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LAKE ToxAWAY.

Lake Toxaway, N. T., August 12.-(Spe.
cial.)--A progressive euchre party inter.
ested large number or the guests or
Thursday night. Handsome prizes were
awarded.
Friday afternoon bridge party took
possession of the parlors and all enjoyed
delightful game
very pretty cotillon, lead by Mr.. La
throp Morehead of Savannah, and Miss
Carr of Durham, was danced on Satur-
day night by about twenty couples in
the ball room of the Inn
A partial list of the arrivals at the Inn
during the past week:
Mr.. George B. Allen, st. Louis Mo-:
John W. Hammond, Cambridge, Mass
Mrs. w. s. Jordon and daughter, Jackson
vile. Fla; r. g. Fillons. New York. N.
r.; c. M Patterson, Charlotte, N. c.; A.
M. Law, Spartanburg, s. c.; ]. w. Hut
cheson, Charlotte. N c.; DIR. A w. Cal
houn and family, Atlanta, Ga Mr. and
Mrs. I. s. Abbott, Atlanta, Ga; Mr.. and
Mrs. T. j. Helm, Montgomery. Ala; Mr..
and Mrs. c. T. Benyman, Louisville XIV:
William P. Long and family, Pisgah For
est; o. b. Ransom, Durham, N. c.; j. s.
Moore and family, Southern railway; w.
II. Gatchell, Washington ID. c.. Mr.. and
Mrs. F. w. Smallman. Richmond, Va:
Miss Elsie Caldwell. Chattanooga, Tenn.
]. w. Block and family, Atmore, Ala;
w. r. Powell. Savannah, Ga; j. F.
Thompson, Gastonia, N c.; Mr.. and Mrs.
II. II. Lane; e. A Grovenur. Jacksonville,
Fla; ]. M. Newton, Macon. Ga; Mr.. and
Mrs. Clement Manly, Winston, N. c.: II.
S. Wilson, Paltka, Fla. Mrs. w r. Par
ham. Richmond Va: Joseph Crawford
Washington. D. c.; Mr.. and Mrs. Ritten-
berg. Charleston. s. c.; ]. F. Cooper
Pittsburg. Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. Lorilord
New York. N Y. A. r. Noble. Admission
Ala; Mr.. and Mrs. Waterman. Washing
ton d. c.; Miss f. A, Waterman. Wash
ington, D. c.; F. B. Powell, Dallas Tex
Ralph Odell. Concord N. c.; c. v. D-ffie
Charleston. s. s.; Mr.. and Mrs. b. l.
Duke and family Durham, N. c.
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ORIGIN OF MEMS CLUBS.
Were First Started in England Sew
eraI Hundred Years Ago.

From the Era Magazine.
The idea of clubs for men first started
in England several hundred years ago
In those days the club houses were called
mote halls. and they are to be seen
throughout England today and number
of photographs of them are shown here.
Where public business had to be done,
the old English habit of making speeches
always demanded an audience. either of
outsiders or of good number of collea-
CUES. Consequently a special meeting
place. or mote" hall. was almost no
cessity for people not content to air their
oratory In their own or their neighbors'
parlors. Sometimes these mote" halls
were halls of Justice, such as that of
Lyndhurst In the New Forest, or in the
pretty little so-called Hunting Lodge at
Chingford. where the swainmote and
other forest courts were held. and which
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GADSDEN.

Gadsden, August Especial. )-Misses
Mamie Young, Margie Mccall, Bessie
Lewis. Ethel and Ida Stocks, Messrs. Joe
Thornton. Connie and Tom Stocks went
up to Cats Bend Thursday to attend a
picnic given by the young people OF
that place.
Miss Pace Of Tuscaloosa is the guest
of her sister, Mrs. W. II. Appleton, on
Forest avenue.
Mrs Joe Kyle and son, Joe, of CO.
lumbus, Ga, are visiting Colonel and
Mrs r. b. Kyle at their mountain
home, "Whitecrest," on Lookout noun
tain.
Albert Turrentine of West Palm Beach.
Fla, is visiting relatives in the city.
Miss Annie McDunie is the guest of
Mrs. Rice Brown at Talladega.
Mrs. w. f. Fleming and her sister,
Mrs. Willie Bates, entertained Thursday
evening in honor of their guest, Miss Bes-
sic Bushby of Birmingham.
Mrs. ID. NJ circuit and son of Brming-
ham are the guest of Mr. and Mrs. w.
j. Beggs on Chestnut street.
Judge L. e. Hamlin and wife are spend
ing several weeks in Wills Valley. Judge
Hamlin is taking his much needed vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Clay Leath are at
Menlo Springs.
Misses Matte Wood and Ethel Klutz
of Springville are visiting In the city.
Miss Alice Camp will come up from
Birmingham Tuesday to attend the mar
rage of Miss Mona Myers to Mr.. Joseph
Hudson Davies Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock at the home of the bride.
Mrs. Robert l.. Adams and children.
who have been visiting her father at
Auburn several weeks, has returned
home.
Misses Bessie and Eva Blair are at In
gram Wells for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Patterson OF jack
son, Tenn, are visitors to the city.
Mrs. Sam C. Gentry and children left
several days ago to spend this month in
Rome, Ca, with her parents.
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Ladies Hose

