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Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
LETTING OF CONTRACT

, In the matter of the Middle Fork
Drainage District No. six of Weak
ley County, Tennessee.
In the County Court of Weakley
County, Tennessee.
The undersigned Directors of the
Middle Fork Drainage District No.
e of Weakley County, Tennessee,
pursuant to resolution of the
Board of Directors, approved by the
County, hereby give notice of the
letting of the contract on Saturday
the 4th day Of September 1920 for
the clearing of the right of way, the
construction of a main canal or
ditch and sixteen lateral bitches, as
provided in former DEGREES of the
Court in this cause, and certain
bridges within said district where
said canal intersects the public high
ways in accordance with Chapter
81, Section of the Acts of the
General Assembly Of 1919.
Said Drainage District begins at
the county line between Weakley
and Henry Counties, Tennessee, and
runs thence westward in Weakley
County with the valley of the Mid
die Fork of the Obion River to the
Right of Way of the Illinois Central
Railroad. The maps and profiles
are on file with W. J. Jeter, COun-
ty Court Clerk of Weakley, County,
Tennessee, at the court house in
Dresden. Said construction is one
boat job unless smaller boat be-
used for the laterals, which are six
| teen in number, and aggregate ap-'
proximately four miles in length,
each and all of which run from the
main canal toward the exterior bOun-
Diary line of the district. The con-
tract will be let as a whole and the
estimated yardage is-------- cubic
yards.
Bids must be filed with the Coun-
ty Judge of Weakley County, Ten
nessee, by 10 o'clock a. M, on Sat-
urday September a, 1920, and the
same must be accompanied with a
certified check for 100000 to be
held pending the acceptance of the
construction bond of the successful
bidder. Said work will be let to the
lowest responsible bidder and the
right is reserved to reject any and
all bldg a1A2O-27-s9
This August 9, 1920.
H. L. HILL, Judge
W. L. GAINOR,
A. F. HIGGS, -.
Directors.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
MANY CASES OF
TYPHOID REPORTED

From various sections of the
county reports come of typhoid fe-
yer, and some communities it is al
most epidemic in form. For instance
we are informed there are num-
Der of cases just north of Dresden,
while east of Dresden, in the West
Union Vicinity, one death has oc-
Cured from typhoid and two or
more cases exist in the same fami-
ly.
There are scattered cases
throughout the county, one in Ores
den, we are informed-the small son
of Mr.. Will Lemonds Of late years
physicians have been administering
an anti-typhoid serum with wonder
full success, and it occurs to the En-
tefprise that either the county board
of health or those of the several
incorporated towns might do well
to take this situation under advise
ment.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
LOCAL MEN INTER-
ESTED IN CONTRACT

w. S. Knight! a Memphis con-
tractor. was awarded the contract
for grading the highway from Nc
Kenzie to Dresden, at the recent
letting. Mr.. knights bid was $117,-
900. which, Commissioner House
informs the Enterprise was not only
the lowest bid offered, but also is
a lower price than any work recent
ly contracted for by the commission,
Both the state and the federal COM
mission are highly pleased with this
reduction in pri&e of road work,
especially When it is considered
that a numbfr OF large fills will be
required on the Dresden Mckenzie
link of this nigh way.
A number of local contractors
have been awarded sub-contracts by
Mr.. Knight! amtongI them being
Murphy & Philips, pf Martin; 7. P.
Moore & co.. of Dresden, and .. E.
Grooms Of Grfeenfeldi The first
named have Ia large steam shovel
(which will be used on The job just
east of Drei den, where "a big fill is
to be made
Work will begsinY Sn the grading
ct an early dateS
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
A SPLENDID SUGGESTION

