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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
GOOD ROADS IN AccoMAc.

Good road building is the programme
in Accomac county, according 10 the
ever esteemed Peninsula Enterprise.
WORK Is soon TO begin on the ex-
tension OF the stone road from Acco-
mac Courthouse TO Taslcy station.
and Brother John w. Edmonds. of the
Enterprise, says that 1T should be
tiie pleasure of all of ua who daily
use the road and will benefited
by it to help by carting 80 material
free OF expense to the county, Of which
it is TO be built. IL this is done a
fifth of II mile more OF good road will
have been built, and in all probability
i.s extension to the station will be as
sured.
Scores of people In Accomac have
gladly agreed to help in this good
work by carting from fifty to ten
tons of stone. This leads Brother
Edmonds to say, Let us all help and
make this road an object lesson which
VIII inspire others III every section of
our county to take UP the work OF good
roads and push 1t forward until
every section of our county is blessed
by them" Amen, and If Brother Ben
jamin Guntcr Edmonds. of the Enter
prise is put in charge of the good
road campaign in Accomac il will go
through with vim, Tor he is one OF
the most enthusiastic good roads adj
vocates in the State.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
Mitchell for washington and Lee.

TO the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-Your editorial as to the kind OF
man Washington and Lee University
should choose for It's next president
sets high standard, and George Car
rington Moseley further complexities
the situation by asking that South
erner be chosen The Virginia institu-
ton needs a president who can draw
students from every section of the
country. Has the South Such a man?
Doctor S. c. Mitchell Is native of
has been interested in a variety of as
sociatfons, and knows humankind bet
ter than most college presidents. HIS
knowledge OF history enables him to
approach many subjects with greater
clearness than the average thinker. Be
ing under fifty years of age, he could
devote long term OF service to the
upbuilding OF the university at Lexing-
ton.
Richmond.
CASTOR LICHTENsTEIN
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
The Lunenburg senatorial contest.

TO the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Str,--I Will deem it n favor If you
could explain to me how the commit
tee from the Fourth and Tenth Dis
tricts can try the contest of T. J.
Arvin vs. r. Is. Brock
1t seems to me that the primary law
is very plain. 1t says that all con-
tests must come up before the county.
contest is / have served as DEM
ocratic committeeman in the county
of Lunenburg for some twelve or ff..
teen years and am now a member of
always been a Democrat. am at a
loss to know just how to act.
The State convention formulated
those plans, and then for the State
Committee to override them looks
/ think It Will be well for this mat
ter TO come Nv In regular form
l1<enbridge. J. T. HARRIS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

J. Frank Baker. of the Athletics,
could have been elected to anything
anywhere in the United States yester-
day. That home run In the ninth
wrestcd victory from tho NAV of de-
feat and made seventy-five million
people shout with excitement. He is
one famous baseball statesman who
was not born in North Carolina. In
fact, he was born in Maryland, just
across the line from Virginia, and the
first light that he saw was from the
Virginia sun, and the first home run
he ever knocked probably fell upon
the soil OF the Old Dominion.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
WHEN THE SPRING TIME CONES.

