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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-22

FLORENCE, S. c., Sept. 22.-
Edmund D. Bigham, former resi-
dent of Americas, slayer Of five
and three times convicted of muir
der will again this week face trial
for his life, at Conway, in the eoua-
ty of Horny.
The now famous South Caro-
lima prisoner is awaiting trial, stolid
ly, but only the shadow Of his form
er self.
The one-armed slayer came ia
Americas from IAslie, opened a
place on Cotton avenue, where he
remained for several months. He
left Americas for South Carolina
and nothing was heard Of him until
the murder charge came to light.
Although three times doomed to
death, and having escaped the cleo
trio chair through mere legal tech
nicalities and equal number of times
the prisoner stoutly maintains mis-
innocence of the crime.
His present lease on life was Civ
en- to him in June after his last trial
the which was held in
the court of this county. At the
last moment he was given a new
hope when counsel for both defense
and prosecution agreed to continue
the case until September.
The convicted man was granted
change Of venue at the same time
on grounds that public sentiment
around here was unfavorable.
Florence being only a short dis
taacc from the scene of tie :; ue-
some siaugFter
Bigham's persistent fight to save
himself from the electric chair al
ready has smashed all records for
longevity in the annals of South
Carolina's court history. The ques.
ton asked on every side is whether
or not the next trial will offer the
concluding chapter in his historic
battle for life.
Most of the court officials and at
torneys are of the opinion that it
will.
Brigham either will go to the
Continued on Page Fiye)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-22
Many Local Burglaries Causing Indignation
TWISTER SWEEPSF ACROSS Two STATES
DARING ROBBERS HELD
IN WAYCROSS JAIL.

WAYCRosS, Sept. William
Cason, of Rolen and Glenn Lindsey,
said to be from Florida are being
held in the Waycross city all charg-
ed with highway robbery in connec-
ton with several daring holdups on
the city's streets recently. VaIu-
able loot taken from citizens is said
to have been recovered.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-22
TORNADO TAKES
TOLL OF SIX

ASHLAND, Wis, Sept. p. by
A. P.)-The bodies of six persons
killed in the tornado which struck
Birch Lake county and Marengo
Valley Sunday, have been brought
here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-22
MINNESOTA AND
WISCONSIN SWEPT
BY TORNADO Els
Reports Estimate Dead AS High
AS 30 Persons, II Knokn
Dead at Felt, Wise.
MANY ARE INJURED
Two Small Children Killed
When Home Is Carried 400
feet By Twister

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. %. (By
A. P.)-Sweeping across Wisconsin
and Minnesota Sunday several ter
rifle tornadoes have taken a toll
of 10 known dead, with unconfirln-
ed reports late Sunday placing Che
total dead at 80.
The brunt of the storm was felr
at Felt, Wis, where eleven are dead
while late reports say the total
dead will reach % or more.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-22
{. D. BIGHAH DOOMED
THREE TIMES, AGAIN
FACESS. c. JURY
Former Resident of Americas
and Leslie Goes on Trial for
the Fifth Time
PROTESTS INNOCENCE
Said to Have Murdered His
Whole Family to Gain Pos
session Of Property

CONWAY, S. C., Sept. e.
(By the Associated ss.)-Ed-
mund D. Bigham, of Florence
county, the alleged slayer of FIVE
members of his own family, will
be brought here today from Flor
ence and is scheduled to again
come to trial when the case is call
ed in Circuit court next Thurs
day morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-22

WEATHER = Generally fair to-
night and Tuesday; cooler.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-01-31

"Slim," in the Ellsworth Record,
complains that The Journal is unfair
when it devotes space to a bull that
losses a citizen and never mentions
the times that our citizens toss the
bull. We aren't trying to rival the
Congressional Record.
What is believed to be the old-age
rarentage record for Marshall county
was set when Hosea NJ. Armstrong,
74-year-old resident of LeGrand, be-
came the father of son, John Rien-
ard Armstrong, born Friday night.
Mrs. Armstrong, who was formerly
Kate c. Hines Of this city, is 40 years
old. The child is her first. Mr.. Arm
strong is the father of four children
by former marriage. He formerly
worked in the Iowa Central shops
here. The couple was married q year
ago last spring.-Marshalltown Re
publican.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-01-31
Have Laue measure you for tina,

