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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17
GAsTRIECH-READER WEEPING

GAsTRIECH-READER WEDDING
Miss Ethel Gastriech of st. Louis
and Mr.. Charles Raeder, also of st
Louis, were married at S o'clock Sat
urday evening in Greenwood. Rev
]. R. Hughes oficiated.
MI. and Mrs. u. s. Gray and son
of Memphis, who have been the guests
of Mrs. Gray's mother, Mrs. A. H
Gray and family, left this morning
through the country for their home
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Mrs. J.. H. Pettey and two children
, have returned home from Chicago
where they spent the summer. Mr..
Pettey went to Chicago and accom-
panied them home.
\
Mrs. Edward Clark, who has been
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. P. C.. Spencer for several days,
left this morning for her home in
Jackson.
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Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Dorman have
returned from their wedding trip to
Memphis and other points and are
now at home to their friends in this
city.
X + + + X X
Mrs. A. H. Borsch and two daugh-
ters, left Saturday afternoon for
He ena, Ark, where they will visit
relatives.
X
Mrs. w. G.. Street returned home
Sunday morning from a several mon
tbs visit with her mother at Paducah,
Ky.
Miss Della Gardner spent Sunday
in Yazoo City, the guest Of her aunt,
Mrs. John North.
Mr.. J. B. Bruce was in the city last
Saturday on business from his Carroll
county plantation.
Mr.. A. P. Guenther was in the city
ON business from Morgan City last
Saturday.
Mr.. J. L. Robinson, of Morgan City
was in Greenwood last Saturday on
business.
Miss Nora Belle Sheats of Mem
phis, is the guest of Mrs. J. A. Car
ithers.
Miss Katherine Vesey was the
guest of Miss Stella Colvin at Sidon,
Sunday.
Mrs. E. H. st. Clair spent Sunday
in Greenville.
X + 4 X
Mr.. N. A. Pridgen left Sunday for
Columbia, Miss, from where he will
accompany his father to Memphis and
Hot Springs, Ark, where the latter
goes for treatment.
Miss Anne Logan of Tchula, is the
guest of Miss Sara Jones.
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Corp. David G. Ellington, who was
among the last U. S. troops to leave
Germany, arrived in Greenwood Sat
urday night and is the guest of his
mother, Mrs. E. Ellington. He was in
the Reserve Corps Of the regular
army when the war broke out with
Germany and was again called int.
Service in the 9Th Field Sigma, Corps
Fourth Division. Later he was trans
ferred to the Third Division and ha
been with the Army of Occupation
since the signing of the armistice.
$500
Mr.. w. D. Roberts, Mr.. James Rob-
erts, Mr.. and and Mrs. Will Roberts.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Roberts, Miss
Louise Roberts and MI. Gwin Lock-
wood all of Memphis, have arrived in
Greenwood, for, the Wingfield-Rob-
erts wedding which will take pace
tomorrow.
Mr.. H. E. Lewis, accompanied by
Mrs. H. Brod, Mrs. E. Kap an and
Mrs. Sam Brod and. Ike Kaplan, mo
tored here from Memphis yesterday
to spend a few days with MI. and
Mrs. A. Davidson.
The fire department was called to
the intersection of Jackson and Main
street yesterday morning. The roof
of a negro house had caught on fire.
The blaze was soon extinguished and
the damage was sight.
The organists of the various
churches of Greenwood, will be the
guests of the management Of the
Greenwood theatre today and tomor-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17
MILITANT CHRISTIANITY.
From FRIDAYS DailYl

The editor Of . certain newspaper
was called out Of town for q week
or more and he called upon i minister
of the gospel to edit the paper during
His absence. While he was away the
following letter came to the office
from a subscriber: 81 know very well
that l paid my subscription to your
paper the last time / was in your of
flee If | get any more letters from
you as / received last week / will
come in and maui hi out of you.'
The minister answered like this: 81
have been trying to get that out of
the editor for 10 years, and if you will
come down and maui it out of him
then, my dear sir, | have twenty mem
bers Of my church l will let you OPP
crate on."-Byhalia (Miss.) Banner.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17

MI. C. w. Mullen was here on bus.
mess from his Avalon plantation
home.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17

