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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-03-01
CHAPTER III.
How Miss Selma Lue Came to the
Bluff.

'I don't hold with thinking up bad
happenings onto people, for sometime it
might kinder hit EN- on some blind side
we don't know about and take"
Miss Selma Lue
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-03-01
Net Much.

Criuc-Are you going 20 let that
young actor follow his natural bent?
Stage Manager-Not much ami
He's going to play a straight part.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-03-01
Iarne, Than cln,,es

LafsEF TWaW NFoUE.
The blue Of The heaven is IsrKey
than the cIoud-E p Browning
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-03-01

honors. There is a great deal OF in
;srest in the position he viii take
on reciprocity. for on this subject the
will break his winters silence
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
NOTICE.!

wish to say to my friends and the
public, that | have resigned my pc.
sition with the Forbes Mfg. Co.,
horse shoeing shop. and will have in
terest in the H. W. Doris horse
shoeing, Cooper's old stand, and
have my same hand that worked for
me at Forbes shop and has worked
for me for the past ten years, and
also have Mr.. Mcdonald, who has had
charge of H. W. Doris shOeing
shop since quit two years ago, and
will say that you can't find two bet
ter shoers in the city than these two
men, and |, myself, can shoe horse
some, and will say your horse will be
treated right at our shop, just like
it was my own. Every shoe guaran-
teed to give satisfaction.
Very truly yours,
MACK HARPER.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17

Get it at Countzler's Drug Store
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
Is "VOdeveal" Necessary?
(By Louis Reeves Harrison,
in the Moving Picture World)

Don't you think we have had
enough of the cheapest and poorest
form of entertainment ever slung
over the apron of the stage into the
face OF a self-respecting and unof.
! Tending audience?
There is picture theater near my
house which is so airy and comfort
able that | would like to go there
every day. The reason do not is
because | cannot stomach more than
one unsavory dish of "vodeveal" a
week. The mere thought of endur.
s&g second dose of the nauseating
acts presented in that house drives
me away to some more congenial
place of entertainment. do not
know how much the manager of
that place pays the Dutch comedian
who plays wretchedly on several
excruciating instruments, but if this
unmusical performers salary was
added to that of the ghostly SOU
brette who recites threadbare song
in cigarette voice and the total ap.
piled to raising the quality of the
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
Terrible Train of Troubles.

Lake Charles, La.-Mrs. E. Four.
nier. SIG Kirby street. says: The
month before took Cardui, I could
hardly walk. / had backache, head.
ache, pain in my legs, chills. fainting
spells. sick stomach, dragging feel.
ings. and no patients or courage.
Since taking Cardui. have no more
pains, can walk as far as want to.
and feel good all the time" Take
Cardui and be benefited by the pc.
culiar herb ingredients which have
been found so efficient for womanly
ills. Cardui will relieve that back
ache. headache, and all the misery
from which you suffer. just as it has
done for others. Try Cardui.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
FIRST WHEAT
Of New Crop Delivered by Mrs
Major.

Mrs. Mollie Major delivered the
first new wheat to the Hopkinsville
Milling Co.. yesterday morning. The
grain was threshed the day before
and a fl II load of it was brought in
to the mill. The wheat was Of fine
quality, grading No. 2. and is turn
ing out well. Others are preparing
to thresh and the work will begin in
earnest by tomorrow.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17

