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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
MUCH INDUSTRIAL
ACTIVITY IN SOUTH
Is REPORTED
Activity Throughout South Is Noted
In Review OF Conditions
b ythe Manufacturers
Record.

Baltimore, Md. - Pronounced actic-
ity throughout the South is noted in
Industrial, municipal and general
building developments in the weekly
summary of Industrial progress pub
lished by the Manufacturers Record
Plans have been announced for re-
building Immediately shipbuilding
plant at New Orleans, La, recently de-
stroyed by fire at a loss of $1,000,000
Port Arthur, Texas, has voted $2,O00,-
900 in bonds for development and i'm
provement of the city's water supply.
Large extensions to oil-pile-line facili-
ties will be made in Louisiana by
Eastern oil interests following plans
now being made. One of the most
modern cotton mills in the country
has begun operatio nat San Antonio,
Texas. A $10,000,000 export corpora
ton has been organized to supplement
the recently organized 100000 Inter-
national Banking Co.
Good-roads work is progressing in
number of states at rapid rate. In
many parts of the South plants are
being formulated for programs to be
LAUGHED within the next few months
that will esult in the expenditure Of
millions of dollars and give employ
ment to thousands of men. Those
states which have yet to draft final
road bills have committees at work
now so that the bills may be intro
duced at the next meeting of the re-
spective Legislatures. Trunk-line sys-
tens connecting all the counties Of
the separate state and providing for
at least one main road north and
south and another east and west are
included in practically all of the pro-
grams. State convicts will be used in
several of the states. The roads are
being financed through county, state
and Federal aid, and through direct
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
the music Is good, both that by Jerome
Kern an dthat by Victor Herbert.

Roytlay probably never does actual
ly get by with real "incog" but It's.
hard not even to have any pretense Of
1t when 1t tries to- The recent arrival
here of Prince Alfonco is an example
of the difficulty. No sooner had his
ship locked and the reporters scram-
bled aboard than the following report
was telephoned to his newspaper by
one reporter: prince Alfonso, cousin
of the King Of Spain, arrived here in
cognito today. While in New York he
will stop at the Hotel Vanderbilt,
where he hopes to continue his incog-
nitoship."
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05

taxes.
The demand for lumber and other
buildin gmaterials is steadily improy-
Ing, although orders in large volume
are being withheld. Inquiries are
more numerous than for many months
and manufacturers look for almost
complete revival shortly after the first
of the year, predicting that If buying
is continued steadily for two weeks in
succession the prices will start up
ward and buying will be resumed in
increasing volume.
Some cotton mills tina thave closed
in most part until after the first of the
year will resume operations with re-
newed vigor. 1t is generally believed
that buying will be strong after the
new year. and that the mills that have
been running part time may resume
operation at full time.
Among the many miscellaneous en-
terprises announced during the week
were the following: A $4,000 the
alter will be erected in Dallas. Texas;
plans have been announced of a ismi-
lar structure at Pensacola, Fla, to
cost $3.50, 900; the contract was award
ed TO rthe erection of high school
building at Dallas, Texas, to cost
S64O, 900; the contract was also award
ed for the construction of a six-story
hospital at Kansas City at a most of
100000; plans are being prepared
for a seven-story Office and bank
building at Okmulgee, Okla, which
will cost $45O,OOO; plans are being
prepared for a s1,OOO,OOO clubhouse at
Dallas, and S250,00O church building
at Austin, Texas; at Richmond, Va,
it is planned to erect a 100000 war
memorial
Mining activities continue good. At
Roanoke. Va, coal company has
been organized with capital of ST.
100000. At Christiansburg, Va, a min
ing company has been incorporated
with capital of 100000, while at
Lynchburg coal company has been
formed with capital of 100000, A
fuel company has been organized in
Limestone county, Texas, for develop
ment of Ignite fields with a capital
of $2,OOO,OOO.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
ROAD PROBLEM IN FIGURES
IS RAISING NINETY MILLION.

