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THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVER YEODt KEAIti JT TUP I'VfSIV fflTTW.' ntlSCM r?rli,1 .wit . . . . ie Monroe Journal PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY 1i VOL. 27. No. 19. MONROE, N. O, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1921. $2.00 PER YEAR CASH MISS BESSIE BAUCOM IS COUNTY'S BEST SPELLERt, l Ciwk Student IM lu't Ml. WoH Doling Contest laist iiig fiirTM'ty Minutes. WI1.14AMS SKXTKXCFD TO IMI'KISOXMF.XT FOH ukJthree injured in auto- wreck SATURDAY NIGHT From l'iiiiua(in'f!iitiil ConteM, Crash lulii Midline. i i:ki II1J.MS HOMK I 'ROM IOWA H-fenlnnl Seenicl to IV More AUtt I- l by lntiiilH NuJeriiig Than ty Verdict. John 8. Williams. accused of the murder of 11 of his mgro tirm bands Hh MKH IS1SKST DKCLAIMKU,10 hal' federal Investigation of pe- onage, was found guilty of murder by M.nrshville. Arril 11. The first In- JuO' I" Newton county superior "sta'.lment or the couniv commiV court "l Covington. Ca.. Saturday jnent v.hich was held In Marseille and sentenced to life imprisonment. In Friday evening wa. a very inter- Mo'ion for a new trial was immedi t sting, and for Marseille a very Joy- tely filed and hearing on the motion pus occasion. The first feature of tr April 30. at Decatur. Ga.. the program was the declamation 'or JUe Joh B. Huiohesou. ho ontest. there being eight contestant, Presided at the trial. The v. Inner of this contest was Hal R. defendant, who had been llarsh of Marshville, and he received cheerful before the-jury came in. re ft ten dollar gold piece as a reward. jceived the verdict outwardly calm, tho money being contributed by the but when his wife and daughter be Citizens of Marshville. Messrs. Clark , t0 800 almost tnaudlbly he seem f Wesley Chapel and W alter Lock- be making a desperate effort to Lrt If f Xlnnrno Hpterven honor- hide emotion. ftMe'mentlon in the congest. The win-1 Judge John B. Hutchison had the -he other car, the impact causing Miss cr of the short ftorv contest was an- .ueienaant Biana up ana auer repeai ounced next and Miss Bonnie Har-'lnS to him the verdict, added. "And fell ot Marshville was awarded the e verdict of the Jury la the sentence vi M si V rr In a P.r ffln alan nf . vuuii DR. OLIN NESBIT STAR WITNESS IN CASE TODAY TO t IT (-OTTOX At RKAM! FROM i'M To 4 VIM CKXT Marslullle Young In:o. Returning, Charlotte ltiyslriaii iHrlarrs M.cgie Marshville. Apiil 11. An tnTcrtu nate accident which caused consider able excitement and concern occurred Saturday evening between Wineate. and Monroe as the cars were return ing from the county commencement exercises at Waxhaw. A car driven by Mr. Kommie Tierce and in which were Misses Gladys and Johnsie Long and Mr. Tierce's smaller brother rounded a curve and ran upon a car which was sitting in the road with all lights out. Mr. Tierce came upon the car so suddenly that before he could stop his car he had crashed into Hons t i ll.ue lleen Mentally (:ii'M-teiit to Make Will COW TKI.lji OF TIMDF.S WITH II Dr. V. O. Nisbet of Charlotte, phy cian to tlie late Misses .MagKio and' Sallie Rt.ss, was the star witness for Marshville was announced as the win Vr of the essay contest on the sub ject "How to Make Rural Life In Onion County More Attractive." Fol lowing the exercises an informal re ception was tendered the contestants aid visitors by the faculty and tenth aid eleventh (trades of the Marshville School. Musfc was furnished through out the evening and quantities of lely flowers had been used in dec oc.ition. An ice course was served. Cards tied with the school colors and tearing the following Inscription wese Johnsie Long who was on the fr6nt seat to go through the wind shield cutting her severely about the face and hands. Miss Gladys Lone, on The verdict of murder with reeom- g, back seat was thrown against the .1 ..;.. 9 ........... h,i,il .....a...'