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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-06-05
SCHOOL TAX LOSES.

The result of the school tax election
fer the third ward held Tuesday, was
quite interesting TO many, some against
and some for, but mostly against &C.
cordiEg 10 the figures, which are as
follows.
For: 81 votes; s4lj,40700.
Against; 1O7 votes; 1855, 1890.
Majority against: 20 votes sl42,76o.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-06-05
How VS. Cleared Our Summer Home
OF Rat - ~ Ms pay---,

when we opened our seaside home
last May, il was alive with rats. They'd
gnawed ali cut the uph5lstering. We
cleaned them out Ill a week with RAT
SNAP. l prefer this rat killer because
it comes in cake form, no mixing.
Saves dirtying hands and plates - Thre e
sizes, 25c, soc, sLo0. Sold and guaran-
teed by j. a. Summers and G. NJ. Ed.
redge. ADV.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-06-05
i Got Real Mad When I Lost Ny Set
ting Henb Mrs Hannah

II went into the hen house one morn.
ing aad found my favorite setter dead
get real mad. Went TO tahe store,
b.srlt p me RAT-SNAP and in a week
gct SIX dead rats. Everybody who
raises poultry should keep RAT
SNAP. - Three sizes, csc, 50, 800.
Sod and guaranteed by J. a, summers
and g, NJ Eldrsdgs,-Adv
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-06-05

Tle fellow who pays a quarter for
seat IN picture show and thinks i.
Is high ought to figure out what a seat
IL the senate from Michigan }, cts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
Pensacola. Fla, Sept. "a.


Editor Pensacola Journal:
Dear Sir: A l understand the femi-
nine element will vote on the proposed
good roads bond issue and | notice
number of ladies are endorsing the
movement, l find that l am expected to
represent the opposite side. which is
simply this: Have all the back taxes
Of this city which have accumulated
for the past years been collected up
to date? Have we finished paying for
our street paving and is the job off?
Are the funds available for the new
High School for which we recently
bonded for a special school tax dis
trict? Can the county pay the teach
ers in the rural districts for the same
length of terms as in the city schools?
Can all the houesholders of Pensacola
pay for having their buildings rat
PROCEED without calling for federal aid
or selling at a sacrifice?
Are we not going to bond the city
for the proposed city docks and is it
not the principal money making prop
ositiOn Offering at this time?
This good roads system would be
fine thing if the tax payers were
not grooming already with the ever in
creasing burden Of taxation. With adj
ditfonal taxes. higher rents will natur-
ally follow. Then who pays these
rents? Why the man and woman wage
Garner. Will these workers ride to and
from factories and manufacturing plants
on this good roads system?
The good roads proposition reminds
one of the story of man who built a
bridge across a river, on the. oDpOsite
bank Of which a prospective city was
to arise. The city did not arrive.
have heard it remarked that the
good roads bond feature is in a man
ner like unto the gala attire of ma
tive Porto Rican gentleman with his
silk top hat, brOadcloth coat and gold
headed cane, minus trousers, socks and
shoes
Very respectfully yours,
(Missl MARGARET AXELSON.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
REGISTER FOR GENERAL ELECTION

There seems to be a slight misappre-
hension among the women in regard to
registering. While the time has passed
for those who will vote in the bond
election to register. the books for the
general election will remain open for
some time longer and women who have
not registered are urged to do so at
once, that they may vote in the No
vember election.
The women Of Escambia county have
made a remarkable showing and it Is
doubtful, when the final registrations
have been made, if there will be any
county In the state where the women
have so fully met their obligations in
this way.
Now that the women have registered,
they should not fail to cast their vote,
both in the bond election for good
roads, and in the presidential election
in November.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

