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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

WASHINGTON. - The air service
W people are saying the aeronau-
teal beans have been spilled. They had
thought that the bringing into this
country Of huge shipments Of war
salyaged aircraft would stir congress
to action, and on that account the
British invasion would be beneficial.
The house acted promptly and pass
ed bin originating in the ways and
means committee and fathered by Rep
resentative John @. Tilson, of Con-
necticut, called the "Aeroplane Anti
Dumping act" This bill was designed
to protect the aircraft manufacturers
of this country from a competition
which really meant, and still means, a
knockout The dumping into nervous
and inordinately shy market Of thou
sands of planes, motors and Access
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22
Sponsor for South at Reunion.

Fort Worth, Tex.-Miss Sadie Ruth
Aldredge of FL Paso has been appoint
ed sponsor for the South to serve at
the Confederate Veterans reunion, to
be held in Houston next October. Ma
jor General K. M. Van Zandt, com
mander in chief of the confederates,
made the announcement Additional
appointments. including those Of maids
Of honor. win be announced in few
days.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

EMPLOYEES of the interior depart
u ment who have attained the age
of seventy years but have not rendered
the minimum Of fifteen years of serv-
ice required for retirement on an an
nuity shall be automatically dropped,
according to a decision handed down
by Attorney General Palmer.
While the decision was in reply to
a letter from Secretary Payne of the
interior department and refers specific
ally only to employees Of that depart
ment, the answer of the attorney gen
eral in reality covers all such superan-
nuated employees in all federal depart
ments, both in this city and elsewhere,
it is held.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

ago; Data supplied the federal trade
commission by oil producers recently,
in response to house resolution, sup
port their contention that further in
creases of prices are inevitable.
Legislative action on the oil situa-
ton will be a subject for the next con-
gress.
The report made to the house by
the federal trade commission suggest
ed the ACCESSIBILITY OF. restriction upoa
the expectation Of domestic crude oil.
Another recommendation, and one
which has been made by all Of those
who have given the subject considera-
ton, is that everything possible be
done by the United States to encour-
age the development by Americans OF
production in foreign countries which
have oil resources.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22
us. Army Uniforms win Now Fit the Men

THE ARMY has found the perfect
man. 1t all came about because
Of the poor fitting uniforms with which
Uncle Sam had to equip his army. The
uniforms have been made to order on
Anticipated patterns, held to by the
war department from time immemor-
ial. Try as they could, army officers
couldn't flt the recruits. Every now and
then, by accident, a uniform would
''tit like the paper on the WALL" but
in the majority Of cases the soldier
found himself wrapped in swaddling
clothes instead of wearing a snug
fitting military dress.
Just before the war the army took
measurements of 1000 men. From the
average, the patterns were made by
which uniforms were ordered. But the
result was the same. The clothes
wouldn't ft.
But from now on they probably
will. DR.. G. B. Davenport, of the Car
negie institute Of Washington, and a
major in the surgeon generals depart
ment of the army, has solved the prob
lem.
Measurements of 100000 men of mil
itary age, the number being made up
from every state and the District of
Columbia, were taken during the war.
The measurements show that while
a man in Washington has an average
chest measurement Of from SO to 80
centimeters, or 1885 to 34O1 inches,
his brother from the golden West pos
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22
Aeronautical Beans Spilled by Congress

series which cost the importers only
/ per cent of the value of the materials
and which they propose to sell at any
price necessary to scoop the trade and
in which the sellers are to get prac-
tically one-half of the gross sales as
profits is certainly no aid to the de-
velopment of aircraft manufacturing in
this country. That is a sure thing.
The, members of the house realized
the pernicious effect of the sale of
great quantities of aeronautical ma
terials and equipment at salvage prices
and the Tilson bill was hailed as a
piece of beneficial legislation.
Then, on Friday evening, the day
before congress adjourned, the "Aero-
plane Anti-Dumping act" as passed by
the house, was introduced into the SEN
ate for action. The bill was sponsored
by Senator Harry S. New, of Indiana,
who has been more or less active in at
tempted legislation along aeronautical
lines during the entire session of the
Sixty-sixth congress.
What happened is this: Senator New
made a motion for favorable consider
alton of the bill and Senator Gilbert
Ms Hitchcock of Nebraska objected,
and his objection held good until the
vice president banged his gavel on the
historical marble slab and declared the
senate adjourned. The bill was dead.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.

