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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
Mall Planes to Run at Night.

Washington.-Night operation Of the
aerial mail service on the trans-conti-
mental air mail route to speed UP de-
livery from coast to coast, is being
planned by the postoffice department,
it has been announced. The night
mail planes will be operated either be-
tween New York and Chicago or Be-
tween Chicago and Cheyenne, under
the present year plans,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
upholds Three Death verdIcts.

Nashville, Tenn.-Three death and
two life Imprisonment sentences have
been affirmed by the state supreme
court. The men who will die on Aug,
ust 15 for murder are: ]. S. Moon.
Memphis. taxi driver, who killed his
wife Aug. "a, 1921. James McElroy,
Roane county religious fanatic, who
killed Ed Bennecker, a merchant. Aus
tin Harris, Jackson, negro, who bru,
tally murdered Ellis Robertson.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
Denounces Union For Strike Horror.

Washington.-Labo unions were Bit
terly denounced for their part in the
Herrin, ILL.,, mine war in fiery speech
in the senate made by Senator Myers.
Montana. 'The atrocities at Herrin,
when union laborers attacked men
who had been brought to work the
mines, was more horrible. more shock
ing, than any committed by Germany
in the world war" Myers charged.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
Hold Jubilee Parade.

Vieksburgh.-with, the. mercury in
the. .thernometrical bulb flirting with
Tie ninetieth degree, the Jubilee
parade. feature of the Bulgin Taber-
nScle party's union evangelistic ser
Tlt& was held here. 1t was parade
OF Protestant men, women, children
@ods city, augmented by large dele
gatfns from Jackson, Clinton, Bovina,
EdT8rds, Port Gibson, Rolling Fork
ee4 part OF Warren county and quite
a:hbmber from Louisiana.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
Agree On Canada.

Washington Accession OF Canada
to the convention held on March Z.
1899, between the United States
and Great Britain providing for the
regulation and transfer Of resl' and
personal property was brought about
at the state department through sig.
nature of such an agreement by Sir
Auckland Geddes, the British ambas-
sador, and Secretary Hughes.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30

Berlin.-Walter Rathenau, minister
of foreign affairs. was killed by assas,
sins who threw a hand grenade and
then opened fire with revolvers. The
assassin, dashing past in an automo;
bile, escaped. The attack occurred in
the Bismsrckstrasse, just after Rahe-
nau had left his home. M
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30

st. Augustine, FLA preliminary
hearing was held here by federal
authorities Of Captain Paul Capo, on
charges growing out of the collision
between, the launches Pauline IL and
Victory, id which the former sank
the latter, which was carrying over
30 excursionists. No lives were lost
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
Names Postmasters.

(, Washipgton.-The senate postof.
flee committee has ordered favorable
reports on appointments Of Charles
Morgan, Dresden, Tenn. and w. r.
Whaiey, Liberty, Tenn. The nominal
ton Of VIM. B. Sasser, Opp, Ala,
was rejected. f's 4
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
1zs,soS MEN IN 4hms =
AND 10000 OFFICERS
Conference Report On Personnel Il
Adopted BY the House.

Adopted BY the House.
Washington.-Th house concurred
with the senate in fixing the size OF
the army at 125.00O enlisted and $4,000
officers.
The conference report on the army
bill which fixes its strength between
senate and house figures was adopted
by the house, 175 to 80. without dis
cussion.
While there were other items in the
report to be accepted, including a
senate appropriation of s7,500.O0O to-
ward completion of the Wilson dam
at Muscle Shoals, the enlisted and of.
ficer persor1.al totals now have passed
the legislative stage. and only await
the presidents approval.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
FiddIers, Meet at Atlanta.

Atlanta, Ga.-The Old Fiddlers'
convention an annual event that
draws participants from the noun
tains of Georgia, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Alabama, held three
performance here. The participants
this year was larger than heretofore
and all the old favorites were on
hand.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
Gas Probe starts.

Washington.-The Senate inquiry
into gasoline price increases was
under way when the subcommittee
appointed to handle the probe sent
Inquiries to gasoline, and oil dsalera
asking infcrmation 'regarding price
fluctuations.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
Draft New CITY Charter.

