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27 of Egypt." VOLUME, 17. CARBONDALE, 26- 1920, NUMBER 266, HARD ROAD GRADING I Return to Work After Two Months' Increase. .8 Begin at Road South of Car-- just two montlls ot stl tlie and IO1" I telephones will again begin to buzz MileS Contracting Thursday morning at seven o'clock. Use SteSItl This is the information given out at Wri I tlld Marion office. Two meetings were fcn- twg week aml jt (g Ullllerstood rOUlifi tO agreement reached while, not as much granted as asked, is mutually satis- is said a graduated raise granted beginning at 510 pel- month for the lowest paid operators up to $25- increase for tbe highest paid.

jt had been expected the company or employees would give a statement for Post. grante Mr. Hays, manager of the Hays tact instruction to whom the con- as gi an Con tract lor grading on the state hard road of Carbondale has been awarded is in Carbondale looking ovt'r the ground and making preparations for immediate work on the grading. Equipment has been ordered to Carbondale from Janesville, and Commissioner of Public Works at Springfield Declares Glenn Is Public Service Corporation Advocate From Head to Foot. that Otis F.

Glenn, candidate Eor the Republican nomination Had Been Bedfast For Nearly III For Two- Employ- ed by East Brothers. Miss Sybil 21, died at the home her grandmother, Mrs. Harriett Brewer West College St. yesterday afternoon. She has been ill for more than 2 years with tuberculosis, having hnen confined to hsr bed for more than 11 months.

OFFICIALLY NOONCING DOCUMENT other -p'oints the machinery is oein-g used. Railroad connections and other uncertainties make it uncertain to predict just when the equipment will arrive'. Rapid and efficient activity is planned by the company. It is desired to get the grading as nearly finished las possible before 'the' bad fall weather sets in. A huge steam shovel will be employed in the heavy grading work.

Other equipment will include tractors, graders and the like. Every preparation will be made to execute one of the largest programs in th? this section including the Patterson hill. This hill is a mile from foot to foot and is more than a 0 per cent grade in many 'p'lacss. The hill has been a thorn in the' side of prospective 'bidders. When the hill is graded down and ready for the road material it will have not more than a seven per cent grade, which is regarded a slope of relative unimportance for auto anil other traffic.

The section of road on which the' Judge Schwartz on Sunday School Committee Twenty Years Judge W. Schwartz returned yes! tsrday t'n va where he attended the School Convention. Mr. rirhwjrtz been on the tfxecutiv the Sunday Schoo: Onynmi for the last £0 again nanvad on The convention was in session three days. Others from hc're.

attending were Miss Martha Buck and Miss L-illie Dillinger, superintendent of the children's division. FAMILY REUNION AT STEVENS COUNTRY HOME a corporation advocate from head foot. W. J. Snnlding, Commissioner of Public Works at Springfield, described a victory for Glenn in this district as a great misfortune to the district.

The letter was svritten to Mayor F. C. Krysher of this city. The letter refers to Mr. Glenn appearing against the people for the corporations.

The letter follows. City of Department of Public Works, Office of W. J. Spald- in-g, Commissioner of Public Works. Mayor Krysher: Your letter of The 2nd at hand.

I shall be morn than pleased to get a copy of the address of Mr. Glenn, if it 1 is available. I was at (he meeting myself wheel he delivered this talk. On that occasion ha made clear- that he was a public service corporation man from head lo foot. It would be.

a great misfortune for your district to elect him to any public office. Yours truly, W. J. Spaulding, Commissioner of Public Works. A family reunion wus held at the country home of Mr.

and Airs. Chas. Stevens Sunday. 'be were: Mr. and Mrs, Lee Russell and family and Miss Edna Russell of Tii.maroa.- Mr.

and Mrs. LEONARD THOMPSON, HAND, INJURED for State Senator from this district, is Her last employment was lor East Brothers' Coal Co. as bookkeeper here more 1 than two years ago. The de- ceased was held in high esteem by -her friends and regarded reliable and faithful to her duties at her last employment which she was forced to give EFFECT up on account of her toiling health. She has lived in Carbondale most of her life, and was the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Levelsmier, her lathef being some place in Arizona. Mrs. Levelsmier died ten years ago. Besides her father she is survived by a brother, Eddi-a, of this city.

