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Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21
MORROW VISITS HARDING
BY ASSOCIATED Press

10y ASNOclateu IreSSl
Marion, O., Dec. 21-On President
elect Harding's appointment list to-
day was Senator Miles Poindexter,
member of the Senate irreconcilable
camp to the Versailles league, and
Governor Morrow, of Kent'lcIy, bitter
opponent of the unreserved ratifca-
ton of the Versailles treaty.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21

The navy department IS prepa'
ing to build the biggest aircraft
yet out, it having a large passen-
gen capacity. and it IS sac that
it will easily be the king of the
air.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21
WOMEN MARCH WITH MEN
TO ABOLISH GAMBLING
IN Assnciated Prassn

VBN -NSSOCIaJeU FreSsI
Newport, KY, Dec. Pin an anti
gambling demonstration here today,
hundreds of men and women marched
to the city hall and demanded the
City Commissioners an other cficiaE
to stop gambling and rid the city of
gamblers.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21
Boy Breaks Ankle

Sunday afternoon while climbing
a tree for mistletoe. Nelson Mink,
son of Mrs. Thomas P. Mink, fell,
breaking his leg just above the
ankle.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21

Field goals: McCubbin s.; Fox L
Stone 1; Van Wrinkle d Stevenson
1. Goals from foul: Malloy 1; Nc
Cubbin 1; Van Wrinkle 8.
Referee: Keith, Oxford.
Umpire: Williams, KY. Wesleyan
Scorer: Gentry; timer, McClain.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21

a Cleveland, O.. woman has
been arrested for moonshining,
She states she operated the still
in order to provide for her hus-
band, who is blind.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21

Col. Robert H Coffey is here today
with friends from Youngstown, o.,
where he is prominent business
man.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-21

All merchants of Richmond
have agreed to remain open until
6 o'clock>each evening this week. !.
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

now, with the Bakers and the Mere
diths officially 'in town" for the rest
of the summer and the Burlesons just
back from southern Maryland, hav-
ing spent several weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Grain at Mt. Victory. The
Secretary of the Interior. Judge John
Barton Payne. is very much on his
lob, and David Franklin Houston,
Secretary of the Treasury. is return
ing to his desk just about now, after
having had "A bit of a holiday with
Mrs. Houston at Woods Hole, Mass.
The Attorney General, Mr.. Palmer.
has also been with his family at
Stroudsburg, Pa.
The Secretary of Labor and his
family will be at Blossburg, Pa. until
some time in September: and the
Secretary of Commerce is also ex-
pected back then. I don't know
whether Mrs. Alexander is coming
with him or remaining longer at her
home in Galatin, Mo.
Secretary Colby was away for two
days last week, going up to East
Hampton, l.. l., for glimpse or his
family. He's running a bachelor mem
age at the Colby house in X street
and has been having David r. Francis,
of Missouri sometime Ambassador to
Russia, as his guest. Mr.. Colby and
Mr. Francis are old friends, going
back to the days when the Secretary
of State registered as Bainbridge Col
by, of st. Louis, rather than or New
York as at present.
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MEREDITH'S GUESTS
HAVE DEPARTED.

The Secretary of Agriculture and
Mrs. Meredith have had guests for
week or two-Mr. and Mrs. Earle
Butler of Des Moines--but they've
now left and the Merediths have
gone off to Philadelphia for few
days, taking their son, Edwin T. Mere
dith, jr., with them.
The Baker household is staying
contentedly out at Beauvoir, rather
priding itself on knowing when it is
we'll off. Secretary Baker, who had
tc go to Columbus for the Democratic
State convention, was only away one
day from his desk, leaving Washing
ton late Monday afternoon, spending
Tuesday in Ohio, and returning by the
night train, so that he was back al
the department on Wednesday. He's
a fend for work, is Secretary Baker.
Tuesday evening, while Secretary
Baker was just getting away from
Columbus, Mrs. Baker was down at
Camp Humphreys attending the far.
well dinner given by the officers of
the post to their retiring command
ant. Brig. Gen. w. ID. Conner. and Mrs
Connor. The Bakers have always
been particularly chummy with the
Humphreys outfit, and now General
Conpor has I.cn made chief OF trans
portation and chief of the inland and
coastwise waterways service, succeed.
ing Brig. Gen. Frank r. Hines. who
lately resigned to go into more lucra-
tive business life. Col. Meriwether
Walker, who has been stationed at
Cincinnati, is to replace General Con-
nor as ,on,manc ant at Humphr SyS.
OF course, the change is by way of a
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

