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Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
PENINSULA NEWS.
Short Items of General Interest Gathered
From Our Exchanges.

Charles B. Prettyman, who has been
a resident of Dover for the past twenty
years, left last week for Wilmington,
where he las moved the plant of his
shirt factory.
Miss Ethel Smith. of Harrington,
aud A. Ward zimmerman, son of DIR.
and Mrs. G. W. zimmerman, of Green
wood and assistant agent at FELTON,,
were quietly married at the home of
the brides parents, last Wednesday
morning at 7.3O o'clock. They left on
their wedding tour on an early train
and Will visit Phil adelphia, Baltimore
and Washington. They will make their
home in FELTON,.
j. Burton Warton, son of ex-Sheriff
John B. Wharton, is an applicant for
the Office of Oyster Revenue Collector.
This appointment is made by the Gov
ernor and will probably be one of the
first made by Governor elect Lea after
his Inauguration in January. Mr.
Wharton is a farmer living near Do
yer and is we'll qualified for the Office
he seeks. lie is Young man and pop
lar and has already received many let
ters recommending him to the Cover
norelect.
William H. Herring, a well known
rool 20 Hia1 or h1q
pence in Philadelphia Monday morn
ing, the goth inst. Death was due to
a complication of maladies from which
he had been suffering for about a
month, He was born in FELTON,, March
81, 1884, and for many years was en-
gagged in farming and fruit raising.
He later turned his attention to real
estate speculation. The funeral took
place Wednesday afternoon from his
late residence and interment was made
in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
After listening to an interesting de-
scription of his summer trip to Europe
by L. Layton Register, the Sons of
Delaware of Philadelphia, Monday
night, the Goth inst, elected Avery D.
Harrington, president, Samuel d.
Brown, first vice president, Benjamen
A. Hazel, second vice president, Will
liam E. Baker, secretary, Robert Nc
Cauley; treasurer, W. W. Smithers,
historian, George W. Sparks, John 7.
Wilson and E. P. Challenger, mem
bers of the board of governors to fill
unexpired term. The Society Will give
a dinner at the Bellevue -Stratford Ho-
tel, December 7th in celebration of the
signing of the Constitution of Della
ware
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30

General StOesseI seems to be dread
fully obstinate. He sends word that
he can hold Port Arthur for several
months yet. Well, we can endure it,
Chefool doesn't telegraph every after
noon that Port Arthur has just been
captured.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
A Guaranteed Cure for piles

Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Pro-
truding Piles. Druggists refund money
if PazO Ointment fails to cure any case,
no matter of how long standing, in 6
to IA days. First ap plicati on gives
ease and rest. SOC. If your druggist
hasn't 1t send SOC in stamps and it will
be forwarded postpaid by Paris Med
icine Co., st. LOUIS, Mo.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
SHOE DEPARTMENT

Every purchaser of our Shoes is a prize winner
We buy i'll large quantities. direct from the manufac-
turer and give honest values in every pair we sell
Our Fall Stock has been selected with great care and
the styles are perfection. We carry all the different
widths from to F. thereby fitting your feet with the
ease and comfort only to be found in a custom made
Shoe Our specalties are for men-Douglass and
Walkover at $3.50 to 81 and at S 90 we have the
celebrated Hall custom made Shoe. For Women
Autohav Regina and Queen Quality. Rnbber Goods
the celebrated Lambertville the only genuine snag
proof
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30

Electric roads are multipl ying so
rapidly that it will shortly be possible
to go from Boston to Denver by troll
ley. In 1900, less than four years ago
there was only 311,016 electric horse
power in the whole country. To-day
there are $4,000 electric horse power.
At this tremendous rate of increase
there will be in ten years more-how-
ever readers can figure it for themsel-
yes.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
DEPARTMENT

We make specially of fine groceries, handling
them in large quantities, enabling to give you any
thing in groceries or provisions, at right prices
Highest prices paid for all kinds of trade. e>-
changeabe in merchandise at either of our stores
Goods delivered free of charge to all parts of
Smyrna Clayton and Smyrna Landing
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
Quick Arrest.

j. A: Gulledge, of Verbena, Ala.
was twice in the hospital from a severe
case OF piles causing "a tumors. After
Iocters and all remedies had failed.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve quickly ar.
rested further information and cured
him. 1t conquers aches and kills
pain. 2jc, at Benton N. Weldons.
Druggist.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30