The 'funeral services will be held at the Hiller cemetery. The body will leave the home of her. grandmother, Mrs. Brewer, tomorrow morning at HAY RIDE TO RICH FARM TUESDAY EVENING A number of local persons enjoyed a hay ride to the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Edgar Ricb, four miles east of town Tuesday night. Th-s occasion was in honor of the recent marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rich and the even-ing assumed the nature of a charivari. Those present were: Mr.

and Mrs. Edgar Rich, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Holloway, Increased Transportation Rates On All Carriers Started at Midnight. Special to Free Press: WASHINGTON, Aug. State Colby today signed proclamation announcing officially suffrage amendment to constitution had beett ratified. Docutuent signed when certificate from GOT. Roberts that Tennesses legislature had ratified amendment was received.

WATER RATES ALSO RAISED Oscar Halstead and family of Kanka- grades will He done stretches kee CIamU tcrvillo the end ot the present hard road south Mrg Brncgt of town to a mile or so noutn of the Interstate Schedules Prepared by AH Set for Hearings on State Tariffs Where Commissions Refused Increases. Washington, Aug. 26. Increased transportation charges on practically all railroad and steamship lines of the country became effective at midnigh Wednesday. Nearly every railroad filed blanket schedules with the interstate commerce commission, making effective the general increase of 33 1-3 per cent in freight rates, 20 per cent in passenger fares and excess baggage and milk charges and 50 per cent in charges for Pullman accomoflations.

Increase for Water Carriers. Water carriers inaugurated joint rail and water trallic rule increased corresponding to the all-rail advance. Steamship lines operating 011 the Atlantic coast, great lakes and Gulf of Mexico will increase their all-water rates from 20 to 40 per cent on freight authorized 'increases fn time to pat. them into effect Hearing in Chicago. Hearings on petitions of carriers for higher rates on Jntrastate traffic, where- state commissions have refused to ap- pro the increases sought, have been- 1 rized by the interstate commerce- commission, which, under the transportation act, bus jurisdiction over iii- rrastate rates.

The first hem-ing of this Kind begin Sept. in Chicago, when tbe request of Illinois railroads for state rate increases equivalent to tie Interstate advances will be taken np. The Illinois state commission refused to authorize the increases sought by the roads. BROAD PROFITEERING PROBE Fell From Car Load of Cinders Near Misses Irene Jones, Saidee Helton, and from 20 to 38 1-3 per cent on pas Reeds Along this section are some 1 of the- worst places for grading An' the state. The contractor will probably btuld a camp in the vicinity of Makan.da for his workmen during the period of gradin-g.

Tents will lie put up in all likelihood and the most, convenient ar- range'nients perfected for rapid and efficient work. Miss Ada Russell, Willie and Earl Russell, of Murphysboro, Mrs. Mary Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith and family, Mrs.

M. Walker ami children. Mr. and Mrs. Hauler and family, Mr.

and Mrs. Harrison Apple- Kate. Louis Applegale. George Haege and Charles Davie of Carbondale. East of About the Head.

Local Women in Five Generations Picture in the Post In yesterday's St. Louis Post Dis- pa-tcb in the photograph section ap-1 peared the pictures of five generations of a family known in Carbondale and Southern Illinois. The unusual thing about the family is found in that 20 years difference is -between each of 'the five successive generations. Mrs. H.

A. Bradley of this city is one of the worn-en in the picture. She is the third They are: Mrs. 'Caspert Stacket, SO, Cairo; Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, 60, Murphysboro; Mrs.

H. A. Bradley, 40. Carbondale; Mrs. Donald Garry, 20, New prleans, and her four months old baby.

I Oil and Gas Strike on Land of Lotal Man Geo. Huthmucber, a. lumbc'r merchant at Murphysboro, yesterday afternoon received, won! of a gas and oil encounter near Harrisburg, Ark. The land on which the drilling has beeli in progress is a tract containing 23,000 acres. The oil and gas were struck at a leva! of-1140 feet.

Those interested in tbe) land are Mr. Huthmaker of Miir- physboro, A. S. Roberts of -this city and Supt. Scott, of the Jackson Coal presumably of Hallidayboro.

