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The Holly chieftain., 1920-09-02

Oscar johnson called at the w.
p. Grisier home Thursday.
Mrs. Lee Franklin called at the
w. p Grisier home Tuesday
Harry Kelley is attending the
Star Sunday School regularly.
LuntZ Bros. purchased thresh-
ing machine from Ben KOlbus
Mr. and Mrs COckrum and family
called on H. f. DavidsOn's Saturday.
Verd and Junior FOlke called at
the Bert Fritz home Wednesday
afternoon.
Mr.. and. Mrs Nick Owens son,
Virgel Lee, is quite sick at pre-
sent writing.
Carson TaylOr-is drilling another
well for Bob Mccoy as the first
one caved in.
Bob Mccoy had the misfortune
to lose two fine cows from getting
in the cane field recently.
Mrs. Roy Gilley and daughter,
Blanche and Barbara, spent Thurs
day with Barbara Zimmet.
George Frazee, Tom Maxey. v. H.
Kelley and Henry Schnabel have
purchased threshing machine.
MIR. and Mrs. Lars Hanson, of
Yuma. Colo. arrived recently to
spend few days on their place.
A number from Plains attended
the wedding dance of Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Motley, at Two Buttes We'd
nesday night, reporting an enjoy
able time.
The Social Department of the
WOman's Society of the Presbyter-
ian church. of Holly, will hold its
regular monthly meeting at the
home of Mrs j. G. Trefz, Septem-
ber 9th. promptly at 8 o'clock.
Every member is asked to be pre-
sent Come and bring your friends.
A very large crowd attended the
Old Settlers picnic on Butte Creek
Friday, August 27th Everyone en-
jOyed the races, speaking and ball
games between Plains, and Graz
NADIA, Plains winning. A big plat
form dance was feature of the
evening.
The Holly chieftain., 1920-09-02
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examination for glasses free.
NJ. A. Stewart was transacting
business in Holly Thursday
Blanch Stockton spent Sunday
evening with Mrs FiriestOn.
Marie Dawdal spent Sunday with
her friend. Gladys Wakeman.
John Pringle is moving the Ly-
man Hopkins barn this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hasy called at the
Crabill home Sunday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. George Parks were
Cheney Center visitors Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hart were
entertaining visitors from Missouri
the past week.
Mr.. Firieston went to StrattOn,
Colo, Sunday on busines. at his
old home town.
Clifford Stewart, one of our
SOuthside farmers. began drilling
wheat last week
A number from Cheney Center
attended the old. settlers picnic
Friday, and all report a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed JOrdom and
children, of Lamar, have been visit
ing near Cheney Center the past
week.
Miss Hattie Lewis. of Wichita, ar.
rived in Holly Saturday and is
visiting her brother, Charley Lewis,
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seed left Tuesday
for Denver after visiting few
days here with Mrs. Seeds brother,
Mr.. Govlff and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Moore and
Mr.. and Mrs. ROba Moore and
children, of Butler county, Kas.,
spent Sunday at the home of John
Taylor
Mrs. p Martinez and daughter,
Miss Canrrad Lena, left Friday for
Pueblo to visit few days, before
returning to their home at East
Las Vegas, N M.
Miss Margaret McCort, OF Mani
tou, Colo, arrived in Holly We'd,
nesday and will spend few days
with her cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lindsey at Cheney Center.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Briggs, son
Russell, and Mr.. and Mrs. G. Beam
ish, of Detroit, arrived in Holly
Tuesday and are visiting at the
home OF Mr. and Mrs. IT, B. Ken
nedy.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. G. Bower, of
Chicago, who have been spending
a week at Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pixies Peak, arrived Wednes-
day and are all visiting at the
T. B. Kennedy home. Mrs. Briggs
and Mrs. Bower are daughters of
Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. Bower
lived on the south side four years
ago and has many friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Briggs and son, and
Mr.. and Mrs Beamish leave in a
few days in their big car for Cali
f0rnia where they intend to make
their home. f~ss . E
The Holly chieftain., 1920-09-02
oh, You Presbyteriau.

