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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-01-09
LOCAL BREvIIEs.

rhe census enumerator is on the job.
The holidays over, all the schools
ave rcopened.
The Legislature for 1920 convened
IN Wednesday.
States Attorney Cooksey visited
eonardtown Thursday.
Miss Henrietta Roberts visited Ball
imore during the past week.
-~--Miss Ethel Graves returned to St.
Nary 7,e..is. --'.'- on Monday.
The wood alcohol fatalities prove
hat all is not booze that blisters.
Mr.. Fabian Fosey spent the week
end with relatives near this town.
Mrs earl Barber was the guest of
Mrs. Albert Lolhax during the week.
Better than ever as the years roll on
he service at the. New Wills Hotel.
Lila Hopper, of Baltimore, is
lg Mrs. Jennie Stone, "Idaho. "
tuesdays proceedings of the Or
phans' Court will appear in our next
issue.
Nr. Alexander Barnes spent the
weekend with his mother, Mrs. Mary
na'leN
The ice houses are full and the mint
crop prospect is good but--Oh, what's
the use
Mrs r Il. Lee Reich has returned
from visit to relatives in Frederick
County.
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holy Cross College, where he is
f'ouent'
Be sure to attend the final auction
Iale of the stock of goods of The Peo-
tle's Store, Indian Head, Thursday,
January 18th.
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Wanted q s:.5 5 SsSr H5s.: s #
wage. board, and share i'll crop t.
right man. white or colored.
Il LAURIE MITCHELL, Atty,
l2-l2-3t La Plata, Maryland.
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Maryland Independent
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Price, forFURS OF ALL KINDS.
Save r ght and commission by
bringing tour Furs to my store in
La Plata
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For Sale.

A Mahogany Jprhht l'iano, in frs
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For the first time in the history OF
# Charles County, two women have
,een appointed to take the 18th dicen-
hal census Mrs. Henrietta Rison, IN
he Second District, and Mrs Cora
Milstead. in the Zenith.
Mr.. Walter 4. sThomas, of Indian
Nod "dver.ises in this issue that he
a cannery this season on
lear Grayton. Tomatoes
,cres only will be contracted
rmers who contemplate grow
oes for market should lose
j signing up.
i Mrs. Henry Madge, of Mon
unty, New Jersey, have re
srneo nome after spending the holi
laws at Greenfield Farms, as thi
NESTS of Mr.. and Mrs, H. S. Swami
m Madge is an extensive potatr
-rower. located in a section which !
5oted for its potato production. Fl
has been looking over the possibilitie
~ this section of the country for u
production of seed potatoes for tn
Jersey crop
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-01-09

! Comptroller mas am ines
4 uarterly distribution OF the State
4 I funds for 1920 The apportion-
for this county is as follows
tax, s4.Sl6.3S; books, s5l5, 81;
les, sE7l.97.
resentatives Lomax and Hender-
essrs. T. B. II. Mudd and F.
2osey were among those who at
he reception given by Y S.
France at his home in Balti-
Ny N.esday,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08
TRAVEL IN LEVANT
 SERIOUS BUSINESS
Even Americans Have Great Difficulty In Sailing Home
 From Turkey
Rr Aapsl.tsf rr,ss

Constantinople, July f2.-Travei in the Levant has become so difficult that ho- tels in nearly all the larger cities are crowded with persons waiting for steam CT and railway accommodations. Strikes in Bulgaria, Serbia and Italy, together with the lack of through trains and the impossibility of getting baggage checked through because of theft, have forced travellers to rely chiefly on steamers to French ports. The steamer lines nave also been badly disorganized by labor troubles and most ships are many days behind their schedules.
 Although the United States shipping board has many ships in Constantino- pie and the other near eastern ports, 1t has no regular passenger sailings and women are not permitted to travel on shipping board boats unless they are in government service. Consequently. Americans have great difficulty in get ting through sailings to America Ma jor E. E. Booth. who was formerly with the shipping board in Paris, has been transferred to Constantinople as director of shipping board affairs in the near east and is endeavorfng to get changes effected which will make travel easier to and from America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08
By Associated Press