Ladies' colored plain gauze Stock
ings; plum, mode and gray; broken
sizes of regular soc stock OK
ings; to close them out. =. cCC
Polka Dot Stockings have the
call; tan and navy, with white dots,
black and white and white ROo
and black. -. .............. cOC
Navy blue, tan, green, gray, in
plain and tan or navy blue lace,
Isle thread Stock E0o
Ladies' black gauze Isle thread
Stockings, double sole, heel, ORo
toe and knee, at. ~OC
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pleasure Of Travelling.

Any trip is q pleasure to those who
travel over the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way. The best Of equipment. excellent
service. quick time. beautiful scenery.
Finest dining car service Polite atten-
ton. Convenient schedules. Every COM
fort the most exacting traveller could
wish. New York tickets permit stop-oyer
of 10 days at Washington. Baltimore and
Philadelphia: also the famous Virginia
Hot Spring. u-11-fri-su-we-rf
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Mrs. wInsIow,s SOOTHING syrup.

The best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold
by druggists in every part of the world
Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslows
Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind
Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their
CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with
PERFECT SUCCESS. 1t SOOTHS the
CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS
all PAIN, CURES WIND collie, and is
twenty-five cents a bottle.
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MOBILE, JACKSON and
KANSAS CITY RAILROAD
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.

Amendment No. IL, Circular No. P. 81.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS:
Account Yellow Fever.
All Agents and Others Interested
Effective Sunday, August 18th, 1905,
1901 a. M, trains 1 and 2 on main line,
and Hattiesburg Branch trains 5 and 6
and "a and 90. @. & G. Division trains
and 2. will be annulled for Sunday
service until further notice.
Until further advised above trains
will run daily.
w. l. o'DWvER,
General Passenger Agent.
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SHEFFIELD.

Sheffield. August 12,-(Special Mrs. j.
B. McClary and daughters are at VIZ
ginia Beach, Va, for the summer
Miss Josephine Crow is visiting friends
In Ray Springs, Tenn.
Mrs. Clara May Fotte has gone on a
visit to relatives in Humboldt, Tenn.
. Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Sadler will leave
in a few days for French Lick Springs,
Ind They will be Joined en- route by
a party of friends from South Alabama
and Louisville. Before returning home
they will visit Niagara Falls and points
in Canada.
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New Separate
Skirts

One new arrival in simple, pam
tailored style, is dark blue OF Dlach'
panel front and a plat at eacn
seam; at top the panel has ten
tabs OVERLAPPING the side km
panel. -. ......
Another new one is an ideal
weight of etamine for now and early
fall wear; made with narrow gradu-
ated panel, with wide side panels,
with a box plat and little plaits at
either side in clusters, II k0
from the knee down. $1,000 .OO
Still another is in dark gray crav-
enette,, full circular style; has
narrow graduated panel in front
and nine small tucks running all
the way around the @ IN
skirt. =. =. .......... O'OO
Panama Cloth, in light weight,
blue or black, made with inverted
box plat down center of front with
small side plaits, deep plated knee
flare headed with three plaits; also
cluster of three plaits over 8 IN
hips. -. =. ........... O.OO
Skirt in invisible mixed gray or
black cravanette, made with grad
uated box plat down each seam
and designs of tailor stitched folds
half way down each panel, leaving
a very full, graceful, deep IN On
mare. $1,000.
Skirts in an excellent quality Of
lady's cloth; the front is made with
four small tucks to knee released to
give fun flare; the sides have eff.
feet of three overlapping square
panels formed by rows of tailor
stitching down and across10.50
10 eacn seam. -. ........N "
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MOBILE.

