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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27
Outergarment
Clearance.

One lot of Brilliantine, Cheviot
and Cloth Suits, coat and blouse
effects. Some with silk trimming,
some braid trimmed, others tuck
ed. All strictly tailor-hnished.
Skirts are killed, trimmed and
plain effects.
Blacks, blues
Il :; e.; :; : is: $50, @5
new lot of Wash Skirts; some white
India linen and some cannon cloth;
neatly strapped and p1ped Oh
effects: Worth usually s. SVC.
G. T. P..-.--...-...
Six Wash Suits in white India linen ,
and polka dot lawns; en- -
broidery and tucked. Worth ISC.
81. q. L. P...-......-..-....-..-.
White India Linen, White Linen and
Coored Chambray Wash Suits; some
lace-trimmed in skirt and waist; some
embroidery trimmed: some
with large tucks in skirt he~ ~s
and waist: Worth 50 and So. %
81. G. T. P....................~4
Dotted Swiss. White and Colored
Linen ana Nn1te cannon CiOth coat
Suits; AZ inches long; some made with
surplice effects, others with trim
med waist and skirt; some a. . ~s
with embroidery trimming. SIS W.
Were 81 and S. G.. 7. Prs wv "
Ten White Cannon Cloth and India
Linen Skirts; some made with tucks to
knee. forming full kilt,
others with large tucks 10
around bottom. Sold for So. - II NW
q. L. P....-.........
Two Pongee Silk Coats, trimmed with
large applique silk collar; 49, 40
fun box pleated. Worth So. AS
Slb. u. L. P.....-...-.........+
Seven Taffeta Silk Skirts; one style
full box pleated; one full tucked around
to knee forming kilt; others shirred
panel effects, finished at bottom with ,
large tucks; all lengths.
" Worth IS and $40, G. SIS. O5
L. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. WV "
Extra Quality Panama Cloth Skirts:
blacks, browns blues; made full stitched
tucked to knee, forming 10
full killed bottom; all S.X AS
lengths. Worth 81. G. T. P wv w.
Twenty fine quality Taffeta Silk
Suits in plain and changeable eff
tects. Blacks, blue, brown and
green. Some with deep shirreI
t1ounces, Others
; s.; s.: !: i; +: $: @5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27
Estimate of Cost.

The joint committee has decldeo To dsh
City Engineer Dunn for an estimate Oh 'iie
cost of remodeling and repairing the cor
noration court room, the office of the clerk
of the courts and other apartments IN thal
wing of the city hall according to the rec
concentrations of a special committee re-
Gently anDointed by Judge Barley to make
an investigation and report on the changes
deemed advisable. The committee VIII sup
nit the estimate of the city engineer 10
council probab'y at a special meeting or
tbat bodv during the summer recess 1t Is
understood that precedence vii DE gwen 10
the needs of the record room. which VIII DE
made 1t is said AS near 1reproot as Possi-
HE If the nlans presented are carried out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27
Expect Speech From Governor.

The friends of Gov Montague in Alex
andria. county are expecting to hear an ad-
dress from him in the county soon in the
interest of his candidacy for the United
States Senate When the governor spoke
in Alexandria city several weeks ago many
representative people extended to him a
hearty invitation to address the voters Oh
the county in the present campaign Ihey
are expecting his acceptance, and the ar
rangements for the meeting of citizens to
greet him will probably soon be made. HIS
Supporters have planned a big demonstra-
ton, at which there will be brass band
and other attractions. The members or the
Montague Club of this city, it is said. Will
engage vehicles in which to convey crowd
to the meeting.
Gov Montague will speak at Fairfax
Court House Friday morning, August 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

Recent arrivals at the Chalfonte Attain
tic City, from Washington are Miss Pearl
S. Houston and Miss Jessie Robinson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

