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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-13
PART FIVE.


"Now, Watson, now" cried Holmes
with frenzied eagerness. All the de.
moniacal force of the man masked
behind that listless manner burst out
in paroxysm of energy. He tore the
drugget from the floor, and in an in
slant was down on his hands and
knees having at each of the squares
of wood beneath it. One turned side
ways as he dug his nails into the
edge of it. 1t hinged back like lid
of box. A small black cavity opened
beneath it. Holmes plunged his eager
hand into it, and drew it out with n
bitter snarl of anger and disappoint-
ment. 1t was empety.
"Quick, Watson, quick! Get it back
again." The wooden lid was replaced
and the durgget had only just been
drawn straight when Lestrade's voice
was heard in the passage. He found
Holmes leaning languidly against the
mantelpiece, resigned and patient.
yawns.
Sorry to keep you waiting, Mr..
Holmes. l can see that you are bored
to death with the whole affair. Well
he has confessed, all right. Come in
hClS, iCl SOI LLct ll1SoC 5Cll'iS-
men hear of your most inexcusable
conduct"
The big constable, very hot and
penitent, sidled into the rom.
II meant no harm, sir, I'm sure.
The young woman came to the door
last evening-mistook the house, she
did. And then we got talking. It's
lonesome, when you're on duty here
all day"
We'll, what happened them"
She wanted to see where the crime
was done-had read about it in the
papers. she said. She was very re-
spectacle. well-spoken young woman,
sir, and | saw no harm in letting her
have peep. When she saw that mark
on the carpet, down she dropped to
the floor, and lay as if she were dead.
I ran to the back and got some water,
but I could not bring her to. Then I
went round the corner to the Ivy Plan
for some brandy, and by the time had
brought it back the young woman had
recovered and was off-ashamed of
herself. | dare say. and dared not face
me-
How about moving that durgget?"
We'll, sir it was bit rumpled, Ger.
tainly, when | came back. You see.
she fell on it and it lies on a polished
floor with nothing to keep it in place.
| Strengthened it out afterward"
Its lesson to you that you can't
deceive me, Constable MACPHERSON
said Lestrade, with dignity. mo doubt
you thought that your breach of duty
could never be discovered. and yet a
mere glance at that drugget was
enough to convince me that someone
had been admitted to the room. It's
lucky for you, my man, that nothing is
missing, or you would find yourself
in Queer street. I'm sorry to have
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Correct English

Don't Say:
I shall SURE be there tomorrow.
That servant does his work CON
FORMABLE to orders.
The child fell OFF OF the steps.
cut two. feet OFF OF it.
He DON'T know NOTHING.
Say:
7 shall CERTAINLY be there to
morrow.
That servant does his work CON
FORMALLY to orders.
The child fell OFF the steps.
I cut two feet OFF it.
He doesn't know ANYTHING.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-13

No corn, hard or soft, is too old or
too deeply rooted to resist "Gets-It'
linn ediately it dries and shrivels, the
eyes loosen from the true flesh and
soon you can peel it right off with
your fingers as painlessly as you trim
your nails.
Don't coddle corn pests. Don't
nurse and pamper them. Don't cut
and trim them. REMOVE them with
"GETS-IT." Costs a trifle at any
drug store. MID by E. Lawrence &
Co., Chicago. Sold in Richmond by
A. G. Luken & Co., Glenn Thistleth-
waite. Dafler Drug Co., Yes G Now
Drug advertisement.
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visit the United
States and Canada
next month. He
hopes while here
to make an ar
rangement W j t h
this country simii-
ar to the one now
existing between
h i S e % vernment
and England.
krassin is a ma
tive Of Siberia and
was born in 1870.
E er since his
youth he has been
iI~ptifi n1 Will, raw
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Answers to Questions

