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Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The postoffics at Meridian has been
complained to of late by gentleman
living in that city because OF the OBJ
scene anonymous letters that have
come throug the office to him OF
late, but it seems to no avail as the
letters keep coming, the disguised and
different handwriting on each being
difficult to locate the offender.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The Progress will be found ever
ready to welcome any landab'e indus
try to our state, be it ever so humble.
At Ellisville the Pool Steel Skein
Wagon Factory is coimng to the front
through the merits of the wagon it
manufactures. This wagon, in its
substantial build, it is said, has mer-
its peculiarly its own and as result
of it is finding ready demand.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The Jasper County Review says
that it thinks a good thing for the
next Legislature of Mississippi to do
would be new codification of the
laws of the state. 1t says that about
the average life of code is ten years,
the constant changes coming through
that time rendering the code of but
little service after that period.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The typographical union and
Cataholic church are liable 10 have
war over the provision in til formers
bylaws, which makes the obligation
OF q member OF the union paramount
to his obligation to the chruch or
state. Bishop Seamel, of Omaha, has
forbidden members of the church OF
his diocese to remain in the union.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19
MORE CANDIDATES.
With Miss Haney's Announcement
for Librarian the Number
Reaches About Ten.

Special to the Daily Progress.
Jackson, Sept. 10. Candidates Tor
the Office of state Librarian continue
to announce, the two latest TO enter
the race being Miss Ella Mcintosh,
of Ellisville. and Miss Dora Haney,
of Hattiesburg. This position,
though the Incumbent is elected by
the legi stature. is a state office and
pays q good salary. It is the only
state office that is open TO women and
being a very desirable p ace. both
from a financial and social standpoint,
is eagerly sought after. Their" are,
even thus early some eight or ten an
nounced candidates. and the list Is by
n means complete.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19


Ladies are warned to beware of a
swind;iDg scheme that has just been
unearthed, but may bob up again. the
company operating it sending out cir
culars soliciting the pictures of pretty
women to have enlarged and exhibit
with their names and addresses print
ell underneath the pictures, the same
to be exhibited in the art department
Of the st. Louis Fair. 1t developes
that the whole object is to fleece the
women ont of 81. this being the ad-
vance payment required, and after
cent, il She lsat that Is ever heard Of
Is Il il said that many vanity-struck
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

There is delegation of 1000 or
more persons from the extreme north
headed southwark, for the purpose of
hunting homes for their families
They will travel in a body to ST.
Louis and there scatter, taking differ
ent routes southwark, and all portions
of this and other states will be Wis
lied by some of them.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

Alabama is going to guard more
closely the peoples interests as re-
CARDS banks in the future. A bill has
lust been introduced in the legisla-
ture looking to the regulation of the
state banks and safeguarding Of the
interests Of the people.
Qhs people-ol Georgetown. 3 little
village thas i bnilt % close 70 Meri.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

dian that the ontskirt south of the
one touches the northern of the other,
has appealed to Meridian, asking to
be taken under her protecting wing
in consequence of the lawlessness that
has been running i lot in the little vii
lage at night of late.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The Wesson Enterprise complains
of a plethora of professional beggars
infesting that. town. Hattiesburg is
never troubled in this regard. there
being plenty of,,work here for all who
want it 49,.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The First National Bank OF Merl-
dian. publishes its statement in the
Evening Star of that place showing
individual deposits of S7O9, 57e.S7.
This bank has capital stock OF $780, :
600 and surplus fund of $4,000.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

A Texas exchange enthused over
the fiattering crop prospects over there
SAWS that it would take train 1900
miles long to haul the crop from that
state and the value of the shipment
vould not fall short of $400, 000, 600.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

women have bit hungriiy at che
scheme, and are now just beginning
to realize the strength of Shake
speara's saying, what fools we NOR
tails be-
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

A soap factory is to be removed
from an Illinois town to Centervllle.
Miss, the sams to be on the ground
ready to start up within 30 days.
Verify all eyes are now upon Mississlp-
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

Barney Foster, a popular travelling
man Of this state, has brought suit at
vicksburg against the Illinois Central
railroad for $40, 900 damages, he hav-
ing been permanently crippled IN a
collision at Canton some time ago.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

There we're 1857, es5 bales of cotton
consumed by the northern cotton mills
last year, and 2.Ooo,7 2s bales BY
southern mills. Ten years ago the
south's use of cotfon by the factories
was less than 80 per cent OF the
amount used by the north.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

