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- , , 1 -T '"V." i "SWliffi l 5,rr vpa&K wwu. -" "' """'kj!'- T'HTCH'T'JSBWsS iY, Vk ., " v t -Ky'SCiA ; V It You Don't Oet - The Missouri Herald, You Don't aet the News. $1.00 a Year TVif MnHflVH ftr aid V . . ..,...- I.I - . II I -. ,.- ... I. i, , ,, , , ..,, ....I--.. I ., ,.-,.. I. I., ... !..-. ?KiV&L-; fy $ .' ' I r . i. . ffiStt.'S V'Of th Poonlo. Bv the Vs.iSfJ Peonle. For the Peonle.' -"fe??3 rit r not All Via irima " ;& rT50W VOL.' 14 ii HAYTI, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1922 PiO.,52 . ari ' 'Hell-Wesl-and-Crooked' ' Look out for last and 11th hour lies. We have a radio that they arc coming, compounded with all the rot and infamy their depraved-minded authors are so capable of manufactur ing. N We happened along when a covey of such evil minds had their heads together, and could not avoid hearing one of them say: "That thar article in that thar Hayti paper last week has just 'bout knocked things hell-west-and-crooked. Sumpin's gotta be done 'bout it." We don't know what "things" have been knocked "hell-west-and-crooked." "Things" covers such a wide range of scope, that "plans" would be included in the enumeration. Perhaps "plans" was what was alluded to. If so, ' such "plans" deserve such a "knock." But the "knock" was some "knock," if their definition of it is correct. We are glad it had the accredited punch. There is yet due a still harder "knock." We refer 'to the scoundrels who are going about over the country advising the negroes to arm themselves against the whites both in their homes and for voting, thereby inciting race riot. We know the negro. We are his friend. We know the history of most race trouble, and ninety-nine times out of every hundred when such occurs, some white son-of-a-gun is at the bottom of it all. The dirty political scamps who are advising the negroes to arm themselves are, in reality, the black man's most deadly foe, and all intelligent negroes will resent their evil advice with de served scorn. No law-abiding negro is in danger in this county, ever has been or ever will be ; but every one of them who re sorts to concealed weapons, as advised, by that act immediately becomes an outlaw under the Statutes of the State of Missouri. And when the negro does so upon the advice of political car petbaggers he is courting his own undoing. It has been so in other places, and it will be so here. This is a law-abiding community. The negro is a new citizen. The black face is strange. The negro is coming here because the boll weevil has starved him out of the South. He was invited to come. He is needed. He will have all the protection that the white pioneer here has and that is all he is entitled to, or should expect. When he has been in the State twelve, and the county six months, he will be privileged to walk up to the ballot box and vote with the same freedom that the white man does, and he will not need to go armed. Those who advise him to do otherwise care all for his vote and nothing, for his welfare. ' We think negroes will be too honorable to attempt such a violation of the law. In fact, we have always found decent negroes more respecta ble than a certain low.grade of white scoundrels who care only for the negroes' vote. We hope this is one of the "things" that will be knocked "hell-west-and-crooked." And as to their last hour campaign lies, as we understand are coming through the mouth of their organ like a ' turgid ' flood upon the Mississippi, that, of course, will be considered as slime to be shunned by all. BRAGG CITY NEWS We have-not seen anything In your paper from our little "Burg" for some time, and our enthusiasm becomes aroused to the extent that we do not want to be isolated from the rest of the world. The farmers through this section of the county are very much elated over the yield of the cotton crop for the present season; most of the crop has been picked and placed on the market. LAWRENCE-WARTH. The following taken from a Flat River paper tells of the marriage of Tom Warth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Warth of this city and will be interesting to his many friends in Hayti: "Miss Mattie Lawrence, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Lawrence of Flat River, and Mr. Thos. Warth, whose former home was in Hayti, Mo but who has made his home here for the past year, having been employed as a carpen ter for the National Lead Company, were united in marriuge Wednesday, October 25, at high noon in the old Cathedral at Second and Walnut street in St. 