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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-04-09

Mrs. B. B. Frazer went to Kan
sas City Monday for a few days
visit.
H. c. Chiles went to Kansas
City Friday evening on business.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-04-09

Misses Leona and Frances We
dell, who were guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Malott, returned Sun
day morning to their homes in
Wellington.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-04-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Glasscock
of Boonville, arrived Friday ev-
ening for a visit with Mr.. Glass
cocks parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C.
L. Glasscock.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-04-09

Corder Steele of Kansas City,
spent Sunday here with home
folks.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-04-09

SoEJh GOodyear Double. Cure 50 I
Fsbdc, An.Weather Tread ~
9oK3M oOOdyeer Single Cure $3.50
Fabdc, Anti skid Tread IL
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
WHEN MADRID is GAY

various units carry out the smart mill
tary exercises.
Thousands of civilians, mostly visi-
tors to Madrid, gather around, the pre-
cincts of the palace to watch the spec
tacle. Numbers of them are from the
Spanish provinces, and their bright
shawls and scarves mixed with the
more prosaic dress of the Madrilenians
form fit setting to the bright pic
ture.
Further details are added by the
Itinerant vendors of peanuts and hot
butter rolls and other delicacies loved
by the children, who under the eve
of their nursemaids in their pictur-
esque costumes of varied hues run
hither and thither.
Sometimes the king himself comes
out on the balcony to salute his guard
and then all is hushed while he faces
the regimental flags, and after bow.
ing his head raises his hand to his
kept.
The picture Is on view for about
an hour every morning.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
GRANDMOTHER NOT so SLOW
Possibly Less "Flip" Than the Maidens
of Today, but She Seemed to
Get There.

Grandma disdained the first aids to
beauty-powder, rouge, eyebrow PEN
Gil and eyelash lotion.
She acknowledged before the world
that she had ears. She exposed then
to view.
She attended church regularly. She
knew nothing of theaters, movies and
chewing gum.
She danced the minuet with men
she knew. She would have been hQEri-
fled with the primrose dance, the hula
and the shimmie.
She wore high necks and long
sleeves, both trimmed with lace. She
would have considered the sash and
shoulder strap of today indecent.
Her skirt was very long and her toes
peeped in and out like tiny mice, we
are told. She would have been scan
dalized by the knee-high skirt, the
sheer hose and the low shoes of the
present mode.
She gave no thought of career, the
vote or the great question of the day.
And yet
She knew what to do when grand.
father came along.-Judge.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
NOT OLD BOYS LUCKY DAY
At That, 1t Must Be Admitted He Got
Out of Tight Situation Rather
Neatly.

He was the picture of sedate middle
age, from the broad-toed shoes to the
pincenez suspended by broad black
ribbon.
He gazed long and longingly at the
portrait of maiden in rather skinny
attire which adorned the lobby of a
theater.
He entered the lobby.
He came out again.
He was met by an equally sedate
middle-aged woman.
"What are you doing in thereY she
demanded.
"Why, my DEAR l thought It was the
entrance to the bird store, but hurried
out as soon as l discovered my mis-
take" was his rather halting reply.
AS they started away, the man drew
something from his pocket and
dropped it surreptitiously to the side
walk
A newsboy quickly picked it up.
"Gee," he muttered, "a orchestry
seat to the burlies."
The sedate gentleman and his wife
strolled ON.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Internal Revenue Statistics,
However, Show Decrease in
Taxable Incomes.
AVERAGE TAX PAID S254.85
Personal Returns Filed During 1915
Numbered 4,425, IA, and Tax, Both
Normal and Surtax, Was
$1,127,721, 1886.

Washington, D. C.-Despite the loss
OF "A members of the country's million
a-year income class, the taxable in
come of the United States increased
in 1918 by over $2,272 100000. as COM
pared with 1917, according to the in
come statistics issued by the bureau
of internal revenue.
Income reported for 1913 amounted
to $15,924, $3.50, 1856, against about $751;
700,000,000 in 1917, though 141 persons
filed returns for incomes of $1,000,0O0
or over in 1917 and only 67 in 1913.
Average Tax Paid $254.s5.
Personal returns filed during 1918
numbered 4,425,114 and the tax, both
normal and surtax, amounted to
81 ,127, 721 1886, the average tax for each
individual being $254.S5. AS compared
with 1917 a growth of 952,234 was
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
BOY, IL, STARTLES SINGERS
Another Prodigy Reaches Highest Note
Ever Reached by the HUI
man Voice.