Have Laue measure you for tina,
aext suit.--ady.
Miss Lillian Currier is assisting at
the new income tax office in Hudson.
There are 1,04U prisoners in the
Minnesota penitentiary at Saltwater.
Mrs. Chris. Wenzel visited relatives
in Spring Valley from Friday until
Tuesday.
Miss Ida Locke of Ellsworth spent
the weekend here, guest Of Mss
Erma Wenzel.
County Superintendent I. j. Mealey
is rapidly recovering from his recent
operation for goitre.
Ladysmith has voted to pave seven
blocks of its central downtown dis
trict the coming Spring.
The Fred Cave Post at Baldwin IS
now leading in the state campaign
for American Legion members.
Delivery STRENGTHENING and
pressing orders called for and de-
liyered. Ben Deiss, phone 23l-adv
A Bayport youth was fined S25 and
costs for disorderly conduct at re-
cent dance in the Armory at Hudson.
Am now prepared to do Pump and
Windmill repair work. Geo. c. SIM
son, phone SIS, River Falls, Wis.
adv.
Roual Gendron returned home last
week from Hibbing, Mimi, where he
had been employed at the mines for
some time.
Guaranteed Batteries for your
Ford, $3.50. Corresponding prices
on batteries for other cars. Morley
& HawkinSOn.-adv.
Miss Dolores Hyatt, employed as
operator at the Ellsworth exchange,
attended convention of telephone
operators in Eau Claire last week.
IAN apple day keeps the doctors
away. Better use three. We have
them and they are fine, and chap.
quality considered. Van Voorhis <
Davis.-adv.
A room is being fitted up in the
Firemen's Opera House at Ellsworth
for use as library and rest room.
A bowling alley has been in,talled IN
the basement of the building.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-01-31
Local News

Mrs. Hodge visited relatives in
Minneapolis last week.
Velvet and Felt Hats, at less than
cost, at Scott's Millinery.-adv.
Miss Ruth Murray Of Roberts is
spending the week at the Goldenstadt
home.
Born, at Hudson, Wis, Jan. %,
1924, to Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Frazier,
q daughter.
Frech stock of all sizes of Radio
a. and "B" batteries at the A. W..
Lund Co. store.-adv.
Mrs. J. Wilcox of Eckman, n. d..
is visiting at the home of her
Brother, H. A. Lowell.
Mrs. w. II. Biddick returned home
Saturday from a three weeks visit
with relatives in Chicago.
Ellsworth, which hasn't natural
creek, pond or paddle, nevertheless
boasts two skating Kinks.
Fer Sale, pair o. girls shoe skat-
es, like new. Inquire of Mrs. l.. D..
Wco.ery, 313 S. End Str.--adv.
Miss Anna Mae Roller of Trinbelle
and Mr. Emil /. Jensen of the town OF
Ellsworth, were married Jan. 16.
Delivery STRENGTHENING and
pressing orders called for and de-
Iivered. Ben Daiss, phone 23l-adv.
Mrs. C. v. Scott visited at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Herman CbIlst
ensen in Amery from Saturday until
Tuesday.
Have your Dry Cleaning and Press
ing done by A. G. Laue in Hotei
Gladstone bldg, work and service
unsurpassed.-ady.
DIR. Clough, the we'll known
Oculist and Optician, at Ho,ei Glad
stone the first Monday Of each month.
See him for your eye troubles.-adv.
Mrs. Matte Beard of Oregon City,
Ore. returned to Minneapolis Monday
after spending a few days with rela-
tives here. Size will leave next week
for Oregon.
j S. Wadsworth left last week on
a trip to the Pacific coast. He will
visit in Washington and California
attending the annual Wisconsin re-
union in Glendale Feb. 10.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-01-31

