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Tri-Weekly Market Reports
COTTON
NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Firmer Liverpool
cables and rather better reports from the
goods trade were the factors in the cotton
market during today's early trading. After
opening firm at nn hdvance of 25 to 47
joints, there were slight reactions under
'Jiouthein selling, but offerings were soon
absorbed and the market sold about 40 to 60
jtoints above last night’s closing before the
end of >he first hour. This carried January
contracts up to 15.92 c and May to 16.15 c.
reported shorts covering
there, owing to a better spot demand from
the continent.
The advance extended to 15.97 for Janu
ary and 16.05 for March before the end
of the morning, or 59 to 67 points above
last night’s (Hosing quotations. After the
c.ose of Liverpool demand was less active
and prices here eased off a few points
from tlie nest under realizing, but there
■was very little southern selling and the
market showed a steady tone with active
months ruling some 35 to 45 points net
higher around midday. Local traders were
inclined to connect reports of a better
continental demand in Liverpool with ad
vices received here of improving central
European conditions as pointing to a better
export demand during the second half of
the season.
Offerings became heavier during the early
afternoon owing to less favorable reports
from the stock market and rumors of un
settled spo: conditions in the south, al
though very little southern seling was roe
ported January deliveries broke to 15.42.
or about 55 points from the early high level
and within 12 points of last night’s closing.
» NEW YORE COTTON
% The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling. 16.65 c, quiet.
Last I‘rev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. ...15.70 16.11 15.42 16.09 16.08 15.30
Meh. ..15.90 16.20 15.47 16.18 16.10 15.45
May ...16.00 16.30 15.60 16.20 16.15 15.58
July ...16.05 16.3 315.72 16.33 16.22 15.60
Oct. ...15.95 16.23 15.67 16.23 15.45
Dec. ...157.0 16.15 15.33 161.5 16.15 15.48
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. I.—Better cables
than due and a better feeling regarding the
•pot situation put the price of cotton higher
today, the active months gaining 45 to <0
points in the first half hour of business.
January rose to 15.29 c and July to 15.50 c,
the latter month being the strongest in the
list as the result of speculative buying.
The advance remained in force until it
amounted to 61 to 70 points. Late in the
jnorning realizing sales came from recent
buvers and the market reacted from the
advance to the extent of 30 to 33 points from
toe top. Large exports were a steadying
influence, shipments from American ports
reported in the early session amounting
to 93,000 balai. against total shipments
this week last Hear of 17,786 bales .
The weakness in the stock market and
talk of large ginning caused a reaction
which reduced the gains of 5 to 22 points.
Late in the day the makret was steadier
•gain on reports of increased sales of spots
in the eastern belt and prices rose to with
in about 30 points of the highest of the
Jay.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in
the exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling. 15.50 c, steady.
Last Vrev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan. ...15.00 15.54 14.80 15.50 15.50 14.69
Meh. ..15.15 15.56 14.87 15.56 15.54 14.81
May ...15.35 15.61 14.99 15.60 15.57 14.94
July ...15.40 15.60 14.99 15.45 15.45 14.80
Oct. ...15.20 15.25 14.90 15.25 15.25 14.50
Dec. ...15.23 15.14 15,12 15.72 15.74 14.90
NEW ORLEANS SPOT CbTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. I.—Spot cotton,
Steady; 25 higher; sales on the spot, 911
bales; to arrive, 1,850; low middling. 10.50/
middling. 15.50; good middling, 17.50; re
ceipts, 7,160; stock. 415,790.
SPOT COTTOIfMARKET
Atlanta, steady, 15c.
New York, quiet, 16.65 c.
New, Orleans, steady, 15.50e,
Philadelphia, steady, 16.90 c.
• Norfolk, steady, 14.40 c.
Savannah, steady. 15.75 c.,
, St. Louis, steady, 15.50 c.
* Houston, steady, 14.85 c.
Memphis, steady, 15c.
Augusta, steady. 14.58 c.
Little Rock, steady, 15.50 c.
Dallas, steady, 15.60 c.
> Mobile, steady, 14.50 c.
Charleston, steady, 16.75 c.
, Wilmington, steady, 14.75 c.
Boston, steady, 15.75 c.
Galveston, steady, 15.85 c.
Montgomery, steady, 15c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 15c
Receipts 1,635
Shipments■.. 1,231
Stocks ' ....27.710
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone irregular; sales 4,000 bales; good
middling, 12.75 d.
I’rev.
Open. Close. Close.
Jan 10.54 11.14 10.71
Feb 11.21 10.79
March ... .; 10.70 11.28 10.87
April< 11.33 10.92
Mav 10.80 11.39 11.00
June 11.39 11.00
July 10.80 11.39 11.00
Aug 11.34 10.67
Sept 11.24 10.93
Oct 10.77 11.17 10.98
Nov ... ’. 10.87
Dec 10.60 11.14 10.65
AMERICAN COTTON
AND GRAIN EXCHANGE
> COTTON QUOTATIONS
The following were the opening, highest,
lowest, close and previous close quotations
an the American Cotton and Grain Exchange
vs New York;
Frev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
Jan ... 15.75 16.11 15.42 16.00 15.30
Meh. ... 15.86 16.20 15.47 16.14 15.43
Mav ... •16.00 16.29 15.50 16.15 15.5.8
Jnlv ... 16.05 16.33 15.72 16.20 15.58
Dec. ... 15.60 16,15 15.53 16.15 15.45
COTTONSEED OIL MARKET
Open. Hose.
Spot 9.30010.50
January .... .. 9.44© 9.46 9.59© 9.61
February 9.45® 9.60 9.65© 9.74
March 9.70© 9.76 9.85© 9.87
April ’ 9.74© 9.77 9.90© 9.94
Mav .. .... 9.90© 9.98 9.95010.00
j nne 9.80© 10.10 9.95© 10.15
July " .. 10.00© 10.20 10.20010.35
December .. .. 9.10© 9.40 9.430 9.50
Tone, stiong; sales, 18,500 barrels.
COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Galveston 11.664 14,183
New Orleans .. 7,604 7.160
fobile 2,527 1.463
•Savannah L 443
Charleston ’
Wilmingtonl.ooß 201
Norflok I- 8 #? 523
Boston 0;
Philadelphia 04
’ Total at all ports.. . .36,861 26,329
DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Augusta 0,823 1.8(2
St. Louis
Houston 10.5’5
Little Rock .... 6 > Oa6 11204
COTTON MARKET OPINIONS
J. S. Bache & Co.: “We continue of the
opinion that the buying side offers the best
possibility for profit.” . .
Moyse & Holmes: “We think well of
•ales on all bulges such ns occurred today.
