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Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
BERLIN TO
ACCEPT ULT|RATUM
OPPOSITION MElTS AWAY AS oc.
cUPATIoN OF TERRITORY
NEARS.
SENTIMENT, IS SHlFTING
Wilhelm Mayer, German Ambassador
To France Is in Favor of Paying
Political Circle Also
Favor Terms.

Berlin.-The Majority Socialists and
Clericals in party conference have
voted in favor af accepting the ultima
tum of the allies. The German PEG
pies Party by a vote of 80 to 5 re
Jected the proposition. The Demo
Gratis were in session at midnight.
AS the Independent Socialists al
ready have favored yielding to the al
lies, it is believed there will be a suf
ficient majority in the Reichstag fol
acceptance of the ultimatum.
Paul Loebe of the Majority Social
lists, president of the Reichstag, will
be commissioned by President Ete
with the task of forming a new cabi
net.
Sentiment in German political cir
Giles shows drift in favor of agreeing
to the allied reparation terms. 1t now
is believed parliamentary coalition
which will accept the allied ultima
tum will be constituted within the
next "a hours.
Germany has until midnight May
II to consider the allied terms. BY the
expiration of this time she is required
to give categorical answer-yes or nc
whether she will accept these terms
Failure to accept, will be followed by
allied occupation of the Ruhr valley
for which allied military preparations
are in progress.
The terms the Germans are asked
to accept include as the main feat.
ure the payment of 135,000,000 ,00C
gold marks in PREPARATIONS to the al
lies, or approximately $33, 600, 900
Meanwhile, the cabinet of CHANGER
lor Fehrenbach, with DR.. Walter ST
mons as foreign minister, has resign
ed, and political leaders are being
kept in almost constant consultation
over the problem of just what attitude
Germany shall adopt.
Wilhelm Mayer, German ambassa
dor to France, has declined the invi
tation of President Ebert to form a
ministry. He also has been confer
ring with members of the Reichstag
attempting to show that the signing
of the allied demands is necessary.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
boy
SCOUTS
81
Conducted by National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America.)
SCOUT SERVICE

In report to the national council
headquarters, scoutmaster fills in
the blank asking for comment upon
his troops community good turns as
follows: Did everything they could,
anywhere" which seems to be typical
of the spirit of scouts throughout the
country. The jobs aren't always the
pleasantest sort either, or the easiest,
but when a scout tackles the thing
he does ii flor all he's WORTH with
brain and Drawn and right good
WILL Here are a few little things
scouts in Birmingham did. in their
leisure hours" 1t looks as IL these
boys were not only going to be good
citizens in the future, but are good
citizens, here and now.
One scout repaired bridge. cleaned
mud out of two curbs and drained
ditch; half-hour time.
Five scouts removed large pile
of brush where trees had oeen
trimmed up; Is minutes each.
Five scouts repaired a street where
it had washed out by piling rocks and
brush and then dirt on top; one hours
time.
Two scouts buried dead hen that
the city health department would not
remove; 80 minutes time.
Four scouts dug a drainway to let
standing water out of the street, and
opened up ten sewers and % CUTTERS
Two scouts repaired bridge and
opened four sewers and 20 CUTTERS
ten hours.
One scout cut a dead tree which
stood close by the passageway and
was very dangerous to those passing;
one hour.
Eleven scouts worked two hours get
ting water out of basement of a church,
then built fire and dried out the
place.
Three scouts repaired four sewers,
also raked up lot of leaves from
around a house and burned them. as
they were dangerous to the commu-
nifty; one and one-half hours.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
LABOR.

