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VOL. LXXII NO. 18
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, APRIL 30,. 1920
ESTABLISHED IN 1848
METHODISTS TO
RAISE' MILLIONS
FOR EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL BOARD TO INSTl
TUTE DRIVE FOR ,$25,000,000
' ,' NEXT MONTH.
ON SAME PLANS AS CENTENARY
Money Secured Will Be Used Tor the
Support of the Educational Institu
j tions of the Denomination Final
Plans Made.
NASI I VILLI', Term., April 29.
The $25,000,000 drive of the board of
education of the Southern Methodist
rhurclr; beginning in May, will con
tinue wit,ifs publicity campaign till
March, 1921, when the financial drive
will be held. This was agreed aj.
meetings of the educational campaign
commission hold Wednesday at the
TulafcV Hotel, Bishop James Cannon
presiding.
From the seventeen commissioners
four were chosen to help direct the ac
tual campaigning. These are Bish
op Cannon, Dr. Stonewall Anderson,
Dr.' W. D. Beauchamp and Mrs. J. H.
McCoy. A director general will be
appointed later to head this sub-committee.
The campaign is to reach down
through the annual conference and
the 1 Individual churches. It will be
conducted in the same way as the
two-year missionary centenary. All
Important details and policies to be
pursued In the campaign were worked
out at the Wednesday sessions.
The $25,000,000 will be used for sup
port of the educational institutions
of the Southern Methodist church.
A Nashville man will be chosen as
director general to head the above
sub-committee of Nashville workers,
since Nashville Is the center of the
movement. '
GOOD MULE MARKET
( 0N: MONDAY EXPECTED
DEALERS BELIEVE, PRICES WILL
BE GOODBUT HEAVY MULES
NOT IN GREAT DEMAND.
COMMITTEE WILL RECOUNT OF NEW
VISIT SCHOOLOltaSEY VOTE TO
ME if REPORT fe!tMA!f NOW
T- 1U SUM-
INSPECT RECOM-
JUSTICES TO
MENDATIONS MADE BY COUN
TY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
ARE TO GO INTO EVERY DISTRICT
Two Houses Must Be Built at Once
As Result of Storm and Fire Has
Made Another Vacancy Mt. Pleas
ant Building Inadequate.
For the purpose of investigating in
detail the .recommendations of the
county board of education on new
school buildings and repairs of school
houses the special committee of the
county court will nevt week make a
tour of the county. This committee
is composed of Superintendent Gra
ham, chairman; and Squires Mat
thews, Wilkes and Dugger.
The committee hopes to make a
visit to every diserict in the county
although all the - members are busy
men and this investigation will be
purely a labor of love. In the tenta
tive piano recommending expenditures
to tho county court the committee
provided for improvements in every
district of the county. Some of these
buildings must be erected at once or
iio schools can be taught.
In the second district, tho wind
storm last week put two schools, New
Hope and Beechland, out of commis
sion altogether. In the first district
things are in bad shape. In the sixth
district there is no building at all at
Porter'sj because of a recent, fire. The
Mt. Pleasant elementary school is so
overrun with pupils that it will be nec
essary to turn a large number away
next year unless there is an addition
made.
The court meets a week from next
Monday to consider the whole school
and bridge question of the count. A
busy and interesting session Is expected.
Local mule dealers are expecting a
lively market for the long eared an
imals hero Monday, but it is thought
that the offerings will be light, as the
farmers-of the" county are taking ad
vantage of every possible moment to
catch up with farm work which is
generally behind on account of contin
ued rains. !
Mule dealers expect the pri es
which have prevailed for the past fow
months, to continue in effect, but it is
thought that very few heavy mi les
will be offered for sale, as the de
mand for the sugar mules has al
ready been met. However, it is
thought the supply of light mules on
the'market will be taken by buyers at
good prices.
THOMAS IS PLEASED ..
