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COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920
DEATH OF KAISER
CIRCULATED IK HOLLO
HAS HOT BEEN VERIFIE
ESTABLISHED IN i8,3
v
UNITED PRESS IS UNABLE TO
CONFIRM REPORTS CIRCU
f LATED SUNDAY.
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TRAVELERS BRING REPORTS
France Hears That Former German
Emperor Suffered Stroke of Paraly.
sis While Walking in Garden at His
Home.
j (By United Press.) s
PARIS, Jan. '22, Travelers arriv
ing here from Ainerongon. have re
ported that former Kaiser Wilhelm
suffered a stroke of paralysis while
walking in the garden at his home on
the estate of Vou Bentninck.
AMERONGEN, Holland, (Sunday) -Rumors
of the death of former Em
peror Wilhelm, of Germany, were cir
culated throughout Holland, hut the
United Press was unable to confirm
the report from any source.
TRUSTEE BURNS
MAKING TOUR OF
BANKING CENTERS
VISITING PEOPLE OF DISTRICTS
TO ENABLE THEM TO PAY
WITHOUT COMING TO CITY.
IS DOWN AT CUUEOKA TODAY
Former Records Broken In
Volume Real Estate Sales
Since Beginning N$w Yeaf
SALES SUCCESSFUL,
MERCHANTS REPORT
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BUYERS FROM COLUMBIA WILL
SOON GO TO EASTERN MAR-
KETSFOR SPRING GOODS.
The most " successful mid-winter
clearance and clean sweep sales ever
conducted by., local merchants will
close early next week. . These
sales have been in progress for
several days, and enormous quantities
.of .merchandise have been moved.
Early next week Messrs Eugene An
derson, of Anderson Bros. & Foster,
and John T. Wooten, of Maury Dry
Goods Company, will leave for the
New York -markets., where they will
purchase spring goods for their firms.
About the same time W. P. Boyd, of
the J. Rosenthal Company will leave
for Cincinnati, whore he will make
purchases of spring merchandise. A.
Kauman, whose clearance sale contin
ues into next week, will probably not
leave for market for several days yet.
POWANAN BEING
TOWED INTO PORT
LADY LAURIER OF CANADIAN
LINE HAD TO TAKE UP WORK
OF WESTERN COMET.
(Hy United Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. The Ca
nadian steamer Lady Laurier is ivjw
towing the disabled transport Po.va
tau In to Halifax, tlio army transput
service was advised today. Hie
steamer Western Comet, after towing
the Powatan for a distance, had trouble-with
her tow lines and the Ludy
Laurier had to take tip the work.
Tomorrow He Will Be in Tenth Dis
trict, and 'Next Week Spring Hi'll
and Mt. Pleasant Will Be Visited.
Two Dcys f.t Lr.tter Place. '
li'ii;-tee J. Kosm . Burns is making
bis animal tour of the county to col
let, t tuxes. On yesterday he spent the
day at Santa Fe, making his headquar
ters at the Hank of Santa Fe where he
accommodated a largo number of tax
payers who wanted to settle with the
state and county without having to
make the journey to Columbia.
Trustee Bums isat Culleoka to
day, making his headquarters at the
Hank of Culleoka, giving the folks of
the fifth district a chance to pay tax
es. Tomorrow ho will journey to
Hampshire for the same purpose.
On next Wednesday Mr. Burns will
be at Spring Hill. He will spend
Thursday and Friday at Mt. Pleasant.
On the first named date he will make
headquarters at the Fanners and Mer
chants Bank, while on Friday lie can
be fouitd with the First National
Bank.
These visits are a survival of the
old custom- of going to every district
in the county in the days when trans
portation to the county seat was slow
and difficult. Now the trustee simply
confines his visits to the centers that
have a bank.
GREAT OFFERING
DUPiOC HOGS AT
OLD HOMESTEAD
WILLIAMSON'S ANNUAL SALE
WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 3.
RESULT OF YEAR'S PREPARATION
Stock That Won So Many Prizes and
Ribbons in the Fairs Last Fall Will
Be in the Auction Ring Maury
County Products.
COMMITTEE SPLITS
IN "FITNESS" HEARING
EVANS SAYS THAT LOYALTY TO
GOVERNMENT IS NOT NECES
SARY TO MEMBERSHIP.
t
(By United Press.)
. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 22. The first
public bjeak in the ranks of the judi
ciary committee in conducting the
hearing into the fitness of the five sus
peded socialist assemblymen, came
today just before the hearing was re
sumed. William S. Evans, of New
York, member of the committee, filed
a dissenting opinion to the ruling of
Chairman Martin that, the committee
had a right to prescribe loyalty as the
test for the suspended members' eligi
bility. Reports were circulated that
four other members of the committee
coincided with Evans' opinion, but
would not go on record. It is further
reported that three additional mem
bers were inclined toward the Evans'
opinion. There are but thirteen mem
bers of the committee.
BRITIAfJ
SALUTES
FLAG OF
Announcement was made today of
the next, big Duroc Jersey hog sale
in .Maury county. On Tuesday, Febru
ary '!, James R. Williamson, will make
his annual offering at the Old Home
stead Farm. Culleoka. This is tho
first sale. that Mr. Williamson has
held in a year and during all that time
he has been making preparations to
have his best offering. Since his last
sale he has made a circuit of South
ern fairs where his collections took
prizes and ribbons almost without
number, at Chattanooga and Knox
villo especially making a clean sweep.
The blood these prize winning hogs
will run all through tho collection
that will go into the sales ring. A
feature of the sale will be the offering
of the product of hogs that were bred
In the "Dimple," hogs that have in
competition with hogs from all over
this and other states, won ribbons.
and prizes at the Southern fairs, i
Mr. Williamson's sale last year was i
remarkable for the evenness of the
prices which his hogs brought. There
were no sensational bids, but there
was a uniformity in the character of
the hogs that was reflected in the
prices that were paid.
Every convenience has been arrang-
ed for the comfort of those who at
tend the sale and interest is such that
it Is believed that the crowd that will
attend this year will be even larger
than that of 1019. Dinner will be
served by the women of the Culleo
ka Methodist church.
With only a little more than two
thirds of the month gone, a new record
for realty transfers has been set iu
Maury county. During the first twenty-one
days of the month, transfers
of lands aggregating $919,000 had
been probated at the office of Coun
ty Court Clerk Archibald W. Lips
comb. This Is fifty per cent more
than the largest sum recorded during
uuy one month of last year.
At the rate at which deeds have
been probated on the transfer record
the aggregate for the month will run
far above $1,009,000. In January of
last year, which was the premier
month for 1919, the aggregate trans
fers were ?C)M,000. The total for last
year was $i,22,;,000. It is safe to say
that tho transfers for ibis month will
be not less than one fourth of the en
tire amount for the Whole previous
year.
Never in the history of the county
has anything like this' month's record
been known in real estate transfers.
Not. only is this true of the aggregate
of the sales, but it is equally true of
the number of tho transactions. Reg
ister J. J. Pogue has established a
new record. Already this month 255
instruments have been filed for record
in his office as against a monthly av
erage last year of only about 150 instruments.
DUTCH TO REFUSE
YIELD EX-KAISER
IS BELIEF TODAY
HOLLAND IS PREPARING REPLY
TO THE ALLIED DEMANDS,
SAYS DISPATCH.
BRYAN LAONCHES DRIVE
DEMOCRAT
C
GERMANY
'lily United Press.)
LONDON. Jan. 22. An Admiralty
order today said that since peace now
exists between Great Britain and Ger
mauy, the German national Hag must
be saluted In accordance with the regulations.
GOOD WOMAN IS
. CALLED TO REWARD
MRS. URA JANE . HARRIS DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS AT'THE
LOCAL HOSPITAL.
Mrs. Ura Jane Walker Harris, wife
of A. B. Harris, of Soutliport, died
yesterday afternoon at the King's
Daughters hospital, after a long ill
ness, following au operation. Mrs.
Harris was only twenty-seven years
of age and had not been long mar
ried. She Is survived by her hus
band, a prominent farmer of South
port, and her father and mother, Mr.
and -Mrs. Alex Walker, of near Mt. j
Pleasant, two brothers and one sister.
The funeral services will be held
at Glenwood church tomorrow at 11
o'clock, conducted by Drs. Givens and
Alderman. Mrs. Harris was a consist
ent and devoted member of the Cum
berland Presbyterian church and a
splendid woman.
