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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
WILL LAY CORNER
 STONE MONDAY
Deputy Grand Sire Nolen of Nashville Will Deliver the Address at
 Culman.

Decatur, August 2S.--(Special. )-The corner stone of the Widows and Or phans home to be built near Cullman by the Odd Fellows fraternity of Ala bama will be laid on Labor Day. Sep tember 2. with appropriate exercises.
 A number of the members of Twin City Lodge No. 159. of Decatur Lodge No. 52, of Canton Dixie No. 2, and of Mabel Rebekah No. 3, will attend these services in a body.
 The address of the occasion will be delivered by Deputy Grand Sire Judge Nolen of Nashville. Tenn. He will probably arrive In Decatur on the day before and deliver an address to the Odd Fellows of the Decaturs and will then go from here to Cullman with members of the Decatur lodges
 This home Is to be built about one and a half miles from Cullman and the location Is said to be a most beautiful one. The building will cost about $100,- 900. The location was made when the grand lodge of Alabama met in De- catur last May.
 The buildings will be completed as rapidly as possible This will be the and best equped home of the kind In Alabama. In connection with the home there will be quite an extensive farm and 1t Is expected that in time the farm will produce enough, fruits, vegetables. etc, to supply the home and also some to sei.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
KILLED BY SHOCK
 IN DAIRY ROOM
L. p. CARTER RECEIVES ElECTRl- CAL CHARGE WHILE CLEANING COMBINATION GAS AND ELEc. TRIC CHANDELIER.

Chicago, August 2S.-L P. Carter, son of Brlgader General W. H. Carter of Chicago, head of the department of the lakes of the United States army, was killed instantly last night by an electric shock sustained in the dairy room of the University of Illinois at Champaign. where young Mir. Carter was special ist.
 As is customary in industrial schooling, he had been set at the task of polishing and cleaning a combination electric and gas chandelier hanging from the ceiling of room in the dairy. C. G. Potter. a fellow-student employe, who was in an adjoining room, hearing piercing scream. rushed in and found Carter had been killed by electricity. Carter had been standing upon a small stationary engine. while reaching up t6 the chande- Her The engine was fastened with bolts driven through a concrete floor, and this completed the circuit.
 It is said that General Carter is now in Washington, while Mrs. Carter is In Arizona
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
---e.- - CLEVELAND IS NOT WELL.
Former President Must Take Rest for
 Some Time.

New York, August 28.-Attention has again been attracted to ex-President Grover Cleveland by the announce ment from Princeton, N. J.. that he had given up all hope of leaving his home there for his customary summer vacation in New Hampshire, because of the state of his health.
 MT. Cleveland has been troubled with attacks of acute indigestion for number of years, and each attack has been more severe than the one that was before The present attack came as he was about to leave for his sum- mer home His physicians have pre- scribed rest and quiet. MT. Cleveland therefore denies himself to visitors. but 1t Is said at his home that his condition shows improvement.
 Mrs. Cleveland, who had been to New Hampshire with the children, re- turned to Princeton yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29

wars on down to the present days of militia encampments
 Certain old customs have left their trace on the use of buttons. Those on the coats sleeve are the sole remnant of q large company of gal gilt ones that resourceful German king ordered placed on the uniforms of his soldiers when he discovered their habit of wiping their perspring brows on their sleeves. In America buttons are considered an index to character. The woman whose but tons are missing or whose button holes sag at the corners is regarded as sloven- ly by her more particular sisters while the man whose buttons need attention is the subject of much misdirected sympa- thy, especially if he is married. The late Mrs Mckinley loved best of all jokes the one on the Canton woman whose husband was usually ill-fitted as to but tons Mir. Z-- does seem to lose more buttons than any man in the world, Mrs Z- had complained. Maybe they are not well sewed on.' reproVingly sug- gested an elderly lady. That's what tell him." chirped Mrs z-. 'he is just the worst sewer imaginable"
 Tomorrow: Making Farming Pro- fession.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
DEPENDANT WINS
 IN DAMAGE SUIT
FIRST SUIT GROWING OUT OF THE MINE EXPLOSION AT PIPER IS TRIED AT CENTREVlLLE-MUR- DER TRIALS TODAY.

