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Old Folks Home
 Work Progresses

w. B. Cloman, w. H. Lee and A o. Adams are leading spirits of the Jefferson County Old Folks Home association and report that the work of the association is progressing now as never before. Workmen are busy repairing four rooms at the home and hope to be able in few days to have occupants in the home.
 The Williams colored singers gave an entertainment here and donated 35 per cent of their door receipts $317 to the association. This do- nation has enabled the managers to begin work on the splendid building they are erecting on the beautiful five-acre tract of land donated to them by the county.
 In few days they hope. to relieve the county poor house of the care of one or two of it's inmates <that are better subjects for the home. In addition to relieving the county of these poor they have other applica- tions for room in the home.
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DEMANDS OF MINERS UP TO COMMISSION
 FOR FINAL DECISION
'Reas0nableness of Workers Stand Emphasized by
 Lewis

Washington, Feb. 3.-With con- cluding arguments presented before the coal strike settlement commits sion today by spokesman for the op- orators and mine workers in the cen tral competitive field, the fate of the reiterated demands of the work CTS, for .60 per cent increase in wages and a 30-hour week was sub- mitted to the final decision of the commission. Each side, however, was granted permission to present with Tn five days a written brief discus slng the opposing evidence.
 in the closing statement for the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis acting president of the organization declared the 'reasonableness of the miners demands not only have not been shaken by the operators evil dence, but have been overwhelming ly supported by it."
 Summing up the position of the operators, Ralph Crews, attorney told the commission that from all the evidence submitted "it was apparent that what the miners needed to inn prove their conditions was not an increased wage scale, but a greater
 
 tunity to work was given them"
 Miners could increase their earn ings by 25 per cent, he estimated, if they worked whenever they might. .
 Mir. Lewis challenged the accura- cv and the truly representative character" of the operators figure on miners earnings, tho declaring at the same time that even if accept ed as dependable, they were so pit ably low as to carry their own con- demnation.
 The commission tomorrow will hear representatives of bituminous miners and the union miners in the Iowa. Texas and Oklahoma fields, who have agreed to accept the appli- cation in those districts of the com missions terms for thee central field.
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Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy is a reliable preparation made from herbs and other beneficial ingred tents that has been used with excel lent results for 40 years. It as- sists the kidneys in their important duties, strengthens and helps repair the wasted tissues. It is very ef- fective and is used in thousands of homes. Read what this grateful wo- man says:
 "I wish to say that your remedies have been used in our family for about fifteen years. We are never without a bottle of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver remedy in our home, and it has saved many doc tors bill. It is wonderful medi- cine for all diseaes of the kidney and liver. ."-Florence E. Schmidt, F. F. D. No. l, Dunkirk, o.
 Sold by leading druggists every where. Sample sent on receipt of ten cents. Warmers Safe Remedies Co.,. Dept. 602 Rochester, N. Y. adv.
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BY Condo


 shirt, Bobbitt and Dancy box sta tionery, B. Gottlieb fountain pen, Mann's pharmacy bottle toilet water, R. H. Stearns Jewelry company pair cuff links.
 1t is expected that other donations will be received from day to day un-
 The contest is open to any boy or girl, white or colored, who attends any public school in the city or coun- ty.
 Rules of the contest are:
 Essays to be written in the class rooms on Friday, Feb. 20, 1920, from notes if desired. a.55
 No essay to be more than four hundred words in length.
 Pen and ink or pencil may be used, but only one side of the paper should be written on.
 Essays will be judged strictly on basis. of CD originality, (2) sin cerity, (3) expression.
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wanted in each state. Banks has re. tained H. K Toney to represent him
 The office of Mrs. Lucy E. Crtz home demonstration agent for Jef- ferson county, will this week be nov. ed from the sixth floor of the Citi- zen's bank building to the office of County Superintendent w. P. Keith Mrs. Critz will occupy offices joint ly with Superintendent Keith.
 The girls basket ball team of the high school will go to Camden for game Friday night with the girls team of the Camden High school Two of the local women teachers will accompany them. The boys basket ball team of the high school will go to Little Rock for two games there Friday night and Saturday with the Little Rock high school.
 Francis Cady, son of MT. and Mrs. J. P, Cadv. who has been seriously i'll at St. Vincent's infirmary in Lit tie Rock, will be brought home to- dav
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Local Merchants
 Offer Prizes for
 Best Army Essay

