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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07

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Dealers supplied by
THE UOEWY DRUG CO..
Baltimore, Md.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07
Religious Notiee.

Please take notice Of change In
services as ST. Paul and Mt. Zion
NJ. T. churches for the Summer
months. Beginning next Sabbath,
services % Sc. Paul will be held %
IL, A. L., and as Ms. Zion as .. p. L.,
every second Sabbath.
]. p. WILLDRTDag,
Pastor.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07

SpsiHS Dress Goods and Mil
lInery.
We have carefully selected our stock Of
Spring goods, and are rerdy to see our
patrons. We have O full stock Of Shoes
Millinery, Dress Goods, Trimmings Mat
tings, Portisres &rods, Neckware Hosi.
sry, &c.
L. 4 JOINS 4 Son.
LSonAedtovn Nd
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07
eLAckSMITTING q WHEEL
WRiCHTiNG.

l wish to inform my friends and d.
irons, that in addition TO enlarging my
Shop have installed the very latest and
best machinery and tools; Ihave added
another forge and have secured the ser.
vices Of one Of the best Blacksmiths and
Horseshoers in Southern Maryland. I
am now better prepared to do your
work quicker and better then ever before.
en- also agent for SURRYS, DAY.
TONS, ROADCARTS, BUGGIES and
RUHABOUTS, the latter keep ON hand
and can give you first class vehicle for
. reasonable price. Come and examine
my stock and get my prices. I invite
your continued patronage and viii serve
you with care and polite attention that
comes only with years Of successful bust
mess experience. twill be to your advan.
tage 20 place your orders with,
Yours respectfully,
ADAM T. WHILE.
April I'll. Bluestown. Md.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07

l respectfully announce myself a. q
candidate Tor the Democratic uomina-
ton Tor the House Of Delegates subject
70 the Democratic primaries OF 1909.
L. c. MILBURN,
Dec. 3, 'O7-1y. Leoaardtown, Md.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07

STATEMENT Of the HOME Insurance Com
pany OF New York 20 December 81, 1891
capital, . s,O00,000
Total Admitted AseetA, D,b62y6se
Total Liabilities, Ii,l6s,l8
Surplus, 6,7Os,MI
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07
Undertaking.

With the latest style HEARSES and
finest outfit toriFunerals.
A tine line Of COINS and Csskets
OF the latest designs, and all sises
from the Lafaas 10 the 0iant 20 select
from
an prepared 20 serve funerals
% the shortest notice and upon rea-
sonable terms.
Embalming
Having taken Q course In Rmbalm.
ing and received Q Diploma, I am
also prepared % embalm with lsteet
methods.
B. b. LOVE,
Morganxa, and
Leouardtown, Nd.
Phone, Loves, Asrsaass.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07
For Rent.

will rent the Store and Dwelling at
Valley Lee. Md formerly owned by the
late VIM. J. Bean, for one or more years.
This Ii an excellent stand and good
opportunity for an active, wids-a axe
merchant. For terms apply to,
Dr.. T. HOOPER LYNCH,
March 12-1m. Valley Lee.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07

Come And See
SPRING DISPLAY.
We extend special invisasioa
10 our friends and the general
public during this shopping ssa-
son TO give US call and examine
our stock and get our prices be-
fore buying elsewhere.
SHOES and DRESS GOODA
Our Stock Of Dress Goods, Waist
Goods. Dry Goods and Notions.
generally are right up-to-dase
and the prices are the very low.
est In fact there In not q betssy
stock TO select from in the coun.
BY, also our line OF Shoes are
right up 10 the scratch all che
way through and you will find
that our prices are a. low is mon
lower than any other place.
GROCERIES,
We always keep o nns line %
Groceries that are New ana
Clean and Of the very best quail.
ity for the money asked 0f
them.
CANDIES,
We have candy galore as fins o
stock as you will find In South
ern Maryland and we will matsh
prices with the lowest.
In fact our whole Stock OF Goods
are full and up to-date In every
line. Call and see for yourselves
and we will be glad 10 show
our goods whether We can please
you or not.
Drsss'y d SSssssders.
AT SISTERS GATE,
Leonsrdtown, Nd.
Nov. 22. O6-tf.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-05-07
Embalming

