf
Kentucky has been secured by this
congregation. He has moved into a
nice remodeled home on Broad street.
purchased from C. D. Bouchillon'. Tlie
ladies of the church have been very
energetic in making the lawn and
house very attractive.
Meridian. Edward Handley of the
veterans' bureau office of New Orleans,
has just completed the work of install
ing a subdLstrict office in Meridian,
I seven rooms of (the Cochran building
being leased for the purpose. The vet
erans' bureau is a consolidation of the
federal board for vocational education,
the bureau of war risk insurance and
the public health service. The office
here will have charge of 42 counties in
Mississippi and Alabama, under the
management of Dr. I. W. Cooper of
Meridian. The office at Tupelo has
been closed and transferred to Merid
ian. Meridian. Dr. W. D. Beacham of the
educational department of the state
board of health, has begun a series of
lectures in the country districts of
Lauderdale county, the first, lecture
taking place at Poplar Springs. The
lectures, which are illustrated with
moving pictures, are in the interest of
better health conditions. Dr. Beacham
being induced to come into the county
by County HealthDffieer R. J. Wilson.
Canton. The huge tabernacle was
filled to overflowing and people were
standing on the outside when Gypsy
Smith, Jr., delivered his third sermon
here. His text w-as "Weighed in ths
Balance and Found Wanting." The
prayer services, which are being held
each morning, at the court house at
11:30 for men, in the homes for the la
dies, at the mayor's office for business
women at 10 o'clock and for the boys
at the Methodist church in the morn
ing at 8:15, are being well attended.
Philadelphia. Charlie Blount was
tried before Judge East of the criminal
court on a charge of manslaughter. A
special venire had been summoned.
The jury was out most of the day but
could not agree. The last ballot stood
four for conviction and eight for ac
quittal. Charlie Blount killed Dr. L.
F. Jackson at Stallo, just north of Phli
adelphia several months ago, according
to the indictment
Clarksdale. The thousand dollar ad
vertising campaign, which was inaugu
rated by the Clarksdale associated re
tailers to further trade week, which
will take place in Oct6ber, is meeting
with enthusiasm by all of the city's
business firms and the campaign has
been increased to the fifteen hundred
dollar campaign. The Clarksdale busi
ness forces are organized and are go
ing to make a strenuous effort to dra
all the surrounding trade to thia cit
during the fall and winter.
Gulfport. The opening of the Gulf
Park college, the south's new institu
tion of learning for young women, has
taken place. The well finished build
ings and artistic grounds are ready to
receive the students, who number 100
from outside territory and about 40
from along the Mississippi coast. Thia
enrollment is considered a record, a9
thig is the firr,t year of the institution
and because of tke general depressed
condition about the country. The stu
dents from the outside territory rep
refent sections throughout the coun
try; with several from foreign couu
tries. Brookhaven. The union revival ser
vices at the Methodist church Has be
gun its second week and announcement
is made that k will continue through
October 2.
Jackson. The office of J. J. Coman,
secretary of the state penitentiary
board, has received notice of the es
cape of Tommle Lee, colored, from
camp three, Parchman farm, D. B. Ma
gee, sergeant. Lee, who made his get
away on Sept. 22, was sent up from
Alcorn county in 1920 on a three-yea;
sejiience for grand larceny.
Wyatte. The rain which has fallen
almost incessantly for the past few
days has hindered the picking of cot
ton materially. Farmers declare that
two-thirds of their cotton crop has
opened. If rain continues great dam
age will be done to the crop.
Jackson. Judge R. V. Fletcher, of
Chicago, general counsel for the Illi
nois Central railroad, has been here in
conference on the sand and grave)
rates which are to go into eirect Oct
1 under the recent order of the Ml
sissippi railroad commission.
UUIOf LEADERS
TO FIGHT STRIKE
FEAR GRIEVANCE COMMITTEES
WILL ORDER WALKOUT 9
OUT OF 10 VOTE STRIKE
LEE ADVISES AGAINST IT
Trainmen's Chief Points Out That
Wages Cannot Be Maintained at
War Level Workers Want
Strike, However.
Chicago. If the 1S6,000 members of
tiie Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
more than &0 per cent of whom have
vexed to strike, are supported in their'
demands by the grievance committee,
a strike will be ordered.
With this parting declaration Presi
dent W. G. Lee dispatched 57 general
chairmen of the unions to their homes
with written instructions to call their
grievance committees, get their ap
proval or disapproval of the strike vote
and report tack here next week.
