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The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06
Returns to Little Rock

Little Rock, April 6.-General William F. Kirby, of Texarkana, attorney general of the state ap- peared in Supreme court today, after an absence of several days at his home in Texankana. Gen. Kirby was a candidate for gov ernorship before the Democracy
 of Arkansas, in the March pri- mary. In his absence District A ttorney General Dan Taylor, of Pine Bluff, represented the state before the supreme court.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06
SHOT HIS FORMER WIFE
Jim LanefOrd, COI0red, Shoots Woman Through Thigh Saturday Night
 Lands ie Jail

Saturday night about s o'clock a little excitement was caused up town by the report that Jim Langford, colored, had shot an killed his wife in Sunset. Officers followed by a large crowd, imme- dia tely went to the scene of the shooting, and found that the woman was shot but not dead.
 The shooting occurre1 in thc street, and the bullet entered the thigh of the woman but is not necessarily a fatal wound. Lang ford and his wife had separate J some months ago, and this affaii was the result of their former troubles.
 Langford is in iail for the crime and will probably have his preliminary hearing some time this week.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06
An Increased Acreage.

Little Rock, April 4-Tom Steele, one of the largest cot ton planters in the state, residing at Scott's Crossing, was in the city the latter part oi this week on business, at which time he de- ciared that cotton planters Tn his section Of the state are preparing to increase their acre age materially this year. He also stated that tn, condition of the ground was never better at stated this time Of the year. very excellent weather has aided us in preparing the lautW said he. and practically every planter in my section has taken advantage of this and all is in readiness for the seed in. great many places. l bcllevl we will in- c~,aSc the acreage materially yet at this time 1 will a < that there is not a great deal of inducement in the price of A- fleecy staple.
 Labor appears to be more plen- tiful, due no doubt. to the fact that great many of the raj road shops have either closed down, or cut their forces cCnsid- erably. There are large num- Der of white people who have liv- ed in cities for years now return ing to the farms, by reason of the depressed condition of busi- ness, and this is aiding in n matter of labor for the cotton crop. Foreign labor is not do- ing a great deal for us, although further south Col. Oracle is working Italians to some advan- tage''
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06
Moore Lectures at Shreveport

Little Rock. April 6.-Presi- dent L. H. Moore, of the Arkan saS Travellers, addressed a meet ing of the Louisiana Travellers at Shreveport Friday night, re turning to Texarkana Sunday He delivered his famous lecture, The Great American Drum mer" to large audience at Shreveport.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06
State Committee to Meet

Little Rock, sApril 6.-The State Democratic Central Com mittee will meet in this city Fri day of this week to canvass the vote cast in the Democratic pri- mary of March 25, and at this time the matter of the winner of the race for attorney general will be definitely settled. It is in fact settled at this time, yet Hon. r. k. Andrews, of Augusta, declares that he has received the majority of the votes cast for that position. On the face of the returns it appears that Hal l.. Norwood, of Mena, has receiv- ed large majority, between G. 900 and 10000 of the votes cast. Chairman John R. Rutherford, of the State Central Committee, of Pine Bluff, has issued a call, through Secretary John H.Page, of this city, to all members to meet at the Hotel Marion Friday for the purpose of counting the votes cast.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06

of the conference will convene at Nashville, Ark, Friday after the League Conference closing on Thursday. Delegates intending to visit Nashville will be benefit ed by stopping at Prescott for day or two.
 l.e. everyone reading this aa- point him or her elf a ,.Arl- ant ." o' o9H u get ready for prcs"ott an bring some one else.
 sen a3tres.at once to Rev. T. U. Scott. Prescott. Ark.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06
COUNTY CONVENTION
Meets at the Court House Saturday to Elect Delegates to State and :.
 District Conventions

