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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
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FEW o
LITTLE
STYLES
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|. ,.llt Z "a VII ..al.l III
RISING IN THE WORLD.

All" said Mr.. OldbOys, thought
fully, mo one can say that my brother,
Tom, has not advanced. He began at
the foot, but he has worked up to the
head in very short time
'HoW'S that?" asked his friend.
"Wcll, he was IA chiropodist at first,
but ne gave il up in Il few months
and became 4 barber. l get Off here.
Good morning" London Tit-Bits.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Strategic Move.

Presence of mind is a great thing A
boy came running TO his fatneF gs,h
the news that Il man had fafleg fl9cGagh
the open coal hole.
CLAP the cover on quick and call
the policeman" said his father. ave
must arrest him for trying to steal our
coal or he will be suing us for dam
ages. Boston Transcript.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Mushrooms Were Free

intending Gucst-This room seems
very damp. There's mildew every
where.
LandIady-Im very glad you no
ticcd it, sir. / was about to say that
we don't charge for the mushrooms
you will be able to pick here every
morning for your breakfast-LondOn
Tit-Eits.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Almost Indecent.

THE star is supposed to be dead yet
@eTe she is responding to a curtain
assiG, IS brisk as ever"
"YOu think that destroys the illu-
aaOn?"
Certainly. When an actress falls
s0 the floor in her death throes and
paws a bearskin rug she ought to Mt
least stay dead until the next per-
tSTmance. "-Birmingham Age-Herald.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
It's Extent

ut is of no use whatever borrow
ing trouble"
yet that is a loan which is always
oyersubscribed."
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Accounted For.

"Thoac two families seem TO know
great deal about one another. Are
they in any way cOnnected?"
oh yes. Their cooks are first
cousins"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Useful Kerosene,

Housewives, with but few excep-
lions, do not properly value kerosene.
As a lubricant a drop or two will set
things going which refused to go be-
fore. As a cleanser it can often be
used with great advantage in place of
soap and water. Floors can be more
quickly AMI more thoroughly cleaned
with a well-oled mop th>n with soap
and water, leaving a bright, shining
surface.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Those Girls.

MAUD reminds me of a public Of
fee"
"Why SOP"
shes continually seeking the man.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
NnrnnnH MITE

BrOwne-Nliss Deane keeps her
age remarkably well.
ToWne-Why shouldn't she? She
never gives it away.-Cartoons Maya
zine.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
When She Is An7iabIe

His wife seems to be a very anna
bic person..
"ShuCks. the other fellows wife al
ways seems amiable."
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Eictaphors Mixed.

"Thc old circus keeper told me his
lion Bruus was the flower of the
flock
q guess he meant Brutus was a
dandy LION"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Not So inexpensive,

Talk is cheap" remarked the ready
made philosopher,
"The man who said that" replied
Senator Sorghum. ''never figured on
the expenses OF a diplomatic mission"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

IL l. AHAa BIZ - ~ 40
stomach trouble or
any defanE ment Of
the liver. For over
thirty-fye years 1
have gwen it 70 diff
fcrcut people and
members Of my i'm
mediate family and
/ have never known
il to fail TO cure a
case Of stomach trOu-
bic Of any sort. j am
glad to recommend
Golden Me- ical Dis
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Very Much So.

do you always receive warm well
come when you go homer
NATURALLY, when l always get into
hot water there"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Sad Prosnect.

DO the doctors give your friends
any hope for their rich uncle"
Not a particle. They say he may
live for years"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
The Arbitrary Intellect.

The man who thinks he knows 1t all
Makes life seem rather slow,
Convincing you that, after all,
There can't be much to know.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

"IIoW is it I have such big telegraph
bills?"
you told me, sir to use dispatch
in that correspondence, so l wired all
the letters"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

A snail crawling without pause,
would occupy fourteen days five hours
to travel mile
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
A Hot One.