Mr.. and Mrs. H. Bentley Smith and littl
daughter are spending the summer at Colt
Spring Mansion, near Bristol Pa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
BIDS RECEIVED FOR REMODEL
ING POLICE STATION.
Improvements to Corporation Court
Room Also Contemplated-Gen-
eral and Personal 1teras.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 81. 1908.
The joint committee on public property
and finance of the city council, 1t Is under
stood has received bids for the work OF
remodelng and improving the station house
according to the suggestion of Mayor Pan
and the estimate of City Engineer Dunn.
Several weeks ago council voted an appro-
priation of 500 for the improvements, and
bids were asked for. The lowest bid re-
ceived, It is stated. was for $3.50 what ac-
ton the joint committee will take in the
matter has not been announced, but atten-
ton is called to the fact that bids slightly
in excess of the original appropriations
have not infrequently been accepted by
council committees. In this case, 1t Is SAID
there would be no trouble In awarding the
contract and providing for the WORK 10 De
proceeded with at once
Mayor Paff is very DESTROYS OF having me
improvements made as soon as possipie.
He has frequently called attention 10 the
urgent need of certain changes, whlch are
provided for in the plans adopted, III the
arrangement of the apartments OF the s.a
ton house By means of these, II cdirieu
out it is expected that the work OF the po-
lice department will be greatly facilitated
while fitting headquarters Will be PROVIDED
for the mayor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

DR.. and Mrs a. J. Carrico have remove
to 29U3 I4th street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

very pretty and quiet wedding wa.
celebrated at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Forrest w. McElroy, 6l3 Florida avenue
northwest, their youngest daughter, Daisl
Irene. becoming the wife of Charles Mitch
ell Alexander OF this city. The only in
vited guests We're the relatives of tn,
bride and groom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

Mrs. Brandt and her two daughters have
gone for an extended stay at St Georges
Island. where Mr. George Brandt, jr., pre-
coded them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

Mrs NJ. A. Rigby, Mrs. A H. Weber, Mr.
and Mrs. w. f. Hart and Mr.. II. n Crane
of this city were in Paris yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27
Child ren's Needs.

Child rem Needs.
odds and ends OF Children's Percale
Dresses. Mother Hubbard
style; worth regularly zoe. nOILc
u 10 g.. u - /XS-
odd lot Of Madras Dresses; low and
, high necks trimmed with en-
broidery and lace; worth a dol An,
lar. @. T. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. |t$S.
What is left of that lot OF White
Dresses for children trimmed in lace
, and embroidery; others with Jokes of
tucks and embroidery. Sold 22c
$40 and s.. g. T. P...~..,...... .CSS'
Children's Bingham Sunbon-
nets sold regularly at &c NM
G. 7. P-...................... IVN.
Csc. Lawn Aprons, 121Ac.
Lot of White Lawn Aprons for La
dies; wide hens and strings; 1OI/-
worth 2Jc.-G. T. P.......... h%/.9S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

Baroness Mayor des Planches, wife of the
France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph II. Hunter Of II
street are at the Atlantic Hotel, Ocean
City, Md. for a brief stay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

We have gathered together all remnants
in Lawns, Dimities, Organdies. Percales.
Colored Swisses, Batiste, in fact all Wash
Goods Remnants, worth from 1Oc. to 25c
a yard. If you want the best come early
Included are Silk Organizes and Baustes
Tomorrow only 21c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-27

Mrs p V. DeGraw is visiting her sisters
in Philadelphia.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07

which has an attendance OF about
three hundred students These insu-
tHI0ns Sre maintained by legislative
enactment and appropriation Appro-
priauons for maintenance. equipment
and erection of buildings amounting TO
an aggregate OF 100000 were passed
at the last meeting of the legislature.
Section thirteen of each township
was reserved f'om settlement In the
opening Of the Cherokee outlet Greer
county and the eKiowa-Comanche coun-
try, for university normal school and
agricultural and mechanical college
purposes. The aggregate amount Of
lands is something like 2SO.OOO acres,
all OF which is leased. producing an
annual income Of between sixty and
seventy thousand dollars. which Is de
voted to the institutions for which
these reservations were made. In the
organization of the future state our
constitutional convention will have no
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07