Munds, Rogers & Stackpole: IV e be
lieve the market should be bought on all
good setbacks no matter what may have
caused them.” . . ,
J W Jay & Co.: “It is quite likely
that on’any further upturn selling from the
south will develop because economic and
financial conditions are still unfavorable.”
Hubbard Bros. & Co.: “We will grad
ually stabilize while the trade adjust them
selves to new conditions now existing.
S. M. Weld & Co.: We think it very un
wise to remain short and advocate the
purchase of Liverpool futures at or around
today’s low prices.
Clark, Childs & Co.: While we believe in
ultimately higher prices for the staple we
would not advise following the advance very
far for the present, suggesting purchases
only on sharp reactions.
SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR MOVEMENT
Receipts 109,372, agninst 127,873 last year
and 75.222 year before.
Shipments 82,822. against 100,124 last
year and 65.793 year before.
Stocks 1,012,.’>82, against 948,392 last year
•nd 978,328 year before.
Liberty Bonds
NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Liberty Bonds
8
First 4s. bid 86.00
Second 4s Sn.OO
First 4%s 86.10
Second 4%8 85.46
Third 4%s 88.02
Fourth 4%s 85.90
Victory 3%s 95-80
.Victory 4%s 95.50
/ SWIFT & COMPANY
CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Swift & Co., 105%.
THE ATLANTA TUI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
' Weekly Weather and
Cotton Crop Report
WASHINGTON. Dec. I.—Weekly weather
and cotton crop report says:
Moderate temperatures and mostly light
precipitation in Arkansas and Oklahoma
were favorable for gathering cotton still
in the fields in those states. Picking
progressed slowly in Oklahoma, however,
and quality of staple remaining unpicked
steadily deteriorating on account of ex
posure to weather. Considerable low grade
cotton is being abandoned in Texas; fail
progress was made in harvesting in Tennes
see and the Carolinas; picking has been
practically completed . in all portions of
the east gulf states. Considerable cotton
remains in the fields in northeastern por
tion of the belt.
SHEPARD & GLUCK COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, Dee. I.—While more or
less difficulty was found in sustaining ad
vances. the trend of the cotton market to
day was toward higher levels, mainly as
the result of the better tone in the spot
department and the large export movement,
the grand total of foreign shipments for the
day being 108,945 bales, against 17,786 this
day last year, bringing the movement thus
far this week up to 224,817 bales, against
105,562 during the same period last year.
In the spot markets of the interior more
firmness on the part of holders was noted
and something of an improvement in the
demand. Points in the eastern belt told
of sales of low graces to Carolina mills.
The main feature against the market was
the general expectations of bearish gin
ning reports, although some of the selling
of the day was done on the slump in the
stock market. The opening was higher in
sympathy with a better Liveerpool than due
and the advance continued until it amount
ed to 61 to 70 points. The reaction pared
the gains down to 5 to 22 points but late
in the session the market was only about
30 points down from the highest.
The situation no longer is one-sided. There
may be more confidence on the short side
but the bullish traders will have an immense
advantage if improvement in the spot mar
kets continue and exports remain at any
thing like their present scale.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Dec. I.—Cattle:
Receipts, 4,000; slow; steers, quality com
mon: no early sales; she stuff and canners,
steady; bulk h,eifers. $5.5006.70; bulk cows,
$5.5006.50: bulls, slow; few vealers to city
butchers at .$14.00; practical top, $13.25;
bulk, $13.00; Stockers, steady.
Hogs—Receipts, 1,200; fairly active:
steady to 10c higher than yesterday’s aver
age: best butchers opened strong to higher,
with SIO.BO top; weakened. Noon. 10c to
15c under early; light lights and pigs,
strong; in demand; 25c to 35c higher; bulk
of sales, S 10.50010.70: packer sows, steady.
Sheep—Receipts, 3,200; active and steady
on both sheep and lambs; top lambs, $11.75;
bulk. $11.09011.75; ewes, top, $4.75; bulk,
$4.2504.50; practically all run fed native
lambs.
CHICAGO, Dee. 1. —(Unjted States Bureau
of Markets.) —Cattle: Receipts, 11,000; beef
steers opening very slow, tending still low
er: bulk medium and good natives around
$2.50 below higher time last week; sales
mostly $5.50012.50: strictly choice 1,550-
pound" steers late yesterday, $10.00; western
receipts, 2,500; clow; bulk, $7.0008.25; >
cows more active nnd stronger: bulk, $5.00
©7.00; canr.eis, mostly $3.65©3.55; bulls,
steady; few clipice veal calves, steady at
$13.00; bulk low at $12.00012.50; hea”y
calves, dull: stackers, steady.
Hogs—R Receipts, 21.000; opening slow at
Oe to 15c lower; latter fairly active and
about steady with yesterday's average; toy
.>'10.50: bulk, steady with yesterday's aver
age; top. $10.50; hulk, $10.15010.40: pigs,
10c to i.">c lower: bulk SO to 130-pound pigs.
$10.60010.25.
heap—Receipts. 12.000: fat sheep and
lambs’. ?5c higher: choice native lambs.
<12.75: bulk, $11.50© 12.50; bulk fat ewes,
$4.25© 5.00; feeders, steady.
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Dec. I.—Cattle: Re
. ceipts 300. steady. Heavy steers. $9.00©
10.50: beef steers, 56.0008.75; heifers. $5.00
©S.'O; cows, $3.0007.50; feeders, $6.00@
9.00; siockers. $3.50.
Hogs—Receipts 2.400: steady: 120 pounds
up, $10.50: pigs. $5.50@10.00; throwouts,
$8.50 down.
Sheep—Receipts 50, active, Lambs, $9:
sheep, $3.00. down.
•NEWS BUREAU ON STOCKS
NEW YORK, Dec. I.—lt was said pfter
t lie close yesterday that the heaviest sell
ing of Chile was liquidation of a large ac
count and reported the necessities of an
individual operator. This liquidation nnd the
announcement of taking over of holdings of
invincible Oil is in line with a eompleton of
the record of tlie result of disaster sus
tained in the recent declining market.
Money market yesterday also induced sell
ing as banks had J>een required to meet
large payments to the government. Market
opinion was divided after the close with
some looking for a rally while others
thought the wave of liquidation had not
yet* reached its end. Importance attached
to the manner in which stocks lil»e Steel
common, Reading and others acted Mex
ican Petroleum again spoken of as being
under accumulation by strong interests.
Foreign exchange market was steady yes
terday with only slight change in the vari
ous important ra‘<“. Announcement made
by Invincible Oil holdings of S. M. Schatzkin
have been taken over by J. S. Bache nnd
company and associates. Companies earning
for ten months ended October 31 last were
approximately $6,6507000. After today's
meeting of directors of the General Motors
corporation it was officially stated that
while W. C. Durant has resigned as presi
dent he will remain on the board as a
director It was, impossible to ascertain
whether I’. S. Dupont will hold both the
chairmanship of the board nnd the presi
dency of tlie corporation.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Flour, quiet and
eays.
