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Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
Points Method to Obtain &. Z. s
~, Better. Teachers in America

Atlantlc City, N. :, Marchs2.-
The first and immediate way OF
getting better teaching through
out the country is to guide into
the profession those of good in
telligence and good character that
the teachers are instructing. Mrs.
Susan M. Dorsey, of Los Angeles
told the Department of Superin-
tendence of the National Educa-
tional Association here today.
I'VE are guiding into other
vocations, what is to prevent us
from pointing the way INFO our
own?" Mrs. Dorsey asked. "By
seeing with a clear vision it's re-
generating destinies the road that
leads to supreme serviG by invit-
viting the best of those whom we
teach to enter a vacation second
to none in opportunity, we shall
have better teaching"
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
IN The MOVIES

"The Chicken in the Case" with
Owen Moore is another of his de
lightful comedy charaCterizations
will the be feature photOplay at
traction at the local threatres to-
night, and the patrons OF this
theatre who will attend may safe
ly anticipate a merry evening.
The story is one that has been
constructed for comedy purposes
only, and it would not be strange
if it achieved as great 4 vogue as
did "Charley's Aunt" some years
ago. It's all about young man
who, in order to secure an inheri-
lance, pretends to be married =;
the wife of his pal, Percy Jones,
being the Chicken in the case"
The efforts of the young man to
keep up the deception and the
strenuous efforts of his Aunt
Sarah, who thinks the young cou-
pie are becoming estranged thru
a bold interloper, who is really
the young wife's own husband,
create a series of comedy situa-
tons that would bring a smile to
the stolid face of the Sphinx.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
Episcopal School Burns

Thomas Hall, which is the main
building of St. Johns Collegiate
Institute at Corbin, which is TN
der the supervision Of the Lex
ington Episcopal diocese, was de
stroyed by fire Tuesday morning
entailng a loss Of $4,000.
1t was a three-stOry frame
structure. used mainly for chapel
and classroom purposes. The fire
cought from the furnace. Other
buildings were reported not
damaged by the flames. The loss
is covered by insurance.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
/. Z. Blanton
Richmond Daily Register
J. N. sAUFLEY, Editor ana Preprietsr
Political Announcement

ouIIC8Q fANm60nEGn1SnI0
Tho Daily Register Is authorized &C.
'nounce the following candidates fol
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK
JAMES w. wAGERS
FOR SHERIFE
VAN BENTON
FOR JAII.ER
SAM HUNTER
CHAS. =. ROGERS
FOR cIAYOIt
SAMUEL RICE
ROBERT GOLDEN
T9DR CITY ATTORNEY
EUGENE MOYNAIiAN
FOR CHIEF nF POLICE
CLAUDE DicVORE
JAMES II. POTTS
For Councilman
REED JUFTr
FOR TAX COMMISSIONER
HEN X. POWELL
CHAS. Nj. MARTIN
For County attorney
JOE p. CHENAULT
FOR COUNTY CLERK
HUGH SAMUELS
RICHARD O. MOBERLY
subject to the action OF tho Democratic
party.
Verdict For $1,000 Affirmed
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02

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Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
CHAMP CLARK DEAD
lCOntlnued from Page |

