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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
TWO ARE ACCUSED
OF WHISKY THEFT
Liquor Stolen From Tarr Dlstillery
Hat Not Been Located
Combs Admits.

Lexington, KY, May 20. - James II.
Combs, Prohibition Director, Friday
stated that his department had taken
into custody at least two of the band
of masked men who in March removed
"a cases of whisky from the Tarr Dis
tillery bonded warehouse, but that
they had not recovered the whisky,
which was confiscated at Versailles by
the Government when in transit.
According to Director Combs, one of
the men, whose name he did not dis
close, and whom, he says, now is work
ing in Cincinnati and reporting twice
weekly to District Attorney Slattery's
office in Covington, has confessed that
he received $1,000 from two men to
pull off the job" and that they sent
the six other men who assisted him.
David A. Wick, who was admitted to
$4,000 bail by Commissioner Wizard, is
the latest to be arrested as a result of
the theft.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
True to Our Trust
NO ACTION is TAKEN ON
SIXTH WARD SCHOOL
Board OF Education POStpones Definite
Action ON Sixth Ward school
Proposition.

At the regular monthly meeting Of
the City Board of Education held at
the High School building on Friday
evening no definite action was taken
on the Sixth ward school building
proposition and this matter will be
taken up by the members of the hoard
at some future meeting. Il is not likely
however, that the board VIII ask for
a bond issue election for the erection
of new school building in the Sixth
ward in the near future.
The vacancy which exists in the col
ored schools was not filled by the
board at last nights meeting. it being
decided that the four applicants for
this vacancy submit themselves to an
examination to be given by the Super
intendent and that his recommends
tion be based on the grades made by
the applicants in that examination.
Plans for commencement Week
were not discussed at last nights
meeting, that matter being deferred
until n later meeting which will be
held some time prior to Commerce
ment.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
SHOULD Be
PRESENT AT ONE OF
MEMORIAL SERVICES
Many Expected To Attend American
Legion Services at BeechwOOd
Park and Many win Hear
Great Commander.

Maysvillians will be regaled with
an unusual lot of oratory on Sunday
Memorial Day and it is expected that
both Memorial Day services to be held
in the city will be largely attended.
The chief Memorial service under
the auspices of the Leslie H. Arthur
Post American Legion will be held at
Beechwood Park beginning at o'clock
and very attractive program has
been arranged for this service. The
chief speaker will be Hon Matthew ].
Hcnnessey, of Augusta, one of the
leading orators of Kentucky. Besides
Mr.. Hennessey's eulogy there will be
a delightful musical program and the
Maysville Boys Band will play for
the first time this season in the park.
The second service will be held at
the Third Street NJ. E. church on Sun
CLAY afternoon and Colonel Dan Morgan
Smith. prominent Chicago attorney
ana commander of the famous "Battal-
ion of Death" will be the speaker Col.
Smith is recognized as one of the
greatest platform orators of the day
and is in constant demand for Lyceum
and Chautauqua lectures. His address
will be free to all and the public is
cordially invited.
The Superintendent of the Maysville
cemetery has been working overtime
to have our beautiful City of the Dead
locking its best for Memorial Day and
it is now very beautiful All during to-
day citizens have been carrying flow
ers TO the graves of their loved ones
and hundreds will find their way to the
Silent City on Sunday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
MAYSVILLE SPIRIT
IS HIGHLY PRAISED
BYKENTUCKY EDITOR
Lexington Leader Says Maysvllle's Ex-
ample In Community SPIRIT should
BE Followed BY
Others.

