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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
new timber SYNDICATE
ENTERS THIS TERRITORY

The w. w. Heron Timber Company
of Mobile, Ala, has opened offices in
the Ross building in this city with Mr..
j. E. Patterson in charge.
Mr.. Patterson was for several years
in charge of the business of the same
company in Louisiana, with headquar-
tiers at Shreveport He was later at
tached to the management of the same
concern at Vancouver, B. c., where
the Heron Timber Company, Ltd, was
first organized.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

Of the tslm.cc Is now ready for the
pillow. These strnps have been pulled
up, root Ind trar CHI, the land leveled
| and mach Of il is ready for improved,
dition to the above he is opening up
| neat little farms at various points
on denuded lands. Instead of building
huts for tenants as is usually done, h.,
is building neat, pretty cottages, which
have been painted nicely and every
thing about them has the appearance
of thrift and prosperity. Good crops
are now being grown on these and
the increase in the value of these
lands in the next five years will be
much greater than most people can
imagine. Thirty-five acres of the one
hundred and twenty above mentioned
was planted in pecan trees, grated
from the best varieties known. sold
him these trees last season and was
glad to LEARN that out of the S65 trees
he had lost only one. This surpasses
any record l have ever known. l re-
quested him to price this thirty-five
acres. His reply was that it was not
for sale at any price. If he con-
tinues to care for them as he has done
this grove should have a commercial
value, in five years, of $4,000. Strange
that this man. raised thousand miles
away from here, should come here,
see his opportunity use it, make a
fortune, and at the same time become
a blessing to the country, while thou
sands of us who have been here all
the time, are only ''pegging away" and
wondering what's going to happen.
A dozen such men would create an
industrial revolution and put in mo-
ton tidal wave of prosperity through
out this section, that would make
hard times a thing of the. past.
1t is to be hoped that his example
will lead to- the development of the
country in direction in which its pos
are boundless.
With best wishes I am
Yours truly.
L. E. HALL.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
Pitch-Iners and crawI-outers.

There are two classes of people In
the world. the Pitchiners and the
Crawlouters. We do not commonly
use the term, yet everyone will recog-
nize the faithfulness of the classifica-
ton. Test 1t. Present good cause,
hard duty. a difficult proposition
Everything these days is PROPOSE
tion,s) to a group of men. They will
divide like oil and water. There will
be minority who will discern the OPP
portunity and pitch in; the majority
most likely will crawl Outdoors
Herald.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
RED CROSS HEADQUARTERS
CLOSED AS TO PATIENTS

The Red Cross Society, which has
done so much for the cyclone suffer
ers, has closed it's headquarters at the
Commercial Hotel, which was in
charge of one lady, Miss Nellie Reed
and members of the hospital corps.
The lady in charge will remain ana
will assist in making garments, such as
are needed by the sick and injured, but
no patients will be sent there.
The young men of the hospital corps
will remain in the city, as well as the
Red Cross nurses, as long as they are
needed All the sick and injured are
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

The National Democratic Congress
sional Campaign Committee, with
headquarters In Washington, is calling
for contributions from individual mem
bers of the party throughout the coun-
try to assist in the election of a Dem
ocratic congress. The fund will be
spent chiefly for printed matter and
for defraying the expenses of speakers
who are to be sent into the doubtful
districts of the north and east. Here
in Mississippi we need nothing of the
sort, as there is no opposition out
side of the party ranks. But Missis-
sippians should contribute literally to
assist the Democrats of other states.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
"uNsoLvED MYSTERY.

The pencil pushers are in happy
Hattiesburg this week and as usual
they have captivated everything in
sight, including Leaf River and Edgar
Harris. We suppose they will dredge
he river TIC connect with the Pascagou-
la, but what they will do to or with
Edgar is yet one of the unsolved mys
teries which time alone will unravel.-
Scranton Democrat-Star.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

The company still retains offices in
Mobile, Shreveport, New Orleans and
Vancouver and the Hattiesburg branch
is opened because of it's close prox-
unity to the center of the yellow pine
timber belt.
Mr.. Patterson will enter actively
in to the market, despite the business
depression, buying and selling timber
lands on large scale.
The offices in the Ross building
have been nicely fitted up for perma.
nent use. 49,, -. .s.s,,s IS
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
MERCHANT
SUICIDES
New Orleans Man Tired Of Living
Takes Refuge in Watere Of
". Mississippi River.
Hearst News Service.

