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Smyrna times., 1910-04-06
Dover Singers Give Fine Concert

The concert given by the large
chorus of the Peoples Church in the
Dover Opera House, Easter Monday
evening, was a success in every
way. In addition to the solos and
selections by the double male quar-
tette the selections by N. Dushane
Cloward were greatly enjoyed. The
two selections "Joy and Sorrow"
and Sunshine Through the Clouds
to be sung on Thursday afternoon in
Egyptian Hall in the Wanamaker
Building, Philadelphia, in the Easter
Musical Festival competing with
several large and well-known choirs
of the country, were sung with ease
by the choir and ELECTED round after
rJund of applause.
Smyrna times., 1910-04-06
Easter Dance at MiddIetown.

The annual Easter dance was given
by the young men of Middletown
IN the Opera House Easter Monday
evening. The patronesses wer. Mrs.
George v. Peverley, Mrs. John Coch-
ran Sites, Mrs. Willard B. Biggs,
Mrs. George Janvier, Mrs. Frank R.
Pool. The commmittee on arrange
ments were Joseph G. Parker, Jr.,
Lloyd NJ. Rragdon, James E. Wood
all, Jr., Eugene Shallcross, Luciar
Green, Julian H. Foard, and George
/. Lockwood. The stage was prettily
trimmed with greens and yellow
flowers, and the floor was in excellent
order. The first Infantry Band Of
Wilmington furnished music.
Smyrna times., 1910-04-06

Hamilton Hall, native of Star,
formerly known as Halls Cross
Roads, Md, who went West a num-
ber of years ago. has sold for 81, :
600, 600 his Lake Eleanor and Cherry
Creek property to the city of San
Francisco, the last piece of property
acquired for the proposed Hetch
Hetchy municipal water supply. Mr..
Hall is seventy years of age, and
has family of grown children.
Smyrna times., 1910-04-06
ASK FOR A SOIL SURVEY
Department of Agriculture Invited to
Make Important Move in Delaware.

Department of Agriculture Invited to
Make Important Move in Delaware.
Dover, March 30.-Various oranges
of the State, on request of the State
Board of Agriculture, have forwarded
letters here to be sent to the Sec
retary of Agriculture to urge him to
complete the soil survey in this State
begun in 1904. The State Board of
Agriculture yesterday forwarded the
following letter:
Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculture.
Dear Sir.-The State Board of
Agriculture respectfully petitions you
to have completes the soil survey of
this State begun in 1904. The i'm
purtance of this work at this time is
explained by the fact that the higher
prices of farm products has encourag-
ed the farmers to take up the cultiva-
tioD of lands hitherto considered more
or less undesirable and improbable.
While at the same time the soil sur
vey will point out the fact that these
lands are admirably adapted to GER
tain crops, there is also a general
movement for progressive agriculture
generally in the State and more crops
are being introduced. 1t is unneces.
sary to go further into our reasons
for asking for the completion of the
survey as our reasons are too obvious
to need mentioning. Believing tha
you will give the matter your favor
able consideration at the earliest pos
sible moment, we remain,
Respectively yours,
Oliver A. Newton,
President
James T. Shallcross.
Vice president
Edward w. Jenkins,
Secretary
Smyrna times., 1910-04-06
Worse Than Bullets

Bullets have caused less suffering to
soldiers than the eczema L. W. Har-
riman. Burlington, Me, got in the
army, and suffered with forty years.
But Bucklen's Salve cured me when
all else failed" he writes. Greatest
healer for Sores, Ulcers, Boils,
Burns, Cuts, Wounds, Bruises and
Piles. 25c at Benton N. Weldon S
drug store, Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1910-04-06

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure
any case of kidney and bladder
trouble not beyond the reach of medi-
cine. No medicine can do more.
Sold by w. R. Keys, Clayton; all
druggists, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1910-04-06
.ATARRH

Taste and Smell. Full size SO cts.. at Drug
gists or by mail. In liquid form, 70 cents.
Ely Brothers, Sc Warren Street. New York
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
PERSONAL MENTION.
ltsms Of snterest Of Those Who Conc
and 90.