Rmember our Sunday School and
family picnic is to be held on
Labor Day, September 9th, and
you are all invited. Meet at the
church from 1000 a. m to 1890 a.
M, where ears will be provided for
all. Bring your dinner baskets
and spend the day in the open.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A man is a person who will cheer fully loan stranger SIS and then holler murder if his wife asks him for 15 cents.
 Where one Bachelor has been Disap- pointed in Love you will find forty Married Men who have suffered the same experience.
 When Temptation wears a see-ev- erything skirt a man won't say Get thee behind mel He'll get behind it.
 The Higher Education is a greai thing. But a lot of the modern brides are so highly educated that they cant see anything to blush over.
 Why is it that a man will go out for a hot old time and then holler if he gets burnt?
 No matter how much care she takes of herself, ten years will turn a Will lowly Girl into Skinny Woman.
 When a mans salary is $s5 week and his household expenses are $40 per week, his wife spends a lot of time wondering what he does with all his money. rose. Even when a wife has her own complexion. her own hair and her own shape, you'll find that she also has her own temper.
 When the Ross starts taking the fe- male stenographer out to lunch. the betting is that there will be new ste- nographer on the job in about a month.
 Once in while man with so- prano voice marries a woman who is . basso profundo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
Democrats Held a Most
 Successful Convention

1R FILING did not have an meri-
 9G can political convention in
 mind when he wrote, "The tumult and
 the shouting dies, the captains and the kings depart" but these words might apply to the departure of the democratic hosts from San Fran cisco.
 The work was exhausting, nerve racking and expensive, particularly for those delegates who figured on spending no more than a week at the utmost in a San Francisco hotel, but it was well done and the results will speak for themselves at the polls.
 While not as many ballots were cast as there were in the memorable convention at Baltimore when Wilson
 was nominated on the forty-sixth
 ballot the San Francisco gathering
 was in many respects a record
 breaker. So far as enthusiasm was
 concerned, it made the republican
 convention in Chicago seem excessive
 ly dull and formal. The republican convention was a cut-and-dried af,
 fair, dominated by the bosses, while
 the democrats had no autocratic lead
 ership. It was fiercely fought bat ',tle for the highest honors the party
 can bestow and the best men won. Much of the bitterness engendereo by rival candidacies has already dis. appeared and it will be forgotten long
 before the election. With the pos.
 sible exception of MT. Bryan, who | is thinking matters over while his
 heart is "in the grave" democracy
 will present a solid front in Novem- Der.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
pockets for immediate spending pur.

pockets for immediate spending pur- pcs es.
 Some people have sold Liberty
 bonds to buy securities which brought them larger return. The same op- portunity, was within the reach of all,
 but the average seller of Liberty
 bonds has been content with the sin gle transaction of realizing cash money. The federal government has kept it's promises. He who raises the loud
 est cry about the low market price
 of Liberty bonds is apt to be of that class who would discount his ap- preaching pay envelope for money in advance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH

From the San Francisco Chronicle. 6N1HE southern states have at last swung into the line of modern in- 0 dustrial development, and as the figures are announced by the census of fee we begin to see the re.ults. Birming- ham, Ala, now has a population of 17s,z7o.
 an increase of 45,5S5 in ten years. basel
 entirely on steel. Similar results may be expected as we get returns from the tex tile centers. It is naturally to be expected that the greatest cotton producing district in the
 world should become the greatest cotton manufacturing district in the world, and
 that seems to be the destiny of the south
 err states It saves transportation. which means saving of coal, man power ana the use of railroad equipment to manufac- ture anything where the raw material IS produced, and the possibilities of power development are very great throughout the south.
 The south has been regarded as in the nature of a quiet patriarchy. in which A docile race did the work and the pa
 triarchs did the politics. Nor can any
 tody deny that in the leisure or sucn
 supervisory existence the south has pro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08