The Lexington Leader Friday said
editorially:
The two tours of bluegrass towns
just concluded by Lexington business
men should be repeated annually, with
an extension of these pilgrimages into
southeastern Kentucky fields.
The benefits derived from these trips
are manifold. For one thing, they give
opportunity to the business men of
Lexington to know each other better.
Get acquainted with your neighbor,
he may be a pretty good fellow" is a
saying which contains far more truth
than poetry.
In recent months many new men
have come to Lexington to engage in
business. They are highly desirable
citizens and should be heartily well
coined. Some of them have become
fairly we'll known in commercial and
social circles, others, overly modest,
are yet comparatively unknown to
lhOSl vi uos oOhlO Vi NAACoC y
we're on the motor trips just made un-
der auspices of Board of Commerce.
Another benefit derived from tours
like these is the lessons that may be
learned from small and less preten-
tious cities. The community spirit that
was found at Maysville, for example,
was inspiring to every visitor. The
boys band of that city was a wonder
full evidence of this. Maysville busi-
ness men contribute $4,000 a year for
the support of this musical organiza-
ton. 1t is composed of boys and girls
ranging from eight to thirteen years
of age, who are under the direction of
a competent band master. Concerts are
given frequently at a stand erected in
the business center of the city or in the
opera house. No charge is made for
music furnished for any local function
OF a public nature. AS for the charac-
ter of the music, it must be heard to
be appreciated. Every town could in
this respect follow Maysville's example
If 1t had the vision and the spirit of
genuine community interest.
All of the bluegrass towns are pro-
gressive and prosperous. There was
not much evidence of idleness on the
farms. Everywhere there were plowed
and planted fields, everywhere the
white-covered tobacco beds If we do
not have good times in Central Ken
tucky this year, it will be on account
Of untoward events yet to happen
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
MAYSLICK WINS
HONORS IN FIRST
ATHLETIC MEET
Practically All of the HOnOrs at First
Athletic Meet Are Carried Away
BY Mayslick Students
Friday.

The first annual inter-scholastic ath-
letic meet held at the Mayslick High
School Friday was a decided success
in every respect. There we're many in
attendance and the various schools of
the county displayed keen interest in
athletics. Practically all OF the events
were won by students of the Mayslick
school which has probably been show
ing more interest in athletics than any
other school in the county.
The meet was held under the direc-
tion of the Kentucky Y NJ. c. A. and
the decisions we're fair in every way.
Several pictures were taken of the en-
trants and a fine dinner was served.
The events and their winners follow:
Standing Broad Jump.
Stears. Mayslick, first, s IT. S in.
Rees, Mayslick, second, s #. in.
Logan Jones. third. #. 10 in.
Running Broad Jump.
Rees, Mayslick. first, 16 #. in.
baibio1lh' MAY SilCh' SeCollu' II IT.
7s inches.
Allen Jones, third, Il fl. 9 in.
Ball Throw, Over 100 pounds.
Stears, Mayslick, first, 279 feet.
Stockdale. Mayslick, second, 2l5 feet
Dodson, Mayslick, third, 1S6 feet.
Ball Throw, Under 100 Pounds.
Dotson, Mayslick, first, l9l feet.
Huber. Mayslick. second, 1873 feet.
Chambers. Mayslick, third, l69 feet,
80 Yard Dash.
DotsOn, Mayslick, first
Chambers. Mayslick. second.
I.aytham. Mayslick, third.
100 Yard Dash.
Stears. Mayslick. first.
Galbreath. Mayslick, second.
StOckdale. Mayslick, third.
Running High Jump.
Rees. Mayslick. first, It. IL in.
Galbreath, Mayslick. second, fet. 10
inches
Jones, Minerva; Sparks. Mayslick,
tiled for third.l It. in.
Sack Race, go Yards,
]. II. Dotson. Mayslick, first.
Disher, Mayslick. second.
Browning. Mayslick. third.
Three Legged Race.
Browning and Roundtree, Mayslick,
first.
Disher and Sparks, Mayslick, sec
ond.
Laytham and ]. II. DOtson Mayslick,
third.
Tag OF War, Seven Men.
Mayslick VS. Minerva and Sardis,
won by Mayslick.
A number of mass games in which
every one participated was put on by
MIR. Karl Zerfoss.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
MANY ACCOMPANY BAND
TO OHIO CITY.

There was quite large delegation
OF Maysville people who accompanied
the Boys Band to West Union, the cap
ital of Adams county, Ohio. today
where the band plays for Memorial
Day exercises. This was the first Off
cial trip Of the Maysville Auto Club
and had II been on any day except sat
urday there would have been a much
larger delegation.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
LOCAL WOMAN WILL
TEACH DOVER SCHOOL.

