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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
School Girls, Notice

For something pretty and prized for Xmas Gifts at spe- cial price.
 Saturdays, Nov. 1925 and Dec. ?, I will make 1 dozen of the finest little pictures which are regularly $7.50.
 I have moved to the new building 1922 Third avenue. Office in Roberts Printing Co.'S Stationery Store.
 Electric elevator, steam heat, Bell phone. A nice place to call. The place for Photos of Qual- ity. H. T. MORTON
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
MAY HAVE TAKEN
 ACID BY MISTAKE

New York, November 2S.-Who put q bottle labelled "Vermouth," but really holding a dlsinfectant containing carbollc acid, on the table before Alice Tristra, the Irish singer, was the puzzle the coro- ner tried to solve today at an inquest into Miss Tristram's death. The woman drank out of tle bottle last Saturday night at the golf house in VanCortlandt park and died soon after.
 Five business men who were drinking with the singer, the waiter and d physi- clan called when the woman dropped to the floer have bene subpoenaed as wit nesses The idea of either suicide or mur- der, first entertained, has given place to the belief that the woman died either as the result of her own mistake or a clumsy attempt at a practical joke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

This is the Birth Day of their Life THE DEBUTANTES!
 Everything is in Sympathy and full oi appreciation for the augustness of the occasion.
 The feathery snow white Chrysanthe- mums, and the modest Lilies of the Val ley are lending their shimmering beauty like a veil of feathery chiffon over the decorations for the Southern Club Recep- tion this evening. and everything will be swaddled in the Debutantes own pure lack of colors.
 And the Debptantes themselves-thc dear little talcum scented Debutantes : who will deny that they are facing A CRISIS?
 They have come to the parting of the ways, and there is none in position to discourage or assure them about going on the road before them.
 Tonight they make their REAL bow at the REAL event of their pretty little lives their first Southern Club Reception, an event to which every girl looks forward with keenest anticipation.
 At IS Dancing is PLEASURE; at 8 8 PRETEXT!
 At IS. Popularity seems to be quality more to be desired than much fine gold For what is fine gold and long tailed dresses and everything else if one isn't POPULAR?
 Popular, like the ladies in magazine pie lures, with men swarming around them like bees about Honey Pot. Popular with dances divided and sub-divided, anc then divided again, and every man mak- ing love to them and the intoxicating music of YOUTH and the Springtime ol Life, being it's own heady spell of, Joy! It can never happen again-the' might 3 girl makes her Debut!
 No wonder it is an occasion of occa- sions-to be put away in Lavender and Old Lace-or an awful experience to be plotted out as soon as possible.
 It does mean such an awful lot, for Q girl to get good start'--and by "good start Is meant as one girl naisely put 1t:
 "A lot of interesting men,
 If girl has a lot of men who are fond of her on hand for THE OCCASION, she is foregone success.
 Like attracts like.
 Men have been known to 'shy off' from the prettiest sort of debutante merely because the other men didn't "shy'' to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
PORTER-WOLFF

Miss Nora Wolff and MT. Lloyd Porter, both of Margaret, were quietly married
 Sunday at the parsonage of the Cum berland Presbyterian church by the Rev. I. D. Steele. The wedding was very quiet, there
 being no friends present except MT. R.. A. Ross.
 Miss Wolff, who was formerly one of Birminghams charming young ladies,
 is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. s. S.
 Wolff of Margaret.
 MT. Porter, who was formerly of Col
 umbia, Tenn, is connected with the
 Alabama Fuel and Iron company and is
 a very promising young man of Mar garet.
 The young people left shortly after the ceremony for points of interest in the north, and upon their return will | be at home at Margaret.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
MISS FANNIE DUNN
 ENTERTAINS BRIDAL PARTY

