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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-11-09

There is always a fool at one end
of tlatterer's tOngue-and sometimes
at both ends.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24

life imprisonment under indictment for the killing of Jeff Howell, one of the Klansmen who died half hour after the attack.
 "The sentiment and sympathy that goes out to erring ignorance, to people of limited opportunities, '' Circuit Judge Wood said from the bench, made it possible for him to accept the pleas of guilty and to impose the lighter punishment of life imprisonment under the murder when the death penal ty could be more properly imposed. D Prosecuting Attorney John Hoskins called the men into an anteroom of the courthouse a few minutes before they were arraigned They had no lawyer and said they did not want one. They were accompanied
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
By w. P. SULLIVAN,
International News Service Staff Core

Onte ationa News St Louis Nov years moreagitation started Nlmpa being Terminal Railroad tssoci ion crossing the Mississippi River freight traffic to bridge the magnificent bridge structures n a original $SO00,000 eight spanning the mighty with disgust nearly regarded throughout the object mrth
 of elephants" built mill hauling freight the river.
 being Association, o inaccessible of the solely pedestrians railroads it. their the mileage.
 planned many of would daily potng ultimately the citizens this a freight
 question to solution another movement would be pushed other civic
  alive freight traffic their hands deep into their pockets expended their millions The Chamber a pushing the railroads, Association bridges, which owned the
 The the bridge both this side
 
 making the bridge accessible freight traffic 
 This would floating of about Co ou existing debt million dollars
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
NO REPUBLICANS
 IN STATE SENATE
Only Three Elected to Serve in the House of Rep
 resentatives.

Little Rock, Nov. 22.-The roster Of the Forty-fourth General As- sembly of Arkansas, issued yesterday from the office of the secretary of state, shows the Senate to - solid ly Democratic, and only four Re- publican members in the lower house the same number that served Tn the Fourtythird General Assem- bly.
 Republican representatives were returned by Madison, Newton and Searcy counties, as in 1921. and Logan county, which sent two Dem ocratic members to the 1921 legis- laturo, will send one Democrat and one Republican member in 1923, Carroll ocnnty was representado by-a Republican in 1921, but will have Democratic representative next year
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
WIRELESS IN MINE DISASTERS.

Wireless waves may be used in the future to com municate with entombed miners. Experiments made recently al Brusetown. Pa. proved that signals sent out from station IS miles from the mine could be heard with varying degrees distnctness from l co feet underground.
 This discovery may the saving of many lives Frequently in mine disasters invaluable rescue work through failure to know the loca- tion of the and the conditions around them.
 The work of experiment and development will be pressed. The problem will be get responses to messages sent to entombed But science will find way And when, With all natural of communication cut off above ground still communicate with the miner in his living tomb, who shall doubt that the who gave the world wireless gave it the voice of God?
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
BIRTH AND DEATH.

baby was born in Chicago the other day with out arms legs. Believing that life could hold happiness for the little creature, the father attending physicians Co end her existence The doe tors refused.
 This child is said to have normal brain. One of the physicians the explained might become genius and that society instead of putting her o death, should she has every care and advantage.
 This should he accepted the proper decision, though inhumanity is indicated a contrary view It might have been the right if the child appeared suhnormal mentally well physically. until we have advanced n understanding the whole scheme of life the taking of these little lives be counseed Right aside there s always the danger that once the custom was established it would he abused.
 As the doctor points out the duty Ot society is not to take life hut make it endurahe for the un- fortunates. There the further any spreading the doctrine of good health, living good habits prenatal for mother and chiid these tend produce normaliy children they may do their perfect work.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
PROFIT IN MURDER SITES.