Delivery Soryice.--Cleaning and
pressing orders called for and de-
livered. Ben ID .iss, phone 231--adv.
A prominent professional man of
Osceola, Wis, disguised himself as a
blind beggar recently and, with some
faxed credentials made the rounds
among the business men of the COM
munity to see how far they could be
worked by such a hokus-pokus says
the Taylors Falls Journal. He had
gotten along famously and considered
it a pretty good paying day when
someone detected familiar tone in
his voice in an unguarded moment
and made him "cough-up." The mans
work was fine, how ever, and proved
his contention that the beggar gets
much more than h, is generally
credited with and that the average
small town business man is pretty
soft snap for takers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11
BITTMGER

Folks in this neighborhood were
snow bound almost the entire past
week, but the weather having grown
warmer on Saturday, the snow has
entirely disappeared and automobiles
are again on the roads.
C. o. burst, of near Grantsville,
was a business visitor to this village
last week.
Deputy Sheriff Blake and constable
VIM. Casteel, of Oakland, were in
this vicinity last Saturday serving
summonses on witnesses who were
wanted to appear before the Court
this week in Oakland.
The Womans' Missionary society, in
conjunction with the Light Brigade,
a junior missionary society of the
Lutheran church Of this village, held
their annual thank offering service
last Sunday evening and realized
neat sum fer missionary work.
1t is reported that Thomas Hender-
shot will remove with his family from
the Broadwater property within the
next few days and tina, ". E. Buckle
and family will occupy the property
vacated by the Henderson, family.
Messrs. O. C. Buckle, Gilbert Green
and Melvin Stanton We're witnesses
before the Grand Jury at Oakland last
week
There is an epidemic Of mumps in
this settlement and a number of
children are prevented from attending
school,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11

Refinement and culture are the Gre
ators of yet other castles. People who
like good things in literature, art,
music, recreation, are avcrse to hob
nobbing with their jazz-crazy, small
talking, ungrammatical and ignorant
fellows, while the latter are not par
ticularly anxious to cultivate the So
ciety Of those they consider high
brows. Army and navy men and
their families make up a class all
their own. The snobbishness of the
new-rich is proverbial. And any two
or more Of these qualities may be
found in a single individual. You
will meet refined, highly educated
twenty-five-dollar- a-week bookkeep-
ers and uncouth, ignorant Croesus-
rich political fnanciers; cultured
brick-layers and boorish Congress-
men; debutantes with a penchant for
loof-gardens and booze-parties, and
shop girls with a love of libraries
and art galleries; ditch diggers WHY
ride to work in their own cars and
Senators who go to their offices as
strap-hangers; bootleggers of high
social position with entree to the best
houses and scions of z. F. VS. and
kindred aristocracy whose favorite
resorts are the city's lowest dives.
They say it takes all kinds of peo-
pie to make a world, and, as a city is
only miniature cosmos, it follows
that all varieties of humans are to
be expected in a city. But l doubt
if there is any city in our land where
the castles have as little to do with
one another as in its capital. Men
come and go here with administra-
tons and new policies. Their sojourn
mere is rather uncertain. They do
not make Washington their own and
Washington does not stamp them
with any character by which they
might be recognized as Washington
ians. Perhaps that is best, after all
For the capital Of a great nation
should be for all the people, national
in its inhabitants as we'll as in it's
prestige. And Washington is just
this. 1t is like an exhibition where
the products of every part of the
country and many imports are gath
cred for display; like a vast depart
ment store where every class of mer-
chandise has its own department;
like Jehoshaphat where all men shat.
gather for the judgment as all men
gather here and are judged by the
nation for their ability and intrinsic
worth as statesmen and citizens.
There is here a city, the pride of
our country, the Heart of America;
we call it Washington. But the dwell
lers belong to the country, not to it.
In another fifty years, perhaps, or
century or two, this may all be
changed. But for the present, at
least, there is no such thing as
Washingtonian.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11

