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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
Miss Catherine Poorse, is visiting
relatives in Washington.

| Miss Catherine Poorse, is visiting
relatives in Washington.
The Alexandria Amusement Co.,
will soon open a new pool room at
the north side Of King between Pat
rick and Henry streets.
Mr.. Lisle Roadhouse spent the
week end with his friends at Fred
| ericksburg, Va.
Miss Margaret Griffith spent the
past week with her relatives at Co.
lonial Beach, Va.
c. D. Welch, of 92l King street,
has Joined the sale force of A. II.
Annew, real. estate dealer.
Mrs. Lawrence Craig, and little
Miss Dorothy Wood, spent the week
end with the formers parents, at
Warrenton, Va.
Miss Nellie Carlton, who has
been spending the past two weeks
with her sister, Mrs. R. P. Brown,
in North Alfred street, left today
for her home in Roanoke, Va.
Misses Lena Yates, Ora Smith, Anne
Boone and Elizabeth Taylor, of the
Alexandria Hospital, have gone to
Richmond to take the state board
examination for trained nurses.
The rowing crews of the Old Do
min!on boat club are being rapidly
whipped into condition by coach Thrall
The club has some splendid oarsmen
and they are expecting to carry off
some of the honors in the regatta.
A meeting of the American Wo-
mems Legion will be held at eight
o'clock tonight at the residence of
DR.. Kate Waller Barrett, 4OS Duke
street.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the B. OF
l.. Z. will have their regular meeting
tomorrow, Tuesday, July 29th instead
Of July 9Th, as that is the annual ex-
cursion date to Marshall Hall. All
members are urged to be present.
Misses Margaret Paff and Marian
Dienelt are spending the week at the
girls camp at Snowden, Va, which is
under the direction of Miss Eddie
Dickert and others.
Mr.. and Mrs. William II. I.
Brooke, of Rosemont, motored to
Ocean City, Md, Saturday, to spend
the week end with Mrs. Brooke's
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H.
kemper.
Mrs. Abbie Bartlett announces
the. marriage of her daughter. Miss
Agnes Bartlett, to Mr.. Edgar Sims
which took place Saturday at the
parsonage of the First Baptist
Church, Rev. DR.. E. B. Jackson, of
floating.
Mr.. Lawrence Washburn De-
Motto. of New York. arrived Satur-
day at the home of his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Nellie V. Ramey, in Duke
street. where Mrs. DrMotte and
Master Washburn Denote have
been guests for the past month.
An automobile driven by Fred
List. 400 Franklin street, and mo-
tcrcvcle driven by Tony Fulzone col
liGed Saturday afternoon at Came
ron and Royal streets. Lists ma
chine was somewhat damaged. Full
zone escaped with few bruises.
The property No. 20 West Walnut
street, Rosemont. has been purchased
by Mr.. Harry F. Kennedy, we'll
known Washington attorney, who
will occpy it as his residence. Mr.
Kennedy was represented by F.. +.
Carver and Company and the F. c.
Goodnow Company represented the
Sellers
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
GLASS WILL HEAD COMMITTEE

Senator Glass was named as Fir-
ginia's representative on the resolu-
tons committee while the delegates
we're en- route here. H. D. Flood was
chosen chairman of the delegation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
JUST RECEIVED

Another shipment of figured wolfe
dresses. Exceptional values. 90 per
cent off Must be seen tn be ap-
preciated. ". T. Farley, 500 King
street. 154-lc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
SPECIAL LOT

Women's silk hose, Just received,
sl.19 and 81 30 pair. w. T.
Farley, 500 King street. l54-lc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
NOTICE

Wcmon's shoes an9 hats, % per
cert off Extraordinary savings.
". T. Farley, 500 King Street.
l54-lc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
FORD OWNERS

Orr MOTTO-Ef it is done al
Remschers. it must be done right.
73-tf.
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% PER CENT OFF

Mems hats and shoes at W. T..
Farley's. 500 King Street. l34-lc :
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
EXIDE

Sound and solid. Long life and
ample power have given "Exlde
batteries their reputation, and made
our business the largest Of its kind
in the city.
TESTERS.
King and Patrick Streets
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18

