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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

NJ. E. Black-Krohme, "The Mill
'ner," win hold her opening Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday March 3,
4 and 5. at Ia Third st.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR RENT-Two nicely furnished
rooms table board If desired, bath
and all eonyeniences. Apply at
410 Lee Street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR RENT Seven room house, also
four room cottage, South Chestnut
street; both new with modern con-
veniences Inquire room Ill EGG
gett building.
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wANTEp-sEAIE HELP.

YOUNG MEN, no prepare Cor Ex-
am. for Railway NAH ana other
Govt positions, Superior insnuct-
ION by man, Estab. Ia years.
Thousands Of successful students.
Sample questions and How Govt
positions are Secured sent free.
Interstate Schools. Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

Alfalfa, Ala, is said to have invest,
ed $4,000 in an electric light plant,
but failed to make 1t succeed. 1t has
now been sold to a private company.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR sALE-A cottage house with
bath and all modern conveniences
in East clarksburg. Cali at 600
Locust ST., clarksburg. w. Va.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR RENT-A aewly furnished
front room with bath: two squares
from Waldo hotel Can Home
phone 4ss.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02
Two Counles NInrried.

At s O'Clock Saturday evening at
the Con Methodist parsonage the
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR sALE-one cash register; also
one money safe, inside measure 10
incehs deep, 20 inches wide, 20
inches deep, 20 inches wide, 20
r. H. whee1ock, 1856 w. Main st.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

DeWitt's Little Early Risers,
small, safe, sure little liver pills.
Sold by all druggists.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02
FOR SALE.

FOR sALE-House of Q rooms with
all conveniences and conveniently
located. Cash $1,000; price $3.50.
balance on time. Inquire at 1877
Jackson street.
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT House. 10 rooms. South
Chestnut street. C. L. Ford, Boz
SO.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02
SWEET MELODY FLOUR

Instructions to beginners free from
10 to IL a. m. at the Roller Rink.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR RENT-New room cottage, 3
minutes walk from court house:
modern conveniences. Call on or
address Austin Myers, Traders bar
Der shop.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR RENT-Furnished front room
with all modern conveniences: also
one room cottage. Apply EOS
Clay street.
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IWANTED- REAIALE mGI.P.

Wanted-Girl to do general honse
work. Mrs. Nj. A. Vance, 225 N.
Chestnut St
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FOR RENT-Cottage house, with
large yard and garden on S66 Clay
street, city, at $500 per month.
Claude w. Gore, attorney-at-law,
Third street, city,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR Mountaineering OF ten room
double house in Adamston. with
good well and cellar, House in first
class order. Call Home Phone Az
or F. I. Day, 500 North Ave.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-03-02

FOR RENT-Furnished front room
on first floor; bath and all conven-
fences on same floor. Home Phone
100.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

II he could buy low-priced molasses,
and could make an amalgam of mo-
lasses and sawdust and advertise it as
the only nutritious food, good alike
for brain, Drawn, cuticle, and hair,
he could make fortune in a month
or two.
So he called in an advertising man,
and put him on princely salary at
once, and said:
Go ahead. Advertise Sord list in
any way you like. as long as you get
the peoples attention"
Now, the. advertising man was a
genius and he said to himself IF
advertise this thing a little in every
paper people will only think little
OF 1t, but II bend all my energies
on one paper, and that very impor-
tant one, and advertise it there
uniquely for month or so, the very
oddly of the thing will attract atten-
ton"
So he went to the Office of the Daily
Howler and said:
Il want to buy every page in your
saper for advertising purposes"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