. ..... . ... - - mendation for merry, which under Georgia law automatically carries a life sentence, was read exactly 18 hours after the case went to the Jury, and was calmly received by Williams. A moment later, as his wife and chil dren began to sob almost inaudibly he seemed to be struggling to restrain his own emotions. Just after court adjourned the man's two daughters became hysterical and were led from back of the front seat with sucti force that she was badly bruised. A man with the other car was caught under Mr. Tierce's car and somewhat bruised. The car which was stand ing still was pushed down an em bankment when the two cars crashed together, but was not damaged. Mr. Tierce's car w-as badly Injured. It seems that the other car had had the misfortune to find itself suddenly without lights and had stopped Just the room by friends, Williams appeared more affected by beyond the curve to fix the liehts oa each plate "Marshville High ! "am"? sunermg man ne nan (mey gaye no warning of their pres chool. County Commencement, Dec-D'eu b' tlie verdict. He was on trial jence, probably thinking approaching tarnation Contest." There were a cn"Bed specifically with the murder. cars would see them In time to avoid oi one oi me negroes rouna orownea an accident. Mr. Pierce, who Is a in Newton county. Clyde Manning, 'careful and conservative driver, was negro farm boss for Williams, and not speeding but owing to the curve Jointly indicted with" him, testified In the road did not see the car In i. Other Winners. Miss Bessie Baucom.' daughter ot Aatlach school in Goose Creek town- ukiH n .. . V. n u ' J . . Fin. nf Ik. Html If. ' 1 1 1 1 1 IT I I 1 1 1 )M iifiu M I 1 1. . ... 1 - uixiav afternoon in the school audi- tnrfum onri tlaft Katherlno Kvlp Kedfearn, t f 'Monroe, was accorded , Miss Baucom did not miss a word luring the contest lasting for thirty ulnutes, but the honor was hotly con- esiea tor oy miss Virginia uiaKeney, 'aughtrr of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Blake ivy, ot Monroe, and Miss Grace liiv n, of the Faulks school, the latter wo missing but one word each. Miss Alakeivey missed "symmetry, M leav Stg out-an "m," while" Miss Btvens U down on "meddle," thinking the d waa mettle." the final contestants for the spell f honor were: Clayton Lathan. . jppect; Roscoe Morgan, Morgan; h Clark, Union (Sandy Ridge); fie Baucom, Antioch; Eula Orr, ar; Grace Blvens, Faulks; Fur- Little, Marshville; and Virginia Jkeney, iMonroe. The Recitation Content "ilHs Katherine Kyle thut on Williams' order he and an other negro, afterwards killed, had done the killing. Williams had maintained a cheer time to avoid the crash. Miss Long was brought in another Marshville car which came along from Waxhaw shortly after the accident. Still an ful attitude during the trial and bad other' Marshville car went back to stoutly maintained his Innocence, at- Monroe to get a doctor for the man though having admitted that he might ; who was caught under Mr. Pierce's be technically guilty of peonage, as he said he had paid Ones for negroe and let them work out the debt. ( OTTOX (.ItOWKKS MI ST CUT F.XI'F.XSE OF MAKIXd t'KOP test at Monroe on Itepjii-tmeiit of Agriculture Nay Ope one car. It was necessary to take six stitches in Miss' Johnsie Long's nose and lip. She was resting splendid this morning, and hopes to beable to take her part In the glee club con test at Monroe on Wednesday eve- Ining, her part being a very Important Mr. Fred Helms who for several years has been In Iowa at work waa in town greeting his old friends this week. He left Saturday night for Athens, Georgia, where he will be rating- K(ns Must be Cwelully Considered. Cotton growers can meet the pres ent price situation by "carefully con sidering" operating expenses and re ducing them whenever there Is a like- stationed for sometime. lihood of obtaining a low yield per Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Griffin and acre, the Department of Agriculture daughter, Virginia, spent the week says in a report on the results of a ?nd In Statesville. .survey on basic requirements andl Mr. Dewey Edwards has returned 'costs ot producing cotton. . 'from a Charlotte hospital where he I By aparylng last year's men and nas beQ tor a number of months un mule rates for labor and prlcea then .dergolng treatment. jpald for seed and fertilizer to the Redfrarn, basic requirements In an investlmatlon ' .