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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-12
PRATT CITY

Pratt City, July 11.-(special.) IA party
Effie and Annie Atkins. Daisy Taylor,
Ludie Powell, Ford Perkins and Agnes
Thomas, Messrs. George Donaldson, ]. G.
Jones, Allen Almon, VIII Atkins, T. F.
Bland and 81. Page chaperoned by Mr..
and Mrs. Geisler and Mrs. ]. D. Duncan
enjoyed a hay-ride and picnic at McWil-
lams Springs last evening. A nice sup
most enjoyable evening.
Miss Bertha Meager, who has been at
the Normal College at Livingston for the
past year, returned home this morning.
Mr.. Walter Graham of Millsboro arrived
in our city this morning on visit to his
sisters, Mrs. c. r. Atkins and Miss Rosa
Graham. Mr.. Graham has many friends
in our city who are glad to welcome him
back again.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Trehern was buried this afternoon in
Greenwood cemetery
Mr.. John Stanton of Knoxville. accom-
panied by his sister, Miss Sallie Stanton
of Pickens County, arrived In the city
last night as the guests of Mrs. Gaudy
and Mrs. Frank Pou.
Miss Lillian West of West Point, Miss,
who has been visiting relatives here for
several weeks, returned home this aftoc-
noon.
Miss Henrietta Lazarus of Columbia is
the guest of friends In our city.
Work on Mr.. Job Goings new store is
progressing nicely. They are about ready
to put the roof on.
Mrs. Lubesky and little Miss Ida Bond
field left this morning for a visit to
friends at Carbon Hill.
Mrs. II. ]. Bailey and Miss Sallie Bailey
were the guests of Mrs. ]. A. Eubanks at
Epsley today.
Mrs. Munroe is quite sick at her home
on First street.
The many friends of Mr.. James Wake
field will be sorry to hear that he Is
quite sick.
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BESSEMER.
Work on High School Building Pro-
crossing Rapidly.

Bessemer, July -(Special)-Work on
the new high school building is progress
ing rapidly and at the present rate the
building will be completed in September.
according to contract. When completed
it will be very handsome and impos-
ing brick structure, a credit to a much
larger place than this.
The congregation of the Baptist church
will in the near future begin the erection
of a handsome new brick church at the
northwest corner of Fifth avenue and
Eighteenth street, one of the most central
locations in the city. The building will
cost $4,000 and will include a basement
for Sunday school and altar rooms. The
brick for the structure has already been
ordered.
Prof. ]. M. Dill returned today from
Knoxville where 1900 Southern teachers
are attending the summer school Among
those enjoying the exceptional advantages
offered are Mrs. Augusta Robertson, Mrs
E. C. Leeper, Misses Lutta Spencer, Mad
aline Smith and Pearl Keith of Bessemer
who are taking a six weeks course.
John H. Williamson has returned from
Montgomery.
Mr.. Morris Adler of Birmingham is
In the city.
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attention Water
Consumers.

On account of the unusual drouth now
prevailing in this district causing an
enormous increase in the pumpage, and
on account of the fact that additional
pumping machinery under contract to be
erected thirteen months ago will not be
ready for service for several weeks, 1t is
absolutely necessary that water be not
unnecessarily wasted, and that sprinkling
rules be observed. We call attention to
the following rule:
Street and yard sprinklers
or washers must not be used
beyond the center of the
street or the limit of the
premises paid for, and must
notrbe permitted to run to
waste, or leak or to be con-
verted into jets for the
amusement of either adults
or children, or be used for
washing down collections
upon the cutters of neigh
boring premises or used to
flood the streets, but merely
to sprinkle them, and must
not be permitted to run ex-
cept when in use. The use of
such sprinklers is permitted
only as follows, viz: From
April 1st to October IsG, be-
tween 8 and 8 O'Clock a. m.
and 5 and 8 o'clock p. m.
For the prot Of the city against
fire, and for the protection of those con-
sumers living in the higher districts. the
water company will be compelled to dis
continue the water supply from those
consumers who refuse during this emer-
gency to comply with the reasonable
rules of the company.
Respectfully,
BIRMINGHAM WATERWORKS CO.
7-7-7t
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CORDoVA.
E. w. Long Elected Mayor In Quiet
MISREPRESENTATION

