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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1911-11-03

Doroe Farris and wife Of Ava
RADIO came in over the Santa Fe
this morning n visit his brother
iR-law Floyd Champion.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
CONGRESS OF MOTHERS
PREPARES FOR MEETING

.Child-welfare magazine. the organ of the
National Congress Of Mothers. which will
give some idea of what the organiza-
Etion is and to what It is trying to do.
1t says that the spirit of the Congress
of Mothers was never more clearly ex-
pressed than in the call sent out by
Mrs. Theodore w. Blrney and Mrs. Phoe-
be A. Hearst for the first National Con-
gress OF Mothers in 1907
1.-THE appeal was to all mankind and
to all womankind regardless of creed or
condition, to recognize that in the child
lies tn ehopet of the race, and that the
republics greatest work is to save the
children - sa ~ sra t-
"It was a call to every mother to en-
list under the banner of service to COO
in giving to His little ones the oppor-
tunity to develop under favorable condi-
tions. 1t was the call of women who rec
ognize that the poorest and huinblest
child has a place, and a work to do In
Gods scheme of the universe. Protestant,
EGatholici Jew and Geutile-all were bid
den to participate i'm the work of the
congress.
The Congress of Mothers invites to its
membership women of every creed, OFFER
ing equal advantages and privileges 10
all.
1.-THE congress is not for the privileged
few. 1t is for all who see In the chlla
the hope OF the race, who believe that
in a glorfied and enlightened .fatherhood
and motherhood the children Will rise
to heights hitherto unknown.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
"HobbIe Skirt Absurd
lew York American.


No one is more sorry that the hobble skirt
has become the rage in Europe and America
than the woman who made the first departure
from conservative dress When she arrived
from Paris aboard the White Star line Baltic,
her latest Partisan black velvet 'hobble" chung
so tightly to her knees that she could hardly
walk
Harriet Lorraine. vaudeville artist, says she
originated the skirt. As she staggered down
the gangplank to the pier she exclaimed:
s'Confound my own idea! Why did I ever
think Of such an absurd and ugly skirt? 1t is
true my first hobble was fairly slack around
the knee; but look at this one, and I've got to
wear il or be out of fashion.
t'T don't wonder that the men have rdl
cuIed skirt that has become 90 fashionable
that no society woman dare wear anything else.
OF all the silly foolish. puerile inventions my
hobbIe skirt is the worst. can't run. l can
only walk slowly. If trolley car is coming
along and I'm on the tracks it is impossible
to get out of the way.
Miss Lorraine says she has just completed
A tour OF the London. ST. Petersburg and Paris
music halls, and she has come TO New York
for two reasons. First she is going to appear
in one of Al Woods companies, and, secondly.
she wants divorce.
1ssMy husband is New York banker she
said "and as soon / am free I'm. going
back to Europe to marry baron. NO
must not tell you his name either; but when
we are married we going to live in a
beautiful villa in sunny Italy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
Cherokee Indian Girl to be Worlds
Great Soprano, Says ScfunsGnn- Heipk

ly gown women and men in fastidious
evening dress were hundreds of old Cher
okees, roughly CARRIED who followed ev-
cry note that "the little Cherokee girl''
sang in her.voice of fold. ~
When the last Cherokee payment was
made at Tahlediah, Okla, few months
ago. the older cherokees voluntarily gave
dollar each to help, pay for suzanne La
Homa S musical studies3 ssaMs sr's
And now LaHonal Is singing for them.
In every tiny, town5sIp the Cherokee ma
ton she is giving ,arconcertis singing fer
the people she slovess and who are so
rrouu of her. IT isHthe last opportunity
they will have to hear her for years. In
April, LaHoma, will sail for London TO
sing the leading roles with a continental
opera company and to study for another
year or two Then. If schumann- Heinlt's
prophecy proves true. she will return to
her native land and to fame. sst.f se
She is pretty, this little Indian girl .
She has dark, soft hair. brown eye, and
skin of creamy -iwhiteness. She is
proud of her Cherokee blood. and cher
ishes the ambition to be able some day
20 sing the songs of her own peoplec the
legends the Cherokees. set TO, music.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24

