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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20

Monica peered cautiously through.
There was a long table running the
whole length of the hall, a round
dozen of smaller ones, and the entire
walls seemed to be covered with
crudely-colored pictures without
frames. The whole atmosphere
throbbed with feverish activity, the
rafting of dice, and ~spasmodic, in
articulate grunts that she could not
decide whether intended for signs of
pleasure or despair. There were
clerks in white duck, native over
seers in greasy suits, coolies with
broad-brimmed hats of plated cane
and wearing only loin-cloths.
A Chinaman, wearing enormous
horn-rimmed s~pectacles, sat at the
far end of a big table before what
appeared to be the inverted halves of
cocoanut shells. Whenever these
were lifted, there arose a repetition
of the discordant babel she had
heard as they approached. All along
both sides, orientals of every class
and distinction thronged the rocking
forms. Every now and then a man
rose, seemingly emotionless, and
left the table.
Monica. the novelty Of this strange
scene holding her enthralled, al
lowed her gaze to wander round the
room. Presently 1t fell upon the
form of an oriental in a suit of
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greasy blue whose face seemed
peculiarly familiar. Every time a
player from the top vacated his seat,
this enthusiastic gambler moved
into 1t, in this getting
gradually nearer to the man with the
horn trimmed spectacles who mani
pulated the shells. Presently he
looked up at the swinging oil lamp
and Monica uttered a little cry. In
spite of the elaborate disguise, there
was something in the set of the
mobile mouth. something in the
polse of the shoulders that betrayed
him. She found her lips forming
the words-'Chinese Pennington"
A moment later and he had
reached the apparent zenith of his
desire. His, elbow touched the
sleeve of the man who presided, but
his eyes were staring straight before
him at an enormous Chinaman who
sat opposite, both hands resting on
the table, the fingers slightly closed.
For some reason that she could
not quite define, a mental picture be-
gan forming in her mind; a picture
that the vividness of Pennington's
description had impressed on her
memory. She saw a glade In the
uight-shrouded jungle wastes, a
huddled form with a long knife pro-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20

truding from between hunched-up
shoulder blades-and "he who sees
in the dark" struggling for dear life
In the matted underground.
Her vivid imagination had already
established the identity of the man
who now faced the hero of her ro-
nance. Behind her she heard Daw-
son strike a match and puff strenu-
ously at his pipe. And then, through
the nebulous smoke-haze, the three
principal figures at the top end of
the long table stood out in bold re-
lief from the surging background of
negligible supers.
In a moment of time the thing
happened. The man opposite PEN
nington slid a yellow hand toward
the Chinaman in the horn spectacles,
as If trying to pass him the some
thing over which the powerful fin
gers were closed. Like a flash, Pen
nington's arm shot out, sending coins
clinking to the dusty boards, scat
tering little heaps of paper-money
like autumn leaves in a sudden gust.
Swift as the movement had been, the
action of the l~istless oriental who
presided vas quicker. The mysteri-
paekage-wrapped in a broad
green leaf secured by strands of
twisted bamboo-vanished into some
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
5NG NGGL0W SEVEN;
~ TIE BOX IRl(KH
: BY EDnoNp SHELL.
mioSTRSsso BY
9NEA sERWcE iHcAsks.
carnate."

carnate."
The presence of a young, beauti-
full and undeniably attractive widow
is bound to cause something more
than a mild sensation in any quar-
ter of the globe where there happens
to be a preponderance of unattach-
ed males. 1t was perfectly natural
therefore, that Monica Whey, at
such times when her brother was
occupied with his affairs, was rarely
at a loss for a cavalier to accom-
pany her on her habitual excursions
in search of knowledge, after the
sun was down. At these times, how
ever, Pennington was eve avail
able. He came and went and yet
she had never witnessed either his
arrival or departure.
1t was during one of those evening
walks that she persuaded Dawson
"A local district officer to take hol
to a gambling-den.
They had been stroli.ng l~eisurely
through the native quarter. stop
ping at innumerable stores and pur-
chasing an inordinate quantity u
perfectly useless articles. Iney
halted presently before a long build.
ing from which, at intervals, can't
bursts of cultural ~chattering. Al
one end a door stood ~halfSopen, q
patch Of yellow light falling on the
roadway.
She caught his arm impuisively
ind tried to drag him toward the
entrance, but Dawson, cautious anc
immovable as granite, waited Until
there was a Iull in the stream of de-
voices. He guided her through the
doorway and into a narrow cublcle
screened from the entrance-hall by
a heavy curtain. An elderly China
man, hump-backed and wizened, lei
the stool on which he had been seat
ed, nodded to Dawson and went out
Her escort placed the stool in front
of a narrow slit cut in the wood
work,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
kEYPOR1

