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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
hOQulAM COMING.
SISTER City Making Elaborate Prepar.
ations for. Gel eeratien 81 Labor
Day at Aberdeen.

HoQulAM. Aus. s6.-Wi,h all the
work and care that The Labor psy
0committee IS puttins forth. Sspteyi-
Der I should see \ celebration. which
~of its kiud will SET new mark 81
sGrAys Hs-hor Every detail. 50 tsr
As can Ne planned. is now complete,
and everything points ~ = harmon.
eious celebration OF the holiday
Although this IS ANeuieen'S yesc -
Mold the celebration. Holuiau people
will uot torsst the ssuev>us S,,sUi.
ssnce and Yayrouase u Aberdeen
people jaS; wear Aui Vii cy>c;Y0rS,S
The parade 81 $50 o't,rrA II tAc
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day by Charles : Case, pCSsSdSn, >,
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
COMMISSION
IN VIRGINIA
Asa B. Wilson Writes Of the
Experience Of Huntington
West Virginia

Editor Herald In the Herald a
short iime back notice that 5 petit.
ZION for calling 81 election 70 vote
II the adoption OF the Commission
torw .: government. was being cir
cUla,ej i Aberdeen The Commits
sion form has been in effect in this
city for The PISS; TWO years. and i.
LAY te q interest 70 your readers
. learn with what success.
Huntington IS the second ci:y il
size il The STATE Of West Virginia.
reputation 5i.o0N. and drst in pro
srssSiveuesS il the state. I, is GOV.
srnsd by four commissioners, one be-
ing styled the mayor. No provision
: made for the recall. The mayor
tells Tie ,hs, he p,sc has proven e..
;etIiye. bur. Q: course. : great deal
depends o. whether o. not the COM.
IiSSioneVS wo-k IL harmony. With
he exception d few ward polic.c
!aas. The p7sSsr; plan IS looked upon
SO success \ frs class man !
serving As clayc-
The TAX levy 10 cry purposes To-
1911 IS 80 mills Ore mill .. This :
tov rev PARK: - mills FOR sinking
funds. e,c. 5 mills being for current
c:cy expenses The levy : o. 81 as
SeSssd valuation u ss90l0.o00.
This co~1,y . some extsa: i al
alo<Cu< - ChshsAS county Hunt.
,cSton : ; continuation q :hree
,cNcS .o7ecr.y extending along he
eack :: - OA:c river aboG, SIX miles
a1d his c::y PAYS abo2, $ pr cs-,
;: ;hs taxes u ne coUc-y. Tie
cc@l-y sea: Was -,cvsj t-oc, cs- miles
:? Re country 1901 many Years
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
NEW 81 SAl Scl-S.

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;c2 sc;;sa - ~ E-s2A Smith &-G
several oths- -s2c1s-S near El-a
Goys-2ms2; Inspector BSrc,ay w&S
= E,-s o. Thursday to- ne purpose
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
Care Beat the Cure.

Discussing faith healing and kindred
ph-Aomela. Or. George Weston Reeves
the playwright. said recently in Cinc!n
natl:
Faith heale-s would achieve ever
greater cures Il they didn't SO offer
weaken their patients faith by askia-
for money. \ man knot;ed with rheu
nsti>m liupei into 8 Cincinnati faits
heaters Office on : gold headed cane.
The healer made q few passes. the-
said:
Drop the cane and depart il peace
NO, on your lie the man said
That cane was present from NY
Sunday school class and cost $50 -
Los Angeles Times
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

MONTESA\O. Aus. S5.-Ths tNl
lowiuG marriage licenses were issued
during the week
Frank pssujS. Katie Mich0isciVct
sherman J. Eaniror. Florence |
Shields: Nuxo \ieul. Ssina Meek
kSus0. James w McConas, EDlIs
Naln: AlNer, 4 Rockwell pou0a
GiecrSi Samuel l. Mover. Gertrude
NJ Rel. Wl,,,a;u : Fraser. Ora NJ
C>NA
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
sA> ~, c~ TA\SS.

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M&~SASG. reYVS$sH,.as the Weye-'
>&s>$Ec r;.aHsv tr,aYSny. WHO ag-
s'v>&-a; before ,Ae s&aslits;ioo hoard
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$500 $40 r>,,vv gAsG :aAsC III He
<,&ss& -; ,>s :SNsS ISid along the
y&ts&t t<S<: ~ ;,,uos- owned y tie
Mcya<S&s.;$s-S wSS SSSl.1NO.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
On GOVERNORS STAFF.

