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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-11-19
10 lOl ARE
WILL. BRED

Dinner invitations should De- answered
Immediately only a very good reason.
such as sickness OF an accident. can
excuse persons breaking dinner en-.
.agcmcnt after accepting H.
To accept one invitation. and then re-
fuse that one In order 20 take advant.
age Of another which arrived later and
seems % promise greater amusement
~ extremely rude.
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NOTICE TO PATRONS or
IOHNSON STREET SCHOOI.

4 meeting and program will be- held
hy the Parent Teachers club ~ thu
Johnson street School. Tuesday after.
noon, at a;30 O'Clock. ~ the school
building a full attendance Of mothers
IL urged as there will b. q number VI
important announcements made
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BAZAAR AND MARKET On
NOVEMBER g AND s6.

Tho Ruth Rutherford Glass ~ tho
First Christian Chufch VAL hold a
Christmas Bazaar and market Friday
and saturday, Nov. q and %, AT Me.
lroys Market Dainty articles of
hsndwork suitable Tor Christmas gifts
will be- sold NJ nominal prices, together
with large variety Of home made pies.
cakes and candies
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MRS. GRIMES TO RECEIVE
MEMBERS OF CIRCLE 4

Mrs Grimes will entertain tina mem.
hers Of Circle No. . OF the FIRST Chris.
tian Church. "Wednesday afternoon. at
$40 O'Clock. at her home. bO7 North
Pierce Street, The afternoons lesson
will h. led 10y Mrs utterback.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-11-19

The troop met az Central Hall. and az.
ter short business meeting went n
% body 10 the home OF Alr and Mrs
Sum. where the evening was spent
r music and song and delicious &c,
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fr.shments OF chicken tamaIes and
houghnUts were served.
The evening closed with fifteen
.rlhs Tor tho hosts and hostess, which
were given heartily.
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W. VI. I. Will HAVE
MISSION AIRY PROGRAM.

The regular monthly missionary pro
gram " the First Baptist Church W. ".
u. will he held Wednesday afternoon,
at o'clock, In the church rarlors Cir.
~" Six viii have charge ~ tho program
which will be based on The Ministry
of Healing"
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YAK, III ~ WITH MRS.
WILLIAM OLIVER

Ms William Oliver viii h. hostcas
tn the members 81 Ysks n Vi club a.
} O'Clock. Tuesday afternoon. At her
hmuc. 2ilo Harrison street
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-11-19
PRiSCII.LA CLUB WITH
MRS. CLIFTON OLIVER

The Priscilla Club viii be entertained /
Thursday afternoon. Nov %. NJ The |
home 81 Mrs. Clifton oliver 1904 Flu. |
more Street
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-11-19
MEETING or WOMtN'S
AUXILIARY WEDNESDAY.

The Womans Auxiliary OF St An.
drews Episcopal Church viii meet
Wednesday afternoon at ? o'clock. ia
tho parish house.
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MUM FAMILY ENTERTAINS
HOl SCOTT TROOP

Troop :. Boy Scouts. were delightful
ly entertained Friday evening hy Mr.
and Mrs j l.. Nuun aud son. Gimore.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-08
ALCAzAR TO SHOW
RECKLESS YOUTH
Elaine Hammerstein to Ap-
pear in Scenario Written by
Cormo Hamilton

Elaine Hammerstein in Reckless
Youth" is the attraction at the AL
cazar all this week.
1t will afford local motion picture
devotees another opportunity to see
a team of talented screen artists in
whom the public has lately been
showing unusual interest. Elaine
Hammerstein is the star of the pro-
duction, but of almost equal impor-
lance is her leading man, Niles
WEIGH.
Miss Hammerstein has the role of
young girl who adopted as her
motto quite early in life the two sim
pie words, Who Cares? And care
less of all the conventions, came
within an ace of wrecking not only
her own happiness. but that of
number of others with whom she
came in contact.
Cosmo Hamilton is the author of
Reckless Youth" and is considered
the greatest student of present day
social conditions. What he has to
say in his books. plays or interviews
concerning the troubles of married
folks is constantly making the front
pages of the daily papers,
In addition to this feature there
will also be shown a special Mack
Sennett comedy, "She Sighed BY the
Seaside" with the Sennett bathing
beauties.
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OLD INDIAN TOWNS
MAY BE MARKED

