The Vernon Times, Volume 8, Number 29, Vernon, Jennings County, 27 February 1920 — Page 3

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And we'll have one of the m ost as" tonishing sales ever held on these staple lines of merchandise for one week, ending March 5th, 1920. So these price concessions should prove unusually attractive owing to the kind of merchandise quoted below;

Navy Iiean 0 c Antos flour Sl.f.O per 24 1b. bagGold Mculal flour 73 per 24 lb" PilW bury ' Sl.To per 24 lb " White Lily ' ' 1.5- por 24 lb " White Corn Meal 4 lb lor 19c Flake Hominy 3 U for 10 c Cracked Hominy 5 fot 23c 4J Lj S l Crocker's Corner, Lierehants I i?iio advertise in UiiB paper will give yon liest values for jf O Ukt ft 1 Federal Body Says Mo More .Compelling Need in All the World. lVpartlng ffwiw custom, the 1'edertd Ctuueil of Churches las endorsed the work hv'i. done by Near East Etilief, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City, the fruier coinuiittee for Aruisulan yd Syriau Keiief which has i.-n d the tak of caring fwr 1,250,0Q0 star.lng i-eople in Western Asia. HesidctWns Rdvpttid by the executive cvuuulttee, as anriauuced by Charles S. llttcfarland, general seerttary, are as folo"ws : "Your consuiittee recommends that prayers be offered in all our churches fur the suffering children throughout thte world, especially those who are in distress and peril as the result of the vrar. "They further recommend that we rcaihTBJ and eiupkasizni our interest acid co-erfration in th plans of 'Near L'tut lUlief.' We kiiaw of no nec-vl in the world that is more compelling tLaa that of tlm Anuenian, Syrian and vUir ' peoulua in the I-o-vaut wl;w Lavw already received and liSlist still receive the geuernus sympathy of the American people." i;,sl

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Jowl Meat 23c per pound Cane Granulated sugar all you want 19c per lb - $18 per 100 lb bag Evaporated Peaches 27-32c prunes 19 23c Canned Corn and Peas 2 cans lor 25. a E U 'j - j fj C ii k k Ik l North Vernon. SILLY BELIEF STILL STRONG French Courts Called On to Take Cognizanc of "Witchcraft" Practiced in Community. Even in these latter days a witchcraft case occasionally gets into one of our courts. When they do we fire all sufficiently humiliated that Americans, or even residents in America, should lie .o benighted, but amusement mitigates our pain, and even when a woman tried to get a Massachusetts judge to protect her from sorcery by punishing the sorcerer, the promptness with which the court dismissed her charge as absurd saved American elf-respect. But In this country, of late years, witchcraft cases, when we have had any, have been of the very simplest sort mere survivals of peasant superstition In ignorant minds. Over in France they do better or worse for in the largo city of Bordeaux there are about to be tried four citizens of considerable eminence whose lawyer is not afraid to interpose against the charge of assault brought against them by an alleged priest the defense that the beating they inflicted on una was Justified by the cruel enchantments he had worked on a woman whom they regarded with reverence as a miracle worker. That the wizard Is accused of resorting to the ancient device of torturing a waxen doll as a means of transmitting agony to his victim is only one element of the offended justification. The defendants or their counsel must be well read in the annals of necromancy, for the tale of persecution i a fairly complete compendium, not of barnyard (superstitions, but of those one familiar in every royal circle and not despised by philosophers or ecclesiastics. What a French court does with such a case as this it will be interesting to see. Bordeaux is not Paris, and strange things may lu;pp.n.-Xew TorS Times. M .1 j 1 J i i m.;... 'I " "'t'i'. . : lslil.il ni (if in need call ' .Qfj 7TQ 1 c

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2y JCr.iharine Ega'eston Roberts. (cr . !. i.t la.'ii v.vvfm x.-r,iM, i-n:.,r. ! ... . JtP ifrcfccd !nto a Vn f ???? streets closed doors, find drawn blinds -those men !tb sharp iked he! - mets Their heavy trapp unon the couuie-une rpouuu.u m ine narrow ram-drenched Inno- untl the? hniic! in the lHile square. I r.Sh!ened eyes peeped from Lelund the shuttered w;ndows watched yet dreaded to The Germans hud taken Aer,c hot. As the only lights were those made ly the troops In the square. The house of Mnthictt There dark like the others. "Mother, let's light the larap. It's so awful liere ia the dark." "No Andre, ve m"etn't. 1'e vo like your h rot hers. See, Pierre ane Paul don't mind the dark, do von iey sons?!' Madam Tliere put a reiiSurrh-1.2 arm shout her youngest and felt r.i shoulders stiffen. The tvo boys stood with their father at the other window. "So, I don't m.'nd the dark lost I ara hungry." Pierre was two years older than Andre, too old to fer.r the dark and too young to fear the nermann Hit I'oni ,111 nr.l c n c-..-i-. e-,,;-0 with his arm locked within his father":-- j and stared out grimly at the moving j ) silhouettes. Ills army had refused h!;r . just because he was a year or so loo j younjj. Who di iT.ironfo 5150 irrl:'' j lie was ns strong a? any man and he might have been out fighting Instead of hiding here In the dark. The soldiers were stirring about and arming into small detachments. Their form helmets gleamed in the flickering light of the street lamps. A sharp order was given. "They are corning," raid Mathlou There 'The" butt of a cun thudded on the s-treet door. "Come out, come out , where we can see yon. Come out or 1 you shall feel fire." T fx tit- rrn ,n4t, T .-. .., WB Vein (TO the houses emptied-Pdled with peonh, who dared not sneak aloud. 'rWhat are they going to do?"' "Where are we going?" "What are they do;ng now?" The terrified whispers qr.esrr I i r - ; ?." j.- .- . II.

