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800 which was subscribed by local em- ployes of the Southern Railway. The money subscribed by the railroad men will be reported direct to Washington, but will be credited to Lowndes county and will be included in the official TO- port of the county director.
 For sometime past the municipal council has been considering the advis- ability of paving the streets in the business district of Columbus, and an estimate on the cost of the work has been secured by Mayor D. s. McClana- han. This estimate has not been made public. but it will bS submitted to tha council at it's regular monthly meeting next Tuesday night.
 It Is proposed to pave Il bluocks in the business district as follows: Main street. from Third to Sixth Market street. from North Second avenue to South Fourth avenue; Collins street, from Fourth street to Sixth street; Sixth street from College to Main, Fourth street from College to Main.
 Several important cases are docket ed for adjudication at the spring term of circuit court for Lowndes county. which will convene next Monday and which will be presided over by Hon. T. E. Carroll of Starkvil1e. judge of the Sixteenth circuit court district An im- portant case is the suit of Mrs. Mag gie Grouse. who seeks to secure from Samuel Kaye, proprietor of the Colum- bus Ice and Bottling Works, the sum of $5c,000 as damages for the death of her husband. Thomas Grouse, who was accidentally killed at the plant several months ago. Another important case is an attachment filed by the Virginia Carolina Chemical company against property owned by Frank Benjamin for s7O00, which sum is alleged to be due for fertilizer purchased from the plain tiff. Mir. Benjamin has filed a counter suit in which he seeks to secure from the Virginia Carolina Chemical com pany the sum of $27, ,000, claiming that he has been damaged to that amount by the filing of the original suit.
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Metal Market

New York, April 3o.-Copper dull; electrolytic, 15A @151sc. Iron quiet; prices unchanged
 Metal exchange quotes lead steady; spot, $4.90 asked May, $4.S21a. Spelter weak; East St. Louis delivery spot, $5.971a @6.07 ih; May s5.95 O COS. Lon don spot copper, s76 Is Cd; futures, G76 12s Cd; electrolytic spot, ESQ 10s; fu- lures eS1. Tin, spot, G226 Is Cd; fu- lures, 9225 Is Cd. Lead spot e24 10s; futures, e24. Spelter, spot, es4 los; fu- lures, G35 Cd.
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I,iverpOOl Cotton

Liverpool, April 30-Cotton-Spot in fair demand; prices easier; good middling, IS. 42c; middling, 17.Ac; low middling, 15.sosc; good ordinary. 14.21c; ordinary, 3.6sc; sales, GOOD bales. Including 5aO American; receipts, 22,aoO bales. all American. Futures closed barely steady; May. 1e.55c; June, 16.4Sc; July, 16.27c; August, 160c; September, 15.67c. offl- cial noon closing April 1s.7Oc value.
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Money Market

Money Market New York, April 30.-Mercantile pa per 5H @5h; sterling 60-day bills 4.62A: commercial 60-day bills on banks. 4.62h; commercial 60-day bills, 4.62K; demand, 4.65N; cables, 4.66H. Time loans strong; GO days 90 days six months, 5h @5%. Call money strong; ruling rate, 5N bank acceptances, AZ.
 Francs, demand, 6221s; cables, 600K Builders, 40 3-16: cables 40 5-16. Lire demand, 7.4S; cables, 745
 Mexican dollars. 77h. Government bonds steady. Railroad bonds irreg- ular.
 London. April so.-Bar silver. 4sNd per ounce; money. 3h per cent Dis count rates short and three month bills 3A per cent.
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Sugar Market

New York, April 3o.-The local market for raw sugar was more active yester- day. and sales of 375,0Oo bags of Cunas for May shipment were reported by the board. Prices were unchanged at 'Eoc for centrifugal to the refiner. m re fired no new features were reported, with a fair inquiry noted, although the buying was still confined to nearby re ouirements. Prices were unchanged at cents for fine granulated. As
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-01

French plans for making the RhoncI river navigable from Switzerland to| Marseines contemplate the use of locks, J from which could be produced hydro-| electric power that would largely payl for the investment.
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American Cotton and Grain Exchange
Quotations middling upland cotton, United States standard New York.
SpOt Cotton

New Orleans, April 30.-Spot cotton steady and unchanged; sales on the spot, 1929; to arrive, 1,150: low middling. 23c; niddling 2775c; good niddling, 2S.75c. Receipts, S0509; stock, All ,105.
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Rice Market

