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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-27
DR.. c. c. HlGHToWER
Physician and Surgeon.

Office, Carter Building, Suite 800 and
81. Hours, 10; 80 to 10 a. m, $3.50
to 4:S0 p. m, to p. m. South
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-27
THE HATTIESBURG NEWS

ANoi ma To"o anu mrS. II. L. M-Ounger.
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Dance Tonight at EIks' Club.
A number of young men will enter
tain at an informal dance tonight at
the Elks' Club. in honor Of Misses
Lucille and Myrtle Lewis, Of Pasca-
goula. the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
r. Farrell, On Court street.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. Allen, who
have been residing on Court street,
have leased the Kennedy home, 704
West Pine street, and are now located
there. Mr.. and Mrs. Ashton Toomer
will be with them.
Misses Rosa Ross and Mamie La
neous, Of Laurel, spent Tuesday with
Mrs. Bessie Gardner, on Third street,
and attended the performance of 1.-THE
Climax" at the Auditorium that eve
ming.
Mrs. John Powe, who is the guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. T.
Pittman will return Friday to her
home in Poplarville, accompanied by
her sister, Miss Ruby Pittman, who
will be her guest for awhile.
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Little Miss Bessie Heidelberg will
entertain the younger members of
Miss Ethel Powe's music class Satur-
day afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S.
L. Heidelberg, on Main street.
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Engagement Announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Shearer, of New
Orleans, announce the engagement of
their niece, Helen Burch Patterson to
Arthur Washington McDermott, of
New Orleans, the marriage to be
quietly celebrated at home on Nov. ~.
The announcement is of unusual in
terest in Hattiesburg, where the bride
elect was popular visiting girl. She is
a talented young musician and pos
sesses a charming personality and
sunny disposition, which won her
many friends while on visits to Mr..
and Mrs. Ashton Toomer, at whose
wedding she was maid of honor while
a school girl Last winter she was
the house guest of the Misses Allen,
on Court street. Miss Patterson's
fiance is the son of the late Mr.. Nc
Dermott, of the McDermott Surgical
Co. and is connected with The Com
mercial- Germania Bank of New Or
leans.
The wedding will be the elimination
of romance of their school-days, and
imediately after the ceremony Mr..
McDermot and his bride will leave for
Chicago and other points.
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Wednesday Club.
w. "A. SOiilhot Ou MALL SlTetI,
was hostess of the Wednesday Club
yesterday afternoon. Roll call was
answered with quotations from
Shakespear, and the program follows:
Shades of Shakespeare's Women
Mrs. E. L. Robbins.
Carlyle's Comparison of Shake
spear and Dante-Mrs. H. D. Foote,
Jr.
Irving's Account of Visit to STRAIT
ford--Mrs. R. R. Switenberg.
Dryden's Account Of Shakespear
and Ben Johnson-Mrs. ]. c. Ma
gruder.
Emerson on Romeo and Juliet
Mrs. Henry Turner.
Reading-Cassius Against Caesar
Mrs. s. v. Robertson.
At the conclusion of the program
the hostess, assisted by her sister,
Mrs. Floyd Waggoner and Mrs. M. P.
Love, served a two-course luncheon
The club members present were Mes
danes George Cotton. w. w. Craw-
ford, Grace Christian, R. N. Collins,
w. H. Cook, H. D. Foote, Jr., M. A.
Hoffman, ]. s. Love, ]. c. Magruder,
w. w. Aassengale, e. L. Robbins, E.
F. Rush. 8. v. Robertson, Henry Tur-
ner, v. M. Seaman, w. B. Seymour, R.
R. swittenberg and Mrs. owen Gore.
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19
MONTANA TO HAVE
MORE RAILROADS

More than 600 miles of new rail
way track will be laid in Montana at
cost of about S25, ,O0O, 900, is the an
nouncement made recently by prom
inent railway officials. Right OF way
has been secured for the greater part
OF this new mileage, and number OF
parties of surveyors are in the field To-
eating the remainder of the mileage
to be constructed. One of the most
important of the new lines is to be
constructed as Il cutoff for the North
ern Pacific. extending from Glendive
to Helena, Il distance of $50 miles.
This road will pass through Dawson,
Ferg IS and Meagher counties. which
is a new and spalsely settled section
Offering many opportunities for home
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19
MORE ABOUT HIGH
COST OF LIVING

