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Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
PERMANENT REGISTRATION LAW.
Voters Are Interested in the Fate of the
Proposed Law Now Before Legislature.

Nearly every voter in Delaware will
watch the Legislative procee dings the
coming week to see what becomes of
Senator Harrington's measure provid-
ing for permanent registration. The
bill, now ready for final action in the
Senate, provides that when all the vot-
ers of the State having been once regis
tered, such registration of voters may
stand for future elections, subject to
addition of persons as may be provided
by law and the removal of names of
persons having died, removed from the
district or become disqualified.
The special registration may be COM
menced not more than sixty days nor
less than thirty days, and be COM
pleted not more than thirty days nor
less than ten days before the general
election. The Republicans may op-
pose it, now that Governor HUM may
appoint registrars.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From Ali Parts OF Delaware
and Maryland.

Items Cleaned From Ali Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.
We have it on good authority that
Addick has not yet paid cent to the
three Democrats who voted for him
two years ago.
Bills bonding New Castle and
Georgetown for water works and cleo
trio light plants were given notice of
in the House.
Mr.. d. J. Murphy railway mail clerk
from Harrington to Franklin City has
been transferred to the main line of
the Delaware road.
Politics is a great game. Some men
are born rich others lucky, but down
State men are born politicians and it
is hard to beat politician at his own
game.
The Railroad Companies will fight
the bill to increase their State tax.
They say the increase is out of all pro-
portion to the mileage and business
done in Delaware. An interesting
time is expected next week.
Monday the Superior Court and the
Court of General Sessions convened
for the February term. Ninety-five
case are listed for trial in superior
Court and sixty petty cases for the Gen
eral Sessions Court. Forty applica
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
WARNING AGAINST SWINOLERS.
The "Evening Journal Of Monday Contains
the Following Caution.

We wish to warn all Delawareans
against an alleged swindler who has
been operating in Sussex county and
who may extend his operations into
Kent and New Castle. He represents
himself to be an agent for a patent
clotheswringer This gives him his
pretext for visiting the home. After
discoursing on the good features of the
wringer he casually inquiries about the
health of the family. Finding some
one with disease which has baffied
the doctors, he offers sure cure, ac-
companied by his personal guarantee,
for few dollars. He has victimized
many persons, it is said, especially the
poor and ignorant, who can i'll afford
to stand their losses.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
SCREEN BILL LOST IN SENATE.
Failed to Pass the Senate, the Vote Being a
Tie-NO Speeches made.

Sentiment changed by the emphatic
protest of the Law and Order delega-
tion on Friday last caused the defeat
of the House bill to repeal the saloon
anti-screen law in the Senate Monday
afternoon.
The bill was defeated because of a
failure to get the constitutional maj
ority. the vote being to 8, with Sen
ator Farlow not voting.
Members voting to pass the bill were
Senator Alice, Abbott, Blakely, Gro
YES, Harrington, McFarlane, McNulty
and Wright. The members voting
nay were Senators Clements, Hart,
Maull, Slaughter, Knox, Ellison, Pen
newell and Brasure.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
How to Cure the Grip.

Remain quietly at home and take
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as di
rected and a quick recovery is sure to
follow. That remedy counteracts any
tendency of the grip to result in pneu-
monia, which is really the only serious
danger. Among the tens of thousands
who have used it for the grip not one
case has ever been reported that did
not recover. For sale by Clifton &
Raymond, druggists, Smyrna, and I.
L. Mason, druggist, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

The presiding officer of the coming
Conference at Seaford will be Bishop.
Daniel A. Goodsell, D. D., LII. d.
He is said to be an orator who thrills
his congregation with his almost
matchless eloquence.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

For SALE, 900 bushels Western
grown clover seed; 1000 bushels of
black COW peas; 500 bushels whipporwill
COW peas; 500 Soga beans; 1900 bush
els of seed potatoes; 500 bushels of
crimson clover seed.-J, E. HOLLAND,
Milford, Del.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

The snow that fell two weeks ago,
not heavy fall, did not disappear
until the first of this week, showing
that we have had in the meantime lot
of pretty good winter weather-ther-
mometer ranging between Is and 30
degrees. tits still wiEtry enough for
February.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

The Church Aid and Rectory society
of st. Peters Church will meet at the
home of Mrs. Geo. H. Raymond at 3
o'clock Saturday.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

Rural mail boxes are under the pro-
lection of the postal laws; any person
who shall tamper with or destroy them
is liable to fine of $500 and imprison-
ment for not more than three
years.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
Bucl<len's Arnica Salve.

