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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-11
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-11
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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-17
OAK GROVE.

Johnnie Sisson, wife and little sis
ter, Miss Alpha, spent Saturday night
with Gilbert Sego and family.
Roy Lindsey, Willie Bledsoe and
Grant Sisson were at Alberton Sat-
urday.
Miss Dixie Davis spent Saturday
night and Sunday the guests of Miss
es Ida and Olevia Lindsey.
Tom Garner and family spent Sat-
urday night the guests of relatives at
Chesterfield.
Singing every Saturday afternoon
and Sunday morning at Oak Grove.
Everybody is invited to come.
j. NJ. and R. NJ. Lindsey were in
your city Monday swapping and trad
ing horses.
Barney Snearles and wife have
been the guests of Ether Gibson and
family recently.
The Oak Grove boys went to Alber-
ton Saturday and played baseball.
The score was to IL in favor Of
Oak Grove. The Alberton boys will
come to Oak Grove next Saturday to
play ball.
Jim Sisson and family spent Satur-
day night the guests of Ed. Shackel-
ford and family, near Chesterfield.
Rev. Davis preached to a good sized
audience Sunday.
Grant Sisson spent Sunday with
his cousin Roy Lindsey.
Miss Edith Lindsey was the guest
of Miss Larean Sisson Sunday.
Miss Ada Lindsey happened to the
misfortune to fall the other day and
received a severe bruise.
Willie Scott, from Dolen, attended
church here Sunday.
Elpha and Alpha Sisson spent Sun
day with their friend, Miss Eula
Shackelford, near Chesterfield.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-17
PINEY CREEK.

W. A. Scott and family visited at E.
s. Goff's Sunday.
The Holiness people are holding
services at j. d. McCormack's, near
Thomas School House. There were
three baptized Sunday afternoon. The
meeting will continue for perhaps a
week.
Will Buck has purchased place
near Reagan.
Mrs. Owens, of Lexington, visited
her son, John Wright and wife, the
past week.
j. A. Stanfill, wife and son, Gilly,
were in town Monday and Mrs. Stan
fill had some Dental work done.
J. T. Scott visited at A. T. Stew
arts near Poplar Corner the past
week.
E. T. Goff and family Of near
Sheppard's store, visited at E. s..
Goff's Sunday.
Uncle Farrell Evans has been in
our community recently.
Your scribe is at home after spend
ing few weeks at Chapel Hill.
Ebert Connally visited his mother
at H. t. Goff's Saturday and Sunday.
]. w. Christopher and son, Frank,
Golf and family.
]. Frank Martin spent the week
end with M. 7. Little and family.
Chester and Raymond Golf spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Will
Presley and family.
Robert Christopher spent Sunday
with his parents, w. T. Christopher
and wife.
Miss Gussie Ross, of Lexington, has
been visiting relatives and attending
the Holiness meeting.
Mrs. w. T. Christopher and daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Howard Christopher,
spent Monday afternoon at E. S.
Goff's.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-17
CEDAR GROVE.

The protracted meeting began here
Sunday. Rev. lowers is doing the
preaching.
J. B. Duck and little son, Fred, Wis
tied the family of R. B. Jones Sun
day
The last school rally for this dis
trict was held with Tucker School
Sept. 4. There were three schools
represented. There was nice march
and several recitations were rendered
by the children of the different
schools. Especially fine were he
ones by Freddie Parker, George Duck
and Dosky Austin. J. M. Austin gave
a real nice talk to the school children.
in the afternoon Judge L. B. johnson
gave an address which was well re-
ceived. q
G. L. Scott made trip to jackson
Monday.
Quite lot of our people are taking
in the Jackson fair this week.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-17

Is this Democratic administration
that is Democrat in the presiden-
tial chair and Republican Senate and
House responsible for the fact that
with wool at 20 cents a pound a suit
of clothes costs $50 and up, while all
know that when wool was 40 cents
per pound the same suit Of clothes
could be bought for SIS? The Repub-
lican farmer is the most gullible man
in the world-or he would never
swallow that protection bait which
lands him in the November election.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-17
MOUNTAIN BRANCH SOLDIERS
HOME is BUT A MEMORY.

