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Foreign—
Tlie Ulster cabinet representatives
at Ixindon unanimously approved
“the firm attitude” which Sir Jameß
Craig, the Ulster premier, has main
tained in the interest of Ulster in
his conferences with Prime Minister
Lloyd-George over the question of an
Irish settlement.
A dramatic incident took place in
the court room at Lindau, Switzerland,
A handsome woman named Millerhath
appeared on a charge of poisoning her
second husband. As she entered one
of the jurymen rose and stated that
the accused woman was his former
wife whom he had divorced. The
Judge excused the venireman
The Ulster cabinet has rejected the
British governments’ plan for a set
tlement of the Irish question on the
ground that it contained fundamental
principles which under existing condi
tions were impossible of attainment.
The Swedish Academy has awarded
the 1921 Nobel prize in literature to
Anatole France, noted French author.
Unemployment is reported to be
steadily increasing in Denmark. There
is muhc hope among business men that
matters will alter for the better at
no distant date.
A new Russian invention for propell
ing railroad cars by the use of air
plane propellers, has resulted in a
smash-tip. The experiment will be'
tried again.
Paintings of the Hohenzollerns and
the Hapshurgs have slumped in the
market until what are considered good
portraits of the former German em
peror and the late Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria bring about 100
francs each.
ft is announced in Kronsadt, Russia,
that six thousand Bolshoviki were kill
ed in the nine-day siege of Kronsadt
following the seizure of the fortress
by mutineers last March. It had been
Htated that the number of killed was
much larger.
The trial of Ilenri Desire Landru, de
scribed as the “bluebeard of Cam
brai,” listened to the reading of his
indictment at Versailles, France, un
folding a tale of horrors, which, if he
is found guilty, will stamp him as the
most remarkable criminal ever known,
and provide material for future “grand
opera” plots.
Washington—
Efforts of the Democrats to forco
an immediate vote on the acceptance
of the senate 50 per cent surtax
amendment to the tax revision bill
failed recently.
November 18 is the date set by the
senate to vote on the anti-beer bill,
and indications are that medicinal beer
and wines are doomed.
Governor lnouye of the Bank of Ja
pan. in Washington to attend the arm
ament conference, says the Japanese
are totally unfit for emigrating to oth
er countries.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
in the limelight for various resolutions
he has intorduced in the senate, has
asked the senate to resolve that the
armament conference shall be open to
the public.
Framing of a commercial treaty be
tween the United States and Germany
designed to effect complete resumption
of peace-time relations is under way,
it is stated authoritatively.
A movement has been started in the
house to concur in tne senate action in
in fixing the maximum income surtax
rate at 50 per cent.
After a hot partisan fight, bristling
with dramatic clashes, the senate voted
down an attempt to task the soldier
bonus feature to the pending tax bill.
The vote was 38 to 28.
More than $22,800,000 in credit has
been extended to farmers and stock
men since congress recently authoriz
ed the war finance corporation to make
advances for agricultural and live stock
purposes, according to figures made
available by that agency.
The traffic problem is said to be
in process of solution in Detroit, Mich.,
reports from which city show that the
campaign of safety education shows a
decrease of 34 per cent in automobile
acccidents in nine months.
The anti-lynching bill, it is reported,
will be shelved for this city, at any
rate. Many Republicans consider that
its provisions are hot only too drastic,
but beyond the pale of the Constitution.
The good roads bill carrying an aj>-
propriation of $75,000,000 for road im
provements apportined on mainte
nance provisions by the states war
signed by President Harding.
A plan soldier, unknown hut weight
ed with honors as perhaps no Ameri
can before him because he died for the
flag in France, lay in a place where
only martyred presidents, Lincoln,
Garfield and McKinley, have slept in
death.
Witli orders to shoot to kill if nec
essary to prevent mail robberies, 1,000
marines have been ordered to duty as
guards of mail trains and trucks and
at postoffices in fifteen cities. Post
master General Hays says he is deter
mined to stop future mail robberies by
bandits and others.
