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The courier-index., 1919-09-05
Not An Apology; It's
 Just An ErpIdnatiOn

No mortal on the face of the earth is more disgusted with news paper that falls short of a high standerd than the men who make the paper and nothing is more galling to an ambitious editor than the necessi- ty for making apologies or explana- tions. The Courier-Index editor rarely indulges in explanations and on no occasion will he make apologies for the paper, but this week he feels the readers of the paper are due some explanation for the absence of the usual amount of local matter.
 People living in Marianna perhaps need no enlightmnt. They know what miserable service the light and power company has given the past week or ten days. Readers living out of the city are advised it is with the greatest difficulty the Courier Index appears at all this week, and we have been forced to cut our com position short and leave out many interesting local stories for the req son we have had no power with which to operate our machinery. The paper was due out Thursday night. The power went off during the night and we were unable to run our machines until Friday night and then only at intervals.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
FELToN-cURTis WEDDING

Dan Felton, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Felton, and Miss Fay Cur tis, daughter of W. B. Curtis of Hay nes, were married last Sunday at three thirty o'clock in the afternoon at the Curtis home. Only the mem bers of the families anl few special friends of the contracting parties witnessed the ceremony. The mar riage was the continuation of very pretty courtship that started when MT. Felton and Miss Curtis were hardly more than children. During all the years they have remained loy- al to each other. When the United States entered the war with Germany MT. Felton was among the first of the Lee county boys to volunteer his services. Only recently he returned from France after an absence of nearly a year. The bride is very charming and accomplished young lady and is one of the most popular members of the younger set in Hay ness. MT. and Mrs. Felton have hun dreds of friends all over Lee county who extend them sincere congrat- ulations and best wishes.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05

MT. and Mrs. G. M Allen and son, of Athens, Texas, who have been spending several days with Mrs. Al lens sister, Mrs. J. c. Jacks, return ed home Thursday.
 Miss Pauline Solomon and Miss Ruby Gould of Helena, accompanied by Miss Jeanette Isaace of Louis vile, cousin of Miss Solomon, were in the city on Wednesday of last week, the guests of MT. and Mrs. J. IL. Altman at the Hotel Marianna. On their return to Helena they were accompanied by MT. and Mrs. Alt man who attended dance that night at Beach Crest.
 Whether is is new or second hand furniture, we are in position to ac- commodate you. Our stocks were never so complete. We have the most wonderful variety of selections ever shown in Marianna. Come to us when you need anything Tn the house furnishing line. That's our business. We are on the Job all the time to serve you right and at right prices. Nathan Furniture Company.
 s. B. Rotholz who has been visit ing his daughter in Boston and wno later spent some time in New York; returned to Marianna this morning.
 F. R. Dupuy, accompanied by his son Russell, and his two daughters, Misses Eva and Imogene, returned yesterday from Colorado Springs where they spent the past few weeks. Misses Eva and Imogene will leave September IA for Mary Baldwin Col lege, Staunton, Va, to resume tneif studies. Mrs. Dupuy and httie daughter, Virginia, will remain Tn Colorado several weeks.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
ENGINEERS PAID MORE THAN GOVERNORS


 washington, Sept 3,-Raroad engineers and con- ductors are being paid more than state povernors ana mgh officials of the army, it was revealed in letter from R. L. ODonnell general manager of the Fennsylvanla Railroad read to the house by Repre- 'er.a.lye Dian'on or Texas. -~- -rG X "a AJAX
 reght engineers are now receiving $392 35 month (S47OO year. and passenger train engineers s376 tS4,50O pearl, O'Donnes letter said Blanton add ed: And the governor of Texas receives only S3333O (S4,000 year., and colonel in the army an equal amount. -sa@~~
 Freight conductors receive $31390 and passenger conductors S3O8.55 which is more than lieutenant coonePs pay of $29166, majors of $25O and captains of $20833"
 On this basis freight engineer earns only $500 year less than the governor of Missouri and from S2O to S22OO year more than the governors of the following thirteen states Neb. $2,5O0; New Hamp- shire, Rhode Island, South Carolina South Dakota ermont $3OOO; Arkansas, Delaware Tennessee, Texas, Wymoning, $4,OO0 Maryland Oklahoma, S4,500.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
Officers Capture
 MOOnshine StiIL

