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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-10-21
DISTRICT FEDERATION
OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
Meet in Pennington Today-List CT
Delegates and Where They viii
be Entertained-Pro

The meeting Of the Ninth District
Federation of Women's Clubs meet
in Pennington this Thursday af-
ternoon at the Christian Church, at
O'Clock. Following is list Of the
delegates and where they will be
entertained while here:
Bonne Terre-Mrs. John Bowman,
entertained by Miss Mary Wilson /;
Mrs. /. l.. Page, by Miss Kate
Marks; Mrs. Wood, by Mrs. NJ. r..
Smith; Mrs. Moran, by Mrs, w. n.
Fleming.
Fredericktown - Mrs. Cole, by
Mrs. Merrill Pipkin; Mrs. Pirtle, by
Miss Grace Highley; Mrs. Purcell,
by Mrs. J. Fred Gould.
st. Louis Mrs. Chivis and Mrs.
Frankell, by Mrs. James Morris.
Cape Girardeau- Mrs. Alt, by
Mrs. NJ. 7. Cayce; Mrs. McGee and
Mrs. Helber, by Mrs. w. T. Halle
Mrs. Albert, by Miss Rozier, and
Mrs. Houck, by Mrs. G. r. Fleming.
Maiden Mrs. J. ID. Keller and
Mrs. Pierce, by the Misses Clardy.
DeSoto- Mrs. Efiie Fuller Roug-
gley, by Mrs. Philip 5. Cole; Mrs.
John Gibson, by Mrs. A. J. Iwart.
Program Thursday, 2 p. m.
Music-Mrs. J. Il. Smith.
Invocation.
Address of Welcome-Mi Rozier.
Response Mrs. Pierce of Maiden.
Report of Committee.
Presidents Address-Mrs. McGee
Of Cape Girardeau.
Paper-What Women's Clubs are
Doing and Why They are Doing
Them-Mrs. Bowman Of Bounc
Terre.
Paper Benefits Derived From Dis
trict Federation Meetings-M
Chivis of st. Louis.
Thursday Evening.
Reception at the residence of Miss
Elsie Cayce, to which invitations
have been issued.
Friday, Oct. 90, 8 A. NJ.
Music-Miss Cayce.
Reading of the Minutes.
Paper-School Music-Mrs. Keller
OF Maiden.
Club Reports.
Paper-Why a Busy Housekecpcr
Should be Club Member Mrs.
Cole of Fredericktown.
Report Of Chairman of Standing
Committee.
Open Discussion of Work of Stand.
ing Committee.
What Part Is practical in our Dis
trict-Leader, Miss Becson.
Report Of State Federation Meet
ing-Mrs. McGee.
Club ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Rouggley OF
DeSotO.
Election of ofiiaers.
Friday, 2 p. m.
Music-Song by Mrs. Edward C..
Barroll.
Paper-The Mission OF the Literary
Clubs-Mrs. Page of Bonne Terro.
Three-Minute Talks for the good Of
the District-Leadcr, Mrs. Moran
of BOnne Terre.
Literary Ideals of Childhood or
Youth.-Mrs. HUFF of Pennington.
Invitations for the next meeting of
the Federation considered.
Friday Evening SP15.
Recital at Presbyterian Church,
program of which was published
last week, and time placed for p. m.
Thursday, but the time of the reci-
tai has since been changed to S:l5 p.
m. Friday.
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend the sessions at the Christian
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-10-21
Thursday Evening

Reception at the residence of Mis-
Elsie Cayce, to which invitations
have been issued.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-10-21

Mrs. David Layton and her child
rem of Kentucky came in last Thurs
day evening to visit her mother,
Mrs. Samuel Vance. Mrs. Harry
Thomure of Bonnie Terre, who met
them in st. Louis, accompanied her
home.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-10-21

man, OF Yale. H., first; Jennie Coz
2cns.' owned by J. G. Williams. OF Lib
criyvillc. second
Two-thirty pace: Trump" owned
by W. A. Gregg, OF Wayne City, III,
first; Lady Nero owned by +, J..
Barnsback, Of Edwardsrillc, ILL.,, sec
ond
Two-twcuty-fyc pace: Robert H.,
owned by + W. Anderson, OF Com
mcrce, Mo, first; zoe Brown" same
owner, second.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-10-21
HORSES.
Roadster.