All weekly immigration records at
Ellis Island, New York, since the war
were broken last week. 1t was an
nounced Saturday that 1851 aliens
had been inspected, including 11,161
steerage passengers. From 500 to 1000
foreigners still await inspection.
The four states of Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Louisiana produced ap-
proximately 5,O32,636 barrels of oil
during the past seven weeks, against
a total of about 5,1SS,315 barrels for
the previous similar period.
Opium, morphine and cocaine of an
estimated value of $4,000 was seized
Friday at FL Paso, Texas, by federal
narcotic operatives. Jesus M. Men
doza, proprietor of the hotel where
the drugs were found, admitted own
ership of the drugs and was arrested.
According to the officers, Mendoza
has been the chief source of supply
for the Illicit trade in Kansas City,
st. Louis and number of other large
cities.
Purchase of the Detroit, Toledo and
Ironton Railroad by Henry Ford and
his son Edsel was announced Saturday
by E. G. Leibold, secretary to Henry
Ford. The purchase price was not dis
closed.
Ell Paso, Texas, was selected as the
next meeting place for the annual con-
Vention of the Railway Claim Agents
Association of Texas at the closing
session of the eighth annual conven-
ton held in Galveston Saturday.
Adverse action on woman suffrage
measures featured the biennial session
of the Louisiana legislature, which adj
journed sine die at Baton Rouge Thurs
day. From the first, through the
final day of the session, ratification
of the federal woman suffrage amend
ment was given consideration, either
in committee rooms or on the floors
of the houses. Defeated separately
in both houses, a last minute effort
was made today to favorably answer
the appeal of Governor Cox that Lou
isiana become the necessary thirty
sixth state. The house of representa-
tives, however, refused to suspend the
rules to allow the introduction of a
ratification resolution and so far as
the Louisiana legislature was con-
cerned ratification was a dead issue.
Suspension of sailings between New
York and Galveston, Texas, by the
Mallory Steamship Company was pro-
tested Saturday by Governor Hobby in
a telegram to the company. Hobby
declared the company's reported order
of suspension came as distinct sur
prise" and that under the protection
of state guardsmen the uninterrupt-
ed movement of freight in Galveston
has continued and that conditions
there are practically normal"
William G. McAdoo. speaking at the
dinner of the National League of Ma
sonic Clubs in New York City Thurs
day. declared there is no menace so
great to the nation as the corrupt use
VI MOHey AoI CdupdlSH purposes.
was secretary of the treasury for six
years, and know the harm that is
done by the misuse of money in this
way" he said. Il am not talking about
republicans alone, but democrats as
well, for they all look alike to me
when they are guilty of spending
money in the matter indicated"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

A fifty-gallon still, ten gallons Of
moonshine whiskey and five hundred
gallons Of mash were captured by
federal officers near Hooks, Bowie
County, Texas, Sunday
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

When you have learned to laugh at
people who annoy you, you have learn
ed how to live.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

When it comes to making a swift
touch the glad hand is very much in
evidence.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

Insist on having Dr. Peery's Dead Shot" for
Worms or TapewOrm and the druggist will
procure It, 1t is the only Vermifuge which
operates thoroughly after a single dose.--Adv.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-22

EREE-s5.OOi ALSO coon PAY for selling
2lg STATE SalVe. Sample free. Write Paul
Hollis. Polytechnic. Texas.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Limit Put on Doctors Whisky
Prescriptions.

