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BRUCE.BROWN LEFT
 ESTATE OF S1OO. .OOO

New York, Oct. 30.-The will of David l.. Bruce-Brown the well known automobiles who was killed while in pract ca, just before the Vanderbil sup race at Milwaukee one month ago, was filed today. The en- tire es.ate which amounts to about $100.0G0 is bequeathed to Bruce Browns mother, Mrs. A. Ruth Bruce Brown of this city
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"A Touch of Dave2saaeeTT "A re- ward of $5 is offered to the person furnishing information in regard to the story with this title. Address "US' Care Graphic. 10-27-3t
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NOW IS THE TIME

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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04

Thirty Years Ago.
De Lesseps, the French engineer
proposing the Panama Canal, visited
New York.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
Tocdy's Anniversaries

Inauguration Day.
William Penn received the grant OF
Pennsylvania, 1851.
Casimir Pulaski, Polish general, a
volunteer in the American RevOlu-
tion, born 1748.
First Congress under the constitu-
tion met, 1889.
Vermont admitted to the Union,
1891.
David r. Atchison was ex-oficio
president of the United States, 1849.
Samuel Slocum, inventor of the
first pen-making machine, born 1892.
Americans took possession of Dor
chester Heights, 1916.
Henry c. Taylor, commander of
the Indiana in the Spanish-American
War, born 1845.
Thomas w. Ferry was ex-officio
president of the United States, 1877.
Carleton Virgins, artist, a cele-
brated painter of landscapes and cat
tie, born 1848.
The bank of the United States
ceased to be government institution,
1886.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
Read Hail

Read Hall, the dormitOry for wom-
en- students of the University of
Missouri, was opened in 1908. 1t
was built at a cost of $4,000, appro-
priated by the State Legislature. 1t
was named after DR.. Daniel Read,
president of the University when wo-
men were first admitted.
The hall has rooms for thirty girls
and accommodates forty in the dining
room. The prices of the rooms vary
according to their size and location;
board costs $4 a week.
The first head of Read Hall was
Miss Mary Elizabeth Lewis, now Mrs.
A. M. Green, Jr., of Troy, N. Y, who
served from 1903 to 1906. In 1906
Miss Mary B. Breed, the present head
of Read Hall, succeeded Miss Lewis
and has since held that position with
the exception of the year 1909-10
when she went to Europe on leave
of absence. During that period, Miss
Eva Johnston, assistant professor of
Latin in the University, took her
place.
Read Hall has been Investigated
twice by the State Legislature be-
cause it was thought that the man
agement was extravagant and the
hall was place for rich girls only.
The investigations proved that the
charge was unfounded. Several
girls who have lived at Read Hall
have worked their way through the
university.
Read Hall furnishes a place where
all the women of the University may
have their social gatherings during
the year. Women's class organiza-
tions, departmental clubs and the Y.
w. C. A. often use it for thei' ,arties.
The Association of Collee q Alum
nae frequently meets . Read Hall
and the Fortnightly o db uses it as
its regular meeting n zee. The rooms
on the first foo. which can be
thrown togeths r, are admirably
adapted for all kinds of entertain
ments.
There are : ree calling nights q
week, Friday saturday and Sunday.
The doors Of he hall are closed
promptly at 10 p. m. The girls are
not alloweI to play cards on the first
floor. NO girl carrying less than
nine hours work in the University
may room or board in the hall. No
rooms will be assigned to residents
Of other st ties than Missouri unless
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
The Passing of Shocking Bank"

! In i.,o banks of Columbia is depos.
tied approximately two and one.
half million dollars. representing the
savings of the people of Columbis
and the surrounding country. Never
before have banks been patronized
as they are today. Business has
been steadily on the increase and
the b"nks report the prospects for the
future exceptionally bright.
Columbia had the first national
bank in Missouri. The Boone County
National Bank is the lineal descend
ant OF the Banking House of Prew:tt
and Price, established in 1857, the
first national bank in Missouri and
the third west of the Mississippi Riv-
er. For fifty-five years it has been in
constant operation. In 1863 it oper-
ated under national charter number
sixty-seven. On the day of the mas
sacre at Centralia a block house was
built on Broadway for the protection
of the bank. The country surround
ing Columbia was overrun by guer-
rillas, robbing and plundering. For
further protection the bank changed
to a state charter, which required
less reserve kept in its vaults. In
1871 the bank went back to the nat
ional system under the name of the
Boone County National Bank, which
has continued to this day. The
Banking House of Prewitt and Price
was succeeded by the first chartered
bank in Columbia, of which R. B.
Price was cashier. Mr.. Price is now
president of the Boone County Nat
ional Bank.
The second bank in Columbia was
the Exchange National Bank, estab-
lished in 1865 and in constant ex-
istence since. The Columbia Savings
Bank was established in 1886 and the
Boone County Trust Company in
lVVH. ne ScuIIoI Douh W0o cStoU-
lished three years ago. The newest
is the Conley-Myers State Bank, es-
tablished January 3, last, in the Gui-
tar Building.
All banks, except national, which
are under the supervision of the nat
ional government, are now inspected
each year by a state examiner. Be-
sides this, the law compcls the direc-,
tors or board to meet and carefully
go over the books once each year.
With certain exceptions state chart
cred banks are forbidden from lend
ing more than 25 per cent of their
paid-up capital. Savings banks can
not lend more than 10 per cent.
These are some of the safe guards
that are thrown around the deposits
after the banks have complied with
strict laws in their establishment.
No savings bank can start with a
capital of less than $4,000, and in
cities of more than 10000 popula-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04

