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ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Candidates Assessed $50 for
Cost of Primary.
HO0FF'S TRIAL APRIL %
Episcopal Churches Elect Vestrymen.
Auto Owners Will Meet to
Form Organization.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special COffeopon0ence OF Inc star
ALEXANDRIA. Va. April 9. 1912
Democratic primaries in this city cost
little. as was evidenced last night at a
meeting of the city democratic commit
tee. held at the Hotel Rammel, when it
was figured out that the entire expense
Of the primary to be held April q will
be only $50. and there are four voting
places in the city. The two candidates for
mayor were assessed so each by the
committee, while twenty citizens desiring
to be councilmen were assessed 81 each.
Candidates were given until noon next
Monday to pay their share Of the cost.
otherwise their names will be omitted
from the ticket. 1t was also decided to
hold another meeting Monday night next,
when the names of those who will act as
judges will be decided upon.
The committee decided to have the polls
open from sunrise until sunset. and also
decided that candidates for mayor may
have a representative in each of the vot-
ing places There will be no change in
the voting places, it was announced. 1t
was decided to have two judges and one
clerk for each of the four wards.
After the proposed primary there will
be meeting of the city committee to
complete plans for the manner of elect
ing delegates to the state convention
to be held in Norfolk May D.
Only two incumbents will be without
opposition in the primary, and they are
Aldermen w. w. Ballenger and Fl. X.
Field. in the second and third wards re-
spectively.
List of Candidates.
The Official list of the candidates as
follows:
For mayor-Hubert Snowden and A. D.
Brockett.
First ward-Alderman, ]. NJ. Hill and
Richard N. Roland. jr.; council E. s.
Leadbeater, H. r.. Burke and Frank c.
Spinks.
Second ward-Alderman, ". W. Bal
lenger: council, Howard w. Smith, r. d.
Brumbach, Frank Mason, NJ. J. McFar-
land.
Third ward-AIderman. H. X. Field:
council. j. T. Harrison. p l.. Monroe and
o. H. Daniels.
Fourth ward-Aldermen, ]. B. Fftzger-
aid and T. E. Dyson: council c. b. Mar
shall, A. A. Paul, w. G. LIE Hew and AL
bert Bryan.
One alderman and two councilmen are
to be chosen from each ward.
G. Mason Smith. arrested by the gov
eminent authorities on a charge of violat-
ing the white slave" law, appeared in
Baltimore this morning before Judge
Rose of the United States district court
for the district Of Maryland, and his case
was set for trial April 10. as was also
the case Of his brother. Douglas Smith.
Douglas Smith, who has been out of the
city, and who was unaware that any
charge was to be brought against him,
will arrive in Alexandria this afternoon
and is slated to appear before United
States Commissioner r. p. W. Garrett
for a preliminary hearing.
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one of the largest manufacturers of its

one Of the largest manufacturers of its
kind. and they elected him president and
manager of the company. In 1902 he
founded the Newell Sanders Plow Com
pany.
For a number of years Mr.. Sanders has
taken a prominent part in politics. He
was a delegate at the republican national
conventions of 1900 and 1908, and since
1894 has been chairman of the republican
central committee of Tennessee.
The newly appointed senator is a di-
rector of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis railway and is member of
the American Society Of Mechanical engi-
neers. Mr.. Sanders owns one of the finest
homes i'm CHATTANOOGA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-09

free from alcoho; or dangerous drugs In
any form. Not patent medicine. but a
doctors prescription with more than 20
years OF success. Get bottle today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-09
States Third Republican Senator

MI Sanders will be the third repub-
iican who has served the state of Ten
nessee In the United States Senate. The
first was Joseph s. Tyler, union-republi-
can, who was in the Senate from 1855 to
1871. The other was William G. Brown
low who was senator from 1869 to 1875.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-09

