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VOL. LXXII NO.
53
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 19 20
ESTABLISHED IN, 1848
HARDING PICKS CABINET
Ml
COG
OF! DISPATCH S
HOOVER IS RE
FEEBLE MINDED
HOME MAY COME
TO THE COUNTY
AYS;
IIIZED
DELEGATION THAT VISITED GOV
ERNOR AND BOARD RETURNS
VERY MUCH ENCOURAGED.
BUT THE LANDS ARE TOO HIGH
If suitable Tract la Found at a Reas
onably Lew Price There is Every
Reason to Believe That the Institu
tion Will Be Located Here.
Maury county's delegation that went
on Wednesday to Interview Governor
Roberts, the state board of adminis
tration and the charities board in the
interest of the location of the home
for the feeble minded in Maury county
returned home very much encouraged.
They were given a cordial reception
by the governor and the members of
the board and the intimation was
plainly made that if it could be done
to the state's interest the institution
would be located in this county.
However, it soon developed that the
board did not want any fancy priced
land. It was after cheap land and the
offers that the county has had were
considered altogether too high for the
location of this institution and if the
county gets the institution it must
have cheaper land. If there are par
ties in the county who have anywhere
from 500 to 1,000 acres of cheap land,
located on the railroad and close to
the river where there will be abun
dance of water and a place for the
sewerage they are urged to communi
cate that fact either to W. S. Beasley
or Col. John W. Fry. The board can
not pay $100 to $150 an acre for land.
Unless something unforeseen should
occur representatives of the board will
come to Maury county Saturday and
investigate the situation and ascer
tain whether the locations that have
been offered will be suitable. The del
egation that went to Nashvile was
composed of the following members:
W. S. Beasley, John W. Fry, Joseph
L. Hutton, WVH. Jackson, Dr. H. L.
Ragsdale, John Shelby Coffey A. B.
Sowell and Milton E. Allen. The
members were very much pie :sed
with the reception which they re eiv
ed from the governor and the c.her
members oi the board.
fi
COUNCIL DIRECTORS .
. TO MEET SATURDAY
3 jo t.Hv T A v : "i ' . itr ''' :
PRESIDENT PORTER URGES FULL
ATTENDANCE AT LAST MEET
ING OF PRESENT BOARD.
There will he a meeting of the direc
tors of the county council of agricul
ture at the council rooms on next
Saturday at 2 o'clock. This will be
the last meeting of the present board
of directors and President Porter is
urging all of the members to be
present. He is exceedingly anxious
that the affairs of the council for the
past year should be wound up before
the new board and new officers come
in.
MAKING READY FOR
BIG RUSH ON MONDAY
Columbia merchants are making
good progress with slock taking now,
and expected to be ready for the big
rush of business soon to come. It is
expected that Monday, First Monday,
will bo one of the best days mer
chants have enjoyed in months .
CHARLES E. HUGHES TO BE SEC
RETARY OF STATE TO SUC
CEED COLBY.
KENTUCKY MAN GETS PLACE
BOY SCOUTS WILL
MEET ON TOMORROW
Hert, of Dark and Bloody Ground, Is
Selected by President-elect to Hold
Portfolio of War Hays Be Post
master General.
K.
G.
(By United Press.) y
MARION, O., Dec, 23. The first
cabinet slate has been virtually com
pleted by President-elect Harding, it
was learned here today.
This tentative slate is understood
to stand as follow:?:
Secretary of state, Charles
Hughes, of New York..
Secretary of treasury, Charles
Dawson, Chicago.
Secretary of war, T. Hert, of Ken
tucky. Secretary of navy, John W. Weeks,
Massachusetts.
Attorney general, Harry M. Daugh
city, Ohio.
Postmaster general, Will G. Hays.
Secretary of agriculture, George
Sutherland, Utah.
Secretary of interior, Charles War
ren, Michigan.
Secretary of labor, Herbert Hoover,
California.
President-elect Harding is, howovor,
reserving the right to change his mind
if he deems it wise to shift his men
to other posts than those now in mind.
It is understood that George B.
Christian, Harding's present secreta
ry, is slated for the private secretaryship.
PO
LTRY PEOPLE
TO MEET
SATURDAY
RECRUITING FOR
CAVALRY TROOPS
EETS SUCCESS
BELIEVED THAT TWO TROOPS
WILL. HAVE BEEN FILLED
WITHIN NEXT FEW DAYS.
