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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-22
HAMmERIMe HOME
THE PRICE DROPS

= If the people are willing to buy
when they are convinced that retail
prices really are descending 10 rea-
sonahle levels, it is for the retailer
20 show them visibly, emphatically
and repeatedly that such is now the
case Business papers have recon-
mended the giving of actual price
lists, and many concerns have acted
upon the suggestions that have been
offered. They have gone even fur
ther and have prepared window dis.
plays to prove the point. A leading
grocery store on Fifth avenue last
week displayed in one window bar
rel Of flour and bag of sugar
which together cost $40.S5 in 1920,
and in the adjacent window the flour
! and the sugar plus large variety
of canned goods, spices, ETC., which
the same $40.S5 would buy now.
This sort Of thing has been done eff
fectively in other cities than New
York. For instance, as we read
in Forbes:
One Toledo grocer prepared two
very effective window displays. In
one window he put 00-pound bag
of sugar, one quarter barrel OF
flour, and one bushel Of potatoes,
with very prominent signs telling
that this was all that $35.75 could
| buy a year ago In the other win
dow he placed these same three ar
ticles and a most imposing collec-
ton of other staple groceries, with
the placard: "$35.75 today will hay
/ everything in this window"
Another grocer in Oakland, CAL,
used this same idea very tellingly by
presenting in parallel columns what
could be bought year ago and
! what could be bought today for
$4,000. The showing brings home
so forcefully what has happened to
food prices that it is worth very
wide publication. Here it is:
What You Could Buy May 21, 1920,
for $4,000:
100 lbs. Sugar ................ S24.Io
100 lbs. Potatoes ...........,. 10
80 lbs. Head Rice ........... s.oo
Total .$40.50
What You Can Buy May 81 of This
Year:
100 lbs. Sugar ..............'.s i.oo
100 lbs. Burbank Potatoes. ..... Aoo
50 lbs. Blue Rose Rice. ....... 30O
IL cans Alpine Milk, large.... 1.3S
lib. tins Hills Bros. Coffee. 1.23
IL cans Van Camps Beans, SIN. 1.2o
go lbs. Navy Beans .......... zoo
| ] CT Broom ............... ~
8 lib Ghirardelli's Chocolate. LOB
IL cans Campbell's Soup. l.zo
~ cans New Idea Corn 800. 1.75
| 4 pks. Quaker Oats, SMALL. 90
| so lbs. AL Flour minimum. zoo
bottles Acme Beverage. rs
1 10-lb. can Karo Strip (blue) 10
1 Glib can Crisco ........... liz
~ pks. Golden Age Macaroni.- .95
6 12-oz. Swift's Corned Beef. LOO
6 bot. 22-oz Ragged Robin
Salad OIL ......,........... i'fo
| IL cans Cal-Gro Peaches, 2 LIS 21O
IL cans Cal-Gro Apricots, 2 LIS Ito
12 pks. Post Toasties ........ LAO
IL pks. Kelloggs's Corn Flakes lao
cans Del Monte Pineapple 81 1.5o
| lOtdl ........' $3.50 WV"
As the editor of Forbes com
ments:
This same idea of presenting
prices as they were and as they are
now can be utilized by many besides
grocers. Clothing houses, shoe
stores, druggists, haberdashers, etc.,
can utilize it, Industrial plants
whose products have become dras-
tically cheaper should also use this
appeal in their advertising and in
their windows.
No matter how the world turns,
you are turning with it, so there
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-22

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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Georgians Attending
Dixie Highway Meet
In Chattanooga

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 10
More than 200 delegates are here
attending the annual meeting of the
Dixie Highway association. Every
important city along the route of
the highway is represented, includ-
ing Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville,
Cincinnati, Macon and other souc-l-
ern points, many from nearby CEN
ters coming in automobiles.
Among the prominent members
present are Clark Howell, of At
lanta; Harry Gordon, former lieu
tenant governor of Ohio, and w. r.
Anderson, of Macon.
The executive committee held an
executive session preparatory to
the meeting of the association at
IL o'clock.
Several changes in the routing of
the highway through Kentucky are
to be advocated by special delega-
tions who came for this purpose.
Sometime ago Judge M. NJ. Alli-
son, Of Chattanooga, announced that
he would not be a candidate for
reelection as president, but later
he consented to allow his name to
be selected as executive committee
man. The indications were that he
would be reelected. In the event he
is not chosen, J. Stacey Hill, of
Cincinnati seems to have the inside
track for that office.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
New Steel Foundry
To Be Established
By Cordele Firm

