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The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-27

Mary had a little skirt; It was in style, no doubt; But when she was in 1t
 She was half way out"
The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-27

Another good thing about telling the truth is you don't have to re- member what you say.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-27

Fashion says mems winter clothes will be about the same, except for a cleaning.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-27

It is not the direction you take in seeking success but the spirit in which you set out on the journey.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-27

Some fellers ideas O safety first, Is startin' to eat jes' as soon as the cook puts the food on the table.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-27

Joe the Fodder says that the stingiest man he knows put extra barbs on his fence so the birds couldn't sit down.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-27

A man can kid himself into believing anything. But oh, boy, when he tries to kid his wife.
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15

overhead, but it would seem that
each State might set aside part of
the immense revenue it receives an,
nually on license fees from automo-
bile owners to safeguard such cross
ings, selecting the most dangerous
places first, and each year construct
ing as many as possible.
Cement has now lessened the cost.
and difficulty of such construction,
and as the years go on, the safe
guarding would grow to really worth
while proportions. In the mean
time it behooves all who tour in
cars to not only stop, Look, Lis
ten," but be sure they both see and
hear before proceeding.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15
DREAMS.

=The man who says dreams are a
waste Of time, that work only liz
what counts in this life, knows not
that tits dreaming of the past and
the future that makes life so tolera-
BILE and pleasant.
Living only In the present would
be form Of existence more misera-
BILE than that endured by the old
Russian eXiles in Siberia.
Happy is the man or woman who
can lay aside the cares and sorrow
of the rushed and crowded today
and revisit the scene of yesterday.
Happy, too, is the man or woman
who live in the tomorrow where all
is fair and bright; that tomorrow in
which we are going to do noble and
helpful deeds and to win fame and
fortune; that tomorrow in which we
are going to move the world mile
nearer to heaven, making it better
place; for our dreams are to come
true, If our prayers and conscientious
efforts count aught in bringing them
to pass. Don't give up your dreams.
Don't deny yourself Of this bit OF
happiness, for each beautiful, in
spring dream mellows your heart
and widens your mental horizon
Elk.
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15
GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENTS.

On recent Sunday, almost with
In the limits of single city, eight
people were killed in automobiles
at four grade crossings of railroads.
Almost daily, the papers describe
similar accidents in all parts of the
country. The annual list grows into
hundreds.
The automobile has become indis-
pensable, and with something like
ten million cars in service, 1t is in
evitable that thousands of drivers
are either careless, too venturesome,
deaf, have poor eyesight, or possess
one or more of a score of weaknesses,
which sooner or later lead to acci-
dents. Familiarity with any dan
ger breeds contempt, and the driving
of an automobile is no exception. 1t
is obviously of little use to talk of
punishment to drivers who take
reckless chances at grade crossings
for sooner or later they are killed
and their cars utterly destroyed
Unfortunately they usually carry
passengers who have no voice in the
control of the car and who lose their
lives because of somebody's mad de-
sire to cross railroad track, ahead
of a train. 1t might help some If all
automobiles were required to come
to a full stop before crossing track
but the observance of the rule would
after all have to be practically a vol
untary one, for the majority of un-
guarded crossings are in the coun-
try. Railroads have rule about
stopping a train before it crosses an
other railroad, or passing over IA
draw-bridge, and although there are
thousands of trains making such
crossings daily, accidents at such
points are extremely rare.
In England highways are not per-
mitted to cross a railroad track at
grade, and usually are carried over
head. Moreover, it is a trespass for
any hut employees to walk upon
track, law which is strictly en-
forced. The result is, accidents
that are constant here seldom occur
there. 1t would be an incredible
hardship to expect our railroads,
with their hundreds of thousands OF
highway crossings at grade, to pro-
vide bridges to carry vehicle traffic
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15

