davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20
W. N. u. DENVER. NO. ,2-,s,s.
Shameful.

Shameful.
Two very pretty girls met on the
street and kissed each other raptur
ously. Two young men watched the
meeting. There's another Of those
things that are so unfair" said one.
"What is that?" asked his friend.
He pointed to the scene: women
doing mems wOrk."-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20

Nothing worries a chronic kicker
like the refusal of things to 60 wrong.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20
Easily Diseerned.

Easily piseerned.
II see in your hand dark obstaclea
to your happiness"
"Oh, know. They are the loads Of
coal am not going to get this winter
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20

Usually big man is too busy rum
ming his own business to bother about
other peoples.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20

Opportunity knocks on your door !:
and Opportunity's nickname Is Luck.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20

When the cats away the neighbors
get insomnia.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20

More married couples would be hap
py II the husband was deaf and ths
wife blind.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20
Natural Procedure.

"What do you think of that new
gas schemer7" "Oh, everybody is max
ing light of It,"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20

Keep your liver active. your boweh clean b
taking DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and yeu'1
keep healthy. wealthy and wise. Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20
He Had Had His Medicine.

Ma-There's a good lite boy. Take
your medicine like father does.
Jimmie-Aw shucks! When father
takes his he always says that word you
licked me once for sayln'.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-20

Some people mistake notoriety 70
fame.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
''BOOZE" RAIDER
GETS EVIDENCE"
CASES DROPPED

hScoveredI
The reason why so many booze cases
In which Douglass Schwartz, booze
spotter, was the principal witness, were
dismissed In city court Tuesday,
The discovery brings to light the gem
eral high plane of morality, efficiency
and consideration for the public well
fare which obtains In the Memphis po-
lice department under the regime Of
Charles b. Quinn, Republican police
and fire commissioner.
Schwartz went to work under the
Quinn rule. He gathered evidence while
working with raider Lnson, special Of
fcer for the administration. He speht
somewhere between 500 and $3.50 OF
the city's money purchasing whisky
from bootleggers, for the purpose Of
gathering evidence,
The nine cases which we're dismissed
in city court Tuesday were not so
marked because OF the trouble which
Schwartz got into a few nights before
In the list were such well-known
gentry as LOTUS wilkes, Joe Kiersky
and c. b. Renegar
office Of the criminal court clerk, will
tell why the cases were dismissed,
after 800 to $3.50 OF the taxpayers
money had gone TO pot to get evidence.
The entry shows that on Sept G.,
1915, one Douglass Schwartz was found
guilty Of petit larceny by jury and
was sentenced to serve one to five
years in the state reformatory by Jesse
Edgington, then Judge of the First
criminal court This sentence rendered
Schwartz Infamous and incapable Of
testifying In a court Of law.
James Lewis, attorney for some OF
the alleged 'leggers, took this inforTna-
ton to Il, Ernest Miller acting chief
OF police, before court Tuesday Miller
called all bets off, and stated in court
that he could not prodhce sevidence
against the men, who we're freed.
This Is the second case under the
Quinn Republican regime where the
money Of the taxpayers has been paid
out In booze cases. only to have II crop
out later that the man on whom the
city was depending for evidence was
incapable because OF conviction In
the criminal court Of testifying The
first case was that of n. d. Briggs,
who was appointed a regular patrol
man by Quinn.
After a meteoric career OF six days
on the police force Schwartz lost his
big shiny star and -late Tuesday after
noon he landed In the county iail
Schwartz was arrested on q warrant
sworn out by Mrs. NJ Schneider, OPP
orator Of boarding house on Front
street II was stated that the man
had become more than annoying In his
persistent efforts 10 show his authority
as a policeman over some young women
residing at the boarding house.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
Man Who Commits FiendiSh
Crime Near Martin, Tenn,
Escapes in AutO-WOman
Victim Bride of Few Months

