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The Adair County news., 1920-12-15
COMMISSIONERS SALE.
ADAIR CIRCUIT COURT
OF KENTUCKY.

NJ. A. Curry sc Pitt.
Joseph A. Turner sc Deft.
By7irture of Judgment and Order
of Sale of Adair Circuit Court, render
ed at the November Term, thereof,
1920. in the above cause, shall pro
coed to offer for sale at the Court
mouse door in Columbia, Kentucky, to
the highest bidder. at Public Auction,
on Monday, the 3rd day of January,
1921. at One o'clock. p M, or there
about Cbeing County Court,( upon a
credit of six months, the following de-
,scribed property, to-wit: A certain
tract Of land lying in Adair county,
Kentucky, on the waters Of Harrods
Fork Cree. and containing about nO
acres more or ress, and bounded on the
North by the lands Of John Claywell,
on the East by the lands OF S A.
Conner, on the South by the lands OF
,Cu.t Stephens, Sallie Gibbons and
Dollie Humes on the West by the
lands OF G. 81. Lacy and S. A Coon
ar. For the purchase price, the pur-
chaser. With approved surety or secur'
Iries, must execute Bond, bearing le-
gal int rest from the day of sale until
oaid. and having the force and effect
.ofa Judgment. Bidders will be pre-
pared to comply promptly with these
terms.
". A. Coffey, Master Commissioner
A. C, c.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15
GIenSfOrk.

day ia this community. o
Born, to the wife of Mr.. Ray
Strange, Dec. 5, a son. Mother
and baby are doing nicely and
Ray is all smiles.
Miss Kittie Lewis of Inroad,
was visiting relatives near here
last week.
A little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Virgil WesIey,is very sick at this
writing.
Mrs. Ada Kelsay and son,
were shopping in this town last
Friday.
Mrs. Nora Powell was visiting
Mrs. Eva Wilkinson last Thurs
day.
Mr.. John Kelsay who has been
in Virginia, for some time is
home a few days on business.
He will returned the 18th.
Mr.. Alexander, a dry goods
drummer, was calling on our
merchants one day last week.
Mr.. lola Hammond bought of
Rollin Thompson, his half inter-
est in a tobacco crop. Price $50.
Mr.. John KeIsay sold one horse
to Mr.. Martin Order, price 500.
Mr.. T. P. Strange and daught-
err, Miss Dollie, attended Master
Vincent Logs birthday dinner
last Thursday near Fairplay.
Uncle Green Mckinley, as he
is Familiarity known, who makes
his home with his daughter, Mrs.
Sarah Blair near here is in very
bad health at present with can
Ger on his face. He is "a years
old, has eight children. seven
living and one dead. The oldest
being Is years old, the youngest
Sc. He has II grand children,
1913 great grand children and Ia
great great grand children. He
is a jolly old fellow always has
something funny and jovial tc
say. He is liked by all who
know him.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs
Ernest Thomas, has been very
sick but is better at this writing
Mrs. Myrtle 10y and son o.
Fairplay, were visiting Mr.. anC
Mrs. Willis 10y last Sunday.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15
COMMISSIONERS SALE.
ADAIR CIRCUIT COURT

OF KENTUCKY
Ethel weatherfOrd &c, Pltffl
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15
Columbia, Ky.

The young folks gathered at
the home of Mr. DIN Rosenbaum
near here last Sunday where
they were entertained delight
fully with his new Edison Am
berola. All spent a delightful
time.
The farmers are all about
through gathering corn in this
part and all report a fine crop.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15
Josephine Brockman, Deft

Ethek " eaeneI1oIo &C, FlIH
VS.
Josephine Brockman, Delft
BY virture Of judgment and Order
OF Sale of Adair Circuit Court, rem
.dered at tie November Term, thereof
1920, ia the above cause, l shall procede
20 offer for sale at the Courthouse
q or in Columbia, KY, to the high
est bidder, at Public Auction, on Mon
d ~, the 3rd day of January, 1921, at One
o'clock, p. M, or thereabout (being
County Court, upon credit Of six
nonths, the following described prop
erty to-wit: A certain tract OF land
lying in Adiar County Kentucky, and
Containing 81 acres, designated on
Commissioners report herein as Lot
No 2, and bounded as follows: On
the North by the lands Of Os Dilling-
ham and NJ. c. Bault, on the East and
South by the dover Of Josephine
8rockman in the Abner Brockman
farm and on the West by the Casey
Creek road and Os DiIlingham's lot.
For the purchase price, the purchaser,
wi h approved surety or securities
must execute Bond, bearing legal in
xerest from the day Of sale until paid
and having the force and effect of a
5ud nent. Bidders will be prepared
II comply promptly with these terms
~. A Coffey, Master Commissioner.
A. G. @.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15
COMMISSIONERS SALE.
ADAIR CIRCUIT COURT
OF KENTUCKY.
III, L lie Ryc PItff !
Edna Ellis sc
NC