MRS. H. WINTHROP LOCKWOOD,
Mulken She Is the Daughter of Mrs James
Nolan of Washington, and Was Married Last
Week a Nantucket Mass.
(Insert) ARGENTA PERKINS,
Edward E. Perkins, of New York and Genoa
Don Luis Peneherrera, Attache
Of legation of Ecuador Has Been Announced
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

season lost without her annual visit.
DR.. and Mrs. Wells belong to a
mart little group of young married
eople. many of them having apart
pents at Wardman Park Hotel. who
ave devised a system OF relievcing
any possible monotony of summer
in town by frequent week end motor
trips. They usually start out IN two
people. just enough for
two tables of bridge-and have done
a lot of touring in the lovely noun
tain country within easy reach of
Washington. They stop each night a.
some summer resort hotel. If there's
daUcing on" they have a merry time
alf among themselves. If not, why a
rubber of bridge helps to pass the
evening quickly. And usually they
manage to make" some place with a
lake or a shady pool sometime dur
ing the course of each day OF tour
ing, to go on refreshed after their
dip.
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or to WGrdman Park Hotel any
evening after the dancing begins. And
there are good many people here
after all, even an occasional Inter
estinG visitor to enliven the social
atmosphere.
At the Wednesday dinner dance at
Chevy Chase. the crowd was rather
smaller than usual But it was a
crowd worth watching. Mrs. "Bordy'
Hartman was there, entertaining a
party of guests--the first time | had
seen her since she returned from San
Francisco. where she was one of the
leaders of McAdoo's cohorts. although
i understand she has been home some
time. She has picturesque little
house in Washington-20l7 + street
you know, she gives nice parties.
and she's very much in demand, no
tably with the young married set. |
believe Warren Delano Robbins was
in her party on Wednesday night. and
Il know the Sumner Wells were.
The Wells are among the most re-
cent additions to the smart young
state Department crowd in Wash
ington, Mr.. Wells having been detail
ed to duty at the department in the
early summer. They have an apart
Ultnl at w dluilhH y ~ n
Wells. AS you doubtless remember.
was Miss Ray Slater. daughter of
Mrs. Horatio Nelson Slater. They are
of "the Boston Slaters," but Mrs.
Slater had a house here two or three
winters back, and her daughter was
here a good deal before her marriage.
Shortly after their wedding, the
young couple went off to the Orient.
Mr.. Wells being at the time attach ed
to the American embassy at Tokyo
or was il the legation at Pekin? At
any rate. they've been much abroad
and this is their first service in Wash
ington.
This was by way of being Warren
Robbins farewell party as he started
off next evening booked for Poland.
However. he only got as far as New
York. Then 1t was announced that
he had changed his plans and
would remain at the State Depart
ment as chief OF the Division of Near
Eastern Affairs instead OF going over
with Hugh Gibson, our Minister to
Poland. He was charged with some
special mission for the Government
and was to have been temporarily
counselor of our legation at Warsaw
But--wcil. the diplomats life is as
full OF vicissitudes and sudden
changes as the soldiers life in war
time.
Such protean changes of plan
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

The Presidents official family is
pretty numerously represented hero
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