The telegram didn't state the quality Dismount of oil or sas, Mr. Hutlimacliei said. LeuiitK-d Thompson, aged 19, married a few weeks ago, suffered sev-ere injuries about the heatl and face 1 this morning when he fell from a railroad car Reeds Ration, east of Iiare. Thompson is on the section and was ai the time 1 he was injtrred work- I ing with his crew. He was brought to Cnrbomlale on the motor and taken io th3 hospital.

His injuries are not believed to be serious. Doctors Mitchell and Moss were 1 summoned. Young Thompson has lived here for some time. l' 'At the time the young man was injured he was helping unload a car of cinders. MRS.

DUGGER ENTERTAINS FOR DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY Mrs. Albert Dugger entertained with a party at her home on West Oak St. from 2 'to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in honor nf the eleventh birthday anniversary of her daughter, ellie May. The usual games were playevJ and the following children were' present Homer Cutler.Irose and Yeath, Robt.Jones, Paul and Arthur Gourley, Paul Huffman, Charles Helvo.n. Harrison Stoker.

Robert, John and Richard Pttckett, Erline' and Aileen Harrell, Frances Noel, Margaret Harrison, Imogene Smith. Awanda and Loreen Temple, Pauline Thelma Hatch, Pauline and Margaret Huffman, Nellie White. Marguerite White. Kathleen tand Ricliadine Pabst, Helen and Ellen Flint, Charles Stout and Ruth Little, Mrs. Fred Boucliier and children, Frederick Scott and Anna May; of Murphysboro, George, Ruth and Nellie May Dygger and Mrs'.

Benfohr. $1.50 Increase For Miners Looked For CHICAGO. Aug. increase, of $1.50 p'er day was expected to be granted to Illinois miners by the operators as they went into session afternoon. T.

C. Searles, president of the Illinois Operators Association, statad that he was of the opinion that a dollar and one-half increase would be' granted the men not iatpr than today. KIDNAPED CHILD IS FOUND Chief of Police of Hornell, N. Finds Eight-Year-Old Girl In Boarder Held. Hornell, N.

August three- day search for ei.Kht-year-old Laurn- belle who was kidnaped from her home here Sunday, ended when Chief of Police Bailey located the child at Galeton, Pa. Charles Smith, Qfty- four years old, who had been roomer at the Clark house, and who flisnp- peared at the same time, was arrested there on a charge of kidnaping ne was taken to Rath to awn It the action of the grand jury. LIEUT. FORSYTHE WEDSTEXAS GIRL Lieut. Andrew Porsythe, son of Mrs.

Margaret Forsythe 1 formerly of this city, and a -Brother to the late Donald Forsythe, was married Aug. 5 to Miss Vevcrn McCormick of Fort Worth, Texas. The bride will join Lieut. Forsythe Fort Oglffsthorpe', Ga. The Korsytlic family removed from this city to Oklahoma several years ago They now reside at Sante Fe, New Lieut.

Forsytlie was in service in. France with the 6th Cavalry during the recent war. He' is first lieute'nant jn the regular artRy and is stationed at Fort OglesthorpD. Esther Norrix, Ruby Reno, Ela Jones, Margaret Gunn. H-slen Maze and Amy Rich; Messrs.

John Rich, Virgil Travolstead, Earl Payne, Sam Helton, Afton Trr-ece, Ralph Anderson, Loy Norrix, Carlyle Treece and Martin Vauphn. EUGENE LEROY TAKEN Trunk Death Suspect Arrested at Rio Janeiro. FRANKLIN COUNTY 57.2G3; GROWTH OF 120.8 PER CENT Alleged Murderer of Wife Seized on British Ship on Request of U. S. Authorities.

Rio Janeiro, Ang. L'e- roy, wanted, by the police of Detroit in connection' with the murder of a ivonir.n supposed to be his wife, wag arrested on board the British freighter Dryden, which arrived here late yesterday. Leroy was member of the crew. He was placed.under arrest at the request of United Suites authorities here, and while tbe Dryden is in port will be fruurded by four members of the maritime police. The ship will proceed to Buenos Aires, nud from that port will sail for New York, where Leroy will be turned over to officers from Detroit.