1t was long after ? o'clock, the nour
when Dicky had told Katie he would
be back in the studio. When Katie
had given me the message. had jump
ed at the conclusion that Dicky was
lunching with Grace Draper. the beau
tiful art student who was his model
and protege.
It was not so much anger that / felt
at Dicky's lunching with another wom-
an as fear. ! faced the issue frankly.
Grace Draper was much too beautiful
and attractive girl to be thrown into
daily intimate companionship with any
man. I felt in that moment that
hated her as much as / feared her. /
hoped that it would not be her voice
which l would hear over the phone.
felt that~I could not bear to listen
TO those deep velvety tones Of hers.
But when ! reached the drug store and
entered the telephone booth, it was her
voice which answered my call OF
Dicky's number.
Yes, this is Mr.. Graham's studio"
she said smoothly. mo Mr.. Graham is
not here. he has not been here since
fl o'clock. Pardon me, is this not
Mrs. Graham to whom / am speaking ?"
81 am Mrs. Graham. yes, l. replied.
trying to put little cordially into my
voice. You are Miss Draper, are you
'not2"
Yes" she replied. 'Nfr Graham
wished me to give you a message. He
was called away to a conference with
one OF the art editors about If o'clock.
He expected to lunch with him and said
he might not be in the studio until
quite late this afternoon"
Have you any idea where he is
lunching or where l could reach him p"
asked sharply.
Why no. Mrs. Graham. have not.
Is there anything wrong?"
His mother has been taken III. and
I am very much worried about her II
Mr. Graham comes in or telephones
will you ask him to come home at
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
Revelations
Ofd Wife
BY ADELE GARRISON.
Why Madge Felt Ashamed of Her
Suspicious of Dicky.

have never worked faster in my
life than when l helped my mother
in-law undress before the blazing gas
log, put her nightgoWn and heavy
bathrobe around her and immersed her
feet in the foot bath Of hot mustard
water which Katie had brought to me-
But fast as my fingers were flying
my thought We're hurrying even quick
er. My mother-in-law had been seiz-
ed with a severe chill while we were
home She had refused to have a
physician called, and l was at my wits
end what to do, for I knew she should
have medical attention Immediately.
As | worked over her / came to
decision. I would get her safe and
warm in bed, leave Katie within call,
then slip out and telephone Dicky from
the neighbOring drug store. l did not
dare to send for a physician against
my mother in laws expressed prOhi-
bition. On Me other hand. knew
that Dicky would be very angry if l
did not send for one.
The hot footbath and the steaming
which l had given her when she first
came in, together with the warmth Of
the gas log seemed TO make my mother
in-law more comfortable. As l dried
her feet and slipped them into a pair
of WARM bedroom slippers she smiled
down at me.
AT least I am not cold now" she
said.
Don't you think you had better
come and lie down now?" I asked.
Yes l think it would be better she
asserted, and with Katie and me upon
either side. she walked into her room
and got into bed
Katie on Guard
I slipped the bedroom slippers off.
put one hot water bag to her feet and
the other to her back, covered her up
warmly and lowered the shade.
She shook her head and spoke with
an effort. "No. thank you, not now.
Have Dicky get me some quinine when
he comes in. I think l will go to sleep
now and when l wake up l will have
a cup Of tea
Il am going out to telephone. Katie,
and want you to stay close by the
door here till I return. If Mrs. era
ham wakes and asks for me. say that
1 have gone to the drug store and VIII
be back very shortly
All right, l not move" Katie as
sured me solemnly, and l hurried into
my hat and coat which I had slipped
off while was working over my moth
er-in-iaw and went out to the drug
store.
4 Telephone Message.
As I descended the stairs all the
doubts Of the morning rushed over me.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

found that the woman vote has been
a tremendous factor not only as an ex-
pression of their own, but as an il
centive to wake the Indifferent TO their
obligations, and to. get some men out
to the polls who for many years have
used the ballot indifferently, If at all.
This is good for the country.
The great mass of people are on the
right side. if you can get them to ex-
press themselves through the only
known agency of freedom. the ballot,
this country is safe for all time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
SWEETHEART FACES.

