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White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
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SHORT STORIES TERSELY TOLD FOR
THE BENEFIT OF BUSY READERS.

Phil Douglas, who was barred from
organized baseball for an alleged offer
to desert the Giants and thus hinder
their chances for winning the Ma
tional League pennant, declared at
New York that the letter, which
brought about his Punishment was
written to Leslie Mann, outGelder of
the St Louis Cardinals.
Resolutions calling upon the United
States Shipping Board to inform the
House where and how much liquor 1t
bought for sale on American ships
since the national prohibition law went
into effect, were introduced by Repre-
sentatives Gallivan Dem) of Massa-
chusetts and Brennan (Rep) of Michi-
gan.
Proposals to buy liquor openly while
at sea, take a government receipt for
1t and challenge the authorities to
question the legality of its possession
were made by passengers of the SIS.
George Washington, according to Au-
gust a. Busch, of st. Louis, pres
ldent of the Tnheuser- Busch, Inc.
who returned from a three months
visit to the principal European GEN.
ters.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
CRIMINAL

A summons for a special grand jury
TO investigate the recent mine mGssa-
ere near Marion ILL.,, was issued by
Judge Dewitt Hartwell of Williamson
county circuit court, to convene Mon
day, August 2S.
Mrs. William Giberson was arrested
at New York, charged with the MUIR
der of her husband, a wealthy automo-
bile man, as he slept in their home at
Lakehurst, n. J.
Mrs. Nels Hansen, wife of a Santa
Fe Railway foreman, was shot and
killed in her home at San Bernardino,
Cal. Officers took up the trail of
two men who are alleged to have at
tackled her.
James McElroy, so, Roam County
Holy Roller preacher, and Arthur Har-
ris, negro were electrocuted at the
state prison at Nashville, Tenn, both
paying the penalty on murder charges.
Rev. J. G. Trotter, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
of Haileyville, who is held in jail at
McAllester, OKLA, on charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 from Brooks Institute
of Hartshorne, of which he was finan-
cial secretly surrendered his Gre
dentials as minister on request of
Rev. Charles Brooks.
A man arrested at Laredo, Tex, as
he emerged from the Rio Grande, com
ing from the Mexican side, was said by
authorities to have admitted he was
Edwin Frederick Morse, wanted in
Denver, Colo, on a charge of abscond-
ing with $4,000 from the International
Trust Company last August. He first
gave his name as Herbert NJ. Smith
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Suit for $4,000 damages was filed
In district court at Oklahoma City,
Okla, by \. Jack Kiyett mayor of
I'll Reno, Okla, against I. L. Brents.
head of the federal prohibition field
force for Oklahoma, and John Doe. "
Charles 2. Higgins, former sergeant
alarms in the United States Senate
and former excise commissioner Of The
City of st. Louis, died at his residence
in st. Louis after an Illness of three
months. He was GA years old.
Former United States Attorney
Charles A. Karch of East St Louis was
disbarred by United States District
Judge George w. English in East st.
Louis, following a tilt between the
attorney and the court concerning
Karch's attitude toward prosecution of
violators of injunctions by the court.
Two hundred and thirtyseven type
written pages-Kaiser Wilhelm's own
version of the great war, his analysis
of circumstances leading up to 1t and
his theory of what the future holds for
Germany-reached the United States
safely at the port of New York on the
White Star Liner Homeric.
The great ex-German liner Beren-
garia, the largest of the Cunard Com
panys transatlantic ships, struck
some submerged wreckage on its way
from New York to Cherbourg and
Southampton and damaged one of her
propellers.
w. H. Gilard, widower with six
children, of Greenville, S. c., decided
Inez, his 6-year-old daughter, to his
brother, J. II. Gillard. for valuable
considerations"
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
PERSONAL.

AL Jolson, musical comedy star, an.
nounced at New York that he had
been married recently to Miss Alma
Osborne, formerly of Easton, Pa. an
actress. The bride is known on the
stage as Ethel Delmar.
]. c. Lamborn of Kinmundy. ILL.,.
was elected president at the closing
session of the state convention of the
Farmers Educational and Cooperative
Union of America, held at Pinckney-
vile, Ill. George Weiss of Nashville
was named vice-president, and George
higgins of Duquoin was named secre-
tary-treasurer.
Rober Bailey, of the class of 1919 at
Cornell, was awarded the fifteenth an
nual Paris prize of the Society of
BeauX Arts Architects. Bailey, who is
a years old, is entitled under the
terms of the award to two and one
half years course at the Ecole DIES
Beaux Arts (School of Fine Arts) in
Paris.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
DOM ESTIC.

