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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24
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ing supper. She told him of her ex.
perience, and pledged him to secrecy
Then she changed her clothes and
took over the Job of preparing the
meal.
Nina was reading a book after sup
per had been disposed Of, when q
knock sounded on the door. and Jay
was ushered into the room. bringing
some letters. She greeted hin: with a
nod and pretended to resume her read
ing.
Funny thing" remarked Jay, ad-
dressing Nina's brother. II happened
to be down in the orchard just a little
while ago and found that some one
had smashed up one of the cherry
trees SO 1t won't be of any use I
wonder who it could have beenY'
Nina could feel his eyes on her.
and she looked up to meet his quizzi.
cal gr.n. She smiled somewhat rue.
fully and watched his eyes wander to
the book case and rest, on the Life
OF George Washington"
Its like this" she said. "EbeneEer
smashed down that cherry tree, but
but-well, / was driving Ebenezer-or
trying to-when Ii happened. Can
you forgive ne-for cutting down that
tree. but more especially for the things
1 said to-day?'
Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

approached a dealer and inquired the
price of a steed that had probably won
a prehistoric derby.
Seventeen and sixpence.'' was the
reply.
The farmer closed with Sthe offer
and rendered a pound note in payment.
but the horse dealer had no change.
Never mind, guy'nor," he said
Tick another horse, but pick one of
the end 'uns. If you touch the middle
'uns you'll have the blessed lot down..
A North of Ireland man wanted to
send a telegram to a friend in re-
mote part of the island. The clerk
told him the charge would be one
shilling and sixpence.
How do you make that out ?"
"Sixpence for the wire and a sllil-
ling for delivery outside the radius"
THAT be hanged retorted the
Irishman. You send the telegram
and I'll write and ask him to call
for it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

January exports exceeded in value
the total of any previous month in
the history of American commerce, ac-
cording to a statement issued by the
department of commerce. The export
figure announced for January is
$623, 100000, as against a total of
1856, 100000 for December and $685.
100000 for January of last year. Only
twice before have exports reached the
$500, 100000 mark. During the seven
months of the fiscal year ended with
January the exports totaled $3.7SS.-
100000. as compared with s3.45O. o0o.-
900 for the corresponding period of
the previous year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24
A soCIErY or NArIoNs.

A party of distinguished men is
touring the country spreading the
gospel of world peace. AS an
in this movement for participation
by the United States in the formation
of an international league, it is worthy
of note that this party is headed by
William Howard Taft, the ablest Re-
publican statesman in the country to-
day, and includes James w. Gerard.
who was made Americas representa-
tive at Berlin by President Wilson.
1t is realized by patriotic thinking
men that If we are to reap any bene-
fit from our participation in the war
it must be thru an organization for
the prevention of future wars. By
such means only can the world be
kept safe for democracy.
An appeal to the American people
signed by Mr.. Taft, A. Lawrence Low
ell, Henry Van Dyke and Henry Nor
genthau reads as follows:
The war against military autocracy
has been won because the great free
nations acted together and its results
will be secured only if they continue
to act together. The forces making
for autocratic rule on the one hand
and for violence of Bolshevism on the
other, are still at work. In fifty years
the small state of Prussia so organized
central Europe as to defy the world.
In the present disorganized central
and eastern Europe that can be done
again on a still larger scale and men
ace all free institutions.
The death of millions of men and
the destruction and debt in another
world war would turn civilization
backward for generations. In such a
war we shall certainly be involved and
our best young men will be sac
rificed, as the French and Eng
lish have been sacrificed in the last
four years. Such a catastrophe can
be prevented only by reconstruction
of the small states now seeking self
government on the basis of freedom
and justice, but this is impossible with
| out league. for divided, its members
are not strong enough for the task.
BY the abundance of its natural re-
sources. by the number. intelligence
i and character of it's people, the United
| States has become a world power. IL
| cannot avoid the risks and must as
sumo the responsibility of it's position
1t cannot stand aloof. but must face
with confidence in itself its future
among the great nations of the earth.
In a speech in Salt Lake City Henry
Van Dyke declared that Senator
! Borah OF Idaho is ''colossally ignor-
ant of the points of the constitution
of the league of nations, which he has
been attempting to criticise.
! Doctor Van Dyke expressed the
hope that the American people would
accept the pact by pinning their faith
to the endorsements of the great lead
er who had just died, Roosevelt, the
great leader who was with the party
Taft, and the great leader who was
now coming home after diplomatic
victories in Europe, woodrow Wilson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