Cordova, July I.-(Special. 1.-The muni-
cipal election passed over this week very
quietly. e. w. Long was elected mayor,
and for aldermen the following gentle
men received the highest votes: G. w.
Alexander. G. S. Elliott. w. A. Gray, 7.
P. Miller and d. e. Nations.
The Avondale excursionists who passed
by here going to Eldridge last week,
were a very ill-behaved lot. There was
all kinds of yelling as the train passed.
and some one on the train threw nut
or a stone at an old man here and struck
him In the breast. He was not revived
until next morning, and was laid up
several days. A boy was struck on the
face and his nose was crushed all to
pieces.
Mr.. J. o. Hannum, agent of the Indian
Head Mills of Alabama, has gone to
New York state to spend two week $
vacation. During his absence he will
also visit Boston and other eastern cities.
Mrs. Callie Garrison and children are
visiting her mother In Mississippi Quite
a seige of sickness has attacked them,
all the children and herself as well, have
been quite Ill. Baby Odelle is yet very
sick.
Mrs. P. H. o'Neill is i'll of fever at
her home here.
Cordova lodge of Odd Fellows had a
public installation of officers here on
the fourth instant. Henry Nations is
the newly elected noble grand, and it
is predicted that the lodge will take on
new life under his administration. r. M.
Harper is the new vice grand, Crawford
Newsom is secretary and ]. o. Hannum
is the new treasurer. The order Is quite
strong here.
Levi Henry, colored. and Eugene Press
ley white, became involved in a fight
here a few days past, in which Press
ley cut Henrys right arm almost In
two near the shoulder. The large mus
Gle was severed, and a wound was made
In the negro's side also.
Crops are running in this section for
lack of rain. 1t has been nearly eight
weeks since a seasonable rain visited
Cordova, although there have been a
few minor sprinkles, but not enough to
aid crops. Vegetables are very scarce.
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ATHENS.
Walton VIII Case Goes to Supreme
Court Third Time.

Athens, July 1.-(Special) 1.-The Walton
will case has gone to the Supreme Court
for the third time from the Probate Court
of this county, this time on the question
of the fact as to whether or not John
II. Hundley or his father, long since
dead, was the person intended in the will
as administrator. The Probate Court held
that it wss the living John II Hundley.
and so nemed him as executor. and the
plaintiffs took an appeal on this issue,
and pending that appeal the appoint
,nent of Mr.. Hundley is held up and the
special administrator. Mr.. James e. Hor-
ton, Jr., continues to look after the es-
tate. This will likely prevent the distri-
button of the estate for a year or so long
er. and It is claimed by the beneficiaries
that this is hurtful to their interests. but
the estate is growing all the time. 1t is
now ten or fifteen thousand dollars larger
than when Miss Walton died.
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ALABAMA DEATHS.
Hon. George L. Webster.

Opelika, July H. Especial. )-Hon.
George L. Webster for many years city
clerk of Opelika died here last night after
a long illness of chronic rheumatism of
the optic nerve. Mr.. Webster was So
years of age and a Christian gentleman
in all the words imply. He was sound
and honest in all the walks of life. and
had the love and confidence of all who
knew him. His remains were inferred in
the city cemetery this afternoon, the fun
eral exercises taking place from the
Baptist church. Mr.. Webster leaves
family He carried $1,000 life insurance.
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EQUALITY.
Heavy Rain and Thunder Storm Fol.
low Long and Serious Drouth.

Equality, July 11.-(SpeciaD-After an
eight weeks drouth. doing considerable
damage to all crops and almost running
upland corn. this place was visited by one
of the heaviest rains Wednesday that
ever fell here. accompanied with wind,
hail and a great display of lightning.
Electricity seemed to fall in showers
and popped like the reports of guns.
Mr.. Parker's ginhouse caught on fire
from the lightning and there being a lot
of old lint cotton in the press it was with
great difficulty that the property was
saved. A tree fell on Ben Perkins house
but no one was hurt. Lightning destroy
ed several telephone posts.
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DIDN'T WANT A PRIMARY.
Action of state Committee Not APP
proved in Limestone.

