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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
SEVERE STORM IN THE NORTH.
Wind Did Great Damage in Wisconsin
and Eastern Minnesota.

Lacrosse, Wis, Aug. 2.-One of
the most destructive storms in years
is raging here tonight. Railroads
have been washed out in all direc
tions and telegraphic communication
practically paralyzed. Damages tc
crops will reach many thousand dol
lars. A tornado north of here did
great damage to farm property
houses and barns being unroofed
The storm was general over Western
Wisconsin.
Winona, Mimi, Aug 2.-The worst
wind storm in the history of Winona
struck this city this evening. Th;
Bay State elevator and the Centra
Methodist church were partially un
rooted and much minor damage wa!
done.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03

List of unclaimed letters at the
Ardmore postoffce August /, 1902.
LADIES.
Adams, Bell (S).
Bentley, Sallie.
Billings. May
Baking, Mary
Burns, Rosie.
Caplolio, Madame.
Ellis. Mrs. w. e.
Fain, Lulu.
George, Mary.
Harrison, Minnie.
Herriot, Liza.
Jackson, Dorthy.
Kent, Mrs w c.
Kempton, Lena.
Lackie, Mrs. Willie.
Peters. Agnes.
Sweat, Mary.
GENTS.
Anderson, Frank.
Arnett, John.
Barnett Alf.
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Ca.,u,.,oh. w p (ol.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
Two Papers for $50
A YEAR.
The Facts in The Case.

When you read thing you like to
feel that it's the truth. The Dallas
Semi Weekly News gives the facts in
the case.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03

my old troubie."-Mps.
eGee St, Kansas City, Mo.
izes this acid poison,
restores il 10 a healthy,
the rough, unhealthy
smooth and clear.
cure s letter, Ery-
sipelas, Psoriasis, Salt
Rheum and all skin
diseases due to a pois-
oned condition of the
our book and write Is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
q a " N ER SAVE
the most healing sslve In the world.

Williams. Corhn & Co. sell corn
harvesters.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03

about your case. Our physicians have
made these diseases life study, and can
help you by their advice; we make jlo
charge for this service. All correspondence
10 conducted in strictest confidence. Q
IB6 SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, GA
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
Prison Yard Flowers.

Jailor Jas. Wilkinson spends con-
siderable of his leisure time cultivat-
ing several large beds of flowers with
in a prison yard where gloomy walls
and a high board fence shut out hun
dreds OF men from sweet freedom,
and they look even more beautiful
than they do when growing amid or
binary surroundings. The prisoners,
those who are allowed the freedom
of the stockade, treasure the well
kept flower beds as much as Mr.. Will
kinson and mutilation of the flowers
would receive the strictest discipline,
invoked after trial, by the prisoners
themselves. At the Muskogee jail
is a bed of flowers that is said to
have prompted the reformation of a
hardened criminal. At one time
while awaiting sentence, a prisoner
examined with minute care a beau
tiful rose, and its purity and beauty
so impressed him that his mind could
not be turned from the object lesson
After he had completed his term in
prison he successfully engaged in bus
mess. Recently while on business
trip to Muskogee, he applied to the
jailor for admission to the stockad6
for the privilege of once more study
ing the message of the prison yart
flowers, the one thing that turned hil
life from lawlessness to honesty ant
success.-Capital.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
ECZEMA,S
TTCH IS TORTURE.

Eczema is caused By an acid humor in
the blood coming in contact with the
skin and producing great redness and in
famfnation little pustular eruptions form
and discharge a thin, sticky fluid, which
dries and scales off sometimes the skin is
hard, dry and fssured. Eczema in any
form is torInenting. stubborn disease,
and the itching and burning at times are
almost unbearable the acid burning
humor seems to ooze out and set the skin
on fire. Salves. washes nor other exter-
nal applications do any real good, for as
long as the poison remains in the blood
1t will keep the skin irritated.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
Two Papers You Need.