From the Spokane Spokesman Review. TITLE annual fall exodus leaves fewer
 than 200 people in the once famous.
 A though always desolate, beach camp of Nome. Returning Alaskans say the curtain is all but drawn on the old camp where, in the summer of 1898, nearly Is, 900 people surged, swore, fought and caroused.
 sNome has gone the way of scores of 1tful placer camps Its glory is the tale in another setting of Orofino, Pierce City, Warrens and Florence of the early sos in northern Idaho; of the North Fork placer camps of the Occur d'Alenes in the early sos; of Central City and Leadville in Colo rado, of wasted camps in Montana and southern Idaho, in British Columbia, Ore gon and Nevada, to say nothing of the wild days of the sos in California.
 Exceptions to the rule of hectic activity and quick decay are Helena. site of a one-time noted placer camp, and the city of Denver, where, in the summer of 1855, James H. Pierce banned out a little gold from a sandbar near the mouth of Cherry creek. a discovery that fired the ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
LITERARY LANDMARKS

the numbers of model dwellings which are being erected there. Perhaps these arc Cheisea's most dangerous foes, for modern notions of efficiency have little in com mon with the things which imparted in terest to the homes of Chelsea's artists and writers.
 It was in Chelseas golden age that the Rosettis and Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, Car lyle, George Eliot, George Meredith and Henry James flourished there There also in an earlier day lived Holbein and Wren, and later Turner and Whistler made it ia nous in art, Whistlers etching of Chelsea Bridge being his specific contribution to .Chelsea's fame.
 Most of the landmarks recalling the residence of these artists and writers in Chelsea will probably soon go. The house in which Carlyle lived when he movea from Craigenputtock to London and cul- .tirate literature and dyspepsia on a little oatmeal and an evening smoke up the chimney, and possibly the house where the Rosettis, Meredith and Swinburne tried unsuccessfully to house their indi- vioual preferences and dreams, may su vive the invasion, but it is likely tha in the course of the next few year American pilgrims to literary shrines will find q much changed Chelsea. For those who seek inspiration in the relics of the great this is a tragedy, but destruction is familiar law of modern urban life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald
 NHELSEA, long famous in Lcndon. IL history Of art and letters, is ill
 danger of being made over in q fashion which will leave it more unloyely and less inspiring than it is now. Soon it may lose many landmarks of it's for. mer greatness and see their places SUD- piled in a manner thoroughly familiar in New York-by bronze tablets which tell of what has been.
 This quiet district of the great and ever-spreading city is permeated with ar tistic and literary traditions. It is a region which has been pre-eminently dedi- cated to genius, and as such it might be thought 1t would be London's pride to see it's characteristics preserved. It may fairly be said that it's own fame is lead ing to it's undoing. It has been advertised too well and is, threatened from three sources
 One one side the fashionable West End, which disdained Chelsea when it was growing famous, is sending into it in- vaders in the shape of the newer rich, who>desire to share in it's reflected glory. Then the Putnam hospitals are seeking more room, and naturally in the area case happens to be Chelseaward The tkird element which menaces the tradi- tionai atmosphere of Chelsea is found in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

For every 10 columns of cures print ed in the newspapers, about 10 lines of space is given to preventives.
 Once in while man offers to lend you 35 when you don't need it. so that he will be in position to touch you for s25 some other day.
 When a lo-cent girl sues 2 10-cent man for $1oo,o00 for breach of promise we wonder if there is such an animal as the American Sense of Humor.
 Once upon time the perfect woman married the perfect man. And 30 days later each was nagging about the im- perfecti0ns of the other
 We are mighty glad that the rainbow has but seven colors. If it had 70, some girls would wear them all at ono time.
 If people only knew how much a good listener is loved, there would not be so much talking done. Pull line of baby talk on her 10 days after marriage and she'll hug you for an hour. But if you pulled the same line of talk on her 10 years after mar riage she'd run you for an hour.
 woman will pray to be led away from temptation and then she'll walk right up to millinery store show win dow.
 Why is 1t that rnan will get full of red eye and then blame his ornery ac- tions on his red blood?.
 We will always believe in the men folks until we discover that they are wearing baby ribbon around the necks of their undershirts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18

