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The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19

of thls CITY
Elk Senator James X vardSIh
Miss Elizabeth and Mr.. William var
daman were guests at the Crenshaw
home few days.
Mr.. Earl Hill, Walter Tones and
Ed. Egleston we're in Grenada Satur-
day.
Misses Lotte Bigbee returned
home Thursday after attending the
Normal at Oxford.
Messers Whitten and Mitchell
we're the towns visitors this week.
A large crowd attended the picnic
at Tilatoba and all reported a good
tine.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Best and dau-
ghters, Margaret and Lucille, left
Sunday for New Mexico.
Mrs. Fogrety, who has been spend
ing several days with her sister,
Mrs. Maggie Warren, returned SAT-
urday to her home in Memphis.
Miss Winn Wallace who has
been attending the Teachers Insti-
tute at Oxford several days, return
ed home, Saturday.
Mr. Jim Tilman from Tillatoba
was among the Scobey people Sat-
urday.
Mr.. Cannon, who resides on Route
4, near Water Valley, made this Of
flee call Wednesday.
Mrs. Lippincott, and son, John
Duke Lippincott, visitel Charleston
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Jones and
two sons, Rocket and Jerome, were
the guests of the S. P. Baker home
in Charleston, Sunday.
Mrs. S. Yorks, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Yorks, and Gilbert, from Charl-
eston spent the evening in Scobey,
Sunday.
Mr.. Norris is filling Mr.. Duke''s
place, who is having his vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horton, and Claren-
ce; Mr.. Bill Thomas, Miss Rose
and Mr.. Ross, Mr.. Stone and Mr..
Chairman were visiting this city this
week.
Mr.. Walter Jones visited Tillato-
ba, Saturday.
Mr.. c. D. Briscoe was in Memphis
Monday.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19
killed by the same current.

SHAW-The corn crop Of this
county is the finest in years and the
acreage is the largest in the his
tory Of the county. The bulk Of
the early planted cotton is fairly we'll
frulted. But the bulk Of the crop
was planted in May. The boil. weevil
is doing great damage and the crop
is estimated to be cut fully 40 per
cent by their rayages.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19
MISSISSIPPI NEWS
First Bale in Yazoo City

That prince of farmers" Marx
Schaefer, of Yazoo County carriel
the first bale cf cotton to Yazoo City
this year. 1t was Of the Express
Variety and was classed three-six-
teenth. He received a priye of 500
for the first bale carried to Yazoo
City this year.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19
MISSING
RELATIVES REPORT
FAMOUS DRAFT DODGER LEFT
GERMANY 1T is THOUGHT.

BERLIN, Aug. 17-Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll, the millionaire Amer
ican draft dodger, who disappeared
from his home in Eberbach, Baden
last week, was still missing today
and his friends and relatives said
they had received no word from him.
It is believed at Eberbach that
Bergdoll has fled from the country.
He was last seen in an automobile
going toward the Swiss frontier.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19

MACON-Twc small negro boys
about nine years of age were killed
by tightening during an electric
storm, while minding cows on John
Cavett's place near here. 1t was not
known that the boys had been killed
until they failed to bring the cows
to the barn when search for then
discovered their dead body, both of
which were supposed to have been
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19
AT THE GRAND
OLD "ITCHlE"
HEADLOCK is FIRST REAL
"PLAY ACTOR
REMARKABLE CHILD INSISTS
PICTURE-PLAYING is ONLY
A GAME-MOTHER PITTS J.
DAY A WEEK LIMIT ON HIS
STUDIO CAREER.