Mrs. James Jones and daughters,
Carrie, Edna and Annie, have re-
turned to their home on Kearney
street after having been the guests
of relatives in Newburgh.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hoffman
were the recent guests of their
daughter Mrs. Harry Ford at Wood
bridge.
Arne Kalma, Theodore, Dick and
Arch Dick were visitors at Coney Is
land this week.
Miss Leona Mason has returned to
her home or Second street after hay
ing spent her vacation at Worcester,
Mass.
joying a vacation at Atlantic City.
w. S. Wallace Is driving a new
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sedan.
A district meeting Of the Mon
mouth County Sunday School AS
ISOLATION will be held on Tuesday
night at s o'clock at Calvary M. =.
church. Pastors of the churches in
the district also the Sunday school
superintendent have been invited to
be present and the district executives
will also attend. The purpose of the
meeting Is to plan the work for the
district the coming season.
M. Lester Terry chief accountant
of the North Jersey Water supply
has returned after having spent ms
annual vacation at his home Oh
Myrtle avenue.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20

ard Brown.
The annual picnic Of the Sunday
school OF the First Baptist church
was held at Atlantic Highlands, on
Wednesday. The trip was made by
automobiles.
Miss Edith Dawson, the twelve-
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
George Davidson, who has been con-
fined to the Middlesex General 8
pital in New Brunswick Tor ON
weeks past has returned home. She
is still confined to her bed however.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Close are
enjoying a several weeks stay a !
Mohonk Lake, New York.
Miss Olive Ellison entertained q
few friends at her home In Havlne
Drive, wednesday in honor OF Miss
Inas Evans.
Miss Mildred Macaron is spend
ing two weeks with friends In Con-
necticut.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20
MATAWAN

Mrs. John Walker, sailed recently
on the steamship Columbia for
GLASGOW, Scotland, from which porl
she will go to Brechin, TO spend the
remainder of her life. Mrs. walker
has a daughter living in Brechln
which was her former home. MRS
Walker had been in America for the
two and n half years, max
ing her home with her daughter
and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
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o jet dome sprinkled with stars.
Dawson, gasping for breath, stood
at her side. She was wondering
whether Pennington had fought
clear, whether it had actually been
Lady Stornaway's diamond pendant
contained in the queer package the
transit of which the E%nglishman had
striven Il intercept.
CONTINUED in Our Next Issue)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-20

The Best Available properties IN and
near the city are offered for sale IN tne
Evening News CLASSIFIED CoIumnH.
II You Are looking for a good real estate
investment, look nrst at the LOTS tok
Sale" column In she CLASSIFIED Section
Each advertiser on the classified page
has a message for at least one readers
Have you received your message YETI
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
NO RACE SUICIDE HERE
One Baby Born for Every Ten Geor-
gia Women Between Is and As

ATLANTA, July 28.-There is
little danger of race suicide in Geor-
gia. For every ten women between
Is and 45 years of age in the State
in 1922 there was one baby born or,
in other words, one woman out Of
every ten gave birth to a child dur
ing that year. According to the
1920 census, there were 685, 1885
women in this class and according
TO the State Bureau of Vital Stats
tics records there were 69,615 chill
dren born. The white race shows a
better record in this matter than
the negro. There were 385,654
white women and 44,525 white bab-
les born or one baby to each eight
women. There We're 25,042 negro
babies born to the 299,681 negro
women in the child bearing age
showing a ratio of one baby for
each twelve negro women.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
SHIP SIX CARS POTATOES

LYONS, Ga, AUG. 1.-The big
steam Jersey sweet potato total
shipment have reached the six-car
point now and the season is over for
this point. These six cars were pro-
duced on about sixty-five acres and
when all the returns are in will total
about $500 or better than 500
per acre. The highest yield was
made by w. L. Duncan, who dug
1877 bushels, or fifty barrels, off of
one acre.
G. E. Corley received check for
his shipment from two and one-half
acres last Saturday and it totaled
1912 net.
Mr.. Duncan's first car of 229 bar
rels returned him $1,000 and was
produced on five and three-fourths
acres. This was the highest average
acreage yield. The lowest price re-
:eived for number one potatoes was
SO per barrel on one car. The 9TH
ers ran from 50 te$1O per barrel.
Number two's ran from the lowest
lot, which sold for SO to the other
which sold from $3.50 to $3.50 per
barrel.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
HALTING AUTOMOBILES
WITHOUT WARRANT is
OEPLORED BY JUDGE

