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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
AIRSH|P FLIGHT TO
MAYSv|LLE IS POST.
PONED ONE week
Because Of Necessary Arrangements
In Regard to Landing Field Here
Flight Today Is Postponed
For One Week-Onicer
Coming.

Vice President n. S. Calhoun, OF the
Bank Of Maysville, this morning re-
ceived telegram from Major Cannon
of the Kentucky Army Recruiting
force at Camp Knox informing him
that the proposed airplane flight to
this city from Camp Knox via Lexing-
ton had been postponed one week on
account of necessary arrangements
for the landing field at this place.
REQUESTS have also been made by
various newspapers in the state IN
line of the trip that representatives OF
the newspapers be permitted to make
flights with the army pilot and Major
Cannon has communicated these re-
quests to the War Department ana
expects an answer in the very near
future. II this request is granted a
representative Of the Lexington Her.
aid will make the trip from Lexington
to Maysville and representatives OF
Maysville newspapers will be given
an opportunity to take ride to the
skies.
The telegram received by Mr.. Cal
houn this morning, which explains IT.
self follows:
N. s. Calhoun, Bank Of Maysville.
It has been found necessary after
consultation with commanding officer
air squadron at Camp Knox to delay
fight to Maysville until next Thurs
day, June twelfth, owing to doubt in
size of landing field. Will send officer
foom air service to Maysville to in
spect field and give you instructions
relative to marking same. Letter fol-
lows. CANNON, Major.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
RURAL MEMBERSHIP drive
IN PROGRESS IN COUNTY
Mason County Farmers Joining Mays.
Vile Chamber Of Commerce to
Help Boost Mason County.

Mason county people are proud Of
the old county. They are proud Of
the splendid record she has made in
all war time activities and proud Of
her as one Of the leading and most
progressive counties in the state. They
realize that the Maysville Chamber Of
Commerce is mighty force in all the
advanced steps taken by the city and
county and they are therefore lending
their hearty support.
The committees of Maysville busi-
nesss men who called on the farmers
during the day report that they were
well received and that their argu-
ments were listened to by the farmers
in the right spirit and the results will
be made known at a dinner at 7
o'clock this evening at the Chamber Of
Commerce building.
This dinner is expected to be quite
interesting for the committees will
tell something of their experiences
and jolly good evening is certainly
expected.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
PROPERTY CENSUS
OF MAYSvIlLE maybe
TAKEN BY TEACHERS
Map Of Entire City Started by City
Engineer Showing Each Piece Of
Property In City and Owner
May BE Completed.

AS another step toward solving the
serious tax assessment shortage now
facing the city, 1t has been suggested
that a complete property census of
the entire city be taken so that every
piece of property in the city, its size
and its owner will be listed and on
file In the city executive Offices.
This was suggested when 1t was
learned that several pieces of city
property had been completely omitted
from the city assessment this year and
as the City Schools are vitally inter-
ested and want to see the ten thous-
and dollar shortage facing them for
the next year wiped out, it has been
suggested that the schools take over
this census matter and list for the
city every piece of property within
the city limits.
A meeting Of the Finance committee
of the City Board of Education with
the Ways and Means Committee of City
Council was scheduled for this morn
ing but as Superintendent w. ]. Cap
linger, was out of the city, this meet
ing had to be postponed. 1t is under
stood, however, that Prof. Caplinger
and other teachers have volunteered
to take this census and to complete a
map of the city showing the size of
the various pieces of property in the
city and their owners. The fire in
surance maps are not complete
enough for this information and the
city officials and school authorities
often have use for such information
during the year and they believe they
can find many pieces of property omit
ted on the assessment by such a plan.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Brings Big DAMAGE
SUIT FOR SLANDER
COmmOnwealth's Attorney Grannls
Sues Fleming Man For Slander-
Two Local Cases Involved.

