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The Brinkley argus., 1910-04-01
Clarendon News.

Mrs. J. I. Mathews, of Holly Grove, was in our city last week. Miss Fern Smith left Friday for Holly Grove to visit relatives. MT. and Mrs. Sam Lang, of Brinkley, were in our city Sun day.
 Miss Olive billiard, of Little Rock, is the guest of Miss Ford this week.
 Misses Dolores Johnson and Beulah Fitzgerald spent Sunday in Brinkley.
 Mrs. P. c. Evan and Mrs. N. E. Murphy were in Helena last week shopping.
 On account of election there are no real estate transfers re- corded this week.
 Mrs. T. B. Sylar, of Holly Grove, was the guest of Mrs. F. N. Looney this week.
 Rowan Clatworthy left last week for Oklahoma City, where he has gone to accept position. Misses Ada and Bettie Duke, of Roe, are the guests of their sister, Mrs. Mayberry this week. Mrs. Frank Dancy, of Searcy, arrived Wednesday and is the guest of her mother, Mrs. M. E. i Johnson. The opening was well attend ed Tuesday afternoon at Hardy's Cafe. Ice cream and cake was served to visitors free.
 The little four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Anderson died Monday night after pro- longed illness of over a year. [ Mrs. Graham and children left Sunday for their home in De- ValIs Bluff. They have been the guests of Mrs. John Roberts.
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The farmers are very busy planting corn and preparing their land for cotton this week. The young people enjoyed themselves at an Easter egg hunt at Mrs. Boyds last Sunday. Misses Ethel, Ester and Etta Sawyer spent Sunday the guests of Misses Pearly and Susie Jack son.
 Rev. s. D. Sawyer filled his regular appointment at Tupelo Saturday and Sunday and re- turned home Monday afternoon. As news is scarce will ring off With best wishes to the Argus.
 Violet.
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Just tell lem you saw it in the ARGUE.
The Washington herald., 1910-04-10