''1t is with no spirit of acting as
Jobs comforter that we desire at this
time to turn to more comforting
phase of the situation in the north
west and to point out that on the
whole, on looking broadly over the
entire northwest, there is reason for
our farmers to feel very much EN-
couraged," says the Northwest Agri-
culturist in an editorial. 'The crops
are not failures by great deal, but
the best phase of the farmers situa-
tiOn Is the increased value of his
crops as compared with previous
years. We have heard of the high
cost of living. Editors Of daily pap
ers. particularly anti-administration
papers, have been profuse in their ef-
forts to point out that things cost
more now than they did ten years ago.
''There is class of people, and it
includes some editors who are never
quite 50 happy us when they are in
the dumps. They like to wear blue
glasses. They like to talk in funeral
tones. 1t impresses their hearers or
at least themselves with the superb
Ority OF their wisdom and farsighted-
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19
SEPT. 1910 COM.
MITTEE MEETS

{. l.. Beers. c. X. Stone and $. }
Small, the general committee Of .Du-
dith Gaps second annual celebration.
met Tuesday evening and appointed
members for the various committees
that will reign supreme during the
18th and 10th of September. The
committees have been notified by let
ter and it is trusted that each individ-
ual will do his utmost to perfect
arrangements in his respective COM
mittee.
Considerable work was also done
OH the awards to be made for the ex-
hibits and purses for the athletic
numbers, base ball games, tug-of-war
contests between Fergus and Meagher
counties. and many other events.
The prizes on cereals, vegetables,
ETC., will be as follows:
Wheat.
First Best Sheaf of Wheat $40
Second Best Sheaf Of Wheat .... :
Third Best Sheaf Of Wheat ;
Oats.
First Best Sheaf of Oats ....... 10
Second Best Sheaf of Oats ...... Z
Third Best Sheaf of Oats ........ )
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19
Only Partly Correct.

IlObson Star: I'D. Webster, of the
McCaull-Webster Elevator COM
pany, was Il business caller in this
city last Thursday anq Friday, and
while here he liked Judith BASIN SO
well that he invested in 4sO acres of
land. His land is mostly In forty
and eighty-acre tracts and was sold
to Mr.. Webster by the Cottonwood
Coal company. Mr.. Webster states
that he considers this the best invest
ment he has made in a long time and
that he later on expects to buy more
land in this fertile locality. He also
states that the growing of wheat in
the Judith Basin, he believes, to be
surest and safest farming that has
ever come under his observation. ami
rs he has IL wide experience in farm
ing and grain raising and was one of
the early settlers in Kansas and later
lived in the states OF Texas, Nebras-
ka. North Dakota and Minnesota,
hi stateme 1t iS worthy of seriOu,
consideration. The land bought by
Mr.. Webster is the last the Cotton
wood Coal company has for sale, they
having disposed of their immense
holdings in eighteen months from the
time they were put on the market"
MIR. Webster's good judgement in
buying lands in tn. Judith Basin was
influenced by the Cottonwood Coal
company's exclusive agent, 5. J.
Small OF this city. The land was
shown Mr.. Webster by 5. }. Small
and |. n. Walker in the latter's car.
The Cottonwood Coal compay's tract
consisting OF 81, 900 acres, was turned
over to $. J. Small III August, 800.
Since that time Mr.. Small has sold
practically all the good farm lands in
the immense tract, but there are
good many isolated fotties left that
are well worth the price of slj an
acre for grazing purposes. The local
agent of til, company has certainly
broken all records for retailing farm
lands in .Juslit;l Basin in his rapil
disposal of this big tract, and the
real estate men of Ilobson are 50 en-
vious that the Starwas afraid Of gain
ing their displ assure by giving credit
to the men who do things while the
other fellows are asleep-namely
SMall Il Walker offices at Great Falls,
Geyser and Judith Gap,
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19

