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The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
DEMOCRAT.ARGUS WINS.

While The Missouri Herald has
not attempted to give the complete
record of the cases tried at this term
of circuit court, we have given par
ticulars of several of the most i'm
portant, but neglected to mention u
damage and libel suit brought
against the Democrat-Argus, which
was tried and decided in favor OF
that paper. The suit grew out of a
publication of the circuit court pro.
ceedings of 1921, in which the
Democrat, now the Democrat-Argus
stated that one Jack Tate had been
convicted on a charge of bootlegging
and fined $500 and given six
months Jail sentence, the statement
proving to be an error, as the man
so convicted and sentenced was one
Jack Tillman, and not Jack Tate at
all, as anyone would know who was
not a stranger in the community.
Whether or not Jack Tillman has
ever made any whiskey may be a
question, but that he had drunk
enough to float the old Georgia Lee
Jack himself would probably ack-
nowledge and be proud to own
While Jack was Jack, Tate was not
Tillman, hence the suit. After the
Democrat learned it had bungled
the news and "soused" the wrong
guy, it published nice, sweet re-
traction, but Mr.. Jack Tate refused
to be satisfied, and filed suit for $4,000
damages for libel and $4,000 punitive
damages. The jury found for the
newspaper, which was in no manner
TO blame, having gotten the informa
tion from supposedly reliable source
and after finding it had erred The
Democrat did all it could to right
the wrong.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
LOST TREASURE.

The lure of lost sunken treasure
seems to be as hardy and persistent in
these days of 1922 as 1t was in the
times when Capt Kidd sailed the
Spanish Main and stories of his
wealth were the favorite diversion OF
all those who did not care to work.
Within the last month there have
been various news stories Of expedi
tions that had either sailed or
were being fitted to sail in search Of
Spanish gold, and especial interest at
tached to the one under the leader
ship OF a woman which was going to
visit the island made famous as the
original of Stevenson's Treasure
Island"
Just at present an English COM
pany is preparing to salvage the good
ship Grosvenor, formerly owned by
the East India Company, which foun-
dered of the coast Of Pondoland,
South Africa, in 1882. The Grosve-
nor carried emeralds and other pre-
cious stones, together with quite an
amount Of gold and silver ingots,
which is expected to net the adven-
urers in the neighborhood of $27,-
100000.
Engineers are reported to have
struck on the ingenious scheme OF
running out a tunnel from the land,
ouly ninety feet distant, and thus sal
vaging anything and everything
that may be left on the old ship. The
matter marks interesting reading, but
the history of such attempts proves
that most of them have been disas
trous for the lives and fortunes OF
those who engaged in them.
After all is said and done, the
most valuable treasure hunter is the
man or woman who realizes the pos
sibilities of the immediate environ
ment in which he or she may be
placed and digs for the treasure that
is concealed in the near neighbor-
hood. Distance still lends enchant-
ment, however, and the people who
go to dig for lost treasure do fur
nish those who stay at home some
colorful subject for conversation and
speculation.-Nashv Banner
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
CIRCUIT COURT.

Circuit Court at Caruthersville,
after having 6aen III session nearly
two months with the exception of
a weeks vacation, will, it is said
reach the end of the docket this
week and adjourn until the regu'
lar July term, at which time another
big docket will likely have been ac-
cumulated. If all the money spent
in year in this county for courts
was spent for 4th of July picnic
we would make noise that could be
heard from Kalamazoo to Texar-
kama, and We would probably be just
as well off, only we haven't found II
out and probably never will.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
COLLECTOR MAKES HIS
ANNUAL SETTLEMENT

At a meeting of the Board of Al.
dermen held last Monday, the Gath
of April, the matter of the City Col
lector's annual report took up the
major part of the evening.
The auditing committee appointed
by the Board of Aldermen of the City
of Hayti for the purpose of making
a settlement with w. e. Robertson,
city collector, to be presented to the
aforesaid board of aldermen for their
approval, has finished their audit and
the same has been accepted and a
settlement made with Mr.. Robertson
by the Board of Aldermen. The fol.
lowing as taken from the records of
the city clerk, being their finding:
In view of the fact that the 1918
1919 and 1920 original tax books
were missing, leaving only the de.
linquent list as returned by the city
collector, the city collector was given
credit for all unpaid real estate and
personal tax as shown by his report
less the amount charged off by the
committee for duplicate receipts
found showing same had been paid
to the collector. All license accounts
were found to balance. The uncol-
lected real estate and personal tax
plus the collected real estate and per
sonal in the 1921 tax book balanced
with the original charge of the 1927
tax book After giving the city col
lector credit with all credits it was
found that the amount of money OH
hand was $1,317.OS, which amoun'
he paid ever 10 the treasurer and hi"
account balanced.
From the above paragraphs, lest
the public draw the conclusion that
the 1918, 1919 and 1920 uncollect
I'd tax will be lost by the city. such
is not the case. An abstract or con-
solidated back tax book was made by
Mayor i. H. Wilks and Clerk S.
Oates of the lost or missing tqH
books, and the same has been turned
over to Constable S. p. Oates for tn
purpose of collection. Mr.. Oates
has been busy this week in the pro-
cess of collection of the back taxes
and is making considerable headway
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
MEDLING ANNOUNCES FOR
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY

