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The Jasper news., 1911-01-19

"Nhy -houll a bachelor make the
b,z' 'u'li. oarji1ate''
Il suppose because be is so single
minded ia all his principles. .'-EaltI.
more American.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18

Since the newly elected county com.
missioners have been in Office they
have given a great deal of their time
and attention to the road work The
most modern and up-to-date methods
of road building and Improvement have
been studied carefully and the most
practice BILE have been given thorough
tests. The present commissioners
court is: Messrs. Ray Hudspeth, John
Kosarek, ]. b. Priddy, Hugo Stasney
and County Judge A. G. Board. This
body Of county officers is, in thor.
ough way, seeking the best means to
run the AFFAIR." than come under its
Jurisdiction.
Among the most important actions
taken by the commissioners is the
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18
|CALQU|TT'S FIRST
MESSAGE.
|Rhe Keynote is Political Peace and Legisla-
Embellishments Submission, but
WILL VETO LIQUOR REGULATORY MEASURE
Antitrust Laws Viii Be Enforced --Favors
Reform of Tax Laws and Land Laws
Recommends Selling State
Railroad
WILL VETO LIQUOR REGULATORY MEASURE

money for the legislature to attempt
any.
Governor Colquitt also says the
present tax system Is unjust, not being
uniform, and that it should be amend
ed; that the state railroad is failure
and should be sold. He says the anti
trust laws should be strictly enforced,
but not for the purpose OF collecting
fines and fees. He advocates amend
ing the anti-pass law to allow news
papers transportation in compensation
for advertising.
Governor Colquitt declares the pres
ent land laws retard the states growth
and the state would have population
OF ten millions except for the opera
tions Of these laws.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18

institution of the concrete culvert sys-
TEN. Heretofore the drains have been
made of tile or corrugated iron, cased-
in wooden boxes or culverts, and
wooden bridges used to span the
assures.
Under the new concrete system the
wooden construction is done away
with, as is also the tile or iron drains,
and everything used is Of substantial
concrete. The above cut shows the
first test that was made with the new
culvert machine. 1t is known as the
Merillat culvert case and makes
drain of from twenty to forty-eight
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18
Especial to The Bryan Eagle.I

Austin, Texas, Jan. lS.-Governor
'olQuitt in his first message to the
Eglslature today declared that there
|re no demands for any new general
|gislation; that the public demands
bst, which the last state platform ap-
bowed. and the Thirty-second legisla-
pre- should heed the platform. The
lessage declares that the state laws
uniting corporations are already eff
lent.
The governor says It is the duty of
be legislators to submit prohibition
hendment, and that he will veto all
Rher liquor regulatory measures and
Dat II will be a waste OF time and
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18
CONCRETE CULVERTSFOR
THE COUNTY ROADS
New Culverts of Concrete will take the
Place of the Tile and Coregated Iron
Drains Now in Use.

inches diameter. In the center Of the
metal tube is a guide wheel which
closes or expands the tube at will, and
any size within the bove named d.
menslons can be made. The machine
is sixteen feet long and makes a cul-
vert OF this length. At either end is
a guard wall of solid concrete, and
after the concrete has been built
around the core, which Is set at the
dimensions desired. the guide wheel
is turned so as to contract the tube
and II is pulled out, leaving complete
drain, as shown in the picture. After
the culvert has been built the road
is built on it as foundation, and the
weak wooden bridge and faulty drains
have been discarded.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18

vance. and when the rush is ended, 1t
is said, the railroads will have reaped
a rich harvest.
Practically every train leaving Chi
eago for the Southland, according to
officers connected with passenger
traffic of the railroads in question, is
taxed to its capacity and in a number
of instances extra sections OF trains
have been run in order to accommo-
date the unuNlal business.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18
MAYOR OF R0ssELLE;
ILL.,, MISSING
Disappeared After Clearing $4,000 on
Texas Land Deal and II Is
Feared Was Murdered.
Especial to The Bryan Eagle. ]

Chicago, Jan. 1S.-Mayor Rudolph
Schering. of Roselle, H., who went to
Galveston, Texas. December 6 TO close
land deal by which he cleared s10,-
00O has been missing for a month,
and it is feared he has been killed
and robbed.
George Franzen, Schering's partner.
has gone to Texas in search of the
missing man. The mayor left a family
in Roselle.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18