MARTIN, Tenn, Sept. 10. (Spl. Mrs
Ora Murray, lS years old, wife OF Claude
Murray, a farmer living In the Public
Wells neighborhood, was bound. gagged
and assaulted In her own home Tues
day afternoon by q stranger who drove
70 the farm in q large car and then
drove away when his purpose had been
accomplished. No trace OF the stranger
had been found at noon today in spite
OF the fact that citizens were securing
the country far and wide, Farmers in
the neighborhood reported that shortly
after O'Clock Tuesday they had seen
a large car travelling rapidly toward
Dresden. Mrs. Murray describes her as
sailant as a powerfully built man.
home and asked Mrs. Murray II he
he could and offered to bring II to him.
but he insisted upon following her into
the house. Once in the house he asked
her II her husband owned car and "
they had any money Mrs. Murray re-
piled that they had n car but that all
OF the money on the place was In hei
husbands pocket, who was In the fields
at work. The stranger then tied gagged
and assaulted her, Mrs. Murray, who
was left In o. position where she could
see the clock said that tho outrage was
perpetrated at 4;30 O'Clock. After much
effort she managed to crawl into the
yard where she tainted Her husband
found her at sundown when he returned
from work.
Mrs Murray is daughter Of M. r,
Gray, OF Martin, and had been married
TO Mr.. Murray only a few months.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
TAMPA ESCAPES BLOW
BUT SHIPS. STAY IN

TAMPA, fla, Sept. 10 storm warn
ings were still displayed here today and
vessels were cautioned against going
into the gulf although the highest
wind registered here this morning had
been only rs miles an hour for one
fiye-minute period Reports from Fort
Myers, 126 miles south and about half
way TO Key West, were that the wind
was 20 miles an hour from the north-
east
II Is believed the disturbance ls fol-
lowing the usual course OF tropical
storms and passing Into the gulf of
Mexico between the tip Of Florida and
that OF Yueatan,
kilograms received today by agents
of the vessel report that the schooner
II. v, Drew, which left here Saturday
for Cuba with decltload OF lumber.
had been obliged to put into Key West
yesterday because OF the storm. Capt,
Parsons said the boat was likely to fill
and sink in the harbor,
.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 10. The local
weather bureau AT $3.50 this morning
ordered small craft storm warnings
holsted along the Louisiana coast The
disturbance In the gulf, the bureau
statement said, makes 1t advisable for
all vessels to remain 10 port,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
WILLIAM ADOLPA
FINDS NEW HOME
Mr.. and Mrs. w. I. Taylor
Find Baby Left on Their
Front Porch.

Born on Aug le. William Adolph
is his name. You can give him his last
name II you want to"
Thereby hangs story,
Mr.. and Mrs W. |. Taylor, 500 North
Fifth street, were awakened by n noise
on the front porch of their home short
ly before O'Clock wednesday morning
They went to the porch and found a
young baby neatly wrapped In blanket
The above note was pinned to the
blanket. Clothes were there, too, and
plenty Of them, Mr.. Taylor Is engineer
at the Tennessee Hoop company,
When Emergency officers Robinson
aid Fltzhugh arrived the babe was per-
fectly at home and its newly found
friends we're making plans for It's adop-
ton.
But the lucky babe has already made
one enemy, little poodle dog left on
the steps In the same manner last year
had already been fpsulted and was
under the davenport poutlng when the
officers investigated.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10

dress had been translated into Ger-
man and Immediately walked 20 the
signing table and signed the document.
As the French delegation went to the
signing table and passed DR.. Renners
chair the latter rose and bowed po-
lltely to M. Clemenceau. who returned
the salutation.
NJ. Clemenceau entered the room at
exactly 10 o'clock, being saluted by the
guard OF honor. He took hi1 place at
the table with Frank l.. Polk on his
right and A. j. Balfour. British secre-
tary Of state for foreign affairs, on
his left
Neither Premier Lloyd George OF
Great Britain, nor Col. T.. NJ House,
OF the United States delegation, was
present The British delegation was
made up of Mr.. Balfour. Viscount Mil
ner, George Nicoll Barnes and Gen.
Seeley. The British delegates arrived
soon after Mr.. Polk entered the room
and there was very animated con-
versation for several minutes, pending
the arrival Of M Clemenceau,
Mr.. Polk was accompanied by his
wife, After the other American dele
gates were seated, Ignace Jan Pader-
ewski, the premier OF Poland, entered
the room, his arrival provoking furry
OF conversation,
The signing of the treaty was fin
! ished at ll;l5 o'clock. M. Ciemenceau
then made brief announcement that
| the session was closed
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10

