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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
SUGAR SCARCE
DEALERS CUT
AMOUNT SOLD
HUNDRED POUND SACKS TO GUS
TONERS ARE GENERALLY
ELIMINATED BY GROcERS =
SHARP ADVANCE IN THE PRICE
Retailing Now at 12La Cents a Pound.
Ten Cent Decline in the Price of Ba-
con But Meal Continues at the Old
Figure.

Although no sugar famine yet pre-.
walls in Columbia and this county
there is a decided shortage of that
commodity with the result that many
dealers have limited the amount OF
sales. The general limit is eight
pounds to the customer, or a dollars
worth, the price having advanced to
twelve and a half cents from eleven
cents, what it was at the time the
campaign to reduce the cost of living
commenced. 1t is the cOncensus of
opinion that the price will be even
higher than this next year.
Although coffee futures have recent
ly declined there has been no change
in the price of spot coffee and none is
expected soon. Due to the failure of
mills to reduce their meal in same
proportion to the decline in corn, deal
ers declare that they are selling about
half or a third of the meal that they
customarily SELL One of the leading
merchants of the city said this morn
ing:
There has been a nickel's reduc-
tion in the price of meal to us since
the decline in corn. | am paying S2.05
4 bushel in sacks for the meal that
| buy. The people declare the price
is too high and they have simply quit
buying meal with the result that more
flour is being sold. 1t is cheaper than
meal at present prices ~
The bacon price is beginning to re-
spond to the slump in hogs. Best
sliced breakfast bacon that was sell
ing at 65 cents pound at the high
point is now bringing fifty-fve cents.
OF course to correspond to the decline
in hogs from the high point it should
sell at around forty cents, but the
claim is very properly made that there
is not yet any bacon on the market
made from fifteen dollar hogs and will
not be for several weeks yet. While
there are number of other reduc-
tions, taking the situation as whole,
the situation is not materially differ
ent from what it was ten weeks ago.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
HERALD EDITORIAL
PUBLISHED IN RECORD
s
SENATOR SHIELDS IN PRESENT.
ING IT PAYS TRIBUTE TO
MAURY COUNTY.
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 16.-Sen-
ator Shields, of Tennessee, has pre-
sented to the senate and had printed
in full in the Congressional Record, a
recent editorial from The Columbia
Herald, on the league of nations and
entitled "Not a Partisan Issue" In
presenting the editorial Senator
Shields said:
Mr. President, / ask unanimous
consent to have printed in the Record
an editorial entitled, mot Partisan
lssue,' relative to the league Of ma
tions, appearing in The Columbia Her.
aid, democratic daily newspaper OF
Columbia, Tenn. Columbia is the cap
ital Of Maury county, Tenn, splendid
section of the country. beautiful and
fertile as any in the world, and inhab-
tied by population of the most en-
lightened and broad-minded people in
the world. The late Senator Robert
l.. Taylor we'll described it as THE
Dimple of the Universe" It is a very
able editorial and / think it will be
somewhat enlightening to the senate"
There being no objection, the edito-
rial was ordered to be printed In the
Record.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
new OFFICIALS
ASSUME OFFICES
FIRST OF YEAR
WILLIAM J. ToWLER Is PROM.
NENTLY MENTIONED FOR OF.
FlcE OF RECORDER.
The STREET PAVING QUESTION
Standing Committees viii Be Appoint
ed In January and New Members of
the Board of Education Are to Be
Selected-Street Overseer.

Although one week from today the
voters of Columbia will elect a mayor
and board of aldermen to serve for
the coming two years there will be no
change in the personnel of the admin
istration until the first meeting night
in January when the mayor-elect and
the aldermen-elect will take the oaths
OF office. There will be a complete
change in the board of aldermen and
the only member of the present ad-
ministration who will continue to
serve is the new mayor, Alderman
Cherry.
At the January meeting the stand.
ing committees will be appointed, the
message from the incoming mayor
will be read and new street superin.
tendent will be elected. The term of
Recorder William Porter Erwin does
not expire for year after the organ
iZation of the board SO that no re-
corder will be elected until that date
unless Mr.. Erwin should resign. AL.
ready there is a good deal of specula-
ton as to the new recorder and so far
Attorney William J. fowler is the
most prominently mentioned possibil-
ity for the honor. If Mr.. fowler
would accept it is generally agreed
that he could be elected as the mem
bers of the coming board are exceed
ingly friendly to him.
No candidates for superintendent of
streets have been mentioned and it is
said that there will be no changes in
the police force, at least for the pres
ent. Whether or not the present sys-
TEN Of having the police elected by a
civil service commission will be con-
tinued is not known.
During Mayor Cherry's incumbency
he will have the appointment of three
members OF the city board Of educa-
tion and a good deal of minor patron
age. It is not believed that the new
board will make any change in the
present school policy of the city, How
ever, it is expected that no more
street paving of the present type will
be ordered as Alderman Cherry vot-
ed against all of the recent street
paving ordinances.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
GREAT Anniversary
DRY GOODS OFFERING
MAURY DRY GOODS COMPANY
WILL CELEBRATE ITS TWEEN.
TY.FoURTH YEAR.

