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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-01

Entered at the Birmingham, AlS'
postcffice as second-class matter, III
der act of Congress, March S. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-01

1t in one respect at least, realizes
the ideal of a limited few who crave
a magazine which is free from advertise
out of the weeklfes and monthlies
would miss them more than some of the
regular literary departments for in this
day and generation when we live D.
publicity, l want to know the last and
best thing out in all lines and the quick
est and pleasantest way to keep up help
full inventions is to study the advertising
pages of our daily. weekly and monthly
press
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-01

drum major impressed Warren Per-
shing more than the notables he saw
on gala day in London. further proof
that young Pershing is 'all boy"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-01

An aviator was fined SOS for flying
within 10 feet of the roof of a farm
that the average farmer would not
worry so much about what might hap
pen to the aviator as he would about
the imminent deadly peril to his Chin
neys.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
LARSEN AFTER
PENTATHL0N TITLE
High Jump Champion Believes
He Has Chance to Cop
Grown.

Clinton Larsen. national high jump
champion. believes he can win the
pentathlon title and the crown as all
round athlete that goes with it. He
is going to attempt it, at least, next
year.
Larsen is more than a high jumper.
He is a remarkable all-round athlete;
stands about five feet nine inches in
his stockings, weighs a few pounds
over $50 and is well set up in every
way, He has a quick smile INC flash
ing. eyes that make up for a slight
diffidence in manner But he has two
very keen regrets.
One of these is that the National
Amateur Athletic union failed to ac-
cept a certified jump Of six feet seven
and seven-eighths inches, a worlds
record, which he made in a set of
games in Utah on July 4, 1917, and
paper pinned to his back pulled over
the bar in the Pennsylvania relay
games of 1917, when he had cleared
six feet seven and seven eighths inches.
1t Is Larsen's intention next year.
when he will still be a student at
Brigham Young. to 20 East to COM
pete in the pentathlon championship at
he Is competent to do well in the PEN
tathlon, Larsen submitted his record
made in a Brigham Young-Utah dual
meet at Brigham Young a few weeks
co., when he won the high jump at
six feet three inches, the broad jump
at % feet six inches, the pole vault
at Il feet three inches; the discus
AS a schoolboy he ran the 100 in
10 Is and thinks that with a little
training he would do as well now. The
only event that would bother him, he
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
Airpldne To
BOmbard Memphis
Thursday Evening

Memphis will witness the thrills of a
London Zeppelin raid Thursday even
ing between 5 and Z o'clock, when
bombs from an army airplane will be
dropped over the residence section OF
the city.
The skyscrapers and downtown
streets will not be assailed by the dread
demon of the air. The raider will not
take cognizance Of the difference be-
tween men, women and c~hildren-non-
combatants and combatants alike are
one to this raider of the skies.
Showering from the heavens, accom-
panied only by the distant hum of the
airplane's motor, 81 5000 bombs will be
dropped over East, South n North
Memphis, regardless Of where they may
strike.
The bombs will be buds, so far as ex-
p~losions are concerned, but they are
likely to have a marked effect on the
finances of every person before whom
one Is dropped.
The man who planned the bomb cam
paign is not being sought out by agents
Of the department of justice. Neither
did he have a finger in the preparation
of the bombs which startled the u
try on May day, by being mailed to
prominent persons throughout the
United States.
His bombs are not the same kind as
the bombs that were discovered in the
mails. Yet he promises that wherever
one lights, 1t will create a sensation.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
LET'S SAVE 5000 BY
DEFEATING BOLSHEVIKI

STOCKHOLM, June 1.-THE lives Of
several thousand persons of the middle
classes at Riga were saved by the Let's
when they surprised the Bolsheyiki
and captured that city on May 10.
These people had been held as hostages
by the Bolsheviki, The suddenness with
which the Lettish yeomanry captured
the city In a half-hour rush prevented
the Bolsheviki from numbering them.
Only in one large central prison outside
the city where the Let's were ten min
utes late did the Bolsheviki have lime to
kill more than 100 educated persons.
This information has been brought
here by Hans Franckel, who has re-
turned to Stockholm from an adventur-
Gus trip to Riga in a motor boat to
rescue some of his friends. Franckel
saved 10 persons and brought them
with him to Stockholm.
He said the situation at Riga was
worse than any description could pic
ture. Famine had paralyzed everything
and the inhabitants looked like shadows.
Traces of the terror that had converted
Riga into a real inferno were TO be
seen everywhere. Corpses we're lying in
the streets,
The people were. most p~essimistic and
the future looked hopeless for their
pillaged city. They doubted II 1t could
be held against the Bolsheviki unless
the allied powers ave military support.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
GIVES ARMY
OFFICER AN ACQUlTTAL

