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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23

The yarn reminded divorce lawyer of another country judge, who was holding down a bench somewhere in the moun- tains of eastern Tennessee. It was shooting case, and when the evidence was all in and the arguments over he charged the jury like this:
 Well, gentlemen, if you believe what the prosecuting lawyer has told you you'll decide against the prisoner, and if, on the other hand, you believe what the law yer for the defense has told you you'u decide for the prisoner; but if you know both lawyers as well as l do you won't know which way to decide. You'll just have to do the best you can. D
 Still another country judge was recalled, this one a Kentuckian, who, when the counsel in a case that had been tried be- fore him wanted to argue it, said:
 "Oh, all right, boys, go ahead and argy. But I've got to git back to my corn blow in, and when you've finished argyin' you'll find my decision writ in the book here"
 The telling of these obviously truthful anecdotes was stopped by the young crim- inal lawyer responsible for the first story.
 You don't have to go to the country, , he said, ito hear and see things of the limit variety. Hows this for right here in town? A young chaplin not going to mention his name-Who was one of the assisting prosecuting attorneys-was con- ducting a case where one woman had caused the arrest of another for assault ing her and calling her lot Of unmen- tionable names. He put the woman on the stand and directed her to tell the judge just what the other woman had called her.
 " But I can't do that she said, with surprise.
 Oh, yes, you can,' replied the young prosecutor. As a matter of fact, you'll have to-
 :" But just can't insisted the woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23

Travel in comfort via "Bir- mingham Special, " the conven- tent train. Leave Birmingham 9::3O a. m., arrive New York } p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
GREATLY REDUCED

The time to Atlanta, only AZ hours via Seaboard. Leaves Birmingham 700 a. m. Sleeper and Dining Gar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23

When the evidence was all in and the course, had submitted the case without argument, the accused, fortunately, had no counsel-the judge, also a white man. ordered the jury, which could not agree in the box to retire to an adjoining room and find a verdict.
 The jury retired. An hour passed, and still no verdict At last the judge could stand it no longer, and went in person to the room to see what was delaying the verdict. He found each of the jurymen crawling around on the floor, peering un- der chairs and tables, and also into cor nerS. The court was amazed. He did not know whether the whole jury had gone crazy or what was the matter.
 Here he thundered, what are you niggers doing?
 The foreman arose, and, making hum ble obeisance, answered:
 Yo' honah, tain't no use; we jes' kaint find no vuddict in dis here room. Fact is yo' honah, l doan b'lieb dere's a vuddict in here nohow
 That said an attache of a firm of corporation lawyers, lis as bad as the country judge in the southern part of West Virginia. 1t was his first case, and him all the way. When the case was finished the prosecuting attorney said: Now. your honor the next thing is for you to charge the jury. The judge hesitated for some minutes, and then said:
 " We'll, gentlemen of the jury, bein as this was a short trial and only a hog stealth case at that, I'll charge you only 50 cents apiece
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
SOME TALES TOLD OUT OF THE COURT Lawyers Relate Odd Incidents
 of Practice THE JURY IS CHARGED Being as the Case Is Short and Only for Hog Stealing the Jurors Are
 Charged Only 50 Gents
 Apiece.
THE JURY IS CHARGED
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 The Bar association of the metropolis of the south tops off each of it's meetings with collation.. The collation. was hit upon, after much and slow deliberation, by the committee on programme, as a means of inducing the attendance of members. The progress of the meetings may not be electrifying, but when the members surround the choice gastronomie delcacies, which are served in the largo marble corridor by the courtroom where the meetings are held, and get their ci- gars going they emerge from the op- pressive drought of the session and loosen up.
 At recent meeting some of the young CT members got started on country trials lawyers, judges. juries, etc. A young lawyer who Is building up an enviable criminal practice told this:
 A lawyer from New Orleans told me about jury trial in little obscure vil- 1age somewhere in Louisiana. Of course, l don't know Just how true the story may be but he looked to me like specimen of the eminently truthful sort. Strange as it may seem, the jury in this trial was made up entirely of negroes. It seems that all the available white men were either at work or had gone hunting or fishing. And, anyway, 1t being a case of one negro charged with stealing from an- other, the interest of the white people of the place, of whom there was a conspic- uous minority was not sufficiently in- volved for it to make any difference.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18
Elr11dale

Jim You'll was helping Mr..
Williams saw wood last week,
and sprained his wrist quite
badly.
Fred Hughes was sitting
down to supper when he receiv-
ed a telephone message that his
house was afre. 1t proved to
be a burning chimney.
Old Mr.. Kuykendall left for
Delta Co, Colo. last Tuesday.
saw quite a number Sleepy
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18
ECZEMA LODGES I'm THE
SKIN
Not a i ood Disease==Curel
by OIL OF Wintergreen
Compound.
ConlD0und.