Prof T. J. Currey, who was princi-
pal of the Dover High School during
the past year, has accepted the posi-
tion of principal of the Silver Grove
school for next year and Miss Ethel
Hart, of this city, former teacher in
the Maysville public schools, has been
chosen as principal of the Dover
schools for next year.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
BOARD IN SESSION FOR
SHORT TIME ONLY.

The City Board of Tax Supervisors
was in session for but an hour today
but during that time they disposed of
many complaints. The board will not
be in session on Monday observing
that day as holiday They will re-
turn to their duties however on Tues
day and will remain in session until
their labors are ended.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
REMOVED TO HIS
HOME AFTER OPERATION.

The Lexington Leader says: will
lam j. Reese, who was accidentally
shot during the riot here February 8,
and who underwent an operation at
st. Joseph's hospital few weeks ago
in which his leg was amputated, had
so far recovered that he was taken to
his home, 726 East Main street, Thurs
day afternoon"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
ELKS' DANCE is
VERY DELIGHTFUL.

The second bi-monthly dance given
by the local order of Elks at their
home in Court street Friday evening
was most delightful affair There
were many in attendance and the mu-
sic was unusually good and furnished
by our own Maysville dance orchestra.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
MR., ROGERS FUNERAL
MONDAY AFTERNOON.

The body of Mr.. James II. Rogers,
who died at his home in Denver, Colo
rado, will arrive here today and be
taken to the home of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
E. Fee in Sutton Street. Funeral will
be from this home Monday afternoon
at 2 o'colck and burial will be made
in the Maysville cemetery.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
.NOSDAY ~ SCHOOL HOLIDAY.

The city Board Of Education at It's
regular monthly meeting on Friday
evening made next Monday a school
holiday In observance OF Memorial
Day and there viii be no school In the
city on Monday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29

Herbert Clay Hazel, aged 2S. of Gin
cinnati. and Miss Helen Louise Hayes.
aged 81, of this city, were married in
the County Clerks office here this
afternoon by County Judge H. p. Pur-
nell.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE.

The Omar Dodson wholesale gro
cery's auto truck and Ford driven by
Mr.. w. r. Catron, of the county. came
together at Second and Sutton streets
Friday afternoon, The tenders on the
Ford were badly damaged.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
COLORED COMMENCEMENT
AT MAYSLICK MONDAY,

Commencement exercises of the
Mayslick Colored School Monday night
May 81, 1920. Admission 25c. Professor
Wood, of Paris, makes an address.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29

Special meeting Maysville Chapter,
No. 9, Monday evening. Banquet serv-
ed at $50. Be on time. Regular in
srection Work in Royal Arch degree
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29

You are invited TO hear Col Smith
Sunday afternoon at the Third Street
VI. E. church.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29

All local barber shops will close
Monday at noon IN celebration of Deco
raiiel Lay. A27-3t
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29
RECEIVES MEDICAL DEGREE.

Mr. Jerome Zeigler, of the Orange
burg neighborhood, will receive his
medical degree from the Cincinnati
Medical College this year. Graduating
exercises will be held the first of June
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29

All local banks will be closed all day
Monday in celebration of Memorial
Day. M2S-2t
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-29

Hear the great Soldier Orator Sun
day afternoon.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20
FRENCH PRESIDENT
TO HAVE SUCCESSOR
BY NEWTON G.. PARKE
international News Service Staff


BY NEWTON &. PARkE
international News Service Staff
Correspondent
PARASITIC resignation of Paul
Deschanel as president of the repub-
lie of France has now been definite
ly been decided upon and the put
ting into action of a cut and dried
program mapped out for his retire
ment and the choice of a successor.
In the face of the many rumors
that have filled the political air here
on this subject, the correspondent
is able to give an outline of the &C.
tual facts.
M. Deschanel has already offered
his resignation in communication
to Premier Millerand. In view OF
the Russo-Polish crisis, however,
which requires more than ever a
solid political "home front" in the
entente countries, the premier and
his colleagues have prevailed upon
the president to remain in the office
until the situation has Gained down.
When that time comes, the follow
ing procedure will be taken:
Premier Millerand will address
the chamber and senate, suggesting
that they meet in congress at YER
sailles and to revise the constitu-
ton by inserting a clause that would
empower the president of the SEN
ate to act as vice president and to
exercise the duties of the president
any time the latter is ill or out of
the country. But before congress
actually meets President Deschanel
will resign, whereupon the two
houses will eject his successor and
make the proposed constitutional re-
vision.
AS regards M. DeschanePs proba-
BILE successor all predictions thus far
based on guesswork, but Premier
Millerand appears to have the
strongest chance to enter the Ely
sees palace as Frances executive.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20
POCATELLO ORDINANCE
INVALID

