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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12
NEW RIVER BRIDGE
 WEARS COMPLETION Gadsden Is Filling Up With
 Steel Plant EmpIoyes SHORTY JONES CAPTURED Was An Escape From the City Prison. Stockholders of Campbell Manu-
 featuring Company Hold An
 nual Meeting.

Gadsden, January 11.-(Special. )-The big draw on the new bridge over the Coosa river now being built by the Louis vile and Nashville railroad is to be opened for the first time tomorrow. The bridge has been closed since late in the summer of last year. Only the smaller boats plying the river have been able to come down below this city. The bridge is now ready for the flooring and it is expected that the structure will be open for travel by the first of the coming month.
 The men who are expecting to be enl ployed in the plants of the Southern Iron and Steel company here are beginning to arrive and every available space in the city is being filled up. All houses are occupied and hotels and boarding houses are caring for the limit of their capacity. Plans are on foot for the financing of building operations of those who have vacant property, but are unable to secure the necessary money to make improve ments. The city will undoubtedly experi- ence the greatest building boom in it's history within the next few months.
 Shorty Jones. negro, one of the es- capes from the city prison some days ago, has been retaken and is now once more behind the bars Jones was ar rested at Attalla just as he was about to board a train for Birmingham AS the result of his few days at liberty ne will be compelled to serve an extra CO., day sentence on the city chaingang, the fine imposed by the mayor for his break ing jail.
 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Campbell Manufacturing company was held at the offices of the company today. The report of the officers showed tho affairs of the concern to be in a very satisfactory condition.
 The dividend was passed to the surplus fund The officers elected are the same as served last year. Otto Agricola, pres ident; A. Hagerdorn, vice president; John s. Paden, treasurer; George W. Campbell, secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12
Railroad Declares Dividend.

Nashville. January 11.-At meeting of the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad directors today the semi annual dividend of per cent was de- clared. During the panic the dividend was decreased to per cent year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Mrs. N. E. Miller of Dadeville. Ala, is the guest of Mrs. J. G. Whitfield.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

MT. and Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt have given up their residence and will in the future reside with her mother, Mrs. T. G. Bush, 2230 Highland ave- nue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

MT. and Mrs. George Grigg Adams have taken possession of their home on South Sixteenth avenue and Nine teenth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Mrs. Maud Wynn plans to pass tb remainder of the winter in Florida. She will be joined by Mrs. Ruekheim and Miss Ruekheim of Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12
COxW ELL-LANE.

Mir. and Mrs w. D. Lane announce the engagement of their daughter, Kate. to MT. Mitchell Coxwell. the wedding to
 {, be an event of February at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Miss Jeanette Meyer of Selma, who has been visiting friends in Birming ham, left yesterday for Montgomery to be with Miss Blanche Mohr for time before going to her home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

The Birmingham friends of Mrs. j.. M. DeCottes of Montgomery will e- gret to learn that she Is i'll at her Goldthaite street home. There will be no issue of her smart little magazine, The Social World for several weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

After a visit to Mrs. W. A. White man, Miss Annie Solomon has returned to her home in Montgomery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12
BUFFET SUPPER
 FOR BRIDAL PARTY.