On motion of Samuel o. Bates, states
attorney, a verdict of not guilty was
given Lieut.. Claude Anderson, former
cashier of the wrecked Mercantile bank.
The jury was instructed to bring In
the favorable decision by Judge Ton
Harsh, of the Second criminal court,
Anderson was indicted in two cases
of receiving money. knowing the bank
at the time was insolvent.
Anderson was an important states
witness In the trial of G. Hunter Raine,
the banks president, who was convicted
in the same court early this week. On
the stand Lieut.. Anderson said Mr..
Raine had always been his best friend
and that he regarded him as a son
would a father. He said Ralne started
him in the business as a runner for
the institution in 1889 and promoted
him to the high position he held when
the bank was wrecked.
Anderson served in the war as lieu
tenant in the 46th infantry, to which
regiment he is still attached.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
BURGLARS MAKE GOOD
HAUL R O GROCERY

Burglars, who must have used a NOV
ing van, before dawn Thursday looted
the store of A. l.. Coward, 1927 Poplar
avenue, getting away with several hun
bred dollars worth Nof stock. After
gaining an entrance by breaking a rear
window the thieves took a door Of a
partition from its hinges.
Among the articles listed with the
central police office as having been
carted away were 100 boxes Of cigars,
so cartons Of cigafets, IL boxes Of sugar,
20 boxes of chewing gum, six caddies
of tobacco, six boxes Of candy and mis-
cellaneous bits of the stock. Detect
tives Peters, Hoyle and Carpenter were
assigned to the case.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
GENERAL MEETING OF
MERCHANTS EXCHANGE

Friday morning at 11:45 O'Clock a
general meeting of the members OF the
Merchants exchange will be held in re-
Spouse to notices recently sent out.
The subject for discussion will be
amending the rules of the organization
providing that annual dues be paid on
or before Dec. l instead of Jan. /.
1t has been suggested by those who
favor the change that by so doing the
annual statement of the exchange to be
made at the final meeting before the
new officers and directors are installed
early in January can be made more
complete. as under the present rules
many members wait until right at the
time of election to pay their dues.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17

believes, is the 1900 meter race, but
inasmuch as he is not heavily built
there is no reason why he should not
be able to make fair time in a distance
run.
Larsen is a former. pal and protege
Of Lieut.. Alma Richards, the high
jumper and all-round athlete, who has
represented Brigham Young. Illinois A.
c. and Cornell university, n was
one of the standbys of the American
team in the interallied meet.
Larsen first won prominence in the
University of Chicago interscholastic
meet of 1914, for Dixie, Utah. In max
ing the trip from the Utah village to
Stagg field that year he had to travel
40 miles by horse over mountain roads,
and 1t was the first time he saw a
railroad train.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
HOLLY SPRINGS PLANTER
DIES OF HEART DISEASE

HOLLY SPRINGS. Miss, July II.
(Spl.)-Col. Geo. w. Stephenson,
planter and capitalist of this city, died
suddenly here this morning from an at
tack of heart trouble. Col. Stephenson
was about 68 years Of age and vas a
native of Marshall county. He has been
active in the affairs of the community
for years. He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Nellie r. Stephenson. of this city,
and two grandsons, Charles and George
Mcdowell, of Jackson, Miss.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
SHERIFF FILES DEMURRER

o. H. Perry, sheriff, filed a demurrer
late Wednesday in circuit court to the
suit filed by Arthur Ellison, n gro, who
is suing him for 81, goo damages for be-
ing shot in the arm by Jimmy Reynolds,
when the latter killed Joe Turner. an
other negro, and himself died later of
wounds inflicted by Turner.
Perry asserts that the declaration
fails to disclose that Reynolds was in
the discharge Of his duties as a deputy
sheriff in serving a process at the time
and he is therefore not liable.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17

BREAKS HIS ARM.

