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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
To Argue Rate Case
Interstate Commerce Commission to
Hear Arguments April 20 on
WA. Fare Boost

Oral arguments will be heard By
.the Interstate Commerce Commission
April 20 beginning at 1870 o'clock or
the fare BOOST Ct the Washington.
Virginia Railway. The trolley COM
pany asks to increase its fare beteen
this city and Washington and on. all
other points Of its line. Testimony
was heard before Commissioner
,faklcy the latter part of February.
A decision in the case probably Will
De handed down By the commission
early IN May. The commission. as
heretofore stated in the Gazette, post
poned the new tariff applied for By
the company til June 13. This, there
fore means, that whether or net the
trolley company obtains an increase
It will rot become effective till June
13.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
FUNERAL: OF MRs. PENDLEToN

The body of. Mrs Maria Dawson
Pendleton, Of Lynchburg, was buried
at. 1890 o'clock yesterday afternoon
IN Ivy Hill cemetery. Services were
conducted by Rev. Samuel A. Wallis.
rector or Braddock Episcopal chapel!
Accompanying the funeral party was
Rt. Rev. Robert c. Jctt, bishop Of
southwestern Virginia.
TIE palibcarcrs were George Y.
Worthington, John 7. Worthngton
DR.. Edgar Snowden, Chas. r. Hooff
Frank Moore and Frank Daingerfeld
The funeral party was met at the
RI Iva; station By large concourse
Of relatives ard friends and many
also Joined the party at Warrenton.
The floral tokens were handsome ard
humorous.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
ANNOUNCEMENT

Effective April /. 1921, the Lind
sev-Kirk Corporation will be dissolved
by mutual consent.
Tie Lindsey interests have formed
a new corporation to be known as
the Lindsey Nicholson Corporation
while The Kirk interests have organ
iezd a company under the name of
their old firm, H. Kirk & Sons, Inc.
Both new firms will conduct whole
sale, grocery business.
The Lindsey-Kirk Corporation
wishes to thank its many customers
for their patronage, and request a
share Of their business for the new
sros e,. 60 2c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11

apenient Of the Central gave out g
statement declaring that the cuts are
proposed in the interests of "the rate
paving public and of general industry
inst as much as of the railroad.
The Office of general suerintenden'
has been abolished, and officials hold
ing this position have been denoted
to the grade of superintendent, rail
way officials announced here last
night. AT the time Of this actor
there were six general superintend-
ents. two in New York. and one each
in Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland and
Chicago.
This step was a movement for a
General eemotion Of railway officials
Of virtually all grades, it was stated.
Although definite plans have not
been formulated concerning the effect
this demotion would have upon the
newly created superintendents' offie'
ials stated that the duties usually
devolving upon other officials who
also have been lowered, will be con,
solidated with those Of the superin'
tenderts. Most Of the former gen
eral superintendents will be trans
tferred from the cities where they
. are now stationed. -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
May Reach 500 Mark
Chamber of Commerce Membership
Effective March Is

Approximately $50 memberships
hsve been received by the chamber Of
commerce for renewals up to the
present time it was announced to.
day.
Officers of this organization ex-
pect that the grand total will be ap-
proximately 500. The new member
ships date from March IS.
The committee in charge of the
canvas together with the officers OF
this organization are well pleased
with the ready response made on the
part cf All in renewing their men,
berships for this organization.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
Dissolve Partnership

The Lindsey Corporation,
wholesale grocers, will dissolve part
nership AuriI az will be seen by a
notice elsewhere in. This paper. The
Lindsey-Nicholson Corporation has
organized and the Kirk interests have
organized. a company under the name
Of their old finn. "A: Kirk and Sons
Lindsey-N Nicholson Corporation have
sale grocery business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
EXECUTORS NOTICE

