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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-06-27
BILL FILED TO CONFIRM
SALE OF GORDON ESTATE

s
= Mrs. Willis Jones has filed a bill in
Chancery court for the confirmation
of a sale of her interest in the Gordon
estate for S33,250 A similar bill was
filed some time ago by her brother,
P. G. Gordon, for the confirmation of
a sale of his interest in the estate for
$4,000, which was made early in 1918.
The estate consists of $50 acres at
Dark's Mill.
Following the confirmation OF tncse
sales the funds will be held in chan
Gerry court pending a decision in a
case now before the court of civil ap-
peals seeking to construe the will Of
the late Judge Gordon so as to give
bis son and daughter unrestricted IL
tie to the estate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-06-27

the loss, which in such event, would
have to be repaid by the public treas.
ury.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-06-27
RED CROSS NURSE 7
BACK AT HOSPITAL

Miss Erastus Crabtree, who gave up
her position as superintendent of the
Kings Daughters hospital here to be.
come a ited Cross nurse in govern
ment hospital in New York, has re-
turned and will resume her place at
the bead Of the local hospital. She
has not yet received her discharge
from the Red Cross service but ex.
poets it in a few days She is now
visiting her parents at CentrevilIe.
Miss Willie Crabtree has been in
charge Of the local hospital during
the absence of her sister.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-06-27
DR.. JAS. H. BARBER
RETURNS TO CHURCH
FIGHTING PREACHER WILL HOLD
s. PRAYER SERVICE FOR BAP-
lists TONIGHT.
Wednesdays Daily Herald)

DR.. James Fl. Barber, who has serv-
ed as chaplain overseas, returned to
Columbia this morning, having been
mustered out of the army. DR.. Bar
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-06-27
MAI. HORACE FRIERSON
TO SPEAK At WOODROW

Major Horace Frierson will speak
at Woodrow School Friday night June
q, at $3.50 o'clock. His subject viii
be, Experiences in the Recent War"
Everybody is invited TO hear Major
Frierson. No. admission will be
charged.
The sun., 1919-10-27
KING WILL ADDRESS
HOUSE AND SENATE
Vice President to Receiue
Royal Party This EUening.
Special Despatch TO The Sun.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.--Arrangements
have been completed for the visit of
the King and Queen Of the Belgians and
the Duke of Brabant In Washington.
The train with the Belgian rulers is
expected to reach the Union station at
o'clock tomorrow evening, and Vice.
President AMI Mrs Marshall and mem
bers of the Cabinet will be at the sta
ton. After an exchange OF greetings,
the royal party will drive to the home
of Breckenridge Long. Third Assistant
Secretary of state. where they will be
CHARTERED during their visit here The
Long home was occupied by Arthur j.
Balfour during his stay here I'm 1917.
King Albert will receive Informally
the members of the Belgian Embassy
Tuesday morning. after which Vice-P Pres
ident and Mrs Marshall will call to pay
their respects. From IL to ~ O'Clock
the King, Queen and the Duke of Bra
bant will receive calls from Cabinet
officers, the President pro TEN of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House.
Each official will be accompanied by
his wife.
At o'clock the King will address the
Senate. during which time the Queen will
sit in the executive gallery, accompanied
by Mrs. Marshall The King will ad.
The sun., 1919-10-27
HARVARD FUND NOW
is OVER SIS, 900, 900
81, 100000 More Needed to
Insure Pay Increase.