The Flemingsburg Times-Democrat
says:
Tuesday evening Bruce S. Grannis,
Commonwealth's Attorney, filed suit
for $4,000 damages against James s.
Muse, until recently in the mercantile
business at the village of Muse Mills,
in this county, the grounds for said
suit being that it is alleged that said
Muse, on the Goth day of the past May,
in this city, in the business house of F.
B. Henderson, and in the presence of
said Henderson and of j. II. Mullikin,
did give utterance to the following
language:
From what l hear, we haven't any
Commonwealth Attorney. They tell
me that In that Owens case at Mays
vile, he (Owens) was sent to the peni-
tentiary and they wanted to get him
out and didn't know how to manage it.
Someone suggested that they would
take Grannis $1,000, and the man who
was to take the $1,000 says: What il
Grannis indicts me for attempting to
bribe?' Very well then, you tell him
we will indict him for accepting a
bribe in the gambling at the White
hall Hotel He takes the $1,000 to
Grannis, gives 1t to him. Mr.. Grannis
sees Governor Stanley, gives him $500
and in five days the man was pardon
ed"
At the time these words were utter
ed, Mr.. Mullikin informed Mr.. Muse
that he would tell Bruce Grannis OF
the matter at once, which he did, and
this suit is the result.
Here, where Bruce Grannis was
reared and where he Is well known
such false accusations might not dc
him such hurt, for no man not blinded
by partisan or personal malice woulf
give them a moments consideration
But for a public official to be charged
with an offense like this among people
who did not know him and who had nc
means of finding out the truth or fal-
sity of the allegations, would be very
damaging indeed, and Mr.. Grannis
very properly took this step to pro.
tect his own good name and the gooC
name of the Office to which the people
had elected him. There is too much Of
this same sort Of slander on public
officials going the rounds, and 1t il
high time that those who are retailinG
that sort of slander should be called
to an accounting. Mr.. Muse will now
have an opportunity to prove his al
legations, which no one who know:
Bruce Grannis will for one momen
believe he will ever attempt to do. Mr.
Grannis has made the most fearless
and efficient prosecutor this distric
ever had, and naturally the men wht
have found themselves unable to de
feat the ends of justice while he wa'
in office, have hit upon the plan of dis
crediting him by such stories as tina
put in circulation by Mr.. Muse.
That this case will be pushed to th'
uttermost is pretty well evidenced b!
the list of attorneys who will be will
Mr.. Grannis in the case: John P. Nc
Cartney, o. r. Bright and Slattery &
Rees.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
|. & n. STATION
AT myers ROBBED
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Safe at Railroad Station Blown Open
and Fifty Dollars in Money and
Over $500 In War Saving
Stamps Stolen.

The second big safe blowing In this
section of the country for several
years was reported this morning when
l.. & N. railroad officials reported to
the local police that the railroad sta
tion at Myers in Fleming county on
the Maysville division had been rob-
bed sometime during Wednesday
night.
When the station agent opened the
station this morning for the first train
he found his Office torn up and pieces
of the iron safe thrown about over
the room. An investigation disclosed
that everything of value which had
been left in the safe over night had
been stolen and as near as can be told
the cracksmen's booty amounts to
about fifty dollars in money, 5000 in
War Savings Stamps, number of
checks and some valuable papers be-
longing to the railroad company at
that place.
The job looks like it was done by
professionals as the safe was blown
with nitroglycerine The officers in
all nearby towns have been notified to
be on the lookout for the crooks and
the Maysville police have been en-
deavoring all day to account for all
Of the strangers in the city. It is not
thought that the safe blowers came
this way but they are thought to have
used an automobile and to have gone
in another direction.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
WAITING ON LIGHT EQUIPMENT

Captain Stalder, owner of the Aber-
deen-Maysville ferry, says he is only
waiting for the installation of an cleo
trio light equipment on the ferry
Laurance to begin night ferriage at
this point. The contract for this light
equipment has been placed and upon
its arrival it will be installed immed-
lately. Automobile guide books will
then show night ferry at Maysville
and this is expected to bring many
tourists this way.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
TEACHER SELECTIONS ARE
ALL PRACTICALLY MADE

On next Saturday the county school
trustees will meet at County Super
intendent Turnipseed's Office to elect
rural teachers for the ensuing year
1t is understood that the trustees have
all practically made their selections
of teachers and the election will take
but a short time. There will be no
teacher shortage this year.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
DROWNED NEAR MANCHESTER