Considerable interest is manifest ed in the war departments offer of three medals to the school boy or girl, white or colored, who submits the first, second and third best essay on the subject "What Are the Bene- fits of an Enlistment in the United States Army to a Young Man." and the further stimulate this interest business men have joined in the work. They have gen erously donated cash and articles of value to be awarded to some boy or girl, or both, in the schools of lief ferson county and Pine Bluff for the first and second best essays on the subject.
 tants write their essays on February 20 from notes if they care to make notes on the subject in advance, and not to exceed 400 words in length. These essays are to be submitted to their teachers or the principal of the school attended by the contes- tant, who will forward same to the district recruiting office. Little Rock. where papers will be classified and passed upon by competent commit tee and as soon thereafter as possi- blc the winners will be notified.
 While the awards of prizes for the first and second essays have not yet either the first or second prize or prizes will be we'll worth striving for.
 The following merchants have do- mated the following to be offered as prizes: Citizens bank, $1O. Mer- chants and Planters bank $10, Peo- pies Savings Bank and Trust com pany S5, Reinberger and Collier Drug store $5, Home Insurance agen- cy $5, Taylor and company S5, Ma ticnal Bank of Arkansas $5, Dewoody Drug company, fountain pen, Cleve- land-Matthews Hardware company pocket knife, Adolph Bluthenthal
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LocnZRde6

:. F. Tanner of the seed depart mcnt of the Valley Cotton Oil com pany, Memphis, Tenn, is here inves- tgatlng cotton crop prospects, and presenting the qualities claimed for a quantity of cotton seed, said to De usually well adapted to this sec l!tion and to insure large yield
 Wouldst avoid colds, grip and in- fluenza? Then take Dr. Brunson's Famous Prescription. 1-24-ti Vii Anderson of Hardin and Ar derson Furniture company, is con- lined to his home with slight at tack of "flu"
 Table cloths, napkins, sheets, pill i.w cases, towels, bed spreads all bel and table i'.'ca washed and l,on c. for six censs pound. America n Excelsior Laundry company. 1-2S-tt D. B. Niven Jr., of Tulso, Okla. homa, is here the guest of his par ents, 1416 West Sixth avenue.
 J. D. Cox Jr., of Little Rock le now making his home in Pine Bluff, recently accepting position as bookkeeper for Knox Walker Furnj- ture company.
 Why worry about washing, when you can have all your table linen and bed linen washed for six cents a pound? American Excelsior Laun- dry company. 1-28-tf c. w. Holmes is confined to his room with an attack of influenza
 J. 1. Norris, Jr., is i'll at the home of his parents, at the Manse, 203 West Sixth avenue.
 It is almost as easy to avoid colds O c A n% <krea e. Famous Prescription. 1-2l-tf Rev. W. C.. Watson left yesterday for Roe, Arkansas, where he will hold quarterly conference.
 Table linen and bed linen wash ed. ironed and delivered to your home for six cents pound. Ameri- cah Excelsior Laundry company.
 1-28-tf J. W. Nichols, negro, wanted in Pulaski county on charges of false prctenses, was arrested yesterday af- ternoon at 1210 Georgia by w. M. Lovett, special officer of the police department. The negro is wanted in connection with alleged dedication of the amount of $108 while pastor of Bullock c. M. E. church in Little Rock.
 Send us your table and bed linen We will wash and iron it at six cents a pound. American Excelsior Laun. dry, company. 1-2a.,f AOSAAo ---- Henry Wilson Stuart, 51s West Fifteenth. has enlisted in the navy as hospital apprentice second class and has been assigned to the naval training station, Newport, R. I.
 Twelve new cases of influenza are reported yesterday to Dr. Fred c. Rowel), city physician.
 The regular weekly meeting of the Presbyterian club will be held at noon today at the Hotel Pines.
 Deputy Sheriff J. L. McBurnett re- turned yesterday from Lufkin, Tex ,, with Gap" Banks, recently arrested there for murder committed near Ferda in 1908. Banks has since be- come preacher. After leaving Pine Bluff he got in trouble both in Mississippi and Louisiana and is
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STOP CATARRH! OPEN
 M0STRlLS AND HEAD
Says Cream Applied in Nostrils Relieves Head Colds at Once.