Lee Wilson was in Dallas yesterday
WIN Moudy was in Dallas yestcr.
day
j o Boyle went to Dallas yester.
day
J C. Thompson was in Celeste yes.
terday.
Ed Hagon was a visitor TO nauas
yesterday
j. r Craddock returned last night
from Dallas.
J. A. Tippctt, of Ce'cste, was in tho
city yesterday.
Fire Chief John Rowsey was IN
Dallas yesterday.
Judge j. S, Sheriff. returned from
Dallas last night.
Roy Johnson went to Longyiew on
business yesterday.
Or. Ed Becton was called to Nj
Pleasant yesterday.
Walter Samuel is home from She
man for a short visit.
Capt. Walter Hardness visited hi
mother in Paris yesterday,
Mrs. +. NJ. Conger, OF Midland, +
visiting Mrs. j. Z. Germany.
h. s. Bass returned yesterday fron
a business trip to Whltewright.
Miss Anna Lou Hogan, of Muskoge,
okla, is the guest of the Misses Line
han.
Mrs. VIII Moody. OF Donson, a.
rived last evening to spend the no
days with Or w, c. Moody and fan
lily.
w. Il Graham Jr., OF Waco, is !
the city visiting his parents, Re-
/ and Mrs. w. h. Graham.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
Weather Bureau.

Friday; Generally cloudy Temper
ature yesterday, minimum 35 de-
rees; maximum 5S degrees. The
southwestern Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company report To midnight is
cloudy, no rain, nj Abilene. Austin,
beaumont Cleburne, Corsicana, Dub
lin, Fort Worth, GAINESVILLE. Hous.
ION, paris, Rain at Hearne Clear n
ul other Texas points
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Edward Selvin has scored another
hit with his new magic act. His ma
uipulations OF the buliard-balls, cards
and other objects is mystifying and
m, pa,ter he uses lis In Itself a big
laugh Tex and Nlable shea are
proving delightfully."- lunuy in then
little comedy sketch. They sing We
dance cleycr'y and hand ont hilar
iously funny bunch OF talk. The usuoI
performances will be given today
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

At $50 O'Clock last evening MT
Otue Ross and Miss l.erah p, Fur
long were married by Rev e. /, Com
pcre at his residence. The couple
are from the white Rock community
and are from two OF the best families
u the county. The groom is a young
farmer, and they viii live on mis- farm
noar White Rock. Mr and Mrs. Ross
have the best wishes OF their many
friends for happy and prosperous
lite.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
VISITED bY Her Nurse.

Miss Jennie Doyle, who has been
Miss Opal Lockett, returned
TO Dallas Yesterday Miss Doyle is
the trained nurse who for six weeks
Miss Lockett in her recent
attack of typhoid fever, and the bond
Of friendship were made very strong
hetwccn the young ladies'
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
To Pave wesley street.

j. l. Bowman is circulating pa
per for signatures of property own
ers on Wesley street, for the paving
Of that street All the property own
crs whom Mr.. Bowman has seen have
signed the paper and prospects seem
GOOD for success of the undertaking
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
Notice.

To Customers have located just
south OF Laundry, corner OF Pickett
and St. John streets, where / Will be-
better prepared to serve you. VIII
give good terms and perfect fits i'm
dress making. Also furnished rooms
TO rent.--Mrs, NJ Sanders, old phone
1876 1921
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

r. r. FIaig, secretary, announces a
meeting of the U. b. A. at 1880 to-
night and requests all members to
take notice.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Everybody likes the home made cam
dy the KendrickDye girls sell. WISH
the Booster club Saturday ana SEQ j,
you don't
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

The l.. A. OF b. r. T. will serve
Hobo Stew at the Booster club rooms
Tuesday evening 8 to 10 o'clock-15
cents a bowl.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Mr.. Foy, the druggist has bought
The b. j. Mitchell residence and has
secured for himself and family a nice
nome.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Major Joseph +. Nichols, secretary
Of the lnrerurban Company, Went to
Fort Worth this morning on business
connected with the Vote City Inter
urban proposition.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Tom N-n ia able to be out again
after an illness OF several days.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
Here From Lonnview.

