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Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-07-18

and, generally speaking, wheat is
onnsidered the big money crop Of
he farm, corn being grown for feed
and not for market However, In
some sections covered by these tra-
vels, alfalfa is taking the place Of
wheat as money crop. One farmer
told us that In period Of ten years
lie waa sure that m acre Of alfalka
sIaA aim fOnrs Ok five times
as much net profit as would wheat
on the same land.
While there was a great deal Of
wheat which will make good yield
Of fine quality, there was from one
end OF our trip to the other a great
deal of poor wheat. In fact con-
siderable acreage which was NOT
worth cutting. Inquiry into the
methods of cultivation in instances
OF the best fields revealed the in
formation that they followed early
blowing, deep plowing, q firm seed
bed, clean fields and early seeding
OF good wheat. We found one field
OF exceptionally fine wheat In 30
far as both quality and yield were
concerned, in which each Of the fore
going factors entered into the culti-
walton, and in addition the year be-
fore from three to six spreader
loads OF manure per acre Fad been
placed on the field and tfe ground
seeded with pure Kharkoff wheat at
the rate Of one bushel and three
pecks per acre. We are promised
full data regarding the preraration
Of the ground, the cost Of 'abor on
the ground over and above the cost
Of that ordinarily done, the yield;
etc. When this Is available It witt.
be presented to Kansas Farmer read
srs. The poor wheat generally seems
10 be that which was sown in corn
stalks and that sown late on late
plowed ground. There are excep4
ions, however to this method OF
but generally speaking
his last season was a season which.
D so far as wheat seeding practice
Vas concerned upset some Of the
accepted best methods.
However, it must be kept in mind
hat last season was an exceptional
tear in more respects than one. Gem
,raily speaking, early sown corn
talk wheat gives much better return
han does late piowing and late
eeding, provided the corn fields are
lean. a
there Wheat fs Poor.
A considerable acreage Of wheat
throughout our travels will either
lot be cut. or II cut will be OF very
'oor quality. This on account Of
veeds. II seems to us that in many
ections Of Kansas the loss Of wheat
rom foul fields IS becoming very
reat, and we believe this loss is In
reasing each year. This through
be fact that our farms are so thor
ughly seeded TO weeds. This con-
ition exists to the most noticeable
nd damaging extent in the oldest
armiug sections. The editor can
ately say that in many sections ana
fContiuued on last page)
Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-07-18
Elmo Girl Goes
Dressed as a Boy

ed in the dress she wears about the
house when she left"
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunn and family
formerly lived in Abilene on Vine
street and are well known here. They
are now living on farm near Hol-
land.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-07-18
From saturdays Daily.l

Miss Leila Dunn. the 17-year-old
girl who suddenly disappeared from
her home near Holland Friday af-
ternoon and left note saying she
was going to commit suicide. was
found Saturday afternoon at Her
ington disguished as boy. She
was brought to Abilene Saturday
evening where she was met by her
father, John Dunn. and taken home.
After leaving home Friday Leila
cut off her pretty blonde locks and
donned boys clothes. She went to
Herington and in the guise Of a boy
found employment at the race track
OF the Herington fair association at
$3.50 day. She made handsome
blonde youth, too, but her role as
a boy was short lived,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-07-18
VFrom fridays Daily.i

