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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22
TUESDAY, JUNE ~, 1909.
Circulation Double That of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
PRoeLEM Musr nE SOLVED.


The solution of the problem, how
to secure enough cut-over lands to
insure the success of an inmigra-
ton movement, is the most important
matter the business men of Hatties-
burg have to consider, especially those
business men who have homes in
Hattiesburg and who hope to see a
permanent prosperity which will en-
able them to continue to live in Hat
uesburg and enjoy prosperous bus
mess The News has no apprehension
burg The return of normal business
conditions throughout the United
States will bring its share of pros
perfty to Hattiesburg and the fact
that it will come will be hindrance
rather than help to preparing the
way for that permanent prosperity
which can only come with the de-
yelopment Of Our agricultural re-
sources. With the return of general
prosperity our people will forget the
necessity of doing anything to provide
for the future and when our timber
resources have actually disappeared
the work of agricultural development
win have to be taken up when we
have less capital TO use in develop |
ment. For this reason it is highly |
important that we perfect our plans
now and provide for continuity of
action which will preclude any posi-
oility OF neglect and which will in
sure the successful termination of
our plans. The News is not welded
to any particular plan. It is more
that there shall be some
plan that will bring results. We only
have to glance at the past to realize !
'aa' some plan L necessary. For five
years our people have been talking
md doing nothing. Five years more
,f this inacticn will retard the deveE
,pment of this section for ten years
more. There are enough interests
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22
UP-TO-DATE
FARMERS
Rural Communities in Kansas
Organize Commercial Clubs
Same As City.

TOPEKA, June 22-Kansas farmers
are now tossing their fogy ways into
the discard and taking on city meth
DDS. Several rural communities over
the state are organizing country com
mercial clubs to further their own wei.
fare industrial and social. These or.
| CARNATIONS are unlike the old Farm
erS Alliance, in that they have no
grievances to air, are not working the
political end and are not founded upon
"the wall of the downtrodden."
A country commercial club operates
about the same as a commercial club
in big city. 1t keeps close tab on
business matters that affect its COM
munity, and when it finds that it can
improve business conditions IL does SO
The farmers chip in enoght money
to keep the organization going.
Extension of the rural delivery sys-
tenn and rural telephones, encourage
men of form improvements and the
building of good roads are some of TIE TIE
things the country commercial club Is
tackliAs, The first thing the club does
is TO encourage people to give their
farms appropriate names. This re-
quest is meeting with ready responses
and it will only be short time until
every farm in the conjmHhities which
have commercial clubs, will be appro-
priately named An effort was made to
get a law through last winter requir-
ing farmers to register the names of
their farms with the state. Senator
Brady of Douglas county thought he |
saw in the new movement possible con |
fusion for the postal service on ac-
count of the duplication of names. He
pointed out that cattle brands were
never properly protected until the
Western states registered them. The
legislature turned down his bill on the
rounds that 1t was premature. He
will press it again at the next session
nd by that time the naming of farms
yill have become so general he be-
ewes, that there will be a general de-
land for such legislation.
Its Country Roads.
Kansas perhaps has the best natural {
pads of any state in the Union. There c
practically highway on every sec II
on line. In three-fourths of the state
e dirt roads, ten months in the year
q as level and hard as floor. Only
Eastern Kansas are rock roads
'eded. The only thing necessary to ST
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22
DECISIONS F|LDED BY
STATE SUPREME court

