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The Brinkley argus., 1919-04-04
BRIkKLEY MEETING
 TUESDAY F[UKfD
Clarendon, Holly Grove and Roe Profitable Farming Organiza- tions Busy and Showing Results. Visitors Come to BrinkIey for Meeting Tuesday Night but
 Fail to Get a
 Look in."


 The three days Profitable Farming Drive, Sunday, Mon- day and Tuesday, under the direction of the three U. S. Agents, MT. Beck, Miss Forten- berry and Miss Bonslagel, and H. M. Cottrell, the well known State Agriculturist of Little Rock, came to a close Tuesday night in Brinkley-at least it was supposed to but in reality it closed in Roe Tuesday after noon, when the progressive Roeites held a rousing big meet ling and put up the kitchen range and other financial es- sentials for the success of the work there.
 At Clarendon on Monday there was a big get together meeting and midday luncheon at which some 40 of the leading Clarendon citizens were present I in an elbow touch fellowship, which savored of real suc- cess in the splendid progressive spirit shown. The dinner was gotten up under the direction 1of the Clarendon Profitable Farming Committee and was a sumptuous one, served in the ipretty big store of H. E. Lynch Judge H. B. Bateman presid- ed and several Clarendon ladies assisted Miss FOrten- berry in serving the dinner Miss Bonslagel, Miss FOrten- berry and Mrs. R. F. Milwee were very agreeable speakers as were H. M. Cottrell an6 others.
 A motion asking the count. levying court to approve of tht purchase of a Ford car for us' Eof the County Agent, Wal unanimously carried by a ris ing vote. A committee com posed of w. H. Jeffries, R. E lMilwee and H. E. Lynch wa selected to assist in pOcurin, the car.
 | At Holly Grove and also a |ShiIo night meetings were hell
 A sumptuous dinner wa
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Rev. T. J. BrickeII, BrinkIey's Pioneer Preacher, Passes
 Away on Tuesday.

On Tuesday morning, after a rather prolonged illness, Rev. T. J. Brickell, of South Main street. passed to his long home
 The funeral was at the Metho- dist church Wednesday after noon and was conducted just as the deceased man had willed lit should be.
 Thos. J. Brickell was born at Palmetto Ga., March 12, 1849. joined the M. D. church in Franklin, Ga, at the age of 12, and in his diary, which was read at the funeral by Pastor l.. E. Mann, he said: q was call ed to preach at the age of IT but postponed answering the call"
 He moved to Trenton, Ark. in l1S7O and was licensed to preach the same year. Joined White River Conference in 1874 and appointed to Bethsaide Circuit 1, but couldn't take the work. Was lappointed by the Conference to the Clarendon Circuit in 1876. To the Valley Grove Circuit lat CT. In 1877 when the great scourge of yellow fever was sweeping the South he was at Turner Mission, his first work, and here stated that he suffered
 greatly. On account of his wife's poor health he located in 1878
 moving to Poplar Grove.
 In 1883 moved to Brinkley
 and soon afterwards opened a
 cabinet shop and furniture
 store, preaching now and then. The diary concludes with the selling out of his furniture store and rently in 1898 and the story of his life since then, as aptly stated by Pastor Mann, is a fa- miliar chapter to the people of
 Brinkley.
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BIG DEAL 0OSFD...-
 COMING TO BRIkKLEY
Eastern Arkansas Demonstra- ton Farm Buys 127 Acres Just South of City Limits and Will Build Model
 Plant at Once.
BIG THING FOR BRINKLEY

Everyday brings something new and good for the old town about the biggest and best thing for quite a while was the deal closed on Tuesday by Park CT c. Evan of Clarendon for 127 acres of the Clark or Gum land, just south of Brinkley city limits on which will be erect ed at once a modern plant cleo trically equipt throughout for both power and lights for their splendid farm now located at Blackton.
 MT. Ewan said to the Argus man this morning, ssYes the deal is closed and we will begin put ting the lumber, concrete, etc, on the ground as soon as we can get a switch built III rom Cotton Belt. We expect to have the most modern plant possible to erect and hope to have it completed by the latter part oi July so that we can hold Ou1 big hog sale there at that time ?
 This is one ofvthe best things that has come to Brinkley fol many a day and here's a hearty welcome for MT. Ewan, Dr. w M. Bruce and all their force. It is said that the 127 acres cost around the $10.0OO and that the buildings and improve ments to be done at once will foot up around the $15,000 mark or a total of $25,000.
The Brinkley argus., 1919-04-04