of the congress shall ask in their name
for the women of the United States
This congress will convene at 10 O'Clock
on Thursday, April Il, and VIII adjourn
at 8 o'clock the following Monday even
Il ing.
1t is expected that altogether there viii
be about 800 delegates from thirty-five
States, as well as representatives from
the auxiliary societies
For many years this meeting of the
wOmans organizations was an annual
event looked forward TO by the members
with great interest. For six years it has
not met here. and in that time its peer
less leader, Susan 3. Anthony, has passed
away.
Many of the older workers will sadly
miss their erstwhiIe fellow worker and
loved leader. The work has been going
on in the different cities most enthusiast
tically. however. and when the members
meet again this year they will be sur
prised to find that they have grown many,
many thousands stronger
Tell of Long Fight.
One of the most interesting features Of
the coming convention will be the stories
told by the leaders of their many fights
for the franchise. The prominent work
ers in New York and Philadelphia viii
tell of the wonderful shirt-waist strike
and of the part the suffragists took in
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has upon its rolls more socially promi-
nent names than any other such club in
the world. The president of the Hornell
Women Workers League is Harriet
Stanton Batch
Mrs. La Toilette Active.
Just word about the District of Co
lumbia sufragists Mrs Robert NJ. La
Toilette, wife of the Senator from Wis
consin. is an ardent worker for the cause.
She is a prominent member OF the Dis
trict of Columbia College Equal Suffrage
League. Miss Mabel Foster. the daugh-
ter OF Representative Foster, is the Dis
trict Of Columbia president of the Col
lege Equal Suffrage League She is the
youngest officer in the association. Mrs.
Herbert Parsons Is also a member OF the
league. having been president for num-
Der Of years.
Much Of the success OF the congress is
due to the untlring efforts Of Miss Emma
GiIlett. a well-known lawyer of Wash
ington. Although not the chairman Of
any of the committees, she has been ap-
pointed to place on most of them and
has attended TO the Washington end of
much of the work. She is the president
of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Suffrage
Association. Among the other prominent
District workers are Mrs. H V TindalI,
who has been for years leader In the
Woman's Suffrage Association. and Mrs.
Frences Marshall Gregory. the organizer
of the Political Study Club.
Well Known Nationally.
Miss Harriet Hilton. the president of
the District Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton, has been identified with the work
great many years and is well known ma
tiOnally. Among the other prominent suf-
fragists who viii attend the meeting
will be Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait and
Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont. of New York.
both of whom are well known in Wash
ington suffrage circles
With the memory of the recent militant
suffrage agitations In England. some of
the Congressional members are wonder
ing if their life, too, is to be made a bur
den TO them as was the members of Par
lament. The women say not They do
not believe that the English methods will
win anything for them. They claim that
1t Is directly against the Constitution of
the United States 10 refuse to allow
women to vote and therefore they are
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The only promise required by the board
In making its gifts is that the money
which il gives shall be invested and pre-
served inviolable for the endowment Of
the college or university.
school Development in south.
It is estimated from reports already in
hand that for the year 1910 the current
expenditures for public education in the
Southern states will be two and a half
times as much as they were for the year
1890. showing an increase Of $50 per cent
The value OF school property is three
times as much as it was in 1900. showing
an increase of 200 per cent. The money
expended on normal schools and other
means Of professional education for teach
ers is three times what It was in 1900. an
increase Of 200 per cent. Appropriations
to State universities and TO other pubEic
