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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-25

~ j. -Lawyer-Notary.
Probate nad Real Estate Law Special-
ties. First Nat Bk. Bldg. Phones.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26

Robert Cotton, a wealthy planter, and
hn family of seven, residing near Ma
ban, were poisoned by eating fried eggs
containing arsenic. The negro cook made
mistake, getting a tin box containing
arsenic for black pepper, sprinkling the
contents over the fried eggs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26

hope that this social inaugural can
be deferred for a year OF two, prin,
cipally because the new president.
who is vastly proud of his brilliant
and studious daughter, will be disap-
pointed if she does not fulfill the
promise made at her entry, when, as
mentioned, she won the prize for high.
est honors in the entrance exam.~a.
lions.
The new White House belle is. like
her mother, member of the Episco.
pal church She was reared in this
atmosphere of that denomination. al
most her first schooling, save for that
of German and English tutors. havine
been obtained at the Cathedral School
for Girls.
She was confirmed by the late
Bishop Satterlee in a class that also
included Miss Ethel Roosevelt and the
Misses Julia and Alice Won Meyer
daughters of the present postmaster
general At Murray Bay, Miss Taft
attended the Union church-represen
ing fusing of all the denominations II
the little Canadian church, and now
she and her mother will become occu
pants of the presidential pew, vacated
by Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel II
St. Johns, the quaint, old-fashionef
and exclusive court church" whfrt
rCars its red tower directly aerosn TIKI
park from the White House.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
TEMPERANCE NEEDED.
Alcohol the Enemy of National Eff
cheney.

In her authors introduction to her
latest work, designedly of temper
ance import, Marie Corelli, the noted
English novelist, sets forth in no I'M
certain way her attitude on the alco-
holic question and aptly expresses the
need for national uplift along the line
of temperance CAS- for the drink
evil" she states, Il wish every one in
to whose hands this book may fall
would honestly try to realize the wide
spread misery, disease, pauperism,
crime and lunacy for which that hide
Gus evil is responsible, and would cdd
his or her wish and will to mine in
a strong prayer that the wicked finan-
cial profit derived by few out of the
physical and moral debasement of the
many may be checkedand finally come
to naught; so that the British people,
released at last from the dominant
sway of the liquor traffic may rise to
the best of everything in them-the
best of brain, the best of health, the
best of life. A temperate people must
always be strong people; and
10 hold our own in the days that are
coming, we shall need all the strength
that sound minds and sound bodies
can give us. There is no room in the
future of Britain for national vice
which betrays national weakness"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26

in favor of matching saSheS and truly
this is a blessed economy for women
of slender means.
Any one-piece costume, whether cut
on princess, empire or directoire lines,
is an appalling task for the home
dressmaker but it is a comparatively
simple trick to simulate these effects
in a two-piece costume, when the ma
terial of the skirt is employed in the
| blouse and a high girdle is added.
In planning this seasons blouse to
match any skirt, it must be borne in
mind that the lining must fit snugly
and that there must be no fullness nor
pouch" at the waist line. The full
ness is over the bust and shoulders,
never lower Another feature of the
up-to-date blouse is the guimps, yoke
or tucker effect, and the woman of
slender purse will find that she can
freshen her wardrobe wonderfully by
introducing novel guimpes.
Our illustration suggests a stunning
idea for the girl who can braid and
embroider quickly. AS will be seen by
reference to the plain model of the
bolero sections in the upper corner,
the foundation on this frock is very
simple, but a girl who can braid even
ly, and work solid discs of heavy en-
broidery silk in between the braid pat
tern will soon have a very ornate
and effective afternoon blouse.
The model from which this was
sketched was a London-smoke broad
cloth, combined with net dyed to
match, matching sash of messaline,
broidery. The guimpe was made of
the coarse net, laid in broad tucks and
fitted snugly into the waist line. The
broadcloth used in the skirt formed
the foundation of the bolero and was
almost hidden by soutache braid in
London smoke and embroidered discs
in fame color.
The upper edge of the bOlero was
finished with teeth-shaped trimming of
broadcloth, each finished with gray
braid and a flame colored disc, while
the lower part of the bolero had fin
ish of fine London-smoke ball fringe
A touch oftthe braid and embroidery
was also introduced around the high
collar
| Pieces of embroidered crepe de
chine, jetted net, braided net and lace
in which fine braid or colored em
broidery is introduced can be used to
build this bolero.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Mrs. Meyer to Lead Cabinet Social Set

