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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
Every Family in the South Should Plant
Pecan Trees


The pecan tree not only bears one of the most
delicious nuts, but it is one of the most hardy
trees that grows in the South, and makes as fine
shade tree as the elm or maple and no family
Oughtto be without a few trees. 1t would pay the
town authorities to do as the French authorities
do, plant nut bearing trees on the sidewalks and
get revenue therefrom. A town that would
this year put out a thousand trees on the side
walks at comparatively small cost would, in ten
years, get an annual return of at least $500 90 and
each year there would be an increase until the in
come would reach from three to five thousand dol
lars annually. Enough to more than DAY all
taxes OF an ordinary size town.
The trees do well planted in cotton and corn
fields, and farmers can cultivate the lands in crops
OF corn and cotton until the trees get to bearing.
and after they commence bearing q farmer with
ten to twenty acres has a small fortune in his
pecan grove and don't need to plant cotton and
corn. The tree is hardy and stands the cold
weather anywhere south OF Maryland At Pine
bluff, North Carolina, there is a company that
makes specially OF growing the young trees for
sale, and we advise the town authorities, and all
readers Of our paper, to write the Pineblut Grape
Pecan Company, Pineblutf, N, c., for circulars.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
A DISMAL DAY IN CAMDEN.

Last Monday dawned dark and
dreary and dismal. A chilly, driz-
cling rain and sloppy streets rather
dampened the ardor of the usual
animated aud agitated throng that
is in attendance upon the opening
day of circuit court. It was even
too disagreeable to play "April
Fool" pranks. In the afternoon
the rain came down in torrents, the
crowd sought shelter in stores and
public buildings and looked dis
mally uncomfortable. The prattle
and hilarity of the Seminary stu
dents was unheard as they hurried
homeward cloaked and umbrellaed.
Gloom pervaded indoors and con-
trary to the hopes and expectations
of the patrons of the light plant,
no lights were turned on to CLEAN,
scintilate and fash revengefully
upon the source of depression and
low spirited state until black Night
had begun to make her decent upon
the CITY.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
A GREAT NEWSPAPER.

The Sunday edition"Of the st. Louis Republic
is marvel of modern newspaper enterprise.
The organization of its news service is world
wide, complete in every department; in fact, SUI
periOr to that of any other newspaper.
The magazine section is illustrated in daintily
tinted cOlOrs and splendid halftone pictures.
This section contains more high class literary
matter than any of the monthly magazines The
fashions Illustrated in natural colors are espeei-
ally valuable to the ladies'
The colored comic section is genuine laugh
maker The funny cartoons are by the best ar
lists. The humorous stories are high class, by
authors of national reputation.
Sheet music, high class popular sOng is fur
nished free every Sunday in The Republic.
The price OF The Sunday Republic by mail one
year is $780, For sale by all news dealers.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.

A special from here to the Nash
vile Banner says: "News has just
been telephoned here that some
unknown person or persons went
to the residence of Berry Melton,
a well known farmer living on Har-
mons Greek, a few miles north of
here, last Thursday night, and call
ing him out of the house, began
shooting him from ambush near
the house. Melton got back into
the house as rapidly as possible,
but not until seven shots had been
fired uncomfortably close to him.
Fortunately, none took effect. No
cause is known why anyone should
attempt to do such an act"
A move is now on foot to ferret
ont the guilty persons and punish
them accordingly.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

81 wonder why men get drunk ?"
They were strolling along a Cam
den suburban plank walk on one
Of the recent balmy nights born Of
the dawning spring. The above
remark was made 10y a bit of grace
ful femininity that chung to his
arm-he being the lover ardent in
the case.
"Well, you see" he began yolu-
bly,, "you start out and say you
wont take a drink. Then you take
one. Thenyou take another Then
you meet a friend and take one with
him. He takes one with you. You
say you'll 60 home then, but it
seems that about this time every
boon friend you have shows up.
You"
Thus hewas goingon in this strain
when a pair Of big innocent-look-
ing blue optics looked up at him,
and though no words were spoken
it was evident that the aforesaid
optic possessor was wondering how
he knew so much about it,
###
"Deliyer me from my friends"
man once said or wrote
But the prayer of all Camdenites
Is skill boss CrOckers goat -
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
A CURIOUS FIND.

j. NJ, Lashlee of the tenth dis
trict made a remarkable find in his
barn last week in the shape of a
litter of six rats, four of which were
black and the remaining were snow
white and which may be seen at his
house minus admission fee.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
AN INCENDIARY CAPTURED.

