26 Aug 1920 Part A - Green River Republican, Butler County, Kentucky *********************************************************** Submitted by: Butler County KYGenweb GRR Transcription Team Date: 11 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** 1920 Aug 26 Part A This transcribed by Beverly Carroll Hodges from images scanned by Alice Warner To be proofread later by Alice Warner, original images available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/butler/photos/grr/21Feb1918.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image 1920 Aug. 26 A Column 1 Volume XXXII MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events Of Moment In All Parts Of The World – Of Interest To All The People Everywhere. Washington Government expenditures for the month of July fell off by more then $1,500,000,000 compared with June according to the monthly statement issued by the treasury at Washington. Car shortage on the railroads of the United States and Canada increased slightly during the week of August 1. In that period there were 132370 cars less than the demand, according to a Washington report. Reorganization of the bureau of immigration has been ordered by Assistant Secretary of Labor Post at Washington. Less than 1 percent registered during the war were deserters, according to the war department at Washington. The armed cruiser Pittsburgh and a destroyer have been ordered to the battle sea by the Washington government to protect American interests there. The vessels are now at Cherbourg, France, and it was announced by the navy department they would proceed immediately to Russian waters. DOMESTIC The joint scale committee of operators and workers of the central competitive ------ coal fields, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and western Pennsylvania, adjourned -- -- at Cleveland, O, without reaching an agreement after having been in session five days, Ratification of the federal amendment was completed through favorable action on the part of the Tennessee lower ---- Nashville. The ----- --the ------------ had voted 28 to 4 in favor of the amendment. The Ohio public utilities commission at Columbus refused to permit steam lines in the state to raise passenger rates 20 per cent, milk rates and excess baggage charges 20 per cent. Otto Stifel, millionaire former brewer and Republican leader of the Eleventh district, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head at his home in Valley Park 28 miles west of St. Louis. An explosion in the department of the Brunswick Blake Collender plant Muskegon, M---, caused the death of one man, serious injuries to eight others and blew out one side of the building. Eighty seven loops in the course of a two mile airplane drop, said to be a world record for women disturbed Miss. Loura Bromwell at New York just enough to cause her to ask for her powder puff. Seven officers of the union who called the strike of train way trainmen were sentenced to 90 days in Jail for contempt by Judge Greeley W. Whitford in district court at Denver, Colo. Charles S. Brightwell, president, and Raymond Meyers and Charles O Myers, described as secretary and manager respectively of the Old Colony Foreign Exchange company at Boston were arrested charged with conspiracy to defraud as a result of the investigation of sensational ----- methods which started with the inquiry into operations of the Securities Exchange company of which Charles Poazi was the leading figure. The New York census committee, appointed by Mayor Hylan to investigate the accuracy of the 1920 Federal census. In a preliminary report issued upheld the figures placing the population of the city at 5,621,151 on January 1, 1920. Governor Allen at Topelim has proclaimed a “rat killing week” in Kansas, beginning August 23, to eliminate possible menace to the state through the vermin carrying rodent. Thirty five per cent increases in freight rates on interstate business 16 --- will be permitted Dwight N. Lewis, chairman of the state railroad commission at Des Moines, announced. Interstate freight rates in Washington were increased 25 per cent to be come effective not before August 20, by the Wisconsin railroad commission. Two aviators, Clyde Jones and “I’nt” Willis, were killed at Colfax, In. when their airplane went into a nose dive and fell 200 feet to the earth. Column 3 FIGHT FOR VOTES IS WON BY WOMEN Thirty –Six States Have Ratified Amendment Tennessee Falls into Line. Washington is the Thirty Fifth – Seventy Years of Struggle for Equal Suffrage _ Features and Some Immoral Names. Washington - American women have won their right to votes. Washington and Tennessee have ratified the constitutional amendment, making 36 states out of 48. Upon the opening March 22 of the special