The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-09-23
GENERAL NEWS BRIEFED


Prohibition Commissioner IL. A.
Haynes has recommended that the
salary of distillery warehouse guards
be cut fro m$15OO to $1,000 a year.
Attendance at the state Fair
Louisville, last week, ecipsed all
forme" records, and was the !drgc st
of .ho twenty-seven state fairs held
this year.
Postmaster General Hays has issu-
ed an order requiring postmasters at
first. second and third class offices
to work eight hours a day.
The worlds crop is estimated for
this season as about 95 per cent of
that of last year
The council of the League of Ma
tions is holding its second session
at Geneva, Switzerland.
1t is estimated that 100000
Russians have persisted since the be-
ginning of the war in 1914.
Cost Of living in England is reput-
cd to be 100 per cent above pre-war
cost
The murder charge against Fatty
Arbuckle has resulted in the barring
of plays in which he has appeared,
from the movie houses, and film
/ producers stand to lose S3,50O,OO0
as the result
A half million railroad workers
have voted to decline to accept the
. - per cent reduction in wages which
went into effect July l.
On account Of business engaging
the attention of Mr.. Tichenor, Mr..
George Johnson is acting iailer dur
ing the present term Of circuit court.
Mr.. Sam Riley of greensboro, was
a guest of relatives in Hartford the
/ first of the week
Twenty masked men bound the
guards and got away with three bar
rels of whisky and So cases from
Nelson county distillery Monday
night.
The value of the South's cotton
crop is enhanced $500. 200 by the
increase in market value of the sta
pie within the past two months.
The Home Telephone Co. Of Louis
will is preparing to install an auto
matte call system by which a patron
may directly call the party wanted.
The National Prohibition enforce
ment department has issued state
ment declaring home brewing and
home fermentation of alcoholic bever-
ages are a violation of the prohibition
laws.
The city council of Chicago has
barred meetings of the Klu KluX Khan
in that city.
Two hundred of the 700 workers
in the Henderson cotton mills walk
ed out Monday because leaders IN
their organization had been discharg-|
ed. The condition was also aggravat7
ed because of a fourth cut of ten per
cent in wages.
The special election in New Next
co, usually a Democratic state and
depended on to show the country how
unpopular the Harding administra-
ton was growing, elected a Republi-
can United States senator Wednes-
day, by a substantial majority.
Morris Calvin, republican member
Of the RI aautraI aOun M itfaa nf tha
Sixth district, was indicted by a
Franklin county grand jury in con-
nection with the Blair pardon.
Evansville city authorities have
said Thou shalt not" meet here, to
the organizers of the notorious Ku
Klux Klan.
After recessing for thirty days,
congress will reassemble Monday.
Betting odds in the mayorality race
in Louisville are to l in favor of
Judge Quinn.
The county judges of the state held i
a meeting at greensboro Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
The judge of the Lexington police
court holds that a man who gives no
more vigorous evidence of being
drunk than staggering on the street
is not Unable for drunkenness.
Hayden Campbell IA, and Elsie
Havener 10, Greensboro school chill
dren, slipped over to Rockport and
got married. The groom's father has
announced his willingness to finish
rearing the children.
Constables in Detroit took the body
Of a woman out of her coffin, after
the undertaken had failed to collect
from the husband the price of the
casket.
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