He-The woman | marry must know
at least as much as | do.
She-You are certainly very modest
in your requirements.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

Eight million feet of lumber are
used annually in the manufacture Of
clocks.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

A man is never quite sure whether
woman is sorry or glad when she
cries.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

sovery' II il worthy Of any praise | can
give il for Old and young alike. L.
CROSBY, 1Gl4 IalcOt st.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

The man who Is unable to live with
In his income must live without 1t.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

To work for living is no disgrace
unless you work others.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

did your son graduate with hon
ors?"
'No. He had good marks in all
his studies, but he won no medals or
letters or sweaters for athletic or
oratorical ability"
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01

Life Is one thing after another.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
FOR STOMACH
AND LIVER

Aurusta, Ga-"Dr. Pierce's Golden
&sdic1l Discovery Is the best medicine /
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-04-01
Horticultural
81ClWl58
FRUIT PLANS FOR BEGINNERS
Farmers Bulletin 1901 Contains In.
formation in Concise Form
That Will Assist.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of ARricnIturel
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
Landlords Exonerated
of Plot TO Enter Flat
Indictment Against Four Dis.
missed; Sought to Make Re-
pairs for Incoming Tenant

Judge Joseph Z. Mulqueen in Cen
"fei Sessions yesterday dismissed the
indictments against Edwin Zittel, Frank
u Iitsel. Elson Freeze and Philip Kat,
charged by william T. Heide, a candy
manufacturer, with having unlawfully
eonsp:red to enter - ten-room apart
Fnent which he had under lease at s3S
West End Avenue.
Heide had informed the two zittels.
owner; Of the house, IN May, 1919. that
nc did not intend to renew his lease.
WINCH was to expire September 30
1919 Accordingly Freeze, who was 81, d,
per'ntendent of the building, leased the
apartment to Philip Katz, beginning
October /, 1919. On September Heide
moved most of his things to another
apartment. Katz wanted to nave the
apartment repaired before he occunied
It, and SO he persuaded the Zittels to
enter the apartment about September
is to begin work.
At this point Heide's wife appeared
and made a complaint to MAGISTRATE.
alleging unlawful entry, but this was
dismissed.
In dismissing the complaint brought
before him yesterday Judge Muloueen
said no error was committed bg the
magistrate in d;smissing the unlawf,,
entry charge. He explained that no
conspiracy is shown, because the means
employed violated no law at that time
He held that entry of the premises
before the expiration Of the lease wonld
- most make the landlord n .res-
gasser, but that such trespass would
not be a crime
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16

family. Carlo, according to Caruso.
called at the Knickerbocker Hotel,
where the tenor had an apartment,
and represented himself to be as great
star in his own line as Caruso was
in his.
"You cook American style as we'll as
Italian 2" Caruso testified he asked
Carlo.
"He told me that he did," the tenor
continued. "It is most important, as
there are others to please besides me-
l told him. AS for myself, little
spaghetti and | am satisfied I said.
I am easy to please Ragozzino as
sured me that he could please anybody,
and when l went to Havana | thought
everything was all right"
According to Mrs. Caruso, also called
upon to testify. everything was al
wrong.
"The plaintiff couldn't cook at ALL"
him after two weeks at Easthampton ="
Mrs. Caruso said that Carlo didn't
know how to buy; that he cluttcred
up the kitchen with "whole cattle;
that lie served calves brains that tasted
rancid; that the asparagus was not
cooked at all and '"oh, lots of other
annoying things"
Ragozzino protested heatedly against
the criticism Of his art; insisted that
he had been ready to fulfill his con-
tract and had been capable of doing it
and charged that the butler was respon-
sible for having him (Carlo) discharged
SO the buffers wife could have the lob.
The chef introduced as witness an
Italian caterer to testify as to Carlos
capabilities as an accomplished cook
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
Reed Urges Rigid
Blue Sunday Test
I'm AuHOtels Here
Former Manager of Plaza
Would Lay off Bellboys
and Maids, Stop Elevators
and C'ose Dining Rooms