sures sufIicient labor skilled in its
production to instruct the large
number of farmers who will try to
raise II for the first time in 1923.
THAT brings us to an important
question: Who is going to raise cot
ton in 1923? The answer is, about
everybody in Southeast Missouri who
has or can get possession of a piece
of ground. The poor returns from
wheat the past two seasons will
throw many of the great wheat
farms of Scott and Mississippi coun-
ties into cotton, as well as thousands
of acres in other counties that have
been devoted to other crops. AS
usual, there will be some failures.
There is the question of the boil
weevil also. Many think this pest
will never invade Missouri cotton
fields on account of being so far
north.
THE news of Southeast Missouri's
cotton development had an immedi-
ate effect on the buying and renting
of farm land. Along in September
and October crop-renters from Ar
kansas and other southern States,
starved out by the boil weevil, be-
gan to make their appearance. They
wanted land to farm on shares for
1928 and most of them found work
with their families picking cotton.
Then came the cash renters. Prices
started at Sc per acre and soon
worked up to $40 and SIS an acre.
A few cases of $40 an acre offered
are reported. Some of the southern
cotton men are bringing their expe-
rienced hands with them. Much
new ground is being cleared Should
1923 prove another good year for
cotton in this section, which is 10
say if the boil weevil continues it's
operations further south and keeps
out of Missouri, it is predicted South
east Missouri will witness a great in
fiux of new settlers.
IAN interesting Outgrowth of the
cotton situation has been the break
ing up of many of the big farms of
Southeast Missouri into small tracts.
Most important of these are the
holdings of A. j. Matthews and asso-
ciates of Sikeston, including be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 acres of
highly improved land in several
counties. The -Har-
rison holdings are also being offered
in small tracts of 20 acres and up on
easy payments for the convenience
of cotton farmers who wish to own
the land. Under conditions prevail
ing the past two seasons cotton land,
in this section has averaged a1att
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15

recently to take care Of the cotton
business and several clerks were
kept busy every minute of the time.
The same article continues:
THE bank remains open practi-
cally "a hours a day to take care Of
the business created by the gin,
which has been running several
weeks without shutting down for a
minute. At 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing there were 81 wagons waiting
to be unloaded and the average load
of each wagon was from 1900 to
1000 pounds. That day the gin was
paying 8 liz cents pound for cot
ton, making the total value of the
81 wagons approximately $4,000.
On Thursday the gin received 90
loads Of cotton and paid to the far
mers within radius Of 20 miles of
that town over $4,000 in cash."
And the scenes thus described
were being duplicated ON an equal
or larger scale at score of other
places, notably Kennett, Caruthers-
vile, Maiden. Poplar Bluff, Camp
bell, Hayti, New Madrid, Parma.
Clarkton, Portageville. Dexter. Hor-
nersville and in fact wherever a gin
existed.
ION a trip through the cotton
country during October" the article
continues. 1.-The writer was told by
the proprietor of country store
that he had taken in over $4,000
that day in settlement of old ac-
counts. clearing up chattel mort
cages and current purchases. And
by way of proving what he said,
the merchant threw open the door
Of his old-fashioned iron safe and
revealed the interior fairly bulging
with currency. Nor is the mer-
chant the only one who has felt the
wave of prosperity. The doctor,
for the first time in several years, is
able to balance his books; old scores
of a financial nature are being set
tied between neighbors; mortgages
are lifted. and bankers find 1t hard
to prevent customers from paying of
their loans. A case is cited in
which a Dunklin county farmer was
offered reward II he would prevail
upon his neighbor to renew a note
for a substantial amount which was
about to fall due at the bank. Rural
schools In many localities declared
q six-weeks' holiday SO the children
might help in the cotton fields,
where youthful nuger are useful
In picking the fsecy harvest.
"All OF this might be considered
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15

