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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
RESOLUTION OF APPRECIA-
TON AND Improvement

At the close of the Business Meet
ing of the Federated Clubs, the fc'-
lowing recommendations were unan-
imously adopted:
First.-That we think it timely
that we express to our loyal busi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Scandinavian Services.

Rev. j. G. Hougum of Auburndaie
will hold services at the old City
Hall, West side, on Sunday, May 2,
at 1O:30 a. m. Scandinavians are in
vited
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
SPEAK FOR Y. M. C. A.

Two omasSmeetings OF Merrill citizens
were held on Monday 60 discuss the
proposed establishmen If a Young
Mems Christian association here,
State Secretary Anderson DR.. Brown
and Assistant Secre G II. Puehler
all Of Milwaukee ese among the
speakers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
Church Society Notices.
Saturday Evening. May lst.


The Girls Missionary sorority of
the Congregational church will
meet next Saturday evening with
Mrs. Geo. Hill. Miss Mary c..
Collins, an American missionary
among the Indians in the Dakotas
will be present and address the
meeting Miss Collins will also
give an address Sunday evening in
the church to which all are cor
daily invited to be present. All
of the members OF the Sorority
are requested to make a special
effort to be present Saturday even
ing at the home of Mrs. Geo.
HILL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
SHOT HERSELF IN HER FOOT

Eau Claire, Wis, April 26.-While
handling rifle which she thought
was unloaded Miss Lois Curtis of
Springbrook, placed the muzzle of the
gun on her foot and accidentally
pulled the trigger, the bullet pene-
trating the foot. 1t may have to
be amputated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
DR.. TILL RETURNS
TO AUSTRIA

Barron, Wis, April 24.-John Till,
the plaster-on-th -the-back healer, has
gone to Austria, his native land. 1t
is said, that he will never return to
this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29

Save old carpets, wool cloth ng
Grip apart sewed rags. Oshkosh
Fluff Rug Co. makes the best Rugs.
Leave orders, w. d. Pitcher, Com
mercial House, here about April 2S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
DRINKS POISON In
DRUG STORE

Palmyra, Wis, April 26.-Mrs.
Frank Jordan bought carbolic acid at
a drug store here and as the clerk
turned to wait on another customer
she drank enough to cause her death
in two hours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29
MRS. FALCH DEPARTS
FOR CALIFORNIA

Mrs. A. E. Falch and two children
left Saturday for Auburn, Cal, to
join her husband. Miss E Isle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-04-29

Mail matter advertised April 26,
1909.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
THE POLL TAX,

The poll tax which it was necessary to pay on or before February 1, 1909, was that which became due and pay able October 1. 1908. There is no re- quirement of payment of the polls which will become due and payable October l. 1909. That can be paid any time up to the first of February, next. without interfering with the right to vote of those who had paid all poll taxes due on February 1, last. All young men who have become of age since october 1. 1907, are entitled to vote without payment of poll tax, because they did not owe any on Oc- tober l. 1908. and are not compelled to pay before February next, for polls which become collectabIe October l. 1909.
 All that is necessary for young men of this class. who have become of age since October 1. 1907. is to register when the books are opened, and vote in the November election.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21

that the recent extra session of the Legislature was nothing more nor less than a political convention called to. gether for the sole purpose of putting forward candidates to continue the Conner policy. The program was sim ply to raise the temperance Issue through the proposed constitutional amendment, obtain the support of the prohibitionists which blended with the administration forces 1t was expected to wipe away any opposition like 6" much chan.
 "But the people are not as easily fooled as the Comerites think. They see the hand writing, and are deter mined not only to dethrone King Co., mer and put a brake on wild and cost ly legislation, but turn the fanatics out with the dry cattle.
 Another four years Of Comertsm and the State will be set back auoth. CT twenty-five years in progress and development It will take ten years now to recover from what has already been done.
 "You can put me down against the amendment and Conlerism. and I don't litical parsons may class me. l am about as tired of them as I am Of Co., mer, and I am not by myself by a large majority as the November cleo tion will prove"
 This Is pretty straight talk. but are nearly the exact words as spoken by one of Perry's old and highly honor ed citizens. and one who rode ten miles on one occasion just to witness the opening of Circuit Court with prayer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
TO DESTROY THE
 SANCTITY OF HOME