Grover Gothorn, a white boy
about sixteen years old, was placed
in jail last week on a charge of in
cendiarism, having been bound
over to court by Justice J. M. Bish-
op. Gothorn in company with
another boy whose name we failed
to learn, set fire to barn belong
ing to John Bell on Morgan's Greek
one night last week which resulted
in total destruction of the barn and
contents, which included 65 bar
rels of corn, 500 worth of hay,
plows and other farming nipple
ments. Gothorn'saccomplice turn
ed States evidence.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
There is a drug store in Camden town

There is drug store in Camden town
On the east side Of the square,
Billiards. Snow Liniment of wide renOwn
Is sold in great quantities there.
"Betsy Brown came to this town"
SO Mr. Presson, the druggist, said,
"She had a sprain that caused such pain
She was nearly out of her head"
One little bottle he sold her
Of Billiards. Snow Liniment so good;
Not yet gone to join the angels forever
AS she thought at first she would.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

oh, last and firm were the gates OF steel
Against soldiers and battles dim,
The grey old pile
Seemed 10 scomiully smile
Atal efforts TO enter u
bui there came day when a maiden fair
Nlept close, and did patiently wait.
The touch Of that hand
No bar could Withstand
ana Wide flew the irownIng gate
No more the walls echo the noise Of fray,
M more come the sounds OF strife;
lllat castle secure
Is his heart-ta he surel
ana The couquering maid Is his wife.
&M&
A Man About Town is an accom-
plished suficiency, but a Woman
About Town-well, if she tells it
all there will be an abundant sur
plus.
The young man who lost his re-
gard for a young lady of Camden,
because she wasn't at home to him,
can have it returned to him by call
ing on the Woman About Town
and paying the reward.
1t has often times been said of
the good house wife, "She wears
the pants" That. of conrse is af
ter the wedding ceremony has been
said and the honeymoon waxed and
waned.
This old saying leads a citizen,
who passed down one of the prin-
cipal streets one night last week, to
remark that: "Some of the Cam
den young ladies will know how to
wear the robes of an up to date
wife," From which remark we are
lead to infer that already they had
donped the hritches.
&@#
1t comes to the ears Of the Wom-
an About Town that there will be
one box less,taken on the telephone
exchange. Thekick will come from
a good woman of the time, who is
devoid of curiosity, don't gossip,
averse to hearing even of things
that do not concern her and who
has discovered that there is no 9TH
er box on the same line with her
and that there will be no occasion
nor opportunity to listen at the re-
ceiver while other people talk.
xxx
81 am delighted to see you. I
have been wishing for you SO much.
Why have you not called before
now? Why don't you come often
en-" and when she promised to pay
a visit soon and turned away, the
earnest solicitous friend who had
pressed the invitation said to the
maid of work: eff that old fool
calls tomorrow, tell her | am not at
home" And then the zephyrs that
overheard the earnest appeal from
dishonest lips sang through the
telephone wires the refrain, "That
sounds to me"
##*
A young lady in Camden who has
nursed her affections for an unsus-
pecting young man for years in 81
lenoe, has con6ded to the Woman
About Town, and if the door Of his
heart does not soon yield to the key
of her love, she proposes to attack
him a la Carrie Nation and with
the Ratchet Of her regard she will
smash the mirror Of his love which
reflects other images than her own
Cupid, with drawn bow, has beer
creeping about the campus of the
college for some weeks seeking al
opportunity to wound some of the
,,nenspectino Young men who are
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
Paris Machine Shops,
PARIS, TENN.