The general public will be inter
ested in decision made at Pocatello
by District Judge J. F. Cowen, de-
claring unconstitutional the "cost
marking ordinance of the city Of
Pocatello. The ordinance, which has
attracted considerable attention over
the state, imposed a license fee of
81 on all merchants doing business
in the city of Pocatello, and made it
unlawful for any merchant to sell
without marking articles with the
cost and selling price or at his OPP
ton keep on file original invoices
showing cost and selling price; pro-
viding for the appointment of COM
mittee and of inspectors for the en-
forcement of the ordinance and pro-
viding a penalty for violation of the
ordinance. This ordinance en-
powered the mayor with authority
to appoint committee of ten or
more persons to serve without COM
pensation and whose duty it would
be to make investigations and to
hear reports of all inspectors when
convinced that any merchant was
guilty Of violating any ordinance
regulating merchants.
The ordinance which has been the
subject of considerable comment,
was one Of the theories Of Mayor
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20
SAFETY IN
THOUGHT

America is accused today by her
best friends, her own thinkers and
wise men, of having fallen into a
doubtful and nerveless condition.
They question our national stami-
ma. Some think we are afflicted
with unrest" whatever that is;
some claim that we are in danger
of bolsheyikistic revolutionary,
while others believe that we are on
the toboggan for hades.
The fact is that so many are the
strange and exciting events record
ed day by day from every part of
the world that the most agile OBJ
server must find himself unable to
keep up and deliver at any time a
sound and complete judgment of the
larger trend of human life. There
fore, it is the part of the small and
thoughtless person to take up this
or that view Of things following ev-
en- so admirable philosophers with
out due reflection. If we would not
lose that power of purposeful
thought, let us hesitate in our gy-
rations now and again long enough
to read what is written in good
books. If we have lost the ability
OF reflection let us at least build Ii
braries and encourage the children
to keep in school so that they may
save our race In Sodom and Co.
mora some, no doubt, were good,
but the majority had ceased to
think. AS kids they were possibly
allowed to give the tutor the slip.
Schooling is the chance to form
thinking habits. and if the children
don't learn a consumed thing they
still have chance to outrun the
old folks who never had a chance
to- stop to think, or thought they
never did.
Americas future will always be
bright so long as her people respect
the public school and make it shine.
We wish no harm to enthusiastic
workers in the "back-to-school
drive" and we do like to see some
body enough interested to go that
far with it, but we shall lose our
faith in Americans when they have
to be driven to send their offspring
to school and make them stick. Rev
erence for education is our only ma
tional chance of safety, and that
reverence must be in the home
F. G. X.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20
FAST BUT NOT
EFFECTIVE

If we as a nation of good, honest
people should read more good books
and reflect upon their contents we'6
find ourselves not going so fast but
getting farther. Our danger is that
our speed is too much for our eye.
sight. ''He who runs may read,
but he who speeds don't see much
A rifle bullet cuts the air faster
than cannon ball, but it doesn't
create one-millionth the stir, nor
travel half as far.
Sound, reflective reading acts up
on the human character as sta
bilizer, plays ballast to the head that
might incline to lightness, and leads
to a comfOrtabl understanding of
life. Look deep into tour fussy
friends and you will find them either
shallow and muddy or narrow and
aimless. They can think fast, but
not straight, and every time they
come to a turn they fuss and bump
against the corners of their rnt.
Contentment is power; it goes with
steady eye that sees beyond the
nose, and with a steady mind that
has outgrown pettiness thru asso-
citation with bi gthoughts Never
ask advice, il you want help, of a
fussy person. Go to the one who
has taken time along lies busy
way to figure" things out-one
who has resigned himself to truth.
You'll find him to be q reader
of good books. because thinking
minds crave company and have to
go to the library for TT. C. K.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20
BIG BATTLESHIP IS
TO SERVE rs TARGET

