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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
INCREASE IS NOTED
IN COAL PRODUCTION

WASHINGTON, May 17.-Bitumi-
nous coal production now has jump
ed to more than 100000 tons week.
ly, indicating that the country is
well started on the long pull out of
the bushes depression. Increasing
coal production and consumption
mean 1ses unemployment. larger
production and lower prices.
"The coal production reports of the
interior department constitute one of
the nations best business barome-
ters," said George H. Gushing, man
aging director of the National
Wholesale Coal association, here to-
day.
BY July, bituminous production
will have reached the stage of g.
100000 tons weekly. This means en-
ployment of from 10000 to $4,000
more miners.
when miners go to work, closed
factories start to reopen and unem-
ployment decreases.
There is every reason to believe
that steady increase in coal buying
is under way. The slump seems to
be over.
"Householders are buying anthra-
cite coal at a rate seldom equaled
at this time Of the year. During
the first week of May, the opera
tors sold their entire output in the
same week in which it was mined, :"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Validity Of Prohibition
Law Is Reaffirmed by
u. S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON. May 17.-The val
idity of the prohibition amendment
was reaffirmed by the supreme court
today.
Ali sections of the amendment now
have been upheld, by the court, thus
making it certain that future at
tacks will be futile
Specifically the court held that the
proposal of President Harding, while
a senator, requiring that the states
must ratify the amendment within
seven years to make it operative,
does not void it. Attorneys for the
liquor interests had contended that
this requirement was unconstitution-
al ana therefore invalidated the en-
tire amendment.
The Harding proposal is section 3
and the court last June specifically
upheld the other two sections. JUS
tice Van DeVanter again read the
decision, as he did last June.
The court also held that the pro-
hibition amendment became effective
on January II, 1920. Wet attorneys
asserted that it was not law until
January 20, or one year after the
ratification of SO states was proclaim
I'D by the secretary of state. Jan
uary II was one year after the SO
states had ratified, the twelve inter
vening days representing the time re-
quired for official notices of action
to reach the state department.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
BAPTISTS POSTPONE
RIGHTS TO WOMEN

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May IL
Representation of wonen on the eX-
ecutive committee and the five gener-
al boards of the Southern Baptist
convention was deferred for year
by action of the convention late
Monday, the nominating committee
having discovered difficulty in adj
justing provisions of the bylaws of
the convention and in other matters
relating to the selection of the Wom-
en-. The committee to which was
originally referred the memorial
from the Woman's Missionary Union,
asking for the representation of the
women on all the major age9cies of
the convention, was instructed to
take the whole matter under consid-
GRAFTON for year and report the so
luton of all difficulties to the next
session of the body.
Establishment of another theologi-
cal seminary by the convention was
provided for Monday afternoon, and
proposals from states desiring it's To-
cation are asked for during the COM
ing year, with the convention fixing
the location at it's next session. Prop
ositions have already been made in
formally by Georgia, South Carolina
and Virginia, and the indications are
that the institution will be located in
one of the Atlantic coast states. One
or more south-wide Baptist uniVer-
stiles is favored by the convention
and the committee having this matter
in charge was instructed to invite
proposals on the location of such in
stltut1ons during the coming year.
In the same connection the Co
lunbia association at Washington,
d. c., was asked by the convention
to develop plan for the retaining
by the Baptists of George WASH
ington university, of that city, for
merly Columbian university, and
which was until recently under Bap-
fist control.
An independent association of Bap-
list schools and colleges in the south
probably will be formed, it is an
convention in adopting a resolution
to the effect that it is the sense of
the convention that all. Baptist
schools and colleges should be eX-
ecutively independent and admins
tratively free of all agencies except
those created by the conventions or
other Baptist bodies owning the
schools.
The creation in each state of a
Baptist records of the states was rec
commended by the convention. Def
mite recommendation were adopted
looking to supplying the $500 pas
torless Baptist churches of the south
with pastors
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
E -SOLDIER TELLS
Of SIBERIAN DUEL