Deputy Sheriffs Geo. S. Word and Teddy Claywell captured anpther booze plant last Saturdays home made affair operated by negro wo- man named Jeannie Lloyd and her daughter, Carrie. The negroes live on place owned by J. B. Grove in what is known as the Big Woods, northwest of Marianna. The still was operated in the kitchen of the cabin in which the two women lived. The officers destroyed eight gal Ions of mash and brought the still to town. Both the women were in Marianna when the raid was made on their home. When the officers returned to Marianna they immedi- ately began search for the two of lenders. The daughter was found and placed under arrest, but the mother managed to elude the off cers.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
Husband, Able to Escape,
 Elects to Die With Wife
I'll Stay With You Mary He Says When Her Foot Is Caught in Railroad Frog-Both Are Killed
 and Fagman Loses Leg

smashed against the ground 40 feet away and killed.
 Just before Miller jumped, he says heard Tanner say: "I'll stay with you, Mary"
 Miller's heroic effort to save Mrs. Tanner cost him his left leg and his right arm is broken.
 People coming into Chicago paid homage at the scene of their death today.
 ''This is the place. said the new flagman. Then there was talk. One woman cried as she looked at it and then she raised the question that all Chicago discussed today-wheth- CT the husband should have elected to remain with his wife and make the supreme sacrifice as he did or whether he should have saved him self for the sake of his children.
 But in the Tanner home the epic wears another air. Three children are playing on the porch with a dog named Rab. A white haired old woman sits in a chair sewing. She is Mrs. w. D. Chatley, Tanners mother Long ago her husband was killed by a railroad train. Tanner was her only son and now he IS gone.
 The children don't know about last nights tragedy.
 No arrangements have been made for the future care of the children,
 All were awaiting the arrival cf Mir. Tanners sister from New York ! She is expected to arrive here today
The courier-index., 1919-09-05

Chicago Sept. 3.-Hubbard Woods has it's epic today. Behind the quiet, easy running life of the north shore surburb there is feel ing of awe, as if something holy had passed through the streets.
 Last night, Mir. and Mrs. William Tanner started for the movies. They left their home to catch the local interburban electric car for Winneo- ka, where the movie houses are. Crossing the railroad tracks at the station, Mrs. Tanners foot slipped into the crevice between the track and the planking. The headlight of their train was shining down the tracks as it rushed from Glencoe. The flagman and the husband work ed to free Mrs. Tanners foot
 There were three children at home. There was an old mother, there were years of work and health ahead. William Tanner, a cashier in the office of the Baltimore x Ohio railroad strengthened to his feet and put his arms around hls wife. The headlight was coming closer. Tanner stood there-free to step into safety, his back to the oncoming train. Some hysteri- cal people on the station platform saw it-Tanner and his wife framed in the halo of locomotive search light. John Miller, the flagman at the crossing, jumped and the train side-swiped him. The Tanners were lifted together into the air
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
First BaLe Brings
 F0rty-Eight Gents

The first bale of cotton brought to Marianne this season came in We'd nesday from Yancy & Daggett's plantation on the St. Francis river. The cotton was grown by negro named Arthur Edwards. It was gin ned at Mann's gin and was sold to the Mixton-Mc Clintock Company for thirty-six cents pound A cash premium of $60 was subscribed by local business me and presented to Edwards, which made his cotton yield him forty-eight cents a pound. The bale weighted 580 pounds.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
TAKES WIFE BACK HOME
Man Said to Have Eloped With La grange Woman Jailed at Memphis

Memphis, Sept. A. -Oma Hanks reconciled to his wife who ran away with another man and came to Mem ehis, the husband says, returned with here to their home at Lagrange, Ark, today. Their infant son, whom Mrs. Hanks took with her, snuggled close in his daddy's arms on the way to the railroad station.
 Edward w. Porter, of Rondo, Ark, held at the county jail for the federal Grand Jury on a charge of white slavery. It is alleged that Porter brought Mrs. Hanks and her baby to Memphis where they stayed at rooming house
The courier-index., 1919-09-05

J. A. Horne, manager of the ab- 'stract business for Daggett & Daggett spent the first of the week in Little Rock attending the annual conven- tion of the Arkansas Land Title Association. Upon the election of officers by the association MT. Horne was honored with the presidency.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05

Mrs. A. H. Burgess, formerly with the k. J. Beazley Company, has ae- cepted position with the Vogue. Marianna's newest exclusive ladies' ready-to-wear store, owned and op- erated by F. Cannon. Mrs. Cayce Turner has accepted a position with the Vogue and will have charge of the millinery department.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
CHT AND POWER PLANT GOES DEAD AGAIN; LOCAL
 ! INDUSTRIES HEAVY LOSERS

l. Ro- -Dnn,ned Corporation Continues it's (;ucord Policy of Rotten SerUice, Ignoring |rdors of Arkansas Corporation COmn,is- |.r-city Officials Go to Sleep On Inapor- Inf Water ImprOUements-Wariannd
 eonle Suffer Gross IncOnUenience at |onds of Public Utilities.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
v. u. TO PROSECUTE
GIRL MOLESTERS