Louisville Courier-JOurnal.
 The 'constitutional prohibitionists" are attempting to make Alabama unique as a State willing to drop the excellent Anglo Saxon doctrine that a mans ome is his castle, and the com monly accepted America idea that local government, like charity. should begin at home. It would be as logical to abolish the right of the individual to determine the contents of his cupboard as to regulate by law the contents of his sideboard. It would be no less an invasion of rights to seatch the pantry for canned goods prejudicial to health than to search the ice-box for bottle of beer. To do either is to destroy the liberty of the individual. which is the foundation stone of the republican form of government.
 The Birmingham Age Herald predicts that the result of the Montgomery con vention will be the defeat of "constitu- tional prohibition" and the delivery of Alabama from a reign of unparalleled fanaticism and intolerance. Even If that prediction fails when the test comes, in November, there will yet be the question of whether fanaticism and intolerance can abolish the rights of citizens of the United States and Ala bama. In the meantime the serious consideration of scheme to destroy the sanctity of the home-the most eX- cellent and valued of all republican in- stitutions-causes the sanity of a con siderable proportion of the people of Alabama to he called into question.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21

Advertiser is owned by No, thern men. This is d vile mistake. This siander has been refuted SO often that if the editor of The Breeze knew anything about Alabama affairs he would know that 1t was false and untrue. Every dollars worth of stock of The Adver- tiser Is owned by the men whose names appear at the head of its columns and the members of their families. The Advertiser has out a small number of bonds. the face of which represent only a fraction of the value of the plant. Of these bonds. small in amount fve-sixths are owned in the city of Montgomery. No man or set of men ever sought to dictate the policy of the paper. and no man or set of men is in a position to do 1t. Any man who. by chance or direct inuendo. seeks to convey a different opinion, is guilty of vile and vicious ''misrepresentation."
 Mistake number four Is the charge That The Advertiser imported a north- ern cartoonist for work in this cam paign. If this were true. 1t would carry no significance. But the state- ment is a part of the mass of nisin- formation which was crowded into the two columns of turgid English in the last Breeze. It so happens that The Advertiser cartoonist Is Q Southern man. born raised and trained. stiil, The Advertiser would not hesitate to hire Northern man and has frequent ly done so.
 Mistake number five Is the under- handed sIur that big brewer came to Montgomery in the summer and possi- bly, visited The Advertiser ofice. The Breeze is authority for the statement of the alleged brewers visit. But the imputation. if there was such a visitor, that he came to The Advertiser office is absolutely false. We never heard or knew of his being here. and 1t appears that The Breeze keeps up closer with that class than The Advertiser.
 The Breeze man. in the short time he has been in Alabama, has been able to acquire an astonishing amount of slanderous transformation. It may be that he- has a constitutional weakness in this respect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
LEFT WEAKLEY
 FOLLOWEDLONC

An Age Herald Special of Septem- Der IS. from Cordova says:
 After meeting Tom L. Long here tonight with a view of debating on the proposed prohib hibition constitution al amendment, Judge Samuel D. Weakley, who has taken the stump in the interest of the amendment, de- clined to divide time with his oppon- ent as the result o< the turn which affairs took at the debate between the two men at oakman during the af- ternoon.
 Judge Weakley and MT. Long wero hoth at the hall at the hour appoint ed for the opening of the debate, but split at the debate at Oakman, and Judge Weakley. after explaining this. declined to indulge in an argument of the question with Mir. Long.
 Mayor J. M. Miller of Cordova said with reference to the debate at Oak man:
 "The sentiment of the gathering was decidedly against the amendment and when Mir. Long called off his follow ment forces out-numberej those who took the opposite side by about 15 to
 "when Judge weakley declined to meet MT. Long tonight, the latter again called off his followers and car ried away with him about nine-tenths of the crowd MT. Weakley then pro- amendment to the handful which re- mained and MT, Long spoke to the an- ti-amendment crowd elsewhere.
 Tt Is evident that the amendment will be defeated In this section by a goodly majority
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Fl, 1909.
DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM.