When you hear the rsfters rfngin'
Troubles goin' soon;
Thank the Lord fiddIe's. singin',
And you know the tunel
Join the joy, an take your places;
Read your dreams in sweetheart-faees
Sure, it's Gods own world to live in;
If the angels knew
And sweet Heaven would be forgivin'
They'd hands round with you'll
Life. at best, so rough a race is.
Read your dreams in sweetheart faces
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

laughed bitterly az my own Stiffness
as ! turned from the telephone. While
had been tormenting myself for hours
at the picture had drawn 81 Dicky and
his beautiful model luncbing visa
us. Dicky had been keeping a prosaie
business engagement With a main, and
his model had probably lunched fru-
galiy and unromanticaily on a sand
wick or two brought from her home.
Continued lnmorroN.l
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

once. 'phoning me first II he Wiz
of course | viii attend 10 it. is
there anything else / can dO?'
Nothing. thank you, you are very
kind" I returned. and there was gen.
uine warmth in my voice this time
For the discovery that had been
mistaken in my idea Of Dicky's lunch
con enca cement made me so ashamed
az myself that I had TO more rancor
against my husbands beautiful grotege.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
HEARTS CAN FORGET.
Nv Frank l., Stanton,

By FRANK L. Stanton.
Never you fear that I'm weeping TO"
you
Signing over sweet dream yet;
Wander you on in the dawn and the
dew;
Hearts can forgetl
Do you not see in your heaven the
blue
Beautiful after Loves sun is set?
Dream you no more that I'm weeping
for you;
Hearts can forgetl
Sweet was the dream; but no dreams.
dear, come truei
Would it avail if Loves eyelids were
wet? @s.~r~.
Life is too real to be weeping for you
Hearts can forget!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
A TOAST.

What more can one desire
The old world winter bound.
Than a friendly little fire
And friends to sit around?
We We're about to continue with
The tale to tell. the song to sing.
Till glasses on the sideboard, ring. "
But our friend, the Old Deacon,
chimed in with
ain bonedry land there's no sich thing r.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

la says
That now that they is
Registered they
Got to Remember to Vote:
Sister says
Pa ought TO tie String Around
His Uranium;
But ma says
That 1t Amt Coin TO
Be Any Difficulty For Her
no Remember to Vote
For Good Roads
Bein as How She Thinks
That Escambia County is Been
Stuck in the Mud
Long Enough.
Tallahassee says its perfume.
Pensacola says its soap.
But if it is not oil
we give up all our former hope.-De-
Funiak Breeze.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
MUST HAVE BEEN THINKING OF
ESCAMBIA.

A journalist who fifty years ago was
a good roads advocate once wrote on
a now well known thoroughfare:
"This road is not passable.
Not even jackassable, s
And those who would travel it.
Must turn and gravel it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
BROTHER DICkEY SAYS:

"De world Is comm to a end some
time. an / bet you hit1l be de day
after / done paid de house rent one
month in advanced
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

Cox has been in two accidents. since
the beginning of his campaign. That
element out of life-eyen in a cam
paign so onesided.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

stick in the mud is becoming q
fact instead of a slang expression
Let's make em permanent.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

Mr.. Bryan isn't saying much just
now, but he may be heard from later.
He never keeps quiet unless he is up to
something, and it is usually something
worth while.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

his poll tax may vote in the election
for good roads.
That man in Iowa who found his
diamond in the fiftieth chicken, after
he had killed forty mine, is probably
multi-millionaire by this time,
chickens selling like they are.
From what the Miami Metropolis
says about that great financier, Carl
G. Fischer and the Miami sunsets.
they are expensive Iuxuries, to be
classed with other Miami entertain
ments. Come to Pensacola. Ours are
just as wonderful and free, at that.
Now Hi Johnson is going to stump
the east for Harding. If Hi isn't any
more successful for Harding than he
was for himself, Jimmie Cox has little
to fear.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