As a result of the recent New York
mail robbery, Postmaster General Hays
has suspended Elijah M. Norris, super
intendent of mails; Henry Lippman, su
perintendent of registry, and Walter S
Mayer, superintendent of money or
ders.
The much-revised tax revision hill
has been finally passed by the senate.
The vote was 38 to 24. The measure
now goes to conference between the
house and senate before it finally gets
to the president. Outstanding fea
tures of the tax revision bill as passed
by the senate provide for repeal of
the excess profits tax and all of the
transportation taxes on next January
1, and a reduction of the surtax rates
all along the line, with tlffe maximum j
rate reduced from 65 per cent to 50
per cent.
The comptroller of the currency has j
found that mutual savings bank ac
counts have increased in size and num
ber beyond his fondest anticipations
during the last fiscal year. The aver
age bank account was $579.59.
Four American Indian chiefs will pay
tribute to the unknown dead at Ar
lington cemetery. Armistice Day.
Unemployment directors have been
named by Secretary Hoover. The
secretary announces that these direc- j
tors will get busy at once on the un
employment situation.
Washington has sedulously striven to
cordially greet the delegates arriving
here for the armament and far eastern
pacific conference.
Domestic—
Mrs. Anne U. Stillman was recently
denied an application that she be ap
pointed general guardian of her sons,
James and Alexander by Surrogate
Cohalan.
Governor Morrow of Frankfort, Ky.,
recently ordered troops to guard the
Elliot county circuit court when it
convenes. A large number of cases
of whiskey law violations are on the
docket.
“Had the Christian churches of this
country exhibited the same degree of
interest in the League of Nations that
they now are manifesting in disarm
ament, the nation would have held its
place in the high esteem of the world,”
nays United States Senator, Carter
Glass, of Virginia.
Charles T. Neal, prominent grain
man, died suddenly of gastritis at his
home at Omaha, Neb.
The Missouri house of representa
tives passed the soldier bonus bill.
The measure, which has passed the
senate, goes to Governor Hyde soon
for his signature.
The battery compartment of the
submarine L-6 caught fire while it
was maneuvering in Lost Angles, Cal.,
harbor and six of the crew were se
riously burned.
An effort to inspire members of the
Methodist Episcopal church in all
parts of the world with a sprit of per
sonal evangelism is the obcejt of the
world conference to be sold soon at
Detroit, Mich.
The widow of Joe Stewart, negro,
who was lynched at Laurens, S. C.,
j recently, has just won a verdict of
$2,000 damages as a result from the
county of Laurens.
Deputy Sheriff T. L. Gann shot and
j killed Police Officer H. B Cannon,
wounded Police Officer Clarence
Crawford and was himself perhaps
mortally mounded in the opera house
at Abbeville. S. C.
The fifteen-mile run for life off Los
Angeles harbor of the blazing sub
marine L-6 recently was expected to
be followed by inquiry into the cause
j of the fire which suddenly burst forth
in the forward compartment of the
! craft while it was ten fathoms be
neath the surface.
Both houses of the Kentucky state
legislature will be organized by the
Democrats at the session which will
open soon according to unofficial re
! turns received at Frankfort. Ky., from
the thirty-fourt senatorial district on
which majorities from four out of the
j Fourteen persons were injured, one
perhaps fatally when the Kansas City
I Flyer, Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
, irain No 11, was wrecked two miles
■ south of Mulhall, Okla.
T. T. (Rod) Uarriss, Edwin von
! Stienkirch and Orvilles and Jesse
Jones, were found guilty recently of
murder with mitigating circumstances
j in connection with the slaying of Polk
A. Carraway in a recent hold-up,
were sentenced to life imprisonment
: at Memphis, Tenn.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McPONOUGH, GEORGIA.
GEORGIA HAPPENINGS
9F TIMELY INTEREST
Conyers.—Four men were formally
held for action by the grand jury on
charges of slaying Will Barton re
cently. The men—Jeff Aycock, Grov
er Raegan, Parks New and Curtis
Powell, ail of Lithonia —were hound
over to the grand jury following a pre
liminary hearing.