Mr.. aud Mrs Ben Barring, OF Long
view, have come to spend the hoh-
days with their mother and other rel.
atliyes.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
III at MI. Pleasant.

Walter Weaver is reported as be.
ing seriously IN at Mt Pleasant He
formerly lived in Greenville.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Choir rehearsal at Christian church
tonight at o'clock. All members
ATE requested to be present.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

There will be choir practice to.
night at z O'Clock at Wesley church.
All members are requested to be on
hand.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

William Watson and Bertha T
lausston.
C. W. Thomson and Lula Smith.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Now is the time to select your
ready.lDWear garments - one-lourth
OF our already low price.-Murphy-
Miller Co
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

What would make u more usetu
Xmas gift than Il pair of those liue
dress gloves Mems and ladies' ~
Murphy's.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
kendrick.Dye Dinner.

Chilli loc, oyster stew loo and nice
home made candy served Saturday al
the Booster club by the Kendric't
Dye girls
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Richard Meadows, the negro VINO
was shot by an officer ON Sunday is
reported as improving and will prob
ably be out in a few days
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Your friend will appreciate a nice
Fountain Pen for Xmas Get il from
Ford 4 Pennington.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Yow friend viii appreciate a nice
Fountain Pen Tor Xmas. Get it from
Ford 81 Pennington.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
In County Court.

In county court yesterday Jack
Wallace pleaded guilty 10 aggravated
assault, and was fined $500 and
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Your friend viii APPRECIATE a nice
Fountain Pen for Xmas. Get it from
Ford & Pennington.
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16
RaIke's for the best mattress mad,

agree with win y. Harrison
on Grecnyllle being the best
And the Booster club has helped Us
This ! must confess
Now there is one thing more
would like to suggest
Phone the Model Pressing Par'or
To have your old clothes cleaned
ana pressed.
COTTON" PHILLIPS.
Both Phones 12-ll
The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-12-16

Dark red Jersey COW, four years old
has one Scared horn Notify William
Gore, at Compress 121&
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-12-15
A SUCCESSFUL PICKER.
COTTON pICkIAG SOON TO BECOME
EASY PROBLEM.
WILL REvOLU1|ONzE LABOR.
Albert CampbeIl, Chicago Man,
Has Made What Is is Believed
Will BE Successful
Picker.

When the first great inventor
told the King of Syracuse that he
was able with his own strength to
move any weight whatsoever, King
Heiro, very naturally, challenged
him to a proof. The answer is his
tory. One of the King galleys
was drawn by many men with great
labor upon the shore and there was
loaded to its capacity. Then 1t was
that Archimedes with his ropes and
pulleys hoisted the vessel into the
air with his own hands-and estab-
lished for himself reputation
which will never die.
For generations the lament of the
South has been for a medicine which
would enable one man to do the
work of ten. Every student of the
South's problems has recognized
that its emancipation could not be
wrought until a mechanical cotton
picker had been invented. But
while 1t has long been patent that
fame and fortune awaited the in
Ventor of n cotton picker which
would do it's work to the satisfac-
tion of the planter, year has follow
ed year, each taking what was ad-
mitted to be an unnecessary toll af
millions from the cotton growers.
and the machine has not been forth
coming. 1t has been due to no lack
OF effort that this has remained
true. Few educated Southern men
have failed to turn this problem
over in their minds. The list of
would-be inventors would include
lawyers, doctors, merchants and
ministers as well as farmers and
mechanics. More than once il has
been announced that success has
been attained, but in every instance
it was found that the machine was
Fltally defective in one respect or
another. Either it tore up the
weed, or it threw the open cotton
upon the ground, or it picked trash
and cotton Unfortunately, or II
was too heavy to be moved, or it
Jailed in some other particular pro-
perly to accomplish the task for
which it was designed
The Worlds Work for December
would have us to believe, however,
that at last the promlem has been
solved. Angus Campbell, a Scotch
pattern maker, of Chicago, is given
credit for this achievement. Twenty
I'VE years of experimentation attest
Mr.. Campbell's interest in the uues-
tion. During that time he had made
machines of many types and has
brought them one otter the other
from factory to cotton field only to
meet with ridicule when he attempt
ed to put the machine into opera
tlon. MIR. Arthur w. Page tells
Ihe story Of his discouragements
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-12-15
SOUTH SETS THE PACE.
Kansas and Massachusetts, Invited
to Take Notice.