MUSCOGEE, Okla.-"In two, three
years promise you my little Indian girl
viii be the greatest soprano in the
world"
1t was sehumann -Heink who said it as
she stood on the stage of "a Muskogee
theater bowling to the audience that had
heard her and 1.-THE little Indian girl
sing in concert together And Nine.
schumann- Heink had made the trip to
Auscogee at her own expense, hiring a
special train part of the way, that she
might sing at a benefit concert in 'the
little Indian girls home town to help
pay for the musical education of her
Cherokee protege.
The little Indian girlr is Suzanne La
Homa. better known as Suzanne Cobb
McDaniels, for young as the girl ts--just
past 22-she has been theS wife of Horace
McDaniels since she was in her teens
Fifteen years or so ago the little black
haired, dark-eyed Cherokee girl used to
sing at school entertainments in Musco-
gee. And the members of her tribe heard
her with pleasure even then. When she
sang with Schumann- Heink in Muscogee,
mingled with the audience of handsome
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24

Extensive preparations are being made
ror the third annual session of the
state Conference of Mothers and Parent
Teachers association. which will be held
N the First Methodist church. February
e. s and 4.
The conference will be on the welfare
If the child. and the mothers will en-
deavor to formulate plans looking toward
he physical, mental, moral and spiritual
Detterment of the children. The first
5ession Of the conference will be held
IA s o'clock Thursday evening, February
3. and on the following day an address
viii be delivered by Mrs. Frederick
school, of Philadelphia, who is the pres
dent of the National Congress of Moth
ers.
Mrs Robert Zahner, 500 Peachtree
street. is chairman Of the entertainment
committee. The headquarters of the
conference will be at the Piedmont hotel.
The mayors of the various Georgia
owns have been asked to send delegates
TO the conference and an unusually large
attendance is expected.
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.
The approaching conference of mothers
is of vast Importance in that ii looks to-
ward the welfare and betterment of fu-
ture citizens, in whose hands the affairs
of state and church will ultimately fall.
The mothers are endeavoring to obtain
the cooperation of all parents. teachers.
statesmen and elergymen In their move
ment.
Following are some extracts from the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24

CHICAGO. Jan. 3.-"Unless steps Of
directive character are taken at once
= hixh school scandal. involving the
moruity OF our boys and girls will
shock. the nation from coast to coast.
It il based upon facts existing not in
Chicago alone. but In all the eenters
OF population"
Fred ID. Smith. member OF the ex-
ecutiye stan Of the committee of 81"
made the above statement last night in
address before 600 Chicago business and
professional men at a banquet in the
Auditorium hotel
The COMMITTEES OF 81 is an organiza-
ton or business men OF the United
states and Canada It proposes in the
next Is months TO win for Christian
chnrqhes. millions Of unconyerted men
throughout the cities OF North Amer
ica-.-. -r-s--
Committeeman subscribed $4,000 to A.
nance the campaign during the day.
when the movement was launched and
more i promised
Sneakers before the committee at the
dav- sessions showed that there were 81
oaGo0o more women and girls OF Chris
tan church In North America than
men and huxs.
The great problem is TO reach the
people tn the cities" said James G.
Cannon. banker Of New York city. Here
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
SAYS BOYS AND GIRLS MORALS
WILL SHOCK THE WHOLE NATION

we have an intensity OF living that Gre
ateS at the same time an intensity of
relaxation and there lies the danger.
1.-THE people of this nation are too pre-
occupied to pay the attention they should
to spirituality. The people of this ma
ton can be made 10 recognize the claim
of the gospel only by a severe jar, and
that is what we propose to give them.
We will shake of some of the spiritual
lethargy that has come with CONNER
ciaI life"
President Harry Pratt Judson' OF the
University OF Chicago, who presided at
the banquet, said the reason there was
so small a proportion of men in the
churches today Is that there was no
VANISHED Jobs in the church.
AS soon as you get big jobs in the
church for men to handle they will
come in he said. S@That is the sole
reason why there are so few in the
church. We must have less poetry and
emotion and more business and &C
ton -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
Like The Pigeons of ST. Marks
Los Angeles Herald.