The Nevada County Democrat ic Convention met at the court house Saturday and proceeded at once to the transaction of bus mess by the election of Thos. c. McRae chairman and H. B. Me kenzie secretary of the conven- tion.
 w. V. Tompkins was elected chairman and T. R. Wright sec. retary of the county central com mittee for the ensuing two years. District committeeman were elected as follows:
 Railroad Commission-J. V. Hulse.
 Congressional-M.W. Greeson
 Judicial B. Gordon.
 Chancery-.-W. V. Tompkins.
 Senatorial---H. B. Mckenzie and w. T. Hart.
 w. V. Tomrkins offered the following resolution, which was adopted:
 Resolved, That the delegates to the state convention, and all other conventions, be and they are hereby instructed to vote as a unit upon all questions upon which they are required to vote, both in the convention and in all caucuses.
 MT. Tompkins moved that a mittee of three be appointed to name delegates to the various conventions. w, V. Tompkins, A. M. Denman and J. A. Hood were named and they named delegates 4oAthe waricus conven tions as follows:
 State Convention-Thos. C. McRae, M. l.. M core, M. w. Greeson, 1. H. Mack, A. M. Denman, c. B. Andrews, w. J | White. AlternateS Nat Mar. tin, Jake Sanders, G. $. Alder w. T. Woodull, c. R. Haynie, w. N. sutton, John Warren. Railroad Convention-J. V Hulse, s. T. White, w. T. Hart H. V. Scott, R. P. Arnold, Jno. R. Lambert, T. H Whitehead. Congress -Jno. Marr, w. V. Tompkins, H. B. Mckenzie, R P. Hamby, H. E Askew, w. N. Murry, Arl Warmack.
 Judicial dc. R. Haynie, San o. Logan, D. l.. McRae, Joe Hay nie, John Nichols, T. Ii. Wright Joe Hood.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06
VETERANS MEET.

Persuant to a call by Com mander Q. l.. Moncrief. Camp Walter Bragg, U. c. ", met the court house at 10 O'clock Sat urday morning for the purpos. of arranging for Decoration Day to honor our dea1 comra des and to appoint delegates to the Birmingham reuIGon.
 On motion committee of three was appointed to consult with the Daughters O, the Con federacy and see if they will take charge of decorating tn 2 graves of Confederate soldiers, buried at DeAnn Cemetery
 0. l.. Moncrief and F. w. Dou- gan were appointed delegates to the Birmingham re-anion.
 By vote John Lewis was ma .e an honorary member of Walter Bragg Camp, U. c. V.
 Adjourned
 9. $. JONES, Sec.
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7777777777777---7 T Notice.
To III My Farmer Friends of Me-

Naud COunIy
 Through my influence and ad- vice, the merchants of Prescott have purshased a car of Mebane Improved Cotton Seed These are the best seed to plant under ordinary conditions. and under Boil Weeyil conditions, it is ab- solutely necessary to plant the Mebane seed.
 The merchants are selling the seed at cost lai1 down here-75c per bushel The seed are worth many times this amount for planting purposes.
 We have thoroughly tested these seed along with other seed for a number of years, and we, recommend them to you as the best seed to plant. Call on any merchant in Prescott, get some of these seed, plant them in rows of sufficient width that the limbs will not lock together in the middle or the rows when the cotton is fully matured, and you will get good results.
 J. J. MOORE, Special Agent, U S Department of Agriculture.
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LEAGUE CONFERENCE.
p,o6rar, of the Meeting in Prescotl on April IA to i6, 1908.
TUESD Y.

D. m.--Social by Prescott o.0o n. m. Devotional, Jas rbomas. Commissioner Of Edu- cation. ., s.3O The Ideal League, $. II. Werlein, D. D.
 welcome Address, Hon. H. E. Mckenzie. Rpsponse, Mrs. A. M. Robert son.
 WEDNESDAY.
 goo a. III. Devotional, Jas. Thomas.
 Q o.3O Need of home Mission Work in the Little Rock Confer ence
 R. B. Thomas, TeXarkana Dis trct R. W. Mckay. Camden District 7 l. W. Harrell. Monticello Dis trict.
 W. W. Christie, Pine Bluff Dis trict.
 A. C. Miller, Little Rock Dis trct
 H. NJ. Bruce, Arkadelphia Dis, trict
 T. II. Ware, Prescott District. Eight minutes for each report 10:30 Report Of X. O Evau@ on the Spiritual Work of the League, followed by discussion. 11:30. The Leagucr's Call to Service, Fc,aoy Hutchison. Appointment of Nomina ting Committee.
 Special Work Committee. 800 D. In Devotional Service, Jas. Thomas.
 3:30 ?. III. Children in Train ing for Service, Miss Rachel Hill
 400 D. m The Boys League, J. NJ. Workman.
 4.30 ?. m. Report of Junior superinten ients- RepQrt oi Nor- mating Committees. ~
 500 p m Devotional Scr vices, Jas. Thomas.
 s:30 2, m Ad1rcss Fl. M. Du- Bose, D. D., General Secretary Epworth League, Nashville. Tennessee
 THURSDAY.
 800 a. m. Devotional Serviacs. Jas. Thomas.
 $50 a. m Missionary Depart ment-t'3ort oi Fourth Vice President, w w. Christie.
 lo;5O a. p'. Systematic Giving. Adam Frieschmann.
 Il 30 a. m, Report of Commit tee on Special Work.
 2:3O ,. in. Devotional Ser vices Ja Thomas. n ut teport of Secon ! Department, W c. Watson. N r5:3O ?. m. Ministering to the booy, T. E. Sharpe, D. D. r.4:UO p. m. Report of Third nice n President, Miss Erma E. Rlchardson.
 ,4:3O ?. m. Ministering to the Mind, Miss Mae Mckenzie. dea- coness SUD p. m. Devotional Service Jas. Thomas. rso'oo ?. m. Address w. F.. s;o' I;0ans' l.. R. Conference Mis- siOnary Secretary.
 'he Home Missionary Society
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06