Catering to morbid curiosity is not desirable way Co make living, but it is a fairly sure one. Tine farm in New Jersey where the victims in the Hall Mills murder found has been leased by a thrifty carpenter who has built high fence around h and admits the curious at 25 cents each Gate receipts encouraging.
 Some time ago it announced that the tree under which the bodies were found had hacked 10 the ground by souvenir hunters. Then developed that old piano and horsehar sofa which were in the house had been bought by a freak museum for S250. The exploitation of the farm whole com pletes what we'll may be termed the vicious circle.
 Such sightseeing does good. 1t may do great harm to the imaginative and nervous. The time de- voted Co Il might much better he spent looking at pleasant things in figuring out ways to make life wholesome enough everywhere that such horrors need not occur! lt IS poor commentary cviliza- ton when man can make money selling murder sites at 25 cents peep.
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by four friends or relatives of their own choosing.
 q understand that you want to enter pleas of guilty" said the prosecuting attorney. Under plea of guilty, if you make that, I will recommend to the court that you be given the lightest punishment possible under the indictmen ts-life imprisonment. If you want a law yer to represent you, you have the right, and to make a defense be- fore trial jury Under such con ditiohs you could get, if convicted, either the life or death penalty. Be certain that you know what you want to do"
 Baldwin was the first to speak up.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
THE TRI-WEEKLY soIIPHoNE. peragCuld. Arkansas
ROMANTIC FAITH.

Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, the American suffrage leader, addressing the Reichstag told the German law makers women again will quite the romantic faith in men because men of The world have made much mess of things that one yet knows how it will through"
 fair-minded will deny that men have really made pretty bad mess of things in the last eight years. They over-proud of the way their has managed the the peace.
 But will do any better2 That's what would like to know.
 Unwise ignoble many of the man-dctated policies of nations in these roubous years it appears that women instead of objecting most of the decisions and acts. acqueseed in them It is a familiar phenomenon that women, with all their love for peace, generally wild or more so, when the fever breaks out. Women supported the in every bellgerent country. with all their power And is it certain that used all their afterward for righteous and lasting peare? Or did doubt and hesitate and divide policies the dd?
 Women have a great opportunity now, in na- tional and international affairs They enfranehised in all the leading countries. If the job better than have done it. solving the problems baffling the world will hardly grudge them the opportunity the credit Where woman Moses who will lead the world of bondage it's hatreds and false ideals?
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
MARKET INSPECTIONS.

During the fiscal year ending with June, 1922, there 31207 food inspections made by government officials This Is 1000 than made the previous year. The territory covered included the prn cipal market terminals all the country and the suburbs around them where vigilance needed For weight different kinds vegetables given the unsparing once-over with 3S fruits and five kinds nuts and there inspections of holly.
 These inspections the great shipping terminals of importance the entire nation. They help and maintain the standards of food offered the markets in all localities IL is largely due to this sys that the average quality is high.
 Here is only Of thousand things that Uncle sam doing with increasing efficiency promote the public health the public from incompetence and fraud It something remember when taxes unduly high governmental expenditures unduy
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
LIFE TERMS ARE
 GIVEN AMBUSHERS
Garland County Mountain eers Plead Guilty of
 First Degree Murder.

Hni Springs. Nov ga Travis Con ros. M Baldwin and Tom Tally. the trio who iast Wednesday night formed themselves into an i'm prampfu band in Marble township Co "show She ku Klux they were not wanted n that community" yesterday afternoon stood before the bar Of iaetsee penitent set. and were glad to plead guilty and take
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
X.RAY FOR. SHOES

