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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20
len Hord. !"

Alien 4Ord.
Willt 1t surprise you to learn that
Rosamand's tears were over this third
card, and not the first tears she had
shed over 1t, either. 1t had come weeks
ago. And every day Rosamond had
read more and more of mockery into
Its innocent reticence. But it was the
1--WE hope So" that hurt worst. Who
were 1--WE" Minnie and Allen? He
needn't have tried to wound her so.
He might have said 81 hope So" That
would have been safe. He needn't
think she was a girl ever to run after
a man, once she knew she had lost
him! OF course he didn't like her get
ting a job in the city. But he might
have acted differently about 1t. He
might have gone to the station to say
good-by the way her other friends did,
at least. And now he was even keeping
her away from home on Christmas, and
making her tell lies about parties and
friends and clothes to her blessed old
father and mother. Yes, he was. She
couldn't 20 home, just couldn't while
she felt like this about him!
But somewhere, down many flights
Of stairs, a noisy bell was being struck.
and harsh, Polish voice was calling
"Mees James, Mees James. Someone
to see you."
Rosamond could hardly believe her
ears. Someone to see her! Why, she
didn't know anyone no, not a soul in
this lonely, heartless city, except her
employer And it certainly wouldn't
be her employer.
"All right, coming" Rosamond shout
ed down over the bannisters.
Then back into her room she raced.
washed her tear-stained face, hastily
brushed her curls, Strengthened the
blue tie at the neck of her Peter-Pan
blouse, and went tripping bravely down
to see-whoeyer 1t could bel
OF course, that tall, red-headed young
man waiting with his hat In his hand,
his chin so high and his eyes SO de-
terminedly bright was Allen Ford.
mo, Rose, I won't sit down. I
haven't come calling on you. I've come
to take you home. You're to give up
your parties and engagements and
everything that's keeping you here and
come back to the village with me. The
train goes IN three-quarters Of an hour.
Throw something into bag and come"
Rosam0nd was white and shaking.
sis anybody sickT'
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20
ONE JOB ONLY ON CHRISTMAS

In olden times, and indeed today In
many parts of the Old Country, it was
and is considered unlucky to leave a
job unfinished at Christmas. No mat
ter the kind Of work q heroic effort
was made to have 1t done before the
festivities commenced. No piece of work
was begun near the END Of the year
that could not be finished In time. It
was q tradition closely adhered to by
Scotch blacksmiths that none Of their
craft would do O Job on Christmas
day. To this rule there was one ex.
cepdon. If anything went wrong with
the meal-mill the apron was donned
and the defect attended to. The vel.
fare of whole district might have de-
pended on this job being done In
time, In some districts, notably For.
farshire, the servant was absolutely
free from his master during the whole
Of Christmas day, and went about the
country visiting his friends and &C.
quaintances.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Llluol 1Lb lOaQS OF 1uQ, O1
course, the best minute In the whole
year. But It's funny, too. You al
ways feel so sort Of sick. Now, why
should you feel sick just because it's
Christmas morning?"
i know what you mean," bigger
boy agreed. "But 1t Isn't a bad kind
OF sick. Just an all-gone feeling, sort
OF shaky and faint. Christmas morn.
ing always does that to you"
Eyes, doesn't 1t, thought" his twin,
Betty, cried. 1T almost spoils the
presents sometimes. Last Christmas
thought, Wouldn't 1t be a good
thing If we could get our presents the
day after Christmas, or, even better.
the day before? Then we'd feel as we
always do other days, Jolly and com.
Portable, and could really appreciate
'em."
"No, I'd rather have my presents on
christmas day when all the other folks
are getting theirs" objected another
child. Il have that funny feeling,
too. It's horrid. But just the same
its being Christmas does make up for
1t. My kid sister and call that
funny feeling Christmas dawn-itis.'
And we're figuring out together that
1t has something to do with that thing
teacher sometimes talks about, the
law OF compensation. Christmas is
so jolly and wonderful you've Just got
to have something that isn't jolly and
wonderful along with 1t to make up.
That's why Christmas-dawn-itis comes
along, too"
a thoughtful young man, ploddlng
softly along In the snow behind these
children, had no trouble to refrain
from smiling at this quaint conversa-
ton. Indeed, he thought it rather
touching. But he did smile, relieved
", when q little fellow, silent until
now, entered in.
"What do you mean?' he asked. ST
don't know the feeling. Mummy al.
ways comes to our beds In the earliest
dawn and makes us every one drink
glasses Of warm milk, down to the
last drop before she let's us see what
Santa has left in our stockings. That's
the only tits about our Christmas
mornings. It's dreadfully hard to take
time to drink alt that milk with the
stockings waiting But it does make
us all warm and comfy, just the same"
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20
POPCORN DELIGHT