Continued from Page l
life he reduced this to Champ
Clark. His first work was as
farm hand. clerk in general
sire and on country newspaper.
Fle was educated at Kentucky
University and Bethany College
and the Cincinnati Law School.
For a short time he was presi-
dent OF Marshall College, and at
IZZ held the record of being the
youngest college president in the
United States. In 1857 he moved
to Missouri, where he took up the
stud yand practice Of law. and be
came prosecuting attorney III
Pike county. Ills next step was
into the Missouri legislature,
where he framed the Missouri
primary law, an antitrust statute
and an Australian ballot law. He
was permanent chairman of the
Democratic national convention at
St. Louis in 1904 and headed the
committee that notified Alton p.
Parker of his presidential nomi-
Ination.
He was first sent to the nation
al forum in 1893. Although when
regarded as green" his strength
i'll the house developed rapidly.
When John Sharp Williams left
teh house for the senate. keDre
sentative Clark was made minor
ity leader by virtue OF H.; senior
ity on the Ways and Means Com
mittee which drafted the PANE
Aldrich tariff act. is selylcc Gil
that committee in trying to keep
duties down won him Ike regard
of the Democrats an his speech
Of five hours against the bill W: ;
one of the notable addre ,ses Of
that congress.
Mr.. Clark's sincerity, friend
ship for opponents and adFerents
alike, his fairness as presiding
officer and his knowledge of his
tory, his love of clean anecdotes
an humorous stories, and his
marvelOusly retentive memory
ranked him with hisattributes OF
leadership. He welded the minor
ity into a virtual Democratic I'M
it when he was minority leader.
and after the ousting OF Cannon.
which robbed the speakership of
many OF its powers, he divided
with Majority Leader Underwood
the control of the Democrats in
the house and they formed a
great working team.
Physically he was giant of a
man, standing over six feet two
inches i'll height and weighing a
trifie more than 200 pounds.
Speaker Clark and Mrs. Clark,
a familiar figure in the speakers
bench in the gallery, entertained
not only at an annual New Years
house and at other functions, but
gave informal luncheons at the
capital to which members and
othes were invited. Genevieve
Clark, who was engaged to James
M. Thompson, a New Orleans
newspaper editor, was announced
in the waning days of the 63rd
congress, and Bennett Clark, par
Humanitarian of the house at the
speakers appointment, whom the
speaker hoped to have succeed to
his seat in congress, comprised
the rest of the immediate family.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
Youth Shoots At Rabbit
Kills Younger Brother

Stanford, Ky, March 2-Nea4
Waynesburg, Archibald Smith, Is
was shot in the head and instant
" killed by his brother, Arthur.
Il. \ wounded rabbit was about
TO get away and the younger boy
spran@ for it just as his brother
lred another chsrge.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02

dict Of $1,000 against the Louis
vile and Interurban Railway Co.
for the death of Katherine VeaCh
of St. Petersburg, Fla, who was
killed at Bonita Crossing. Shelby
county. in May, 1913. She was
one of a party of motoring tour
lists, all of whom were killed wher
the machine was struck by a car.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
Mid-Week Prayer Service

The midweek prayer service
at the First Christian church will
be of special interest tonight Mr.
Carpenter will speak on. "Won
To VIM special music by the
male quartet. All interested in
the pre-Easter personal evanvel-
ism campaign should attend at I
o'clock.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-02
Great Throng Attended
Funeral of War Martyr

Lawrenceburg, Ky. March 2
More than 1000 persons attended
the funeral OF Delbert Lee Riley.
who died in France in 1918 OF
wounds received in battle. This
was the first military funeral in
this county.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH.

Sunday School at ten.
Preaching at eleven and eight,
Meeting begins first Sunday in
September. Everybody cordially in
E. r. Henderson, Pastor
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
WELL ABANDONED ON
: PORTER FARM PROPERTY

In speaking of the abandonment of
the hoped for oil well on the old
Porter farm, later known as the prop
erty of the late L. /. Rice, twice
sheriff of Tallahatchie County, the
Mississippi Sun, published at Char
lesion, states that the machinery will
be stored at Pine Crest farm where
a purchaser will be awaited. Those
behind this well proposition showed
persistency and determination and
Grenada and Grenada County shares
the regret felt by the people. OF Char
lesion and vicinity over the failure
to find oil.
The following is taken from the
Mississippi Sun Of August 10th:
1.-THE drill had reached to q depth
of little more than 3,700 feet when
the order to abandon work was glv-
en-. At depth Of 8 $50 feet reached
during the preceding week, quantities
of sea shell, turtle shell, whale bone
and sharks teeth were brought up.
This convinced the drillers that they
had reached the old sea-bed. 1t is
known that in prehistoric times, mil
lions of years ago, the foothills of
the Allegheny mountains marked the
eastern shore line of this country
and the waters of what are now the
Gulf Of Mexico extended far up the
Mississippi Valley. How far the
waters receded can be imagined by
the depth at which these shells were
discovered by the oil drillers."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
MRS. J. M. WRITTEN
DIED AUGUST 18TH