! " II Smolling,r first. paul Price
second.
Best mare, any age, 4 entries: W.
II, Smollingcr hr'ti NJ l. Ciardy j."
second.
Best gclding, any age, 3 entries;
NJ. /. CIardy, Jro first; J. K. Adams
second
Best stallion, mare or gcldIng,
years old, entries; w. II, Smollingcr
first and second.
Best stallion, mare or gcfding,
year Old ) entries: w, +. Doss first;
Charles K. Fowler second.
Best sucking colt, ! entries. l., 7.
McCarvcr first; \. y. Aubuchon
second.
Best champion stallion, marc or
gelding, entries; w. II. Smollinger
first and second.
'v"'" ~ '""' - W e''N'"s' >
Nj Ct,rd, so.and
Saddle
Best stallion. any age, 6 entries:
Oscar Edwards & Son first; Andrew
Yeagcr second
Best mare, any age. s entries: NJ.
l.. Clardy first, Linn Raridcn second
Best rcldinp. any aye. 8 entries.
NJ. l.. Clardy, Jr., FIRST; w. II. Whit
worth second.
Best stallion. mare or gclding.
years old, entries; NJ. /. Clardy Jr.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-10-21
Saturday.

Two-twcnty-fvc trot: Countess
B.," owned by J. L. Rodgers. OF Col
linsviIle, H., first; Eugene b"
owned by f. J, Barnsback, OF Ed
wardsyillc, Ill.,
This race established a track rec
ord of 2:2.,l
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
MATHEWSON'S IDEAS ON
PITCHING IN BIG LEAGUE

THE proportions of qualities
: needed for good pitching are
about as follows: Fifty per
cent. control, 80 per cent. luck.
ten per cent. speed, ten per
cent. curve.
"All the speed, the fast jumps,
the cross-fires, the spitballs. the
big curves, and the head are
worth nothing unless a pitcher
has control.
"The most disheartening thing
in the world for a young pitch
er is for the team to fail to hit
behind him. That has broken
the heart of more newcomers
than any other one thing.
"The team has never been
lucky enough to hit we'll behind
Marquard, and that is largely
responsible for his failure to
get good start. He has every
thing that goes to make a good
pitcher. Let them get a few
runs ahead for him and see
what he will do. He needs
confidence.
"The only man that has got
) ten a base on balls off me this
season when / didn't give it to
) him purposely was Clements Of
I Brooklyn"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
WOULD ENLARGE NATIONAL
COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP
Baseball Body Should include
Minor Representation.

President Murphy of the Chicago
Cubs has some ideas regarding the
government of baseball that he hopes
to see carried out before another year
is over He believes the membership
of the national commission should be
enlarged and that the minor leagues
should have representation on the
ruling body.
Baseball is big thing" said he re-
Gently; "a much bigger thing than it
was six years ago, when the national
commission came into existence l
believe the present members of the
body work as hard as they can, but l
believe there ought to be four more
members and that the minors ought
to have some voice in the rulings
handed down.
1T seems to me it would be a good
thing to have the presidents of both
major leagues and the presidents of
class AA minor organizations on the
commission. / think Powers, O'Brien
and Sexton ought to have voices in
the highest court of organized base
ball, and I would suggest that Presi-
dent Johnson and c. w. Somers of
the American league and President
Heydler and Garry Hermann of the
National be the other four members.
Furthermore, I belive that all the
meetings of the commission ought to
be open to the public. and that ball
player who has or thinks he has a
grievance should be allowed to appear
before the commission or be repre-
scented by an advocate for the purpose
of having his case stated properly.
81 don't think the major leagues
have any right to keep the minors off
the ruling board, and l am backed up
in this opinion by come of the most
experienced men in baseball, John T.
Brush among others. Baseball has
grown wonderfully in the last six
years, and there is no reason to be-
lieve it will not grow just as much
more in the next six think we ought
to prepare for the growth to come by
making the national commission a
truly representative body"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