 Bayeux, Calvados, France, July 2l.- Self-confessed slayer of her husband. whom she admitted having killed fif- teen years ago, Madame Huchez walked away from the local court house a free woman, the police com missioner powerless, under the law, to arrest and arraign her.
 Madame Huchez and her husband in 1905 jointly kept the Ian of the Golden Lion on the outskirts of this town. Their marital life was unhappy, Vio' lent quarrels often breaking the mo- notony of long periods of sulkiness and mutual silence. Then one day Monsieur Huchez disappeared. Madame explained that he had abandoned her and eloped to America with another woman. She sold the inn six months later and left the town.
 A vicious horse lashed out with both heels in the stable of the Golden Lion few days ago. The kicking animal uncovered below the broken blanks of his stall a rusty old trunk. It con- tained the skeleton of a man.
 The police, remembering the disap-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08
WOMAN SPEAKER
 PROVOKES SMILES German Reichstag Listens to- Maiden Speech By
 Woman Member
By Associated Prcss

Berlin. July 1S.-A little gray-haired sharp-featured woman stepped briskly up the steps towards the speakers desk in the Reichstag. Tired after a long acrimonious debate on Germany's shat tered resources between the former im- peria finance minister, Helfferich, and the present holder of that office, Dr. Wrth, most deputies were smoking democratic pipes in the vast, red-car- peted lobby, while jaded reporters munched black bread sandwiches in the press galley.
 Attention however, at once became riveted on the frail figure in drab, un- fashionable clothes which oddly con trasted with the opulently carved and gilded figures of Teutonic womanhood that support the ceiling.
 The speaker was Clara Zetkin, the first communist member of the German Par liament. Members came troopng back to listen to the newcomers maiden speech
 One could not escape from a sense of extreme contrast which she presented to the former speaker. Helfferch. rigid Prussian type, with his naughty. stac- cato voice, quick as lightning at mordant repartee, representative of a system that is dead and gone. and this earnest little woman vibrant with passionate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08
Women Confesses Murder
 But Is Freed By the Court

pearance of the former landlord, set out to find Madame Huchez, whom they promptly located in Grenoble At their invitation she returned to Bayeux.
 Cool and collected, she accused two former stable hands of having mur- dered her husband Both had since died. Encouraged, and wishing to press her success, she linked the name of one Montrory as an accessory after the fact. He is still living and was inn mediately summoned. He admitted digging a hole beneath the floor of the stable and having placed therein, at Madame Huchz' request, a large trunk which the landlady told him contained silverware and linen that she wished not to include in the im- pending sale of the inn.
 Madame Huchez broke down and confessed. The police took her at once before the local judge. He immedi- ately discharged her from custody.
 According to article 637 of the French code, the crime is outlawed, as no legal action or investigation had been taken within ten years of the day the murder was committed.
 Before departing for Grenoble, where she will resume her occupation as a boarding house keeper, Madame Hu- chez purchased a long. heavy black veil. For the first time in fifteen years she was officially widow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08

energy. almost prophetic in her vision. yet curiously awkward at meeting mat ter-of-fact posers from chance heckler.
 Clara zetkin opened a perspective of a future Germany which would be closely allied with soviet Russia; a Germany where revolutionary dictatorship would hold sway, where the bourgeoisie would be forced to surrender arms to the pro- letariat; where every one would be com pelled to work; where large states would be divided among the peasantry.
 The house smiled tolerantly; the ex- treme radicals alone cheered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08

John Galsworthy, the famous novelist and dramatist, was once a keen sports man, but for many years he has never touched a gun. Watching dying bird one day, he suddenly found sport ugly and gave it up forever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08
For the Good of
 the Community

