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UNION RECORDER, MILLEDGEV 1LLE, GEORGIA WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3, 1923
MAN OWNS TOWN
IN ARKANSAS
Robert E. Lee Wilson Rules
Small Village Like Baron
of Feudal Times.
PUCE HIS NO POLICEMEN
ARID AREAS RECLAIMED
Government Bureau Adds 1.675,-
OOO Acres in 20 Years.
Wilson City, Ark., With Population of
1.800, Gets Along Without Ordi
nances and All Courts, But
Everybody Must Work.
Little Hock, Ark.—Wilson, In Missis
sippi county, Ark., is a one-ninn town.
It tins no courthouse or city hull, no
ordinances, no police force. When
•axes full due, the collector has only to
Ko lo Robert K. Lee Wilson me! say:
“Mr. Wilson, give me a check for taxes
on everything in sight.”
Wilson writes the check, covering all
of the land and physical assets In a
town of 1,800 population and enough
of the surrounding farm and lumber
country to total more than 40,000 acres
of territory, -aid to be rivaled in pro
ductiveness only by the valley of the
Nile.
The town of Wilson bus only one law
and that Is unwritten. It is that every
body must work There are no idle
men in the town mid vagrants are not
tolerated. There cun lie no undesirable
citizens beeuu.se Wilson, who owns all
the houses, will not rent homes to unde
nt rubles.
Homes Are Modern.
Everybody in Wilson is a renter.
Even the one muti who owns and runs
the town writes a check, payable to
himself, every month for $45. That is
llw‘ highest rent paid, and only two
other citizens pay that much. Other
tenants pay $12.50 to $27.50 a month,
with a few exceptions, where 'the
rentals arc $20 to $40.
Kvety home in Wilson, whether It Is
* throe-room cottage or a mansion, Is
equipped with electric lights, tub and
shower baths, hot und cold water, tele
phone, hedge, flower garden, truck
patch. and Hiickeu yard.
Wilson Inis industries that represent
a total Investment of $1,000,000. These
.produce annually nearly $2,000,000
worth of manufactured hardwood lum
ber. ginned colt in, flour m'eal, and
mixed feed. The iaw material for these
products comes fi on a 10,000-ucre tract
of cultivated and timbered land, all
owned by Wilson. The principal agri
cultural product.i are cotton, corn,
wheat and alfalfa.
Wilson’s 18 < ol I on plantations, with
a total area of 8,000 acres, will produce
this year 0,000 hales of cotton. Corn
wavs harve-i • I from fl.ooo acres, wheat
front 1,000 acres, and ui .dfu from 800
xu-res. The farm so big that Wilson
•employs Ills o i a v,1 cultural expert
and a general plantation manager who
has supervision ,v. or 1,8 zone managers.
Got Start in Sawmill.
There Is no eason of Idleness in tin
town. Win i the harvest Is over, the
farmhands arc put to clearing land or
working in the logging and timber in
dustry. Wilson’is now reputed to have
a fortune of more than $10,000,000. lie
began opera: ions with u small sawmill
on the site of the town which bears his
name.
With the prollls from the sawmill he
bought up land u parcel at a time.
■Now, at fifty-seven years old, lie owns
timbered and cultivated land enough
to make n fair-sized county. Ills terri
tory Is 27 miles long and eight miles
- wide.
In this section of the country Wilson
was one of the first to take up diversi
fied farming.
Then, too, Robert E. Lee Wilson has
» hobby—education, lie has sent many
voting men and women to college,
linancing them all the way through.
^RUBBERNECKS” TAKE TO AIR
Ten Machines Now Being Used for
Sight-Sseing Trips About
Berlin.
Berlin, Germany.—“Rubberneck” air
planes are now being operated fur the
Bight-seers of Berlin One company
has assigned ten machines for dally
flights around the capital, its suburbs
and neighboring places of interest.
Trips around Greater Berlin and Pots
dam are made in the forenoon, while
shorter excursions fill the matinee
schedule.
Annual Report Gives Result of Twen
ty Years of Operation of Reclama
tion Act—Government Invest
ment $135,000,000.
