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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09

Don't forget the cold Songs Con.
cert next Sunday evening la the
Ward Hall. Sse tho program In
another part OF this Issue.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09
Local Items.

And nov get ready for the Twenty.
fourth.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09

Dentist Smih will soon be bnck a..
gain and ready for your work. Bet
tor walt for him. II you want satlsfac-
ton.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09

II you vote next Monday for a
school trustee see that you do IL for
q qualified man.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09

when you want the pnrsst and best
Ice 10 town go TO J. n. HUNTER
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09

Stay At home for tbs Twenty fourth
and nelehratS in q hitting manner.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09

ZOE. foe. Joe. Plenty Of 10 at
Harry Hunters for cent per pound.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09
PROBATE AND GUARDIANSHIP NOTICES.

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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09
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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-07-09
Notice 10 Water Users.

Nate of FIRST Publication July ?. ilDl, ia
compile lnn ~ pnhneaiion Aug 2. 1909.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
MONTGOMERY.

They trusted not in strength, but tried Sheer courage, and with courage died; {; They saw the cost--the foeman's host, The frownings of hostile world; They cast the fatal dle-and lost But fell their banner still unfurled. urrounded-yieldlng not. but caught, Their chieftain till @ captive fought, And they. when long the old and young Had sunk beside the stalwart man Still, loud their proud defiance flung And fiercely as when strife began. But they are wrong who are undone And they are right that gain the day; And. like as one who longers on Mid stagings of finished play, I stand where throbbed the mighty That played awhile such tragic parts. There Is a requiem for the brave, But not the epitaph they crave. The victor, seizing glory's pen, To praise his deeds both theirs re- such splendid men--but then-but Twas folly led them on-or worse" An, let us pray for days that come When love and reason. not the drum, Shall usher the decree at first Which (after pain and heroes slain And wOmen's cries and hearts that Comes iate--so late 'tls hearts that And let us in one language pour All thoughts,-enough one BabePs
 tower
 Tn that one tongue, dynamic force Of men and means let statesmen try And right and justice, lest remorse With wisdom enter by and by And then, if blood shall still be hot And some will heed, and others not, The sword shall smite as shall be
 right
 And not alike for good or ill., For nations, leagued shall judge the
 fight
 And calmly, swiftly. force their will.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
MORE MULES.
Mean More FarmeA, More Farmers sR and Better Cultivationm,

Mean More Farmes, More Farmers.
 and Better Cultivations,
 Dothan Journal.
 When you take into, count the num- Der of horses and mules fshipped- to the Wlregrass, one naturally # wants to know where they. all go: Do they die? Are they shipped to other sections2 Some one answered the Squestion the other day by explaining that Bills old est boy was grown and married this year, and had opened up little farm. He had cleared some new ground. rent ed some land, and was spreading out, running three blows where for years but two had been run. Then just down the road, Jim's oldest girl married a to start crop with. And that's the song, all over this section. When two hundred new mules are shipped in here and sold in one season, 1t means that about two hundred blows will be run in this territory more than was run last year.
 So the mules are all here, or account ed for.
 We are just a growing community. We are doing more business; we are working more land; we are cleaning up more land; we are taking in the wood land that the gtuEpsntine foliks have worked for a number Of years. The timber is being cut off, and the land Is put to better service. That Is other section of the state Is being de veloped.
 Fifteen years ago, we had some farm CTS in this section, but they were not the farmers that they are now. They have learned some things during these last few years and their boys are learn ing more things, and they are learning fast. The boys that are coming on now will be better farmers in a few years than their fathers ever were and that Is a good thing to do. Every boy ought to try to make an improvement on his father in farming, as he should do in any other work.
 The man who plowed a couple of twenty dollar mustangs fifteen years ago, and drove about in a road cart on, Sundays, might have made eight bales of cotton. If he was a hust- Ter. for which he sold at from five to seven cents pound Now that same man is driving a pair of mules that he paid four hundred dollars for to a rub- her tired turnout. and makes twenty sold around fifteen cents this season and still looking up.
 That's what's the matter with this country. The people were taught economy for years and years, and liv- ed hard. and worked hard. and learn. things are looking up with the farm CT, he Is learning how to take the ad- vantage of 1t. When the farmer Is prosperous, the merchant Is prosperous; when the merchant Is prosperous. the banker is in fine shape, and So on doing better than he did at one time.
 We need not fear harm from too many mules coming into this section They mean more business, If they are used wellt and when man buys a mule at the present prices, he will take care of that mule as he would one of the children.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
SUNDAY, DECEMBER IF. 1909.
CENTURY OLD NEWSPAPERS.