One hundred cases of whisky, valued
at $1,000, were stolen from the Downing
Distilery at Tyronne, Anderson Coun-
tv. XIV. by 10 masked men with four
motor trucks.
Representatives oe the railroads APP
pearing before the Railroad Labor
Board at Chicago made specific reply
TO the charges of w. Jet Lauck con
corning the roads financial perform
ance and alleged inadequacies of rail-
way management.
The Omaha (Neb.) Building Trades
Council has adopted resolution call
ing for the boycotting of every Dusi-
ness house and bank in the city except
one general merchandise store, as a
result of a dispute between labor and
the business interests over wages.
| About 1000 live stock handlers OF
the Union Stock Yards Transit Com
pany, Chicago, who went on strike
recently because their wages had been
reduced cents an hour, have decid-
ed to return to work and accept the
wage cut, subject to arbitration before
Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler, the
arbitl ator of stock yards labor dis
putes.
Pleading that life is constant
struggle, with the odds always against
them" for the pnskilled labor on the
railroads, George Easily, vice-president
of the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers
and Station Employees, urged the Rail-
road Board at Chicago to refuse any
wage reduction at this time.
A cut of u per cent in wages of cyl
inder and job pressmen, press assist
ants and paper handlers employed by
the book and job printers trade at New
York was announced by a committee
on arbitration, approved by both the
employers and employees. The cut was
based upon the decline in living costs.
Printers and workers in allied trades
at st. Louis, numbering about 1,5O0,
began a strike at about 65 shops where
employers had refused to accede to the
demand of the unions for the adoption
of 44-hour week under the same wage
scale per hour as heretofore.
Litchfield's Qll.) telephones are idle
as the result of strike of the entire
force of operators, linemen, wire chiefs
and office employees, numbering 81.
A break in the ranks of the paper
mill manufacturers, where approx
mately 2o,000 paper makers of the
United States and Canada have threat
ened to strike because of proposed
reduction in wages and a change in
working conditions was reported at Al
bs>y, N. Y.
A reduction of about 20 per cent in
wages for day labor, effective May 16,
and an equitable adjustment of other
rates, including salaries, at the plants
of the United States Steel Corporation
| was announced at New York by Ebert
H. Gary, chairman of the corporations
Board of Directors.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
GRIM | NAL.

Green Garner, proprietor of hotel
at Sedgwick, six miles east of Hoxie,
Ark, shot and killed Curley Davis
after Davis slightly wounded Garner
with one charge of shot from shot
gun.
Burglars who blew and plundered
the safe deposit vaults of the bank of
Campbell at Campbell, N. Y, escaped
with Liberty Bonds and other secur-
tiles valued at $4,000
While being driven to her home from
a visit to a sick woman, she had been
treating at South Orange, n. j., Mrs.
Celeste Cassese, a healer of Orange,
was attacked and killed by four men
who held up the automobile in which
she was riding.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
PERSONAL.

DR.. Jacob Gould Schurman, president
OF Cornell University, is understood to
have been selected by President Hard
ing for Minister to China.
The designations of w. A. Webb,
vice-president and general manager Of
the st. Louis Southwestern Railway
Company, at Dallas, Tex, and other
officials of that road representing the
entire operating staff, have been ten
dered to the executive officials of the
line at st. Louis.
Lawrence O'Neil, Lord Mayor of Dub
lin, was given hearty welcome by
members of the Irish White Cross,
when he arrived at New York steamer
Acquitania to enlist aid in securing
funds for the Irish relief organization.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
FOREIGN.

Nine of the 20 persons arrested for
the recent bomb outrage in the DIAM
Theater, at Milan, Italy, when many
persons were killed and wounded, are
implicated in other crimes, the police
announced.
Nineteen Paris butchers convicted of
juggling grades of meat and selling
second and third-class cuts for extra
cuts were sentenced to Is days in jail
and assessed fines ranging from 1000
francs down to 100 francs.
Ninety Moros, including Mahariah
Untong, a religious fanatic leader,
were killed by detachment of Philip
pine constabulary in an engagement
near Taglibi, on the Island of Sulu,
some 800 miles from Manila, accord
ing to advices received at constabulary
headquarters.
question of fusion with Germany. the
vote in Tyrol was 129,838 in favor of
and 1875 against the proposition.
Commander Vuillemin, of the French
army, was awarded the Henry Deutsch
de la Meurthe prize of 10000 francs
for the most notable sporting event of
the year. The prize was presented by
the Academy of Sports.
An individual net worth tax of per
cent with an exemption of $4,000 to
take the place of the so-called '.nuis-
ance" and the transportation taxes was
suggested by Representative Bacharach
of New Jersey and bill providing for
1t may be introduced by him in the
House BEFORE work is begun on reyis-
ion of the tax laws
Lord Eustace Percy. brother of the
Duke of Northumberland, won the
Hastings (Eng.) bye-election, accord
ing to an announcement He was for
merly an attache at the Washington
embassy and Is coalition unionist.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
TO KEEP TROOPS GOING.

