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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
OUR ELECTRIC LIGHTS.

In the name Of a suffering public,
W nat is the matter with Columbia 5
electric lights. For nearly two weeks
now the city has been in almost utter
darkness. except the street lights.
Something they say is broken down
at the power house; and the company
had to send to New York to get new
piece tor the broken part. Something
is always going wrong at the power
house. There has hardly been a week
since January 1 that trouble OF
some sort has not occurred. And the
people are getting tired, mighty tired.
The electric light service in COLUMBIA
Is bowling farce.
But there is a mode Of relief. The
contract with the city requires the
company to keep its service mp to d
certain standard. That contract is
being repeatedly violated. Yet the
city council sits suDinely stall and says
nary a word in protest.
The people ought to rise up ana get
behind the city council and force it to
bring the Electric Light Company TO
time. 1t should either he made to put
In a plant that can give respectable
service or it should be ordered to get
out. Patience has been exhausted; for
bearance has ceased TO be a viIture
with respect to the Electric light
company. The citizens have rights and
the city council can bring the com
pany to taw if they will. Its up to them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
MARRIED WHOLE FAMILY
Coffee County Man WEEDS Widow and
Three Daughters in Succession.

Tullahoma, Tenn, March 3l.-ln-
formation has Just reached here or the
marriage of John Newberry and Miss
Patsy Barron. on last Thursday even
Ing. Mr.. Newpery lives abont forty
miles from Tullahoma on one OF the
spurs of the mountain. There would
be nothing unusual in the marriage II
it was not for the previous matrimonial
ventures of Mr. Newberry. About
thirty five years ago John married the
widow Sallie Barron, who was then
the mother OF three daughters, Judy,
Martha ana Patsy. Four years after
tho marriage with the widow she died,
leaving one child, son, by New
berry. After waiting about one year
he married Judy, the oloest daughter OF
his deceased wife. In two years Judy
followed her mother to the grave,
leaving a girl baby. Again waiting
reasonable time to mourn, he then took
unto himself Martina to wife, who
after living number of years, fol-
lowed her sister and mother to the
grave. So the marriage last week or
Newberry and Patsy absorbs the
whole family of original Barroms.
Now the question arises what kin to
each other are the offspring OF the four
marriages.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.
Important Meeting to Be Held at
Nashville This Month.

An Educational Conference has been
arranged by State superintendent
Mynders to be heia in the city of Nash
Vile, at the Peabody Normal College.
Oh Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
April 7, s and 8. The.obening meeting
wlll be held at Z 80 p. m. Tuesday.
The purpose of this Conference are:
|. A full discussion of the educa-
tional conditions and needs In every
county IN Tennessee.
2. A conference has to ways and
means for the advancement of public
education in the State.
3. The beginning of general cam.
paign for consolidation of schools, bet
ter buildings better teachers, and
more hearty support for the schools.
All of the railroads in Tennessee
have granted rate of one fare for the
rouna trip tor this Conference. Not
only school officials but the friends Of
education are urged to attend. II will
be one of the greatest educational
gatherings in the history of the State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
CRUSHING DEFEAT
FOR BAXTER BILL
Goes Down in the Senate by a Vote
of 26 to 3.-Puts a Stop to
Other Bills of Similar lmpor-
lance.