JACKSON, June 22.-The Supreme
court yesterday afternoon announced
a reversal in the case of j. w. Stewart
VS.. State, the appellant having been
tried and convicted in the Jackson
county court for receiving deposits as
an officer in an insolvent bank,
knowing it to be insolvent. 1t is
probable this is the last of this cele-
brated case, and that the sentence
will never be applied.
By Whitfield, c. j.: Mississippi
Central Railroad company, VS.. Mrs.
Stella Hanna, circuit. Forrest coun-
ty, affirmed. VIM. NJ. Bell, VS.. VIM.
Fl. Phelan, chancery, Tunica coun-
ty, affirmed; w. L. Durham, ct al
vs.. Slidell Liquor Co.. circuit Lamar
reversed and remanded; A. G. Kelly
vs.. Fairbanks Morse Co., circuit,
Holmes. affirmed.
BY Mayes, j.: Southern r. r.
Co, VS.. Albert Jackson, circuit,
affirmed; Red Snapper
Sauce Co.. VS.. w A. Boiling, circuit,
reversed and remanded;
DR.. ]. NJ. Miller, VS., State, circuit
affirmed; Hiwanee Lum-
Der Co, VS.. Leroy d. Mcpherson,
circuit, Wayne, affirmed; Missis-
sippi Central R. r. Co., vs. Mrs.
Wade, Turnage, circuit, jefferson
Davis, affirmed.
By Smith, j.: ]. B. Guthrie, VS..
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22
Citizens Bank

the signal officers for determining the
speed of the machine. 1t is Mr..
Wright's contention that the machine,
flying over a rough country, where the
ground varies from a distance of 400
to 1900 feet below the machine is too
difficult to keep level. He says the
time lost through inadvertently follow
ing the course is great.
This morning Orville Wright ex-
pressed the belief that the new ma
chine will make an average speed OF
forty miles an hour.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

The people of Hattiesburg are very
much interested in having good
road to Leaf river on both Bouie street
and River avenue. The county can
certainly take care of that part that
is not in the city limits and it should
be done at once. The city should
also make provision for putting down
the fertilizer rock on that part which
is in the city limits
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

Y. & NJ. V. r. R., circuit, LAHORE,
motion to strike stenographers'
notes from the file overruled; Pasca-
goula Street Railway and Power Co.,
VS.. Christian Brandum, circuit,
Jackson, suggestion of error over
ruled; W. H. Cook VS.. Y. & NJ. V. R. R.
circuit, Warren, affirmed; ]. w. Stew
art, VS. State, circuit, Jackson, reversed
and remanded.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

We want every farmer and business
man to remember the Institute which
is to begin next Monday at the South
Mississippi College and which is de.
signed to benefit the farmer first, and
then everyone else who has business
interests in Hattiesburg. Also please
bear in mind that after the first ses-
sion the remainder of the Institute
will be conducted at the court house.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22
WANTS
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

SAW MILL OUTFIT FOR SALE-Con-
sisting of: l 10 X ~ egine, center
crank, l 35-horse boiler l No. 8
saw mill, blocks, SO feet carriage
make Southern Engine and Boiler
Works, Edger, saws. Price 81 800.
Also so acres of good land, Is acres
open, broom dwelling, well furnished
and painted and several other
houses, barns, etc. ,on public road,
5 IL miles from Hattiesburg. Price
10000. Will sell separate. Carter
& Howorth, Carter building. Hatties-
burg, Miss, 6-22-4t
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22
Question of Maintenance.

The proposition not only requires
the roads to be put in first class shape
but to be kept that way all season.
The Marysville idea is bound to
spread. Country commercial clubs,
which haven't enough ready cash on
hand to offer prizes for road wol k
will hold country entertainments, ice
cream socials and the like and secure
funds. Automobile owners, and there
are many of them among the farming
classes now, are solicited for extra
contributions for the road improve.
ment fund. Usually they contribute
literally. One farmer in Western Kan
sas bought $4,000 automobile recent.
ly. After he got it home he found q
stretch of road mile long in his
neighborhood that was too sandy for
his machine. He wanted to use that
road frequently, so he simply took his
farm hands and teams and built a mile
OF macadam road through the sand.
The road perhaps cost him $1,000.
But that was nothing compared to the
convenience the farmer got out of his
new road and the satisfaction he had
in knowing that his auto wouldn't get
struck there any more. 1t is not an
unusual sight most any Saturday in
any county seat town in Kansas TO
see 100000 worth of automobiles be-
longing to farmers punched up around
the public square or on the main bus
mess street.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

1t takes nerve TO tell the truth, for
it is to be regretted that the truth
sometimes hurts the feelings of those
we wish to spare.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

