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The Washington times., 1909-08-12
MISS CLARA KNERR WtDS
HERMAN *. FPITTER
THIS AFTERNOON.

St@I H.
A pretty wedding win take place this
afternoon at 3 o'clock az The home Of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G.. Vck, when
Mrs. Nolk's sister, Miss Clara Knerr.
viii become the wife Of Herman Ashton
Fritter
The drawing room. where the cere-
mony will take place, VIII oe adorned
with palms and white roses. Leonard
Bennett will play the Mendeissohn
wedding music for the entrance Of tho
bridal party.
The Rev. Donald Campbell Macleod.
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, will be the officiating clergy
man.
Miss Knerr will wear a dainty bridal
gown of white batiste, and vaIenciennesI
lace, made in empire-p princess fashion.
She will wear wreath Of white rose
buds in her hair. aid viii carry a show
er bouquet Of BTi0a roses.
Miss Maude Belcher. the maid Of
honor, will wear a gown of cream col
ored wolfe and just cloth and viii car
ry cluster of Bridesmaid roses.
Burwell e Martz VIII act as best
man for Mr.. Fritter, and the brides
little niece, Miss Leila Volk, who VIII
be the flower girl, viii wear dainty
frock OF white with white ribbons and
Will carry a basket Of white asters
a reception viii follow the ceremony
and later Mr.. aud Mrs. Fritter will
leave for a Southern trip. Mrs. Fritter
will wear natural colored linen trav-
cling suit with hat and MINOR appoint
ments in keeping. Upon their return
they will reside at S17 Twelfth street
northwest
The bride is the dc lighter Of Jacob
KnerT, Of Sandusky. Ohio. but has
made her home in Washington with
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Volk, for some time.
Tavenner-MiIbourn.
Announcement is made Of tre mar
riage Of Miss Mary Ellen Mgbourn,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Hill
bourn, of Philomont. Va. 20 James
Kirkbride Tavenner. The ceremony
took place Tuesday evening, August 10
at O'Clock in the parsonage of the
Metropolitan Methodist Church, the
Rev. j. R. Shannon, the pastor. offici-
ating.
The bride was attended by her cous-
ms, Miss Evelyn Ray and Miss Mil
dred Lee Tavenner, both Of Washing
ton
-
The Mexican ambassador, Senior Don
de la Barra, has gone 10 Philadelphia
and Atlantic Cit yfor. few days and
short y after his return to Washing
ton next week viii go TO the Adiron-
dacks for the remainder Of the season.
The marriage of Miss Ethel Beatrice
Brown. daughter Of Mrs. V. Q. Brown,
70 John Robertson Bowling. Of Rich
mond, Va, took Place yesterday morn
ing at II O'Clock at the home OF the
brides mother. The ceremony was per-
fOr med by the Rev. Dr. James Buhrer,
of the German Reformed Church.
AIeck Brown gave his sister IN mar
riage The bride wore a becoming
gown of French blue broadcloth with
hat Of the same sha1e trimmed with
wreath of roses and fOrget-me-nots,
and carried an armful OF American
Beauty roses.
Mrs Harry Schmidt, sister OF the
bride as matron OF honor, wore z gown
OF old rose poplin with large black
hat and carried American Beauties.
Harry schmidt acted az best man
After a wedding breakfast Mr. and
Mrs. Bowling lett for a Western we'd
ding trip, and their future home at IL
East Grace street Richmond. Mrs.
Bowling wore a SIT of natural colored
linen and black hat for travelling.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
CABLE TELLS SUCCESS.
Brings News Of His Great
Achievement.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-Mrs. Robt. P.
Davidson of 619 Bushwick avenue, a
friend of the Cooks, received the fol-
lowing cablegram from DR.. Cook:
The cablegram received by Mrs.
Davidson was addressed to Mrs. Cook,
the wife of the explorer and was re-
ceived by her neighbor in Mrs. Cooks
absence from the city. The message
was dated from Lerwick, Shetland
Islands.
Mrs. Davidson explained that Mrs.
Cook had earlier in the summer gone
to the Adlrondacks and later to South
Harpswell Island, Me-, to which point
she forwarded the cablegram.
Successful and well. Cable address
Copenhagen. FRED"
The Cooks lived at GIL BushwiclS
avenue. Mrs. Cook and her children
are now at South Haverhill Island.
Me-, and Mrs. Davidson has tele-
graphed her the contents Of the cable
message.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
NORTH P0LE
DISCOVERED BY AN AMERICAN

