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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09
High School Notes.

School opened Dec. Both, 1907,
with good attendance stadehhs as a
whole doing good work.
Prof. J. A. Livesay visited az Mon
day morning.
We have two new members n the
Senior class since ChrtsAiSas; ttahie
Thorpe and Ellsworth t;Synn.
The Debshing soe,eties are eirtt,.
ing to do Settle. Work than ever Sc:
fore since thp CN3Ntmas oi festiyli,et
are over,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09

Beulah, the baby girl Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Spurlock. is on the sick list.
B. w. Earnest attended church in the
Wilson Bend Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Roe and Miss
Molle Johnson visited at Joe Spurlock s
Sunday afternoon.
Annie Lett and Maggie Newton visit
ed home folks last week.
School is in progress again after a
week : vacation.
Is. T. Wilson and wife visited at b.
W. Earnests last Sunday.
Mrs. II. W. Walters has an attack OF
rheumatism.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09
Proctor News.

Christmas and New Years passed
quietly in this vicinity.
Mrs. T. !. Gibbs is sick at this writing
Mrs. b. W. Earnest aud daughter
Mrs. b. II. Wilson, visited relatives in
Versailles aid Glensted.
Grandms Roe IS visitiss IN this vic
initv
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09

in arrears, who fail to pay up during
this month will find their accounts in
the Collection agency's hands for COL
lection. There is not a subscriber
on our books but what is able to pay
up all arrearages and year in ad-
vance, and as we have waited so
patiently on you we think it would be
only a square deal.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09

house or make other needed improve
ments, there may be plenty to pay
big printing bills, as heretofore. We
shal see later.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09
Installation Of ofslcsr..

The woodm, n 81 lie &orld, it their,
regular meeting Monday night, Installed
the following officers for Tie year 1878;
A Poppes, Consul couiulander; &, {.
Marriott Adv. Lieut.. T. l.. Richie.
Parker; W, Il. hutstt Escort ]. a.
Dudley. watchrfan, W. N Bcnfne.
Secretary; Price JoiieS, cisri,. Managers.
J. 5. Royce, J. p, BSSi;s anil ]. T. All,r.
physians' res. 4. !, Gaub aud K, 8.
Kelley,
d, c. Hardy, ST.. MADE a trip to
tlwel' iowa, where he Closed d deal
for a stock n general merehsndise, !,
which he will move 10 Versailles, and
open up io' business.
p. II. Padgert; after many year's'
Service in finnhihg the fsdss,l Red''
Yard, foFtSs' F;sks:E af.st.' Sss letiisea
II to ~, 2. WiTsonS,' / 6fFotisr ~
sheriff wiIsst, who Is tesdy to SsS
on all the cir 5Hd' r'sbV nss ras'e' =
iirT,.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09
Sunday evenings.

Snnday evenings,
Miss Grace Silvey visited Miss Sudie
Ratclif Sunday.
Miss Nora Campbell, accompanied by
friend, Miss Mcconnell, visited home
folks Sunday.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09

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Published In the imperial State.
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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-01-09
County Court Proceedings.

MONDAY, DEcEMBf.n seth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Mir. Bryan'S Strength In Alabama

The work of the primary, national, state and county, is complete, and ou the morrow the democratic voters will deposit their ballots, and before the day is ended those ballots will be counted, and the sentiment of the dem ocratic party in Alabama Will have be- come known The loyalty of the ST counties to the great Nebraskan will then become so plain that no one will question it. The Age-Herald ventures the prediction that few counties, if any, in this state will express lack of con fidence in William Jennings Bryan, who stands where he has long stood the chief opponent of private monop- oly.
 But the plain trend of democratic sentiment in the state will not lead any member of the party to sleep at bis post. The majority of democrats will go to the polls tomorrow to place an "X" opposite the honored name of the trusted and steadfast democratic leader from Nebraska. Never before have the democrats or this state had an opportunity to vote directly for presidential fayorites, and it is to be hoped that the reform will spread until a direct vote of the democratic masses throughout the country becomes con elusive In order to set good exam pie go to the polls tomorrow Every friend of MT Bryan will certainly go to the polls to yindicate his convictions and to put the party in this state right in the eyes of the country.
 In 1904 only 79,857 Alabama demo- crats went to the polls. The vote to- morrow will exceed 100000, and if it should be carried to 125,000 it would not outrun the true democratic strength With full vote MT. Bryan will probably get round 100000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Board of Revenue

