Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
CURRENT EVENTS


winner of the ploughing contest at
Oakland City, called five of her girl
friends to help Peter Himsel, owner
Of the largest farming interests in
Pike county, to thrash his wheat
crop. Besides Miss Rhoades. Louis
Clark, Verda Dempsey, Maude and
Helen Harris and Edna Gray assist
ed. Mr.. Himsel. The girls helped load
and unload the wheat wagons and
also drove the wagons from the field
to the threshing machine.
The proposal to manufacture
porcelain coin to the amount of
$4,000 marks for the German repub-
lie has been abandoned. Some al
Meissen mandatory and were disks
of terra Gotta color, unglazed and un-
milled, but of faultless artistic i'm
print. Experts Of the Reichsbank,
however, advised the government,
against their adoption, mainly on
the ground that they would be un-
wieldly in the pocket or purse, could
not be easily distinguished by touch
and could not be counted with exist
ing counting machinery.
one OF the most important points
raised in opposition to their use was
that they might be initiated without
particular dinfficulty, except for q
degree of hardness which could only
be ascertained by tests by experts In
porcelain.
The Missouri river is rapidly be-
coming unpopular with attorneys in
this portion of the state. The river
Is rather restless by nature, and by
and built up farms bordering on IT
from time to time.
In two instances the river, by sud-
denly diminishing the acreage or
me the farms while under contract OF
SALE caused law suits that went to
the state supreme court for final adj
Judication of the fine points in
volved. The court is about a year ana
a half behind in it's docket, and
Mhlle the appeals slumbered there
and has restored the ancient acre
age, together with a few dozen acres
to boot of rich alluvial silt Now the
half dozen attorneys have no law
suit left at all.
The Red Cross "chi1dren's shin"
Yomei Maru, with ITO boys and girls
81 polyglot nationality rescued from
the WIGS of Siberia after two weary
separation from their parents durine
the war now on 20,00O-mile Jour.
ney to Petrograd, arrived at New
YORK last week from VladiyostoE
oape'n' oaH FRANCISCO and the canal
The children landed at Fort wads.
worth, Staten Island, there to remain
until the Yomei Maru unloads her
cargo. ier
Then they will be taken aboard
b pnce more pound for France and
IA An , alta" "a tar. Of liberty" dedicated to
the battle of Long Island in fhe
Revolutionary war, was unveiled by
the governor of New York in Brook
1 Hnite last Sta week t. The guns Of the
ed out salute in honor Of the
new monument.
Louisville, KY, spends about $780,
600 day for bread and meat, ice
and coal, and other essentials of life.
according to recent estimate. AS
this is leap year, the 1920 outlay
will reach $96,000,000.
On it's last cruise from Europe to
America the Mauritania, one Of the
transported a small city of people
across the Atlantic. When the huge
vessel locked in New York last week,
1,o25 passengers were aboard, to say
nothing of several hundred members
of the crew,
About 5000 Americans and 1tal-
ians, the latter Of whom had returned
to their native land to visit relatives,
are waiting for ships to carry them
home from Italy: A big shortage
practically stranded over there.
The Prince of Wales. the young
friends on his recent visit to this
country and Canada, sailed from
Honolulu last week, bound for Pan
anna. Tracey Matthewson, Georgia
IT. A
bert and Queen Elizabeth, of Bel
GUM, sailed also last week for Bra
In order to help New York apple
growers get fair price for their
bumper crop Of 10000 carloads, peo-
pie of the state, especially in New
serve 9TS any an apple 4qa 0f pie weef S and to
use as much Of the fruit as possible
In other ways. New York. will pro-
duce one-fifth Of all the apples
raised in America this year; but o; at
S15O a barrel, which is said to be
below the cost of production.
The fatal epidemic of cholera that
has been sweeping Korea has brought
a total of 5000 cases and 3,Q0o
deaths up to date. Fighting, the
plague is made much more dltIlcult
by the superstitions of the people.
A typhoon travelling at the gait of
ninety miles an hour, swept oyer
Manila last week, doing considerable
damage to buildings and to Vessels
plying the waters near this part OF
the Philippine Islands.
Even though sugar keeps heading
down toward old-time prices, the eX-
perts figure that the world IS st1ll
commodity The reason for the
deficit, they say, is because every
body in the world is eating more
sugar in some way or another.
Everybody on earth AVERAGED using using
87.6 last year-twelve pounds more
than the year before.
Farmers of Duchess county, New
York, are all excited over the pros
poets of becoming millionaires in OIL
Evidence. of oil have been discov-
cred in several places and three
farms have already been leased al
high figures by promoters. Seven
shafts are being sunk In the hope
Of tapping a reservoir that may
make the county rich.
The recent discoveries Of two
sunken Hun U-hoats off the coasts
of Spain and Italy goes to show that
life under the waves was frequently
as perilous during the war as 1t
Divers stumbled on the two Inflated
submarines. They will be raised.
Tobacco growers from Ohio, In
diana and Kentucky at recent meet
ing in Lexington, KY, voted down
the proposal of skipping their 1921
crop. Prices far below, the cost of
production last year had started
widespread agitation in favor of the
proposition. The planters, however,
decided to organize a hurley tobac-
co growers association for the pur-
pose of protecting mutual interests.
Arthur T. Walker, the secretary
of a New York railroad magnate who
inherited the tidy sum of $4,000, 900
when his employer died recently, may
lose his fortune. A nephew of the
deceased multi millionaire has fled
notice that he will bring suit in an
effort To hraak the will