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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
Irish Potatoes.

Southern Ruralist.
 Early Irish potatoes are almost al- ways a profitable crop, and now that cotton is so cheap d great many farm CTS are looking about for some crop which they can sell for cash. There is always. some risk in taking hold of any crop which you are not perfectly familiar with, especially a veg table crop. But the Irish potato crop pre- sents less risk than most. as nearly everyone has had some experience with t. The main thing is to get the, soil conditions right and furnish the neces- sary plant food,
 In my own experience the carly Irish potato crop has been more Cftcn net short by drouth than by any other cause, and a good crop can be grown on a piece of well drained sandy bot tom when it would be a failure on up land. If, therefore, you have such a piece of land. which you can devote to potatoes. by all means use it for thai purpose. There are few crops which you can plant on 1t that will pay you better with the same work and fcrtil- izer.
 If you plant on upland you can over come the danger from drouth in d great measure by thorough preparation of the land In fact, you cannot afford not to prepare and fertilize your lant properly for this crop. Because an acre of early potatoes represents quite an investment in the matter of seed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
- - DEATH OF MRS. SHELTON.
She Was One of the old Residents
 .JaekR ann GsOmnty

She Was One of the Old Residents of
 Jackson County.
 Scottsboro. April 22.-(SpeciaD-Mr Charlotte Skelton, one of the oldest and most prominent women in the county, died suddenly at the home of her daughter. Mrs. John B. Tally. Her father, Colonel Scott, donated the land on which the town of Scottsboro now stands. Mrs. Skelton leaves nine chil- dren. all of whom survive her, fut one
 Joe McCarroll and Miss Ollie Smith of Aspel, were united in marriage Fri day afternoon at the Methodist parson- age by Rev. J. R. Emerson. They drove through the country and were accom- panied by w. T. Hurt and Miss Mamie Ward of Limrock. The bride is a daughter of the late Dr. w. B. Smith and the groom a prominent young mer- chant of Aspel.
 J. J. Cunningham and Mrs. Nellie Flippin. formerly of this place, were married Wednesday evening at the home of the brides sister, Mrs w. w Cawthorn at Maysville.
 J. E. Campbell, Deputy Collector oi Internal Revenue, located and destroy. ed an illicit distillery two miles soutl of Pea Ridge Thursday morning. A forty gallon copper still was captured while in full blast. The wild eaters made good their escape.
 Prof. J w. Money of Point Rock Valley. has announced his candidacy for the Legislature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
BLACK HIGHwAYMAN IS SHOT.
Attempted HOld-Up Results ln Damage
 To the Criminal,

Florence, April 21.-(Special )-While en route from Sheffield to Florence Thursday night in a buggy, in company with a young woman, C. M. Easley, or Shefield, was attacked by a black high Wayman just south of the Southern Railway bridge. The negro stopped inc horse and grabed MT. Easley by the arm. The latter was fortunately armed and fired at his assailant at close range. The negro released his hold and the horse, frightened at the noise, bolted Nothing more was seen of the negro. Yesterday morning, William Harris, a well known Florence negro was reported dangerously on his way from Sheffield to Florence.
 Yesterday morning at o'clock an alarm of fire was turned in from the Southern depot and quick run was made by the fire company. When the hose wagon arrived 1t was found thas the hose was not long enough to reach from the water plug and It was necessary to send back to headquarters for more. The depot was completely de. stroyed, together with seven freight cars which were standing In the yards one filled with machinery. The other six were empty It is believed that the fire caught among some bales Of cotton on the platform. The amount Of freight and cotton burned and the insurance carried could not be learned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
CouRT AT OpELIKA.a
Only Twenty-three True Bills Return.
 cd hy the Grand Jury.

