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The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
NEGRO ROWDY. HOLDS
UP PICTURE MANAGED
Dodo Blake, Calmly Facing Pts.
tOI Tells Red Byrd to
Shoot.

Red Byrd, a negro OF unsavory
REPUTATION as far as the opinion Of
officers is concerned ON account of his
previous actions, created a deal of
Iexcitement at picture show being
Irun for eoIored people in the knights
Iof Pythias building in Petersburg
Wednesday night by his general bull
lying behavior. winding up by draw-
ing a pistol on Dodo Blake. accom-
panied by curses and threats. Byrd
made his escape after his fasco and
notwithstanding the efforts Of the Of
fcers to apprehend him is still at
large.
The picture show Ia owned by Mr..
&c. T. Montgomery and Dodo Blake
had charge the night Of the trouble.
Byrd is stated to have entered in a
drunken condition and refused to be
quiet or to take seat at the COM
mands of the manager, Mr.. Blake,
the negro finally with his pistol
drawn and waving IL to and fro in
front Of Blake, proceeding to back
Blake up against the wall and round
extent that Blake. holding his nerve
extremely well for a long Tins, nnal-
ly told him to shoot II he wanted to.
Byrd's better judgment undoubtedly
kept him in check, but not until he
had carried Blake around to the
cashiers window at the point Of his
gun and made Blake give him back
his admission fee. after which he dis
appeared.
As soon as word was gotten. to
town., all Of the city officers with &
good crowd of men spent the great
er portion OF the night searching for
the offender but without result.
A negro was arrested at Norfield
the next morning supposed to be
Byrd, but when Chief Of Police Case
went down in car to get him the
prisoner turned out to be the wrong
negro.
Mr.. Case has found out that the.
liquor the negro Byrd IL supposed to
have been lit up ON was brought
down on the afternoon train from
Memphis, and that Byrd; who was
interested In a pressing shop at Nor
feld, had sold out his interest the
afternoon previous to his disturbance
here.
Officers of the county as well as
In the larger cities have been noti-
ned to be on the lookout for Byrd.
Another negro, named johnnie
Harris, is also being sought this
week for his assault on Kelsey
smith at the Central Lumber Co. s
plant.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
Lone Star T1ail Party on sawannee

-.
The Official Party of the Lone Star
Trail Association are now on the
banks Of the Suwannee River. After
holding an overcrowded mass meet
Ing at Live Oak, Florida, and organ
izing the Florida State Division Of
the Trail the party together with the
newly elected officials Of the Florida
Division started south thru Florida
on a tour Of inspection.
The trail thru Florida is $50 miles
In length and all but about so miles
are either built or under construc-
tion. Meetings will be held In the
two counties not already bonded and
funds will be provided to take care
OF their section of the Trail.
1t is at Branfcrd, Florida where
the trail intersects the Suwannee
River and also at this point the trav-
eler over our route will 1nd an ideal
camping ground, spot where the
hand OF man has never interfered
with nature, even to that mysterious
pool or water as clear as mirror
that spouts forth from the bowels Of
the earth steady dow of artesian
water and by walking a few steps
further you will and sulphur springs
equal to those in any other section
OF the country. Six meetings have
been held in Florida the past week
and every town has gone well over
the top in the membership drive. AZ
ter crossing the Everglades to Miami
the marking Of the Yrail will be
started and thru trip is being plan
ned to the western terminus at San
Diego. California.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
SENTENCED TO DIE
FOR AMORY MURDER
Charles Harshan to Pay Penalty
for Staying Infant-Jury
Out Tive Hours.