We join with the many Greenwood
friends of Nh. and Mrs. Lawren Hicks
Yancey in extending congratulations
to them upon the arrival in their
Memphis home yesterday morning at
$3.50 o'clock of a lite son, whom
they have named Lawren Gordon
Yancey.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17

:. Mr.. w. j. Knight returned home to
day from Vieksbury accompanied b.
his daughter Mrs. w. F. Arnold an
son, who will visit relatives and friend
here q few days.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17

Mr.. n. Y. FRASER was in the city
today on business from his Mill Place
plantation home.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17

Mr.. B. II. Trotter of Indianola
vas ! business visitor in Greenwood
today.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-09-17

Mrs. Abbey of Webb and her sis
ter, Mrs. J.. R. Shelton of Clarskda.e
and Mrs. Robert Mitchell of Friars
Point, were shopping visitors in
Greenwood Yesterday.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08
North Dakota Mill Grinds First Wheat
People OF Drake Celebrate Opening State
Paid Full Milling Value for Grain

minal elevators which the voters of North Dakota
have indorsed.
2. That the state officials who have remained
loyal to their pledges to the people, as contrasted
to the renegade professional politicians who crept
into the state capitol through hypocritica prete-
sions, not only farmers, but good business men,
They intend to proceed on facts; to know from ex-
perience what they do and can not do.
g. One of the first things-it was being done
. that very day-was to institute an honest sys-
tenn of buying wheat for which the farmers of
North Dakota have been battling for years; to
eliminate the graft that has reused the people
to boodless revolution against the Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce, the exploiting banker
and the milling trust Wheat was being
bought at the Drake mill that day on the basis
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08

of milling value, and not upon the discrimina-
tory grading system designed to fill the pocket
of the miller and specuator and plain thief. ,
4. That from the Drake mill the people for the
first time will learn the actual cost of producing
breadstuffs from the grain The farmers will get
full value for their wheat-that is the prime pur-
pose. But the farmer, the laboring man. the clerk
and the capitalist, who have been systematically
held up by millers, will be enabled to learn the
truth as to what milling costs are. And once the
people learn the truth, exploitation be -elimi-
mated. The lack of data that is accurate and un>
colored on the costs of manufacture and distribu-
tion is the great of the present evils of prof.
teering. Big business will be forced to compete
however tight it's combinations may be- with the
PAGE THREE a
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being paid full value for their wheat.
The meeting took place in the town
hall; there was not room for all those
who had come into the little city, de-
spite the rush of threshing operations
on the prairie farms of the region,
and the crowd overfowed out to the
sidewalk and was .jammed inside the
hall to the utmost capacity of stand
ing room. It was an event none of
the significance of which was lost by
those present, as none of the history
making features of the day were over
looked by the farmers throughout
North Dakota and the Northwest. For
this mill marks the breaking of the
bonds of the exploiter, the CRATER
and the profiteer. It is the beginning
of the realization that the people have
gone into big business own game; it
marks the opening of the era of the
square deal for the farmer and the
city man, the producer and the con-
sumer.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08

sells in Minneapolis for from 60 to 80 cents
less than the higher grade to which it is equal
in quality. In Drake that day that one-time
difference which went to the miller or the spec
ulator, going into the pocket Of the farmer
who produced the wheat. And the same thing
was true of the other processes of establishing
the actual value of the grain related to the
prevailing market price. The farmer was get
ting what belonged to him. =
Of course, for the present few weeks months,
those farmers living in the immediate neighbor-
hood of Drake from necessity will supply the mill
with grain. But as soon as the great expansion
of the plant takes place the whole northwest sec
tion Of the state will obtain the same advantages
Continued on page 14)
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AboveIn front
Johnson the farmer
mill there In back seats left to right A. W. Luhr mill
John Haga and labor and j. A. Nc
Govern of the mill
The Anamoose Boys band which
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08
BUSINESS MEETING OF
DIRECTORS, STOCKHOLDERS