Alcorn connty's assessments show
a valuation of $500, 1863, says the Cor
NTH Corinthian. which is an increase
over last year of $40, 993. Her polls
in number are 1913.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The wheat crops Of the north and
west are too large for the railroads to
ct once cope with, and it is said that
millions Of bushels are piled in SACKS
in improvised sheds at the stations
along the various railroads awaiting
shipment.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The Corinth Corinthian says that
JEFF Davis, governor Of Arkansas.
can be thrown in the gutter and
Knocked of the platform with impu-
nifty, but the man is yet 70 be found
who can read him ont of the demo-
cratic party
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

Beeson's Female College at Merl-
dian, formerly the E. NJ. F. College,
will open Wednesday of next week
with an enrolment of at least 200,
representing twenty states.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The Collins Commercial closed its
first year with its issue of yesterday,
and Ito pretty makeup and well filled
advertising columns tell that the flu
ture is bright for it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The United States government is
finding it difficult to obtain enoHgh
volunteers to supply the needs of the
army.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

Hon. J. NJ. Wakefield, a very prom
inent citizen of Colounbus, Miss,
died at his home in that city on the
18th.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

Some very fine specimens OF sugar
cane have been brought in and mar
keted here, the same bringing good
nrices
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The number of speech es made by
yardaman in his canvass for governor
was 700, requiring 1,400 hours, all
told. in their delivery.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The Blue Mountain, (Miss.,) Fee
male College opened on the 10th IN
slant. with an attendance of 300.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

The town Of Collins had receives up
n Yesterday 1886 bales OF cotton.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-09-19

Ifyou making money as fast you would like
to suggest that bring out of idle cash
and take few of the unexcelled bargains have to
offer The of the property have instructed
to sell and my method is to carry orders if it
breaks the owner, SO let it go:
First will call your attention Mr. w. A. Steven
handsome residence situated Fourth
large and romy lot with Northeast front
fruit flowers yard, six or
plastered and papered with all modern conven
fences such city water sewer connections. electric
lights ETC., In fact it is Of the desirable
homes in the satisfactory price if bought
before the first of October
A house and lot Walnut which ought to
readily sell for $1,000 can be had at once tor $780,
Some vacant lots on the street
handsome house and lot the same street now
occupied by Mr.. Derrckson goes for $1,65o Would be
bargain So, O0O
Four lots on Southern avenue ranging IN price from
$4OO to $1,000.
house and lot on Pine street for $3.50
Twenty three lots in ighborhood ranging IN
price from 500 to $500.
Three beautiful lots Gordon street for 5000.
Two Bouie As 12x19O feet for $500.
handsome house. front and back gallery,
house with an east 'front.' and neatly painted with
splendid water and other the Pearl
and Leaf Rivers depot tor S2ooO $500, $50 per
until paid for, house renting for sl8 per month
Two nice houses Second street. $1,000 and $1,000
respectively.
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Hattiesburg, Miss.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

Wouldn't Maine. a prohibition state,
favor a plank prohibiting Federal
license in that statei Wouldn't Yer
mont do the samer Wouldn't South
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama favor
a plank that would protect their dis
pensary systemst Wouldn't Tennessee
and Kentucky favor it to protect their
dry towns from the blind tigerf Who
would oppose it. and on what grounds
By what manner of reasoning could
any man claim the right to ask for a
Federal license TO violate the law OF
a slater They do not ask it now they
simply do II because the question has
never been raised Let the issue be
raised and the shameful practice be
exposed by the hood-light of the
press, and Congress viii not dare refuse
to right so gross wrong upon the
rights of the states and the rights OF
the people.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

Nashville was n dry town last Sunday
The curtains were ali up, the screens
removed, the interior Of the saloons all
exposed, and there was nothing doing
Why? Because the American had
made il too uncomfortable for them.
Because aroused and indignant public
sentiment was watching them. Be
cause the legislature, true to the best
interests of the state, is after them.
For these reasons, and these reasons
only, these defiers of the statute laws
of the state end decorators of the law
of God, have 'come off their perch. "
Not that they mean to stay good; but
simply to play good. But the band
wagon has passed, and they can't
climb in; or if they do, they must leave
their screens behind them. They are
up against legislature they cannot
control, and they will soon be up
against laws they cannot defy. The
handwriting is on the wall, and it reads,
"Your days are numbered; the saloon
must CO." Which being further inter-
preted means, "You will not be allowed
long to stand upon the order of your
going, but co."
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