! Richard .Coplcy was here yesterday
! He came at the invitation OF the Boar.
| OF Governors of the Wednesday, Club
| and talked 10 them last night for an
| hour or so about the Metropolita,
opera Company. which he represents
OF the orchestra and artists who arc Ia
he here next Spring for II series OF
concerts. which the Club hopes and
expects to make better than any mu-
steal events ever known in this artistic
and music loving community. Copley
talked about Caruso and Gluck and
Amato and Homer and Ricardo Mar
tin and Witherspoon and Tettrazini
and Gatti Cazazza and many of the
other high lights of the stage. and of
the orchestra and violinists and plan
lists and imprcsarios of marvellous
reputatie nd if the town We're big
enough o.. is to say, if there were
any auditorium, in the town big enough
to hold them, they would all be
brought here, it being the purpose of
the Club to make Richmond the great
art and musical centre of the south,
as it is already the heart Of the South
in all the things that make Il people
great and prosperous
The Wednesday Club is not yet pre-
pared to make its full announcement.
but it has gone far enough with it's
preparations for the next season to
say that if the dates can be arranged
the metropolitan Opera Orchestra viii
be here to give three concerts on the
or It'll of Mag. just at the time when
Richmond / its best, and when the
Very atmosphere about us is filled
with music. Besides the Orchestra 1t
is determined that Clue shall be here
also, with her wonderful voice, and
even more wonderful art. Curuso
would do we'll: but Caruso wants $4,000
the night, and we have no place big
enough to hold his voice. Tettrazini
would find house full of worship
pcrs, but not at $4,000 per- There are
others, just as good who are making
their mark, indeed who have already
made their mark In the artistic world,
anu some of the best of them or the
best OF what the Metropolitan people
have to offer will be here, and there |
ought to be thousands TO meet them
and rejoice with them in their superb
work.
The details will he worked out as
soon as possible, and when the pro
gramme has been finally arranged and
tho concerts have been given the Wed
nesday Club Will have added another
and the most brilliant triumph to its
score OF good service to this cummu- |
nifty. The metropolitan Opera Com !
pany will give four nights of grand !
opera in Atlanta in May. and tile pick !
OF tho flock ill give three concerts
in Richmond, Next season there viii
he a season of grand opera in Ricli-
lnonl also The concerts arranged By
the club are only in tho nature Of pre- |
Jules to the greater work ii has in
view. The way to help it along is for
the people of this town to back it |
with their money and their presence.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

Joseph II. choato has Just celebra tod
his golden wedding. 1t was he who,
when asked who he would rather be
than himself. made the gallant reply:,
hrs. choates second husband"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

Owen Wister is the champion come
hacker of the age. Declared dead by
the press Of the nation, he is now en-
5oying all the fine things said about
him. He might say like Mark Twain:
THE reports of my death are greatly
exaggerated"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

correspondent of the Houston
Chronicle says that the five most inter
esting Americans are Ty Cobb, christy
Ma,hcwson, Buffalo Bill, Theodore
Roosevelt and William j. Burns, the
detective. Whom would you choose?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

Mrezyslaw strzczowski. a United
States sailor, wishes to change his
name. Perhaps 1T sounds too much like
2 sneeze.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
Altitude of Yuma, Arl1.

VIII YOU kindly tell me through your
paper what the altitude OF Yuma, Ariz,
is?
The altitude of the city OF Yuma
Is l41 feet hoovo the sea level 1t is
one OF the lowest lying places in the
territory. being at the junction of the
Iiia and Colorado Rivers. The noun
tains only six miles from Yuma arc
from 10000 to 10000 feet high.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
GLAD TO SEE you ALL.

General Sale. fine array of the Gov
ernors STAFF of Colonies, who We're
Joined at Newport News by still other
equally handsome members of the
same gallant band and by General
Vaughan. of the Virginia State troops;
Mayor Richardson. Nice-President Car
rington, OF the Chamber of Commerce.
William Taft Dabney, man OFFS work.
and committee of plain but earnest
minded and enthusiasts citizens Went
down TO Old Point Comfort to meet
the. delegates to the Fourth Annual
Convention OF the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association, which will as
semble in the auditorium OF the JEFF
ferson Hotel at 10 O'Clock this morn
Ing. On the arrival of the Governor
and his party at Fort Monroe the can
mons greeted him with seventeen guns.
and under tho escort of Colonel Strong.
the Commandant of the Reservation, he
was conducted to the parade grounds
,.,,,, 49, ,,s,o-,. For. v.,oro ,,,, ,o,
view before His ENccllcncy. 1t was
very brilliant spectacle, and delight
.d Inc hearts or tho thousand or so
,,, !, ,
iaii' ''o ''S''o'S i'o''' wy N'''''e'''
states After the review the Governor
and his party and all the people pres
-,
'afse' pfAe''e' WV" '''o
guns None had ever witnessed any
thing like it before. Away out in the
distance six miles from shore a little
,,,
'"''' io' '''e o''''''''' "''' wy"
roar which shook The solid earth and
fairly shattered the cmpYrenn the guns
nred eight shots at tho target 10000
,srd. .,y.y ar5 hi, ~ cvcry limo
haeh OF tie shots carried It cast Fon
projectilc with steel nose weighing
one, thousand pounds, and the chnrs.. OF
smokeIess powder required to carry
each projectile contained three nun
dred pounds The roar of the shells
through the air sounded Ike train
~ "'so seemed as II inc ''ihe between
inc o'scharse ana 'he i'l''hs o. INC
she'is iI'o 'he sea was MINUTES j;
s'eau Oh s ' 'e'E 'no'e nan ''''t'ee''
eo' "'' "'o'',o' "'s W.T."
.. . .'Ne Wv" .,'o"'%''H 800
"''p
| mo . s
-f'NN- - ''-'N 'N'''Ni'
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
Prohibition In Rhode Island.

