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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
LITTLE GIRL MEETS WITH
A PAINFUL ACCIDENT
Adams County Girl Falls With Corn
Stalk In Her Mouth and Is
Painfully Injured.

West Union. Ohio, February 21-
Dorothy, the four-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Kilby Edgington, met
with a distressingly painful accident
last Thursday.
The little tot was playing about the
house with a piece of sharp-pointed
cornstalk in her mouth when she
stumbled and fell. The pointed end
of the stalk penetrated the child's
palate and terribly lacerated the roof
of her mouth.
The child suffered excruciating
pain and it was with the greatest diff
flculty that Mrs. Croull & Crawford,
of West Union, and DR.. o. B. Kirkpat-
rick, of Cherry Fork, finally succeed
ed in performing the delicate task of
closing the edges of the ragged wound
with several stitches.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
REV. LITERAL SUCCEEDS
REV. OV, 2LY AS ELDER

The Rev. E. r. Overly, former pas
tor of the Third Street M. E. Church,
this city, but who has recently been
district superintendent of the Coving-
on-Lexington district of the. NJ. E..
Church, has resigned to become pas
tor of Grace Church, Newport. He
succeeds Rev. o. ]. Carder, who has
gone to Atlanta, Ga. The Rev. ]. NJ.
Literal, also former pastor Of the
Third Street Church, this city, be-
comes superintendent in Rev. Overly's
stead and Rev. J. B. Mahaffey, Nof
South Carolina, succeeds Rev. Literal
as pastor of the Shinkle Church, Gov
ington.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
ELECTION MAY Be
ASKED ON SPECIAL
2O-CENT ROAD TAX
Interest Is Developing In Mason
County In a Special Twenty Cent
Road Tax For This Year
Commissioners May Be
PetltlOned.

Up to the present time quite num-
ber OF the counties in the state Of
Kentucky have voted special twenty
cent road tax for the improvement of
the roads and pixies in the county.
Considerable interest has been shown
in Mason county during the past few
weeks in such a special tax.
1t is well known that the people Of
Mason county have not favored the is
suance Of large amount of bonds for
road work but in face of the very
prosperous times the special tax
seems to be meeting with quite bit
of encouragement from all parts Of
the county. 1t became known here
yesterday that special effort was be-
ing made in some parts of the county
to have the County Court call spe-
cial election in the near future on this
proposition. Judge Purnell will not
call such an election unless he is pc
titioned by a goodly number Of the
tax payers. 1t is learned, but spe
cial effort is being made to present
him with such a petition bearing the
names Of good percentage of our
county tax payers.
1t is pointed out that many counties
in the state who have not taken well
to the bond issue proposition have
taken we'll to this special taxation for
road purposes and it is said that be-
cause of the general prosperity in the
county this year, this is the accepted
time to place some of the money into
good roads in all parts of the county,
The Mason County Commissioners
have done nobly with the funds they
have had at their disposal in the i'm
provement of the county roads but
larger fund is necessary if real con-
struction is to be done that will be
lasting and far reaching. Under the
present limitation of finances the
commissioners cannot do any great
amount Of countryside work but can
only hope to put roads in good condi-
tion here and there throughout the
county while shrould special road
tax be voted by the people a general
countryside plan of road construction
would be possible.
1t is learned today that interest is
manifest in the proposed twenty-cent
extra tax in all parts of the county
and petitions will probably be in cir
culation in very short time and will
be presented to the County Court
within the next month for action, if
interest continues at the present high
pitch.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
LOOK OUT FOR BAD
TEN DOLLAR BILL IN
CIRCULATION IN CITY
Stranger In the City With Raised Ten
Dollar Bill-Merchants Should BE
Careful About Changing
Notes.

It became known this morning that
a smooth stranger in the city is en-
deavoring to pass bad money on local
merchants and warning is issued for
all statesmen to be careful about the
money they are handling for the next
few days or until the operator has
been captured by the officers or has
left this section.
A well dressed stranger stepped in
to local store Thursday night and
purchased about thirty-fve cents
worth of merchandise. In payment for
the merchandise he threw down pa
per bill, which folded appeared to be
a ten dollar bill at the same time ask
ing the merchant if he could change
ten dollars. The merchant went to
the cash register and was short of
change but he also noticed that the
bill looked very peculiar and investi-
eating found that the bill had been a
one dollar bill which had been raised
by some mechanical means to appear
ten dollar bill but when unfolded
very plainly showed it to be only one
dollar bill.
The man was told that the bill
could not be changed but the mer-
chant offered to step out and get the
change for him, meaning to call the
officers. The man, however, was too
smooth to permit anything like this
and objected, saying that he would
step out and get the change and re-
turn for the merchandise. He step
ped out and has not heen seen by the
merchant since. The police have not
been able to locate him as yet
1t may be that the man has left the
city feeling that the merchant re-
ported the matter to the police but it
may also be that the fellow is still in
the city and working the same game
on other merchants who are not so
careful in examining their paper
money as the merchant who was first
struck by the smooth individual
1t will be at least safe for the mer-
chants to instruct their clerks to be
careful Of paper money for some time
and especially ten dollar bills. Don't
forget to be careful for some time for
the smooth individual may have left
the city but may be back or send back
a confederate when he thinks the
scare has died out
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
DECISION ON SCHOOL
BOOKS EXPECTED TODAY
Gilbert Says Changes VIII Not Total
the Maximum Of Six Allowed
Under New Law.