The Rochester (N. Y.) Herald, ac- cording to The Macon Telegraph. says that negroes are not achieving any marked success as servants in that section, and The Herald has this to say about 1t:
 It may not be to our credit never wife would attempt to hold her ser want force intact when a big funeral was on at the negro church or cir GUS In town; The Northern white white man man the less you use your mouth the more work you will do. The Southern white man knows that the negro Is giving him his best service when he Is sing ing.
 It Is a notable fact that many of the people north of us never did under stand the negro. and probably never will, = They could not understand either the negroes or the conditions under which they existed in the days of slav- cry. and seem fully as ill-informed now as then. To think that a genuine Southern negro, male or female, will work every day in the week and every hour in the day and not stop ofT to go a most lamentable degree of ignor- ance on the part of the people up there. They may get white employees to do 1t. but not a colored one. When the circus comes to town. or when there is to be a church picnic. or when an important funeral is to take place. the negro is going and their work must look out for itself while they are gone.
 But perhaps still greater missp- prehension of the negro character and habits is shown in the attempt of em- ployers to obtain and keep none but quiet colored servants. To expect the real negro or nsgress-especially the latter--to keep at work and not talk or sing is to expect the impossible. When the cook or washerwoman breaks out with:
 You may take me to the graveyard
 And roll the clods upon me.
 But every day'll be Sunday
 By-an'-by,
 you may know her work Is going on all right and that she is enjoying her task. If the average negro Is not allowed to talk or sing there's sure to be dissatisfaction and perhaps sighting or neglect of duty. The people up North will never understand the real Southern negro unless they come down and see them as they really are. We are not surprised to learn, asNwe do from The Herald. that the negroes there are not achieving success as servants. The reason is- too much silence demanded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
The Law Against SIander.

Chattanooga Times
 The statute laws of Tennessee con- against slandering ones neighbor' If was conceived for the protection of all classes of people; the poor and the rich; the high and the low. and it even protecting folds" The law says one may not speak evil or unjustly of ones neighbor for the purpose of inturing him either in his character or his bus mess. and to violate that law makes the offender Just as much a law-break- CT as if he put his hand in his neigh bor's pocket and stole his money. It Is based on Biblical authority and con preservation of society and the main tenance of the peace and harmony of community life. Thou shalt not bear false witness" judge not that ye he not judged" are commands that still hold good, and SO manifestly are they approved by civilized communities that they are embodied in the criminal codes of every State in the Union essential to the orderly maintenance of government and imposed by all the obligations of social life. In all times islander. the attack upon character and reputation, has been rightly re- garded as the most serious and inju- rious wrong one man may attempt to right thinking men hold to is embod- fed in the lines of the poet:
 Who steals my purse steals trash;
 'tis something. nothing.
 Twas mine. 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
 But he that filches from me my good Robs me of that which not enriches him
 And makes me poor. indeed"
 So jealous Is the State of the good name of its citizens that 1t makes 1t a criminal act to wantonly, purposely and maliciously traduce the good name of any one of them. And in the terms of its provisions 1t makes no exceptions in favor of any class and it bears Just as strongly upon the preacher in the pulpit as upon the friendles devil who pays the penalty upon the rOckpile.
 It Is well In these days of political stress and needless agitation that We | take this matter to heart and keep ourselves reminded that we are law breakers when we give loose rein to our passion, prejudice or hatred. and l that while we may be led away by our passion, our prejudice or our hate | which ought not to be the case-we are no better than the commonest of lawbreawers when we permit our selves to indulge in slanderous state ments about our neighbors or traduce | the good name of another without just and unauestioned warrant
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
A MASS OF INSTRUMENTATION.

