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The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
GUILTY OF POISONING FOOD
Cook in Alabama Hotel Found Guilty
by Jury-State Chemist 3. d.
Ross Testifies

Greenville, Ala.-Texanna McCon'
nico, negro, was found guilty OF at
tempted murder by Butler county
fury, as a result of the poisoning Oh
26 guests Of local hotel three weeks
ago. She will be sentenced at the
close of the court term.
The woman was not represented D!
counsel and denied knowledge o. p4ac
:ng poison in biscuits served In the
dining room the evening the guests
we're stricken. Dr. B. B. Ross, state
chemist, testified the specimens o.
food sent him revealed traces OF pure
arsenic in sufficient quantity to XIII
any person, unless medical aid was
given. Two citizens of Greenville or
fered testimony that the woman III
their presence had said that two wom-
en- had told her it was up to her 70
get two of the guests out OF the way
and where the poison could be found. =
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
COAL SHORTAGE IS
OVER; OUTPUT GAINS
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ANNOUNCES
MANY TONS MINED OVER
PREVIOUS WEEK.
l2,075,000 TONS IN A WEEK
Average Weekly output for Four
Weeks Placed at Over Eleven
Million Tons-Soft Coal Sit
uasion Eased.

Washington.-Bitu coal pro-
duction has reached the 12,000,000
ton weekly total, which the National
Coal association recently declared was
necessary to insure against any short
age of the winter supply.
The geological survey announced
that output during the week ended Oc-
:ober 8, was 12.075,000 tons, an in
crease Of 100000 tons over production
the week before. The average weekly
output for the four weeks ended Oc-
tober was placed at 11,728,25O tons,
compared with an average weekly pro
duction before that of approximately
10,500,0O0 tons.
With the achievement of the IL,
900 OO0-ton output week, the entire
eoft coal situation has appreclaRly
eased," said statement issued by the
National Coal association. Acute
shortages in immediate supply IN the
middle west and in other parts OF the
country are now being met IN sucf
q way as definitely to indicate that the
worst OF the soft coal stringency Is
over"
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
HERE'S LATEST RAiNMAkER.
Would Use Airpiane tc Condense Al
mospheric Moisture.

Port Arthur, Ontari0.-The latest
rain maker project was announced
here oy A. e. Cole, former member
~ the royal air force. Colt. with his
farher is forming an aerial irrigation
company" which he said will engage
IN produce rain at call by sending
.,rnlanes into the air to condense at
mospberic moisture by spraying the
clouds with liquid air.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
s1co. 900 Lumber Yard Blaze.

Selma, Ala. : A disastrous IRE
;weeping through the yards Of the
Roster-McDaniel Lumber Company at
Tvler Ala. destroyed between ESQ,
ooo and 100000 feet OF lumber. entail
inp 4 loss Of approximately 100000.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
Ea,,nd Dead In Room.

Galveston, Tex.-Grant Hamilton, %,
n special representative Of the federal
Department of Labor, was found dead
IN his room at hotel here. Physicians
ascribed heart disease as the cause OF
death.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
SIX GINS ARE CLOSED.
Alabama Owner Obeys Order to Shut
Down Until Cotton Rises.

Admission. Ala.-Six gins in Calhoun
county were out of operation last
week as the result Of warnings that
hey would be destroyed ii not shut
lown until cotton reaches 40 cents a
bound.
Five Of these gins are owned by the
mayor of Oxford, Ala.
Local authorities do not believe an
organized body is behind the threats
gainst the gins, though five were
posted at widely separated places in
he county in one night.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
ACCEPTS WAR WITH
MILLION MINERS
LLOYD GEORGE URGES THE PEo.
PIE TO COOPERATE IN DE-
FEATING STRIKE.

