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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13
/ and 5 gallon bottles. Elk.

| and gallon bottles.Elk
w. G. Stinson, of Regain, contribut-
ed q dollar to this office last Monday
FOR RENT-One house on Elm
Street. Garage on Henry Street.
Mrs. w. T. LAWLER.
See our "BIG-1O" advertisement in
this issue.-Elk.
w. J. Wilson, of Route 4, Lexington,
was in town Monday and gave this Of
flee financial lift.
Smith & Thomas have contracted
to rebuild the w. C. McHaney corner
with one-story 40x50 brick building.
L. A. Reeves, who gets his mail on
Route No. /, Darden, was in Lexing-
ton Monday and had his name put on
our books.
True-Tagg Paint WON'T COME
off-save you good money.-Elk.
The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs.
Sula Muse on next Friday afternoon
at 200 o'clock. All are requested to
be present.
The Parent Teachers Association Of
the High School will serve lunch in
the courthouse on the First Monday
in November.
SPECIAL. OFFER-The Atlanta
Tri-Weekly Constitution fourteen
months for only one dollar-Rhoden
p. Roper, Agent.
Fine for the KIDNEYS-Elk Flesh
Builder. 1t will also build you up.
v. H. Pratt and Marshall Howard,
both representatives Of the Mergen-
thaler Linotype Co., of New Orleans,
were here Monday and Tuesday.
Thos. w. Stegall and wife and ]. E.
Eller and Mrs. Cora Garner attended
the big Shriner meeting at Dyersburg
Tuesday and all report wonderful
time.
The pen for service-Conklin. No
trouble to show you.-Elk.
Joe H. Ryals, Of the old 9Th dis
trict, was in town Monday, his first
trip to Lexington since being over
heated during the very hot weather in
last June, which laid him up for eight
weeks.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13
PINEY CREEK.

Miss Susan Bailey is improving
from a spell of sickness.
Ambrose Grissom and family spent
Sunday with A. NJ. Bailey and family.
Mrs. John T. Scott is right sick.
Born to S. Golf and wife, on the
23rd ult, 7-pound boy. All con-
cerned doing well.
Raymond Goff has had a back-set
and is quite sick.
Several of the young people Of our
community are in Arkansas and Mis-
souri, picking cotton.
viii Presley and family spent last
weekend with H. I. Goff and family.
Braden Bailey is showing improve
ment after severe spell Of sickness.
Miss Alva' Christopher entered
school in Jackson Monday Of last
week.
Ezra Little has purchased a new
Studebaker wagon.
Vera Redden is spending this week
with her mother, Mrs. Ambrose Girls
som, near Sardis.
Born to Clellen lowers and wife, a
l1-pound girl, Saturday of last week.
Several attended the all-day sing
u ing at Centre Hill Sunday.
Rev. King filled his appointment at
Presley, Sunday.
Born to Jess Beecham and wife, q
girl. All concerned doing well.
Your scribe has had letter from
W. A. Scott in Arkansas. They say
they like their new home, but on &C
count of so many boil wevils they are
going to Missouri to make a crop
where there are not so many weevils-
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13
EPwORTH LEAGUE.

Sunday, October Is, $50 p. m.
Subject: True Patriotism. What it
is and what it does"
Scripture lesson-Isa. | 1920.
Leader, Mrs. W. L. Darden
Reading-"Wanted," Mrs A. ].
Hurt
True Patriotism" Velma Brooks.
Quotations on Topics-Leagrsrs.
Duet-Miss Eula Moffitt, Mr.. c. E.
Sykes.
True Allegiance to Church and
Country" w. H. Sloan.
League Benediction.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13

We had an appreciated call Tues
day afternoon from Miss Jessie Nc
Call, who was accompanied by Mrs
Jack Murphy and Miss Jim Murphy,
of Hot Springs, Ark, the latter a
daughter of the late Col. G. W. Muir.
ply, of Little Rock, Ark, and neice OF
our beloved Mrs. Hattie Scott. The
little Jim Murphy we used to know
has grown into a very charming and
attractive woman. Mrs. Jack Muir
ply and Miss Jim have been visiting
Wildersville and were here to see Mrs.
Scott before leaving for Arkansas
Wednesday morning.
Ladies, protect your face with Nyal
Face Cream-it's GREAT.-30 and
60c.-Elk.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13
CITY SCHOOL LEADERS
FOR SEPTEMBER,

