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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-22
Bond Forces See Defeat
But Fight to Last
Ditch
VOTE STOOD 34-15
Vote Taken in Senate at
l A. M. Today Would
Put Tax Into Effect
July l.
By l.. e.. COOPER

NlNllIilOllbf 'A'AN'A -
ter a discussion carrying them
into the night the Senate at one
O'Clock this morning passed the
Ozlin-Keezell-C Campbell three cent
gasoline tax bill by vote Of 81
to l5 the exact vote predicted by
the gas tax advocates.
Before passing the bill the up-
per house amended it to make the
maximum tax effective July /,
1928 instead of January l. 1924.
This amendment was offered by
Senator Parsons, Republican, OF
Grayson.
The indications today, as the
upper house takes up the meas
,ure providing referendum by
counties and cities, are that this
bill of the anti-bond forces also
will be passed.
Because of the failure to mus
ter the twenty-one votes necessary
| for a constitutional majority made
necessary under the appropriative
character of the early amendment,
the bill for the repeal of the Ro-
bertson act was defeated in in"
Senate. The vote was 20 to l9.
| The House of Delegates is ex-
pected to receive the gas tax bill
from the Senate today as amend
! ed.
, The vote in the upper house
left hut slight hope that the
measure would be defeated but
the bond men in both branches
are prepared for strong fna:
stand.
The vote on the Scent gasoline
| tax in the Senate was as follows:
AYES - Andrews of Roanoke;
Beverley, of Fauquior; Byrd, OF
Winchester; Clement of Pittsyl-
vania; Cooke, of Sussex; Crockett,
of Wythe; Dickerson, Of Lloyd;
Early, of Greene; Epes, of Nat
toway: Ferguson, of Appomatox;
( Garrett, of Henry; Goode, OF
fDinwiddie; Gum, of Henrico;
Hassinger. of Washington; Hen
inc. of Powhatan; Jeffreys, or
Mccklenburg; Lambeth. of Bed
ford; Leedy, Of Page; 10th, OF
! Augusta; Parsons, Of Grayson;
Russell. of Campbell; Swank. OF
Rockingham; Wickham, of Han
over: Woodson, Of Nelson. To-
tai -.
Booker. of Halifax; Cam
mon, of Richmond; Downing, Of
Lancaster; Goolrick, of Freder-
icksburg; Holt, of Newport News;
Hyatt, of Tazewell; Layman, Of
Craig; Lesner, of Norfolk; Oliver.
of Fairfax; Mapp, Of Accomac;
Mills. of Richmond; Mitchell, Of
King and Queen; Montague, OF
Portsmouth; Sergent, Of Scott;
Vaughn. of Southampton. To-
tai -.
Amendments by Senators Oil
yer. Jeffreys and Beverley 20 the
Robertson repeal act were quick
Ily licked shortly after midnight
then followed the vote on the
early amendment for the pay
ment of the State of 4 IL per
cent interest on Robertson act
funds calling for payment Of IN
tcrest after four years hal elaps-
ed from date of loan. It showed
"a decisive majority in favor OF
the amendment.
The S6,OO0,00O short term loan
bill offered by bond advocates was
defeated, l3 to %.
Richmond, Va, March o.
! Amendment after amendment was
thrust at the 0zlin three-cent
gasoline tax bill when the sem
ate took up the measure yester-
day afternoon. The amendments
offered included the following:
BY Senator Goolrick, an amend
ment to provide for a one-cent
tax instead of the proposed two
cent tax in. 1923, and three-cent
tax thereafter.
] By Senator Oliver an amend
B. Continue on page three)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-22
JUSTICE, JUSTLY
nv Emitted PressD

New York-In order to send
wife beater to Jail and still
keep mis- family from suffering.
Magistrate We'll gave the wife the
amount of her husbands weekly
pay, and sentenced him to ten
days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-22
CBy United Presn)

Chicago, March 22-The history
Of how all of q once prominent
family have been wiped out thru
the drug evil was revealed here
today with the Staying OF Mrs.
Ella Woolson, -, and suicide of
her daughter, Mrs. Edna Robin
son, police announced.
Notes found when authorities
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-22
EGGS GO DOWN
m Tnised prfsSb

Geneva, n. Eggs dropped to
six cents a dozen here today as
the result of a cut price war, and
housewives rushing to market
blocked traffic.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
CORINTH WILL TRY
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP PLAN
Light and Water Systems Are Bouoht
BY City.

