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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
HARDWARE MEN
MEET In COLU MBUS

Columbus, Miss, May 10-(Special) -
The Mississippi Retail Hardware associa-
ton delegates to the fourth annual con-
vention met today. About 800 are in
attendance from all parts of Mississippi
President Mallory Davis called the con-
Neition to order al $3.50 o'clock. All bus
mess sessions will be held at the court
house.
A prayer by the Rev. j. j. HILL pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church,
was followed by Mayor Donnells well
come address to the city. The Indus
trial Institute and College Glee Club
sang the national anthem and an encore.
Hon. j. /. Sturdivant prominent
members of the local bar, recently ap-
pointed as county attorney, welcomed
tho visitors on behalf of the local hard
ware men.
j. w. Hopkins, chosen to deliver the
response to welcome addresses, was un-
able to come to Columbus, and his place
was well filled by c. Armstrong of Val
Cen, who proved himself unusually in
teresting in his remarks.
c. A. Peck OF the Wisconsin Retail
Fla rdware association, was introduced
ana spoke several minutes along hard
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
FARMERS NEED rain
IN MISSISSIPPI
Anril Has Been Too Dry for the
Growing Crops
COTTON IS CUT DOWN
u,,.o,r Comfy Man Is Opposed to
Government Methods in ERADICATE
ing Ticks and Says Natures
Is the Better Way

Jackson. Miss, May 10.-(Spec1al)-
The month of April has always oeeh
capricious, but the one recently end
al was the dryest ever experienced
hare. save perIi APPS in 1891, when there
~as next to no rain. The consequence
IA that farmers have suffered on ac-
count of dreuth as we'll as too much
rain in the same month, the trouble
being that what rain there was came
A. one and the same time on the
18th of the month, flooding all low
lands and doing incalculable injury to
erops and freshly ploughed lands. That
flood was followed by the coolest
weather experienced In many years
that late in the season and troubles
for the farmers and truckers were
piled up high.
However, the farmers have replant-
cd all their crops and now that they
have had a good rain, cotton and corn
will have nothing to do but to grow
and flourish.
The damage to crops was perhaps
not so serious as at first reported. but
ing has cost many thousands of dol
lars G. H. Afford. special representa-
tive of the government, department of
agriculture, in southwestern Mississippi
states that he has just returned from
Q tour Of inspection over his district
and nnds that the farmers in many
places were damaged so per cent. while
In 9th ers only rs to go A great many
saved what plants we're left alive and
peplanted by hand, but others plowed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11

ware insurance. Mr.. Peck is one OF the
founders of the Wisconsin Hardware In
surance company, owned and managed
by the poli9 lders, and his statistics
regarding thel ms in surplus and the
amounts saved emiuns, show there
is something in n heme for Missis-
sipians as well as h Chose dealers in
Wisconsin.
The insurance feature of this conven-
ton promises to be the feature. Mr..
F eek shows where dealers of his state
pay one-half the premium charged by tbs
old-line companies; shows where in ten
years or less the company earns over
SOC, coo on premiums, and says their an
nual loss will not figure more than IS
per cent of the amount received in pre-
miums. The surplus and profits all be-
Ions to the dealers insured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
sSs0s ~ u I, .SosM - L9et91ko
MANY DELEGATES AT
BAPTIST CONVENTION

Baltimore. May 10.-More than 800 dele
gates are here to attend the Southern
Baptist convention which will begin its
sessions in the Lyric tomorrow afternoon
and continue until next Monday.
Joshua lowering of Baltimore Is pres
ident of the convention and it was au-
thoritativey stated that he will be re-
elected to that office tomorrow. Having
no legislative authority, the convention
will simply approve or disapprove ques-
tons, but it probably will take \ stand
on the liquor and other important is
sues. 1t will be asked to approve re-
quests for about s1,s50.0oo for various
works of the denomination ST. Joseph
Mo-, Fort Worth and other Texas cities
and Jacksonville, Fla, are in the contest
for securing the next convention.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
Concrete nont. Arc Be.t