There cause for celebration. 1t
holiday crowd, but as festival J.
the sessions at Drake were excellent
business meetings. The people were &s
present with those state officials
who have remained true to the farm
ers' program. It business
meeting pure and simple; the voters,
who are the Stockholders wore tbere Above
tn hear from their directors the state Johnson is
officials what their program was. mill there.
There oratory; the profess ana eieVat
sional politician had no place on the lstratlon .
program; spread-eagle screaming and uoVern' m
nolitical hunk were missing What The A
your plans? the people asked, and
John Hagan, commissioner of agriculture and la
Dor; J. A. McGovern, manager of the mill and
elevator association, and Doctor John H. Worst,
commissioner of immigration answered them as
nearly as they could, without ndulging in flights
Of promise which the nature Of the celebration to
the person accustomed to professional politicians,
might have made appropriate -~-...
But these things were brought out in the course
of the discussion: - @' - -
1. That the Drake mill, which is of small ca
pacity, will remain as it is for a few weeks or
months 1t will become the laboratory wherein the
state will prove it's theories are facts; which will
supplant rhetoric with accomplishment, and lay the
foundation of experience for the speedy develop
ment of the huge system Of state mills and ter
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porCatlOn advantages OF Drake as the
site of the first state-owned mill.
These were the high lights of the
history making day.
The Drake mill today has only 1875
barrels capacity. It will be supplant-
ed in time to handle next years crop
with a plant and elevator of from $50
to 1000 barrels daily capacity. Other
mills will be erected in other parts of
the state also in time for next years
crop. But the important fact is that
the industrial commissions policy will
be developed by experience at the
Drake mill. Governor Frazier and
John Hagan are farmers, but they are
sound business men and will not shoot
in the dark; fact which is worthy of
the consideration of those chiefs of
big business who themselves have
been known to make costly mistakes
very often through proceeding on
guesswork rather than data.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08

people themselves who keep their own books and
can base their judgment of the profteer on facts,
not on poisoned propaganda.
5. That of cooperation, based on mu-
tual advantage rather than the advantage of
the town alone, has opened up. The business men
of Drake, coming to their senses and realizing that
the prosperity of the surrounding country meant
their prosperity, and that it's hard times meant
hard times for them, have been working with the
farmers for the last year. They organized, and
the town Of Drake carried for the seven referred
laws in the referendum campaign by an overwhelm-
ing majority. Under the leadership of Peter John
son, farmer living the town. they continued
their organization and fought tooth and toe nail
and succeeded in impressing the industrial COM
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08
Bismarck Bureau,
NOnpartisan Leader.

UGUST 20 was a red letter day
in the history of the American
farmer. There was celebra-
tion at Drake, N. D., which was
heard around the world by
those who have their ears to
the ground for the coming of
the New Day. Hundreds of
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08

cred at Drake with state officials to hold jollii-
cation meeting That very morning the state had
taken over the plant of the Drake Grain & Milling
company, and grinding the first flour in the
first mill operated by and for the benefit of the
people in the United States. Farmers in that To-
cality, for the first time in their lives, were
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-09-08
GRAIN is BOUGHT AT
ITS MILLING VALUE

But there wasn't any theory about
state ownership of mills to the farm
ers who were so fortunate as to live
in the neighborhood of Drake that
day. Speculation on benefits had
ceased and this is why:
Grain was being bought at it's
milling value. For example, there
is that classification which the
farmer and the grain dealer know
as "mixed grain; wheat which
may contain as much as 10 per
cent rye. Despite the fact that
it has been proved that wheat
with or 8 per cent rye is just
as good for milling purposes as ]
the top grade wheat, mixed grain
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
Joe Schepner, of the Bears,
Leading S. L. Third Stacker

MOBILE, Ala, May 20. (SpL,)-Ree-
ords show that Joe Schepner, of the
Mobile club. is the leading third base
a in the Southern league this year
This player possesses a most remark
able fielding record. In II games
played during the home stay of the
Bears, Schepner has had but one error.
He has had a total OF n chances. OF
this number Al were assists and ~
were putouts. He accepted all but one
of them, getting an error for a high
throw to first base. .
His teammates boast that he has not
booted a ground ball since tho opening
game of the year and certainly he has
not kicked ore since tho team returned
to Mobile.
Schepner plays a ground ball better
than any man seen In the Southern In
some years. He makes his chances
look easy by playing the ball for the
good hops while he has a strong and
most accurate arm, Joe's, third base
play has been q revelation to Mobile
fans and If anyone doubts this claim
to honors as the premier third base
MA of the league, let them come for
ware with A record better than that
shown. above for the Mobile inflelder;
Second Baseman Billy Meyers, released
signed and will be used as utility man.
Untz, a New Orleans boy. who was
used in this position, has been sent
to the ~Spartanburg club. Walter Col
win, first baseman of the club, will not
make the trip with the home team, but
will remain here until he gets In condi-
ton,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
WHAT'S THE ANSWER

