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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27

Stone Implements Found in Europe
Now University PrOperty.

Stone Implements Found in Europe
Now University Property.
Stone implements that our fore
fathers might have used-that is, If
We are OF. Teutonic descent-have
become the property of the Universi-
ty of Missouri, and are now in the
Social Museum in the basement of
Academic Hall. These relics date
back to about 1900 B. C. They are,
DR.. C. A. Ellwood believes, the first
collection in the state.
The flint implements resemble
somewhat those that the Indians of
America made, but show a superior
handicraft. In the collection are
poniards, hatchets, chisels, war axes,
dishes, knives and saw. They were
all found in what is now Southern
Denmark. Doctor Ellwood says that
to Prof. George Grant McCurdy, a
former Missourian, and now a pro-
fessOr at Yale and a curator of the
Peabody Museum, credit should be
given for securing the collection for
the University.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
WROTE OWN MARRIAGELICENSE
Girl Deputy Recorder Is Now Wife of
"Graduating Glass;"

Girl Deputy Recorder Is Now Wife OF
Graduating Glass;"
Miss Irma Nichols of Fulton, Mo-,
wrote her own marriage license
Tuesday, the day she was married to
the "senior class" of the Bible Col
lege of Missouri. The senior class
was the Rev. Jacob H. Stidham, the
only graduate from the school this
year.
Mrs. Stidham had been a clerk in
the Office of the recorder of Galloway
County at Fulton. 1t was part OF
her work to tissue permits to those
who wished to be married. When the
time came for her to use such a per-
nit, she sat at her desk and per-
formed her last official act. The GER
emony was performed that afternoon
at the home of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stidham came to Co
lumbia the next day to attend COM
mencement exercises of the Bible
College. held Wednesday night.
Mr.. Stidham has been preaching
at churches near Fulton while in
school. Mr.. and Mrs. Stidham will
live in Fulton and Mr.. Stidham will
continue his work.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
Tennis an Ancient Game

Academic Hall were constructed. In
1901 the first inter collegiate tennis
tournament in the Missouri Valley
was held. 1t was at Columbia and
two schools were entered, Washing
ton University and Missouri. Wash
ington won the doubles and Harry
Broadheau of Missouri won the sin
giles. Broadhead and Hall Fry were
the entries in the doubles.
In 1902 Columbia was the scene
of a tournament between Missouri
and Kansas. In this match Kansas
won the doubles but Missouri CAP
tured the singles. The same men
represented Missouri as In 1901. La
ter the same year Missouri went to
st. Louis and played Washington.
losing both doubles and singles.
In 1903 the tournament was held
at Lawrence. with Missouri. Kansas
and Nebraska entered. The session
was won by Kansas and Nebraska.
Burns Moore and II. w. Prentiss rep
resented Missouri.
The next Witnessed the meet at
Columbia again with Kansas and
Missouri entered. Kansas won both
events. w. J. Darlington and II. G..
Bedinger represented Missouri In
singles. while Bedingcr and G. h.
WhitmOre played In the doubles.
Missouri lost both events to Wash
ingtOn at st. Louis in 1905. M. l..
Crouch and J. G. Welsh were entered
for Missouri in the doubles, and
Crouch and Whitmore in the singles
In 1906 Missouri turned the tables
and took both singles and doubles,
in the meet with Washington here.
Welsh and WhitmOre played in the
doubles for Missouri and G. F. Rep
py lost for Missouri in the singles.
However, in the play-Off WhitmOre
entered and won for Missouri.
Missouri and Washington played
again in 1907. Washington won the
doubles from H. A. Henley and C. L.
Ristine. J. w. BOdman for Mis-
souri, won the singles and in the
play-Off Ristine took the match.
In 1908 Missouri played two
matches-One with Illinois, which
BOdman and Ristine won for Mis-
souri,; the other match was lost to
Washington.
During 'O9, 10 and II no match
es were played.
According to C. L. Brewer, the
Missouri Valley tournament bids
fair to become a permanent event,
because of the great success of the
one just ended. The place of the
next tournament will be decided at
the meeting of the conference men,
bers in December. H. d. G..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27