Athens, July 11-(Special. 1.-THE action
of the State executive committee in call
ing state primary is not approved by
the leading Democrats of this county
one Of the largest voting counties in the
valley-they claiming that the people do
not want so many elections and that the
people do not know enough about the
various candidates in the field to make a
prudent selection.
The people will take but little interest
In a State primary in Limestone, and
1t will be light vote polled here. There
was no demand at all from the people
of this section for a departure from the
honored old time convention plan.
Hoods Sarsaparilla cures summer
weakness because 1t makes rich, pure
blood.
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dust has been laid here four times
since the middle of March. but there has
been no season. The ground is parched
and the gardens were ruined long ago.
The blackberries dried up on the bushes
and there was an enormous crop prom
ised. Figs cannot mature and all other
fruit is a failure. Mr. Paul Hoffman of
Waverly planted one hundred acres In
canteloupes this year paying 500 for the
seed. He will take in about s25 from the
crop which is now gone The merchants
who have advanced the farmers will have
to close out many this fall and the ques-
tion as to what they will do with the
wagons stock and things they take is the
question, as there will be no one to buy
it. The trusts and corporations, aided
and instigated by the Republican party,
have placed the necessaries of life to
where people can hardly buy enough to
exist on and hundreds of families In
East Alabama cannot buy meat at all
The condition is appalling, and the far
iner. as USE is ..arng ire harden the
heaviest of all.
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ADMISSION
Rain and Electrical Storm Follow
Drouth-Crops are Ruined.

Admission, July 11.-(Specia1. TUESDAY
afternoon about 6 o'clock Admission was
visited by an electrical storm which did
considerable damage and occasioned
much inconvenience. Fortunately no one
was hurt. The Payne House on Nine
teenth street, between Noble and Gurnee
avenue. was struck by lightning. The
family was in the house at the time but
none Of them felt the shock. The damage
done was small. The house was occupied
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TO CINCINNATI.

Queen & Crescent Route
"a. G. 50 solid trains, vesti-
buled, with elegant service.
All meals a la carte. Finest
track and equipment in the
South. A. b. Freeman, T. p.
A.. Birmingham.
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Mrs. remaie Carson.

Florence July 11.-(special Mrs.
Temsis Carson of this city died yes-
terday at $3.50 p. m. of blood-poisoning.
She will be buried from her late resi-
dence on Tennessee street this morning
at 1920 o'clock.
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Fast Service via. the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad

Fast service via the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad for Cairo, st. Louis and points
in the North, East and West. New
equipment, through sleepers. Superior
service. P. S. Hay, s. e. p. A.. No. .
Commerce street, Montgomery, Ala c.
M. Shepard. @. p. A., Mobile. Ala
e-2-tf
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ION July 8. the Crescent Hotel at Eu-
reka Springs, opens as an ail-year-'round
resort, under the management of the
Frisco System. Extensive renovations
and improvements have been effected
which will make the Crescent Hotel the
equal of any hosiery to be found In the
Southwest" s-22-s0t
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He eats heartily in the hottest wealth
er who uses Prickly Ash Bitters. 1t
keeps his stomach, liver and bowels in
perfect order.
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Miss Norma Scholar will
sing every night this week at 0. Gao.
10, 1880 and IL at Stones.
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Hermitage

Hermitage, all around sign painter. Get
prices. Address City. 6-13-6
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Chicago, July 11.-Gen. T. M. Anderson
has addressed to the Record-Herald
letter giving his version of the surrender
of Manila, in which he differs materially
from the statements made by Admiral
Dewey General Anderson's letter is as
follows
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21

But the most important question
for the woman who feels disgust for
her work when she comes back to it
is, "Why do I work at ala" IF she
must reply that the money she earns
is her only motive, she is indeed
wretched.
A lady talking with a girl who
wished a place as laundress asked
her, "What recommendation can you
give yourself? You know this is
hard work"
eyes, ma'am, I know that; but I
take pride in my work"
Ironing r%uf1es, selling ribbons, fit
ting gowns, cooking dinners, teach
ing children, become worth doing on
ly when one "takes pride in her
work" When that is the fundament-
al fact about the relation of the
worker to the task, vacations will
bring refreshment and not distaste.
The noble ambition to do one thing,
however simple, better than anv 9th
er hand or head would do it shortens
labor and sweetens toil.-Youth's
Companion.
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The Twentieth Century Girl.