We are authorized to announce s.
v. Medling candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination to the Office of
prosecuting attorney, subject to the
will of the voters in the Democratic
primary, August 1st.
Mr.. Medling is lawyer of splen-
did ability and a member of the law
firm of Mckay & Medling, which IL
enjoying an extensive practice in this
part of the state. He was born at
Dyer, Tennessee, where he attended
in high school and graduated in high
school, after which he entered Union
University at Jackson, Tennessee, OBJ.
tanning the B. A. degree. He also
attended Peabody College at Nash
Vile, and later received an L. l.. B
degree from Cumberland University
In 1914, Mr.. Medling began the prac
tice of law in Paducah, Kentucky
About four years ago he came to Ca.
ruthrrsville and associated himself
with B. A. Mckay in the practice of
law. Although Mr. Medling has
been one of our citizens but few
years he has won the friendship
and confidence of great many of
our people, and requests us to state
that he expects to be acquainted
with many more before the cam
paign is over. He takes an interest
in religious and educational mat
ters and the public affairs of his
adopted county and State. From
our knowledge of him we feel sure
that if he obtains the Office he
will be ably and properly represent.
ed in all criminal cases, and that
he will be fair and impartial in the
discharge of his duty.
While thus assisting Mr.. Medling
to make his initial political bow tt
the people Of Pemiscot county We
ask that his candidacy be given
careful consideration. ***
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28

away by the gentlemen and ladies
of the press, themselves. So Cuff
scOOtcd and was gone and was sc 81
no more. Mckay held on like 1t,
Boy on the Burning Deck" but his
client after opening the lombard
ment upon the court in her own in
terest and against the Democratic
party in general, ducked out and left
the bag for her lawyer to hold, which
was easy to do with TWO members oi
the county L. full sympathy
with his purpose ard intenlon
One Of the j,ts:". 81! .Gn !".;ine
Of the contract was "a matter of
brass tacks, of dollars and cents, -
and that he was for cutting it all
out but that, but it seemed he didn't
know where nor how to begin the
cutting. But in theory he was right
and it is to be hoped after allowing
himself another week to figure, he
will know "brass tacks" from braz-
en- ideas.
Two-thirds of the county court
seemed unable to distinguish between
PRINTING and ADVERTISING. Sc
the whole thing fell in this sort of q
hole and was left there to be drag
ged out tomorrow, Saturday, the
court having made an order to let
out both-the ADVERTISING and
the PRINTING. And it's going tc
be some "ietting"-if they do it.
In order to keep the historical re
cords perfectly straight 1t is incum'
bent upon us to correct one state
ment of the editor of The Republi
can who declared as part of hei
convincing argument that the Demo
Gratis had monopolized Pemisco
cOunty's pie counter for forty year.
to the exclusion of anything tina
looked or smelled like u Republican
That isn't quite correct, because it Il
untrue. About fifteen years ago ;
Republican paper was started at Ca
ruthersville from the microbe o
which the present Republican shee
sprang into. its proportions of today
1t was published but for few is
sues, the main tissue" being to ge
$4,000 of the countys advertising
which 1t got and the next day go
out of town and hasn't been seeI
there since. 1t was never even en-
tered at the post Office, therefore no
legal publication. Every ofiicia
In the county was Democrat, ant
every paper Democratic, but the bawl
ing baby got the cream which prove
too much for one feed. and II die
and its spirit fled--with the $3.50
There is more of such history but thi
will have to suffice for this time.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
]. v. MOORE, D. v. s., OWNER
Phone 129 Hayti, M,
"J1MP-LI-CUTE."