For many years eczema was
supposed to be a blood disease
and was enormously treated rs
such, but now the best authori-
ties agree that eczema is only
a skin disease and must be
cured through the skin. The
eminent skin specialist, Or. D.
D. Dennis, first discovered the
eczema germ aud his discovery
was quickly taken up in both
Germany and France.
To kill the eczema germ and
at the same time heal the skin,
DR. Dennis compounded oil of
wintergreen, thymol, glycerine,
etc. The remedy is a liquid,
not a mere salve, hence it sinks
right into the pores of the skin.
Washing with this oil of winter
green compound seems to take
the itch away at once; soon the
scales drop away and the disease
disappears. (Robt. w. Harvey)
The prescription has now been
used so long as to have proven
it's absolute merit and we do
not hesitate to express our con-
fdence in D. D. d. Prescription
as used with D. D D. Soap.
Louis Decker, an ex-member
of the house of delegates in
Missouri who was sent to the
penitentiary last week for a
| term of five years for boodling,
is having all kinds of trouble
oil ready. There isn't a suit of
prison clothing large enough
for him to wear, and worse
iyet, he has no place to sleep,
owing to his gigantic propor-
tions, and there are two doors
he cant possibly squeeze
through. He is S feet 10 inches
lin height and weighs 325
pounds.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18

- -. ,5-..yly y. Uiiu ulayUI 70
$500 and combining the off G
of city clerk and water cofl-
missioner.
yoodbine has decided to
erect a s35,ooo high school
building. The vote on the
proposition at the recent cleo
ton in that town was 256 for
to 6S against the proposition.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18

-.~-.-..~.s., Aa., Mdrcll IL, w.
Dear Slr::-I was quite interes-
'ysomesgaass' age in readlr Z
les ! from Mr.s.Ia n -sou =.
the lines on the ; OF the
open saloon in the Va and
in Harrison County, and still
more interested in the editorial
of CAT 1t Hot and Heavy" in
the Daily Times. In my Wis
its to the Valley | could not help
contrasting the conditions pre-
vailing there with those in Cla-
rinaa, for the saloons were very
prominent feature CT your town
and the effects so apparent on
the streets. The time was when
the saloon was the ruling fac
tor here, but with the passage
of the prohibitory law the sa-
loon was driven out and has
never had a chance to get a
foothold since. Men who were
so situated as to be able to fig
ure it out showed to the satis-
faction of the voters that the
money collected from licenses
was all used up in the police
expens ses, and that the town
had heavy expenses besides the
support of the police force that
were directly chargeable to
the saloons. So looking at it
from the purely financial side
the voters decided that the sa-
loon was a loosing proposition
and put it out forever. | infer
from Mr. South's article that
the saloonists are using the same
arguments there that were used
here, viz, that city improve
ments must be stopped and the
fire department cannot be sup
ported, but there is no founda-
tion in fact for this claim. The
fallacy of the claim has been
clearly demonstrated in the de-
velopements of our town, and
so it will be with Mo. Valley if
the accursed saloon is driven
out. 1t is true that for some
years the drug store saloon was
curse to our town, and the man
who does saloon business under
the cloak of the drug store, is
by far, a "more undesirable cit
izen' than the saloon keeper,
yet the time came when we
were able to make it SO hot for
.hem that every druggist in the
county surrendered his permit
to sell intoxicants in any form.
hope the good people of the
Valley may all pull together and
rid their town of these trap
doors to He'll, and if they sue
ceea there will be far more hap
piness for the people than is
possible as long as there are sa-
looms to rob fathers of the mon
ey that should go to buy food
and clothing for wives and chill
dren. Keep up the fight and in
due time you will win.
| am yours &c.
G.. A. LIsLE.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18
SEEK NEW LOCATION