Centreville, August 2S.--(Special.)- The jury In the case of Jim Costello, administrators against the Little Ca haba company which went to trial in the circuit court on Thursday of last week brought in a verdict for the de- fendant yesterday afternoon after be- ing out only about a half an hour. This is the first of the twenty damage suits resulting from the explosion at Piper mines in this county more than year ago. In this case the plain tiff sued for thirty thousand dollars damages. There were many lawyers on both sides of the case and the out come was watched with much intrest
 After. noon on yesterday the criminal docket was taken up by Judge Miller and many cases were tried. Syd Kornegay, a white man, who was a witness In a case where the defendant was charged with violating the prohlbi- tion law was ordered committed to jail for perjury.
 On tomorrow two murder cases will come up for trial. The case of the State vs Will Front who is charged with murder in the first degree Is set for trial and a special jury has been drawn. Clabe Thomas. charged with murder in the second degree, will also be tried.
 The Misses Colemen of Uniontown who have been on a visit to Centre- vile for several weeks, left for their home today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
TWO NEW BALES OF
 COTTON AT MERIDIAN
ONE BALE SOLD FOR 26Ia CENTS, THE OTHER FOR 13 CENTS-THE CITY MAY SUE PAVING CON- PANY.

Meridian, Miss, August .-(Special) --Meridian's first and second new bales of cotton for the season were sold at auction In front of the cotton exchange today at Il o'clock. The Clarke county bale sold for 25 12 cents and the bale shipped to the city from Jones county sold for 13 cents. The first bale was bought by J. Blum, rep senting Longshore X Company. The second bale was bought by George &. William, representing Hannay Frerichs & Company
 The bidding was started on the first bale at 25 cents by the latter gentle men. The first bale of new cotton was shipped to Meridian by c. V. Akin of Desoto to Meyer Brothers, the other bale was shipped to Meridian from Laurel by T. B. Bonner to Three foot Brothers & Company. Both ar rived on the same day, but the Desoto bale got hero first.
 The city street committee will make a report to the city boards relative to the recent street paving repair work of the Southern Paving and Con struction company of Chattanooga, who were the contractors In constructing Meridian's business streets. recently paved with vltrihed broick. While the report of tle committee will not bb made public before submitted to the boards, 1t is understood it will recommend that 5000 held by the city for the faithful performance of the contract be retained by the city and that the paving company be sued on the bond they were required to give when the contract was awarded to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
CANFIELD PLACE
 OFFERED FOR SALE
RESTRICTIONS ON GAMBLING AT SARATOGA HAVE CAUSED THIS FAMOUS soLoN TO BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS.

Saratoga, x. Y.. August &.-Signs nave been posted before Richard Canhelu saratoga club house and on his famous Italian garden and park surrounding the house announcing that the place Is Tor sale The news that this had occurred was the sensation of the season here'
 There were plenty of rumors to account for Mir. Canfield's action. including aieseu disgruntlement against the authorities TOT restricting gambling.
 Because of the restrictions placed on gambling this season Canheld mas oeeii a rather dull place The club restaurant has been open throughout the summer hut the big attraction the great salol in which the highest play ever known III America was conducted in former years was no longer present. The gamniins i'.l' clements the roulette wheels ana Iars layouts had been removed and only DE richly furnished lounging room remained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29