daylight. The chill of the winter was
felt at its worst. AS we crossed the
heights Of Ellsmere sound, on the Pa
cific slope, the temperature sank to
minus SO centigrade. Several of the
dogs were frozen and the men suf-
fered severely, but we soon found the
game trails, along which the way was
easy.
I'VE forced through hansen sound
to Lands End. In this march we Sc
cured 101 musk oxen, bears and 1886
hares. We pushed out into the Polar
Sea from the southern point of Her
bert island on March IS. Seven Eski-
mos returned from here. With four
men and 46 dogs moving supplies for
so days, the crossing of the circumpo-
lar march was begun. Later two other
Eskimos, forming the last supporting
column, returned, and the trials had
now been reduced by the survival of
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
LUSITANIA CUTS TIME
Big Cunarder Lowers All Records
Crossing Atlantic and 10
Crowned Queen"

New York City.-The Lusltania
is queen of the Atlantic. Breaking
her former records and also the rec
ord Of the Nauretania, the great Gu
nard liner Lusitania swung into her
Fourteenth street pier shortly after
8 o'clock Thursday evening and amid
cheers was christened the Queen Of
the Atlantic"
The big turbine craft made the
passage from Daunts Rock lightship
to Ambrose channel lightship in four
days eleven hours and forty-two Sec
onds. She clipped two hours and fifty
six minutes from the record of the
Mauretania, and three hours and
eighteen minutes from her own fast
est previous time, made on August s.
Her average speed for the trip was
1885 knots. She used 1850 tons of
coal day during her trip.
The Lusitania left Liverpool Au-
gust % at 500 p. M, and arrived at
Queenstown at S:44 the following
morning. She left Daunts Rock light
ship last Sunday morning at 10
o'clock. Her days runs, measured
from to noon, were as follows:
Sunday, GIL; Monday, $50; Tuesday,
$50; Wednesday, Col; Thursday, CAT.
From noon Thursday, 1913, all total
ing 2,7S4 knots.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
WAS ONLY WHITE MAN TO VIEW
THE POLE.

DR.. Cook Is the only white man to
view the pole. His party composed en-
tirely of Eskimos, save for himself, is
the smallest that ever set out on such
an expedition. That his equipment was
most meager is shown by the fact that
even after he had accomplished that
in which all other explorers for
centuries had failed, almost a year
and a half elapsed before he could
have his great discovery announced
to the world.
On his dash to the pole, accomplish
ed by means of dogs and sleds, tenn
peratures that at times reached as low
as SO degrees below zero were encoun-
tered.
At Lerwick DIT. Cook cabled his wife
he had been successful and was we'll.
He requested her to cable her address
to him at Copenhagen, for which port
he is now steaming.
Lost TIdlngs In May, 1908.
The last tiding from DR.. Cook was
on May z, 1908, when an Eskimo who
had accompanied him into the ice
bound wilds returned to point south
with letter from the doctor, stating
he had reached Cape Hubbard, West
ern Elsmere Island. The point is about
500 miles from the Pole.
At the time DR.. Cook was preparing
to push northward. He had provided
himself with dogs and sledges, pur-
chased from the north Greenland. Eski-
mos. He proposed journeying to the
Pole by way of Buchanan Bay, Els
mere Land and through hansen Strait.
HIS arrival at Cape Hubbard showed
he was well on his way with the most
difficult part of his journey before
him.
Dr. Cook led the expedition to
Mount Mckinley, out of Seattle, in
1906 The expedition was successful,
and the mountain, which up to the
time had baffied the endeavors of man
TO reach it's summit was scaled. After
the perilous ascent the party started
on q hunting expedition on the border
Of the Polar regions, when DR.. Cook
expressed a determination to precede
Perry to the North Pole. He announc-
ed to John R. Bradley, who accom-
panied the expedition and provided
the funds, II he would give him pro-
visions for Is months and one trusty
man. he would make a dash for the
Pole.
The discovery, for which explorers
q many nations have Wed for
centuries, and in the attempts to
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
KILLS MOTHER AND SELF
SON BLOWS OUT BRAINS WHEN
POLICE ASK FOR HIM.
Crime Committed In Order to Get
Small Sum With Which
to Marry.