Pork, steady; mess, $30.00031.00.
Lard, weak; middle west spot, $17,750
18.06.
Sugar, raw, quiet; centrifugal, 96-test,
5.76; refined, quiet: granulated, 7.5009.00.'
Coffee. Rio No. 7. on spot, 7@7%c; No.
4 Santos, 10%©10%c.
Tallow, weak: specials. 7%c; city, 6%c.
Hay. dull: No, 1, $1.8O@1.85; No. 3,
$1.45@1.55: clover, $1.15@1.75.
Dressed poultry, weak; turkeys. 25054 c;
chickens, 27044 c: fowls, 25040 c: ducks,
25040 c.
Live poultry, steady; geese, 28033 c;
ducks. 26©38c; fowls, 20@28c; turkeys,
45c; roosters, 20c; chickens, 22©25c; broil
ers, 30©38c.
Cheese, dull: state milk.i commonu to spe
cials. 20029 c: skims, common to specials.
10020 c.
Butter, steady: receipts. 6.314; creamery
extra, 57c; do. special market, 57%c©58c;
state dairy, tubs; imitation creamery, firsts.
34054 c; nominal: Argentine, 33050 c.
Eggs, steady; receipts, 6,892; near-by
white fancy, $1.08; near-by mixed fancy.
67093 c; fresh firsts, 76@88ci. Pacific Coast
extras, 70c©$1.08.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO. Dec. I.—Butter: Creamery ex
tras. 52c; creamery standards, 44%c; firsts,
41049 c; seconds, 38039 c.
Eggs—Ordinaries, 61065 c; firsts, -720 73c
Cheese—Twins, 24c; yotwt Americas.
25% c.
Live Poultry—Fowls, Jo@23%c; ducks,
27c; geese. 27c; springs, 25c; turkeys, 35c;
roosters, 18c.
Potatoes—4B cars; Wisconsin and Minne
sota (per 100 lbs,). '51.4001.60.
METAL~MARKET
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. —Copper nominal.
Electrolytic, spot and nearby, 13%@14; first
quarter, 13%@14%. Tin steadey; spot and
nearby. 33.50; futures, 34.75; iron un
changed. Antimony, 5.7505.87%. Lead
weak, spot 5.000:5.50; zinc, steady; East
St. Louis delivery, spot. 5.65 05.75.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Open. Close.
January .. . • «. • • 6.9206,94
February . .. 7.0607.08
March 7.20 7.2007.22
vpril 7.3907.40
May 7.55 7.5907.60
June - 1 -7507. i i
j n ;v 7.90 bid 7.920.7.94
August .... 8.0208.04
September 8.10 8.1208.14
October b ’B 8.2208.24
November .... • 8.70 bid
'jncember 6.40 bid 6.7506.85
NEW YORK. Dec. I.—Spot coffe, 7c.
NEW YORK SUGAR MARKET
Open. Close.
January 5.12@5.20 5.3405.35
February i 1 ' 33 ®?' 40
March 5.13@5.20 5.3805.40
April .... 5.4005.45
Mav 5.25 bid 5.4805.50
.lune .... 5.5205.58
July 5.35 bid 5.5805.60
September 5.42 bid
December 5.12 5.3005.35
NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Raw sugar steady.
Refined quiet at 8.75@9.00 for fine granu
lated.
GRAIN MARKET CPINIONS
E. F. Leland & Co.: "There wil’lnot be
much decline in wheat prices ns long as ex
port demand continues. Would sell oats on
any bulge.”
James E. Bennett & Co.: “The present
price level appears to have discounted ev
erything bearish for the present in wheat,
would only sell oats on the hard spots for the
time being.”
Simons, Day & Co.: “Believe purchases
should be made on all declines in wheat.”
Charles Singere. & Co.: “Our exportable
surplus will have to be disposed of before
wheat from competitive countries becomes
available.”
GRAIN
CHICAGO, Dec. I.—Storms in Argentina
had a tendency today to strengthen the
wheat market here. Opening quotations,
which varied from %c decline to 1c ad
vance, were followed by slight downturns
amt then by a material advance nil around.
Wheat closed strong, 5 to 6%c net higher,
torn paralleled the action of wiieat.
Corn closed firm, 1 to 2%c net higher.
Oats were firm with other cereals.
Provisions reflected steadiress of the bog
market.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices tn
the exchange today;
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
WHEAT—
Decl.s6 1.65 1.55% 1.62 1.56%
Mar 1.51% 1.56% 1.49% 1.55% 1.50
CORN—
Dec 65% 68% 65% 68% 65%
May .... 72% 74 72% 73% 72%
July .... 74% '75% 73% 75% 74
OATS—
Dee 44% 45% 44% 45% 44%
Mav .... 45% 49% 48% 49% 48%
July .... 481-2 49% 48% 49% 48%
PORK—
Jan ... 22.50 23.35 22.50 23.25 22.75
LARD—
Jan 14.87 15.25 14.82 15.25 14.80
Mav .... 14.27 14.70 14.27 14.65 14.32
it IBS—
Jan 12.35 12.70 12.35 12.67 12.35
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
Wheat 28 cars
Corn 59 cars
Oats 40 cars
Hogs2l,ooo head
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, Dec. L—Wheat: No. 2 hard,
$1.68; No. 2 northern, $1.64.
Corn—No. 2 mixed, 73c; No. 2 yellow, 80c.
Oats—No. 2 white, 47%@50c; No. 3 wllite,
46%c. /
Rye—sl.44.
Barley—6Bo92c.
Timothyseed—ss.soo6.7s.
Cloverseed—sls.oo 0 20.00.
Pork—Nominal.
Lard—sl6.so.
Rib 5—512.50014.50.
ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS
ST. LOUIS, Dec. I.—Cash: Wheat, No.
2 red winter. $1.8001.89; No. 3, $1.80; De
cember, $1.69; March $1.57%.
Corn. No. 4 white, 72c; December, 72%c;
May, 75%c.
Oats, No. 2 white, 50%c; No. 3, 49©
50%c; December, 49%c; May. 50%c.
NAVAL STORES
SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. I.—Turpentine,
quiet; 92%c; sales, none; receipts, 95; ship
ments, 334; stock, 15,679.
Rosin, quiet; sales, none; receipts, 412;
shipments, 738; stock, 69,092.
Quote: B, D, E, F, G, H. I, K, M. N,
WG, WW. $ll.OO.