Frankfort, KY, February 2O-Al-
though rumors of every kind and de-
scription have filled the hotel lobbies
here tonight concerning the public
school book adoption which may be
made tomorrow, the members of the
commission remain silent as to their
tentative conclusion. State Superin-
tendent Gilbert said tonight that It is
very likely that the members of the
commission would complete their
work tomorrow, but that nothing had
been decided upon. The reports cur
rent among the book men tonight are
to the effect that nearly every branch
has been changed, although Gilbert
said today that the commission would
not reach the limit of six subjects in
their changes.
There can only be six subjects
changed. 1t is pretty generally con-
cede that the speller and physiology
by Kentucky authors will be adopted,
which will comprise two of the sub
jects changed. There Is a fight to
change the History of the United
States, as the Daughters of the Con-
federacy prefer another book taught
in the schools of this state. It is like
ly, too, that there will be change in
the arithmetics and probably gram
mars. But these changes are by nc
means certain.
The book men are positively at sea
and are unable to obtain even the
slightest information on the tentative
conclusion of the commissions. 1t i;
not positively known that the work of
the commission will be completed to-
morrow, although it Is believed that
the adoptions will be announced to-
morrow afternoon.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
MURDERED man
AREDPASSENGERS
INVESTIGATORS SAY
Brown County Man Killed In Auto
Near Columbus Was Araid Pas.
sengers Might DO Him Harm.

Sheriff Slack and force, Of Frank
lin county, Ohio, working upon the
murder case in which Harry M. Day OF
Brown county last week, lost his life
near Shadeville, few miles south OF
Columbus, states that they have clues
which look to be sufficient to lead to
the identity of the two men who shot
and robbed Day. During the investi-
CATION it was learned that Day, when
in a restaurant at Chillicothe, told a
friend that he had two passengers
whom he was going to take to Column
bus, and that he was suspicious OF
them and asked this friend to accom-
pany him. The friend was unable to
20 becc use of some previous engage
ment.
The Columbus authorities went the
latter part of the wee kto Chillicothe,
where they informed Chillicothe po-
lice that they had reasons to believe
that the men, after they shot Day and
threy his body from the automobile in
which they were riding, took the ma
chine to Columbus, where they left 1t,
and then boarding a traction car went
back to Chillicothe.
In the statement that Day made,
when in the physicians office at
Shadeville, after being gathered up
along the road, was that when the
robbery occurred one of the men was
riding in the front seat with him. The
man sitting in the rear seat shot him
in the back, and began beating him
over the head with the revolver He
was robbed of fifty dollars, they over
looking four dollars in his overcoat
pocket. When his body was being
thrown from the machin a second
shot was fired into his stomach.
When Day was discovered by a
physician who was passing with his
family, he was lying along the road,
side. This man seeing an automobile
going at a terrific rate, stopped al
Shadeville and told what he had seer
and when party was organized ant
returned Day had dragged himself tc
the roadside and was sitting up. He
died shortly afterward.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
COV|NGTON BANDITS
PAYIN THE ELECTRIC
CHAIR FOR MURDER
Kearney Is Silent as He Pays Penalty
at Eddyville This Morning But
Lawler Denies Guilt.

Eddyville, KY, February 21-James
Lawler and Patrick Kearney, both of
Cincinnati, paid the penalty for their
crimes in the electric chair at the
penitentiary here this morning.
Lawler protested his innocence to
to the last, but Kearney merely said:
81 have nothing to say"
They were convicted in the Kenton
county Circuit Court of killing An
drew Nordmeyer and John Rehm in
hold-up of the Ninth Ward Perpet-
ual Loan and Building Association,
18th and Russell streets, Covington,
March 5, 1918.
Lawler was the first to die, Kearney
following shortly after. Lawler died
at 3:42 a. m. and Kearney at 4:02.
One thousand eight hundred volts
of electricity were sent twice through
the body Of each man.
~ am innocent and was given a raw
deal and ought not to be in the peni-
tentiary," Lawler said just before he
was taken to the death chamber.
Lawler wrote three notes in his
prayer book, one to his sister, Mrs. e.
Dolan, 1904 Columbus street, Newport,
Ky. In all three he wrote:
"I am innocent. 1t is easy to die
when you are blamed for something
you did not do. So help me God, am
innocent"
Earlier Lawler said he was not in
Covington on the night of the robbery.
When Lawler was led blindfolded to
the chair he said: "Goodby, boys;
goOdby, warden"
While the current was passing
through LAWYERS body, Kearney was
pacing his cell across the corridor op-
posite the death chamber The whir
of the motor supplying the electricity,
which soon would end his life, plainly
could be hea d by Kearney.
Kearney insisted he had nothing to
say.
Just before Lawler was taken to the
chamber he asked to see Kearney, and
was taken to him.
When they met Kearney said:
"Jim, are you going to keep "?"
Lawler nodded his head and replied,
"Yes"
Kearney, it is believed, referred to
some secret between the two men.
When Kearney was placed in the
chair he said:
81 thank all you guards and the
warden Pray for me. l hope l am
the last man to die in this chair"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
TAKEN TO OHIO FOR BURIAL

