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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-29
ARE WOMEN NATURALLY
DESPONDENT? -

Women are constituted with deli
cate organism and in nine cases out
OF ten mental depression may be at
tributed TO an abnormal condition of
the system, which expresses itself in
nervousness. aleeplessness, backaches,
headaches, causing constant misery
and as result despondency Lydia
f Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a
simple remedy made from roots and
herbs. is the ne great remedy foi
this condition. l. goes to the root
of the trouble ard overcomes des.
pendency adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-29

texas. and w. II, Ballard of Smith
vile, Texas, and three sisters, also
of Texas.
DR.. Ballard was born in Dewitt
county. Texas. June IL, 1875, and
was a resident of that state until the
year of his graduation in medicine
in 1905. Since that time he has
been a resident of this state.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-29

WANTED-BOY THAT Is WILL
ING TO WORK AND NOT GOING
TO SCHOOL, NOT OVER Is YEARS
OF AGE. APPLY ARDMOREITE
OFFICE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-29
NOTICE

Please be at services and the i'm
portant meeting for the Jewish peo-
pie, at the Temple, Friday night, 7:3o.
adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-29

orders and good pastry III West
Main, Allison 4 Brown 2I-5
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
"BLUEBEARD' HAS
GIVEN COURTS
LOTS OF TROUBLE

Paris, Sept. 29.-The preliminary
investigation" in the case of Henri
Landru, who the police refer to as
the GambaiS Bluebeard and hold re-
sponsib1e for the disappearance of
eleven women to whom he had prom
Used marriage, has just been conclud-
ed. 1t has lasted 18 months.
All the documents in the case,
amounting to over five thousand,
have been turned over to the Prose-
cutor General of the Republic by
Judge BONN, who conducted the pre-
liminary investigation. The judge
imm ediately left for a delayed vaca-
ton. He was accompanied by the
good wishes of dru, who told the
Judge that it had been a great COM
fort to him to make his acquaintance
and that he hoped the feeling was
mutual
Landru has consistently refused to
answer the questions of Judge BONN
and has made the Investigation as
difficult as possible for the Magis-
trate.
1t is the feeling in court house cir
cles that the case against Landru is
weak and much doubt is BEING ex-
pressed as to the chances Of convic-
ton for murder against him. The
IL women have simply vanished in
to thin air. The corpus delicti' is
lacking in the case. Bones were
found in the villa occupied by Land
ru at Gambais and the prosecution
will contend they are human bones
but the defense will call experts to
swear they are rabbit, lamb and dog
bones.
IIandru is confident of acquittal
and is already considering offers
from moving picture concerns in the
event of his being freed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
LEGION COMMITTEES
TO MEET TONIGHT

Appointees on the various COM
nitees of the American Legion, Harry
W. Congdon Post, No. IL, Will meet
tonight at o'clock at dhe rtuo a rnnee
rnttte emen recently appointed and
the committees to which they nave
been assigned are:
Membership: DR.. Frederick ): Ad-
Charles S. Brody, Stanley Burchard,
Frank Leganawicz, James ]. Leon.
Welfare: A. J. Merritt. chairman,
war risk officer; Clarence Hail, STATE
nett, vocational training; Richard S
Swain. compensation; George Ferr1o,
Jr.. legal aid; Rev. H. J. Landry,
case work. ,.,
liam j. Clarity, Herbert H. Loewith,
Parker w Seeley, Rev. J. H. Ian
dry, Stanley Burritt, Angus H. Mac
kay, Clarence Lister
man; Richard H. Brown. Joseph j.
Devine, George B. Garhck, Howard
A. Lee, Frank R. Goerig.
Silliman, chairman; Joseph Koch
and George A Iekas.
Eligibility: Harold French, chair
man; Arthur L. Mathison. Patsy Bo-
cash, Miles J. Mclaughlin, William
H. CORDIALLY.
Veteran organization: DR.. Frank
W. Stevens. chairman; Albert w
Smith, Philip E. Bronson, James J.
Leon, Frank Leganawicz.
Athletic: Clayton C. Barrows, Ed
ward J. Drisco1l, John A Lekas,
| Clarence J. Lynch, Robert E. Phelan,
| Robert Mertens. Advisory council
William C. Mccarthy and Fred "A.
Hunt
| Entertainment: Leonard J. Ma
loney, James j. Rooney, John c. Cal
houn, James j. Leon, George c.
Nothnagle, A. J. Faulkner, Delaney
Bennett.
! Women's Auxiliary: Angus H. Mac
kay.
| Emblens and colors. Frank L.
| Mitchell.
Topics: George Ferrio, Jr., Stuart
Swain, John Morgan, Walter Crab
tree, Otis D. Covel1.
Resolutions: David A. Cronin and
John T. Hubbard
| Graves, markers and maintenance:
DR.. Charles H. Sprague, chairman;
| Lafayette e. Evans, Gordon z.
Smith.
Discipline ~: Parker w Seeley,
! chairman; Vincent l. Heating, Geo.
IFerrio, Jr., Philo C. Calhoun. Clar-
ence r. Hall, Charles S. Bordy. David
A. Cronin, Albert J. Merritt, Richard
S. Swain, John T. Hubbard, John r.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
3lST DIVISION
WILL FEED WELL
DURING REUNION

