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THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT" -THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT he Monroe jourm PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK - TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AL YOL.26. No. 5. MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2fl, 1920 $1.50 PER YEAR CASH. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE Latest Happenings In and, Around Monroe. Sheriff Hunter of Lancaster coun ty, who lias been ill for several week, is report ed to be improving. All member of the "Bickett Bat tery" are requested to meet on the court house square Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. N. C. Knglish has been 'elected secretary and treasurer of the Eng lish Drug Company, succeeding the late H. A. Shepherd. Miss Mildred Outen. who was struck by an automobile Thursday afternoon, may be Internally injured, it is believed. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Outen. By act of the South Carolina legis lature, the remuneration of the Lan caster county cotton weigher has been increased to twenty cents per bale. The buyer pays half of this amount, and the seller the other half. Mr. Horace D. House and Miss Catherine Genera McGulrt were mar ried Sunday afternoon by Rev. J. W. Moore, at Central Methodist church parsonage. Mr. and Mrs. House are both from Monroe township. The bride Is a daughter of Mr. Calvin Mc Guirt. Mr. Henry C. Boylin and Miss Ida Belle Meuclium were married by Esq. M. L. Klow at his office on Jefferson Street last Saturday night. Mr. Boy lin is a son or Mr. and Mm. Henry C. Boylin who formerly lived In Mon roe and Mrs. Boylin U the daughter of Mr. und Mrs. J. S. Meacham of Monroe. Contributions for the Near Kast Relief Fund are coming in slowly, re ports Mrs. J. Frank Lauey, county chairman. The campaign has been continued to March 15 on account of iirtii..nn hut-in liiteiiferieil w ith the work this month, and it Is hoped there will be a liberal response to the appeal by then. Since Friday the following contributions nave been re cieved: Sorosis book club. $60; Rev. T. J. Hoggins. I'nionville, $5; Mrs. R. V. Klliolt, Monroe. H. F. I. No. 4, $5: Miss Mollie Houston. $3; Mrs. Sallie Wager. $1; a friend. $1; Mrs. Chat leg Hough. 1; and Mis. J. W. Robinson, Waxhaw. R. F. D. No 5. f 1. . - "The aoldlert deserve mora com pensation," remarked Mr. Jo)l E. PrKuiii nftpr readiiii; about the American Legion's decision to peti tion Congress ror ttie issuance ui bonds to the amount of $50 for each month of enlistment to the ex-service men. "I made $225 a montn at one of the camps while the men In the trenches, and they certainly deserved mote, got $30 per mouth." One re turned soldier told The Journal this morning that he had to sell a Liberty Bond, which he bought while In the u.ii'.u in imv clothes with when he came home. That goes to show, he ttald, how inadequate me juu minus was to meet tin cost of civilian clothes. New Salem township, says Dr. John Blair, was the scene of two bat tle between Tories and loyal troops in the Revolutionary war. The llrst engagement occurred on the land now owned bv Mrs. I J. C. Kftrd. and her hinihi.r. M i Y. W. D. Morgan, near Korean's Academy. Several were wounded, and tradition sas that one man was killed. The lands of the late Dr. Brooks, near Richardson creek, was the scene of the other bat tle in which eight men. bo Dr. Blair has been told, met their death. Some members of the Brooks family have molds which were used to make bul lets for this fight: and It has been handed down in the Morgan family that flint locks, gun locks, and other war relics were found on these bat tlefields for years afterwards. At Ht. FauPa Church. There will be the usual Litany ser vice with addresa on general church history on Wednesday night at 7:30 at St. Paul's church. Lenten service on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Evening prayer with short addresa. One Automobile for Each Sixteen Peo ple in I . S. One forgets that hardly a quarter of a century ago people gathered in curious little groups to look at the pioneer motor cars, when the enter prising owners left them standing in the street, and is not particularly sur prised to read that the latest auto mobile registration returns show an average of one car for every sixteen persons in the