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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Interesting News Notes About PEG
!. Die of Alexandria Happenings
In Society.

Mrs. Ada Deanne Smiley, widow of
the late DR.. Joseph Smiley, of Canada,
after pleasant ocean trip to Nor
folk, where she was the guest of her
three brothers, Messrs. Samuel Davis,
Edgar Snowden Ravis, and Haywood
Davis, jr., arrived in this city on the
Norfolk steamer yesterday accomp-
anied by her sister, Mrs. Emma j.
Spencer who has been visiting her
brothers in Norfolk and are now guest
of their brother, Mr. c, Randolph Da-
Wis, on Prince street. After a few
weeks sojourn on the beautiful farm
of their father, Mr.. Haywood Davis,
in lower Fairfax, they will return to
Canada by way of Niagara Falls.
Mrs. Henry O'Bannon Cooper is the
guest of relatives in Culpeper.
Mrs. Alice Lyons, her granddaugh-
ter, little Miss Thelma Williams, and
Mrs. Rena Lyons are the guests Of
Mrs. Bernard Hammitt at her home
in St. Mary's county, Md.
Mr.. Clinton De Witt Boyd, who has
held a position in this city for some
time, has gone to Danville, where he
will make his home in future.
Mrs. Mary Shoemaker, of Bridge
ton, is the guest of Mrs. Susan A.
Smoot in south St. Asaph street.
Judge Louis C. Barley, who spent
the past week with his family at
"Deerfeld," his country place in Bath
county, returned to this city yester-
day,
Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett and Miss
Lila Barrett will leave tonight to
spend a week at Lake Toxaway,
Miss Mary Lemon, who has been the
guest of Miss Emily Johnson for sew
eral weeks, has returned to her home
in Louisville, KY.
Mrs. j. Johnson Downey left today
for Bedford county, where she will
Join her sister, Miss Hoblitzell, and
make visit of two weeks.
Mrs. William B. Smoot has gone to
Massanetta Springs for a months
visit.
DR.. and Mrs. Hugh Nc CURE left to-
day for New York and will sail to-
morrow for England to spend the re-
mainder of the summer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17
1Sc to 25c Colored Wash
Goods, 12Hc.
1Sc Irish Linnettes, 12hc

This is without doubt one of the
prettiest sheer fabrics on the market
for summer dresses; fine linenthread
finish; printed on white grounds, in
a large variety of pretty, neat designs
and bordered effects for cool summer
dresses. Yard .12Hc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.


THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
Can be reduced by buying meats
and provisions at my sanitary meat
and provision market.
Every piece of meat sold here IS
absolutely guaranteed, as the same is
kept in modern refrigerator and IS
cut and handled in perfectly tlre-
proof compartment.
1t will pay you to call. Up-to-date
methods of handling cash, credit or
C. 0. D. accounts.
VIM. II. PECK,
Payne and Queen SITS.
Phones: Bell 1872; Home 1872.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17
Colored Ramie Suiting and Car
Cloth and English Rep.

80 inches wide, in al lof the leading
shades, including white and black.
These fabrics are very popular for
skirts, one and two piece suits. Your
choice of values up to Csc yard. Re-
building Sale price .12Kc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Mrs. Henry O'Bannon Cooper is the
guest of relatives in Culpeper.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

DR.. and Mrs. Hugh Nc CURE left to-
day for New York and will sail to-
morrow for England to spend the re-
mainder of the summer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett and Mis-:
Lila Barrett will leave tonight tt
spend week at Lake Toxaway,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17
JAMES MAGNER
AT COST FOR THIS WEEK ONLY

The following articles can be pur-
chased at this store for the coming
week
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Mrs. Mary Shoemaker, of Bridge
ton, is the guest of Mrs. Susan A
Smoot in south St. Asaph street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Mrs. William B. Smoot has gone to
Massanetta Springs for months
visit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Mrs. J. Johnson Downey left today
for Bedford county, where she viii
Join her sister, Miss Hoblitzell, ano
make a visit of two weeks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Miss Mary Lemon, who has been the
guest of Miss Emily Johnson for sew
eral weeks, has returned to her home
in Louisville, KY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Mrs. Alice Lyons, her granddaugh-
ter, little Miss Thelma Williams, and
Mrs. Rena Lyons are the guests OF
Mrs. Bernard Hammitt at her home
in st. Mary's county, Md.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Judge Louis C. Barley, who spent
the past week with his family at
"Deerfeld," his country place in Bath
county, returned to this city yester-
day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-17