that they cost only little over cents a pound factories turned to the home product.
 small capital Is required to make the pearl button, and the profits are good Muscatine, la, is the center of the pearl button industry. and employs a great per centage of the 5000 American button makers, and likewise reaps a good share of the 5000, 600 that is made each year in the business. A German button maker named Boeple, wandering westward from the old country. saw the possibilities of the mussel shells in the Mississippi and finally persuaded the Waterbury factories to see their worth Factories for making the blanks" or discs from which the button is completed, soon sprang up throughout the length of the Mississippi valley, and soon the manufacturers were invited by dealers in Arkansas to bid on 500 ton lots of shells, when they had hitherto been accustomed to consider no larger quantities than fifteen or thirty ton lots.
 While the pearl button industry bids fair to decimate the ranks of the shell fish in inland waters, the awakening spirit of economy in America has suggested to many southern and middle states. the use of the cut shells a road-maxing ma terlal. These buttons. now made at a 
 planting the agate. which are almost en- tirely foreign made A profitable indus try in America is the making of celuloid campaign buttons, partisanism calling for many hundred thousand to be loyalty displayed at election times, or during spe- clal fairs, conventions and reunions. This Is not a new industry for there were metal souvenir buttons in use as early as Washingtons time. Collectors show these very interesting buttons with diff ferent devices, each bearing the legend Long i've the President
 In military annals buttons have played a very important part The first state troops of the Revolution had any and all kinds of buttons on their clothes though the Eighth Massachusetts had button of it's own. When the nation became reality and a regular uniform was adopt ed, buttons with distinctive national fea- lures were designed and have followed patriotic lines ever since. Old battle fields still discover to the ploughman but tons of odd materials and design worn by the nations warriors from the Indian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
TAFT ON HIS WAY.
The Secretary Is the Cynosure of Many
 Eyes at Kansas City.

Kansas City, August 2S.-Secretary of War William II. Taft today resumed his journey westward, departing on q Union Pacific train for Denver. The Secretary secured good rest last night and apparently was none the worse for yesterdays experience. After breakfast at the Baltimore hotel he was driven over the city in an auto mobile in company with Mayor Boards ley and United States Senator William Warner.
 From the ride the party went direct to the union station. where Secretary Taft was met by crowd of people that filled every available space with in sight of the station entrance. He was cheered as he passed through a narrow lane of people to his train, from which he bowed an adieu few minutes later as the start to the west was made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
Woman Found Dead.

Chattanooga. August 2S.-A special to the Times from Knoxville says: The body of a woman, guarded by a faith full cur dog, was found in the woods just north of the city today. There were evidences of a desperate strug- gle, and the woman's forehead is crushed. The womans face was eaten away by insects and there is no way of identifying her. There is no woman reported missing in this city, and the police are without a clew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
A Great Skating Act
: AT
Al - Lake Como Rink Tonight

Miss Carrie Scott and w. w Roberts, the best skaters of Bir- mingham, will give double act of tricks and fancy skating.
 Miss Scott's original trick, tread ing the burning forest on her heels and toes is one of the prettiest acts ever witnessed.
 Mir. Roberts will take dare devil jump over the chairs, which is one of the most sensational acts seen in Birmingham. You can't afford to miss 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
Beheaded by an Elevator.

Chattanooga, August 2S.-At 3 o'clock today Isam Black. a 15-year- old boy. while attempting to stop a moving elevator in the News building, missed his footing caught on the plat form and was carried 10 the next floor above, where his head was cut off just at the ears. The boys body fell into the elevator shaft, five floors, to the basement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
$1O0,OOO DEAL IN
 MOBILE PROPERTY
Tract Will Be Divided Up Into
 Residence Lots
WOMAN ATTACKED IN DARK
Screams Scare Assailant Away and No Trace Is Found-Sut for $25oo Ns.
 Southern RaiIway-Jas. Rich
 ardson Charged With Murder.