The Mountain Branch Soldiers
Home is no more in name. An order
received designates the institution as
the Johnson City National Sanitarium
and DR.. G. L. BELLS, of Wisconsin,
assumed charge as medical director
and superintendent, succeeding Gov
ernor r. B. Cooke, of Chattanooga.
For the present the status of all
other officials remains the same, and
there will be no charges until the
Board of Managers arrive here the
10th of this month. So far as can be
learned the only important change
that will be made is that effecting the
office of governor who is succeeded
by DR.. Bells the medical director and
superintendent.
A force of 100 workmen under the
direction Of contractors are busily en-
gagged in remodeling barrack build
ings preparatory to receiving tuber-
cular patients who will occupy the
johnson City National Sanitorium
hereafter. At present there are about
$50 tubercular patients at the SAM
forum and 1870 vocational students,
veterans of the Wcrld War, and
number of arrested cases among the
veterans of the Spanish-American
and Civil War.
The johnson City National SAM
forums will receive only tubercular
patients, either arrested or active
cases, and as previously announced,
the government plans to make this
sanitorium the finest in the United
States, or for that matter, the whole
world. Members eligible for entry
into the sanitorium will be under
strict regulations and every means
used to effect cures as rapidly as pos
sible. They win be required to follow
up the regulations promulgated by
the superintendent and director, and
the active cases will be isolated. Ma
jor c. W. Whitworth in an interview
several weeks ago said that the Gov
eminent would cooperate with John
son City and lend every assistance to
aid in stamping out tuberculosis
among the civilian population. The
establishment of the tuberculosis san
itorium here is now looked upon as
one Of the most valuable assets to
Johnson City and environments, for
the reason that with the government
tai assistance the disease may be en-
tirely eradicated from this section.
Active cases or those that are COM
municable will be confined to the res
ervation, SO that the danger of spread
is miniminized until it becomes nil.
Governor R. B. Cooke has not as
yet announced his plans for the fus-
ure. 1t is understood that he could
have remained here or have been
transferred to Dayton in a very I'M
portant and responsible position but
will probably return to Chattanooga.
All of the other officers will remain
at the home as executive officers
without military titles. The medical
staff will will include eighteen ply
sicians and over seventy nurses.
The name of the postoffice will be
changed. .p., ~
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-17

The above article was sent US by
Noah l.. Lewis, who writes that he
has been in the Sanitorium for only
about one week but finds it a fine
place. He hopes that some disabled
ex-soldier will Sc the article and take
advantage Of the opportunity offered.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-09-17
NEW SHOP.

/ have opened small shop at my
home for the purpose of doing work
on light machinery. Ny speciality
viii be oxy-scetylene welding. Sat
isfaction guaranteed.
ROY DENNIS0N.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31
Missionary Says Japa:
Faces Financial ca

DR.. Charles E. Tommy, for -
years a missionary OF the Al !,
Baptist Fore gn Mission Soci :
Toxic, declared yeste day upon / /,
rival in New York that the expo
silver bullion from Japan &c Cain
caused q serious financial situatis
the F.owery K agdom. Dr.. Tenny
be one Of the Far East repIesentA
at the thirteenth annual meetir'
the Northern Baptist Convention
DE held IN Buffalo june = % %. {.
Business men IN Japan see a e
cl8l crisis ahead. said Dr.. Ft
The situation tn China. where 8
has doubled in value has reducsd
supply Of silver in Japan 20 sue
extent that small change has II
entirely disappeared. Paper -
similar 10 the shin plasters' hass
issued In lieu OF the small slNer
responds with the United Sta =
and - cent pieces. Signs lea
please have the exact change 1
p many of the shops Al the =
ct the American dollar was 4
20 in gold. The ven, valued
-ents OF our MONEY, has neVt
at 10 and recently has been
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