Mrs. J. H. WaldrOp returned Tuesday afternoon from Little Rock and Des Arc, where she has been to visit her sister Mrs. w. E. Halbrook, and brother, James M. Dickson, of Leftwich Farm.
 Mrs. F. V. Ballentine of Texas, formerly Miss Carrie Bestwick, is back on a visit to Cotton Plant friends and rela- tives and will probably be a Brinkley visitor before her re- turn to Texas.
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CARD OF THANKS

In the dark hours of sorrow there is nothing so comforting as the sympathy of friends. and to each and everyone who so kindly ministered to us during the illness and death of our husband and father, T. J. Brick ell, we offer our sincere thanks.
 Mrs. T. ]. Brickell
 II. l.. Brickell
The Brinkley argus., 1919-04-04
|fY.RRINKLFY BOY
 ' KILLED FRIDAY
e,,y Craig Killed in Little Rock ,.;, After Murderous Attack
 on JaiIer, While Seek ing to Escape.

Last Friday night in the Little pock iail, bout Il o'clock, Guy |rrsia formerly of Brinkley, was .sot and instantly killed by Jaller J. H. Hicks.
 Craig is well remembered in ndnkley having been reared bere and moving with his par ,uts few years ago to Argen- His father was for several .ars car inspector in the Rock land yards here.
 The Little Rock Democrat as this story of the killing, rEit;
 That Guy c. Craig must have Hpued out of his cell at the sup q hour while the jailer's at Endon was attracted elsewhere the opinion o fJailer J. H. hEks, who shot and killed .aig about II o'clock Friday sht while the prisoner was bdeayoring to overpower night Yer Henry Gardner and make escape
 Close questioning of the pris- 4s Saturday morning did not Tighten the officers. While e officers believe there was veI-planned plot between Is and other prisoners to ef- 4a general delivery, none O1 prisoners would admit any exldge of how Craig went of his cell. MT. Hicks is ping the prisoners through a llse of discipline which he nks will lead some oi m to talk.
 Cnig, who was a white man put 2l years of age, struck Bht Jailer Gardner over the ld with a blackjack imprOvis- Oy wrapping the faucette o1 Eater pipe in a piece of his lnel shirt Gardner was lek from behind. A gasI ut two inches long was cut me back of his head.
 Fauner had just completed hourly inspection of the on when he was attacked
 ough dazed by the blow cK by the prisoner, the
 had presence of mind \ asn to catch hold of his
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pistol, either to use it in his own defense or to prevent his assailant from getting it. Craig immediately grabbed him and the two fought their way into the jailor's office, where the scuffle attracted the attention of MT. Hicks, who entered just as Gardner was being forced to release his hold on the pistol.
 One Shot Hits Craig
 MT. Hicks fired one shot at Craig. The bullet entered his right side and came out the left. He sank to the floor crying, You've Killed Me-" and died within a few seconds.
 Hearing noise among the prisoners in the cell and fearing a general delivery, MT. Hicks again fired his pistol to frighten the prisoners.
 When rescued Gardner had almost been choked lifeless. Craig had his hand upon his throat to prevent his giving the alarm, and was trying to force his pistol from his hand, Gardner managed to kick hard against the iron door of the of flee several times. This attract ed MT. Hicks who had retired for the night. MT. Hicks stated that he heard a noise in the of flee, but tht it was not unusual to hear chairs moved around on the floor at night. However when he heard the blows against the door he thought some one was trying to break in the jail. He hurried to the office in his night clothes, not taking time to dress.
 Did Not Know Craig He stated that when he en- tered the office and saw the two men in a grapple, Craig had forced Gardner against the radiator near the door of the of l fee, and was bending over him in an effort to get hold of his pistol. He did not see MT. Hicks until the later was almost upon him. MT. Hicks yelled at him firing at the same time.
 MT. Hicks stated that he did not know who Craig was al the time. He thought that il was some one who had entered the jail. He looked around te find the opening through which I he had entered but could find none. He then went to the prison and called the roll of the prisoners before he knew tha1 (Con4inued on Page 8
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
AMERICAN BOLSHEVISM

