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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23

Late celery and cabbage may be
set now. Plant plenty Of each
Good home gardens are going to be
valuable parts of the home this
year.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23

militia shall consist of all able-bodied
male persons between the ages of IS
and IS years" instead of as at pres
ent, which provides that The militia
shall consist of all ablebodied male
white persons, etc"
Mr.. Bowman declared himself in
favor of amendments providing for
four year terms for public officers in
stead Of two years.
The Chamber of Commerce forum
decided to eliminate the regular July
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23
Richmond Has a
Distinguished Visitor

DR.. J. A. Conkey, of Indiana
polls, formerly Of Richmond is
with US again for brief visit
and will be located at the DAT
Ter Apothecary at Ninth and
Main streets.
.%Doc" will be more than
pleased to welcome all his old
friends with that familiar smile
ard We have it, and we deliver
free and freely" The editor of
Timely Tips" extends the glad
hand to the Dear Doctor
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23

According to several recent
court rulings it is not a crime to
steal liquor, Well, perhaps not,
but it seems to Us that it's an awful
dirty way 10 treat man. With
business like il is we might say
with Shakespeare He who steals
my purse steals trash. but he who
steals nay private stock takes all
have or expect TO get"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23

WANTED-To buy yellow or white
ear corn. Omer G. Whelan, 81
33 South 9Th ST, Phone 1879.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23

Keep plant aphis in check by u.s.
ing some tobacco preparation. In
sects that eat the foliage must be
kept in check by spraying, with a
poison they will eat, like Paris
green or arsenate of lead.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23

and August forum meetings and meet
again in September.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-23

Tomatoes ripen better when
grown on a trellis or stakes They
can be set closer together in the
rows than when allowed to spread
over the ground.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
PARK WOULD NONE
TIE LIBERTY BONDS
SECOND DISTRICT CONGRESS
MAN FIRES OPENING GUN
IN WATSON FIGHT.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Anticipat-
ing the legislative program Senator
elect Thomas E. Watson announced
recently Representative Frank Park,
of the Second district of Georgia,
today introduced bill to none
tie liberty bonds and the gov
eminent war obligation paper. He also
seeks to have the United States call
upon the European allies for settle
ment of the principals of their war
debts to this country, sum total OF
not less than two billion dollars a
year.
While Mr.. Watson is the first MEM
Der or member-elect of either branch
of congress to suggest the monetiza-
ton of liberty and other war bonds
it is not taken that the bill of Judge
Park is in any way plan to rob the
soon-to-be junior senator from Geor-
gia of credit for proposed legislation
OF that nature. On the other hand
Judge Park and Senator-elect Watson
are strong personal and political
friends, and it is assumed that Judge
Park has simply started in the house
at this time the fight for Mr.. Wat
sons proposed legislation that he ex-
poets Senator Watson to finish either
VIGOROUSLY or in defeat i'll the senate
after March 4th.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
HARDING VISIT STIRS
RUMORS OF CHANGES
SEVERAL GEORGIA OFFICE
HOLDERS SLATED FOR THE
HEADSMAN MARCH 4TH.

ATLANTA, Ga. = President-ele
Harding's brief passage through Geor-
gia did more than to give certain high
city officials and perSonages little
unwanted exercise-it swept the teder-
al building with rumor on the absorb
ing topic of who would be who, and
who wouldn't, after March 4th.
His visit merely started things.
There is no indication when, if ever,
the gossip will subside. And since it
has gotten we'll under way several al
legged facts have been gathered. Three
of them are:
d. J. CAN'T, supervising prohibition
director for the southeast, is No. l
among the victims. He is to be dis
placed by March.5.
E. Walter Trippe, deputy to Collec-
tor A. O. Black, is No. 2.
new administration.
John W. Henley, assistant district
attorney, will not be displaced by the
Postmaster George c. Rogers is an
other who will go early, in all proba-
bility, say the experts.
OF course, all of the officials expect
to go in time. Some will resign on
the day of Harding's Inauguration.
Among these will be District Attorney
Alexander and his present chief as
sistant, W. Paul Carpenter. Others
will linger on for months, probably
well into the summer-it is said.
There is another thing the experts
learned while Harding was passing
through. They say it is unquestioned
now that Henry Lincoln Johnson, ne
gro republican national committeeman,
will have no more to do with federal
patronage in Georgia than good old
line Jeffersonian democrat will have
nothing at all.
Harding let it be known, it was
said, that he is with the white repub-
licans of the state, and in seeking adj
vice as to appointments he will ask
theirs. One of the gossipers went even
further than that He said:
The next president told so-and-so
that Henry Lincoln Johnson couldn't
even get job for himself"
The others do not agree on this,
however. They all said Johnson will be
made minister to Haiti.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
NUMBER OF ANIMALS
ON GEORGIA FARMS
THERE ARE NEARLY FIV E
MILLION IN STATE WITH A
VALUATION OF $140,445,9o0.

