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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-07
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Inc OlQ Jug SpTdy, out on the uldrIfle
railway at Alexandria for several weeks
undergoing overhauling, is not to be
placed in service owing to the difficulty OF
getting a crew of licensed men for her.
There is not licensed steamboat man
in the city out of employment at this
time, nor will there be until next Septem-
Der, when the excursion season is over
and the boats now running to the down.
river resorts are laid up for the winter.
So scarce are competent pilots about the
local harbor that on several different oc-
casions within the past month men had
to be obtained from Baltimore to fill out
the complement of licensed men required
on the local steamers.
The repair work will be completed on
the Spray and after she is put overheard
she will be laid up at the Alexandria
shipyard until some thine in the fall. when
she will go into service. Meanwhile one
ployed to do the towing work which was
to have been done by the Spray had she
been placed in service.
The old river schooner Peri, one of the
fleet of wood and lumber luggers be-
tween river points and this city, is laid
up in Aqua creek, where her owner is
giving her a thorough overhauling in
preparation for rough weather sailing
when the northerly winds begin to blow
in the fall. The old vessel will be fitted
with new masts and she will have all I'M
sound timbers in her hull removed and re-
placed with sound wood. She will be
ready for service again in a week or ten
days.
The schooner John McGinnis. owned by
Harry Carter Of this city. which is dis
charging a cargo of lumber at the pier
foot of 18th street southwest, will within
the next day or two go to the Alexandria
shipyard to be overhauled before going to
q bay point to load.
The Norwegian tramp steamer Parran.
Capt. Norberg. laden with asphalt from
Guanaco. Venezuela. arrived in port yes
terday and is lying at Georgetown to
unload her cargo. The material aboard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-07
Fireighter Out of Service.

The fire department ship. the Freight.
er. is temporarily out of service and
should a fire occur along the river front
the land apparatus will have to be de-
pended upon to extinguish it. The Fire.
fighter was yesterday taken to the navy
yard. where she will be hauled out or
the marine railway there by the nava
authorities to have her hull under water
examined and to be cleaned and painted
The Firefighter. it is thought, will be put
overheard today and will at once go into
commission again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-07
TAFT MAY GET TENNESSEE.
Also Kentucky, Is Prediction Of
Representative. Nathan Hale.

Representative Nathan Hale Of Ten
nessee one Of the two republicans from
that state in Congress, firmly believes
that Secretary Taft stands a good
chance of carrying Tennessee in No
vember, as well as other southern
states
Mr. Hale is in Washington on depart
mental business for his constituents.
There Is a splendid chance that Ten
nessee will go into the republican col
umn in November" declared Mr. Hale.
The statement may excite some amuse-
menr among democrats. as the repubIi-
cans of our state have been hopeful
from year to year. but this time 1t looks
to be a good thing.
Several things will help us. The first
is the intense bitterness between the
Carmack and Patterson democrats.
There has never been SO much i'll feel
ing in the democratic party in the state.
L know there is supposed to be some
division in our own ranks. I assure
you all the noise of opposition to the
organization is made by not over a
dozen republicans. They control few
votes.
Favorable to Mr.. Taft is the fact
| that he is popular with the lawyers OF
the state. Tennessee was in his circuit
when he was on the circuit bench of
the country. Democratic lawyers have
great admiration and respect for him.
Another thing in his favor is that
the appointment Of Gen. Luke Wright
as Secretary of War will gain for him
thousands of gold democrats. That ap-
pointment has done much good for the
republicans Of Tennessee and will help
immensely.
Il am not so well posted as to Ken
lucky. but venture the prediction that
Mr. Taft will win the electoral vote of
that state. The Wright appointment
and his high standing with Kentucky
lawyers will materially aid him there"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-07
New Pier at Colonial Beach.