JIl0 AOIllIl ulllly MYTH the first breath of autumn the past W week came waves of development break ing on the rim of the Birmingham district. There is snothng new about that It is a constant flow.
 The Birmingham man without faith in fu- ture of ever-growing expansion is not only with out vision; he is mentally blind deaf and dumb. He is a spiritual crustacean petrified in his own shell.
 All that is required of the citizen of Birming ham in order to attain success is to hitch his car to that of the community and watch his own stepl The community momentum will supply the motive power. It is for him merely to steer sboat si%4ss gssssss smas aau# aa s4 sa
 It is just about three years since groundwas broken for the shipbuilding yards at Mobile, fol- lowing the foundations of the new steel mills at Fairfield; Both are established and permanent industries emphasizing the districts ascension of another step of the industrial ladder. 44sas Our by-product works have expanded to that point where they will produce more coke than the beehive and by-product ovens have hereto fore produced That economy is another peg in the stabilization of southern pig iron. *#@.~
 The Alabama Power Company is going to add another unit to it's Lock 12 WaterpoWer plant, thereby increasing it's hydroelectric capacity to 105,000 horsepower. 4esasss~~s.
 One of the largest cement manufacturers in the world has secured site in the vicinage of Birmingham for plant, and another cement concern of large proportions is following in it's wake. Birmingham had already become the southern center of the cement industry: The coming of two more plants attests this outstand- ing fact: N asasas sag ss4 s ~-s ley 4@gsT
 An Illinois concern has obtained site for an enamel products plant. This is new entrant in the schedule of diversified industries. sa
 We have opened our maiden automobile fac tory. That is still another new industry; of whose ultimate proportions the proximity of iron and steel products is prophetic. ya
 It is not out of the way to repeat the doubling of the number of plants and their iron melting capacity in the first six months of this year by the sanitary pipe industry. The state already led in that field. ,~s@<i s~.s9 a,sssag s=ia
 Gradually the district is hitching on to the gas produced in the by-product ovens. One by one they are taking this elastic, clean and certain flow of fuel. One by one new plants are cluster ing about these ovens and benefiting from con- venience and economy of operation by reason < Of this contact: @4I&.-<<naIsi ~--,i~..
 As for the cement plants, there is sufficient limestone, dolomite and shale up and down Jones valley to supply dozens of them with ma terial for thousand years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-08
Broken!

Notwithstanding this Contract, and with no grievances, the men at our Ruby Mine struck on Tuesday, August 3rd.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
By FRANCIS OUIMET.

Nothing is more deceptive than
distance. In golf the player is con-
stantly moving about and trying va
rious links so he should be a good
Judge. Tournament players just
have to be, else they crack at odd
moments for no other reason than
failure to know how far it is to the
green. 1
Too many players depend Oh the
other fellow. No two champions
use the same weapons. They get
home by different routes. Each is
star because he knows his Gmita-
tons with his clubs. Woe be unto
the golfer who follows any other
tip.
That is usually the way with the
average golfer. He thinks he
knows all about it. I have very
good friend of this type.
My friend, who has taken hun
dreds of lessons, has not yet reach
ed that happy state of consistent
golf. He is ambitious and seems
bound to arrive very soon. But
he, like thousands of golfers, must
first learn just how much power he
has with each club.
He was So frequently asking me
what club ] was going to use when
we were about the same distance
from a green. | noticed that when
l told him a mashie he played the
same, or whatever club it was I had
decided on. He cannot understand
it that the results are not always
the same
Now the failure of this player to
duplicate my shot is not due to the
fact that | am "a superior golfer
That is not what am trying to get
across in this story. Something like
the same thing would happen if I
tried to play the same club on every
similar shot that would fall to our
lot if I were meeting any of a dozen
stars of America. | would naturally
get good licking and for the same
reason that my friend falls before
me.
The reason is that owing to many
years of play l can Judge what club
to use to play certain shots. I am
Qretty Certain of what distance l
will get with any club in my bag.
Experience has taught me that.
Now this distance varies with vari-
Gus golfers for many reasons. It is
not strange, considering this, that
two golfers use different clubs for
the same and identical shot.
Golf holes are deceptive as to
length. No one can rely on guess
work as to distance. There is one
sure plan to follow in Judging the
length of any hole+follow the
score card. On it is the distance
in yards.
To illustrate we'll say the limit on
our tee shot is 100 yards because we
can reach the green at home on a
hole of, this length when driving
our hest. Now if we play such hole
elsewhere and our opponent steps
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Husker Mat Men Will
Wresde Local Stars
AT "Y" Monday Night

