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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
HAfTIESBURG The
CONVENTION CITY
Four Large Gatherings Scheduled For
The Next Few Months And
Others Probable.

Hattiesburg is certainly taking on
airs" over the securing of the numer-
GUS conventions that will be held here
within the next few months. The
first, the Grand Lodge of Masons
will convene here next Monday,
February 18th and continue for four
days. The Commercial Travellers of
Mississippi and Louisiana are here on
May 18th, 18th and 18th, followed by
the Odd Fellows on May 21st, 22nd
and 23rd. The Retail Hardware Asso-
citation will be here on May 7th, 9Th
9th and 10th
1t is also planned to have the Inter-
Collegiate baseball game for the cham.
pionship Of the State played here on
May 10th. This is to be between the
University of Mississippi and the A.
& M. College, an event that always
draws large crowds. The Inter-Col-
legiate Athletic Meet and Oratorical
contest will be held the coming sum-
mer and vigorous efforts are being
made to bring this to Hattiesburg. It
is understood that in arranging the
schedule for the coming Cotton States
baseball season, it will be so made
that at least one series of games can
be played here during the progress of
one of the conventions named above
However, Hattiesburg will be able to
furnish amusement for as many as
come, and it is hoped that the
proper entertainment of these dele
gates to the different conventions this
year will be the means of inducing
others to come here in the future.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
Mr.. KENNEDY KILLED
TWO RATTLESNAKEs

Mr.. George M. Kennedy, who is ex-
tensively engaged in the stock rails
ing business at Agnes, was in the
city this morning and reports killing
two large rattlesnakes in the woods
last week. The snakes were each five
feet long and were not far separated
and were killed on the same day. Mr.
Kennedy states that a neighbor a few
days ago killed a rattler six feet long
with Thirteen rattles.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES
BUSY IN TRAINING

The local athletes of the High
school are at work in earnest now for
the coming season, when they expect
to have the best track team in its his
tory ready to measure skill with 9TH
ers in the state. Pupils in the school
are looking forward to the debate
scheduled to occur at an early date
between the Lamar and Lafayette
Literary Societies. The subject that
has been chosen is Resolved, That
Suffrage in the United States be Re.
stricted to Educational Qualifications. ~
In this the Lamar's have the affirma.
tive
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
LOCALIZED ROBBERY

is the
the high of living" New York item
Of indianapolis buying
Madison this city
venture that decided three
distributing artcle Of at
Church.
"A robbeies
the
snEy Millions with sweat with the
American
5sstfeAe
patriotic said
the Democratic party In the
fght e acting
week preach
ersr5nx xorse to enEch sxploiters"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
DEST/W|

/ that the soul may be the captain of
the man were perhaps better--in a
finely true sense, as well as in a
foolishly defiant one. This is not
denying that there is such a thing
and that a mighty thing-as physical,
mental, and morol inheritance which
is equally significant and important
whether 1t betoken weakness or
strength. For to know ones strength
is to be so much the more able to use
it properly; while to know ones
weakness is to be so much better able
to guard against it and to strengthen
ones defenses. Life is a tremendous
paradox, and some of the most capa-
BILE and successful men and women
are those that early found themselves,
that realized their limitations and
weaknesses, and took account of
themselves accordingly.
Too Poor a Head For Wine.
Said an elderly man at a social
gathering year ago, Madam, you will
excuse my not taking a glass of wine
with you; I have too poor a head for
even so little. And you know, as the
world knows, that the infirmity in my
family is its inclination to the drop
too much"
The speaker was as fine and gallant
an officer as ever adorned the service,
and 1t is needless to say that In thus
recognizing and admitting his weak
ness he but held himself admirably in
hand. Once, late in life, a man noted
for his intrepidity, whose unflinching
courage Of the ice-brook's temper was
known far and wide, said to an init
mate friend and relative: "The truth
is I've always been something of the
coward at heart Everything I've ever
done has required supreme self-con-
seriousness and a deliberate act of
will" But was he not the more heroic
, for thus having forged strength out
of weakness? The blaming of luck
or fate, destiny or the social order,
are just so many excuses for self-in-
dulgent pity. otis in ourselves that
we are thus or thus" and we had
much better say with Claverhouse,
God and my right arm"
The great advance of material
science in the last century obscured
for the time being,the finer and subtler
forces of consciousness and will But
the pendulum swings as far IN one d.
rection as in the other. Christian
Science, New Thought, Faith Cure
have at least rendered this service to
society at large-they have again
demonstrated the incalculable power
that lies in human will. Men and
women, recognizing their weakness
and not overestimating their strength,
can be of immense benefit to them
selves and others. To be foolishly
and superfcially optimistic is one
thing; to be nationally self-confldent
and hopeful is quite another. To be-
lieve in ones self, In humanity, in
ones work, above all In God. is
strength and courage. To love ones
work and to serve It faithfully is to
discover that It win faithfully serve
us. and enable US to serve others In
ways We little dream. And then we
como to realize that what We call
Destiny II but the objective express
sIon Of our own consciousness and
w1il
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
FOR RENT