Miss Virginia Preston Means and MT. Valentine NeSbit, whose wedding will be enc of the conspicuous events of the season, were the inspiration of Miss Fannie Dunn's lovely buffet supper last evening. She entertained at her home on South Nineteenth street and her guests inclueded the two honorees, the brides maids and groomsmen who are to at tend them Saturday evening and few additional friends, all chosen from among the hostess unmarried friends.
 In keeping with Thanksgiving season, Miss Dunn used chrysanthemums for her table adornment, placing them in a big yellow hamper. Dainty tendrils of as paragus also dropped from the opened
 hamper and in keeping with the vel lew of the flowers, the slken candle sticks were d golden yellow. The table was bare and it's center covered with cluny lace. An elaborate supper was
 served from the dining room and in the library, which was also festively adorn- sd, handsome specimens of pink chrysan-
 themums were in use.
 Miss Dunn welcomed her guests wear
 ing "a stunning evening gown built of
 white chiffon. Miss Means was also dressed in white, fascinating creation of mousseline and Malines lace. Another
 white robed member of the little party
 wa. Miss Marjorie Weatherly, who ap-
 DeareQ more ISSoili anu cAuulSlle tildH ever in her evening dress of Japanese silk, with its filmy chiffon sleeves and
 wonderful embroiderles.
 Again demonstrating the popularity of
 W, ite, Miss Charlotte Hopkins wore
 tulle rose made over satin in be-
 witching fashion,. Miss Belle Roberts
 vas another pretty and gracious mem Der of the group in white. Miss Mary Campbell in white chiffon with touches of embroidery was charming member of the group. and Miss Dorothea Orr, with white lace robe made over satin, was much admired. Distinguished among the members of the receiving party by a colored frock was Miss Mary
 Kirkpatrick. In a pale green satin gown with a graceful overderss of gittering beaded net she was unusually pretty. A number of other beautifully gowned young women were noted among the guests who have never formed more lcongenial group than that assembled to- gether by this graceful and graceful hos tess. l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
SUPPLIED HER FRIENDS WIT H WILL SON'S FRECKLE CREAM
1t IsfPositiveiy Guaranteed to Remove
 4 Freckles

1t IssPositively Guaranteed to Remove
 Freckles
 The following letter will prove of great interest to everyone in quest of fair complexion:
 Dukes Island, Me-,
 September 19, 1910. cDear ,Dr. Wilson: 3r Enclosed please find two dollars (s2. .0O), for which kindly mail me four iars of your Freckle Cream to postoffice box No. IA, Halifax. N C., as we are starting home tomorrow. As usual. we brought number of jars of your cream but our friends here at the beach are so charmed with it and so anxious for ii that have given 1t all away. The drug .lst here says that he will have 1t on sale next season. Cordially yours.
 NANCY HOWERTON CONAN" wilson's Freckle Cream will remove freckles, pimples, sunburn and chaps If la a toilet salve and mild and harmless face bfeach One jar of Wilson's TreckIe Cream will cause your freclles to per- ceptibly fade, and the second jar will completely remove them. If 1t does not your druggist will refund every ,ent of your money without argument. If he cannot supply you, send 50 cents to the wilson Freckle Cream Company. Ch.rlcs- ton. s. C.. and you will receive at vnce a full sise jar. eola by Jacobs drug store. leM Second avenue. special agents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
NOTES AND PERSONALS

MT. and Mrs. Henry Badham and MT and Mrs. Walker Percy will go to the Badhams country place at Blount Springs today for little hunt, They will remain several days.
 Miss Nellie Warrington, who is a student at Washington college, will Asbury Park. She will return to Bir- mingham for the Christmast holidays, arriving here about December 15.
 Mrs. William Bonnie has returned to her home in Louisville after visit to Mrs. Charles O. Locke.
 William Hayden Brooks, who is a stu dent at Aburn, came to Birmingham last night to spend Thanksgiving with his parents, MT. and Mrs. T. E. Brooks. He will return to Auburn Sunday.
 
 l A card received yesterday from Mrs. Henry B. Gray was mailed in Cairo. She wrote: We are having a delight ful stay in Cairo. It is a wonderfully interesting place. The sphynx and pyramids, we saw by moonlight, and it made them wonderfully impressive"
 
 By the same post came a card from MT. David H. Kirkland of Atlanta, who is member of the same party. The card was mailed at Suez and he wrote "On train between Cairo and Suez. His majesty, George V, will pass through the canal today en route to the corona tion at Drehi, India. We sail for Bonn bay this afternoon. MT. and Mrs. Henry B. Gray are with us.
 Mrs. Ellen Bridges of Knoxville, Tenn, is the guest of her daughter Mrs. Joseph Stanfiel, at Terrace Court Miss Lucille Taylor of Tennessee is the guest of her sister. Mrs. w. M. Crawford.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
CHARGES AGAINST TEACHER Atlanta Man Accused of Using the Mails to
 Defraud