Washington. May 28.-In All cf-
fort to defeat the ''indiscriminate
sale" of liquor on physicians pre-
scriptions, Commissioner Williams
of the Bureau of Internal Revenue is
sued ruling today limiting the num-
Der OF permits allowed each physician
to 100 for each three months except
with good cause
The order, which MIR. Williams
said was issued after weeks of study
and the investigation of records OF
scores of physicians. makes it OBJ
ligatory on the part of the physi-
clans to show where the liquor mas
gone before more prescriptin blanks
will be issued by the bureau.
Officials said that while expecting
FLOOD of protests" such an order
was clearly within the administrat-
i've provisions of the Volstead act.
st may work some hardship. sad
Mr.. Williams, but we believe that
reputable physicians will not object
to advising agents of the government
the nature of their requirement when
more than 100 permits is needed Tor
three months"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Locusts to Invade State.

Columbia, Mo-. May 2o.-Countless
millions OF the I3-year locust will ap-
pear in Missouri within the next ten
days, according to the entomology
department OF the state university
Already a heavy brood is beginning
to appear in the southern part of the
state. Within the next few days
they will probably be present in vast
numbers in all but about a dozen
counties of the state.
While generally referred to as a
locust" this insect really is not
such. 1t is cicada. whose parents
appeared i'll 1907. deposited eggs and
died. The young have been feeding
in the ground for the last thirteen
years and are now emerging to take
wing as adults for few days. There
is another variety which takes seven
teen years to mature.
The cicada does no damage to
growing crops, but NAV damage trees
by splitting small limbs for placing
their eggs. The injury is usually in
young orchards near large wooded
tracts.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

That love sometimes cures dis:
ease Is . fact that has been called
to the attention Of the public by .
prominent physician. Love Is not.
however, the cure for oil women:
Many q woman is nervous and
irritable, feels dragged down and
worn out for no reason that she
can think of.
Doctor Pierce's Faveyite Pre-.
scription gives new life and new
strength to weak, WORKOUT,
rundown women. Favorite
Prescription makes weak women
strong and sick women well. It
Is now cold by Ill druggists in the
United States in tablets - well
- liquid form.
ArcHIsoN. KANs.-"About twenty
years ago l first commenced taking
'Favorite Prescription for femi-
nine trouble. The first half dozen
doses gave relief and by the time J
had finished the first bottle / felt
stronger than for q long while.
Since then have taken it whenever
I was rundown, weak or nervous
and it has always given me the de-
sired relief. Lara worry glad to re-
commend 'Favorite Prescription a.
q woman's real friend. - MRS. IDA
TICKNER. 11l8 North Tenth Street
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
"America's Price Peak Passed."

New York. ADVERTISEMENTS
initely has passed the peak of high
prices. This conclusion. arrived at
by Francis H. Sisson, vice-president
OF the Guaranty Trust Company, af-
ter a searching analysis OF the pres
ent economic situation was the out
standing feature OF his discussions OF
business problems today before the
Economic Club of New York.
Avoiding the hasty conclusion that
the present price cutting wave
throughout the country forecasts a
drastic and sudden drop i'll the cost
CT all commodities, Mr.. Sisson, new
ertheless, believes that this move
ment is at least an indication that
the high tide is receding.
And it is his striking commentary
on the situation that the public itself
is, unwittingly, the real cause of the
decline, for it is the public that has,
at last, taken upon itself to refuse to
pay exhorbitant prices, and has thus
become mot only the beneficiary, but
the creator" of the movement.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Scents Plot for Bergdoll.

Washington, May 2S.-Congres-
sional investigation of the escape OF
Grover c. Bergdoll, Philadelphia
draft cvader, was proposed in reso-
luton introduced in the house today
hy Chairman kahn~of the military af-
fairs committee.
The resolution would direct
Speaker Gillett to appoint commit
tee composed OF five house members
to conduct an inquiry ito learn if the
escape was the result of con-
spracy.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Villa Holds Two Americans.

III Paso, Tex, May -26.-IIomer
Carr, an examining engineer for the
American Smelling and Refining
Company, is a prisoner of the forces
OF Francisco Villa coincident with
new demands the bandit leader has
presented the de facto government of
Mexico that he be made military
commander OF the state OF Chihua
hua. Cars home is in New York.
\ man whose name was given d,
Mcdonald and probably is NJ. {.
Donald OF Vernon, Tex, who went to
Mexico this year as an employee OF
the Huasteca Petroleum Company to
work in the oil fields in the neigh
borhood of Tanpico, also is held by
Villa. He is native OF Mississippi.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Butler Public School Teachers
for the Next Year.