Harvard's endowment fund went over
the S8,000,000 mark yesterday and Is
growing apace. The small subscriptions
are beginning to tell, 1t was reported
from the endowment fund office at 165
Broadway. A considerable proportion
Of the first few million dollars collected
was made up of subscriptions from
wealthy men. The latest additions to
the fund represent a lar greater amount
of actual work. for the small givers,
upon whom the committee must rely for
success In the campaign to raise $15,-
100000. are beginning TO register
heavily.
The total subscriptions now amount
to sS,092,403, with Boston again show
ing tendency TO pull away from New
York in the race and advancing her lead
to $250,000. Her teams have reported
$3.270,504, to a report of $S,027.476 by
the New York committees. The remain
ing divisions of the country have con-
tributed $1,794,423. A little more than
81, 000, 900 must be pledged to insure the
complete success of the campaign.
It was said yesterday that the last
81, 900, 900 will be OF especial Importance
because without IL President Lowell OF
Harvard cannot guarantee to his faculty
the Increase in salaries considered in
dispensable. Eliot Wadsworth. chair
man OF the fund, said the fund VIII De
oversubscribed IL the $4,000 Harvard
men who have not contributed give suf-
fciently to maintain the average Gifts
have been coming in from men who
were graduated from universities other
than Harvard. A Yale professor gave
$500 and a Boston University man
gave 5000. Charles p. Rowland, Yale
81, Is among the most active workers
for the Harvard fund.
Few foreign subscriptions have been
received thus far, though Robert F.
Herrick has cabled $4,000 from Europe
and the Hawaiian committee has re-
ported $4,000 from twenty-one Of the
sixty-eight Harvard men in the Ha-
waiian Islands.
Among the recent large subscribers
to the fund are William Phillips. Wash
ington. $4,000; Victor Morawetz. New
York, $4,000; Harrison Tweed, New
York, $4,000; Archibald Murray, New
York, s1,750; F. A. Dorman. New York,
$780, Edgar l.. Smith, New York,
$1,000 George Palen Snow, Long Island.
$1,000, and Philip b. B. Thomson, New
York. $1,000.
The sun., 1919-10-27

POOR BOY PLEDGES
$1,000 TO PRINCETON
Endowment Committee Re-
ports $2,O00,0O0 Raised.

Progress Is reported in raising the
s14,325,000 endowment for Princeton
University. According to the latest re-
ports 100000 has been raised. The
central endowment committee which
has headquarters at 124 East Twenty
eighth street, is engaged in cooperating
with alumni associations throughout
the country in organizing regional COM
mittees.
In view OF the fact that the alumni
body of Princeton is not numerically
large. as compared with that of many
American universities. an especial effort
is being made to enlist the support OF
the friends of Princeton. emphasis being
laid on how closely the institution is
linked with the traditions of this coun-
try and the invariable policy of Prince
ton to render national service.
Chairman Henry r. Thompson of the
endowment committee has announced
subscriptions as already coming in from
unexpected and unsolicited sources AMI
as giving the committee much encour-
agement. Mr.. Thompson added
"A boy came in here the other day
and said, I want 10 give $1,000
know him very we'll and l know he
cannot afford II. 1 said, L don't want
TO take II: you cannot afford it The
boy replied. 4 am going to earn it He
signed his subscription. / know that
81 900 Is good.
I'VE got a letter day before yesterday
from another boy. He has been out OF
college only two years. He said:
am going to put up $4,000 for the
Harvard fund. 1 told my brother
would He asked me for il. I said
would give that amount II he would
come IN for similar amount If Prince
ton ever started a similar movement
did not know at that time that Prince
ton was coming In. but Princeton has
come In and my brother is with me, and
here is n subscription of 100000"
Benjamin Strong, governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank. and Theodore n
Vail. chairman of the board OF directors
of the American Telegraph and Tele
phone Company, have been added to thu
central committee which Is conducting
| the Princeton endowment campaign
| Governor Strong is a member of tn
advisory committee on economics a
Princeton.
The sun., 1919-10-27
II ARRESTS In BOND
THEFT AND MURDER