Corinth.-On Nov. l the city of Cor
inth assumed ownership of the mu-
nicipal light and power plant and the
power, lights and water for the city
are being supplied by the plant. At a
meeting of the mayor and the city at
torney with the officials of the AL
corn County Electric Light G. Power
Co., deal was foreclosed turning all
OF the street property, lights, poles,
ETC., over to the city and warrant
issued for $4,000 for the same. The
city has heretofore been supplied
lights and power by the AloOrn Elec-
trio Light & Power Co., and an agree
ment was entered into before the city
began the work on the new plant that
the old one would be taken over at the
others completion.
The city has installed one of the
best plants that could be found in a
city of this size and under proper
management it is expected that it can
be made not only self-supporting, but
one that will in time become dividend
bearing. The total expenditures repre-
sented for the new machinery, poles,
wiring and fixtures exceeds 100000.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
H|RAM'S HAT TO
Be IN RING SOON
HI. JoHNSoN'S CHIEF BAcKEF
PAVES WAY FOR HIS ENTRY.
KNOCKS FOREIGN POLICY
LrreconciIabIe Leader Wants to Ride
Into White House on the Plea
That "He Kept Us Out of
the League"

Washington,-Sena Hiram John.
son, republican, California probably
will announce his candidacy for the
republican presidential nomination
within the next week. according to a
statement issued by Ralph Beaver
Strassurger, Pennsylvania million
aire, who was Johnson's chief finan-
cial backer in the 1920 presidential
primary campaign.
Strassburger's statement vigorous
ly assailed the prospective candidacy
of President Coolidge and Gov. Pin
chot of Pennsylvania and clearly in
dicated his willingness to again back
than he did in 1920.
"It is believed" the statement
said, Senator Johnson will announce
his candidacy for the presidency
within the next week, in response to
calls being made on him by many
republican leaders in eastern states
and elsewhere"
There is no doubt that should Gov
Pinchot become real aspirant for
the republican nomination for presi-
dent, Strassburger could bring great
aid to the organization, were it to
oppose the governors ambition
which it would be very likely to do.
With Senator Johnson as a Pinchot
rival in Pennsylvania, tremendous
strength would be welded either
against Pinchot or an uninstructed
delegation to the national convention
as Johnson is one Of the ablest cam.
paigners in the country and always
has live issues and substantial sup
port. 1t is thought Strassburger re
gard; Gov Pinchot as hardly of pres
iGential timber.
The statement assails the admins
tration's policy as "weak" and feeble
and "wobbling," and concludes:
''As it stands at present, the for
eign situation, with it's possibilities
for renewed conflict, is only hol
low mockery of the idea of per
manent world peace of the League
of Nations brand, in the view of the
lOI WIZ al {
ready to indorse Hiram Johnson for
the nomination for president in 1924
They hold the nation owes Johnson a
debt Of gratitude in keeping it out
of the league. They will offer him
to the nation as a real man who is
we'll available for it's greatest honor
"a man of original brain, of con
structive capacity, who as president
will be a positive and never a mega
tive figure; one who will have for
eign policy that will settle the ques'
ton Of a weary world and settle
1t right, not with the old weapons
borrowed from England but by speak
ing to the French in their own Ian
guage. Times like these demand the
kind Of president that Hiram John
son forces organizing for action, is
destined to become"
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
BERLIN HAS NEW CASTE.
Laundry Women Established .Aristoc
racy Through Sky-soaring Prices.

Berlin.-A new feminine aristoc.
racy has arisen here to take the
place of baronesses, countesses, and
other wives of the formerly idle and
rich. Washerwomen constitute thta
new class, and their prices have soar
ed till many dress shirt is being
chalked to hold out for two wearings.
The standard prices adpoted by
the washtub queens include 81 for
laundering pair of pajamas, half a
dollar for a suite of underwear, and a
quarter for a soft shirt These are
the prices charged by women who
come in to do the washing and hav'
everything furnished, netting at least
two dollars an hour-a wage which
exceeds manifold the salary or the
president of the republic or any bank
president in the capital Laundries
have adopted even higher prices.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
New Charters Approved.