Among the especially important off, cials to be. chosen in tomoTw's pri- mary are members of the Jefferson county board of revenue. There are nearly 70 candidates in the race, and five are to be elected. The board of revenue l. to the county what the city council is to the city. It has charge of the eounty's finances and is responsible for the condition of the county high ways and for county sanitation. It directs the disbursement of more than s60O,O0O a year. In view, then, of the large duties of the board, only men of high intelligence and of business turn should be elected.
 The crying need of this county has been good roads. Instead of a few hundred miles of cherted road the en- tire system of highways should be cherted or macadamized. The mud road must go. Every county road dition and should be practically as good in winter as in summer. As two horses can draw heavier load over a hard road than six horses can draw over the old-time rough or miry road, the economy of expenditure for good
 road construction is obvious. Nothing
 pays the community from any point of view better than road improvement. Every voter should be careful to put
 cross mark opposite the names of
 five candidates for the board whom he | believes to be in every way well quail | fled for the duties of the office to which
 he aspires. No man should be chosen | who is not committed to the question Of good roads and who is not commit | ted also to trying the experiment of working county conyicts on the roads. Convict work has proved highly satis- factory in North Carolina, Virginia and many other states; and there is every reason to believe that convicts could
 be used in Jefferson county with great success. At any rate, the convict plan sLould have fair trial. When you prerare your ballot tomorrow be cer-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

of the three buildings will largely in- crease the desirable office space of the city. The new Brown-Marx building will contain 500 rooms. all desirable, and the south has not now another office building that approaches 1t in size or office convenience. A fourth skyscraper, that of the National City bank, Is to be built as soon as a de- mand for additional office room is felt.
 The Age Herald mentions the erec- tion of three skyscrapers in a year of depression in general trade simply to put before the reader the confidence that investors have in values in this city. What other city of less than million population is putting up this year three skyscrapers? Possibly the rebuilders of San Francisco may be putting up several skyscrapers, but no other city below the million line is doing what Birmingham is doing this year.
 The truth is, fuel seams and iron ore seams lying in close proximity are the safest possible basis of prosperity, and capitalists know it. They know that on one side of Jones Valley is an in exhaustible seam of ore, and that on the other side are splendid seams of coking coal, and that an Open War rior will soon float our heavy products to tidewater. That is all they desire to know, and that explains why we will put up three skyscrapers this year, one of them being of unexampled size in the south, with fourth one loom- ing up in the near future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Horticultural Expert Here.

William L. Pryor of Laurel, Miss, special field agent of the bureau of sta tistics, United States department of ag- riculture, is in Birmingham. Mir Pryor is engaged at this time in collecting data for the June cotton report to be issued by the department of agricul- ture. This Is one of the most impor- tant crop reports of the year. In ad- dition to making an estimate of the amount of cotton planted and to be planted an estimate is made at the same time of the condition of the plant on May 25.
 MT. Pryor reports upon agricultural conditions in the states of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, and is ono of six field agents all southern men, engaged in this work in the south, who cover their territory monthly. In -ad dition a state statistical agent is main tained in each cotton growing state. This man makes several trips through his territory yearly and has large list of correspondents of several men from each county who report to him directly each month. Field Agent Pryor spent the week inspecting the fields in central and southern Alabama. From here he goes into the northern portion of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Judue MavfjeId In City.

Judge James J. Mayfeld of Tusca loosa, candidate for the supreme court bench, spent yesterday in the city. Judge Mayfield is very confident of winning at the polls tomorrow, and states that his friends in Montgomery, from which city he came to Birmins- ham, give him every assurance of hold ing his own in the southern section of the state.
 T will be glad when it's all over," stated the judge last night. The race is a hard fought one, for the candi- strongest men of the party in this state. I have done a great deal of work, have left nothing undone that will further my candidacy, and am re- joiced to know that my chances are good. It, in many ways, Is good for a man to run for office. He learns that he has many friends, more than he hoped for, perhaps. In my case, l have managed to hold my old friends and made many new. Those young men, former students of the University Of Alabama, all of whom became my friends as soon as l made their ac- quaintance, have rallied to my as- sistance without exception, and have found that they, have persuaded their fathers, their relatives and their friends to aid in the work. l am cone fident of being elected"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Pleased With Birmingham.

"A visitor to Birmingham cannot fail to be struck with the crow ded streets and the air of prosperity that pervades the city," said Lewis J. Crook of Meridian. There seems to have been nothing in the reports circulated in some parts of the country that Birmingham had been hard hit by prohibition and industrial de- presson.
 "The fact is tbat Birmingham is great and growing city. While prohibition works very well in Meridian, think 1t may be a mistake to try it in so large a community as Birmingham. But this city is so solid there is so much to make it go ahead by leaps and bounds that nothing can hold it back.
 "On my present visit to Birmingham have been riding through the residence sections, and have been impressed with the elegance of the homes on the South Highlands and on the northside as well. The fine sweep of green sward, the ele- gant driveways and the rugged llill-setting combine to make Birmingham q dis tinctively notable city from the view point of the beautiful. In other words Bir- minghan blends the industrial, the com nercial and the aesthetic in striking way, which puts 1t In class to itself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Yreeland and Aldrich HObnObbing