The birth of two babies, the serious
illness of four other children and two
women, were among the hardships en-
dured by some of the 300 passengers
who arrived at Los Angeles from Selig-
man, Ariz., after four days under the
torrid temperature which makes the
community one of the hottest in the
Southwest
Motive power upon certain of the
important carriers of the country" be-
cause of the present strike, is pro-
gressively deteriorating, Chairman Nc
Chord of the Interstate Commerce
Commission informed President Hard
ing and in a letter of reply was told
by the President to ''insist upon the
full enforcement of the law"
A summer vacation spot and play
ground of more than 10000 acres of
picturesque woodland is open to citi-
zens of Illinois, the only requisites be-
ing an automobile and a camping out
fit. With these essentials, a vacation
rivaling those at summer resorts may
be spent in Cook Countys forest pre-
serves.
Six known dead, hundreds homeless,
at least two towns wiped out, and Il
dozen others in imminent danger, was
che apparent toll at Duluth, Mimi, of
series of forest fires which swept
Northeastern Minnesota, causing the
worst confiagratiOn in years, when HOO
pprcODS lost their lives
The steamer Adriatic, damaged by
an explosion at sea that caused the
death of a number of her crew and in
jury of several others, arrived at New
York.
The farmer -"calls upon capital and
labor to cease their petty chickering's
and resume production, trusting to
American institutions and the Ameri-
| can sense of fair play to see that JUS
tice is done to both of them" Seere-
| tary Wallace Of the Department of Ag-
riculture declared in an address at
Leesburg, Va, before the farm bureau
of that place.
Willie Ryan, % years old, of ST.
Louis, well-known police character,
was shot to death In a pistol duel with
three detectives who attempted to
search him in soft drink parlor.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
die wheels around and stops
short. How is-your mother,
Mary?' he asks"
no BE CONTINUED
Ranks That Fired Fancy of Dickens.

Rocks That Fired Fancy of Dickens.
Though the years (1S21-23) when
Dickens spent at the house on the
brook Chatham, now for sale, were
= time of acute financial embarrass-
ment for his parents, they were moi
without pleasant memories for the lao
himself. for it was there, in lumber
room adjoining his bedroom, that ne
discovered number of books, In
cluding Robinson Crusoe," the Ara
hion NIGHTS" "Tales of the Genll'
and the works of Smollett and Field.
ing which first fired his fancy ana
turned the thoughts to authorship
There. too, he found helpful frlend
:, his schoolmaster, Mr.. Giles, son
Of the minister of Baptist chapel
next door to the house on the Drook'
who seems TO have encouraged the
bov In the exercise Of his genius ano
Who when his famous pupil was pub
fishing "Pickwick." sent him silver
snufrbox with an admiring inscription
10 the 'InimItable Boy"
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
LABOR.

Strike of the big -Four" brother.
hood men of the Union Pacific was
called off at San Bernardino, Cal. and
four :east-bound trains left immedi-
ately.
A tear bomb was used for the first
time by the police at Topeka, Kan. in
dispensing a crowd of striking shop
men. 1t dispersed the crowd Also the
police. All were in tears.
A crowd of striking miners. estimat.
ed to number $50, gathered at Willis
vile, Perry County, ILL.,, forced the
crew of a Mobile and Ohio train to
sidetrack five cars of coal bound for
East st. Louis, according to the an
nouncemeut of E. e. Norris. vice.
president OF the road, at st. Louis.
Unless Illinois operators recede from
their arbitration basis settlement stand
and accept terms similar to those made
in the recent wage conference of Cleve-
land, Illinois mines will remain on
strike, Frank Harrington, president of
the Illinois Miners, declared on his ar
rival at Springfield, ILL.,, from Cleve-
land.
The Santa Fe trainmen who quit
their engines and left passengers in the
desert without food or shelter did much
to swing public sentiment back to the
railroads in the shopmen's strike. VIII
liam Allen White declared in an edi-
torial in the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24