the most desirable patrons; they are
the steadies who have acquired the
habit; in this case they have acquired
the habit Of going elsewhere.
"Vodeveal'has nothing to do with
bringing these theaters into exist
ence; to the contrary it puts many
Of them on the fritz Most of these
theaters were impossible before the
advent of moving pictures and they
would be just as impossible now II
the pictures were withdrawn, yet
every conceivable slight is put upon
that essential portion of the enter
tsinment which brought most of
these theaters into existence and is
keeping them alive today. OF course
Intelligent managers do not slight
any portion Of the business. but a
good many Of them do not realize
how annoying it is to a sensible peo
pie in the audience when the jackass
at the drum keeps up running FIRE
OF conversation with the pianist or
the latter lapses in his performance
to play with one hand or practice an
accompaniment for some forthcom-
ing song. These things may seem
trivial to the jackasses in the orches-
ira, but they distract attention from
the pictures in way that is irritat-
ing to a large percentage of the
patrons. especially to those in the
front row. On the stage behind
the screen, those who are about to
come on with an unmusical act, tune
the instruments while there's pic.
ture play in progress and all along
the line there are evidences of hos.
tility shown to the picture produc
ton wherever it is given in combina-
ton with ''vaudeveal." Whether
this hostility is due to ignorance or
prejudice. makes very little differ
ence; it so seriously Injuries the pho
toplay presentation that theaters
devoted to pictures alone in comhi-
nation with superior instrumental
music as an harmonious accessory
are drawing the biggest crowds.
Given a well ventilated theater
with comfortable seats and polite
attendants the best possible plan to
fill it is to present new pictures with
fine production to appropriate music.
Thousands are able to go every day
to such exhibitions where hundreds
would patronize cheap ''vaudeveal"
once week. The man who first
presents high class picture on up
to-date principles will fud money
falling into the box office drawer
like the food which sustained the
children of Israel in the wilderness.
And ! am presenting high
class pictures on up-to date
principles, which you will adj
mit,. and ! don't deny that
quite few dimes are.falIing
i'm my money drawer. And !
intend continuing giving you
meritoriouS interta n m nts
but never cheap" vaudeville"
Yours truly,
GEO. A. BLEICH.
Operating the Princess and
Airdome.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
Picnic Season Opens in Earn
est at CampbelI'S Cave
Tuesday.
BAPTIST CHILDREN TUESDAY
WOOdmen of World Held Sway
Thursday and Fun Was
There.

Campbell's Cave is now scoring
every week as a place for picnicp ar.
ties. Thursday the Woodmen of the
World, with their families and some
invited friends, hied themselves
thence and had joyous time in the
cave and the woods around it. w,
E. Campbell, owner of the cave, j.
D. Higgins and c. E. Layman, were
the committeeman in charge.
The affair was a basket picnic and
there were all kinds of good things
to eat. Music by Lebkuecher'S
orchestra, and some chin music, en-
.livened the occasion,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17


miniature orchestrs, would go. my
friends would go. and we would send
others. There Is no advertisement
superior to satisfied customer. I
do go once in a while, being of a
hopeful disposition. but regularly I
walk several blocks further down
the street, even on cold nights, and
deposit my contribution at less
pretentious place. So do others.
There IS nearly always waiting line
at the modest place. They only give
four pictures there, but these pic.
lures are well projected on a superb
or screen, and the girl at the piano
is Jim-Danjy.
! did not notice that girl at first.
possibly because she was not rub
ber-necking. or smiling at the Ratchet
face in the front row. but | gradual
ly became conscious that the most
ordinary pictures shown seemed to
have taken on a new guise. all the
merit that was in them came out
and was fully appreciated because
that quiet little girl at the piano
knew her business and attended to it
instead of neglecting it to give an
impression that she was superior to
her job. became interested even
in one of those decadent surviyals
of primitive photoplays in which
white men with whiskers on their
legs chased red men with feathers
on their heads because the music
was so spirited that l found myself
excusing the dime novel drama. /
looked around me and saw a nice
class of people enjoying themselves,
mostly men with their wives and
children and | ask the man next to
me if the place was always so well
patronized. He told me that it was
to be enlarged in a few weeks be.
cause it was impossible to accommo-
date all who came during busy hours
OF the evening.
"As far as | am concerned" he
added, II come here as much to hear
that girl play as to see the pictures.
] paid more attention to the girl.
She was not enough of a natural mu
stefan to improvise, but she had a
large assortment Of sheet music on
the rack from which she made intel.
ligent selections. She had evidently
done some thinking ahead. possibly
she had read summary of the plays
in advance, any way she was on time
at every change of scene with some
thing suited to the sentiment. There
was nothing particularly brilliant
about her performance, but it was in
good taste and satisfactory to those
who came to be entertained.
| went back to the more preten-
tious theater. and noticing that it
was only about half full / asked the
proprietor why he handed out such
indigestible stuff as "vodeveal."
IL don't like it," he said, ''but the
people want it and | have to give it
to EN-"
That is what he thinks, it is quite
possible that a number of people are
really drawn into his place by the
variety entertainment, but | doubt
if they equal the number driven
away by it. Those driven away are
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
HENDERSON AND
MORCANFIElD
Will Probably be Given the
Franchises of Harrisburg
and McLeansbOrO.