Washington, May 1o.-It will puzzle most
people to know that boat built of con-
crete will not only float. but has a greater
carrying capacity is more durable and
even lighter than a strongly constructed
wooden boat. The Panama canal commits
sion has Just launched on the banks of the
Panama canal a big barge built OF re-
inforced concrete which weighs $4,000
pounds, and two others will soon be fin-
ished. These vessels, 1t is said, are I'M
affected by sea worms. marine vegetation
does not adhere to them and they are
practically indestructible.
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man is dispatching a great amount of bus

A movement was precpitated in Merid-
ion this afternoon that may result in paw
ing the county roads in this supervisors
district. Col. Fl. NJ. Street Is the origin
ator OF the idea, which he suggests shall
be Independent of the remaining super
visors district Of the county. recently
passed legislative bill makes this pos
sible, and as Meridian and this district, 1t
is argued pays So per cent of all the
taxes of the county. such proposition
would work no very great hardship on
individual taxpayers, File proposes a bond
issue for this district only which would
be certain to carry. and with the building
of this first installment of good roads,
1t is believed, the example would be
quickly followed by every Supervisors
district in the county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
Third Arbitrator Named

Washington. May 10-Judge William Lea
ed as third arbitrator of the controversy
between 10 railroads operating in the ter
ritory west of Chicago and the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men.
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WHITE MAN is KILLED
BUT NEGRO rs NOT

Houston. Tex, May 1o-Falling dis
lance of 100 feet from scaffold, Ed b.
Demar, aged 26 years, carpenter, was
almost instantly killed today. and Allen
Daniels, a negro, who experienced the
same dizzy plunge, was fatally injured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
Negroes Fall Broken

Lexington, KY, May locus Madison,
a negro, fell distance of nearly 10 feet
floor at a distillery near here yesterday.
The only visible effect of the encounter
was large swelling on top OF the negroes
head.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
TILE TExAs wOyDEn

Cures all Kidney, Bladder and Rheu.
matte troubles; sold by all druggists
or two months treatment by mail fol
81. DR.. E. W. Hall. 1925 Olive street
st. Louis. Mo. Send for testimonials.
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Southern Railway will au-
thorize an all-rail round trip
ticket to New York for $42.15;
June 5 to October 1, limited 30
days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11
MAJOR HARRISCN'S
FUNERAL Is HELD

Columbus, Miss, May 10.-(Special.)-
Wrapped in huge Confederate flag and
handled by comrades who were with
him during the days of the civil war and
who have been his friends throughout
these last so years, the casket containing
the body of Maj. Thomas Harrison, who
died suddenly in the Hotel Gimer hall
way yesterday morning at 6 O'clock was
placed in grave at Friendship ceme-
terry this morning at II o'clock.
The. funeral, which was conducted from
Miss Mary Harrison's residence on
North Seventh street, was largely at
tended. The Isham Harrison camp of
United Confederate veterans, Columbus
camp, and the Stephen D. Lee chapter.
were present as organizatit ms. large
crowd of townspeople were also at the
homestead.
Miss Harrison resides at the Stephen
D. Lee homestead and it was from this
same historic cd residence that the fu-
two years ago.
Blewett Lee, general counsel for the
Illinois Central railroad with headquar-
tiers in Chicago, will arrive Ia Columbus
tonight to be with his aunt, Miss Har-
rison few days.
Dr. w. C. Brewer, one of the leading
physicians and surgeons of Columbus, left
this morning for Rochester. Minnesota.
where he will spend six weeks studying
operations performed by the famous
Mayo brothers. After his stay there
Dr. Brewer will spend a similar period In
Rochester, N. Y, and New York city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11