Hayti has recently organized a
claw and order" league and last
week some one stole the tax books
and delinquent tax book out of the
city clerks Office. Can there be any
connection between the two?-Ill-
mo Jimplicute.
Hayti has not recently, nor at any
other time, formed claw and or
der league, but we did have claw
and order election" and forthwith
, our city tax books vaporized. We
have never discovered the missing
link nor the missing books, but arc
collecting our taxes all right, all
right. So, what's the difference?
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
ALUMNI MEETING

A meeting of the Hayti Alumni
Association was held at the High
School building last Thursday even
ing with good attendance Plans
were discussed for the annual ban
quet and 1t was decided to hold /,
on Wednesday evening. May 18th
at the Masonic hall, and will be ser.
we'd by the Christian Ladies Aid.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
ENSIGN Wilkes

Ensign Wilkes, sired by Wiltrene,
race record 2:30, he by Wilton, race
record 2:19 l 4, he by George Wilkes
519. Dam, Reba Wilkes, sired by
Truce 1859, he by Onward 1411, race
record 2:25 1 4, sire of Houri 2:17
Interest 2:1S, Shadeland Onward
2:1S 1I2, and others, and he by Geo.
Wilkes SIS, race record 2:22, sired
by Harry Wilkes, 2:13 12. Guy Will
kes, 2:15 1 a, Baron Wilkes, 2:1S
and others, and he by Hambletonian
10, sire Of Dexter 2:17 1 4, Nettie
2:1S, Orange Girl, 2:20, and others.
Reba Wilkes, first, second, third.
fourth and fifth dams strictly of
Morgan ancestry.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
REED WILL SPEAK

Senator James A. Reed will speak
at Cape Girardeau Tuesday, May 9.
This will be a great chance for those
who desire to hear the man who did
more than any other man in the
United States to discredit and put
the Democratic party out of business
during the past four years.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28

William Robert Daugherty of near
town, aged 33 years, who was re-
Gently carried to Memphis for hos
pital treatment for complication
of maladies, died last week and was
buried at Portageville.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
Terms

Terms: $12.50 to insure liv-
ing colt to stand ard suck; or $500
cash for the season. Mare return
able if failing to get with colt. Tho
snonay due when fact is ascertained
or mare parted with or owner leaving
state without my consent, and lien
retained according to Chapter IL
Article 4, Revised Statutes of Mis-
souri,, 1909. Season closes July Is
1922. All care will be taken
prevent accident, but will not be re.
sponsible should any occur.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
FAMILY WANTED

Good family wanted, where there
are two or three to chop cotton and
do other work. Good house for use
Apply to Luther Smitherman, Ca
ruthersville route, two miles south
of Hayti, Mo. 25-26pd
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
DESCRIPTION

Ensign Wilkes is a bay horse,
weight about 1850, two white hind
feet, heavy name and tail, good dis
position. Call and see him and
judge for yourself.
Ensign Wilkes will make the sea-
son of 1922 at the Pemiscot County
Veterinary Hospital at Hayti, Mo.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
EASTERN STAR INSTRUCTIONS

Last Monday evening the follow.
ing visited Chruthersville for the
purpose Of attending an instruction
Meeting of the Eastern Star: Miss
es Hattie Gather, Agatha and Irene
Raybuck; Mesdames II. G. Cresswell,
C. l.. Letter, Albert Wilson, Mona
Helm and Guy Sanders.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28

30 Acres land and house to
rent Mt one-third and one-fourth
rent Address Basil Heard, Hayti,
or J. s. Porter, 4448 Maryland Ave.
st. Louis, Mo. 24-26
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28
FRISCO TRAINS RUNNING

Through passenger and freigh'
service between ST. Louis and Mem.
phis over the Frisco has beef restor.
ed since last Sunday night. The
Frisco had to discontinue through
service on account of high water
covering its track at Cape Girar.
deau and Neeley's Landing. The
river is now falling, and the railroad
company finds its track has suffer
ed very little damage.
New Triumph eating potatoes
at Buckley'S.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28

Fancy patent leather pumps,one
and two straps, at Buckleys'.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28

