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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-11-25

The Marine high school gave box
social last week in an effort to earn
aoney to buy victrola. They real
:zed $9l and feel that their hopes
VIII soon be realized.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-11-25

While playing wien some other
Youngsters near his home one eve
nlng last week Douglas McDermott,
ssh of Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. McDer-
mott of Anita accidentally had fall
ia which his left arm was broken.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-11-25

The Guthrie County Board OF
Supervisors has had hearing on
objections to theestablishment of a
drainage district south of Bagley.
The objects were numerous and the
board adjourned the meeting until
November 80 when they expect to
make final decisions
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
FARMERS. BE STIRRING.

There will be a demonstration meet
ing at the court house here tomorrow
morning devoted to some Of the ital
principles of the fight on the boil wee
vii in this section Cotton is goi g
to be cotton next fall and the man
who gets by with a wagon loal or two
will be worth fortune, if be is hall
way economical in the making.
The calcium arsenate remedy will
be demonstrated here tomorrow by a
man who processes to know how to get
best results. If you are live farmer,
you should be on hand and listen AS
to following advice, that is another
point You must be the judge. The
point is, you will have opportunity II
learn something about a vital cotton
production problem and you should
hear it.
There will be some other matters OF
equal importance to present and your
local farm demonstration agent has
tried to impress you with the imDof-
tance Of attending this Friday meet
ing.
1t is fine weather--crop making
weather! You feel like you must be
in the fields, but steal away enough
time to get this program at the couro
house about eleven O'Clock. It will
be put on specially for you. 1t isn't
worth dime to anybody else here
directly speaking They can get
nothing out Of it except through your
successes. You are the man to at
tend the meeting. Farmers, he IN
and stirring. These experts you were
taught long ago to spurn and ridiculo
have learned, like you, that the man
who farms must be practical. You
will get some practical advice What
you vii! learn will be worth some
thing.
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25

thusiasu ana fishing rccrcationistS as
; well as other good thing. The fisher
men are going to have
their fun We might is well
meet and plan program which will
permit the baseball crowd to get theirs
This porticn of the inhabitants of this
cosmopolitan city is a much larger
element than the seers and weather
daddies know about. 1t will surprise
you how many people we can crowd
inside the park gates at a hair raising
contest
But we must have q good team,
some financial support and few other
things that are altogether 1eachable
and possible in this community and
then the interest will rise rapidly. It
takes some few things TO get throug J
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
BETTER THAN
QUININE FOR
NJ A [ A R | A

Without doubt Ameco Chill and
Fever Tonic is the most wonderful
medicine in the world for malaria
fever, bilious fever and chills and
fever. Ameco is the deadly enemy of
malaria.
The minute you take a dose of
Ameco, you can rest assured you
will miss that dreaded chill day.
"it kills the chilIs."
A few doses breaks the rever and
after taking one or two bottles as a
This is the sacrlet fever season,
Warns the United States Public
Health Service. A clean, sanitary
mouth will help to prevent it. Com
pei the children to brush th1ir teeth
regularly and keep the mouth clean.
tonic the fever will not return.
Ameco will also cure any ordinary
cold in "a hours.
Try a bottle of Ameco. You will
be agreeably surprised how quickly
and thoroughly it does the work.
Every bottle guaranteed. Price ,25
cents.
Pridgen Brothers, Wholesale Dis
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
DE VALERA TO SPEAK
TO SAVANNAH PEOPLE

Savannah Ga March 24-Eamon
de Valera, provisional president of
the republic of Ireland, will address
Savannah people on April 13. He will
be accompanied to Savannah by Rev,
Dr. j. A. H. Irwin, Presbyterian
minister of Belfast, Ireland, and Mrs.
Irwin will also be in the party. Ar
,rangements for the occasion and the
entertainment of the visitors have
been made by the local organization
of the Friends of Irish Freedom
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
THE SEAS ARE OURS.

