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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-12-31
COMMITTEE TO
SEEK HOME FOR
FEEBLE MINDED
DELEGATION WILL GO TO NASH
VILE TOMORROW TO SEE
GOVERNOR ROBERTS.
LOCATIONS ARE IN SIGHT
Believed That the County Can Offer
lust What the State Board of Chart
ties Will Demand in the Way of
s.. Place for the institution.
(From Tuesdays Daily Herald.)

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald)
With the determination, if possible,
to secure the location in Maury coun-
IT, of the state home for the feeble
minded a committee of prominent citi-
zens will go to Nashville tomorrow to
appear before Governor Roberts and
the state board of charities. The
committee will be headed by President
William S. Beasley, of the Kiwanis
Club, and will contain such well
known and influential citizens as Col.
John w. Fry, John Shelby Coffey, Mil
ton Z. Allen, w. H. Jackson and DR.,
Ragsdale.
The above named committee was
agreed upon at a meeting of the citi
zens of the city interested held en-
Monday night at the Maury National
Bank and presided over by Col. John
w Fry It was estimated that the 10.
cation of the institution in Maury
county would mean ultimately the ex-
penditufe of not less than 100000 in
the plant, as already $4,000 had
been appropriated and additional
sums would have to be paid out for
buildings.
There were number of locations
suggested as suitable for the institu-
ton and the committee hopes tomor-
row to ascertain from the state board
of charities some idea of just what
viii be needed for the institution. No
doubt is expressed of the ability of
the committee to get just the sort of
location that will be demanded 1t is
expected that the county court will
join heartily in the movement to ob-
tain the institution for this county.
The committee will leave tomorrow
morning on the $40 O'Clock train and
will 20 at once to the Office of the gov
ernor at the capitol to interview the
state board.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-12-31
SOLID CAR LOAD
OF PRESENTS TO
ORPHANS HOME:
TOYS, FRUITS, MONEY, CLOTH
ING AND EATABLES FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
EVERY CHILD is REMEMBERED
Big Brothers and Girls Welfare
League of Nashville Send a Gift for
Each Member OF the Home-EVery
One Is Made Happy.
(From Mondays Daily Herald.)

Probably it would have taken a
railroad car to have held all of the
presents that were sent to the Tennes-
see Orphan Home. The children were
literally de.uged with gifts not only
from the people here but from else
where. There were several wagon
loads of gifts that came by express
and parcels post and an entire room,
set apart for the reception of the
gifts was filled to the ceiling.
There were toys and clothing for
every one OF the sixty-fve children.
There were old hams and chickens
and sausage and fruits and nuts sent
in by the wholesale Churches and or
CARNATIONS and individuals in all
parts of the state remembered the
home. A church at Martin, in West
Tennessee, sent present for each one
of the siXty-fve little ones.
The girls civic welfare league of
Nashville, headed by Mrs. Luke Lea
and the Big Brothers of Nashville,
sent boxes of useful articles as well
as toys to each of the children Money
was telegraphed from McMinnville
and $50 came by wire from Santa
Claus as far off as Shreveport, La,
with instructions to give each child
81 to spend just as he or she desired
to expend it.
The presents were distributed to
the children on Christmas morning at
10 o'clock in the presence of all the
children and q large number Of
friends. Prayer was offered by Elder
+. C. Sowell. who expressed appreci-
ation for the fellowship and friend
ship that had been shown to the chill
dren of the home It was a great sight
TO see the pleasure in the faces of the
youngsters as their names were call
cd and the gifts distributed Not a
single one was overlooked.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-12-31
COLUMBIA BANK PAYS
The USUAL DIVIDEND
SIX PER CENT AND TWO PER
CENT SPECIAL ARE DlsTRle-
UTED TO STOCKHOLDERS

(From Tuesdays Daily HcraldJ
At the meeting today of the dire3-
tors of the Columbia Bank & Trust
Company. the usual semi-annual div
idend OF six per cent and in addition
a special dividend of two per cent
was declared This makes sixteen
yer cent dividend that this bank has
laid to the shareholders during the
past year In addition to that sixteen
per cent has been carried to the sur
plus of the bank during tht year. eight
per cent in July Snd eight per cent
today. The directors we're all high
" gratified over the splendid manner
in which fhe bank had been managed
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-12-31
DON'T TAKE CHANCES