. The latest official report of the
Progress made under the federal aid
road act is to the effect that less than
forty-five miles of roads have been
certified as completed under the pro-
visions of the law. UP to this time, out
OF 7.S69.61 miles included in seventy
six approved road projects. The APP
Preparations made by congress to pay
the federal governments proportion
OF the cost of state road-building
projects have now grown to a total
of -$4S. 100000, sum which will in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

Private capital cannot be expected
TO start building operations merely for
the sake of furnishing jobs to work.
men. That is the obligation of the
government, be it local. state or ma
Gonal. Let public works be started at
once for the benefit of the public. The
cost will be high and the public will
be compelled to pay the price. but the
public will reap the benefit in the re-
duction OF unemployment, the absorp-
ton of the products of many indus
tries anG the use of many works of
which there is great need.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

Secretary Redfield - responsible for
a new policy or economic program,
by which the government is takins
steps to redu' prices generally at this
time, hoping to avoid a threatened
general business stagnation.- The new
policy will furnish, it is expected, well
established markets for all supplies,
bringing a demand that will set indus
tries going again 1T full speed. In
mapping out a program of this sort
the secretary is going against all the
facts of istory. Never has there
been anything but business stagnation
in time of falling prizes. whatever
halt in business therc is at this time
is alleged to be due to a policy OF
waiting until prices come down. Such
them down but should a general de-
cline set in there will be this same
waiting for prices to go lower-to hit
bottom. Nobody wants to buy any
thing on falling market unless he be
Convinced that the prices will again
go up. The greatest incentive to bust
ness is a bllief that prices will &C
higher. 1t has been said that compe-
tition is the life of trade. Rather
sho-ld we say speculation is the life
world lies in the fact that there are
in existence great needs which mus
be supplied at any cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

- Senator Borah and others are eX-
hibiting much concern regarding the
fate of the Monroe doctrine as it may
be related to the proposed society of
nations. But if the covenants of the
society as formulated shall be adhered
10 there will be no necessity for a
Monroe doctrine. If thev be not ad-
hered to the whole scheme will fall to
pieces and Uncle Sam can be relief
upon to take care of himself and his
iieighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

: IL the 35th division lacked equip
ment, supplies and artillery and air.
plane support in the Argonne battle,
as alleged. one must wonder what
Would have happened to the Huns had
the Americans been properly provid-
ed with all these things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

Probably Judge Kenesaw Mountain
lecting his penalty of twenty years
imprisonment imposed upon Victor
Bergcr than he did in collecting a fine
e1 s29.0OO,OOO from the Standard Oil
conDanv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

1t is noted that persons who did
not regard William Howard Taft as 4
suitable man to succeed himself in
the presidency now are holding him
up to public gaze as the embodiment
OF all that is admirable in American
citizenship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24
TONIGHT

The state journal home edition to-
day is delayed nearly an hour DUE to
the efforts of this paper to give to ITS
readers as much of President wilson's
speech in Boston as possible.
The prevalence of influenza in the
mechanical department of the plant
also has held ul3 this edition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

crease annually. and will have reached
the $500, 100000 mark within the next
three years. The good roaCs work
seems to have little chance of attain
ing a dangerous rate of speed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24
DINNER STORIES

1t was the anpual fair and sports.
somewhere in England, and among the
attractions horses were for sale. They
were not a Misunderstanding lot, but
they excited a little curiosity. An old
farmer, on the look out for a bargain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