Primer-Margaret Brooks, Marie
Lacy, AL. Beasley, Jr., James Denni
son, Harlan Hannah, Mary Oakley.
First Grade-Lula May Cogdell
Artie Johnson.
Second Grade-William Arnold
Robert Summers.
Third Grade-Rank Edward
Rhodes, Eline Parks, Willie Mae
Drake.
Rank Robbie Hart, Myrtle Mid.
dleton, Sarah Louise Webb, Dolphus
Johnson.
Fourth Grade-Rank 1--Charles
Armstrong, Dick Logan, Paul Sum-
mers, Lorraine Austin, Aliene Lacy
Lois White.
Rank 2.-Johnston Connolly, Carl
Edwards, Henry Maxwell, Josephene
Austin, Evelyn Threadgill. y
Rank S.-Mathew Jones, Lloyd Sis
son, Virgie Stewart, Mary McNatt.
Fifth Grade.
Spelling-John M. Hall, Otis Ross
James Wheatley, Louise Austin, Lily
Mckay Ball, Edna Lee Derryberry
Pearl Miller, Pauline McAdams, Luz
ellie Park, Mary E. Taylor, Ruth Pear
son.
Reading-John NJ. Hall, James
NOEL, Bruce Martin, lily Mckay Ball
Pauline McAdams.
Writing-James Wheatley, Mary E
Taylor.
Drawing-Pauline McAdams, Lily
Mckay Ball, velma Gurley, Odell
Brantley.
Arithmetic-Bruce Martin, Trula
Franklin, Afford Armstrong.
.Geography-Robert Cement.
History-Lily Mckay Ball, Robert
Huntsman, Caroline Holcomb, Mary
Z. Taylor, John M. Hall.
English-Trula Franklin, Bruce
Martin, Lily Mckay Ball.
Sixth Grade.
Reading-Ruth Jones, Opal McNatt
Mabel Middleton, Ruth Threadgill
Flossie NJ. Ball, Pearl Melton, Vara
Ross, Rubena Starks.
Arithmetic-Edward Oakley, Mat
tie Davis, Ruth Threadgill, Rebecca
Wilkerson.
Observation-Disclosures Wilson, Ma.
ry Sue Golf, Mildred Reed, Edward
Oakley, Girtha Petty, Opal McNatt
Ersel Johnson, Ulis Bartholomew
Virginia Lee Page, Ray Sullivan, Eu-
vora Petty, Ruth Threadgill.
English-Rebecca Wilson, Pear
Melton.
Physiology-Opal McNatt, Ruth
Threadgill, Virginia Page, Raymond
Connolly.
Spelling-Hubert Davis, Virginia
Lee Page, Flossie Ball, Mary Sue
Golf, Kathleen Wolfe, Rebecca vii.
kerson, Gurtha Petty, Opal McNatt
Henry Davenport, Ulis Bartholomew
Mable Middleton, Ruth Threadpill
Mary Wireback, Elizabeth Morris
Pearl Melton, Rubena Starks.
Seventh Grade.
Spelling-Evelyn NOEL, Ruby Mil.
Ter, Laverne Evans.
Administrators Roach. Geneva
Blankenship.
History-Donald Davis, Russell
English-Louise Roach.
Geography-Donald Davis, AIlent
Butler, virgie Sisson.
Eighth Grade.
Administrative Holland. Coby
Threadgill, Willie Scott Muse.
History-Steve Goff, Ivie Holland
Louise Oakley, CODY Threadgill. Edit
White. '
English-Louise Oakley.
Spelling-Ivie Holland, Coby
Threadgill.
Schenectady Wright.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13
CYTHEREANS.

The Cytherean Literary Society
met Wednesday, October 18th, and
carried out the following program:
Debate: Resolved, That Theatres
are a Benefit"
Affirmative-Mary Hancock,
Negative-Angeline King.
Reading-Alton Douglass.
Prophesies Of Faculty-Violet But
Ter.
Mamye Benson was accepted as a
new member.
MARGARET SISS0N, Reporter.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13
R0BBS AT WORK AGAIN.

c. A. Robbs has again established
a shoe repair shop over Masonic Hail.
he uses the best material and charges
the lowest possible prices. He will
pay return postage on all work sent
HIM by parcels post. Give him a trial
Phone 207. ~
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-10-13

You'll eat "the horns off goat =
IL Won take Elk Iron Tonic and Flesh
Builder-and you'll get fat. We mean
it=Elk.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
VOCATIONAL TRAINlNGFOR
DEPENDENTS
WidOUs, Mothers and Orphans
to be Helped if Congress
Acts on Bill
American Legion Points Out
Great Need of This I'M
p0rtant Measure