There were 4,933000 domestic ami
mails on Georgia farms January this
wear. with a total farm valuation of
S140,445,9 900, as against $5,O05,000 ami
mails one year ago with an aggregate
valuation OF, SOL, $4,000, a decrease
of slightly less than per cent in num-
bers and of 80 per cent in value. This
is the announcement made by John
S. Dennee, agricultural statistician for
the United States bureau of crop es-
Inmates cooperating with the Georgia
department of agriculture, division OF
agricultural statistics. He bases his
conclusion on hundreds OF reports re-
ceived by him recently direct from the
farmers OF the state. All kinds OF farm
animals. excepting milk cows, show a
falling off in numbers. The increase
in milk COWS is about per cent, and
he places the number of dairy cattle
at about 100000 head. But as there
are 310,737 farms in Georgia it is
plain to see, he says, that there are not
near enough milk cows in the state to
supply the urban population, and that
the farmers should get busy and in
crease the number OF dairy cattle.
There are 10000 sheep as compar-
ed with 125,000 a year ago, valued at
$487, 900.
There are $4,000 horses, valued at
$14,7S4000; $4,000 mules, valued at
S53.091 900; 100000 milk cows, valued
at S21 10000; 100000 other cattle,
valued at $15,260,000; 100000 hogs,
valued at $35,673,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
STILL CLUTTER PAYROLL
SLOW PROGRESS BEING MADE
TOWARD REDUCING NUM-
Der IN WASHINGTON.
EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND

Thirty two Thousand Have Been Dis
charged Since Armistice, When the
Peak Was Reached. Army of Po-
tomas" Being Demobilized.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Demobil-
ization of the great army of civilian
employees, often referred to as the
new army of the Potomac" is to be
left for the incoming republican adj
minstration to accomplish. 1t is to
have an opportunity to fulfill the
pledge the republican party made to
the country while the campaign was
in progress.
$4,000 Now on Payroll.
The civil army has diminished
somewhat during the 20 months that
have interviewed since the signing of
the armistice, but the reduction is be-
ing made not more than one-thlrd as
fast as the staff was created, and there
are still two and a quarter times as
many employees in the government
service as when the United States
entered the war.
On December 81, 1920, there were
more than $4,000 government en-
ployes in Washington alone. The force
did not quite number $4,000 when the
war was declared in April, 1917. The
high point was reached on armistice
day, November II, 1918, when there
were more than 10000 civil employees
of the government in this city. Since
the armistice approximately $4,000
employees have been discharged.
The records OF the civil service COM
mission show the number of employees
in the district and government bureaus
at the time the war began and the
number at present, as follows:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
PLAINS POLICEMAN
STICKS TO STORY
USES HARSH WORDS ABOUT
RICHLAND REPORT OF AT
TEMPTED ROBBERY.

]. c. Arlington, night marshal at
Plains, who recently reported an al
legged attempt to rob the Plains bank,
denounces emphatically the story from
Richland that the burglars seen by
him were a trio of Richland SWANS,
calling on young ladies at Plains and
Americas, and meeting by appoint
ment near midnight in the business
section OF Plains.
The boys who told that story lied"
said Mr.. Arlington, "and they lied
Previous to the appearance OF the
would be yeggs who wore masks and
ordered him to throw up your hands, p"
Arlington says, he met up with Cor
man Pickett, French Smelling and Mr..
BRYANT. all residents of Richland, who
were in Plains calling on young ladies
that night, and that he and chief mar
shall ]. E. Barker questioned all of the
Youths. who explained their presence
there satisfactorily, and asked to be
permitted to come inside the bank to
get warm, a request which Arlington
denied.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
INVESTIGATE THE
DANGER OF LYNCHING
INDIANA GOVERNOR TO SEND
COMMITTEE TO GEORGIA
BEFORE RETURNING MAN.