Dr. Royal Copeland of New York, newly elected United States Senator tells of seeing health exposition, Xray machine arranged that pros pective purchaser of shoes could look through feet Almost everyone amazed at the distortion of the bones muscles ana fragments caused by some shoes
 and neat by fashionable shoe may become ugly and grotesque And though the may not realize the truth clearly without the aid of X-ray, he may be sure that nature knows it. and if she has not already registered disapproya is only biding her time Eventually the man woman who buys shoes according the dictates of fashion and the whs of design instead of according the shape and his feet Is bound to in corns, bunions, fallen arches, 1s<k-ache and the various other Ills that such silly folk heirs
 There ought to be of those x-ray maehines on
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 and in that letter informed the young woman that he had put his whole family out of the way and if you don't go with me I'll put you out of the way" This letter, how ever. has not been produced. The statement is made in accordance with statement made by the off cers. The statement was first made to Deputy Pony Vowell, of Marma- duke, who arrested the two youths yesterday and brought them to the city and locked them up in the county jail The boys talked very freely of their participation in the attempted poisoning, not seeming to realize what serious offense they have committed in the eyes of the law
 It was stated that the Pratt youth made the statement that he was afraid of MT. Wilson, his step-father, though the latter is not credited with having been unkind to the youth. Little, however, is known of the relationship between the two; at least, very meager information was accessible this afternoon upon that point.
 A few hours following the placing of the poison upon the food, accord ing to a statement made by the Pratt youth, he and the Sears com panion went to Rector, leaving Mar maduke at about II o'clock Satur- day night. Sunday morning they returned. Upon hearing that the members of the Wilson family were dangerously i'll, that they had par take of the poison, they continued their journey, coming to Paragould. Later Sunday morning, evidently be- Ilieying that the members of the family had died, they left Paragould upon their return to Marmaduke. Dur ing the day, however, it became ap- parent that the family physician had succeeded in coun teracting the [ deadly effects of the poison From that time till yesterday afternoon the youths, it appears, talked too much, resulting in their arrest by
 Deputy Vowell.
 Soon after their arrest, it is said, the boys became free to talk The Pratt youth related how his tragic plans were conceived He told of
 writing the letter to his sweetheart. Related that he had mentioned his plans to friends in the cotton fields of Southeast Missouri. It ap- pears that he couldn't undertake the execution of his deadly work
 without q companion and he in- , duced the Sears youth, only six
 teen years of age, to join hlm in the , undertaking. They returned from
 Missouri and, while in Paragould last Saturday afternoon purchased
 the deadly poison of local drug gist
 Immediately after the family par took of the poison last Sunday morn ing, it is said, the food was thrown into slop bucket and someone
 unthoughtedly threw the contents of the bucket into a hog trough.
 Two hogs ate of the scraps and im- Imediately died
 J. M. Wilson, head of the poison-
 ed family is timber foreman of timber concern of Marmaduke. He Is about forty years of age.
 The father of the Pratt youth is also resident of Marmaduke
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
YOUTHS MAKE UNSUCC CCCCEESSFUL
 ATTEMPT TO POISON FAMILY
 OF }. N. WILSON, MARMADl]KE
Entered Home While Family Was at Picture Show Saturday Night-Doped Foods With Rat Poison-Fa FarniIy of Four Turn Sick at
 Breakfast Sunday Morning
lFrom Wednesday,s paily)

,(From WeC
 All unsuccessful attempt was made Saturday night to poison the fam fly of J. M Wilson at Marmaduke. Immediately after partaking of breakfast Sunday morning Mir. and Mrs. Wilson and their two little sons, ages 6 and 10 years, became violently sick and it was by heroic efforts upon the part of the at tending physician, Dr. Kennedy, who was immediately called to the home, that the members of the family es- capped death. Mrs. Wilson is yet Ssick, but is considered out of dan ger, according to latest reports from the home. Oscar Pratt, 20 years of age, step-son of MT. Wilson, and Andrew Sears, 16 years of age, son of w. H. Sears, both of Marmaduke, have been locked up in the county jail in Paragould charged with having committed the Ioffense. They have confessed their guilt.
 Saturday night J. M. Wilson, and his family attended a picture show in Marmaduke and, according. ito a statement made this afternoon by Oscar Pratt, step-son of Mr. Will son, to officers at the county jail, rat poison upon meat, in coffee and in milk in the kitchen of his step fathers home. No suspicion had been aroused by the Wilson family and the members ate of the break fast Sunday morning. Suddenly MT. Wilson became sick and the other three members of the home soon became violently i'll.
 According to a statement by the Pratt youth, he conceived the plan of poisoning his step-father and family in order to procure some insurance, presumably through a policy carried upon the life of Mir. Wilson. The amount of the policy | is not known. He had recently re- turned from point in Southeast Missouri where he had been picking cotton. The Sears boy was with him upon that trip and they ar rived in Paragould Saturday morn ing, enroutc to Marmaduke, to which place they went Saturday night. Presumably, his step fathers fam fly was unaware that the boy had returned.
 While in Paragould Saturday aft ernoon, the Pratt youth said he visited a drug store and purchased the rat poison. He said the drug gist admonished him to be careful with the preparation. Told him that the substance was very poison ous. Reaching Marmaduke Saturday night and lounging near a building in the vicinity of the Wilson home, 1 it appears he and the Sears boy waited till the family left for the picture show. The officers said the Pratt youth admitted that he per sonally placed the poison upon the food; that he entered the house alone, that the Sears youth waited on the outside.
 It appears that Pratt told the Sears youth, or led him to believe, that he would share in the money he would procure from the poison ing, when the insurance on the life of Mir. Wilson should be col lected. It was also stated that Pratt wrote a letter to a1 young woman, Miss Moore-it is said,
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
SAFETY FOR MONEY