The following are the teachers SO
far employed by the board of ed
ucation for the Butler schools for
the coming year. Owing to the
scarcity of teachers or the wages
paid which the teachers claim are
not so high as they should be or for
some other reason there has been
considerable trouble filling all of the
vacancies this year, but the members
of the board are of the opinion that
the teachers SO far employed are the
best that have taught in Butler in re-
cent years There is vacancy il
the commercial department of the
High School, in mathematics and
English in the Junior High School
and primary department in the
Franklin School.
Senior High School
Bertram Taylor, Principal and Fc-
cational Agriculture, twelve months
position, salary, $4,000.
Miss Edna c.. Steele, Mathematics,
$I2oo
Miss Henriette Michael. Latin,
$I20o. ---
Miss May Berry, English. $1,000.
Miss Nellie Redding, Music, $II25.
Miss Ella Il. Scott, Teachers
Training, .$I2oo.
Mr.. Alfred Weiser, History, $I26o.
Junior High School.
Lawrence St. Clair, principal and
manual training. $500.
Miss Katherine White, Domestic
Science and Domestic Art, $12oo.
Miss Susie P. Watts, History,
$IoSo.
GRADES
Washington School
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Congress Can't Sstele Cup Of Coffee,
Marshall Says.

Philadelphia, Pa, May 28-The
unialtering opinion of Congress
comes from Vice President Marshall,
speaking on "Christian Education
before a mass meeting OF delegate,
to the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, i'll the Academy of Music today.
AT one point he said: You and |
want League OF Nations to stop
the war.
Then he called OH God to teach the
country that peace was better than
anything else, and added:
who is going to settle these
questionsa Congress is not. Com
gress could not settle a cup of COT
fee.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Miss Mabel Rockhold, Principa
and Primary, 5000.
Miss Kate Walker, Third art
Fourth Grades, sos.
Webster School
Miss Elizabeth Ewin, Principa
and Primary, 5000
Miss Mabel McCook. Third and
Fourth Grades, sos.
Miss Frances Crabb, Fifth Grade
sos.
Miss Ruth Rockhold, Sixth Grade
$7o2.
Franklin School
Miss Anna l.. S;lyers, Principa
and Fifth and Sixth Grades. 1855.
Miss Cora Spencer, Third ai.'
Fourth Grades, $50.
Douglas School (colored)
A. H. Gravette, $500.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Keeps Her Rich Indian.

Muskogee. Okla, May 2z.-The
government will make no effort to
separate Jackson Barnett, millionaire
Greek Indian OF Henryetta, Ok. and
Mrs. Anna Lowe Barnett, who were
married at Coffeyville, kas.. early
this spring.
This announcement was made to"
day at the offices here of the superin-
tendent of the five civilized tribes
following conference yesterday ct
the Barnetts. federal officials and at
torneys at which the Barnetts agreed
to make their home on Barnett,s
farm near Henryetta.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Roasted the Star.

While the Kansas. City Star con-
tinues to frantically attack the regu-
lar Republican organization of Kan
sas City. the strictly orthodox Kan
sas City Journal, which has always
been faithful faithful to the grand old par
ty," takes few patches of hide off
here and there from the rival news
paper organ. whose record consti-
tutes "a story of political mendacity
and selfishness unparalleled in Mis-
souri, politics"
1t hints that the Stars support o!
Wood is based upon definite prom
Uses to appoint one of its owners as
Ambassador to France and to give
the Star absolute control of the pat
ronage of the States of Kansas aud
Missouri.-Henry County Democrat
Overalls- Jumpers-Black & Sons.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

The city council OF Mexico has
passed an ordinance providing for a
tax of cent on each adult moving
picture show ticket sold by all
theaters operating under city IL
censes subsequent to those now i'll
effect,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Fifty-eight registered cows, heif-
ers and young bulls brought $I6,l75
at the first sale of the Missouri State
Holstein Breeders association at Sc,
dalia last week. The top of the sale
was Lake Lawn Bertha Korndyke,
6-year-old COW owned by the Picker
ing farms, Bolton, Mo-, and pur-
chased by w. c. North Marshficld,
Mo-, for $I,oII.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Baptist Sunday School Class Makes
Good Record.

