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THE COMMONWEALTH / Reliable local Newspaper. J. L. GILLESPIE, Editor and Publisher. OUR MOTTO: "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT. VOL 20—NO. 35. Subscription, $1.00 Year Cash GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1916. GERMANS FORCED FURTHER BACK BY BRITISH TROOPS Fighting on the Somme Front Continues in Favor of Allies—Violent Artillery Actions on the Macedonian Front (By Associated Press.) London, Sept. 6.—The British again pushed forward on the Somme front last night All of the Leuae wood has Pmo captured, the war offlee announc oi »r Fighting continue* between Leute goods and Comblet and in the vicinity of Gincy. FRENCH ARE ATTACKED. (By Associated Press.) Psris, Sept. 8.—Positions newly won by the French south of the Somme river were attacked several times by the Germans last night. The assaults were broken by the French fire, the wtr office annuonced today, Other German assaults were delivered in the region of Deniecu and Berney. On the Verdun front the Germans yesterday evening directed an interne bombardment against Fleury, but French quick firers prevented the German infantry from advancing. ARTILLERY ACTIONS. (By Associated Press.) Psris, Sept. 6.—Violent artillery ac tions are in progress ia the region of Lake Doirsn and Struma river on the Macedonian front in a sector held by the Serbians, the war office announced today. PRISONERS ARE CAPTURED. (By Associated Press.) Bucharest, Sept. C<—The capture of sisny prisoners and the repulse of at tacks against positions held by the Bumsnians is the official announce ment of the war office today. GERMAN LOAN A FAILURE. (By Associated Press.) London, Sept. 6.—Subscription* to the German war loan daring the first two days indicate that the loan will prove a failure, according to reports from Berlin by Amsterdam. Returns first two days are far behind total riiied in the same time to previous loani. ATTEMPT TO INVADE RUMANIA. (By Associated Press.) London, Sept. 6.—Official announce mmtwas made by the Rumanian war office today that attempts of Ger mans and Bulgarians to invade East mi Rumania have been defeated. Rumanians have regained posses •ion of the tntire frontier east of the Danube along which the attack was di Wcted. The Rumanian invasion of Austria ia being carried on with further suc «aa. After a spirited fight in the tagion of Bqrzecket the Rumanians captured the heights west of that point. DANISH STEAMER SUNK. (By Associated Press.) London, Sept. 6,—The iteamer Jeanne has been sunk, ac cording to Weymouth dispatches to Danish r, NEW MODE FORD CAR , AT SAME PRICE v. Crown Fenders, Stream Line Hood, New Type Radiator and Dash. TOURING CAR . $390.85 RUNABOUT .... $375.85 F. O. B. GREENWOOD. 'TV _ E. K. MYRICK 115 Main St. Phone SIS. . | °y * pping agency. The crew waa nded. SUBSCRIPTIONS COMING IN. (By Associated Press.) Berlin, Sept. 6 .— Subscriptions to the fifth German war loan, which opened Monday, continue to be ceived in large amounts. Corporations subscribed 29,000,000 marks. re RUSSIAN GAINS CONTINUE. (By Associated Press.) Petrograd, Sept. 8.— Russian troops yesterday captured Teutonic fortified positions in the region of lower Gor ddenka in the direction of Halier, Ga-' licia, and drove the Austro-Germans ' toward the northwest, says an official j report today. In fighting so far 4,500 i men have been captured, of whom 2,000 are Germans. GAINS AND LOSSES. (By Associated Press.) Berlin, Sept. 6. —The Russians, ac cording to the war office here today, were pressed back in the center by Archduke Charles on the front be tween Zlota-Lipa and Dneister rivers, Galicia. Clery on the Somme front has been captured from the Germans by the Entente allies. Seven of the Tutrakin works in southeast Rumania, including armor ed batteries, have been stormed by the Teutons. TURKS ARE REPULSED. (By Associated Press.) Petrograd, Sept 6.—In Ognott re gion, in Armenian Turkey, Russian troop* are advancing and inflicting great losses on the enemy. In West Ognott corpses of Russian soldiers have been found mutilated. AIRSHIP CREW BURIED. (By Associated Press.) London, Sept. 6.—A great crowd gathered today to witness the funeral of the 16 members of the crew of the Zeppelin which was brought down Saturday night. They were buried in the village potters field. GROCERY CLERKS STRIKE. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 6.—Three thous and grocery clerks went out on strike in this city, Jersey City, Newark and outlying towns today. The strikers demand a minimum salary of $15 a week, one per cent of the store re ceipts, and shorter hours. CORRUPT PRACTICES BILL UP. (By Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., Sept. 6.