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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-12
Speacial to The Herald.

Speacial to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 5.-Re
turns from half the counties of the
state show majority of $4,000 against
a constitutional convention as result
of the election Thursday. Indications
are that the total majority against
the convention will be 10000 with
very few votes in favor of it. Apa-
thy prevailed throughout the state.
BY the token of Thursdays election
the people of Tennessee do not want a
constitutional convention this year.
But by the same token it may be ar
gued that the people of Tennessee
don't give a rap whether they do or
whether they don't have constitu-
tional convention. The result through
out the state was practically the same
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-12
MAURY 5 TO |
AGAINST CHANGE
CONSTITUTION
LIGHT VOTE CAST WITH $50
AGAINST CONVENTION AND
ONLY 90 FOR.
NO ELECTION IN MANY PRECINTS
Ballots Not Delivered to Eleven Pre-
cincts--No Election in 10 Precincts.
CuIeoka Returns Largest Opposi.
ton Majority.

With less than $50 votes, probably
the smallest number ever cast in an
election in this county, Maury county
gave majority of about to against
constitutional convention in the
election held Thursday.
No election was held in 10 of the
20 precincts and at II of the precincts
where no election was held the offic-
ial ballots wre not even received but
reposed peacefully throughout the day
at the court house in Columbia.
The total vote against the conven-
ton was $50 while only 63 votes were
cast for it,
The court house box in Columbia
recorded the largest vote polled but
did not return the largest majority
against he convention, that distinc-
ton going to the Culleoka box in the
Fifth district where the vote was los
to 2, or majority of 106, while at the
court house box the votes was 1T to
16, or majority of 1O1, Culleoka
also polled the largest vote in the
county in proportion to population.
At Mt. Pleasant the home of Sena-
tor C. Y. Clarke. who advocated con
stitutional convention, the vote was
a tie, Is to 49,
No election was held at Sawdust,
Rally Hill, Fixes Mill, Theta, Left
witch, Enterprise, Taylor's Store,
Hampshire, Southport, SCOTS Mill
and Bigbyville because the ballots
were not received at those places. No
election was held at Spring Hill and
Sandy Hook because there was not
sufficient interest to open the polling
places.
At Water Valley, Timmons, Carriers
Creek, Caldwell's Store and Parks,
the voters were solid against the con-
vention.
No election was held at any pre-
cinct in either the sixth or tenth dis
tricts,
Women participated as officers and
clerks of the election at the Columbia
and Mt. Pleasant boxes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-12

The posteffice at Braggyille, Mass.
has been closed because no one will
act as postmaster, the salary being
small and the inevmbent - allow
N 10 DO Outside wofk III
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-12
DECLINES CALL TO
AUSTIN, TEX. CHURCH

DR.. Geo. @. Watts has declined a
call to an Episcopal church at Austin,
Texas. and will remain in Columbia
as rector of St Peters church of this
city and the church of the Holy Cross,
Mt. Pleasant. This was the second
call that Or. Watts. had received to
fi.s efurah AZ Austin
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-12

The young king of Siam speaks Eng
fish, French and German, and has
written books in all these languages
as we'll as in the Siamese.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-09-12
Man, We Can't Get
Along Without
Daily Herald

"Man, we just can't get along with
ont the valuable Herald. We don't
want to miss single copy" That is
the testimonial that comes from Troy,
Ala. from w. o. Freeland. former
aIaaIs eauniiah, Nho cnslqsas check
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
Cbs at@s setmttar
Classified Section
REAL ESTATE For sALE
n ANo FARMS
c. c. Brown Land Co.
10O1-2 Union & Planters
Bank Bldg,
Main 1868