She is plastic and elastic and can
trip the light fantastic in a style
enthusiastic with abandon that
is rare,
She is sweetness and petiteness in a
bunch of great completeness and
she keeps us at her feetness in
a manner debonair.
She can daily on the alley with ten
pins and make a tally, and the
boys around her rally when she's
out upon the links.
And she'll patter round and chatter
on most any weighty matter, but
she's talking through her hat
'er little thinker never thinks.
Oh, she's happy when she's frappe
and is throwing bright and snap
Ply bits of Chilkoot Pass at chap
by, freezing out the spoony boys.
And the measure of her pleasure in
her n~ever-ceasing leisure is a lit
tie world of treasure in unmiti-
gated joys.
She'll abuse you and amuse you and
both well and i'll she'll use you,
and she'll finally refuse you, tho
heart-broken you implore.
But don't bother-get another-be
content to be her brother, for
she likes to see her mother mop
ping up the kitchen floor.
Denver Times.
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A Wash oman's Greenhouse.

Perhaps it would be of interest to
your readers to know how a working
woman kept her loved flowers
through several winters in safety,
and yet moved about and lived in
rented houses. Some of my flowers
e earned by getting up clubs,
some came as premiums with some
floral magazine, others were given me
by friends. I soon had my windows
filed with them in all stages of
growth. I determined to keep them
through the winter if I could. I
brought in a large dry goods box and
papered it yer two coats, inside and
out, with newspapers and wall paper.
The box was finished with a curtain
of colored canton flannel strung on
fine wire, and placed back of the
heating stove. On cold nights the
plants were placed inside, the cur
tain drawn snugly across it to keep
in the heat, and on very cold nights
a lighted lantern was set inside in
the center of the box and the plants
so placed that the heat would not
"cook" the leaves. In the morning
the plants were put in the windows
again, and I enjoyed flowers all win
ter and had plenty to divide with my
neighbors.-Mrs. Celia Robinson, in
Home and Flowers.
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not wondered at the prejudice
against corn meal. I could never care
for the bread made from the yellow
meal. It lacks the sweetness and
flavor of the white meal, and if it is
made up with boiling water, as your
correspondent says he knows is the
way to make it, I do not wonder at
the result. I spoke of the mountain
bread being superior to Atlanta
product. This is due not alone to the
coarser meal; there our corn "dodg-
er" was made up with cold water OF
sweet milk, but here / have learned
to mix the meal with buttermilk and
cold water-about one-third water to
two-thirds buttermilk, having pre-
viously sifted soda and salt with the
meal. The quantity of soda would
vary with the acidity of the milk;
but corn meal does not require as
much soda as wheat -four to Tighten
it, probably owing to its looser tex
ture.
The dough should be thoroughly
worked with the hands, as it becomes
more cohesive ON manipulation. At
ter forming into a "pone" in your
b~read-pan, it should be placed on the
rack of the stove, until a deep-brown
Gust Is formed, before transferring
it to the bottom of the oven to bake
underneath-just the opposite meth
cd from baking wheat bread. 1t
takes from twenty minutes to half
an hour to cook properly; and if you
are lucky enough to have a dish of
sp.ckled trout fried a delicate brown,
or a broiled partridge, or even the
more easily procured smothered
spareribs or backbone, to go with it,
you would hardly miss the unsympa-
thetic biscuits and ~puritanical yeast
breads of less epicurean feasts!-
Mrs. Donald Wilson, Cherokee Coun-
ty, n. O., in the Albany Country
Gentlemon.
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Companion.

To make corn dodgers, scald one
quart of white eornmeal just enough
to RQisten;- dc 4ot make It te6 wet.
Beat one egg, and add to it four
tablespoonfuls of milk; add it to the
cornmeal. This should now be a
thick batter. Drop by spoonfuls on
a creased pan and bake in an oven
until a golden brown.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
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Tho DaoI q 49,
-" W. S6tfhern Corn Bread.