More than fifty beggars live at Central PARK
and are fed daily from the hands Of gener-
GUS public. They have even been known to
rob a blind man I'm broad daylight, and under
police protection at that. but no charges Of
graft in high circles be brought because
these beggars are little and they sre--pigeons.
Central Park without its pigeons would not
be Central park to the Angeieno or to the an
nual winter tourist.
TO the old blind man who daily walks to
the entrance OF the park and submits without
complaint 70 the raids on his sack OF popcorn
and peanuts the cfty's square would lose its
charm II IL were not for the plump little birds
thar perch on. his shoulders and arms and plead
in their way4-for more.
Visitors 70 this city from foreign shores
liken the square and fits pigeons to st. Marks
in Venice, because of the birds, and so they
roam and forage at viii. under police pTotec-
ton. s..
The pigeons have become so tame through
kind treatment that they flutter and perch at
will on the shoulders Of pedestrians and feed
from their hands.
The popcorn man across the street counts the
pigeons his biggest asset IN business. for they
are hungry little fellows, no matter how much
they have to eat and born beggars. Few can
withstand their pleadings for peanuts and pop
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
Girls of Seryia Must Marry

From the Pail Mall Gazette, London.
Servia holds the record for mar
riage. not only in Europe, but In the
world, for tradition, combined with ac-
tual custom, has made marriage in
Servia well. nigh compulsory. Some
indulgence in this respect has lately
been extended to males, but females
still labor under the old disabilities.
Though the race is decimated by fre-
quent wars, women are still numeri-
cally inferior, and the expression N
the vernacular, took a wife is adj
mirably descriptive of matrimonial
methods in Servia. Formerly the
girls submissively did as. they were
told, waiting to be taken in turn,
OF late they have shown more Initf-
alive in choice. but from this to ans
solute announcement, for reasons 1of
sentiment, there is wide gap.
ut is difficult for a girl to escape
the moose wherever the male popuia-
tion is in excess, but many ciroufn-
stances combine to make it doubly diff
ficult for the Servian girl, Trained
from infancy to believe marriage her
only popular destiny she will nat
urally pair off with the first of her
seven (statisticaD suftors. On the
very Gay of her birth a sum is set
laSide for the dowry of her future hus-
Dand- IL IS not Dy any HeahS inc
property of the girl herself, and re-
mains in the possession Of her near
est male relatives until the day of it's
consignment to the Originally destined
owner-her husband. An unmarried
Servian girl is entitled~to nothing be
yond -aAequate support from ner
family, and should she elect 20 i've
with any other relative than her far
Their or brother, she has no claim to a
pecuniary form of assistance. Ser
Was legislative code makes no provis-
ion for the unwed girl. Marry she
must.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
IN THE CANAL ZONE
ARE CHEAPER THAN AT HOME

Oranges. doz. 80. -. ~ y
Cabbage, ID. $3.50. 5
Flour ID. :. -. - -.
CoTIee 80 -
Sugar. graduated :. ....5
Molasses. quart :. A.. lis IS
Macaroni 49,.
The provisions are sold at slight adj
vance over cost by the government sub
sistence department. The sales last
year amounted to $45,s25,0o0, on which
the government made a profit OF 5000.
The supplies for the commission are
purchased in quantities to last three
months Fresh vegetables In season are
shipped each week from New Orleans.
In addition TO the sale Of food the
commission undertakes to provide for
all household equipment and furniture Is
also carried. An ice plant sells excel
lent ice at 40 cents a hundred pounds.
1t takes a train of q cars, including II
refrigerator cars each day. to distribute
goods from Cristobal to the various
stations in the supply system and two
tugs are used for deliveries made %
points reached by water.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
LOST HER HEART TO LAWYER WHO FOUGHT
IN VAIN TO KEEP HER FATHER OUT OF JAIL

dine. never wavered in her devotion.
Among THOSE of the young girls friends
who remained loyal to her in her trou-
BILE was H. 1. Stafford. then q law stu
dent at Stanford university. After
Hatchs first conviction, Stafford. who
had Just been admitted to practice, Of
fered his services as counsel. He made
stubborn fight and lost
1t was not until the father was sem
fenced that anyone knew a thread or
romance had been woven day By day
into the tragedy OF the trial.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24

SAN JOSE. cal.-When Jackson Hatch.
once a prominent lawyer here, was SEN
fenced, after a second trial. just termi-
mated. to serve seven years in the peni-
testiary for embezlement, his daughter
announced her engagement to the attor-
ney who had struggled for two years
to keep her father out of prison
From the time. nearly three years ago.
when Hatch was indicted for misappro-
priating $4,000 placed in his keeping by
a wealthy widow, his daughter. Geral-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24