Mobile, August Special VII liam F. Tebbets and wife today convey ed 10 the Guarantee Mortgage and Trust company of Mobile 165 acres on Gov ernment street and Little Dog river for one hundred thousand dollars. The tract will be known as Bonair and will be subdlvided into building lots for res idence purposes.
 Attempted to Assault.
 Mrs Lewis Moore, wife of Lewis Moore. employed in the commisary of the Barker Cotton mills at Pritchard's was assaulted and choked by some un- known person last night about o'clock while sitting on her front gallery dur ing the absence of her husband. She wrested herself from her assailant and screamed. arousing the neighbors. Sher- If Cazalas was notified, but no trace of the person could be found.
 Increase of Values.
 The county commissioners, sitting as a board of equalization, has finished its labors and the total increase made by the board on realty in Mobile county amounts to $2,459,399.
 Suit for Damages.
 Henry McNeese, through his attorney, r. ]. Inge. has filed a suit in the new law and equity court, claiming of the Southern railway twenty-five hundred dollars for three teeth lost through the alleged carelessness of the railway. The teeth were lost through car striking him.
 Remains Shipped.
 A. Sharbaro. secretary of the Greek Metropolitan of Chicago. who came here for the remains of Constantin karalopoulos q Greek promoter, who died here several days ago, left to- night for Chicago with the remains, where the titual of the Greek church will be said over them after which they will be sent to Ath ems, Greece, where the dead mans brother Ia secre- tary of state.
 Charged With Murder.
 James Richardson. charged with mur- der at Prestwick, Washington county, was before Judge Browne of the circuit court here today on the matter Of oall. During the hearing 1t developed that there had been a conflict of authority between the Justice of the peace at Prestwick and the county solicitor. the latter claiming the man must be taken to St. Stephens for preliminary near ing that being the county seat. Judge Browne ordered that the prisoner De remanded to the custody of the sheriff of Washington county and taken to Prestwick for 2 preliminary hearing at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Rich ardson Is said to have killed negro at Prestwlck, who assaulted and cut him on the train the night previous at Jackson, Ala.
 Death of w. c. Barclay.
 News was received here tonight of the death today at El Paso, Tex. of w. G' Barclay. formerly assistant ticket agent here for the Louisville and Nashville railroad. He is survived by several brothers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29

Elks' Picnic and Barbecue. Germania Park today. Ad- mission 25c; ladies free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
Bijj

Opens Monday (Labor Day Matinee.) :. ... The Melodramatic-Mu Success. "The Phantom Detective. !" New Idea Detective Play.
 Special Company of players.
 Musical chorus of pretty girls.
 Quartette of singing Comedians.
 Den of real Lions.
 Seats Now on Sale at Box office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29

One of America's most contemplating but ton manufactures was Samuel Williston. Willston was studying for the ministry when his eyes suddenly failed, and his wife had to earn their support by cover ing wooden buttons with bth of cloth. The tediousness of this hand work sug- gested to the husband that machinery would minimize the labor and increase the profits, so he perfected a device for doing the work This was in the middle of the nineteenth century and In less than a quarter century his factories at East hampton, Massachusetts were making half the buttons used in this country. At the age of 75 Willston had amassed a fortune of five or six million dollars.
 So varied are the materials used in making buttons that If the average woman would collect all these useful ar ticles In her wardrobe and subject them to analysis, she would make some inter esting and startling discoveries. The but tons of ivory that she has had decorated in some high priced studio, she can of course classify as readily as she can the jeweled ones on her gowns of state, the pearl ones on her linen dresses and the cut steel on her walking suit. Mother of pearl, glass, porcelain and brass she might know at glance. but there are others not so easy to classify. She would doubtless turn up her dainty nose on dis- covering that some very presentable but tons she has were made from the hoofs and horns of beef cattle the material be- ing softened by boiling in water and shaped by hydraulic pressure after being cut in discs. Other buttons under tho chemistss analysis would prove to be made from a composition of blood or from the casein product of skim milk or from brown seaweed gathered on the coast of Massachusetts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29

Vegetable ivory. the fruit of a South American palm, brought by ship from Colon, has long been a favorte material for button making. For thirty years now an excellent imitation of this has been made of gums mixed with comminuted carbonate of lime and mica or feldspar
 Irish potatoes treated with~ certain acids ahrden into a clear creamy white ma terial that is almost indstinguishabe from vegetable ivory. and has consequent ly made a strong bid for place among materials Horn has been in popular use for over 200 years, while the invention
 thirty years ago. of machine for mak- ing holes in buttons has increased the popularity of that as well as other like materials, for up to that time all the holes had been drilled by hand.
 It was the fresh water mussel shell that gave this country importance as a button producer, and changed what was an imported commodity prior to 1892 into profitable export. The sea shells from the Asiatic coasts have cost pretty item every year, yet button makers must have them. for pearl buttons have the greatest demand. These mother-of-pearl shells cost s7la cents pound. and were | formerly imported at a cost of million ! dollars year. When 1t was found thai the fresh water shells from the Mis- | sssippi valley could be used. that they | were almost as good as the others, ant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29

that they cost only a little over cents a pound. factories turned to the home product.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
Private Allen Is Better.