seekers. The chief purpose for the
construction of this new line is to
give a more direct route from st. Paul
to the coast, and the new road Will be
used chiefly for mail and fast freight.
This road will parallel the Milwaukee
road from Miles City to Meagher,
but ut an average distance of 25 miles.
In connection with the building Of
this "5O-mile cutoff at an estimated
cost of slO,OOO,OtN, announcement
is made that the railway company
will cOloniZe large tracts Of their
lands. 1t is their policy to keep
these lands out of the hands of specu-
lators as much as possible. TO lndi-
cate the rapid settlement of Montana.
the president of the Northern Pacific
states that 630, 900 acres, from the to-
tai of s34 900 acres that had been dis
posed of during the 10 months period
ending March 81, were in Montana.
1t is also announced that the Great
Northern will construct a road south
easternly from Mondak to I.ewistown
distance of 26S miles. Right of way
has been secured for this road, and
surveyors are in the field selecting
the best route for further extension
of this road from LewistOwn to
Helena, an additional distance Of
more than 100 miles. The estimated
cost of this road is from ST.. .OtIO, 900 to
Sl5,MO, 900. In addition to those two
Zines that are definitely projected,
the Milwaukee, system is reported
actively at work on Il branch line
from Milestone through l.ewistOwn to
Great Falls. These new railway lines
will give transportation to a very
large territory in Montana and will
be the means of rapid development,
for both the Hill and the Milwaukee
systems are "cOlOniZing" roads.
These new extensions will give great
Importance to the several railway
center cities that they will create,
especially Helena, Lewistown, Great
Falls and Judith Gap.
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19

ness when they are able to point to
the ashes heaped upon Jobs head,
and demonstrate that they either
did or could have told you that he
was not 50 good as he ought to be and
was not so far-siglted rs they were.
Yet their tears of sympathy quite Of
ten mix with the ashes and the usual
product results-lie.
''And SO these Jobs comforters are
quite happy this year in the unhappi-
ness which they describe as having
come to the country, whether that
unhappiness has come through high
tariff, which protect American mar
kets against the influx of foreign sup
plies in competition with our own
producers or whether it come through
lack Of rainfall. 1t is all right. just
so it is lugubrious enough. And so
they tell us that everything costs SO
much more now than it did in the
good old days of 1896, for example.
'lt will be interesting to get at the
facts and we find upon authoritative
statistics that they are justified in
saying that most things cost more
now than they did fourteen years ago
when the government was in the
hands OF the people who felt as they
do now, that it they could reduce the
tariff, it would result in great rain
fall and general happiness, which is
now impossible to these wiseacres.
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19
Sunday School Picnic.

The members of the Ross Fork
sunday School will hold their annual
picnic at the W. NJ. Yaple ranch in
the foothills of the Snowies Thursday,
August %. All neigiboring Sunday
schools are cordially and urgently re-
quested to come and enjoy the day.
Plans are made for program and
speaking. Games. swings and il gem
tral good time for all. \ basket din
ner will be served at noon. Take the
mouptain road northwest of the W il
liam Neill ranch.
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19

The postcffice deficit shows symp-
toms of largely reducing Itself. 1t
stands good chance of disappearing
entirely ii nervy hand could be laid
IN the abuse OF the official franking
privilege.
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19
Barley.

Barley.
First Best Sheaf of Rarley .......
Second Best Sheaf of Barley ......
Third Best Sheaf of Barley ....... 2
Flax.
First Best Sheaf of Flax .......... 10
Second Best Sheaf Of Flax ........ Z
Third Best Sheaf of Flax .....
Rye.
First Best Sheaf of Rye .... 5
Second Best Sheaf Of Rye ......... 3
Third Best Sheaf Of Rye .........
Alfalfa.
First Best Sheaf of Alfalfa ....... 10
Second Best Sheaf of Alfalfa ..... Z
Third Best Sheaf of Alfalfa 500. )
Timothy.
First Best Sheaf of Timothy 800. )
Second Best Sheaf of Timothy -. 3
Third Best Sheaf of Timothy ..... 2
Corn Fodder.
First Best Sheaf OF Blue Joint or
Native Grass )
Second Best Sheaf of Blue Joint
or Native Grass s...... ;
Third Best Shpaf of Blue Joint or
Native Grass Observation-Disclosures. 2
Potatoes.
First Best Potatos. Fifteen Pound
l.4,lifi iaut.l nli Secaiiu pa4re
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19