The latest Federal Reserve bank huilding. under construction in Cleveland. wll have a vault so big and strong that the door alone wiu weigh tons. and one hinge will weigh 20 tons. The door s foar feet thick and fitted with aggregation of intricate. delicate powerful guaranteed Co defy all the safe-blowers in Chrsteudom
 That is the way Uncle sam. who has lots of money. takes of his money. Yet thousands of people who have little will probably continue in the same old way, to keep what they have under a rug OF in a ginger jar, give it Go some fake stock promoter,
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24

'1 want to enter a plea of guilty and submit to the court, to it's mercy he said falteringly. Tally was soon to acquiesce and Conros added his assent. They had thought It all out, and they wanted life Imprisonment with the hope that lies ahead.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
WAR IN THE AIR

It curious battle that vas fought tho other day around church spire ln Baston A flock of pigeons taking possession of the bell tower. as usual, for the winter. flock hiackhirds appeared and disputed the pigeons right and in e minute the air full of noise and feathers.
 The pigeons seemed to be getting The worst of It. Then suddenly achievements appeared the east They seagulls. A bis flock of them pitched Into the fray, taking the side Of the pigeons driving the backbrds off in disorder After victory tbcy disappeared as suddenly as they
 Is there any ornthological precedent for this re- markable example military co-operationg or s il sign, symbolic for mankndg
 One might easily imagine the latter. drawing parallels of white banding together in self-de- fense against others. of leagues police world and punish aggression etc.
 Mans future battles. too, may he in Che air. How rushing to the aid of another in ths fashion
 An economist says that women only get one-thira of their moneys value. How much bigger many a widows third would have been if she had known about buying to save that wasted two-thirds'
 The auto trade checks up and predicts that fac tories will produce 2000,0o0 next year. The problem make 2,0o0,0O0 drivers cheek down
 Signs all should believe in: Pack Safely. Wrap Securely, Address Plainly, Mall Early.
 Is prohibition going he prohIbiteds
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24

duty in every shoe store If there were, not only would human feet be far better fitted but the manu- lecturers would their market for silly oepinch- ing and foot-binding designs.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
JAPANESE CITIZENSHIP.

There was never any good reason to suppose that the tenacious Japanese who sued for American citizen ship and fought his suit through the Supreme Court would be admitted thereby making legal precedent for all his Our law and practice have long restrcted citizenship the white and the black and the inclusion of the latter might be called historic accident The intention of the fathers and yet is keep this white mans country and the yellow is white
 All that the Supreme Court has done is to reassert the old rules and definitions Under Constitution Congress has the right to prescribe whatever uniform rule of naturalization it pieases and Congres has done Not the red race though native to America has been admitted to civic equality. The yell low and brown in this age least small chance of admittance.
 Those particularly the yellow race, may be good the white race, better. That not the question: The yellow and white races do mix very we'll and that makes trouble when they to- gether. America has high standard of living and Asia low standard America has few people to Asia's many; America fears to be overwhelmed nu- mercay and have it's type of civilization changed and it's life made harder if any considerable influx of Asaties is permitted.
 To protect what she has in Americas unQuestion- able right, just it is Asias right to and preserve her own institutions and form of life.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
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TODAYW White elephant the hands of he the municipal free bridge rail- ids
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24
RENTING SPELLING.