oEfHlsNAF'slrTuess -.
1OO,OO0,000 a year.
More accomplished musicians than
any three cities in either Oklahoma
or Indian Territory.
Men have to work for a livelihood
here, the same as in every other sec
ton Of the universe.
Three beautiful parks full Of forestry,
lagoons. and connected conveniently
by the street car system.
Direct connections and easy access
to over one-half million people in
radius Of one hundred miles
One farmer raised thirty-two bush
els Of wheat TO the acre, weighing
s.xty.three pounds to bushel measure.
Guthrie is surrounded by fine fruit
farms Of cherries apples, apricots.
peaches, plums, grapes and strawber-
ries
IL has two daily newspapers-m morn
ing and evening carrying the Asso-
ciated Press service and equipped with
book binderies.
It has the Daily Leader founded in
1892 which has kept pace with the
|citys progress without ouheaping itself
as others have done.
City Is democratic in politics; county
is democratic in politics by big major
tiles The Leader (dem) is official
city and county paper
1t is no place for penniless men or
those expecting TO live by their wits
but offers splendid opportunities for
The man who is able TO engage In
/ business or purchase a farm
A $4,000 Masonic temple which Is
one Of the most beautiful buildings
I'm the southwest II Is devoted en-
urely 20 Masonry The parapherualIa
Of the Scottish Rite consstory alone
cost $4,000. The work done is pro
nounced by Commander Richardson q
be equal 20 that of any lodge in the
country. This Is territorial headauar
ters
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07

in Oklahoma amount to 929o2 MEM
bers with buildings valued at si.5S2.-
eco, as follows:
Church Values and @smssrs.
Protestant Episcopal, sol members,
buildings, $4,000; Methodist Episco-
pal 1850 members. buildings, $413.-
600; Methodist Episcopal south, 10J691
members, buildings, $4,000; Presby-
terians, 1000 members, buildings, 1852,
600; Baptists. 10000 members, build
ings, $4,000; Congregationalists. D.
zoo members, buildings, s175,O00;
Frineds, 800 members, buildings, s14.-
0OOi Christians, $4,000 members, build.
ings $240.OOo; Catholics, 10000 mem
bers, buildings. s25O,OOOO. There are
also 1922 communicants to the va
rious colored churches in Oklahoma.
The sunday school has kept pace
with the mother organization and that
branch Of worship shows $4,000
schools, 10000 teachers and officers
and $4,000 scholars, or .one-third Of
the young people Of the territory be-
tween the ages Of four and twenty
one. This grand showing is aug
ment3d Is 30s societies of the Y. P.
s. c. E With a membership Of 9,733
From the foregoing It viii be seen
that the Land Of the Fair God" has
a church going membership amounting
TO one in FIVE Of It's entire population
and that the extersioa cf the work OF
the master in this asw isad has not
failed TO keep step with a develop
ment that Is the wonder Of the cen
tury.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07

Indian Territory is located here.
Headquarters of Episcopal diocese
Of Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
Farmers near Guthrie raise twenty
to thirty bushels Of wheat to the acre.
Guthrie has two printing and blank
book houses employing $50 persons.
Railroad round houses and repair
shops employing one hundred people.
Guthrie is one night to Kansas City;
one night and half day TO st. Louis.
Five banks With $3,5O0OOO depos-
I its. Bank clearings, $S6400O weekly.
A $4,000 brickplans producing as
fine brick as can be made in the ter
ritory
Less contagious disease to mar its
/ history than any other city in the
west
1 Finely equipped fire department, con
sisung Of thee large and modern sta
tions.
More brick and stone structures
than any city in either Of the twin
territories.
Guthrie proper East Guthrie and
West Guthrie and Capital Hill com
prise Guthrie.
Fine baseball park and maintains q
professional league club in the West
I ern association.
Three hundred travelling salesmer
making this their homes. Headquar
ters o. C. T. A.
One Of the largest and most prodnc
tive broom factories in the territory
valued at $4,000.
Railroads entering Il from the whea
belt. the ooaE fields and the south
north, east and west
II il the capital of q city WAer'
the annual prodrctoIs amount q
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07
Ii Relieves Women's Pain.

more responsible duty than providing
wisely for the educational system Of
the future state. Il win have an op-
portunity to use the assembled expert
enee of all the other states and will
be able to stare where other states
ere now standing In bringing TO its
young people the advantage of the
experience Of other commonwealths.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07
Advantages
'' a....-.s s.., r. '' '''.''" Of Oklahoma.
(By d. r. Boyd. Pr
Of Oklahoma)