The body of Arthur Willett, South
Ripley man who died here of influ-
enza was taken to North Liberty, Ohio,
today for burial there, that commun-
ity being his original home. The wife
who remained loyal to him during his
last moments staying at his bedside
when she was i'll herself with the
same disease. has the sympathy of the
entire community.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
MRS. REBECCA LOWRY DIES

Mrs. Rebecca Lowry, aged SO years,
mother of the late ~Theo Lowry, for
mer Plum street grocer, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Evelyn
Porter at Blissfield, Mich, recently.
The remains were brought to Ripley,
Ohio, on last Sunday and buried there.
Mrs. Lowry is survived by two sons,
besides her one daughter, Mr.. Charles
Lowry, of Chicago, and Lieut.. Oswin
Lowry, of Columbus, Ohio.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
BOY MUSICIANS SHOW
DEVELOPMENT AT HOME

The members of the Maysville Boys
Rand are beginning to show quite a
bit Of development in their work. The
boys practising at home show that
they are learning and learning rap
idly. Entire tunes are being carried
by the boys all the way through and
it now looks as if it would not be so
very long before the entire band will
surprise us.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
COAL HEAVING REVIVED

Reports are reaching the police
that coal heaving is being reviewed
in the East end of the city. Only a
few weeks ago a number of youngs-
ters were taken before the grand jury
and indicted on charges of stealing
coal from the railroad company and
for time the practise was stopped
but 1t seems to be on in full force
again.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
MARKET WILL CLOSE WITH
MUCH TOBACCO ON HAND

Indications are tha- the Maysville
tobacco market will close this week
with a large amount of tobacco on
hand for the opening on next Mon
day. During the forepart of the week
there was little tobacco delivered but
during the past several days the to-
bacco has been coming in rather live
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
MANY X. OF p. HEROES

Cleveland, Ohio, February 21-More
than fifteen thousand Knights of Py-
thias we're killed or died of disease in
the war, Grand Chancellor A. A.
Wormwood Of Fremont, told member
of the Cuyahoga Pythian celebrating
the 55th anniversary of the foundation
Of the order here last night.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
YOUNG SHADE TREES
ARE SCRAPED

Some culprit on Wednesday night
scraped the bark from eight young
shade trees planted in front of the
beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Turner at the corner of East Second
and Lexington streets The trees will
no doubt be killed. The person who
would do such a dastardly act as this
should be punished and punished
severely.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
MRS. WATSON INJURED
IN CINCINNATI HOTEL,

Word has been received here that
Mrs. Duke Watson, formerly of this
city, met with a rather painful though
not serious accident in the Emory Ho-
tel in Cincinnati yesterday when she
fell and sustained broken wrist and
an injured side. She was taken to the
Jewish hospital for treatment.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
STOLEN SWEETS is GOOD SHOW

Those who saw Stolen Sweets at the
Washington Theater Thursday night
and there was good sized audience,
report that it was one of the best
shows seen in Maysville for some
time. Other high class shows have
been booked by Manager Russell and
the shows are having good houses.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
STEAL 1,4OO POUNDS OF MEAT

Officials of Greenup, KY, are'on the
lookout for three thieves who forced
an entrance to the meat house of John
Harris, near there, and stole 1,400
pounds of meat. The thieves had used
a horse and wagon to cart the meat
away.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
LIBBY McNEILL e. LIBBY,

the worlds greatest food producers
will give a demonstration at Sch
wartz's Big City Meat Market Satur-
day, February 22. Come and sample
their products. 226 Market street
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21

Mr.. Charles Rosenstein, of the
Maysville Suit and Dry Goods Com
pany, has returned from a business
trip to st. Louis.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21

The Every Ready Eating Parlor,
will open at Odd Fellows building 115
Sutton street on Saturday at 10 a. m.
Everybody is welcome. Come in and
enjoy yourself.
2O-3t YATES & SON.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
NJ. II. s. vs.. PARIS

