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The Springdale news., 1909-09-17
{ Berryyille Progress) )


 At her home near Rule Sept. 3rd, occurred the death of Mrs. Alta Webb. aged v. She leaves several children and a large num- ber of relatives to mourn for her. Her remains were inferred Saturday morning at the Walk CT cemetery near Fairview.
 The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elden Callen who live north of Green Forest was kicked in the head by d horse late last Thursday afternoon and very seriously hurt. The left eye ball was knocked out and the flesh on the forehead badly bruised and cut Nt last reports fhe little fellow 9a> faring as well as eoah4 ha4e beeli=e expected
 The waHs of the nev Neti1o- Hist emreh Will probably h. fin sfaa t6Is Wae6. and faea fhe
 boar He 4Hr #e #all~ win concrete Will 6 begun. fhfz when Husffs5 H be one ot t6a best constructed and most substantial buildings h North Arkansas The concrete finish on all joints will add 10 The dara- bility of the walls.
 France Johnson. who lives on Reels creek about seven miles west of town. Iost=his house and barn and their contents by fire last Saturday. While Mr. John son was gone to Eureka Springs, a little boy undertook to roast an egg in the barnyard with the re- suit that the fire got beyond con trol. Besides destroying the house and barn. d pen of fatten- ing hogs and nine bee hives were burned
 \ growing interest in the opening political campaign IS be- ing manifested by those who are desirous of serving the people in an official capacity. The number who have already declared their intention of entering the politi- cal arena. IS not in excess of the number usually in the race, but several are known to be closely watching developments and may later declare their intentions of becoming candidates. Following IS list as far as we have been
The Springdale news., 1909-09-17
MADISON.
{ Huntsville Democ at. ]

Huntsville Democ at
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simpson are the happy parents of fine boy baby.
 Isaac Tice. an old and highly respected citizen, died at his
The Springdale news., 1909-09-17
ne near Truth Tuesday

\ good rain Is reported at St. Paul Saturday night, but the drouth remains unbroken in other parts of the country.
 John Harrison, all old citizen of neear Mante died Friday. The deceased was highly ro- spectrd by all who knew him.
 Harvey Combs. who is teach ing near St. Paul. came home Saturday, having dismissed his school for a week. and iS help ing Circuit Clerk Parsley dur ing court
 .Jno A fa.ll!s. who return ed with his family from Im- perial. Cali. few months ago. has decided 10 remain in Ar kansas and has taken charge of his farm near Huntsville.
 Will Montgomery. who has been conducting a general mer- chandise store at his farm. near the Alabam church. for some time. has sold lis stock of goods to Hugh Hatfield and Will Porter and the same will be 
 moved b Alabam.
 x. Woods has sold his farm on Bohannan mountain to Rlum= mer and Moore Lewis. sons of W. II. Lewis. The Lewis boys are now in North Dakota but We presume they will return soon to take charge of their purchase. Mr. Woods. We un- derstand. will move to Okla homa.
 Attorney l.. B. =kllion of Boston informs the Democrat that he has sold all his personal property and will move 10 Se- bastian county. locating at Bo- nanza. Bob says he has very flattering proposition offered him at that place and will accept t as soon as he can wind up his l fa 4ailntH
 Ward Ellis k laid up with d broken bone, the fibula, in his right leg. the result of being kicked by mule while working at the livery barn Monday. He was feeding two mules and while passing between them one kicked him down under the oth CT and then the two proceeded to put him out of their stall as only mules can.
 The colt show conducted here Monday by the Madison County Coach Horse Go.. owners of the French Coach stallion Payne. was largely attended. and there nerr f6t of fine colts oil eX bibifion. Tho premiums award. ed #-e5a~ teiioNs 91e=hest coll F. .lone~. ~5 second besf .fa WtHrou ~l4 ps easa5eat 5e#f 1zEHd
 TEe 9a9efa e1fs8s4a~ 5eela fa 9#aI.na w. M EzWI, 65EH sne recently 0az asaHs spark iroH his ppe .ar. leU5s informs as that whlie h. smokes frequently he k ne1er so careless as to % neal his barns with lighted pipe and neither of his sons now at home smoke at all He k positive i'll lis belief that his barn was pur- posely set on fire by some one.
 Forty-eight pints of whiskey secured by Deputy Sheriff Frank Young from the City Drug Store at Pettigrew by authority of a search warrant granted by Judge Naples was destroyed yesterday by Sheriff Berry in front of the court house. The whiskey was taken last April and has since been in the custody of the officers pending further orders from Judge Naples. The destruction of the booze was witnessed by 3 large crowd
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The Springdale news., 1909-09-17