An investigation Of the alleged as
sault made on a messenger girl of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany in the subway between the Cap
itol and Senate office building is I'M
der way today. Officials of the tele-
graph company have decided to pro-
coed against men who modest young
women in office buildings.
It is said that on Friday afternoon
one Of the messengers was approach
ed by a man in the subway. The
man. 1t is said, tried to make an en-
gagement with her, and on her re-
fusal grabbed her by the arm, re-
leasing her when she screamed.
District Manager W. r. Williams is
investigating the affair for the tele-
graph company.
The alleged attack OF Friday on
a messenger is the second within
three weeks. A negro was arrested
in a downtown office building three
weeks ago by Detective Armstrong,
after the negro had put his hands on
a woman messenger. it is charged.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
KEEP ORDER
AFTER ROME RIOTS

ROME. n. Y. July Estate and
local police patrolIed the streets here
today to prevent a repetition OF yes
terday's riots in which several per-
sons were seriously handled.
Feeling still ran high among the
thousands Of foreigners on strike, and
officials were prepared to ask for
militia IL necessary. Strikers picket
ed the manufacturing plants, wearing
red flowers and ribbons. They de-
cIared that revolutionary advocates
were on their way here from New
York and other cities. Whenever the
strikers collected in groups they were
quickly dispersed.
Thirty special policemen resigned
because of sympathy for the strikers
ALBANY. n. Y. July 15.-lnforma-
ton at the headquarters OF the State
police today stated the situation in
Rome, where severe rioting took place
yesterday, is quiet. No additional
troopers had been asked. and II was
believed none will be needed.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
B.E. KEITH'S HAS
INTERESTING BILL

Just as you've decided that walter
Brewers funny stories of domestic
joys earn for him the laurel wreath.
along comes ALA Moskova with Der
Russian dancers. Then. to make mat =.
tiers worse, Lillian Herlein and Earle
christensen contribute. their songs
and music. While you're still in
doubt. in come George Moran and
Charles Mack with an Al blackface
act. To cap your troubles, William
B. Friedlander closes the evening
entertainment with a large slice Of
Winter Garden amusement, even to
the girls in their dainty lingerie. Yes.
you are compelled to conclude that
"Keith's is great this week"
Mr.. Friedlander keeps q dark secret
the identity Of his beautiful support
ing cast, but his offering, Kiss Me-"
is easily one Of the most pretentious
plot, swing. dancing and song, with
a fetching exhibition of vamps.
ALA Moskova's act has all the mys-
tic beauty associated with Russian
stage plays, the settings being of the
richest. Assisted by Boris Petrotf,
the star offers classic dancing OF the
highest type and makes a strong bid
for FIRST place in the affections of the
audience.
Moran and Mack easily captured
the house last night with their black
face comedy the long fellows "levee
shuttle" and his great boxing match
being worth the money.
Miss Herlein thrilled the fair pat
rons of Keith's with her gowns. while
her accompanist, Earle Thurstensen,
showed what a real accompanist
should he.
Walter Brewer came right out m
public and told of his sad domestic at
fairs, though he got no sympathy.
How can you sympathize and laugh
at man at one and the same time /?
And as for prohibition-well, Walter
has something to say about that.
Alfred Farrell and company made
the most beautiful pictures from rags
just plain rags. You have to see
them to believe.
The three rubes, Bowers, Walters
and Croker. are just as amusing as
ever with their acrobatic dancing.
William Sully and Genevieve
Houghton, in Between Dances. -
showed some excellent dancing and
a humorous dialogue.
Kilograms. the usual Keith feature,
closed the performance. which takes
a high rank in vaudeville.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
BOY CALMLY TELLS
OF PART IN KILLING

