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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29
Tas NEW ARRANGEMENT OF RURAL


A H1sed tu thn COURIER earlv ia
the spring, thts county Is one Of she
fortunate half dozen counties ia the
southeastern section of the state that il.
70 be organized for county free deltv,
cry. The plan has been outlined Z
number OF times in these columns.
Briefly, it is to bring rural free de.
livery within reach Of every farmer in
the county. Some are 80 situated. in
Inc interior of a section or in iuc0uvau-
ientportious Of irregular sections, 80
that it may be necessary for them TO
travel half, three quarters, Or even 81
mile or more to reach a regularly Laid
out road oH which the Carrier may
pass. This is the misfortune of their
location, yet is giving such as good ser
vice as they caa reasonably expect.
The plan is to accommodate the great
est nImber and il the most economical
way, and the government Inspector
VII be glad OF any suggestions or in
foFmatipu<tha will help to this end.
In order to bring this about all routes
viii be rearranged. Some will be ex-
tendet, others changed to other high
ways, many will remain as now ar
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29
IOWA AND sourn DAKOTA.

II it really be true that Iowa has lost
Ia population since the federal census
OF 1900 Was Jaken-and it Is too early
/ to confidently ass srG that loss has
been sustaiued-the state of South
Dakota has uo reason to be uugraelous
about it. 1t Is to be hoped the sug-
/ gestiOn can be made TO the Sioux
| Fails Press without provoking acharge
Of presumption. South Dakota is en-,
! i0ying splendid prosperity. The state
| Is increasing In wealth, and - is in
! Cre4slug la population Probably it s.
more Indebted to Iowa than to any
other state, Iowa people have not
/ gone to South Dakota because South
| Dakota is better state than Iowa.
They have goue there because Of cheap
er lands. Many Iowa young men have
| seen opportunity in South Dakota to
own farm aud 10 grow up with the
couutry. They have been Of great All
vantage to South Dakota. They have
Introduced Iowa methods there. They
have pointed the way TO successful
farming The exodus has been going
on for d number Of years, and with the
noticeable beginning Of it South Dakota
oegan dragging itself out OF the Slough
Of Despoud, TO get upon its feet, stick
up aud Ike on Il pleasing expire ssou
of cOunteuance. Iowa is not only re-
lated terrltorialjy TO South Dakota,
out i; has blood relationship with it.
1t has not only contributed good pee
De, hut il has furnished capital TO Sel
The N up ia business. If Iowa mas met
vita "a loss ot population, according to
tue rtc9rd OF the census takers, tits
for SJulh Dakota 70 offer such con-
pensAlions as j. may. 1t is at least be-
coming on its part 10 withhold dis
paragIug remarks and TO be caretal not
TO peryert the record TO the disadyant-
age of Iowa onddence and generosity.
South Dakota has only 10 listen to hear
the paternal voice of this state saying
BLESS you, my childrep: eless yov."-
| Sl0WT CIty JouTTIG(.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29
chlnn,s NntInnal rr.s.

The tung,shu, OK wood ail tres II
werthily named the national tree Of
CHINA, 1t Is stately In appearance,
With Smooth green bark and wide
spreading branches, affording ftne
shade II belongs TO the cuphorhiacae.
or spurge. family, Of which the castor
oil plant IS Il member II bears fruit
resembling shell bark hickory nut,
but as large as small Grange. Each
nut contains three triangular seeds sim,
liar 70 small Brazil nuts, The oil il
pressed from these seeds, and the ref
use ts used as fertilizer, The oil Is
used principally for polishing wood
work aud dressing leather. Consid.
able quantities. are exported, The Wood
of the tung Shu Is used for making mg-
steal Instruments, fine boxes ana the
framework OF small houses, 1t il free
from the ravages of insects.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29
FIRST Transatlantic Yacht Race.