Tupelo, Miss, March S1.-Less
than two hours after arguments in
his case had been closed, Charles
Marshall, accused in indictments re-
turned by the Monroe county grand
jury of the killing of four members
of the Miller family near Amory on
the night of January Is, was taken
back to his cell in the Lee county
Jail. having been found guilty of the
murder of William Miller, infant vic
tim Of the tragedy alleged to have
been his own child-and sentenced
to be hanged here on May IA.
Motion for new trial Is expected
to be made this week.
Marshall heard the verdict without
visible emotion, nor did he give any
expression of his feelings when sem
fenced to death. Likewise, he made
no statement when the customary
question was asked if he had any
thing to say before sentence was
passed.
His aged step-mother, whose hus-
band, John E. Marshall, father Of
the man convicted today, is to be
placed on trial on charge of being
an accessory to the crime, threw her
arms around the younger Marshall
as he arose to be sentenced and fell
on the floor in faint.
There was no demonstration by the
crowd which packed the court room.
The jury was out barely an hour af-
ter receiving the case, and spent part
of that time eating lunch.
Charles Marshall was placed on
trial here, Monday on change of ye-
nue. from Monroe county. Pearl May
Miller, IL years old, the only sur
viving member of the family and
principal witness for the prosecution
testified that from an unceiled loft
where she had sought safety she saw
him club the baby to death.
Marshall. testifying in his own de-
fsnse,. denied the accusations of the
girl and declared that at the time
of the tragedy he was at his fathers
home, some distance away.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
HATTIESBURG MAN
TO LEAD BAPTISTS
Laurel Selected Next Place Of
Meeting by B. Y. P. U.
In Newton.

Newton, Miss. The Anal session
Of the seventh annual convention of
the State Baptist B. ". p. U. and
Sunday School convention was held
in the Baptist church Thursday night
the feature of the meeting being 4
thrilling address ON "Play Ball, BY
E.. e. Lee, b. Y. p. U. secretary OF
the Sunday School Board, after
which the convention adjourned, to
meet in Laurel next year.
Notwithstanding torrential rain
fall shortly after the convention as
sembled, the attendance Thursday
surpassed all records. A special
train brought 183 delegates from
Meridian, the train from Laurel
brought in about ffty delegates,
swelling that city's representation
considerably. At least $50 were en-
rolled, and the number OF visitors
reached 1000. Dinner was served to
more than thousand people at the
church. DR.. H. A. Porter of Atlanta,
as well as both the retiring president
and the new president Of the con-
yention, pronounce this the greatest
state convention Of its kind ever held
in the South. The attendance was
three times as large as the state Bap-
tist convention.
At the joint session presided over
by the president, H. L.. Watts, DR..
w. H. Morgan took the floor aud made
the report of the nominating commit
tee as follows:-
For President-Dr. ]. L. johnson
OF Hattiesburg.
For Sunday School .Vice-p president
w. E. Holcomb Of Tupelo.
For B. Y. P. U. Vice president
Chester Byrne of Brookhaven.
For Secretary and Treasurer-Mis
Joy King OF jackson.
Next place Of meeting on
Tuesday after the third Sunday in
March, 1921.
The report Of the committee was
adopted, and the officers Immediately
installed.
After Rev, Zeno Wall had given a
discourse on "The Answer OF the Call
ed which was the feature of the af-,
ternoon, 10S young people pledged
themselves as volunteers for special
service, either In the home or foreign
fields. Next in order was the award.
ing of banners, and West Laurel Se-
nior Union was pronounced the best
senior organization. The best Junior
union was Brookhayen. The best
senior or junior banner was award
ed to Emanuel church union of HataI
tlesburg, which is also known as the
Woman's College Church..
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
Blows Himself to Fragments.

Charlottesville. Va, March 31.-
Carrying twelve sticks of dynamite
to the top of mountain near here
this afternoon, Grover G. Kanny
committed suicide by blowing his
body to bits.
Kanny had been grieying over the
death Of his wife. After noon today
he told his eight children that he
proposed to end his life. He procured
the dynamite and started for the
mountain top. His children attempt
TO follow in an effort to dissuade him
but were forced to turn back when
the father began throwing rocks at
them.
Reaching a peach orchard on the
mountain top, Kanny placed the dy-
Mantle on the ground, lighted the
fuse and threw himself upon the ex-
plosiye. The report shook the noun
tain side.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
State Tar Lesr

It has been anhonn ceds reliably ii
seems, that to meet the necessary an
preparations levy of 3 mills will Be
made. Such an increase in addition
to very material lareg assessment
is not pleasant to contemplate. But
with showing that the amounts an
propriated are to the best interest
Of the state, there can be no cause
as the Herald said yesterday, for Jus
Unable complaint. II is to be re.
membered that by far the larger por-
tion OF the increase in the amount
of appropriations is for the public
schools, for which there was a COM
mon and crying demand, and for
additions and repairs to buildings
and conveniences of the public insti-
tutions. Vicksburg Herald.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
ODONSAURUS
IS FOUND IN YAZOO
Is Not New Name for Corn Juice,
Tho Probably Had Same
'.Kick."

