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VOLUME XIII—No. 141
PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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COMMERCIAL
CLUB ORGANIZED
With 54 Charter Members at
Meeting Last Night—Lions
Club Boosters From Little
Rock Made Addresses.
Fifty-four business and professional
al men met laBt night at the court
house and organized themselves into
a Commercial Club for the purpose of
boosting Prescott in a substantial
way. After the organization was per
fected fL'ty-four business and profes
sional men became charter members
of the Club.
Mayor Randolph P. Hamby acted as
chairman of the meeting and after a
few preliminary remarks on the ne
cessity of a commercial organization
for the city, introduced Messrs. Parks
and Anderson of Little Rock, who are
members of the Lyons Club of that
city, Mr. Parks being secretary. Both
gentlemen gave very interesting talks
of their organization which they said
was for the purpose of promoting
civic improvements, creating get-to
gether feelings among the business
and professional men and looking
after the general welfare of the city.
The talks were well received but af
ter discussion by those present it was
decided to organize a commercial club
and in the future probably perfect the
organization of a Lyons club.
Joe A. Bailey was elected tempor
ary secretary of the meeting and af
ter a few brief talks by business men,
I Chairman Hamby took the floor and
explained the vital need of an or
ganization in Prescott for the purpose
of not only -reaching out and bringing
trade to Prescott, but cinching the
trade in its rightful territory. He
touched the keynote by stating that
Prescott is losing cotton every year
because of the fact that this city is
not paying prices to conform with
those of neighbor towns; this fact is
undisputable, he said. Naturally,
when a farmer takes his cotton to
other towns for marketing, that town
also gets that farmer’s trade and
Prescott merchants suffer. He also
dwelt at length on the need of a com
mercial organization for securing
manufacturing enterprises. Chairman
Hamby stated that he received in
quiries every week relative to fac
tories, prospectors, etc., locating in
Prescott and Nevada county, but the
lack of a commercial organization to
answer this correspondence results in
the ignoring of the answers by the
prospects, who seem to consider that
a city without an organization is a
dead one.
Dr. A. S. Buchanan also gave some
interesting data to show that while
Why Take Chances ?
Often people who lose money
through failure to bank it; or through
buying bad stocks; or by speculation,
“Oh, well, I’ll charge it up to
education.” ;
Stich education is too expensive. B
prudent-bank your money at the
Bank of Prescott, and have Earning
Funds—only. We pay 4% interest
semi-annually.
BANK OF PRESCOTT
$75, •00.00
$75,600.00
Capital.
Surplus..
PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS
PcyfcctS*
’4:,
ON
\ SAVINGS/
deposits.
REMAINS of hessian camp UNEARTHED IN NEW YORK
Workmen excavating at Broadway and One Hundred
to be the flooring and fireplace of a hut of a camp occupied
graph shows children searching the excavation for relics.
and Sixty-ninth street, New York, unearthed what is said
by the Hessians during the Revolutionary war. The photo
we are sleeping, other towns are get
ting our trade, because they have in
ducements to offer in the way of cot
ton prices, etc.
Dr. A. S. Buchanan was elected per
manent president of the newly organ
ized Commercial Club and presided in
the place of Chairman Hamby through
the remainder of the proceedings. An
executive committee composed of
Mark M. Smyth, Lynn J. Harrell,
Chas. F. Pittman, Thos. C. McRae,
Jr., and John A. Davis was appointed
for the purpose of drafting a consti
tution and by-laws and securing a
permanent secretary. The commit
tee will report at the next meeting to
be held at 8 o’clock next Thursday
night and acted upon by the members.
A vote of thanks was accorded Messrs '
Parks and Anderson for kindness in
coming to Prescott and explaining
the workings of the Lyons Club.
DR. J. R. DALE IS INJURED
WHEN HIT BY DELIVERY CAR
Dr. J. R. Dale was seriously in
jured yesterday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock when he was struck and
knocked down by a State Line clean
ing establishment’s delivery car at
the corner of Third and Hazel streets,
his collar bone being broken.
At the time of the accident, Dr.
Dale was accompanied by his son,
Dr. Rodney Dale. The injured doctor
was immediately removed to his home
where the fracture was given proper
attention.—Texarkana Four States
Press Sept. 26.
ACCEPT OR REJECT
IS WILSON’S PLAN
President Seeks to Secure Im
mediate Action on Treaty By
the Senate—U. S. Too Proud
to Ask Reservations.
Pueblo, Colo., Sept. 25.—Reducing :
his fight for the peace treaty to a
direct issue of acceptance or rejection,
President Wilson today invited the
Senate to take a definite and unmis
takable stand one way or the other.
After declaring it would be his duty
as chief executive to judge whether
the Senate’s action constituted ac
ceptance or rejection, should reserva
tions be incorporated in the ratifica
tion, the president added a warning
that he did not consider “qualified
adoption” as adoption in fact. He
said, however, that he saw no objec
tion to mere interpretations.
In two addresses in Colorado dur
ing the day, Mr. Wilson reiterated
again and again that the whole con
troversy had resolved itself into a
clear-cut question whether the boiled
States should go into the league of
nations or stay out. It was time, he
said, that the nation knew where it
was to stand.
