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The daily times., 1921-10-08

this estimate was made represent the
average OF 12-hour periods, from
a. m to p. m., therefore not in
cluding any delays in night hours.
! Trains blocked the crossing 50 times
F, in II hours, 100 minutes in 2 hours
! SO times in one hour, S.33 minutes
| in one hour, one time every ST min
utes, 122 minutes each time, 1875
per cent of the daylight hours. The
cost of blocking was figured on the
following basis: street cars, per hour
Sc, heavy trucks So, delivery wagons
$3.50. automobiles So, horse-drawn
vehicles $3.50 and pedestrians 20
cents
Durham employed an engineer to
make a survey of the entire traffic
structure, including all relations be-
tween street traffic and railway traf
fic, both passenger and freight, the
station facilities. The survey includ
ed the collection of great mass OF
data, of which the above, as to the
cost Of blocked traffic at one of the
ten grade crossings, are illustrative
This was pioneer work, certainly fol
this part of the country. Railway
companies have done such work, bu,
Durham is the first municipality tt
do it. The railway companys en-
gineers can readily determine wha
would be an ideal terminal arrange
ment, but its domain is limited; it
confined between the boundaries {
its rights OF way. When the railwa
proposes to change the location of a
industrial development, of streei
it is going beyond it's power. Til,
municipality, on the other hand
when it calls interested persons anC
proposes any reconstruction or rear
ran$ement. can speak to them witt
authority and they will hear without
prejudice, because the purpose OF
the municipal authority is presumed
TO be to promote the general welfare
? The making of Durham's survey
with a report providing for an out
right rearrangement of the railwa,
structure, required nine months
is recommended that the task be un
derw-ritten by units. and the pro
posed work is divided into fou
units, as follows:
One-One street underpass ant
necessary revision for its accomplish
ment. This is the street where block
ing delays cost the interest on more
than 100000 yearly. incidentally
the cost of this unit will be around
100000
/ TwO-Removal of railway classi
fication yards and engine terminals
from within the city limits.
Three-New' freight station lay
outs with necessary track connections
Four-Completion of the ultimate
plan, with enlargement of passen
ger station.)
The principal thing to be accom-
plished by this plan is the separa
ton OF the railway and street grades
3This will be accomplished by the sub
'Stitution Of six underpasses for grade
crossing and the elimination of four
crossings. These Things done, Dur
hams traffic problems in this par.
The daily times., 1921-10-08
DURHAM SOLVING y
GRADE CROSSINE 6
Greensboro News.) a

In the city of Durham there fare
ten railway crossings at grade. Dur
ham has union passenger STATION
serving its three railways systems
that just contains the business of nor
NAL times, and is readily taxed bee
yond its capacity when travel passee
the normal volume.
The blocking of a street by train
costs money. The blocking of one
street in Durham, it is found, costs
$27.229 per year, which is six per
The daily times., 1921-10-08
Woodard Bros. {
Distributors.
WHITE ROBED MEN
MEET IN PASTI RE

Durant, Okla, Oct. 7---Seyeral
shots were fired by group of county
officers and a band of nine ra.k"G
white robed men whom the officers
discovered in a pasture north OF the
city last night.
The robed men fed after the
shooting and Sheriff Taylor who was
a member of the attacking party "a
he believed none had been wounded.
The sheriif's party suffered no IN
jury.
The daily times., 1921-10-08

The undersigned will offer for sale
to the highest bidder for cash in front
f the Court House on the 22nd day Of
Oct. 1921, at IL O'Clock, noon, one
Buick touring automobile, makers No
335412, owned by w. c. Miles. Said
car is being offered for sale under
Mechanics lien and for storage
charge.
Date: September %, 1921.
Brown Motor Co., Wilson, N. G.
10 s Is
The daily times., 1921-10-08
O,2O3 Fans Paid $iO3,965
A Record sum, to See Game
FIRST GAME