Edna Ellis sc PltH
VII. Lennon sc Deft
By virture Of Judgment and Order
OF Sale Of Adair Circuit Court, render.
ed at the November Term, thereof,
1920, in the above cause, shall pro-
coed to offer for sale at the Court
mouse door in Columbia, KY, to the
highest bidder, at Public Auction, on
Monday the Bird day of January, 1921,
ar One o'clock. o. M, or thereabout
Gbeing County Court,) upon a credit
of six months, the following described
property, to wit: A certain tract OF
land living in Adair county, Ken
lucky. near the town of Pellyton, con-
tanning about 1876 acres more or less,
and bounded substantially, by the
Iaalds of 10 Campbell and Jim Abhser,
on the North and by the lands of Fry
-CoGey and Oscar Sinclair on the East
and by the lands of ]. NJ, Rich and
Walter Sinclair on the South and by
The lands of Tom Asberry and Mary
PelIey on the West. For the pur'
chase price, thevpurchaser, with ap
proved surety OF securities, must ex'
scute Bond, bearing legal interest
.e;yosa the day of sale until paid, ant
having the force and effect of a Judg
ment. Bidders will be prepared t
comply promptly with these terms.
w,A, Coffey, Master Commissioner.
A. G. G.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15

The menace must be stamped
out in America as we'll as in
Europe.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15

The straight party vote is
often cast for a crooked politi-
clan.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15

It's getting as hard now to get
a Job as it recently was to dodge
one.
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15
public Auction
OF 1913 ACRES.

Fine Clark County, Indiana land Thursday Dec IT, 1920 at 1Oa
Mccormack decided SOUTH placed hands his
excellent 123 fine limestone land together with all his
be sold to the highest bidder Located mile Charles
the best farming stock sections of Clark Co. We consider
productive this evidenced by this farm
Lcaedwh churches nd
ece ~ ola hspuAes and all
hpOdh barn
6machh fencing wal by prngw cdens& ac,2 orchards,
Is cultivation and will dhd limestone land
al Of fbdow nd pigs
% head splendid lot household to
da rain shine will ben and
o t and nd in wh6
8nhu atnUe ndp
farm invited
COOTS BROS. & GILL, Sale ACTS.
KY. Phone No. No
The Adair County news., 1920-12-15

About the worst bill to be push
ed at this session of Congress is
the Jones bill, which seeks to
make it obligatory to pay higher
tariff rates upon goods brought
to this country in foreign-owned
ships. We have treaty forbid
ding such discrimination. and
aside from that, the whole thing
is a subsidy of the most shame
less kind. Americen-owned ships
should try to get the business by
giving good service, and not by
applying at the back door of
Congress for special legislation.
Louisville Post.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-11
POTATO CROP IN MiDDLESEX
AND MONMOUTH BACKWARD

TRENTON. June 11.-Despite pes
simtsm concerning the potato crop
and the high prices now being asked
Tor this farm product, the monthly
crop report of the State Department
OF Agriculture. made public here to-
DAY, a y the acreage planted this
year is estimated at ninety-seVen per
cent. of last years or 10000 acres.
compared with 10000 acres, the aver
age acre planted for the past ten
Years.
The crop is somewhat backward
due TO late planting and unfavorabie
growing weather and the condition
on June l was 80 per cent. of a nor
ma The reduction in acreage oc-
Cured principally in non-commercial
areas. There have been slight in
creases in the commercial areas of
monmouth and Middlesex counties"
the report stated.
me condition of the wheat crop
on June | was seventy-four per cent.
OF normal. indicating a yield of 15.9
bushels per acre and a total roduc
ton of 1,5Os,OO0 bushels. as com
pared with 1%.625.00O bushels the May
i estimate and 1,962.000 bushels last
years final estimate and 1902, 900
bushels. the average production for
the past ten years.
1t is expected that the corn area
wiz De zot,OOO acres. as compared
with 274,OO0 acres the average for
the past ten years. Corn is esti-
mated to yield 2,310.000 bushels as
compared with 2.327, 600, the average
production for the past ten years.
\ A total production of 1,225.O0O
bushels of rye is figured. as compared
with 100000 bushels, the ten wear
average. The pas ten year average
Tor swee potatoes has been $1,000
acres and this yea 1t is estimated
al $4,000.
The apple yield this year was fig
ured on June : as 2,S72.00O bushels.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-11