Yazoo City, Miss.-How would you
like to accidentally step on the jaw
bone of a mastodon? A negro did
II near here, at night, too, when
unarmed and innocent of any inten-
tion to encounter anything more for
midable than the fish that abound in
the streams of this county. Yes, the
mastodon long since had breathed his
last. but the find has awakened much
interest and will place Yazoo more
prominently in the iimelight.
During a gigging expedition for
piscatorial inhabitants of the waters
OF Chever creek, on r. l.. Fishers
plantation, 1t appears, the negro
whose foot came down on the ancient
bone was not having much luck.
Finding the strange fossil, however.
made up for the dearth Of fish, and
the fisherman took 1t to Mr.. Fisher
who brought 1t to Yazoo. City, where
it is being exhibited.
The discovery was made where the
bank OF the creek had eayed in for
some eighteen feet. The Jaw was
half buried in the earth,, but was in
good state of preservation. 1t is
more than three feet long and weighs
fifty pounds. The teeth are more
than three inches across the top.
Other large bones, probably Of the
same mastodon. have been found in
the same locality, 1t is said, and a
movement Is on foot to gather all Of
them together and endeavor to re-
construct the skeleton of the huge
beast.
Local students scout the theory
that the jaw was that af a mastodon-
saurus, but agree 1t belongs to some
other prehistoric monster. The mas
todonsaurus, it is said, sometimes
had a skull four feet long and was
the genus containing the largest la
Dyrinthodonts. Btu its remains are
found only in the Trias of Europe
and Asia. so that let's Yazoo out.
Several nearly complete skeletons
OF mastodons, numerous species of
extinct elephant, chiefly of the genus
rnammut. remains Of which are wide
~ distributed In deposits, ranging
from the middle Miocene to the late
Pleistocene, have been found In A.
merica. They differ from the exist
Ing elephant chiefly in molar teeth,
which have high conical cusps or pa
rallel ridges, with little cement be-
tween. The northern part of the con-
tinent has furnished most Of their
remains, and on the theory that ages
ago the Delta section was in the Gulf
OF Mexico, the Yazoo mastodon pro-
badly was carried down from the
north by floods until he found a last
resting place In this section.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
Wood Gets Republican Delegates in
Mississippi.

jackson, Miss, April 1.-The state
Republican committee has appointed
district delegates to the national con-
vention at Chicago and instructed
them for General Leonard Wood as
follows:-
First district, G.. B. MeEyen.
Brookline; second f. H. MeKissack,
Holly Springs; third, Fred H. Miller,
Round Lake; four d. M. p. HazeIey.
and w. w. Phillips, Kosciusko; nfth,
DR.. Z. e. Howard, Meridian; sixth.
Thomas !. Keys, Ocean Springs; sew
enth, w. w. Blackburn, Port Gibson:
eighth, v. L. Rubens and ]. L. Webb.
Bolton.
-Four delegates at large will also
be named.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
Wife Held IS Liability, Not as Asset,
BY Judge.

Kansas City, Mo.-A wife eceord.
Ing 20 Judge Fleming Is liability
not an asset. The legal opinion came
IN the South Municipal Court here !
rev days ago when the judge under.
took to take the assessment Of the
personal property OF Roy Mason. 4
negro, who had refused to give 4 val
uatlon to a deputy city assessor.
Judge" the negro began, sI's got
" watch, 500 victrola and !
20 wife Is not an asset. the court
interrupted.
say 1edge," countered the negro,
youall don know nah wife"
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
Wesson is in Need Of Refrigerator
Cars to Garry MIX.

Unless refrigerator cars are fur.
nished by the railroad to carry the
night milk TO New Orleans the dairy
business here this spring and sum.
mer promises to be a big losing game
on account OF sour milk. The loss
es have already commenced. II the
railroad can furnish refrigerator
cars tor carry vegetables to Chicago
II ought to furnish them to carry
milk to New Orleans. Wesson En-
terprise.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03
$500 Once Now $1l.0o-A Leader
Cost Experience.