New Orleans, May 22.--Despondent
over continued i'll health, Henry Kre-
welt, "a prominent 1fchant of this
city and a. member 81 several promi-
nent clubs, suicided some time yester-
day. When he did not return to his
home last night search was Instituted,
but little alarm was felt until morn
ing when it was ascertained by mem
bers of his family that he left his place
of business early in the morning ,
His dead body was found floating
in the river Just before noon today.
There were no marks of violence and
1t is believed that he jumped into the
river.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
THE OLD ROMAN RECEIVERS.
Judge Hardy Up Again and Able to-
Resume His Place On Bench.

The many scores of friends and ad
n-irers of Circuit Judge W. H. Hardy
will rejoice to learn that the Grand
Did hon an" is himself again and is
today occupying his bench and weigh
ing the scales of justice with that dig
nifty and fine> Oh elimination which
have ever distinguished him since as
appointment to the Judiciary Of this
cistr ,ct--GtlsLt Journal
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
Hearst News Service.

New Orleans May 22.-Williann
Perese, the eighteen-year-old boy who
shot and instantly killed his father
last night because he threatened to
beat>his mother was arranged in court
this morning and held without bail to.
await the action OF the grand jury.
According to the prisoner, who is a
drug clerk, the father came home.
drunk and threatened to beat the boys.
mother.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

now at either the hospital or the in
Urinary. Some are recovered enough
to leave and these take their departure
as soon as it is considered safe for
them to do so.
1t Is believed probably that two of
the hospital corps and five of the Red
Cross nurses may be spared in day
or two and will leave as soon as trans
portation can be secured.
By the first of June, most all the
nurses, hospital and Red Cross will
likely leave unless conditions change
Some, however, will be left here in
definitely.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

MAY Go DRY
Poll Of the Legislature Shows Sur
prising Strength For the
Prohibitionists.

Baton Rouge, La, May 22.-Accord-
inng to poll of the legislature, taken
this morning by New Orleans repre-
sentatives, state prohibition will car
ry in the house by majority of thirty
votes. The senate is against state pro-
hibition, but will cast a majority there
for in the event New Orleans is ex-
cepted from the terms of the bill.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

which go to make a permanent and
glorious history. Brother Harris has
our very best wishes for a long and
prosperous life--both for him and his
excellent journal.-Scranton Democrat
Star.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
RED RIVER LEVEE BREAKS
LOSS OF LIFE and PROPERTY

the bottom were at the mercy of the
flood. Livestock of all kinds persisted
and several negroes are reported to
have been drowned.
Many thousands of bushels of pota-
toes that were ready for shipment
were lost. The damage cannot be
estimated at this time.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
She TURNED over IN BED
and BOTH LEGS ARE BROKEN

Harrisburg, Pa, May 22.-Miss Mar
garet Kramer, Of Philadelphia, frac-
tured both of her legs while trying to
turn over in oed this morning. The
young woman is in perfect health and
had never experienced the slightest
trouble with her limbs. The case is
unique in the medical history of this
city.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
Hearst News Service.

Shreveport, La, May ga special
to the Times from New Lewisville,
Ark, says the levee in Red River levee
district No. 1, broke at 2 O'Clock this
morning, flooding the entire bottom
south of the Cotton Belt Railroad. The
break was unexpected and those in
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

The Hattiesburg Daily News on
Tuesday of this week rounded out the
first year of its existence as daily
in that hustling city among the pines.
The News is a credit to Mississippi
journalism and is destined to make
its impress upon the material things
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

The rebuilding OR the ]. ]. New
man Lumber Company's plant is now
assured. Work will soon begin on
the street car line. Other big things
are on the tapis for Hattiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
HAIL STORM
PLAYS HAVOC
Hearst News Service.