Has worldwide fame for marvellous
cures. 1t surpasses any other salve,
lotion, ointment or balm for Cuts,
Corns, Burns, Boils, Sores, Felons,
Ulcers. letter, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Chapped Hands, Skin Erup-
tions; Infailable for piles. Cure guar
anteed Dolly 25c at Benton n. We'll
dOn's drug store, Successor to Jas. P.
Hoffecker,) Smyrna, and 7. L. Ma
sons drug store, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
Closing of Mails.

Going North.-6.5O, 9.25 A. NJ, 800, 500
p. NJ.
Going South.--9.OO A. NJ, and 500 P. NJ.
For Clayton and ID. Il G. Road-S.1O A. NJ.
and 3.2OP. NJ.
For Chestertown-S.1 10 A. NJ.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

Saturday was ''ground hog" day,
the tradition being that the little ami
nal comes from his burrow in the
ground takes peep outside and if he
sees his shadow returns again for
six weeks more of winter. AS Sat
urday was Sunny day of course the
hog saw his shadow (if there be any
truth in the old saying about his com=
ing out) but whether he did or not the
fact remains that there is usually six
more weeks of winter after Candlemas
Day whether it be sunny or cloudy.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

Don't forget the ''Rummage Sale"
by the ladies of the Presbyterians
Church will begin on Saturday of this
week in the Hurnheimer store, corner
Main and Commerce streets, opposite
Clifton & Raymond's drug store.
Everybody welcome. Great bargains.
Ladies' will be at the store Friday from
10 A. NJ, to receive and mark the
goods.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

We are now nearly week on the
last winter month, which is the short
est month in the year, only % days.
Though short, the month has three
red letter days-Lincoln's birthday
the 18th; Valentines Day the 14th, and
Washington tle 22nd. The days are
fast getting longer, and spring with its
awakening energies will soon be upon
us.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

A number of persons of this town and
vicinity who have wrestled with the
grippe are improving slowly and it is
very slowly because the grip holds
fast as mortgage. There has been
much suffe ring from the disease, and
it is impossible to name the sick be-
cause we would have to mention a
large part of our population.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Short Items OF General Interest Gathered
During the Week.

Lent begins Wednesday, February
Goth.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS.

NORTH 7.15, s.43, 9.51, A. M, 3.41, 5.21, P. NJ.
SOUTH: 9.24, 11.57, A. M, 4.12, 5.44, SOC 4. M.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
lOuTS NtTy truly,
Howard ID Ross -

Senator McNulty also received a
copy of the letter. Neither Senator
McNulty nor counsel on either side of
the case would say anything about the
matter.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
ROSS WIThDRAWS CONTEST.
Decided Not to Continue Contest for Seat of
Senator Francis J. McNuIty.

Howard D. Ross Saturday withdrew
his contest for the seat of Francis J.
McNulty in the State Senate, Senator
Knox, chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Elections before which the
following letter from Mr.. Ross:
wilmington Del, Feb. 2 O1-Hon
Samuel M. Knox, Chairman of Committee
ON Election of Senator-Dear Sir: Since the
filing of the papers in my contest for the
seat of Hon. Francis j. McNulty as a Sen
ator in the Senate of this State, l have
learned with surprise and great regret that
l have been grossly deceived in relying upon
evidence which until yesterday had a right
to assume, was in all respects correct.
Within the last few days it has come to my
knowledge that in the procuring of
this evidence deception has been practiced
upon me and my counsel and although both
myself and my counsel have endeavOred i'll
all ways within our power to ascertain which
parts of this evidence can be relied upon
and to separate the reliable from the unre-
liable portions, find that l am unable to
do so to my entire satisfaction. L cannot
ask your committee to receive or rely upon
evidence of such a character, and for this
reason alone and acting upon the advice of
my counsel, | desire to repeat may belief
in the entire justice of my cause. Thank
ing your courtesy, L am,
Yours very truly,
II
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