roadhouse near Myrtle Beach, n
a wild affair with women and plenty %
eat and drink.
Before the night was through IN.
Binkowitz boy was drunk. and when m.
band had got him In that condition ann.
of the members put him in an autorro-
bile and started with him along the NH.
ford turnpike. In this oar. the poic.
say, were Pandoln and Spotte ana
others, together with the Italians WIN a
were to do the actual murder EJevar
miles from Bridgeport the boy was killed
and his body thrown from the car into a
clump of bushes, where It was founS
some days later. The band then scat.
tered.
It is understood the police have oh
tanned valuable evidence from Pando,a
and Spotte, both OF whom have Ions
criminal records. Pandolf. the deteo-
tives say. is the son of Charles Pandolo
who used to run a saloon at Second ava
nue. and 111th street, and was known
as Scared Charlie" from wounds be
had obtained in fights. Pandolf also ID
said to be out on $4,000 bail on tvo
charges of grand larceny, and has al.
mitted, according to the police, that he
served u I0TIH lot Killing a
man. Lately he has been operating A
jitney bus in Bridgeport.
The police say that Pandolfl told them
he met Hartford Jimmy Delmar In .
road house early in August and tina,
they later entered an automobile In
which there were other men.
was Binkowitz in the carr" he was
asked.
For all know he might have BEEN
replied Pandolfi, but I'm not sure. I
recall now that there was a young fel-
low there who did resemble the pictures
of him 1 have seen in the papers"
Tie police records show that Spotte
has been convicted of white slavery and
was sent to Sing Sing by Judge William
II. Wadhams for two years and halt
on that charge. Harry Ditmeyer Of 5ls
Yves: 213th street is another Of the men
| under arrest. being detained on a short
| affidavit charging him with being 4
| fugitive from justice. One of the women
| is the wife of Delmar and was arrested
| several days ago in her home, 1901
Broadway, charged with having re-
| volver in her possession. The gun was
found in a collar box and the police say
| the woman admitted that It belonged
to her husband
According to the police Delmar was
against the scheme to kill Binkowtz but
later agreed to it. The other woman
under arrest was found in Bridgeport
She gaze her name as Cora Aube Of IS
Thomae street. At the same time the
Erldgeport police detained Edward Bel.
forte of Milford. Both are held us ma
| terial Witnesses.
Coroner Mix of Bridgeport will come
to New York to-day to take the test-
mony of several OF the prisoners.
The sun., 1919-10-27
SCHURMAN SHOWS
CORNELL'S NEEDS
100000 Necessary to In
sure University Expansion.

ITHACA, Oct, 26.-In a statement ask
ing for n greater support OF the Cornell
University endowment campaign DIR.
Jacob Gould Schurman to-day said that
100000 will he useful only to prevent
the institution from sinking" Unless
another 100000 Is obtained tho plans
for expansion cannot be carried out and
btagnation and retrogression will result.
DIR. Schurman said the far sighted bust
ness man should appreciate the purpose
Of the work offered at Cornell, and its
valuable contribution TO the business of
the nation in turning out experts In en-
cheering science, law and fine arts.
80 far as the endowment for increas-
ing salaries is concerned" said DR..
Schurman, "the sum sought is very
moderate and will not permit any such
rate OF Increase Us the wage earners
of the country already have received
The proposed scale would be moderate
even at pre-war levels of prices and
wages"
The sun., 1919-10-27
STUDENTS OPPOSE COVENANT.
Virginia seminarians object to
shantung Decision.

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 2e.-Resolutions
have been adopted by students of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary here
opposing the ratification of the peace
treaty and the League of Nations COW
enant unless the Shantung agreement is
stricken out, and the heavy balance of
voting power given to Great Britain In
the League of Nations is corrected.
The studnets hold that the United
States should never ratify an agreement
which deprives a sister republic and
ally OF 100000 people. and insist that
since self-respect Is a virtue among ma
tons, this nation does not belong in a
partnership where she Is to be outvoted
six TO one by another Power. They con-
tend that the League Of Nations destroys
national independence and that It is I'M
democratic In falling to recognize a
reasonable basis Of population.
The sun., 1919-10-27