—By the vote of 32 to 14 the Senate today de cided to take up Senator Owens' cor rupt practices bill, greatuly curtailing campaign expenditures and imposing heavy penalties. irrni BOARD ! j TAXES ON BANKS Asawsed Them Seventy Per Cent of (apiul stock ,nd s " rl,lu!, In the a(ljustment of bank taxes in Leflore county the Board of Super visors this morning rendered their fin g | ven jj c j (_ 0 the effect that 70 per cent, of the capital stock and surplus of the banks will be taxed. The banks asked that an essessment of 40 per cent, upon taxable assests be made. The Board will very likely be in session the remainder, of the week adjusting taxes. -o— THE WEATHER 1 ' j i Forecast for Wednesday. Alabama and Mississippi—Proba bly fair Wednesday and Thursday: Louisiana and Arkansas day and Thursday, partly cloudy. Oklahoma—Wednesday fair; Thurs day unsettled. Tennessee—Fair Wednesday and Thursday. East Texas—Wednesday generally fair, except showers in lower Rio Grande valley. West Wednes Texas—Wednesday Thursday unsettled, probably showers. and The Weather map shows cloudy in Florida and North Carolina. Generally fair in rest of cotton belt. Increasing cloudiness in Texas and Oklahoma. Heavy rain at Wilmington, N. C., and raining at Raleigh. Moderate tem peratures. The Rainfall. Vicksburg .01 inches; Charleston, S. C,, ,01; New Orleans .50; Wilming ton 2.20; Raleigh, raining, .08; New bem, N. C., 2.60. Weekly Weather Report. Washington, Sept. 6.—The weather of the week was favorable for the de velopment of cotton and for picking and ginning. Work progressed rapid ly in all central and southern dis trics. Bolls opened nrematupely where too dry and the crop is In ad vance of the season in the northwest ern and southeastern parts of the area; it is 10 to 15 days late in north eastern parts of southwestern states. Weevil damage and shedding continue. CONVICT FARM SOLD. Greenville, Miss., Sept. 6.—At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Washington County Monday the county convict farm of 908 acres was sold to the highest bidder, John C. Hay, for $65 per acre, or a total of $62,920, sealed bids being received, the lowest bid being $40 per acre. Pos session will be given Jan. 1, 1917. The farm was sold after the county had adopted 'the policy of working the prisoners on the public roads of the county. | c G Ni cho ] S) Swiftown, Miss., ph()ne , Ua ^ , 4 . g Cypress Shingles for sale by V V FARM LOANS. We Make Farm Loans on Improved Lands in the Mississippi Delta and the Bottom Lands of Arkansas. SEND US YOUR APPLICATIONS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE I •HOME OFFICE OSWEGO, KANSAS. Branch Offices Pallas, Texas. Little Rock, Ark. Wichita, Kan. Oklahoma, Okla. Muskogee, Okla. Durant, Okla. I j y % 1305 Tenn. Trust Bl'd'g. MEMPHIS, TENN. m**++***+'m*+**-m*+*4^*+**+e+*4'*+*+**«'*f**m**t 1 TODAY'S MARKETS. (Greenwood Cotton Ex. Service.) LIVERPOOL FITCHES. Today's close. Prev. close. 9.61 9.55 1-2 9.54 9.52 1-2 9.45 1-2 Jan.-Feb. MihA > >1 spot.-. Sales 9.40 1-2 9.39 9.37 9.63 8000 NEW ORLEANS FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Close. 15.34 15.34 15.12 15.13-14 15.64 15.64 18.35 15,38-40 15.70 15.70 15.47 15.61-52 Get. Dec. Jan. Mch. 15.87 15.89 15.69 15.60-62 May 16.03 16.03 15.89 15.70-73 Closed 20 to 24 down from yester day's close. Spots: 15.38—25 off. Sales 750, NEW YORK FUTURES. 15.65 15.69 15,47 15.53-55 15.80 15.80 15.00 1565-67 15.86 15.89 15.67 15.72-74 16.06 16.06 15.83 16.86-90 16.18 16.18 16.01 16.00 Closed 16 to 22 down from yester day's close. Spots: 15.80—15 off. Oct. Dec. Jan. Mch. May New Orleans, Sept, 6.—It is rum ored here that National Ginners' re port. will show 612,000 against 464, 000 government figures last year. The first ginning report of the sea vill be made Friday of this week. son DAILY COTTON LETTER. New Orleans, Sept. 6.—Liverpool fully met our decline, but spot sales are larger, '8,000 bales. That market is still one hundred points below a shipping parity and there are but two ways to correct it—the spot basis must decline over here or Liverpool must advance—Spot quotations from the inferior show sharp cuts not only in Texas, where the leading centers quote 60 to 80 points off from recent top prices, but also in Georgia. The map showed generally fair except North Carolina. Indications are for increasing cloudiness in the west with rain in western Texas and Oklahoma towards Friday. New Orleans marke^opened 6 to 8 points lower and selling against spots and to liquidate was in evidence from the start In euch volume that prices declined 20 points, bringing our mar ket a cent a pound under the recent high, and also below spot quotations The local spot situation is upset. Interior offerings are much below fac tors prices. On account of frieght conditions and low parity with Liver pool, business is difficult. J. P. CLARK & CO. MINERS WALK OUT. (By Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Kan., Sept. 6.