Whitney's name was on all lips. Then.
as he was arranging to patent his cot
ton gin, thieves broke into his work
hoping to copy it and make similar
gins of their own before the patent
could be secured. Thus at the very
threshold of success, Whitney re.
ceived his first terrible setback. Furi.
Gus at such ingratitude from inhabi.
profit most by his invention, Whit
ney left the south and moved to Con.
necticut, where he began systematic
manufacture of cotton gins. In this
he was aided by the state of South
Carolina, which showed it's thanks to
him in the very practical form of a
gift of 100000.
But his rights were assailed and he
became involved in series of costly
lawsuits, nearly all of which he lost.
Thus his invention of the cotton gin
proved merely barren honor.
But the gin itself had by that time
revolutionized American commerce,
In 1871 only 1S9, 500 pounds of cotton
had been exported to Europe. The
next year Whitney's apparatus was
made, and in 1903 the annual amount
of export cotton had been increased
to 41,OOO,O00 pounds. Cotton growing
became a splendidly paying industry.
Thousands of miles of southern terri
- tory were opened
5000 up to cultivation
and trade, and
employment was secured for mil.
lions of workers. The price oil
cotton fell and it became we'll within
the means of the poor. America for
the first time was recognized the
world over as great trading center
United States products became abso
lutely necessary to Europe. What
Washington had done for freedom
Whitney had done for trade. His cot.
ton gin trebled the value of southern
land. changed barren wastes to rich
estates, built up capital and created
a new valuation and distribution OF
property.
He was, however, more fortunate in
later ventures. For, in 1898, he in.
vented process for making firearms
in detached parts (the first time ii
had ever been done) with separate
set of workers on each part, the diff.
ferent pieces to be later fitted &C.
curately together. He started a fac.
tory for this industry in Whitneyville
Conn, and grew rich.
But it is because of his cotton gin
that Eli Whitney deserves his niche
in the Hall of Fame. He laid the cor.
nerstone of our country's commercial
greatness. And the empty gratitude
of the nation he enriched is the only
payment he ever received.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

ny and reaped untold fortunes from it.
Richard Arkwright, a Lancashire
barber, saw Hargreaves' machine and
became interested in the idea. In
1857 he added to it by inventing a
spinning frame" Arkwright's frame"
spun thread of any degree of fineness
or hardness, leaving the operator moth
ing to do but to join broken threads
and to feed the machine with cot
ton. The spinning was done by rollers,
the carding passing through one pair
of rollers and being received by
second and faster revolving pair In
this way the thread could be drawn
out to any size.
Arkwright worked hard over this
device, neglecting his work as barber.
His family grew poorer and poorer.
His wife, a hot-tempered woman.
spent most of her time scolding the
inventor for his lack of money-earn
ing capacity. At last, one day in
gust of rage, she seized the just-com.
pleted machine and smashed it into
so fragments. All the work of years
was ruined and had to be gone over
again. The Unmatched couple sepa.
rated after this grand row. Arkwright,
after another long struggle, won sue.
cess. He was made knight and &C.
quired a large fortune, out of which
he allowed his ex-wife $3.50 a year.
Samuel Crompton, poor widows
son, was next to improve the cotton
ctry hn yocf Aoxxy ~, @ho
previous inventions was that the con-
The Punishment slant breaking of
e.. So. threads hampered
;nn E.,,o,. NJ. the perator's
s WV" "'e'' speed. Crompton
devised a simple way of doing
away with the industry's chief
drawback. He worked at this inyen.
ton in every spare hour, supporting
himself meantime by playing the fid-
die in local theater orchestra. He,
too, came in for his share of mob yio-
lence, was forced to sell his idea for
$500 and died miserably poor.
So much for spinning. The old.
time slow method of hand-loom weay.
ing was revolutionized about the same
time by John Kay, another English
workingman. The same weaving sys-
tenn that had been used in Pharaoh's
time was still in vogue No one had
taken the trouble to change it for the
better. Kay, however, by a new sys-
tenn of reeds, flying shuttle and other
additions, cut down the labor and time
OF weaving by one-half and doubled
the possible production of cloth. For
this he was mobbed and his mill de-
stroyed. He was for years the best
hated man in England. Driven from
town to town. his life and property al
ways in peril, he at last died.
Comparatively
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
WOULD GET WEALTH QUICKLY
Farmer Had Nothing But Contempt
for the Moderation of the Street
Magician.