Tickle. the cows palate and increase
production.
Study the whole problem from bus
mess standpoint.
Test. weigh. weed out. The margin Of
profit allows no guess work.
Study to control functions and CO.
operate with the COW for better results.
Brains in the milk pail ENSURES quaI-
ity, quantity and cleanliness
More sunshine for the big producers.
more fresh air for the whole herd.
No man can succeed by being ssFn-
ply machine capable Of performing 50
much labor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
Hot Plays
January Lippincott's

january LlppIncotI 5.
eIt IL a tremendous undertaking TO get "a new
MAY accented and produced" once said the late
rIvde Fitch to a friend $50 many are writ
tan and SO few ever see the light of day.
An English PLAYWRIGHT with a gift Of humorous
exaa geration illustrated this fact TO me once.
He told me how he submitted play TO cele-
brated actor, and how In the course of the
conversation the actor remarked:
Don't you think ii is growing chilly in
this roomF
e Yes. it is rather the young playwright
admitted.
ssThen the actor rang bell and servant
forthwith appeared
James said the actor, this room is rath-
er cold. You may put three more manuscripts
on the fire 7, - : 49, gss 80
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24

corn and they hare been known to coax nfckeis
from the pockets OF the closest.
The policeman ON the beat says the birds
have made Central park their rendezvous -
long as he can remember Generations come
and go. but the tribe still remains at the
old stand winter and summer Their nesrs
are scattered in the trees and in the caves
of houses nearby, and wee to the miscreant
who disturbs any portion OF their home or who
would attempt TO d thin injury.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
Anpropriate Nickname

CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL IfIpune.
Tell me. Harry said Mary B-'s
admirer TO her younger brother. who
Is 4hIs other fellow that has been CALI
ing on your sister,
Il don't know his name" replied Har-
~. L just call him April Showers.
What for?"
Because he brings May flowers" gig
gled the irrepressible.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24

Whether she is really an American or
a Persian woman now is quite question
Anyhow, Nine. Ali .KuIi Kahn was for
merly Miss Brease, of we'll known Bos-
ton family. Her husband is charge de
affairs at the Persian legation in Wash
ingtons and Nine. JUL Kahn is popu-
lar hostess of the diplomatic set
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
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ny Associated Fress.l
NEW YORK. jan ia table OF re-
tail prices paid for food by Americans
in. Panama brought to New York by
canal official shows that many staple
articles of diet are cheaper there. than
here. although they are shipped from
American ports at heavy expense for
freight and refrigeration Here is the
list of Panama prices:
June. 1910. April. 1910.
products Cents Cents.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-24
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The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-23

be present sent message in which
he said; II wish to state that | am
heartily in favor of the move TO en-
large the water district and get water:
in fact, anything to get water"
Fred Oswald. who is well versed in
the geological formation of this locality.
urged that a tunnel into the noun
tains above the present dam receive
serious consideration. saying he felt
sure by such course fully ample
supply of water could be had at an
expense that should not exceed
$4,000 But details were not dis
cussed. 1t was the unanimous opin-
ion that in country SO abundantly
supplied with water the only thing
ecessary was to form the improvement
district that will make a bond issue
large enough to give plenty of money
Then instead of experimenting, as has
been done in the past, pay for the
service of an expert water man to de-
eide the most economical but absolute
ly certain plan of increasing the wa
ter supply until it will meet the city's
needs for the present and future.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-23
SATURDAY RAIN HEAVY
The Precipitation, 2.44 Inches, Great
est Of Any in Almost Two Years
Some Comparisons.

According to the weather records of
Mena. Saturday nights rain was the
biggest which has fallen in Mena since
March 8, 1909. The total precipita-
ton was 2.44 inches and the greater
part of that fell between about 8
o'clock and midnight. On March s
1909, the rainfall measured 2.75 inches
and the rain lasted all day long form
5 a. m. to 8 p. III.
In looking over the records of the
precipitation during the fall months OF
September, October and November and
the winter months, December and jan
uary for the past five years it is found
that the past five months were by far
the driest. the precipitation being $50
inches as against 1885, 11.43. 242S
and 1890 for the corresponding periods
respectively in 1903, 1908. 1867 and
1906.
The driest month during the five
years was October. 1908, when only
III of an inch was recorded. The
wettest was October, 1907. when the
rainfall reached 1915.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-23
NEW DESTROYER IS LAUNCHED
New War Vessel christened by Sister
Of the Young Hero Whose
Name II Bears.

