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The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
IMPORTANT TAX DECISION

In reversing the case of Madison
County Fiscal Court against David
McChord, Sheriff, the Court of Ap-
peals last week held that The Sheriff
is not entitled TO treat the colleo-
ton of railroad tax as a separate
fund from the regular county taxes
that all the money collected for tho
county for all funds, must be count
ed as one fund in the matter Of the
commission to be paid, the sheriff
for collecting il. The sheriff con-
tended that he was entitled to 10
per cent on the first $4,000 Of rail-
road tax and also 10 per cent. on
the first $4,000 of regular county
levy. The court says he is entitled
only to 10 per cent on the first S.
600 with all the funds counted as
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
HONOR SYSTEM At STATE

The students Of State University
by q vote Of more than two to one
adopted the honor system Of self
government by which an executive
committee Of ten members, from
various classes, including four young
ladies, will settle all matters affect
ing college life, and will probe dis
honesty and cheating in examin-
atoms. This movement was taken
with the consent of the faculty.
All work is to be done secretly,
and if a student is found guilty LIE
or she will be notified by letter to
leave the University. If not gone
at the end of the week or if an APP
peal to a higher body Of students
is not effective, public expulsion
will follow. This is the most drastic
action ever taken by college in the
South.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12

son county, are the guests of Mr.
aud Mrs. J. o. Boge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Russell visit
ed relatives in Casey Sunday.
Mr.. Cecil Manning and Miss Bet
tie Rogers, drove 10 Danville last
week and were married. Mr.. Man
ming il one of our mos. Prominent
young farmers, and is to be con-
GRADUATED on winning such a hand
some bride.
Mr. Pet Cooper and Miss Sallie
koger surprised their many friends
We inesdoy by being quietly mar
Mod. Mr.. Cooper is another Of our
prominent Young farmers, while his
bride is both popular and handsome
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
joyed q nice fat turkey for dinner.

joyed q nice fat turkey for dinner.
Mrs. Ella Shelter was the guest
of Mrs. Ed Gooch last Saturday.
Messrs. Dee and Curtis Wilson
were the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Gooch last Sunday a week ago.
Miss Elsie Long and Miss Wildred
Shrader were there also.
We believe We can tell for whom
the next wedding bells will ring.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
H0LDAM'S MILL

Mr.. John Long is home from Gin
einnati visiting his parents,
Mr.. Tom Cakes has gone to Gin
cinnati.
Miss Elsie Long is at home from
Cincinnati and is intending to go
back Xmas.
Mrs. Emil Newman was the guest
Of Mrs. T. Shraden last THURSDAY
MISS Ann Crow and Miss Mildred
Schrader were the guests Of Miss
Elsie Long last Thursday and en-
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH

Mrs. Mary +. Peel died at Nicho-
lasville last week as the results of
burns. She was engaged in render
ing lard when in some way her
clothes ignited and she was fatally
burned before help could reach her.
She was 55 years old and is sur
vived by her husband, Thomas Peel,
and three. children, Hamilton Ped
Of that county, Mrs. Mary Hunte
of Kokomo, Ind, and Mrs. Annie
Broaddus, Of Richmond.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
ACCOMMODATION DEsK-seeond Floor

Mr.. John Cash has about com
pleted his new store and hopes to
be in il by Xmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Cooper are
rejoicing over the arrival Of q fine
hoy. The little fellow has been nam
ed James Coleman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Boyle, of Mad
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12

81 had seen trouble with consti-
patton for two years and tried all
of the best physicians in Bristol,
Tenn, and they could do nothing
for me-" writes This. E. Williams,
Middlesboro, Ky. 1.-TWO packages of
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets cured me-" For sale by all
dealers.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12

When your feet are wet and cold
and your body chilled through and
through from exposure, take a big
dose of Chambehain's Cough Rene
dy, battle your feet in hot water be-
fore going to bed, and you are almost
certain to ward off a severe cold.
For sale by all dealers.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
WOMEN CAUSE Los
ANGELES TO GO WET
Exciting Scenes When California
Women Cast Their First Votes
In Municipal Election.