nice truck farm near by. Several nice resi-
dences. Factory sites, coal yards, and business
houses for. SALE have some of the most desirable
property in the city at right prices.
Being the only man in the city who has been
engaged for the past fifteen years exclusively IN the
real estate business it goes without saying l am
better prepared to your interests either as
buyer or seller than one whose mind and time are
divided in many directions.
With my present facilities for handling your
business, you will make mistake in buying or sell
ing without seeing me.
Yours for greater benefits in the coming wave
of prosperity
THOS M. FERGUSON. ,>
Room 2O3 Cater Building.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

AS a rule, man is modest enough to
ascribe his virtues to himself; but
wickedness, he is more than ready to
blame something or someone else;
the Old Serpent, for instance; or the
woman the Lord gave to be with
him; or circumstance, or Destiny, or
the social order. This last especially,
in our day and generatian, has come
quite to the front as a convenient
Devil that may be blamed for much
of mems folly and evil. For in many
quarters man is being taught and per
suaded that he is largely a victim"
of Society. Becky Sharp said that even
she could be virtuous on five thous-
and a year. and by this same token
many men and women think that they
too, could be upright, satisfied, and
happy-if- 1t is an "if" greater and
more significant than Touchstone's
since, on close scrutiny, the proviso is
invariably found to relate to outside
circumstance merely, while the truth
that state usually conditions place is
wholly overlooked or forgotten.
But of all extraneous influences
that men can blame for their follies
and failures, Destiny is perhaps the
most popular and prevailing. The
Norns Of the Norsemen, the Parcae OF
the Greeks, are, for the Moderns, rep
resented by the vague word Destiny.
Perhaps they that use It would be the
last to define 1t, but they, atall events,
feel and recognize it-or think they
recognize it-as a curious compelling
power from without. For many, could
they put their feeling into words,
Destiny would seem to be a sort of
gravitation toward a certain event or
set of circumstances, an irresistible
drawing toward something, like the
attraction of the fatal Magnetic
Mountain in the Arabian Nights for
all ships luckless enough to come
within range of its malign influence.
But it was the iron in the construc-
ton of the ships that made them
amendable to the Mountains infiu-
ence, and men and women may we'll
ask themselves whether 1t is not some
weakness in their own individual
makeup that renders them amend
able to the formless thing they call
Destiny. For as face answereth to
face in water, as deep calleth unto
Deep so the weakness within finds
ready response in the compliant
weakness without. We may be sure
there is always an altar for any kind
of worship we are willing to give. For
1t is only the like that can sway the
like. The witches that so signally
affected Macbeth left Banquo abso-
lutely untouched. These witches are
one of the finest concrete presenta-
lions of the power man is so ready to
call Destiny-yet, as in Macbeth's
case, they are only the objective sight
Of the unholy and unlawful desires
Of ones own heart and soul. Super
stitioA dies, not only hard, but oh, so
slowly, and the belief in Tuck" or
lsfate" or destiny is the survival Of
still older and cruder forms Of super
stition. The corrigibre power Of the
will IL the thing to believe in, and
that man, puny thing he may be, can
Indeed be the ceptain Of HIS soul--or.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
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: ARMY OFFICER is .
: RELIEVED FROM DUTY.
(By Associated Press

