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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-18
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
THE TELEPHONE BUSINESS

when they are only indirectly inter
ested in any question they have not
the incentive or time to go to the
bottom for facts. This condition OF
affairs makes deception comparative
ly easy for the INSCRIPTIONS.
When people interested on one side
of question undertake to show the
weakness of the other side, there are
some who want to construe this as
"mud-slinging," or who doubt the cor
rectness of what is said because Of
a suspicion that selfishness affords the
inspiration.
Still selfishness can be truthful and
if people never hear but one side of
a question, they can never under
stand the other side and it is for that
reason that we intend, in a series of
bulletins which will appear in the col
umns of this paper, to give the pub
lie some information about the tele-
phone business. What we may say
will be subject to investigation and
verification. If we err, we shall deem
it favor to be corrected.
We have in your city large invest
ment in telephone equipment, which
we have placed here to serve the
Jackson public. People from Pennsyl-
vania, whom we believe to be mere
schemers and promoters, are talking
about setting up another telephone
plant in Jackson in such a way as to
make it we'll nigh impossible for any
company to make an honest and rea-
sonable profit out of the telephone
business in Jackson. We know tina,
the reasonableness of our rates in
Jackson cannot be questioned and we
will prove this. We believe that the
purpose of the promoters referred to
is to foist upon the Jackson public a
stock and bond jobbing scheme by
which they will make huge sum of
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-18

day afternoon at 8 o'clock with Mrs.
j. P. Carter, on Court street.
Mrs. S. J. York has returned to her
home in New Orleans, after visit to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. York,
314 Second avenue.
Little Miss Irma York, of New Or
leans, is the guest for the remainder
of the winter of her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. York, on Second avenue.
Mrs. l.. c. Carter is visiting in Me-
ridian, the guest of her mother, Mrs
M. e. Bell, on Twenty -ninth avenue
and Twelfth street.
]. F. Johnson spent few days this
week in Meridian.
jackson Daily News:
Mr.. c. G. Hutchinson, Of Hattiesburg
was in Jackson last evening.
Mr.. w. T. R. Caldwell, of Hatties.
burg, was in Jackson last night.
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money from the same securities.

money from the same securities.
The promoters will probably say it
is their intention to operate a system
legitimately for honest profit. The
history of the so-called independent
telephone business will not, in our
opinion, bear out such statement, for
right over at Meridian, where these
selfsame promoters have constructed
plant, there is mortgage or bond
issue amounting to $25O,OOO, and in
addition there is a capital stock Of
$25O,000, making total of 100000
in securities against property embrac-
ing approximately twelve hundred
Q2O0) telephones. This is a capital
exceeding $400 for each telephone in
the system. At Hattiesburg these
same people have erected a plant en-
bracing about seven hundred (70O)
telephones. According to the county
records there is authorized against
this property a mortgage or bond
issue of $150,000; the company is cap
italized at $150,OO0, making total of
100000 Of capital against about seven
hundred (70O) telephones, or more
than $500 in capital per telephone.
The nominal charge against good
telephone property for depreciation is
10 per cent. per annum. On the basis
of the capitalization of the two COM
panies referred to, the depreciation
charge alone at 10 per cent. against
each telephone would be more than
$40 per annum or more than 1925 per
month each. To cover this item of
depreciation alone, aside from oper-
ating or any other business, would
require more than all of the subscrib-
ers together pay. The fact that there
is about $500 more capital per tele-
phone than actual cost.
With this brief general reference l.
the subject, we will rest the case for
this time with the feeling that you
will agree with us that we are entire
ly within the bounds of propriety in
opening up the question for discus
sion.
CUMB. TEL. e TEL. co.
Oncorporated.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-18
SOCIETY,".
The Wedding of Miss Hand and
Mr.. Shepard

Mr.. Shepard.
"A wedding of interest to Mobilians
as well as to friends in Mississippi,
where the bride has lived, is that of
Miss Anna Caroline Hand, of Purvis,
Miss, and Mr.. Horace Sheppard,
which was quietly solemnized last eve-
ming at 8 o'clock at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Curran l.. Spotwood, in the
presence of relatives and most init
mate friends. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. w. J. Z. Cox and the
only attendants were the BRIDES Sis
ter, Mrs. Curran Spo,swood, a bride
herself of less than year and the
groom's brother, Mr.. Charles Shepard.
After bridal trip, Mr.. Horace
Shepard, who is the eldest SON of Mr..
and Mrs C. M. Shepard, will return
with his bride to Mobile and live with
his parents on Catherine street."
The above social item from she Mo-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-18
AUTOMOBILES.
The Time-Piace To Buy,

