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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
He Couldn't Tell.

"Where were you yesterday, Tommy
Cribbs?" asked the teacher.
Please, mum, had the toothache, Z"
answered Tommy.
"Has it stoppedT" asked the teacher
sympathetically
Il don't know" said Tommy.
what do you mean. boy? You don't
know if your tooth has stopped ach.
ingT'
No, mum, the dentist kept it."
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
Her Rreak-

Mrs. Kawler-We generally dine al
frescO during the summer months. My
husband enjoys it; does yours?
Mrs. Newrich-No; John doesn't
care much for putting on style in hot
weather; he prefers to eat out on the
lnwn.-Boston Transcript
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
SKIN ERUPTIoNs ON THE FACE

arc unsightly and mar the appearance
OF many a woman whose face would
be otherwise attractive. There is no
need for this. just get box Of Tet-
terine and use it regularly and you will
be surprised how quickly pimples,
blotches, itchy patches, ETC., disappear
and how soft and clear the skin be-
comes. Nothing better for eczema and
other skin troubles than Tetterine.
Sold by druggists or mailed for SOC. by
Shuptrine Co., Savannah, Ga.-Adv.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
SO OUT OF 100
Need Vaoher-BaIm at Times.

Nothing better for summer colds,
hurts or itching. Keep it handy.
Agents wanted where we have none.
E. W.. Yacher, Inc, New Orleans,
La.-Adv.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
BoCHEE'S SYRUP
AIarmIess Soothing, Healing Remedy
for Coughs and Colds.

- 49, ''''SSS SSSe''''sI 'iSSp'S EA~uiS0y
for Coughs and Colds.
Here is a remedy for coughs, colds,
bronchitis, throat irritation. and espe-
cially for lung troubles, that has been
sold all over the civilized world in
many thousands of households for the
last fifty-four years. Its merits have
stood this test of time and use, and
surely no test could be more potent
or convincing. 1t gives the patient
with weak and inhamed lungs a good
nights rest, free from coughing, with
easy expectOration in the morning.
Try one 1ottle, accept no substitute.
For sale by all druggists and dealers
In medicine everywhere.-Adv.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
Locations.

"a great many campaigns have been
successfully conducted from front
porches"
Perhaps" rejoined Senator Sor-
ghum. But many poems have been
written in attics. / don't regard a
front porch as any more essential to
a politician than an attic is to a poet"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
Keep ores.
Active and Healthy
With Cuticura Soap
SOsp Use. Ointment rs and Soc T.leun 2sc
SoaP 2se, OinLnenI IS and BOD, ID 8

Mr.. Automobile Owner-A Dry RecharRea HE
Automobile Storage Battery that eliminates.
trouble Postcard to Box 1872, Waco, Texas.
IntR-TfrEs ASTONISH BUYERS. Money
back guarantee. Huge profits. Exclusive.
Harkness-Towler' III W.Main, Louisville, Ky.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
Making It Easy.

To facilitate the scheme for taking
the fnger-prints of infants in Amer
lea, it is proposed to make the impress
sions in jam.-The Passing Show
(London).
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
Insldo Information.

Billy went up to dad and said: 'Fa-
Their, know what ry ayill want this
year for Christmas.
Its bit early to start telling what
you and Mary want for Christmas.
But what is it?" replied the father.
Mary will want doll said BILLY
And just then little Mary came run
ming into the room with big tears drip
ping down her cheeks and exclaimeds
Daddy, Billy broke my new doll"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21

Insist on having DR.. Peery's Dead Shot for
Worms or TapeWorm and the druggist will
procure It; It is the only Vetmifuge which
operate9 thoroughly after single doss.--AdY
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21

Catarrh Is local disease greatly infiua
enced by constitutional conditions. Il
therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces Of
the System. HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE destroys the foundation Of
the disease, gives the patient strength by
improving the general health and assists
nature in doing its work.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
#. J. Cheney & CO., Toledo. Ohio,
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21

Frequently a man is honest because
he is afraid to be dishonest.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21
on sfrlkeI

HicR-Time is money.
Wick-No wonder, then, people buy
on tick.-Cartoon Magazine.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21

Some men never recognize an oppor-
tunity unless it is labeled.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21