Observing the twenty-fourth ami.
versary of it's successful career the
Maury Dry Goods Company will on
Friday inaugurate a ten days sale.
For twenty-four years this concern
has sold dry goods, dress goods and
general department store line in Co.
lumbia and it's friends and business
have increased with the passing OF
years. The anniversary sale will
therefore be matter of interest to
hundreds and hundreds of customers
throughout all this section.
1t was in the fall of 1895 that the
Maury Dry Goods Company commenc-
ed business. John T. Wooten, the
present head of the firm, was one OF
the original incorporators and owners
and during the nearly quarter of a
century that has interviewed he has
been the directing head of the busi-
ness. ]. E. Littlefield, Sol Maxwell
and others were stockholders for q
time, but in a few years all the inter
ests passed into the hands of the Woo
ten family. Four or five years ago,
Col. Wooten, the senior member re-
tired, and since then John T. Woten
and w. B. Wonten have directed the
affairs of the concern.
As testimonial of appreciation to
it's numerous friends the firm is going
to give some rare and unusual bar
gains.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
HERBERT ELAN WILL
HAVE AUCTION SALE
MUCH LIVE sTock AND FARMING
MACHINERY TO BE SOLD ON
OCTOBER rs.

Having recently sold his farm, Her
bert ELAN will hold an auction of the
live stock and farming implements on
Saturday, October 25, at his recent
farm On the Williamsport pike and
Kettle Mills road in the Greenfield
Bend. The collection is large one,
including all sorts of machinery and
implements for running a big farm
and in addition he will sell mules, cat.
tie, milk cows and hogs. There is a
keen and active demand for all live
stock now and large crowd of bid
L. Hays will act as the auctioneer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
CONFEOERATES WILL
MEET WEDNESDAY
CALLED TOGETHER TO TAKE
PART IN THE BIG RECEPTION
TO MAURY HEROES.

Confederate veterans of Maury
county are called to meet at the coun-
ty court room at $50 o'clock on next
Wednesday morning for the purpose
OF arranging for the parade with sol
diers and sailors of the late war. II
soldiers have uniforms they are urg.
ed to wear them, but they are expect
ed to come anyway and in any event.
The following call has been issued:
"All Confederate soldiers in Maury
county are requested to meet at the
county court room at $3.50 o'clock on
next Wednesday morning to take part
in the parade ON that date. All who
can do so are urged and requested to
come in uniform.
"JN0. L. JONES"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
SEN. HALE DEMANDS
NIGHT SESSIONS TO
SPEED TREATY ACTION
REPUBLICAN MEMBER FROM
MAINE sAPS COUNTRY WANTS
ACTION NOW.
is OPPOSED TO AMENDMENTS
But VIII Support Reservations Gov.
ering Shantung Agreement and vot-
ing Arrangement In the League Of
Nations.
(By United Press.l

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-Demand
that the senate hold night sessions
to speed up action on the peace trea-
ty was made by Senator Hale, of
Maine, Republican, in a speech today.
The country wants action and
wants it now," he declared.
Hale expressed disapproval both of
the Shantung provision and of the
voting arrangement in the league or
nations, but declared that he will op-
pose amendments, but would support
reservations covering them.s
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
TO BUILD BRIDGE
ACROSS LYLE CREEK
IN MEANTIME VEHICLES ON GIL
lEOKA PIKE MUST FORD
THE STREAM.