Pottsville, Pa.-Without waiting
to be accused of the murder
Of his mother, George Slmons blew
out his brains at the home OF his
sweetheart, Miss Viola Hartranft,
when he heard police officers inquiring
for him.
Previous investigation showed that
Simons had killed his mother q week
ago and left her body In an attic, first
stopping up the cracks in the door SO
that the odor of the decomposition Of
the body might not be detected, and
then mailing the door and marking II
paint" 80 that nobody would touch
1t. To add to the horror of the crime,
Simons had covered the body of his
mother with quicklime, hoping to de-
stroy the evidence Of his CHASTITY deed
Mrs. simons disappeared last Thurs
day. Young Simons told his father
that his mother had gone to visit
friends at Mahoney City, and he found
that she had not been there. He then
came back and asked Chief of Police
Davies to investigate.
The Simons house was searched
without any clew being found to the
murder. Then the door, sealed with
paraffine, attracted the attention of
Chief Davies and 1t was broken down.
Mrs. Slmons, who was So years of
age, was found lying in the middle
Of the room, her body already so de-
composed that it was difficult to tell
in Just what manner she was killed.
The motive of the murder is be-
lleved to have been the gaining of
trifing sum with which It Is evident
Simons expected to get married. He
was an only son and had been edu.
Gated as a civil engineer.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
sHOWFOLKS TO STRIKE
Vaudeville Performers In Nokelode.
ons Plan to Walk Out
Labor Day.

Chicago, Ill.-A strike of the
vaudeville performers of the moving
picture shows in Chicago has been
ordered for next Monday, Labor day,
unless the proprietors of 450 show
houses increase the wages of their
2,O11 performers to $25 week. This
action was taken at a meeting Of the
Actors National Protective associa-
ton. The booking agencies are blamed
for the holding down of salaries.
The fight, 1t was said, would be
directed against them, as well as
against the theaters.
The present rate of pay for vaude-
vile actors in moving picture houses
is said to be 500 a week, with $40 n
week for a team of two persons.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
WIFE SUES |. S. COFFIN
Charges Cruel and Inhuman Treat
men In Action for Separate
Maintenance.

Fort Dodge, Iowa.-Mrs. Nell
Fle ingalls, Coffin, wife of L. s. Coffin,
several times prohibition candidate
for governor of Iowa, filed petition
for separate maintenance, alleging
cruel and inhuman treatment Coffin
is known nationally as philanthro-
pist and temperance worker. He or
ganized the White Ribbon league and
the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A., and gained
much prominence by his advocacy of
legislation abolishing railroad prac-
tees dangerous to life and limb.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
SENSE ABOUT FOOD
Facts About Food Worth Knowing.

It is a serious question sometimes to.
know just what to eat when a per-
sons stomach is out of order and most
foods cause trouble.
Grape-Nuts food can be taken at any
time with the certainty that 1t will
digest. Actual experience of people is
valuable to anyone interested in foods.
A Terre Haute woman writes: az
had suffered with indigestion for about
four years, ever since an attack of ty-
phoid fever, and at times could eat
nothing but the very lightest food,
and then suffer such agony with my
stomach would wish / never had to
eat anything.
II was urged to try Grape-Nuts and
since using 1t do not have to starve.
myself any more, but can eat IL at
any time and feel nourished and salts
fed, dyspepsia is thing of the past.
and am now strong and well.
MY husband also had an experience
with Grape-Nuts. He was very weak
and sickly in the spring. Could not
attend to his work. He was under
the doctors care but medicine did not.
seem to do him any good until he be-
gan to leave off ordinary food and use
Grape-Nuts. 1t was positively surpris-
Ing to see the change in him. He grew
better right off. and naturally he had
none but words Of praise for Grape
Nuts.
Our boy thinks he cannot eat a
meal without Grape.Nuts, and he
learns so fast at school that his teach
er and other scholars comment on Il.
/ am satisfied that 1t is because OF
the great nourishing elements In
Grape-Nuts."
There's Reason"
1t contains the phosphate OF potash
from wheat and barley which combine
with albumen to make the gray mat
ter to daily refill the brain and nerve
centers.
1t is a pity that people do not know
what to feed their children. There are
many mothers who give their young
sters almost any kind of food and
when they become sick begin TO pour.
the medicine down them, The real
way is to stick 70 proper food and
be healthy and get along without med
lcine and expense.
Ever read the above IetterF A new
0ne uppeara from time 90 time. They
nre Eenuine, trees and full OF hunaR
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
COREY 10 No Badly Hurt.

New York City.--Reports cur
rent in Wall street concerning the
condition of William E. Corey, pres
ldent of the United States Steel Cor
poration, who has been kept to his
room as the result of an accident on
a yachting trip, were found to be
exaggerated. The report that he had
suffered the breaking Of leg in three
places was eontradieted, and II is
stated that the injury had included
only a small fracture and conse
"uen, twisting Of TIE llganeut&
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
Made Rapid Progress.

