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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14

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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
Outs East.

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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-11-14
|CISssIFiE0 H0vERTISEMSNTsl
CURE FOR PILES

CURE FOR PILES
GAMBLE TREATMENT of Red Gross Pile
~ and Fistula Cure and book explaining Piles
sent free. REA co, Dept Bl .Minneapolls, MINI
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

reached to the uttermost ends Of
the earth. Henry Grady and
Uncle Remus leaped into fame
and fortune on the same paper in
Georgia, For five years we
have read Bryan's Commoner.
He is today the most conspicuous
figure in the world, Dave King
told US once that Henry Water
sons great paper exerted great
influence over his early life. He
is still editor Of Kentucky's
greatest paper, Hearst, with
five Of the largest dailies in the
world, is q power in the land.
He pays his chief editor, Bris-
bane, forty.sevcn thousand dol
lars per year to run the New
York American. Tom Watson
and Bob Taylor are great editors,
whose matchless minds have
made them known wherever civ
ilization has gone. The editor Of
the Record may never be known
so far and wide, but here In Wild
Cat Corner two boy babies have
been named after him in the last
year. That's getting famous o
little.
Reader.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
ABOUT EDITORS.
One OF Them Is Springing Into PrOmi'
neuce In Wild Cat Corner.

Mobley, Ark, Oct. IL, 1908.
Editor Record When we
were a very small boy we had an
idea about editors which IL to this
day a profound secret to the
world. We thought all editors
were giants, with great, bulging
brows and heads as big as nail
kegs. Being ignorant Of the
great world, we could only won.
der how they printed a paper.
The Record, and perhaps Farm
and Home, were the only papers
we had seen. We thought edit.
ors' heads larger and different
from other mems heads, and TO
print a paper we imagined they
twisted up white sheets Of paper,
had them run through their
heads at one ear and pulled out
at the other. In this way we
imagined their thoughts Got on
paper. Funny thought, wasn't
itp But one day we went with
father to the county seat and vis-
tied the Record office. How
sudden and startling the know
ledge we gained that day! A
seventeen.year boy, shy and
slim, was mounted on tho tripod.
That slim fellow is thero yet, old.
or and wiser, perhaps, just as we
are. We grew older and read
many other papers and maga-
Zines. We read something aboot
Benj. Franklin an d Horace
Greedy, editors whose fame
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
OPTIMISM.

tha circuit court of Newton
btv a few days ago Yates
bridge was sen'enceo ~
i two years in the Ar
has pentitentiary for murder.
bdridge had been in the penl-
iary before, in fact, was an
lped convict when ne COM
ed the deed that brought
/ a heavy sentence upon MS
h, 1t is said by authorities
he state prison that ne was
worst criminal ever confined
lin ths walls in late years.
now Standridge says ne has
rmed, and is looking forward
he time when he will be re-
led from prison, when ne
i he intends to "make man"
himself. He declares he in
9s to make a model prisoner,
which means it is possible to
} about twenty-fou years
b his fifty-two year sentence.
th twenty-four years Oft for
Sd behavior, the prisoner
Lid have a term of twenty,
fht years to serve, and Stand
be declares that after these
krs have passed, he will leave
| old life behind and become a
Rceful citizen. He says every
Y he works for the state he will
he this ambition in view. This
J display of optimism seldom
bn. The man who can look
ward to a prison life of twen-
|eight-years and beyond this
something to hore for deserves
be rewarded. If this man,
70 knows what a day and a
pr in prison means, can expect
hething good after twenty.
|ht years of such a life, what
ght 10 be the optimism Of 9th.
who are free, with apparent
long years Of freedom before
pm?
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

OF it except his salary, and it is
certainly bad policy for the coun-
ty judge to allow it. So long as
the overseer is permitted to draw
part Of the funds for his salary
and the balance for the hire Of
his own wagon and team, and his
son to drive, so long we will
have no roads.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
Burglars Al Black Rock.