session of the legislatures of Washington and Delaware, the woman suffrage situation in the United States was briefly this: Amendment to the Constitution passed by congress June 4, 1919. as drafted in 1875 by Susan B. Anthony: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex” Ratification necessary by legislation of -----------------------Union. Lucretia Mott Amendment ratified by 24 states beginning with Wisconsin, June 10, 1919, and ending with West Virginia March 10, 1920. Constitutionality of Ohio ratification before the United States Supreme court. Amendment defeated by six states between September 12, 1919, and February 17, 1920, as follows, in the order named: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland. Connecticut and Vermont – No regular sessions until 1921. Governors had refused to call special session. Florida and Tennessee – Cannot vote in 1920 because of constitutional provision requiring election to intervene between submission of amendment and action on it. Louisiana – Legislation to meet in June: small hope of ratification. North Carolina – Legislation to meet in special session in August. Gov. Thomas W. Bickett had declared his intention to ask for ratification. Washington promptly certified Delaware and Louisiana, refused. The governors of Connecticut, Florida and Vermont refused to call special session. The United States Supreme Court upheld the Ohio ratification on the ground that no state constitution had the authority to change in any detail the method which the United States Constitution itself provides for its amendment. This decision cleared the way for the special session in Tennessee, which began August 9. It is seventy years since the organized movement for woman suffrage was begun in the United States. In 1848 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the first Woman’s Rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. which launched a “Declaration of Sentiments” and passed a resolution demanding equal suffrage. These are two immortal names in American history; Lucretia Mott (1703-1880) was born in Nantucket, Mass., of Quaker parents. After teaching she became an “acknowledged mother of the ----, she married James Mott, who worked with his wife against slavery. Elizabeth Cudy Stanton (1815-1902) was born in Johnstown, N. Y. She married in 1840 Henry H Stanton a journalist and anti-slavery speaker. Column 4 From 1860 to 1883 she was president of the National Woman Suffrage as addressed congressional committees on woman suffrage, She was the joint author of “History of Woman Suffrage” (1881-8) and “Eighty Years or More” (1895) labor autobiography. A third name is that of Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) She joined with Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cudy Stanton in organizing the woman suffrage movement. She became in time the real leader of the movement; certainly she was its first militant suffragist. Born in Adams, Mass. she came of Quaker stock and early devoted herself to “temperance” (the prohibition of those days) and to the abolition of slavery. In 1875 Miss Anthony drafted the amendment to the constitution which has now been ratified. In 1878 the amendment was introduced in the senate by Senator Sargent of California. It was defeated in 1887 and thereafter was not even debated in congress until 1914. During the years the Constitutional amendment campaign was making no progress the woman won many victories in the states ---- full suffrage in 15; presidential suffrage in 12 and partial suffrage in several others. The National American Woman Suffrage association in 1912 opened headquarters in Washington and began an active campaign for the passage of the amendment in 191`6. It established branch headquarters there which were devoted entirely to the amendment campaign. The campaign was educational and social as well as political and attracted world wide attention. The National Woman’s party organized in 1910 by Alice Paul, established Washington headquarters in 1913 and introduced the militant into the campaign. Alice Paul – the third Quakeress to immortalizes herself as the spectacular figure of the struggle. She developed the deadliest card index on members of congress that --- politics has ever seen. She served notice through the w\White House pickets that “the president was the man higher up” The arrest of nearly 500 of these pickets and the imposition of jail sentences followed. Accidentally Miss Paul herself served seven terms in jail. The amendment was beaten three times in the senate and once in the house before it was finally passed by the sixty-sixth congress June 4, 1919, by the necessary two- thirds majority. The year 1869 saw the formation of two national