In community which brides itself it's live school system the supervisor of elementary subjects has announced allyear drive for better spelling. There be contests and persistent activity half of correct spelling in all the lower grades cuded with final tryout in the high building at the end of the school year. spur to continued interest pennants offered which will mark the of different grades buildings through the months.
 This drive has many things to commend it. First Of all, of course, spelling need improvement. Parents teachers and employers have been shaking their heads for in despair at the brand spelling turned out by the public schools Many have asked, Whats wrong?" Some have suspected that the an the absence of the old-fashoned spell-down which not only interest and competition in spelling continued practice as we'll drive which is to last throughout year of being confined to hectic week of endeayor is likely to somewhere particularly when introducing some of the best features of the spelling practices earlier day.
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24

The additional price charged subscribers living out side is due the fact that the post livering within the county tn which it is published enabling those residing within the county Co
Paragould soliphone., 1922-11-24

The auto trade checks up and predicts that fai oros will produce 2,000,00O next year Th ext problem is make 2,Oo0,OO0 drivers cheek down
Smyrna times., 1922-10-04
Mrs. Carrie wOOley, Seaford, Dead

Mrs. Carre Clements Wooley, widow
of the late Colonel A. S. Woolley, and
step-mother of Judge Victor S. Wool
ley, of Wilmington, died at her home
at SeafOrd, Sept. 26th, following an
illness of several months. She was a
native of Ingleside, Queen Anne Coun-
ty, Md, a daughter Of the late Rev.
Joel and Margaret and Clements, of
Queen Anne county. She was married
to Colonel A. S. Wooley, founder of
the Woolley Fertilizer Company, of
Seaford, September 4, 1888, at Cam
den Del, where she was then resid-
ing. Mrs. Woolley during the life of
her husband and afterwards, spent the
summers in Seaford and winters in
Florida where her husband owned
large orange groves. She is survived
by three sisters, Mrs. Charles M.Chase
Miss P. E. Clements and Mrs. M. |.
Hopkins, all of Wilmington. The fun
eral was held at her late home, Thurs
day afternoon, Sept. 28th. ult., with
interment at Seaford.
Smyrna times., 1922-10-04
At the MOUieS
AT THE PALACE THEATRE

Friday and Saturday-"The Rider
of the King Log"-In modern moving
picture productions, it is rarely that
one finds suitable theme around
which the picture is built. When this
theme is found, it is accorded the sue
cess of "The Miracle Man" or "Hum-
oresque." "The Rider of the King
Log" the first feature production of
Holman Day, presented by Associated
Exhibitors and to be shown at the
Palace Theatre, has found within
itself theme that burns with the in
spiratiOn of actual human experience
and emotion. 1t is the theme of the
big outdoors, the great Maine woods,
the roaring cataracts. The interwin-
ing of these great emotional, though
inapimate, actors with human beings
strong in courage, or weak in cowar-
dice, presents a story tense and grip
ping in its majesty. The action of the
story revolves about the efforts, by
fair means or foul, of a powerful cor
poration to rob old "X. K" "The Rider
of the King Log" of his river rights.
Old "X. K" is a mighty, rugged son
of the forest with tender spot in his
heart as big as all outdoors for his
mOtherless daughter. Death over
comes "X. k, and he faces it as
courageously as he faced life, but his
dauntless spirit lives on in his daugh-
ter, who fights to the finish and wins
through love.
Tuesday and Wednesday-"The
rbarian'-Monroe Salisbury is COM
ing to the Palace Theatre for two days
engagement beginning Tuesday in
"The Barbarian, adapted for the
screen by E. P. Heath from Theodore
SeiXus SolOmen's story. "The Bar
barian," which has been declared by
critics to be one of the most notable
films of the year, is a powerful dra-
matte story of conflict between right
and wrong. Its principal character,
played by Mr.. Salisbury, is clean,
unsophiSticated boy of the woods.
Knowing no phase of life except his
own, he is uncOuth and unused to the
retinementS of metropolitan civliza-
tiOn. He NETS a society girl from the
city with whom he falls in love. This
forms the basis of one of the most
beautiful rOmances of the screen, a
story that will linger long in memory
because of its sweetness and beauty.