Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-28

Farmers of Stockton, Kan, have or
gnpized with an agreement to burn
corn this coming winter instend of
coal, on account of the difference In
price between these two commodities.
Four armed bandits robbed the Ho-
diamont Bank, Just outside of st.
Louis, of S7,1S0. Six employees and one
customer were compelled to lay face
downward while the men scooped the
money into sacks. The robbers es-
capped in an automobile.
Packing house employees of Des
Moines. Iowa, voted to accept . per
cent wage cut declared recently by the
packing companies. Officers of the
union snid that there will be no strike
by the employees unless 1t is declared
by the national officers.
A twenty-year courtship eliminated
In the marriage of William Coburn, 80
years old, and Mrs. Edith n. Wood, 80,
In the chapel of the Soldiers Home nj
Swatelle. suburb of Los Angeles.
Bride and bridegroom declared they
''never felt Younger
]. G. MacSpaddcn. 50 years old, n
former partner Of John d. Rockefel
Ter In the oil busncss, and a Minneap
oils pioneer, died nj Wasco, Calf Mr..
MacSpadden, who has devoted the last
few yeats of his life TO fruit ranches,
and eucalyptus groves in southern Cal
ifornia, was stricken with apoplexy
several days ago.
The body ef John b. Tordiff, SO,
repair shop owner, was found in his
shop at Globe, Ariz. His clothing had
caught in the machinery in such n
manner that he strangled to death. Of
flclals said the machinery apparently
had tightened the clothing about his
neck and kept on running until the
gasoline which furnished the power
was exhausted
Seventy-year-old Carl Rueble, re-
tired Iowa farmer, shot and slightly
wounded Mrs Gabe Oleson, the wife
of n neighbor and then turned the gun
on himself and committed suicide. Rue.
ble's attention to the 55-year-old wife
of his younger neighbor has been the
subject of Jest for some time. Mrs.
Oleson, according to her husband, paid
no attention TO his advances.
WASHINGTON
The governments annual report on
mortality statistics for 1920. soon TO be
issued, shows 1,142,5TS deaths within
the death registration area, represent
Ing n rate of 13.1 per thousand, ms
compared with 129 in 1919. Fatalities
from automobile accidents and injuries
increased from 9.4 to 10.4 per hundred
thousand
The outlook is favorable for the
passage of the federal MD road bill by
Congress In time to help relieve un-
employment in the building of high
why's. The amount asked, 100000, 900,
when doubled by II like sum from the
states, would go long ways toward
helping out things. England has start
ed movement Of this kind.
The War Department. announced
that 1000 seats, about ons-fifth Of the
total seating capacity of the memorial
amphitheater, Mt Arlington Armlstice
day had been reserved for gold star
mothers or other nearest relatives of
men who died In the World war. Not
more than two seats will be given any
application.
nounced the creation OF two addition
al boards which he declared would put
more business efficiency In govern
mental affairs and result In savings to
the government of several hundred
million dollars a year. The new bod
les set up are the federal speciflca-
tions and federal traffic boards.
A resolution by Senator Overman,
Democrat, North Carolina, adopted by
the Senate, directs the federal reserve
bonrd to report as to the salaries paid
by reserve banks and other expenses
of these banks. The resolution recited
that it had been charged that salaries
in the New York bank had been In
creased more than $1,0OO,0OO since the
war.
The new revenue law to be enacted
next year to take the place of the one
which Congress will soon pass, will
contain the chief provisions of the
Smoot bill, providing for manufactur-
Ing or sales tax on commodities
Agreement to this effect has been
reached among Senate leaders of the
eastern bloc, representing the indus
trial sections of the country.
Twenty million dollars annually is to
be expended for the next few years
In the United States for American
rolling stock, machinery, rails and sup
plies in connection with the expansion
of the South Manchuria railway, ac-
cording TO Yozo Tamura. who is in
San Francisco from the Orient
A petition filed in equity court by
the Commercial Solvents Company for
nm injunction r1s'riining the secretary
of the treasury from releasing large
,u,a n Tics of fllslI oil nnln In Atlantic