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THE COMMONWEALTH.
WEEKLY
WEEKLY EDITION
DAILY
J. L. & S. Gillespie, Editors and Publishers
liable Local Newpaper.
roL. 25-NO. 1_
Subscription, $1.50 YEAR
GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, 1921
[OP TAKES
PRISONER AND
ENDS HIS LIFE
Was
Beard Was
r illiam
Held For Death
Of Soldier
was
ed
of
first thought
freed by friends
Body Of Prisoner Was
Riddled By Bullets
Of Mob.
a
ton,
sey
if
it
Associated Press
JASPER, Ala., Jan. 13—William
«grd, miner, held in connection with
u killing of James Morris, guards
taken from the county jail
un, was
*rly today by a mob and later was
hot to death near Jasper. The first
epor ts indicated that Beard was li
erated by friends but this was dis
used when his body was found la
ler riddled with buliets.
P 3# MEN RELEASE BEARD.
JASPER, Ala., Jan. 18—A crowd
b 4 bout 30 heavily armed men early
lodiy forced the warden of the Walk
er County jail to surrender the keys
knd liberated William Beard, a miner,
held in connection with James Mor
L S| ( National Guardsman, who was
[ghot and killed at Nauvoo, a mining
[settlement on December 23rd. James
piortheutt, a striking miner and the
Kather-in-law of Beard was also kill
ter,
jf
is
no
'o Ask For Tariff
On Imported Wheat
2
>d
10
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—To stop
the enormous importation of Canad
i»n wheat, Senator McCumber an
[nounced today he wold ask for ^tariff
of fifty cents a bushel oil wheat to
be included in the Fordney Emer
[gency Tariff Bill.
DUELS IN MEXICO
MOST HARMLESS
us
he
he
Gomnment Interferes Before Date
Set For Righting Wrongs
Occurs.
to
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13—Duelling
[»« practiced in Mexico is the most
[harmless of outdoor sports. Although
scarcely a week passes but some per
sob whose pride has been hurt chal
lenges the offender to "pistols at
twenty paces in the Bosque of Cha
pultepec," few reach beyond the stage
of talk and none even ventures close
to reality.
A deputy from one Mexican state
riBes in the chamber and bitterly as
sails a member from another state
for his attitude on certain public
measures. The other replies with cq
ual vituperation. Before the day is
done the chances are a challenge will
be carried to one or the other by two
aeoonds who later describe their ef
forts in a verbose report to all the
newspapers.
Once in a while the challenge will
be accepted and then there is a scram
ble on all sides to see to it that the
"government intervenes" at the pro
per moment. Whether there is offi
cial "intervention" is conjecture but
the announcement is always the same
—that "high authorities frowned upon
the contemplated struggle to death
and forbade it." Pride is always sat
isfied by such announcement and the
incident is forgotten.
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Claim Champion
Producing Cows
Associated Press
CLIFTON, S. C„ Jan. 13—'Two
South Carolina counties are laying
claim to having champion dividend
producing cows.
Greenville county recently announc
ed a cow which had borne four calves
within twelve months but Spartan
burg county is now
honors because its cow bore two sets
of twin calves during 1920. She is
owned by L. E. Wright, a rural mail
earrer of this place.
Word from Fort Atchison, Wis., a
dairy center, says this the first in
stance of a cow having borne two
•ets of twins in one year, as far as
is known there.
claiming first
MOVING SEAT
OF GOVERNMENT
Was Once An Important Factor To 1
Members Of Congress And $52
Was No Trifle.
Associated Press
HARRISON, Ark., Jan. 13—There
was a time in the history of the Unit
ed States when $52, representing a
year's loss 'or saving to members of
Congress, was a vital factor in the
consideration of a proposed moving
of the seat of government, and, ac
cording to an officer of that same
Congress, $52 a year was "no trif
ling consideration."
This bit of history is contained in
letter written by Charles Thomson,
secretary of the Continental Con
gress during the several years of its
existence to his wife Hannah, an
aunt of President William Henry
Harrison. The letter is dated Prince
ton, August 21, 1783, the Congress
then being in session in the New Jer
sey town, and was addressed to "Mrs.
