The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

THE PEOPLE'S NEWSPAPER i Newg Newg, and ciTus i-v i ED 8 WS 8 Door South of City Hall on South Twelfth Street ESTABLISHED 1891. MURPHYSB6RO PER WEEK FIFTEEN CENTS PYTHIAN DIST. MEET JUNE 14 TO PACK TOWN Ancient and Honorable Leonidas Ledge 87, Host For Day, Expects 8,000 to 10,000 To Be Mecca For Knights Of Egypt. Splendid Christian Wopian, Mother of Mrs. E.

R. Ncill, Druggist Here Years Ago, Passes Suddenly Committee Lets Contract for big Decoration Scheme Lodge Officers to Attend In Spectacular Parade At 1.30P.M. Leonidas Lodge 87, Knights of Pythias, oldest Pythian lodge In the district and the only one to hnve had the honor of. furnishing two Grand Chancellors, (Clms. L.

Rtter and R. J. McElvaln, both of MurphvHboro), will be the kingly host of 8000 or 10,000 Pythians and their families at tho Southern Illinois district celebration and crowds since Logan's Day, and that Pythianism in the southern half of JllnolH will triumph as never before at a district meeting, is tho confident prediction of Leonidaa lodgemen. Leonidas Lodge has as ta convention committee Jos. II, Davs, W.

T. Stephenson and H. 0. Ozburn, three citizens ranking second to no other Murphysboro trio for resourcefulness and pure-strain hustle. Tho committee la jealously taking evory possible etep, now that Leoniclae to have the honor of conducting the district convention a secomrtlrne, to make the meeting euporior to any assembly of its kind in recent years.

Decoraton Contract Let Contract has been let the Gosch- Tucker Decoratalon Company of St. Louis to dress up the town for the occasion. Walnut Street will lie decorated from 7th west to Street. Lo- and Chestnut will be gay with fluttering and hanging flags and colors from 9th to 13th streets. Pour White Way standards will bo erected arounci Court Square.

The Andrew's Building temporary homo of Leonidas Lodge wll be decorated from roof to sldo walk. Decorations in the residence districts in recognition of the august event wll be encouraged. Legion sidewalk flags will bo in place In.time for the day, It assured, and will add much to the beauty of the down town district with tho Stars and Stripe afloat overwhere. Pythians are to spare no expense commensurate with the honor and dignity of Leonidan Lodge in Murphys boro, to extend bon cheer and full some day to tho thousands of guests expected. The celebration is meant to partake of the meaning of a real holiday for all.

Something of Program All Grand Lodge officers and other dignitaries associated In tho brotherhood of Pythianism in counties of the state will be hero. Public Lodge sessions will be conducted in tho afternoon of the 14th. Long Form 3rd Rank will be amplified at the evening session. A spectacular parade wll feature tho demonstration at 1:30 p. m.

Even this early it is assured that the street spectacle will bo worth traveling many miles to see. Floats will represent all the business interests of Murphysboro. Band concerts are being arranged for at frequent periods during the day. Leonidas Lodge hopes to initiate the good feeling throughout the district that the Murphysboro celebration will be, ft great home'Coming, with Murphysboro eVery. Pythian's homo for a day, at least, It goes without saying that City Officials will extend whatever aid they can to make'the day an unprecedented success.

People liko to come to Murphygboro, They will Ilnd the community this year the aam big-hearted home of good fellows it has over been. Committees for Day Following are' committees for the celebration: Mrs. Mary 13, Smith, 70 years old, widow of C. C. Smith, years ago a leading merchant of Murphysboro, died in Oakland, May Ofh, according a letter of some length written by Mijs.

Minnie Neil), her. daughter, of Los Angeles, to friends of tho Smith- family in Murphysboro, and just received. Mrs. Nelll, widow of E. R.

Nelll a former druggist at Walnut and 15th streets, said effect that her who had lived at Oakland for years, was taken ill May Sth, just prior to the hour she had intended to go to an afternoon meeting conducted by "Gypsio'' Smith' Mrs. Smith had dressed for the meeting, in fact, but instead of going disrobed and went to bed. That was at 2 p. m. Friends of hers had called In at 5 1 m.

and, seeing that she was ill, had remained with nor. A doctor arrived at 7 p. left medicine, and Mrs. Smith was seemingly improved at p. when the physician called aain, promising to return''the next morning.