The final pre-nuptial affair given for Miss Sarah Allena Oliver and MT. Chad wick Murray Baker was the buffet sup per which followed the rehearsal last I evening at the home of the brides pa l rents, MT. and Mrs. J. D. Oliver. The ! guests included only the bridal party of 24 members with several relatives of the 1 host and hostess.
 l The residence was handsomely deco ! rated. The color scheme chosen for tho wedding, green and white, prevailed in each of the apartments except the recep- | ton hall, in which crimson is the prin- 1 cipal tone, and here red carnations made | a brilliant and warmly inviting scheme. | Elsewhere showing against southern smi- , lax white wedding emblems were twined among valley lilies and white roses
 The party gathered for an elaborate ! buffet supper in the dining room. The I centerpiece on the table was extremely handsome, and on it rested a large we'd 1 ding cake richly embossed and contain- 1 ing a ring, dime and a thimble. The l ices were served in the shape of wedding 1 slippers and tied with bows of green rib bon. Heart-shaped were the cakes served with them, and following the color scheme the bon-bons were green and white. A punch bowl was presided over by Miss Earle Oliver.
 bridal party and the 20 members of the vested choir chosen to sing the wedding music this evening. Those present were MT. and Mrs. Oliver. Miss Oliver, MT. Baker, Miss Bessie Oliver, Mrs. A. M Taylor, Miss Elizabeth McCaa. Miss Sid ney Hit, the Rev. Raimundo de Ovies, l Mir. Paul H. Earle. MT. Lewis Burruss MT. Ed L. Norment, Masters Henry M. 1 Dozier and James Fowlkes Yates little Misses Frances Woodrow and Marjorie Henry Taylor, MT. Percy Hughes, MT l Al Goodman. MT. Erin Farley. MT. 1 Charles Brown, Mir J. D. Tucker, MT. Charles Brown, MT. Robert Brown, Mas ! ter Jack Cozine, MT Harry Culver, Jack Emory, MT. Alfred Olney. Jr., Mir. Henry Frank Ridout, Mir. Anatcle Lux, MT Ned Coxe, MT. Davidson Kelley MT. Terrell Ross, MT. Kyle Shropshire J. D. Oliver, Jr., MT. Kirkpatrick and MT. Wander l grift.
 | ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Mir Arthur Adams has invited coterie i of friends to play bridge Thursday even- ing.
 1 Mrs. John Sidney White will entertain | the debutante set Saturday morning a. euchre in compliment to her house guest, Miss Annie Cabot Hopkins of Columbus, 1 Miss.
 1 The Masqueraders will meet Thursday , evening with Miss Marjorie weatheriy. | Thursday afternoon at 8 o'clock the 1 Council of Jewish Women will meet with Mrs. Morris Marx. It will be study meeting.
 The Baker-Oliver wedding will occur this evening at s:So o'clock at St. An drew's Episcopal church. l NOTES AND PERSONALS.
 MT. and Mrs. F. N. Cullom will leave in a short time for tour of Europe. They plan to be absent six months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12
RED CROSS SOLIET2
 INTERESTING MEETING
Yesterday In of Events to Come Important Meetngs-Mrs Whitfelds Receiving Party
 Personal Mention of We'll Known People
By MYRTLE MILES.

MT. Hines Peevey, MT. and Mrs. Webb Crawford, MT. and Mrs. J. W. DonnelIv. MT. and Mrs. F. F. Shepherd. MT and Mrs. W. P. Pincl1ard, MT. and Mrs c. o. Locke, Mrs. Frank Lathrop, Mrs J. c. Maben, Jr., Mrs. l.. J. Haley, Mrs. c. B. Spencer, Mir. Erskine Ramsay. Mrs. I. O. Thompson, Gov. W. D .Jelks, MT. R. c. Jelks, Mrs. A. L. Fulenwider. Dr. J. D. s. Davis, Mrs. William Hardie, Mrs. T. U. Walter. Mrs. L. O. c. Kelley. Mrs. James weatherly, Miss A. L. Wn- Hams, Mrs. o. P. Gaut, MT. James Smith. Mrs. Rountree, Mrs Carl Seals, MT. and Mrs. John Caldwell, Mrs. Elias Da- wis, Col Harry Shorter, Mrs Henry Bad ham, Mrs. Charles s. Simmons, Dr. B. l.. Wyman and many others.
 RECEIVING PARTY.
 Mrs. J. G. Whitfield's reception will be brilliant event of the afternoon Her hospitality will include several hundred guests and will, no doubt, prove as charm ing as her entertainments have always been. Receiving with Mrs. Whitfield will be her guest, Mrs. Miller; Mrs. J. w. Donnelly, Mrs. J. H. McCary, Mrs. Robert McLester, Mrs. Henry Dean. Mrs. Thom- as Bowron, Mrs. Zell Gaston, Mrs. Nor timer Jordan and Mrs. W. c. Oliver. Mrs Charles Sharp and Miss. Judge will pre- side at the punch bowl and in the hall she will be assisted by Mrs. Southgate Mrs. William c. Weston, Mrs. Hubert Scruggs and Mrs. R. M. Jenkins, who will welcome the guests. In the dining room Mrs. George Brown and Mrs. F. G. Alex ander have been asked to assist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Scruggs of Huntsville are guests of Mir. and Mrs. Hubert Scruggs and Mir. and Mrs J. D. Scruggs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

guest of her sister. Mrs. Lewis B. Woodruff in New York, will probably not return home before spring.
 Mr H. T. Heaslett, who has spent tie past year in Mobile, returned recently to make Birmingh am his home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12
NOTES AND PERSONALS.