Mrs. J.. NJ. Whitten died at her
home in the old Center Point neigh
borhood just in the edge of Talla.
hatchie County, fifteen miles west of
Grenada, August II, and her remains
were laid to rest the next day in the
Smith burying ground, the funeral
|services being conducted by Rev. Joel
ID. Rice who paid fitting tribute to
the life Of the departed.
Mrs. Whitten was born in Pea
Ridge community within few miles
of where she had lived all her life.
She was n years Of age when she
died. She was a good woman and
had rendered her community. her
family and her friends that service
which reaps its greatest reward in
the beautiful beyond. She was a
good mother, a devoted wife and was
ever kind, thoughtful and considerate
of the needy and distressed in her
neighborhood. Mrs. Whitten is sur
vived by her husband, two sons and
three daughters besides other rela-
tives to whom The Sentinel tenders
sincere sympathy.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
GIRLS OF THE UNDERWORLD BROUGHT
TO GRENADA---THE RESULT,

No newspaper undertakes to pub
lish all that happens in its community.
There are many things which, if they
found their way into print, lives
would be wrecked and perhaps horues
would be broken up. The larger the
town, the more is the individual citi-
zen lost sight of and less is the danger
Of life wrecking by publishing hap
penings of every kind. It has always
been the policy Of The Sentinel to
keep out, Of its columns feuds and
such minor race clashes as have oc-
CURED in this section. Whenever the
management has thought that a
wholesome end could be served by
publishing happenings, even of a sa-
lacious nature, it has not refrained
from doing so. 1t has been the aim
Of The Sentinel to try to render this
County and this town q real service.
The newspaper that does not try to
SOW the seeds Of righteousness cor
rect moral standards and to foster
the spirit of brotherly kindness does
not deserve support. The writer be-
lieves that any fair minded person
will bear testimony TO what is k-res
stated as to the policy of this paper.
But there comes a time, even in a
small town, and regardless of who is
concerned, that newspaper owes it
to itself to lay before its readers the
moral turpitude of those who claim
this as home and who so far forget
their duty to themselves, their moth
ers, fathers, wives, sisters and
friends as to openly defy not only the
laws of God, but of the State and Of
society. IN the instant case four
young men of good families are
charged with brazenly parading wo-
men of the underworld in this beau
tiful home loving little city.
The spectacle of four young men
being arranged before his Honor,
Mayor Doty, on Wednesday morning
on the charge Of having brought
from the city of Memphis four young
women and as having consOrted with
them in Grenada in adultery, was
shocking to every sense of decency.
1t was sumner to the real thinking
part of the whole town. Each one of
the four plead guilty and asked the
mercy of the court. The Mayor de-
livered a splendid moral lecture to
the young men and reminded them
at length of their duty to themselves
and the names they bore and express
ed the hope that they would go and
"sin no more. Upon two of them,
the Mayor placed a fine of $50. each
and "a Jail sentence of 80 days, but
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
new BUILDING FOR
COLORED SCHOOL
Mr.. w. II. Kirk Makes Gift of 10
Acres of Land to Accommodate
School and For The Buildings.

| The leading eOlored teachers and
eolored citizens of Grenada County are
much elated over the fact that State
supervisor of schools for negroes in
Mississippi Bura Hilburn has made an
ALLOTMENT out of Rosenwald fund for
school purposes in this County from
which it is hoped that much larger
and even better things for the colored
population of the County will grow.
Perhaps the most important mat
81 100000 for Teachers Home and
of s16,OO0.O0 for school building.
The proposed building will require
three teachers and is designed for
teaching agriculture and vocational
work. These buildings, it is UNDER
stood, will be erected just outside the
corporate limits of Grenada. Mr.. w.
H. Kirk has very generously made a
Igift of 10 acres of land to accom-
nCcate the school and for the build
jings. 1t will no doubt be the purpose
of the city school trustees to use the
new school and buildings as an ad-
junct to the city colored school where
by it is hoped that much better work
and more desirable results can be OBJ
ltained from both.
The other donations already ar
ranged for are one thousand dollars
each for Teachers Home in the Mt.
Hermon community, eight miles east
lat Graysport, and at Sweet Home,
ten miles west. These buildings are
required to be constructed according
to plans furnished by the State De-
Ipartment of Education and it is un-
derstood that the plans are drawn at
Tuskeegee University. Work is al
ready under way for the Home at
Mt. Hermon.
1t is hoped that money will also be
secured for Home for Negro teach
ers at Mt. Pleasant and at Holcomb.
These things are matters of en-
|couragement to the negroes and
should receive the cooperation of the
white citizenship of the County. The
work proposed is right in line with
what has been preached in Mississip-
pi for years-that is to teach the
negro how to make good farmers and
mechanics as we'll as machinists.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
Mr.. TALBERT REPLIES