After delaying over two months,
the Leader managed to get In an or
der for two tons Of news print paper
last week at $10.6o a hundred In
Kentucky. which means fully $I1.OO
per hundred delivered in the office.
And think, the price was formely So
90 per hundred. The paper on which
the Leader is printed alone runs into
three figures month now.
That's the reason why SO few extra
copies are printed and cash-in-ad-
vance asked for subscriptions. Ev-
erything else We use has gone up in
proportion.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

There is scarcely an 1S year old
boy in Lincoln County who does not
secretly think that he knows more
than his father. And there isn't a
father in town who didn't think the
same thing when he was that age.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

The owners of the railroads can
now rest assured that the guaran-
teed return is coming from the pock-
cts Of the taxpayers and Ii rates are
inadequate the people will pay the
difference all the same.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

The cost Of joy riding will have
advanced this year, but 1t being d
necessity, lot of Brookhayen folks
Will cheerfully pay the increased
costs.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

Fearing charbon, which always fol-
lows receding river, the Yicksburg
Board Of Trades executive COMMITTEES
is advising farmers and live stock
owners In lowlands to inoculate their
stock.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

Before long we will be worrying as
g the safety q the peach crop aud
then we'u know Spring Is here and
that Winter is trying to linger In her
lap.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

On account Of developments Of 4
business nature ! announce my with
draWal from the race for Alderman.
B. s. CATO.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

The production Of crops and goods
will eventually reduce the high cost
OF liying-also the value of crops
and goods. There's the rub for the
producers; and yet they patriotically
produce.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-04-03

Talking about the weather is in
the same class with remarks about
taxes being too high.
The Washington times., 1920-01-30
EXPECT CLASS TODECIDE
DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
Vote of Senator About TO Take Seat
viii Break Hitchcock and
Underwood Deadlock

with Carter Glass sboot to taks
his seat In the Senate. interest In the
Democratic leadership fight Is re-
vivinS.
Senator Hitchcock is leaving for
Nebraska this week. and viii not 20
turn for some time. He said he has
no present intention OF calling con
ference of Democrats Senator Un-
dsrwood, Hitcheock's rival for thf
leadership. said he is ready when
ever Hitchcock IL.
when the last caucus broke up ar
ter senator Hoke Smiths refusal to
vo,. resulted In Q tie. Il was agreed
ths next meeting should be at the
ioint call OF Hitchcock and Under
wood. . o..
10 which candidate he has decided
to vote for. Glass Is understood 10
h. Tor Underwood. and his arrival
NAV settle the controversy without
Smiths vote.
The Washington times., 1920-01-30
PLAN TO EXTEND
\. LIBRARY SERVICE
American Association Would
Put Books Within Reach
OF All u. S.

The American Library Association
Is launching a nationwide campaign
tor the extension OF public library
service. 1t is the aim OF the associa-
tion to create library systems In
rural communities. and to establish
more business and technical Libraries
throughout the country. Business
concerns will be given aid In organ
izing special libraries and In the Sc
lection ordering. ana estaloguins Of
books.
Only 7s4 OF the 2.904 counties In the
United States have a library OF 5000
volumes or more, while in thirty
States. less than 90 per cent of the
population have free access to IL
Efforts will be. made to establish
and develop complete libraries, which
will serve every community. school
and penal and charitable institution
Some funds are now available for this
work. and a campaign for money will
be soon started.
Special service OF books and maya
zines will be given coast guards ana
lighthouse keepers. S.uall libraries
also will be maintained on the yes-
ssls OF the American merchant ma
rine.
The association also plans to aid
in the printing and distributing Oh
hooks in the approved type for the
blind.
Librarian George F. Bowerman, of
the Public Library. stated he hopes
the association campaign will mate
rally aid the library system OF the
District, which is now In poor shape,
Congress having failed TO provide for
needed branches In various sections,
and the children's branches needed in
he suburban schools.
"The Public Library Is forced to
close every Wednesday at 3 o'clock
because OF lack of funds to pay the
employees. and IL Is being found prac-
tically impossible to retain competent
workers for the salaries provided for
In the annual appropriation" said
Mr.. Bowerman. I'VE cannot secure
even inexperienced people for our
work for the salaries we are com
,elled to Offer" he said.
According TO Mr.. Bowerman, chill
iren who cannot AFFORD car fare now
SallS four or five miles to get books.
The Washington times., 1920-01-30
NOTED NOVELIST WILL
SPEAK TWICE AT G. W. U.