Miss Leila Dunn, aged II years
suddenly disappeared from her home
near Holland yesterday afternoon and
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs John Dunn
have been unsbel to find her. No
reason was given why she should
leave home. According to her par
ents she had no love affair and
there was no trouble at home that
would cause her to leave. She was
dressed in q plain house dress and
took nothing with her. She left
home at three o'clock and was walk
ing, The nearest place that she
could take train is seven miles
from her home.
Late this afternoon she was re-
ported to have been seen at Her
ington. Sheriff Young notified the
marshal at that place and after an
investigation It was found that Leila
had stayed with girl friend by
the name Of Miss Phillips last night.
No one was with the girl and where
she went today. the people she spent
the night with last night, do not
know. The Herington marshal is
still hunting for tho missing girl
and it is thought some clue to her
whereabouts viii be known by to-
night. Her parents are worried and
are very anxious to find some trace
OF their daughter.
Father Knows No Reason.
II know Of no reason why Leila
should leave home" !" said John Dunn.
her father, this afternoon. 80 far
as / know she did not have any love
affair and there has been no trou-
BILE at our home which would cause
her to leave 90 suddenly, She did
not take anything with her. She
was afoot when she left home and
1t is seven miles to the nearest place
where she could catch u tgain we
heard she was at Herins hnA. bg
this time she might be- on her way
to some other place. She was dress
Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-07-18
Wand Treated Right.

Wasn't Treated Right
No reason was given by the girl
IN the note found by her father why
she should leave home. There had
been no love affair according to her
father and not until she was brought
back ia ARiasEfs IA ahe tall the
cause n WASH : being treated right
at home" was all she said.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1912-07-18
Organized Searching Party.

Shortly after Leila disappeared
her father found q note she had left
saying she was going to commit
suicide. A large searching party was
Immediately organized and the coun-
try around the Dunn home was
secured all Friday night for the miss
ing girl. The party continued its
hunt until a message was received
Saturday that the girl had been seen
at Herington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
FINE CATALOG
 ON FIREPROOFING
Birmingham Concern Gets Out un- usually Handsome Advertisement
 of Its Wares

The North Birmingham Fire Brick and Roofing company of this city has issued a very handsome and extremeiy artistic catalog setting forth in most attractive manner the use of hollow tie fireproofins in construction of build- ings ranging from the cottage to the skyscraper A number of Birmingham residences which have successfuiiy proved the substantially of hreproof materials and the ease with which the products of the Birmingham concern adsest themselves to the lines speclhed by the architect are among the profuse included between the cov- CTS of the book,
 The catalog is printed in two colors, brown and white, with an appropriate cover design on heavy brown paper, showing a scene in bronze and green with touches of gold. The subject mat ter is inclusive of the uses Of hollow tile in building, the testimonials of those who have already employed ms material in structures, a description of the plant at North Birmingham and de- tails of the advantages of using hol- low tiling for the erection of any class
 
 of building.
 Full page views of the residences or this and other cities where the Bir- min gham- made tile has been used, and groups of office and institutional buildings of Birmingham. New Orleans Memphis, Atlanta, Nashville and other southern cities are shown. A double page panoramic view of tho North Bir- mingham plant marks the center of the book and load table as well as cuts showing specimens of the tile are also counted among the features of the publication.
 The book is distributed in a unique envelope bearing a survey of the build ings using hollow tile, showing those from the cottage to the skyscraper.
 The officers of the North Birmingham Fire Brick and Roofing company are: President, c. D. Smith, vice president. w. l.. Smith: general manager, Harry Watkins; secretary, R. L. Gamewell; directors c. D. Smith, Harry Watkins, R. l.. Gamewell. W. L. Smith and c. E. Leonard Printed by Birmingham firm and filled with the desirability of the Birmingham product, the catalogue just from the press is decided credit to the community as whole and the North Birmingham Fire Brick and Proofing company as an individual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
PLAN UNDERWOOD |NVAS|ONOF SOUTH Orators May Be Sent Into
 Southern States MANY ARE WILLING Members of Committee Believe Time Has Now Come to Take Up
 More Aggressive Campaign
 for Alabamian
MANY ARE WILLING