Reader Please tell me the distance
between Mars and the Earth, and are
there no nearer planets to Mars than
Us? How long would it take for an
airplane travelling at an average speed
of 100 miles an hour. to reach Mars >
What is our atmosphere composed of
and is the Earth just SUSPENDED in
space MARS is the fourth planet iii
order of distance from the sun, and
its mean distance is 141. 100000 miles.
least distance from the Earth is %
100000 miles. as in the years 1909 and
1925. In the order of their distance
from the sun the planets of our sys-
tenn are: Mercury, Venus, the Earth,
Mars, jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune. These planets are distant
from the sun as follows: Mercury
26,00o,000 miles; Venus. 61,2O0.00O
miles; the Earth, a2,9OO,OOC miles:
Mars. 141,500,0oO miles; Jupiter. 49,
100000 miles; Saturn. $50 900 900
miles; Uranus. 1.7s1, COB 900 miles;
Neptune, 2,791 100000 miles. An air
plane travelling at the rate of 100 miles
an hour and going day and night
would take about forty years to reach
Mars, calculating the planet at it's
minimum distance from the Earth The
atmosphere surrounding the Earth is
a mass or body of gases. chiefly air.
History--What territory was includ-
ed in the Louisiana Purchase from
France? When did it take place.
For the Louisiana territory purchased
from France in 1903 the United States
gave s15,000000. That money bought
all the country lying between the
Mississippi River and the crest of the
Rocky Mountains. The States formed
from the purchase were Louisiana, Ar
kansas. Missouri. Oklahoma, Kansas,
Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota.
North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
and Montana.
Readers may obtain answer to ques-
lions by writing The Palladium Ques-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-13
TODAY'S TALK
George Adams Up
UNDERTOOK

is
in
people this under
beyond strength their ability keep
he
o
a about that advice
People
powerles safely
20
finds
made him of little value anywhere
The musician give OF his days opractcc
thinking kind of
undertow another is going catch
SO % undertow. and top!
Ande
have notb been al a undertow.
Do the
exist
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-13
Memories Of Old Days
In This Paper Ten Years
Ago Today

Committees to have charge Of the
reception of the distinguished guests
of the city during the G. A. r. en-
canpment here, including General
Warren keifer of Ohio soldier and
former member of congress, were ap-
pointed by the general reception COM
mittee, of which John l.. Rupe was
chairman.
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Dinner Stories

4 story is told of two colored men
who were sitting on the steps of a
Louisiana grocery store.
What have you named your baby,
Rastus?" asked one of them.
Sam Pro TEN Johnson, sab"
whats the Pro TEN for"
To show that the name is only tenn
porary, sab. We kinder thought Sam
might like to choose his own name
when he (growed up, SO we put in de
Pro TEN as a warning 10 de public
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Who's Who In the
Day S News
LEONID 3. kRASSlN

Following his success in arranging
an agreement with the British govern
r1ent by the terms of which Great
Britain is 10 resume trade with Rus
STA, Leonid krassin, a prominent
figure in the Lcnine cabinet plans to
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have done my best for you. I can see
that it is.all in vain"
He rang the bell The butler en-
tered
is Mr. Trelawney Hope at home?"
He Will be home, sir. at a quarter
to one"
Holmes, glanced at his watch.
Still quarter of an hour" said
he. Very good, | shall wait"
Tomorrow-the Adventure of the
second stain, concluded.
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Good Evening

The straw hat season will be with
lie in few days, but it is very diff
cult these days TO get a nice, new,
clean one in restaurant.
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the central committee of soviets,
peoples commissar for means of com
munication.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-13

PALE CHILDREN NEED IRON.
Lack of iron in the blood saps the
strength of mind and body. Give the
Riddles GROVES IRON TONIC SYR-
UP and watch its Strengthening Eff
feet. Very pleasant to take. 75c.-
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Readers may obtain answer to ques-
lions by writing The Palladium Quea-
lions and Answers department. All
questions should be written plainly and
briefly. Answers will he <iven briefly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-13
"Cets-It"
Ends All
COrns
Just As Good For calluses. Money
Back if II Fails.

Thirty seconds after you touch the
corn with his liquid corn remover the
jabbing, stabbing pain of it stops, for
all time
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
RTCHLAND TOTS PRESENT
REMARKABLE PLAYLET

RICHLAND, Dec. 19.-The Rich
land public school closed Friday for
two weeks vacation after delight
full playlet, 'The Ringing of the Joy
Bells, by the members of the first
grade, better known as miss Char
lies babies"
Before the curtain went up ''Miss
Charlie Beddingheld announced taat
the playlet they were to present was
takcn from an Irish story, the chiid-
fen adapting it in their own words
after having tho story read to them
several times. Not one word of it
was memorized.
Next two little fellows came out
on the edge Of the stage and in their
almost baby lisping presented Miss
Florrie Pearl Coffin, pianist, and
Burke Nicholson, superintendent
each with large box of candy fol
their help in getting up the playlet.
These young orators were Masters
Charles Coffin and Curtis Dawsey.
The two young stars Of the per.
fefnlanes we're Misses Susie Aston
and 4 Na!hfsn DiSops che latter exqui
sltelV dressed as s fairy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
FRANCE ACCEPTS HUGHES NAVAL RATIO
LEGION SEEKING
LAST AMERICAN
KILLED IN WAR