Swapping horses is one kind Of stock
exchange.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21

A mans accusations of himself are
always believed; his praises seldom.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-10-21

Additional cotton gin fires in con
nection with widespread efforts Of
night riders to keep cotton off the
market until the staple brings ACC
a pound were reported in Southern
States this week.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
OCCUPATION OF
RUHR BASIN IS
BEFORE ALLIES

PARIS, April 19.-Alhed occupa-
ton Of the Ruhr basin, in western
Germany, is being considered by al
lied premiers gathered at San Reno,
says the Petit Parisien. Premiers
Lloyd George, Millerand and Nitti
held a brief meeting last night, and
agreed in principle on the necessity
oe forcing Germany to disarm, the
newspaper declares, but were not
agreed as to the best means of pro-
cedure. ...@.~
There was a certain GOODNESS Be-
tween M. Millerand and Mr.. Lloyd
George at the opening Of the meet
ing, but it vanished in short time,
and utmost cordially prevailed at the
close, according to the Matin.
Demands that the allies, during the
San Reno meeting, resist all at
tempts to revise the terms oc the
Vers allies treaty with Germany are
made by Raymond Poincare, former
president of the French republic, in
an article published by the Matin.
France and Belgium have been de-
prived of guarantees by the failure
of Great Britain and the United
States to put the tri-partite conven-
ton into operation, he says, and the
League of Nations is as yet with
out means of action.
Premier Millerand is congratulated
by M. Poincare for the wisdom he
showed in pursuing a wise policy
in view Of the necessity Of stopping
the fatal movement leading the allies
to the precipice." M. Millerand says
the allied governments should sup
port France against Germany, and
asserts Germany is violating the
Versailles treaty and avoiding all en-
gagements, and that France and Bel
GUM could not have done otherwise
than advance east of the Rhine when
German regulars invaded the neutral
zone In the Ruhr valley.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
VALIDITY OF DRY
LAW UNDER FIRE
IN u. S. COURT

WASHINGTON, April 1.-the SUI
preme court reconvened today with
out rendering an opinion in any of
the various pending cases involving
the validity of the prohibition
amendment and portions Of the en-
forcement act.
Seven suits, attacking prohibition
from every angle. are under cons1d-
Grafton, all having been argued dur
ing March. The court Is expected to
hand down a blanket opinion cover
ing all, which will settle definitely
whether the prohibition amendment
is valid and the Volstead law enforc-
ing it constitutional.
The court may uphold both the
amendment and the Volstead law,
may knock out both, or may hold
the amendment valid, but the en-
forcement law unconstitutional. It
might pass on validity Of the amend
ment, and leave the question of con-
stitutionality of the Volstead law to
later opinion. .......
Cases which await decision are the
original proceedings brought by
Rhode Island and New Jersey as
states, and appeals brought by indi-
viduals from New Jersey. Massachu-
sets, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Mis-
so1Iri federa1 courts
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
LUNACY BOARD
WILL EXAMINE
CHURCHSLAYER

NEW YORK, April 19.-Thomas
w. Shelley. known also as Thomas
w. simpkin, faced arraignment in
Yorkville court today for shooting
DR.. James Wright Markoe, an emil
nent surgeon, in fashionable st.
Georges Episcopal church yester-
day. Police officials said they would
ask for the appointment Of q COM
mission to examine Shelley as to his
lunacy. He told the police he had
escaped from a lunatic asylum last
week. ~ 4sJ ID 49, ..... ... o. ..
r., Detectives questioned Shelley
closely in his cell at police head
quarters in a fruitless endeavor to
learn q motive for the murder. He
as an itinerant printer since coming
to this country from England. 1t
also developed that he was deserter
from the Canadian army, the police
said.
A suitcase owned by the man was
paper clippings on variety of sub
jects. He told the police he had
never before seen or heard of DR..
Markoe. Fl
The murder occurred soon after
the rector of the church, DR.. Karl
Reiland. had concluded his morning
sermon, in which he had advised
his congregation to be friendly to
every stranger visiting the church.
DR.. Markoe was taking up the col
lection when his assailant, without
warning, produced a revolver and
fired a shot in the head, death re-
sulting soon afterward in a hospital.
Before Shelley was captured out
side the church he fired another shot
which grazed the cheek of ]. Nor
v,l A1
DIR. George e. Brewer in the leg. An
other shot just missed Herbert l..
Statterlee, son-in-law of ]. Pierpont
Morgan.
. Pacing his cell nervously today
Simpkin told detectives in disjointed
as printer in Gary, Ind; Wisconsin,
New York and elsewhere. He said he
came to this country from England
five years ago and was member OF
the New York branch of the Typo
graphical union.
The prisoners statements indicated
that he had a mania for hearing SER
mons. He told of listening with
pleasure to a Paulist priest in New
York a year ago and of having an ar
gument with minister in Gary.
THE minister called chief of po-
when 1 got out I decided to get a
revolver In ST. Georges yesterday 1
felt all right until / heard the min
lister say: Some people seem to ig-
more others and don't treat them
Then, the prisoner told detectives.
he was seized with an impulse to
shott. He also said:
"Since I calne out of the asylum 1
always carried a revolver to make
sure that I'd never be put in the asy-
lum again."
He added that he had resolved to
shoot the first person who tried to
arrest him.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
Second Annual Reunion
OF Old Hickory Boys

