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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

years ago. The telephone plays
a very important part and the spe-
cial delivery of goods enters
largely into the expense.
Makes Less Than 20 Per Cent.
The public, educated to more
artistic surroundings, demands
better store fixtures than former
ly, better service wagons. Rents
and wages have increased.
The average retail grocer will
not make 20 per cent gross on his
total sales, and his profits on the
necessities are materially less
than the actual cost of handling.
Competition has eliminated
pretty much everything ia the way
of excess expense.
Years ago nearly everything
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
MOST
ANYTHING

THE SONGS.
Singer. sing me a song cries
Youth.
Sing me a song of the far green
hill.
OF the ways that run
Through the dew and sun.
With skies that. ibeckon and
winds that thrill.
Sing me a song of the wild glad
chase,
OF lifting music and dancing
feet,
OF the rosy ways
Where a lads heart strays
When lips are eager and love is
sweet"
Singer, sing me a song" cries
Age.
''Sing me a song of the sun
down hill.
Sing of a star
That shines afar
When the twilight heart grows
hushed and still.
Sing me a song of the long-lost
ways,
Where never my weary feet
shall roam:
Sing me to rest
In a dream bound nest
with all tho YaStardavc safe NJ
Home!"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
We're Great--In Spots

There's the Bowe Former price of breakfast "Cof
fee" cents~doughnuts cent; total, three.
New price coffee three cents; doughnu one total four
We speaking humorousy when IS a
o
with a bedragged
pected penny gone up give
the dime all he had. the
his wife and child and went without food himself
Say great people-in The Bowery isn't
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

eraI IN the confederate army. The
cannon came near disabling one
of the confederacy's most brilliant
officers, as for weeks he was i'll
and deaf and would have gone
back to the church but for the
personal entreaties of President
Jefferson Davis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
The Wasp on
Published Weekly
Subscriptions Now Due.

Josiah Ellsworth remarked at
prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing that his idea of heaven was a
place where persons would not
always be throwing up a fellows
past. 80 &
One of the easiest ways to flat
ter some women is to tell them
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
OBSERVATIONS

DR. WILEY prohibiting building of more
tories in big cities He country
COOKBOOK of "leftovers is the latest and it's
times. Waste and will
TURKEY appealing Christian to
warfare is surely the writing of history
POOR Admiral Sahl He wants to help
revolution but is without o r
WHAT? Tammany selling judgeshps? Why. Mister Taft
agin judicial dignity"
MODERN inventiveness banan
with electric radiators
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

pal bishop of
Louisiana, was
seriously hurt by
the explosion of
a cannon. 1t is
true that Episco-~
pal bishops usu-
ally spell it
canon, but he
had laid aside
his priestly ha-
biliments, and
become a gen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
MAYBE

you never heard this one, either:
Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee.
None named thee but to praise.
on the death of Drake.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
The Cheerful Bookmen

The cheerful class
said be the book publishers They claim that
authors produced books
writers have to the surface with works that
attention, public
than a long time before
Perhaps intellectual reawakenng
be Just a scheme the publishers boom
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

Deen reading the
many and highly
interesting now
els from the pro-
lific pen of Anna
Katherine Green
Rohlfs, from
THE Leaven-
wo r t h G a S e"
down to THE
House of the
VIII is p e rim g
Pines" are anx-
ious to present
our joint and
several congratu-
lations upon this
the sixty-fifth
birt hday of the
leading literary
lady" of that
town Wh.ara MO
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

Throw your washhboard away.
UN. x. l.. Washing Powder will do
your washing. %ss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