Ladies, get a pretty cool dress ing sacque or house dress of the new lawn at Gee & Sons. Only 7c yard.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-06

Libby" on cut glass is guar antee of quality Prescott Hard ware Company have some beau tiful patterns with this name on them.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
ALL NEW RAVENS
Will Be Accompanied by Large Number of Rooters to Brass City To- morrow-Great
 Game Expected.

The All-New Haven eleven will go to Waterbury tomorrow to play the All-Brooklyns at the Driving park in the Brass City. O'Connell and Burns of the local team expect hard game and they will get the team out to- morrow morning for thorough drill of their plays.
 A large crowd of rooters will ac- company the team and leave the Elm City at 12 o'clock by trolley. Managers O'Connell and Burns will take along twenty-two men and should hold the Waterbury contingent down to tie score if not secure a victory. The team will line up in the same manner as they did In the game with All Meridens at Meriden last Saturday.
 The management of the local eleven received an offer to-day of s75 to play a return game In Meriden Thanksgiv- ing day, but as that day will be the only time the New Haven public will have a chance to witness their team at work the managers turned down the proposition and will announce their game for Thanksgiving day later,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
60 TO NEW YORK Squad of Seventeen N. H. H. s. Players Leave This Morning
 for the Metropolis.
YALE MAN ASSISTS WORK
Field Coaches High School Players Dr. Barnes to Accompany Team
 List of Players.

With the defeat by Erasmus Hall stifl fresh in their minds the N. II. H, s. football team will embark upon their last and longest voyage of the football season, when they leave for New York this morning at 9:30. The biggest squad of the season r players will leave for the metropolis to represent the local high.
 Although the Elm City high players have only been able to practice the last three days of the week, on account of the inclemency of the weather, still the eleven is confident of returning with 6 victory to make up for the Erasmus defeat. under which trimming the ath- letes arc still smarting. Mir. Hackett, Howard Bird and Frankel have asssit- cd the team during their short practice and were well satisfied with the snappy exhibition put up by the local athletes.
 Yesterday. through the kindness of Coach Biglow of the Yale squad. Field, sub fullback of the Eli varsity was sent over to assist the students His remarks were carefully listened to and immediately followed. and filled the students with confidence. Each play CT who required 1t, received help from the Yale man,
 The team who the N. H. H. S. eleven will confront will be the Manual Train Ing High of Brooklyn, The contest will take place at o'clock at the Washington Park, the national base ball field
 Dr. Barnes, local physician and high school graduate, will accompany the team on their trip and will have charge of the students. Dr. Barnes was president of the high school alumni and has always taken interest in the affairs at the school.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
LOCALS WALLOPED
Eastern League Bowling Team
 No Match for New York Crackajacks.
DUNBAR STAR OF EVENING
Manhattan Bowler Too Much for Elm City Aggregation, Which Rolls
 Poorly.
Especial to the Journul-courlcro
contest.

New York, oct 30,--Contlnuing in the slump in which New Brunswick trimmed the New Haven bowling team in the Eastern league a week ago, that quintet played the local repre- sentatives in that league and re- ceived an unmerciful drubbing. In tho five man event, Weber was the only New Havener to show steady form and as he was only in for two games 1t would be hard 10 tell whether or not he would slump if he rolled three games.
 The home team handily took the first and third games In this match while the visitors scrambled away with the second event
 Dunbar as usual was rolling in crackcriack form as his scores in this event indicate. He was high single with 226 and also high three strings with 633. The scores in the fve-man event follow:
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
H. STONE SECOND
'ell- Known Comedian of Red
 Mill Company Shoots Well as Guest of Local Club.
|INS LEATHER GUN CASE
$ S7 Targets Out of a Possible 1O0-- Large Crowd Humored by
 His Wit.

