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The courier-index., 1920-12-03
ADDITIONAL LOCALS

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 The finest Sunshine fruit cake, made by the Loose-Wiles Company, put up in one, two and five pound containers. Price $1.25 per pound. Order today. Phone 50. City Gro cery. *tf
 w. N. Haley, L. C.. Tecmire, Esq. T. w. Gillian and Bud Blair, prom inent citizens of Rondo, transacted business in Marianna Wednesday.
 Chas. Izard, the gifted editor of the Forrest City Chronicle, spent several hours in Marianna We'd nesday en route to Hughes on busi- ness.
 Our regular $17.50 fine lambs mixed wool filled comforts, marked down to $12.49 during our Great Master Cut-Price Sale. Grove-Reed Companv. "1t
 Mrs. M. B. Lipscomb of Decatur, Ala, has been here this week visit ing friends and relatives. Mrs. Lips comb was formerly Miss Wilma Beazley.
 Fine grade extra heavy cotton blankets in plaids, worth S750, now cut to $5.69 at Grove-Reed Com pany's Great Master Cut Price Sale.
 St
 Mrs. J. E. Stevenson entertained the Saturday Auction Club last week. At the close of a number of interesting games a delicious sal ad course was served.
 Grove Reed-Comp2ny will sell reg ular $9.00 pure white cotton filled comforts, with silkoline covers, foi $6.69 during the Great Master Cut Price Sale.
 Mrs. R. A. McReynolds and little daughter, Maxine, of Senatobia Miss, are here the guests of MT and Mrs. T. <. Brewer at their home on the Horseshoe Plantation.
 You can buy 8 regular $3.5C clean, new cotton filled comfort with weli-,ied covering, for S2,19 at Grove-Reed Company's Great Master Sale. II
 J. N. Schichtl returned Wednes day from Little Rock where he anc his wife had been at the bedside ol their daughter, Miss Daisy, who underwent an operation in St. Vim cent infirmary for the removal o1 her appendix. MT. Schichtl vii return to Little Rock Saturday.
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CoUenanters WHI
 Render Program,

The members of the local Coven- anters' Society, an organization of boys under the leadership of w. l.. Brown and Edward Robertson, will have charge of the services at the Presbyterian church next Sun day night. One year ago these man. ly little fellows gave an exceptional ly inspiring program at the Presby- terian church and those who have manifested some interest in the development of the members of this organization anticipate a rare treat next Sunday night.
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WOMACk IS SENT
 IOFAYEITF,YILLE
POPULAR METHODIST MINIS TER NOT RETURNED TO MA RIANNA-REV. w. C. HOUSE, IS NEW PASTOR.

The Rev. Jno. A. Womack, for four years pastor of the First Meth
 odist church in Marianna, has been
 assigned to the pastorate of the
 First Methodist church in Fayette-
 vile. The Rev. W. c. House, form
 erly pastor of the Methodist church
 at Bristow, Okla, is the new pastor for the Marianna church. MT. House has wired here he will not be able to reach Marianna until the first of next week. MT. Womack returned Wednesday morning from Rogers where the North Arkansas
 conference was held, and he inn
 mediately began packing his house. hold effects for his removal to Fay etteville He and his family will leave tomorrow for their former home in Conway where they will spend several days before going to Fayetteville. MT. House, who will come here is MT. Womack's success sor, is a young man who has made
 good in the ministry. His family consists of only himself and his wife. He transferred from the Ok lahoma to the Arkansas conference only recently and the Marianna as-
 signment will be his first work in
 this state.
 The people of Marianna will, of
 course, extend warm welcome to
 the new Methodist pastor and he
 may depend upon the loyal and en-
 thusiastic support of his congrega- tion. At the same time the citizens here regret that Mir. Womack and
 his estimable family are to leave the
 city. They carry with them the very best wishes of hosts of friends and admirers.
 The full list of appointments for the Helena district follows:
 w. M. Sherman, presiding elder; M. N Johnston, Bay Village; T. H.. Yarbrough, superintendent Brinkley: l.. E. Mann, Clarendon; O. L. Cole,
 county institute; R. B. Craig, Craw- fordsville; G. w. Pyles, Earle; Jef- ferson Sherman, Elaine; A. E..
 Goode, Forrest City; s. M. Yancey,
 Harrisburg; B. c. Few, Harrisburg
 c. T.; M. A. Grave, supply; Helena,
 first church, L. L. Cowen; West
 Helena. John Score; Holly Grove
 and Shiloh, c. H. Bumbers; Hughes
 and Hulbert, R. A. Teeter; Hunter
 and Hillman, J. c. Crenshaw; Lexa
 and LaGrange, Lester Rowland, sup
 ply; Marianna, W. c. House; Mar we'll and Poplar Grove, Thomas |. Beck; Parkin, D. c. Coleman; Turn
 CT, E. E. Werner, supply; Vanndale,
 J. T. Hood; Whcatley and Haynes, J. E. Shell; Widener and Madison, I. D. Mcclure; Wynne, ]. N. R.
 Score; Wymne c. T., D. c. Billings ly, supply; missionary to Cuba, Henry Smith student Southern
 Methodist University, Fizer M. Noe; field agent Methodist Hospital, Mem
 phis, J. k. Farris.
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Wood 70 Stay On
 State Commission