'WITH THE KEEN SALE
HERALD WAS THE MOST EXTEN
SIVELY USED ADVERTISING
' MEDIUM OF AUCTION.
TO MAKE PLANS FOR
INVITING JOHNNY REBS
MEETING OF MAURY COUNTY
CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF
CONFEDERACY FRIDAY.
.nr
MANAGERS OF," SENATOR' JOHN
SON'S CAMPAIGN CLAIM HE
HAS BEEN "COUNTED OUT." '
GENERAL WOOD NOW LEADING
Heads Ticket by About 600 Votes,
With Several Precincts Still to Be
Reported, According to Latest Re
ports. ' ' ' '
fBv United Press.)
NKW YORK, April 2!). A recount
of the votes in New Jersey's primary
will be demanded by managers of
Senator Hiram Johnson's campaign,
it wa annonced here, following a con
ference of Johnson's leaders.
With eighty precincts still to be
heard from, Johnson was reported
600 votes behind " General Leonard
Wood. The recount was decided up
on -"following reports by politicians
and residents of New Jersey that
Johnson has been counted out."
BIG ATTRACTION
ALUMNI CARNIVAL
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
BASKET BALL
SWIMMING MATC
ER FEAT
ALLIES ONCE MORE
ARE FULLY AGREED
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION OVER
OCCUPATION OF GERMANY
HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED.
(By United Press.)
LONDON, April 29 "Grave misun
derstandings" existed between the al
lies before the San Remo conference,
but the "sky is now clear," Prime
Minister Lloyd George told the house
of commons today.
The Premier has just returned to
London from a conference at San
Remo where allied premiers and for
eign ministers met. to discuss the en
forcement of the terms of the Ver
sailles peace treaty. One of the mat
ters which treatened to disrupt the
allies was France's determination to
occupy German territory as a result
of the uprising in the Ruhr industrial
district. ' . -
At the meeting of the premiers, Mil
lerand, oC France, ' made clear his
country's position in occupying Ger
man territory.
For the purpose of considering the
matter of inviting the Confederate
Tfeterans to Columbia for a reunion
on July 3, a meeting of the Maury
county chapter of the Daughters of
the Confederacy will be held at the
Century Club at 3 o'clock on Friday
aiternoon.
It is expected that the chapter will
announce that they are in readiness
to entertain the veterans here in July,
and thatJlans for the entertaniment
at. that time will be discussed.
A most important meeting of the
Leonidas Polk Bivouac and William
Henry Trousdale Camp Confederate
Veterans will be held at tho court
house Monday and every veteran in
the county is urged to attend this
meeting.
CARNIVAL FOLKS
WILL MEET TONIGHT
EVERY ONE TO TAKE PART IN
, RECORD BREAKING EVENT
WILL ATTEND.
GAMES, GIRLS'
HES AND OTH-
URES.
ALUMNI TO MEET CHAMPIONS
Wrestling Match nd Boxing Bout
Will Furnish Money's Worth to
Lovers of the "JManly Art" Small
Admission Charged.
S. O. Thomas, local real estair
agent in charge of the Keen auction
sale was highly gratified at the suc
cess of the sale, ht was the snap
piest, quickest and in many respects
the best sale I have ever attended,
said Mr. Thomas this morning. Mr.
Thomas is a great believer in the ef
ficacy of newspaper Ink and he at
tributes no small degree of his suc
cess to the use of The Herald. It
was the most extensive advertising
medium employed in the sale.
UNCLE SAM READY
FOR ANY UPRISING
All persons taking part ( in the
Alumni Carnival which is to be given
at the High School tomorrow night
are requested to meet in the audito
rium of the High School tonight at
7:30.. This includes heads of depart
ments, managers of side shows, ven
ders "of eats, speelers, ticket sellers
and all others. ' : '
Gilly Orr, advance agent for the
great High School Alumni Carnival
to be given Friday, night at the High
School auditorium for the benefit of
the lilumni scholarship fund, had
this to say this morning concerning
the entertainment?