To the newspaper fraternity one of the most interesting as well as one of the most attractive publications of the year. is the handsome brochure issued by The St. Louis Republic and other century old newspapers in hon. or of the recently formed Century Club of American Newspapers. There are in America eighty-two newspa- pers qualified by 100 years of age to become members of the club.
 It may thus be seen that America is slowly removing European ob- jection and an American regret at the newness of our country, and with cer- tain possible crude conditions that go with newness. The eighty-two news papers which form, the club have been in continuous existence for more than a century As was to be expected New, York and Pennsylvania furnish the larger quota of club members and Pennsylvania with nineteen papers more than a century old exceeds New York's number.
 The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is The Advertisers nearest neighbor which is a member of the club. The Cron- icle, founded in 17SO, is among the oldest members of the club. In the entire list there are only three or four papers older than The Charles ton News and Courier, founded in 17s2, ,@
 Virginia has four papers in the club and the most unique member of the club Is published at Newmarket. Va. At this small town of only 6S4 inhabi- tants. The Shenandoah News has been published for more than 100 years, which evidences remarkable and un- usual loyalty on the part of it's va rious generations of clients.
 The Valley News contributes inter esting data regarding the origin of the word News" usually taken to be derived from the French word "Nou- velles." When the paper first ap- peared in 1907, it bore on the first page a cut of a man on horseback, blowing a horn. out of which pro- ceeded the words: "Ich bring das Nous! So gut ich's weiss" ver- nacular German for q bring the news the best I know."0 ''Neu's" is the nearest form of the present Eng fish word known.
 The Century Club publication issued by The St. Louis Republic is on the heaviest and finest book paper. It is tastefulIy and artistically illustrated. it is valuable contribution to the archives and library of any American newspaper.
 The Advertiser lacks something more than twenty years of being able to qualify for membership in the Century Club.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
MRs. o,LEARY,s caw.

People of the younger generation, and even those of middle age. unless they happen on some reference to it, know little or nothing of the great fire which almost d. stroyed Chicago. for It occurred thirty-eight years ago. but the elders not only remember the accounts given of the burning but aI- so the alleged origin of the fire It was given out and generally accepted that cow and lamp started it. As the story ran, Mrs. o'Leary was milking a COW by the light of an oil lamp in the ground portion of barn filled with hay; that the COW kicked the lamp over into some dry hay and thus started a conflagration which came near destroying great city. It was fetching story. and has held good for more than generation. but now comes a son of Mrs. o'Leary who has grown tired of 1t, and has issued this statement:
 The fire was caused by spontaneous combustion in the hayloft. The old man had put in a load of green hay in that hayIoft and the cows were kept underneath. It was Sunday night. I went to bed before o'clock. had not got to sleep yet when of the house and we all got out. The first we knew about the COW and the lamp was when we read about 1t. Father and mother died sad at heart
 That is all very we'll and we sup pose no one will blame Mir. O'Leary for endeavoring to clear the name of his mother--and the old cow--but we predict that it will do no good. Such fetching story as that was, hoary with the age of almost forty years, cannot be put down as easily as that. The COW story has become accepted history, though 1t must be admitted that history itself, to quote con- temporary. 'is not very important to the toiler and hence. he survives the assinine rot stuffed down him. There is now being sold broadcast set of alleged histories, which deal with its makers. These books are we'll bound; 1; the print is clear. on fine paper; they adorn shelves nicely. But their rela- ton to history is--slight. No name appears on the title page and not on- ly is it evident that the hack who turned them out was unfamiliar with his subject, but that he lacked com mon sense. Yet. these books will be accepted by hundreds of thousands as history. It Is to laugh"
 We know nothing of the set of books to which allusion is here made. but in all probability they will be read and accepted as authentic his- tory by future generations. Mrs. o'Leary and her COW have become part of the history of the great Chi cago fire, and any attempt to discred- tt II ae thiS iato uoy ID 'iiiiS "d9'eu' Any one who should read the story and fail to find in 1t any mention of the COW and the lamp would throw the book down in disgust as not worth reading. Possibly 1t may be doing her an injustice but we hold to the COW part of the great happen ing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
TEACHERS IN SESSION.
Pedagogues of Colbert County Hold
 Institute. l