ASHEVILLE, N. c., April 19.-Sep-
TENDER % and 20 are the dates select
ed for the second annual reunion of
the Old Hickory association or Thir-
tieth division. The mayor, chairman
Of county commissioners and presi
dent of the board of trade and a num-
Der Of others met Colonel H. B.
Springs, Greenville, S.. c.; pres
ident of the association; Cap
Captain Frank B. Bowen, secretary
treasurer, Knoxville, Tenn; Colonel
T. B. spratt, Fort Mills, S. c.; Colonel
Don E. Scott, Graham, N. c.; Captain
]. Laurence CAN'T, Charleston, S. c.,
and j.. c. I4attimer, Of the publicity
committee, Greenville, S. c. These
dates were selected because at this
time Asheville Is better able to take
case Of the Is 900 or 10000 visitors
who are expected to attend this re-
union than any other, although
earlier dates were suggested as being
more suitable to large number of
the members Of the Thirtieth divi-
sion.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
Ed H. Rhodes Says
Ex-Service Men Are
For Senator Smith

AS an evidence Of the inaccuracy
Of some reports which have gone
forth from Clark county to the effect
that ex-service men are opposing
Senator Smith, the following tele-
gram from Carlisle Cobb, Of Athens,
will be read with interest:
ATHENS, Ga, April 19.-Edward
H. Rhodes, of Athens. a prominent
young broker, who was one Of the
first from Clarke county to volunteer
his services, who spent twenty
months in France and Germany, and
who at present is adjutant of the
Allen Fleming post of the American
Legion, here, brands as false the
eleventh-hour reports that have gone
out from Athens to the effect that
sx-service men are opposed to sena-
tor Smith.
"Mr. Rhodes heartily Endorses Sem
ator Smith and his principles as the
salvation of the Democratic party,
and, in his opinion, large majority
Of former service men in the Eighth
congressional district are for SEN
ator Smith.
(Signed) CARLISLE COBB"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
Levee Gives Way on
Mississippi River and
Orange Groves Suffer

NEW ORLEANS, April 19.-The
first break in the Mississippi river
levee system since the present high
water took place today when a sec
ton Of the west bank Of the river
caved in just above Fort Jackson,
fifty miles south Of this city, and
carried with 1t about $50 feet Of the
levee.
Two feet of water is pouring
through the crevasse over orange
groves and a rich trucking section.
The area to be flooded Is small. The
break occurred just above Fort Jacf-
son, which Is just few miles above
the end Of the levee system. The
government reservation probably
will be flooded unless the break is
closed, and engineers left this even
ing in tugs with material to repair
the break.
The United States engineers Of
flee issued warning to all steam
ers to limit the speed of their. yes
sells to the lowest point consistent
with the safety of the ship during
the present high water.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
Senator Hoke Smiths
Work for Wounded
And Disabled Soldiers
Editor The Journal:

