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, 1921-09-01
HIS CATCH.

A-settin' at Binn's groc'ry store, says solemn Uncle
Ike:
aDown to the river. tother day, I took a n~ine-foot
pike
Ike" says he,
Don't you set here and conjur up setch yarns as
them to meH
81 took a ninefoot pike-pole up says Ike, cam with
one pass,
AS true as I am tellin' you, I hooked a twelve-foot
bass"
"Ike stratton!' honered Deacon Pen, a gettin' up
to go,
tell 'em so?"
IT hooked a twelve-foot Eastwood log an drug it te
the Shore"
Says Uncle Ike. and Joe Binn says the deacon all but
The Denositor
, 1921-09-01
me Eastern Terror.

/. tIhermopoIa -
An artillery toter from the outlaw
east was parading our streets las;
Saturday packing a baby edition OF
Big Bertha on his hip. Rather an
heroic picture. to be sure At first he
was mistaken for Powder River Pete
or Bad Bill from Bitter Creek. but II
Inter developed he was the Kalamazoo
Kid As none of the boys we're in a
playful mood that day he still had his
gun when hc left town. 1t Is learned
that he has been busying himself
shooting prairie dogs and m uncon'
nrmed report from the hills has II
no pretty near hit one
Hold thy tongue lest It betray ye.'
is the m~oral-message of Aesop's Tho
Donkey in the Lions Skin"
, 1921-09-01

nix. now IN Los Angeles. and Mrs C
L Stacy Of Bennett. Colo
Funeral arrangements win not be
completed until after the arrival of
Mrs. Baker. but II has been tenta-
lively planned to take the body 70
was recovered from the wreckage yes
terdny
, 1921-09-01
MOuntuinF eudist
Connected Murder

MOUNT VERNON. Ky.- Sept L.
John Bailey, mountain feudist. who
has been on trial here for more than
a week was found guilty Of murder
and sentenced TO imprisonment for
life Bailey not and killed Beverly d.
White las April
, 1921-09-01
Congress Will Pass
Reapportionment
Bill Very Soon

WASHINGTON. Sept 1-consress
probably VIII pass q reappofucnmenf
bin at the present session. Represerfa-
tive Monden OF wyoming. Republican
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
THE COPPER MARKET

While the copper interests taking shows
 waiting for further decline initiating largely against far failed back large supply that predicted producers plan to bring the onetm buyers begin the manu faure of their product At Montana Ao Arizona products have been largely into production The companies now work
 ing small forces and being put shape for still and the management does not shut operations extent during the year England has just picked amount of scrappper brass etc., and sending States where will be melted and parted the copper being figure This will 2ooOOO pounds absorbed although possible that will be England The content of this copper being harder and not bae many things that England put it m Some European have large supplies with exception Germany,
 that country is position purchase having
 that useless plies that she has been threatening throw market
 beevabe that such action will be taken producer her needs of local gram of Japan, of assimatng
 and Korea and other activities to make necessary the holding and copper
 her hands, Japan has great to provide the safeguard this have to be carefully hubandd China the United States the little brown fellow pong by ex pences Germany and keeping and no fear be felt for the disposal the pounds in the hands of these people Cutting dumping the de- pression the copper market which steady
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28

The wise man saves up his money and the fool comes along and ,borrows it. ... ... s. /. ,...... Ir
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
A COLORFUL COMPLIMENT

A celebrated white preacher had been engaged to address the congrega- tion of little negro church and was being introduced by the very nervous colored pastor. .. ......... .,.. ,ss, ~
 "Sistern and bredren." he began, "'It affords me. the extremest pleasuah to introduce de speaker of de evenin'. I wants. to explain, dat while his skin ain't de same color as de odders heah, I assures you his heart is as black as any of yourn." <% ~ .. ,l.
 More downright misery follows in the wake of so-called pleasure than follows sorrow. :~'@s. S;e .-. '.>. *.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
IS IT POSSIBLE?

