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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
SOUGHT LOVE AT 80:
NOW SEEKS PEACE
WIFE HAS DEEDS TO LAND AND
is SUING FOR DIVORCE
WITH ALIMONY.

WASHINGTON,. D. Cts the
evening of life with Eli Riley.
Morning has passed = morning,
with it's romance and its glamour, its
cry for adventure. Midday has
passed into afternoon-the afternoon
of life when comes the satisfaction
of thinks accomplished-the joy OF
things well done.
It's the evening of life with Eli
Riley. i,
And in its shadow he sits and
smokes a cigar and blows thin, gray
line of smoke into the air, and asks
only "to live in peace"
There was time, four years ago,
when Eli Riley wanted more than
peace. He wanted love and affec-
ton. These, he says, he sought in a
second marriage. He was 76. He
married a woman thirty-seven years
his junior.
December and May cannot mate,
the sages tell us. And Eli Riley
saws so, too. "She married me for
my money" he says. "And l thought
she loved me-"
AL Ule age VI on Ell INllSy ho1
been disillusioned. The love that he
thought was-was not, he says. And
now he wants only to be let alone
But even this privilege is denied him
His peace is disturbed by two court
actions instituted by his wife, Nellie
F. Riley,-one suit filed against two
of his sons, H. B. and Edward M.
Riley for alienation of affection, the
other filed against Riley for divorce
and alimony.
Eli Riley says that he will not fight
the divorce proceedings. But the ali
mony-
Eli Riley says he doesn't know how
long he knew his wife before he mar
ried her, "but," he says, "it was not
long enough"
eve hadn't been married long be-
fore | began to suspect my wife had
married me for my money. The real
awakening came when she had put
me in the Washington asylum hospi-
tai for mental observation"
From the hospital, he says, he was
taken to the home. of his son, Ed
ward M. Riley, at 1907 Allison street,
with whom he has since resided.
All of his real estate, he says, was
decided to his wife before she had
him put in the hospital.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
REPUBLICAN RACE
IS STILL ANYBODY'S
NO OUTSTANDING CANDIDATE
HAS DEVELOPED AS RESULT
OF STATE PRIMARIES.

CHICAGO.-Uninstructed delega-
tions and the delegates, who will cast
their first ballot for "favorite sons"
will be in the majority at the repub-
lican national convention opening
here June 8.
The primary system, although in
effect in many states, has failed to de-
velop any outstanding candidate for
the party's presidential nomination,
for of 913 delegates chosen less than
400 have been instructed, and their
vote is divided among several candi-
dates.
Under the republican convention
rules, which require a majority to
nominate, the successful candidate
must obtain at least 493 votes.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood is lead
ing the field with 145 delegates in
structed for him.
May Make Changes.
The credentials committee, which
meets here, to decide contests, and
prepare the temporary roll of the
convention, may make some changes
in the list of instructed delegates.
However, as there are 1O4 con-
tests pending ,thirty-five contests in
Ivolve Wood delegates.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson( Cali
formal, has an even 100 instructed
delegates, and Governor Frank o.
Lowden (Illinois), 78. Senator War
rem G. Harding (Ohio), has 80 votes
pledged from his home state, and
Judge Pritchard North Carolina) !,
~. Senator Miles Poindexter is ex-
pected to get the Ia votes cast by
Washington.
Contests for 1872 of the 984 votes
in the republican convention at Chi
cago had been filed with Secretary
Miller of the national committee,
when the preliminary filing period
expired on Thursday. More contests
were expected, before both the ma
tional committee and the conven-
tons credentials committee, with
possibility of decisive result on the
nomination.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
CHANGES ARE MADE
in CHURCH RITUAL
GENERAL CONFERENCE METHO-
DIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AT DIES MONIES.

