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ESTABLISHED 1876 LINCOLNTON, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 28, 192 J. 5 Cents Per Copy, $2.00 Per Year. LINCOLNTON SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT ..Graduating Exercises Begin Sunday Night With Sermon by Rev. J. T. Mangum at Methodist Church Dr. T. W. Lingic of Davidson College to Preach Commencement Sermon Wednesday Night The Graduat ing Class. The commencement exercises of Lincolnton High School begin next Sunday night, when Rev. J. T. Man- gum, pastor of the Lincoln ton Methodist church will preach the Commencement .sermon at the New Methodist church in this city. The graduating class is composed of the following girls and boys, there being a total of seventeen in the 1920-21 class : Class Rolls Martha Eveyln Corn well, Ruby Louise Hallman, Annie Ruth Honeycutt, Edith Alice Hoover lEdna Althea Hoover, Myrtle Lee Jones, Annie Elliott Lee, Clyde Alvas Goodson, William Sumner Jenkins, Charles Raper Jonas, William Wesley Keever, Ralph E. Lore, Elizabeth For ney MacDonald, Mary Evelyn Nixon, Charles Edwin Robinson, Jr., Janie Mildred Royster, Harold Thompson. Last day of school for year 1920-21 is Wednesday May 4th. The Graduating Exercises begin with the Comencement Sermon which is to be preached by Rev. J T Mai. gum in the Methodist Church on Sun day night of May 1st, at 8:00 p. m. The High School furnishing special music. AH other churches invited to the service. The Senior Class will present one of Shakespeare's plays, "The Tame ing of the Shrew," on Tuesday night at 8:30 in the High School Auditorium for which admission will be charged. The Class Day Exercises will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 5:00 and will be given in rear of the Me morial Hall. Everybody invited. The Graduating Exercise proper will be held on Wednesday night in the School auditorium. On this uight the Commencement address will bo de livered by Dr. T. W. Lingle of David son College and the seventeen grad uates of the Lincolnton High School will receive their diplomas. The play to be given on Tuesday night promises to be very good. The most of the characters are in the se nior class and are being coached to carry out their part well. The Tame Ing of the Shrew is one of Shakes peare's popular plays. The scene ij laid in Italy and is of the sixteenth century. This same play is being given in other towns in the state with great success, the good work of the Carolina Playmakers at Chapel Hill making it possible. It is earnestly reguested says the superintendent that no pre sents be brought to the school house for the members of the graduat ing class. This is necessary since there is great danger of them being lost. Also it is requested that no flow ers be sent to the schoolhouse for the graduates on graduation night. They will be gladly received at the Class Day Exercise Wednesday afternoon. Final Examinations will begin this week and will be finished early next week. OFFICERS DESERT COURT TO BRING STILL OUTFIT Gagtonia, April 25. When superior court convened this morning the first case called was that of the state against Lester Mull, a young white man of Harden, indicted on 3 counts for trafficking in liquor. When the state's witnesses were called it de veloped that they were officers and none of them was in court. "Why aren't these men here" queried Judge Harding. "They ought to be here ta testify if they are witnesses." Sheriff Carroll vouchsafed the information that they had been called out to the country. An hour or so later these officers Deputy J. W. Cole, Special Of ficers Adam Hord and R. B. Terrell, returned to town with a 30-gallon still which they secured on the farm of Wiley Farris in the Sunnyside com munity. The still was hot when Far ,rl discovered it. He telephoned to the officers here and in a very short time the latter were on the spot and brought the still right back to the courthouse. The men who were op erating it were seen by some chil dren on the Farris' farm but they got away. REGULAR ARMY OF 166,000 MEN Washington, April 21. Provision for a regular army of 166,000 men as gainst the 166,000 agreed upon by the last Congress is contained in the re draft of the army appropriation bill completed today by the house sub- committee. The measure caries ap proximately $330,000,000, nearly $15, 000,000 less than the total in the bill as passed at the last session and pocket vetoed by President Wilson. TELLS HOW TO HANDLE INJURED FRUIT TREES Severe injury to the peach crop throughout the state was general with the exception of the Sand Hill Region where little or no injury is reported but instead a crop of over 500 car loads which will be the largest ever harvested provided it is not reduced before gathering time. Reports from other parts of the State to the N. C. Division of Horticulture indicate a loss ranging from 50 - per cent injury to total destruction. Peach growers in injured sections are advised by the Extension Service to make careful and painstaking in