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COMO NEWS Mr. and Mr*. W. T. Taylor wen in Franklin Wednesday. Mr*. H. McD. Spiers returned from Norfolk Thursday where she has been with her husband who recently un derwent an operation for appendi citis at St Christophers hospital. Mr. Clapp of Charlotte, N. C. spent Thursday night in Como. G. C. Hill and Miae Lucile Duck worth were in Winton Thursday. H. L. Miller of Winton was a busi ness visitor here Thursday. H. J. Venn and Miss Josephine Vann were in Franklin Thursday. J. B. Worrell and Miss Florrie Fer guson have returned from Suffolk where they attended the district con ference last week. H. J. Vann spent Friday in Nor folk. J. A. Campbell of Murfreeaboro was the guest of T. E. Vann Sunday afternoon. D. B. Spiers and R. O. Hill spent Monday in Norfolk. Mrs. J. H. Barnes and son, J. B. Barnes, spent the week-end in South Quay with Mrs. Barnes' sister, Mrs. Phillip Jones. J. B. Starnes was in Murfreesboro Monday night Miss Magie Hardee left Saturday for Raleigh where she will spend seV eral days with her father, who is sick in Rex Hospital, before going on to her home in Benson, N. C. Miss Margaret Majette returned to Norfolk Monday after a visit of several days here with her mother, Mrs. Blanch Majette. Miss Myrtle Williams left Monday for her home in Ansier. N. C. . The local election held Saturday resulted in all of the school districts of Maneys Neck Township uniting with the Como School. Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Taylor on May 11th?a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hill, William Hill, Misses Kate Gillam and Virginia Hill spent Tuesday in Norfolk shop ping. Miss Eddie Mae Vann returned to here home here Tuesday from Pitts bo ro where she has been teaching. Last Tuesday evening from 7:80 to 10:80 o'clock, Miss Kate Gillam charmingly entertained the school faculty, high school pupils, and her music class at a porch party in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Taylor. After many interesting games re freshments consisting of ice tea, olive and pimento sandwiches, salted peanuts and mints were served. Those partaking of Miss Gillam's hospitality were: Misses Marjorie Bowles, Susan Barnes, Jane Howell, Gertrude Brett, Kate Howell, Lottie Moore, Bachel and Virginia Hill, Williams* and Hardee. Messrs. Granville Bailey, J. B. Barnes, James Moore, William and Ferrall Hill. p The Como school ftnals which took place Thursday and Friday, were unusually good. Thursday evening was given over to the little tots of the primary room, and the grammar grade which was very creditably done and showed fine training. Fri day morning the six members of the tenth grade read their theses. The medal given was awarded to Jarvis Barnes, followed by a very able ad dress by Rev. Mr. Larkin, pastor of the M. E. church of Murfreesboro. Friday evening the high school pupils gave several beautiful pantomines folowed by a play "Brother Josiah" in which all did their parts well. Mothers' Day was observed at Buckhorn church Sunday by a very appropriate sermon by the pastor, Bev. E. N. Gardner on "Honoring Our Parents." Mr. P. W. Majette and Miss Myrtle Williams very charmingly sang several appropriate selections of special music. Mrs. Margaret Howell was very delightfully surprised Sunday on re turning from church. She found that her children, George and Jane Howell with a friend, Miss Kate Gil Urn had provided and prepared for her a very dainty and appetising five course birthday dinner. The tabU, an old mahogony Chippendale, that had been in Mrs. Howell's family for more than a century, was beautiful in its decorations of hand made lace, white rosea, and white candles in old silver scopes. The invited guests were Mrs. J. B. Darden of Newsoms, Vs., Mrs. J. D. Hart of Boytdns, Mrs. Gatsie Hill, Mrs. J- C. Taylor and Mr. W. M. Howell. The surprise to Mrs. Howel was complete as the birthday calendar had been moved up several days that her son, George Howell of Franklin, Va., might take part in it. On 8atarday afternoon Miss Mar garet Virginia Majette, sponsor for the Como High School basket-ball team, entertained the team with sev eral of their Mends at a tea at the home of her mother, Mrs. Joseph G. Majette, Mies Majette was assisted in receiving her guests by her mother. EIIIUIIIIIIIIfHmilHflllltlllllNMMg The Reform of Sullivan I By PETER DURA NT uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii It, lMt. Wmtm* Mimj?S" Date.) Sullivan sat up, stretched himself, and lookad about him. At first b? did not know where ha was. Then ha be gan to remember. So bad hit Tltue burg, where aomeone had told him there waa the chance of a job on the new trolley line. The atory had been untrue, but that had net distressed Sullivan In the leaat. It waa eome yeara