promotion for General Connor. but II
means his transferring from the engi-
nerr corps to the quartermaster
corps. | shouldn't think he'd like
that, and | know the engineers don't.
Little Peggy. the Bakers youngest,
has been the latest occupant OF "th"
Baker bed" out at Waite" Reed
Okere has been 50 much illrcss in the
household of the Secretary of war
that they have been jokingly accused
OF keeping one bed reserved for the
family out at the big hospitaD, bat
fortunately for nothing more serious
than tonsils and adenoids, which
every properly constituted child seems
&c have to be relieved of nowadays
SO in Miss Peggy's case II was only
a matter OF few days and then
home again, probably much better for
having ii over with. Both Miss
Freas and Mr.. Leopold, who is spend
ing the summer-rather Unexpectedly,
largely as the result of sudden i'll
nes-with his sister and brother-in-
law-are still under the care of the
Walter Reed doctors and go over
there for treatment, even though they
have been out of the hospital for
some weeks now.
StCItldiS ~ '"''
pre-empted the White House tennis
courts, and even on the hoti'st days
manages frequently to fad some ca
pable antagonists and put in an hour
or so Of very lively exercise there as
a relief from the long hours at his
desk. The courts have not been used
much of late. Secretary and Mrs. Nc
Adoo used to play there quite little
at one time, and Miss Margaret Will
son also enjoyed an occasional game.
But the real day of their glory was
under T. r., the Strenuous. Then ten
mis- was the Administration game.
rather than golf, and among the Pres
ident's frequent antagonists were the
German ambassador, Spec Won stern
berg-whose widow. an American by
birth, has returned to Washington
since the armstice in pitifully strait
ened circumstances-and the French
ambassador, NJ. Jusserand; Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Lawrence O..
Murray. comptroller OF the currency,
and Clifford Pinchot, chief of forestry,
with several others equally well
known as occasional players.
Mrs. Daniels has been in North Car
olina for ten days or so, helping with
the suffrage fight there. The Secre-
tary went to Raleigh for a few days,
too, for the good of the cause-but
perhaps in view of what happened to
the ratification in North Carolina it's
as we'll not to lay too much stress on
the Daniels influence. Mrs. Daniels
is staying on at her old home until
Tuesday. but the Secretary brought
his brother and sister-in-law, Judge
and Mrs. Frank Daniels, as guests to
keep him company during her alb
sencc.
| have just discovered, by the way,
that Mrs. Daniels brother. Command
er David Worth Bagley, is naval at
tache at our legation at the Neither
lands. I don't know that it's new
appointment. but l hadn't heard
about 1t before. 1t must be "A par
ticularly pleasant detail, with Will
liam Phillips at the head of our lega-
tion at The Hague.
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promotion for General Connor, but II
means his transferring from the engi-
perr corps to the quartermasters
corps. | shouldn't think he'd like
that, and | know the engineers don't.
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

must. however. have been pretty hard
on Mrs Robbins. After remaining late
in Washington. she had just settled
down at Manchester. Mass, occupying
the Merrill's villa. when she was in
formed that her husband was going
overseas. So she packed up at once
and prepared to accompany him-no.
not to Warsaw just yet. She en-
pected to stay in Paris for some
weeks. joining Mr.. Robbins later if
condition permitted. And now. sup
pose. she'll unpack again and put in
the rest of the summer at Man
chester. ! had not heard whether she
expected to take the children-three
of them-abroad with her or was
leaving them with relatives.
The Washington times., 1920-08-22
McCHORDS AND BOYLES ARE
SUMMERING IN TOWN.

Interstate Commerce Commissioner
and Mrs. McChord are still in town.
| caught glimpse of them at the
The Washington times., 1920-08-22
JUBILATION OVER
SUFFRAGE RATIFICATION.

Washington suffragists were jubi-
liant when word came that Tennessee
had Satified their amendment. Even
the fact that the ratification had a
The Washington times., 1920-08-22
CHEVY CHASE CLUB DRAWS
SOCIETY FOLK STILL ~ TOWN.

IT YOU want to find out who's in
town, 60 out to the Chevy Chase club
on Wednesday or Saturday evenings
The Washington times., 1920-08-22
FITZHUGH LEES BACK IN
CAPITAL FOR TINE,

Major and Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee, who
Mrs. Walter Wells were also among
those present" at Chevy Chase on
Wednesday evening. The Lees, who
have been stationed at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, for some time, were here
a few weeks ago on leave and then
went off for 4 motor trip throu
the South. Now they are back again
--"on waiting orders" One hears ru-
mors that the major is to be stationed
at Camp Meade, or even in town. bu
Mrs. Lee tells me nothing is official
yet.
Major Lee has been on duty here
from time to time and was once
White House aide. This was in his
bachelor days and during the Roose-
welt Administration. The list of White
House aides was then an imposing
one. for it included such other historic
names as Lieut.. Col.-then lieutenant
Ulysses 8. Grant. Sd, and the late
Capt Philip II. Sheridan-also a lieu
tenant at the time. Mrs. Lee. who was
Mrs. Cole-Susanna Fletcher Cole
used to spend great deal of time
here and was hostess for her uncle.
who was in Congress for many years.
Her first husband was the late Col.
Henry G. Cole-also an army man.
DIR. and Mrs. Walter Wells have
been here pretty much all summer.
although Mrs. Wells has been awav
once or twice for short visits and
will probably get down to White Sui
phur Springs for a little while be-
fore the season is over. She has
been going there every summer for
several years and would count the
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