Having qualified. as executor
of the estate of the late
Kate Uhler French, all persons
to whom said estate is indebted are
requested to present their accounts,
20 the undersigned, properly certified
for payment, and all persons indeot-
ed to said estate are requested to
make prompt settlement of the same.
57-6c.- Louis c.. Barley, Executor,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
Lodge: Organized
Arlington Lodge No.. 1911. of Claren
don, Has Charter Mem
hership of "a

Arlington Lodge, No. 191, |. O..
G.. F., Of Clarendon, Arlington coun-
~, was organized last night at Ives
Hall with a charter membership OF
seventy-four.
The four degrees of the order were
conferred on the tcandidates by the
degree team of Potomac Lodge No.
80, this city.
A large delegation of members OF
Potomac Lodge of this city attended
the organization of the new. lodge.
This is the only lodge of Odd Eel
lows it, Arlington county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
C. c.: Carlin Donates
Forwards s25 For Alexandria Light
Infantry Fund

Former Congressman Charles, c.;
Carlin has forwarded check for $25
to First Lieut.. c., NJ. Shepperson, of
Company NJ, First Virginia Volun-
teers, better known as the Alexandria
Light Infantry. The contribution
came unsolicited.
Lieut.. Shepperson is epdeavoring
to have thirty citizens contribute s25
annually for this command. All who
can are Urged to send in their con-
tributions without delay This COM
rany is ready at. all times to respond
in case of trouble.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
MARRIED

MORDEN-HAGA- Wednesday
March ., 1921, by the Rev. E. B.
Jackson, of the First Baptist
Church, ARCHIE c. MORDEN
aged 27, of Saginaw, Mich, and
MAXINE HAGA, %, of Shoals.
Ind. 60-1r
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-03-11
GOOD PRINTING great sell

GOOD PRINTING great seii:nT
force.
Good Printing is the dy-
namo that will move
YOUR business on to a
greater success. GOOD
PRINTING IS just as
necessary to healthy
growing business as the
electric juice is to
M the motors that n'ove
!. ,,s - the machinery Of: the
4. ...sy g,....+l,,, .l.. j." Tr!-e -.
|. .f ~. ' -. Z sTs.q
HARRY W,WABE 1~'
:313 King Street
n o.g,. s.5.. -, -,... a..ts,t =
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06
Admore Kept Too Busy To Think Of Business Depression

streets, homes, and business places; TO
Argentina l,424,000; TO Mexico 1882
600: to Canada 3,06l 900; to Australia
and New Zealand 1,ll0,000, and to such
distant and less accessible markets as
the Dutch East Indies, 253,000; India
23l 900; Straits Settlements $1,000;
Hong Kong $4,000; Siam 5000; French
Oceania 5000, and Iceland 10000 The
telephones exported went to no less
than 75 countries and colonies, includ-
ing all of South America, all of the
Asiatc countries, British French,
Dutch, American, and Japanese islands
in the Pacific, Iceland at the far north,
the Falkland Islands at the extreme
south, and Ecuador. as its name inn
plies, directly under the Equator. One
other1interesting point-not for the
purpose of knocking" our neighbors,
but just for the encouragement of our
own manufacturers-it seems not i'm
proper to note, that while the value of
our own exports of electrical appara-
tus grew from less than $20,000,000 in
1914 TO over $l00,000,000 in 1920, the
exports of similar materials from our
present chief rival in that line, Great
Britain, were in 1920 only s56,000,00O
as against $26,000,0O0 in the year i'm
mediately preceding the war, her ex-
ports in this line having barely doubled
during the period in which our own
uuintupled
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06
WORLD DEMANDING
ELECTRICAL GOODS
FROM UNITED STATES