The three schooners, Henrietta.
yesta and Fleetwing, were the con,
testants In the first across the ocean
yacht race. In 1866, for stake OF
$4,000 Those three yachts made the
race in the depth of winter, starting
from New York harbor ON Dec. IL,
1866, and finishing off the Needles a
fortnight later, the Henrietta crossing
the line on Christmas eve. the Vesta
and Fleetwing finishing in the early
morning hours of the great holiday.
And for almost the entire length of
that 5000 mile passage they were ac-
companied by strong westerly winds,
heavy seas and alternate squalls OF
rain. hail and snow. Neither the pas
sengers nor crew were In dry clothes
from beginning to end or the race,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29
noxhna,l et Great Nan.

Near the middle Of the last century
there dwelt In a small town In Iowa, a
ruddy, flaNen haired youth who one
night had remarkable dream
A fairy appeared 60 him,
Little boy" said the fairy, Il or.
fer you the choice Of three things.
Think well before You decide, Mhieh
will You have. power, wealth or
famef'
That's a einehw replied the hoy.
"rn take all three OF en-. h'gnah n
That boy afterward became Gapn
Anson, the champion latsnan of the
universe Pop Anson, the ereat h,lse-
ball magnate, and Adrian Constantine
Anson, city clerk III ChieasN, With n
salary of $4,000 year, Chicago Irll.
une.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29

A heavyrain east OF this city badly
damaged the track OF the Northwe stern
road, washing II out at spots for about
ten miles. stopping the train service
for the day. Besides the damage to
the railroad several wagon bridges
were carried out, and the whole countr7 ,
was Hooded "-freSs Dlepa,ch feaanay
Mor4aiag.
The above sounds like the items the
north.end papers in years gone by used
to publish about Elk Point. Tie place
referred 10 Is aot Elk Point but Pierre
where only last year they had 10 use
hailed hay 10 prime the moving ma.
chimes,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29

Pf.sen1atIves N cOngress to lake up
'ne ma5ler for rhem. That the prae-
''ee $ unjust to Ih4 print shops of the
to4"'ry, no onr can ueGv Business
men bay goverumentenveiuves printed
ca-se they can get Them AT price
L@Ns 5nan the home printer can buy the
( me g"'td9 of stock Tor a5 wholesale,
Leo alone The freight. carriage. printing
anu 1saa. commercial prri1. OF
c"0'se The government buys them bv
/ the mI.uCus at New YORK he6ory
prices, Jne printing is d0ue before the
euve."pe : folded, by automatic feed
l1Z mach ines; and the envelopes are
delivered by mail and thus the cost Of
. transporting same Across the continent
-om"s Lhe annual pos d deic h.
L4Is pages them IN the hands OF busi
Ness men 40 price below what the
home grluLer can possibly furnish Shem
fOr- la other words, it shuts him out
completely on that line Of busi ness ex-
- ~' " E'tA -'@'At4-cS tA4E " i1O "iAb AnELI
business TO appear on their euveIope
We are rot indIug laulb with Lhe busi-
ness nen who bay government enve-
Loges, that's their business But We
would ike TO have the government
furnish The printers chance To buy
Ger ain articles that are carried by
these Same business men at d price Us
low IN proportion as are the govern
meet envelopes when CON pared with
The product Of the home printer, or
else do away with This piece oil pater
Aallsm that Injuries the business Of
pcacticalIy y every prlnter in the land, to
more or less extent. 1t looks To us
that the South Dakota Press associa-
dLQn might at their next NEE ting take
actIOn on this matter along similar
nos to that OF their North Dakota
brethrea. 1t might do some good and
10 couldn't do any harm. II all the
associations would act as unite the
practice would be done away with in
very short time - Chamberlain Reg&ster.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29

human nature and an unfortunate one
al that, but it is one that must be
reckoned with by any assessment or
qualiz alton board, or they are sure 10
ruu up against such u snag aS the
duron board has recently been having
little experience with.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29
GOVERNMENT PRINTED ENVELOPES

We notice that the North Dakota
Press association adopted resolutions
at their last meeting relative to the
praCttce Of the government furnishing
printed envelopes and asking their re
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-06-29

and they suffered every hardship. bar
ring shlpwreek, that could come 70
any one making tho passage Ia the
winter mouths.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
MERIDIAN ARRESTS POSTAL
 CLERKS FROM SHREVEPORT.