Plans have been completed for the
erection at Classic Shore. the new division
Of Colonial Beach. of a big pier. The
contract for the erection of the pier was
recently awarded to Carter & Clark OF
this city. A pile-driving machine and
wharf building outfit is to leave this city
today for the Beach and the construction
work on the pier will be started at once
The new pier will be located about half
mile to the north of the piers now at Co
lOnial Beach and will be used as steam
boat landing. 1t is to be 200 feet long
and will have a pier head 4Ox4O feet and
will cost about 5000. Under the contract
for the building of the pier it Is to be OF
the best material and put up in a sub
stantial manner, and is to be completed
within thirty days from the awarding OF
the contract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-07
Of the board of lady managers. Thirty-one

OF the board Of lady managers. Thirty-one
children went down from Anacostia
The Anacostia and Congress Heights
sections of the District fire department
were given a run in the hottest part OF
the day yesterday through an alarm OF
fire being sounded at AS o'clock from
box % by citizen. When the fire COM
panies and the truck arrived what slight
blaze had been seen was extinguished.
The fire originated through two five-year-
old children playing with matches. 1t il
stated. The blaze was started in a shed
in the rear Of 3O6 Lincoln street and 3O7
Monroe street. The fire caused no dam.
age.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
The Oldest PHOTOGRAPHER.

Mr.. William Hardy Kent, who died
the other day in Eastbourne, in Eng.
fish Sussex, had the reputation of be.
ing the Oldest photographer in the
world. He died at the age of IS. He
was OF New England birth, and New
Bedford was his home, until about
1916 he learned the art Of photog-
raphy, and in 1S4S he opened a small
studio in New York, where by the
year 1854 he had gained a consider
able fortune. He then went over to
London, where he opened three pho
tographic studios, one in Oxford
street, one in Regent street and an
other at Knights bridge. At the
time of his death he was still op-
Grating a photograph gallery at East
bourne, and he had similar studios at
the seaside resorts of Brighton and
Hastings, at New castle and Harro-
gate.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
A SAD ENDING,

Three couples, once upon a time.
All in a friendly way,
Made up their minds one evening, thai
They'd cycling go next day.
They started in the early morn,
And nothing seemed amiss,
And when they reached the leafy lanes
They rod
in twos
like this!
They wandered over hill and dale,
Beside the murmuring stream;
The land was rich with autumn tintS.
The day was like a dream.
They sped through many a woodland
glade,
And life seemed full Of bliss;
For when they rested in the shade
The sat in twos like this!
The day flew by and evening came.
"Oh, much to soon!" they said.
they tarried long upon the way.
tbs sky grew black DER head.
Down poured the %rain-they homeward
Iiew
Till one unlucky miss
Slipped sideways-crash! Great Scott.
the lot
Observation-Disclosures
Dorothy Williams, in Royal Magazine.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
II doors ONLY Were Nourishjno.

IF one could live ON odors alone"
said Mr.. Flatdweller, 1T wouldn't cost
much to live in a fiat.
For there's no odor of cooking
known that you can't smell here. The
dumb-waiter shafts and the various
holes through floors and ceilings for
steam and water pipes seem to make
the whole building a sort of universal
smell conductor in which no cooking
odor 10 lost, in which all odors come
to all.
"And so If anybody In the building
has roast turkey we know that, but
SO, alas! do we know 1t full we'll II
anybody has corned beef and cabbage
or onions or fish. There is, indeed, a
surfeit of odors, and as 1 said, if n
could live on doors what a place this
would be To b~oard-such a variety and
how cheap!"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Coilectirc lis Bill.

One day last sumner visitors to
merry-go-round On a vacant 10 in the
outskirts of Philadelphia were very
much touched by the melancholy de
eanor of a Ions, lean, lark individ
ual who, suffering greatly, persisted
in riding repeatedly. At last some one
said to him SYM atheticauy:
You appear to be in great dis
tress."
yes" replied the man on the mer
ry%-go-round, this continual riding
round and round makes me seasick.'
"Well.o then, why don't you quit
riding?' asked the inquisitive ques.
toner.
Il can't help it, replied the pool
man. The man who runs this mer
ry-go-round owes me money, aud the
only way l can collect it is by taking
it out in rides"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

New
Stock
Shoes

OdOn Guidry, of Carencro.
took in when Knighthood Was
in Flower" Sunday night.
The big money saving sale now
on by Levy Bros. will shortly
close, better take advantage of it
before too late.
Maurice Patin, editor of the
Valley of the Teche Of Breaux
Bridge. came over Sunday to
see When Kighthood Was in
Flower"
r. U. Bernard, a prominent
citizen of Broussard, was a yisi-
tor to Lafayette yesterday.
A. L. Dyer, Of Youngsville.
was in Lafayette yesterday after
noon.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Lecture at Institute.