duced some of our greatest and wisesq statesmen and patriots. with George Washington at the head, and at the sop1 posite pole of thought and endeavor Thomas Jefferson, a great democrat. whose influence in later generation led to our civil war.
 All that is changed, and the nation has not been aware of it. Her modern hustle has reached the southern states. Indus try has intruded upon its once quiet pre- cincts, the cities are growing railroads have gridironed the country, wealth is accommodating, it's seaports are expanding to accommodate rapidly growing com merce, crops are being diversified, agri- culture has improved. production has in- creased and the hum of tho loom and the roar of the steam hammer are heard in the land. There are even some signs of an upheavaI in politics. owing to the growing conviction that competition is the life of politics, as well as business Possibly. however. there is less disturb ance there at the south than in tha nor I tangible and material things, whicn mako for prosperity and the general welfare We commend to our rapidly incrsaSir s army of tourists more frequent 5ossrres to that land of promise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
JUSTICE IN BORNEO

Gertrude Emerson, in Asia for July. OTJaE Dyak's earthly possessions are few. The number of his brass gongs and his Chinese jars is the in- dication of his wealth. Tools he has. Of simple but effective pattern, for cutting
 wood or shaping his long boat or for spearing fish His ornaments consist chiefly of brass rings. boar's tusks and tigers teeth. Clothes are a superfluity. He has some vanity, however, which ex- presses itself in his fondness for den- |tistry.
 Usually the Dyak files his teeth to a point in front. Not infrequently hole Is
 bored through one of the front teeth, a piece of brass wire is hammered in and afterwards polished off to form a con- spicuous stud The operation is exceed ingly painful and only the more brave among the Dyak dandies are willing to submit themselves to the torture. Any
 growth of hair on the face is looked
 upon with disfavor, and either the hair
 follicles are destroyed by rubbing quick
 lime into the skin or the hairs are tweaked out individually by the roots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08

The Dyaks arc instinctfvefy good natured and remarkably honest. Cases of theft of any sort are so rare that whenever one occurs. it is known all over Borneo. The sufferer has recourse to swift method of retribution and one that usually results in the return of the stolen property. He curses the offender. He calls upon the spirits of earth. air and water to assist him; if the thief is in boat, let him immediately be seized and devoured by crocodile; let him suf- fer slow torture from the levers of the jungle; let him be clawed asunder by wild beasts. That night, or the next day, after the rumor of the curse has gone abroad the missing article is more frequently than not restored to it's proper place.
 Lying, also. Is uncommon among the Dyaks. Brush piles are erected on the trails, each person passing throwing on a branch, to perpetuate the name and shame of anyone contemptible enough to tell an untruth. If the advantages of civ- ilization are lacking among the Dyaks of Borneo, so also are some of its evils
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
DEAD MUSICIAN ELEer

 Edna St. Vincent Milay. in Vanity Fair Let them bury your big eyes In the secret earth securely. Your thin fingers, and your fair. Soft, indefinite e-colored hair All of these in some way. surely From tho secret earth shall rise: Not for these I sit and stare, Broken and bereft completely; Your young flesh that sat so neatly On your little bones wil-sweetly Blossom in the air. But your voice-never the rushing Of river underground. Not the rising of the wind In the trees before the rain, Not the woodcock's watery call. Not the note the white e-throat utter1. Not the feet of children pushing Yellow leaves along the gutters In the blue and bitter fxii, Shall content my musing mind For the beauty of that sound That in no new way at all Ever will be heard again. Sweetly through the sappy stalk Of the vigorous weed.
 Holding all 1t held before, Cherished by the faithful sun. On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid. run, Bud and blossom and so to seed But your singing days are done: But the music of your talk Never shall the chemistry Of the secret earth restore. All your lovely words are spokoR
 Qnca the ivory shox is broken,
 Beats tho go2den bird no meeA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
Additional Information
 About Governor Cox