Erred H, Stone, the well known Emedian of the Red Mill company, E.s the guest of honor at the shoot of la New Haven Gun club held yester- |y afternoon at Schuetzen park and
 K showed that besides amusing the |eblic he has the ability to smash le targets for he secured score of s out of a possible 100 thereby se- lf-ing second prize.
 |lrhe weather was ideal for shoot |Ni large crowd of enthusiasts turn L out to watch the participants in Ee fun of the day and incidentally Eadouble up into several different as- |tments of knots at the wit of their |est.
 EMr. Stone Is one of the crack anna Ear shots of the country as hle per smance yesterday showed. There ste three prizes awarded, the first Eng won by Ed Kelly who secured
 ,core of 90 He won a double end Nfe leather gun case for his per II Finance.
 VjsIr Stone, with his score of ST, was 'sIarded second prize, a mutton leg we leather gun case, while Ed. Hart ( (''Waterbury and Frank Sherman of |Nw Haven, tied for third prize and .l the toss-up Hart proved to he the Filky one. Both secured scores of S6, E,r prizes were donated by Bronson E,l Townsend Co. of State street [els city,
 Among the out of town enthusiasts klhthe sport who were present were Fs following; H, Brown of Newark 10. J.; w. J. Shelly of Wilmington Flf., Ed, Hart of Waterbury, and R Es. Smith of Seymour The scores |R,the shoot follow:
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31

Eugene zto trimmed Charles Atz- back to a standstill last night on the Academy tables in the tournament for the championship of New Haven, An sonia and Derby. Zito Is a newcomer only entering the tournament during tho past week, but has clearly shown that he is in a class by himself. The score follows:
 zto-o. 10, s, Il, 10, 6, 10. 1, 14, 5, il, 4, 9-100,
 Atzhack---12, 5, 6, 4, s, 9, 5, 13, i, 10, 3, 9, 0-S2.
 Monday night Zito plays Kennedy.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
POLO SCHEDULE.
Boneyards Booked for Four Contests
 Next Week--Ieaders Start It.

The following is the list of games scheduled for next week in the Ma tonal Roller Polo league. New Haven plays Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Pawtucket will open the week here.
 Monday Salem at Bridgeport, Brockton at Fall River, Pawtucket at New Haven, Worcester at Providence
 Tuesday Bridgeport at Brockton, Salem at New Britain, New Haven at Worcester, Fall River at Providence Pawtucket at Hartford.
 Wednesday, Bridgeport at Salem New Haven at Providence, Hartford at Worcester, Brockton at Pawtucket
 Thursday at Bridgeport New Britain at Fall River,
 Friday Worcester at Hartford Providence at New Haven, Brockton at Salem, New Britain at Pawtucket
 Saturday-Providenc at New Brit ain Fall River at Brockton,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
COY IN THE GAME
[obbs Missing from Left Tackle and Lilley Takes His Place
 Two Long Runs.
AT CENTER AWHILE
Warren Plays Right Half in Place of
 Brides---Glass and Hlnkey Coach.

While generally the Yale varsity peven does not have anything except he lightest practice before regular ame yesterday afternoon they had a |ard scrlmmage against the scrubs at [ale field. The coaches beside Big Pw were Ed Glass, Frank HInkey and |eorge Chadwick,
 Both the lines were strong. The |arsity was handicapped by the fact hat Hobbs was missing, though Lil- |y did very well in the position. Bid |le played center for q while and was |lcceeded by Cooney. Brides was not the field and L. c. Warren played l his place Coy was with the team Pr the first time this week and played | very good game at fullhack ' The only touchdown of the after oon was made by Coy after a rather
 nsational play Johnson, the scrub am quarterback punted and Coy n 1t back to the hfteen-yard line,
 king 1t lodging through broken eld for sixty yards. After couple
 brief scrimmages he went through
 e scrub center across the line Bing- hm also ran back punt and made a Fty-yard run, but was unable to ore The practice was nearly All in le open.
 Wheaton was not In the scrimmage, lt In the individual practice did
 me first lass drop kicking and will
 very valuable to Yale In the biz
 mes. Philbin played a good game
 left halfback.
 The lineup of the varsity yester-
 y was: Logan le; Lilley. It; Andrus
 Riddle and Cooney, c; Goebel, if
 Town, Tt; Naedle, re; Bingham and prey. qb; Philbin, lhb; Warren, rhb;
 bv fh
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
YACHT MADE QUICK TRIP.