The preparation of 8 currency bill that can be passed through both houses has been committed to con ference committee consisting of Sen ators Aldrieh, Allison. Hale. Daniel and Teller, and Representative Vreeland, Burton, Weeks, Glass and Puio. It is not easy, however. to see how House and Senate can agree upon a measure that will satisfy the country.
 The Vreelanders want a currency based on clearing house districts and commercial paper, while the Aldrich- ties o< the ef1ete east insist rpon a currency based on government or mu- 1icipal bonds. The gap between an assets and 8 bond-secured currency is not easily bridged.
 Still something must be cone. The yreelanders and the Aldriehites both know that adjournment without the passage of a currency bill. no matter if it be the shiftiest of makeshifts. would be hurtful to party that is in no condition to stand hard knocks. The party that produced or led up to 3 panic after Il years of unchecked power is compelled to present a cur rency bill of some sort. This is what it's leaders in Congress are trying to accomplish.
 Tie report of the conference con- mittee will no doubt be hybrid war ranted to cure and even to avert pam ics, but it will beyond reasonable doubt be as full of holes as skim mer As a last resort the conferees may be compelled to report currency commission bill, authorized to sit all summer and after election neither MT. Vre, land nor MI Aldrich will care what Congress does. It is the republi can campaign before election that peeds a makeshift repair bill of some sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Machinery for the High School

Not one citizen in ten in this town knows the extent of the development of the manual training features of the High school No matter how well in- formed the average citizen may be in many matters he may not know the nature of the work that is being done to get our boys and girls ready for the duties of life. The girls are taught how to cook, to sew, to do stenoGraph- .c work, while the boys are taught me chanical drawing, carpentry and sn.ithy, and they would be taught how to use lathe and other machines that pertain to the work of machinists If the city possessed an outfit.
 Our boys cannot be taught in their school days the principles and rudi- ments of iron and steel work because the board of education lacks available money for the fitting up of machinery hall. A spacious room in the High school building awaits the coming of the needful machinery in order to be- come a useful scene of education in this metal-working district The sum of $2000 is needed, and the lack of it ceprives 50 boys year perhaps of a training particularly needy here.
 The manual training section of the High school would be reasonably con- plete if machinery hall could be equipped by the opening of another school year. If the city cannot afford to equip it, we can afford to have an other tag day, and the pupils in the High school could be trusted to pin enough tags on patriotic citizens to open a scnool for our boys who desire to become iron workers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
THE suLkY ADVANCE.
a Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Between the sulky with which Flora Temple astonished the world and that of the present year there is as much differ ence as between the bone-shaking veloc- ipede of 40 years ago and the modern bi- cycle evolved from it. Various experi- ments have been tried. The horse was formerly in front of the axle. Then came the plan of arching the frame so that his hooks in action would be under the driv- CTS seat The bike wheels were dis tinct advance, but the high seat still re- mained until experiments with wind shields showed to what an extent atmos- pheric pressure was a factor in making or marring records, and since the new century set in there has been a steady gain in construction. No more than 15 years ago sulky seats were as much as 50 inches from the ground. while the latest models are less than 30 and range in weight from 2s to 35 pounds. Shafts have been heightened and seats lowered until the driver can no longer look over to watch the course. While this increases the danger, it reduces the pull against the wind, and is expected to be point in favor of the new records to be striven for this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Pratt City and the Tournament.

Pratt City holds two southern records in fremen's tournaments.'' said Sam Foley yesterday, "and if we can get the proper water power we intend to lower these records still further.
 "The tournament this time is one of pa-- ticular interest because the teams are coming with more rivalry than ever. Rome and Augusta are still fighting each other while Talladega is battling against them both.
 Pratt City is laying low, praeticing regularly, and besides spectacular work she is ready to show her. brawn.
 You should see our float. With that we expect to capture one of the prizes, or else someone will have to get up and hustle in generous style. It is a beauty.
 Monday the big grandstand will be erected at West park and all the plans will be completed. We are expecting more people in Birmingham than she has seen for months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The chIldren,s Chorus.

"I was particularly gratified at the musieianly manner in which the ehil- dren's chorus acquitted itself at the music festival" said Capt. Frank P. oBrien. "The boys and girls were finely trained and one now appreciates more than ever the intelligent, painstaking method in vogue in the music department of the public schools of Birmingham, or which Miss Kits Is director
 MT. Innes spoke in high praise of the different ehoruses that participated in the festival. and when at rehearsal on Frl- day he observed Miss Kits as she di- reeted the childrens chorus with band accompaniment, he marveled at her con hdence. He said It was the first time he had ever seen q woman wfeid the baton over his band. This lady directed the childrens chorus in a double number at the Friday matinee and got excellent results. MT. Innes joined with the audi ence in applauding her and her little singers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
THE LOVE WALTZ"
Makes Appearance at Fifth Avenue
 Theatre.