II you want work read the want col
umns Of The Star.
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Episcopal churches Of the city last night
elected vestrymen as follows:
Crace-C. n. Moore, Charles E. Cox.
Charles j. Deahl, Frank r. King, Harry
s. Brown. 8. M. Pullman, c. A. Shaffer,
E. T. Estes, Henry e. Arnold, H. Talbot
McCuen, James F. Wood and c. Raymond
Simpson.
st. PauFs-J. Wallace Hooff, John w.
Green. j. G. Milburn, J. r. Zimmerman.
Julian T. Burke, G. 7. klipstein, Lau-
renee Stabler, E. l.. Daingerfield. w. B.
Smoot. r. F. Knox. j. K. NJ Norton and
Urban 8. Lambert.
Christ-W. A. Smoot, L. NJ. Blackford.
Hubert Snowden. f. s. Leadbeater, c. IL.
Yohe, H. r. Burke, w. d. Wood, d. n.
Rust, George 8. French, c. c. Leadbeater,
G. L. Boothe and G. William Ramsay.
A soldier giving the name OF Frank
Dodge appeared as complainant in the
police court today against Rebecca Ma
son, cOlored, whom he charged with the
theft Of 81. There was not SUFFICIENT evil
dence to convict and the woman was ac-
arrested Julia Cheeks. Mable Jones, Cath
crime Gibson and Mary Williams, all
charged with disorderly conduct at a
house were Dodge went. and the Cheeks
GLIDING the Mason woman. were sent to
the workhouse for thirty days.
Fines Of $40 each were imposed on
Bunch French, James Dean and William
Dudley. cOlOfeQ, charged with interfering
with an officer in the discharge of his
duty. Policeman Scott testified he was
compelled to draw a pistol on Dudley
after striking him with a blackjack for
Dean, he claimed, refused
to assist him. Dean asserted he did not
know Scott was a policeman. French
told the court he saw the policemans
pistol and thought some of the Allen
gang of Hf1lsdale had arrived in Alex
andria. The alleged interference took
place near Royal and Princess streets.
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Sale of Spring Notion Needs

100-yard spOOls Of good quality
Black Sewing Nv ssns sil nswi for 2Hc
Worth SC spool. ........
Horn Hairpins, straight. crimped
and loop styles; half dozen p
in box. Sold regularly at DC
10c box. Special at.
Silk Hair Nets. with and without
elastic: all sizes; large -
size automobile nets. Best DC
10c values. Special at....
Embroidered Wash Trimmings.
edgings and insertions; siX-yard -
pieces: white and dainty dM
colored effects. Worth csc WC
we'll s% %aSs. s Sold regularly sHisSs: 15c
at Csc pair ............
Children's Skeleton Suspender
Waists. sizes from to IL years;
strongly made with tapped IN
buttons: double stitched. Il WC
Worth 25c ..............
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In the corporation court yesterday the
trial of Lewis Hooff. former secretary
and general manager of the Mercantile
Railway Building and Loan Association
was set for trial April q. Hoof was
recently tried on one OF the indictments
and jury from Lynchburg acquitted
him.
The case Of the commonwealth against
c. j. Rixey was continued.
Judge Barley will give his decision this
week in the case OF c. II. Yohe, special
receiver, against the receivers of the Vir-
ginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corpora
ton.
The case Of E. L. Sinclair against the
Fairfax Company Of this city is in prog
ress before Judge Thomas w. Harrison
of this city today.
The Rosemont Development Company
has begun the work Of installing a high
service water system at that suburb for
fire purposes and also for the purpose of
supplying that portion of the subdivision
located above the reservoir with ample
water supply.
At meeting of the chamber of COM
merce last night it was announced that
the large electric sign on the river front,
advertising this city, is completed and
will be Illuminated Wednesday night
next. The sign. 1t is stated, can be seen
several miles down the river.
An invitation was extended to State
Delegate Robinson Moncure to address
the members at the next meeting on the
work done by the state legislature. Con-
siderable other business was disposed OF.
City Council Meeting.
The city council will hold meeting to-
night when matters Of importance will
come up. A number Of recommendations
will be made by the street committee for
proposed work.
The automobile owners Of this city have
arranged for q meeting at $3.50 O'Clock
tonight at the rooms OF the chamber Of
commerce, for the purpose Of forming
an organisation the prime object Of which
Ia to obtain better roads.
Marley Encampment of Odd Fellows
night when two applications for men,
bership were received and three members
elected
Rev. Edgar Carpenter. rector Of Grace
p. E. Church, tonight will deliver an adj
dress at the Young Peoples building Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South on
his travels in Europe.
Rev. c. ]. Kerlin, pastor Of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church, and Harry HAM
mond. alternate. left today for Laurel,
Del. to attend the conference Of that
l church.
| Mrs. Mary Massey. widow of Joseph
Massey. died late last night at her home,
/ 1cS South Royal street. She leaves sew
eral children. Her funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon.
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three men at that price in addition
to the other members of our force.
We have always figured that it
takes experienced printers to do
good printing
1t is doubtful whether there is
any other business in which the
proprietors SO largely deceive them
selves in the matter of actual cost Of
their products as in the printing
business. There is altogether too
much guessing done as to costs and
it is very probable that not one-half
of the men who make prices to
customers upon piece Of printing
can accurately tell exactly what it
costs him to produce it. Too many
are governed by what they think
the other fellow is going to ask for
the work; by a willingness to accept
nearly any price rather than let a
competitor have it, or too loose an
estimate of the actual cost items
entering into the job, as IN The
Teller's figures given above. These
are reasons why there is frequently
such a variance in printers prices
and it furnishes a very good reason
also why printers are always poor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