Copyright, 1920. by The Washington
Starr

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Copyright. 1920. by The Washington
starr
WASHINGTON. June 11.Repeal
of the excess profits tax to speed up
production and lower the increasing
cost of living is planned rs the first
tax-reform legislation upon which
the next session of congress will EN-
gage. Members of the ways and
means committee who frame all rev.
enue laws have left the capital with
the intention of talking over frankly
with their constituents the reasons
why they believe some other form of
Increasing the government revenues
should be substituted for the excess
profits tax.
Chairman Fordney of the ways and
means committee tersely summarizes
his convictions by saying thai the ex-
cess profits tax law was a mistake
n menace to production" He
points out that President Wilson has
advised its repeal and that the Sec
rotary of the treasury in his annual
report made a similar recommends
ton.
Representative Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio. a member of the Re-
publican legislative steering commit
tee and of the ways and means conn
mittee, is another of those who are
arousing sentiment in ngreSS fav-
orable to the proposed repeal. Rep
resentative w. r.. Green of Iowa,
Representative Bacharach of New
Jersey. Representative Ira c. COPY
of Illinois, Representative John @.
Tilson of Connecticut and Represen-
tative Allen T.. Treadway of Massa-
chusetts are among the active lead
ers of the House who as members of
the ways and means committee are
committed to the repeal of the ex-
cess profits tax.
This tax put through as emergency
mittee during the session just closed
and the proposal for an ultimate
sales tax TO help pay the soldiers
bonus offers a strong hint as to what
the Republican majority expect TO
offer in substitution for the excess
profits tax.
Because the excess profits tax Is
levied directly upon business while
the sales tax Is levied against the in
dividuals is the principal reason why
the proposed repeal was delayed I'M
til after the fall elections. The Re-
publican majority thought it best not
TO clutter up campaign speeches.
with explanations of how the sales
tax would really take less from the
individual than he is forced TO pay
indirectly through the excess profits
tax. Besides, they were not 1verse
to allowing the Democrats to shout
der the blame for putting through
the tax on business.
The pledge has been given. how
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-11
Repeal Of Excess Profits Tax
Planned As Reform Legislation

I ever. that business may loo TO the
/ Republican majority when congress
r~esSsembles for n repeal. Represen-
/ tative Ira c.. Coplcy of Illinois VIII
{ probably lead the fight for he mas
been a persistent contender that the
excess profits was in reality a con-
{ sumption tax and directly response
BILE for the high cost Of living. He
/ offers three principal reasons for the
repeal;
Ffrst,-it is ultimately a consump-
ton tax, all the heavier cat II Is
imposed indirectly. n has Increased
the cost of living more than $50 per
capita.
Second,-it destroys initiative and
affords little or no opportunity Tor
the young man who has little or no
capital.
Third,-it allows a big concern to
luse 6S.5 per rent. of what Uncle sam
would otherwise take in taxes In dr1v-
ing small competitors out OF busi-
mess.
The excess profits tax brought in
last year about S1,70O, 600. 900 n 1t
Is estimated hat this year it will pro-
duce about S1,1O0, 600, 900. The par
l~ticular virtur of this tax, as explained
by those who favor its continuance,
is that it makes levies only on con-
! Germs that are very prosperous. In
I'll ~ - -
by those organizing the repeal that
1t has afforded the big business con-
Germs a chance to pass the tax through
all middlemen and Intermediates In
a multiplied amount to the consumers.
Representative Green, the ranking
Republican on the ways n means
committee, was a leader in counselling
delay until after the election. He is
in favor of the repeal when a good
substitute las been offered. but thinks
that the members of the committee
should take the summer 20 consider
the matter carefully and TO consult
with their people back home"
Besides the direct sales tax at the
final place-to. the consumer-no
other suggestions received special at
tention.
First,-an increased tax on smaller
and intermediate incomes, against
which there was strong opposition be-
cause ft would make these taxes
greater in peace times HI during
the war.
Second a fiat tax on corporate
incomes, and 1t was estimated that a
fiat twenty per cent tax would yield
about the same as the excess profits
tax. This would be in addition to
the ten per cent. levied last year,
and the members of the committee
were pretty well agreed that this
would be an over-burden and excess
sive.
Representative Green says that the
excess profits tax is essentially a war
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-11
Offer SiOn for Coal