, "One feature of the Alumni Carni
val at the High Sjphool on next Fri
day night which will be highly pleas
ing to lovers of real sport will be the
basket ball game between the girls
of the Alumni and those of the High
School. On the team of the alumni
there will be threa of the young Ja
dies who were onfthe championship
team of a year ago. It will be re
membered that thfs team met and
defeated the best aggregation of the
state.' These ladle's have practiced
together for the pjst few days aid
when they meet the team which rep
resented the High f School this year
it will be a toss up as to who will be
the winner.
"Also the boys ot the alumni have
gathered together a team which will
be hard to handle. Under the direc
tion of Monte McDanieis, who him
self will hold down one of the forward
positions, they have developed team
work and speed, together with an al
ready acquired knowledge of the
game, which will make it difficult for
the quintette from the High School
to overcome. Tillman Moore, a star
of recent years will be present and
add much to the strength of the alum
ni team. ' ,
"Aside from the basket ball games
there will be other; atffletic contests
which will furnishj your money's
worth if you are a ioVeioT such sport.
A wrestling match has been arrang
ed between two well trained and ex
perienced youths of the High School,
and here, while it will not bo a
Lewis-IIeracle bout, thare will be lots
of fun and excitement for the spec
tators. A five round boxing match is
also a part of the program and the
devotees of the fistic art are assured
cf something which will In no wise
be disappointing."
REALTY COMPANY
EXPANDS FORGE
TO MEET DEMAND
STOCKARD ADDS TWO EXPERI
ENCED HUSTLERS TO SELLING
STAFF OF CONCERN.
BELIEVES IN MAURY'S REALTY
After Careful Investigation of Land
Prices in Other Sections Reaches
Conclusion That Prices Here Are
Cheaper Than Elsewhere.
The interesting "announcement is
made that M. Phineas Murphy, prom
inent farmer who has been with, the
Maury Realty Company for the past
four months, has joined forces with
the Stockard Realty Company. Ulna
K. Pigg, formerly engaged in farming
at Santa Fe and well known dealer in
Jersey cows, has also gone with the
same company. This 'gives the Stock
ard Realty Company one of the strong
est staffs to be found anywhere in
this section. All of the members of
the force' are experienced and hust
ling business men, who know realty
values and are in a position to gjve
sound advice t'o any one who expects
to buy either country or city proper
ty. This firm has great faith in Maury
county real estate. .The members do
not believe that it will ever again be
possible to buy cheap lands In Maury
county. They have carefully investi
gated the selling prices of lands of
similar productivity in other sections
of the union and located where the cli
mate is not near so attractive as it
is here, and they have reached" the
conclusion that Maury county land,
everything considered, is today the
cheapest land in the world.
ARKANSAS G. 0. P.
' FAVORS GOV, LOWOEN
DELEGATES WILL GO TO CON
VENTION AT CHICAGO UNIN-
STRUCTED, IS-DECISION.
(By United Press.)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 29 The
Arkansas delegation to the republican
convention at Chicago will go unin
otruoted, the republican state con
vention here decided. Indications to
day were that a majority of the dele
gates were for Gov. Frank O. Low
den . '
AUCTION SHOWS
RAPID ADVANCE
IN LAND VALUES
FAMOUS HIGHLAND FARM PUR
CHASED BY W. H. JONES TEN
YEARS AGO FOR $2M00.
COST THE KEENS AROUND $40,000
Advance of About Seventy-Five Per
Cent in the Past Five Years Pro
prietors Have Purchased Big Plan
tation In the Mississippi Delta.
Mexican Rebel
Leader Deserts;
Joins Federals
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
' AGENTS THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS
LEADING EDUCATORS
- VISIT THE COUNTY
HERE FOR A CONFERENCE WITH
CITY AND COUNTY SUPERIN
TENDENTS OF EDUCATION.
