Cheyenne Wells record., 1921-08-18
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metal sign bearing thiS lrouic Au-
junction: Citizens. protect your for
ssts from fret"
Lady Bonham-C Carter. daughter OF
former Premier AsQuith, has refused
an invitation to become candidate for
member Of Parliament for Westmtns-
ter. to succeed the late William Ash
mead Bartlett Burdett- Coutts.
Amid the booming of guns from
Quebec's ancient citadel, Baron Byng
of vimy, a hero Of the great war, Of
ficially assumed his duties as Cana
da's new governor general. He was
sworn into office at the provincial
legislative building with impressive
ceremony.
Gen. Isidro valdes, head of the revo-
flutionary movement against the Mex
ican government, has been captured
after fight between government
troops and his followers. One member
Of the valdes forces was killed and
several soldiers were wounded In the
encounter.
Meatless days, bread and macaroni
restrictions and sugar embargoes,
which have been in force since the be-
ginning of the war. have finally been
abolished in Rome. Food cards are
now no LANCER needed to procure the
bare necessities Of life and gradually
such luxuries as pastry, cakes, Ice
cream and other delica cies are being
sold in their prewar quality and
amount.
Frontier restrictions were carried to
an extreme when they prevented an
Austrian fire brigade from crossing
the italian border to fight blaze.
Some buildings on the Italian side of
the Premier Pass railway station
caught fire and the Austrian towns
firemen turned out. italian gendarmes
demanded their vises, and having none
they were forced to watch the ware
houses burn.
aENERAL
A mob of 1,5OO or 1000 armed men
captured Jerome Whitfield, negro.
near Kingston, N. c., charged with at
tacking white woman of Jones coun-
ty, and after hanging him to tree by
the roadside riddled his body with bul.
lets.
Two men were killed instantly and
fourteen Injured. three probably fatal
ly, at Knoxville, Tenn, when a motor
truck In which they were riding over
turned and plunged down forty-foot
embankment. One of the dead was
identified at Glenn Mcmillan, young
farmer.
The fact that people are not eating
50 much candy now as they did during
the war was one Of the reasons as
cribed for the failure Of the Boston
Confectionery Company, which filed a
petition in bankruptcy Mt Boston, with
liabilities Of more than $SO0,O0O The
company's assets were listed as $780,
s85.
Maj. Earl Hamilton Smith, In charge
of the campaign to restore Belleau
wood announced that Col. Charles R.
Forbes, director of the new Veterans
Aid Bureau, had accepted the invita-
tion of the Belleau Woods Memorial
Association to draw the plans for the
restoration of the village and SUPER
wise the rebuilding of the community.
It is planned to raise $500, 900 for this
work. Thief irst spadeful of earth will
be turned next June.
Wasps on business bent may b
pests, but two women here owe their
lives to wasp stings. Mrs. ]. E. Nit
chum, who lives near Hickman, KY,
was awakened by the stings, discov-
cred her home was on fire and about
to collapse upon her and adopted
daughter. Mrs. Mitchum rushed to the
girls room, aroused her and assisted
her to safety in the yard just as the
house fell in. The wasps had built
their nests In the attic of the house
and the heat and smoke drove them
out. One sting on Mrs. AIitchum's
neck is the only sign visible of the
attack.
Where the new Pacific highway
crosses the Canadian border at Blaine,
WASH, gateway is. being erected to
commemorate 100 years without forti.
fications or armies along the 5000
miles Of international boundary. In
scribed over the doorways are the
legends. "Open for 100 Years" and
MAY These Doors Never Be Closed"
Lyle A. Turner, official of Des
Moines, Iowa, rug company, was ar
rested after he had tried to sell rug
valued at $1,000 for $50. He is said
to have admitted to the police that he
shipped several rugs from the stock
of the company by which he is en-
ployed to himself at Chicago, and
planned to sell them to help finance
a vacation.
Walter Bunton, a 27-year-old metal
worker in the employ Of the New York
Blower Company at Laporte, Ind,
modestly admits that he is about to
become a millionaire and that he ex-
poets eventually to join the multimil-
lionaire ranks. Bunton has invented
a process for hardening copper for
which he declares the United States