FOR SALE-Four good work mules
in good condition, two double
wagons and harness cheap. Apply
at Donovan's store, Front st.
e-22-n
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

keep the ma Ytfal dirt roads in good
condition is to drag them after each
rain. The farious commercial clubs
in the countrA have taken steps to
have the dragging done Systematically.
The club at Marysville has evolved a
plan which gets the roads dragged
regularly. 1t has hung up cash prizes
for the best ten-mile stretch of coun-
try road leading into the town. The
sum of $3.50 has been raised for that
purpose. After the first award is made
another batch of prizes will be award
ed. In fact the club will keep on of
fering prizes until the roads of the en-
tire county are put in excellent condi-
! ton.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22
Member Of the Associated Press

Entered as second-class matter on
Nay %. 1907. at the postoffice at Hat
fiesburg, Miss. under the Act OF Con-
gress of March Q, 1879.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

!, OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF HAT.
piEsRURG AND COUNTY OF FOR.
yaEST.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-22

4. j. Collins is the only authorized
travelling representative of The Hat
uesburg News and is authorized to col
iect for subscriptions and advertising.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14

and stay there we are convinced
that North Dakota has Iowa
and Minnesota beat some yet
when weather is considered.
We found on going down that
the farmers along the line were
just about as far advanced in
their work here as in any other
part of the country. They were
all engaged in plowing, drag
ging and seeding. While in
Iowa they were visited by
several snow storms and almost
every night the ground would
freeze so hard that it would
hold up a horse nearly all morn
ing. 1t is the most backward
spring they have experienced
in Iowa and Minnesota in many
wears.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
n. J. SAMN0N ARRESTED.
Was Assistant Cashier OF Deiunct First
National Bank Of Rugby.

Fargo Forum: United States
Marshall ]. F. Shea ar
rived home today after a trip
which extended over a week,
during which he placed under
arrest H. J.Sannon, former assis-
tant cashier of the First Nation
al bank of Rugby, of which Andy
Jones was cashier, which re-
Gently failed, leaving hundreds
of depositors to get only a few
cents on the dollar.
Sannon is charged with
making false reports to the
comptroller of the currency.
He was arrested on a bench
warrant, issued as the result of
an indictment returned by the
recent federal grand jury which
was in session in this city.
The defendent was arrigned
before a commissioner and
gave bail in the sum of 81, 600
for his appearance in court to
answer the charge.
While there is no doubt that
Andy Jones drew a winnin g
card from the grand jury, the
story that his whereabouts are
known to United States
officials, or that he had been
arrested, were denied at the
marshaps office today.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
Peerless Leader Of Democracy Will
Probably be Here In Fall.
Deliver SPEECH IN B0TTINEAU
Senator D. n. Macarthur Secured
Promise From commoner
at Grand Forks.

Senator d. H. Macarthur was
at Grand Forks and Cando last
week and heard w. J. Bryan
deliver his lecture on The
Price of a Soul" At Cando
Mr.. Bryan spoke in a large
tent, the town was full of peo-
pie and it was a gala event. He
was taken from Cando to
Church's s Ferry in All automo-
bile. Gov. Burke and Senator
Nc Arthur being in the party.
At Grand Forks he spoke in
the opera house and was ten
ocrcd a reception by the COM
n1ercial club.
Nlr. Macarthur secured tent
ative promise from Mr.. Bryan
to visit Bottineau some time in
the fall, probably in September
"r the early part of October.
He will pass through this Sec
ton of the country on his way
cast from the Canadian
northwest. Mr.. Bryan will be
we'll received.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
LAST NUMBER PRESENTED.
Alfred G. Arvold Delivers Closing Ad-
dress Of Lecture Course.

