davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-20

Merwin; delegate, Mrs c. Franklin Smith; alternate. Miss Sara E. O'Con- nor; sub-alternates, Mrs Caroline M. Johnson, Mrs Joseph H. Barnes, Mrs J. Densmore Brown. Miss Sadie M. Merwin, Miss Anna D. Nettleton and Miss Mary B. Reed.
 Mary Clapp Wooster chapter, New Haven: Regent, Mrs w. H. Moseley; alternate, Mrs N. D. Sperry; delegates, Mrs s. s. Thompson and Mrs c. B I Salisbury; alternates. Mrs D. VI. Welch. Mrs A. E. Winchell, Mrs Frank Monson, Mrs W. l.. Phillips, Mrs Al bert Holt, Miss McAIister, Mrs G. K. Newcomb, Mrs 0. W. Pickett, Mrs H. | O. Beers, Mrs l.. Cowles Mrs w. I, Atwater and Mrs F. B. Street. 1 Melicent Porter chapter, Water 1 bury: Regent, Mrs Amelia M. Castle; alternate. Mrs o. IT. Camp; delegate. Mrs n. F. Webster; alternate, Mrs George l.. Lilley..
 Ruth Hart chapter, Meriden: Re gent. Miss Hanna K. Peck; alternate, Miss Josephine Plumb: delegate, Mrs Isaac Porter. jr; alternates, Mrs Will liam IT Catlin. Mrs A. F. Hall, Mrs James Curtis. Mrs A. r. Hadley. Mrs Alice Parker. Mrs J. r. Platt and Miss Kate Risley.
 Sara Ludlow chapter. Seymour: Re gent, Mrs Amos Culver; aternates, Miss Aida Booth. Mrs A. c Dean
 Sara Riggs Humphrey chapter Der by: Regent Mrs George l.. Beardsley; l delegate. Mrs Maria w Kinney; al ternates Mrs F. c. Perry, Mrs I. R. Mason, Mrs F. N. Loomis, Mrs E. J. Purdy. Mrs T. R. Barnes. Mrs N. c. Baldwin. Mrs Gardner, Mrs c. T.. Chnffee. Mrs W. I Miller Mrs F. X. Page, Mrs Blakeman, Mrs D. T. Downs, Mrs J, Peterson, Mrs Will
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
FIRES AND OVERCQATS
COMFORTABLE IN PINE BLUFF
SATURDAY AND STRAW
HATS N. G.
Mercury Did Not Get Down to Frez
ing, But It Was ToIerably Chilly
If You Please.

1t was d chilly day Saturday. A day
in the winter OF 1905 slipped a cog
and arrived some seven or eight
months ahead of time cT else some day
of last winter fell asleep and came
in a few months late. Anyway il
was cold and, overcoats and fires
came in nicely. 1t is rumGred that
progressive citizens who started out
in the morning wearing straw hats
were compelled to go back and pull
out their last wintel felt hat c'r
derby. Spring aspirations were
nipped in the bud so to speak and
Easter bonnets were laid away with
A bit of camphor or meth ball. The
thermometer did not drop below the
freezing point, but the way that the
mercury went down in the tube re
minded some cf the way cotton went
sliding when Sully failed. The wise
ones predict that the cold weather
will not last over a month or two and
that spring will be here by the time
the ball season opens.
Those who were up at 6 o'clock
Saturday morning say that it was
showing at that hour. The snow
must have been very light as there
were no traces of it on the ground
by Z o'clock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

Rev. VIM. e. Thompson, pastor of
the First NJ. E Church, South, of
Memphis. Tenn, formerly pastor of
the First NJ E. Church of Little
Rock. has filed suits in the Memphis
courts against the Commercial Appeal
Publishing company and the Scimitar
Publishing company for $4,000
damages each fer alleged libelous
statements in their columns regarding
him. An editorial and local story in
the Commercial Appeal are stated to be
the ground for action, while alleged
libelous cartoons in the Scimitar are
the grounds for the suit against that
paper.
The suits are one cf the results of
prosecutions instituted against Mem
rhis persons for alleged violations of
the Sunday law.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
TWO HANGINGS
NEGRO HANGED AT HELENA AND
ANOTHER AT WAL
NUT RIDGE.
Pink Williams Brutaily Murdered His
Wife and Bill Jones Killed
Asbury Hoskins.