Meridian Miss, August 4-(Special)- The Mayor and Board of Aldermen met last night and acted favorably on recom- mendations of the city board of health to immediately rut into effect the most stringent quarantine possible without go- ing so far as to shut the world out of Meridian The recommendations adopted amend the quarantine ordinance so as to empower the city board of health to em- ploy and place quarantine inspectors on all trains in and out of Meridian at the city's expense, and independent of the in- spectors now at work for the state board of health and the United States marine hospital service. Inspectors for the city are to be appointed by the city board of health at once.
 Besides city inspectors on trains, guards sufficient to inspect each and every freight train entering the city are to be em- ployed to see that no one enters the city by this means The ordinance further provides for relays of all crews end roads running out of any infected point.
 Two railway postal clerks out of Shreve- port were arrested on their arrival here this morning on the A. and V. railroad and were taken to the detention camp in the citys suburbs, where they will re- main for ten days.
 All passengers destined for Meridian are required to satisfy the inspectors on trains that they have not been at any infected point for a period of ten days before being allowed to get off here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
ATLANTA WILL HAVE
 GENERAL CLEANING UP.

Atlanta. August 4.-(Special.)-As the result of conference held today be- tween the board of health, Mayor Wood ward and other city officials, 1t was de- cided 10 have thorough and systematic cleaning up of the city at once, with a view to avoiding any trouble to Atlanta as the result of the existance of yellow fever at several points to the southwest of here.
 While it is considered that there is no danger of a yellow fever epidemic Tn Atlanta, it is believed that this will be the safer course, both from a sanitary
 standpoint and also to lessen the dam ger of any quarantine being established against Atlanta as the result of yellow fever refugees coming here from other points There is no doubt about the 1act that many refugees from the yellow fever towns have fiocked to Atlanta. and many of .Aem are here now. Atlanta aoes not want to be Quarantined against
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
RAILROAD WORLD.

The Seaboard yesterday ran a special train from Atlanta to Birmingham in three hours and twenty-seven minutes. The special consisted of baggage car and two Pullman sleepers.
 The special was run in order 10 ac- coramodate party en route from North Carolina to the west and the Portland ex- nosition. The party is being conducted b, the Rev. William Black.
 It was necessary to make this time in order to make connection with the Frisco train west at 1920 D. m. The special stopped at Cedartown to allow the mem- hers of the party to secure breakfast.
 M. M, Richey, assistant general super intendent of the southern. returned yes- tcrday from North Carolina, where he has spent the past week or ten days combining business and pleasure He said yester- day:
 1.-The quarantine has not hurt our busi- ness yet, and 1t will probably tend to in crease our freight travel in certain lines There is a great deal of fruit which has been given to other roads at New Or leans and gulf ports, but which will now enter the United States at Mobile, Bruns- wick. Savannah and Charleston, and we expect to get our share of this.
 q have been watching Selma with a great deal of interest in this quarantine and fever scare. That city is not paying the least attention to the matter and has not ouarantined against Montgomery or New Orleans. No excitement seems to exist there about the fever"
 w. L. Henderson and E. P. Resler. who represent the land and industrial depart ment of the Southern railway. were In conference yesterday with the removal committee of the local lodge of the B'Nat B'Rith relative to securing a large mum. Der of Jewish immigrants for Alabama.
 J. White has charge of this work and has been very active recently in max ing arrangements to bring large colony to Alabama The railroad representatives were asked to furnish the committee with information regarding lands, immigration and other facts which would aid iii the es- tablishment of a colony.
 The committee will not take any fur ther action towards securing the immi- grants until suitable lands are secured. It was thought best to secure tract of land we'll adapted to the uses to which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 TAKES CHARGE OF. THE
 NEW. ORLEANS SITUATION
(co.tinued from First Pase.)


 ment was given to the Associated Press by Dr. IT. J. Schreek tonight, chief dis= pensary physician:
 ''The resolutions adopted by the state board of health do not prohibit residents from the infected districts from coming to St. Louis. It provides that such pas sengers shall present to the medical in- spector a certificate of health from the health officer located at the point of de- parture.
 "All passengers armed with such certifi- cates and not i'll with fever at the time of arrival, will not be interferred with. The quarantine regulations apply only to those showing evidence of fever upon their arrival within the state limits. Tt is the general opinion among those best informed to speak that yellow fever cannot gain headway in St. Louis on ac- count of climatic conditions and the scar city of the stegomyia mosquito"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Mosquito Nets All Sizes
 All Kinds Ben M. Jacobs
 @ Bro. 2Oll First Avenue.