string to it, the loop hole OF recon
sideration," with the other end in the
hands of one of their bittercst enc.
mics. Speaker Walker. of the Tennes-
see house, didn't seem to dampen their
ardor. And apparently events are
proving that their faith was justified.
OF course. the ratification may still
come up for reconsideration" but
twenty-five or thirty Of the ants
actually left the State to prevent a
quorum on Saturday--and that looks
as if they were pretty fearful OF what
might happen II it did.
The Argentine ambassador, DR..
LeBreton. is making a brief visit in
Newport-his first. The British am
bassador. Sir Auckland Geddes. is back
at the embassy after holiday visit
to Maine. but will leave town again
on Tuesday first for St. Louis, to ad-
dress the American Bar Association,
and then for Canada. He's due back
here early in September to wait the
return of Lady Geddes from England.
|. The minister of Greece, Or. Roussos,
has been recalled and will sail for
home August 2S, the entire staff of the
legation going Up to New York to see
him off: The minister of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes and Nine,
Grouitch are expected back in town
tomorrow. Mr.. Brun, minister of Nor
| way, is due to return to the legation
on September 1 from Bar Harbor
where he's been for the greater part
of the summer. No word has been re-
ceived at the Netherlands legation OF
| the exact date of DR.. Cremers return,
but he is expected about October |,
relieving Jonkheer de Beaufort, who,
| as charge d'affaires, has been in town
almost all summer.
And so it goes. Tho ambassador of
Peru, DIR. Pezet, has been making a
short visit in Ashevillc, n. c., but will
| get back in time to go up to New
York to bid godspeed to Commander
and Mrs. Frank b. Frcyer, who are
sailing on Wednesday. Commander
Freyer' is at the head of the commits
sion which will reorganize the Peru
Wan navy. He and his handsome wife
are leaving town today. after having
been feted and made much Of for sew.
eral weeks. Last evening Col. Will
liam Eric Fowler gave a dinner for
them and yesterday they were en-
tertained at luncheon by Ira Bennett
who had guests to meet them at the
Shoreham.
No, Commander and Nine. Luis
IAubry-the naval attaChe Of the
| Peruvian embassy and his pretty
little wife-are not going with them
Commander Aubry has only recently
returned from a visit in Peru and il
will be several months before either
he or Nine. Aubry attempts to &C
home. Mrs. Joseph Hampson had In.
tended to go up to New York to sec
the Freyers off. but when ! talk Cd
with her yesterday afternoon. she had
just about given up the idea. She
has been i'll for fortnight and
anxious to get her strength back tc
join her daughter Miss Frances
Hanpson. at Hot Springs. Miss
Hampson is now at the Homestead
with Mrs. Frederic II. Chaplin and
Miss Marcia Chaplin, and Mrs Hamp-
son hopes to meet them there tho
middle of this week. During hei
daughters absence, Mrs. Freyer has
had her cousin, Miss Ella Smith. oi
Frederick, Md, with her.
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Society Hopes
Balkan Prince
!. viii Visit d. 6.
THE possibility that His Royal
Highness Carol, crown Prince

THE possibility that His Royal
Highness Carol, crown Prince
Il OF Runrania, nny visls NaSh-
ington Is causing "A little udtte: OF
intcIest-~for being Republic We
dearly love a prince. Mini, ] doh
say ha Is coming, IL the state De
psrtmeut reIJ.es 4 say he isnt ana
hints mysteriousi that there may b9
some information Ia give sut next
week.
p, The prince. who has. recently COM
pleted an DfbciGl Visi. To Japan, is On
his way TO Bucharest and is travelling
through the United States "incog-
nito" Consequently no official notice
10 being taken of his presence, and II
Is only in such cities as Chicago and
New York, where there are Rumanian
colonies. that he is being feted. The
American minister to Rumania, Mr..
Vopicka, seems. however, to have
been detailed as a sort of unofficial
escort to his royal highness.
Prince Carol Is due to reach NV
York about Monday and he isn't to
sail before the end of next week,
understand, so there would be quite
time for him to slip DOWN - Wash
ington TO pay his respects to the
President and Mrs. Wilson. If he does,
however, IL will be unofficially, and
therein be little OF the pomp and
ceremony which attended the visit of
the Prince OF Wales. Prime. Carols
marriage to young Rumanian lady,
girl OF gentle birth, and his subse-
quent separation from her for rea-
sons of state have brought him much
into the limelight in the last year ar
The Washington times., 1920-08-22