Yankees 3; Giants
Attendance (paid) 3o,-o"
Receipst (new record) O3.S63-oo
Advisory Councils share 10, 5,594.lo
plavers' share 56,O2215
Club owners share 35, IA ~
Yankees and Giants share
(75 per cent? so,7os.s1
Indians and Pirates share
(15 per cent? 7,95335
browns and Cardinals
share GO per cent? 5,3O2-21
The Yankees and Giants Will Oh
vide their share of the players mon
ey 60 per cent to the winner OF the
series and 40 per cent to the loser.
The other clubs sharing in the mon
ey will divide on fifty-fifty basis.
The daily times., 1921-10-08

ticular field will have been solved for
all time The costs OF delay. OF ac-
cident. death and injury will be a
thing of the past. And the entire cost
is estimated to be S2.000,00O
The daily times., 1921-10-08
WATER SHORTAGE
AGAIN THREATENS


iRaleigh, Oct. 6.-The flow from
Walnut Creek into Lake Raleigh yes
|terday was the smallest that has yet
been reported and city officials now
fear that the water shortage will
become even more acute than it was
before the first rains, about a month
ago.
/ TheSwaterline at the city reservoir
is now( 81 inches below the normal
mark, as compared with a maximum
SHORTAGE of 81 inches. Unless the sit
tuation is, soon remedied, it is feared
that the daily decrease will become
much eaten and that extreme meas
ures of water conservation will have
to be reserted to again.
The daily times., 1921-10-08
H44i441Hi47Y747474iKL
lTY OFFICIALS HELD IN
CONNECTION WITH SHOOTING

Sanford, Fla, Oct. 7.-C. J. Ryan,
city manager, J. A. Killibrew, chief
IF police and Ned Harris. motor cycle
officer, of this city were released un-
ler bonds of $500 each pending ap-
pearance in higher court as a result
If the shooting of Fred. Frederick
ere last Sunday. Frederick is in
hospital seriously but not fatally
,urt.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
TAX ASSESSORS NOTlcE,.

 To the Property Owners of Little River County Arkansas: Personal subject Little River for the Of 1921. f township, will eih
 
 Township the located 4 
 
 
  
 
 
 Jackson Wallace Church, Saturday, May Tuesday, May and TO- Thursday Friday 12 Jackson Gin, Saturday, May A. Monday and Tuesday May l6 IT, IS fDaysT School House, Friday, May 2O School House. Saturday, May 2l Caney Township, Gordo, Monday, May 23 24 till 23O o'clock ;o Township Friday and Saturday May 27 and 1S cblandT Towns Ridge, Monday May 30 IN Richland Church. Tuesday May 3l Richland Township, Iayneport Wednesday, June Thursday and Frlday June z Township, Cliffs, Saturday June A. Tuesday Wednesd G. z, and g. in. us bring deeds of your years tax receipts
 H. w. CRAY Assessor Little River County. N
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
UNMARKED BY FLOWS TOUCH
Rolling Plains Scene of Great Beauty Before the Advent of the
 Agricuturist.

Seventy years ago. Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed.
 Those plains stretched out in limit less rolling swells of prairie until they met the blue sky that on every hand bent down to touch them. In spring brightly green, and spangled with wild flowers, by midsummer this prairie had grown sere and yellow. Clumps of dark-green cottonwoods marked the courses Of the infrequent streams for most of the year the only note of color in the landscape, except the bril- liant sky. On the wide. level river bottoms, sheltered by the enclosing hills, the Indians pitched their conica' skin lodges and lived their simple lives. If the camp were large the lodges stood in wide circle, but if only few families were together, they were scattered along the stream.
 In the spring and early summer the rivers, swollen by the melting snows, were often deep and rapid, but little later they shrank tp few narrow trickles running over bed of sand, and sometimes the water sank wholly out of sight.-George Bird Grinnell.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
Queer Drugs once in Use.