Is Memphis dead from a boxing point
Of view or not? Fight fans who formerly
paid good money and yelled themselves
hoarse for their faVorltes In the squared
arena failed to put In their appearance
at the four big boxing shows put on
during the Centenary celebration.
On the first night Mike oibbens,'
was matched with George Knockout
Brown. Gibbons, a champion, was greet.
cd by the smallest audience that ever
watched two ring gladlators perform
In the history Of boxing In Memphis.
Gibbons gave a wonderful exhibition
worth four or five dollars Of anybody's
money. Brown also helped TO make II
a great bout. To see Gibbons alone was
worth the price Of admission.
Then, on Tuesday night Johnny Grit.
tlths and Len Rowlands put up a great
battle, all that could be desired from
the spectators point Of view. The GROVE
but little larger than the Gibbons.
Brown audience.
Then, on Saturday night, a big double
card was arranged, Pal Moore meeting
Benny Chavez and Jack Dillon clash
inu With Phil Harrison. The house was
about half full. Dillon was knocked out
and Moore beat Chavez. The first bout
marked the passing OF q big favorlte
In Memphis, the other moved a crack
LEGAL hoy on his way TO the top:
Where were the fight tans2 Where
terday7 The promoters OF the -four
| bouts, who lost several thousand dol
lars, would like to know.
Is Memphis dead from a boxing point
Who knows the answer?
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
MOBILE A HERE.

The Mobile Bears, c~haperoned by Bob
Coleman, manager, arrived in Memphis
on an early morning train n are now
In readiness to mingle with the Tribe
for the ensuing three days.
The schedule calls for single games
today and Thursday, with a double
header for Friday. which will be Me-
mortal day.
The Chicks arrived from Atlanta at
s o'clock this morning. Chief Cy Bar
ger stated that he would likely use
Tiny Goodbred in the opener against
Mobile, with Gilbert Meyers behind the
tat. Memphis fans will get their first
squirt at the new Chick backstop. Red
Smith is still on the ailing list, but
expects to again don the chest protector
and mask within a short time.
All Of the Tribesmen are reported
to be in good shape. Pug Griffin, who
was in a batting slump while the Chicks
were on the road, has found his batting
orb and is pounding the ball as he did
earlier In the season. Dixie Carroll
| continues his hard hitting, and the
| fielding Of the entire club has improved,
Hub Perdue, the only and original
Gallatln Squash, got three hits out OF
four attempts against Bullet Joe De-
| catur, of Nashville, a few days ago.
Hub, who has always claimed the dis
tinctlon of being the ~rottenest hitter In
baseball, has ambitions to roost amonp
the 800 clouters In his old age, and his
start against the Vol hurier indicates
that he may yet live to see his batting
average bigger than the size Of his 3
". DIS.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
Here Is One Thing That
Is Absolutely Impossible

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A valuable book on Rheumatism and
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Write today to Medical Department,
Swift Specific Co., $50 Swift Laboratory,
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28

them a chance TO get out OF the ,rut'
II the performance OF the past three
days may be taken as a criterion, the
club is In for a season OF prosperity,
for the team a been looking better
and better as the days wore on, and
they completed their o trip by lick
ina the Atlanta Crackers three times
In succession. With the pitchers CIV
ina 1000 accounts of themselves and
the club playing better bell all the way
around, there IS plenty OF room to feel
optimistic about the club, and with a
long home stay In front Of them, the
Chicks have the opportunity confront
everlasting dayllahts out OF the clubs
which have been kicking them around
ever since the season started.
The Chicks. as they look today, are
a much better aggregation than Tor
! merly. They do not look like t~ailenders,
and although away to a bad start, there
Is every promise that they will not
finish last. While pennant hopes have
been blasted, there Is yet time to fin
/ tlnue the winning stride that they have
exhibited during the past tow days,
| there is nothing under the sun that
can keep them from climbing up to a
first division berth.
The mound work Of Roy Fentress and
Eddie Foster, who got away on the
wrong foot but who are now showing
plenty Of class or the hill; Is one OF
the most encouraging omens that bet,
Caravan are dependable hurlers ano
can be counted on to the limit. Cy
BaFaer Is also ace high al a pitcher
The rifle corps Is now hitting OF all sir
cylinders and the entire club seems
to have found Itself.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
WELL KNOWN HERE.

