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PRESIDENTIAL VOTE OF 1928 AND 1924
i Plurality Elect. Vote Elect. Vote.
STATE . Hocver Smith Hoover Smith C’idge Davis
Alabama ..eovcccsccsccscocse 15,000 .o m 12
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BIRORIRE s itissnsisnnrsons 55,000 . $ 9
SR .. ivciiiinsssivesenss DOOO 13 « B oo
COIRER: s s iechsnssrsrssisees 120000 6 .t 6 .o
Connecticut .....cccecevcennes 36,041 7 .o 7 .o
Delaware ....oevveeeccascane 32,000 3 .o 3 .o
BRI ocicscsssssossesnseses 41,000 6 w 5 6
B Reeeieiee 29,527 . n 14
BUANO (. il cscevincssovsnsnes 50,000 4 .o 4 .o
B L atdiises sRS etk 29 “w 3 .
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B L iiasie RN 13 e 1B .o
BL. i iiiiisininss . RUERN 10 . B .
KentuckyY .occceecccccncsscene 178,000 13 « 1 .
RIS ..iicescoenssnnene 130,000 “4 n . 10
B L i cirirscariins .DD 6 .k 6 oo
Maryland ....ccovvssccecsccne 72,000 .iy 8 i 8 o
Massachusetts .......eooooooo 22,000 % 18 18 .
Michigan ....cccoeesececscses 600,000 15 i 1B i
Minnesota ...cocsccccccccscee 175,000 12 .. B s
MiSSISSIPPI seeveeccncsccccace 125,000 e - . 10
Biy AR . i 18 e B .
U. i cicicsesnesiie 38,000 4 «“ & o
Nebraska ..i.ceecceeceeneese 108000 ...... 8 8
Nevada .cccevcevcsscccsssene 3,400 3 e 3
New Hampshire ....ccocoooe 35,000 4 .4 +
BB JRPERY .. ioiicorbeireces . SIO,OOO 14 e A 0 R
New MeXiCO ....cvcesenscnse 24,000 3 " .ee
New YOrK ....coocenpperessen 1000 -~ ... - .. 8 ..
North Carolina ..., veseene 13,800 12 da i 12
North Dakota ..ieceecsscccse 65,000 5 . 5
B . iiisesiftaviene TDOOO ° oseees o 0B L
AN i iiirviasianees - TOBOOO 0000 "0 . . 10
Oregon ......ceeeseeeesscccce 75,000 5 . 5
Pennsylvania .....coeeeeeeees 975,000 38 s A 9 .o
Rhode Island ....ccooeooeoee 1,493~ e 5 g
South Carolina ...ceeeevsanes 35,000 . 9 . 9
South Dakota ..ecececssscces 55,000 5 oa 5
TENNESSEE ..cccecsccsssnnsns 34,000 12 §a 12
BTOXAS ccccccccscsssssssncce 18,000 20 5. i 20
BRI ... e siinisessisesrene 7,500 4 i 4
Vermont c.ceceeccccssscessese 46,000 4 .o &
Virginia «..eecscscscscscecee 23,500 12 e ik 12
Washington ....ccceieveeeneee 165,000 ¥ . 7
West Virginia «eeeeeeseeeecss 112,000 8 46 8 aia
#EWISCONSIN coverssccsnossee 113,000 13 5e i
WYOMING cecosvecrensnnnanns 24,000 3 i 3
0 puds b 0 6,628,241 463,070 444 87 382 136
#Texas vote not complete. **Wisconsin carried by La Follette in 1924.
Jotal vote cast 1928 approximately 38,000,000; in 1924, 24,211,519. Coolidge
plurality in 1924, 7,338,513. :
NEXT CONGRESS
Senate House
Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem.
e i 2 w 0
CETTEAA R G 1
B R T
Balaa . 2 101
BRIOPEAR ... sierise € 0y s 1
Connecticut ........ 2 .. 8.,
BaIAATS: . iivvind T 2 6 1 .
B a 2 a 8
BOENIA seovsssiense o 0 2 W 12
TN . liinianens 8 ey 2 i
IINOIS ooeecvcceses 2 o 21 &
BRI oo iiiaeiss @ b 9 4
B e 1
RS . 8 7 1
BEOKY scariivivs 1 1 9 2
B 0 R a 8
BRI i isvisiiiinn 2 'y 4 .