Washington.—A 20-year review of
government reclamation work Is con
tained In the annual report for the
fiscal year ended last June of Director
Arthur P. Duvis of the TJnited States
reclamation service of the Department
of ttie Interior, ns the 17th day of
June, 1922, marked the completion of
20 years of operation of the national
reclamation act.
The Investment of the government
during this period bus beep In round
numbers $135,000,000, which has ac
complished the construction of works
by which about 1,075,000 nt-ros of for
mer arid land in the West has been
furnished with a complete water sup
ply and about 1,100,000 additional
acres In private projects has received
i a supplemental supply. On govern-
! tnent projects the area comprises 31,-
| 402 farms, at an average area per
i farm of about fifty-three acres, sup-
I plying more than 30,000 families.
With the investment mentioned the
service has excavated taore than 200,-
000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock,
of which about 14,000,000 cubic yards
have been placed In dams. Canals
aggregating more than 13,000 miles
have been built, including 27 miles of
tunnels and 135 mllps of flumes.
Structures of nil kinds und sizes, to the
number of 110,000, have been erected
In connection with the work.
Some of the large projects con
structed ure the Roosevelt dam in
Arizona, which is 200 feet high; the
Arrowrook dam In Iduho, 349 feet
high; Elephant llutte dam In New
Mexico, 306 feet high, and the Path
finder and Shoshone dam In Wyoming,
218 nnd 328 feet high, respectively.
Reclamation work also Included the
j erection of many other dams, cunuls
I nnd tunnels, flumes, drains, power
1 plants, transmission and telephone
| lines, roads, railroads, pumping plants
and a variety of other classes of In
cidental work.
Pr«m on agricultural standpoint,
the reiKirt said, the reclamation serv
ice has added another state to the
Union, equal In value of Its agricul
tural products to that of the state of
West Virginia or the combined vulucs
of the crops of Vermont and Connec
ticut. The value of crops raised on
farms on government projects In 1921
amounted to $49,620,300, exclusive of
about $46,000,<KiO additional raised on
private projects which were furnished
water from works erected by the serv
let.
ONE-TON CANDLE FOR CARUSO
Sixteen-Foot Memorial Taper Madq
In New York Designed to Last
Eighteen Centuries.
New York.—A candle of chemically
treated beeswax, five feet in circum
ference at the base, 16 feet high and
weighing one ton, known as the Enrico
Caruso memorial candle, has Just been
completed In the studios of Antonio
AJello A Bro., and will he shipped to
Pompeii, Italy, within a few days. It
cost $8,700 and was made on the or
der of an orpliun asylum lu New York
of which Caruso was a generous bene
factor.
The candle will be placed In the
Church of Our I.ndy of Pompeii, where
Caruso Inst worshiped. It Is intended
to last 18 centuries, burning, at the
suggestion of Cardinal Vanutell, 24
hours on each All Souls’ day, which
falls on Novejnber 2.
BEGINNING
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Miss Blanche Hawkins, senior stu
dent at the University of California,
Berkeley, Cal., has just won the dis
tinction of being the only teacher of
whistling with full privileges to teach
in the schools of California, "or two
years since corning to Berkeley from
the southern branch of the univer
sity, Miss Hawkins has whistled her
way through college.
She maintains a studio where be
tween classes on the campus she has
been giving lessons in (he art chosen
by her, anil has been heard at public
gatherings. She has Just been grant
ed a special whistling eertiSeate, the
first of its kind ever issued by the
slate board of education.
JAP FINDS COMET IN SKIES
Discovery Makes Three Tailed Stars
Now Undsr Observation by
Astronomers.
Cambridge, Mass—'Die spectacle
of three comets swinging through the
skies Is afforded ustronomer* for the
first time In years.
To the two comets, Skjellerup’g and
Baade's, that have been under obser
vation for weeks, another has been
added. The tailed star known as
Perrlne’s, making another visitation
to oui- stellar system after un absence
of two generations, 1ms been sighted.
Announcement of the rediscovery of
Perrlne’s comet was made by the Har
vard college observatory In a cable
gram from the central bureau of as
tronomical telegrams at Copenhagen.
Nakamura, u Japanese scientist, re
ported having spotted the wanderer
on November 29. The position which
he gave is southeast of the star Pnp-
eyon, and about midway between the
constellations Monoceros and Hydra.
