Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-17

The snowstorm on Mars announced
by Professor William H. Pickering,
of Cambridge, Mass, as having been
seen by him from the Harvard OBJ
servatory stationed at Vaudeville,
Jamaica, is probably a movement of
carbon dioxide gas, according to
Professor Edward Skinner King, of
the Harvard astronomical Qbserva-
tory.
at may have been rather start
ling to the unenlightened," declared
Professor King. to learn of a
snowstorm on the much-discussed
are really quite an ordinary thing
there. The gas has a white appear
ance and moves like Whitecaps. 1t
is termed 'snowstorm' by astrono-
mers as a matter of convenience
purely. At certain times the snow
storms are seen near the pole areas
of the planet, and" as Professor
Pickering said, sit probably was the
first of the season. While it IS
supposed to be carbon dioxide gas,
it's actual composition has not been
positively determined"
Ordination Of women in the MIN
istry of the Methodist Protestant
church is provided for in a change
in the discipline adopted in Green's
conference of the church at its ses-
sion here. There was little opposi-
ton.
According to a dispatch from Lon
don Herr Wustrow, German consul
at Tabriz, Persia, committed suicide,
according to dispatch from Te-
heran, while the consulate was be-
H. n II iy,rr
the surrender of Persian bolsheviks,
who is was alleged were being har-
bored in the building. When the
crowd appeared the consul refused
to comply with their request.
Sharp fighting then ensued, m
which machine guns. were used; 1t
trow committed suicide.
Word from Washington that the
supreme court had held national pro-
hibition and the Volstead act consti-
tutional did not excite convention
delegates in Chicago. Most delegates
said they were glad the question had
been settled.
Leaders said there never was pos
in the platform of campaign and
now that the court has acted it was
out Of the way, they added, for long
time.
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Dougal Herr, of Caldwell, N.
j., three weeks ago. The parents
were unable to. decide on name,
years and name the child accord
ing to her traits and temperament.
In filing the birth certificate with
the town clerk they gave the name
of the child temporarily as LISA
herr" CTS a Herr.l
office in Hoboken. His wife is
niece of Lindley M. Garrison, for
mer secretary Of war.
The Harrodsburg Democrat and
the Anderson News made consid-
cradle noise over the fact that Mrs.
Margaret Banks, of Lawrenceburg,
had just finished a quilt of 1850
glasses and come again. Miss Nancy
G. Lester, of Stewart, KY, has just
finished piecing a quilt containing
6,436 pieces. She has previously
made several quilts with LOO pieces
in them.-Harrodsb (Ky.) Her
aid.
County Judge MacMahon, Brook
an ''unholy contamination Of a sa--
cred contract and a dissertation OF
the sacraments."
He made the statement in postpon-
ing sentence of Joseph Venito, 1894
found guilty of bigamy.
One Of Venito's wives was in court
and saids she had been married by a
city clerk.
Los Angeles, with population Of
5,41O, has outgroWn San Francisco,
and is now the largest city west of
st. Louis, as well as the metropolis
Of the Pacific coast. 1t also has
a in
Milwaukee, Washington, Newark,
Cincinnati and New Orleans. It's in
crease in ten years was 256,282, or
1913 per cent.
San F 15;sc p p0p Ist an
California cities reported are, Passa-
dena, 45,334. Fresno, 44,616, and
Stockton 1926 Everett Mass. now
has population Of 40,109; Pensaco-
la, Fla, 34,035; Saginaw, Mich, ST.
SoS, and Chillicothe, Mo, 6,525.
Bread lines again appeared
throughout Madrid, Spain, recently,
the bakers being unable to obtain
sufficient flour to provide for the
populations needs.
Ell Socialista declares the bakers
cannot he blamed for the shortage on
this occasion, as the fault lies with
the authorities for not making ar
engagements for proper distribution.
Stonehenge, the prehistoric group
of huge stones near Salisbury, in
southern England. is now being set
in order for the first time in it's my
tery-shrouded existence of 5000 or
1000 years. A single stone was
Strengthened in 1901, it is true, but
a thorough overhauling was made
impossible by lack of funds. Hap
PLY, says Popular Mechanics, Stone
henge is now owned by the govern
ment. Artillery ranges and subter-
ranean mine experiment stations
were established on Salisbury Plain,
and close enough to jar the remain
ing uprights and ponderous lintels, or
crosspieces. This vibration has af-
fected, in particular, one of the
trilithons that once formed part of
the outer circle. The crosspiece
moved outward and was lately a
menace to visitors.
The district supreme court at
Washington granted to the several
large packing companies an extension
of sixty days in which to submit
plan for divesting themselves, of
activities held not to be allied With
the meat business, in keeping with
Of Daoon,hay-