Grenada, Miss, August 10th, 1921,
Editor of Sentinel:
Will you give me little space to
reply to Mr.. Penn's article on Ice
Prices in Meridian and Grenada?
The first thing that seems to have
struck Mr.. Penn was the fact that
Meridian voluntarily reduced Ice
prices 10c per hundred, Mr.. Penn
should have known, he has taken adj
vantage Of it, that Ice prices in Gre
nada have been reduced 10c to zoe
per hundred voluntarily. Ice prices
hundred at the platform, delivered,
and Ice Coupons were sold for soc
per hundred, this year the platform
price on 1ce~is 60c, the delivered
price is Zoe and COUPONS are sold for
Csc per hundred. Mr.. Penn has been
buying these coupons.
Any business man knows that the
greatest one item of cost in the man
ufacture of Ice is coal. | do not
know exactly what the freight on
coal into Meridian is, but l do know
that il is less than into Grenada, and
that the freight on coal into Grenada
lis $1.O0 more than three years ago,
and that the price on Kentucky Mine
Run five years ago was 80 y at the
mines, and is now $40.
Another item which may reduce
the cost of any article is the volume,
Meridian has good deal larger vol
ume of Ice business than Grenada,
and from the census figures it seems
to me that it is likely to continue to
lead us in the volume.
Mr.. Lawrence in his article re-
ferred to the prices in Greenwood,
now / have had good deal of bust
ness in Greenwood this summer, and
being interested in ice prices, have
asked every man / talked to what he
was paying for ice, they are paying
zoe delivered, or for coupon books.
Until last year, for several years
there have been a great many pieces
Of ice delivered which had a hole
through the center Of the block, this
ice has larger surface exposed, and
even if a man gets the weight, it
melts faster. Now there has not been
a block of ice with hole in it put
out this summer, and / do not be-
lieve that there has been one ton of
white ice put out to the retail trade
in Grenada this summer.
Mr.. Honeycutt and / have done
our best to give our customers good
ice, good weights, and good service,
at as cheap a price as we could and
make a fair margin of profit for our
stockholders, and we still believe that
most Of them think we have done this.
| am glad to note that Mr.. Penn
believes in reducing prices, and
know that the farmers, who buy
plows and heavy hardware from him
would much prefer reduction in
that to another reduction in the
price Of ice.
Thank you for your space.
Yours truly,
Fl. G. TALBERT.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
TALBERT QUITS
ASPOSTMhSTER
Wife's Illness Causes The Action
Taken By Mr.. Talbert. Successor
To Be Named Soon.