Helena. April 16.-At 1870 Friday
morning Pink Williams, a negro, was
legally executed in the rear of the
Phillips county Jail, paying the pen
ally for one of the most ravolting
crimes that has ever been recorded
in the county.
Williams killed his wife because
she did not have supper prepared
when he returned from town. where
he had spent the day drinking. the
crime being committed on the Polk
plantation, nine miles from tcMn. The
woman was expecting to give birth
to child at almost any moment when
she was shot down by the drunken
husband, thus making the crime all
the more revolving.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
III PU| UU| |ICkEl
REPUBLICANS WILL TRY TO
LAND JEFFERSON COUNTY
OFFICES.
Pretend to Ei>lieve They Have Good
Fighting Chance to Cary
the County
CONVENTION CALLED MAY IA.
the County.

The Republican central committee
OF jefferson county met Saturday
afternoon in the office Of Ferd HaFis,
the chairman, for the purp Sc of call
ing the county conveltion Ct that
party and to transact other business.
The meeting was called to order by
Ferd Flayis. and S W. Dawson OF
Fairfield was elected secretary. TWen-
ty-five out of thirty-two delegates re-
sponded to rcdl call.
On molten the date for holding the
county convention was set for Thurs
day, May IA, and all delegates notified
to issue the call to their several town
ships.
A resolution indcrsing the admlnls-
tration of President Roosevelt and
making him the choice Of the party
so far as the sentiments of the COM
mittee were concerned, was passed
without a dissenting vote.
A res olution was passed declaring
the sense Of the committee to be that
the Republican party should put out
candidates fer all cr part of the
county offices. After transacting
some routine business regarding the
enrolment of delegates, the committee
adjourned subject to CALL
In discussing the meeting OF the
committee prominent Republican
said:
"The meeting of the committee was
harmonious throughout and it seems
! to be the feeling all along the party
lines to unite this year The prOspec
tive candidate for governor Of the
state Of the Republican party was
not mentioned, but it Is the genera
opinion that all can unite on H. II
| Myers, and we hope to roll up a good
vote fcr him. We will nominate can
| didates for the important county Of
! ices, and may try for all CT them
| We believe the Republican party car
| win in Jefferson county"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
First Methodist-Sunday school

First Methodist-Sunday school at
$50 a. M. w T. Young. superintend-
ent; preaching at II a. m. by Rev.
j. NJ. Hawley; Junior League at p.
m.: service of song at 7:45 p. N.
The choir will sing "Cantate Domino"
a very fine anthem by Sudds; also
Sing Unto the Lord by Davis. Mrs.
Jesse r. Core will sing Our King, >
by Rotoli, in which the composer has
introduced the magnificent Gregorian
chant. Two members of the Rudi-
sill Concert Company, which will ap-
pear under the management of the
EpWorth League Monday night will
also assist Mrs c. H. Moore will sing
with the choir at this service.
Choir-Soprano, Miss Burks, Mrs.
Marley; alto, Mrs. Core, Mrs. Moore
tenor. Mr.. Holland; bass, Mr.. Huber.
The choir will be assisted by Miss
Gertrude Monroe, yiolinist, and Miss
Jessie Monroe, contralto.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
The F|GHI IS UVER
COTTON BELT TRAINS RESUME
TO MEMPHIS AGAIN
MONDAY.
BY Way of Fair Oaks, and Trains Will
Run on t7a Old
Schedule.
FIRST TRAM FROM AERE TODAY

Di4is.. II Superintendent E. A. Peck
of the Gotten Bolt is authority for the
statement that beginning Monday. April
Is, the Cotton Belt will resume its
service into Memphis on both the
freight and passenger lines, The
old schedule viii be resumed and the
north bound train which goes through
here at LBS Sunday morning will run
into Memphis as by the cid scheduse
via Fair Oaks. Mr.. Peck says he
aoes not know the terms by which
,ae agreement was reached between
the road officials and the Memphis
freight bureau. but that orders have
been received from general headquar-
ters in St. Louis to resume the old
schedule.
The peepe of Pine Bluff who will
be supremely glad that the fight has
ended Will be tnOSe VINO walt ICT Iue
distribution of the eastern mail every
afternoon after the 3: Is train arrives
and the passengers who are com
PEELED to go to Memphis occasionally.
Since the war began, the mail clerks
have hardly known what to de- in the
way CT routing the mails, and nearly
every day the mail bags miss connec-
ton at Brinkley.
Things have been adjusted in some
way, and just ten days after the road
pulled out of Memphis. the order was
given for the road to pull into Mem
phis again as usual.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
A SMALL BLAZE.

