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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-09-12

Probably when suokily becomes
more common among women mere
nan can drop ashes On the rug Wit
out starting trouble
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-09-12

Leader Classified Ads &c, Results
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-09-12

Leader Classified Ads Get Results.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-09-12

I y Smiihson left sunday Tor Ch.-
ago where be Will spend mon d
n recreation and visiting old friends
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Mrs Ed Doughty LETT Sa'uriae
evening for Kansas C.ty Mr.
Doughty Is reported 70 be impruy-
ng fast
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-09-12

Nr { ; Parker living five mites
was in Mer.a.sn FRIDAY
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The New York herald., 1921-08-22

whiskey of inferior quality under fancy
labels against which consumers should
be on their guard, and should insist on
having only proved brands of established
reputation. II would be in the interest
OF true temperance IL the overseas public
would petition their legislators to pass
an act similar to that now in force IN
Great Britain, viz. that all spirits sold
for home consumption shall be or
minimum age OF three years. White
Horse whiskey has always retained its
pre-war standard of age and quality.
"Macke & Coy, Distillers, Ltd. Glas-
gov. London. Islay, Glenlivet. Pinder,
Collins & Brown, sole agents for the
Bahamas"
How the mystery ships are loaded,
who loads them and who is responsible
for their existence is another story. And
II will require separate telling 10 set
forth the personal side OF the traffic.
How Bahamian politics threaten to undo
this latest Nassauvian prosperity Will be
dealt with in subsequent articles. Thus
far the writer has but ruffled the sur
face OF the booze situation in the colony
whose lofty motto is: "EIpalSts PtrdtiS
ReStttutG Commercial"
The article to be published by
The New York Herald tomorrow
will describe scenes attending the
loading of thousands of cases of
liquor aboard former Gloucester
fishermen" bound for ports along
the Atlantic seaboard.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
s1.li4.119

, would be inconvenent 10 make sven
extensions The bank was all right
and the merchant was quite all right.
But something had happened. One Of
the most trustworthy OF the Crowns
representatives talked over the situa-
ton with THE New York HERALD's re-
porter.
"I am not in position to make def
mite statements" he said. But do you
know I shouldn't be at all surprised II
Il turned out that not so long ago
Washington wrote a very courteously
worded note to Downing Street and that
Downing Street replied to the effect that
Washington was quite right about 1t.
And then. II seems to me, Sir Herbert
Holt, president OF the Royal Bank OF
Canada. sitting in his Offices In Mont
real, may have received letter from
Downing Street
"It is not at all improbable. you
know. that sir Herbert wrote TO his
Nassau branch, and there You have II.
At ali events money is damned tight
IN Bay street Nassau. We have mer-
chants liquor rich. They have enor-
NOUS stocks OF liquids that they cannot
liquidate. what?"
That he was quite correct was proved
at once.
On August s, the still dazzled mer-
chants Of Nassau, still making great
profits despite the fact that there was
every surface indication that the iu'l
season was about to set In and thai
depression was settling over the Bahama
liquor traffic, received the shock OF their
recent lives by receiving abrupt letters
from a. IT. Hamblin local manager for
the ROYAL Bank OF Canada.
- F1Ny 49,
firm, is typical:
Under dato OF July 20, have re-
ceived from the general manager q let
ter instructing me TO request all my GUS
toners to make substantial payments on
account OF advances for liquor during
the present month. Will you therefore
be good enough TO look forward to
paying such a reduction on or before tho
31st instant?'
Inasmuch as 80 per cent OF the present
Business Of Nassau comprises the impor-
tation of liquor from the United King
dom and its colonies and. furthermore.
that about 80 per cent of this industry
IL being carried on on borrowed money. IL
ls not difficult 10 picture the effect these
letters had upon the merchants who had
invested the last farthing they could
command and commander In booze.
There were the makincs OF first class
panic Between eight and ten million
dollars worth of booze on hand soaking
IN carrying charges And sudden
siezure or virtue stimulating American
law enforcement agencies to unexpected
Industry
There was nothing to do but 70 sell
for cash-sel and underselI. Beloved
profits would have TO 70. The bank was
demanding cash. The next step would be
an agreement by Downing Street 10 put
4 stop 10 the entire business. That
might be done by banning further *
ports or hard l'auor into Nassau. Aud
then someone discovered. or declared
he had discovered, that Washington had
written to London along these very
lines. Concentrated worry filed he
Nassauvian breast
BE that az IL may, the fact remains
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
whislxey Is King I'm Nassau.