Final plans were completed last
night for the amateur wrestling con-
test at the Young Mems Christian
association tomorrow night between
DR.. Clapp's University of Nebraska
wrestling stars and the cream of the
local "Y" mat men,.
The following will compose the Nebraska
team: Votapka, 125 pounds; Long, 1876
pounds; Troendley. 145 pounds; Sandstedt.
los pounds; Pickwell. IT'S pounds, and
Hoyt. In the heavyweight.
The local "Y'' will be represented by
the following under the captaincy Of Dave
Nordstrom, 175-pound state champion:
12s-pound class Alden Robinson, city
champion: 1S5-pound class. Joe Morocco
city champion, 145-pound class, Fred
King. runner-tp for the city champion
ship; 15S.pound class, Sam Nicotera, run
ner-up for state championship. while Dave
Nordstrom. state champion for two years.
will wrestle in both the 175-pound class
and heavyweight.
March has been set aside for a
series of try-out contests among the
local wrestlers in order that the "Y"
wrestling committee may pick out
Omaha representatives in the inter
nationaf wrestling tournament at
Gary, Ind, March 20.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Mike 0'D0WD, NOT.
DEMPSEY, MEETS.
FRENCHMANF|RST
Tex Rickard Offers More Than
100000 for Carpen- +,
< tier.0'DoWd Battle
Before July 4.

New York, Feb. q. - Mike
O'Dowd,. and not Jack Dempsey,
may be the first opponent OF
Georges Carpenter, when the idol
of France makes his bid for fame
and fortune in this country.
Tex Rickard has cabled Carpen-
tier an offer exceeding 100000 to
meet O'Dowd some time before
July 4. 1t is likely Richards agents
in France will sign the French
champion in the early future. Just
where Rickard intends to stage the
match has not been divulged. 1t is
altogether likely it will not be held
until 4 boxing bill has been passed
in New. York state.
In that event Carpenter and the
middleweight champion would meet
Under the joint auspices of Rickard
and the Army, Navy and Civilian
Board of Boxing Control.
It may be doubted whether Amer
lean boxing fans would fancy such
a match. Carpenter outweighs
O'Dowd about 20 pounds. He is a
better boxer and much harder hit
ter. The match would serve to pre-
pare the Frenchman for his bout
with Dempsey and to heighten in
terest in pugilism generally.
Amid all the hysterical bidding by
amateur promoters seeking the lime
light, Richard maintained discreet
silence. Today he has Dempsey
sewed up, and his agents will sign
Carpenter as soon as Charles Coch-
fSne's contract with the Frenchman
expires. In other words, Rickard
practically has the big match tucked
away in his vest pocket,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Omaha Uni Five Wins
From Kearney Normal
In Spectacular Game

kearney, Neb., Feb. 21.-(S(pecial
Telegram. 1.-The local state normal
basket ball team, one of the leaders
in the Nebraska conference, met de-
feat here Saturday hight at the
hands of the fast Omaha university
five, % to II, in the most spectacular
game ever played in the local gym.
The game marked the fourth which
the Omaha five has played and won
on their trip through the state this
week. This probably caused the
Omaha team to slow up tonight as
they did not play the brilliant game
they did Thursday. Friend, for the
locals, played a wonderful game,
scoring II of Kearney's points.
Reeves, Adams, Pressly and Bea-
com all played we'll for Omaha.
Fight fans of Australia have gone
on strike against the increase in
prices for seats at boxing shows.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
|SCHULTESAYS He
HAS PENTATHLON
star FOR RELAYS
Cornhusker Coach Who DeveI-
oped Famous Bob Simp-
son Promises East
Some Excitement.

Philadelphia, Feb. 2l.-Althougl
the invitation for Pennsylvania re-
Hay carnival to be held on Franklin
field on April 80 and May /. have
been out only few weeks tho en-
tries are pouring in. The prompt
answers from the western colleges
indicate that the west will be repre-
sented better than ever this season
Already Michigan. Michigan Agr;-
cultural college, Minnesota, Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Northwestern, Coe and
University of Southern, California
have sent acceptances.
Carl Schultz, coach of Missouri
university, is now with Nebraska
and he writes that he not only will
have slashing one-mile relay team,
but that he has a man in training
for the pentathlon or all-around col
lege championship who may make
the eastern all-around men take no.
tice. Schultz is the man who de-
veloped the great hurdler Simpson.
and he is sure to bring along some
good men.
The eastern colleges are also COM
ing in faster than ever before, i'll
dicating that they consider the car
nivai as one of their annually sched-
uled events. Yale, Princeton. Co.
lumbia, State, Syracuse, Pittsburgh
and over 20 other eastern colleges
are already on the list. Bucknell.
Delaware, Gettysburg, Lehigh, Null
lenberg, Lebanon Valley college,
Rutgers and New York university
are entered for the middle Atlantic
States conference amateur athletic
relay championship.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Sport Shorts