4 story of a queer duel between
| himself and a Siberian Bolshevill is
one of the interesting yarns brought
back from overseas by Sergeant Sam
uel c. Taylor, veteran of the ST.
berian campaign, from September,
1918, until March, 1920. who has
recently enlisted in the First Geor-
gia infantry of the national guard
Sergeant Taylor lives at GIG Hill
house street, East Point. He has
received his honorable discharge from
the regular army and he is now
seeking employment in Atlanta.
He is one of two Georgians who
has won the right to wear the ST.
berian campaign clasp upon his Vic
tory medal. He served in the Twen-
ty-seventh United States infantry,
which in cooperation with the Thir-
ty-first regulars, did guard duty
near Vladivostok. Siberia, for nearly
two years. He has had to repeat his
duel story on many occasions since
he returned from that exciting cam
pai i!f1 ,ononoa aar,- ata,+ o.
a railway station in Ugolonaya, not
far from VIadivos tok," he begins.
THE railway stations are built half
below the ground in that country,
and I was in charge of provost
guard there at the station. A big
Russian got off the train and accost-
ed an American sentinel doing guard
duty on the platform. He said some
thing, which the soldier did not un-
derstand, and then tried to take the
sentinePs rifle away from him.
Now this was very much against
guard pushed him aside after a
scuffle. and the Russian ran down
stairs into the subterranean part Of
the station. J, being in charge of
the guard detachment. went down
there to arrest him.
1T was a dim, smoky hole, and
there were about twenty Russians
down there. | saw my man, and
when I arrested him, he picked up one
of those long Russian rifles, which
has a three-foot bayonet fixed onto
the muzzle. He had about dozen
hand grenades tied to his belt. He
pointed the rifle at me, just as I
shot him with my automatic pistol.
1t flattened him out, and I covered
the rest of his crowd, and backed
out safely. I always wondered after
wards what mess there would have
been if that bullet had hit one OF
those grenades.'
After this incident, Sergeant Tay-
lor was transferred to another part
of Russia because the friends of the
dead Bolshevill plotted to bump him
off" He later went to the Philip
pine islands, and there received his
discharge from the service. He re-
turned to Atlanta and is now seek
ing employment.
"It has been quite a job finding
work" he says, but I am optimistic
about it. I can drive a truck. and
do a little bit of almost everything,
but work is scarce here at this
time"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
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, in the manufacture of pipes and
cigarette holders comes chiefly from
Asia Minor.
4. Q.-Are all insects found on
plants injurious to them?
A.-There are many friendly in
wing flies; tachina flies, surplus
bird beetle has been known to eat
as many as 80 plant lice in a day.
). Q.-What is the book held in
the left hand of the Statue of Lib
erty?
it's left hand a tablet upon which is
inscribed July 4, 1776.'
articles
A.-Shipping articles are articles
of agreement between the master OF
the ship and a seaman serving on
board her. regarding wages, length OF
service, character Of service, etc.
8. Q.-What is fear of food called:
A.-Sitaphobia is dread or fea.
of food experienced by insane people
which leads them to refuse to eat.
8. Q.-Where is Atlantis supposed
to have been?
A.-Atlantis, an ancient mytho-
logical island, was supposed to lie
in the Atlantic Ocean, west of the
Straits of Gibraltar, and was known
as THE Lost Continent" Plato rep
resnts it as having been engulfed in
the sea 9,001 years previous, as q
punishment for the impiety shown
by the inhabitants in waging wal
. against Athens.
9. Q.-Who discovered platinum ?
A.-The existence of platinum was
first made known in Europe by An
tonic de Llloa in 1885. 1t was first
described by Watson in Philosophical
Transactions in 1850.
10. Q.-Where is vegetable ivory
obtained?
y, A.-The coquilla nut, the fruit of
species of palm, is known as vege-
table ivory, being imported from
outh America for the manufacture
of buttons and the making of various
small ornaments.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Gagged FOR is YEARS,
WOMAN WAS HELRESS

been permanently damaged. 1t is
suspected she has tuberculosis.
The authorities have failed thus
far to account for an Inheritance of
$4,000 said to belong to the girl. She
has been left in the cage, in care of
the mother and sister, who have
been her jailers, ever since her dis
covery, because DIR. Cotton believed
she would be better off in this en-
vironment. to which she had become
accustomed, until after she had been
examined. The aged mother explain
ed that she kept Jessie locked up to
prevent her running away.
Upon the result of the eXamina-
ton by the physicians Thursday will
depend in a large measure the dispo-
sition of the woman. If she is found
to be affected with tuberculosis DR..
Cotton undoubtedly will direct her
removal to the Saratoga County Tu-
berculosis hospital, where she can be
given proper treatment, care and
nourishment. Whether Miss Hall is
seriously i'll or not the authorities
believe sanitarium will be an ex-
cellent place for her to be kept, for
a time at least.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19

