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The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1920-10-28
CONSTABLE SALE

WAN J&Aklxa
G. w. Snead vs.. Jim Men, No. 81, 9th
Ward, 9Th Justice Court, Blenvill;
Parish, Louisiana.
Under and by virtue Of a writ Of
execution issued out Of the above nam
ed honorable court and to me direct.
ed, / have seized and will offer fol-
sale to the last and highest bidder fol
cash subject to appraisement, at thu
front door Of H, R. Sledge's office In
Castor, La, within legal sale hours OF
Saturday, November 6, 1920
the following described property, to
wit:
One cot, one small calculating OF
adding machine, one telephone box, ant
a Judgment against Emmett Dodson In
the sum Of $500, less a $500 credit.
The above to be sold as belonging tC
the defndant, Jim Neff and to satisfy
said writ Of execution and all costs.
This the 18th day of October, 1920.
A. ID. STAPLES,
Constable Ward Five.
The Press., 1920-10-28
WELLINGTON,

-(SpeciaD for next Saturday only, Connecticut Valley Onions, No. 1, $1.0O per bushel and No. 2, 65 cents a bushel, at H. M. Hansen's Store, West Willington.
 Eddy Burdick assessor has been making his annual calls during the past week.
 Charles Korner has for two weeks been back on his long time mail route R. F. D. No. l., east from West Wilmington, and his old friends are glad to see him. It is said that he is to continue for the present, and possibly permanently, as MT. Mascinda after his long time of service, is in need of rest and change.
 All the teachers in town, save those at South Wilmington, board and are finding a pleasant home with MT. and Mrs. Walter Gayhon and Mrs. Gay. hons mother, Mrs. Ryan, at the Glass Factory Triangle, it having beer thought expedient to retain the schoo district system and transport tht teachers, instead of consolidating anl transporting both pupils and instruct OrS.
The Press., 1920-10-28

Jersey, visiting former teachers and classmates, having a most enjoyable trip.
 An event that saddened the first days of the week for the Hall family, for the older members of the com l munity, and for some at the Borough as we'll, was the news from Colorado
 Mrs. Alice Eaton Hall, 72, wife of Albert Hall, formerly esteemed resi- dents of Stafford Springs and of South Wilmington. Although they have lived in Colorado for nearly 1 thirty years constant communication | and occasional visits have kept their ] pleasant individuality fresh in the l minds and hearts of relatives and l friends. Mrs. Hall, who was beautiful in person and in character was active
 in church, Sunday school and socially much regretted. The burial was at l Willimantic in the family plot of
 Gardner Hall, ST.. in the radiant Sun-
 shine of Monday afternoon, Rev. Theo- dore Bacheler of the Wilmington
 church officiating and relatives from
 here in attendance, with the only
 daughter, (Etta), Mrs. Charles Peck and Husband of West Hartford, who on receipt of the news of her mothers serious illness went to Colorado ar.
 irving while she was still living and
 returning east with her stricken fath
 CT for whom great sympathy is felt
 MT. Hall is the youngest son of MT
 And Mrs. Gardner Hall, ST., and broth
 CT of the late Gardner Hall, Jr. Mrs
 Alice Eaton Hall was a native o Stafford Springs, daughter of Tim
 othy Eaton.
The Press., 1920-10-28
MY OPENING-UP SALE
IS NOW GOING ON.

I am ceiling a new stock of Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco at surprising prices. Cigars are going at reduction of 20 per cent. Camel and Lucky Strike Cigarettes are selling for 1Sc package or $l.75 carton. would be pleased to have you step in and look over my new stock. The PETER STEER SHOE SHINE PARLOR, l75 Main Street, next Comique Theater.
The Press., 1920-10-28
HOME NEWS.
LOCAL NOTICES.

Matter under this head 12 cents . line .. Lowest in the Market Prices. Compare before you buy, for it's by comparison only that the value of a garment becomes apparent. J. Was serman.
 Lower prices on Boys Suits and Overcoats, Hats, Shoes Sweaters and Underwear at the Modern Toggery and Shoe Shop. Agents for Crossett Shoes
The Press., 1920-10-28
$23O

Will buy the PROSTATE GARAGE we exhibited at the fair, the above amount including DELIVERY AND ERECTION anywhere in Stafford, foundation to be prepared by the purchaser.
 This is strictly an introductory offer. The regular price is $255, f. O. b., factory, and there Is no good reason why we should make this offer, except to show appreciation of the first order We shall sell to the first party who accepts our offer, and the offer positively will not be duplicated. So move quickly, if you are interested.
 handsome, substantial and serviceable home for your car at bargain price,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
BLOCK R. R. YARDS
It's Unloading, Not Hauling,
That Causes Tie-Up.
Railways Are Moving More
Freight Than Can Be Handled.