CORDELE, Ga, May 19.-Business
interests heretofore represented IN
the Tomlin-Harris Machine company
and the Williamson Steel Stump
Fuller company are joined in the es-
tablishment of a new steel foundry
for Cordele, the capital Of which
will be 100000 to $250,000.
Announcement was made Monday
by r. r. Harris and J. G. William
son, heads of the two concerns, that
plans had been completed and agreed
upon whereby all the interests of
both concerns will be thrown togeth-
er and their chief business will be
the manufacture Of the Tomlln-Har-
ris Wheel Press and the Williamson
mercial necessities Of value and the
patents protect the local manufac-
turers in every respect.
They expect to use raw iron out
of the Alabama fields. The invest
ment will result in one of the best
steel and iron boundaries in this Sec
tion Of the country, one which 1t was
stated Monday, will be in both capac-
ity and excellent advantage superior
to anything now in Georgia.
1t will take several months to
complete the construction of the
plant, but plans will be completed at
once and the move will be put I'M
der way. The output in wheel press
es and stump pullers annually will
be more than million dollars, it is
said. In addition large foundry
work in iron and steel will be done
and milf and boiler work will CON
tinue as heretofore, only on a larger
Saa1o
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Women Officials of
Thayer, Kans., Start
General housekeeping

THAYER, Kas.-The whole world
is peeping, as it were, through the
curtained windows of Thayer's city
hall.
the second appropriation passed by
the Second city government in the
United States composed entirely of
women. The first women's govern
ment rules in Jackson, Wyos, and is
now seeking reelection.
The first appropriation in Thayer
was for hauling trash away. Thus
city government in Thayer means
municipal housekeeping.
Suffrage leaders and politicians
throughout the nation are watching
to see. just how the job is done:
nWe'[ t going ing to to +nd do the lite
Mrs. Abby H. Forest, the mayor.
If we are not beheaded by irate
citizens, there may be results"
That remark about being behead-
ed is just a bit of Her Honor's hui
NOR. Only a few reactionaries voted
against the Women's ticket. 1t was
elected 4 to 1.
After buying the curtains and
having the trash hauled away ths
women burned the bedding in the
Jail, ordered grass cut and streets
cleaned, told citizens to keep then
chickens out of neighbors' gardens
sold city band instruments and
started to collect taxes from source:
that had been overlooked by previ-
Gus administrations.
The officials of the town are Mrs
Hattie NJ. Brewster, police judge;
Mrs. Ivy Cross, president Of council
Mrs. Eunice Rash, Miss Allie Lam
berton, Mrs. Ina Craig and Mrs.
Daisy M. Savage, councilwomen.
Miss La m hartO0 tn1nnhOne
operator. The others are house
wives
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
American Bald Eagle,
Caught at Columbus,
In Grant Park Zoe

The Grand park zoo received an
additional tenant Thursday morning
in the person Of a huge American
bald eagle, captured by w. H. Bowen,
in the swamp lands near Columbus,
Ga. The bird was shipped to Frank
F. Smith, city tax collector and was
accompanied by a letter from Mr..
Bowen, which reads as follows:
"Mr. F. F. Smith,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Frank: 1 have often re-
marked to you that Columbus, Ga,
was a wild and woolly burg, a sur
vivor of Jesse James mad Buffalo
Bill days, and to prove my assertion
in the premises 1 am expressing you
on the Central Of Georgia railroad
passenger train leaving at $40 this
afternoon, one American bald eagle
captured in the desolate swamp lands
of the Chattahoochee river, adjacent
to said Columbus, Ga.
'I understand that he is young
eagle, as yet unframed and un-
vamped and more or less in ignorance
of social obligations imposed upon
modern mankind; therefore he is
bound to be more or less gun-shy and
in all probability somewhat inhos-
! pitable. [ would not advise you to
start anything with him and if he
starts something with you give him
Would thank you to present him
to Grant park as being donated by
Greenwood cemetery. If our luck
holds out we may ship you rhin-
oceros or a whangdoodle from Co
lumbus, Ga, which is, as aforesaid
some burg
Yours truly,
"W. Fl. BOWEN"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Two Killed, Several
Wounded in Gun
Fight at Byromville