AS the result of the caving in OF
the bridge over the Culleoka pike at
Lytle creek, three miles from the city,
all vehicles must now ford the creek.
The road commission is assembling
material as rapidly as possible for the
purpose of building new bridge, but
it will be some time before it is ready
for traffic. The last vehicle to pass
over the creek bridge was a heavy
truck and the bridge sagged down.
Fortunately the truck got safely over
but the bridge was then abandoned
and has since been torn away.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
ORDER new REPORT
ON COTTON PRODUCTION
HOUSE ADOPTS RESOLUTION DE-
GLAZING LAST ESTIMATE
TOO LOW.
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON, Oct 16-The house
today passed a resolution ordering
the department of agriculture to make
a new survey of the cotton crop condi'
tions. Southern members claim that
the estimate OF the total crop made
last month by the department was far
in excess of actual production and has
caused prices to drop lower than the
crop this year would normally cause
A new report is to be made by No
vember 2.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
AUXILIARY ST. PETERS
WILL MEET MONDAY

A meeting of the Missionary Auxil-
iary of st. Peters church will be held
at $3.50 o'clock on Monday afternoon
at st. Peters church. Immediately
after this there will be meeting of
st. Peters Parish Society.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
PRESID { Mt
RESTING WELL
AND REPORTED
BETTER TODAY
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The Pres
ident's physician issued the follow.
ing statement at noon:
1.-THE discomfort from which the
President suffered for two days has
been relieved to a very great extent
he had a good night. His tempera
ture, pulse, respiration and kidney
function continues normal"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
BATTLE LINE BETWEEN
LETTS AND GERMANS
CONTINUES TO LENGTHEN
COL. BERMoND'S TROOPS CAP
TURE THREE IMPORTANT
TOWNS OF REGION.
LET'S HOLD DvINA RIVER
Succeed In Crossing After Intense
Fighting-Battle in Riga District
Continues With Intense Fighting,
1t Is Reported.
fBy United Press.)

MITAU, Oct 16.-As the battle in
the Riga district continues with in
tense fighting the battle line is extend
ing. Col. Bermond's German troops
widened their fighting zone when they
captured Usk, pvinsk and Boldera, ac-
cording to advGes received here.
The Let's troops are holding their
positions on the other side of the
Dvina river, north of Riga, which they
succeeded in crossing after persist
ent fighting.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
(By United Press.)

ST. PAUL, Neb., Oct 16.-Lieut
Maynard, the "sky pilot flying east
ward left here at 11:14 o'clock this
morning. He is expected to reach
Omaha by noon and Chicago by night.
Lieut.. Maynard left San Francisco
at 1:22 p. m. Tuesday and covered 356
miles that day and 742 miles Wednes-
day. Win 1903 miles ahead of him
when he started this morning he ex-
pected to reach New York before sun
down Friday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
CABINET MEETING MAY
BE CALLED FOR TODAY
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON. Oct. 16.-President
Wilson was better this morning. it
was stated at the White House. A
cabinet meeting may be called today,
Secretary Tumulty said, to consider
the sugar shortage. impending coal
miners strike aud the general labor
situation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
COLUMBIAN MAKES
GOOD IN ATLANTA
JOHN PICKARD LEFT HERE 20
YEARS AGO WITH MOTH
ING-NOW RICH.

That John Pickard, who left here
20 years ago as a poor boy, has made
good in Atlanta, is the statement
brought back from that city today by
Major White Mr.. Pickard owns two
of the largest drug stores in the capi-
tai of Georgia, owns his own home and
has three of the brightest children in
the city, said Mr. White. Mr.. Pick
ard is nephew of DR.. Robert Pillow
Of this city.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
SAMUEL GOMPERS
is BETTER TODAY
LABOR LEADER SHOWS IMPROVE.
MENT BUT is STILL coNFIN-
ED TO BED.
fBy United Press.)

WASHINGTON. Oct. 16.-Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, is better today,
his physician announced. However.
he must still remain in bed, 1T was said.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
Resolution To
Put Embargo on
Sugar Exports
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON Oct. 16,-To pre-
vent sugar famine in the United
States an embargo on the expectation
of all raw and refined sugar and sugar
cane is provided in a resolution intro
duced in the house today by Represen-
tative Dallinger Of Massachusetts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17

Two more of the trans-continental
racers lost their lives "Wednesday
when Lieut. French Kirby and Lieut..
Stanley c. Miller, westward bound,
were killed at Castle Rock, Utah, in a
fall of their machine. This makes a
total of Z casualties during the race.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
TO CONTINUE
WAR time BAN
UNDESIRABLE
iMMiGR A NTS
lBy United Press.l

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1G-The house
today voted overwhelmingly to con.
tinue for a year after the conclusion
of peace the war time ban against the
entrance Of undesirable foreigners.
Under the bill foreigners must prove
beyond all doubt that they are coming
to the United States Ia for legitimate
and lawful purposes I. 4
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
BELGIAN PRINCE IN
WILD AMERICAN FOREST
-
WILLING TO TAKE CHANCE ON
MEETING BEARS" SAYS y
LEOPOLD. sA
(By United Press.)