"How is former Senator Droll get ting along in private life?"
 "He seems fairly contented," replied Cyrus K. Savage. q fancy he de- rives a good deal of consolation from the expectation that his successor will prove to be even bigger fool than he was in the office. ."-Kansas City Star.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
BRAINS IN DEMAND

worth to be in greater demand during the next few than ever before
 problems harder The harder they pay for the man who can solve theni -'
 that corporations how to make profits in an almost profite will command big salaries. . M
 get paid what they know rather than for what they do safe expert sent this opening safe s1o To knowing how $2s0" , ~a .4 <. ~.. ,- .. ..>>a. ..
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
GOLD, THE BACKBONE OF THE NATION

Was there anything that thrill that the fndn @ gnu uoe nere IS we would like to know it. The bringing of well of liquid gold" has its thrills as that expencd b the one who searches the waste for the yellow stuff and suddenly finds in rich great deposit of gravel lust think of the thrill that when gold was discovered HI pay California and the great rush that territory made the Golden State the Mecca world Later it was Alder Guch in Montana the Black H the Kondke And now there another rush into the nor where men are willing to brave the dangers winter to be ready in the nrnp h eve no the frozen earth for the yellow stuff The Elbow Lake, m Manitoba, far removed from the habaons
 In the five following discovery of gold California had produced $25sOOO0o and continued production with unagene regularity for fully 70 although the wide ang o1f from those pay days of production kondke Bonanza Creek from 1897 yielded $30OOOOOO But it IS to quartz mining that gold production greatest tribute The Comstock mines saved the Nation yield of gold and
 silver at time when the federal of gold and silver meet demands Cripple great life saver when was brought n and so Goldied Every gold history the United States Canada we'll as of the other nations using and exploiting gold silver mnes enormously benefited by every strike although this men who have contact game development and especially as these developments affect conditions the rush into the gold producing brought into the channels money money has added to the wealth Of the nation to such extent that it has stabilized and brought stability today treasury is burst ing with golden dollars there to be belief this wealth brief and that many be on it's way back to Europe from which But the wealth produced our country ours to have and hold Prior gold plentiful other but with golden gold dollar out of the treasury with why
 has had no explanation from the keeper treasury
 Even tho kept dollar that the United possesses
 the need of apparent circulation billions of that need boeng and only gold gives stability And to production going down into the bowels the yellow right that given other producer of selling product best advantage and not be hampred him down to set price, During the gold producer compelled exavagnt wages mners
 then got exactly the for his product that he obtained inviting conditions Had the gold to sell his product the market quite probable been able pedde per every of gold produced in the United States perorc the
 mint and there the commercially purchase from the Why this hampng producers been explained But that is the condition trying
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
INSOMNIA

Visitor-And what brought you here, my man? ....,,
 Prisoner-Walking in my sleep, lady. ....
 VisitoS And they shut you up for that? r :
 Prisoner-Well, it was in a bank where they found me walking.-Way- side Tales.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
SKIN DEEP

Heb-I suppose when all women vote the party managers will have to put handsome men on their tickets for candidates. ,@ s s-,>s. .. .,... .,, !.
 .She-What makes you think wom- en will demand handsome men to vote for when you look at the kind the most of them rnarry?-Baltimore American. ,.....
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28

something than the good will of the They want profits obtained by the who have been cnng during the through their ability to get gold into cheapy then selling it in the public profit should be the miners at allowed the circumstance and accomplished the benign influence of the McFadden bill
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
FAST COLORS

Saleswoman-This hat, l think, is better suited to the pallor of madame's complexion" ..
 Customer But if you hadn't told me the price first, my pallor would not have been so pronounced!-London Mail.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
THE MOVING MANS MUSE

Bulled under the general classified 'tion of Moving and Storage" in the Kansas City Times bushes this mod est advertising violet: .
 ..., GREY'S L. E. G. .,
 The Poet Movers, L. LERITZ & SON, have taught the readers of the Star-Times by years of experience to expect some good poetry, either of their own production or some other equally as good; the following is from Grey's elegy in a country churchyard. New York Evening Mail. .=
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28
GOVERNMENTAL EFFICIENCY