BYROMVILLE, Ga, May 19.-Twc
negroes are dead and one white man
is at the point of death in a Cor
dele hospital as result of gun
fight that began near here Tuesday
and extended into Wednesday.
Twenty negroes have been placed
under arrest and at least twenty-five
guns of various sizes have been
taken from negroes by the Officers
of Dolly county.
At the hospital at Cordele the
wounded white mans name was civ
en- as L. C. Davis, of Summerville
N. j. He is a former soldier pass
ing through en- route to Fort Valley
to pack peaches, when he was depu-
tized by the sheriff. His condition
is critical. He was wounded eight
times.
OF the twenty negroes placed under
arrest and taken to Vienna for safe-
keeping, four are seriously wounded
The twenty negroes barrlcadeo
themselves in Fate Chapman's home
on the Will Byron farm and def1eo
the authorities late Tuesday night
after Chief of Police Cunningham
had failed in an effort, to collect
city taxes from Chapman. 49,,
Sheriff Vinson, Deputy Sheriff Carl
Lewis and a posse especially depu-
tized, moved On the barricaded house
shortly before midnight after there
had been intermittent firing.
AS the posse approached they were
fired upon, Davis falling wounded
receiving eight rounds.
The negroes continued to hold the11
fort until the posse threatened te
burn the house. Then they left thel1
barricade and continued to fire or
the posse. In this affray, one ne,
gro, Jim Beddenfield, fell dead anc
four others were wounded, the worst
wounded being Tom West.
One of the negroes, a son of Fate
Chapman, got away from the posse
and he was traced to Lilly, Ga, where
he again put up a fight. At 8:3(
Wednesday morning he was shot
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Pigs to Be Given Boys
By Covington Banks

CONVICTION, Ga, May 19.-Sat-
urday, May 81, at 2 o'clock in front
of the courthouse, thirty boys Of the
Pig club will draw for the pigs
which are to be given away by the
Bank of Newton county and the Bank
Of CoVington.
Through the efforts of County
Agent J. K. Luck, the Bank of New
ton county and the Bank bloomington
the boys are given the opportunity
to go into the raising of hogs with
out having to have any capital at
ALL At least fifty boys will take
part in this drawing.
The Pig club boys signed the fol
lowing agreement with the banks:
1.-THE bank gives him an eight to
ten weeks old pig weighing around
thirty pounds, under the following
conditions:
''First-That he is to return two
pigs for this one, being from the
first litter and one from the second
"Second-These two pigs must be
raised by the boy and from the pig
which he gets from the bank.
"Third-The sire of these pigs
must be a purebred sire.
"Fourth-He is to show this pig at
the county fair in October.
"Fifth-He is to feed and care
for this pig along lines as outlined
by county agent.
"The banks agree to give the boy
the pig when he has carried out theee
Oh1iCa tionS"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Porto Rican Governor
Sings His Swan Song

SAN JUAN, P. R., May 19.-In his
farewell statement to the Porto Ri
can people, Arthur wager, govern Or
for almost eight years, called atten-
ton to the fact that his term of serv-
ice included complete reorganiza-
iton Of the government and granting
Of American citizenship of Porto
Rico.
DR.. wager, with his family will sail
on the naval transport Kittery, prop
ably Saturday, returning to Ken
lucky.
Jose A. Benedicto, insular treas
urer, has assumed the duties of act
ing governor, pending the arrival Of
E. Montgomery Reilly, of Kansas
City, recently appointed governor
by President Harding.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Soldier Talks Burglar
Out Of His Loot

