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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-06-30
ROAST MUTTON
BIG ATTRACTION
Large Attendance at Weekly Meeting
Of Chamber of Commerce-Many
Matters of Importance
Discussed.

About forty full-fledged boosters
attended the meeting of the Chamber
~ Commerce which was held at the
City Restaurant last Tuesday even
Ing. After partaking of a first-class
supper, the principal attraction on
the bill of fare being roast mutton,
donated by G. w. Reed, the members
settled down to busin and consid-
cred many matters of Importance.
The com mittee which had been ap-
| pointed to investigate the reported
presence of Jim Hill" mustard, re-
ported that that weed had been
found In various parts of the city in
considerable quantity and that per-
sons owning property on which the
mustard was growing would be mott
fed to destroy it. In case they fail
to rid their property of the pest the
work will be done by the city and the
cost charged against the property.
The committee on horticulture and
agriculture reported that work on
the exhibit booth near the n. p. de-
pot would begin Wednesday if the
weather permitted. After a lengthy
discussion as to the ACCESSIBILITY of
continuing the work at present, the
lack of funds being given as the rea-
son by those opposed, it was decided
to complete the booth as soon as pos
sible and a committee will be ap-
pointed to solicit funds for the cree
ton OF the building.
The membership committee re-
ported one new name, which will be
voted on at the next meeting.
The committee on whose should
ers rests the responsibility of financ-
ing the Fourth of July celebration
reported that an amount sufficient to
meet all the expense of the celebra-
ton had been subscribed by the
business men. A balance of about
wv from last years celebration will
De added to the amount subscribed.
The committee on sports reported
tnat complete program had been
arranged and that about $3.50 would
De necessary for prizes in the vari Gus
races, etc A motion to the effect
'hat the city council be requested to
pass an ordinance prohibiting the
dumping of ashes in the streets, car
rled, and it was also voted to re-
quest the council to construct
swimming pool in the city park.
The next meeting of the Chamber
Will be held at the City Restaurant
Tuesday evening, July II.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-06-30
PULLMAN GETS 1912
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT
Committee of Pullman Citizens Secure
State Encampment of Old Soldiers
for Pullman in 1912
wENATCHEE, WASH, JUNE %. 1911

WENATCHEE, WASH. % 1911
THE HERALD, PULLMAN WASH.
PULLMAN GETS ENCANIPNlENT UNANIMOUS VOTE.
SEATTLE AND PUYALLUP WITHDREW WHEN 1T BECAME
EVIDENT THAT THREE-FOURTHs MEMBERS WE'RE FOR
PULLMAN. VIM GOODYEAR
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-06-30
Christian Science Services

christian Science services are held
'0fy sunday morning at II o'clock
sunuay school at 10 o'clock, in Ma.
u'c nall, over postoff1ce. All are
.e 'Oome Subject for next Sunday
eou Golden Text: Isiah 44:6
an the first and I am the last: and
''''oes me there is no God.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-06-30

Sports and races at City park at
1880. Band to play during the
races.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
GREEN TURTLES. :

The Youngsters Have a PeriIous limo
After Being Matched.
Concerning the great turtles of the
southwest Indian ocean traveller
says: 1.-The chelonian. or green turtle
(Chelone mydas). is an animal of con-
siderable economic Importance to the
atolI. for it still occurs in the vast
hordes which are so often described
by early voyagers in the tropics.
There appear to be two distinct groups
-one resident and small in numbers.
the other migratory and visiting the
atoll to breed in numbers impossible
to estimate.
1.-THE latter arrives in December, and
from then to April the sea seems alive
with turtles. The females seek the
small sand beaches and then ascend
them with the rising tide. pushing
themselves iaborieusly above high tide
mark. Holes are then dug in the sand
by means of the fore fippers until
satisfactory one is obtained, and the
eggs, 200 in number, are buried. the
turtle returning to sea Immediately.
AFTER forty days the eggs hatch
almost simultaneously. and the young
turtles dig their way up out OF the
sand and go down to the sea in long
procession, in the course of which they
offer an easy prey to their enemies.
the frigate birds and herons. Once in
the sea, sharks and other. large fish
eat them, and only 10 per cent reach
maturity. Chicago News.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
DOWNING STREET, LONDON.
II Bears the Name Of a Clever Man
From Massachusetts.