The Manchester Signal says: Ben
Thatcher, aged twenty-five, unmarried
was drowned in Brush creek at Wag-
oner's Ripple late Tuesday afternoon.
A crowd of neighborhood boys were
bathing and playing banter to see who
could remain under water the longer
In the exciting sport they shrieked at
each other Thatcher thought they
were in distress and quickly laid his
pocketbook and watch on the bank
plunged into stream with clothing on
got beyond his depth and strangled to
death The body of the unfortunate
man was soon recovered. He Is a son
of William Thatcher.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
MAYSLICK MAN HEADS
BANKERS GROUP

At a joint meeting Of groups seven
and nine Of the Kentucky Bankers AS.
sociation held at Winchester Wednes-
day the bankers Of this district hon
ored Mason county by the selection Of
Mason county banker as president
of the group. The list Of officers Sc
lected for group nine follows:
Presidents. F. Rolf, Mayslick.
Secretary-J. Wesley Dye, Flem
ingsburg.
Executive Committee-R. S. With
ers, Cynthiana; George Bradford, Mt
Olivet, and George Willum, Vance
burg.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
CHAUTAUQUA DATE
CANNOT BE CHANGED

Secretary Carl Dodds, of the Cham
ber of Commerce, is in receipt Of a
letter from the Coit-Alber Chautau-
qua Bureau which will furnish the
talent for the Maysville Chautauqua
this year in which they state that IL
will be impossible to change the date
of the local Chautauqua for this year.
Mr.. Dodds had asked if possible to be
given an earlier date than August 16
for the local entertainment.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
FOLKS PLEASED WITH CIRCUS

Gentry Brothers circus which held
forth here Wednesday is given credit
for being pretty good attraction. The
majority of the local people who saw
it were well pleased with the enter
tainment. Most any sort of a circus
would have been welcome here, how
ever, for the people were very hungry
for a tent show.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
LOST PRINTER

The Flemingsburg Times-Democrat
says: Saturday forenoon peripate-
tic printer-not tramp, you under
stand, came down from Carlisle to
take a sit with the It'd. Shortly af-
ter dinner he went out to look at the
town. and he is still looking, we sup
pose. as he has never shown up since
He gave US his name as Rutherford
Brown. native of Virginia but raised
in York State. He left his suitcase
with us, hence we think he must have
gotten lost In the suburbs OF the city
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
FATTY ROCKS A DAME

Fatty Is some ladies' man. You'll
say so, when you see Fatty Arbuckle
In Fatty Rocks a Dame. Does Fat
ty Rock the Dame! Well. we'll say
he does. See him at the Pastime to-
morrow. Friday, June eth). Also the
second episode OF the Terror OF the
Range" will be shown. Pathe News
and a Lonesome Luke Comedy.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
SATURDAYS CONCERT SHOULD
ATTRACT LARGE CROWD

The first evening concert will be
given in the band stand in Market
street Saturday evening. The work
men have now practically completed
the work on the stand and the paint
ers hope to have it finished in very
short time. The stand will be painted
white with green trimmings.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
SPECIAL PROGRAM

A special program has been ar
ranged for reception day at the First
District School Thursday evening at
7:30 o'clock. AT this meeting the an,
nual report Of the organization will
be read and the election of officers for
the ensuing year will take place. Par.
ents of the school, members of the or
ganization and friends are invited. A
silver offering at the door,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
,NFIRMARY GROUNDS MAKE
GOOD CIRCUS GROUND

When the ball park was ploughed
Maysville folks wondered where we
would get anotherisood circus lot 1t
was thought that the lnfirmary lot
was too far out of the city but We'd
nesday's experience proved it fine
lot. The only trouble with it is that
it is out of the city limits and the
city loses its license fee when show
holds forth there.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
NOTICE

If the party whose identity is known
will return to me, the pocketbook, con,
tanning quite a sum of money and 9TH
er articles, lost near the store of Clark
& Paul at the corner Second and Wood
streets on last Tuesday evening Nc
questions will be asked and the mat
ter dropped. DEWEY PAUL.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
PRAYER MEETING TONIGHT