Before indulging in the only other
statistical table of which this account
of Nassau's regeneration will be guilty
IL must be understood that such was
the rush of business at the first of this
year that local merchants who had gone
into the wholesale booze traffic to their
last farthing failed to realize that the
glutton must expect indigestion and that
continued banqueting Is conducive to
well developed cases of gout and gas
tritis.
The mounting imports continued to
mount. They imported twice as much
whiskey in January. 1921, as they did IN
June. 1920. They kept on ordering large
consignments in February and March
They enlarged their figures in April and
NAV. whiskey had the call in the
States. Whislxey became king In Nassau.
A negro. unable to read or write, would
come into Bay street wholesalers hat
less. shoeless and all but shirtless.
BOSS man, please. sub, gimme hun
dred cases OF Scotch" J..
He'd produce an inspiring roll OF
American money.
bill read dollah mo- 70 each case than
you charges me-"
"Your rakeoff. heyT'
.y ossuh, please"
Or a sweating American would come
bustling In
"Can YOU let me have 1000 cases OF
vhiskey--rye and Scotch, ffty-hfty-at
west End, Grand Bahama, day after to-
morrow"
mo: but you can nave It on the wharf.
here, in Nassau. That's where our inter-
est ends"
"All right: how much?r
A little figuring. and then tho an
swer
"Fifty thousand dollars
"Fair enough"
And the cash would he transferred
next morning on the dock--cash.
From all this the local Bahamian
Government continued to reap wealth
new tariff, designed to do no damage
TO the Bahamas, had been drawn up. The
new import duties imposed a tax of bs
on every gallon OF alcohol 2s. Cd. on ale
per gallon: f1 As. on every gallon OF
brandy cordials. so per cent. ad vnlorem /.
Gin, los. per gallon porter, 2s. cd per
gallon rum, IS. gallon; stout, 2s Cd
Der gallon whlskey, LIS. gallon, and ff
a.. per dozen repute5 quarts. Wines OF
ell kinds pay so per ent. ad valorem.
Rum Enrichcs Government.
Thus the Bahamlan Government was
enriched to the extent OF $6S0.64S on
lIquor import duties alone In 1920 Ale
yielded s7.6S4; brandy. si,732; gin.
ss6,236. rum. s6i,57e whiskey. $4S5,-
436: wines, $3l,92f and cordials and
the like. $3.064.
And remember that this Is computed
a, tho low rate OF exchange. The aver
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
SEA SMUGGLERS LOSE
675 GALLONS OF RUM
Ttvo Men Who Got 1T 4 Miles
Out Seized at Gloucester.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. Aug. 21.--An at
tempt to smuggle a large quantity OF
liquor ashore at a wharf here early to-
day was interrupted by detachment of
Gloucester police. Paul Scola and A.
Chisholm. a fish merchant. were ar
rested and 675 gallons of liquor was
confiscated.
Wnen the officers arrived they found
thirty-five ten gallon cases already
transferred to the wharf. with twenty
five similar cases and three twenty-five
gallon cases aboard lighter lying
alongside. Scola is said to have told
the police that the liquor was procured
from q vessel four miles of Thatcher 5
Island.
Chisholm and Scola were released in
$500 bonds each and will have hear
ing tomorrow.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
RAILROAD VETERANS MEET.
New England Association Attends
Its Annual Outing.

PROVIDENCE, Aug. 21.-More than 1900
members of the New England Associa-
tion of Railroad Veterans attended an
annual outing at Crescent Park. near
here, to-day. many delegates coming
from distant parts of New England.
Past President Amos II. Brown, the
oldest conductor In active service in the
United States. was the principal speaker
following shore dinner. He has been
on duty sixty-two years.
A special session of the association in
Worcester September IL to inausurate
an expansion campaign was authorized.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22