Jacksonville governor has ap
proved the following new charters;
Wombe Tire Company, domiciled at
Charleston, Miss, capital stock S1O,-
900. Incorporators: Fl. H. Womble
R. A. Wynn, w. o. McMullen of
Charleston. To deal In automobiles
and accessories.
Smith Stewart Motor Co., domociled
at Grenada, Miss; capital stock $751;
900. Incorporators: J. U. Smith, B.
L. Stewart, C. K Bailey, J. S. Sharp,
Jr, of Grenada. To deal in automo-
biles and accessories.
Meridian Council Boy Scouts OF
America, domiciled at Meridian. No
capital Incorpcrators: ]. M. Wilson,
R. D. Grow, w. R. Phipps and others,
Meridian. To encourage and promote
interests of Boy Scouts.
Kewanee Fishing Club, KeWanee, IN
Lauderdale County. No capital In
corporators: W. R. Wright, 5. T.
Moseley, S, l.. Jacobson and others
To establish a hunting and fishing
club and grounds.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10

pi River I.evee, and all in township %
north. range west.
The Board of Supervisors of Bolivar
County. Mississippi, have been request
ed to hear any objections that may be
made to said additional assessments. on
Monday, December 3rd. A. d. 1923, at
nine o'clock A. NJ, at the court house
in the Town of Rosedale, Bolivar Coun-
ty. Mississippi, and anyone owning lands,
or being interested in lands within said
District may, on or before said date,
file any objections to said assessments
and To- said additional levy. with the
Chancery Clerk of Bolivar Coutny. Mis-
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
Fathers and Sons to Dine.

Greenville-The Y. M. C. A. OF
Greenville, Milton Smith, president,
and B. l.. Burford, secretary, will give
a fathers and sons banquet on the
evening of Nov. 16 at the Masonic
Temple. The purpose, of course, is
to inspire in the hearts of the older
men the spirit of sympathy and help
sulness for the boys and in the boys
the higher and nobler ideals OF life,
that they may become the ideal c1ti-
zens of the future.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
PRINTING Plant Damaged.

Sardis.-Fire caused loss OF ap-
proximately $1,000 in the Simmons
Printing & Publishing Co., building
here. The workmen were leaving the
building when the blaze was discover
ed between the ceiling of the tirst
floor and the flooring of the second
floor. The damage was cohllheu
mainly to paper stock. The loss Is
covered by insurance.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
"Y" Starts $4,000 Drive.

Hattiesburg-Local Y. M. C. A.
drive for funds to operate the insti-
tuition for the next two years make
improvements and to provide full
time compensation for an industrial
secretary have been formally launch
ed. The amount to be raised is $685..
600
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
Women Want Cattle Law.

Columbia.-A petition has been cir.
culated among the qualified electors
of this city by Mines. S. S. Starnes
and A. S. Turner seeking signatures
to request that the mayor and board
of aldermen call special election to
determine whether or not an ordi.
nance should be enacted to forbid
live stock running at large within the
city limits.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10

sissippi, and said objections will be heard
on said date by the Board of Supervisors
of Bolivar County Mississippi. at the reg
ular meeting of the said Board to be
held NJ the courthouse in the Town of
Rosedale on said date.
Given under my hand and seal of Of
flee this, the 9Th day of November, AID.
1928
p. b. WOODLAND.
Clerk Of the Chancery Court and Ex-
Officio Clerk of the Board Of super
visors of Bolivar County. Mississippi.
By A. w. SPARKMAN, d. c.
(SEAL)
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
Cotton Seed Brings $53.

Macon.-The farm bureau sold
co-operative pool of cotton seed last
week for number OF farmers
amounting to approximately l2o tons
Tho net price received by the growers
was $3.50 per ton.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
Better Homes Campaign.

Tupelo.-Much interest is being
taken in the plans for the cooperation
of women's clubs in this city, the fed
Grated clubs of the city having IN
yited other organizations of the city
to Join in the problems in which each
individual is Interested. 1he federated
clubs are instituting a campaign 1or
better homes this year.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
n,,av pavino Nearly Done.

Meridian.-Wmk of paving all the
o,,ays in the business district of the
citv at a cost to the municipality OF
,,,onv +bonsand dollars, is about COM
pleted. The work is considered 10 oe
one of the best Meridian has maue III
many wears.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10

Blue Mountain. Tippah County
Teachers Association was organized
recently, the following teachers be-
ing elected officers for the current
school year., President. Prof C. G..
Mitchell; vice president. Prof. ]. w.
Mauldwin; secretary, Miss velma Nc
MILAN; treasurer, Mrs. Albert No
Bryde.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
char;dan Buil Is School.

cberidan-Sherman has just haa
completed one of the best s1noo, ~
huiIdings in Pontotoc County. IL is is
n,odern brick veneer building, wen
aouinped and beautifully located near
tho old school building. A fine lac,
ulty is employed by the conso''uA''
oohool which is now in SESSION.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
REATs LEAGUE OF NATIONS
paderewski Sails to Put Harmony
to Music.