Please inform me what year Rhode
Island went for prohibition and how
long. S w
Tho prohibitory amendment was ad-
ded to the Constitution of Rhode ISL
and April z. 1886. against the mnnufac-
turo and sale of Intoxicating liquors
10 BIO used as a beverage, and was
repealed June 20. 1889
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
We Want Your Account
National State & City Bank
RICHMOND, VA.

RICHMOND, VA,
VIM. II. Palmer, President John S. Elicit
vice-Prssldent; VIM. NJ Hill, Vioe,Presi-
dent; j. w. Snton, Vice President; julien
ID HILL Cashier.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

Didn't that game yesterday make
your hair stand on end?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

Wonder If the Outlook assigned the
Contributing Editor to report the
Worlds Series.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
DAILY Queries and AnstDers

heard about 1t years ago and
would like to have some facts about 1t.
~, NJ. G. B.
me Eas tern Star is a society for the
wives. daughters and widows of Free
inasons in good standing 1t is a
strictly social society and has no pc
cuniary benefits attached to it's mem
ut present has forty-nine grand chap
tiers. 6.5ss subordinate chapters and
a membership OF 522,o7o
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

lizard Timesp
Was It in Cleveiands hrst or second
term that the hard times" occurred.
and when was 1t that Coxey's Army
marched to WashinEton2 c. G.
The hard times to which you refer
occurred in 1923, the first year OF
Cie"eland's second term. CcNey's Army
marched to Washington in May. 1891.
Andrce's balloon Start for the Pole.
What year did Anttrce start on his
balloon trip for the North Pole? j. j.
The Andree balloon expedition left
Spitzbergen July II, 1897
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18
Eastern Star.

Eastern Star.
VIII you kindly give me some infor-
nation about the Eastern Star n so
cicty Tor the widows OF FreemaSons?
l know that such a society exists for
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

Some OF the folks who bet on the
Giants yesterday now wish that the
street cars had run over them whils
they were watching the scoreboard.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-18

Some one suggests that the men ia
yoring equal suffrage be called "suf-
fragents."
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08

CURLEW VALLEY is in Box Ell.
der County, Utah Until recently a
combination of circumstances has pre-.
vented it's development. Some por-
tons have been cultivated. however.
and TIE returns have been OF the most
profitable character.
THE SOIL. in Curlew Valley is Of
the same general character as that
found in other sections of northern
Utah. Both sand and clay are ingre
dents of the soil, which is rich in
plant-food and easily cultivated. The
dense growth of sagebrush which GOV.
ers the land, is the very best evidence
of the fertility OF the soil.
THE CLIMATE is approximately
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08

the same as in the Bear river and
Cache valleys. The winters are not
severe and the summers not uncom.
fortably warm. The mountains sur.
rounding the valley on three sides af.
ford protection from damaging winds
and it is a significant fact that fruit
and crop failures are almost unknown
1t is doubtful II there is any valley
in the west where climatic conditions
are more favorable to plant.llfe or
more conducive 10 the health and
comfort OF the inhabitants.
PRODUCTS of the soil In Curlew
valley include almost every fruit
vegetable and grain that is grown in
any section OF northern Utah. Forty
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
War Sure in Europe
Ayers Trust Chief
Ah Able Minded Enslishmen Agree
Conflict Is Inevitable, Declares J.
N. Beck.