-!.. uwi ui miu mil. .i. iu. ncu- i miivufii ruuniy, ui., me average n, of Monroe, who was the win- operating expenses of cotton was fix I of the recitation contest, rend- ed at approximately thirty-three cents f "Dot Little Boy o' Mine." The a pound there.. , r contestants, with their subjects, ! Man and muie rates for labor in fe: "Bud's Fairy Tale," Louise I his Investigation and seed and fer- arkcr. Union school (Lanes Creek-; tillser co ts, the department savs. Aft Interested Neighbor," Lucile constituted 81 of the total onerat- I'aJkiip, Waxhaw; "The Little Bios-( lug expe'.ise, excltiBlve of land rent. OF COXFKDEKACY TO (iKAVK JumeN Jones, Jeff Davis' Body (iiianl, Iie Without HevealliiK Where He Hid Heal. Taking w ith him to the grave the secret of the lreabouts of the great nm, Myrtle Tyson, College Hill; (Other expenses amounting to 16',r itetL 01 the Con.cderacy, which he hid Tat; Roman Sentinel," Oliie Baucom, of thy to'al. Included auch Items ns'when Jefferson Davis was captured, ri:in' " i nn stnrv tf i:nrp i.r " .1. v nn ni mimua Ann i ..... A . An m jnnttfl i tit nvirrn nni v.vii.i rn rii , - fc....... v. i" ' . " n "ir.i iii'i'mim , villl'llirill, a.CB, . i c " " n . v. 1 Shannpn, Wesley Chapel; "Little, insurance and overhead. (Man labor the president of the Confederacy, died etHlenien, ' Maigle 'Marsh, Marsh-1 was charged at the rate of thirty iUe; and "An Old Maid's Trip to 'cents an hour, mule labor twentv m- York, tiossie strawn, Hamii- cents, seed 81 a ton and fertilizer it's Cross Rnarfg. lot tiR a Inn Prnm Hi. iniol n.i The Judges were: "Mrs. W. R. of 156.16 an acreage seed credit of eie, or waxhaw; mihs Mabel Belk. 11.90 was deducted making a totat Monroe; and Mrs. F. W. Mitchell, net cost of $52.26. uenton Heights. KOTIIKU TlM)ltSi;i) .MAVOUKSS ill wl is in mm m-nw run iiiiir of the Southern lines Folk. (From the Moore County News. Mother Perkins Is a proposed can late for mayor of Southern Pines. 'A A In t9 Pr. 1 1. . n . . . In . M IUI VI IUIHI VWI III Ulll Asserting that the rates for labor and seed did not start to decline un til after the 1920 crop had been pro duced the report adds: "With cotton around twelve to fif teen cents per pound, the returns not only allowed no Interest on capital, but failed to pay operating expenses at going rates for labor and prevail ing nrieeii fnr Aprlpnltni'a wlfK rrtn, y she Is the best man in Gollburg.jat fifteen, cents per pound 4t would ie caucus for nom nations Is not require a yield of approximately 450 ry far ahead, but It Is far enough iinil. nf lint tn Mv.r .,.. i . ey say so that she can do all that reuses " necessary to establish herself for, .-Th'e application of the basio re ,'8 ! V l 0W" ' ,Bt hf ,,ackeJr .qulrfments of production In estrtuat sist that her campaign U already )ng cn,e should be of vital interest ade. )n vinirprf at ihlm tlmn 1. a Mrs. Perkins Is one of the most ,i,!. -Tho hiBnrv nr m.n ii i . . , , - wuwi v l v ;vni i ju mi II k cnararit in .Muore couniv. n nn Ka rvniinn i, i-i . .ng before the war came she had ,t wl be gafe to Bay that the , wed up Southern Pines, and noth- of tnls perIod w, bear f , ,. g that influenced public sentiment i M ilia i piieaieu iu cuiiiiuuniiy fuun i iiimkii i nemiire HI M. J iniotliv i ..... 1 . . r. . is unuer way long Deiore iuomer ruexi nunaay morning, April 17th, rklns was Riving it a helpful boost, at 11 o'clock, the Bishop of the Dlo e is the patron saint of the fire cese of North Carolina, the RLiht partment, xt the railroad that has Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire, army of men runnim threueh the will make hla annual vioi tn c ti... i Ihern Pines, and when troops township, near Olive Branch, nuiion ihs were running north' and south, Cheshire will conduct morning service that period when Kaiser Bill was and celebrate Holy communion, as- - w I vi u Bv. KVtiri. aWia. nA.blna ah . Ika I tl.l I . ana . . ... adfast missionaries to the soldiers 'preach and administer the Apostolic the whole world. 8he was there! rite of Confirmation, or the Laying the trains with baskets of clga-jon of Hands, to any who may be p re let, eatanies, magazines ana any seated to become communicants u in Washington Frida.. Jones was a North Carolina negro and his body was taken to Raleigh for burial. The aged colored maf. had been failing for some time, but even as death approached he kept sil ent about tlrg Confederate 6?al. Throughout his long life with his latter years spent Iu the government service in Washington, James Jones would never reveal what became of the Confederate seal 'Marse Jeff" had bidden that he never tell and the propounded in the fauioii3 will case here today. The Chailotte r.