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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01
N|ART|NSBURC Goes dry BY 172
Size Of Vote Unpreced-
ented in Martinsburg
Totaling 2,44S
Mondays Election Marked by Good
Order-church Bells Peal Out
Tidings of Victory.

The "drys' won the election in this
city Monday by majority of nne
hundred and seventy-two in a total
vote of 244S, the largest vote ever
polled IN the history of Martinsburg.
When the result, became generally
known before o'clock there were live
Il demonstrations of joy on the part
Of the friends of the temperance
cause. Young and old by the hundreds
were out and Queen street, especially
tacle witnessed here in many years.
Men cheered and boys shouted. and
while the fair sex were less demon
strative their gladness was none the
less apparent Up and down the street
the people tramped, filling the air
" It'll loud huzzas. and if battle had
been won over foreign foe scarcely
less exultation would have been elicit
cd. Then the church bells rang out
proclaiming the joyful tidings that
Martinsburg had gone dry" and con
tiruing the peal for half an hour or
more. Thus did the people outwa. dly
give expression to their feelings on
the result of hard-foaght battle well
won, while the "wets" took their de-
feat as resignedly as was possible I'M
der circumstances altogether extraor-
Ginary.
The policy of the campaign pursued
by the Citizens No-License League
and the Womans Christian Temper
ance Union was purely educational
supplemented all the while by wall
directed effort to arouse and keep
olive the moral sentiment of the com.
munity on the issues involved. In
both were they ernneatly successful
as the result of Mondays election
plainly indicates. And fer the victory
won no small share OF credit lis due
to the eloquent, ernest and able pub
lie addresses delivered here within
the past three weeks, especially those
of Capt. Hobson and Clinton N. How
ard during the last days of the fight
against the saloon.
On the other hand It must be ad-
mitted that the "wets," put up hard
fight, but which, however, was not SO
open in point of public meetings. That
they had been outstanding their
strength for the final struggle on
election day was evidenced by their
untiring activity in getting out TIER
vote.
1t will be seen by the abcve figures
that the "drys" carried the First Sec
end and Fifth Wards while the "wets'
carried the Third and Fourth, the Hat
ter showing their greatest strength in
the Fourth as compared with the total
vote in the ward. The heaviest vote
cast was in the Second ward, $40
while the highest was in the Fifth,
where the total vote was but $50. The
"drys" polIed their biggest vote in the
second precinct of the Second ward,
where they had $50 and majority OF
1913 over the vets" and the next
largest vote was in the second pre-
cinct of the First ward, where the
men of the Boom Piled up 229 votes
and had majority of 141 over the
fwets"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01

ment.' said DR. Gray. Every day we
see great scare heads in the newspa-
pers about the suffragette movement
and about what some suffragette has
5sen doing yet all the while the real
suffrage movement, as exemplified by
this organization, is being entirely
overlooked"
He added: "This is the real suffrage
movement by virtue OF the fact that
III so years the women of Methodism
have conceived and brought into exist
ence an organization which has not
only advanced It's members individual
~ but has gained such reputation
ncr steadiness and reliability that the
missionary movement among the wo-
men of the entire Method st Episcopal
Church has been placed in their
hands
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01
WOMAN BASEBALL MAGNATE.
Robison's Holdings Go To Mrs. Brit
ton, of Cleveland.

ton, of Cleveland.
Cleveland, o.. March 29--By the
provisions of the will cf NJ. Stanley
Robson, principal owner of the St.
Louis National League Baseball Club,
a woman will succeed to his stock and
become baseball magnate. The will
Was prcbated yesterday
The baseball stock is included in
the three-fourths OF the estate which
was bequeathed Mrs. Helen Hatha-
way Robson Briton, of Cleveland,
daughter of the late Frank De Haas
Robson, brother of the deceased.
Balance OF the estate goes to her
1other, Mrs. Sarah Carver Hathaway
Robson. The two women were men
toned as the only heirs.
On the death of Mrs. Robson her
quarter of the estate will go to Mrs.
Pritton, to be held in trust for the
Triton children until they are thirty
Years of age. On the death Of both
women the whole OF the estate will
e. to the children.
Fred N. Abercrombie was named
executor, with Mrs Robson and Mrs.
Britton.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01

