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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
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A feature Of the new play. THE
Boys Of Company b. in which Paul
Gilmore is being starred this season,
is the music. Mr. Gilmore. very mn
steal himself. has always had good
deal of music in his plays and has In
sisted upon making feature of the
singing in tine BOYS Of Company B."
Sid Mr.. Gilmore the other evening
after the second act Of the play: "D'I
You hear the triple encore given to
that music? It's that way every
night, tell you it's all right to have
good lines and good situations in a
piece. but give me always one or two
good chances for bit Of music and
ri drop some of the business and a
good deal ~ the dialogue. In the sec.
ond act, the Boys OF Company B are
In camp and what greater provocation
conlii there be for song than ut twi.
light or around the camp fire? There's
nothing that s: warns the cookies Of
a mans heart as Song sung by a
lot of young fellows of on an outing.
| verify believe we have doubled our
receipts with that vocal music by the
campers"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
RALPH BINGHAM.

DR.. II. Dewitt Talmage said: Bless
Bingham and all the apostolic college
Of humorists. The man that makes
he laugh is my Oenefactor. Cod bless
all skillful punsters. all those who
mirthtully surprise us with unusual
tuxtaposition Of words. There 10 di
vine mission. Tney stir into The acid
beverage of life the sacchartne, and
make the cup of earthly existence.
which Is sometimes stale, eHervesee
and bubble. They placate animosities.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

ing year viii be made during lhe ses-
sion opehed here io'iay b. 5hc Meth
odist General cpnrnltiee lor TorelEu
9uissions The bosls ilistribtse
$4,000 annuaIiy me Iiee ing ailil
ccntinne ife days lr connection VIM
the general committee meeting the
lffst eonferenceof the LaSmen's MIS-.
sionary Movement Of the Methodist
Episcopal church win meet for tive
days TO effect a permanent organita-
ton and 70 consider plans for increas-
ing the interest Of Methodist men in
the missionary work OF the denomin-
alton.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
Announcement.

The Famont Seeum Association pleased
course will be presented Famnot this merit
to be given three
vide range of yceum
The
half the price admissions
any three of the attractions being than that
The OF platform talent nothing
enttou has heretofore been attempted Frmont in the ceum line
bring this combination
and the Association looks to the cultured literally
Tone the order insure Fmnte future literary
Further information
Association, 1872. City. :
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
oPlE REED.

Big hearted opie Reed will visit
FaIrmont in March. He has number
Of personal friends In the city who
have expressed their gratlae4tion over
bis coming and to all who have read
after him or heard o. him 1t will he
pleasing. He gives an entertainment
that has character entirely distinctive
and he Is like no one else In the
world. His very presence lends y.
strange enchantment to his stories
You may have enjoyed ME books "a
The solitude of your library: perchance
you have been stirred by his plays, oTs
spent delightful half hours in the read
lug of his clever character sketches;
but unless you have sat within the
sound of his voice, and heard from ais
own lips the quaint tales that origin.
ale in his brain, you 90 not fully aps
prectate the splendid genius Uf the
an. on the platfor Mr. Reed shines
with brilliance all his own; Eyeyyt
where he is'receiVed with enthusiasm,
The indescribable yitchery Of his
words. the charm of bis voice and maiIs
ner. the influence Of his personality.
combine to weave the magic spell that
holds his hearers CENTRALIZED. His prns
gramme is varied and eacl number
Is gem. In all his readings he saosss
himself to be wonderful delineator
Of character, and an artist in the ins
depreciation of his own work.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
oaloLe CONCERT COMPANY.

The Orioles are group of young
women Of superior trlents. Iiss Ftcl;,
en- Tinkef's rich contralto voice and
augagtug manners have endeared her
TO all who have heard her. She has
literally sung her way into the hearts
rf the multitude. unaided by any at
tempt at theatrical effect, but with
modest bearing and quiet self.poses
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
RUSSELL Il. coMweLL.