Five hundred persons saw Missou-
ri win the singles in the inter-cOlle-
giate tennis tournament of the Mis-
souri, Valley a short time ago. Pro-
badly very few of those 500 knew
that they were watching a game
which had it's origin many hundreds
of years ago. Tennis is one of the
oldest of ball games.
In former years it was known as
royal tennis, having been popular
with various kings of England and
France. 1t is said that the ball
games of the Greeks and Romans
were fOrerunners of our modern
tennis. The origin of the name is
obscure, although it is thought to
have come from the French word
"tenez" (take it, play.)
Just how old tennis really is would
be hard to determine, but it is known
that a form of the game was played
in eleven hundred A. d. In the time
of Anna COmmena, about 1920 A. d.,
a game is referred to as being played
on horseback. in which a staff, curved
at the end and strung with strings of
plated gut, was used. In A. d. 1900
the game was known as "labOnde." I"
Throughout the century it was
played in France by the highest per-
sons in the land. Louis X died from
a chill contracted after playing.
Charles v was devoted to the game,
though he tried vainly to stop it is a
pastime for the lower classes
Charles vi watched the game from
the room where he was confined dur
ing his attack of insanity. In Eng
land some form of it was known, as
Chaucer possibly referred to it in
the words. But cOnstow planen
racket to and frO."
But in America the game is COM
paratively young, few courts having
existed before 1880, when the Boston
Athletic Association and the New
York Racquet and Tennis Club built
courts. However, now the game is
being played with increasing inter-
est all over the country.
Tennis is game which requires
quickness of judgment, accuracy and
generalship more thoroughly than
any other pastime. In this respect
polo is said to come near to tennis
but not to equal it. The reason is
that tennis is a much more exact
game and can be worked down to a
finer point. as polo from it's very es-
sentials requires turf field and a
pony, both of which bring in uncer-
tain elements.
At the University of Missouri ten
mis- has been played since 1900,
when the cinder courts just east of
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
COMMITTEE TO ELECT DEAN
Three Men Appointed to Choose New
Bible College Head.

Three Men Appointed to Choose New
Bible College Head.
The election of the new dean of
the Missouri Bible College was
turned over to a committee chosen at
the regular meeting of the board Of
trustees last Wednesday after Prof.
G. d. Edwards had been appointed
acting dean. The committee is COM
posed of J. H. Garrison, St. Louis;
George H. Combs. Kansas City, and
F. v. eileen, Nevada, Mo.
New plans for the work of the
school were discussed, but nothing
definite was done. This work was
left to a committee of three, D. A.
Robnett, ]. T. Mitchell and R. H.
Emberson. The reports of the dean.
treasurer and executive committee
were read. approved and filed.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
THREE STATES TO ARKANSAS
Missouri Program Committee Is Sc.

Missouri Program Committee Is Sc.
lectcd for Tri.State Roads Meeting
A Try-State Good Roads Meeting,
with representatives from Missouri.
Arkansas and Oklahoma will be
held at Monte Ne, Ark, July and
4. The meeting will be for the pur-
pose of arousing good roads spirit
and for promoting better co-Opera-
tion in the working of border roads
between the states.
The committee from Missouri for
the arrangement of the program is:
e. e. McJimsey, president of the
Missouri Good Roads Association,
Springfield, Mo-; Bud Robinson,
Kansas City-Joplin Highway Associa-
tion, Joplin; j. d. Clarkson, presi-
dent the 365 Day Club, Carthage; w.
S. Jackson, president of the Spring
fieldSedalia Highway Association,
Warsaw; ]. B. Grigg. secretary of
the Western Missouri Good Roads
Joplin; H. w. Tim
mOnds, president of the Barton
County Goods Roads Club, Lamar;
J. F. Mermoud, president of the Bar
ry Co. Good Roads Association, Mo-
nett; ]. NJ. Clark, secretary of the
Nevada Good Roads Club. Nevada;
L. M. Stallard, president of the
County Highway Engineers Associa-
tion, st. Joseph; G. w. Pine, presi-
dent of the Missouri Association of
County Judges, Hannibal; Curtis
Hill, State Highway Engineer, Co.
lumbia.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
BARBED WIRE AND PATHS.