institutions of higher learning have In
creased 100 per cent High school facfli-
ties in the cities and larger towns have
Increased little more than 100 per cent;
in the villages and rural districts about
400 per cent TIE average length Of school
term has increased from 20 to % per cent
Since there has been little or no increase
In the length of term in the cities. this
means an increase OF term in the villages
and rural districts of % to 30 per cent.
In some States the increase has been be-
tween 40 and so per cent. The average
monthly salaries Of teachers have in
creased from 80 to 50 per cent, making
the average increase in the annual salary
about 20 per cent The salaries of county
superintendent have increased from 50 to
100 per cent. The increase in efficiency OF
teachers aud superintendent has proba-
bly, not been quite so large. The indus
trial development has taken away many
of the better men and women from the
school work and has made il necessary
to pay higher prices for inferior teachers.
but there has been a remarkable increase
in effectiveness.
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PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH IN LAST TEN YEARS.

Nearly thousand delegates, composed
Of Southern teachers and men prominent
in the cause of EDUCATION, attended the
opening session at Little Rock, Ark, We'd
nesday, April 6. of the thirteenth annual
Conference for Education in the South.
The annual address was delivered by
Robert c. Ogden, president of the con-
ference, says the New York Evening Post.
After recounting briefly incidents of pre-
ceding meetings, and the changed condi-
tons of the present. when the conference
has made a great leap into the South
west. he said:
THE question of civic responsibility for
public education is very serious Its i'm
portance cannot be overstated, nor its
duties exaggerated. The obligations of
the citizen are personal; they are also
both ethical and legal They touch life
at every point-the home society, the
church, the state.
The outlook for social and political af-
fairs in this country at present is omi-
nous It would be easy to make state
ments of conditions morbid enough to suit
IL
They appear on every side, and, while
they are in the first Instance social, they
are civic as wen. Prominent among these
issues are questions Of employer and
employe the rights Of property, the
rights of labor the duties of intelligence
TO ignorance of race 10 race. response
bilities to the unfortunate, the blind the
deaf. the insane, the criminal. Surely
the black catalogue sometimes almost
drives earnest souls TO the brink of
despair-especially so when ii is remem-
bered that the major part of all the
trouble is chargeable to low ethical stand
ards There is a remedy that is quite
within our grasp, and it Is TO be found In
an enlightened wise consciousness and
honest citizenship-in standards of civic
duty and responsibility-that will lead
each man and each woman to seek the
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the battle. II is expected that Mrs Mac
kay will talk at length on this subject.
At the request of the District president
Of the Wamons Suffrage Association.
Miss Harriette J. Hilton, more than
hundred of the District Of Columbia
ministers viii take woman's suffrage as
a text during the Sunday the congress
viii be in session.
For the first time In the history Of the
United States the President will address
a woman's suffrage congress. The Presi-
dent viii speak about o'clock Thursday
night.
Prominent Names In List.
The list of officers of the National
WOman's Suffrage Association contains
ia great number of names which are
household words in this country. The
president is Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.
the famous woman divine of Pennsylva-
mia; Rachel Foster Avery, of Pennsylva-
MIA. is first vice president; Florence Kel-
ley, Of New York. second vice president:
Frances Squire Potter of New York, cor
responding secretary; Ella s. Stewart.
Chicago. recording secretary: Harriet
Taylor Upton, of Ohio, treasurer, and
Laura Clay. of Kentucky. and Miss Alice
Stone Blackwell. of Massachusetts, first
and second auditors.
The chairmen. of the standing COM
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All photos by C. '. Buck.