POPULAR SENTIMENT OPPOSES
People of Holland Are Strongly Op
posed to the Extradition of the For
mer Emperor for Trial Before Tribunal,
(By United Press.)
LONDON. Jan. 22. The Dutch re
ply to Hie allied demands for the ex
tradition of the former kaiser, is un
der preparation, according to a dis
patch from Amsterdam.
It is expected that the allied de
mands will fto refused. Public opin
ion in Holland is strongly against ex
tradition, the dispatch says.
ORGANIZED LABOR FIGHTING
ENACTMENT SEDITION BILLS
. , .
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22. Organized
labor today threw its force and In
tlunce against 'he sedition bills pend
ing in congress, with the declaration
by Samuel Coroners before the house
rule -in:rir--!i t!-i: i!v tr.'-srures
a r 'veiled tien;;il ui as; the anli
Miike laws aft'e cling all indusrrles."
Gonipers' charges brought denials
ft, iii several members of the commit-
RICHMOND, Ya.. Jan. 22. William
Jennings Bryan, speaking here in the
interest of the prohibition drive, to
night launched an attack on Homer
Cuuimings, national democratic chair
man. Bryan declared that Cummings
must either separate from Gov. Ed
wards, of New Jersey, , or resign as
head of the democratic party. "The
democratic party too near to me to
ever consent to have its interests al
lied with those of the liquor Inter-! It is now "Judge" John Shelby Cof
est,'' said Mr. Bryan. j fey. That honor was conferred upon
the city attorney by the members of
j the bar association when lie was elecl
! ed special chancellor to try some
! cases In the chancery court. ' Judge"
Coffey, who w as mentioned for chan
! cellar when the recent , appointment
j was made, is wearing his honors with
becoming dignity.
TITLE OF JUDGE S '
CONFERREO ON COFFEY
t it ti affocU, only those seeking the
overthrow of the government by force)
of violence. Gomners claimed that the i
wcrd force, could be construed to mean)
mo;al forre, thus making Cup law ap-j
plicable to peaceful efforts to change!
the government.
Attorney General Palmer, utter a
conference nt the While House sent a
FEW CASES DISPOSED
OF IN CRIMINAL COURT
County criminal court continued to
grind today, disposing of a few minor
caes. In the absence of County At-
letlnr to tTie rommiaee declaiing that itorney Hngh Todd Sheu0n. who is
ho suportfd neither measure. nd!Btill confinPd to his room 6n account
made no direct recommendation thatof iUlt,t w. S. Fleming. Jr., is rctt-
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THREE MURDERERS TO
BE HANGED IN CANADA
PREPARATIONS COMPLETED FOR
EXECUTION AT BORDEAUX
JAIL TOMORROW.
(By United Press.)
MONTREAL, Que., Jan. 22. Prepa
rations worn complete today for the
hanging In Bordeaux jail here tomor
row of three murderers.
J. B. Lemay, Murdock Allen and Ro
meo Lacoste, all under 20 years old,
will be swung from tho gallows for
their murder of Alcide Payette, a St.
Sulplce farmer. Picas for executive
clemency so far have failed.
The men were sentenced to death
on October 4, 1919, at tho end of a
trial that occupied live days. The jury
returned tho verdict of death 19 min
utes after it had received Us Instruc
tions from Justice Desy. The con
demned men replied in the negative
when asked if they had anything to
say. 1
Payette was killed when the three
men entered, his home on August lt
last, after he had ordered them to
leave.
JOSH GREGG TO MOVE
TO GILES COUNTY
CLOVER PRICES
SOAR TO HIGHEST
POINT ON RECORD
FARMERS OF COUNTY MUST PAY
AROUND THIRTY-FIVE DOL
LARS A BUSHEL.
GRASSES ARE ALSO ELEVATED
Blue Grass and Orchard Crass Will
Cost Around Four Dollars the Bush
el While Timothy Also Goes Sky
ward Big Demand Already,
ARKANSAS TROOPS ARE
CALLED OUT TO DUEL L
Clover seed are costing the farmers
of Maury county more this spring
than they have ever paid in tho his
tory of the county. The best red
clover is selling ut around $35 a bush
el. A bushel of red clover will sow
eight acres so that the cost per acre
for seed alone this year will be around
$1.50. Although alsyke clover is usu
ally higher than the red variety it is
selling this spring at the same price,
making it cost less to the acre, since
a bushel of alsyke will sow twelve
acres or more of land.