By way of jest, we presume, some
one suggested the other day that a
premium be of Ifered by. the fair as
sociation for the discovery of real,
sure enough honest to goodness
decent, bridge in Weak icy county.
And while the suggestion may
have been made in jest or in ridi-
cule, it goes to show the frame of
the public mind with regard to
Weakley county BRIDGES To our
knowledge, there is hardly decent
bridge or culvert in the county.
Some weeks ago this writer travel
ed over large portion of the coun-
ty with Mr.. Ellis on a farm inspec-
ton tour. The trip covered some
fifty or sixty miles, and in all this
distance the was NOT decent
bridge to bt found.
We have simply got to get away
from the Anticipated Idea of build
ing our small bridges and the cul-
verts out of timber. 1t is waste
of the taxpayers money to do SO.
Subjected to the extensive travel of
today, there is hardly bridge built
of lumber that will survive six
months-most of them are rebuild
ed several times year. The cost
of rebuilding most Of cur bridges
in single year will more than build
a good concrete bridge or culvert
that will last for all time to come,
provided the work is done right.
We haven't got any pet road or
bridge scheme up our sleeve, but If
ESQ. Foster can give Weakley
county, some kind of a road and
bridge law that will provide both
good roads all the year and perma-
nent bridges, then he will everlast-
ingly endear himself to an over
whelming majority of the tax-pay-
ers of the county.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
HAY FOR SALE

| have 1000 pounds good timothy
hay in bale for sale.-Joe L. Hol-
brook 20-4t
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03

Remember, the Enterprise is dis
continued when your paid-up time
expires, ~ HID
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
MEMORIAL. sERvFE TO
| Be HEhD AR MERIDIAN

An Appropriate Memorial service
1n be held at I'll he Meridian cenete-
on Saturday, Sept II, when an
appropriate program will be render
under the auspice rs of the Merid
, an Graveyard Association. Chief
among the speakers for the Occa-
sion will be Judbes R. E. Maiden
and JOS. E. Jones and Robert CALI
more. The came3ery association
has just recently pq / the city Of the
dead in splendid cor EDITION and their
purpose is to nalt4 the memorial
erVice one Of nte EST.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
NOTICE TO LAND OWNERS

To all Land Owners in North Fork
Drainage District:
Pursuant to an adjourned meet.
ing, a meeting of all the land own
ers interested in the North Fork
Drainage District will be held at
Latham, on Tuesday, Sept. z, at 2
p. M, when you are earnestly re-
quested to be present. At this meet
ing it is hoped to take final steps
relative to letting the contract for
digging the ditch. Please be pres
emit. A. Vowel, Chm'n. 1921.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
TOBACCO GROWERS
TO INCORPORATE
Growers to Organize Against Buy
ers-Women and Children
at Work I'M Fields.

Henderson, KY, Aug. 28.-Grow-
ing dissatisfaction among tobacco
growers in Kentucky's famous
"black patch" area found loud ex-
preston here III the first of Sc
ries of meetings of representative
Western Kentucky producers for the
purpose of organizing against buy
ers whom they claim are destined
to make the raising of tobacco an
impossible pursuit.
Voicing loud protest against pre-
vailing prices which have resulted
in a curtailment of this years crop
more than forty per cent, the grow
ers adopted plan whereby they ex-
pect to bring into incorporated COM
bination all tobacco growers of the
state which has long led the world
in production of the weed.
The plan AS agreed upon with
popular approval and with conf
dence of success brings all Ken
tucky's growers into an Incorporate
ed organization to be known as the
Farm Bureau Tobacco Company, and
apportions out the capital stock to
individual members, with dividends
of six per cent to be paid annually.
The plan is to be submitted to all
the separate organizations Of the
Kentucky State Farm Bureau,
seeking to bring them together in
one organization to fight for profit
able prices,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana
growers were interested in recent
plan to curtail the crop in an effort
to boom the price. Individual
agreement to raise less tobacco
was solicited from growers of
these states, ard many of the
growers, while not entering, into
any compact with this intention,
cut their 800 crops approx
mately forty per cent. Ken
growers gathered here.
Tobacco buyers in this section
are holding meetings behind closed
doors with the hope of hitting upon
some plan to cope with the situation
should the growers devise plan for
eliminating factory sales. Many
loose leaf floors over the state,
where tobacco is sold to the
highest bidder, may be shut down
as a result of the pooling plan un-
der contemplation.
That many of the producers sent
their wives and children into the
field to work for twelve or fifteen
hours per day to cope with labor
shortage was made known at the
initial meeting. All agreed that to-
bacco growing is an Improbable
enterprise in view of the shortage
of hands, coupled with unsatisfac-
tory prices paid for the. leaf at the
close of the market last year, when
the memorable drop left on their
hands immense quantities which they
were pot willing to sell at the low
figure. Some even predicted that
Kentucky would pass out of recOg-
nition~as a producer of tobacco af-
ter ranking for years as the worlds
greatest tobacco section.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
GIRLS! MAKE A
LEMON BLEACH
=--=.--===-9
Lemons Written and Double
Beauty of the Skin

Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three
ounces of Orchard White which can
be had at any drug store, Shake well
and you have a quarter pint of
harmless and delightful lemon bleach
for few cents.
Message this sweetly fragrant 10
ton into the face, neck, arms and
hands each day, then shortly note
the beauty of your skin.
Famous stage beauties use lemon
juice to bleach and bring that soft,
clear, rosy-white complexion. Lem
ons have always been used as a
freckle, sunburn and tan remover.
Make this up and try it.-Adv..
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-03
CAR FOR SALE

Chevrolet passenger car, good as
new. M. c. Patterson, route No. 8,
Greenfield, Tenn. Home phone No.
1882. (p) 1885,
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Cuba Cane Sugar

In an analysis of Cuba Cane Sugar
Hayden, Stone & Co state the proba-
bility is that this years crop Will reach
total of 3,715,000 bags. compared with
a 1919 crop of 4,319,1s9 bags BROAD
ly speaking, therefore," says the firm,
the effect of the drought has been to
cost Cuba Cane an additional 900 600
bags OF sugar. This is decrease of
l6 per cent. compared with the 1919
crop. and OF n per cent compared with
the expected result of 4,7OO,0O0 AS a
matter of fact, Cuba Cane had the mill
capacity and the standing cane at the
start OF the crop TO have secured an
output Of 100000 bags had weather
conditions been favorable. Various es-
Inmates have been made as TO the net
earnings of The September 30, 1920.
nscal year. This year the dead season
VIII be one or two months longer than
normal. which may make certain ad-
Justments necessary. It does seem
probable, however. that Cuba Cane will
show this tiscai year net operating
profits, before taxes. depreciation and
interest, Of $4,000, 600, sum which
would compare with S1l .O69, $50 in 1919
and S7.390.60 in 1918. The balance for
the 100000 shares Of common. after
all deductions, should reach total of
$50 a share
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
In Wall Street
Reasons for Optimism

One of the Streets important rea
sons for optimism over the immediate
stock market outlook is provided by
the serious efforts that are being made
by the Federal Reserve banks 10 cur
tail credit and to prepare for the crop
moving period. While it is not ex
pected that the banks will succeed in
reducing commercial loans. they may
be able to resist the persistent pres
sure for renewals, and for new loans,
to prevent further expansion. "lf so,'
says prominent Broadway house,
"the normal increase in savings will
quickly supply the banks with loan
able funds. AS these will not be much
needed for crop moving purposes be
fore September or October. they will
naturally gravitatc TO Wall Street to
loaned out on call. 1t therefore, looks
quite possible that we viii have rela-
lively cheap money this summer. If
so. it is reasonably certain that the
prices of most investment bonds and
stocks of the best of the speculative
stocks will advence during this cheap
call money period"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Dividend Meetings

here are several dividend meetings
during the remainder of the month
that may furnish something definite to
stimulate market activity in issues of
the companies herewith listed: United
Fruit, June S; Wilson {; Co., June 8;
Cruciblc Steel, June 16; Western Elec-
trio, June %; Inspiration Copper. June
"a Corn Products, June 25 United
States Food Products, June go and
International Paper, juno 80. The basis
for the renewal OF activity in Inter
national Paper last week was said to
be due TO the decided improvement in
the company's earnings. 1t was stated
the company is now receiving 5a4
cents pound for newsprint and ex-
poets to raise this to 6 cents later in
the year, compared with an average
price of 3'a cents in 1919. This means
the increased price on 900 tons
will net some s1050O. 600 more than in
1919. The cost of the additional bust
ness is set at $4,000 900 leaving S.
100000 better than last year.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Stocks Display
Quiet Strength
AS Week Closes
Many Industrial Shares Adj
vance Further OH Move
ment: Member Bank BOr-
rowings at Reserve Bank
Show Increase

