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Welcome fo FARMVILLE -The Busiest Town in U.S.A. ? Published by The Rouse Priaterv YOL. X FORWARD9* wo&a . FAEMVTLLB, PITT Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance = = 1 MARCH 19, 1920 NO. 4 3 ?? %i V -?> SEVERAL VIEWS ON BONUS ACTS GIVEN ? - HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WAYS-AM?] MEANS TAKES EXCEPTION TO CERTAIN STATEMENTS* WAS HQ INTENTiOIUL INSUL1 G A Withes* Say* It I* Only Hu?a* ?* j Accept a Bonus if Qevemment Can B* Persuaded to Qrant tt. I Washington.? The frank statement by a witness that members ot Con gress would support soldier reUef leg islation is order to set votes started a rumpus in the house ways aad committee, considering a multitude et bills dealing with the subject ^ Frank P. Keech, a New Yatfebfokar, formerly i lieutenant colonel -til the inspector general's department, op? posing additional compensation, for former service men, declared ?Mge. legislation might be expeotod : of political pressure. The inference that membesa woold-j be swayed through fear of 1 was characterised by ney as an insult to the committee. Keech replied that his statement j was not intended to be frimiMnf, but tbtot it was nevertheless true. ' George M. Ruehmore, a member at 1 the American Legion, said members | _of hi* poet did not think the legton "ought to club Congress into giving a j bonus," but he added "it la eoly bo man to take it if the government la willing to give it" , ? ? FREIGHT RATES 1NCREA8E0 CUTTING THHR WAY THROUGH THEY MARCHED 2,000 MILES. ^ London? Thirty thooeend non-boJ . sherlk Sum UHa, after cutting <U?lr way tbreogh the bolshevik farces is - Siberia and marching 2.000 miles, bare arrived ?t Yerkhae-TTdJaek. -i[ ? ' VETERAN newspaper, man has DIE? AT HOME IN RICHMOND MANY STILLS ARE CAR > IN THE STATE OP ? . SUFFRAGE ACTION OF WEST VIRGINIA TO BE CONTESTED. _ ? Washington.? The Wert Virginia senate la ratify hie the suffrage amend ment after unseating Senator Mont gomery "simply made the alleged rat Hjpstlon a natter for the courts to deride," the National Association Op posed to Woman Suffrage declared in a statement. Refusal to seat Senator Montgom ery was said to )>e a violation of "the constitutional provision for a two tkMa rote to upel a member." BY A VOTI *F 55 TO M JHI SENATE OF WIST VIRQ1NW RATIFIES AMENDMENT. Enthusiastic Over Result of Long and Hard-Feu?ht Struggle. Charleston, W. Va. ? The West Vir ginia legislature ratified the federal suffrage amendment Final acttar on the amendment was taken by the sen ate in adopting the ratification reso l lutlon of the house of delegates by a vote of IS to 14. The vote of Senator Jesse A. Block of Wheeling, who made a hurried trip from California to Charleston to vote on the am&dipent wis effectual jln FORTY ARE DEAD OF SLEEPING SICKNESS IN NEW YORK CITY New York. ? A total ol 175 cum of sleeping sickness has been reported in .New York slace January 1, Health Commissioner ' Cooeland announced. Forty of the eases were fatal. BRYAN WIRE? WTHDILMKAL name from primary ballots Lansing, Mich.. ? Williaai-; Jennings Bryan telegraphed Secretary of State Yaoghn requesting that his name be withdrawn fireqi the Michigan presi dential primary April 5. * VICTIM Of SELECTED The $12,000(000 Approximate 3 I D*m trim tto Paid but to Empleyea Washington. ? Tncreafc ;harges, ranging froia 10 oant and estimated to ylel additional revenue annual! ed by the American Bxprea in a petition filed with th< commerce commission. increased cost ot con<! business sub well as the a for mow complete facilities ment was given by the ct grounds for asking a'ddittoi Expenditures at, umaa^^ dollars" was necessary, - t said, and additional fundi to obtained under the pres . ' While explaining that pr increases added approxte 000,009 to the annua1 ren company said this money Immediately to employes 1j of inoreased wages. Gran tur'wages for overtime on off an eight-hdjr day -Ma^d resulted in a monthly' outla 000 as compared to ' before the eight-hour djtj*'; time may be jgiven. ? CAUSES A! Fort Worth, Tex ?d at more than |2 caused" and more til have been made h which la sweeping C BEItMAN NAVY REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SURRENDEREI ? ? " ' 1 '? V ? ? A dispatch to The Exchange Tel fraph Company states It lf ;/tport? from Kiel that the navil cOnimand there has handed orer the .ChkaM fleet to the new Berlin government ? fcTTtMfT ' MADE BY " GERMAN 8 | TO STAVE OFF ClVH, WA . . . ? Berlin.? The imperial bureau of p ?ten guards has issued a procltmaUc MAV USE AMERICAN SHIPS TO OPERATE GERMAN . !? A plan under which Aermtoan worked out by the }?ct, It Is understi ERY DENOMINATION TED AT RECENT ! GATHERING Women at the Various tan Up Approxfmately the Several 8 Melon lwrdred-rpimuA two minsters, represents vangelical denomina , were registereddel forth Carolina State ince of the inters Kvement, which con-* day's session In the tfa, n church In Chfer? B. H. Rawlings r made through fields and the on . the inter ment by Dr. re the only two I session o t the The attendance ;nces of the wo udmately 400. d the devotional the conference tiofl of the 16th $ of John and rof the seventh fax me and my Ishall ask what Ufcne unto you." teheries, Washington, Ufeeville *006 for Pte >re?t with 95,00^'trout Davidson river, Mills tag Glass creek. . bury, ? French memorial diplw ill be distributed to the nearest 38 of Amorlcan soldiers who f Prance. Some SO or more of ilplomas for people in Rowan rroiiadlng counties will be gir am.