Postmaster Jerry T. Talbert o.
Grenada forwarded his resignation OF
sAug. 18, TO the department at Wash
ilgton by letter. This action upon th'
part of Mr.. Talbert was not taken be
cause he thought the political skid.
would be placed under him or at tht
intimation, either directly or indirect
ly, of the postal authorities. Mr.. Tai
bert's wife's health has been such fol
more than two years that she has beer
compelled to remain in Ashvihe anC
physicians have advised that under
no circumstances would it be wise fol
her to undertake to again make Miss.
issippi her home. Mr., Talbert felt
it his duty to make his home where
his wife might enjoy good health
He was offered responsible position
in one Of the leading banks at Ash
vile, which institution has former
Grenadian and former cashier Of the
Grenada Bank in Mr.. Vernon'R. Pat
terson as one Of its directing forces.
The position required immediate ac-
ceptance, hence Mr.. Talbert's action.
Prior to his being postmaster he had
served for nearly Is years as deputy
postmaster. He was named to sue
ceed the late A. S. Bell. His term
, lacks about two years Of expiring.
Mr.. Talbert has pleased the public
as a postmaster. He has been eff
cient and accommodating. While ad-
herring at all times to the rules and
regulations Of the department, he
was always considerate of any COM
plant and never sought to impress
the public that he just insisted on
technicalities because he delighted in
them. He had common sense enough
to know that common sense must at
last prevail about>anything. Grena-
da gives him up most regretfully as
an official and the best wishes of
the entire community go with him to
his new home.
Who will succeed Mr.. Talbert is
somewhat Of q guess. Judge j. H..
Spence, a former Tennessean, has
been taking a keen interest in Re-
publican politics in Mississippi since
his residence In this county. How
ever, the guessing ones have thought
that he had his plans mapped out for
something more prominent than the
Grenada postoffice. The guessing at
first was that either Judge Spence or
E. NJ. Sherwood, the very capable and
efficient depot agent, will be named for
the vacancy, but 1t is understood that,
anticipating a change, many of the
leading citizens of the town had
sometime ago urged upon Mr.. Sher-
wood that he stand for the place but
after expressing the sincerest appre-
citation of the interest shown in him,
he stated that he would not seek the
position and really preferred 10 stay
where he is.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
THE BURIED NEWSPAPER MAN

Case E. Galley was the printers name;
Twas the Brownvie Bugle where he won his fame;
Kept things buzzing like a June bee hive.
He kept the whole town talking-he was that alive
Pushed pencil like lightning streak
He hadn't any time to Stop and play beziaue:
Spelled to the merchants on the cost of print;
To get his bills collected made him hump and sprint.
Fumed copy that looked like Greek;
Called on the advertisers several times q week:
Chased after items that want worth shucks'
He often did dollar job and lost two bucks
1t was his duty to keep informed.
If he failed to tell item his subscribers stormed;
And thus he worried till he reached the grave
His business was his master and he it's slave
He lay in his coffin, stiff, cold, dead
But when they broached his burial he raised his head
Gasped these final words to his poor wife,
Don't bury now-Tve been buried all my life'
Selected
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-26
THE HOUR OF FATE.

What is the hour Of fate in q
young mans life? ! should say
p. m.
That hour IS the spring board from
which most men leap to success OF
fall off to failure.
] am also convinced that 0. n, is
the fork in the roads, one Of which
leads 10 character and the other to
the lack of it.
There are twenty-three other hours
in a day, but there is no hour so
potent as this 2. m.
Why? This is the answer: mans
waking hours are divided between
industry and leisure. To a majority
of mankind, seven in the evening
marks the end OF work and the be-
ginning of leisure. It is the hour
when man makes choice Of the
kind of leisure he is to have.
If he turns to the leisure that
means improvement in his mind, his
body and his soul, he wins; if he
turns to the pleasure-feeding frivol-
tiles, h loses. 1t is cold-blooded
proposition, but it is true. Genius is
ninety-nine per cent hard work and
the best Of leisure is shift from one
kind of work to another kind of
work.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred
ment who win in this world use the
time when they are not at work in
. activities which look like work to
the loafer.
Now my idea of success in life,
mathematically expressed, is this be-
tween a mans fifteenth and twenty
fifth birthday there are $3.50 week
day z p. ms. Each of these $3.50
week day p. ms. is an hour Of de-
cision! A man looks at the clock
and out the window. If he decides
that his next three hours are to be
spent in winning he wins; if he de-
cides that the next three hours are
to be spent in indulging the physical
senses for mere pleasure he loses.
This does not mean that any man
should make all the $3.50 hours mo-
ments Of decision. Social converse
which is part Of any complete life
will take some, the services of friend
ship will take many and herat-af-
fairs will claim a lot. But, after all
these claims have been met, young
man should have saved for his own
decision a majority Of his Z p. ms.
!. After man reaches forty perhaps
he may take Liberties with the right
decision at p. m. But if he is un-
certain over it at fifteen or twenty,
or twenty-five, he, is dawdling, and
he will pay the dawdler's debt in life
the humiliation that comes to age
in the self-confession Of failure
By Victor Murdock.