You need the Ardmoreite because
it's your local paper. 1t gives a
class OF news you can't get elsewhere.
You need the News because IL gives
you all the state news. The Weekly
Ardmorelte and the Semi Weekly
News one year for only 81 so, cash In
advance.
Both papers are promptly stopped
ct the expiration OF time paid for.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03

Cut this out and take it to City
Drug Store or F. ]. Ramsey drug
store and get a box of Chamberlain
Stomach and Liver Tablets. The
best physic They also correct dis
orders of the stomach. Price 20
cents.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
BAD FORM OF TETTER.

For three years I
had Tetter on my
hands, which caused
them to swell 10 twice
their natural sire. Part
OF the time the disease
was In the form ofrun-
ming sores, very pain
full, and causing me
much discomfort -Four
doctors said the letter
had progressed too far
10 be cured, and they
could do nothing for
me. took only three
bottles Of S. S. S. and
was completely cured.
This was fifteen years
ago, and I have never
since seen any sign Of
l.. d. JACKSON, I4i4 Ne
S. S. S. ueutraii
cools the blood and
natural state, and
skin becomes soft,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03

"I had diabetes in its worst form,
writes Marion Lee of Dunreath, Ind
81 tried eight physicians without re
lief. Only three bottles of Foley's
Kidney Cure made me a well man.
For sale by Bonner & Bonner.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
RAILROAD EXCURSION RATES.
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe.

Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe has put in reduced
rates from all stations to Sulphur
Springs, |. T., the famous Indian Ter.
ritory health resort. Get rate from
Santa Fe agent, which includes stage
ride from Davis to Sulphur Springs
and return. Send and get pamphlet.
Tickets on sale daily until September
30, 1902, inclusive, good returning Oc-
tober 81, 1902.
The Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe
railway will sell tickets daily up to
and including September 80 to Kan
sas City, S22.95; Hannibal, $26.35;
St Louis, $2735; Eureka Springs,
$1235, limited to October 81, 1902.
Annual Conference and Campmeet-
ing, Seventh Day Adventist. Handley,
Texas, July "a to August 3, $3.50
round trip. Date of sale July 23rd,
gath and 20. Limited to August 5th
for final return.
Summer Tourist Rates.
to Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan. One fare plus $500. Dates of sale
June 1, to Sep. 80, limit for return
Oct. 81.
ATLANTA, GA:
Negro Young Peoples Christian
and Educational Congress, Au-
gust to IL. Rate, one standard
frst-class limited fare plus $3.50
membership fee. See Santa Fe
agents for limit.
MONTEAGLE, TEX:
Monteagle Sunday School Insti
tute, August IL to 23; limit
August 27. Rate one first-class
standard fare for the round trip
MONTEAGLE, TENN:
Monteagle Assembly Bible School
July 3 TO August 15; limit not
later than August 80. Rate, one
standard first-class limited fare
for the round trip.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL:
Biennial meeting. Knights o.
Pythias, August IL to IA. 1902
See Santa Fe agent for rate ant
limit.
SULPHUR SPRING, l. T.:
Tourist rates. See Santa Fl
agents for particulars.
MACON, GA:
Annual Meeting Farmers Nationa
Congress, October 7th to 10th
Limit October 18th, Rate on
standard first-class limited fare
for the roundtrip.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
National Baptist Convention (Col
ored), September 18th to Gath
Limit Sept. 29th. rate one stand
ard first class limited fare 70
the round trip.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
10 n friends and the Public at Ldge.
| want to state that the
BANKS HOTEL.

Is fitted up in irstcass order and will be run on
strictly upto-dae plans. Our motto is to give the
best service possible for the money charged Every
thing is new, bright and clean, and object is to
have the best of everything. When in Ardmore and
you want something to eat nice cool clean bed to
sleep on, remember you get both at the BANKS
HOTEL Come and
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-08-03
Specially Edited