Cd ny the Grand Jury. - Opelika, April 22.-(Special l--The first week of the Circuit Court came to an end yesterday morning at Il.5o o'clock. The two most important cases tried were the ejectment suits or Nc,
 Emma Kyle, ct al. vs. Fannie E. Slaugn- ter. In the former the judge gave the affirmative charge in favor of the de- fendant, and in the latter the Jury re turned verdict in favor of the de- fendant. The grand jury finished i.s work early Thursday morning. It returned twen- est number of indictments found by a grand jury in several years. and It speaks we'll for the citizenship of Lee County.
 The friends of pr. Cunningham and MT. Conner are doing all in their power to have a large crowd present at the speaking Monday. when the two candi- dates meet in joint discussion. be announcement of the speaking mas
 been given wide publicity in the Ia pers and through circulars, anl if the weather is at, all agreeable. there will be an immense crowd presen- .,s,n
 our court, received a telegram rem his wife this morning, staring that a horse lAd run away with his H'tle daughter and injured her. He at once left for his home in Clayton. but ex-
 poets to be back at his pos: of duty Monday morning.
 At a quarterly conference neid " eu- nesday evening at the West End Meth- odist Church., the following were ap- pointed as a committee to find a suit able location for the proposed new church. Rev. D. M. Banks, H. W Jla- german, w. B. Watkins. F. M. Renfro, f. F. Dickson, H. c. Jernigan and q. R. Spencer They will report a. a sub sequent meeting, and then steps Will be taken to have the West En1 Church church will then be used for two CT three years, when modern md costly church will be built.
 County President c. R. McCreary has announced that there will be a meet
 ing of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of Lee County, at the Court House Saturday, April 2S. At that time State President Morley and Secretary Cook are expected to be present and make speeches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
Early TOmatO.

c. Forkert in Farm and Ranch.
 I notice In a recent issue VT taf m and Ranch that Mir. Raglands' comment on tomatoes. l would recommend your, readers to grow Sparks Earliana: large, uniform size, and beautiful red color, verp rolific. have tried all carries, and so far have always grown some Early Ruby" which also Is quite early, large fruit, but generally some what wrinkled, but the last two years Earliana has been my favorite, and 1t will be hard to beat by any new com CT. Yours for best success to Farm and Ranch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
Death of RascOmb Brown.

VniontoWn, April 22.-(Special, )-H
 four miles east of Uniontown. died Thursday at his plantation from the effects of d carbuncle on his hack from which he had been a great suf- ferer. He leaves a wife and several children. His remains were buried here yestredaY in the family burial ground.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23

We want to give a permanent posi- tion at n good salary to am alert young
 woman who has good business Judg- snent and experience in office work. The position will be permanent to the right party, one who Is quick at figures and n rapid worker. Write us fin all con- fidence, stating exactly your experi- enee, and the salary you are now get ting. Address "C. s. B. care The Ad- xarfiser If.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
CAR COMPANY CASE.
It Win Come Up Before the Supreme COur
 Monday

Gadsden April l-(Special )--Howard Rails son of Mir and Mrs. Oscar Rails. has received promotion in the servics of the Southern Steel Company; He wAs appoitn.v atns, agent of the steel plant Young Mir Rails has been with the company Tor several years and has steadily advanced from a clerkship ,, ,
 Attorney Amos E Goodhue will leave Monday for Washington to attend supreme Court, Mir. Goodhue Is the attorney In
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
REMOVAL NOTICE.

The Ed C. Fowler Co. have moved their stock of Books, Stationery and of- flee supplies to FOwler's Drug Store.
 Phone 311. 10 Dexter Ave.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
Narrowing Corn.

Many farmers read with surprise the statement that harrow can be run across young corn without damage to the crop. Trv 1t and see. It is better to use the Iron toothed harrow with teeth slanting backward at an angle of forty-five degrees. It is remarkable how much work a three section harrow will do in a corn field in one day dur ing the early spring season. Harrow crosswise again within a week. In some cases it is necessary to weight the harrow. A seventy-five or ninety tooth harrow will cover fifteen acres of corn with a slow team and twenty acres if the team is a quick stopper. If doubtful about the use of the har- row on your particular corn crop. take it out and run it for twenty or twenty
 five feet and test the work done by pulling at every stalk passed over 10 find whether or not the rootS still hold. Narrowing will lay the crop down for a day or two, but 1t soon straightens Narrowing kills weeds and destroys young grass, lets the air into the ground and is the best pos sible method of cultivating young corn until the crop reaches eight or ten inches in height. Use the harrow on corn.-Farm and Ranch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23

MaIaria Makes PaIe sickly Children.
 The Old Standard 5Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, drives out malaria and builds up the Price 50 cenfx mon
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23

not give the same careful attention to
 corn. that he knows is essential Tn the
 cotton field. It is therefore recom-
 mended that cotton be grown the
 summer after the raking out of the
 root stocks. The root digger could ne
 used in the spring. but if the work
 Is done in the autumn. the cold of win
 ter will kill great many roots that
 would remain to grow. the next sum- mer. Hence, fall blowing and digging
 is advised. The writer of the bulletin further says that by the adoption ol thorough modern methods of tillage Tn
 the Johnoson grass region. it may be- come practicable to use this grass TOT hay production without serious inter- ference with other crops. Fall blow ing, treatment with the root digger or heavy spike harrow, combineo with more or less hand pulling the next season, will so reduce the stand oi grass that 1t will be several years oe- fore 1t win again seriously interfere with the production of cultivated crops. The land can then be allowed to run back to Johnson grass for two or three years for hay production. But the writer of the bulletin would not advise any farmer to SOW Johnson grass on land that is free fHom 1t un. til more is known about methods ol extermination.-Exch
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
Spraying Potatoes for Profit. H. J. Eustace, New York Experiment