it will be put, and to plant the colony on that land. The B'Nai B Rith proposes to aid the immigrants for the first year or two and get them we'll started.
 The railroad representatives have sew eral pieces. of land which they will show the committee. The land will probably be selected within the next month.
 The committee of the local lodge of the B'Nai B'Rith will not endeavor to bring the immigrants to Alabama until the yellow fever scare is over.
 The Birmingham Terminal company. was organized to build the new Union the residents of the property purchased in the eastern portion of the city that they must vacate
 The property was bought with the un- derstanding that the occupants should move out by a certain time. Now that Walter H. Harrison. the engineer in charge of the construction of the station, is in the city, it is desired that the oc- cupants of the property vacate as rapid ly as possible.
 The work of grading the property and making the other preliminaryS arrange ments for the active work of constructing the station will begin within the next month.
 A meeting of all the engineers and railroad employees of the Birmingham dis trict has been called for Monday, Au- gust IA, in the Red Mems hall in Bir- mingham. The object of the meeting IS to discuss matters of interest to rail- road men in tie state election which will be held next year
 It is probable that railroad club will be organized and that the employees will take an active hand in the state politics. In part the call isseued reads as follows:
 Matters of great importance in re- gard to legislation in the interest of all railroad employees in Alabama will be dis cussed at this meeting, and every man engaged in railway employment is cor dially Invited and earnestly requested to meet with us."
 W. A. Garrett general manager of the Queen and Crescent Route. was in Bir- mingham yesterday. He arrived at 1920 o'clock yesterday morning and left yes terday afternoon for Chattanooga en route back to Cincinnati. He was in. the city on a general tour of inspection, hav- ing just returned to work after vaca- tion of several weeks in Maine. ms was his first trip over the road since he returned.
 MT. Garrett went over the quarantine situation with the various officials of the Alabama Great Southern in Birming ham, and was also in conference with several of the representatives of the large industrial companies. He stated that all during his summer trip he talked Birming- ham and advertised the city we'll through out the New England states wherever he went.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Elorlda and ceoraIa Nav Clash.

Tampa, Fla. August 4.-On account of the arrest of Dr. Diggett, agent of the Florida state board of health, by the mayor of Folkstone, Ga, State Health Officer Porter today instructed Dr. Dig gett to move the detention camp from Folkstone Camp Perry inside the Florida line. The action of the Folkstone mayor in arresting Dr. Diggett may cause a controversy between the Florida and Georgia authorities So far as pr. Porter has been informed, Dr. Diggett was arr rested for stopping passengers.
 Speaking of the local situation, Dr. Por- ter said tonight
 Now only very remote possibility of further spread of the fever exists here. We will continue to exercise some sur veillance over West Tampa territory for a week longer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
East St. Louis Gets Busy.

East St Louis, Mo, August 1.-The health and police authorities have estab- lished strict precautions, although no quarantine rules have been put in force. Hordes of tramps are arriving from the south, and policemen have been sta-
 tioned along the railways where tramps alight from trains to take them into cus- tody, and immediately start them back south. The board of health will hold a special meeting to devise a permanent means of keeping them out of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Biographical Sketch.

Thomas T. Hillman was born sixty-one years ago at the old Marble homestead near clarksvlle, Tenn. His family on tne paternal side came to America in the mid dle of the eighteenth century from Hol- land and settled first in Philadelphia Descendants of the pioneer Hillmans in America settled later in New Jersey and established iron industries at Valley Forge and Trenton in 1914 and later in New York. In 1916. Daniel II. Hillman. the grandfather of T. T. Hillman, went to Chillicothe, O., where he engaged in the iron business. In 1922 he moved to Bath county, Kentucky, where he built and operated a number of forges In 1880 he went to New Orleans and Mobile and later visited Bibb county in Alabama. He died in 1892.
 Daniel Hillman, the eldest son, went from Kentucky to Nashville in 1892 and fiourished in the iron business there. The mill built in Nashville was later removed to Lyon county, kentucky, where the property became exceedingly valuable. In 1859 Daniel Hillman was married to Miss Ann Marable of Montgomery county, Tennessee, the daughter of John H. Mar able, representative in Congress. Of this union. Thomas T. Hillman was the second child.
 At the age of seven years the boy was
 