No one goes out of his way fol
the express purpose of cutting a
path. So. where there is a path, il
is safer to surmise that it is a quicker
or an easier way to get to some def
mite place. To put barbed wire
fence there as forbiddance to tres
passers is expressive of a desire to
deny the shortest and easiest, and to
impose the longest and less conven-
lent.
The University campus is dotted
with these little fOrbidding barbed
wire fences. Each one enclOses lit
tie path, which, though created be-
cause of it's convenience is tabooed
because it somewhat interferes with
some plan of landscape gardening.
Now landscape gardening is not to
be belittled, but in all decoration,
and in all ornamentation what must
be kept in mind primarily, is that
the comfort and convenience of those
who are to use it comes first, and no
divinely conceived plan that disre-
CARDS that is worth anything. Com
fort and convenience are not to be
sacrificed to beauty of design.
Where students and faculty in
their hurry to their appointed places
have cut a path where there was
none before, it should act to the
gardener as an indication that there
a path is needed, and not only should
no barbed wire fence be put there,
but the path should be fixed and
graded, and built fit for people to
trOd on.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
GEESE HATCHED AT THE FARM

Pens Being Built by Poultry Depart.
ment for Other Fowls.
The poultry department of the
University, when completed. will in
clude chickens, ducks. geese and
turkeys. The first geese to belong to
the department are five goslings,
hatched yesterday. They were from
eggs bought near Columbia and are
of the Toulouse breed. As soon as
the lots are ready ducks and turkeys
will be added.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
PERSONALITY IN PROFESSORS.

College professors are just human
beings. Naturally they are not all
perfect and perhaps none of them
ever approach perfection. But most
of them are pretty we'll informed in
the branches of knowledge they
teach and most of them have earnest
purposes back of their work. Despite
these facts, there is a feeling among
students, and some faculty members,
too, that student and teacher never
come into close enough personal re-
lations. The professor rarely learns
a students ambitions, hopes, beliefs
and pet theories. The student does
not always get from the professor the
moulding influence of personality
and character that closer contact
would bring.
1t is indeed strong personality
that can span the gap of formality in
class room lectures and recitations.
Many professors possess such person.
ality. Men who rarely meet their
students at conferences or outside
the class room may still live long in
the memory of the student. Where
classes are large, personal contact is
almost impossible. In the smaller
classes, the professor can spare more
time to each student.
No matter how exerted, the fact
of personality is one of the strongest
advantages any college has to offer.
Graduates remember certain profess
sors long otter they have forgotten
what the professor so carefully
taught them. They remember him as
a man of ideals, as a man of charac-
ter, as a man to be studied. Few
men ever graduate from any school
without carrying away with them
some such memories, perhaps not Of
more than one or two professors, but
nearly always of some one.
After all, the facts a man gathers
at college, the information assimi-
lated. are not the essential points OF
college training. The average grad
uate carries away hazy ideas Of text
book knowledge. But there is that
undefinable something" that goes to
make up the fruits of four years in
college; that stamps one as a college
man so deeply that clothes or sur
roundings can not hide the fact. II
it isn't the effect of contact with per-
sonality that counts. what is it.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27

w. s. Carter to Enter Northwestern.
w. S. Carter, who was graduated
from the University of Missouri in
1910 with an A. B. degree has writ
ten the registrar for a statement of
his work here so he may enter North
western University at Chicago to do
graduate work.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
Twenty Years Ago.

Twenty Years Ago.
The baccalaureate sermon at the
University of Missouri was preached
by DIR. j. ID. Hammond, president of
Central College.
Stephens College was just begin
ming commencement exercises.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
County Will Build Two Bridges.

G. E. Ridgeway, county highway
engineer, is receiving bids for two
2O-foot steel bridges. One is known
as the Barnes bridge. twelve miles
southeast of Columbia and the other
the Wade bridge, eight miles north
west.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
varnish for Courthouse Offices.

The Offices of the clerk, assessor,
superintendent, probate judge and
circuit clerk of the Boone County
courthouse are being given a new
coat of varnish and tint.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
Echoes of Yesterday
Five Years Ago.

