Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-07-02
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WESTERN

Ten persons were killed and nine
injured, probably fatally, when truck
carrying a load OF picnickers was
struck by a passenger train one mile
west OF Huntlngburg. Ind.
A 100000 parcel post building Is to
he erected as temporary relief from
the mail congestion in the postoffice
at Chicago A ten-ysar lease AT $780,
900 term rental was made by the gov
ernment
Frank c. Coeswell OF Minneapolis,
MINI, and his daughter, Dorothy, were
killed at Lakevisw, Wash, near Taco
ma, when an airplane In which they
were passengers plunged into sand
bnnk.
Dissension among members of the
Perkins Grove Lutheran church, south
of Dixon, ILL.,, resulted in some of the
members breaking into the church dur
Ing the night and with axes and saws
destroying pews and pulpit.
The proposed Hudson bay trade
route, designed to relieve traffic con-
gestlon during the heavy annual
movement of grain from the West, has
been pronounced feasible by the spe-
cial Senate committee appointed to in
vestignte the project.
The establishment of fund of $780,
000,000 10 extend financial aid to west
ern wool growers, while awaiting the
re-establishment of the wool market,
was considered at a conference In Chi
cago recently of western bankers and
sheep ranchers. Chicago bankers were
asked TO displace Boston banks in fl
naDcing the annual wool clip of the
country, which plan would make Chi
cago the wool center of the nation.
WASHINGTON
The 1920 population of Delaware is
222.013 an increase of 20.6S1 since
1910, or 10.2 per cent, the census bu-
reau has announced in Washington.
The population OF Continental
United States Is estimated at 105,000,-
600 by J. A. Hill. chief statistician of
the census bureau. His calculation is
based on the combined population of
1,408 cities and towns for which statis-
tics have been announced.
The population of Colorado Springs,
Colo, was announced at 30,l05 in the
preliminary statement on FL Paso
county, Colo, issued at Washington.
That is 533 more than the city's pop
ulation as previously announced, when
the total was given as 2a,572.
Philadelphia's population has been
announced by the census bureau as L.
S23, ,15S, showing that the country's
third most populous city had main
tanned during the last ten years the
steady rate of growth it has had since
the first federal census In 1880.
Women's hats. plain or adorned, are
necessities of life under the meaning
of that term, as used in the Lever act,
Howard Figg, special assistant to the
attorney general, ruled. Mr. Figg's
ruling was in reply to an inquiry from
the National Retail Milliners' Associ-
alton as to whether women's hats
under which the department of justice
is authorized to prosecute for profi-
teering in necessities.
Tennessee may be the thirty-sixti
state to ratify the suffrage amendment
in spite of the clause in the constitu-
tion of the state providing that no Leg
islature shah act on an amendment to
the federal constitution unless elected
after the proposal of the amendment
The present Legislature was elected
before the proposal of the amendment
but II nevertheless has the "clear pow.
er to ratify the amendment" accord
ing to William T. Frierson, acting at.
torney general of the United States
Plans for financing the wool grow.
ers until market for wool is estab
iished have been worked out at con
ferences between the growers and the
federal reserve board. was announced
by F. r.. Marshall OF Salt Lake City
secretary OF the National Wool Grow
ers' Association. Under the plan, Mr.
Marshall said, "a wool grower may
ship his wool to one of the usual
points of distribution, obtaining from
the railroad bill of lading for the
shipment; the grower may then draw
a draft against his bank for such IN
amount as may be agreed upon by the
grower and the bank, secured by the
bill of lading.
The National Woman's party will
call convention of women voters to
decide upon an election policy. Alice
Paul, leader of the militant suffragists
announced in Washington. The con
vention will meet in one of three suf-
frage cities-Chicago, San Francisco
or Denver-and the call for it will be
issued shortly.
Bubonic plague has appeared at Ca
tnnia, Italy, several cases having been
reported of which two have proved
fatal. the state department at Wash