1t is an excellent plan of road i'm
proyement. The concrete culverts will
be gradually installed until every
drain in the county is of the improved
kind. AS a road is improved its drains
will be made permanent and a road
with this fine drainage will stay in
repair a great deal longer than with
common culverts.
The commissioners deserve much
credit for their efficient service. and
no doubt the permanent improvements
by them will be incentives
10 future commissioners to make fur
ther and even greater advancement.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18
SNYDER FIRE SWEPT
Business District Practically Wiped
Out This Mornine-Losses
Total $4,000.
Especial 10 The BRYAN Eagle. !

Snyder, Texas, Jan. 1S.-Fire early
this morning caused a loss of $4,000
in the business section. The origin
of the blaze is unknown. The heaviest
losers are: Snyder Mercantile Com
pany, $4,000; Stokes & Ely, furniture,
S2500; Payne & Perkins, attorneys,
$1,000: Snyder Development Company.
$1,000; State Bank, $1,000; the Keith
building, $1,000.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18
RUSH OF PEOPLE TO THE SOUTH.
Passenger Travel in This Direction Is
Declared To Be Heavier Now
Than for Years.

Chicago, Jan. 1S.-Officials of rail-
roads running to the South say that
all previous records for passenger
travel in that direction at this season
OF the year are being broken. Reser-
vations are being made days in ad-
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-18
BOY SWALLOWED POISON.
Moving Picture Operator Took Car.
bolic Acid and Fell in Street.

Dallas. Texas, Jan 1S.-While walk
ing down Main street late yesterday
Guy Luther, aged 10, swallowed
quantity of carbolic acid and fell to
the pavement in agony. He was taken
to a sanitarium, where today he is re-
ported in a critical condition. He was
a moving picture machine operator.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28
CLAIM WOMAN KILLED
FOUR FOR INSURANCE
MEMBER OF PROMINENT FAMILY
IN NEW ORLEANS IS ARREST
ED FOR CRIME, TO-DAY.

q
New Orleans. La.-Miss Annie
Crawford, aged 90, MEMBER of a
prominent family here, was arrested
today, charged With numbering her
sister Elsie, aged %, in whose stom-
ach was found a quantity of opium.
Within a year Miss Ciawford's
parents and another sister died sud-
denly, and the attention Of the
police was brought to the case when
a younger sister asked an insurance
policy made out to Annie be chang
ed. The four dead members Of tho
family all carried life insurance pay-s
able to Annie.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28
NO NEED TO STOP WORK.

When your doctor orders you to
stop work. it staggers you.
can't you say. You know you are
weak, rundown and, failing In
health, day by day, but you must
work as long as you can stand. What
You need is Electric Bitters to gives
tone. strength, and vigor to your sys-S
ten, to prevent breakdown and
build you up. Don't be weak. sick
ly or ailing when Electric Bitterss
will benefit You from the hrst iose.
Thousands bless them for their glo
rious health md streng M
them. Every bottle Il guars az 9sts
satisfy. Only soc & nfe1l k p
Blown. ssSss
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28

This morning was not the most
Iauspicious one for the opening of the
Germ palace season. The rain which
started shortly after midnight, while
it laid the dust, had the effect of ini-
pressing the outside people that the
weather WAS going to be bad. con-
for the first day. The streets in the
city were quite muddy. but along
about the noon nous tho ""n. vie.
had been trying to break throu:h line
IclOuds, found an opening and with
its appearance the spirits Of ilr
Icrowds arose.
+ The Omaha passohsor b.ouslii in
a goodly number OF people irom the
east, while the Milwaukee cxcuf-
sion from the east and the regular
trains from,lhe north and west add
ed to the goodly number on the
streets. Sunday afternoon the trains
from the east and south on the Mil
waukee road We're heavily laden with
visitors. and the streets presented ;ln
animated appearance.
! With the early morning there was
a good deal Of work to be done in
4 the way OF decoration on the streets.
Flags were suspended across the
street on ropes from the Milwaukee,
depot up to Fifth street. and tile
waving banners and flags OF manly
nations gave the main thoroushfare
a very attractive appearance.
The stands on which the yaudo-
i Vile acts are to be presented We're
hustled UP so that the first perform
,ance could be given tlGs afternoon
! ElIcry's Band Arrives.
With the coming Of the train from
the north on the Milwaukee road
Cnanning Ellery and his splendid
band arrived in the city. The band
has been playing in the far west at
points in Oregon and Montana, and
made the trip in this way over the
4 Milwaukec's Puget Sound line
President Welch and Secretary
Wheeler greeted Mr.. Itllery and Con.
ductor di Girolamo. and accompanied
them TO their places of rest during
the week. There was a great Grove
at the station to welcome the ban(
to the city.
Palace Opens This Afternoon.
1t was 1880 o'clock this Afternoon
when 'Wm. NJ. Herbert and Mayo,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28
NUMBER 2.