grabbed out his handkerchief and
wiped his mouth. Old Linn continued:
"And had some early rose potatoes
as pink-eyed as one of these-these
Albumins-is that what you call emf"
"Albinos, drawled the editor.
Yes, that's.it; seen one in the side
show when the cirkis come to Purdy.
And had some of the best corn bread
/ reckon you ever saw-made out of
this pearl corn. Hard! Why, you
could have grain of 1t set and wear
it for breastpin. Along with it all,
too, was a yaller pitcher full of but
termilk brought from the spring
house. and"
I've got to CO." the editor ex-
claimed, jumping up and clapping his
hat on his head.
wait a mint and let me tell you
about it. Set down." and the old man
showed the editor back into his chair.
And 1 do reckon l had some of the
best sparrar grass that ever crowd
outen the ground, and these little
brownish redishes that look like a
rusty-coat apple. Haungry! Why,
colonel, l never was haungryer in my
life. And Susan, my wife, she kept of
a sayin', DO have another help to the
pig and-well, / eat enough to last
me for week. I reckon you are that
way, too. Folks must bring you thou
sands of things-these here women
that write; don't care much for suthin'
to eat themselves and fetch it to you.
You may pot make as much money as
a county jedge, but / take it you live
| off'n the fat of the land. So you think
that If this here prime preacher re-
signs"
Prime minister" muttered the
editor
"Ah, hah. And you think If he re-
| signs and the emperor ketches cold
and sneeZes before breakfast there's
| likely to be rain in northwest town
| ship, range east. Looks that way to
me, too; and l reckon I'll have to
make my PREPARATIONS accordin'. But.
speakin' of breakfast there amt
| nothin' nicer, to my notion, than a
piece of roasted pig, with the brown
crust on it, Drilled on the Goals. Oh
1 hear of folks that for breakfast eat
hot milk and doll stuffin', but that
don't touch the spot where live Now
a right nice yaller-leg chicken, g
leetle more than half grown, snatched
offn the face of the earth and fried
before he knows what's the matter
with him-he's some, I want to tel
you. Made up your mind yit as tt
who is to be the next president? But
I reckon you've been so busy yor
hain't paid much attention to it. Thi:
here rocial life, too, keeps you on the
trot a good deal, reckon. And din
ners, too; you have to go to them
and they eat dinners now in the night
I'm told. l like 'em best when thu
sun gifts Jest about as high as it kin
but the time don't make so much diff
ference as what they have to eat
Sorry my wife amt at home Sh,
could skeer up bite for you. Sh,
got my dinner as quick as she coult
and hurried over to one of the neigh
bors, where the old maid school teach
er amt expected to live till shutdown
Nearly all the women folks in tn
neighborhood are flockin' over there
! and l reckon they'll have good time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

And the business manager told him
1t couldn't be done.
So the advertising man showed him
what large check he could WRITE,
and then the business manager said it
was possible, and the next day Mr..
Man had every page in the Daily
Howler There was not murder, not
a bit of editorial speculation, not a
thing of any sort in the paper, except
the name and the date and the sub
scription price.
And of course there was no adver-
tisement And that piqued curiosity.
Well. this ching happened next day
and the next, and then on the editorial
page was printed in very small letters,
TRY SORD UST.
Now you may well believe that sub
scribers began to rush in, for here was
paper that could be introduced into
the most bigoted home in the land
There were no tiresome politics in it;
no dreadful murders; nothing but
Sord Ust.
Every one said it was the cleanest
paper that had ever been issued, and
more and more people subscribed to
it. 1t got to be quite fad To be
sure, the subscribers did not know
what was going on in the world except
by hearsay, but they had that much
time for other things, and they were,
consequently, far happier, and, read
ing about no murders or steamship
trusts or presidential possibilities,
they finally came to the conclusion
that the millennium was at hand
But, of course. the thing that made
the most impression on them was this
Sord Ust. They began to inquire for
it in the stores and they found that
no one kept it. No one had ever
heard of it. 1t was impossible to buy
box of it anywhere because the
clever advertising man had given or
ders to his employer to refuse to sell
1T for at least six months.
People did not even know whether
1t was . new kind Of soap, or break.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