II have question, too, Mr.. Cave
Scout. This seems about the hardest
time in the whole year to keep things
going in our troop. There Is little
doing besides regular meetings." Can
anybody help out in this case? 81 be-
lieve l can, Cave Scout. We had the
same trouble in our troop until last
winter, when we arranged a scout din
ner and invited our dads and mothers.
That gave our folks pretty good idea
about what we do in scouting. Cave
Scout In Boys Life
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Frank Il. Ward, known on the stage
for generation as "Old Pop Ward
member of the vaudeville firm OF
Ward and Curran, died at New York
of paralysis. He was y years old.
Lille Taylor, a New Orleans, La,
negro woman, was awarded oil ana
mineral rights in property in Claiborne
Parish, said to amount to $20.000.Oo0,
in decision rendered by the State
Supreme Court.
Benjamin l.. McDermott, farmer,
was pinned under u tractor which
turned over while he was driving II
on a farm near Neshoba, Tenn, and
was crushed to death.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
Condensed News Items
THE BENEFIT OF BUSY READERS

Invoking the treaty of 1881 between
the United States and Mexico, and at
lacking the constitutionality of the
Vclstead law, Levy Mayer, attorney
for the defendants in the Sunny Brook
Distillery, Texas, case, obtained a con-
tinuance until May 20 of the hearing
before United States Commissioner
Mason at Chicago.
|. The Burroughs Memorial Forest at
Big Indian, in the Catsllill Mountains,
was dedicated with appropriate cere-
monies. A tablet at the entrance to
the forest had been planted by public
school pupils.
More than 100000 persons or the
equivalent of the population of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, have hit the trail at Billy
Sundays revivals since the noted evan
gelist has been holding his campaigns
against the devil. This announcement
wis made by Frederick Rapp, the man
in charge of the Sunday. party.
With the arrest of seven men. the
police believe that a gang of interstate
automobile thieves responsible for the
disappearance of 100000 worth of cars
has been broken up. A confession OBJ
tanned from one of the prisoners in
VOWED fences" in Illinois. Indiana,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
Owing to an increased demand for
open top cars for the transportation
of coal, a further decrease in about a
week of 16,412 in the total number Of
idle freight cars was shown on April
%, according to reports received from
the railroads of the United States by
the American Railway Association.
That eonfiscated liquors have been
stolen from prohibition offices in st.
Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans and
practically every city where seizures
have been made, and that he had
known liquor was missing from the
New Orleans office for the past two
or three months, were statements
made by David Gates, prohibition
supervisor of the Southwestern Dis
trict, in formal statement at New
Orleans.
Explosion of gasoline tank in the
plant of the Diamond Oil and Paint
Company at Scranton, Pa, resulted in
the death of two persons, the serious
injury of two others and the almost
complete destruction of the building
by fire. Two other men are unaccount-
ed for.
Unemployment and strikes of vari-
our kinds In progress at Philadelphia,
Pa, affect more than 100000 men and
women, labor leaders declared.
The body of Ethel Gavin. "a, a
school teacher of Glencoe. H., was
found hanging from a tree at Mellen,
Wis, 60 miles east of Superior, Wis.
Jules w. (Nicky) Arnstein and the
four other defendants, Jointly on trial
at Washington with him in criminal
court on charges of conspiracy to bring
stolen securities into the District Of
Columbia, were found guilty by jury.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
Missouri Bank Robbed.

Mount Vernon, Mo.-The Bank of
Mount Vernon was robbed recently,
safety deposit boxes were rified and
about $500 in cash taken Entrance
was effected to the vault by cutting
through brick wall, but the safe was
untouched.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
Many Hurt In Wreck.

Rockford, MINI. : A score of per.
sons were reported injured when
three coaches on train No. 100, Twin
Cities to Winnipeg, on the Minneapo-
lis, st. Paul and Sault Ste Marie rail.
road, were derailed two miles west
of here.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
Air Route To India.

London.-Important results have at
tended the visit of Winston Spencer
Churchill, British secretary of state
for hecolonies, to the Middle East,
says the Daily Sketch. That newspa-
per printed what purported to be an
outline of the British policy to be pur-
sued in Mesopotamia in future.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
MANY Leave For Russia.

