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New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
RETURN TO SOD HOUSES.
Prairie Farmers Mean to Eyadc High
 Cost of Lumber.

kingman, Kas., March 10.-To avoid paying what they look upon as exorbitant prices for lumber, many farmers in Kingman county and counties west of here are erecting sod houses and barns and sheds of sod on their farms Hundreds of these sod houses were erected last fall. The open winter has made it possible to continue building during the cold months.
 Some farmers declare that the high cost of lumber has actually saved them money, for if they had built with lumber at the prices prevailing before the war they could not have got off with such a small expense. These buildings are exceptionally warm in winter and cool in summer. Ridge poles and other Supports. as a rule, are obtained from native tim Der. The lumber dealer is called upon for windows, doors and flooring.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
SEIZE<BIG MOONSHINE STILL
Dry Agents Make Raid in Kentucky y
 Mountains

Lexin ston, Ky, March 1O.-F'ederal Prohibition Officer L. c. Mcfarland has returned from Letcher county. where he and the Letcher county officials raided the largest nloonshine distillery ever found in Kentucky and placed under arrest Bob Addinston. Wise county, Va, one of the alleged operators.
 Two stills Of a capacity of sixty five gallons and fifty gallons. were captured, as were also thirty fer nenting tubs, capable of holding 100 gallons each, 2.500 gallons of still beer, ten bushels of mash, fifty gal Ions of singlings and three gallons of whislleS The still was located near the top of a mountain, twenty yards from the Virginia line.
 At the officers proceeded up the mountain they heard some one chop ping wood and when they got farther up they saw the still and one man and two boys working there. As they were within thirty yards of the still, an officer stumbled over hog. which gave the alarm. by ~-gruntins. One man and two boys escaped but the man who had been choppine wood was arrested and taken before United States Commissioner Collins, WhitesburG.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
BURGLAR KING CAUGHT
Three Hcar-OId Boy Discovers Thief at WOrk-Mystery of 1T Robberics k Cleared Up.

New York. March 10.-Cha rles Reynolds, Jr.,, at the age of three, has definite ideas about furtive young men who tamper with locks. Because of this the police today have in GUS tody a man who, they say, has con- fesSed to 47 burglaries.
 Charley is the son of a policeman. Last night. with his father he visited his grandparents. While the older people were talking Charley wan dered through the railways of the apartment house and saw a young man tamperins with a lock. There upon he decided that his father would be interested.
 When he heard what Charley Jr had to say. the policeman ran into the hail. supported by his vigilart son. \ struggle ensued in which Charley beat his small fists against the burglar and fiercely kicked his sl1ins. The burglar was overpovered and arrested. Today he was held in 5000 bail for action by the grand jury
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
Bogus Solicitors Ask
 Contributions For Club

M. R. COOK, Uperlntendent or the Boys club. this morning reported that two Noung' men are said to be solicit ing funds~in the north end of the city telling the people that the funds are to benefit the Boys club. This. report was made by 8 resident of the district where the young men are said to be solicTting.~ According to Mir. Cook there has been no campaign launched for funds for the Boys club and the men collecting are impostors. Persons, who are approached by them should report the matter to the. police, he said.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
'AGUINALDO GIVEN PEN NSION.
5000 a Year Voted to General by 7 Filipino Legislature.

Manila, P. l., March 0.-Pensions
 $6,0G0 yearly have been granted oy territorial legislature to General
 niiio Aguinaldo, leader Of the F'ili-
 o insurgents against the Spaniards WIS96, and Cayetano :. Arellano, Formerly chief justice of the supreme E,ourt of the Philippines.
 The legislature also voted $25, 900 Ito Frank w. Carpenter, retiring gov V m or of the Departmen of Mindanao Bnd Sulu. He has been in the service
 he United States in the Philip
 for nearly 22 years.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
TRAFFIC BUREAU NOTICE
Members Will Hold Regular Meeting Thursday Noon in New Britain Club -RaillOad Officials to be Present.