tire on account of the condition of his health, it being such as not to admit of his active par ticipation
 Rev. Edwards arrived from Lincoln yesterday morning 10 assist Rev Q. II. Tucker in the revival. Rev Martin of Spring town. will also help part of the time The attendance is good, and members of all denomina- tions are taking some interest and lending their assistance.
 Mayor R. ]. Maxson received a letter this morning from Mrs. Fugate, who left here about month and q half ago. Her home is now at Award. Okla, and she signs her name Wlekham. After leaving here she was met =by Jas. $. Wickham, former manager of the Gentry telephone system, and they were united in marriage
 tRogerS Democrat
 Work has been resumed at the kruse gold mine and they have q gasoline engine and hois= ter at work.
 W. \. Aired of Avoea left last week for New York to buy apples for q commission house. Mr. Aired is getting to be one of the oldest and best known buyers in this section.
 J. H. Eichman and family. SIX of them in all. were baptized at the Christian Church week ago. IL IS rather unusual to see So many members of one family join the church at the same time
 II. k. Altman and family and J. A. Barton and family leave today for Hanna, in the south central part of Wyoming. where they expect To make their future home and will engage in farm ing.
 Frank w. Hardy and family ar rived last week from Ava. Okla, to make Rogers their future home. Mr. Hardy has rented the east room of the new Nandoyer block and by September 20th eX- poets to open large and up-te- date stock C ladies clothing, mil iinery. furnishings and dry goods
 It had been feared that the drouth might interfere with the at the opening of Rogers Academy Monday but the fears proved groundleSs. The enrolment was well np 10 the average for the opening day and quite number have an nounccd that they will enter la ter.
 Married ii Inc residence of lbe brides parents Ar ana Mrs. EstIe sunday September a at five p 5r Elmer Boruath and
The Springdale news., 1909-09-17

Miss Ina Estle. Rev Elizha But tram said the words that blend ed two noble lives together. The happy couple will soon go to Ok lahoma to try theeir fortunes in a new country-Pea Ridge cor rcspondence.
 !. II. Stevens was arrested last week on the usual charge of H. legal sale of wine and six bar rels of wine were confiscated by the local officers. When the case was called 1t was dismissed but he was held under a former charge of selling wine 10 d nm or, which had been held up pend ing future developments. The wine was ordered destroyed but Stevens took all appeal to the circuit court and it Was stored until the case can be heard
 Miss Zilpha Reayes and John Curry were married yesterday afternoon at the home of the brides $ mother at Fl. Smith. They arrived here last night on the Cannon Ball and are Yisi- ting at the home of the groom $ parents. Dr. W. ]. Curry and wife. Mr. Curry. who is an en- gineer on the Frisco with head quarters at Ft. Smith, Is a Rog- CTS boy and the young cople will make their future home al Fl. smith.
 Miss Mildred Oliver Of Benton vile and |. Dickson Hall Of Rogers were married last night at Bentoa9ille al the home of her mother. Mr. Hall and bride came to Rogers last night in an automobile and took the night train. The young couple will visit Seattle and other western points on tn. wedding trip. l Miss Oliver has lived in Ben tonville all her life and. Dick ] has for number of years been bookkeeper for the Bank of Rog- CTS. They will make Rogers their future home
 fGravett News
 Ed Gravett. who is Stockhold CT in the prosperous Manhattan Kans. City and Interurban t Y. is offered very attractive sal ary and position as business man ager of the above lines. and has decided to try he position for three weeks. and will go to Man hattan first of next week.
 The Board of Directors ot the Sanders Co. met Monday and closed arrangements for open ing the vinegar plant this week, and the company k now buying annfaS F N firayotte was ap- pointed to manage atfairs of the company aHd kafH employ ed a, op#faaaa a F. ptaat
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 sbane in 6asiness circles has faHzetH Pliee within e nast .ea daz, A Cobb aas sold his interest n the general mer- clandise store af tbi9 place to Geo. II. Woods ot Illwassee.
 John A. Jack Was born in Nalr- 700 county H.. .luly 3. 1876, and died at the home of his brother, i O. l.. Jack, at this place Saturday morning, Sept. I. with that dread disease consumption having come  here five weeks ago realizing that there was no hope for him.
 The Bank of Sulphur Springs held their annual meeting Aug ust 31st and elected the following directors (. ]. Williams. C. F. Church. NJ G. Campbell, $. O. Whaley The board of directors then met and chose C. J Will
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10
pray" unless indeed. he is compelled
to swear.
Need Better Service.