Havre. France.-Paderewsh salleo
for the United States to prove tha'
"music can be used for world poilt
teal harmony" in series oi ~
oorcerts he will give in America.
LEADERS of world opinion are De
Ginning to understand that music Is Is
ono of the great artistic forces Ca
nable of being utilized for worid po
i;t;ca, harmony" the statesman-musi
cian said in an interview
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
phona Thieves Start Early.

Chicago.-Thieves posing as tele-
nhone inspectors have already com
mitted several robberles here' thou5 Il
usually such operations do not peSih
until winter.
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10
Beach krupp Agreement.

Duesseldorf-A definite accord was M
cached between the Krupp interests
and the occupation authorizes io' 'n'
resumption OF deliveries OF COAL
The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1923-11-10

Dallas. Tey-George Harry Pinion,
A. general purchasing agent o1 the
Texas & Pacific railroad, died here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-24
By Maverick and R. Marshall Terrell

the new fence. painted. Neighbors, who would be in right on the finish of this crazy-quilt comedy, had helped much in this transfiguration.
 The farm wasn't all that had changed. B. Ingo was different man. True. his easy going happy go lucky manner hadn't changed, but his appearance had. Not so much his clothes. which don't count as much as they're popularly supposed face. He looked 10 years younger and 20 years happier, and that Is in- fectious. Some of his friends began to look like him. An epidemic of sunniness and cordiality swept tGs town. People went out of their way to sec that no grouch remained in Stoney Point. Clouds with silver ln- ings were the only ones permi issible, Two years passed. B. Ingo, pros- pering, still remained mute about his enormous Texas interest. His fellow citizens had almost forgotten their resolutions to be in on the un- yelling of the Dickerson fortune when Seth Garrison, who not only ran the Elite restaurant but had the worst curiosity in Stoney Point, hay ing written his far-away cousin out in Sierra Blanca, received the follow- ing delayed answer:
 Sierra Blanca, Tex.
 Feb. IS, Fri, D. m.
 "Dere Seth: Got yore letter last month o. k. Been busy bilding pig pens. Pigs can't wait. About yore frend, B, Ingo Dickerson, hes still got his uncle's old salt lake ranch, yes. They was a Mexican Kid born up there last Spring, that's all that's been raised on old Bucks ranch in 30 years. No. E. Ingo haint sold out. He cant. Rele estate market plumb shot to he'll old Bucks ranch Is worth every cent of fifty cents Q acre, but nobodys wants to gamble.
 "Oh, yes; them pigs all died. l was so long gettin up there pens.
 "Affectionately, yore cousin,
 SKEETER SALTWATER"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-24

confess that he had half of the money In Texas, they would be his boon companions. They would sta1 early being his friends. He put something over on them? Not much.
 Whereupon B. Ingo Dickerson au- tomatically resigned his position as town under dog. That action, too, was wished upon him. for old Bingo went about his business in his same old matter of fact way. He never had been a bad sort and now that fact became apparent even to Ike Tim mons, the one-eyed barber. Back on Hells Half Acre he farmed away contentedly and without disclosing any of his future plans. To all in- quiries. adroit or otherwise, about his 5,000-acre ranch, he remained as mute as he was good naturedly pa tient.
 Label a man as a good citizen and he soon becomes one, or apparently appears to have become one. Ere quently the change Is only in the labelling. B. Ingo Dickerson thriVed under his new role. His fellow 7citizens made it their pleasure to go out of their way to do favors for him. Not that he asked them. Principally, they spoke well of him and acted. when they met him. as though he was a fellow human be- ms. Ciu IDlH6O SlAiAlN' hAAN Bt N'so t' 'N+7' away at his farm work. The place, once reputed to be the worst patch in the country, began to take on look of prosperity. Bart kestler, the banker, insisted upon extending the mortgage and good old B. 1ngo did nothing to dissuade him. In six months he had begun to pay some of it off.
 In a year B. Ingo Dickerson was mart and Darcel of the towns pride. In one short year he had revolution ized that miserable little half acre farm that once caught your cynical eyes as you drove into town. Now 1t was place to be proud of; the little .ouse and had been rebuilt and with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-24