The traffic bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will hold it's regular monthly meeting at the New Britain club tomorrow, at which many mat terS of interest 10 shippers will be discussed. J. J. Snavely, district su- perintendent of the x. Y.. N. H. S5 H. railroad of Waterbury; w H. Ca seE, division train master of Water bury and J. E. Leitch, local agent will present their views on the pres ent freight and express facilities
 Mr. Snavely is a new man in Wa terbury and only recently has filled the position of division superintendent and undoubtedly will be 8 very inter- esting speaker. The traffic bureau is doing all things possible to relieve the present unsatisfactory condition of the freight and express transportation The meeting will benefit all local shippers and it is expected that a warm reception will be given the rail- road officials
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
WAR BREAKS OUT IN
 CHINESE PROVINCE
Appointment of Certain Governor for District Precipitatcs HostiIi-
 tieS-RcIuoccs TIcpIno.

Shanghai, March :. tBy The As sociated Press )-Warfa has broken out in Honan province because of the effort of the Picking government to appoint Wu Evangelism governor of the province to supplant Chao Vi. whose forces are opposing those of Wu Evangelism. This and the out break of hostlities in Nwanstung province where fighting is pro- ceeding between southern factions has brought to light a league of eight prov1nces-F'ukien, kiangsu. Chihli. Honan, Szechwan. IIupeh, Shantuns and kiangsi aiming to effect peace by uniting against the militarists both of Picking and the south, and forcing dissolution of the parliaments at Canton and Peking
 The forces supporting Chao Vi in Hondn are moving on ChengchoW and a cordon has been drawn along the Peking-I1ankow railway north of Chengchow to resist the Picking troops.
 The kWangtung warfare is the out growth of an attempt by the gover- nor Of unan to send a new com mander of the Yunan troops in kwanstung. The new commander, Gen. Ii Lieh-Chun, is attacking the old leader, Ii kung- Yuan who is supported by the troops in I<wang- tung and Governor Moh Yung-Hsin.
 Gen. Lii Lieh-Chun is holding the Pe-kiang valley and the railroad and is bonn bartling Shiuchow about 11S miles north of Canton. He has stop ped endorsements sent from Canton by Governor MOh Yung-Hsin.
 Refugees from the fighting areas are pouring into Canton and Hong Kong
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
Pledged for Wood.
Pledged for Johnson.

1 ld llCIlE Do t
 Later returns showed republican
 ed by large majorities in the first con- . gressional district.
 Y t# Frank Knox last night sent this x m es'sa gc to Gen. Wood at Chicago
 Your native state sends Q solid
 delegation pledged to vote for you un-
 til-you are nominated. New Hamp- } Shire has named the next president , In the first congressional district Philip C. Lockwood of Manchester Cand- John Scammon, pledged for Wood had a wide margin in the carly re- turns over Fletcher Hale of Laconia
 and Charles W. Nalncy of Rochester \ unplodged.
 In the second congressional district Jesse NJ. Barton of Newport and AL fred Stanley of Lincoln, pledged for Wood, were elected without opposi- lion.
 The light vote was attributed to the personal character of the contests and the storm of Saturday. which caused many voters in the country districts to be snowbound in their homes. Related Returns Today. l Related returns from yesterdays $ presidential preliminaries were com 1 ing in today. They were from small towns and did not add greatly to last | Nights totals which showed a solid republican delegation pledged to Gen. Wood and a democratic delegation generally regarded as faworing the candidacy of Herbert Hoover and in cluding three district delegates plcdg- fed to him.
 The vote was very light apparently repnesenting barely a fourth of the voting population of the state.
 Many towns postponed their town
 peetings because of snow-filled high
 ways, and in other county districts PWhere meetings were held only
 small proportion of the voters turned
 aat
 However the light vote was not con- (hned to the small towns but was gen. \ffal in the cities where there was no
 difficulty in getting 10 the polls. This
 was attributed to lack of interest in fthe contests, which were largely per-
 sonal.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
City Advertisement
Warrant For City Meeting.
To the legal voters of the City