DES MOINES.-A change was
made yesterday in the situal of the
Episcopal church by the
general conference when it adopted
the majority report of the commit
tee on judiciary, which held uncon-
stitutional the question in the ritual
of the church for the reception of
members which reads: ''Do you be-
lieve in the doctrines Of the holy
scriptures as set forth in the articles
of religion of the Methodist Episco-
pal church," and the necessary an
swer, '%fd do" The report was adopt
ed, after long debate, by an aye and
no vote, 800 for and 500 against.
The report indicated that the only
qualification for membership is "a
desire to flee from the wrath to
come and to be saved from their
sins"
The committee on state of the
church has decided to recommend
that no change be made in arnuse-
ment sections of the church discipline
and also that the report be adopted
without debate.
No stand against the use of motion
pictures in the church will be taken,
according to report which has been
approved by the committee of state
of the church, to be presented to the
conference on Monday or Tuesday.
This report condemns all CONNER
cialized exhibition of motion pictures
on the Sabbath.
The report of the committee on
itinerancy will recommend permit
ting deaconesses of the church III
necessary and urgent cases to admin
lister the rite of baptism and per-
hitting annual conferences to pro-
vide permanent endowment funds for
the support of retired local preach
ers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
Love DUEL FOUGHT
HIGH in The AIR
GERMAN "ACES" BATTLE FOR
HAND OF YOUNG ORES
DEN ACTRESS.

The old order of "pistols and cof-
fee for two" has changed to "Fok-
kers for two," for the aerial duel is
the latest form of winning the hand
of the fair lady. The first aerial
duel was fought recently in Ger
many, two German air "aces," Lieuts.
Hartman and Won Fels fighting des-
perately for the hand of Crete Fels-
ner, a pretty Dresden actress.
Hartman and the young woman
were secretly engaged when Won
Fels came upon the scene. He paid
court so openly that a quarrel be-
tween the two men followed. Won
FEELS. an expert dueiist, challenged
Hartman and the challenge was ac-
cepted
Girl Offers Plan.
The girl, realizing that her fiance
would have little chance for his life
in an ordinary duel, and knowing
him to be an expert aviator, propos-
ed a novel departure from the usual
field of honor-a duel in the air.
The idea met with instant favor and
the seconds arranged for details Tor
the first aerial duel.
The duel was to be fought at an
altitude of 5000 feet, the contest
ants firing through their propellers
until one was downed. The first
time the machines came within range
of each other neither aviator was
harmed. The Fokkers turned and
again dashed at each other and this
time Won Fers machine crashed to
the earth.
An inquiry was instituted and IS
still in progress. The affair was so
bafflingly novel that the military
iurists are in quandry. The young
woman. who was the cause of the
duel left. the town hurriedly and
Hartman was cheated temporarily,
at least, of the prize for which he
had risked his life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
WOMAN STAYS SISTER
TO WE'D own NEPHEW
HAD BEEN WORK
ING ON THE CASE SINCE
AUGUST, 1915.

LINCOLN CENTER, Kans.-Stel-
la Lyman, 20 years old, made con-
fession of the murder of her sister,
Mrs. Edward Bunch. and her sisters
husband, and the attempt to murder
their daughter, Nancy Bunch, last
summer.
The young woman said she poured
fly poison into the coffee and other
food. She gave as the cause for the
deed the fact that she had child
of whom Lee Bunch, her nephew, and
son of Edward Bunch, was the father,
and thew refused to let him marry
her. and ''treated her mean" Nam
CIV Bunch has been confined to her
bed since she drank the poison, in Au-
gust last, and physicians say she will
always be an invalid.
Boy Also in Jail.
County Attorney Healy had Miss
Hyman arrested on another charge
as a means of obtaining a confession
The authorities had been working on
the case since the death of Mrs.
Bunch, in August, 1915, although
thew were not convinced until The
death of Edward Bunch two weeks
later.
Miss Hyman is in the county Jail.
and Lee Bunch also occupies a cell
there, having confessed knowledge of
the crime.
In signed statement Lee Bunch
said Stella Hyman told him before
the death of either of his parents
that she was going to poison them
because they would not let him mar
nv her, and also told him that she had
poisoned Nancy Bunch.
"The reason I poisoned my sister.
said Stella Hyman, "was that she
was mean to me, knocked me around.
wouldn't let Lee go with me, and
treated me mean all the time. After
Mrs. Bunch died Mr.. Bunch came
home and tried to treat me mean,
and attempted to attack me. He had
a revolver and said he was going to
kill me. He would not let me leave
the place, and l thought | might as
we'll kill him as have him kill me-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
STATES TREASURY
IS IN DIRE STRAITS
GOVERNOR HAS REACHED LIN
1T OF BORROWING POWER.
MANY BILLS UNPAID.