Alabama, In the interest of it's favor- ite son, is preparing to get on the ag- gressive.
 The members of the executive com mittee of the presidential campaign of oscar w. Underwood are unanimously of the opinoin that a determined strug- gle should be made in every other southern state.
 The people of Alabama are loud in their demands that every effort be made to have behind MT. Underwood in Baltimore the national delegations of every state of Dixie. It is believed that as a result of strenuous effort the majority of southern states will send instructed delegations in favor of Un- derwood, and 1t is believed that with this a fact the Alabamian will easily win the nomination. It Is the con sensus of opinion that with the nomi- nation he will encounter little difficulty in achieving the presidency
 F. K. Campbell, chairman of the ex- ecutive committee. stated yesterday that the idea of invading the south in tho cause of Underwood strongly ap- nealed to every member of the execu- tive committee. He stated that before the conclusion of the present week initial steps in this regard will have been taken. This Is an indication that before the delegations in adjoining states arc chosen and instructed prom inent Alabamians will have urged In person the earnest consideration of Os- car w. Underwod, who, within d period of 50 years. is the only man of the south ever accorded national consider ation for the presidency.
 The embryonic plan is to send prom inent men of Alabama into other south ern states with instructions to make speeches or work quietly as Is deemed wiser In each instance. Gen. w. ". Bran don of Tuscaloosa will probably be chosen to address the legislature of Mississippi Oscar Lewis of Macon may be sent into Florida. Oscar C. Turner is considered the available man for work in Tennessee. It Is probable that Col. Jesse Stallngs will be asked to speak in Texas and Gov ernor O'Neal in Virginia. John Rogers of Sumter, Perry Thomas of Barbour, T. Sydney Fraser of Bullock, Sydney J. Bowie of Birmingham, Walker Percy of Birmingham. B. NJ. Allen of Birmingham, E. B. Almon Of Sheffield, Thomas M Stevens of Mobile pr. Russell M. Cum ningham of Ensley and large number of other prominent Alabama men and orators are ready, it is understood, to en- list in the work in other southern states.
 -.s.------
 (. L. STAIN FOR CORONER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
 LEAGUES ID UNITE isadore Shapiro Addressed
 Meeting Yesterday DISCUSSES DIVORCE Prominent Birmingham Attorney Criticises Alabama Marriage and
 Divorce Laws as Farcical
 and Pernicious

Tie Equal Suffrage association of Blf- mingham has formally indorsed the move- ment to consolidate the state political equality organizations of the south and have unanimously subscribed to all the objectlves of the consolidation with the exception of the establishment of an off cial organ A motion instructing Miss Helen Benners, the corresponding seere- tary Of the Birmingham association, to notify the Era club of New Orleans Of the local approval, was passed at the regular fortnghtly meeting held yestar- day afternon at the Parish House of the Church of the Advent.
 The Era club, which is the equal sui frage organization of New Orleans, is endeavoring 10 combine the associations of the southern states into a subsidiary division of the national league that an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
IN THE DEATH OF H. T. BEGGS
 CITY LOSES ANOTHER PIONEER

Funeral services over the remains of night, will be held this afternoon at the home of his daughter. Mrs. R. c. White. 121e North Twenty-ninth street, at 3 o'clock. Interment will be made in Oak Hill cemetery.
 The active pallbearers are Sam F. King. Harry Lyon. E. D. Brown, J. H. Barr B. B. Martin. A. w. Fulgham, William Baird, Jr.. Thomas Parker.
 Honorary: Dr. Roland. Charles Sturgis, NJ T. Richards, Professor Henry.
 Hamilton Thompson Beggs, born March S. 1880. in Liverpool England was a pioneer in the iron and coal industry of the south and especially was he one who blazed the way here in Alabama and Bir mingham. He attended school at Liver pool until II years of age and then learned the trade of foundryman. Coming to America with an elder brother. James Beggs, he worked at hi,S trade as journeyman for several years il Virginia and other states and finally in 1860 settled at Chattanooga, where he and hls brother became the proprietors of foundry. When the state of Tennessee seeded orders were placd with them for cannon, solid shot and shell. of which they made the first In Tennessee for the Confederaey. When Chattanooga became an unsare place for their work Hamilton T. Beggs was transferred to the Shelby Iron works, Alabama, where he was engaged until the close of the war, his main work being the manufacture of armor for the Cor- federate gunboats.
 In the spring of 1865. the Federal raid, led by Gen. James H. Wilson, swept through the state on its mission of de- structlon, and the works were burned. MT. Beggs was paroled at Selma. and since then had been active in the indus trial development of the south He pur- chased lots at Birmingham when the city was founded and erected the first foundry and machine shop. which he kept In oper- ation for many years, also establishing a stove factory.
 He was descended from prominent English family, the Hamiltons on the maternal side, and from the French Huguenots De Beg. on the paternal. III 1855 he married Miss Susan Dunnovant oi Buchanan. Botelaurt county, Virginia who died in 1896. Six children survive him four daughters and two sons, MT. G. w.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
TRIBUTES PAID MIR.
 LIGHTNER AT BIG BANQUET