The last number on the Citi-
zens' lecture course program
for 19O8-9 was presented at
Greiner's opera house Friday
night, being a lecture on The
Uncrowned Queen" by Prof.
Alfred G. Arvo1d of the state
agricultural college at Fargo.
Mr.. Arvold is an eloquent
speaker and his lecture is fine
tribute to mother" beautiful
1y worded and delivered by a
finished orator. The speaker
was introduced by Judge John
H. Kirk, president of the as
sociation.
This years lecture course
has been a success both finan-
cially and in point of talent
presented. Next year it is
hoped to present a much better
course, however, and an effort
will be made to secure at least
one speaker of national reputa-
ton.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
MOST WONDERFUL GROWTH.
Experienced by North Dakota Banks In
Deposits In Ten Years.

Grand Forks Times: Ten
years ago North Dakota had
bank deposits of SO, 100000.
Today she has deposits of
$63, 1O6, 600.
The same number of years
ago North Dakota had twenty
four national and eighty-seven
state banks, or total of III in
all. Today North Dakota has
1872 national and 439 state
banks, or 81 in all.
This in brief, shows the
marvellous growth of North
Oak ota's financial institutions
in the last decade. The wonder
full forward progress of the
state with the opening of new
countries, extension of rail-
roads, increased acreage, etc.,
has been responsible for the
marvellous growth of the banks.
Trade has quadrupled in the
past ten years, the population
has more than doubled and in
many other ways North Dakota
has stepped into it's own. 1t
has been a wonderful period of
progress in every line of busi-
ness.
The table which follows
shows the steady forward
strides that have been taken.
Only in one year have the
bank deposits decreased as
compared to the previous year,
this being in 1904. and even in
that year the decrease is so
slight as to be hardly noticeable.
The following is the table
which shows how North Dako-
ta's financial institutions have
grown in the last ten years:
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
MRS. D. F. HURSH DEAD.
Passed Away Wednesday Evening After
a Short Illness.

Mrs. d. F. Hursh died We'd
nesday evening at 9: 80 o'clock
aged forty-one years. Odeoma
was the cause of death. She
gave birth to a child, a boy,
two days previous to her death.
Mrs. Hursh, whose maiden
name was Hannah Todd, was
born in England March 2, 1868.
She was married to David F.
Hursh twenty years ago and
was the mother of ten children,
eight of whom survive.
The grief-stricken father and
children have the sympathy of
all in this their hour of great
SOrr1Ow
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
nIREszgR EXPERT
S. F. Crahbe of Fares Been En-.
gagged by the City I'll.
FORM WATER.SEWER DISTRICTS
Arc Lights are Cut Out by City
Fathers Except at Four
Downtown Corners.

S. F. Crabbe of Fargo, who
has been engaged by the city
council to investigate the water
works and sewer proposition
arrived in the city Friday even
ing and spent Saturday with a
party composed of members of
the council and the commercial
club investigating the springs
in the mountains north of the
city to ascertain the feasibility
of getting water supply from
this source. He was also pres
ent at a meeting of the council
and commercial club, held in
the council room Friday night,
at which time the water works
and sewer question was dis
cussed in it's various phases.
He returned to Fargo Sunday
and will submit a written re-
port to the council embodyin g
his recommendations.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14

Raymond Bell at the opera
house, Wednesday, May 10.
The cast this season with Mr..
Bell is one of the best he has
ever had and this being the
third season for the play it
must certainly be alright.
Prominent members of the cast
are L. J. Donald, late of Belas-
co stock company, Ray l..
Butler. who created the part of
Sam in THE Girl of the Golden
West and Miss Chloe Fizer
who has been a prominent
member of Mr.. Bells company
for three seasons. In spite of
the fact that this is one of the
best companys ever playing
the Great Northern the prices
will remain the same as usual
25, 80 and 75 cents.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
Father Vaughn Died Monday.