MT. and Mrs. F. N. Cullom will leave in a short time for tour of Europe They plan to be absent six months.
 Miss Florence Smith, who is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

The Baker-Oliver wedding will occur this evening at s:so o'clock at St. An drew's Episcopal church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

10 make Blfmlngn am hlS nome.
 
 Mrs. N. E. Miller of Dadeville. Ma. is the guest of Mrs. J. G. Whitfield.
 Mr. and Mrs. George Grigg Adams have taken possession of their home on South Sixteenth avenue and Nine teenth street.
 MT. and Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt have given up their residence and will in the future reside with her mother Mrs. T. c. Bush, 2230 Highland ave- nue.
 Mrs. Maud Wynn plans to pass the remainder of the winter in Florida. She will be joined by Mrs. Ruekheim and Miss Ruekheim of Chicago.
 The Birmingham friends of Mrs. J. M. DeCottes of Montgomery will r- gret to learn that she Is Ill at her Goldthaite street home. There will be no issue of her smart little magazine, The Social World, for several weeks.
 After a visit to Mrs. w. A. White man, Miss Annie Solomon has returned to her home in Montgomery.
 Miss Jeanette Meyer of Selma, who has been visiting friends in Birmng ham, left yesterday for Montgomery to be with Miss Blanche Mohr for time before going to her home.
 Mr and Mrs. Douglass Scruggs of Huntsville are guests of Mir. and Mrs. Hubert Scruggs and Mir. and Mrs J. D. Scruggs.
 Judge J. J. Webb and MT. O. Max Gardner of Shelby N. C., are guests of MT. and Mrs. George M. Webb at Mountain Terrace. Both Judge Webb and MT. Gardner are prominently known in North Carolina.
 Mr J. H Deans friends will be glad to learn that he has recovered slrS- ficiently since his operation to justify returning home from St. Vincents hospital.
 Miss Katie Sharpe of Nashville will arrive tomorrow to be the house guest of Miss Jennie Trimble.
 MT. T. L. Crenshaw, who underwent day at St. Vincent's hospital, is inn proving.
 Miss Bessie Shapiro is expected this morning to visit her brother, MT. l.. H. Shapiro, 1531 South Tenth avenue.
 Miss Helen Rosa Randolph and Miss Augusta Coleman, who are visitors in Montgomery, are both the center of many delightful social affairs.
 Mrs. Clarence Ballard has returned to her home in north Alabama. after a visit to Mir. and Mrs Caldwell Brad shaw.
 Miss Maybelle Cosby will leave Jan uary 26 for Mobile to visit friends.
 MT. Julian Benjamin, connected with tho Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. has gone to Cincinnati to visit relatives for few weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. F. Smolian of New York are visiting their daughter, Mrs. l.. Pizitz, and their son, MT. James Smolian, of this city.
 The regular monthly meeting of tho South Highlands School Improvement as- sociation will be held this afternoon at o'clock. MT. w. D. Nesbitt will address the association on '"rhe Playground Movement" All patrons of the school are cordially invited to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Judge J. ]. Webb and Mir. o. Max Gardner of Shelby, N. C., are guests of MT. and Mrs. George M. Webb at Mountain Terrace. Both Judge Webb and Mr. Gardner are prominently known in North Carolina.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Thursday afternoon at o'clock the Council of Jewish Women will meet with Mrs. Morris Marx. It will be study meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

MT. T. l.. Crenshaw, who underwent an operation for appendicitis last Fri day at St. vincent's hospital. is inn proving.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Miss Katie Sharpe of Nashville will arrive tomorrow to be the house guest of Miss Jennie Trimble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The Masaueraders will meet Thursday evening with Miss Marjorie Weatheriy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

MT. J. H Deans friends will be glad to learn that he has recovered srx- ficiently since his operation to justify returning home from St. Vincent's hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-12

Miss Bessie Shapiro is expected this to visit her brother, MT. l.. H. 5h apiro, 1531 South Tenth avenue.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-26
MUST HAVE SYSTEM TO DO BUSINESS.