2 PENSACOLA, Flat was an
nounced here Tuesday that the bat
tleship Massachusetts, will be brought
here and used for a target for big
guns on railway cars, known as mo-
bile batteries.
Army forces will also be brought
here for observation purposes and
airplanes will assist in ending the
existence of the old naval ship by
bombing from the air.
The maneuvers will take place in
already here arranging a location
for the target. After being battered
the Massachusetts, will be towed to
deep water and sunk.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20

ham declared never had its superior
anywhere in history.
As he went to the front, he met q
courier on a lathered horse, bearing
the dreadful news Of Bunker Hill. "Did
the militia fight?" was all he wished
to know. EYES," "Then the liberties
Of the country are safe." Although 1t
is said that Washington never in his
life read but one book on the art of
war, he knew that II the people would
only stand up to the kings regulars,
they could lose every battle and STILL
defeat an enemy who was 5000 miles
from his base.
The Revolution was not won by the
sword of Washington, but by his in
domitable character. It was his char
acter, slowly built up by poverty and
struggle. which had given him from
the start the leadership over men
who talked more; yes, and who knew
more.
The invincible fortitude Of a people,
heroically embodied in him, overthrow
the kings army and navy and his
Hesslans. The unconquerable spirit
of the 5000 hunted, hungering, shiv-
ering, ragged Continentals Of Valley
Forge wrested from the British crown
an empire greater than all the con-
quests made by Napoleon's grand
army.
At the last, as the Americans leaped
those last hurdles to independence, the
British redoubts at Yorktown, Wash
ington only said: "The work Is done
and well done. Bring me my horse"
The war was over but the noblest
victory was yet to come. Having re-
ceived the surrender sword Of Corn.
wallis, Washington surrendered his
own, unstained by personal ambition,
to the people who had entrusted it to
him and went back to his farm, from
which he was called to become the
first president of the republic.
No president has been more bitterly
abused than the first. His cabinet
quarreled until Jefferson, his secretary
of state, resigned, and his next secre-
tary, Edmund Randolph, basely be-
trayed him. His vice president, John
Adams, called him ian old mutton
head" who had mot been found out
only because he kept his mouth shut"
"Treacherous in private friendship and
hypocrite in public life," Thomas
Paine pronounced him. Because he re-
fused to take the side of revolutionary
France, 10000 persons in the streets
Of Philadelphia"-then the capital
threatened to drag Washington out
of his house." John Adams tells us.
Notwithstanding the outbursts OF
partisanship, he retained the conf.
dence Of the country to the last, when
the people at the Inauguration of his
successor followed the retiring presi.
dent into the street and left the new
president all but deserted. The long
task Of the homesick exile from Mount
Vernon was done. He had found the
Union theory and he had left 1t
fact. He had found the United States
paper and he had left It rock.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20

Whitaker of Pocatello. who has been
nominated for congress by the Nom
partisan League. The ordinance has
been glorified by the mayor in his
speeches over the state, but it was
obvious on the face of it that it
would not stand in the courts and
the decision of Judge Cowen bears
out the general opinion in regard to
the legality of the ordinance. 1t
smacks too much of Socialism and
Townleyism for Idaho.--Idaho Falls
Post.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20

The above is the first indication
that the health of the heir to the
British throne is not all that is de-
sired. 1t is not improbable that
the reason given by the king for
the cancellation of his sons visit
to the Indian empire is akin to what
has come to be called diplomatic
Illness" Recent dispatches have
pictured the situation in India and
throughout the near and far east
as resembling powder barrel. The
Bolsheviki have, been carrying on
propaganda in those regions on a
vast scale.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-20
HONORING MRS. BEAKLEY

The w. A. Beakley home in west
Blackfoot was the scene of much
merrinent Tuesday afternoon, when
the Helping Hand club pleasantly
surprised Mrs. Beakley, who leaves
in the very near future to make her
home in Idaho Falls.
Appropriate music was furnished
by the young people, after which re-
freshments were served.