To the legal voters of the City
 New Britain:
 You are hereby warned and no fled that q special city meeting " be held in Room 201 ot tie CnE F: on the 16th day of March, 1920, 8 o'clock r. M. for the following pu poses, to wit:
 l. To consider and if deemed at visable to vote to issue the Scho certain special city meeting ylheld Decent ber 2S, 1917. in voting to isst school bonds Of the city to the amou of fifty-five thousand dollars (S55 O00) and also to rescind the act-c of a special city meeting held on x verntoer 25, 1919, in voting to iss' school bonds of the c:ty tn II amount Of eighty thousand dolla i (SSc,G00).
 :. To consider and ii deemed :t6 visa be to vote to issue the scho bonds of said city to the amount fifty thousand dollars ($J0.000) to used to contribute 10 the cost Of col structing an addition to the Trainin School connected with the State Nc mai School and for acquiring land an procuring plans for such sadditio and constructing and furnishing Il same under and by virtue of a specii act Of the Legislature of Connecticl| approved May It, 191,.
 3. To consider and if deemed ad visa ble to vote to issue the schod bonds of said city to the amount sixty-five thousand dollars (S65. 5.09gv for the purpose of erecting 8. schooE building or school buildings. buyinI and securing land for school build inSs and for the equipment thereof
 4. To consider and if deemed adI visnble to vote to issue the schoo, bonds of said city to the additional amount of five hundred and twentyl five thousand dollars (s525, 5,000) fol the purpose of erecting SchoO building or school buildings. enlars| ing any existing school building o| school buildings buying or securing land for school buildings and for thu equipment thereof.
 ,. And if said city meeting should authorize the issue Of said bonds III whole or in part. to fix the time and place of the. payment of the principal and interest thereon and the amount and kind of bonds, the manner m which they shall be issued and sold and the person or persona empowere'j 10 sign the same on behalf of said city.
 |. To transact any otEc,' business proper to come before s;.j'. .neeting1
 Dated at New Britain 10th day of March. 1920.
 GEO. A. QJIGLEY.
 Mayor of the City of New Britain.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
CUPID MAKES RECORD IN OHIO.

Warren. Ohio. March 10.-Cupid is on the front line, according to rec ords in the Trumoull county probate court. The mum ber of marriages for the first two months of the present year shows l2S licenses have been issued, while for the corresponding period last year only 73 were issued A majority of the brides thus far dur ing leap year are older than the hrideSrOoms
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
SERVICE RESUMED.

Portland. Me. March 10.-Full passenger service was resumed today on all lines of the Boston and Maine and Maine Central railroads in this state after intermittent stoppages and delays caused by storms during the past two months. Partial freight service was begun. with a shortage of cars restricting operations.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
MOTHER OBEYS TEACHER.
Pulls Out Boys I'onsils With
 ButtOnhook

Joliet, Ill.,. March 10.-Upon exa| ming d child, Miss Hattie HuJ public school nurse, disceyered little girls tonsils should be femoI and. accordingly. sent note .l1oj eXhorting Mary's mother to have offending organs taken out. n child returned in the afternoon wi the information:
 Please, Miss Hurst. mamma sd she would pull my tonsils af1 school tonight like she did Jonnni' a week ago, when you told her, wa a buttonhook.' r 4 medical guard was dispatched safeguard the girl against any ] formal opera fionS
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
TOBACCO EARNINGS
Officials of American Tobacco Co' pany Report That Profits Have Il
 creased S1.51I,O16 This Year

New York, March 10---Net eal ings of the American Tobacco Co. 1919 amounted to S15.922 ,6S7, crease of $1,574,046 compared VI the previous year. This left s | applicable to dividends on each sh2 of the common stock against S53 in 1918.
 Total sales amounted to S146,$2 730. an incl ease of S1,553 ,6s2.: T company's total income of S1S.7 I 12S shows a decrease of S512.e33.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
BRAKEMAN ARRESTED IN
 HARTFORD FOR THIEVERY-

Hartfor. March 10.-Aloysius Hen messy, a railroad brakeman, whose home is in the Bronz. New York. was held by |. $. Commissioner Frederic J. Corbett in this city today under S2,000 bonds for eXamina ton in q week on charges of being implicated in thefts from interstate shipme ents Of the American Railway Express Co. Hennessy did not furnish bond and Was taken to pail. HennessH was ar rest ed TueSdaN night
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
DEAD.