since he had had a job, and he was thinking of retiring. * A man waa a fool who worked In One weather, when one could sleep by the roadside and bum from house to bouse. Sullivan, In rags; Sullivan, the perpetual hobo, would have felt a king but for one thing. He wanted a drink. He wanted it with all the need eC the habitual drinker whose parched throat and aching nerves are tormenting him Into gratification of an Inveterate habit Sullivan felt In his pockets. There waa the fifty-cent piece aomeone had given him?a woman. It had been. He had pitched her a pathetic story about tramping to the bedsit]? of a dying child. Sullivan was an adept In his line. Sullivan grinned. He got up, smoothed down his rags and staggered to the likeliest looking blind tiger. ? He went In at the back door and ac costed the proprietor. "Say, gimme a glass of the real stuff," ha demanded. "Sure r answered the proprietor, and In a few momenta Sullivan was lifting a glass of whisky to his Hps. He drained It, and It atnng like living fire. I "Say, that's the goods!" said Sulli van, smacking his In pa. Something strange about the proprietor attracted hla attention. The man bad a foreign, rather Spanish air, and?why did Ub limp? He had a club foot. Sullivan icit vaguely that something iu ' wrong. "How much?" he demanded "Nix," (aid the other, waving the fifty cents away. "No charge tot whisky in this burg." Sullivan took his opportunity to de camp. No doubt the guy had gone plumb craay, but he knew when to make his getawgy. The liquor was Still scorching his Insldea. "Gosh, that was good!" said Sulli van, stfiggerlng to the neat place that looked like business. The proprietor of this was a little, wisened man, and, strangely enough, he limped, though his shoes appeared to be of a pair. "Say, gimme a glass of whisky," satd Sullivan. "Sure!" said the proprietor, setting down a glass of amber-colored fluid. Sullivan drained it Talk about burning! It felt like liquid fire. Sulli van smacked his lips. "How much?" he demanded. "Nix," said the other. "No charge for whisky In this burg." "Say?" began Sullivan, and paused. Something was wrong. "Say, what's the price of soft drinks in this burg, then?" he asked. The other laughed. "Cant get 'em," he answered. "Say, where you come from that you don't know we're under prohibition." "Under what!" yelled Sullivan. [ * "Prohibition?and we're enforcing It, too." replied the other. "Nothing but whisky sold here. Ta cant get a soft drink for love or mosey." "Say, do the folks here drink noth ing but whisky?" Sullivan demanded. "Sure they -don't. We're a prohibi tion town, we are. Ton must ha' been ajfleep, stranger." Sullivan staggered out. ruminating. He was undoubtedly thirsty. And, now that soft drinks were unobtainable, he bad a terrible aching for one?a cup of tea, a glass of?yes. water! The de spised fluid which he bad not tasted since he was a boy. He remembered the old oaken bucket . . . the long ing grew to be unbearable. Snltlvan went up to a nice, homely InAktnv ntfli-p with a fonntoln "Whisky "frappe" he read. "Whisky sundaes with crushed Juniper." He staggered up to the marble slab where a dozen yenng men and girls were Im bibing yellow liquids through straws. "Say, gimme a glass of soda," he pleading, spinning his fifty cents. "Hey, git out of here, you bum!" shouted the proprietor, while the crowd tittered. He advanced with threaten ing gestures. Sullivan noticed that be llmped. "Say, this Is a prohibiting town, this lat Think you can buy sofi drinks In Hellsburgt" Sullivan opened his eyes and sat up. He was lying where he had fallen, un der a tree on the outskirts of Titus burg. He was conscious of a burning, unappeasable thirst. For a few min utes he did not know where he was. ?> vivid had been the dream. Then, remembering, he rose to his feet with a groan, gripping his fifty cent piece. Across the street was a soda fountain. Sullivan went tat. "(limine a raspberry phosphate, please, mister," he said to the attend ant Aerial bombs when going through the air have a sound totally different from shells fired from cannons. ward Railey, Miss Marjorie Bowles, Reuben Edwards, Miss Kate Howell, Granville Railey, Miss Hannah Picot, Harvey Picot, Miss Jane Howell, Ed win Cooke, Mies Ifary Winborne. The 1 tea by Miss Majette, was the closing event of the commencement of our school and was one of the smartest social affairs of he season. SAYS RADIO HAS USEFUL FUTURE Electrical Genius Believes Wire less Waves Pass Through Earth as Well as Air. ?y OR. CHARLES f\ 8TEINMKTZ Chief Consulting Enginoor of the Gen ?ral Electric Company Radio messages that coarse through the earth and through water as well as the air are a well founded possibili ty In the light of recent and unusual performances of lower slower radio apparatus In transmitting