East End Extension of
Galveston’s Sea Wall
To Be Finished in 1921
GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. I.—The
east end extension to Galesvton’s
treat sea wall will be completed by
August 1. 1921, predicts Major L.-M.
Adams, U. S. A., engineer in charge
of the work. To date 9,110 feet have
been constructed, while about 1,200
feet remain to be built. The project,
is being built at the expense of the
government.
Comparative figures for the origi
nal wall and for the extension now
under construction show piat post
war conditions have laid an almost
prohibitive hand upon great en
gineering projects.
. To complete the east end exten
sion, the rivers and harbors commit
tee at Washington has been asked
tc appropriate $1,500,000. The origi
nal sea wall —approximately five
miles in length—built after the dis
astrous 1900 storm, in which thou
sands of persons lost their lives and
millions of dollars in damage done,
cost only $2,090,000.
The government’s extension, as
also is the wall completed in 1904.
is seventeen feet above the mean
low tide and roughly 1.5 feet above
the high water mark of the 1900
storm. It is five feet at its crest,
with a base of sixteen feet, sloping
toward the gulf. On the landward
side the wall is banked with earth
ever which has been built Galves
ton's famous “sea wall boulevard,”
while huge granite boulders protect
the foundations of the wall from
erosion of the waves.
Fla. University Club
Os Atlanta Organized;
Bradley Is President
The Florida University Club of At
lanta was formally launched Friday
night when a number of Atlantians,
former students at that institution,
met and elected officers. R. R. Brad
ley,, circulation manager of The Tri-
Weekly Journal, was elected presi
dent, and H. V. Stapleton, 885 West
Peachtree, was named secretary. The
president is a 1905 man, while the
secretary is a 1920 man. The next
meeting will be held at 3 o’clock the
afternoon of December 5 at 202 Jour
nal building.
The following have been elected to
membership: Charles G. Paleston,
J. A. Forsyth, R. R. Bradley, H. Y.
Stapleton, Fred R. Mason, Robert B.
Goodwin, Fred R. Mason, Robert B.
McCord, John C. McKinnon, Charles
M. Moon, H. M. Fain, McKindry
Tucker, J. C. McMillan, Dr. L. T.
Pattillo, Dr. W. E. Persons, Lieuten
ant S. R. Ward, J. Q. Mcßae, Captain
A. J. Angle, W. S. Duncan, C. 11.
Cushman, Harry Harmon, H. D.
Waugh, Wallace Caswell and Harvey
S. Hester.
Former Florida students, graduates
or undergraduates, who are now liv
ing in Atlanta are requested to send
their names in to the president.
Roundup of Loiterers
Is Begun by Police;
Thirty <• One Indicted
Out of fifty-four true bills return
ed by the Fulton county grand jury
Tuesday afternoon, over thirty were
for vagrancy, and these were the re?-
suit of a sweeping investigation ot
alleged gambling conditions conduct
ed throughout the city by Solicitor
General John>A. Boykin and the city
police. j
A recent order was issued by Ch\ef
of Police J. L. Beavers to arrest all
persons loitering about poolrooms
and on the streets of the city, who
are not regularly at work, and efforts
will be made to have them bound
over Tn the recorder’s court on a
charge of vagrancy. It is the pur
pose, Chief Beavers and Mr. Boykin
say, to make a "clean-up” of the al
leged gamblers and loiterers in the
city.
Chief of Detectives Lamar Poole,
Lieutenants T. D. Shaw and R. L.
Waggoner and several detectives and
policemen were before the grand jury
Tuesday to testify against the large
number of alleged vagrants.
A round-up of the indicted men
began Tuesday afternoon by a force
of deputy sheriffs following the is
suing of bench warrants by Judge
John D.
Million Quarts Whisky
Seized Since Jan. 16
WASHINGTON. Dec. I.—More
than 1.060,000 quarts o whisky, gin
and other liquors have been seized
from rum runners on the border of
the United States since January 16
when national prohibition became ef
fective. Chief Ashworth, of the Unit
ed States customs service, estimated
here today.
“I am convinced.” Chief Ashworth
also said, “that this represents but
one-tenth of the amount that was
successfully smuggled across the
line.”
The sea of liquor which was halt
ed now is stored in customs houses
and government buildings in towns
and cities all along the border where
it is causing officials much anxiety.
ABE POWERS GIVEN
FIVE YEARS’ TERM
ON LARCENY CHARGE
(Continued from Page 1)
Moore, and said he was a farmer,
but who. 1 found out later, was
steerer for this gang of swindlers.
“A few days later we were down
by the Union depot when Moore in
troduced me to this man Powers. He
called him ‘Kansas.’ We got to talk
ing and, under questions by Moore,
Powers admitted that he knew a cer
tain Judge Baker, who, he said, rep
resented 90 per cent of tlie race
horses in tlie United States. Towers
told us that he was one of tliirty
men sent out by tliis racing associa
tion to break up race horse betting
in the pool rooms.
“He showed us a clipping from a.
Kansas City paper giving him and
the association a sensational write
up, and then he showed us a letter
from the president of the associa
tion, warning him against such pub
licity, and telling him not to let it
occur again. He asked us not. to say
anything about his scheme for that
reason, and in return for our silence,
told us he would show us how to
pick up a little expense money.”
"Moore seemed so anxious to make
this money,’’ said Lamar, “that the
two of them met Powers the next
day at the Piedmont hotel, and from
there went to a building on West
Peachtree street which Powers call
ed the 'exchange.'
On their first visit, said Lamar,
Powers told them that he had abso
lutely sure information every day
from the head of his association on
how certain races were going. He
asked them to place a little bet for
him. as it was against the rules for
him to bei himself. He gave them
five SIOO biis a piece. They made the
bets. They won, and they turned
over to Powers SI,OOO each.
Then, said Lamar, Powers made a
bet by which he won $12,600,’ but
he had put up a check and the cash
ier refused to pay, until he had evi
dence that the check was good, or
the equivalent in cash.
Lamar said they all left the ex
change. talking about how they could
get $42,000 to show that the check
was good. Then, he said, he and
Moore left Powers, but had an ap
pointment to meet him the next day.
At ten the next morning said La
mar, Powers came in kind of ex
cited. He told them he had walked
and walked all night, that he had
telegraphed Judge Baker and that
Judge Baker’s wife had sent him
$14,000 of the money. He said he
could raise $4,000 more in St. Louis
He asked Moore, the witness said, if
he couldn’t raise $11,600, and then
asked Lamar what he could raise,
tolling them there was no risk, that
they wouldn’t, have to part with the
money at all: they would simply
have to show it to the cashier.
“I told him I would go home and
see what I could do,” said Lamar,
“and he told .me just what to tele
graph back to him —a code system
in which the word ‘carloads’ Was
to represent thousands. If I could
get the SII,OOO I was to wire him.
