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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

January ly, 1905;
 Governor Jelks takes the oath of office at Montgomery under the new state con- stitution
 City democratic executive committee calls primary for the city for March ?. Rats eat $13o of union passenger ticket office money
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J January 19, 1901:

January 19, 1901:
 J. B. Cobbs, vice-presdent of the Bir- rningham Trust and Savings company, goes with the Alabama National bank as vice-president.
 The park at Seventh street, on the Bes- semer dummy line, Is being put in shape for the baseball season. Manager Mills announces that he has signed most of the players for the season.
 Frank Edwards is convicted of compile ity in the robbery of the local office of the Standard Oil company and is given twenty-five years in the pententiary.
 Bank clearings today were $147, ,495 45
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January 19, 1902:
 Commander Booth Tucker of the Salva- ton Army addresses a large audience at the Jefferson theater.
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like most children, had at first consid- erable difficulty in keeping still. He evil dently thought the thing all out for him self; and one day, with no suggestion from his parents, he announced that he had found a method of controlling his re- bellious members. He selected a seam in the carpet, placed his toes firmly against it. shut his heels tightly to- gether, and assumed a determined, sol- dier-like pose. From that day MT Hughes has had entire command of himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
About High School Tuition.

Birmingham, Jan. IS. 1907.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-11-15
BLUE GRASS BLADE.

class an eventless personal Immortality?
And who would not ten thousand times pre-.
fer that friends should sleep the soundless,
dreamless sleep Of ceaseless ages than 10
trust their destinies to the remorseless
Christian God and the terrors of the ortho-
dox hell?
Dear friends, in the presence of the nigh
ty majesty of death We put aside all petty
differences, for in her embrace Mother Ma
ture receives with calm benignity the just
and the unjust, the dogmatist and the
doubter, the professor ond the plodder the
laborer and the loaner Here at the TIRES
hold of the tomb terminate the troubles and
trials of time, and at last Natures final seal
in equity is affixed. Here the distinctions
of rank and riches, the strife for power and
place, and the pride Of race and religion
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-11-15

vanish forever away, and here at last is
peace and equality reality.
The thorny track of time has been trav-
ersed by the departed. The wearying
weight of traditions burden has silently
slipped from her shoulders. The finger of
destiny indicated the doorway of death.
The cosmic tragedy has been consumma-
tide. The ponderous pendulum of the ages
seeks i equilibrium. The penalty of life
has been paid.
Standing beside the bier of one who has
been as closely associated VITA me as a Sis
ter, l am constrained to say that Death is
cruel only to those he leaves behind"
Sweet Mother Earth, accept his charge
This form which we resign
And through thine alchemy transmute
TO other forms sublime.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-11-15
What Can Be Accompl. shed by Local Union
Work If Rationalists Will Only Take
Up the Work.
(By Lou Lawrence.)

The Ohio idea of railroads.&c. propagand-
ism is probably more prominently before
the Freethinkers of the country than any
other proposition for the spread of anti
religious knowledge. The idea upon which
the plan hinges-that of local organiza ion
lis the proper method for the spread OF
Rationalistc thought. 1t Is Natures method
for the extensive propagation OF organic
structures of every order No great move
ment can ever be successful unless it es-
tablishes itself permanently in many local
tiles, where its principles and .enets can be
It in &C i've agitation and its purposes for
the betterment Of humanity made a matter
of daily action. This Is the method by
which all ideas have come to dominate
mankind, and by which they must do SO in
the future.
The purpose of Rationalism Is to supplant
superstition in the minds and hearts of
the people. To do this, it must inaugura
a system OF entertainments, diversions and
instructions which will appeal to the great
mass of humanity. II must take the people
as 1t finds them and win its way by cater
ing to their needs-social, mental, senti-
mental and otherwise. Those individuals
who are strongly intellectual may some
times be won by appeals in the shape Of
printed arguments; but the most intellectual
of the race, as we'll as the most sensual,
must eat, drink and wear clothing; and the
result is that they exercise their powers as
far as possible along the lines which give
worldly advancement in return; or, failing
in this, most Of them deem 1t expedient to
seek to keep as closely as possible in touch
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-11-15
The Ohio Idea of Propaganda

