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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
ENTIRE BUSINESS AREA
 OF SMALL TOWN BURNS

Sikeston, Mo. November 1s.-vir- tually the entire business section ot Gran, a small town eight miles from here, was destroyed by fire of un- determined origin today. The total damage was estimated at between sl5o, 900 and s2o0,000. The town had no fire fighting apparatus and as a result the blaze burned for seven hours, consuming many business places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
VIRGINIA PEARSON
 L0E Ws IN PE RsON
Noted Screen Star and Staqe Beauty to Appear in
 Feature Act

Miss Virginia Pearson. noted screen star and stage beauty. who arrived in Birmingham Sunday evening, will make her personal appearance al Loew's Bijou during the first half oi this week at every performance and the management announces that all though this engagement extraord nary has been arranged at great ex- pense, but at no advance in the price of admission
 The noted beauty will appear in a feature act in songs and recitations while her companions on this tour the Payne Sisters, will assist with some dance specialties, the whole forming an unusual act and head liner for what also otherwis, promises to be an unusual bill
 But in addition to this Aextraord!- nary feature there will also appear on this bill such a well known vaude- william as Jimmy Sax Duffy In songs stories and saxophone specialties, and clever comedy novelty playlet. en- titled. Speaking of Men." Is promised by Doris Hardy. assisted by Lila O'Neil.
 Variety will also be added by King and Anita Sauls, termed by New York critics "vaudeville's premier artists, and as the. screen feature, Miss Pear son will again be seen in her latest picture "Wildness of Youth one cf the big pictures of the season, and one said to have a real lesson In it's plot and at the same time furnishing rare entertainment.
 According to Miss Pearson's own statement, "Wildness of Youth" Is mot essentially a picture that moral izes." and she adds, T have accom- plished my idea in that production It is one of my strongest roles"
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Hubbard Bros. & co.

Bees that swarm in the spring make little honey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Dairymen Join Chamber

The Bessemer Dairymen's assocla- tion will become a member of the Bessemsr Chamber of Commerce.. the organization, according to de- cision made by the association at a meeting Saturday night. The follow ing members were present at the meeting held for tho purpose of dis cussinG the milk ordinances to be brought up by tho city council for decision at the regular meeting Tuesday night. J. A, Hates, pres ident' M. T. Higginbotham. w. S. Baty. w, W, Carlisle and others,
 An ordinance similar to the one in force in Birmingham was introduced at the last meeting of tho council and was discussed by the aldermen and referred to the miscellaneous. com mittee of the council. and another one was introduced by the dairymen. The committee to which the matter was referred will hold a meeting Monday evening and will prepare another or dlnance which 1t is understood will embody the best provisions of each one, which they wilr present to the council Tuesday night for adoption.
 Mrs. Wilson Hostess
 Mrs, herschel Wilson was a recent hostess entertaining the members of the Woodward Bridge club at her home, A lovely setting for guests was provided in the decorations of beautiful specimen chrysanthemums and ferns placed throughout the iiv- ing rooms,
 The prize for the club score, set of cut-glass geblets, fell to Mrs. John Eagan and the guest prize, a basket filled with Eelden specimen chrysanthemums was awarded to Mrs. Birch Cameron
 A two course luncheon was served following the games of bridge to the guests, who were Mrs, John Pagan Mrs. J. R. Pow, Mrs. Herbert Smith. Mrs. J, H. Leonard, Mrs. Horace Van De voort. Mrs. Ed Duncan. Mrs. c: T: keigiey, Mrs. J. F. Lacey, Mrs. William Lacey. Mrs. M. J. Lee, Mrs. Garrett, Mrs. T. J. Cunniff. Mrs. Har- vey Glasgow, Mrs. Remington, Mrs. T. .. Donald, Mrs. c NJ. McDonald,s Mrs. E \. McNsill. Mrs. Norton. and Miss Marian Neal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
LTEpopEOpLE
 AS SEEN BY
 SCOGGINS
THE srEP-MorHER
THE MAIL MAN