New York.-Among boy prodlgies
Edward Roche Hardy, 12-year-old
Columbia freshman, may boast the
mastery of a dozen languages, and
Samuel Rzeschewski, 9-year-old Pol
ish chess wizard, recently checkmated
nineteen West Point strategists in
row-but neither of them can sing.
Robert Murray, II, Of Tacoma,
Wash, can. Recently before a
group of famous Metropolitan stars,
including Nine. Frances Aida, who
discovered" the youth last summer,
Murray not only reached with ease
the high notes In arias of Galli-Curci
and Tetrazzini fame, but to the as
constituent of his hearers, he trans
posed those high notes to a higher
key and breathed them with equal
facility and resonance. The singers
who heard the performance asserted
that this was the highest note ever
reached by the human voice.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
PANAMA CANAL
SHOWS PROFIT
Closes the Best Year. Financially,
in Its Six Years Of
Operation.
MARKED GROWTH IN TRAFFIC
General Harding, Governor of Canal,
| In Report Predicts Revenue of
Over $4,000, 900 Annually
Soon.

Washington.-The Panama canal
has closed the best year, financially,
in its six years of operation, with an
excess of $2,3S7, $50 in revenue over
the expense Of operation and main
tenance.
Brig Gen. Chester Harding, COVER
nor of the Panama canal, predicted
In his annual report to the secretary
lbf war, that within a reasonable peri
cd of normal world conditions, the
canal will earn an actual profit on its
cost, which has been $366650.000, ex-
tary and naval defense. In the mean
time, the general added, the canal is
performing an important commercial
Service by stimulating American trade
with the west coast of South America
and the Orient. More than 25 per
cent of the cargo handled through
the canal since its opening was in
transit between the United States and
South America, and 14h per cent was
between the Atlantic coast of the Uni
ted States and the Orient.
Traffic Has Increased.
Within the six years of operation,
General Harding's report said, there
has been marked increase in traffic
through the canal Notwithstanding the
fact that the World war interfered
with the normal development of ocean
going commerce. After the entry of
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
sMMiq{EpxagtA
N0l5laDNgg3lgIl
ADVANTAGES OF MOTOR TRUCK
Save Much Time In Hauling Materials
to and From Farm--Biu Draw
back is Poor Roads.

According to an investigation into
the worth and service Of motor trucks
on eastern farms, specialists in the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture find that motor trucks, as COM
pared to horses and wagons, last year
saved from one-half to two-tbirds Of
the time required for hauling mate
rails to and from the farms. This in
formation was CLEANED from study Of
reports from 753 farms, and they
showed further that trucks ranging In
size from one-half ton to five tons
were in use, with about half of them
Of the one ton size.
An interesting fact obtained from
study of these reports is that about
one-fourth Of those reporting have
changed their markets for at least a
part of their produce. Instead of
patronlzing their old markets at an
average distance of seven miles from
home, they go to better markets To-
Gated at an average distance of 20
miles away. During the year these
trucks travelled an average of $500
miles at costs ranging from eight
cents a ton mile for the one-half ton
trucks to 20 cents ton mile for the
two ton size.
The average cost of hauling crops.
with the drivers time valued at so
cents an hour amounted to so cents
ton mile with half ton trucks, "a cents
for three-fourths ton trucks and de-
creaslng to Is cents ton mile for the
two ton kind. Along with these costs,
four-fifths OF those reporting stated
that their trucks decreased their ex-
pense for hired help, this decrease
averaging 1924 a year.
The principal disadvantage of the
motor truck, according to this investi-
cation, was poor roads. 1t is stated
that there are about eight weeks dur
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17