when we earnestly and persistently
ask for wisdom, strength and guild
ance.
The objective mind is the seat of
our animal instincts and desires and
the secret Of life of health, happi-
ness. Even financial success depends
on our ability to control it with the
power of the subjective mind
Millions Of people now living don't
know that they have a sub-conscious
mind; don't know that it functions in
their solar-plexus-their abdominal
brain, which is the seat of the sympa-
thetic nervous system. While the OBJ
jective mind sleeps and when it be-
comes unconscious, our subjective
mind never tires, never resist runs
the machinery of life, controls our
breathing, circulation, digestion. 1t
is the birth place of conscience and
intuition, the home of memory and
habits.
It is the most vital part of us, the
creative center and executive head of
! our being; it reacts to our emotions;
is more governed by impressions than
by reason.
Right here is where truth thinking
and ethical thinking become the most
essential things in life, because if
you let your detectives mind dwell on
distress and disease, or fear and fail
ure, hate and anger, your sub-con-
scious minds receives their impress
and proceeds at once to weave into the
warp and wool of your life and en-
vironment the very things that you
wish to avoid.
The sub-conscious mind is like fer
tile sofia seed bed-and what the
mind thinketh are seed thoughts
dropped into it which later root,
sprout, bud, blossom and fruit in our
daily lives.
So if an evil thought springs up in
your objective, Danish it at once and
think of its opposite-a good thought
and you will soon behold what a
wonderful magician mind is in max
ing man and in moulding and beauti-
flying matter.
We have been taught to think of
the Infinite mind as far away, never
seen and inaccessible. We can COM
mune with Him in the silence of the
forest, behold minor expressions in
birds and beasts, but in the hearts
and minds of humanity we find Him
indwelling in His highest and noblest
expression.
He is to all of US "closer than
breathing; nearer than hands and
feet" F. F. C.
Oakland, Md. Dec. 3, 1924.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11
DEER PARK
Observation-Disclosures
SECRETS

SECRETS.
The house is full of secrets,
l can feel them in the air,
And hear them in the creaking step
That tiptoes up the stair;
And see them in the packages
The postman brings each day
It's secrets, secrets, all day long
When Christmas comes this way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul George and son
visited Mrs. Georges parents on Sun
day last at Armistead.
Rev. Anderson preached a very in
teresting sermon at the M. E. church
here on Sunday evening.
Those who visited the Refs home
on Sunday were Messrs. Laco Wright,
of Keyser, and Charles Bernard, of
Altamont, and Mrs. Alex. Wilson and
children and Misses Alta and Nellie
Lee.
Mr.. Salem Broadwater took his
wife to Cumberland one day recently
where she will receive medical treat
ment. Mr.. BroadWater returned to
Deer Park Monday evening.
A number of the people of this place
attended the Sunday school institute
at Oakland on Monday and Tuesday
Mr.. Leslie Rodeheaver is ill at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Wright, of neal
Swanton, visited Mrs. C. S. Refs or
Monday.
Mr.. Warren Welch called on Lena
Refs Saturday and Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11
OAK HILL

Our school is doing excellent work
under the capable principalship of
Miss Clara Burkhardt.
Mr.. J. W. Schroyer is very ill at
this writing.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Germany
Brobst, on Monday last, a son.
Mr.. Joseph Fazenbaker is the hun
terof this community who claims the
championship.
Mr.. Howard Schlossnagle is very
ill at this time. His many friends
hope for a speedy recovery. He is
being attended by DR.. R. A. Raven
scroft, of Accident.
Butchering is the order of the day.
Miss Bertha Spoerlein and brother
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11

Harley are guests at the Schlossnagle
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Teets and Miss
Clara Crawford are spending a few
days in Morgantown, West Va, with
friends.
Mrs. Thomas Resi-, of Friendsville,
were visiting the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. W. Schroyer a few days last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Haenftling
Mrs. Mary Bittner, Mr.. Silas Teets,
Mr.. NJ. A. Ferguson and Mrs. John
Miller were Sunday visitors at the
J. L. Groer home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11
Seeing Washington, j, :: Martin. !

