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November 11, 1£22 COMING! MORTON THEATRE Monday, No S ber DONNA TKRBESSA’S BY Mystery Revue 12 PEOPLE 12 Mostly Girls in High-class Vaudeville Special Scenery; Latest Costumes: Electrical Effect; New Dances The Biggest Show of the Season Full Os Spice, Ginger and Pep. Clean, Moral and Refined for Ladies & Gents. ADMISSION: Adults 25c Children 15c THE ATHENS REPUBL IQUE Negro Strikes "Luck" (By The Associated Negro Press) Hopkinsville, Ky. Nov. 6, —Hen ry Kendrick, uged 25, Negro lab orer, plowing on Lionel Efcuke's farm m South Christian, unearth ed a glass jar containing 568 gold dollar pieces, minted from 1840 to 1865. He sold his interest to » John Boyd, lessee of the farm, for S2OO. Kendrick came here and and bought a second-hand automo bile, returning home Friday night. He ran over Herbert Johnson, aged 40, a farmer and wcrld war veteran, crushing the latter's right leg. Johnson’s leg was amputated at a local hospital. Kendrick was accompanied by Richard Boyd, aged 12, son of the lessee if Lionel Duke’s farm, when he plowed up the jar. He turned over the jnr to Boyd, his employer and signed a quit claim on the money for the S2OO. There is suid to be a high premium on some of the coins. The gold was evidently buried shortly after the civil war. There is no clue to the original owner. Outlook Brightens For Cotton Growers (By The Associated Negro Press) Galveston, Texas. Nov. 6 —More than 6,000,000 bales of cotton have been ginned, according to the last government report, and the boll weevil has gone to sleep. In just that last clause lies the hope of the cotton grower and the cotton consumer. Those charged by the government with working out ways of circumventing the weevil do not hibernate. PAGE FIVE