Little Roc, Nov. 3O.-T. E. Wood of Marianna will be reappointed a member of the Arkansas Corpora tion Commission, Governor Brough said yesterday. Two other mem bers must be appointed, but the governor has reached no decision on these, he said, and will not until after he has conferred with Govern or-elect McRae, who now is on a tour with the members of the leg islature.
 The governor said yesterday that he desired to appoint men who would be acceptable to the incoming gov ernor, but at present the attitude of MT. McRae toward the commis- sion is not definitely known. It has been said that MT. McRae is not favorable to the commission as it is now constituted and Governor Brough yesterday said that while he had no objection to changes in the powers and functioning of the commission, he would like to have some agency with jurisdiction over public utilities retained as part of the state government.
 'I consider the establishment of the Corporation Commission one of the outstanding accomplishments of my administration" the governor said. "I believe that the state needs some definite body charged with the regulation of public service cor porations, and that the present com mission is performing this function efficiently. Forty-three states of the United States have such com missions, and two states which re- pealed the acts creating their cor poration control agencies later re- enacted them as matter of public necessity"
 Herbert R. Wilson recently elect ed highway commissioner, will ere ate vacancy in the commission which must be filled when he as- sumes the duties of his new office, and probably half a dozen men have been suggested for the place. Wal ter c. Brasher, the third member of the commission, is suggested for appointment to succeed himself.
 John T. Burkett, secretary of the Arkansas Penitentiary Commission, is mentioned as the probable sue cessor to Mr. Wilson, and the con sensus of opinion is that the com missioners will be Wood, Brasher and Burkett However, the gov ernor said yesterday that he had no comment to make, confirmatory or otherwise, at the present time, on the appointment of Brasher and Burkett
 Both MT. Wood and MT. Brasher twice were elected to office as rail road commissioners. The 1919 leg islature abolished the Railroad Com mission and merged it's duties in the Arkansas Corporation Commis- sion created by the abolishing act, changing the method of selecting the members of the commission from election to appointment by the gov ernor. The appointments will be for two, four and six years, one member to be appointed biennially.
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Lands Alligator Gar
 Weighing 216 Pounds

w. L. Starkey, who operates a fish market in the Alpha building on the east side of the City Park, has on exhibition an alligator gar weighing 216 pounds. The big fish, about eight feet long and measures over two feet in circumference, was caught on the ordinary set hook at tached to trot line in the St. Fran cis river just below the ferry land ing at Jeffersonville. When MT. Starkey went to Jeffersonville We'd nesday morning to run his line, he soon discovered he had whale of a fish. The gar fought viciously and it is almost beyond belief that the staging and small hook would hold fish so large. MT. Starkey had small rope in his boat. With this he made loop and slipped it over the gar's head and lowed the fish to the bank.
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tion of hunters generally to the bill. This should be avoided in the flu ture. And after all, it is not the sportsman with the hound that is doing the greatest harm. It is the trapper and the native fisherman and squatters who know every game trail and kill wantonly out of sea son that are playing havoc with the game The sportsmen go to the woods for a week or ten days dur ing the first of the season and kill a few deer and then return home, but the trappers and others kill them any time they see them re- gardless of buck or doe or summer or winter.
 The most effective weapon against all classes who are contributing to the extermination of our game would be law providing for a foui wear closed season on deer and tur key, with penal servitude if it car be done under our constitution and good big reward for any one who informs on a violator.
 Unless this is done in January il will only be a few years until oul game will be gone and the Joy of the camp hunt mere memory among those who annually spend 2 season around the camp fire anc along the silent traii.
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Sudden Death Of
 Cot. Woods Sister