Mr.. Clinton De Witt Boyd, who has
held position in this city for some
time, has gone to Danville, where he
will make his home in future.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
Gnut,ty Nrlna Nntrs|
PALO VERDE VALLEY

Walter Wilkinson spent the holidays
in El Centro.
Jesse /. Bodl1in of Neighbors has
gone to Seattle and will be absent a
month.
Mrs. Eliza S. Curtis of the mesa
district has gone to San Diego to visit
relatives.
The cotton gin at Blythe has cleaned
up its last lot of cotton and has closed
down for the season.
l.. H. Scobey has sent 200 sacks of
milo maize to Blythe for distribution
for seed to valley settlers.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Saults of Mesa
vile have taken their little son to Los
Angeles for treatment at a hospital
in that city. The boy has been seri-
ously i'll for several weeks.
Henry r. Rodman and family left
the Palo Verde Valley last week for
Manila, Philippine Islands. They ex-
pected to spend two weeks in San
Francisco, week at the Hawaiian Is
lands and few days in Japanese
OOTtS
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
FIGHT DRINKING CUP LAW

[BY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS1
NEWARK, n. l.. Jan. 4.-On appli-
cation of the Lackawanna, Erie, New
Jersey Central and Susquehanna rail-
roads, the New Jersey supreme court
at Trenton will today review the writ
of certioIari in which Justice Kalisch
granted the road the right of appeal
from the order of the State Public Util-
tiles Commission, by which all roads
operating in New Jersey were re-
quired to furnish patrons with sanitary
drinking cups free of charge.
Frank II. Somer, counsel for the
commission, holds that the board has
the right to order safe and proper
service" and drinking water and san
itary cups on trains are held to be part
of proper service. He argues that ice
water tanks are useless without cups,
and that a common drinking cup is un-
sanitary and dangerous to health.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
TAFT WILL STAY IN RACE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-"NOthing
but death can keep me out of the
fight now"
President Taft is reported to have
made this statement to White House
callers today and to have added that
he had no objection to the statement
being made public.
1t undoubtedly was intended to set
at rest all reports that Mr. Taft might
withdraw from the race for the Re-
publican nomination for president in
favor of Colonel Roosevelt.
The President is said to be thor-
oughly aroused to the gravity of the
situation in the Republican party and
determined to let his attitude be gen
orally understood. He has declared
that under no circumstances will he
withdraw his name from consideration
by the Chicago convention next June
and has asserted that his position with
respect to the nomination has not
changed in any particular since he first
entered the White House.
Mr. Taft has told friends and party
leaders from the first that If he should
be called upon TO stand for re- election
he would be glad TO do SO; that he felt
under obligations to the party for hav-
ing made him President, and was will
ing to abide by it's decision in the con
vention He adheres TO this position,
according to announcements today,
and Will not quit the race until the
nominating ballots are cast in Chi
ca1o
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
COACHELA Valley

The American Date Company plans
to plant 200 acres of land near Goa
chella to cotton in the spring.
A carload of cotton seed was shipped
from the Coachella Valley cotton gin
at Durbrow to Los Angeles last week
Coachella Valley stands proudly on
its record for 1911 of having shipped
to the markets eight carloads Of
oranges.
Coachella Valley folk used home
grown dates for Christmas remem-
branches to their friends. The idea
was fine one and will help to bring
this valley into more public notice.
The Standard Oil Company plans to
make Coachella its distributing station
for the Coachella Valley and will erect
tanks and storage house at that point.
There are to be four buildings and
three 30-foot tanks. The total eX-
penditure for this plant will be about
$4,000,
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
Funeral of Joshua HartzelI