New York, Aug. 3--"War lin which
England and France will oppose Ger.
many is only a matter of short time.
It Is inevitable"
So declared James NJ. Beck. coun.
sci for the sugar trust. now being
probed by the government, upon his
arrival here today on the Adriatic of
the White Star line. Mr.. Beck went
abroad early in July and spent most
OF his time motoring in England.
Shortly after the William Penn ded.
ication services in the Church of All
Hallows, Barking, on Towerhill, Lon.
don. Mr.. Beck, with number OF 9th.
er Americans, attended a dinner given
at Stratford house, the pretentious
London home of the Duke of Suther.
land.
AT this dinner were many promi-
nent Englishmen," said Mr. Beck,
and of course, as was natural, the
question of international peace played
a prominent part in the speeches
made by Americans and Englishmen.
ITO man almost the English
speakers declared that war against
Germany by England and France was
about to be declared:
The nations involved, according to
the speakers, had done almost every.
thing to avoid clash, but recent de.
velopments in Morocco had destroy,
ed any chance of staving off trouble
1T is a matter of only a short time
in the opinion of all able-minded En-.
glishmen, when the three nations will
be at war"
Mr.. Beck said he was preparing pa
pers in the argument to be heard be.
fore the United States supreme court
next November.
The Standard Oil decision" he
said, makes definition between
reasonable and unreasonable restraint
of trade. | will show that there was
no unreasonable restraint of trade by
the American Sugar company"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
Providence

Providence. Aug. 5.-Mr. VIM.
Greasy, ane of our aged pioneers and
and one of the Oldest men in town.
passed away Monday at his home in
Providence,N He leaves two wives
and one son.
The little daughter OF Mrs. X. Camp
bell fell from ladder and ran a
rusty nail through her leg. At first
II was feared that blood poison would
set in but after medical aid had been
called in and the wound properly dres
sed, the child was resting much
easier.
Miss Tesla Thorpe is suffering
with bone felon on one of her fling.
ers. The doctor lanced it and 1t is
much better today.
Mrs. Lillis Rose from Millville was
visitor to town the other day.
Mr. Joseph Bullock has returned to
his ranch in Pocatello valley where
he will proceed to do his fall work
Mr. Liten Mathews is expected
home from Nevada this week. He
has been spending the spring and
summer on his ranch in the south
Mr.. James Thorpe has gone north
to do some work He is one of the
best mud throwers in this valley and
has great deal of work to do this
fall.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
Robber Thrusts Gun in Face
Of Passenger; Weapon Dis
charged, Three Injured
aossea KNOCKED FROM TRAIN
Excursionists in Wild Panic While
Cleveland Porter orapples
With Holdup

Salt Lake City, Aug. 5.-Displaying
bravado that rivals anything of its
kind in the recent history of train
robbers in Utah, a lone highwayman
held up the Salt Lake bound Saltair
train Immediately west OF the Jordan
river at 1895 o'clock last night. in
which he shot and slightly wounded
three passengers, after he had forced
a dozen others into surrendering their
valuables.
Those wounded are Cleveland Por-
ter, 1926 Washington avenue, Ogden,
a railway mail clerk, who was shot
the lower palm of the right hand and
the left thigh; Mrs ID. p. Felt, wife
OF the proprietor of the Davis county
Argus, left thigh grazed, and Mrs,
Thomas Holder, 76 South Eleventh
East street, top of right ear nipped
by bullet.
Making his escape after he had been
knocked from the running board of
the open coach he held up, the train
robber dashed west over a section of
broken country
At $3.50 o'clock this morning James
Mays, thirty-six years of age, who
claims to be an automobile repairer,
was arrested at the roundhouse near
the Jordan river and South Temple
street, suspected Of being the train
bandit. Mays says that he was on
the coach that was held up, but makes
the defense that he was knocked off
in the scuffle between Cleveland Por-
ter and the real bandit The arrest
was made by Lieutenant r. l.. Shan
non and Patrolman David Crother
and II. A. Cation. Mays was slightly
dazed when arrested, but showed no
other marks of having been in a
fight.
The police and members OF the
sheriff's office seemed positive at 3
o'clock this morning that Mays can be
identified as the bandit
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08

Virgil Sorenson of Salt Lake Cit,
is visiting with relatives in Mendon
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
Mendon