Dallas, Tex, May "a heavy hail
storm visited this section today de-,
stroying all crops along the Conoho
Valley. Calves, colts and sheep were
pummeled to death by the falling hail
stones and hundreds of smaller ami
mails persisted.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
FOR CONGRESS.

We are authorized to announce
HON Z. ]. BOWERS
of Hancock county as candidate IN
the Democratic primary for re-nomi-
nation to the 61st Congress from the
9Th district Of Mississippi.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
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= OUR BIRTHDAY. .

Hon. Earl Brewer, of Clarksdale,
who came within an ace of being elect
ed Governor last year, sends us this
cheerful birthday greeting: 81 desire
to compliment the Hattiesburg News
on having successfully passed its first
mile post. 1t is real up-to-date live
newspaper"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

A Pennsylvania woman became a
bride through a bottle, says a news
item. Many of them have been
made widows through the same thing.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

And now some cruel scientists tells
us that the earth will be frozen as. hard
as adamant in 10000 years. 1t is hard
to believe it in weather like this.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

What satisfaction a woman gets out
Of her husband ht wing garden is how
often she can catch him pretending
to know thugs about 1t.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22
q HANGED
in RUSSIA
Hearst News Service.

ffVdTSC VIEWS oVTVICe.
Kperson, Russia, May pa whole
sale execution Of peasants took place
here today, when the authorities
hanged twenty-five men who took part
in the Agrarian disorders in the.
neighborhood of Ekaterineslav
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

Twenty new subscribers a day isn't
a bad showing, is it? That's the rec
ord of the News this week.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

The Houston Chronicle denies most
emphatically that Mrs. Guinness was
born in Texas.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

The municipal campaign isn't half so
warm as the weather.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

The trouble with the average man
is he knows how to run every man S
business but his own.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-22

Summer and Old Sol seem to have
made up.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
HULL'S HEARING TONIGHT.

M. o. c.. Hull, the South Orange au-
tomobilist who was arrested last Sun
day for speeding in Sanford street,
will have his hearing tonight instead of
last night.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
CANTATA DATE CHANGED.

The cantata, 1.-THE Prince of Israel"
will be given by the choir of the Hilton
Christian Church Thursday, August 6,
instead of next Thursday.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
THOMAS A. EDISON
WILL TAKE TRIP
TO CALIFORNIA
Assured of Prosperity, Great In
ventOr Will Take Wife to
Golden West.

Thomas A. Edison, the great In
ventor. inc Mrs. Edison will leave their
West Orange home early in August on
a trip to California.
Mr., Edison is at present busy with
his experiments in his West Orange
laboratory. Work Is like play to him.
Through all the hot weather of this
month he has kept right at his bench.
and he sleeps less than usual. A few
hours a night Is all he takes.
His managers this week put the big
plant back on full 10-hour time. About
1000 men are now working there. Hav.
ing thus made a return to prosperity,
the inventor thinks a Western trip will
do him good.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24