Real Americans have never claimed
stock in campaigns against the Brit
sh in this country Friendship for
he English is almost as natural as il
s for the Canadians. and they are
British. 1t is not wrong for an Amer
can to say he is friend of England,
This we hold in the fact of many
strong efforts of late to create ha-
red for the British in this country
Here is one of the many artful little
press bureau stories YOU might term
1nt-British propaganda:
"The seas, one might almost say,
belong to England" says Lady Astor,
the woman member of the House Of
Commons, who is a native American.
The Philadelphia Record character
ICES the statement as inaccurate ~
well as imprudent, and then goes on to
say: Germany came very near de-
priving tMglaud of the seas. The Brit
ish Admiralty was almost in a panic
over the success of the submarines.
If we had not gone to the rescue Of
England with our navy andso our aston
ishingly sudden construction of ship
yards. it is not at all certain that Lady
Astor would have had ehance to con-
nit her serious mistake. The United
States went to war because we msis-
ted that the seas are ours as much rs
they are anybodys."
British statesmen, we dare say in
their hearts have no aspiration to out
strip this country in control of the
seas One of the hardest things for
men anywhere under any sun to be
ueve would be a claim that England
and America might sometimes clash
in war That is as neariy an impossi-
bility now as civilization can make it.
Englaud's livelihood is on the seas,
Its greatness depends upon great
ships and great ocean trade routes be
cause it is an island contry. Its peo-
pie must know world commerce. But
in knowing the livelihood of'tho secs
the British need not have to bear the
! enmity and a mean jealousy of an
/ other a younger, but a more powerful
/ nation, mcmber of its own branch OF
the human race, because that trade
strengthens the British at sea. The
/ seas are ours according to the Brit.
| ish view of it, no matter what the
ua conditions may le.
:
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25

ings outside OF the democratic
party, against. the democratic admin
istraton, and the brilliant statesman-
ship. deep forethought and wisdom,
of the leaders Of our panty when they
put the finishing touches on the great
est agency for peace and civilization
ever given tC the world--the peace
treaty and the league.
Does he think we do not understand
the difference between his course in
Washington and the course the dem
ocratic administration was trying to
bring to a glorious perfection in the
ratification of the Versailles treaty?
Does he think by camoufiage he can
cause Georgians to overlook the part
he had in the butchery, the wrecking
program in the United States senate?
He reckons amiss if he thinks We
do not kon what money went into
the elections of Newberry in Michi-
gan in order that the republicans
might have the right 10 name the for
cign relations committee in the senate
in order that by naming this corr
mittee the republicans might destroy
every hope Of the ratification Of the
treaty and thus block the finish Of the
most brilliant program in war this
country has had since the beginning
of its career. lie fails to take into ac-
count that the voters Of Georgia know
II was democratic achievement thus
wrecked and ruined. In his announce
meat as a candidate for presidential
horrors in Georgia, he assumes that
we dc not know he ran with the gang
that planned the wreckiog program
slept w!th the traitors, thought witt
them voted with them every time n
could
Geots.ans who glory in party
achievement may be charitable They
may love Georgia and Gcorgans.
They may stick to the old party, bat
they know Hoke Smith. They know
Reed and IIardwick There isn't any
difference in their political program
here The aim OF all Of them is 10
wreck the greatest, the croWning ef
fort OF the democratic pariy. a pur
pose worthy of any people in any age
When HCke comes down from Wash
ingtcn to assail that part of the record
OF your party. stand up, wear your
loyalty deep in your heart aud hurl
bis charge back at him. In Georgia
we are still democrats!
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
RASEB BALL!
thing.

