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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-01
ARNOLD MASBERG

Citizens who expressed their views made the following statements; ARNOLD MASBERG q have known Jere Gwin for the last twenty five years and I don't believe there is man anywhere in Jefferson county that is more honest than he is," says Arnold Masberg.
 q knew Jere Gwin when he and his
 brother worked their way through col lege. I knew him when he first started out in business after he had graduated from college. I have watched with in
 terest everything he has done since
 then and I want to say right here that if there is anything crooked about his work since he has been the head of
 the board of revenue he will have to admit it before I shall believe one
 word of it."
 There is one weakness about the
 grand jury report that impresses me.
 If the grand jury found evidence to justify it. there should have been an indictment or impeachment proceed ings. It is not grand jury's duty to
 raise cloud of dust about a mans
 record and then call upon him to re-
 sign. It would be mighty sorry man
 that would resign under those circum
 stances, and Jerry Gwin is not that kind of a man. PAUL EARLE If the report of the action of the grand jury is true, and we have no reason to believe that it is not, then we should all get together and work to get better men into the important positions such as the officials of the county government
 There are two sides to every ques- tion but both of them cannot be right. We haven't had a statement from MT. (Coutinued on Page Sixteen)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-01
Coal Production ShoUs An
 Increase or 5O,OOO Tons
 Ouer Preceding Week Here
District Continues Quiet and Orders of Military Appear to Be Generally Observed-Producton of First and Third
 Weeks of Strike Within GOO Tons of Each Other

production coal in Alabama during the week ending Saturday. September 25 shows increase of 5000O tons over the production of the preceding week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-01
SEPTEMBER MONEY
 IS ONLY $959,O00
investment In Birmingham During Last Month Lower
 Than Expected

The. total of new capital invested in corporate enterprises in Jefferson county in September is $959,000, the largest investment being that of the Birmingham Cotton Oil Company $500, 900.
 September compares we'll with the preceding months of the year. Follow ing is the list for that month: Birmingham Cotton oil Co.,. $500. 900 OToole Drilling Co. .....,... 15.D00 Reed Restaurant Co. ......... 5000 Shower Bath Cabinet Co. ...... 15.000 Jones Valley Telephone Co. .... 2,500 Alabama Cotton Seed Crushers
 Association ........... 2,ooo Alabama Savings X Investment
 Co. ...................... 10000 Barker Henderson & Marks
 Real Estate & Insurance Co. 10000 Piedmont Coal Co. Oncrease) 10000 Morris oCal Co. ............. 2,0O0 Harrison Spencer Candy Co.
 dncrease) ........... 1000 Wadsworth Mining Co. ........ 5000 Rex Battery & Ignition Co.,. 5000 Stutz Company of Alabama .... 2,000 Birmingham Compress Corpora
 tion ................... soooo Cherokee Iron Co. ........... 1909 Counts Brothers Sewing Ma
 chine Co. 5000 erett-Sheppard Realty Co. 10000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-01
Support Of Grand Jury, F # Is Right, Expressed By
 Citizens--GlUir, Wont Resign
Some Refer to Republicans in Situaton-Gwn's Friends Ardent Supporters-Majority Seem Inclined to Rec ognize Grand Jury Final Word Subject. Part of Report of Jury Is Contradcted by
 Members of the Revenue Board

"Pease say for emphatcally that have of resgng office president of the board of evenue said Jere Gw the long distance phone from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-01

On September 24 in acknowledging con tributions. William S. Coxe was credited with s10 This acknowledgment should have been credited to John s. Coxe Of Birmingham. $10
 In a prior list from Lineville, $10 was credited to W. B. Smith & Sons. This $10 should have been credited as follows: W. B. Smith & Sons $50o IT. S. Mccain ................... 25n I,ineyille Drug Co ....,..... 25n
 The Age-Herald list of Contributions stood yesterday as fellows:
 Previously acknowledged ........... $40 75 Democrats of Lneville .............. 240o Democrats of Blocton ....... 1100
 National Committeeman W. T. Sanders has sent out the following:
 ,ntso yes. (ic---r.... .. .. :. .... .... .'Headauarters Democratic National Com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-01