+ This appears to be the open season
for premiers in European capitals.
The premier of Bavaria has just been
shot and killed. while NJ. Clemenceau
is suffering from a bullet wound in
flicted by an assassin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

New York, Feb. 24.-MONEY-Merca
paper, J0i5E per cent. Sterling, 90 day
bills, 4.131a commercial, " day bills ON
banks, 4.iZI; commercial, GO day bills,
4.I2iz; demand, 1000: cables, AT ZIG.
Francs, demand, 5.45A ; cables, J451s. Mex
lean dollars, rye. Government bonds,
firm; railroad bonds, irregular. Time
loans. strong; 60 and 90 days, 5Aq51z.; q
months, 5AaIU.
Final prices on liberty bonds: 31a'a
9SG2; first As, 1850; second Is, 9J.42 !:
first ANS, $3.50: second 4h's, 81. 26; third
4A's, $500; fourth 4h's, 9i.2s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

y Next to the man who is brave
enough to go to a dance without wear
ing suspenders we believe the party
entitled to the Croix de Guerre is the
wimp who eats roasted chestnuts in
the dark.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

The plan of one member of the leg
islature appears to be to send to Jail
editors who criticise the -olsheviki
instead of incarcerating the Bolshe-
Wiki themselves
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New York. Feb. 81.

New York Stock Market.
Furnished by L. j. Myers, 3Ol n. Il. Bldg.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

Everybody admits that Topeka
needs the new North American Hotel
The Chamber of Commerce has not
only done nothing to aid this hotel,
but it's directors have refrained from
helping it. One director said today
that he could not afford to openly
favor the North American hotel be-
cause he furnished SO many supplies
to the National hotel. The big grocer
almost opposite the hotel told the
writer the same thing. Another
prominent man here said he could not
afford to take any stock in the new
hotel because he was doing so much
business with the old ones.
Many of the directors of the Farm
ers' National bank are subscribers to
the North American hotel. likewise
Central National bank directors and
Merchants National bank. One of
the prominent members of the Cham
Der of Commerce is trying to scatter
our forces by urging the Blue Sky law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-24

neither desires to return to law
OF go into politics is not known.
Lieut.. Cecil Forter is an Their mighty
good man named for commissioner of
streets and has had much experience
in city engineering.
Captain Tillotson is most worthy in
every respect as a man and soldier.
However, he has refused to run, say
ing he could not afford it.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-21
History Of Columbus in 10Th Century

eleven miles from Columbus, on the
upper Tuscaloosa road. His younger
daughter married Hon. NJ. NJ. RowHn
whose son, Mr.. Frank Rowan still
resides at the old Sampson home
stead.
Hon. Robert d. Haden came from
Tuscaloosa, Ala, in 1919 and opened
store near the center Of the square
on Main street opposite the Gilmer
hotel. He was a member of the
commissioners that surveyed the town
of Columbus in 1921 and a charter
officer of Columbus Lodge No. 5. He
represented Monroe county in the
State Legislature in 1926 before
Lowndes county was organized. He
was for several terms judge and
clerk of the probate court in Lown-
DIES county, original officer IN the Col
umbus Rifiemen. He belonged to the
very first society of the Methodist
church formed in Columbus and
worshipped with them in the Frank
lin Academy. He assisted in the
building of the first church in Col
umbus in 1922 and was a working,
faithful, consistent member to the
date of his removal to Texas in 1885.
He died in Texas, past eighty years
of age and totally blind. His first
wife was a daughter of Hamilton
MCGOWAN, a farmer in the southern
part of Lowndes county. By this
wife he had two children, DIR. John
M. Haden and Miss Sophie Haden. DR..
John M. Haden read medicine in the
office of DR.. Dabney Lipscomb, grad
uated IN the medical department of
the University of Louisiana, and was
appointed assistant surgeon in the
United States Army. He served on
the western frontier at different posts
from Oregon to f. Paso, Texas, at
which place he was on duty when the
war broke out in 1861. He with
Major, afterwards Gen. Longstreet,
resigned their positions and accept
ed service in the Confederate army.
He was made surgeon and appointed
medical director of the army of Louis
lana and Mississippi, with head
quarters at New Orleans. After the
capture of New Orleans he was made
medical director of the TRANSMITS
sissippi department. After the war
he settled in Galveston, Texas, and
died suddenly on the steps of hotel
in Philadelphia, where he had gone
to enter his two sons in Jefferson
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-21