Iarch 1o.--Joe O'NeilI, fretary of the Chicago [lied at his home here
 pneumonia. O'Nej!1 ears old, had been witI1 fb for nine. years.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
LUCKY MAN FINED S10.

Canton. Ohio. March 10.-"Y OH are lucky to be here this morning." said Police Judge J. A. Bowman after Jack Reynolds told the court he drank a. pint of denatured alcohol Reynolds paid fine of s10 and costs for being drunk and using profane lanouaoe
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
HOUSE. PASSES PEACE
 TIME. ARMY MEASURE.

Washington. March 10.-An au- thorized peace time army of 2S9.00o enlisted men and 17.S20 officers was approved today by the house which by a vote of 79 to 25 refused to amend the army reorganization bill so as to fix the maximum strength at 226,OO0 men and 14,200 officers.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
INDEPENDENC CF..

London, March 10-Fiftytwo mem bers of the Egyptian legislative IS sembly recently met at the house of Said Ga agloul Pasha who headed the Egyptian mission to the peace confer ence, and adopted d resolution pro- claiming the independence Of Egypt and the Sudan according to dis patch from Cairo
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
TO PREPARE JAIL FOOD.
Town Finds System of Feeding Its
 Prisoners Too Expensive.

Youngstown. Ohio. March 10.- Because Youngstown can no longer feed it's prisoners under contract on the 40 cents day allowed by statute food will be bought at wholesale and prepared by d city empioNe for prison inmates.
 Appointment to the job of feeding prisoners has been nnounced
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
.BOOTLEGGER" KILLED.

Van Buren. Me, March 10--An unidentified man was shot and killed here today by Customs Officer Vanier who caught him in the act of snug gling 50 gallons of alcohol across the Canadian border, between Frenchville and Mada Waska. Another man esca ped. @-..
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
THETA SIGMA DANCE.

Sigma chapter of the Theta Sigma fraternity will hold it's annual st. Pat ricl1's dance on Tuesday evening. March 6. in the ElSs' club. Cross ley's major orchestra will furnish music. Phe dance will be private
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
WOMAN TO RUN FOR CONGRESS

Kalamazoo. Mich. March 10-Mrs Helen C. Statler granddaughter of the late Gov. Woodbridge of Michi- gan. announceds that she would be q candidate for the republican nomna- ton for congress in the third Michi ,., q iSf
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE.
 LES FOR THIS EVENING

Rtball games scheduled by dustrial league, will he t in the \. w. C. A. Tn Russell & ErWin's team he team of Landers, k, and in the second ley Rule & Level and 'achine teams will, play. A. team will play in might.
New Britain herald., 1920-03-10
WOOD MEN NAMED ,.
 ] IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Has More Delegates Pledged in
 .> State Primary

Manchester. x. IT,. March 1u.-Tho first of the presidential primaries for the election of delegates to the repub- lcan and democratic national conven tions were held in this state yesterday. The vote was light, but the returns ssWere late, as the polls did not close until o'clock.
 With one exception the republican candidates were either pledged for Gen. Leonard Wood or known to be favorable to his nomination. The eH ception was John w. Fla herty Of Nashua, a candidate for delegate a t large, who was pledged for Senator Hiram Johnson. In the early returns Flaherty's vote was comparatively small.
 On the dem ocratic ticket all the candidates for delegates at large were unpledged. A group of four. headed by Robert C. Murchie of Concord, was running ahead of q ticket headed by Albert ". Noone of Peterborough.
 In the first congressional district Gordon Woodbury cf Bedford, pleds cd for Herbert Hoover, was elected r without opposition, as was Thomas J, Quirk of Manchester, unpledged. |FE In the second congressional district 7 Robert Jackson of Concord and Ray mOnd B. Stevens of Landaff, both pledged for Hoover, were leading Henri A. Burque of Nashua, unpledg- ! ed: The principal fight among the re- publicans was for delegates at large, between ticket led by Governor John w. Bartlett and pledged for Wood. and d ticket headed by Fred N. Beck with of Cover. favorable to Wood,s but unpledged. s'....'
 Out of IA towps and wards voting including the cities of Manchester, Concord. Nashua and keene. 115 ie- ported at 11:3O o'clock voted for re- publican delegates at large as follows
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-01-29
POLITiCS AND POTATOES.