Democrats continue to send contribu- tions to the national campaign fund. Yes terday checks came from Lineville for $A and from Blocton for s21.
 The list of contributors in Lineville is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-01

Citizens who expressed their view made the following statements:
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
STEEL STRIKERS STICK

Lackawanna, N. Y.-Nearly 1900
steel strikers, most of whom are en-
ployed by the Lackawanna Steel COM
pany, refused to return to work after
the national steel strike committee
voted this strike at an end. The local
strikers are differently situated than
are strikers in the mill towns of wes-
tern Pennsylvania. This place, be-
cause of it's near location to Buffalo,
and other manufacturing centers,
makes it possible for the strikers to
stand out. The strikers are the back
bone of the Lackawanna plant, which
is one of the largest of the so-called
independent" steel concerns in this
country.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
BARN MEN TO GET RAISE
Ohio Electric Employees Accept Com
pany's Offer For Future Wage
Increase Effective March

The men employed at the city car
barns of the Ohio Electric Railway
have accepted the company's propo-
sition and the recent difficulty is at
an end.
Wednesday of last week the men
went out to enforce a demand for an
increase in wages and improved work
ing conditions, but returned to work
next day after being promised an i'm
mediate settlement.
Last Tuesday Superintendent Moore
came to Newark, and at a conference
with the employees promised a sub
stantial increase, effective March l.,
if the men would continue at the
present rate until that date. At a
meeting in the afternoon the men
agreed to accept the offer with the
understanding that the demand for
improved conditions would also be
acceded to.
A good strong union organization
should at once be effected at this
place which would insure the united
support of the thousands of organized
men in Newark. Get busy boys.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
BIG MATCH NEXT WEEK
BOwser and Chief MOntOur to Meet
Again Besides Good Preliminaries

The next wrestling match of the
season will be staged at the Audit
orium Theatre, Thursday Evening,
February 5. 1t will be in the nature
of return bout and the main event
will bring together Chief Montour
and Paul Bowser. Montour defeated
Bowser here in their match last week
by means of a trick, and has written
to the local boy guaranteeing purse
of $500 to wrestle at the Columbus
Athletic Club in Columbus. Bowser
refused to go to Columbus, and at
the urgent request Of the fans here
who went to Columbus the big Indian
was induced to sign up for return
by hanging up an $500 purse.
In the semi final George Pappas,
who beat Bill Gallagher here last
week, has again been signed to meet
in a finish contest for 500 purse
although the Columbus Athletic Club
also bid for this match. Vance Wal
lace, the East Newark boy, will meet
Sam Travels, the Greek light weight,
and all in all this looks like a real
night of wrestling.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
PLUMB PLAN LEAGUE

The following officers have been
elected by the Plumb Plan Leag.~
the ensuing term:
President-E. L. Schnaidt.
Vice President-F. C. Kane.
Sec'y-Treas.-E. A. Copley.
The League has a large and con-
stantly increasing membership, and
meets on the second and fourth Mon
day evenings of the month in B. of
r. T. hall on South Third street at
z o'clock. Citizens in general, whether
members or not, are invited to attend
these meetings and learn the truth
regarding the great movement for
government ownership of railroads
which is attracting universal interest
all over the country.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
GOMPERS CELEBRATES
"Grand Old Man" Seventy Years Old
Tuesday-Still as Active as a
Man Half His Age

Washington-Messages from labor
leaders and public men in all parts
of the globe were pouring in upon
Samuel Gompers all day Tuesday in
honor of his SEVENTEEN birthday.
This is his thirty-ninth consecutive
year as president of the American
Federation of Labor.
AS virile and fiery in speech as a
man half his age, he attributes his
vigor to "irregularity in living" Reg
ular habits" he says, "are deaden-
ing"
He has never observed the maxim,
"early to bed" He eats what he
wants and when he wants it. He
smokes as many cigars a day as he
desires; before the eighteenth amend
ment became a law he frankly en-
joyed his "toddy." He seldom takes
exercise.
His only regular habit" is work.
His working day is more often Ia
hours than the union eight. He keeps
two secretaries and several steno-
graphers busy every day.
The past year was eventful for the
labor chief. He crossed the ocean
three times, represented labor at the
peace conference.
During the past year he suffered
the greatest sorrow in his life-the
death of his only daughter. He has
three sons.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
TRADES AND LABOR ASSEMBLY Y