ST GERMAN. Sept TO- (By the
Associated Press. l--Dr, Karl Renner,
head of the Austrian delegation to the
peace conference signed the treaty OF
peace between the allied and associated
powers and the Austrian republic at
1915 o'clock this morning.
When all the delegates present had
seated themselves ut the round table
DIR. Renner was introduced with the
same formality observed when the Ger
mans entered the hall Of mirrors at
Versailles, lane 2S Georges Clemen-
oeau, president of the peace. confer
enoe, then rose and opened the session.
asking Or. Renner to affix his sigma
ture to the treaty and annexes and
announcing the delegates would then
be called In the order In which they
were named In the preamble OF the
document
Or, Renner bowed and smiled gra-
eiously as he approached the table and
bowed and smiled again to the dele
gates after signing as he turned to go
to his seat.
Frank L. Polk, who succeeded Sec
rotary Lansing as head Of the United
States delegates, signed after Or. Rem
ner and was followed by Henry White
and Gen. Bliss.
There was no hesitation on the part
of DR., Renner In signing the treaty.
He rose from his seat on the left wing
of the tahle after NJ Clemenceau's ad-
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
Many Guns Shown.

Machine Guns or various types, tanks
mortars and grenade throwing devices
were parts OF the parade exhibits and
were viewed with wonderment by the
crowds. Then there were the antiair-
craft guns, whose muzzles often pointed
skyward as II to, bring down hostile
flyers.
tion for sallantry and were promoted
on the field and who figured In the
parade, was Lieut.. Col Clarence Heub-
ner, Of the Twenty eighth, who was a
regular army sergeant when the war
started. He was wounded at scissors
and left the hospital to re-enter the bat
tie Another was Supply Sergt, Powell,
of Company M, also OF the Twenty
eighth, who, despite his noncombatant
duties, frequently volunteered and In
one engagement gained his objective
ficer in his detahcment had been
wounded or killed.
The units in the parade, In their or
der. besides the division headquarters
and Headquarters troops, quartermaster
and other similar branches, we're the
First machine gun battalion, Second
field signal battalion, First engineers
and engineer train, First infantry brig
AIDE headqaurters, Sixteenth and Eigh-
teenth infantry. Second machine gun
battalion, Second infantry brigade head
eighth infantry, Third machine gun bat
talon, First field artillery brigade
headquarters. Fifth. Sixth and Seventh
field artillery, train headquarters, MO
bile veterinary unit military police, mo-
torized battalion, First ammunition
train, First supply train, sanitary train,
field hospital and motor transport corps.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
M'NAMARA WILL
/. Be TRIED FIRST
Frey Will Face Jury After His
Companions Fate
Is Settled,

The question OF whether Allen ]. Mo-.
Namara or John 3. Frey would 60 tor
trial first for alleged criminal assault
was settled Wednesday morning by Sam.
o. Bates. states attorney, who stated
that Mcnamara was his choice for first
place Freys trial probably win follow
immediately on the heels OF the trial OF
Mcnamara.
Date for trial has been set for a week
from Wednesday, or Sept. II. Ralph
Davis, who, II was announced by the
pair of youths now held on criminal
assault charges. would represent them,
had not returned to the city at noon
"Wednesday. The last word his Office
had from his summer vacation site.
Cape Cod, was that he would be back
last Monday. II Is not certain that Da~
VS. will represent the youths. as they
have had no communication with him
since their arrest
Fuller I,ongley, the third youth want
ed In connection with criminal assault
Oh three young girls at the Wolf river
bridge and New Raleigh road, apparent
~ has escaped No new line on his
whereabouts has been received by local
authorities.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
CITY WINS FIRST
FALL IN GAS CO. ".
HIGH RATE FIGHT
Still Commission Tentatively
Holds That Profits Of Gas
and Electric Branches
Should Be Considered.

Tho hearing before the state public
utlltles commission at Nashville on the
petition OF the Memphis Gas and Elec-
trlct company to increase it's rates has
been continued until Sept, H. The state
commission only heard the Testimony OF
w. nj. Flock, president, and !. +, RA-
mler' secretary OF the company, Mon
day and Tuesday.
The city is opposing the proposed In =
crease and seems to have gained the
first round In the argument, when the
state commission agreed tentatively
with the position of Joseph Hanover, as
aistant city attorney, that the company 8
business as a whole, includino both the
gas and electric departments, should
be gone into In the proposed hearing.
In other words, that the loss or gain In
the gas department alone would not be
a fair criterion upon which to estimate
the financial condition OF the company,
Mr.. HanoVer's argument along these
lines was opposed by Lovlck p Miles,
Of eounsel for the company, who sought
TO show that the company, II II can
prove that 1t has been doing losing
business in the gas department alone,
~ entitled TO at least temporary relief
IN Increased gas rates. no matter how
much money may have been made In the
electric department, which 1t is ad-
mitted Is and has been profitable a.
present rates.
Mr., Hanover who had charge OF the
preparation of the legal and other datn
Tor the hearing, showed TINT the situa.
tion in Memphis In different from tina,
in New York, where the public utility
corporations owning both vas ana elee,
trio plants, have been perrnitted "a sen
arate such iepart ments Tor the purp1s,
Of rate making.
The Memphis company III 1917. OF
being permitted to consolidate the tw,
electric light and power plants then il
the city, and for tho further consii
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
FROM
MASS MEETING
PASSING AWAY
City Politics Again Becomes
Almost as Dull as Before
Women Proposed to Nomi-
nate Third Ticket.