New Orleans, April 3o.-Rough rice. no sales; receipts, 62S9; mlilers receip.s' csaa Clean rice sales, Japan, 400 pock- ets 7H Stormproof, 7ss pockets, sssdS1sc. Receipts none.
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New Orleans Cotton Bv AssOciated Press

New Orleans, April 3o-Severe selling pl essure was felt by cotton today. the market reacting strongly from the ad vance ot yesterday. May traded full cent a pound under the high level of yes- tcrday, landing at 1.,3c, end others mor.hs were even weaker. standing at thelr lowest, 75 to SS poir,s under yes terday's close. Last prices showed net losses for the day of A to Co points.
 Selins appeared before the opening cal was over. The near months on the call wee i to 10 points up. but the dl5- tart positions were off ani afterwari the decline was continued IT til net loss of s., hale was established. This was followed cy small recover:es. but late III the day cn reports of m eas:er spot sit u;tticn in the interior, new low levels for the day wer emade.
 Much oi the selling was prompted oy the rains and higher temperatures in the belt which relieved conditions which cot ton planters recently have been com plaining of. The weekly crop reports were not as favorable as many traders expected, but they had favorable fea- lures which were used with effect Against values.
 SsTrading in old contracts ceased with the close today and from now on all itfadng will be in the new style, or con- tract, in conformity with the amended cotton futures act, recently passed by Congress.
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Produce Market

New York. April 30.-Butter steady: re- ceipts 12,S60; firsts, 591aQ601hc. Eggs firm, receipts 67 ,199; southern section firsts 431a 645c. Cheese irregular; receipts 4,642; average run 31%c.
 Chicago, April 30-Butter unsettled. creamery 52G59c. Eggs unsettled receipts 2S ,633 cases; firsts, 411a643c. Poultry, alive higher; springs none; fowls, 36c.
 St. Louis. April 30.-Poultry unchanged. except hens 311ac. Butter, creamery zoe. Eggs unchanged. Corn. No 2, $l.59; No white 1.59a1 62; May s159h Oats, No. 3 white T01ac; May CSC; No. ?, roc. + Kansas City, April 30.-Butter and eggs unchanged Hens 1sc higher; 90; broilers DC higher, roc.
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Dry Goods

New York; April 3O.-Cotton gooos houses today did very large puslhess' Prices were strong and showed further rising tendencies. Worsted yarns were active. Silk hosiery was active Bur laps were firm Underwear markets showed moderate improvement.
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The production of copper in the United States has increased more than 9 fold| since 1880.
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Potato Market

Chicago, April 30.-Potatoes stronger' receipts, 63 cars; northern white sackeh, $2 15@2.25; Red River Ohios, $l.9VaZ, new stock Florida spaulding Rose, ss.5Oas barrel jobbing
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How Liberties Closed
BY Af1aeiafah Rensa

NEW YORK. April 30.-Liberty bond final prices today were: SIS 9S.60; first 4s 9S.9o; second 4s 9S.76: first 4zs 96y2, second 4hs saso; third AA s5.24; fourth 4A sa.so.
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Naval Stores

Savannah, April 30.-Turpentine hrm' 721ac; sales FIG; receipts sos; shipments 156; stock 8,790 Rosn firm; sales 431; receipts 57s shipments 725: stock 55,3i2, Quote: B Il 1oG11 20; D 11.S5@11.4O; F 1l.4o; F IL 45@11 50; G 11.55@11. 60; H 11.6541L7o; l 1175; K IS. 1oQp13.2O; M s.30q1S.4o; l4'lo; Wg 14.25; Wv 14.35.
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New York Futures
New Orleans Cotton

New orleans, April 30.-Cotton closed old, steady at a decline of 70 to 75 points, and new steady at a decline of 49 to SO points,
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Chicago Futures
NIsICa U II uCt Eut1lre n1lnfa a tinnc NE ',
Cash Grain

Chicago, April a0.-Corn-No. yellow. s1.57G1159; No. yellow, s1 .561s@1 STE; No. i5 yellow, nominal.
 Oats-No. white, 6Sd7Oc; standard, 691s G701Ac.
 Rye-No. ?, s1.7o1a6D1.T. Barley, s1140 1.21; timothy, ss@1O.75; clover nominal; pork nominal; lard, $32. NGf32.2o; ribs, s2750 @2S. 50.
 Kansas City, April 30.-Corn unchanged: :: No. ?, $1.66 No. white, S1.65G1 67; No. 2 yellow $1.69. Oats F to 1c lower; No. 7 white 711Ac; No. mixed 691ad7O1sc.
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SEVENTEEN