New York, Aug. British freighter, Dryden, upon which Eugene Leroy wns arrested yesterday at Illo de Janeiro, in connection with trunk mystery murder, soiled from New York of August days after the body of supposed wife wns seng-er traffic, ns a result of decision Tuesday night by the shipping board. One (lily's notice is required to make, the eral Federal Trade Commission Finds Coal Costing $5.40 Sold at $20 a Ton. lie new water rales effective, but sev- (m -ids lines liled carrying the Washington. Aug.

that the campaign against profiteering on be with special ai tent ion to the situation at tidewater points, was made sit department or' jus! ice. The announcement followed tion by federal trade cnmniisslou of liniHii.us vlial Wc'st Virginia rrnal. costing a lull delivered ai Hamp- ng isold high Reds Get Ready For Surrender To Polish Forces Special to Free Press: LONDON, Aug. troop's capture fortress Ostralenlta after hard fighting. Russian Soviet forces have evacuated Vilna Lithuania.

Bolsheviki. prepared to withdraw clause in peace terms to Poland eonce'rning formation militia of two hundred thousand workmen in Poland. GREATEST COAL DEAL Biggest Fuel Transaction in History Is Announced. British Syndicate Contracts for 35,000,000 Tons of American Ex- port Coal. New Turk, Aug.

srrcntest: I coal deal i-n history was announced here. 'Its nia.iriiitu<lo will stagger coal I authorities everywhere-. British Collier In- Baseball Results STANDING OF THE CLUBS. NATiONAL LEAGUE. Chih.

Won. Lost. Pcrct. Cincinnati C'j Brooklyn 67 New Vin-k y4 St. in Buston 51 52 67 ei 52 70 found jammed in a trunk in 'a local warehouse.

The authorities loomed week after the Dryden snileil that a answering Leroy's description wns on hoard, and the freighter's cttptuin was requested by M-irploss to hold the sus- pect for the Rio do Janeiro police. AVASHJ.VGTO.V, August Census Bureau today announced the population of Franklin county. Illinois, as an increase of 31,350 or 120.S pfr cent. Nephew of the" Late John Redmond Urges Clemency for Irish Hunger Strikers. London, Aug.

George has AUTO THIEVES KILL OFFICER Fire as They Are Halted for Questioning by Two Minneapolis Minneapolis, Aug. Frank S. Hnllet was shot nnd killed when he nnd two other members of the police "shotgun" squad stopped an the vestment Trusr, of Swansea. Wales, London. T'Mi-is and New York- lias coiilfacl.erl for 1,000 ions of American export mal.

to heydolivereii at (he rale nf 7.0OO.OOO a year. An annual sliiinnenl TiTi rliis basis vvrwld he more than total overseas export of tile United Stales, for 1919. Tbe total sum coiid-acted for represents more tluin the suft carried last year by the chief lines in the. NVest Virginia, fields. H.

Gardner Is diiwror of tjie which is capitalized A.VIM It U-AX LEAGUE. Chicago 71; 44. 73 40 New York 74 St. Louis JJetroit 49 46 3S 57 Cl .436. .475.

-MS .437 .319 Wedncpc-'ay's Results. ChirnKO. 4: 1. Yoi-k, St. t.ouia.

3. AMiOKTCAX LKAGUE. Plirliidolpliia. J. Boston.

11; St. I.onis. 1. -No ot'iei-H Sfiieiliileil. Tn addition to the aboye stupendous I Mi-.

Gardner, is said lo lie nego- i for file purchase of TD READJUST GRAIN RATES replied to tile appeal of Redmond i automobile carrying four men. The Howard, nephew of the late John i officers were searching for automobile Kedmond, urging clemency for Hie i tnieves One of tte Aspects fired Irish hunger strikers, saying that the three shots Ht Hallet The oth er two will receive careful attention immediate an.l licemen save chase, but the police car was bli.umininis mines. i Interstate Commission Orders Increase It is estimated that the deal mi-i of 30 Per Cent on Domestic Rates. nounced would involve nn expenditure of at least the coal could be moved from this country. Washington.

Aug. of rates on grain between Chicago ana the Atlantic seaboai-d was ordered by the Interstate commerce commission on the basis of 30 per cent increase in. domestic rates and 25 per cent Irs Fisherman's Luck. "Have any Inck 011 your fishing trip? "I'll sny so. 1 won twenty-three i.n the evening export rates instead of the 40 per cent authorized in the recent Jncream by the.