of merely passing interest-bonanza
whenever and wherever a crop fail
ure in one section creates riches for
another section. These are under
lying reasons for the cotton boom in
Southeast Missouri, however, and
permanent widespread results are
likely to follow.
Eight years ago c. M. Barnes of
Marston, member of the State
Board of Agriculture, prepared an
article, which was published in the
st. Louis Republic, in which the
statement was made that cotton
could be successfully grown in prac-
south of the Missouri river, thereby
tically every county of the State
adding $50.000,000 year to the in
come of Missouri farmers. The raw
ages of the boil weevil. which cost
the South last year over 100000
bales Of cotton, worth $125 bale,
have driven the borders Of the cotton
belt further north than ever before
known. II these ravages are not
checked high cotton prices will con-
tinue. and 1t is within reason to
suppose that cotton will be planted
in many localities not hitherto tried.
"At the present timd cotton
growing in Missouri Is largely con-
fined to a few counties within the al
luvial district in the extreme south
east corner of the State. Here are
found conditions of soil and climate
exactly suited to the plant, and as
the boil weevil is absent, Missouri
has the distinction of producing the
most cotton per acre Of any State in
the Union, except Arizona and Cali
fornia, where its intensive cultiva-
tion in hot, irrigated velleys makes
comparison with other sectionc un-
fair. Take the United States Gov
ernment reports on cotton condition
during the past two seasons, and 1t
will be found that Missouri has
steadily and consistently led the en-
tire country. %*
THE completion Of several large
drainage enterprises in Southeast
Missouri, notably the Little River
system, already finished, and the In
ter-river system, still under way,
have added several hundred thous-
and acres of ideal cotton land to the
area available for the crop. The
fact that for many years cotton has
been successfully grown ON a large
scale In Dunklin. Pemiscot and
New Madrid counties removes 1t
from the experimental stage and In
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15
TUBERCULOSIS CHRISTMAS SEALS

Christmas seals for 1922, of
which the above is a picture,
will be sold here and in the
county this December by
school children. They have
been sold in America for the
past fourteen years, in which
time the number of deaths from
tuberculosis has been reduced
more than a half. In Missouri
the deaths from tuberculosis
have been reduced from 5113
in 1911 to 8O1O in 1921.
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15
MISSOURI COTTON

JEFFERSON CITY A bonanza
cotton crop in Southeast Missouri,
which has created unheard of pros
perity in that part of the State, is
revealed in an article prepared for
the 1922 Year Book of the Mis-
souri, Department Of Agriculture, ad-
vance proofs of which have been CIV
en- out. An expansion of the cotton
growing industry is predicted as a
result of the ravages of the boil wee
vii further south.
Figures prepared under the direc-
tion of Jewell Mayes. secretary of
the State Board OF Agriculture, and
z. A. Logan, agricultural statisti-
clan of the United States Govern
ment, show that 13 Missouri coun-
ties this year planted 10000 acres
OF cotton, of which $4,000 acres
are in Dunklin, Pemiscot and New
Madrid counties. Final figures on
yield are not available yet, but the
ginnings to November II were Ill.,
O72 bales, indicating yield Of
about 10000 bales. In addition,
several thousand bales of Missouri
grown cotton were ginned across the
line in Arkansas and hence will be
credited to that State.
On the basis of 10000 bales,
Missouri's 1922 cotton crop was
worth sIs,720,O000 to the land own
ers and tenants. practically all Of
this huge sum being distributed in
cash beteween Sept. and Dec. 81.
Cotton has been grown In the ex-
treme southern part OF the State for
many years, but with exception of
D0nklin and Pemiscot counties. has
Hsssr been considered major crop.
~ . typical incident OF the cot
to- marketing season. the Cape
Gissrdssu Southeast Aissourian cites
Tho fact that the bank at Gideon.
Ne, remained open until midnight
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15

500 an "a. acre gross production,
whichsson the prevailing share basis
l6nerfourth) gives the owner $25
AKss&crsssand the tenant, who fur;
snisAss teams and tools, k75 an acre =
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15

Mrs. B. ID. Grove returned this
week from Newbern and Dyersburg,
Tenn, where she had been on an ex-
tended visit to relatives and friends.
She reported very enjoyable visit.
The Missouri herald., 1922-12-15

old papers, large package for
sc, at this Office. Handy for use
aruond the home, at picnics. lunch
stands, and many places. Get them
while we have a supply on hand.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-03-23
"YOU'LL GO TO HEAVEN"
If Drinking Liquor Is Worst Thing
Done, Says Judge.