NEW YORK, July 15.-Without the
slightest trace of emotion, eighteen
year-old Edward O'Brien told the
police OF Avon, n. J.. early today how
he and Edward Early Paige. twenty,
planned and executed the robbery
and murder of Gardner c. Hull,
wholesale stationer. the Avon au-
thorities telephoned the New York
police.
O'Brien denied that he took any
part in the actual murder He said
he and Paige. who were employed as
messenger boys by Hull, planned to
rob the stationer several months ago
Last Friday Paige pretended to be
ill.," said O'Brien. Il stayed behind
with him in the stock room until
the stenographer went home. Paige
put a hammer under his coat and
then asked the old man for his SAL
airy. AS Mr.. Hull opened the cash
drawer Paige hit him twice over the
head with the hammer. Paige
grabbed the silver and l grabbed the
bills as the old man sank in his
chair"
The two boys went to a show Fri
day night and then agreed to aepa-
rate. O'Brien said. They were sus-
pected when they failed to reappear
for work Monday morning. O'Brien
was caught visiting his mother in
Avon and Paige was arrested in
Philadelphia. where he was found
working in a hotel.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
DEATHS.

Annie Devorak, ~ yrs. St EIiz. Hos
Martha Judge McCann, So yrs, 52s Harvard
st. NV.
Angela NJ. Girardi. IS yrs, 124 V st. NV.
Anna P. Merkel. 70 yrs, 1903 35th 81. NV.
Amasa Simpson, So yrs. 1850 Wis ave. NV.
William Griffin, ~ yrs. 1915 Calvert st. NV.
Theodore N. Cogswell, 81 yrs. 1905 N. H.
ave. NV.
Elizabeth z. Noyes, 70 yrs. 1898 California
sister Biandine Ran. so yrs. Little Sisters
OF the poor.
Mary SchlegeI, So yrs, 1881 sth st. NV.
Elena Leport, 10 mo-. 42I LIST 1t. NV.
Charles Strickland, yrs. Providence Hos
William Long, 81 yrs, Bell ct. NV.
Mary Bigger. SO yrA, Freedmen's Hos.
James Costor, jr.. 81 yrs. 1915 Del. ave.
sw.
Adele Jackson. 20 yrs, Wash. Asy Hos
Andrew Thomas, 3 mo-, 5235 Hayes St,
Burrville, D. c.
infant Of Raymond and Irene Scott. day,
9l4 Lettie st. sw.
Julia Powell, s mo, 1881 West Ct NV.
Bessie Mathews. mo-. 1875 Browns ct. sW.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
us. WORKERSDO
WANT DEALERS AID

Luther c. Steward, president of the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes, today wrote to Charles J. Co.
lumbus, secretary of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association re-
jecting the associations proposal to
help the clerks get increased pay
Mr.. Steward asserted that Congress
would not be Impressed by support
from q source where self-interest is
indicated.
Mr.. Stewards letter follows:
The National Federation of Fed
eTal Employees has noted with interest
the announcement of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, as
paign on the part Of the association
70 secure from Congress increased
pay for Government employees.
'Permitme to say, in behalf OF our
organization, that while we o. not
doubt that many Of the merchants .
Washington personally are our 6isin-
terested well-wishers. we must de-
cline the proffered support of the
merchants as such. for the reason that
their concern as to the salaries of
10000 of their customers is a handi-
cap rather than a help to our cause.
II the merchants would propose /
limitation upon their own profits,
their action would be Of real value,
since it would thereby relieve the
pressure of the cost OF living to the
Government workers
I'VE say this advisedly, out of an
experience with rent proiteering.
food profteering, and period of un-
paralleled high prices for every
necessary article II is an unQues-
toned fact that business in the Dis
trict of Columbia was never more
prosperous than it is at present, while
for the Federal employees the effort to
make ends meet was never so great.
And il is TO the point that Washing
ton merchants actually advertised n
the newspapers a year ago, openly
setting forth their claim to their
share of the Government workers
pitiful war increase Of SO per month.
'SThe reference in the published
resolution of the Merchants and Man
ufscturers' Association to the mini
mum wage they have agreed to for
their own employees is noted also
with interest. Although that wage
IL referred TO as SIS per week, il is
a fact that IL is but $3.50 per week
The workers representatives asked
for SIS per week as the minimum
cost of living. but the employers
would not agree TO the higher figure.
Yet your resolution says. The Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton petition Congress with cleaner
hands than ever
May we suggest that this claim
requires that the merchants shall
raise the pay OF their own employees
not merely to the inadequate mini
mum Of $3.50 per week but to a
point which represents reasonable
compensation for the work they do?"
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
FUNERAL TODAY
Of AUTO VICTIM