MOBILE. Ala. June 1O.-Constan-
tinople is Offering 500 for Alabama
coal. The Turkish capital is willing
to pay hat much for fuel delivered
from the Birmingham district but
coal operators have been forced to
reject all orders because they cannot
guarantee deliveries.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-11

compared with 2.241.oo0 bushels. h
average production for the ten year
period. The respective figures for
the peach crop are s9s 900 bushels
and 937, 900 bushels. Pears. $4,000
bushels compared with 6o5.0
Hay is estimated to yield f74.500
tons compared with 492, 600 the ten
year average.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-11

emergency tax. and should be dis
pensed with as soon as possible He
cnaracferizes ii as mo a thoroughly
scientific measure and cannot be made
one
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-23
The Lordly Party Wreckers.
From. the Macon News.

Certain representatives of that faction OF
the democratic party which put over the nom
ination of the party candidate for president
have taken umbrage at the suggestion made
by Mr.. Bryan that the party should proceed
to reorganze with the view of returning to
the fundamental principles of the democracy
as our fathers knew it. They are so I'M
touched by the colossal disaster they have
brought upon democracy that they are in q
high dudgeon at the thought of Mr. Bryan
taking any part in party reorganization and
proceed to outline what they themselves pro-
pose to do.
The language of the captain of the old
Bedford whaler to his uppity first mate comes
to mind: whats wanted of you is silence,
sir, and derned little of that"
And in the light of experience that is what
the rank and file of the democratic party
would say to the false leaders who have tenn
porarily driven democracy on the rocks.
What is wanted from the ward-heeling type
of petty politicians and the fantastic expon-
ents of wisconsin in general is silence-and
derned little of that.
This newspaper has never held any special
brief for Mr.. Bryan, except as matter of
party loyalty and belief in his sincerity of
purpose, together with his devotion to the
cause of securing prohibition by action within
the party. But in the recent campaign ne
not only stood personally head and shoulders
above the Ohio advocate of the wet cause who
became the democratic nominee, but in practl-
cal craftsmanship he has been more than
indicated.
In his Jackson day speech, early in the
year, he tried to induce Wilson not to split
the party wide open by thrusting forward the
unqualified League of Nations as the para
mount partisan issue and to put the country
on a peace basis, like all the other countries
with which we were associated in the great
war.
1t is possible that no human agency could
have saved the party from the disastrous re-
suits of wisconsin in general, but the fact
remains that if Mr.. Bryan's advice had been
followed we would have stood at least far
better chance of success than we did after
the San Francisco convention took its head
long course.
The democratic party will find safe and
sane leader, whether it be Senator Under
wood or someone else, but it will be many a
weary year before the blind and dictatorial
leaders who drove the party on the rocks
will recover from the stigma that rests upon
them today, and in the process of reorgani-
zation we want no faint of their methods.
They had better spend few years in fast
ing and prayer that the good God may re-
new in them pure heart and leave politics
to mean of greater candor and larger vision
We confidently believe that the great need
of the democratic party today is a return to
the recognized principles of democracy and
the practice of old fashioned honesty. In
the hands of time servers, egoists, offce-seek-
ers and the whole dynasty of peanut poll
ticians the democratic campaign drifted far
from these rugged principles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-23
In The Same Box.
From Alabama Farm Facts.