" Washington, Feb. 15.-Ad- :
: jutant General Fred G. Aims, 4.
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:: from duty at the War Depart ::
= ment pending a consideration of ::
. disciplinary measures which prob !:
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

According obanabe
the old mobund ward petition
obtained thirty
The quite
will The
city under the commission
neve this
city nearly efficient service they giving
three sensible conscientious
therefore,
question:
the
giving all the of the
believe the interest
rejecting article offensive thinks
of the subject Indeed like
hear the other side why they want the change? What benefit
question
againg
And certainly
which "for
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
Pension Fund Causes Concern.

Pension Fund Causes Concern.
The pension fund of $350,0OO which
is to be appropriated by the legisla'
ture, is giving the various Confeder
ate organizations a lot of concern
particularly as to the method Of distri'
button. There is a strong and steadi
ly growing sentiment that the fund
should be equally proportioned and
distributed irrespective Of present
property holdings.
A special melting of Camp Yates No,
$3.50, U. @. ", was held at Philadel.
phia, some days ago. F. M. Ross was
elected chairman of the meeting, and
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
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! NEGRO BRUTE LYNCHED L:
= NEAR MEMPHIS TODAY. /:
(BN Associated Press.)

:: Memphis Feb. ia mob ear :
I. ly this morning lynched an un- E
= identified negro, near the Ra- =
: leigh Springs suburb, accused :
(. of an attack on sixteen year :
& old white girl yesterday. The ne =
= gro confessed in part 1t is said. =
I: He was hanged from a bridge ::
= over Wolf river and his body :
= riddled. =
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

Silence
Unless themselves the
full investigation, their
of man
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
PROGRAM RECEIVED
FOR SHRINERS' MEET

The Program outlining the Cere.
monial Session of Hamasa Temple to
be held on next Friday, has been re-
ceived by local members of the Ma.
sons. The program is very artis.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

Weekly
entitled Town.?
inspiration
Hatebmg
white Mobile
letter head that the mail
city If will what think would
Hattesburg, will publish
City o Earth Growing Some"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

contends that Certainly
itself time polite
profane
cherished society
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

antipping
Commercial
prohibition Memphis
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15


probably
Appeal
been
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15


8 perturbing 10 Teddy.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

blessings The
in
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15

is in deep thought whether to throw fit or do stunt
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-02-15
Fl A T TIE S B UR G.

THE BIGGEST TOWN ON EARTH OF ITS sIzE AND GROWING
SOME. STRANGER COME AND GET IN THE PUSH.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
WEDNESDAY HOLDS
RECORD FOR CALLS
More Phones Are Used on
This Day Than on Any
Day in Whole Week.

Why Richmond makes more tele-
phone calls on Wedn csday than any
other day in the week is a question
that officials and the employees of the
Richmond Home Telephone company
are trying to answer. Wednesday
holds the record for the number of
calls made by subscribers of the COM
pany.
On that day alone there are on an
average of about $500 CALI. Oficials
believed that Monday and Friday were
the heavy days until they installed a
call meter and found that Wednesday
is the banner day.
It has been suggested that since
many clubs and societies. meet on We'd
nesday the telephone is kept busy by
MN bers making appointn nts or try
ing to learn whe. e the Tnec>-2ss are to
be held.
That many young men telephone
their lady frierds and make engage
ments for Thursday evening is also
pretty we'll known TO the telephone
officials.
"Wednesday made Oh two sw.tchboards
that have business and residence
phones showed thct this Gcy averaged
about 1900 r'Orc calls than any other
day n the week
The average Sunday calls are about
1,S00, but this low number is not sur
prisirg. inGsC7 Ich as tho business and
Offices are closed and few business
calls are made.
The exchange handles about 31S,000
calls every week, and a total of 16,-
$685. 600 calls a year, There are $500
phones connected with the automatic
service of the city.
Information" is one of the busy
calls of the system. The girl that ans
wers No. 9 receives about TO calls a
day Besides giving information re-
garding numbers she also supplies pa
irons with the correct time and after
II o'clock in the morning will gladly
give the weather report to patrons. A
record of the calls made on Informal
ton" in one week showed 1894. The
100 board in the last week had II ,971
calls. and $500 board had over 1000
calls.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
The Farm Home is Often Dearer 10
Us Than We Really Realize 1t TO be