Fifty-six grammar school students
were awarded certificates.
The Tigers won a baseball game
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
The Normal School
at kirksville, Missouri

Initiates movements in education. Through it,
new and Household Economics Department makes
Botany garden crops zoology a
breeding anmas chemistry
experiment soil
fertility Biology bacteri-
These practical reach all the from the
yeast germ in
Farm managed wholly students, furn-
products
partment.
The Institution offers special laboratory dairy
Ing soil farm farm machinery farm archi
lecture bacerology cooking, analysis,
commercial training painting and
burning pottery forge work. four in five in
music, high be
adapted to the needs of public school teachers
The Institution places schools VII
age and city graded schools village and high schools
pervsorships and superintendencies.
Large illustrated Bulletin
JOHN r. KIRK, President
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
Ten Years Ago.

Ten Years Ago.
Christian College had the fifty
first commencement.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27
AConege Students $
Summer

During the summer of 1911, college
student appointed sixty agents under
contract to sell The SATURDAY EVENING
POSr and The LADIES HOME JOURNAL
in small towns and villages. By placing
these contracts he earned $425.53 in
commissions and $500 in prize money
total $48O.53.
We want several college students,
twenty one years old or over: to do
similar work this summer. We also
have permanent, profitable work for
number of men able to travel and ap-
point agents to sell our publications.
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
DEPARTMENT A-SALES DIVISION
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-27

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-22
BDOU THEATRE
The Quality Show

dim perspective. The first reel shows
the waylaying of the Williams family
on their way west, by the Danites dis
guised as Indians. Nancy and her
small brother escape massacre. and
when this is discovered two Of the
Danites are pledged to follow them
until death. Nancy and her brother
succeed in joining another emigrant
train OF which Sandy is the leader.
The two Danites disguise themselves
and also joi nthe train. At a certain
spot George is shot down by the Dan
ties and Nancy. to save her own life,
cuts her hair and dressed as a youth
becomes Billy Piper. The second reel
opens with scene in g. western camp
which shows the preparation that has
been made to receive the new tea cher.
It is the impression the teacher Is a
man and all are astonished when a
charming widow steps from the wagon.
Our old friend Sandy is smitten at first
sight and after long heart burning
marries her. Billy Piper joins the camp
and her sex Is discovered by the wife
of Sandy The two Danites appear on
the scene and suspect that Billy Piper
is Nancy. In the end through their
persecution Nancy dies of heart failure.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-22
This LDilI Stop Your
Cough In a Hurry
Save R2 by Making This Cough
Syrup at Home.

This recipe makes pint Of better
cough syrup than you could buy ready
made for $3.50. A few doses usually
conquer the most obstinate cough
stops even whooping cough quickly. Sim
pie az it is, no better remedy can ba had
at any price.
Mix one pint Of granulated sugar with
y pint of warm water, and stir for
cents WORTHY in pint bottle; then add
the Sugar Syrup. It has 9 pleasant
taste and lasts q family o long time.
Take 3 teaspoonful every one, two or
three hours.
You can feel this take hold Of cough
in way that means business. Has q
good tonic effect, braces up the appetite,
and is slightly laxative, too, which ia
helpful. 4 handy remedy for hoarse-
ness, Group, bronchitis, asthma and all
throat and lung troubles.
The effect of pine on the membranes
Is well known. Pinex is the most yalu.
able concentrated compound of Norwe.
gian white pine extract, and Is rich In
guaiacol and all the natural healing
pine elements. Other preparations will
not work in this formula.
This Pinex and Sugar Syrup recipe has
attained great popularity throughout the
United States and Canada. It has often
been initiated, though never successfully,
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, OF
money promptly refunded, goes with this
recipe. Your druggist has Pinex, or will
Pinex Co. Ft. Wayne, Ind.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-22


