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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
BOARD ACTS IN
FERRY MATTER

The Board of Supervisors at its
Monday session appropriated S25 to
have the steel cable of the Waverly
ferry raised and the ferry put back
in commission after having been idle
for several months.
A committee of citizens headed by
Mr.. l. I. Kaufman, president of the
Retail Merchants Association, of Col
umbus, appeared before the board
Monday morning in the interest of re-
instating the ferry service. Mr.. Kauf-
man presented the matter briefly as
did DR., j. W. Lipseomb. Mr.. B. ?.
Ferridy, manager Of the Refuge Cot
ton Oil Company, called the boards
attention to the amount of cotton busi-
ness coming to Columbus from the
district served by the ferry, and
pointed out the value of the ferry as
a commercial feeder to Columbus.
1t is believed that prompt action
will be taken and that the ferry will
again be in commission soon.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
VICTOR AND MASHBURN
EACH REGISTER A
FALL IN MATCH.
VICTOR is LOSER
American Legion Wrestling
Match Staged Monday
Night-Much Inter-
est Manifested.

Victor Kalfust and ]. L. Mashburn
each won fall in the American
Legion match at the Columbus Opera
House Monday night.
In twenty-four minutes after they
went to the mat Victor had his adj
versary pinned to the mat, thereby
registering the first score in the
match.
Victor lost the match, however, for
his challenge was conditioned on
throwing Mashburn twice in an hours
time.
Fifteen minutes after Victor reg
istered his first fall Mashburn took
the offensive and sent his opponent
to the mat and the match ended.
The first phase of the bout was hard
fought and the two men exhibited
splendid skill and all of the art and
science of the game. Despite the fact
that Mashburn outweighed him as
pounds Victor registered the first vic
tory, though only after hard work
and after having suffered severe
punishment at the hands of his ad-
yersary.
The match was witnessed by fair
sized audience. 1t was refereed by
Mr.. Julius Card who had experience
in wrestling during his service, in the
army. He also was one of the re-
ferees in the Mashburn-R match
here several months ago.
The match Monday night was stag
ed under the auspices of the Amer
lean Legion and the Post received
fifty per cent. Of the door receipts.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
COMMUNITY PLAN
LAUNCHED HERE
Community Betterment Is Object OF
Campaign Launched Sunday
In Dispatch.

The betterment Of the community
and the extension Of the city limits
Of Columbus to the country is the pur-
pose Of publicity campaign launched
Sunday morning by the Dispatch.
The campaign is made possible by
the cordial support and cooperation
of the leading business firms of the
community. ut is an established fact
and a principle well recognized that
no business or other interest in a city
Or roniEfafity SEa rlse above the gem
eral condition of the community.
There must be general community
development, quickening of the
civic conscience, a broadening and
liberal spirit, before there can be
great degree of expansion in any one
of the commercial units of a COM
munity.
This is a fixed and set principle
and there is no way in the world to
get around it.
Therefore, it behooves the citizens
of any community to work for gen
eral welfare Of the whole community
and they do their part in the bet
terment of the community. This is
the only method by which there will
be a general development and growth.
Such is the purpose of the Com
munity Bettermeht Campaign which
was launched Sunday morning. Watch
it as the plan is unfolded, the logic
and truths that are presented in the
stories as they appear will appeal to
you and to your community pride
and spirit.
Join Us-We1l extend the corpora
ton line into the country" is the slo-
gan Of the campaign.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
PRESIDENT
OF HIGH SCHOOL

Hon. II. L. Whitfield, recently de-
posed president of the State College
for Women here, spent last Monday
at Rosedale, Miss, in conference with
the trustees of the Bolivar County
High School and after their confer
ence Mr.. Whitfield was unanimously
rendered the position Of president Of
that institution. His decision in the
protfer has not been announced yet,
Mr.. Whitfield having gone to look
over other fields where he has been
tentatively offered attractive posi-
tions.
The presidency Of the Bolivar
County High School is one of the
most attractive positions in the whole
field of the State, educationally. 1t
pays salary of six thousand dol
lars, dormitory privileges are offered
the president and family besides other
advantages. The place had been Of
fered to Prof. D. c. Hull, Of Meridian,
who had accepted it and he only re-
Gently relinquished it upon his cleo
tion to the presidency Of the A. and
NJ.
The position is one that admirably
suits Mr.. Whitfield He is deeply in
terested in agriculture and the prob
lens of rurual life and this institution
would present to him an alluring
field which could do his crowning
work.
Mr.. Whitfield was out Of the city
yesterday and his decision in the
matter of the acceptance Of the call
could not be learned.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
Morton Take Fourth
Game From Red Sox
Former Columbus Pitcher Allows One
Hit-Browns, Tigers, Athletics
Win.