Van Nations was over from Ca
Monday.
The Missouri herald., 1922-04-28

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close to the ground. Strange he
hadn't thought of it before-just to
lie still, face close to the dirt. 1t
panied him to- breathe; his eyes
throbbed and burned, hat at least it
was life. Then all was confused
oblivion.
When Bill wakened again, the last
pale glinmer of the lighted smoke
was gone,
The fire had evidently burned
down and out.
His fumbling hands encountered
the log walls; then he CROPPED about
till he found the plank door. His
hands smarted, but their sense of
touch did not seem hunted.
He had never known a darker
night!
His muscles were more at his COM
mand now; with a gTeat lurch he
sprang up and thrust headsand shout
ders through the hole. in the door,
The hot ashes punished his face
and his hand encountereas hot Goals
as he thrust them through. Yet
with a mighty effort he pushed on
until his wrists touched the icy
snow. He knew that he was safe.
He stood erect, scarcely believing
in his deliverance.
The wind still blew the snow dust
"a. singing lash from the north and
west.
1t was curious that cloudy night
could be So cold. Yet he could not
see the CLEAN of a star.
The Goals Of the fire, too, were
obscured and smothered in ashes. He
stepped toward them, intending to
rake them up for such heat as they
could yield.
Presently he halted, gazing with
fascinated horror at, the ground.
He was suddenly struck with a
CHASTITY. and terrible possibility.
His hand CROPPED for match.
He heard it crack in the silence
but evidently it was dud The
darkness before his eyes remained
unbroken.
Filled with sick fear, he removed
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OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

who was Miss Bessie Walters, is here
on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. 2. A..
Littlejohn.
Col. Frank C. Tignor, who iIlds-
trates Columbus commercially, was in
Americas yesterday for a visit with
friends.
Solicitor General Hooper and w.
w. Dyes have formed a law partner
ship, with offices in the Planters bank
building.
Americas is to hear the great sing
er, Signora Adele Borghi, who sailed
form Genoa, Italy, Dec. 20; Twill APP
pear in this city Jan. Is in concert.
Mrs. William B. Matthews return
ed to her home in Buena Vista yes
terday after. visit to friends and
relatives here
Mrs. W. D. Flynt, of Savannah, is
spending some time in Americas, her
former home, where she is being Civ
en- cordial welcome by many friends.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
Monday morning. No paper pub
lished
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in view for his prospecting; he had
simply come to search for the same
lost mine that Bill had discovered
the previous day.
He knew now why Kenly Louns-
bury had been willing to finance Vir-
ginia's trip into the North--not in
hopes of finding his lost nephew, but
to find the mine of which he also
had some knowledge.
In the same sweep of realization he
knew why Harold Lounsburys face
had always haunted him and filled
him with hazy, uncertain memories.
Harold Lounsbury was Ruther-
ford's son-the son of his fathers
murderer. Kenly Lounsbury was
Rutherford's brother.
All at once the smoke from the fire
began to pour in upon him, choking
his lungs and filling his eyes with
! tears.
XVII.
For a moment Bill gave little at
tention to the deepening clouds of
pungent, biting wood smoke that the
wind, suddenly shifting, whipped in
through the hole he had cut in the
door.
This was the most bitter moment
Iof his life, and he was lost and re-
mote in his dark broodings. The
smoke didn't matter.
The fight for life no longer seemed
worth while.
The smoke deepened in the cabin.
1t seemed to be affecting his power
to STANG erect. He tried to think of
; some way to save himself; his mind
was slow and dull
He knew that he couldn't get ont
of the cabin.
There was only little hole in the
door; to crawl through it, inch bv
inch as he had entered, would SUBJ
Ject MN to the full fury of the
afmes.
Meanwhile the fire burned higher.
the wind blew the clouds of smoke
from the green wood. through the
hole as if it. We're high pressure
steam.
1t soon was impossible for Bill
to see-even to hold his eyes open.
the cruel smoke tortured them so.
If ever man were caught in a
terrible trap of his own making that
man was Bill Bronson.
His ak! With his ak he could chon
the door away. His hand fumbled at
his belt. But he remembered now
ne had left his ak outside the cabin.
its blade thrust into the spruce log
that had supplied his fuel.
Suddenly he saw himself face to
face with seemingly certain death.
The smoke clouds were swiftly and
surely strangling him. Already his
consciousness was departing. He
leaped for the opening again and
fell sprawling on the dirt floor. He
started to spring up
- But he suddenly grew inert,
breathing deeply. There was still air
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WHAT THEY THINK OF OUR TOM