Secretary Houston foresees ninc
months of Notwithstanding without
painful experience and then, provided
the nation acts wisely. period of sub
stantial industrial and agricultural ad-
Vancement. In the months that lie
ahead, however, the Secretary is COM
mitted to program of dcfiation Every
one who objects to the high cost of
living will have some sympathy for the
movement to squeeze water out of the
dollar. And yet it is important that
the campaign be literally directed SO
as not to interfere unduly with ncces-
sary plant expansion and the installa-
ton of absolute needed machinery in
essential industries. Greater produc-
ton cannot be obtained simply by pious
hopes. In theory all seem agreed that
the essential industries should not be
financially under -nourished, and it will
be well to have adequate provision
made in practice.
Assuming that Mr.. Houston's pre-
dlctlon that readjustment to more
normal economic conditions will take
nine months is correct, the student of
fluctuations of security quotations
wonders whether the market will ncces-
sarily have to be reactionary until the
end of the industrial crisis Usually
the market seeks to look ahead and dis
count the future. Last November II
began to discount slowing up of in
dustry at a time when business was
expanding with great rapiditv. 1t is
not unlikely that it viii begin to adjus,
itself to better economic conditions al
time when industry is at the peak OF
Its difficulties. Economists contenc
there Is definite relation between in.
dustry and the market, but the two dc
not usually advance simultaneously.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

A Western banker analyzes the
money market situation in this fashions:
Imitation exists. 1t has been caused in
the main by influences characteris-
tically different from those of the nor
nal credit cycle, and therefore may
not be followed by the usual crisi&
Some changes, however, must be anticl-
pated-namely, lower prices and wages
and period Of depression. If these
changes come suddenly they will con-
stitute criss-that is, they will bring
about forced liquidation and CONNER
cial failures. But the Reserve system
should prevent such crisis from de-
generating into panic. 1t is probable
that the situation in the money market
is fundamentally sound in spite Of
speculation here and there, and the
prominently unsound feature, Liberty
bonds carried by the banks, 10 only so
in respect Of imitation, not in respect
of intrinsic value, and will therefore
be relieved when and as liquidation in
the bonds takes place. Our legitimate
trade whether domestic or foreign, need,
not fear an inability to obtain neces-
sary bank accomm odations.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31
Bonds for Investment
Aarris, Forbes G. Co
Pine Street, Corner William
NEW YORK
Iwo Japanese Banks Fail
Others Dealing With Raw Silk
Interests Also Hit Hard

TOXIC, May 2s (By The Associated
Iiess) (Delayed).-Developments to-
Day IN the troubled situation in some
quarters Of the financial and CONNER
cal world of japan included the sus.
penSlon Of two small banks at Yoke
suka and heavy Withdrawals by de-
poSltors from other banks in the
provinces which have dealings with the
raw silk interests
An attempt was made yesterday to
5eopen the YoAohoma SILK Exchange,
bVt with the supply increasing and
staadstill prices declined sharply and
business was again suspended.
The raw silk dealers have decided 10
reduce production. The habutaye deal
ers have asked for govornmtnt niJ.
Z The price of cotton yarn continued to
fall to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

It will take considerable in the shape
of constructive developments to get
the public back into the stock market.
That goes without saying. Judging
from the character of the many invest
ment and speculative inquiries we are
receiving, the great mass of the public
which has tried it's hand in the stock
market game would be content to get
out Of stocks even without considering
adding to its commitments. 1t is an in
teresting fact, however, that during the
last few days there has appeared in
the market a demand for investment
stocks by what is known in Wall Street
as the "bargain hunter"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31
Trade and Finance
Developments of the Week
and Their Bearing on
the OutEoOk

Wall Street in its operations in the
speculative and investment security
markets during the last week evidently
has been proceeding on the theory that
the peak of the credit strain, which has
resulted in widespread disarrangement
of business and industrial schedules, is
passing, and the outlook is therefore
much, more encouraging. There is
much to be said in favor Of this view
of the general situation, for signs are
appearing that the emergency meas
ures taken to clear up the transporta-
ton tie-up are bearing fruit and re-
leasing credits frozen" by the inability
Of manufacturers and others to ship
their products to market. As q result
sentiment has undergone marked i'm
provement, and the pessimism which
a fortnight ago brought predictions of a
financial dehaclc through forced def1a-
ton and other collateral Developments
has given way on calmer reflection of
fundamentals tQ more reasonable view
of things.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31
Canada's Produce Exports for
Fiscal Year Is $l.23o.492.O08

OTTAWA, Ontario, May 9-The value
Of Canada's produce exports for the
fiscal year ended March 81 amounted TO
$l,239,492 ,098, compared with S1,216.-
44S,806 the previous year, according TO
the report to-day Of the Dominion Bu-
xeau of Statistics. The amount for the
year ended March 81, 1918, was $1,640,-
027.zS3.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31
RIO de .Eaneiro Needs He

chr JANEIRO. May II
nj at - thorlties nave offer
usu- bert; - concessions 20 .
ers +. ' orN or or rcome the 1
age OF dwellings,, which IS call
most serious the city ever has i.
One construction company mas Of
to build thousands OF wooden az
ot type heretofore -AAA3wA nef
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31
South African Banking
Since I 800