for the epidemic of the influenza that swept Stony Point that winter. Bingo looked like he had 1t. He al ways looked that way.
 Then one day he disappeared. The earth had opened up and apparently swallowed him. He became nine day mystery in Stony Point until Seth Garrison, who owned the Elite restaurant, received a marked copy of the Sierra Blanca Long Horn News, from a cousin in far-away Texas. The newspaper carried the information that a MT. B. Ingo Dick el son, a resident of Stony Point, Ohio, had arrived in Sierra Blanca to take over the five-thousand- acre ranch of his late uncle, old Buck Dickerson, up in the Guadalupe Mountain country near the Salt Lakes.
 Five thousand acres! The news spread all over stony Point In an hour. Of all people-Bingo Dicker- son, who now called himself B. lingo. One of the greatest ranches Tn Texas Wow, Luck was crazy cuss after all! Could you beat it? Old Blngo, the towns terrible example, the laziest and the most worthless good -for-onthing in ten counties! Now rolling in wealth! Yes, probably there was oil out there. Texas is where most of it gushed from.
 Three months passed! Then one day Bngo Dickerson got orr the train at Stony Point. He was the same old Bingo. if anything little more the same. He wasn't dressed like a millionaire and he certainty didn't act like one. He just resumed his old place in the towns daily life-or rather, tried to. His fellow citizens hadn't been born the day before; you couldn't hoodwink them that easily Bingo had a mint behind him and those bolshevikian days 1t paid rich men to keep that fact camouflaged. B. Ingo couldn't fool themt No sirree! When he would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-24

Bingo Dickerson was the town under dog of Stony Point. Tho role had been wished upon him by his fellow citizens as much as by fla cetious Fate. Hard luck had consis- tently dogged his trail ever since he had loft his cradle. He was only thirty, but he had lived sixty years of ups and downs. mostly downs. Now he was Stony Points best util- fly. When in doubt blame 1t on that good for nothing" Bingo Dick erson had become a town maxim. Such is the drift of human nature. Label some innocent duffer an under-dog and soon he wouldn't be known by any other name.
 At age one Bingo fell out of his cradle and smashed his nose. At two bored dog bit him; he still bore the scar. At six he fell out of an apple tree and pretty near ruined she ground underneath 1t. At sixteen he escorted a pair of runaway mules through the towns main street and was left hanging to telegraph pole at the finish. At twenty he mar ried. Rather, Abbie Tucker, who was the only unspoken-for female in town, married Bingo. For three years he worked his head off on farm, just outside of town, that his fellow citizens nicknamed "Hell's Half Acre" Bingo saved enough money in the three years to pay the n ortgage off. That night Abbic ran away with the town butcher-and tho money.
 At twenty-four Blngo was made the janitor, night and day combined, of the town opera house. A week later it burned down. Dickerson re- ceived hundred and ten per cenr of the blame. Two years later he was on the train that ran off the fridge near the crossing. Nobody was killed, but Blngo somehow got the blame. He also got the blame
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-24
Her Returning

curiously quiet and perfect. The time went on as if there was no time, no place even just they two, lovers since always for always.
 And after a time she suddenly i0Sf' T must go now-for a little while" she said, smiling. She flushed little as she said it. Iler crisp summer frock, thin white with it's printed pink roses, nearly brushed him. and her eyes looked thoughtfully into his. "I wonder why l thought you needed me so dreadfully,"
 "T always do--i always will"
 'Ycs-that way-I too. But just now-.the particular urgent thlng. Don't you know You always knew before"
 He shook his head. That was a trivial thing compared to the fact that, for ever so little a while, he was not to see her
 But it won't be a moment now or it will only seem like a moment before we are together for always Our loves forever you know, my dear-I wonder what it was you needed me so for"
 She stood for a moment smiling up at him, still with her lock of per- pleXity.
 Kitty" he flung out his arms to keep her, but she was gone. with little laugh, before he could clutch more than her dress
 He stood up, catching his breath suddenly. Something was still in his hand. brittle something like a butterfly's wing. He knelt to the freight and opened his hand. slow ly, carefully, as if in a dream. Yes, there lay something in his hand-it had been lowered muslin once; tt was ashy and crumbling now, and the tracery of roses was dingN brown. He rose from his knees. white and trembling, and the ash fell from his palm, such an ash as