'I am coming with eleven loads.’ ’’
Lamar said he couldn’t raise the
money, but he brought back to At
lanta with him his friend, Mr. Hol
ley, who did raise it. Powers and
Moore met them at the train, he
said, and took them to a room at
the Piedmont. Then he said they
all went’ out to the ‘exchange,’ he
(Lamar) with Holley’s SII,OOO in his
grip.
“We all sat doxyn at a table on
which I put the grip,” said Lamar.
“Moore came up with a package
he said was SII,OOO. Powers
%aid down another package he said
was SIB,OOO, making $40,000 in all.
The cashier told us we would have
to go out and count our money. Pow
ers took the grip and the packages,
passed them to Moore, and Moore
gave it to the cashier and went out
with it. That was the last I ever
saw of the money."
Moore Bet Xt AH
When Moore came back, said the
witness, he was flushed and excited.
He told them that he had bet not
only what they brought, but what
they had won—sß2,ooo in all, on a
horse; that he had won again, and
that they all stood to collect $164,-
000 if they could show the money to
cover some checks he had put up as
part of his wager.
Lamar said he and Holley went
back to Aiken to raise some more
money. When they returned to At
lanta, Moore and Poxvers met them
at the depot again, and also met
them at the Piedmont. After that,
he said, they had some difficulty
making appointments with Moore.
He said that Holley’s brother was
with them, and Powers did not'want
to meet any third parties. Finally,
said Lamar, he and Holley got so
suspicious that they called the At
lanta police and had two detectives
come to the Piedmont.
He described hoxv he and Holley,
expecting the detectives to follow
them, encountered Powers outside the
Piedmont, walked with him down
Luckie street, and when the detect
ives did not appear, seized him
themselves and held him until they
could get a policeman.
Cross Examination
Attorney John S. McClellan, of
McClellan, Key & McClellan, the law
firm that, with Attorney Samuel D.
Hewlett, is defending Powers, sub
jected Lamar to a grilling cross-ex
amination. The principal point he
strove to make avas that Powers had
never touched Holley's money, and
that Lamar in conversation with po
licemen had admitted as much.
In answer to this, Lamar said that
when the money was on the table in
a grip. Powers took the grip and
handed it to Moore and that Moore
and the cashier went out together
with the grip.
“Why didn’t you demand your sll,-
000 back?” asked Attorney McClel
lan.
“We did, but we were told that it
had been bet like the rest,” said the
witness.
Lamar denied that he had said in
the presence of Police Lieutenant
Shaw, Policeman Whatley and Citi
zen Policemen Bellflower and Ed
mondson that Poxvers never had a
hand on his grip. Attorney McClel
lan insisted that such a conversa
tion had been held, and when the
solicitor objected to his questions,
told the court he was trying to show
that Lamar had changed his story
after he had seen the solicitor.
Lamar repeated his denial, tiut Mr.
McClelland had Lieutenant Shaxv,
Policeman Whatley and Policeman
Bellfloxver brought into court and
identified by Lamar as men he had
talked to. It is understood that he
will , call them later to attempt to
prove his contention.
Describes Arrest
Lamar described in detail how he
and Holley seized Powers. He said
the reason that the detectives didn’t
accompany them from the* room in
the Piedmont was that the detectives
told them the Atlanta crooks had po‘-
lice officers spotted and it would be
a mistake for them to go along. Aft
er the seizure, said Lamar, a crowd
of people followed them up the street,
and a young man in the crowd went
and called the police station for them.
Lamar admitted that Powers did
not resist arrest. He said, however,
that Powers begged to be turned
loose, and that Holley replied, “Gim
me my money and I’ll turn you
loose.”
Throughout the morning the court
room was packed almost exclusively
with men. Chief of Detectives La
mar Poole was an interested specta
tor. Powers sat a table with his law
yers. When he first came in he
stepped jauntily, and flourished a
red handkerchief in his coat pocket.
During the picking of the jury he
consulted eagerly with his lawyers,
and from time to time during the tes
timony of Lamar leaned forward and
suggested questions to ask the wit
ness.
Mrs. Poxvers xvas not present at her
husband’s trial.
The trial xvas adjourned for lunch
at 1 o’clock xvith Lamar still on the
stand. Court was te reconvene at 2
o’clock.
Following the arrest of Mrs. Abe
Powers, wife of the defendant, Mon
day, a search of the woman’s room
at a local hotel was made and her
baggage was taken to police head
quarters, xvhere it was examined for
evidence of her connections with the
alleged illegal operations of her hus
band. The raid was conducted by
Lieutenant of Detectives R. L. Wag
gonner and Detective J. M. Austin.
Society Girl Wears
Dainty Costume at
N. Y. Charity Ball
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Many persons prominent in
New York society attended a Ve
netian ball given in aid of Amer
cia’s tribute to Italy. The above
photograph shoxvs Miss Judith M.
Smith in a costume which at
tracted much attention.
It was said, however, that nothing
was found in the xvoman’s trunks
which implicated her in any way.
Powers’ Statement
The defense introduced no wit
nesses, resting its case on the state
ment of Powers himself, who took
the stand late Tuesday afternoon
and told his story to the jury, talk
ing rapidly ahd at times beating the
arm of the> chair with his fist in
order to emphasize his declarations.
He spoke’ as follows:
“All I’ve got to say about this
is that I was on my way from New
York to Houston, and stopped off in
Atlanta. When I got off the trails
at the Terminal station, I met a
man named Grant, and we chummed
around a little. We went up to the
Piedmont and got a room together
and he -asked me if I was a sport,
if I wanted to make a little money.
Then he enticed me to this place on
West Peachtree,’ explaining that the
horse racing bets xvere a sure thing.
He didn’t have any money and he
asked me to bet for him. So I bet
a couple of thousand and won.
“The next day I met Mr. Moore
and Mr. Lamar. Later on I met Mr.
Holley. I told them about the prop
osition and they said it sounded
good. We all went out to the place.
Holley xvent in and bet some money
and won, and I congratulated him.
We decided that it was such a good
thing that there wasn't any reason
why we shouldn’t use a check. If
they accepted it so good. If they
wouldn’t, we didn’t lose anything.
“After we placed the check and
won, a man came out who said he
was the manager. He said the
clerk accepted the check without his
knowledge and Holley said that was
all right, he would furnish the
money, and he’d keep on furnishing
the money if I’d. furnish informa
tion from my friend Grant.
Just a Pool Room
“When we finally xvent back out
there xvith money to cover the checks
Moore and Holley took it all into
one room, and I sat out in another
room xvith old man Lamar. I never
put my hands on it. The cashier
said he’d wait a while on us and
we’d have to wait a while on him.