mesaages to surprlalng distances. These possibilities are not difficult DR. CHARLES P. STEINMETZ ! of ballet In (ant, I bellere that on- ' der certain conditions It will be easier tor wireless ware# to paas through the q0eand than through the air. Sub marines already hare sent radio men sages successfully while submerged, a primary substantiation of the theory which looks to the conquering of an other element'in addition to after. It radiations through the earth do On* of th* Antenna Tower* of WGY, Radio Broadcaeting Station of General Klectric Company. Electrical Hired Man Does a Lot for a Cent' K the cost Of electric WTMt ll IS oents par kilowatt hour, which la aa average rata, than 1 oaat'a worth of electricity on tha farm will So thaaa things: Shall eight bnahala of corn. Cat MS pounds of foddar. Cut ISO pounds of ensilage. I Thrash oaa bushel of barlsr Separate slaty gallons of milk. Churn thirty-threa pounds of but tor. , . Stuff MO pounds of sausage. Groom two horses. Lift 100 gaUans of water 100 feet, la t^p farmhouse tha same Talus of electric curreat will do tha fal lowing chores: Operate a six pound flattroa St teas minutes. Clean 1H square teat of earpet with aa electric vacuum cleaner. Run aa electric sawing machine two hours. Run a twelve-Inch alootrlc "fan two houra. Keep a hasting pad hot two or throe hours. f Run a 'buffer and grinder ap hour and a quarter. Rua aa electric clothes washer I full of washing. Operate a 10 candle power Masda * lamp Sto hours. take plaoe, however. they will he wholly la accord with accepted elec trical lawa. Thle la due tc the dr enmstaaoe that the sending aateaaae and the repairing act were both ooa aected to the ground aad that the earth la aaoh a caae weald act aa a retara circuit far the correat _ Tee Big te Realise It la dlBeult te leeh tato the talare it radle, tor it la each a hit thing. Developments la the paat hire heea so aaaaaal aad ae unexpected. Oaly those whe hare ate died It meat ther snghly caa aafely ta|k at ita develop ment Oae thlat ta certain, however. Va titerrnpted eommnaleatloa throngb ?at the world U bow a reality beeaoae it radio. There caa hardly he a ttaae whea any place will hj eat ef oom ?aalcatloB with the reat et the world, la caae of a dlocator, whea ordinary gommnnlcatlon la cat el. messages aaa atlll he aeat oat by radio. ?spedltloai ta dlataat Uada. ta plaeea where wlrea hare aerer heea ?tretehed. can keep la ceaataat com munication with the world threogh the radle. CommnalcatleB at tea. of Bourne. holda treat peaalhlHtlea, too. /It la net likely that the radio win erer replace the ordinary telephone. Radio messages cannot be directed ae that they will paaa merely from one Individual te another. Radio ta tee general. It tcea oat over large areas. Othera?not ereryhody, hat aeme? eoald hear the m aaa age aa wen aa the peraen for whom-It waa Intended. However, toll meaaages might be tranamltted by radio from city te Cttyv A telephone aabacrtber might talk by wire with the central station la hla own city and the meaaage might then be pot on the wireleaa and tranamltted to another city and then deUvered by wire telephone to the perron concerned. The Qreateat Wield Radlo'a moat notable Held of serv ice to most people will undoubtedly be broadcasting. In this manner It can be of service to many people everywhere. Speakers can address the nation at large.1 as President Harding did n bis Inaugural address; lecturers, can speak to larger audi ences; college professors may He "? heard by people who cannot take the * regular courses. People might re ceive some aspects of college train lng without leaving their homes. Ministers can preach to persons not present at churoh. Public Informa tion Is already being sent oat by radio. Radio has a vast fatore. Obviously we are very far from having reached the limit in its development COMMENCEMENT Powellsville Graded School ? ? - '* i . PROGRAMS GIVEN BY PRIMARY GRADES ^ | AND MUSICAL STUDENTS TUESDAY EVENING, EIGHT O'CLOCK ' MAY 8,1923 1. Song 1st and 2nd Grades 2. Piano Solo Helen Ray Holloman 3. "Choosing The May Queen" 1st and 2nd Grades 4. Instrumental Duet Irene Parker "and Burnice Tripp 6. "Little Men" rJird and 4th Grades 6. Piano Solo - J. C. Holoman 7. Butterfly Song Evelyn Phelps Burnice Tripp and J. E. Wynne 8. Piano Solo Rosa Lee Earley 9. May Song ; 3rd and 4th Grades 10. "Flower Party" ; l. 1st and 2nd Grades Announcements Wednesday Morning, 11:00 O'clock, Commencement Address By Rev. C. C. Smith Wednesday Evening, 8:00 O'Clock ~ 1. "Beautiful Belles and Dudes" ?5th and 6th Grades ( 2. "Manner's Class" - 5th and 6th Grades 3. "Spring Garland" - 7th Grade / 4. "A Bunch of Roses" ., High School Pupils I ^ESSmESEEmmmmmmmmmESESSSSSmmESmmmS^ I We Know Your Wants ?&? 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