\ Alex Mccarthy, second baseman
of the Kansas City American asso-
citation team, has been appointed to
succeed John Camel as manager of
the Blues.
Michigan's baseball nine will make
a southern trip this spring, having
scheduled games with Auburn, Van
lderbilt, and the University of
Georgia.
Next to the Pacific Coast league,
which will play something like 200
games, the American associations
168-game schedule will furnish the
longest season in baseball.
Champion Benny Leonard has
been a busy and successful boxer
during the past two months. There
appears to, be not lightweight in
\ sight who can give him a close bs..
tie for the title.
As the National league was get
ting along pretty smoothly without
any squabbles TO jat the circuit
Charles Webb Murphy, ex-boss of
the Cubs, must have thought it was
the time to start something.
When it comes to turning out star
athletes, Natick, Mass, can lay good
claim to being the all-around cham
pion town of the United States.
Among the athletic celebrities who
hail from the Boston suburb are
Ned Mahan, Eddie Casey, Capt.
Murray and "Pooch" Donovan, of
! Harvard football fame; the late
Mike Murphy, father of the college
trainers; Keene Fitzpatrick, Prince
ton trainer; Sid Peet, Andover
trainer; 1. r. Pray, Louisiana STATE
University trainer; Lieut.-Col. John
D. Murphy, athletic director of the
Yankee Division Of the overseas
forces; Tom Connolly, umpire in the
American league; Francis Connolly,
Western league umpire: Mike Finr,
baseball manager: Howard Earle.
scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates, and
: number of others who have at
tanned more or less fame in the vari-
4 osa branches Of sport and athletics.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Geneva Beats Grand Island;
To Meet Lincoln on Saturday

Geneva, Neb., Feb. 21.-(Special.) }
Geneva vanquished Grand Island
Friday night on the local floor by
the score of 26 to 10. During the
first half the visitors put up stiff
opposition, but in the last half the
home players piled up 10 points,
while Grand Island made but two.
Mckinney for Geneva starred by
making II points.
Saturday night Geneva. will be
put to a severe test by meeting Lin
coin on the floor of the local gym
nasium.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Learn to Judge Distance
Says Ouimet to Golfers
Watch Your Score Card for the Number Of Yards Be-
tween Tee and Hole; Experience Will Tell You
Which Club to Use.

up and puts one home with a cleek
that is no reason why we should
use the same brand of club.
Suppose we know that on another
hole of the home club measuring 156
yards that our mashie will not reach
it, and that our sammy goes away
over it. Eventually we discover our
midiron does the trick By all
means Our midiron is the club for
such hole regardless of what
others do.
< 1t is a simple matter for the
player to adjust his game to every
hole he encounters and, by reading
the card, knows just what club to
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Race Trials at Los Angeles.

Los Angesles, Cal, Feb. 2l.-Elini-
ination trials held Saturday for the
250-mile automobile race, which is to
open the new Los Angeles speed
way Monday reduced the number of
possible starters to lo. One of these
must be dropped. The final elimina
ton will be made on the basis of the
slowest time in trials, unless another
driver develops engine trouble be-
fore the race. Joe Thomas made the
best time, circling the mile and a
quarter track in 40 3-5, or at the rate
Of 110.84 miles an hour.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22

Every day this week, except
Saturday, we will give large,
family size bar of Cidahy's
White Borax Naptha Soap (the
best white laundry soap you can
buy), to every woman who visits
our Maytag Washing Machine
demonstration.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Dempsey Denies Rumor He
Will Break With kearnS

Chicago, Feb. I.-Jack Dempsey,
the worlds heavyweight champion,
in message to friends here today,
denied, reports that he intended to
break with his manager, Jack
Kearns.
"Kearns will be my manager as
long as | remain in the boxing
game" the champions message
read. II give him credit for my
success as a'pugilist and becoming
worlds champion.