Mrs. Lucy Wood Thompson, aged S3 years, died suddenly in Mem. phis on Tuesday, having suffered 8 stroke of apoplexy while at lunch. Mrs. Thompson was sister of Col J. E. Wood, veteran newspaper man of Marianna, and Mrs. Georgia Har- rington, also of this city. The body accompanied by Dr. A. B. Curry pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Memphis, by Phil Thomp- son, her son. and by Raiford Math- ews, arrived in Marianna this morn ing and was inferred in Cedar Heights Cemetery. Short funeral services were held at the grave by Dr. Curry. Sam, Northern, Vince James w. and Clifton Harrington and Maclin, Robert s. and Ewing McClintock, eight nephews of Mrs Thompson, acted as pail bearers Mrs. Thompson was the oldest ot seven brothers and sisters. The only surviving ones are Col. J. E Wood and Mrs. Harrington of this city.
 The Commercial Appeal of Wed nesday, gave the following account of Mrs. Thompson's death and sketch of her life:
 "One of the noblest women of Memphis passed away yesterday when Mrs. Lucy Wood Thompson died while eating lunch in the home of a friend. Mrs. Thompson was victim of apoplexy and until few minutes prior to her death apparently enjoyed excellent health for person of her age. She was 83 year old.
 Arrangement for the funeral were incomplete last night. The body is at the home of Mrs. James Matthews, 222 South Mclean Boule- ward, awaiting the arrival of Mrs. Thompson's son, Phil H. Thompson, who is on his way to Memphis from Springfield, Mo. The services will be held at the Matthews home and the body will probably be forwarded to Marianna, Ar, for interment.
 ''The deceased was the widow of Rev. Phil H. Thompson, we'll known Presbyterian minister, who served one of the local churches during the period of the Civil War. He died about 40 years ago. Mrs. Thompson was the mother of two children = Phil H. and George Thompson. The latter was a Pres byterian minister and missionary. He died while on missionary work in Brazil some years ago. Phil Il. Thompson is connected with the Aetna Life Insurance Company and lives at 1487 Central Avenue. One brother, James E. Wood, veteran newspaper man of Marianna, Ark, and sister, Mrs. Georgia Harring- ton of Marianna, also survive.
 Mrs. Thompson was born at Bol- ivar and spent the greater part of her life in Tennessee. She married Dr. Thompson in Nashville and lat CT moved to Memphis when he ac- cepted the pastorate of one of the local churches. Some years after the death of her husband she went to Fort Smith, Ark, to make her home with her son. The removed to Memphis during the latter part of last year"
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CONVOCATION TALK

Economizing means not the ac- emulation of money by taking un- fair advantage of ones fellowmen, but personal efficiency in it's broad est sense by the elimination of waste. Great men and women are not ashamed of economy. Civic conditions show that men hire la bor as cheaply as possible. The man who never accumulates any thing is worth nothing to the com munity and is not respected by his fellow townsmen. All that we prize in our city has been put here by people who practice economy. When we look into the subject deeply we discover that the very essence of all personal and business success is thrift. History teaches us that thrifty nations prosper and thrift less ones crumble away. A great proportion of human suffering can be traced to the lack of thrift and the person who best appreciates the value of it is best equipped for the battles of life. The day is coming in America when thrift shall be as much a part of the curricu- lum of our schools as mathematics.
 -E. NJ.
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The ElkS Memorial SefVlceS VIII be held at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. The chief address will be delivered by Dr. Jerome Marks of Helena.
 The finest Sunshine fruit cake, made by the Loose-Wiles Company, put up in one, two and five pound containers. Price SIPS per pound. Order today. Phone 50. City Gro. cerv *tf
 Sid Sutton of Little Rock spent Thanksgiving with relatives here. Mrs. Sutton and Miss Louise Sut- ton who have been visiting here, returned with him Friday morning.
 Max B. Rotholz and bride who have been here the past ten days visiting friends and relatives, left Wednesday for Memphis on short visit before returning to their home in Houston, Texas.
 Mrs. w. H. Wilcox and children have been in Memphis the past week. Mrs. Wilcox was called to Memphis by the illness of her fath- CT who underwent very serious operation the first of the week.
 John c. Harris, who has been em- ployed as harness maker in Hun ter's hardware store, left the first of the week with his wife and moth er-in-law for Ardmore, Okla, where they will make their future home.
 Our fine $11.00 extra heavy wool knap plaid blankets marked down to $7.8S. This is an extra special snap. Grove-Reed Company's Great Master Cut Price Sale. "1t
 Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Lynch and little daughter, formerly of this city now residing in Pine Bluff, spent Thanksgiving here visiting friends and relatives. Mir. Lynch travels out of Pine Bluff for the Morris Packing Company.
 "A solid, pure all-wool down filled comfort with fine satin cover, vel made and tightly sewed. Marked down from $2300 to $16.98. The Great Master Cut-Price Sale, Grove Reed Company *li
 A fine, soft cotton down com fort with blue or pink rose silka' line covering, worth $5.50, now sell ing for $3SS at Grove Reed Com pany's Great Master Cut-Price Sale
 %1t
 Rabbi Jerome Marks of Helena who will deliver the memorial ad dress here Sunday afternoon at tho Annual Lodge of Sorrow held by the Elks will conduct special serv ices at the Elks Home at five o'clocl Sunday afternoon for the Jews oi the city. The services are open tC all who desire to attend.
 News dispatches yesterday morn ing told of wreck on the Southern railroad near Seven Mile Ford, Va Among the three persons injured was Louie Wilenzick, formerly O. this city, now residing in Baltimore The dispatches state Mir Wilenzicl was badly bruised but indicated hi injuries were not serious.
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JOKES