That the grievance committees will ap
prove the strike was predicted at union
headquarters.
Lee expects to act on the committee
Instructions before nhe brotherhoods of
engineers, conductors, enginemen and
trainmen and the Switchmen's Union
of North America have completed the
oount. The strike call, however, he
indicated, will provide for a walkout
of 'the trainmen when and if the other
unions strike. A walkout of one union
unsupported by the others will not be
undertaken.
That the strike, even if ordered, will
never actually take piace continued to
lb the prevailing impression in union
circles. While Lee has promised ito call
the walkout if the committees so di
rect, he bluntly told his men in a gen
eral letter on September 12 that he
would be remiss in his duty if he failed
to point out to them that wages and
working conditions established since
1918 were the result of a world war
such a.3 never before known; that the
government reports indicate that 5,
000,000 men are out of work; that
nearly all classes cf labor have been
forced to accept some reductions in
wages; that the pay increases granted
them last year by the United State
Labor Board was based on The increas
ed cost of living and that government
reports show a reduction of more than
16 per cent in such living costs.
The strike vote was taken on the
question of accepting or rejecting the
12 per cent wage cut July 1 by the la
'bor board.
Tabulation of the vote has not been
completed, but the ballots already
counted showed from 90 to 95 per cent
of the men en every railroad system
In the country voted to quit work
rather than accept the pay reduction.
No system failed to return less than
nine out of 10 votes for the strike.
MINERS TO CONTINUE FIGHT.
Is Conspiracy to Destroy Usefulness of
Great Union.
Indianapolis Although facing a wide
range of litigation, the United Mine
Workers of America, in convention
here, declared in favor of continuing
the union's resistance, which, it was
said, already has cost more than $1.
600,000. In taking this action the con
vention approved a committee report
declaring the litigation was "a part
of a nation-wide conspiracy to de
stroy the power and usefulness" of the
union.
The litigation involving the union
Includes two cases pending in the su
preme court in which lower courts
held the union was responsible for
damages resulting from unauthorized j
etrikes, the soft coal conspiracy cases j
charging officials with violation of
the Sherman anti-trust law and the
suit to prevent efforts to unionize the
unorganized fields of West Virginia
and Kentucky.
PRESENT CHURCH CHANGE.
Kennett, Mo. The proposal that the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, be
changed to the Methodist Episcopal
Church in America, was presented to
Bishop B. W. Murrah in the opening
session of the seventy-fourtn session
of the church here. The suggestion
will be acted upon, during the conven
tion. A resolution urging disarma
ment and calling upon ministers of the
conference to observe disarmament
Sunday, Nov. 6, was adopted.
Chosen Head of G. A. R.
Indianapolis, Ind. Lewis S. Pilcher
of Brooklj'n, N. Y., was elected com
mander in chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic at the fifty-fifth annual
encampment here. He succeeds Wil
liam A. Ketchem o Indianapolis. Mr.
Pijcher is past commander of the de
partment of New York.
DISCHARGE ALIEN SEAMEN.
New York Two hundred alien mem
bers of the crew of the George Wash
ington, the largest passenger liner op
erating under the American flag,' were
discharged in furtherance of the policy
of the United States shipping board to
have only American crews of the ships
which it owns. ,
R. G. Lee. assistant manager of the
United States line, which' operates
the George Washington, said that sim
ilar action would be taken with re
gard to other shipping board vessels
operated by the line.
CHINA'S ENVOYS COMING.
Peking. China's delegation to the
conference on limitation of armaments
and far east questions have left this
city for Shanghai on Its way to Wash
ington, intending to make the voyag3
across the Pacific on the steamer
Hawkeye State. Dr. W. W. Yen. for
eign minister, who has been expected
to be chief of the delegation, did not
leave, but It was said he would follow,
provided China's Shantung policy was
determined and initiated soon enough
fro him to reach the American capital
lor the opening of the conference.
ARMY REDUCED
FOUR ILLIOHS
HOOVER CONFERENCE FINDS RE.
PORTS WERE EXAGGERATED.
DOING EXCELLENT WORK.
GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
Programme for Relief of Unemployed
Will Be Laid Before Meeting in
Washington Hoover Well
Pleased at Results.
Washington. Ground work for an
emergency program to meet the needs
of the country's involuntary idle,
found to number between 3,700,000 and
4,000,000 exclusive of agriculture, has
been completed by the national confer
ence on unemployment.