Phone. Lose's, Asssaass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
NEGRO WOMAN WAS MYSTER|OUSLY GUT Falls Dying At the Feet of
 Officers NEGROES PAY POLL TAX Southern Steel Go. Will Pay Employees Wednesday-EnsIey School lm- Provement Meeting Tuesday.
 Personal and GeneraI
NEGROES PAY POLL TAX

Ensley, January Special )-Stagger- ing across Nineteenth street near Avenue M, with the blood gushing from a terrible wound across her throa,. Hannah Lou Wright, a negro woman, fell at the feet of Officcers John Wren and H. A. White. The officers called the ambulance and the woman was quickly conveyed to the city hall, but before medical aid could be summoned she was dead The killing is shrouded in mystery, no witnesses to the killing could be located and as the woma Il could not speak when the officers found her, there is as yet no clue to the mur- derer. The officers stated as they were walking down Nineteenth street toward Averyt's, they heard scream coming from the woods towards Seventeenth street. Hastening along they saw the woman holding her throat, She ran into a house close by but came out again, ran toward the officers and fell down, as stat ed. While waiting for the ambulance the officers did what they could to stop the flow of blood and endeavored to obtain a statement from the woman, but to no eff feet, nor could any of the people living in the neighborhood throw any light on the subject. The woman was well known in police circles and had been corrected a number of times. Her body was conveyed to the undertaking establishment of Echols & Angwin and Coroner Paris mo- tihed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Watchman Bound Over.

At the police court this morning J.. C.. Johnson, a watchman employed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany, was bound over to await the action of the grand jury by Mayor D. F. Sugg, on charge of assault with weapon. On the 12th instant a negro laborer at the steel plant was attempting to leave the yards with quantity of nails in his pos session. Johnson was on duty at that point and called on the negro to halt. Not complying the watchman shot him in the leg with shotgun. The negro was laid up at the Cunningham hospital until this morning, when he came into court and pleaded guilty to a charge of petit larceny and was fined s2.5o.
 Mayor Sugg fixed Johnson's bond at $25O which was made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

the fiber ready for the mills. and linen has therefore never been produced in quantities sufficient to meet the demand, when it should be in use as universally as cotton.
 Flax is such a curiously complex plant that it was thought necessary to sacri- flee some of its virtues in order to se- cure the benefit of others. No one was able to contrive a way to make use of all the properties of the most ancient of all the human race In Europe flax is raised for the fiber. which necessitates the sac rifice of the seed. the harvest never
 being allowed to ripen; in the United States flax is raised for the seed for making oil and the fiber is sacrificed. which means that millions of tons of the
 dnestt fiber yielding straw, better than that which furnishes the chief linen sup- ply of the world is being burned an- nually. With this introduction the writer | goes on to describe a new process by
 which the preparation of flax for the 1 mills is reduced from matter of weeks l to a matter of hours, and to tell how 1 the economy thus accomplished is to | cheapen the finished product.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Negroes To Pay Poll Tax.