Running the Reds out of Russia into
the United States. now seems to be a
fayorite sport.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

Only a few more days and we shall
advise you to do your Christmas shop
ping early.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

The polls of every county precinct
will be open tomorrow from eight in
the morning until sun down. and every
man and woman who is qualified
should cast their vote for the bond
election. There are no property quail
fications. Every woman who has reg
istered and every man who has paid
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

fact instead of a slang expression.
Let's make 'em permanent.
Cox has been in two accidents, since
the beginning of his campaign. That
man is just bound to get little ex-
element out of life-eyen in a cam
paign so onesided.
Mr.. Bryan isn't saying much just
now, but he may be heard from later.
He never keeps quiet unless he is up to
something, and it is usually something
worth while.
Running the Reds out Of Russia into
the United States. now seems to be a
fayorite sport.
Only few more days and we shall
advise you to do your Christmas shop
ping early.
The Times Union wonders if the An
ti-Saloon league charges the explosions
in New York to Demon Rum. There
Is no telling. The Mexicans are
charging their revolutions UP to that
same cause, and 1t is more than likely
Lildt uIN man WHO Cdn CoIuIllll SuCu
a crime as that bomb outrage is a rum
fellow.
Florida farmers do not seem to be
worrying about the movement from
the country to the city. They are
making record crops.
One hundred thousand families in
New York have been asked to move
and have no place to go. They ought
to come down to Florida and foam
tent colony.
The st. Augustine Record says. that
While 1t is none of the Records buSiz
ness, it seems a waste of cable tolls to
flash all over the world every day
that Mayor MacSwiney is growing
weaker. after hunger striking forty
one days. Comments Herb. Naturally"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

Presidential Campaign Records
Hsrding-Coolidse and CoK-Roose-
veIr can be heard Ct public meet
ines aud in every American home
on Nations Forum Columbia Re
cords. Free hearings az your near
esq Columbia Dealer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28
4 TeIephone Message.

As / descended the stairs all the
doubts Of the morning rushed over me.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

his poll tax may vote in the election
for good roads.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

Florida farmers do not seem to be
worrying about the movement from
the country to the city. They are
making record crops.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-28

One hundred thousand families
New York have been asked to NOV
and have no place to go. They ougi
to come down to Florida and foam
tent colony.
Arizona republican., 1920-08-10

accounts are sent out only newspapers within the circuit which embraces territory within radius of hundred miles of the fatal crossing when one about accident of this kind at distant point I.e may be sure that editor of the news gathering agency of abstraction let it get the general wire.
 News is the unusual. the unexpected When the same kind of a thing happens day after day or when it is expected happen. it is not really news For instance newspapers agencies devote lit attention ecpses, either before or after They do not chronicle of tuberculosis cancer and ailments of which people die in large numbers Such ends are not tragical enough to under tie head of news.
 When few years ago the first victim of ap- pendicitis was discovered; that is when it de- monstrated that his appendix and not generally his bowels highly nflamed, the wires were kept hot subsequent for a time, were treated al length really the discovery of the appendix that constituted the But when it was settled that we all had appendices or appendices, which you prefer, public interest in appendicitis suosided
 Three four years young woman of ui- nois mysterously following or in the midst of criminal operation. The mystery lay in the sudden ness of her death. It found that the cause was crnbosm that is bubble in the blood Now em- bosrn and m not to the diction- ary and the doctors both had regarded the bolus clot- That it was sometimes bubble was many the doctors and for the first time the public a large heard Of it at all. For time there newspapers had embolism (only figuratvely speaking of course) the brain. But when it was found many of the so-called clots were really only tubbles they thereafter not worth men, tioning.
 We mention this the edificaton of joy riders and adventurous drivers who try trains at crossings. We wish impress them that death in that endeavor not heroic and that their de- mise will be carried the broad pinons of fame to admiring multudes; that though they may not go down entirely they will hence unhonored and unsung.
 garded a heroic, crowning achievement of one's career. Yet there is certain unusualness about fl that fixes the attention of the gatherer who sees in it strange mixture humor tragedy and he tells the world.
 But death at the railroad crossings is common place as to be drab. stale, unprofitabe" anybody but the undertaken.
Arizona republican., 1920-08-10