A patent medicine salesman upon
the streets of a small Maine village
was giving free Straightforward per-
Torrance in order to collect crowd.
Presently he took handkerchief from
his pocket, held it by one extreme cor
ner, shook it, tossed it into the air,
caught it in his hand and took from
it 25-cent piece.
There" he remarked, "you see l
take this quarter from the handker-
chief, although you saw for yourself
that the handkerchief was empty.
can get another this way" he added,
and apparently plucked one from the
air.
"Gosh!" an old farmer in the little
audience muttered; that Teller must
not keer much fer money. If l could
do a thing like that, you bet
wouldn't stick at quarters-I'd take a
half dollar every time!"-Exchange.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

what removed by the refinement of
university education he naturally
sought the life of his instincts. A
born athlete, he still preserves deep
veneration for the pursuits of his fore
fathers. Already he is counting the
days until he is free to return to the
hunting grounds of his valley home.
Raised at Riverside. Cal. Myers
had every advantage of securing an
education. AS a boy he played with
his little white brothers of the town.
He just naturally took to baseball.
and as he was always big and strong.
he accepted but one position on the
field, that of catcher. From the sand
lots he drifted to high school ball.
Then he came east to study at Dart
mouth. A year in college and Harris
burg. of the Tri-State league. per-
suaded him to seek the diamond as a
vocation. He drifted west to Butte,
Mont, of the Northwestern league,
and made such hit there that St.
Paul, of the American association,
procured him almost two years ago.
From st. Paul he went to the Giants.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

The most interesting announce
ment ever made in connection with
the automobile industry was un-
doubtedly that made a month or two
ago to the effect that the new models
of the White Steam Cars could be run
on kerosene, or coal oil, instead of
gasoline. Everyone at once recog-
nized that the use of the new fuel
would add materially to the advan-
tages which the White already pos
sessed over other types of cars.
There were some people, however,
who were sceptical as to whether or
not the new fuel could be used with
complete success, and, therefore, the
makers of the White Car, the White
Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, deter
mined to make a public demonstra-
ton of the new fuel in the 1909 Gid
den Tour.
From the standpoint of the public,
no test more satisfactory could have
been selected. First of all, the dis
lance covered on the Glidden Tour,
from Detroit to Denver and thence to
Kansas City, was 2650 miles. This
was certainly more than sufficient to
bring out any weaknesses, if such had
existed. Still more important was
the fact that the car was at all times
while on the road under the supervi-
sion of observers named by those
who entered other contrasting cars.
Therefore, it would have been impos-
sible for the driver of the White to
have even frightened a bolt without
the fact being noted and penalty in
flicted. At night the cars were
guarded by Pinkerton detectives and
could not be approached by any one.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
FERTILE FARMS
FOR THOUSANDS
AT THE OPENING OF THE STAND
ING ROCK AND CHEYENNE
RIVER INDIAN RESERvA.
TONS,
Registration at Mobridge, Lennon or
Aberdeen, S. D., October 4 to %.

The opening of the Standing Rock and
Cheyenne River Indian Reservations in
South Dakota and North Dakota in o.
tober will give thousands of people 100
acres of fertile farming lands for a small
sum per acre.
If you intend to engage in farming or
are now farming and wish to change your
location, why not register for one Of these
farms? 1t costs nothing to register.
Aberdeen, South Dakota, on the Chica-
20. Milwaukee 4 st. Paul Railway,
and Mobridge and Lennon, South Da-
kota, on the Chicago, Milwaukee q
Puget Sound Railway, are points of
registration. You can register any day
from October 4 to %. The drawing will
take place at Aberdeen on October 26.
This land opening will also give you a
splendid opportunity to see the wonderful
country opened through the construction
of the new line to the Pacific Coast, at
small additional cost over your railroad
fare to points of registration.
Folders regarding this land opening and
the country along the new line in South
Dakota, North Dakota and Montana, free.
F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent,
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry.,
Chicago, Illinois.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

The complete success of the new
fuel while on the 2650-mile public
test and the advantages gained
through it's use were we'll described
in the following dispatch which the
correspondent of the New York Sun
sent to his paper at the conclusion of
the tour:
"a feature of the tour which was
watched with special interest was
that the White Steamer used kero-
sene, or coal OIL. as fuel instead of
gasoline. The new fuel worked
splendidly throughout the 2650-mile
journey, and all claims made in it's
behalf were fully proven. First of
all, as regards cheapness, the White
driver secured kerosene all along the
route from cents to 10 cents cheap
er per gallon than was paid for gaso-
line. Secondly, the new fuel was
handled without any precautions, and
it was not unusual to see kerosene
being poured into the fuel tank while
the crew of the car and an interested
crowd stood by with lighted cigars
and cigarettes. At the finish Of the
tour, the White was the only car per.
mitted by the authorities to enter
Convention Hall, where the technical
examination took place, without
draining it's fuel tank. Thirdly, the
new fuel proved to be absolutely
| without smoke or smell. Fourthly
kerosene could be purchased at what
ever part of the route was most con
venient, and not once during the trip
through the ten States of the Middle
West was there found grocery store
where kerosene was not readily and
cheaply obtainable. Finally, the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