"You need new door mat. Your
old mat is about worn out"
"A well-worn mat is the lawyers
best advertisement responded the at
torney. Shows that few clients are
ecming his way"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01
"LYNcHED," HE FLEEs.
Victim. of Mob Ecapes With Moose
About Mack

Bluefeld, w. Va, March 30.--John
Henry Morgan, who was reported
lynched at Cedar Bluff, was too quick
fer his captors.
With a moose about his neck and
while mob of fifty were deciding on
which limb to hang him, he broke
away jumped down thirty-foot en-
tankment and. wading creek, safely
eiuded his pursuers. He hid behind
a log all Saturday night and Sunday.
Monday night, suffering from a gun
shot wound in his leg, he dragged him.
eelf to Jail at Tazewel and gave him
self up
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01
coMREY BAND CONCERT.
Some Special Features at Event Next
Monday Niuht.

As before announced In these col
um1s Ccnrey's Band win give fine
concert nlaxt Monday night in the Y.
II G A gymnasium. In addition to
the band music there Will be two
vocal numbers with instrumental ac-
compartment Miss limo Thompson.
soprano, will sing Loves Rhapsody
fBartlett) accompanied by Miss Ruth
Tones, cello, and Miss Myra Cline
iano. DR. Bruce Geyer will sing a
tenor solo, his selection being THE
Gypsy TrasP' Galloway with piano
accompaniment by Mrs. G. p. Grim
sley. This makes strong bill and
the tickets are only 25 cents.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01
Arrest Letter Carrier

William G. Plant a letter carrier at
the Clarksburg postoffice, was held for
the Federal Grand jury at Martinsburg
April 4, charged with rifii1g letter
and taking money. Plants arrest was
brought about by Edward |. Allen,
rostoffice inspector.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01
Cupid in the Churches.

Brocton, March 3O-A suggestion OF
Mrs. c. L. Randall that the churches
be made counting places for men and
women is being considered and may
be adopted as an experiment. She
would set aside one room for work
ing girls where they may entertain
their men friends in the presence OF
a chaperon.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-04-01
White For Senator.
More Room cor Choir.

Contractor W. I'll. Frankenberry is
enlanging the choir loft in the Luther
an church, making it three feet wider
and two feet longer
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
LAYING OUT A NEW TOWN.

A new town, Chandler, is now be
ing laid out twelve miles south of
Mesa on a branch line of the Arizona
Eastern railroad system The new
road is to be completed and in oper-
alton by the early fall and soon there
after will be ready a hotel of the
suburban type, costing about $780,
900 and designed especially to cater
to tourists. The new settlement is
near the centre of an 18,O00-acre tract
of fertile, irrigated land, which is to
be sold off within the neXttwo years.
Much of the tract is already under cul
tivatiOn, watered from the ConsOlida-
ted canal and from large pumping
stations, electrically operated
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA.

The University of Arizona has re-
Gently issued it's new catalogue and
copy has come to this office. 1t is
being generally pronounced the most
attractive ever issued by the insti-
tuition.
The catalogue is gotten out in a
larger page and more attractive typo
graphical appearance than heretofore.
The university is of the opinion that
the best Typography is none too good
for public institution
For next year a new department in
electrical engineering is offered under
the direction of Professor Henley and
Instructor Snow The work in this
department will be comprehensive. A
four-year course in agriculture is in
stituted, with the degree of Bachelor
of Science in Agriculture. The in
structiOn of this course will be illus
trated by active work on the farm in
the RillitO valley.
The catalogue shows a diminishing.
number OF preparatory students, espe-
cially OF those from Tucson. The uni
versity has no desire to compete with
the local or other high schools, and
preparatory work of the university
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
A HALF YEARS DIVIDENDS.