—Eight thousands miners in southeast Kansas coal fields who 'walked out yesterday, are idle today. The strike was caused by delay in closing the agreement with the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators Association. Nego tiations are under way at Kansas City. Six companies are effected by the walkout. Take The Daily Commonwealth. CONVENTION OF SUFS ON TODAY Several Southern Women Will Make Addresses at Tonight's Session. (By Associated Press.) Atlantic Cit, N. J., Sept. 6.—The forty-eighth annual convention of the National American Woman's Suf frage Association opened here today. Reports of committees occupied most of the morning session. Dixie Ev< ing will be celebrated at the night session. Several Southern women will be speakers. President Wilson is ex pected to address the convention on Friday. A debate on the question of whether National American Woman Suffrage Association should drop its work for state amendments and concentrate its efforts on a federal amendment, was a feature of the opening session of the Association's annual convention here today. Mrs. Ida Husted, of New York, as leader of the "Federal Amendment" forces argued in the affirmative, while Miss Laura Clay, of Lexington, Ky., Brgued in favor of confining the right to individual states; a third debater Mrs. Raymond Brown, of New York, took a middhr ground In favor of both federal and state work. Mrs. Harper declared that the As sociation should concentrate on the Susan B. Anthony federal amendment and the working the individual state be discontinued. "We have now, obtained enough equal suffrage States to make oui measure a national political issue,' Mrs. Harper said; "to force its esi dorsement by the platform of all five of the parties; to persuade u Presi dential candidate to declare for the Federal Amendment which his party was too boss-ridden to favor; to com pel the President of the United States to reverse his own attitude completely and defy the platform on which he was elected; and to wrest from a reluctant Congress a vote in both Houses and to scare it so badly that it has resorted to every subter fuge known in that body in order not to put itself on record again before election, "Have we not reached a point where we can stop these minor at tacks on our opponents' right and left wings and march our forces straight up to the Congressional trenches where the main body of the enemy lies concealed?" Mrs. Harper named as opponents "the corporations, the liquor and other vice interests." "We have had enough of appealing to the individual voter with his secret ballot," Mrs. Harper added, alluding to the State fights. "We demand a fight in the open that we may recog nize our foe and the influence behind them. Why were both Republican and Democratic conventions willing fo favor woman suffrage through State action ? Because they knew they were putting it off till doomsday. They understood perfectly that in fully one half of the States where women arc still disfranchised the constitutions are so framed that amendment is practically impossible. * • • Let us have no more of these State cam paigns with their killing work, their personal humiliations, their fraudu lent votes, and their stuffed ballot boxes. * * * Now that our measure has been brought through generations of toil and sacrifice in sight of the promised land, let us not wander an other forty years among the States but take the necessary steps at this meeting to enter Into possession with out needless delay." COTTON BRINGS OVER 27 CENTS Carroll Connty Man Sell* Bale Here for Twenty-Seven and Quarter. Mr. Flower* Williams, who lives about six or seven miles suotheast of Carroll county, brought a bale Greenwood, just across the line Dixie Improved cotton to Greenwood yesterday which he sold to Mr. A. Metts, representing H. C. Nall & Co., for 27 1-4 cents a pound. This i* the highest price yet paid o nthls mar ket for new cotton. INFANTILE PARALYSIS ON THE INCREASE. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 6.