Ford Manufacturing Company
of Chicago, ILL.,, to Erect
Largest Roofing Plant in
the World in Some Live Ci=
ty Having Good Railroad,
Water and Coal Facilities.
1t is rumored that the Ford
Manufacturing Company, now
located at Vandalia, Ill.,, and
engaged in the manufacture of
the celebrated product known
as "Ford's Galvanized Rubber
Roofing" and other roofing
materials, tarred felts, building
papers, etc, is considering mo-
wing from Vandalia, and erect
ing the largest mills in the
world for the production of
their products at some point
probably in Illinois, Indiana or
Iowa, where the proper facili-
ties in railroad connections and
water and coal can be obtained.
1t would seem that this affords
a fine opportunity for CONNER
cial clubs or other civic bodies,
located in good, live towns in
the states named, to open cor
respondence with the Ford
Manufacturing Company whose
general offices are located at
Chicogo, I'll. and secure the 10.
cation of this great industry,
which has outgrown it's present
facilities.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Shelton
returned to their home in
Beaver City. Nebraska, this af-
ternoon, after a two months
visit at the home of w. A.
Jenkins.
Mrs. H. J. Brookhouser is
taking treatment for rheuma-
tism at the warm springs in
South Omaha.
Miss Lyvah Salyers returned
to her home in Loveland, after
a few days. visit here.
H. C. Anderson went to Om-
aha this morning on business.
Miss Margaret Coulthard
visited at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. r L. Coulthard, Saturday.
Newton & Co. are unloading
a car OF cement this morning.
j. q. Kirkwood and wife left
for their home in Long Pine,
Nebr., today after a weeks
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. S. H.
Morgan.
H. ]. Brookhouser is paint
ing and papering his house on
Huron street. He is also build
ing an addition to the house.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18

was progressing, it exploded
lhus~ ing his face quite badly.
!. quite a number have prophe-
cied good year for all kinds of
crops. That is the way to talk.
My lettuce is coming up and
looks nice.
Mr.. Oscar Cravens baby who
has been quite sick is some bet
ter now.
Andy Coffman an J Clay Mil
Ter are baling DR.. De ores hay.
Clay
Without a great change in
the weather there will not be
much wheat sown in March.
The condition of the roads
have been as variable as the
weather.
Fred Benin keeps busy hau :
ing grain with two teams, not
withstanding the bad roads ard
weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Iden have re-
turned home after a weeks vis-
it with their son James at Ne
ola.
The duck hunting has been
fine for a few days.
There has been powder
enough burned in this locality
the past week to have killed a
car load of ducks.
DR.. johnson of Sioux City is
visiting his friend Burt Hester
and duck hunting.
Mrs. Emma Thomas is visit
ing relatives in Omaha.
Little Sarah had a boil or alb
cess to develop near the eye
caused by the measles. 1t was
lanced by the DR.. and is now
getting along alright.
Miss Lulu Stokes was visit
ing at Woodbine from Satur-
day till Monday.
r. A. Thomas sold a team of
mules, his old stand bys, last
week.
Asa Thomas bought of ]. w.
Pratt a three year old colt pay
ing SITS for it.
w. G. Baldwin is visiting his
son Dave ard capering round
after the wild ducks and maxi
ing the feathers fly like a boy
in his teens.
MIR. Chambers Hester had a
very serious attack a few nights
ago of what the DR.. called ap-
pendicitis, but is better at this
writing.
Asa Thomas has a cow that
has become famous. He has
her trained so she served as a
blind one day last week he Kill
led four Canada geese. Last
Monday he got ten mallard
ducks out of one flock, for all
of which he gives the COW due
credit. He loans her out occa-
sionally but she is not for sale
during the duck season.
Our school board for the
coming year will be composed
mostly Of 'hold overs" as three
Of the districts failed to hold
elections also failing to elect
one at large.
i Our road boss was called out
to make some repairs on grade
near John Pratts. The damage
was caused by high water.
Clay Thomas is assisting ]. w
Pratt in saving wood this
week.
Preacher McDaniels has de-
lcided to locate in Modale.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18
Fatally Burned