WOULDN'T let me go, she clung In mo
SO, and begged me to forgive bor fon
all shed brought upon me; and said if
was cruel, cruel shame, when thara
were children, and people ought to
stop and think and remember and no
willing to stand anything. And tben
IN the next breath. she'd beg NE NOT to
forget her, and not to love Father bet
ter than 1 did her. Gas if there was
any danger Of thatD And to write to
her every few minutes.
Then the conductor cried. "AI
aboard" and the bell rang. and she
had to go and leave me. But the last
| saw of her she was waving her hand
kerchief, and smiling the kind Of q
smile that's worse than crying right
out loud. Mothers always like that
NO matter how bad she feels, at the
last minute she comes up bright and
smiling, and just as brave as can he
1t was heaps of fun to be grown up
and travelling alone! | sat back in
my seat and wondered and wondered
"NT"' INV mat ola IHOlllllS were gong
to be like. And l wondered, too, If
I'd forgotten how to be MARY"
Dear me! How shall | ever re-
member not to run and skip and laugh
loud or sing, or ask questions, or do
anything that Marie wants to do?" I
thought to myself. And l wondered If
Aunt Jane would meet me, and what
she would be like. She came once
when l was little girl, Mother said
but | didn't remember her.
Well. at last we got to Anderson
vile. John was there with the horses,
and Aunt Jane, too. OF course knew
she must be Aunt Jane, because she
was with John. The conductor was
aWfully nice and polite, and didn't
leave me till he'd seen me safe in the
hands of Aunt Jane and John. Then
he went back to his train and the next
minute it had whizzed out of the sta
ton, and l was alone with the begin
ming of my next six months
The first beginning was a nice
smile, and a clad to see We home,
Miss" from John, as he touched his
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
FOREIGN.

Swallows death toll in the typhoon
of August is conseryatively estimated
at 10000, representative of the press.
learned in a visit to the stricken area.
The property damage will run into
many millions.
Canadian railways cut the semi
monthly wages of their shopmen about
$20O,O00, although $1,000 workers had
threatened to strike if the action was
taken before the Board of Cancellation
had decided the dispute.
Enver Pasha, former Turkish Min
lister of War and recently chief antag-
onist to Bolshevist rule in the Trans
CAUCASUS, was found dead on the bat
tletield in Easten Bokhara, according
to advices received by the government
at Moscow.
People are living longer than in the
past, said Sir Kingley Wood M. P, of
the health ministry, at recent meet
ing of the faculty of insurance at
Leeds, England.
Commandant Mckenzie, leader of the
Irish insurgents in County Louth, and
five other Republicans were killed
during the fighting which resulted in
the capture of Dundalk by the Irregu-
lars, says a report from Dundalk 10
Dublin.
The Belgian delegate on the Repa-
rationS Commission, under instructions
from his government, will vote against
granting moratorium to Germany,
which, accordingly, will be refused by
the commission, says a Brussels re-
port.
Abbas Hilmi, at one time Khedive
of Egypt, who has decided to spend
part of his exile in Switzerland says
that Americans rather than British
or French, were the first to aid mod
ern Egypt to consolidate the military
and commercial strength of the new
nation.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24

hat, and the next was a "How do
you do, Mary?" from Aunt Jane. And
| knew right off that first minute that
wasn't going to like Aunt Jane-Just
the way she said that Mary" and the
way she looked me over from head to
foot.
Aunt Jane is tall and thin, and
wears black-not the pretty, stylish
bIock but the "I-don't-care" rusty
black-and a stiff white collar Her
ewes are the kind that says, I'm sur
prised at you'll" all the time, and her
mouth is the kind that never SHOWS
any teeth when it smiles, and doesn't
smile much, anyway. Her hair is some
gray. and doesn't kink or curl any
where: and l knew right off the first
minute she looked at me that she
didn't like mine, cause it did curl.
was pretty sure she didn't ike
nv clothes, either. I've since rouhu
ont she didn't-but more of that anon.
IT inst love that word "anon.O Ana
7 inst knew she disapproved OF my
hat. But she didn't say anything
not in words-and after Wed ATTENDED
to my trunk. we went along to the car
riage and got In. My stars l dldht
suppose horses could go so slow. why
we were ages just going block You
see Pe forgotten; and without THINK
ing | spoke right out. -,
"My! Horses are slow, aren't they
7 cried. you see, Grandpa has an
auto, and" .
"Mary r'-just like that she inter
rupted-Aunt Jane did. dummy now
old folks can do what they won't let
YOU do Now If I'd interrupted any,
body like thatD "You may as wen
understand at once" went on Aunt
Jane. that we are not interested III
your grandfather's auto or his mousse g
or anything that is his" q fet as !.
was hearing the catechis'n III
church y And that the less reference
Won make to your life in Boston lne
better we shall be pleased. AS sa.u
before we are not Interested. Besiues
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
CHAPTER lV-Continued.

