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Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-02-21

N EoUNT VERNON. Virginia.
MH the former home Of George
Nv und Martha Washington. and
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-02-21
1ANTED
TO EXCHANGE

WILL TRADE-7-passenger Stude-
baker automobile, good tires, good
condition, for work horses and
harness. L. Engle, sol North
Sixth street. 100
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11

is in this office, which would give
them a clear title to their land.
Since taking charge of this office
| have taken pains to distribute, the
patents alphabetically in counties so
that if any one hunting for patent
for any particular tract of land,
can turn to the drawer labeled by
counties alphabetically and find his
patent in minutes. On each patent
is written the section, township and
range numbers, giving the name of the
county in which the land is located,
with the name of the patentee.
If you are interested, and hope you
will be, and want information in re-
gard to patent or title to your land
and will write me fully, giving a full
and accurate description of the land
in which you are interested, and I will
take pleasure in giving you the. de-
sired information. If / can serve you
further please command me.
C. c. DAVIDSON, Register,
U. S. Land Office, Springfield, Mo.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11

man today is toward his fellow-man
who is in distress. In our daily
rounds among the prosperous stores
and the pleasant homes we do not
see him, but a little investigation will
disclose him--and many like him
almost within arms reach.
"Thc second great commandment is
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self, and we would learn more of this
and practice it in practical way.
"There is much for all of US to do,
the press and the pulpit, the merchant,
the farmer and the doctor. Each in
his own sphere can work on the prob
lem. By consecrated, devoted effort it
will be solved, and the solving of it
will make our nation stronger and our
people happier.
1--WE say if we were a preacher we
would talk somewhat along these
lines. If we have made failure of
it, it is the preachers fault for hay-
ing gone away to cool off and trust
ing his job with US.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
DEATH PENALTY BILL
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

jefferson City, Mo-, July 8.--The
Senate today, by vote of Is to 2,
adopted the House amendment to the
Won Mayes bill restoring capital pun
ishment in Missouri, following which
the extraordinary General Assembly
adjourned sine die at noon. Senators
Elder of St. Louis and Pickett of
Grundy voted against the bill.
The amendments were adopted by
the House shortly after last midnight
and the bill was passed by vote of
81 to 10. The amendments were ap-
pended to the bill at the eleventh hour,
after Representative Campbell of
Cedar county declared there was no
machinery provided in the Won Mayes
bill for carrying out the death penal
ty.
The bill provides the death penalty
for firgt-degree murder, rape, treason
train robbery, kidnapping, subornation
of testimony in capital cases and per-
jury in capital cases,
When it was decided at midnight to
amend the bill in the House, the lead
ers in the Senate began to telephone
NClldtOlS WIN Hdu ICbuluCu W tIClL
homes, with the understanding that
nothing could happen to the bill.
Lieut.. Gov. Crossley got Senator
Mark McGruder out of bed at Soda
liza. He requested McGruder to rush
to the Missouri Pacific Station and in
tercept Senator Howard Gray, who
was returning othis
was returning to his home in Garth
age.
Both McGruder and Gray returned
early this morning in time to vote for
the amendments when the bill was
sent back to the Senate.
The amendments which were Of
fered to the bill by Representatives
Cave of Galway and Hostetter of
Pike rc-enact the former statutes
which provide that the death penalty
shall be imposed by hanging.
In raising the question, Campbell
declared the Whitaker bill, passed
two years ago, repealed the statutes
which provided the machinery for ex-
ecuting the death penalty.
He said that the bill did not state
the manner of imposing the death pen
atty, and that it would never be up
held by the higher courts. The amend
ments were then offered and adopted
Although Representative Whittak-
err of Hickory county made a strenu-
GUS fight against restoring the death
penalty, he was unable to swing any
votes.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11