 jury from which he suffered for many years. He was euucated for the most part by his devoted mother and at the age of sixteen entered the Bendusia academy in Edgefield, near Nashville. At the out break of the war he went home and be- gan to manage his fathers furnaces. At the close of the war his father gave him a s50,000 interest in the business in Ken lucky and he continued as manager till 1878.
 Came to Birmingham.
 In the 70's MT. Hillman visited Birming- ham and formed a partnership here with H. F. DeBardeleben for the purpose of erecting the Alice furnace. the first one of which went into blast in 1880. In the fall of that year the Alice Furnace com pany with capitalization of s25O,000 was formed. Furnace No. was completed in 1885 In 1884 the Alice Furnace company was consolidated with the Pratt Coal and Iron company. and in 1887 both were ab- sorbed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company with T. T. Hillman as vice president.
 Since that time Mir Hillman had beer constantly active and increasingly i'm portant factor in Birmingham's develop ment.
 In 1867 MT Hillman was married tC Miss Emily Gentry the daughter of the Hon. Meredith P. Gentry of Williamson county Tennessee.
 MT. Hillman was a forceful but modest figure in the religious life of the com munity. In fraternal circles he is re membered as a prominent Knight Tenn plar. A large number of the deceased's bust ness associates and friends will attend the last sad rites in Nashville
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Recommends Raising Quarantine.

Mobile, August Apr. Rhett Goode, city health officer, said tonight that during the day he had telegraphed Dr. w. H. Sanders state health officer, suggesting that as no fever had developed on the Mississippi coast in the incubation time of ten days, that he raise the state quar- antine against the Mississippi coast after a verifeation of it's health conditions by personal solicitation, substituting restric- tion for quarantine in the shape of health certificates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Shreveport Almost Isolated.

Shreveport. La. August 4.-rhere are no new cases of yellow fever at the deten- ton camp, and the one sporadic case there is recovering. A serious condition of af- fairs has been brought about by the dras- tic quarantine restrictions in force throughout this section.
 Business is at a standstill, freight and passenger traffic Is paraiyzed, and in some of the sawmill towns south of here the people are without supplies, and with out the means of getting them. Of the nine railroads entering the city only one, the Queen and Crescent route, is oper- ating trains, and there is only one train each way running on that road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Briggs Coming to Birmingham.

Anniston, August 4.-(Special.) ID. Briggs, formerly master mechanic of the Alabama Mineral division of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad, will leave for Birmingham Sunday, and Monday morning he will assume charge of his new position as assistant master mechanic of the South and North Birmingham and Alabama divisions of the same road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Florence Declares Quarantine.

Florence, August 4-(special.)-At a special meeting of the city council today to consider the yellow fever situation. the board of health was instructed to put inspectors on all trains entering Flor ence to prevent persons coming here from infected points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Stamped Out in Belize.

Mobile August 1.-The steamer Belize, which arrived here this afternoon from Delize. Honduras, announced that yellow fever has been stamped out there after hard battle. The last patient to have the disease died three or four weeks ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Is MaIariaI Fever.

Havana, August 1.-The board of phy- sicians that has had under observation five of the crew of the steamer Athena, which arrived here from Colon on July 30, has unanimously decided trat they are suffering from malarial fever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
Honduras Town ouarantlnes.

Mobile, August A cablegram received here this evening from Ceiba, Spanish Honduras, says that that port has quar- antined against Mobile and New Orleans, vessels being required to undergo six days detantiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-05
FUNERAL NOTICE.

The friends and acquaintances of Mrs. Margaret A. Turnbaugh, MT. and Mrs. Hubert Scruggs, and Mrs. Florence E. Bass are invited to attend the funeral of the former at 10 o'clock this morning at the Methodist church. Irondale. ln- terment at Woodlawn cemetery.