W ScNii diStiiCt. HIS Was uue III part
and largely to the exodus of the me-
groes. but the boil weevil was re-
sponsible for the exodus
r. M. Ritchey of Lincoln county has
small faith in the efforts of the state
and federal governments to get rid
of the cattle tick through scientific
methods Recently his board of SUI
pervisors discussed the proposition to
join forces with the state in freeing
Lincoln of ticks, and sent a commit
tee to jackson to interview the live
stock board That committee was told
they would have to place their coun-
ty under the stock law before the gov
eminent would take hold of the mai
ter.
Mr.. Ritchey would let nature kill
ticks as 1t has always been doing, AMI
suggests that the woods and the pas
lures be burned off in the fall of the
year. The proposition to kill them
otherwise reminds him of the efforts
of other government experts to get
ahead of the boil weevil by urging
farmers to plant their cotton crops
early. They listened to the experts
and what did nature do but send a
blizzard and freeze to kill all the early
planted cotton and put all farmers on
an equal footing.
The Lincoln man banks heavily on
old Bendy. who fights flies and ticks
all day and comes up at night with
her gallon of milk which tastes so
sweet to the poor farmers children"
That's about the size of 1t. Because
of her continuous fight against the
ticks and other pests "Old Bendy"
comes up with only one poor little gal
lon of blue milk and the children Of
the poor farmer" never know tina,
there is better milk to be had, and
more of 1t, from cows that are free
of ticks and properly fed and attend
ed to.
Today the city of Jackson began to
bore down into the bowels of the earth
after good water and does not doubt she
Is going to get it.
A few months ago the city sold to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-11

Today the city of Jackson began to
bore down into the bowels. of the earth
after good water and does not doubt she
Is going to get it,
A few months ago the city sold to
seasongood & Mayer Of Cincinnati bonds
in the sum Of $25s.oOo, the cash derived,
counting the premium, being about $751;
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up and replanted everything, preferring

up and replanted everything, preferring
to have an even stand.
The cotton acreage, according to Mr.
Afford. had already been reduced from
% to IS per cent, and the acreage to
food crops was the largest ever known
in some of the counties In the boil
weevil district. This was due in part
and largely to the exodus of the ne
groes but the boil weevil was re-
sponsible for the exodus.
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$500 Willow PlumeS SASS

$Z5.W Willow PlumeS STAYS
Just sixty selected Willow
Plumes in black and white heavy,
wide flues. This plume trims a
hat complete and we have never
sold it for less than $3.50. Ev-
cry one says it is a $500 value.
Plume Sale Oh NJ
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-29
GREATER FEATURES
OF CITY SCHOOLS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE SIN

CONTINUED FROM PAGE SIN
two years, which considering the
size and temperamental differences,
is a most remarkable record.
That the evolution of the Ardmore
public school system has been most
remarkable and pronounced success,
no one in the limits OF the city will
question.
Accomplishing in but such a few
years, task of such monstrous
proportions. is one of the wonders
OF Oklahomas progressiveness. its
spirit of doing things, of doing them
right and doing them quickly.
The touch cf a wand. and cities
spring into existence. With kaleido-
scopic celerity the scene changes
from homeless prairie to where
the habitations of man mingle with
nature in a scene Of beauty. From
n picture of darkness, the light of
knowledge is difused, creating a6 II
BY magic community pulsating
with all the hopes and aspirations of
a civilization of ages. Log huts ard
sod houses give way to architectural
creations that delight the poetic fan
cy of the most aesthetic.
Where but few years since the
cattle roamed uninterrupted by the
limits of any specified territory
where the bark of the coyote and
the trail of the jack rabbit was all
that gave evidence Of life in the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-29
My Impressions Concerning Education
Oklahoma.

