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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-31

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Chicago Grain Call Prices.
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chant, "a East Main. Phone $50
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-31
Minnea polls Cash Wheat.

ats-S,eady: No. white. 46l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
Worlds Visible Supply

New Orleans, December 29.-Secre- tary Testers statement of the world visible supply of cotton made up from special cable and telegraphic adyices compares the figures of this week with last week, last year and the year oe- fore It shows an increase for the week just closed of 219,S9S against an increase of 216.754 last year and an ln- crease of 4S,359 year before last
 The total visible is 5,565,547 against 5,345,55S last week, 5,29S,979 last veal and 4969,316 year before last. or ms the total of American cotton is 4,7S4,- 547 against 4,615,55S last week, 4,2sb 979 last year and 3,9OO,316 year before last. and of all other kinds, includ- ing Egypt, Brazil, India. etc., 7Sl,oo0 against 73O, ,000 last week, 1,0l3,O0o last year and 1,069,000 year before last
 The total worlds visible supply oi cotton as above shows an increase com pared with last week of 219,9S9, an fn- crease compared with last year or 266,- 56S and an increase compared with year before last of 596,231.
 Of the worlds visible supply or cot ton as above there is now afloat and held in Great Britain and continental Europe 2.553,000 against 2,715,OO0 las' year and 2,674,000 year before last; IT Egypt 237,000 against 292000 last year and 239.OOO year before last; in India 266.OOO against 333,0OO last year and 5O40OO wear before last, and in the United states 2,510,000 against 1,959,- GOO last year and 1,552,000 year before last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
SIGNAL VICTORY FOR LEMON GROWERS Fruit Rates Reduced From California to Points in
 United States

Washington, December 29.-American lemon growers today won a signal victory over foreign competitors and the trans continental railroads when the interstate commerce commission reaffirmed it's pre- vious order upset by the new commerce court reducing freight rates on lemons from California to all other points in the United States from $1.15 to $1 per i0o pounds.
 The fight over rates has been in prog ress since 1902 and originally involved the question of competition with Sicily. It has been bitterly fought and became one of the first causes of conflict between the interstate commerce commission and the new commerce court.
 When the commission originally ordered the reduction it's order was stopped by the commerce court which held the com mission had no right to take. into consid- eraton the question of foreign competi- tion and remanded the case for rehearing.
 The decision given today holds the rate of $1.15 unreasonable and unjust, ire spective of the question of competition and orders the carriers to make effective the lower rate on February 15.
 The case was brought in the name of the Arlington Heights Fruit Exchange against practically all the trans-continen- tai lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

west Florida, noticed in a garden an was very large and of a lovely canary color. l begged small shoot, and put ting it in a yeast powder can, I picked it up. with a little moist soil carried it the 537 miles home and set it out in the garden. It grew and multiplied and masses of the beautiful blossoms in the park came from the successors Of that little shoot, did hundreds of plants that we gave to those who cared for them.
 When we left our South Carolina home Mrs. Hard brought in her trunk few roots of sweet violet. They throve, and the purple borders of the walks in the park, like great ribbons in the spring. are their successors, as we'll as other plants yielding myriads of blossoms
 In 1S43 my father planted in our South Carolina home Malmaison rose. In 1884, when We came to Alabama, we brought some cuttings and planted them in our garden. For 23 years they have given us blossoms, and probably 1000 rose bushes blooming around the cottages in the dis trict have come from that one rose About the same year my father planted water oak saplings along the streets of the village in which we lived, and his great grandchildren have played under them and they have been admired by peo- pie from all over the country.
 Once while driving from Blue Creek noticed in an abandoned garden some crape myrtle. l pulled up a root and set it out in my garden and for several years it's wealth of pink blossoms have delight ed the eye of the passerby.
 About 10 years ago I gathered from a tree in Milton, Fla, a few paper shell pecans I planted them around my gar den in Bessemer and next year the chil- dIen will begin to enjoy the nuts from the trees.
 We planted long ago some mulberry trees in front of our lot, and for years the mocking birds and catbirds have been rewarding us with their songs, and the boys have had a good time in the trees every spring.
 Several years ago while in Brundidge pulled up root of a pomegranate and planted it in my garden in Bessemer. Now the family is enjoying the fruit from the bush.
 I could go on and tell of the seeds, plants. shrubs and trees which have come from various parts of the country found resting place in my garden and been distributed from there to many other gardens, but I have written enough for the present, and this started out to be tale of two switches only.
 It Is rather difficult to "scatter seeds of kindness and do little deeds of love- when one feels more like kicking and cussins conditions but it is not difficult for one to stick a cutting in the ground to drop few seeds in fertile soil or to plant a few nuts in the fence corners, and if each of us will plant few seed along the pathway of life, after we have left 1t others may enjoy the beauty and frag- rance of the flowers and rest under the shade Of the trees JIM HARD.
 P S.-The trees will also produce switches.
 Birmingham, December %, 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
Observe Benja min's Birthday