Regular meeting of the Newark
Trades and Labor Assembly was call
ed to order by the President VIM. H.
Cocanour promptly at nine o'clock
last Sunday morning and although
the weather wasn't any too good
quite a number of the brothers turned
out in the interest of organized labor
in Newark.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
The credentials of Bros. Clarence
Francis of Local Union No. 1872, /.
u. of U. B. F. c. and S. D. W., who
takes the place of Bro. Leo Kaelble,
w. l. Drumm, A. E. Els and ]. F.
Swartz of Moundbuilders Lodge No.
705, B. of R. c. of A, were accepted,
and Brother Clarence Francis, being
present, was obligated.
All communications were disposed
of in order.
Bills to the amount of $4,000 were
allowed Hnd warrants were issued for
the same.
The Auditing Committee made its
annual report, and although the year
of 1919 was somewhat strenuous
one for the Assembly, the report
showed that there was a nice balance
on the credit side of the ledger.
Various civic questions were dis
cussed with profit to the members
present, especially the increase of
rates for street car fares, also the
Taxpayers League which is being
formed in Newark for the purpose of
improving Newark generally.
Meeting adjourned at 11:0O o'clock,
which is an hour earlier for the As
sembly to adjourn and all felt that
the time had been proftably spent
by the brothers present.
Gottlieb Zinn, Secretary.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
THE SNOWFLAKES UNION

(By George D. Brewery
Consider the snowflake, so little and
frail,
When working alone on life's rugged
trail;
But when working together with BIZ
lions, it's strong,
And the might of its power makes
right out of wrong.
a@wrasss,vr~
One alone is so helpless and feeble
and weak,
While many can cover the ranges
high peak;
Can fill the gulches and canyons, no
matter how wide,
Or starve out the herds on the noun
tains broad side.
Divided, there's nothing so helplessly
small,
But collectively they have strength
over all.
Snow unions, or drifts, stop trains
wnere they will,
Or make armies of soldiers desist
where they will.
They can block up the traffic of great
city streets
And check the wild winds that DER
vast prairies sweep.
They can cover the fields or fill up
the draws,
Or defy all the world with its armies
and laws.
But there's nothing one lone little
snowflake can do,
And still, after all, it's no more help
less than you.
By itself without help it must soon
disappear.
AS does strength without union to
many so dear.
If the working man would in his
strong rugged way,
Grasp the moral that l here desire to
convey,
He'd a lesson accept from the snow
flakes so white,
And with exploited brothers be prou"
to unite.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
News from Our Locals

Secretaries and business represen'
tatives Of the various labor organ
izations are requested to furnish
weekly The Aader with the news
from thei- resi- ctive organizations.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-01-30
MEMORY.

Now is the time to erect marker
,r monument. See display 1856 East
Main St Newark Monument Co.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27
COW OF N. j. HERD
WINS STATE RECORD
Surpasses Production of For
mer Champion Owned by
G. E. Driver.
AVERAGES IT'S LBS.
Two Students in Dairy Hus-
bandry Department Care
for Cow During Test.

Campus Josephine Galaxy, Hol-
stein COW in the herd of the Uni
versity, now holds the state milk rec
ord for cows under years old, with
an average production of 72.5 pounds
of milk for seven days. She produced
5075 pounds of milk containing IT.
-92 pounds of fat, which is equal to
22.40 pounds of butter. This record
replaced the one of Last Chance
Zwingare, owned by c. E. Driver of
Crescent, with a production of 1853
pounds of milk and 1909 pounds of
fat.
Charles W. Turner, superintendent
of official testing in Missouri, says
that this record bears out the fact
that blood will tell. Cows like this
are the result of careful breeding.
Galaxy is the granddaughter of Mis-
souri, Chief Josephine, who as a A.
year-Old, had the record of 6009
pounds of milk and 1851 pounds of
fat in seven days.
A record such as this is due not
only to careful breeding but also to
the care of the COW in preparing for
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27
ECCENTRICITY MARKED
HIS LIFE AND BURIAL