EXACT LOCATION.
"Cucumbers never hurt nue. in
the world"
"Wall, tibet amt where they
hurt me, neither"
Trust the world-but don't ad-
vertise where you keep your
money.
Be neighborly, but don't en-
courage your chickens to be so.
Rodgers, having flown from sea
to sea, will settle in California.
Seems a shame that the first trans
continental air-train should be
merely an immigrant train after
all.
Being content with what you
have is the first step toward never
having any more.
BUT-being discomfort when
you've got enough is often a step
toward bankers row.
Those were glad days when the
teacher made you sit by a little
girl as punishment. Astonish-
Ing how much punishment some
of us could stand and live!
When you fall down, get up
quick before some other fellow
trips over you.
| UPLIFT STUFF.
The surest way to get right is
frankly to admit that you are
wrong.
Hands were made to clasp with
not to smite.
The man who can't get mad has
his opponent licked before the
scrap begins.
Boiled potatoes are better than
soap for cleaning hands blackened
by contact with kitchen utensils.
The only thing that has more
lives than a cat is the church stew
oyster.
Figures can't lie" is an cpl
gram that might have been true
once-lbut not since the invention
of the coal scales.
A Colorado woman never reads
Laura Jean Libbey without pull
ing down the blinds. Is it pos.
sible-
Can it be that the lady has a
suspicion that she is doing some
thing to be ashamed of?
Reading Laurajeanlibbey Is
nothing for folks who read Laura
ljeanlibbey to be ashamed OF.
There are It's pieces in a mod
ern watch.
In the stone age they brought
the letters into court on a stone
boat.
There is no such gay deceit as
that rracticed by the men who
buys a knife, when all the timc
what he really wants Is the cork
screw.
How thankful we should be
when we consider how many ways
there are to keep out of society!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

New honey and axle grease at
Plunkett's store.
Miss Topsy Turvine has quit
singing in the choir at Lantern
Creek church because she couldn t
sit in front seat where she would
be noticed.
About the proudest time in a
young woman's life is when she
goes back to the old home town
with her first baby.
The fog was so heavy Sunday
morning that Squire Beadle
thought Pod Linkhorn, standing
in front of the postoffice, was a
tree box.
A man can't be very happy
when he has to look at each side
of a dime twice before he spends
1t.
Four or five fellows got into
an argument at the blacksmith
shop as to how to pronounce
"Hankow," but Jake Doodler set
tied 1t by saying that no matter
how 1t was pronounced 1t was
Chinese for handcar.
When a young man is going
with a slender girl whose mother
weighs 200, he can't help wonder
;V,r oh h. n
day.
THE HOTEL COOKS
Mabel's hair is straight as 81 ass,
Myrtle's hair is wavy,
Mabel likes to mix up cake,
Myrtle's stunt is gravy.
Henry Wadd attended three
parties and a social last week and
wore a different colored vest at
each one. Henry is sure some
swell dresser.
Ever notice that butchers and
life Insurance agents always look
like they were enjoying robust
Eealth?
Miss Green Sommers came near
giving away her age yesterday by
saying that she could remember
when grocers used to tie up
packages with paper string.
What has become of the old
fashioned man who wore trousers
made the same way front and
back?
Hooper Majoy, who is on the
road now, sent Miss Cameo Taw-
cell a postcard showing the new
at West Union, o..
Hooper writes that nearly every
small town has either a Grand no.
eel or one called the Palace.
Some women keep things they
,orrow so long that when they
ring them back it seems almost
ike getting a present.
Sim Gu1lion is so mean that the
birds fly away every time he sticks
his head out of the back door.
No one ever talks about an
day for mother.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

you thought they and their daugh-
ters were sisters.
Alt Mowbray has traded his Or
tigo motor car for a span of mules
and an incubator. ALI says that
one good thing about isn't any
brass work on them to be shined
up every day.
What is so dull and uninterest-
ing as a circus poster after the
show has come and gone?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
TODAY IN HISTORY

Nov. II, 1861, just so years
ago today, Leonidas Polk. Episco-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
OUR DAILY
BIRTHDAY PARTY

Sure. conductor. put US Off at
Buffalo, for al of us who have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

Entered at the postoffios at Tacoma. wash. a.
second -ciass matter TELEGRAPHfC SERVICE
OF UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION
PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUN
DAY NY THU TACOMA TIMES PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

EDITORS NOTE.-Some peo-
pie blame the grocer for a part,
ut least. of the high cost of food
The writer of the following arti-
Gle represents thousands of retail
dealers and tells Times readers
their side of the story.
BY JOHN A. GREEN,
Secretary National Retail GrocePs'
Association.
The greatest topic agitating
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