are charged with participation in that offense.
 Acknowledgment that so much money was received and that no record was kept settles the case in ones own mind whether that suffices as evidence in a court of law or does not. There is a motive in hiding things. The motive is generally sinis- ter, because transactions that are honest and in conformity with law and public opinion do not shun the light of day.
 The case against Dr. Run1ley is strengthened when his attorneys ad- init handling $s71,000 without show ing from whom it was received and to whom it was turned over. Secrecy naturally attached to this transaction because it was connected with the cor ruption policy of the German empire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
THE PASSING OF NOME

peotations of thousands and started the historic rush to rF
 The fine and progressivel city of Lewis ton, Idaho, is another exception to tte rule of oblivion that has been the almost unfailing fate of placer camps. While, strictly speaking, Lewiston was not placer camp. but the outfitting point at the head of steamboat navigation for the stampede into the Clearwater region in the early eos, it was a placer camp in all it's aspects, and in the wild spirit of early day gold hunting.
 With the sailing away of the steamship Victoria, bearing 35o Nome residents, most of whom announced their purpose never to return, the breeding spirit of melancholy came in with the long. long winter. Again the "wolf's long howl is heard on Oun- alaska's lonely shore,' and the little rem nant of population is left with memories and disappointed hopes. Yet few will cling To the deserted beach to the last breath of life, for such is the unfailine record of every famous camp. to live ovel again in memory, through the long arctic nights, the stirring scenes of % years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Only War Survivor Is
 Lloyd George Cabinet

T77 HE only survivor of post-bellum
 l elections is the Lloyd George cabinet in Great Britain. With the fall of Venizelos the decapitation process is all but complete. It is the way of mankind. The ills that follow any great event are not blamed on the event itself, but on the men who hap pen to be in charge of public affairs at the time..
 The premiers of France and Italy were first to fall. France turned down one of it's really great men. There were changes of government in Belgium, Hungary, Servia and Portugal, not to mention the several that have taken place in Germany.
 The democratic administration was not rejected in America because it was democratic, and not on account of any particular policies of the ad- ministration, but because it is the administration which is associated with the discomfiture following the conduct of tremendous war.
 There was glory in the Spanish American war without reaction be- cause that was a little affair and left nothing that harassed or incon- venienced in Its train. It was child's job. It involved no privation, no added tax burden, no cry for bonus, no af- front to racial passion and prejudice.
 Changes in administration prove nothing but that history repeats itself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
HAD A JOB IN MIND

From Answers. London
 My dear" said the banker to his only daughter. T have noticed young man attired in dress suit in tho drawing room on two or three evenings every week of late.-What is his occupationz'
 The little miss blushed prettily. and her dark eyes flashed mischievousiy' but there was keen pride and joy in her voice as she answered.:
 "He is at present unemployed. father. but he is thinking seriously of accept ing a position as life-companion to young lady of means"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Commoner Will Not Be
 Asked to Lead Democrat, !,

M1R. BRYAN is reported eager to HVll confer with democratic leaders regarding the future of the party. Shortly after the debacle of Novem- Der 2 he appeared in Washington and called on Secretary Colby, os- tensibly on private business. Although he let it be known that he was ready to advise with all who came to sit at his feet in the attitude so dear to his heart, the response, to put it mild ly, has not been overwhelming. Just at present MT. Bryan is a rather soli- tary figure.
 When MT. Cox was making his fight for the presidency against odds which doomed him to defeat, MT. Bryan, emulated the example of Achilles and sulked in his tent. He did not raise his hand, nor yet his voice, in behalf of the party's stand. ard-bearer, despite the honors which the party had .heaped upon him in past years-to its sorrow. Mr. Bryan, it appears, let pique rob him of a large measure of popularity that would have been his if he had taken the part that was expected of him in the campaign. He may have opposed MT. Wilson's policies regarding the League
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
BACK TO THE TUBS!