LAGRANGE, Ga, July 81
Troup superior court convened
Monday for the July term, with
Judge C. E. Roop presiding. The
grand jury organized by electing
C. L. Smith, of LAGRANGE, foreman.
Judge Roop delivered an able
charge to the jury, touching upon
many questions. He said the schools
and colleges were giving too much
time and money to athletics, clubs,
etc., and not enough to the funda-
mentals upon which the government
was founded, chief among which is
the constitution of the United
States. He said that he thought all
the schools should require the stu
dents to make study of the instru-
ment, and that legislation should be
passed requiring this to be done.
He referred to the recent incident
at West Point in which one dry
agent was killed and another was
wounded when they fired upon an
automobile occupied by some young
men of West Point returning from
church. Judge Roop said that there
might possibly be some circum-
stances under which officers would
have "a right to intercept an auto
mobile without search warrant but
this right should be exercised with
great caution. He said the officers
had no right to violate one law in
trying to enforce another; that the
citizens of the state had rights guar
anteed them by the constitutions of
the state and of the United States.
even if they were not always pro-
tected in the right.
The people of the county and sur
rounding country are watching with
interest what action the grand jury
will take in the West Point incident.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
PEANUT COOP. HAS
OVER $500 MEMBERS
Marketing Organization will Con-
troll Over Two-Thirds of Crop.

ALBANY, Ga, July 30.-With
The sign-up campaign of the Geor.
gia Peanut Growers Cooperative
Association about completed, it is
now evident that this new co-opera.
tive marketing organization will con.
troll the yield Of more than 100000
acres Of the $4,000 acres estimated
as the total crop of the state by the
u. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econo-
i mics. The number of members is
already in excess of 5000, and the
total will probably be 5000 by har-
vest season.
Through the county organizations
and district and community locals
now being set up in different parts
of the state, it is estimated that a
large number of additional acres of
peanuts will be pledged to the new
coop. and that the membership will
be considerably increased. The To-
Gals will preserve contact between
the members and the association.
New and larger headquarters for
the association have been opened in
the David Brown building on North
Washington street in Albany, inn
nediately in front of the St. Mich
olas Hotel.
Heads of the different depart
ments have been selected as follows:
Colonel Robert E. l.. Spence, een-
eral manager; John H. Mock, direc-
tor of field service; j. ]. Watson,
production manager, and Richard
Mccarthy, office manager and sec
rotary. Col. Spence will have gen.
eral supervision of all departments.
Mr.. Mock will have charge of the
locals and preserving contact be-
tween the members and the associa-
ton, as we'll as the matter of giving
public information about the asso-
cation and advising members as to
different plans of the association.
Mr.. Watson will have charge of the
warehousing, shipping and grading
end of the business, together with a
participation in the sales and adj
vertising end. Mr.. Mccarthy, who
comes from the Prune and April
cot Growers Association of Cali
fornia, will have general charge of
the office work and accounting. Mr..
Watson's department is already
busy lining up warehouse facilities
for handling this years peanut
CROP.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
HARDING
PASSES AWAY

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Pres
ident Harding died instantly and
without warning tonight at 1880
o'clock.
At 7:45 p. m. it was announced
that an official bulletin would be is
sued within a few minutes.
Death came to the Chief Execu-
tive while he was conversing with
members of his family and accord
ing to official statement issued by
physicians, was apparently due to
some brain evolvement, probably an
apoplexy.
The end came so suddenly that
the members of the official party
could not be called. 1t came after
day which had been described by
Brigadier General Sawyer, the Pres
ident's personal physician, as the
most satisfactory day the President
had had since his illness began. The
physicians in their formal announce
ment of the end said that during
the day he had been free from dis
comfort and there was every justi-
fication for anticipating prompt
recovery.
The first indication that a change
had occurred in the condition of Mr..
Harding came shortly after z o'clock
when Mrs. Harding personally open
ed the door of the sick room and
called to those in the corridors to
Find Doctor Boone and the others
quick"
At that time Mrs. Harding was
understood to have been reading to
the President, sitting at his bed
side with the evening papers and
messages of sympathy which had
been received during the day.
The death of the nations Chief
Executive was announced in these
words: "The President died in
simultaneously and without warning
and while coversing with members
of his family at 1880 p. m. Death
was apparently due to some brain
envolvemeEt, probably apoplexy."
During the day he had been free
from discomfort and there was
every justification for anticipating
a prompt recovery.
(Signed) &C. E. Sawyer, M. D.,
Ray Layman Wilbur, M. D., C. M.
Cooper, M. D., ]. T. Boone, M. D.,
Hubert Works, M. D. August 2,
1923 1880 p. m.
In a second official statement is
sued at 500 p. M, the statement
was made that death had been caus-
ed by stroke of apoplexy.
The story of the Presidents tragic
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
GEORGIA COUNTY
} THROWS OFF YOKE
OF ALL COTTON