Riga.-According to dispatch re-
ceived here from Petrograd, "a
patches of American workmen and i'm.
migrants, totaling 3,042 men, arrival
in Petrograd from December, 1920, to
A pril1, 1921, and during the first part
Of April 1000 others arrived
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
TWO Burned To Death,

Bogalousa, La. w. Creel, IA, and
S. M. Brown, 6S, were burned to
death when their boarding house, op-
Grated b va family named Lott, was
destroyed by fire, believed to be Of
incendiary origin.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
Hold Ruhr Frontier.

Solingen.-A brigade of British cav
airy has occupied the Ruhr frontier
near Solingen. The British are ready
to take part in the occupation Of Sol
ingen, Elberfeld and Barmen, should
that be necessary.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
Allies Near the Ruhr.

Vessel, Prussia.-Belgian cavalry
has occupied strategic points east and
west of the Rhine near Vessel. Rhein-
berg and Dinslaken in readiness for
an advance with the extreme left wing
of the army which possibly, Liayoccu-
by the Ruhr region of Germany.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
Rice Miliers Meet.

New Orleans.-The Associated Rice
Millers of America and the Rice Mil
.ers' Association held a joint session
ere recently lasting three days.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
British Honor Japanese,

London.-King George has appoint
ed Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan
an honorary general in the British
army.
Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-05-12
NeUs From All
OUer Arkansas
An Epltoms Of Items Condensed
For Quick and Easy
Reading.

Lockesburg.-Tr service was cut
off from this place recently by high
water following heavy rainstorm.
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-13
SEES son OF ~ FOR FIRST TIME
Children of Bridgeton. y. J. Resident
Arrive From Poland.

Bridgeton. ". j.. May l2.-Samnel
Rosen today saw his daughter, Fan
ny. a girl of seventeen, for the first
time since she was a baby end had
his very first glimpse of his son, Max.
a boy of fourteen. They arrived here
from Poland after perilous trip and
were overjoyed to get away from
bolshevist horrors. which they de-
scribe In strongest terms.
Fanny was a baby when the father
was forced to take part in the Rus
sian-Japanese conflict and the boy was
born after he came to America. The
mother had died. Rosen married
again in this country and not until
recently had he been able to learn
the whereabouts Of the children. The
girl is radiant with health and hap
piness. but the boy is far from being
well.
A bomb thrown by bolshevists ex-
ploded close 10 his head and he suf-
fers from shock. He also met with
an accident while waiting In port for
an opportunity to sail. by falling from
a second-story window. Mrs. Rosen
the stepmother. welcomes the chill.
dren as gladly as does their father.
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-13
MONROE FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Cotton on the local market is l1.4O

Cotton on the local market is l1.io
today.
Frost was reported in the county
last night.
Folks are getting oetter rapidly II
the county In March there We're 1ll
prescriptions filled al the medical de
pository at cost OF S3g0.S0. In April
there were AZ prescriptions filled al
cost of s253.1S.
ESQ. T. j. Griffin says that there
is a spot in Goose Cr,tk toSnship on
which sweet potatoes have been
planted every season except Two for
forty wears. Tne spot Les between
the well ard the house on the A. j.
Presson home place And It is still
bringing fine potatoes
After the Wingate commencement
exercises were over Friday afternoon,
Mr.. Ray Funderburk arose and IN
the presence of the audience present
cd Prof Dry with fountain pen from
the students as a testimonial OF their
high regard and appreciation Of ms
work lor them.
The cotton association is preparing
10 issue a report on thu acreage that
mas been planted in cotton Reports,
as usual, are conflicting. OF course,
nobody knows what proportion Of cot
ton has been planted. Locally the
reports are as conflicting as the gen
eral ones One man Will say that
more cotton than ever has been
planted, while the next one will say
not so much. Uncle Jake Little came
up the other day and remarked that
there were two places on mis- route
where not q seed of cotton had been
planted and where none would be.
This seemed so unusual, that il ap-
peared to have the promise of fine
news item, and Uncle Jake was press
ed for information. With that same
sweet twinkle of the eye, he informed
us that the two places were Lees mill
pond and Belk's mill pond.
In reporting his trip to Georgia last
week. Mr.. f. A. Armfield left of one
incident that was too good to keep,
but which he left for somebody else
10 tell. When he got to Hamlet on
the return trip il was necessary TO
change trains. Now, there are al
ways so many trains at that place
that a fellow never knows which one
is the right one So when Mr. Arm
field got seated. like sensible man.
he wanted 10 he sure that he was on
the right one for Monroe. and calling
the porter. he asked II that was the
train for Monroe.
mo, sur said the porter, dis train
goes TO Norfolk"
well. show me the train for Mon
roe" said Mr. Armheld Il want to
go up in Gods country
"Oh. I see. boss" said the man who
knows the ways of the travelling pub
JIG, you wants to 80 TO Wadesboro;
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-13
MAJOR HINDE'S NEGRO SONG
Monroe Man Composes Ditty on the
Colored War Fighters.