Belt Telephone Co., phone services,
$39.15; Maybcrry, Byington & Tul-
lock, auto hire, $3.50; Pennington
Mercantile Co., supplies, $11S.S3; C.
H. Adams, expenses, $11; Geo. Mid
dlekamp, Treas, Industrial Home for
month of June, $54; St. Louis Smelt-
ing and Refining Co., road supplies,
$6.62; Mccarthy Lumber and Con-
struction Co., supplies, $93.93; Farm
ington Undertaking Co., trip to river
for body of W. B. Woodbridge and to
cemetery, SIS; Municipal Lighting
Plant, light for court house and Jail,
$23.07; Municipal Lighting Plant,
light for County Infirmary, $500;
Schramm Bottling & Ice Manufactur-
ing Co., supplies, $24.30; Lang Motor
Co., Welding gas pipe on tractor, 90c;
A. c. Boyd, supplies, $1.08; City Drug
Store, supplies, $1.25; J. E. Brewer,
stamps, 5000; Burnette's Meat Mar
ket, supplies, $7676; Marvin w. Crow
der, fees, $335.05; Drs. Graves and
Eugas, medical examination, IS; j.
H. Jones, Treas, months support Of
Frank Wells, sos; W. E. Golfer, post
age and telephone, $685.; w. X. Pos
ton, supplies for county offices, Sal
rs; st. Louis Bindery Co., supplies,
$9412; st. Francois County Farm
Bureau, expenses, $152.S6; H. M.
IO'Bannon, recording soldiers discharg-
es, $55.01; Keufel-Esser Co., maps,
1892; Henry Rinke, burial expenses,
$25; ]. Clyde Akers, expenses, etc,
$41.20; Grover Smith, guarding James
Larkin, 81; C. H. Adams, trip to In
dustrial Home, $61.25; Pennington
News, supplies, $i9.05; Marvin w.
Crowder, postage and express, $7.35;
Geo. S. Matkin, relief J. H. Sutton,
SIP; E. B. Shelley, road improvement,
500; w. L. Jerold, driveway and
walks around court house, $5OS.47;
w. S. Stinson, care children at Pres
byterian Orphanage, 500; W. A.
Mitchell, 8 days and mileage, $15.7O;
J. W. Jones, 8 days and mileage, sic;
F. M. Matkin, 8 days and mileage,
$3.50.
Thos. H. Holman, road improve
ment, $1,000; Knopf's Bakery, sup
plies, $3.50; Geo. H. Middlekamp,
Treas, support patients, $1,000; Des-
loge Sun, adv. for Supt. of Schools,
So; Pennington Times, printing, $24.-
25.
1t appearing to the court that
Frank Wells is a proper subject for
State Hospital No. A, it is ordered that
he be admitted there for treatment as
a county patient.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
EDITORS PREACH WHILE
PASTORS ENJOY VACATION

Macon, Mo-, July Sin leaving for
their annual vacation the ministers of
the various Macon churches have made
arrangements to leave the spiritual
guidance of the town in the hands of
the editors of the two local papers,
the Daily Chronicle Herald and the
Macon Republican.
The understanding is that each pa
per print an original sermon not to
exceed a column weekly. One or two
of the church members have requested
that the sermons do not exceed half
column.
In assuming it's responsibility of
carrying one-half the spiritual light of
the town during the absence of the
parsons, the Chronicle-Herald of Tues
day observes:
"While we believe that Macon could
get along as well without religious
consolation from this paper, and still
keep out of Jail, yet our ministerial
friends have seen fit to place this load
upon our shoulders, and we shall car
ny it with what ability we may pos
sess. Under the conventions of our
civilization, the press and the pulpit
are a partnership trying to point to
the better way. If we were a preach
er we might do things somewhat diff
ferently from those ordained to wear
the cloth, and if the preachers were
editors they might have different no.
tions from ours about running news
paper. ~
off we were called to preach we be-
lieve we would try to forget those
things upon which the world has
agreed, and confne our energies to
the task of drawing closer the bonds
of brotherhood. The Old World to-
day is crying for sympathy and en-
enlargement. We would try to lead
the people to go into the desolate
homes, the waste places, where dirt
and squalor and misery reign, and
not only speak words of consolation
there, but carry with us those things
which bring comfort and health in
mind and in body. is 2'@S 4
1--WE believe that the big duty Of
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
COUNTY COURT