The most striking fhing about the
settlement Of Oklahotla was the ca
paclty the people sf@ weG. in such a
remarkable way. forl Organization and
concerted action. For a number of
months the people occupied their
claims. made the ordinary social and
civil adjustments of fneighborhoods and
communities. without any organic law
and without any ltgal authority over
them except the fJnited States stat
utes.
A very large d percentage Of those
who came TO tskt claims at the first
settlement of Olt&homa, April % 1889,
came from the disasters and disap-
Ip-tatment of n jom4 conditions in
other parts Of fie country to make
final effort to @eure permanent homes
These people Ewere generally intelli-
gent, animate1 with the best ideals
Of Americah life. The first corolIary
Of this condition Of mind and material
was that there should be some pro
vision made for public education, and
after mere shelter was provided for
The family consideration was given
to what provision could be made for
educating their children
Districts Nede Good.
So, before the legislature was con
vened or had provided a school law,
almost every neighborhood had a
school organization Many Of them
had erected temporary structures for
schools and had employed teachers
with private funds In a number of
cases the obligations incurred by these
schools were formed with the inten-
ton that when the districts were for.
mally organized these obligations
should become the debt of the dis
tricts and should be paid by them un-
der the provisions of law to be en-
acted later Teachers wages, cost of
/ temporary structures, cost of furni-
ture and appliances, were all made
claims against the district, and in
every case, so far as ! know, were
assumed and paid. was in conver-
sation some time since with the head
of a large firm who had sold most
of the school furniture to the old dis
tricts, in which he said that there was
not a single case of these obligations
though having no legal standing and
binding only as moral obligations be
ing repudiated.
This spirit was so strongly marked
that the first legislature established
by law the Agricultural and Meehan-
ieal college at saltwater the normal
school at Edmond. and the university
at Norman, on the condition that these
localities furnish the site and bond
themselves for sums Of money-in the
case of the university at Norman
amounting to $4,000 The people OF
Cleveland county voted favorably upon
these bonds when there was perhaps
not $4,000 worth of taxable property
| IN the county.
First Bonded Debt.
Later, when the second legislative as
sembly met, in order TO keep these
three institutions on their feet It was
necessary 10 incur the first and only
bonded Indebtedness Of the territory
namely, an issue of $4,000 worth OF
bonds-s1S,OOQ for the university SIS,
600 for the normal school and SIS,
OO0for the Agricultural and Mechan
ical college. When it became neces
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tury.
20 Q Q 0 Q 9 @ c @ G @ 9 G @ G c
ONLY A GLANCE.
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Continued from page 81
Home Of the governor and all ter
ritorial officials.
An enterprising class Of farmers OIL
every side Of it.
Has more club women than any
city of like size.
It has union depot--also two in
dependent depots.
It was hurt by bank failure but
will soon recovt
The town is knocked TO beat The
ban dbut bears up.
Has representative in both houses
Of the legislature.
Good town for lecture attractions
likewise theatrical.
Guthrie has the only French archi
foot in rho territorv
You do not pronounce it Gurthre'
nor spell it Guthrey.
It has themost energetic w. R. c
women in the territory.
Has the only exclusive Scottish Rit,
temple in the world.
Eight additions; desirable lots a
5000 on low payment.
Two large Touring capacity
1900 barrels per day.
It is overcrowded with lawyers, doc
tors and newspaper men.
Almost every fratenal society ex
tant is represented here.
Wholesale houses covering principa
lines Of mercantile stocks.
Nine lines OF railroad and thirty
five passenger trains daily.
A baseball park with pavilion seat
ing three thousand people.
It is the only city that successful,
put down negro officialism.
One hundred residences under wa,
Of construction at this time.
The best cotton, corn, wheat an
stock market in Oklahoma.
It has the biggest Deering implC
Eent house in the territory
Has gun club driving association
fair grounds, racing course.
The finest and most successful saI
itary system in the country.
Good FIRE department with only SIS
Ip losses IN twelve months,
Three national banks with nearl
three million dollars deposits.
A population of 5174Ss within
radius Of one hundred miles.
Pure and healthful water, comm
from wells Of medium depth.
Eight weekly papers, three montl
lies. and two semi-monthlies.
The two book binderies Of the te
ritory are located at Guthrie.
Il is headquarters Of the Letter Ca
riers' association Of Oklahoma.
Five large and commodious publ
school buildings, three story brick.
less crime within its limits tina
the smallest village in the territory.
"A magnificent location, GOVERN
three square miles well drained.
The Catholic See Of Oklahoma az
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-07