in the churchyard, declining to go into
the church because of differences he
had had with some of the deacons.
This wife died a natural death. Soon
after, the bereaved husband began
paying attention to widow. He gave
much of his property to this widow,
but remembered his two sons, daugh-
ter and son-in-law in his will.
Nash stated in his will that he con-
sidered himself under no obligations
to any of kinfOlk, but that he gave
them his property because it was COM
sidered the thing to do. To his SON
in-law he stated that he would give
that which a young man would most
appreciate: to-wit, sixty gallons Of
proof whisky"
1t was said that Nash was so much
smarter than his neighbors that he
took all sorts of advantage of them.
One year he took some wool to mer-
chant at Nashville with the instruc-
tions not to sell it for less than a
price which was double it's value. At
ter the merchant had kept the wool
for some time without being able to
sell it. Nash sent one of his negroes to
bring it back He then sued the mer-
chant for the wool. The merchant
tried to prove by the negro that the
later had taken it back to his master,
but the negro, being a slave, could not
testify under the Missouri law. Ac-
cordingly Nash got value for the wool
at the price he put on it.
FOiled a Mob.
One day in October of Nash's eigh-
tieth year, he was shooting at a bird
in a peach tree. One shot struck
small boy who was concealed in the
tree The chief wound which the
shot inflicted was on the neighbors'
feelings. Nash claimed that, on ac-
count of his failing eyesight, it was
an accident, but the neighbors seized
the opportunity to get even. They
formed a mob and visited his cabin
the next night with the avowed inten-
ton or Killing NaSn. But NaSn nau
heard of the plans and arranged his
method of procedure accordingly. He
put long handle on his hatchet,
placed a sack of wool in his bed, ex-
tinguished the candle and mounted to
the loft of his cabin where he awaited
the visit of his dearly beloved neigh
bOrs.
Most of them were drunk, but they
knew what they wanted They went
to the bed, and each made deep
slash in the sack of wool. From the
loft, Nash began slashing back and
forth with his long-handled hatchet
He knocked men right and left. who
at first could not understand what was
happening. They finally concluded
that they were fighting each other
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27

Keegan was first in Jerseys ana
Guernseys, John Crosser was th;,s
aud e. T. Ischner was fifth, Al ~
National Dairy Show at Chicago, the
team won first, with W. J. Keee,.
second in the contest. Dean Mum
ford. in the presentation of the medal,
compared the chances of this iud,'
ing team with the first team Of ~.
College of Agriculture.
Instead of the up-to-date payi,.
ion that we now have, there was !.
tumbledown shed heated by stov.
in one corner. The live stock be-
longing to the University Farm con.
sisted of two blind mules and a con-.
pie Of sows that resembled the Ar
kansas razor-back variety, he said
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27

which they began to do. After each
had decided that he had been licked,
they all sought refuge in nearby sa-
loon where they dressed their wounds,
took another round Of drinks and
bound themselves by solemn oath new
er to tell Of the nights adventures.
In anticipation of the coroner's Wis
it the next day, they each agreed to
testify that they had been in their
homes and were ignorant of the mur-
der. They agreed to come out of their
cabins as usual the next morning, for
their leader said, Anyone who failed
to do SO would be spotted as the
guilty one"
Instead of the coroner, the only one
whose head was presentable the next
day was Doctor Nash, who the neigh
borhood thought was then in the hap
py hunting grounds
Fearing other visits, Nash never re-
mained at home at night after this.
AS result of sleeping out of doors he
contracted pneumonia and died in
November, 1874.
His last request was that he be
buried in an Indian mound located on
the highest bluff on his Spanish grant.
He requested that he be buried in a
standing position, that he might look
down on the grand rascals of the
neighborhoOd." He was buried there,
from which point one of the most
beautiful views of the Missouri river
may be had.
In his will he quotes from Shake
speare, Socrates and Demosthenes.
He says four times: 'It is appointed
to man once to die" He suggests
that the readers look around and see
how many men are still living who
started life's journey a few years ago.
He signed his name at sixteen places
in his will.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27
MUMFORD PRESENTS MEDALS
Stock and Dairy Judges Given Awards
for Especial Achievements.