Continued OIL Last Page
Judith Gap journal., 1910-08-19

Continued Oh Second Page
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23

The council decided on general
rebuilding of the drinking fountains
of the city and it is probable that all
of the old fountains will be taken out
and be replaced with cement fountains.
New fountains will be erected at the
corner of Main and South streets and
at the plant of the Chicago Kenosha
Hosiery Company. The old fountain
at the entrance of Eichelman Park viii
be taken out and in its stead a cement
drinking fountain will be placed in the
park. This work was all left with
the committee on public grounds with
power to act.
The city engineer was instructed to
proceed at once with the completion
of the work of curbing Exchange street
and Contractor Priddis has notified the
council that he is willing to do the
work at the same price as he contract
ed to some three years ago.
The committees of the council have
been given Instructions that the bust
ness of the city so far as the purchase
of merchandise is concerned shall be
divided among all the merchants of the
city and all committees will make an
effort to have each merchant secure
his share of this business.
A new ordinance for the regulation
of the building of outside vaults was
sent to the council by the health de-
partment and it was referred to the
city attorney for examination 1t is
probable that it will be given it's first
reading at the next regular meeting
of the council.
Ninety-fve applications for saloon
licenses were received by the council
and referred to the committee on Ii
censes. These will be acted on at a
special meeting of the council to be
held On next Monday evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23

The city has spent hundreds of dol
lars in drinking fountains in the past
few years and good many people
are of the opinion that the city has
received a very poor return for the
amount invested in this way. 1t is
not that any one objects to the city
putting in these fountains for the con-
venience of the public, but to the way
in which the work has been done and
to the many changes that have been
considered necessary always at in
creased expense. There was at one
time a demand made for an explana-
ton of the cost of the fountain at
Main and South streets which is one
of the fountains which the city is now
to rebuild, but like many another in
vestigation into municipal expendi-
lures started in this city nothing came
Of it. However, if it is decided to
put in cement foundations now these
repairs will be expected to last for
some time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23

Both parties promised in their re-
spective platforms statehood to New
Mexico and Arizona. The promise is
to be made good at this session, but
with greater eagerness on the part of
the Democrats than of the Republi-
cans. The former see in it the pros
pective gain of four Democratic sena-
tors and six Democratic electoral votes
at the next presidential election.
A party should keep its word to the
people, but there are many in both
parties who regret that statehood was
promised to the two territories. They
dismiss from their minds the thought
of party losses or gains and are gov
erned entirely by their conviction that
there are already in the union too
many small and slowly growing states.
If they had their way Arizona and
New Mexico would remain as they are
for years to come.
1t statehood carried with it merely
the right to send a man or two to the
lower house of congress there would be
no opposition. But it involves giving
to handful of people as much power
in the senate as the millions Of New
York and Pennsylvania have. That
is undemocratic. We have now an
excessive number of Rocky mountain
states af1uent in territory, but def
cient in inhabitants. AS a conse-
quence an undue proportion of poiti-
cal power has been bestowed on that
part of the country. The admission
of Arizona and New Mexico, quite re-
CARELESS of their party affiliations, will
make the situation a little worse.
About the only redeeming feature
is that each party can "point with
pride" to pledge redeemed, while
President Taft can rejoice over the
fact that another of the items on his
legislative program of the session has
been checked off. He is gradually
getting from congress about all he
asked for-Tribune.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23
LOCAL ITEMS.

Judge E. B. Belden will be in Ke-
nosha on Friday to continue the hear.
ing of cases in the circuit court.
Mrs. P. P. NJ. Jorgenson and son
Paul returned home after few days.
visit with friends and relatives at
Grand Haven, Mich.
The wild west show played to a
small crowd at the orphan asylum plat
on Monday evening. 1t moved on
to Beloit during the night.
DR.. J. B. Spalding is on his way to
Reno, Frisco, or some other old place
out west. He left on Monday to see
the Johnson-J effries fight and will re-
main on the trail until the fight is
pulled off.
The city council has directed the
street assessment committee to adver-
tise for bids for the construction of a
sewer on Washington Island. The
sewer VIII cost IN the nelghb0rhood OF
$4,000 and it is designed to furnish
drains for practically all the property
on the island.
Ten of the members of the Grand
Army of the Republic went out to
Wilmot on Sunday to spend the day
with Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Kruckman.
The visiting delegation were entertain
ed in royal manner by Mr.. and Mrs
Kruckman both dinner and supper be.
ing served.
The Rice and Friedmanns of Mil
waukee, a strong amateur base ball
team, would like to arrange a game
with any strong team for July 8 and
4, at Kenosha. Have open dates af-
ter July II. Address George Oben-
berger, CT ]. H. Rice & friedman Co.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23