A walkout proposition on Washing
ton and Bolivar county line. T6O acres
with $50 acres in high state Of cultiva r.
ton; 400 acres planted in long staple
cotton; 1870 in corn; 90 acres in alfalfa.
The land is perfectly drained; has
drainage ditch through the center and
ditch IN east side Of the place. The
improvements consist OF one modern
residence; cost over 5000; has electric
lights, w~aterworks; one large store
building. with stock Of merchandise
which will invoice from $4,000 to $4,000
good barn; plenty OF good tenant
houses, all filled with good labor, the
buildings are all new and in good re-
pair; rs head OF good young mules,
TWO good horses; so head of hogs
plenty Of implements Of all kinds to
work the place with. This property is
located in the northern part Of Wash.
ington county, within one-quarter mile
Of railroad and within one-half mile
OF station; has concrete road on one
side OF this place and gravel road or
the other side; both roads now under
construction. This property is mos
deslrably located and OF the very best
land in the Mississippi delta. Pric,
for quick sale. secs per acre; terms
S60. 600 cash. halanca IN auit
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS ron SALE.

U. S. ARMY repaired Russell leather
shoes, worth $500 pair: our special
price S2.s5 pair, or $1,000 dozen pairs,
Fob. Greenville, S. c.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22

SPECIALo - tTE STORES,
YOU win always find a big bargain
IN our bargain basement.
z e SHOE CO.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22

WANTED-REAL ESTATE.
WANTED TO BUY-A large house
In good neighborhood. Must have five
to eight bedrooms, hot water heat and
all modern conveniences. Must have
possession Sept. |, Phone Hemlock 5296.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22

The opportunity that reduces the cost
of home furnishing unquestionably In
terests you. The closer your relations
with this store in supplying your home
needs the greater will be your salts
of service that Is equal to the name.
Thrifty, home loving people every
where are realizing more than ever
the wonderful opportunities afforded
by our store, so why not pay US a
visit now? Your interests fully Justify
time.
Johnston Furniture Co.
1852 N. Main st.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-22
FOR SALE.


LATE model hollow wire lights, r.
P. and other well machines, Davis car.
bide generators: supplies and expert re.
pairing. Tri-State Light Co., 1888 Cum.
mings st. N, J. Verret. Mgr. Phone
Walnut s46.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
THE GOLDFIELD NEWS
AND
E K TRIBUNE

Represents a consolidation, effected in 1911, OF the Goldiielu q
News, established in 1904, and the Goldfield Weekly Tribune,
established in 1906, to which was added in 1912 the Hhyohte
Herald. 1t reaches more people interested in Nevada mining
securities than any other two publications combined.
1t is published from the center of the Southern Nevada
mine fields which include, Goldfield, Tonopah, Manhattan,
Round Mountain, Pioneer, Divide and other districts.
THE DIVIDE DISTRICT, which is now claiming attention
of the mining world, is located in Esmeralda county, OF which
Goldfield is the county seal.
The News Tribune reports on the developments and
activities OF the Divide District are accepted as the most
accurate and up-to- the minute that the public receives.
If you want the news of this new and phenomenal mining
camp while it is news, send your subscription now with the
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
PEERS SISTER RESIGNS
IN ROW OVER U. s. FLAG

RUTLAND, VT. Dec. 16.-Miss
Annie A. Aitken, superintendent of
the Rutland hospital, has resigned
following an investigation begun
into an anti-American incident which
occurred at the hospital recently.
Miss Aitken is a sister of Baron
Beaverbrook, a Canadian.
An aldermanic investigating COM
mittee was told that Miss Anna Nc
Lane of Woodstock. N. B., when
shown a picture bearing an Ameri-
can flag, said it would be pretty
IF it were not for that dirty red,
white and blue flag" American
nurses reported the affair to Miss
Aitken, but she. it was testified,
reprimanded them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
MINERS ENTOMBEO FOR
FOURTEEN DAYS
ARE SAVED
FOOD AND BLANKETS LOWERED
THROUGH APERTURE KEPT
THE MEN ALIVE