GOVERNMENTAL EFFICIENCY . Are you on this Investigating com mittee?" ..-. = /...
 q think so." ..
 "What are we investigating?" ~
 Dunno" ,a
 "Well, let's play poker until the chairman comes. Maybe he'll know" Courier-Journal.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28

Here are MT. and Mrs. Albert '. Goewen, who have just started in the 9s-foot motor yacht Speejacks from New York, for a 50,OO0-mile cruise around the world that will last about two years. There are eight others in the ships company.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-28

Consisting of
 l large mill building cov- cred with galvanized iron. 1 16"x30" jaw crusher.
 20-1250 pound stamp in two 10-stamp units, both belted to same line shaft. l testing mill.
 3 concentrating ta b le s| (wet), line shafting, ore elevator, etc., complete.
 This mill is new, only having made one run. It is the best made. Complete excepting power. A ny| power can be used.
 Located in San Bernar- dino county, Calf.
 VIII make rlghC prlce and easy terms to parties having good property. Might take part stock if you have a real mine.
 JESSE BERRY
 COvina, Calf.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
FARM AGENTS DISCHARGED

Ashdown, Aug. 13.-County Judge P. NJ. McCord has discharged County Agents George R. Johnston, white, and R. II. Bennett, negro, assigning as his reason the depleted condition of the county trasury He also discharged Miss Gladys Norwood, demonstration agent, but the First National bank and Arkansas State bank of this city raised funds with which to retain her Ths county is one of the pioneer counties in the demonstration work, and the action of Judge McCord k being criticized. The judge, however, is friend to demonstration work, but feels that this action was neccs- >arv
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
BOYS PLAY HANGING,
 LEADER NEARLY DIES

Mobile. Ala, August 12.-Playlng Hanging" proved all but real for Edward Boddin. a youth of Il years, son of q Mobile shipmaster, who Is in a very serious condition at local nfirmary, the result of strangulatlon.
 A negro murderer is to be handed here Friday, and this case briught up q discussion as to how murderers are mt to death. The boy took an avn ng rope. adjusted it about his neck and climbed to the railing Of the gal lerv told the boys to watch him. lie jumped.
 If is thought that the boy believed his feet would reach the gallery foor' but the rope was short and he hung suspended in the air. The smaller boys did not realize that their playmate was strangling, and not until he had turned black in the face and began bleeding from the nose and mouth dld they summon help. A servant girl WAS the first to reach the boys side, and he was cut down.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18

called me that" said Mr. Catbird. But then you know I'm really just MT. Catbird. The chill dren were completely fooled.
 ''They really thought there was an old cat somewhere around.
 You should have been here few minutes ago, Billie Brownie"
 II wish l could have been," said Billie Brownie, "Dut you see l don't are. l like to be here when I can just watch them and when they can't see me. I'm a bit shy, you know. But I'm not shy with birds.'
 No, know that" said MT. Catbird. But tell me what happened, Pussy Catbird," said Billie Brownie.
 Well, I was sitting on the fence, this very same fence upon which I'm now sitting and some children were playing in the yard nearby.
 "Whlle they were playing I made all sorts of queer sounds just like cat. You know how l can take off the various sounds of Il cat?"
 T most certainly do that" said Bill lie Brownie.
 ''They didn't know where the eat could be, and they began to look for the eat.
 Il almost fell off the fence laughing when they started to look for the eat. "Then when they were looking by the cellar stairs and under the old tree yonder l took great chances that they might see that l was not the eat, and l made the same sounds again.
 ''They kept saying to each other:
 "'Well, I'm sure l heard cat that time
 Il really and truly almost fell off the fence laughing. Then they came back and went on with their games They saw me sitting here and l had my beak tight and looked as though hadn't made sound"
 Il know" said Billie Brownie.
 Then l sat very still, of course, and one of them said:
 "'Well, all l can see Is that gray bird with the black cap
 "Of course they meant they could see me, and l was the one making all the sounds like eat.
 They finished playing after time and began to dig in the garden, trans planting the lettuce and hoeing the beans and watering the vegetables.
 Then l began to make sounds like the different birds and they would turn to one another and say:
 What song k that2 Whose voice was that? Do you know what bird that could have been?'
 And they'd look about and not see any of the other birds, for hardly any
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
REDUCE
 MILK TO FIVE CENTS