In all probabilities the franchises
of Harrisburg and McLeansboro will
,b2 turned over to Morganfeld and
henderson. KY. at the meeting at
Cairo Sunday of the K. /. T. league
officials. The cities are not satisfied
nor are the officials of the league
and the change is thought to be
beneficial to other clubs. Morgan
field applied today for berth in a
letter written by W. T. Harris to
President Gosnell. Jackson. Tenn.
may be q contender for one of the
franchises. --Vincennes Sun.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
OPENING BALL
At Sebree Springs Hotel Next
Wednesday Night.

The opening ball at Sebree Springs
Hotel will be given Wednesday night
June FL. The Henderson orchestra
will furnish fine music for dancingi
The North bound passenger train
will, at midnight. stop at the springs.
Those wishing to stay all night are
requested to make reservations in
advance.
Special accommodations for auto
mobile parties.
This bids fair to be the greatest
season Sebree Springs has ever had
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
WhitlOW--BOurne.

Brown Whitlow and Miss Jessie
Bourne, of Guthrie, were married
Wednesday night while seated in Mr..
Whitlow's automobile in front of the
residence of the officiating minister,
Rev. j. E. Baird. The groom is a
son of Capt. L. W. Whitlow and is
chief clerk at his fathers hotel. The
bride was one of Guthrie's popular
qelles.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
A Hot Shot for Hot Weather

Mid-Week special for men, The new soft finish
handkerchief, ready for use While they last $1.0O
per Dozen The best handkerchief ever offered in
the city for the money.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
Ginghams z 1-2c Yard

While they last small lot of Standard Ginghams, 1oc
and IL lie goods while they last choice lie,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
Sunday School Tuesday.

Next Tuesday the cave will be
open to the 400 pupils of the Baptist
Sunday School and there will be a
dinner long to be remembered.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17
A BaniSher.

Get bottle of Nayal's Mosquito
Banisher. Positively prevents mos
quitoes, black flies. CountzIer's Drug
Store.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-17

Miss Sara Cooper has returned
from school at Sweetbrier, Va.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
RICHMOND AMATEURS
PLAN THREE FIELDS
FOR COMING YEAR
Are Dissatisfied With Tax
Demanded by Magnate
for Use of Park.

RICHMOND, Va. Sept. 19.-Spurred
on by the support which amateur base
ball has received in Richmond, the
Richmond Amateur League is at pres
ent laying plans for establishing, equip
ping, and maintaining three ball parks
In Richmond next season. Sites have
been selected and the owners Of the
sites approached. In each instance IA
vorable replies have been received.
One Of the lots on which a park will
be established, in all probability, Is that
at Main and Vine street, formerly used
as the homo of the professionals during
the life of the former Virginia League.
At present the other locations are
beiEg kept under cover for the reason
that no definite conclusion has been
reached.
The men interested in amateur base
ball are not any too well pleased with
the sum which they were compelled
to pay w. B. Bradley, lessee Of the
Broad Stree. Park. When the Bank
ers, of Washington, and the Maryland
Athletic Club played here on September
2, Is per cent of the gross receipts was
turned over to the park authorities for
tho use of the diamond. A sum APP
proximating $3.50 was received from adj
mission charges and of this sum $lI5
went to lessee Of the park. II Is largely
for this reason that the movement for
parks under the control Of the Amateur
Commission crysIallized 80 rapidly.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
St. John Candidates
Report for Practice
Drawn for
The Times