COUER D'ALENE, Idaho. Dec.
22.-While Emil Sayko, miner. OF
Mullan, Ihado, was buried 60 feet
in the Gold Hunter mine near here
he became the father of a baby girl.
Sayko has just been released from
his underground prison-alive after
more than two weeks confinement
there along with a fellow worker,
Pete Grant.
Hope for the rescue of the two
men was given up on the fourth
day after the cavern at the mine,
the belief being that both men
were dead. 1t could not be con-
ceived that the men we're alive and
we'll. 1t so CHANGED that the cave
in did not catch the men during the
slide of earth, but merely filled the
aperture to the surface. A spacious
underground cave, to which air
found it's way from a small crevise
in another part of the mine served
" save lu0 Acu > lives. "a lOuI-
inch diamond drill aperture was
bored into the 60-foot deep ave ard
gave the men better air. Food was
let down to them as we'll as blan-
kets.
Mrs. Emil Sayko, on the day of
the. cave-in, was confined to the
Couer d'Alene hospital and there
became the mother of a little girl.
She believed at the time of the
child's birth that its father was
dead. The joyful reunion of hus-
band and wife and the meeting of
father and baby girl. as one from
the world of the dead, brought tears
to the eyes of the hardy miners who
gathered about the mines mouth
when the sturdy diggers were
brought safely to the surface.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
CHILE EXPECTS MORE
CREDIT FROM AMERICA
QUESTION TO BE DISCUSSED AT
PAN.AMERICAN CONFER
ENCE In JANUARY

VALPARAISO, Chile, Dec. 22.-
Chile expects that the extension of
credits to South American countries
by the bankers and business men of
the United States will be brought
up before the second Financial Pan
American conference at Washington
in January. The first conference
held in 1915 declared that solution
of this question: of credit was essen
tial.
National credits also will be con-
sidered by the conference. In spite
of the enormous gold reserves &C
cumulated in the banks of the Unit
ed States during the war, it seems
are not yet in a position to make in
vestments in South America. Evil
dence of this is seen in the diff
eulties encountered in negotiating
the SIS, 900 loan of the Chilean
government to obtain funds to buy
railroad material. 1t is felt here
that, in the matter of public credits,
North American bankers should
learn from North American mer-
chants.
Chilean business men believe that
North American merchants r be-
ginning to understand better the
mutual confidence to be derived
from the extension of 60 to 80 days
credit on bills against South Ameri-
can houses. This has been the prac-
tice of European merchants dealing
with those of South America.
other matters to come before the
financial Pan-American conference,
as outlined here, are uniform legis-
lation on letters Of exchange. checks
and cargo manifests; steps to facili-
tate exchange of products between
American nations and adequate
transportation facilities between the
United States and South America.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27

the authorities, and means that the
Christians are only to consider that
if disorders begin, they will not, at
least, be at the open instigatiOn of
the government. 1t does not entirely
promise protection, and therefore
the Christians, araid that the Mos
lens may turn against them at any
moment, are electing to seek safety
in flight.
The situation is having it's effect
on the work of the relief Organiza-
ton in recovering the Christian
girls who were carried off, during
the deportations. to Moslem harems.
This work has been going on for
weeks, the relief workers being I'M
dismayed by the thought of personal
peril. Now, however, the Moslems
are threatening the girls with death
if they permit themselves to be
rescued, and many of them are
afraid to leave their masters.
Large numbers of these girls re-
main to be recovered. In the early
months of 1915 about $4,000 Chris
tions were exiled from Diarbekir,
ana from their ranks were taken
hundreds of the prettiest young
women. Even some of those who
escaped, and remained hidden in
the vicinity throughout the depor-
tations, later sold themselves to the
Turks. confronted as they were with
the alternative of doing this or of
starving to death. The condition
of these Christian girls is one of the
most tragic problems that confront
the relief workers who state that
many of the girls, in their shame.
have killed the children of their
Moslem fathers.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
CHRISTIANS FLEE
IN. FEAR OF TURK
MOSLEMS THREATEN STOLEN
GIRL SMITH DEATH IF THEY
ATTEMPT ESCAPE

