The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-04-07

Tired Of bothering with inner
tubes, Bellaire, Ohio, resident filled
his auto tires with sawdust. He de-
clares that the sawdust is an excel
lent substitute for the air cushions
created by the inner tubes when in
commission.
Sixty thousand baby chicks were
moved from Knoxville to other points
during the month Of March. The
chickens were shipped in especially
constructed corrugated pasteboard
boxes with special compartments
that hold rs chickens.
Sandy Thompson, negro, who shot
and killed B. E. Dobson, a planter,
near Brandon, Miss, Friday after
noon, was lynched near Langford
some time during Sunday night. The
body was found swinging from the
limb of tree.
Thirteen may be a lucky number
for Eugene v. Debs, the Socialist
leader, now serving a 10-year SEN
tence at the federal prison at At
lanta Acknowledgement Daugherty
announced Saturday that he would
probably take action on the Debs
pardon application on April ID.
While driving along country road
north Of Danville, III, Friday after
noon, Calvin Richardson, a junk
dealer, found a box lying near the
road containing $4,000 in registered
Liberty bonds. He carried them to
Danville and turned them over to
the bank there.
The Memphis Automobile Dealers
Association is planning the largest
auto show ever staged in the South
to be held in Memphis this month.
A committee has been appointed to
select site for the show. The very
latest cars on the market will be
exhibited.
President Harding last Thursday
received his first pay check. 1t was
for $5,52084. Ordinarily the month
" check sent to the president by the
treasury department. is made out for
$6,250, but Mr.. Harding was
"docked'' for the three and a half
days that Woodrow Wilson served as
president in March.
Use Of the word Cigarette on the
label of tobacco container will be
unlawful in Utah after June 8, ac-
cording to an opinion by the at
torney-general. Certain brands of
tobacco which are advertised on the
container "for pipe or cigarette
will have to use special container
for their goods sold in Utah.
Rev. Heber Votaw, brother-in-law
of President Harding, has been APP
pointed superintendent of federal
prisons, effective April 6, it was an
nounced at the department Of justice
Saturday. The resignation Of Dem
yer s. Dickerson, Wilson appointee,
was accepted by President Harding.
The resignation was effective April
5.
The bodies Of 1924 American sol
diers, who lost their lives in France,
some Of them members of the 9th,
nth and AID divisions, arrived at
Hoboken, N. Y, Sunday aboard the
transport Cambria. The transport
came up the New York harbor with
her flag at half mast and vessels
which passed her dipped their flags
in salute.
An increase in business failures
was shown for the first quarter of
1921 in the report Of r. G. Dunn &
Co., made public Monday. Failures
so far this year totaled 2,480, In
volving an aggregate Indebtedness
Of SITS, 589,989. In the same quarter
last year there were ,267 insolven-
cies, with an indebtedness Of $780,
7O2,499.
Carl Neuf and Frank thinner have
been released from Imprisonment in
Mosbach, Germany. The sentences of
Neuf and thinner, both attached to
the American army Of occupation and
under confinement there for their at
tempt to arrest Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, the American draft evader,
have been RENTED by the Baden
government.
More than 1000 men will be re-
employed by the Firestone Tire and
Rubber Co.,, in Akron, Ohio, during
April, according to an announcement
made Saturday. Production will be
increased nearly so per cent. It is
expected to reach $1,000 tires day,
due, it is stated, to substantial in
creases in original equipment BUSH
ness from automobile factories which
are beginning to resume work.
Regulations limiting Withdrawals
of liquor by retail druggists to 100
gallons each Of spirits or wine for
each quarter were issued Thursday
by the bureau Of internal revenue in
Washington. While intended to
clarity previous orders, the new regu-
lations were said to serve in way
as a relaxation Of restrictions limit
ing withdrawals TO five cases Of all
kinds Of liquors under one permit.
c. P. Williams, general bookkeeper
of the State Normal School, was last
Thursday morning appointed game
and fish warden by Gov. Taylor to
succeed w. d. Howser, who has held
the office for eight years. Mr..