Editor The Journal:
The vocational rehabilitation
legislation for manned. crippled
and disabled soldiers stands on
the federal statute books as a
monument to Senator Hoke
Smiths interest in the future
welfare of the patriotic veterans
of the world war who risked their
all on the battlefields of France
and Flanders. Senator Smith
drafted the vocational legislation
and directed it's successful course
through it's various stages in con-
gress.
The legislation provides the
funds and the machinery for the
vocational training of disabled
soldiers. Under it's provisions,
thousands Of American boys who
were wounded are being trained
and fitted to pursue useful occu-
pations.
No member of the United States
senate has been more active in
behalf Of the returned soldiers
than the senior senator from Geor-'
gia. He has taken leading part
in the preparation and passage Of
all legislation designed to aid the
veterans of the world war.
WALTER o. MARsRBUEN,
Captain in E!ghty-second Division
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
DEMOCRATS VOTE
TUESDAY ON CHOICE
FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Preferential Primaries to Be
Held in All but Few Coun-
ties-County Races Also
Scheduled

Democrats Of Georgia on Tuesday
will express at the polls their choice
for the Democratic candidate for
president to be nominated at the San
Francisco convention in June.
In all but a few counties in the
state preferential primaries will be
held. Many of them, as in Fulton
county, will be held in conjunction
with the regular white primaries for
the election Of county officers. Some
counties already have elected their
officers and have been unable to ar
range for the preferential primary
in all precincts. Thus, under the
rule Of the state Democratic execu-
tive committee requiring the primary
to be held in all precincts, they are
eliminated.
Since, however, q large majority
Of Georgia's counties have been able
to arrange the primary, the express
sion of the voters at the polls Tues
day will be, in the main, the ex-
preston of the majority of the peo-
pie of the state.
The result should be known early
Tuesday night. The Journal has ar
ranged to receive returns from its
correspondents in every part Of the
state, and, as usual, will flash re-
turns on screen on the .Auste1l
building and will publish election
extras.
There are three candidates for
president in the Georgia preferential
primary, Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, Senator Hoke Smith and
Thomas E. Watson. Each has quail
flied under the rules of the execu-
tive committee and the name of each
will appear on the official ballot,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
OVERALLSLATEST
ATLANTA FASHION;
THOUSANDS JOIN

The 1000 or more overall wearers
noticeable Monday morning on At
lanta streets and in stores and Of
fees are only the vanguard Of an
army that will cover the state when
thousands Of other citizens accustom
themselves to the comfort. conven-
fence and economy. that the thrift
crusade represents, according to
leaders Of the movement.
About 1000 additional pledges re-
suited from the mass meeting at the
Baptist Tabernacle Sunday after
noon when speeches outlining the
plans and objects Of the overall idea
were delivered by Rev. John W. Ham,
Fair Price Commissioner John A.
Manget and Mayor Key. Many wom-
en- at the morning and evening serv-
ice signed pledge cards promising
cooperation by home dress-making
and similar means of retrenchment.
Commissioner Manget now holds
options on 10000 pairs Of overalls
which he will distribute among clubs
anywhere in Georgia at wholesale
cost, he announced Monday, and
should any profiteering be reported
despite this convenient supply of
low-priced raiment, vigorous and i'm
mediate action will be taken, he says.
Approximately $500 pairs of over
alls were sold at the city hall Sat
extra per garment for charity, the
total sum making possible the distri
button of 500 each to thirteen To-
cal institutions. The stock unsold
Saturday will be handled by the S.
H. Kress stores, beginning Tuesday
morning. The stores will make no
charge for the service and the fifty
cent item will be eliminated.
The following charities will re-
ceive checks for 800 each during the
week as a result of Saturdays over
all sale:
Atlanta Child's Home. Baptist Or
phans' Home; Methodist Orphans
Home, Decatur; Jewish Orphanage;
ellington Presbyterian Orphanage;
Carrie Steele Colored Orphanage;
Home for Old Women; Confederate
Soldiers Home; Home for the Friend
less; Home for Incurab les; Shelter
ing Arms; Ex-Slaves' association.
OVERALL CRUSADE
SPREADS INTO CANADA
ST. THOMAS, Ont, April 19.-The
overall crusade in the United States
has spread over the border to Can
ada and clubs have been organized
here and at several nearby towns.
More than 900 employees Of the Mich
igan Central railroad have joined the
local club. The Wallaceburg, Ont,
club was organized today with
large mem bership.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20