FOR SALE-Greatest discovery of the Senior Class, liniment that will cure wounded feelings, tonsil- its, heart-breaks, boldness, reduces fat, cures corns, dyes hair, beauti- fies eye-lashes, whitens teeth and makes an excellent beverage. Sup ply limited. Apply at once to Ruth Felton.
 Beauty Shop Just Opened-Next door to blacksmith shop. l straight en and dye hair, give temporary wave and repair all complexions. Have your face strengthened and hair masSaged. Bernice Jones.
 FOR SALE Marvellous pies, made every Saturday night by Eva Car low Eat them once and you'll never eat any others.
 Expert Advice-How to arrange your hair with rats so they can't be detected even by cats. See Winnie Davis Roane.
 WANTED-A pair of soft, pliable shoes, size 15, preferably broad toed. Willing to pay as high as soc if satisfactory. Robin Benthall.
 WANTED Some secondhand, soft percale handkercheifs. Something nifty wanted in green and yellow shades Nell Thomasson.
 Latest Steps in Dancing Physics Wohble, Geometry Glide and Liter ature Lope thrown in for good measure. Studio hours from $40 to 3:05, Saturdays and Sunday ex- cepted. Maude Marie Goodwin.
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NEGRO HELD FOR
 STEALING CHECKS
HENRY M STANLEY ROBBED MAIL POUCH AT WINNIE AND SKIPPED WITH OVER $6,0o0 OF RAILROAD CHECKS.

Henry M. Stanley, a negro, claim ing Wynne as his home, was arrest ed at the passenger station here Wednesday afternoon by Chief of Police Dave Shea and G. F. Gam brell. The negro had gone to Gambrell's store to make some pur- chases, among them an expensive hand bag. He rendered Mr.. Gam brell a Missouri-Pacific pay check, made out in another name, for $50. MT. Gambrell at once be- came suspicious of the check and told the negro to wait at the store until he could go to the bank and get the money on the check. From the bank Gambrell phoned to MT. Shea but by the time they got back to the store the negro had skipped. They found him at the. passenger station and placed him under arrest. On his person they found $l5O Tn currency and two other railroad cheeks. Later it developed he had cashed one check at the Lee Coun- ty National Bank and another check at the Bank of Commerce. lnqulr- ies directed to officers at Wynne disclosed the fact that the negro with companion named Carr, had stolen a locked mail pouch from a truck at Wynne Tuesday night. In the pouch was about $6,000 worth of checks being mailed from the two banks at Wynne to a bank in St. Louis. The negroes divided the checks and had evidently aecumulat- ed handsome roll by cashing some of them.
 This morning a special officer of the railroad, the cashiers of the two banks at Wynne and Sheriff Reg Martin came to Marianna. They want to take the negro back to Wynne. In the meatime the postal authorities stated they want to take 'him to- Helena and prosecute him. Local authorities had not decided this afternoon whether to press the charge here, turn him over to the authorities at Wynne, or let the federal officers have him. A pecu- liar feature about the checks IS that while they bear the endorsements of the several parties to whom they were originally made payable, and while they passed through the two banks at Wynne, none of the checks exhibited here bear any endorse ment or cancellation of the banks.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-01
RECITALS
Knox Glee Club,

