Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1926, Page 19

LD MARTAL TOUR ENDS N HOSPTAL “Theological Student” and “Diplomat™ Recovering From Mental llls. By the Associ LOUISVI Noel Cobb, um from a mental v “de ntia praecox, volving six Cobb, son of a well known South 1 ft home, coming ttended the P 1_Seminary. From nderbilt Univer- Tenn., where he ret Farmer, pretty student. After a whirlwind courtship they went to Jef- tevsonville, Ind., where it is believed B ke marriage ceremony was .per- rmed. The couple then returned to the bride’s home at Dothan, Ala., whel Cobb filled the pulpit in a Presbyterian church for one Sunday. The father me suspicious of the 1ge and asked Cobb to 1 He then went 1. where he presented 1s of Birmingham- el Dupree, * in this_country here, wher terian Theologic: paint beauti Armed with recommenc the Birmingh: K otfi still posir mat, went to Emory Unive , lanta. where he took up theology. ¢ he met Virgin! another Southern beauty, whom he oped two da where they were married. returned to the bride’'s home, Cobb taken ill. While in the hospital letters were found from his supposed wife, Margaret, Miss Holling: parents imme- diately had ed on a [ e, which later withdrawn discovered the fi rmed by me from »bb, with one in howevel Waning District Farm Population Down to 682 on 139 Estates in 1925 A declining farm population on the 139 farms still existing in the District of Columbia was reported today by the Census Bureau as a result of surveys of arms here, taken in 1¢25. The farm population of the District in 1925 totaled 682 persons, against 894 in 920. Of this number 614 were white and 68 colored. luxuries have not spraed far on District farms, for only 36 of the farms reported ownership of radio sets and but 8 reported ownership of tractors There were no sheep or goats on District farms in 1925, while the num- ber of chickens increased from 10,370 in 1920 to 16,492 in 1925. The value of farm jmplements and machinery in 1925 was placed at $107,501. Eighty-one owners operated farms, while of these 19 reported a mortgage debt, the value of the mortgaged farms being $221,800, and the amount of mortgage debt $76,900, against $237,900 and §92,900 in 1920. Farm' expenditures in 1924 were as follows: For feed, $201,497; for fer- tilizer, $39,104; for labor, $322,480, and for lumber, posts, firewood, etc., $9,151. Farms in the District reported the following production in 1924; Milk, 480,732 gallons; butter, 5.319 pounds; whole milk, 438, 788 dozen. under 1 year, 17 and ove: over, 23. and heifers, bulls, 1 year old and CARDINAL’S HOME READY. Reconstructed Palace Frees Prel- ates From Housing Crisis. ROME, February 25 (4) who for personal or official reasons must live in apartments in Rome finally are safe from the clutches of the housing crisis and the high cost of rentals. The second of two palaces which Pope Pius, carrying out the idea of his predecessor, has caused to be re- built into small apartments for the use of the church, is ready for occu- pancy. It is the famous Palazzo di San Callisto, which, together with the alre ransformed Palazzo del San- to Ufficio, will provide adequate hous- ing accommodations ' Cardinals Cornell Man Elected. Dr. Julian Butterworth of Cor- nell University and Miss May Trumper of Montana were elected president and vice president, re- spectively, of the department of rural y in the Interior Department. Other officers will be named by the executive com- mitte of the organization. the Indiana town who po strate and was not legal. uit for annullment of the marriage, is being filed by h parents, while Cobb v ck home by his mother following MUSSOLINI’S DOG GENTLE. Antithesis of Premier in Character' and Manners. ROME, February 2.,.—The old saw that one can judge a man by his dog doesn't work in the case of Benito Mussolini. As gentle and willing to make friends as her master is forbidding and eager to make enemies is Pastora, a small gray-black animal with fuzzy hair and ever' wagging stump of a tail, Pastora hasn't the run of the Chigi Palace, which serves the Fascist dic- tator as an office, but is kept in the porter’s anteroom, from which the porter, her best friend next to the boss himself, rushes her to Mussolint's office whenever he decides to go out. In the evening if Mussolini is de- layed beyond the customary home- going hour, Pastora wails loud and lengthily. No one dares to remon- strate, Seek to Rout Pneumonia. Physicians are now studying dili- gently new serums by which it is hoped to reduce the pneumonia death rate considerably. It 13 estimated by conservative medical statisticians that in the United States annually 140,000 persons die directly and indirectly from the disease. Heart disease con- tinues, however, to be. the principal cause of death. In Adlanta > 9 4 9 4 [A444d44dd D2999999) 4dd4dddd LYON VILLAGE CIVIC BODY ORGANIZED Monroe H. Stockett Temporary President and Rex Collier Temporary Secretary. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va. February 25.—Residents met at the office of Lyon & Fitch last night and organized the Lyon Village Citizens’ Associa- tion. Monroe H. Stockett was elected temporary head and Rex Collier was made temporary secretary. Stuart T. Ashton was appointed chairman of a committee which will meet next Monday night to draft a constitution and by-laws. Other mem- bers of the committee are W. R. Swet- nam, James E. Chinn, S. G. Eareck- son and E. H. Harris, The report of this committee will be received at a meeting of the full as- sociation March 10, at which time it is planned to elect permanent officers. The meeting was opened with an ad- dress on community spirit by Robert E. 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