Perhaps more people have heard
Russell H. conwell's voice than that
Of any living man. not even excepting
the eloquent voice Of William JeA.
nings Bryan. However. ConWell has
never been secured for Fairmont be-
fore. owing. no doubt, Ito the large
price his lectures demand. In all eda.
Gated circles Conwell rs well known
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

stakes will be aided moroy a"r'rs
with none less than $1,000 aNs8.
Other features are the California
derby, Christmas handicap. Gerhard
handicap and California Oaks. In ad.
dition to the stakes there will be fire.
quent overnight handicaps and spe,
cial races with from $1,000 to $1,000
added. president Williams also an.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN ORCHESTRA.
This Organization country being
aan Several this thoroughly competent
been connected with symphony orchess both
and in Europe This orchestra competition
with many Others at the Columbian Exposition
tor one of the abest leaders his life
The Organization anu weknown Of
appeared the
received several medals OF approval
last evening the Music Hungarian
OF the hne 81 its kind
the programme but by round after
twenty The coes appreciated
pleces The playing Of the combination
ton Interpretation they
addition English singer
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

as the author of that lnatchless effort.
Acres of Diamonds; Where Men Sue
ceed." This speech is included In
The Worlds Famous orations" and
Is given as a fine example of Amerl-
can etoqueuce. Mr.. conwell is man
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
AUTOMOBILE MEET.

NEW ORLEANS. Nov. s.-NotorIsts
from all over the South will witness
and take part in the big automoblle
racing meet to be held in New Or
leans tomorrow Lewis String, the
famous professional driver win be
one If the main attractions.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

The opening number of the course
will be given Monday evening. Novem-
, her 9Th, when PROT. Henry Helm Clay
ton, the renowned baIloonisl and air
ship expert, win give an Illustrated
lecture on atrsafpa. balloons. air cur.
rents, and weather conditions. He
will throw on screen pictures taken
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
JEHu Dewitt MILLER.

The name of Dewitt Miller is ia.
lniliar to all who visit Mountain Lake
Park where he is never failing card
and has appeared season after season
IOE . number Of years in the CHATEAU.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06
METHODIST MISSIONS.

(By s. w. Press Association
ST. LOUIS, Nov. Appropriations
for foreign missions during the com.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

nounced that the rule Regarding the
minimum weights in handicaps ali
be abandoned in the future.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

uEoRoIASA:
don't like your cook book 4 II
'ee"mmenS Cola Medal Flour: litce
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

weeks visit in Harrison county. She
was accompanied home by her sister.
Mrs. Hannuh Fleming, of Wallace.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

r7 a West virrlnila,n ! Want ii
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
GIVES RESULTS OF TEN
 MONTHS OF PROHIBITION

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 was very much interested in your news item this morning regarding the inquiries pouring into Mayor Ward rela- tive to the effects of prohibition in Bir- mingham. These would indicate that if no other benefit had accrued, prohibit tion was giving our city a large amount of free advertisement which otherwise could not be bought except with a great amount of money.
 But seriously, let us see what some of the facts show since prohibition became effective:
 1. Not a single prominent stand former ly occupied by saloon, that is' not rented at a good price; and the sur roundings and atmosphere so much i'm proved that "a lady can stand on any cor ner and wait for a street car, without in- suit or fear of stray bullet
 2. Four skyscrapers in course of con- struction in ten months of prohibition, as many as in all the prior history of the city.
 3. The building inspectors report show ing more money put in new buildings this year than last, Birmingham being one of only three cities in the United States with such a record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
COL. RODEGRADE SAYSALL
 TENNESSEE IS AROUSED

Col. Beverly c. Rodegrade, a prominent attorney of Nashville, last night at the Hillman, predicted the immediate stamp ing out of night riding" in his state and the cruel murder of Capt Quentin Rankin near Reelfoot lake is described as the straw that broke the camel's back"
 Governor Patterson" said Colonel Rodegrade, lis determined to stamp out the evil, and those knowing the nature of the governor are certain that he will succeed. In Tennessee, since the murder of Rankin, the state from one end to tho other is aroused to the necessity of talk ing immediate steps toward pdtting an end to the horrors by night prepetrated by persons having an utter disregard for the laws of the land, and the state gov ernment, assisted by the people as a body is bent on the destruction of the night riders
 Tt requires some horrible outrage such as the Rankin murder to arouse popular feeling to a state that cannot be suc-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
TEACH WILL TAKE
 NEW OATH TODAY E. D. Smith Will Retire from
 City AttOrneyship CONFERENCE YESTERDAY Smith Has Held Place for Seven Years and Department Has Greatly In-
 creased During That
CONFERENCE YESTERDAY.