Rock Island Union: The travel on
Mississippi river steamers during the
summer is very heavy Just now the
through boats are filed to their ca.
pacity. Every state room is overflow.
ing and cots are used in the cabins
for those who are unable to secure
berths.
All OF this goes to show that the
Mississippi river is a popular thor.
oughfare for summer travel. When
the accommodations are taken into
consideration it is rather wonderful
that SO many people spend a portion
OF their vacations on the river. Not
that the meals are not good enough
or that the beds are not clean. and
comfortable, but compared with the
accommodations furnished elsewhere
the river accommodations are much
behind the time. II the Diamond 10
or any other big navigation company,
would fit UP its boats with proper
dining cabins, and give a la carte
service, and furnish modern state
rooms there is no reason why the
amount of river traffic should not be
many times increased. There surely
Is not more beautiful scenery to be
found In the country than along the
upper Mississippi from Dubuque to
st. Paul. The lower Mississippi also
mas its charms the broad expanss
OF water. eddying currents and the
eeaseiess flow through tle alluvial
plains its banks fringed with beau
thu timber-produces varied pan
Drama of beauty and grandeur that
is hard to find elsewhere.
The time will come when some one
VIII see these advantages and avail
themselves Of them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10

on the south. to Salisbury and States
vile, N. c., on the north, nearly 300
miles of tower lines and pole lines
have been built, with much greater
length of transmission circuits. The
double circuits on steel towers connect
the generating plants at Rock Creek,
Great Falls and Catawba, and run to
Charlotte, Concord and Salisbury.
Originally these transmission cir
cults were operated at $4,000 volts,
but provision was made for doubling
this voltage to $4,000 when desired,
and it is understood that this increase
has been put into effect on the double
trunk line that connects the general
ing stations and larger cities.
In the distribution Of energy from
the various sub-stations to the manu-
featuring plants and lighting stations
that are supplied. voltage of $50 is
employed at some plants and of $500
at others The great bulk of the ener-
gy is used by cotton mills.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10
MONEY in CIRCULATION.

A reduction OF almost $4,000, 900 oc-
Cured in the amount of money circu-
lating in the United States during July,
the decrease being chiefly due to con-
tinued heavy shipments of gold to Ar
gentina. The total on August amount
ed to sS,095,OSO.999 which exceeds all
records on the same date in any year
OF the past ten. and compares with
sS,045 ,962,547 in 1908. Most of the loss
as compared with the previous month
was supplied by gold coin and certif-
icates. while national bank notes
showed the only increase. The per
capita circulation was placed at s34.76,
against s34.77 last year, 1927 in 1907
and s2S.12 in 1901 This nations cur
rency circulation has expanded more
than s1,0O0,OOo.0oO in the past decade,
and over $4,000, 600 in the last two
years.
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Jefferson county,s Corn FleId.

Fairfield Tribune: A ride through
the country now is like taking a tonic.
The corn is fairly falling over itself
to get out of the way of the frost and
it is safe money to bet on 90 per cent
of it winning out OF course there are
some low places In the fields that are
not looking the best and there are
some whole fields where no great
showing is made, but all in all. the
people of jefferson county have a
great deal to be thankful for in the
way Of crops.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10