London.-A million miners went on
supply and threatening the country
with Industrial paralysis.
Speaking lor the government, Pre-
mier Lloyd George immed ately ac-
cepted the challenge through an Of
ficial statement in which he placed all
responsibility upon the miners and
urged the people to cooperate in de-
f.atilg the strike.
The str Ike began when the after
noon shift failed to report in Noting
hamslAire anu Durham. The miners,
eager to initiate their test OF strength
with the government, started pouring
out of the pits Ike ants from hill.
Shortly after noon it was estimated
that practically every miner in the
United Kingdom had quit work.
Only the engineering and mainte
nance staffs remained These were
to prevent flooding of miles or de-
terioration of the machinery
The effect on industry was instan-
taneous. Despite the fact that there
was sufficient fuel in reserve to last
few days, iron and steel mills in
the Yorkshire district closed volun-
tarily. 1t was estimated that in the
nee-Side district more than ten thou
sand metal workers were idle.
An embargo on coal exports was in
effect This also applies to bunker
| coal for foreign vessels and only
coastw:se vessels were receiving their
quota. 1t was planned to have trans
Atlantic steamers carry sufficient fuel
| lor a one-way trip, recoaling on the
other side
| White Hall, the seat of government
Of the British empire, was the scene
of battle of elementary savagery
when 10000 unemployed attempted to
torn No. 10 Downing street, where
Premier Lloyd George was comforting
with London borough mayors concern
ing measures of relief for the coal
| strike.
Again and again mounted police,
with truncheons drawn, galloped at
full speed in.o the dense masses OF
PEOPLE, screaming and yelling hordes
Of men and women, knocking them
down and trampling them under the
feet of the police horses, while the
mobs retaliated by throwing cobble
stones and other missiles. Bricks,
stones, paving debris, bottles, clubs
shattered windows of the treasury
he war office and other government
buildings.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
FREIGHT SERVICE CUT.

Refusal of Farmers to Sell and snip
Cotton Cause, Report.
Macon, Ga.-The refusal of farmers
to sell and ship their cotton is re-
;ponsible for the removal OF three
freight trains a week from IT'S local
service between Macon and Americus
by the Central OF Georgia Railroad,
i was announced here. Heretofore
there has been daily service, but
tri-weekly service will be given.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
FIRE RECORD OF A DAY.

Asheville, N. C.-The Auditorium
Hotel, at Lake Junaluska, the South
ern Methodist assembly grounds near
here, was totally destroyed by lire.
The loss n estimated at $4,000, par
TALLY covered by insurance.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
HAS BROKEN SPINE.
Man Lays Five Days Before Assistance
Comes.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Joseph Taplen,
65, of Dutchess Junction, is in hos
rital at Beacon, suffering from
broken spine, the result OF falling from
a tree. He lay there five days until
found by hunters who happened to
pass, Little hope Is held for his re-
ooyery. Taplen lived alone in hut.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23

Atlanta, C.a-Fire in the new NC
Kee Motor corporation building here
caused damage estimated at $lb00oo
to $20O,O00. Many new machines &
large stock of parts, and some ~ 10
90 used cars were destroyed.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
ARMtsTlcE SUNDAY FIXED.
President Deslgnates November ~ to
Heroes Memory.

Heroes Memory.
Washington. Wilson Or
rected that on Sunday, Nov. IA, the
American flag be displayed at half
mast on all public buildings and naval
and military posts "as token OF the
nations participation in the memorial
services held for the heroic American
soldiers, sailors, marines and others
who gave their lives to their country
in the world war"
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23

Auburn, Ala.-Fire destroyed the
AGRICULTURAL building of the Alabama
Polytechnic institute. The loss Is more
than 100000. covered by $4,000 In
eurance.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
Winston Churchill Scores RadicaIism

Winston Churchill Scores RadicaIism
Dundee, Standardization Church
Ill, in a speech here, declared there
are Lenines and Trotzkys waiting in
'ngland for reports from their dele
gates to Russia" in referring to the
political aspects of tho miners strike.
Russia is dying of starvation on
account OF communism" he said.
"The Russian people have had no self
determination, but rather self-extermi-
nation, under the iron despotism OF
Lenine and Others"
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
CITIZENS AS POLICEMEN.
ejohty Atlantans Volunteer to Help
Break Up Speeding.

Atlanta. Ga.-Eighty citizens were
sworn in for duty as volunteer police
men to aid in checking speeding and
other violations of traffic laws.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1920-10-23
VICTIM OF MOTORCYCLE.
Man Killed When Machine Bursts int
Flames.