'Louis, Rev. Father f j'eb-Uz officiating. The bridal couple were accompanied to St. Louis by the bride's parents, who were the only witnesses of the cere mony. The bride was becomingly attired in a gown of brown poiret twill. , "The bridal party returned to Flat River Wednesday afternoon, and to the home of the bride's parents, where u bountiful wedding supper was served. The supper had been prepared by Miss Mary Lawrence, sister of the bride, and Mrs. Ernest Lawrence, her sister-in-law. The immediate members of the family were the only guests at supper. "Mr. and Mrs. Warth are among Flat River's most estimable young people and have a host of friends who wish them happiness. For the present they will muke their home with the bride's parents "Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence are enter taining with a miscellaneous shower at their home this evening in bopor of the bridal couple.'' GINS ARIZONA COTTON. Renew your Herald subscription Dr. Frank Church will enter tain you at the High School audito rium Thursduy evening, Nov. 9th. A bale of cotton from the Salt River Valley, Arizona, near Phoenix, was ginned at one of the gins at Kennett Tuesday of this week, Cal Chism, an expert glnner of this city, going over there to aid in the gin ning. Without further explanation this brief statement would leave the matter in mystery, so here is the story: They raise long staple cotton in that section of the Southwest, and long staple cotton Is exceedingly difficult to gin without damage to the fiber. So owners of large cotton acreage of that section shipped a bale of their long staple cotton to Kennett to be tried out on a Phelps gin stand in operation there. Tues day representatives of the cotton people came to Kennett and saw the bale clnned. The test, Mr. Chism says, was perfect. The bale was ginned in twenty minutes and the fiber came out line, whole and silky. The cotton men were well pleased, and will probably purcahse ten -of these gins, which they will begin to erect in the spring, and Mr. Chlbin has been engaged to go there and as sist in the construction and opera tion of the same. Corporal Amps Riles is home from Moberly for a few days' round up with the boys, just before the big Bhow next Tuesday, in which he ex pects to stack up one Republican vote for Senator James A. Use Herald want ads want quick results. if you On last Tuesday evening when we came in from our daily toils we saw posted on nearly every fence POBt n' town that there would be "An Old Fashioned Republican Speaking and Handshaking" at the Bob Ray Theatre T.uesday night. So when the hour arrived and all the Repub lican candidates arrived in our quiet little village like a whirlwind, they found that all the good citizens who had voted the Republican ticket two years ago had "repented" of their wrongdoings and had made up their minds not to venture out on such wild speculations any more; but it was found, however that there were two left, who said that they would still be Republican in honor or Abe Lincoln, these two being C. Holt and R. L. Stanley. They were not inclined however to take an ac tive part in the program o f the evening for the reason that they are each in public positions and are do ing well and like good old Dem ocracy, they believe in the policy of "Let well enough alone," and after caucusing with the "line-up" that had come over from other parts of the county to deliver their volumes of "Silver Tongued Oratory," it be came a question or who would lis ten, as there were not any Republi cans left. But Mr. Stanley was anx ious to see that the crowd did. not gc away with any personal malice to ward him and went over and inter viewed Geo. Slaughter, who is a staunch Democrat, and had him come over and pilot the Republicans out of their distress: so the meeting wascalled to order by Mr. Slaughter who announced that the first speak er in behalf of the Republican ticket would be Mr. O'Connor, candidate for Recorder of Deeds for Pemiscot county. Mr. O'Connor in his brief remarks said "that he was a candidate for that office and that he was once sur veyor back in 'sunny Tennessess;'" and he also said that he was opposed in his race by a good old-fashioned Democrat that no one, not even him self, could find any fault to his his career. The next speaker who was intro duced was Mr. Quincy Fowler, who said he was a candidate for Circuit Court Clerk, but that he was not an orator and would leave the floor to someone else. The next speaker was Mr. Orle Rader, who talked for a while about high taxes and high tariff and in Hie course of his remarks said that the taxpayers had been saved several millions of dollars by taking off Uip "Income Tax" and that wo should feel proud that we lived in a free country. The next speaker for the evening wub Hon. T. R. Cole, who said that he had built over one hundred miles of road in Pemiscot county and that "the comity was now in debt about seventy-live thousand dollars." There were two other speakers whose names we failed to remomber but they were candidates for some office, and wo did not learn whethci they were in favor of "Andy Gump" for Congress, or just what their views were. Jf there were any more Republi cans in attendance than the the ones we have hereinbefore mention ed we bg to apologize for the omis sions of your name from the list. This was all we heard said that would lead us to believe that this was really a Republican "Hand shaking." SPECTATOR. iiAYTI SCHOOL NOTES 0 This week marked the end of the first quarter and quarterly examina tions wore given Thursday and Fri day. The Freshman