WAsHINGTON.-Next to cabinet
w ministers the most interesting
and influential phase of administration
life in Washington concerns the cabi-
net wives.
The social leader of the cabinet I'M
doubtedly will be Mrs. Meyer. She
and Mrs. Knox have had much expert
ence in official life and their homes
In Washington are already established
as gathering places of exclusive So
ciety
The years that Mrs. Meyer spent
abroad while her husband was am
bassador at Rome and st. Petersburg
gave her wide acquaintance in CONT
mental society, with the result that on
going to Washing ton two years ago
she welcomed in her home the diplo-
matte corps and many foreign visitors
The Misses Julia and Alice Meyer
are very attractive and charming
young women, whose society is sought
by many admiring men. There will be
many social functions in the Meyer
home during the Taft administration
Mrs. Knox, by virtue of her hus-
bands position, takes precedence at
the head of the cabinet women. Her
home in K street is one of the fine
homes of Washington, having been
built by the late George w. Childs
and purchased several years ago by
the present secretary of state.
Before her marriage Mrs. Knox was
Miss Lillian Smith, daughter of A. D.
Smith, president of one of Pittsburg's
steel companies.
The three Knox boys are named
Reed, Hugh and Philander, Jr. They
are active young men. The eldest.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Smooth Confidence Game.

One of the smoothest confidence games
ever tried on the Jackson public has just
been successfully worked in this city
by two strangers.
About six weeks ago the two men es-
tablished a clothes pressing club, and
began gathering up clothes to be cleaned
and pressed, charging membership fee
of 81 per month, payable in advance.
The club progressed in about the same
manner as other and similar clubs, and
did an apparently prosperous business.
Last week the members became unus-
ually active and it is said collected the
81 fee from about 100 members and
took in at least $500 worth of clothes,
including high-grade suits of both ladies
and gentlemen.
Saturday they purchased a large
trunk, took the trap out of it, packed it
full of these clothes and departed for
New York.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
ONE : PIECE EFFECT
ECUREE BY ADJUSTMENT OF
GlRDLE AND TRIMMING.
lyle Is a Blessing for the Woman of
Slender Means-Work Is Not
Beyond the Home
Dressmaker.

The blouse plays a most prominent
role in midwinter fashions; for as
sGtin-finished fabrics grow in favor, SO
do plain skirts, which fact throws the
responsibility of trimming entirely on
the bodice.
The secret of successful blouse,
building this season is to secure by the
adjustment of girdle and trimming the
effect of a one-piece costume, even
though the skirt and blouse be separ-
ate. One should emphasize the impor-
lance of having the girdle match or
harmonic perfectly with bodice and
skirt, thereby forming a connecting
link
Earlier in the season, when the
I directoire sash came in, we saw many
black sashes on broadcloth and silk
gowns Of other colors, such as gray,
ltobacco-brown, deep red, bluette, &c.
For time this picturesque style ap-
pealed, but now it has been abandone
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
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KILLING THE SALOON.
a Most Striking Record of Temper
ance Progress.