Discussing all things under the head
ing Of the letter p in the order OF
proceeding to the next thin. to do. we
may now discuss planting potatoes y
after season of various pretXeS in
volyin. the letter ''p'' in the innumera.
bic descriptions of parish politics.
We know only two kinds Of pota.
toes-.hoth of them good. thank God
but as the good Lord did not invent
politics and has seldom or never inter.
vened therein. the Devil has multi.
piled the original sin of it into more
varieties than MI. Webster Of die.
tionary fame ever dreamed Of in his
photography.
But there is one kind that the writer
has heard most about and seen the
least of: namely. pure politics." Me.
thinks old Satan put that brand first
Oh the market during the days before
the deluge and afterward made it a
household word in Sodom. Though the
hest advertised of all. it remains the
sc;lrcest Of all the varieties.
Let us then discuss potatoes for a
while = sweet potatoes: and let Us
build drying plants, so that they may
remain sound until marketing time.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-01-29
a: Statement

of all the property that each taxpayer
because the large taxpayers. with mil
lions of dollars Of property. could Sc
crete and dodge the payment Of taxes
on Il million dollars easier than the
small taxpayer could escape the pay
| ment of taxes Oh one hundred dollars.
In some parishes we uncovered over
S2.OOO.OOO Of the property of large oil
companies that was not rendered for
assessment at all. and would not have
been shown had not the Board uncOv-
cred same and rendered it to the as
SCISSOR. We found lumber companies
that turned in two million feet Of
cypress lumber. when they had over
twenty-five million feet on the yard.
could cite hundreds of the most
| fragrant cases You could possibly con-
ceive. but space forbidS. All of these
conditions were corrected. Some mis-
takes have doubtless been made. but
can truthfully say that do not be-
lieve three men in the State Of Louis
lana have worked more colScientiously.
honestly and faithfully to discharge a
public duty to the State than the menu
berS of that Board and l can speak
diSintereStedly. at this time. because
have 10 further interest In its future.
In all cases where the large amount
of property above referred to has been
uncovered the various parishes have
received 81 qrevenue where the State
received only 81. because the parish
and local takes are generally four times
as much as the state taxes. \ large
has come from special taxes voted by
the people themselves for schools and
roads. and yet campaign orators have
placed the responsibility for all upon
the Chairman of the Board of State
Affairs. who never had knowledge that
Sidered. The members also visited
every state institution to see that the
funds We're economically expended.
| am making this statement with un-
prejudiced and unbiased motives. that
the voters may themselves be correctly
Informed concerning some of these
matters laid ut my charge. and which
I believe unjustitied and unfair. l re-
allied when took up the arduous res
possibilities of trying to straighten out
the tangled threads Of our revenue
system that was doing an unpopular
work. but Il work which was needed
for the good of Louisiana. AS above
stated this work has been done fear
lesSly. and without favor or the hope
of reward. hut for the good Of the State.
her institutions and the public schools.
am hoping that as time rolls by the
citizens of this state will realize the
true value of the work accomplished
for Louisiana and that the asierity Of
the present feeling. brought about by
partisan politics. may he somewhat
Softened and personal animus an,el-
iOrated. 49,
With the kindest feeling for all and
malice towards none. am.
Very truly yours.
Iadr.l l.. Il. THOMAS.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-01-29

If YOU do not believe that men are
Inherently fair. or ut least have Il say
in. spark of desire for the right thing
that declares Il kinSllip with God. then
try out the question here raised by
tre;ltin. your fellow mortal as though
he were an equal, Il bother, and as
though no worldly calamity has hap
pened to him save the same misfortune
that has overwhelmed YOU namely.
that YOU have not been privileged to
give him Your coat, your cloak and
also your love from the beginning Of
creation. And this attitude will reveal
the truth: for had there always been
love. Satan had never been cast out of
Heaven into Il world Of pride. distrust.
Selfishness. greed and hate. And as
Kindness is the cure for all the evils
under the sun. only love can scale the
heights beyond which lies happiness.