O THE

amount of fuel used on the trip
showed that kerosene is at least
fifteen per cent. more efficient, gallon
for gallon, than gasoline. The car in
other respects made most creditable
showing, and there was the usual riy-
airy among the observers to be "a
signed to the White so that they
could ride with the maximum of COM
fort. The only adjustments or re-
pairs charged against the car during
the long trip were Tightening a lubri-
Gator pipe and wiring a damaged mud
guard. These penalties were not in
f1icted until more than 1000 miles
had been completed with an absolute
ly perfect score"
A particularly interesting feature
of the new White Steamer is that
either kerosene or gasoline may be
used as fuel. The necessary adjust
ments so that the fuel may be changed
from kerosene to gasoline, or vice
versa, may be made in a couple Of
minutes; but so completely successful
has kerosene proved to be, that it is
not believed that any purchasers will
| care to use gasoline.
The White Company report that
the demand for their new steam cars
both the $2O00-model and the
Acknowledgement their most san
guine expectations. 1t is evident that
the combination of steam-the pow
er which everyone understands and
has confidence in with kerosene
the fuel which everyone has on hand
and can handle without any danger
lis thoroughly appreciated by
up-to-date purchasers of autom0-
biles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10
By Albert Payson Terhune
ELI WHITNEY-The Magician Who Made Nation Rich.

A young New Highlander went down
to Georgia in 1892 to teach school.
He was raw-boned Massachusetts,
youth, Eli Whitney by name, who had
just worked his way through Yale by
doing carpentry jobs and tutoring his
less clever classmates.
Young Whitney had no money; no
prospects. The part of Georgia to
which he went could support school
master only at starvation wages. 1t
was a farming section. Cotton was
the principal crop. There was not
much money in this product, for the
time and labor involved in picking
and cleaning it for market were too
great to allow large margin. Hence
the planters were poor and many OF
them talked of emigrating.
Whitney lived on the plantation of
Gen. Nathaniel Greene's widow, a
thrifty soul, who took motherly in
terest in the poor New Englander. He
is also said to have been deeply in
love with pretty Georgia girl whom
mutual lack of funds prevented his
marrying.
The chief topic of conversation in
the aeighborhood was cotton, and the
chic; complaint the difficulty of sep
arating the lint from the seed in the
cotton boil. This work was all done
by hand One man, working hard,
could only separate a single pound of
cotton in day.
Mrs. Greene had noticed how handy
her young boarder was with carpen-
try tools and in improving and patch
ing up farm utensils. She told some
of her neighbors
A.. she was certain
~ ' he could devise
some sort of apparatus for helping
them out of their difficulty. To please
the old lady, Whitney set to work
thinking out the desired invention
Soon he became intensely interested
in it on his own account. He utilized
an clubhouse for his workshop and
drew up a rough plan for what was
later to be known as "the cotton gin"
At last the first cotton gin was COM
plete. 1t was mechanism of revolv-
ing brushes and saws, fitted up with
an automatic fan to throw aside the
lint as the machinery moved. By
means of this invention, which a sim
gle man or woman could operate, 1000
pounds of cotton could be separated
from the seeds in a day. In other
words, it would enable one man to
accomplish just thousand times as
much work in day as before 1t was
equal to cotton-separating force of
1000 workers.
News of the miraculous continuance
spread through all the south. People
travelled hundreds of miles to view
the invention and to watch it at work.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

Catcher Jack Myers of the Giants
has proved one of the real baseball
finds of 1909. Any youngster who can
break into fast company and show
the way to veterans in hitting, after
the pitchers have had plenty of &C.
casion to study his weaknesses must
pack the right sort of goods. Yet the
case of Myers is of added interest in
that the big fellow is an Indian.
Myers is, of course, an assumed
name, a college bequest to mark the
good natured aborigine from the Sc
Questered people of his tribe. At the
Pala reservation, in California, the
notable backstop is known to the
Mission Indians as Tories" A
strictly English Interpretation of the
word is beyond even the educated in
senuity of Myers himself. 1t is a
fusion Of the Spanish-Indian dialect.
and conveys about the same sense of
meaning as our slang "hot stuff"
Myers is not a reservation Indian,
though much of his time has been
spent on the California reserves. I'm
til the social barriers had been some