Louisville - Addressing the Board
of Trade, Governor Morrow said:
"Bvery one wants good roads just as
they want to go to Heaven. The prob
lem of constructing the 5000 miles Of
permanent roads provided for under
the law is simply the problem of rails
ing ninety-million dollars. "Sugges-
tionc, he said, should be german to
the financial side,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
THOUSAND NEW KENTUCKY
CORPORATIONS IN YEAR.

Frankfort Nine hundred and
nine-eighty new corporations were
formed and incorporated in Kentucky
up to December 80 during the year
1920, according to figures made public
by Secretary Of State Fred A. Vaughn
The total number of charters issued
by the state since the constitution of
1S9O-91 went into effect, according to
the filed of the secretary is 1854.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
YOUNG DAUGHTER GONE,
WANTS HELP OF THE LAW,

Vanceburg - Mrs. A. Yates, of Slate
came here to invoke the aid Of the
law in recovering her 14-year-old
daughter. She claimed that Daniel
Boone Warrington had Stolen" the
girl, but officials advised her that the
law against theft would not apply to
elopments In generol
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
BFRTILLON MEASUREMENTS
AWAIT IDENTIFICATION

Somerset. - The body Of the un-
known man found beside the railroad
here is being held unburied pending
receipt of bertillon measurements
from the Frankfort reformatory which
are expected to identify him as Sam
Crabtree, a convict who escaped in
September.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05

A large sheet-glass plant will be
erected at Charleston, w. Va, follow
in gthe company's actio min increas
ing its capital from $4,0OO,OOO to $1O,-
100000. In Ell Paso, Texas, a newly
organized company with a capital Of
100000 will manufacture rope from
fiber and the like. The capital of
hydro-electric company in Higden,
Ark, has been increased frob $4,000
to 100000 to permit extensions in
the spring.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
ENTERING MINISTER'S
HOMES, SPECIALITY, CHARGE

Louisville. - John Loeser, II, was
arrested on the charge of having
broken into the homes of the Rev. W
C. Dunlap and Rev. P. S. Wiggerman
while they were in their pulpits. Pc.
lice say he Is suspected also Of hav'
inb robbed the home of the Rev. R. ]
Pirkey during the church hour.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
TWO BOYS KILLED IN
LOUISVILLE ACCIDENTS

Louisville - Marvin Johns, IA, sor
of Rector Johns, died from injuries
sustained when he fell from a ferris
wheel at Highland park. He attempt
ed to leap from one car to another
James Dowdell, Jr, 6, was killed b,
an automobile driven by Cronin Pike
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
ELLISON SAYS HE'D CHOOSE
GRAY ERATHER THAN PEN,

jacksonville. No efforts will be
made to secure stay of execution in
the case of Lee Ellison, condemned to
die January 81 for the murder of Sher-
if R. S. Hunter. Waving the right of
appeal was part of the agreement
which permitted his SPEEDY trial. He
tol dauthorities that he'd rather die
than go to the penitentiary, where he
had spent two terms. There was grim
humor in his farewell message to his
wife, in all here on a moonshning
charge: "Tell her I'm safe and we'll"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05

There is a bookseller in New. York
who reads the books he sells. Does 1t
SO that he can know what he's about
when his customers ask him to recon-
mend things. Then he put his recon-
mendation on recodr. On many of the
books you look at in his shop, you will
finds strips Of paper, printed with the
following words, Frank Shay recon-
mends this book. 1t is sold with a
guarantee that If it does not measure
up to our statements we will exchange
it for another book or refund the pur-
chase price"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05

One New York City bandit has
abandoned melodrams for humor. No
longer does he bring out the trusty
old gun and back his victim against a
wall In dark street. He just waits
for him-Or her-outside revolving
door, in a crowded block. AS the VIC
tim Is entering the swirl of the door,
dip goes the bandits hand and away
goes the victims watch or purse, or
whatever else he has to attract ones
fancy. The robbed one can't stop or
60 back. The door is being pushed by
hurried and impatient people. He has
to go all the way around the circle Of
it to get to the sidewalk-and by that
time there is no thief in sight.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-05
lg,wYorh
Letter :
hLneyJaa,peR5c