In spite of the small ripple OF interest
which followed the announcement of
Mrs. Isaac Reese at the women's mass
meeting last Sunday that completely
new ticket viii be named for the coming
city election, to be backed primarily by
Mrs. Reese and a number Of women
associated with her, local political cir
cles remain almost as duh and uninter-
esting as II no campaign for city Off
ces were in prospect.
The. committee In charge of the Citi-
Gems league ticket is doing some news
paper advertising, in the way of set
ting forth the principles which the
league fiflNpcattsas but nat fs tine extent
OF the league Campaign thus faF Al
the league aduuarters clerks are tab
ulating the names Of registered voters
and otherwise getting the preliminary
organization in shape.
The league candidates, headed by
RpWlett Paine for mayor, will file this
week their petitions for places on the
official bszsot with the election commits
Ssioners.
J. ]. Williams, past master in still
hunt tactics, is dping considerable per-
sonal work, and says he has q fair
working organization already. He is
not yet ready to announce the name OF
the man who viii be the fourth candi-
date for commissioner on his ticket.
Rumors that Joe BurTey, chief OF po-
AlCcf WOuiu IeShBH anu OR tuo VIII
liams ticket have been denied Most
recent rumors are that the fifth man on
the Williams ticket may be Capt. Geo.
T. O'Haver, veteran OF the police de-
partment, who served more than 80
years in various offices at the police
station. He left the department In 1909
There have been some rumors that
Mr., williams friends might 20 into the
ward meetings to be called by Mrs.
Isaac Reese and her associates, and by
capturing them dominate the proposed
convention and thereby secure the in
dorsement of that movement for the
Williams ticket.
Nothing would be easier than for
some political leader to turn such a
trick. The ward meeting and delegated
convention was a favored method of
old-time politicians, and it Is made es-
pecially easy under the plan as Mrs.
Reese has proposed, with an equal num-
ber of delegates from each ward, re-
gardless OF the size or population Of
the ward. "A small group Of men or
women In the small wards, like the
Twenty-second, for example, would
have just as many votes in the conyen-
ton as the delegates from the big Thir-
teenth or Seventeenth.
No steps, apparently, have been ta-
ken toward capturing the proposed ward
meetings by any particular organization,
| but 1t might easily be done by anyone
Ahaving an organization.
Mrs. Reese has nStNyet completed her
| general committee, and viii probably
not be ready to call the ward meetings
| or convention for ten days or longer
A queer situation seems to exist at
| the city hail. where ward leaders are
saying nothing. except that no order
has yet come from higher up" as ia
who shall be supported by those who
owe allegiance to the city administra-
| ton Under such circumstances 1t is
hanpAn vet =
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
PUG RODGERS AND
LIQUOR ARE CAUGHT
He Is Accused of Having
Four Grips Full on In
bound ]. G, Train.