POOR PLUMBING means poor
health and a constant menace in tine
home! SANITARY PLUMBING. the
open.work. easily accessible kind
.sbonld be in your home. improves the
property, Is a comfort and necessary
luxury TO all homes. Ask us for
prices on the needed fixtures, re-
inairy. etc.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-12-31

Calico taught how the measure the
height Of the moons mountains by
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-12-31

Nineteen heavily loaded freight car
broke loose while being switched frol
one track to another at Troyel
France, and rushed down hill toWaf'
station. An empioye jumped on
bicycle and reed along the track pa
alel with the train. and then, jumpih
on one of the fast moving cars al
piled the grakes and prevented 5,
ridtls collision.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-12-31

The fisheries of the sea Of Cahles,
once prosperous, are now almost en-
tiraly neglected.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-08

E. A. LantZ, who owns a good 200
acre farm near White Butte, s. d., was
in the city this week on business. Mr..
Lantz would like to locate in Rusk
county if he can find farm for which
he can make a satisfactory deal.
The Camp Fire girls had a farewell
party for Marie and Dona Schoenwal-
ter at the John Bordner home, Monday
evening. The ladies of the Schoen-
walter family departed for their new
home at Superior Wednesday morning.
The chicken pie supper and bazaar
given by ST PauPs Lutheran church
last Thursday evening was well attend
ed and enjoyed by all. The proceeds
amounted to $1G2.25 st. pauls church
heartily thanks the citizens of Lady
smith for the cooperative spirit shown.
F. VI. Doyle, w. a. Blackburn and
j. w Carow spent last Saturday and
Sunday at the Falge & Doyle cottage
at Couderay lake, hunting ducks.
They report the game as not being
plentiful there. Only the advance
guard Of the southern fight of ducks
has reached this part of the country.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-08

Carpet and rug weaving. z. Finne-
gan. Thorn. Wis. 21-46*
Roy LaMere believes that this fine
fall weather is Cue to a rather dry
summer He remembers that in the
past, the dry summers were followed
by delightful fall and early winter
weather-nice, bright days and frosty
nights.
Q. J. Parker and family, formerly of
Ladysmith, who have resided at Nal
no. Mimi, the past three years, have
been visiting in Ladysmith for couple
of weeks They moved this week to
Kimberly, Wis, where they will here
after reside.
Ed Rodgers, who sold his farm in
the northern part of the town of Thorn
apple. last spring, to r. B. Macdonald
will move to Ohio about the first of the
month. He bought a farm of 100
acres IS miles from GAINESVILLE, last
summer, and will engage in sheep rails
ing there. It was in that part OF Ohio
that Mr. Rodgers was raised. He
worked in the coal mines there as a
youth.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-08
To insure prompt settlement of losses
keep your property insured i'll the +.
Nj. Doyle Company Agency.

Victor Demuer, who has been rent
ing the old Oleson farm one-half mile
northeast of Tony, has purchased the
Oliver James S0-acre farm one mile
east of Tony. This latter farm was
bought with the machinery, stock and
crops so Mr.. Demuer will hold pub
lie sale to dispose of his personal
property on the Oleson farm, Saturday
October 9, at one o'clock.
The shortage of houses in Ladysmith
lost this city good family this week
when AL Schoenwalter ara family. who
have been living in the Gotham house
on Pederson-av., moved to Superior,
because of the sale of the property and
Mr. Schoenwalter's inability to secure
another dwelling here. He was an en-
gineer for the FOuntain-Campbell Lum-
Der Co. The property occupied by the
SchOenwalters was purchased by Os-
car Onsted. late of Owen, who is a
stakeholder in the Wisconsin Produce
Co
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-08
FOR
FALL PLANTING
PEONIES PHLOX IRIS
Dahlberg Nursery Co.