DIARBEKIR. Turkey, Dec. 90
Fear of the further is
causing numbers of Christians in
this region to abandon their homes
and seek safety in the territory oc-
cupied by the British, whose nearest
post is at Ourfa.
For days there has been a steady
procession OF carriages, containing
families with all their possessions,
on the road to the southwafd.
Many of them are headed for Aleppo
which means a hot. dusty journey
of several hundred miles across the
plain.
The Immediate cause OF this exc
dus of Christians is the attitude of
their Moslem neighbors, coupled
with the notorious reputation that
Diarbekir won for itself in the
massacres and deportations a few
years ago, but back of it is q feel
ing of restlessness because of the
fact that months have passed since
the armistice land as yet nothing
has been done to guarantee the Sc
curity of the non-Moslem popula-
ton.
The Near East relief, the Ameri-
can organization which is distribut-
ing aid to the survivors of the mas
sacres through a station In Diarbe-
kir. has succeeded in obtaining as
surance from the authorities that
ne Christians will not be molested
the government, and that they
xesume their occupations. This
~, however, applies only TO
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
SENTENCED AS SPY,
SAVED, BRINGS SUIT
SWISS MADE VICTIM OF GERMAN
EFFORT TO. GET INFORMA-
TON TO SPIES

GENEVA, Dec. 19.-An action
a German agent. claiming $4,000
damages for falsely incriminating
him with the French military au-
thorities and nearly getting him
shot as a spy, which is at present
being heard before the Zurich tri-
bunal, throws a strange light on
the methods and activities of the,
German espionage service during
the war.
M. Augusta Fallet, a Swiss trades
man, paid a business visit to Bor-
deaux in January. 1918. During
his absence his mother received a
letter from a Herr Jules Holz, of
Hamburg, asking her to forward to
her son n postcard which arrived
for him from Marseilles.
Two unsigned postcards bearing a
few ordinary and banal words did
arrive from Marseilles shortly after
ward, and Nine. Fallet duly sent
them to her son in Bordeaux, where
on M. Fallet was promptly arrested
by the French military authorities
as a German spy. The censor, it
seemed, had discovered important
military secrets written on the post
cards in invisible ink.
M. Fallet in vain protested his in-
~nocence. He was formally tried and
sentenced to death. He would un-
d%oubtedly have been shot but for a
strange coincidence which occurred
at Lausanne, where a woman named
David was caught in a similar trap
by Herr T. Often. of Hamburg, who
was known to be in close relations
with Holz. 4
The Swiss authorities immeoiS.
ately communicated with the French
and on a second trial Fallet was
acquitted and returned home.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
CHILD BURNED PLAYING
WITH CHRISTMAS CANDLE

NEW YORK. Dec. II -Saveria
Spanieni, five years old, was IA
tally burned in the kitchen of her
home, where she was playing with
a candle her mother, Mrs. Josephine
Spanieni, had bought for the family
Christmas tree. Hearing the screams
of her daughter, the mother ran
to the kitchen. but before she was
able to extinguish the child's flam-
ing garments was herself burned
severely about the hands and arms.
The father of the child, Antonio,
ran to a physician. At the hospital
several surgeons worked to save the
girls life, but she died shortly
after reaching the institution.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27
GARMENT HOUSES
OF NEW YORK
TO MOVE
CLOAK AND SUIT COMPANIES
TO MOVE FROM FIFTH
AVENUE