New York, May 13.-Freight con-
country with its resultant decrease in
the already inadequate supply of
freight cars, is more a result of the
inability of consignees to unload cars
quickly than inability of the roads to
move cars, railroad officials here said
today.
The roads were almost unanimou
in asserting that efforts of the recent
strike of switchmen and yardmen had
been contracted by the return of a
majority of the strikers to work and
the employment of other men to re-
place strikers still out.
Some of the present congestion,
however, was admitted to be the re-
suit of piling up of freight during the
strike, but this, officials declared, was
being speedily cleared up.
A strike of union longshoremen and
the refusal of union truck men to
handle freight moved by nonunion
longshoremen was said to have >
marked effect on the slowness of un-
loading cars and making them avail
able for outbound freight.
Plans to break the trucking angle OF
the tie-up were under consideration
committee named by six of the city's
Frederick A. Mo1itoe, who commanded
the Twenty-second engineers n
France, has been appointed by the
committee to organize an independent
trucking force, and overtures have
been made to the war department for
the use of 400 army trucks stationed
in and near New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
COSTS $50 Each
Sugar GOugers Trim America
for $6OO,OOO,OOO This Year.
Every One in the Business Is
Making Huge Profits.

Washington, May 13.-Sugar should
sell for IA cents a pound and pres
ent prices ranging from 20 to 25 cents
are due to profiteering, w. Jett Lauck,
consulting economist of the railroad
brotherhoods, told the railroad labor
board today.
Sugar "gougers" will exact a total
of $600.000,000 from the American
people this year, or $40 from each
person III the country, Lauck, who is
urging the board to grant railroad
men increases, said.
Income taxes for 1917 show that
sugar producers have earned 52.2S per
cent on the capital stock; 59.2 on
capital invested and 1853 on their
capital actually invested after all taxes
were deducted, he said.
Cane producers earned 27.28 per
cent on capital stock; 23S.34 per cent
on capital actually invested, and 1871. 04
on capital after deducting taxes, ac-
cording to Lauck, who said sugar was
then selling for TT cents a pound.
'If the producers showed such
amazing earnings then" said Lauck,
what must be their earnings today
with sugar lowering about 25 cents a
pound"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
is POLES VS.. REDS
Little Nation Fights Worlds
War Against BOIsheVism.
Hoped for Help From Allies,
But Will Take Burden.
IS NOT WAR FOR CONQUEST
Minister at Washington Out
lines Purposes of Drive.
Ukrainian Troops Have Occu-
pied Odessa Now.
IS NOT WAR FOR CONQUEST

London, May 13.-Ukrainian troops
have occupied Odessa, according to a
news agency dispatch.
Washington, May 13-Poland is
fighting the fight of the world against
Bolshevism. but it will continue alone
without asking the aid of the allies or
the United States, Prince Casimir Lu-
bomirski. Polish minister here, de-
clared in an interview today.
Prince Lubomirski is next in order
OF the foreign diplomats waiting to
present their credentials to President
Wilson. He probably will lay the Pol
ish situation before the president when
received.
Not War OF Conquest.
"Poland hopes that the old cultural
world will help her in the task of saw
ing culture and civilization from Boil
Poland be crushed. the Bolsheviki
would become united with Germany.
The war which was supposed to have
been terminated by the treaty of Yer
sailles would start anew"
The object of the Polish drive, he
said is establishment of a series of
Independent states as a barrier against
Bolshevism. Poland will rid these
countries OF the Bolsheviki and help
them to a strong independence, but
will not advance into soviet Russia,
Lubomirski said.
The states planned to constitute
this barrier are Ukraina, White
Ruthenia, Dithuania and Latvia the
latter two of which already have as
sumed their independence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
AGREED ON PRICES?
fContin led from Page One.