SCHENECTADY.% Jessie Hall, the
thirty one-year-old heiress to miss
ing treasure of several thousand dol
lars, will look on the outside world
soon for the first time in sixteen
years. More than half her life has
been passed as a prisoner in a small,
crude wire cage in the tum BILE down
home of her mother. Mrs. Catherine
Hall, near Round Lake.
DR.. John Cotton, health officer of
the town of Ballston, who discovered
her recently, emaciated, babbling and
terror-stricken at the sight of a
stranger, after neighbors had asked
what had become of the long-miss-
ing girl, will take her to the Sara
toga hospital. There she will be
given a thorough mental and phys
ical examination.
Sixteen years passed in the small,
darkened Enclosure, behind tightly
closed window blinds, and entirely
lacking even the simplest comforts,
have had their effect on Jessie Hall.
and physicians fear her health has
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
More Live Stock for
Baldwin County

MlLLEDGEVILLE Ga, May IT,
The farmers of Baldwin county are
quite active in an effort to increase
the breeding of pure-bred live stock
and to bring about diversitication in
farming.
l.. E. Swain, formerly of Warren
county, was recently made farm
and he is now actively on the job
here The members of the Baldwin
county farm bureau are holding
meetings weekly for the purpose of
keeping up genuine cooperation in
the matter of looking to better mar
kets and the raising of uniform
crops.
Conunty Agent Swain is enthust-
astic in his work and he is being
kept unusually busy in his efforts to
keep in close touch with the farmers
here. He is making arran gements
whereby he will be able to answer
any call that is made of him on
short notice, and from all indications
the people of this county are rapidly
becoming educated to the needs of a
man well versed along agricultural
and live stock lines
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19

(Any reader can get the answer
to any question by writing The At
lanta journal Information Bureau,
Frederic J. TZaskin, Director, Wash
ington, D. G. This offer applies
strictly to information. The bureau
can not give advice on legal, medical
and financial matters. 1t does not
attempt to settle domestic troubles,
nor to undertake exhaustive research
on any subject. Write your question
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New Questions
How many senators and repre-
sentatives are there in the new con-
gress?
2.-How many vessels compose the
Austrian navy?
3.-What is the procedure in wa
ter-proofing canvas tent?
4.-When were chain cables first
used?
5.-How much land did Thomas
6.-What kind of d fish is the Irish
fish?
7.-How much milk is held in the
udder of the average milch cow at
the time of milking.
SIS there a tribe Of people
known as the Mosquitoes?
9.-What is the average life Of a
fancy white rabbit?
10.-What is THE Rosetta Stone?'
Questions Answered
j. Q.-Can all the United States
mints coin money of all denomina-
tons?
All the minis are authorized
to coin coins of all denominations.
2. Q.-How high is the Eiffel Tow
err?
A.-The Eiffel Tower, the high
est structure in the world, is 1000
feet in height.
8. Q.-What is meerschaum and
where does it come from?
A-Meerschaum is a fine, white,
soft, clay-like mineral, light
enough to float on water when in
dry masses. The meerschaum used
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Outlook Bright for
Large Melon and
Cantaloupe Crops