The safe In Krone Bros store
at Black Rock was blown open
night and 1926 was se-
cured. Bloodhounds failed to
take up the trail and the identity
Of the robbers is unknown.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

Hon. Stephen Brundidge Of
earcy, who has represented this
Strict in congress for the past
PVeral years, expresses his
husement at the efforts of Har-
\ Myers, the republican nomi.
Pc, to defeat Will Oldfeld for
pnGress' Mr., Brundidge says
Myers wins this race he Is Ger.
linly entitled to u seat in con.
ress or any other Office In the
1T Of the American people.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

The Baxter County Citizen
|uggests that the man who is al p.
lays sneering at the country
weekly because IL is not as good
Ps the city dailies does tho least
|owards making the local paper
Petter, and correctly concludes
|hat the man who cannot see the
pene''ts arising from u local
newspaper is about as much val.
ue 70 q town as a delinquent tax
list,
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
NEWS OF NORTH ARKANSAS

A meeting in the Christian
church at Newark, conducted by
Elder Andy T. Ritchie of Ash
Flat, closed last week, with II
additions as result.
Hon. Clay Sloan of Black Rock
has announced list of appoint
ments in Lawrence and Ran
dolph counties. He will speak
for the democratic ticket.
lizard county now has some
thing like $1,000 to the credit Cf
the general county fund, but the
two bridges recently built in that
county will cut this amount to
about $4,000.
The commissioners of accounts
of Independence county last
week burned county warrants to
the amount of S98, 161. .23, all of
which had been redeemed in
twelve months.
John Dover, a pharmacist in
Cooper's drug store at Walnut
Ridge, was severely burned
about the face one day last week
by the explosion of chemicals,
which he was mixing.
The grocery stores Of l.. W.
Sharp and R. D. Dennis at New
port were burglarized one night
last week. At the former $50
was secured, and S1S was the
haul at the latter place.
While feeding a sorghum mill
near Melbourne last week a 12-
year-old son Of Mrs. Joe Finley
got his right arm in the cogs,
MASKING it so badly that ampu-
tation above the elbow was nec-
essary.
Rev. A. N. Wylie Of Ravenden
Springs has accepted call to
the paotoraseol Inc Fresny yierian
church at Pocahontas. Rev.
Wylie is the founder Of the Pres.
byterian church at Ravenden
Springs.
j. H. Cunningham, living q
few miles from Walnut Ridge,
recently extracted a stick six in
ches long from the tongue of one
of his mules. The animal no
doubt got the stick there while
feeding in the woods.
The county judge OF lizard
county has ordered the cistern in
the court house yard at Mel
bourne filled. This cistern had
not been used for years on ac-
count Of the numerous sparrow
nests in the guttering around the
court house.
The Orphans Home Band will
80 from Batesvile to the meet
ing Of the Odd Fellows Grand
Lodge at Little Rock the latter
part Of this month. The Guard
says the boys are all young and
small, but they play and march
like big fellows.
G. 0. Kirkman, a gentleman
from Illinois, got off the train at
Batesville the other day thinking
he was In Batesville, Mo. BY
mistake he bought a ticket to
the wrong Batesville, and did
not know the difference until he
left the train and began to in
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
Valuable Rooster.

One day last week Mrs. G, W.
Morrison Of Beebe purchased a
rooster for fifteen cents. When
she killed the fowl she was SUR
prised TO find u five dollar gold
piece III its oraw.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

rhe Newark Journal, which
|per suspended last week, was
|e Of the brightest exchanges
bt came to our table, but Edit
Craig declared the newspaper
lsiness was not profitable in
ewark, hence he sought anoth.
field. The country newspaper
pm generally does not get an
lequate return for his labor,
I'D the only wonder Of the whole
Ing is that so many papers ex.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

Inc Farmers Union Of Yell
|oOu |ooun'y has offered u reward OF
|ooo lor any member Of that or.
eanlaation ) that Is apprehended
~ IN, 'ne work of the night riders.
Nlght riders have appeared in
'na' county, and the Union there
was quick to denounce such law.
'eSSnese, " just as the Union
should bo everywhere.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