according to the specifications. Mr..
Rommel calls attention to a shortage
of several thousand square feet in the
radiation called for in the specifica-
lions.
The principal features of the report
were as follows:
Pensacola, Fla, Feb. Il. 1912.
Hon. r. Pope Reese, County Attorney
Dear Sir: In accordance with your
instructions to make a thorough ex-
smination of the heating system In
the county Jail, beg to report as fol-
lows:
/ have thoroughly examined the
original specifications for this work
also the plans which are on nle. and
have made a thorough examination OF
the fixtures now installed in the jail
building.
Specifications.
The original specifications require
contractor to install In the boiler
room two cast iron sectional steam
boilers, the two having a capacity of
tIon. I find installed in the boiler
room one Ideal" boiler, catalogue
No. as" 49,, and one steam boiler,
catalogue No. IS" 36-9. The rating
of the first boiler from the catalogue
is 1900 square feet Of radiation and
the second boiler is 4,200 square feet
Of radiation, this making a total of
il 500 square feet. The connection
from the first boiler to the main cir
culation pipe consists of two e-inch
risers. tapped into 4-inch main.
The connection on the second boiler
consists of two 5-inch risers. tapped
into a 4-inch main. The American
Radiator Company, who built these
boilers, state very specifically IN their
Instructions that all risers and return
connections shall be placed IN the
proper openings in the boilers. The
first boiler requires three 6-inch
risers and the second boiler requires
four 5-inch riseTs. The holes for
these risers are tapped out in the
present boilers, but have not been
connected. The original specifications
require that these boilers be covered
with one and one-half inch thickness
OF plastic asbestos cement applied in
two coats and finished with a hard
white plaster. This has not yet been
done.
The original specifications require
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-22
FISH CHOWDER
FOR THE K. OF P.
RATHsoNE LODGE PLANS BIG
MEETING AND ROYAL TIME AT
CASTLE HALL TONIGHT.

One Of those old-tine Ash chowders
that have made Pensacola famous
will be served by Rathbone lodge, No.
80, K. of p. at 1880 o'clock tonight,
at the Castle hail on East Intendencia
street A most cordial invitation has
been extended to other local lodges
and visiting brethren and an enthu-
siastic gathering goes without the
saying.
Several candidates will be initiated
into the mysteries of the rank of page,
and some excellent and satisfactory
work will be neatly executed by their
1--we and doing enthusiasts of Pythian-
ism.
The event is in commemoration of
the anniversary of the foundation of
this magnificent order by Supreme
Justice Rathbone in the city of Wash
ington, d. c.. in the year 1864.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-22
ADJUSTMENTS.
Bonita Today.

Today the Bonita win show THE
Danites," a feature picture in two
reels The older generation of theatre
goers viii remember the early ORA
matte presentation Of The Danites."
To the younger generation the repro
duction of the drama In moving pic
lures viii doubtless revive its old pop
ularity. The long train of prairie
schooners winding over the plains and
through mountain defiles, the rugged
types of men intent on fortune In the
far west, and the dangers on all sides
from Indians and other foes win re-
create the atmosphere of pioneer days.
Never on any stage has been seen such
magnificent vistas of rugged scenery
with ridge behind ridge fading into
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-22
INSTITUTE At
CAMP WALTON
ON SATURDAY
COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION HAS
MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR
CONVEYANCE CT PASSENGERS
TO FARMERS MEETING TO BE
CONDUCTED BY P. j. ROLLS.

Saturday Is the date on which the
farmers institute will be held at Camp
Walton. and a number OF prominent
Pensacoiians ara planning to attend
the meetings of the institute. Ar
rangements have been made by the
Commercial Association to convey
those desiring to attend the sessions,
w. x. Hyer, Jr., having rendered the
use Of the Donna for this purpose.
The boat will leave Bay1en street
wharf at o'clock Saturday morning,
thus putting the crowd to Camp Wall
ton In ample time for the morning ses-
sion. which will be at 10 o'clock, and
returning after the afternoon session,
which is to be at 1880. arriving back
at Pensacola about 8 p. m.
Those wishing to attend the instt-
tute are requested to confer with the
secretary of the Commercial Associa-
ton either today or tomorrow. so that
ARRANGEMENTS can be made for the &C
cornnodation of all the passengers.
The meetings are to be In charge OF
Prof. p. J. Rolls. of the University OF
Florida, and will be made very inter-
esting and instructive
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-22
THEL.&N.PUTS
CHAIR CARSON
SELMA TRAIN
TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN FLO
NATION AND SELMA TO BE I'M
PROVED AT ONCE BY ADDITION
OF PULLMAN CHAIR CARS.

The Louisville & Nashville railroad
is to improve at once the passenger
service on the Southern Alabama di-
vision by the addition of chair cars
on all passenger trains running be-
tween Flomaton and Selma There
is already a chair car service between
T1omaton and Pensacola
One fine Pullman chair car has just
arrived in Pensacola for service on
the Southern Alabama division, and
another is expected shortly. Just as
soon as It arrives the new service
will be started. though it is possible
the one car will be placed in use be-
fore the arrival OF the second.