A delightful affair of the week was
a five o'clock dinner given by Ethel
Sorenson Friday in honor of her
cousin, Miss Chloe Hancock OF Salt
Lake City. The invited guests were
Mrs. Anon Sorenson, Mrs. ,Chauncey
Sorenson, Misses Ina Sorenson and
Mae Richards, Mrs. Andrew Cooley
of Salt Lake City and Miss Eulalia
Sorenson. The table decorations were
summer flowers.
Mrs. Bassett of McCammon, Idaho,
is visiting with her mother, Mrs.
Mary Gardner.
A new operator arrived at the de-
pot last week. The little boy and
mother are doing fine.
A great many from Mendon attend
ed the Scandinavian celebration al
Logan Saturday.
Mrs. Lyman Sorenson presented
her husband with little girl on Aug
2. Mother and babe doing fairly
well.
Virgil Sorenson of Salt Lake City
Is visiting with relatives in Mendon
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
Sarcastic.

Sarcastic.
Exasperated Learner Ito caddie,-.
Why are you dragging that lump of
turf all over the links?
The Caddie-I thocht that after a
the trouble ye had diggin' 1t up ye
MIGHT like tae TAX 1t hame tae practice
on.-London Tit-Bits.
Prejudioes.
We can forgive any man hls preju-
dices--provided they don't conflict with
ours.-Life.
Mushroom Poisoning.
The best thing to do In case OF
mushroom poisoning" Is to partake
freely of pure olive oil.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
EXCURSIONS EAST.

Via Oregon Short Line-Unio Pacific
Special low rates to Cheyenne Den
ven, Omaha, Kansas City. st. Louis,
Chicago and many other points
Tickets on sale May goth. gath, 26th,
and 9th. June 3rd. 9TH, 10th. 14th,
17tn. 21st. July 9Th. 22nd. 26th, August
18th and September End and 9Th.
Limit October 31st, with diverse
routes and stopovers. See agents for
rates and further particulars. IS.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
NOTICE TO WATER USERS.

State Engineers Office, Salt Lake
City, Utah, July II, 1911.
Notice is hereby given that II. c.
Baker and ii. j. Craven, whose post
office address is Ogden, Utah, have
made application in accordance with
the requirements Of the Compiled
Laws Of Utah, 1907. as am ended by
the Session Laws of Utah, 1909, to
appropriate ten (10) cubic feet of
water per second from Spring Branch.
Cache County, Utah. Said water will
be diverted at a point which bears
south degrees west 2,Sl5 feet dis.
tant from the east quarter corner of
section II, Township 10 north, range
west, Salt Lake base and meridian,
from where 1t will be conveyed by
means of pipe line for a distance
of 1850 feet and there used during
the period from January l to Decem.
Der 81, inclusive, of each year, to de-
veiop power for the purpose of cleo.
trio lighting and propelling machinery
in Box Elder and Cache counties,
Utah, After having been so diverted
and used the water will be returned
to the natural channel OF the stream
at a point which bears south So de-
grees east 1,41O feet distant from the
west quarter corner of Section 10,
Township 10 north, Range / west,
Salt Lake base and meridian. This APP
plication is designated in the State
Engineers office as No. 1892.
All protests against granting of
said application, stating the reasons
therefor, must be made by affidavit
in duplicate and filed in this office
within thirty 900 days after the com.
pletion of the publication of this no
tice.
GALES TANNER,
State Engineer
Date OF first publication July IS,
1911. Date OF completion of publ.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08

Do not allow your kidneys and blad-
der trouble to develop beyond the
reach of medicine. Take Foley Kidney
Pills. They give quick results and
stop Irregularities with surprising
promptness.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08

to 60 bushels of wheat, 60 to 100
bushels OF oats and to tons of al.
falfa are yields shown by statistics.
Sugar beets. table beets, potatoes, to-
matoes, corn, watermelons, canta.
loupes-in fact, all varieties OF fruits
and vegetables yield abundantly.
The Utah-Idaho Land & Water Co.
has 1000 acres of irrigated land and
$500 acres of dry farm land for sale.
From either of our offices complete
information will be furnished upon
request and intending purchasers will
be shown over the lands. The prices
and terms offered make this a real
opportunity.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08

Baby won't suffer five minutes
with Group If you apply DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil at once. 1t acts like magic
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08

Subscribe for the Republican.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
CALEB TANNER,

State Engineer,
Date OF first publication July IS,
1911. Date OF completion of publ.
cation August II. 1911. all