Culled States. One wonders if, twenty-five or thirty years hence, the aircraft registration will show the I'nited States anything like as well provided with aeroplanes and If the casual newspaper reader will accept the condition as a matter of course. It is not Impossible that av iation, as it is being proved practica ble, answers in the negative because of the special requirements demand ed of the aviator. An army test for aviators, one hears, requires that the candidate must be able to walk a straight line with his eyes closed; and one wonders If one person in sixteen throughout the United States could do it without wabbling. Exchange. HEADING llAsEliAIJ. TEAM .MAY TIU1X HERE IX MARCH Some of our citizens, who enjoy primary contests, are worried because prospective candidates are delaying about announcing themselves. The primary will soon be held and they aeem to believe a candidate should subject himself to at least three months of scrutiny and careful ana lysis by the voters. Office seekers are not very plentiful In these days or prosperity, but It is taken for granted that at least a presentable array of candidates will offer. There Is aome talk of having a county canvass, each candidate to make a short speech at points over the county. -i The death of Admiral Peary re J calls to the writer the iena-ltv with which the late Dr. Bart Houston, and other of our older citliens, clung to the belief that Dr. Cook waa the dis coverer of the North Pole. Few world events have been discussed In this community aa was the con troversy between the two Arctic ex plorers. Time, however, has awarded the honor to Admiral Peary, and the world will do him homage henceforth. Notice. State board of health tonsil and adenoid clinic la postponed. Indefi nitely, on account of the Infiuema epidemic. Just as aoon as conditions are normal and It la safe to do the work, the parenta will be notified the exact dale to bring their children for the operation. Ramie E. Williams, State achool nurse, Monroe, N. C. Whiskey anil Hie Druggist.. (From The Charlotte Observer.! Two Raleigh druggists took ad vantage of the presence in that city of Prohibition Inspector Tuttle and secured license to deal out liquor on doctors' prescriptions, under the eighteenth amendment. Seven doc tors qualified to see that the drug gists might have orders on. occasion. The prohibition forces are up in arms about the Raleigh development and are asking legal advice or the Attorney-General, who had sometime since delivered all opinion that "since 1!)15 no w holesale or retail druggist could sell whiskey for medicinal purposes in North Carolina." and the Legisla ture has not as yet-co-ordinated our prohibition law with the provisions of the Volstead act. He was also ol opinion that with the going Into ef feet of the eighteenth amendment the Volstead act w ill become the supreme law of the land and would necessarily repeal the North Carolina law of 1915, ho far as it conflicts with the Federal law. Doctor Rankin, head of the State Department of Health, and president of the American Medi cal Association, reads the doctors a severe lesson In connection with pre scribing liquor for sickness of any kind, claiming that In doing so. they "violate every medical authority in the country." Meanwhile Brother Davis, of the Antl-Sale-on League-. Is casting about for some legal authority that would hold a State law superior to the law -of the whole Government. .Mr. Klinleiihurg, Business Manager of the Team, Wms Here YeMcnIuy IMiking Over the Town. F. C. Sholeuberg, business man ager of the Reading, Pa., Inter national league baseball team, was in Monroe yesterday inspecting Mr. C. D. Robert's baseball field with the view of bringiug his team here to train this spring. He was favorably impressed with conditions here, but waa unable to make a definite de cision until he has consulted with other officials of his team. Mr. G. L. Nlsbet, secretary of the Monroe Chamber ot Commerce, is inclined to believe the team will come. Before leaving for Charlotte, Mr. Sholeuburg promised to wire Mr. Nis- bet his decision by Thursday. The team's coming, however, is contigent upon the erection of a fence and grandstand by Monroe baseball en thusiasts. The cost ef doing this will he around fifteen hundred dollars, but it is believed Monroe business men will take stock in a corporation for this purpose. Should the