A great deal Of discussion appears n the newspapers these days in re. gard to the probabe policy Of the democrats. who will be in control Of the mex; national house Having repudisted Cannonism. and being indebted largely to Cannonism for their victory, it is pointed out that the democrats cannot consistently adopt any Of the Cannon methods. Most Of this advice and warning. Of course comes from republican news
 papers. which insist that the logic cf the situation calls for a democratic speaker who viii be great deal 0f q guEehead- The chief problem seems to be in the appointment of committees. a task that has always been performed by the speaker In order to meet tsis and prevent poss- ible abuse of power, it is proposed to create g committee on commit
 tees" ssected frc-n among the
 majority, which shall name all com. mittees Some democratic newspa- pers are discussing this proposi
 tion seriously. while the high class independent newspapers are pointing out the objections to such a plan. as well as it's advantages. Among the latter, the following from tbe 1, Philadelphia Ledger is of interest; l It is feasible no doubt to have such committee. and there need
 be no fear that this little caucus could not perform its functions well but in general the speaker must be speaker, and he must be powerful
 or he will never force the enor.
 nous business of the congress tc
 aconclusion. The house is, or ought
 to be. a deliberative body itself
 but if the crude and popular no ,.tion shall prevail of creating, in.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-26

shown in the attitude Of the people toward the whole problem. Travel
 CTS know that the railways have
 been adding one luxury after an- other U the facilities they offer without additional compensation and that our freight rates are very low compared wirn tncse Of ai.y othe= country. They know. also. that the railways stand ready to spend hun 1reds of millions of dollars in adding to the transportation facilities of the country as soon as the inter state commerce commission proves to investors that the companies are to be allowed to operate on a nasis that vii. protect the owne-s as wen as the publc.-Boston Financial News.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-26
RAILWAY RATE QUESTION.

The suggestion that the counsel for the slippers, who are fighting an increase in freight rates. will point out 10 the managers of the Taiway companies various economies that could be introduced and prevent the necessity for an advance h freight rates IS certainly suggestive of tlle greatest se'f-conhdencc. Mea who have made lie study of rail way manaeement and the making O. freight rates consider the problem decidedly intricate. but perhaps they have been men of mediocre ability whb have much to learn from attor- neys representing the shippers who are fighting a battle for their own profit irrespective os the welfare of the country as a whole, and especial Iy of the labor engaged in manufsc- turing supplies for the railways as well as in their operation.
 1t was undoubtedly a great sur prise to Colonel Roosevelt to find the voters of the country saw through his thinly disguised cam, paign for a dictatorship of the United States, and some day tho shipping interests fighting the raj, ways at every point, will be sur pfissd to ind the extent to which the country condemns their efforts as we'll as the average intelligence
Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-26

stead of real speaker. a series of debating societies for the pur- pose of performing the executive functions oi the house. business will lag and the democrats vii, exhibit degree Of incapacity that will bring at least as much rep-oac5 upon them as Cannonism.
 Speaker Reed instituted whE IS called Canncrism. Ha and ais par |ty had majority and it became necessary to utilize their Strength in positive legislation. Mfr. Reed saw to it. that the majority ruled in the house He did it to be sure, in a very direct or even harsh man ner The opposition p-ofessed to be outraged by the Gear rules" but there was little dissent from the republicans.
 Cannonism first became men ace to republicans when a very considerable body uf republicans themselves began to disagree with the leadership of their own party. The regulars. who at The time were
 
 iarih revision s'hey decided how far they should go and enacted the law Even ih naming the commit tees Speaker Cannon naturally ap- pointed members who were in ac- cord with the ideas of the IT jority which controlled his party. When the insurgents gain contro, of the republican party. they, too, will ap- point members of committees who are in accord with their notions Of tarin revision. and that sort or l men will inevitably get on the com mittees whether the speaker names them himself or wheCner they are appointed by a Committee on Com nlittees.'
 ] The speaker must have large DOW CTS Ii he abuses those powers his party stould suffer and give way to another party with 1iscre
 ton to make better usc of power Under our party system O. govern ment the speaker. seiZing every oI- portunity to make use of bis power. l The only method, apparent y. of bringing about change in essentials
 would be to change the system and to adopt the English system Of nam
 ing a permanent speaker to se-ve
 as a coldly impartial moderator o'
 the assembly. This is not feasib (
 with us.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-26
Helping q Brot..er-;n-la,D.