THE sTEP-MoTHER
 When Lucy Brown, Johns second wife,
 Arrived all smiling
 In simpkins Corner. There was crowd of curious folk With long, thin necks
 And whispering tongues
 Foregathered there.
 And as she dropped, & little shy, | From off the smoky old express | With John a buoyant escort, i There spread a nervous, anxious smile
 Across her comedy features.
 And knots of buEzing female prudes
 Shot her keen glances
 From cold. set eyes,
 That chilled the blood in Lucy's heart.
 For well she knew, and understood. The challenge that they Haunted.
 For John had gone quite far afleld 1 To gain & second help-mate,
 And they resented. l But unperturbed she went her way. 1 All unassuming,
 And took her place beneath Johns roof | With few misgivinEs.
 And as the days went pacing by With smiling features,
 She sought to take mothers place
 And gladly gave mothers care | To Johns four children: | And neighbors watched her artfully Behind drawn curtains, And whispered tales that scattered.
 They said that John had advertised And she had answered, | And Mrs. Spratt told Mrs. Watts 1 It was a shameless bargain. | And soon there came in Lucy's heart
 A feeling
 Like cold chilled steel had entered l there.
 But she kept smiling, | And always did a mothers part | For growing children i Who oft resented, | For they had heard the rumors l Of their second mother:
 And John went on his rutted way, | Dull-minded,
 And never thought to answer back l Their venom. And often when the lights were out | There knelt in silence I A woman hurt-her cross was fall- | And though she did mothers part, Kind Lord. have pity on 1 A step mother. | Catts includes four negroes. but 1t Is l not expected either of these will serve. The defense has 10 peremp- tory challenge and the government | six. | MT. Catts, who recently filed vol
 untary petition in bankruptcy, is to be defended by State SenatCr John P. | Stokes of this city and Col. Ray Rush. | ton of Montgomery, 8 friend of the Catts family. Senator Stokes. in re- 1 ferring to the case during discus | sion in court this week of its several | postponements, sail Colonel Rushton
 had come to Florida at his own ex- | pense to assist in the defense. | Chinese astronomical records go back to 2356 B. c.
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Bessemer. November 1s.-(Special.) ) Mrs. George Scott. age ga. died sud- denly Sunday morning at o'clock at tho hd) )me of her daughter, Mrs. H. A. Glosson. in Joncsboro. with whom shs made her home. Although Mrs. Scott had suffered from severe heart attack about 10 days ago. she had apparently entirely recovered and was asslsting with the morning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
New Methodi.t Miai.te,

Dr, E, T, Waites preached his first sermen as pastor of the First Meth odist church Sunday morning to large and interested congregation,
 The entire church, junior and se- nior, wershiped together and held minister, te whom 8 most cordial wei oams was extended by the members of the ehuFch.s Dr. Waites, with his family, has removed from West End
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household duties when suddenly she
 fell dead.
 The death of the deceased has been
 felt as distinct shock in the com munity where she has been the cen ter of a wide circle of relatives and friends for long number of years. She Is survived by three sons, Charlie Scott, student of Auburn, and member of the football team who played yesterday against Centre; Lon Scott and Jap Scott. and by four
 daughters. Mrs. Carrie Speakes, Mrs. IT. A. Glosson of Bessemer. Mrs Clyde Ratliff of Bessemcr. Mrs
 Geneva Reed of Ensley. and by two brothers. R. E. Thompson of Okla
 homa and a haif-brothcr. H. c. Cald-
 well of Besscmer, and by ono sister
 Mrs H. O. Dennis of Bessemer, The funeral arrangements will be
 announced by Jacobs after the arrival of her son. Charlie Scott. from Au-
 burn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

Members New York Stock Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, New York Pro duce Exchange. Assoeiated Members Liverpool Cotton Association. Orders so- iicited fer the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton sesd on for future delivery. Special attention and liberal terms siven for eonsignm&ut of spot cotton for de- livery.
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to Bessemer and Is occupying a cot tage on Arlington avenue between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets until the Methodist parsonage next to the church has been repaired and re- decorated
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BESSEMER

The Ase-Herald msintains speeisl rep- rsssnsstives in Bsssemer for handling eorrespondenes, advertising and sub- seriptions. Mrs L. D. Medium. corrs- spondsnt, rsceivss news itsms; phone Besssmsr l077. Eugene Southwick. S23N N. ieth St.. Room No. 6. Cir eulation Managsr.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-19
xyHENCE came the automobile?