way of additional lookouts, and so
far as shown in the evidence no
search lights were employed to
show up the course ahead. J.
Bruce IsmaY, part owner of the ill
fated ship, and managing director
OF the line, was saved by entering
one Of the life boats while it is
claimed there were women still on
board who were not provided with
room in the boats, and most
grllling examination IS being made
upon this point. COl. John Jacob
Ast0r the New York millionaire
who was returning home with his
young bride. appears to have
proven himself the greatest hero of
them all in his conduct during the
clOs1n2 hours of the lives of the
1900 who met an ocean grave when
the ship welt down. He calmly
devoted all of his efforts to helping
the women and children into the
life boats and went to his fate with
a sublime courage that showed a
true nobility and supreme self
sacrifice in the most crucial test to
which man can be subjected.
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The facts connected with the
terrible disaster in the sinking of
the British steamer Titanic, of the
White Star line, the largest and
finest passenger boat in the world.
off the Grand Banks of Newfound-
land last week, are now all coming
to light, and committee Of the U.
S. senate is making a searching
invef tigat1on by taking testimony
from survivors, to esta blush the true
cause and responsibility. 1t is
being developed that the proper
precautions were not taken in
running at high speed through
dangerous sea at night time to
make a record, when 1t had been
known for several hOu through
warnings given by wireless from
other vessels that there were ice
bergs in the vicinity. There were
not life boats enough on board the
palatial ship to hold one third of
those on board nor other life saving
apparatus to meet the requirements
Of such a catastrophe as resulted
from the striking of the tremendous
mass of sunken ice No extra
precautions were taken in the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