Many man, and many a business woman. too, for that matter, nova days. hnds themselves confronted with the problem of how to be,p in the best and wisest way brother-in- law u seems, from the numerous instances one hears of. that almost every family has at least one member ny marriage who doesn't keen step with the rest in the matter of pros- perity. He can't get along. He doesn't make things go" He's one or the uniucky kind" you hear of- fered as excuses. Often he is a good sort Of fellow. but nothing that he does prospers. Again. there is good. sound reason for his misfortunes. But whatever the cause, he is con- ti9ualiy making demands. either actually. or silently by reasons of his family's plight, upon his wife's reIa- tions. How far should one help surt 2 ran?
 A young minister who has such a brother-in-iaw Is really sacrificing bis whols life to the needs of the brother-ln-law and his family. The brother-in-law is an invalid, ip- capable of earning anything what-> ever. There are two small children. The minister practically supports the entire family. From his own not inunincent salary he uses for him self just as little as possible and turns the balance over to his sister. It means that he sacrifices every thing-the hope of a home of his own. the savings for his old age Should he do this?
 Naturally, he couldn't see his sister and his sisters children suffer But it scarcely seems just that he must deny himself all those things . man craves in order that his brcther-in- law may enjoy them. The sister and her husband have taken upon them selves the responsibilities of married, i, life, and now that misfortune has come they should not lay fhelr bur dens son somebody else's shoulders. In a case like this the wife should turn in and become the bread-winaer.s
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" might be necessary to help them al nrst until they become adjusted 10 the new order of things, It might even De necessary to give some small amount regularly to aid them. But 10 shoulder the whole burden of the profher-in-law's family scarcely seems essential or wise. Too much help makes people weak and dependent. It develops neither strength nor re- sourcefulness. IL would be better to help them to help themsel.es.
 The brother-in-law who, though he works hard, never gets along" is everywhere. A certain business wom- an has such one. He is constantly making demands upon her for money. Sometimes ft is a pressing debt that must be paid or he will get into trouble, Sometimes a few hundred dollars will secure him this, that or the other. that will just set him on his feet, and he vii. never need to bother her again. And 90 t goes. Every few months he appears with some excuse or other for extracting money from her. Ia she really. doing him kindnees hy making him these loans! . / 1t would scarcely seem that she is. He looks upon her as his bank in which his check will always be hon. cred, Instead of trying to help him. self when he needs money. he buys . ticket tohtown and puts up a howl about hard tinses or hard luck. This certainly does not help him in the most helpfal way. In the long run. he would be better of if he knew he couldn't get cent from her. and that he must plan better, save more or do without f he expected to succeed.
 There are emergencies. mtshaps, when il Is necessary to help brother-in-iaw quickly and without question. But in the niat7 the best help is that which enables him to help himself And this often takes the form Q, firm refusal 10 give the aid asked,
 Ea.Ze>A c~
Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-26

It is not a very digniied exai- bition being made by Psoehix news papers with reference to legislative representation. as between Cochise and Maricopa counties. If Phoenix thinks the recent federal census Is fraudulent it ought to carry iss case to Washington. and not inject another bag of peanuts into state hood matters.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-26
PARTY LABEL vS. PRINCIPLE.

The Public. a journaj printed in the interest of independent politics and economies subjects. sees little hope for the progressive movement within the republican party, because the leaders of that movement are not much inclined to favor reform when the issue is between reform and partisanship Vote the straight vcket," is the substance ot the ad- vice given by Senator Cummins- whose leadership of the insurgent cause has been considered only see ond 10 that of Senator La Toilette. Roosevelt gives this advice in his actions, if not in words. for his Osavatonie speech was delivered in a section where the straigh, tick ct was easily insurgent, whi.c in New York the straight ticket was wholly in sympathy with the Payne tariff law. Says the Public:
 The attitude Of Roosevelt
 and Cumnlins has done and is
 doing much to impair popular
 confidence in the sincerity of
 the progressive leadership. Their
 S. hatr xsssl'
 iugness to subordinate progress
 i've principles 70 the perpetuat.on
 Of the republican machine If
 their ideas are to prevail, the
 hopes of those who believed that
 insurgency was to usher in an
 era of political independence
 have been builded upon thc
 sand
 This is a good occasion to call attention once more to the fact that the tishest hope for politiea reform and econonic soundness lies with the party whose doctrine does not need change or modification. The princ!pes of the democratic party, ii .sclered to. would never permit the abuses being fought by the so- called insurgents. The latter want to change the republican party. but at the same time vote the straight ticket. They are between the devil and the deep sea. and will fail. On the other hand, the problem which confronts democrats in the matter of reform is simple. Fidelity to party doctrine IS the only tcst Of the ticket itseEs, and no democrat feels compelled to vote the straight ticket unless the platform back of that ticket is democratic in every sense Of the word