While we xvere xx-aiting, Mr. Grant
told me he had another sure thing.
“I asked the manager how long it
would be before we got our money,
and he said about thirty minutes.
“I asked him if it would be all
right to make a bet and he said sure,
that we had a big balance coming.
So xve xvrote out a check just as a
matter of form. Holley and the
rest agreed to it. After we won,
Holley said: ‘Well, we’re all in the
same boat we xvere before; xve’ve got
to get more money to establish our
checks, but leave it to me. I’ll get
all the money I want.’
“Noxv. gentlemen, I believe in my
honest heart that it xvas just a pool
room and they would have paid us,
if all this fuss hadn’t come up. This
is the first time I’ve had to say my
side, and that is it.”
After Powers finished his state
ment, the state put Holley back on
the stand in rebuttal, and Holley de
nied that he had consented to a check
being put up for the bet. or that he
had authorized the bet being made
at all. ,
An echo of the controversy be
tween Solicitor Boykin and Chief of
Detectives Lamar Poole came when
Mr. Boykin was examining Holley.
Holley testified that, Pow
ers’ arrest, he went with city officers
to look for the West Peachtree place
and couldn’t find it, but that, when
he and Lamar went there with the
solicitor, they found it “easy.” He
added to this the statement that it
was thirty or forty minutes after
Powers’ arrest before they left the
station xvith police officers to look
for the place.
Strong-Arm Method
Is Used by Monday
Night Burglars Here
A number of burglaries, accom
plished or attempted, appeared in
the police records Tuesday morning
from the previous night, featuring
on’e or more strong-armed operators
who made a practice of twisting
locks off of thfe front doors of va
rious shops, several being in the
same general vicinity.
The principal depredation was at
the McGahee drug store, 673 High
land avenue, the plate glass door of
which was smashed for entrance,
S4O in money and about SIOO in mer
chandise being taken.
The lock twisting tactics xvere in
evidence at the Curry-Akers Tire
company, 95 Marietta street, where
the front door was opened by this
athletic method and 75 cents con
stituted the total booty so far as
appeared Tuesday morning.
The front door lock of a small
grocery store at 358 Decatur street
xvas wrenched off and about SIOO in
food products stolen. The same
rough tactics xvere observed at a
fruit stand at Mitchell and Davis
streets, xvhere $3 and a quantity of
cigars and cigarettes were stolen;
and at 418 and 452 Marietta street,
grocery stores, where the locks were
txvisted off but apparently nothing
was taken.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920-
PHYSICIAN SAYS HE
KNOWS FULL STOfIY
OF SHEPARD CASE
(Continued from Page 1)
sense of Mrs. Henry and Ernest Hop
son, but that he will confine his ef
forts to Mrs. Elmer’s interests.
Hearing Set for December 7
Hearing on applications for bail
for Mrs. F. E. Elmer, of Jackson
ville, Fla., her son, Ernest Hopson,
and her sister, Mrs. lone Henry,
charged with murder in connection
with the death here June 1 of Mr.
Fred D. Shepard, former husband of
Mrs. Elmer and wealthy Houston’
county peach grower, has been set
for December 7 by Judge Mathews,
of the county superior court.
Application for bail for Mrs. An
nie E. Cutts, wife of an attorney
of Fitzgerald, arrested late yester
day on a warrant charging murder,
had not been filed early today.
Attorneys for Mrs. Elmer, her son
and sister applied yesterday to Judge
Mathews for bail, the petitions
charging that the state had not pro
duced evidence of guilt. An imme
diate hearing was requested but this
the. justice refused.
The authorities early today had
made no statement as to the alleged
connection of Mrs. Cutts with the
case. She formerly resided in Abbe
ville, the home of Mrs. Elmer, be
fore she married Mr. Shepard, and
the two women were said to have
been intimate friends. Mr. Shepard
and his xvife were visiting at the
home of Mrs. Henry, in Perry, when
he became violently ill three days
before his death, xvhich the coroner s
jury said resulted from bichloride
poison. ..
Mrs. Elmer’s Plea for Bail
Mrs. Elmer’s side of the case as
set forth in her application for bail
follows;
To Honorable H. A. Mathews,
Judge of the Superior court of the
Macon Circuit:
1.
Petitioner was on the 27th day of
November, 1920, arrested upon a war
rant issued by B. A. Hartley, a no
tary public an dex-officia justice of
the peace of Houston county, Geor
gia, upon the affidavit of J. J. Rob
inson, charging petitioner with the
offense of murder. Petitioner was
arrested upon said warrant and
brought to Bibb county, Georgia,
xvhere she is now confined in the
custody of the sheriff of Bibb coun
ty in the commoir jail of said county.
Petitioner has had no opportunity
before any judicial officer authorized
to hear evidence upon said charge
so commit petitioner, and no com
mitment has been had. Petitioner
shows that she is not guilty of the
offense charged against her, nor of
any other offense, and no evidence
can be adduced making out a prima
facie case of guilt against petition
er, nor does there exist any evidence
of her probable guilt.
3.
Though said affidavit is silent as
to the person xvho is alleged to have
been burdered by petitioner, pe
titioner shows that petitioner is in
formed that it is sought by said affi
davit to charge her with the offense
of the murder of her husband, Fred
D. Shepard. An inquest was recent
ly held by the coroner of Houston
county upon the body of said Fred
D. Shepard. In the verdict of said
coroner’s jury, rendered on said 27th
day of November, 1920, there was
no finding that any felonious homi
cide had been committed, nor was
any person whomsoever charged
xvith the commission of any felon
ious homicide, and in particular there
was no finding that the death of
said Fred D. Shepard was caused by
any felonious act of your peti
tioner.
Petitioner shoxvs that so far as
petitioner knows there exists no evi
dence xvhatsoever which tends to
raise even a suspicion of petitioner’s
guilt of any crime with reference to
the death of her said husband. The
state has never put petitioner in
possession of any evidence which
tends to cast even a suspicion upon
petitioner, and petitioner says that
if any such evidence exists or is
claimed to exist the same is abso
lutely false and petitioner is entire
ly innocent of any crime whatso
ever. Petitioner says that she. vol
untarily came within the jurisdic
tion of this court, and put herself
at the disposal of the solicitor gen
eral of the Macon circuit for any
investigation whatever that the said
solicitor general desired to make
xvith reference to the death of her
said husband, and that petitioner vol
untarily attended the hearing before
the coroner’s jury at Fort Valley,
Ga., when the aforesaid verdict was
rendered, and advised the solicitor
general at that time that she was
ready to testify before said coron
er’s jury if the solicitor so desired,
but that the solicitor did not call
your petitioner to testify, nor was
she given any opportunity to make
any statement before sAid jury. Pe
titioner has never been advised by
the state or any person prosecuting
in this matter as to the reasons or
any reason why petitioner should
be suspected or detained by anyone,
and she now again avers that there
is no good reason why she should be
so suspected or detained.