The fire department was called out
Saturday morning to house on
East Barraque and Georgia streets,
occupied by negroes and owned by
c. G. Brockway. A hot drum to q
heating stove set fire to wall in the
house and caused a slight blaze which
was easily extinguished. The damage
was slight. 4 sgilI;n II, sal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

member of the finance committee COR
the past thirty-fye years and is an
earnest and fithful worker. The
sponsors and maids of honor have
been appointed by Gen. Stephen d.
Lee as follows:
Miss Bobbie Jones, sponsor. Little
Rock.
Miss Juliette Sewer, maid of honor,
Texarkana.
Miss Batson Crayens. maid Ct honor.
Clarksvile.
Mrs. Ralph L. Goodrich, Chaperon,
Little Rock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
MONEY PAID OVER FOR
HARDWOOD PLANT SITE

1t was announced last week that
work would be begun this week
on the new hardwood plant which was
to be located here by representatives
of Charlottesville, Ind, capital. The
committee in charge Of raising the
money for the purchase of the location
have submitted several reports but
up to the present time no deed con-
veylng the title cf the property to
the Charlottesville people has been
filed. Mr.. l. D. Hill, representing the
hardwood plant was in the city last
week. but could not give out definite
information as to what would be done
The next move toward the establish
ment of the 100000 hardwood plant
seems to be a mystery. The citizens
who subscribed to the purchase of the
site have paid their money.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
HARRY ATWOOD'S SUCCESSOR

Mr.. M. j. Howe has been appointed
to succeed Mr.. Harry Atwood as local
agent fer the Iron Mountain road and
Will be checked in Monday. Mr. Howe
is railroad mcn Of much experience,
and was formerly located at Parsons,
Kan. Mr. Atwood will take charge
of the board of trade this week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
GAME PREVENTED BY RAIN.

Rain prevented the game between
the "Lumbermen" and the Paris team
at Paris Saturday. The two teams
will play this afternoon and then the
"Lumbermen" will ccme hcme to rest
up for the game with Little Rock next
Thursday and Friday. i. -
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

st. Josephs Catholic-Masses at
$50 and 10:3O a. M, sermon at Fund
Mass by Father Bertke; Sunday
school at 2:30 p. m.; night service
7:3O; sermon by Mnsg. Lucey on the
Origin and History of the Bible -
Aclass of thirty first communicates
is being prepared by Father Bertke.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
U. c. v. APPOINTMENTS.

Col. J. B. Truiock of this city has
been appointed a member CT the f.
nance committee for the reunion OF
the United Confederate Veterans,
which will be given at Nashville next
June. Colonel Trulock has been s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

the pe!.alty of death here today BY
hassing. Jones was raised in Frank
lin county, Tennessee. where He lived
until four years ago On December
5, 1903, he Killed Asbury H-ekins
here in a drunken crap game.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
PROSPERITY SIGNS
NEW FIRMS LAUNCHED AND
BUSINESS CHANGES SINCE
JANUARY 1.
Board of Trade Organized, leverenz,
Trulock Shoe Company Launched
Past Week.
NEW GROCERY FIRM ORGANIZED.
-zNK-E4
Past w eek

Recently the Graphic printed an ar
ticle showing the great extent of the
building and improving going Oh in
Pine Bluff as an evidence OF the city
prosperity.
There is still another evidence Of
the city,s prosperous condition, which
is very forcefuliy indicated by the
numerous new business concerns
launched and the changes which have
taken place and the charging Of the
business of other concerns since the
first of last January.
One of the most healthy signs CT
business prosperity the city has had
since January l is the organization
) of an active working board of trade,
which will be launched May 1. 1t
is going to prove great factor in
the upbuilding of Pine Bluff if it is
properly managed. and as it has nearly
all the active business men Of the city
behind it t.. give it impetus. it is safe
to say that it will be we'll managed.
A new grocery firm was organized
the past week to open a large retail
grocery in the building which DR..
Simmons is having erected at the cor
E1s.-
The new firm is composed of Ed Ry-
land Sam B. Russell and D: Westall,
three CT the best business men in the
city. It will be known as the West
all company.
The Retail Grocers association has
become an incorporated concern with
capital stock Of $4,000.
R. c. Wolf has opened a new plamb-
ing and gas fitting concern at the cor
ner of Barraque and Beech streets.
The Leverenz- -Trulock Shoe COM
pany was organized last week to sue
ceed G. E. everenz in the retail shoe
business 1t will be an incorporated
concern. The capital stock will be
S25,O00 Mr.. Leverenz will be pres
ident of the company, and Mr.. Harry
E. Trulock secretary and treasurer
Mr.. Leverenz is practical shoe man
of wide experience, and he is a splen.
did business man. Mr. Trulock has
been connected with the Consum er's
Oh company as local manager, but he
resigned his position with the com
pany, to take effect May 1, and at
that time will become actively con
nected with the shoe company. He is
one CT the prominent young business
men of the city, and the new firm will
at once take a position in the front
rank with the leading business con
cenrs of the city.
Clint Green bought the interest ol
his partner in the Primrose barber
shop.
l.. o. Knox bought out the plumb
ing business of w. r.. Fergus, adding il
to his furniture, buggy and carriage
business, and mattress factory.
The municipal government has giver
evidences of prosperity by investing
in $4,000 city hall, upon which
$4,000 worth of repairs are to be made
Jack O'Keifs restaurant opened or
Main street
The new Stag saloon was opened,
Gotten Exchange saloon opened II
Elks building.
Puddephat Furniture company in
creased it's business and moved into
larger quarters.
The T. H. Bunch Grain company
opened business.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