to $2,231,09 the excess of expense
and maintenance over revenues for
the six years the canal has been in
operation"
At the rate of revenue this year 1t
Is expected that by June 80 1921, the
collections for tolls and other canal
revenues will exceed by $1,O0O,O00 or
more the total current expenses Of
operation and maintenance from the
opening to that date, after which, the
canal authorities argue, there should
be an excess of 100000 or more
each year,
Auxiliary Services Utilized.
The auxiliary services of the canal
have been largely utilized and are
of great value in carrying out the
policy Of making it attractive In all
of the incidental services that are
considered by shipping interests in
routing their vessels, General Hard
Ing said, adding that it has not been
the purpose to make larger profits on
these activities, but rather to regulate
the charges so as safely to cover the
cost From these miscellaneous serv-
ices the receipts for the year were :
Coal, $6,032,57S; water, $55,412; oil,
groceries and miscellaneous supplies,
$1,274, $3.50, and mechanical repairs to
ships, $3,s63,933.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17

the United States into the war there
was decrease in commercial traffic.
due TO the diversion of certain lines
of ships to the transatlantic service,
but this was more than offset by the
increase in traffic growing out of the
war, chiefly on account of the de-
velopment of the nitrate trade with
the Pacific coast of South America.
Discussing the amount of money ex-
pended by the United States on the
canal, Governor Harding said:
! ''In the year 2,745 vessels passed
through the canal, of which 2,478 were
commercial transits. Tolls and other
revenues amounted to $S.935,S71, while
current expenses of operation and
maintenance t0taled to $6,548, 272. The
excess of revenue this year reduced
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Presence of King in Town Cause
of Wonderful Spectacle.
Brilliant Daily Display In the Palace
Yard as the Guard Is
Changed.

Madrid.-More color is to be seen
in the palace yard of Madrid when
King Alfonso is In residence than
is to be found in any other part Of
Spain. The military spectacle alone
is brilliant, with the striking uniforms
of red and blue hussars, the dark blue
of the artillerymen and the red trou-
sers and blue tunics of the infantry
as the old and new guards face each
other at 10 o'clock, with the flags I'M
furled in the center and the two regi-
mental bands drawn up in circles play
Ing martial airs.
The customary brilliant sunshine
makes the fixed bayonets and un-
sheathed swords fash In the air as the
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
TEDDY BEAR SAVES CHILD
Clasped in Her Arms, Toy Shields
Body From Wheel Of
Automobile.

Defiance-A fuzzy, brown Teddy
bear which she held clasped In her
arms, probably assisted in saving the
life of the four-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Avert Degler. AS the
father backed his automobile out Of
the garage one of the rear wheels
passed over the body of the little girl.
She was still holding the Teddy bear
In her arms when picked up. The
wheel Of the car also passed over the
toy bear, which shielded the child's
body. Indications are that the girl
Will recover,
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
CHIEF BENEFITS BY FARMER
Lower Cost of Transportation, VIII
Better Markets and Higher
Prices for Products.

Perhaps one Of the chief benefits
which will be derived by the farmer
from the construction Of good roads
through his particular district is that
Of an increased production coupled
with better market and higher price
for his goods and lower cost Of
transportation. All>of these things go
hand in hand with the construction
of good roads and all of them have
sound economic reasons at their base.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
GOOD ROADS HELP CHILDREN
Larger Percentage of Students Attend
Schools Regularly Where High
ways Are Improved.

While 1t is true that various factors
contribute to increase or reduce the
attendance at schools in given sections
of the country, it is worthy of COM
ment that in the states having a high
percentage of improved roads much
larger percentage Of rural students
enrolled regularly attend the schools
than in the states having a small per-
centage of improved roads.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
MILLION A YEAR
GLASS LOST n

shown in the number of returns filed.
The increase in the total tax was
$434, 22S,SS1.
Returns for incomes of 100000 to
$1,000000 were filed by 178 persons,
while 1,516,938 persons filed returns
for incomes from $1,000 to $4,000 In
comes from $1,000 to $1,000 were
shown on 1,496,87S returns, and there
were 610,695 returns on $4,000 to
$4,000 year incomes.
For incomes of $1,000 to $4,000,
319,356 returned and from incomes Of
$4,000 to $4,000 there were 69,992
returns. More than 10000 persons
made returns on incomes from $4,000
to $4,000, and 10000 on incomes from
$4,000 to $4,000, while 9,996 persons
reported incomes of from $4,000 to
100000 and 1883 made returns for
incomes between 100000 and $780,
900.
Those Paying the Most.
The largest tax, amounting to $147,-
42S,655, was collected on incomes from
$4,000 to 100000, with $142, 44S,679
collected on incomes from $4,000 to
$4,000 coming next. Incomes between
$1,000 and $1,000 paid $26,4S1, 900.
The number of wives filing separate
returns from their husbands was 3d.
942, the income represented being
1888, 21S,749.
OF the industrial groups from which
income was derived agricultural and
related industries led, with 372,336 re-
turns, reporting total net income of
81, 122, $50, 1853.
Income derived from investments
for the year was $4,S47. 914000. Rents
and royalties paid $975,670666; inter-
est on bonds, notes, etc, including fidu-
Charles and foreign sources, $1,403,-
4S5,691; and dividends, $2,468, TAG, 244.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17