With speculative sentiment showing
increasing chccrfulncss as result of
improving tone in stocks on recently
preceding days. the market went fur
thcr ahead yesterday in its recovery.
Rather heavy protit-taking appeared in
the midtle of the two-hour exchange
session, but the offerings were we'll
taken and at the close the ma jority of
the standard industrials registered net
gains.
AS was the case in the sharp rally
in prices in the closing hour on Friday,
the upward movement yesterday had
its origin in the repurchasing opera
tons of professional bear traders.
Stocks left off at the end of the week
anywhere from 3 to s points above the
lows m lie at the beginning OF the
period. - "a
Industrial issues, which were most
prominent on the upturn the day be
fore, continued to attract quite a fol-
lowing. International Paper rose to q
new high OF 78a4 for the recovery and
Petroleum gained points at 179. while
tho Pan-American Petroleum issues,
Sinclair Consolidated and Middle
States were other strong spots in the
oil group. The pool operating in Bald
win Locomotive pushed that stock UP
at l167s, and American Car nd Foun-
dry was another feature of strength
among the railway equipments. Rail
ways we're still inclined toward in
crcasing frmness on light dealings.
At the close of the week the Street
was giving more attention to the Chi
cago convention than to anything cl>e.
Developments in that quarter will be
awaited with a great deal of interest
and stocks are likely to movc narrowly
until a candidate has been selected.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New
York in its weekly statement showed
that despite the advance in the dis
count rate from to per cent further
expansion in loans took place as re
suit of borrowings by member banks
The increase was approximate $40.
600 ,OOO At the same time the local
bank lost s22.OOO,oOO through the gold
settlement fund on transactions with
other Reserve banks. The ratio of re
serves to deposit and note liabilities
stands at 40.1 per cent as result OF
the weeks operations, compared with
Ais per cent the week before. Loans
and discounts of the New York Clear
ing House banks contracted $15,S33.000,
while net demand deposits decreased
378.95o 900. Surplus reserves increased
S4228,OOO to S28,567 400.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

Excess current of TIE American
Locomotive Company arc estimated IN
Wall Street at $50 5,6S6,0l1. practically
all in United States and Canadian gov
ernment securities. This is within $l4.-
100000 Of the total outstanding CAPT
ia stock and after allowing for $40
share on the preferred stock leaving
more than s42 share for the common
Wall Street further estimates that the
net value of the company's fixed assets
is equivalent to an additional 1852 on
the common. American Locomotive
earned last year $309S a share on the
junior stock. During the past decade
the annual average net earned has been
1910, including the lean years. 1t is
predicted in some market circles that
with period of further large earnings
in prospect, an INCREASE in the current
dividend rate may take place before the
end of the year.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

In order % increase their output Il
number u important sscel rnanufactur-
ny cemparjcs IN the Sheffield district
~ England have entered into n com
Dina'ion and working agreement The
fapitai of'tfc ne~ corporation is $500
ocO 81 ,o0oO 900. Tnc firms concerned
are GooGw;n & CO. LsdJ. steel and
feol manufacturer. Scottish sfcl and
f1le "ofls. |cepscnd; Seach. Scllars l.
Co Ltd aaw manufacturers, Town
H'ad "orIs, Apcx Steel Company
itd.J, >teej manufacturers. pcuistonc
hpad scepzcnd; Nerpscnd Rolling
Mis- In. sfeel rollorx. Ncepsend-
loxl'y Yorgs (Ltd.j J. and Hillfoot Fore
ls1.}, .of.ers ard filters. Loxley.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange

In the foreign exchange market net
fluctuations for the week told story
Of little significance. The changes
were small and represented technical
operations, rather than variations in
the world economic situation. Sterling
was q trfte stronger, and Belgian
francs, with the success of the new
Belgian loan, were hrmer, but French
francs, lire and marks, which rose sub
stantially in May. reacted s!igAtly.
The flotation Of the Belgian loan of
$50 0,000,0 900 indicated that the demand
FOR foreign external bonds was not
here, but that substantial buying or
dcrs could be brought out by rela-
lively safe security Offering large re-
turns. Belgium had to pay the stiffest
rates in it's history to get the funds
with which TO meet its June 80 accept
ance maturity, but it was essential to
sentativcs were compelled to yield to
the excessive conditions that now pre-
vail in the money marts.
Delegates to the international Cham
ber of Commerce meeting. which will
be held in Paris later in the month,
sailed from this city yesterday. The
business men who sarled will try to
establish economic contacts, rrcspect-
i've of whether political affiliations arc
made or not by action of the Senate
and the President. The action that
those men take at Paris will undoubt-
cdly have at least a sentimental infu-
cnce on the movement OF exchange
rates.
Beginning tomorrow the banks viii
quote Belgian and rench francs and
lire in cents TO achieve greater sim
plicity and intelligiblty. They have
been quoted according to the number
of francs and lire TO the dollar.
If you calculate the cost Of the
dollar in terms OF foreign money at
current exchange values-that is, if
you were buying dollar with pounds,
marks or francs it's value at the close
of last week, as compared with a year
ago follows:
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
New Travellers Cheuues S