Atlanta, November Exchanged with using the mails to defraud, a man giving his name as A. G. Tee is under arrest here and the witnesses against him arc more than 20 young men from the rural districts of several southern states who allege that through circulars sent out by Tee they were induced to come here to take course at an automobile school. which they claim was not up to specifi- cations"
 Tee it is alleged, collected fees of S25 from each youth who aspired to be ex- pert chauffeurs. but, according to his stll- dents, his instructions consisted almost entirely of carrying them in an automo- bile for short rides and allowing one of their number to sit at the wheel for a mile this constituting the sum total of road instructions"
 Tee will have a hearing before United States commissioner Friday. He was ar rested by postoffice inspector after the "scholars'' had reported the alleged fraud to the postmaster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
PEANUTS ARE SAID
 TO BE DAMAGED

Chicago, November 2S.--Two hundred and twenty three sacks of peanuts from Virginia destined for the Christmas stock ings of boys and girls of the middle west are being held here by agents of the United States department of justice because United States District Attorney Willkerson does not want owners Of the Christmas stockings disappointed in the quality of their holiday refreshments.
 In libel petition to the federal court the district attorney, declares that pea nuts are wormy, filled with refuse and drts and otherwise unfit to be exposed for sale as q basis of holiday cheer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
MRS. ORR'S
 DEBUTANTE LUNCHEON

Mrs. c. P. Orr was hostess yesterday afternoon at o'clock luncheon in honor of Miss Lillian Orr and Miss Doris Weath- erly. It was a beautiful event and one confined to the debutante set. Cluny lace was drawn over satin cover in the ap- pie green shade, and in the center was a
 French basket filled with grapes Those
 who were included in this lovely hospi-
 tality were Miss Lillian Orr, Miss Doris
 Weatherly, Miss Belle Roberts, Miss Carol Woodson, Miss Bessie McCrossin. Miss Florence Moore, Miss Edith Thompson, Miss Harriet Fitts, Miss Alice Coughlan, Miss Gamaliel Dixon, Miss Emily Somer- ville Miss Gladys Ensen, Miss Fredrika Ferguon, Miss Serena Kirkpatrick, Miss Virginia Underwood, Miss Agnes Mo Dowell Miss Elizabeth Morris and Miss Kathleen VanHoose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
A NEW HIGHWAY
 INTO ROANOKE

Roanoke, November 2S.-(Special)- Civil Engineer Hughes, under the direc- tion of the state highway commission, has arrived in Roanoke and begun the work of surveying the route from Roan- oke to the Georgia state line prepara- tory to the construction of a modern good road.
 The Rev J. s. Robertson, presiding el- der of Roanoke district, and the Rev. $. l.. Dobbs, pastor of Roanoke station, are attending the session of the North Alabama conference in Florence. Both will be able 10 make fine reports to the conference. This district has made about the best record the past year of any in the conference
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

the officiating clergyman. The marriage vas witnessed by the relatives and d very few friends of the young couple. Miss Moragne wore her travelling cos tune, tan cloth gown, with hat and other accessories en suite. Immediately after the ceremony the young people came to Birmingham and are at home with parents of the bridegroom, at Sl4 South Fourteenth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
Students Proclaim Strike

Madrid, November 2S.-The students of the colleges and high schools, in order to express their disapproval of the gov ernment's repression of proposed demon stration of medical students at Barce- Iona, have proclaimed a general strike throughout Spain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
Big Fire in Michigan

Ossowo, Mich., November 2S.--F'ire be- leved to have been started from spon- taneous combustion early today prac- tically destroyed the Pearce block and wrecked the adjoining building known as the Wesmer block. The loss is estimated at S1h0.OOO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
THANKSGIVING ENTERTAIN
 MENT FOR CHILDREN

An entertainment which promises much pleasure for the children Is to be given tomorrow afternoon at Friars' hall for the benefit of Temple Emanu-El A grab bag, fish pond and a number of other amusements are planned with a dance as another pleasant feature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
DEMONSTRATIONS
 WITH DYNAMITE

Iiuevlc, November 2S.-(Special.)- )-Sub- soiling land by dynamite was demon. strated on the lands of the Northeast Ala bama Agricultural and Industrial insti- tute Monday in the presence Of large number of students and about 100 farm CTS from the surrounding country.
 Tho demonstration was made by the Jefferson Powdci company of Birming- ham. Other land nearby not dynamited will be planted in the same crop and this method of suhsoiing thoroughly tested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
TODAY IN SOCIETY

Mrs. R. D. Johnston will be hostess to the Highland Book club, which meets at 10:3O o'clock. Members are urged to be prompt.
 Miss Dorothea Orr gives an afternoon tea in honor of Miss Virginia Means.
 Miss Kathleen Hayes will entertain at tea.
 MT. and Mrs. Harrison Matthews enter tain at dinner.
 The M. I. P. club dance at the Hotel Hilman.
 The opening reception of the Southern club. The grand march begins at 10 O o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
Baron Rothschild Dead