Orchard grass, unlike clovers, has
not advanced much since last fall re
tailiug here at $4 tho bushel. Blue
grass is selling at the same price. If
one. wants to sow a pasture according
to the accepted standards of the best
farmers, using a bushel 6f orchard
grass and a bushel of blue grass to
the acre, the cost of seed will be $3
an acre. It is said always to bo advis
able to sow some clover also so that
the cost would run arbuiid $10 an acre
for the seed. These figures ought to
cause those who have a good blue
grass sou to appreciate more its value
and ' abandon an Idea of plowing it
under.
Timothy is selling at $(5.75 a bushel
which is also going to make seeding
a meadow 'a pretty expensive affair.
Herds grass or red top Is twenty-two
cents a pound, but a pound goes a
long way, as it is very light.
In spite of the high cost of clover
seed there is a big demand for It.
Clover is nn absolute necessity on
the farms of this section. It is the
one great crop wuii wiiicn son iemn-
ty is maintained. Most farmers are
perfectly willing to pay any price for
the seed if they can only get a "good
stand."
FIFTY AGENTS OF
AGRICULTURE TO
CONFER IN CITY
TWO DAY3 SESSION Or BETTER
FARMING WORKERS IN CO
COLUMBIA NEXT MONTH.
PROMINENT LEADERS ARE COMING
Will Come to Columbia to Plan the
Program for Extension on Activi
ties During the Coming Year To
Be Tendered Banquet.
One of the most Important meet
ings from au agricultural standpoint
ever held Iu Columbia will be the
conference of county and home demon
stration agents of this district which
will meet here on February 24 for
a two days sessiou.
Every county having an agent In
Prof. Dean's district embracing near
ly thirty of the leading counties of
Middle Tennessee will send the coun
ty agent and the home demonstration
agent. They will come here for con
ference, discussion and study. The
work that is to be done during the
year will be planned at this meet
ing. Assistant Director Schoenfield, of
the division, of extension, Knoxvlllo,
will bo present as will Dr. H. A. Mor
gan, president of tho University of
Tennessee and others of the foremost
agricultural thinkers of Tennessee.
The men and women agents will all
be required to attend and altogetlier
thero will be not less than fifty visi
tors in Columbia during the two days
of the session.
The Retail Credit Association and
the Board of Trade are planning
some courtesies for this bunch of live
wires. It Is probable that they will
be given a banquet on the night of
February 24 at which time several
of the leading farmers of the county
will also be invited to meet with
them.
TWO COMPANIES RUSHED FROM
LITTLE ROCK TO NEGRO SET
TLEMENT NEAR DUMAS.
MAURY FOUNTAINS AT
MOTLOW'S HOG SALE
TWO ACRES ADDED TO
EXPERIMENT STATION
CITIZENS SUBSCRIBE $500 TO
STRAIGHTEN OUT LINES OF
UNIVERSITY PROPERTY.
FARMER AND OWEN BUY SOME
OF THE CHOICEST OF THE
OFFERINGS.
Through the generosity of the citi
zens has been raided and tho old
toll gate property of John L. Jones, on
the Mt. Pleasant pike, purchased and
donated to the Middle Tennessee Ex
periment Station. This land was not
bought when the station property was
purchased but made an ugly place or
break in the lino of the station proper
ty. A few of the public spirited indi
viduals of the city and county, deter
mined that this break In the line
Khould be repaired, contributed sums
from $30 to $25 each and made up the
$500. A telegram was sent by Dr.
Roy Hardison to President Morgan,
of the University of Tenue3see, ont
Wednesday night announcing the pur
chase of the properly. The property
purchased contains two acres.
James U. Williamson, of Old Home
stead Farm, J. Bell Farmer, of Wilkes
Place, and T. Jett Owen, of Columbia,
attended the Mollow registered Duroc
hog sale at Nashville yesterday. The
sale was a success considering condi
tions prevailing now. Both Messrs
Farmer and Owen were buyers, get
ting tho choicest offerings in the sale.
They paid around $500 each for some
of tho greatest sows ever brought to
Maury county, whose blood will still
further enrich the blood lines of Mau
ry county hogs.
SEARCH FOR ARMS PLANNED
Twenty Negroes Armed With Rifles
Cover White Officers and Liberate
Negro Prisoner Charged With Hog
Stealing Feeling Tense.