ANNAPOLIS. Md. Sept. 1s.-Although
st. Johns College does not open for the
scholastic term until tomorrow. a squad
of about thirty candidates for the foot
ball team reported to Head Coach Grove
yesterday, and plans were outlined for
the coming season on the gridiron.
S. A. White, a resident OF West River.
Anne Arundel county, the crack tackle
of last season, is captain OF the eleven
this year. All of the old men who have
not been graduated will return to
college, and with the several likely men
among the new candidates who, 1t is
expected, will matriculate, the prospects
for rounding out good team are con-
sidered good.
The collegians, however. will not have
a heavy aggregation, though with the
available timber the usual reputation
for speed will be maintained. The fact
that Prof. B. Vernon Cecil, vice presi-
dent of the college. who has actively
directed athletics for a number of
years, will be on leave this winter on
account Of his health, Roscoe Grove,
a graduate Of 1910. will be the head
coach, and II Is expected that he will
have several other graduates assisting
him. Grove played on both the foot
ball and baseball teams while at col
lege. He is now one of the staff Of in
structors.
The collegians will have ample time
to get a team into trim, as the open
ing game will not be until October II.
1t Will be against the midshipmen.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
Worlds Series October II

CHICAGO, Sept. 19.-The worlds
series will probably start October
IA, according to Ban Johnson, Of
the American League. Neither
the Cubs nor the Giants seem to
have a chance to advance their
closing games on October IL, and
Johnson believes that the ma
tional commission will decide to
start the series on the Saturday
following the close Of the Ma
tional League season.
The Athletics will, therefore,
have plenty of time to play the
warming-up series with the ALL
Stars, the McAleer aggregation
which will be reassembled this
year to put an edge on the Amer
lean League champions. These
games will be played at Balti-
more, October 3; Washington, Oc-
tober 9 and 10, and Richmond,
October IL and II.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
BELIEVE GLDDEN
TOUR WILL BOOM
GOOD ROADS PLAN
Governors of South En-
Unused Over Approach
ing Contest.
By HARRY WARD.

The governors of the various States
through which the Glidden tour will
pass are enthusiastic about the con-
test and the boom 1t will give to the
good roads movement In the South.
During the meeting OF the House
Of Governors" at Spring Lake, last
week. Gov. Hoke Smith extended
formal invitation to the governor Of
each State through which the route
of the tour lies to become his guest
while passing through the State. He
told the governors he was looking
forward to q glorious ride from New
York to the gateway OF the Florida
peninsula Governor Gilcrist of Flor
ida said he would get aboard Cover
nor Smiths Maxwell car at the Flor
ida State line. Governor Mann said
his predecessor in the governors
chair at Richmond had been in the
past severely criticised by Virginians
| for his big expenditures for good
roads. but he was in favor OF this pol,
icy. and deemed II rather an economy
than an extravagance-
1t Is understood Governor Mann will
use his influence to have, the toll
roads through the Shenandoah VAL
ley thrown open to the Glidden tour
lists: If this is done, 1t will do away
with many ,vexatious delays at the
numerous toll gates through the val
ley.
George B. Bryan. with his wife and
daughter, has just returned from an
extensive trip in Buick car. They
visited Atlantic City, and then toured
north as far as Narragansett Pier,
visiting New Haven. Hartford, Spring
field. Worcester, and New London.
Mr. Bryan found the roads good north
of Philadelphia. and. aside from a few
punctures. he had no troubles with
his car.
The Pope Automobile Company has
been advised that the Oakland Motor
Car Company will manufacture be-,
tween 5000 and 5000 cars in the 1912
season. These figures are the esti-
and are said to represent the mini
mum. rather than the maximum.
T H Smart, of the Willys-Over-
land Company, is spending few
days here with =. g; Smith; president
Company. Mr.. Smart has just re-
|, turned from a trip through the South.
where he found conditions highly
promising.
The Navy Department has awarded a
contract to the General Vehicle Com
pany for furnishing various navy yards
throughout the country with eight 5000
pound and four 1O,0o0-pound electric
trucks. The purchase price was 49.0O0
and the trucks are to be delivered
within the next six months. The trucks
will be used to handle heavy freight,
and 1t is expected they will replace
many horse-drawn trucks.
The Glidden tour entry list now en-
braces forty-four cars, divided among
twenty-six different makes. The
chances are bright for the list TO be
increased to seventy cars.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
Sanford Shows Eli
A Few Rudiments