In order to give the public taste of
what they will be in for if the Blues
are successful in bringing about the
enactment of strict Sabbath laws the
suggestion was made yesterday that
New York hotels set aside January 2
as Blue Sunday.
Fred A. Reed, formerly manager Of
the Plaza Hotel. voiced the idea at a
luncheon Of the Old Friends Club
held at the Plaza. He would enforce
the following regulations on that day:
All bellboys will be sent to Sabbath
school and spend the remainder of the
day until evening church service read
ing Bibles donated by the Gideon So
clety. When guests require Ice water
they will walk, pitcher in hand, quietly
and reverently downstairs for it, rs the
elevators will not be operated.
Chambernaids will repair to the
Y. ". c. A., where the Rev. Harry L.
Bowlby, secretary Of the Lords Day
them. Guests who have attended
church may receive permit to make
their own beds.
Dining rooms will be closed. Light
collations Of cold dishes, prepared the
day before, may be obtained by guests
in cafeterias.
Hotel newstands will be closed and
Sunday newspapers barred. Those de-
string to read will each be furnished
with a copy of The Sabbath for Man,
one of the forty-one literary works of
the Rev. Wilbur Fisk Crafts.
At nighJfall guests will be permitted d
to light candles in their rooms, pro-
vded they put them out and retire at
10 p. m.
There will be no barber shops or
Sunday shining of shoes, no hot water
no mail, no smoling,l no drinking of
soda or ginger-ale and mo talking above
d whisper in the lobbies
No guests will be allowed to register
on the Sabbath and "checking OUT
will be sternlv frowned upon.
Music will be taboo on Blue Sunday
except that guests SO inclined may
gather and sing suitable hymns.
Telephone service will be discon-
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
Last Testimony Taken
In Evening Mail Case
Mrs. Sielcken Testifies That
Her Husband Always Was
s.oyaI 10 the l.. S.

Both sides rested their eases yester-
dav n the trial being conducted before
Judge Grub, in the United States
Court, of DR.. Edward A. Rumely, for
lner editor and proprietor of The New
York Evening Mall S. Walter Kaufman
and Noryih Lindheim. All three are
charged with withholding from the
Alien Property Custodian the alleged
tiermaa ownership of The Evening
aiail.
Mos; ii tAe testimony taken during
he day pertained to Herman Sielcken,
the American coffee king" who lived
m Germany and who is said to have
hnanced The Evening Mail
Mrs. Glare Sielcken testified that her
husband had been loyal at all times
% the United States She said she was
rot aware that her husband knew DR.
Heinrich Albert, German fiscal agent
tere, or DR.. Bernard Dernburg. She
new he was acquainted with Count
scn Bernstorff. she said
Orrin r. Judd, trust officer of the
Columbia Trust Co, testified that he
knew OF the list of assets and accounts
ef Sielcken. He recalled note for
- 10000 from Dr.. RHmely to Selchen.
Il. Reisinger vas the last witness
alea by the prosecution. He said he
received in March, 1917. wireless
message from Sielcken, asking him to
Take care of Sielcken's business inter-
Ests IN America. One Of these VAS in
The Evening Mail.
The t1ial Will continue to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
Ten Clothing Firms
Resume Operations
On Piece-W ork Plan
Announcement Meets Denial
of Workers, Who Say
They Have Places Picket
ed; Violence Is Reported