While e~ndeavoring to crank a flivver
at Third street n Jefferson avenue
Thursday morning, Henry Smitheart,
366 Carroll avenue, manager Of the II.
l.. Shepherd Printing company, suffered
a severe fracture Of the right wrist.
He was taken to the emergency hospi-
tai by Policemen Oliver and Bailey in
an emergency car from the central Of
flee.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17

TANNING BEATS WALLACE.

CHANUTE, Kan, July 17.-ArIos
Tanning, of Kansas City, defeated Otto
Wallace, of Milwaukee, here last night
in a 10-round bout. Paintings clever
ness bewildered Wallace and in the
latter rounds he tired badly. These
men are lightweights.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
NAMED.

Z WASHINGTON, July 17.-President
Wilson today nominated the following
postmasters:
Mississippi - Gulfport, Finley B.
Hewes.
PeaCher,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-17
JUNE COTTON EXPORTS

WASHINGTON July l7.-Exports VI
cotton and linters for June were $751;
1856 bales, the department of commerce
announced today Imports for the same
month totalled 1929 bales. .
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
Soldier Killed bv Fall Under
Motor Truck

Harry B. Van Natter, an enlisted
man of the Motor Transport Corps
accompanying the cavalry troops
on their practice march, was killed
by falling under the wheels of a
heavy army motor truck near ST.
David Saturday, while the troops
were en- route to this place.
It appears that the soldier at
tempted to jump from one truck
to another just ahead while they
were both in motion. He missed
his footing and fell under the rear
wheels with the reeu1t that his body
was fearfully crushed about the
stomach and the breast. Death was
instantaneous.
The body was sent to Douglas,
and thence to Granite Falls, Wash
ington, where the young man S
parents reside.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
Airplane Mystery Solved

The airplane that appeared over
this place last week, coming from
southeasterly direction clrcl1ng
around in wide circle below town
and then returning in the direction
from which it came, was somewhat
of a mystery. In the mind of one
of vivid imagination it might have
been an enemy spying or bombing
plane maybe. Or perhaps it was
onlysone of the border patrol en-
gagged in some duty required or
even possibly some aviator off on a
JOY ride.
Sunday the mystery was solved.
Saturday the troops from Douglas
arrived and made camp, and the
next day a plane, presumably the
same as the one first seen, arrived
with mail for the command, spiraled
around almost to the ground over
the camp, dropped the mail sacks
and departed on its return flight.
The plane came from Douglas
headquarters, and besides the mail
brought sealed orders, it is said,
for the next days program. This
performance was duplicated by the
plane Monday, the last full day the
troops were here. No landing was
made here on either trip.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
The High School

On account of the great demand
for teachers that existed at the be-
ginning of the present school year
and consequently the difficulty of
securing offhand a full teaching
force of competent instructors, the
Benson High School did not make
a start at the very beginning of
the term with its full complement
of regular teachers. There was no
great delay in filling the list, but
it required two or three weeks to
do so and get school matters run
ming smoothly. AS a full list has
not been published heretofore, be-
low is given, as a matter Of gen
eral interest, the names of the
teachers and branches or depart
ments in which engaged:
H. Q. Robertson, principal, and
teacher of Algebra, Arithmetic and
u. S. History.
Charles w. Crum1ey, Science,
Geometry.
Alice Perkins, English, Spanish
and Music.
Hazel Woods, English and Girls
Athletics.
Louise Kellogg, Commercial.
Chas. Z. Cash, Manual Training
and Boys Athletics.
Edith Alsbach, Domestic Science
and Domestic Arts.
Of those in the above list only
one besides Principal Robertson
was engaged at the school last
year, Mr.. Cash.
The school is making favorable
progress and offers a splendid op-
portunity to the young people who
live within reach to secure a high
school education.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
Godspeed to the Legion