NEW HAVEN Conn, Sept. 1s.-After
a rest over Sunday, during which some
of the stiffness brought on by the four
days of practice last week had gotten
out of the limbs Of the candidates the
Yale football squad had two sessions OF
practice yesterday, and the second one
was made doub1y interesting by the
presence of Foster Sanford, who began
his work as a member OF the Yale foot
ball team two decades ago, and who
spent the greater part Of last year here
with the team.
instead of = splitting up into smaller
SQUADS as they have for the past four
days, the squad members were all or
dered around Sanford, who lectured on
the parliamentary principles Of the game,
Sanford showed them how to fal on
the hall. and said It would be better for
them to learn the art early in the season
than to wait until the championship
games.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
McMasters and Clay
Arrive as Coaches

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept BLOCKING
fine as the result of spending the summer
at his native heath in Bonnie Scotland,
Jack McMasters, better known as
Scotty at Annapolis, the former Har-
ward athletic trainer, who has looked
after the Naval Academy athletes for
several years, arrived in Annapolis yes
terday to enter upon his contract of
training the football players. for the
coming season.
Further interest In the approaching
football season was given by the ar
rival of Midshipman Harry Nick. Clay,
of Pennsylvania, who played halfback
on the team for three seasons. Clay
graduated from the Academy in June
last. He will be one of the staff of
coaches this year, and while at the
Academy will be assigned to special
temporary duty as an Instructor.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
Send in Your Choice for
Manager

Are you interested in the choice
of a manager for the Nationals
for 1912? Have you a man in
mind who, to your thinking.
would make an ideal leader for
the team next season?
The Times wants to know what
the real fans of Washington
think of the situation. and who,
in their estimation, would make
the proper manager for the Ma
tionals of 1912.
Name your selection, giving sue
cinct reasons for your choice,
keeping your letter within fifty
words. Address 1t to The
Sporting Editor. The Times.
Write NOW!
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
Citizens Bill to Be
Considered This Week

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 19.-The Git
tens bill to relieve racetrack directors
from criminal liability for racetrack
60 milling is to be moved for passage be-
fore the Legislature adjourns, according
to a statement made today by Assem-
blyman w. w. Martin, Of Saratoga.
who las charge Of the bill in the lower
house. The bill passed the Senate dur
ing the regular session OF The Legis-
lature, but was defeated in the lower
house. The bill is now on the table,
and its defeat can be reconsidercd at
any time. Martin today announced
that he would move the bill Friday or
on some day when all the members are
present.
1t is claimed that the required votes
to reconsider have been obtained.
The Washington times., 1911-09-19
Harry Wolverton, San Fran
cisco Leader, Named as
/ Head of Nationals.
HERMAN SCHAEFER is
POPULAR WITH FANS
Alexandrian Prefers Stallings or
Billy Murray to Succeed
Jimmy McAleer.

Fans from all sections Of the city are
sending in their selections for the man
agement CT the Nationals Of 1912. Many
are pulling strongly for Herman Schaet-
er, but here and there come choices
of names hitherto not mentioned for
the place. Norman EIberfeld and George
Mcbride have their hackers among the
rooters.
Harry Wolverton, manager Of the San
Francisco club, of the Pacific Coast
League, is named today in a letter from
one fan, and either Billy Murray or
George StaIlings would satisfy a fan
from Alexandria.
The Times wants to know Just what
you fans think about this. The Nation
ais will be-without a leader at the close
of this season. The owners must choose
another. The fans have their own
ideas regarding the choice, and The
Times seeks to acquaint all its readers
with these ideas. So write out your
ideas in fifty-word letter, and address
1t to the Sporting Editor, The Times.
Following are few of the letters re-
ceived today:
Wants Outsider to Lead.
Sporting Editor, The Times:
If a member of the team be selected
as manager, conditions would not be
improved, IT would lie an experiment,
and the one selected would hardly be
expected to maintain the dignity or
would he command the proper respect
of his fellows He would be handi-
capped several ways should he have
70 discipline his players. However, of
the lot Elberfeld is first choice, with
Schaefer second, from my point of
view.
1t would be better to have a strang-
er. He could do more in making
scheming, crafty, and strategic
trades, and be a better Judge of good
players and how to use the material
at hand to the best advantage.
If We can't get the best, such as
Mack, McGraw, Jennings, or Chance,
then give US the best available. / be-
lieVe George Stallings would nearly
fill the bill, or possibly Jimmy Muir
ray. We want a manager who has
been a success elsewhere. r. L. w.
Alexandria, Va