"A bryan CluU mas Ueell OrSdu
lied at Ravenden Springs.
The recent grand jury at Mel
bourne found 38 indictments.
Lawrence county has thirty
! paupers. They are kept for Se
each month.
Batesville citizens sent Sill tc
the democratic campaign com
mittee last week.
S. j. Brooks of Bethesda has
been adjudged insane and placed
in jail at Batesville.
Efforts are being made to form
( a Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation at Mountain Home.
| Mrs. Mary Fortenberry, a res
ident of Lawrence county for
nearly half century, died re-
Gently.
Hon. H. H. Myers, republican
candidate for congress, spoke to
small audience at Black Rock
| last week.
Cotton pickers are scarce in
Jackson county. The farmers
are Offering 65 cents a hundred
to pickers.
The ladies of Cord gave a
chicken pie supper Saturday
night, the proceeds going to the
Baptist church.
j. H. Owens Of Walnut Ridge
stepped on a rusty nail lately,
and as result could not walk
for three weeks.
The levying court Of Lawrence
county levied a tax of five mills
for county purposes and a road
! tax of three mills.
Simon Eason, a Batesville me-
gro, was last week fined So fol
failure to work the road, the to
! tai cost being $3.50.
| The levying court OF lzart
county levied tax Of three mill
for general county purposes ant
| a road tax Of two mills.
! The quorum court of Fultor
county last week appropriated
. $4,000 to build a pike road from
: Mammoth Spring to Salem.
, 1t is announced that the Plum
, ett-Jarrell Grocer Co. OF Little
|
} Rock has purchased the Ameri.
can Grocer Co. Of Newport.
The city council Of Batesville
last week ordered the street com
missioner to warn 100 hands at @
time for work on the streets.
A 2 1-2 mills tax for county
, general purposes and 3 mills
road tax was voted by the levy
ing court of Independence coun-
ty last week.
The Baxter county quorum
! court ordered q tax OF 4 3-4 mills
on the dollar for county general
purposes. A three mills road
, tax was levied.
The town Of Sulphur Rock is
to have q bank with q capital
stock Of $4,000. The promoters
Of the enterprise are all business
men Of the town.
Hon. W. A. Oldiold and Hon.
II. II. Myers, democratic and
republican candidates for cong
ress, met In joint debate at Wal
nut Ridge last week.
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
Girl Loses Hand.

Miss Minnie Bell, near Bee5e,
Is yooro old, lost her left hand
botwoon the rollers Of q sorghum
laill last weok,
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16

.,,I Inc Now York World prints
WIS ,'a'' thought Perhaps lately
you s1 may have thought the same
n''n The president should at
''' 'OoS, allow Mr. Taft to got Ia a
word odgewioo,"
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
WEen?

II fortune, with smiling face,
Strews roses on your way,
When shall we stop to pick them up9
Today, my friend, today
But should wo frown with face OF care,
And talk Of coming sorrow,
When shall we grieve, If grieve wo must9
Tomorrow, friend, tomorrow
Sharp County record., 1908-10-16
ROAD WORKING.
An Article Giving Some Plain Facts
About Roads And Road Making.

Guard a few days ago, and we
reproduce it believing that it will
be of interest in this county just
at this time:
TO the Guard-We notice that
the county judge OF Sharp county
has called a meeting OF the road
overseers of his county on Octo-
Der 10Th to devise ways and
means for the better expenditure
of the tax voted for improvement
Of roads. The reduced majority
for the road tax in that county in
the recent election makes it ap-
parent that unless there is a
change in the way the money is
spent the people will cease to
vote the tax. The move is a
good one, and why should it not
be followed in independence
county?
Unquestionably we need a
more judicious expenditure of
the money in this county, and
the county judge is the man to
conduct it. While he does not
appoint the overseers, he holds
the purse strings-allows the ac-
counts-and if the money is
wasted, as much Of it is, the
blame is on him. Some UNDER
standing among overseers as to
the object Of the tax would help.
1t was never intended that the
road tax should be used to repair
or keep up the roads. There is
an abundance of warned labor to
patch up the roads, fill up the
mud holes, throw out chunks and
rocks, or dig drains here. and
there and make other repairs
necessary to keep the roads up
to tho average condition. The
law never authorized this special
levy and it is not voted for this
purpose, and the use Of the funds
for this purpose is misappropria.
ton Of the funds in fact if not
in law. No county judge is war
ranted in allowing this money to
be spent by the overseers for this
purpose. The object Of this fund
is to build roads, and when it is
spent on u piece OF road, that
piece ought to be left in such
condition that such repairs as the
warned labor could make from
time to time, that much Of the
road would always be a good
road. II this process could be
practiced we would ere long get
through with road building, and
have only the work OF repairs.
As simple as tho foundation
principle OF road making is, IL is
unfortunate how few overseers
appear to get hold Of it. Outside
OF removing rocks and other OBJ
structions, and reducing t h o
grade Of the hills, as much az
possible, the ono thing, the only
thing necessary to make good
roads is to keep tho water off.
NO engineer and no amount OF
money can make q good road out
OF q ditch, and that Is just what
most OF our roads are, being low.
or than the land on ono side and
often lower than the land on both
sides, the water runs down tho
road until IL can get out, washing
the road deeper and exposing the
rocks,
II the county judge would con-
vene the overseers about once a
quarter, let them spend day or
two exchanging ideas and learn
practical methods, and above all,
understand that the county Judge
should not allow the road tax
funds mlsapproprlated In ae.
counts for repairs too often filed
by the overseer himself, u thing
/ 1.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-09
STRIKE IS STILL on
Plumber Bosses Say They
Are Not Handicapped
by Strike.