BUSINESS MEN ARE INTERESTED
Young Men Are Ureed to Take Advan
tage of This Opportunity to Ering
to Columbia Headquarters t0r Four
Troopc Horsemen.
ASSOCIATION WILL ASSEMBLE
AT 2:30 O'CLOCK AT THE COUN
CIL CHAMBER.
The recruiting of Columbia's two
troops of cavalry goes on apace, and
officers feel confident that within the
next few days announcement will bo
made that the troops are filled, and
that horses and equipment have been
ordered. . ,.:.:
Capta.'n Herbert Dyer, who will
head one of the troops,. stated to a rep
resentative of The Herald that he was
sure that it would be but a short time
until the ranks in his troop are filled.
The cavalry strongly appeals to the
yong men of the city, as the govern
ment furnishes horses, uniforms and
all equipment for service, and only
one drill period of little more than an
hour each week is required of mem
bers of the company, and for this they
receive a day's pay. In addition-,
this there are positions open for men
who want them, caring for horses and
equipment, and for this pen-ice they
will be paid $100 per month, including
l)a se pay.
There is no town in the slate as
large as Columbia which should bo
without a company of soldiers, a ma
chine gun detachment, or a troop of
cavalrymen, and the business people
of the city are encouraging elistment
in these two companies. Columbia
will reaKy 'be tno base of four troops,
two being organized here, one at Mt.
Pleasant and another in Lawrence
county.
Officers of the company are deter
mined there shall bo no fall down, and
that Columbia shall have the two
troops, and the work of recruiting will
be pushed more vigorously than ever
during the next few days.
The campaign for recruits will be
carried into all sections of the county
I if enough men are not secured in Co
lumbia, and detachments will be sent
from Columbia to explain the advan
tages offered in the organization of the
cavalry unit in this section.
There will be a meeting of the Mau
ry county poultry association at the
rooms of the county council of agri
culture on Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. The members should all at
tend as the financial report for the
year will be submitted. There will
also be a report on the recent poultry
show and plans for the show next
year will be discussed. Every one
having a bill against the association
Is asked to present it so that mere
can be a complete settlement of the
business of the year.
AUTOMOBILE LICENSE -
TAGS SELLING FAST
RUSH WILL CONTINUE FOR NEXT
SEVERAL DAYS PENALTY AC
CRUES AFTER JAN. 1.
The payment of the 1921 automo
bile license at the office of County
Court Clerk Lipscomb continues, and
it is expected that the swarm of tax
buyers will continue to grow for the
next several days.
The time for the payment of this
tax withou$enaIty expires on Jan
uary 1, and all automobile owners are
requested to secure the 1921 tag as
soon as possible.
KIWANIS LUNCHOEN
TOMORROW AT NOON
FIRST MEETING IN TWO WEEKS
WILL BE HELD BANQUET- ON
JANUARY 7TH.
Chinese Troops
In Mutiny When
Pay Is Delayed
(By United Press.) '
SHANGHAI, Dec. 30 Chinese
troops rebelling against their officers
have terrorized the vicinity for two
days w-ith looting arid' incendiarism.
The muting is said to' be due to delay
in pay. -' ' " ' .
SEVERAL WOUNDED IN
GEORGIA RACE RIOT
FIGHTING IS IN PROGRESS AT
HURTSBORO, BUT DETAILS
CANNOT BE OBTAINED.
The Boy Scouts will meet tomorrow
afternoon at the residence of Col. Gra
ham at 2 o'clock, instead of tonight at
7 o'clock.
The regular luncheon of the Kiwa
nis Club will he held tomorow at noon
at the Hotel Bethel. This will be the
first luncheon in two weeks as the last
meeting was omitted. The Klwanians
aud their wives are looking forward
with much pleasure to the big ban
quet which they will enjoy at the Ho-
(By United Press.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., Dec. 30. Eight
negroes were surrounded in a house
near Hurtsboro, Ala., by a posse this
morning following a battle between
whites and blacks there last night,
in which several persons are said to
have been wounded, some fatally, ac
cording to incomplete reports. Details
were not given.
According to early reports rein
forcements have been rushed to
Hurtsboro with supplies of guns and
i ammunitions. The negroes arc also
I reported to be preparing to withstand
the attack. Wires are down between
Columbus and Hurtsboro, and efforts
to secure details have been unavail
ing, r- :
BACK TO NORMALCY
AFTER HOLIDAYS
Columbia is beginning to return to
normalcy following the Christmas
holidays. Scores of Columbians who
spent the holidays with relatives in
tel Bethel one week from tomorrow i other cities are now returning to
NO AUTO TAG TO
E REQUIRED FOR
THE COUNTY TAX
PAYMENT ON MOTOR " VEHICLES
WILL BE MADE DIRECT TO THE
COUNTY TRUSTEE.