Take two cupfuls sugar, one cupful
cream, a pinch of salt, one table
spoonful lemon extract, one cupful
chopped popcorn and one-half cupful
peanuts, Boil the sugar, salt, cream
and butter until it forms a soft BAH
when tested in cold water. Remove
from the fire, add the extract, pop.
corn and nuts. Stir until it creams
and pour into a buttered pan.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20
Holy AND MIST. Ernr

Holly grows in almost every coun.
Try and because Of its thorns and its
blood-red berries was associated, cen.
turtles age, with the Passion Of Christ
Mistletoe, which grows on oak trees
used to be held sacred by pagans be.
cause the oak was supposed to be the
symbol Of their god, Thor. At the
tlIne OF the great pagan winter festi-
walls It was customary TO decorate with
al Kinds Of green things. When peo-
Pie became Christians they held onto
some Of the old customs md continued
TO decorate their homes and places
Of worship with greenery. Holly.
which was easily secured at Christmas
time naturally became a favorlte. ana
the mistletoe failed to be forgotten,
though 1t is not used in churches be-
cause il was once SO closely allied
with pagan ceremonies.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20
Generosityin Giving
20, 1929. Western Newspaper Union.)
By CHARLES FREDERICK wADswoRTH

BAT constitutes q generous
gift?
Is 1t necessarily an expen-
sive limousine with cut-glass
bouquet holders and door
handles? A diamond brooch
set In Platinum A baby
grand piano? a flfty-thou-
sand-dollar check? A man.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20
THERE ARE OTHERS

And besides Santa Claus the gen.
tlemen who declare stock dividends
continue to make people happy.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Fitzgerald Leader Want ADS
Quick Results Phone S2S.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

GROUP Of children were
sauntering home from
school the last day of the
term. Christmas vacation
had at last come.
"DO you know" James
Tucker exclaimed, Christ
mas morning is a funny
tinei IFS loads oP finn IN
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20


about after he had gone by, and
walked him back and into the James
store.
Mrs. James had brought her mend.
ing down and was sitting In the calico
covered rocking chair behind the one
counter, keeping Mr.. James company.
Now, just as Aliens feet had deter.
mined for him whittier he was to go,
his tongue, once he was In the store
and no retreat possible, made up for
him what he was to sayl Certainly If
he had known It's intention he would
have bitten it out before he would have
let it ask, "Rosamond's coming home
for Christmas, l s'pose2
The question was uttered In husky
voice, and Allen was very busy look
ing anywhere but at Mr.. or Mrs. james.
mo. Rosamond can't get away,
seems like. We're to have Christmas
alone"
Now Allen did look in utter amaze
ment at Mr.. james. He could hardly
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-01-11

State OF Maine
Department OF Attorney General

A Reward of 100000 is offered by
the State of Maine for the recovery
Mertlcy II. Johnston, missing game
wardens, or $4,000 for the recovery
of either body. with $4,000 additional
reward for evidence which will lead
to the conviction Of any person or
persons responsible for their deaths.
HANSFORD w. SHAW,
Attorney General.
Augusta, Maine,
December &c, 1922.
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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-01-11

Have you tried those Chilly-Sweets
put up by the Skowhegan Jersey
Creamery You can buy them where
they sell ice cream. 1w2
, 1923-08-12
cUN0 cabinet COLLAPSE seen:
SCORE SLAIN In GERMAN RIOTS