The Maysville High School team
journeys to the capital of Bourbon
this afternoon for a game of basket
ball tonight with the Paris High
School five.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21

Mrs. Fl. S. Kirk, of Champaign, Ill.,,
joined her husband here last night
and will remain here during the bal
ance of the tobacco season. Mr.. Kirk
is employed with the R. ]. Reynolds
Tobacco Company's local office.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21

Mr.. Ches Reese of the Mayslick
neighborhood sufferd partial stroke
of paralysis yesterday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
MANY ATTEND LECTURE

There was a good sized audience at
the, First M. E. Church, South last
night to hear the illustrated lecture
given in connection with the all day
conference on the Centenary. Those
attending were very much pleased
and hope for many more such meet
ings before the close of the centenary
drive.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-21
NOTICE TO THE PuRLIC

We are prepared TO do laundry work
Of oil kinds and Carpet and Rug
Cleaning on short notice. Telephone
les.
THE MODERN LAUNDRY co.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-06-13
Jewish Commonwealth of Be
Founded.

Assurances that the Peace Confer
ence will solve the Jewish problem
in East Europe, and at the same
time crafty the aspiration for the
establishment in Palestine of Ma
tional Jewish Homeland are con-
tanned in a statement issued by
Judge Julian w. Mack, President of
the Zionist Organization of Amer
ica, who returned from Europe yes
terday. Judge Mack, who was sent
to Europe by the American Jewish
Congress of which he is chairman,
was in Paris elected head of COM
mittee comprising all the demo-
cratically chosen Jewish delegations
to the Peace Conference. This COM
mittee through Mr.. Louis Marshall
and Judge Mack, presented to the
"Big Four" a memorandum setting
forth Jewish conditions in Poland
and Roumania, and the demands of
the Jewish people for civil, political,
and religious rights, as national
minorities in the new and enlarged
states to be created by the Peace
Treaties.
Judge Mack's statement, given
out for publication yesterday is as
follows:
"When | left Paris on May 18th,
our government, as well as some OF
the Associated Powers, were invest
igating the terrible pogroms which
have been taking place not only in
Poland but in other countries in the
East. Authentic information con-
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-06-13
Certain Jewish Problems to Be
Solved By Peace Conference

firms all that was reported at the
great mass-meeting here in New
York May 21st. Denials are worse
than useless; they only emphasize
the facts and the intentional sup
preston of the truth. The Pinsk
affair was worse than the ordinary
pogrom; a military commander
whom Henry Brailsford, the distin-
guished English publicist, had aptly
characterized a month before this
event, as utterly unreliable and
anti-semitic, executed thirty-seven
young men without any trial on the
mere and ungrounded suspicion that
they were Bolshevists. Since my
departure, Mr.. Louis Marshall has
presented the whole story of this
and other outrages in a personal in
terview to President Wilson, who
has the pogrom situation under SER
ious consideration in all of it's as
poets.
"These frightful atrocities, but
emphasize the need of international
protection of those nlinorities in the
new and enlarged states of Eastern
Europe which, to quote the phrase
of the proposed peace treaty, diff
fer from the majority in race, lam
guage, or religion The delegation
sent by the American Jewish Con-
gress to Paris was charged with the
duty of endeavoring to secure for
the national minorities in those
states equal and equitable rights as
we'll as to obtain for every individ-
ual within the state, justly entitled
thereto, regardless of race or reli-
gion. For the Jews, individually
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-06-13

and collectively, no more but no less
was asked than for the others.
"The delegation has worked in
thorough cooperation and unison
with similar delegation from East
ern Jewry; common platform was
adopted: because of the preponder-
ating influence of President Wilson
in the Councils Of the Conference,
the burden of securing the adoption
of the program in the treaty, fell
primarily upon the American dele
gates. To the ability and tireless
energy of Louis Marshall, above all
others, is due the results that will
be perpetuated in the several peace
treaties. I am confident that these
will secure:
First: full and complete eman-
cipation, equality and citizenship
for the Jew without the possibility
of misinterpretation and evasion
such as characterized Roumania's
dealings under the treaty of Berlin;
citizenship will be conferred en-
bloc, in and by the treaty itself.
Second: a guarantee for all cit
izens of those equal civil, religious,
and political rights that are funda-
mental in every enlightened state.
third: protection of the minority
groups rights in the use of their
language, in the establishment and
maintenance of their schools and
their other religious and social in
stitutions, with equitable or pro-
portionate sharing in the public
funds devoted to such purposes.
Fourth: the international char
acter of these obligations will be
recognized, and jurisdiction for their
enforcement and protection will be
conferred upon the League Of Ma
tions.
"The other important task with
which the delegation was charged
was that of aiding to realize the Bal
four Declaration, favoring the crea-
ton in Palestine Of a national home
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-08-21
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