MCNTE$A\C, AGs s5.-CSQta;a
< :! See: S2i Ms:or GS, Robertson
~, TUESDAY morning to- Astoria
Orr. Where chsy served o. ne S-ss
;: Governor Hsy during the Latter :
v.Si; - he Centennial Exposition s;
la ci;y.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28

SORROW. The funeral JcoN place On
Sunday afternoon. under tGe auspices
of the local post. 4. \ h, II which
deceased WAS member. Rev. I. {
Allen. pastor Of the Methodist church
cifcistiug
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28

This section OF the state has suffer
ed severely from drouth this year. the
paw paw crop being the only bumper
crop expected.
Yours truly.
ASA Is. WILSON.
Huntington. W. a. Aug. p. 1911.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28

Sir. are you against the railroad
power" interrupted the man in the
audience
Il am" shouted the Socialist orator.
Huh You're trave.,u- on pass
right now"
SURE | am, hate EN- 50 that I re-
fuse 70 pay EN- money Toledo
Blade
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28
The Truth ssOuT sluiNG-


TAX Ne.
Lieut.. olc;cz Is -ainy ~a'9-
Civa- .al. y cs--S x~-h =;
t.-i-k .1i ls-<e TO =, : { =
~..a- sr+ rog nave - a. syc--f
,ha:'s ale. A,ui-E
A'wSy> -. RED CROSS BALL
Blue TIE res: blue anywhere a.
s-r price I, tn-ss rake he launt-eS
smile tn- vaSs large pa.Ea.s
cs-,s At ALI. GOOD GROCERS-
VIE. yos read I: In he Herald. yos
trNE ;.s
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-28

IL - =. 80 ,4-,o.> =. STi-IeF
lscl g. .. c. =. .,~- - We. Is ie--s
sire l;.-.e-. =. tie pluia' excuse
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27
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5 THE TIMBER CROP.

S S s s g e s S s s s S s s
1T is painful to see the way the
pine forests are being butchered and
wasted in Florida" said am educator
who recently made "a short trip
through that State. The lumbermen.
as rule, simply make a clean sweep
wherever they go-leaving no prop
er stand of trees on the land for fu-
ture grown, and forest fires. more Of
ten than not, are allowed to kin the
young growth even where it is allow
ed to get a start The land is also i'm
poverished through the destruction
OF humus that the pine straw would
furnish is allowed to rot instead of
being burned off"
What is here reported of Florida is
true Of f2H too many other sections of
the South. We can not too often en-
phasize the fact that the timber is a
farm crop just as truly as corn or
cotton, and should be as carefully
looked after. The Importance of keep
ing good stand is not more import
ant in one case than the other.
And with the growing scarcity Of
lumber and the steady rise i'm it's
price, the farmer should have as lit
tie mercy on the man responsible for
firing his woods as he would have on
man responsible for firing his corn
crib-The Progressive Farmer.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27

y Wr Million Dollars Corporation
R,rmcd in on-Organization has
Jairted.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27
S S S S S S S S S s s s S s s S S s
THE HAY SHORTAGE.
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s S S S s s S S s S s 6 s 8 8 s 8 s
There is no doubt that they will
command a higher price the coming
winter than ever known before The
dry spring and summer has cut the
hay crop short almost everywhere
and the chances are, that in many
sections, cattle will have to be sold
for lack of forage to keep them One
paper is urging farmers to disk their
stubble fields and SOW timothy and
clover in August This may do in
some Northern sections, but in the
South | would advise differently. With
land in good heart and capable of
making good grass crop, | would
plow we'll and put in good order. and
IN september or early October SOW
Italian rye grass seed. Sowed with a
liberal amount of seed at that time,
this grass will make a one hay crop
in the spring, but will not last, and
mad better be treated as an annual.
Years ago | visited farm i'm New
Jersey near New York City. where
'hey had Just cut a crop of this grass
OF nearly three tons an acre from seed
sowed the previous September.
DO not think that you can do this
ON poor land. But with land in a
good state of Improvement. this grass
will ma lie a fine crop of hay in a
shorter time than any | know Of and
can he followed hy cowpeas in the
spring aud another good crop of hay
made With liberal use of acid phos-
phate and potash, and the land can be
left in the fall in crimson clover as
winter cover 10 be turned under for
corn or cotton in the spring. You
can in this way get two good hav
crops and soil cover and improycr
in twelve months,
Then, OF course, there is still time
to SOW winter oats and votch for hay.
and magnificent hay crop these
make II you nave peas, do not fail
to save them for hay Save by all
means the crabgrass that follows the
carly truck crops, and as | have be
fore suggested, even the ragwceds ON
the stubbla fields will make foragc
for dry cattle, and even horses and
mules will eat Them when cut in bloom
and we'll cured Save the entire corn
slower and shred it if possible. Ii
YOU have silo, you arc fortunate,
provided YOU have the material to
fill it. If corn is short for silage. cut
the pcavines into the silo. They make
good silage, as the soy beans also do.
The man with silo is always better
of than the man who depends solely
on dry forage, and if you have no
siio. do not pass another season with
out one.
For fall seed for sheep and hogs
and milk COWS, SOW Dwarf Essex rape
in rows and cultivate and fertilize
, we'll Or YOU can SOW the rape broad
cast and sow crimson clover with it,.
and You will have the clover after
cutting and feeding the rape. I'm short
use every effort to get feed for stock.
w. f. Massey, in The Progressive
Farmer,
/ ig. ft. ,1t
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27
TO HELP MARKET
SOUTH'S COTTON