I'm Oyster Bay for tonight, when VIII
H. Hays, Republican national chair
man, will be the chief speaker.
Herbert Hoover will be the guest OF
honor at the dinner of the Rock Noun
tain Club at the Waldorf-Astoria to-
night John Hays Hammond, president
of the club. will introduce Alton b.
Parker, who will preside as toastmaster:
The principal address will be delivered
by Elihu Root. Other speakers VIII be
French Ambassador Jules Jusserand.
oil. Henry d. Lindsey, chairman Of the
American Legion, and Major-Gen. Dan
lei c, Shanks, commander OF the port OF
embarkation.
The Womans Roosevelt Memorial AS
ISOLATION will observe Roosevelt's birth
day by the dedication and raising of a
flag, presented by the Rough Riders,
over the house on the site where Col.
Roosevelt was born, 2S East Twentieth
street, this afternoon at o'clock. Air
planes will drop flowers on the house
during the ceremony. Mrs. John Henry
Hammond, association president, VIII
make an address. The flag will adorn
the platform at Greenwich House, ~
Barrow street, this evening at a memo
rial service.
Fellow members Of the class OF 1880
the year Theodore Roosevelt was gradu-
ated from Harvard, will gather at the
Harvard Club in West Forty-fourth
street to honor the memory Of Harvards
most illustrious graduate.
A ball will be given this evening at
the Pennsylvania Hotel, at which Capt
A, l.. Boyce OF "Boyce's Tigers" will
tell some "reminiscences of the Colonel
At the dinner to be given In Roose'
velt's honor at the Union League Club in
Brooklyn tonight Supreme Court JUS
tice Crane will be the principal speaker
Services in memory of Col. Roosevelt
were held in many Brooklyn churches
vaeterdav
The sun., 1919-10-27
DR.. STIRES HEADS CAMPAIGN.
st. Thomas's Rector to Direct
Episcopal Every Name Canvass.

st. Thomas's Rector to Direct
Episcopal Every Name Canvass.
The Rev. DR.. Ernest M. stires, rector
of st. Thomas's Church, according to a
message received from the Right Rev.
Charles Sumner Burch. d. D., Bishop OF
New York has accepted the post of di-
rector OF the Every Name campaign.
DR.. Stires will return Immediately to
New York from Detroit to cooperate with
the committee of laymen, which has been
conducting the preliminary and eduoa-
tional features of the Every Name can
vass. The campaign will begin with the
assumption OF DR.. Stires of dictatorship
and continue until December 7. when
every member of the Episcopal Church
will be visited personally and be urged
to reawaken interest in the work OF the
church and its responsibilities in assist
ing the solution Of present world prob
lens
The first appearance of DIR. Stlres as
director OF the campaign will be at a
conference OF women speakers. which
will be held on Wednesday at the Church
Club, SO East Fifty-sixth street.
The sun., 1919-10-27

dress the House at 1850. At .
o'clock in the evening the royal guests
will be entertained at dinner by the
vice-President and Mrs. Marshall at the
residence of Mrs. Thomas f., Walsh.
The royal party will lunch on board
the Presidential yacht Mayflower at
o'clock Wednesday and will spend the
remainder OF the afternoon at Mount
Vernon. At S in the evening they will
be the guests Of the Secretary Of State
and Mrs. Lansing. An informal tea will
be given for them by Mrs. Wilson at
the White House on Thursday, and they
will dine at the Belgian Legation
Thursday evening
The sun., 1919-10-27
WILL ADDRESS CHURCHMEN.
Foreign Industrial Delegates to
Speak Here To-day.