HAT successful development Of foreign trade is
based on wide knowledge of the countries with
which business s being transacted, has become
axiom Of commerce
We know South Africa Established since 1890, we
have developed with the Union. Onr 400 branches
in the heart Of that territory III intimate touch
with its commercial and industrial needs
Our New York Agents, possessing unusual knowl-
edge of South and East Africa through years Of
actual residence there are in sngularly adyan-
tageous position to assist American merchants and
manufacturers in the extension of their trade
throughout the provinces.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

The boosting of the discount rates
20 the highest level ever established by
the local Reserve bank came after near
ly week of rising security prices. AL
though it was known that New York
representatives at the recent confer
ence at Washington between Class A
directors and the Federal Reserve Board
spoke in favor of per cent rate, the
actual adjustment came somewhat as
surprise. 1t clears the air, however,
and let's the financial and business COM
munity know how it stands. 1t brings
The Reserve banks charges in line with
open market rates. The change is
aimed at commercial borrowers, who
are notified that the lenders feel the
peak has been reached. Indirectly it
reminds the speculative community
& ain Of thu boundaries within which it
Is expected to remain.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

The Federal Reserve system will act
as magnet and attract more British
gold during the next four and a half
months. The arrival of $22 900 900 on
the Pacific Coast for the account of the
British Treasury, making approx
mately 4,O00,0 900 received from British
sources thus far this year, brought
forth renewed assurances that q large
flow Of gold hitherward was to be
directed. Of the Anglo French loan of
$500, 0,000,0 900, which natures on October
15 next, less than S400,000,000 are in
the hands Of investors. 1t is known
that the British and French govern
ments have sizable credit balances in
this country on which they can draw
when they discharge the debt, and, be-
sides shipping gold to augment their
balances, they can achieve their pur-
pose also by liquidating more Of their
American securities.
One OF the troubles with the rail
roads is that too many amateurs have
patent medicine cures fer their NAL
adjustments. Even the experts find
difficulty in agreeing as to what the
patient needs. The president of one of
the important roads remarked in con-
Versatlon recently that the chief ex-
ecutives seemed unable to yield indivi-
dual preferences and formulate a COM
mon policy. He is quoted as saying
that when man gets to be head of
great railroad system ho gets rather
fixed notions about what can be done,
and is not always disposed to adopt a
end-take policy in dealing with
other executives. AT the hearings on
equipment needs in Washington the
record revealed that the executives
and the investment bankers were in
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

Stocks enjoyed much better mar
ket last week Bonds, too, were high
err In the stock market the recovery
started at the beginning of the week,
and although the volume of business
done in speculative stocks on the rally
was not large, the movement toward
higher levels was we'll sustained, and
was accepted as rejecting a revival of
confidence on the part Of the trading
element Stocks at the end Of last week
showed rccoveries running anywhere
from to 10 points from the recent
lows. The feeling in market circles
was that the recovery would likely go
further, provided the money situation
continued in its present state Of COM
paratve ease. 1t would take an ex-
treme optimist, however to predict q
resumption of the bull market In specu-
lative stocks in this period of readjust-
ment. On the other hand, the market
in its severe decline of few days ago
would seem to have discounted a great
deal in the way of business slump.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

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New-York tribune., 1920-05-31

disagreement. Meantime the average
American is hoping that freight will
be moved before a new generation
grows up.
The Washington times., 1920-10-31