selling for shillings pence a bottle
here last week
Haig g. Haig. Johnnie Walker. the
British Buchanan whiskeys, White
Horse and other well known brands are
being shipped to Grand Bahama and
Gun Cay for cost-ahout SIS case at
the average. The profits OF the ven
turesome booze runner. therefore. have
leaped skyward. for there is no report
here that the American drinking masses
are reaping any of the benefits OF cut
rates in Nassau.
To be sure, the whislxey that leaves
here for America Cor the vast majority
OF it. at any rate) Is diluted. Generally
speaking, they throw the contents OF
twenty barrels OF whiskey into a vat
TO that is added ten barrels OF rain
water and three barrels OF kick that the
writer failed to have analyzed. but
which is known as German spirits
Earnest endeavor to obtain the chemical
formula for these German spirits met
with rebufr.
Secret stuff. kid" said the authority
thereon. Secret stuff"
A mere trife like that. however, Is of
no consequence to Americans, for they
have paid as much as $3.50 a case for
II in the States. 1t is common enough
to get 500 a case for it, This diluted
whiskey is, of course. bottled right here
In Nassau Some idea Of the magnitude
of the industry is to be grasped through
the statement of a Nassauvian printer
who took the writer through his estab-
lishment.
Making Fortune In Labels.
you see these" he asked, exhibiting
fe,1r ax.1 r.4.. T,k -,
well, label printing has been my sal
vation. We were rather up against 1t
for work Just about ready to call our
selves failure. Now we're turning
out labels and these narrow stickers that
90 up over the cork-not revenue
stamps. OF course, but just labels. For
Mr.. - I'm turning them out in lots
OF $4,000. For Mr.. / am printing
10000 at time. Pretty good business"
THE NEW YORK HERALD reporter .ex-
amined these labels and compared them
with the originals. Only close exam
ination revealed a difference. The casual
observer would never detect It.
And that sort of business has not
made the traffic better. Pinder Collins
& Brown, Nassau agents for Mackie e.
Coy, DistilIers. Ltd, of Glasgow, have
taken to newspaper advertising to prove
that the stuff they sell Is Simon pure
In the Nassau Gudrdidn and Bahama
Islands Advocate and InteIHgencer of
July 26 Pinder, Collins & Brown caused
this advertisement to be printed
IMPORTANT.
"WARNINC TO THE PUBLIC.
"In Great Britain there is an act of
Parliament which prohibits the sale for
consumption there of whiskey which is
not at least three years old. This is an
excellent law. and a protection to the
many consumers who are not judges of
quality 1t does not. however. apply to
exported whiskey, the idea being that
overseas governments should protect
their own people.
Tho best known proprietary brands
of whiskey are, of course. much older
than the minimum three years allowed.
The White Horse has established its
reputation on quality, and its age is far
above the fixed legal minimum being
from eight and ten up to fourteen
years.
AT present there Is a tendency on the
part of certain firms to export new raw
The New York herald., 1921-08-22

Nineteen hundred and twenty was the
first year that Nassau's imports. includ-
Ing everything from bees to booze.
amounted to $1.000.o00. And In 1920
booze alone aggregated s1,114,119. Mas
sau is the only port of entry in the
Bahamas. No record of liquor exports
is kept.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
10000 CASES OF LIQUOR
WEEKLY FROM BAHAMAS

age rate for 1920 was s3.75 to the Eng
lish pound.
Regularly Loren A. Lathrop. the
American Consul at Nassau. makes re-
ports to the State Department The
state Department knows precisely what
is going on. Probably Washington
laughs as heartily as Nassau at the
American newspaper references TO
mystery ships There Is no mystery.
The vast majority of the liquor carriers
leaving Nassau either do not show
liquor on their manifests. having cleared
in ballast and shipping the stuff after
having cleared. or clear with booze for
another island in the archipelago-prtn-
cipally Gun Cay and Grand Bahama
process entailing no technical difficult
ties or embarrassments.
There is therefore no export tax. At
Grand Bahama, of which much will be
said subsequently, there are nine huge
warehouses. 1t is perfectly legal to
ship liquor from island to island. The
State Department knows that the motor
boats submarine chasers. fishing
schooners and what not. all flying the
British flag. carry the stun to Grand
Bahama and Gun Cay, forty-five miles
from Florida. 1t is all quite within
Bahamian and international law. And
the law is not broken at Gi and Ba-
hama or Gun Cay. Anybody in the
world. provided he has the cash. can
purchase booze at either of these jump
Ing off places. AS has been said herein
before. you are privileged to do what
you choose with the stuff once you pur-
chase it. That's your affair. Nassau
Is too busy attending to Its own busi-
ness these days to interfere with that
of It's customers.
or course it is desirable that the
schooner or other vessel leaving the Ba-
hamas for a run up the American coast
fly the Union Jack and sail under Brit
ish registry. American ships were max
ing the change almost over night. The
recent rulings of the United States Ship
ping Board have made 1t more difficult
to transfer Shipping Board vessefs
registry. The idea was to make It I'M
possible. But an American lawyer
spending a few days in Nassau said TO
THE NEW YORK HERALD reporter:
1--WE can receive permission to change
a Shipping Board boats registry quite
easily 1t can't be done in twelve hours
any more but it can be done In the time
1t takes a letter to travel from Florida
to Washington and from Washington
back to Florida. You can do almost
anything'if If you know how"
Incidentally. this lawyer used to be In
the employ of the Government or the
United States Now he is prospering as
the legal representative and adviser for
the bootleggers.
The New York herald., 1921-08-22
Tough Days for BootIeggers.

