Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-09

Fiction IOr OIner OllSllSSS.
A Jail sentence of one year and
fine of 81 was imposed In the
United States district court at San
year-oId counterfeiter. following his
plea of guilty. Smith said he had
passed bad money in the hope Of
getting into jail. as he was well
William Jennings Bryan, several
times the nominee of the Democratic
party for president. spent wednesday
night in Macon. Ca, on his way to
bis winter 5nosd home his in tied
tongue long enough to state 'that ne
wanted the next congress to make the
country so dry that any president
who violated his oath OF office by
failing to enforce the ne r,a ppfhl0''ioN
Missouri, with populatdio9na OF
3.4O3,547, an increase OF 1lO'I1Z, u
SIS per cent over 1910, when IL ra nS+p
place, according to the list thus tdr
enno1,nced by the census bureau. Gai-
ifornia. twelfth state in l9lV, mas
surpassed Missouri in populatlon''
Street car fares in Atlanta ad-
vanced from six to seven cents on
FRIDAY, the first day of OCTOBER, oy
authority of the railroad COMMISSION
of Georgia, which recently passed an
order allowing the Georgia Halfway
and Power company TO tlaAe
creases in all departments ..
The old swiadle Of passing cur eur,
rency notes Of the Confederate STATES
of America which has been worked
in England for years, is flourishing
again. Reports of the V1ctimlza ZION
of shopkeepers at ports have pee
reaching the American on bassy mere
in Increasing numbers recently.
A ticket seller at one OF the Dig
london railway syers s5a Eoglish bounds
for a $50 Confederate note, but pc
came Suspicious before the waiter
had gone far and had him detained
The police were in a dilemma as
thew could not distinguish the note
from good American money and fnal-
ly had to appeal to the American
embassy.
Estimates for the New York police
department for 1921, made public by
mands nearly double those granted
in the budget for 1920. The total
requests for next year amount to
$41,318.97692, an increase over this
year of more than $17,000,000. The
increase is largely due to requests
IOT larger SdldrlcS LUZ Oil 81 duCo IL
policemen.
A destructive worm closely re-
sembling the army worm has APP
Kansas, according to reports to the
agricultural college. The worms are
seriously injuring wheat and alfalfa,
especially new alfalfa, in which vol
unteer wheat has been growing. Ac-
cording to George A. Dean, entomol-
L. lnn
same general appearance as the army
worm.
The fall army worms are not diff
ficult to control and while there are
several methods by which this may
be done, the most effective and the
most practical method is to poison
them with poisoned bran mash.
A quartet of freshmen in knicker-
bockers and the first official appear
college campus were incidents in the
opening day at Harvard, which start
ed with registration early last week.
The youngest freshman was Fred
erick Santee, of Newcastle, Pa, who
was fourteen years old three weeks
year student enrolled at Harvard
since the days of Cotton Mather.
Santee's age prevented his admission
to the freshman dormitory, so, in
company with Herbert B. Hofflert, of
Philadelphia, who is fifteen, and in
snort trousers, he is rooming in an
apartment with the formers mother.
Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the
s1lencer for firearms, has now devised
house of silence" He has sug-
gested that apartment houses, hospit-
ais and hotels, instead of opening
their windows, could be ventilated by
air supplied through the roof. On top
of the main air duct a silencer would
gather up the noise waves which
come from monographs and crying
babies and, by series of spiralS in
a chamber of mountaineering ma
terial. take all the noise out of them.
When a crate Of eggs was dropped
at a railway station in West Vir-
gtnia, a few days ago, an illegal odor
hlled the air and a prohibition in
spector discovered that the eggs had
been carefully blown and the aper-
lures filled with cement after the
eggs had been filled with whisky'
Benedict Hotel. member of the
crew of the steamship Superior City,
on Lake Erie, oversight on q night off
and reached the dock at Cleveland
two minutes after the steamer had
sailed. That night she sank with all
on board.
Two prospectors are introducing a
seaplane into the Rice Lake mining
district, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, to
enable business men to inspect prop
critics in the shortest possible time
and make all parts Of the extensive
mining area easily accessible.
Major railroads of the country re-
corded a deficit of -$6.65S.42O in
with an operating income Of $780,
325,481 in July, 1919. according to
a summary issued by the interstate
commerce commission.
Operating revenues Of the roads
for the month amounted to S528, 1922
July, 1919, while operating expenses
totalled $511 ,773,300, against $685.
891,812 for July of last year. De-
auctions for taxes and uncollectible
accounts produced the deficit. Est1-
mated wage accruals, under the de-
included in July expenses were $685.
141, 1889.
Charles Ponzi, get-rich-quick
schemer, appearing at hearing in
the federal court at Boston, testified
that when he began his operations
he had assets of only $1,000, part
ly furniture and fixtures" He adj
sentative abroad, but declined, on
the ground that it might tend to in
criminate him, to say whether he
ever had a representative abroad.
Temperatures were below freezing
in all parts of Kansas last week
with the exception of eastern and
southern counties, the federal wealth
er station here reports, The low
where ice an inch thick formed.
The frost killed all corn except
that on the uplands, but the bulk
of the crop was safely matured.
The United States has more than
JOG, 100000 of people. This already
has been determined by the census
bureau. This information has be-
come known without an ACTUAL count
The classification of the people into
male a and female. white te an and black doas
by means of machines that punch
cards, Hundreds of employees have
been punching these cards for
months. Originally there were no.
100000 of these blank cards. There
is one card for each person. The
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