Meridian, Miss. December 29.-(Special.) ) The celebration of the centennial anni- versary Of the birth of Judah P. Benjamin will be held at Temple Beth Israel Sunday afternoon, December 31 at 3:3O o'clock The meeting will be held under the auspices of the two local chap ters pf the United Daughters of the Con federacy, Dr. DeB. Waddell presiding at the meeting. A fine musical programme has been arranged to tbe rendered by a large choi1' composed of some of the best voices of the city. The principal speaker of the afternoon will be Hon. A. B. Amis of the local bar. There will be several wno will speak of the life of Benjamin and what he has done for the people of the south and the interesting events of his career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
COTTON MARKET FOR 1911
Ny THEODORE II. PRICE

The history of cotton is valuable chiefly as it may be a guide for the future. The year 1911 has marked the end of a cot ton famine, and an era of comparatively high prices, and the year 1912 seems like " to find the world supplied with suf- ficient cotton to meet it's requirements for the balance of the so called cotton year, which ends August %, 1912
 It is probable, in fact, that the year s crop is large enough to supply the de- mand up to october 3l, 1912, or two months after the time at which next years crop shall be available. This is all that can be expected from the widely ad- vertised surplus of this years cotton pro duetion, and when the fact is stated in this way there would seem to be but lit tie justification for any expectation of lower prices.
 In no other important industry that know of is a surplus the equivalent of two months consumption after two years of famine regarded as a sufficient jus tification for panic prices and sales below the cost of production.
 The southern producers of cotton seem to have come to this conclusion largely as a result of the convention of the governors of the cotton states held in New Orleans in October, and the thanks or the entire southern community, both bus mess men and farmers, are due to the Forth Worth Record and it's editor MT. Clarence Ousley for their enterprise m calling and organizing this convention at the opportune moment. Its presenta- ton of the facts of supply and consump- tion no doubt prevented d panicky de- cline in the market, and resulted In de- liberate and forehanded treatment of the situation that has enabled the southern cotton producer to obtain at least cost for that portion of this years cotton crop which has already been sold.
 II has at the same time induced antici- patory buying on the part of consumers, which in some cases covers their pros pective requirements for three and four years ahead. The weight Of whatever surplus is attributable to this years American cotton production has thus been distributed over a long period or time, and the prospect now seems to be that with a reasonable reduction in acreage next year, and an average production cotton will again rule somewhere be- tween Il and F cents pound.
 The supply of iron, copper ana coal In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
VIRGINIA WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN YARD

Roanoke, Va, December 29.-Mystery surrounding the killing of Mrs. Wiley Jones, who was found dead in her own yard at Bassett in Henry county, the morning after Christmas, was not cleared up by the report of the coroner's jury which today found that deceased came to her death by .9s calibre pistol ball in unknown hands,
 Mrs. Jones' body showed that she had been shot in the back of the head. the weapon being held so close that powder stains marked her bonnet .3s calibre revolver with one chamber empty, was found in the Jones home, but the tes- timony of the husband and 15-year-old son as to the whereabouts of the pistol was conflicting.
 Excitement in the neighborhood IS strong because Mrs. Jones was related to several of the most prominent families Tn this section of the state. Reports indl- cate that conditions in the Jones family were unhappy. Commonwealth Attorney J. R. Taylor who attended the inquest, declared tonight that early arrests are expected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

, America is practically inexhaustibe but the producers of these commodities are enables to reap d fair profit upon the en- terprise and capital employed in their production through a legitimate control of the supply.
 The year 1912 promises to mark new era in the cotton trade, distinguished chiefly by the application of the same sane principles to cotton production. It used to be assumed that the south could produce nothing but cotton, that it had to produce cotton to live, and that 1t had to sell it when produced at whatever -price was obtainable, whether this price showed a profit or a loss, and that then 1t was compelled to go on and produce an- other crop to be sold at possible loss, and so ad minimum, but times have changed.
 The great economic marvel of the pres ent century is the expansion ill the worlds demand for cotton goods. The demand is now so great that surplus of 1,0Oo0O0 bales is far smaller in it's rela- ton to the total requirements than was the case 15 years ago. Moreover, the south is richer and better educated in the principles of economic law. It has learned how to do other things than grow cotton, and it's agricultural yer satilitY enables it from year to year so to change the objective of it's enterprise that when cotton ceases to be profitable another crop will be grown.
 For these reasons, and because it Is easily demonstrable that 1t costs at least cents d pound to produce middling cotton, and just as much to produce low grade cotton that only sells for cents a pound, when middling cotton sells for cents pound, I think it entirely reas- enable to assume the probability of high CT prices for the year 1912.
 poppra f111ate tha SOufh uToD the ad- vance that 1t has made in the applica- tion of economic knowledge to an eco homie problem. The whole world will be better off for it. A plethora of cot ton at extremely low prices in one year affords an injurious stimulus to consump- tion. deficiency and extremely high prices in another year result in an equally injurious stimulus to production.
 The most thoughtful students of eco- monies are gradually coming to the con- cluson that monopolies are essential to the complex civilization of today, but II is necessary that such monopolies should be wisely and reasonably regu- lated. If the south, through the diffusion of economic intelligence, can wisely and reasonably regulate the monopoly of cot ton production that it enjoys, so that we shall have either extremely high prices nor yet improbable low prices, it will have provided an object lesson which will prove most useful, and in the long run it will, in so doing, best consult it's own self interests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
PROGRESSIVES MEET