and the Committee on Woman's Suffrage
of the Senate. This hearing follows the
joint resolution introduced in the House
of Representatives on the 18th of Febru-
airy. 1910. by Representative Frank W
Mondel. asking for an amendment to the
Constitution of the United states so that
the right of citizens to vote shall not be
denied on account of sex. This resolu-
tiOn reads as follows:
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing amendment 70 the Constitution Of the
United States extending the right Of suffrage 20
women.
Resolved By the Senate and Horse Of Rerrezent-
atiTes Of the United States Of America in Congress
assembled ttwo-thiIds Of each House concuuing
therein THAT the following article be proposed to
the legislatures Of the several States amend
ment TO the Constitution Of the United States.
which when ratified hy three-fourths Of said legs-
latures. shall be valid Tart Of said Constitution,
namely:
Article -. Section L The right Of citizens Of
the United States 10 vote shall not be denied OF
abridged by the United States OF by any State on
account Of sex.
Sec > Congress shall have power. BY appro-
PIRATE legislation, 10 enforce the provisions Of this
article"
The list of speakers at this hearing
have not yet been determined. but it is
announced that there will be a great
many and that the meeting will take
some hours
Congress to Meet Here.
Great interest is being taken in the
National American woman's Suffrage
Congress, which viii meet in Washington
a week before the hearing and the carry
ing of the precious petition to Congress.
AT this congress will be discussed exactly
what it is desired that the representatives
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| line of duty. Such seeking will find the
line of duty, and it will lead straight into
the public schools"
Mr.. Ogden told of the formation of the
Southern Education Board ten years ago,
and the Association of State Superintend-
ents and Commissioners of Education. and
the important work done by them. Speak
ing of the General Education Board, he
said it has three main lines of work: %
The promotion OF practical farming in
/ the Southern States; CO The development
OF system of public high schools in the
Southern States; and go the promotion
of higher education throughout the United
States. After viewing the boards work,
he said;
South's Need of High schools.
THE general study on educational con-
ditions in the Southern States led the
board to believe that the greatest lack
in that region, and, therefore. the great
est need. was of public high schools. It
is the policy of the board to do this work
through existing organizations. Arrange
ment was therefore made with the sew
eral State universities in the Southern
States whereby such universities could
assume the leadership and direction of a
movement designed to develop systems n
high schools. appropriations have been
made by the General Education Board to-
the State universities in the following
States: Alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Geor-
gia. Louisiana. Mississippi, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina. Tennessee, Virginia.
and West Virginia.
The general education board appropri-
ates to each university sum sufficient
TO pay the salary and travelling expenses
of special high school representative.
This man. representing the university
and the State department of education,
goes to counties throughout the State.
arouses and organizes public sentiment
favorable to high schools. and secures
the establishment and maintenance of
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1t is safe to estimate that as a result
of this cooperative initiative on the part
Of the general education board 1000 new
high schools have been established. and
that 100000 have been raised by the
people for buildings and equipment.
OF this work President Eliot, who has
recently made a journey through the
Southern States. has said: 1T is the
most valuable piece of constructive edu-
cational work now going on in the
United States
Institutions of Higher Learning.
The general education board uniformly
makes it's gifts for endowment. Colleges
throughout the country decide how much
money they wish to raise at a given
time. Application is made TO the general
education board. careful study of the
institution is made covering both its
financial and educational strength 1t is
studied not only as a particular insti-
tuition of learning, but in its relation to
higher education generally in a particu-
lar State Then TO approved institutions
the board makes contributions toward
the total sums which they> themselves
have decided to raise. These contribu-
tons are made absolutely 20 the trustees
of the several institutions. and the
general education board exercises no SUI
pervision or control in any case. 1t first
decides that the institution is worthy of
aid and then makes its gift without any
string attached to it, 1t is the convic-
ton OF the members of the board that
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mittees are as follows: Programme. Rev
Anna II. Shaw. Congressional work.
Florence Kelley: press committee. Ida
Hustled Harper; legal adviser. Catherine
Waugh McCulloch; enrolment, Mary D.
Hussey: literature. Alice Stone Black
well: railroad rates. Lucy E Anthony.
and national committee on local arrange
ments. Lucy f. Anthony
Many SPecinI Committees.
The special committees have been look
ing up their branches Of the work all
winter under the guidance of their
chairmen These chairmen are Florence
Kelley. committee on industrial problems
affecting women and children. Mary
Bartelme, legislation for civil rights:
Mary +. Craighe, committee on church
work; Lucia Ames Meade committee on
peace and arbitration: Ida Potter BOYER.
committee on libraries: Pauline Steinen,
committee on education: Frances Squire
Potter. committees on convention resolu-
tons and resolutions; Laura Gregg, May
y. Chase. and Perle Penfeld, national or
ganizers. and Mr.. Barton Y. Aylesworth,
committe on national lecturers.
Some Of the strongest branches of the
congress are the auxiliary and affiliated
societies. The president of the National
College Equal Suffrage League is Dr. NJ
Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr College.
The Friends Equal Rights Association is
very strong throughout Pennsylvania and
Maryland. The President Of this associa-
ton is Mr.. Mary Bentley Thomas Of
Maryland. Mrs. Katherine Duer Mackay.
of New York, who has used her wealth
and social position to aid American wom-
en in their efforts to obtain the franchise
as we'll as proper wages. is the president
of the Equal Franchise Society. which
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vision or control of the educational
work in colleges.
Appropriations by the board for higher
education have been made as follows:
In the Southern States. 81 AZ so
In the Western States. SIS 90
In the Eastern and Middle States l. l05. 900
as2N
These gifts on the part of the general
eduction board are toward an approx
mate total of $lS.OO.cOO, which total sum
represents the increase of educational en-
dowment and equipment, largely made
possible by the contributions Of the gen
eral education board A detailed state
ment of these appropriations is attached
hereto.
1t should be noted that the policy Of
the general education board is to work
through existing institutions and agencies
and not itself to undertake Independent
educational work.
These contributions for agricultural
demonstration work are expended under
the supervision of the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture which, through
its accredited representatives, has entire
control of such expenditures. Payments
are made by the general education board
for this work on vouchers certified by
representatives Of the Department OF Ag-
riculture
1t seeks to promote public high schools
not by sending its own agents into the
several States TO do this work, sbut by
enabling state universities and State de-
partments of education to do the work
Here, again. the direction and supervision
of the work are entirely in the hands of
the accredited representatives of the
states.
Its contributions 10 colleges are not for
specific departments in colleges. or uni
versities. nor for particular kinds of edu-
cation. The contributions are made to
the trustees Of the colleges. who have full
power to direct the expenditure thereof.
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public high schools. It is not possible
to state the total number of high schools
thus organized and established. In several
of the States we are able to give exact
figures The following high schools have
haep established.
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Goes to Committee.