the date of its organization in Col
umbus in 1882. DIR. B. C. Barry was
the first State Senator from Monroe
county. He died young and was
buried in the graveyard Gu the Tom
bigbee bluff at the northwest corner
of Capt. w. W. HUMPHREYS square.
DIR. Hunt was also buried at this
place.
Hon. William Cooke moved from
Kentucky after he had received dis
tinguished honors from that State.
He had been United States Senator
and held other honorable positions.
He was the father of Hon. Stephen
Cooke by his first wife. He was a
member of the survey commission in
1921 and represented Monroe county
in the State Legislature in 1922. He
moved in Columbus in 1920. His
second wife, whom he married in Col
umbus, was Miss Keziah Sims.
He had no children by this wife.
He lived a quiet and useful life
and died in Columbus about
1924. His son, Hon. Stephen Cooke,
was a prominent lawyer and politician
from Monroe county. Rev. Martin
Sims was an interpreter for the gov
eminent and the Mayhem mission to
the Choctaw Indians. He died in Col
umbus at the advanced age of So
years. Benjamin F. Sims was the
first sheriff of Monroe county. The
descendants of William Sims live in
Aberdeen, Miss.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-21

State Legislature and speaker of the
house. He was member of the
United States Congress, President of
the Mississippi Secession Convention,
and in the Civil War was Colonel of
the 35th Mississippi regiment. He
was wounded in the shoulder at the
battle of Altoona, Ga, and from the
effect of this, and constitutional
disease he died in Columbus. He mar
tied Miss 'Sallie Fearn, of Hunts
VILE, Ala, and left an only son, Hon.
w. S.Barry, a wealthy planter in
Lefore county. Miss.
Maj. Richard Barry's oldest
daughter married DR.. B. w. Benson,
who was Secretary of State under
one of the early governors. Her
second husband was Mr. Kicks, a
wealthy planter in Madison county,
Miss. His second daughter married
DR.. r. F. Matthews, of Columbus,
their only daughter, Mrs. Sully
Bradford, with the children, repres-
enting at this time the ancient and
honored Barry family. His third
daughter, Mrs. Mary Frierson, wife
Of Rev. S. A. Frierson, who resided
in Starkville, Miss, leaves several
families as representatives in that
county. Miss Juliette Barry married
Col. Bradford, father of T. B. Brad
ford, late husband of Mrs. Sully
Bradford mentioned above, thus MAX
ing her family double representatives
of their grandfather. Miss Patty
Barry married Col. Geo. Albert, NOW
resident of this city. His daugh-
ter and family reside in Richmond,
Va. Maj. Richard Barry was an
elder in the Presbyterian church from
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-21