sidered sacrifice in their behalf
should help 10 soothe the grief caused
from FORGETTING our own pleasures.
Those farmers out there who have
grown from childhood to manhood and
womanhood on their farmsteads have
my sympathy if they must give up
their cherished surroundings.
| know il is hard to give up these
things; it is hard for US to give up
many other things but there often
comes time when we must.
There isn't much solace in this
thought but it is best to make the best
of it and try TO plan for the future.
We should be public spirited we oft
en- say. les, that is true; but those
visible and invisible ties that bind US
TO the old home makes it hard for us
to be public spirited.
There is so much more to the farm
home, 1t always seems to me, with its
fields OF clover and waving grain and
rustling corn. Many of the inanimate
things about the farm with which We
come in daily contact seem to us to
possess life, They seem to think and
feel with us. The old homestead means
more to us than We sometimes imag-
inc. 1t is not easy to give it up when
it comes right down to the critical
time of parting with it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
SURVEYOR MARKING
SITE OF TOWN
Believed that Greensboro
Will Soon Be lncorpor-
ated as a Town.

GREENSBORO, Ind, Dec IL
County Surveyor Horton and an assist
ant has been busy here for several
days establishing the corporate limits
of the town. 1t is pretty definitely de-
termined that the town will be incor-
porated in the near future.
Residents have concluded that in
corporations will enable them to pro-
vide for adequate police and fire pro-
lection. Since the recent fires which
laid the business part of the town in
ashes. and the indictments returned
by the grand jury for Bookkeeping and
illicit sales of liquor, a strong senti-
ment has prevailed that the time was
at hand when the residents should
themselves make provisions to guard
against repetitions of these acts.
1t was held for some time that in
corporation would mean increase in
the tax rate working a hardship on
windows who own property, but lately
it was held that they would be bene-
fitted by incorporation and the senti-
ment in favor Of the step has increas-
ed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
POLICE EXCAVATE
FOR NEW VICTIMS
Michigan Woman Is Believ-
ed to Be a Rival of Mrs.
Belle Guinness.
tNational News Association

LANSING, Mich. Dec. 1l-Folice
today are digging in the cellar of the
boarding house conducted by Mrs.
Mary Lucas here for traces of persons
believed to have died In pitt similar
to that of Mrs. Belle Guinness, who
conducted a murder farm" near La
porte, Indiana. Mrs. Lucas confessed
that she murdered Mrs. Pauline F.
Ingle, one of her boarders. The police
learned Of other mysterious disap-
pearances. They then began an cxca-
walton in the cellar of the woman's
home, searching for the body OF Carl
Miller, a contractor from Fort Scott,
Nebraska, who paid attention to the
woman, and then disappeared. They
found some clothing and quantity of
quick-lime.
Mrs. Lucas and her husband practic-
ed law here at one time. They left and
went West. Later Mrs. Lucas came
back saying her husband had died
suddenly.
She became through his death, own
er of considerable property here. She
murdered the Fingle woman, she said,
because she was jealous of attentions
paid to her by John Borenz.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
BUSINESS COLLEGE