No better evidence could be pro
;luced of the profitableness of mining
and milling on the American continent
as carried on today than that afforded
by ,tle dividend tables published reg
u.arly in Mining and Engineering
World formerly The Mining WOrlO.
While the figures given do not fully
represent the returns made by all the
companies, yet the companies report
ing are sufficient in number to give
fairly good representation Of the
profits realized as a result of the
present-day sane-and-safe method OF
operating mines and works.
In view of the fact that there hun
dreds of mines being worked at
profit sufficient to pay dividends,
but from whom no reprts are obtain
able, the half year just completed will
stand out as probably the most profit
able in point of dividends paid in the
history of the industry.
From reports made to Mining and
Engineering World by 1913 American
mines and works it is learned that
shareholders in these companies were
enriched during the half year just
ended to the extent of $41 ,2S0,31S.
This compares with 112 companies
and $34,218,102 during the same peri
Od in 1909 and &c cOmDanieS and
$28, 443 ,139 in 1909.
Adding the $7,722,524 disbursed by
eight security y-hOlding corporations, an
amonnt derived from the holding of
shares o. other cOrporatins, makes a
total of $49,OO2,S42 which has gone
into the hands of holders of stocks
Of American mines and works during
the half year just ended
The Parker post., 1911-07-08

And now Messrs. Gompers, Mitch
ell and Morrison have again been cit
ed to appear in court to answer
charges of contempt 1t has been
suggested to the gentlemen that a
formal apology to the court, which
has demanded their appearance, might
be accepted as the means of escap-
ing punishment. Without going into
the merits of the case Of these labor
leaders, it is doubtless true that the
country as a whole is growing wea-
ry of the constant orders issued by
judges for the attendance in their
courts of Messrs. GOmpers, Mitchell,
and the balance of the labor leaders,
upon charges that seem frivolous to
the ordinary mind
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

Two earthquake shocks, the heav-
arated By only few seconds, Jared
the central portion of California and
western Nevada Saturday The first
sharp shock, experienced at 2:01
o'clock, was followed within a few
seconds by one of similar intensity,
each lasting about five seconds.
Only trivial damage has been re-
ported from any section, but in San
Francisco and other cities in the af-
fected area, panic seized upon crowds
was pelmell exodus from the large
buildings.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
INDEMNITY FOR MAIL.

BY new order of the pOstOffiCe
department, after July | indemnity
to the amount of $35 can be collect
ed for any piece of registered third
or fourth class mail matter that fails
to reach the addressee, provided it
can be shown that the article lost
was worth that much. 1t has been a
popular belief that the indemnity
could be collected on any registered
matter that went astray, but that
was so only as it applied to first
class matter, the amount OF indemnl-
ty possible to recover being $50.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
COL. DORRINGTON RETlRES.

A change in the administration OF
CURED Saturday when the Arizona
Sentinel went into the hands of the
Yuma Examiner Publishing Co., Col
onel John w. DorringtOn retiring
from the editorial management of that
paper, after 35 years continuous pub
lication, without having missed an
issue, although floods and fire caused
a total loss of the plant upon three
different occasions.
Colonel Dorrington launched the
Sentinel early in 1870, and from the
day of it's inception the Sentinel was
all that the name implied; it's poll
tics were republican, and while it's
columns were always clean, the inter
ests of the general public were scrup-
ulOuSly looked after, and the Senti-
mel was regarded as state" paper
rather than local publication.
Colonel Dorrington has been tire
less in his devotion to the public well
fare, never wavering from the prin-
ciples of republicanism, the general
public esteeming him to that extent
that several times he has been called
upon by an admiring constituency to
occupy a seat among Arizona law
makers.
Colonel Dorrington is the oldest
newspaper man in continuous SER
vice in Arizona and during the publ
cation of the Sentinel, from which
he last Saturday retired there can
not be found anything in its columns
to reflect upon his integrity of pur-
pose or sincerity of action, a record
that younger ones might well emu
late to the betterment of the gener-
al reading public.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08