Reading '.nm come, baseball fans are determined to or ganize a Monroe team to eiih r play independent games, or tal." a bertli in .re league to be comperes of i"Cl; Iliii, Whilmire. and Chesie.. s. toll a hoik in the last issue ot Tiic J'n-niul. The Reading teim carries jibout thirty men to ll train1!.; "amp. TSiev will be here aboril. .hive vceku in March and April. WANTED Mill FREEDOM PEOPLE PAYING TOO MICH EOH CLOTHES SAYS PAGE Generally Speaking Retail Service Costs Xortli i'arollnliinn Tiki Much, Claim Fair Price Commissioner. In a recent letter addressed prin cipally to J. Paul Leonard, recretar..' ot the state merchants' association, who has be mi defending the mem bers of his organisation against the charges of ; loliieeiing, Henry Page, stale tail iMice commissioner, bu.'s: "It is a t.ict that men's cloth. ' is usually so. J at about ilfty per above tost; ihut is, a suit coiliu , the dealer s.; thirty dollars is com monly priced a rou iid forty-live dol lars. This l.i by i he belter class of merchant. Many tlx their selling pine ut anything the 'traffic will bear.' Women's ready-to-wear cloth ing is, generally speaking mucli higher, In some ca. es the selling price runs up to one hundred per cent, while the murgiiu of seventy and eighty per cent are common. Man.v stores price a woman's dress costing around forty-five dollars at seventy five and even eighty-live; shoes gen erally speaking are priced for sale around fifty per cent added to cost. Shoes costing nine to ten uollara are offered for sale at about JUieen. "Wa flnrf that stanle dry gools. cloth, table and bed linen and such like are often priced nrty per cent above cost. Recently one of the inrifPut denartment stores In the State was found selling a line of table clothes for fifteen dollars whicn cost nine rinllun and ninety cents, or more than fifty per cent above cost. These figures are given to represent tne gen eral custom and practice of retail nrirM and martins. Some stores ex act more, some less, but the examples I have given rainy represent a com posite, and may be taken as pro perly describing the profit or margin used by retail merchants generally throughout the State. "Now to come back to tha vital enquiry: Do these figures show that the people are paying more tor ie service rendered than the service Is worth? If yes. It does not matter hnw thla condition Of things C.lll 0 about, whether any particular dealer Is getting rich, or whetner tne toiat trade is divided among too largj a number of dealers, some way shoiiid be found to remedy the wrong, if wrong exists. "Consider men's clothing. The ma terial Is produced somewhere by somebody, and the producer should receive therefor the cost of produc tion and a reasonable profit, various processes of manufacture from the rw mirlal tn the finished oroduct ensue, involving labor, Interest on In vestment, proflts.transportatlon costs. selling expense, etc., in oraer to put iha flntahed rlnthlnt In the store of the retailer; considering the whole process Inclusively and relatively. Is the retailer's service to the consumer wnrlh nne-thlrd of the final price? In shoes about one-third? In women's wear sixty per cent up to half? I do Ihlnk- an and vet this Is the tax we are paying, generally apeak In g, for retail distribution in norm uarouna Anil This Gaston County Woman Wanted it Oulrk. (From The Gastnnia Gazette.) She wauled a divorce, this woman did. We'll say she did. Many aiutis lug Utile stories turn up around the court house. Many things happen down there every day that would make good reading for Gastonia read- jers, hut the majority of these hap penlngs, for obvious reasons cannot be published. Here Is one, however, that waa found in the office of the clerk of the court. From the perusal of the letter the reader can supply the details to suit: "Mr. Henrix. Clerk of Court, Gastonia, N. C. Mr. Henrix: "Am writing you to see If I can get you to have my dovlce written out by Saturday and John Bell s do vice too I want you to write them out If you will so Mr. Bell and my self can marrie. Because It Is costing Mr. Bell so much paying board for his three children he told me to write vou about them he said If yon could ent write I hem out so we could marry he was going to have to put his chil dren on the county because It was (taking all he could make and more too to nav his and tne cnwiren noani nd 1 am working for