Reynolds.—Laurie Lucas, 43, was
shot and instantly killed here recent
ly. Police are investigating a state
ment they claimed was made to them
by Ray Lucas, that he had killed his
brother after years of bad feeling he
said existed between them and that he
had shot in self defense.
Waycross.—One hundred and forty
two of the registered voters in the
Waresboro school district voted re
cently to bloat a bond issue to take
care of improvements amounting to
$20,000 that will be made to the school
building in that village. The Wares
boro school is one of the best con
solidated schools in the county and
one in which the whole county takes
pride. Only twenty-two votes were
cast in opposition to the bond issue.
Waycross.—Scout Marvin Spicer,
member of Troop 4 of this city, pass
ed the final tests that qualified him
as an eagle scout, the first in the Oke
feenokee council, and the only one in
south Georgia, recently. Scout Spicer
has twenty-one merit badges. There
are only ten eagle scouts in the state
of Georgia, local scout headquarters
announce, and Waycross feels a just
pride in the young man’s achieve
ments.
Atlanta. —A substantial increase in
Atlanta postoffice receipts over the
corresponding month in 1920 w r as
shown in a report on October, 1921,
receipts, received recently in a dis
patch from Washington. For the Oct
ober just past local postal receipts
were $235,684.16, an increase of $4,-
953.79, or 2.15 per cent over receipts
for the same period last year.
Atlanta —The development of plans
for the handling of vehicular traffic
on a national scale by means of great
trunk line thoroughfares following the
lines of least resistance and connect
ing the principal cities, was discussed
by Warren H. Manning, of North
Billerica, Mass., at a luncheon given
in his honor. Mr. Manning is well
known as a landscape designer and
has been active in city planning opera
tions.
Atlanta. —A complete zoning plan for
the city of Atlanta has been complet
ed by Robert H. Whitten, consulting
expert to the city planning commis
sion, and submitted to Mayor Key.
The mayor called a meeting of the
commission for an early date at the
city hall to act finally on the plan
and make recommendations to city
council.
Moultrie.—Syrup is selling on the
Moultrie market for twenty-two cents
a gallon in barrels, as low a point
as it has touched within the memory
of the present generation. The bet
ter grades are selling for twenty-five
cents a. gallon. Syrup in bottles and
cans bring more. The cane crop this
year was nearly ruined by the dry
weather, but the carry-over from last
year’s crop is said to have been enor
mous.
Cordele.—The Cordele district Ep
worth League meet will be held in
Cordele soon. O. C. Turner, of Ash
burn, district secretary of the Cor
dele district, has planned an interest
ing as well as an instructive pro
gram which will include discussion of
Epworth League methods and other
topics by prominent Methodist min
isters of the state.
Atlanta. —For the first time in the
history of marine corps recruiting in
this city five applicants were exam
ined and the same number passed the
required physical examination, and
this honor went to five Georgia youths,
according to a statement by Capt. Peter
Geyer, Jr., U. S. M. C., officer in charge
of the local recruiting station of the
marines in the Austell building.
Thomasville.—The Presbyterians -of
Georgia, who number about 28,000 are
interested in the annual meeting of
the synod of Georgia, which convenes
at Thomasville soon. An interesting
program has been arranged and a
number of matters of considerable im
portance to the church generally will
he brought up. One of the most im
portant to be considered is the move
ment for a division of the synod into
north and south Georgia, the north
Georgia synod to include Cherokee
Athens, Atlanta and Augusta Presby
teries and that of south Georgia to in
elude the Presbyteries of Savannah
Macon and southwest Georgia. It will
also he suggested that the synod meet
earlier in the fall hereafter, in ordei
that there may be closer touch witi
the Presbyteries.