Matvland i... 000000 1 1 2 9
Massachusetts ...... 1 1 13 3
Michigan ....coceeee 2 o 0 18 ~
sMinhesota ..coceese 1.1 B*2
MISEBIOD] cossorsss 00 2 o 8
BAREPL ssseivesine 1 1 8 8
MontaNa «easdeseies oo < 2 1 1
Nebraska .cceeeceee 2 oo 8 8
Sil T 5
New Hampshire ... 2 .. R
New Jersey ..ieeees 2 .. 9 3
New Mexico ,eeenee 1 1 oo 9
BRE Vanle c.uivenns s o 8 20 23
North Carolina ..... .. 2 8 7
North Dako;, i 8 O 8
e B 2 .0 B 8
Oklahoma seecceeees 1 1 g 8 B
Oregon ....eoceeese 2 o 3 e
Pennsylvania ....... 2.. 34 2
Rhode Island ...... 2 .. 2.1
Sotth Carolina «veo oo 2 oo 7
South Dakota ...... 2 .. 38 ..
MR iy e 27 20 8
TEXAB cooompocssrece oo 2 1 Ar
R i iaesisisnne 1 1A R o
VEOMOHE i R e 8 b
VIPRINIE oovveoocnces o 0 2 -4 6
Washington” ....eeoe 1 1 4. 1
West Virginka cceeee 2 o s
Wiseonsin «..oeveese 2 0. 1 .
Wyoming .oceeeeees TOl 1.
Total *.ovesee... 56 89 265 168
#One Farmer-Labor senator and
¢wo Farmer-Labor representatives.
Popular Vote (incomplete) —Hoover,
48,299,708 ; Smith, 12,989,098; Hoover
waty. 5,310,615, In 1924 Coolidge
had 15,725,016, Davis 8386503, La
Follette 4,822,856, _
GOVERNORS CHOSEN
Arizona—John C. Phillips ......Rep.
Arkansas—Harvey Parnell .....Dem,
Colorado—William H. Adams ..Dem.
Connecticut—John H, Trumbull Rep.
Delaware—C. Douglas Buck ....Rep.
Florida—Doyle E. Carlton .....Dem.
Georgia—L. G. Hadman .......Dem.
I.daho—H. C. Daldridge .........Rep.
Illinois—Louis L. Emmerson ...Rep.
Indiana—Harry G. Leslie ......Rep.
lowa—John Hammill ..........Rep.
Kansas—Clyde H. Reed ........Rep.
Massachusetts—Frank L. Allen ..Rep.
Michigan—Fred W. Green .....Rep.
Minnesota—Theo. Christianson ..Rep.
Missouri—Henry S. Caulfield ..Rep.
Montana—John E. Erickson ...Dem.
Nebraska—Arthur J. Weaver ...Rep.
New Hampshire—Chas. W. Tobey Rep.
New Jersey—Morgan F. Larson Rep.
New Mexico—Richard C. Dillon Rep.
New York—Franklin Roosevelt .Dem.
North Carolina—o. Max Gardner Dem.
North Dakota—George F. Shafer Rep.
Ohio—Myers Y. Cooper ........Rep.
Rhode Island—Norman S. Case ..Rep.
South Dakota—William J. Bulow Dem.
Tennessee—Henry H. Horton ..Dem.
Texas—Dan Moody ............Dem.
Utah—George H. Dern ........Dem.
Vermont—John E. Weeks ......Rep.
Washington—Rowland Hartley ..Rep.
West Virginia—William Conley ..Rep.
Wisconsin—Walter J. Kohler ...Rep.
Electoral Vote—Haover, 444; Smith,
87; Hoover majority, 357. In 1924
Davis (Dem.) had 136; in 1920 Cox
(Dem,) had 127, : * ° o
States Carried—Hoover, 40; Smith,
8 (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Loufs~
iana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Rhode
Islahd, South Carolina). -
Fourteen Large Cities—Hoover 8,
Smith 6. Hoover won Chicago, Phil
adelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Pitts
burgh, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Cincin
nati. South won New York, Cleve
land, St. Louis, Boston, San Francis
co, Newark. Total vote in these
cities: Smith, 3,420,769, Hoover, 3.
375,079. !
_Congress—New senate will have 56
Republicans, 39 Democrats, 1 Farmer-
Laborite, compared with the present
congress of 47 Republicans, 46 Dem
ocrats, 1 Farmer-Laborite, 2 vacan
‘fl: Republican lead in house in
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HE eagle may be the national
bird of America for 364 days
in the year, but there’s one
day when he isn’t. That
\ day is the last Thursday in
: November, and on that oc
; casion the “king of birds” is
temporarily dethroned and
his place is taken by another. .“Me
leagris Americans” is the name by
which he is known to ornithologists,
but the average American, who is in
terested in him for gastronomical rath
er than ornithological reasons, knows
him simply as “the turkey.” And on
Thanksgiving day he is “King Tur
key.”