That Guy Morton, former Colum-
bus pitcher in the Cotton States Lea
que and who pitched his first game
of professional ball in this city, is
still in the ring and hitting along at
lively clip with the worlds greatest
class Of ball players is evidenced by
his performance in Cleveland the past
week. Following is an account Of the
game::
Cleveland, Chic, July 3l.- -Cleyel..ad
made it four straight from Boston
today, winning 2 to /. Guy Morton
of Cleveland all but pitched a no-hit
game, the only hit off his delivery
being hard grounder that McGinnis
bounced off Third Baseman Gardner
in the second inning. Thousands Of
fans stood below the press box after
the game and begged the scorers to
change their decision and give Gard
ner an error and Morton a no-hit
game. Boston's only run was scored
on pass and a steal by Witt, Fosters
infeld out and wild pitch.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
Arthur Lussey Dies
Suddenly In Memphis

This community was shocked to
learn of the death Of Mr.. Arthur j.
Lussey which occurred yesterday
morning in Memphis, Tenn, at St.
Joseph's Hospital where he went two
weeks ago for an operation for ap-
endicitis. He was operated on the
day following his arrival there, or
two weeks ago tomorrow, and he was
supposed to be well on the road to re-
covery when he was seized with
something like heart attack and
died suddenly. Only a few days ago
a letter was received from him in
which he stated that he would be al
lowed to sit up on Tuesday and it is
supposed that the exertion of sitting
up overtaxed his heart and death fol-
lowed. Mr.. Lussey was in his fiftieth
year.
Deceased came to this city when
quite young man and engaged in
the plumbing business. For the past
fifteen years he has been associated
with Mr.. G. B. Kidder under the firm
name of Kidder and Lussey, sanitary
plumbers, and the firm stood high as
mechanics and business men. Mr..
Lussey leaves wife and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Earl Waters, of Shreveport,
La, to mourn his demise.
The body arrived at 10 o'clock this
morning and the time of the funeral
had not been set last night.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
WON FROM COLUMBUS MON.
DAY AFTER
NOON.
SCORE WAS 3 TO 1
Columbus Got Seven More Hits
Than BrOOksville, But Failed
To Get Men Around
The Bases.
(By Special Reporter)

Perhaps someone has told you that
the Columbus base ball team. chap
eroned BY Fat Boy Kuykendall, left
the City Of Shade for BrooksyiIle,
to play game Of baseball. AS US
ual a large crowd of fans and fan
cites went along. Every one arrived
safely and returned the same. The
game was called at 4 bells. A gentle
man by the name Of Gaines did the
pitching for Brooksville, while Will
liam Burris put the smoke balls over
for the locals. Burris had all kinds
of "stuff" on the ball, good support
and plenty Of hits, but lost. Gaines
didn't have much "stuff" on the ball,
very good support and his teammates
only got two hits but he had some
thing Burris didn't have and the very
thing it takes to win a ball game. 1t
was 'uck' Mr.. Gaines won.
1t looked like our boys just couldn't
run bases. We got as many men on
bases as there are Democrats in
Mississippi but in the pinch our boys
failed to hit. We had four men CALI
ed out at the plate, one on third and
two on second, in fact we got two or
three on in every mining. In the first
half on the ninth with the score to /
in favor Of Brooksville we had man
on first and Joe Love up, two were
down, ii was our last chance and
every one were pulling for Joe to
pole one. With two strikes and
two balls on Joe the Brooksville
pitcher shot a fast one in about one
foot of the plate ana the umpire said
"three strikes" and we all made a
rush for the soda fountain.
This is the way the BrooksviIle man
gave me the score:
"Read it and weepp
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
ROLLS AS TURNED IN BY
ASSESSOR HULL NEAR
FOUR THOUSAND
g SHORT.
SCHOOL PROBLEM
Roll Accepted By Supervisors;
Supt. Stanley May Ask
For AnOt her
Enumeration.