Petitioner shows that she is,a del
icate woman, that she has never
been used to exposure, that she has
not been accustomed to such sur
roundings as those In which she is
now placed during her imprisonment.
The confinement in the common jail
is a terrible humiliation to a woman
of her sensibilities. Her detention
within prison xvalls under restraint is
a terrific strain upon her nervous
system, and will seriously impair her
health if continued. Petitioner is not
now a xvell woman. She has recent#
ly suffered with a prolonged attack
of pneumonia, xx’hich left her in a
xveakened condition, and in the pres
ent state of her physical health the
mental and nervous strain of her
imprisonment threatens to be more
than petitioner can bear, and peti
tioner fears that if she is not re
leased her health may be permanent
ly impaired.
Petitioner shows that she came
into this state from state
voluntarily, and placed herself with
in the jurisdiction of this court, that
she has made no effort to v avoid its
processes, or to prevent the fullest
investigation into all the matters
connected with her said husband’s
death. She has no intention, of seek
ing to avoid the prodesses of the
court in the future, nor is there any
danger that she will fail to appear
and answer any indictment should
one be found against her, but, on the
contrary, petitioner shows that she is
ready and willing to voluntarily ap
pear and submit herself fully to the
order and judgment of this court
whenever she should be called upon
to do so, as she has already submit
ted herself to the jurisdiction of this
court voluntarily and without any
compulsion whatsoever. ,
Petitioner is ready and xvilling and
able and tenders good and sufficient
bail in such amount as ma'y be fixed
in the discretion of Your Honor for
her appearance to answer any indict
ment that may be found against her
Wherefore, petitioner prays that
the facts be Inquired into by Your
Honor, and that she be admitted to
bail.
C M. DURRANCE.
HAr.PE*. H.\ T ’r;TS V- WTTMAN.
Meant What She Said
Mabel—Hoxx* can you be so insin
cere? You told Mr. Boreleigh that
you xvere sorry you were out xvhdn
he called.
Marie —Oh, no. my dear, I said I
was sorry he called xvhen I was out.
You see, he’s likely to call some
time xvhen I am in.—Boston Tran
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summer resort where you spent your
vacation?”
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Pigeon Racing Pastime
Supplies More Thrills
Than Sport of Kings
BY MEDORA FIELD!
(Special Staff Writer for The Tri-Weekly
Journal.)
Everybody knows about “Cher
Ami,” the homing pigeon who, with
one leg shot away, carried the mes
sage that saved the Lost Battalion
from annihilation. Cher Ami xvas
cited and awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross. And almost every
body has heard of “Spike,” who car
ried the greatest number of messages
over the lines during the ( fiercest
fighting on the battle front and was I
never wounded. But a comparatively
small number of persons knoxv about
the unique and sometimes spectacu
lar feats that are being performed
by the pigeons of the Atlanta Hom
ing club.
It has not more than a dozen mem
bers, some of them nexv enthusiasts,
while some of them have been raising
homing pigeons for ten years. They
own about 1,000 pigeons between
them, valued at from $2 to SIOO
apiece.- These birds are trained and
raced from various southern points,
liberating stations they are called.
Within the past year races have been
held from Montezuma. Ashburn, Val
dosta, Ga., and White Springs,
Gainesville, Dade City and Fort My
ers, Fla.
The Atlanta club is allied with the
National Association of Homing Pig
eon Fanciers. A great many duns
over the United States are affiliated
with this association and there are
also two other national associations.
Each individual loft is measured by
the official surveyors, who establish
the, distances from liberating points
to home lofts.
A long pedigree comes with the
purchase of the more valuable car
riers. Guy T. Tabler has a pigeon
which is a granddaughter of “Bullet,”
owned by O. W. Anderson, of Fort
Wayne, which flew 1,040 miles in
one day, covering the distance from
Abelene, Tex., to Fort Wayne in elev
en hours and thirty minutes. An
other pigeon making a long distance
record is known as “Thomas B,” and
is owned by T. B. Brouillette, of
Springfield, Mass. This pigeon flexv
from Denver to Springfield, 1,689
miles, in two days.
Dr. Joe Bomar sold one of his
pedigreed pigeons to .a man in Ha
vana, and, like the cat, the pigeon
came back in a couple of days, fly
ing across the water —home.
One bird owned by W. J. Stoddard,
chairman of the racing committee,
has flown 500 miles in one day, and
repeated the performance ten times.
Other local pigeons have established
long distance records almost as
startling.
The birds are carried in coops to
the liberating station. An entrance
fee of 25 cents for each pigeon is
charged. Each oxvner entering pigeons
may select or nominate five birds as
possible winners, putting up $1 on
each. If either one of these is the
first bird home he wins the pool, or
if one of his 25-cent entrants wins,
then he
proceeds.
When the pigeons are small
a tiny bracelet of aluminum, with
the pigeon’s name is fastened around
its leg. Another bracelet, giving its
countermark or entrance number is
placed around its leg just before the
“take off.” The birds are released
at a given moment, with Atlanta, of
course, as the point In view.
Liberated, the pigeons fly upward
and circle around for a few min
utes, getting their sense of direction.
Presently a pigeon drops out, then
another and another, each making a
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FOB SALE—FI.ANTS
CABBAGE PLANTS—Large, thrifty GIANT
FLAT DUTCH and EARLY DRUM
HEADS, 300, $1.00; 500, $1.50; 1,000, $2.50;
5,000, $12.00; parcel postage prepaid. EVER
GREEN PLANT FARM t Evergreen, Ala.
FOB SALE—TREES
PEACH AND APPLE TREES AT BARGAIN
prices to planters in small or large lots by
express, parcel post or freight; 500,000
June budded peach trees; plum, cherries,
pears, grapes, all kinds berries, nuts, etc.;
shade and ornamental trees, vines and
shrubs. Free catalogue. Tennessee Nur
sery Co., Cleveland. Tenn.
FBUITS
ORANGES $1.75 per bushel; grape fruit
$1.50. Send money with order. Mc-
Eachern Brothers. Fort Green Springs, Fla.
bee line for home. Though they fly
in a straight line they do not, lik<
geese, follow each other.
Back in the home lofts, the owners
of the pigeons xvait. The race com
bines all the excitement of horse and
airplane racing. For each entrant th«
oxvner has a little clock, known as
the unique pigeon timer. All these
clocks are set at 12. When a pigeon
comes in, the little aluminum brace
let is removed and inserted in a
clock, which automatically starts
running. When all the pigeons are in,
naturally the clock that has been
running longest represents the first
arrival and the winner of the race.