Madison died yesterday at the home od her sister, Mrs. A. McD. Mullins in Hunts1 vile after a long illness. Besides her husband. she is survived by two sons and two daughters, William Slaton of the American Expeditionary Forces, Slaugh- ter Slaton of Nashville, Mrs A. P. Ware and Mrs. William Heating of Denver, Colorado.
 Chargel with impersonatng an officer and obtaining money under false pre- tenses Kid Wonder. a negro fortune teller who is well known throughout this section is under arrest here. It is charged that he went to a negro and forced him to return $40 of stolen money which ne kept for himself. although employed to recover the money. He claims that he is a regular honest to goodness detective making a speciality of recovering stolen goods by making use of his powers as a fortune teller and clairvoyaet The trial will be held In Judge H. w. E. Hawkins court.
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Cottonseed Oil

New York, April S.-Cottonseed oil to- day was quiet and unchanged. Prime crude, H.50c; prime summer yellow. spot.
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Coffee Market

sNew York, April 3O-The market for coffee futures recovered good part ol yesterdays reaction at the opening to- day. First prices were 20 to 50 points higher in response to higher braziiiah cables and renewed buying by brokers with Wall street and European connec- ttons. This demand was supplied on the advance to 17c for December contracts, however, and the market later eased OH under realizing or liquidation which m cluded selling for trade account
 December broke to 16.60c and the mar ket closed net unchanged to points lower; May. 1Sc; July. 17.5Sc; septem per, 1715c; October. 16s9c; December lo'"c' January, 1655c; March, 16.53c.
 Spot coffee quiet; Rio Is, 1S&c; Santos As. 22bc. No fresh offers were reported in the cost and freight market, put IL was said there had been resales or COT fec afloat below the Brazilian asking prices, although no prices were mehtlon- a ed except for lot of Victoria fs anu es at 1S1zc, London credits.
 The official cable reported an advance of 35O reis at Rio and of 200 reis in the Santos spot market. Santos futures were g reis lower to 25 reis higher The rate of Rio exchange on London was o$zc higher at 14Ad; Brazilian port rece1pts' B 900; Jundiahy receipts, 22,oo
 Live Stock
 Chicago. April 30.-Hogs-Receipts, I1,- 900: market l0c to 20c under yesterday average; closed dull; estimated tomorrow 8, 900: bulk of sales, s20. 15q2o.40; neavy. weight, $2O. 3OQ2o55: medium weight, s2o lo @20.50; lightweight. $19.75q20.3o; light light. SIS. .50@20; sows. SIS. 5O@20 pigs. sl7qls.oo
 Cattle-Receipts. 1000; beef steers steady to strong; butcher cattle strong to 15c higher: calves about steady; esti- mated tomorrow. 11.00o; heavy beet etee2s, S11.25@20: light beef steers, $lO254 17.15:l butcher cows and heifers. S.bQQ15; Aann49u inn eutters, eeQ1Q.3; veal calvees
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Port Cotton


 New Orleans: Middling, 27I5c; receipts, s50y; exports, 2s43; sales, 2479; stock. 4ll.- 105.
 Galveston Middling, 2s.7oc; receipts, 126s2; exports, 12,249; sales, 1117 stock, 249, ,533.
 Mobile: Middling 27c; receipts 1o3; ex- ports. 2123; stock, 20,53b Savannah: Middling. 2sc; receipts 2SSS; sales, 150: stock, 197,70S. Charleston: Middling. Nc; receipts. o5S; stock. 57,154. Wilmington: Receipts. )75: stock, 59 AS. Texas City: Stock, 13,s19. Norfolk: Middling. 27.25c; receipts. 7s4; sales. 55; stock 126,o74. Baltimore: Stock, 6775. Boston: Middling: 29.65c; receipts, 21o; stock, 11,a0.
 Philadelphia: Middling, 2s.4oc; stock, 3411. New York: Middling, 2s15c; stock, ss,- oo2.
 Minor ports: Stock, 16,173. Total today: Receipts, 25,764; receipts. 17,115; stock. I261, ,232 Total for week: Receipts, 72,03S; stock, g., 6S7.
 Total for season: Receipts. 4.959 510; ex- ports, 3,952,619.
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Interior Movement

Houston: Middling, 2S.10c; receipts,
 1929; shipments, 4592; sales. 5162; stock, 260, ,909. Memphis: Middling, 28c; receipts, 2041 f; shipments, 333S; sales. 2s50; stock, 351,363. Augusta: Middling, 2&50c; receipts, 12e3; shipments. 45O; sales. S756; stock, 172, O6S. St. Louis: Middling. 27.75c: receipts, 104 shipments, 104; stock, 22.5S5.
 Little Rock: Middling, 2675c; receipts,
 34s shipments, 25s; sales. 25S; stock. 45- PA
 12,S61; stock. S52044. Total today: Receipts, 8SS6; shipments, 12,S61; stock. S52,0A.
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.