Tomorrow afternoon the baseball
enthusiasts Of Cordele will meet at
the assembly room CT the public ii
hfary at six o'clock to ascertain
whether a ball program can be estab
hshed and carried out this summer
The move is a serious one. not an Idle
whim Those who want baseball
should be in the meeting.
Cordele has plenty of baseball en-
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
WE ARE STILL DEMOCRATS

WE ARE STILL DEMOCRATS
"The wise course for the Democrat
ic party is to base its campaign Oh
the great achievements Of the Demo
cratic Administration and the Demo
cIatlc Congress" This is a statement
frora Senator TIofo Smiths annou-ce-
ment rs q candidate for the presden-
cy of the United States in the prefer
ential primary in Georgia in April.
That statement brands him as the
most foolish man in the public eye in
Georgia or else its brands thc busy
voters who have no time 30 read, as
the greatest army of incapables ever
delivered in any mans vest pocket
If the Democrats base their cam
paign on party achievements, there
will be many a strong argument for
approval OF the democratic program
but any such 4 course cannot include
Hoke smith lie holds one of the two
places of honor for Georgia in Wash
ington-n administration councils
has held that place from the begin
ming to the end of the war From the
outset be threw his strength againtt
the administration and to the very
end that strength hung as great
stone about the necks of the leaders
of the party and the ADMINISTRATION
lie did all he could to block demo
cratic accomplishments both in the
prosecution Of the war and in the es
tablishment of a reconstruction pro
gram He not only condemned party
effolts and administration programs
but he joined the enemy and tried tC
destroy both proaam aad party pow
ei.
Now, he comes back homo. and ad-
monishes the voters that X party
should stand on aohicyemeo&md in
clude Him by approving his course
choosing him as Georsia's favorite lor
the presidency! The people of Geor.
gia repudiated the war program Of
Tom llardwick some months ago
Ioke Smith was the daddy OF chat pro
gram. The thing ne is asking Geor
gians to approve in the preferential
primary in April is that program plus
what he could do since llardwick was
thrown overheard to prop il up and
make it stand alone If the voters of
Georgia approve il when Iloke Smith
comes down from Washington With
tha hic voice If will he because they
are fooled into it. And as for us, it
;s hard 10 ho,ievo thcv ore ,bat easily
fooled.
rodse and Rorah and Reed ana
smitb-tbot nresrmrtiops no,iticaI
Goliath loves n bo written down in
that comnanv, He assumes that
Ceorgians love ia see his name in that
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
Members Of The Associated press.

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25
Subscription Price-DaiIy

Entered at the postofIice, Cordele, Ga.
as Second Glass Matter, under Act
of March 3, 1879.
The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-25

that ought to be provided in the meet,
ing tomorrow and it is your duty to
go down and lay the plans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30
NOTORIETY PUT UNDER BAN
British Vaudeville Actors Refuse to
Perform on Same Bill With
Eloping Girl Given Big Contract.

London, April 30.-Great Britain s
theatrical profession has taken a stand
intended to prevent persons being Of
fered nattering contracts for -vaude-
vile turns" merely because notoriety
had chanced to bring them before the
public eye.
A girl violinist recently disappeared.
leaving her clothes on the bank Of the
Thames and q note saying it would be
useless to search for her. Newspapers
published front page appeals from the
girls parents. garnished with box car
headlines and three column portraits,
asking her to return
A few days later it developed she
had eloped with a young Frenchman.
Then theatrical agents got busy and
the girl was offered $500 a week 70
do a ten minute act" on the vaude-
vile stage
But meetings of actors and vaude-
Vile artists associations were held and
the word went forth that none of their
members would participate in an en-
tertainment in which the girl was or
the program. The offer to the girl
was withdrawn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30
Killed So Many of His Wives
He Can't Just Remember All
Details, He Says in Confession
Modern Blue Beard Held in Los Angeles Is Charged With
Disposng of Twenty-Five Women-Can Remember
Killing Two of Them-Had Been Resident
of Pttsburg, Kan.

