Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-03
.TR AILING
THE NEWS
OF THE DAY

cd at the Woodside mine at Spring
field. H., threatened to strike last
Thursday morning, two days before
the big walk out was scheduled to
begin. because their winters sup
ply of coal had not been delivered
the day before to ten union men.
They were in the big strike Friday
at midnight, and it was highly inn
portant that they themselves be
warm while the mines are closed.
Michael White, division superin-
tendent of the Peabody Coal COM
pany, 'phoned the mine to ascer-
tain whether everything started all
right. He got the mine superin-
tendent, Robert Wilson, on the.
wire.
I'VE haven't started yet" Will
son replied.
whats up?" White asked.
1.-THE union committee has just
waited upon me and wanted to
know why coal was not delivered to
ten miners who haven't got their
winters supply"
The Department of Agriculture
states that the date of 1920 cen
sus of the farmers has been chang
ed from April to January l. The
change was deemed advisable be-
cause the farmers usually are busy
in the spring.
The statement urges farmers to
acquaint themselves with matters
on which they will be questioned by
the enumerators, including farm
acreage, membranes, values and
expenses, uses of the land, amount
idle, drainage, live stock, farm fa-
cilities, such as tractors, motor
ears, fruit and forest products.
Statistics obtained from the CEN
sus largely will determine the fu-
ture land policy of the govern
ment.
A girl should not wear silk hose
in a gymnasium in the opinion of
Miss Edna Garnett, director of
girls physical training in the Cha
mute, Kansas, schools, who has an
nounced she will take ten points off
the grade of any girl who violates
this rule.
Despite plea that her husband
had been unkind to her and neg
ieeted their children, woman's
jury in police court at Cleveland,
O., advised the judge to impose
the maximum sentence on Mrs. Col
die Drossos, charged with deserting
her husband to go with John c.
Buttery. Mrs. Drossos and But
cry, who came from Albany, Ala,
we're fined 5000 each and sentenc-
ed to serve three months jim the
workhouse.
When Mrs Drossos first was call
ed for trial she told the judge it
was deeper love" that caused her
to leave her husband, and asked
that jury of women be allowed
to pass on her case, saying "only
women can understand"
Mrs. Drossoss's three children
were sent to their father in Col
umbus, o.
Judge Sawicki offered to sus-
pend Mrs. Drossos's sentence, if
she would consent to return to her
husband.
81 will not go back to him." she
replied.
They rolled their stockings down
below their knees. They painted
nifty little fres -oes on their shins
and walked into the auditorium of
The Lake View High school, at Chi
cago.
When smelling salts had been
administered to shocked maiden
teachers and prim lady students,
and the young gentlemen in the
room had stopped walking on each
others necks to see the parade, six
girls who have been reading the
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marched downstairs There was a
session of scrubbing twelve knees,
hooking up twelve stockings in the
regulation way, and the guilty six
had good cry"
"It was shocking" said the prin-
cipal.
sit was great" said the boys.
1T was nonsense" said the other
girls.
"Lake View don't appreciate
art" wept the daring sextette.
"Just watt" said six sets of par
ents.
Back in the Kentucky noun
tains, Harvey Davis grew up on
corn whisky The old still was op-
ating in the thicket by the creek
two generations before he was
born.
So when Harvey decided to go