hell holes, where drunken men are
debauched. minors made drunk, the
Sabbath desecrated and the law Of
the land violated every day in the
weeK-cesspools of corruption they
cannot control; they are seeking to
exchange these for one joint. iniquitous
THOUGH 1t be, that they can watch,
can regulate, can control. The men
who are making this fight, leading
this movement, are not preferring the
dispensary system to prohi bition.
They are simply choosing one dispen-
sary in preference to fifteen saloons,
reserving the right to fight the evils
of the dispensary as soon as they
show themselves. They are not afraid
that the profits from the dispensary
will buy their tongues to silence or
lull their consciences to sleep. Such a
suggestion is q SANDER upon as good
men and true as walk on the face OF
the earth. Their fight is the same
fight the AntiSaloon League has
made and is making-a fight against
| that political abomination and social
parasite-the open saloon. Not fight
for prohibition but In the direction
of prohi bition, in the interest of tenn
perance, and against the saloon. All
true friends of temperance are looking
toward the same goal All we ask Is
that Columbia, knowing its own
needs, its own difficulties and its own
environments best, may be allowed to
solve this difficult and perplexing
question for itself
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27
COLUMBIA DiSPENSARY.

The following letter from the editor
of the Herald appeared in Wednesday g
Nashville American:
To the Editor of The American:
Please 40 not run your blue pencil
through that head line. | want it to
stand, for the reason that propose to
discuss the Columbia dispensary'
bill and not the ''South Carolina
law, or the "Gothenberg system. l
have never read the ''South Carolina"
law, and 1 do not know. except in a
general way, what the ''Gothenberg
system is: and do not wish to make
the mistake some of your correspop
dents have made. of discussing some
thing they know very little about.
The Alabama dispensary law Is
quite an improvement, / have been
told, over the South Carolina law, IN
tnat it is more practical in Its work
ings and stricter in its details and the
Columbia aispensary bill is drawn
from the Alabama law, but is even
stricter than that, and. a decided i'm
provement, as q temperance measure,
over the Alabama law. Perhaps If
some of the critics of this Colun bia
pill would take the trouble to read ii
they might find some OF their objec-
tions removed. Certainly they could
discuss it more intelligently.
In your issue of this date, the 23rd.
Mr.. Hodges, writing from Morristown,
says: 1T is falsely said that by this
system the traffic is taken out OF
politics. 49, 81
Hon. j. L. AGREE, Mayor of Dothen,
Ala, in a recent letter to the Colum
bia Herald, speaking Of the Dothen
dispenary. says "This plan has kept
the dispensary absolutely out of poll
Etics. T.. i take it that Mayor AGREE
knew what he was talking about.
Mr. Hodge says: but worse than
all, drinking and drunkenness has
never been diminished; in any country
or place adopting the system. ,4}
III Now, hear, the witnesses on the Other
slde' Writing to the Herald. Mayor,
r. IL, Rose. Of Georgiana. Ala, says
PnI have been Mayor three years, and
N.Y. docket will show that ! have not
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

averaged one case of drunkenness q
month. Before W.T. had the dlspensary
there were four or five week; some
times that many day.
Glen Foster, Cashier of the Mer-
chants Bank, of Tuscaloosa, writes !:
"It has reduced the sale of whiskey at
least one third, drunkenness one-half
and stopped social drinking entirely. /"
Mayor AGREE, of Dothen, says :
"The moral effect has been wonderful /;
public drunkenness has been reduced
rs per cent. and the number OF cases
of disorderly conduct in the Mayor 8
court decreased in very marked
degree. :.
In addition to these the Herald has
published quite number of letters
from Mayors OF other Alabama towns,
furnishing cumulative proof abundant
on this point, and it is barely possible
that these gentlemen, with the records
before them, are more competent wit
neses than mere theorists are. And
another proposition entitled to some
weight is this: The bill under CON
sideration asks for dispensary for
Columbia; and it occurs to me that
the people of Columbia are quite rs
capable of knowing what they need
and what they want and what is best
for them DIS the gentleman from Nor
ristown is
The temperance men of this com
munity, the men who have made the
fight tor temperance In any and every
form in which the question has ever
been raised are behind this movement,
Indeed, do not know of but one soli-
tary man who can maze any reason
able claim to prominence in the tenn
perancs ranks who is,opposing it,
They are not wanting to 20 into the
whiskey business; they are wanting to
get as nearly out Of it as they can
They are asking the privilege Of
swapping fifteen saloons OIL for one.
They are seeking to close up fifteen
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

