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The courier-index., 1919-09-19

In the event the City should elect not to buy the plant of the Ark ansas Light & Power Company as outlined in the above, the following is an alternative proposition sub- mitted by the Power Company:
 The Arkansas Light & Power Com pany will propose to secure an arrangement with the Company fur nishing current at Helena to erect transmission line uniting Mari anna to the plant in Helena, for the purpose of supplying current in Marianna. As a basis for es- tablishing a rate on said current to the City of Marianna, the ap- praised value of the local plant will be aded to the cost of the trans mission line and with the aid of the State Corporation Commission such rate be proposed as will in their best judgment afford an adequate return on the combined investment represented in the value of the To- cal plant and the cost of the trans mission line.
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To the Boys and Girls Of Lee County

you stopped think that Christmas would come again on the day December? That only months off too and every boy girl going at this
 | have a plan for each of make Christmas money. Each boy girl, woman, can get pig now to grow By taking good of good healthy pig of December could make weigh from December 18th will bring all of these pigs and ship them to St. Louis where we get highest market sell them here This give $20OO to $35O0 each for pigs that much Christmas for  We every and girl to try this plan. Just think what it three four loads of Club Pigs Fill and have guardian to sign it. Don't can't Just go ahead will show how to get spending money Quite few boys and girls have already joined.
 Yours truly,
 E. WHITAKER County Agent County Agents:
 wish to enter the Fat Pig Club. will at until December 18th and will ship with the other Club members in a cooperative shipment
 hereby give my to the above and will lay claims to the proceeds.
 
 Guardians Name
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FlNER SERVICE
 1 NEN ORGANIZE
l ..cvLLocH HEADS sd,oa LOCAL e.sss sseI AMERICAN LEGION
 psl psr. SERVED AT ELks |0ME.

..rs of the Marianna
 n'sA s. American Legion enter 1! 2 ,ss 's' soldiers, sailors Ts@w.aa. and ma,
 s Ice County on Thursday d s.se Dse at the Elks home. ls ls.v;mstely one hundred for-
 men of this county as
 ". st inc Elks Club at the "a 'I hour. and a delightful 'ss ssss.tured with barbecue" s.t stew, salad, ice cream, VI I cold drinks was served s;.s :ua vho are now mentioned ss,srv members of the Post. as, sI;stely after supper a busi- rssting was held for the pur- N nerfecting the organization N local post. After a short .s;ou it was decided that there
 be only one post of the
 in Lee County and that the service men of this county A not live in Marianna will |the post at Marianna.
 constitution of the Marianna WAS submitted and adopted. election of officers under the constitution was held with the wing result: $ Chairman, R. B. McCulloch 4 Vice Chairman, T. B. Free t Secretary, R. s. McClin- < Treasurer, Chas Govan. kt ter-at-Arms, s. c. Lang t Chaplin, Lon Freeman.
 t War Risk Officer, Glen $ Employment Officer, Dr. E. |aI.
 State Convention of the Le- will be held at Little Rock on Der 0th and 9th. The follow elegates were elected to repre- the Marianna Post at that con- cn: T. B. Freeman, Clyde An Gorden Matthews, Earl Will Dr. E. D. Wall, and Robert ixon.
 records of this county show there are approximately 225 service men in this county are elegible to membership in Legion. It is expected that hese will be enrolled within ext ? weeks. All men wishing eln should communicate with Post Secretary, R. s. McClin-
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Governor Trough
 May Quit Politics