Nashville, Tenn.--The four last city
attorneys OF Nashville, assisted by
City Attorney Morton B. Adams, will
draft the city's new charter. All civic
organizations are participating In a
series OF meetings called by Mayor Fe-
lix Wilson to draw up the new organic
law.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30

Bsrseass Loaded With Powder Burns.
Utica, N. Y.-Three barges with
gun powder caught fire at Sylvan
Beach, burning in q spectacular man
ner. The flames, shot 200 feet in the
air with each explosion spread to cot
tages at verna Beach. The entire
summer colony was. threatened by the
flames.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
oueensIand premier ples,

brisbane, Queensland.- The death IL
announced OF Sir Robert Philip, twice
premier Of Queensland. He was born
in Glasgow in 1851.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30

Atlanta Gets 1923 kiwanis Meeting
Toronto.-Atlanta. Ca, was select
ed for the 1893 convention of the
international Kiwanls clubs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Sil14dayScheol 3
' Lesson y

(By REV. P. b. FITzwATER, d. D..
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
Copyright, 1922. Western Newspaper Union.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-06-30
LESSON FOR JULY 2
EZEKIEL, THE WATcHMAN OF
ISRAEL
LESSON TExT-Ezekiel 2n-s.2i.

LESSON TEXT-EzekieI 2:1-3:21
GOLDEN TEXT--Seek ye the Lord
while He may be found: call we upon Him
while He Is near; let the wicked forsake
his way. and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; and let him return unto the
Lord, and He will have mercy upon him;
and to our God, for He will abundanuy
pardon.-Isa. 55:6-7.
REFERENCE MATERIAL = II Kings
17:13. IA: lisa 61-13: Jer. 11-19; Matt. 23:
ST-s9: Acts 20:1S-21, 26, 27, 29-s1
PRIMARY TOPIC-The Shepherd and
His sheep Z
JUNIOR TOPIC-Ezekiel Watches and
Warns Israel
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
Facing a Hard Task.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
THE Duty of Warning Others.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

this new-fangled idea l read of in the pub.
lie prints about putting blue flag in the
window, with a white star on it, to show
that not a drop of the milk punch of
human kindness is served on said premises
decorated with the flag
Maybe it's white flag with blue star.
No matter. Blue the flag should be- The
deeper and sadder the blue, the better.
"And so it is on this great subject 1
would address you, my friends, in all
its"
''You look here, brother!" here again
shouted Hon. Mickelman, he maddened to
the quick. Have you got the cheek TO-"
CHEEK, Mickelman!" here roared Hon.
Quinn, again all ready with a quick come
back. Man alive, it's yourself has the
local monopoly on cheek. CHEEK! Why,
man alive, one of the big buffalo robes that
the poorest of US owned back in the Eigh-
ties wouldn't make side whiskers for you!"
Applause Would Silence
Firing of Big Bertha
Well, you could not hear a Big Bertha
fired off in Fire House the way everybody
stamped and whistled and hollered when
Hon. Quinn shot back this hot irony at
Hon. Mickelman.
"The alleged scarcity of good liquor these
days-to resume, friends" resumed Hon.
Quinn when Chief of Police Herb Long
street finally got order, "is offered by some,
l hear, as an excuse for serving no more
case goods in the home. This excuse,
friends, is, to coin phrase, poppycock
"'Tis as easy to-day to get good liquor
yes, and right in this Borough, friends-it
is, I say, as easy as losing your lap when
you stand up.
"And as the poet Kipling put it-and a
grand poet he is, too-though an English
man-yet not an Englishman at all on ac-
count of being an East Indian-as Kip
ling put when singing the divine right of
man to drink"
Colleagues of this Borough Council!"
here practically screamed Hon. Luther
Mickelman, there being yet no sign of
Mayor Chairman Calvin Van Scoick to
appeal to- do you intend, colleagues, to
permit this here mountebank to fritter
away this whole night with his"
Everybody in Council was upon their
feet now backing up Hon. Mickelman
Everybody explained later that they would
not have taken part solidly against Hon.
Quinn only on account of the way he was
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