RECEIPTS ARE TO BE ISSUED
Wagons to be Required to Work for
Five Days on the Road That is Used
By the Owners; Buggies Will Es
cape Taxes Altogether.
There will be no county automobile
tags used in the county next year,
if the road law which Judge Looney
is now engaged in drafting goes
through as it is .understood to have
been written. This does not mean,
however, that there will be no automo
bile road tax for county purposes. It
Is' expected that the county taxes on
all moto vehicles will be approxim
ately what they have been under the
act of 1919. But the manner of their
payment will be different.
It is said that iustead of having
this tax collected by the county court
clerk that it will be collected through
the office of the county trustee and
that a simple receipt will be issued.
The clerk's fee of twenty-five cents
for the tag will be abolished and the
trustee will receive simply the same
compensation for collecting the li
cense or tax that he receives for col
lecting other county revenue, that is
a simple commission on the amount
collected. It Is said that this change
will save the taxpayer a quarter and
also have the county as under the pre
sent system both the clerk and the
trustee receive commissions on the
funds that are collected.
There will be no wagon tax nor
buggy tax. However, that portion of
the McKnight act of 1917 which re
quired wagons to be worked on the
roads running by or contiguous to the
homes of the owners will be re-enacted,
with the change that Wagons will
be required to be worked on the roads
for five days instead of the four as
was provided in the act of 1917. It
is expected that the commutation
taxes will be fixed so high that all
farmers will find it to their interest
to put their wagons on the roads. No
taxes of any character either in
money or in work will be levied on the
buggies of the county.
The district road commissioners, as
heretofore stated by The Herald, will
be elected by a popular vote of the
people of the several districts at spec
ial elections to be called shortly after
the law goes into effect. The county
road superintendent will be elected by
the county court. The latter will
have charge of the main highways of
the county.
night. President Beasley is prepar
ing to givo the Klwanians the best
program that they have ever enjoyed.
He lias one or two big guns to unload
for that occasion.
work each day, and more people are
to be seen on the streets than during
the first few days after Christmas.
It is believed that business will he
back to normal again by Monday.
Fire Destroys
City Hall at
) Phosphate City
Fire at an early hour this morning
destroyed the city hall at Mt. Pleas
ant. Tho building, a one story
frame, was practically wiped out by
the Arc. The loss is estimated at $3,
000 but the building was fully cover
ed by insurance. All of tho papers
and records of the city were in the
big fire proof safe and were saved.
S. E. Stephens, the city recorder,
had about $1,500 worth of law books
in the building, and these were severe
ly damaged by water. However, Prof.
Stephens is fully insured against loss.
There was some furniture in the build
ing that was also lost in the flames.
COUPLE MARRIES H
IN FORD SEDAN
SQUIRE GILBERT ORR UNITES
NASHVILE COUPLE IN CAR
THAT BRINGS HAPPINESS.
"The Ford Brings Happiness" has
long been the motto of the manufac
turer of this popular priced car, and
admitting the truth of this motto, hap
piness should follow William B. House
end Miss Flora Bell Carter all the
days of their lives, for in a brand new
Ford sedan, this young couple from
Nashville was united in the holy bonds
of wedlock today shortly after noon
bv Esquire Gilbert M. Orr. Among
i the witnoses was Robert Church Ear-
row, salesman of this popular car,
who showed them Just how the Ford
does bring happiness. After the cer
emony the couple left for their homes
in Nashville.
ADJUSTANT OAKES
URGES PAYMENT
OF LEGION DUES
FIRST MEETING OF THE COMING
YEAR WILL BE HELD ON NEXT
TUESDAY NIGHT.
MAKES MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Will Also Consider Question of Per
manent Home; Roster of all Service
Mn of Maury County to be Obtain
ed During Year.
The first' meeting of the local post
of the American Legion for the com
ing year will be held on next Tuesday
night at the county court rpm.
Notices of the meeting are being
mailed out by Adjutant William
Oakcs and attention is being called
to the fact that the dues for the com
ing year are also payable , nowi The
dues to the Legion are $3 a year
which includes the local state and na
tional dues and the subscription to
the Legion Weekly a publication de
voted to the interests of the members
of the order. .