Rev. Father Lawrence J.
Vaughn, the noted lecturer and
playwright, who gave his lee
ture on Sermons From Shake
speare' in Bottineau three
years ago, died Monday in ST.
Mercy hospital at Dubuque,
Iowa, aged forty-five years.
Rev. Father Vaughn was
born at Newark, N. j.. in 1864.
He was student of St. Bene-
diets college, Newark, N. J.;
St. Lawrence college, Wiscon-
sin; St. Vincent's, Missouri;
Kendrick seminary, St. Louis;
St. Johns university, Mime
sofa. He adopted the theatrical
profession, but later studied for
the priesthood. He was ordain-
ed priest in 1899. Since 1903
he has been on the lecture plat
form.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14

The city council met in ad-
journed session Tuesday even
ing. All the members were
present except A. Besancon.
The committee appointed at
the last meeting, consisting of
Mayor Murphy and Aldermen
Berthiaume and Besancon, re-
ported that they had engaged
S. F. Crabbe of Fargo, civil
engineer, to investigate the
water works proposition.
The committee on public
improvements reported an
ordinance, which was Civ
en- it's first reading, creating
Sewer District No. 1 COM
prising the entire city. An
ordinance creating a water dis
trict with the same boundaries
was also given first reading.
Thos. Sims was reappointed
a member of the special assess
ment commission.
The report of S. H. Wilson,
who had been engaged to audit
the books of the treasurer and
auditor was accepted and the
auditor ordered to draw war
rant for him in amount of $15.
All the arc street lights ex-
cept the lights at the Stone
hotel, Bottineau County bank,
Nero and postoffice corners
were ordered cut out and the
city auditor ordered to notify
F. NJ. Woodward of the coun-
cips action.
Adjourned to meet May 18 at
8 %. m.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14

Minneapolis Star: If a men,
Der of your family died, would
you print the resolutions on a
billboard?
If your wife entertained,
would you send an account of
it to the theatre program man?
If you were going to enlarge
your business would you ad-
vertise it in hotel register?
If you were going to have a
wedding in your family, would
you get out handbill.
You would send such items
to newspaper wouldn't you?
Then why don't you put your
advertisements in a newspaper?
Every man who uses a bill
board is adding to nature fax
ing.
Every dollar spent in a
theatre program, in register,
in a directory or in a handbill
is a legitimate dollar taken
away from the newspapers of
your town.
The newspapers build up
your town. Why not help
build up the newspapers?
There is no better ADVERTISE
ment in the world for a town
than a good newspaper.
A newspaper is the barometer
of the towns industry. Show
us good newspaper full of
advertising, and we will show
you a good town full of live
merchants.
Bill boards are an eyesore;
handbills are nuisance;
theatre programs are worth
less; hotel registers from an
advertising standpoint are
ridiculous.
Newspapers are town build
ers, town advertisers, fortune
makers, news disseminators,
sermon deliverers, prosperity
forecasters. They are a neces-
sity, not luxury. They must
be maintained. Without them
we would retrograde to the
medieval days.
Don't patronize them from a
charitable stand point. ~Patro-
nize them because they deliver
the goods-that is if they are
the right kind.
Cut out the .foolishness and
work for. the upbuilding of
your town and state by up
building your newspapers.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
NOT UNTIL SEPTEMBER.
Will Supreme Court Hear Mouse River
Drainage Case.

The Mouse river drainage
case will not be heard by the
supreme court until the Sep
tember term, thus delaying
work on the project until next
year.
1t had been hoped by the
commissioners to get hearing
at once in order that the matter
might be disposed of and work
pushed on the big drain this
summer if the decision of the
higher court was favorable to
the commissioners. Now it
will be impossible to do any,
thing until 1910.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14

Russell Sentinel: Editor Hol-
bein of the 800 line triplets"
the Lansford Journal, Overly
Tribune and Eckman Press,
tarried in the city few hours
Saturday evening. We under
stand Bro. Holbein intends
forming a syndicate to take
over his holdings in the three
publications, as he is anxious
to go out to the coast for his
health.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
BottIneau County Births.

Bottineau county births re-
ported in the county press: To
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Belcourt of
Westhope, a son; Mr.. and Mrs.
Norman Matteson of Westhope,
son; Mr.. and Mrs. Flahaven
of Overly, a daughter.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1909-05-14
Power Of Love.

The Power of Love-" new
comedy-drama with an excellent
plot and story intermingled
with a sprinkling of witty say
ings and laughable comedy is
the play to be produced by