GLACIER POINT, Calf, Oct. 16.--
Prince Leopold broke loose from the
paternai yoke for the first time since
coming to America. With Major Hoff.
man. an American, and guide, the
Prince well supplied with blankets,
tents and food went into a forest to
camp for the night.
I'm willing to take a chance on
meeting Bears said the prince.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
SENATE TO RECEIVE
ROYAL GUESTS OCT. 20
CBy United Press.)'

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The SEN
ate today voted to receive the King
and Queen of Belgium at 1880 p. m.
Tuesday, October 2S.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
Deportation
Warrants for
Ten Foreigners
Try limited Press.l

GARY, Ind, Oct 16.-Deportation
warrants were sworn out today for
ten aliens arrested in>raids by troops
here. The men were Russians and
Austrians.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-17
LIEUT.. MAYNARD
PLANS TO REACH
CHICAGO TONIGHT
"FLYlNG PARSONr MAKING GOOD
TIME ON RETURN FLIGHT
ACROSS CONTINENT.
MAY COMPLETE RACE FRIDAY
Two More Aviators In Trans-c conti.
mental Derby Lose Their Lives
When Machine Falls Near Salt Lake
Z City, Utah.
(By United Press.)

OMAHA, Nebr., Oct 16.-Lieut
Maynard was forced down by broken
crank shaft four miles west Of Wahoo,
Nebr., according to reports received
here today. Maynard was unhurt.
Army trucks were sent to his assist.
ance from here.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
Choir Leaders Wife
Slain i'm Lot: Skull
Crushed With Rock
Mrs. Helma Southland Way.
laid in Brooklyn-Body
Found at Place Where
Relative Rescued a Girl

The body of Mrs. Hclma Southland.
wife of Arthur Southland, carpenter,
was found yesterday in lot at Forty
second Street and Ninth Avenue, Brook
lyn. She had been waylaid. attacked and
killed. Her skull had been crushed
with rock.
Mrs. Southland was twenty-cicht
years old and lived at 1912 Forty-sixth
Street. Brooklyn. The lot in which her
body was found is used sometimes as
short cut by residents of the neigh
borhood, but her husband and her
brotherinlaw, Sigurd II. Hendrick-
son, who recently rescued shrieking
girl from two who seized her while
she was traverslng the lot, had warned
Mrs. Southland against using il a aftcr
dark.
The police believed the woman met
her death between and 10 o'clock
Thursday night and cannot understood
why the sounds of the struggle she o,,;
IDENTIFY made did not attract attention
1t was about 1920 O'Clock when shn
left. home: Her husband, who is choir
leader and clerical assistant at the Free
Evangelical Church, was auditing the
books of the church
ne was busy at his desk until about
midnight and was surprised ia discovar
that Mrs. Southland had not returned
he visited the homes of. relatives and
friends in the neighborhood. passing
within 100 feet of the spot where Ills
wlfe's body lay, Lut could find no trace
or her. Deciding at last that she was
spending the night with friends. he
gave up the hunt and went to bed.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
City Employees 4sked
TO Commend Hylan for
Making Hearst sCreeter'