COLUMBUS, Ga, May 19.-That
a good soldier not only knows how
to use his gun, but also his wits
when he doesn't happen to be armed,
was proved here Wednesday by Major
S. P. Heron, of Camp Benning, who
went home in the afternoon to find a
burglar ransacking the house.
The officer, who was unarmed
found himself facing the point Of a
pistol, and, according - the report
to police headquarters, started in to
talk the burglar out of his intentions.
He was SO successful in his efforts
that the burglar took out of his pock-
cts several gold pins and some 9TH
er jewelry, and when Mrs. Heron
suddenly entered the house, turned
and fled. Major Heron reported to
the police that the only thing that
a check-up showed missing was TWEEN
ty cents that had been left in milk
bottle on the back steps. He de-
clared that he never promised the
burglar immunity and the police took
I'D the search.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Annual Parade of 300
Alabama Veterans
Closes Reunion

ANNISTON, Ala, May 19.-With
the staging of the annual parade this
morning, the 1921 reunion of Ala
bama Confederate veterans was
brought officially to close. Because
of the age and feebleness of the old
soldiers, the parade was made up
wholly of vehicles, all of the veter-
ans riding in automobiles supplied by
civic organizations and citizens for
the purpose. Three hundred of the
veterans, led by General George H.
Craig, took part in the parade.
The business work of the reunion
was completed with the election of
officers for the next year and the Sc
lection of the next place for holding
the reunion.
Brigadier General Henry c. David
son, of Montgomery, was elevated to
the command of the Alabama divi-
sion of Confederate veterans; Cen
eral Hal T. Walker, also of Montgom-
cry, was elected commander of the
First brigade, to succeed General Da-
wilson; General George H. Craig, Of
Selma, was elected to command the
Second brigade, and General Thomas
P. Lamkin, of Jasper, and John H.
Wilson, of this city, were reelected
as brigadier generals for the third
and fourth brigadeS.
Gadsden was selected as the re-
union city for 1922 and the state vet
Grams accepted an invitation to at
tend the dedication of the White
House of the Confederacy at Mont
gOmery. June g.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Giant Head Of Lettuce
Is Grown IN Atlanta

A head of Fulton county grown
iceberg lettuce, measuring Al inches
in circumference, and weighing two
pounds IA inches, was brought
INTO The Journal office Thursday
morning by J. w. Dollhouse, of AZ
Stokes street, who said he raised the
lettuce in his garden.
The head is one of the largest
that has ever been grown, and, 1T
is conservatively estimated that
there is enough lettuce in the head
to serve hundred people. Mr.. Dali
house says that he has several more
growing in his garden now, and
hopes to raise an even larger
head.
Iceberg lettuce raising in Geor-
gia, and especially as far north as
Fulton county, is a comparatively
new venture, as it has always been
imported from Florida or California,
it being the popular supposition that
1t would not grow except in these
two states. However, number OF
farmers brought IN quantity of the
iceberg variety to the curb market
last Tuesday, demonstrating that 1T
will grow in Georgia as well as in
Florida or California.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
MURDERED RECLUSE
kept GAMBLING DEN

AMERICUS, Ga, May 19.-By far
the most interesting development in
the Scarborough investigation is the
discovery that the rich recluse, who
was killed Sunday, maintaiped a
gambling room in the rear of his
secluded store. This room, which
was we'll hidden from the highway
bears every evidence of the recent
presence of gamblers. Poker chips,
cards, gambling machines, devices
for deadening noise such as are used
on dice tables, ETC., were found there
when officers entered it in their
search of Scarborough's premises.
1t was also revealed that women of
questionable character frequently
visited his place and one of these,
described as of slender build, and
wearing a striped coat, which caused
her to be called the tiger woman"
was in the company of the murdered
name cannot be ascertained. is de-
clared to have come to Americus
from Jacksonville, in company with
two men. All of the trio have mys-
teriously disappeared since the find
ing of Scarborough's body.
AIOlHST lAlci CSI1IS o4SCONCIy -
that Scarborough had an uncle living
in Admission, Ala. This uncle, Sid
Scarborough, was declared by Amer
icus residents to have died twenty
five years ago, but Wednesday he
communicated with George A. Turpin
and inquired concerning the circum-
stances of his nephew's assassina-
tion. It is now said that Sid Scar
borough is a prominent resident of
the Alabama town, and that he will
come to Americas and assist in the
investigation here. There is an in
sistent demand that Governor Dorsey
offer a suitable reward for the ar
rest and conviction of Scarborough's
assassin, many persons here bellev-
ing this would accelerate solution
Of the mystery.
The coroner's jury met again Wed.
nesday afternoon in the office OF
Sheriff. Harvey, when a number OF
witnesses were examined. The ses-
sion began at o'clock and continued
until early evening. The Sumter
county grand jury will assemble
Monday, when it will also investigate
the murder, as well as the gambling
scandal which has grown out OF the
killing of Scarborough.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
Chester Baptists to
Build New Church