with the masses for the sake oil having their
assistance in the mere struggle for exist
ence." There are a few rare spirits to
whom this does not apply, but such is the
natural trend
The majority of mankind, however. is not
strongly intellectual; nor are its units dis
posed to go far out of the easy tenor OF
their ways to get ideas; but they are the
bone, the muscle, the very life-bood of SO.
ciety; and without footing among them.
no movement will ever be thoroughly sue
cessful. They may never be able to give
reason for their faith, but the truths which
are to benefit mankind must be made their
faith.
Just as the brain cannot fully control the
health of the remainder of the body, so he
intellect of a nation cannot propagate it's
conclusions very expeditiously, nor, indeed,
at all, unless it adopts me hods which
reach the physical welfare, the emotions, or
the affections OF the average individual OF
the race. 1t is useless for the brain to be
conscious of the fact that the health of the
entire man is being impaired by the conduct
of a sluggish liver, unless sad brain can
evolve a plan by which said liver can be
induced to exert itself: So those individ-
uals who rejoice in the belief that they are
thinkers-who are the thinkers-which can
be of no service to mankind until they have
methods by which they can induce humani-
ty to accept and practice the result of heir
knowledge. Then, as the renewed health
of the body gives additional strength to he
brain, so the growth of truth among a
people at large reacts upon its thinkers, and
new effort is put forth and new truths are
discovered.
Between the great thinkers OF the world
and the mass Of its people. stands a class
to whose lot 1t falls to educate humanity
10 a conception and application Of the
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-11-15

dogmas of revealed religion, end MAINTAIN
ed that mental freedom on4y could enamel.
pa the race from the thralldom of tradi-
ton. She declared that the literature and
inventions of great men like Watt and
Darwin and Edison have done more to civ
ilize, ennghten and transform the world
than all he labors of theologians through
OIL the ages.
She believed that to be happy and to help
others to be happy were two of the essen
tias of life, and that the more of Joy we
libera.e the greater measure we retain
that helping hand for humanity's sake is
better far than mission funds for Christ's
sake; that kind word is more civilizing
than the fear of destruction; that reason is
be ter route to right living than the fear
of hell; and that the countless prayers said
in the seclusion of the sanctuary fail utterly
to balance against the service of willing
worker.
She believed in natural laws, not super
ma ural suspension of them. In scientific
investigation, not inspired declarations from
deity. In liberty and light and justice.
not slavery and darkness and usurpation
In the exercise of reason and right living,
not in faith induced by ignorance. In the
majesty of human wisdom not in the revel.
alton of dogmatic ritual. In truth accredit-
ed by the individual, not in The wholesale
accep ance of decreed authorities.
She declared that the mighty universal
balance sheet must be kept true and that
through deaths processes Nature regained
lnr
eficent, beautiful transition.
rs there beyond the silent night
An endless day?
Is death a door that leads to light?
I cannot say"
Will the spirit of our relative continue 10
live? DO NOT KNOW.
Will her body be resurrected? YES!
For even as no thought can perish, Meth.
er can any atom of the Universe be destroy
ed So, the alkahest of Nature will reduce
and redis ribute her body to the elemental
wealth Of the worlds substances through
which forever the vital currents pulsate.
Her thoughts and work remain with US,
and the grosser elements will finally be re-
adjusted and diffuse benefcence in the
chatter Of childhood, the beauty Of bursting
bud the note Of the nightingale, the sparkle
OF the sunlight, the song of the streamlet,
the thunder of the tempest and the sweep
Of the spheres.
Therefore, having reached the conclusion
that life's conscious line begins with the
cradle and is broken at the cofin.-resting
in this result of personal researches. our
serenity Is mistaken, for who shall say that
eternal oblivion does not approximate per.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-04-11
wAyERLY NOTES.

Mrs. Frank G. Corder was inLex-
ington last week.
Claude H. capps was in Malta
Bend last Friday.
Miss Bertha Larkin returned from
Wellington last week.
Capt. Irving zeyzing was down
from Dover one day last week.
James R. Sustin of Kansas City
was business visitor here this week.
Mrs. H. oelschlaeger and children
left Tuesday to visit in Kansas City.
Rev. Lamar Bedsworth, of Grand
Pass, was visitor at this place Sat
urday.
Mrs. Joe Plattner and Miss Della
Coad we're up from Grand Pass Sat
urdaY.
DR.. Ben H. Brown, of Chicago, i;
visiting his father, Or. S. W. Brown
this week.
Mrs. Kate Weber and daughter
Miss Georgia, we're Marshall visitors
Monday.
Mesdames VIM. Wright and Spen
Ger, Of near Mt Leonard, were in
town Saturday.
James Donohue, of Kansas City
was looking after business interests
here Saturday.
Miss Ida b. Rowe, of Odessa, spent
Saturday and Sunday with her
brother, DR.. NJ. L. Rowe.
o. S. Karr and family left Wed
nesday for Kansas City where thel
will make their future home.
Miss Stella Burnettleft last week
for st. Louis to visit her friend
Mrs. viii Shelley, for several weeks
Walter Sussey and family arrived
last week from El Paso, Texas for al
extended visit with his father, VIM
Sussey.
Miss Grace Walton returned t
her home in Kansas City after
short visit with her sister, Mrs
Warren Groves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee McGrew arrives
this week from Sedalia and will max
Waverly their future home. The,
will move into the Blanchard proper
ty which they bought recently.
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SCHOOL BOARD.
circult cOurt.