myself and also i 'piping him w ith his children Mr. li'inlx if you can have our dovices wrote out will be glad for we are cnt-Midlng to marrie when we get I them But as It is coasting him so I much for board thought I would write von end see about getlng them wrote out if vou can write his dovlce out I '-Knout him coining to Gastonia write Ih's order mil give it to me I will have the nionev to lav for them when they I are rote out write me by Sunday I morning so It will come up on the ten o'clock train and let me know anout It If vou can write them out we both will be rlad. Hoping to hear from you at once." Endorses Journal's Stand. Dr. Robert R. Moton. principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, the achool for young colored men and women founded by Booker T. Washington, In a letter to Rev 0. I. Sanders, a Monroe colored min ister, endorses The Journal's recent editorial demand for an antl-lynching law In this State, patterned after the South Carolina law, which provides the payment of two thousand dollars by the county to the widow or a vic tim of lynch law. His letter reads: "I am very pleased to receive your letter and editorial from The Monroe Journal relative to the suppression of lynchlnes. I heartily agree with this editorial. The suppression of lynch Ings, tn my opinion, can be brought about only by having more stringent laws, relative to the crime, backed bv a strong public sentiment. Sum editorials as the one you sent me are doing much to create thla public sen timent." Items from Vance. Indian Trail, Route 1. Feb. 23. The "flu" condition In our community is Improving some. Mr. Earnest Dees of Charlotte spent the latter part of last week with his father, Mr. J. M Dees. Miss Winnie Trull of Concord Is spending some time with her moth er, Mrs. Bessie Trull while she Is alrk with the 'flu." Miss Vera Helms Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Waymon Sul llvan at Lllesville. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Stevenson ot Charlotte spent the latter part of last week with Mrs. Stevenson sister, Mrs. Marsh Vander- berg. Messrs. Juke Wentx. Walter Presley and Marsh Vanderberg, mo tored to Charlotte Friday on business. We are soiry to hear of the dis tress at the home of Mr. W. Z. Wentx. me entire lamuy nas oeen connnea to their beds for the last two weeks with Influenza and two cases of pneu monia. The death angel came last .Thursday and claimed their twenty- I month-old baby, B. W. Our deep syiupniny goes qui 10 iueui uuuug their illness. Mink. EA I III. FY YAXIH.E THINKS TOU X ItlPl LATlOX IS IWiJT Tlte County ll.i Also M;ulc Wornlcr- . . , , .... i .-Mime hi l or opinion in iniiutu Trail Man. The highest estimate of the popu lation of Monroe received since last week was that of Fait ley Yandle. who believes the 1920 census returns will show that we have 9.327 inhabitants. He estimates the population ot the county at 41.431, which is the high est received since the last estimates were published. The following have recently sent in estimates: Willis Secrest. city Monroe. ",- 950; county, 38,990. Fxirley Yandle, Indian Trail. R. F. D. No. 1 Monroe, 9.327; county, 41.431. C. F. Yandle. Indian Trail Mon roe. 8050; county. 35.250. . V. Secrest, city Monro.e 5.017; county, 40.017. Brooks Price, city Monroe, 6.- 98.1; county, 38.792. Odessa Stucky, city Monroe, 6.- 369; county, 38.390. Archie Boyle, city Monroe, 6,792; county. 36.777. 'Mrs. J. A. Crowell, city Monroe, 6.457; county. 37. 799. Annie T. Rotter, city Monroe, 7.182: county 37.640. Frances H. Rotter, city Monroe. 7.32H; county. 37.240. Quida Mcltae, city Monroe, 6.012; county, P.3.053. Nora Lee Price, Waxhaw, U. F. D. No. 1 -Monroe. 4.463; county, 37.30H. ANCIENT COI RT SCENE. A Rough Xeik lullcil the Judge's .Nose anil Got Away With It (From The Yorkville Enquirer.) An old copy of The Western Sen tinel. printed at Winston on June 5 1873, has an account of how Bill Mc GUI, of Stokes county, almost pulled the nose of Judge Cloud, who along about I hat time held court here for a nu in her of years. The story as told by The Sentinel at that lime Is as follows: A scene occurred at Stokes court on Tuesday evening of the first week of court, that was not down on the bills. At the fall term, 1872, of Stokes Supreme court, a negro man, noted for his Impudence, ttisulteu wvi, McGill and sought shelter in the court house, where McGill