building and spoke in a compliment.
tary manner of the work being per-
formed by Mr.. Floyd Gillis, of this
city He referred to the corn palace
as an enterprise which afforded thou
sands OF people an opportunity to get
away from home and business as a
week of relaxation from the tolls and
cares OF the summer season. He
touched on the coming TO this city of
the great band which is to entertain
the people for the entire week as Of
fering an opportunity to the people
OF the northwest to hear such great
organization without having to go
east at a great expense to hear no
better music than is produced right
in the corn palace building.
In closing the mayor expressed the
wish that the people would enjoy
themselves to the utmost during the
week, and rendered hearty and sin
iNSiS "SNSoIlC W IIlG SLFuuSeTS1 Win.
in our gates
With the conclusion of the mayors
address Ellery's band began its pro-
gram, under the direction of Taddeo
| di Girolamo.
The Ellery band made its initial
bow to a Mitchell audience with the
presentation of popular march en-
titled Comrades" and was follow
ed by the ever popular Poet and
Peasant" overture. This selection
took on new meaning under the di-
rection of Conductor di Girolamo.
who infused great enthusiasm among
his musicians in the presentation of
the number. 1t is doubtful If the ov-
ertufe ever received Il finer interpre-
tation than Ellerys band gave it.
and the audience applauded it great
ly.
The third number was one OF the
most beautiful ever played on the
corn palace stage. that of Ruben-
STEMS Melody in T." 1t has been
played here times without number
by orchestra Or piano selection, but
Ellery's band was the first TO intro
duce it by concert band The fine in
strumentation of the band made the
number glorious one, and the pas
sages We're presented with such pre-
cision and softness OF tone as to make
aoubly delightful.
The first three numbers by the
and brought it into great popularity
aud the enccres were long and insis-
tent. Director sli Girolamo respond
ed with other selections and he seems
determined to please the people.
In conversation with MI. Ellery,
he stated that the band has been on
The road for several days, and that
the men are We'll worn out as re-
suit of getting in and out of towns.
lie expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the appearance of the
palace and thought it magnificent
enterprise for a town the size of Nit
chell.
There are forty-three men in the
band, all OF whom are Italians, who
have the warm spirit Of their country
in the rendition OF their music. Tho
hand has 2 men in the reed section,
and strong section of concert horns
with six. The other parts of the
band are we'll proportioned, and
there is every reason to believe that
Mitchell people and those of the
state will be royalty entertained with
some Of the best music ever present.
ed in the corn palace.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28