The last week or two has promised
ice, but it has been more in promised
than in fact. J. G. Blizzard got sew
eral loads Saturday, but stopped be-
cause it was getting soft. The rain OF
Sunday night and milder weather OF
Monday partially melted it, but last
night the mercury dropped to 16 de-
grees or lower, and this morning
Jacob Lienburger and Geo. W. Turner
are cutting and hauling. 1t is only
three and a half inches thick.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06

The Ladies Mite Society Of the
Methodist Church, had their annual
election of officers Saturday even ing,
Feb. end, which resulted thus: Presi-
dent, Mrs. M. E. Smithers; Vice-Pres-
ldent, Mrs. J. W. Denney; Secretary,
Mrs. Clarence Prettyman; Treasurer,
Mrs. Mary Stevens; Parsonage Com
mittee. Mrs. Jos. Smithers.
After the election a donation was
given by some of the members, to the
retiring officers. After which the Of
fcers gave treat and the euening wa'
very pleasantly spent.
Smyrna times., 1901-02-06
Smyrna, DEL,

Wednesday Afternoon, Feb. 6, 1901
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
Many Small New Industries Have Sprung Up and Foreign Capital is Flowing to This Industrial
 Center in Steady Stream-New Rail-
 roads Are Being Built and Great K Prosperity is Now Before Us.
BY w. J. BOLES.

It is announced by officials of the com pany that the work of construction will begin at once and that the survey of the ground has already been made.
 Several columns of this paper would be required in which to tell the story of the districts progress and to name every in- dustrial plant, large or small, that has been located here within the past twelve months. In fact it would be a hard mat ter for any person to compile list that would include all of them. Of late but little attention Is paid to the establish ment of ordinary industries and many of them are started up in Birmingham and vicinity without the public at large know ing anything about them.
 In the city of Birmingham nearly three quarters of a million dollars are being spent and are to be expended this year in the improvement of streets and the building of new sewers and other public improvements. The city is also building a city hall to cost nearly s20O,0OO, and three new public school buildings that will cost about $50,OO0 when completed.
 The Birmingham Railway, Light and
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
ANOTHER YEARS RECORD OF THE MARVELLOUS
 GROWTH OF THE GREAT BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT

 number of spur tracks of from one to five miles in length, put in for the pur- pose of reaching coal mines, industrial plants, etc.
 The Birmingham and Atlanta Air Line has been chartered and the survey is now being made for the proposed road between Birmingham and Atlanta and Blrming- ham and Aberdeen It Is stated from offi- cial sources that the work of building the road will begin by fall It is the general belief that this line is to be built for the purpose of giving the seaboard Air Line entrance into Birmingham and direct con- nection with the West
 The Brunswick and Birmingham, the proposed air line to connect Birmingham with the Atlantic coast at Brunswick, is now building thirty miles of grading at the Brunswick end, having been com pleted and track laid for a considerable portion of this distance.
 The Semet-Solvay by-product plant at Ensley duplicated it's first plant at an 'ex- penditure of S10O,O0O. The Hardie-Tynes Company rebuilt it's foundry and ma chine shop at a cost of $75.0OO The Full Means Boiler Company spent $25,OOO on a new plant. The Grosselli Chemical Company enlarged its chemical plant and added a fertilizer factory. The Southern Cement Company built $1OO,0OO plant at North Birmingham. The Birmingham Cement Company rebuilt at a cost of about $100,0O0. The Alabama Metal Roof ing Company built a corrugated roofing and metal ceiling plant of twenty tons capacity. The Eclipse Manufacturing and Plating Company put in a $250O0 plant. The Carter Furniture Company located $15,0OO plant at North Birmingham. The Kennedy -Mereloek Stove Company built a 5,O0O plant J. A. Yates and associates equipped a hosiery mill at cost of $600O,
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