.chancellory informed the United Press
at 0 p. m.
1t was indicated hat h chancellor
will await developments in the reich
stag Monday and will not allow him.
self to be forced into immediate retire
ment by the action of the socialists
this afternoon in adopting a motion
to vote lack Of confidence In the gov
eminent when parliament
next week.
Meantime communist. using every
opportunity to foment a red revolt"
continued a strange agitation against
the chancellor. A group of the ex-
treme radicals paraded through the
Wilhelmstrasse tonight shouting
down with Cuno," and hurting abuse
at the government.
In semi-off!cial circles It was admit
ted the position Of the government
appeared hopeless and that President
Ebert may have grave difficulty in
finding a, man to replace Cuno.
Some well informed persons even
saw Germany on the brink of revolut-
ton and forecast O recurrence of the
bloodw events which followed the re-
~actionery movement OF March 1920.
when the workers rose against the
Kapp dictatorship. This theory. it
was pointed out, was supported by the
riots today in various parts of the
country in which upwards of a score
were killed and many injured. The
fact that the riots broke out In Upper
Silesia, Rhenish Prussia and on the
Belgian frontier. simultaneously was
interpreted as proof OF a concerted
effort by the communists to force a
situation enabling them to make n
final effort for establishment Of their
longed for dictatorship OF the prole-
tariat-
The whole nation today literally
seethed with an atmosphere of i'm
pending trouble. with the Ruhr and
red Saxony the center from which
, 1923-08-12
Curnmins Ready
To Aid Kenyon
For President

DIES MONIES. Iowa, August IL
UNITED Press6If Ex-senator William
s. Kenyon is a candidate for president
he will have the support OF his for
mer colleague. Senator Albert B.
Cummins.
In an interview with the United
Press tonight, Iowa's senior senator
declared he knew nothing of Judge
Kenyon's attitude but he would not
on n account oppose him IL he
should decide to run.
Senator Cummins made It clear tina,
ne was not booming Kenyon and
would not take a stand until the
judge himself had definitely determih-
ed what to do.
He declared however. that a success
full administration would ensure
President Coolidge's nomination next
year.
'I am not going to take a stand
until I know who the candidates are"
the senator said.
81 shall do everything I can 10 help
President Coolidge and make his ad-
ministration n successful one. II it
is successful, his nomination will be
ensured. But then. of course. he might
lot be n candidate.
"Judge Kenyon might be a candi-
date. / would not On any account op-
pose Kenyon. I am very fond of
him. But then many things are like
iy to happen between now and the re-
publican convention"
, 1923-08-12

communists hoped to spread disorder
to all of the reich.
The hoplessness of the financial out
look was slightly relieved this morn
ing owing to settlement of the strike
of money printers who Immediately
resumed their task of grinding out
billions of new marks. Settlement of
the strike enabled the Reichsbank to
reopen but many of the smaller finan-
cial institutions remained without
funds because of the money shortage.
Lack Of paper caused much trouble
part Of the riot.ng being directly at
tributed to the mari shortage which
made 1t impossible to pay unemploy-
ment doles in some districts.
Leaders of the factory councils of
workers. meeting here. voted for a
strike in all Berlin factories effective
Tuesday night. to force resignation of
the Cuno government and granting
Of labors demand for a satisfactory
plan for wage payments which will
meet the cost of living.
, 1923-08-12
State UNITE IN WAR MADE ON
GASPR|CES'S TANDARDTOFGHT
CONTINUED from Page One,