Editorial in Golfers.
Will Kansas take notice? They
are going to hold a Corn Exposi
ton this year December 5-S)-
not in Iowa, nor Nebraska, or Illi-
nois, or Kansas, but in Columbia,
;. c. And one South arolina
farmer will enter the competition
with record of more than two
hundred bushels to an acre. Can
Kansas beat that? How many peo-
pie know that the worlds corn rec
ord-254 bushels and 49 pounds
raised on single acre-is held by
Capt. Drake, of Marlboro county,
South Carolina? In this matter of
corn, as we'll as in many other re-
spects the South is just coming in
to its own and is taking a just pride
in its achievements. Every boy in
South Carolina who raised seventy
five bushels of corn to the acre
ibis year will receive a certificate
OF merit signed by the Governor and
the State Superintendent of Educa-
ton. You can't beat that spirit.
It's wholesome change from keep
ing all the prizes solely for pro-
ficiency in rhetoric and other purely
academic subjects. The dominant
notes of the new South Is recog-
Va ShS VI
usefulness and the inspiring spec
tacle of the South's best names
men who, a generation ago, would
have scorned any other profession
than law and any other accomplish
ment than oratory-now on the
faculty lists in trade and technical
schools. a Toombs teaching boys
how to handle a blacksmith's sledge
efticle ntly. 1t would be hard to
count the ways in which or exagger-
ate the degree to which this nation
/ Is going to be affected by the in
| custrial rise of the South and it's
new spirit. Will Massachusetts,
be able to keep ua her cotton mill
supremacy after South Carolina
gets her labor trained? Iowa is
Shown by the recent census to have
| suffered a net loss of population;
probably most Of Kansas also and
many other sections of the Middle
West have not lost since 1900. Why
Pay a hundred dollars an acre in
Iowa when land that will raise Just
as much corn can be bought in
South Carolina for twenty an acre?
Probably the Middle West will ans
wer something about the heat. but
has the weather bureau ever made
an official comparison Of summer
temperatures in Wichita, Kan, for
example, and the higher attitudes
OF the South, the the Piedmont sec
tion of the Carolinas, Georgia and
Alabama?
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-12-15

justed. The fingers move fast
erough to throw Il Off The cylin-
ders bring each finger into place
never a space large enough for the
at the proper time so that there Ia
open boil to pass through without
touching a finger. The drum is
moving backward at the same rate
that the whole machine moves for
ward, so that the picking needles
do not move horizontally through
tho plant but merely turn in it,"
1t is almost impossible to over
estimate the Importance of this ma
chine to the South If in practical
daily use it shall measure up to
what Is here claimed for it. The
expense for operating it, Is is es-
ttmated would be approximately;
for driver $3.50; for gasoline and
oil $3.50; for boy S1.00; allowance
for repairsS 1.0O-a total, tn day,
of $500. The machine will cover
at least eight acres a day. Mr..
Page estimates that with the ma
chine a farm OF 100 acres can be
picked over twice in twenty-five
days, at a cots of $50. The saw
ing over the hand picking method
would depend, of course. upon in
dividual conditions, upon the price
pei 100 pounds paid to cotton pick
ers upon the yield per acre, upon
the LAY of the land" as affecting
the operations of the machine.
Where, as in Texas, cotton pickers
have asked $1.10 the hundred this
sePson, the difference would be very
considerable. Upon soil where the
yield per acre was very light it
would probably be impracticable to
use the machine at all, the cost be-
ing prohibitive. This phrase of the
question is not a serious one, how
ever. since 1t is being recognized
more and more generally every
year that intensified farming is de-
cidediy the most profitable from
every standpoint.
The perfection of the cotton pick
er will at bound make the white
man the master of the industrial
situation. Radically improved meth
ods. of cultivation can be introduc-
Ell with comparative ease. The
employment of successful cotton
picking machine, one that can be
operated economically and which
can be depended upon not to get
seriously out of order under slight
proVocation, and to do its work
efficiently, will not only mean an
annual saving of many millions of
dollars to the Southern farmer, but
it will cause land values to soar,
and will make the South more than
ever attractive to the white man,
especially to the white man Of mod
est means. The announcement of
Mr.. Campbells success is especial
ly interesting at this time in con-
nection with the reports of the exc
Gus of negroes from the South. We
may depend upon it that If the op-
ttmism of Mr.. Page as to the work
ableness of Mr.. Campbell's ma
chine is justified that it's adoption
by the farmers will mean the long
est step which has yet been taken
in the solution of the black prob
lem as it affects the South. 1t will
be in effect the opening of the
doors of the South to thousands of
desira BILE white immigrants. a move
ment which in time must result in
the outnumbering Of the negroes by
the whites, with the result that
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-12-15