Mrs John T. Slaton, wife of prominent planter of this county whose homo is in
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Railroad Schedules

/ Arrival and Departurs Of Passenger Trains fThe following schedule figures published as i1fcma tipu and not guaranteed.
 tcentral Standard Tme)
 Corrected to April ia, 1918. BIRMINGHAM TERMINAL STATION
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-01-31
DEAD OF STARVATION
10000 PERSONS PERISH IN PER
SIAN CAPITAL ALONE.
Has Lost Nearly Half It's Entire Popu
lation, and Nation Suffers for
Remaining Neutral While
Turkish Threatened.

People all over Persia are falling
ueao as fast as autumn leaves from
the trees. 100000 persons have died in
the past year in Teheran alone from
starvation and the disc .ses which fol.
low malnutrition. Unless help on q
large scale is prompt, the entire coun.
try Will be threatened, is the substance
OF unofficial letters just received by
Mira Ali Kuli Khan, Nd, Persian
Charge d'Affaires to the United States.
In making this information public.
DR.. Khan stated 1.-THE Persian Gov
eminent has not officially asked for
help This is not an official appeal for
help for my countrymen. AS human
being, however, my conscience COM
pels me to call to the attention of the
generous American public that my
country-men are facing the prospects
OF the coming winter with shudder
AT the time the letters were written
thousands of dead awaited burial at
Teheran"
DR.. Harry Pratt Judson, as a repre-
sentative of the American Committee
Tor Relief in the Near East, is render
ing great service with the $1,000 a
month which is sent him, but this
does not begin to meet the need.
Workers, food and medical supplies
must Immediately be sent to Persia on
large scale if the cradle of the white
mans civilization is to be saved from
utter ruin. 1t is for Persia as we'll as
Armenia that a $30,000,00O campaign
is now in progress.
In light of the fact that Persia has
rendered great service to the allied
cause by remaining neutral, and that
now famine and plague threaten TO
wipe her out of existence, DR.. Khan
was asked what part his country
might take in the coming peace con-
ference, but on this he only said,
THAT will be settled later. Now, how
ever, my poor starving, plague strick-
en- country must be helped AS con-
sequence of the War, Persia's com
merce has suffered seriously The
government and leading people have
done their utmost to relieve the stu
alton but without further aid, food
and medical supplies, the coming win
ter will cut off large sections of the
surviving population"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-01-31
RELIEF WORK IN JERUSALEM.

The American Committee for Relief
in the Near East reports that 800
women, under nine Overseers, are en-
gagged in making garments, with a
weekly output of 1850 Sixty addition
al women were about to be given work
when the report was made on March
27. Thirty-siX expert lace workers
were at work and class of twenty
seven learners had been begun. Over
1000 women were waiting for work in
Jerusalem, while at Ramallah, Belt
Jalah Bethlehem the need for employ
ment is even greater, but leaders are
required.
In caring for the medical needs
two free dispensaries have been
started by the fund in the Jerusalem
Zone and approximately $500 cases
have been assisted in them since their
opening.
Feeding the starving: A soup kitch-
en- was opened at the L. J. S. Boys
School on March Is. One hundred
destitute were served the first day,
but 1000 can be fed there when sup
plies are forthcoming.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-01-31
WISCONSIN NOTADLES
INRELIEF CAMPAIGN