| Lots of people want to know by what right
southern cotton farmers have agreed to les
! sen production and some folks who know
nothing about cotton farming are harsh in
! their criticisms of the American Cotton As
ISOLATION for it's advice to reduce acreage.
The southern cotton farmer who has rails
ed a good crop this year and cannot market
| it except at price which spells bankruptcy
| for him and suffering for his family is in
| the same place as the corn raiser of the mid
die west who threatens to use his corn for
fuel if he cannot obtain price for his crop
covering the cost of production. There are
some people who criticize the burning of corn,
but DR.. H. c. Taylor, of the United States
Department of Agriculture, states the case of
the corn farmer-and for the cotton farmer
at the same time-in the following comment
brought about by letters to his department:
Farmers will not burn corn instead of
coal unless they are driven by economic neces-
sty. If the prices OF farm products are adj
justed to pre-war levels no more rapidly than
are the prices of things the farmer must buy
agriculture can be counted upon to continue
the course it has taken for many years; but
if the prices of farm products fall and the
prices of other things remain high the farm
er will be compelled to reorganize his bust
ness on a more nearly self-sufficing basis,
produce more largely to satisfy his own
wants, and give less attention to production
for the market. This would result in de-
cline in the commercial supply of farm prod
uctS.
American farmers are steady minded
people, and they would not precipitate the
nation into such course from base motives.
However, if the rest of the nation fails to
appreciate the necessity of farm prices hav-
ing a satisfactory ratio to other prices farm
erS may be forced to retrench to save their
homes and protect their families"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-23
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN.

Three and a half million children in the
regions devastated by the war in Europe face
death from starvation during the coming win
ter unless the hearts of America respond
to the silent yet appealing call to save them,
and unless American purses are opened to
provide the $23,000,000 which are needed to
snatch these children from death. The fig
ures are not fantasies. They are those OF
Mr.. Herbert Hoover, who knows the needs
of European children more intimately than
any other individual in the world.
He has asked the Literary Digest to be-
come the trustee of the funds which may be
raised to feed those children, and to conduct
the campaign of publicity which is necessary
to bring their sufferings to the attention of
warm-hearted and generous Americans
The children who must be saved now or
never are not confined to one nation or race.
There are 100000 in Poland. 1t might be
said that Poland should have been producing
bread instead of fighting for territory and
sentiment. That is true so far as it concerns
the adults, but the starving children are not
responsible for the wars Poland has waged or
for the militant spirit of their parents. Mel
Their are they responsible for their own COM
ing into the world. In neither instance did
they have a voice. But Americans do not
pause to consider such things when the cry
of hungry child comes to them. They feed
the starving and chasten the improvdent af-
forwards. 1t does not matter that AmerI-
cans have said in the past that the conditions
which now exist were inevitable. That does
not dry up the fountains of generosity and
humanity.
In Latvia and Esthonia the people, includ-
ing the children, have little to eat except
bread made from potato flour, oat flour and
sawdust. In Czecho-Slovakia, in Hungary
and in Austria there are 100000 children
who because of the lack of food during all
their lives are in a pitiable condition. Chill
dren 8 years old are just learning to walk
They are in the and 21A-year stage of de-
veopment. tuberculosis is taking its APP
palling tolls of these children. Food will
bring them back to health in most cases, if
the food is available at once. If it is not,
middle Europe will become great cemetery
Of starved children
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-23
BOLSHEVISM IN PRACTICE

In the days of Jesus the credulous often
asked what good could come out of Naza-
reth. The place had a bad reputation. 1t
was the place where nothing good existed
One has been led to ask what good thing
can come out of soviet Russia. But occa-
sionally something worth while does reach
the world from that welter of isms and con-
glomeration of ideals. A band of bolshev-
lists deported from the United States were
not allowed to enter Russia until they signed
an agreement to join the army of bolshevist
workers. That meant they must submit to
the discipline imposed, including the hours of
labor each day, the kinds Of work in which
they will engage, the remuneration they will
accept, and the compliance with rules of the
soviet under which they will be employed.
Those conditions are so different from what
the deportees enjoyed in the United States
that they strike the returned bolshevists with
horror and teach valuable lesson to those
who yet remain in this country In an order
promulgated by the head of the SOVIET govern
ment he said:
Roll call will be strictly kept in order
to avoid desertlon from work, which is as
dishonorable as desertion before the
enemy.
Those deluded bolshevists of the United
States who expect to return to Russia and sit
in luxurious palaces, feast at richly supplied
tables and wear the discarded ermine robe.
of royalty are learning that bolshevism a
work is drab slavery without any of the beau
ties of individual freedom. The slaves of thu
south were freemen compared with the slav
cry imposed upon the people by the sovie
government of Russia. Some good is coming
out of that country in educating the bolshev
lists to understand what awaits them if de
ported.