eff drinking liquor is the worst
thing you ever did, you'll go to
Heaven" Judge H. H. Watkins de-
clared in Federal court at Greenwood
last week in passing sentence on Sam
2ykard, colored, Of Abbeville, who
pleaded guilty to violation of the
national prohibition law in that he
was found in possession Of four gal
Ions of corn liquor.
"How old are you, SAM" his honor
asked, looking over his spectacles.
"Fifty-six, Jedge."
"We are about the same age, Sam.
Fretty soon they'll be passing by
Jour coffin and saying, Didn't Sam
look natchel.' It's time you were
learning to live better life. Do
You think three years in Atlanta
prison would core you of fooling with
liquor?"
"Jedge, I amt in no persishun to
say but I amt gwinter fool wit no
more liquor"
"Sam, they tell me you are pref
ty good niger and pay your debts 2"
"Yas sub, I does pay 'em," Sam
affirmed.
"Some white people could 60 to
school to you for long time, Sam.
# your white folks will keep me
Informed about the way you are iv-
ing, the court orders that you pay
fine of 500 or be confined in Alb
keville jail until the fine is paid"
Judge Watkins concluded.
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IT is GHOSTS MOVE
NOW IN ANTIGONISH
Patient Scientist, With Electri-
cal Apparatus Set Up,
Awaits His Visit.

The mystery of the haunted house
of Antagonist, Nova Scotia, which
y, long has baffed police and press
las claimed the attention of science
shd a New York expert has been
asked to solve the puzzle of the now
famous ghost which has aroused the
entire Canadian province.
Dr.. Waiter Franklin Price, di-
rector of che American Institute fol
Scientific Research, was appealed by
the Halifax Herald, which recently
sent a reporter to Antigonisn Val
ley, only to have him slapped on
tire wrist by unseen, though report
eG as quite, substantial, hands. Dr.
Prince has notified the Canadian pa
DER he is ready to visit the north
crn province and run down the IA
raous ghost of Antigonish, seven ii
: the devil himself is at the bottom
Of it."
The "haunted house" as a good
portion of Canada mas now come to
know it, is the cd homestead OF
Alexander Mcdonald, 100 miles as
the crow flies, from Halifax. In the
dead of winter, Mr.. Mcdonald, a
seventy year old farmer, his wife
a year his junior, and their fifteen
year old adopted daughter, fled the
house in a state Of terror.
Unseen hands had loosed his horses
in their stalls, braided the tails OF
his cattle, and kindled mysterious
fires of ordinarily not highly COM
bustible materials in his home, the
aged farmer declared. A provincial
detective, accompanied by a news
paper man, took up their residence
ir. the Mcdonald home for three
nights, fleeing it, finally, with an
eerie tale of being slapped in the
night by hands that did not seem
to be attached to anything in par
ticuiar.
The mysterious happenings began
six years ago. when Mcdonald went
out one morning to the barn to feed
his stock. he was bewildcred to find
cattle and horses loose in the stable
when he remembered having tied
them securely the night before.
Exercising particular care he fast
ened them in their stall again and
returned to the house to tell his
wife of the strange occurrence
Imagine his CONSERVATION upon go
ing back to the barn and discover
ing the live stock either loose OF
changed from one stall to another,
Nor were the ghostly manifesto
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held a strip of white cloth which
waved slowly backward and forward
three times, after which it disap-
peared.
They rushed into the building,
where they found the Mcdonald fam
lily ready to desert their home for
temporary shelter in neighbors
home. A search was made of the
house but no trace was found of
the spectral nand. The McDonalds
locked up their haunted home.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-03-23
NOTICE.