tiOn they must have $4,000. State
banks in cities of 10000 population
must have at least 100000 capital
The law is explicit in q hundred
ways concerning the details of the
banking business.
There was time, and not so long
ago, when many people hesitated
about depositing their earnings in
banks. Savings were buried in the
earth or hidden away behind the
chimney in an old stocking. Millions
of dollars were thus withdrawn from
circulation. Farmers carried hund-
reds of dollars in their pockets and
storekeepers emptied the cash drawer
into an old tobacco sack and carried
the money home. Banks were
thought to be only for the very rich.
Many felt that they did not have
enough money to deposit unless they
had several hundred dollars.
But times have changed. A thous-
and dollars today is smaller than a
hundred was fifty years ago. Circu-
lation has increased MANIFOLD. Cash
is becoming less and less used every
day. The check is now almost a uni
versal rule, and it has vastly in
creased the business of the banks.
Along with increased prosperity
has come spirit of saving, despite
the fact that this is considered an ex-
travagant age. Extravaganza has
not kept pace with increased wages
and profits. Millions have been stored
in the banks in spite of the craze for
western land, for southern land, for
Canadian land, for town lots, auto
mobiles and a thousand other things.
Bank failures, while not a thing of
the past are becoming less frequent
each year. This is due to the general
increased prosperity of the country
and to the improvement of the bank
ing laws and more efficient manage
ment of the banks. In years past
thousands of failures were due to
The examiner
could not close the doors of a weak
banH; he could not lock the stable
doors till the horse had been stolen.
But today meager signs of weakness
or mis-management are sufficient
reason for the closing of the doors by
the examiner. He acts while the bank
is yet solvent, instead of waiting un-
til the vaults are empty.
Embezzling and mis-appropriation
of funds by bank officials, SO common
in years past, is extremely rare. Rigid
bank laws and careful inspection by
expert examiners have practically
crookedness.
The bank has come to be a great |
factor in our economic welfare. 1t
really is just coming into universal |
use. &C. A. L. |
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04

there is no applicant from Missouri
for a vacancy.
The girls of Read Hall have a
house president and a modified form
of self government. They are par
ticularly interested in athletics and
in Y. w. C. A. work. The girls are
allowed to give two dances q year to
which they may invite their men
friends.
In the few years since the opening
of Read Hall, it has been successful
both from social standpoint and as
a home for University women.
w. L.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04

troubled with aviators. A few stu
dents own automobiles but we have
not reached that stage of afluence
where students can afford to fly in
aeroplanes. This is still q democratic
school.
In the early days Of aviation in
Germany and France, farmers COM
planned that the fight Of aeroplanes
over the land damaged the crops. 1t
is hard to see just how this could be
done but the peasants hung on stead
fastly to the idea. We might get an
opinion from the College Of Agricul-
ture as to the possibilities of such
damage. 1t sounds about as logical
as some of the almanac theories as to
the time to plant potatoes.
Aeronautics have never received
much attention in Columbia, al
though the price of gas continues to
soar and occasionally a baseball
pitcher "goes up in balloon"
The world is wide and even though
the aviators may not alight in the
Naw York narkS and ovon If tho
peasant farmers of Germany and
France do not take kindly to trespass
in the upper air, there is plenty of
room in the world for the bird-men
to fly. We suggest that the Univer-
sity golf links would make an excel
lent starting and landing place for
aerOplanists If they can acquire suf-
ficient dexterity in lodging golf balls.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
HAVEN FOR THE BIRD-MEN.

HAVEN FOR THE BIRD-MEN.
rhe New York commissioner of
lrks has issued a rule that no avia-
or may land in any of the public
parks Of the metropolis. The rule
followed stampede in a park in
which a crowd tore down q wire fence
and ruined shrubbery to get close to
a bird-man who had alighted after
q sensational fight over the city.
TIL. re are holes on the campus of
the University of Missouri where the
brave warriors of the cadet battalion
have trodden, there are criss-cross
paths across the quadrangle where
students took short cuts during the
SHOWS. but to date we have not been
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
ELECTRICITY AND WATER.