The steam yacht Iolanda, owned by Morton J. Plant of the New York Yacht club, whicn left New London on October 10 for Marseiles, made the passage in twelve days and twen- ty-three hours. With only two of her four boilers in commission the Iolan- da averaged twelve knots while con- suming thirty-sIx tons of American coal to-day After the yacnt is over hauled and painted her owner and party will join her at Marseilles for cruise in the Mediterranean.
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New Haven.
New York.
ALGoNoUINs' CLEAN SWEEP.
Take Three Games from Acmcs in Y.
 NJ. R, C. Tournament

The Algonquins had things their own way last evening on the Y M R. c. alleys, handily taing three games from the Acmes in a rather unexcit- ing match. Mix was high single with 2lS, and Short was high roller with 532. Record follows:
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
Win Match from Judges Caves by
 Single Pin.

In some of the most exciting bowling seen on the Academy alley In some time the General Hales took three games away from the Judges Caves in the Indsutrial league. The first game went to the General Hales handlly but the Caves came back strong in the sec ond winning by four points, and losing the third game by one point
 while Moeler was high roller with 5S2. The score follows:
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Bulllleads.
TRIGGERS TAKE THREE.

The Triggers walked away with three games from the Magazines in the Winchester Bowling association last night, on the Y. M. R. C. alleys, Graves with 172, was high single and also high roller with 469. The score follows
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
DORANDO AND CHAMPION HAYES,
 WHO MAY RACE N AMERICA

Italian the Marathon in decided challenge John Hayes Madison Dorando far ahead of Hayes the Olympic Mar finish hailed he be- the olympic
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-31
SENIORS START WE'LL.
High School Upperclass Men Thrash
 Juniors in First Interclass Game.

The first high school interclass foot ball game of the season was yesterday played at City Point, when the repre- hard tough contest, the seniors swal- lowing victory and the juniors gulp- ing down a defeat the bulletin show ing 10 to 0 score
 Straight football was resorted to by both elevens, the dignifej seniors bowling the 1910 gridiron warriors over at will and using their backs for great gains Ben" Goldman, the 1909 fullback, was easily the star of the game. The hard working senior back ripped up the line continually and after good exhibition of line plunging was sent across the line for the seniors first touchdown Captain Bob" McKiernan also sparklcd in the back field, and swelled the seniors score to 10 after beauti- fully executing a forward pass, which was immediately followed by few rushes for a touchdown. In fact all the seniors performed well and did lilelI SildIe UL tic WOIh. Hc llilc- up:
 1909. 1908. McCloskey ...............F Harrington
 Left End. BurRe ..........,,, .brcHndu
 Left Tackle. Rapnano ................. e. Shelkl
 Left Guard. Kiernan, Crockett. ......-. Bowman
 Center. Blez .......... MCfdcury
 Right Guard O'Keefe .................. .Vetter
 Right Tackle. Cross ...............P Pagter, Wilson
 Right End. Myer .........., Price, Levy, Wynne
 Quarterback. McKiernan ,................. .Brady
 Right Halfback. Goldman .................F Flanagan
 Fullback. Chatfleld ..........,., .'... .. .SmlIn
 Left Halfback.
 Summary. Score Seniors 10, Jun iors O; touchdowns, Goldman and Kiernan Time of halves, Is minutes. Referee, Hawlar.
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made a clean sweep of the match.
 Lindsey was high single with 2Si and also high three string with $40 Huber in this event rolled the highest single for the visiting players during the evening landing 2l4 The score follows;
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WITH THE BOWLERS

George Robert Kelsey certainly split the pins some last night on the Y. M. R. c. alleys Ills score for eight games follows: 225, 21s, 22o, 1s7, 226, 2lS, 19S. 233 total, 1,729; average 2l6,
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General tIalcs,
IN THE FISH LEAGUE.

On the Winchester alleys last even- ing the Crabs pinched the Bullheads for two games. Buttsteadt was high single with 20S, while Lowenstein was high roller with 545. The score fol- lows;