Lathe, engine, and boiler work a specially We
make smoke stacks. All work guaranteed We
Keep all kinds of supplies, and sell all kinds OF
machinery. Telephone 126.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

WANTED-TOb ny old Scrap Iron, Dry Bones,
w Brass and Copper delivered to me at the
Camden Depot. ". A. YARBROUGH.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

EQR SAI.E-Six head of Mules, 8 to years old.
- WIN sell on easy terms. Cali on or address
me at bfecheen, Tenn NJ. A. FRY.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISING

Advertisements coming under this head are
charged 3 cents per line for each insertion
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

E0R SALE-Crescent Bicycle in good condi-
l. tl0ni standard wheel, and excellent value.
jall on Eugene Travis, Camden, Tenn.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

OUR job printing facilities are flrst-class, and
~ our specially Is good work Estimates (and
samples where p0ssbe) will be furnished on ap-
plicatiOn. Address The CHRONICLES. Camden,
Tenn.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

"Deliver me from my friends"
A man once said or wrote.
But the prayer of all Camdenites
Is skill boss CrOcker's goat"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05
The Woman About Town.


mere Is castle. grim and grey
surrounded by high stoue walls
Aud many knight
Waged bitter nght
TO enter ms l0rdly halls.
oh, fast and firm were the gates Of steel
Against soldiers and battles din.
The grey old pile
Seemed 10 scomialy smile
Atml efforts TO enter Ia.
hul there came day when maiden fair
'rept close, and did patiently wait
The touch Of that hand
No bar could withstand
And Wide flew the frownlng gate.
NO more the walls echo the noise of FRAY.
No more come the sounds Of strife:
That castle secure
Is his heart to be surei
ana The couquering maid is his wife.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-04-05

Cupid, with drawn bow, has been
creeping about the campus of the
college for some weeks seeking an
opportunity to wound some of the
unsuspecting young men who are
endeavoring to slake their thirst at
that fountain of knowledge, and
they say the little archer has goti
his work on a number of the boys.
It is also whispered that the lame
arm owned and operated by our
gallant circuit court clerk which
he attributes to vaccination, was
caused by a glancing shot from the
bow of this same little rascal. The
accidental shot was occasioned by
too much cross firing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
Provision of Statute.
A Pretty Wedding.

A pretty home wedding occurred
last evening at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. Moss, 424 East Fourth
street, when their daughter, Miss Clara
Moss was united in marriage to Will
liam c. Mckee. The ceremony was
performed at s o'clock by Rev. John
Hastie, pastor OF the South Side Bap-
fist church in the presence of a few
relatives and intimate friends. The
house was profusely decorated with
roses, carnations and smilax. After
the ceremony a wedding supper was
served in the dining room, the table
being prettily decorated for the occa-
sion. The bride wore a gown of white
silk null and carried brides roses.
She is a charming young woman
and has lived in the city for number
OF years. She was formerly toll oper-
ator for the Ottumwa Telephone com
pany and has a host of trends in the
city. The groom is a worthy young
man and for the past five years he
has been employed as bookkeeper for
Julius Fecht. He enjoys the conf.
dence of his employer and has an I'm.
limited humber of friends in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee will make their
home for the present at 424 East
Fourth street with Mrs. McKee's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Moss. The
out of town guest was G. w. Mckee,
or Sargent, Neb., an uncle of the
groom.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
INCREASE CAPITALIZATION.
ottumWa Telephone Company Increas
es Its Capital Stock.

Amended articles of incorporation
We're filed today by the Ottumwa Tele-
phone company increasing it's capitali-
cation from $4,000 to 100000 The
amended articles also provides for a
president, vice president, secretary
and treasurer. A board of directors
will consist of five stockholders and
of these, three will be appointed as an
executive committee. The annual meet
ings are changed from the first Mon
day in January to the second We'd
nesday in April.
1t is limited around the offices of the
company that extensive improvements
are in store for this city, but what
they are or when they will be started
cannot be learned. The amended arti-
cles also provide for the operation OF
a telegraph system in connection with
the telephone, and il may be that this
city will soon see an opposition tele-
graph compa. y in its midst. II is
limited in certain circles that the Pos.
tai Telegraph company may be back
of this, but the matter cannot be con,
firmed any place.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
WORK BEGINS SOON
Milwaukee Contractors Spend q
Few Days in the City.
START OVER NEW ROUTE WEDNESDAY
Have Engaged Teams in This City to
Make the Trip-WiIl Make All Pre-
Iiminary Arrangements for Begin
ming Active Work.