Nashville, March 31.-By the over
wheIming vote of 26 TO 3, the, first
Baxter railroad bill was rejected In
fine Senate Monday afternoon. The
rejection of this measure means the
death of the second railroad bill in
Produced since the recess, as the con-
stitution prohibits the passage OF a
bill on the same subject as one that
has been rejected. An effort was
made to nave the first bill tabled SO
that the second could be considered
later, but the Senate determined to emu
the fight once and for all and refused
by a vote of 90 to 8 to table 1t.
Col. Baxter, the introducer OF the
bill Mr.. Adams and DR.. Jones are
the only Senators who voted against
rejecting the bill Mr.. Jackson voted
against il also when the roll was called
but he was recorded the other way and
did not have correction made on the
journal after being told OF the error.
His vote is of course counted as
officially recorded.
The second bill will now be either
rejected or tabled as it would OF course
be unconstitutional if enacted into q
law. The bill will probably be allowed
to die In committee IN the House.
The author OF the bill had become
resigned to the inevitable. as the
final result, after the committee recon
mendation, was almost foregone con-
clusion. Col. Baker made a speech
while the bill was under consideration
in which he warned the Senate of the
results that would follow IL his
bill were not enacted into a law. he
pictured the way In which the old
roads were controlling the state
instead of the State the railroads lie
recognized the fact that his bill was
about to be defeated an when MT.
Adams began to parley for less harsh
treatment of the bill stated that he did
not care to bubble over the way In
which the measure met It's defeat.
He gave warning that the fight was
not vet ended and lntimated that 1t
would be carried into the next Leglsla-
ture. He said that 1t had become an
issue in the State and that he did not
intend to let the eight millions OF
dollars invested in Tennessee by his
associates be confiscated.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
SENATOR CARMACK RETURNS
In Excellent Health.-TaIks on Live
Questions.

Senator E. W. Carmack arrived home
Wednesday night from Washington.
The Senator seems to be in excellent
health. although he has suffered almost
continuously during the winter with
rheumatism and has had trouble with
his eyes.
He says that the newspaper accounts
of what the President said about him
had covered the matter accurately. lie
said that he mad the word of Congress
men Richardson aud Gaines as to the
truth of the Presidents language, and
that he would prefer to take their
word than his. He thought Judge Alton
B. Parker the logical candidate for
President. He said that there was nc
use for an extra session OF Congress
and that the did not look for it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
Another outrage mas been perpetra

Another outrage mas been perpetra-
ted against the Negroes right OF
suffrage. This time 1t doesn t come
from a Southern State but from the
very heart of old New Eng land. On
March 10 the people of New Hamp-
shire topted a new constitution which
provides educational qualifications
for voters, one being that they must be
able to read and write. OF course
this is diabolical outrage and an at
tempt to nullify the constitution OF the
United States, but it will escape the
attention of the negro lovers up North.
They only below when the South
takes such action.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
AMUSEMENT PROMOTER.
Ashby Wilkins Will organic Sever
al Sporting Clubs.

MIR. AsnDy Wilkins says the new
base ball park across the river is in
splendid condition and will be the b 'st
the town ever had. He has decided to
embark into the amusement promoting
business ON quite an extensive scale.
He Will put in a tennis court near
his park He will also organize an
outing club, ana build boating house
on the opposite side of the river near
his ball park. He is also thinking OF
organizing q gun club ana will build a
mauger trap at his park for the pur-
pose of throwing clay pigeons. Other
amusements are in contemplation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M.
Shaw and Charles Amory Smith, for
mer Postmaster General, were the prin-
c,nal speakers at banquet given by
the Kickapoo Club at Peoria, Ill. Mr.
Shaw characterized tariff revision as a
remedy more likely to destroy prosper
nv than the trusts. He also contendad
tbat the Sherman act has proved
adeouate wherever there was good evi
dence of monopoly. Mr.. Smith spoke
in favor of extending the Monroe doc
trine and for closer commercial rela-
lions between the American republics.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
THEIR USUAL METHOD.