Alchemy and medicine, as it was practiced in the early part of the Eff teenth century, had many strange be- liefs. Among them was that a roasted mouse would cure cannon ball wounds if 1t was bound tightly to the fracture, and old blood could be made young again by transfusion. Every starbeam was thought to be thread of light that ran directly to the head of some living man, and his fate was deter mined by its action. It was also be- lieved that rock crystal was ice that had been buried a thousand years. and that gold was once lead, that after being buried POO years changed to red arsenic and POO years after that was changed to tin and then to silver and last to gold.
 A favorite treatment for gout was a tea of daisy petals and cures were many, although the real secret was in the fact the physicians put the patient on diet and a rest cure went with the flowers.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
F BACK HURTS USE
 SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Ea& Isn meat if Kidneys fselslfks lead or Bladder bothers you-1Aat
 forms uric acid

Most folks forget that tho hdneysL like the bowels, get sluggish and elogged and need . hushing occasionally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, severe headaches, rheu- matic twinges, torpid liver. acid stomach, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder dis orders.
 You simply must keep your kidneys active and clean, and the moment you feel an ache or pain in the kidney region, get about four ounces of lad Salts from any good drug store here. take tablespoonful in . glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity. It also neutralixes the acids in the urine 30 it no longer irritates. .hus en6ing bladder disorders. ...''.
 Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive; mskcs delightful effervescent lithia- water drink which everybody should take TOW and than to keep their Kidneys clean, thus avoiding serious complications.
 A well-known local druggist says he cells lots ofJad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidncy trouble while it '' only trouble.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
The Split Infnitive.

An fnfinitive Is said to be split when an adverb or adverbial phrase is in- serted between ito" and the infinitive. as ito readily see;" this construction Is not considered good English. As a sign of the possessive, "of' may be the equivalent of the apostrophe "s," or it may be used with the apostrophe ''s" in somewhat different meaning, thus {: A saying of Wilson might mean Ia saying about Wilson," while "A say ing of Wilson's" would be lone of Wilson's sayings" said by Wilson him. self. You could say This is a hat of my fathers" meaning one out of his numerous hats. The English language avoids the use of the genitive sign "of' whenever possible, preferring the apos- trOphe with "s," my fathers hat"
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
LITTLE STORY CARRIED STING
Neglected industrial Possibilities of the South.

D. A. Tompkins, the father of the cotton-oil industry, who built his for tune on his ineXtinguishable faith in the industrial possibilities of the South, was fond of quoting this little story about Georgia funeral, says his biographer, Dr. George Tayloe Win ston, in "A Builder of the New South"
 q attended funeral once in Pick ems county, Georgia. It was poor, 'one-gallus' fellow. They buried him in the midst of marble quarry; they cut through solid marble to make his grave, and yet little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and the pine coffin was imported from, Cincinnati. They bur- jed him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails of his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pitts burgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on earth, and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were imported from the North. The South did not furnish thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground. There they put him away and the clods rattled down on his coffin and they buried him in New York coat and Boston pair of shoes and pair of brooches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati, leaving him nothing to carry into the next world with him to remind him of the country in which he lived and for which he fought four years but the chill blood in his veins and the marrow in his bOnes."
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
Mixture of Races in France.

The mixture of races that have con- stituted the French people of. today has determined the principal physical characteristics of our people. Thus 1t has been found, writes the Paris correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that the average height for men is 165 cm. 0 feet inches).
 The observations indicate that S5.1O per cent of the French people have chestnut hair. The blonds are next In order, forming only 12.32 per cent of the population. Pure black hair is found in 1.S3 per cent-that is, slightly more frequently than red hair, which altogether was found in only 0.72 per cent of cases.
 Pure black hair, so rare in France, is the rule in certain Mediterranean countries (for instance, in definite re- gions of Spain). Very light blonds form the majority of the population of northern Europe.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
WANTED TO KNOW TOO MUCH
Young Financier Forget That Banks Relations With It's Clients iaust
 Be Confidential.

Banks and bankers give much time and attention to the training of their apprentices. The head of big down. town institution was once giving a lee ture on the work of the paying teller and, as Homer occasionally nodded ward the end of his talk, into an in- formal narrative of some of his early experiences. He told of the natural reluctance of bank to refuse to cash check for one entitled to the money who might not be fully or regularly identified and of various ways in which an experienced teller satisfies himself of an applicants good faith.
 "Once charming young woman pre- sented small check at my window" 1" said the speaker. "She was transpar- ently honest. but had no acquaintance in the bank nor any letters or other papers with her. I asked her if she had a handkerchief or some article of tials. After moments deep thought her face frightened and she asked:F
 "'Would an initialed garter buckle do|"
 In the tumult that followed a bud ding financier near the back of the room raised his voice to ask, in a tone of detached scientific inquiry:
 "Did she get the money?"
 "Young man." answered the great one. T have to remind you that banks relations with it's clients are often highly confidential" Wall Street Journal
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
WORLDS DEBT TO cHINAMAN
Celestial Is Directly Responsible for Improvement in the Breeding of
 American Porkers.