Medical College. These two sons are
the oldest grand-children[of the sub.
ject of this sketch. The oldest
daughter of Robert d. Haden mar
ried Mr.. Williamson Glover, wealthy
planter in the canebrake region
Greene county, Alabama. Her step
granddaughter, Mrs. LedyarC
Vaughan, now resides in Columbus
Judge Maden's second wife was the
widow of DIR. Bartlett Hunt, who al
the time of her marriage had TIVE
children, Bartlett c. Hunt and Ceryn-
thia Hunt. Miss Cerynthia Hunt
married w. C. Mills, and her daughter,
Miss Minnie Mills, has at this time
charge of the Palmer Orphanage in
Columbus. Judge Haden's son by his
second marriage moved to Texas,
and became a prominent physician
in that State. His third wife, Miss
Mary Eldridge, of North Alabama,
by whom he had two children, James
and Virginia, moved with him to
Texas, where they now reside.
Hon. Ovid P. Brown was a South
Carolinian and moved TO Columbus
in 1919. He lived first in a log house
on the bluff where Thomas Thomas,
the first inhabitant settled in 1917,
and where Spirus Roach kept the first
tavern, now known as the Eckford
place. His wife was Lucinda Sims,
daughter to William Cooke, who
married her mother Keziah Sims, and
whom history states was the first per-
son who died in Columbus (doubtfuD
This log house on this historic spot,
was for several years a rendezvous
for the Sims, Cooke, and Brown
families. In 1924 Ovid p. Brown
moved to farm on Military road on
Black creek, now known as the Gas
ton place. He resided there until
1882, when he returned to Columbus
and built a residence on the SOUTH
west corner of the square on which
Mrs. Ann Franklin now lives, which
was his home until his death. He
was for many years clerk of the Cir
cult court of Lowndes county. He
Joined the very first organization OF
the Methodist church in Columbus in
1922, worshiped in the Franklin
Academy, and afterwards assisted in
building church in 1882. He had
q large family of children. His oldest
son, Stephen A. Brown, was born in
Columbus, in 1928, and moved with
his father to his farm on Black Greek,
near which he received his earliest
education in a country log school
house, with dirt floor, puncheOn seats,
dirt chimney, and doors made OF split
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-12-21


boards hung with wooden hinges. His
first teachers were Martin Sims, Mr..
McCrary, Capt. Abram Botters, and
a Mr.. Frazier. He returned to Col
umbus in 1882 and resumed his edu-
cation under Rev. David Wright, then
principal of Franklin Academy. This
is the first authentic record of Lown-
DIES county school teachers, and of a
principal of the Franklin Academy.
He finished his education at La
Grange, Ala. Judge S. A. Brown
lived his whole life in Columbus,
Miss, and filled many places of local
honor and usefulness, both in church
and state. He had the city, and the
Methodist church especially, are in
debted for many valuable and ac-
curately kept records. Mr.. Ovid P.
Brown and Mrs. Fannie Beale re-
present their grandfather in Col
umbus at this time. Judge O. p.
Browns second daughter, Miss Mary
Bette Brown, also resides in Column
bus, which has been her home for 60
years.
Maj. Richard Barry arrived in Col
umbus in 1919, where he began life
as hotel keeper. His first location
in the town is subject of much dis
pute by his early friends. Some
locate it at the southeast corner of
Main and Market streets, now oc-
cupied by Osborne & Pope's drug
store; others, the site of the Gilmer
hotel; still others place him at the
southwest corner of the same square,
where Mrs. O'Malley now lives. The
probabilities are in favor Of the site
of the Gilmer hotel. Maj. Barry had
several brothers and sisters who came
with him to Columbus, viz: DR.. b. G.
Barry, who married the sister of Col.
c. H. Albert, and brother, who was
the father of Mrs. Clarissa Barry
Shaeffer, wife of the Rev. Geo.
Shaeffer, and Mrs. Nancy Barry
Brooks, wife of Col. Madison Brooks,
of Noxubee county. His sisters mar
ried Dr. B. C. Hunt, of Columbus,
ard Mr. Sullivan, of Monroe coun-
ty, Miss. Maj. Richard Barry was
a member of the survey commission
in 1921. His business of hotel keep
ing, being a most lucrative one, and
success in land speculation made him
a rich man in the early history. He
settled farms on the east and west
sides of the Tombigbee, and in 1884.
built the Marry mansion at the south
end of Market street. His Oldest
child, a son, w. S. Barry, was born
in Columbus. He was educated at
Yale College, studied law, and soon
after his majority wes elected 10 the