What will be the strongest commit.
tee that has ever been formed for a
Wisconsin campaign is in charge of
the Wisconsin drive for relief for the
Armenian and Syrian refugees. The
committee is from all parts of the
state, and will push the work of secur-
ing 100000 assigned to this state as
it's share of Americas $30,000,000 to
save live sufferers in the Near East.
The committee is headed by III. A.
Moehlenpah as chairman, Walter J.
hasten, treasurer, and W. F. Nc
Caughey as director. The committee
members are
Chief Justice J. B. Winslow, Madi
son.
T. J. Roth, Superior.
George B. Wheeler, Eau Claire.
J. N Mansen, Wausau.
J. H. Taylor, Green Bay.
J. C. Rosebush, Appleton.
A. w. Kopp, Platteville.
p. Yea, Stoughton.
A L. Goetzman, La Crosse.
ItOSGI D. VflOIC, vi dAo Ildp1oo.
Judge J. B. Quinlan, Marinette.
J. M. Whitehead, GAINESVILLE.
Solomon Levitan, Madison.
j. M Callahan, Milwaukee.
F. J. Sensenbrenner, Neenah.
A striking phase of the condition OF
the refugees of the Near East is not
alone that they have been victims OF
the progress of the war, through the
devastation of their home soil, but
particularly in the case Of the Arme.
mans it has developed into religious
war, with the Turks carrying out a
determined effort to wipe out this
race
1t is the brutality Of this campaign
unheard of in it's horribly murderous
phases that has swept the American
people, without regard for race OF
creed, into the campaign to prevent
this humiliation Of race by provid'
ing the sufferers with food before 1t
is too late, and before starvation has
wiped out the last remnants OF ma
ton.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-01-31
/" ALL DEAD BUT US =
THIS WAS ALL THAT ORPHANED
.ARMENIANS COULD SAY.
Two Little Brothers Living in Dug
Out Ran for Their Lives, While
Sister Remained to Care
for Dying Mother.

Declaring that he believed the
American people could net and would
not permit the cradle of the white
mans civilization to perish, G. V.
Vickery, secretary of the American
Committee for Relief in the Near East
formerly Armenian and Syrian Re
lief), expresses confidence that the
committees need Of $30,000,000 for re-
lief work among the poverty-stricken
and starving Armenians and others
in the Near East would be fully real
lied and the nations quota would be
subscribed
Mr.. Vickery pointed out the dire
need of orphanages for the children Of
Armenia and other sections of the OF
toman Empire, orphaned by the whole
sale murder of their parents by the
Turks, by citing one of the many
touching incidents that come to the
committee from American missionar
les and it's relief workers in the Near
East. He emphasized that 100000
Of the $3O,0OO0OO to be raised in this
country during the Armenian cam.
paign week will be devoted to the
building Of orphanages for the strick
en- children.
The incident cited by Mr.. Vickery to
stress the need for orphanages fol.
lows:
Everybody is dead but u.s." sobbed
two little brothers, when they were dis
covered living alone in dug-out.
60, run for your lives and God bless
you," was the warning prayer Of their
sister when she sent them away while
she remained behind with their dyins
mother
For two weeks, the little brothers
had fed from the Turks as their sis
ter babe them, hiding by day and run
ming by night At last they reached
the dugout which had been made by
soldiers of one Of the armies fighting
in that country and there the little
boys were found by a passing Amer.
lean missionary.
All the food they had during theil
fight was roots, berries and grass. In
& pitiable condition, they were taken
to an orphanage, established by the
American Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief from funds contrib.
uted by the American people. Here
they are being cared for, with SOC
other child refugees.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-01-31
FARCFF CHINA
ANSWERS APPEAL

Shanghai, China.
Enclosed please find check for five
dollars ($5.00) to be applied on the
Fund for Starving Children's (Arme-
MAN and Syrian Relief. You may be
interested to know it's history. 1t is
made up of the pennies given from
September to Christmas by the small
Chinese boys and girls in our primary
sunday School They were much i'm
pressed with the sad tale of the suf-
fering Of the Armenians and brought
as many extra pennies as they could.
It takes one hundred and thirty plus
big copper pennies to make one Mex
lean dollar and SO five dollars gold is
a pretty big sum for them.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-01-31
WILSON FAVORS CAMPAIGN
FOR RELIEF OF ARMENIANS

President Wilson has cabled to
America his urgent desire for the
fullest success of the campaign to
raise $30,000,000 for the starving vic
TINS of Turkish rule in the Near East
This was announced in telegram
from New York to w. F. McCaughey
OF Racine, the Wisconsin state direc-
tor of the American Committee for
Relief in the Near East.
Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer OF
the American Committee for Arme-
nian and Syrian Relief, cabled tc
President Wilson regarding his re-
quest to congress for One Hundred
Million Dollars for European Relief
The following telegram was received
in reply, signed by the president:
"The appropriation asked of Con
gress for One Hundred Million Dol
lars for European relief is not intend
ed in any way to take place of the sub.
scriptions being asked for relief and
rehabilitation in the Near East. l
hope that this subscription will not in
any way be interrupted or reduced
The need is immediate and very
great"
In an earlier proclamation the
president asked for the fullest Amer
lean support to the campaign for the
Armenian and Syrian sufferers, who
have been robbed and starved, and
who were being systematically eX
terminated by the Turks.