Little Rock, Sept. 16-That Ark ansas business men are planning the creation of a statewide chamber of commerce to embrace all business interests of the state, that tentative proposal has been made to Governor Charles H. Brough to accept the position of director of publicity in this organization and that the gov ernor is giving the offer serious consideration was the well-authen- ticated report in local business circles yesterday. According to the report, the governor is rather favor ably inclined toward the offer and is prepared to renounce his candid acy for United States Senate should he decide to accept. It was said that definite decision will be reach ed some time today. The report was to the / effect that the gov ernor would hold a final confer ence this afternoon with the pro- moters of the state chamber of commerce and that he would at this time definitely accept or reject the proposal. Should he decline the of fer, it was said that the governor probably will vigorously push his campaign for the senatorial nom ination.
 It is supposed that to a consider able extent the governor owes the flattering offer to the decidedly fa- vorable impression that he made in his address in states outside of Arkansas. On both the last two annual profitable farming tours. the governor made a tremendous hit everywhere he spoke. He was fea- tured in the newspapers in every city and town visited by the Ark ansas tourists and he received doz- ems of invitation to come back and deliver another address. In all his addresses the governor cited facts and figures concerning the resources and possibilities of Arkansas that astonished his hearers.
 Every member of the two profit able farming tours came back de- claring that the governor had been the best advertisement that the state could possibly have had. In other addresses delivered out side of the state, the governor has scored some great triumphs. It was his address at the 1917 con- vention of the Southern Cattle mems Association that secured the 1918 convention for Little Rock. He never has failed to score heavily when addressing foreign audiences on the subject of Arkansas re- sources.
 Within the state, the governor has been equally successful as a "spellbnder." It was almost en- tirely due to his magnetic elo- quence that he was elevated from the professorship of political eco omy in the University of Arkansas to the governors chair in the first campagn that he ever made for public office.
 Should the governor decide to renounce politics, he will leave the arena with the unique record of hay ing ought but one office--and that the highest state office in the gift of the people-and then of having retired without ever having felt the sting of defeat.
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MUST RETURN $2s0
 AID IN COURT BY MOTHER

hnta, Ga.,-S. F. Barnett, a
 man from Carrollton, Ga, pay his mother $25 each month he has paid $25O or go to Fnaln gang here for twelve n|s' by order of Judge Humph- m the criminal court. Bar
 mother paid a fine of $250 ea against the youth after Fuon of stealing an outomo- 1rom the American Railway |@, Judge Humphries. in en- the order declared he was Plned the mother should not
 because of the crime of her
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D. A. R. NOTES
(By D. A. R Reporter)

(By D. A. R Reporter) One mile southeast of Soudan house near the H. P. Rodgers levee is an old abandoned grave ward that was the burial place of the earliest settlers of Lee county. I have been up and down, around and cross all Soudan plantation many times but I never heard of this cemetery till last week. It is no wonder. for the place | is such tangle of weeds, briers and brushes that no passer-by would ever dream of looking there for .ombstones. No interments have been made there for many years; l in fact there are no mounds nor depressions in the earth to indi- cate graves.
 We found six tombstores, four of which were leaning against the trunks of trees and two half buried under leaves and earth. The following names and dates were copied from these stones: Dr. Elihu Hotchkiss
 Died 1844
 Aged 45 Years Joseph, Son of S. and K. Council
 Born 1845
 Died 1851
 Louisa, Wife of John Council
 Born 1886
 Ded 1856
 John N. Penrod
 Born 1854
 Died 1859
 Jane Casteel
 s Born 1795
 Died 1859
 Levina L., Wife of John Lane
 Born 1913 Died 1859 1 Tn a St. Francis County record find this:
 "The village of Council Bend was named for Redwick Council who built the first house in that locality-His son Simeon was born 1 in North Carolina in 1895 and moved to Arkansas in April 1922 settling in Crittendan County for short time then removed to Walnut Bend on the Mississippi River, be- ing married in St. Francis County in 1927 to Rebecca Lane who was born in Ala. in 1911. They had eleven children. Simeon died in 1848-his wife died in 1879" Lee County was formed of por- tions of the counties of Phillips, Monroe, St. Francis and Critten- den.
 Council Bend settlement in 1922 was in what became Crittenden County in 1925. In 1927 that part of Crittenden was cut off to form St. Francis County and in 1873 that same territory became Lee County therefore Simeon Council came to Lee County in April, 1922. Joseph, son of S. and R. Coun- cil means Joseph, son of Simeon and Rebecca Lane Council.
 John Council was probably one of Simeon's eleven children.
 The Castiles are named in the St. Francis record as early settlers Jane Castillo was no doubt of that family.
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ABILITY TO FOLLOW
 SCENT" COST UNIFORM