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Widows,
mothers, and orphans of men who died
in the service during the world war
will receive vocational training, if
congress acts favorably on legisla-
ton now being pressed by the Amer
lean Legion.
At present the next of kin of a
soldier who lost his life receives $25
month from the government. In
vestigation has shown that hundreds
have been thrown on their own re-
sources, having no trade, profession,
or business experience with which to
meet the competition Of the business
world, and with no aid other than the
relatively small compensation pay
ment to keep them going.
A bill Hsponsored by the Legion
providing training program to cover
the situation passed the senate during
the last session, but died in the house.
It's resurrection and passage will be
persistently urged by its supporters
in the present congress.
In the more than three years which
have elapsed since the signing of the
armistice no steps have thus far been
taken by the government to lend as
sistance to the dependents of the war
dead in fitting themselves to earn a
Hvlihood, the Legion declares.
1t is estimated that there are ap-
proximately $4,000 wives and child
rem dependents, many Of whom are
now in distress.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
CORRUPT OFFICIALS SHOT
BY FIRING SQUADS
SOUiet Government in Russia
Takes Drastic Action to
Check Fraud
By EDWIN HULLINGER

Omitted Peess Staff Corespondent)
MOSCOW (By Mail to United Press)
With a fierceness that recalls the
previous TRADE on pillagers and street
bandits which made Moscow's streets
the safest in Europe after nightfall,
the Bolsheviks recently began war
against corruption among public Of
ficials.
They are proceeding against the
dishonest officials as they did against
the bandits-with the firing squad.
Death, in the Cheka's execution cellar
within forty-eight hours after convic-
tion, is the penalty awaiting grafters
caught and convicted of bribe-t taking
or embezzlement of government funds
or stocks.
Twenty-Five have been shot in Mos
cow during the last month to my per-
sonal knowledge, including one group
of nineteen at once and hundreds have
DS6n dITeSLeu. OIIe SiIlSIe A3Ni IS-
Gently netted 800, the Moscow Soviet
having given the Cheka a categorical
order to jail everybody with any re-
sponsibility in an entire department.
the housing department.
"We intend to keep on shooting un-
til the grating stops" judge of one
of the higher Revolutionary Tribunals
remarked to the correspondent.
The difference, however, is that
while the bandits were frequently
stood up against a wall right on the
spot where captured and Immediately
shot, the grafters are tried publicly
in open court partly on the theory
that the greater the publicity the
greater the object lesson. Intimate
relatives-wives, mothers, and child
rem of the accused-and mere specta-
tors are admitted impartially. Many
heart-rending scenes follow announce
ments of verdicts in the court rooms.
In trying to uproot bribery and cor
ruption, the Kremlin is attacking an
institution almost as deeprooted and
ancient in Russia as government it
self. Bribery was always common IN
Russia.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
CROP VALUE DROPS 60 PER
CENT in TWO YEARS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-The aver
age value per acre of ten crops con-
stituting nine-tenths of all crop pro-
duction dropped from S35.76 to $14.4S,
or 60 per cent, during the two years
I1919-1921, announced the United
States department of agriculture
This decline is unparalleled within the
scope of records of the department
dating back to 1866.
During the years Immediately fol-
lowing the Civil war the general trend
of the average was downward, drop
ping from about $14 or SIS per acre
to less than So by 1896, the lowest
point in. the industrial depression of
that time. An advance then set in and
by 1913 the average value per acre
was $16.49. The following year there
was slight decline to $16.44 caused
by the low price of cotton, but in 1916
the year before the United States en-
tered the World War, the average ad-
vanced to $22.58, or SOFA in two
years.
By far the greatest gain in one
year in average value per acre for
ten crops was $1O.69 from 1916 to
1917, the average for the latter year
being $33.25. The average for 1915
was $3373. The average continued to
rise and in 1919 reached the peak at
$35.76. A decline then set in, the
average dropping $21,2S per acre, or
60 per cent, in the two years that
followed.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
F j n ERAl. OF
BENEDICT TO-DAY
Continued from Page u

the dead, St. Peters is closed and the
actual burial service begins.
The cardinal arch-priest, dressed IL
black robe with white mitre or
his head and preceded by the cross
will enter the Sacrament chapel
where the solitary Swiss guard main
tains the death watch.
While the miserere is sung the
body is taken from the catafalque
and placed in the first of the three
coffins in which final interment will
be made.
Then follows the procession which
carries the body to its temporary
resting place and where final abso-
luton is given.
From this moment all functions
conferred by the Pope upon various
persons cease to exist and these
places will remain vacant to be filled
by the new Pope.
Before and after the Popes funer1
al preparations for confining mem
bers of the Sacred College in the Va
tican during the voting for a new
Pope went forward. Wagon loads OF
bedding are arriving and extra kitch-
ems are being provided. The Vatican
telephone exchange will be isolated SC
that the cardinals will be wholly cut
off from the outside world.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
Sanitarium for Masons
Initcd Press Lensed Wire