| MOULTRIE, Ga, May 17.--Water-
melon growers in the Moultrie ter
ritory would be taking an exceed
| ingly optimistic view of the crop
outlook were it not for the fact that
freight rates on melons are described
as almost prohibitive. The crop will
begin moving earlier this season
than it has in a number of years.
The rains of the past week ca-ne
just in time to prevent serious dam
| age and started the melons well on
the road towards maturity. 1t is
declared that the crop movement
will be we'll under way by the mid
number of cars will go from the
Moultrie district by June 10, if not
before that date. The crop is NOT
as large as it was last year, but the
production per acre will be much
heavier and if prices hold up, more
tion than went forward in 1920. it i6
believed.
IT was because of the high freight
rates that many growers reduced
their acreage this season. A con-
certed fight was made to bring
about a reduction in rates and this
fight is being continued, but now
since the railroads have declined to
voluntarily grant reduction, it is
not believed that it will be possible
to get anything done this season. A
hearing will be asked before the in
terstate commerce commission, but
a decision can't reasonably be eX-
pected before July 1 and the bulk Of
the melon crop will have been ship
ped by that date.
The canta1oupe crop is also earlier
this season than it has been in Il
long time. Reports from Pelham
say it is believed that a car of
cantaloupes will be shipped from
there by June 10, - days sooner
than the first car went forward
last year. Mitchell county is gem
orally considered the largest canta-
loupe producing county in the state
and it is estimated that at least 500
cars will be shipped from the Pei
ham district this season. Good
prices are expected.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Feed Contest Proves
Hogs Profitable "
AT Present Prices

MOULTRIE, Ga, May 17.-Nine
Worth county farmers have just
demonstrated that there is money in
hog raising even with present prices.
These farmers fed out in contest
ninety-four hogs for a period of three
months. keeping an accurate account
of all costs, valuing feed at market
quotations, and cleaned UP a profit of
Sc a head, according to figures fur
nished S. C. Hood, Of the Southwest
Georgia Development association, by
j. o. Traxler, county agent of Worth,
who directed the feeding contest.
The average weight of the hogs
when the contest was started was
ninety-one pounds. On the day the
hogs were weighed they were worth
6 "a cents a pound on the Moultrie
market.
The basis on which the cost OF feed
was arrived at was as follows: Corn,
so cents; tankage, $65 per ton
shorts, $50 per ton; sweet potato. 60
cents per busheI; oats. rape or rye
pasture. so cents per head per
month: velvet beans, $3.50 per head
a month.
No kitchen Stops were allowed un-
der the terms of the contest and all
feeds were confined to commercial or
homegrown feeds, which were
priced at full market value.
at the end of the ninety-day period
the same hogs were carried to SyIves-
ter and sold at auction by a repre-
sentative of the state bureau of mar
ketS.
Seven of the nine farmers made an
average net profit of Sc per head
after paying for all feed at full mar
ket prices, and one of the contestants
made net profit of $3.50 per head
in ninety days on twelve hogs.
Hogs fed by seven Of the nine
nnety days at an s s1erag Gu cog of thS
cents per pound. One man tried to
feed corn alone and the gain his
hogs registered cost him II cents
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Scout Saves Sister
Life, utting Out Fire

ALBANY, Ga. May 17.-Mr. and
Mrs. J. j. Cannon, sos Flint street
this city, are thanking their lucky
stars that their fourteen-year-ol Did
son, Eugene, is n Boy Scout. for it
was training he received as a mem
Der of Troop No. 3 that enabled him
TO save the life of his five-year-o1d
sister, Mildred. from death by burn
ing Friday afternoon.
The children's mother had prom
ised them she would make some
candy, and little Mildred, thinking it
would be fun 10 make it on a camp
fire out in the yard went out to kin
die one. Her dress caught fire and
she started to run wildly about. AS
she was about to run under the
house, Eugene caught her. threw
her down and rolled her in the sand,
putting out the flames.
Little Mildred though painfully
burned. will recover, and her brother
escaped with only slight burns on
his hands
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Banking Law Changes
Submitted to Committee
By Senator Mcclellan

WASHINGTON, May 17.-Senator
Mcclellan, Democrat, Tennessee, sub
mitteda to the senate committee on
banking and currency today letters
from Treasury Secretary Mellon and
proving a proposed change in the
banking laws which would make
notes, drafts, and other commercial
paper issued by cotton factors eligi-
BILE for re-discount in the federal re-
serve system. Members of the COM
geenrally favorable to a bill he has
introduced for the purpose, and he
expects that it will be reported out
for massage next week
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Man Makes Valuable
Find Among Savages