SYLVESTER, Ga.-An Indiana
committee, composed of one negro
and two white men. will be sent to
Georgia and to Worth county to in
vestigate whether Mace Giddens, a ne
gro who shot and killed Deputy Sher-
if w. p. Giddens, at Doles, Ga, sew
eral weeks ago and who is now being
held by East Chicago, Ind, authori-
ties, would be given proper protection
if allowed to be taken back to Worth
county for trial. .
of Indiana for extradition Giddens
was represented by several negro law
vers, who stated that they had been
retained by the black population OF
East Chicago and that approximately
$4,000 had been raised by subscrip-
lions to prevent the prisoner from be-
ing brought back to Georgia. The ne
gro, it is alleged, makes the plea that
If he is brought back to Worth couE-
ty he will not be given justice, but
instead would meet with mob violence.
At the conclusion of the hearing the
governor stated that he would not
grant extradition papers until he had
heard from a committee OF three men,
two whites and one negro, which he
would send to Georgia and to Worth
county to make an investigation.
Hon. T. r. Perry, of Sylvester, has
been employed by the county COM
missioners to represent Worth county
in the proceedings and to prosecute
the negro.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
RAPS SPENDERS.
Tobacco and Candy Bill of U. S.
Higher Than Insurance Expens-
es, Cleary Ayers.

The American people last year
sDent as much money for candy,
chewing gum and tobacco as they
did for life insurance, declared M. ].
Cleary, vice president of the North
western Mutual Life Insurance COM
panv. and former insurance commits
sioner of Wisconsin, speaking to
several hundred members of the
Knights of Columbus Thursday
night.
Mr.. Cleary said the country just
now is seething with unrest because
thousands of people are not able to
satisfy their desires and ambitions.
He urged the preaching of thrift at
every opportunity and said that no
country can be prosperous with halt
the people in poverty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
JOHN BARLE'YCORN
BEEN VERY BUSY
FIRST DRY" YEAR IN UNITED
STATES HAS WET" RECORD.
PROHIBITION WILL STAY.

The first full year OF national pro-
hibition in the United States has been
completed. John Barleycorn has been
found to be very much alive and IS
kicking so hard that Washington Of
flcials believe the nation is faced with
live issue that will last for many
years to come.
There is one outstanding and gen.
orally agreed fact. The United States
is not dry" Even the most ardent
supporters of prohibition agree that it
is not. Prohibition Commissioner Jno.
F. Kramer, officially the highest au-
thority, says that it will never be. At
the same time he declares prohibition
is here to stay, but with fight.
$4,000 Gallons in Warehouses.
National prohibitions first birthday
attracts attention to some interesting
facts. There are 100000 gallons of
liquor in bonded warehouses, costing
Uncle Sam $1,0W,000 year to guard.
Withdrawals on permits have been
averaging 1,050,000 gallons a month,
which will exhaust the supply in four
years.
From January 10, 1920 to November
80, 1920, the commissioner said, there
were 24,469 arrests for violation of the
national prohibition laws. Virtually all
of the persons arrested were recon-
mended for prosecution. There were
136,608 gallons of spirits seized and
destroyed. The commissioner agents
destroyed $3.50 stills. The total penal
ties and taxes under the Volstead act
amounted to $22,571 $50.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
UNDERWOOD AND
HITCHCOCK WILL CALL
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WILL
GO TO FLORIDA TO CONFER
WITH MR.. HARDING.