class entertained the Sophomore class at the High .School lost Tuesday. The building was decorated appropriately for Hali loween. All present reported an en joyable evening. The Athletic Club derived about $95 from the foot ball game last Fri day, and the profit shall be applied on the foot ball suits purchased from -Copies Drugstore. This is a record crowd and the Athletic Club wishes to thank the people of Hayti for the Splendid support given them. The foot ball schedule for the re mainder of the season is as follows: Hayti at Kennett, Nov. 3. Hayti at Maiden, Nov. 10. Caruthersville at Hayti, Nov. 17 !Hayti at Caruthersville, Nov. 24. Oran at Hayti, Nov. 30. The girls' basket ball team will "play Lilbourn next Friday, Nov. 10. at Lilbourn. TRAIN 805 ROBBED TWO ROBBERS KILLED. The New Eledtion Law TO THE VOTERS OF PEMISCOT COUNTY: H. H. Houchins of Blytheville Is in Hayti with a car load of mules which he will sell or trade, for hogs and cattle. Two highwaymen, after success fully holding up and robbing train No. 805 of the Frisco last night be tween Star'Landlng and Wittenburg about SO miles south of St. Louis, were later shot and killed by spe cial agents of the railroad. This is the train duein Hayti at 4 o'clock In the morning, but did not reach here until 10 o'clock today According to a statement of one of the train crew, the robbers hoard ed the train at Seventy-six, known as Star Landing, when the train stop ped at a tank near there for water, and after it started up and was un der headway, entered the mail car, and getting the drop on the messen-ge-s, disarmed them. They then helped themselves to all they de sired to take, first, however, having uncoupled the engine, baggage and mull cars from the rest of the train, which they ran down the track a few hundred yards. After the robbery the highwaymen then uncoupled the engine from the dismembered coaches, mounted the engine and sped away toward Wit tenburg. Before reaching there, a check was made and the men step ped off with their loot, having first opened the engine throttle, and turning the big machine loose, wild on the road. Here. is the interesting part of the story: Near where the robbers left the engine they had parked a car, in a woody place, well supplied with food, and there awaited their arri val eight special agents of the rail road company. Both men soon paid the penalty of their crime. One of the robbers turned out to be "Jack" Canady, with a long list of crimes to his record and wanted for holding up an Iron Mountain train during the past summer. For some time the special agente had been watching for an expected holdup between here and St. Louis, and trail of the men was picked up at Cape Girardeau and followed to the place the highwaymen had hid den their car. Not knowing they had been de tected and were being watched, the two men ran into the trap await ing them. Under the election law of 1921 all the political thJo be voted for will be on one sheet of paper or ballses. Then column on the ballot will be the Republican tic&tted an am? the names of all candidates on that ticket, anuthor,zetl the.nd column will be the Democratic ticket containi,9t "pon he. $.mes c ij i. i. , ,. , j lutomoblle lid .. of candidates on that ticket. . ni1nnf & At the top of each column or ticket will fent author?' the resnective nolitical narties with a circle DePar"ne".' the autonv immediately under the name of the political pSinterest i N mediately in front of the name of e"ach candidate- provr.3p&u If a voter wishes to vote a straight ticket he will do so by making a cross in the circle immediately under the name of the political party to which he belongs. 'No other marking is necessary. If a voter does not desire to vote for all the candi dates on his party ticket he will make a cross immediately un der the name of the political party ticket he desires to vote and also make a cross in the square immediately in front of the name of the candidate appearing on some other ticket for whom he wishes to vote. If a voter does not desire to vote a party ticket he should place a cross in the square in front of indicating the voter's choice as above explained, cannot be a cross in the circle under the party name. Do not scratch any name or write in any name, unless you desire to vote for some person whose name does not appear on any of the printed tickets. A ballot which contains no cross indicating the voter's choice as above explained cannot be counted. To illustrate: Suppose a Republican desires to vote for all candidates on his ticket except the Republican candidate for United States Senator, he or she will make a cross in the circle atthe top of the Republican ticket and also make a cross in the square in front of the name of James A. Reed on the Democratic ticket. Or if a Democrat does not desire to vote for either Reed or Brewster, then he should place a cross mark in the circle at the top of the Democratic ticket and also place a cross mark in each of the two squares immediately in front of the names of both Reed and Brewster. DO NOT SCRATCH OR WRITE IN ANY