speetion of each variety in every part of the tree throughout the orchard to determine the exact amount of in jury. "This information is necessary for the economical conduct of the orchard during the remainder of the year. IJ requires only about 20 to 30 per cent of the normal bloom to produce a full crop of peaches. If 10 per cent of the fruit is alive the remainder of the usual spraying schedule should be giv en. From present indications, prices will be sufficiently high to justify the adoption of all available means of pro tecting that portion of the crop which still remains. "Where the crop is practically a to tal loss, it will be advisable to reprune the trees severely. It is tendency of the peach tree to develop its fruiting wood further from the trunk each year, forming a top heavy growth not consistent with strength of tree and economical handling. "Dehorn' 'old trees to cause them to produce a vig orous new top and vigorous growth with an abundance of fruit buds for the next year's crop. In this connec tion it should be borne in mind that with the peach severe pruning tends to produce vigorous wood growth and that the fruit is always borne on wood that grew the previous season. "Remarkablo results have been se cured from severe pruning of peach trees following crop injury. It is es pecially important with old peach trees that they be "dehorned" severe ly. The main branches can be cut back to stubs 2 to 3 feet in length with splendid results. Trees from 5 to 8 years of age can be cut back three year old wood with profit. Experiments of the Division of Horticulture" show! that peach trees can be dehorned as late as May with satisfactory results. "Trees that are severly repruned or dehorned should receive both cultiva tion and fertilization this season to assist them in producing a vigorous growth. An application of from 1-2 pound to 1 1-2 pounds per tree of ni trate of soda is advisable." FLEES CHAINGANG CLAD IN CHIEF'S WARDROBE Lumberton April 26. Levy Edwards a white man, escaped from the county chaingang recently all dressed up in a suit of clothes belonging to Chief of Police B. M. Lawson cf Fairmount, Robeson county. The convict alro walked off with the officer's trusty gun. Ed vards hud served about two months of an cirrht months' sentence im posed by Recorder David H. Fuller of Lumberton. A raid had been planned upon some whiskey stills and the officer took the prisoner along to locate the stills. He fur nished Edwards with a suit and a gun. Edwards managed to get some distance from the officer and kept going. The stills were not lo cated. FUND TO AID FOR CHRISTIAN SERVICE. One of the greatest needs of the Southern Methodist church is a fund to aid young men and women to pre pare for Christian service. One of the objectives of the Christian Education Movement is a million dollar fund for this purpose and no other objective of the movement offers more compell ing appeal to large givers. To enlist 6,000 young men and women for the ministry and for other forms of Christian service is important; to aid them to prepare for such service k equally important. A $250,000 memorial fund would send to college each year for all time to come fifty young preachers or stu dents preparing for other Christian service. $100,000 would send twenty each year; $50,000 would send ten each year. The Southern Methodist church has a tiny loan fund. In 1908 it was $5,000. Since that time it has educated sixty four young men by making loans in the sum of $7,740, and it has in the same time not only remained intact, but has grown to $6,800. If this fund had been one million dollars in 1908, it would already have trained 12,500 preachers by making loans ag gregating $1,500,000, one and one half times as much as the original fund : nd also it would hae increased $250, 000. (Susan Iden, Publicity Director.) BETHPAGE NEWS ITEMS April 25. We are having some fine farming weather and the farmers are quite busy ti.iishmg up their planting. Mists Iva Iluss, who became quite sick while at the exhibition Saturday, i no better, she has pneumonia. Mr. Wallace Bellinger who lived near Bethpage died at the Lincoln hos pital last Wednesday and was buried at Bethpage Thursday. Rev. Lippard of Crouse conducted the funeral ser vice. Mr. Memry Baker loft lsst Wednes day to go to Detroit, Mich., to join the Polash Bros. 20 big shows which was to open the 23rd. The three year old child of Mr, and Mrs Barton Wise was burried at Beth page yesterday at 11 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Saine who live in Hickory, visited Mrs. Ether Wise last week they also attended the exhi bition at Flint Hill Saturday. Miss Mary Sheehan and Miss Mary Jones returned to their home in Ruth- erfordton Sunday after spending several days with Mrs George Blush they also attended the exhibition. Flint Hill school closed Saturdey with an old time exhibition first on program was a speech by Mr. Henry Huss, who is about 90 years old Everybody seemed to enjoy his speech by the way they cheered him. Next was the exercise