At the meeting next Tuesday night
a campaign for an increased member
ship in the Legion and also for secur
ing a complete roll of the service
men of the county will be launched.
In the work of getting the roster of
the service men of Maury county dur
ing the world war the legion will
have the active aid of the Woman's
Auxiliary which has already been
pledged. A committee of the wom
en's auxiliary will be appointed to
assist in this work.
Some plans to secure a permanent
meeting place or home for the Leg
ion will also be taken up at the Com
ing meeting. In Clarksville with the
aid of the business men a permanent
meeting place and regular home for
the Legion has been secured and fit
ted up. It is believed that if some
thing of that kind could be done here
it would increase interest In 'the leg
ion and would result in a much larg
er membership.
Adjutant Oakes' urges the prompt
payment of the dues for the coming
year. Payments are concurrent with
the calendar year and if members re
main on the roll they must pay the
dues assessed.
JAP AMBASSADOR FAVORS
E
LIMITATION
ARM
JTS
CONFERENCE
WOULD CALL
DECLARES MEN WHO PAY BILLS
SHOULD REACH AGREEMENT
QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
JAPAN FIGHTNIG BOLSHEVISM
Hayashi Declares His Country Is Sen
tinel Against Spread of Bolshevism,
and ThereTore Must Be Prepared
for Emergency.
(Copyright by United Press.)
LONDON, Dec. 30 Japan is ready
to enter an international conference
on the limitation in naval armament
in the belief of Baron Hayashi, new
Japanese ambassador to Great Brit
ain. '
In an interview with a representa
tive of the United Pres3 today, Hay
ashi declared the business men who
pay the bills could reach an agree
ment as to the limiting of naval build
ing if their countries would arrange
a conference.
Japan, he declared is not exceed
ing her announced naval program and
her preparations must be considered
necessary, he said, because she is the
sentinel against the spread of Bol
shevism. He charged that an organ
ized attempt is being made to Bolshe
vizo Japan and that this country must
remain on guard.
He declared "This talk in the Unit
ed States about a big navy is very
annoying to Japan." Concluding he
said, "It is foolish, it is tragic to think
of Great Britain, the United States
and Janan competing in a race for
great armament. Japan cannot afford
it."
Hundreds Killed
In Fiume Battle;
Pome Report Says
(By United Press.)
ROME, Dec. 30. Four hundred Ital
ian soldiers were killed in the fighting
at Fiume, it was reported here today.
From the ranks of the defending forc
es eight were killed, including two
women. Two hundred legionaires
were wounded in the battle.
The formal surrender of Fiume to
the Italian regulars was expected to
day. D'Annunzio was preparing to
leave Flume by airplane, declaring Ita
ly was not worthy of dying for.
LYNCHING FEAREO
AS BESULT OF MURDER
PLANTATION MANAGER IS SHOT
BY NEGRO NEAR ROSEDALE,
MISS., THIS MORNING.
(By United Press.)
ROSEDALE, Miss., Dec. 30. As the
result of a quarrel Karl Bullock, man
ager of the Virginia plantation at Lob
dell, Miss., was shot and seriously
wounded by a. negro hero oarly to
day. News of the shooting was re
ceived here with the request for lflood
hounds with which the negro is being
chased. Lynching is feared if he is
captured. t -
JUNIOR ORDER TO :
ELECT OFFICERS
Final Report
Grand Jury Be
Made On Friday
r
Pursuant to a call by Judge W. B.
Turner, the grand jury will render its
final report for the November term
tomorrow. It is expected that a num
ber of indictments will be returned.
It is known that the jury has investi
gated several bound over cases from
Squnre Ricketts court at Mt. Pleasant
and from the City court of Columbia,
and as a result is it not improbable
that four or five true bills be return
ed aginst the violators of the liquor
laws in the final report.
The case of R. F. Matlock against
Dr. G. C. English, in which the plain
tiff is suing for aleged malpractice
upon the part of the defendant, will
be tried in Circuit Court tomorrow,
bringing to an end the present term
of court. No further cases have been
set.
GRAND FATHER WAS ' .
TEACHER 41 CULLEOKA
RATHER UNUSUAL COINCIDENCE
IN VISIT OF MISS HOCKADAY
TO THAT PLACE.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF MAURY
COUNCIL IS SET FOR 7:30
THIS EVENING.