Col. Shang w. Mowlett, the editor
of the country paper, while out for
day among his subscribers. halted at
the house of old Limuel Jucklin. He
had time to stop only a few moments,
he said; delinquent tax list demand
ed his attention at home, and as his
patent side" had not as yet been re-
claimed from the merciless NAV of
the express office, nothing toward the
printing of his next number could be
done until after his return to town.
And after sitting long time It
seemed as if he were about to go. He
took up his hat and had made mo-
ton to put it on his head when his at
tention was seized upon by the rattle
of dishes in the dining-room, just
across the broad passageway in the
north section of the old log house. 1t
is of no doubt that the embryo crow
ing of halffeathered dominecker
had appealed to the scribe to break
his journey in the hope of breaking
his fast at the house of his constant
reader" and as he drove into the
yard he was seen to cock his eye at
a Plymouth Rock pullet
But as the hours wore hungrily
along he saw no signs of dinner In
no seeming fear of danger the chick
ems walked about the yard. And from
the window, where a perfumed breeze
murmured music amid the tendrils of
trumpet vine, the editor looked
across a corner of the garden into a
lot where in the sunshine sucking
pigs, just big enough, if roasted, to
hold crab apples in their mouths,
were tumbling over one another
Not with an extra effort of memory
was it that the newspaper man re-
called the fact that his pre-daylight
breakfast had consisted mainly of sod
den cakes and extreme hurry It was
fresh in his mind as he heard the pot
rack, pot rack" of a guinea hen. But
with the air of vital concern he talked
on the condition of the country and of
foreign probabilities. He didn't load
down his speculative mind with what
had taken place. That. would have
been matter OF mere industry. 1t
lay within the keen province of his
vision to discover what might be done
If such and such should happen. If a
certain prime minister should resign
or if the emperor should so far forget
himself as to say so and so in his
coming speech, why it was clear that
this, that and the other would hap
pen. And old Linn agreed that it was
no doubt true.
The sun lost its balance and slipped
over into the afternoon, the waving
vine at the window sifted a softer
light, and still there was no call from
pot or pan. So, at last, the editor
arose and was about to put his hat or
his head when there came from the
dining-room the rattle of dishes
Then he hesitated turned About as i
he had just thought of wise thing
to say, and sat down.
81 reckon cat must have run Owe
the table," said old Linn, and Shaui
w. Mowletts heart beat low in de
spair.l
Sorry. colonel, you didn't come
little earlier. Reckon you seen som'
of them pigs out there. Had one o
their brothers roasted to a fall of tn
year brown, and" The edito
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

we you ever
heard about that
business man who
in advertising his
particular brand
of breakfast fod-
der increased the
circulation of the
paper in which he
advertised a hun
dred-fold?
Well, it was
{ h ! 8 way. His
name was Wise,
and he had I'M
limited money to
spend. He had
formerly owned a
sawmill and he
naturally had a
large quantity of
sawdust on hand.
1t struck him that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

fast food, or the latest thing in stove
polish
What was the result? Why, people
were mad to get 1t. They would have
it. The very idea that in free coun-
try they were not allowed to buy any
thing they wanted! Was this Maine
with a prohibitive law on something
the people really wanted?
And all this time the editor of the
Daily Howler kept on increasing his
edition, and all the time Mr. Wise
went on buying sawdust and cheap
molasses until he had whole county
in northern New York heaped high
with it and five large mills hard at
work COMPRISING it into cakes.
And at last, seemingly on account OF
the pressure of public opinion, but
really because the advertising. man
said 1t was high time, Mr. Wise put
an advertisement on the first page of
the Daily Howler to the effect that
Sord Ust was a breakfast food, and
that all you need do to it was to pour
little hot milk on It; and IL your
grocer wouldn't get it for you change
your grocer at once!
Was it success?
Well, gfess.
Why, they had one long freight train
| stretched from the mills to New York,
| moving all the time on a special track
and as fast as car was unloaded at
| the Manhattan end car was filled at
| the other end
Motive power? Electricity, OF course.
| And the man became millionaire
| ten times over before the year was
UP and before the Sord Ust had kicked
| up any racket IN the insides OF the
| populace
And now the advertising man be-
| gan to advertise In all the papers, and
the Daily HowIer came before its
millions of subscribers with murders
and editorials once more, and they,
| after their long fast, were only too
glad to learn that the world was not
as good as they had suspected, and
the Daily Howler was bigger sue
| cess than ever.
| But the editor. had got the tip, and
he didn't use Sord list on his home
menu.
And he's alive yet.
Copyright. by James Pott q Coz
The chiropodist and the tug boat
| always have their business well IN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

