The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-07-14
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who reads the Bible to his troops.
The residence of George ]. Gould on
Fifth Avenue, New York is being Off
cred for sale 1t is valued at $780,
900.
Retail food prices have advanced
two per cent In the past month ac-
cording to the United States Depart
ment OF Labor.
Captain Amundsen sailed from Nome
on June 80 on the first lap Of his trip
on which he hopes to fy over the
North Pole.
Federal Intervention by the United
States Railroad Labor Board failed TO
halt the strike of 400 900 railroad shop
men called for 10 a. m. July l.
The Democrats OF Wisconsin have
nominated Mrs, Ben c. Hooper, Pres
ident Of the Wisconsin League OF NO
men Voters, for United States Semi
/ tor
\ An abundant crop of watermeions
| in the early producing States is tore
cast by the Department OF Agricul
ture, which estimates the crop at 3d.,
t02- carloads,
William Rockefeller. who .lied last
week, reputed TO be one OF the worlds
richest men, left his entire estate 10
his four children, with no charitable
requests s-.
Lloyd George announced in tie
House of Commons last week that
England would be willing TO support
a proposal for Germany's admission
to the League of Nations.
The Interallied Council of Ambassa-
doris at Paris has given recognition to
Lithuania as an independent nation,
| The United States were not represent
ed at the meeting. ....
| About eight million canteloupes were
permitted to rot on the ground al
| Brawley, Cal, last week to avoid over
stocking the Eastern market and to
keep the market price up. ..r
An agreement providing for the de-
livery of a Zeppelin alrshiip to the
United States was signed by represen-
tatives OF the American and German
governments at Berlin June 26.
Gregorie Semenov at one time lea |
der of an anti-Soviet army In Siberia, |
was refused admission 10 Japan. as ne /
was without a passport. He proceeded |
from Toxic TO Shanghai.
Edwin U. Judd. who at Ripon, Wis, |
in 1854 signed a call for q convention |
that resulted in the information OF the |
Republican party. died at Anacortee,
Wash, on June 81, aged 90 years.
Capt. S. Burk Burnett. oil man and |
owner OF hundreds OF thousands OF
acres OF Texas land died at Fortl
Worth on June 81, The famous oil !
town. Burkburnest, Tex was named |
for him.
New Orleans has been given a clean |
bill of health as regards bubonic PLACE |
infection by the United States Public |
Health Service, which discontinued its
plague eradication work on July /.
Mayor G. L, oles. elected mayor OF |
Youngstown, Ohio, on an independent /
ticket last fall after sensational cam
paign. has resigned from office after
six stormy months OF administration. |
An invention worked out by the
Federal Forest Products Laboratory at
Madison, Wis, is designed to take ink
out Of old newspapers. Two centuries
have been spent in trying to de-ink
paper
Representative Joseph w. Fordney,
author Of the Fordney Tariff Bill, has
announced that he will retire at the
end of his present term, after twenty
four years of continuous service In
Congress.
Capt P, ]. Flynn. said to have been
a member OF the crew OF the Monitor,
which met the Merrimac in 1862 in the
first battle between steel warships,
died last week at his home, in Los An
geles, Cal.
The Peruvian government unveiled
a bronze statue OF Washington IN the
new Washington Park at Lima on July
as tribute to the American people.
The statue was purchased In the Unit
ed States.
Republican Senators who are candi-
dates for reelection are said to be
much perturbed over the recent ut
terances of Secretary of War Weeks
in favor OF beer and light wines and
the abolition Of the primary
AT the conference last week OF the
New York State public health officers
1t was announced that new serum
for the prevention OF pneumonia had
been discovered. The serum will be
ready for further experimental tests
by early fall.
The defeat of Senator McCumber in
the North Dakota primary by Lynn j.
Frazier, nonpartisan, is declared by
Democrats in Washington to be blow
at Harding's administration and the
tariff bill he Is sponsoring in the Sem
ate.
Award Of contract for 1913, $50 for
the mechanical equipment for the Unit
ed States veterans hospital for negro
disabled soldiers at Tuskegee, Ala,
has been announced by the Treasury.
The work is to be completed by Feb
ruary /, 1929
An employment unit to provide work
in various Industries for disabled vet
Grams who have been rehabllitated
viii be set up by the United States
Veterans Bureau within thirty DAYS
in each of its fourteen districts.
The Allies are about to reply Joint
ly to the American note on the cost of
the army OF occupation on the Rhine
by suggesting that the United States
pay itself from the German property
sequestered in the course of the war,
according to dispatch from The
Hague.
Georges Clemenceau, in reply To an
inquiry from an American corespon-
dent as to the truth of the report that
he would visit America this fall, sent
this characteristic reply: "Whenever
take the trouble to go to America
will take the trouble to let you know"
Hrs. Len Small, wife OF Governor
Small of Illinois was atrickan with