Meanwhile White House officials ni
the presidential party permitted it to
become known that the proposed res
ervation which the president quoted
at Salt Lake City and Cheyenne, and
which he announced he would regard
as a rejection of the treaty, was one
he had been informed was agreed on
by several Republican Senate leaders.
Reviewing the treaty provisions,
the president stressed the self-de
termination and labor features.
Going on to the league of nations
covenant, he declared it was necessary
for carrying out the peace terms.
Fro the same reason, he asserted, the
covenant would be incorporated in
the treaties with Austria-Hungary,
Bulgaria and Turkey, now under ne
gotiation at Versailles.
Article ten, said the president, was
based on the sentiments, not only of
the American people, but of the
'world. Referring to his 14 points of
(peace, which he said only spoke the
sentiment of the American people,
‘]Jlr. Wilson declared that program
bad been accepted everywhere and
that he had crossed the ocean “under
bond” arid carried out the peace plan
which everyone had endorsed.
Mr. Wilson was applauded when
he said the United States was “too
proud to ask for reservations which
would relieve it of some of the res
ponsibilities other nations assume
tinder the league.” There was more
dpplause when he said he was fight
ing for the safety of the children and
would exert all his influence to see
that another generation would not
Have to go overseas in arms.
If you want the Daily Gazette bj
mail, let me have your subscription
Jack Johnson Jr., Newsdealer. tl
LEGISLATURE WILL
ADJOURN WEDNESDAY
Little Rock, Sept. 26.—The House
and Senate yesterday adopted a reso
lution by Mr. Riggs of Garland county
that the special session of the legis
lature adjourn at noon next Wednes
day, Oct. 1.
An amendment to adjourn at noon
Saturday was voted down.
Now that there is to be no profiteer
ing legislation, the members are ex
erting themselves to get their local
measures through, and there is still
a great quantity of bills pending and
more threatening introduction.
There is a greater flood of bills
than had been anticipated.
SPIRITED FIGHT OVER
REPEAL OF ROAD BILL
There was a spirited fight in the
House yesterday over the Ward bill,
passed by the Senate, repealing the
act creating the Delta Road Improve
ment District in Lee county. The
bill was championed by Mr. McCul
loch of Lee county, and opposed by
his colleague, Mr. Elliott. The latter
raised the point of order that the bill
is out of order because it is not with
in the purview of the governor’s call.
The chair overruled this i>oint of
order, and the bill was put to a vote
and defeated.
LOOK!
A car of apples just unloaded on
West Main street next door to Dr.
Rice’s Drug Store. Come and get
prices and I am sure you will buy.
Cooking, canning and eating apples. 6t
Fred Murrah made a business trip
to Gurdon this afternoon.
STEELMEN SEEK
ARBITRATION
Union Official Declares This
Would Bring About End of
the Strike—Conditions Are
Described.
Washington, Sept. 25.—Appearing
as labor’s first witness in the Senate
investigation of the steel strike, John
^ Fitzpatrick, of Chicago, chairman of
the strikers’ committee, declared to
day that an agreement by the United
States Steel Corporation to arbitrate
differences with its employees would
result in an immediate end of the
walkout, which, he said, now affects
340,000 men.
Fitzpatrick’s statement came after
a six-hour recital before the Senate
labor committee of the efforts to
organize the steel workers, and of the
conditions which led up to the strike.
Had ,Tudge Elbert H. Gary, chairman
of the board of the steel corporation,
met the workers’ committee, the men
wolud not have walked out, Fitzpat
rick said, but an agreement for a con
ference now would not result in the
men returning to work.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
chairman of the first committee
formed to organize the steel workers,
will be heard by the committee to
morrow. On Saturday William Z.
Foster, secretary of the workers’ com
! mittee, who has been charged by Rep
resentative Cooper, Republican, Ohio,
with spreading I. W. W. propaganda,
. will be heard. Judge Gary is to ap
1 pear next Wednesday to present the
[ steel corporation’s side of the contro
i versy.
In his recital today, Fitzpatrick
painted a lurid picttnfe of conditions
in the steel districts oil Western Penn
sylvania. Ite declared there was a
reign of blood and iron there with
deputy sheriffs, paid “gunmen” and
the Pennsylvania constabulary as its
exponents. Murder and assault of
steel workers were of every day oc
currence, he alleged, and in this con
nection he sketched dramatically the
story of the killing of one woman, an
organizer of mine workers, which oc
curred before the steel strike was
called.
Fitzpatrick’s deductions from this
occurrence led to sharp questioning
by senators.
“Do you feel that the steel com
pany officials directly ordered the
killing of this woman?” asked Sena
tor Sterling, Republican, South Da
kota.
“Yes, I do,” Fitzpatrick responded.
“Think they had a meeting and
decided upon murder?”
“Oh, I don’t think they passed a
motion and left a record of it, if that’s
what you mean.”
We have in our first shipment
of
for early Fall wear. They are
good looking and exceptionally
good values.
Come in and let us show you.
See our window.
OZAN MERCANTILE COMPANY
Prescott, Ark.

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