The economic genius who figured out that all that was needed to bring unbounded prosperity to the cotton mills of New England was to add half an inch to each Chinaman's shirt tail never carried out his project, but the Chinaman, without announcing his plan, has done something quite as re- markable: He has added inches to the legs of the American pig.
 He has not done 1t alone. He has had help from the East and West In- dies and from our own farmers in the South. The process was simple and was just another instance of great industry altering itself almost uncon- sciously to meet new conditions, the Nations Business states.
 Not many years, ago the prizes of the pig world went to the round, short legged type, the kind of hog that you couldn't see under. The chief purpose in the life of that hog was to turn corn into lard. Now it's the pig type that is popular. the pig that makes more lean meat, more bacon and more ham.
 What has done it1 For one thing the Chinaman and his soy bean, coco nut, corn, cottonseed and peanut are furnishing vast amount of lard sub- stitutes at prices lower than the pig can supply his product. So the four legged lard factory is turning to the ham business and the Chiranlan, his shirt tail unlengthened, has added to the legs of the American hog.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
Best Sprinkler.

Many persons must have noticed that the most diligent sprinkllng of lawns and flowerbeds fails to impart to the grass and plants vital stimu- lus equal to that that comes from a good shower of rain.
 It is because rain, falling from great height through the air, brings with 1t considerable quantity of car bonic acid, of nitrogenous particles, and of other elements nutritious to plants, which it has washed out of the atmosphere. So sprinkler used from the top of tall building might be slightly more effective than when employed at the surface of the ground.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
"CHINA WEEK" IS
 SUPREME EFFORT ] OF FUND WORKERS

As practical and popular demon stration of the sympathy of the nation for sister republic, a China Famine Week." to be observed throughout the United States, has been set for the eight days from Sunday, May l. to Sunday, May 8, inclusive.
 In this week it is hoped that the churches and civic. commercial and professional bodies will take an active part The success of this week will determine largely the amount of re- lief which can be sent through per sonal sacrifice to 5,000O00 starving people still dependent on outside aid.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
Confirmation Notice.

Notice is hereby given: That N. o. Leerstang has this day filed in the Chancery Court of Little River County, Arkansas, his petition, praying the court to quiet and confirm his title to the following described land in said county, towit: The south half Of the south half of the NE quarter of the SW quarter. the w half of the half
The Little River news., 1921-04-20

STRAYED-MARE COLT, COMING 2
 years old, light roan, small knot above hoof on left foreleg. Return to or notify Jim Turner, ogden, Ark. Re- ward $5. 4-16
The Little River news., 1921-04-20

of the s half of the SW quarter SD quarter; the SEE quarter of the SW quarter (except the following tract. towit: "70-yards square or one acre in the Southwest corner tnereof), sec tion 19; the NV quarter Of the NE quarter (except the following tract:
 begin at the northeast corner of said NV quarter of the NE quarter and run south 245 yards; thence west 176
The Little River news., 1921-04-20
SEN What You SPEND ONE DAY
 To China

5000, 900 Chinese Famine Victims Still Need American Help Before Juno.
 S1 will save one life one month. PICK "A PAL IN CHINA FOR A
 DAY To hasten the work of relief, this newspaper will forward contrbu- tions to the local Treasurer, or to the National Treasurer, China Famine Fund, Bible House, New York City.
The Little River news., 1921-04-20

Order of Eastern Star I'll Meets at Masonic Hall, Second and Fourth Monday night at 2 o'clock. Mai F. Mobley, Worthy MatrOn.
 Mary Lena Sutton, Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-16
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Looking Blackboard in Society
Columns of The State Journal