The saloon advocates perpetrated one
of their smart tricks Monday. While the
temperance people were working quiet
ly along legitimate lines and according
to the way marked out for them by their
representatives, the liquor dealers, their
aiders and abettors, packed the court
house with bowling crowd and passed
resolutions instructing our representa-
tives to vote against the bill extending
the four mile law to the town of Column
bia,
The resolutions will have no more
weight upon the public mind, or upon
the minds of our representatives, than
if it had been passed in bar room, the
real source from which it animated, and
the trysting place to which four-fifths
of it's friends Immediately adjourned.
The meeting was not called for that
purpose. And those who conceived the
idea of prostituting it to their base use,
we're afraid to whisper it, save to their
selected few.
1t was simply another apt illustration
Of "the ruling passion strong IN DEATH
Their methods of warfare are sly and
mean and unfair. They don't know
how to fight, except through packed con-
yentions and polluted ballots. When
invited out into the open to measure
lances fairly, and sign their names and
show their faces, they whine and plead
for secret ballot that they may resort
to just such unfair and unblushlng
methods as they have employed today
But it will prove boomerang to them
They have been whipped so bad and are
so ratified that they have Numbered.
The pacific, sympathy racket they
were playing we're their best cards.
Now they stand before the public in
their true light. Snap convention ar
lists, political sneaks, seeking to cap
ture by outrageously unfair methods,
the endorsement of community in
which they know they stand con-
demned.
We are rather glad they showed their
hand. The people need to be reminded
what political renegades they are
They need to be reminded that one OF
the benefcent results of no saloons IN
Columbia will be to rid our politics OF
the very crowd that packed the court
house this forenoon, and from there
adjourned to the Bethel House and
other saloons.
1t occurs to US if they had not seen
defeat staring them in the face they
would not have made so brazen, 80 des-
perate, so foolish move.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

Petitions are being circulated and
very generally signed. ASKING that
Maury county be reGistricted. for the
double purpose of reducing the size
Of the county court, and plscing the
entire county under the operations OF
the Dortch law. The movement seems
to be exceedingly popular. Indeed we
have not heard a single protest against
il. But If it's promoters expect to get
the bill through this legislature. 1t Is
high time they were having it drawn
and getting it introduced. The legis,
lature has only uine more work
ing days.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
HOW CHICAGO SET TIES
THE NEGRO QUESTION,

A deed transferring d piece of prop
ertv has been filed which contains the
stipulation that no negro Is ever 10
occupy or lease the premises. No, this
did not occur down in Mississippi or
Alabama or South Carolina, but right
here in Chicago. Chicago Evening
Post.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
MsEaaaua, Anderson & Foster.
The Beautiful Easter Millinery
Creates Much Comment.

Scores of ladies have complimented us unstntedly
on our really remarkable display of Spring Headwear;
We want to tender sincere thanks for all these KIND
words and also for the material mark OF your a-
probation in the number sales we made on our open
ing DAYS. which far exceeds all "Past Performances
Of course rnany ladies have not yet bought Easter
Hats but there plenty of time yet We want you to
come in and the handsomest line OF Spring Millinery
ever shown in Columbia store, all marked at the most
reasonable prices.
The new Spring Dress Goods and Silks are
changing owners at a rapid rate, too. No won
der Every worthy and wanted style in black and COL
ors here such Vols, Examines, Mohars, Scilans,
Cheviot Serges, etc.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

The saloon advocates. ARE opposed to
the open petition, which may be read
of all men, and favor the secret ballot.
There is a passage in divine writ
which says that some men Glove dark
ness rather than light, because their
deeus are evil.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

The Herald would suggest this; tnat
thos who are opposed to the Baxter
bill. SHOULD find something better, ana
not leave the State and the people, at
the adjournment Of the legislature
still in the grasp of the merciless mono
poly, the Louisville q Nashville Rail
road Company.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

Senator Carmack, as his interview IN
this issue shows, believes in ''local self
government" We are sorry the Sena..
tor was not Governor last week. EVEN
though, personally, might think the
policy wrong" he says. 'still my respect
for the local laws would be the same"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

Roosevelt was up until clock We'd
nesday morning to get the result OF the
McGoyern Corbatt prize fight. There
are a great many people who think
Roosevelt would n AXE better prize
fighter than he is making president. !.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

The legal profession is curious one
Elk Attorney General Griggs once prose-
cnted trust for the government. He
is now defending trust from the Gov
eminent. We are led to wonder which
case the former Attorney General really
believes in.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03

Americans own the insurance com
los elgiams the underground railways
and Englishmen the surface roads OF
paris. All that is left to the poor Par
isiaus is their morals and their music
halls.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-04-03
Marriage Liscenses.