Mobile August 2.-(Special.) Mrs.
John L. Ramsey and two children left
Monday for Indianapolis for a visit to
relatives.
Mr.. Murray Wheeler and Mr.. McMar-
shall left Thursday for trip to Cam
ada to be gone four weeks.
Mrs. Winston Jones is in New York.
Mrs f. o. Fowlkes and children are
spending two weeks at Little River.
Mrs. Robert Hunter and family will
leave soon for Waukesha and other
places
Mrs. Edward NJ. Robinson and little
daughter left Monday for Waukesha.
Mrs Louis Metzger and children have
gone to Louisville. Ky.
Mrs T. L. Fry held family reunion
1t her summer homo at Point Clear the
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to spend the remainder of the summer.
Miss Zoe Hamilton is in Nashville.
Mrs Archie Mcdonnell has returned
from visit to the great lakes.
Mr. and Mrs r. E. Pettus and children
have been visiting at Rep this week.
Mrs. Charles e. Hutchens and daugh-
ter, Miss Edith Hutchens, are in Chicago.
Mrs. Harris L. Ray of Greenwood, Miss,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Newson.
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So LeveIina.

From the Chicago Tribune.
you swim admirably, Miss Highmus.
1t is rare accomplishment. Everybody
| ought to know how to do it,
II don't like that idea, Mr. Thevannion.
| 1t would vulgarize 1t so''
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oPELikA.

opelika, August 12.-(Special AFTER
peing the guest of Mrs. q. W. Jones
Tor week Miss Barr has returned to
her home in Newman.
Thursday evening Of last week the mem-
osrs OF the Thursday Afternoon club and
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TurnOVerS Two
For a Quarter

White linen turnovers, embroid-
cred in white, black or in colors;
regular CSC turnovers
at.... -. -. -. HALF PRICE
VI hite linen stocks, trimmed with
tabs Of color and pearl buttons;
regular 80 stocks or
at... -. .......... ~OC
Chemisettes of white lawn,
trimmed with lace and embroidery
insertion and edges; regular OK
so chemisettes at. ~OC
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AND MANY OTHER THINGS NOT TOLD HERE


have surprised than the
saen but
the forth
shopping other
Il with
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LOW RATES
h 1ygE!

PORTLAND, Ore, and return $3.50
Account of the Lewis & Clark EXPOSE
ton, tickets will be sold to Portland
via any regular direct route. returning
via San Francisco or San Francisco
and Los Angeles and regular direct
routes therefrom. or vice versa. Inn
tied to ninety days with stopover priv
iliges at certain points within final
limit of ticket.
DENVER. COLORADO SPRINGS OR
PUEBLO, COLO, and return. !. .s2s 70
Tickets will be sold August 20 to Sep
tember 8, inclusive, account of the Ma
tional Encampment G.. A. R., at Dem
yer, limited to September II; an extern
sion of limit may be had to October by
depositing tickets and paying a fee Of
so cents. Diverse routes.
SUMMER TOURIST RATES to all sum-
mer resorts are very attractive.
Tickets will bs sold daily until Sep
tenlber Both. with final limit October
31st. 1905.
For further information. call on or
write,
p. SID JONES. D. P. A.
R. G. PIERCE. T. p, A.
Z. r. FEELEY. c. p. A.
Both phones S25
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White Goods, Wash
Goods and Other
Things Reduced

Something here certainly to interest
every woman. Dainty weaves for still an
other washable frock for the rest of sum-
mer or something that is needed in the
household are reduced in price and
sharply for Monday.
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$l5.25

Asheville. N. c.,
Hendersonville. N. c.
Saluda, N. c.
Greenville. s c.
Spartanburg. s. c.
Hot Springs, N. Z.
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EAST LAKE

Grand Sacred Concert Sur
day afternoon at East Lake
by MeMoli's Concert Band.
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Out-Of-Town People
Your Car Fare Paid

If you live within so miles and want
to take advantage of this stores offering
your care fare will be paid (both ways)
provided your purchases amount to $50.
That's certainly putting you on an
equal footing with our customers right
here in Birmingham.
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Dress Goods

Checked Voiles. in blue, green,
brown, garnet, EOa
oo-lnch... ......... wv
English Tweed Suiting in pepper
and salt mixtures, 46 inches OK
wide, S5c value, at. OOC
Pretty Homespun Suitings, gray,
with broken plaids of color, five
combinations, So inches ROo
Wide; yard. -. ...... OOC
Novelty Mohairs in neat checks
and mixtures 90
$3.50 quality at. 49,. I.UU
s1.oo quality at. ............. IOc
75c quality at. ..............O DOC
Cream Mohair, with black en-
broidered dots, value 75c; 15c
Special. .......... AOO
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Table Linen