tContin led from Page one.l
and made price fixing combinations
with the following Kansas corpora
tons:
Anthony Wholesale Grocery Co, Anthony.
Ranney- Davis Mercantile Co., Arkansas
City.
Oklahoma Kansas Wholesale Grocery Co.,
Arkansas City.
Dolan Mercantile Co., Atchison.
Symns Grocer Co, Atchison.
Chanute Wholesale Grocery Co, Chanute.
Shellman wholesale Grocery Co, Ghanute.
Kansas Wholesale Grocery Co.. Coffeyville.
Concordia Mercantile Co., Concordia.
Dodge City Wholesale Grocery Co., Dodge
City.
Theo. Poehler Mercantile Co, Emporia.
McCord- Kistler Mercantile Co, Emporia.
lola Wholesale Grocer Co., Fredonia.
Fort Scott Wholesale Grocery Co., FIT. Scott.
Galena Wholesale Grocer Co, Galena.
Central Mercantile Co., Hutchinson.
Guymon- Petro Mercantile Co, Hutchinson.
Hutchinson Wholesale Grocery Co., Hutch
Sentney Wholesale Grocery Co, Hutchinson.
Henry Baden Mercantile Co, independence.
Independence Wholesale Grocery Co., indie
W. NJ Wade & Sons, Independence
lola Wholesale Grocery Co., lola
Jet Wood Mercantile Co, Larned-
Theo. Poehler Mercantile Co., Lawrence.
Rohlfing & Co., Leavenworth.
Bittman-Todd Grocer Co. Leavenworth.
Middleton Quinlan Wholesale Grocery Co,
Manhattan.
Ottawa wholesale Grocery Co.. Ottawa
Parsons Wholesale Grocery Co., Parsons.
SheIlman Wholesale Grocery Co, Parsons.
Pittsburg Wholesale Grocery Co, Pittsburg
Click Mercantile Co.. Pittsburg.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Grocery Co., Sa-
lima.
H D. Lee Mercantile Co.. Salina.
Theo. Poehler Mercantile Co., Topeka.
s T. Lux, jr., Mercantile Co, Topeka.
McCord- Kistler Mercantile Co, Topeka.
Fleming Wilson Mercantile Co., Topeka.
Jett & Wow Mercantile Co.. Wichita.
Behmann-Hfgginson Grocer Co, Wichita.
Wichita Wholesale Grocery Co., Wichita.
Winfield Wholesale Grocery Co., Wichita.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
DANIELS SAYS
tContinued from Page one.)

vicinity of the convoy. Sins's various
attempts to discredit the submarine
attacks reported by Admiral Gleaves
and the other officers, said Mr.. Dan
iels, are of a piece with his attempts
to throw doubt on the entire conduct
of the first expedition,
I'VE had no reason then and have
no reason now to doubt Admiral
Sims's own positive statements, made
at the time, that the convoy was at
tackled; the reports of Admiral Gleayes
and the official report of the French
general staff to the same effect. This
is not the first or only instance in
which Admiral Sims has stated before
this committee that statements made
in his official dispatches to the de-
partment during the war were not to
be relied upon
Mr.. Daniels also testified that Ad-
miral Sims had objected to the use of
the former German liner Leviathan as
troop ship on the ground that her
great length made her a better target
for torpedoes than smaller vessels. He
also said the admiral had contended
the ship should be operated to Liver
pool rather than to Brest because of
better facilities for handling her cargo.
His Advice Was Poor.
The navy department, the secretary
said, followed the admiraIs ADVICE in
the matter with the result that the
Leviathan. because OF her great draft
had to await an entire lunar month at
Liverpool before she could get out of
the harbor. Admiral Sims's views were
then disregarded, the witness said. and
the Leviathan operated out of Brest
where her turn around was meas
ured in hours instead of weeks and she
broke all records in the number of
trips transported"
Mr.. Daniels presented various Off
Gals documents to support his con-
tention that the convoy system was
originally sponsored by the American
navy and that it was not adopted fully
until several months after the United
States entered the war and had sent
many destroyers ana other craft over
seas thus providing the ships to make
the operation of the convoy system
possible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13

FURNISHED by B. C. Christopher & Coz
Chicago, May 13.-Tribune:. 1t is sail
leading eastern railroads have been ordered
by the I. c. c. to send cars to western
railroads for preferential movement of
grain from the interior to terminal market.
In February when the preferential was
placed on grain farmers refused to sell corn
at 1925 and below, now they are getting
S1.s5 to $3.50, which may be different.
1t was said at the close yesterday thnt
the corn market was more nearly evened
up than at any time in months. A feature
of the late trading was heavy buying of
corn and selling of oats.
Steamer was due here last night with
10000 bushels oats ana $4,000 bushels
barley from Fort William, Canada. 1t was
being brought by the Armour Grain Co:
for delivery on sales. Another cargo of
Canadian. oats is to be brought here by
eastern shorts.
May rye acted heavy from the start
Fairly liberal deliveries are expected be-
fore the end of the month. During the day
1000 bushels were delivered at Chicago,
200 900 bushels at Minneapolis and 100000
bushels at Duluth. A New York MESA ge
reported no export demand for ten days,
altho +. o. b price maintained on account
of the transportation situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13