Young man, take couragel If you're
poor it is a sign that great Nature in
tended to give you a chance to make
somebody of yourself. The next gov
ernor of the State of Minnesota is a
Democrat, elected by 10000 from one
of the stanchest Republican strong.
holds which gave Theodore Roosevelt
100000 majority. johnson is washer
woman's son and for that reason was
made the victim of an asinine attack
at the hands of his political opponents.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30

Government engineers have approved
the plan of New Mexico for a dam at
Elephante Butte, for storing the flood
waters of the Upper Rio Graude. Work
on the dam will soon begin. The wa
ter thus conserved will reclaim 2OO, ,OOO
acres in New Mexico, Texas and Mex
leo above and around Ell Paso. Irriga-
tion is the watchword of the West
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
COATS AND FURS

1t is very gratifying to know that every garment
i'll this department is one, all made to our spe-
cal order since October st, 1904. Not single gar
ment carried from last season. What a satisfaction
to purchaser to feel certain that every garment from
which your selection is being made is a new one
They are made from the most popular and desirable
cloths, in black, grey and the popular checks and
stripes.
Our separate walking skirts from ST. SO to 5000
are very popular. They in Stylish effective cloths
and are handsomely tailored.
The crisp cool mornings and evenings suggest
stylish piece of Fur for the neck. Our furriers have
never done themselves greater credit Each piece has
been carefully selected and fashioned just to your
liking. Every piece one.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
HALL & MEGEAR
DRESS GOODS

There are certain of Dress Goods, Mo
hairs, Coverts Checks and Mixed Suitngs that are
very popular and with some dealers very scarce We
have them III all the correct colorngs at 25c Soc 75c
and ST 90 per yard,
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30
TAILOR MADE SUITS

Our Suits selected with great care, and are
tailored in the best fashion that high and skill can
give garment the Workmanship being frst-class in
all respects, with the very natural result of perfect
fitting garments at popular prices
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30

All who use Atomizers in treating
nasal catarrh will get the best result
from Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price.
including spraying tube, IS cts. Sold
by druggists or mailed by Ely Bros,
So Warren St., N. Y.
New Orleans, Sept. /, 1900.
Messrs. ELY BRos:-I sold two bot
ties of your Liquid Cream Balm to a
customer, VIM. Lamberton, 1415 Della
chaise ST., New Orleans; he has used
the two bottles, giving him wonderful
and most satisfactory results.
GEO. ". MoDUFF, Pharmacist.
Smyrna times., 1904-11-30

On Sunday President Roosevelt
joined Cardinal Gibbons in dedicating
the parish school of St. Patrick's in
Washington and Archbishop Irelan
preached on France and the Vatican.
Isn't all this rather ticklish business.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
LOUISIANA NEWS.
Child Badly Burned.

Crowley, La: Little Ida Marks, the
S-year-old daughter IF Mr., and Mrs. j.
d. Marks, came down stairs at the
Marks home on East Third street
about 8 o'clock anS entered the sit
ting room and stood before the fire.
place to warm. The blaze from the
fireplace caught her clothing. No one
was in the room at the time and She
ran screaming into the yard, where
she was caught by negro servant,
who with much difficulty, and after
being severely burned himself, extin-
&uished the flames. Mr.. and Mrs.
Marks were in New Orleans at the
time of the accident, and were at once
notified by telegram. They returned
on the first train. The little girl is
resting comparatively easy. Mr..
Marks. the childs father, is the propri
etOr of the Morse rice mill at Morse
and the Ida rice mill at Rayne.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
NO EARTHLY HOPE
OF PREVENTING WEEVtL GAINING
FOOTHoLD IN LOUISIANA.
JUDGE PUCH, OF SHREVEPORT
Comes to That Conclusion After Tour
ing Western Texas-White Man
and Cultural Methods.