No terminal right has ever been grant
ed giving to one road the exclusive
right TO ENJOY its privileges. No road
would ever dare to ask so foolish a
thing. The purpose of every terminal
is to serve tue public. for a fair con-
slderation, and the very object OF this
bill is to compel Mr.. Diekinson's road.
and Mr.. Russell's road. to do the very
thing they complain thew do not do
that is, to receive all freight alike.
from whatever source, without any
discrimination in rates. and haul 1t
to ITS destination.
The object of the opposition was to
confuse the discussion with all the
minutia and detail possible. but the
argument was decidedly in favor of
the bill and if the friends of the bill
can Fix the thought of the legislature
upon the main point. Ito prevent one
railroad from discriminating against
another railroad. just as all railroads
are prohibited from discriminating be-
tween individuals, IF the Legislature
will decide the question upon that
issue, and leave the "red lights and
the little details to be adjusted by
practical men in a practical way. the
bill is bound to pass, because Its fun
damental principle is sound and right
ana fair.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

The temperance bills yet to be passed
by the legislature are the Mcfarland
bill to prohibit the jug trade, the
No Screen bill. the bill making forfei
ture of license the penalty for Sunday
tippling. and the Columbia Dispensary
bill. The Herald gives its hearty en-
dorsement to each ana every one Of
them, and to any other old bill the
temperance Senators and Representa-
tlves may agree upon.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

When you come to think OF IT.
what has Roosevelt done, since he
has been President, except stir NJ
race prejudice and bad blood between
the North and the South. Good. bad
or Indifferent, what has he done2 Ee
has effected nothing. The Philippine
question, the money question, the
trust question, the tarif-they are
Just where he found them. He has
Numbered in the index and beloved al
the apex and busted broncho or two,
and that's all. He is political failure
and national disgrace.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27
A DOG Law.

Senator Jno. M. Graham has intro
duced bill for the protection OF the
sheep industry. of Tennessee though
the caption of the bill does not say SO
in so many words.
We give a synopsis of the bill in
another column. 1t provides for 81. 90
tax on female dogs; the theory being
that mparatively few people keep
female dogs, and there will not be
such doggoned howl against the bill,
as has heretofore been against dog
laws. Bv thinning out the females
down to a survival of the fittest there
will not only be fewer dogs left to
destroy one of the best industries in
the state, but those left will be of
better breed, and better training, and
better fed.
In our opinion Mr.. Graham does not
put the tax high enough. 1t should
be $40 rather than &c. That would
not be drastic. Any female dog worth
keeping ana breeding from would be
protected by the high license. ana
the fewer the females and the better
their breed, the higher the price for
the pups. With high tax, men who
pay will be enough interested in the
dog breeding business to see that all
female dogs in their neighborhood are
taxed or killed; whereas with the low
tax of So. 80, a good many men will
pay it and think no more about it.
Even with the low tax, however. the
bill is a good one, and a sight better
than the present law, which is vir-
tually no law at all.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

The Standard Oil Company paid the
largest dividends last year of any of the
big trusts. 1t is not surprising that it's
officers oppose the publicity feature of
the Department of Commerce bill.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

Why didn't the government say In
the beginning that the carriers and
the turnpike managers must settle the
toll question for themselvest All the
chumps do not live outside of Wash
inptOn
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

A copy of the Pentateuch, written in
Samaritan characters on gazelle parch-
ment, in the year 735 A. D., has. just
been discovered in Syria and is now in
safe keeping in Cairo.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

The Department Of Agriculture at
Washington has discovered, or thinks it
has, remedy for bitter rot in apples,
which promises to save orchardists
thousands of dollars.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

Speaking of the "old guard" in the
temperance cause, etc., if the Herald
cannot show ten names of ''prohibi-
tionists on the Dispensary petition.
to one prohibitionist" on the counter
petition, we will quit the fight. And
we dare the Anti -Dispensary Pro-
hihitionists to q show down.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

In the Homestead Mills. Of the Car
negie Company 1000 men with improved
machinery produce three times the
amount of steel produced by 5000
men in the Krupp works in Germany.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

What has become of the Nashville
and Columbia Inter urban Electric
Railway Was II all wind2 Has the
L. & N. silenced it, Or is 1t yet to
be2 If they contemplate building
this year, 1t is time they were letting
some contracts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27

A metropolitan daily suggests the
colonization of the poor in the cities,
on low priced agricultural lands as a
wise philanthropy. Not a bad idea.
The best gift that can be made to the
poor, is to give them the opportunity to
work
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27
CREDITORS OF THE BANK OF
~ COLUMBIA.

Beginning on Friday, February 9th,
1903, a. prorata payment Of 90 will be
made to the creditors OF the Bank OF
Columbia. A. N. AKIN, Trustee.
20 d IL WIT.