MIAMI, Fla.-The white house
latchstring will be hanging out for
democrats as we'll as republican dur
ing the Harding administration, close
friends of the president-elect said here
today.
Those who assumed that the presi-
dent-elect, because he is strong be-
lever in party government, will ruth
lessly override the democratic minori-
ty, do not know the real Harding,
friends say.
True, there will be no cabinet jobs
for democrats and few political plums,
but in formulating policies Mr.. Hard
ing expects to draw on leading dem
ocrats for suggestions. Naturally their
influence with him will be less than
that of his own party leaders, but they
will be given hearing.
Mr. Harding plans to call Senator
Underwood of Alabama, minority
leader of the senate, to St. Augustine
soon. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska
who was President Wilson's spokes-
man in the senate during the treaty
fight, also will come down.
1t will be especially on non-politi-
cal questions that Senator Harding
will seek advice of democrats. In de-
Gliding upon his tariff, preparedness
and fiscal policies, however, he will
stick to the republican platform, tax,
ing the view that on these issues the
republican party has made definite
pledges which must be redeemed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
PLAN TO GAS THE
FOE OF COTTON
Barrage of Poison Fumes Will Be
Squirted on the Pest in Chemical
Warfare on Them.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-They are
going to "gas" the cotton boil weevil.
The chemical warfare service OF the
army, in cooperation with the de-
partment of agriculture, is preparing
to lay down barrage of poison gas
in the cotton districts of the south,
calculating to exterminate the pest.
Brigadier General Amos Fries, chief
of the service, said today that expert
ments already conducted promised
success. Military gas has already been
used against rats in seaport cities, he
added a 15-minute application along
wharves and under water front build
ings killing every rat in the area. The
army is casing" locusts in the Phil
ippines, he said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
Time Limit For Auto
Tags Is Drawing Near
Only Nineteen Days More in
Which to Secure 1921 License.

Secretary of State S. G. McLen-
don has made request that atten-
ton of all automobile owners of
the state be brought to the fact
that nineteen days from this date
the old automobile tags expire I'M
der law. Every motor vehicle in
the state at that time must carry
a 1921 license number, or the sher
iff of the county is compelled, by
law, to prevent its operation. So
far less than one-third of the total
number of cars and trucks in the
state have been registered, and it
is a physical impossibility to han
die the remaining two-thirds of the
license numbers and get them out
by the last day of February. Con-
gestion this year promises to be
worse than ever before because OF
the fact that so many people are
holding back their applications. Any
serious delay, therefore, which may
occur in delivery of number plates
will be due entirely to neglect to
make application in time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
DEMAND JAIL FOR
ALL WHO DRINK
Dry Leaders to Ask Congress to
Amend the Law to Make Con-
sumner Equally as Guilty as Seller.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Prohibi-
ton leaders in congress are hoping to
tighten up the Volstead law. They are
planning new legislation to provide a
fiat jail sentence for the first offense
of selling liquor, without giving the
courts the optional right OF imposing
fine.
Other changes being discussed
among the prohibition leaders relate
to the search and seizure clause, so
as to reach the home brew and to make
more sweeping the present law under
which a person buying liquor may be b,
punished equally with the person sell
ing it. ro-
Confscation OF every drop OF liquor
held by citizens, regardless as 10 Wnen
or how it was acquired, also is being
urged. This would legalize seizure OF
ali stocks held in private cellars or
safety deposit vaults.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
Now the Reformers
Would Blacken Santa
They're Said to Be Trying to Stop
Custom of Christmas Giving.

The Santa Claus associations of
the United States have sent out
warnings to beware lest re-
formers, having nothing more i'm
portant to reform, undertake to re-
form Christmas. Propagandists al
ready were at work seeking to pre-
pare the United States for the
"black { atmas."
other nc reto.H 4sts' ties samuel Samuel
Brill, president o. "a Claus
Association of Create. nrk,
will advocate and try to
the complete elimination of X
giving at Christmas time The spir-
it has been manifest for the last
nine years, but its actual promo
ton on national scale has been
interfered with on account of the
late war, prohibition promoting,
etc. Something new is needed now,
and the black Christmas will be
next
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
COOLIDGE LOST
COAT IN ATLANTA
Vice President Elect Left 1t Unguard-
ed For Short Time. Detectives
Want Help to Find It

ATLANTA, Ga.-Atlanta's detec-
tive department has at last admitted
that Calvin Cooldige's overcoat was
stolen while he was visiting here and
that the city's best sleuths could not
find it and wanted the public to help.
The coat was taken when left un-
guarded for short time while the
vice president-elect inspected the Y.
NJ. c. A. building, and civic pride
made the detectives want to return it
without the world ever knowing that
the theft had been committed here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
HUNDREDS ATTEND
TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE
DELEGATES TO BIG MEETING
AT FAMOUS INSTITUTE URG-
ED TO STAY ON FARM.