Cordele—Miss Lou Hamilton, homo
demonstration agent, and C. B. Cul
pepper, farm demonstration agent foi
Crisp, are arranging for the canning
club girls’ contest and the corn am
pig club boy’s contest to be held ir
Cordele. soon
THE STORY OF
OUR STATES
By JONATHAN BRACE
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
NEBRASKA
ft HE Indian name
* for the Plutte
river was Nebraska.
' tV' meaning “shallow
■[ t: g) j water,” and from
this came the name
of the state. A nick
name for the state is
the Blackwater State.
Of the early Spanish explorations
little is known, except that Coronado
probably reached the great plain of
this region in 1541. More than oue
hundred and twenty-five years later
Father Marquette noted the Platte
river on his trip up the Missouri. In
the beginning of the Nineteenth cen
tury the Lewis and Clark expedition
skirted the boundaries of the present
state and in 1805, Manuel Lisa estab
lished the first known settlement which
was a fur trading post at Bellevue.
This was just after the Louisiana
Purchase had brought Nebraska into
United States territory.
Omaha was established as a post of
the American Fur company in 1825
and Nebraska City the following year.
When the Louisiana Purchase was
effected Nebraska formed a part of
Missouri territory, but with Missouri
achieving statehood the balance of the
territory was left without any govern
ment. In 1834 part of it was attached
to Arkansas, part placed under the
Jurisdiction of Missouri, and a third
part was joined to Michigan territory.
With the California gold rush in 1849
many pioneers passed through Nebras
ka and some stopped and settled there,
although there was a law forbidding
settlements among the Indians. The
real colonization boom, however, start
ed witli the passing of the Kansas-
Nebraska act in 1554, which arranged
that these two sections should become
free or slave states at the dictate of
their inhabitants. The Nebraska ter
ritory was then organized and reached
* from the fortieth to the forty-ninth
parallel. In 1891, the region north of
j 43 was made into Dakota territory.
The Idaho territory was also created,
which reduced Nebraska to its present
size of 77,520 square miles, except
for a slight addition in the Northwest
| which was made in 1882.
In 1807 Nebraska was admitted as
the 37th state over the President's
veto. It lias eight presidential elec
tors.
COLORADO
pOLORADO is tHe
\ lIIOSt precious of
state - s * for in the
jlfpj <£s%® mining of gold and
11 l J // j ‘ lver it surpasses
1 1 °ther States, pro
ducing about one
third of the total
output tu me entire country. In fact,
its real history starts in 1858, when
gold was first discovered.
I’rior to that time there had been
but little settling in this region. Span
ish explorers hud traversed the coun
try in the latter part of the Eighteenth
century, and laid claim to it. As a
part of tlie Louisiana Purchase it came
into the possession of the United
States in 1803. Officers of the United
States army were sent out to explore
this wilderness among whom were
Lieutenant Pike in 1800, and it was
after him that Pikes Peak was named.
In 1819 Colonel Long made extensive
explorations and lie was followed in
1842 by Fremont, whose activities lc
the Mexican war brought him into
much prominence. At the close of the
Mexican war, Mexico ceded her rights
to this territory to the United States,
but it was considered a barren waste
and unattractive for settlers.
Then in 185 S came the discovery of
gold in the bed of Dry Creek, a few
miles south of where Denver now
stands. The following spring tens of
thousands of men flocked into what
was then called the Pikes Peak coun
try. In 1859 Denver became a town
of one thousand inhabitants, and by
the next year had grown into a big
city with newspapers, theaters and a
government mint. To accommodate
the stream of settlers, a daily stage
from Leavenworth to Denver was es
tablished. This trip at that time took
fifteen days for the six hundred and
eighty-seven miles, and the fare was
one hundred dollars.
In 18(51 the Territory of Coloradi
was created and in 1876 Colorado was
admitted as the thirty-eighth state of
rlie Union. Its area is 103.948 square
mileV and its population entitles the
state to six presidential electors.
The name is taken from the Colo
rado river, and is a Spanish adjective
(leaning “colored red.”
Colorado is often called the Centen
nial State, as it was admitted to the
Union just one hundred years after
the Declaration of Independence
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