New York. April 6.-The whole world
is calling upon the United States for
electrical machinery and apparatus. 1t
bought from us in 1920 over $l00 ,000,
600 worth of material of this charac-
ter, including telephones, telegraph in
struments, incandescent lamps, cleo
tric fans, heating and cooking appara-
tus. motors, insulating and wiring ma
terials, and the thousand and one re-
quirements Of modern electrical COM
forts and conveniences. Our sales Of
this class of material which we statisti-
cally designate as electrical machin-
cry and appliances" amounted, says a
statement by The National City Bank
of New York, to less than $50 900, 900
in 1914, $l0l ,000,0 900 in 1920, and will
probably exceed $3.50 100000 in 1921,
for the exports are now running at the
rate of SIS, 900 900 a month"; half mil
lion dollars a day.
Telephones alone amounted to nearly
81 100000 in the electrical exports OF
1920, as against a little over $1,000, 900
in 1914, and ipcandescent lights. over
s4,0O0,O00 as against s1,5O0,00O. OF in
candescent lamps, the number exported
in 1920 was over 10000 600 against less
than 1000 900 in 1914 of electric fans
in 1920, $4,000, valued at $l,365, 900,
against $4,000 valued at $296,000 in
1914, and electric motors, the biggest
single item of the group, $l3,265,OOO
value in 1920, against $3,300,0 900 in 1914.
OF course, adds the Banks statement,
a trifle of 500, 900 or even $780,
900 900 exports for the current year, is
not large factor in our present tre-
mendous expectation of manufacturers
which amounted to over $4,000, 900 ,00O
in the calendar year 1920, but it does
illustrate the growth in our activities In
supplying up-to-date and high grade
manufactures to the outside world
and at the same time the highly COM
mendable habit which the outside world
has developed of coming to the United
States for material Of this character
for it will be observed that the total
value OF electrical machinery and ap-
pliances exported in 1920 was more
than five times that of 1914.
Illustrative Of the absolutely world
wide" extent Of the demands upon us
adds the banks statement, an exami-
nation of the details of our distribu
ton Of material Of this particular class
of manufactures shows that We SEN
TO Brazil in 1919. 2,9S7 900 metal fila
ment" electric lamps for lighting hel
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06
BUILDING INSPECTOR MAKES REPORT
FOR MARCH WHICH INCLUDES PERMITS
FOR 81 RESIDENCES; TOTAL OF Sal 900

According to figures submitted by
Lewis H. Davidson, building inspector,
permits were issued during the month
of March for 81 residences, amounting
to the sum of s112,55 Permits issued
for other buildings, incluiing additions
to homes, garages and business houses
total s3S, S,45O. making an aggregate sum
of $4,000, an increase over the Feb
ruary of $4,000.
"Ardmorc is not on q building boom"
the inspector stated, but property
owners are realizing more and more
that we must take care of the great
crowds Of people coming TO our city
daily TO make their home.
The building campaign, if you call
it campaign, started last fall and has
been steadily increasing each month.
The increase during March was not
what We expected, but due to weather
conditions, which were unfavorable for
building, many people deferred putting
up buildings until this month. My Of
flee is taxed 10 capacity practically
every hour in the day, with demands
Tor permits.
'One noticeable feature is the great
amount of remodeline and additions
being builded to homes. Whatever
money is being made is surely being
invested in the right way and judging
from indications we may expect con-
tnuation Of the campaign indefinitely.
Certainly, We expect this month to
show a big increase over last month.
February's report totalled $4,000"
There is under construction at this
time in addition to the detailed re-
port for March, the $350,000 junior
high school building; the s275,OO0
Broadway Methodist church building;
100000 theatre; additions to the
Blomfiell Academy aggregating a sum
of 1000 and the addition and remodel
ing of Nrdmore's largest department
store, Nestheimer and Daube. amount
ing to approximately 100000.
Amor 2 the larger buildings plan 1c /
for carly summer is the State Ma aicaa'
Bank Lrilding, which VIII cos. approx.
ir.1tely $4,000 the Brca lway Baptist
church Il cost s275,OOO
Permits issued during March are as
follows:
Tom Echols, residence, Is Seventh
avenue, northwest, cost $4,000; j. H,
Branum contractor.
Tom Echols, residence, II Seventh
avenue, northwest, cost $4,000; ]. II.
I3ranum, contractor.
l.. Howard, residence, GIG 3, north
west, cost $500; Charles Harmon, con-
tractor.
r. G. Colvert, garage, s1S Bixby, cost
1000 j. c. Renfro, contractor.
zac Price, residence 1OS Ninth avenue
northeast, cost 81 500; L. B. Jones, con-
tractor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06