Here is a real play actor.
Although he has only just COM
pleted his second appearance in mo-
tion pictures, he has endeared HIM
self to more people than probably
anyone ON the screen has done in
SO short time. And yet before the
camera he only plays.
He is little Richard Headrick, who
has just passed his third birthday.
He jumped into the hearts of every
mother and father in the land in the
part of the crippled child in "The.
Woman in His House," and will gain
the love of many more, due to the
happier role he has in "Plaything
+ Destiny, the Anita Stewart pro-;
Yet he Il Only : play aS50f. l4s'
plays all the time he is before the
,amera ami 10 one could convince
i'm that what he does when he has
lis picture taken is real serious work
IN fact, he has no comprehension of
What work :ncans.
In the studio he is directed much
ne same as any of the other actors,
-<cept for TIE suggestion that it is
art CT a game. FOR instance.
'Dickie' do you think you could
lay that you we're little boy whose
oal went in the pond over there and
,hen he tried TO reach it out he
ell in, too and nearly drowned be-
ore Mr. Rawinson and Mr.. McGrail
.,ulled him out:
Dickie could and did and the
ealistic way in which he played
nat he was the ''little boy" makes
me of the striking incidents in
Playthings OF Destiny. 1t was Ed
IN CareWe, director of the pro1,ic-
lcn. WI is quoted in the preced;' .,
paragraph, and it is exactly the way
IL which D'ckie got the INSTRUCTIONS
.he 4'lalr.
Despite the fact that the pond was
hore than eight feet deep, the little
10Y floundering around in the water
vas not in as precarcious position
S the picture would Indicate Dickie
S a swimmer, in fact, it S stated
" his doting grandmother that he
swan in the bath tub before he could
walk. He has never had any fear
If water, and his greatest treat is
% go into the ocean when it is rough
le is permitted to indulge in this
dangerous pastime only when he can
get strong swimmer to accompany
him, and this doesn't occur as Of
,en as he would like.
Biographical facts are very brief
He was born in Los Angles three
years ago; has lived there as much
f his life as he has already enjoyed;
Try into pictures is entirely to his
and has no desire to leave. His en-
own credit, for he got his chance
through a game he invented himself.
Everybody in Los Angles is motion
picture fan, and Dickie attended
many before he was out of long
clothes. When he got to playing age,
he originated a game which he
himself calls playing pictures" and
which consists of him portraying
roles in imaginary stories.
Louis B. Mayer, the motion pic
ture producer, met the Headricks at
a public function of some kind and
us9q l.useq oQM sls!X9 quo leql uon9o
-!pu! Gue 9Iou5! o. SoIgos ool 9Is
sIo4oe pI!qO 'psuo!4uem 90 pInoqs
smeS s.e!No!Q 4eqa slqea!Asu! seA 2!
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19

Judge not your neighbor harshly,
admonishes an exchange; he may sit
on the jury when it comes your time
to face the judge.
A hen cackles when she lays an
egg for the same reason that wo-
man has to tell the neighbors about
her baby's first tooth.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19

BROOKHAVEN- Six thousand,
one hundred dollars has been sub
sclibed by Lincoln county farmers
for stock in the Louisiana Mississippi
Milk Distributing Company, which
will establish plant in New Orleans.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19
TRUSTEES SHOULD MAKE
REPORT

All rural school trustees whe
ave not already done so shoulo
make report of their teachers e
ecticn at once. This is importan-
rs have to make report to the
State Department of Education be-
fore we receive our allowances of
he Equalization Fund for next ses-
sion.
c. A. LAWSHF.
County Superintendent.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19
UNION MEETING

Members B. of F.; B. L. F. and
E.; Train Dispatchers and O. r.
Telegraphers are invited to attend
series of union meetings at oil
Masonic Hall Sunday afternoon at
800 P. M.
n r.nn
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19

FOR SALE-One V ctrola and 81
lec5rts. New. VIII sa,riiice. Cash
Fiks Apply at this office
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TREASURER REPORTS

JACKSON--Aug. Aug. 49, At
the close of business, the 18th, DR..
Murray. the State Treasnsof. an
nounced the following conditions 81
the various funds:
General funds, $29s,3s6.95; bank.
department support, $72,135.57 bank;
depositors's guaranty fund, 1882
70; land assurance fund, 1929; vo-s
cational educational fund Sis, 5,221.34;
band commission improvdneat and
repair fund, $1,183,o7100; Missis-
sippi interest account, $261.z5; casf,
and cash items, $1,141;52
All of these except the general
fund are specific appropriations for
certain purposes as indicated. ard
cannot be used for payment Of gem
erai tund items, such as salaries
schools, pensions, etc
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19
E. D CARR
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
TO MEEr AT COFFEEVILLE
Secretary Joint Com.

The Yal,busha County Sunday
School Convention will meet with
the Methodist Church in Coffeeville
Thursday, Sept. the 1st. for oae
day session, A splenaid prog .am
has been arranged. The convention
is undenominational and each Sunday
School in the county is urgently re-
ouested to send delegates. Every
teacher and superintendent Is asked
to be present.
G. E. DENLEY, President.
Miss Madge Wright of Little Rock
Ark, who has been with relatives
for the past week returned home
Saturday.
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19

HAzELHURsT, MISS. Aug The
faln', rs Of this, Cop:ah County, met.
the 18th in a mass meeting 70 de-
- % means for handling the cane pro
o7"ts and sweet potatoes which
have been raised by the hundreds af
'fetsaads q bushels The market-
ing bureau Of the farmers organ
i7aticn aims to market the products
The progress-itemizer. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1918-1929, 1921-08-19

y. "A. LA w On T..
County Superintendent.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19

THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Broadway at l2oth street
PUBLIC LECTURE, by REV. JOSEPH
HOULDSWORTH OLDHAM. NJ A. OF
Edinburgh, Editor Of the 'lnternational
Review OF Missions on "Missionaries and
Public Questions Monday, March 81, at
$40 o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Ambush Suspected in
Fatal Buffalo Shooting
L. P. Graves in Dying Statement
Blames Burglar; Detectives
Believe He Was Plot Victim

BUFFALO,, March characterization
to-day of the fatal shooting of Luther
7. Graves, Yale graduate and socially
prominent, cast doubt on the first the
ory that Graves had been shot by burg
lars whom he surprised at work. De-
tectives tonight were inclined to the
belief that Graves was shot from am
bush, either by some one who had a
grievance against him or in mistake
for some one else.
Graves was shot early this morning
as he was walking from his garage to
his home in North Street.
In his deathbed statements Graves
insisted that he had been shot by a
robber but could give no details of the
shooting. In opposition to this theory
the detectives to-day pointed to the
fact that Graves was shot from a dis
tance of more than thirty feet in vr-
tual darkness.
Against the theory of deliberate
murder was the apparent absence of
motive. Investigation begun to-day
failed to disclose anything in Graves's
life which would lead to the belief
that he had enemies who would seek
his life.
Mayor George S. Buck announced
tonight that he had been authorized
by a committee of citizens to offer a
reward of $4,000 for information
which would lead to the conviction of
the slayers
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Brings Brides for Four;
Cannot Find Own Wife
Returning Armenian Success as
Matchmaker Where He Failed
to Find His Family

Mamas Siberian is very good shoe
maker of Brockton, Mass. Also. he is
what you call in this country tip-top
family man-good father, good hus-
band, good matchmaker.
This, in substance. is the way the
mender of bad soles told his story
when he came over from Brooklyn, just
Of the steamship Patria, that brought
him here several days ago from the
Levant:
Il live long time in Haroun, two
hundred miles away from CONSTANT
nople," he said. II come to United
States eight years ago. Last year | go
back to get my four daughters and my
wife. The Turks hold me in Constan-
tnopc. | cannot find my family, so l
come home. When | go away four
eountrymen in Lawrence ask me to get
him wife-fne. beautiful Arme nian girl,
With no veil, no tattoo marks--just like
american women. Sure enough, ] have
picture of my countrymen, which |
quick they like photograph and come
along with me. If I cannot do myself
good and get my family I do some
r''s St"S fSAJ SVOUs DiiH% ACiI iONi
hne Armenian girls to make my four
sSountrymen very happy with wives in
After his recital Mamas Siberian
vent up to the Grand Central to hurry
On to Lawrence and bring down the
lour men in need of wives. Meanwhile
'ne tour perfect Armenian girls went
away IN the care of agents of the
Travellers Aid.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Beggar's Dog Gets Liver,
Thinks 1t Sunday, Flees
Blind Mans St. Patrick's Day
Observance Fools Animal,
Who Runs Awav

John Doremus, "the blind beggar of
Rivington Street, last night sought the
aid of the police in finding his little
white dog, Coco, the one that held the
tin cup into which contributions were
dropped by pedestrians.
Doremus is broken hearted at the
loss of his side partner, because the
dog, sitting up on its hind legs, fore.
paws outstretched in a pleading atti-
tude appealed to the generous instincts
of the blind mans patrons, and he told
the police that Coco's running away
had been due entirely to misunder-
standing.
Always on Sundays Coco has had
liver for breakfast liver, chop
ped up fine. Also on Sundays Coco
slept nearly all day, because Doremus
didn't beg on Sundays. Being Irish, the
old man decided to celebrate St. Pat
rick's Day by giving Coco liver 70,
breakfast The little dog ate the lives
but resolutely refused to have his beg
ging harness adjusted afterward. Yelp-
ing and snarllng he ran out of the Riv-
ington Street tenement in which Do
remus lives and has not been home
since.
Cant blame him, when you come to
Think of it," says Doremus. pstheti-
cally-"he thought it was Sunday?
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Mysterious Burglar of
Brooklyn Is Captured
Leo Eorrigan, Long Sough, by
Police, Said to Have Confessed
MANY Kohber;cs