Buy now and save considerable
money, present prices speak for them
selves. Following are a few of our
great bargains:
Stevens-Duryea, touring car 6cyl-
inder, fully equipped Cost $500;
our price, $3.50.
Oldsmobile Roadster, 4-cylinder, full
fy equipped with top, with shield, rum
BILE seat. Cost, $2,75C; our price
$1,000.
Winton Touring Car, 4-cylinder, fur-
ly equipped lamps tools, etc. Cost,
$4,000; our. price 5000.
White Steamer touring cars, al
models, from $500 to $3.50.
Autocar touring car, 4-cyinder, 20
h.p. Cost $2,25o our price, s75o.
REQ touring car, equipped with. top
windshield, lamps horn, etc. Cost,
s1,400; our price, $500.
National 4-cylinder, 30 h.p Limou-
sine body, $3.50.
Rambler touring car. 20 h.p., 1885.
Maxwell runabout, $3.50.
equipped. Cost, $1,000; our price, s575
equipped. Cost $1,000; our price 1915
Ford Runabouts, all models, from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Cadillac Model NJ. Delivery Wagon,
carrying capacity 700 lbs. Cost, $1,000;
our price, 5000.
Recovered tires, all sizes at one
third regular price, and Limousine
and Landaulet bodies for sale.
Times Square Automobile conpsny,
Largest dealers in tire world in new
and used automobiles. N. W. cor
ner 18th and Pine SITS, st. Louis,
Mo. Two blocks from Union sta
ton. Send for our monthly bulle-
tin. Mailed free.
Branch Stores: 215 w. 4eth St.,
New York; 1882 Michigan Ave, Chi
cago. H.; 1901 Main ST., Kansas CITY.
Mo-; 23S-24O N. Broad St., Philadel-
phia. Pa.
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Facts Not Generally Known Civ.
en- to Public By Cumberland
Telephone & Telegraph Co.

On Feb. 26, 1909, the Jackson Clar-
ion-Ledger published the following:
The Cumberland Telephone & Tel
egraph Company of this city is pre-
pairing to issue series Of bulletins in
which they will set forth the facts in
regard to conducting telephone ex-
change and operating telephone line
This will be done for the information
of the people who usually hear only
one side of the question. Bulletin No.
/ is as follows:
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-18

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-18

To be discussed in Bulletins-public
to have facts-Bulletin No. L:
There are two sides to every ques-
ton. People are usually so complete
" absorbed in their own affairs that
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-18
HI?

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
GERMANS INDIGNANT.
Officials Feel That They Have Been
im-F9ammed by Uncle Sam.

Berlin, June 1.-The charges made
in Washington by various American
senators that the German govern
ment was endeavoring to influence
tariff legislation in the United States
by supplying official information re-
garding wages which upon examina-
ton proved them to be much higher
than the wages attributed to German
manufacturers in the hearings before
the ways and means committee of
the house has caused a disagreeable
impression in governmental Offices
here. This is especially the case in
the ministry of the interior. and the
foreign office. where the informa-
ton in question was prepared in
reply to a request sent in by the state
department.
The German government has been
subjected during the last two months
to attacks by German trade journals
for having supplied America with
German trade secrets. This know
ledge of German wages, it is alleged,
made it possible to adjust the new
tariff to level where German goods
could not be exported to the United
States. The abstract of the foreign
Offices communication through Am
bassador Hill to the state department
appeared in these dispatches, March
%. and was later reproduced in the
German newspapers. 1t brought saw
age attacks on the government for
yielding to the impudent demands OF
the yankees for official reports on
wages, thus arming Germany
competitors with vital information.
The state department in formuiat-
ing it's request sent through Am
bassador Hill is understood to have
emphasized the point that Germany
advantage lay in supplying trust
worthy information with regard to
wages so that the United States
could frame its tariff schedules
equitab1y. Otherwise. it was argued,
Germany could not complain If
erroneous information was used as
December 10. and was made the sub
ject of a communication to the fed
Grated states of Germany. each of
which ultimately obtained the in
formation desired from the official
chambers of commerce
The mass of reports was first col
lated in the ministry of the interior and
then in the trade division of the for
eign Office. It was transmitted about
March OF and arrived in Washington
about April 8, being sent in duplicate
both through Ambassador Hill and
Count Won Bernstorf. the German
ambassador at Washington.
Some surprise is expressed here
that for two months the material
annarenty did not reach the Amer
lean congress, or if it did reach
either house it must have been
nigeonholed. German officials have
been enduring attacks at home. but
thew are amazed at the accusation
from America that they acted
strangely in complying with the re-
quest of the American government.
The matter is likely to come up In
the Reichstag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
QUAKERS ARE WALKING
Some Owing to Car Shortage and Many
Out of Sympathy for Strikers.