It has been reported here that Pri- vate" John Allen was desperately i'll at his home in Tupelo but that proves to have been exaggerated MT. Allen has been little under the weather but IS now out. and seems good for many more years and lots of good jokes. This ln- formation was brought to Jackson py Railroad Commissioner Kineannon' ana was very gratifying to the many trlenus of tbo former congressman from the First district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-29
kincannon's Good Work.
Returns Not All In.

Though it has been nearly one week since the second primary for state and county officers, Secretary of State Power has not received all of tho county re- turns. Some twelve or fifteen counties are yet missing, and 1t Is doubtful whether they get in by Thursday, the day of the meeting of the state commit tee. to count their vote and declare the result.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-03-14
Little Locals.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Coming soon, Al. G. Fields Minis.
! trels.
First class alfalfa seed at Greeley
Mercantile Co.
NJ. p. Stanley started last Thurs.
day for Nampa, Ida.
Miss Florence DeVotie spent Fri.
day and Saturday in Denver
Mrs. Merit Thomas visited Denver
friends from Friday until Monday.
Ross Titler spent several days last
week in Loveland on business
trip.
Miss Florence Thompson went to
Denver Thursday for short visit
with friends.
Mrs. Emma Hammond returned
last Friday morning from a years
stay at Plymouth, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Martin re-
turned to Denver Saturday after a
week spent in Greeley on business.
Mrs. Emma Hale of Platteville
came TO Greeley last Sunday for a
few days visit with Mrs. Charles
Farr.
Mrs. S. Fl. Mason came from
Brighton last Saturday for few
days visit with her daughter, Mrs.
w. O. McCown.
Miss Iva Dean went to Ault last
Thursday for few days visit with
her sister, Miss Edna Dean, who
teaches at that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Hick and fam
lily, who have been living in Gree
ley, moved to LaSalle last week and
will try ranch life again.
Mr.. Carter and son, Walter, from
Cleveland. O., made Judge Hawks a
visit last week. They had not met
each other for over thirty-four years.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-03-14
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First.class alfalfa seed at Greeley
Mercantile Co.
Mrs. NJ. Mottaz Of Windsor spent
Saturday in Greeley.
Miss Jessie Mills visited over Sun
day with relatives in Denver.
Mrs. C. A. Stover went to Chey-
enne Monday for an indefinite stay.
For Sale-White Wyandotte eggs
for Matching. Address 30l Thir-
teenth street.
Evelyn Thaw hats at Miss Myers
millinery opening Friday and Satur-
day, March Is and l6.
Misses Anna Miller and Louise
Dillon went to Denver Saturday for
a few days visit with friends.
C. A. Watson of Lake City, Colo,
arrived in Greeley last Friday for a
weeks visit with his family, who
live here.
Stanley Davis last week sold l60
acres of land east of the Greeley
sugar factory to Nels Pierson of Lu-
cerne for Sl2, 900.
Miss Edith Sanford was quite i'll
last week with tonsilitis. Her place
was supplied in the Evans school by
Miss Cunningham OF the Normal.
Having bought out the Greeley oil
tank line from j. A. Barnes l hope
all old customers will hang out their
cards as usual, while also bidding for
new business. A. Olson.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Lawrence and
four children, who have been resi-
dents of Greeley and vicinity the last
i've years. left last Thursday for
Garden City, Kan, where they will
make their home.
The Junior Unity, consisting or
twenty young people of the Unity
church, met for social time at the
home of Alex Mead Wednesday even
/ ing. Various unique amusements
were provided. Questions were
given out, the answers being abbre-
viations of the states The young
people spent a pleasant evening.