CHESTER. S.. c., May Blowing
to the fact that the congregation of
the First Baptist church of Chester
has outgrown the present church
structure, the matter of a new edi-
flee has been decided upon and in
the near future work will be started
on the new building which will be
one of the finest and best equipped
in the Carolinas. A committee mas
been appointed to consult architects
and submit a plan as quickly as pos
sible. Of late the crowds have been
so great at the services, especially
the Sunday school services. that the
church was unable to seat them.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21
BIRTHDAY OF TROLLEYS
REEVES RECOLLECTION
OF "HAY-BURNER" DAYS

CHICAGO.-The resounding crash
of Missouri hoof fire against tin
tenders of archaic street cars was
heard today in many cities through
out the country.
For out of the rubbish heaps OF
street car barns and the tall weeds
of vacant lots mule cars of a third
of century ago have been rescued
by electric railway companies and
again put on rails for a few hours
under ''hay-burner" power.
The reason for this demonstration
was that the modern overhead trolley
car is thirty-three years old and cleo
trio railways for the first time in his
tory celebrated this event.
1t was in Richmond, Va, on May 4,
1888, that thirty electric cars equip
ped with overhead trolleys were put
into operation and the contract for
the first complete, double tracked line
of this character in the world was
accepted as completed.
For thirty years prior to that day
inventors ranging from Thomas Dav-
export, a Brandon, VT, blacksmith,
to most of the famous inventors of
the period, had been working toward
the goal which Frank J. Sprague, of
New York City, finally achieved.
Stephen D. Field and Thomas A.
Edison began experiments late in the
70's and in 1879 Field filed an appli-
cation for a patent on third rail
system. In 1880 Mr.. Edison built a
small road at his laboratory in Menlo
Park. N. j., and demonstrated the
practicability of electricity as power
for transportation. In 1883 at expo
sitions in Chicago anad Louisville,
Messrs. Field and Edison exhibited
an electric locomotive which ran
around a circular track one-third of
a mile in length.
The period from 1880 to 1888 was
productive of many valuable contri-
buttons to the future industry by
Edward M. Bentley and Walter H.
Knight, who in 1884 built a two-mile
line in Cleveland; John c.. Henry,
who built small roads in Kansas City
Short, of Denver; DR.. Wellington
Adams, of ST. Louis; Charles J. Van
Vepoele, of Chicago, and Leo Daft,
of Greenfield, N. j. Daft perfected
an electric engine which in 1885
old horsecarS between Baltimore and
Hampden, Va.
Some of Mr.. Sprague's earlier tests
were made in New York City, and
among those who came to witness
them was Jay Gould. Unfortunately,
one day Mr.. Gould took a position
near an open safety fuse on one of
the cars, and when a fuse suddenly
blew out with a startling flash Mr..
Gould attempted to leap from the
car, and at once lost all interest in
the future of electric railway devel-
opment.
At the beginning of operation of
electric cars in Richmond wages were
from Is cents to .$1.75 a day. The
average wage paid by sixty COM
panies having more than 100 miles
of track each, in the United States,
today is So cents an hour.
Today there are more than $4,000
electrically propelled passenger cars
in the United States. which carry a
total of approximately $4,000, 100000
persons, or ten times as many as
ride on the steam railways, yearly.
The investment is approximately $5,-
00,000,000, the trackage is 44,400
miles, and 100000 men are employed.