and other parties put in $10,OOO knitting mill
 Several large brick plants were estab- lished during the year. including the Cope land Brick Company and one or two at Ensley The Alabama Iron Bedstead Con- pany and car coupler plant are among the new industries started up at Ens1ey.
 The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company is adding a rail mill to it's steel plant at Ensley and by September 1 will be making rails.
 F. L. Clark and associates will put in steel hoop plant at Ensley and convert the Helena Rolling Mill into a pipe plant and put it in operation by fall.
 A large number of new coal companies have been formed ana mines opened. Among the more important of the new companies may be ramed the Little Ca- haba Coal Company s0.OOO capital stock, the Valley Creek Coal Company $20O, 900, Diamond Coal Company 6O,00O, DeBar- deleben Coal and Coke Company, $250, ,000; Braehead Coal Company, $40, 900; the Elm pire Coal and Coke Company, $75O,O0O, and number of others.
 The monthly output of the State, which practically means the Birmingham dis trict, Is about 750,0O0 tons, or an increase of about 5000 tons a month over 1900.
 Bank clearances for the first six months of this year show an increase of about 10 per cent over the clearance in the cor responding period of 1900. notwithstanding one of the banking institutions has been absorbed and Is now out of business.
 The weekly production of pig iron in the State Is little over 2O,O0O tons, or at the was the production In 1900.
 The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company has recently sold an issue of $1500o,000 of bonds, 8, 900, 600 of which will
The age-herald., 1901-07-28
7N OUTLET TO THE WARRIOR RIVER IS THE KEY TO THE
 ULTIMATE SUCCESS OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM AND DISTRICT

be in place in the next three years, thus bringing the channel up to the mouth of Village creek, and the work of canalizing that creek should also be well begun IL should not be forgotten that when slack water is within switching charge distance of our mines and mills and furnaces 1t is at their very doors at a charge of 10 cents "a ton. This charge of ten cents a; ton will have to be paid in nine cases out of ten even when the Warrior improve ment is fully completed. When the open channel is brought to switching charge" territory, it is practically complete. And such a completion Is within sight. Con- gressman Underwood and his colleagues have labored long and faithfully and skilfully, and their labors are about to be crowned with success. Chairman Burton and Senator Frye, and all others who have carefully studied the river sys- tenn of the country, understand and ap- preciate the value of an open Warrior to both Alabama and the entire country, and each and all are in favor of the pro- ject. The battle has been fought and won. More time will be needed perhaps in se- curing the improvements Tn Alapama tnan would be needed in Pennsylvania, but Alabama can afford to wait three or four years. The ores and fuel and Aux can not get away and there Is no danger that a rival will appear. The Atlantic slope has been well explored, and Alabama Is the one State of that great watershed which can assemble from points within the sound of one whistle all the materials that have part In the production of the great commercial metal of the world.
 Coal and Coke.
 The opening of the Warrior will give the world steam coal at price never ap- preached. Today steam coal at Baltimore or New York is worth $2.50 ton; in New castle. sS.50; in Cardiff. s450. When there is a six-foot channel from the mines to the sea steam coal in Pensacola. Mobile or New Orleans will be high alongside ships when 1t commands s1.60 a ton. If competition with fuel oil or with Pittsburg coal make 1t necessary. 1t will be sold down to $1.25, which would be equivalent to 90 cents at the mouth of the mine, price that includes some margin for profit to the operator. These unprecedented prices will become possible because Ala
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

Power Company has expended several thousand dollars in the improvement of its road bed, the laying of heavy track, the extending of old lines and in new equipment The same company announces its intention of erecting new barn at cost of $25, 900, to replace the one burned some time ago. Recently this company and the Birmingham Gas Company con- solidated and the new company was cap italized at $11, ,0OO0O0.
 The Southern Bell Telephone Company has improved its plant at a cost of s50,- 900, while the Peoples Home Telephone Company has put in an entirely new sys- tenn at cost of about $9oO,O0O.
 The Hillman Hotel, which will be com pleted in September. represents an in vestment of about s2Oo,OOO The Metropoli- tan Hotel, rebuilt last fall and opened the latter part of October, cost about s5O,0O0.
 The five-story Miner & Kettig building, Powell avenue and Twentieth street, cost about $75,000, while the new building for the Louisville and Nashville and the Southern Express Company, at Morris
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