An important meeting of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics
will be held this evening at 7:30
o'clock, and the more than 300 mem
bers of this lodge have been urgently
requested to be present as there is
work of much importance to be done.
Officers for the coming term will be
elected, and the present officer of the
council are anxious that all members
le B.Hrcnt when ice ballot Is taken.
Miss Neria Hockaday, of Dallas,
Texas, is at Culleoka for the holiday,
the guest of Miss Ladye Love Evins,
her class mate at Vanderbilt Univer
sity. There is an interesting coinci
dence in Miss Hockaday's visit to Cul
leoka which 'arises soley from the fact
that she is the room mate of Miss
Evins at Vanderbilt. It devlops, how
ever, that the grand father, the late
Prof. Thomas W. Hockaday was be
fore the civil war one of the teachers
at bid Pleasant Grove Academy, locat
ed near Culleoka and in its day one
of the leading institutions of this sec
tion of the state. Miss Hockaday as' a
result of this fact is being given a
royal welcome by the old pupils of
Prof. Hockaday a number of whom are
still living in that community. This
is her fifst vist to this section of the
state.
JOHNSON PIONEER
WITH LESPEDEZA
COMMITTEE BUSY
PREPARING CITY
BUDGET FOR 192
WILL LIKELY BE SUBMITTED FOR
APPROVAL AT NEXT MEETING
OF CITY COUNCIL.
TOTAL AMOUNT STILL UNKNOWN.
Sinking Fund for 1921 Will Neeessa-
rlly Have to Be Larger Than That"
of 1920-ther Accounts Will, B
Little Changed. ' '' i ' . -
Members of the finance committee
of the city administration, and City
Attorney Hugh Lee Webster are now'
busily making figures, which ' when'
completed will represent the city bud
get for 1921. - '.-
According to officials it is not ex
pected that the budget for the coming
year will be increased materially over
the one which has carried the munici
pality through the year just ending.
However, it will be necessary to place
to the credit of the sinking fund a
larger amount than was appropriated
tor 1920, because of bonds to be re
tired. ' ;
During the year the city has added
?GO,000 to its bonded indebtedness,'
but at the same time has retired : a
similar amount of indebtedness on
open account, therefore the city has
operated upon the revenue collected.
It is not believed that the expense
of operating the municipality will be
materially less during the coming year
than it has been during the present
year, and members of the finance com
mittee see little hope of reducing the
budget appropriations for the several
departments. There has lsen lit tl
reduction in prices of material used
by the city, desuite the talk of falling
prices.
It seems evident that the tax rate
of $1.10 will be maintained unless
there is a substantial change In the
assessment of city property for the -coming
year.
The new budget will likely be sub
mitted at the next meeting of the .
board of mayor and aldermen for the
approval of that body.
STOVE FXPllfS:
TRAGIC 'DEATH'! of1 (ioTHER AND
TWb CHILDREN AT CHARLES-.
TON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
-, rtt
It develops that Charles A. Wright,
of Little Bigby Farm, was not the
first farmer in Maury county to cut
lespedeza and save it tor hay. Sev
eral years ago James Polk Johnson,
when living at the Mitchell place, west
of the city, cut several acres of lespe-
dezaT and be found it as fine hay as
he ever fed to his dairy ecw.
fBT United Press.) , - 5
CHARLESTON. S. C., Dec.
Three members of Clarence1, H.
Shokes family are dead today follow
ing an oil stove explosion last night.
One other is expected to die. - Mr.
Shokes, her five months old baby and
five year old son died this morning
from burns. " '
Shokes, who is police patrol chauf
feur, responded to the Are alarm from
his home with the patrol wagon tn
lime to help remove the family to a
hospital. . .
SOFFERS BROKEN ARM ;
WHILE CRANKING TRUCK
T. E. Hale, Columbia boy, who with
several other boys from Columbia,
went to work at, the Old Hickory Pow
der Plant properties at Jacksonville, F
has returned to Columbia with a broit-
en arm as the result of being kicked
whila cranking up a large truck he
was driving. His arm was brokea' to
two places. ... ' '
WOULD SETTLE ALL
ADUICTinC flAV nil t f
Miimiuiiuk uni utbM f
Treasurer George p. McKeaaon. '.
the Armistice Day fund, Is awtioas to
settle all acounU for the reeeot Arm
istice Day dinner. He therefore ft
quest all having claims for material
furnished at the dinner file them wit'
out delay.