Hundreds Of negroes from all parts
of the south, who attended the thir-
tieth annual conference at Tuskegee
institute, Tuskegee, Ala, were urged
to diversity their crops, practice econ
omy and accumulate their savings.
They aso were advised not to go to
the city, but to remain on the farms.
The question of law and order was
brought UP at the big meeting. The
conference, in a resolution, declared
that all negroes ask is fair play. II
negroes commit crimes, the conference
said they should be punished by the
courts, but not by mobs.
Opportunities on the Farms.
Although the war brought many OPP
portunities to the negroes outside OF
agriculture, the fact still remains that
farming offers greater opportunities to
the majority of the race. The confer
ence urged the people to stay on the
soil and continue to purchase land. Al
though many negroes went north dur
ing the migration period it was an
nounced that the purchasing OF land
in the south continued to increase. The
records show that in Georgia alone,
during 1910 negroes bought 95,OOO
acres of land and increased their hold
ings from 100000 to 1,759,O0O acres.
The conference suggested to negro
farm tenants to produce their own
foodstuffs, practice economy in other
ways and thus be able to get on with
as small advances as possible during
the present nationwide business de-
nreSSiOn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
STRANGE, INDEED.

"There's one thing | can't under
stand about these spirit communica-
TONS" remarked Mr.. Brown, as he
finished reading the account of high
ly successful seance.
whats that, John, dear?" asked
his wife.
"Why you never hear of departed
soul having gone any other place eX-
cept straight to heaven.-New York
Post.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08
Other Interesting Facts.

Other Interesting Facts.
1t is also revealed that the railroad
administration, which surrendered the
railroads on January /, 1920, continues
to employ within Is as many persons
as it did at the peak of the war load,
while at the same time several hundred
employees have been added to the rolls
of the interstate commerce commits
sion.
The food and fuel administration,
the war industries board and certain
other war agencies have disappeared,
but other boards created Tor purely
war purposes have continued IN oper-
alton.
In the 10 months from the declara-
ton of war to the beginning OF the
armistice the employees increased from
37,908 to 117,454, or at the rate OF
4,202 a month. Rehabilitation, how
ever, is taking place at the rate OF
1904 a month.
In the last campaign many republi-
can campaigners talked OF cutting
from 10000 to $4,000 employees off the
payroll. The appropriation bills deal
ing with personnel are in conference,
but it is the estimate of committee
men that the reduction will not exceed
1000 this year.
Legislators are debating the ques-
ton as to what mark may be set as
the maximum to which, taking into
account the normal growth of govern
mental activities and the new prob
lem raised by the war itself, the body
OF federal employees may be perma-
nently and safely reduced.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-08

Bounties paid by Montana stock
growers the last seven years for the
killing of predatory animals amount
ed to $722,45
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-05-11
WEAVER STRONG

The Star has received the following
announcement:
"Mr and Mrs. Eugene D. Strong
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Genevieve Phillips to Mr..
Arthur Vernon Weaver, on Wednes-
day, April goth. 1921. st. Petersburg,
Florida"
Mr.. Weaver has on several occas-
ions visited Ocala at the homes of his
aunt and uncle, Mrs. A. A. Winer and
Mr.. S. NJ. Lummus, and besides his
many friends being interested in the
foregoing announcement, friends of
his mother, Mrs. S. B. Weaver of Nj
ami, will learn with interest of his
marriage, as during her girlhood
days Mrs. Weaver made her home in
Ocala. Mr.. Weaver holds a response
BILE position with the J. B. Orr Con-
struction Company of Miami, and is
quite popular there, both socially and
in the business world. During the war
he enlisted in an artillery regiment
but was soon transferred to the Sec
ond regiment band at Camp Jackson
Mrs. Weaver is one of st. Peters
burg's most accomplished and popu-
lar young ladies. After a wedding
trip to Havana, Mr.. and Mrs. Weaver
will return to Miami to make then
home where the groom has made
ready a cozy bungalow for his bride.