At a. m. the next day she died suddenly, hor heart giving way. Mrs. Smith is survived by the daughter, Mrs.

Nelll, and two sons, Harry and Albert, the former formerly in business here, and now located at Watson vflle, Cal, Deceased was a splendid Christian woman and was known widely in Her Phssing Attributed To Old Age -r Widow of Former Secretary Bradley Building' Rites Tuesdayv Elizabeth Bradley, of late C. M. Bradley passed away Sunday, at 3:25 p. m. at the'home of her Bradley, 324 North 15th this city.

Advanced age was given- as the cause" of-her She had been bedfast rob i 1 four weeks. was an esteemed resident here. She had lived here since 1S75. She was born August, 1S46, to Mr. and Mrs.

John Wesley Bandy, and reared at old Merrill's Prairie and De Soto. and later removed.here from. Do Soto. Deceased was married to 'C. Bradley, 1 12, -1SG6.

He proceeded: hur In dnath, May 14,.1923, Mr. Bradley was for many years secretary or the Southern Illinois Building and Loan Association, and: hud retired only a short time before his death. Mrs. Brail ley is 'survived by one Anthony arid Isabella Pate Wed Spirit Sunday At 'Aftpit stead North Mp ANDMRS. ANTHONY PATE i'- 140 Guests Anthony Pate and Miss Isabelle Carbaugh, were married in the Pate Chapel 'community in years ago, last Thursday, Wejre.wedded again in spirit at Pate home Sunday.

Arrangements i'or celebration were nioat, Mr. -i--t'r' Oakland, as she had been in Murphysboro years ago, for hor devotion to tho church and moral community uplift. At her request the body "was buried In a cemetery at Oakland. on page tight) STATE REJECTS BUS LINE PLAN TO HERRiN, ILL. Officials of M.

A S. I. Lines, Their Petition For Certificates Lpst, Will Try'Aflain (United Press) SPRINGFIELD, May Hopes for two new interurban bus linos, in southern Illinois were blasted when the Illinois commerce commission Saturday dismissed applications of two concerns proposing to start such service. Claude'L. Rew had asked i'or a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate motor vehicles in the vicinity of.

Harrisburg, and the Murphysboro and Southern Illinois railroad asked similar authority to operate motor vehicles between Carbondale and Herrin. Both applications were dismissed. son, of. Murphysboro; two daughters. Mrs.

Cora Strawlum of Mom phis, and 'Mrs. Lettle McPhei'Boh -be Weaver, near Herrin, ill, Since the death of she had made her'home with-her son hero and her She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. of brothers, John A. Bandy. 89, and Bandy, 80, both Murphysboro; twenty-five grandchildren and twenty-' two great grandchildren.

Deceased was a consistent member of the Baptist "church, she was a devoted Christian woman beloved by all who knew Funeral service will bo conducted at the Bon'-tf lipmo. at 324 ftbrth 15th St. Tuesday at 2:00 p. by H. T.

Abbott, pastor -of the Baptist church. Tower Grove. Mrs. Pate by Id6 guest's, friends, Guests aiTlvetI i roads during 'tho morning. splendid basket dinner was.served- on the lawn at noonday, tlie weather having warmed to a.

degree to make out-door feasting enjoyable. Many Murphysboro people attended, It had been hoped, -that Uncle Hugh Crawford an ancient magistrate'. who, married the 1 and who his Nineties, could attend. Howcjyer the gentleman found it impossible': go, Reverend Bly'presided. Mr.

Pate, who carres years well, speaker of the Yesterdayt -he found himself present for an auspicious occasio the Tery homestead where life was given in June, 1843; and with 1 him the 'girl', tlVejd aiigjfer ot Geoirge. Car- These two had been marridd 60 last at ancient famity home Sunday. The S. I. will try again for permit, A.

-B, Minton and W. C. Alexander expected their petition would fail, after railroads had pooled against thorn. Ella daughter of Mr. and Charles Bullar, 20th and Spruce Sts.

was removed to their home from St. Andrew's hospital Monday morning. She underwent an operation Tuesday for mastoid and is getting along very nicely. VAUGHN-HEDGES NUPTIALS SAT. Miss Gecile May Vaughn; daughter of and Simsou Vauglm, formerly of thfs city, became the bride of Ray Hedges, aoh of Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Hedges of Johnston City, Sat- uMay afternoon at .5:00 o'clock. The weddng took place in MuYphys- horo at the Baptist parsonage on North 15th Rev. H. T.