There is an ordinance on the statute
books Of the city and supposed to be
in force which forbids loaded wagons
to dribble their contents along the
streets of the city, but so far as we
can remember there has never been
am arrest under it although there ere
opportunities for the police to make
good on this particular part of their
duties twenty times a day. A strict
enforcement Of this law would 60 q
long way towards keeping the streets
in cleaner and more sanitary condi-
tion and there need be no fear that
preventing the scattering of the dirt
of all descriptions dropped by the wag-
ons hauling it through the streets will
operate to deprive any of the faithful
of their jobs in the street cleaning de-
partment. With the treasury prac-
tically empty there is little chance that
there will be expenditures through the
street department on the gorgeous
scale of last year no matter how bad
the streets get and with no incentive
to search for an excuse to put more
men on the street department pay roll
and hardly enough to keep the present
gangs going the people may as well be
given the benefit of the enforcement
of this ordinance.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23

The applications for saloon licenses
will be presented to the council this
evening, but they will be laid over for
a week in order to give the members
of the license committee or any in
terested citizens more time to examine
the character and qualifications of the
applicants. At first glance it would
appear to be a waste of time to pro-
test against the granting Of any. IL
cense before council which is so alb
solutely under the domination of the
saloon element that it has protected
certain saloon men heretofore in de-
fiance of the law, but many men who
have watched the course of events in
this city are not so sure that a deter
mined fight against some of the more
disorderly places would be absolutely
hopeless They are inclined to be-
lieve that the DIRECTORS to the grant
ing of licenses to certain of the appli-
cants might get help from an unex-
pected quarter-from among the saloon
men themselves. There is no doubt
that the better class of saloon men are
getting very tired of having their bust
ness put in the worst possible light
before the public by the actions of a
few men who maintain disorderly places
and are in constant trouble with the
police.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23
THURSDAY, JUNE %, 1910.

The council passed the ordinance
regulating the work Of the sand suck
ers at it's meeting Monday evening and
it is expected that the shore line can
be protected as soon as this ordinance
goes into force. There has always
been a question as to the right OF the
city to regulate these suckers, but
similar ordinances to the one passed
here have been upheld by the courts
in other cities along the lake shore
and it is believed that the Kenosha'
ordinance will also stand the test Of
the courts. II it does not the coun-
Gil will have to keep on trying until
it finds one that will for the property
owners along the water front, not to
mention the city itself, are certainly
entitled to protection.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23
The Junior Class Entertains
at Great Function in
Honor of Graduates
DECORATIONS MOST ELABORATE

Youth and beauty reigned supreme
at the auditorium of the Kenosha High
School on Monday evening when the
annual Junior Promenade with the
members of the senior class as the
guests of honor was held. 1t was
one of the most successful parties ever
given by the high school boys and girls
of Kenosha and more than two hundred
guests were present to partake of the
merriment of the evening. It was a
beautiful finale for the week Of com
mencement exercises and the school
year and it will go down in the annals
of the high school as one of the red
letter days in the history of the retir-
ing and on-coming senior classes.
The great auditorium was never
more beautiful. Hundreds of Chinese
lanterns were hung from the ceiling
of the room while hundreds of electric
lights were used to aid in the decora-
tions. At the east end of the room
was great shield done in the Junior
colors which carried a farewell mes
sage to the class Of 1910. The brown
and gold of the class recently gradual
ed was very much in evidence. A plat
form for the orchestra had been placed
in the very center of the big hall and
it was respondent with decorations of
ferns and potted plants. Stemm
brothers orchestra furnished the music
for the party and nearly every dance
was encored.
1t was a great gathering of the high
school boys and girls, the attendance
being limited almost entirely to the
students and their friends.
During the evening frappe was serv-
ed. The dancing continued until long
after midnight. The committee of
the juniors in charge of the dancing
party are entitled to highest praise for
its success.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-23
JAMES P. SWIFT DEAD

The remains of James P. Swift, will
be brought to this city some time this
evening and taken to the residence of
his sister, Mrs. John H. Corcoran, 43O
Pleasant street.
Mr.. Swift, was brother of Frank
X. Swift, William J. Swift and Mrs.
John H. Corcoran of this city, and of
Joseph A. Swift and Raymond Swift
of Chicago, ILL.,
The deceased was about forty-fve
years of age, and was born in this citv
He was an invalid for the last twenty.
three years.