Houston, Texas, Nov. 2S.-Last
night Mr.. w. D. Hunter Of Victoria,
the government chronological expert p;
Judge J. c. Pugh of Shreveport and
Col. F. Maxwell of Mound, La, the
two latter members Of the Investigate
ing commission appointed by the re,
cent boil weevil convention held in
Shreveport to tour Texas to look into
the plans for fighting the boil weevil
as adopted by DR.. Hunter, returned
to this city from the West. They Wis,
tied Victoria, Cuero, Yoakum, LuliEg
and Lockhart and made very seach-
ing inquiry into conditions.
Judge Pugh, when asked last night,
stated that he had not only looked on
the cotton fields, but had hunted up
farmers in each place and asked them
of the cotton crop, the boil weevl and
other questions. He said he found
some men who wouldn't make a bale
to ten acres and one man who made
three bales on $50 acres. Cotton rails
ing, he thought, was thing Of the
past. Bankers had told him that the
farmer who attempted raising cotton
can get no credit with the banks, and
must per force quit raising it. He
had found that the negroes were NOV
ing out of the country, and he believ,
ed that the whole western country
would eventually be cultivated by
white man who used cultural meth
DDS or scientific farming. The ne
groes would have to give way to them.
When asked what he thought of the
possibility of keeping the boil weevil
from invading the state of Louisiana,
he answered:
There is no hope on earth of pre-
venting the invasion. The conditions
where We have been are much worse
than had any idea Of"
Judge Pugh will go to Galveston and
Col. Maxwell to Shreveport, both to
return to join other members who are
at Lockhart and continue the investi-
cation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
A Teachers Testimony.

Hinton, KY, Nov. 2S.-tSpecial)-
It has long been claimed that Diabe-
ties is incurable, but Mr.. E. ]. Thomp.
son, teacher in the Hinton school,
has pleasing evidence to the contrary.
Mr.. Thompson had Diabetes. He took
Dodd's Kidney Pills and is cured. In
a statement he makes regarding his
cure Mr. Thompson says:
q was troubled with my kidneys
for more than two years and was
treated by two of the best doctors in
this part of the state. They claimed
/ had Diabetes and there was little
to be done for me. Then | started
to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and what
they did for me was wonderful. 1t
is entirely owing to Dodd's Kidney
Pills that l am now enjoying good
health"
Many doctors still maintain that
Diabetes is incurable. But Diabetes
is kidney disease, and the kidney
disease that Dodd's Kidney Pills will
not cure has yet to be discovered.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Fight With Hoidups.

Danyille, H.: Frank Holycross, a
bartender, was fatally shot Sunday in
desperate fight with three holdup
men. The men were heard planning
to stop train, and while travelling
man ran to notify the police they en-
tered the restaurant and the fight
with Holycross followed. The bar.
tender knocked down two of the men
and the third shot him. A dozen shots
were fired. The shooting attracted a
crowd and the man who shot Holy.
cross held the men at bay while his
companions loaded their revolvers.
The three desperadoes ran and sue.
ceeded in escaping.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Negro Murderer Denied Bail.

DOnaldsOnyille. La: Silas Duke. a
negro, who killed Aleck Powers three
weeks ago: in the New River section of
the parish, has been given a prelimi-
mary hearing before Judge Paul Leche.
The evidence was not such as to war
rant his being released on bond, and
ne was remanded to Jail without the
benefit of bail. He will be tried at the
next term of the district court, which
c0nYenes next January.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
FAILED AGAIN.
Gotten Mills at Fall River Attempted
to Resume Operations.

Fall River, Mass: All the print
cloth mills started their machinery on
Monday in another attempt to induce
striking operatives to return, but the
situation apparently had not changed
greatly since last week. Some man,
ayers claimed to have made slight
gains, six of the corporations, and
Hargraves No. l, after keeping the
doors open for an hour, stopped all the
machinery.
The textile council Of the city re-
Ceived a draft Of $4,000 from the head
quarters of the American Federation
of Labor at Washington to aid the
cotton mill strikers to enter upon the
nineteenth week of their contest. The
amount received is the first of an as
sessment voted at the Federation con-
VentiOn at San Francisco. A draft
for $500 was also received from the
American Federation of Musicians.
The American Printing Company
has reduced the prices of Indigo prints
half cent and on other styles on
the New York market. The company
Is controlled by NJ. c. D. Borden of
New York, head of the great Iron
Works cotton mills here.
1t is understood that all other print
ers will meet the new prices. This
will cause many complications in the
strike situation, inasmuch as it means
smaller margin of profit for like
printed goods.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
QUARTERLY Methodist Conference.