Abbdff Bap- tst pastor, the ceremony. The bride, a pretty blonde, was dressed in" a pretty grey canton crepe dress trimmed cream colored lace, and black slippers. She was educated in the Logan, school of this city and the public schools of Carbondale. She has a'number of friends here. Mr.

Hedges is a student of the S. I. N. U. at Carbondale after school, the couple will reside Johnston City.

The couple were accompanied here by the bride's mother, Going riding alone is an awful waste of' Beacon News. MR. AND MRS. C. M.

BRADLEY Ai they appeared not.so long ago when, they fact as well as spirit-the lonflev ity iof their union b'augh', who had the honor decades ago of owning- -the first four-wheel wagon in Jackson County. Mr, Pate told the story of pioneer days, when fear remained.Jn his. district of the county for wild animals that stalked by, night; when the Pate community of improved farms ifc stands today, was a veritable if or rest when 1 he -was a boy, little-else "patches" broken -and with 1 Indians remaining here and there. Of the four surviving of an issue of nine which' blessed the house of Pate, three were present yesterday to SQ their parents wed again in the.spirit of the was the spirit of a day, in a setting of rich green verdure. These were Mrs.

Anna Reese, Almo and Mrs. Myrtle Joplin, all of Murphysboro. The other daughter is Mrs. Louisa Campbell of Bedford, New Hampshire, who did not find it possible-ti Mr. Pate was the son of Perlemon Pate.

He recalls 'coming to- Murphysboro for the first time with his sire, who sold some dressed hogs at the Johnh Hanson store for cents a pound. The store was located where the Commercial hotel how at Walnut and Ninth Street. Pate, Senior, left the-boy there and walked westward whero the Logan hotel stands. Thq boy was afraid his dad might get lost, there were so many houses. Pate's father bought of wild forest land from the government.

The deed was signed by President Tho soft stilkfetains ownership of -a 1 fragment -of the original on old home stands, is a gentle little woman, who remains -active and is very proud indeed of.the gift of longevity given with Anthony, -Mr. Pate givesi'little worry-to the passing years and-can be seen almost any day the. busheas district of Mur'phys- boro, chatting with his friends, Guests attending the celebration at the.Pate, homestead yesterday report a splendid day. Following a musical program rwtiich caine after the dinner wMch a saxaphone quar- Case Comnfl Frpm Bottoms Dittrlct And Exposing Several IK Expowd Aht Vaccinated Bill Given Final Congressional Approval 376 to 9 Cpoildge Veto Wpuld Be Idle fii ty in Her part qf au.d suf ferlng qommoa to smallpox, the appearance here of Kane Grisaom at the 'Henry Jatho gtore home on Loyan street late last yeek; Grissiom came from the prlhwby, 111., diatrict of itlre bottoms whwre he had been working. He broken out with Alurphyf boro doctor is said to hftTe pronounced "chickenpox.

1 1 Dr. L. city li phyaician, when to soni, pronounced 'it smallpox. Griseom -ww tiarned to. Super- viB.or Grorqr.

the town- Ehip for iSuperTiaor Stearns; after fruitless' 1 attempts to place the patient somc'whore in town treat- menti gaid he would, hare to. the case in ft tent somewhere" on Big Muddy rircr. City authorities -at once saw to the fumigation, of the 'store and home an'd'th'e Taccinatton of members of the j'atho family. By Taccination the Jath'o's ayoided ft strict quaran: tine; The is the ftrst of its nature here this; Saturday, the same day the casj'e'. was found, a health of fleer from '-up state had called in Murphy sboro, and said smallpox mortalities in oJC; the districtB of the state whero an epidemic is going on runs as high as eighty per cent.

Press) May new compromise tax bill today received final congressional approval by the It now tp the President. House roted three hundred and nine'In faror of a motion to accept the 'report of the who 'drafted the 'compromise. This together with the vote of the Saturday, sixty to sir, accepting the 1 report, forecast overriding of a. 1 President Coolidge should disapprpTe it. "The measure provides an Immidate "twenty-flYe; per" cent" reduction In taxes due and payable this" year on 1923 incomes.