ATLANTA.-The finances of the
state of Georgia are in precarious
condition. If the session of the leg
stature was more than four weeks
off, it would beyond doubt be neces-
sary for the governor to call an ex-
traordinary session and put it up to
the assembly to figure way out of
the hole, but as the situation stands,
all things considered, the state can
pull along, with some suffering by
the anniversary institutions and the
state sanitarium, until the last of
June. Money and debts, though, will
of necessity be the first business the
1920 session will have to go into, and
at that quick work of some sort will
be imperative.
The states total visible income for
1920 is figured by General W. A.
Wright at $8,467, 791.97 and the to-
tai appropriations for this year are
I$9,O74,616.5O or an over appropria-
ton of $606,824. Some of that dis
crepancy, of course, is going to- be
made up for before the end of the
year by the normal increase from
taxes.
Borrowing Limit Has Been Reached.
For the first time in the history of
the state the governor has borrowed
to the last penny of the states con-
stitutional borrowing power. The to-
tai loan now stands at 100000, and
all of that borrowed money has been
used. The special tax agents or in
vestigators" as they are called, who
were authorized at the last session
for the tax commissioners office, fol
lowed a test previously made by the
governor, have planned out very
considerable aid, in that they have,
since the first of the year. brought to
the treasury a total of about $780,
900 which was never before collected.
All of that money. too, has been ex-
pended.
There are now warrants drawn for
approximately 100000 which can
not be paid for lack of funds. When
the last bunch of acquisitions were
made it became necessary, in order
to apportion around the available sum
of cash as equitably as possible, to
draw part payment warrants for the
several acquisitions. That has work
ed for while and now looks that the
state sanitarium and the university
and its dependents, especially, are
going to have to suffer until the leg
islature can find some form of relief
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
QUITS THE MINISTRY
TO RUN FOR LEGISLATURE
Georgia Preacher Surrenders His
Credentials to Conference.

MACON. Ga.-Rev. George H.
Turner, of Crawford county, has sur
rendered his credentials to the Macon
district conference of the Methodist
church, south, for the reason, he
stated, he could not serve man and
God in the same manner. He stated
he had not held regular pastorate
since 1914. He, is a candidate for
the legislature from his county in
the next election, he stated. He said
he was opposed to division of the
county to create new county and
stood for equal rights to all, with
special privileges to none.
In regard to surrendering his min
isterial credentials, he said: 81 wish
to state that l have this date surren-
dered nv credentials to authorities
of the Macon district NJ. E. church,
south, and in doing so | wish to an
nounce to my friends that / am by
this act not refusing to obey the call
of God to preach, but in view of that
fact that | cannot satisfy man and
God too, deem it best to cut loose
and hold myself accountable to God
only"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
Textile Workers Get Wage Increase
Amounting to Million Dollars Week

A weekly increase of S1,O0O,OO0
will be added to the payrolls of New
England textile mills by a Is per
cent wage advance, to become effect
i've May 81. The advance affects
100000 workers, and brings the lev
ell of textile wages, already at the
highest stage in history, to more than
100 per cent more than what it was
four years ago.
This sharing with the operatives
of profits of textile enterprises
comes after many of the companies
have declared considerable extra divi-
dends of stock or cash to their stock
holders. Prices for the products still
are the highest ever received, al
though in recent weeks it is said a
decreased. demand has set in. and can
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
Buttermilk Put In
The Booze" Class

WESTINGHOUSE u t r
milk is "booze" when it con-
tains more than one-half of 1
per cent of alcohol, according
to a report made by the de-
partment of agriculture to Rep
resentative William l.. Igoe, of
Missouri. Chemists recently in
convention in St. Louis report
ed buttermilk sometimes con-
tanned one-half of / per cent
alcohol.
eff buttermilk contains more
than one-half of 1 per cent of
alcohol clearly it does not con-
tinue to be buttermilk," the de-
partment of agriculture said.
eff buttermilk really turns
out to be prohibited drink"
said Mr.. Igoe, the enforce
ment officers, to do their duty,
must go to the farms and con-
fiscate the cows, the barns and
the dairy utensils. Something
would have to be done by con-
gress to save buttermilk for the
nation"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
ATLANTA FOLK ARE
EASY FOR FAKIRS
SCHEME THAT WOULD BE REC
; OGNIZED AS ANTIQUITY is
0xaIORKED SUCCESSFULLY.