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 26.-Masons
Of Texas are planning a monster tu-
berculosis sanitarium, to be located in
the Southwest. At a recent meeting
of the Texas Grand Lodge of Masons,
Grand Master d. Frank johnson
named Robert J. Newton, chairman,
B. F. Berkeley and F. P. Miller as q
committee Of three to confer with the
Grand Lodges of New Mexico and Ari-
zona. The purpose Of this conference
will be to prepare for the establish
ment and operation of a tuberculosis
sanitarium.
The sanitarium will take care OF
Masons throughout the country. Fig
ures received from the National Tu-
IbercuIosis association show that ap-
proximately 42,300 Masons in the
United States are suffering from con-
sumption and that 4,700 die annually
from the white plague.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
SOVIET RUSSIA NOW
HAS COURT SYSTEM
By EDWIN w. HULLINGER

By EDWIN W. HULLINGER
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW (By Mail)-An organized
system of criminal courts, graduating
from ''peoples" or justice of the peace
courts to superior, appellate tribun-
ais, and a supreme court, are now try
ing cases publicly in large cities and IN
many small towns throughout Russia,
Pavel Petropf, Lovroff, presiding
Judge of the Moscow superior Revolu-
tionary Tribunal, declared in an in
terview with the United Press.
Thus far, these courts have dealt al
most exclusively with cases Of bribery
and corruption among public officials,
embezzlement or despoiliation of pub
lie stocks, or petty thievery, Lovroff
said. Later, their activities will be
extended.
Hearings of political prisoners are
still conducted in secret by the
"Cheka," according to Lovroff.
The tribunals are operating without
any written statutes or criminal code,
beyond a few general DEGREES from the
Kremlin during the earlier days OF the
Revolution. Judges are at liberty to
use their own discretion in administer
ing sentences, Lovroff explained.
1--WE are bound by no law except
that Of our own conscience. No writ
ten law, either criminal or civil, exists
in Russia at present. The Cars
statutes were all swept away at the
time of the Revolution and no new
ones have been drawn up.
| | understand, however, that our
justice department is now at work
compiling a written code
With the exception Of the lower
Peoples courts, the tribunals are each
manned by three judges, appointed by
the government in Moscow, according
to Loyroff. unaninlity is necessary TO
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
OVERRIDE THE
HARDING WISH
Continued from page one.)

tion is an insurance plan and is de-
signed to have the government provide
a price guarantee to agriculture.
The air of tension due to the de-
mands of insurgents for constructive
Interpretation of Harding's program
appeared to have given way to-day
The trump" conference called by one
of the more radical groups may not
develop due to the refusal of other
progressive groups to lend their sup
port. Most of the leaders of the pro-
gressive groups stated that the con-
ference under the lash of their at
tacks, will place a really constructive
program for presentation to congress.
The progressive plan to introduce
whatever resolutions they deem necs-
sary to round out their own program.
This will include a demand for 25
per cent reduction in freight rates;
financial relief up to two billion dol
lars and possibly a demand for gov
ernment ownership of railroads.
More Resolutions
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-Resolu-
tions supporting Henry Ford's offer
for the government nitrate plant at
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the St.
Lawrence waterway will be presented
to the agricultural conference by the
committee on waterway transportation
it was learned authoritatively by the
United Press today.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
CARLAND'S LADY IS
in 'TIDE-OVER-
LEAGUE
Eccentric Young Milli0naire's
Plans Are DiUuiged by
Another Girl
To Form Colony on Stony Plot
to Try and SOlUe the Prob
lens of Life
United Press Leased Wire