An interesting review of the prog
~ess of temperance reform throughout
the United States in the past year has
recently been furnished the temper.
| ance press of that country by Rev
Charles Stelzle, a prominent leader in
social work among the industrial
classes.
The saloon" he states, lis disap-
pearing at the rate of 80 a day! This
means a frontage of about SO miles
for the recent year Eight thousand
members left the Bartenders' union
during the year, mostly because the
bars over which they dispensed liquors
are closed.
In ten months time five entire
states banished their saloons. Three
had already done so, with the result
that about one-sixth of the states are
now dry
On January 1, 1909, there went into
effect prohibitory legislation covering
an area, together with that already in
force in this district, of a solid block
800 miles north and south by 100 miles
east and went so that one may travel
from the Mississippi to the Atlantic
ocean, and from the boundary of Ten
nessee to the Gulf of Mexico, without
seeing legalized saloon. Great Brit
ain and Ireland could be set down
over this space with 10000 square
miles of dry territory left as a bor-
der. Whereas a decade ago 5000 900
persons in this country lived in no
license territory. now 38,0OO,e00 live
in no saloon districts.
The saloon has been abolished by
law in two-thirds of all the territory
of the United States. One interesting
thing about this entire movement is
that the states which are most enthusi-
astically in favor of the abolition of
the saloon are those which for many
years sustained a reputation for the
manufacture and the consumption of
whisky and other intoxicating liquors
Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tonnes
see, Texas, Mississippi, the Carolinas
and the Virginias, are the most tenn
perate states in the union, while Okla
homa comes into the unisn with the
determination that she would bring
no saloons with her.
Georgia was the first southern state
to adopt prohibition. Then followed
the action of Oklahoma, and Alabama
almost Immediately fell into line Next
came Mississippi, and then North
Carolina. All but five of the So coun-
ties in Tennessee are now dry Ken
lucky has an investment in diStilleries
of $160,000000. But through local
option legislation It has expelled the
saloon from Sc of its 119 counties,
from $40 towns of the 425 towns and
cities, and from 81 per cent of the ter
ritory of the state. In a few years
Virginia abolished 1000 saloons, or
one-half of those in the state. Two
thirds of all the saloons now open
in Virginia are found in three cities,
and one-half of all the wet territory
is confined to Norfolk and it's vicinity
OF the 100000 people living in West
Virginia 100000 have abolished the
liquor traffic. The remainder of the
southern states have the local option
law in operation in large areas.
Kansas has long been a prohibition
state. North Dakota is also a dry
state, while Maine is the mother of
prohibition. In Ohio about 6S per
cent. of the territory is now dry
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Helen Taft, New Belle of White House

HELEN HERON TAFT has fol-
u lowed in her fathers footsteps in
choosing her most intimate friends in
Washington from the "army set .
What Gen. Bell and Gen. Clarence Ed
wards are to the new president, young
ladies like Miss Ayrshire and Miss
Webster are to his only daughter.
At the same time she has formed
many close friendships at school, and
these ties are bringing Miss Taft an
ever-increasing number of invitations
to devote her vacations to house par
ties, and will result in the presence of
many youthful residents of many diff
ferent cities when the time comes for
Miss Taft to make her debut in the
White House-something for which
Mrs. Taft has as yet planned but ten
tatively.
The newly-chosen first lady of the
land expects her only daughter to be-
come a White House debutante, of
course, but she has also expressed the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Glass Napkin Einos.

One of the new trifles for the table
is a napkin ring OF cut crystal. 1t is
exceedingly pretty and decorative
wide Prohibition law which will close
every saloon in that commonwealth
of more than 100000 people on July 1
next. Arkansas is expected to follow
within a few weeks, while Texas, Ken
lucky, West Virginia. South Carolina
and Florida are scheduled for early
decision on the same question 1t is
evident that the people of America
have already decided the question in
their own minds and at the first oppor
tunfty will confirm at the ballot box
the judgment of the United States SUI
preme court which says Q37 u. S.,
SCI: "Ry the general eoRcurrence of
opinion OF every civilized and Chris
tan community there are few sources
of crime and misery to society equal
to the dramshop. The statistics of
every state show greater amount of
crime and misery attributable to the
use of ardent spirits obtained at these
retail liauor saloons than to anz ntAnr
source"
The famous philosophy Of I. De Witt
Talmage is surely coming true:
''The world may scott at Christian
people as insignificant; but, banded to-
gether for any great moral movement,
they can carry anything at the ballot
box and in congressional assembly.
The trouble is they have never yet
massed their forces"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Farmers HuStling.