The high hopes of the American
people for the American Legion
have been abundantly realized at
the Minneapolis convention. Hard
fights in committee and on the
floor were followed by harmony on
the final lineup. North, east,
south and west were represented
in the platform adopted and in the
officers elected. And, best of all !,
a passionate solicitude for the
honor and welfare of the mother Of
us all, America, was shown at
every step by this band of brave
defenders of the nation who have
associated themselves together for
God ard country In the past
they proved themselves the saliva
ton of America. At the present
they are hailed as the hope of
America, for from their ranks will
come the future leaders of America
for the remainder of their day and
generation.
Examination of the platform of
the legion, plank by plank, war
rants, as we believe. this word to
the Congress from the American
people: Follow the legion and
you will serve the nation. >" Where
both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties have failed, the legion
has succeeded in voicing the true
sentiments of the plain people of
the land" The 1egion's voice
those who pretend to serve the
people must heed. and that quickly
or give place to others who will
heed it.
Godspeed to the legion J the
wars great gift to America tri-
umphant. Boston Transcript.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
VIII Improve His Homestead

Bluford Greenwood, Of Nogales,
who owns 16O-acre homestead on
the river three miles north of Ben
son, adjoining the lands of Messrs.
Jas. Roberts and VIM. Smith, has
been in town this week. 1t is his
intention to improve his place and
make it suitable for habitation. An
artesian we'll is TO be put down, the
old dwelling house on the place re-
neWed or rebuilt and various other
improvements made. A pumping
plant is also to be put in to furnish
water for irrigation. A large sheet
iron tank of 10000 gallons capac-
ity, to be used on the place, has
been shipped in and is now await
ing removal at the S. P. freight
station.
Mr. Greenwood lived here until
seven or eight years ago, but has
lately been engaged as contractor
and builder at Nogales. The home
stead above mentioned was owned
by the family, and now Mr.. Green
wood wants to re-make it into a
habitab1e place for residence and
cultivation.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
This Means You

When you get up with a bad
taste in your mouth, a dull tired
feeling. no relish for food and are
constipated, you may know that
you need a dose of Chamberlain S
Tablets. They not only cause an
agreeable movement of the bowels,
but cleanse and invigorate the sto-
mach and improve the digestion.
Sold at Moss Pharmacy.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
A Good Cough Medicine for Children

Mrs. 4. w. Phillips, Redon, Ca,
phoned to J. M. Floyd, the mer-
chant there, for bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy and said
she had bought bottle of it at his
store recently and that it was do
ing her children so much good that
she wanted to keep up the treat
ment. You will find nothing bet
ter for coughs and colds in chill
dren or for yourself. 1t keeps the
cough loose, expectoration easy
and soon frees the system from the
cold. Moss Pharmacy.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
Benson "TakeD By
First Cavalry
Troops Under Col. Rivers March
in and Make Camp Saturday

Two squadrons of the First Cav
airy, U.- S. regulars, and large
contingent of the Motor Transport
Corps, under command Of Colonel
w. C. Rivers, altogether number
ing between eight hundred and a
thousand men and innumerable
horses, made camp just outside of
Benson Saturday night. The troops
came from Douglas, where they
have been stationed as a part of
the border patrol, and were on the
move across country for the pur-
pose of trying out the motor trucks
to determine the advisability of
motorizing cavalry transports.
The first of the arrivals began
getting in early Saturday afternoon
and it was late that night before
the whole body reached camp. A
large body of troopers in double
file or leading two or three horses
followed by others, all sun burned
and dust covered, but looking hale,
hearty and fit to fight. Camp was
made on the open field between
Jas. Harman' S place and the rail
road, on the western edge of town.
There was a long line of motor
trucks and several caterpiller trac-
tors, and one a powerful machine
known as the Militor type, for ex-
ira heavy work, not to mention
camouhaged cars, Red Cross am
balances and mule drawn vehicles.
A number of trucks were held up
near St. David, where one in the
rear end of the line got stuck in
the mud in fording the river, the
worst place that could be found
having been chosen on purpose to
make test. This delayed their
arrival here until late at night and
some did not get in till the next
day.
The board of officers accompany
ing the troops to report on results
of the march pick out the worst
roads in the country to make the
test as conclusive as possible.
The command, which came from
old Charleston here, brought its
own equipment of every kind NOV
able kitchens, gasoline and water
trucks, and even it's electric light
ing apparatus.
It was told that the troops would
20 down the river as far as CasCa-
bel and thence by mountain trails
across to Tucson, but for some rea-
son this was not done, and Tues
day morning they broke camp and
started for Fairbank, the first camp
ing ground on the road to Nogales,
thence returning to Douglas.
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The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
Tombstone Meeting
Brought Harmony
Supervisors and State Engineer
Agree to Act Together