DaAAASA
Miss Eta Williams age 20,
daughter Of W. A. Williams
was fatally burned yesterday
afternoon at her rooms over
Shiley's Drug Store. She has
been affected with spells of
melancholia since the death of
her mother five years ago and
lately has threatened several
times to take her own life. Her
father and Mrs. Frank Milliard
half sister of the deceased and
Mrs. H. P. Hansen were in one
Of the front rooms visiting yes
terday afternoon when Eta
made an excuse to leave the
room. Her continued absence
aroused their suspicious and
the father went in search of
her. He found her door locked
and after breaking open the
door he discovered Eta
wrapped in flames. She had
poured gasoline on her clothes
and had ignited them with a
match. The flames were ex-
tinguished as soon as possible
but not before she had been
fatally burned. Drs. Boughton
and McGavren were called but
little could be done for her.
She died at eleven o'clock last
night. The funeral will be
held at 2::3O Tuesday at the late
home Of the deceased.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18

Hollow at Mr.. Kuykendall sale
and how they filled up on that
free lunch. 1t surely pleased
me.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18
Communicated.

The following communication
although not written for publi-
cation, yet it contains much
+ho+ ehn,,lI oL-ll~-- ~
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18
A Wonderful Incident.

Were it not for the fact that
Benjamin Scebold, who lives a
few miles south OF this city, is
a man of undoubted truth, we
would doubt the statement he
made to us last Saturday. He
Uniformed US that last November
he crlbbed his corn on his place
in the usual way, and last week
in shelling the corn, they came
upon a hen, 6 feet from the top,
2 feet above the fl ,or, and 3 fit,
from the wall of the crib, where
lad been imprisoned, with
water or exercise ever since
November. Wien uncover
e walked out and seemed
tie the worse Tor her long
md confinement, except
a little weak. How it is
e for any living animal,
or fowl to live so long so closely
confined without water, is most
remarkable indeed.
ECZEMA LODGES in THE
SKIN
h1,4 s2n; IN:cnnnn
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18

Weekly Established July 8, '68
Daily Established April l, 81
Weekly $1.5O a Year; Daily 15c
per week.
Entered at the Postofice at Missouri
Valley. Iowa. as second class matter
.-..--.--.a---r-..s--------.~
M,nday March Is
Mary Sorsenson, of South
Omaha was a guest at the Jeppe
Thompson home over Sunday.
Jake Scheutz of Des Moines,
is in the Valley visiting old
friends. He located here in
1856 and lived here many years.
Max Stewart leaves for
Danv,,. this evening on busi-
ness.
Miss Myrtle McGavren COM
menced her spring term of
schoo! today at the Raymond
school house.
Mrs. Jewell Fountain of Nor
1folk is here visiting Mrs. A. N.
Fountain.
H. w. Spires was a pleasant
Times caller Saturday.
Mrs. Tim Shields of Logan is
the guest of her sisters, Mrs.
Krauskof and Mrs. David
! {2rixon.
I lDavid Deacons, who was
81 Ert in the shops a month ago
twill be able to go to work to-
morrow.
Dan Ford of Magnolia town
ship was in the Valley today on
business.
320 acre homesteads in West
n County, Wyoming. The
bunty that for 18 years has
Iroduced the prize winning ag-
fcultural products. For in
lormation regarding Home
STEAD Locations and Decided
f4ands, address,
Wyoming Realty Co.,
Newcastle, Wyoming.
mr-25
I Miss Sadye Briggs left for
Honey Creek yesterday where
Ehe commenced teaching her
|spring term of school.
Theo McElderry of Des
Moines, has been in the
Valley the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Young and other
relatives.
! Nelse Thompson celebrate u
Ihis 23rd birthday Saturday
evening at his home in this city.
IA company of friends were in
Eited in to help him celebrate
|4he ev,', a very pleasant
J evening Was spent in games
land social conversation. Re-
'freshments were served during
NE evening,
Mrs. Barney Currens, who
las been sick for several weeks
again able to be up.
Ellis Jones was an Omaha
jassenger this morning.
Rube Coulthard is still con-
lned to his room by rheuma-
)sm.
iJoseph Carr of Logan is in
he Valley the guest of Bert
hath.
GO into Bob Harveys and
i'm the Graining contest prize.
e has plenty of boards for
0very one who wants to try.
The question of sewerage and
!. aving for this city is being
liked up by our citizens. With
good system ofsewerage, and
rie street paved Mo Valley
J puld surely be getting in the
} ont and putting on city airs.
Il tnxun in tho otato moods
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18