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tloned. In the ill-lit . street-, .faces peered trying to recogmxe neighoors. Then came the order to march with upraised arms. Families were separated. Lost babies cried. Women shrieked the names of their husbands and children. Everywhere was confusion, llut in spite of it all, Mathien and Madame There and their was managed to keep together till the peo ple were herded into the market -pi ace before the church. A Ih,:ht was coming ! from somewhere behind them a light i that grew redder and redder. j "Mother, mother, what is it?" "Hush, Andre, I do not know." "It's the houses. They've fired the town." Paul's voice was thick. The crowd was ordered about. "You I wouldn't have lights? Well you have them, now," a German voice taunted "See them?" As the' flames whipped over the roofs, the soldiers went through the throng. "We are going to Paris," they said, "your men and bovs nmr-t march ahead of uV x r i . t , . , 1 ' . " ' ' ,-i 1 I i with tho other woujen gazing wideeyed and mute. The flames of .the I town died down and the grav dawn i came to the women huddled tf , ' in the market place. The soldiers laughed into their " grief -filled faces,! "Go home." They said. "Go to your ! ' homes." j I Home! Madame There, sea reel v I knowing what she did,' went to a heap of brick- and mortar facinz the square, i Pari of a charred wall wa - standi g ! and se started " through its razgmg I doorway. Suddenly there bur.--t a fu- ' sllade. Si;e listened r.nd again the shots rang out. Sua hurried to "The , square where other womeu ran nbour. i "Our soh'irr nr, rcre'i . 1. j They are fighting, near!" Fat no. it i i Could not be that for no more shut.-? j j were tired. wji.ii 13 ic

Ami they f.av Uumi two hundred men e:-l ', 7 1; ".: g t . i h:; d wi:h Lul-i-s. Mamisne Th-. re found her hm:-t-and a?: d Paul with Atii!r bi-;ween I hem ra: near them lay Pierr.. In n cart, she carried them to tl- churchyard and there she made a rraver and buried them I.orsfir. for the priest was among fho-e who lav In the fkFI.

; S? ! i a nun e d about us one in a (I renin. ! me ieihe-n :!v a tall blond-haired vrom"hose blue eyes seemed not to see. I . v,bof?s twfs((I(! lir voro ?llenL j ; s,uvIy t5;e !onri (la,3 raod for ; MaJanie Th,ro iv, wl;h oJhers ln j a hwse .K,t ,hoI, Uei3 B!St he hn1 n to pcrfor,r!. In lhe wrecl. . f:f ,jrr h fouU(1 tl;e fiiU tf,p of j ; a t,h;0i r4 ti,ok it ;i,vav wllh hcr r.nd. fecrelJ.v, he worked and scraped j it it v.:-: '.) it was smooth and clean. ! ( ! ' ( ; ' ; j l: f -, i 4 '!ero Lies fv.athisu There." , One by one irregular letters grew and tra !ra ov"!' lhe board- TIie reop, : uho kn'y"v !ior wondered, end they wiit.-i ereu among ti.emseives. "nat is wrong with Ilermhie There? Surely her mind is gone." And the soldiers k 1,1 1 6ltl'yt'Vi ua4UV .. . I: . . .1.. .. ..-i.t.. 1 , .1 - I pas--, tor mey leareu me ; -an w1;0 ,;0Ycr oke vith her hut whose eyes burned Into their souls. The sentry trampeduip and down in j f In", ..t.v.nllfl 0!i,1 l.ia 1 1 i ., 11 v1 . f a iforo in- i: (h-rmnnv :n a'littio village like thts -,1 hrW hr !i-d to vtnveimrdIn: a cemetery where no one wanted to conn, and from which no one could . - go. At houio be didn't see the crouching figure dart behind the hedge as he turned the corner. In the mom1 t i A I M i '- j he vc,sUil,.t.ea nt tho v,ooden tablet ,vllk.h c.?eiecl to have grown overroght : Here lie Mathieu There and his sons Fan!, Pierre, and Andre, guiltless, murdered by the Foclie Barbarians. Madame There hurried to answer i the sharp rap at the door. "Is this yours-?' demanded the soldier. In Ins snd wfiS the wooden tablet. ! "It is mine." "Don't leave it about," he growled and flung it at her feet. "It will stay one day in spite of 1, " c-t-, she cried. Day after day, he met her go!D to church. She became so worn and emaciated that it seemed only her f pirit was alive, but it gleamed brightly and more brightly in ths fiamo of , h;r e-'"c- AniJ tne lc,af E3e V-5 j Iway.s the German soldier thought the There womd sure t sure,ii t i . i i , . v . . hi A'- t v iMin. w . .-.f..-K,.a info l-::a ronsciersee. ! Then in t!;e chill autumn, came word that was unbelievable. An armistice I had been signed.. The tiring had , i stor'-od, and the dermr.ns were oruit- 1 l" Ki,lc .. j for the !ast time the sentry guard- i ed tlm .cemetery. For tie- first time ; the la" a -:;-iC1 051 a (:i:t vorl'J- As ": ! lhe I;SLt rcvv- ths tllver ldoked . j about. What was that? He entered j ! tne cvarcnynm. t:.e iau ot me , j our -"-vcr- WOi'n Riark stood. Srnily: . i H5re i ' Mathieu Ih.-.re t ' "r;i1 nl? ?,'n5 t i Fau!, Pierre, and Andre, murdered i y Fo--he Pariai-ians. ; Aov,.. ih crj,.Vc-j lav Mo-tfano Ttiere ,,,.. .i:., f-.... f..,., 1...

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