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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1922-01-17
CHAPTER XVI
Burnt Matches.

Following the dog to the door, we
could neither see nor hear anything
going on outside, though Barneys
snifIings under the door and his low
grOwl warned us that something was
afOOt, either on the dump head or in
the partly wrecked cabin beyond
While we were still peeping and peer
ing, each at his auger-hole and each
ready TO take an Offhand shot at any,
thing that seemed suspicious, the 81
lence of the mountain night was ripped
and torn by the most hideOus claniOr
imaginable, arising, apparently, in the
cabin or perhaps from the growing of
trees just behind it. The racket was
deafening; comparable to nothing that
I'd ever heard; a magnified orchestra
ton, so to speak, of the pandemOnium
made by crowd of country boys
Serenading a newly married pair with
tin pans and such-like noise-making
implements.
what In the name o. JOab p slut
tered Daddy Hiram. Reckon them
gosh-dummed pirateers we gone plum
loonyT"
wait" l qualified, and 1 had to
shout to make myself heard. "There'll
be more to follow. This is only the
curtain-raiser."
But my guess appeared to be no
good. For quite some little time we
crouched, guns at the ready, prepared
to repel the assault which we natural
ly supposed would be made under
cover of the distracting racket. But
there was no assault, though the mean
ingless clamor kept up without abate-
ment.
BY the time we were beginning to
grow trif1e hardened to it the clamor
stopped as abruptly as it had begun
and the silence which succeeded was
even more deafening than the noise
had been. While fancied 1 could see
dim figures stealing down the road
that led to the bench below, 1 heard
Daddy say: Nov, what In the name
o Jehoiachim-"
He had turned away from his peep
hole and corbd sense, rather than see,
that he was rubbing his eyes. Then /
realized that upon me, also, a sudden
blindness had fallen; the interior of
the shafthouse had become as dark
as the inside Of a pocket. The effect
was so Supplying that 1t took both
of us a minute or SO, to understand
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1922-01-17

Stared Across at Daddy Hiram.
''Tll try" l said, and did it the best
1 knew how, giving him some idea of
the life I had lived and its earth
wide, abysmal difference from the ex-
perience % the past six weeks.
Silence for a time and then:
"BOOk-learnin and good clothes and
eatin' with a fiat fork r. all right,
Stannie, but they don't make the man
mr. the woman; there's got to be some
thin inside; somethin' heap bigger
than any o. them things"
quite So" / admitted.
Another silence and at the end Of
it the old philosopher again:
"You been sort O. sore about my
jeanne, since yesterday She's
been eatin' your gran-paw's bread, like
me, and you thought, and 1 thought,
that she might at least we waited q
little spell afore she run or with Char
ley Fullerton. Maybe we've been
jumpin' at things too sudden, Stannie.
What made her ride way up yonder
to Greaser sidin' TO catch that train?
And how come Charley Bullerton to
marry her one day and be up here
with his bunch O. gunner by daybreak
the mex mOrnln'7"
HAS JEANNE friends in Angels with
whom she could be staying7' l asked.
"Not single soul. He'd a-had to
leave her at the Chink's hotel; and
that amt no place for a woman, mar
ried r t'otherwise."
'But suppOSing they didn't go to
Angels?"
There amt no other place they
could go and let him get back, as you
might say, in the same day."
"Say it all, Daddy" 1 prompted.
There amt much to say, Stannie.
boy, 'ceptin' what 1 said afore, that
maybe we'd been jumpin' at things
sort o. blind-like. Jeannie's got heap
o. sense-if l do say it as shouldn't
and the whole gee-ripittin' thing, as we
been putin it up. amt no more like
her than winters like dOg-days."
Having run the subject into a cor
ner we were both speechless for lit
lie time and think it was almost with
sense of relief that we sprang alert
when the dog, hitherto sleeping quietly
at our feet, jumped up and ran to hold
his nose at the threshold of the door
opening upon the dump head.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1922-01-17

| couldn't rest well at night and was =.
Just lifelesS.
81 heard OF Cardui and after reading I
decided | had some female trouble that
was pulling me down. Isent for Cardui
and began it. >.
"In a very short while after began the
Cardui Home Treatment saw an i'm
provement and if wasn't long until was
all right-good appetite, splendid rest,
and much stronger so that easily did my
house work.
Later took a bottle of Cardri as a
tonic. | can recommend Cardui and glad
ly do so, for if more women knew, 70
would save great deal Of worry and
sickness"
The enthusiastic praise Of thousands Of
other women who have found Cardui
helpful should convince you that it IS
worth trying. All druggists sell it.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1922-01-17
KENTUCKY'S THOROUGHBRED
CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATION
Under the PariMutua System the Kentucky Jockey Club
Has Lifted Racing to the Highest Plane An Example
to the Whole Country-$3, 479, e75.O0 Distributed
In Three Years
(From tn. New York Rider and Driver)