Women voted for the first time
in the Los Angeles city election last
week and il is said to be due TO
their votes that the city went "wet."
This today is the consensus Of
opinion among political observers
who are carefully studying the first
equal suffrage vote ever cast in n
bitter municipal campaign in a large
city.
The women voted overwhelming
ly against a prohibition measure, DO
signed to make the town DRY as
bone.
The accomplishments credited to
the women voters are:
Cast more than half of the total
vote.
Defeated Socialism.
Defeated prohibition.
Declared for municipal newspaper
Vote for devices to preserve pave
ments.
Voted more quickly than men.
| Required less coaching than men.
| Outvoted men in nearly all pre-
cincts.
Worked for candidates more en-
Enthusiastically than men.
| Converted many former foes to
their cause.
Brought peace throughout the
city.
Opinions by those who led the
fight for Alexander and the Good
Government ticket against Hartman
and the Socialists are numerous in
praising the women on the result.
The woman's Progressive League
was organized October 10. Tues
day they put into the field an army
of 1000 trained workers, captains
aud 'ientenants of precincts, off
e.ged nv the executive board mem
bers of the LEAGUE, which from be-
fore the pois opened until the,r
close. were on duty seeing that ev-
cry citizen woman's vote was east.
In precinct 10 one Of the prct!i-
est events of the entire day was en-
acted when four generations OF one
family cast their first ballots. The
first of the line was Mrs. Katherine
Shinn. Mrs. Shinn, who, next Sun
day will celebrate her 92nd birthday
was brought TO the polls by her
daughter, Mrs. Mary Kenny, and
Mrs. Sallie Ferrie. Men of the Citi-
zens' Committee about the polls act
ed as courteous to Mrs. Shinn, who,
however, insisted upon carrying her
own ballot to the box and watching
it counted
Besides Mrs. Shiin's daughter
the two representatives of the
next two generations who voted
were Ms. Elizabeth Kenny, her
granddaughter and George Mayer,
her great grandson who, IL years
younger than the head Of his family
also was casting his first mayorality
vote. Six women over "a years Of
age voted in thos precinct.
Madame Caroline N. Severance,
"Mother of Woman's Clubs" is one
Of the happiest, also one of the most
excited women in Los ngeles, for she
saw fulfilled the dreams and strug-
giles Of nearly four score years, when
as an enfranchised American citizen
she went TO the polls and east her
first vote.
Mrs. Sarah Louis F1aught, a wild
ow, aged II, was so overcome with
excitement at casting her first bal
lot that she fell as she was leaving
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12
IuRkE RSvllLE.

Yhis is fine weather for hog hl-
ling, and ems that people in this
community are taking advantage Of
il.
Little Robert Mccormack is III
with diptheria.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12

the polling place, and died Of bcnrs
failure.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-12

satisfaction the myriad of Christmas things which displayed
in the 81 different departments of this great
The shopping facilities of the Stewart Dry Goods Co. equaed
by store this section of the The broad ses
the spnd trained clerks and the modern makes
the handling of the crowds which daily rons this great
~ ROOM dH pFm4hm
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-08-17

tions to make II pay financially. They
were not lacking in energy. They
were simply confronted with condl-
tions they could not overcome, all OF
which have been successfully met
here.
The first State Fair of Michigan
was held at Ann Arbor, October l,
1889. Twenty head of animals, both
cattle and sheep, the proud exhibits
Of Henry Raymond, a Crosse Isle
farmer, and specimens of cheese and
butter from a Mr.. Tibbits, of Ply.
mouth, constituted the first exhibition
Of the agricultural and horticultural
fair of Michigan in that year. No
preparation whatever had been made,
no officers of the institution could be
found. and not half dozen persons in
Ann Arbor had heard that such a
fair was to be held. There was no
fair grounds designated; but on the
appointed day the two exhibitors
drove thirty miles to have the show,
and put in an appearance on va
cant lot, commenced holding the State
ali anu SOoh uItW qhitC a iNSPN'N-
able crowd. The good people of the
village voted thanks TO the exhibitors,
and the exhibitors themselves felt
quite proud OF that State Fair"
So the two hardy pioneers-Ray.
mond and Tibbits- true to Michigan
from the beginning to the end, walked
off with all the awards of premiums,
or rather were entitled TO those Of
fered by the institution, consisting OF
silver sets, spoons, etc. But where,
oh where, were they? Echo has not
yet answered.
On returning home, Raymond ad.
dressed the president of the society,
the Hon. John Biddle, of Detroit, ask
ing what had gone wrong, and why
no officials of the association appear
ed at Ann Arbor President Biddle
politely and regretfully informed
Farmer Raymond that the whole thing
had entirely escaped his memory
until the day after the fair And
| so the State Fair had its inception
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-08-17