federates had sometimes spent an entire
year watching a woman before the oppor-
tunity offered. One enormous haul Of
jewelry was made from an American
womans bedroom in hotel in Monte
Carlo after they had watched her New
York residence. her country house at New
port and followed her on social visits to
Chicago and Washington, had crossed the
ocean with her on the steamship, had
taken rooms in the same hotel in London
and in Paris and in Nice and finally caught
her off her guard one night after her re-
turn from the Monte Carlo Casino to her
hotel apartments. It was a long invest
ment, Sophia Lyons explained, Of time,
patience and money, but 1t paid handsome
ly when the thieves at last got into their
hands a million dollars worth of Jewels.
How the watchful robbers seize time and
opportunity has been wildly illustrated by
several recent robberies where the thieves
have awaited the occasion of social func
ton when the women had the jewels on
their necks. bosoms and fingers. Here the
coveted valuables were IN the open, away
from their customary places Of hiding or
security. Could the thieves follow those
jewels and get hold of them before the
owners took the time or precaution to
lock them away or hide them away?
Some time during the night of October
10 more than a hundred thousand dollars
worth Of gems were taken from the bed
rooms OF the members of the Sleepy Hol-
low Country Club at Scarborough-on-the
Hudson, near New York. The ladies had
attended an exclusive dance on the floor
below. The festivities were carried over
so far into the early morning that many
Of the guests decided to remain at the
club over night instead Of returning to
their homes.
Here was the opportunity. Whatever had
been the custom Of the owners OF the Jew
els. whatever had been the hiding place Of
security in the homes Of the owners, here
came the moment when somewhere in
those bedrooms, probably within the reach
of thiefs fingers, the jewels at last were
lying unprotected.
Even holder and more cruelty crude
were the operations OF two Chicago jewel
thieves who watched the departing guests
from q whist party at residence on So tn
Troy street in the early morning hours Of
that very same day when the Sleepy Hol.
low Club jewels we're being stolen near
New York.
AS six women guests at the whist party
were leaving in an automobile two roo
bers, pistols in hand, jumped on the
running-boards. One held his revolver at
the chauffeur's head while II was still
within sight Of the bright lights Of the
South Troy street residence and ordered
the driver to 90 to the entrance of a
nearby park. Here the thieves stripped
the ladies' OF their jewels and escaped
through the shrubbery.
At the home of Mrs. George McFadden,
Crcat T,ritain Riahts Reserved
The Washington times., 1920-10-31

This robbery was discovered after a
McFaddens felt confident of the integrity
Of all their guests and servants, the de-
tectives inclined to the belief that some
traitor guest or servant was the theft.
At the home of Mrs. William Sackett
Duell of Meadowbrook, Pa, a function of
note was held couple Of weeks ago. Soon
after the last guest had departed Mrs.
Duell retired to her room and to her
amazement and dismay saw that her jewel
box had been ransacked and rare family
jewels worth over $4,000 distracted. Her
distress was the more acute because she,
was forced to the realization that she had
actually been graciously entertaining the
thief thai evening, that, perhaps, she had
even been reckoning the thief on her list
Of cherished friends.
Toward early Summer $4,000 worth Of
jewels were stolen from the home of Mrs.
Hamilton Fish, the well.known social
leader, at No. $40 Fifth avenue, New York
City This robbery has always been
shrouded in mystery, as neither the family
nor the police would admit anything. But
the robbery was reported, just the same,
and servant suspected.
And SO It has gone. These are but some
OF the more important jewel roDberies that
have had police. detectives and the surety
companies by the ears for the past year,
not in New York alone, but all over the
country.
There seems little to suggest in safe.
guarding household Jewels Samuel b.
Brewster, who has charge OF the burglary
department Of the American Surety Com
pany, gays that employees and their ref
erences should be more carefully exam
ined. Nine out OF ten letters of recon.
mendation are forgeries.
Women should be less ostentatious of
The Washington times., 1920-10-31

their jewelry in public. They should be
very careful about showing it where there
are strangers.
They should also be more careful about
their jewelry at home. They misplace
some OF It and think IL has been stolen
Later II is found. That encourages the
servants to abstract some OF It at later
date. hoping that the mistress will think
this time Il is mislaid. 4
But even a strict obedience to these
suggestions wouhi not seem to be very
efficient safeguard for household Jewels.
The Washington times., 1920-10-31

Jr., near Phila-
.delphia, I h / @ V es
in the night made
their way TO a
box cont a lining
jewelry to tht
value Of $250.00O
This included a
string of pearls
worth $4,000
and was one of
the finest owned
in the u nit e d
States. No trace
of this has been
found and by
no W, probably,
the rope, cons, St
ing Of 165 pearls,
has been taken
apart and each
pearl put in
another setting,
The Washington times., 1920-10-31

and customs in crime
II change. as in everything else. in ac-
cordance with changing conditions