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 10.
Who was the last American soldier
killed in action2
The American Legion, endeaVor-
ing to learn the identity OF the
last to fall, is receiving many
claims at its national headquarters.
The French government viii erect a
monument to the last man killed.
The case cf sergeant of the
18th division who tried TO capture
the last German machine gun Of
the war has been offered to the
Legion by Major Albert /. Rich,
of the regular army.
1t was north of Verdun on the
morning of November II, 1918,
that the incident cited by Major
Rich occurred A first sergeant of
an infantry company, aspiring to
take The last Boehe gun, left his
lines at 10:55 o'clock, just five
minutes before the war ended.
The sergeant was killed perhaps
minute before the armistice, inn
Hsediately in front of the gun he
was trying to capture. At 1900
O'Clock sAarp the German officer
in charge Of the gun directed four
of his men to pick up the dough-
boy and carry him to the Amcri-
can lines.
Colonel William Fl. Oury was in
commnad of the regiment to which
the sergeant belonged, Major Rich
reported, and General w. J. Mich
olson commanded the division.
Colonel 0ury is now stationed with
the 18th Infantry in the Canal
Zone and General Nicholson is in
Washington. The identity Of the
sergeant and the company to which
he belonged were not learned by
Major Rich.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
TRAIN CHANGES L G ES
DUE THURSDAY
Both Morning. And. Afternoon
Schedules On Columbus Branch
Altered Somewhat

A change in schedules on the Col
umbus division Of the Central Of
Georgia, effective Thursday of this
week, is announced by George An
derson, local agent.
Train No. 80, now leaving Ameri.
Gus at ESQ a. M, will depart forty
minutes later at 7;30 a. m.
Train No. II, now leaving at 2:50
p. M, will leave an hour later, at
$3.50 o'clock.
Train No. %, now arriving at II
a. M, will arrive at :25 p. m.
The change in No. Il is. made SO
that it can connect in Columbus with
a through freight from Chicago
reaching there in the forenoon, and
enabling Americus and intervening
merchants receiving shipments on
that train to have them delivered
the same day they reach Columbus.
The change viii shorten the time
shoppers will have in Americus by
an hour and 25 minutes, but this
time will all fall in the afternoon
whereas heretofore the dinner hotll
has come while they were here, neces.
sitsting some time being lost from
shopping. Under the new schedule
visitors between trains will have z
hours and 5 minutes in Americus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
JUDGE STUDYING
Lee INJUNCTION
Takes Application Under Advise
ment After Arguments Sat-
urday By Attorneys

Judge Q. A. Littlejohu of the Su-
perior court Saturday evening took
under adyisement the application of
Lee county fer an injunction against
the town of Smithville from inter-
fering with its re-routing of the Dixie
Highway through the town, and on
the counter petition of the town of
Smithville for an injunction against
the Lee county officials from at
tempting to invade the towns alleged
exclusive right over its own streets
by doing any of the work forbidden
by the towns officials.
A number of fine points of law
presented by the attorneys on both
sides call for some serious study,
Judge Littlejohn stated, and he will
announce his decision after he has
given the controversy and the law de-
tailed attention.
In the meantime the temporary re-
straining order against both sides re-
mains in force.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
$4,000 HERE TO
PAY PENSIONERS
Ordinary To Begin Distribution
Of Money Due Tuesday
Welcome Xmas Fund

Nearly $4,000 will be paid out to
Sumter county pensioners by Capt.
J. A. Cobb, county ordinary, begin
ming Tuesday, he announced today
Vouchers for the total amount due
reached him Saturday and he was
busy today preparing the checks for
distribution tomorrow. The vouchers
were seven in number, including old
and new class widows, with payments
for both 1920 and 1921.
The money has been awaited with
the greatest expectation in many a
veterans household, and coming just
before Christmas will be doubly wei.
come. The funds are part Of that
obtained by discounting the w. & A.
rental for the next five years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
Dali DEBATE ON
irish TREATY ON
BEFORE PUBLIC
People Want Substance, Not
Shows Says Advocate Of
Pact In Address