Word has been received by officials
Of the American Express Company that
France has modified its law prohibit
ing the departure Of turists from that
country with more than thousand
francs, equivalent to $50 in American
money in normal times. 1t is said that
travellers may now enter or leave
France with any amount Of money pro-
vided it be in the form of American
currency, rather than in French rotes.
To meet this situation the American
Express Company has announced the
introduction of two new forms of
travellers checks One is French
franc chequc for use in the Republic
and the other a pound sterling cheque,
cashable in the United Kingdom These
are calculated to help American tourists
in Great Britain and France to protect
themselves against the operations of
exchange agents in those countries who
seldom give them the best end of the
bargain in changing the American
dollar for local currency.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Congress- and the Market

The adjournment Of Congress yes
terday sine die was viewed with favor
by the trading element, and the buy
ing movement which got under way
Friday afternoon was carried further
in the short session The treet is also
optimistic over the outlook at Chicago,
and believes that candidate will be
nominated at the Republican conven-
tion who will be acceptable to the big
business interests of the country
These factors, coupled with the hope
OF easier money throughout the sum
mer months, are believed by several
important brokerage firms to form the
basis for continuation of the ad-
vance, at least for several weeks.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Japan Bank Saves Situation

II is understood that when the Bank
OF Japan and the affiliated banking syn
d.caie arranged TO take over and hold
lhd"hntclV IN escrow stock collateral
used as the basis for loans. in order
to prevent critical break IN the
market through the dumping Of large
amounts of shares. the loans were
based on security values of such col
lateral at something like 80 per cent
OF their market value before the boom
began. which was but a fraction of
their market value prior to the slump.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
United Railways Investment

Increased activity in United Rail
ways Investment shares is said to be
based on the oil boom in the Salinas
Valley. Monterey County, Cal. where
the company controls considerable e
amount of territory through its sub
sdlary, the Coast Valleys Gas &
Electric Company. The latter supplies
the gas and electric requirements of
the valley and in addition owns lands
nthat district. Officials say that in
the event that oil is discovered in anv
large amounts in the Salinas Valley
the company viii either lease the
mineral rights on new acreages or
drill wells for its own account.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

put into working order, but the num-
Der of borings has been reduced from
2o8 to 1l9 through lack of material.
ne cross production in 1917 was
2-0,0o0 tons. or 80 per cent of normal: !:
in 1918, 200 900 tons. or so per cent
of normal; in tire first six months of
1919 $4,000 tons, or 20 per cent of
normal. The pre-war production was
1000 tons daily; the production in
October, 1919. was 5000 tons daily.
At the end OF November, 1919, there
we're 25o.257 tons of oil in stock a,
the rehneries. whose total capacity was
100000 tons, and in reservoirs there
were $4,000 tons. Before the war
100000 tons Of oil was produced an
nually, and now. with Pennsylvania. il
is estimated that 100000 tons Will be
the annual output
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
No AtchisOn Bond Issue

President Storey. OF the Atchison.
Topeka & Sante Fe. was quoted in
Chicago dispatches yesterday as saw
ng that the company had no plans for
issuing bonds and hopes to take care
OF its S30,o00,000 budget through gov
crnment loans and its own treasury
resources. The high prices Of ma
terlals and SLOW deliveries, in the
opinion Of Western railroad execu-
tives. will prevent any large immediate
expenditures for improvements.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Activity Increasing in
Oil Fields of Rumania
Drilling Operations Are Ham.
pcrcd by Lack of
Materials

When the Germans occupied Ru-
mania, says the "Chamber of Com
mcrcc Journal,' Of London, they put
into a state of production 432 out Of
962 wells existing on July /, 1916, and
they raised the yield of oil to rs per
cent Of that Of July /, 1916. Since
their departure 5O8 wells have been
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
London Money Market

LONDON, June 3 Bar silver. 0Glzd
per ounce; bar gold l05s 5d Noncy.
D ocr cent. Diacoun, rates Short and
three month bills, G@+ N 6is per crnt.
Cold prcrniuma ~ Lisbou 40