Asheville N. c.. Sept. 20 = Three
thousand chickens, 1000 dozen eggs,
1000 dozen tomatoes. 400 bushels Sc
lect apples 800 bushels potatoes and
other great quantities of food are pc
ing amassed here to feed the Old
Hickory (31st) Division veterans dur.
ing their two-day reunion, Sept, 70
and 20. Approximately 10000 has
been raised for the expenses OF the
reunion.
Governors Roberts of Tennessee,
Cooper of South Carolina and Blckett
of North Carolina. Secretary Danlels,
Moj-Gen. George w. Read ana
former commanders of the division,
are on the program as speakers. Sir
Auckland Geddes, British Ambassa-
dor to the United States, General
Pershing and Maj.-Gen. Leonard
Wood have been invited.
Nv common consent, a Tennessee
city will be chosen for the third an
nual reunion.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
SOUTH AFRICA is
VERY ANXIOUS TO
CONSERVE SPECIE

Cape Town, Sept. 29.-Great inter-
est is being manifested here in fl
nancial and commercial circles over
the passage of non-party measure
serve Bank bill, which has passed
the second reading by a majority of
forty-four: 1t is confidently expected
there will be very little opposition
shown over the bill on its final hear
ing, because of it's bearing on the
trade of the country, which is bound
up with the gold and exchange sit
uation.
The objects of the bill are to con-
serve the specie supplies of the Union
by providing for the issue of gold
certificates to provide for the estab-
1ishment of a central Reserve Bank
for the Union, and to regulate the is
sue of bank notes and the keeping
of reserves with a view to securing
greater stability in the monetary
system of the Union.
According to the bill, the Treasury
is to receive deposits of gold and
gold bullion and to issue the certif-
fcates therefor of such denomination
al values as the Minister of Finance
may direct. The gold is to be taken
at the mint prices and the gold GER
tificates, which are to be legal tend
er up to their face value. are to be
redeemed in gold or specie on de-
the market price of gold in the
Union exceeds pounds II shillings
10 IL pence per pound, the Govern
or-General-hy proclamation-may
declare redemption of gold certifi-
Gates suspended.
There shall be established at Pre-
toria a corporate body to be called
THE South African Reserve Bank.
which sail be managed by a board of
eleven directors, of whom three ex-
perienced in banking and finance
shall be nominated by stock-holding
banks, three who at the time of their
in commerce, agriculture or some
other Industrial pursuit, three Gov
eminent representatives appointed by
the Governor-GeneraI and two Others
70 be styled Governor and Deputy
Governor, who are also to be appoint
ed by the Governor General All di-
rectors must be British subjects and
reside in the Union. The Governo:
and Deputy-Governor who shall be
persons of tested banking experience
and have no interest in any other
bank, shall hold office for five years
and shall devote their whole time tc
the business of the bank, being paid
such salaries, allowances and ex-
penses as the board may determine
The original capital of the bank
shall be 100000 pounds stock, OF
which not more than so per cent
shall be subscribed at par by the
existing banks in proportion to THEN
paid up capital and reserve funds
The amount remaining after the al
IotHleHb " tue e&lStIuS DankS Shai
be offered to the public at par
The bank may establish branches
or appoint agents or correspondence
In any part of the Union and MAY
also appoint agents and correspon.
dents and with the consent of the
Treasury may also esta blish branches
and local committees in places out.
side of the Union.
The bank may act as bankers anc
financial agents of the Government
including railways and harbors ad
ministration, provincial institution.
;. and Government Institutions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29

SOCIETIES in
SOVIET RUSSIA
tBy international News service.)