Prof. Albert Williams, state super
intendent of public instruction, and
Prof. R M. Clement, in clmrge of voca
tional and agricultural work of the
department of education in the state,
were in Columbia between trains to
day. They are en route to .Iewis
burg to attend the comnieneeini nt ex
ercises of the high school. While here
they conferred with County Superin
tendent Graham and City Superin
tendent Harris.
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 29 The gov
ernment is ready to cope with any
revolutionary demonstration that may
possibly attempted in this countiw on
Saturday, May 1, International Labor
day, the department of justice an
nounced today. Agents in ail parts of
the United States have received in
structions as to how to proceed
the event of disorders of any kind
CONFERENCE DELAYED
BV CHANCERY COURT
ATTORNEYS HOPE TO MAKE SET
TLEMENT WITH ERWINS WHEN
COURT ADJOURNS.
(By United Press.) s
MEXICO CITY, April 29. General
Miguel Samaniego, one of the leaders
in command of a detachment in the
region of Pulpito Pass has deserted
the Sonora revolutionists and allign
ed himself with the Carranza govern
ment, it was officially announced here
today. ,
DEMONSTRATES VALUE
PURE BRED SHEEP
HAMPSHIME RAM TWO MONTHS
OLD AT "ASHLAND ACRES"
WEIGHS EIGHTY POUNDS.
Sale of the Highland Stock Farm of
W. C. Keen & Sons on Wednesday ut
public auction for $fi9,7fi8, gives con
crete evidence of the rapid apprecia
tion of realty values' in Maury county
in recent years. This farm during
the ."hard times" some twenty odd
years ago once sold for about $10,000.
Some ten or eleven years ago W. H.
Jones, big stock man and owner of
some of the finest racing stock ever
brought to Maury county, came here
from Birmingham and bought the
farm for about $27,000. He named it
Highland Stock Farm and operated
it for a few years. Something over
five years ago W. C. Keen bought the
place from Mr. Jones for $40,000.
Since tha't time he has operated it.
While Mr. Keen Improved the land by
the use of live stock amklegumes, he
did not spend very much on improve
ments. His sale at around $70,000
shows an advance of 75 per cent in
value or more than double the legal
rate of interest for every year that he
owned it.
The sale was considered one of the
most successful ever held In Maury
county. ' While the average per acre
was not quite what some had expect
ed it to be, others had guessed at a
smaller figure. The, home place of
186 acres sold for slightly less than
had been expected, but the tract No.
3 without any improvements, that sold
for $200 an acre was considered a re
markably fine sale.
Messrs. Keen & Sons have purchas
ed a big cotton plantation in the delta
of Mississippi and will leave as soon
as they canwind up their affairs tp
make-their new home in that state.
During their residence here they
have made scores of warm friends
who will regret their departure. They
have been progressive farmers and
their herds of pure bred Duroc hogs
and Aberdeen-Angus cattle have be
come famous. ' They are land build
ers and are good citizens, active In all
good works. They are the type of cit
izens that no county can afford to
lose and whose citizenship is' an as
set tq, any community.
POLISH TROOPS
IN A BIG DRIVE
AGAINST REDS
NEARLY THREE QUARTERS MIL
LION POLES TAKING PART IN
OFFENSIVE. '
GREAT REVERSES AGAINST SOVIET
Polish Cavalry Penetrates Bolshevik!
Lines for a Depth of Thirty Miles,
and Little Resistence Is Offered by
Enemy.
(By United Press.)
LONDON, April 29 The left wing
of the' Polish armies, advancing
against Russian soviet troops in Vol
hynia and Podolia was Hearing Kleff,
a semi-official message received hem
today said.
More than 700,000 troops were par-"
ticipating in the offensive, which was
progressing successfully, and with
only slight resistance from the Boviet
forces, official advices to the war de
partment said.
The Poles are also approaching Ber
dichey, twenty-four miles south of
Shiomr, the capital of the Zhitolr pro
vince. The Polish cavalry has pene
trated an average of thirty miles
along the entire front, the war office
said. '.