II you'll read the News awhile
you'll like 1t, 1t holds the attention.
1t is specially edited, that's why.
Brains and not hap-hazard go into
the makeup OF the News.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28

of this state should be the main in
dustry of the farmer, and sotne day
it will be, but new class of farmers
must come in and take the place Of
those here or rather teach those here
how to diversity their crops. They
need schooling and the worst kind.
They read about some farmers over
on the Illinois Central road In this
state growing rich off the production
of early vegetables, but they have
not seen it and believe it is only
another one of those newspaper lies.
They no more believe it than they
believe that within the past few
scortching hot months there has
been plenty of ice in Hattiesburg or
that street car can be run without
the physical aid of a mule or an OK.
This is not true with all farmers, but
with many of them-like those who
turned out of the church their dea-
con and several of the members be-
cause they said and stuck to it that
they saw ice in the dead of summer
IN Meridian.
But all this is passing away and it
will not be long before the farmer
will drop cotton like it was some ex-
ceedingly hot number and take up
the production of early vegetables
and fruits, for which this state is so
well adapted. And when that time
comes we may expect revolution
for the better in agricultural pursuits
that the oldest philosopher never
dreamed of and the oldest farmer
never read about in his almanacs.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28

morally he has reached, if indeed
that standard can be observed with
magnifying glass, and place him
back where he was before his free
dom. The solution of the problem is
to help him elevate himself, or rather
force him to help himself, when he
viii appreciate the effort on the part
of the white man If he is capable of
approaching anything. Leave him
to himself without any effort en- the
part of the white man to make a
good citizen out of him and he would
soon relapse back into barbarism, if
In reality he is not already drifting
that way in the face of all the efforts
put forward on the part of the white
man. He must either be forced to
recognize the fact that he is an
American citizen or he must be de-
ported, for left to himself be would
die OF the rot.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28

Now the street car employees Of
Chicago are about to go out on a
strike because in their demand for a
raise of wages the companies allow
ed one cent more. That is very lit
tie thing for which to go out on a
strike. But in Chicago an organiza-
ton that does not go out on strike
every few months is considered not
to be living up to it's agreement and
the other labor organizations begin
to kick.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28
SAGE COUNSEL.

A negro somewhere in this state,
named B. K. Bruce, who has recent
ly started little country weekly pa
per, has hit the nail square on the
head without the least hurting his
finger. He said that he had person
ally sought employment in the in
dustries, where large numbers Of
white men were employed-such IN
dustries in which whites and blacks
are employed in the southland each
and every application he made was
summarily turned down. He asserts
boldly that the agitation Of the north
ern press in behalf of the cOIored
man Is not prompted by sympathy
for him, but by jealousy of the prog
ress and advancement that the south
is making. Continuing he writes:
II am opposed to negro politics,
because l feel that they will ruin IN
stead of rule. First, the negro has
got to learn, or be taught, self-re-
spect, morality, temperance, educa-
ton, self-government, industry and
Christianity, and the support of all
these teachings must come through
the southern white man especially in
education. Suppose we had to de-
pend en- negro taxes for school funds?
In Mississippi what weuld be the re-
suit? We wouldn't have any schools.
At the same time the negro inhabi-
tants exceed the whites by 100000 or
more. | know if negro attends to
his own business the better class of
white people will protect him. Of
course, the southern white man won't
allow the negro to get into his beds
sit at his table or around his Preside
on basis of social equality, but the
southern white people, IL necessary,
will give us bread if we are hungry.
If out of doors, IN the cold, they will
shelter us, even if they have to allow
us to stay in the servants house.
We have hailed them in distress and
they have responded literally"
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28
EARLY VEGETABLE RAISING.

The farmers of the state are going
right along talking about the truck
farming business and it is supposed
in the course of human events when
tomatoes and beans and the like
will grow on cotton stalks they will
raise early vegetables for the mar
kets. The average farmer is very
10th to give up cotton production on
smaller scale than it is produced
now and has been ever since the
plant was discovered, and it will
scarcely be anything else but bare
necessity that will make him give it
up entirely. And yet there is scarce
ly another crop out of which he can
make more money by less labor.
But as stated they have commence
ed to talk about early vegetable rails
ing for the market and any encour-
agement the Progress can give them
along this line will be readily ex-
tended.
A farmer can make more money
out of two acres of land planted in
tomatoes than he can out of ten
planted In cotton and it will not re-
quire one-half the labor. But he
will contend that his forefather made
money out of the production of cot
ton and so he will tug and toll season
in and season out and grow poorer
every year trying to make money
with which to buy meat for his fam
iIy, corn for his horse and red Ticker
for himself. He might as we'll argue
that his father carried his cotton to
Mobile on an OK wagon instead of a
freight train and proceed to follow
the dead-beaten paths of his daddy
in this respect. Things have chang
ed and some men have changed with
them except surplanting some other
product for that of cotton.
The vegetable and fruit industry
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28
Contest Notice.
Department of the Interior.