acknowledgements the possible
visit of the prince--things are going
on here very much as they have been
nan summer, save that one is begin
ming to hear of return plans instead
of going away plans. While Wash
Iington was still rubbing its eyes and
wondering IL 1t was dreaming that
the President had resurrected the
victoria and horses of the Roose-
yeltian era, behold the White House
automobile was again in commission.
The secret was out. The President
had not undergone a change OF heart
as to vehicle--it was simply that his
pet motor was in dry dock for re-
pairs for a day or two.
or the Vice President and Mrs.
Marshall one hears but little. Some
where out West they are apparently
making good Mr.. Marshalrs promise
to loaf conscientiously as soon as the
convention was over. They have been
at Santa Barbara, Cal, for some
weeks, and were planning to go to
Duluth by way of the Glacier Ma
tional Park, and from Duluth to take
the boat to Petoskey. Mich, where in
less strenuous days they spent many
long. happy summers. Marshall is too
good campaigner ODE able to
: hope for a real rest in a campaign
!. .summer-but he's loafing while the
ldafings good, as is Mrs. Marshall.
fof his getting into the campaign
means her getting in also. Not that
she will make speeches. She isn't at
heart a suffragist, let alone a SPELL
binder. But where her husband goes,
she goes. So If he is betrayed into
speechmaking tour in the interest
Of Cox and Roosevelt and the League
OF Nations she will undoubtedly trail
along.
Tho Presidenfa official family is
The Washington herald., 1920-08-25
Urban Transportation Policy.

the Federal Electric Rail
ways Commission considered the unanimiy OF conclusions sub
yesterday remarkable The
which called diagnose and
when the work began; the less
capital values OF
properties expectations
tnung transportation the employment OF workers.
growth o decline OF communities.
Framed by Federal the will influence State
legislation ordinances Whether ndorsed rejected
undratcd they obviously
and have the hallmark andor Public off,
the will we'll study
the
Neither the administrative ndividuai>t the empoyc col
will comfort OF the recommendations. The
rights OF the public and the duties the capitalist and
the worker Since the derive legal standing from
and its claims forbddng all
paralysis whether by lockous
abrated when they be settled by
Of such tribunals stand But how enforced the
does Denying the cxpcdenc under normal conditions
public ownership management yet power
valid and all obstacles standing the OF this right should be
removed Neither time limits OF charter rights fares should be
fixed, Conditions should govern both.
So the affirming good that has been tested
practical administration where still
still and where employees
satisfied They be admitted but they do
Making due allowance the effects conditions
street-raay managers problems,
such principles forth this been dominant
the situation OF most OF the roads today would be is
The Washington herald., 1920-08-25
Washington's Loss-Petersburg's Gain.

Petersburg sensible community governed by
and employing 1t values ehet "u
naon more than does and hence pays
adequately Mr. Louis Bownlo" president OF the
will Washington ana
Congress and begin to manage Pctcrsbug 1t will be because he
than Washington because he does not app
OF the work to be done in the Capital Ny II WI"
be by working Tor an en-
undepayS where he find that
makes salary and responsibility commensurate
pleasant contemplate; but 1t
the OF being unusual Commissioner Brownow
predecessors he will have followers Even government
Iabor worthy their hire though specifically mentioned
in Bible
There are local population that will be
Bownlow depart He enough
politician CRATER them. He has mPed their
cut off awkward he has disclosed their
selfish purposes progressive irraed but
fosszd majority the citizens have liked him
hard conscientious work for the good OF the District
has made and sincerely his
Presidential giving the commission its full complement Of
members is imperative
The Washington herald., 1920-08-25
Events of Today

Meeting-Executive COMMITTEES o.
the Better Business Bureau. head,
quarters Bond Building. 1890 p. m
Meeting-District sufragists' mas
meeting. Polls Theater. s .. m.
Meeting Rhode Island Avenue
Citizens Association, Sherwood
church, s p. m
Amuscmenfs
National-Gcorgc M. Cohan's -Ge-
MUS and the crowd"
Gsrrick-Garrick Players in tho
musical comedy. "Oh, Boy"
Cosmos-Vaudevill and films
r. +. Keith's-VaudevIll
Strand-Vaudeville and films.
Gayety-'Folly Town" burlesoue
Loew's Palace-EtheI Clayton IN
Crooked Streets"
Moore's RialtO-MarshaI NeIlan'f
Go and Get It"
CrandaIrs Metropolitan - Alice
Lake in The Misht wife"
LOews Columbia-Bryant Wash
burn in What Happened 20 Jones'
Crandall's Knickerbocller - ''ThG
Rivers End"
CrsndaIrs-Charles Ray, in 'PariI
Green"
Glen Echo-Resort facilities
Steamer Macalester-Daily excUr-
sions 10 Mount Vernon.
Marshall HaIl-Resort amuse-
ments.
Chesapeake Besch-Resort attrae-
tions.
Colonial Beach - 'warhington'I
Atlantic City
Chevy Chase Lake-DsncinE.