Piin' ohlo.-Leut. Ryan of the P|a'n, ohio.-Lieut Ryan of the s,euthlng ability. His abili- Follow a scent, however,
 nm to bury a brand new ~ 'nls week. He heard a PuOn at the home of Mike
 s. ana hearing there was an m the cellar dashed down ''1sate' 14 He retired precipi- buso ]" was a skunk. The Ka- |Puse Is closed for fumigation.
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Fix Value of Light Plant With Option to Purchase
 If Price is Satisfactory

Whether or nor the citizens of Marlanna will become the owners of the plant of the Arkansas Light and Power Company will depend largely upon the appraised value of the property fixed by an engineer representing the company and one representing the city, the two 70 call in a third engineer to deter mine any values the first two can not agree upon.
 The decision to have an inventory made on the plant was reached Monday morning at 8 conference held at the city hall between Hugh Nixon, Dr. O. L. Williamson and Q. G. Norment, representing the city, and J. L. Longino, represent ing the company. The conference was arranged by the members of the state corporation commission to whom an appeal was recently made by the citizens of Marianna for relief from the wholly inade- quate service the company has been furnishing It's patrons here. H. c. Couch, president of the company, appeared before the commission in Little Rock on Wednesday of last week and stated his company would gladly dispose of the light and pow CT plant here to the people of Mari anna. Members of the commission suggested conference between the officials of the company and rep resentatives authorized to act for the citizens of Marianna. At the conference held Monday morning J. L. Longino, representing the company, agreed to join the city in securing an inventory of the plant here, the understanding be- ing only the physical property is to be appraised and this is to be done on the basis of it's usable val ue' in the manufacture and distri- button of electrical energy. No franchise or going value is to be placed upon the plant. Under the terms of the agreement made Mon- day the company obligates itself to sell at the figure named by the appraisers, while the city does not agree to buy unless the price is satisfactory.
 The formal agreement entered into by the committee representing the citizens of Marianna and MT Longino for the company, is as fol lows:
 The Agreement
 o. L. Williamson, o. G. Norment Hugh Nixon, acting as citizens com mittee, addressed the following to MT. Longino, representing the Ark. ansas Light and Power Company
 twill you agree to sell the To plant of the Arkansas Light and Power Company, with all rights and privileges pertaining thereto, on basis of an appraisal made upon the following plan: One appraiser to be selected by you, one to be selected by the City, and in the event of their failure to agree, a third appraiser to be selected by the first two. The appraisers tc be instructed in advance that theil estimate of value on all such proper.
The courier-index., 1919-09-19

Henry and Love Banks have re- turned from Manitou, Col, where they spent the past two months. Mrs. Henry Banks and little daugh- ter will remain in the Coloroado resort until about October 1.
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HARP \ OR PITCHFoRk

1 won't you try a piece |.t wlie,s angel-cake?"
 ss, Will it make an angel If ,;s mat will depend on the Eighty. nave ieo' Lon
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ties must be in consideration only of their physical and usable value in the existing plant in furnishing cleo tric current in the City of Mari anna. The expenses of the apprai- sal to be borne as follows: The City and the Arkansas Light and Power Company to each bear the expenses of its own appraiser, the expenses of the third to be borne equally between them. The privilege be- ing reserved on behalf of the City to buy the property at the fig ures agreed upon by the appraisers or to refuse to buy, as it may elect?''
 We agree to above proposition. ARKANSAS LIGHT X POWER CO.
 By J. L. Longino
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sill 'e,oOen ensoen of Cleveland, Miss. ! show Vpetate ts the new motion 'set by ' g erected 6 on South Pop.
 has SS bss. n, & Nixon and Burke } fter 0eea ,sa here several days h. Mepihhea,w e work on the build. k to open .Sp1G nj. says he hopes to
 thirty dava a's show within the 'T6e Rssss.,,,H Rssss, He expects to
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N z in n Cohen and wife spent {. coho,'ae al Memphis where they from O'en's father who was en-
 ' New Orleans to Kansas
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22