Philadelphia, June 1.-Extraordi-
nary efforts are being made today by
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit COM
pany, the majority of whose motormen
and conductors are on strike for high
er wages and better working condi-
tions. to increase the number of cars
in operation. While the service is still
badly crippled, less than so per cent
of the cars being in operation, condi-
tons are slightly improved.
Several hundred new men brought
from other cities and picked UP here
since the strike was inaugurated late
Saturday, have been put to work under
the protection of the police. In all
parts of the city people are walking to
and from their places of employment,
most of them compelled to do so be-
cause of the lack of transported ton
facilities, but thousands from choice,
through sympathy.
The Reading, Pennsylvania and
Baltimore & Ohio railways are carry
ing more than 80 per cent of the peo-
pie from the outlying sections. Each
company has opened new ticket win
dows and extra equipment has been
drawn from other sections to handle
the increased traffic. There has been
no effort by either side to the struggle
or by third parties to end the strike by
peaceful means. The company is con-
tinuing it's policy of hiring men wher-
ever it can to take the strikers places;
the strikers are doing all in their pow
er to cripple the service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
MUFFLED THEIR DRUMS.
Fife and Drum Corps's Tribute to
Army Nurse Who Was Ill.

Chicago, June 1.-When the old fife
and drum corps of Woodlawn and the
scattering members of the old brigade
that every Decoration day marches
down Greenwood avenue to Oakland
cemetery passed the home of Mrs.
Anna c. Hubbard they muff1ed their
drums and trod soft and light with I'M
covered heads, for Mrs. Hubbard, who
nursed and cared for thousands of SOL
diers during the civil war, lay i'll and
near to the picket line of death.
Mrs. Hubbard is S5 years old. She
lives with her son, T. E. Hubbard, a
~-e1l known real estate man. Yesterday
was the first Decoration day she did
not appear in the window to cheer and
applaud the old Woodlawn soldiers as
they passed by underneath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
LASSOED MOTORMEN.
Rather YanIxed One From the Car at
Every Throw.

New York, June What Magistrate
Krotel considered rather a fanciful
type of Memorial day celebration came
into Harlem police court with Fred
Rather, a prisoner.
1T was most remarkable" explained
Police Sergeant Higgins. This man
had a piece of rope fully forty feet
long. He had it arranged as a lasso,
and as the trolley cars would spin by
the corner of One Hundred and Six
teenth street and Second avenue he
would whirl it about his head and lasso
the motorman from the platform. He
used a fine aim, your honor. and yank-
ed the motorman from the platform
every time he made a cast"
Rather was fined 50 and earnestly
importuned by the magistrate not to do
anything further in the way Of imped-
ing the traffic of Harlem's streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
Would you like to sing like
Melba, Calve and Eames,
and possess as well their
physical projections?

Great artists like Melba, CaIve, Eames
and others, devote as much care to the
preservation Of their physical beauty
as to the development of their voices.
Hair and complexion demand the
greatest care. A smoothe, velvety and
roseate complexion in connection with
a luxuriant head of hair will transform
the most commonplace looking female
into an attractive and fascinating wo-
man.
Women in professional life thorough
ly understand this fact. How often we
hear the expression, What a beautiful
head of hair" or What lovely com
plexion.' etc. Take a woman, for in
stance, of fifty years, whose hair has
become streaked with gray. If she
thoroughly realized that Q-Ban Hair
Restorer would restore her hair to its
youthful beauty and abundance, what
would she not pay to become possessed
of it, and if she knew that applications
of the Restorer to the face would re.
move all pimples. blothes. ETC., and i'm
prove the complexion a hundred fold,
besides making her appear fifteen years
younger, would she use it? DR.. Mott
says that he never in his entire prac-
tice, failed in one single instance to re-
store gray hair to color, depending
solely upon Q-Ban Hair Restorer, and
that for diseased conditions of the
scalp. falling hair, dandruff etc, or to
increase the growth of the hair, the
Q-Han Hair Tonic was always to be re-
lied upon. All druggists have it for
sale. Try it. If you use six bottles and
the results are not as claimed your
druggist will refund you your money.
II you are gray haired or becom-
ing gray, you can have the first full
sized so cent package of Hair Restor-
er by simply mailing your address and
II cents in postage to. Hessig- Ellis
Drug Company, Memphis. Tenn. OF
call at either of Marshall Bros drug
stores, 1875 Kansas avenue. and 515
Kansas n~ent,a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
TO CENSOR The DRAMA.
Educational and Social Problems May
Be Solved by This Means.