In magnitude the comet is compara
tively faint.. 1
The Harvard observatory an
nounces also an observation from
Prof. A. (). f.euschner, director of the
students’ observatory, University of
California, that may change the name
of Skjellerup’s comet by identifying
It as Brooks’ comet.
The Baldwin Service Station is under
the management of H. S. Glass. He
will appreciate the patronage of the pub
lic and guarantee satisfaction.
We will carry a full line of that GOOD
GULF Gasoline and SUPREME Motor
Oils and Greases.
We also will do General Repair Work
under the supervision of Mr. Edwin D.
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Thirty Letters in Student's Name.
London.—In the list of matriculation
examinations In Ceylon, Colombo, for
the University of London, appears a
name which can be written, with care,
bat which, outside of Ceylon, has not
yet been properly pronounced. It Is
Nanay akkaragodakandearachchlgf
Harmanis de Silva Wljesekers.’’
f^an Ends Life by Sitting
on Shell; Blown to Bits
FORTUNE FOR COURTESIES
Marjorie Rambeau, Actress, Check Boy
and 100 Others Share in $250,000
Estate of Californian.
San Francisco. — Actresses, boot
blacks, waiters, physicians, Judges and
society women—in feet, everyone who
left a good impression on the soul of
a man who remembered little acts of (
kindness and courtesy—were beneflei- I
arles in the will of the lute Joseph HI- !
sagno, whose $250,000 estate was or- !
Uered distributed to 102 persons.
Among them are Marjorie Rambeau,
actress, who will receive $1,400, and
Harry Morgan, check boy In San Fran
cisco, who gets $700. Rlsagno was a
bachelor clubman. Many of the per
sons remembered In his will he saw
only once In his lifetime.
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London.—A Cologne telegram ”j
quoted by “The Westminster
Gazette” states that at the vil
lage of Opladen a man, tired of zj f
life, sat on a shell, lit the fuse i
and waited the explosion by >!!
which he was blown to frag
ments. His lianofee, mother and
friends who saw what he was
doing tried to stop him and were
all severely Injured by the ex
plosion.
Gets Rough With Deer’s
Ribs in Half-Mile Race
Montlcello, N. Y.—Tales of
hunters who have had remark
able adventures in the wilds of
Sullivan county are drifting In.
There is the story of Leo
Nester. Leo runs a boarding
house south of here nnd does not
get much time to hunt deer.
When he saw one loping across
Ids front lawn he was pretty
sore, because he’d Just seeded
the lawn. He got a hammer and-
1 chased the deer for half a mile,
running neck and neck with It
the first quarter and thumping
its ribs so lustily that Lem Tur
ner, who was following them In
a buggy, thought there was a
bass drummer ahead of him.
HE BEGS; WIFE TAKES CASH
Cohen, Aged 76, Uses Tiny Bank, but
Mrs. Cohen Keeps the Key
and Grabs the Money.
New York. — When Aaron Oohen,
seventy-six years old, of 320 East One
Hundred and Third street, was ar
rested at Hester and Essex streets
for begging, If developed his wife
holds the key to the tiny bnnk he
uses in his trade and holds also the
key to the elty prison as far as her
husband's releuse Is concerned.
Every morning Cohen's wife gives
him the hard; and five cents, Coheq
told Magistrate McAndrews In Essex
Market court, and then he goes forth
to beg. When ho returns home lie
gives the hank to his wife and she
removes the money.
He was fined $10, with the alterna
tive of passing three days in the city
prison. Lacking the necessary money,
he went to Jail until officials commu
nicated with Mrs. Cohen.
GOTHAM GETS 7 TOWN CLOCKS
Time Meters Are to Be Placed In
Fifth Avenue as Part of Traffic
Signal System.
New York.—New York is to have a
town clock, or, to bq more exact,
seven town clocks. The seven clocks
are a part of the equipment of the
seven new bronze signal towers be
ing erected in Fifth avenue as the
gift of the Fifth Avenue association.
Each of the seven towers will be
equipped with electrically synchron
ized clocks with north nnd south
faces. The hours will be tolled by
350-pound bronze bells. The master
tower at Forty-second street and
Fifth avenue was put into operation
after dedicatory exercises. The others
are nearing completion.
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