COME folks boast that they don't
care what other people think of
them. But it is important, after all.
And it is just as important that COM
munities and states have good names.
What do folks elsewhere think of
Georgia? Go outside the state once
and it won't take you long to get an
idea these days. For Senator Tom
Watson is gaininga reputation up and
down the land, and the name of
Georgia is being linked indissolubly
with him. Here is a sample of what
! is being said and talked outside of
Georgia. 1t comes from the Kansas
City Star, one of the worlds greatest
newspapers, with a circulation of
more than 225,000 twice a day, in
dependent in politics, fearless, and
ultra conservative in style and APP
peal. Says the Star:
1T is difficult to see what the SEN
ate committee hearing Senator Wat
sons charges against army discipline
in France can establish, except that
dozen or more men were hanged
there for crimes committed and that
already has been established by the
report of the judge advocate general
to the war department.
No doubt it is very effective for
the purposes of the senator from
Georgia to bring out testimony to
show that three bodies exhumed fol
shipment to the United States were
found with hangmen's nooses around
their necks, but it doesn't add any
thing to the known facts. That is
the same sort of evidence as the pho
tograph of a gallows that Senator
Watson waved in the senate The
gallows proved nothing except that
criminals were hanged, which is the
'"H-S ehiiiB IHC plSCcS vi IOpc dIOuHu
the necks of the hanged prove.
""These things needed no proof,
of course. The records of the hang
ings are in the war department and
have been produced and read in the
senate. The gallows and the rope
ends have no bearing on the Watson
charge that men were hanged without
trial, and that men were shot down
by their. officers for trivial offenses
"The Georgia senator is lawyer
and has informed the senate, in eff
feet, that he is terror at the Geor-
gia bar. Maybe so, but if he can
make stick in Georgia the kind Of
evidence ne is offering to the senate
committee, then Georgia juries are
easily impressed"
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way to his destination. The food sup
plies had to be secured sooner OF
later; and when the Chinook comes
no man knows when it will go away
He mushed on through the softenine
snow.
The truth suddenly dawned upon
him that he was face to face with
one of the most uncomfortable situa-
tions of all his years in the forest.
He didn't believe he would be able
to make the cabin before the fall of
night.
His woodsman's senses predicted a
bitter night.
Through the black hours he would
have to fight off sleep so that he
could mend the fire and cut fuel.
Late afternoon; already the sha-
dows lay strange and heavy in the
distant tree aisles. And all at once
he paused, thrilled, in his tracks.
A little way to the east, on the
bank of spall creek, his father and
his traitorous partner had once had
a mining claim--a mine they had
tried unsuccessfully to operate before
Bronson had made his big strike.
They had built small cabin, and
for nearly thirty years it had stood
moldering and forgotten.
Exultant and thankful, Bill turned
lin his tracks and mushed over to-
ward it :.
There was plenty of heart break
ing work to do when Bill finally
reached the little cabin. He couldn't
force open the door, so he hacked a
hole in it through which he entered.
After looking about he turned to
his toll of making fire just outside
the hole.
Tired out, he climbed inside again
and lay down on the dry dirt, put
ting his arm under his head
All at ONCE he was aware that his
eyes were fastened upon an cid cigar
box on a shelf against the wall.
AS he reached to seize it, he had a
distinct premonition of misfortune
1t contained single photograph
1t was typical old-fashioned
photograph-two men standing in
stiff and awkward posess in an old
fashioned picture gallery-printed in
the time-worn way.
One of the men was his own
father. And he stared at the other
face-a rather handsome, thin-lip.
ped, sardonic-eyed face-as if he
were looinkg at ghost.
Great Cod" he cried. t'It's Har-
old Lounsburyw
But instantly he knew it could
not be Harold Lounsbury. Already
he knew. 1t was no other thar
Rutherford, the man who slew his
father.
His deductions followed with dead.
ly and remorseless certainty HI
knew now why Harold Lounsbury
had come into Clearwater. Virginia
had told Bill that her lover hac
seemed to have some definite place
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TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY.

(From the Times-Recorder jan
uary 10, 1929
THE Central of Georgia train was
derailed yesterday afternoon
between Columbus and Americas near
Lacrosse, causing the complete over7
turning of the first class passenger
coach and the combination mail. No
one was seriously hurt, although sew
eral were considerably bruised in fall
ing over seats.
On Sunday next Rev. Jewett Will
. liams will deliver an illustrated lee
ture at the opera house on "Some of
the Scenes of the Life of Christ" Mr.,
! Williams comes Ameficus at the in
vitation of Rev. James B. Lawrence,
rector of Calvary Episcopal church,
at which church he will preach in
the morning.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Jan
uary 10, 1922
Mrs. Herbert Marshall, of Cordele,