yHTHENcE came the automobile?
)" Search the encyclopedias
v v and the answer is a date and
a dissertation on self-propelled We
hicles. Search the text books and find
only an amplifcation of the same
idea.
Neither go to the source. Nor is
it a matter for wonderment, for the
source lies back, ages back, beyond
the dawn of civilization. In myth
ology, in legend or in the disclosures
of the archaeologist can it be found.
1t begins with prehistoric man,
that remote and little known indi-
vidual, who, struggling to move OBJ
.iects far beyond his strength, Crap
pied feebly for the first laws of loco
motion.
4 Milestones of Progress
4 Always the objects have been the
/ same-economy, speed, destruction
| and comfort. A strange company,
but none the less true.
Economy-The gibbering proto-
types Of mankind pushed and pulled
the great rocks before their cavern
doors, barricading themselves against
great animals that hunted men for
food. The trucks of the ancients
The slaves of the Pharaohs, strain
ing beneath the lash of their masters,
tugged great stone-bearing sledges to
the building of the pyramids. The
trucks Of the Egyptians!
/ Wheeled carts, oxen or horse pro-
\ PEELED, hauled the material for con-
struction from the Middle Ages to
the dawn of the Twentieth Century.
The trucks of Yesterday!
And now great vehicles, potent en-
gines of power, motor-driven, capable
of enormous burdens, make an hours
work of what would have taken the
ancients months, the Egyptians
weeks, the later nations days. The
trucks of todayl
Limousines of Ancient Times
The wheels of time and progress
moved and the stately chariots, dec
Grated, artistic, carried the statesmen,
the tribune, the emperor in procession
along the Appian Way. The linn
CUISINE of The Romans
Another circle of the centuries and
behold the elaborate state coach of
the kings of Europe, great numbering
vehicles wherein progress was slow
but the impression upon the peasants
great The limousine of Divine Right
and nobility.
! Into the Orient, hundred or more
I years later, an American missionary
introduced tho rickshaU, that two-
wheeled vehicle whose motive power
was the barefooted coole.. His I'M
promptu invention struck The Eastern
/ fancy, and today in China, India or
I Japan will be found the same human
propelled carts of light bamboo. The
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-19

white mans progress has passed them
by, but the Oriental still finds them
satisfactory. The limousine of East
ern Asia.
Into Europe of the early eighteenth
century came the steam-drawn horse
less carriage, antedating the locono-
tive, a monster which was legislated
out of existence before it was more
than score of years old. The vcloci-
pcde and early bicycle shortly after
wards took. its place. Limousines,
these, Of the Nineteenth Century.
Finally we reach the present, and
"HoInc, James" sends our upholstered,
comfortable vehicle gliding smoothly
along paved streets. The limousine
par excellence,
Inventing the First Wheel
The sledge, the first means of
human transportation and one that is
stiIl used in many civilized countries,
was developed in prehistoric days.
And from that time on, all things
were dragged on sledges until an
other prehistoric inventor, many years
later, evolved the wheel
But for the wheel, we might still
be carrying our burdens piece by
piece, walking miles in our labors and
making an awful fuss about the whole
business.
Chariots, the worlds first real We
hicles, were formidable conveyances,
both in war and in peace. 1t not only
required abundant skill to manage IT.
since at first the horses were hitched
without traces and were free to roam
more or less at will to either side
but the driver had to be most dexter
Gus to keep his feet while his chariot
was in motion.
While the Egyptians are giver
credit for the development of tn,
chariot par excellence, the honor i
more properly accorded to the Hit
lies who became famous for their vic
tories on the field of battle. In tht
18th century, BIC, they fought Ram
escs II and brought no less than 2,50(
chariots onto the field which proved
, force SO irresistible that Ramesc'
beat an ignominious retreat. Mos
of these chariots were equipped will
scythe-like knives on the sides ant
fastened to the spokes, so that every.
thing within the path of the chariot
was moved down as it swept across
the field.
Magnihcence OF Medieval Times
The earliest English carriage OF
which there is any accurate historical
record belonged to the twelfth cen
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-19
The First Automobile