that we keep right. Future genera
tions will look back at us and our
work, and condemn us for our mis-
takes and praise us for our success
es. There are duties that we owe
the coming generations and they can
not be set aside. Let us get together
as did our farefathers whose deeds
we celebrate today, and meet them
like men. Let us remember that a
tree planted today will mean a shade
and a thing Of beauty and comfort
for our children and for our grand
children; let us not limit our views
to the short period of a life in being;
let. us extend them along the contin-
uOus line of generations yet to come.
Let us all pull together and make
this the greatest section of the great
state of California and as each sue
cessive Fourth rolls around let us be
able to look back with pride and
graz eful hearts to the success and
pleasure of the past year and the
great hope for the future yet to
come.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08

will cease, leaving this to the high
schools. But the time has not yet
come, and while the work continues.
it will be given as strongly as pos
sible.
The university has aimed in the
catalogue to make it plain, not only
to the student on the ground, but to
anybody who might be interested in
the institution, keeping it as clear as
may be from technicalities and OBJ
scure statements.
About 200 students have been in
attendance during the year, number
which might be increased without
much difficulty if only the territory
were informed how many are the ad
vantages of the university There are
few colleges which give so much for
so little cost An Arizona student
may spend year at the university
for not more than 1925 to $3.50 for
all university charges. including board
and room. While in many eastern
colleges rooms cost from $50 a year
to $500, they cost in Tucson at the
university only $25. Board, which is
much higher for other people in the
southwest, costs no more for students
of the university than in many OF
tho colleges of the middle west or
SIS a month.
The university is already pressed
for dormitory space and the first OF
the new buildings asked for is mod
ern dormitory for young women. 9th
er buildings mentioned as desirable
are for mining, for metOllurgy and
mechanic arts, agriculture, an audi
torium housing also the museum and
the armory, and a students club
house.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08

A Brooklin man has invented an
egg tester which will make a pullet
ashamed to look her offspring in the
face. This tester does the work of
four men and a candalabra. You can
TOSS an egg into it and the egg will
come out with the pure food law
stamped on it's bosom. This device
makes it impossible for the housewife
10 break an egg with a, full beard in
to the coffee, and on that account
i use ought to be encouraged.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08

Phoenix has a new daily, the Nor
July 4. Sam Small, the noted evan
gelist, is the editor. The Sun is
democratic in politics, and the repub-
know just how low down they are in
Small's estimation. 1t takes some
little nerve to start fourth daily in
Samuel had the nerve and few
democratic angels had the money.
In typographical appearance and ed
itorially the new paper is a credit to
the Capital City, and The Post wish
es it every success possible.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
TRUE MEANING OF
NATIONS BIRTHDAY
(Palo Verde Valley Herald. J

Too often the celebration Of the
Declaration of Independence has
been turned over to sports and 9th
er amuSements to such an extent that
the youths of our land are hardly
able to tell why we celebrate the
Fourth of July While it was, and
always should be, day of celebra
ton, the day is surrounded with a
halo that any nation might Well
be proud of. 1t belongs to us with
strong prOpriety to celebrate this day.
How different the conditions now
than those surrounding the few Strug
Cling colonies along the Atlantic coast
in the eighteenth century! How
changed is the scene! The din and
desolation Of war has long since past
and almost forgotten. Science has
long resumed her sway i'll our lniver-
sites, and our factories and farms
are teeming with ever-increasing in
dustry; the tall grass now waves III
the trampled sallypOrtS that formed
part of the simple lines with which
Il half-armed American militia held
the flower of the British army block
AIDED
One hundred and thirty-five years
have past since the signing of the
Declaration of Independence and all
over this vast country the people are
assembled to commemorate that great
and happy event We come together,
not because it needs, but because il
We do not meet each other and ey
change our Fluctuations because We
should otherwise fall into fOrgetful-
ness of this auspiciOus era, but
because we owe it to our fathers
and to our children to mark its re-
turn with grateful festivities. 1t was
sages of the Revolution labored and
bled. They were too wise not to
know that it was not personally their
own cause in which they embarked
they felt that they We're engaging III
an enterprise which would resOund
through the coming generations.
The worst encroachments on which
the British ministry had ventured
might have been borne consistently
with the practical enjoyment of many
of the advantages resulting from good
government On the score of calcu
latiOn alone that generation had much
better have paid the duties on the
glass, tea, etc, than to have plunged
into the expenses of the revolutions
ry war But they thought not OF
Shnffling off upon pOSterity the bur
den of resistance. They perceived
that they We're called upon to dis
charge a high and perilons office to
the cause Of freedom,
II is by champions like these that
the great principles Of representa-
tive government, Of chartered rights
ana constitutional liberty are to be
discussed and surely never in the
annals Of national controversy was eX-
hibted triumph SO complete Of the
seemingly weaker party. rout 80
disastrous to the stronger.
Now we in the Palo Verde valley
today are just practically starting
| this valley on IFS career as one of
the great sections of California, and
! j. behooves US that we start right;
The Parker post., 1911-07-08