We who are far removed from the
great cities little realize the advance
electricity is making as a means of
locomotion. In the East, especially,
it is rapidly replacing the more ex-
pensive and inconvenient steam en-
gine.
Many roads in thickIy settled parts
of the country have replaced major
ity of their steam engines with elec-
trio motors. Western lines are grad
ually making preparations for SIM
liar change. President E. E. Ripley
of the Santa Fe estimates that within
twenty-five years electricity will have
almost entirely replaced steam.
This means that water power will
play a much more important part in
our commercial life than it has here
tofore. The monster dam which is
being erected across the Mississippi
at KeOkuk, Ia, and which is to sup
ply power to Chicago and st. Louis,
is a good example.
Are we to pursue the same negli-
gent policy in regard to our water
power that we have with regard to
our other natural resources?. Are we
to stand blindly idle while the trusts
and corporations deprive us of what
is rightly ours?
The corporations are already maxi
ing moves in this direction. The
American people must begin a coun-
ter move.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
HOOKWORM VS.. BOOKWORM.

A Washington University dean is
alleged to have made the assertion
that half of the students in that
school have the hookworm. The St
Louis Star, in commenting on this
statement, suggests that this is a
worse state of affairs than the old
bookworm trouble, which, the Star
believes, is no longer a menace to our
colleges.
There are no statistics at hand as
to the decadence of the college grind.
but it is pretty safe guess that there
has not been a marvellous decline. In
fact, it is doubtful if the average of
student scholarship was ever high
er in our colleges than it is today.
In any comparison with the past it
must be borne in mind that college
curricula have grown wonderfully
and requirements have likewise in
creased.
The hookworm we will have al
ways with us. 1t seems to have sur
vived the period of the big flood. We
very much suspect that Ham was res
ponsible for its presence on the Ark
Anyway, it is here and seems to have
settled down for all future time. We
might be able to get along without
the boOkworm but we cannot get rid
of the hookworm.
We are sorry if the hookworm has
been working unusual ravages at
Washington University. Since exam
nations, not a few students at the
University of Missouri have devel-
oped alarming symptoms. We can
only suggest to those Washington
University students that the matter
sF Id be reported at once to John
rockefeller, who may be ready to
ribe means of relief.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04

Twenty Years Ago.
The question of rebuilding the Uni
versity was taking the time of the
legislature, as strong fight was be-
ing made for its removal from Colum-
bia.
Stephens College began the use of
steam for heat.
Noah Porter, former president of
Yale, died.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
The New Books
Ravenel's Road Primer

Samuel w. Ravenel, civil engineer
and former editor of the Boonville
Advertiser. has written an excellent
Road Primer for Children" The
volume discusses in simple language
the location and maintenance Of
roads. It is well adapted for supple
reading for school. If placed
in thu hands of Missouri's school
it will do much to make the
roads of the next generation more
worthy of the state. The primer is
well illustrated and contains much
thst would also be of
profit to the grown-ups. "a. C. Nc
Clurg G Co., Chicago, 159 pages).
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
Echoes of Yesterday
Four Years Ago.

Burglars made a five-cent haul
from local grocery store. A window
was smashed and the cash register
broken open.
Young women of Boonville formed
a Proposal Club. The young men
planned to organize a Not Much Mary
Ann Club.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04
Ten Years Ago.

Ten Years Ago.
Centralia had sixteen inhabitants
who had lived there since 1886.
Mary L. Hall, a Columbia archi-
tect, filed suit in st. Louis for alleged
libel.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-04

Call SIS for Circulation Depart
ment University Nissourian.
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Fifty Years Az,

Fifty Years Ago.
The United States Navy was at
Roanoke.
A slave trader of Maine was
hanged in New York.
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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-29
BISMARCK PUBLISHER, FINED
FOR CONTEMPT, HAS POLICE
i MAGISTRATE ARRESTED,
FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
This Tho charge-Aftsr One Case
Was Dismissed a Second was
Immediately 6rought-Grew
Out Of Graft.