About the first of June, 1921. the
prosperity Of Nassau came upon reef
The business of supplying America WIN
liqour began to slow up. There was
lust as much demand In the States.
There was plenty of liqaor on hand
There We're penlty of boats. There was
no dearth Of human beings willing 10
man the ships at fancy prices and fat
bonuses for every case landed on the
shores of Grand Bahama, Gun Cay or
even Florida itself. There were still
plenty OF hardy sailor men eager TO
sneak the booze laden schooners up tht
American coast TO Georgia. Delaware
New Jersey, Long Island and New Eng
land.
But as Bimini suffered from too
much advertising, so were the other
Bahamian units whitening under pub
licity. The prohibitionists In the States
and the multiplying drys in England
were aroused. Pressure was exerted
here and there along the American Coz st
and even in the Bahamas Policemen,
sherins and prohibition officers who had
maintained a clean record of no arrests
began 70 be nasty and the well known
bootleggers We're told to 'cut 1t out Tor
4 while" and take trip until the tenn
pest should subside.
Down here In Nassau, two or three oil
the merchants went 70 the Royal Bank
of Canada for extensions on their notes.
Very firmly and with characteristic
courtesy G. II. Gamblin, manager ~ the
Nassau branch, informed them that It
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28
New Labor Supply
Arrives in Hawaii

HONOLULU, Sept. 2s.-The ad-
vance guard of a new labor supply, to
offset the present shortage in the
Hawaiian Islands, has arrived here in
the form of 430 men and women from
Porto Rico, accompanied by many
children.
The laborers were recruited by
agents of the Hawaiian Sugar Plant
ers' association. Their voyage from
Porto Rico was reported to have been
| uneventful except for slight cpl
demic of influenza which led to the
placing of the laborers in quarantine
at Colon, Canal Zone, for several
days. They will be distributed among
! the plantations whose need of labor is
most pressing, it was announced.
Efforts will be made to induce more
of their countrymen to come here, the
Planters association said.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28
WINTER COAL SUPPLY
READY FOR SCHOOLS

Wayne township schools outside OF
Richmond, are we'll supplied with
coal. according to the statement OF
j. o. Edgerton. township trustee. A
total of $50 tons, at prices ranging
from $3.50 to $3.50 per ton has been
purchased and delivered. according to
him. Last year the coal cost on
average of s12
Twelve buildings make up the
Wayne school system outside of Rich
mond. OF these, seven are two room
buildings, four are one room, and one
is three room structure. All use
hot air systems for heating with thu
exception of district nine building
1t will employ steam system as soor
as repairs and alterations are com
pleted.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28
W0MAN'S CLUB MEMBERS OPEN ACTIVITIES
OF THIRD YEAR WITH LUNCHEON TUESDAY