Continued from Page One.1
Joined forces in a war on high gaso-
line prices.
Following the coup of Governor w.
H. McMaster who forced the Stand
ard and other big companies to re-
duce retail prices in South Dakota to
is cents a gallon, Governor r. A.
Nestos sent a telegram to the Stand
ard OIL company. of Indiana, demand
Ing 16 cent gasoline in North Dakota.
While South Dakota motorists.
farmers and other gasoline users
went on a gasoline Jag" laying up
huge stores of cheap fuel. Nestos
prepared to take action similar. to
that by McMaster IL the Standard re-
fuses to sell for the same price as in
South Dakota
Governor McMaster forced a i've
cent reduction throughout his state
by selling at 16 cents through a
state highway depot at Mitchell and
preparing to dump a half million gal
Ions on the retail market.
Unless the Standard lowers It's
prices. Governor Nestos will urge
cooperative associations to buy gaso-
line in carload lots and establish
competition similar to that by the
state in South Dakota. he announced.
Gasoline dealers must cease ex-
horbitant prices" Nestos said. "The
public will not stand for this unfair
discrimination and the government
will back it up. In the case of the
railroads, discrimination and unfair
competition have already been wiped
out"
Reports received here tonight said
Governor Charles w. Bryan. Ne
braska, is also Investigating the
South Dakota plan" Bryan SO far.
however, has o intimated what he
will do.
Consumers swarmed upon filling
stations by the thousands throughout
South Dakota today when word of
the price cut was received. Believing
that the price might again go up
soon, they brought barrels, small
tanks, jugs and every conceivable
sort OF containers to haul away stor-
age supplies
The governors office in Pierre,
s.. D., has assured the public. how
ever, that the half million gallons
which McMaster threatened to dump
on the market will actually be
brought In and sold to keep the re-
tail costs down II necessary.
, 1923-08-12
PRE S|DEN Mt Of
P|GGLY WIG GL Y
RESIGNS PLACE
Man Who Built Up Great
Company to Retire
Monday, Said.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Aug. 11-United
PressSClarence Saunders, who ran
from a three-dollar-a-week grocery
clerk to the head of the Piggly.wig.
g'y company. has resigned as presi-
dent of the chain of stores, he indi
Gated tonight.
Saunders resignation will become
effective Monday when pool interests
which financed his recent sensational
fight in Wall Street meet here, the
youthful financial wizard intimated
Following : conference with the heads
of the Memphis pool tonight.
In his conference tonight Saunders
proposed that members Of the local
pool sanction a plan to C as stock.
holders and take stock at $50 a share,
enabling him to return to the COM
pany and reorganize the business.
II have worked over the other pans
but this Is the best one he declared.
"If something is not done to get mon.
ey. Memphis Is going to lose Plggly.
Wiggly. I will say. however, II you
let some one else come in and try TO
run Piggly-W iggly. a failure Is bound
to result.
THE only remedy is money, re.
organization and starting all over
again with a clean slate"
Saunders touched on his recent cor
ner in Piggiy-w iggly stock which
squeezed the shorts in the market.
IT have learned something about
human nature during the past
months" he said. 1T was a hero
when the people spoke of me as
whipping Wall street. but now many
OF my former admirers give me the
cold stare when on the street"
More than a score of members of
the pool bolted tho conference follow.
ing Saunders speech with expressed
anger over the failure to agree on
the number OF members that should
be appointed on a representative com
mittee of the local pool to confer with
out'ef'town groups regarding saun.
ders plan,
, 1923-08-12
STRIVES TO shake OFF
GRIEF;ALL crepe IS REMOVED

MARION, Ohio, Aug. ia city
saddened and chastened by the trag-
edy OF death. Marion tonight was
trying to get back to normally"
A flag-draped flower-strewn shrine
mt the Cemetery. guarded by soldiers.
hold the remains OF the great man
who had brought fame to his homo
town. Tho clamor of nation wide
attention was gone. For three short
years, during the height of Warren
Harding's career. Marion occupied the
spotlight. In the reflected glory of
a president. her Rabbits, good fel.
lows. first-name acquaintance OF half
h population OF Marion, became
known throughout the country.
Tonight the last of the visiting
mourners Ind disappeared. Tho fes-
o crepe had been removed from
the streets. The litter OF the thous-
ands who packed Marion's streets on
Friday vas cleared.
On the front porch of an old.fash.
Toned house on East Center street an
old man sat tanning himself with his
straw hat. talking in low tones with
n neiEhbor who sat beside him. Ho
was the first TO ever bury a son who
IN achieved the office of president
OF the United States.
Military officers who left town to.
day checked some figures furnished
them by their subordinates who had
been stationed along the highways
leading into the city. The figures
purnorted TO estimate the number OF
eitizcas who came to Marion for tho
funeral Friday.
BasinE their calculations on the
number Of automobiles entering by
five main highways. multiplied BY the
, 1923-08-12
FOREIGN CRISIS
WILL CALI FOR
HERE
President Expected to
Lean on Advice Of
State Secretary.
By A. L. BRADFORD.

'S"ieeu fies otaii CorreSpondent)
WASHINGTON Aug. IL. The
European crisis. becoming daily more
as chaos grows in Germany,
will be one Of tho first big problems
presented to President Coolidge.
Foreign affairs generally will be in
the first rank of the problems to be
tackled by he new president during
the remainder of his term of office.
1t is conceded.
In handling international questions,
MT Coolidge is expected to lean heav-
ny on h acvice Of Secretary Of
state HUGHES, just a sdid the late
President Harding.
Germany. which some observers be-
lieve is now in the throes of a final
crash. may soon appeal directly to
the United States to take some step
to bring an end to the Ruhr and re
parations crisis.
A diplomatic triumph = settIement
or differences between the United
states and Mexico and extension Of
American recognition = is expected
to be contaminated soon under Presl.
don't Coolidge.
A settlement of the Mexican oues.
ton will mark almost a complete win.
ing clean of the slate of routine
questions of foreign policy before the
present administration.
Secretary Hughes has made such
programm In c,eaning I'd information
al questions before the government,
that barring unforeseen problems that
may arise. the administration of
President Coolidge probably can de.
vote itself In the field of foreign AT.
fairs almost exclusively to the devel,
opment of ~so1cailed high policies de
signed to bring about international
tranquility.
One of the first questions of high
policy to be taken I'D by the new
president will be the question OF
American membership in the world
court set up by the league of nations.
Later President Coolidge may be
found taking a major step in the for.
eign field to bring peace out of chaos
in Europe.
, 1923-08-12
Continued from Page One,