by the children in the primary grades some of them not more than six years old but the per fect way that each child acted its part showed how well they had been trained by their teacher, Miss. Gayhill Barker, then there were several short plays by the older pupils which were just fine. Dinner was served on the grounds. The afternoon Was given principally to some outside tho dis trict who wished to take a part in the exercise . A play given by some of the young people from Leonard's Fork district was very good the last thing in the evening was a play by the school which was very interesting. he exercise closed with -a play Satur day night by the large boys nnd girls of the school. It was a splendid play and the way each one got off their part showed how much interest their teacher Mr. Ruffus Carpenter had taken in getting it up. There was a large crowd out Saturday, and also that night but everybody in the au dience was as quiet as if it were a church service. We often heard some one remark it was tho best order they had ever seen at an exhibition. The music consisted of violins, banjos, etc., and a drum was just extra fine. WHERE PUBLIC SENTIMENT IS AT FAULT. In the eulogy over the chief of po lice of Thomasville, Dr. Kesler, of tVie Baptist Orphanage, said the officers had died in defense of the lawful peo ple of the community. It might also be added that in most cases where an officer dies in the course of his duty the people he is undertaking to protect are not doing their full share to pro tect him. Too much indifference as to the enforcement of the law means too much encouragement to those who violate the law, and such are too ready to turn against the officer who is try ing to make the community safe to live in. The officer is the representative of the people, or at least of those of the people who are in favor of the law. But it is too often the case that the officer who is attempting to carry out the law finds that he is opposed by the offender, and also working against the unwillingness of the people who should condemn the offense but who rather shield it and make the officer's job a single-handed one. Public sentiment is not enough with the law and the man who tries to enforce it. Too many people regard the law as for the other fellow but not for themselves or their friends. So the officer has his work made more difficult for him right from the start. If public senti ment condemned crime more vigorous ly crime would be much less frequent, for few men care to fly in the face of general disapproval. But where a criminal is looked on as a man to ex cuse and an officer as one to put on the wrong trail or discourage in his efforts, his work, which is solely for the public welfare, is made much more difficult and doubhful of result,and the officer himself is put very often in danger of personal harm. The officer is always a hero, for he faces danger on behalf of the peace of his community. Too many of them pay the penalty. Too many of them fail to receive the backing they should have for their jobs are not theirs but society's. For society does not always play fair with them. News and Ob server. Senato military committee votes to recommend confirmation of 12 major and 14 brigadier generals nominated recently by Harding for promotion, despite democratic ob jection to General Edwards. CROUSE SCHOOL ft COMMENCEMENT The following invitations have been sent out from Crouse High School: Class of 1921. I The Senior Class Crouse High School requests -your presence at the Commencement Exercises Monday Evening May the Second at eight o'clock School Auditorium. Class Motto: Res Non Verba. Class Colors: Pink and White. Class Flower: The Rose. Class Roll: Carrie Edna Sorrells, Fannie Norma Carpenter;- Elsie Sul livan Warlick, Mary Belle Sullivan, Margaret Callie Murphy, Kohn Yates Rudisill, Robert Rhyno Carpenter, Oscar Lee Kiser, Byron Samuel Heafner, Henderson Berge Kiser, H. M. Loy, Principal. Program. Invocation Rev. J. E. B. Hopser. President's Address Oscar ijfiser. An Essay Res Non Verba--Mary Belle Sullivan. Class Historian Bryon Heafner. Class Poem Essie Warlick. " An Oration Success by Overcom ing Difficulties Robert Carpenter Class Statistician Henderson Kis er. Class Song. Class Prophecy Callie Murphy. Class Crumbier Kohn Rudfeill. ' Valedictorian Fannie Carpenter. Last Will and Giftorianf-Edna Sorrels. Address to the Class J C,1 Peery, D. D., Prest. Lenoir College. ' Presentation of Diplomas Supt. L Berge Beam. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, CROUSE HIGH SCHOOL, Friday, April 29, 8 p. m by Primary and Intermediate Saturday, April 30th, 8 p "Deacon Dubbs,'' A Comedy D Three Acts. Sunday May 1st, 11 a. m. aureate Sermon Rev. A. D. ger, D. D., President Catawba Monday, May 2nd., 11 a ary Address Dr. J. H. State Inspector of High Schools. Monday, May 2nd. 2 p. m. Debate, Resolved That the U. S. Should Abol ish Immigration for a Period of Five Years. Monday, May 2nd. 8 p. m. Class Exercises, and an address by Dr. J. C. Peery, President Lenoir College. MR. BEAM FAVORS CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS As I was deprived by physicial in firmities from attending consolidation meeting at Bess Chapel I desire to herein set forth my view of the mat ter. ? m For the past 20 years I have been dragging my children all over 4 coun ties in order to keep them in high school and college and have spent more than $4,000, most of which I would have saved with the school wc are now contemplating. Personally, I have but little interest in this school, as my children will all be through high school next year. But if I have no in terest in my community, nor in my neighbors children it would have been better for me to have died when a child. I heard a very wealthy man say once that he had educated his children, now let others do the same. What an expression! Almost half of our people are un able in themselves to educate their children, aside from co-operation. To overcome this condition is the object of this undertaking. But what a tax says some one. Well just let him send a few of his boys and girls away to a boarding school and he will be willing to talk tax. "Why be such a fool about educa tion anyway, I made a living and sav ed money, and I have no education." This is a remark made to me recently by a fairly prosperous man. Well I will agree with him that if a living and the accumulation of money is the chief aim and end in life that it isn't worth so very much. But it is much more important to make a life than a mere living or money either. I would have our children educated to make men and women of them. They will make better citizens. Less liable to make criminals, increase their pros pects for Heaven make them wise enough to remain in Heaven when they get there. I believe it was Dr. Frank Crane who said there was a close relation between children who do not learn and grown-ups who will riot behave. Let u all pull together and have this school. C. W. BEAM. In the Federal court at Salisbury last week, Grover Smith, of Alexander county, was fined $350 and Dick Smith of the same county, was fined $600 for transporting liquor. The ywere appre -hended in Ptatesville. Exercises Grades. as . m. ram a in jBaccal- Wolfiin- $ellege. m. Liter- GERMANY'S LATEST OFFER AP PROACHES DEMAND OF ALLIES An Ultimate Total of Two Hundred Billion Gold Marks Proposed, This is Within Twenty-Six Billion Of Al lies Demand Make Payment Flex ible. Berlin, April 25. The ultimate to tal indemnity which Germany agrees to pay the allies is 200,000,000,000 gold markes, as against 226,000,000, 000 demanded by the allies in their Paris terms. This is positively stated by those close to the government, although the German counter proposals have not, been made public here. Dr. Simons, the foreign secretary, did not present the new proposals to the reichstag today because of an un derstanding with the American em bassy and for the additional leason that there is a paragraph in the note to President Harding suggesting that he feels free to query back for futher information or the elucidation of any point not clear, if he so desires, be fore submitting tho note to the en tente. Consequently, the German press and public and even the party leaders, have not seen the countor proposals, and their publication is eagerly await ed. The German suggest making the an nuities in Hie payment of the repara tions flexible, dependent upon the re covery of German industries. An in ternational loan is suggested, to be floated immediately, to place ready cash at the disposal of the entente, but no sum is named. Germany expresses her willingness to pledge the customs revenues as guarantees, and futher offers to deliv er manufactured articles to the allies with the understanding that Germany will pay the producers and get credit on the indemnities. Germany also of fers immediate participation in the work of restoration in the devastated areas; labor and materials to be sup plied by Germany and credited against the indemnities. No suggestion is made of Germany's willingness to assume the indebted ness of the allied powers to the Unit ed States. Germany's counter proposals are so Intricate and involved that the experts who have read them express the opin ion that they may be misinterpreted, as the London offer was by persons who did not analyze them carefully and work out the total amount that wound have been yielded. MOTHER AND SON TO BE BURIED TOGETHER Charlotte News. Funeral services for Mrs. Rebecca Jane Stewart, who died in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon and for her .youngest son, Meach Stewart, who was killed in France October, 8, 1918, will be held together at York S., probably Friday. The body of the soldier is expected to arrive in Charlotte Thursday, and the body of Mrs. Stewart will be tak en to York Thursday. Mrs. Stewart was visiting Mrs. J. M. Gibson of this city, when she was taken ill two week ago, resulting in her death Wednesday. She was 67 years old and had been in declining health for some time. Her home was in Rock, Hill, where