One of the most notable tributes ever paid a railroad man os this district was u at last night when 50 prominent men of this city joined in paying A. D. Lghtner tribute of their esteem and affection with a banquet at the Hotel Hillman.
 With Webb Crawford acting as toast master, the railroad. industrial and bus- mess men of this district rendered banquet to the Frisco official, whose transfer 10 New Orleans has been gem orally known for some days.
 Webb Crawford was postmaster and Charles simmons indicated the time for each speech with whistle, typifying the Frisco lines, as each man made a speech of regret that MT. Iightner was to leave this district.
 There have been few incidents fin this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
HAMILTON THOMPSON BEGGS Pioneer Citizen of Birmingham Who
 Passed Away Friday Night

Beggs. Mrs. E. R. Edwards, Mrs. R. c. White. MT. J. P. Beggs, all of Birmins- ham, Mrs. E. l.. Snodgrass and Mrs. ]. E. Lee of Dallas, Tex. Two sons, II. T. and ]. J. Beggs deceased. He leaves r grand children and three great grand ehil- dren.
 In 1877 he and MT. William Goold opened the first mine in the Pratt seam of coal They hauled this coal to Birmingham in wagons. They made the first coke In the Birmingham district and shipped three carloads to the Eureka furnaces at OK moor for experimental purposes. In 1878 they sold their interest to Col. J. W. Soss and associates. For the last 12 years he has been engaged In the manufacture of soil pipe. At his death he was president of the Beggs Pipe and Foundry company at North Birmingham.
 MT. Beggs was a good and gifted man He had a mind of vast resourcefulness He was constructive always.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18

nual conferences may be held in the south and the concentration of energy be placed on sSthe southern states. showing the most favorable signs of the earliest enfranchisement of women.
 A letter setting forth aims and objec- lives of this proposed consolidation was read before the session of the Birmingham association yesterday afternoon, and 1t was in response to the call to take such steps that the appreciation motion was introduced at that time
 The meeting yesterday was one of un- usual interest Featured by an address on Marriage and Divorce in Alabamas by Isadore Shapiro, one of Birmingham 8 youngest lawyers. and the presence Of several Interesting visitors and a large at tendance, the gathering yesterday after noon was one of unusual significance Mrs. Solon Jacobs, president of the as- sociation, presided over the meeting, and Mrs. J. E. Frazier, recording secretary, was also present in official capacity The announcement that Mrs. w. L. Murdoch had accepted an invitation from the Rev. s. T. Slaton of the Fountain Heights Methodist church to speak to the Brother hood class of that church this morning wes received with expressions of pleasure me cidSS IS Olt tOIlpOSco titllciS oA men, ranging in age from IS to 75, years, and the topic of Mrs. Murdoch's address is to be 'Women's Rights In stating the announcement the chair commented most graciousy upon the interest taken in the question by this particular church, and said that the matter had come from the minister upon his own initiative.
 Shapiro Speaks
 After brief preliminary routine Mir. Shapiro was introduced as the speaker of the afternoon. Mir. Shapiro said in part as follows:
 T am grateful for the opportunity of addressing a band of sincere women who have dedicated their time and concen- trated their efforts to the betterment of the human race rather than to the foster ing and perpetuation of pink teaism.
 "Our nation is but large family. The federal government is the parent; the state are the children. A state is. in turn, the parent of the counties, and the coun- ties are composed of numerous commun- ties The solidarity of the nation is de- pendent upon the solidarity of the states. The welfare of the state is dependent upon the welfare of the counties. The greatness of community, its moral tone, it's progress and its achievements. are based upon the character-this inward and spiritual grace of the individuals who compose it. A community can be no stronger. no greater than the sum total of the strength and the greatness of it's citizenship. So it Is a glaring truth that no topic more vitally pertains to the we'll being of the nation than that concerning the laws governing the domestic lives of the people.
 Marriage and divorce. the former en- couraged, the latter discouraged, are Ire quently identical in their salutary effect. Marriage sometimes cause bliss and some times sorrow. Likewise. divorce oftimes results in bliss and oftimes in sorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18