A prominent poultryman of ST. Lou
is says that the hen which keeps late
hours is as rank a failure as the at
tempt to graft sideburns on the goat.
He is right about it, Every hen house
should have Il time clock, and the
hens should be required to check in
before pulling down the blinds. Moth
ing is more repulsive than the sight
of dissipated hen trying to bring
light and hope to a dozen chilled
eseS after parade on the Great
White Way Insist ON your hens re
spending 10 the curfeW.
The Parker post., 1911-07-08
Cause for Grief.

The little boy regarded the pict-
ures of the harem skirt with staring
eyeballs.
Does it mean that | am to have
twice as many trousers cut down
for me?" he Shrieked
Then he fell on his knees and
prayed as never before, that several
sisters might be vouchsafed him in
the future Puck
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24

in the loan The Russian charge
d 'affaires showed no inclination 10 do
SO snd the representatives Of the other
rowers feared that boycott of for
eign merchandise would result.
While all agreed the money should
not be advanced for military purposes,
certain Of the ministers argued that
there was only one recognized gov.
ernment. which soon would be without
funds, and when that occurred further
lavlessness would result. including 2
grave possibility Of the imperial army
being disiutegrated into plundering
bands.
Several American missionaries sta.
toned in the province of Honau have
replied TO communication from the
American legation here that they. see
no reason uecesSitatine retirement from
their posts, all the towns being peace
full
The American legation is not taking
such drastic steps as the British con
sulates, which are arresting British mis-
sionariss who refuse to leave the in
terror when ordered.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24
MEN WILL
TESTIFY FOR MARKS
Cloud of Witnesses TO Appear
in Behalf of Man Accused
by Maybray.
-. ,r.ncIntcd prcEs.

BY Associated Press
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Dec. 20
Leading politicians, officials OF s'"io
of the large local banks. former cry
and county officials and one former
deputy United States marshal are
among those who will be called TO test'-
fv in defense of BENJAMIN Marks, on
trial for alleged conspiracy for s"lua'
linz various persons throughout inc
United States of sums ranging from
$1,000 10 $40 900 aud aGGregatlng more
fban : 100000. This announcemGn
was made today BY counsel Tor MARKS
Practically all the evidence fdr tne
prosecution was IN when court "a
iourned today for two days and the
dcfcnse will open its case Tuesday:
Ernest r. Hart. national Republican
committeeman from Iowa and president
of tbe First National bank of this city
will be ono Of tho lending witnesses
called hy Marks's attorneys. Others
ou the list will include !. !; Spindler
cashier of tho First National bank l.
G. Turner, president OF the 'lty Ns
tional bank; Or. Donald Mrlres' Iormel
mayor and w 4 Grepeweg deputy
| United States marshal IL ls believed
| that several of these witnesses will he
| asked 10 rebut the direct testimony oi
John c. Maybrsy who admitted M
was leader OF the ring,
Today was spent by the prosecution
in winding up its case. J. Q. STenson
a postoffice inspector, who worked w
the case against Naybrsy and his as
sociatc, G.. s. Ranger. wera the prln
| cipal witnesses. Both ldephfied nulner
Gus letters. kilograms and other docu
| meutary evidence.
The jury. heretofore in charge of
| bailiff, was relieved of that restrain
| until Tuesday. with q severe admoultio'
hv the court TO refrain from any con
versa tiou or reading reports OF th
trial and couversing among themselya
ss 10 the merits of the case.