Paris, November 2S.-Baron Gustave Samuel James De Rothschild died here today. He was born in Paris on Feb- ruary IF, 1929. He was a partner in the banking firm of Rotchschild brothers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
MRS. ROBERT HOOD
 HOSTESS TO BRIDGE CLUB

Mrs. Robert Hood will entertain the Friday Luncheon-Bridge club this weeii at her home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
A STAG DINNER
 FOR MIR. NESBIT

At the Country club this evening MT.
 Valentine Nesbit will be complimented with dinner by the groomsmen who arc to attend him at his wedding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
Vanilla That Is Vanilla

Blue Ribbon Vanilla Extract is real Vanilla made from the finest Vanilla beans. Pure, strong and delicious in flavor. Best and takes less.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
M,CALIEY.MORAGN

Monday eveDing at the home of the brides parents. MT. and Mrs. J. H.. Moragne, in Attala, was solemnized the marriage of Miss Birdie Moragne and MT. Charles H. McCalley of this city. The Rev. P. l.. Abernethy of Attalla was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
HxANSAS CITY

"I<ANsAs CITY-FLORIDA SPECIAL" THE NEW TRAIN TO FLORIDA LEAVES BIRMINGHAM S,55 F. M, (DAILY)y ARRIVE JACKSONVILLE TAO A. M. NEW STEEL EQUIPMENT, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, PULLMAN, DIN- ING AND OBSERVATION CARS.
 SOUTHERN RAILWAY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

"BIRMINGHAM SPECIAL" TO NEW YORK; THE TRAIN THAT MEETS THE DEMANDS OF ALL, AZ FORDING LUXURIOUS ACCOMMODA- TIONS.
 LEAVES 0,sO A. M. EVERY DAY.
 SOUTHERN RAILWAY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
DEATHS IN AND
 NEAR HUNTSVILLE
Charles Burr0w Dies Suddenly-Mrs. C. W. Patton Dead-Mrs. L.
 0. Rawls Passes Away

Huntsville, November 2S.--tSp eciaD- Charles Burrow, Q well known sign and carriage painter of this city, died suddenly last night at his home on East Holmes street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

Mrs Carlisle Walker Patton, wife of Dr. Oliver B. Patton, died yesterday at her home on Locust street after an illness of several months. She was Miss Carlisle Walker of Richmond, Ky. until her marriage to pr. Patton in 1904 Her husband and a little daughter sur vive her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

Mrs. Josie Rawls, aged 3l years, wife of l.. O. Rawls of Memphis. died yes terday at the home of her father, J. A. Camborn, at Belle Factory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

Dave Bell, a negro farm hand, killed Tom Hill, negro desperado, Sunday at Pond beat. They were engaged in a craps game and Hill tried to bluff Bell out. The latter shot him to death Bell has been a convict and has been in court frequently on assault and bat tery charges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

small blaze in the seed room of the Alabama Cotton oil company yester- day afternoon did several hundred dol lars worth of damage and provided the city fire department with busy hour. Spontaneous combustion is believed to have been the cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

Mrs. Margaret Felix of Owensboro, Ky, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Vida, to Rev. Claude Till man White of Huntsville. The marriage will be solemnized December 27 in the First Methodist church of Owensboro. MT. White is a graduate of the Bir- mingham college and is now theologi- cal student at Vanderbilt university, Nashville
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29

Five years from now. Miss sweet Six
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-12-15
The Fulton Dam Breaks.