Ten clothing manufacturers in New
York resumed operations yesterday un-
der the piece-work plan, officials of the
Manufacturers Association declared
last night. Spokesman for the Anal
gamated Workers, who are on strike
demanding continuation Of the old
wage system, asserted none OF the
plants operated. They said they knew,
because they had them all picketed.
The manufacturers representatives de-
clined to name the factories they said
we're running, on the ground that to do
so would invite violence against them.
The manufacturers charged .hat vio-
lence was resorted to against six men
who operate the Eastern Knee Pants
Company, lit Lewis Street. Louis
Bran0man, one of the partners, said otfi-
eials- of the Amalgamated persuaded
him and his associates to a conference
as union headquarters. There, he de-
ciared, they were set upon and beaten
bv about thirty men. Two of the part
uers, Elias Gold and Morris kassner,
lost their gold watches and $52 in cash
before they escaped, Brandman alleged.
foiice, investigating Tue assault CHAR SO,
arrested two men, who were discharged
in Essex Market Court for lack Of evil
cence
4 pan to reorganize the contractors
shops. where much of the manufacture
e1s' work is done, on the same basis Of
pay us has been inaugurated in the big
plants, was announced yesterday. The
union claims this is scheme to pre-
vent the strikers from setting up these
contractors as Independent manufact-
urers under closed shop conditions.
From the Amalgamated headquarters
in Rochester came the report that sew
eral of the large firms in that city. In
Guiding the Stein-Bloch company, have
begun the cutting of spring clothes and
that all of them will be working on
spring orders within week or ten
NaVS.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
Coruso Says Suing Cook
Failed to Fill Major Role
In Minor Parts Such Dish of Spaghetti for Tenor,
Maybe, but Wife Declares Other Food Was I'm
eatable; Chef Asks $3.50 for Breach Of Contract

II there arc those who enviously con-
tend that the life Of Metropolitan
tenor is all sunshine and roses, Enrico
Caruso stands ready to testify with con-
siderable vehemence that they're all
wrong.
For the Carusos have been in court
again, hailed there this time by cook,
Carlo Ragozzino, who says the tenor
owes him $3.50 for breach of contract.
Carlo charges that he was engaged to
preside over the culinary department of
the Caruso household from May l to
November 1, most of the time at East
hampton, l.. L.. but that he was told
after two weeks that he didn't know
how to cook and to get out.
As far as Caruso himself was con-
cerned, he was easy to please. II told
Ragozzino when I hired him that little
spaghetti would do for me- the tenor
testified in court, "but he couldn't sat-
isfy the rest of the family" 1t is about
the rest of the family that the story
pivots. Judge Eder, sitting in the 9th
District Municipal Court reserved de-
cision after hearing the story.
The courtroom at Madison Avenue
and Fifty ninth Street was crowded
noon. For three hours the court list
ened to the witnesses, and it was after
5 o'clock when both sides rested
1t was brought out in the testimony
that shortly before Caruso sailed for
Havana to fill an opera engagement
last spring he personally engaged the
servants, who were to go to Easthamp-
ton with Mrs. Caruso, the Caruso baby,
Gloria, and other members of the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
Last Card LOUIS
Sued for $33l,000
In Behalf of Citv
Old Provision of Penal Code
Is Employed by Coler to
Get Five Times krohn-
berg's Alleged Winnings

Acting under an old and seldom in
voked provision Of the pehal code, Com
missioner Bird S. Coler Of the Depart
ment ofPublic Welfare, filed suit in the
Supreme Court yesterday against Louis
Krohnberg, a manufacturer at 305
Fifth Avenue, to recover 1891, 500. That
amount is five times the alleged win
nings Of the defendant at poker games
played between June and December,
1919.
Mr.. Krohnberg has come 20 be known
as Last Card Louis" since his now
famous coups at the poker table, the
last of which caused him to be in
dicted on a charge that he employed
marked cards when he won a large
amount OF money from y group Of
we'll known men, including Joseph NJ.
Sc1enck. motion picture producer and
husband Of Norma Talmage, at whose
home the charge OF irregul rity in the
game played b. krohnberg first was
made.
So far as is known there is no rec
ord that the authorities have ever re-
covered the forfeit provided under the
section of the penal code employed by
Commissioner Coler in his suit against
Mr. Krohnberg, but its language is
plain and provides that upon proof that
any person has won money in a game
of chance shall be compelled to pay five
times thai amount for the use of the
poor in this community where the VIM
nings were made.
Commissioner Coles and Corporation
Counsel O'Brien. who is handling the
legal details of the action, have had 10
trouble in obtaining knowledge Of the
money won by Mrs Krohnberg in his
poker campaign Of year ago, because
OF the official inauiries into the sort Of
game the defendant is charged with
playing, and the officials think there IS
a good chance of recovering the 1891,
800 from Mr. Krohnberg.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
NO Christmas!' Is
Judges Sentence
On Boy Burglars
Court Rules That Children
Who Looted Schools May
Have No Presents; Must
Retire at 6:3O for Month