and of his Scotch pertinacy I'm the
face OF them. He would probably
have progressed more rapidly but
for the fact that there were in the
South no machine shops capable of
manufacturing the parts needed by
the inventor, and and between the
experiment there was consequently
n tedious delay. Nevertheless, he
persevered, spending his vacation
each year in the cotton fields, un-
I'll late in the '90's, he interested
some Pittsburgers in his undertak-
ing and succeeded in forming a COM
pany to promote his invention. 1t
was not properly organized and
conducted and soon became bank
rupt. 1t was re-organized and suf-
fered a second time the same fate.
Mr.. Campbell was greatly disap-
pointed, but he kept on trying and
In the fall of 1908 he succeeded in
persuading Theordore II. Price, the
big New York cotton dealer, into
sending an engineer to Texas for
the purpose of viewing at work the
one machine which the company
possessed. AS the result of the en-
Sineer's report Mr.. Price himself
came to Texas. bring with him Mr..
Herbert e. Walmsley, former
president of the New England
Spinners' Association, Mr.. Arthur
Hamerslagg, of the Carnegie Tech
nical School of Pittsburg, and Mr..
fercy Freeman, the Dallas agent OF
a big English cotton buying house.
The entire quartette were skeptical
but only upon arrival. They saw
tho machine at work and they re-
turned convinced that it was sue
cess and would revolutionize cotton
picking. Their verdict, according to
Mr. Page. stands. The machine is
not put forward at this time as a
perfected instrument, and num-
Der of improvements have been
made within the last few months,
but 1t works now and as Mr.. Page
suggests lit is much further ad-
vanced than the gin, or the reaper.
or the telephone when they made
their first appearance"
THE machine ITSELF" says MIR.
Fage, "is about as inspiring a sight
as the gin was in Whitney's day. 1t
is small gasoline, traction engine,
with two picking attachments swung
under 1t, and a pair of canvass
bags hung out behind. 1t travels
through the field about as fast as
man walks, taking the cotton
pant ueI"een the WneelS, Wnere IL
is picked over by almost countless,
steel fingers, which catch the lint
but leave the plant uninjured, so
that the later bolls may mature. To
leave the unripe bolls has been the
great difficulty in making a me-
chanical cotton picker. Th,
picking machinery is on two drums,
which hang from the frame of the
ira ctor, one on each side of the
cotton plant as the machine strad-
dies the row. An endless chain of
upright cylinders of small diameter
follow each other around the drum.
From these cylinders the needles
which do the picking projects hor-
zontally into the plant. When the
machine starts everything moves
with a motion of its own. The
drum carries the cylinders around; !;
the cylinders poke the needles into
the plant at the proper angle. and
the fingers turn and catch the cot
ton. Every motion is delicately ad-