Fixed ChargeS-10 per Cent.......13.30
Total cost

This is somewhat different from
The Teller's estimate, but we are
willing to let any competent
estimator pass upon the accuracy of
it. There don't appear to be much
left for the EDITORS till'' to the man
who took the job at $110 And
mind you the estimate was based
upon printing four tickets for each
ballot instead Of three.
Some old time printers figure
costs this way:-The paper used
will only cost me 500. l have to
pay my help so much anyhow and
we can squeeze this job through
without extra help, so all get over
$40 will be profit for the editors
till
The Teller says it did this work
in four days of nine hours each and
turned out more or less other work
the same week. 1t is a matter of
Indifference to us how long it took
our neighbor to do this work, and it
is no hurt to our feelings if it was
done in four days. 1t is a fact,
however, that the copy for the
ballot was turned over to that
Office by the county clerk on
March 18th or goth and the ballots
were not all delivered to the clerk
until Thursday or Friday, March
~ or %, making it look as
though the work was in progress
considerably more than four days
and a number of nights.
During this period The Herald
loaned TO The Teller one of it's
printer men for couple of days;
another of our men !. assisted
them ali day on Sunday, and two or
three married ladies in town who
are type settlers cont ibuted their
services for several days to help
them out of what they claimed was
bad predicament.
What The Teller says about
having more or less cheap help,
beginners who are working for
about 25 cents a day, we will not
dispute, and if part of the work in
question was done by these begin
ners that would necessarily reduce
costs considerably. Job work in
The Herald office is mainly done by
printers who are paid SIS per week
for their services and we employ
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24


The Teller remarks that as it did
not bid on the printing of the bal
lots used in the city election The
Herald had job Of printing them
at It's own price, which doubtless
was not positive loss" This is
true. We endeavor to always esti-
mate with sufficient intelligence to
make a reasonable profit on our
work. That's what we are in bust
ness for. We are pleased to inform
The Teller, however, that while
ours was the only bid made on the
job the price we charged was So so
less than The Teller received for
the same kind of job done for the
city last year.
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staples in each ballot, but The Teller
O11tg pat IN one, thus saving one
half of the work and expense figured
on by the other bidders. Had The
Herald or the Fennimore Times,
both of whom bid ON this work.
received the order they would have
performed 1t according to orders
and placed two staples in each
ballot as called for and their figures
were made on this basis.
The stapling and perforating of
such jobs is slow and tedious work
and IS worth about as much as the
printing A fair estimate for this
part of the work would be 81 per
thousand That would be $50 for
each, which is quite different from
The Teller's figures.
In the doing Of this job the
various tickets comprising the
ballots, and the filing on the back
Of them are all placed in type and
arranged as separate pages" six
of them, and they are all made up
Tito one form" and all printed at
the same time on the large cy Under
press. Afterward they are grouped
together, stapled, perforated, and
cut apart.
The grouping or making up" Of
the form" takes time and costs
money. Say perhaps 81. It is then
placed on the press and the press is
properly prepared for doing the
printing. This costs about $3.50 and
is called in printers parlance max
ing ready" Neither of these items
are included in The Teller's estimate.
The filing printed on the back
of these ballots has the name of
each voting precinct printed there
in. There are So of such precincts
in the county. After the required
number for one precinct has been
printed it is necessary to stop the
press, unlock the form, " take out
the type of the name of the precinct
and set up and put in it's place the
name of the next precinct. This
takes considerable time. A fair
estimate in time and work for each
of these SO changes would be 25
cents-a total of $500 This Item is
also lacking from The Teller's esti-
mate.
In the printing of these 10000
ballots 20 reams of paper were
necessary It comes in large sheets.
The bundles of paper have to be
opened up and the 20 reams all cut
down to proper size for the job
before it can be printed. This takes
several hours OF time which costs
perhaps $3.50 1t does not
appear in The Teller's estimate.
There are certain fixed charges"
IN every offce-heat, lights, rent,
power, taxes, insurance, wear and
tear on machinery and other
interest on investment
and a dozen other items which have
to be charged in their proper
into every job that is
intelllgently estimated. These are
costs that have to be met. no
matter how much or how little
business is done, and every days
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

Now that looks very well upon It's
face, but we are afraid that printers
who are fan liar with the cost of
doing printing will not agree that
the figures are very near correct.
The Teller says 1T hopes we are
pleased with its showing Of costs.
Pleased is not the word; we are
amused.
1t must be understood to begin
with that there were three separate
tickets constituting each of the
20, 600 ballots. Each of these tickets
were printed on both sides and they
were then grouped together-one
each of the Democrat, Prohibition
and Republican, after which they
were stapled together at the top
and perforated across SO that the
voter could tear out the one he
wished to vote and return the other
two to the proper official The bid
was made upon the assumption that
there would be four tickets instead
OF three in each ballot, but the
Social Democrats failed to file nom
nations, SO the successful bidder
printed only three quarters as many
as he contracted to print. The
specifications also called for two
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24
Residence Property For Sale.