From Massachusetts,.
Downing street. London, where are
tie British colonial and foreign offices
and the official residence Of the first
lord Of the treasury and where cabinet
councils are held, perpetuates the name
of clever man from Massachusetts,.
Those were the days before the Fourth
of July had any significance in Ameri-
can annals, and George Downing, the
first scholar in the first public school in
Massachusetts and the first graduate
sent out by Harvard college, came to
England and became chaplain in
Cromwell's army.
3 By a remarkable stroke of fortune
he was sent to represent England at
The Hague when Europe was trem-
bling before Oliver. and during three
distinct eras in England's history he
held the office of British ambassador
at the Dutch court. He was as pOpu-
lar or as clever under the Merry Mon
arch as under the protector and the
commonwealth, and it came to pass In
the reign of Charles II. that the man
from Massachusetts, was granted a
great tract of land at Westminster.
where he built huge mansions and laid
out Downing street.
To this day Downlng's street is
Downing street still. and. though
George Downing is forgotten, there is
no name in the British empire which
is more familiar to US than his.-St
James Gazette.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
Thinks Medical Students
Got His Sisters
Remains

Richmond, July Harmed with
a bare record of his sisters death in !.
this city on March 80, Lee Thaxton,
sons of a prominent contractor OF
Raleigh, N. c., is today trying vainly
to find out whether his sisters body
was buried, or whether is was cut to
pieces by students in the dissecting
rooms of the University College of
Medicine. The health department,
the city home hospital and Under
taker John Blifey are concerned in
the search, and young Thaxton today
declared he would not leave the city
until the mystery concerning the dis
position of his sisters body had been
cleared. The matter may result in
an investigation.
A Beautiful Girl
The dead girl, Ola Thaxton, was
% years old, and is described as hav-
ing been strikingly beautiful. She
was five feet, six inches tall, had
masses of golden hair and large viol-
ct colored eyes. Althoug her faith
er is well-to-do, she wished to earn
her own living, and so came to Rich
mond six months ago to work as a
stenographer for a local tobacco
company. She took up a residence
in boarding house on North Seven
/ teenth tsreet.
| City records show that Miss Thax-
ton was taken to the City Home hos
pital on March Is, suffering from
pneumonia. Five days later she died
and the next day her body was turned
over to Undertaken Bliley. 1t re-
manned at the undertaker's estblish-
ment some time. What finally be-
came of it is a mystery.
Bliley today declared he had mott
fed Miss Thaxton's parents of her
death; that they first telegraphed
him to ship the remains to them, but
that they later countermanded these
instructions. Then, he says, he bur.
led the body inthe Potter's field, Oak
wood cemetery.
Records in the Office of Health Off.
Ger Levy show a different disposition
of the body. According to these re.
cords, Miss Thaxton's remains were
sent to the University College OIL
Medicine on May 10.
At the medical college no definite
information could begained. One Of
the employees there declared she ere
membered the name ola Thaxton','
but she refused to state whether
such body had been received at the
institution.
Young Thaxton who arrived il
Richmond early this morning, de
clares he is going to find his sisters
body or make some one suffer.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
Waynesboro Society Notes