A large delegation representing
every section of the county gath
cred in Tombstone last Monday to
be present at the meeting of the
Board of Supervisors at which the
State Engineer was to be present.
The meeting was held in the court
room the board room being too
small to accommodate the crowd.
The strenuous meeting expected
did not materialize and the citizens
present were not required to give
forcible expression to the none too
favorable opinions of the deadlock
that has existed. The board seems
to have revised its view in regard
to the situation.
Bids were opened for work on
the Bisbee- Douglas highway, and
all rejected as being too high, and
an agreement reached to jointly
call for new bids.
J. N. Gaines of Tombstone, rep
resenting the Cochise County Tax
payers League, on behalf of the
assembled taxpayers, then asked
the Board for an expression as to
its intentions in regard to work
ing in harmony with the State En-
neer in securing the federal appro-
priations for road work.
Mr.. Gaines said: There is one
more thing which the taxpayers
would like to set at rest. We would
like to know if this plan of proce-
dure joint action by the Board and
State Engineet] is mutually salts
factory to the Board of Supervisors
and the State Engineer, This would
set at rest a mooted question. 1t
would set at rest lot of unrest in
the minds of the taxpayers.
Supervisor Sparks for the Board
replied in effect that all differences
between them had been COM
posed and that hereafter they would
act in harmony. The only ques-
ton here has been raised by Mr..
Roberts. but we have agreed as to
that" he said. THE fact that the
chairman of the board must sign
the contracts meets all objections
by Senator Roberts" F." he added.
Mr.. Gaines took occasion to put
Supervisor Roberts on record to see
that Cochise county might not lose
federal aid.
Personal assurance from Super
visor Roberts and Engineer Mad
dock that methods of procedure
now agreed upon are mutually sat
isfactorv was given, after which
the meeting adjourned.
Remember the Thanksgi wing
Dance. The biggest event of the
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev. H. E. Middleton, Pastor.
Sunday school at 10 O clock. Morn
ing worship at II O. clock. Evening
worship at s. A cordial welcome
to all.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22

Fos SALE-Two lots in Globe
and one in SWeetwater, Texas, tor
sale cheap. On might take in auto
on trade. Signal Office.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22

Remember-If you wish photo
graphs, better come in soon, as ac-
cording to a change of plans, we
may be here but a short time.
Respectfully,
MeriWether & MOWbrav.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22

For SALE House and lot on
Fifth street; four rooms and bath,
pantry, chicken house. Well fenced.
Price $500 cash. Address Box AZ.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22

The Cochise County Teachers
Institute will be held uext week at
Douglas. Therefore there will be
no school during Thanksgiving
week.
The Benson signal., 1919-11-22

Remember the Thanksgi wing
Dance. The biggest event of the
year.
, 1919-04-22
PUBLICATION.

1T is hereby brought to public notice that
the trade mark shown below, which was
registered in the Patent Office of the
United States January l, 1918 in the name
of the California Packing Corporation
and trade mark certificate No. 120, OLA is
sued therefor, has today been registered
in the Virgin Islands of the United States
at the office of the Government Secretary
in accordance with the provisions con
tanned in Government Order of August
Ia, 1917.
, 1919-04-22
Warning To All Fishermen.

INTENTION has been called to the,
not only obnoxious, but also danger
Gus practice Of catching fish in the
vicinity of Leper Asylum and Sanitary
Department night soil dump. 1t must
be evident to any thinking person, that
such fish cannot be fit for human con-
sumption.
Close watch will be kept and all trans
gressors will i'm nediately be reported to
the Police, for necessary action.
HJALMAR RIDDEN.
Officer IN Charge, Sanitation Service
st. CrOiG, vi.
, 1919-04-22

likewise belonging to the aforesaid Joint
Estate.
Conditions for the sale, mortgage GER
tlficates and other documents relating to
the sale will be produced at the Auction.
This advertisement also serves as no.
tice to the mortgageholders in said pro-
perties according to section 4 Of Ordin-
ance of 9Th March 1909 and which hes
the same legal effect as the rules con-
tanned in Placard of % ADril 1917.
Frederiksted's Vendue Office, St. roix,
April 18th 1919.
D. NOLI.