Here is another big nut for the
County Solons to crack!
1t is the school question.
1t bobbed up four years ago when
the assessment of educable children
of the county fell short some four
thousand names. The county got out
of the hole then by employing Prof.
S. M. Nash, former county superin-
tendent of education, to make suple-
mentary enumeration, which brought
the number of children up to the for
mer standard. Now Prof. Nash has
already assisted Assessor Hull in the
work of enumeration and it is within
the realm of improbability that even
if an additional registration was un-
dertaken the roll would not approx
mate anything like it did four years
ago. Where have the children gone?
Have that many people moved away
from Lowndes county? That is some
question and some problem for the
supervisors.
Why? Because the county gets
paid from the common school fund
of the State at the rate of $3.50 for
every child within the county and
when you deduct from our usual al
lowance the sum of $3.50 for the
1894 children who are off the roll this
year, the county loses nine thousand
dollars year for the next four years
and this cuts big hole in the revenue
for the support of the schools.
Already Superintendent Stanley is
broodine over The matter He says
that with the surplus that the county
has on hand from the school fund ac-
eumulated from the past that it may
be possible to run the county schools
this next session the regular nine
months, but thereafter the schools
will not be able to run over four
months if some provision is not made
in the matter.
One of the provisions Of the legis-
lature to provide for the counties of
the State whose schools are limited,
was the placing at the disposal of
these schools of a million dollars to
be spent in those counties needing
help. Lowndes county has never
come under this head heretofore for
our enumeration has always given us
enough money, but we will have to
look to it in the future if the children
are not here. A proviso for the coun-
ty to share in this fund is that there
must be an additional county school
levy and this means that we will have
to have some more taxes next year if
not this year
1t is great big problem for the
Supervisors to tackle but it is too
important to be neglected. A supple
mentary enumeration should be or
dered here at once and the educable
children should be located if they are
in the county; if they are not in the
county we must prepare to care for
our schools like other counties where
the number of children do not give
a fund large enough to maintain the
schools.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
BISHOP GUM IN
AUDIENCE WITH POPE

Rome, Aug. Pope Benedict re-
ceived in private audience today
Monsignor John E. Gum, bishop of
Natchez. The Pontiff took great in
terest not only in Bishop Gums re-
port on the affairs of his diocese, but
also in the general situation in Amer
ica as the visitor presented it, espe-
cially as to the prospects of the pres
idential campaign.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
REMEDY FOR wHooPING COUGH

A reader of the Dispatch suggests
a splendid and proven remedy for
whooping cough and asks that it be
published for the benefit of the moth
ers whose children are suffering from
this malady. 1t is said to be a very
effective remedy. The remedy fol-
lows: One part linseed oil and 2
parts honey. Give one teaspoonfull
at a dose.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
1648 VOTERS IN
LOWNDES COUNTY

After the election commissioners
finished their work of purging the
registration rolls of the county the
past week Lowndes county's register
ed voting strength was cut down to
164S qualified voters.
The election commissioners, Messrs.
julius Marx, ]. H. Brickell and Homer
Fitzpatrick, have made a careful check
of the rolls and as a result of their
work $50 names have been stricken
from the rolls.
Their report on the eleven voting
precints Of the county follows:
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
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Watermelons will soon be gone.
Girls viii umpire the Baptist-Meth-
odist Baraca game next Wednesday.
In month the college and schools
will be getting ready to open again.
Columbus merchants are going to
extend the corporate line into the
country.
President Andrew Jackson's wife
taught him how to read after they
were married.
Columbus is to have a self-serving
grocery store-at the sign of the
The interests of Columbus and the
country around here are inter-de-
pendent-friends both.
X
Where is that flushing apparatus
that is supposed to be in the sprink-
ling equipment?
Flashes Of all big news events
come in over the wires of the Column
bus stock exchange.
X X
We knew it was coming: A woman
in a western state would rather not
vote than tell her age.
Y X
There is always something interest
ing in the ads. Just glance through
them in each issue and see.
MODERN DICTIONARY: Platform
An attempt to say what is meant
without meaning what is said.
1t hurts a man more to lose dol
ar through a hole in his pocket than
t does to lose $50 on baseball game.
AT that the average Columbus mar
ried man would rather have his wife
pick his pockets than have her pick
his neckties.
We don't think there will be any
or fussing at the Baraca
'all game. They will hardly go that
Far with their religion.
A lot of firms are content to sit
dly by and reap the benefits that
,ome to a town through the enterprise
md at the expense of his fellow com
,etitors.
X X
A reader calls our attention to an
Incorrect spelling of the word, Die
ionary. Of all the words we should
lave that one correct. Thanks, bro
her, it was just a mistake. We all
make 'em; that's why they put rub
'ers on the end of lead pencils.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
CAMPAIGN FUND.