Mrs. Kirkwood Ttnnah of Little
Rock and Mis- Sue Webber of Fort
will be the guests of Mrs. Langford,
Langford, till after Tuesday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.

Mrs. Mamie Fehder has filed suit in
the Jefferson chancery court aginst
for divorce on the grounds of cruelty
and i'll treatment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
f. j. + + i + i + !. i. /. (. j. + f. #
r ~
i. AT TIE CHURCHES TODAY. 4
+ =
+ J. j. = i. i. j. 4 J. + i. Il. i. i. 1. i.

GlHi tiaH churph-SGAl.az sehoo. a.
9.:3Q a III. Preaching Al ll.2o 4 q.
ami 7:$54 =. nj. ReH c!iHe Of Laa5aa.te
viii preach his tai sermon ana at
are eordi=H =Hy invited to hear hin.
Christian Endeayor at p. IL, Md
week prayer meeting "Wednesday eyen-
ir2 1T s O'Clock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

There will be the usual services at
the Lakeside Methodist church today.
sunday school at $50 a. m, Preach
ing at II o'elcck by the pastor: sub
jact: The Woman of Samaria.' 1u-
nior League, 2:30 D. m. Senior League
D. m. Preaching at 7:45 p. M;
subject: "The Tragedy of Useless
Life
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
CHANCE Of LEADER
IN CITY CANDIDATES IN GRAPH
iC's WORLDS FAIR TRIPS
Contest.
Miss Halle KIne Still Holds First
Place in Country With
d e. L6a5
Miss Halle KItne Still Holds First
TrE sTANDlNG OF CANDIDATES.

The first aouat 9l tAe AIsl5 baIlots
in t6c e,i8Rlrfe5 worlds fair free trips
contest shows a new leader in the
re u aae prize fol this city MS
Geltfatg bodds comes to the froal
with his bate}t OF ballots and how
leads Miss Iottio Byrd by Al votes.
Miss Nanuje Lee Bone drops back
to third place in the count. The vot-
ing FIR the past two. weeks has been
extremely light owing to its being
the first two weeks of the month.
The April ballots must all be de-
posted before May / in order to be-
counted Several Of the contestants
are keeping up with the votes that
appear in each issue cf the Graphic
and have asked their friends to save
the ballots for them. Others are tax
ing advantage of the offer to get
subscriptions for the Daily and Week
ly Graphic and thereby have run up
their totals rapidly. Both ballots will
be counted and the standing cf the
contestants will be printed in each
Sunday issue of the Graphic here
after. In order to be counted in the
Sunday list, the coupons must be de-
posted in this Office before 6 o'clock
of the Saturday preceding, otherwise
they will net appear in the standing
until the next Sunday The following
shows the standing of the city contest
ants:
Miss Gertrude Dodds :. ;. -. .479
Miss Lottie Byrd 49,. :. . ..... 438
Miss Mamie Lee Bone. -. :. -. 206
Mrs. Ella Albright. =. :. :. .146
Miss Ionic May Burks. ;. :. :. 80
Miss Margaret Taylor ...... -. II
Miss Flora Silbernagle ...... Is
Miss Merrill Cowan. -. :. :. :. 9
Miss Annie Kerwin. -. &
Mrs. Will Riley. -. -. :. &
Miss Cora Mitchell :. /
Mrs. W. T. Radford. :. :. 1
Miss Irma Grace. =. . :. 1
There are no changes in the stand
ing of the contestants outside cf Pine
Bluff, but the young ladies are tax
ing a keen interest in the contest.
The standing of the contestants in
the county race is as follows:
Miss Hollie Kline Of Linwcod. LIPS
Miss Sadie Eibott of Altheimer. 81
Miss Easley Roberts ,Wabbaseka %
Miss Mary Hull Swan Lake. 3
Miss Kate Watson, Tucker. ..... I
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

