Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-30
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THE NEW
OF THE DAY

Long Island, took her pen IN haho
and with thirty other classmates
in IA proceeded to wade through
a monthly examination.
What wild animal aBounds in
York state, Alice jotted down, re-
question that stumped Alice, but
only for a moment, for Alice has
a couple of older brothers at home.
"Wild women abound in New
York state" Alcie jotted down, re-
calling remarks of her big brothers
about the dinner table.
SO
The United States soon will be-
come the owner of one of the
worlds largest dirigibles, Secre-
tary Daniels has announced at
Washington.
The big airship is the R-38, sis
ter ship to the R-34 which sailed
from England to America and re-
turn. Negotiations for purchas-
ing the R-38, which is being built
in England, are now under way.
The ship will have "a gas capacity
of 2,724,O0O cubic feet, will be
694 feet in length, SO feet in dia
meter, SO 1-2 feet high and will
be able to cary forty-five tons.
The New York Tribune, Repub-
lican, says:
According to prominent Demo-
Gratis in New York, who are in
touch with the White House, Ho-
mer S. Cummings, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, at
the meeting of the committee, in
Washington on January and z,
will make statement to the effect
that President Wilson in no cir
eumstances is to BE- considered for
a third term.
"The statement will be definite
and comprehensive in its meaning
and will leave no room for specifica-
ton with reference to the wishes
of the President to withdaw from
the White House at the end of his
term"
The lure of the fox trot was too
tempting to smallpox patient
in Duran, Terrence county, New
Mexico. He broke quarantine and
attended dance there three weeks
ago. The state health officer here
has just been called upon to devise
means of isolating the twenty-five
eases at Duran and employing eff
fective remedies for stamping out
the contagion.
Should a wife have the right to
kill her husband because he is use
less? No, of course not, but that
is what Mrs. Della Moquet, 80,
of Burgess, Mo-, did last week
when she shot her 74-year-old
husband, Jules Moquet.
When questioned by the authori-
ties Mrs. Moquet is said to have
frankly admitted the shooting of
her husband.
''He was old and no good, and
thought it just as we'll to put him
out of the way" the officers quote
Mrs. Moquet as saying.
One blockade appears to have
cured the, Germans of blockades.
The Krenz Zeitung, of Berlin,
learns from official sources that the
foreign affairs committee of the
assembly has concurred in the gov
ernment's decision to decline to
participate in the blockade against
Russia. All the party committees
have taken the same standpoint
unanimously.
The German answer to the en-
tente consequently will go to Yer
sailles at once. The mote will de-
clare that Germany refuses any
intercourse with soviet Russia,
but is forced to refuse energetical-
ly to take part in any blockade,
and that the German people, who
have suffered terribly under the
blockade, cannot conscientiously
cOmmitte "such terrible injustice"
against any people.
William Looney's 7-day search
for pound of sugar terminated
unsuccesfully the other night in the
surgeons Office of New York po-
hce station.
Mrs. Dora Hoffman, who keeps d
little grocery store, charged him
with assault, so the police held him
for a hearing.
Looney blamel the sugar short
age for his plight.
Mrs. Hoffman said that when she
told him her small supply of su-
gar was being held for her regular
customers Looney became abusive
and struck her.
Following his experience the
day before of being chloroformed,
taken to tho woods north of the