Whenever the thoroughbred is men
toned, Kentucky, the home of Man
o. War, and for a hundred years the
center of the breeding industry in
this country, always comes to mind.
1t Is not possible to conceive Of rae
ing in America without the yearly
contribution of thoroughbreds from
the Bluegrass State. There are great
breeding farms in New York, Virginia,
California and elsewhere, but the
very life blood of the thoroughbred
cause pours from Kentuckys ever
flowing fountain. In this favored
State, with it's fertile fields deep in
bluegrass throughout the winter, the
horse reaches perfection.
The Rider and Driver does not
know Of any greater calamity that
could happen to the horse industry
than for Kentucky to turn against the
thoroughbred, and destroy the great
breeding industry, which has not only
made the State woridfamous, but
by improving the breed of horses.
The War Department has repeatedly
gone on record in favor of the thor
Oughbred, without which the Army
would not have suitable remOuntS
The Remount Service, in charge of
United States Army officers, has es-
tablished breeding farms with thor
oughbred stations at their head,
horses that have had their speed,
courage and endurance tried in con-
tests on the turf These great nur-
series will provide the type Of cav
airy horse that the Army needs, and
every farmer in this country cannot
only aid the cause by sending his
mares to thoroughbred studs, but can
be assured of reaping a substantial
profit, as the War Department Is con-
stantIy in the market for horses Of
this character.
Racing in Kentucky under the d.
rection Of the Kentucky Jockey Club
Is not only a credit to the State, but
with the pari-mutuel system perfect
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ed, it has set an example to the world
in point of high class contests, clean
racing generous stakes and purses. IN
der the old order, the meetings were
dragged out to an interminable
length, in one year one hundred and
fifty-five days, and In another year
one hundred and seventy-four.
Under the State Racing Commits
sion, created by an Act Of the Legisla-
ture, the number Of days on which
racing is permitted has been cut to
one hundred and eight. There Is
strict supervision of all turf matters,
with the result that beginning with
the Kentucky Derby, with $4,000
added, which has been run at
Churchill Downs for forty-seven years;
the quality of racing in Kentucky sets
the standard for the whole country.
Formerly turfmen raced for 800
purses, and the amount distributed
yearly ran from 100000 to 5000, zoo.
Since the organization Of the Ken
lucky Jockey Club, three years ago,
the amount distributed daily In
stakes and purses averaged over
$1,000, and the yearly total was as
ELL
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1922-01-17
S3,479.675.OO

Total ...... S3,479. $500
The Kentucky Jocket Club pays
over $4,000 each year into the
State Treasury in license fees and
pays $4,000 additional in State. City
and County taxes.
With millions of dollars invested In
farm lands devoted exclusively to the
breeding of thoroughbreds, and othe
millions invested In horses that hayS
no superior in the world. The Ridet
and Driver believes that the Ks6-
lucky Legislature, made UP Of level
headed farmers and business men,
will refuse to destroy this valuable
industry which it has heretofore sane
toned and encouraged.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Tit forTat.

That word "thunderbolt" is hardly
a figure of speech. The thing that hit
us couldn't be compared to anything
milder than thunder and lightning.
There was flash. rending ripping
CONTINUED ON PAGES
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
Sports Summary