In answering the latest effort of Breeze. The Advertiser is not dis posed to avail itself of the enormous advantage which the possession of common sense and a command of the English language gives 1t. We are rather disposed to believe now tha- his unfortunate position in the coa- troveIsy is duo to an ignorance If Alabama conditions. and hIs having a willing ear for islander and d mind ready to retail it. So. m refutlng his latest effusior we wi! be charitable enough to use mistake" instead of "faIsehood" where violence Is done to the facts in the case.
 Mistake number one Is the charge that The Advertiser suppressed the resolutions adopted by the Method. Conference at Greensboro on the death of Senator Carmack. Tn. Advertiser printed those resolutions more fully than they appeared in the record of the Conference. or in the column of any Alabama daily newspaper.
 Mistake number two Is the charge that The Advertiser refused to pub fish the letter of Rev. E. L. Crawford, which sought to defend the editor of The Breeze. The Advertiser printed fl just as MT. Crawford wrote FG
 Mistake number three is tkSt The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
Letters to The Editor
TALK IN BIRMINGHAM;
 SEARCHING IN MOBILE
Editor The Advertiser:

Editor The Advertiser: On the same day and the same hour that Hon. Archie Carmichael was mak- ing a political speech in Birmingham. disclaiming with greet earnestness any intention of the prohibitionists to in wade the homes of Alabama in a fanat- Ical search for liquor. the deputies of Sheriff Drago were breaking open the trunks of young women in a respecta- ble Mobile home.
 If there is any law or justice left us under our American system Sheriff Drago will have to pay damages for ican constitution is worth penny some one will pay tor the valuable property destroyed iu the streets of Birmingham.
 I have never been associated in any way with the traffic An intoxicants and I have never abused them m my life. Tn the name of God and our institu- tions whither are we drifting?
 Patriot.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
A Bix CoFnheld.

The biggest cornfeld in the state oi Kentucky is now being laid by. It Is Shoe sWeep of inc 0hlo river from Hen deTson' dsT round p Id past Evansville to Green liver. It is the biggest because 1t is corn continuously for 5000 or 7,OV9 by any other crop-no hay. no tobacco, no oats. or wheat-just corn corn corn and then more corn. It IS estimates ha raised in this monster tract this Vear @ and this is in spite of the fact that the farmers were scared out of o,a years yea . growth by the high water and Tor a high water would let them raise any corn. It means something to PI Iow one of these rows Of corn a miIe rong Tn team has made a few round trips 1t is time to rest a bit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
Time at the North Pole.

London Chronicle.
 At the North Pole time is nothing and if one were residing at the North Pole 1t would be unnecessary to wind one's watch. You ale always at IF o'clock and can't walk out of the hotel day meet at the pole. as the meeting place of all the meridians. A man sit : ting with the invisible mathematical point right under him would be in all twenty-four hours at once. Or a twen- ty-four hour watch placed on the pole could be made to point to the correct time in every part of the world. There ton to this in the extreme North of Norway. where the. degrees of longi- tude squeeze in. until reci days. Cap tains of Norwe gian coasting schooners will tell you how inconvenient 1t was to change between the time of Holland at Bergen and that of Crete at the North Cape. while correct local time was became indispensable.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
TAKING CARE OF THE HEALTH.
How to Be Sure the Body Is in Good
 Condition.


 If we would take as good care of our good health as we do of our bad health, says Good Health, we would have more of the former and less of the latter. draft and let It get its feet wet; we in fringe on its sleep time and gorge 1t with unsuitable food at irregular hours. We load 1t with nerve-racking cares and duties, and reply to its frantic ap- peals for rest with. You haven't time" We squeeze 1t with clothing; we dis tract It's ears with noise and It's lungs with bad air. But we put our bad health in a quiet room, on soft couch. We robe 1t In a comfortable gown: we give 1t pure air at stated intervals; we put Ice on its head and hot water at its feet! we feed 1t with f9od convenient 70 yen nn for 1t; We take away all care nth- and Ee- draught to rest 1t. and we pay doctor g to come and leave it a scrap Of pa per and say that 1t will be better to, morrow. One might think we preferred bad health to good health.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
turkish Rights Asserted.