DRLIN, Dec. 19 (By Associated
Press Dali Eireann began at i 80
this morning its public session for
the discussion of the Anglo-lrish
peace treaty, Every seat in the hall
was taken when Speaker MacNeill
called the meeting to order. Adop-
tion of the treaty was moved by
Arthur Griffith, foreign minister in
the Dali cabinet. The second came
from Commandant McKeon, of Coun-
ty Longford, who said "The Irish
people want substance, not shadows"
The Dali adjourned at 1 o'clock
until $3.50. There was every indica-
tion that the speech making would
continue throughout tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
METRO TO STAGE GREAT
FILM AT BROWNSVILLE

BROWNSVILLE, Dec. 10. = The
Metro Film corporation kas arranged
TO stage part Of its next picture in
Thomasville and surrounding terri
tory. The play will deal with CON
ditions before the Civil War and the
company is planning to erect build
iRgs and make scenery fitting the
time. The out of way places along
the river swamp will be used for some
of the scenes and others will be
staged in Thomasville after, elabor-
ate preparations have. been made.
Bert Lytell and Elaine Hammersteain
are the stars in the picture. The
company expects to leave Hollywood,
Los Angeles, in special car next
week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
NEWS SENSATION IN
CONFERENCE CIRCLES.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (By AS
soc;ated PreSs4 r. UnoflIeiaf advicas
from London and Paris saying that
France had accepted the naval ra-
ito proposed by The American gov-
ernment created something of a sem
sation in arms conference circles here
today because the development was
generally Interpreted as marking ono
Of the longest steps toward a naval
reduction agreement.
Among those directly concerned
there has been the confident belief
that the French government would
accept, but ereu the most optimistic.
had not expected the agreement to-
come SO soon.
The meeting Of the arms confer.
cnce naval sub-conlmittee OF Is post
poned until tomorrow az Ii O'clock
by Chairman Hughes today upon tfa
request Of NJ. Sarraut, head of
the French delegation, was granted.
1t Hfaa explained that the French
delegation had cabled Premier BRAND
Saturday for further Instructions and
that a dispatch Of some lnpgth HID
| just been received which would take
some time to decode. Accordingly q
delay of "a hours was requested and
granted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
SUMMER FLOWERS I'm
PLENTY AT TOWNSVILLE

BROWNSVILLE, Dec. 10. This
has been very unusual fall in many
years. Thomasville has great pro-
fusion of roses. as usual at this sea-
son but in addition there are mum
Der of flowers in full bloom that arc
generally gone long ere this. Mas
turtiums, zinnias, nlarigolds and 9TH
er flowers like that are putting out
blooms and the narcissi are already
in full bloom. If there is no hard
freeze this week there will be more
green for Christmas and more flow
ers than ever before.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
METHODTSTS TO AID
HOSPITAL NEXT SUNDAY

Sunday. December 25th, Christmas
Day, has been designated by both thu
North and the South Georgia Confer.
ence of thes Methodist church south
as the day for making the annual
Christmas offering for the charity
work at Wesley Memorial Hospital.
which Is the property Of the two con-
ferences. Ii is expected that on that
day the offering win Be taken III tfe
churches and Sunday schools Of all
Georgia Methodism. The funds fssIss
raised will be used to care for fs1e
needy sick at the hospital.
The report of the board of ta.ias-
tees for the year ending Oct.
shows that during the year Isl pls-
tisnts we're treated entirely free, ai,i
q large number at only part OF tbs
cost. These patients came from w
cry section Of Georgia. The 1920
offering was not sufficient to pay t9aa
cost incurred in taking care Of tslcse
patients. Because Of Depressing
financial conditions, it is expected 1
larger number than usual viii apply
to the hospital for free treatment
during the next year.
The new buildings Of the Wesley
Memorial Hospital located at EnaoTgg
University, are among the finest IA
the South. These are rapidly nearing
completion and will be occupied dur.
ing 1929. This will increase the fa.
ciiities Of the hospital 10 care for
more charity patients and viii make
necessary the providing Of mors
funds than III the past.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
BLOODY AUTO Is
FOUND; CORDELE
MAN IS MISSING
C. M. Rogers, Fertilizer Sales
man, Believed Victim OF Foul
Play AT Pensacola