Would that its founders might visit
the fair of today
Fair Is Agricultural In Foundation
and Purpose.
From this small beginning in 1899
has been evolved what is now con.
coded to be the greatest annual fair
and exposition that is held anywhere
in the country. The Michigan State
Fair is agricultural in foundation and
purpose. 1t should always remain so.
This is because il is an invaluable
benefit to the farmer. The Detroit
Journal in a recent issue said editor.
tally:
The Fair offers the place where
the farmer can display his most high.
ly developed products Perhaps o man
has spent his life in some special line
Where shall he make known his sue
cess? Where shall it be made profit.
able to him? At the State Fair.
Where shall he compare his success
with that of others? Where shall he
find whether he IS leading or falling
behind? Only at the State Fair.
"The agriculturalist sees new ma.
chinery at this annual exposition. lie
secures hints and information of all
kinds. The country women, by visits
to the fair and trips about the city.
return home with new ideas for home
comforts. The family have the adj
vantage Of metropolitan shopping.
These are the practical benefits.
In addition the fair offers many farm.
ers their greatest excursion trip They
can come at low rates to a city which
has attractions for people of all the
nation. They come not as mere tour
lists, but as important guests. During
their week the fair is the most i'm.
portant thing in town"
/ Racing Program Best Ever Offered.
/ No fair organization in the country
has ever presented so elaborate and
so expensive program for harness
events as that of the Grand Circuit
Meeting for the Michigan State Fair
this year. The purses aggregate SIS.
600.
Patrons OF the Michigan State Fair
1 will be treated TO the highest class
of horse racing in the world this year
as the MANAGEMENT has secured dates
in the Grand Circuit. This means
that all the fastest horses I'm the
world and all the famous drivers %il'
participate in the big events that will
be raced during the first week of the
fair.
The stellar feature of attraction
will be the great Michigan Stake
worth $4,000. The list of entries al
ready secured guarantees a wonder
full contest that should prove one OF
the greatest races of the year. There
is also $4,000 pacing race and class
races for all the Grand Circuit horses
In recognition of Michigan as a cen
ter of horse breeding, the American
Association of Trotting Horse Breed
ers has decided TO award to the Mich
igan State Fair its matron stake, one
of the great colt races OF the trottins
turf.
There will be five days Of Crane
Circuit races that will furnish some Of
the turf history of the season of 1911
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-08-17
WEST MICHIGAN DIRECTORS PUT
THEIR HANDS IN THEIR OWN
POCKETS TO BUILD
GRANpsTAND.
HAVE DONE 1T OFTEN BEFORE
Make Good Depleted Treasury in Or
der That People Of the State
May Enjoy the Best
Ever.