A. ID. Putney returned home last
Friday from hospital at Eau Claire
where he had cataract removed from
his right eye Mr.. Putney can see but
the eye specialist who is treating him
may be successful in saving the old
Civil war veterans sight. His daugh-
ter, Mrs Ransom. from South Dakota,
was with him at the hospital, and
accompanied him home.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-08

Money TO Loan-McGill & Williams.
Henry Busse who has been farming
smith for a number of years, loaded a
car with his goods on Tuesday and
moved to northeastern South Dakota,
in the Red river valley
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-08
INSURANCE SERVICE
r. NJ. DOYLE CO.
POSTOFFlCE BUILDING

Mrs. Elmer Fowler came down from
Superior and spent the weekend and
over Sunday with her husband, fore
man in charge of the house construc-
ton work of the f. M. Doyle Co.
Jack Davis, who had been spending
a few days with his relatives here, re-
turned on Tuesday to Crandon, where
he is engaged in telephone work. Mrs.
Davis did not accompany him back to
CrandOn.
Jac SPEECH and W. J. Kermott went
to Milwaukee last Friday where Mr..
SPEECH purchased a new Briscoe i've
passenger car. They drove the car
home. arriving Sunday. JAG says the
| new BriScoe is a peach.
A NEW DEPARTURE-The State
Bank will shortly inaugurate the ID. L.
ID. plan,Of savings. We know you will
be interested i'm getting in on the plan
early. Drop in to see us and get the
particulars. An entirely new method,
one you will like, and very simple in
deed. - STATE BANk OF LADY
SMITH.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
LAW SCHOOL

+ was but a few years ago when we had no law school in Alabama and all most anyone could be admitted to the bay. Now we have a lew school with two or three year course. and in lieu of the old system of appointing com mittee on the circuit to crack jokes with an applicant and recommend his admission regardless of his legal knowledge, we have a state board of examiners who require most thor cuPh and rigid examination of the ap- pliCants.
 It should also be noted that during the frs. half of the century a few lawyers usually residing at the capital did practically all of the practice be- rore the supreme coat. Now. the av- craze lawyer from the remotest coun- ties practices before the supreme court without the aid or assistance of the old lawyers who had heretofore been regarded as specialists in handling cases before the appellate court.
 This is an advanced and I might say an industrial and scientific age, and the present day lawyers end judges have problems to solve that were never en- oountered by the benti' and bar of the past, and we can at least live in tcpe that our progeny may give us some credit for handing down to them ar euments and decisions which may be of some benefit to the future.
 Again, many of vol can recall that when an appeal was taken a few years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE

1 believe 1t was Ape Martin who Sald
 that An optimist during this bone
 dry period was the fellow who carried
 2 corkscrew on his key ring" and while perhaps not of Abe's type, am by no means pessimist. and hope that
 shall never reach that mental con dition of living solely in the past, sec ing no good in the present. and enter taining no hope for the future Our predecessors have unquestion-
 ably put our Jurisprudence in the fore
 most rank. and the past has produced men like Chif Justices Brickell, Stone and Mcclellan. who not only measure up with the greatest state judges but either of whom would have adorned he United States supreme court bench,
 and it may be a lons time before we have their equal; but they, nor the court when they were members there of were infallible or immune from mis- takes. The list of ovsrruled or quali- fled cases covering nearly 100 pages
 of First Mayfeld's Digest will disclose
 he fact that the present or modern
 court does not monopolize in errors
 and mistakes.
 Again. while the strength of chain
 is usually tested by It's weakest link,
 when comparison is had between re-
 spective courts the test should not be
 by measuring the weakest member ot cne with the strongest of the other for
 while we may have no member of the modern courts who possesses the men tai endowments of a few of our judges Of the past, am not willing to con-
 cede or admit a general decadence of
 he Judiciary or the legal profession
 generally.
 If yoQ admit the one you must admit the othSr as our judges are selected from the lawyers and to a large extent through the inuence of the lawyers, and in my opinion the present bar of Alabama is much more advanced and proficient than the bar of the past. [ You may not perhaps have in your ranks as many men of the oratorical or forensic type as was developed dur Ing the early history of the state put as all-round lawyers I do not think that the past can compare with the present. Our laws have advanced and progressed and our lawyers have kept uace with the times. and are well versed in practice and principles never known to or thought of by your pre6e- CeSsors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