LaFayette, Ind, December 29tProgres sivc demor"aey WAS voiced Thursday at me annual hanHrot Q tlq ckson club, attsaded 1g asuJf s1a leaders If the party
 aaaa. Former eo.arnor Folk of X s 4e ctief apoakar. Senator &th fi sser Lpoiaua was toastmas- t%i aH pE 0tnei speakers were Cover
 Sb,T ee1af barsual nd Thomas ,sss Hna committeenan.
 A svt arad JHe Eight against the Te'ec.i 7 fi is The par;t main hope. iIe ss il tariff cfhaf Ian for reve- hae ls ttsTs!y t6aii2ed eFaft and that tdere snnl .A be eQuare isf 0 between pfiNitks .lga efffai rights e charged fhft tf taie7y ease8 government favorS arc eoniefreu on men of wealth and de- clared that the elimination of privilege is the problem confronting democracy
 A strict rule barred ''booms," Senator Kern and Governor Marshall, both pros pective candidates for the presidency, chatted peacefully. This is the second time this wek they have banquetted at the same board.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
PARAGUAYAN LOAN
 IS DENOUNCED

Paris, December 29.-In the chamber of deputies today, M Delahaye denounced the Paraguayan loan. the Notation of which is announced for January as de- vice to abstract 22,0Oo,0OO francs of the publics savings He demanded that the government do something to stop the issue.
 A motion inviting the government to adopt measures immediately to defend the savings of the public was accepted by Premier Cailliaux, and adopted by vote of 522 to 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
LEGAL NOTICES
Notice of Application for Licen,

To Whom It May Concern:
 Notice is hereby given that the un- dersigned. Birmingham Dam No. l, In- dependent Order of Beavers, will apply January 6, 1912, to the excise commis- sion of Jefferson county, Alabama, for license to dispense spirituous, vinous and malt liquors to its members only at their club rooms, 317A North Twentieth street, in the city of Bir- mingham, Ala, for the year 1912.
 BIRMINGHAM DAM NO. 1, INDIE PENDENT ORDER OF BEAVERS.
 w. H. FRUITTICHER, Secretary. D. l.. BRIDGES. Supt. of Club.
 12-23 sa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
James Offered Office

Minneapolis, December 29-According to dispatches received in this city and corroborated by friends here, Dean c. r. James of the College of Minnesota has been offered the presidency of the Uni versity of Oklahoma. Dean James is in Oklahoma City now, where he is to make two addresses before the Okla hpma State Teachers. association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
Indictments Expected

Muscatine, Ia, December 29.-Indiot ments against prominent labor leaders are expected tomorrow when the grand jury, which has been Investigating the buttonwork ers strike troubles. makes it's report It was stated here today that quantities of dynamite, anegeu 10 have been discovered, would figure ill the disclosures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
Notice of Application for License

TO W HOIn II Muy OUIICFTHs
 Take notice that the undersigned R. F. Powers and w. c. Sterling, will make application to the excise commis- sion in and for Jefferson county, Ala bama, for license to carry on the busi- ness of retail liquor dealers in the town of Leeds. Ala. at Railroad avenue, in said city. in the w. F. Dourough build ing. R. E. POWERS.
 ". c. STERLING,
 12-3Q-a sa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
WANTED-Woodworking blacksmfth-

WANTED-Woodwor blacksmith, quarry work; man cook for small ho- tel, also good waiter; machinists ana helpers; car builders; experienced book keeper young man preferred; other openings Room 626 Chamber of Com merce Bldg.
 WANTED-Men and ladies to work in city; salary and commission Apply 21091s 2d avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
WANTED-SALESMEN