| SIatlOn.
 In general. commence spraying when | the plants arc six to eight inches high | and repeat the treatment at intervals
 of ten to fourteen days in order to keep the plants we'll covered with Bor-
 deaux throughout the season. During ! epidemics of blight it may be neces- l sary to spray as often as once a week
 Usually six applications will be re. six pounds of copper sulphate to each fifty gallons of water. Whenever bugs or flea beetles are plentiful add one pound of Paris green or. two quarts oi
 white arsenic stock solution to the
 quantity. of Bordeoux required te spray an acre,
 be desired at all times. but 1t espe- cially important when flea beetles are numerous or the weather favorable to blight Using the same quantity of
 are likely to be more effective than heavier applications made at long in tervals. When a horse sprayer having but a single nozzle per row IS used a week than to make a double spray ing once in two weeks. Those who wish. to get along with three sprayings should postpone the first one antiT there Is danger of in, | jury from bugs or flea beetles. and then spray thoroughly with Bordeaux
 and poison. The, other two sprayings piled at such times as to keep the foliage protected as much as possible during the remainder of the season. Very satisfactory results can be ob- tained from three thorough sprayings. A single spraying Is better than none, and will usually be profitable. but more are better. It is unsafe to post pcne spraying until blight appears Except perhaps on slnail areas. it does not pay to apply poison alone for bugs When 1t is necessary to fight insects
 use Bordeaux mixture and Paris green together. \
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
Spring Care of AIafaIfa Fields.

Patches and large meadows lately sown to alfalfa in the southwest are fast reaching the critical stage-the change from spring to summer weather. The stand may be perfect now, the land in prime condition. yet the crop may die within thirty days If neglected ings against nurse crops" some farm CTS have planted alfalfa with oats or wheat. Such paintings succeeded very last spring 1eeause 3ss swstem or o sowing alfalfa with any grain invites failure in case rains are light at the time the grain is cut off. Such land dry out severely and the tender alfalfa,
 unused to hot sun. is broiled on the dry crust which affords no water The roots are not yet down to the subsoll in numbers sufficient to support the young alfalfa is growing alone on a moist bed of surface soil heavy rains may so pack the surface as to shut leaves yellow or "scaid." old alfalfa is now hardy. but we have seen such stands lost when these conditions were aggravated. Some fall sown alfalfa has The land has become packed in spots and the stand is endangered.
 Young alfalfa roots demand air. Let in the air by the use of light harrow ings or apply the Hallock weeder: Neither tool will accomplish much if the crust has formed and moisture IS gone. Use these H1OueS OI at the first signs of distress, When weather conditions are ideal we need not trouble about these matters for the young plants will come through safe, but successful farming demands that we turn aside the i'll effects of unfavorable weather and tide the crop over each crisis stage.
 If the alfalfa is strongly rooted, well stoolcd at the top, and in healthy con dition it is now showing first blooms and ready to cut in North Texas lati- tudes and has been cut further South. Old alfalfa requires at least one har- rowing every. year. This should be given promptly just after the first cutting. If small grain is removed from young alfalfa do not fail to har- row within twenty-four hours after land is clear to prevent the severe dry ing out that naturally follows. On up lands alfalfa will always respond to light applications of manure. It can be given at any time If well on tight soils the weeder or the light drag harrow with slanting teeth must be judiciously used. For loose soils or with old stands the disc har,, row Is the better tool-Farm and Ranch.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-06
MRS. CRAIGIE STILL
HAS HOPES FOR U. S.

Journal Special Service.
London, March 6,-Mrs Craigie, bet
ter known under her pen name. of John
Oliver Hobbies, .leetrred last might be-
fore the National Liberal club On
+" American Life. She said there are
fewer idle rich in New z ork or Chi
cago than in any other great ties in
the world, but that the worship of
wealth still is carried to- excess. Never
theless,. the revulsion against sostenta
stious display is growing. s!s'5Js )
American women, she, said, spent
more for clothes and gems than any
women in the world except the rich orr
entails. 1t is astonishing, she, said, to
find this orientalism in race with
Puritanism in temperament.
I" Americans" she continued, Care
not a day older than they were in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Their faces belong to that period, sug
gest the old masters. The press gov
erns the country. It's keynotes We're
humanness and individuality. - 49,
Mrs. Craigie believed that there arc
considerable prospects for American art
and literature. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-06
THE CARELESS GROCER
BIundered, and Great Good Came of II