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-Business
men of this metropolis. who are al
! ways doing something extraordinary
in the way of commercial achieve
ment, are going to move an entire
industry-the garment trade-em-
ploying thousands of workers and
millions of capital and housed in
hundreds of buildings from one sec
ton of New York to another. The
movement, known as the Save
Fifth Avenue" project, started sew
eral years ago and has just 10 as
sumed tangible form.
Factories which have long de-
spoiled part of Americas. most ia
nous shopping thoroughfare, scores
of them, within a few months will
have packed up bag and baggage
and transferred their activity to an
other area of Manhattan-west of
! Seventh avenue from 30th to seth
, street-there to establish the gar
ment center of the United States.
Fifth avenue for years has borne
the reputation of being the city's
best residential street, the down.
town section being devoted to re-
tail shops of high and most diversi-
fled types. Into this region of i'm
posing business buildings and ex-
elusive merchants, as time went IN.
the cloak and suit manufacturers
made their way Soon the sewing
machine babe fair to eliminate the
yardstick. Americas promenade OF
elite trade and style was being trans
formed into a factory district where
noon and closing hour whistles We'd
with limousine motor horns.
These cloak and suit manufac-
turers, however, most OF them pa
triotic Americans and jealous of the
welfare of New York, got together
and, cooperating with a group of
men known as the Save Now York
Committee" formulated plans for
the erection of factory buildings in
a less exclusive section of the city.
Carrying the idea of cooperation
still further they purchased mar
pieces of real estate, totaling $4,000
square feet in the Seventh avenue
section, and have obtained options
on 102 900 square feet more.
Plans now contemplate the con
struction of four cooperative fac
tory buildings of 16 stories each
with a combined floor space Of l.
400 900 square feet at a yearly rem
tai cost of approximately 100000,
about SO cents a square foot as
against $3.50 a square foot which
many of the manufacturers are o
paying. The men interested in the
project estimate a saving of not less
than $3,OOO,000 a ear in rent
alone, and other similar economies,
they say, will effectively slash the
high cost of living as regards wom-
ems garments" A reduction of
from 800 to $7.25 per garment
will be possible, they say. as a re-
suit of the stoppage of inflated
rents. Sixty garment manufacturers
with an annual output valued at
$65O,OO0, 900 are to begin the new
venture and other lines of trade are
to be invited to joint the movements
as the practicability and wisdom are
demonstrated.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-27

TIFTIS, Pennsylvania, Dec. 18.-
Colonel William Haskell. high COM
missioner for the four great powers
in Armenia, believes that one of the
most difficult questions of the Near
East has been solved by settlement
of the dispute between Armenia,
Azerbaidjan and Georgia as to
which should control the Karabagh
district.
This district lies between the
Black and Caspian seas, just north
of the former border of Persia and
Transcaucasia. Representatives of
the three countries named have
agreed to settle the dispute over
this territory and to adjust all fur
Their disagreements by conference).
Colonel Haskell told the Associ-
ated Press that this settlement opens
to a much greater field of work for
the American committee for relief
in the Near East.
This organization" he said, al
ready is housing, feeding and cloth
ing 1900 orphans in AZ orphan
ages scattered throughout Russian
Armenia besides caring for $4,000
sick children, maintaing IA hospitals
and feeding 100000 homeless refu-
gees or destitute persons.
Before the recent conflict at
Z%angebour, the Americans fed 61,-
900 refugees in the n~eighborhood
of Shusha, the capital of the dis
puted district. Even then they were
unable to reach $4,000 mor in the
mountainous region known as Kara
bagh who were cut off by the po-
litical complications now settled.
1T is now hoped to bring relief
to more than 100000 Armenians
and Tartars alike in the contested
territory who face death this win
ter unless outside help is received.
1.-The United States is the only
country endeavoring to help the
population of all Transcaucasia, be-
side whose desperate situation the
condition in devastated France and
Belgium is described as simply
child's play. Fifty thousand Ar
menians who were left in Turkey
are arriving at Erivan, Kars and
Alexandropol by driblets, clothed in
bits of torn sacking pieced together
with thorns, their bodies frightfully
emaciated. The stomachs of tiny
children are grotesquely swollen
from living on roots and herbs
These children are fit only fol
treatment in hispitals where only q
long course of most careful feeding
can remake them into human be-
ings.
Around every station along the
railway are gathered groups of hun
dreds of homeless people lying hud-
died together on the ground, the
majority of them too weak eve to
try to help themselves. From time
to time the stronger ones climb on
freight cars and move elsewhere, al
ways seeking better conditions
which do not exist. Two hundred
and sixty-three thousand homeless
refugees from Turkish. Armenia
thus are constantly milling about