CeVington, La: Rev. w. H. La
Prade of the New Orleans district.
which includes this place, is here TO
AOId the fourth quarterly conference
for the current year, and preached
Sunday morning and night at the
Methodist church to large congrega-
lions. He reports the work of the
church under his charge to be in a
prosperous condition and the year
closing very auspiciously.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
HOLD THE COTTON
PETERS ISSUES LETTER TO THE
FARMERS.
TEN CENTS is LITTLE ENOUGH.
The Spread of the Boil Weevil Will
Materially Cut Down the
Next Crop.

Calvert Texas, Nov. 29.-COlOnel f.
S. Peters, president of the Texas Cot,
ton Growers Protective Association,
was seen Monday afternoon. He says
he feels positive that the crop is less
than 100000 bales, while the re-.
quirements of the world are at LEAST
1l,500,000 He strongly advises every
planter to hold the remainder of their
cotton until they can get 1Oc per
pound, in the interior, basis middling
If the farmers will stand by each 9th.
er on this proposition success is as
sured. The farmer proper has al
ready sold at least 65 per cent of his
crop, and he is certainly in a position
to hold the other So per cent, and, if
they stand together, command almost
any price they agree upon. In my
judgment the world doesn't yet real
ize what serious proposition they
are facing in regard to the boil weev-
il. The boil weevil in another year
will be practically in every county in
the state of Texas and Indian ferrl-
tory and Oklahoma, and in practically
every parish in Louisiana, and no
doubt will cover a large portion of
Arkansas. And it is an assured fact
that the acreage another year will be
reduced. This is being strongly ad.
Vised by Mr.. Hunter and DR.. Knapp,
the boil weevil experts employed by
the United States government. They
know that the only possibility of max
ing any cotton in the weevil infested
districts is by reduction of acreage
and more rapid cultivation.
The farmers of the South have had
their noses to the grindstone ever
since the civil war, and only within
the last two or three years have they
gotten anything like fair prices for
their cotton, and now they have the
situation in their own hands, and if
they do not grasp it they are standing
in their own light. AS | have hereto,
fore, | now most earnestly urge them
to stand together and hold the remain.
der OF this crop for at least 10c.
1t is a we'll known fact that the rain
fall in Mississippi and Louisiana is
much greater than in Texas. and it is
also well known that the boil weeyil
does much more damage in sections
where the rainfall is excessive; and
another thing, in the rich Mississippi
Delta country believe the boil weeyil
would make complete destruction. as
the cotton grows SO rank that it will
make the production of cotton in that
territory impossible.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Job of MESSENGER.

Austin, Texas: From present indi.
cations there promises to be quite a
scramble for the place of messenger
from Texas to the electoral college,
which meets at Washington early in
the new year. The Texas electors will
meet here and select the messenger.
Babe Henderson of Sulphur Springs
and Scott Key of Waco are candidates
for the place, which is a nice trip to
the National capital, with good pay
for the services performed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Trade Is Curtai!ed.

Denton, Texas: 1t is authoritative.
ly reported here that more than halt
the cotton raised by the farmers of
the southern part of the county this
season is being held by them for
higher prices. The farmers unions
have gained a strong foothold in this
county and their leaders generally
are urging the farmers to hold for
higher and better markets. AS a re-
suit of this tendency to hold the cot
ton off the market trade this fall is
not as good as was at first anticipated
in Denton.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
To Open Archer County.

Wichita Falls, Texas: Col. Morgan
Jones has been in the city several
days and it is remarked that he con.
templates building branch railroad
from this city in the direction of Wind.
thorst, in Archer county, where a
large tract Of land will be open for
settlement. Col. Jones went over the
Valley line to Seymour Monday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
An Unnatural Mother.

New York: According to the police,
Ida Englehard, under arrest in Pater
son, has confessed that she roasted
her infant before the furnace fire I'M.
til it had been fatally burned. The
young woman was employed by Moses
7. Laforge in Paterson. He also
found the infant in an ash barrel.
The child was alive, but parts Of
its body were badly burned, and the
little one died in a hospital. Investi.
cation resulted in the arrest of Ida
Englehard, who said she was the
mother of the babe and confessed that
she carried it to the cellar and ex.
posed the body to the heat of the fur.
mace.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
The Still Exploded.