-an, who receives 11.000 under the will, icstifitd as fellows: "I moved from this county to Char lotte in 1300, but continued to ac as the Mir-ses Kcfs' physiciau. In t!nt same year Sallie was at my office, and later, iu-1905. she was my pa tient at the Presbyterian ho.-piial, a !uQerer from kidney and bladder trouble. The vear tirevioni I neateil Maggie for catarrh of the stomach and floating kidneys. , "A few months after the death of. Sallie, the elder sister, I had a ron- versatlon with Maggie in which she told me about Sallie's death and spoke. or Bob and Mittis Bell, the ne groes to whom she beueathM 1400 acres of fine farming land, statiu,; that Bob had been her house toy, a:ij that she was going to see tut he w;n taken care of. "When Sallie was in th Presbyio lian hospital Maggie and I had a talk about the hospital, she making the re mark that it was rather noisy about the Institution. I suggested that she give the hospital something. She re plied: 'Well, maybe I will.' This was in 1908." On direct question of propounders. Dr. Nesbit declared the mentality of Maggie was good from the time he became her physician up until the year 190!), and that in his opinion she understood the nature and extent of her property and the nature and effect of her will. Coan Tells of Business Dealings By J. I. Coan of the Marvin com munity, the propounders undertook to show that Maggie Ross was a- woman ot good business Judgment. The wit ness declared that he had known the Ross women for forty years, and that he rented land from Miss Maggie af ter the death of her Bister. Speaking of business deali Tgs he had with the late Sandy Ridge spinster, Mr. Coan said: ."On one occasion I sold Mag gie a.'Hnle and a cow, she coming to see m about the cow. She paid for It herself and not her business agent. At another time I sold her tto hogs, making other 'trades with her all along. I have also bought cotton and seed corn from her. I was on a trade for boiuo land before Sallie died, la ter completing the transaction with Maggie. She made the price at $30 an acre. I paid $435 in cash for it, the balance being secured by notes.' T. W. Secrest surveyed the land, com ing to my house on the day of the survey. I bought 24 acres. When notes became due I paid, them oft to Miss Maggie, she handing me the pa pers." Caveators Rest. In the opinion of 'Mr. Coan, Mag gie's mental condition was good dur ing the forty yeurs he had known her, ; and that she had the capacity to make a will. Added strength was given to Mr. Coan's testimony when he admit ted that his wife was a second cousin to the Ross women. The last witnesses for the cavea tors vere Mtssrs. J. C. Baker and J. S. DeLaney, neighbors of Sallie and Maggin Roi8, who declared Maggie was not competent to make a will. The caveators then announced that they would rejt, but reseived the right to Introduce a few character wltne-uGs. The will of the late Jonathan Bur leson, grandfather of the Robs wom en, was Introduced .to show the source of the property devised to the ne groes, Bob Ross and Mittie Belle Houston, by Misses Ross' will. Sev- Xer Will 1'insiavt Faruirr Use Over Three Hundred round- i.f Fertili ser to the Acre. MiiH'ial Springs. K. F. D. No. 1, April 11. The coium acreage in this tection will be reduced betwen 36 and 40 I er ceut, acrordinu to a score or n.ore fa1 in. is interviewed by The Journal correspondent. No farmer, so far acan be ascei taiued, w ill ue liiore than three hundred pounds of fertilizer to the acre; and ninety per cent wil lnot use anything like that amount. "This is the time," remarked a well-known citizen of the Prospect section, "to put in more acres In po tatoes, and where it is possible to arouse some community spirit to erect potato curing houses so it n ill be pos sible to save all of the crop instead of a few bushels." Aung with the "faith healer" is the ".ir.ark" florlnrtt nr mifni moHi. cine x.'iideis. when it comes to plain old fraud. They as a class are more tiuniirnii anil avfmiaiv.li- u H .-..