—Twenty-two death* and 53 new cases of Infantile Paralysis were reported today. Col. A. E. Jennings, of Memphis, was among his many Greenwood [ Titnia KNOX CLAIMS 1.000 MAJORITY Official Count of Ballots May Be Necessary To De termine Outcome of Election Ethridge Appears Winner in (he First. KNOX CLAIMS 1.000 MAJORITY. The editor of The Daily Common-! wealth called Hon. It. H. Knox at Houston over the long distance tele phone at one o'clock this afternoon. er Judge and he claims to be nominated by majority of 1.000 votes E. (). Sykes. SYKKS CLAIMS CLOSE MARGIN. Mr. Eugene Sykes, at Aberdeen, a brother of Judge R. O. Sykes, long distance telephone at one thirty, told the editor of The Daily t wealth that Judge Syk election by a very narrow margin. ox er 'ommon claims the The voting in Leflore county vas light as indeed it was all fire district. ver the en In this county scarcely me-third of the voters availed them 'elves of the privilege of suffrage, The vote cast at the different bo n Leflore county yesterday follows: xos was Sykes. Knox. Minter City Sunny Side Schlater 12 4 6 8 WAGON LOT MATTER TO BE FINALLY DECIDED TODAY City Council At Session Last Nipht Postponed Ac tion Until Commissioners Could Visit Lot in Question—Two Petitions. The City Council in session last night took up the matter of the hiteh ng lot for rural teams, and after dis cussing the matter and considering petition and counter-petition in regard to it, postponed final action until to day, when the Commissioners will personally visit the propsed site and reach a decision. The property purchased by the city lies on the River Front and is about 150 feet square. At the time of its purchase no objection was raised, but it the meeting last night, a petition signed by 19 property holders in the immediate neighborhood of the tot lueetion, was presented to the Com mission asking that the lot not he used for the purpose of parking coun try teams. A counter-petition signed by 26 property owners and business men in the city asked that the Com mission reject the other petition and use the lot for the purpose for which t was purchased. The Commission allowed the regu ........... . i -. . ., ./.jfyVvWrt :: j— -- 4 iSiJto 1 "it CLOVES v . ekammmi ■"< i Pi m&m. S, CHILDRCMO WEAR, :arf* :: m 2 -V :: underwear :: % t •i 1 •• HOSIERY C 7,! WAISTS t m : 2; :: I i NEW FALL AND WlmB DRESS MATERIALS WE WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU OUR NEW FALL AND <\ WINTER DRESS GOODS. WE ENJOY OUR BUSINESS. THAT'S WHY WE ARE SUCCESSFUL. YOU NEED NOT BUY—JUST "LOOK." THIS WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO BUY OUR GOODS WHEN YOU ARE READY. WE LIKE FOR "JUDGES" OF GOODS TO SEE OUR THINGS; • THEY ARE OUR BEST CUSTOMERS, BECAUSE THEY KNOW | GOOD THINGS AND LOW PUK ES WHEN THEY SEE THEM. , 4 . Dahmer GREENWOOD'S BEST CASH STORE | The Weekly Commonwealth, $1.00 per lear. Mm-v . 11 4 Shellmound i (irernwond Ittn Hen ! Sidon Morgan j S viftowi 0 175 91 ia II 4 19 0 (no election) I Total 366 122 Sykes majority, 243 votes. the first primary held three •ellor Me I ! weeks in this county a total v which Cha ugi Got as eliminated, Sykes received veil etc of 352, Mc Govvcit 40, j getting a and Knox 73, Judge Sykes majority over both of his His majority over 243. opponents of 239. Knox yesterday The total •ote east i II three candidate three this county fer veeks vas 465 ns against 187 yesterday. ETHRIDGE IN THIRD. the First district J Clayton I), Potter assistant li 'here Judge was opposed by As Attorney-Goneral George II. i Ethridgh, Judge Potter has practical | ly admitted his defeat. At late hour IhsI, night he is understood to have believed his opponent to have been elected. ployes and all other accounts that were correct. Several long ordinances were pass ed, none of which were of very much importance ami mostly were to pro teet the Memphis Paving and Asphalt Co., who are paving Washington street City Clerk S. H. Montgomery made his report arid turned over to the city the taxes that have been collect ed. His report was accepted and ap proved. J. L. Lary, City Convict Sargent, made his report, which was accepted and approved. The Chief of Police, C. L. Bonner, also made his report, which was ac cepted and approved. He turned over to the city all money collected on fines and costs. The assessment rolls of the city, both real and personal, were filed with the Commission at the session last night and both put on file where they will remain for 30 days, in compliance with a law to that, effect. Any objec tions to the assessments can be made now. The Commission will take up the matter of adjusting the taxes at the October session.