If there is any merit to be had in
early planting, the farmers of Missis-
sippi will reap the full benefit of it this
year.
Never before have farming operations
in this State shown such progress as
that reported from all sections. Even
in the great delta, where operations are
usually delayed by overfows, more than
one-half the area to be titled has been
broken, and the soil is ia readiness to
receive the seed.
Flowing is general in every county of
the State, weather conditions are more
favorable than usual for the middle of
March, and, unless unfavorable climatic
conditions make large amount of re-
planting necessary, the bulk of Missis-
sippi's corn and cotton acreage will be
in the ground fully three weeks ahead
of the usual time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26

JACKSON.
Compliment to Mississippi.

81 ACh6ON.
Compliment to Mississippi.
The Mississippi Industrial Institute
and College, the great institution located
in Columbus, and of which all Missis-
sippians call with pride "A Model
School," will be taken as a model for
the Industrial Institute and College of
Oklahoma. This idea, so it seems, is the
outcome of efforts on the part of Col.
thomas j. O'Neill, former resident of
Columbus, who now lives in Chickasha,
Okla. The bill Tor an industrial school
for this new State. passed the legisla-
tive bodies some eighteen months ago
ard actual work is soon to begin. Col.
GNei1l has eXplicated MississipPTs
greatness along educational lines with
such force that the residents of Okla
bona are so convinced with the thor
oCghness and greatness of the school
that its prototyp will soon be located
in their midst and their women receiving
the same Incompatible advantages the
women and girls of Mississippi now re-
ccive. This is a great compliment to
Mississippi.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26

LIT. mayer, VINO IS occurring InrOu9n-
out this State under the direction of the
state board of health, delivered two lee
lures at Lexington. Judge S. M. Smith
adjourned circuit court while Dr. Mayer
E&e delivering his lecture i'll order that
the visitors from all parts of the county
3Right get the benefit of DR.. Mayors talk.
Holly Springs is proud of the excel
lent record the public school is making.
A reunion of old students is planned in
connection with the commencement,
which will be held May 1921. At this
time it is hoped that every former stu
dent of the school will be present, if pos
sihle.
George Wong, a Chinaman of West
Point, was tried before United States
Commissioner L. E. Oldham at Oxford
for violating the immigrtion laws, and
failed to produce his naturalization pa
pers. Commissioner Oldham ordered him
to be deported to the Flowery Kingdom.
Two unknown white men attempted
to assassinate Mayor Adams of Pass
Christian. One of the men was bending
ever Mayor Adams with an appraised
knife when Mrs Adams awoke and
screamed The men were frightened off
and escaped.
Robert Cotton, a wealthy planter, and
his family of seven, residing near Ma
ban, were poisoned by eating fried eggs
containing arsenic. The negro cook made
n mistake, getting a tin box containing
arsenic for black pepper, sprinkling the
contents over the fried eggs.
Steps are TO be initiated to establish
big interstate fair in Vicksburg to open
xhs fall and become permanent insti-
sutton The territory of Louisiana and
Mississippi tributary to Vicksburg is one
of the richest countries in the world
and it rs certain will handsomely sup
port it.
The fruit crop in the Vicksburg section
has been materially damaged, but the
growers cannot estimate just how great
d the hurt Peaches are said to be more
hart than any other fruit.
The patrons of the Batesville Farm
sFs' Union warehouse sold about 300
bales of cotton, getting on an average
Of Id cents.
The Tombigbee river is higher than
1t has been since the flood of 1892. All
around Columbus the small streams
smptying into the Tombigbee have also
gone higher at rapid rate. The Luxa-
palila, ON the east, has flooded Lake
Park and done considerable damage to
lands all around that section.
The city of Gulfport, which has been
trying to get fashIight exchange sys-
tsm installed, is in a fair way of hay
ing that aspiration realized, as the or
ders have been issued for the improve
ment, which will be made shortly.
Brewers Journal Fake No. L.
The vote Of the Prohibition party in
the recent campaign was reduced be-
low the figure Usually reached during
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Hightower Predicts Reduction.