f. s. Bennett, garage, II Tenth ave-
nue., northwest, cost $3.50.
a. NJ. Brady, residence, COZ North
Washington, cost $4,000; B. II. Car
lew, contractor.
]. r. Pennington, repairing store
building, East Main street. cost $4,000;
b. II. Carlew, contractor.
Arthur Hall, residence, 1413 Stanley,
cost $4,000; Taliaferro and Tanner. con-
tractors.
Arthur Hail. residence, 1903 Bixby,
cost $4,000 Taliafero and Tanner, con-
tractors.
f. II. Denton, residence block 2, lot
1917, Highland Park, cost $500.
Asa Reeves( residence, 209 Sixth ave
nue., southeast, cost $1,000.
w. +. Landrum, four residences, 70l
703. 705, 7O7 East Broadway, cost $500
each.
j. H. Cox, residence, corner Eighth
avenue and l, northwest, cost $1,000.
j. II. Boyd, barn 46 F street northeast,
cost 500.
D. c. Sampley, remodeling for picture
show liz East Main street, cost $1,000.
Beulah NJ. Evans, residence, block 49s
lot Z, cost $1,000; Jessie Tyree, con-
tractor.
Beulah NJ Evans, two residences, A
and Eighth avenue, southeast, cost $500
each l.. Reeves, contractor.
w. w. Williamson, residence 1864 Nc
Lish, cost $500; Brown and Mccoy,
contractors.
r. l.. Rogers, residence, 202 Fifth
avenue southeast, cost $500.
f. M. Mccain, residence l6 Twelfth
avenue. northwest, cost $4O0
r. G. Colvert, addition ,S1S Bixby,
cost $500; J. c. Renfro. contractor.
Walter Thompson, grandstand at ball
park, cost s1,1O0.
Earnest Key, residence 1901 West
Main, cost $4,000; A. f. Coston, con-
tractor.
c. r. Smith, remodeling store build
ing, 405 Third avenue northeast, cost
$4,000; Harry Oliver, contractor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06