At a meeting of the leading colored cit izens of Ensley held last night at the Star Baptist church, a committee was appointed to induce men of their race to pay their poll tax before February l. The meeting was well attended and much interest was displayed, especially when the circular letter issued by the Ensley Board of Education was read. Short speeches were made by Rev. A. w. De Yampert, Rev. J. B. Carter, Rev. M. H. Gilbert and Rev. J. H. Sanders.
 The meeting was also addressed by Prof. A. H. Taylor. z. Stallworth, A. C.. Barbour, G. w. Daley and others. It Wednesday night at the Bethel A. M D. church, corner Sixteenth street and Ave nue D, and it is expected some of the city officials will address the meeting.
 The following committee was appointed to work among the negroes of Ensley with regard to paying poll tax: Revs. A. w. DeYampert J. B. Carter. M. H. Gilbert and J. H. Sanders; George w. Daley, c. E. Shortridge. G. W. Hooks, M Lomax, A. H. Taylor, James Harris, A. C. Barbour, l.. Stallworth, l.. K. Ford, B. J. Johnson. G. w. Boozy, Robert Gregory. H. Reiny, Arthur Revere, c. F High, Warren Coleman, Arthur Randy, w. F. Colley. E. H. Irven, Mark Hill, A. l.. James, O. Whitfield, c. C.. Starlsey, Rufus Meadows. Elijah Wilk- erson, E. c. Boon, Ed Ellis, P. J. Giles, C. H. Colbert. Ernest Smith, T. Cole man, A. Harris, J. H. Herris, H. c. Gip- son, w. H. Williamson and Warren Sims.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
will Pay of "Wednesday.

The receivers of the Southern Steel company will pay off all indebtedness to labor next Wednesday, January 22. This will include pay for October and is in accordance with a notice posted through out the mill when the receivers took charge, advising the employees not to sell or discount their wages, as being pre- ferred claims, they would be paid in full. There is much speculation as to the set clement of the store orders issued by the Southern Steel company to their en1- ployes which were accepted by num- Der of merchants in Ensley in return for merchandise. Some of the merchants hold store orders to the amount of several thousand dollars and as these checks or store orders represented the wages of those to whom they were issued, 1t is stated they will be paid in full.
 The notice to pay off also revives the rumor of the resumption of the mill at an early date,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Has Beverages AnaIYzed.

Chief of Police James Merriman secured several bottles of the beverages now be- E ing widely sold, known as beerine, hop ale and temperance brew, and submitted them to the Birmingham testing laboratory for analysis The report shows the beerine 0.45 per cent. the others 0 .75 per cent and from this report the beverages are much lower in alcoholic strength than the law allows, and therefore do not come under the prohibition law. Chief Merriman IS on the alert for violation of the prohibi- tion law, and reports so far as can be as certained the law is being observed. He also reports the general order of the city to be good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
N SLEY D EP "A R T w E N T

Rev. J. o. Hanes will preach. Much good has resulted from the revival ser vice and much interest has been dis played. There were several aeeessions to the church and a number will probably follow. The Rev. Hanes and the pastor the Rev. B. B. Glasgow, have labored hard and faithfully for the cause, and the results are very gratifying. Mr. Hanes has been untiring in his efforts to promote the success of the revival. He is a man of much conservation and earnestness, being eminently suited as an evangelist, possessing both tact and talent and un- tiring energy. While the meetings were to have ended with the Sunday evening service, there is a probability of an exten- sion for several days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
For School improvement.

The Central School Improvement as- sociation of Ensley will meet in the High school building next Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. A short business session will be held after which the following programme will be rendered:
 Recitation-Miss Irene Key.
 Address-"The Club Woman and the Association Mrs. Richard Randolph.
 Vocal Solo-Miss .Everette Mcguire. Recitation-Mrs:. Walter Rowe.
 Reading-Mrs. O. C. Cowan.
 Address-"The School and the Com munity," Rev. O. P. Bentley.
 Vocal Solo--Miss Alma Wood
 Recitation--Miss Ada Street.
 This movement was started few months ago by Mrs. ]. D. Matlock of Birmingham. It's object is to improve the school surroundings by educating the children in a love for the beautiful, and in various ways make the children re- sponsible for the care of the schools and grounds. Mrs. J. J. Walker and Mrs. J. M. Dupuy, officers in the association. have been active in preparing an enter taining and instructive programme. All patrons of the schools are invited to attend. especially the ladies. to hear Mrs. Randolph, who has been identified with this work for some time and is an able and pleasing speaker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