\ Dier nl-mideneh At short distance
from the top is broad field Of hloody i
butcher corn, in the center of which
is placed the winged sun and the SER
fpcnt. Below is a boarder of Hathcr
heads. which are exceedingly lifolike.
The heads are done in white corn, set
IN red panels, the hair being made of
the bloody butcher corn, With dark
red and yellow corn for ribbons lust
below in Il narrow and long field of
yellow corn, appears the Mitchell
! Corn Palace i'm red corn
The center of this great tower car
! ries the most beautiful design OF all
and is the rounding out of the entire
decorative scheme. 1t represents Il
squadron Of chariots taken from Il
vail scene in the time OF Ranesseum,
which is placed on Il field OF bloody
butcher, and. the great picture is u
massive one. The horses are done
in white corn, and crowned with a
crown OF yellow corn. while the
chariOts are in yellow corn with
wheels Of red corn, the chariOteers
being in white corn. The picture is
surrounded with Il border of Lotus
flowers in yellow and bloody butcher
corn. the stems in white on Il back
ground of green.
The base of the building about
four feet high is covered with square
blocks OF sugar cane, giving fine
finishing effect TO the whole
The work of decoration is done by
Mr.. Floyd Gillis, of this city, whose
talent i'm this direction is marked
He is n medical student ut Ann Ar
Dor college, Michigan, ana in the
three years that he has decorated
tine structure his work has been of
the highest character. and that of
this year seems to reach the high
cst point in the art of corn decora-
ton.
The great building with its decora-
,ions stands as n monument to the
corn industry OF the state, and it is |
held, each year TO demonstrate South !
Dakota's progress in that great in |
austry. The corn palace conveys |
to ihc world that South Dakota as
l'ires TO Il place among the corn
growing states OF the country and |
that she is rapidly ascending to a |
higher niche with each succeeding !
year.
There are fourteen counties with
exhibits of their products in The
and they tell the story bet
Ter than amy words of the success
that has come to thus state in agri-
products for the year 19l 1.
With the thousands Of visitors in
specting these exhibits South Dako-
la name will be lifted to a higher |
position than she has been credited |
this year OF having, when she has
more than held her own with her
states and exceeded |
others in the matter OF corn produce
tion.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10

fered with the game. One OF them
remembered that impressions OF
sound could be made on blank record.
The ingenious one called into the ma.
chine Come, boss; come, boss" They
put the machine In the pasture and
turned 1t loose. They resumed their
checkers and the cows came home.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
GOOD WORK WELL SUPPORTED
People Are Liberal in Their Contribu-
tions to Young Mems Christian
Association.

This year Young MeI's Christian as
sociations are likely, it is said, to
break all records in amount C money
raised for new buildings. The success
at Philadelphia, when $1,OS0,O00 was
secured in twelve days, has given slim
ulus both to Young Mems and Young
Women's associations. Added to it
was the $2,OOO,OOO campaign for build
ings in foreign capitals. Brooklyn
women, with the aid of a few men,
have Just secured $415,000; Atlanta
men, 100000; Reading, $4,000;
Elyria, Ohio, $4,000, where the COM
mittee asked for but 100000; Charles
ton, S. c., $150,000; Raleigh, N. c..
$4,000; Walla Walla, Wash, $4,000,
and Ishpeming, Mich, $22,500. Associ.
alton leaders say three things help
them in getting these large sums;
Christian unity, short and public ap-
peal, and real results accomplished in
buildings already erected
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10

Religion is our attempt to discover
the meaning Of life.
We never think Of the value OF the
gift If we love the giver.
A soft snap is frequently more of a
glue pot than an elevator.
A good feeder is known by the con.
dition Of the stock he keeps.
Wastes are the parents Of want,
therefore save the roughage.
1t begins to look as though the
square deal" is getting rounded off at
the corners.
Plain living and high thinking Is all
right If the plain and high are not
too far apart.
Faith plans for busy day tomor-
row; work gets up and does the chores
before breakfast
Queer but true, what you consider
your neighbor's weakness he thinks
is his strongest point.
Faith Is the farmers sheet anchor
without which he would not now be
fall plowing for the next years crop
Modesty Is virtue, but too much
of 1t may be vice 1t is not right for
one to conceal his light under a
bushel.
Clean money never harms the inno-
cent nor takes advantage Of the fol-
lies and frailties Of the weak and un-
fortunate.
The well-bred farmer Is not content
with poorly bred stock, but circum-
stances may force him to tolerate it
for a time.
A fool is unable to see his own
faults. A wise man, seeing his own
faults, is able to keep other people
from noticing them.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
Coughs Up the Dope.