 Sheffield. Dec. 11.--(Special. )--The Colbert County Teachers Institute con vened in this city yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and continued in session. today.
 Yesterday mornings address included, an address bye Mayor W, R. Weston. and also an address by H. B. Urqu-- hart. President of the Sheffield Club. The afternoon session was given over to a general discussion of subjects of especial interest and importance the most important of which was "The Education of the Teacher" by Prof. F. T. Appleby, Superintendent of the Tus- cumbia High School, and Methods in Second and Third Grade Reading" by Miss Burt, member of the faculty of the Florence Normal College.
 This mornings session included an address on '"rhe Motive and Scope or the High School" by Prof. J H. Dos ter of the University of Alabama, Tus- caloosa; an address on Hygiene and Infectious Diseases" by Dr. w. II. Blake, of Sheffield. and How to Tell Story" and "A Story" by Miss Maud Lindsay, of the Sheffield Kindergarten.
 The session of the Institute closed Saturday evening with an instructive program consisting of an address on Methods in Literature with Special Reference to the Drama" by Prof. s. E. Burleson of the Florence Normal College, and an address by Miss Louie Jones, also of the Florence Normal College. her subject being 'The import ance of School Literature.". Several musical numbers were rendered by Dr. John H. Norman. director Of music at the Florence University for Women.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
Mobiles Time Trio.
Mobile Register.

MODtle ft0BlSLeIs
 Captain John Craft tells The Mont gomery Advertisers Washington cor respondent that he regrets Mobile sent only three men to represent the port to the National Rivers and Harbors Con ventlon. The chairman of the Mobile joint committee. Mr. Pillans, is con- gratulating himself and Is receiving general commendation from this pub lie upon the wisdom of his selection The three-minute address of Hon. w. c. Fitts probably covers his subject more thoroughly than could have been done any other speaker from this region who might have been chosen Mir. Craft impresses at once every person Wno comes in contact with him as a man of sincerity of purpose, and that goes q long way; while Colonel Frank B. MerriiIs wide acquaintance with men of other states who do big things and who can see the value of a proposition as soon as presented, makes him a valuable representative. also. Mobile had a team to be proud of.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

I ~ Y r. l.t 4li ls | the battle fairly and squareiy and won a most decisive victory honestly and with credit to all who took part in 1t. It is the part of wisdom. pa- triotism and good citizenship for the other side to yield gracefully and let the strife end. but some refuse to do so. Are we to understand that it is their wish to keep up an organization of their own to be used as q politi- cal power in the future7 If they try this they will find 1t to be both a losing game and a bad policy, In our judgment the great body of those who favored the amendment. and among them some of the very best men in Alabama, will refuse to join in an effort to keep up an organization that can do no good to State or peo- pie. but will necessarily do much harm.
 keeping up the strife any longer. The campaign is over. the result is unassailable and the matter should be looked on as definitely settled. We have something before us more com mendable. more patriotic and more profitable than fighting old battles over again. Alabama needs the ser vices and the loyal devotion of every citizen, for there is something for all to do. from the humblest to the most exalted. We can all unite in demand ing the enforcement of the laws and in assisting in tho preservation of or der and good citizenship. for on that depends our status as State and a people. There are almost unlimited possibilities before us and all should
 unite in their development. for all will be helped and benefited by bufld- ing up our State.
 Shall we lay aside all differences, wipe out all hard feelings and work in harmony for the common good. or shall we keep up wrangling and i'll feeling to our own detriment? Which shall 1t be?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