LITTLE Brooklyn maui
cd Carl Mays and O'Doul badly ana
trimmed the Yanks l2 TO 0. crimes
and Reuther were invincible
JACKSON. Miss.-Claude Jonnalo'
Rookie pitcher. let Memphis down
with. one hit IN the last four inninss
and the Giants won Q 10 2 Frisch
is out again with an infected toe.
NEW YORK-Johnny Buff. ban
tamweight champion. n d Joe
Lynch, former champion, VIII meel
in Madison Square Garden on May
s for the title.
PRINCETON John II Jeilrics'
Narberth, Pa. has been elected cap
tain Of the 1929 Princeton oa7-
ketbau team He is junior anu
has played two years.
WEST POINT-Lieut Elmer oil-
phant former football and ail
around star Of West Point, has oeeh
appointed athletic director at Union
College.
KANSAS CITY. Mo.-Rain mirD
the Cleveland Indians into idlcness
Yesterday. Threatening skies greet
cd the scheduled exhibition game
TODAY with tho Kansas city Blues
KANSAS CITY. Mo.-Gahe kaut-
man was In Chicago today trying 10
arrange q heavyweight champion
shin match between zbyszco and ia
Stranger Lewis for the latter part
OF tha month.
CHICAGO-Johnny Myers reta me
ed his middlewoight wrestling title
here last night by defeating Ralph
Parcaut OF Spencer Iowa, after
twelve ten minute rounds.
CHICAGO-WellSer Cochran viii
be offered match with balk line
champion Jake schaefer on May l6.
II and is. according to an announce
ment by the latter's manager.
DYERSBURG. Tenn. The Rod
sox turned in their sixth straight
victory defeating the Minneapolis
Millers TO 2.
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
If Cards Get EUen Break,
They Nay Win in National

winter but ne has relented and will
start him at his old place at third.
with "Doc" Lavan at short, the
peerless Hornsby on second and
Fourner on first base. the Cards have
hard hitting good fielding inner
defense.
There are only seven good outfield-
ers on the roster-McHenry, Mann.
Schultz. Heatchote. Smith, Mueller
and Shotten They are all 800 hit
ters and sweet felders. It's the best
bunch on the major leagues.
Dnhoefer was never a star catcher
but he put lot of spirit in his play
and he was hard worker. He win
be missed badly behind the bat.
Eddie Ainsmith will do most OF the
catching this season with Clemons
working as second choice.
Del Gamer has Joined the club as
utility lnhelder. Other newcomers
are Earl Adams. a young shortstop
Herb Stecn, a pitcher and outfielder
and clyde Barfoot. a pitcher from
Houston in the Texas League.
Bill Doak counted on as a main
stay in the box, has a sore arm and
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
THOSE BEAVERS
ARE FAST AS EVER

The Beavers FIVE coiored cham
pions Of Delaware for the past five
years are stiil resting on their Gov
eted laurels with a 80 20 20 win over
an au-star aggregation last night at
no % school. The game was keen
ly contested however. and remained
in doubt until the middle Of the sec
ond period when the All-Stars' de-
Tense began 10 weaken.
The preliminary game between the
fast Howard Grammar School team
and the Beaver Invincbles proved
thriller and was not won until tho
last minute Of play by the Invin-
cibles. 30 to 80.
The following games are booked
! Tor No. %:
Friday, April Lincoln Univer.
/ sity Lucky Five VS.. Green Dragons
Monday. April l0--IIoward All
Star Girls VS. Picked Local Team
Wednesday, April i2.-Beneh
game. Beavers VS. An-stars
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
WEST chester IS
SHOOT CHAMPION
Tops Field in League With
Matches Won and Points
Captured
WILMINGTON IN
THIRD POSITION