Department of the Interior.
Jackson, Miss, July 80, 1902.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this office by W. A. Fipps
of Augusta. Miss, contestant, against
Jackson series homestead entry, No
3523S, made April II, 1900, for Sc or ne
or and ne or Sc or, Sec. 81, and sw or
NV or, Sec. p, Township H., Range
8 W by Elijah Worsham, Contestee, in
which 1t Is alleged that he is we'll ac-
quainted with the tract of land en-
braced in said entry and knows the
present condition of the same; also that
said Elisha WOrsham never lived on
said land or placed any improvements
thereon; that he has not complied with
the law as to residence and cultivation.
but has wholly abandoned said entry.
and that said alleged absence from the
said tract is not due to employment in
the army, navy, or marine corps OF the
United States as private soldier, off
Ger, seaman, or marine, during the war
with Spain or during any other war in
which the United States may be en-
gagged, said parties are hereby notified
to appear, respond and offer evidence
touching said allegation at 10 O'Clock
a. m, on Sept. Is, 1909, before Fl. M.
McCallum, Clerk Chancery court in and
for the county of Perry, at his office in
Augusta, Miss, and that final hearing
will be held at 10 o'clock a. IN. on Sept.
%, 1902 before the Register and Re-
ceiver at the United States Land Office
in Jackson, Miss.
The said contestant having, in prop
er affidavit, filed July 80, 1902, set forth
facts which show that after due dill
gence personal service of this notice can
net be made, 1t is hereby ordered and
directed that such notice be given by
due and proper publication.
FRED w. COLLINS, Register.
ISAIAH T. MONTGOMERY, Receiver.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28

additional tax to pay interest there
on, and sinking fund to pay the
principal, if necessary; and provided
further, that boards of supervisors
may levy special tax of not exceed
ing two mills additional to that here
Inabove provided for to pay off out
standing county warrants, or to
build public roads or other public
works; but the whole amount levied
for all purposes herein provided for,
including the state tax, shall not ex-
ceed Is mills, or may issue bonds for
that purpose, as provided in sections
34l and 342 of the CODE"
Therefore, am of the opinion that
an ad valorum levy may be made by
the board of supervisors as part of
the ~ mills left for levy for county
purposes, or as a part of the 131e
mills maximum levy for state and
county purposes. To this maximum
levy, including the levy for the ex-
tension of the school term beyond
four months, may added to the spe-
cial levies provided for in the law of
1902.
| have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
MONROE MCCLURE.
Acknowledgement.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28
Summer Tourist Tickets.

To ali summer resort Is reached by the
Queen & Crescent Route will be sold
commencing June lst at low rates for
The round trip ana carrying return Limit
Sept. 80, 1902.
The summer schedules are nearly all
now in operation, a few additional facil.
tiles to be added by connecting lines on
June 1st and 8th, when the summer
travel will be in full swing.
The Asheville service including sleeper
from Birmingham, which is attached to
train leaving New Orleans at 7 80 o. m,
will run daily commencing June 8th.
The dining car service of the Queen 81
Crescent Route is maintaining its repu-
tatiOn for excellence, and no effort is
spared to make the summer trip via this
spleDdidly equipped line a thoroughly
enjoyable journey.
BROOK TROUT FISHING
The Trout Fishing in the stocked
treams of the Sapphire Country of North
Carolina Is now at its best.
The splendid new hotels of the Tox-
away Company afford Accommodations
which are thoroughly mp to date.
The scenery is not surpaese by any
mountainous section of the country.
Summer tourist tickets to Brevard and
Toxaway. N. G. on sale at all principal
stations on the Queen & Crescent Sys-
tenn.
GEO. H. SMITH, @. p. a.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28
A Notable Health Resort.