r, L., Rodgers. alias Pug, was arr
rested on q charge of violating the
'liquor law by Sergt Duvall Berryhill
and Dixon on an Illinois Central train
just as it pulled into Grand Central
station Wednesday morning. Four suit
cases containing approximately four
cases Of whisky in pints were found by
the officers.
The officers stated that pug was
seen to make an attempt to throw q
suitcase off the train where the L c.
tracks cross Nettieton avenue but was
frightened by one OF the officers. Du-
vail, Berryhill and Dixon then raced to
the station and met the train as 1t was
pulling into the station.
Berryhill entered the smoker He
declared az he went in Pug caught
sight Of him and started out the 9TH
err way. Berryhii claimed that when
he first saw Rodgers the well-known
character was standing in the coach
with two 81 the suitcases on each side
Of him.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
HELD TO
Be ALLIANCE AND.
NOT BAR TO WAR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1O.-Character-
lied as an alliance and not a league,
which win breed wars instead OF Sc
curing peace" the German peace treaty,
including the covenant for a league OF
nations, was formally reported to the
senate today by the foreign relations
committee with As amendments and four
reservations,
It will be the first great document of
It's kind to be discussed in the open
without the confines OF executive ses-
sion."
Accompanying the treaty was the ma
jority report OF the foreign relations
committee subscribed to by every Re-
publican member excepting Senator Me-
Cumber, Of North Dakota, explaining
the amendments and reservations, all
OF which II was declared we're governed
by single purpose and that Is to guard
American rights and sovereignty, the in
vasion Of which would stimulate
breeches Of faith, encourage conflicts
and generate wars"
The reservations propose
/. Unconditional right to withdraw
from the league.
.. Declination to assume any Of the
obligations OF the much discussed arti-
Gle ten. except by action of the con-
gress OF the United States"
3. Reserving to the United States the
exclusive right to decide what ques-
ticns are within its own domestic juris-
diction.
4. Absolute reservation OF the Mon
roe doctrine to the judgment Of the
United States alone.
The principal amendments are pro-
posed to provide:
Equal voting power for the United
States with Great Britain in the as
sembly of the league.
Giving to China instead of Japan the
province of Shantung
Relief Of the United States from hav-
ing representatives. on commissions de-
Gliding matters Ia which It has no con-
cern,
| OthBrs c0reern phfaseology.
These aFsepdInents and reservations
| 49, q Al4a-----s 6sM13Aa& &s
1 CCphtlnned on Page Z, Column 81 X
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
SCHOOLS MAY Be
SHORT Of BOOKS

The arrival of school days has brought
an unusual rush to buy books this year,
for the, state board Of education recently
revised the entire list to be used in
the public schools Of Tennessee.
The contracts were not let until July
and the publishers OF many books
adopted have been unable TO print
them rapidly enough to supply the de-
mand from this and other states,
Several hundred pupils in the city
granmer schools therefore will have
to begin their fall studies without a full
ing put In the schools this year.
The blame for this condition Is not
with the publishers agents A. r. Tay-
lor Co., nor with the publishers, but
rests apparently with the state board
Of education, which placed contracts for
the books so late in tho year that the
publishers were not given sufficient
time for printing them.
The shortage In Memphis is not suffi
cient to prevent the opening Of the
schools. Indeed. there are ample sup
plies for all the pupils, except for some
Of the intermediate grades In the gram
mar schools. Practically all the books
received by the local distributors, and
nearly all the books used In the high
school classes Most OF those lacking
have been shipped and probably will be
delivered before the end Of the week
Until wednesday morning for example
there was not an official geography in
Memphis, but during the morning 25,
900 were delivered
The proverbiai hive of industry has
had nothing on A. r. Taylor Co. s store
for the past week. Scores OF extra
clerks have been employed, and the
rush for books has been 80 great that
children and their mothers were lined
up at the counters four or five deep.
The Taylor firm IL distributor for the
school books adopted for Tennessee In
six other counties beside Shelby. It
hopes to have ample supplies either by
the end of the week or before the close
OF next week but few OF the books
may be delayed longer.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
MAN SUSPECTED OF
MARTIN CRIME RELEASED

MARTIN Tenn, Sept, 10, (Spl,)
A young man giving his name ~ Clark,
and Macon, Miss. as his home, was
arrested at Greenfield this morning
upon suspicion Of being the man guilty
of the assault upon Mrs. Ora Murray
yesterday afternoon. He was hastily
brought TO Martin In secret and car
1ried to the home OF M. Y, Gray, the
father Of Mrs. Murray, and Mrs, Murray
was sent for.
A large crowd gathered even though
II was Kept quiet that he was In town
Upon the arrival Of Mrs. Murray she
stated that Clark was not the man as
he was not large enough. The man ar
rested had on q suit of clothing bear
ing Chicago tailor's label showing
that IL was made for Leo Cole, which
he explained was because he had traded
for the suit with another man.
II took quite a time to convince the
crowd that he had not been Identified
as the man committing the assault az
they thought perhaps 1t was ruse TO
get them to disband until he could be
carried to jail. The young man is still
under surveillance,