organizations: National Woman Suffrage association, with Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony leaders and headquarters in New York; American Woman Suffrage association, Mary A Livermore, Julian Ward Howe, and Lucy Stone, leaders and headquarters in Boston. Alice Paul The line of division was this: The former wished to concentrate on the passage of a constitutional amendment; the later was in favor of obtaining the suffrage through amendments to state constitutions. In 1890 the two organizations were united under the name of National American Woman Suffrage Association, and work was pushed along both lines of endeavor. Mrs. Stanton was president until 1892. Miss Anthony served until 1900; resigning at the age of eighty Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was its head 1900-1904. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, recently deceased and possibly best loved of all the leaders a woman of transcendent gifts and eloquence was president until 1915 Mrs. Catt was then again chosen. Mrs. Frank Leslie left a large legacy to Mrs. Catt to be used in the work. The National association made arrangements at the St. Louis convention of 1919 to dissolve its organization and become the League of Women Voters. These arrangements became effective at Chicago convention in February last. So the League of Woman Voters now holds – over something like 27,000,000 potential American women voters. Mrs. Catt, who -----the head of the International Woman Suffrage alliance, which she founded in 1904 is honorary chairman; Mrs. N\Maud Wood Park is chairman; Mrs. Richard Edwards of Indiana, treasurer; Mrs. Beulah Jacobs of Alabama, secretary; and there is a --- of regional ----. Column 5 NELSON COULD BE “NERVOUS” Great English Sea Fighter More at Home on Deck than on Land. Lord Nelson despite his prowess as an English admiral had his little foibles. He loved duck hunting but nobody could be persuaded to accompany him, because the hero of the Nile always carried his gun cocked as if to board the enemy, and the moment a bird rose he let fly without putting the gun to his shoulder. He rarely hit anything. His bringing in a partridge became a remarkable event in the family. Another side of the sea fighter by his friend, Beckford, “I offered to show him,” said Beckford, “what had been done by planning in the course of years. Nelson mounted by my side in a phaeton drawn by four horses, which I drove. The horses were gentle, under perfect command, and I had driven for years. Singular to say, however, we had not gone far before a peculiar anxiety spread over the admiral’s countenance. Soon he said; This is too much for me. You must set me down. I reassured him; argued, All would not do. He descended, and I walked the horses back home, Nelson trumping beside in the road.” ALGY WAS TOO IMPATIENT Lordly Youth Might Have Saved Himself Some Trouble if He Had Read Notice. Algy swaggered into the hotel and entered the telephone booth. He was immaculately clad and in a lordly humor. “Halloa!” he drawled, putting the receiver to his ear. A minute passed. He repeated the summons. His lordly humor began to descend in rank. “Halloa!” he called again. No response. He grasped the receiver with an iron grip. “Halloa!” Still no response. His lordly humor was now gone and he shouted things into the receiver which must have made even that experienced instrument tremble. At last, when the perspiration streamed from his bursting brow and his hat was limp and both he and his ------ were exhausted a notice caught his eye, It read; “Give the number required to the clerk at the desk and wait until the connection is made.” He slunk away so quietly that no one saw him go. Overalls and Spate “Isn’t he a nice looking stoker?” remarked a girl to her friend in the Stand on Saturday, pointing to a portly and genial faced man wearing a blue combination suit of overalls. If she had looked more closely she would have realized her mistake, for what stoker or engineer ever wore fawn spats and a smart Homburg hat, with his “boiler suit” as this cheery stroller was doing? Saturday was the beginning in this country of the overall crusade, stared in America as a protest against the high price of clothes, and this good humored vision in dungarees was one of the pioneers. He was accompanied by a shorter man wearing dark blue overall trousers and a very small lighter blue overall coat, which resembled an Eton boy’s jacket. He also wore spats. Daily Mail, London Strange Polar Sea Vegetation Among the most remarkable of the cold water plants are the Iaminariaceoe a kind of seaweed, which sometimes attains a gigantic size, exceeding in length the longest climbing plants of the tropical forests, and developing huge stems like