west Chester. by virtue Of
winning over Camden, in the
mai match shoot OF the sea
son. over the laters traps, won
the championship Of the Philadel-
nhia Trapshooters' League race OF
Ie21-1922 The defeat which the
Chester county shooters admin
stored 10 the Jerseymen was the first
and only one Of the season given the
Camdenltes.
Il had been neck-and d-neck race
from the start Of the season. Al each
OF the monthly shoots held 10y the
league members. starting last Octo-
Der. both West Chester and Camden
had outshot Their rivals and main
rained a tie lead in the race for the
irapshooters pennant
However Camden was in the lead
in the total Of targets broken from
early in the season. and still main
tained that lead to tho finish. having
broken for a seasons total 3342
targets. as against 3295 broken to
the credit OF West Chester giving
tho New Jersey shooters a lead OF
az targets for the seasons work.
The results IN the race Of the sec
ond teams. composed Of the second
len high scores at each shoot was
the same as that of the first with
Inc exception that the West Chester
shooters had kept IN the lead in the
number OF targets broken during the
Ea..m ga. q Hara aIasa
showed West Chester 20 still he
ahead by a margin OF seven targets
broken
There were really no close rivals
10 the two leading clubs in the
championship race this season viii
mington defeated Meadow Spring
Saturday IN the closest match OF the
season. which required a shoot-on
10 decide the winner, and that Will
mngton won by just one target, glv-
ing them third place in the race
Pennsylvania Railroad gunners
defeated the Quaker City team. and
thereby tied the Quakers for fourth
place in the league race. although
the railroaders broke the greater
number of targets for the season.
total
Chester defeated the Iansdals
club. winning its first match Of thu
season.
In the list of second teams. Penn
sylvanla Railroad gunners stand II
fhlrd place. with eleven points q
ther credit and a total OF 2SS0 tar
sets broken during the season. Wi
ming1on second team finished il
fourth place. and broke a total o
2s9s targets. The standing of IN
first and second teams Is as follows
FIRST TEAMc
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
B, HENRY l.. TARRELL.

United Press stan Correspondents
NEW YORK. April 4.-Most any
manager on the big time would give
half his team and the grandstand
for Babe Ruth but they don't all
agree that he is the greatest player
in the game
IL Rogers iornsby and the swat
king were both in the American
League there would be some excite
ment over awarding that thousand
dollar prize that Ban johnson has
put up for the most valuable player.
When 10 comes to packing them i'm
the parks and laying the foundation
for dividends there is no doubt that
Ruth is not only the greatest today
but the greatest ever
When IL ls matter Of real value
90 team OF real. all around service.
some of The wisest baseball minds
differ
III ] wanted "a coiorful player who
could draw them in every day at the
gate. ] would take Ruth. If ] had
20 choose a real ball player to make
a team. would select Rogers Horns
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
by w. }. NrvICKI1R.

United Press staff Correspondent.
Give the ST. Louis Cards a flying
start and an even break with the
pitching staff and seven other clubs
in the National League are going to
be also rams.
II Rogers Hornsby and Jack
Fourner, who reported late al the
training camp, are in condition, the
club ought to get away good and
the pitchers have shown enough
form to Indicate tho cards are fixed
as well I'm the box as the other logic
cal contenders.
Stock and Smith reported so late
last Spring that the race was start
ed with an improvised team that
lost fifteen out of the first twenty
games and got so far in the rut that
even the spectacular finish was not
enough to beat the New York Giants
out for the pennant.
Manager Hickey will start the
same dynamic team that came so
close to its first pennant last year.
He was greatly peeved at Stock and
threatened 20 trade him during the
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
Ruth, Ho,nsby Best; Why
Not Let IL 90 at That?

by as the greatest player in base
BAN" John McGraw manager Of the
New York Giants said.
McGraw is generally regarded as
the greatest manager in the game
and one Of the smartest baseball
men of all times
Branch Hickey says he wouldn't
give up his Rogers for a couple OF
Ruths. Uncle Wilbort Robinson.
also credited with knowing a few
things about baseball. says he would
rather have Rogers on his Brooklyn
team.
Others strsddle the issue and
faceuously remarked that they
would like to have them both.
Ruth has one big booster in little
Miller Huggns his manager The
pilot of the American League cham
pions not only gives IL ass his per
sonal opinion that the Bam is the
greatest player Of them all but he
quoted figures from the record
book
Ruth scored III runs himself last
year and he drove in no more,
enough TO win quite few ball
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
ROSE HILL GAMES

The schedule Of the Rose Hill
baseball team for the first three
months is as follows;
April IS. Trinity at Rose Hili;
April %. workhouse at Greenbank;
April 20. open; May 6, Rockiand at
Rockland (pending)i May 49, East
End at Twenty second and Clay
mont: May 20, Buttonwood at Butt
tonwood; May 27 Rockland at Rose
Hin; May 80. open; June g. Fair
view at Rose Hill; June 10, Fair
view. away; June II and after
open
Rose Hill would like TO arrange
games with all hrst-class teams in
the State, including Parkside, LIB
orty. City League teams and Church
League teams.
Rose Hill would like to arrange "
double-header with any out-of-town
team for May 80.
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
FIRST TEAMS.
SECOND TEAMS.
\ SECONDS WIN IN CAGE.

rhe Y. A. II. A. Seconds defeated
Ne.ehhorhood champions Of the
Community Service League in bas-
kstaaii game last night on the Third
end King court by the score OF 90
70 10. Both teams fought 20 the fin
ish and some hard basketball was
produced
The guard work OF Shames was one
of the features while Rubenstein.
his mate on the defensive got up the
noor FOR three field goals Brank
starred for the Community champs
who we're without the services Of
fheir star Sian. Score:
" II
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
Preliminary Game
iNVINcIeLEs
POLISH GIANTS GOING.