There are some tense moments
sometimes xvhen a pigeon alights on
the roof to strut about or rest be
fore trapping in. It may be weary
or frightened, but sometimes many
minutes are lost this way and if an
other bird alights and traps in im
mediately, the second bird wins, as
the racing is based entirely on the
record of the little clocks.
No prima donna can boast more
temperament than these feathered
couriers of the air, and no prims
donna ever received more careful at
tention and training. Yet, -while
prima donnas may change their hus
bands as often as they change the!)
minds, not so the carrier pigeon
Once mated, he is faithful to death
Indeed, it is perhaps this character
istic that makes them so valuable.
Love of home, love of mate, love of
offspring are so strong in the burn
ing pigeon that no matter how far
distant he is transported from home,
eventually he xvill find his way
back.
Belgium was the first to use
them in the great world war, mobil
izing some 700,J00. Later, they were
used by all the fighting countries.
Our country created a pigeon sec
tion attached to the signal corps and
experts were sent overseas with
their troops of these fleet and un
erring winged messengers. Many of
these American birds made history.
The secretary of war issued a lettet
of thanks to owners of birds
throughout the country for the valu
able assistance rendered bv the hom
ing pigeon fanciers of the United
States in the winning of the war.
For these feathered veterans a home
was built in Potomac park.
The members of the Atlanta club
are: Dr. S B. Bomar, president:
Guy T. Tabler, secretary and treas
urer; W J. Stoddard, chairman rac
ing committee; W. H. Glenn, J. H
Legjen, W. F. Bragg, George W. An
dersson, J. T. Wrigley, R. R. John
son and Robert N. Hughes.
Old Slave Ship
The famous old Freemont, which
roamed the seas as a pirate ship,
was dynamited amidships for a
number of scenes in the new Pathe
Special, "Half a Chance.” The
Freemont was used as a slave car
rier for many years before the Civil
xvar and made numerous trips be
tween AflMca and the southern
states.
It was 70 feet in length and was
considered one of the fastest sail
ing ships afloat. Many tales have
been told of mutinies, murders and
adventure which had taken place
within this old shell. And now.
since its dynamiting for “Half a
Chance,” its days are numbered,
even as a motion picture ship and
it is almost ready for the wood
pile.
Something Wrong
The Teacher—You haven’t solved
a single one of your problems cor
rectly.
Little Ethel—Why, the answers
must be right; I got ’em all oft the
ouija board.—Detroit News.
J 1 ??*.- sale— mscEx Awnepynß r
30-Acre Florida Farm With ,S|
Orange and Pecan
GROVE—Situated in pretty village, fine
homey house, large piazza, shade, ample
barn, 20 acres rich, loamy tilllage, 10 acres
well fenced pasture, valuable timber, large *
number orange and pecan -trees; owner called
away, makes price SI,OOO, S6OO down, easy
terms. Details this and many other Flor
ida and semi-tropical groves, farms and
ranches, page 56 Strout’s Big Illustrated
Catalog Farm Bargains 33 States. Copy free.
Strout Farm Agency. 1210-XBA, Graham
bldg., Jacksonville, Fla.
SAVE DOLLAR ‘
HIGH-GRADE hosiery for the whole fam
ily at factory prices; men’s, women’s
and children’s cotton hosiery at pre-wat
values: light and medium weight cotton, fl
pairs $1.50; light and medium weight lisle
and mercerized, G pairs $2.00; extra heavy l
boys’ cotton and ladies’ mercerized, 8 pair? ‘
$2.50; send money order; state size, weight
and color. Write name and address plain
l.v. We prepay postage. Family Hosiery
Alills, Box 240. Chattanooga. Tenn.
MAGICAI GOODS. novelties, lodestone
herbs, cards, dice, 'books. Oataloe
free. G. Smythe Co., Newark, Mo.
SAW mills, shingle mills, corn mills, water
wheels, engines DeLoach Co., 549, At
ianta. Ga.
m , BALE-FABMB
40-ACRE farm, 34 cleared, wire fence, 4 -
room house, barns, etc.; fine water; on <■
public highway, R. F. D., near town. Prjcc
S6OO. 32 other improved farms, near schools,
churches—s 6to sl2 acre. Seaborn Sutton,
Dowling Park, Fla.
WANTSD—FARMS
deal with owners only. Give description
and cash price. Morrjs M. Perkins. Co
lumbus, Mo. ’ I,
GOOD farm wanted. Send description and
price. John J. Black, Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin. ’
PATENTS
INVENTORS should write for our guide ‘
book, “How to Get Your Patent.’’ Tells
terms and methods. Send sketch for our
opinion of patentable nature. Randolph &
co.. Dept. 60, Washington, D. C. e
PERSONAL
SEND for free trial treatment worst~forms
blood disease, Welch Med. Co., Atlanta.
medical
PILES can be cured; no cutting, safe, pain
less. I will tell you about it free. Write
Box 1168, Atlanta, Ga.
PILES
FREE information about painless pile cure
No knife. Box 1168, Atlanta, Ga.
S DROPSY TREATMENT
JT gives quick relief. Dis *
■ tressing syajptoma rapid] v
• -disappear. Swelling an d
short breath soon gone. Often
entire relief in 10 days. Never
heard of anything its equal
for dropsy. A trial treatment
sent by mail absolutely FREE
ER. THOMAS E. GREEN
Box 18, CHATSWORTH, GA
C ANTER
Its successful treatment without use of the
anise. Hundreds of satisfied patients tes
tify to this mild method. Write tor free
book. Tells how to care for patients suffer
ing from cancer. Address
DR. W. O. BYE, - Kansas City, Mo
BED WETTING REMEDY FREE
We supply expert advice and Box PENIN E
without cost.
MISSOURI REMEDY CO.. Office 3
St. Louis, Mo,
ASPIRIN—IS tablets, 10c. Genuine. Name
on each tablet. 100 for 50c. Postpaid
send coin. A. JAX CO., 920 E/chanas W? '
Memphis, T?en.
VARICOSE VEINS E(ib
are promptly relieved with inexpensive home
treatment. It reduces the pain sad swelling
—overcomes tiredness. For particulars write
W. F YOUNG. Ino., 361 Temple St., Spring,
field. Mass.
LEG SORES
Healed by ANTI-FLAMMA—a soothing anti- i
septic Poultice. Draws out poisons, atops
itching around sores and heals while you
work. Write today, describing case, and iret
FREE SAMPLE. Bayles Distributing Co
1820 Grand Ave.. Kansas City. Mo.
CAMPFR Tumors successfully
VzrAIVVzUIX treated. Pay when re
moved. Dr. E. V. Boynton, Fitchburg, Mass.
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