Montgomery October 7.-(Spe-
eial.)-Markers probably will be
placed by the state department of
archives and history at Pole Cat
Springs, Macon county, and at the
old Indian town of Wa-too-la Lee
county, as a result of interest Great
ed by p. A. Brannon in addresses at
Shorters and Opelika this week.
Pole Cat Springs, near the present
town of Shorters. was an Indian
agency In 1906 and the junction OF
four Indian trails. At this point A
daughter of Big Warrior, noted In
dian chief, conducted tavern which
was center of social and business
interests
Whooping Cane creek, is the place
whooping Cane creek, is the place
which is first mentioned in the mi
grafton legend of the Creek nation.
This legend is that the Creeks emf
grated to Alabama and that the first
stop was made at Wa-too-la.
Mr.. Brannon. curator of the de-
partment OF archives and history
found that citizens Of the two towns
desire to have the markers estab-
1ished.
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OPEL|KA READY
FOR BIC AIR
Agricultural Exhibits viii Fea-
ture Week-Auburn Band
to Play

opelika, October THE Opelixa
district fair will open here Monday,
October 16, and continue through the
week. While many outside attrac-
tons have been secured for the en-
tertainment of the visitors, the fair
will be pre-eminently an agricul-
turS exhibition.
In the matter of amusements the
principal features will be the Au-
burn band, which has been secured
to furnish musical entertainment for
the visitors. ]. Il. Heth exposition
shows have been engaged and will
occupy the midway" This aggreEa-
ton consists of 20 Shows and rides
and 40 concessions and two brass
bands.
About 75 blooded horses are a.
ready entered for the races Auburn
will have a splendid cattle exhibit,
and Quay Flowers, proprietor of the
cambridge stock farm. will exhibit
car load of Poland China hogs.
The poultry department will he
under the management of w. A. An
drewss The management has ar
ranged for five big community ex-
hibits. which will be quite an at
traction. Premiums for these ex-
hibits total 1915. During the fair
week game of football will be
played between the second teams of
Auburn and Georgia
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Old Resident Near Death

Il had not eaten food for 10 days
and was slowly starving to death.
Given up by five doctors. tried a
bottle of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy,
which gave relief at once. 4 / am IS
years old and would have died but
for your wonderful medicine. The
jaundice is all gone and l am gain
ing appetite and strength every day.
1t is a simple, harmless preparation
that removes the catarrhal mucus
from the intestinal tract and allays
the Inflammation which causes prac-
tically all stomach, liver and intes-
final ailments, including appendicitis.
One dose will convince or money re-
funded. At all ruggists.--Adv.
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ATTORNEY PREPARES TO
DEFEND OIL COMPANY

Montgomery. October 7.--tSpe-
cial)-S. C. Rowe, attorney of
Fort Worth, Texas. came to Mont
gomery today for conference with
the state securities commission and
for an Inspection of the records in
the case of the Mid-Texas Petroleum
corporation, which has been cited to
appear here October 81 for an in
quiry into its activities in disposing
of stock in Alabama. Mr.. Rowe is
attorney for several officers and
stockholders mentioned in the bill of
particulars filed by F. R. Aufham-
mer. agent of the stockholders pro-
tective committee of the corpora
ton.
Mr.. Aufhammer charged that the
information which resulted in the
issuance of a certificate permitting
the corporation to sell stock in Ala
bama was based on fraud. Officers
and directors of the corporation
were cited to appear hare and show
why an order cancelling its permit
to sell stock in Alabama should not
be issued.
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Birmingham awakes Tuesday to
the first big circus day of the year,
Sells-Floto and Buffalo. Bill circus
day. The great. gray tents will rise
at Smith park with the sun and at
1880 o'clock the street parade, the
largest in the world this year. Will
proceed toward the heart of the busi
ness district. 1t will be the last
circus parade of the season, and chill
dren of all ages, creeds and condi-
tions OF welfare will no doubt be on
hand to see the one truly American
holiday started in the traditional and
we'll beloved manner.
The Sells-Flo street parade is
unusual in that all cages and dens OF
wild animals are open to the view OF
the crowds along the line of march,
and the famous horses, 480 of them,
are plump. sleek and good to look
at The big western circus has al
ways taken pride in its horse flesh
but never so much as this season
with 200 head more than on the
occasion of it's last visit here, 1919.
Although there are 20 elephants
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with the show. eleven of them will
not be seen in parade. as they are
babies too small to hike the route.
Among them is Tom Thumb, 6
months old, smallest infant pachy-
dcrm In captivity. "Old Mom,"
famous mother elephant of the herds,
heroine of Courtney Ryley Cooper's
circus stories, will look along the
line of march for Roy Octavius
Cohen, whom Mr.. Cooper visited here
not long ago. Coop" has given "Old
Nom" a message for Mr.. Cohen. and
the canny old matron will not rest
until it's delivered. Mr. Cohen will
please accept this as "Old Mons in
vitation to the show. She has seats
reserved for him opposite the middle
ring, where she performs, sharing
headline honors, as she claims with
goodies" Hanneford, riding come
dian, pre-eminent feature of the big
show.
The three Sells F1oto circus trains,
each composed of seventy-foot steel
cars, the largest ever built for any
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circus. will reach Birmingham at
$3.50 a. m. and 5 a. M, Tuesday. as
the jump here from Chattanooga has
been broken at Gadsden. This in
sures Birmingham a circus day
schedule featured by promptness and
rigid punctuality. There are 1900
people with the show to see the this.
The performances, beginning at 2
o'clock and 5 o'clock, open with
Night In Cairo" huge lyrical ex-
trayaganza, in which LOO people and
animals take part, and they are
presented in three rings, on two
stages, in an aerial arena and on
racing, hippodrome track by TOO
arenic artists. American, English,
French, Russian, German, Spanish,
South American, Japanese, Chinese,
Cuban, Mexican, Arabian and Moroc-
can performers participate. The
Hanneford family alone receives
more salary than any other four
acts in circus business. Sells Floto
boasts the most expensive array OF
human talent ever assembled under
one big top.
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PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY

Petitions in bankruptcy filed dur
ing the past week were as follows:
H. s. Moore. Birmingham, october
8. Liabilities, 1855. assets, none. Wal
ter II. Anderson, attorney.
Sam Brantley, Birmingham, October
4. Liabilities, s243.60; assets, wages
due by l.. & N. r. r. Co., s57 "a.
claimed as exempt. James Esdale, at
torney.
J. w. Foust, Siluria, October 4. LA
bilities, s"65; assets, mule and horse
s215. farming implements $50, COW
and calf $25. clothing $50. hay press
$40, total 1856. all claimed as exempt.
Robert G. Messer, attorney.
r. ]. Lowery, Helena, october 5.
Liabilities. s959.07 assets. money in
attorney.
F. r. Partee, Gadsden. October 8.
Liabilities, S1,sS7.50 assets wages
due by Agricultural Insurance COM
pany of WATERFOWL. n. Y. s21 SO.
claimed as exemps. ]. NJ. Miller. at
torney.
w. w. Hughes. Fort Payne October
5. Liabilities, $3.50; assets, 100 acres
OF land in DeKalb county $4,000.
homestead, three mules 5000, one
wagon s25, mortgaged to q. /. PEN
dergrass for 1920. farming tools,
goods. wares and fixtures s125. Isbell
& Scott. attorneys.
w. t. Chamlee, Hehagar, october S.
Liabilities. s4,267 60; assets, two
mules 5000, one wagon $50, one COW
SIS. one buggy $40, farming tools $40,
homestead mortgaged to A. e. Good
hue $4,000. Isbell & Scott. attorneys.
t. w. CASTOR, Valley Head, Octo-
Der 6. Liabilities. $7.Ss3.s7; assets, 1853
acres of land H. .,eKalb county
$4,000. mortgaged to N. S. Davenport
and r. d. Lowery for $7,5SS. C. w.
Peters. attorney.
c. N. Wood, Murray Cross Roads,
October Q. Liabilities. 1910; assets.
two mules $3.50. cotton in field SEQ,
200 bushels corn $3.50, claimed as ex-
empt. ]. NJ. Miller, attorney.
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very often. AFTER my WCrk Is cone,
the people open their hearts to tell
me their past life. their hopes for the
future. or direct entanglements in
which they are engaged now.
And l must tell them how to
march-to walk-to get themselves
happiness.
20, sometimes l Just close my eyes
and pray for the good God to tell me
what to say in some the terrible cases.
The truth Is, 1 always ask Him to
take charge of the work, and let me
tell the fortunes. and give the ad-
vice exact"
winning n Man
Her dark eyes flashed then upon
this:
Girls say: How must 1 win a
man? l say: BE natural, have
character; tell the truth. Never do
anything to destroy his respect or
faith in you. Be the sort of person
you want him to be-
And married ones I advise always:
Don't talk to me about divorce. l
am ashamed of you. Two beasts in
the forest can get along. So can
you. One man is about like another.
You will, not better yourself usually
TO divorce one and take another. The
trouble with most girls and boys now
is that they marry saying: I'll get a
divorce if I'm unhappy. Instead they
should say: I'm going to make a
happy life with my wife. I'm gCing
to do nay duty. We're going to stick.
We're going to be right and raise
some children, and do our part by the
world Mothers and fathers are to
blame IL their children get a wrong
attitude; and a mother-in-law who
makes her sen dissatisfied with his
wife, or vice versa. deserves to be
turned out of the church and good
peoples society. God will punish
them"
She laid her hand on mine:
Tell all the young married couples
to love their little children before
they &C me to this earth, and be happy
for their sakes
each other. What good does it do to
say unkind things2 Think you are
always sweethearts. Often l ask a
man: Have you sweetheart? %.
no. says he, I'm married.
Married. l scream. Is not your
wife your sweetheart? That's what's
the matter with married men-they
quit thinking they have a sweetheart
after they have a wife. Why l
thought to get marr1ed-thatS what
the French Thinks to just be able
to have sweetheart all the time
Men Mighty Queer
Men are strange creatures. Madame
Rama says lots of times they wander
into her tent and say: II don't want
my fortune told. / just want some
body to talk to-and 1 am willing to
pay ytu to talk to me. If l walked
up to strange woman and asked to
talk to her l might get in Jail"
This week, during the fair, there
has been one man who has paid me
81 every time he comes in to talk.
II told my husband about him the
first time he came-you see my hus-
band sits right herebeside me behind
this other little curtain--and we are
Just like sweethearts the eight years
we have been married. Sometimes we
both talk to the man, and he seems
perfectly satisfied he has get his
moneys worth"
Mrs. Rama and her husband are as
sisted in their palmistry and fortune
telling by Prof Prasar, who. like Mr.
Rama. is a Hindoo. The latter is
still a student in college. and very
adept and charming N palm science,
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What Do You Ask From Fortune Tellers?
Loue and Business the Leading Queries
All three have been educated In