man showed in the face he was beginning
to get worried by the way events of the
evening was quickly shaping themself
beyond control
From this on it was a regular circus the
way Hon. Quinn began cracking witty
jokes and sarcasms at Hon. Mickelman,
who couldn't do much but give dirty looks
toward Hon. Quinn.
Quinn, after making Councilman Nickel
man look kind of foolish with his ironies
and funny sayings. Where was l when
Interrupt"
Probably shooting off your face, wher-
ever you were, brother!" here bitterly
broke in Hon. Mickelman, with the dirtiest
look so far.
There was silence in Fire House for
maybe minute before Hon. Quinn replied
in dignified low tones.
"Mickelman," finally said Hon. Quinn
quietly. you have the intellectually that
is only to be pitied. Doing things wrong
amounts with you to the Importance of a
great gift. You are of the type that-well
that could find some way to eat corn on the
cob with your knife.
wasting your gifts, you are, Mickelman,
in our small community" cried Hon. Quinn
after everybody had laughed their head off
over Hon. Quinn's quick comeback about
eating corn on the cob with his knife. 'It
surprises me, Mickelman, that you, who are
so reversely gifted, stays in this borough
selling Ford cars, when you naturally
should be at the head of Ford agency
selling your tin Lizzies in the metropolis
of Venice
Well, when everybody caught this hot
one finally about trying to sell fivvers in
burg where all the streets are like the
Bay Head-Manasquan Ship Canal, only
wider, everybody roared their head off,
"My friends to resume" resumed Hon.
Quinn, after waiting for Hon. Mickelman
to come back with another hot one just as
good as Hon. Quinns, but Hon. Mickelman
could only come back with the dirtiest
look ever seen at Borough Council meeting
This all leads me up, friends" cried
Hon. Quinn, he now advancing up to the
Chairman's dais, who was still absent,
where under the law only Mayor Van
Scoick is supposed to occupy-"this natu-
rally leads me up to a consideration of
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Little Facts About the Big City

citys record had an average of As 6-1o
above
Tho greatest rainfall, October to 9, 1903
was nine and forty-one huudredths inches
The wettest year was 1889 and the driest
1916. In the former year over fifty-eight
inches fell and in the latter thirty-five
inches
New York city has over 100000 telephone
stations.
Since prohibition came one Bronx brew
cry has been converted into a mushroom
farm, cellar, floors and all. 1t produces over
100000 pounds of mushrooms annually
Manhattan has eighty-five theatres and
movie houses.
Electrical installations for 1920 in the
city numbered 10s,045.
Since 1915 twenty city policemen have
been killed In the discharge of their duties
This does not include accidental deaths.
The power and light wires used by one
electrical company in Manhattan and The
Bronx are long enough to encrcle the globe
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
IN A PHONE BOOTH
ME series of coughs, sneezei

THE series of coughs, sneezes, gurgles
and sputtering sounds that ema-
mated from that telephone booth
alarmed u.s. We went over to investigate
The figure inside was enveloped in cloud
of smoke.
1t seems that, with the door tightly shut,
he was putting away on a big black cigar
The air was as thick as sour milk, and the
poor idiot was almost choking. But he
kept on smoking and gurgling. Either Il
didn't occur to him to open the door or he
thought the smoke would find egress
through the transmitter.
We don't know what ultimately hap
pened. We had to go. Perhaps he was
found dead in the booth the next morning
and sold to a delicatessen store as a
smoked herring. Or perhaps he survived
and went home grumbling about the Door
ventilation in telephone booths
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

sixteen times The cables contain 81, ,O00, 900
pounds OF copper
II the sewers OF Greater New York were
placed end to end II would mean a tunnel
lust about long enough to reach San Fran
cisco. II IL did not quite reach that city
IL would be close enough to alarm the good
people of the Golden Gate. Manhattan alone
has sac miles OF sewers.
One sewer running down Canal street,
draining only 242 acres. is 16 feet wide and
8 feet high. Another sewer on East Forty
ninth street drains 61s acres and is by S
feet in dimensions. There are others also
through which motor cars might easily
travel.
The total number OF sewer outlets in Man
haitian is 1s9 When New York started a
sewerage system two or three hundred years
ago, the people paid taxes for the work In
pigs, corn and the like, not in cash.
Manhattan has S26 churches, of which rs
are Jewish and 1853 Roman Catholic Brook
lyn has total OF $40, of which "a are Jew
ish and 125 Catholic. The others are almost
entirely Christian places of worship. al
though a few are devoted to faiths seldom
heard Of in country like this.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
RambIin ''ROund
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.

