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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
ITEMS FROM POLLARD
Special to The Journal


Pollard, Ala, Aug. 3--Jno. Fred
eric, of Mulat, was a visitor last
week with his brother-in-law, J. W.
kell;.
DIT. ]. D. Owens, ST., returned home
Friday morning from a business
trip up in Choctaw county. The doc
tor reports crops in very poor con-
ditiOn in that section
Miss Claude Kirkpatrick, a charm
ing young lady from Pensacola, ar
rived Sunday, to be the guest OF
Miss EuIa Williams for a few days.
Mrs. Geo. S. Walker and two sons
have gone to Greenville for two
weeks visit They will be guests Of
Mrs. R. E. Peagler, sister.
Mrs. H. D. Finiay and two sons
left for Greenvilie last Friday TO be
the guests of her sister, Mrs R. E.
Peagler, for two weeks
Miss Ethel Taylor, a popular
BTewtOn belle, spent Wednesday and
Thursday the guest of DR.. and Mrs.
J. D. Owens, Sr.
J. A. Edwards, Jr., is home from
GeoTgiana on an extended vacation.
Marvin Kelly went to Pensacola
Saturday on an extended visit with
his sister, Mrs. Marvin DAILY.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Witch, of
Pensacola, are guests of Mrs. c. Y.
Mayo, an aunt of Mrs. Whittich.
The Pollard baseball team is max
ing preparations to go to Pensacola
on the 9Th to cross bats with one of
Pensacola's fast teams The Pollard
Pie-Tooters, as we will dub them
have been going some this season,
winning several straights and one tie,
shutting out Brewton on two coca
sionS, they being considered the
fastest team in this section. Finlay
will very likely do the twirling for
Pollard. He puts forth the genuine
article in swift style and the Pen
sacola players will have to keep open
their eyes to get in a hit Finlay
has a record of q strike outs in a
single game.
Sylvester Simmons died last Thurs
day, being sick only "a hours.
J. a Bryant is moving his family
to Jay, Fla, where they will in future
reside
Mrs. Tom Snowden arrived today
from Aycock, Fla, and will be the
guest Of her sister, Mrs c. Y. Mayo.
Rev. A. c. Strain, a Universalist
evangelist of Birmingham, visited his
son, r. H. Strain, last week. Rev.
Mr.. Strain preached at the school
house to large congregation.
Geo. Hawthorne, colored, took on
a little too much booze Saturday
night. He got wild and began to
abuse and curse his wife to his
hearts content, until his father-in-
law, RafoTd Jackson, appeared on the
scene, putting quietus on Haw-
thoTne, as he thought, but on going
a short distance towards home he
found that Hawthorne was following
him with a pistol, which he proceed
ed to use on Jackson, but Jackson
being the quicker, fired a load of
shot in Hawthorne's face, putting out
one eye and otherwise diSfiguring
his face shoulder and arm. Jackson
was promptly arrested and placed in
jail 10 await preliminary hearing.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Frank Ridgely Brown, Jr., son OF
the former governor of MARYLAND has
been sued in the Baltimore courts for
divorce by his beautiful young wife.
VINO was Miss Mabel Michael. OF that
city The young couple eloped to
New York and were married in 1906
since which time, Mrs. Brown asserts
ner lie mas been a stormy one She
charges her husband with cruelty, al
leging that he often subjected her IN
1pdignities in the presence of guests.
Inc young man has figured in MANI
sensational escapedes both in Europe
and America, and at one time was
known as the millionaire reporter. "
from the fact that he was temporarily
attached to the staff of a Baltimore
newspaper He went about his
duties behind a spanking team and
attended by 2 coachman and footman
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04
POPULAR YOUNG PEOPLE
ARE MARRIED AT HOLLY

Holly, Aug. S.-Mr. John Stanford
and Miss Beatrice Powell were mar
RED August LIST, 1909, at the resi-
dence of the brides parents in Holly.
the ceremony being performed by
Judge Ewing. Immediately after the
ceremony the bridal party drove 10
Carriers, where a reception was
given to the happy pair by Mr.. and
Mrs. z. A. Mooney, brother-i n-law
and sister of the groom A large
number of invitations had been is
sued, but the inclement weather pre-
vented those at a distance from at
tending. The reception room was
beautifully decorated with wreaths
and branches of leaves, a wedding
bell being suspended from the center
OF the room, this bell being artist
cally woven from forest leaves.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