Funeral services for Miss Helen 9.
Broas, twenty-three years old. daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Broas,
who was killed in an automobile ac-
cident on Sunday. were held this
morning at her late residence, 636
Massachusetts, avenue northeast.
Miss Broas was educated in the
schools of Washington and gradu-
ated from Eastern High School. She
entered the Government departments
here, and at the time Of her death was
a stenographer in the Treasury De-
partment.
With a party of friends she was
making her way back to Washington
after a weekend trip when the acct
dent occurred: A host OF friends in
this city and nearby suburbs mourn
her early death.
Although services were held in
Washington. interment will be made
at Ellenville, n. 7.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
BIRTHS
SONS


Thomas L. and Martha E. McMurray.
William R. and Lillian Hoffman.
Millard NJ and Mildred z. Snifhn-
John z. and Josephine Farrell.
John a. and Dorothy A. Brown.
Louis G. and Ada NJ. Wheeler
Irving and Susie /. PoSey.
John A and Frances N. Dickinson.
David and Maud HoWatt.
George A and Pearl j. Talbot
Patrick d. and Gertrude E. Holmes.
Michael 7. and Eloise H. Mellen.
Howard J. and Louise NJ. jackson.
Joseph r. and Daisy. V. Stone.
Robert A P, and Mary G. BurruSs.
Russell and Eunice n. Wilson.
Gilbert l. and Lily n. Hardy.
Melvin D. and Ester A. Herbert
David l. and Lena Maxwell
Dennis and Annie Queen.
John B. and Ella s. Lloyd.
Robert P. and Christine Carter.
William and Florence Braxton.
Robert and Sadie Vest
Frank and Mary F. Baker
DAUGHTERS
Wheeler A. and Lillian II. Wilson.
George N. and AnastaSta c. AcCloud.
Harry W. and Jennie Buell.
william W. and Gladys r. SchWenk.
Robert F. and Ethel Gardiner.
Laurence H. and Hazel E Malone
Hugh NJ. and Helen FramPton.
Lewis d. and MargaFet Smith
Edmund v. and Agnes c. Jones.
Edwin B. and Virginia Murray.
James ". and Oracle L. Reid
Fred II. and Lenore Vogt.
Ralph r. and Julia c. Rose
George n. and Nancy z. Miller.
James and Margaret Bell.
BOY TWINS.
Bernard B. and Anna V. FUIk.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
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The Washington times., 1919-07-15
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Joseph NJ. P. Donohue 90. and Louise
Beauregard. q. both OF this city. The
Rev. J. c Gesle
Dean Hi Stanley. Is, of Cincinnati. Ohio,
and Eliza Blackman Cutting. 80, OF
WoolWich, Ne. The Rev. J. &. Palmer
Irene P. AbeFle, ls. Of this city. The
Rev. W. Radcliffe
Harry NJ. Adams, %, Of Memphis. Tenn,
and Oracle c. NJ. Harris. 20, OF Norfolk.
Va. The Rev. r. McRim.
John Blake. Is and Mary Howard. IS, both
Of this city The Rev. J. 2. Briggs.
Hubert NJ Frazier. IS, OF Pittsburgh. Pa,
and Dorothy Belle Walling, p, Of Woon-
socket. r. /. The Rev. G. c. Bacon.
Charles A. White, 80, OF Baltimore, Nd,
and Lena NJ. Hale. IS. Of Mt Winans'
Nd. The Rev J. e Briggs.
Mat Gaillard Walker. 30. Of Rock Hill 3
c. and Pauline Bradley Love 81. OF THIS
city The Rev. J. II. ". Blake.
Ind Zuekerman. q. Of Maynesboro. Pa,
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
NORFOLK DAY TRIPS.

One Of the most beautiful and pleas
ant water trips in this vicinity is that
to Norfolk. and ii is made doubly so
through the service recently inaugu-
rated by the Washington and South
ern Navigation Company. This COM
pany operates the well-appointed
steamers Lord Baltimore and Penn,
which are numbered among the fast
est passenger craft on the river, be-
ing capable of a speed of approx
mately twenty miles an hour. The
entire trip is made by daylight. stops
are made both ways at Colonial Beach.
Va, and Piney Point Md.
The Washington times., 1919-07-15
2 COUPLES ARE MARRIED
BY POLICE COURT JUDGE

Bonds Of matrimony were entwined
about two couples in Police Court
this morning by the Rev. J. L.
Briggs, pastor of the Fifth Baptist
Church. And in arranging the cere-
mony, Judge Mcmahon proved him
self a matchmaker par excellence.
1t all happened after the two cou'
pies had been arraigned before Judge
Mcmahon to answer charges prefer
red by Detective Guy Walsh.
Faced with the choice OF prison
term or marriage, the two couples
chose marriage.