Meeting OF the Commercial
Club
A special meeting of the
Commercial club was held at
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18

The question of sewerage and
aving for this city is being
liked up by our citizens. With
Igood system ofsewerage, and
rie street paved Mo Valley
build surely be getting in the
ont and putting on city airs.
b town in the state needs
werage and paving any more
IAN Mo Valley does. Let the
pd work go on.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-03-18
NJ ,nday March Is

Mary Sorsenson, of South
Omaha was a guest at the Jeppa
Thompson home over Sunday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-10
Farmers Union Meet.

Mayesville. r. F. D. No. /, Feb. O.
The Sumter County Farmers Union
met today with the Trinity Union at
the wide-awake little village of that
name in the Pudding Swamp section.
The morning session was an open one.
and the graded school gave a half
holiday so the teachers and pupils
could attend. This was largely an
experience meeting, such as any live
farmer would enjoy participating in.
one of the best speeches was the clos
ing one by Prof. Koon. Of the Trinity
school. He fairly peeled the farmers
who join the Union and then never
make any effort to help it along, do
not attend the meetings, would not
cooperate with any body except the
cotton bears, and then say the Union
is failure.
After this speech dinner was served
by the Union sisters (16 active mem
bers are ladies), at table sixty feet
long in the yard where the February
sun made the temperature just right
for, outdoor comfort. To those who
have ever experienced the bountiful
hospitality Of this section, or sampled
the cookery of these ladies, the mere
mention of this dinner will make their
mouths water, and cause them to
heave a sigh of regret at their in
bility to be with us today. There is
no use to catalogue the dishes, those
who have ever been there before can
form pretty good idea, and the
friends who do not know where Trim
ity is would do we'll to make an inves-
tigation on their own account, IL ever
so fortunate as to be invited to q pic
mic there.
After dinner the business session
was held behind closed doors. Presi-
dent Dabbs, Secretary and Treasurer
Witherspoon, and Conductor Player
at their posts Matters of Importance
were thoroughly discussed, and seed
planted that will mean a harvest of
dollars In the near future.
The next meeting will be with Sa-
lem Union on first Tuesday in March
ut IL o'clock a. m. 1t is the intention
of the County Union to meet with
each local union until the County has
been covered. and then start over
again so the brethren of other locals
may as we'll prepare in time. Trim
ity has set pace--what other Union
can keep it up? E. W.D.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-10
Baraca Banquet.

The Baraca Glass, an undenomina-
tional fraternal Organization with
headquarters at the First Baptist
Church, whose chief purpose is the
work of young men for young men
with the study of the Bible as an i'm
portant feature, will give a banquet
In the dining room of the First Bap-
tist Church on Tuesday night. Feb.
Esd instant. at which the ministers of
the city will make short speeches up
on the following subjects:
The Birthright of an American Boy
DR.. Brown.
Christian Manhood--Rev. Duncan.
Choice of Associates-Rev. Satter-
white.
Danger of Evil Companlons-Rev
Marion.
Conscience--Rev. Wilson.
Mans Love for Mankind--Rev
Hook.
Woman-Rev. Covington.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-10
DIED OF OVER-EXERTION.
Juror Sprinted When Court Cricr
Called His Name and Died as Re-
suit.

Yorkville, Feb. S.-The second
week of Court of Common Pleas COM
menced this morning. Among the
jurors drawn was Mr.. j. c. Hill, a
farmer Of Bullock's Creek Township.
who came to Yorkville on the South
ern train due here at 1904 a. m.
The train was a few minutes late, and,
as soon as it arrived, Hill started in a
hurry to the Court House, a half mile
away, on foot, and when in hearing
distance Of the Temple of Justice
heard the Court crier call his name.
He ran the balance of the way. Short
ly after arriving, he fell over and
died. Over-exertion and defective
heart action were assigned as the
cause. Hill was about 46 years Of
age, and leaves widow and five chill
dren.