Home Of the late Jacob Reisic,
consisting of good house. barn and
about on9 and three tenths acres Of
land in the western part of the city.
Apply to Brown, Brennan & Car
thew or to John Dawson, PlatteVille.
Wis. 5ctf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

work should bear its proportion of
this cost. We believe it is generally
conceded that 10 per cent of the
total other costs in each job should
be added to cover these fixed
charges"
The true cost estimate on the job
in question then would be some
thing like this:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

FOR SALE-Five room cottage,
two lots, east of electric light plant
For further information inquire of
Mrs. Chas. Lisherness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

FOR SALE-Oak barn timbers,
newly sawed, for building 34x54. All
complete. Call at this office for
particulars. 4W3%
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24
as TO THE COST OF PRINTING.

The Teller made a rather remark
able showing, last week, in its pub
iished estimate of the cost of print
ing 10000 ballots for the recent
primary election, wherein it had
bid and received $40 for the Job
and claims to have made a profit
of $3f at least thereon, at that price.
The other papers IN the county that
bid on the job figured considerably
higher than this and had either of
their bids been ACCEPTED they would
presumably have received too much
for the wOrk-provided the estimate
made by The Teller were correct.
But it is far from being so. Here
is the way our neighbor, who
evidently wanted the job pretty
badly, figured his costs:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

FOR SALE-Good timothy seed,
free from foul seed. Inquire of
Schneider Bros Lancaster, Route 6.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

EGGS FOR SALE-Barred Plym-
outh Rocks and R. l. Reds. soc per
setting of Is. Mrs. Dan Kinney.
Lancaster. 7w4*
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acknowledgements to learn
the blacksmith trade. Casper &
Carroll. St2*
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

FOR SALE-Barred Plymoth Rock
eggs, IS cents setting of Is. Mrs.
Leroy Judd. Lancaster. Wis. 5tfc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

LCST-Charm to gold watch fob.
Initials C. G. H. = engraved there
on. Finder please leave at this Office.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24
S. c. Buff OrpingtOns.

Eggs 81. 90 per Is; $1.75 per 30.
Call or address Fred Henkel, Lancas-
ter, Wis. Farmers phone II. 5w6*
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24

Bring Us your orders for Horse
Cards.
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acknowledgements to learn
tailoring trade. Frank Koefier. site.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-30
CITY BAGGAGE &
 TRANSFER LINE
Walter Douglas. Prop.

Don't worry anl !osa time looking for wagon when yon can Phone 1726 and get anything you Wan haul ed a. the following :at:s Trunks and aEy knd of si-al' package call ed for and delivered to any part e the city less than IS blocSs, 2lc, IS to A blocks soc; one grip hauled free with each trunk. If you have bag gage at the station l will call for your railroad check and deliver your baggage. l meet all train at the Union Station from 6 a. m. to 7:30 p. m. Household goods moved at the following rates: Less than 20 blocks soc to $1.00 per load. Cot ton seed hulls less than 20 blocks 50c. Trash and all kinds of garbage 25c ,o $1.00 per load. Coal and Wood soc 70 '$1.00 per load. l make a spec ial rate on moving p;anlos. If you have packages or boxes at the freight depot phone me and I will get them and deliver them at you at once. If you have anything to be hauled let me haul it. I earnestly sol cit your patronage.
 Office 320 State street, Pine Bluff, Ark. Phone 1726. 11-10 If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-30

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