Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-05-07
Domestic

The friend of Senator Johnson are
not at all pleased at the outcome Of
the New Jersey primary, and will ask
fer recount of the votes in Essex,
Morris, Gloucester and Camden coun-
ties.
Feeling that the pension laws reat
ing to Atlanta, Ga, firemen are mad
equate. the Atlanta branch of the Fire
fighters union has appointed a com.
mittee to draft the necessary revisions
to be passed on by the local and later
by the board of firemasters.
More than eight thousand members
of the Orthodox Mennonite church
community in Manitoba and Saskatche
wan will leave Canada this summer
and establish colony in the Missis-
sippi valley, 1t has been announced.
The statement followed visit OF
Bishop VAIL of the Swift Current, who
told the provincial authorities that At
torney General Palmer had given as
surance that if the community settled
in the United States it would be grant.
ed immunity from military service.
Morley Wells and Harvey Agee of
Norton, Va, policemen charged with
killing l7.year-old Amos Coudan, mail.
carrier, in that city, are held for trial
under the heaviest bond ever set in
THE only way to beat the high cost
of living is to be in prison. Robert
Needham told prison officials of the
Joliet, ILL.,, penitentiary, when asked
his reason for returning to the prison,
after having served his sentence.
Mortified by the thought that the
ashes of her two successive husbands
had become mixed together in an urn.
Mrs. Alyina Parks Ahnert is suing
the United States Cremation company
OF New York for ten thousand dollars.
Seven hundred robberies, whose loot
is believed to total more than five
hundred thousand dollars have been
cleared in Chicago, when the police
examined the effects of Harry ].
James, silk mask burglar" who was
killed after shooting up the town hall
police station, wounding two patrol.
men.
Champ Clark, former speaker OF the
house of representatives, has decided
to become candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination. it is
announced in New York by Mrs. Julia
Sanders, an officer of the Swastka
club, women's political organization.
An air flight from Miami, Fla, to
New York, with one stop, in fifteen
hours and thirty.five minutes flying
time, has been made by the passenger
seaplane. Miss Miami piloted by Har-
ry Rogers OF the American Flying Club.
The journey of nearly fifteen hundred
miles along the coast line was inter-
rupted at Morehead City, N. c., where
a stop for fuel was made.
The bodies of 1853 Americans who
gave their lives for the cause of free
dom and humanity on foreign soil and
Of whom all but eighty died in France.
have arrived in New York on the army
transport from Antwerp and South.
ampton.
Farming was pictured as confront.
ed with more serious difficulties than
any other American industry by Sec.
rotary Meredith OF the agricultural de-
partment in an address at Atlantic
City, N. j., at the annual meeting OF
the chamber Of commerce of the Unit
ed States.
Corn and tankage alone Is a splen-
did ration for fall pigs, and In expert
ments at the Iowa station has uni-
formly proved profitable.
A pig of royal breeding. carrying un-
usual type and individuality can be
ruined by bad handling and careless
feeding. Feed well from the start.
At the Iowa station they have pas
tured as many us forty spring pigs
per acre on rape. On ordinary soil.
however, rape does not do nearly 10
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