A careless grocer left the wrong pack
age at Michigan home one day and
thereby brought a great blessing to the
household.
'.Two years ago I was sufferer from
stomach trouble, so acute that the effort
to digest ordinary food gave me great
pain, and brought on condition of
such extreme nervousness that l could
not be left alone. I thought 1 should
certainly become insane. l was SO re-
duced in flesh that I was little better
than living skeleton. The doctors
failed to give me relief and l despaired
of recovery. = go
Zone day our groceryman left a
package Of Grape-Nuts food by mis-
was surprised to find that, it satisfied
my appetite and gave me no distress
whatever. The next meal I ate5ofs it
again. and to be brief, 1 have lived
for the past year almost exclusively
on GrapeNuts. It has proved to be a
most healthy and appetizing food, per-
fectly adapted to the requirements OF
my system.
It is not only easily digested and
assimilated itself, but I find that sinceI
have beeG sssing it I am able to eat
anything else my appetite fancies with
out trouble from indigestion. The stom-
ach trouble and nervousness have left
me, / have regainedi my plumpness and
my views of life are no longer despond-
ent and gloomy. Other members of my
family, especially my husband (whose
yanquishedl, have also derived great
benefit from the use of Grape-Nuts
food, and we think no morning meal
complete without it, Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. e
There's a reason. Read the little
book, The Road to Melville, : in
Dkgs.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-06
HOMESTEAD RIGHTS OF
ENLISTED man DEFINED

Duluth, March 6.-That a man who
has made homestead entry paid the
feesand atcually lived thereon about one
year and who enlists in the United
States army or navy, serving four years
during which time he is unable to visit
his land, does not necessarily forfeit his
claim, is a decision by Washington land
officials announced at the local land Of
fee yesterday. The decision is not based
on any particular case, but is in answer
to questions asked the local officers by
Lieutenant Ivan c. Wettengel of the
naval recruiting station at Minneapolis.
The lieutenant also wanted to know
if service in the war with Spain or the
Filipinos would help recruit, provided
he put in his annual furloughs Of one
month on the land. The Washington
office answers that a man may enlist in
either army or navy and thereafter OBJ
tain title to a homestead if his family
continues to live on the land for; the
required period. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-06
SHERIDAN KICKS
Veteran Umpire Says Rule Makers
Made a Serious Mistake.

Chicago, March e.-;Umpire Jack Sheridan Of
the American league has grudge against the
baseball rule makers Johnson has received a
letter from Sheridan. in which the latter veri,
fed his opposition to certain Of the present
rules Incidentally. he said that he was get
ting in trim for the season and will be on hand
to handle the Indicator in the ante-season games
at St. Louis beginning April s.
Sheridan believes that the rules. committee
made big mistake in not changing the code
50 as to give, the fans more batting. He does
not specify, but maintains that the public Is
getting tired of paying money to see two and
three games: He asserts that there was
unmistakable evidence last year that the spec
tators at major league games wanted to see
more batting. -. ,
In the letter he goes on to say that il the
pitchers continue to shoe the batters to the
bench the coming season the same as they did
last, the American league should come to the
front and change the rules, regardless Of what
the National might do. Apparently Sheridan
nous consent is necessary to change the rules
dams letter, except to say that 1t was no doubt
true that the fans wanted more hitting and that
he himself was in favor Of giving the public
what it wanted. =. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-06
NORTHERN AND COPPER
LEAGUES TO COMBINE

Duluth, Mimi, March 6.-Prospects
are now good for an amalgamation of
the Northern and Copper Country
leagues. The representatives of both
met here this morning, after Presi-
dent Price Of the Northern league and
Manager Lamb of Winnipeg visited the
copper country and found that the SEN
timent was for the taking in Of three
teams from the copper country. John
Cuddihy Of Calumet, Mich, was not at
the meeting in Michigan yesterday, and
he was reported to be unfavorable, but
he was here today and gave the plan his
approval so that no hitch is now looked
for.
Three teams would be taken in from
the copper country. Calumet and Lake
Linden would each have teams and
Houghton and Hancock would combine.
The league would be filed out with Du-
luth, Grand Forks, Fargo, Winnipeg,
and perhaps Superior. If Superior
should not come in, Iron Mountain,
Mich, would like the chance. Copper
country men look upon the plan with
much more favor than had been thought
likely and unless some hitch occurs it
will undoubtedly go thru.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-06
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