w. c. Dewitt, residence, Wolverton
and Sixth avenue, northwest, cost S.
600; Dan Ridpath, contractor.
Harrett Baker. residence, 7O7 l. north
east cost $1,000; Q. Cannavan. con-
tractor.
II. r. Kyle, addition 925 Third ave-
nue., northeast. cost $1,000.
Laura Nolan, addition 1903 G street
northwest, cost $1,000.
p. S. Cox, Residence, 40s X southwest,
cost $4,000; Mccoy and Brown, con-
tractors
j. c. Williams, residence. A southeast,
cost $500,
II. NJ. Finley, residence. A southeast.
cost $500.
S f. Eldridge. residence. A, southeast,
cost 5000
Nora r.. Dixon, residence &c Fourth
| avenue northwest, cost s4,50O; #. Il.
Snelson, contractor.
J. b, Dawson. repairing, 52l b north
west, cost $780,
Henry Cathey, residence 125 Fifth
avenue, northeast, cost $2,50O; Asa
Reeves, contractor.
r. f, McCrory, four residences, Rdii-
sill addition, cost $3.50 each.
W. II. Ellison, mercantile building,
North Washington, cost $1,000; II. f.
Snelson, contractor.
II. G. Harrel, residence, 321 X south
west, cost $4,000; f. c. Bone, architect.
f. NJ Yates, two residences, block 81,
cost 900 each.
Guss Pohlman, residence, 1906 Z
northwest, cost $4,000 W, c. Holt, con.
tractor.
Clyde Fraser, garage col Second ave-
nue. northwest, cost s400; w. d. Talia-
ferro, contractor.
Plez Watson, two residences, 5l2
East Broadway, cost $500 each.
Roy Alexander, residence, 1920 Bixby
cost $1,000 #. f. Snelson, contractor.
shed, cost $3.50.
John Neal, residence, corner A and
Ninth avenue, southeast, cost $500.
A, d. Key, residence, A street south
east, cost $500.
Charles johnson, residence, northeast
Broadway, cost $3.50.
Leo b. Atkins, residence $40 a north
west, cost $4,000; A. c. Bagby, contrac
tor
r. s. Lee, residence 81 Sixth avenue
southeast cost 1000; Tyree, contrac
tor.
W, A. Donson, residence, corner A
and Ninth avenue, southeast. cost ss0(
l.. Reeves, contractor.
Mrs. Annie r. Frayne, residence, 1204
Bixby avenue, cost s4,500; w X. Har'
ris, contractor
Cornwell-Chowning, addition to office
cost $500.
j.. r. Moore, store building, FRS
avenue and G southeast, cost 5000.
DR.. G. L. Johnson, residence 1901 Nc
I.ish, cost $4,000.
Jeff Hurt, residence corner l. anc
Seventh avenue northeast, cost S450.
r. l.. Baker. residence G and Fifth
| avenue southeast, cost $1,000.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06

There is under construction in the
city of Ardmore today buildings ag-
gregating a sum Of 81 ,0O0,0 900. These
have been underway since January
/, and include the Junior high school
building, the Broadway Methodist
-hurch, theatre, additions to one Of
the largest department stores.
The building inspector estimates
that 300 residences have been erected
since January l, not including the
IL permits issued during the month
If March.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06

Nose Cooper, cleaning shop, l. and
Seventh avenue, northeast, cost $3.50,
G. ]. Cannavan, residence, cost $1,000,
Emil Schroeder. residence, sos. F
street southeast, cost $1,000.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06
Oklahoma Leads in Debate

Norman, Okla, April 5.-Congress lit
erary society at the University of Ok
lahoma is leading in the inter-society
debating contest now in progress.
Athenaean literary society is second.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-06
Manufacturers of: PEERLESS INDIVIDUAL POE

BOlted Steel Tanks
RiVeted SteelT ankS
Welded Steel Tanks
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-11-17

The object of Thanksgiving
day is to take US back of the
goods of life to the supreme
good. The tendency is to get
absorbed in things and forget
their spiritual value. Thanks
giving day reminds US of spir-
ituaI values.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-11-17

bling? I'm afraid Dick has noticed
my downheartedness. Well l won't
give way again"
With this resolution Hester lifted
the gun and fired several shots in
the direction of the Dowd place. She
thought she heard a signaling shot in
return, and, satisfied that help would
soon be on the way, she went back
to the cabin and discovered that Dick
was sleeping quietly.
1t was a lonely day for her, for
Dick slept far into the afternoon. She
completed her plans for Thanksgiving
day, and while she stood in the door
yard watching the trail along which
she expected to see Lin Dowds mules
come galloping at any instant, a great
plan took form in her mind.
IF l could only blow the old Horn
0f Plenty to bits, Dick would admit
defeat and 20 home with me. There
he could have some chance in fathers
Office and l would work, TOO, if neces-
sary. This suspense is killing him."
She bit her lip thoughtfully as she
went down the hillside to the mine.
She was familiar with the workings
and had often helped Dick, holding
the hand drill and fetching and carry
ing for him faithfully.
She opened the door of the tool
shed and rolled "A keg of gunpowder
iuto tho month of tho tupuaI Thnu
she inserted fuse into the opening
and carried the length to a large rock
halfway up the slope.
There, you greedy old Horn of
Plenty, you've swallowed all our hopes
and our money. When you have van
ished, perhaps we can begin over
again somewhere else!"
Hester did not light her fuse then,
nor for several days, because Dick re-
quired all her attention. Lin Dowd
evidently had not heard her call for
help and she was compelled to do the
best she could alone and unaided.
On Thanksgiving morning Dick was
much better. He said he felt as strong
as lion and would get up and eat
some of the toOthsome viands whose
odors filled the cabin with reminders
of Thanksgiving days in New England.
Hester had actually shot and killed
wild turkey and she was jubilant over
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-11-17