Gold medals were presented to the
members of the stockjudging and
dairy teams by Dean F. B. Mumford,
at a meeting Of the Agricultural Club
Wednesday night. Those receiving
the medals were: p NJ. Vandiver. Paul
Bernard. H. ]. Messick. Freeman
Scott, Tom Moore and j. U. Morris Of
the stock judging team, and w. X.
Keegan, John Crosser, E. T. Itsch-
ner and B. B. Branstetter of the dairy
team.
These medals, according to Dean
Mumford, are given for special
achievement in animal husbandry
and dairy work. The stock judging
team won first place at the National
Swine Show at Des Moines. P. NJ.
Vandiver was first man in the contest,
Tom Moore was second. Freeman
Scott was fourth and H. ]. Messick
sixth. At the International Stock
Show, j. U. Morris was first on the
Missouri team, which placed ninth.
At the Dairy Cattle Congress at
Waterloo, Ia, Missouri was first in
judging Jerseys and Guernseys and
second in Holsteins, winning two
medals and two trophies, w. ].
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27

the test. This latter credit goes to
Harry Bell, herdsman for the dairy
department. Two stu
dents in this department cared for
this COW during the test. William ].
Keegan fed Galaxy and the other cows
in the herd on official test. Harvey
D. Harmon MIXED Galaxy during the
test. She gradually increased her
production during the test, giving
almost eighty pounds of milk during
her best day.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27
HE PUFFS ORIENTAL PIPE
University Student Smokes in Tue
Egyptian Style,

w. T. Peterson, student in the
School of Journalism, has made an
Egyptian water pipe. The pipe is pre-
pared by filling bottle about two
thirds full of water and placing card
board cap on it. A rubber tube runs.
from the pipe to the bottle with the
tip just below the cap. Another tuba
runs from the cap to the smoker
When the smoker inhales. it causes
an empty space in the bottle, which il
air-tight. The water tends to rise and
sucks the smoke into it from the pipe.
The smoke is pure as the water
catches large part of the nicotine
and stray bits of tobacco. M
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27
Initiates Turn Walters,

The negro waiter at the Kappa Kap-
pa Gamma house took vacation Wed.
nesday night when two men, being ini-
tiated into Scabbard and Blade, took
his place. They waited tables, an
swered the telephone and the door.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-27

Inc nrSt Wnlte man VINO SettieQ IN
Boone County was said to have been
the most eccentric man of his day.
He merited the distinction.
He was an accomplished physician,
swindler and surveyor.
He was quite a traveller, he said,
having Travelled in Virginia, Tennes-
see, the Carolinas, Florida, New Mex
leo, Illinois, Indiana and Louisiana.
All of which extensive travelling he
did on horseback.
He was small, longhaired and wore
earrings, and was married three
times.
He named one son Man L. and show
ed his startling originality by naming
his other son L. Man.
He intensely hated his neighbors
The feeling was reciprocated.
He was buried in a standing posi-
tion.
Ira p. Nash, graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia. Rrst came to
bUouC Souuly III 1OVf. AltuOuSu UC
did not settle here on his first visit,
he was so impressed by the unusual
beauty of the place that twelve years
later he located a grant on the banks
of the Missouri River, where the
Bonne Femme Creek empties into it.
He called this ''the most beautiful
spot in all creation.
Doctor Nash worked for the sur
veyor-general of Spain and located
the only Spanish grant in Boone
County, although there were number
of others in Missouri. Congress later
confirmed the title of the grant Nash
himself, Nashville. This was quite
an important shipping point until the
great overflow of 1874 washed it away
Nash entered all of the land that
he was at that time permitted to enter
in his own name. He then went south
of the river into Morgan County and
entered 240 acres in the name of H.
Sanari. 1t was not until his will was
that Ira Nash was the owner of the
property and that it had been taken
out in his name spelled backwards.
He gave the land in Morgan County
for seminary of learning"
First Wife a Suicide.
Nash's matrimonial ventures gave
the courts of the county something to
work on. His first wife committed
the first suicide in the county by
hanging herself. One of the charges
of the defendant in the second Mrs.
Nash's divorce suit was that she had
sold so cents worth of cider and fail
ed to account to her husband for the
50 cents.
To his third wife, Nash was married