she had lived with her daughter, Mrs. Pear Perry, since giving up her home in York. SHERIFF ARRESTS TEAMS FOR SUNDAY BALL GAME West Palm Beach, Fla., April 24 Manager R. E. Oliver, of the local east coast league baseball club, to gether with nine rucmbers each of the Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach ball clubs were placed under r.rrest here today 'by Sheriff R. C. Baker. The arrests were made im mediately following the game be tween the two clubs in which West Palm Beach lost by score of 4 to 2. The charge against the managers and players was "violating the staie law which prohibits Sunday base ball.'' A cash bond of $50 was re quired from each plnyer for his ap pearance before the county court. It is stated that a test case will be made of the affair in order to set tle the question of playing Sunday ball in Palm Beach county. MRS. RUTH WATSON IS DEAD AT AGE OF 105 Ruthcrfordton, April 25. Mrs. Ruth Porter Watson died yesterday after noon. She was 105, six months and eight days old. She lived with her fourth son, Tom I. Watson three miles east of here. She has been ill several weeks. She was said to be the only living woman in the south having 3 living sons who are Conferedate vet erans. She leaves eight children, 29 grandchildren, 144 great-grandchildren, and 25 great-great-grandchildren Two of her sons have great-grand children. Her funeral was conducted at Brittain church this afternoon. A large crowd attended. She was one of the oldest women in the country. NEWS OF EAST LINCOLN R. F. F. Davidson, N. C. April 25 Triangle school closed Friday April 22, with entertainment. A large crowd . attended Saturday night Amount collected was $55.00. Had fine music. Triangle and Goodsonville ball teams played at Triangle Friday p. m. Scores were 5 and 7 in favor of Tri angle. Triangle and Shuffletown play ed at Triangle Saturday p. m. Scores j were 19 and 1 in favor of Triangle. Triangle has a good line up this year. They are expecting to play some good ball this season. Farmers in this section are most through planting, hoping for a pros perous year. Wheat is looking very good at the present. Mrs. Will Jetton is spending a few days witn her brother and son, Mr. Jim Sifford and Mr. McLean Jetton. Mrs. R. C- Graham is visiting her daughter Mrs. I. O. Long at Cornelius, N. C. CRASH IN SUGAR HIT BICKETT HARD. Newton, April 26. The strange and unaccountable disappearance of Mr. L. C. Bickett from his home here and the absolute failure of any of his friends here in hearing from him since he unexpectedly left Newton has caused more comment in this city than has anything else that has taken place in quite a number of years, in that the surroundings are of such a strange setting that everyone is at a loss to explain, let alone account for it all Governor Bickett, has been in Newton looking into the matter of the disappearance of his brother and gen erally getting the matters of his brother in such shape as will permit handling by an outside party. Mr. Bickett was a man of lovab'e disposition and was universally liked by every one in Newton. This morning a correspondent interviewed Mr. John P. Yount, a leading citizen of Newton, and a staunch friend of Mr. Bickett, and from him gathered the following sum mary of the happening. For a number of years Mr. Bickett has made Newton his home, coming here to engage in the wholesale gro cery business from Monroe, where m had been prominent in the affairs of that city and of Union County, and while in that business did much to promote the many advantages of our city; from that day to this he has been doing a wholesale business in Newton with a varying success, and just recently took a venture in the retail business as a side line to his wholesale operations; in that engage ment he was rapidly succeeding and was doing a retail business second to none in the city. Mr. Bickett was an indefatigable worker and was in his place of business at least 16 hours each day, alvays pleasant, af fable and a friend maker by the score. It seemed that when the sugar de pression came on and when the wholesalers all over the country were caught in the drag net of the jobbers and forced to free them selves as best they could, that Mr. Bickett paid his demands made upon tVinp nonnlfi .md throuch hrs act in'upholding his contracts was forced to outlay a great amount of cash; that the hard times generally caught him, as it did other whole salers and that his losses were ter rific, enough to break, the will pow er to make money of the strongest man. He has also suffered acutely with his eyes aond had frequently remarked to friends that he had to find some cure for his ailment or that he was going to die, or certainly go blind in both of his eyes. It has only been a few weeks that he visit ed an eye specialist in Charlotte and elsewhere and it seems that he se cured little consolation from any cf them, however, through it all he was pleasant and in a good humor and sppmed to take his affliction with the best of spirit and always thought of his