followed him. and gave him a heating in the pres ence of the Judge, and was fined one hundred dollars for contempt of court. McGill was indicted tor an assault. In the same case, and was fined last week fifty dollars by his honor, Judge Cloud. After having been punished by a severe fine for contempt Mr. McGill was Incensed at the heavy fine imposed on him the second time, and concluded he would give his honor Just cause to go for nini In regular heathen style, and on Tuesday evening during the sitting of court he walked upon the stand and took n seat by the side of Judge Cloud, and leaned over and .iioke in a low tone to him and said, "If you was not an old man I'd pull your nose, you d d old scoundrel." Judge Cloud who was expecting a friendly message, was taken back at what he heard, and thinking he might have misunderstood him, asked him what he said, and McGill repeated it. The Judge then callel lur.tily for Sheriff Gentry to come and arrest him and take him away, saying he was drunk and had threatened to pull the court's nose. McGill very coolly got up. and spoke to the persons tn the court house and said It was un true that he was drunk, but he did tell that d d old rascal ( pointing to Cloud) that he would pull hU nos. The sheriff by this time had reach ed the scene of action when the Judge ordered him to carry McGHl to Jail and keep him sixty davs. As McGill descended the stand he turned to Cloud and said. "You nor any of your party are honest." whereupon the Judge repeated his order of sixty days in Jail. By this time the sheriff was descending the stair leading down nut of the court room, and McGill fired back at the Judge and said: "I'll get even with you and your party vet. you d d old scroundred." The judge then had McGill brought back and examined the statute to see what was the extent of his power to punish in the case, and flnallv ordered the sheriff to confine McGill In Jail for fhlrtv davs. fined him two hundred and fifty dollars and to remain In Jr.il until the fine was paid, and to give bond In the sum of one thousand dol lars with good security to keep the peace with all the citizen of the state. Sheriff Gentrv, with a gnoul. then started, to Jail with the prisoner, an 1 had gone some distance with him, and when they arrived at Trior's hotel where a negro was holding McGill's horse, he pulled out a pistol, and told them to stand back; thnt he did not intend to go to Jail, and called to the negro to bring him nls horse. As the sheriff nor any of hU guards were armed, and knowing McGill tn be. a desperate man. they concluded that It would be unhealthy business to attempt to stop him. and he mount ed his horse and rode slowly out of town. We were present In the court house ond witnessed the W scene, and the above Is a plain statement of the affair without comment. We learn hif h :ndg had Mil brought tgaln.it Sheriff tJen'n- to' rl lowlng th ."" !'' ' 'rial of t.n ng ,,e: removed to this rounty. The South Carolina game season has been continued to March 1st. Tint tie Ijiuo Xerileil lit M;irlnille. .larhville. Feb. 23. Miss Mabel Long and Lottie Harrell went to 1 lidiluile Monday. .Ms H.mel is going lu attend a reunion ot college mules. Mr. C. B. Covington spent the week nd at lioiiie reluming Monday to So n ill Carolina where is is at work. Rev. C. E. White spent Friday in Burusville township assisting in the care of iuflueuza patients, lie re ported eighteen pneumonia rases in the emergency hoepilal in the Dia mond Hill school building. Ihere are probably others by now. Rev. Mr. White has been a constant visitor to the afflicted ones since the first outbreak ot the epidemic and has been a valuable aid in many sick rooms. He has fearlessly gone wher ever there was need within his reach. Her many friends will be glad to know that Mrs. B. L. Riggers is im proving after a three weeks illness with influenza. She has been able to sit up for a short time. Mrs. Lex Bowman and daughter. Miss Mary Bowman of Gilboa are! spending some time with Mrs Bow- man's son, Mr. C. L. Bowman. Mr. Wade H. Rivena and small daughter, Mary Davis, have been quite ill with influenza for several days, the little girl being threatened wiih pneumonia, but both are im proving now. Marshville will soon be forced to frame and enforce traffic laws to pre vent serious accidents wilh automo biles. The increasing number of ma chines here together