Win you allow a country gentle
woman space to comment on the as
tonishing lack of acquaintance with
the merits of corn meal displayed by
some recent correspondents?
Corn bread has always been the hot
dinner-bread in typical Southern
homes, and to the accustomed palate
it accompanies boiled vegetables,
game and fish with a relish that
wheat bread cannot give.
Transplanted from city life some
eight years ago, I was delighted to
find that the m~ountaineers certainly
understand how to handle cornmeal.
Their wheat biscuit are half cooked
and wholly indigestible, but their
corn bread far surpasses our Atlanta
article. My husband-a Northerner
Invariably prefers it at dinner, and
no dainty can tempt him from his
mush and milk supper, which is serv-
ed him the year around. Occasional
~ we have boarders, generally North
ern people, who at first from curios-
ity or a desire to be sociable, join him
in his favorite dish. Not infre-
quently they too form the "mush-
and-milk habit" and this summer /
had to invest in a larger boiler!
Our Southern friends already to
the manne born detect at once the
superior quality of the mountain
product. This is due, as your corn
meal defender points out, to the
grains being ground coarser and to
the sifter's being of large mesh.
These city friends are so impressed
with this hal they often take home
a "poke" full ready 'sifted, as neither
city kitchens mol city stores, as q
rule, are furnished with the coarse
sitter. Visitors all the way from
Boston have sent back for graham
-four, ground at the little mountain
mill-four that cannot be duplicated
in the city. Once we found it at a
grain and feed store, but its very
character was changed after being
bolted through a fine sitter.
While visiting the North, I have
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21

A NAGGING COUGH drives
sleep and comfort away. You can
conquer it with Aliens Lung Balsam,
which relieves hard breathing, pain
in the chest and irritation of the
throat. Give it freely to the child
ren.
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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE.-

al oOAASO VI AOE4CO E6Gna
g.. L. Patterson, ex efnciO, ChHirman.
District Members:-Q) J. E. COf1eld, Eve
retts; (2) E. L. Daughtridge, ROCKY Mount:
l8) VIM. Dunn, Newbern; (4) G. Allen.
Auburn; () ]. s. Cunningham, Cunningham:
(Ol A. T. McCallum, Red Springs; az ]. P.
AcRae, L~aurinburg; () P. B. Kennedy, Dali
tOnia; (9) w. A. Or ham, MachpeIah. my
Cannon, HOrs Shoe.
Howard Browning, Littleton.
J. r Joyce, ReidsvIle,
g. E. Flow, Monroe,
j. c. Ray, Boone.
OFFICERS.
6. L. Patterson, Commissioner.
!. K. Bruner, Secretary.
B. ". Kilgore, State Chemist
TAFT Butlsr, State Veterinarian.
Frankli Sherman, Jr., Entomologist
Gerald Mccarthy. Botantst and Biologist
H.H. Brimley, Naturalist and Curator.
Fostomce address Of all omeers, Raleigh.
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EVERY FARMER
Should Plant Some Strawberries.

Nothing adds as much to the pleasure and
health of his family as plenty of fresh ber-
ries allowed to ripen thoroughly on the
vines. Then every spare quart can be cOn-
verted into cash. Plant now.
We sell the plants. Our $50 page manual
Gree to buyers) makes the growing OF them
for pleasure or profit plain and easy to all.
Catalogue of Strawberries, Grape Vines,
Asparagus, etc., free.
o. w. BLACKNALL,
President Continental Plant Co.,
No % Strawberry Heights, Kittrell, N. C.
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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Pres'dent-J. Van Lindley, PomOna.
Vice-President-O. w. BlackDaIl, KittrelL.
Secretary and Treasurer-Franklin sher-
man, Raleigh.
Executive Committee. Van Lindley,
Chairman, ] ,. Gulliver, B Won HERR, o. W..
Blacknall, T. K, Bruner, Franklin sherman,
p. II. Beck.
District Vice-Pretidents-W l.. Baxter,
R~idgeWay; Geo. N. Ives, Newport; VIM.
Cole, Waynesville; P n. Beck, southern
Pines; Moses Gone, blowing Rock.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21

III deeds are doubled with an evil
word.-Shakespeare.
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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
P~esident-J. A. LOug, Roxboro.
Secretary-J. e. P0gue, Raleigh.
TT, asurer-C. B. benson, Raleigh.
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Prekident-R. II. Speight, Wrendale.
Secretary-Treasurer-T. B. Parker, Hills
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STATION. q
Director-B. W. KilgOre, Raleigh.
Agriculturist-O. W. Burkett, West Raleigh.
Horticulturist-W. r. Massey, West Raj
eigh.
Chemist-W. A. Withers.