Other is crying now quite a lot.
see, her six months are most up,
I've got to go back to Father. And
afraid Mother is awfully unhappy
blt 1t. She had a letter last week
Aunt Jane, Fathers sister. 1
ID her read 1t out loud to Aunt
lie and Grandpa in the library. 1t
very stiff and cold and dignlfied,
ran something like this:
Dear Madam: DR.. Anderson de-
me to say that he trusts you are
fling in mind the fact that, accord
to the decision of the court, his
ghter Mary Is to come to him on
first day of May. If you will kind
nfOrm him as to the hour of her
ected arrival, he will see that she
rOperly met at the station"
ben she signed her name, Abigail
Anderson. (She was named for
mother, Grandma Anderson, same
Father wanted them to name me.
~ I'm glad they didn't. MARY"
I'D enough, but Abigail Jane"-D
ell, Mother read the letter aloud,
she began to talk about it-how
felt, and how awful it was to
I OF giving me up six whole
ulS, and sending her bright little
Pyhearted Marie into that tomb
pace with only an Abigail Jane to
10 Tor refuge. And she said that
utmost wished Nurse Sarah was
asaln-that she, at least, was
|an
ana see that she's properly met
gu! went on Mother, with an in
ant little choke in her voice. "Oh,
Know Now, if it were a star
comet that he expected, he'd go
fea ana sit for hours and hours
Nips Tor 1t. But when his daugh-
'OHleS, he'll send John with the
= Ike enough, and possibly that
aVus Abigail Jane of his. Or, may
nat is too much to expect. Oh,
", can't let her go-I can't. l
'a' III the window-seat around the
VI the chimney, reading; and I
Auow as she knew was there.
was and | heard. And I've
o'her things, too, all this week.
VI eAcited. And l can't help won
now its all going to be at Fa-
oh, OF course, know it won't
"uch fun, and I'll have to be
y and all that; but it'll be
s,~ 's Inherent, and l always did
s. a',ent things. Besides, there's
~ ioVe story to watch. Maybe
v somebody. Maybe he
ma wit a year. Anyhow, if he
! 'omeDody I'm sure he wouldn't
4 wiling TO wait as Mother
J, LOU know Nurse Sarah said
reVer wanted to wait for any,
n,o, mats why he married Mother
t. IN the first place. But If
wbo. 'o,n,ebody, of course I'll find
him. IN there. SO that'll be in
gIrls anu anyway, therell be
as, l Shall have them.
of fl" now, and make this the
novt enapter. It'll be Anderson
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
AUNT JANE

,.opsIs-In preface Mary
SlNo orplains her apparent "dou-
lailo .rsanality" and just why Is
Ple .dp,(oes-current and a contradic-
~. che also tells her reasons
lOn .riting the diary-later to be
aovel The diary is commenced
i Jacksonville. Mary begins with
an sarah's account of her
,a u1v birth, which seemingly in
na,t her father, who Is a ia
sa MA astronomer, less than a new
Wv Or which was discovered the same
'sbt Her name is a compromise;
Y, mother wanted to call her viola
u D her father insisted on Abigail
M The child quickly learned
s a her home was in some way
1s,rant from those of her small
ri.rds and was puzzled thereat.
,"rso Sarah tells her of her moth
w. arrival at Andersonville as
{rde and how astonished they all
,,ro at the sight of the dainty
{'rhteen-year-old girl whom the
{asate professor had chosen for a
rIie Nurse Sarah makes 1t plain
[hv the household seemed a strange
No IN the child and how her father
nd mother drifted apart through
Understanding, each too proud
4 in any way attempt to smooth
Irpr the situation. Mary tells Of
Ne time spent 'out West" where
h "perfectly all right and genteel
ma respectable" divorce was being
jranged for, and her mothers Ito
Ipr, unaccountable behavior. By the
Iourts decree the child is to spend
k months of the year with her
bother and six months with her ia
her. Boston is Mothers home.
SJary describes her life as Marie
I'm her mother in Boston and
bout her mothers prospective
ultors
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
FOR BETTER MOTION PICTURES