Chas. Nlcks to Miss Iona Stages.
"A. Blacknall to Miss Cora M. Love.
Tom King to Miss Ella Matthews.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-21
Estate of C. w. Comstock.

STATE OF VERMONT. ORLEANS DISTRICT
- SIS. In Probate Court, held at New
port, in said District, on the 18th day OF
December, A. D., 1913
IF BA che der, AdmInistT ator of the estate
of @. " Comst OK late of Barton, in salt
District, deceased, hath filed his application
In ssid Cou {, re prese nting that aid deceas-
ed at the ii me of his death was under con-
tract hiding in law and equity TO convey to
j White of said Bar one ice IUuse
building situated and standing upon land of
the Boston & Maine Railroad Company in
the Village of Barton in said town of Barton,
White to said deceased but never conveyed
duty bound t. conv-N ne same to said White,
and praying that said Court No ay ssue to sa d
AID Illustrator a cense to convey said ice
house building to said j. White in COM
pl1ance and per ormauce of sail con ract
above named, as provided by stat ute in such
cases.
Whereupon.it Ia ordered by said Court,that
said appl cation be referred to a 'ssion
thereof, to be held at the Probate
| Office in said Newport, on tie 18th
| day of December, D, 1903, for
hearing and decision thereon: And, it is
| further ordered that notice hele of be given
| to all persons intert sted. by publication of
the same three weeks successfully in the Or
| leans County Monitor, newspaper published
| at said Barton, previous to said time appoint
| ed for hearing, that they may appear at said
| time place, and show cause, if any they
| may have, why said licens. should not be
| granted.
| By the Court-Attest,
/ 60 So F. e. ALFRED. Judge.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-21

IL ship was slowly opening a gap
between herself and the wharf. and he
knew that in few moments recogni-
ton would be impossible. Just as he
was losing hope aud was ready to groan
with despair the face beneath the sail
or nat was turned squarely i'm bis di-
rection. A glaze obscured his eyes; a
numbness attacked his brain. 1t was
Miss Guggenslocker.
\ pair OF big glasses was leveled at
him for a second and then lowered. He
plainly saw the smile on her face and
the fiuttering cambria in her hand. He
waved his hat and then his handker-
chief. obtaining from her vigorous and
unrestrained signs of appreciation. Her
face was wreathed in smiles as she
leaned far over the rail. the picture of
animated pleasure.
Making sure that her uncle and aunt
were not visible. he boldly placed his
fingers to his lips and waited a kiss
out over the water.
Now she'll crush mer' he cried to
himself. regretting the rash act and
DTdAlHS tudl size Idu not ODSeTNtu IL.
Her handkerchief ceased futtering in
an instant. and. with sinking heart. he
realized that she had observed. There
was moment of indecision on the
part of the fair one going out to sea,
and then the little finger tips of both
hands went to her lips and his kiss
came back to him.
While he was still waving his hand
kerchief, debating savagely and joy
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-21
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
Estate of Ethan T. Foster.

The undersigned. having been appointed by
the Homo rable Probate Court for the District
OF Orleans, Commissioners, to receive, exam
Inc and adjust all claims and demands of all
persons against the estate OF Ethan E. Foster,
late of Barton, in said DistI let, deceased,
and ] claims exhibited in offset thereto,
hereby give notice that we will meet for the
purposes aforesaid, at his late residence on
the 2e day of De cember AID 9TH
da' OF May next, from o'clock
p. m. until for O'Clock p m. on each of
said days, and that six months from the Nth
day of Nov. A. ID, 1908, is the time linn
tied by said Court for said creditors to pre-
sent their claims to us for examination and
allowance
Dated at Barton, this 4th day Of Dec :,
A. D., 1908.
o. V. JOSLYN, 10
1881 G +. HAMRLET Com'rs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-21