-fAn anonymons gift of ) toward the fund to erect a 'r building at Trinity college as rarial to the lata. James H. ate,-, conditioned upon the raia* ? % certain amount as yet not was announced by the fund gn . committee, /^|-J j; ' % \ { If. C., to make th? principal 1 In behalf of the plan of boost Institution : \ ? ? AN OLD TREATY 4S CITEO IN GRANTING INJUNCTION. ? ? - Enid, Ckla. ? A decision of the Unit ed States supreme court and treaties between the United States and Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas, making the south bask of the Red river form the boundary line between the states of Oklahoma aad Texas were cited in ah opinion siren by Fed eral Judge Youmana when he graated a temporary injunction to the Jud ?onia Development Association against Sam Sptiica and- others. URGEOWCEPI ARMENIA MANDATE ??*< '? ?* " > AMERICAN MISSION MAKES AM . INSPECTION FOR . PURP08E OF SECURING FACTS. ? i 1 ? 1 11 1 EXPLAINS WILSON'S SILENCE No Definite Policy Has Ever Been An- 1 nounecd B> the Administration On This Particular Matter. Washington. ? .hat the- United States accept a man date ovdr Armenia, are underatod to be contained in the report of the American mission under Major Gen eral Hartbord, which recently made a tour of inspection in that country to obtain first hand tacts as to Turk* Ish rule. The repdrt never has been publish* ed, although the senate twlpe haa re* jt was said that some senators had their suffering peoples but no deflnltej policy has ever been announced fey the | administration, xl ____________ FURTHER PROTEST ENTERED A6AMST SALES OF VESSEL* ; r Washington. ? Further protests ?gainst sale 'el merchant vessels was, made by the Midwest* Gulf South At lantic Foreign Trade and Transporta tion committee, in * tytor to the sen* ate commerce committee. , i j '? ???? ? : ? >?/??> ?i" "nJ' ?. THE ENQLI8H TRAOES UNION CONGRESS VOTES NO STRIKE. London.? The special trade congress, In session here, voted over whelmingly against the atrlke policy and in favor of continued efforts byj constitutional means to effect tile na tionalization of mines. 5 -gmw? 1 / * PL*A OF "LITTLE ARMY" MEN I flDSehhision. ? Pleas of "little ~ WW? rcjwted.iy the house, which < proved ft peace time establishment 299.000 enlisted ?e#>n<i 17,110 owfifeip^vi M8ULT FOR THE PRE8ENT AT LEAST BRINGS ACTION, ON TREATY TO A STAND fOTE ON MOTION 56 T0 I6 . Fourtam Democrats Voted with Solic Republican Membership in Effort to End Tedious Controversy. i y- ?f- -'V* -,-T- mmm, ? fii Waahlngtott?Boafflrmlpg Its -'Ms- ? agreement with President Wilson on the dominating issue of the peace treaty controvers y, the senate ndei ed by ? rote of more thai two to one" the new article It reservation framed by republican leaders. I Rs action brought to an end,' at least for the present, the protracted effort for a compromise that would insure ratification, and the senate's decision was accepted generally as hastening the treaty toward another deadlock trow which it could be *e leased only by a verdict at the pfcjus next November. g ' . ^ j fourteen democrats voted with the united republican membership , Cor the reservation. - The vote ior adoption^ 58 to^ 16, Showed on its face a two-thirds ma jority for the reservation but it. fey no means indicated thst two^hjrds would vote for ratiflcifion ou tjh&t basis, included in the majority were the Irreconcilable*, holding about' a Bcore of votes which on the ratifica tion roil call win be east against the treaty. _J_ AMERICAN LEGION NOW KAS^ 1,000,000 OR MORj| MEMfSljgt. MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT | RE-ESTABLISHED-. IN BAVARIA ?> ? ? 5 Parla.? Re-establishment of rariaa monarchy hat bean proclaimed to Munich, according to> a teleplstfce nessage received In Barlln from .the Bavarian capital and telegraphed* to the Tamp*. ROYALISTS IN HUNGARY ARK' REJOICING OVER KUN REVOLT Bucharest. ? Hungarian rOra^ata ire rejoicing over the revolt la Ger many and claim It la jnatiflcatliAoi fltair argument that soclallat rapubfcoa IPAKESE SOLDIERS I IfA DON THE RIO <T (AruJ? FiaMS* : ;7ap plates sendiof thrw more artay to Wfeafcaden, Neustadt and Bum doubling her forces alobg Rarfitf TBch will cal$a*i?eti titt supreme war council as soon returns from Jiayence.where h
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