Petitions are being circulated among
city employees commenting Mayor Hy-
Ian for havirg put William Randolph
Hearst on the committee to welcome
homecoming soldiers. In substance,
the petitions say, Mayor Hylan should
be congratulated for having included
in the welcome committees personnel
citizen who had so proved him
self the friend Of the boys in the
trenches"
One of these petitions was circulated
yesterday in the Department of Water
Supply, Gas ard Electricity, at so
Court Street, Broklyno. The bearer of
this particular petition visited no Of
tice in the building except municipal
offices. Cornelius N. Shechan, Deputy
Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas
and Electricity, granted the permission
for the petitions circulation through
these Brooklyn city Offices.
81 don't know the name Of the man
who bore the petition" said Mr. Shee-
han yesterday. "IIc mct me in the
hall as | was leaving for lunch. He
called me by name. 1 presume he was
city employe, for he knew me by
sight and seemed familiar with my
offices. But / did not ascertain his
name or where he worked. There is
no question in my mind but that he
was city employe. / was glad Of
the opportunity to aid the solicitor in
procuring signatures, because | CON
slider Mr.. Hearst a great American" !"
Mr.. Shechan affixed his own sigma
turc to the paper. Nexs, according to
Mr.. Sheehan, he instructed his clerk,
W. a. Shaw, to piloc the man through
the various Offices and give depart
ment employees an opportunity to write
their names under the signature Of
their chief.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11
''shoo Fly Squad,
Camouflaged as
Corporals, OH Job
Policemen Learn Old Method
of Keeping Tab OH Them
Has Been Re.established
by Commissioner Enright

"Dick" Enright has lost faith in
"the boys" with whom lie worked for
years before his elevation by Mayor
Hylan to the Police Commiss onership.
Therefore the hated "shoo-ny" squad
of civilian -attired police spies-wipcd
out by the Commissioner five days
after his appointment last January
went back to work on Wednesday.
"Ihe police need no spies. know,
because | was one of them Put on
their honor they viii do the work de-
manded by the public" Commissioner
Enrlght said in announcing the abol-
lshment OF the system of having police
men in plain clothes check up on
patrolmen to make sure they were on
post.
"Shoo-fics" these men are called
and they are most heartily hated if
their identity becomes known. There
fore Mr.. Enright's announcement of
the dscontinuance Of the "shoo-hy"
squad was hailed with delight by the
policemen.
But when complaint after complaint
piled up on the Commissioners desk
and he found Chief Inspector "Father
oOIi' Ddly WASH l. dS successful IN
keeping the noses of the policemen to
the grindstone as was the late Chief
Inspector Max Schmittberger. he de-
clded that perhaps his faith was mis-
placed
The result was the organization of
the most complete "shoo-Ay" system
the department. has ever known. How
many patrolmen are employed in the
squad Is problemat ticak but it is known
that three men are assigned to every
prominent precinct in Manhattan
and Brooklyn. heretofore "shoo- -flics"
worked only on specific complaints
against patrolmen or were given
floating assignments.
Under the new Enright system a
"shoo-hy" is watching the platoon
turned out for duty at a. m. in al
most every precinct, another spy is
after the men who go on duty at 4
p. M, and still another is on the
watch for the policeman who sneaks
INTO a barroom for Gust one" or into
warm coop" for nap when the
last platoon goes out at midnight.
COMMISSIONER Enright did not an
nounce in a formal order the revivine
of the "shoo-fy" squad. Not man
on the force knew of its existence
until the Commissioner had publiclv
announced the creation of new rank
IN the department-that of corporal
a sort of acting or assistant sergeant.
In checking up on the reason for the
creation. of the apparently needless
rank OF corporal several policemen
learned OF the new "shoo-fy" system
Within twenty-four hours the news
mad been "grapevined" to the most re-
mote precincts in Staten Island. The
Bronx and Queens
New-York tribune., 1919-01-11

league officials say only a small per-
centage of local milk is going to New
York. Receipts at the Sheffield Farms
plant on the Ulster e. Delaware Rail
road are nil, according to the dairy
men. The Sheffield manager asserts he
is bottling so per cent of the usual
supply Most of the local milk is going
into cooperative creamerics. Several
cheese factories are taking an increased
amount of milk.
POUGHkEEPSIE, Jan. 10.-Farmers
i'll Duchess County stand squarely on
the league demand for S4.01 for Jam
uary milk. The dairymen are selling
their milk and cream for chessc and
butter, Much milk is being thrown
away and several dairymen have ad-
vertised their herds for sale.
UTICA, Jan. 10.-There is no county
where support of the Dairymen's
League is more united than in Oneida
County. Milk will not be shipped to
New York or other distributors until
the price agreed to is met. The pres
|i0 PIouuceloh is pelHS diverted lllo
other channels, particularly the manu-
sfacture of butter and cheese. There
have been stories of farmers dumping
milk into the creek.
GLENS FALLS. Jan. 1O.~~One thou
sand quarts of milk arc being withheld
daily by members of the Dairymen's
League in this vicinity They have
also discontinued selling to local milk
dealers because part of such milk
was finding it's way to shippers. The
milk is being turned into butter