city more impressive than wisen Henry B. Gray, former lieutenant governor, arose and. with a voice quivering with emotion. paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Lightner and at the sarne time presented him with a silver service on behalf of the friends who had gathered there to testify to the esteem and affection in which MT. Lightner Is held in the Bir- mingham district.
 Speeches of congratulations on MT. Idghtner's promotion wero made by Cul- pepper Exum, J. II. Doughty. who suc- ceeds MT. Lightner. Frank Nelson, Jr., Edward K. Campbell. R. F. Johnston. Leon w. Friedman, William Ryan. Wal ter Moore, Bradley J. Saunders, F. F. Stovall. John L. Parker. l.. C. Harris, J. R. McGregor. D. F. McDonough, Henry B. Gray and others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18

The consummation of marriage is some times difficult and it's dissolution Is some times more difficult. The state is much more concerned in separating hopeless incompatible pair than in welding them together. But our endeavors should be directed toward the prevention or hm- proper marriages.
 Marriage and divorce in Alabama therein lies the crux of the situation. The existence of a state problem on this subject is indeed deplorable A uniform system of marriage and di- vorce is absolutely necessary to prac-
 tical and effective solution of the prob
 lem.
 Legalized Polygamy
 Did you know that there was such a thing as legalized polygamy in this
 country? Under our dual system of
 government man may be married in
 one state and divorced in another. His marriage in one state may be invalid in the other and his divorce in one state may be invalid in the other The age of consent in Alabama Is I for the man and II for the woman-rather
 girls-if not children. Marriage under
 this age renders the union vbidable merely, not void s
 Marriages may be solemnized by
 ministers, judges and justices of the
 peace. What is known as common law marriages are recognized and are valid in this state A common law marriage
 is marriage without license and solemnization, but by mere consent of
 the parties, followed by cohabitation
 If the man is under 21 and the woman under IS, and not previously married the consent of the parents or guardian is required, and a bond in the sum of s200 is requisite. A record of marriage
 certificates issued is, required to be
 kept by the probate judge. Within 30 days after the marriage the officiating
 magistrate must certify the same tc the probate judge. California Is the only state requiring both the man and woman to appear toNbe examined under
 oath when applying for license. Ano Michigan stands alone in prohibiting marriages between persons having sexual diseases. Such marriages are
 absolutely void. not merely voidable. The grounds for divorce in Alabama are numerous. They are granted IT favor of either party.
 , "Tne method of procuring divorce excepting the payment of an attor- ney's fee) is extremely simple. Tn this county three courts have Jurisdiction over divorces oases-tht circuit, city and chancery courts. A bill Is prepared, setting forth the names of the parties. their age, residence, date and place of marriage, grounds fol divorce and ending with a prayer Iol relief.
 "Desertion Is the principal ground foi divorce. Cruelty comes next, adultery third. Only 15 per cent of divorce cases are contested. More divorces occur dur ing the first and second years of married life than at any other period In 19l | there were 1895 marriage licenses issued