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 If your nostris. are clogged and your head is stuffed and you can't breathe freely because of a cold or catarrh, just get small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply little of this frag- rant, antiseptic cream into your nostrils and let it penetrate through. every air passage of your head, soothing and healing the inflammed, swollen mucous mem- brane and you get instant relief.
 An! how good it feels. YouL nostrils are open, your head is clear, no more hawking, snuffing, blowing; no more headache, dry ness or struggling for breath. Ely's Cream Balm is just what suffer CTS from head colds and catarrh need. It's a delight. adv.
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Stop and Think---Kidney Diseases Killed 100000 Last Year Increasing Death Rate Each
 Year From Kidney Diseases

In our pursuit of the mighty dol lar. we too often are absorbed in the topics of the day, pleasure, etc.. to stop and consider our health. Stop now think kidney diseases caused 100000 deaths last year. Are you going to be included in this years toll3 Why. you will exclaim, do so many die, why are the health au- thorities so concerned; the answer is we bolt down our food, take no exer- else, neglect our sleep and other wise subject our system to all sorts of abuse. Is it any wonder then tile kidneys become diseased and fail in their duties of poison elimination.
 PoisOns are constantly being creat- ed in our bodies and if the kidneys fail to carry them off they are ab. sorbed by the blood causing i'll health and misery in the form of headaches, backaches, tired feeling, Indigestion, etc.
 Ton may avoid considerable suf- &erint if you heed natures warnings apd assist the kidneys. Warmers
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ReventlOw Praises Report of Pershing
 As 'Inestimable'

Berlin, Monday, Feb. 2.-Count von Reventlow, chief editorial writer of the Tages Zeitung designates Gen. eral Pershing's report as ''inestim- able," for the purpose of judging the situation in the spring and sum mer of 1918. He hopes it will be translated and circulated in Ger many.
 The pan-German editor asserts that General Pershing's report on the military situation proves that Ger man great headquarters did not de. ceive the German people and that the report further confirms the fact that Germany was on the eve of a military success. Then came the
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ElkS Induct II
 Members Into Order

Past exalted rulers presided last night at a meeting of Pine Bluff Lodge of Elks, when II were initiat- ed into the order. The initiation brings the roll of the Pine Bluff lodge up to 425, the highest it has ever been. More than 150 attended the session of the lodge and the also was feature.
 Those who became Elks last night included H. B Lake, M. H. Griffin, L. U. Waterman, c. F. Laudell, H. A. Bettes, J. B Slaughter, F. c. Der big, Roger McNew, D. B. Quinn, Zach Tankersley and c. E. Bryan.
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Road District No. p
 Passed by House

Little Rock, Feb. 3.-The Niven plii: Tn aid of Road district No. e2
 yeI1erson county, was passed in the nonse today. A measure by Senator caldwell of Jefferson to create sne. : !al school district No. IS was read US second time in the house. The house passed the senate bill bv pon- ger providing that public highways snali cross railroad rights of way and tracks at right angles as safatu measure sa+.~s~sz ~sS
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To Squeeze Water ,l
 From Rail StocS

Washington, Feb. 3.-The saus, N. ing of "water" from railroad s0s, N and placing the roads on a staD,s..| nancial basis was urged in v filed with the house and sena'e. .o ferees on railroad Legislation by the Citizens National ha'n league ,..
 A guaranteed return of at six per cent on the value oi properties and establishment .iisa' i revolving fund of one billion u9 instead of $5OO,O00, 900 so tnss railroads can secure financial ssi ance at low interest rates ana preclude, the necessity of tne.. ing to go to the old wall sttss terests for their financing q recommended. E
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MARDI GRAs MASQUERADE BALL.