LoWb where we
asked the conductor to put us off.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

UPLIFT STUFF.
The surest way to get right is
frankly to admit that you are
wrong.
Hands were made to clasp with
not to smite.
The man who can't get mad has
his opponent licked before the
scrap begins.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

When young man is going
with slender girl whose mother
weighs 200, he can't help wonder-
ing If she'll be like mamma some
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

No one ever talks about an
day for mother.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11
THE HOTEL COOKS

Mabel's hair is straight as 81 ass,
Myrtle's hair is wavy,
Mabel likes to mix up cake,
Myrtle's stunt is gravy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

Sim Gullion is so mean that the
birds fly away every time he sticks
his head out Of the back door.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

Boiled potatoes are better than
soap for cleaning hands blackened
by contact with kitchen utensils.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

Figures can't lie" is an cpl
gram that might. have been true
once-but not since the invention
of the coal scales.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

Some women keep things they
,orrow so long that when they
ring them back it seems almost
Ike getting a present.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-11

The only thing that has more
lives than a cat is the church stew
oyster.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-06

Miss Della Francis. Of Wilsonhur,s.
WAS shopper here today
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-06

We have the largest
selection of Suits to be
found anywhere. The
prices we ask are just
about half others will
ask :. .$4.95 to $14.75
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
University Notes

AT a meeting OF the senior class held
in the Library building Thursday after
noon. committees We're appointed to ar
range programmes for the class days
which VIII be observed soon. Acting on
the suggestion of the faculty, the class
has decided to hold special chapel day
exercises the day of the installation OF
the new sanitary drinking fountain
which will be a class monument.
Prof Squire Coop took his musical
students of the Oratorio company TO Og-
den Thursday afternoon, where the stu
dents put on the oratorio last night in
the Orpheum theater. This afternoon the
orator.o will be put on at the Colonial
theater under the auspices Of the Ladies'
Literary society.
Bishop f. S. Spalding will address the
university students at the regular week
ly chapel exercises this morning I'm the
assembly room. As one means OF max
i during the remainder of the year. the
seniors have been asked to be present in
body, dressed In caps and gowns.
This afternoon at 1870 o'clock The
students in advanced electrical design OF
the school OF mines will visit the Jordan
steam power plant 10 get an idea OF the
method of installing modern electrical
machinery and steam Turbines.
Bird Notes" will be the subject of a
special lecture To be given at the assem-
bly, hall on the temple square this after
noon by Henry Oldys, an ornithologist
employed by the government. Mr. Oldys
VIII describe native birds their songs
haunts and ways OF living. All unlver-
sity students viii he admitted free on
presenting their student cards.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05

j. z. Langford. informed the committee
that the parking place could not at this
sine De putt near the pavilion, but must
be at the lakes shore The company
o1Iered TO provide as large park as
NECESSARY there, but said the cost OF run
nlng the road from the shore line to the
paVlilon over trestle entailed too much
expense and that II was out OF the ques-
ti0n 10 meet the demands of the automo-
oiilSts In that particular.
. The first intmation OF the failure OF
ehe project. according to O. H. Hewlett.
VINO was one or the committee of twenty
10 solicit funds, came when persons who
were approached for subscriptions became
CURIOUS TO know what sort OF parking
place was to be provided. The commit
zee was called together and visit was
made TO the offices of the Saltalr COM
pany, when the matter was finally set
lieo by the refusal OF the Saltair COM
pany TO grant the request OF the COM
mlttee The vote then was taken to re-
iund the subscriptions and let the boule-
Vard question rest for the present.
Automobile owners were taking hold
2f the project with enthusiasm" said
MT Hewlett. I'VE were having no trou-
Die getting the funds required to go
ahead with the work. We who have been
most deeply interested in the building of
this road are disappointed at the out
come. Money was coming in with ease,
and il the Saltair company could only
have seen fit to build the road on to the
pavilion. the money would have been
ready on time as far as the automobilists
were concerned"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
FREDERICK L. SHEETS
DIES OF PNEUMONIA