Fourteen travelling mems organiza-
tons, with total membership of 300
600, have combined against the hotel
keepers Of Iowa because of their oppos-
ing the Iowa hotel inspection law en-
acted by the last legislature. Direc-
tors of the Iowa State Travelling Mems
association. one of the largest organi-
cations Of commercial travellers in the
world. have passed resolutions de-
nouncing the recent action OF the Iowa
Hotel Mems association which was in
strumental in enjoining Hotel Inspec-
tor Higgins from inspecting the Sa-
bin house in Dies Moines. Resolu.
tions were mailed to Attorney
General Byers who. according to Sec
rotary L. c. Deets OF the Travellers as
ISOLATION has declared the hotel inspec-
ton bill constitutional contrary TO the
contention of the hotel owners.
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TWO SUNDAYS
TOWN AND DESERT

concert giving not too many coon
songs and other secular ditties.
That torrid day reminded me of a
Sunday l spent in the desert, at The
Needles, three years ago. in the sink
OF the Colorado river. Returning
from California in early June. l
wanted to know what desert is
like. I found out The long train
pulled into the small burg about nine
p m. Every other door was a saloon,
and everybody. apparently, except
"the Indians not taxed" was throng-
ing them. The bar-tenders set up
schooners at fifteen cents per. Each
monumental glass wore a crest Of
foam that looked like the forbidding
lace ruffs, that Queen Elizabeth
wore, and the body of the glass was
about as big as her enormous hoop
skirts. | could never understand
why Queen Bess wore those things
at her throat. They were as for
midable as that flaming sword that
guarded Eden after Adam and Eve
had been given the kibosh and sent
about their business into exile, after
Ewes unfortunate talk with the co
quent snake and handing poor weak
Adam that apple whose core stuck
in his throat and gave the race that
miserable bulge, called Adams APP
pie Bess's lover, the favorite earl
could not get within city block of
her. with labial designs, when she
had that rigging on. And he did not
dare knock that balloon she wore,
sideways, to be conscious of her
solid substance. How could he boss
Bess? She did not need to wear that
menacing fertilization. She wac red
headed, and freckled. and too tall
and awkward. Her gait was as graceful
as a hens. Her carriage was neither
phaeton, nor surrey, nor sedan
chair. The earl was not rashly going
to tackle all that.
But to return to our beer with its
dome of settling foam. resembling
white thunder-head. Placards warned
all to secure their beer tonight. Sun
day was dry, terrifically dry and
would be awfully hot A word to the
wise, when on the desert.
By Z o'clock next morning It was
hot, and mercury climbed to 116 in
the shade. A dry heat, no humidity,
but it wilted me. Temperature, they
told me, rises every day to 120, 100,
yet men and horses get used to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10
IoWANs, ANNUAL PICNIC.

Nine thousand Iowans attended the
annual picnic of the Southern Califor-
MIA Iowa association at Long Beach,
Cal, on the last day of July. The
weather was ideal for the outing. Pic
mic dinners, bathing, boating, much elo-
quence and good music went to make
up programme which was altogether
delightful.
Mayor Alexander. who is as proud OF
being an Iowan as he is of being the
first recall mayor elected in the United
States, took his first day off, since
his election as chief executive of
Los Angeles and spent the day with
his old friends from Iowa. In his ad-
dress he took occasion to praise the
craftsmanship of Iowa to the disad-
vantage OF California, saying that he
had lived for thirty years in Tama
county and what he knows of politics
ne learned from James Wilson, the
present secretary of agriculture. He
also acknowledged pride in the par
ucipation of Iowans in the upbuilding
of southern California. He said there
are 10000 of them IN that part of the
state and that he did not exaggerate
In declaring that Iowans have done
more than the natives of any other
state to bring that section to the
front
In connection with the outing was a
reunion of former students of Iowa's
many boosted colleges and UNIVERSE
ties. In the auditorium the names of
the institutions were posted in differ
ent parts of the hall Iowa State uni
yersity. Drake, Upper Iowa, the agri-
culture college at Ames and Morning
Side brought the biggest groups to-
gether Twenty other schools were
represented by goodly registrations.
Iowans came from all parts of south
ern California Special trains were
run by the railroad companies and
special trolley trains brought thous-
ands from Los Angeles Former resi-
dents of ninety-three counties held re-
unions and many old acquaintances
were renewed
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Secretary Wilson adds his voice to
the general warning that the cost of
living rises for a good many reasons
but one of them is that food supplies
are not keeping pace with the growth
of population. That makes more COM
petitors for what is grown than other
wise and they bid against each other
with the consequence that prices rise
for food. II is safe to assume that food
stuffs will continue to command good
price as long as there are more mouths
than bushels.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10