The ballots are usually long, and in the absence of special instructions many of the voters either takes chance shot when they reach the names of the judicial candidates. or frequently fail to vote at all. Indeed. lawyers them selves sometimes become so engrossed, and wrought up in contests for gov ernor, senator and other political off fees as to neglect to impress upon the layman the merits or demerits of the judicial candidates.
 In my opinion. the ideal plan
 would be a separate judicial pri-
 mary considerable time before
 or after the general p rimnry. This
 would not only remove the judges
 to great extent from politics, hut
 the public mind would be fo-
 cused upon them alone, and every
 one who would feel interest
 enough in the question to turn out
 and vote would post himself in aG-
 vance and vote intesiIgently.
 The cost of such a primary should not be much. especially at a time when all of the trial judges would also be nominated. but the expenditure of a litle money, would be well invested in a system which would guarantee the selection of the best men for the of- fee of judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
MERE ADMONITION

This. therefore. is intended as a. mere admonition to the bar against constantly placing themselves on rec ord as being in favor of depriving the people of the power to exercise their constitutional rights; in other words, from continually informing them that they are unfit and incapable of select ing their judges.
 As long as you take them into your confidence and let them feel like they are exercising their constitutional right you will find them responsive and ready and willing to yield to your counsel and advice: but should you pre- vail upon the executive committee to deprive them of a direct voice in tho matter. and while they may acquiesce for short time the very moment that the impression Is created that the poli- .icians. for certain selfish interests, are controlling and nominating the ju dietary of the state. there will be an uprising like unto cyclone which will sweep from the face of the earth everything within Its wake.
 Moreover. as we enter upon the sec- ond century of statehood we confront new factor In our elections. It will be but a few months tefore our women will be emancipated and will, there fore have a voice in our future elec-, tions. and there should not be contin- ued efforts to deprive them of their rights after the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. by compelling them to attend disorderly beat meet ings and county conventions instead of a legally regulated primary cleo ton for the purpose of expressing their choice not only for those who make and execute the lawS but for those, who enforce and construe them as we'll ],
 Why anyone should be surprised that the right of our women to vote will soon be recognized and why anyone las opposed this righteous movement, especially some of the women, passeth all understanding, Legislation for the last half century has established the separate property rights of women and said property has always been taxed for governmental purposes. and from the days long before the Boston Tea Party our people have insisted that where there is taxation there should also he representation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
By JOHN c. ANDERSON

When accepted the onehundredth Supreme Court judicial would priate at this particular time. ~ ff sketch 1S2O leading this perhaps abandoned biographical v - ~ t deporable Alabama complete and bar and therefore, difficult
 
  but should be labor of love
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
OPENED TO WOMEN

Every avenue has been, in recent
 years, opened to women. They are
 becoming lawyers. doctors, mer-
 chants and teachers. The Amer
 ican Bar Association has opened
 it's doors to them. They have filled
 the positions into which they have
 gone acceptably and well. In peace
 and in war they have shown that
 fr every branch of relief work
 women are not unexcelied in skill, { judgment. endurance md courage.
 I have no word of censure for those wh, have opposed this movement but woman suffrage is how a condition rather than theory. and it is the rec ord of the American lawyer to uphold and enforce the law whether entirely acceptable to him or not. and I be- .ieve that the lawyers of Alabama will see to it that this new plan. when in- corporated in our federal constitution, will become effective In spirit as well as letter.
 A careful reading cf the cases of Neal vs. Delaware. 103 U. s. 370. and Guin vs. United States 22S U. S. 362. should dispel all fear that this amend ment will destroy our present consti- tutional barriers against the registra- : fion Of the vicious and ignorant voter. male or female I also believe that our women who w:.I exercise their rfoht ~ s-,sf-a 70 rhe.har haretofcrc favoring or opposing sames will do so inteliigently and patriotically.
 do not wish to impress you. how : ever. with the idea that our present plan of nominating judges in a gem e-al primary is hy any means perfect. The trouble is that when thrown into general primary the mind of the averaee vo.e- heco-,es centered rno- cs ndida.es state and county. for office of a political nature losn~ to a er~r' extent interest in the judicial candi,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
NATIVITY OF JUSTICES