After an exciting M wearying ex-
perience, in which fourteen young peo-
pie were adrift for hours in a catboat
searched for in vain all night by a
party of oller folks in a motorboat,
members of the Verona Congregational
Church are home from their annual
sunme camp at Stony Brook, l.. l., lit
tie the worse for the scare, though still
discussing it in all its phases. Prayers
were offered by the motor boat search
ers and by the campers for the safety
of the lost mes. The becalmed young
folks, members of the church choir,
sang hymns as darkness approached to
keep their waning courage up.
A large number of the members of
the church go to the camp each year
under the care of the Rev. John r..
Pratt, pastor, and Miss May Munsell,
matron. On Friday a trip was taken
to Bridgeport, Conn. In a catboat sailed
by Captain Benjamin Darling. was
Miss Munsell and thirteen young folks,
members of the vested choir of the
iibft IN iNfii6iio vi tNiiiS
In a motorboat were the Rev. Mr..
Pratt and four or five young folks.
The party stayed all night at Bridge
port.
The next morning the party started
back to Stony Brook, about twenty
miles away. At noon the wind died
down and the catboat was becalmed.
Not a breath of vino stirred. The cat
boat had no auxiliary power and SO
simply drifted lazily. Mr.. Pratt de-
cided to continue the journey in the
motorboat, hoping that the wind would
spring up later so that Miss Munsell
and her charges could reach home.
But the wind did not return. 1t re-
manned absolutely a dead calm. The
sun was hot and the young people be-
gan to feel the effects of being stranded
on the water. Fortunately they had
a little to eat and drink.
Nothing to do but row for it," said
the skipper, and then the boys turned
in and took turns at the laborious task.
They were miles from shore. and it was
dark before the boat al last put in at
Sheffield Island. off Norwalk, Conn.
There ex-Mayor C~avanaush. of Nor
walk. who owns the island, took the
party in charge, and they were his
guests all night. He telegI aphed TO the
camp.
Meanwhile the people at the camp
were greatly agitated. When darkness
came and the sailboat did not appear
the Rev. Mr.. Pratt decided to go out
il the motorboat to hunt up Miss
Munsell's party and tow them home.
File started out with four other men,
but something went wrong with the
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
BITTEN BY RAT,
DOCTORS TREAT
BOY FOR RABIES
Orange Lads Hand Severely
Torn by Attack of Strange
Pet.
THOUGHT THAT RODENT
WENT MAD WITH HEAT
Physicians at Hospital Declare
1t Only Case of Kind They
Have Dealt With.

Bitten by a pet white rat which was
apparently maddened by the heat, IL
year-old Eugene Fischer, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Hugo Fischer, of 81 Henry
street, Orange, Is at the Orange
Memorial Hospital undergoing treat
ment similar to that given sufferers
from a dogs bite.
The lad was playing with the rat
when it sprang, without warning. at
his hand, fixing his teeth in the fleshy
part and decorating 1t severely. The
boys mother beat the rat to death and
then burned the wound with a strong
caustic.
At the Orange hospital DR.. Freese and
DR.. Harris treated what they regard as
a unique case.
The rat was one of a pair that the
Fischer family kept to drive away
other rats that infested the house.
Mrs. Fischer thinks the rat went mad
with the heat.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
GLEN RIDGE,
~9ELLEVILLE
AND r

stones fell frequently, the home of An
thony Nickl, Fairview and ~Irvington
avenues, was struck and the cornice on
the east side of the building ripped off.
Shortly after the home of Otto Ochs
in Fairview avenue, a short distance
away, was hit by a bolt. but no serious
damage done.
In the course of the second storm
late in the afternoon the main building
in the old Japanese Garden in the
Montrose section of the village. was
struck. The building IA inhabited by
a Japanese family, but none were in
jured.
The third storm caused several trees
to be blown down on Ridgewood road.
and one big maple was split down to
the roots by lightning.
The water was so great during the
first downpour that the fremen In fire
headquarters had to don their rubber
coats and helmets Ind with rakes and
shovels clear the cutters in front so
as to keep the water from washing into
the building. When the storms were
over a big heap of stones was piled up
in front of the doors.
Lightning Hits Vacant House.
lightning started a slight fire In a
Lawn Ridge road residence on the out
skirts of Orange yesterday in an unoc-
cupied house. The rain hen put out
the fire. A neighbor telephoned to the
fire department to come up and put tar
paper on the roof to saw the house
from the falling rain which ran through
the opening in a roof made by the fire.
Chief Matthews sent wore that he was
not in the repair business, and, as the
fire was out the apparatus did not re-
spond.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
ORANGE MAN
REAPP0|NTEO TO
OFFICE BY FORT

w. Nelson Knapp, of East Orange.
was reappointed by Governor Fort to-
day to a term of three years on the
State Board OF Undertakers and EN-
balmers. according to a notification
wired by the Governor from Sea Girt
to j.. r. Martin. secretary to the board,
at Elizabeth. The other appointee for
a like term, to succeed himself, is Will
lam J. Moran, of Jersey City.
Mr.. Knapp has been president of the
board for two years, since it's organi-
cation.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
DONE WANTEDTO
BURY LITTLE MARY,
PET OF HOSPITAL
South Orange Village Finally
Agrees to, Because Family
Recently Lived There.
FATHER WILL PAY BY
WORKING ON STREETS
Mother, in Penitentiary, I'm
aware of Trouble Over
Tots Body.