Bismarck. - The latest develop
ment in the libel suit brought by Coun
ty Commissioner e. J. Patterson
against D. E. Opdyke as publisher oi
weekly paper here, came with the
arrest of Police Magistrate Casselmar
on charge Of false Imprisonment.
After one case against Opdyke had
been dismissed by Judge Casselman
who bound the defendant over to the
fall term of the district court. Op
dyke is alleged to have made remark,
on the street derogatory to Cassel
mans court and when called before the
judge and asked to apologize he re
fused. Opdyke was then fined $1OC
and sentenced to one day in the coun
ty Jail. He was allowed his freedom
by the sheriff to go down town and
arrange for an application for a wri
OF habeas corpus, which he obtained
and Casselman's arrest followed.
Efforts will be made to prove Cas-
selman Is insane and thus set asid,
the sentence pronounced by him. Pat
terson is q county commissioner an,
the libel suit grew out of charges O
graft in the Office preferred by tn
paper Of which Opdyke is one of th'
publishers. Suits have also beel
brought against Packard, Opdyke'
partner and will be heard later
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-29
WOMEN IN CONVENTION
Third Party Will Give the sex Reprej
sentation.

Grand Forks. - For the first time in
the history of the state women will
be delegates to political convention.
when the progressive party meeting is
held in Fargo, Sept. 6. Under the
call each county is entitled to appoint
one women delegate and woman ali
ternate, and under the rules both may
be seated in the convention, each hav,
ing half vote. Under the laws Of
this state women are entitled to votd
only on questions pertaining to the
educational system.
Women interested in the cause Of
equal suffrage are agitating the ques1
tion of being represented in the third
party convention. They believe that
representation there will be evidence
of their interest in political matters,
and will go to batter down the argu,
| ment that women will not take any in,
terest in political matters. even if they
have full suffrage.
1t now appears practically certain
that the new party will have a ticket
in the field from governor down, and
It may also have candidates for Con-
gressional positions. OF course much
depends upon the attitude of the reg.
ular progressive organization. Should
the progressives, as a whole, go oven
! to the third party, there is little likeli,
hood Of any steps being taken which
would injure the chances of the pro!
gressive candidates nominated at the
recent republican primaries.
Many third party men are particu,
larly interested In having candidate
for governor. They feel confident they
can make fine showing against l.. B.
Hanna, the republican nominee. Per!
sonal antagonism to him is, In fact,
almost the sole ground on which the
movement for third candidate id
based.
The third party lesders insist that
no deal has been made for the candi-
date who will. lead them. There are
many republicans in the state who
might support some candidate against
Hanna, but it is generally understood
that H. H. Aaker has little or nc
chance of securing a major portion OF
that support
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-29
PROTEST EXPRESsR RATES,

Fargo.-Shippers in many lines ap
peared before the special meeting Of
the state railway commission here to
protest against present carrying
charges. Machinery and creamery
shippers are most emphatic in their
protests. though many other lines are
represented.
Statements have been prepared
showing what shippers allege to be
unjust discrimination against this ter
ritory Representatives of the ex.
press companies and attorneys who
are before the board wish the present
protest held up to see what the inter-
state commerce commission does in
it's present investigation.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-29

over this week. Sixty per cent Of thu
fields are now in shock The general
belief is that Grand Forks county will
have an average yield of 20 bushels
of wheat to the acre. Early oats are
cut Yields Of this crop, reported thus
far. average IS bushels an acre. Late
oats will average even more than this
Barley Ia in the shock. EARLY barley
yields were disappointing. Rye thresh.
tng is in progress. and the quality Of
the grain IL good. Yields average 21
bushels. Considerable winter rye has
been down already, and the acreargs
promises to be larger next year than
this. Corn is doing we'll, although dry,
warm weather Is needed. The second
crop of clover is full of seed, and sew
,eral fields will be cut and threshed
this week.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-29
Garden Work Success.

Mandan. = The first year of public
school garden work for the youths of
Mandan has been a splendid success.
The prizes have been awarded and
the young gardeners are harvesting
their peas, beans, carrots, beets, cab
bage, tomatoes. and corn. Nearly
100 boys and girls remained in tho
contest from April until the end. and
all are so pleased over their success
that Junior garden work on bigger
scale for next year is assured. The
work was carried on under the direc,
ton of the Woman's Civic league.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-29
To Start Work.

Alexander. - Grading contractors
who have been successful In bidding
for the work on the new Great North
ern line through this county will put
crews to work next week. The heads
of the two companies who will do
the WORK have been looking the ground
over. It is likely that the outfits
will be transported here on barges on
the Missouri river. The surveying
crews have practically completed the
work. The line goes past this point
to Arnegard, and thence to schafer.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-08-29
Mandamue ProceedInQs.

Bowbells. - Mandamus proceedings
have been brought against Register Of
Deeds George Hanson and County
Treasurer G. P. Olson, asking that
the district court order the former to
record certain deed which he has re-
fueed to place on record. That there
is a seed lien of $500 against the
property in question which must be
paid before the deed can go on record
is the contention of the defense. The
argugments will be heard before Judxs
Leighton.