. Mhl OST of the daily newspapers 1 SVS in America have published
 biographical sketches of Gov. James
 M. Cox, nominated for President by the democratic party, but, judging 1 from telephone calls received at The
 Age-Herald office, curiosity has not yet been satisfied.
 N Governor Cox was born at Jack lsonburg, Ohio, March 31. 1870, the [ son of Gilbert and Eliza A. Cox. He
 received a public and high school edu- i cation, but his parents were poor and early in life he was forced to go to
 work. Like Senator Harding, Gov ernor Cox was a farmers boy. He ! worked in printing office and taught
 country school. Later he became a
 newspaper reporter and was on the 5 editorial staff of the Cincinnati En-
 quirer. In 1898 he bought the Dayton Daily News, now flourishing news
 paper, and in 1903 the Springfield Press-Republic. organizing the News League of Ohio, of which he is the head. He represented the Third, Ohio, district in the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses and has been 1 three times elected governor of Ohio.
 The work of Governor Cox in his home state made him a national fig ure. He is essentially progressive, as shown by reform legislation which he caused to be enacted, despite strong opposition. He has visited Alabama several times and has many acquaint- ances in this state. He is a personal friend of Governor Kilby, who en- Enthusiastically supported him in the democratic convention. MT. Cox has been twice married and belongs to the Episcopal Church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08

From the Sun and New York Herald. |NN 7HAT Maj. Gen William c. Cor NAVY gas, who died yesterday in Lon
 w don. did for mankind can be de- scribed only in terms of human lives He was a leader in the modern science of sanitation which eradicates the causes of diseases and strives not merely to cure the sick, but to preserve unimpaired the health of thel sound. Its practice cov- CTS whole countries. and its instrument case contains everything frdm steam shovel to an oil can.
 Havana, Panama, Guayaquil. in this hemisphere. the Rand in Africa. are names which instantly come to mind when General Gorgas is under considera- ton. They record great victories won against prejudice. ignorance and inertia It has been said that without the work General Gorgas did on the isthmus the of the Panama canal would have been impossible. It is certain tnat it was pest ridden and is now heaitntui place of residence. That Havana was once the home of yellow jack IS q race now almost forgotten. Only last week Inc Rockefeller foundation, with which Gen eral Goreas had been associated since ne went on the retired list of the army was able to announce that since June or ls1s there had been no eases of yellow fever in Guayaquil once the most dreaded stronghold of the disease
 But General Gorgas was not a man of on4 idea. He had splendid vision of effective reconstruction work for our sol- diers wounded in the war. plan which contemplated treatment beginning on the battlef,eld and continuing until every possible thing had been done for them. In this he displayed his gifts as physician. a sanitarian. . soldier and man.
 In the case of General Gorgas we have no cause to reproach ourselves on the ground that the world waited until he died to record its respect and gratitude. He was honored at home and abroad. For maj recognition of his good works came Ito him from governments, associations Of harmed men. snd from ths public general
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
HOW WE DO IT

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 According to the excellent Associated Press report of the San Francisco con- vention Saturday, it roared and pranced and hopped and cavorted and reeled and crawled and wiggled and screamed and shouted and hooted and looked for all the' world as if 1t had gone mad"
 Just like any other political ccnven- tion.
 And that is the way we make our Presidents, in a land where -the voice of the people is the voice of God"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
Who Cheapened the Liberty Bond Market?

THE government did not at any 0 time promise to maintain a par market for Liberty bonds.
 The promise of the government was that it would pay the stipulated in- terest on these bonds at stated pc, riods and reimburse on the principal when due.
 The promise with regard to Liberty bonds was no more vague than that with reference to War Savings. In he latter case the government stipu- ed certain return in interest and
 ncipal at optional periods of with
 val. Liberty bonds have but one
 mptio1 period.
 Qy have Liberty bonds gotten so
 n value? Because they have
 :. trsated as pocket change. They ave not been appraised at their ac- 
 tual value.
 A man would hesitate to withdraw his 4 per cent savings bank deposit at discount of 5 to Is per cent. Yet this is precisely what tens of thou sands of holders of Liberty bonds 1 have done.
 They rushed them to the market and cheapened the market. Canny purchasers, sensing the recklessness with which people were getting rid of them, offered less and less liberal discount. The purchasers are acting as investors; the sellers have been throwing substance to the winds.
 The vast majority of Liberty bond sellers did not dispose of them on ac- count of pressing need, but simply to realize cash in hand. They had no thought of becoming investors. They wanted coin to jingle in their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
TAKING VICTORY CERTAIN 'om the Kansas City Star.