home life and his friends in preference to his personal feelings. Mr. Bickett was married but had no children and it is generally known that his home life was beautiful and that true hospitality was adminis tered there as in the oklcn days, his home being one of the prettiest in this section and being widely known for the appearance it presented. There is no doubt in the minds of any one in Newton conversant with all the facts that Mr. Bickett was mentally deranged when he left the city and that he is still in that con dition wherever he may be, wander ing aimlessly around, suffering from the pains that are racking his body, His financial condition is not caus ing any great amount of alarm as his condition in that respect is just as good, if not better, than the usual run of dealers who have lost heavily through the depression of the mark ets. Mr. Yount has been appointed re ceiver by Judge T. B. Finley and is SHORT ITEMS Asheville, April 26. With fifteen burglaries reported in ten days, the city is in the midst of an epi demic of house -beaking against which local police seem powerless to act effectively. More than 175,000 unionized ma rine engineers, firemen and seamen threatened to strike May 1, in protest against wage cuts. "Save babies" is the underlying theme of the sessions of the state convention of public health workers at Pinehurst. More than 5,000 people witness the opening game of the South At lantic league at Charlotte. The Hornets won over Greenville, 12 to 7. Mrs. Dulcena Hogue, age 93 years, passed away Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock at her home a few miles be low Shelby after an illness which confined her to her bed for four years. A dog at Mooresville went mad Friday morning and was biting chickens around town. The owner of the dog, Mr. Matt Campbell took the dog home and placed it in a stable hoping it would get well. The mules were in the adjoining stall and they put their noses through a small op ening and the, dog bit them both. Also a cow belonging to the same man was bitten by the dog. The "mad stone" is being applied to the ani mals in the hope of saving their lives Charlotte, April ,25. rThe Consum ers' Tire and Supply company,-N. D. Levy president was thrown into re ceivership today, Thos. Glasgow be ing made receiver, on order of Judge W. F. Harding in Gastonia. Assets, $85,000 liabilities, $88,000. The con cern recently started a move to in increase capital to $1,000,000. It oper ates from Charlotte as headquarters in six or seven North Carolina towns. The company does not manufacture its products but procures them from the factory. Washington, April 25. The Cal umet district of Illinois, of which Chicago is the center, leads the coun try in the number of negro unemploy ed, with approximately 15,000 idle negroes. In the Pittsburgh district cf Pennsylvania the number is 4.500. while in Michigan is it 2,530. In an nouncing these statistics. Commission er Phil H. Brown, of the department of .i.bor, aftor an emergency survey of selected industries, declares al most one fifth of the total unskilled negroes of the country joined the army of unemployed during the last three months of industrial depression. On ly 6.63 per cent of the skilled negro was thus affected. J. T Gardner, mayor of Shelby for several terms in the past is de clared the nominee by the Demo cratic executive committee He has no opposition, Mayor C. B. McBray er having withdrawn from the race on April 12. Washington, April 25. Repres entative Weaver introduced today a bill for $1,260,000 for a public building at Asheville and $20,000 for one at Tryon. If a public buildings bill goes through this session of Congress Mr. Weaver will be on the ground floor with his projects. It is all up to the republican leaders. Newton, April 25. At a mass meet ing held in the county courthouse Sat urday evening the citizens of Newton nominated the following tickets for town officers to be voted on May 3rd: Mayor, J. Sid Smyer; aldermen C. M. Rowe, Julius W. Abernethy and D. A. Ruthledge; members of the school board, Dr. J. A. Young and Mrs. A. H. Crowell. Dr. Young is already a mem ber of the board, and Mrs Crowell will be a new member, She is one of the city's most prominent women, the wife of President A. H. Crowell of the Shu ford National bank. Jackson, Miss., April 26. Re ports received here tonight stated that a dozen or more persons were killed and a number injured in a storm which struck the town of Brax ton, eighteen miles from this city late today. Some one has recently said that to live long a person should be lazy. Now isn't that fine bait to be held out to one these warm spring days when will must be exerted to its breaking point to keep one away from the fish ing hole. now engaged in operating the busi ness interests until final disposition is made of the effects. Newton generally has a pall cast over it and everyone is vitally inter ested in locating Mr. Bickett and doing what they can to restore this valuable citizen to a condition of normalcy, 1 M S i 1 3