New York. Some men have no
romance in their soils at all. William
Wray, motorcycle racer of Brooklyn,
gave his fiance an $500 diamond ring
to seal their troth. Now comes the f.
ancee, Miss Belle Hill, of Manhattan,
an declares that he stole 1t back. And
the Judge believed her to the extent of
holding the loving sutton on charge
Of grand larceny. 1t wasn't only that
1t wasn't the right thing for a fiancee
to do at any time, but Wray even vio-
lated the laws Of hospitality in COM
hitting the theft, says Miss Hill. She
was washing her haid in his apart
ment after an automobile ride which
had got it all dusty, an dhad removed
her ring to keep the soap from getting
into it, Wray took 1t. And not only
was 1t the symbol of her romance, but
she had given 5000 toward the pur-
chase of it!
It's calloused age anyhow so far
as sentiment is concerned, one some
times believes, especially in Brooklyn.
Just when the marriage license clerk
there was getting all ready to give out
the annual Christmas season story
about Unprecedented rush of bust
ness for Cupid due to influence Of
mistletoe in the shop windows" or
something of that sort, his whole
spirit was upset by having two girls
and one ma income back during one
day to return their marriage licenses.
Changed minds, that was all. They
weren't willing to exchange the H.
oenses for others either. They insisted
upon having their money back
This might have happend anywhere
else as we'll as in New York, OF
course; unless maybe people really
are more sociable here. But the other
day l was walking along Broadway up
in Washington Heights, when ! met a
sweet looking woman pushing a baby
in a go-cart and with a little boy
hanging to her other hand. She stop
ped right In front of me, and spoke:
What would you do" she asked with
all the earnestness of her soul, IF
you had a little boy five years old who
would swear and uuse the most awful
languageT Well, even the things that
! work at I don't do we'll enough to
give anyone else advice on them, and
when 1t comes. to the training OF
flve-year-old boy! So just looked
appalled,. "He never hears such Ian
guage at home" she hurried on, land
we try to watch his playmates. But
don't know what to do" had to ex-
pres my own helplesness and my SYM
pathy. She sighed and was going on
when the five-year-old boy in question
smiled swaetly at me and exclaimed
anyway, I'm going to get dandy
yelocipede for Christmas!" IT seemed
more than ever a difficult problem.
One Of the real hits Of the musical
comedy year is Sally" Just produced
by ziegfeld, and pretty unanimously
acclaimed as eclipsing his "Follies.'
Marilyn Miller, who has firmly estab'
lished herself in this to be a singet
and even something of an actress, ant
Leon Rrrol is as goo das ever, maybe
better. He and Miss Miller carry of
the laurels with their dancing bu
there is more than that to the show
For one thing, 1t has plot. Guy Boil
ton wrote 1t, so the book is clever; ant
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

single year on record being $74,- 287.726, in 1917-
 There have been nine years dur ments have shown decrease, ir 1875, 1877, 1879, 1882, 1892, 1893 1902, 1908, and 1915.
 Governor McRae is canny Scotchman who is noted for his seriousness, yet his secretary has perpetrated a joke in the executive office which attracts much atten- tion on the part of the governors more intimate friends. Since he entered upon the duties of his of flee on January 12, he has not granted single pardon, commuta- tion of sentence or remission of fine. This is in accord with one of his campaign promises that he proposed to go slow in extending executive clemepcy to persons con- victed of violating the law. Yet his secretary has in his desk small pigeon hole marked ''pardons' to which he proudly refers as the gov ernor's pardon record. Up to the present time the pigeon hole is ab- solutely vacant and there is little prospect that it will ever become too small for the purpose.
 It is impossible at this time to say just what the result of the new au- tomobile tax law will be in so far as it's effect upon the state highway fund is concerned. There is no doubt but that it will greatly in- crease the fund, but it must be re- menbered that seventy per cent of the total revenues are to be. re- turned to the counties where the tax is paid and only thirty per cent turned into the state treasury. The distribution of the fund is retroac- tive and the counties quota must be paid for the entire year of 1921. The license schedule however is not retroactive and any motor vehicle that has paid less than the schedule in the new bill before May will not be required to pay the differ ence. It follows therefore, that a Ford or a six ton truck will alike get by 1921 with the payment of the usual fee of $10.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25
American Legion NetUs