THE most worried looking fowl in the
exhibit was No. 1884, handsome
black rooster. He walked up and
down his coop in nervous manner, not
unlike that of man pacing the floor of
his home at night as he works out seri.
GUS business problem. What narrowed
look the poor fellow had!
After strutting up and down for several
minutes he began to paw the floor of his
coop in neurotic fashion. Then he started
a plaintive "cockadoodle door that died
pathetically in his throat. Next he shook
with his beak one of the wires that formed
the inclosure. We couldn't help feeling
sorry for him. II we could only comfort
him in some way, we thought. But in or.
der to do that 1t would be necessary to
know what was the matter with him. Per.
haps he had run out of food. But no.
There was plenty Of corn in the coop.
And then-like a iash!-we realized
what was the matter He must have no.
ticed-and no wonder it filled him with
gloomy forebodings-the sign on his coop
that read:
IDEAI, CHJCKEN
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

~ REATER NEW YORK is lighted by
= 7s,3o0 street lights OF these 67,sO3
- are electric and 1O,575 gas lamps
Naphtha lamps make up the total. The cost
OF these street lights to the city annually
is s2,94S,O51. The electric lights for the
chief streets are of 800 watts and the lights
for the residence districts range from 100 to
200 candle-p power each.
The water front of the city, measuring
around the docks and into the inlets. is 74S
miles in length.
The greatest snowfall i'm the city's history
for twenty-four hours fell from February II
to IS, 1893. 1t was seventeen and eight
tenths inches.
December 80, 1917, was the coolest day IN
the citys history. 13 degrees below zero.
The warmest day was August Z, 1918. 102
degrees above.
The average for each years temperature
is just about the same as anothers. The
warmest year 1900, averaged 81 3-1o de-
grees above, and the coolest year In the
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
By FRANK WARD O'MALLEY.
BURRsvuLE CITY, Feb.

BURRsvuLf CRY, Feb. IL.
1T AM hearing while getting shaved
this morning in Ferd Schroeders
Tonsorial Parlors that not young
wife of the borough that attended my
twenty-hfth wedding anniversary party
with her man, of Friday night last, has
spoken since to her own husband, and vice
versa. after the breaking up of our limo
cent little gathering"
Thus began Councilman Cornelius F. X.
Quinn early last night, when about every
body had gathered in Fire House for the
regular Friday night meeting of Borough
Council
Mere innocent flirtations here and
there between the young mated, though
not mated to each other, went on, under
stand-at least the indignant young wives
understand, I'm told-in the cozy corners.
"a bit of hug on the sly, perhaps, was
all that happened here and there. But it
was enough, learn, to silence even a
wife for week."
1t should here be explained to the
american people here reading this report
of the panics and excitements that hap
pened at Council meeting in Fire House
last night that the aforesaid quotations
from Hon. Quinn's remarks last night
were not a part Of the eloquent grafton
Hon. Quinn delivered amid savage inter-
ruptions and dirty looks later.
These quotations about certain cool
nesses between certain young married
parties of the borough's elite, who snuck
up on each other Unexpectedly in cozy
corners and Railways at the party, were
delivered by Hon. Quinn in private con-
versation before Mayor Calvin Van Scoick
had arrived at Fire House last night at
all to call Council to order.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