S. L. Morris, who delivered Il
most entertaining lecture from
Start to Finish" at Music Hall
Lass Tuesday, will lecture again
tonight at s O'Clock at the In
duStrial Institute. Admission:
adults 90 cents. children %
cents.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Not Polite,

"Mr. Gruff showed me the other day
come rude attempts he had made at
carving"
Il couldn't imagine him making any
other kind of attempts at anything
Baltimore American.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
A Deem Gutter.

Rollins-I was out on a revenue cut
ter last night.
Collins-I thought you went sleigh
riding?
Rollins-Well, it made quite q cut in
my revenue.-Judge.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Settled.

Knicker-There are no rich men in
Heaven.
Bocker-No. If the camel did get
through the eye of the needle 1t would
be called a nature-fake.-Judge.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Tuesday. Feb IS, 1908.

MT. anu MIS-. IN, AOfdulSOu
and Mr.. M. Rosenfield and little
daughter, Rose D.. left Sunday
for Shreveport to visit relatives.
We are now offering all winter
goods at most attractive prices.
-Schmulens.
Assessor NJ. Melancon has
sent in his resignation to Gov.
Blanchard on account of i'll
health. H. H. Hohorst has been
recommended by both factions
for appointment to succeed Mr..
Melancon.
FOR SALE CHEAP-A kind,
gentle horse and a good buggy.
Apply to E. T. Mcbride.
Rousseau Martin went to Car
encro Sunday.
The Eclipse shoe is d~eservedly
popular because it is both stylish
and comfortable. = Schmulen's.
Mrs. A. J. Alpha and Miss
Mini Doucet went to Carencro
Sunday to spend a day Or two
with their sister, Mrs. Paul
COussan.
When you want any kind of
feed stuff, just ring up P. Guidry
& Co.
G.. L. La bbe of Broussard, was
a pleasant caller at our Office
SATURDAY.
When you want something
good for dinner, ring up R. H.
McFaddin, phone 81. and let him
tell you about some of the nice
things he has to eat.
Mrs. C. L. Bottorff, who has
been i'll for the past few days,
is much better.
Try that nice Tuffy made by
the Scott factory-we have a
fresh lot-Bernard & Meaux.
When you want corn. oats,
alfalfa or prairie hay chicken
feed. bran or any kind of feed
stuff, ring up D. P. Upton,
phone 1872.
T. M. Biossat and S. r and G.
M. Parkerson left yesterday
morning on Nc. 10 for New Or
leans on business.
Buy your fish, oysters and
vegetables from G.. Blunt. De
livery to all parts of town.
VIM. T. Lambert, of Savannah,
Ca. arrived here Sunday to take
charge of the watch repairing
department of Biossat's jewelry
store.
It pays to buy our suits be.
cause they have the fit, style,
and workmanship, and the price
is always satisfactory. Call and
see.-Kahn's.
Miss Gertrude Corona went
to Lake Charles Wednesday to
attend the wedding Of Miss
Blanche RHEIMS and MI. Gross.
She returned yesterday.
Only q short while longer to
profit by the Big Removal Sale
Of Levy Bros, better call and /
take advantage of the immense
they are offering before
il Is too late.
Miss Wilhel Schmulen went to
Lake Charles Friday to visit rel
ltives and to attend the Gross
Rieuts wedding. /
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

Milk twice a day. It is better for the
cow and the milk is better. Some
farmers are tempted during the short
production of winter to cut out the
morning milking. 1t is a mistake.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

The barn is not complete without
stairs to get up in the loft. Use your
spare time this winter in putting
them in and doing away with the
ladder.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