been equivalent to inviting people to a
meeting in the interest of reform in
legal procedure in capital cases and Sc
curing as the only speaker of the even
ing man who believed in murder and
arson and burglary and had practiced
the same as means of livelihood. AS
DR.. Mccarthy and others have pointed
out we have been fooling with this issue
too long, and we have even refused to
see what the Seattle strike meant or how
much better an American Mayor Ole
Hanson is than 1.-The women with more
money than they know what to do with"
who have been financing anarchy and
bolshevism as pink tea diversion a s to
whose existence John Reed, the radical,
has frankly testified to before the Over
man committee.
We need to be walked up. And if the
Lamar report as to the revolutionary
movement that is going on here and the
Overman testimony do not do the trick.
We shall deserve the fate that comes to
those who will not defend their own
from inside and outside aggression. New
lamps for old" is a foolish cry, and only
the thoughless are SHARED thereby.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
PLUCK

tended to be so eager to divide among
his people, nursed the ambition to the
President and lord of Mexico. Ready to
treat ambiguously with the government
when too hard pressed, raiding and hid.
ing secure in inaccessible Businesses and
bursting out in rapine SO soon as occa-
sion offered, Matchmaking the mine own.
ers and foreigners generally, massacrins
railway passengers and pillaging ammu-
milton and other trains. Zapata, with
forces varying at different times and
probably always overestimated, has been
master for years of a region naturally
rich. His state of Morelos only a part
of his domain at times. has been a sugar
country since the day Of Cortez; and il
produces coffee, rice, and so on literally.
Under the sway Of Zapata it has SUI
fered losses that long years will hardly
make up, even If the government carries
out successfully it's plan of breaking UP
the great landed properties into little
farms 1t is a sufficient testimonial to the
character of Zapata's reign that children
16 years old stare in wonder at civilian.
Zapata's ragged, cotton-clothed followers
or the government troops in uniform are
the men they have been used to see.
Zapta seems to belong to some other
century. Savage, boastful, rond Of load
ing his person with diamonds and gold,
polygamous, patriarch of banditry, he
fulfills the book-and-boy idea of a robber.
1t is comforting to hear and good to be-
lieve that he used to live in a mountain
cave 10 miles long and stored with sup (
plies and ammunition"
Let us hope that he will be caught
Trains are beginning to run, though the
bridges, favorite Zapata points of attack,
have still to be guarded. Order, the re-
sumption of sugar planting, the sugar in
dustry and agricultural work generally,
the revival of communications, education
and peaceful life depend in Morelos upon
the utter downfall the permanent alb
sence, or the extinction of Zapata. He
will always make trouble if he can, and
he is beyond amnesty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
VERSAILLES AND BRUSSELS