The circuit court met Monday
with all its officers present and dis
posed of large amount of routine
work with alacrity. A great many
papers were filed.
In the case Of Milwaukee Harvester
Co. VS. S. B. Burton, defendant, and
Metropolitan Street Ry. garnishee,
the defendant filed motion to quash
exception and dismiss garnisheei
which motion was sustained.
The following cases we're continued
by consent: Ida Aultschaeffel vs.
Frederick starke; Sarah Taggart vs.
"A. j. Leonard; Arthur Hook VS.
Walter T. Hook; Louis Wilmer ':
Margaret Gillespie ct al; Alonzo
Dyer vs. Anna Dyer.
The court adjourned until wednes'
day morning on account of the city
elections.
The circuit court Wednesday at
tended to several unimportant
matters, mostly the hearing o.
motions and adjourned till Monday
April, lS.
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Card Of Thanks.

To the Voters of Lexington:
Ireturn my sincere thanks for the
generous support given me for
mayor at the election held Tuesday,
April I. My endeayor in the dis
charge of my official duties will be to
deserve and merit the confidence
you have reposed in me with such
unanimity. Mindful of this high dis
tinchon, shall the more labor to
keep unsullied the trust confded to
my keeping, to the end that the tax
payers every interest will be adj
ministered honestly, impartially and
benefcially, and with the same fdel-
ity as I would my own personal and
private affairs.
Very Respectfully,
THOMAS WALTON.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-04-11
Lafayette County Viii Now
Have Schools Organized
Properly.
THE VOTE WAS HEAVY
Nearly All The Towns Favored Super.
vision But the Rural Districts We're
Against It By a Narrow Margin.

The campaign for county school
supervision was more successful than
the strongest boos ters had hoped, and
the county rolled upa majority of
nearly 1000 in favor ofthe measure.
This is very gratifying to those who
have the interests of the school
childrea at heart and appreciate
what benefit will accure from the
new Office.
In Lexington and other towns that
- = " 90 "a < "iiaSu sysuvlMs the diI-
ference will be comparatively slight:
but in the country schools there will
5Re marked change for the good.
Ne peculiar feature of the election
that the big majoritie came from
=. tt9wns, while the rural dis
~ triEere against measures in their
" ownrest
Inc In towns was as follovs
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Happy Hour Club.

The Happy Hour Club of Higgins
vile came up Wednesday on thelocal
and spent a pleasant afternoon with
Mrs. 7. A. Walker. The members
returned on the evening train. They
were: Mrs. L. T. Land, Mrs. Sam
Downing, Mrs. o. o. Downing, Mrs
Ed O'Brien, Mrs. L. L. Lake, Mrs, L.
II. Lake, Mrs. II. f Campbell, Mrs.
IDr. Webb, Mrs Or, Carter, Mrs. S. A.
Yermillion, Mrs. Geo. Rohring and
Miss Georgia Page. Mrs. VIM. Walk
er of Page City was with them.
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The following letters remained un-
called for at the Lexington postoffice
Saturday, April IL, 1908.
Fred Bierham, Jack Butler, Nose
Ester, J w. Farran. Fred Green, Rev,
E. H. Gilnur, ]. M. Hamley, Jerry
Holemau, Anra Is. Jorkson, Mrs. E.
E. Jewell, Benjamin Kewi, Martha
Leex, Joe Lelong, Woodson Lincoln,
]. D. Long R. E. Martin, w. F.
McNatt, Miss Mary Rudd, Arthur
Hanson, John Schreaker, Mrs. Ian
Shanes, J. B. swards, Herbert Wat
kins, Lula Wiston.
When calling for these letters
please say they we're advertised.
DELLA CRowDER,
Postmaster.
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Refused HigginSville's Lead
and Gives Anti.SalOOn
Forces a Shock.
BIG SURPRISE
The Circular About Tax Increase Helped
the Liquor Interests Even
cOncOrdia Is Wet.