All three have been educated In
America.
Get Your Man Quick
As a parting shot, Mrs. Rama de-
clared
"a girl better marry her man be-
fore he's 25-that's the time she has
her best chance. And advice to the
man is: Better take your girl when
you can get her, If you love her
there's always a lot of others coming
along l advise all school girls who
are being pressed to marry, to wait
till they're out of school, when they'll
have lot more sense"
Madame Rama has many friends in
Birmingham, though Chicago is her
home, and has been here with the
state fairs for six years. Besides
being pretty, she Is extremely enter
tanning, sensible and versatile, and
startled the Kiwanians the other day
by delivering cryptic messages and
representations, some of which she
said she had to' admit she had been
tipped off to tell by some other breth-
rem of the faith.
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NEW BUDGET is SUBJECT .
OF LONG CONFERENCES

The new budget was the subject
OF another lengthy conference of CITY
commissioners yesterday. City Comp
troller H. M. Taylor said, following
the conference. that the budget had
yet taken no definite form. Much
work will be necessary, he said. and
II Is believed that II will be late in
the week before anything definite is
reached. Conferences will be resumed
tomorrow
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Madame Rama, Seeress at State Fair, Knocks En- Off
the Christmas Tree When She Looks Into Their
Hands and Sees Divorces Entanglements and
Unhappiness-Then She Gives Advice
Bv MIGNON HALL