the trunks of trees. Investigation has shown that these plants flourish in the coldest waters of the polar seas, and that they never advance further from their frigid home than to the limits of “summer temperature” in the ocean. The genial warmth destroys them. CINCINNATI MARKETS Column 6 KENTUCKY NEWS CULLINS An epitome of the most important events transpiring throughout the state. Frankfort – A supplement teacher’s examination has been set for August 6 and 7. Million - The first delivery of Trimble county wheat was made to the local mills, fine grain, wheat, testing sixty pounds to the bushel, bringing $2.53. Maysville – W. L. Clark, farmer, was probably fatally injured when a telephone pole, kicked by a horse he was holding, broke and struck the farmer on the head. Frankfort – C. S. Harvin, Louisville, has been appointed one of the employment agents for the State Board of Charities and Corrections to look after paroled prisoners, Frankfort – Doyle Colson, Middlesboro, nephew of former Congressman Dave Colson, has been appointed inspector in the Fire Marshal’s office by State Auditor John J Craig. Flemingsburg – Meeting for the first time after a long correspondence, Miss Daisy Beckett, 36 years old, this city, and Charles A Anderson, 41 years old, Nashville, Ill., were married here. Paris – The body of Private Claude Jackson, who was killed in action in France in 1918, with the 441st Engineers, arrived in Paris en route to his former home in Stamping Ground, Scott County, for burial. Morganfield – The annual county Sunday School convention was held at Henshaw. All churches in the county sent representatives. Dr. J. H. Joplin, Lexington, assisted by professor Dudley Earlington, had charge. Frankfort – All dairy herds of State institutions will be inspected for tuberculosis by the force under Dr. S. F. Musselman, State Veterinarian. The State Board of Charities and corrections intends to have only certified herds. Elizabethtown – At a meeting of the directors of the Union Bank of Stithton it was decided to nationalize the bank. A committee composed of W. A. Edmonson, W.W. Stith, T. E. Yates I. F. Withers and H. Mossbarger, was appointed. Morganfield – W. T. Harris, Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation Executive Committeeman from the Second Congressional District, has called a meeting of all county executive committeemen from his district at Henderson to discuss matters of business pertaining to West Kentucky. Lexington – One hundred retail coal dealers of the state formed the Kentucky Retail Coal Dealers Association here, electing the following officers: W. S. Glore, Danville president: Shelby Kinkead, Lexington vice president: C. P. Willoughby, Richmond, treasurer: J. Crow Taylor, Louisville, secretary. Auburn – Guy Neal 18 years old, proprietor of the Dixie Café, was killed by explosion of a gas tank used in connection with a soda fountain. He was charging the tank in the rear of the store when it exploded. Neal still holding the tank, was knocked thirty feet. A leg and a arm were broken and his left side was crushed affecting his heart. He lived two hours. Auburn – The Examining trial of B. H. Hawkins, charged with assault with intent to kill, will be held July 21. Hawkins is a tenant on the farm of Bruce Moody, five miles south of here, and when Moody refused to permit him to pasture his stock in an oat field, it is alleged that Hawkins attacked him with a hoe, infecting wounds on his head and an ugly gash on his nose. Frankfort – After a short session of the Sinking Fund Commission, for which he came to Frankfort, Lieut. Gov. Thruston Ballard entertained at lunch Fred A. Youngman, Secretary of State: Attorney General Charles T Lawson, Treasurer James Wallace, Auditor John J. Craig, Supt. George Calvin, W. C. Hanna Commissioner of Agriculture; Mackenzie R. Told, secretary to the governor; Geologist W. R. Jillson and L. S. Johnson, secretary of the Frankfort Chamber of Commerce. The commission approved the sale of several small lots in North Heights, belonging to the Western State Normal School, Bowling Green. The proceeds will be used for equipment. Frankfort – The state school precipitate will remain $6.10 for the currant school year, George Colvin, State School Superintendent, announced, The $4,000,000 state school fund is distributed among the counties and cities for pay of teachers on programs of schooling the population. The basis this – as – will be --- for each school child in the county or city. This ----, the superintendent said he is sure will --- of -------------------------------------------described last July. Column 7 Frankfort – R. H. Nunn, Hinesville has been appointed bank examiner by State Banking Commissioner James P. Lewis, Mr. Nunn will