Pensacola, Fla.-Wiiliam A. Shee'
nan, 80, Of Bethlehem, Pa, Is dead, ano
E. E. Hyder, 80. of Evans, Colo, Is in
the naval hospital here as the result
of burns received here when a motor
cycle on which they were working at
the naval air station took fire. Hy
ders condition was sail by physicians
to be serious.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-29

An eight-round no-decision bout
seems to be about the right gait for
the Benny Leonard-Johnny Dundee
muss. Trying to stage a 20-round
championship fight between the pair
at New Haven didn't do the boxing
game any good in that city.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-29
Big January Sales
Show Growing Thrift

Silas W. Davis. government direc-
tor,w ar loan organization for the
Sixth District, announces the sale Of
two hundred one thousand dollar
Treasury Savings Certificates in jan
uary, with a fine prospect for addi-
tional sales.
An Ideal Investment
The 1920 Treasury Savings Certi-
ficates offer an ideal investment, with
these qualities:
Absolutely secure.
Yielding 4 per cent interest.
! Automatically compounded quar-
terly.
| Redeemed on demand at the Treas
ury.
Registration preventing loss.
Impossibility Of depreciation
No cost or commission to sell.
Not subject to market fluctuations
. Every business man likes to have,
. for himself or his family. to meet the
exigencies of life an investment with
! the qualities of these certificates.
!: The Certificates are an obligation
!! Of the United States government ant
{. are issued only in registered form
" with the name of the owner writer
: in at the time Of the purchase. TIL
registration records will be kept a
the Treasury Department in Wash
ington by means Of registration stubs
taken from the Certificates and for
warded by the agent issuing the Cei
tificates. This registration featur
automatically protects the purchase
against loss.
These certificates are issued in $1(
and $1,000 denominations. The S1(
Certificates may be obtained at a
first and second class postoftices i
corporated banks and trust compa
| les. The $1,000 Certificates may
| obtained at incorporated banks al
| trust companies or from the FEEDER
I. Reserve Bank.
THE COST: The 500 (maturi
: value) Treasury Savings Certifcat
may be purchased as follows.
January $50 40; February, $3.50
March $50 50; pAril, $S3 90; MI
$50 20 June $50 40; July $685.
August $50 50; September, $S4.'
October, $s4 20; November, $S4.
December $S4 80. The $1,000 (r
turity value) Certificates cost
times as much.
All 1920 issues Of Government S
ings Stamps and Certificates mat
in January 1925 with interest at
proximately four per cent, compou
ed quarterly.
liz The limit Of invetment in these
curities is $1,000 for each individual
. one year provided the combined
ivy vestment made in one year by
individual in Treasury Savings
: tificates and War Savings Stamp
! not more than $1,000, but each n
( Der of a family mya invest to
2 limit.
In many families the father, mt
( and several children are owner
I $1,000 Treasury Savings Certift
Z and in some banks each director
/ a $1,000 Certificate in addition to
Z held by the bank as corporate
Z These Certificates are ideal In
! ments for executors, guardians
!: sinking funds.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-29

fan
A cog in its mighty gear;
While the few, by bitterly wrought
design,
May spend their years where the air
| is fine
And quench their thirst on the rich
est wine,
And dance to the end of time,
The many must stand other tasks
by day
And gaze at tn chill tops far away,
Where men ar ehappy and children
play,
Blu tnever those hills they climb"
ooh, lam an average man." said l.
When the cynic had stopped his
wall;
"And | give no thought to the noun
tain high,
Or the pleasures which only the rich
can buy,
n For mine is sweeter tale.
For can go home when my work is
;, done
:, To the sounds of laughter and child
ish fun,
Meath a roof that is proof against
rain and sun,
~ To love and its welcome kiss;
''' Mine is a freedom denied to kings,
4 For can 6 owhere my fancy wings,
-, And reap my JOY from thousani
u things
II Tha tever the rich must miss.
'er Mine is life that is free fror
sham,
L0O And there's Joy in the work do
LOO My friends are friendly for what
all am,
III And not for the gold which my purs
an may cram;
Nc So never they prove untrue;
'h' | am slave to naught save my love
raj ones need,
And that is a labor of love, indeed
rlty And teach my children simp
ltes creed
In To tighten their ines of VICE.
l,,l
lay swear
go; | wouldn't exchange my round of ca
90; For the golden crown that king m
40; wear
ma Nor the joys that the rich N
ten know"
BY Edgar A. Guest
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-29
ANSWERING A CYNiC