Chicago, June IA movement in
Chicago to censor the drama is about
to be inaugurated by the Chicago
branch of the Actors Church Alliance.
which is now established in all the
large, cities of the United States. Its
membership includes not only members
Of the theatrical profession, but min
listers and laymen interested in the de-
velopment of the drama as a powerful
agent in the solution of educational
and social problems.
At the annual meeting of the Chicago
branch it was decided to establish as a
permanent feature discussion of all
modern plays played in Chicago as to
their moral and social features and
giving the theater going public an I'M
prejudiced criticism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
END OF A RED NOSE
New Flesh Colored Product That
Heals and Hides Skin Imperfections.

Heals and Hides Skin Imperfections.
A peculiar feature of poslam. a new
skin discovery, is that it is naturally
hesh-colored and contains no grease,
SO that when used on the face for the
complexion, or for pimples, red noses
or any other inhammations, blemishes
or discolorations, its presence cannot
be detected. 1t can thus be applied l.
the daytime, the natural color of tn
skin being Immediately restored an
the actual healing and curing process
accomplished in a few days. It ca
be had Of any pharmacist who sell
pure drugs Fred A. Snow makes /
specially of it. Fifty cents worth wi
answer either for the troubles men
toned or in curing ordinary cases OF
eczema. Itching stops at once.
Any one who will write to the
Emergency Laboratories, No. 80 Yves
Twenty fifth street, New York, can Sc
cure, by mail free of charge, a supply
sufficient to cure a small eczema sur
ace or clear a complexion overnight
nd remove pimpIes in twenty-foul
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
"STUBBY.'

The attorney general and the State
Temperance union have elaborated
on a little book issued from the press
this week which was designed with the
idea of securing evidence against the
jointist and druggist and club house
without the identity of the informer
being made public.
This little book does credit to the
ingenuity of it's authors and will tend
more than anything else to promote
the gentle art of the sneak and the
''slinkum' in this state. 1t contains
dozens of questions with blanks left
after each one for the answers. If all
these blanks are carefully and accu-
rately filed up the attorney generals
office guarantees results so far as any
particular liquor seller is concerned.
The following preface is printed in the
front of each book sent out:
This book of blanks is handed to
you, to be by you carefully filed out.
Answer each question and fill out each
blank. Write with ink and keep the
book clean. When the book is COM
pletely filled out, return it to the ad-
dress given below. When filled out as
indicated, a successful closing up of
the place can be brought about. All
information given will be treated as
strictly confidential. Be very careful
about the accuracy of the informa-
ton"
The rules and regulations adopted by
the state board of health in relation to
barber shops are based on the laws
passed by the last legislature and they
are about as drastic as any of the rules
of the board in the enforcement of the
food drug, health and hotel laws. Not
only must all barber instruments be
sterilized but the sponge, the powder
puff and the syptic pencils are all pro-
hibited now. A clean cloth must be
used to wet the face and apply the
powder and the alum, the latter in case
of cut. There are a dozen or more
regulations, each one looking toward
cleanliness and precaution against the
spreading of any skin disease. Every
barber shop must now be well venti-
lated and lighted and be provided with
running hot and cold water.
There are fifteen different sets of
blanks relating to the new inheritance
tax law and the tax commission is
sending them out to the county clerks
over the state. The inheritance tax
law was passed by the last legislature
and is an innovation in the west. II
provides for a direct tax on estates left
to heirs. The tax is graduated in favor
of the direct heir, growing larger in
the cases of more distant relationship
It is expected that this tax will raise
a considerable revenue for the state in
these prosperous times. The levy and
collection of the new tax will make q
vast amount of additional work for the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
TO SAVE THE BABIES.
Mothers to Be Taught How to Care
for Their Infants

Chicago. June Ito teach mothers
in the congested districts how 10 care
for their babies, series OF practlcal
exhibits, under the management or
club women of the city, in co-opera-
ton with the health department, was
inaugurated today with a demonstra-
ton in Hull House.
A number of physicians and trained
nurses showed, with living babies,
lust how infants may be guarded from
disease The exhibits will continue
through the summer at Is settlement
houses.
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taxing officers on account of the vol
luminous and intricate nature of the tax
blanks.
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