Vincente Blasco Ibanez, noted
Spanish novelist and author OF The
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
will be heard in two addresses in
Washington February %, his only
public appearance in America after
completing his present lecture en-
gagements in California.
Information was received in a let
er to DR.. William Miller Collier,
PRESIDENT of George Washington Uni
versity. The author will appear at
the university's mid-winter convoca-
don in New Masonic Temple on the
afternoon of February %. and at
dinner OF the university's alumni at
Rsuscher's in the evening.
An honorary degree will be con-
ferred upon the noted Spsniard by DR..
Collier, who knew him Intimately
while minister to Spain. Five hum
dred tickets to the convocation will
be available to the public and will be
distributed after February IL, in or
Ter of application, to those writing
before February 10 to Elmer Louis
Kayser. secretary OF the university.
woodruff administration building.
21O1 G street northwest.
The eight lectures on Poetry AS a
Necessity Of Life" to be given at the
university, beginning Tuesday, by
Langdon E. Mitchell, will be open to
the public as well as to students. The
lectures will be held Tuesdays at 11:15
a. m. in Concordia Lutheran Church.
Twentieth and G streets northwest.
University students taking thirty
hours q week or more will be ad-
mited free. Outsiders desiring tickets
will register for the course at the
office Of the recorder. Lisner Hall,
2023 G street northwest.
The Washington times., 1920-01-30

Ing 10 snstched from her hand by an
unidentified oolored man. Police were
faFAisAsd NttA a asssglstioA 81 tAs
robber.
Three cases OF tomatoes were stolen
last night when burglars gained en-
trance TO a warehouse In Brewers
court northeast. by forcing the front
door. The Theft was reported by w.
o. Anderson. "a X street northeast.
The Washington times., 1920-01-30

The Direction Book with each
package tells how to. diamond dye
over any color. You cfn not make
a mistake.
To match any material, have drug
gist show you Diamond Dye" Color
Card.
The Washington times., 1920-01-30
THIEF SNATCHES BAG
WITH 50 FROM WOMAN

SWIM walking near Fourteenth and
,,cWton streets northwest yesterday
flernoon. Marie Gnligan. isss Ingle-
de fcrrace. had a handbag contain
The Washington times., 1920-01-30
PEEK HURTS PEEK-A-BOOS.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30.-Pres :.
ence OF a man stationed by a realty
company to serve an attachment on
her lingerie shop, ruined business
said Helen Burdell, suing for $27,5oO.
Modest girls wouldn't buy while he
gazed.
The Washington times., 1920-01-30

n)n't worry about perfect results.
Use diamond Dyes" guaranteed to
give nov. rich, fadeless color to
any fabric, whether IL be wool, silk,
linen, cotton or mixed goods
dresses, sweaters, stockings, gloves,
waists. ribbons, feathers, draperies,
crings-eNerythin
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-01


 physician, with self-eonfident em- phasis. Romance Is the flower of youth and If a woman waits until she is 2s or 30 years old before mar rying, her marriage Is probably a matter of economics, rather than love. When a girl and a man marry young they have better children and a better. chance of happiness, for they grow together with the years.
 'In my country our diverces are very few and I think 1t Is because after marriage, our women work. After love, consider this the funda- mental reason for happy marriages If our woman do nothing else they manage their own households and their children. I believe we average larger families in Holland than you do here, although doctors in good standing are permitted, in my coun-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-01

 try, to limit families If they consider the health of the woman demands it.
 Fhe healthy woman who marrieS for love chooses the ideal life. for it Is the most completely rounded and satisfying career she can select. Her love makes it possible to satisfy all the intricate requirements, but she must continue to work to be happy. When she weds to obtain an easy means of support she is making a big mistake because in all most any other line of work she could make an easier living.
 tsWhy, in Holland, many of our woman continue after marriage the business or professional work in which they had previously engaged We have very few idle married wom- en-''-FroIn the Detroit News. @
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-01
THE TIMES: THURSDAY, JANUARY i, 1920

she is the general worker in the household. Almost any woman could make a far easier living in some other manner than marriage.
 "A woman needs to be three times as strong and we'll to be married as in any other occupation" pr. Potter said. Tn efficient, happy marriage she is working at three jobs. She is the wife. the loving eomrade of her husband and she is the understand ing mother of her children; she Is the homemaker, the manager and the worker in her household, and surely these three jobs are enough to make her realize that, outside of wcdlock, she could make a far easier living.
 '"The best age for a woman to mar ry, physically, economically and TO- mantically. is 1S.'' continued the