SuccumbinG TO an attack of pneu-
monia and pleurisv. Frederick l.. Sheets
a blacksmith and farmer, residing al l752
South Fifth East street died at II
o'clock yesterday morning sin the Latter
day Saints hospital after an illness OF two
weeks.
Mr.. Sheets was a native of Salt Lake
City and was i6 years of age at the time
OF his death He was the son OF Elijah
+. Sheets. who FOR more than forty years
was bishop OF he Eighth ecclesiastical
ward in Salt Lake.
Mr.. Sheets is survived by a widow and
four children and four brothers. Joseph
L., and Edward L., mining brokers OF
this city; Nathaniel l.. and Milton both
rapchmen of Idaho: Mrs. Mamie Wright.
Mrs, Elizabeth Pratt and Miss Eva
Sheets all of Salt Lake.
Funeral services Will be held from the
Waterloo meeting house at l2 O'Clock
noon Sunday.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
FISH COMMISSIONERS ARE
RESTOCKING UTAH WATERS

State Fish and Came Commissioner F.
w. Chambers returned yesterday from the
spawning beds at the Telluride Power
companys dam. Everything is now In
readiness for the spawn and it Is intended
TO place a fine lot of eggs there In the
next four or five weeks.
E. n. Jacklin, superintendent OF the
Murray hatchery. leaves this morning for
the Panguitch Lake hatchery. He Will
Over 125. 900 fish fry will be shipped TO-
morrow for the head OF East Canyon
creek in Summit county This is the
fourth shipment TO the county and the
second to the headwaters of this stream
this season. The same number OF trout
fry will also be shipped 10 Weber county
for spring planting In streams OF the
North and Middle forks of the Ogden
river,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
Warning to Railroad Men,

L. s. Bacon, il Bast ST, Bath. Me.
sends out this warning TO railroaders
" \ conductor on the railroad, my work
caused chrome inflammation OF the
kidneys. and ] was miserable and all
played out A friend advised Foley
Kidney Pills and from the day | com.
mencea taking them. I began to re.
gain my strength. The inflammation
cleared and ! am far better than |
have been for twenty years The weak
ness and dizzy spells are thing of the
past, and l highly recommend FOLEY
Kidney Pills. Sehramm- Johnson, Drugs,
five stores.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT
PLANT ASSURED AT MURRAY

Plans are practically completed for the
established at Murray where govern :
ment experts Will wage battle against
the alfalfa Weevil. President James w
McHcnry OF the Murray Commercial Climb
said last night that word has been re-
ceived from Washington by Prof A.. H.
Kirkland 10 20 ahead with the work
and that the Jones hospital building on
state street was already being remod-
eled Professor kirkland will have
twelve assistants. Several acres OF land
on the cast side in Murray have been
sold To the government by the Murray
Commercial club, and it is here that the
daily experiments will be carried ont.
The whole northwest will be benefited
by the experiments
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
LOWER MAMMOTH MINING CO
Notice Of Special Stockholders, me,tI,o

Notice Of Special Stockholders Meeting.
Notice is hereby given that there will
be meeting OF the stockholders OF tho
Lower Mammoth Mining company. a cor
poration OF the state of Utah, held at
Dooly block. Salt Lake City Utah on
Friday. the Eth day of May. 1911, at
the hour Of o'clock p. m OF the said
day. Said meeting Will be had and
held for the following purpose. to wifi:
To consider and vote upon an amendment
OF article V OF the articles OF incorpora-
shall read as follows: Article V. The
amount OF the capital stock OF this cor
poraton shall be 81 900, 900. which shall
par value OF 8! each This meeting Is
called by order o. the board OF directors
OF the said company, JOHN DERN.
President,
Attest: A. Reeves. Secretary.
Dated Salt Lake City. Utah April II.
1911 d2547
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
OrHco of the Board OF Public Works. Salt


Office of the Board OF Public Works. Salt
Lake City. April o7, 1911.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office until 7:3O p. m. May 10, 1911. for
house, workshops. garage and wagon
sheds on the property owned by the city
between Sixth South and Seventh South
streets and State and Second East
streets. according to plans on file in the
City Engineers office,
Instructions TO bidders together with
plans. prodles. specifications and forms
for contract and bond. may be obtained
upon application at the office Of the
Board OF Public Works or the City En-
gipeer.
all bids
BY order OF the Board of Public Works.
II, G. MCMILLAN. Chairman
sd36aS
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
HANDS on
! HANDS, WHICH?