.
Eat the egg eater.
better it is for sheep.
Be a good farmer if you are going
to be a farmer at all.
Clean and sort your seeds and thus
insure larger and better crops.
Water, pure and plenty of it, should
be provided for the dairy cows.
Young stock should be thrifty to re-
turn a profit. Keep them growing.
Improbable at any time but es-
pecially in winter: Ticks on sheep.
Every crack in the barn means so
much added drain on the feed bin.
Molasses is growing in favor as a
feed for stock, including dairy COWS.
Sheep seem to have the call now,
and wise was the farmer who started
a flock a year Or two ago.
Feed floors for hogs save feed, keep
the animals healthier and make it
possible to keep the quarters cleaner.
The crusade against tuberculosis in
cattle may ultimately lead to colder
stables and blankets on the cattle.
Scatter salt oyer sprouts and
stumps and other noxious weeds and
| the sheep will clean them up.
Which do you keep? The COW that
makes more than she eats or the
cow hat eats more than she makes?
Perhaps you do not realize it but
the dearest animal on your farm is
the cheap scrub.
Hogs need clean, pure water as
much as the rest of the stock. See
that they get it.
Salt, sulphur and charcoal is the
three-fold requirement Of healthy
hogs.
IY~1Ooo %ho ho{fo~ no1e A~- u,>YY
shaped bag and ,teats it is better to
sell her for veal.
Have a wind break in the cattle
yard so that the livestock can find
protection on windy, stormy days.
The dollar earned by honest toll is
the dollar whose influence for good
rests not only upon the recipient but
upon the spender as well.
The winter time is the busy season
for getting ideas for mex season
work. Do lots Of reading, lots of
thinking, lots of planning.
The young animals should be turned
loose in a roomy shed in the winter.
Plenty of good feed and exercise will
keep them in health and on the grow
The average farmer will find raising
draft horses more profitable than rails
ing roadsters. 1t takes a born horse
lover to successfully raise the latter
There is no excuse for the filthy hog
pen. This means you if your hogs
are w%allowing around in mire up to
their bellies.
The milk bringing better prices il
all the more reason why you should
weed out the poor COWS and increase
the margin of your profits.
Cows compelled to drink from 8
water trough coated with ice will
show the effects in the feed bill and
the milk pail.
Vigorous rubbing followed by ap
plications of hot water will reduce
caked udder in sows. Treat daily
until trouble is passed.
If the members of the flock which
seldom or W. lay could be, weeded
out, the feed bills would be less and
the egg profits more.
Do not have the sheep pens toe
warm. The natural coat of the sheep
makes it able to endure severe wealth.
er.
High and dry is the rule for locating
the poultry house and yard. Do not
safer puddlas to exist in the vicinity
thereof.
Hunger is q good tonic. Don't feed
the sick hog and in most cases he
win get back his health and his ap
petite all right.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Matrimonial Whist.

She-Oh! it's my turn. Let me see
what is that rnie? When in doubt
He G,2r:.cI = --2-)-Ask via
t"iin. .
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

Dairying will restore the rundown
farm quicker than by any other
method.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

One test of the profitable dairy farm
is the number of cows kept per acre
without buying high-priced feeds.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

It is the specially breeder who
makes the best profits, whether in
poultry or livestock.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

A thrifty sheep ought to be rely
for market with six weeks Of Gocd
feeding.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

A good skirt hanger can be made by
rolling n or two heavy papers to-
gether and tying in the middle with q
stout cord.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