President G. r. Hightower, Of the Mis-
sissippi division of the Farmers Union
is of the opinion that there will be d
slight reduction in the cotton acreage
in the State this year. q would not at
tempt forecast of the reduction at this
time," said President Hightower "At
the same time, reports received indicate
that there will be some reduction in the
hill countless, while the delta will plant
its usual acreage, except, in those sec
lions infested by the boil weevil. Ii
will take some time to determine the full
extent of the reduction"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26

Reed, is named after his fathers for
mer partner in Pittsburg.
Mrs. MacVeagh, though perhaps the
oldest of the cabinet wives, will add
interest to Washington society. She
is woman of culture and attractive
presence, lavish entertainer, deeply
interested in economic subjects, and
possesses an acquaintance that OK
tends around the world
She is the daughter OF Henry 8.
Games, a former banker of Chicago,
and for many years she has taken
prominent part in the social affairs of
that city.
Mrs. Dickinson, wife of the new sec
rotary of war, is a southern woman,
Nashville, Tenn. being her home, al
though for the last ten years she has
passed most of her time in Chicago,
where her husbands legal business
required his presence Her two eldest
sons are settled in distant cities, but
her youngest, now a student at Yale,
will be seen later in Washington.
Mr.. Ballinger, wife of the secretary
VI luO HdQ a year GApcfl-
ence in Washington official life re-
Gently while her husband was coma
missioner of public lands, a subor-
dinate position in the department
which he now heads. She is a New
England woman transplanted to the
far northwest.
The Ballinger family consists OF
two sons. The elder, Edward, is fol.
lowing in the footsteps of his father
at Williams college. The younger,
Richard, lively youngster, will prob
ably be companion for the energetic
Charlie Taft.
The new secretary of commerce and
labor Charles Nagel of st. Louis has
been twice married. The present Mrs.
Nagel was Miss Anna Shipley of St
Louis, whom the secretary married in
1895. They have four children, all
quite young-Mary, Edith, Charles
and Anne. Mrs. Nagel is devoted to
her children and her home.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Fair Company Gets Injunction.


Chancellor G. G. Lyell has granted
the petition of the Mississippi State
Fair and Exposition Company for an
injunction restraining Ida Dozier, E. j.
Griffin, William Rudd, Chris McNair, A.
J. Roderick and w. A. Banks from pros
ecuting their damage suits filed against
the exposition company, aggregating
about 100000
The parties claim that they sustained
injuries in the collapse of the gallery
of the Coliseum building, on the fair
grounds, last September, shortly after
the close of the Booker Washington
speech, and that the accident was due
to defect i'll the construction of the
building.
The injunction is based on the allega-
ton that the exposition company was
not responsible for the crowding of the
structure; that the Booker Washington
visit was not under the auspices of the
State fair, and, therefore, no legal liza
bility exists.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Brewers Journal Fake No. L..

The vote Of the Prohibition party in
the recent campaign was reduced be-
low the figure Usually reached during
the last twenty-five yearss-Page 1913
(EditoriaD, Brewers Journal, Feb. 1.
AS matter of fact, out Of the seven
presidential elections of the past TWEEN
ty-four years the national Prohibition
party vote for 1908 largely exceeded
all except those for 1892 and 1904.
These are merely glimpses at the
endless succession of falsehood and ex-
aggeration in which the liquor press
II indulging these days and with
which they are attempting to bolster
up business whose doom is rapidly
approaching.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-03-26
Makes Payment on Monument.

Gov. Noel has paid to F. G. Triebel,
the artist contractor for the Mississippi
monument which is being built in the
Vicksburg National Park, the fourth in
stallment of the amount due him on
contract with the Mississippi commits
sion. The draft yesterday amounted to
something over $4,000, and the total
which he has drawn to date will be in
the neighborhood of $4,000. Indica-
tions are that Mississippi will be in
ahead of any of the other Southern
States whose soldiers were enrolled I'M
der Gen. Pemberton, as though efforts
have been made to secure action on the
part of Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama,
Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Georgia,
the response is slow. 1t was the fond
est hope of the late Gen. Stephen d.
Lee that he would live to see the Con-
federate front line of that historic semi
circle we'll marked by monuments and
markers representing all of the South
ern States positions along the defense
line.