ATLANTA, Ca, The story of how
Georgia county threw of the yoke
If an call cotton" crop and found in
.rop diversiication 4 remedy for the
many ills too faithful adherence to
cotton had placed upon its farmers,
is Interestingly told in national pub
locations by Will w. Bruner, editor
of the Washington, Ga. News Re-
porter.
Wilkes county,, Georgia, for more
than one hundred years had been
growing cotton to the exclusion of
almost all other crops. The result
was that the farmers of Wilkes
county prospered only when cotton
was high in price and were under a
burden OF debt when the staple be-
came Improbable.
Mr.. Bruner, in his article, tells
how the Kiwanis club of Washing
ton, the county seat of Wilkes, with
the cooperation Of the business men
and bankers of the town and the
progressive farmers Of the county,
:naugurated a program of develop
ment for the county which has had
amazing results.
The Kiwanians adopted the slo-
gan: "Co-operation, square deal,
good will, the COW, the hog, the hen;
little cotton now and then" A
better slogan, in the opinion of
state agriculturists, could hardly
De devised. With the hearty sup
port Of business interests and farm
ng interests, the Kiwanis club start
ed to carry out it's program for di
versification.
Dairying has been introduced,
creamery in under construction,
oure-bred eggs have been purchased
20 take the place of ordinary kind
or settings and a ten-thousand egg
hatchery in under construction. The
county had been producing pure
bred hogs for a number of years and
this industry has been enlarged.
Crops suitable to the land have been
planted OF take the place Of so much
cotton, and Wilkes county is seeing
daylight ahead and financial free
iom for it's farmers is we'll in sight.
AS agriculturists here point out,
splendid example is being set by
he Georgia county for other coun-
lies in the South. What is possible
one Georgia county is possible in
almost any county in other southern
states. All that is needed is, far
ner experts say, for some organiza-
ton with the determination of the
Washington, Ga. Kiwanis club to
start the movement.
Southern farmers are willing,
Georgia agriculturists claim, to
plant less cotton if they can be
shown that it will pay them better
70 produce other crops, to add dairy
ing and hog raising and produce
cotton only as a part of their farm
ing activity.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03

end was told in this way: "The Pres
ident died at 1880 p. m. Mrs. Hard
ing and the two nurses, Miss Ruth
Powderly and Miss Sue Dausser,
were in the room at the time.
Mrs. Harding was reading to the
President when utterly without
warning slight shudder passed
through his frame, he collapsed, and
all recognized that the end had
come, A stroke of apoplexy was the
cause of death.
"Within a few minutes all of the
Presidents official party had been
summoned"
Secretary, Hoover was the first of
the four members of the Presidents
Cabinet, who are in San Francisco,
to learn the sad news. He went into
the room at once and in few min
utes came out obviously deeply dis
tressed and in a low voice said to
newspaper men, most of whom did
not now of the hurried call almost
half an hour previously:
"Boys. I can't tell you thing"
A third official statement, issued
at 8:15 p. m. announced that Vice
President Calvin Coolidge, the next
man who occupies the first position
in he United States Government,
had been notified of President Hard
!ing's death.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
FARMERS LOSE BILLIONS by
DECLINE IN PRICES SINCE
1921. "