- i u...4 and of vastly more harm. The other day your correspondent saw a number of citizens, walk up to one of these venders and yay their hard-earned money for a few ounces of thick black fluid, which was of doubtful nature, but which was claimed to have been made ot Indian herbs from a pre scription a century old. One thing that is always noticeable about pur chasers of patent medicine and that is they usually slip out the back way with their package. A correction: It was Mr. Pink Lit tle who recently died in the Steawrt community instead of Mr. William Little. a3 was first reported. A number of people from this sec tion tried their luck at fishing in the upper pan of the county the other day. They report a nice time. Mr. C. C. Starens Is right sick, we regret to learn. Very little demage resulted to the fruit from Sunday's cold spell. GOOSE CREEK HAN MADE QUARTER MILLION IN OIL He K i:. W. Semi. n.ny Jude W. I . I IllliUIIIlt mid I-' .tiu I'a.i.im Count) Sthml leather. THF. HK.U TIKS OF SAX AXTO.VIO By (lserer. San Antonio. April 11. 1 had not more tiiau naished writing my former article and telling about things which -made one feel at home, betoie other thius happened rl;ht along tin- tame lin-. One of these was that a fire alarm was given in the city and that whistle was "pint blank-' like that lire alann sigual in Monroe, whose screec h I never could get used to. The other incident was the fact that some out appeared ami asked for me, and in walked a youui; man from Goose Creek the same old Goose Creek that we can never lose. It was R. W. Scott, nn r.ld crony of Judge Bunk Lemmoi.d, i-.iiU about the first thing he want-u to kno- was about "His Honor." Scott was a hustling young school teacher in Union county a few years ago. He went to the University and studied law and came to Texas nine years aro. He nude good with law and then went into oil. A man told me he was worth a ijuarter mill lion. thOUL'h Seott didn't tell me what he was worth, only doing well. He lives in Fo.t Worth and is married and hag two children. CHAI1LOTTK UIAH'KADEK F.SCATFD WITH HIS CARGO Had a talk v Ith a:t oid-timer today. As a boy he drove a freight team to San Antonio during the civil war. Then he was a cattle driver all over this country in the days when they grazea the herds right through to Kansas and Nebraska. He told me about being in the saddle 48 hours at one time with a stampeding herd of 3. 00. He said that folks quit I wearing six shooters as regular orna ments lr. this country about the year isi. iveeps two good saddle horses now but can't ride because It makes his legs sore. He is inclined to think that there are too many fences and people in the country now a days. i he never did. Veterans of the Union and Confederate armies, newspaper eral deeds and agreements were also writers, curiosity seekers, and curio j read from the record by caveators to hunters from time to time urged show that the property had come by Jones to-reveal where he burled the , Inheritance, great seal. They argued that the thine that she could ret that she . . - ..141.. .I...IJ t. A Recording Angel worked over- le all day long putting down her Ala.. r Mother rem ins is a candidate will be on a business platform, she Is one of the most successful k...ill.a IM. - 1 uuaiiiuit uiiBiiircta iniuwa iu - .......... r .. . i. .mi the church. Register and Vote. It Is the duty of every man and wo man in Monroe who Is qualified to register next Saturday, April 16. and vote. You ran register and vote the same day and at the same time, ft Register next Saturday and rote: It also oe important the platform of Abou Ben Adhem, It you have moved to a new ward, o,was set st the head of the list you rote in your old ward until you those who lore the Lord because have established your new citizenship evlden;e showed that he loved! by four months in the new ward. fellow men. . J Contributed. Civil War was far in the past and the. seal should be produced for the inspection of the younger generation of today and the generations that are to follow in a re-united country. Al ways James Jones shook his head and to the end he maintained his silence. ' The negro body-guard was with Jefferson Davis when his capture was affected; in fact, he is said to have warned his master of the approach ing enemy, but President Davis df uot escape in time. Jones accompa nied President Davis to Fort 'Mon roe, where he was placed in prison. Jones was born In Warren countv. North Carolina. After the war he headed a negro Are department In Raleigh and