was made up at once. Glover collie"
Snyder answered to Director John NJ
Smith. Poor old Hatties got it and
Is swelled up like dirigible | gave
her a bale of fresh clover yesterday.
She needs medicine" Snyder looked
into his prescription book and pretty
soon decided that the proper thing for
Hattie's insides was a dainty little
mixture Of one-half gallon of linseed
oil, two ounces of laudanum and two
quarts Of spiritus frumenu, the last
being, according to Mr. Snyder, just
plain whisky. But Hattie doesn't like
booze. So they had to chain her feet
and hoist her head with a block and
tackle and when she opened her
mouth for wisp Of hay Snyder
poured the mixture down her throat
Hattie coughed once when the mix
ture was half way down, and in the
words Of the song, THE blow almost
killed Billy" for he received about a
pint Of the mixture in his eyes and
was blown clear off the barrel on
which he was standing, but outside Of
this Hattie gave no trouble, Hattie
swallowed enough, however, to chase
away the collie caused from clover
and about an hour later was going
through her tricks with Billy Snyder
for the children as If nothing out OF
the ordinary had happened.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
Teacher Kills 27 Snakes,

indianapolis Ind-Mary Jenkins, a
young Posey county school teacher
In the afternoon recess recently was
attracted by the frightened screams
OF her pupils, Rushing out she found
them standing In excited groups talk
ing about snakes they had seen in
the school yard, Miss Jenkins found
the grass fairly alive with black
snakes, She seized poker and a
shovel and beat them right and left
Some showed fight, but with the sharp
end Of the shovel the teacher cut of
their heads. With the poker she kept
them from harming her The fight
was short and swift At the finish q
dead reptiles was the score.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
Unkind.

Mrs. Benham-They can't say that
all your money goes on my back.
Benham-Not if they look at your
face.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
PH0N0GRAPH CALLS COWS
Ingenious Wisconsin Boys Make tho
Machine Do Work While They
Play Checkers.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Boys whose main
idea Is to avoid work are full of in.
ventive genius when 1t comes to a
matter of getting something or some
body to do their work for them. Two
boys living in the rural districts Of
northern Wisconsin through ingenuity
prompted by laziness made a phono-
graph do their work for them. They
used the machine until they had be-
come tired of the canned songs and
then put It aside and amused them.
selves playing checkers, They found
that doing the chores seriously inter.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10

Some men are anxious to get money
because they think it will enable them
to get more.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10

If you wish beautiful, clear, white
clothes, use Red Cross Ball Blue. At all
good grocers.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
ELEPHANT OBJECTS
TO THE COLlC DOPE
BEAST COUGHS THE MIXTURE
INTO THE KEEPERS FACE
AND ALMOST sTRANGLEs
HIM.

New York.-When Head Keeper
Billy Snyder of the Central Park
ZOO went into the pen OF Hattie, the
trick elephant, with her breakfast and
was not greeted by the usual little
squeal of welcome he knew something
was wrong. Then he noticed that her
head was hanging and her trunk drag
cling listlessly on the ground, and
when she answered his greeting mere
y by lack luster glance his mind
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
DOCTORS
FAILED TO
HELP HER
Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Pound, Wis. Ct am glad to an
nounce that | have been cured of dys-
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
"J" viii Probe Graftlno

New York.-A gift Of $4,000 annual.
ly from an anonymous donor for surg.
ica research work is announced at
Columbia university Another gift is
of SIS, 900 year for the establish.
ment and maintenance Of bureau to
promote scientific investigation Of leg.
tslatlve grating"
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10

I can't find words to express my thanks
for the good your medicine has done
me. You maypublish this if you wish"
Mrs. HERMAN SETH, Pound, Wis.
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who suffer from displacements, infam-
nation, liberation, tbroid tumors, ir-
regularities periodic pains, backache,
bearing-down feeling, tlatulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
tion.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine a trial.
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of Others, and why should
1t not cure you2
If you want special advice write
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for 1t.
1t is free and always helpful.
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10

1t sometimes happens that woman
marries a man because she is sorry
for him. But is not that a poor way
to show her sympathy?
The Harrison times., 1911-06-10

pepsla and female
troubles by your
m dicine. l had
been troubled with
both for fourteen
years and consulted
different doctors,
but failed to get any
relief. After using
Lydia E. Pinkham's
V ege ia Bile Com
pound and Blood
Purifier l can say L
onn q wall woman