Reports of most of the committees
were completed and turned over to the
steering committee, which is to wield
the various recommendations into one
definite whole for action by the full
conference when it reconvenes. Quic
action upon" the general emergency
scheme is expected by the conferees.
Adoption of a final report by the
commitee on emergency measures by
manufacturers has been announced.
The report, which is said to con
tain the" core of the unemployment
problem because of the effect of the
manufacturing industry upon eco
nomic conditions generally, is under
stood to recommend the use of rota
tion of labor, the shortened week, par
tial employment, completion of repair
and clean up, as some of the mean3
increasing employment. In addition,
the committee was said to favor an
appeal to the patriotic co-operation of
producers, manufacturers, wholesalers
and retailers in passing along as
rapidly as possible any price changes
occurring in order to hasten business
revival.
Recommendations df the construc
tion committee were understood to
regard the construction problem in a
great measure as one for local action
because of the different factors exist
ing in various localities. Acceleration
of public works was said to be urged
by the committee on municipal meas
ures. Discussion of the pending railway
funding bill for providing financial re
lief for the railroads was said to have
consumed much of the transportations
committees deliberations in, the light
of the carriers ability to employ more
men. The committees on mining and
shipping, it was learned, were inclined
to believe tha no emergency measures
could be suggested for those Indus
tries in view of their dependency upon
general business conditions.
In making public its estimate" of
the country's unemployed, the commit
tee on statistics declared that the
steady improvement which had taken
place during the past two months ne
cessitated a revision of the estimates
given to congress last month by the
labor department.
Providing machinery for making ef
fective the emergency measures adopt
ed by the conference, the civic com
mittee was advised appointment of
special committees by the mayors of
all cities which handle the local un
employment problem in each locality.
Discussing recently the progress of
the unemployment conference, Secre
tary Hoover expressed the opinion
that it was doing "good constructive
work" and was getting along "extra
ordinarily well."
St. Louis Lacks Funds.
Louis. The city hall
St.
clock.
which has required frequent repairs in
the last rear, has stopped again. It u
operated by electricity and hydraulic
pumps. These pumps are said to need
overhauling. The city being short of
funds, it is not likely that the repairs
can be made at this time unless the
cost of overhauling the pumps is mucii
less than estimated by city electric
ians. Falls Three Floors.
Atlanta, Ga. S. B. Chapman, aged
65. assistant chief of the Atlanta fira
department, died from injuries receiv
ed when he fell three stories through
an elevator shaft while fighting a firs
in the storage building of the Fulton
Bag and Cotton Mills. The property
loss was small.
Boy of 18 Gets Life for Murder.
Bristol, Tenn. Vera Quillen, IS,
was sentenced to life imprisonment in
the circuit court at Blountsvllle for the
murder on June 7 of 11-year-old Elsie
Lawson at Kingsport, Tenn., the jury
having returned a 'verdict after delib
erating two hours. Quillen's counsel
announced the court would be asked
to set the verdict aside.
DRIVEN BY REVENGE.
Washington. The attempted assassi
nation in Lemburg of President PU
sudski of Poland was occasioned by a
desire for revenge on the part of Ste
fan Fedak, the yofing staff officer
.who is charged ,wth the act, Dr. Lon
gin Gahzlsky, diplomatic representa
tive of Galicia, said. Dr. Gahzlsky,
who declared that he was intimately
acquainted with Fedak and the latter'.
family, said the young officer had re
sented bitterly the death of his closest
friend, a Capt. Marynovich. at the
hands c f Polish soldiers.
GREEKS SEEKING PEACE.
London. The London Daily New&
Balkan correspondent states that he
has learned on high authority that the
Greeks are making approaches to tha
kemalist government for peace.
King Constantine of Greece Is ex
pected to confer with tepresentatlv?a
of foreign powers in tv hope of sta
bilizing the situationri Asia Minor, as
Mustapha Kemal is understood to de
cline to deal directly with the Greeks.
The Greek financial situation is grow
ing worse.
mo
(Copy for Tbta Department Supplltd by
the Amrcn Leelon News Service.
LEGION MAN IS LIFE SAVER
John L. Piazza, Officer 4944, New York
Police Force, Well Deserves
His Medals.
Saving lives Is almost a specialty
with officer 4944 of the New York
police force, for
mer private and
top sergeant of
the Three Hun
dred and Twelfth
infantry. A. K. F
now a member of
the CJener.il La
fayette Police
post. "American
Legion, In New
York City. Patrol
man Piazza, John
L., wears the Pis-
imguisshed Service Cross.