the midway fortune teller!
catch glimpse red velvet
A little antalng Turing
the radiox receiver of
Oh lucky your this dlectabe
back if anybody
yougo
with the dark brown spirits is established
the been
o onions.
Youb ecomea in
floated off butterfys
salaamed
md time drewa breath.
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You are no longer the bald-headed
hardware merchant who has just
picked his teeth after a chicken din
ner You are a dashing, youth-re-
renewed Faust, thrilling to know of
tho radiant maidens, yellowish or
massaged, you are going to meet;
strange; lurid journeys you are
scheduled to make, even though they
later pan out to be trips to the COR
ner grocery for mustard plaster for
cook; and whether your father-in-
law will ever recover his interest in
camphor factory and give you half
Moneys Worth
Oh, who for a measly dollar would
ask more than the fascinating fever
ish delights delivered from the
rolling stores of Magic Land?
l went down to the fair to see what
1 could see.
l saw Madame Rama.
She 1t is who traces the mountains.
ravines and little rivulets of the hui
man hand.
After she had told me that I was
very quick in my likes and dslikes-
had loving disposition and would
marry twice, she let me in on some
of the heart throbs of the trade.
She is French, but speaks very
splendid American when she doesn't
forget.
"Ah. madame she set forth. 1T
is great, fine business; but often
very sad, as well as funny and gal!
You see, there is all the difference
in men and women.
THE women come to ask me about
love
But the men-they inquire about
re business!
"A woman, no matter how old,
never ceases to want to know If she
is loved or will be; what she must
do about this love anyway; and how
she can seize love.
The Middle Aged
But re men past 25. They wag
their heads and this is what they
say:
lis my mother goin' to recover her
health?
Would make better success if
l went to Bessemer instead of to
Ishkooda?
Where did lose my lodge pin7'
Never a word about love
Now, before they're 25 they'll ask
something about ma trimony-and al
ways after they're %. After they're
so, Mon Dieu--how anxious they are!
Think l gotta chance with my
girls?
"They almost tremble for my
answer.
But I look at them sternly.
"'How old is your sweethairte n
inquire, knowing that she is always
never older than rs or 80.
HE falteringly admits her youth.
"'You ought to be ashamed of
yourself say 1. old man like you
with one foot dead, trdying to spoil
some girls happiness! Why don't
you pick out somebody nearer your
age and size? / can see nothing
here gaze closely into his hand
but unhappiness for you If you win
her.
Hates Her Then
After that he always gives me my
dollar just like he hates me.
'But you see, fortune telling is
not only just seeing into the future,
reading the exact lines shown in the
hand and scientifically explaining
them; but 1t is the hard business Of
giving advice advice in sverything.
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COMPLETING HIGH sCHooI.

Haleyville, October 7.-(Special. y
the Northwest Alabama High
scnooi is practically completed and
the school viii be moved into its
new quarters shortly. Nearly 200
students from all parts of the state
are in attendance.
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CITY TO "DREss UP.

Gadsden, October -
Representatives of decorating firm
are in the city for the purpose of
making contracts with the enter
tainment committee of the Alabama
state veterans for the decoration of
the city for the reunion here on Oc-
tehsx ~ and IL.
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RAILROAD SUED

Gadsden, October 7.-(Special.)-
Damage suits, totaling $4,000. were
filed in the circuit court here today
against the Alabama Great South
ern railroad for injury to two minor
children of Mrs. Antha Crosson of
Keener. She alleges in her bill that
she boarded the A. G. s. train at
keener last week and when she
alighted at the Alfalfa station with
two small children she fell and both
children were seriously Injured.
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The AEe-HernId maintains special rep
resentatives in Bessemer for handling
correspondence, advertising and sub
scriptiOns. Mrs. T.. ID. n1cCollum, corre-
spOndent, receives news items; phone
Bessemer 1919. Eugene Southwlck,
S2S1a N. 18th ST., Room No. 9, Cir
culntiOn Manager.
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INDORSE SEAPORT

Gadsden. October 7.-(Special.)--
AT meeting of the Central Labor
union held this week resolutions
were passed indorsing the seaport
amendment and calling upon all the
people to vote for it in November.
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NEGRO ARRESTED
IN SEARLES CASE
Shotgun Stolen From Gram
mar Home Recovered-Ne-
gro Asserts Innocence

Joe sherman, alias Joe shan
non, negro. who is being held by
Tuscaloosa county authorities, 1t
is stated in connection with the
ntt.rck upon Mrs. Riley Gram
mar, at her residence, in Searics,
Thursday, was brought to the
Jefferson county jail last night
by two deputy sheriffs. whore he
is now being held for safe keep
ing. He is being held on
charge of assault to rob.
Tuscaloosa. October IL Especially
Joe Shannon, negro. who is alleged
TO have attacked and robbed Mrs.
Riley Grammar. near searless Thurs
day. was captured at an early hour
today by a sherifrs posse at Keller
man. and is in jail here. The negro
was found at a negro boarding house
which was entered by officers, who
found Shannon in bed.
A sweeping denial of any eonnec-
ton with the case was made by
Shannon who said that he had been
in Kellerman only about three weeks
and that he was from Columbus, Ca.
Officers state that the Negroes
mining clothes and the shotgun
stolen from the Grammar home were
found under the boarding house
They are positive that they have the
right negro. AL was quiet today at
Searles and KellermAn.
Mrs. Grammar, who is SO years
old, surprised the negro robbing her
house, ii IS stated, and becoming
frightened jumped out at a window
and was painfully injured. The ne
gro did not attack her