Lafayette county surprised every
one Saturday by going wet with a
majority Of T81. Most
people has figured on the elections
going dry and even the most SAN
guine saloon man thought that it
would be close. It is the general
sentiment that mad the election been
two weeks earlier it would have been
dry. But during the ten days pre-
ceding the election there was a
marked changed in sentiment. The
vets issued a circular signed by four
farmers stating that tax increase
would be necessary if the saloon re.
venue we're taken away from the
county and this circular was in large
measure responsible for the change.
odessa and Corder we're the dry
strongholds. They returned pretty
good majorities against the sale Of
Intoxicating liquor; but everything
else was either comparatively close
or overwhelmingly wet.
The vote in Old Town wai
4 dry, but at the court house it wa.
more than $50 wet The saloons SEN
rigs to all the mining camps and
brought to town the miners who al
most to man voted wet,
In the campaign the liquor interest
were much better organized and spen
more money than the local op
tionists. Some of the dry speaker
make extravagant statements an,
INDUCED in personalities which wer'
.. q place, according to the testi
mony of those who heard them.
The election practically stops tn
local option move in Lexington. Tn,
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ANNUAL HORSE SHOW
,-afsc \ age Crowd in Town monday.
'Vt Many Horses, but Good Ones.

M was a large crowd of farmers
n in town last Monday to |
-.ia o.OoAu annual display of
..',i,a,. [ - | n street Not very |
many horses were SooS ons,i.' DI suO'
that were we're of az az qusi'E
Ashbrook made firfI-'o WIN
three of his sons. He hapo' oeen
in harness since last Octoh out
without shoes showed won't
gait. Neil Todhunter drove K.
Amatum 4il52, son of Ashbrook al
Iull brother to the worlds champion
Ammonia, was greatly admired by a
the horsemen. He is large and fin
and will be two years old IN Ma,
His height is 16 hands and his weigh
ll35 pounds. This colt took fou
premiums at the Interstate Fair (
Kansas City last fall, including th
sweepstakes over all ages of in
ported coach horses.
Frank Campbell showed a graz
young black stallion by Ashbrook OF
of great brood mare. This colt
afflicted with speed and will make
valuable stallion or race horse. +
I - now over 10 nanus nign Win spleI
did form. Mr.. Menaugh also shove
a splendid young stallion by AS
brook, large and handsome with
fine turn of speed.
James Terhune showed the fine
year-old that he recently purchase
This colt is by Highwood, the sire {
the great EARLY Reaper, 2:O9 /. E
shows fine speedand promises to
very fast.
Frank Haberkorn showed his han
some half bred coach stallion, wit
splendid conformation and oneOf IL
showlest horses Oh exhibition.
Glover Branch exhibited Velo, Il
great draught stallion, and Frar
Stewart and Jou Is Hockensmith al
made good displays.
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Vets Garry HigginsyiIIe.

The vets turned tables on the drys
at Higginsville Tuesday and elected
three out Of four City officers. The
only dry elected was Republican
who was running against a Democrat,
which shows that party politics was
not entirely eliminated. The officers
elected we're:
Mayor-D. w. Mollenkamp, Rep,
Police Juige--J e. Rigg, Rep, Mar
shall-Fred Newman, Dem; Col
lector-Ike Noyes, Dem; Council
men Frank George, 9. h. Gladish
Lee Boyd
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Joe Owens returned to Kansas City
Tuesday evening after short visit
with his parents, DR.. and Mrs. Mar
tin Owens
Miss Nell Russell lert Tor st. Joseph
Thursday to accept an advanced
position with the Singer Sewing
Machine Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Blodgett re-
turned to their home in Kansas City
Wednesday evening after brief visit
with relatives in this city,
Miss Martha Lennon Of st. Louis,
came down from Kansas City Tues
day evening to attend Miss Marcia
Sellers recital.
Mrs. Mary Shacklett returned Tues
day evening from visit with
relatives In Kansas City. Her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Claude Price, accompanied
her home for visit.
Miss Mary Lyons, who has been
visiting her friend, Miss Lucy May
Payne, in this city for the past few
days, returned to her home in big
ginsvillA Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Walter Whitsett returned L
her home ia Kansas City Thursday
evening after a visit with relatives
in this city,
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A.G. Young was in Kansas q
yesterday.
G. c. Dyer was in Higginsville
Wednesday.
J.H. Campbell spent Thursday
in Kansas City.
Mrs. Ed Davis spent yesterday
in Kansas City.
Mrs. P r. Hogan spent wedne5-
day in Page City.
Joseph Schedule spent Thursday
In Kansas City.
Jugde James Chinn of Higginsville
was in town Wednesday.
W. Fl. Loomis went to Kansas City
yesterday on business.
Albert E. James went to Kansas
City yesterday on business.
DR.. J, B. Mcdaniel left yesterday
for Denver, Col, to locate.
N. H. Mignery of Wellington
spent Thursday in this city.
Charles Lyons was in Kansas City
Thursday on legal business.
D. T. Bogie went to Kansas City
Thursday morning on business.
Gustav Haerle went to Kansas City
Thursday morning on business.
w. v. Curtis went to Kansas City
Wednesday morning on business.
DR.. B. T. Payne went to Kansas
City Thursday for a short stay.
VIM. Aull went to Kansas City
Thursday morning to speud the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Shultz went to
Kansas City Wednesday for short
stay.
Mrs. L. w. Brelsford went to Kan
sas City Thursday evening for few
days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. William L, Miner left
| Thursday for indianapolis, Ind.
to make their home.
Mrs E. G. Loomis and daughter,
Miss Elizabeth, left yesterday
for an extended trip to Colorado.
Miss Ethel Saunders went to Kan
sas City Wednesday evening for
visit of several weeks with relatives.
Mrs. E, F, Nicholson and daughter,
Miss Madge, returned Tuesday even
ing from visit in Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Fletcher and
Miss Mary Taylor returned Thursday
evening from a short stay in Kansas
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Gratz went to
Kansas City Wednesday evening to
make their future home, Mr.. Gratz
having sold his interest in Gratz
Bros. store to his brother, lsy.
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DOVER NOTES.