The turkey is a true “native Amer
ican” and therefore it is appropriate
that he should be one of the principal
symbols of this' typically ‘American
festival day. When the first whites
arrived on this continent they found
wild turkeys in great profusion. That
he was one of the “first Americans”
is proved by, the fact that his ‘bones
in fossil deposits show thit he is of
prehistoric origin. Thes:lndians had
partially domesticated the. turkey, and
what appears to have been roosting
places for domestic turkeys have been
found attached to pueblos and cliff
dwellings in excavated ruins of untold
centuries of age.
The turkey’s association with the*
Thanksgiving dinner dates from the
very first celebration of that event.
Of that first Thanksgiving day, held
in 1621 in “Plymouth, the land of the
Pilgrims,” Edward Winslow, who par
ticipated in the three-day celebration
of thanksgiving proclaimed by Gov.
William Bradford, wrote back to Eng
land as follows:
“Our harvest being gotten in, our
Governor sent foure men on fowling,
that so we might after a more speciall
manner rejoyce together, after we had
gathered in the fruit of our labours;
they foure in one day killed as much
fowle, as with a little help beside,
served the company almost a week,
at which time amongst other recrea
tions, we exercised our Armes, many
of the Indians coming amongst us,
and amongst the rest their greatest
King Massasoyt, with some ninety
men, whom for three days we enter
tained and feasted, and they went out
and killed five Deere, which they
brought to the Plantation and be
stowed on our Governor, and upon the
Captaine (Standish) and others.”
There is no doubt that' chief among
the “fowle” at this feast was the na
tive wild turkey. However, according
to Mary Austin, writing in the New
York Evening Post, “Our elevation of
| the turkey to the place of honor on
the Thanksgiving dinner table is not
entirely owing to its traditional im
portance to the first American Thanks
glving day; it is a tribute to the home
making instinct of the Puritan women
who made the turkey brood a part of
that association of men and their wild
brethren which is inseparable .from
the human-idea of home. The Indians
domesticated the turkey chiefly for his
\ feathers, which they prized. But I
have no déubt that the English house
wife, arriving chickenless, got her first
fetling ‘of being at home from -the
~The Sacred Pumpkia
4The pumplgn, or pompion,™ we
read in Peters’ “General History of
Connecticut,” published in 1781, “is
one of the greatest blessings, and held
sacred in New England. Of its meat
are made beer, bread, custards, sauce,
molasses, vinegar and, on thanksgiv-.
ing days, pies, as a substitute for what
the blue laws brand as anti-Christian
minced ples. T R
The same guthor explains why New,
THE HAZELHURST NEWS
brooding cluck of the turkey- hen
about her door.”
It is a curious paradox that this
native American bird should come to
our Thanksgiving tables bearing a
foreign name which gives the errone
ous suggestion that he came from the
European-Asiatic country of Turkey.
Yet such is the case and here is how
it came about. Tile Spaniards, who
conquered Mexico, found turkeys, both
wild and domesticated, in that country
as early as 1519. They began sending
the strange birds from the New World
back to Spain and the Jewish mer
chants, who were the leading dealers
in such commodities at that time,
called them “American Tukkis,” mean
ing *“American peacocks,” from their
habit of struttipg. From “tukki” the
word was corrupted to “turkey’ and it
became a''common domesticated fowl
in Europe.
It is probable that not one turkey
in a thousand which will grace the
Thanksgiving table this year will be
a native wild turkey. For the original
New England wild turkey (Meleagres
Americana) is all but extinet in the
part of the country where he first
made his appearance on that festal
board. The wild turkey of today
(Meleagres gallapavo silvestris), ac
cording to ormithologists, is found In
greatly reduced numbers ‘only from
Pennsylvania and Ohio south to the
Gulf states and west to Arkansas.
There is a smaller variety, the Florida
wild turkey, in that state; in southern
Texas is another, the Rio Grande tur
key and in the Rocky Mountain region,
another, Merriam’s turkey. All mod
ern domesticated turkeys are derived
from the Mexican wild turkey (Melea
gres Mexicana) of the earliest days.
From him comes the exquisite pencil
ing. of the modern domesticated
bronzed turkeys. Other varieties, bred
up from “sports” of this wild pro
genitor .are the Narragansett, the
Buff, the Black, the Slate, the Bour
bon Red and the White Holland.
But whatever the variety of the tur
key we eat on Thanksgiving, the truth
of the matter is that he is an immi
grant, so far as ancestry is concerned.