Now is the time for all good men
to come to the support of the party.
We have remarked this before, but
contributions of cash are not coming
in as rapidly as we would like to see.
Another subscription was received
yesterday, Mr. J. H. McCaskill. Here
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04

Miss Margaret Thomason, Of Mo
bile, Ala, an attractive and pretty
visitor from the Gulf City, is in the
city on visit to Mr.. and Mrs. M. D.
Thomason.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
NEGROES TO PLAY MACON.

The colored team OF the Columbus
Southern Shops will play the Macon
team here Thursday afternoon. The
game viii be played near the shops
and will be called at $50 o'clock.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04

Summary-Two base hits, Engle-
bert, Lipseomb, Propst, Triplett;
three base hits, Carpenter; struck out
by Gaines A, by Burris 0; base on
balls, off Gaines 2, Burris 2.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04

Mrs. Chas. Roper and daughter,
Miss Eloise, have returned from a
trip West.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04

Summary: Two-base hit, Speaker;
three-base hit, Smith; stolen base,
Witt; base on balls, off Jones /, off
Morton 3; struck out by Jones 4, by
Morton s..
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04

Mr.. L. Rosenzweig leaves today for
New York on a business trip.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04
LEASES READY FOR DELIVERY.

Sixteenth Section renewal leases
are ready for delivery to property
holders at the City Marshals office
Call and get yours and save damages.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-08-04

A reader calls our attention to an
incorrect spelling of the word, Die
tionary. Of all the words we should
have that one correct. Thanks, bro
ther, it was just a mistake. We all
make 'em; that's why they put rub
bers on the end of lead pencils.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-09-22
Will
Be LEGION: !
ISSUE
War Veterans Organiza-
tion to Decide Question
Of Open Political Practice
at Convention.
(By United Press.)


New York, Sept. 22.--Politics will
be the paramount issue at the next
convention of the American Legion,
it was indicated today in replies to
a survey just completed by the
American Legion Weekly to ascer-
tain the views of the legion's 2,00O,-
900 members regarding the political
restrictions clause in the war vet
erans' organization.
The sentiment, according to the
weekly, is that more liberal in
depreciation than general has been
observed be placed on the clause
in the constitution which forbids
connection of the legion with poll
tics. At present the clause reads:
"The American Legion shall be
absolutely non-political and shall
not be used for the dissemination
of partisan principles or for the
promotion of the candidacy Of any
person seeking public office or
preferment. No candidate for or in
cumbent of salaried elective pub
lie office shall hold any office in
the American Legion, or in any de-
partment or post thereof"
The question of official participa-
tion in the present nationa, CAM
paign and in state and local political
battles has been brought up several
times, officials have said. At the
Cleveland convention, which is to
convene Sept. 27,, it is regarded as
likely that the whole phase will be
brought out into the open for dis
cussion and final settlement.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-09-22
THE WEATHER
Occasional Rain.
School Board Rescinds Previous
Action Fauoring Neutrality in
Labor Disputes; to Defeat Bonds