rgh hands on retiring usually
o(t white hands on rising
he simple and economical onc
1tmcnt afforded by Cut!cura
cuficura ointment. Battle and
hands on retiring, In a hot
Cuticura soap. Dry and anolnt
u Cut!cuGa. ointment, and in
1aes spread the ointment on
n OF old linen or cotton. Wear
q night old. loose gloves. to
% clothing from stain. Most
or chaDped. Itching and bleed
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
Wall Paper.

Take notice We have 80 of the best
paper hangers in the city in our en-.
ploy. We can attend to all work
promptly
Our price is no higher and our work
is the difference between good mo.
chanlc and q botch. Geo. ". Ebert Co.,
IL South Main.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
NOTICE TO coNTRAcTos.
ce Of the Board of Public Work

Office OF the Board of Public. Works;
Sealed proposals Will be received at
this office until 1880 o'clock p. m. May
8 1911. for the work for constructing
curb and gutter and pavement in Paving
Extension No. GO, Third East. South
Temple to Third South, according to
plans on file in the city engineers Of
lice,
Instructions to Sidders, together with
plans. profiles. specifications. and forms
upon application at the office OF the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
lEVARD To
FAILS
" to Provide Parking
L Rock Upon Which
opes Are Wrecked.
N SUBSCRIPTIONS
|F0 THE CONTRIBUTORS
|pears Likely That Prof.
Mil Go Over for An
other Year.

fine when everything pointed
. Ia the proposed automobile
~ Saltair, one detail in the
"A the whole project TO go flat.
the present outlook the boule-
be- put off at least another
4 question Of a suitable park
for machines at the resort was
suon which the proposition was
r. the plans the Saltair COM
ed to provide a suitable place
mes 20 stand. but the word
fiid NOT carry enough eXplana-
ID To suit the automobile peo-
meeting Thursday noon a vote
among the automobllsts. re-
1 a refusal to consider any
King place than one near the
ali company. through Manager
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
APPEALS TO POLICE
AFTER LOSING AT CARDS

z. J. kussee. 81 years old, the pro-
prletor OF cigar store and pool room at
60 West Third South street. was arrested
Thursday night for running a gambling
resort The complaint was made by A.
l., Candland.
Candland who says he participated IN
game with a few friends and lost, COM
planned TO Patrolmcn Bush ana Woods
who made the arrest Kussee was re-
leased on 500 bail
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
Chill dren CrY
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q a 8 r Q RIA
Foresters Transplant Trees,

Twelve men were sent To the Wasatch
nursery from the forestry headquarters
yesterday. They will worl: at trans
planting. Forestry officials intend to
transplant l 100000 trees there this sea-
son. Thirteen more men Will be sent
out for the same work the first of next
week. The forestry officials saw that
the snow is going OFF fast and the season
promises TO be favorable
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
Power Company Sues.

Action filed yesterday in the
United States circuit court of Utah by
the Telluride Power company against The
Tooele Smelling company To recover
Si3l3.Oi. alleged to be the balance due on
a contract Tor power furnished by the
plaintiff TO the defendant during the year
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
New Interpretations
FILED with The county clerk

FIItU WlIN IHc county CItIk.
Kimbal Richards Securities company
to engage in general business of stocks.
bonds and securities capital stock S100.
600. divided Into shares OF 81 each. class-
fed as "class A. and class b.; u. Carlos
Kimball. president; Stephen H. Richards
vice president. Claude Richards. secre-
tarv and treasurer. These officers with
c. Clarence Neslcn and Charles S. Bur
ton. constitute the directorate.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05
OGDEN RACES.
Via Oregon Short Line,

Daily except Sunday, May ! TO II.
Round trip only 81. Train AT ! D. m.
returnin" any train same day. Ticket
Office l56 Main
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-05

necr
The right is reserved TO reject any and
all bids,
BY order of the Board OF Public Worss.
II. q. MCMILLAN.
Chairman