such of the brightest stars as come within the field of vision as seen from the bottom of this smokestack, should be visible to the naked eye in daylight, provided that the sun is not very near the field of view.
 c. Does the Scotch song "connin' throuqh the Rye~ mean coming through a rye field? A. A. T.
 A. This song refers to the River Rye in Scotland It's significance may be found in the old Scottish custom which permitted young men to take a toll Of kisses from lassies whom they met on the stepping stones when crossing the stream.
 0. What size is the largest gun in the United States army? H. A. p.
 A. The war department says that the largest gun used in the military service is the 161inch gun, which is the type used on the Panama canal
 0. Why does plotting paper absorb ink? M. E.
 A Because it is made of porous material which is not pressed and rolled as hard as other paper stock. c. What makes the best roushase feed for cows, oats, wheat or corn? A. c.
 A. Exclusive use of wheat or straw as a roughage for breeding cows will produce premature. weak or dead off spring. A complete ration can be made
  nal growth and reproduction.
 c. When IS Green Thursday?" T.. E.
 A. The Thursday preceding Good Friday is known as Maundy Thursday. Holy Thursday. or Green Thursday. This last name came into use about | 1900 and may been so-called because the twenty third Psalm was usually the selection for the day. O. What state is called the Centen- niai State? r. V. B. A. Colorado was given this nick name because it was admitted to the union in 1876 when this country was | having its centennial celebration of the Declaration Of Independence. O. Why dces charcoal absorb gases l K. L. M.
 A. The property of absorbing gases and vapors in explained by the poros- | ity of wood charcoal. The fetid gases pass into the pores of the charcoal and 1 there meet with the oxygen previously 1 absorbed from the atmosphere: oxl- dation ensues and the unwholesome 1 effluvia are decomposed. This action however, is usually wholly mechanical l the gases being absorbed c. Is there milestone in Washing ton from which distances are meas ured? p. F. w.
 A. There is a stone known as the Zero Milestone which has been placed on drive directly south or the " Nuitt House grounds. The plan is to meas
 ure distances on the national highwaYs
 from this point. which is on the meri-
 dian of Washington, v degrees west o | Greenwich.
 c. Please give a recipe for piekiec
 onions. w. A. r.
 A Select small white onions anC
 sort into two sizes. F inch diamete
 in one and & inch in other. Peel
 cover with fresh water and let stant for 2 days changing the water on sec
Arizona republican., 1920-08-10
HAD NARROW ESCAPE
 FROM CLOUDDURST

If he had not been an old timer. and as familiar with the clouds as with the people of Arizona. invitations would now be out for the funeral of Dudley $. Lewis and wife for, say, tomorrow. MT. Lewis, accompanied by Mrs. Lewis, went to Hot Springs to look over the ground with reference to the sentiment of the people toward Judge Stanford as Democratic candi : date for the nomination for United States senator. Mir. Lewis himself has official aspirations-he would be con- stable of west Phoenix precinct-but his trip had nothing to do with that. for Hot Springs is far outside the boundaries of that political subdivision.
 While he was in one of the canyons from which the springs are approached or left, MT. Lewis happened to look up and he had to look straight up for the canyon walls are precipitous. He saw a black cloud peeping over and he at once started for higher ground. That cloud would not have meant much to a tenderfoot To MT. Lewis 1t meant cloudburst in that immediate vicinity, and the cIoudburst came. Within a few minutes after he had placed him self outside the canyon roaring wall Of water was rushing through IL wasn't a rain, nothing like that. The cloud just burst and dropped It's con tents out Of it's insides right where Mir. Lewis had been standing.