A a gain of forty-four posts of the American Legion and ninety three units of it's Women's Auxili- ary was made during the week end ing March 12. Missouri Depart ment of the Legion led with five posts chartered and Massachusetts and Kansas reported twelve and eleven new units, respectively, of the Auxiliary. There are now 10,- 272 Legion posts and 2,292 units of the Women's Auxiliary.
 Architects from all parts of the country will be invited to submit designs and plans for the $15,000 Indian War Memorial building, which will house National Head quarters of the American Legion. A fund of $1,000 was granted by the Indian legislature for prizes and expenses of the contest. The Ma tional Institution of Architecture will determine the winner of the first prize of $50,000.
 F. W. Galbraith, Jr., National Commander of the American Legion has ordered that Kansas Depart ment of that organization to make a thorough investigation of the re cent outrage at Great Bend, Kan, in which two organizers of the Non partisan League were tarred anC feathered. Although the mob O. residents of that vicinity included a number of ex-service men, theri
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

Travellers state that fifteen year ago the principal object of interes along the beaten track. of the old Sante Fe trail were skulls, yerte brae, and ribs of cattle and buf faloes. Now a traveller traversinp the same country finds numerous abandoned automobiles, some over turned, some buried., others smashed and footed.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

And just a few years ago it was considered a punishment to send men from Petrograd to Siberia Buffalo News.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

An interesting statement has been prepared by the Arkansas Tax Com mission showing the increase in the taxable values of the state for the last AT years. From this it ap- pears that in 1874 the total assess ment of all property in Arkansas was only S91.646,026. Whereas, for the year 1920 the total was $612,426, ,084.
 The assessment increase from the year 1874 to the year 1909 when the, tax commission was created, was S283, 3,199,749.
 The assessment increase from the year 1909 to the year 1920 during which time the assessment was un- der the supervision of the Tax Com mission, was S237 7,480,3O9.,
 From 1909 to 1916 the assess ment increased $75,145, ,459 and for the ensuing four years it amounted to S162,334, $50.
 The assessment for the last four years is by far the largest in the ! history of the state for a similar period. The largest increase for a
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by Kent voyies Post of the Amer ican Legion at ElizabethtDwn, Ind. To raise funds for the undertaking, the Legionnaires will give a ban quet of "slum," prepared by form CT army cooks belonging to the post. Elizabethtown Legion mem bers are also backing movement to establish a public library.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

The churches of Little Rock have not been so prosperous in years, nor has there been greater interest talk en in religious matters. There had been, previous to the war, a grow ing indifference. but this seems to have been largely overcome and now all churches are reporting in creased attendance. better salaries for it's pastors and many of them new building programs. There are a number of Sunday school in the city with more than 800 in attend ance every Sunday and Sunday evening services are attracting thou sands where a few years ago only hundreds responded. One of the significant things which attracts the attention of the stranger in Little Rock is the appearance upon many of the bill boards of the city of the following scriptural quotation in large letters:
 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ."-The Bible, John 3-16.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

American Legion posts and the Home Service Department of the Red Cross in Detroit have consol- dated efforts under the name of the Service Mems Bureau, and will cooperate in the work of adjust ing claims, disqualification, educa- tion and War Risk insurance for ex-service men.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

was no organized support from the Legion posts, according to press correspondents. Colonel Galbraith ordered all Legion posts to refrain from interference with the politi- cal activities of the Non-partisian League several months ago.
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Cleaning out cellars and building summer cottages are examples of temporary jobs which the St. Paul, Minn., employment bureau and Wo- mems Auxiliary of the American Legion have obtained for more than six hundred unemployed veterans after an appeal has been made to every employer and householder in that city. The average compensa- ton for temporary employment is fifty cents an hour Farmers near the Twin Cities are taking advant- age of the opportunity to obtain eX-service men as farm hands and are paying from $50 month, with room and board, upwards.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

More than 1,600 new members were obtained for the American Le- zion in Virginia during the last two months in spite of unfavorable az ricultural and industrial conditions.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