The County Board Of Commission
ers Of Williamsburg County will re-
ceive bids at their office in Kingstree.
S. c., on Tuesday, September Sth, and
on the first Tuesday in each month
thereafter, for groceries in bulk lots
for the chaingang for one month at q
time. --
s. ]. SINGLETARY,
County Supervisor Williamsburg Co.
o-iS-21-H.
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tions confined to the stock. Chains
and spikes were unfastened in the
same startling manner. At length
the old farmer visited the clergy
man and laid the matter before him.
Oddly enough, the strange happen
ings ceased as quickly as they had
begun.
On January 6, Mr.. Mcdonald arose
at his usual hour and proceeded to
the kitchen to start a fire in the
cooking stove. He was surprised to
see cinders on top Of the stove and
glancing upwards, saw burned spot
Oh the boards of the ceiling near the
entry of the stove pipe. He took
it for granted that the fire had been
caused from the pipe and marveled
at their escape from a serious fire
during the night.
The next night the family retired
early. There had been no fire in
the kitchen stove after o'clock in
the afternoon, the evening meal hav-
ing been prepared in the dining room
ir the main part OF the house.
Shortly after retiring Mrs. Mcdonald
declared she smelled smoke and an
investigation revealed fire IN the
kitchen loft about the chimney whici,
had been cold since o'clock in the
afternoon. The fire was extinguish-
ed but broke out five different times
that night.
On Sunday, January 8, Mr.. Nc
Donald took every precaution to pre-
vent another outbreak Of the fire
about the chimney, but agah. Mrs.
Mcdonald awoke and smelled smoke
after getting into bed. This time
he found the upholstery of rock
ing chair nire feet from the kitchen
stove abaze. When he had thrown
the chair out into the snow he turn
ca to find a couch ablaze. Mcdonald
did not 90 to bed again but there
were no more fires.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Jan
uary IL, fires began breaking out
at intervals in different parts Of the
house and neighbors were summon
ed to help extinguish the blazes.
The McGillizray boys, Dan and Leo,
end Duncan Mcdonald, brother-in-law
of the McGiIlivrays, spent a night
of terror in the house with the Nc
Donalds. From 1890 p. m. until 5
a. m, 81 fires were discovered in
various parts of the farmhouse.
Michael McGillizray and John Ken
ny, neighbors who lived four miles
distant and who had received the
midnight call for help, reached the
Mcdonald farm at daylight. AS they
approached, and according to McGh
lizray, about ten feet from the house,
they saw a bare arm and hand ex-
tend through an upstairs window
over the dining room. The hand
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-03-23

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Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-11-24
Agent Collected $500 for
Each Chinese That Was
Landed
FIVE PLEADED GUILTY
Alleged Ring Leader Is
Said to Own Schooner
Success"
(By Associated Pressl

Pensacola, Fla, Nov. 24-The trial
of Captain Benjamin Edmundson,
launch operator of Pensacola and
Louie Ying, alias Quan Yick, of
Philadelphia, charged with snug
Cling aliens into the United States
from Cuba, will probably be conclud-
ed late today, in the United States
district court here.
The defendants trial was commen-
ced yesterday after C. P. Moore,
owner of the auxiliary schooner Sue
cess, and purported to have been the
ring leader in the conspiracy and
four others pleaded guilty.
The government backed up its con-
tention of having unearthed one of
the most systematic organizations
for Smuggling chinese aliens into
the United States by using as a wit
ness, D. NJ. Rice, alias D. NJ. Rich
ardson, who testified he was tray
cling agent in the business of arran-
ging for the human cargoes. He said
he collected $500 per head for three
different lots of Chinese smuggled
into this country from Cuba after
they had been delivered by him to
Louie Ying's place in Philadelphia.
The schooner Success was used 10
carry the Chinese from Cuba to- a
certain point off the Florida coast,
where, according to the testimony of
C. B. Tourcey, and Dan Atwell, who
claimed to have been in the employ
of Captain Edmundson, they used
one of Edmundson's fast boats to
the aliens from the schoon-
er to land.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-11-24

Erskine Childers, lieutenant COM
mander in the Irish republican army,
and one of the right-hand men of
Eamon de Valera, was placed on trial
before q military tribunal in Dublin
on November II, on the church that
he had pistol in his possession when
ARRESTED at Wicklow, by free state
forces on November 10. The trial
lasted VITO days. Childers, who was
50 years old, appealed through coun-
sci for a writ of habaes corpus which
was denied yesterday by the master
of the rolls. He then appealed to
the court of appeals for southern Ire
land.
Was Republic PrOpOnent.
Childers was an ardent proponent
of an Irish republic and strongly op-
posed ratification of the treaty set
ting up the Irish free state on the
ground that it 'meant absorption of
Ireland in the British empire" He
was defeated last June in the cleo
tions for the south Irish parliament,
fewer votes than any other
in the whole election.
Early in the next month he was
reported to be organizing a band of
in Dublin hills and later in
the summer commanded the band of
who cut the cable in Va
lentia harbor.
Childers was educated at Trinity
college, Cambridge. He served in the
European war as a lieutenant COM
mander of the royal naval volunteer
reserve between January and May,
1916, and won the Distinguished
Service cross for his service with the
anti-submarine forces.
Childers was the author of several
books. Among them were "The
Frame Work of Home Rule" ''Vol-
lme Five of the Times History of
the South African War;" "In the
Ranks of C. l. w." and German In
fluence on British Cavalry"