One of the most interesting points
In connection with the development
of the automobile is associated with
A. NJ. Levassor, the first designer.
He was a member of the firm OF Pan
hard and Levassor, a French house
manufacturing wood working ma
chinery. During the Paris Exhibit
in 1851 both Panhard and Levassor
became interested in a motor pro-
PEELED boat exhibited by Daimler.
THE boat made daily sailings on the
Seine and attracted wide attention.
After the exhibit, Panhard and Le-
vassor secured the French patents for
the motor in its application to the
boat and then it was that Levassor
made q design, using the motor as the
propelling power for an automo-
bile He worked, of course, with
out precedent, but, curiously en-
ough, there has never been any
fundamental change made in the
designs which he first outlined.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-19

tury. In the fourteenth century,
coaches of the most elaborate design
and finish were being made, but their
use was mostly confined to royalty
or those of ample means. The STATE
Carriage of Bavaria, for instance,
made in the early Eighteenth century
was probably the most grotesquely
ornate vehicle seen either before or
since that time. 1t was hand carved
with elaborate designs that covered
every conceivable part, even extend
ing down the spokes,
Early Steam Carriages
In 1896 Cugnot made a steam car
riagc in France. 1t was a great lum-
bering affair that accommodated three
or four persons. But the difficulties
which beset the inventor in his efforts
to navigate his creation and the dan
gers attendant upon such task dis
couraged him. Nothing much was
done with the steam carriage until
1902 when Richard Trevethick made
one in England. This remained in
the inventors shop being improved
or repaired, as the case might be,
until 1924 when several other ma
chimes of the same design appeared.
In fact it was during that year that
n regular line of steam carriages ran
between Cheltenham and Gloucester,
covering the distance in the hair
raising sped of ten miles an hour.
Speed Limit-Four Miles an Hour
The opponents to the steam carriage
were so persistent and determined il
their opposition that they were able
to secure royal legislation which pre-,
scribed that at least three men mus
be employed in the carriages opera
ton; that man must precede it while
in motion with a red lantern or flag
that the maximum speed should be
four miles an hour, and that they
were forbidden ever to blow of
steam. This was such drastic legis'
lation that 1t discouraged further
effort toward mechanical Transports
ton for several years.
In 1885 Butler is believed to have
built the first vehicle--a tricycle.
propelled by an internal combustion
engine. During the same year tht
internal combustion engine burning
petroleum spirit was invented by
Gottleib Daimler, and thus were
heard the infantile cries of an in.
dustry which was destined to become
one of the economic giants of the
civilized world. 1t was the beginning
of the present automobile.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-19
EVOLVING THE AUTO
MOBILE

/. Primitive man makes a
sledge, and ages later puts
rollers under it.
2. Prehistoric man invents
wheel and fashions rude cart.
3. In 14th Century B. c.,
Hittites make war on Egyp-
tians with $500 armored
chariots-precursors of mod
ern tanks.
4. Chariot races of early
Christian era foreshadow
speedway classics.
5. Ornate state coaches
provide limousines for early
modern period.
6. In 1896 Cugnot makes
first steam carriage.
7. In 1887 Levassor is said
to have designed first auto
mobile with internal combus-
ton engine.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-18

STATE OF WISCONSIN, IN CIR
Cult COURT FOR RUSK COUNTY
Margaret Thomas, Plaintiff, v. W. L..
Atwood and Nettie Atwood, his wife,
Defendants.
|. By virtue of judgment of fore
closure and sale, made in the above
entitled action on the 9th day Of June,
1921, the undersigned sheriff of Rusk
county, state Of Wisconsin, will sell,
at the front door of the court house at
Ladysmith. Rusk county, Wisconsin,
on the 21st day of September, 1922, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day,
the real estate and mortgaged prem
Uses directed by said judgment to be
sold, and therein described as follows:
An undivided one-half Of the South
One-half of the Northwest Quarter
(S1a of .NWA) and Government Lot
Number Seven 60, all of Section
Number One o., Township Number
Thirty three (33) North, Of Range
Number Eight (8) West, Rusk Coun-
ty, Wisconsin.
Terms of sale, cash.
Dated August 2, 1922.
GERALD G. MALONEY,
Sheriff.
J. w. Carow, Plaintiffs Atty.
(First insertion Aug. 4, 1922. 1922
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coed in carrying out Joe's plans. And
I believe you will. And I believe you
will find a way to cross Big Muskeg.
I see now that I must let you go,
though 1 can't bear to, VIII. But now
I must say something. You know my
father"
Doesn't altogether approve Of me
as "a son-in-law, to put 1t mildly" an
swered Wilton. II can't make out the
reason for his dislike of me. The
first time came here we struck up
friendship that looked as If it would
be good for all time. Do you know
what the trouble is, Molly?"
I'm afraid Tom Bowyer has been
influencing him against you. He has
a strong power over father. He helped
him In some way when he first came
to this country"
"Then that's another score against
our friend Bowyer," said Wilton.
'But I was going to say-you see,
my fathers mind has given way to
some extent since his stroke, and
don't know, Will, dear, but I'm almost
afraid he is never going to be the
same man again. It started even be-
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SYNOPSlS