fBy International News Service.)
Paris, Sept 29.-An interesting
societies in Russia under the Soviet
revolutionarfes was told today by Mar
Gel Cachin, French Communist leader,
who has just returned from Russia.
Even IN the days OF Tsarism and de-
spite Government opposition the de-
. veiopment of cooperative societies in
Russia was considerable. During that
period there were consumers societies,
@-;all industrial and agricultural CO.
SSeratives, and their membership
was counted in millions.
since the revolution of October,
TS17," said Mr.. Cachim, Disagree
ments have arisen between Bolsheviks
and Socialists of various tendencies,
both of which parties have different
ideas as to the role of the co-opera-
. ives 1t Is necessary for us to go into
me cause of these differences and we
should simply look at the results at
tanned by the societies.
Everyone knows that when they
took over the government of Russia
realized the appropriation of land
property. The greater part of the
land they gave to small Egr IeuIturists.
But everywhere where they thought
1t practical and possible they grouped
together the families of ten, twenty
and even thirty peasants and gave the
/ group large tracts of land to be ex-
plotted for the benefit of the cooper
The already existing societies were
not interfered with by the Soviets. The
large industrially exploited societies
were nationalized and today belong to
the State, represented by the union of
workers.
Whole Population Listed
The Russian Soviets he'd une CO.
operative societies in the highest es-
TEEN. By a special decree in March
1919, the Moscow authorities turned
over the distribution of all goods to
~ cooperative societies for redistri=
Dntion to the people. The whole pop
ulation of the country-practicall lily
: 12O,0O0,0O-is now listed in the books
OF various cooperative societies. Any
one not listed cannot receive any goods
in Russia.
ties Is in the hands of local consum
ers. Those living on the work OF
other assembly of consumers which
elects participate. The supreme ad
ministration of the society is the gen
eral rocket of Professor Goddard, OF
Clark, its members. In small towns
there is but one assembly. The 1arg-
er towns are divided into districts.
apart from the distribution of food
products the societies have to open up
restaurants and meeting halls; they
can set up housing quarters, reading
rooms. clubs and libraries. They re-
Z ceive from the executive committee all
possible help. The consumers socie-
ties can organize their own production
They are free to set up factories, bak-
cries and slaughter houses. They
have the ambition of undertaking in
the near future, the administration OF
various public services, such as public
bathing establishments and laundries
and even the electric and water supply
stations. A central union groups to-
gether all the societies in the coun try
This central union works in close col
Elaboration with the commissariat OF
agriculture and food supply and with
the superior Soviet of National Econ
omy, in which it is represented"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
EMPIRE

You who have for years been read
ing of night life on the boulevards of
Paris will now, for the first time,
have an opportunity of seeing first
just what life in the gay French
capital really is; for Harry Carson
producer of the Clara Kimball Young
plays for Equity Pictures has again
spread himself and secured another
perfect illusion:
The Forbidden Woman to be
Miss Young's next release, is the We
hicle in which the Partisan scenes
along Champs E1ysee, Rue de Ia
Paix, Bou1evarde des Italiennes and
other great thoroughfares, are given
with technical detail atmosphere and
local color, tuned to the minute.
Place d. la Opera, Cafe de Paris,
Jardin d. Hiver, Tuilleres, Monte
marte and other noted landmarks of
Paris are shown with cosmopolitan
crowds in attendance.
Griffon's famous luncheon cafe, the
more than fifty dollars on rush
thri1lers are staged all are shown in
true effect, and Place Concorde, the
Trocadero, Arc de Tricomphe and
other features of the maddest place
in all the world, are depicted with
faithfulness to detail that is almost
star tling.
In addition to Clara Kimball
Young there are other noted players
in ''The Forbidden Woman" includ-
ing Conway Tearle, Kathryn Adams
and Milla Davenport.
Showing today at the Empire
Theatre.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
our FIvE-YEAR
TOBACCO BILL.
WOULD PAY DEBT