The churchmen of the city will be ad-
dressed to-day in the assembly hall of
the Metropolitan Life Building, Fourth
avenue and Twenty-third street, by dele
gates who attended the international in
'dustrial conference which has just closed
at Atlantic City. The conference was
arranged by the New York Federation
of Churches. Sympathy and support Of
America for Europe until the reconstruc-
ton is well established will be urged.
Among the speakers will be F1orimund
Hankar, director of the National Bank
of Belgium Arthur Waddington, a lead
ing French textile manufacturer John
Greeley Jenkins, vice-president Of the
British Producers Association Bailie
John King. former Mayor of Glasgow; DR..
Luigi luigi, former director of Italian
State railways, and Edward A. F'ilene
Of the National Chamber of Commerce.
The sun., 1919-10-27
IRISH MINISTER SHOT.
Masked Men Attack Man Whose
Sons Went to War.

BELFAST. oct 26,--The Rev, Il. A. Foy.
rector of Linsadiil, a lonely country dis
trict near Armagh, was shot by masked
men Saturday night and is in critical
condition in the Armagh infirmary The
men called at the house on the pre-
tense of borrowing a motor jack mad
escaped after the shooting.
Mr.. Foy's two sons Joined the British
army in Canada early in the war, one
Of them gaining a commission in an
Ulster regiment.
The sun., 1919-10-27
AMENDMENT NO. l EXPLAINED.
Property benefited by Drainage
to De Assessed.

ALBANY, Oct 26.-The State Conserva-
tion Commission gave n statement to-
day explaining amendment No. of the
series to be voted on at the general cleo
ton. The amendment provides that the
use of property for the drainage OF
swamp or agricultural lands Is a public
use. and that the expenses incurred In
draining such swamp lands for agrlcul-
tural purposes may DO assessed wholly
or partly against any property benefited
thereby.
The commission estimated that there
are 100000 acres OF swamp land In the
State, about half OF which may be
drained profltably. 1t is figured that
1900 acres could be made disable by the
drainage of swamp In Orange county.
The black soil under the swamps is of
the most fertile kind, and the average
value Of such reclaimed land is put at
$500 an acre.
The sun., 1919-10-27

icans who did not like Americans, who
retained ali their prejudicss and all their
pernicious tendencies contracted at home.
"In such controversy as that we are
now to face his words for American in
situations and against European Boil
shevisrn, in favor of law. order and lib
erty and against plumber and anarchy.
would have sunk deep into the heart Of
the plain people"
The sun., 1919-10-27
Many Sunday visitors at Gedney.

An unusually large number of visi-
tors spent the week end at Gedney Farm
Hotel, White Plains. The annual Hal
lowe'en dinner and masquerade dance
will be held next Friday evening Mr..
and Mrs. Carl F. Holmes of New York
will spend the winter at Gedney.
The sun., 1919-10-27
Going at Last to CoIoneIs Grave.

The flag then will be taken to
Young's Memorial Cemetery to be placed
upon the grave, When taps is sounded
at sunset the flag will be removed to
the Cove Neck school house to remain
there pending a decision as to its per-
manent resting place.
William L Deb. Jr., who was Col.
Roosevelt's secretary during his Presi-
dency, has arranged a memorial meeting
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-02-26
Dean Gilchrist Killed While Coasting

Dean Gilchrist, ten-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gilchrist of this
place, was killed Friday night while
coasting down what is known as Pine
hill. Henry Bouldman, who was
steering the sled, was also badly in
jured
Seven boys were on the traverse
making their third trip down the hill,
when the sled went over sluiceway,
striking the plank and also the post
onto which the plank was spiked. This
loosened the spikes and the boys went
against them. Bouldman, who was
steering, struck the spikes, but Gil
christ, who was back of him on the
sled, got the full force of the blow
and a spike protruded into the upper
part of his leg, severing the big ar
terry. He lived only Is minutes af-
ter the accident occurred.
Mr.. Gilchrist is an express agent
and was away from home, but was
summoned, reaching home the next
day.
home Monday afternoon, Rev. Warner
of Barton speaking words of comfort
and coaso' alton to the family and the
large number of friends who were
present. Rev. Edwards was able to
be present and assisted in the service.
The flowers were present in great
profusion and with their silent beauty
conveyed to the bereaved family mes
sages of love and sympathy. The
burial was at Pine Grove cemetery.
The boy leaves of the immediate
family his parents, a grandmother, a
brother, Scott, II years of age, and an
aunt. Besides the family he is mourn
ed by his boy companions and a host
of friends.
Those from out of town present
were Mrs. W. L. Adams of Provi-
dence, r. l., sister of Mrs. Gilchrist,
and cousin, Mrs. H. B. Parkhurst of
North Troy, and H. Wilson of Lyn-
donville
The sympathy of every home in the
community is extended to the bereav-
ed parents.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-02-26
Newport News Page
Important Happenings and Local
Notes from the County Seat.
F. c. Williams Incorporates.