He boldly placed his fingers to his lips
and aUGtted q kiss.
ously the wisdom of the act she be-
came part of the distant color scheme.
The blue figure faded and blended into
the general tone and could no longer
be distinguished. She was gone. but
she had tossed him kiss from lips
that he should always see.
Uppermost in his bewildered mind
was the question. Why is she not in
the passenger list? Acting on a sud-
| den impulse. he again sought out the
clerk in charge and made most thor
ough inspection. There was no Gug-
| genslocker among the names. AS last
| resort he asked:
They could not have sailed under
an assumed name. could they?"
Il can't say as ia that. Where are
they going?'
Ora uStark."
But the young man shook his head
slowly, Lorrys shaking in unconscious
accord.
Are you sure that you saw the
young lady on board?'
"Well. ratherr' exclaimed Lorry en-
pha tically.
Il was going to say there are lot
of Italian and German singers on the
ship. and you might have been mistak-
en-. But since you are so positive it
seems very strange that your friends
are not on the list
SO Lorry went away discouraged and
with vague fear that she might have
been a prima donna whose real name
was GuggepslOcker. but whose stage
name was something more euphonious.
He instantly put away the thought
and the fear. She was certainly not an
opera nger-impossible. He drove
back to his hotel and made prepare
tons for his return to Washington.
CHANGING casually over the register, he
came to the name that had been haunt
ing him-Guggenslocker! There were
the names. "Caspar Guggenslocker and
four. Graustark." Without hesitation
he began to question the clerk.
They sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm
today" said that worthy. THAT'S all
1 know about them. They came yes
terday and left today
Mr.. Grerfall Lorry returned to Wash
ingtOn as in a dream-a fairy dream
The air nf mystery that had grown
from the first was now an impenetra-
BILE wall, the top of which his curiOS-
ity could not scale. Even his fancy
his imagination, served him not. There
was but one point on which he was
dition was no mystery.
, Through the long hot summer be
worked and worried and wondered
He must know all about her! But
| how?
The early months of autumn found
; | him pale and tired and Indifferent alike
r to work and play. He found no pleas
r ure in the society that had known hin
as a lion. The doctor told him he was
! | approa ching nervous prostration. Hi:
> mothers anxious eyes could no longer
T be denied. so he realized grimly tina
> there was but one course left open tt
: him. He suggested it to the doctor, t.
! his mother and to his uncle, and the,
agreed with him. 1t involved Europe
1 Having fully decided again to eros
@ the sea. his spirits revived. He becam
: more cheerful, took an interest in thing
a that were going on. and by the time tn
r Kaiser Wilhelm sailed in Septembe
o was the picture of health and life.
I He was off for Edelweiss = to tn
b strange Miss Guggenslocker who ha
q thrown him a kiss from the deck tina
@ sailing day.
To be continued.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-12-21
NOTICE.

Notice IL hereby given that the Annual
Meeting OF the stock no ders a. the Barton
rooms in rarton, Vt. on Tuesday, the n h
day OF January. A. ID. 1874, at 70 O'Clock m,
for the purpose Of eleci Ing Directors for the
ensuing year and he transaction OF any
other legal business
Barton, Vt, Dec eth. 1904.
4e-b2 LII HARTMAN, Cashier.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-02-14

"The gospel of protection, !"
which in former years has done
service for Republican campaign
orators as a slogan cry, has been
put on the retired list. The ADLER
and more up-to-date young lead
ers of the Republicans west and
south are rebelling from such
domination and openly asserting
their independence of any such
preachment. The fact is more OBJ
vious to the great masses OF the
people this time than ever before
that high protective duties have
been the mainstay and support OF
every unjust and extortionate ag-
gregation of wealth which in this
country is robbing the people and
amassing great and fabulous for
tunes at their expense.
The Democratic party has a
splendid opportunity under right
leadership to step once more to
the front as the friend of the many
and assume control of national
affairs. 1t is more and more evil
dent that even the strenuous
"Teddy" is not a match for the
cohorts of the trusts, who are the
real power behind the Republican
party. In Democracy now, as in
the days gone by, lies the hope OF
the nation and its rescue from mis-
rule,