Leo j. Corrigan, known to tho prnol
lyn police as the mysterious burgla y u
was captarcd last night in "a raid made
nny Detectives Barry Boylan. Harry
sauien and Patrick Kirley, of the mar
cotic squad, acting under Snec,al
deputy Police Commissioner Carleton
Simon. ~ W u
:, corrigan had been sought by the po-
nee OF brookiyn since December. when
an epidemic of fiat hurglaries took
place that bore evidence Of having beer;
perpetrated by one person Suspicion
pointed to Corrigan, but efforts to
capture him proved unavailinr.
When the detectives descended last
night on an apartment maintained Nv
riorence Randolph at 26 Meserole
street, Brooklyn, Corrigan was one of
three men found there He was arrest
ed, charged with burglary. while the
woman was charged with yendinfr
drugs. 'N'" b
Being questioned after his arrest.
Corrlean, the police say. admitted hav-
ing robbed apartments at l26 Wal
.aoout Street, 1872 Wallabout Street. 65
MchIooin Street, Is Bourne Street and
a a house at South Second Street and
Marcy Avenue The prisoner also ad
mltted having participated in steal
ing an automobile from DR.. David Last.
OF ao5 South Fifth Street. BROOKLYN
early in December.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
IO'Brien Declares
City Will Contest
Phone Raise Order
Says Commission Usurps Le-
gal Rights to Detriment
of Public; Charges Action
Is High-Handed Exaction

a statement prepared by Corpora
ton Counsel John P. O'Brien was is
sued yesterday relative to the Public
Service Commissions oroer increasing
telephone rates, in which the order was
termed an outrage. ana it was asserted
that the city would contest it.
The telephone case has been
pending since the middle of October. !.
said Mr. O'Brien. "To date the com
pany' has not completed its proof in the
case, nor has ross-examination been
completed upon the alleged proofs sub
mltted. The city has had no opportunity
to offer any testimony in rebutta1 The
consumer has not yet had his day in
court.
"The city is convinced that there
is no legal warrant for this high
handed exaction. Apart from the law,
it is to be regretted that when re-
turn to normalcy is taking place this
tremendous increase should be allowed.
The city proposes to resort to every
legal means at its disposal to enforce
the consumers rights in the courts
Recognition of the necessity for
keeping down rates is displayed in the
report of the decision of the Illinois
Public Utilities Commission in the
Freeport gas case, which was decided
in November, 1920. The situation de-
plcted in that decision has become
increasingly evident since.
"The new order with regard to tele-
phone rates is a sample of what may
be expected from the new upstate
commission when it begins to function
under the proposed Miller bill. In this
case, wholly without legal warrant or
authority, it has usnrped legal rights
to the detriment of the telephone
users"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Nonpartisan Row Probed

TOPEKA, Kan. March 1S-In CON
nection with an order for an nvesti-
cation of the refusal to permit Nom
partisan League speakers to address a
meeting at Marion Wednesday night,
Governor Henry j. Allen issued state
ment to-day in which he asserted that
he was opposed to the league move
ment, but that every effort would Re
made to see that league workers re-
ceived fair treatment
The Governor characterized the
league movement as one preaching
class minded doctrine.
Former United States Senator J. B.
Burton, who was escorted from Great
Bend last Saturday night, was one of
those refused permission to speak at
the Marion meeting, according to re-
ports reaching the Governors office
Governor Allen directed the Attorney
General to bring Marion officials here
and question them concerning the
affair.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
REFORMED
Collegiate Church of New York
THE MIDDLE CHURCH

Second Avenue and Seventh Street.
Rev. Edgar Franklin Romig, Minister
will preach at IL A. NJ. and P. NJ.
Wednesday. p M. Lenten Service.
Rev Henry e Cobb. r. u. viii preach.
Service Good FRIDAY at p II.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
PRESBYTERIAN
BRICK CHURCH
Fifth Ayenue and Thirty seventh Sire

ritn AseHUe and Thirty seventh Strcst.
M.ais.era William Pierson Merrill.
~, Theodore Ainsworth Greene.
~ MERE.LL WI preach at l.. and l.
:, VI Bach's Oratorio. -St. Matthew
:, nassoF VIII be sung. Soio.sts 1nez
5Isaroorf. Rose Bryant, Lambert Murphy.
rfahk ~roxion. n. Clarence Dickinson,
Ofgansst and Chosrnas;er
Bible School, at $40
General Discussion, Bible Class at 10.
Leader Professor Charles Thaddeus Terry.
Young Peoples Society Social and supper
Meeting. 5.3o-7 co.
stainer's 'Crucifixion''; soloists: Charles
Harrison, tenor William simmons. bari
tone Full Chorus.
Hoy Week Services, March 21-25 at p. NJ.
Organ Prelude at AS
Preachers
Monday-Rev. John Kefnan. D. D.
,uescay-Rev Ralph ". Sockman. ph.D
W edresda y--Rev. Daniel Russell II ..
Thursday-Rev Henry Sloane Coffin, D. D.
he Sacrament or the Lords Supper.
Friday-Dr. Merrill
MONDAY SERVICE daily (except Thurs
day) al 1890,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
aadio Receiving Record Set
p0.oeutter Takes 4.8 3-5 Words
Minute. With Two Errors