Washington, Sept 29.-Americans
will spend close to $4,000, 0O0,0 900 for
cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco
and snuff this year. If they would
all swear off for five years, and put
the money saved in one big jackpot,
they couud pay off the national debt.
The money that goes up in tobacco
smoke is four times as much per. an
mum as the interest on the $25,000,-
000,0 900 the nation owes.
In fact, Uncle Sam collected in
revenue from this traffic for the year
ending June 80 approximately $780,
900, 900, about one-fifth of the ma
tional interest payments.
Averages $50 Person.
The nations smoke bill is $50 for
each man, woman and child.
Figures just compiled show that
this year the per capita. consumption
of cigarettes will be 500 and of cigars
so, saying nothing about the tobacco
chewed and snuff dipped.
In 1910 America consumed 5000,
100000 cigars and 2S,000,000 cigar
cites. in 1920 they will have smok ed
about the sa me number of cigars, but
the cigarettes increased : to 10000
600, 00O-an increase of close to 5000
per cent.
Figures show that in England con-
sumption of tobacco fell off 100000
pounds ia May. 1920. against May
1919, probably due to inability to buy
But in the United States consumption
has materially increased, but not in
the proportion indicated by the use
of cigarettes.
Revenue Jumps.
The following figures show the
| amount of tobacco Withdrawn from
| warehouses, for which government
| stamps were sold. which means the
amount of tobacco consumed:
Pounds
| 1916 --..-..-- 465,00o,00
IS11 .--.-..-.- -...- 416, 10000
l91S .-..-.----.- 452,OOO,00
| 1919 423. 100000
The drop in 1915 and 1919 wa,
due to the boys being in Europe
Exports increased.
Sam was as follows: 1917, s102,
! 600. 900; 1918, with tax rate increas
/ ed, s149.o0O,o0O; 1919, with tax rate
again increased, $780, 100000; 1920
| rate, approximately $500, 100000.
Make Enormous Profits.
| The production of leaf-tobacco il
! America approaches one and enc
half billions of pounds. There i.
| considerable shrinkage by. the time i
! becomes the manufactured product
| About so per cent of il is consume c
and the other 40 per cent exported
Enormous profits are being mad,
in tobacco by a half a dozen manu-
Z
the business. The 1919 crop was 1,
| $50, 4S5,0o0 pounds. These concerns
| bought it from the farmers for al
average of Is cents a pound, or ap
| proximately S625, 100000
About so per cent of it was SOLE
| to the American people for between
| $4,000, 100000 and $4,000 100000 ant
| exported the other 40 per cent
Plan Bonded Warehouses
1t is said there is little prospec
| that the price of manufactured to
! bacco will come down soon. al
| though there has been big drop i,
the prices paid to farmers who grow
| it
The first evidence Of this is i,
| North Carolina. where the price
! dropped from 80 to ~ per cent, ant
| the state is now investigating tn
cause of the decline.
| The bureau of markets, Agricul
tural department., will soon issu
regulations for bonded warehouses
where farmers may store their to
bacco to hold it for better prices I
can then be financed like cotton an,
grain.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
IN THE THEATRES
LYRIC,

Appropriate scenic effects, snappy
dialogues and story replete with
human interest combine to make
1.-The Lie" now playing at the Lyric
theater throughout the week, one of
the best dramatic productions that
has been seen in Bridgeport in a long
time. The play is of the old English
the pond into the quaint old fash
toned castles of the idle rich and
make-believe wealthy.
1.-The Lie is a play that should be
seen by every man, woman and child
for there is something of interest in
every line that will appeal to the
average theatergoer. It tells an in
teresting story which also teaches a
moral lesson that will make everyone
feel better for having seen it. Miss
Ruth Amos, who is seen in the lead
ing role, displays versatility of tai
ent that does much toward adding to
the success of the play and she is
ably assisted by Arthur Chatterdon,
the Players popular leading man,
who is always good.
Next week the Players will und ergo
complete change, presenting a com
edy that will be worth going miles to
see. lombard Ltd is one of the
funniest and at the same time one of
the classiest productions that has
come to Bridgeport in many a day.
Besides an abundance of comedy
there will also be a display of the
most fashionable gowns, on models
that will be imported direct from New
York. lombard Ltd gives Arthur
show what he really can accomplish
when given free rein and there are
few plays like this one for this pur-
pose.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
'PROPELS WHEEL
CHAIR 500 MILES
tBy International News service.)

ftBy International News Service.)
San Francisco, Sept 29.-Ffve
hundred miles in a wheel chair.
This is the road record of B. E.
Davis, an invalid, aged sixty, who
left Los Angeles a month ago and
propelled his chair by hand to San
Francisco. He made the trip as a
demonstration, of the good roads of
California.
II got lift once, invalid and in
valid chair, from a passing machine,
said Davis. 1.-The rest a of the way
propelled on the wheel chair. 1 can
travel about six hours before my
arms give out and I averaged six
teen miles day on my trip"
Davis travelled light, with a tooth
brush and sack of tobacco as his
luggage. He declared that he bought
what clothes he needed and dis
pensed with the extra baggage
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
FORM WIRELESS COMBINE.