NAMES. Any Republican or any Democrat or Socialist may vote for as many candidates on the opposite ticket as such yoter .de .sires, but to do so a cross must be made in the square in front of the candidate's name desired to be voted for. - ) EVERETT REEVES, M Chairman Democratic Committee. WHAT ABOUT THE WIT NESS AND JURY FUND? Are you going to the High School auditorium Thursday evening November 9? Dr. Frank Church will be there. Dr, Frank Church will enter tain you at the High School uudito rium Thursday evening, Nov. 9th. The second number of the Lyceum Course will be given next Thursday evening, Nov. 9. Dr. Frank Church will be the entertainer of the even ing, and it is hoped all will avail themselves of this rare opportunity to hear something worth while. All High School students will bo admit ted at children's faro, in order that as many as possible will attend nil these educational meetings. We have always believed that all people should be honest at all times and under all circumstances, and that a man is not excused from that obligation simply because he is a politician or a candidate for office. We are informed that certain per sons are going about over this coun ty saying that the reason there is no money in the Jury and Witness fund is because of the delinquent taxes for the year 1921. The writer is in n position to know that great sums of money have been taken from the Jury and Witness fund by the coun ty court and spent for other pur poses. We have heard, and so have you, of the culprit that ran down the street crying "Stop, thief!" in order to divert suspicion. No one that mis represents the facts is worthy of a public trust. Democrat-Argus. BUYS PARTNER OUT. Charlie Pikey of Portagevillo was seeing old friends in Hayti Monday J. Tull was a business visitor ut New Madrid Monday. Dr. Rhodes and family visited Judge Sam Pikey at Conran Sunday, Geo. Gardner attended to business at Caruthersville Monday. At the time of going to press the Caruthersville Republican has failed to put In Its appearance on its usual time, hence we are unable to notice any of Its last hour falsehoods, which we do not doubt its columns will be filled by the writer whose picture frequently appears in the "Anchor," the negro paper. Yes, and that Isn't all. If the re cords were fully gone Into, much could be found to explain the deple tion of the Jury and Witness fund, chargeable directly to the pernicious practice of the two Republican mem bers of the county court. We will mention one their refisal to let out the county advertising, after ad vertising to do so and after receiv ing bids, nnd for no other reason than because the lowest bid came from a Democratic paper. We ex-' plained this fully at the time and only refer to it now to refresh the memories of our readers. Ward Dorris is now sole proprietor of the D. & D. Garage, the deal hav ing been closed some time ago, but through oversight we failed to make mention of it. Mr. Dorris is a first class workman and his place is equipped with all the latest devices that such a business requires. He understands the work in every detail and hnving expert assistants, will be able to render prompt and efficient service. He also intends to enlarge and improve his shop as soon as prac tical. We understand Mr. Dortch, the retiring partner, will remain in the service for some time, and his many friends would be glad should he remain all the time, for they have found him to be a reliable and ex perienced workman. However, we are not informed as to what Mr. Dortch's future Intentions are. Second number of the Lyceum Course will be given Thursday eve ning, November 9 th. Dr Franfc Church is the entertainer for that number. Second number of the Lyceum Courbe will be given Thursday eve ning, November 9th. Dr Frank Church is the entertainer for that number. Dr. W. A. Crockett, who has re sided at Steele for sotno time, has purchased property here for his permanent homo and will shortly be ono of our citizens. Tho people here will bo glad to welcome him and his estimable family, and tho Doctor, In selecting this place for his porma manent home, has undoubtedly chos en more wisely than he thinks, for Hayti Is now a delightful littlo city to livo in, and is growing better all tho time. Col. Tom Taylor and son, Bob, of Memphis, have been horo this week visiting their boh and brother, Wood Taylor, who owns one of the finest cotton farms in the county, and which is located in the edgo of Hayti. Are you going to tho High School auditorium Thursday evening November 9? Dr. Frank Church will be there. Hon. R. L. Ward, wife and littlo son passed through Hayti yesterday afternoon en route to Memphis, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. William York of the Steele Enterprise visited in this city last Sunday afternoon. Judge W. E. Browu of Wardell at tended to business at Hayti Monday. Tom Suddarth of Netherlands at tended to business in Hayti Monday., m '-it I rAl "iac 1 Wu M S?l If- vl l l fit '41 ... 1" "i -Use Herald want ads. '4t .,i . $U ,.! (UMwii-. , , JwiUAft'tJS ( V --viA- Wi V, f, t