When an eminent authority an nounced the fact that he had found a new way to treat that dread Ameri- can disease, Rheumatism, with just common, everyday drugs, found in any drug store, the physicians were slow indeed to attach much import ance to his claims. This was only a few months ago. Today nearly every newspaper in the country is announcing it and the splendid re- suits achieved. It is so simple that anyone can prepare it at home at small cost. It is made up as fol lows: Get from any good prescrip- tion pharmacy Fluid Extract Dande- lion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
MAY WIPE TT
 OFF THE EARTH
Simple Home made Treatment, Said to Over
 come Rheumatism.

meal and at bedtime. These are all simple ingredients, making an abso- lutely harmless home remedy at It. tie cost.
 Rheumatism, as every one knows, is a symptom of deranged kidneys. It is condition produced by the failure of the kidneys to properly filter or strain from the blood the uric acid and other matter which, if not eradicated, either in the urine or through the skin pores, re- mains in the blood, decomposes and forms about the joints and muscles, causing the untold suffering and de- formity of rheumatism.
 This prescription is said to be splendid healing, cleansing and in-s vigorating tonic to the kidneys, and gives almost immediate relief in all forms of bladder and urinary troubles and backache.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
t was easy going to the great city Of

it was easy going to the great city of Chicago.
 From Boston to Chicago he covered l497 miles-1263 miles by electric traction, 23O miles by steam car, two miles by stage coach and two miles on foot Counting the stops on the way he made the trip in just ten days To cover this distance required 6S changes of cars, for which he had tn go down in his pocket for fare just 80 times.
 Trolley fare. $1S.59; railway fare, &.6o; stage coach. % cents; lodging, $l7.o0; food. s9.0o; amusements, theatres, fairs, etc, S6.00; souvenirs post cards, etc, @,5O; guides. maps, books and magazines. s5,Oo; kodak filmS $3 60; total, $6S.54.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Personal and General.

There will be a meeting of the Ensley District Sunday School association at the First Presbyterian church Sunday the Beth inst. This association is composed of all the schools in Ensley and vicinity An interesting programme is being ar ranged and the session promises to be interesting and profitable.
 Capt. Chas. Dexter, general manager of the New York Mutual Reserve Insur- ance Company, was in the city today on business
 Eskine Ramsey and J. c. Patterson were in the city today looking over their business interests.
 Miss Lillie Camp and Miss Taylor of Talladega are visiting Mrs c. F. Camp on Avenue E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Italians Injured By FaIIinu Brick.

Two Italian laborers were injured this morning about o'clock al the steel plant by the collapse of pile of fire bricks. The men were at work stacking bricks in the brick she'd and it is supposed piled them too high. Without warning. the brick fell upon them, partially burying them. They sustained rather severe injuries about the head and arms. They were quickly extricated and conveyed to the Cunning ham hospital where their injuries were at tended to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Why We Spend So Much Money.

From Leslie IS weekly.
 In a recent address, President Schurman of Cornell university denounced the heavy expenditures of the government for the army and navy, and declared that they were a serious burden upon the people. He is right. The expenditures for these purposes are high, and the people regret 1t. pr. Schurman did not give figures, but if he had done so the exhibit would be impressive For example, in 1897 the army cost in round figures, $49,000. GOO and the navy s35. 100000, while in 1907 the cost, re spectively, reached the enormous totals of S122, 900 900 and S97, ,000000. But we must bear in mind that, between 1897 and 1907, the situation of the United States reveals a sweeping change. The Spanish war of 1898 and the Philippine rebellion of 1S99- 1901 came fN the interval. The Spanish war made imperative an immediate and a large increase in our army and navy. and the annexations of territory in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico which were among the results of the war, have compelled us to keep both arms of the service at higher level in strength and efficiency than they were immediately be- fore that conflict.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
To Make Flax Cheap as Cotton.

For more than 2000 years of historic record man has annually wasted from one-third to one-half of the actual flax crop. So writes Frank N. Bauskett in the Technical World Magazine for Feb
 ruary. Worse than this. he has added to this waste the great expense of the primitive, slow hand process of getting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
Union Revival serxice.