BOSTON, Jan. 26.-Lillian Conrad
for love of whom Charles Garland
young millionaire philosopher, is al
legged to have given up his wife and
baby today is in the home of the
"tide over league" here.
Garland searched Boston for the
girl, formerly his mothers secretary
Miss Dora Benson, at Amherst
Massachusetts,, told of some of Gar.
lands plans for founding colony on
April Farm, his stony piece of land
near North Carver, Massachusetts.
Garland, who has already distin-
guished himself by refusing, and then
accepting an inheritance of $1,000,00O,
is not follower of Tolsti, Miss Ben
son said. She said Garland's ideas are
just Garland's.
The girl, who is just 21, is student
at Massachusetts, Agricultural college,
where she is preparing to become one
of Garland's farm colonists. Miss
Conrad also will be one Of the colon
lists, Miss Benson said she believed.
The colonists will work the farm
and help each other to solve the prob
lens of life. The experiment may
start in the spring.
So far as she is concerned, Miss
Benson insisted, there is nothing ro-
mantle about the affair.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
NOVEL PHONING
United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Lillian Lor-
raine, popular Broadway musical COM
edy star, after having spent most of
1921 in hospital as the result of a
broken neck sustained in an accident
early in January, has made sensa-
tional Comeback" She is now ap-
pearing in New York as co-star with
Joseph Cawthorne in a new musical
comedy, "The Blue Kitten" When
Miss Lorraine suffered injuries which
kept her neck in brace for several
months, theatre goers agreed that she
would be unable to return TO the
stage. But she fooled 'em.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
MORE SLACK, LESS MONEY

CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-Stockmen sold
over million more animals at the
Chicago market in 1921 than in the
previous year, but received nearly a
quarter of billion dollars less for
them, according to M. f. HORNE, sta
tistician of the Union Stock Yards and
Transit company. "To be exact y
said HORNE in announcing the annual
summary, "16 6,455,315 head brought
$427 ,291,7S8 last year as compared
with 15,423,S72 head which realized
$685., 5,431 ,233 in 1920.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
Ex-Governor Cantu Arranging
For Revolution In Mexico
Former Leader Said Be in New York Trying Finance the
Enerprise-Governor Ybarra Gives His Views of
Former Governor of Lower California

until it can extend 6 t't'r"rI and
drive Obregon out OF MeA4co CITY.
Sonora and Lower California arc
much favored by revolutionaries as
states in which to start revolutions.
The new governor, formerly an un-
der secretary of the department of
the interior in Mexico City, is un-
known to the people of the northwest
and Cantu figures on launching his
blow before the new executive has
fairly taken hold of the reins of office.
Much mystery surrounds the iden-
tity of the financial interests which
are reported to be backing Cantu.
"Cantu would like to be a big man,
but he's not" Governor Ybarra said,
just before leaving for Enseneda.
"He is known to $4,000 Mexicans in
this area, but 100000 outside never
heard of him."
Asked whether Mexico would sell
Lower California to the United
States, Ybarra replied: would you
sell Florida to Mexico?"
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
General Esteban Cantu, former
governor of Lower California is in
New York arranging American fin
ancial backing for a new revolution
against the Obregon government, ac-
cording to his associates here today.
tThe revolution" is talked con-
stantly in Mexicali. The present gov
ernor, Epigmenio Ybarra, has kept
the rebels down because of personal
popularity. But when he leaves office,
the storm, it is expected, will break.
Ybarra went to Enseneda today to
confer with federal officials regard
ing the situation. He will depart for
Mexico City as soon as Jose Lugo,
the new governor, arrives at Mexi-
cali to replace him. ...
If Cantu can get the money back
ing he is after, he plans to have the
rebellion sweep over all Baja, Califor-
mia, Sonora and other northern states,
Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-26
NEVER MARRIED TO
ANYONE BUT
HARRY
Kitty GOrdOn's Matrimonial Al
fairs Gather Fresh Publicity
All RuH,OrS Are Denied
United Press Leased Wire

i. DES MONIES, Ia, Jan. 26-Kitty
Gordon, stage star, declared here this
afternoon she was shocked and sur
prised2 at the reported statement OF
Ralph Ranlet, member Of the New
YORK stock exchange, that their en-
gagement, announced today, was un-
true.
Kitty dragged out fresh kilograms
from the New York broker in which
he asked her to make public denial Of
her rumored marriage to Jack Wilson
her former vaudeville partner, which
she declared she answered today.
81 have never been married to any
one but Henry Beresford Of London"
declared Kitty. 81 played vaudeville
with Jack Wilson for several years
and am going to join him again soon
in Chicago, but we have never been
married, and | have no intention of
marrying anyone but Ralp Ranlet.
81 expect my divorce decree from
England very soon, and / plan to
marry Ralph Ranlet in the spring.
Ralph will understand when he gets
my kilograms. Some horrid persons
in New York have been telling him l
have been married to Jack Wilson.
That is untrue, and Ralph and l will
be married soon. And l am going to
give up the stage because he wants
me to-"