Waynesboro, July 15.-Little
Misses Fontaine Wilson and Alvin
Hughson, under the direction, of Mrs.
Wilson, gave recital at the Bran
don Hotel Thursday evening for the
benefit of the sundaF school of st.
Mary's Episcopal church.
These two little songbirds always
please the most select audience, and
their dancing and acting is wonder
fully graceful and clever. Rounds
of applause from an appreciative
audience greeted every selection.
After the recital, the ball room
was cleared, and the young people
danced until midnight Miss Ruth
CabeH, with Mr.. Joe Moore, of Berry
vile, Va, Miss Carrie Austin, with
Emmit Barger, Miss Virginia Lam
bert with DR.. Patterson, Miss Bessie
Austin with John Smith, Miss Mary
Ellison, with Patterson Ellison, Miss
Elizabeth Smith, of Culpeper with
Moritz 10th, Miss Louise Thompson
with Charlie Henderson, Miss Champe
Thompson, with Charlie Ellison, and
Miss Hood Thompson with Albert
Vance, were among the dancers from
Waynesboro.
Before large and appreciative au-
dience, local talent, REINFORCED by
several friends from a distance, un-
der the auspices of the Presbyterian
church choir, gave a concert In the
High School Auditorium Friday
night. 1t was a rare treat for music
lovers, for hardly before had ever
so much genuine musical talent been
assembled in Waynesboro.
Some of those taking part were
Mesdames Blain and Wilson, Misses
Haines, Lambert, Reinhardt, Coy
ner and Renwick, and Messrs. Gard
ner, Glass, Day, Shirley and Hud-
gins.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
=
VIRGINIAN A SUICIDE
Frank D. Hehin Left a Note Say
ing Rum Drove Him to Deed

Washington, July 17.-Placing the
blame for his act on rum sellers
and thieves" Frank D. Hefin, fifty
years old, of Midland, Va, commit
ted suicide today by inhaling illumi-
mating gas at GOT 9Th street north
west, where he rented room.
Hef1in was found stretched out
dead on the floor of his room, clad
only in his underclothing, when the
police broke in the door at the re-
quest of the owners of the house.
He had carefully closed the cracks
and keyhole of the door in order to
prevent the escape of gas into other
parts of the house.
Ten years ago, it is said, Hef1in
was we'll to do, owning between $780,
His family is well known in Midland,
His family is we'll known in Midland,
Va, and a brother John w. Hef1in,
is living there now.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
A strono Recommendation.

1--WE are not taking on any new
travelling men just now" the safe
manufacturer said. Business is rath-
er dull in our line'
well. if you need one let me know"
said the applicant for job. "I'd rath-
er sell your safe than any there is In
the market It's the best"
"Are you an expert?"
Eyes, sir. l know all there is to be
known about Safes"
ever deal in them?'
mo, SIR
Ever work In faetory?"
mo, SIR
"How do you know ours 1s the
best?"
Because It takes longest to break
into it."
"How do you know that"
"I'm reformed burglar"
He got the job.-Chicago Tribune.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
Goshen Happenings

no wraps the girls all looked as if
they had on a new brand of hobble
skirt, but they didn't seem to mind
he weather, AMI proceeded to do up
the town in good old country style.
In the crowd was noticed Miss Flor
ence Lyle, Lillian Davis, Myrtle
Davis, Miss Beckner of Clifton Forge
and Messrs. Armstrong, John, Claud'
and Earl Davis and Wallace Lyle.
Miss Carrie Condor, of Hinton w.
Va, is visiting her cousins Misses
Leslie and Corene Condor on Little
River.
Miss Lille Quinn of Coatsville, Pa.
is spending the month of July and
August with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. G. H. Quinn.
Mrs. Thomas Tutwilef and family
are again with her mother. Mrs. J..
B. Goodloe for the summer.
Miss Mary NOEL who attended COL
lege at Blackstone, Va, has return
ed home with two cousins from
Roanoke, the Misses Reba and Sell
ma Williams.
The Allegheny had today lis
guests for dinner. This is double as
many as has ever been at this popu-
lar resort at this season of the year.
Goshen, Va, July 15.-Mr. Alfred
Ball of Talcot w. Va, is visiting
Miss Audry Jones daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. E. L. Jones of this place.
Miss Mary Graham Cameron has
returned home after a week So visit
to her sister, Mrs. Edward Foster, of
Clifton Forge, and friends in Leg
ington, Va
Mr.. James Davidson of Lexington,
Va, was pleasant caller in Goshen,
Va, this week. Watch out boys that
auto seems to be running nightly
smooth.
Misses Bette and Lillian Shaw
have returned from Roanoke Col
lege to their beautiful home (The
Maples) for the summer.
Among the late arrivals at Rock
bridge Inn for the summer are Miss
Bayne of Norfolk, Va, and Miss
Blanch Powers of Portsmouth.
Goshen was given a pleasant sur
prise last evening by a crowd of
young folks. from Little River on
hay-ride. Just about the time thew
got to within mile of town they met
heavy thunder shower and having
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
FOND OF ELECTIONS.