60-inch Bleached Table Damask,
Acc and 45c o.
quality. -. =. .......... cOC
s1.25 Bleached Irish Nap I M
kins, 20-inch size, dozen. -. I'OO
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Wash Skirt Sale


Wash Skirts in natural colored
linen, deep pointed yoke, full plaits
extending from yoke to flare; regu-
lar $500 skirts q EO
loT ......... "
Wash Skirts in blue or black
knickerbocker, braid trimming full
f1ared skirt; regular $500 I Ok
skirt for. -. ........... Leo
Natural colored Linen Skirts, de-
signed in folds with white I rS
piping. .........A
Duck Skirts in black, blue or
black and blue with white polka
dots, extra full M
Skirts in black or blue duck with
white polka dots; made extra full
with rows of braid trimming around
the flare; regular $1.00 rRo
skirts at. -. ............ soC
Skirts in pure soft linen, linen
color, full plated style; M
regular $3.50 skirt, at. ...... S'OO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-20
TRICKS WHISKY FIRE.
$4,000 Gallons of Old Rye Burned Up
at Bradford, Pa.

ConnelIsville. Pa, Nov. 2O.-At the A.
Overho1t disti1ery at Broadford Sun
day $4,000 gallons of whisky furnished
a spectacular fire entailing a loss of
million dollars. The main bonded ware
house was burned to the ground. A
steady northeast wind which blew the
flames toward the Youhiogheny river
saved the town of Broadford, the build
ings of the H. c. F'rick Coke company
and the Baltimore & Ohio railroad sta
tion from destruction.
The blue tinged flames from the burn
ing alcohol were seen shooting more
than 100 feet into the air. As barrels
of old rye whisky on each Of the four
floors burst, the blazing liquid was
splashed in all directions. The main
track of the railroad was kept clear of
debris and passenger trains shot past at
such speed as to yaoid damage from
the intense heat.
The A. Overholt company is one of
the largest manufacturers of whisky in
the world. The plant Is practically
owned by H. c. Frick and the MELONS
of Pittsburg. The plant was establish
ed by A. OverhoIt in 1910 Tt was burn
ed in 1884 and was rebuilt on a much
larger scale. The burned building was
one Of four warehouses containing $4,000
barrels of whisky eight years old. Each
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rear of the machine shop where a grave
ten feet deep had been made. The
great mass of metal was laid in the
hole and a platform built over 1t so that
the burial services could be better per-
formed. In the center of the platform
was an opening six feet in diameter.
A great crowd sought admission to
the works but only the two sisters of
Gazda, who depended upon him for sup
mort. and about 100 workmen, who were
on Sunday duty, were permitted to at
tend the services along with the officials
Of the company. Forkin hads no rela-
tives in this country Among the Of
fciaIs was President Charles Harrah.
An heads were barred and flags were
lowered to half-staff, while two priests
conducted the services. After the sis
tiers of Gazda had been led away the
great ingot was covered WIN earth ana
the funeral party dispersed. The grave
Of the men will be appropriate marked
by the company.
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IN TOMB OF STEEL.
The Remains of Two steel Works En-
ployes Are Buried.

Philadelphia, Nov 2o-A funeral
without a parallel in this city took
place Sunday at the Nidvale Steel works
where a forty-ton ingot of steel per
meated with the flesh, blood and bones
of two worlmen, was buried with the
solemn rites OF the Roman Catholic
church. The workmen who were so
strangely laid away were John Forkin
and Joseph Gazda. two for6ign-speak
ing laborers, who met horrible death
a week ago. They were in pit near
a cupola containing many tons OF moi
ton steel A plug gave way and 80,
GOO pounds of the fiery buid poured
from the cupola and overwhelmed them
The men were completely incinerated,
and not a trace Of themselves or their
clothing We're left.
The A1idvale Steel company was adverse
to selling the steel or using it for the
purpose it was intended and it was de-
cided to bury it with the rites Of the
church to which the unfortunate men
had belonged.
Accordingly the forty-ton ingot, oval
in shape, twenty-efght feet long, six
feet wide and i've thick, was moved
last week by a travelling crane to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-20
GERMAN EDITOR DEAD.
DR.. PreetOrius, of Westliche Post, a
Victim of Blood Poisoning.