Wall St, New York, May 13.-STOCKS-
Selling of steels, equipments, motors and
shippings continued during the first hour.
Dividend paying rails recorded additional
losses, Canadian Pacific declining $40
points, Atlantic Coast Line 2 and Union
Pacific. Illinois Central and L. & l.. i
point each Commission houses traced most
Of the offerings, other than those of pro-
fessionaf origin, to interior points, where
restricted credits, labor disturbances and
reduced business activity now prevail
Toward noon oils led a rally in which re-
of points for Atlantic Gulf, demand loans
were unchanged from yesterdays ruling
rate of s per cent but British exchange
eased.
Lack of buying power effected further
shrfnkage Of quoted values at the mod
erately opening of today's stock market
Overnight advices dealing with the general
industrial and financial conditions were
mostly of a character to give renewed en-.
enlargement to the short account, pressure
continued to concentrate in steels, equip
ments. motors and textiles. in which reac.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
BUY own HOMES
New Workers Spend 5000, 200
to Beat High Rents.
Cooperative Ownership Plan
Spreads Even to MilIiOnaires.

New York. May 1S.-Tenants have
purchased more than $75,000,000
worth of realty in New York in the
last year under the cooperative own
ership plan, as q protest against high
rentals, it was learned today.
OF this amount at least $25, 000,0 900
of the properties have been purchased
for private occupancy by the buyers,
while cooperative owners have
bought apartments and business struc-
lures for the remaining $50,000,000,
millionaires as well as ordinary ten
has gained considerable momentum in
the past few months.
No uniform plan has been followed
in either buying or holding. In many
cases, purchasers have obtained single
apartments in fashionable apartment
house districts either by outright buy
ing or by taking stock in holding
companies. Proponents of the
movement claim that substantial saw
ings have been or will be made on
their rent outlay from the profits and
economies resulting from their own
landlordship.
The first office buildings to be
scheme under plans announced today
will involve an outlay of $40,000,00O
the largest single real estate trans
action in the history of the city. The
buildings will be thirty-one and TWEEN
ty-five stories in height and will have
a floor area of 100000 square feet.
The skyscrapers will be erected on
property northwest of the Grand Cen
trail terminal, between Park and Madi-
son avenues, from Forty-fifth to
Forty-seventh streets. Half a million
square feet of floor space in the
buildings already has been reserved
for a group of corporations which
will move from the downtown BUSH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
INJUNCTION STILL STANDS?
Welty Says Government Can Prosecute
News Print Manufacturers.

Washingto May 13.-The depart
ment of justice can prosecute paper
manufacturers for the high prices now
being charged for news print in the
open markets by exercising rights of
the government under an injunction
obtained by the attorney general in
1917, Representative WeIty, Ohio, de-
clared
The Injunction, which was effective
April 1, 1918, and to continue until
three months after the proclamation of
peace, prohibited prices in excess Of 8
cents pound for carload lots and Il
cents in less than carload lots, until
the federal trade commission fixed
prices after an investigation, Welty
said,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13

Chicago, May DISQUALIFICATION
IL 900. Beef steers. strong to 2oc higher,
with best action on light and medium
held up to $14.0O; fat cows and heifers,
unevenfy 15c to 25c higher; bulk, $S.55g
IL 90; Gamers, steady with bulk at $3.50
steady: light, slow to lower, with bulk at
$11. OO@ $50; stockers steady.
mostly steady: spots 1Oc lower; top, $685.
bulk light butchers, S14.90@1515; bulk go
pounds and over $14.0oG14.75; pigs, 25c:
higher with bulk desirables at $4,000
400.
SHEEP-Receipts e,ooo Market uneven,
mostly steady; quality fair: California
spring lambs, 5000: bulk shorn lambs.
$17 5061S.0O choice light shorn yearling
Wethers, S16.25,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
ONLY GAVE HIM HEADACHE.
Sabctha Negroes Head in Machinery
Stopped the Power.