Upon the invitation of Will ii. Hays,
president of the Motion Picture Pro-
ducers and Distributors of America,
the national headquarters of the Boy
Scouts of America was represented at
Ii recent all.day meeting by James
Il. West, chief scout executive; Frank
lin X. Matthews, of the editorial board,
Charles Ii. Mills, director of publicity.
This was a meeting ut the Waldorf
Astoria hotel, New York city, of the
heads of the principal nationally fed
Grated organization
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
SCOUT EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

A boy scout summer employment
bureau has been put into operation in
Shelbyville, Ind. The plan has already
been in successful operation for sew
eral summers, receiving hearty sup
port from business men. Plans are
also being made to conduct 'commun-
ity service" every scout to devote a
specified number of hours during the
summer to the service of the city.
White County record. [volume] (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?, 1922-08-24
CHAPTER V
.. When J Am Mary.

Am MARY.
now ! am. I've been here two
! whot una ! guess I'd better write
kget # happened so far, before
| dear 'vut my leaving Boston.
and mother =, did take on dread
be 90 Thought she just wouldn't
|ioa' ~ n,s She went with me to the
b the oo, l mad to change, and
las - 'ououctor to look out for
like M ! needed that-a young
/ BRINE mel Pm fourteen now. !
n I 'ha last week.
us"t at the last she Just
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-07-25
THIRD-The heirs-at-law Of the
Il L A

THIRD-The heirs-at-law Of the
said Herbert P. Tancil and Mary A.
Tancil.
FOURTH-What persons are en-
titled and in what share, to real es-
tate.
FIFTH--What is the amount of
the share of each person entitled to
the personal property of which the
said Herbert T. Tancil died seized.
5 SIXTH-What is the amount OF
the share of each person entitled un-
der the will and codicils of the said
Mary A. Tancil, deceased, and In what
property.
SEVENTH-Whether or not the
said real estate is susceptible Of par
titioa in kind among the parties en-
titled thereto, and whether interest
of all parties, including infants, Will
be promoted by sale Of the same
and a division of the proceeds among
those entitled.
EIGHTH-What is a reasonable
fee to be allowed counsel Tor Com
plainant for instituting and conduct
ing this cause.
Whether all the required
parties are before the Court.
TENTH-Any other matter or
thing pertinent to the isues in this
cause, which may be required by any
party thereto, or which the said Spe-
cial Commissioner may deem pru-
dent TO report.
AT WHICH TIME AND PLACE
you are required to attend and give
evidence, if any you have, concerning
the matters and things then to be IN
auired of as aforesaid.
c. KEITH CARLIN,
Special Commissioner.
170-4wc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-07-25

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA:
IN the Circuit Court of the City
Of Alexandria.
bernard Owen Smyth, complainant
IS. Mary Smyth, defendant. In Chan
Gerry No. 679,
An affidavit having been filed that
Ac defendant is a nonresident OF
IS State, and the Sergeant having
ladc such return upon process is
sued herein, upon written appilca-
ton stating defendants last known
post office address and place Of abode
the following orUer Of publication
upon grounds therein stated IS en-
tered.
The object of this suit is to obtain
for complainant from defendant a di-
vorce a yinculo matrlmOnli on the
ground of wilful desertion and aban-
donment, without just cause or eX-
cuse, for more 'han three years prior
to the institution Of this suit and
Tor general relief,
1t l., ordered in the name of the
Commonwealth of Virginia that the
defendant appear here within ten days
after due publication hereof and do
what is necessary to protect defend
ants interest in this suit, and that
this order be also published, posted
and mailed to defendant according to
law.
Teste:
ELLIOTT +. HOFFMAN,
154-4wp. Clerk.
~ Earl K. Sullivan, deputy clerk.
r. B. Washington, i. Z.