win Wlnn had business in Corder
Tuesday.
Claude Neer had bust ness here
Thursday.
Phillip Wahl had business in Lex
ington W ednesday.
The Neer Brothers shipped cattle
and hogs this week.
Charlie Dysart and wife we're in
Higginsville Friday.
George Tabb of St, Louis visited
home folks last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. c. Corbin announce
the birth of a son, Sunday April 5th.
Martin Oliver and Jesse Groves
shipped cattle to ST. Louis this week.
John Vaughn visited his brother,
Benjamin Vaughn, at Higginsville
Saturday.
Mrs. Pat McFadin Wamsley whose
home is in Kansas visited with her
niece, Mrs. Jack Cooper, last week
Mrs. VIII Meng spent this week in
the country with her mother, Mrs,
NJ. Haggard, who has been quite sick,
Ed Littlejohu, wife and two little
daughters, Nellie and Alice, of Inde-
pendence visited re atives here Sun
day.
Prof. Carl Harwood closed his term
of school at Mayyiew last week aud
went directly to Warrensburg to at
tend the State Normal at that place.
Mrs. Huldah Moore left Tuesday
morning for her home in st. Louis
after spending the winter her with
brother, Henry Hockensmith, and
wife.
Miss Susie Eastwood of Oak Grove
who has been the guest OF Miss Annie
Fitchet the past few weeks visited
with friends here Wednesday after
noon.
Mrs. Irene Wentworth left last
Wednesday for her home at Webster
City, Iowa after spending the winter
with her brother, ]. B. Beptry, ant
family.
i Mrs. James Gather returned las
week from an extended visit will
her son, DIR. Ernest Gather an'
daughter, Miss Mamie Gather. il
Houston, La.
A very pleasant party was giveT
last Friday evening by Miss Mar,
Lee Cooper in honor of Miss Nellie
Drummond of Odessa. Music and q
drawing contest were the amuse
ments of the evening. The priz
was awarded to Miss Emma Miers TO
the best drawing. Delicious refresh
ments of a variety of cakes and ic'
cream we're served. The guests were
Misses Crutsinger, Eunice Chambers
Lou Anderson, Addie Longest, Virgil
} and Sallie Corbin, Addie Mar,
} Vaughn, Emma Meirs and Nellie
; Drummond. Messrs. Frank Fitchet
D Tucker and Robert Chamlin, Georg,
3 and Peyton Tapp, George Caldwell
! Homer and Allah Chambers, Georg
3 Slusher, Woodson Barnett, Stewar
8 Stark, Meng Shelby, Fred and Her
8 bert Finley, Carlton Longest, Ernes
s Corbin, Eugene Zeysing, Edmon
5 Vaughn, Billy Harwood, Fred zeJ
5 sing, Liggon Vaughn, Robert Dysar
! and Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Dysart.
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Retutn Dance

The young men who we're recently
entertained at a leap year dance at
the Elks home returned the favor
Thursday night The decorations and
music were practically the same and
everyone present hada an equally good
time. Punch was served. Cadet
Meyers and Miss Mary Young led the
grand march,