Ministers in negro churches have been asked to offer a prayer in tAeir cess of the republican national ticket It Is said, also. that will Hays has one or two other plans for the campaign by which he hopes to slsct Mr. Harding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
pr. Wilder Here

pr. H. M. Wilder of Charlotte. N. C.. is visiting his brother. Dr. w. H. Will der, and other relatives in Birming- ham, He will remain for some days and then go to Galveston. and there by steamer to New York. pr. Wilder has not visited Birmingham before in ten years and remarks upon the wonderful growth and progress of this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
Benefits Derived from
 Industrial Welfare Work

TN a single issue of company 0 magazine published monthly by a large Birmingham industrial concern there are these items: A community sing, to be held once la week in the bleachers of the com psny athletic field, is to be insti- tuted.
 A big barbecue and community sing were held on July on company grounds.
 The compSpy has arranged for a portable motion picture machine to give motion picture shows in local church twice a week.
 A cooperative store is being con- ducted. Its earnings and the prices of goods obtainable there are listed.
 A column is devoted to the current results of the shop baseball league.
 There is a tabulated list of the benefits received during the month by seventy members of the shop Mu- tual Benefit Association.
 A negro band of thirty three per- formers is being organized, the com- pany to assist in buying the instru- ments.
 There being large number of ne- gro employees, a column of personals about them is given.
 The things that this company snd others in the district are doing along lines like these cannot but have a beneficial effect. Not all the items of welfare work are appreciated by all employees, but common-sense de- mands that the vast majority do un- derstand and realize what this stands for.
 The negro race. is quick to respond to this kind of treatment. The white man at first suspected trap, but, as time went on and he realized the soundness underlying welfare work and the. actual benefit inuring to him, he also began to feel like aoprecia- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
A REAL BENEFACTOR

ly. He was . real bensfactor of men. a1 splendid type of American. 2 citizerl whose service to his country will endure1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
E E g Humanly Speaking, Cox Sure to be Elected,

NEMOCRATS have too often had " a way of assuming that no mat ter who the party's standard bearer may be the republicans would win.
 And regardless of the weakness of the republican nominee many demo- crats, in recent years, have so often expressed lack of faith in their own ticket that it has come to be almost a truism in the early stages of the campaign that the next administra- tion would be republican.
 But that has by no means followed. And it will not follow this time.
 Neither of the two parties ever had a stronger ticket than the democratic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
EvERYBoDrs SAYING IT

EvERYBoDYs SAYING TT Why did you strike this mann" Your honor. he's one of these near humorists. He said the next President of the United States would be from ohio."
 'Umph! Discharged"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
CATTY

CATTY Mrs. Grabcoin has engaged a social secretary" remarked Mrs. Gadspur.
 But got even with her." said Mrs. Twobble.
 How so. my dear?"
 T passed~the word around that she hired social secretary because she doesn't know how to spell"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Want AIabamIans

Many young boys between the ages or Is and 2l years are applying for ad- mission to the summer training camp established by the navy department" says Lieut.. W. c. Roe. medical officer at the local navy recruiting station.
 Already thirty four have been &C., cepted and they are among the finest specimens of young manhood I ever saw. Alyof the boys are either fresh men in college or high school boys. and we have been instructed to assure them they will be home by September 1, in order to attend school next year.
 Alabama was only allowed limited number at first. but so many applica- tions have been received that the de- partment has allowed an unlimited number. These young men will leave Birmingham for Hampton Roads, Va. on the morning of July IS, and will arrive at their destination on the morning of the 14th. This camp will last for six weeks and all expenses will be paid by the government with the exception of railroad fare to the camp. This is splendid opportunity for the boys to have vacation and at the same time be paid for it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-08
Boost. His school

John Hopkins is one of the good medical schools of the country says Robert Hamrick, who is taking . medi- cal course at that institution. The laboratories. testing rooms. libraries and other equipment surpasses that of many institutions in my opinion.
 T also found the expenses there req sonabie. Before entering the college I heard that the expenses were unusual ly high, but experience does not bear out that statement" Mr.. Hamrick is working during the summer in the city laboratory