him with tender eyes. He paused by
the rock, waved his hand and
scratched a match to light his pipe.
lie tossed the flaming match end
aside and Hester, watching it, saw it
flame on the ground and then a sullen
streak Of red ran down the hill to-
ward the shaft.
The fuse-fuser she screamed,
running toward her husband.
But she was too late. The quick
fuse had accomplished its purpose. 1t
reached the gunpowder-there was "a
deafening explosion, followed by
defamation that shook the hillside as
the store of dynamite tore into the
earth.
She found Dick rising to his feet,
white and stern-looking.
''What was that. HesterY' he asked.
Tearfully, Hester made her confess
sion, and she had scarcely finished
when they We're confronted by anoth-
er disaster-the little cabin they
called home burst into flames, ignited
by the overturned cook stove.
Half an hour later, they faced each
other amid the smoking ruins of their
home. Below was a jumbed heap Of
upturned rocks that marked the site
of the Elusive Horn Of Plenty.
Hester, wide-eyed and pale, was
afraid to meet her husbands eyes.
This was indeed Il cruel Thanksgiving
her own fault, TOO!
a shout came up the hill. Lin DOwd
had heard the roar of the explosion
and had dashed his mules up the trail
to the Prentice claim. They saw him
leave the mules and come a-fOot up
the slope. He stopped at the mine
and studied the ground, then he came
hurryng to meet them.
Anybody hurt?" he asked anxious
ly, and finding that the young settlers
were intact, he tossed his hat down
on the ground and proceeded to exc
cute a weird dance around the emberS
Of their home
Are you crazy?" demanded Dick at
last.
Almost" admitted Lin GREATNESS
~, pausing TO confront them You
folks better come down to our house
to dinner. Sarah's got a wild turkey
with all the trimmings. You two
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-11-17

The little cabin chung to the SCARED
hillside and pine trees clustered
around it as if to protect the tiny
home from the cruel blasts of the APP
preaching winter.
In summer it was very lovely there.
Birds nested in the deep pine woods
behind the cabin and a robin had built
in the tallest pine over the roof. But
now the robins had fled and the woods
were quiet save for the scolding chat
ter of blue jays and the occasional
bark of squirrels. The grass had
died under the touch of a blighting
frost and the wind whistled keenly
down the mountain.
Hester Prentice leaned against the
doorway and looked sorrowfully at the
bleak hillside and the dark hole in
the earth where her husband had
delved for many months. n few
fleckS of gold had rewarded his eff
forts and although he still maintained
an outward air Of cheerfulness Hes
ter read growing despair in his
stopped shoulders and evasive eye,
and only this morning she had noted
with a little shock that his dark hair
was silvered around the temples.
"And Dick is only thirty" she muir
INJURED to herself with catch of the
breath. THAT awful mine! With its
alluring promises that are never full
filled it is sapping his life of youth
and happiness. Such a mockery to
call it Horn of Plenty The YAM
pire' would be a better name"
Tears clouded her blue eyes and
for the moment She lost the cheer
fitness that had sustained her ever
since her marriage to Dick Prentice
six months before. Family and friends
had protested at her foolhardineSS in
risking everything upon the mining
claim staked out in distant Montana.
There is Dick, you know" she had
smiled confidently at them. with
Dick, l would 60 anywhere-take any
chance in the world"
So she had married him and the
summer had been an ideal one but