not important. facts touching the com position of the supreme court, note may be made of the nativity of the chief justices. Clay Hopkins. Collier and Stone were born m Virginia: Lips comb and Rice. in South Carolina; Saf- fold, in Georgia: Hitchcock, in Ver- mont: Dargan. in North Carolina; Chil- ton, in Kentucky: Goldthwaite, In New Eampshire; Walker and Peters. in Ten nessee; Peck. in New York: BrickelI Mcclellan, Weakley, Tyson. Dowdel and Anderson. in Alabama.
 The following judges of the supreme court were at one time or another judges of the circuit court: Henry w Collier. Daniel Coleman. E. S. Dargan John D. Phelan. George W. Stone. George Goldthwaite. Lyman Gibbons E. F. Saffold. James B. Head John R. Tyson. James R. Dowdell. John c. An derson. N. D. Denson and A. A. Evans While Judges Haralson Sharpe May Held and Sayre each served as county or city court judges
 The following judges of the supreme court also served as ,hancellors: Peck Ligon Byrd. Crenshaw. A. J. Walker, Thomas W. Coleman James R. Dow dell and L. D. Gardner. It will be ob- served that James R. Dowdell is the only member who had previously served both as circuit judge and chan cellor
 Judges deGraffenried and Brown had each served upon the court of appeals before becoming members of the su- preme court. Judge George Goldth- waite became a circuit judge after leaving the supreme court. Crenshaw chancellor and Sharpe judge of the city court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
At Annual Meeting of Alabama Bar Association Chief Justice John C. Anderson Reviews His tory of Supreme Court Since Its Institution Century Ago-Conven1ons and Pri- maries Discussed of Out
 standing Figures of Supreme
 Tribunal.

feature of the annual meeting of the Alabama Bar citation in Birmingham last week the address by Chief Justice Anderson in commemoraton of the hundredh anniversary of the Alabama court which held it's first session in May 1920 is published here full cause of it's value contribution Aabamas judicial history
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

Bath man has just received divi- dend checks from some shares of silver mine which he bought 34 years ago and had forgotten all about. A friend who remembered the purchase told him of a notice in some paper that the mine was about to pay it's first dividend,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

spent the last half of the century in the service of the court. and has there, by become a part of the judicial his tory of the state. Our library has in- creased ten-fold in volume under his administration. He has been faithful and efficient in the discnarge of his of- ficial duties. and I am satisfied that every lawyer in Alabama will testify to his uniform courtesy and attention to them while attending court or using the library.
 I first met MT. Riggs when appearing before the supreme court in my first case thirty years ago, and was sur prised, but pleased. that he should be so kind. attentive and polite to young country lawyer. I have known him woil ever since. and have come in 6aily contact with him for the past fifteen years and have never known more faithful public official.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

cry being appointed to succeed Dow dell as associate. In September. 1909. N D. Benson resigned and A. A. Evans Of Barbour was appointed to succeed him. Ormond Somerville succeeded A "A Evans in 1910. R. T. Simpson died in 1912. and was succeeded by Edward deGraffenried. Judge William H. Thomas succeeding Judge deGraffen- ried in 1914.
 Chief Justice Dowdell resigned in January. 1914. and John c. Anderson became chief justice. E. D. Gardner succeeding Anderson as associate jus tice. Judge Mayfield resigned in 191a 10 become code commissioner, and was succeeded by Joel B. Brown. The court at present is composed of John c. An cerson, chief justice; Thomas c. Me-, Clellan. A. D. Sayre Ormond Somer- vile, l.. D. Gardner. w. H. Thomas and J. B. Brown. associate justices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02
ROBERT F. LIGON. CLERK

This gentleman has been clerk of the court for nearly a quarter of a cen tury. and has proven himself capable and efficient He has relieved the court, and especially the chief justice, of much of the detail which would nee essarily have fallen to us with a lest competent clerk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

Tor and Anderson Crenshaw. In 1928 seventh circuit was established of which Hon. iSon L Perry was elected Judge In the same year Judge Gayle resigned and Hon. Henry W. Collier was elected to succeed him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

JULIUS M. RIGGS, LIBRARIAN
 Any sketch or synopsis of the su- preme court would be incomplete which made no mention of the above named librarian and marshal who has