The pastorc of the various Protestant churches of Ensley held meeting today and agreed to suspend their services Sun day evening and unite with the. Methodist church in their revival service at the Ems ley opera house. All the congregations
 will join in this service. at which the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

Dr. Hugh CSmisson. late of Chicago pr. Hugh c. Smisson, late of Chicago Polytechnic hospital Is now located in E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19
HUNDRED MILE TROLLEY RIDE A Novel Trip From Boston To
 Chicago SAW MUCH OF COUNTRY Of the 14e7 Miles Travelled 1263 Were Made by Trolley car-Some interesting Expense Figures.

To those who like to travel and while travelling want to enjoy all the beauties of the lands through which they journey the trolley offers the most attractions. As a rule the steam roads whisk from point to point, giving the passenger little more than a passing glimpse of the country; they enter the cities by the back yard route and seem to pick out the most for saken and desolate stretches of ground for the location of the tracks. With the troll ley it is different. The electric cars are always clean and convenient; they trav- erse the best streets of the cities and, catering to the summer vacationst, must perforce follow the most beautiful places through the country.
 Boston man, who could not afford an automobile and did not care to make tine trip la Weston, early last fall took a trolley ride from Boston to Chicago. A trolley ride of 1900 miles would seem like a venture foreboding untold discontinue and inconvenience, but the charm of rid ing through the green woods and neld5 on a summers day, with the privilege ot getting off whenever you want to, far more than offsets the trouble of changing. cars and lodging the end-seat swine. Alter this trip the man from Boston has d fine conception of our country, the people and their habits between these two cites. He is able to speak intelligently of the places he has visited and knows tho mighty resources of the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

From Buffalo, N Y., to Kalamazoo. Mich, is one unbrollen line of trolley roads From Erie the electric road runs through the old Dutch country of Penn sylvania. The clean and orderly aspect of the little farms and their keepers ap- pealed to the Boston man and he spent considerable time in studying the people and their rigid ways. In Ohio he founi ideal country for the electric road. In this state electric traction has been de- veloped to its highest point and there is a web of trolley rails it's entire length and breadth. The cars are of luxurious types and travel at wonderful speeds be- tween the various towns and cities.
 By far the best part of the journey was between Cleveland and Toledo. d stretch of 125 miles, where the cars made an average speed of 35 miles an hour and were unsurpassed by the finest day coaches in the country. From Toledo to Detroit the country was almost like New England with it's large farms and pretty villages From Detroit to Kalamazoo the trolley took him through beautiful mead ows of high grass. through cool forests and by white farm houses and quiet ham lets. At Ann Arbor he visited the Uni versity of Michigan.
 At Battle Creek he saw the WOODWORK ing plants and the cereal factories, and at South Haven he saw for the first time the great lake of Michigan. From Water yliet to St. Joseph, Mich, he had to ride on the steam car for 20 miles, and from there he took trolley to Laporte, Ind, and finally on to Hammond. distance of Q miles. by steam. From Hammond, Ind,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-19

With suit case packed the vacationist boarded a trolley car one morning in Bos- ton, and was soon on his way to the Middle West The total weight Of his inl- pedimenta was about 40 pounds, for he had long ago learned the lesson of the experienced traveller and purchased every thing possible en route.
 He found the weather delightful and the scenery far beyond his expectations.
 The trolley line from Boston to Tarry- town, N. Y. is unbroken save for few feet at Stamford Bridge, Mass. After two days visiting friends and seeing the signts at New York, he started on the journey across the Empire state. Here he met with his greatest difficulties At Tarry- town he had to leave the trolley Tor the steam road as far as Hudson.
 After a short visit at the Albany capi- tai he continued his trip via Schenectady to Fonda and again found he would have to take steam train as far as Little Falls, a distance of 30 miles. Between Au- burn and Seneca Falls and from Roches- ter to Batavia he had to resort to the steam roads, but eventually reached NJ agara Falls by trolley.