became a minor city of ficial. He turned Republican in poli tics, but always voted for Represen tative William Ruffln Cox, of North Carolina, who represented the state In the house of the 48th and 49th congresses. Later when Mr. Cox be came secretary of the United States senate he brought Jones to Washing ton with him and gave hJm a mes senger's Job In the senate. That wss in 1893. Since thst time he has had several Jobs about the capltol an' was a messenger In the senate stationery room until a saort time before his death. Depositions of Mrs. Tirzah Coan, Mrs. C. C. Mcllwaine and S. D. Howie were offered by propounders. Each ot these deponents knew Maggie Ross Ross and thought she was mentally competent to make a will. J. E. Crane and J. E. Yarborough testified that they had rented land from Maggie Ross and paid rent to her and that he could rent and settlf ith them. They thought she was competent to understand the nature of her proper ty and her will. ; Tentlmony of Alienists The testimony of Dr. J. K. Hall, of Westbrook Sanatorium. Richmond, Va., and Dr. Albert Anderson, super intendent of the state hospital for the Insane, at Raleigh, occupied neaTlyjill of Friday In the Ross wilt trial. Both of these physlctsns qualified and were admitted as experts. They were ask ed a hypothecs! question, which sum marized all ea the contentions of the caveators in the case. Propounders objected to this ques tion, but it was allowed by the court Dr. Hall declared that the situa tion hypothecated in the question. In dicated that the person In question (Maggie Ross) was feeble-minded alt her life and In late yeafssuffered men tal decay Incident to old age, and staU ed that such .mental decay occurred earlier la weak-minded persons than . I S.,.. t . I I. ..win mlnJ.il n. tIMlNA.l AlA j jmini uii ill! iiiviia uimucu vuc r. i . n. . o u . . "When you get angry pause and not think such a woman as described count ten," counseled a revivalist. 'In the question mer.tMly competent to "Wot's the use?" grumbled a pu!- 'ke a '-i;i. On cross-examination list who had wandered in by nilMak.-: v. itncu admitted reluctantly that he "I Just hit the guy and let tho reieree i do the countin' for me." - Continued on pege five. Played Clever Ruse on Two Rural Policeman und .Made a Get-a-Way, KaWng Ills Honor. (From the Charlotte News.) ' Carve another niche in the ball ot fame for liquor dealers for here comes a Charlotte man who Is said I to. have bluffed two rural policemen,, scared them up within an inch ofi their lives, then escaped with his au tomobile and cargo. It wasn't many days ago, so the Etory runs, when a Charlotte "tour ist" was en route home through a county to the northwest with about ; forty gallons ot liquor stored away In the neighborhood of the rear seat -ot his automobile. He was riding along, figuring on the clean-up he would make when he began selling the "corn' to customers along the outskirts of his home town. Wow! And there stood two sturdy rural policemen to suggest that there was a load of liquor in the auto mobile and that the occupant had I Just as well get out and consider his liquor already "sold." There was some haggling about what would be done about the.automobile. "Well, you fellows have caught me; I had Just as well own up to it," the "tourist" said lifa self-surrendering sort of tone. "If you will Just get In the back seat of this car, we will turn around and go back to (Blokn town). I can make bond; mere and we will get the thing straightened out." ' The two rural policemen are un derstood to have yielded to lhe sug gestion and took the rear seat. The t automobile aws turned arouhd. The drive back was started. The "tourist" began to express his regrets at being caught and explained how It would ruin him for the news to get out. As the car sped on, the "tourist" grew more melancholy and talked In most despondent tones. Directly he told the rural policemen, ns he lean ed back and talked over his shoulder, how he was the son of a widowed mother. He knew the blow would be more than she could bear, and he Just simply couldn't have the heart to face her again. Tears began to till his eyes and trickle down his cheeks as the big car chugged on out a highway in a rather Isolated section. "I know what I'm golns to do," j the "tourist" shouted back over his