Mrs. E. P. KelIam returned Tuesday from
n visit in Oamaha.
Mrs. J. f. Daniels has returned from
months stay in Leavenworth with Mr.. ana
Mrs Frank Anderson.
Mr. Hale Hamilton arrived in Topeka
today for few days visit with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. NJ. Hamilton en- route to
California.
Mrs. VIII Farnsworth and daughter VIII
ma have arrived from the City Of Mexico
for a several weeks visit with Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Farnsworth at 2200 West Tenth ave-
nue.
Governor Stanley and a party of ladies
from Marshall county had trolley party
before most fashionable people had their
breakfasts this morning. They went out
Eighth avenue about o'clock this morning
and made a trip of inspection thru the gov
ernors mansion.
Mrs. De Witt Nellis and daughters, Miss
Celeste Nellis and Miss Anna Marie Nellis
gave their regular lat home" Wednesday
afternoon at their charming home on West
Fifth street Receiving with them was Mrs.
William Hinesley of Lawrence. The hos
tesses were assisted in entertaining by Mrs.
L. II. Mum. About rs guests called. One
of the delightful features of the afternoon
was q short munsical program. Mrs. Mum,
Miss Lillian Foster, Miss Lucille McAfee
sang; Miss Celeste Nellis played aud Miss
Anna Marie Nellis whistled.
Mr. and Mrs. w o. Anderson have issued
invitations for May party to be given
Saturday afternoon, May is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-16
BOY SCOUTS TROOP EIGHT WINS
VIII Receive Silver Trophy Cup for
Most Points in Contest.

In the Boy Scout demonstration Sat
urday afternoon on the state house
grounds, troop No. won the silver
trophy cup for winning the most
points in the contest. Troop won
second place, Troop 8 was third and
IA was fourth. Troop No. has held
the cup for year.
The members of Troop s are:
Charles Graves, George Epps, Ralph
Mitchell, Donald Horn. Fred Baker,
Arthur Chittenden, Hubbard Fritz,
Newell Nay, Charles Pierce, James
Mohler, Edwin Hogueland, Clinton
Tomson, Keith Hollingsworth, Quinton
Graves and Clayton Caster. Paul Fung
is assistant scoutmaster of the troops
and F. w. Epps is scoutmaster.
The Boy Scout troops of the city
formed a parade at the high school
Saturday, passed down Kansas avenue
and then in review before the Boy
Scout executive committee at the state
house. Ivor MacFarlane. Joe Morgan
Major J. F. Going and Homer Fink
were judges in the contest. The execu-
tive committee of the Boy Scouts held
a banquet at the Elks club Saturday
evening. A. G. Mendenhall of Toledo
o.. was the principal speaker and J
r. Burrow, Jr., was POSTMASTER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-16
NTTELL HEADS GIDEONS
Topeka Elected State President of
Commercial Travellers Order.

The state organization of Gideons at
their final business session selected
w. Z. Kittell, of Topeka, to be state
president of the organization Kittell
has been head of the Topeka branch
of the Gideons. J. NJ. Averill. also of
Topeka, was elected secretary of the
state association.
A series of meetings arranged to
affect a large number of different
classes of people, was held Sunday by
the Gideons, opening with their own
devotional meeting at $3.50 o'clock at
the Central Y. NJ. C. A.
Members of the association occupied
the various pulpits of Topeka churches
at the morning services. At 2 o'clock
Sunday afternoon the Gideons gave a
program at the boys industrial school,
and at o'clock, Lyell RAIDER was the
chief speaker at a meeting at the
Orpheum theater.
Sunday evening ]. Harry Humphrey,
of Huntington, W. Va, conducted the
main session at the First Presbyterian
church. Humphrey is national presi-
dent of the Gideons.
Musical numbers by ladies' guitar
and mandolin club, directed by Prof.
Albert Schutt; Howard A. Snyder of
Mcpherson, whistler and imitator;
and by the Rev. c. f. Mathews, pastor
of the First Baptist church, were on
the program ofsthe afternoon meeting
at the Orpheum.
The Gideons opened a campaign for
associate members among the bust
ness men of Topeka, today. The
members of the association who live
in Topeka, and the others who re-
manned in the city, met at the Cen
trail Y. NJ. G. A. to map out the city
into districts to be canvassed.
The collection. for the purchase of
Bibles to be placed in hotels, was led
Sunday by the Potwin Presbyterian
church.