A Montpelier dispatch says: Frank
c. Williams of Newport, former bank
commissioner of Vermont, has filed
articles of association with the secre-
tary of state for a corporation to be
known as Frank c. Williams, Inc,
for the purpose of buying, selling,
dealing in and acting for the sale of
mortgage, loan bonds, stocks, notes,
evidences of Indebtedness, etc, also
dealing in real estate of all kinds, do
mestic and foreign, and acting as
agent and broker for investment COM
panies, town corporations, associa-
tions. partnerships and individuals
The capital stock is $4,000. The sub
scribers are Frank G. Williams, Sam
C. Williams and F. A. Williams all of
Newport
ARTICLES of association also have
been filed by Williams & Smith, Inc,
for the purpose of acting as agents
and doing a brokerage business in
fire. life, accident, surety, fidelity, La
bility and all other kinds of insurance
The office of this corporation will be
at Newport. The capital stock is
$4,000. The subscribers are Frank
c. Williams, Sam c. Williams and E.
J. Smith, all of Newport"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-02-26

Miss Maude Denny, daughter of
Mrs James Derl1sha, died of pneu-
monia the past week, sympathy is ex-
pressed for Mrs. Derusha. This is
the second child she has lost within
a few months as son was accidental
ly drowned during the summer.
Mrs. Herbert Badger and twin
nine-year-old sons, Dale and Vale,
have been i'll the past week with in
fiuenza. All three developed bron-
chial pneumonia, and Mrs. Badger
passed away, Sunday evening, Dale
seems better as only one lung is af
fected, but Vale is seriously i'll for
both lungs are affected. The COM
munity was shocked to hear of Mrs.
Badgers DEATH Obituary later.
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES.
G. W. Collins, Pastor
Morning service 1890.
Bible school, noon.
Union service, 7:3O.
Union service in Congregational
church 7.30.
Prayer meeting Tuesday at 7.S0
in parsonage.
CONG. CHURCH NOTES
Pastor, Rev. w. C. Johnson.
Sunday morning worship, 1870
Bible school at noon.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-02-26
New Spring
Offering
f444444444444444444

EvROM this time ehall offer New Spring and Summer
Merchandise and the very lowest possible prices
feel that wants to pay little less instead
of little for their purchases has been the rule for the
past four years and fby cutting profits to the lowe~t
possible figure help customers something with
which buy thrift it will make friends
if not quite large profits
We thousands of dollars worth of Staple Merchan-
dise very much less than the present market value
shall get the top price policy has been III
buying much stock, how large profit
make, if could customers
money goods that they would be obliged buy and for
the past six months have sold good dollars worth
Merchandise less than the actual wholesale prices
The New Spring Styles very pretty indeed and the
buyers of this have been making study of them in New
York, Washington and of Winter Resorts IN FIr-
GINA and you may be stock of Ready Year Cont
Suits Dresses, Waists and Separate Skirts will be the
choicest of the New York market We nd that Womens
Shoe Shop offering better shoe values than
any of the large city stores
All Departments will be fully stocked with new and
all priced the lowest possible prices
Mail Order Department will take OF your bus-
visit the store, in the satisfactory
manner.