"The defeat of the proposed prohi- bition amendment to the Constitution of Alabama" comments The Richmond News Leader. was timely blow to the growing disposition to stuff State constitutions with legislation. Con- stitutions should be confined to prin- ciples. and lay down general rules, while the making and unmaking of statute law in conformity with those principles and rules as changed con ditions may demand should be left to the legislatures. as representing the people. Alabama has a prohibition law and the people wisely decided that the Legislature was entirely competent to deal with the problem They most sensibly resented having fastened upon them for long period a restriction that at any time owing to reaction in public sentiment they might desire to modify or abolish"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
LET US HAVE PEACE.

It Is much to be regretted that a few of our amendment contemporaries and very few. we are glad to say --are bent on keeping up the bitter ness and hard feeling generated dur ing the recent hot campaign. They re- peat the unjust and malicious charges indulged in while the fight was go- ing on. They abuse the newspapers which fought the amendment and fla grantly misrepresent the great body of thoses who voted against it. In short, some of them are as intoler- ant and unfair now as they were be- fore the election, and indulge in the same style of what they call argu- ment to account for their defeat
 What possible good can come of such a course, and what possible ben eft can they hope to derive from keeping up the strife after the mat ter has been settled in such a decis- i've manner? If the amendment had been defeated by very close major ity we can see how it's friends. for lack of other explanation. could bring and the like, and thus to some extent account for the result. That is the usual proceeding where one side wins by a very small vote.
 But no such ground of contention can be occupied in the present case The opponents of the measure boiled 50 per cent. of the total vote in spite of all the efforts that could be used on the other side. To say that this large majority was composed of the ignorant, the vicious and the purchas- able element is a grievous islander, yet there are still a few who make these charges, if not in exact words they do 1t by plain inference. hoping in this way to explain away their defeat.
 Nothing more unjust and unfound- ed could be resorted to by way of ex- planning the large vote against the amendment. From its most promi- nent leaders down to the humblest voter it contained as good men as ever took part in public affairs in Alabama. We will not follow the example of some on the other side who have not yet recovered their balance and charge that all the bad men were on the amendment side, or claim that all good citizens were with us, for that kind of claim would be both unjust and untrue. What we do claim, and what we know to be true, Is that the amendment was defeated by good men who were in the main actuated by the highest and most pa- triotic motives. and who have no cause to regret their course, much less to feel ashamed of their com- pany.
 We cannot see or conceive of any good that can come of keeping up the strife. as a few of them persist in doing. We claim that our siSe sought
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
CnndIdates for Governor.

Birmingham Age-Herald.
 50 many men of keen political ob- servation and hard common sense who had no scruples about betting won con- siderable money in taking the anti amendment side, that it would not sur prise me to see some of these same the governorship," said a man about town. But this far in advance it would take reckless man indeed to stake his money on gubernatorial candidate. Several excellent names are mentioned for the governorship but there will be other good names.
 Governor Jelks Is being mention ed as a man with high record and d host of admirers who would be glad of the opportunity of voting for him again are eager for him to enter the than nolitics. hut I have an idea that the old Guard which dld such splen- did service in opposing the amendment will take hand in next falrs cam paign and help to help to select a model man to preside over the states destiny for four years from January l. 1911"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

proposition of the constitution. out of the reach of the legislature and the people. There Is where Maine
 made her great mistake. If it were not for our folly In having made a police regulation a part of our fun iamental law, the people could, from time to time, alter the statutes to suit themselves and to meet existing conditions. They could have state prohibition, local option or whatever else they wanted As the case stands
 their hands are tied. For state to voluntarily put on the shackles of fanaticism In an act of extreme fool ishness. Alabama has sensibly avoid ed taking such course. Maine would get out of the scrape very quickly If the leaders of the dominant party would permit popular vote on the question f'f
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
AIabama's Good Sense.