New York: A whiskey still blew up
in an Allen street tenement house
here Sunday night, starting a fire,
causing the tenants to rush from the
building in panic. Little damage
resulted from the fire. The door of the
room in which the explosion occurred
was blown down and the police found
in the room badly wrecked plant for
making whiskey. None of the other
tenants knew the occupants of the
place nor the existence of the still.
Revenue officers have been omitted
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Left Drifting at Sea.

San Francisco, Cal: Somewhere In
the Northern seas the old barkentine
Quickstep, water-logged, deserted
rudderless, is drifting, derelict. Her
crew Of ten men had been landed in
this city by the steamship Homer at,
ter undergoing nine days of priyation
and hardships and losing all their
personal belongings. The Quickstep's
crew was taken from the disabled yes.
sci by the Tampico, Captain John
Roberts, bound from Seattle and Ia
coma to San Pedro. When off Gray's
harbor, Captain Roberts transferred
the crew of the shipwrecked vessel to
the steamer Homer.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Heavy OYSTER Shinments.

Pointe a la Hache, La: VIM. A.
Movers, superintendent of locks and
canals of the Louisiana Navigation
and Fisheries Company, states that
the repair work at the quarantine Ca
nal lock has been completed, and that
since Oct. Is weekly average of s.
GOO barrels of oysters was transported
through the lock for New Orleans.
He expects that the shipments will
greatly increase.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Two Men Were Cut.

Crowley, La: News has reached
this city of a serious cutting ARRAY
that occurred near Eunice Saturday
night or early Sunday morning. De,
tails are meager, but it is said F. M.
FIGURE and E. A. Blance, Southern
Pacific brakemen, who reside at New
Iberia, were attacked with long
knives by two Frenchmen named Sa,
vote and Richard of Eunice. FIGURE
is said to have been terribly slashed
across the body number of times by
Sayoie, and his recovery is extremely
doubtful. Richard was severely cut,
but will recover. The cutting was the
result of fight at a country dance.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Train Killed NEGRO Girl.

Buda, Texas: Eva Tinnon, a negro
girl about 20 years Old, was run over
and killed by International and Great
Northern train No. 10 while about two
miles south of Buda Monday morning
Particulars are unobtainable, but it is
reported that she attempted to cross
IN front of the train and was struck
Another report is to the effect that
she was hard of hearing and was
walking down the track and did not
hear the train approaching. The en-.
gineer, however. said she was on the
opposite side from his, which woulL
seem that she was not on the track.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
Chittim Murder Case

San Antonio, Texas: The trial of ].
M. Chittim, who is charged with the
murder of H. E. Elwell of Wisconsin.
was set for Monday morning in the
Thirty-seventh district court. but was
passed. The Chittim case is one OF
the most important that has come be.
fore the courts of this county in many
years, and will doubtless attract a big
crowd TO the court room. Chittim is
the San Antonio cattle man whose
$1,000,00O estate is now in receiver.
ship.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
A Stranger Shot.

NacOgdoches, Texas: A stranger,
who refused to reveal his name, was
shot at the depot here Sunday night
by Deputy City Marshal Turner. The
man had beaten his way on the train
from Houston to this place and was
arrested on complaint of the conduct
or. He undertook to run away from
the officer, who shot to stop him, and
hit him accidentally, inficting a
wound in the arm.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-02
LAST OF THE FAIR,
Program Arranged for Closing Exer.
cises Known as Francis Day.

st. Louis, Nov 2S.-At a joint meet.
ing of the executive committee and
committee on ceremOnials of the Lou.
iSiana Purchase Exposition, a prelim.
mary program was arranged for the
closing day of the Worlds Fair, Dec.
/. and its decided to name the day in
honor of the president of the Exposi-
ton Company, D. R. Francis. One of
the features Of the day will be the
features of the day will be the admis.
sion Of children under 16 years OF age
free of charge. Also all inmates OF
orphan asylums will be admitted free
regardless Of age. The principal eXer-
cises will be held at the Plaza st. Lou
is, at the same spot where the opening
exercises were held seven months be-
fore.
W. II. Thompson, treasurer Of the
Exposition, will preside, and the clos,
ing address will be delivered by Pres,
ident Francis. The days exercises
will close with parade Of all nations
in the plaza. Only a tentative pro
gram has been arranged for the night,
but the gates will remain open until
II midnight, and the Examinations Of
the grounds will continue until that
hour.