The County Court convened Monday
for the July term with all officers
present, and the following are the pro-
ceedings to date:
Court orders SIS per month toward
the support of Mrs. Elsie Buckner, a
poor person at Bonnie Terre.
County Clerk ordered to make re-
QUESTION on Geo. E. Hackman, State
Auditor, in sum Of 500 for salary of
County Superintendent of Schools.
VIM. Faulkner, of Elvins, admitted
to Mount Vernon Sanitorium for
treatment as a county patient.
Quarterly settlement of County
Clerk Marvin W. Crowder, approved
by court. .~.
Besides the monthly salaries of the
county officers, the following war
rants were issued:
VIM. Marcum, relief, SIS; J. H. Tet-
ley, relief poor persons at Pennington,
S24: Mrs. c. r. Bramblett, relief
poor persons at Flat River, $25; Mrs.
Geo. Houser, relief poor persons at
Desloge, $40; J. G. Turley, relief VIM.
Lunsford and family, SIS; Mary
Rock, relief, So; Mrs. Jennie Forster,
relief Lucy Mooten, $5; Dayse Baker,
relief Maggie Burks, Sc; Mrs. Elsie
Buckner, relief, IS; Gruner & Rosen-
stengel, merchandise, So; X. c. Web
err, postage, 81; Chas. Gravelin, re-
lief, $40; Pennington Mercantile Co.,
supplies, $13.70; c. H. Adams, feed
ing prisoners, $132; Thos. H. Holman,
services at C. H. E., $14S; Farming
ton Laundry, laundry. s4.57; Pelty's
Book Store, supplies, 5000; A. J.
Hawn, cleaning water front, 81; Lead
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11

GERMANY'S WAR FINANCING

Matthias Erzberger, vice chancellor
and minister of finance, tells the
German National Assembly that one
of the first duties, next to restoration
of the life of labor, is "the establish
ment of orderly finances" He OPP
poses reputation of the war loans or
a declaration of general bankruptcy.
As nearly all of the German war loans
are held by German citizens, the man
ner of paying them by taxes is within
the discretion of the National Assem-
bly,, subject to the prior foreign OBJ
legations assumed under the treaty.
The income of the empire must be in
creased 900 per cent over the prewar
basis and that of the states over 100
per cent. This estimate of Herr Err
berger is presumably based on the
theory that interest will be paid reg
ularly on domestic loans. But he OK
cludes all war expenditures after Sep
TENDER and promises "to tread the
hard path of economy" hereafter.
Still, he thinks the empires expendi-
lures this year will reach $5,375, 000,-
900 which will require both heavier
rates and new subjects of taxation.
The size of Germany's domestic
debt is due to the failure to levy war
|, taxes throughout the war. The junk
ers promised short war. France was
| to be knocked out first and then Rus
STA was to be defeated. 1t was the
! plan Frederick the Great successfully
used, that of whipping one enemy and
forcing separate peace. that would
mt only hermit but aid the defeat of
another. Not only was the war to be
brief, but all it's expenses were to be
paid by indemnities to be wrung from
the enemy. They argued that since
France paid ,O0O,0O0,O0O in 1871, it
could readily pay six times as much in
.1914. The more countries involved the
larger the promise of indemnities. Ev-
en- when America was dragged into the
war, (which all the world except the
,obsessed military clique in Germany
knew meant the defeat of Germany,
the professed expectations Of indemni-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
SUPERFLOUS WEALTH
WILL BE ABOLISHED
IN GERMANY

Berlin, July Germany will quick
ly return to peace-time financial sys-
TEN, said Matthias Erzberger, Vice
Chancellor and Minister of Finance,
speaking at Welmar before the Ger
man National Assembly yesterday.
Among other things, the payment Of
gronts to men who are unemployed
will be reduced, it was stated during
his address.
"The empires needs must be divided
henceforth. The years expenditures
confronting US will amount to about
II, 100000, 100000 marks. | am firmly
resolved to tread the hard path of
economy, and therefore have given out
the Watchword that from October l,
| 1919, there shall be no more items not
detailed and there shall be no more
war funds.
"The war finance since September
shall cease and regular budget sys-
TEN must be re-establiShed. The first
guiding principle is how there must
be no more unproductive expenditures.
Therefore, gradual abolition of nom
employment grants must be faced.
How are the full requirements for the
empire, new states and communes,
which may be estimated at some 25,-
900, 100000 marks, to be recovered ?"
After citing the returns to the en-
pire from taxation measures, prior to
and during the war, and estimating
tire revenue to be desired from next
tax bills, Herr Erzberger said: "There
still remains a sum of over 10000
600, 900 marks to be covered"
"The Ministry of Finance has almost
completed the drafting of two i'm
portant bills levying new taxes which
intend to submit to the House before
the preliminary recess" he continued
"These call for large single levy on
property and large tax on business
turnover, but even if these bills are
passed, the money for the payment of
indemnities must be obtained in some
other way. In the autumn new bills
will be introduced in the National AS
sembly with the final object of cover
ing this deficit.
"The burdens of taxation will reach
an absolutely terrible height. A !loat-
ing debt of $4,000, 900, 900 marks is a
constant danger and the removal of
this debt is one of our most urgent
tasks There are two ways in which
to do it-either it's conversion into a
funded loan or it's extinction by big
levies and heavy property tax. i
do not indulge the hope that these two
ways will Immediately yield the entire
liquid amount of 10000, 100000 marks.
1t is the duty of propertied people not
only to bow to a state of compulsion,
but to achieve an inward conviction
as to tie necessity Of giving up all
riches and all that is superfuous.
changes in the system of taxa
tion will be speedily submitted to the
National Assembly and this reform
will represent the completion of the
whole work."
Herr Erzberger concluded by asking
that taxation bills be disposed of be-
fore recess is taken, adding:
"The war takes our riches. The
world has denied us international JUS
tice. All the more passionately and
theoretically, however, will we work
for tie homeland again and, flourish
ing in justice, concentrating our care,
and cndeavor upon the poor, but just
! German"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11