For he traces back to the Mexican
turkey which was carried to Spain,
spread through other European coun
tries and then came back across the
water to a new home farther north, in
the range of the allied but-’distinct
wild species which the Pilgrim and
Puritan fathers hunted throungh the
woods of Piymouth and Massachusertts
Bay colonies. So perhaps it is appro
priate that a state which borders on
Mexico, rather than a New England
state, should now be the “turkey state
of America.” And that is what the
state of Texas is. It produces one
tenth of all the turkeys raised in the
48 states of the Union. Down in the
“Heart of Texas” district, comprising
17 counties, the farmers have found
that it is more profitable to raise tur
keys than it is to raise hogs: So they
have gone into the turkey business on
a large and co-operaéive scale. One
year they shipped 200 cars of dressed
turkey—4,ooo,ooo pounds of drum
sticks and wishbones and gizzardg et
al! These are shipped all over the
United States and .it'is a curious
Englanders were called pumpkin
heads. As every male was required ‘to
have his hair cut round by -a cup;y
“when cups were not to be had, they
substituted the hard shell of a pump
kin, which, being put on the head
every Saturday, the hairis cut'by the
shell all around the head."+~Gas
Logic. ! _
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' Thanksgiving in Canada
The people of lower Canada began
observing days of thankegiving as
“coals-to-Newcastle” proposition that
some Texas turkeys are to be found
on Thanksgiving dinner tables in New
England.
It was in Texas, too, that there orig
inated a unique event—the annual
“Texas turkey trot.” Cuero,” Texas,
which is said to be the largest ship
ping point for turkeys in the world,
is generally credited with being the
birthplace of this unique ceremony.
Just before Thanksgiving a turkey day
is set aside. All who have turkeys to
sell drive them to the central market,
sometimes for 20 to 30 miles, the
flocks congisting of as many as 8,000
to 10,000 fowl. Thirty men drove
8,000 turkeys 13 miles in two. days.
In a drive of this kind, a wagon is
driven just in front .of the turkeys
and a little corn is scattered to the
leaders to keep them moving. Those
that become lame or tired are placed
in the wagon and hauled to town, At
nightfall, provision is made to stop
under a grove of trees where the tur
keys may roost. i
When the harvest festival ' rolls
around, this Texas community pays
homage to its most famous and prof
itable crop and celebrates the end of
the season with appropriate cere
monies, The turkey reigns as un
crowned king of the festival, and a
parade is held. ; o
A similar ceremony is held at Brady,
Texas, another important shipping
point. A writer.in the New York
Times “described last year's “turkey
trot” at Brady as follows:
The hour for the fourth annual pa
rade of turkey has arrived in Brady,
Texas. Miss Carmen Anderson, the
turkey queen, selected by a secret com
mittee, sits smilingly on her float. The
giant paper turkey on the chamber of
commerce' float seems about to come
to life and the other eighteen floats are
ready to swing into line. Fifteen’ hun
dred live turkeys waddle, strut and
gobble along the pavement, to die that
the nation may live joyfully on Thanks
giving day, i
In the line of march are turkeys
for President Coolidge, Vice President
Dawes, Speaker Longworth and Gov
ernor Moody. And the paraders do not
represent all the turkeys in the heart
of Texas. Five thousand are in huyers’
vards, not far away and 20,000 birds
already have been shipped to northern
markets. Only the plump are selected
for the Thanksgiving sale, Many are
still- on the farms, being fattened for
Christmas, when the prices will be
higher than at present.
The big birds receive more considera
tion than those that took part in the
Texas turkey trats before the World
war, Then Tom and Jack drove their
little herds to market, and buyers, as
sisted by four or, five boys, drove a
herd of 1,000 ten miles in a day. Re
cently the turkeys have been brought
to town in trucks. However they travel,
they are not in' a good humor for their
triumphal exit from life. For turkeys
are given nothing to eat for fifteen
hours before the execution, although
they can have an abundance of water.
The band blares, Floats move, Old’
gobblers, young gobblers, old hens and
‘pullets advance in loose formation.’
Most of them are the bronze' variety.
Here and there is a White Holland.
Occasionally one sees a black bird with
hazel eyes. A few are buff or slate in
‘colon, .. They gobble—gobble, Even the
sight of the yawning doors %of ‘four
slaughter houses does not silence them.
They march inqidfi‘and ‘th¥ d6ors closse,
In ten minutes they are dressed megt
in a refrigeratfdfi'plant, réady for ship
ment to New K York, Milwaukee, or
Dallas, LR E >
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early as '1799. After the Dominion of
Canada was formed in 1867 ‘it wag
customary to have at least one day of
Thanksgiving every year, although
there were some lrrfigularmes in that
respect. Usually Thanksgiving day in
Canada was on.-a. Thursday in Octo
ber or Novembers Since 1921, how
ever, Thanksgiving day is set by
parliamentary statute for the Monday
.of the week containing Armistice day,
November 11.—The Pathfinder. .