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Sentimental considerations have no con-
siderable place in the deliberations of
peace conferences, but there is poetic
flavor in condolences which is happily
recognized. In the meeting of the states
men at Versailles, where the arrogant
German empire was borp amid the tears,
the groans and blooshed of France, there
is retributve setting. The German en-
pire is receiving a worse blow at Yer
sailles than Bismarck and Won Moltke
dealt to the vanquished French on the
same spot. Almost simultaneously with
the completion of peace terms, which the
Prussians must accept, is the announce
ment through the presiding officer of the
Belgian Parliament that the treaty Of
1889, separating Holland and Belgium and
establishing the latters neutrality, char
acterized by Won Bethmann-H ollweg
as a scrap of paper in 1914, is to be
revised. So intense was the national feel
ing among the Begians that every men,
Der of the Chamber of Deputies stood
Willie TTtHleT DeldCTOlX redu the Sldtt-
ment which he declared forecasts pro-
found influences upon the destinies of
Belgium. Sentiment ran high as he re-
lated how exactly so years ago the same
walls heard the farewels of representa-
tives of Belgian provinces which the ex-
ecution of the treaty We're to separate
from that country.
The chamber was deeply moved by the
memorable coincidence and deafening
applause marked the close of the an
lnouncement. Evidently the Belgians hope
that the end of the practice of instan-
taneousy Transforming a solemn pledge
into scrap of paper has definitely come
to an end. The neutrality guaranteed in
1899 by France, Great Britain, Austria
and Prussia meant nothing August /,
1914, when the Prussian junkers decided
upon the route through Belgium as the
line of least resistance in the proposed
dash to Paris in 40 days. Bringing to-
gether the humiliation of the Prussians
at Versailles. in contrast to the con-
querors air in 1871, and the memories at
tached to the treaty of 1889, could not but
reawaken patriotic sentiment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
m OLICITOR LAMAR of the postof-
~ flee department, has done public
W. service by calling the attention of
Senator Overmans committee to the
grave nature of the radical and revolu-
tionary propaganda which is now going
on in this country. This propaganda as
Mr.. Lamar points out, though it pro-
ceeds from the l. w. w. and other ex-
IRENE radical groups in anarchistic and
socialistic circles, has rallied to COM
mon cause under the convenient, IL often
misunderstood. term bolshevism. And
that this virus is working among the
foreign elements, particularly with the
one object in view. to quote Mr. Lamar,
.'of overthrowing the government of the
United States by means of a bloody rev.
olution and the establishment of boil
shevik republic" should arrest the at
tention of all decent citizens and lead
them to rally to the support Of all those
liberties which are theirs under the
American system of government and
which they hold dear
This report of the United States post
office department Ats in perfectly with
what Senator Overmans committee has
already revealed as to the essential evil
of the mischievous and scatterbrained
Endorsement of Russian bolshevfsm by
our own parlor bolsheviki over here. II
the Overman committee never did any
thing else than its exposure of the ig-
rorance and the inability Of these radi-
Gals among us to state 1.-The truth about
Russia" it would more than justify its
Investigation. 1t has proved the case
against Russian bolshevlsm, and the
childish movement in favor of it over
here. out of the mouths of the most
blatant advocates of the red cause.
Through Raymond Robins of the Red
Cross, it has confirmed the main indict-
ment of the Russian radicals as destroy
ers of civilization, and Mr.. Robins has,
as it were, joined Mr.. Lamar in warning
this country pot to take the propaganda
in the Interest," of bolshevism too lightly.
That sentiment was also the burden of
Dr. D. j. McCarthys warning delivered
before the Contemporary club, when,S in
the presence of Nine. Breshkovska. he
nveiged against treating the issue of
bolshevism as a kind of parlor enter
tainment
These warnings, coming from capable
officials and trained observers who are
aware Of what went on in Russia and
what is going on here now, must not be
passed over And it especially behooves
serious organizations that are concerned
in and organization to promote the public
welfare not to invite loose and irrespon-
sible radical speakers to discuss these
problems as if they We're mere matter
of social fads and fancies. Some of tho
meetings held in Philadelphia recently,
supposedly in the interest of truth. have
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
A HEALTH

BY Edward Coates Pinkney
fill this cup to one made up of loneliness
alone,
A woman. of her gentle sex. the seeming
paragon:
To whom the better elements and kindly
stars have given
A form so fair that. like the air, It's less
of earth than heaven.
Her every tone is musics own, like those
of morning birds,
And something more than melody dwells
ever in her words;
The coinage of her heart are they, and
from her lips each flows.
AS one may see the burdened bee forth
issues from the rose.
Affections are as thoughts to here the
measures of her hours,
Her feelings have the fra rancy the
freshness of young flowers
And lovely passions changing oft, so III
her, she appears
The image of themselves by turn--the
idol Of past years!
OF her bright face one glance will trace
a picture on the BRAIN
And OF her voice in echo;ng hearts a
sound must long remain;
But memory. such as mine Of her so very
much endears,
When death is nigh my latest sigh will
rot be ,ife's but hers
fill this cap 10 one made up Of love
illness alone.
A woman. of her gentle sex. the seeming
paragon
Her health; And would on earth there
stood some more of such q rame
That life might. be .ali poetry, and weari-
ness a name
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
ATTILA OF THE SOUTH
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
81 CCORDING to an Associated Press
~ dispatch from Mexico City. the
government forces under General
Gonzalez have pretty nearly cleared the
state of Morelos of the Zapatist bands
that have raided, looted and possessed
it for nearly 10 years. Emiliano Zapata,
grandiloquently dubbed 1.-The Attila of
the South with his chief captains of
banditry, and few hundred retainers
is said to have been driven into almost
impossible mountains" in the southwest
Their capture lis expected almost every
day." 1t will be prudent not to be too
hopeful, since Zapata is a hard bird to
catch. His submission and the pacifica-
ton of Morelos have been reported too
often.
His forces seem to have been on short
rations for sometime. Many have had to
surrender for want of drinking water.
At the rate of so a day they are said
to be giving up their rifles. In some pre-
vious pretenses at surrender, these pre-
CiOuS tOOiS, WHICH raise d pcOu W the ulS-
nifty of robber were mostly withheld.
Zapata, though some accounts call him
small landlorder, is essentially an In
dian peon with a gift of leadership, great
cunning, and relentless ferocity. Madero
furnished him with arms in 1910 He har-
ried not only Morelos, but oaxaca and
Guerrero. His programme was the ex-
pulsion of foreigners, land for the In
dams. Like Robin Hood, he robbed the
rich" The poor were robbed later. In his
native state of Morelos a score or so of
great proprietors held must of the land.
He plundered, burned, killed. No prison.
er was spared. He left track of ruin
in hacienda and village. His work of de-
struction in the south largely forced the
collapse of Diaz. Playing his own hand,
keeping apart from Madero, from Huerta
whom he threatened to hang, and from
Carranza, twice in 1914 master of the cap
ital, this Indian argrarian reformer, de-
spelling all the time the country he pre-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
GRAPHING