ington, were married yesterday af-
ternoon at 8 o'clock at the Baptist
parsonage by the pastor, Rev. o. H.
L. Cunningham.
Both tie bride and groom are prom
inent young people of established
families here. The groom has been
trusted employee of Klein Grocer Co.
for several years and is a promising
young man.
The Times joins the happy couples
many friends in wishing them long
and happy married life.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
THE COMING HARVEST

In the crop report of June, the De-
partment of Agriculture gave out It's
first estimate of the season of what
the probable production of wheat in
the country will be for the year 1919.
1t was known from earlier reports
that the winter wheat harvest would
run close to 900,000,000 bushels, or
more than 200,000,000 bushels in ex-
cess of the highest yield of any pre-
vious year; but doubts had arisen con-
corning the spring wheat crop, be-
cause of unfavorable weather early in
the season. Those doubts are now
mostly dispelled. Besides predicting
the largest winter-wheat crop ever
harvested, the government now fore
casts yield of spring wheat matched
only twice before. The total indicat-
ed harvest is placed at 1,236,000 900
bushels, whereas the largest Ameri-
can wheat crop before the war was
763,000,000 bushels, and the largest
recorded, that of 1915, was 1,025,000,-
900 bushels, says the Youths Com
panion. The effect of such yield on
the prosperity of the country, es-
pecially since the government has
guaranteed the farmers a price for
all their wheat that is probably high
err than the average price at which
any previous crop was ever sold, ad-
mits of no doubt. Compared with
last years crop, at the slightly low
err guaranteed price, the farmers
should receive some $700,00O,0O0 more
for this years harvest. Compared
with the "bilIion-bushel" crop of 1915,
which was sold at prices that ranged
from 81 to $1.39 bushel, this years
crop at a guaranteed price of S2.26,
should return, if it equals the 1885,
100000 bushels of the estimate, at
least a thousand million dollars more
to the producers.
What such a yield will mean to
famine-stricken Europe, we are be-
ginning to understand. Before the
war Russia and the Balkan States,
which are not now producing enough
wheat for themselves, were exporting
from 250,000,0 900 to 100000 bush
els a year Countries of Central Eu-
rope, such as Germany and Austria,
have been raising 100,000,OO0 bushels
of wheat less than they raised IN
peace times. They must depend on
wheat from outside, and so, too, must
Poland, Belgium and Armenia.
An increase of at least 100000 BUSH
els above what other grain-producing
nations have been able to spare has
seemed to be necessary to meet the
requirements Of the coming season
Those requirements the United States,
with a harvest 473,000,000 bushels
greater than the largest wheat crop
of any year before the war, can full
fill, if the governments estimates turn
out to be accurate. In fact, it will be
much less question of available sup
plies than of the capacity Of our rail-
ways to carry so huge crop to the
seaboard; of the ocean fleet to deiv-
er it to Europe; and of the European
transportation lines to distribute it to
the famine stricken communities. Those
problems will be interesting in them
selves. For the present we can rejoice
in the prospect that the great Ameri-
can harvests of 1919 will go long
way toward solving the problem of
famine in Europe and of starting the
people on the road to industrial re-
coYery.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
AN APPRECIATION

Those in immediate charge of the
picnic desire, through the columns of
The Times, to express their thanks
and appreciation to Capt. Earl S.
Hoag, of Scott Field, who made the
airplane exhibition, for his splendid
and efficient services. His visit on
that occasion showed him to be a
high class and dependable gentleman,
in every respect.
FELIX DIXON,
Committee Chairman.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
LICENSED TO MARRY