Newport News. Va, Feb. 1S.-Chris-
tened by Miss Eleanor r. Monaghan.
sister Of the man after whom it IL
named, the torpedo boat destroyer
Monaghan slipped down the ways at
the government shipyard today. amid
the auttering of flags, shrieking OF
whistles and cheers OF a little knot
Of prominent men and women assem-
bed to witness the event. The new
boat glided gracefully out upon the
waters Of the Chesapeake, and was
caught by a government tug and
towed to an anchorage to await
completion.
The christening OF the destroyer IL
another tribute to the memory of En-.
sign John Robert Monaghan. the Spo.
kane boy who sacrificed his life de.
Tending his wounded officer in April,
1899. Young Monaghan, together with
Lieut.. Phillip " LandaIe and de-
tachment of 50 men, was sent ashore
on the island Of Upolu, Samoa. Here
they were set upon by natives and
several of the force cut off from re-
treat, among them Monaghan and
Lansdale. Desperate attempts we're
made to spccor the little band. but the
natives successfully repulsed the res
cuing party and at last all were cut
down but Monaghan and his superior
officer. Then I.ansdale fell wounded,
and, though he might have prolonged
his life by retreat, young Monaghan
elected to stand by his officer, AND
died in the heroic performance of bis
duty. His action was lauded by bis
commander, Captain White OF Mia.
delphia, and a monument to his mem
DRY, which stands today in a public
thorosghfare of Spokane, was erected
nv the citizens of his native state
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-23
ARREST FOR BBOOOOTLEGGENG
]. L. Holt Took Bob Nix to Fort Smith
This Morning Smashed a Still
10 SEWER County

Bob Nix, well known about Mena,
was arrested Sunday by Deputy U. S.
Marshal J. L. Holt and placed in the
county jail charged with peddling
whiskey. Monday morning Nix was
taken to Fort Smith to appear before
the United States court.
Last Saturday Mayor j. w. True,
internal revenue collector, and Deputy
Marshal Holt made trip down into
Sewer county, where an illicit still had
been located. They found the outfit
had been deserted by its owners. 1t
was destroyed.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-23
FOR A GENUINE HOUSECLEANlNG
Dsnvllc Grand Jury Freaks Loose
From Everybody--Going After
Violators Of Election Laws.

nanville. H.. Feb. iS.--The Danville
grand jury that is hunting out vote
buvers and sellers has cut loose from
everybody since ousting the states
attorney. John I-ewman. Headed by
Foreman woodward. the IL men have
declared Themselves independent OF
all court officers. They say they are
out for a real housekeeping
This was demonstrated beyond pos.
sible doubt when part OF the day was
spent investigating the automobile
pay car in which Judge KimDrougn
and Mayor Plat rode to various poll
ing places on last city election day.
Judge Kimbrough has already told the
grand Jury that the money thus carted
about Danviile was used TO pay the
workers of the Platt machine. While
states Attorney Lewman was advis.
ing the grand jury, that matter Was
not gone into
Witnesses were called who declared
that The coin carried in the automo-
bile nay car WAS used to pay voters.
As a result large trouble looms up for
some one.
The Jury set about finding just how
much the pay car carried. II was
loaded for its several trips at the
First National bank, just across the
plaza from the court house. Judge
Kimbrough is vice-president Of that
bank.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-02-23
ALL FAITHFUL TO MENA
Seventh Grandchild for Mr.. and Mrs,
]. H. Mailer, and Five Married
Children All Here.

Mr.. and Mrs. Tyndall G. Green are
the proud parents of baby boy, born
Monday at their home, 208 Eighth
street. Mrs. Green is a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Mailer and the
new grandson is their seventh
srandchild. More unusual is the fact
that Mr.. and Mrs. Mailer have five
married children, all of whom live in
Mena and near by in Polk county.
They are: Mrs. NJ r. Irwin, Mrs.
Tyndall G. Green, Mrs. Arthur G. Car
ter of Mena. and Mrs. William Chamb-
lin and Frank Mailer of Rocky
Mr.. Green is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. j. Green.