The funeral services of Joshua Hart
zell, brother of Seth Hartzell of this
city, We're held in Redlands yesterday
at the Cortner Brothers chapel. Rev.
j. H. Williams ofiiciated, assisted by
ReVs. Price and Lamb. The inter-
ment was at Highland, where Mr..
Hartzell resided from 1876 to his re-
moval to Redlands five years ago. He
was a native OF North Benton, Ohio,
and when quite young enlisted in the
United States army, Joining Company
Fl, 105th Ohio Infantry, and serving
three years, or to the end OF the con-
flict He was deacon of the Congre-
gational church AT Highland and was
a deacon in the First Congregational
church in Redlands al the time of his
death He was always noted for his
liberality and open-hearted and OPEN
handed way OF living and of doing. Mr.
Hartzell was for many years one of
the San Bernardino county horticultu-
raj commissioners, retiring when the
number OF commissioners was reduced
to one. In this work, as in all his
undertakings, ne was thorough and
He was president Of the
East Highlands Citrus Association, and
on going to Redlands he became
member OF Bear Valley Post, G. A. r.,
and was one OF the enthusiastic work.
erg In that organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
NHH. WRIGHT AND HIS BOOKS

lN1 At the reception rendered Har-
old Bell Wright last night by his
friends and neighbors under the aus
pices of the Ladies Ten Thousand
Club. Mr. Wright made public con-
fession, saying in effect he had in
tended that The Winning of Barbara
Worth should tell the story of I'M
perial Valley in a way that Would show
the intrinsic relationship of the whole
people of the valley in their great con-
quest of the desert, but in this he had
failed.
AS a matter of fact the Press does
not believe Mr.. Wright is compe-
tent Judge When any article is meas
urea out by one standard it cannot be
tested by applying that same standard
again That is to say that the mind
tnat conceives cannot later test the
conception. Other minds are neces-
sary for that.
The Winning of Barbara Worth" is
not told with the circumstantiality OF
Kipling's Days Work. or Hugo S
"Toilers of the Sea-" That the mater
ial for such story as these is here
Mr.. Wright recognizes, but it is no
adverse criticism of Mr.. Wright to say
that his work is on different lines. The
great masterpiece paintings OF war
scenes are no greater works OF art
than the floral pictures of de Longpre.
Mr.. Wright has performed great
work. He has drawn master picture
of the desert He has given the world
an insight into the life habits and
hopes and ambitions and achievements
Of pioneer people.
It is not for the author 10 measure
this work. The human mind con-
ceives, but whether it be i'll COM
merce or industry, in reclaiming the
desert or reciting the story of recla-
nation, there is superhuman factor
that enters into mans work, SO guild
ing the plow, the shovel or the pen
as to minister to the welfare of hu
manity in ways beyond human concep-
ton, and when the pen is in a mas
ter hand, as it was when it traced the
story of Barbara Worth, the good ac-
complished by the fidelity of the
charming picture is unreasonable.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
RAILWAYS ORDERED TO REDUCE
FREIGHT RATES ON LIVE STOCK

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Radical re-
ductions of freight rates on live stock,
packing house products and salt today
We're prescribed by the interstate conf
merce commission to apply to all west
ern and southwestern railroads.
The commission holds that present
rates on live stock from points in New
Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma to Fort
" orth, Tex; Oklahoma City, Okla,
and Wichita, Kan, are unreasonable:
that existing rates on fresh meats and
other packing house products from
Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Wich-
ita to points in other states also are
unreasonable, and that the rates on
salt from Kansas field to Oklahoma
City are unjust.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
MAIL THIEF SENTENCED

LBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONSl
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4.-Fred H
Thompson, convicted of receiving
stolen postal money, was sentenced to
eight years in the federal prison at
McNeill's Island, Washington, and to
pay fine of $4,000, by Judge Wellborn
in the United States district court yes
terday.
Judge Wellborn excoriated the man
and characterized the crime as helm
Gus.
Thompson, who is an attorney, was
convicted of receiving $4,000 from
Orlando Altorre, a postal employe.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
VALuABLES STOLEN OR LOST

The San Diego Union gives the fol-
lowing account:
One of the biggest lots of diamonds
and other valuables ever stolen or lost
in San Diego, was reported as miss
ing by Mrs. Davies of Ell Centro yes
teIday
Mrs. Davies reported that she had
lost a black leather handbag, marked
IN. c." containing the following:
Small silk purse containing three S.
pieces.
A considerably larger sum in silver.
Check for $40, payable to Mrs. j. B.
Sanford and signed Brother McCas-
lands"
One-hal stone diamond ring.
One-half stone emerald ring.
One-half stone set with two dia-
monds.
Two solitaire diamond rings, one
fourth carat each.
Bracelet, set with five small dia-
monds and five sapphires.
Neck chain and locket.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
INSIDE TRUST FACTS