TED-Experienc salesman and collector between the age of % and 50 years, to take charge of an es- tablished branch in small town near by; must furnish bond and if a hust- Ter can make big money; state ex- perience. age and if married or sin gle. Give references. Address S-10o, care Age-H Herald. 12-2S-3t WANTED-First class city salesman Apply between 8 and o'clock Talk ing Machine Co.,, 1916 Sd avenue.
 12-2S-4f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
MONEY TO LEND

MONEY loaned salaried people. women keeping house and others without se- curity; cheapest rates; easiest payments. offices in 66 ' incipal cities; save your self money by getting my terms first. 2 D. H. Holman. room 40l Farley Bldg.
 1-1-1y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

MONEY TO LEND-On improved busi-
 ness and residence property; purchase money notes bought Jemison Real Es-
 tate & Ins., Go. 7-H-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

REAL. ESTATE LOANS-Client has sSO.- GOO to invest in first and select second
 mortga on Birmingham property. l pass on security. No delay. W. X. Lester 2107 Third ave. 12-14-tu-th-s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

REAL estate loans to suit you in amount,
 terms and interest; can pay back Honth- ly or yearly; will take second mortgage. John w. Prude, 106 North Fist street. Bell phone 40. 10-ts-tr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

WE negotiate loans and sell real estate: can handle desirable farm loans. Ma lone- Mcconnell Co.,, 219 Fist street.
 7-17-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

$50, 900 to loan at once, l year at per cent, stocks and bonds as collateral
 George B. Ward. 12-12-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
LOST-STRAYED-STOLEN
FINANCIAL

 FOR SALE-50 shares United Wireless
 Telegraph Preferred Stock for $50. Box
 75. Little Rock, Ark. R-20-12t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30
WANTED-HELP

LADIES' reliable home work, steady or evenings stamping transfers, $1 dozen upward; guaranteed; call immediately for demonstration. Lady attendance, Room 20 Watts Bldg, Sd ave. and 20th street. 12-24-7t WANTED-Stenograp in hotelI Desk
 space for rent. Apply at Metropolitan cigar stand. 12-2S-4t-th-fri-sat-s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-30

RATES-One cent word dHyy no ad.
 tnlSen for less than 25c for first inser- ton. Cash must accompany order.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-31
SupervisOrS.

The four supervisors whose terms ex-
pire and who are candidates for re-
election, George M. Dewey in the first
ward (who has been chairman of the
board for two years past), Alfred A.
Sutterby in the second, Marion d. Corey
in the fourth. and George A. Perrigo in
the fifth have had an experience that is
almost invaluable to the city as mem.
bers of the city board of review and as
representatives of the city on the board
of supervisors. These gentlemen have
exercised excellent judgment in the dis.
charge of their duties, having worked
unitedly 80 that the voice of o wosso has
become an influential factor in the
board meetings and they are always
consulted and their wishes needed when
important questions re- atiDg to county
matters are to be determined. Each OF
them has the confidence of the other
mem bers Of the board TO an unusual ex
tent and If Owosso citizens wish TO have
strong representation on the board they
will 9, g that these men are all elected
The nominee in the third wa'd, Miltor
r. Grove. seems to be successful liz
other directions and those who know
him best predict that he will make 9
useful supervisor. The five men viii
make team hard to down.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-31
JAY MATTESON
Especially Fitted for Office of Treas
urer-Competent and Psinstakns

Especially Fitted for Office of Treas
urer-Competent and Psinstakins.
AS an employee for several years of
the Citizens Savings Bank, Jay Matte
son had business training which will
make him an ideal city treasurer. He
understands every detail with regard
to the bookkeeping which will devolve
upon him, his work is always neat and
absolutely accurate and he is ever
pleasant to meet in business way. No
one will question his qualifications for
the Office and it would appear to be a
pleasure to the voter to give Jay lift
as he votes on Monday. Mr.. Matteson
is comparatively young man who has
worked his way successfully to the
front by dint Of hard work and he
deserves the favorable consideration of
the voters irrespective of party. His
work is such that he is not able to
make an active canyass throughout the
city but he wishes his friends to know
that he will be sincerely grateful and
appreciative for all that may be done
for him.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-03-31
A Husband and a Wife Gone.

Warrants have been issued for Guy
Markham and Mrs. Andrew Drexler
both of Owosso, whom, it is claimed by
Mr.. Drexler, left Owosso together Fri
day, taking two of Drexler's six chill
dren. Markham was former resident
of Bennington-and has been operating
a hay pressing outfit this winter. He
had about $1,000 in the bank all but 500
of which he drew out. In note to his
wife he left her the 800, the hay press.
ing outfit and-other property, but the
wife in her anger burned up the note.
1t is probable both will soon be arrested
and brought back to answer criminal
charge.