In Switzerland They Select Even
Gravedisgers by Ballot.
According to Professor F. F. Roget
of Geneva, the Swiss have the great
est political intelligence in the world
today.
every citizen of canton is SWISS
citizen" says Professor Roget. one
must become a member of some local
commune to become naturalized and
In order to do so must be accepted py
the local communal council.
"Every male Swiss citizen is an cleo
for from the age of twenty, there be-
ing no property qualification. Every
Swiss is q soldier and every soldier an
elector. The federal elector may vote
wherever he may happen to be. guar
antees being taken that he votes only
once.
"The cantons are the political units.
and no elector may exercise poliucai
rights in more than one canton. On
moving from one locality to another
the Swiss must wait three months be-
fore he may exercise the franchise In
his new neighborhood."
Professor Roget declares that every
collective authority in Switzerland Is
elected.
1.-THE foreigner" he states, SIS often
surprised to see in Swiss newspaper
on Monday the results of all kinds Of
elections on the Sunday. II he had
gone into a polling booth on the Sun
day he would have found in this cor
ner clerk at a desk, at which the
elector, would vote for the local school.
master.
I'm another corner would be desk
at which he would vote for the local
Judge, in another part Of the same
room he would vote for the local grave.
digger, and so on through whole
series of officials. all Of whom are pop
ularly elected.
1.-THE result of this training Is that
the political intelligence of the Swiss
is extremely developed. and that he
thoroughly understands what he Is vot'
ing about at home in his native coun'
try, and that when he goes abroad ne
finds it very easy to understand and
to take part in any political movements
among which he may find himself. -
Exchange.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
Tho Civ of the Dove,

When mighty Amru went to conquer
Egypt he camped on the east bank OF
the Nile opposite Memphis, that great
twenty miles long capital of mud
bricks whose western verge was the
pyramids and whose mud brick houses
have all vanished. Amru crushed the
Egyptians and came back to get his
camp to move over and occupy Mem
phis. A dove had built in the folds
near the top of his tent. Blood bathed
Amru, the ruthless. would not let her
be disturbed A new city started about
his tents It grew northward along
the Nile. 1t is today Cairo. Memphis
Is only a name.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
Jones Speaks in Harri-
SOnbur8

Harrisonburg, July 17.-Relterat-
ing the charges he has made at var
ious times in the last several weeks,
particularly those having to do with
the Thompson letters" Congress
man William A. Jones today invaded
stronghold of the enemy, deliver
ing an address in Assembly Hall here
to an audience composed of several
hundred voters.
1t is doubtful if Mr.. Jones, at any
time in his career as a politician,
was ever placed in a more embar-
RAISING position than he was here
today. Arriving at the hall unac-
companied, and without any of the
local democrats having called at his
hotel, he was forced to delay open
ing his address for some time, owing
to his inability to find some one to
introduce him. H. M. Stricken, an
attorney, finally consented to relieve
an embarrassing situation by intro
ducing the senatorial aspirant to his
audience.
For the first time Mr.. Jones today
told when the Thompson letters"
which he has used in accusing Sena-
tor Martin of being mixed up with
the railroad ring" came into his
possession. He did not tell, how
ever, from just whose hands they
came. The letters were sent to him
just several months ago, said Mr..
Jones, and prior to that time he did
not even know that such CORES
pondence was in existence.
Without referring to any particu-
lar one Mr.. Jones took some of the
Valley papers to task for their SEEM
ing partially in publishing all of
Senator Martins defense without
giving equal publicity to all that has
come from the other side. The speak
er then went on to review the
Thompson letters" referring to each
letter separately and analyzing the
contents. Altogether the speech was
one of the most striking Mr.. Jones
mas yet made in the present cam
paign and, to use a popular express
sion, it made good with his hearers.
With campaign oratory and a full
brass band. Congressman Jones will
invade Charlottesville, the home town
of Senator Thomas s. Martin, to-
morrow and speak in the courthouse
there tomorrow night. Mr.. Jones
will be introduced to his audience by
Captain III. Clay Niche and it is be-
lieved that he will be greeted by a
large crowd,
Several thousand circulars an
nouncing the address have been dis
tributed far and near by certain
Jones followers in and about Char
lottesville. The entire expenses of
the speaking are to be betrayed by
the citizens of the city, many hun
dreds of whom have urged Congress
man Jones to make his address. 1t
has been rumored that the congress
man is reserving some big thunder
which he intends to let loose in the
course of his Charlottesville speech.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
KILLED At covlNcroN