Nebraska American Legion mem bers are backing an endowment bill in the state legislature, which pro vides that the state buy two mil lion dollars worth of Liberty bonds and use interest thereon for sick and disabled eX-service men. The Ne braska legislature has forwarded a resolution urging the United States Senate to pass the Fordney five-fold bonus bill, which is backed by the Legion.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

The increase cost of railroad fare will not trouble the members of Superior, Wis, post of the Ameri- can Legion, who will attend the next Legion state convention at Eau Claire in box cars. "We travelled France in side door Pullmans and we believe that we prefer the Yan- kee type of box cars to riding the velvet at present prices," the Le- gionnaires said.
 The California Department of the American Legion has received copies of resolution adopted by the Central Labor Council, San Bernardino, Cal, recommending ade- quate appropriations for the bu. reaus caring for disabled veterans appropriations to build and main tain necessary hospitals and passage of the Rogers-Capper bill to con solidate the government bureau: dealing with the affairs of ex service men, as indorsed by the Le zion.
 Graves of 150 Civil War Veter ans will be provided with marker
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

Oklahoma boards of county com missioners are authorized to lease rent or donate any room in theil control for use of the American Le zion, according to the terms of { bill passed by the state legislature
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

A special election will be held in Oregon to approve or reject the veterans state bonus bill, prepared and backed by the Oregon Depart ment of the American Legion.
 Aroused by the greed of land lords in Shreveport, La., the local post of the American Legion has placed itself on record as opposed not only to the hardships placed upon renters living in homes and occupying offices and business buildings owned by rent hogs, but as pledging its aid in seeking a remedy for the evil.
The courier-index., 1921-03-25

Graves of 15O Civil War Veter. ans will be provided with marker:
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-27

wa .pplauao followed
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-27

40 a.. o,,nna ".nt .a s,.nl.'
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-07-05
SAVAGE CHILD is TRAINED
Baby Girls, From Their Earliest In
fancy, Are Taught Household
Duties by Their Mothers.

Most of those who know little Of
savage and semi-savnge peoples nat
urally suppose that the children are
allowed to run wild" with no thought
given to their training. This is far
from the truth, particularly among
some of the tribes OF Togoland, on the
African west coast y .E..Nrt,.
AS soon as a girl baby, is able to
toddle-,.nd they are taught to walk
much earlier than our children--the
training Of the girl is begun. she is
given Il calabash, and taught to bal
ance 1t upon her head. Then the call
abash Is filled with water. Thus she
learns her first duty 'insusefnIness.
From this time forth tie child be.
comes Il part of thestsibal or village
organization. She goes with her motn-
err TO the, river when 5fhe women go
there for water. SheJis taught to
sweep out the hut with d broom. Out
in the forest she gcesSEwith mother
and there learns what herbs and wild
vegetables are good for food and
which should be avoided. At home
she is taught how to prepare the food
the family eats. In word from her
very earliest days the child is taught
how to perform the domestic and 9TH
er duties the average native woman
must perfOrm.-Temple Manning in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-07-05
Tracing Movement Of Birds.

The desire to learn what becOmes6f
birds that flew south with the apprOach
Of cold weather led Audubon, the great
American naturalist, to place silver
threads about the legs of a brood Of
phoebes. The following spring he was
rewarded by having two Of the birds
return to nest near the haunts where
they learned Ostly. \
This occurred early in the Nine.
teenth century, p, and was the first
known case In America OF bird band
ing. SINCE that time this means or
securing information on the move
ments and life history Of migratory
birds has been used by many societies,
and every fall thousands of birds fly
south bearing 4 narrow ring, stamped
with number, about one Of its legs.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-07-05
They Had One, Too.

Five-year-old Mary Ellen likes the
hospital In their square because when
she goes over to visit the nurses they
always take her around to see the
new babies there. But recently her
visits have been fewer than usual as
her next-door neighbor has "a small
incubator which has been Matching
fluffy chickens. Interestedly Mary
Ellen has been watching him take
them from the incubator.
But few days back Mary Ellen
went to the hospital and into the
kitchen where they were placing n
new style ice box. For n little while
she looked at it and then she said to
one. of the workmen, 'They always
showed me the babies. but I never
did see the incubator before" In.
dianapolis News. - f4,s II