so clean and starchy-o? That, forsootn' 10 the old man; the same odd character who ran the boys electric train all day al Christmas time. He entertains a sneak ing notion that the wimmin folks are get ting all the fun out of this machine u is even suspected in certain quarters that some fine day we'll discover dad inside the kitchen apron, sleeves rolled up and soapsuds on his glasses, showing the ladies how it should be done. Lot us not modest him at his happy task. no, no. Is he not paying for the washer? And that, as the wise ones have onserVeo' is something else again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Kiwanis Club
 Sets Good Example

N, GOD citizenship was displayed V1 by the Kiwanis club at it's Tuesday luncheon when that body joined the American Cotton associa- ton to man and placed a commit tee at work to help raise the years budget for the Boy Scouts and the Boys club. That was taking on lot in one day, but not too much. No in- stitution can do too much where the good of the community is involved.
 One may ask why should city men join cotton association? Because the city man is business man and the cotton crop needs to be handled at the marketing end by business men and not by growers, who are not and never will be good business men. They should belong to the cotton associa- tion because their fortunes are tied up in cotton in the same degree as that of the producer.
 Twenty-cent cotton caused the de- feat of the seaport amendment. Tweny-cent cotton is responsible for smaller bank deposits and smaller clearings and for smaller purchases of Birmingham jobbers and wholesalers by the country merchants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 HH N ND, my dear, they were as " A\ clean as could be! And I did
 z eS it all myself! It was play ab- solutely!.v' Thus the italics multiply and the superlatives wax in glory, while ad- jectiye is heaped upon adjective in fa- fniliar feminine fashion wherever women foregather these days. It may be tea ora luncheon, possibly q political pow WOW, or just merely an afternoon call though there is little time for purely social visits any more. But just let the bonnets get together. and then, after the main theme has been disposed of, strange terms begin to fly around. Swinging wringer, aluminium cylinder, guaranteed motor. oilless bearings, copper tubs. vacuum cups-these were strang topics on the lips of such furred and feathered com panies Electricity has made one more stride, that's all; this time toward the independence of Mrs. Homemaker.
 Everybody has an electric washer. everybody's getting one and everybody else is at least toying with the idea. There's the young woman in business, who usually recks little of washes and of washing, yet she boasts progressive sister-in-law. Sure. she. got Churnam- up. Great stuff. Says she couldn't keep house without it. Yeah. stick 'em in and push the button. Even juniors overalls. Pretty soft, pretty soft! Or just as fre- quently the song may run:
 "She, said she wanted A a day to do ours, $4, imagine! And she had to have breakfast as we'll as lunch cooked for her, and you should see the clothes when she was done with them, just shreds. that's all So I said to John l wouldn't put up with 1t any longer. and I got an electric washer and I do them myself Sc there!'
 It would ill become these columns to hold brief for any one machine; besides, what doth it profit a man to say h's wife's is the best. when, To! his mother owneth a different kind? At any rate. there are said to be more than loo va Irie&ies on the market, so the lady with a shrewd eye should be able to choose one that is adapted to her requirements of space, location and capacity. And of eourse they afi wash perfectly; you can take the dealers word for that. and the manufacturer himself admits it. too. in a modest sort of way.
 But who. if you please, is that timidly persistent figure in the background. all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Praises Auto Club

'sThe cordiality with which l was re- ceived by the Automobile club at Louis vile, Ky, and at Nashville, Tenn, was, thought, without parallel" said Dr. Julian s. Luhring of Detroit "but when I arrived in Birmingham I found the same hospitality and willingness to serve at the Birmingham club as at the other places.
 Tt makes one want to finger longer in the atmosphere enjoyed at these places, and I will leave Birmingham with & pleasant memory and a desire to return. You have a wonderful city.
 "A tourist is always impressed more with the city that supports an automo- bile club, because it is to these clubs that we first go for further road infor- nation, and for information as to the points of interest about the cities through which we happen to pass The Automobile club of Birmingham has been a wonderful help to our party dur ing our short stay here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Rurnley Attorneys Had
 Reason for Secrecy