Regular weekly prayer meeting SER
vice will be held at the First Baptist
church this evening at 1880 o'clock
followed by the monthly business
meeting Of the church. The member
ship is urged to attend and the public
will be made welcome.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
WILL ORGANIZE CLUB
AT MINERVA WEDNESDAY

There will be a meeting at the Min
erva school house on next Wednesday
evening for the purpose of completing
the organization of the Junior Agri-
culture club and for the organization
of a Community Club.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
PIT. A. MEETING

The Forest Avenue PIT A. will
hold its regular monthly meeting Fri
day afternoon at 2:10. Officers will
be elected, and the National dues are
due. Every member is requested
TO be preseut,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
LEWIS COUNTY MAN
MOONSHINING

The Vanceburg Sun says: OIL EniN
of Laurel, who was arrested charged
with aiding in the making of moon
shine, was given term of one year
in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ca, by Judge Cochran's court at Cat
lettsburg last week. Monkeying with
your Uncle Sam is not pulling down
81 and costs.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
WILL ATTEND CENTER
COLLEGE CELEBRATION

Quite a number of former Center
College men and women in Maysville
and Mason county will leave the latter
part of this week for Danville to at
tend the centennial celebration of old
Center to be held over weeks per-
ind
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE

Contractor James Dawson and his
force of men are at work pointing up
the brick work on the First Presby-
terian church and making certain al
terations in the rear of the Power
and Rees buildings in Court street.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
FUNERAL FRIDAY

The funeral of Mrs. Susan Nichol-
son will be held Friday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock Blessing at the house
and services at the cemetery by DR..
B. B. Bailey.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Young Of Char
lesion. w. Va, we're here yesterday
visiting friends, They we're on their
way 10 West BADEN for . brief stay.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
DO YOU LIKE GOOD
THINGS TO EAT2

Try the Strawberries, ice cream and
cake-beore the war style--to be
served at the Washington Consolidated
School on Saturday, June Z, from 2
o'clock in the afternoon until 10 in
the evening. Bring your friends, en-
Joy yourself and help the school, 2-6t
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05
ROY NAUMAN HOME

Mr.. Roy Nauman, who has been
with the A. E. f. in France for sew
eral months returned home this af-
ternoon.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05

DR.. p. G. Smoot and Mr.. John p.
Cochran, leave today by automobile
for Danvlle to attend the centennial
celebration of Center college.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-06-05

Try q Ledger Want Ad. u Paws
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-30

man Automobile company. The COM
pany has a larger labor force than
ever before in its history, and II lin
tied in further expansion only by the
Mich. Reports from the factory are
that dormitories accommodating 100
workmen have been built by the COM
pany, cafeterias put into operation and
a personnel force built up to care for
the general welfare of the employees.
Also the company ID now financing a
gigantic housing scheme by which
hundreds of permanent homes will be
built for workmen.
Labor unrest, prevalent in many in
dustries, is almost unknown at the
Oakland factory, according to advises
from Pontiac. The employees are well
cared for. worked in convenient shifts
and given every opportunity to do their
best work under almost ideal condi-
lions.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-30
FIRST SHOWING Of
SMART SALIENT SIX
IN THIS TERRITORY
It's q Classy Trio Offered BY o.
A. Walling, Distributor of
Fashionable Stephens Car
All Sport Models.