Comparison Of prices received by
farmers for their several principal
products in the summer of 1921
with the returns they are getting
now shows that in every instance
there has been a heavy decline
amounting in the aggregate to bill
lions Of dollars to the agricultural
producers of the country.
Wheat is now selling for about
81 bushel. In 1920 the maximum
price was SO bushel. Corn brought
almost So a bushel at the "peak" of
prices in 1920. That is more than a
dollar above the present price of
corn. In 1919 the highest price for
barley was $3.50 bushel, as
against So or So cents bushel now.
Oats reached a maximum of $1.15
a bushel in 1920, and is now selling
for about 43 cents a bushel. Pota-
toes have fallen from about $3.50
a bushel to less than 81.
Hog have declined in value an
average Of SIS a hundred pounds
below the maximum price the far
mers got for them in 1919, the
peak" At that time the price at
Chicago was S22.25 hundreds
pounds. The price now is about 81
hundred pounds.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03

We find the convicts properly fed
and clothed and we'll cared for: and
the camps in excellent condition.
Justice of Peace Books.
The following Justice of Peace
Books were presented for examina-
zion ]. H. Randall, B. E. Powell,
5. NJ. Jones Sr. We find these books
neatly and correctly kept.
The other Justices of Peace did
not present. their books for inspec-
ton.
Public Records.
We find all public Records neatly
and correctly kept.
Twenty-eight mules, 2 horses, 10
2-horse wagons, 1-horse wagon, l
cook car, 2 sleeping cars, A road
machines, 1 3-horse drag, 5 2-horse
irags, 2 tents, 38 hogs, IS pigs, l
Best Tractor, / Fordson Tractor, l
Ford Truck, / Ford car, l Avera
Road Drag, 8 Army Trucks, 9
Wheelers, Gasoline engine, 5 tons
Of Hay (more or less), 800 sacks of
feed (more or less), $50 'bu., corn
LIS pounds of meat, 2 cases of soap,
case of coffee, 200 gallons of oil
100 gallons of syrup, rs sacks of
salt, u case soda, 100 bu., sweet
potatoes, 100 acres Of oats on Coun-
ty Farm, $50 acres of corn on
County Farm, 1 Dat thrash, 10
state, men, 20 county men, Is tons
Of guano, 80 bu., field peas, 200
sacks cement (more or less), 2 oa+
binders, 100 gallons gasoline.
To the Honorable Board of Grand
Jurors, hereby hand my report as
Warden of Lee County.
j. D. Mcbride,
Warden of Lee County.
GEORGIA, Lee County.
To the Honorable County Com
missioners and Grand Jury of Lee
County, Georgia.
Herewith, l beg to submit semi
annual report as Clerk Of Lee
Superior City Court of Leesburg.
Lee County, Ca, as to the monies
collected as per receipt hereto at
tached. 1 have received no monies
arising from City Court since last
report.
1, G. A Wallace, Clerk Lee
Superior Court do herewith certify
that the foregoing is a true and
correct accounting. Given under
my official signature and seal Of
this office. This Bird day of May
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 9Th day of May, 1928
H. L. LONG, Ordinary Lee County
H. L. LONG,
Ordinary Lee County, Ga.
G. A. WALLACE,
C. S. C. Lee County, Ga
Continued on page two)
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-08-03
WATERMELON CROP FAILURE

The watermelon crop in this sec
ton is a commercial failure this
season, only a few shipments have
been made from this point.
The stock which in the past has
averaged about thirty pounds is run
ming this season less than twenty
pound average, with considerable
gourd ends and sunburn.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-02
DINNER PAIL EPICS
(By Bill Lloyd)

Just now lotta bodies join to clean
Chicago's tenderloin. They're putting
up an awful fight to douse the glim
in the redlight. A lotta folks begin
to think they'll put tough houses on
the blink, and stop the spread of bad
infection which has been getting
strong protection from the police and
those up higher, who rake their coin
! from out the mire.
All vice is surely at it's worst when
those who practice it are cursed by
paying tribute to a bunch who pass
up work as bad hunch.
Well, | shant let no fearful cry if
all commercial vice should die, but |
should really like to know how far
investigators go in learning why
girls get their pay, a-going down the
easier way. Just why does girl
get much more than working in a
retail store, if she takes up the an
cient trade, which is at all events we'll
paid? Do these Investigators know
how very little wages go to girls who
serve them in the store and wrap up
parcels by the score? When their
clean laundry comes back home, does
it drift ever through their dome that
girls wash clothes and iron-stuff for
wages that is low enuf? When they
buy candy by the box do they remem-
ber how it knocks the beauty out of
some girls looks, a-dipping chocolates