sary to float these bonds q citizen Of
the territory bought them az a small
premium think five or six hundred
dollars-at a time when the panic of
1893 had paralyzed financial institu.
tions all over the countrys and when it
was impossible to sell bonds of any
kind on the open market. / mention
these facts to Indicate the educate onal
spirit Of the public mind at the time.
The first legislature passed a school
law that provided for the usual sys-
tenn in the main, providing for the or
ganizaton Of districts, school officers,
and revenue for the support Of the
schools. There were two unique fea-
lures Of this law. One was that the
territorial board Of education was to
consist Of the territorial superintend-
en-. Of public schools and the county
superIntendents Of the counties then
organized. which were Logan. Okla.
homa Klngdsher. Canadian, Cleveland
and Payne This law remained i'm
force until the meeting of the assem-
bly, in 1893
Additional Counties.
In the meantime the reservations of
the Pottawatomie. sac and Fox, Iowa,
Cheyenne and Arapahoe were opened
TO settlement and eight additional
counties were provided for. This made
the territorial board of education con
sist of the territorial superintendent
and fourteen county superintendents
which was a very unwieldy body. II
did good work, however, and was. in
fact, very favorable to the organiza
tion of the school, ,as it brought the
person in authority Of the school sys
TEN into close contact with the county
superintendent or those who had in
direct charge the duty OF organizing
districts.
Another feature OF the first terri
torial school law was that # made
the township the unit of organization
of education The township was con
ceded to be the congressional and not
the municipal township. This pro
yided for four districts. three miles
square, with the boundaries on the
half section lines. The law provided
that there were to be FIVE directors
elected at large from each township
It was found therefore, that one dis
trict had two representatives, while
each of the others had but one. and
that the district having two directors
could combine with one of the other
districts and could control the board
Of directors on any proposition. The
building of school houses and the
buying Of furniture and other ques
tions of organization were pressing
and the exercise Of this authority was
not always salutory and caused a
great deal Of complaint
Defective School Law.
In addition to this the school law
did not provide for the issuing OF
bonds or other means of raising reve
nue. for erecting buildings. so the peo
pie were obliged to erect the first
buildings by direct taxation or by sub
scription, or by both often school
houses were erected by money, labor
and material advanced by individuals
this expenditure being afterwards rec
ognized by the districts provided by
law, and such obligations always in
cluded in the bonded Indebtedness ant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-28
PEOPLE OF ENSLEY DISCUSS BIG DEAL Engineers to Begin Work This
 Morning WILL GRADE SIDEWALKS T. l.. Smart to Face a Charge of Dis orderly conduct-Enjoyed Ride In Buggy Drawn By His
 Wife.

Ensley, September 27sz(special.)- .)-This is | an age of blue prints and land surveys in | Ensley.
 Never before in the history of the city have the real estate men been so active
 as they are at the present time. Build ing contractors are busy, and are unable to figure on all the work that Is demand ed.
 The activity is confined to no one sec tion of the city, but IS general in every quarter of the district. The mammoth
 deal whereby about forty acres of the
 best residence property on the South Side passed into the hands of a large real es- tate concern that will Immediately make
 improvements has greatly stimulated ac- tivity.
 Streets and sidewalks are to be graded
 and the property put in first-class shape for the building of handsome residences. | Engineers will begin the work of survey ing and planning the proposed improve
 ments tomorrow morning. and the work | will be pushed rapidly. l Good cement sidewalks are to be put | down and handsome streets graded throughout the tract extending on both sides of the South Ensley car line from Hill Top to Palmer Terrace. ] It is understood that prospective settlers | have affeady received some of the choic- est lots and will erect handsome resi- dences as soon as the streets and side walks are graded and all arrangements are completed.
 The statement in the Age-Herald yes- terday that the price paid for this prop erty was $5oO0O was based upon unofficial
 rumors, and is said to be incorrect though no official statement -f the price
 has been made public. The parties purchasing the property have announced that engineers will be put on the ground tomorrow morning and that the work of grading the streets and building sidewalks will be pushed as rap idly as possible The property will be | reserved for the erection of first-class