There are no developments in the
plumbers strike as far as the boss
plumbers are concerned" said A. ].
Campbell today in speaking of the sit
uation brought on by the recent walk
out Of the union journeymen plumbers.
The boss plumbers say that they are
not handicapped in the least by the
strike as there are hundreds of men
who would take the place of the strik-
ers if there were work enough. Work
is slack anyway in the building line
and consequently the boss plumbers are
not pressed for help.
No developments are expected until
ney building goes up when the journey
men plumbers will call on the other
building trades unions to tie up the
work in a sympathetic strike. When
this occasion arises it is expected that
the other building trades will have to
take stand one way or the other.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-09
CITY GERRY WANDERED
Whiting Finds Itself Baffied
by City Off
Gals.

Residents of Whiting living in the
third ward, south of One Hundred and
Nineteenth street, awoke this morning
to find themselves in a new ward.
A special meeting of the Whiting city
council was called last night for the
purpose of dividing the old third ward
which was the largest in the city. The
new division adds an additional ward
to Whiting which is known as the
fourth.
The underlying reason for this di-
vision was the recent activity of the
temperance agitators in Whiting who
succeeded in securing enough sigma
lures for the dry district.
The creating of the fourth ward is a
condensation of the temperance agi-
tators. Since the county commission
ers have not taken any action on the
petition for a dry district. another pc
tition will have to be circulated.
1t is thought that the "drys" might
win in the new third ward. but that
their efforts will be in vain in MAX
ing the fourth ward dry. since nearly
all the saloons are located there.
At the meeting last night Joseph
vacha of Robertsdale was appointed
as a regular policeman in the place
of John Backus-
Vacha being a Robertsda1e man and
there having been some twenty appli-
cations before the Whiting men fol
the position, considerable feeling is
worked up among the, friends of the
other twenty applicants.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-09

compound fracture OF a bone in ne
of his legs.
The body was removed to Teals un-
dertaking rooms where an inquest was
begun this afternoon.
The mans personal effects included
a card bearing the name Lawrence Kill
Ioran, 612S Wentworth avenue. Chi
cago. and his companion said Killoran
was the name he had given him. The
Englewood police were, however, I'M
able to find anyone at the address
named who knew Kilioran. His union
card bore the inscription. Local lodge
No. L." and the registration number
was 6O.92O.
McDougall is painter by trade and
his home is in Boston. He was held
as a witness for the coroner's inquest.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-09
GARY IN FAIR SHAPE.
Foreigners Destitute in
Magic City Are Very
Few.

There are number of destitute for
eigners in Gary and although there
have been no bread lines formed there
has been a great deal of vagrancy and
it has been necessary for the police to
take care of some of the beggars.
About the closest approach to a bread
line is the large number of foreigners
who make daily visits to the rear of
the hotel where they wait for the
scraps of food that are thrown out by
the hotel employees.
Today six of these men were arrest
ed and taken to the police station for
the reason that they made too much
of a disturbance in their scrambling
for the food.
A great many of the foreigners have
decided to join the army and provide
for their support in this manner. They
have been sent to Hammond and those
who have been naturalized are recruit
ed, providing they have the proper
physical qualifications.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-09
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE
Wreck in the Pennsylvania
Railroad Yards This
Morning.