CHAPTER I.-Looking over Big Mus
keg. q seemingly impossible swamp in
the path of the Missatibi railroad. Joe
Bostock, builder Of the line. and Wilton
Carruthers, chief Of engineers, are con-
sidering the d. .culties. A rife shot In
stantly kills Bostock and breaks Car
ruthers' arm. Handicapped az he Is, Car
ruthers determines to carry the body to
q station of the Hudson's Bay company.
where one Mcdonald Is the factor.
CHAPTER II.-McDonald's daughter,
Molly, sees Carruthers struggling In the
muskeg and drags him from the swamp,
with his burden. Unaccountably her
father objects to her saving Carruthers.
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him. Joe made no mistake when he
| took her for partner"
"She was as true as steel to Joe,''
said Molly. kitty and Joe we're very
good to me when / was In Winnipeg
last winter. But what do you think
Mr.. Bowyer meant by his suggestion
about coal on your landsY
"There Is no COAL" said Wilton.
molly, dear, I'll tell you what our Sc
cret Is I was pledged to Joe-but
the secrets mine now, and can tell
you. 1t isn't coal-it's clay"
"Clay, WiltonY
"Clay. It's more valuable than coal
or gold. It's clay land that the wheat
grows on, or rather in the rich topsoil
of loan, with the clay subsoil to seal
and preserve the rainfall, yet easily
drained with little labor.
'T discovered 1t when I was pros
pecting up this way four years ago.
It's probably an extension Of the New
Ontario clay belt, and, if SO, it runs
for hundreds of miles through this
part of northern Manitoba. 1t means
that the wheat area Of Canada will
be increased by thousands of square
miles, 1t means homes and prosper,
ity for thousands who are now strug-
Cling for bare living in our cities.
THAT appealed to Joe. He was a
man, If ever there was one He saw
the money in 1t, and the value of the
line, but he saw further than that. He
was looking ahead, years after he was
gone. He wanted to do good in his
own way. He'd had hard time when
he was young man. And because peo-
pie believed In Joe, though he dared
not tell them his secret, they lent him
the capital, and took up his shares.
That was Joe's dream-and it's mine,
Molly"
She listened breathlessly as he re-
vealed his dream to her, and yet, per
haps, womanlike, she was happy rath-
er In the revelation of himself than
In the altruism Of the dead man.
THAT'S what the Missatibi meant to
Joe," said Wilton. That's why we
mean to fight to keep it out of Bow
yers hands. Molly, dear, when
realized that Joe was dead everything
seemed ended for the line. I couldn't
see how we were going to carry on
without him. It's only now-now that
l have found something as we'll as lost
everything-that l can begin to pick
up my courage"
She laughed and put her face down
on his shoulder.
when Joe's death came home to
me I thought things over in there,
and it seemed to me that the only
thing possible for me would be to go
before the shareholders and tell them
frankly what lay behind the enter
prise-I mean the clay lands and their
development.
swell, Molly, I've changed my mind.
I won't tell them. I'll keep control
for Kitty. And I'll advise the share
holders to proceed with the route
we've planned. I'll take the respon-
sibility. Big Muskeg can be crossed.
1t shall be.
"And I'll do more than that, Molly.
I'll get the shareholders authorize
ton before they know Joe's dead. II
they knew that. it'd be all up with the
line. Bowyer doesn't know. Nobody
knows except ourselves.
1--WE told you all this, Molly, be-
cause you have the right to know.
And just as soon as we've won I shall
be in position to ask you to be my
wife. Will you, dearT
Molly turned and put her hands on
his shoulders.
Eyes, WILL" she answered. sand I
hope with all my heart that you sue
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fore his aftacK-th1s feeling against
you, and his moroseness. It began
when Tom Bowyer was here last au.
tumn. I'm afraid Bowyer slandered
you to father. And I think it was my
fathers brooding over things that
really caused his Illness So we'll just
have to be patient. And I'm going to
ask you, for the present, not to say
anything about this to him.
Wilton promised, though with reluc-
lance. He did not like the concealment.
His mind, simple and direct, worked
In straightforward ways. However,
he had been too hard hit over Joe's
death to make room for d new trou-
BILE. And he could not have refused
Molly.
Continued Next Week