Thomson, Corner of Spruce and 4
Street, Philadelphia,"
It was proposed that the residence
if Congress be removed to Elizabeth
N. J., but, according to the let
there was opposition on the
ground that "lodging" in Elizabeth
town would cost $4 a week, whereas
it could be obtained for $3 a week in
Whether the "high cost
'own,
ter,
RE
Princeton,
jf living" in Elizabethtown finally
swayed the Congress in rejecting it
is not disclosed, but history records
that the Congress met in Annapolis,
Md., after leaving Princeton, and at
times at Elizabethtown.
The letter, in part, which recently
into the possession of Mrs. Rex
The
no
tile
the
on
of
Lons
or
han
2 ame
Worthington, of Harrison, a descend
ant of Mr. Thomson, follows:
'Dear Hannah:
"I have received your letters dat
>d Monday 12 o'clock and Tuesday
10 o'clock at night and acknowledged
the receipt of them * *
misinformed respecting the ad
journment. They met on Monday but
might as well have adjourned till
this time for any business they have
I am very apprehensive
* * Mr. Read
was
i
ilia*
lone.
nothing but some calamity will awak
of their sit
man,
the states to a sense
■n
jation. * *
* * * * The President of Con
has not provided a house for
press
himself nor is likely he will find one
here to suit him. I'find Elizabeth
town has been talked of at his table
us proper place for the residence of
Congress. He has a house there which
he says has twenty rooms and which
he will let for the use of the Presi
lt is true the place is infested
!s
his
ia
the
dent. .
with mosquitoes in summer and lying
low and near marshes may be liable
to intermittents in the spring and
trifling when it
fall, but these are
is considered that by fixing the resi
lence of Congress there the value of
his estate will be increased and he
opportunity of letting
will have an
his house at a good rent. But yet I
am inclined to believe this will be op
posed by his colleagues; for Mr. Con
dit has found a lodging in this town
week which enables
And there is
rats
at 3 dollars a
him to lay up money,
reason to fear that Elizabethtown,
near New York, it will
of
is
which is so
,ost him at least four. This would be
clear loss of 52 dollars a year which
trifling consideration, and which
will have due weight with
There are other weigh
*
is no
9 i\
I daresay
;ome others,
ty considerations which might be men
tioned.
"Your loving husband,
"CHAS. THOMSON."
GREENWOOD BLDG. & LOAN AS
SOCIATION STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING.
to
of
Notice is hereby given that an
of the stockholders of
an
nual meeting
the Greenwood Building & Loan As
sociation is called and will be held at
the law offices of E. L. Mounger, in
the City of Greenwood, Mississippi,
at 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon on
Friday, the 21st day of January, 1921.
W. C. PEEL, President.
Greenwood Bldg. & Loan Ass'n.
friends, who are
have him with ^
• i
of L'Argent, La., is
a few days on
ling with his many
always delighted to
them.
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tost of Jade ls shown In the sub
stitutes that are being made for It
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RE TELL WORK
BENJ. FRANKLIN
*
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The 215th Anniversary Of His Birth
Occurs On January The
Seventeenth.
Jan.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13—The versa- j
tile accomplishments of Benjamin;
Franklin will be retold throughout
the country by various organizations i
on January 17. the 215th anniversary j
of his birth. In a number of celebca
. •. . i
Lons tributes will be
statesman, diplomat, philosopher Ja
scientist, journalist, economist, sa es
ph.lanthrop,st, humorist, print- . May
or and publisher. j July
As an advocate ijf spending less j
han one ihakes, Franklin ls to J he (
honored on his birthday by the Na- (
tional Thrift Week Committee, which
other celebration of
Mar.
Ma
Associated Press
Jul
i
man,
!s encouraging
his work. University of Pennsylvan
ia alumni here plan to hail him as
the founder of their alma mater.
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DEGENERATE AS
A RESULT WAR
Veterinarian Says Dogs And Cats Of
Central Europe Have
Done This.
Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Jan. 13—Even the
rats and dogs of Central Europe have
degenerated as a result of the war
Professor Balkanyi, Director of
says
of the Veterinary School here, who
is investigating how the habits of
domestic animals have been influenc
Most of the town
9 i\ by that cause,
bred cats in this part of the world re
fuse to drink milk because it is
known by them, due to the lack of
milk during the war, the Professor
un
"Both eats and dogs are relapsing
of their untamed
"The vagrancy
to the savage ways
ancestors," he says,
of dogs is startling. Pet dogs elope
from heart-broken mistresses, joining
village dogs, where
communist equality.'
authority says that; be
diseases
animals. I
packs of many
they live in
The same
sides hydrophobia, nervous
are very frequent among l
afraid domestic animals in East
ern Europe are degenerating and that
,he stock must be replenished from
am
overseas.
Life's Best Tasks.
Life calls upon us to fill thegilace of
(ra|tor(ju|( t0 our own
^ )(rfjpeA If we shrink because the
work Is hard, we forfeit our own ro
und that of everyone who knows
—OrisoD Swett Marden In Chlrago
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•pad
Is taught
News.
Schools Teach Suflar Making.
The province of Quebec has three
schools In which maple sugar making
The province's output of
I91M was 12.353,667
L'.-ittori* of sirup.
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Take The Daily Commonwealth.
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* COTTON MARKETS*
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET
Open High Low Close Close
Prcv.
Jan. - - 18.00 18.0(1 17:15)17.15 17.60 j
16.58jl5.90jl6.03 16.18] j
- 116.40 16.53115.88*16.00 16.10] *
- 116.45 16.62 15.95 16.07 16.25] j
CloseiTIoYo~l5 down.
New York Spots 17.65—45 down.
,
NEW ORLEANS COTTON MARKET
Open High Low Close Close e
|_H_ _ 1
Ja „ . . J 15 .70 15.7516.13,15.19|16.40;
. . 16.OoJl6.00 15.20jl5.2B15.3B
May . . 45.98jL5.99 15.26jl5.26,15.40,
July - - [16.05 16.05 15.40[15.40j 15.63
cloBad 10 to 23 down,
New Orleans Spots 15.00.
Mar. - - 10.48
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MISSISSIPPI — Rain Thursday;
Friday clearing.
HER BET IS PAID
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Banking on her woman s intuition,
Miss Gertrude Bllndwortli, pretty
EtSSSavails?^("»
shown "cashing in" her bet, in this j
case a free wheelbarrow ride serosa
the Brooklyn bridge, on her way to
Not a Houn' to Be Kicked ArourV.
Bowling Green, Ky.-An automobile
belonging to Ed Centrill was the chief
factor In s unique trade. John Har
rig owned an old mare and a surrey,
also the best "possum" dog In War
county. Cantrtll gave his ,or
rsrw'rrntarTbo^
during the coming seasou.
business.
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INNOCENT BUT
SERVED 15 YRS.
Young Swiss Spent 15 Years Of A
Pen And
Life Sentence Ii
Then Real Murder
, ,
(named Htrschbrunner is to be eleas- ;
e ' 111 11 J 1 u |,n ' con ' ss ' 1
On the day following a popular
ma8ke d ball at Solcure in May 1906,
, „ f „ on SwUil gi r , was
W1|iu of th . rail .
statjon wherc she had been
Associated Press
GENEVA, Jan. 13—After serving
more than 15 years of a life sentence
for a murder of which he has always
J claimed to be inocent, a young man
strangled to death. She had been
the previous evening in the
[ company of a young man dressed as
The description
l seen
peasant woman.
„f her companion tallied with a cos
j tume worn by Hirschbrunnei* and he
tried and sentenced to life im
was
; prisonment, entirely on circumstan
dal evidence.
POPULATION OF
UNITED STATES
Census Bureau Makes Announcement
Of Urban And City in
habitants.
Associated Press
] WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—The ur
; ban population of the United States,
j or people living in places of 2500 or
is 54,318,032 or 51.4 per cent.