ATL1. = Although Atlanta
has the repu IF being wide
awake and extre4. odern city,
her people every once Ia. while get
taken in for a scheme that would be
recognized as an antiquated fake in
Social Circle or Frog Level.
An elderly lady on the north side
was visited a couple of weeks ago
by a prosperous looking real estate
agent who talked about Texas invest
ments and leaving handed her num-
bered certificate.
"This may not be worth anything"
he told her, "but keep it carefully.
In connection with the sale num-
Der of lots will be disposed of by
chance, and there is a possibility that
you may hold the winning number"
Duly impressed, she put the certifi-
cate in the China vase on the mantel-
piece in the sitting room and forgot
all about it.
A day or two ago another stranger
appeared.
E'You are Mrs. So-and-So? You
are the holder of certificate No.
487? Well, in that case / congratu-
late you as having won a handsome
lot in Buncoville, Texas. By letting
me have SIS to pay for recording the
title, you can take immediate pos
session."
The lady joyfully paid the cash,
and after the agent had gone called
up her friends to tell them of her
good fortune. The same thing hap
pened to several of them. Today the
detectives are looking for the two
swindlers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01

cellations of orders have been re-
ceived in some cases.
The latest advance will mean an
average wage of $25 to cotton mill
operatives, which is an advance of So
to $3.50 over the present average, &C
cording to figures compiled by the
manufacturing interests. To higher
paid workers the increase will insure
a weekly salary of from $50 to $45
a week.
In the cotton industry the latest
advance makes a total average in
crease of about IT'S per cent since
1915. Wages in the wooden industry,
up to the present time. but not in
Guiding the proposed advance, have
increased by approximately $50 per
cent over those of 1915.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
ARMENIAN MANDATE
OPPOSED BY BRYAN
ACTION OF PRESIDENT RECEIv-
ED WITH SURPRISE BY BOTH
OF THE PARTIES.

Observation-Disclosures Will
son has tossed another football INTO
the gridiron of treaty controversy.
His request that congress accept the
mandate or trusteeship over the
newly established republic of Arme-
MIA revives the pro and con Of the
league of nations debate, though in
this instance the president uses the
expressed interest of the senate in
the fate Of Armenia as vehicle for
the introduction of concrete meas
ures of assistance for the distressed
IArmenians.
The action of the president was
received with mingled surprise and
doubt in the ranks of the democrats
as well as republicans.
William ]. Bryan took flat issue
today with President Wilson on the
question of an American mandate
over Armenia, declaring in state
ment that "any mandate is impossi-
ble."
The United States, Mr.. Bryan said,
could do no more toward making the
world safe for democracy, "even for
democracy in Armenia" than by rec
ognizing the Armenian republic and
entering the league of nations "as
the friend of all little countries"
"Any mandate is impossible" Mr..
Bryan's statement said, without other
peace.
Would Mean Expense.
"The one proposed for Armenia II
accepted would involve us in an enor-
mous expenditure in a time when
war taxation is so greivous a burden
that congress has difficulty In find
ing the money necessary to do JUS
tice to the men who served in the
world war.
at would involve us in the poll
tics of Europe and would compel US
to deal with implacable race hatreds.
1T would involve US in the fierce
commercial rivalry of the big ma
tons
"But. worst of all, it would COM
pel us to surrender a vital principle
of democracy, namely, that all peo-
iple are capable of self government.
Nearly 100 years ago Henry Clay set
forth the American view on this sub
ject in dealing with aspirations OF
South American republics. Refer
ring to the old contention of mon
archists that subject peoples were in
capable of self=government, Clay de-
clared it to be a reflection on the
Almighty to assume that He would
create peoples incapable of self-gov-
eminent and leave them to be the
victims of kings and emperors.
Opposes Exploitation.
"All the colonial exploitation of
helpless peoples is defended on the
theory of their incapacity for self
government. We cannot indorse this
theory. 1t would be injurious to the
Armenians instead of a kindness to
affirm or admit them incapable OF
self-government. If it were once adj
mitted. they would never be permit
ted to outgrow the presumption OF
incapacity because consent to their
independence would encourage other
subject peoples to ask for independ-
ence.
christianity does not require us
to abandon our ideas of government
or to adopt monarchical forms in rem
dering aid to suffering peoples"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
SABBATH FEAST OF
INDIANA DUNKARDS
In Annual Conference on a Farm
Near Logansport-Tc OBJ
serve Feet Washing.