It was in the Argonne in October,
101S, near Grand Pre. Piazza, advan
cing with his platoon, saw a badly
wounded officer laying alone in No
Man's Land, abandoned when his lines
fell back to re-form. On his stomach.
Piazza crawled out to the spot, s4ung
the wounded man over his shou'der
and standing erect, carried him to safe
ty with the shells whistling and ex
ploding. Discharged from the army, Patrol
man Piazza resumed his beat in the
far readies of the borough of the
Bronx. It wasn't long after that whvm
he dashed up into a burning building,
rescued an invalid woman and cur
ried her to the street. Shortly after
that be stopped a runaway horse and
saved a group of women and children
from injury. Otiicer 4944 is twenty
nine years old, married and the father
o'f a son.
WAS 62 WHEN HE ENLISTED
Former Train Dispatcher Did Good
Service for Uncle Sam An En
thusiastic Legion Man.
Sixty-two years young he was. H. E.
Lamb, Worthington, Minn., told the
recruiting officers
during the war.
So they enlisted
him and sent him
to a chilly berth
in faraway Si
beria. He weath
ered nine months
of it to make it a
good bargain.
Mr. Lamb' was
living a life of re
tirement on &
farm near Worth
ington when America tnieieu tue war.
He had been a train dispatcher and he
thought his services would be valu
able. The army thought so, too, and
enlisted him. It was in the nature of
a celebration of his sixty-second birth
day. Returning from service, Mr. Lamb
Interested himself in the activities of
his younger comrades. He has never
missed a state or national convention
of the American Legion, and with his
wife, who is a member of the Wom
en's Auxiliary, he drove 200 miles to
attend the last one at Winona, Minn.
There the Legion gathering made him
a vice commander of the state de
partment. Now he is planning to drive
all the way to the national conven
tion at Kansas City this fall.
WOULD GET JOBS FOR MEN
State President of Oregon Women's
Auxiliary Plans to Oust Women
Who Do Not Need Work.
A movement to oust from employ
ment all married women who are not
forced by neces
sity to work has
been started by
Mrs. W. A. Eivers,
Portland, Ore., re
cently re-elected
state president of
the Oregon de
partment of the
Women's Auxil
iary, the Ameri-
can Legion.
Mrs. Eivers
speaks from hrst-
liand information. As trained nurse and
more recently as superintendent of the
Emergency hospital In Portland, she
has been doing a big man's work for
years but her husband has been an
invalid for years.
"Women got started in men's work
during the war, when it was necessary
and laudable." Mrs. Elvers declared.
"They are keeping it up now. Those
who have husbands supporting them
have no right to keep needy men out
of employment. They are willing u
work for less, too. They are breaking
up our homes, all because they want
extra pin money. It must stop, and
it's going to in Oregon, at least."
R-r-revenge.
Indignant Arizonian (to busy boot
legger) Hey, I've just been bitten by
a rattler. Gimme a quart of your
cheapest stuff.
Busy B Better take some of the
high-priced stuff, pardner.
I. A. Not on your life. This is for
the rattler. American Legion Weekly.
How Ex-Service Men Have Scattered.
An indication of how men who
served with the American lorces dur
ing the World war have scattered to
distant corners of the globe is given
In a report from South Dakota that
the soldiers' bonus board has received
applications from ex-service men liv
ing in Africa, South America, China,
Alaska, Japan and several European
countries. The bocrd Is verifying
claims of applicants through the 58
foreign posts of the American Legion."
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THEY'RE GOOD "LEGION MEM"
Washington State Newspaper Pair
are Members of the Ex-Service
Men's Organizations.
The time honored tradition of
violent feeling supposed to exist be
tween the aver
age bard-boiled
city ' editor and"
the average soft
boiled reporter
suffers a relapse
in the strange
case of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles
Ken vis. members
( k of Iiainler-Noble
post, ir.e Aiiiei -can
Legion, and
its Women's aux
1J
iliary, in Seattle, Wash.
P.efore the wrr Keavis was a city
editor and Dora LVane, a Pacific
coast wonmn newspaper writer, was
one of hi- cub reporters. When Keavis
went to war with the 41st Division
cavalry. Mist Dora became city editor.
Keturning after the armistice, the
ex-city editor sought to re.rain the
editorial reins by marrying Miss
lHane. Finding that as Mrs. Keavis
she was the managing editor while
lie became a cub, Keavis forsook the
game and became Associated Press
correspondent in Seattle.