Knox Glee Club.
The following is taken from an &C.
count Of a concert given recently by
the Knox Glee club.
Each number on the program was
encored at least once, and most OF
them twice, sufficient proof that the
program was very well given. The
songs on the program were not the
very highbrow kind that glee Clubs
often attempt, when the audience
listens and applauds just to be polite.
but every song last evening was one
mastered by singers and sufficiently
within their scope to be given with
understanding. The first number
was encored with the Knox Field
song and the tenor solo with Dawn 2
The quartet. composed of Messrs.
William Becker. Richard Dykhuis,
Herbert Suhr and Allen Dicus. sang
splendidly. The last number, a group
Of Knox songs, brought back memo
ries to all the alumni and really gave
touch of the college life to the pro-
gram. The saxaphone trio, composed
of the Messrs. Gray. Lyon and Beck
er, put true feeling into their synco-
patton and played with true swing
that would make almost anyone
dance bit.
The club will appear in Keokuk
Monday evening under the auspices
OF the Baby Welfare league, at the
Trinity church.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-01
Worn Nerves

Nervous troubles, with backache
dizzy spells, queer pains and irregu.
lar kidneys, give reason to suspect
kidney weakness and to try the
remedy that has helped your neigh
bors. Ask your neighbour!
Mrs. c. Carmichael, 721 Carroll ST,
,Keokuk, says: Il was weak and run
down and my kidneys were disorder
led. Ny kidneys did not act right and
/ caused much annoyance. Ny back
ached SO severely 1 could hardly do
imy Homework. l had dreadful head
aches and was very nervous and
1 irritable. l think the trouble was
caused from over working while
housekeeping. | got box Of Doan's
Kidney Pills and in short time was
very much relieved. Two boxes
Scured me and l have felt better in
leyery way since. 1 can certainly
Recommend Doan's to anyone
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Carmichael had. Foster-Milburn
Co, Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-01
GOOD FRIDAY "
AT ST. JOHNS
Services Will Be Held There Tomor-
row in Commemoration of the
Day When Christ was
Hanged at Calvary.


Good Friday services at st. John
church, Fourth and Concert streets,
will be morning prayer and ante com
munion service at 900 a. m, at which
hour it is believed that the scourging
at the pillar took place. rs .s.-s
The three hours agony will be OBJ
served beginning at IL m, and con-
tinue till 800 p. m, in commemora-
ton of the three hours that our
Saviour hanged upon the cross.
All the people of the city are in
vited to attend this service as weii
as all other services Of the church.
In his invitation, the Rev. Mr.. La.
mont says:
Let us gather and watch with Him
as He hangs there on the cross, not
as the cruel mob watched in order
to see the sufferings Of the Saviour
of the world, but in loving sympathy
as St. John and the mother Mary and
the other Marys, with our hearts
wrung with love and sympathy,
realizing that it is our sins and the
sins of the whole world from the
beginning down to THE present day,
aye, even far into the future ages
that is the cause Of the Saviour of
the world to hang there and suffer,
the just for the unjust the sinless
fer the sinful.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-01
STATUS OF B
AMERICANS
President Wilson Tells Congress Thsf
No One Can Direct Troops in
Germany Without His
Orders,

WASHINGTON, Apr 1.--Presiden'
Wilson today replied to the resolution
Of the house asking for Informant, y
on the status Of American troops u
the army OF occupation in Germany.
Wilson today informed the hou .s
that mo one can direct their activi
ties without express orders OF uh'
president of the United States.
Field Marshal Foch can give no y,
ders to the United States forces Whea
are not approved by the president
Wilson wrote. i.
Replying specifically to the e
naming questions in the resolution,
the president wrote, II will state qua,
Field Marshal Ferdinand Focn mas ~ =
authority over United States troops ~ ~
German territory nor can any one =.
rect their activities without express ss
orders from the president OF u''
United States. 49,,
ut should be stated further lsa lie,
under his general police powers, uhu ual
the terms of the armistice, Genelas !.
Allen has FULL authority to utilize h.i
troops for the policing of the occupie ~
districts for the preservation OF oru e.
and to repel any attack which may ~
made upon him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-01
Hoover Club Of Iowa.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service
DES MONIES, Iowa, April 1.-The
Hoover club Of Iowa today began lay
ing plans to capture Iowa's delegates
to the republican national convention
for the former food administrator.
The organization was completed at a
meeting OF representative business
men OF the state, here last night. The
personnel of the organization which
is to be made permanent at meet.
ing here Saturday and composed of
persons of all political parties and
women.