Sabetha, Kan, May 10. Clarence
Davis, negro laborer on a new city
building here, had some escape.
On his way to the garnet he chose
the freight elevator for a carriage.
Arriving, reared his head a trifIe
high. caught his hair, then his head,
in the cogs of the elevating wheels
and choked down the gas engine fur
ninshing the power. His cries at
tracted a crowd. The power was
stopped.
With a crow bar and sledge, his
wedged head was pried loose. Clarence
tainted. They thought him dead.
Water applied to his face restored con-
seriousness.
He was soon able to walk to the
doctors office and have a lacerated
ear attended. After which Clarence
walked home, five blocks away.
He complained of headache.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
-TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, May 13.-CORN-Special efforts
which western roads appeared to have be-
gun for the purpose of enlarging the move
Inent of grain to terminals tended today
to ease the corn market somewhat besides
there was free selling on the part Of a big
commission house that has of late led the
buying. Sunshiny weather counted also
as a bearish factor. Opening prices, which
varied from the same as yesterdays finish
to lie lower, with July SLIT to $1.77A and
September $1.635s to S1.64as, were followed
by a moderate setback al around.
Rallies took place, but lack of support
for the market became evident and prices
dropped rapidly at the last, with eastern
concerns offering freely. The close was
heavy, Use to "a C net lower, with July
$1.75A to S1.751a and September $1.62A to
S1.6215.
OATS-Oats displayed relative firmness
in the absence of any pressure to sell. AZ
ter opening sc off to 1sc up including July
at 931sc to 93Ac, the market scored a slight
general gain
OVISIONS-Provisions reflected the
weakness of corn. Trading, tho was light.
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
(The range Of prices on grain futures on
Chicago Board of Trade as reported by
Empire Commission Col
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
SHOP LITTER HAD ROUTE.
Sold Stolen Goods TO Buy Dope
Owners We're Surprised.

Salina, May 13.-Ora Carlson. a
confirmed dope fiend, is under arrest
here charged with systematically rob-
bling merchants. The merchants were
entirely ignorant of the loss they had
sustained thru Carlson's pilfering
habits until the police appeared with
merchandise stolen from their stores.
It was Carlson's custom to visit the
stores and take what goods he de-
sired. He sold them to get dope,
which is said to have cost him $35 or
$40 a week When arrested he had
about $25 worth of morphine and CO.
caine. A charge of grand larceny will
be placed against Carlson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
THIEVES CARRIED SAFE AWAY.
Valuables Worth $21, $50 Hauled Out
of X. C. Second Story.

Kansas City, Mo, May 13.-Thieves
last night carried away a ESQ pound
safe containing valuables estimated at
$21,S30 from the residence of David
Steinberger.
The safe was removed from the sec
ond floor and evidently hauled away
in a motor truck.
Police report said the safe contained
jewelry valued at $12,13O mortgages.
$4,000; building and loan papers.
$4,000; liberty bonds. $4,000; other
bonds, $1,000; silverware, $3.50; and
cash, $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
New Orleans to
Wear Old Clothes
By Mayors Order

New Orleans, May 13.-Threadbare
coats, shiny trousers, last years straws
and re-soled shoes were the order of
the day here, Signalling the opening
of the city's second organized drive
on the high cost of living.
Proclaimed "old clothes day" by
Acting Mayor Hicks as a part of the
campaign begun at Tulane university.
the celebration was intended to arouse
interest in the organization of the
Wearem and Patchem clubs. designed
as were the overall clubs to force
down the cost of clothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13

Kansas City. May 1s.-HoGs-Receipts
1000. Market 15c to 25c lower. Top, S14.10
bulk lights and mediums, $1400@14.50
bulk heavies, SIS. 50@14 %.
CATTLE-Receipts $500 Market slow
most packers generally steady; Colorado
pulpers, So. !5@1315; best yearlings
bulls, 5000; choice veal calves, strong
bulk. $11. 50112.50.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Fat sheep, 10c
to 25c higher; bulk wethers, 12.o0@12.50
warnings. steady; bulk, $16O0616.o5
spring lambs, soc lower; bulk. $1S.O0Q1S.50;
gnnts steady: bulk. S725MS.OO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
.LENINE Been OVERTHROW?
Continued Silence of Soviet Wireless al
Moscow Puzzles Allies.

MOSCOW PuLLICS AHltS.
London, May 13-Continued silence
of the Moscow wireless station caused
considerable speculation here today on
what may be happening in the Russian
soviet capital.
dispatch from Copenhagen quoting the
newspaper Politiken, said private ed-
vices had been received that a great
rebellion was under way in Moscow.
There were many fires, the Advices
said.
Officials were inclined to give
credence to this report because of the
silence of the Moscow radio station.
The last message was received here ct
2:30 p. m. May 8, when call intended
for all stations was interrupted sud :
denly,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-13
WEATHER

Continued from Page one.)
degrees below normal. The lowest in
the United States was "a at Denver
Flora predicts temperature of AS de-
grees tonight which will rise to 60
degrees tomorrow afternoon. A south
wind will prevail.
Extremes for this date were 81 in
1915 and 40 in 1890. AT o'clock
this afternoon the wind was blowing at
the rate Of II miels an hour from the
northeast.