CHICAGO, Jan. Admitting that,
despite the injunction of the federal
court of 1903, the packers continued
secret meetings eight months after the
national Packing Company was form
ed, Secretary Veeder of the beef trust
completed his testimony today. He
said that Armour e. Company got 20,
and the Swift Company 32 per cent of
the business handled through the sta
tistical bureau. The remainder was
distributed TO others in the combine.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04

Everybody smiles wnen there's a box oi
Merriman's Chocolates around. John r.
Davis. druggist tt
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
MRS. TINGLEY ON STAND

IBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 4.-Katherine
Tingley was for two hours a witness
On the stand today and answered ques-
tions of attorneys for George L. Pat
terson of Newcastle, Fa., who seeks to
set aside the will of his mother, Mrs
Harriet P. Thurston, who left the bulk
Of her $240,000 estate to the Point
Iona homestead. She denied that she
advised Mrs Thurston in regard to the
will and didn't know she was chief
beneficiary until SO informed by the
executor. \
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIANS

IBY UNITED PRESS AgSOCIATTONS]
LOS ANGELES, Jan. "A federal
investigation of the marital customs
of the local Russian colony was or
dereG today as result of charges that
young Russian girls are sold as chattel
prior to marriage.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04

THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY The
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
NEEDLES SAFE ROBBED

[BY United PRESS ASSOCIATIONSl
NEEDLES, Cal, Jan. 4.-Yeggmen
cracked the safe of William Yehrous
store last night and escaped with $500
in bills and gold and iewelry valued
at 5000. Posses are trailing them
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04
APPLICATION EoR PARDON

Notice is hereby given that l intend to
apply to the State Board of Prison Di-
rectors to be paroled from San Quentin
according to law.
Name JOSEPH CABRERA.
Reg. No 23627 jan IL
Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-04

Unquestionable cement construction
by l. v. Concrete Co. Want sidewalk
bid? 94-tf
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03

We eat. but we no longer stunf. The
great suffers Of the past are dead.
What Of that seventeenth century
Kentish man Nicholas Wood. for ex-
ample. who would eat whole hog at
sitting and follow 1t up the next day
with thirty dozen pigeons7 Withal
this possessor of "Kentish stomach
was a sportsman. As proof Of this
there Is thu record of his challenge to
Taylor. the water poet. to .'eat at one
time us much black pudding as would
reach across the Thames Mt any place
to be fixed by Taylor himself between
London and Richmond" Well might
old Fuller moralize over that appetite
Of Woods. LET us raise our graft
tude." he said. ito the goodness Of
God, especially when he giveth MS ap-
petite enough for our meat and yet
meat too much for our Appellee
Westminster Gazette.
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03
The
Scrap Book



A Memphis character well known
about town as brilliant. but boezy. WAS
persistent In his applications for loans
and extremely careless about repay ing
them. Several years ago this man had
ipduced 4 local bank to loaD him $40
and had given his note therefor. At the
end Of each three months he invariably
appeared and asked that the note be
renewed. and as there was nothing ellie
to do ths bank always renewed y. One
day he went into the bank and said to
the cashier:
I'D like to renew that paper of mine
you have here"
Certainly" replied the cashier. all
1x 1t up for you"
The cashier made the proper prepa-
ratIons for the renewal. and az he WAS
fixing up the paper be said:
'Say. the directors were talking about
this paper Of yours the other day.
They decided they wouldn't charge you
interest on 1t any longer"
"That's very considerate of them"
was the reply. II am glad to hear 1t.
am under obligations to them"
mo" continued the cashier. Were
not going 10 charge you interest: we're
going to charge you storager'-satur-
day Evening Post.
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03

"Chap" is simply an Authorization Of
chapman. the merchant Of former days.
AMI ls derived from the Anglo-Saxon
''ceap." a bargain. The word almost
brings before MS the loud voiced
Cheap Jack" as he cries his wares in
the cheaping or market. Chap seems
to have come into common use at the
end of the sixteenth century and 10
rarely mentioned In books before 100.
Johnson does not recognize 1t. though
Steele uses It in 1912 in the Spectator
EFF you want to sell. here is your
chap''). and 1t Is found In Bailey's Die
tionary. 1891. Its ORIGINAL meaning Of
buyer or seller still fingers in the
dialects Of many counties. Coupled
with the adtectives old. young, little,
poor. It was and n used IN familiar
language. a. II It'll relative. Z queer
customer" Todd. 1918. aflrms that a
good chip meant one to whom credit
might be given. whereas not qualified
by good 1t was term Of contempt
London Standard.
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03