1t takes nerve, public spirit and
faith for a man TO put his name on a
note for few thousand dollars when
where is no immediate hope of recov-
cry of II, yet that has been the char
aoteristic of the officers and directors
of the West Michigan State Fair AS
sociation, whose annual exposition will
be given at Grand Rapids Sept. 11-15
Recently they showed that nerve
and faith, and at the same time the
characteristic energy that has built
the fair up to the point where il can
justly claim to be the biggest thing OF
its kind Michigan can boast.
On July FL the great grandstand at
Comstock park burned. That big
stand is known to about everybody in
Michigan At some time or other
nearly every person has occupied a
seat in It and watched the races dur
ing fair week. The fire started from
an unknown cause and in a short time
the big stand was but a heap of
smoldering embers. Only the hardest
kind of work prevented the beautiful
Art building and all the other struc-
lures on the ground from becoming
food for the flames.
The Grand Circuit races were due
the week following. Without the
stand the races would be much less
enjoyable Moreover, fair week was
not so very far off. Before the en-
hare had oaacad sp,okipC tho oRoarG
and directors of the fair association
were on the ground. They viewed the
disaster, not with forlorn faces but
with eyes filed with determination. A
stand must be provided for the races
of the next week. President William
II. Anderson, Vice-President Lester j.
Rindge, Secretary +. ID. COnger,
Treasurer Robert d. Graham and Sid
ney F. Stevens, chairman of the bust
ness committee, are men OF big al
fairs, accustomed TO meet emergencies
squarely in the face and get busy.
! This is what they did in this instance ::
Within "a hours after the fire had
started they had let a contract for the
construction of a new stand with the
stipulation that that stand must be
completed and ready for occupancy by
the following Tuesday. William c,
| Hoertz & Son had the matter in hand.
! They placed advertisements in the pa
! pers for all the carpenters they could
| get. The following morning heavy
| teams and five-ton electric trucks
were drawing lumber to the grounds
/ and by night the stand was under
way Day and night and all day Sun
day the work went on The stand
was finished according 10 contract
and was occupied when the first race
| was called Tuesday.
But this took money. II took more
money than would have been the case
had the contractor had all the time
he wanted TO do the job. The fair
association was already $4,000 in
debt and the treasury was empty.
Without a word, the officials put their
names upon the necessary paper to
pay the bills and when the last nail
was driven the money was ready for
the contractor.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-08-17
PREPARING FOR
GREATEST FAIR
Michigan State Fair This Year
Will Eclipse Anything Ever
Attempted.
TO Be GREATER THAN EVER

Preparations For Big Event Going
Forward on Gigantic Scale-It Is
Seventy-two Years Since First State
Fair Was Held In Michisan-A Per-
rnanent institution.
Greater and grander than ever be-
fore"
This is the slogan that has been
adopted by the Michigan State Fair
management for the sixty-second an
nual exhibition to be held on the mag
niffcent grounds of the Michigan
State Agricultural society at Detroit,
September 18th to 27th, 1911, and if
excellence, diversity, quality and
quantity Of exhibits, and entertain
ment features that are new, novel and
startling, suited TO all tastes and re-
quirements, can bring out the crowds,
there will be no doubt about the at
tendance
A Permanent institution.
The Michigan State Fair has be
come a permanent institution, located
on a magnificent site. comprising 1S6
acres just outside the limits of the
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-08-17
Action Was Characteristic.

This is characteristic of the officials
At the close of fair week last year,
a deficit was found Eight Of the Off
Gals placed their names on notes for
81 600 each TO make good the loss.
This brought the total Of the fairs in
debtedness up to an even $4,000,
every penny of it guaranteed by the
directors of the fair personally, and
who would not be tickled TO get all
the paper he could carry If it were
signed by these men?
This they have done repeatedly
without expectation of recovering il,
but with a firm faith in the success
of the fair and therefore in the hope
that some day their investment for
the good of the people of Western
Michigan will come back to them.
They are not in the business for
money. They are in ii because they
want West Michigan to have the big
gest fair the state can boast. They
want to see the people from all over
the state come to Grand Rapids, en-
Joy themselves, and educate them
selves-for the fair is designed to be
of especial educational value-and in
cidentally to profit financially by pull
ing down some of the substantial
premiums offered in almost every
imaginable line.
The fair is successful from an edu-
cational standpoint because il has be
hind it such publicspirited men as
these-men who are not afraid TO put
their hands into their pockets and dig
up good, hard coin in order that thou.
sands of persons may come to Grand
Rapids to see what has been pre-.
pared for them.
The incident of the burning of the
grandstand was but one of many
similar ones In which the officers of
the Fair have thought only of the
comfort OF the people rather than OF
the dollars in their own pockets.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-08-17
MAIN ENTRANCE AT MICHIGAN STATE FAIR GROUNDS.