Just what the Congressional committee
designated 30 receive this petition will do
with it is hard to say, as il is so large
that If the rolls were piled one on top of
the other they would make two stacks as
high as the Washington Monument
A hearing will be granted the suffrag-
lists in the committee rooms of the House
OF Representatives judiciary Committee
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24
PERSONALS

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George Dashner Is here from ChitN
asha to spend t'" days Win MS
family
sid Mullholland left today for his
territory In Northern Oklahoma after
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24
KATY INDUSTRIAL
AGENT IS COMING
WILL VISIT ARDMoRE SooN-lS
ROAD GOING TO BUILD IN
SEREf

Is the Missouri, Kansas a Texas
railroad going To build into Ardmore?
lt has been known for some time
that this road has been interested
IN the metropolis of southern Ok.
lahoma and at different times in the
pa,t rumors have been current to
the effect that arrangements were
on foot with this end In view. L
has been stated that with the be-
ginning OF the development Of the
vast natural resources Of this immc-
diatc section the Katy would get
into the game In order to share
the business that will be created for
the railroads operating here. At the
present time interested parties are
Investigating cement rock deposits
in Carter county. the asphaltum de.
posits are being developed, and along
with these activities there is some
significance attached to the fact
that the Katy will have represent
ative in Ardmore soon.
Secretary y. II. Mccoy Of the Com
mcrcial Club received word yester-
day from r. W. Hockaday. indus
trial commissioner for the NJ. *. &
T.. with headquarters at ST. Louis,
that he will be in Oklahoma soor
~ spend some time looking over the
state and that he would visit this
city AZ that time I'm his letter he
indicated that his road was inter.
cstod i'm Ardmore and that our pco-
pie could expect some industrial de-
vclopmcnts in the near future. From
the t-ne of the letter is is evident
that the Katy has an eye on Ard
more.
Ardmorc needs all the railroads
she can get and It is hoped that the
Katy will arrange TO build line
IN here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24

Sever Judge mans will power by
what the lawyers do 10 the estate he
leaves behind
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24

See Wicker n Butler before con
tracing your sidewalk First class
material and first class work guaran'
tced. Phone $50. Slim
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24

LaGrippe pains that pervade the
entire system. LaGrippe coughs that
rack and strain, are quickly cured by
Foley's Honey and Tar. Is mildly
laxative, safe and certain in results.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24

The Poland gas we'll is now al
a depth Of $50 feet. \ ear Of piping
arrived yesterday and was taken to
the site today. The artesian belt has
been found. This belt in the Wheel
cr field is coo feet deep and the
Santa Fc oil expert. Mr. Goodrich.
estimated the depth in the Ardmore
vel at 40 feet. If gas is found
here it will be- at a depth of about
one thousand feet If the machinery
is kept in good order and delays are
eliminated that depth viii be reach.
I'd in short time. But going deep
into the earth is always fraught
with delay and the same may be
expected in this instance.
When gas Is found the old town
viii move forward faster than ii
ever has
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24
COURT MAKES RULING.
Case Will Be Appealed-No Divorc.
For Mrs. Copeland.

no man or woman who files suit
for divorce Ia my court and then
lives with their husband or wife
after filing the suit can get a di-
yorcc in this court" said Judge Rus
sell today. when he promptly refused
to grant divorce 10 Mrs. Alice
Copeland. Mrs. Copeland alleged she
was married to Robert Copeland
three years ago in Ardmore, that
he failed to support her, that he
was not prepared for skilled labor
and would not do common labor,
that ne was gambler and had
failed 10 support her. Her brother
in-law attempted TO patch up the
quarrel, she and her husband were
induced 10 move To Mill Greek,
where the brCther-in law gave the
husband a job on dray wagon,
He promised to work but failed to
do so. separation occurred again,
The suit was filed in Septem.
Der, they lived together few days
last January and no divorce could be
secured in the court here. X, F. Tur
ncr gave notice of appeal.
Mrs Copeland said her maiden
name was Alice Malone. that she ha@
lived here for fifteen years and tha
she is now selling lots for a real os
tate firm in Oklahoma City.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24

DO you take The Ardmoreite?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24

Ardmorci,e Wan, Ads are the best
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-24
The Pure Food and Drug Law

has not only brought the foods and
drugs of this country mp To a higher
standard of purity. but IL has cIimi
mated the harmful medicines with
which this country was flooded
Such medicines, however. as !..diJ
Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
purely roots and herbs product,
will continue It's beneficial work
among women