HURT, according to the officers, under
the name of Milton Lewis at Coeur
d'Alene. Idaho, March 25, 1919. She
had little property. Her picture and
some tax receipts in her name were
among Hurts effect when he was
arrested, they added.
Charge More Than 25 Marriages.
More than twenty-five marriages
have been attributed by the officers
to HURT. Seven are listed by the Of
ficers as missing. They include beside
the four named in the alleged confess
sion of Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, Seattle;
Beatrice NJ. Andrews, of Canada and
England, and Agnes Wilson, Alberta
Canada. The first to die, according
to the alleged confession was Miss
Ludvigson.
HURT was quoted as saying he was
in a boat with her fishing in a river
in Idaho, his memory was weak as
to the exact time and location. The
boat he stated. jammed against logs
which were lashed to the bank of the
river and he and Miss Ludvigson tried
with their arms to free the raft. When
1t broke away, he narrated. the
woman lost her balance and fell into
the river and was drowned.
He said the death of the Goodnich
woman came about in this way: He
was on a launch with her on Lake
Washington, the water was rough and
she fell overheard in trying to go from
the stern to the center. Later on, the
officers said, HURT himself referred
to this death as "a murder"
In the Pryor case. the officers said,
he asserted the woman attacked him
with a hat pin in a house at Plum
and he to defend himself. showed her
so violently that she fell and struck
her head against the corner of a box.
He believed she was dead. he was
said to have declared, but to make GER
tain, he got a hammer and struck her
on the head with it.
The Deloney woman. he was quoted
as saying, he killed at a camp they
made near Signal hill, at the edge of
Long Beach, Cal, January 26, last.
That was the day they had left the
Santa Monica hotel in an automobile
equipped with a camping outfit. AT
their first camp he was quoted as say
ing they quarreled about letters he had
received from other women.
Used Many Aliases.
He added. the officers said, that he
killed her with a hammer and carried
her body to a place near San Diego
where he hid it.
The officers said HURT told them he
did not know his right name, but ad-
mitted having used many aliases.
He said he knew nothing of his
parents. but did know he. was born
somewhere in the south. He said he
had little education. "A desire to killi
came over him, according to alleged
confession, about four years ago dur
ing the war
He said he married first in Canada
about that time. but had been mar
JContinued on Page Twol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30
Geography Hit
In Kansas Due
to Late Strike

The outlaw switchmen's strike
threatens to slow down the study Of
geography in Kansas. Presses in the
state printing plant may be stopped
until three cars of book paper can be
found and brought to Topeka. The
paper is needed to complete the print
ing OF Biographies.
Recently the state plant began the
printing of 270.000 new geograp phies
for use in the public schools Of this
state. A portion of the needed book
paper was received when the new
books were cent to the press rooms.
Now some of the presses are being
held awaiting arrival of necessary pa
per. That the entire job might be
held up was indicated today.
Three cars of paper needed to COM
p1ete the work has been started from
the mills" said Imri Zumwalt. state
printer. THE switchmen's strike
seems to have been responsible for
delays in bringing the paper TO To-
peka We have been unable TO locate
the shipments and may be forced 70
hold the presses until the new stock
arrives"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30
Year Ago Today
Victorious 10th
Paraded in City

Just one year ago today the 10th
engineers, veterans of the world war.
marched up Kansas avenue on their
return from the front
1t was a great day in Topeka. From
all over the state came relatives to
welcomes home their sons, brothers.
husbands and sweethearts. Thousands
of persons thronged the streets along
line of march. Yet. it was an awed
silence that prevailed as the khaki
clad marchers, tired and footsore after
two days of incessant parading, ap-
peared on Kansas avenue.
At the state house relatives awaited
in a roped-off enclosure for the SOL
diers, where they might visit for an
hour before the trip TO Fort Riley was
resumed.
There were five companies in the
regiment, which was commanded by
Col. E. NJ. Stayton. Companies A and
B were from Topeka. The engineers
made an enviable record in the war.
In July, 1919. less than three
months after his return. Sergt. W. W.
Gilmore. 1900 Kansas avenue. a mem
Der of the 10th. was killed when a
tractor he was driving up an embank-
ment fell over backward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30