succeed J. Stone Walker, September 1. Paris – Another big deal in fat cattle was closed here when Clarke & Young sold to Swift & Co., 200 head of choice beeves weighing from 1,400 to 1,500 pounds at an average price of $15.50 per hundred. Harrodsburg – A six legged cow has been sold by R. O. Murphy, this city, to J. E. Bell, Lapote, Ind. For $1,100 who will use “Bess” for carnival purposes. The animal is 8 years old and has raised four calves. Paris – Reunion of a brother and sister, separated for twenty-three years, each thinking the other dead, took place when Mrs. John Koots, Paris, left for Indianola, Neb. to visit her brother T. E. Angell. Louisville – Bessie Miller, 12 years old girl, the daughter of William Miller, 724 South Sixteenth Street, lost her balance while sitting in a second story window at her home and fell to the ground. She suffered a fractured left foot, bruises and internal injuries. Lexington – William Banks, Somerset Negro and former soldier, who was shot from a tree by a posse after he had robbed the home of Joseph Donald, at Elkchester, was indicted on five counts by the grand jury. The indictments charged shooting with the intent to kill, robbery, housebreaking and breaking into a storehouse. Pineville – James Adams, a deputy sheriff of Bell county, w as shot and killed, at Wallins, Harlan county, by Jesse Jumps, a Harlan deputy sheriff. The killing occurred just as the Benham-Pineville passenger train pulled into the Wallins depot. It is said that Adams had been drinking, and had some moonshine liquor in his possession. Middlesboro – Running down an incline track in an attempt to save her three-year old sister, who was sitting in the middle of the rails, Bertha Lynch, 16 years old, was overtaken and killed at Minge Mines, six miles from here, by a coal car driven by her father, Mose Lynch. The babe was not injured. Miss Lynch’s body was cut in two. Frankfort – Uniform certificates for teachers in fourth class city schools will be granted as the result of a conference held by the superintendents from these cities with State Superintendent George Colvin, and the certificates will be validated by the State Board of Education, making them good anywhere in the state. The act of 1830 for the first time brought uniformity to the schools in such cities, which heretofore have been operating under half dozen kinds of charters and in many instances employing teachers holding no certificates of any kind. Princeton – Seven men were killed when five tons of dynamite , with which they were preparing a blast exploded in the Katterjohn Construction Company’s quarry at Cedar Bluffs, near here. Five of the dead were white employees and two Negroes. The cause of the explosion could not be determined. The dead are; Ben Exler, Forman 18 years old, B. M. Southard, 65. Alfred Dalton, 25, Louis Eldridge 28, Luke Barrah, 17, Will Hollowell, 24, negro, Ed Bunch, 30, negro. The bodies of Eldridege, Southard and Hollowell have not been completely identified. Frankfort – A tobacco crop of approcametly 137,580,00 pounds and a deduced wheat crop of about 6,275,000 bushels are the features of the joint Government and State crop report for Kentucky, issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture Hanna and H. F. Bryant. Kentucky representative of the United States Bureau of Crop Estimates. This months preliminary estimate of acreage of corn indicates a crop of about 86,170,000 bushels, the acreage being about the same as in 1919, while oats are estimated at 11,260,000 bushels; Irish potatoes, 5,971,000 bushels and sweet potatoes, 1,555,000 bushels. Frankfort – The State road fund for 1920 will total $2,750,000, is the estimate of Joe Boggs, State Highway Engineer. Of this sum $700,000 will be derived from the tax on motor horse power, $450,000 from the one cent a gallon gasoline tax and $690.000 from three cent road tax. These figures show that the automobile owners of the state will pay $2,150,000 of the road fund, the remainder being derived from the ----- tax. The plans of the Highway Commission for next year call for the maintenance of about 300 miles of state highway system designated by the last session of the General Assembly at a cost of $1,000 a mile. Lexington – John Griffy, 63 years old, of Harlan County, was shot and killed when in the outskirts of the town of Harlan when he resisted arrest after he was found carrying ten gallons of moonshine in jugs. Griffy who was convicted of a moonshine charge a number of years ago had a large family. He lived about twelve miles from Harlan. Mounted on a mule and with the jugs strapped to the mules side, Griffy road into Harlan. A policeman wanted him to halt--- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------unreadable