ers Europe for couple Of years to
come will be unable to feed more than
325 900, 900 Of its inhabitants. This
will leave more than 100. 900 600 who
will starve unless the Western Hcmis-
phcre, and that means North and South
America, can supply them with food,
grain particularly.
"If we husband our resources this
can be done. More than this. we must
help Europe to 70 establish itself and
get back to normal conditions, Europe
is facing tremendous upheaval.
Every tendency is toward revolution.
If the American people persist in their
cxtravagant and trcckless expenditures
we will invite revolution and the con
ditions that now threaten Europe. The
solution of the problem is increased pro
duction and economy"
There is general rejoicing over the
seizure of stocks Of food in storage
warehouses in Philadelphia. Scranton
and all over the country. These seiz-
urps are under a provision Of the Lever
act that is still in effect. It is the
boarding Of food section.
Danger Behind Law
A great danger turks behind a mis-
Interpretation of this law 4 danger
that is positive menace to the large
cities.
Where food is stored in rrfrigeratjng
warehouses and it has exceeded tho
legal time limit for such storase. it is
self evident that the purpose is to
nrofitCpr. Spectators are trying to
l. Il Ihnpn thn tip1p limit
for storing meats. butter, eggs and Ger
tain fruits has been reached in one
state these spectators ship It to a
ncighboring state, where it is again
placed in storage.
Such action is illegal. The wretches
guilty Of it deserve the scverest pun
ishment. Food and health authorities
all over the country are being aroused
to the prevalence of this nefarious prac-
tice.
Whore, however. great Quantities OF
food products are stored from season 10
season, within Legitimate storage laws
their seizure involves menace to the
country.
The wholesale cmptying of storage
warehouses in response to public clamor
will destroy the food stock intended TOT
the coming winter. refer now to the
legitimate storage Of vast quantities OF
food within the law. 1t will. more
over. offer opportunities for those holn-
ing small stocks to demand outrageous
prices for butter. eggs and poultry
next winter when the seasonable sup
niles of these foods are at their lowest
In Pennsylvania today there is less
food in cold storage warehouses than
there was at this time two years. ago.
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sonally that Congress and the admins
tration get busy 6nd take some Of the
curse off the national economic stu
alton.
Out Of what followed. including the
Presidents address to Congress on the
high cost Of living and the Niagara Of
wordy comment which rumbled in both
House and Senate In echo Of his re-
marks came one clear call. Attorney
General Palmer lifted his voice, saving :
Put teeth in the food control act.
Broaden its scope to include other
necessaries than food Stick on pen
atty that will put fear in the hearts
Of greedy producers and tradesmen. DO
this and the Department Of Justice will
act without delay"
The House took him at his word.
The members were sincere for all their
oratory designed for the benefit Of con
stituents. and put the committee Oh
agriculture TO work amending the war
time food control law TO suit the needs
Of the attorney general.
There is no doubt the House will act
promptly on the revampcd measure, ant
IL the Senate does likewise, under
pressure of public opinion, the Depart
ment of Justice may yet be able &c
bring about a reduction of the cost o.
living next winter.
In the Senate yesterday Senator David
I. Walsh, of Massachusetts, intro.
duced resolution providing for @
congressional investigation Of profiteer
ing. The resolution was offered as ar
amendment to the resolution introduced
on August 7 by Senator Owen, O.
Oklahoma, calling for general inquiry
into the high cost of living.
The Walsh resolution recites tha
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
HERE'S A DEMOCRATIC
HIGH TARIFF BILL
Protectionist Republicans BaIk
at Measure Laying Big
Duty on Graphite