AS the friends arrived they con-
graduated the groom and his bride,
wishing them a long and happy life
and hoping the rain and storm of
the day would not be typical Of their
married life.
The guests were then ushered into
the new and spacious dining room,
where they were served with de-
hcious ice cream and the most der
cate and varied of cake.
The evening was spent in pleasant
conversation and music, both vocal
and instrumental, Prof. Mooney pre-
siding at the organ.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanford will go to
housekeeping Immediately IN the
residence owned by the groom S
father in Carriers, where they Will
be at home to their friends.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04
DESTIN.

Destin, Aug 3-Lutner Stanton
came over from Doggy Monday, &C
COMMANDED by Arthur Brown and
Noel Davis.
The Marie S., of Doggy, brought
over crowd of people to the island.
J. D Woodward leaves for Hog
town Tuesday.
The Nancy Lee came up from Pen
sacO1a Saturday
Miss MOllie Ward is up from Pen
saCola visiting Mrs. VIM. MarleT.
Mrs. l. Destin spent Monday with
Mrs. Joe Marler.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04
The Trolley Sprinkler
A Wise Provision.

The Journal is gratified to note
that the Board OF Public Works at
its meeting Monday evening passed a
resolution calling on the city council
for an appropriation of five thousand
dollars to be invested in a sprinkling
car. This was recommended by The
Journal about three months ago, for it
has known that the plan has worked
admirably in cities which have adopt
ed it.
The immediate outlay will be large,
but when it is taken into considera-
ton that one trip of such a car will
do the same amount OF sprinklinE as
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04
EDITORIAL
Stirring Up Discord in
The World of Religion.

Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard, has
Joined the body Of citizens who. hay
ing no definite and productive en-
ployment, go about giving advice and
attempting to revolutionize the world.
For forty years the good doctor was
president of the great Massachusetts,
educational center. He was a presi-
dent any institution of learning might
be proud OF. 1t is, in fact, a question
whether Harvard, in its long career,
would be able to chronicle q more
efficient head.
During his last year of college
presidency Doctor Eliot seemed to
grow in the interest he took I'm pub
lie affairs. He wrote as concise, ex-
plicit and convincing a paper on the
tariff question, exposing the fallacious
arguments OF the protectionists, as it
has ever been our good fortune to
read. He was the only man, beside
Justice Brewer, to administer an I'M
answerable rebuke to Roosevelt when
that defiant parsonage, taking advan-
tage Of his position as president, at
tempted to interfere in matters out
side Of his prerogative.
Editor Russell, of the BrooksviIIe
Argus. is especially worked up over
DR.. Eliotis prophesy that a new re-
ligion" will be established in the fu-
ture and predominant over and, in
fact, drive out every form of Chris
tianity now established. Brother Rus
sell says he will pin his faith to old
time Christianity, but admits that
there is room for more of the kind
delivered by Jesus Christ and taught
by His apostles"
Editor Russell need have no fear.
The Eliot prophecy that the worlds
future religion will be based on what
are called natural, or material. in
fuences is contradicted by history.
The tendency Of all religious bodies
is and has been for several centuries
toward more spiritual conception of
man himself and of the Force that
regulates the universe. Nor must
Doctor Eliot be taken too literally.
He recognizes the impossibiIitv of
separating the things called natural
from those called spiritual, just as
Huxley and other philosophers, and
has attempted, very foolishinIy in our
opinion, to use a natural coeficient
to satisfy an increase in spiritual
power
And the Doctor went astrav simDIv
because he was without occupation.
1t was a return of Satan's original
conquest. 1t was an apple offered to
academic man, and like the great
creature Of physical perfection in the
Garden Of Eden, this twentieth CEN
fury intellectual Adam fell.
Editor Russell need have no fear
that the man who pins his faith to
Providence, a risen Christ and an en-
lightened Holy Spirit can go wrong
in his Interpretation of true religion
but, at the same time, he and each
of us should be earnest and alert in
an effort toward a personal practice
of that 'old kind" OF religion "deliv-
cred by Jesus and taught by His
Apostles"-as our BrookSville con-
temporary defines it-and toward
seeing that its true meaning and
marvellous effect are impressed upon
the world.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