Ardmore, Okla, May 80, 1910.
Mr. Easley. Editor the Ardmorelte
My Dear Mr. Easley:
Complying with your kind request,
It affords me great pleasure to give
you some of my impressions con
cerning the cause of education in
this commonwealth. since have
been privileged to reside in Okla
homa, "the land Of the fair God" as
the Indians poetically call II. When
nearly nine months ago. after having
had my domicle, for two years,
in Washington, ID. c., departed
from that fairy-like federal capital,
little dreamed OF the varied and
beautiful experiences and visions
which awaited me. AS the train
bore me over the crest OF the Blue
Ridge, forest'clad mountains Of Vir-
ginia. western Maryland and West
Virginia, | thought: Here, indeed, Is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-29

sincere words OF tribute to the
present city superintendent OF public
instruction. ! have been privileged 10
count among my friends a consider
able number OF prominent educators.
both in the United States as well
as in Cuba and South America. yet,
never have ] met more highly
cultured, refined and consecrated
leader OF enlightenment than I have
found in the city superintendent OF
Ardmore. He understands how TO
make the young idea shoot. to direct
1t into the channels of righteousness
and right action. and so to cause
II to grow that II shall develop
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-29
West Main St. E. B. LUKE A,ano,.

lahoma Is doing for the enlighten-
ment OF her children. Commodious,
clean. attractive, well-cquipped school
houses and grounds. well-paid. eff
cient teachers, and the mCst modern.
advanced textbooks Equal opportu.
mites for education afforded to all
of Gods children within her bor-
ders. no matter OF what race or con
dition' Truly a revelation TO one
coming from the old settled states
of the east and north,
After final lap of twenty-five
miles. through a rich agricultural
country, saw Ardmore. on bright
September afternoon. n fair city.
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Eden on earth" Then. / felt a tinge
of sadness when | reflected that,
I'm that lovely region, the children
Of the rural hamlets and districts
are deprived OF proper public school
facilities. and are too often doomed
to gather the mere gleanings of ed
ucation in unsightly. tumble-dCwn
shanties, in which 10 self-respecting
farmer would care to shelter his
livestock; that, moreover, those apol.
ogies for schools were supplied with
only the most rudimentary equip
ment and textbooks. and that poorly
paid. consecrated teachers Were i'm
planting, under the mcst adverse
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Robson Opera House.
High School Commencement.
Operetta-"A Nautical Knot. BY
Members of Graduating Glass.

Monday evening an exposition Of
school music. with Miss Van Womer
as director. will be given at the
opera house.
Tuesday evening the Jurior-Senior
banquet will be given at the Gilmer
hotel
Thursday evening will be grammar
school commencement at which time
the operetta of Little Red Riding
Hood will be rendered at the opera
house by the eighth grades of the
Franklin, Washington and jefferson
schools.
Friday evening at the Robson
opera hoGse will be High School
commencement, an operetta will be
given by the graduating class, en-.
titled "A Nautical Knot"
This will close one Of the most
successful years in the history Of
the schools.
In point of numbers, there has
been an increase In point OF general
interest there Is pronounced ad-
yancemcnt. in all OF the things that
pertain to the schools mental and
moral progress more has been done
this year than any before. Athletics
have received substantial encourage
ment. The literary efforts Of the
members of the High School have
found full and appreciative express
sion in their admirable journal, THE
Criterion" and very little has been
left undone that would round out the
year with laurels Justly earned
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this morning, there will be variety
of exercises all of which will bring
into commendable notice the service
of the school in its system of train
ing the minds of the young.
This morning at eleven o'clock.
Rev. John l.. Brown of Louisville,
Ky. will deliver the baccalaureate
sermon at the Robson opera house.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Brown
we are enabled to give our readers
a synopsis of that address. which
is as follows:
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circumstances, the seeds of enlight-
enment and right training.
What an astonishing contrast was
presented as soon as the train en-
tered the northeastern corner OF Ok
lahoma, and proceeded diagonally
across the state, in "A southwesterly
direction, Various stops We're made
at little towns and har>lets, of less
than a thousand inhabitants each. In
every one Of these communities there
was fine brick or frame new
school building, the most imposing
object in the landscape Then. for
the first time, learned what Ok
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-29