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“qm Conscience
Debt of 25 Cents
Fort Worth, Texas, — Five
years ago a woman and her
small son got on a Fort Worth-
Dallas interurban at Arlington.
The conductor overlooked the
boy so his mother let him “slip
b'."
Recently the Northern Texas
Traction company received a
letter from the woman in San
ta’ Monica, Calif,
“l have started for heaven
and 1 feel that I must settle all
things that should be paid,” the
contrite passenger wrote,
Inclosed were stamps for 25
cents, the long overdue fare,
ENGINEER’S GRIT
PREVENTS WRECK
Train Brought to Stop as
Driver Is Stricken.
Atlanta, Ga,—A story of the heroism
of an engineer who, -by sheer grit,
triumphed over intense physical dis
tress long enough to insure the safety
of his passengers arriving aboard the
Crescent limited was told here,
‘lt wasi'while piloting the Southern
railway’s fast train between Monroe,
Va., and Salisbury, N. C,, his regular
run, that' Engineer Joe M. Stedman
suffered an acute attack of indiges
tion as he sat at the throttle a few
miles out of Danville, Va.
He felt insensibility rapidly closing
over him from the pains in his stom
ach. Then he thought of the train
load of passengers and by a super
human effort of will, managed to ap
ply the brakes. The train rolled to a
steady stop just as he collapsed on the
floor of his cab.
The summoning of medical aid and
organization of an emergency train
crew resulted in a delay of about
forty minutes. Finally, with a fireman
at the throttle and a baggagemaster
acting as fireman, the Crescent was
brought into Sallisbury.
Passengers made up a purse of $147
for Engineer Stedman, who was re
ported by officials of the road to be
well on the way to recovery.
Pretty Bookkeeper Has
Record of Forgeries
New York.—Winifred Douglas, the
pretty, competent young bookkeeper
whose ability to obtain positions of
trust in spite of her record as an em
bezzler, has teen lodged in Jefferson
Market prison.
Magistrate Jean Norris held her in
$5,000 bail' on a charge of forgery
brought by the Tidewater Roofing
company, where her peculations are
said to total $1,400. ,
' During the ten months she worked
for the company she was being sought
by probation officers on a warrant is
sued last October after M. Ewing Fox
& Co., where she had been employed,
missed $3,327.30. She was found re
cently working for the Standard OIiL
Company of New Jersey, which lost
$57..
For the last two years she has been
on probation after conviction of steal
ing from Jay-Thorpe, Inc. Under her
probation she promised to pay back
this firm $1.600 in installments.
Miss Douglas, who is thirty-four,
but looks younger, told Magistrate Nor
ris that if she were released on bail
she would help police find a man
involved in the Tidewater thefts.
Lenity was granted to her in the
past when complainants preferred res
titution to prosecution.
.Foils Thieves; Forgets
Where She Hid Cash
Giant, Calif.—The postmistress of
this little town saved SIB,OOO in regis
tered mail from burglars and then for
got where she hid the mail.
Post office inspectors ran in figura
tive circles when the robbery of the
post office was discovered and Mrs. K.
E. Pierson, postmistress, announced
the aall was stolen. They ran faster
when she remembered she hid it some
place, but forgot where it was.
Then Mrs, Pierson remembereG.
She went to a crevice in the wall and
pulled out an envelope containing $lB,-
000 worth of steck.
The inspectors congratulated her for
saving the mail and suggested she
should tie a string around her finger
in such a future case. :
Youth’s Neck Broken
. . by Mule’s Kick at Cow
Petersburg, Va.—While helping his
brother to drive cows into a barn on
his mother’s farm recently at Bracey,
Brunswick county, Va., Boyd Haskins
Russell was almost instantly killed
when he was kicked by a mule.
The 'youth was watching the cows
pass into the barn when the mule
suddenly kicked at one of them. The
“hoofs struck the lad’s neck, which was
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Latrobe, Pa.—A rooster, buried for
8 days under a,mow full of wheat,
was ;rescued on the T. L. Elmer farm.
The bird appeared weak, but after
‘shaking himself several times, emitted
"a feeble crow, gnd began to strut.
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M Honest Driver
Westport, Conn.—When Edwaru
Craig, Saugatuck taxi driver, ran over
a chicken he duly reported the fatality
c lice—the first report of the kind
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