beautiful City of Detroit. amply Sc
wered, watered and lighted, and easily
accessible by the superb ID. L. r.
Electric Railway System, and by the
Grand Trunk steam railroad.
Hundreds Of thousands of dollars
have been expended on grounds and
buildings with view to permanency,
and each year some substantial struc-
ture or structures are added to the
group as a whole, to meet the grow
| ing requirements of a great agricul-
tural, horticultural, educational and
industrial exposition, wherein can be
displayed the products of the farms
ard factories of a great state-or of
several states.
Last year the society erected, at an
expense of $4,000, building for the
display of automobiles and acces-
SORES, that is 125X220 feet. For the
coming fair, every inch of the $4,000
square feet on the ground floor will
be occupied by automobile nranufac-
turers with the latest designs of ma
chimes, including many 1912 models,
while the second floor will be occu-
pied by manufacturers of auto acceS-
series, electrical appliances, etc.
There is every prospect that the
coming State Fair will in every re-
| spect, and by far, eclipse any event
of like character ever held in Michi-
gan, if not any State in the Union.
J To have the reputation of holding the
greatest fair in the United States has
/ been the goal Of the management, and
/ President Thomas T.. Newton is fully
/ satisfied that this ambition will be
reached in 1911.
a force of men has been at work
on the grounds for weeks cleaning.
sodding. moving, trimming the shrubs
and trees, and setting out beds of
| flowers, and by September everything
will be in full bloom and the grounds
a delight to the eve and an ideal rest
spot for tired visitors.
The twenty per cent increase in
premiums offered by the fair manage
ment this year to exhibitors in the
| livestock. agricultural and horticul-
! tural departments has evidently
greatly stimulated interest in these
| departments as inquiries and requests
for space already greatly exceed any
former year.
Has Been Some Changes.
The seventy-two years that have
| intery ened since the first state Fair
was held, have seen Michigan develop
from a wilderness into one of the
greatest agricultural and industrial
states in the Union and Detroit grow
from a trading post 10 the metropolis
Of the state. In this period the State
Fair" has been through bankruptcy
several times. There have been years
when no fair was held, and ii has
camped in many places, but not until
the public-spirited citizens of Detroi;
gave IL permanent home. assumed
It's debts. and provided funds for its
sustenance and maintenance, was il
ever really success, and this is said
with all praise for the men who la
bored so faithfully these long years
against great odds and averse condi
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-08-17
HE SUCCEEDED

John Wanamaker once said: L never in my
life used such thing poster, dodger or
handful My plan for Is years has been to buy
so much space in newspaper and fill itup with
what wanted would not give advertise
ment in newspaper of 400 circulation for 5000
posters and dodgers
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-09-27
Civil Service Examination.

Madison, Sept. 25-At the request
of Senators LaFollette and Stephenson
State Civil Service Commission will
hold a state competitive examination
of all candidates, for appointment as
cadets at West Point and Annapolis,
on Saturday, December End, 1911.
The senators have urged that this
matter be given wide and early publ
city. and request High school prin-
cipals to suggest to this commission
names of boys who have graduated or
who are about to graduate from a
four year High school likely to he in
terested in this examination.
Congressman I, F. Lenroot of
Superior, representing the 18th Con-
gressional district, will appoint the
boy standing highest in his district
in this examination to cadetship at
West Point. A similar arrangement
has been made with Congressman J,s
Fl. Davidson Of the 9Th Congressional
District.
The boy standing first will be
certified to Senator LaFollette; the
boy standing second will be certified
to Senator Stephenson the third name
will be certified to Senator LaFollette
as alternate; the fourth name to
Senator Stephenson as alternate; the
fifth and sixth names on the list will
be given honorable mention and may
be named as second alternates
This announcement is made early
IN order to give boys in the state, who
possess satisfactory preliminary
qualifications, plenty of time to pre-
pare for this examination, and in the
event of success. to prepare for tn
final which comes in the spring.