talking against prohibition and the Con-
stitution of the United States.
"-in tribute, therefore" Councilman
Quinn finally could be heard yelling in
tremendous voice above even all the rest
of Council trying to shout him down, Ito
the glorious Stars and Stripes, the beloved
Star Spangled Banner of this great ma
tion!"
Right away it was seen that now it was
Hon. Quinn's game to turn the tables on
everybody by suddenly shifting his speech
from the temperance flag in the parlor win
dow to an eloquent tribute to the Stars
and Stripes and speaking well of them.
Would Insult Defender
of Nations Glorious Flag
you would silence patriot paying trib.
ute to the glorious Red, White and Blue
banner of our great Republic, eh?" was
shouting Hon. Quinn, so that everybody
got kind of scared and began to shout less
and less. you would licentiously and
traitorously insult the American flag and
its defenders, would you? For shame!" ~
So now everybody had to decently keep
quiet while Hon. Quinn went on for about
half an hour more telling the history of
Our Flag.
The. only time he diverged was to say
that the temperance flag in the window
was superfiuous, because nobody calls at
houses where they don't any more serve
alcoholic drink anyway. This divergence
again brought Hon. Mickelman to his feet
with dirty look.
But both the two Durkin twins came in
just then with message from Mrs. Mayor
Van Scoick saying he had broke his wrist
cranking his fivver. So everybody snuck
out of Fire House before Hon. Quinn re-
membered to get back to his speech on the
American flag and compel attention.
But coming back to business transacted
at Council meeting as reported here, JUS
tice of the Peace Frank Brown speaking
to-day er parte, handed down for ye scribe
a decision saying that on account Of Coun
ell not having been called to order legally
last night, the above business of last
nights session, as above quoted faithfully,
was legally in law known as ILLUS nullius
session.
Therefore last nights whole session, ac-
cording to Judge Browns er pdrte deci
sion handed down to-day, legally was not,
said Judge Brown, mot worth a tinkers
d-n."
Copyright. 1922 by the Bell Syndicate.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Mickelnan Getting Worried
BY Events of the Evening

The instant Councilman Mickelman
heard Hon. Quinn say formally, MY
friends" in his regular loud public speak
ing voice and striding statesmanlike out
into the aisle, Councilman Mickelman
grasped that 1t was Hon. Quinn's game to
get the foor thus before Council was called
to order.
Brother QUINN" at this point inter.
rupted Councilman Mickelman, with
dirty look, but making pretend to laugh
jovially, "ain't you afraid you'll get all
talked out-if that's possible---before this
honorable body is legally convened by our
still absent chair?"
Although laughing jovially. Hon. Nickel
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
THE BASEBALL EXHIBIT.

THE BASEBALL EXHIBIT.
"Oh. Willie, my son, don't stick in the
house,
Go out in the lot and play ball,
Your elderly dad is pitcher, lad,
While you never play at ALL"
"Oh, mother, I'll do as you say but know
The players will chase me away,
For / haven't a set of pink whiskers yet,
And they'll say I'm too young to play"
We wrote those lines in the Forty-second
Street Library the day we saw the Spald-
ing Baseball Exhibit there. In the past we
had seen pictures of whiskered old timers
in baseball suits, but we never realized that
the whiskers were so predominant. If all
the whiskers we saw in those interesting
pictures of a vanished baseball era were
placed on pile they would reach the moon
(and, incidentally, give the man in the
moon the longest beard in captivity.
One of the most fascinating pictures in
the Spalding collection is that of the Eek
ford nine. team that played in 1858. 1t
is the only picture Of a nine we ever saw
that really was nine. Modern mines have
anywhere from twenty men to platoon.
The Eckfords had only nine players When
a man was injured they played with eight
men, We suppose; or pressed a spectator
into service.
In addition to the players the photograph
shows two figures in sober civilian dress
and high hats. One OF these men is Will
lam Bull, the scorer; the other, DR.. Bell,
the teams official umpire. Think of "!
The team carried its own umpire! Doubt
less the Eckfords we're pleased with his
decisions.
The idea Of having doctor serve as UNI
pire was an excellent one. II saved the
trouble of sending for a medico when an
irate fan bounced bottle off the umpire's
midriff. After while DR.. Bell became so
experienced. well bet, that he could call
strikes with his right hand while he ap-
piled the court plaster to his sconce with
the left.