BIG MOONSHINE
SMOESTROYED
OFFICERS CAPTURE COMPLETE
FIFTY GALLON CAPACITY STILL,
AND DESTROY BEER. '
NEXT MEETING OF
POULTRY ASSOCIATION
Attorneys who have been employed
by Wie city to effect a settlement with
W. P. Krwin, former city recorder,
and the estate of the late E. E. Erwin,
for many years city judge, state that
it will be impossible for attorneys in
this case to hold a conference until
after the adjournment of the present
term of chancery court, which will
probably be in session two or three
more weeks. After court is adjourn
ed attorneys will make an effort to
reach the settlement out of court. At
torneys representing the city are W.
n! J. Towler, Hughes, Hatcher & Hughes
while the fcrwins are represented by
Peebles & Forgey, Webster & Web
ster and Fleming & Fleming.
LEGION MEMBERS
SHOULD GIVE ADDRESS
UNLESS THEY DO SO THEY WILL
NOT GET COPIES OF MONTH
LY MAGAZINE.
WILL BE HELD AT THE COURT
HOUSE ON SATURDAY, MAY 8.
PROGRAM LATER.
WILL DEDICATE NEW
. SANTA FE CHURCH
There are a number of members of
the local post of the American Le
gion who are not getting their copies
of the Legion magazine due to faulty
address. If these members will aim
Dly notify Post Adjutant Girard P.
Brownlow, or Provine ' Greenlaw or
Clarence Watson of their correct ad
dress the magazine will be sent to
them.
The next meeting of the Legion, will
be held on Friday night, May 7, in the
quarters over The Herald building. It
is hoped that all the members of the
Legion will attend.
James W. Ridley is demonstrating
at his farm "Ashland Acres" that good
breeding in sheep is just as valuable
and just as profitable as it is In any
other line of live' stock. Mr. Ridley
ha3 imported from England several
pure bred Hampshire ewes. A ram
lamb from one of these ewes s as
fine specimen of the breed as one
could find in many a day's journey.
The little fellow at two months and
eight days of age weighs eighty
pounds. That is about the average
weight of five months' old lambs In
Maury county from the grade stock
that is raised here,' This young lamb
has magnificent bne and looks for all
the world like he was twice as old as
he is. ,'
From this beginning Mr. Ridley ex
pects to build a fine herd of Hamp-
shires here and to demonstrate that
pure breeding pays. He says that
the Hampshire is to sheep what the
Doddie'is to the beef breed, that it is
in a class by itself when it comes to
lamb and mutton.
FEDERAL LAND BANK
ATTORNEf JN CITY
HON. WILLIAM C. HOUSTON, JR.,'
HERE TO INSPECT THE LO
CAL ORGANIZATION.
ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM HAS
BEEN ARRANGED ALL DAY
SERVICE IS PLANNED
The next meeting of .the Maury
County Poultry Association will ue The new CumDerlantl t'resnyterian
held on Saturday, May 8, instead ofj church at Santa Fe will be dedicat
ih.. r.rst Saturday due to the fact that! ed with Impressive ceremonies on
Sunday, May 9. The Fiev. Mr. Esh
iiian will deliver the dedicatory ser
mon. An all dav service will be held,!
meetings have been held on the last
two Saturdays. The program for the
meeting will be announced by Mrs.
Iamb in a few days. It promises to
be an unusualy interesting one.
MANNING RFilGNS
AS C JiEF OF MINES
and dinner will be served by the la
dies of the church at noon.
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 29 The res
ignation of Van Manning,' chief of the
bureau of mines, was accepted today
! by Presideut Wilson.
PROFITEERS HAVE
BEEN PROSECUTEO
ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER
SAYS LEVER LAW HAS BEEN
VIGOROUSLY ENFORCED.