Mr.. r. F. Cummins, general secre-
tary of the Indiana Business colleges,
paid the local school visit recently.
Beatrice Hearn has accepted a posi-
ton as stenographer for the Premier
Motor Car Co., at Indianapolis. Essie
Bowers is also located in that city as
stenographer for the indianapolis
Telephone Co.
Mr.. Francis Glass entered the short
hand and typewriting department this
week.
Manager Campbell transacted bust
ness in New Castle on Monday.
VIM. Gavin, of Liberty, Ind, and
VIM. Stevenson, of Crete, Ind, are new
students in the bookkeeping depart
ment.
A new class organized in the short
hand department promises rapid pro-
gress.
r. B. c. had the pleasure of listen
ing to a very interesting and instruc-
First Presbyterian church, on Thurs
day morning. His subject was Health,
Wealth and Happiness" and he i'm
pressed upon the students that if sue
ceeded it would be due to their own
personality or EGO"
Mr.. Russell G. Blythe is at present
located in New Castle, where he is
working in the interests of the Bust
ness college.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
STREET STORIES

Around and around and around
whirled the revolving door at the
North Ninth street entrance of the
post office, and the air was filled with
the buoyant and gladstone cries of
children who seemed to be supremely
happy.
On both sides, however, there soon
gathered group of persons who want
ed to enter or leave the building, but
could not do so because of the remark
able speeding of the revolving door
Two little boys were the cause of
the blockade and they made the sup
ports of the door fairly groan as they
pushed the door around at a furious
clip. Finally one of the waiting men
summoned enough nerve to check the
door in it's mad revolutions.
A glance at the merry faces of the
Riddles softened the heart of the gal
lery that had gathered and no punish
ment was melted out. The post office
janitor though will watch the kids
more closely when he sees the doors
of the building flying madly on their
pivots.
A prominent business man of this
city attributes his start" and to a
great extent, his success in the bust
ness world to his nerve" which he
cultivated when he was a mere youth
At a recent gathering this business
man was asked the secret of his sue
cess. He answered, Nerve" He was
then asked to be more explicit.
We'll, you see, there is many ways
of being 'nervy'," he replied. When l
was boy l was enthusiastic over
every step of advancement l made.
IN fact l was so pleased with what /
would do that l wanted everybody to
know it. One day a friend asked me
what l was doing. l told him. He open
ed his eyes and declared Is that SOP
oh, yes l said hastily turning to an
other, Tell the boys about me, tell the
boys about me-. My apparent eager
ness in having my deeds known to
everybody caused the gathering to
laugh. From then on l saw that what
! wanted was advertisement and
never failed to let people know just
what business l was in, where | was
located and the degree of success |
had made. It's helped too"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
CITY ADVERTISEMENT.
WATER WORKS.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
the Board of Public Works of the City
of Richmond, Indiana, will, until 10
O'Clock a. m, Thursday, January 10th.
1913, receive at the office of said
Board, sealed bids or proposals for
the furnishing of water to the City of
Richmond, and the citizens thereof.
for the period Of twenty-five (25)
years, under the terms and condi-
tons of proposed franchise and con-
tract, copies of which are on file in
the office of the Board OF Public
Works and in the office of the City
Civil Engineer of said city of Rich
mond, Indiana.
Each bidder to file with his bid his
mond in the sum of Twenty-Five thous-
and Dollars (s25. .O0D. with good
surety to be approved by the said
Board of Public Works of said city.
conditioned for the execution by him
of the contract if awarded to him
The option or right of the city of
Richmond to purchase the Richmond
Sits Nolci "oihS " NC dSsisuSu 10
the successful bidder on terms and
conditions set forth in said proposed
franchise and contract. The Board Of
Public Works reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
B. A. Kennepohl,
Fred r. Charles.
w ". Zimmerman.
Board OF Public Works
Attest: B. A. Bescher.
City Clerk.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11
CRESCENTS TO PLAY
CENTERVILLE

The postponed game between the
Crescent Bible class basketball team
Of the Y. NJ. c. A and of the Center
Vile high school team, will be played
tonight at the Y. NJ. c. A. The game
will be a warm one as the teams are
about evenly matched
The teams met on the Centerville
floor some time ago with the result
that the local team was beaten by a
close score. The Crescents have been
strengthened since then and expect to
take the laurels from the husky Cen.
terville team. The game is called at
7:45.