The uncertainties of water power are
again made evident by big loss sus-
tanned by the GAINESVILLE Electric Co.
when a portion of their dam at the Full
ton power station went out Tuesday,
putting the costly plant out of commits
sion.
The trouble was first discovered Tues
day morning when the Waterman no
ticed that the water below the dam was
muddy and he at once suspected that
something was wrong at the dam.
When he arrived at the structure he
was just beginning to escape in small
stream. He hastily opened the flood
gates but the water had too much of
start and the damage was done before
anything could be done to stop it. One
half the dam is gone.
A few years ago the dam was rebuilt
and strengthened with concrete piers
and head gates and supposed to be
proof against troubles of this kind, but
the structure was undermined and there
is big hole under the dam through
which water is passing. A year ago
last spring the power station some dis
lance below the dam was undermined
and in few hours the building and
machinery dropped down into big hole
20 feet deep. These repairs also in
volved large outlay. Mr.. P. H. Horst
and the engineer were up Tuesday to
view the damage to the dam and said
the plant at Fulton will have to be shut
down all winter as it would be impossi-
BILE to repair the dam in freezing
weather. Power will have to be fur
nished from the other plants and as the
Fulton plant developed 200 horse power
it will be a serious strain on the re-
naming plants. There is some proba-
bility, too, that the dam will not be re-
built as it will cost several thousand
dollars and in the unsettled state of
legislation in Wisconsin, it is not safe
to risk much money in enterprises of
this kind It is to be hoped, however,
that the company will rebuild the dam,
because if this is not done it means
that the power and light will have to
be developed by steam.
Edgerton will have to depend largely
for lights upon the Indian Ford power
plant which can care for the load I'M
less high water should interfere with
the head at that station. Ordinarily
both plants are drawn upon for the
current used in this city.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-12-15
Twenty-Five Years Ago.

Leon, son of Chas. and Grace Girls
void. died at Milton Junction, aged Is
months.
Mrs. Hartzell, mother of T. D. and
Reuben Hartzell, died at her home west
OF town, Dec. 10Th.
Marshal Spangler has returned from
Missouri with Mark L. left, charged
with negotiating forged notes with the
Tobacco Exchange bank.
Benz. Hyde Edgerton, the engineer
who surveyed the Milwaukee road
through this section and for whom this
city was named, died at his home in
Milwaukee.
Casing weather the previous week
permitted growers to take down nearly
all of the 1886 crop and stripping is
we'll under way. No sales of any i'm
portance as yet.
The state board of control has re-
fused to investigate the charges against
the management of the county asylum
by Supt. Aller, referring the whole
matter to the Rock county board OF
supervisors.
Friday, Dec. II, 1886.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-12-15
plans for an Automobile Garage.

Plans are being prepared for fire.
proof automobile garage to be built by
Chas. l.. Culton upon a site recently
purchased by him on Albion street OF
Henry Wesendonk. The building will
be 40x70 feet, two stories, with reg
ulation store front, of some fire-proof
construction, cement floors and steam
heated. Back of the sales room and
storage for cars will be we'll equipped
repair shop, and the employment OF
high class machinist is contemplated by
Mr.. Culton. In connection with the
garage it is his intention to put in am
pie storage for oils and gasoline and
purchase the same in car lots and put
on delivery wagon that makes daily
trips about town, supplying customers
with any quantities desired at their
homes.
Mr.. Culton has the agency for the
Everett car, the sale of which he in
tends to push when the season opens.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-12-15
Obituary.
BENJAMIN F. COMPTON.

Our we'll known townsman, Ben
Compton, passed away at midnight Sat-
urday at his home in Stoughton, after
an illness with consumption which be-
gan three years ago when he became
afflicted with tuberculosis of the glands
of the neck. For several months he
has been very feeble, but was confined
to bed only the last two weeks.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. N. E. Mclaughlin at the home
Tuesday afternoon at l O'Clock, the
last sad rites at the grave being In
charge of the Philo C. Buchanan Post
of G. A. R., of which the deceased was
a prominent and honored member.
Benjamin F. Compton was born at
Jamestown, N. Y, August 30th, 1885,
and as boy of five years came with
his parents to Wisconsin, the family
settling first in Walworth county, and
in 1852 removing to this section, locat-
ing on Wheeler Prairie, where Mr..
Compton Sr. bought the old Wheeler
place. He was married in August,
1861, to Miss Susan Herrick, whose
family were neighbors of the Comp
tots. On his 31st birthday in 1864, Mr..
Compton responded to a call for re-
cruits and enlisted in Co. G of the 38th
Wisconsin Volunteers. He was pro-
noted to the rank of corporal, and took
part in various actions, among which
were the skirmishes around Peters
burg, Va, in April, 1866.
Upon his return from the war, Mr..
Compton resumed farming and was en-
gagged in that pursuit until 1892 when,
after he sold the farm the fall before,
he and his wife moved first to Edger-
ton and few months later to this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Compton purchased a
property near Lund's Point at Kegon-'
sa, many years ago, and there he de-
lighted to spend the summers. For
many years Mr.. Compton was greatly
interested in politics and took an active
part in local affairs.
He was the last survivor of his fam
lily, and besides his wife, leaves only
one son, Lannes, who is engaged in
ranching in Montana. Stoughton Cour-
ier-Hub.