The doctors, who puzzle their
brains and work like wiIdfre in
stamping out diseases whose presence
is their means of earning a living
are. consciously or unconsciousIy, the
only true professional aItruists, and
it has long puzzled our brain to know
whether their condition is traumatic
or idiopathic. 1t may be that one of
the fraternity will take the time and
trouble TO throw light on the ques-
ton
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

There was probably not a hand
somer paper in the United States on
Sunday, August l, than the Meridian
Dispatch. And over and above that,
it carried some 20 columns of adver-
Using more than its nearest Missis-
sippi competitor. The Dispatch is
now what you call going some'
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

ed members of social clubs in Ha-
vana, Cuba, to play poker as a
"pastime," but it is limited that other
things beside time are passed"
while the game is in progress-I. o..
us, checks and and the long green,
for instance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Referring to a letter from Wash
ington which took one year and more
to reach the editor of The Journal,
an account of the occurrence having
recently appeared in this paper, The
Jacksonville Times Union takes oc-
casion to deal in sarcasm and asks
the question, 1T couldn't be that it
took the P. o. authorities all that
time to find out where Pensacola is,
could it?" And it is possible that
that was the case If the said author
tiles" confined their enquiries to a
study of the schedules of the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad in which
a wondrous secrecy is observed con-
corning the principal gulf terminus
Of the company.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Those car tenders in the anti-ac-
cident pictures being run in The
Journal by the Pensacola Electric
Company are very suggestive and al
together fascinating.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Hon. A. V. Clubbs. who has prob
ably planted more trees and done
more than any other one citizen to
make Pensacola a City Beautiful. in
a letter to The Journal this morning
urges the removal of the street car
tracks from the center of Palafox
Parkway and the Identification OF
that important place. AS Mr.. Clubbs
we'll says, the situation is one that
seems so plain as to be beyond ar
gument."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Foreigners may easily be misled
by the name and fancy the water
ways convention to be held in New
Orleans November 1-3 has something
to do with the prohibition question.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

IT'S not surprising that Barcelons
is 'quieting down'-cOTpses are never
very noisy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Rather odd for Alabama, the first
state alphabetically, to be the first
to pass the federal income tax con-
stitutional amendment.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

three or four trips of the carts now
used, and that, moreover, the work
Will be far more thorough, it will be
found that the immediate invest
ment will be repaid by decrease in
the expense of operation in a short
while.
No doubt the street railway com
pany will be GLAD to share the ex-
pense Of operating the sprinkler as
it is evidently to the advantage of
the company to suppress the dust in
the streets which it occupies; the
comfort Of passengers and cleanliness
Of cars being two principal factors in
successful railway operation.
The Journal hopes the city council
will make this appropriation The
cleanliness of the pavements now
being laid will depend upon a proper
sprinkling- Accommodations upon their
surface will never be removed with
out the aid of water to solidify them
and enable the sweeper to do his, or
its, work, and there is no more eff
fective method to be employed for
this purpose than the trolley sprink-
Ter with its capacity of reach and
volume of water it will distribute.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

West Florida cannot AFFORD to be
behind any section of the state in the
amount of its subscription to the
fund for the battleship.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Bets on the two jays, Jetfries and
Johnson are now in lorder-but one
Of the jays is a blackbird, isn't he?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Looks like fifteen cent cotton sur
enough.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Clear away the weeds-Sullivan's
jungle, for instance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

The demon Of unrest surely has
run amuck in Chicago.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

The leather schedule is a tough
proposition for the G. o. P.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Too hot for politics-let's cut IL
out.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Not much use of screened doors
and windows unless he screens are
kept closed, and the police are quite
correct in a rigid enforcement of the
ordinance. Screens may not be death
TO the hOusefly, but they prevent him
from injecting human food and com
pei him to feed on the filthy stuff he
was born and bred in.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Getting up the tri-county fair will
be work, not play. ---
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