Natives of the Cook Islands in the
Pacific ocean are reported by trav-
eler returning from voyage there to
be taking a vegetable oil for rheu-
matism which is said to accomplish
amazing results. He says he saw
badly crippled natives completely
cured by swallowing a little Of this
oil twice a day. Hundreds of let
tiers from rheumatic sufferers have
been answered and oil sent them free
after he returned to America. Mr.. P.
E. Wilkes, now stopping at the Geor-
e,iar7 TERRACE hotel AtIants 90 con
supply further information and some
of the oil free.-(Advt.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Boys Rock New Boat;
Two Are Drowned

CEDARTOWN, Ga, May 1.-Two
young white boys about twelve years
of age, John Baxter and Melvin
Wilkes, We're drowned near here in
Cedar creek, just above a mill dam.
Four boys were trying out their new
were rocking it when it turned tur-
bank, broke the chain locking an
other boat to. the bank, and with his
bare hands rcyed out and, through
heroic efforts, saved two of the boys.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Wandering Stranger
Wealthy Viirginiian

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. May IL
apparently suffering from loss of
memory and sent to the county hos
pital was identified today by Rev. G..
II. Payne, a messenger to the South
ern Baptist convention, as n. H. Wal
ker, a wealthy retired business man
of Vinson, Va. He ca2Ie &c Chatta-
nooga from Hot Springs and was
found wandering about the streets
by the police, lie will be taken home
by Mr- DaNnG
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
New Superintendent
For Thomas School

THOMSON. Ga, May 17.-At a
meeting of board of trustees of the
Thomson High school on Friday,
Paof' Ed D; Gunby, Of lDouglasvilles
Thomson public schools for the term
beginning September 1, 1921. Prof.
Gunby is well known throughout this
section, having at one time filled a
similar position here. Prof. GUnby
has accepted.
Prof. r. o. Powell, who has been
the superintendent of the Thomson
public school for the past two years,
has been rendered flattering offers
from schools in other parts Of the
sta tn
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
U-Boat, Sans Oil,
Travels With Sails

HILO, T. H, May 17.-Submarine
RIA arrived here yesterday under a
jury rig after exhausting her oil sup
plies while out OH search for the
missing navy tug Conestoga. The
RIA had sails made from hammocks
and mattresses, supported on masts
rods.
Officers of the submarine reported
their oil gave out on May 10, when
they were $50 miles west of here
Lieutenants A. S. Douglas and r. T.
Gallamore and twenty-seven enlisted
men were aboard the RIA.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Poles VIII Retire
IF Allied Forces
Take German S Places

OPPELN, May 17.--(By the Asso-
ciated Press).-The Polish executive
committee in Silesia, of which Adel-
graphed to the inter-allied commits
sion here. stating the insurgents
now are ready to retire sufficiently
to insure immediate cessation of
hostilities with the Germans. pro-
vided the ground they abandon is
occupied by allied, and not by Ger
man trOOuS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Bonds of Haywood and
Companions Forfeited

CHICAGO, May 17.-Bonds Of big
Bill' Haywood and the eight other
convicted I. w. w. leaders who failed
to surrender at LeavenWorth pNson,
were forfeited today by order of the
circuit court of appeals.
The 7. w. WIS bonds were from
$1,000 to $4,000 each, aggregating
$4,000.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-19
Japanese Woman,
Leader Of Bandits,
Is Out for Revenge

TOKIO-According to a dispatch
from Vladivostok, a Japanese wom-
an living there. who is a leader of
notorious band of mounted bandits
Of Nikolaevsk, left Vladivostok a
few days ago to take up active COM
mand Of the bandits and avenge
the death of 124 JAPANESE residents
in Siberia who We're murdered by
I3oIshevik bands near Nikolaevsk in
June last year.
The mounted bandits under the di-
rection Of their leader are said to
have given much assistance to the
Japanese eXpeditionary forces, and
their leader was twice decorated by
the Japanese commander for her
brave action in giving them aid. She
Is supported by the other Japanese
residents Of Vladivostok.
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Thomson Cotton Mill
Running Full Time

THOFSON. Ga, May 1.-THE cot
ton mill at Thomson which has been
closed now for several months has
resumed active operation, and is run
ming with full force of hands and
on full time.
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