(By United Press.)
DUMAS, Ark., Jan. 22. Two compa
nies of troop3 were rushed here by
special train from Little Rock yester
day, and left here this morning for
the nei'ro settlement twelve miles
east of' hero where a negro uprising
is threatening. ,''.
The negroes are said to be heavily
armed, and the troops are planning
to search every negro cabin in tho
countryside and confiscate all weap
ons. The feeling has been tense since
yesterday, when twenty negroes cov
ered three white officers with rifles
and rescued a negro risoner charged
with stealing hogs. In that soctlon
the negroes outnumbered the whites
nearly thirty to one, but the sheriff
believes the troops will soon have the
situation completely under control.
Herald Urges
Sedition Law
Be Passed Now
Instead, of following the suggestion
of President Glass, of tho American
Newspaper Publishers Association,
that newspapers protest against fea
tures of the pending sedition legisla
tion in congress, The Herald this
morning sent the following telegram
to Representative L. P. Padgett, of
this district:
"Hon. Lemuel P. Padgett,
, "House of Representatives, ' 1
"Washington, D. C.
"Liberty of 'press safe if American
constitution and institutions are pre
served. We earnestly urge immediate
enactment of socalled sedition law
that those who are not loyal may no
longer enjoy America's oportunities.
"THE HERALD."
hollIT
TO VOT
STATU
KAISER
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(By United Press.) ' '
PARIS, Jan. 22.-9-Members of the
Dutch legation here said today that
the question of the extradition of the
former Kaiser would be submitted to
a referendum.
COMMISSIONER HEARS CASES OF
DOCTORS, CHARGED DOPE SALES
The canes of tho Black Drug Com
pany, Dr. W. E. Black, Dr. J. C. Voor
hies and R. M. Church, charged with
selling narcotics, in violation of the
Harrison Anti-Narcotic luw are being
heard today by United States Com
missioner Horace Friersou.
It was late Wednesday afternoon
when the taking of evidence in the
case of the Black Drug Company was
completed, and Commissioner Frier
son did not hand down his deckdon in
the case.
This morning at U o'clock the hear-
logs were resumed, the case of Dr. J.
C. Voorhies being next called. The
hearing of this case will probably con
Writing from far off sunny Califor-, sume a greater part of this afternoon,
nia. D. F. Passmore, former Maury i and it is expected that all the cases
ctuntian, says: "Keep the paper J will not be completed before fomor
ccmin?. The dear old Herald keeps j row.
me close to the old home." i After all the evidence is in Com-
WHAT READERS THINK
OF HERALD'S VISITS
Josh Gregg, of Culleoiia, has par
chased the undertaking business at
Lvnnville of J. L. Wiegs and will j William T. White, of Frankston, missloner Frierson will render his de
time in the same line of business at
Culleoka. He has also been In, the
mercantile business and has many
friehds in that section who will r
move there at an early date. Mr. j Texas, encloses money order for re-tendon in each case.
Gregg has been engaged for some newal with instructions to keep thej Following the hearing of the Black
paper coming. Drug Company case yesterday. Dr.
Jchn C. Wilson. Jr., of, Wilson, Ark.,! Black satd: "I feel sure that there in
sends a healthy check and direct that J absolutely nothing In the case, and
the paper continue its customary vis-; that ft win be d'gmised, as there
Hon that was in the least Incrimina
ting and our evidence was complete.
Our attorney. Mr. Garner says
that the government has abso
lutely failed to make out a case
against us."
These cases are tho result of
charges made in March 1919 when
Columbia was visited by a Federal
Narcotic Inspector, during the influx
of hundreds of dope addicts to the
powder plant at Nashville. In com
batting the ever growing dope evil In
Nashville, inspectors visited the sur-
roundlntf towns in an effort to locate
the sourre of supply.
In a signed statement. Dr. Vnorhfos
1 llorl., I'C.U !.'. , 1 I ,
grain of dope In his life, and has nev
er given a prescrlution, cacept to
such . persons as he knew to be drui;
addlts cf long standing.
Other physicians have denied the
charge that they were dispensers of
dope. Considerable Interest Is being
manifested In the outcome of the
hearing, and a goodly number of spec-
tntnra db hvavtif I a. . .
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roni this mornin? where iha h' v '