Gee! No Christmas! The sentiment
was written large on the features Of
the three longest faced boys to be found
in seven counties who trudged stolidly
out of Recorder John D. Lander's court
in West Orange, n. j., yesterday. They
were still stunned by the sentence pro-
nounced upon them few minutes be-
fore and did not realize all its re-
finements Of severity. But this much
they comprehended: No Chrismus!
Gee!
Even the psllid Joy OF seeing their
names in print was denied to them.
The court ruled that their names
should be kept secret, that they should
suffer anonymously for the high crimes
and misdemeanors of which they stood
convicted.
The three boys are not related except
by the ties of misfortune. They arc
about ten or twelve years old and are
pupils OF the st. Cloud PRESBYTERIAN
Sunday school in West Orange.
One day not long ago, when time
hung heavy and no single lawful beam
OF adventurous enterprise pierced it's
dull cloud, the trio met in front of the
schoolhouse. The monotony was
lghtened by dares and badinage until
the three stood committed to the fatal
adventure.
Not long thereafter the tinllle Of
broken glass might have been heard
and one felon might have been seen
to boost another through the desc
rr9toO window nd +bo t,,-o l., II
the third, SO that all stood within the
once hated, now tempting, precincts
of the schoolroor. Later they emerged
with erasers, pencils, pads and other
emblems of slavery, now transformed
into trophies Of daring beyond the
common.
An automobile stood at the curb. 1t
was nothing to the daredevil cracks
men that it belonged to the Rev. Al
fred Roy Ehman and that it stood at
the very door of the church. With
one accord and evil intent they de-
scended upon the ecclesiastical vehicle.
The Rev. Alfred Roy Enman, emerg-
ing from the church several minutes
after the disappearance of the free
hooters, found that his lamps were
filled with dirt, that g clock was miss
ing from his dash and that something
had been done TO the internal economy
oil the machine which made it impos-
sible to start it,
Discovery and retribution trod on
the heels Of the ill-fated three The
erasers, pads and pencils with which
they were laden betrayed them. Con-
fessions of the sacrilege committed
upon the clergyman's automobile fol-
lowed. Came arrest, anonymous ar
raignment and the following sentence.
meted out yesterday by Recorder Land
er:
"They shall not receive any Christ
mas present. They shall not partakc
of any Of the joys of Christmas Eve,
and they shall go to bed at $3.50 O'Clock
every night for a month and report
to me each week.
Dismal words indeed, and more
hlunailiating still was the decree that
the offenders were to apologize to the
Rev. Alfred Roy Ehman and to the
teachers OF the school they had desc
Grated. But, gee! No Christmas.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-16
Plans Laid to Combat
Motor Truck Fee Raise
Association Says Public Would
Have to Bear Increase in
Registration Charge

Plans for combating proposed legis-
lation which would double the regis
tration fee for motor trucks operating
within the state were formulated last
night at the annual round table meet
ing Of the Motor Truck Association of
America, New York branch at the
Automobile Club OF Americas build
ing in West Fifty-fourth Street.
I. d. Pratt, general manager, de-
clared that at the present time COM
mercial truckmen were up against it"
for want of business. due to The general
slump, and that such q tax as proposed
would be extremely detrimental to the
industry.
Not only is every additional tax
passed on to the shipper, he said. but
it is frequently doubled by resultant
costs. A delegation from the truck in
dustry would go before the Internal
Affairs Committee Of the Assembly, he
said, to light the legislation.
The following officers and directors
were elected i. f. Campbell, presi-
dent; John M. Wierk, Hermann Irion
and Charles NJ. Geiger, e-presidents:
Joseph Husson, secretary; Nathaniel
Mallouf, treasurer; William P. Held.
j. B. Dolan, +. P. Mcdowell and Harry
Y. MiddlewOrth, directors