The Ozone Belt of Louisiana situated
in st. Tammany parish, lying immedi-
ately north of of Lake Pontchartrain,
piney woods country traversed by the
East Louisiana railroad, q connection of
the Queen and Crescent Route, and at
its fartherest point. Covington, La,
only sixty miles by rail from New Or
leans, the metropolis OF the south, is
perhaps the least known and least writ
ten about than any health resort in the
country, and yet has in the immediate
vicinity the best reputation fo- health
giving qualities of any locality in the
south, if not in the whole country.
1t has long been recognized by the
residents of New Orleans and the state
of Louisiana as a place where those suf-
fering from lung troubles, feYers, stom-
ach, liver and other organic diseases, as
well as general debility, can obtain per-
feet rest aud almost instant relief, and
in most cases permanent cure. So con-
fident are residents of this favored To-
cality of its perfect healthfulness and
their immunity from contagious diseases
that quarantine against infected locali-
tiles is never considered necessary or
desirable. The most noticeable fea-
lures are the health giving Ozone piney
woods atmosphere and the splendid
spring water. The winter climate is
soft and warm, and the heat of summer
is tempered by salt breezes from the
Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain.
The nights are always agreeable and
mosquitoes are almost unknown.
Thousands of pc pie every year sperd
the summer there in hotel and cottages.
Many for health reasons and many 9TH
ers because they find pleasure and COM
fort in living In the splendid air of the
pine woods.
Nature has done all that could be
wished to make this region favorable
for mans use. Man has yet done little
to show his appreciation the goods the
Gods have offered. There are thous-
ans of acres of lands available to the
home seeker DESTROYS of living where
the vigors of northern climate can
surely be avoided.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28
notice.!

I beg to inform the public that have
secured the new brick building on Front
street oppopite KATE, in course of con-
struction, and that in addition to my
sign work | will carry full line of
paints, oils, wall paper, room mouldings
and paint sundries.
One feature of my new store will be a
furniture repairing and pc fishing de-
partment, and where a first-claSs cabinet
fCisher will be IN charge. Mirror
plating, fancy glass work, etching and
intaglio will be for the first time execu-
ted in this state. Yours respectfully,
aug20-1wk H. LELEU.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-08-28
IMPORTANT OPINION.
Mr.. M'CLURG RENDERS ONE AS TO THE
SCHOOL TAX LEVIES.
Supervisors Have the Authority to
Go to Sixteen Mills.

The following correspondence be-
tween the state superintendent of
education and the Encouragement
is net only self explanatory, but Is
interesting:
Jackson, Miss, Aug. q, 1902.
Hon. H. L. Whitfield, Supt. Public
Education. Jackson, Miss.
Dear Sir: have your inquiry as
follows:
please advise me if a board of
supervisors of a county can levy a
tax to extend the common school
where the levy made by the board,
including the school levy, would
aggregate more than 1875 mills, but
less than Is mills. If a levy for
school purposes cen be made when
the total levy would be made more
than 1875 mills, please advise me
under what conditions"
Answer: Section 205 of the consti-
tuition requires that "a public school
shall be maintained in each county
at least four months during each
scholastic year" Section 2O6 pro-
vIdes for raising the necessary reve-
nues for these four months by the
poll tax and from the general fund
IN the state treasury, and further
provides: "but any county or sepa-
rate schoo, district may levy an adj
dltional tax to maintain its schools
for longer term than the term of
four months"
Section 4O47 of the code reads as
follows: 1.-The board OF supervisors
are empowered to levy annually for
public schools tax upon the taxable
property of the county, which is OUT
side the limits of any separate school
district, and may levy all additional
poll tax of not exceeding one dollar
OH each male inhabitant liable to pay
poll tax; all to be collected as other
taxes for general purposes, and at
the same time, and to be paid into
the county treasury to the credit of
the school fund; and such taxes shall
be receivable only in lawful currency
of the United States, and shall be
used for the maintenance of the pub
lie schools after the expiration of the
four months required by the consti-
tuition. And every municipality be-
ing a separate school district. may in
like manner levy and collect such
taxes for the maintenance of
schools"
Section 2, chapter 3, laws of 1902,
reads in part as follows: Boards of
may levy taxes for all
purposes (Which added to the state
tax will make 1872 mills on the dol
lar and no more, provided, that
counties having an outstanding
bonded indebtedness, may levy an