''The Love Waltz" made it's first ap- pearance in New York last week at the Fifth Avenue theatre. The costumes are gorgeous and the music Is excellent. The scenery is very good, but not elaborate.
 The music has a pleasing swing to it and there can be no doubt that "The Love Waltz" will grow in popularity.
 There are 21 people in the cast, all with good voices-voices that stand out well in solos and blend nicely together In the choruses. Audrey Maple makes apretty Princess of Moravia, which, judging from appearance, is community similar to that where "The Merry Widow is sup posed to reside. Alfred Kapeler as the Syrian Prince, made an impression on the matinee girls, for he looked hand some in his uniform of blue.
 "The Love Waltz" has a plot of hidden identities. The Prince, disguised as the Lieutenant, is in love with the princess, who is posing as a waiting maid. Nat urally the real prince is not particularly struck on the sham princess and the true princess is not in love with the false prince When they are both being led unwillingly to the altar the mistake is discovered and the curtain descends on the happy pair in each others arms.
 John Bunny handles the comedy part in an acceptable manner and Cecelia Wal erius as the dowager, sang her one song In creditaple manner. In all there are six splendid musical numbers filled with melody and cleverness. The words by Jesse Lasky, the music by Charles Der ton. They are "The Household Cava- Hers" My Family Tree "The Father land, ''The Gentlemen "If l Were Not a Princess" and Love Would Be My King" The six girls that are the ladies in waiting for the Princess are all very handsome and add to the general attrac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
Good Business Conditions.

Business conditions in Ensley are good" said J. F. Lee Now that 1t is known that the Tennessee company is to start up the steel plant shortly, every body is naturally filled with the spirit of confidence In an early return of pros perity. In the meantime the retail mer- chants of Ensley are easily holding their own. and men with money are as eager to buy real estate as ever.
 ..'Ensley has a great future and realty will be all the while seeking higher levels of value"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
 Faith In Birmingham

Capital, which is proverbially timid at all times, is especially so at the present time, and yet large sums are to be put into three skyscrapers in this city this year. Work has already been begun on the First avenue extension of the Brown-Marx building, and later On contractors will take hold of the projected Equitable and Empire build .ngs, both of which have been financed. Two of the new buildings are to be 16 stories high, and the other one 13 stories in height The Vfstruction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE POLITICAL
 SITUATION AND OTHER THINGS OF INTEREST

times of enthusiasm. say things 1t would offend. At the head of this govefe ment, however, he would be different Tht \ Bryan of the political stump and the Bryan of the White House would be even more different than the Roosevelt of San Juan Hill and the Roosevelt of the White House. f
 Bryan would be more conversative and business-like President than Roosevelt has been. Bryan has had the knocks and the jolts that Roosevelt has not ex- perienced. He knows how the country feels and like Cleveland and Mckinley he will, in power, become real Presi- dent.
 But in the Birmingham district, there is no use in our becoming excited over national politics. We are not politicians All we want is a conservative adminis- tration of city, county, state and national affairs. We want to go ahead and build up. We want to be prosperous and make prosperity for those who come among Us. We want an even chance in the Birmingham district to that given any other district in America.
 We want to Kick out the politician, or any other. who would tear down the fabric of industrial Alabama
 The time has come for us to scrap as we will in the back alley but to get together in good humor on the street, and be together and pull as one for this great district. We are the hub of the south. Let us make every spoke slant to- ward the hub, so that everything move- able may slide to Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17

~HE politicians are temporarily in k0 the saddle in the Birmingham
 district and the state of Alabama today. Tomorrow the bucking bronehos will throw many of them. Tomorrow night many will say their alleged friends were not loyal There will be more dis appointed ones in the board of revenue race than in anything else. There are something like 60 candidates, with but five to be elected. l hope no one will be elected who is not committed to good roads and the trying of the experiment of working at least 50 eonviets on the roads to test the results of road build ing with convict labor and free labor No man should be elected on the board of revenue who Is not business man. The county needs common sense business men to conduct it's affairs as well as does a hank or a commercial business. The men who compose the board of revenue have hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense annually. They are sup posed to be as business-liRe and as wise as the men who compose the finance com- mIttee of great bank or the men who dictate the expenditures of any of the great corporations of the Birmingham district.
 Every taxpayer should vote for the five men of the sixty-odd who he knows is not the tool of anybody or of any in- terest, but for the men he believes will do anything for the best interest of Jef- ferson county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 When a female person doesn't want to get married, she is already.
 The way a woman manages a man is by making him think he manages her.
 The trouble with the average man Is he knows how to run every mans busi- ness but his own.
 It's very moral for woman to have hair that curls naturally so she doesn't have to lie about 1t.
 It makes a woman very proud to think how smart the children would be if their school teachers only knew how to teach them.