Tt some hour today Robert H. Thach recently elected city attorney for the city of Birmingham, will take his oath of office and assume the actual duties and responsibilities of his new office and 10. D. Smith, who has served the city faithfully for seven years will retire to his private practice.
 At conference held yesterday by MT. Smith, Mir. Thach, Mir. Gregg and several others the provisions of the municipal code which have been causing some worry were finally construed to mean that immediately upon the election of the city attorney at the first meeting in October the term of the retiring att torney expires. In other words, just as soon Mir Thach qualities he will take charge. It was thought at first that if MT Smith wished to give up the reins before January l he would have to hand in a resignation to the coun- ell, but this was judged unnecessary un- der the law.
 MT. Smith lays down the office to give more attention to his private prac- tice and to assume the duties of assist ant division counsel of the Alabama Great Southern railroad and one of the division counsel of the Mobile and Ohio railroad
 He holds an enviable record as a city officer. Although he passed through ths stormiest sessions and the bitterest period in the history of the city council, giving opinions on every point that came. up, he now holds the frendship and regard of every person connected with the city. He decided last July not to stand for reelection.
 Ed Smith became city attorney seven years ago under the Drennen administra- tion, succeeding Robert Lowe after d very exciting race in which he won by only one vote. Immediately upon en- tering the office one of the first cases to present itself was a rehearing before the supreme court of a case that had already been decided, preventin~ Bir- mingham from emptying her sewerage in Valley Creek and he succeeded in get ting the supreme court to reverse the decision.
 The scope and work of the office has since increased ten fold. Practically every. ordinance and every law of Eie city has had to be re-drawn and the whole map of the city's business has been changed in keeping with the citys growth. Bond issues for schools, sewers and public buildings have been issued and never. one WnlCn ne ndS uraWH ndS DeeiL turned down.
 He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1S96 finished a law course In the Georgetown university in 1898 and also completed a summer course in law at the University of Virginia. MT. Thach will receive the assistance of the retiring city attorney until No- vember1. J. Q. Smith. assistant city attorney, has contract with the city until January l and 1t is understood that by agreement he will be continued in office next year It Is probable that later in the year another assistant will be added to the force and the city att torney's office at the city hall will be- come a big center of the municipal gov- ernment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24

eessfully resisted. and while the mur- der of the splendid lawyer is greatly to be deplored. 1t will serve the state of Tennessee we'll"
 Colonel Rodegrade stated however. that in his opinien lawlessness of a big scale has just had it's beginning.
 During the hunting down and prosecu- ton of those murdering Rankin." he continued. 'it is the universal fear that others will be taken off. However so high is popular feeling in Tennessee at the present time. that the better men are imbued with the determination to die rather than have the murderous night rider play his nefarious practice in de- fiance of those laws which make civliza- tion possible.
 "I notice that in Birmingham under the guise of the black hand and the night rider communications are being sent to those in authority here as a matter of hu- morous sport When people in Birming- ham and Alabama have encountered the real terror, the matter will assume such 8 serious phase that no one would dare make sport of It."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
MASS MEETING ID
 PRESERVE COUNTY Citizens Discuss Subject At
 City Hall Tonight LONG TALKS OF WALKER
Says County Will Be Almost Unani- nously Against Amendment-Bir- mingham Citizens Express
 Dsapproval of Scheme.

"Eor the preservation of Jefferson county' the citizens of Birmingham and vicinity will hold a mass meeting to- night in the city hall. The movement which has arisen during the last few days has now reached a high state of enthusiasm, and citizens of Jefferson, Walker, Tuscaloosa, Bibb and Shelby counties are getting out their tomahawks with loud shouts for the death of the Ragsdale amendment.
 The mass meeting for tonight has been arranged by a committee consisting of J. B. Gibson and George Ward The speakers will include prominent business men, bankers and merchants. It will be- gin promptly at o'clock, and the speak CTS will be limited, to keep the length of the meeting down to a reasonable time.
 The big purpose of the meeting is to get people to vote Those opposed to a division of the county only fear failure of their friends to attend the polls. It will take big majority in the five coun- ties directly interested. to counterbalance the listless majorities that will be cast in distant counties.
 United States Marshall Pope Long has returned to Birmingham from Walker county and declares that hardly vote will be cast in his whole county for the amendment. We mean business down our way" he said. 'It will never do on earth to give up part of Walker county, and We are prepared to fight 1t to the last ditch. Not republican favors the amendment in the county, so far as I know"
 Said B. F. Moore of the Moore & Handley company; T favor leaving the formation of new counties in the hands of the legislature where the constitution first placed it. The elected representatives of the people are perfectly competent to divide counties when they need 1t, and case may come up any time where a new county is absolutely necessary.
 "All parties interested in such proposi- tion as dividing Jefferson county should have a vote According to the Ragsdale amendment only people who are taken in are heard. If they wlll allow the people of the other parts of the counties to vote on whether they will give it up or not, the plan might go all right.
 T believe that Birmingham and JeIfer- son county can take care of themselves better without any division. think it would be an offence against the prin- ciples of sane government to take this power away from the legislature and hand it over to the fee seekers
 John L. Parker said: q hope Besse- mer and Birmingham will be able to patch pp their difficulties and decide to live friendly to each other in the same county. I most certainly oppose any movement to split up our grand county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Republicans Need Votes.
the Eidtor of the Age-Herald.