Little Rock, August 1.-The price of milk will be reduced to five cents glass in his restaurant today, it was announced yesterday by Joe Stahkis, proprietor of the Faust Cafe and Faust Coffee House. It is expected that other local restaurants will make similar reductions, although MT. Stat hakis said he had no information on this subject.
 MT. Stathakis said that the reduc- ton to the pre-war price was due to the fact that the Terry Dairy Com pany yesterday made reduction of from 90 to 40 cents per dozen bottles on milk. Under the city ordinances restaurants are permitted to sell only bottled milk.
 With this reduction we can just about break even on it, said Mir. Stathakis.
 He said that local restaurant men hope that business conditions will improve in the fall and that with an increased volume of business they will be able to make further reduc- tions in prices. At present he said none of the local restaurants is doing much business while overhead eXpen- ses continue to be heavy.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
WEEKLY REVIEW OF
 THE COTTON TRADE.

New Orleans, August 1.-The range of prices in the cotton market last week was unusually narrow fluctua tions being within limits of Fl to 6i points. The highest prices were made in the earlier sessions while the lowest prices came just after the mid dle of the week At the highest the trading months were to 15 points over the close of the preceding week and at the lowest they were 30 to B points under. october sold up to 13 13. fell off to 12.49 and closed at 12.73. In the spot department mid ding lost 12 points, closing at 12.13. Contracts in the net results lost 21 to % points.
 The advance of the early part of the week were due in great measure to covering of the short interest. Un- favorable crop accounts were at all times steadying influence, but the absence of any very great spot de mand prevented aggressive trading on the long sale with crop damage as its foundation. Trade figures for July, out durng the week, were unfavorable showing small textile exports from Great Britian and small consumption in this country and they caused more or less selling.
 Nearly all sections of the belt sent in crop complaints of one kind or an other and general opinion was that August deterioration was more than usually severe. This opinion was re flected by a private bureau report on the condition of the crop at the mid de of the month of 57 per cent of normal, n loss for the half month of a.G points against the 10 year average deterioration for the whole of August of 72 points. Hot and dry weather in the Western belt especially in Tex as. with consequent shedding and pre- nature opening of bolls, and poor fruit age in the eastern belt, particularly in Georgia and South Carolina, were the main causes of complaint.
 First bales were reported by Mis- sissippi and Oklahoma and Louisiana reported itS second bale while much cotton was reported open and about to open in southern portions of the belt with world of cotton open in the southern counties of Texas. By some crop observers this was accepted as indications of too carly maturl- ty of the plant and premature open ing of bolls on a large scale. At the end of the week showers were report cd in southwest Texas and opinion was divided as to their effect some traders claiming that they would bene- fit the plant while others claiming that they would materially injure the grade of open cotton.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
HALF OF ALI FARMERS
 IN STATE ARE TENANTS

Arkansas ranks eight among the Southern states as regards the num- Der of tenant farmers, according to the 1920 farm report issued yesterday hy the department of commerce, Bu- reau of the Census, Washington, p. C. There were 1l9.213 tenant farmers or 51.2 per cent of all persons on farms in the state in 1920, which is m increase of II .941 over the mum Der of tenant farmers in 1910, accord ing to the report.
 The proportion of farms operated h ytenants iS highest in the south according to the report, and the in crease in the decade throughout the country was 10o,070 or 4.2 per cent.
 The number of persons owing part of Cher farms and hiring additional land dccrcaSed during the lo year period. There were 1S,1S3 of these part owners in 1910 as against H. G1o in 1920. Tho report shows that there were 9So43 persons owing their own farms in 1920. an increase of 10177 oyer 10 years ago. The total number of farms in the state in 1920 was o32 GOA. as aganSt 2t46'S in 1910.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
HUGE STILL Is SEIZED

St Louis, August 11.-On of the most completely equipped distilling plants the police ever have uncover cd here was found today when n squad, answering an anonymous call that whiskey was being manufactur- cd somewhere in the block enter d building presumably vacant in the residential section. In addition to the still, which was of 200 gallons capacity daily, the police found a vat full of mash in the cellar about 80 feet long, F feet wide and eight feet deep.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
You'll get somewhere
with a pipe and P. A.!