literary, and Miss Alice Knollenberg
music
Club officers for the year are: Mrs
Frederick S. Bates. president; Mrs
Edgar F. Hiatt, first vlce-president
Miss Margaret G.. Starr, second vice
president; Mrs. Wilbur Hibberd, re
cording secretary; Mrs. Byram Rob
bins, corresponding secretary, and
Mrs. George Bosley, registrar.
Committee chairmen and member:
are: Social-Mrs. Omar G. Murray
chairman; Mrs. Joseph w. Conner
Mrs. Charles Mcclure, Mrs Ray X
Shiveley, Mrs. w. o. Crawford ant
Miss Eleanor Siedel. Membership
Miss Dorothy Dilks, chairman; Mrs
Robert Heun, Mrs. w. ]. Smith, Mrs
Phillip Twigg, Miss Gertrude Bartel
Mrs. Fred Bethard, and Mrs. w. A. Ell
lis. Press-Mrs. Fred ]. Girty, chair
man; Miss Mildred Nusbaum, Mrs
George H. Eggemeyer, Mrs. H. S
Maltby and Miss June Robinson. So
cial service epresentatives-Mrs Pau
Ross and Miss Clara Comstock.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28

streets at o'clock Saturday morn
ing.
The Degree of Honor is giving a
dance in Red Mems hall Tuesday eve
ming. The affair is invItational.
Mrs. Charles Dove will be hostess to
the Daffodil club at her home on South
B street Thursday afternoon.
The Mary Hill w. c. T. U. will meet
Friday afternoon at o'clock at the
home of Mrs. Homan. PA North Sew
enth street. Members are asked to
note that the meeting is not be be an
all day affair, as previously an
nounced. Only an afternoon meeting
will be held
The Ladies' Aid, of the First Eng
lish Lutheran church will meet at
2:30 O'Clock Thursday afternoon at the
church. Preparations for Synodical
week, which will be held the second
week in October. will be made at the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28

meeting. All members are requested
to be present.
The Y M. I. will give dance as
sembly at their club room, for mem
bers and friends Thursday evening.
William Clendennin, son of Mrs. ".
S. Clendennin, of North Fifteenth
street, left Tuesday for Washington
d. c., where he will resume his stud
les at Washington university.
Miss Edna Shower, granddaughter
of Henry Shower, formerly well known
here. and cousin of Miss Bertha Larsh
is acting as director of John Heron
Art institute in Indianapolis, during
the absence of Mr. Norman De Haven
Brown, who is in Europe.
Miss Lillian Schram, of Pittsburg
Pa. is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. S. W
| Bricker, of North A street
| Miss Constance Bell, of South Nine
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28
Circuit Court

Frances Eubank is plaintiff in di-
vorce suit filed against Vernon Eu-
bank in court Tuesday She alleges
cruelty.
Grafton Lannerd, aged 25, and Erie
F'uson, 10, were granted marriage
license Tuesday. Both are from Cam.
bridge City.
Hugh Whitesell and Hazel d. Viii
son, both q years old, were granted
a license Wednesday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28

teenth street, and Miss Halcey Harold,
of North Tenth street, will spend the
week end in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Frank veregge and Elmer Davis
spent Saturday in Dayton, Ohio. on
business.
Mrs Frank n. Watt, of South Fiji
teenth street, is spending several days
in Chicago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28

In Siam there are boys schools
which meet every day in the year and
in which the classes begin at a. m.
and continue until 10 p. m, with three
brief intervals for refreshments.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28
SOCIETY

Continued from Page FourI
urday which all members are invited
to attend. Those going are to meet
at the corner of Eighth and North +.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-28

Despite the growing use of the au-
tomobilc, there never before were SO
many horses in the United States, and
they never before were so valuable.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-09-22
GOldie a Veritable Gold Mine.

Before a certain Missouri farmer
joined the cow-testing association, re-
port specialists Of the United States
department of agriculture, he owned
a good herd in which was an old Grip
pied cow named "Goldie." At that
very time the owner was trying to
sell her for SIS. To his surprise the
Babcock test not only placed poor,
old crippled Goldie at the head of the
herd but of the whole association. Her
yearly production, as shown by the
records, was $500 pounds of milk and
526 pounds Of butterfat, and her year.
ly earning over cost Of feed was $267.
Goldie belonged to a herd whose ave-
rage yearly outterfat production was
$50 pounds, yet she was almost SO per
cent above the average of the herd,
and more than 200 per cent superior
to the average dairy cow of this coun-
try. Among the cows on test in the
1853 cow-testing associations are many
like Goldie. The true production rec
ords furnished by cow-testing asso-
Citations have decided owners not to
sell many an unassuming but hig h-
producing cow.