T----a - - : :
Thee old maid was oa5aged to be mar
ried and that max IS her death all the
more interestin' Don't ricollect when
old Dorb Server died, do you? set
up with him the night afterward. and
along about II o'clock old Aunt judy,
that worked there, skeered US up
about as good snack as l ever eat.
Some seem to forgit that folks get
hungry, but old Aunt Judy want one
o. that kind. She had way of fryin'
hominy in ham gravy that would
make saint pop his mouth like bull
whip. l eat and eat-well, jest eat
till / forgot all about old Dorb in the
next room. He was mighty fond or
cards, and Bill Atcherson lowed that
he was lynn there waitin' for the
last trump Now. Bill, he's monst'us
fond of good things to eat. luther
day he brought me about as fine
mess of young squirrels as ever set
down to. Fried 'em in the lard out of
a mast-fed hog And that reminds me.
Is there anything sweeter than a
chinkapin ham? Jest take and b'il'it
in cider about four days old and
tell you, then you've got suthin' to
smack your mouth over"
The editor got out of his chair "Mr.
and must 60"
Don't you do it. My works putty
we'll up and I've got nothin' to do but
to sit here and talk. And as for you
you don't need to look at watch
| nor the sun when it's slantin' toward
| the west They say that time was
made for slaves, and If you ever was
| a slave you were set free long ago.
Sit down-just mint. I'll give you
piece of news you can print in your
paper"
And forcing the editor to sit down.
| he continued: 81 reckon you hearn
of what happened over at old Grog-
gins. Well, Groggin's daughter. lilly,
as likely girl as you'd meet in a
! days travel, of Sunday when folks
are goin' to church, took up notion
! that she was in love with long, lank
Teller that come down the river on a
raft and stopped at Moseley's place.
Now whuther or not the logs belonged
to him don't enter into the story. At
any rate, he sold 'em and the first
thing he done was to give dinner in
the woods, and the most urgent invite
was sent to Tilly Groggin. He had
seen her somewhere, no matter where.
and So along with a number of others,
she went. And it was barbecue.
mind you. They roasted sheep whole
|
and he had about two barrel of shell
oysters that were brought in right
fresh, and they roasted them on the
hot Goals, and"
But what happened? I'm in q
hurry"
Happened? You jest wait mint
By the time dinner was ready every.
Teller, he takes up knife about as
long as scythe and begins to carve
mutton, and the brown juice began
to run out and"
Turn me loose" exclaimed the
hungry man. I've got to go, tel
you"
And just at that moment old Mrs
Jucklin appeared at the door
why, howdy do, Col. Mowlett
When Limuel seen you a comm hi
told me not to have dinner till he sale
so, and I don't know what he mean
by it unless it was one of his own sor
of jokes, but as you must be hungr,
by this time you'll please walk out.
The colonel looked at Linn and tn,
old man shouted, and the old lad.
said: 'Limuel, you ought to b,
, ashamed of yourself"
: Copyright, by opie Ready
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-19

The chiropodist and the tug boat
always have their business well IN
tow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-28
NEws oF NoTAsULGA.
pr. CuthreIl of North Carolina Preach
 eN Sermon. /