Prince Albert is sold in foppy red bags, tidy red tins, handsome pound and haif pound fin hunidorS and tn the pound crystal glass h u m i'd or wfth sponge iofsfeney
 top.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
illuminated,

A little girl was combing her hair. It "eracked" and she asked her mother why it did
 "Why, dear, you have electricity in your hair" explained her mother.
 Were a funny family, ain't we, mother?" the youngster said. We're all lit up. I have electricity in my hair and grandma has gas on her stomach !"
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
WHAT BUSINESS COLLEGE
 SHOULD YOU ATTENn

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 We are using our Famous pv,ro Systems, taught by faculty o. specialists, school room eouinmon. that includes all modern office devicos The management of the T. c. c ara successful business men who knov what the business world wants in tbo way fo trained office help.
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The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18


 continued, "I have had the best time in the world. Such jo k @ s a s I'v 6 played on { h e children. : u c h jok e S :! T h Q y thought l was a cat. ''
 "W ell, s a 1 q Billie Brownie, you know I've always called you Pussy Catbird, for you do s u n d most astonishing ly like q pussy cat at times"
 That's tru e, you have often
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18

4IIVN hIIIN HIANf NIIs
 "But they didn't know. And they've all gone off now. And still they're wondering where the eat could have been which they thought they heard, and where all the birds were they were unable to see.
 "Ha, ha, ha, that Is the greatest joke-to think fooled them all"
 "Wen you're a smart bird, there is no mistake about that" said Billie Brownie and can tell you l admire your smartness."
 q fooled them, I fooled them," chirped Mir. CatbIrd. .Ihey didn't know the catbird when they saw him.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18

afAA Mo " VI AAA N AAANa then, and l sat, looking so quiet and meek.
 And then heard one of them say:
 " I still don't s Q e a n y other creature but that gray bird
 Il thought sure ly then that they knew l was fool ing them, but l found out they didn't know l could make sounds like a cat and sing like the other birds and some 1 h Il { like d
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
CHARGED WITH PERJURY

Mena, August 14-W. A. Morgan, a young farmer lviing near Potter, won Miss Florence Olin for hs bride, but he aroused the re of his father in-law. Morgan and Miss Olin were married Friday and yesterday he was arrested charged with perjury. In ap- vIying for license to wed Miss Olin,
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18

the young groom gave her asA .. a while pappa Olin says she is hut Morgan has gwen bond for his o. pearance in court to answer .a. charge.
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
NOTICE.


 of vins,R
 etm b sa flo U oduce eheavyr p fne
 ourp prices d can at in Winchst Tenn
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18
PUSSY CAT BIRD.

"Me-ow, meow, meow, meow" said Mir. Catbird as he sat on the fence.
 Inn q ho,l
The Nevada County picayune., 1921-08-18

nor did they know him when they heard him at his little jokes"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-29
DELANEY BILL TO BE FOUGHT
 BY THE MAYOR

Senator Alexander L. DeLaney's resolution abolishing the office of tax commissioner in Bridgeport, as offered to the State Senate yesterday, will get a good sIammingj from Mayor Wilson when it comes up for hearing. The mayor so declared himself today, after being informed that such a resolution had been presented at Hartford.
 1T shall oppose the bill.'' said the mayor. It harkens back to the old days. The present system is the only thing for Bridgeport
 Asked as to whether he would ap- pear personally against the bill when it is brought up at Hartford, the mayor replied that he probably would.
 Mayor Wilson was not the only city official who attacked Delaney s measure today. City Clerk P. Alex H. Robinson does not ike the idea of doing away with the office of tax commissioner He fears that matters might become worse instead of better if thei ity reverted to the old plan of a. board of assessors