ing the year when the roads are in
such condition, because of mud, snow,
etc., that motor trucks cannot be
used, as the roads over which three
fourths of the trucks had to travel
were unpaved dirt roads. But in spite
of bad roads the average life Of the
trucks was placed at 61s to Z years,
and the largest single item Of expense
In connection with their operation was
that of depreciation.
Most of the owners of the one-half
and three-fourths ton trucks prefer
pneumatic tires, the owners of one
ton are about half divided between
pneumatic and solid tires, while those
owning larger trucks were favorable
to the solid tires.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Heavenly Inspiration.

The film corporation was on the
verge of bankruptcy. Try as it might
1t could not sell its pictures.
Then, one day, the president con-
ceived brilliant idea, and soon he was
using a scoop shovel to handle his
money.
Instead of selling pictures he made,
he charged S. admission to his studio
to see them made-Film Fun.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Why Suffer With rheumatism

When there is permanent relief with
in your reach? 1t matters not what
form you have, what you have tried
or how long standing. It's guaran-
teed. If not benefited within ten days,
MONEY BACK without question or
bubble. Address NJ, Box lat, Little
Rock, Ark.-AdY
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
rake the Safes WIth Them

Lafayette, Ind.-There's a new out
door sport IN Indiana. 1t consists of
stealing safes and hauling them away
from the store to be opened at leis-
ure. A lot of yeggs have become ex-
perts. Edward Spangler of West
Sonora found his safe In field, after
it had been rified Of $3.50.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Lightkeeper II Hours
Alone With Dead Wife

Midland, Ont,-Held to his
post by the menacing storm
which ragged on Lake Huron,
though nearly Frustrated by the
death Of his wife, for % years
his sole companion, Alfred Fl.
Griffiths, keeper Of the light
house on "Giant's Tomb" stood
solitary vigil over his lights and
his dead for three days and
nights.
After the storm subsidized, he
summoned help from the main
land, II miles away.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Paws for Slow Time.

Montgomery, Ala.,-The Louisville
& Nashville railroad must pay Mrs.
Ellen Carey of Decatur, Ala, $500. be-
cause the clock in the railroad station
at Decatur was slow. She was &C
companying the body of son, and
missed her train because the clock
was four minutes behind time. She
sued for $4,000. The court figured
that her anxiety was worth $500.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
The cuticura Toilet Trio.

Having cleared your skin keep it clear
by making Cuticura your everyday
toilet preparations. The soap to cleanse
and purify, the Ointment to soothe and
heal, the Talcum to powder and per-
fume No toilet table is complete
without them. 25c everywhere.-Adv.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Angry Farmer Hanged
BaIky Horse; Fined $25

AS q punishment for baking,
Edward Byrne, q farmer of
Crum Elbow, N. Y, tied one end
of q rope around the neck of
one of his horses, threw the
rope over a tree limb and fast
ened the other end to the bride
of another horse, which became
frightened and pulled so hard
that 1t strangled its mate to
death. Members of the S. p.
G. A. investigated and Byrne,
pleading guilty, was fined S25.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Missouri Organizing.

Many of the county farm bureaus
in Missouri are finding that the effec-
tiveness of their organizations is In
creased by forming farm bureau CEN
tiers" or community clubs.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Cash Ran Out,

SLOW long did your honeymoon
last?"
''Why, just like the other moon, it
faded away with the last quarter"
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
His Effort.