Little Mary Murphy, the pet baby
child of the Orange Memorial Hospita'
who died there a few days ago afte,
being neglected by her parents. was
buried yesterday at the expense OF
South Orange Village. after the city OF
Orange and an Orange undertaken had
refused. The father will reimburse the
village by working on the streets.
The dead tots mother is in the pen
~itentiary, and her father, Thomas Muir
ply, of Orange, is alleged to be shift
less. The latter, claiming he had no
money to bury the girl, tried to get
the Orange poor authorities to do so,
but was refused. He Their tried his
family undertaken, but was again re-
fused. he claims. because he owes the
undertaken a bill.
Murphy then went to South Orange,
where he lived up to less than a year
ago.. He told his story to M. A. Fitz-
simmons, overser of the poor of that
village.
Mr.. Fitzsimmons, who is also the
South Orange village clerk, communi-
Gated with the Orange poor depart
ment, and he was told that it was up
to South Orange to see to the child's
burial because Murphy had lived in
Orange less than a year moving from
South Orange. The result was that Mr..
Fitzsimmons drew up an agreement
whereby South Orange was t pay for
the funeral of the child and Murphy
was to reimburse the village by work.
ing on the streets for a certain length
of time.
The interment of the child was in the
Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre yester-
day afternoon.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
USES HIT AND
ELLARS FLOODED
IN THE ORANGES
olley Car Derailed by Bolt
in South Orange
Village.
RAINS HELD UP BY
WATER ON THE TRACKS
usiness Men in East Orange
Have Their Stock
Damaged.

The storm did much damage
n various parts of the Oranges yester-
lay. Houses were hit by lightning, Gel
,ars were nofloflded, trains were held
up a trolley car was knocked off the
track
business men IN Main street. below
Grove street. East Orange, and in the
vicinity of winans street suffered
greatly. In some stores the water
r1shoa in and caused small floods.
IN tho coal office of John J. Moore, at
Main and Winans streets, the water
WAS more than a foot deep, the man
holes at this point being unable to
carry OFF the water.
From Grove street down in Main
street the water covered the roadway
and trolley cars were stopped, and did
not move till the water passed on. The
need of a larger drain for the Fourth
and Fifth Wards was emphasized.
Trains Of the Lackawanna were held
for a time near Fourteenth street,
where there is a down grade. The water
rushed down with fury. After a short
period the trains were able to travel
again, but had to travel slowly.
At the dip near the Grove street
depot of the Lackawanna railroad there
was a small lake formed about four
feet deep, and ten urchins enjoyed a
swim in it with their clothes on. Near
by manholes gushed up the oil that had
been laid in Grove street, and the
youths tasted bad water for a time.
In South Orange,
In South Orange three dwelling
houses We're struck by lightning. A
bolt struck between two trolley cars
at Valley street and South Orange
avenue, which were at close range, and
derailed the front trucks OF one and
hind ones Of the other car; streets were
washed u and the water flow In
Stonehouse brook was so great that
1t overflowed onto the Lackawanna
Railroad stracks west of h South Or
ange station, causing the engineers to
go slow. No one was injured.
During the first storm. when hall
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
WHO'RE YOU LAUGHING AT?'
BIFF! STONE FOR ANSWER.

Carmino salvatore, of 10 South street,
street. that city. yesterday, when he
saw four men laughing, and asked IL
he was the object of their amusement.
A stone which cut his cheek was the
answer, and the police were notified.
Policeman Michael Giordano found Nc
kinley Robinson. a negro, who gave the
names of his companions, but declined
to tell who threw the stone.