The coming event of the season Grand Masquerade Mardi Gras ball at Shriners temple Tuesday night, February IT. Given under the aus pices of the 1920 Leap Year club
 Handsome prizes to be awarded to the most original costume, both iady and gentleman. All dancers must wear masks until prizes are awarded. Music by Kueck's eight piece or chestra. The club reserves the right to reject. 24-8
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EXTEND DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Paris, Feb. 3.-Daylight saving would be legally adopted in France the provisions of bill which has been drafted and which will be brought up in the chamber of depu- ties today.
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inner collapse" of great portion of the German troops. He adds that General Pershing's report proves that American aid would have arrived too late if the German front had re- mained intact.
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Have you heard 'I Gave Her That" sung by Al Jolson? Knox Walker.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

Harry T. Woodbridge announces, that he is no longer associated with the firm of Bridges, Woodbridge and Woodbridge, but will continue the practice of law alone at Room No. 5i5 Citizens Bank building. 2-1-6.
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We have all the new jazz hits and "blues" that will make you dance. Knox Walker.
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Wouldst avoid colds, grip and in- fluenza? Then take Dr. Brunson's Famous Prescription. 1-24-tf
The Press., 1920-10-28
ASTRONOMY STILL AT FAULT
Results From Their Calculations Are Not Possible.

The celebrated observatory at Green wich. the place from which we reckon longitude, was founded by Charles II in 1875, mainly for the purpose of in- veStigating the movements of the moon In the interests of navigation. Although In the intervening two and half cen turieS astronomers have worked at the problem, the moon has not yet become entirely amenable to their mathemat- ics. In a recent report of the Obser- vatory at Greenwich attention Is in vited to the increasing deviation be- tween the calculated position of the moon in the sky and It's real position shown by the Greenwich observations. The deviation has lately been growing In a serious manner. The error last year was more than twelve times. as large as the error twenty years ago, and the average annual increase dur ing the two decades has amounted to half second of arc in longitude. The reason that astronomers have failed in getting exact results from calcula tiOns based on the dynamical laws of gravitation is possibly the existence of some attra active force that they have not yet discovered. although the result may also be affected by the true shape of the earth, which still awaits ac curate determination.
The Press., 1920-10-28
A CENTURY OF ANTHRACITE
City of Philadelphia Just One Hundred Years Ago.

An even hundred years have elapsed since one William Wurts, Philadel- phia merchant, drove his team of mules with the first ton of anthracite through the spring freshets and bog land to the banks of the Delaware river and fiOated. the new fuel down the river to Philadelphia on pine log raft.
 But he experienced no little diff culty in that first anthracite year of 1920 fin overcoming the popular Objec- tion that the coal was extremely slow of lighting" Pine log rafts fioated only 365 tons of anthracite that year. But 1t fetched price of SIP a tol. and could be delivered freight-On-raft Philadelphia at $3-a fact that was freely advertised to attract additional capital, for, of course, there was no prOfiteering In those days.
 Spring freshets and bog land and slow infiammability no longer worry operators. silk shirts for miners are a bigger nuisance. But production in a hundred years has Jumped to S6.- POO. 900 tons, and could this year sur pass the 100 million-ton mark, which was almost reached in 1917.
 Reading, Wilkesbarre, Lehigh. Mauch Chunk-these names are spoken one thousand times hourly in the industrial world today. simply be- cause there lay up in the hills of Penn sylvania d hard, black substance, one ton of which sly old William Wurts steered on raft down the Delaware to Philadelphia, just one hundred years agO.-Wall Street Journal.
The Press., 1920-10-28
Not So "EunnY.M