shoulder to the arresting officers. "I am going to end this whole thing , kill myself and everybody In this can by smashing Into that telephone pole . yonder." S . .1 . i . i Aim uie nquur-aeaier arove nis au tomobile madly toward a telephone pole which stood on the edge of the highway. But, as he sped, the be wildered rural policemen also began to get ready for some speeding ot their own. Each grabbed a side-door of the automobile and threw them open. Out they went on the running board, from which they Jumped, much as a railway man swings from a moving train. I Just as the "tourist" approached the telephone pole he swerved to one side and shot on by the post and on up the highway. Before the rural officers could regain their composure, the llnnor dealer, with hla fortr til. una vi taiigv uiiuai iiicu, uau luiurui Into a cross highway and was drlv-j In like mad toward final escape. The "tourist" lifted out a hand and gave the rural police officers a fare- curve and sped on his Journey to well salute as he rounded another Charlotte and his thirsty customers. San Antonio is still the largest city of Texas, according to the census of 1920, which gives the following fig ures of the leading towns: San An tonio, 161.370; Dallas. 158.970;.' 4S2; El Paso. 77.645. AU Uee if- ures are great Increases over former ones. San Antonio was founded two hundred years ago by a band of Fran clscan monks who found the spot In habited by a band of Indians dwelling among crystal springs which supplied a beautiful stream which they called Medicine Water, these waters are still medicinal and health seekers come to them in large numbers every jear. The Monks built a number of stone misslrfn houses in this section. One of these was used as a fort by David Crockett and his Immortal band of Texans and soldiers of fortune and became the famous Alamo. It still stands In theiheart of the city; and yesterday the body of young Berkley, a San Antonio boy who was killed two days before the Armistice was signed, lay In state there. Berkely vol unteered to swim the Meuse for In portant Information. - Did so, got the Information, but was killed while re turning. He was awarded the Con gressional Medal of Honor, and his re mains have Just been burled here. Gen. Funston Is the only other soldier whose body has lain in state In the Alamo. School histories have told every American child the story of the Alamo w here Crockett and Bowie and Travis and the others of the little band of 183 Americans gave up their lives to an army of 4,000 Mexicans, and from which came the battle cry of the Texans In their war for Inde pendence "Remember the Alamo." The Alamo Is the first place I went to see in San Antonio. Each spring San Antonio give. week to gaiety and celebration. The tvent is called the "Fiesta de San Ja CintO." and comes this war Anrli i 23. On the 21st is celebrated the battle of San Jacinto in extravagant street gaiety and rollicking in what is known as the "Battle of Flowers." On these occasions there are bands from everywhere and nut-door music fills tho air. Tarad'-a of every Und. from the army camps, Fort Sam Houston, Camp Travis, fraternal, business and social organizations, are in full swing. in tne Dattle oi the flowers groups of People ou the streets Ann ii-i)rvwhiirii pelt eru-h other w ith flower after the manner or confetti throwing at Christmas times. And there are plen ty of flowers here", semi-tropical ones growing in great piofuslon, both wild and domesticated. Visitors pome from all parts of the Stt '.e, especially from the south and sotuawest, on down to old Mexico. The parks of San Antonio are mar velous, the largest one heina Rrarlr. enrldgeYark, a 230-acre tract of nat ural wooaiana, so cultivated and de veloped as to be a place of the rarest beauty. Art has stolen nothing- from nature In the process but has served only to bring out more clearly na ture's beauty. Here is the municipal, play grounds, embracing golf links,' polo grounds, tennis courts, baseball grounds, bathing beach, and through mis para winds tne beautiful San An tonio river, which also runs through me city, in the park is a fine . a Japanese tea rarden. and beautiful free camping sites. San Pedro pat k; Inside the city, contains forty acre and was the site of the original In- Contlnued on I'a.e Kljjht.