From the Chicago Herald and Ex-
aminer.
Wrestling has vindicated itself
The other night one wrestler flung
another wrestler before the spectators
had gone to sleep.
Wrestling is great game if you
have insomnia.
Enters Julish Ish, heavyweight
champion of the Swiss navy.
In another corner enters Allah Ca
zallah, the Sultan's favorite.
And then they go to it.
The spectator finally pulls out his
watch and says:
1T is time for me to go to work"
And SO he goes out and has his break
fast
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Columbus a City
OF Notable Pluck

TN HE entire south should be proud
y of Columbus, Miss. A quarter
of a million dollar fire would not
startle city of large population.
Metropolitan cities are visited by mil
lion-dollar fires from time to time and
forget the losses incurred the next
day."
But such a fire as destroyed many
of the finest buildings of Columbus, a
city of ten thousand, was nothing
short of disaster.
But Columbus is substantial and
plucky or nothing. 1t is noted for its
wealth and still more for it's public
spirit.
The embers of the conflagration were
scarcely dead before the work of re-
building was begun. Had Columbus
needed assistance every town and city
in the south would have been ready
to contribute to relief fund.- But no
aid was asked.
Columbus is a highly prosperous
city. It has strong resources and at
this juncture can rebuild itself with
out outside assistance. If sympathy
is extended to our Mississippi neigh
Dor, congratulations are also in order
for the ability Of Columbus to take
care of itself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Ever notice that headache or a
tummy ache will make man behave
himself when he won't pay any atten-
ton to his conscience?
Some men can't understand what in
centive there will be to work hard and
get rich after prohibition sets in. What
the HEX can you spend the money on?
The best reason why you should keep
your troubles to yourself is that you
can't tell them without exaggerating
them.
A young lawyer can't talk to layman
about the habeas corpus without acting
like it was some kind of a sacred four
headed diplodocus
Another thing we have noticed is that
when Il man braces you for $50 he ex-
poets to get about SIS.
A white man wants to appear younger
than he is and will lie about his age.
But when colored man gets up around
the age of 60 he pretends that he is any
where between 10 and 80.
A lot of fellows who ann high are using
popguns that won't carry more than a
yard or two.
There are lot of ways to spoil a
good husband. But we never heard of
enc being spoiled by good cooking.
The biggest failures in the world are
those that are brought about by too much
success.
Ask and chronic loafer and he will tell
you that he is the busiest man in town.
Wouldn't there be a fine bunch of we'll
behaved kids in this world if everybody
could only raise other peoples children!
II dogs haven't any souls, what kind
Of claim are you going to make for the
ornery human animal who spreads poison
tor dogs?
The truth of the matter is that a man
doesn't care how much girls show their
egs as long as they are not his girls.
THE best way we know of to avoid
excitement is to live within your IN
come