The Turkish government has now no sert its rights. It first demanded oi Greece the recall of all Greek officers now serving in Crete; and when ths matter was in the hands of the pro- tecting powers, with whose knowledge and consent the officers were sent ts the Island, the Turkish government August 6, under threat of a severance of diplomatic relations, demanded tha the Greek government express it's dis' approval of the annexation agltattnn Ia Crete and disclaim all ambitions re. Rarding the Island.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
protest of Preachers

Jackson, Miss, Sept 20.-The Protes- tant Pastors Association of this city. decided at meeting today to protest against serving wine or any alcohol beverages at the banquet which will be rendered to President Taft on his arri- val here November l. A committee was appointed to present formal protest to the executive committee of citizens which has the banquet in charge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21

If man can't see anything broader or more important than politics in this campaign. he needs to inform himself, and if he can't advocate the amend- ment without forcing the churches in- to 1t, he needs to be enlightened and have his eyes opened.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21

Now. if The News and Courier had asked about the water in the milk, it might Rve stumped The Advertiser,' ventures The Charlotte Observer. Not a bit of 1t. If there's any water in Montgomery milk. 1t Is the finest and purest water on the continent. and that's fact. And there's no alcohol in it. either.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
Country voter Thinking.

A typical thinking country man re- marked to us the other day that he opposed the constitutional amend ment mainly on the grounds that lt has resolved itself into an adminis- tration measure.
 "I am a prohibitionist." he said "And shall do all I can to aid In en- forcing the profIebition laws, but l am aiek and tired of the present admin istration
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21

To make a violent and malicious speech against the whiskey inter- ests." and then take up a collection, seems to be the highest form of con ducting the campaign on the part of some of the Amenders.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
nWhat Cometh Out.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Nowadays, we read of political meet ings opened with prayer in churches. and preachers actually asking their hearers. if their fellowmen who diff fer with them as to the best way to promote temperance, believe in God or pray to him! In the XIV chapter of Matthew. 11th verse. the Saviour said: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man. but that which com eth out of the mouth, this defileth ~ zenas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
AEaInst Amendment.

Sumter County Sun.
 There assembled in Montgomery on the 18th. one of the most representa- tive bodies of men that ever met In the history of Alabama and passed ringing resolutions against constitu- tional prohibition.
 When such men as Hons. A G.. Smith, T. w. Coleman. Jno. A. Rogers. F. S. Moody. E. L. Russell and a thousand such men, denounce prop osltion. you may be sure 1t Is wrong and against the best interests of our State Vote against the amendment on November 29
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
Product of the Mill.

WaIker county NeWs.
 Just before tie special session of the Legislature convened the administra tion gave 1t out that Mill. master product in the way of "prohi-laws" which would be presented by the Car michaels and the FullerS would De same fellows seem to doubt the strength of these products, and are appealing to the people at the expense of the taxpayers, to perpetuate the scheme
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21

The astronomers needn't think they can disturb us here in Alabama by threatening us with Halley's comet. We have matters of more interest to look after just now. When we have delivered the funeral oration over the constitutional amendment iniquity. it will be time to look out for comets.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
 LEAVES TOWNSVILLE.
HarweII G. Davis Removes to GadA-
 den,

Thomasville. Sept. Especial. J. Harwell c. Davis left today for Gads- den, where he will locate.
 On account of the contemplated re- moval from Thomasville, MT. Davis rendered his resignation as trustee of the south Alabama Institute and as District Deputy Grand Chancellor of the Thirteenth Pythian District.
 A S. Johnson was placed upon the Board of Trustees. and J. W Tucker was appointed by Grand Chancellor Beck as District Deputy.