X OMISSION has been made by A attorneys for the law firm of Hays, Kaufman $ Lindheim, CO., defendants with Dr. Edward A. Rum ley, that they received more than $371 ,O00 in 1914 and 1915 without making record of its receipt on their books.
 Dr. Rumley is charged with having concealed the German ownership of the New York Evening Mail, and the attorneys, Kaufman and Lindheim, of the firm through which he is all legged to have gotten the German .>oney with which to buy the paper,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
THE BIRD LET LOOSE

By Thomas Moore. The bird let loose in Eastern skieA When hastening fondly home, Ner stoops to earth her wing. nor flies Where idle warblers roam! But high she shoots through air and
 light.
 Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds hsz
 flight;
 Nor shadow aims her way. So grant me. God, from every caro And stain of passion free, Aloft, through Virtues purer air, To hold my course to thee. No sin to cloud. no lure to stay My soul. as home she sprirgs- Thy sunshine on her joyful ways Thy freedom in her winSBl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Lot. of Publicity

T had no idea of the amount of free publicity that the international balloon Paoli Smith of the Chamber of Con- merce Just today I am in receipt of . copy of Aviation" for November 1, and one of the Aeronaut. in both of which there are extensive notices of the field at the Sloss- -Sheff plant, the loving cups and photographs of tho winning Belgian team. These are but two of many publications. including such large newspapers as the New York Times, that have widely advertised the races. and Birmingham. incidentally. They were certainly worth while"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
ImaEinntion

Another advantage about a frosty night is that one can puff on an un- lighted cigar all night" said Pisano Pi- zarro. By exercising a little imagina- ton the breath he exhales can be sub- stiituted for smoke and his lupgs will be all the better off for the fancy.
 "Imagination is a great thing when used the right way, but the trouble is. that too many people let their imagi- nation run off in the wrong direction. When a little drop in the temperature is registered they imagine that they are going to freeze instead of imagining that they are warm and comfortable. It is really no harder to do and much more satisfying.
 "The same party who imagines he is going to freeze in the winter is the first person in the spring to swear that it is the hottest summer he has ever seen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
WILLIAM RYAN

From the ColbeFt county Keporter. The Reporter regrets to hear of the death of William Ryan. veteran edi- torial writer on The Birmingham Age Herald for more than 20 yeafs MT. Ryan was versatile and convincing writer and will beHsorsly, missed by The Age-Herald and its readers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Thorsby "a Live Place

"Thorsby is live wire little town,' said Charles Jones, assistant general manager of the Birmingham traffic bureau. T was there Monday evening by request, to lend what aid could in the organization of a chamber of commerce. They took hold like vet erans and, when I left there Tuesday morning, they had already registered 42 members, with more in sight It is the intention to unite fruit growers asso- agencies into one, realizing that what is good for one part of the. community is good for all. The Thorsbyites were |appreciative of the aid extended by the Birmin gham chamber in behalf of the new organization"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
The Kansas Lesson

''The Alabama cotton producer must get little of the real article like the people of Kansas had 30 years ago be- fore they became thoroughly self-re- liant and take steps to care for them selves" said John W. Porter, Out there they got to the point where grain went so low that it was more econom- ical to burn 1t in the grates and stoves than to burn coal and they actually did so. They are talking that way again out west, but they will not do it this time. because they have long since or- ganized and can pretty fairly weather any market conditions. The cotton pro- ducer has never been put to the abso- lute test of self-reliance. He has al. ways had some help out of the hole. Until that self-help has been developed through cooperative agencies, the pres ent situation will recur every now and then.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
M1LIrANT aEroRx

From the Brasil Times.
 1 will lecture on the sin and evil eff fects of tobacco and coffee from g Scrip tural and physical standpoint on the streets of Harmony Saturday evening. Come. everybody. to Near and help me cry against this terrible curse.
 R cIox
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
MISLEADING TERM

Now comes c season of the year
 With many pleasures fraught; Didelphyoid marsupiais
 In droves are being caught. A creature quite unknown to you?
 For, that you're not to blame. Who'd recognize a 'possum by
 His scientific name?