Riverside Methodist church -
Preaching at II a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
nv the pastor, Rev ]. r. Dick rson.
Sunday school at $50 a, m. Epworth
League at 4:30 p. m. Subject of the
night discourse THE True Standard
CT Mananhood."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

The Brotherhood Of Railway Car
men had very interesting meeting
Friday might, at which much important
business was transacted They in
itiated ten candidates and received a
number Of petitions. This lodge has
1865 members and is increasing rapidly
each meeting.
TIE K. of P. lodge at Brinkiey has
invited team from the lodges in this
city to come up there next Thursday
night to confer the third rank on a
class of ten. the Brinkley ledge t.. pay
all expenses.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
FRATERNAL NOTES.

Wednesday afternoon at Imperial
lodge room, where they will be perma-
nently located in the future
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

Walnut Ridge, April 16.-Bill Jones,
a negro, alias Jim Featherstone, paid
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

West End Mission church-Preaching
at II o'clock by the pastor. Sunday
school at 3 p. M Preaching at 7:45;
subject: "True Happiness and Its
Source" Rev. T. w. Vaughn, pastor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17

First Baptist church-The pastor,
Rev Ross Moore, will preach at both
hours of service. The subject CT the
morning discourse, "a Mcuntain-Top
Experience" Evening subject, "How
and What to Believe" Sunday school
at $50 a. N. B. Y. P. U. at p. m.
All are cordially invited to worship
with the congregation.
Second Presbyterian church-Rev.
Prcbst, of Chicago, logical reasener
and eloquent pulpit speaker, will
preach at II a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
Sunday school at $50 a. m.
Regular services at the First Pres
byteran church today Sunday school
at $50 a. m. Preaching at II a. m.
and 7:3O p. m. Christian Endeavor
at $50 p. m.
convenes at the Second Presbyterian
church Monday fer a three days ses-
sion; services day and night. The
! returned missionaries from China and
japan will talk every night at S:45.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-17
EXECUTION AT WALNUT RIDGE.

Bill Jones, Negro, Hanged for the
Murder Of Hoskins, a Negro.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-01-07

umns OF he second. and i. j:st nat
urally so,d cords of papers. His ed
itor demanded that the state depart
ment take ii up. though the Spahiaros
denied the execution or any previous
knowledge of any such person rs this
Senior Simpkius. That made apother
page in the paper. of course, ana theh
they got up Il memorial service, winch
was good for three columns. o..e OF
those fellows that you can find in CIV
ery office. who goes around and makes
the boys give up their lunch money to
buy flowers for the deceased aunt o.
the cellar boss wife, managed to col
lect $50 among our clerks. and they
sent a floral notebook with Gone to
Press" done in blue immortelles on III"
cover as their tribute"
put on a plug hat and attended the
service out 6f respect for his father,
But had hardly got back to the office
before received a wire from Jamaica
reading: Gable your correspondent
here let me have hundred. Notify ia
thef all hunk. Keep 1t dark from 9th
ers. Simpkins."
kept 1t dark, and Ezra came back
to life by easy stages and In such
way as not to attract any special atten'
ton to himself. He managed to get the
impression around that he'd been
snatched from the jaws Of death by
rescue party at the last moment The
last heard of him he was in New
York and drawing ten thousand year,
which was more than he could have
worked up to in the leather business in
century.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-01-07
ON TAKING A REST
ooes Year Substitute Bacon and ESQ
For Birds and BurauNdy

l hear a good deal about men who
won't take vacations and who xii!
themselves by overwork, but it's usual
ly worry or whisky. It's not what
man does during working hours, but
after them. that breaks down his
health. A fellow and his business
should be bosom friends in the office
and sworn enemies out Of 1t. A clear
mind ia one that is swept clean Of busi-
ness at 6 O'Clock every night and isn't
opened up for it again until after the
shutters are taken down next morning.
Some fellows leave the Office at night
and start out to whoop 1t up with the
boys, and some go home to sit up with
their troubles. They're both in bad
company. They're the men who are
always needing vacations and never
getting any good out of them. What
every man does need once a year is
change Of work-that is, II he has been
curved up over q desk for fifty weeks
and subsisting on birds and burgundy.
he ought to take to fishing for living
and try bacon and eggs. with little
spring water, for dinner.-From Let
tiers From a Self Made Merchant to His
Son." by George Horace LoriIner.