EDITORS NOTE-This is the second of a
series of articles written for The Republican
by Rev. John S. Martin on aspects of life in
the National Capital. The third article will
appear in an early issue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-11

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-22
OUR MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON.
THE DAILY WORKER

Editorial in VI Elore, the Hungarian
Communist Daily)
NuR language press has an i'm
IMMENSE mission to fulfill. There
are great masses Of foreign Ian
guage workers In the United States
workers full Of militant spirit,
anxious to take their places on the
battlefront Of labor. These masses
are educated and organized, in
spired and encouraged by our party
organs Of various languages.
But there can be no doubt that
the DAILY WORKER has a still
more important mission to fulfill;
lts mission is to reach, educate, In
splre and organize the far greater
masses Of the natlve-born workers,
who ought and will take the lead.
Ing part In the struggle for enamel
patton.
We can imagine the overthrow Of
capitalism without the partIcIpa-
ton Of the forelgn-born workers.
But II ls impossible against the will
or without the militant activity Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-22
The Fighting in Canton

The efforts of the bourgeoisie of Southern China,
aided by the British government, to overthrow DIR.
Sun Vat Sen and his revolutionary government
still persist AS the DAILY WORKER has fire.
quently stated, shipload of arms and ammuni-
ton was sent by the British bank in Hong Kong
to the Canton merchants with which to arm their
Fascist. Despite protests of the Sun government
the arms were delivered-under the guns of British
warships.
But the Canton revolutionary workers did not
relish the idea of seeing guns that would be used
against them in the hands of their enemies. So
they seized the arms.
The events of the past week show that renewed
efforts are being made by the merchants with the
aid of the foreign capitalist governments, chiefly
the British to get rid of Dr. Sun Vat Sen. 1t should
be noted that only in that part of China under
the jurisdiction of Dr. Sun are labor unions legal
The workers in the rest of China are not allowed
to organize.
1t appears strange that the British labor party
government should sponsor such crimes as have
been committed against the masses of China by
the British capitalists But after all it is not so
strange. The British section of the Second Inter
national is governing organ of capitalism and
is rendering to the British capitalists who have
money invested in China the same kind of service
that it renders to those who profit by the explota
ton of the people of Egypt India, South Africa
and other colonies of the RObber Empire.
The only government in Che world that is giving
the Chinese masses friendly hand, is the Soviet
government of Russia under the direction of the
Russian Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-22
The Scqbby Y. M. c. A.

The Young Mems Christian Association is one
of the favored socioreligious organizations of the
American capitalists. On it they shower their
generosity In practically every city in the country
the Y. M. G. A. has fine structures built by the
money raised from its capitalist supporters. And
this money is good investment for the capitalists
The Y. NJ G. A. has long been notorious as
strike breaking organization Evidence to support
this charge is easily available
The latest antlabor act of this craw-thumping
hypocritical crew to come to our
attention is the prosecution Of John Berg, lum-
berjack in the state Of Maine. The Y. NJ G. A.
refused lodging to the lumber workers who wanted
to organize their fellow workers. The town Rabbits
backed up the Y. NJ. C. A. and the lumberjacks
instituted boycott in retaliation. Then the cap
italist prosecutor got busy, and Berg is indicted
a criminal libel charge
The task of overthrowing the capitalist system
is no easy The capitalist system is buttressed
not alone by its armed forces under the direction of
the government but by the thousands of institutions
like the Y. NJ. c. A. that draw sustenance from the
robber system and in return serve as the willing
tools of capitalism for any dirty work they may
be called upon to do