IT'S PENSACOLA-NOT PENSA-
COLLAR.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

COMPETITION IS THE SPICE OF
FAIRS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

The Journal congratulates the
school board on it's solution of the
high school building problem. A Sit
uation that seemed pretty gloomy at
one time, but which is now to result
in a fire proof school building, and at
a lower cost than the wooden build
ing originally planned, is one that
calls for congratulations all around
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Jerome has been giving Thaw cold
feet.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

INCONSISTENCIES NO 9TH
Err WAY.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04
PENSACOLA FLORIDA sDAY MORNING AUGUST T. 1909

EVERY AID Is A BOOST.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

Getting The Journal each day will
make your vacation twice as pleasant
The Circulation Department will be
glad to send IL TO you. Write, or
phone 1900 three or four days before
you leave,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

BOOST, BOOM AND BUILD
THAT'S ALL.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

EVERY BOOST IS AN "AD."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-04

BOOST, BOOM AND BUILD -
THAT'S ALL.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28

Besides the more or less eccentric
creations of the Illinois assembly a
number of unusual and important
legal measures go into effect in other
states next week.
A bank deposit guaranty law, copy
of the celebrated Oklahoma law with
some notifications, will come into
operation in Kansas. Nearly 500 state
banks will come under the law. The
national banks, as n measure of pro-
lection, have already taken steps to
form among themselves deposit guar.
anty and surety corporation
On the same date the bank guaranty
law, fathered by William J. Bryan,
will become effective in Nebraska.
1t is limited guaranty as distin5-
uished from the Oklahoma law, where
all of the assets of all of the banks
are back of the guaranty. In Nebraska
only a small portion win be utilized
prohibition law passed by the last
session of the Tennessee legislature
over lHe veto Oh governor Patterson
will come into force Thursday and will
have the effect of virtually putting the
state in the dry column. The chief
point of the law is its prohibition OF
the sale of intoxicating liquor within
four miles of school house. This will
necessarily close the saloons in all
cities, and Memphis will have the dis
tinction of becoming the largest city
in the world where the sale of liquor
is prohibited. Six months hence an
other prohibition measure is to come
into force in Tennessee. This meas
ure will prohibit the manufacture of
all intoxicants in the state and conse-
guently will result in closing all of the
breweries and distilleries there.
In North Dakota an interesting
measure aimed at the liquor traffic IS
also to become effective next week.
This law requires that all liquor ship
ped into the state must be inspected
by the state pure food commissioner.
Only druggists are authorized 10 sell
liquor, and soliciting agents and C.
O. d. shippers will be barred.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
FIGHTER OF GRAFTERs.
Incidents In the Career of Governor G.
L. Lilley of Connecticut.

When Governor George Leavens Lii.
ley of Connecticut was fourteen his
parents moved into Oxford. Mass,
leaving him behind to run his uncle's
farm. The LilleyS next went to Mid
dlebOro. and there the boy peddled
meat from a cart for his father. who
occasionally sent him to Boston to buy
supplies. On one of these trips the
lad. who was not eighteen. learned
that there was shortage of potatoes
in New England and that there was
an abundance of them in Nova Scotia.
He induced a Boston merchant whom
he knew to lend him $1,000. with which
he went to Nova Scotia. chartered q
schooner and brought a cargo of pOta
toes to Boston. where ne sold them at
handsome profit.
His entry into politics in 1900 was
spectacular. He entered town meet
ing at Waterbury. Conn. which was
packed with adherents of controlling
ring of grafters and denounced its ex-
travagance. A road repairing contract
was about to be awarded for $50, 900.
and he offered to do the work and live
up to all it's specifications for $500.
He was not only howled down. but
was threatened with personal violence.
That experience determined his fu-
ture course in life. He announced him.
self as a Republican candidate for the
legislature and as foe to all grafters,
large or small. He was overwhelm.
ingly elected and made good from the
day of his election. He served sec
ond term and was then sent to con-
gress. where before he was hardly
warm in his chair he defeated an at
tempt to extend an electric light com.
pany's franchise in Hawaii upon terms
that were oppressive to consumers. 1t
was hard fight for he was up against
seasoned congressman. but he won out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
The Failure of Law.