pr. CuthreIl of North Carolina Preach
 es Sermon.
 Notasulga, Jan. 27.--(Special. )---Rev. George F. Cuthrell pastor of the Christian Church in Dunn. N. C., preach ed morning and night in the Chris tian Chuach here Sunday.
 Mir. Cuthreli was pastor of the Chris tian Church in Oxford two years be- fore going to North Carolina. His wife is with him visiting her father. J. A. Watkins.
 Mrs. Annie c. Allen of Lafayette is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. R. Battle.
 Mrs. R. L. Baugh of Savannah. Ga. is visitor at the home of w. R. Bat tie. She is the wife of, R. L. Baugh, purchasing agent for the Central Rail- road of Georgia.
 Rev. Jesse Jackson of orrville is vis- iting his parents here. Mir. Jackson Is pastor of the Baptist Church at Orrville.
 The quarterly meeting held at Lib- erty Church closed yesterday. Rev. M H. Holt. presiding elder. preach ed Saturday and Sunday. He went from Liberty to Tallassee.
 The farmers of this community are at work preparing for another crop The panic did not affect them. as the maojrity- raise their home supplies, their cotton being surplus.
 There is no section of the State where the farmers are more independ- ent than the farmers in this commu- nity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-28
TO CONSIDER REMOVAL OF
 TRACKS ON SOUTH PERRY
Committees of Council VIII Tske Matt
 ter Up soen

Committees of Council VIII Take Mat
 ter Up Soen.
 The question of the removal of the tracks of the Montgomery Traction Company from South Perry Street, which has lowered in the more or less troubled atmosphere of the Councils $ halls for many and many q day, will have consideration by the Committees on Streets Franchises and Privileges and Public Utilities. The committees comprise an easy majority of the Ai- dernren: Messrs. Kennedy, Gunter, Per- ", Jones. Kennedy. Moritz, Ruth, John- son, Brasseli Sullivan, Virgin and Sei- de
 At the last meeting resolution to compel the company to remove the tracks was lost on tie vote. The affair win be introduced again next Monday night and those in favor of re- moval expect a victory.
 Months ago it was agreed that the city. upon consideration of the grant ing of a franchise to the Traction Com pany to lay tracks upon South Law renee Street, might ask the removal of the tracks from South Perry Streets. The franchise was granted, with pro- visions that the city should make a proper grading on Jefferson Avenue and should give the company notice by which the company would have ninety days in which to commence the removal. The grade has been conn pleted, but the Council has not yet giv- -en the proper notice tc the company.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-28
IN NEW QUARTERS.

Superintendent Bennett Now Installed
 nf Union Depot.
 Superintendent Bennett of the Att Iantic Coast Line. has located his of hces Aon the third floor of the Union station building, and he said yesterday that he would probably be there per- manently. Ills ofiice was completely g1itted by fire in the general office building of the Coast Line--the old Graves residence-Sunday morning.
 Mr. Bennett has secured three rooms in the north end of the third floor of the Union Station, and yesterday he had things as nearly straight as pos- sible. Mrs. Ashton. the telegraph op- orator in Mir. Bennett's office. was To- cated, temporarily. yesterday in the office of Chief Train Dispatcher Young of the Louisville and Nashville. The large room at the extreme north end of the building, just over the office of the general freight agent of the Louis- vslle and Nashville Railroad. is being fitted up and will be used by Superin- tendent Bennett. All of the desks, ta- bles. chairs. etc. were burned in the fire. and the< offices at Savannah and Wilmington were wired at once to rush furniture. Yesterday some of the fur niture sent by the Savannah office reached Montgomery. and it IS expected that lot of the furniture from Wil- mington will get here today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-28
SUSPECTED MURDERER IS
 CARRIED BACK TO TALLADEGA
sherIfgE MlddIeton Passes Throusl

Sheriff MiddIeton Passes ThrcuGh
 Montgomery With Prisoner.
 Sheriff Middleton of Talladega Coun- ty passed through Montgomery yester- day with Frank Kelly, a negro, want ed in TalIadega on the charge of gam ing. and probable charge of murder. Kelly was captured in Houston Coun- ty and Sherin Middleton is on his re- turn from that place to Talladega.
 While officers were raiding what they supposed was a crap game near Talladega negroes came out of the house firing their revolvers. During the firing one of the deputies was killed. The news of the shooting spread and a posse was immediately organized. Several of the negroes were captured and one of them shot and killed by the posse.
 It is stated that Kelly was one of the negroes who came from the house firing hls revolver, and 1t is believed that Kelly is the man who did the shooting of the deputy. Since the shooting every effort has been made to capture him. with the result that he was finally located at Dothan. He was arrested and Sheriff Middleton went af- ter his man.