with several dangerous coiners in the heart of iowii and the frequent carelessness of drivers will have regrelable re sults if something is not done. It Is getting to be a mutter of consider able skill on the part of a driver to get through the streets without hav ing several hairbreadth escapes rrom being run Into or backed into. It is reallv necessary now that the use of signals be employed to let the other fellow know what one is going to do so he may keep out of the way if he can. Sounding horns at cor ners would help some, likewise sound ing them before backing from the curbing when other cars are passing. It is to be hoped that a serious ac cident will not have to occur to cause the people to realize how they are endangering their own and other lives by simple carelessness. Friends of Rev. J. J. Edwards and his excellent family are glad to learn that Alwy ace Improving after having influenza. Mr. J. S. Harrell Is confined to bed with Influenza. Mrs. J. C. Morgan has been quite sick for two weeks, an i is still con fined to bed. Mrs. W. O. Harrell and son Max will leave to-night for an extended visit to Florida. WEEVIL TRAVELS AT RATE OF SEVENTY MILES A YEAH State Entomologist Says He Will Take Seven Years Reaching the Hills Three Years to Do Maximum Dam age. Cotton growers in the counties that lie in the coastal plain region of the Slate will this year begin to feel the effects of the presence of the boll wee vil in their midst, but not until they gather the 1921 crop will they begin to realize fully what the presence of the pest means, according to Frank lin Sherman, State Entomologist. Mr. Sherman Is preparing data to assist farmeis in fighting the pest, says the Raleigh News and Observer. According to the finding of several months Investigations by the State Department of Agriculture, the weevil has gained a pretty thorough foothold In the tier of counties bordering oil the Atlantic, coining there from Geor gia in cotton seed. During the pres ent crop year he may be expected to multiply himself to destructive pro portions and next year will make his presence felt disastrously. Seventy miles a year is about the speed with which the pest travels over the cottoD belt, and by the beginning of next year he will have moved a hundred miles Inland, and the con ditions In those counties will then be about as they are In counties along the coast. By the end of the year 1097 iha wpovil will have about cov ered the entire cotton belt, reaching up Intojhe Piedmont section, as lar as cotton Is grown. No appreciable Inroads will be made Into the production of cotton In this State this year on account of the presence of the weevil, al though In some communities produc tion may be reduced by five to ten rout 'rt vear it will be greater. and the next siill greater, until the average reduction or rrom nneen io thirty per cent is reached. In the lowland, warmer counties the loss will be larger, and In the higher conntrv may not reach more than ten per cent, at its worst. Better farming metnoas is aooui the only remedy for the boll weevil that agricultural experts have been able to devise so far. The weevil himself continues, unchecked by the utmost endeavors to destroy him, un mindful of all the snarea that have been set for him. seemingly thriving on all poisons and enemies that have been spread In his way. He Is a fact that farmers can't get around and they have to make the best of whatever he leaves of the cotton. Closer attention to griwlng the crop, more business-like methods in financing farming admlnisfsion. bringing on the crop earlier before h wppvil eet time tn d-'Vrov it. will help some. Farmers who are un able to do this, Mr. snevman a; s. will flnrf their entire nrofits Wined out and their crop grown At a 'on. LATEST HAPPENINGS News Events of the Day in the State and Nation. The fifth week of the Newberry trial begau Monday. Senator New berry is charged with having com mitted election frauds in his contest against Henry Ford for the Michigan Senatorship. That the Peace Treaty will be rat ified wiih the Lodge reservation on article ten. unless the President Inti mates that he would have his friend! stand against the program. Is pre dicted by H. E. C. Bryant. Washing ton correspondent of The Charlotte Observer, i "With the appointment of a com mittee ot seven prominent farm or ganization leaders to draw up a plat form, the American