With the primary one DAY off,
Hoke Smith headquarters In the
Piedmont hotel announced Monday
that reports from all over the state
indicated a sweeping victory for Sem
ator Smith.
It was stated by the Smith cam
paign committee that their estimate
Of lot counties for Senator Smith,
made in the Sunday papers and based
on reports received up to Saturday
noon, was too conservative. Tele-
grams and letters that poured in
Saturday night. Sunday and Monday
morning. they said. indicated that
Senator Smith would carry at least
115 counties.
H. Y. McCord, ]. r. Smith and
Arthur Lucas, campaign managers
for Senator Smith say that the
senator's position on the League
Of Nations Is in line with the
practically unanimous thought of
the state. The campaign Of vilinca-
ton and abuse, which. they .sayahasa
been unparalleled in the history of
Georgia's politics, has stirred the
indignation of the people, and they
are planning to go to the polls to
register their protest against such
tactics. A
Paimer's headquarters in the KIM
ball House had no additional state
ment to make Monday. On Sunday
the state campaign COMMITTEES
claimed ninety-f1ve counties.
Headquarters' Statement
Senator Hoke Smiths headquarters
today authorized the following an
nouncement:
I'VE wish to revise the estimate
given out Saturday as to the prospect
Of tomorrows election. Based on the
reports which we received yesterday
and this morning from all parts of
Georgia, We feel perfectly safe in
stating that we are certain of not
less than 115 counties. Several coun-
ties which we had in the doubtful
column have reported that there can
no longer be any doubt as to Senator
Smiths carrying. them.
"While we place our certainties at
only lis counties we confidently be-
lieve that there are many Of the 9TH
ers which are now placed in the
doubtful column are strongly inclined
to Senator Smith, and that the num-
Der actually carried by him will ex-
coed lis, which number we state
merely as minimum.
"It looks Like one of the old-t time
Hoke Smith ground swells, which
starts about ten days before the cleo
ton day and reaches its full flood on
election day.
1--WE have already heard from a
surprising number of sections In
which Senator Harris astonishing in
terview of yesterday Is creating the
bitterest resentment.
There is nothing on earth the peo-
pie of Georgia resent more than an
effort to stack delegations, tamper
with election machinery and pilfer
from a successful candidate the
fruits Of his victory. The county ex-
ecutive committees especially resent
this appeal of Senator Harris. They
tell us they are not that kind Of
Democrats, and that whoever carries
their counties will get an honest,
fairly selected delegation.
1.-The resentment of Senator Harris
unfair appeal, the prospects for a
large vote, and the reports we have
received since Saturday fully justify
US in revising our estimate and in
creasing the statement as to the
number of counties we will carry"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
ARKANSAS STORM
KILLS SCORE AND
INJURIES MANY

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April ia
score of persons were killed and
many injured in storms which swept
several counties in northwest Ar
kansas last night, according to
meagre messages received today
over demoralized wire service.
WOMAN AND TWO
CHILDREN ARE KILLED
FORT SMITH, Ark, April 10
Mrs. Charles Zacharay and two
childre were killed and more than
a score Of persons are reported Sc
riously injured in a tornado which
badly damaged the village Of Hickey
town, Ark. last night. Hickeytown
is sixteen miles south OF Clarks-
vile, in Johnson county. It's popu-
Iation is estimated at about 200.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-20
NOW SAY SENATOR !.
WILL WIN IN 115
COUNTIES TUESDAY
Assert That Claims Made
Saturday Night Were Too
Conservative in Light Of
Later Reports From State
Pulaski Committee to
Follow Rules Despite
Senator Harris Appeal

]. M. Lanier, Of Hawkinsville,
has wired The Journal that the
Pulaski executive committee will
elect delegates to the state DEM
ocratic convention in accordance
with the rules of the state execu-
tive committee. Notwithstanding
the urgent letter of Senator VIII
liam J. Harris asking that dele
gates pledged to indorse the ad-
ministration's position on the
League of Nations and all other
measures to be chosen. Mr.. La
nier's telegram to The Journal
follows:
"HAWKINSvILLB, Ga, April
19.-County committee will fol-
low rules Of state committee, del
egates to be friend Of winner in
county, whether friend or foe CT
Wilson. No outside advice sought.
~. M. LANIER,"