There before us in an unknown
line Of 400 miles lay our goal. The
first days journey provided long
marches, and we made encouraging
progress. A big lead which separated
the land from the ice of the central
pack was crossed with little delay.
The low temperature was persistent,
and the winds made life a torture.
But, cooped up in our snow houses,
eating dried beef tallow and drinking
hot tea, there were some animal COM
forts occasionally gained.
For several days after the sight of
known land was lost, the overcast sky
prevented an accurate determination
of our positions. On March 80 the
horizon was partly cleared and new
land was discovered. Our observation
gave our position as latitude S4.47,
longitude 1886. There was urgent
need of rapid advance. Our main
mission did not permit detour for
the purpose of exploring the coast,
Here were seen the last signs of
solid earth. Beyond there was nothing
to be seen.
Advance Made Steadily.
1--WE advanced steadily over the
monotony Of sea ice and now found
ourselves beyond the range of all life
neither footprints of bears, nor the
blowholes of seals were detected.
Even the microscopic creatures of the
deep were no longer under us. The
maddening influence of the shifting
desert of frost became almost unen-
durable in the daily routine. The sur
face Of the pack offered less and less
trouble, and the weather improved
but there still remained the life-sap-
ping wind which drove us to its low
est recess.
1.-THE extreme cold compelled ply
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
II Was His Way,

A Kansas farmer was telling recent
ly about the eavesdropping that goes
on along the farmers telephone line
he is on. He said that whenever he
talked he could hear the click, click"
of different receivers coming down.
And you can bet" he amended,
that they never hear my receiver
coming down, No, sir; l always hold
on to the thing and let it down SO
easy that it doesn't click!"-Kansas
City Journal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
Not Ambiguous at All.

The donkey is--or has been-asso
ciated with party politics in other
countries besides our own.
In one of England's elections a can
dldate for parliament, the late Lord
Bath, called attention to himself by
means of a donkey over whose back
two panniers were slung, bearing a
ribbon band on which was printed:
Vote for Papa"
1t must be added, however. that in
each pannier stood one of Lord Baths
aughters.-Youth's Companion.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

An advanced woman theorist wants
women on police forces on the ground
that the criminal needs mothering. It
is the opinion of practical theorists,
Disguised with the sentimentality of
the age, that what the criminal needs
is more lathering.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

and a doctor told me / would never
get more than temporary relief. A
dragging pain and lameness in my
back almost disabled me. Dizzy
spells come and went and the kidney
secretions were irregular. Doan's
Kidney Pills rid me Of these troubles
and feel better than for years past"
Sold by all dealers. soc. box.
Foster.Milburn Co. Buffalo. N. Y.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
DR.. COOK TELLS OF STRUGGLE
TO REACH THE NORTH POLE.

Paris-The Paris edition OF the New
York Herald publishes a signed state
ment from Dr. Frederick A. Cook
which is dated "Hans Egede Lerwick,
Wednesday," on his experiences in the
Arctic regions.
After prolonged fight with famine
and frost" says DR.. Cook, I'VE have at
last succeeded in reaching the North
Pole. A new highway with an inter-
esting strip of animated nature, has
been explored and big game haunts
located, which will delight sportsmen
and expand the Eskimo horizon.
Land has been discovered on which
rests the earth's northernmost rocks.
A triangle of 10000 square miles has
been cut out of the terrestrial I'M
known.
Outcome of Summer Cruise.
1.-THE expedition was the outcome Of
summer cruise in the Arctic seas
on the schooner Bradley, which ar
rived at the limits of navigation in
Smith Sound late in August, 1907
Here conditions were found favorable
for launching a venture to the pole.
]. r. Bradley literally supplied from
his vessel the provisions for local use.
My own equipment for emergencies
served well for every purpose in the
Arctic. Many Eskimos had gathered
on the Greenland shores at Annatok,
for the winter bear hunt. Immense
quantities of meat had been collected
and about the camp were plenty Of
strong dogs. The combination was
lucky, for there was good material
for equipment.
IAN that was required was conven-
iently arranged for at a point only
700 miles from the Boreal center. A
house and workshop was built OF
packing boxes by willing hands and
this northernmost tribe Of $50 per-
sons set Themselves to the problem Of
devising a suitable outfit. Before the
end of the long winter night we were
ready for the enterprise and plans had
matured to force a new route over
Grinnell Land northward along it's
west coast out on to the Polar Sea.
start Made February 1e.
1.-THE campaign opened with a few
scouting parties being sent over the
American shores to explore the way
and seek the game haunts. Their mis-
sion was only partly successful be-
cause of the storms. On the sunrise
of 1908 February 19) the main ex-
petition embarked on its voyage to
the pole. II consisted Of IL men and
1903 dogs, drawing IL heavily laden
sledges. The expedition left the
Greenland shores and pushed west
ward over the troubled ice of Smith
sound. The gloom of the long night
was relieved only by a few hours Of
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