The Democratic nominal tax rates -'ranging from two to six per with the Democratic sur tax ch.edule; increased estate and guest taxes, a prevision authorizing publicity of th'e amount of'taxes, an do, provision authoring publicity nf the amount of taxes paid by individuals and corporations. AD JOIJBNED TERM OF CIRCUIT COURT STARTING Judge Richard Fowler Marion will serve the bench here this week in the adjourned term pf circut court, Ci cuit Butler being de- MEMORIAL SERVICE SUNDAY A. M. The memorial service at the First Methodist Episcopal church at loth and; Pine streets Sunday at 10:45 a. in, was "attended by ten of'the ninteen A.

R. the county to- ether a number Of members of the -American Legion under whose direction Memorial was given. Rev. L. McKown, pastor, preached a-splendid sermon.

A large crowd attended. The American Legion and G. A. R. will appear again as'fellows of the wars at the Decoration day service; May SOth.

tained AlexanHeiv gourt on a it The here, will take up of Jim Hxam, by; looal police a trailing cerbea the iinbr to Exam'i house, on tiev allerwajr directed by' Henry Kiel much -enjoyed, the guests sang "God be wjth you 'til we meet again" aud, and. Pate many act happy returns; of'ithtj jflay, went, their way Jiappy to have shared, with honor to rare pleasures to the end of a perfect day. tweea IGth 17tb p( BISHQP COMING Jpohn Chandler White of Springfleid, Diocese will hold services at theivTrinfty. Jffipiacopal church here This is his first visit here aer bishop. Poplar Street nlghtl last Officers later ldenUfle4 as property stolen, here Carbou- dale.

WEATHER profcab warmer- tonight (United iNDUNAPQLIS, May Preparations to aid the government task of distribution of claim blanki for the soldier bonus were be- Injj.made today at national headquarters of American Legota here. Application blanks will be distribut- the Legion posts and I thrmighOut tho world. Legion offlpials Slightly and ctotrdl will assist the veterans in making out their blanks and forwarding them to WILLIAMSON IS QOffiTING AFTER! YOUNG SHOOTING Officers In Constant Touch With The Adjutant's fice, However, Although; Troops M-4 Not Be CaMfe ed "Unknown" Shot Held. (United Preafc) BEliLEVILLE, May Skelcher, Who was shot, to death' Sat- Williamson county by volunteer deputies, was one of the men who fired into the automobile of Glenn Young late Friday, wounding Young. and blinding his wife, Young told newspaper men today.

Young refused io say whether "Brown," a companion of who was wounded and captured, wa one of his assalante. i (United Press) Marion, 111., May county is quiet today. The tense situation caused by the sbooting.pt Glenn, Young, Ku Kulx Klan leader, and the killing of Jack peeled by Klansmen of having one of Young's assailants, efrsed and it is not believed troops will asked by the Sheriff's office, although constant communication-is being kept up with the Adjutant in Springfield. After' a two day's investigation the coroner's jury returned a verdict that Skelcher shot on the between here and Herrin Saturday when-he started to run from posses "of constabulary, came to his death by shot at the hands or unknown parties." "Brown," Skelchor's companion the automobile who was shot in the leg and captured, was removed from, the hospital Sunday to the- county jail where he was held on a Washington county char.ce in connection with the shooting of Mrs. Glenn Young Loses One HERRIN, May Skelcher, alleged ganster killed by Constabulary in a gun fight at Herriii Saturday morning, came to his death.

at the hands of parties unknown, ac? cording to a corner's verdict. Mrs. S. Glenn Young, wounded day night in an attempted assassination of her husband, Ku Klux Klan Mquoro raider, has lost the sight, of her right eye, while offer some encouragement" they will be able to save the vision.of the left Dr. C.

H. Starkel, in charge of the case, announced late Sunday. Young is recovering from a bullet wound in the right leg. Dr. St.arkel-,.

said, but the knowledge of his injuries has resulted In an nervous condition. The physician said Young expressed belief that Jack Skelcher" "Brown," the first of whom was killed-: and the latter wounded at Herrin urday, were among his assailants. FrL- day night. The klan leader was denied; again today to all except close in St. Elizabeth Hospital at Skelcher Killed at Herrin Skelcher of Cambria, was shot fatally by guards on West street in Herrin Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, who were waiting there in'; the hope of catching assailants of S.

Gleun Young and wife if they happened to seek to enter Herrin off the hard roads from the north. phone call from Carterville at 10' a. said a suspicious-appearing Dodge car with storm had- just passed through Carterville headed for Herrin. Not long afterwards the Dodge roared into Herrin on the concrete road, tore through Ahe line of guards after fire was (Continued on page elfffct).