be used in improving the company's prop critics in Alabama and in adding other plants to the present equipment. The Res public Iron and Steel Company and the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Conn pany has each built an additional blast furnace with 200 tons daily capacity. and the latter company has acquired and is operating the Bessemer Rolling NH.
 The Tutwiler Coal. Coke and Iron Com- pany has increased it's capital stock from $5coOO to s1,OOO.0OO and built a battery sf coke ovens.
 The Sloss-Shefield Steel and Iron Come pany has opened new mines and spene large sums improving it's properties.
 The Birmingham Machine and Foundry Company has begun the shipment of ma-' chinery and engines to Cuba, having booked one order for seven big engines to cost $10o,OO0 recently.
 The Birmingham Water Works Compa- ny has extended its system to Woodlawn: and Ensley.
 The Monongahela River Coal Company. one of the wealthiest coal operating comAi panies in the country. has recently entered the Alabama field by the purchase of the Virginia and Alabama Coal Company. thei Corona Coal Company, Southern Coal Company and one or two other Walker county companies
 Summed up the total investmnts in the Birmingham district during the year end- ed June 90. including buildings, industrial plants and coal and ore mines amounted to considerably over s1oO0O.O00 and proba- bly, will reach the enormous aggregate of s12. 000.0O or $13,000.0Oo.
 For similar period ended June 30, 1900, the total investments amounted to about $11 ,0O0.000 making a grand total for the two years of probably S25, GOO
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

avenue and Nineteenth street, cost about ssO,0OO Earle, Terrill & Company are erecting a new business house at First avenue and Eighteenth street at a cost of s3O,OOO. The new banking house of the Birmingham Trust and Savings Company, when completed, will be one of the hand somest structures of the kind in the South and will have cost about $40 coo. St. Vincent's Hospital, costing $25,OOO, was completed during the winter.
 The Metropolitan Rapid Transit, Light and Power Company has been chartered and application made for a franchise to build and operate an electric car system in Birmingham and suburbs
 The Jefferson County Sewer Commis- sion, created by the General Assembly last winter, has made preliminary arrange ments for the great sanitary trunk sewer that is to drain the county, and the con- struction work will begin by fall. It will cost about s5OO,00O, and will serve a pres- ent population of about 100000 and have a capacity for five times that number.
 
 The new buildings erected in the city of Birmingham between June l, 1900, and May 3l, 1901, as reported by architects and contractors, represent an investment of $1, ,290, 450, and in the suburbs, including Avondale, Woodlawn, East Lake, West End, Elyton, North Birmingham, Ensley and Pratt City. runs the total to over $2,- 200, 0O0
 Secretary Gibson of the Commercial Club states in his annual report, submit ted to the club the early part of June that over 100 miles of new railroad track including spurs and sidings, had been built in the Birmingham district within the year. This includes the Ensey South ern, the Empire branch of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham, and a
The age-herald., 1901-07-28

Pittsburg, Chicago or Ohio iron, they vary from three to five dollars a ton in the export trade. The result must be that all export iron will be Alabama iron. Even under railroad rates Alabama iron has in the past filled the field to the ex
 clusion of Pittsburg iron, and when a short water haul is added, there will be no question at all as to the, source of iron exports. Such exports will come from Alabama. With an iron-hungry world at our feet-with the demand for iron an- nually increasing-with no rival in sight, who, indeed, will name the possibilities of a district that holds inexhaustible supplies of ores, fuel and flux! All are here on a river that runs to a sea-on a river that engineers say can be given a six-foot channel the year round-on a river that @ great and powerful govern ment has determined to open to slack water navigation. When the Warrior is opened it Is not too much to say that the whole world will pay tribute to this dis trict. It Is natures plan, and natures plan cannot in the long run be thwarted.
 But Pittsburg says that Alabama may SIiP piB iTOHs WHlle IL VIII Lldho Sleel billets, and railroad rails and wire rods and nails and a thousand other forms of manufactured goods. Once let the in- vesting world see that pig iron can be made at lower cost of production in Alabama and moved at lower cost of transportation to the markets of the world. it will hasten here to turn that pig iron into steel and that steel into ship plates and all the other forms that Pittsburg knows or can devise. Capital cares no more for Pittsburg than it does for any other place. When 1t sees an actual channel the year round in the Warrior, with inside water routes to New Orleans, Pensacola and Galveston, so that the barge loaded in Birmingham can be f1oated alongside ship in either of the three ports named-when capital sees all this fully and absolutely demonstrated, then it will not hesitate, but it will come in all abundance for all possible devel- opment, however costly it may be. Cap ital Is cautious, but 1t is overwhelming when it is once fully convinced. And con- vinced 1t will be as soon as the govern ment adds a dozen more dams and locks to it's channel equipment now in the War rior. These dozen dams and locks should