y &r Million Dollars Corporation
A,rmed in Macon Organization has
~~TNIacon, Ga, Sept. 20.-The organ
ization OF a 100000 concern known
as the Southern Cotton corporation
with an eye to controlling the market
ing of the cotton of the South was
announced here today by George Dole
Wadley OF Bolingbrooke, one of the
wealthiest men iii Georgia and repre-
senting lnancial interests of great eX-
tent. Associated with Mr.. Wadley.
who will be president, are John C.
Wadley of Waycross and John 4.
Moore, Leon S. Dure. Jesse III. Hall,
John Mockey and w. e. Dmwoody of
Macon.
The concern will work in connec-
ton with a string of banks operated
by the National Bank Audit company,
OF which William Barrett Ridghly,
former comptroller of the currency, is
president The Southern Cotton cor
poration will advance farmers money
up to 10 per cent. of the normal price
on cotton deposited in warehouses.
This cotton will be held, and when
the time arrives each year when a
correct estimate of the crop can be
made, price will be fixed and the
cotton held until such price is paid.
Organization work, it was stated by
Mr.. Wadley today, has started in 900
counties. throughout the cotton belt.
In each county will be an advisory
board all stockholders in the corpora
tion, composed of five business men
and bankers and 20 farmers. This
county board will watch the crop and
report to the main offices which will
be in Macon, Mr.. Wadley announces
that Eastern capital has already been
secured to insure success Propa-
ganda will start at once.-The State.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27
3 S s s S S s s s S s s s s s s
THE PINE BEETLE.
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So much damage has lately been
done to Southern forests by the pine
beetle, a bark-boring insect, that the
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture has established a field station at
Spartanburg, S. c., for special study
of the insect. Mr.. r. w. Turner is in
charge of the station and anyone
whose pine trees are dying should get
in touch with him at once The loss
AtkQm this insect may be enormous if
Isteps are not taken to check it's raw
ages, and it is high time, anyway, for
the people of the South to begin talk
ing care of their timber. These often
neglected pine forests are one of our
richest heritages, but we have been
fearfully wasteFul and careless with
them. A change in this respect can
not come too soon.-The Progressive
Farmer,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27
GREENVlLLE.AUGUSTA
RAILROAD STARTED
Contractors and Surveyors Put to
Work on Line near \.rccnyi!Ie-
Pass Through Ware Shoals.

work on Line near NrccnNi!Ie- To
Pass Through Ware Shoals.
The railroad story" below annear-
ed in The Greenville News Friday.
This road has been brought nm and
discussed and SURVEYED and financed
for some several times. but if never,
has cotton much further. The action
OF the promoters in scraping off that
old roadbed might be taken as an in
dcation that they mean business this
time. Whether they do or not remains
to be seen. Here is the story nc II
appeared in The News:
The Greemville & Augusta Rail
road is the name of the new road
which ii is proposed to build from
Greenville to Augusta. Ga. and for
the immediate construction of which
work was begun yesterday some thir-
teen miles below the CITY. \ large
force OF hands was put to work
clearing off the old road bed of the
Carolina Knoxville e Western which
VIII he used most of the distance.
The proposed route OF the road is
from Grecuville to Ware shoals
Greenwood Ninety Six, and either
Johnston or Eigelield, to Augusta. In
addition to the force of laborers who
began work yesterday afternoon.
some thirteen miles below tho CITY
a party of eleven engineers and as
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27
CLEAN UP YOUR STOMACH.
And Gas, SOurness, Dizziness, Head
aches md Bad Dreams Will Go.

@fIIN WHHy I'VWIHVSN, IIIHHIHVSS. TIVUW-
aches md Bad Dreams viii Go.
If you really want a clean, sweet,
pure stomach free from gas, sourness
and distress, go to Laurens Drug Co.
today and get a 50-cent box of MILO
MA Stomach Tablets.
Take these little tablets according
TO directions and if at the end of a
)week you are not brighter, stronger
and more vigorous. just say so and
get your money back.
For heaviness after eating, eructa-
tion, heartburn and that distressed
feeling. MG-O-NA Stomach Tablets
will give relief in five minutes.
Large box of MI-O-NA STOMACH
TABLETS, 80 cents at Laurens Drug
Co. and druggists everywhere.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27