Monroe Man Composes Ditty on the
Coloed War Fighters.
The following song. The Fight
er." is one of Major B. II. Hiude's
productions:
When the war came on | was at home
a-working on farm
! was jes' simple niger an ] never
did no harm.
Der come man who told me that ]
had 10 go TO war,
| said: You silly fool don't even
know where ii is.
He said:
Well take you there. you niger
II you don't know how to fight
Wen put you next to the enemy
Well 20 there in the night.
That's all we'll do with you. black man
And not thing besides.
As to fightin' use your own judgment
Your conscience be your guide.
They took me TO the war. white man,
and put me in ditch
Twas nighttime like that feller said
and il was black as pitch
A yellin crowd OF Germans came. J
threw away my gun
An took my trusty razzer out, and !
sure carved the Hun
spoiled my beatest razZer on a tough
old Germans throat
Cut an officer TO ribbins with much
gold stuff on his coat.
don't believe in bayonets, ! cannot
use gun;
But give me my trusty raZzer an I'll
make the whole worl' run.
ENCORE VERSE
came home from the fight, white
man, in uniform so grand
The folks came ont to meet me but
my gal she warn't on hand
They said some nigger'd took her, an
by gosh il got my goat,
So | got my trusty razZer and | split
that nigger's throat.
Now Sal and ! are happy in a simple
little cot
With half a dczen piccaninnies play
ing in the lot
An II this here United States ever
goes back to war
I'm there with my oil razZer. It's
dandy, sure IT are.
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-13
In NIeInorian.

Butler-In loving memory OF oul
dear mother. Mrs. Kate Butler. who
departed this life Mothers Day.
May 9th. 1899. Monroe. n. c.. one
year ago today
Lonely are We without thee,
Mother how we miss you no one
knows:
Our thoughts are always with you.
From early morn till evening close,
We mourn the loss OF our dear One.
We did our best to save,
Beloved on earth, regretted, gont.
Remembered in the grave.
We often sit and think of you
when We are all alone,
For memory is the only friend
That grief can call its own
Friends may think you are forgotten,
But the wound is as fresh TO-DAY
As in the day you left us broken
hearted,
one year ago today.
MIR. and Mrs. 5. H. Adams and
children
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-13
CANDY HAS BECOME KING
Immense Fortunes Made in Catering
10 Americas Sweet Tooth,

We used to say that cotton was
king in the world OF business. Has
candy succeeded to the throne?
George W. Loft, the prominent candy
manufacturer. leased one of the best
business sites in New York City at a
rental thought to he Unprecedented
even for New York The siX-story
building which stands upon the site
In qeustion is at the corner Of Broad
way and Thirty-fourth streets. next to
the great department store OF r. II.
Macy & Co. Fifty years ago the prop
erty sold for $4,000. Mr. Loft pays
an annual rental Of 100000 and as
sumes all additional expense OF taxes,
insurance. ETC., which IL Is estimated
will make the total cost of about
100000 per year An offer Of ST.
100000 for the property was refused
seven years ago Catering TO Tho
sweet tooth" of the American people
satisfactorily Is evidently a good bus
iness.-Columbus Ohio, Dispatch.
The Monroe journal., 1921-05-13
80 REASSESsIENT THIS YEAR
on REAL ESTATE.

For the year 1921 all township list
takers and assessors are required to
list the lands in their respective
townships at the valuation assessed
on same for the year 1920. excent as
otherwise provided in sections 2s to
2s-G inclusive. OF the Machinery Act.
pages go to "a. But for the benefit
of all who feel that real estate is as
sessed too high will say that the
county commissioners have recon-
mended a general reduction of 25 per
cent on all real estate in Union coun-
ty but will not know definitely wheth-
er this reduction will be granted or
not until probably some time in July.
simply make these statements that
you may understand the law. No list
taker has any right to change the
valuation on any piece Of real prop
erty except rs provided by law.
r. C. GRIFFIN, County Assessor.