THAT clumsy boy let the galley fall
with the big murder story, and made
pi of it,
Don't blame the lad. He was only
breaking bad news"
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Time to Call a Halt.

The monthly assiZes were in prog
ress at the mining camp of Howling
Wolf, and the courthouse was crowd
ed with a motley throng, who took a
deep, if somewhat noisy, interest in
all the proceedings.
The uproar got worse and worse,
and at last the judge could bear it
no longer. An imposing figure, he
arose to his feet and beloved out:
Gentlemen, and also prisoners, l
must insist on order in the court
house. Here I've tried four cases al
ready and haven't been able to hear
a single word of the evidence"
A large nest of wasps will account
for at least $4,000 flies day, says one
naturalist.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17

A. torpid liver prevents proper food as
similation. Tone up your liver with Wright'a
Indian Vegetable Pills They act gently
Adv.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
GOOD scratohlno Material

Leaves are cheap in the fall and
make splendid scratching material for
bedding the poultry house floor.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17
Immense Sulphur Deposit.

Popular Mechanics Magazine reports
that sulphur deposit of perhaps TO-
600 to $4,000 tons has been found in
the crater of an Recovered volcanic
mountain on Unalaska island In the
Aleutian group. Akun island, in the
same group, also has a sulphur de,
post.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-17

Purebred Sire Is Best.
The nurebred sire is better than the
grade.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-23
6 G c. G @ G G G G G G c. G

The story of Naomi and Ruth is one
of the most beautiful in all literature
and should be mastered by every one.
A great famine in Israel caused ELM
eleck and his wife Naomi and their two
sons to emigrate to Moab. There their
sons Mahlon and Chilion took wives of
the daughters of Moab. Ruth and
Orpah. Elimilech and his two sons
died in Moab and Naomi decided to re-
turn to her native land after ten years
residence in this foreign country. Her
daughters-in-law decided to go with
her. They accompanied her to the
border of Moab. When Naomi advised
them to return to their own people.
0rpah obeyed but Ruth refused. Her
declaration to Naomi is reckoned by
all people to be incomparably beauti-
full. 1t follows:
And Ruth said, "Entreat me not to
leave thee, or to return from follow
ing after thee, for whittier thou goest
I will go, and where thou lodgest will
lodge; thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my God. Where thou
diest l will die, and there will l be
buried; the Lord do so to me and more
also, if aught but death part thee and
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-23
TN THE DAYS NEWS"

Fifty years old today is the head of
the Russian Soviet Government,
Nicolai Lenine, the man who had wor-
ried the world Born of noble Rus
sian family, a university graduate, his
real name is Vladimir Hitch Ulianafr'
One of his brothers was executed in
1887 for plotting against the Car. In
1895 he himself was sent to Siberia
Freed, he went to Geneva, where In
1901 he issued pamphlet which raj
lied the Russian radicals around him
and brought about his association with
Trotsky. Returning to Russia in the
spring of 1917, he organized an eco
nomic revolution that quickly over
threw the Provisional Government
and when the Soviet Government was
established he became Premier. Edu-
Gated as a lawyer, Lenine has spent
most of his life editing radical papers
and conducting revolutionary move
ments.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-23
MAYSvILLE, KY.
COURT OFFICIALS ARE
BUSY IN BRACKEN.

The officials of the Bracken Circuit
Court are very busy this week getting
things in snaps for the special term Of
the Bracken Circuit Court which will
be opened in Brooksville on next Mon
day. The sheriffs have summoned a
special jury for the Marksberry muir
der trial which will attract much at
tention from all parts of this and ad-
inininP states
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-23
OUR COLORED CITIZENS

Mr.. George Anderson and wife have
returned from Portsmouth, o., where
they were attending the funeral of
their cousins, Harry and Roy Kuntz.
Prof. w. II. HUMPHREYS of the col
ored High School, left Wednesday af-
ternoon for Louisville to attend the
state teachers association.
Lee Spencer left for Portsmouth
yesterday for a short visit with rela-
tives.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-23

me-" Ruth married q wealthy Jew
named Boaz. She bore a son named
obed. He was the father Of Jesse who
was the father of David, who was the
father of Solomon, and Jesus the
Christ was descended from this fam
ily. The devotion of Ruth to her
mother-in-law was abundantly re-
xvordad