! more
| of the country's total population, and
] the number living in the rural terri
jtory is 51,390,739, the census bureau
announced today.
j The 1910 urban population repre
jsented 45.8 per cent. The urban and
: rural population by states include Ar
kansas 290,397 and 1,561,707; Ken
tucky 632,543 and 183, 087; Missis
sippi 240,121 and 1,550,329; Tennessee
1 611,226 and 1,726,659.
Associated Press
* NEW YORK, Jan. 13— Four sane
and sober men celebrated that noisy
first hour of 1921 by visiting New
cafes and hotels to see
winter house
the Gay!
-o—
Win Prize For
Killing A Fly
York's gay
if they could find one
fly. Unsuccessful among
w j, itc \y ay they went lower on Man
hgttan Is]and where the less luxuri
W" •*
j celebrants.
And in one of them they tninc
sorry specimen with a lean and hun
The Philadelphia man in
gry look.
the party of four did the dirty work,
Then he sent the remains to the mer
chants' association which annually
presents a scarf pin bearing a gold-1
cn fly to the person who first kills
a ^, f on jyj ew Year's Day.
j ' „ Th(! capture 0 f this insect, small
mean * that we shall have
,or ' Luions fewer flies next sum
panying the scarf pm.
LABOR DEMANDS
Labor Leaders In Kurland Trying T<
Solve In Some Way Problem
Unemployed.
Associated Press
j LONDON, Jan. 13—Labor leaders
are demanding urgent legislation ln
I solve in some way the problem of on '
employment in Croat Britain. Warn
| ings have been given ol'
| eial of industrial upheaval, of so
kind of startling "direct action'' un
) less the
British government
j promptly.
j "If nothing is done
fecks," said L. R. dynes,
vithin tlu* next j
lein
I SIX
>ther day t«
| her
if Parliament the
Hr. Mnenamarn, the Minister of La
vy
of
discuss
! bor, in tin
course
vith labor leaders, "a situation may
vill threaten the life of
develop that
the state itself."
Lieut.
f There is said to be an ugly temper
if the 1,000,000
ver what they regard
as dilatoriness on the part of local
vemmcntal authorities in taking
ver
bany
vosto
ment
until
aiming many
unemployed
ire
£0
meet the situation adequate
steps ti
ly. About 100,000 of these idle men
are in London.
The
fired
lils
Homeless and destitute, they have
seized about 30 suburban public li
assembly halls.
braries, baths and
From some of these they have been
forc ibly ejected by the police and ibis
has caused more ill-feeling.
Delegates from employed eommit
if London bo
toes in a sc<
r more
roughs have recently formed
tral council,
meetings at which "direct action" in
een
W,
vy
at
halt,
said
and
the
of
eer.
liich is holding secret
A
planned.
What form this "direct, action"
will take iH not divulged by the lead
;
1
.
ers, who proclaim their intention to
act independently of the Labor Party
or trades unions; but Dennis Jennett,
of the committee, told
the chairman
The Associated Press representative
startling nature.
they will be of
"Seventy-five percent of the Lon
don unemployed are ex-service men,"
"We. are not out for
Jennett said,
loot, but we want work provided at
Deputations to cabinet minis
result in vague promises and
Releiving acute dis
once.
ters
don't help us.
tress is by no
•uns our full pro
We want to reshape the re
cupital and labor.
the
as
gram.
iationa betwee
Workers of all trades must be admit
he
im
We
tod to control of enterprises,
propose to make this our issue, and
get all workers to adopt this idea.
not attainable
This, we realize, is
without a hard fight, and we are cer
big social uphea
tain there will be
val this winter,"
Changes Of Moon
Affects Atmosphere
of
Associated Press
al
of
the
PARIS, Jan. 13—The changes of
the moon have been found by the ra
dio officers of the small American
fleet in the Adriatic sea to have a
striking effect upon the efficiency of
the atmosphere for transmitting ra
The officers
ur
or
dio communicatons,
have succeeded in drawing curves and
other diagrams based upon months of
observation, which, they assert, re
liably serve to indicate what atmos
pheric and celestial conditions affect
radio servee will be met at any
and
and
Ar
Ken
ing
particular date in the future.