Monday Evening, O'clock-May 30.
Robson Opera House.
Exposition of Public School Music,
Miss Van Wormer Director.
Special Feature: Price Contest Be.
tween Musical Organizations for Loy,
ing Cup.
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into pure, spiritual, bright woman
hood and manhood A few words OF
well merlted announcement or re-
buke. short prayer that bears
the hearer heavenward. a flash OF
Wit or humor like a sunbeam pene-
trating through a cloud, tender
expression of sympathy, an intense
and reyerent love for the true, the
good ard the beautiful such are
the characteristics which his life
constantly affords.
The schools of Ardmore. which
is hardly twenty-five years Old.
CONTINUED ON PAGE FOURTEEN
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rising, as Il were. out of the wilder
ness. Once fairly settled in Ardmore,
| began to inquire more fully con
cerning education In your city and
throughout the state OF Oklahoma
Nine months spent, on account OF my
duties as teacher, almost wholly
in Ardmore and vicinity, have ai
forded me as yet only a very lin.
tied opportunity to learu about the
advanced position which Oklahoma
is taking in diffusing universal en-.
lightenment, but, nevertheless, that
little think Wen worth relating.
First, II may be permitted, few
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Thursday Evening, 8 o'clock-June 2.
Robson Opera House.
Grammar School Commencement.
Operetta-'Little Red Ridinghood. "
T. gh,h Grades of Franklin, Washing
ton AMI Jefferson Schools.
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The great interest of the scholast-
icyear centers in its closing days.
Commencement is looked forward to
with eager anticipation by teachers
and pupils alike.
The ork of the year is ended
and vacation is at hand.
In the ranks of the senior classes
it means a departure from the asso-
Citations of several years OF schol-
astic work, the taking up of new
work in the higher lines of educa
tion. or entrance into the hard prac-
tical realities of life where the train
ing of the schools will be made to
serve its part In the future of the
student.
The year 1910 is especially willed
with much that is of interest to the
friends of the schools.
\ program replete with interesting
features has been carefully arranged
by the students and faculty. and
for the next five DAYS. commencing
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-29
Program for commencement,
Ardmore City Schools.

Sunday Morning, II o'clock-Msy 20.
Robson Opera House.
Baccalaurate Sermon--Rey. John l..
Brown, Louisville, Ky.
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Tuesday Evening 8 O'clock-May 81
Gilmer Hotel.
Junior-Senior Banquet.
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dreary waste, now stand magnifi-
cent cities thronged with people who
are seeking new fields for human
endeavor, who are possessed of
brains, intelligence and culture and
the spirit OF eternal progress.
With all these wonderful revela-
tions to one who is unacquanted with
conditions in this new state OF the
southwest. none are more wonderful
than the almcst incomprehensibl
progress that has been made in the
schools of Oklahoma and of which
the schools of Ardmore can be class.
ed as being on the advance line in
everything that pertains to lasting
and material benefit.
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Friday Evening, 8 o'eIoek-June 8.
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Explosion lmprisons Between so
and 125 and Rescue Work
Is Hard.
LIFE IN THE AIR PASSAGES
Heartrending Scenes on the Sur
face, Families Despairing
for Loved Ones.

TRINIDAD, October Between
fifty and one hundred and twenty-five
miners have been walled in, with little
hope of their being rescued for several
days, in the Colorado Fuel Mine at
Starkyille, as the result of an explosion.
There is some hope of keeping the
men alive by air passages until they
can be dug out.
Whether any have been killed in the
explosion will be impossible to say
until the galleries where the men are
imprisoned have been opened and ex-
plored. Through air passages, some of
which still exist, not having been affect
ed by the explosion, it is hoped to get
| in telephone communication with the
prisoners by the establishment of a
line. and everything will be done to
keep up their spirits until rescue can
be effected
The scene on the surface is heart
rending, the families of the buried
miners despairing of ever again behold
ing their loved ones. The cause of the
explosion is not known.