so little of joy for the average man,
Said one with solemn face,
Though he labor an dstruggle as
best he can,
The world is run on crooked plan,
For his is a dismal place;
BY the sweat of his brown he must
earn his bread,
He must walk lifes mill with cease
less tread,
And coarse are the feathers that line
his bed,
And many his hours Of pain;
H egives his best to the rol che plays
But poor are the wages his master
pays,
And his hear tbs torn in a Thousand
ways.
And even his hopes ar eslain.'
Life never is kind t othe averag
man"
Said one with the .cynic sheer,
at has kept him down since tn
world began,
Working with pulley and belt an
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-11
Be PRETTY TURN
GRAY HAIR DARK
Try Grandmother's Old Favorite
Recipe of Sage Tea and
Sulphur.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray. Years ago the only way to
get this mixture was to make It at
home, which is mussy and trouble
some. Nowadays, by asking at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Compound" you will get a large
bottle of this famous old recipe, i'm
proved by the addition of other in
gradients, at a small cost.
Don't stay gray! Try It'll No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as It does It so naturally
and evenly. You dampen a sponge or
soft brush with it and draw this
through your hair, taking one small
strand at time; by morning the gray
hair disappears, and after another ap-
plication or two, your hair becomes
beautifully dark. glossy and attractive.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound ls a delightful toilet requisite
for those who desire dark hair and o
youthful appearance. 1t Is not in
tended for the cure. mitigation or pre-
vention OF disease.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-11
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS

lean people. the war was a needless
war. Every life that was lost was
wasted and every dollar that was
spent was wasted We could have
easily bargained with Germany for
protection. Both sides had violated
American rights on the f'~h seas,
and If nothing mattered except the
materialistic aspects of the case, Ger
many had more to offer than the AL
lies.
Fhe kaiser could never understand
the attitude Of the American people
toward t. war. From his point of
view they were foolishly blind to
their own interests. From his point
of view the thing for them to do was
to pick a quarrel with Great Britain
over blockade restrictions. go to war
on the side of the Central Powers
and take Canada and all the British
possessions in the western hemis-
where as their share of the spolis.
That is what any country would have
done which was concerned only with
permanent material advantages and
not with morals
The kaiser was mistaken in his es-
innate of the American people, and
Senator Harding is also mistaken. In
fact, we do NJ believe that the
senator himself believes what he
says or that the marvellous demon
stration of devotion to high princi-
pie which the American people gave
has been wholly lost on him. Even
a Republican senator cannot be so
calloused to the really fine things in
American life. But in order to sus-
tain their opposition to the League
of Nations the Republican senators
have been compelled to sheer at ev-
erything that resembles idealism and
high purpose in the affairs of the
country. They jeer at ideals be-
cause ideals are dangerous to the
kind of campaign they are forced to
conduct.
They assume that the surest way to
discredit President Wilson is to try
to drag the nation down to the low
est level of political motive That is
why Senator Harding tells the Ameri-
can people that they went to war
without single generous or disinter-
este' impulse and asks them to in
dorse at the polls his degraded esti-
mate of them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-11
BY THE GIRL REPORTER.
A WOMAN took her life in hi

n WOMAN took her life in her
"A hands the other day - anyhow
her peace and happiness.
She ventured a general criticism
against certain type of women. Her
criticism was intended to be helpful.
She wasn't trying to be mean and
talk behind their backs She hoped
they would hear and take it in the
way she meant it. But she was un-
fortunate. A man was the first to
hear it.
This man was scandalized At least
this was the woman's impression aft
er hearing him rave. Of course
he hedged bit-some' of what she
said might be true in SOME cases.
But heavens, couldn't she find way
to slide around the subject so that
it wouldn't sound so "hard?" No use
going out with club, hurting their
feelings, and so on and so forth
They're such sensitive little things
yon't v know
What was the matter? Here was
this unsuspecting woman who had
evidently gone-with totally wrong
viewpoint. She had been guilty OF
the faulty conviction that criticism
if it is constructive, and not merely
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-11
DEGRADING A NATION.
New York WORLDLY