H. A. Burrell in Washington Press:
Last Sunday was a scorcher Auto
lists could not ride fast enough, they
said, to keep cool in the artificial
breeze, for it, itself, was a hot num-
Der.
The church choir lofts were as hot
as love, in August. in Coontown.
The male quartet in the End U. P.
church were decolette and dishabflle.
Colonel Palmer and another sat in
shirt-sleeves. but their galluses
showed. Two others wore shirt-waists.
Why not? Can women be permitted to
have all the good things? l "trow
not l "opine" nix. Women dress
in summer to look cool as cucmbers
with the dew on 'em, but many have
confessed to me that they were not
near as cool as they looked. plague
take 1t, When logged out in white,
and just enough powder on face to
discourage sweat, which they dab up
with a dainty handkerchief as actors
do. sopping lightly here and there,
they look like exhalations from the
arctics
Why will the clergy persist in
wearing in the pulpit wooden "Prin-
cipal Alberts?" 1t heats the congre-
cation to look at them. Why not
alpaca. even seersucker. or serge?
In the evening. Frank Smith played
several delightful numbers on the or
gan in the Baptist church, and at
the close his collar, cuffs and shirt
were softer than wood pulp. needing
to 90 TO the laundry. but l hope he
may this time succeed in conserving
his natural resources" He was a
drenched Baptist, all right, and Of
fered to kiss me on the cheek, Ger
man man-fashion. but he was too
wet a fish. His face was red, redder,
reddist. resembling the countenance
of Indian Chief Kiss-ki-Kibosh.
It was an awful day. What kind
of a town is this, that the electric
works shut down on Sundays. and a
fellow can't turn on the juice to
make his electric fan create whirl-
ing cone of cool air in the house?
How can man endure to go to
church. when, in the deafness OF
that vital fan, he has to wallow half
the day in a bath-tub? So one had
to alternate all day between said tub
and the Victor monograph and amuse
himself with nvelong day sacred
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-10

it and work right along. My room
in the one small tavern in the town
was many-windowed, but-whew! A
sponge-off was but temporary re-
lief. l strolled to the trains, and
watched the Indians, a measly set.
the squaws' hair rancid with grease
and lair for all sorts of small
game and creeping things; tattooed
from mouth-corners to chin, blear-
eyed, barefoot, feet as hard as horn,
selling strings OF beads, shells, ETC.,
and bucks offering passengers bows
and arrows. pipes carved, and other
bric-a-brac of domestic manufacture.
Then back to sponge. A church bell
rang-afraid to go-service too long
between baths, distance compar-
able to the length of time between
drinks, complained of by the COVER
nors of North and South Carolina.
That holy day held seventy-two hours.
In the evening walked down street
had not been on, and no one told
me the Santa Fee was building an eat
ing house. and completed building
supplied with baths, library, billiard
room. electric fans going in them all.
and cool soft drinks at hand-lo! |
sweltered all day when might have
had these comforts to mitigate the de-
struction that wasteth at MONDAY.
That placs was, indeed, a terrestrial
paradise.
The next morning was off early,
and that ride from the Colorado riv-
er through Arizona, to Williams,
where one gets off TO go to the Grand
Canyon, was the most beautiful |
ever took. and doubt If the contin-
ent, this or any other continent, has
It's equal. Desert, mesas, mountains,
all yividly painted by chemistry, the
loveliest shapes and tints. 1t. was
nothing less than panorama. The
scenery shifted every instant like bits
of colored glass in kaleidoscope. A
gloriously cool breeze blew in at the
windows. and the buffet car contrib
uted nobly to the pious endurance OF
the climate.
And yet the desert is as beautiful
and charming as siren-however,
never saw a siren, but let it go. The
colors are wonderful, the sober grays.
the blue Inning on yonder mountains.
the vast azure overhead, as intensly
blue as the ocean. And the stiffness.
the baroness, the austerity OF it all,
not spear of grass, hardly a grease
bush or cactus, and the absence of all
animal life, not rabbit or prairie dog,
or gopher, or bird-the sense of des-
olation is profound. not bit depresss-
misunderstanding. rather; the rushing
train seems an impertinence, having
no business to be there. invading the
far reaches of death and silence.
No more desert in summer for this
subscriber. and 70 more SUNDAYS.
please. like the last one in Washing.
ton. Will the works that make the
tame lightning see TO 1t that when n
fellow snaps the switch he can turn
on current that will make the brass
wheels or blades in the electric fans
go round, million revolutions min.
ute, shooting cone of GOODNESS
through ones rooms?
And your petitioner will ever