Continued from Page One.)
tons Of the Reich.
At Aaschen eleven were reported
killed when frenzied workers from the
city and suburbs invaded the rural
district and started p,undering fields.
Farmers repulsed the workers with
muskets and hunting rifles.
Four were killed at Ratibor, upper
silesia, one in Hamburg and four in
Crefeld.
Various cities reported plunderings
of food and potato transports. especi-
ally in the Ruhr.
At Crefeld the workers. emulating
the exploits o the italian communi-
ties in 1920. occupied a number of
factories.
Four were killed and IS wounded
when police attempted to expel them.
In many cities the radicals erected
gibbets hanging the effig.es of Cuno.
Hugo SHINES and DR.. Hermes. minis
ter of finance
Reports from throughout the Ruhr
indicated the communists were doing
their utmost to exploit the dangerous
situation to bring about a red terror
which would put them in power.
Food Of all kinds was scarce in
the cities int workers were desperate,
demanding bread and potatoes for
their families.
Stoppage or interruption OF cleo
trio current was reported in many
places. In Berlin a part of the street
railways are unable to operate be-
cause OF the shortage of power.
, 1923-08-12

"A tremendous traffic has devel-
oped between Casper and Evansville.
On account of the great difficulty in
keeping up the gravel road between
Casper n Evansville, n traffic count
was mad for a week in order to see
what wear this road really had to
withstand. Guesses had been made
that there were a thousand vehicles
a day but a traffic count covering n
week showed that the west end Of
the federal aid project had to with
stand an average daily traffic OF
1904 vehicles per day. Almost all
this traffic covered the entire dis
lance between Casper and Evansville.
ut is generally conceded that n
gravel road should not be. expected to
carry n heavier motor vehicle traffic
than three to five hundred vehicles
per day. Since this piece of road is
subjected to several times that traf-
flc we al not expect to maintain an
ordinary gravel surface road under
the conditions which now exist. 1t
is interesting to know that the aver
age 24-hour traffic for a week al
as follows:
Ford class 1913; Buick class 642;
Dodge class 391: Cadillac class 239:
motorcycles G; or 2.251 passenger cars
In each "a hour day. The traffic
count for trucks showed: 1 ton trucks
229; 2 and 3 tor trucks 131: 8 ton
trucks 81: buses AZ; 2 horse teams
IS; 4 horse teams II or q total of 543
vehicles per "a hour day in the class
of trucks.
Some means must be found to take
car of this heavy and increasing
traffic Immediately east OF Casper as
the cost of maintaining the gravel
road over this section is very heavy.
and furthermore a surface can not
be satisfactorily maintained.
"A pressure oil distributor has ar
rived in Casper and will be used in
oiling the road between Casper and
Glenrock. ,Oilins the road will, no
doubt provide some relief on the
heavy travelled road between Casper
and Glenrock, out wen ar lie gravel
road can not be expected to sustain
the heavy traffic between Casper and
Evansville during the dry and windy
we experience in Wyoming"
, 1923-08-12
.C0L0RED WOMEN AGREE
TO co ELSEWHERE IN
SEARCH FOR husbands,

Several colorec women alighted IN
Casper at the same time this week,
all Of them DESTROYS Of meeting their
husbands here. according to testimony
given Judge John A. Murray in POI
lice court last night when ten women
were arraigned OF charges of solicit
ing or similar offenses. Tho testi-
mony in h eight cases Of soliciting.
however. was not good enough for
the magistrate to swallow.
Each woman was given her choics
OF either getting out Of town within
three days or OF paying q fine Of s25
and serving thirty days In jail.
Judge. rs done made up my mind
already" exclaimed one negress while
the others appeared to agree with
her.
The case, Of Dorothy Murray. white.
charged with being an inmate Of q
house Of III fame. was continued un-
I'll Monday. 4,