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON. April 29. "Hun
dreds and hundreds of profiteers have
been prosecuted by the department of
Justice since congress amended the
Iver act last fall," Attorney Gener
al Palmer today told the house judi
ciary committee, during its investiga
tion on the sugar situation.
Palmer declared the law against
profiteering has been vigorously enforced.
William C. Houston, Jr., attorney
for the federal land bank, is here to
day to interview the officials of the
local land bank. Mr. Houston is a son
of Hon. William C. Houston, for four
teen years representative In congress
from the fifth Tennessee district, and
was his father's private secretary for
several years. Speaking of his
experience in Washington this
morning, Mr. Houston said that it was
almost impossible to procure any
parts of the Congressional Record or
any reprints of portions of it which
contained speeches of the late Senator
Carmack. The demand he said from
people everywhere, and especially
from school boys, for . copies of the
great senator's addresses had been
so great that the supply became exhausted.
AUCTION SALE OF
FARMING IMPLEMENTS
W. C. KEEN & SONS TO SELL FIF
TY HEAD OF GOOD STOCK CAT
TLE ON MAY 5
On Wednesday, May 5, W. C. Keen
& Sons, who yesterday sold at auc
tion Highland Stock Farm, two miles
from Columbia on the Culleoka pike,
will offer for sale in a similar man
ner, fifty head of good stock cattle and
farm implements necessary to oper
ate a five hundred acre farm. Col.
It. F. Moore will -ry the sales, and
will endeavor to break the record es
tablished by the auctioneer yester
day, who within forty minutes sold
After staging one of the most suc
cessful "moonshine" raids in several '
months, destroying a . complete CU
gallon capacity still, 1,200 gallons of
beer and arrostjng Tom Petty, Rich- ,l
urd Shons and Andy Wright, on charg
es of operating an illicit still, Deputy
United States Marshal Tom McLean,
returned Wednesday afternoon"" from
Hickman county. 1 " . 1 - " '
Mr;' McLean' said the stilhwail locat
ed twenty miles from Centrevllie 1
near the Perry county line, and had
been In operation for some time, ac
cording to indications.
The men who were arrested at the
time of the raid were taken before
United States Commissioner E. J.
Graham at Centrevllie and were (
bound over to the federal court under
heavy bond. .
" Those taking part in the raid were
Marshal McLean and United States
Officers John W. Howard and Ben
Aymitt and Sheriff C. D. Spence and
Deputy Sheriff W. M. Garner, of Hick
man county, who were of considerable
assistance to the United States offi
cers in effecting the capture' of the
men, and destroying the still
. . . . . ;
M'OOWELL FRIENDS
MEET FRIDAY NIGHT
EVERY ONE INTERESTED IN NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING IS URGED
4 TO ATTEND.
Every friend and patron of McDow
ell School is urged to be present at
the entertainment to be given tomor
row night. A delightful program has
been arranged, but It Is as Important
that 'as large crowd as possible at
tend so that' they may show proper
interest In the plans being made by
the board for a new school building.
There will be no admission and the
following program has been arrang
ed: " ,
Hungarian March, Miss Sarah Sue
Haywood; The Little Rebel, Miss Wil
lie Mai Hammond; The Mourning
Veil, Miss Kathorine Betlott; Trans
action in Mumps, Mary Bell; Naughty
Zell, Lucile Nowlin; The Quarrel, Ly;
dia Parks; Water Nymphs, Kather
ine Beckett; Meaning of the Declara
tion of Independence, James Adltis
soi; America First, Eugene Alford;
Our Flag. Henry D. McKennon; Whis
pering Leaves, Miss Haywood; At the
Photographer's, Miss Holmes.
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Peace Treaty
Mag Again Go
Before Senate
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 29. The re
submission of the peace treaty to the
senate is now being "seriously con
sidered" by President Wilson, ac-
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seven tracts of lands for an aggre- cording to well informed democrats;
gate of some $(0,000. I here today.
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