"She was pretty good as a cub re
porter," Keavis says. "Hut as manag
ing editor, she is a wonder." Mrs.
Keavis continues as Dora Deane of
the Seattle Daily Times.
INDIAN. LEGION POST BOSS
Elias Wesley and Sixteen Washington
Buddies Also Control Town of
White Swan.
Where his fathers once tried to resist,
the civilization of the white man. Elias
Wesley, fullblood
Yakima Indian,
commander of an
American Legion
post, and sixteen
of his Yakima
"buddies" n o w
control the pros
perous town of
White S w a n.
Wash.
More than half
cf the post's mem
bers are fullblood
LI
Indians. Wesley, tha commander, is
the village meat cutter. The remain
der of the Indians, all members of
the Commercial club, are engaged in
business in the town. All are graduates
of a government school and are better
educated than the average American.
Because he whs a meat cutter, when
Wesley enlisted in the United States
navy they made him ship's cook on the
U. S. S. Western Chief. In the mem
bership of the post there is a Medal
of Honor, a Medaille Militaire, a Croix
de Guerre and a Victoria cross.
"GRAND OLD MAN" OF 137TH
Kansas Editor Recently Received Dis
tinguished Service Cross for
Valor in Action.
A newspaper editor who left off 1am-bastfn-
the Germans in his columns
f'Zfs' x bast them in per-
soil is .JOJ1I1 IX.
O'Connor of the
Winfield (Kan.)
Courier, who re
cently received
the Distinguished
Service Cross for
exceptional valor
in action.
7ysA The "grand old
Ai.irty-seventh Infantry
regiment during its service in France,
Editor O'Connor ably commanded a
battalion during the heaviest fighting
and won the highest rank of lieuten
ant colonel. In September, 1918, in
Montrebeau Wood he received a note
penciled on the back of an old en
velope, telling him he was the highest
officer left In the regiment. Forthwith
he assumed command of his own unit,
added on all other troops In the wood,
organized a brigade front, beat off two
Boche attacks and directed the ad
vance on Exermont.
Mr. O'Connor attended the first cau-
cus of the American Legion In Paris
In 1919 and was one of the newspaper
men who drew the resolution giving
the Legion its name.
FARM, CURE FOR SHELLSH0CK
, , ,.
Thousands of Victims Have Recovered,
Accord ing to Data Collected by
American Legion.
The symphony of droning mowers,
cultivators and threshers is a specific
cure for shellshock. Of the thousands cf
World war veterans who turned to ag
riculture at the termination of hos
tilities, virtually all have recovered
from the effects of shellshock. This is
ftliown by a recent survey which is be
ing studied by the national organiza
tion of the American Legion. The re
port likewise indicates that shellshock
victims who settled In the cities have
wui yet regained their health.
The experiment of sending shell
shock cases to the farms was tried
with success in Canada, where more
than 2.",K0 soldiers have taken farm
under the soldiers' re-establishment
act. The government has loaned more
than StlO.i.KMXOOO to these men, and
their first year's crop was valued at
approximately $14,000,0(10. Today the
average soldier-farmer, the survey con
cludes, is enjoying ruddy health and
sound finances.
Many Physicians Volunteer.
Four hundred and fifty physicians
who are members of a post of the
American Legion in New York city
have volunteered their services in th
reconstruction .work of World war
veterans.
Post to Give Musical Comedies.
To makes certain that their town
will be "alive this winter, the Amer
ican Legion post of Hutchinson, Minn.,
has contracted for three musical com
edies to be stsged there during thr
cold months.
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DDDSON KILLIl
USE OF CALOMEL
Says Drug Is Mercury and Acts
Like Dynamite cn Your
Liver.
Dodson is making1 & hard f:chf
against calomel in the South. Every
druggist has noticed a greet falling :T
In the sale of calomel. Tbey all give
the same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone
is taking its place.
Calomel is dangerous r.r.u pfop!5
know it, while Dod son's Liver T ro t
perfectly safe and gives better result'."
said a prominent local druggist. Pri
son's Liver Tone is personally pur.r:;-.-teed
by every druggist. A large b..u!e
costs but a few cents, and if it to
give easy relief In every case cf liver
sluggishness and consrij tuioti. you
have only to ask for your money l-:u;k.