! The discovery apparently has spe
I eial
pplication to the vicinity of the
| Adriatic, for there the changes in
| the atmospheric conditions caused by
I the change in the world's relation to
much more marked
the moon are
than anywhere else in the world, so
far as yet discovered.
The Adriatic fleet under Admiral
Andrews depends almost entirely for
its communications upon radio ser
vice, and having only receiving arid
sending apparatus of moderate effi
dency it has specially benefited from
sane the discoveries. The powerful wire- j
noisy less stations, such as the new I.afay- !
New j ettc station near Bordeaux, manage
see | to overcome unfavorable conditions
by using great power and so are not i
Gay! concerned about which way the moon j
Fly
s
j
Man- I turns.
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(Dissolve The Pans
,
hun
in
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Federation Labor
work, j
mer- PARIS, Jan. 13-The dissolution of [
the General Federation of Labor was
gold-1 ordered today by the court, whichn
kills has been hearing the case agains
| Leon Jouraux, president of the rc
small j deration and other officers charged j
have j with infringements of the law gov- j
sum- e ming the Union fines of one hum- j
M ^ ^1 *»**«.„,
and four others.
t Associated Press
AWAIT OFFICIAL
ja
n
il
;JlUl IJ
U. S. LIEUTENANT
Navy And State Depart
ment, To Make Care
ful Investigation
||>LM)nDTC viijv
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CONFLICTING
jLangdon Said He Was
Shot After Identity
Known.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—The Na
vy and State Departments are today
awaiting further official information,
shooting
if
concerning the
Lieut. W. II Langdon, chief engin
f n tnl
ver of the United States Cruiser Al
bany by a Japanese sentry at Vkido
vosto several days ago. The govern
ment will make careful investigation
until the actual facts are obtained.
The reports received by the Navy De
One is
partment are conflicting,
quoted that Langdon said he was
fired upon after making known his
dentity to the sentry. Another cre
lils the sentry with saying that
Langdon fired on him, when he at
tempted to halt him before the Jap
mese Division headquarters.
OFFICIAL VERSION GIVEN.
WASHING TO N, Jan. 13 --Li out.
W, H. Lungdon of the American Na
vy was shot by the Japanese sentry
at Vladivostok, when he failed to un
lerstand or heed the command to
halt, said the official version of the
incident received by the Japanese
Embassy today,
said the Minister of War at Tokh)
and the Japanese commandant at
Vladivostock had expressed regret to
the commander of the Cruiser Albany
of which Langdorn was chief engin
eer.
Another message
HAUL CURRENCY
THRU STREETS
More Than $80.6(10,0110 Gold And Mil
Pass Down Street Without
Lonh Of Cent.
ver
Associated Press
Jan. 13—More than
ST. LOUIS,
$80,660,000 in gold, silver and cur
hauled through the streets
rency was
of St. Louis without a loss of a cent,
while crime here was at its peak last
month, it is announced at the Feder
al Building.
Daily for nearly a month millions
of dollars were carried 15 blocks to
the Union Station, as much as $5,
600,000 being in a single trip.
Three men, with arms concealed,
guarded each vehicle, an unbroken
maintained.
secrecy was
The money was being sent to the
mints at Denver and San Francisco
from the United States Suhtreasury
here, which suspended by act of Con
gress last May.
U.S. TO ADVANCE
THE GREEK GOV'T.
in
to
so
j
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— 1
i
j
Thirty Two Million Which Was Prom
ised When, Vcnizelon Was
Prime Minister.
Associatcd Press
ATHENS, Jan. 13 —(Wednesday)
It was announced today that the
United States has consented to ad
to the Greek government the
of $32,000,000 promised to
when Venizelos was Prime
Minister, but upon the condition that
s the money be expended in America
j for non-war material.
;vance
Planters Warehouse
Destroyed By Fire
of [
P i anter3 Warehouse here containing
a quantity of nee was destroyed by
rc- a fire of undfrtermined origin early
j today. The loss is estimated at
j $250,000.
j j t was
th. bunding
at the time of the fire.
Associated Press
CROWLEY, La., Jan. 13—The
estimated that 60,000 baRH