DiaThOca is always more or less
prevalent during September. BE pro
pared for it. ,mberlain's Collie.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is
prompt and cfIectual II can always
be depended upon and is pleasant to
take. Ftr sale by all dealers
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27

Complete line of tho latest Tunsten
Electric light bulhs, you can burn
sthese at any angley a% are harder to
break than the rA i wire lamps
call and see them, they will reduce
your light bill.
s. NJ. & ,E, III wilkes & Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-09-27
s S S S S S s s s s S S S S S
s
s COLLEGE EDUCATION FOR ALL. !


and girl in our southern farm homes
must be our war cry" for the next
few years to come. Now, to parents
who have not thought of the problem
long and seriously l can understand
with what panic father will be
seized when he wakens suddenly to
his responsibility for the education of
his large family. 1t is probable that
simply to wrest a meager living from
the SOIL 10 provide clothing and
shelter for his flock requires long
days OF toll and nights of planning.
1T may be that all ne can do with the
problem is to offer word of encour-
agement to John or Mary who should
now go away to college; but that he
can do, and he should do it, MANY n
| boy has gone away to school with
only money enough for railroad fare
and a God bless YOU. my son" and
has completed college course and
has done we'll later i'm life. Other
boys have gone without the blessing
and have walked all the way to their
future "alma mater" and have done
equally Well. | am pleased to re
member a youth who, when he set
out for his chosen school, found upon
his arrival ON registration day that
the sum OF So was all re had left for
four-ycars' college course. He re-
manned at college however. four full
years. did himself honor in his stud
les. and one of his professors told me
that on graduation day he had $2.75
of the original sum with which he left
home.
The problem of a college education
for the entire family of boys and
girls may he a hard one to solve. but
it can be done. The question today
is "How?"
| am not quite willing to advise or
encourage any boy or girl to start to
college with no money Whatsoever,
even though some have done it and
have succeeded in the doing. 1t
seems 10 me that the boy or girl who
is reared from the cradle with the
college as the ultimate goal will, dur
Ing the early years, find ways and
means of laying by a small sum for
this purpose. That is the better
plan. TO earn all ones college ex-
penScS and at the same timc corrv
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-07-15

f'pfaiHs require eafsfui treatment
Keeg aHiel ana apply cbambelialn's
Llnimeni freely 4 yin remove the
eefebeaa ~ quickly restore iha parts
70 4 healthy ekHeilieH Tor sale hK
ali dealers dHw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-23
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

"Other virtues are in request in the
field and workyard. but certain de-
gree of taste is not to he spared in
those we sit with. Il could better eat
with one who did not respect the truth
or the laws than With a sfoven or I'M
presentable person.. Moral qualities
rule the world. but at short distances
the senses are despotic Emerson.
/ was much interested to read the
iother day a newspaper statement that
a suggestion had been made that a
course in manners should be intro
duced into the Washington schools
I wish the suggestion might becom e
an accom- lished fact not only in
Washington, but all over the country.
I cannot understand why, when all
the other sciences have received such
full attention in our school curriculum,
the social science-the science of living
with other human beinga-should be
SO totally neglected.
For what really bitter unhappiness
the ignorance of the right fork to use,
of the proper way to treat a finger
bowl or some such little thing, may
cause.
What cruel social stigma the wrong
way of holding. his fork or of a habit
of crumbling his cracker in his soup
may bring upon a man whose heart is
really full of true courtesy
We may rail at such conditions of
judgment, but we surely must admit
they exist.
We would never think of leaving the
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study of grammar out of our schools
and yet the man or woman who makes
a mistake in grammar viii be far more
easily forgiven than he who eats soup
from the end of his spoon.
| Emerson says something to the effect
that it is much easier to forgive even
a sin than an error in breeding, and
| so it seems to be.
I OF course the obvious answer to this
lis that while knowledge of manners
is undoubtedly necessary to ones peace
of mind, such a knowledge should be
obtained in the home.
I OF course it should; but now often
lis it?
| Again and again there come to me
in my mails queries on little points of
breeding from young men and women,
who evidently have not been taught
such things in the home.
| And almost always the letters are
we'll worded and well written. showing
that the inquirers have had an other
wise good education.
do not think any city could give its
children a course which they would
look back upon with more gratitude
all their lives than one in manners.
1t might, of course, be difficult to get
the children's interest, but think this
might be done by conducting the les
sons in very practical fashion. That
is, the lesson on table manners might
be illustrated by a table set for
course dinner, and the other lessons in
similar fashion.
The instruction need not be so elab-
crate that few of the children would
ever have a chance to put half of 1t
into practice, but merely a compare
lively few simple rules of breeding.
Those who already knew some of
these things surely wouldn't be hurt,
and those who didn't would undoubt-
eddy be saved much embarrassment
and actual unhappiness.
Perhaps this is all very foolish and
visionary, but for the life of me
can't see why.