farmer, as rep resented in the national board ot farm organization has served notice on present and prospective presiden tial candidates that he Is determined to participate actively in the coming election. A rebellion against prohibition has broken out in Iron county, Michifnn. and the county, led by its prosecuting attorney, is in open revolt against federal authority, according to Malor A. V. Dalrympel. federal prohibition director for the Central Slates. A prohibition agent and a party of Mich igan Slate constables were held up February Kuli by Iron county officials and wine they had confiscated was taken from thciii. It is said. Rear Ad:ii:ml Robert E. Peary, dis coverer of t Ik North Pole, died in Washington Friday morning after an illness of two years. He made eight expeditious into the Arctic before he finally was successful in reaching the Pole, returning In 1!m!I to find that Doctor Frederick A. Cook was being praised as the discoverer. Kxamina- tiou proved the Inaccuracy of Cook's claims, and the honor was awarded to Peary. There lives in Luiuberlon a lady who has had her rot'tiii and burial robe in readiness for several years. The coffin was made in Lnmberton and was made to order. The order railing for long-leaf pine lumber. The lady, whose name Is Bertha Bass, keeps the coffin lu her room under the bed. Miss Bass made her own burial clothes. She also has her tombstone bought and paid for While Miss Bass has been thus prepared for her death for many years, she is now more than eighty-five years old and is very active for a person of that many winters. An Intimation by Robert Lansing that Vice-President Marshall bliould lake over President Wilson's duties during his Illness and the direct cause of Lansing's resignation, according to information that The New York Sun has "from a source usually well In formed. " The suggestion was made months ago, but cunie to Wilson's ears only recently. A few hours af leiwurd. It wi'.s staled, he acted to force Lansing out of the cabinet. Re lations between the President and sec retary of state had been chilly for mole than a yea", according to this iutonimtioii. The President, it was said, regarded Lansing's suggestion as a personal affront, and as "the last straw." It climaxed a long se ries of irritations. The President, It is believed, felt he could not resume his active work in co-operation with the man who had suggested his pres idential duties should be delegated to another. Therefore he virtually demanded Lansing's resignation. Virtually the male population ot the village of La Grama, near Forral, Spain, was In a state ot "helpless in toxication" for three days recently the fishing industry and all other work being at a complete standstill, according to a Madrid dispatch. "Ow ing to the stormy weather," it says "a number of cases of spirits laden on incoming vessels had been washed overboard. The casks were picked up by fishermen, small tradesmen and merchant, who after selling part ot the wreckage, assembled In a build ing and consumed dozens of bottlet of brandy, rum and other spirits. The orgy lasted for six hours, at the end of which the whole crowd was found lying In huddled heaps about the floor in an unconscious condition. A detachment of marines was despatch ed to the building and In the pres ence of the captain of the port, the people were shoveled like coal Into six large cars and conveyed to naval hospitals here under escort of ma rines with fixed bayonets. The value of the liquor consumed Is estimated At one thousand and five hundred pounds. There are five hundred and forty patients ranging from sixteen to seventy yearn of age in the hos pital." Revenue Inspector Coming. Mr. H. H. Cormlchael. Internal Revenue Inspector, will be In Mon roe, March 2nd and 3rd. You will find him at the Post Office building in the Civil Service room. He has been assigned to Monroe those two days to assist corporations and partnerships In the preparation of their income tax returns for the year of 1919. It Is desired that persons needing the assistance of this office will avail themselves accordingly. George D. Martin, Deputy Collector. For the standardization of dyes and textiles a color card has been Issued for general use by a New York con cern which show one hundred and twenty-eight shades, named princi pally from natural objects.
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