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since the public schools were estab-
lished in Butte, and that the work
had always been entirely satisfac-
tory. The delegation also stated
that the members of the unions
were residents and taxpayers OF
the county and that their children,
attended the schools.
Apparently these arguments car
ried no weight with the majority
members of the board.
Trustee Charles Whiteley res
marked, following the vote: "The
board has .expunged all record of
it's action from the minutes, but it
cannot expunge it from the memory
of the workers."
Since the action of the board
last night sentiment among mem
|bers of organized labor generally is
that the bond issue for the schools
should be defeated.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-09-22
italian WORKERS QUIT TING PLANTS
Second Custer of Socialists in
n. Y. Strengthens Debs' Party

Especial Federated Press Wire to
Tho Bnilctin.)
New York, Sept. 22.-After day
Of political panic and confused in
trigue, the assembly last night voted
80 to AS tn eypel three of the five
reelected socialists, August Claes-
sens, Louis Waldman and Charles
Solomon. By 81 to 4S the assembly
voted to retain Samuel Dewitt and
Samuel Orr, but they Immediately
resigned as a protest
The ramming through Of the, GUS
ter proceedings by the Tammany
group headed by Barkeeper Louis
Cullivier, together with unruly re-
publicans, reversed Speaker Sweets
conciliatory attitude and repudiated
the counsel Of responsible leaders Of
both parties. .-
The: defeat of the republicans and
their candidate for governor, Nathan
Miller, is confidently expected as a
by-product pf the custer.
All five assemblymen will be cam
didates for reelection in November.
1t was predicted last night that they
will come back With 26 more in six
weeks. Old party leaders in New
York, backing this declaration, called
the custer IL stupendous folly and
congratulated the socialist party on
4 .&55S 4.~.4
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-09-22
STORIES OF WAGON. \

"
New York, Sept. % 22NIany facts
were emerging from the stories OF
cye-WitneSses and the examination
of the debris found about the CEN
ter of tho explosion Of last Thurs
day, to lead to the belief that the
holocaust was an accident caused
by criminal disregard of the laws
regulating the moving Of explosives.
The story of. a victim of the gi-
gantic explosion given to one OF the
staff physicians Of the Broad street
hospital was the first of several
which agreed substantially. This
man, who died before he could give
his name, declared that he was
standing on tho steps of the SUBJ
treasury building when he saw red
"powtler wagon carrying the GUS
tomary red flag, come down his side
of the street headed west. The
wagon hit the curb, and toppIed
over. Tho next instant he was
blown against the wall, his legs
crushed, and Il hole blown in his
head.
Two messenger boys told of see-
ing q ''poWder wagon driving mp
Wall street just at noon, when the
explosion occurred, and two wounded
men in the Volunteer hospital, were
positive that tho wagon they saw
was painted red, carried the CUSTOM
ary red flag, and was marked E,x-
plosiycs" in large letters on / the
side. s.., &5
Robert. Baker: a. bond salesman
of 135 broadway, 4. told "a, strongly
corroboratiyef story to the New. Y orlz
Call yesterday. Baker says that he
was standing with another, business
man of the district atis37 Wall street,
when they saw red wagon belong
ing, they thought to~the Du Pont-d
Nemours company, pass up the
street and collide with an al,tomo-
bile. The significant point in
Bakers story is his remark that the
sight Of explosives wagons in the
neighborhood was SO common TINT
he gave it no more than casual no-
ticc. His companion corroborateti
the fact that the wagons are com-
mon sight i'll the district during
business hours.
II this is SO, both the powder com-
panies and the police of the district
are habitually guilty of breaking the
city law against moving explosives
in certain streets during business
hours. There are many construction
| sa Il Continued on Page TWo.)
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-09-22

The sehool board voted last night
Lat Tits Regular session to rescind
it's action OF d two weeks ago, af-
firming It's, neutral attitude in the
dispute between the building trades
and the Associated Industries and
to expunge the matter from the
records.
The vote came on a rollcall de-
manded by Charles Whiteley. Full
ton, Morley, Mrs. Mccarthy and
Metcalf voted "yes"; Nepper and
Whiteley voted ''no," with Maginn
not voting,
The vote was taken after the
board had listened to arguments
from delegation representing the
Building Trades council and the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor as
sembry. The delegation emphasized
the fact that the work of the school
board had been done by union labor