Los Angeles, April 30.-At least two
Of the numerous women James R.
HURT is alleged to have married in
various parts of the country were
murdered by him. two others met "ac-
cidentar deaths while with him, and
he might have murdered more" ac-
cording to an alleged confession made
public early today by his attorney and
county officials. HURT said he could
not remember" what happened to
some of the women because of his
still weakened condition resulting
from two attempts to commit suicide,
the reputed confession said. HURT has
been held here several days while
officers investigated reports of num-
erous marriages.
He married twelve or fifteen women.
probably more" the officers quoted
HURT as saying. A desire to kill OBJ
sessed him four years ago, HURT was
alleged to have said and women were
his especial victims. There was no
direct motive for their deaths and he
had no desire to kill men, children or
animals, he was quoted.
The women HURT confessed having
slain were Nina Lee Deloney and
Elizabeth Pryor, the officers said.
They quoted HURT as saying he killed
the former at Long Beach, Calf. with
a hammer and the latter near Plum,
Wash, by crushing her head with a
sledge hammer.
Drowned Two of Them.
The partial confession according
to the officers. related to the deaths
of Bertha Goodnich and Alice Lud-
vigson, who were said to have married
HURT Miss Goodnich, the officers
said, was tipped out of boat in Lake
Washington near Seattle and Miss
Ludvigson was drowned in a river in
Idaho. Hurts actual words in con-
nection with the deaths of Misses
Goodnich and Ludvigson. the officers
said, were that they were killed "by
accident"
Nina Lee Deloney, whose home was
at Eureka, Mont, married HURT, the
officers said. under the name of
Charles n. Harvey at San Francisco,
Dec. 5. 1919. She was last seen at a
hotel at Santa Monica. CalifS January
I2e, 1920. She had property valued at
Hurts possession. the officers de-
clared Bertha A. Goodnich of Spo-
kane, Wash, married HURT, they said
under the name of H. L. Gordon, June
IL, 1919, at North Yakima. Wash, her
body was found near Plum station,
Wash, a short time afterward. Trunks
belonging to her were located in a
Vancouver, Wash, warehouse.
Alice NJ. Ludvigson. whose home
was in Seattle, married him under
the name of Andrew Hilton, the Off
Townsend, Wash. Property of hers,
various papers, her will and their
marriage" license, they declared were
found in Hurts possession. Eliza
beth Pryor was a waitress of Wallace,
Idaho. and Spokane. She married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30

Cloudy. threatening and unsettled
weather with a tendency to increasing
chilliness are the conditions scheduled
by S. D. Flora, state meteorologist, in
his forecast for the next "a hours.
Widely scattered showers will occur in
the state, Flora says. Rain is not ex-
pected at Topeka before Saturday
night.
A low pressure area over Utah this
morning is moving eastward. Flora
says this will produce unsettled
weather. Altho a temperature of 50
degrees is predicted for tonight, frost
is not expected. In tnirty-two years
killing frosts have occurred in Kansas
five times in May.
Rain occurred during the night in
the eastern half of Kansas; Precipita-
ton in Topeka last night amounted to
22 of an inch. other reports were:
Emporia, .25 Manhattan, "a; Kan
sas City, .26. Rain and hail occurred
at Emporia. Rain was reported from
Topeka to New York City during the
last tWenty-four hours.
A temperature of SO degrees. re-
ported this morning at Dresden and
Goodland, gave Kansas the question
able honor of being the coldest place
U'onttnued m paRe TWO.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30
PUBLIC UTILITIES ABOUT BROKE.
Hundred Million to Put Chicago,s
Light, Heat and r. RS on Feet.

Chicago, April 30.-Chicag go's public
utilities are near ruin, experts de-
clared today. One hundred million
dollars is needed Immediately to put
the city's gas. light. heat and trans
portation companies on a firm basis
Samuel insult. president of the Com
monwealth Edison company, declared
Experts testifying yesterday before
the public utilities commission de-
clared banks refuse loans to utilities
companies. Low returns on utilities
are responsible, according to testimony
submitted. insult declared his COM
pany could not borrow money at ten
per cent interest
The financial strain since the ar
mistice has been greater than during
the war. according to experts here
They said the volume of currency is
diStended but there is a greater de-
mand. tighter money and higher in
terest