Covington, Va, July l7.-Miss
Cynthia Munday, of Springwood, Va,
was instantly killed Friday night and
two of her girl friends were injured,
on probably fatally, when. railroad
automobile, in which they were taking
a ride as guests of J. l.. Wheeler,
crashed into an open switch and was
upset.
Mr.. Wheeler was not injured beyond
being shaken up, but he became
frantic after seeking the girl killed,
and close watch is keep upon him to
see that he does not do himself injury.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
S'Doped Food" Interests
Backing Attack on
Wiley
Whole Country is Watching What
Taft Will Do in the Case

Taft Will Do in the Case
Washington, D. c., July 17.-Will
President Taft lend himself to the
Vaccinations of the "doped food"
interests and separate DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of
Chemistry, from the Department OF
Agriculture? is the question agitat-
ing Washington at this time. The
friends of the administration do not
believe that he will on the flimsy
pretext advanced by Wiley's enemies
in and out of the Department of
technical violation Of the law in the
case of the salary of DR.. H. H. Rusby
enemies have searched his record OF
20 years in the government service
in an effort to find basis for charges
which would result in his dismissal,
but in vain. The combination
against him is very powerful. 1t is
headed by those who use benzoate
of soda as a preservative. Notwith-
standing it's use is permitted the
agents of the Department are Selling
ketchup in all parts of the country
made from filthy, putrid and de-
composed vegetable substance and
preserved with benzoate of soda.
With Wiley out of the way these
seizures would doubtless cease.
The prime mover in the anti-Wiley
crusade is Solicitor George P. Nc
Cabe, who packed the Denver con-
vention of the National and State
Diary and Food Commissioners in
the interest of benzoate of soda. He
is the right hand man of the aged
Secretary Wilson, who will be 76
next month, and who relies on Nc
Cabe implicitly. Allied with the
benezoaters are the users of sacchar-
| in, in some instances identical; the
sugar trust, which is based on the
Dutch standard condemned by Wiley
and which uses sulphurous acid for
the bleaching of sugar and mOlasses;
| the whiskey trust, and the borax
trust, which still hopes to get boraz
permitted as a preservative for meats
to say nothing of the fake medicine
men.
Embrassing as the Pinchot case
was to the administration, it was
nothing compared to the Wiley case,
Senator La Toilette has already bit
terly attacked the President on the
charge of subservience to the Gin
terests." His friends feel confident
he will not be led to give color to the
charge by Diminishing the govern
ment's pure food expert on techni
cal charge of no Importance even il
sustained.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
A Sinecure.

General Horatio Q. King, on one oc-
casion narrating some war memories
said:
I'VE suffered many hardships on
both sides. but the poor, brave Con-
federates suffered most. l remember
q grizzled old colored man who at the
outbreak of the Spanish war applied
for place as an army cook.
"'What experience have you hadY
the old fellow was asked.
al was cook. sab. TO- Confederate
regiment In sixty-fo',' he answered
that is. sab. l had the position OF
cook. but, to tell the truth. didn't
work at it.
why notT
"'There wasn't nothin' to cook.
eah.'"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-07-21
Elannaqan's WAY.

Cassidy-Flannagan's thinking Of go
In into the haulin' business. He
bought foine new cart today. Casey
But shure he has no horse. Flanna-
gan-No, but he's goin' to buy wan.
Casey-Well, that's loike Flanagan.
He always did git the cart befoor the
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.