,saa. o. ~ Seutter established speed
lia lsss IN receiving wireless messages
coran nignt at the Executive Radio
s,S..aIs sy,ra.I convention at the Hotel Penn
p.s RAMA; lie took AZ So words min
~. "a the Continental code with only
eoa, typographical errors. His closest
,apssi'or ,snt .r was Nat Bernstein, who
mad sne same number of words, but
ed - s'S mistakes. Previously the rec
Fran";as "ss heid by Tony Gerhart, of San
d. sslsco, 'l.s, who took At words min
M M with three mistakes. Gerhart did
aght. ' 'a Tue sompetltlon iase
aua aaasler is twenty-seven years old
Mss,' Z q; radio operator, living at 12s
tscs.;s ss ;niSty-hrst Street. He was chief
asd 's'ah n.s IN the navy during the war
nn.~ss as stationed at the Otter Cliff
useesanie station.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
Autoist Injured
Ry Humane Society
Rope Across Road
Cable Throws Three From
Machine on Greensboro
Bridge: Four Children
Run Down and Killed

Philip Elhoif. thirty three years old,
ii ess Toy Avenue, Brooklyn was
saken to Metropolitan Hospital; Black
wells Island, yesterday, suffering from
: nossible fracture of the skull as the
rssult of an autom accident early
yesterday
With his wife, Pauline, twenty
YEARS old, and Jacob Pirony, forty-one
Years old, Of 10S Bergen Street, Brook
i'm. when the machine ran into a rope
,shch had been stretched across the
oueensboYo Bridge while humane
society ambulance was noisting up a
horse that had fallen to the trolley
tracks. TIE occupants of the car were
thrown out and the windshield of the
machine was smashed.
Joseph Farlkow, six years old, of 97S
Washington Avenue, the Bronx, was
crushed to death late yesterday after
mon when he was run over by a mail
truck short distance from his home.
The driver, Robert Watts, a negro,
twenty years old. of 222 West Thirty
s;ghth Street, was arrested.
Frederick Limick, eight years old, Of
Gao ST. Anne's Avenue, the Bronx, died
u st. Francis's Hospital last night,
twenty minutes after he had been
struck by motor truck at st. AIMS
Avenue and 14lst Street.
Joseph LEVITT, three years old, of 1875
Madison Street. was struck and killed
hv an automobile at Madison and Rut-
ssrs streets last night. The driver of
tbe car. Edward Lewis, Of l52 East
18th Street, was held on a technical
charge Of homicide.
Sidney Summerman, six years old, of
ss Lee Avenue, Brooklyn, was killed
last night at Lee Avenue and Ross
Street. Brooklyn, by motor car op-
rated by Abraham Barabeck, of 2o36
Mermaid Avenue, Brooklyn. who was
seld on technical charge of homicide.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-19
City Coal Prices Drop
65 Gents to SIS a Ton
everything Is Cheaper Except
Labor, Say Dealers, Predict
ing No Greater Decline

Goal prices in New York were re-
aueed yesterday from 65 cents to S. a
"a below the highest quotations for
'ue last four months because of lower
ss0.stions announced by the heaviest
gTsouucing companies of Pennsylvania.
sa WV new prices quoted by city dealers
saa uss sio Tor stove coal and $l2T5 for
esg and broken coal.
me- ,;eaalng coal dealers declared that
Ss,ses sa probably would remain low for
,eyme sva Time. The present reductions are
Apsseeo to remain in force until May
sos. q. least. 1t was pointed out that the
s,;ser s,;asumer is likely to share in the low
aug ~ OF operating costs of big deal
srm.,. reed for horses and gas for auto
!, ,asAs nave declined. and the saving
= present reaches from Is to 25 cents
tas WI Coal men declared labor to be
sna -. heaviest cost item Of production
II Ty INA 'hat no reductions are being made
an, 'soor costs such as would justify
rAs material decline.