CORDELE, Dec. 19-Citizens of
Cordele are shocked at the intimation
in reports from Pensacola that G. M.
Rogers, sales representative here for
the Read Phosphate Company, has
met foul play while on business trip
to that point. He left here early
last week in a car belonging to the
local Buick service station. Satur-
dav messages to the local company
from Pensacola Buick agency soon
established the fact that the car had
been found on side roadway outside
Pensacola, bespattered with blood
and surroundings Indicating that
there had been a battle of an unusual
kind and Mr.. Rogers could not be
located. A message Sunday after
noon also revealed that he was still
missing.
Manager S. Bundrick, j. S. Lilly,
father of Mrs Rogers, and other
friends have gone to Pensacola to
determine, if possible, what has hap
pened to the Cordele man. A brother
If Mr. Rogers lives in Pensacola and
his mother resides at Panama City,
Fla. He had gone botll on business
and to visit these.
Reports say the car was found
only a short distance from bluff
overlooking a swift-running river,
and that if his body was cast into this
water it will hardly be found.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
5 GIRLS HELD FOR
ALABAMAKlL.LINC
Huntsville Cafe Man Dead, An
other Dying, AS Result Of
Sunday Night Fight

HUNTSVILLE, ALA, Dec. TO-
Will Ricketts,, proprietor of a local
cafe, is dead, Fred Mauterer, the son
of local merchant, is in dying con-
dition, and five girls are in Jail, all
charged with murder and assault with
intent to murder, as result Of a
fight here last night.
Ricketts, and Mauterer were shot
in what the police described as a
free-for-all fight in tie house in a
suburbs, and came as climax to a
say party in which there were q
dozen participants.
Police reported the discovery Of
evidence teat whisky flowed freely
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
SUMMERHILL. BAPTIST
CAR GOES TO ORPHANS

RICHLAND, Dec. 19.--The contri-
buttons made by the several churches
Of the iSummefdill Baptist Associa-
tion fof the Cfphan Home at Hape-
vile, was loaded on a freight car here
Thursday and Friday and the car was
packed to its capacity.
All the towns and cities along the
line contributed freely and when
the trucks from Lumpkin. and other
nearby towns unloaded their grocer
les and supplies and the local ship
ments from all other towns arrived,
the loading committee here was put
to work in arranging and stacking
the supplies in the car in such man
ner as TO be able to get everything
into one car.
Trucks were operated throughout
Richland Thursday morning picking
up contributions from the homes in
tae city and at noon the car was
heavily packed.
The trustees of the orphanage ask
''''O no syrup OF sweet potatoes pc
sent, as they had a sufficient supply
OF syrup and unless the sweet pota-
toes were sent in cold weather they
would spoil.
There were all kinds of canned
goods and groceries, meal, flour, cof-
lee, sugar, corn, hams and other
meats, peanuts, big sacks Of dried
peas, butter beans, etc. There was
also food for the stock, hay, grain,
etc. such as wheat, oats and the like
Tor planting in the spring.
ms was one of the largest cars of
loodstult ever sent by the Summerhill
association. Another notable fact is
mat even though the state is in a
poor financial condition, never. be-
iofe have as many associations in
Ine state sent in carloads Of supplies.
mere are now more than $50 chill.
ofeh N the orphanage. Five have
recently been taken in, so the need is
greater than ever before.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
ONE ROTARY PIG GIVES
PURE STOCK BIG BOOST

LIVE OAK, Fla, Dec. 49,. The
Rotary Club of Live Oak will demon
strate that boys and girls Of that
county can exercise the best farm
practices and add much to the IN
come of a Southern farm. Some time
age the club purchased a Poland Chi
ma gilt. Recently that gilt farrow-
ed eleven pigs The club has issued
these pigs to boys and girls in The
county who viii raise them on the
shares: Il IS the purpose Of the club
to give the returns from these lits
fefk g boys and girls until every
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-19
STEWART-WEBSTER
MASONS TO CONVENE

HIGHLAND, Dec. 19.-The Stew
art-Webster Masonic convention will
meet in semi-annual convention in
Richland on December 26 and 27. An
instructor from the grand lodge will
attend, and the first day will proba-
bly, be spent in instruction.
Masons from all the lodges in the
two counties are expected here and
a big time is being arranged. Sew
eral prominent Masons of statewide
reputation will be here and many
things are being planned for the
pleasure Of the visitors. Among
the entertainment features will be a
banquet the night of Dec. 27.