Thomas Stuppe and Earl Karlson
engineer and fireman, respectively, on
a Pennsylvania switch engine at South
Chicago, had a narrow escape from
sereve injury when they jumped from
their engine while it was in the act
of overturning.
AS it was they were both slightly
injured and their engine, which be-
longs in the Pennsylvania yards. over
turned.
The accident occurred about 1850 this
morning while the engine was on the
main track and was due to the spread
ing of the rails. The trainmen both
noticed the danger in time to prepare
themselves for the jump.
Traffic on the main track was tenn
porarily delayed owing to the accident.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-09
GRAVEL ROADS
KEEP THEM BUSY
County Commissioners Ad
journ Their Meeting
Last Night.
VIEWERS MAKE REPORTS
Farmers Petition for Bridges in
Throughout Many Parts of
Lake County.

Crown Point. Ind. April 9.-(Spe-
ciaL)-The County Commissioners adj
journed for their regular three days
meeting last night. Mr.. Krimbill of
Hammond being absent on account of
sickness. at Hot Springs, Ark. The
following business was transacted at
their two days session.
In the matter of the gravel road
petition of S. B. Meeker, ct al, for
gravel road in Center township the
petition was granted and the bid of
Charles A. Prettyman for the sum of
$1,000 was accepted A petition from
the people of Schererville, asking that
a f1agman be installed at the crossing
of the J. G. c. and st. L. railroad
tracks there, was considered, finally
granted and an order issued to serve
notice on the railroad company to
carry out said action.
A petition by the voters of the third
ward of Whiting Directing to the fur
Their granting of saloon licenses in said
ward was considered and granted. This
action puts about seventeen saloons
out of business in that city. The COM
missioners granted the franchise pre-
scented by members of the Business
Mems association of Crown Point in
DendlI Oh lulcTeSl6Q TeS1klSHlS, AOE the
use of intersecting cross roads along
the proposed route of the Crown Point
airy interurban line. Report of View
ers on John Brown road, accepted and
road ordered opened to public use. On
account of remonstrance to road pc
tition of John Adank, reviewers were
appointed, namely, T. E. Stonix, c. B
Benjamin and John Hannabohm. Same
odred in petition of Bert Belshaw, re-
viewers. Silas Hogan, George Kenney
and Frank Alton. Petition for bridge
over Boyd ditch on Range Line road
Granted. Same order for bridge or
township line between Winfield anc
Eagle Creek. Same order for bridge
in Eagle Creek over Singleton ditch.
The regular grist of bills were or
dered paid. Some saloon license:
were granted and the commissioner:
recommended a meeting of county coun
Gil on April 25 to look over the situa
ton and site the proposed new bridg,
over the Calumet, near Gary, Ind, ane
recommended that that body appro
pirate $4,000 of county funds for 1T
! construction.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-09

The Gary Commercial club held
meeting in the Binzenhof hall last
night that was characteristic of this
progressive organization which. with
membership of 200. has a paid secre-
tary and charges s25 for the initiation
fee and $40 year for dues.
The great question of the scarcity
of houses was taken up and carefully
considered. Edward harrington, the
secretary of the club, brought in a re-
port in which he said it would be prac-
tically impossible to locate any more
industries in Gary until there were
houses with which to accommodate the
growing population of the city.
He said that great many manu-
facturers looked with favor on Gary,
but when the matter of supplying
homes for the laborers and their fam
lilies came up, the same old snag was
struck and it was impossible to fur
Their interest the manufacturer.
A committee composed of the fol-
lowing men was appointed to investi-
gate conditions and use every means
in its power to interest capital in the
building of homes in Gary. Homer ].
Carr was made chairman and w. A.
Writ. ]. A. Brennan and J. Glen Har-
ris were the other members.
Speeches were made by a number of
members of the organization and 1t
was unanimously decided to use all of
the influence of the club in the future
to interest capital in the building of
homes in Gary.
Another matter of Importance dis
cussed by the Commercial club was
that of bringing the Gary & Interur-
ban Electric Railway company to time
and force the completion of its lines
in Gary.
There were some heated speeches by
| several of the members who demanded
| that the franchise of the company
should be forfeited if something was
not done toward completing the line
in the near future.
Captain H. S. Norton of the Gary
Land company, made one of the mos
significant speeches of the day whel
he startled the members of the Com
mercia1 club by the statement that tn
failure of the Gary & Interurban com
pany to build it's Broadway line Nigh
mean the end of the pre-eminence 0
this street as a business thorough
fare.
He pointed out that the Chicago
Lake Shore & South Bend Interurbal
| company had proven it's reliability b.