LOGANSPORT. Ind.-When the
sun set Sunday between 10000 and
$4,000 "Dunkards" in annual confer
ence on a farm twelve miles east of
this city observed fleet washing as
they understand it was taught by
Christ. This service followed the
members participation in the Lords
supper" The sessions were held in
tents.
The members of the order, which
is the old branch of the Brethren
church, accept literally the teachings
of the Bible. They greet one an
other with the "holy kiss"
Five steers were slaughtered to
provide food for the Sunday feast
and fifteen more were ready for use
as food during the rest of the con-
ference. All delegates, as well as
visitors were fed free Barns in the
were converted into
sleeping quarters for the host of wor-
shippers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
JOAN OF ARC ADDED
TO THE ROLL OF SAINTS
Shepherd Lass of Centuries Ago Is
Exalted to Sainthood.

Shepherd Lass of Centuries Ago Is
Exalted to Sainthood.
ROME.-Joan of Arc, the shepherd
lass who in 1929 was called from the
peaceful fields of Domremy to lead
the armies of France to victory
against the English and Burgundians,
Sunday was exalted to sainthood.
Thirty thousand persons witnessed the
rite in honor to the meek girl whose
leadership founded modern France,
and whose life inspired the allied
world during the dark hours of the
great war just closed.
Impressive ceremony and ancient
ritual marked the addition of her
name to the roll of the saints. Pope
Benedict enthroned in st. Peters, an
nounced to the Catholic world the
solemn fact of the addition to the
body of the saints of Joan of Arc,
and ordered in the name of the Holy
trinity that her memory be held in
.pious devotion by the church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
"ANTI-L YNCHING LAW"
ON HOUSE CAL ENDAR
Has Been Reported Out by the Judi
ciary Committee for an Early
Consideration.

WASHINGTON.-An "anti-lynch-
ing law" was reported out today by
the house judiciary committee and
placed on the calendar for early con-
sideration. Under the measure any
resident would be entitled to appeal
to federal courts for protection on
the ground that he had reasonable
cause to believe that equal protec-
ton of the laws would be denied him
in state courts. Participants in mobs
would be subject to fine and impris-
onment, and counties in which lynch
ings occur would be subject to for
feiture of $4,000.
The majority committee report was
drafted by Representative Dyer, re-
publican, Missouri.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
PLANS BIG GAME PRESERVE OF
10000 ACRES in LOUISIANA
Marsh Island, Extending Seventy
Five Miles Along Gulf. Given to
State hv Mrs. Russell Sage.

Louisiana is planning to enlarge
the game preserves in that state by
the development of Marsh island, a
gift of Mrs. Russell Sage. and tract
of $4,000 acres in Vermillion and
Cameron parishes on tue coast, given
bv the Rockefeller foundation. Marsh
island contains $4,000 acres and ad-
Joins the present state game preserve
of 10000 acres.
These acquisitions will give Loulsi-
ana what is believed to be the great
est wild life refuse in the world.
The great domain is patrolled by
agents of the conservation commls-
sion. and on it all sorts of game are
protected and propagated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
0O MILLION DOLLARS is
COST OF ONE WARSHIP
worlds Most Powerful Battle Cruis.
er Being Built by u. S.

H. Inc United States soon will have
a world. worlds most powerful warship,
kno uaIue cruiser that can steam 10
tar T,S an hour faster than the Lusi-
win q, once queen of the seas. 1t
twa,,oe 1000 feet long, will carry
mill I6-lnch guns and will cost SO
yes. .On dollars. But in less than 10
hear 1t will be fit only for the scrap
airS b and in case of war, a modern
uto temp could blow it up in five min
he ~, IN the next war, should there
will aIiloVher, the most helpless thing
II De the biggest battleship.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-01
Mark Twain Boosts Advertising.

editing Missouri superstous sub
scrber spider his and asked
Mark Il it signifed good bad luck? Twain replied:
misunderstanding spider in paper was neither
The spider merely looking over
cur paper advertising that ne
can go those and spin his webs undisurbed"