Copenhagen. Sept. ga combine
formed by leading Danish ship own
ers has applied to the government
for a concession enabling them to
erect their own wireless stations and
to take oyer all private wireless bust
ness in Denmark. The plan, it is un-
derstood, is viewed with approval in
government quarters.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
WAS HOLDUP "VAMP.-
lBx International Neus se,.riea

Lincoln, Neb.. Sept. 2s-The latest
style of ho1dups in Lincoln was
staged when Fred Richardson, a
handsome negro youth, CARRIED as a
feminine vamp,' enticeda men in rail
road yards into the shadows and re-
lieved them of their peck textbooks He
was successful in the case of two
white lads and was making his get
away from the police when caneht
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
CRANBERRIES SCARCE.

- Carver. Mass, Sept. 2s.-The yield
on some of the cranberry bogs in this
section is destined to be so light this
beaeon that the harvest will fail to
pay expenses, leading growers assert.
y With the damp weather which has re-
tarded picking and the early. frosts
the cost OF the luscious berry is bound
"a sky-rocketing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-29
WEST END.

Pauline Frederick in her newest
Goldwyn peature "The Paliser Case"
is the feature attraction tonight
He had lured her into a false
marriage. He had insulted, tainted,
ridfculed and rebuffed her: Cynl-
icaliv he had laughed at her storm
and tested at her shame. Is there
a woman who would condemn her,
is there a jury that would convict
her? Come and see.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
wilson and His Dctractors.

(From a letter to the Springfield
Republican,
Senator Penrose, as reported in
the Boston Herald, villifies Mr..
Wilson in these words: THE hy-
pocrisy, effeminacy. incompetBncy
and inefficiency of President Will
son."
l was brought up a republican.
[ am an independent in politics. L
never voted for Mr.. Wilson The
first time I ever saw him was when
he gave his noble Grafton at our
Harvard Phi Beta Kappa meeting
| a dozen years ago. / have fol-
lowed his course with interest from
that day. Especially have 1 fol-
lowed it with much care since the
great war broke out. In my judg-
ment he has spoken the most COM
petent and masterful messages on
freedom ever uttered and achieved
the greatest and most difficult
things in world leadership ever
achieved by any statesman of any
land. / believe that not ten years
will go by before his name, by al
most universal consent, will be
written with the names of WASH
|ington and Lincoln and Roosevelt
And he has done a more difficult
and greater work than either OF
them.
1 never voted, l said. for Mr..
Wilson. But if / had the oppOr-
tunity tomorrow l would vote for
him with both hands up.
1t is unbelievable, the vast,
heartless, calculated and prolonged
propaganda of character assassina-
ton that has been carried on
against Mr.. Wilson. l never have
contemplated its like. 1t is one of
lthe dark chapters of shame.
Compare the spiritual and noble
face of Mr.. Wilson with the gross
face and figure of Senator Pen
rose. A volume of revelation in
on lookl sat in the gallery and
watched and studied our senator's
by the hour. As | have looked at
the senator from Pennsylvania and
looked at the others. I have Thought
You are the least erected spirit
of them ALL" You are the Caliban
of the United States senate"
BY the hour 1 have forecast his
votes on the different questions
hit it. Never failed once
voted against labor and
for capital; always against the peo-
pie and for privilege. Yet this Is
the man who traduces President
And this is the leader OF
the republican party-senator of
my native state. the rose OF Penn
sylvania and leader of my fathers
party. am covered with shame.
Mr.. Cox will be the next presi-
dent if my vote can help make 1t
so.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
BEST BUYS

140 acres, 130 cultivated, 10
timber pasture with fine spring,
fenced, 8 miles from court house,
good roads. best Waldo hill soil.
$12,500, terms.
acres, 4 trellised bearing To-
gans, 1 acre prunes with strawber-
ry filters, az miles out, $500,
$1,000 cash, balance at 6 percent.
40 acres all cultivated, good
berry land, close to Salem, marke
road, 1928 per acre, " cash, bal
ance at 6 percent.
"a acres, 80 cleared, good fruit
land. miles from Salem, good
roads, $4,000, $2500 cash.
80 acres all cleared, fenced anc
cross fenced, good barn, best val
ley loan, highway past place be-
ing paved now. $45O0, $500 cash
balance at 6 percent.
HOUSES
Strictly modern room house
close in, paved streets. car line.
$4750.
room modern bungalow, base
ment, good condition, corner lot
lots of fruit, close in. $500.
Modern 9 room house, large clos
ct room, two corner lots, east
front garage, close in, $4,000.
Good room modern house,
east front, corner lot, one block
from car, two from school $4,000.
Good room house, east front,
one acre lot, small barn and 9TH
er buildings, four blocks from s.
P. station, 8 blocks to high shool,
$500.
Don't worry about houses, our
lists are extensive, all types and
localities. You can get home
thru us on reasonable terms with
substantial cash payment.
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