Next Wednesday morning Mcintosh
Bros, of Milwaukee, Wis, who have
the contract for the building the por-
ton of the new Milwaukee cutoff from
Rutledge to Cone will start out of this
city with number of sub-contractors
and will go over the entire length of
the route they are to build, and will
perfect all the necessary preliminary
arrangements, tearing out line fences,
buying grain, etc. The company has
arranged for six teams and buggies
and the entire trip to be made over
land. Messrs. Mcintosh announce
that work will be started on this end
not later than three weeks hence.
Twenty carloads of lumber now stand
on the siding at Highland, awaiting
transportation along the new line
where it will be used for shanties.
The construction company will put
up one of these shanties every five
miles, where it will establish camps.
Messrs. d. A. and j. A. Mcintosh,
accompanied by a number of lesser
contractors, among whom are John
and Anton Frankman, C. f. Sandeen,
N. A. Anderson and James Davidson
have been in this city several days this
week and they have driven over about
% miles of the new route.
The route of the new line was locat'
ed and line fences taken out and the
contractors are making all prepa'
rations Tor the early beginning OF
work. The Mcintosh Bros. announc
ed that they would put $50 men to work
at once, and would push the labor as
fast as possible. They must get their
part of the work completed by Febru
ury, /, 1902 or they will lose heavy
| forfeit.
The new road will strike the pres
ent line at the Phillips mine just west
of the city and necessitate "a foot
cut The heaviest grade on the new
road to be built by Mcintosh Bros. will
be 33 feet to the mile, while the av.
erage grades will be about rs feet to
| tho mile
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
THE oTTUN1wA CoURIER THURSDAY. AUGUST 20, 1901.

Myrtle LeCompte, second room.
May Slater, assistant.
Orchard Street School.
Josie Huffman, principal
Anna Hart, assistant
Garfield School.
Mabel Kitterman, principal.
Winifred Hughes, seventh room.
Florence Harper, sixth room.
Josie Empie, fifth room.
Lena Nelson, fourth room.
Genevieve Daily, third room.
Mary Seymour, second room.
Julia Mahoney, first room.
Edith Edmunds, first assistant.
Lurena Swenson, second assistant.
List of Janitors.
The ianitors of the several build.
ings will be as follows:
High school, J. A. Johnson, Mrs.
Rose Trowbridge, Mrs. Johnson.
Adams building, George Bulson.
Lincoln building, Enoch Dorothy.
Garfield building, William S. Ward
Irving building, r. I. Chew.
Agassiz building, w. H. Campbell.
Douglass building, j. S. Reeve.
Hedriek building, j. J. Urey
Franklin building, Carl Remy.
Orchard street school, John Kets
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
WILL ATTACK THE LAW.
Iowa Building and Loan Statute Unde
Fire,