A ludicrous error in common usage is the employment of the word funny" in the sense of odd or strange or curious, when the context shows that the occurrence to which reference Is made is anything but funny. Funny means affording fun; provoking laugh ter: comical; ludicrous; facetious Standard dictionary, but frequently one hears such sentences as the fol lowing: "Isn't 1t funny that Robin son. who was born on Lincoln's birth day. should have died on the same day as the president ?" and ''It was funny that he escaped all dangers here. and was killed in another city" Certainly there was nothing funny" in the tragedy. "It was curious that he es- caped," etc, would be the proper form Instead of the word funny" use in such cases curious. odd. strange, pe- culiar. or unusual.
The Press., 1920-10-28

On the way up the young man ex- plained the working of the elevator to Doris, and all during tea he seemed to be greatly interested in her. when she was ready to go home he found 1t advisable to take her safely down Tn the elevator and to see that she got home without further predicament.
 From that memorable Sunday he called, from time to time at the iittie apartment where Doris and her mother lived so quietly, and on an occasional Sunday the two went to see Mrs. Moore in her apartment on Fifth ave nue.
 One afternoon when Herbert Davis thought he had waited quite long enough to tell Doris that he had loved her from the very moment that ne saw her, he took her to call on his aunt.
 When the elevator was half way up he stopped 1t. Doris. dear, l love you, I've loved you-always.
 'Why-Herbert, what place to tell me-" was all the girl could say, but II was enough to give the young man courage. and he took her in his arms for moment before sending the little lift on its way up to the third noor'
 "We've-we've been electrically eie- yated. auntie," he remarked pointediy as his aunt greeted them. we've re engaged. too" he added. Doris has just told me that she would marry me and-and that elevator of yours IS the cause of 1t all."
 You dear sentimental children, Mrs. Moore said, hugging them both. "I have always hoped for this, but did not know 1t would come about so soOn"
The Press., 1920-10-28
DRILL TOO MUCH LIKE WORK
Afghan Soldiers Make Good !'onters' but They Are Not Remarkao'e
 for Their Discipline.

The soldiers in the Afghan army would not stand for too much drilling. The colonel in command of the garrl- son at Jabl-us-Siraj, a cousin Of the amir. got too enthusiastic about drill and the men sent word to him that If he did not let up they would kill him. Drill slackened. The officers wore smart uniforms and leather gaiters, and on full dress occasions were re- splendent in gorgeous uniforms covered with gold braid and crowned with plumed helmets. There were kip tans," journals" "conmitants' and "generals' galore, most of whom had little or no knowledge of military tac- ties. There was always brass band. They had European instruments and they blew their heads off. have counted IA beats to the minute on the bass drum, writes A. c. Jewett, in Asia. The members of the band were about the hardest worked of the troops. The government troops were lazy, chillum-smoking lot. They never stood when on guard duty, ex- cept in the presence of the amir. About the hardest work they did was to sit on the sheltered side of wall, pull their shirts over their heads and look for 'shipish." It was a common sight to see them reading their shirts. They were lazy, truculent lot. who bullied and blackmailed the people and added thieving to their soldering profession.
The Press., 1920-10-28
EXPLOSIONS CAUSED BY DUST
Is by No Means the Only De- structIve Agent.

When the bureau of chemistry of the United States department of agri- culture~startcd investigations with the object of reducing fires and explosions caused Ey dust in the grain elevators and mills 1t was not long before the experts realized these fires and explO- Sions were by no means confined to sion investigations are having wide influence. which has extended to many industries. Aluminium dust. starch and even fish meal, by-product Of susceptible to the conditions which produce disastrous explosions.
 The latest development goes to prove that the mysterious "blOw sacks so well known to figempn are in some cases caused by dust With the Knowledge of this fact .S guide many fatal accidents may be avoided. Tie /firelnen of America find the mat ter of sufficient importance 10 war rant their cooperation with the d." partment of a"riculture in study of preventive methods
 The subject was taken up by the National Firtmen'S association at their twenty-Second annual convention the dust explosion Investigations rep resented the department of agriculture at the meeting.
The Press., 1920-10-28
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SLOW DEATH

Aches, pains, nervousness, dif6- culty in urinating, often mean serious disorders. The worlds standard remedy for kidney, liver, bladder and uric acid troubles-