Dodson's Liver Tone is u i U
tastinj
purely
vegetable
rc
'i v.
harmless to both children ursd
Take a spoonful at night r.nd wa'co up
fool ins fine; no biliousness, sick head
ache, acid stomach or const!p:it-4
bowels. It doesn't gripe or cause incon
venience all the next day like violent
calomel. Take a dose of calomel to
day and tomorrow you will feel we.sk.
fick end nauseated. Don't lose :i vinyY
work ! Take ldon's Liver Tone in
stead and ftl fine, full of vigor ami
ambition. Advertisement.
The Family Car.
"What is your ambition?"
"To be rich enough to own an auto
mobile of my own."
"But you already own a e:,r?"
"I kinv that, but y-u en'i v
how tire' I've grown of l,ai:r to
argue with the wife and the daugh
ter ninl ihe son every time 1 ai:; lo
use it."
MOTHER, QUICK! GIVE
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
FOR CHILD'S BOWELS
Even n sick child loves the "fruity'
taste of "California Fig Syrup." If t! -little
tongue is coated, or if your hi! '
Is listless, cross, feverish, full of cold,
or has colic, a teaspocmful will r,. v r
fail to open the bowels. In a fen
hours you can see for yourself hew
thoroughly it works all the constipa
tion poison, sour bile and waste fros:s
the tender, little bowels and gives yon
a well, playful child again.
Millions of mothers keep "California
Fig Syrup" handy. They know a tea
spoonful today saves w sick child to
morrow. Ask your druggist for ge-inii!
"California Fig Syrup" which has di
rections for babies and children of all
ages printed on bottle. Mother 1 You
must say. California" or you may git
an imitation tig syrup. Advertisement.
He Didn't Like the Name.
Harry had worn trousers f(r the
first time on his third birthday.
The next morning his mo; her ial!e-l
him: "Come. Harry, let mother dress
you."
He replied: "Oh. mother, don't
dress me. Please pants me."
DYED HER SKIRT, DRESS,
SWEATER AND DRAPERIES
Each packape of "Diamond Dyes" con
tains directions so simple any wi.nun car
dye or tint her worn, sh.ii.v drf.--.
skirts, waist?, coat?, stockings. t.
coverings, draperies, hanging. evor ;!.
even if she has never dyc-d 1 f h re. ! ' ;
"Diamond Pye" no other kind th n j r
fect home dyeing is sure hh aue D.an nI
Dyes are guaranty! not t i sp t. h'uY,
etreak. or run. Tell your druggist whttht-i
the material you wi.-h to dye is r
filk, or whether it is linen, cotton cr
mixed goods. advertisement.
Objection to Classic Dancing
Jud Tunkins says he doesn't like
amateur classic dancing becau.-e it
reminds him of the way stuarr
boarders act of an evening when xl,e
mosquitoes are bad.
ASPIRIN INTRODUCED
BY "BAYER" IN 1900
Look for Name "Bayer" on the Tab
lets, Then You Need
Never Worry.
If you want the true, world-f unions'
Aspirin, as pre;orihe-d by hysii ; ian--for
over twenty-one years, you must
ask for "Haver Tablets of Aspirin."
The name "Buyer" N s;amped oa
each tablet and appears on t in h pack
age for your protection against imita
tions. Ad vertiseinent.
For Cheaper Shoes.
Chemists think thev know
hiv
reduce the price of ho s. re's ?.
ing success for lhi proposed ;;!.' ; r
of science and undersiaeding. F.os!
Transcript.
Don't Forget Cuticura Talcum
When adding to your toilet requisites.
An exquisitely scented face, skin, baby
and dusting powder and perfume, ren
dering other perfumes superfluous.
You may rely on it because one of thv
Cuticura Trio (Soap, Ointment i;n '
Talcum). 23c each everywhere. Ad
vertisement. Modern Girls' Progress.
Say what you want t- abo-j: the
modern girl, her eosttjn-es and S or
manners she ha at b ast enu arip it !
herself from the clinging-vine sta-e of
development. Detroit Free Press.
FOR SUMMER COLCS
Use Vacher-Iialm; it relieves ct
once. If we have no agent where yov
live, write to K. W. Yacher, Luc, 2tv;
Orleans. La. Advertisement.
A Real Treat.
Mrs. Chatterton The U nti-t is only
going to take an inipre -si.-u tf my
new plates. You won't have to go
with me. I don't need your help.
Her Husband Dut. dearie. I io ss
want to see you with your raoath full
of plaster sitting ia silence for tecs,
minutes.
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