The Springfield riot did not happen
so long ago as to have passed wholly
from memory. 1t is recalled that the
mob, led by a scarlet woman, descend
ed upon the business houses of ne
groes, fired some of them, destroyed
others. and wrecked the restaurant of
a man who harbored a negro whom
the mob sought and, capturing,
lynched.
The damages which the city and
county had to pay were heavy. But
if justice had prevailed the expense
would have been an inconsiderable
item However, justice has not pre-
vailed. The results attained by the
prosecution have been practically nil,
and announcement is now made of the
dismissal of all cases on docket.
If Springfield shall one day have
another bloody race war, the failure
of the law to vindicate itself will be
the reason.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
Growth of Playground Interest.

The growth of playground interest
in this country is manifested by a re-
cent report from the Playground Asso-
citation of America which shows the
following rapid increase in the num-
Der of cities which have acted:
Previous to 1908 80 of the 907
cities in the United States, with a
population of 5000 or over, had play
grounds. During the summer of 1908
1876 had Fairgrounds, and over $50
cities will have Fairgrounds during
the summer of 1909"
So immediate has been the response
to this line of Juvenile work that the
usefulness of these grounds is being
greatly advanced.
This association has secured the CO.
operation of specialists in many lines
who have developed playground use
into science Athletics, folk dane
ing, story telling, landscape architect
ure and matters of kindred interest
have been taken up and brought into
practical form.
Hon. William Jackson recently wrote
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-28
New United States Minister to Chill.
The Argus Daily Short Story
Cupid Versus Her Art-By Helen j. Wood.
Copyrighted 1905 by Associated Literary Press.

"Yes. he might have done worse"
she echoed. But l shall write him
note tonight and scold him for not
having told me before-me, whom he
called his best friend. Now, mother. if
you are. determined not to see any
thing more today you can easily find
your way home. / will follow out the
program alone" And, picking up her
guideboGkS. she hurried off.
Mrs. Curwin gazed after her with
growing anxiety. Did Connie really
care?
Meanwhile the trim little figure was
hurrying down a long aisle. Her eyes
passed over a Kaleidoscope succession
of objects that somehow failed to
make any impression on her brain.
The exposition roared and flashed
around her. and in her mind one train
of thoughts kept repeating with hor-
rible persistency.
Jim engaged-her jim! Yes. he had
been her Jim, she said almost, savage
ly: had been her best friend for ever
so long. She had been coquettish and
flirted with the other boys. but he had
known all along. she felt sure. Had
he only been flirting with her? No.
10. But here he was, engaged to an
other girl. And then the whole mis-
cradle circuit began once more.
She came home to the pension SO
white and weary that her mother was
alarmed. but she pleaded fatigue and
went off to bed like tired child.
Poor Mrs. Curwin was much per-
picked in the days that followed. Con-
ME seemed the usual ConnIn. hut what
had inspired the girl with this insane
notion of staying in Paris to study
art? She argued and scOlded, but all
IN vain. Connie was young person
of a determined mind. and on this
| subject she was more than usually de-
tcrmined. Her mother finally resigned
herself to the prospect Of being an eA-
lie from ller beloved native land, for. of
course, where Connie stayed she had
10 stay. too, until Connie wearied of
| this latest whim. Mrs. Curwin de-
voutly hoped that it would be soon.
However. there was one alienation
| for her misery. Connie seemed to have
lost her enthusiasm over doing the ex-
| position. She spent her time investi-
eating art schools and studios. leaving
| her mother to plunge into all the de-
| lights of shopping, of which the good
woman did not soon tire. To be sure,
Connie might have shown n little more
interest in her purchases. 1t was all
very well to say that as an art student
she would need few clothes. Mrs. Cur
win knew better. Connie had always
| been fond of clothes, and some day she
would wake up from her art dreams
and find that her wardrobe was bare.
But her daughters indifference Ito
her real interests" did not prevent
Mrs Curwin from entering eagerly
| into all her plans for the studio. If