The Euzelian Class OF the First
Baptist Church of Butter, is now
among the three classes. in Missouri,
that have attained the Degree of Ex-
cellence and have become an AL
class since January i, 1920. The
class has IS members enrolled, and
each one willing to do their share
to make their class more efficient.
This is largely due to the love and
enthusiasm of their teacher, Mrs.
Alexander, who has been untiring in
her efforts to bring about this de-
gree OF efficiency, and for whom the
girls OF the class have the highest
regard. Xxx.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Gen. Clark announced Friday that
the annual encampment of the Mis-
souri, National Guard will be held on
the State Rifle Range near Nevada
Tor a PERIOD of fifteen days, begin.
wing July II. All National Guar ]
loops Ill tie service at Tat til.
will participate.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03
Gard of Thanks.

Ne Wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kindness shown
us i'll the death and burial OF our low
ing daughter and sister
Mrs. Sadie Zimmerman,
Leona Zimmerman,
Mrs. Arthur Cobb,
Edwin Marsh.
John Marsh.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Northeast Missouri,s first predtte-
ing oil we'll was brought in last week
near Monroe City. The daily pro-
duction is claimed to be approx
mately five hundred barrels. The
we'll was drilled by the Midvale Oil
Company, which plans to drill two
or three additional wells in the same
vicinity. Monroe City is twenty-five
miles west of Hannibal.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

A correspondent of the Warrens-
burg Star! Journal living in Colorado
says that sugar in any quantity can
be had in that state at IS cents
pound.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

When Col. M. Foster. millionaire
Republican candidate for mayor OF
Kansas City, who after being defeat.
ed by Mayor Cowgirl the Democratic
candidate, yelled fraud and filed a
contest, was asked to bear a part OF
the expense of the contesl he re-
fused and claimed all Ct the ex-
rcnses should be paid by jackson
county.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Buying a I8o pound hog for $3.50
G. w. links, of Fairplay. fed it shorts
and the table scraps for 90 days and
then sold it at the same price per
pound. But it had gained 22S pounds
in the sixty days, SO that links made
at IS cents pound $2o.64; besides
having the hogs company all tha'
time.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

The Sixth District has five candi-
dates for THE Republican congress
sional nomination this year. They
are w. o. Atkeson and J. K. Martin.
of Bates county, J. w. Campbell am!
II. Q. Crawford, of Cedar county, and
K. NJ. Robertson, of johnson county.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Forty-two head of Angus cattle
were sold at the w. II. Cooper sale
barn in Hedrick last week at an av-
erage of $32Io. The top COW.
"Elluna E." brought $4,000.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Picked by baby chick on the
cheek, .Almer Iloracek, 4 years old,
OF Chicago. is dead from lockjaw, ac-
cording to the diagnosis Of cor
oners jury. The child was playing
with the chick when it pecked him
under the eye. He was i'll week
before the injury proved fatal.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

The Southeast Missouri water
melon crop promises 10 be one OF
the largest ever raised in Southeast
Missouri. The -acreage-is--beleM
normal. but weather conditions fav-
orable. The crop will average 90
per cent.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

The state bank at Sheldon, fifteen
miles east OF Nevada, was entered
Thursday night by robbers who blew
open the vault and escaped with a
number OF Liberty bonds. The safe
was not molested.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Governor Gardner is charter
members of the Wear Old Clothes
club in Jefferson City, and declare
that he has been practicing its pre-
cepts long time. In fact, the gov
ernor assures his friends that his
newest Sunday best was made for
him shortly after - the world war
broke out
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-06-03

Late filings of political candidates
last week were: Champ Clark OF
Bowling Green, Pike county, for the
Democratic nomination for Congress
in the Ninth District.