In former times debtors were put in
prison. That sentiment on the sub
jeet has gone from one extreme to an.
other is illustrated by the case of a
man in Pittsburg sent to Jail for dun
ming another for a debt. It was the
man who borrowed money who used
90 be punished Now II is the man
who lends it, and maybe it serves the
latter right.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
Brooklyn FLAG Factory.

One of the biggest official flag fac.
tories in the world is in the Brooklyn
navy yard. Between eighty and one
hundred women work there all the
year round making flags for the use
of Uncle Sans fighting ships. They
use up 10000 yards of bunting a year
and fashion AIS different kinds of Off
cial flags. The flags cost $4,000 a
year.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

At least half dozen different pat
terms of flying machines can beat half
OF the more common birds at dis
tances ranging from 90 miles up to
80, and that is the real thing in the
flight line.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

A sad accompaniment to the hot
period is the lengthening list of drown.
ings. This is a time when special care
against the dangers of the water
should be enjoined.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

The young clipping Pittsburg brides
who cried because on their return
their fathers were placid and handed
them $4,000 checks will soon realize
that the real romance of the affair
was in the checks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Germany's wonderful progress in
aerial navigation is not to be lost
sight Of. 1t is not that that country
has monopoly of brains and E:i-
ence, but simply that It's inventors e.
reiye more substantial encouragement
than other countries care 70 give,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

The czar of Russia is said to look
much older than he is. Any man that
didn't, holding his job, would be in a
position to snap his fingers at all the
oslers on earth, for a hundred years
or so,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

II is strongly suspected that the re-
volts in Spain have been stirred up by
a mob element which has used the
Anti-war sentiment as an excuse to in.
dulge in looting and crime.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Plans have been prepared for the
elimination of grade crossings in Min
neapolis at cost of between $4,000.
600 and 100000. This is a large
sum of money; but the cost of safety
in cities is always high, and the re-
turns on investments of this kind
warrant the outlay.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
$4,000 Order by Rock Island.

New York Clty.--The Rock Island
system has just placed an order for
equipment amounting to 100000.
The equipment includes all kinds OF
rolling stock, freight cars. locomotives
and passenger coachea
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

A government land scandal has de.
veloped in Cuba with alarming prompt
ness for so new republic. 1t will not
be a pleasant experience for the Unit.
ed States, after all its trouble to have
the heads of the European nations
wagging with chorus of 81 told
you SOL"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Because a woman refused TO get
supper for her husband at midnight
a couple is in the divorce court. Why
could they not have compromised and
called Il breakfast?
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
Hitchcock Versatile Person.

Postmaster General Hitchcock is a
versatile gentleman. Last summer he
was the engineer Of the Taft steam
roller. Now he is filling Taft's old
Job of sitting ON the lid. In either ca
pacity he allows little to get by him.
Philadelphia Press.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Five feet of books will make some
men real scholars. And then, again,
there are other men upon whose ma
tive ignorance five cords of books
wouldn't make an impression.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
Crew Saved; steamer lost.

San Francisco, GAIA telegram
received here stated the steamer Ban.
don was ashore on the rocks, near
Marshfield, Ore, and was total loss
The Random was carrying lumber She
also had on board some passengers
who. with the crew were saved.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
crow Saved; steamer Lost.

San Francisco, Gala TELEGRAPH
received here stated the steamer BalF'
don was ashore on the rocks, near
Marshfield, Ore. and was total loss.
The Bandon was carrying lumber.
Passengers and crew were saved.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09
old seroeant.at.Arms DEAD.

New York Clty.-Felix McClos-
key, who was sergeantat-arms in the
house of representatives in Washing
ton for 40 years, is dead at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Louis Bramm, at
1926 Bathgate avenue, the Bronx.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-09-09

Olive drab cotton cloth is to be sub.
stituted for khaki, as the tropical UNI
form for the United States army. In
looks, at least it must be an improve.
ment. No uniform could look worse
than the dull brown khaki.