tNEh YIN w OTlO.l
THE Republican party has turned
4 its back on its own principles of
1860 and 1918. Thu swrites the ven
cradle Charles Eliot, in the cur
rent issue of the Atlantic Monthly.
DR. Eliot adds by way of further
comment: This deplorable change
of front is a deep modification and
distress to all patriotic Americans,
Republican or Democratic, and par
ticularly those who remember the
political ideals which the Republican
party was founded to contend for,
and which it lead to glorious victo-
ries.'
And if to emphasize DIR. Eliot's
caustic criticism, Senator Harding
said in his speech at Wheeling Tues
day night:
81 was not present when the Sem
ate passed the war resolution, but
| know what it conveyed, know what
it means, and we did not go to war
to make the world safe for democ-
racy. We did not go to war for hui
manity's sake.
Trevelyan remarked of George
III. thaI ne cOuld never forgive a
politician for taking the right course
unless it was from wrong motive"
Senator Harding himself had no part
in voting the declaration of war
against Germany, but he is willing to
justify it, provided it is agreed that
the motives of the American people
were sordid and materialistic. On
the basis he might even forgive Pres
ident Wilson for his successful con-
duct of the war.
For the rest, Senator Harding re-
fuses to concede that our dead died
for any noble and inspiring principle.
He refuses to admit that the Ameri-
can people had an exaltation of spirit;
that they regarded the war as an ir-
repressible conflict between free
dom and autocracy, between the doe
trine of right and the doctrine of
might. To the Republican candi-
date it was Just a row over some
ships and submarines and disputed
of the trading status
of neutrals.
If Senator Harding is right in his
estimate of the motives of the Amer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-11

i'm NEVIN

They re giving $perpae dinner at the Capital Cy CLUB IN
Atlanta tonight Jim Nevn Jim many know is the eo
of the Atlanta Georgian and American
No. it isn't banquet given him by the politicians 1t is beng
Given bv the Motion Picture Amusement Industry OF the out
East II Is inst way the representatives of this industry have chosen
OF exceptional service ana
on the part of Jim Nevn For Jim who first took up the ud
Gel against the picture censorship the recent session OF the g
ture scheme which, if it had succeeded jim Nevln saw" as
~ MANY others blow the freedom of the one OF the
buxarks free people and Jim did not hesitate 10 use MS
weapon of powerful publicity and denouncng the cen
sorship scheme. ~ n:
During the campaign which has just closed jim Nevn
has demonstrated be the most able the most powerful
eto in Georgia today handed of the larger newspapers
and nnoed bv but smaller he did to elect
likes Watson and Hardwic he will have to admit the size
the lob and the completeness with which done The OPPOSE
ton raised Of Hearst and outsiders attempt 10 ge
control of affairs in Georgia but Jim Nevin and not Mr.
Hearst who was making the fight Jim Nevn Georgian born
and bred is true Mr. Hearst (he of Virginia and North
Carolina parents but he other news
nners country and he does not HIM
self with devotng his time and attention TO
national issues policies of business management he hires
capabe men to run locally who know local cond
TONS Jim Nevn charge edonay OF his Georgia papers
he has one of capable of all his capable OF
managers. :,
However disagree with Jim Nevn and his poll
cies the he not the evil genius
too of an folks have attempted make the
heat of disagreement. He a much OF and to
well him much; to know
tmatey to him better He is tall bald headed has most
subtle of humor loves folks who honest word
and deed and purpose sham possessed of OF the
finest families Dixie and probably loves his old home town OF
Rome, Ga, above other spot in this world
The writer regards OF the greatest fortunes OF his lire
to have been intimately associated Nevn Georgia for
nearly years. and he knows that the dinner being him
tonight in Atlanta is an honor well bestowed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-11

Iowa claims that Californias "a per cent gain in por
largely made up of Hawkeye farmers