Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-26
CURRENT EVENTS


houses, according to reports from
Toxic
Kansas figures that she has saved
her people more than 100000 to
date by the state publication of
school books, which are sold to
school patrons at much lower prices
than before. For instance, it is ex-
pected that 100000 will be saved
within three years on a geography
alone.
Two big steamships from the West
Indies locked at New York last
week and unloaded the biggest ton
mage of bananas ever received there.
A great crowd watched the unload
ing Of the tropical fruit and small
boys We're willing to dive in the
water for floating bananas.
Seven officers of the street car
mems union who called THE strike
in Denver were sentenced recently
to nn nsss ds s in 9 Il f Wn aaotP En
district court. The Judge found
them guilty Of calling the strike in
violation of an injunction.
American gold coins are becoming
a thing of the past in Spain. Jewel
ers and goldsmiths are getting all
they can put their hands on for use
in making jewelry. Old goldp1eces
contain more pure gold than does
thousands of coins are now land
ing in the melting pot.
The Quaker sect of, the world is
holding a convention in London-the
first gathering ever assembled since
the foundation of the faith, nearly
400 years ago. About 1000 men and
women delegates are there. many OF
them wearing the old-fashloned ap.
parel familiar to all readers OIL early
American history.
On the mission of trying to find
ont what America. was 10000 years
ago, a party of Swedish scientists
arrived at New York this week. They
will visit Lake Champlatn, Canada
the northwest and New England
These regions were in the path OF
the great glaciers Of olden days, and
the experts will determine what sort
of men first lived on this continent
by study of geologic formations and
in other ways.
William Jennings Bryan has sold
his handsome winter home in Ashe-
Vile, n. c., for $4,000. When the
famous Nebraskan bought the land
and built the place several years sh ago
for his declining days. Mrs. Bryan's
i'll health is said to be the reason
for the sale.
Texas sheep men are in hopes OF
receiving about 100000 from the
government pretty soon. The sum
represents an amount they say they
are due owing to agents of Uncle
wool during the war. The federal
bureau that is handling the matter
seems inclined to award them the
money.
The whipping post, chains and
other drastic features for the pun
ishnent of convicts have been abol-
ished at the Kentucky state prison by
assumed charge there. The whip
ping post had been an institution al
most continuously for sixteen years.
The prison will be governed by kind
ness, not brutality, from now on, the
new warden declares.
China is going to make a good
cotton crop this year, according to
reports from the Orient. Not so
long ago there were rumors that
some sections but this danger has
apparently passed. Chinese news
papers say that if the fine weather
continues the prospects are highly
favorable, except, possibly, in the
shantung and Chill provinces.
If your name is Smith, you can
safely count on having something
world, statistics show. According
to expert estimates, theer are 7,0OO,-
5000 men on earth who belong to
the Smith family and it is generally
believed that there are the same
number of women of the same name.
This army of Smiths is greater
than the combined populations Of
Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The G. o. P. has suffered a set
nature. While group of members
of the United Republican club, of
Brooklyn, were enjoying a card
game at their headquarters few
nights ago, four masked bandits APP
peared, lined the Harding supporters
volvers, went through their pockets
and departed with about $4,000 in
money and jewelry.
The government of the Bahama
islands has taken steps to protect
the f1amingo, that long-legged, brill
liantly-hued bird of mystery and
beauty" as he is sometimes called
After trailing the tianingo to his
habitat in the island marshes and
life, the experts found that the num-
Der of birds had been reduced from
10000 to about 1000, and it was
thought best to adopt measures that
will prevent extinction.
Italy is preparing to, send 100000
immigrants to America Many of
them are men who had settled here
country fight the Huns. The italian
government figures that it is good
Investment to send it's people to this
country as they usually send back
a large part of their savings. This
practice, they believe. is about the
same thing as manufacturing prod
ucts, exporting them and getting
cash payment in return.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who once
thought he was going to run the
world, and who almost got away with
it, is now beginning to figure where
he is going to get enough money
to live on. The eX-kaiser's once fab
ulous riches have dwindled to a few
tight-fsted treasurer looks after the
money for him. Wilhelm can't draw
dollar without the guardians con-
sent. Mr.. Hohenzollern's sons are
said to be continually "broke," but
when they call upon father for help
he is forced to turn them down.
Georgia was among the twenty
states and territories Of the union,
that produced gold in 1919. The geo.
logical survey reports that this state
tied North Carolina in turning out
forty eight ounces of the precious
metal. The big outputs came from
the Rocky Mountain and Pacific
Coast states, although a little was
mined in New England, in the south
and in the Mississippi valley. &c..
California led with 840,75S ounces;
Colorado came second with 47O,990
ounces, and Alaska was a close third
with 1871 ounces. South Dakota
ranked fourth with 254,820 ounces.
Maine, Missouri, South Carolina,
Vermont, Texas and Wyoming
were among the states where an
unimportant amount of gold was
mined.
Arthur T. Walker, the New York
secretary who fell heir to the 500,
100000 estate of a big railroad
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