Dixie Kid, the negro prt2efighter'
killed by a blow from an American o.
fIcer's fist in Paris Sunday, Ia well re-
membered by local fight fans,
as he fought here on numerous occa-
sions. His last fight IN Memphis was
with Sam Iangford. the Boston heavy
weight, who finished Dixie Kids Ca
reer as a boxer, Largford administer
ing a terrific beating, pixie Kid was
not a native OF Memphis, but blow III
here me day about seven years ago,
He fought all the hesy negro fighters
and was said to he one Of the greatest
welterweight and light heavyweight
| boxers that have ever shown IN th'
South. lie could take punishment ant
then knock hts opponent out, as he
possessed a terrific punch and floored
many of the leading black boxers o
his day.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28
CLUB TO
OPEN 1919 SEASON

The New Memphis Tennis club will
omen it's 1919 playing season with a
tournament Mt It's grounds at the cor
neT Of Madison avenue and Manassas
street, beginning Monday, June 3, next,
the same to be continued on days
thereafter until finished.
The tournament will be the opening
tourney Of tho New Memphis Tennis
club and will he open TO the club mem
bcrshlp and also to members Of all
other city tennis clubs, including play
ers of schools and universities, OF ID
years of age and over.
Players outside of the club member
ship desiring to participate In the tour
| namant are invited to forward their
names to Secretary J., l.. Lent. r. O.
Box 1927, city. The list OF entries to
the tournament viii close on Saturday.
MAY Nj, and tho drawings for match
play will be published In newspapers
OF next Sunday and Monday, as well
as other particulars concerning tho
tournament,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-28

w NAaAhNAa bdAN AH III
me bug world, kicked the Atlautans iu-
me Nats again yesterday afternoon for
the thlrd consecutive time. Being tall
enders, It was expected that they would
prove Easy money, but they turned on
the Crackers and when the smoke
screen had lifted the poor, old Crack
ers were in need OF a flock of stretcher
bearers aud ~amhulances.
Tuesday afternoon the Chicks took
the Atlantans into camp by the score
Of 2 TO- 0. presenting Cholly Frank
Foster occupied the mound and be
pitched well-so well, in fact. that the
Crackers could do little OF nothing
with his delivery. Only in very few
instances did the Frankfurters threat
en-, and then they were cut down by
a sensational stab Of a ball or a neat
bit of pinch pitching. Thorburn occu-
pied the hill for Atlanta and pitched
We'll but not well enough.
The Chicks bagged a tally In the
opening session, High and Carroll
worked Thorburn for passes after one
hand had been retired, Pug Griffin
singled to left and High registered.
Eddie Foster was responsible for the
other ChiCk tally. which came in the
sixth, Manda al resting calmly on
second In the sixth when Foster %
nected for a long three -bagger. Foster
got "A single in the first inning.
sam Mayer, Cracker captain, CON
tributed a circus catch for the Crack
ers In tho sixth, when he robbed Cy
Barger OF "A hit by a hard running
catch. Sammy tore In as the ball was
hit and the pill was about to drop be-
hind second base. when he stretched
like he was made Of rubber and col
lected the ball, going down, but COM
ing up with v in his paws,
Manager Cyrus didn't relish being
robbed in any such fashion and pro-
tested that Mayer had picked the ball
up on the first hop, but the jumps
begged to disagree and the Chick chief
was waved to the bench,
And 80 ends the Cracker Chick se-
rics, which proved disastrous TO the
home team, but which proved q life
saver to the tailend Chicks. who are
in need of all games they can get In
| their efforts to get out OF the damp,
dark pellar