July 2-Floyd H. DeBlois and Daisy
Spray, both of Flat River.
July "A. j. Mouser and Carrie E.
Burr, both of Bonnie Terre.
July 3-Jessie L. Ritter, Leadwood,
and Jennie B. Eads, Bonnie Terre.
July 3-Clarence w. Jones, Farm
ington, and Irene M. Morgan, Gale
donia.
July 3-Luther Hampton, Flat Riv-
err, and Ethel Johnson, Knob Lick.
July 5-Lawrence E. Pierson, Camp
Bowie, Texas, and Melba Haney, Flat
River.
July LEONARD Gaines, Frederick
town, and Louise zimmerman, Knob
Lick.
July S-Gladden Nichols Kinkead
and Frances D. Ashburn, both of
Pennington.
July 10-John ]. Riney and Effie
Wood, both of Pennington.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11

ties were greatly raised
All the other belligerents paid heavy
taxes during the war, but Germany
met expenses through issues of bonds,
by freakish pyramidal system Of
finance. 1t would have been in much
better financial shape had it paid more
as it went.-Globe- Democrat.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
RINEY--WOOD

John D. Riney and Miss Effie Fran
ces Wood, both young people Of Farm
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
Lutheran Church
H. Hallerberg, Pastor.

H. Hallerberg, Pastor.
Fourth Sunday after Trinity.
Sunday school at 9:15 a. m.
Preparatory service for communi-
cants at 10 a. m.
Morning worship at 1890.
A cordial invitation to all having
no church home.
Congregational meeting at 2 p. m.
No evening service. ,sa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-30

he has turned his attention to his own home folks, and pictured the rural life and loves of the people of old Ken lucky.
 Realism is the keynote of Griffiths success, and having been reared in the community in which the plot of the new play, "The Romance of Happy Valley" is laid, one can we'll under stand how he has made his characters almost actually comes to life upon the screen, and it is almost like visit back home to those from the country.
 Deep in pathos, the picture holds one enthralled till the very last flicker of the film upon the screen, and the part of the story that develops the climax
 is the most tense piece of moving pie ture acting that the silent drama has ever recorded. It Is intensely human, and is fully up to the Griffith standard of excellence.
 Beautiful in simplicity, strong in it's clutch upon the heart strings" The Romance of Happy Valley" will doubt bless for many years typify all that is beautiful in the fidelity of lovers, for it is far and away the sweetest love story that has ever been seen in pie lures. tF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-30
ADJUSTMENTS
Adelaide Thurston-Jefferson


 Acton Davies writes of Her Own Money" which comes to the Jefferson Friday and Saturday, matinee Saturday, of this week, in the New York Sun:
 Wholly apart from the merits of the play-and the play was distinctly on its merits at the Comedy theatre yesterday afternoon-there is an argument to Mark E. Swans Her Own Money. which can not fail to win the iindorsement of all women, and married women in particu- lar. No matter whether they are suf- Ifragettes or antis, this theme, which sets forth that every married woman should have an income given her by her hus- band, about the expenditure of which no question must be asked by him and V hich should be entirely at her own dis posal, women for once in a way stand together and indorse in body. The reason for this is simple enough: They have all to gain and nothing to lose. What the men are going to think of Her Own Money is perhaps another put forth such reasonable and clean cut plea on his fair clients behalf that no husband, nor, for that matter, any bachelor with the sense of justice in his soul can fail to admit that there is a tremendous lot to be said on the wom- ans side.
 'Tf the public wants a real American play-here's one.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-30
SHR|NERS ID HOLD
 B|G CEREMONIAL
Many Candidates to Gross the Hot Sands" Tonight
 at the Jefferson

Shriners from every part of the state are expected to be in attendance at the big ceremonial session of Zamora Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, which will be held tonight at the Jefferson theatre. The ceremonial will commence promptly at 7:3O o'clock and over 100 candidates are in waiting to cross the hot sands.
 In order to have everything ready for the affair tonight, business session ot the Shrine was held yesterday at the Masonic temple and the applications Of the candidates acted upon. Potentate Ju- Illus Heneke states that all preparations for the meeting tonight have been com pleted and that big time for everybody, including the candidates, is assured.
 In this connection, all candidates are required to report at the Masonic tenn pie at o'clock sharp.