Who has not read OF the Stephens
Salient Six? And who has not. heard
some friend or acquaintance speak of
II? 1t seems like adding friend to the
circle to note that the Salient Six has
arrived In Boise. Three good looking
models OF the 80" series of this fash
ionable and reliable car are here for
the motorist to inspect.
o. A. Walling is Stephens distribu-
tor for Idaho and Malheur and Harvey
counties in Oregon. His headquarters
In Boise are the Red Dalton garage
at Twelfth and Main streets, the sales
room Of which he has leased.
The 80 series are a mighty distin-
guished looking trio: The two, four
and six passenger models. The first
two are speedster and tourabout or
sportster, with long, low, fuselage-
type body, we'll poised and thoroughly
sportsmen like. The passenger is
akin, with the same manner and air,
but more roominess-just the car for
q family
1t is the placing OF the weight, hang
Ing it low and balancing it well, that
gives the Stephens its distinctive style.
The wheel base is 1872 inches. The
bodies are custom built on smart, fash
ionable lines. The engine is known as
the perfected Stephens overhead valve,
given 1t by vaporizing wall and SUI
perheated chamber, to get the most out
of gasoline. That is really why the
name Salient was given the car.
In 1918 and 1919. Mr.. Walling re-
minds U.S. the Salient Six won the Los
Angeles Economy run Of 3S2 miles one
way, with a record of 21.4 miles per
gallon. 1t also took the sweepstakes
for greatest economy of gas, oil and
water. This was really en- achieve
ment, travelling 1920 miles In 40 hours
and Is minutes, over mountainous
route, from Camp Fremont to Camp
Kearney and back without stopping
the engine. at an average speed of
29.93 miles per hour.
With this and thorough testing OF
the last several years the Stephens can
enter Boise territory proudly and con-
fidently. II seems to be doing so, be-
cause Mr.. Walling has sold three cars
this week, in the Snake valley, before
he has received his literature and ad-
vertising electrotypes.
The impression one has had OF the
Stephens Salient Six is that of a
rather exclusive car for the very
wealthy few This impression was due
to the limited production of the last
four years, combined with the fact
that the necessarily small number of
owners were motorists of fine discrim-
nation. Now that the manufacturing
schedule for 1920 calls for $4,000 cars,
many more people win be able TO own
a. Stephens and Mr.. Walling thinks a
goodIy number of these might as well
be people in the Idaho and eastern
Oregon district.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-30
BY H. A. TARANroUs, s. A. E.


There are many reasons why the
light car came into prominence abroad.
First, financial conditions are entirely
different from those in America, and
second, gasoline costs as much as $1.50
a gallon.
Practically every car manufacturer
in Europe has recognized the necessity
OF light weight construction and either
is building light weight cars, or using
the principles In the heavier ones. Peu-
geot, the builder of the fastest French
racers. produced his so-called Baby
Peugeot' which weighed around 1000
pounds and showed 40 miles on gaso-
line, oyer 1000 on oil and considerably
over 10000 on tires. This car which
was marketed in this country prior to
the war sold for around $1,000 here and
showed a road speed of over IS miles
per hour. Fiat is today building no.
thing but light weight models and ex-
poets to market them in great numbers
in this country. England one might
say, Is and has been light car crazy,
for there are more light cars than any
thing else. These range from 1000 to
400 pounds. carry five persons and
show gasoline, oil and tire mileage
three times that of American cars. One
Of these, a Humber, recently was sent
on a 100 mile trip from Coventry to
Lands End averaging "a miles per gal
lon. This was with four passengers.
Belsize, Sunbeam, Standard, Morris,
Enfield. Swift are only a very few of
Englands light cars.
80 MILES TO GALLON
There are two ways of radically
tightening the motor car. The first
is by an entire change of mechanical
arrangement and materials; the second
is by a change in size retaining the
recognized features of motor car con-
struction.
Europe, and especially England. has
taken second course very largely, and
fl ON the old original and late lamented
cycle car movement has developed
number OF interesting light weight We
hicles which are showing remarkable
road performances.
These diminutive motor cars with
four cylinder engines. even as small as
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-30
PRETTY YOUNG DlTTY
BOUT JITS IN A CITY

Riding in jitney going home at
night, when my luck don't quit me, we
get there all right; sometimes tires go
xooey-stand around and cuss-or the
gas goes flooey, tying up the bus.
Ten mon in a flivver, shrunk to make
'em fit, squeezes up your liver just a
little bit; riding on the door, bumped
up like a toad, babies on the floor help
make up the load.
Sailor loves a maiden In the after
seat, man with bundles laden drops
them on your feet, parties oversize put
your legs to sleep, dirty baby cries
Rugged up In a heap.
Skidding round the curbing makes II
hard to sit, life is sure disturbing rid :
ing In jt. No room in a street car
have to reach your home-man who'd
live out so far must be off his dome
r. W. Britnall in Seattle Post -Intelii-
gencer.