Special Correspondent Evening Public LEDGER
Washington. Aug. 22.-For the first
time in history. so far as the older
c.. .oo,, Ds,h,;,,,s
'''''"O''' VI 80
are protesting agaihst high pro'e''''e
tariff bill introduced by Democrat.
The bill proposes various duties on
prarhitc Cplumbago, silver lead) ores
ranging from two to six cents per
pound, or $50 TO $50 per ton. The bill
was introduced by Congressman Hcfin,
of Alabama, heretofore proponent of free
trade. but he was careful to state on
the bill that it was introduced "by re =
quest" thus eliminating himself from
further responsibility.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
CALLS JAPAN lNSlNCERE
Korean President Says People Want
Complete independents
Washington. Aug. 22.-tBy A. P.D--

Washington. Aug. 22.-'By A. Po---
".Iapan's promise of early reforms IN
the Korean Government. as made IN
the imperial rrscript recently issued at
Toxic. is "insinccre" and means moth
ing to Korea" DIR. Syngman Rhec,
president of the provisional republican
government of Korea. declared IN
statement issued here.
Reforms for Korea" Doctor Rhee
added "cannot grow out of Japanese
control of Korea in any manner or
form. Koreans will not be satisfied
with anything less than complete indie
pendencp. They want the right to gov
ern themselves, in their own way, by a
representative form of government.
They want self differentiation. They
are entirely competent for this. They
do not want to be the instrument and
tool of some other nation to further its
ambition and desire to be n world
power.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
INDUSTRIES PAY U. S. LOANS
Advances Of $2oo,2s5,52s Returned
to War Finance Corporatlon

Washington. Aug. 22.-tBy A. PD
Advances of 5000, ,2S5, ,523 have been
repaid to the war finance corporation,
according to announcement today. leav-
ing outstanding a balance of S105, ,797, =
$3.50 The loans have been made to rail-
roads. public utilities, industries and
cattle growers.
Although the corporation has au-
thority to issue 81 ,000, 200. 900 in bonds
for the financing of export trade, it is
not expected that any advances for this
purpose will be made before the con-
clusion of peace.
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whereas there has been profiteering"
and that the names Of the profiteers
should be known to the people of the
country, the investigating committee
shall have full access to the records In
the Office of the commissioner of in
ternal revenue in order to publish the
identity of the profteers and the extent
of profteering in foodstuffs and the
necessities of life.
The resolution further authorizes the
committee to investigate all contracts
made by the government, particularly
with "S1 "A year men, and the profits
that were made on the contracts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-22
DIVERS TO SEEK BODY
viii Go to Bottom of cayuaa Lake to
Find GRANGE Girl

Ithaca. Aug. 22.-ProfcssiOnal divers
will be employed to continue the search
beneath the water Of Lake CayugC for
the body of Hazel Crance, the mystery
connected with whose fate caused The
arrest of Donald W. Fether. The young
Cornell sophomore eventually was re
leased.
1t was believed that by buoying the
spot where FethPr's knotted trousers
were brought to the surface the recOv
cry of the body was certain, as some
heavy object dropped from the hooks
ds they nparcd the surface with the
trousers. But the authorities have
about given up hope of finding the
eighteen year old girls body through
the efforts of grapplers.
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STOP LOS ANGELES TRAINS
Strike Ties Up Three Railroad Lines
in California

Los Angeles, Aug. 22.-(By A. PD
With switchmen and yard employees
of the Southern Pacific Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe, and Los Angeles
and Salt Lake lines on strike and
trainmcn of Southern Pacific divisions
out of Los Angeles refusing to NOV"
trains. railway officials were uncertain
whether train service, which was sus-
pended last night, could be resumed
today.
The strike of the swtchmen came
suddenly and without an announced
reason. railway officials said. The
Southern Pacific trainmcn left their
places shortly thereafter. They de-
MED a report that their action is in
sympathy with the strik" of trainmen
of the Pacific Electric Railway Com e
pany. an interurban line, which was
called several days ago.