st. Louis. Nov. 20.-After suffering
Tor one week from blood poisoning.
resulting from a slight scratch on the
leg, Dr.. Emil Preetorius, IS years old,
chief of the WestIiche POST
and nestor of the German press of the
west. died Sunday at his home. He
had been practically unconscious for
two days. The members of the family
and other immediate relatives were at
his bedside when he died. Interment
viii be made Tuesday.
DR.. Preetorious was born in Alley
Rhein-Hessen, Germany, in 1927, and
received his early education in the
schools of sMayence and Darmstadt
His parents selected the law as his
profession, and, with this in view he
took degrees at both Glesen and the
University Of Heidelberg. About the
time he attained his majority he
essayed a part in the German revolu-
fionary measures of s184S-'49 and
was forced hurriedly to leave Ger
many. He fed to America and came
directly to this city. having lived here
ever since. His inability to speak the
English language was an obstacle that
prevented him from entering into his
chosen profession and he engaged in
commercial pursuits, which he fol-
lowed for several years. In 1860 he
took the rostrum for Lincoln and in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-20
LEFT 200 OF HIS MEN.
Prince Louis Sails Away Short That
Number of Sailors.

New York, Nov. 20.-About 200
commanded by Prince Louis of Bat
tenberg were missing from their ships
when the squadron made ready to sail
today. Several of those who had
overstayed their leave were turned
away when they tried to board the
ships this morning. AS it was within
a few hours of the fleets sailing time
when they made their beIated ap-
pearance. the officers treated them as
deserters, refusing to let them step
aboard. The officers said they were
willing to lose these men, on the
principle that they are worthless and
their loss is good radiance.
Many of the rejected sailors Wept
Their uniforms in some cases had
been taken from them in Bowerv re-
sorts, and they had spent all their
money before returning to their ships
Many of them Immediately applied to
the immigration authorities for their
return to England.
Commissioner Watchorn said that a
fine of 50 head would be levied on
the princes feet for every sailor who
appears to have been left stranded in
New York, the same as is imposed on
captains of transatlantic steamers
for every immigrant smuggled into
the United States without due exanf-
nation.
The British ships weighed anchor
shortly before noon and proceeded
down the Hudson river, bound for
Gibraltar.
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BOARD IS A coon ONE.
Waterworlzs Trustees Please Council
man William Green.

1.-THE city could not have secured a
better board of waterworks trustees
than it has said Councilman Green of
the council committee on waterworks
this noon. The city is fortunate in
deed in having the men that it has, for
members on that board. I don't believe
Mayor Davis could have secured better
men If he had made a canvass of the
whole city. I was not very well ae-
quainted with two of the members pre-
vious to their selection on the board but
in my connection with them since, I
think that the board cannot be i'm
proved upon. The men are earnest and
they put in a great deal of hard work
on their duties. they dig into things.
The city council should back them up
in every manner possible and help them
make a success of the management of
the WaterWoTks.
Councilman Sirnms is going to fight
some of these water rates and he says
that he is going to introduce figures
from other WaterWorks systems to back
up his contentious. He seems to forget
that we are running our department in
a different way than they do in a great
many other places. We are running the
department so that we can make it pay
for itself, so that we may at last create
a sinking fund to retire the indebted
ness. In the other instances bonds are
issued whenever improvements are
made. We can have low rates but we
can't at the same time make improve
ments without issuing bonds.'
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ONLY IN CALIFORNIA.
Is Bfagnesite Found and Freight Rates
Prevent It's Shipment Out.

Washington. Nov. 20-California is
the only state. ACCORDING to a report
just issued by the geological survey that
produces magnesite, which is a native
magnesium carbonate. composed of al. &
per cent magnesia and 52.4 per cent car
bon dioxide. During 1904 the quantity
of crude magnesite produced was 2 $50
tons, valued at IS, 298 For 1903. the
quantity reported as 3,744 short tons
crude. valued SO sos, equivalent to 1851
tons calcined worth 020.515. The de-
mand for both crude and caIcfned mag
nestle on the Pacific coast is limited
and prohibitive freight rates have thus
far prevented shipments to the east.
Oregon and California consume the en-
tire native production.
Other states IN the union are depend
ent on imported magnesite.
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1852 was elected to the Missouri legis-
Iature as an emancipatfonist- He was
an earnest advocate Of the freedom
of slaves as a war measure.
In 1864 he took editorial charge OF
the Westliche Post, and soon after
ward Carl Sehurz, who also fed from
Germany. became associated with him
on the newspaper. Later Mr.. Schurz
severed his connection and went west
Mr.. Preetorius steadily advanced un-
til he became editor-in-chief and pro-
prietor for several years before his
death. He left widow, a daughter
and one son, Edward L. Preetorius,
business manager of the Westliche
Post