Fire.
Des Moines, Aug 29.-As result of
the plan of the Home Savings and
Trust company of this city to go into
voluntary liquidation. it is stated that
a test of the constitutionality of the
building and loan act passed by the
last legislature will be made in the
courts Immediately after the liquida-
ton is decided upon, as is now deem
ed settled, at the September "a meet
ing. 1t is stated that the local com.
pany is the first building and loan or
similar company to take this action
since the measure was adopted by the
2Sth general assembly and that there
fore this will be the first legal ques-
ton of the matter. G. j. Donnelly, the
attorney with Offices in the Iowa Loan
and Trust company's building, pro-
poses raising the point after the liti-
CATION has been agreed upon.
Opposition to Liquidation.
The report was current in legal and
commercial circles today that Mr.. DON
nelly, who represents the sixteen
shareholders of the Home Savings and
Trust company, objected seriously to
the proposed voluntary liquidation and
that he would institute receivership
proceedings in court to forestall the
action of.the other parties. Mr.. Don
nelly denied this emphatically, but at
the same time stated that in his opin-
ion the plan now proposed would re-
suit in far more litigation than any re-
Ownership proceedings. Stating his
plan of legal action, Mr.. Donnelly
said:
The Home company is the first one
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
VISITED OLD HOME.
w. H. Cooper Talks of His Former
Home in Pennsylvania.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Cooper and
daughter, Miss Laura Cooper, re-
turned last night from a two
months visit drought Pennsylvania
and other points of interest
in the east. Their visit includ-
ed trips to Pittsburg, where they view
falo, where they visited the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition, Niagara Falls and the
Royal Gorge.
Mr.. Cooper was seen by Courier
representative this morning and talk
ed for time on the scenes of his child
hood. He was born and raised at
Waynesburg, Pa, which place was one
among those visited by himself and
family and was Mr.. Cooper's home
until he was q years of age. His
return was after an absence of sc
years and great were the changes
that greeted his eyes. He says moth
ing looks as it did then. Everything
is different.
Mr.. Cooper also visited the old acad,
envy at Carmichael. Pa, where he at
tended school in his early days, and
where A. b. Cummins, the republican
candidate for governor also attended
MI. Cooper says the democrats and
republicans of that portion of Pennsyl
yania Unite in wishing success for Mr.
Cummtns, whom they remember as
che of the most brilliant young men
of the day.
Since his visit to Pennsylvania, Mr.
Cooper is a great oil and gas enthu
siast. He saw the possibilities of those
i'm nc mi In hot nd Jn
no reason why Iowa should not furnish
some of these ''gushers." Mr.. Cooper
says great many of the cities Wis
| tied by him are in a very billy coun
try, the hills being mostly from 500 tt
500 feet high. The towns are ther
built on angles of from 25 to As de
grees. All this country is undertake
with coal. Mr.. Cooper paid particular
attention to the coal coke. This i:
| reached at a depth of about 700 feet
while above this there are veins, in ma
ny cases of other kinds of coal. All this
| land is leased to syndicates who pay
81 per acre for the land. The lant
yields from SIS to 5000 per acre il
coke. In the portions of the countr,
where the gas and oil industries flour
| ish. syndicates lease land from the far
mers and sink we'll. When ga:
well is struck and a flow is reached
the farmer gets $500 per well whel
the well produces oil, the farmer get
one-eighth of the product. This tend
to make all the farmers in that coun
try independently rich, and Mr.. Coop
er says it is no unusual thing for then
to be worth upwards of 100000. TIL,
gas and oil are reched in that countr,
at a depth of about 3,100 feet. MI
Cooper says vast amounts are spent il
perfecting the wells but when they ar,
once put down. they are certainly be
nanzas.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29

to propose to go into voluntary llqul-
dation since the building and loan law
was passed at the last session of the
legislature and hence this question
now comes up for the first time. l I'M
derstand that there are 100000 In
mortgages outstanding, and should
judge that means 10000 mortgages.
Every borrowing shareholder who
went into the concern with the con-
tract that the money should be paid
back in 81 months, under the new law
must pay the money back in IL months.
Don't you suppose if he's in a hole and
can't raise the money and the mort
gage is about to be foreclosed, that he
will take advantage of this legal hope
and try to beat out the new law. So
we're in fair way to have 10000 cases
growing out of this proposed liquida-
ton. where if we had a receiver all
this would be averted.
81 intend doing nothing until the
majority take action, and If liqu1da-
ton is the plan, then a test case on
the constitutionality of the new law
will be brought in court and believe
there will be almost endless litigation"
The building and loan law which Mr..
Donnelly proposes contesting was
passed at the last session of the legis-
lature and created much attention
then, the claim of it's unconstitutional
ity being made at that time by oppon.
ents of the measure.
Provision of Statute.
1t is Chapter 60 of the acts of the
Twenty-eighth general assembly. Sec
tion z tharaOf relates tO voluntary
liquidation and provides that this may
be had on the consent of three-fourths
of the shareholders, represented eth
er in person or by proxy, and when de-
cided upon the borrowers mortgages
and obligations become due WITHIN one
year. 1t is this provision upon which
Mr.. Donnelly bases his hopes of prov
! ing the unconstitutionality of the law.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
Managing Editor Burlington Hawk
SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS.
New Organization Perfected at Kirk.
Vile Last Night.

From Wednesdays Daily
The socialists organized at Kirltville
last evening. This was the first meet
ing of socialists ever held there. Coun
ty Chairman Baker was the speaker.
The Ottumwa county club will meet
at socialist hall. South Ottumwa, Sat
urday evening, August 81, at O'Clock
This is to be a special meeting and all
socialist candidates are urged to be
present. The officers and committee
men of the local organization are also
specially urged to attend this meeting
as new matters are to be considered
All socialists OF the county are urged
to be present,