Feeding has much to do with the
weight of the fleece. A poorly fed
sheep will not give as good weight
wool as one that is well fed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-05
Fort Dodge Will Be Radiating
Point of Two Splendid
Systems
IOWA ELECTRIC MILEAGE GROWS
Completion Of Lines Now Being Built
Will Bring Figures Up to 4s1-EI-
sotrixins of Former Steam Road
Proves Remarkable suooess-Get the
Farmers Business.
special to Tlmes-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Fort Dodge. May ga general plan
for providing network of electric
interurban railroads for freight and
passenger business is being promoted
In this state and the stock OF two of
them is now on the market. The prof
itablt showing which the lines so far
constructed have made, and the ap-
parent value to the larger commercial
centers are proving an incentive for
the promoters, who are meeting with
unusual success in inviting Iowa mon
ey for Iowa projects. The scheme
adopted by the promoters is to render
service to such sections of the state as
promise profitable returns, and in lay
ing out the territory it has been
planned to utilize SO far as practical
sections or portions of the same right
Of way for two miles Of road.
The fact that the interurban rem
ders service to the farmers contig-
uous to 1t is securing for the promot-
ers not alone free right-of-way, but q
good sum OF Mr.. Rural's surplus cash
in the country bank, which he gives In
return for a stock certificate with an
ambitious seal attached, making him
a stakeholder in the road.
The two lines which are at present
most conspicuous are from Fort Dodge
to Emmetsburg, known as the Spirit
Lake, Emmetsburg & Fort Dodge road,
running northwest from Fort Dodge. to
the splendid summer resorts Of the
northern part of the state, which are
the most famous in the state and mid
die west. The other line is from Des
Moines to Creston known as the Des
Moines, Winters 4 Creston electric
railway. 1t ser, j, section in the
southwestern portion of the state,
which finds it difficult at present to
reach the capital of the state.
Under the plan as contemplated by
the promoters, Des Moines and Fort
Dodge will be the two interurban traf-
tic centers of the state, and the lines
In the western portion OF the state will
radiate from these two points. The
line from Fort Dodge to Des Moines,
known as the Fort Dodge, Des Moines
& Southern, which was formerly the
Newton & Northwestern, one of the
smaller steam lines in the state cleo
trified, has proven a decided success.
1t is eighty-seven miles long. The
managers of the steam roads pre-
dicted all sorts of dire predicaments
for 1t last winter. when the billiards.
were in season, but it was found that
trolley car would go thru snowdrift
as "slick as q WHISTLE" where steam
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-05
ELLSWORTH FACULTY CHANGES.
Eight New Teachers to Be Added,
Each to Have Masters Degree.

Eight New teachers to 30 Aooeo,
Each to Have Masters Degree.
Special to Times Republican.
Iowa Falls, May ga forward step
has just been taken by Ellsworth Col
lege of this city by which the faculty
is increased eight chairs and each
teacher shall have a masters degree.
This will meet the requirements OF
the state board of education whereby
students who graduate from Ellsworth
College In the future will be granted
a five years. certificate without exam
ination and enabling such graduates to
teach any place In the state. Several
changes have been made in the per-
sonnet OF the faculty, the following
having been chosen: President, ]. II.
Meyer; chair of education. Y. q. Bar
nell; principal of commercial depart
ment, J. r. Fowler; chair of history.
Miss Ruth Pratt; physics, Miss Pearl
Barclay; art, Miss Caroline Whtpple
Smith; director of music, Professor
Artemus Il. Bullock; assistant in mu-
sic, Mrs. Bullock; principal of depart
ment Of shorthand Mrs. ]. s. Meyer;
academic English and preceptress, Mrs.
Belle Stout: chair of English, George
Sprau; Latin and German, Herman
Harris: chair of science, George d..
Reynolds, and bandmaster, George
Beebe. A number of vacancies on the
faculty will be filled later.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-05
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Whited,
Eldora, Celebrate Unusual
Wedding Anniversary
IN HARDIN FlFTy-oNE YEARS
Mr.. and Mrs. Whited Were Married in
Michigan, Coming to Iowa in 1855
Daughter and Husband Celebrate
Today Also, Their Twenty fourth
Wedding Anniversary.
;pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Eldora, May 5.--Mr. and Mrs. Ste
phen Whited, Of this city, celebrated
their ffty-fifth wedding anniversary
today. Only few guests were present,
the family being quite scattered. Mr..
and Mrs. Whited were married In
Washtenaw county Michigan, and
came to Iowa in 1855, residing for "a
short time at Belmond. For tifty-one
years they have been residents of Har-
din county, their home being at Alden
until 1877 when Mr.. Whited was elect
ed county auditor, since when they
have continuously resided in Eldora.
At the time of the marriage OF this
estimable couple. Mrs. Whited was
one Of family Of nine children, all
of whom are still living.
Five children have been born to Mr..
and Mrs. Whited, four of whom are
still living and one of whom ds Mrs.
C, Burling, of Eldora- Mr.. and Mrs.
Burling celebrate their twenty fourth
wedding anniversary today, Which
makes the occasion doubly a happy
one.
Mr.. Whited has been identified with
the business interests OF Eldora ever
since coming here, being today en-
gagged in the insurance business and
acting as justice Of the peace.