VVDPsSSs bSukS~ .
Into a hospital came two men with
battered faces.
"street nghtr' said the surgeon in
charge.
1t was. Under the doctors directions
orderlIes moved beds and patients
around until the newcomers were
separated the length of the ward.
"In this case that precaution may not
be necessary" he said. but after a
street brawl 1t very often Is Before
we learned the peculiarities Of those
people 1t happened more than once
that two men who were mortal enc
mics were brought in and laid out side
by side. Each saw his advantage and
was foxy enough to keep still until
both were left alone In adjoining cots;
then they sailed into each other tooth
and nail, trying to finish the job that
had been interrupted in the street
Once or twice they nearly succeeded.
Now chance patients with pugilistic
tendencies are placed 80 far apart that
q neighborly interchange Of uppercuts
is out Of the question.-New York
Press.
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03
Explosive. In Yssr sssy.

The human body contains no fewer
than four substances which are % In
iammable that in a pure state they
will go or by spontaneous combus-
ton. For instance. there v phospho-
rus. The body Of q person weighing
100 pounds contains twenty-five
ounces of this substance. which. a.
everybody knows. readily takes flre Of
Its own accord II exposed to the air.
1t is combined with lime to make the
bones. taking tho form Of phosphate
lime. The body Of human being
weighing 100 pounds contains nearly
one and a half ounces Of magnesium.
two ounces Of sodium and nearly two
md a half ounces Of potassium The
first Of these. 4 substance Of silvery
wilderness. is 30 readily and nercely
combustible that It has to be kept
tightly corked in bottles to prevent II
from igniting Of its own accord. 80
dunn will take nre II thrown into
water. and 80 likewise will potassium
the latter with great violence. finally
exploding and throwing shower Of
sparks into the air.-New York World.
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03

When the late Stileon Hutchins own
ed two newspapers In St Louis he
kept standing along the top Of the edi.
torInl page Of each. while the Dis
patch and Times nre under the same
proprietorship. they are under distinct
and sen,rate management" One day
he learned that Stanley Huntley.
author Of the "spoopendyke Papers"
his correspondent at Jefferson City.
bad been celebrating unwisely. He tel
sgraphed. diminishing him. and signed
the message ~. a."
HuntIey replied: II was say last
night and am sick today. Ny condi-
tion Of today and my condition Of last
night, while under the same proprietor
ship. are unaer distinct aud separate
management"
Hutchins wired back, retaining
Huntiey and raising his salary.
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03
Little Previous.


During the inter pnrt Of the war be
tween the stntes Basil Gilderxleeve
lay one day apparently at the point of
death. surrounded by several members
Of his family. Brother" he muir
INJURED faInfly. u have. at most. only a
few days to live. and when am laid
to rest want you to have my new
pair Of boots In the closet yonder.
paid SEQ. Confederate, for them, and
YOU are sorely In need Of pair" In
stend Of the expected burst Of grail
tude. there was no answer. Racked
with emotion at the thought of his
great loss. the brother was evidently
too much overcome for speech
Brother" persisted the future lin
mortal" weakly. you mustn't have
any foollah sentiment about those
boOts. will never be well enough to
wear them again. and 1t would be pure
extruvagnnce to bury me In them e
Still. the bruther. his face flushed. his
heart too full for utterance. made no
reply. won't you promise me to
wear the boots after I atm gomez" Gil.
dersleeve pleaded. BASIL" sta mmered
the other. crinsoning with confusion.
"Tve-gOt EN- on now"
The Meeker herald., 1912-08-03
Indian Killed On Track

Near Rochelle, ILL.,, an Indian went
to sleep on railroad track and WAS
killed by the fast express. He paid
for his carelessness with his life.
Often its that way when people ne
lect coughs and cold. Don't risk
your life when prompt use OF DIR.
Kings New Discovery will cure
them and so prevent dangerous
throat or lung trouble. ut com-
pletely cured me, in short time, OF
u terrible cough that followed sew
ere attack of Grip" writes j. r.
Watts, FlOydada, Tex, land l re-
gained 10 pounds In weight that
had lost" Quick, safe, reliable and
guaranteed. Soc and $l.O0. Trial
bottle free at all druggists.