Reorganlzed for the baseball sea-
son. the Polish Giants would like to
hear from any IL to l5-year- old
team in the city. The Giants estab-
lished quite a record last season.
All challenges should be sent TO
Manager frankie Ketchel 3l7 South
Harrison street. He can also be
reached by phone 9373-w The
Polish Giants lineup follows: b.
Opalach. O., $. Boots lb A. Jody
and r. Sara, p. j Riddle. 2b. D.
Kiclo, ss. +. Ketchel. SO. S. Curley
cf; r. Blondy. rf. b Ketche. H.
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
-ame. Beavers u. AIl-stars
Goals
W. I'd
BEAVERS
Goals
Fleld Foul pl.
STARS.

Refereed. Hamlton. DeReytcr. tm-
pire-E T Whitten. Howard. Scorer
Taylor. Howard. Timer - Virgins
Beavers
Evening journal., 1922-04-04

Pertica has been under the weather.
Rickey has nothing to smile about
if this pair fails him
Big Jen Pleffer, Haines, Walger.
sherdell, Bailey and North are
counted on as the rest Of the staff
with young Barfoot in the ohins.
Evening journal., 1922-04-04
Fight Results

NEW YORK-Italian Joe Cans
and Tommy McAteer fought y
round draw Sammy Nable won a
12-round decision from Happy Cor
man. Abe Friedman. Boston feath-
erweight. won a 12-round decision
from frankie Curry. Jack zivic.
Pittsburgh. dislocated his shoulder
in the ninth against Eddie Crozier
and had to retire.
PHILADELPH1A-Joe Tiplitz out
pointed Johnny Nealey in eight
rounds. Harry Kid Browne out
pointed Joe Reno. Trenton, in eight
rounds
NEW ORLEANS-Harry Foley. of
Hot Springs. was awarded tech
nicai knockout de sion over Char
ley Weinert, New York, lightheavy-
weight In the second OF a scheduled
l5-round bout here last night
Evening journal., 1922-04-04

games. Huggins contends Ruth got
2Oi hits for an average Of .37S and
he stole seventeen bases.
Hornsby hit .397 with 23j safeties.
He stole thirteen bases and scored
13l runs. Not so bad, his hackers
say.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-07-21
"MIss LULU BETT"
Powerful Novel at Opera House
Friday and Saturday

Have you read Miss Lulu Bett, a"
iona Gales powerful novel? Did you
see the play Of the same name which
was awarded the Pulitzer prize of
$1,000 as being the best produced dur
ing tie season Of 192O.21? Whether
you nave or not, you should see the
Paramount film version of Miss Lulu
Bett', which comes to the Opera
House Friday and Saturday. Its a
William de Mile production and the
principal roles are played by Lois VIII
son. Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts
and Helen Ferguson.
Lulu Bett In the spinster sister OF
the wife of Dwight Deacon, Justice
of the Peace and dentist OF a small
town. Supported by Deacon, she is a
beast of burden In the house, filling
tie place OF a servant which Deacon
couldn't otherwise afford. Nlnian Dea-
con, Dwight's black.sheep brother,
sympathizes with Lulu and arranges a
supper-party in her honor. at which
occasion he jokngly suggests mock
marriage ceremony with Lulu and him
self in the roles of groom and bride.
After the ceremony by Deacon. the
latter realizes that il is lega. he being
Justice Of the Peace. Ninian takes
Lulu away and although she does not
love him she is greatful to him for
taking her away from her life OF
drudgery and oppression. Lulu learns
that Ninan Is already married and un.
certain whether or not his wife is
alive. She returns TO Deacon's home
and the old life
All ends happily after some exciting
happenings. Lois Wilson is leading
woman and Milton Stills leading man