Maine Democrat.
 The defeat of the proposed con stitutionai amendment in Alabama indicates that hysteria Is giving way to common sense down in that region and that our southern friends arc learning that prohibition does not spell temperance. There was also one important feature of the Alabama election which should be worthy of consideration in Maine. Many voters who were not opposed to experiments ing with the state prohibitory system did strongly object to imbedding the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
Repudiated the Amendment,

Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The New York Herald says Alabama has gone wet by 15,000 or 20.0O0 yotes," and The Tribune makes a simi- lar assertion. Read the news more prohibition law. She merely repudiat- ed an attompt to abolish the constitu- ton. The repeal of the Fuller law will come later, when It's complete failure has been demonstrated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
DRIFTWooD
.Christm.. cir,

"Christmas Gif'." Here's a fact
 On which I've dwelt.
 Now's when we make
 Our presents" felt.
 Surest Way.
 T wonder" said Harold Necktie, just how can ascertain just what she thinks of me"
 Marry her and you'll soon find out,' replied Percy shoestring.
 Has 1t Caught Youg
 Now's the time of year
 When peoples chief caper
 Is wrapping things up
 In white tissue paper.
 How About Its
 Here's truth I think
 Upon which you can bet,
 A suffers the husband
 Of a suffragette.
 sea-weed.
 Now is the time of year when every one is seized with wild desire to sep arate himself from his money. Now let Congress play Santa Claus to the rest of the country who has so timorouslyi hung up her. stocking. |9J ,., ,di Fl sIt1,agh ,Is11ld oi ha.i ld De a DIE 'ane-p9eF ass ' as9 es. Now for the Thaw case again. Even the North Pole controversy can't keep that down. But we'll bet a nickIe the little blue dress has faded.
 .r, + l- Speaking of moving pictures, the av- craze husband hates to help move any, shop early" and often-the big stores need the money.
 girl has to quit hanging up her stocking just when it beigns to hold the most. The Rev. Dr. Wick tells a story to The Indianapolis News of "the new preacher" who didn't know, eulogizing lawyer to- the skies:
 ''He said the lawyer was a bad hus- band, bad father, bad neighbor and generally bad man morally, though he had been veryssuccessful in his pro- Efession. For the flinefafa new preach would not know just what kind of a man the lawyer had been. The preach CT arrived and asked man standing by. who was pretty much of wag, what sort of man the lawyer had Been. The wag lauded the lawyer 60 the skies. The preacher believed all he said, arose and pronounced a pa- thetic eulogy of the departed barristeI. When he had heard all he could stand to hear without unburdening himself to someone present, the judge of the court in that town leaned over to a lawyer who sat beside him and remark ed: Well, there's mighty little in ducement for a really good man to die in Smithville now" Christmas Dreams. I. It's the Christmas dreams-the Christi mas dreams, That we're dreamin' now while the fire
 light gleams. There are dreams of sweethearts we
 used to know Back there in the beautiful long ago! There are dreams of the time we were
 girls or boys. Content with the simplest of Christ
 mas toys,
 Oh, pile on the logs, while the frelight Now Is the time for the Christmas dreams.
 The Christmas dreams-oh, the Christ mas dreams Just few short years 1t seems Since we were boys and girls so gay Back in the Valley of Yesterday! The little stocking that sent a thrill Of joy a-creepin' along our spine! Oh, goodness, and gracious, and wasn't 1t fine?
 Oh, pile on the logs. while the frelight gleams,
 Now is the time for the Christmas dreams.
 PHIL H. ARMSTRONG.