Interesting facts, bearing upon the political situation of the national campaign, exhibiting the outrageous methods to which the republican party managers are resorting and also showing the dire straits into which the republicans are being run, has just been brought to light here The facts obtained are from Dr. J. A. Cog gans, a prominent surgeon of this town. who relates this story and vouches for the facts:
 pr. Goggans states that while on the train from Opelika to Alexander City on the 18th inst, he was engaged in con- versation with the advance agent of John Robertsons shows. On learning his com- panion was from Ashland O., the doc tor very naturally inquired of Ohio pol itics and among other things the agent stated that he, together with the other showmen, had, on the day previous re- ceived pressing letters from the repub- lican campaign managers in Ohio to return to Ohio on November and vote for the republican nominee and by so doing the campaign committee of that state would bear all their travelling ex- penses.
 to further said: You see, doctor, that means about $S5 in railroad fare alone to each one of the several hundred em- ployees of this circus.'
 The above interview was held on the train in the presence of others whose names are at hand and the name of this agent of the circus can be had also on demand
 Is not this a means of bribery by plac- ing the men on the voting ground sub ject to direct intimidation and coercion for a valuable consideration given? The democrats of Alexander City request that the democratic campaign committee In Ohio take cognizance or this outrage and assure them that complete evidence of the apove will be forthcoming when re- quested. A. P. FUQUAY.
 Alexander City, October 2S, 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
UNIQUE STRAW VOTE.
 BY LITERARY DIGEST
OUT OF 35,71o VOTES CAST AMONG PROFESSIONAL GLASSES TAFT GETS 19,324 AND BRYAN 14,712. VOTE BY STATES.

Below is shown the result of a straw vote on the presidential election, con ducted by the Literary Digest, New York. The publishers inserted a blank vote in the periodical and requested heir readers to fill in their choice for President. In addition thousands of circulars were mailed to voters in every section of the country. The Lit erary Digest is absolutely non-partisan, and fully 95 per cent of It's readers are of the professional classes-preachers bankers. lawyers, physicians, educators and high class business men-and as the circulars also were mailed only to these classes of voters, the result of this straw vote should be an acurate index of the trend of political senti- ment among the professions.
 There were 35,710 votes cast, of which Taft received 19,324 and Bryan 14.712, the remaining being split among the five other candidates, Prohibition ist Chain polling 949 or PA more than the combined votes of Debs, Watson, Hisgen and Gillhaus:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
NEGRO DRAGGED BY TRAIN
 OVER LONG RIVER BRIDGE

Columbus, Ga., October 23.-(Special)- Rev. James Etheridge, a negro minister residing near EufauIa, started to leave an incoming Central of Georgia railroad passenger train tonight when 1t made it's usual stop at Girard. Just as he was in the act of stepping off the train started again.
 He held onto the bars hesitatingly and a moment later the train had attained such speed that he was afraid to turn loose and chung to the platform. He was dragged all the way across the Chatta- hoochee river bridge, a distance of sev- eral hundred feet.
 That he retained his hold was remark able but he did not turn loose until the Georgia side was reached when he fell to the ground, 15 feet below His in- iuries will not prove fatal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
DINNER IS GIVEN
 FOR SAM BLACH'

It was "2S'' for Sam Blach last night when 2S of the employees of the store sur- prised him by rendering an elaborate dinner at the Hillman in honor of Mir. Blach's return from his European trip. He has been away four months and the men-who have been so long associated with him felt that no more fitting means could be chosen to express their pleas- ure at seeing him back than by arrang- ing a pleasant party around the banquet board
 Mir Blach was taken completely by sur- prise and was speechless when the men conducted him to the feast that had been prepared. No speeches were made, but Mir. Blach delighted his hearers by re- lating some of his amusing experiences abroad. In addition to the guest of honor there were present: Colman Blach, Max Blach and Simon Blach. The 23 con- sisted of Messrs. LeBontie. Thelen, Me- Coy, Doty, Schenberger, Oscar Jones, Jim Jones, King, Coleman, Woodall, Holman, Daniel, Shaul, Arthur, McTyre, Bowman, West, Meahl Fulmer and Zbinden.