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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-30
TEXAS
AND
TEXANS


thirty-two years in the peniteutiary.
Senator Culberson had reported ia.
vorably his bill providing forthe pur-
chase of additional land at Corsicana
and Uvalde for government building
sites.
Convicted at Dallas on charge OF
highway robbery with firearms, a no
torman and street car conductor be-
ing the victims, Wade Henry, q ne
gro, was given penitentiary sentence
of fifteen years.
A. Setback, editor of the Waco Post,
. German weekly paper, and Miss
Bertha Baumann were united in mar
rage at Marlin.
Lulo McDuff, negress, Was con-
victed at Dallas on charge OF taking
the life OF Louis Merlino at that city
In 1908. Punishment was three years
In the penitentIary. Defendant stated
the states star witness committed the
crime.
Within forty eight hours after being
stricken with cerebro, spinal meningi-
It's the wife Of DIR. r. King Cole oil
Dallas breathed her last. She was
the daughter of Rev. George w. Owens
OF that city. Three brothers OF the de,
ceased and like number of her hus-
bands brothers were the pallbearers
at the funeral. Her mother and three
sisters also survive.
Waco real estate exchange has a
membership OF thirty. A charter will
be applied for.
Dallas cotton exchange building,
costing $3.50 600. has been completed
and formally opened
Mrs. Barbara Prick, who Ioca ed Ii
Dallas in 1852 when that city was a
village, is dead, aged eighty five.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-30
alleged Opium Mal,ere.

A couple Of men were arrested ut
Dallas and each hound over in $500
by United States Commissioner May
on charge of manufacturing opium, It
is alleged the men would buy gun
o, ium and then manufacture it into
smoking opium for the unfortunates
addicted to the habit
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-30
ODD FELLOWS
MEET At DALLAS
Seventy-Third Annual Gathering
Largely Attended.
MANY REBEKAHS PRESENT
Two Thousand or More HenbeTs
of Both Orders Gather at North
Texas city to Transact Business
That Re Necessary.

With an attendance numbering over
1000 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Of
Texas the seventy-third annual con.
vention Of the odd Fellows CT thc
state and the yearly assembly OF the
Rebekahs were held at Dallas
Every body seemed happy, and, as
one speaker remarked, the membership
is made up of people who are neither
very rich nor very poor, but who have
all the requirements necessary to
make good citizens-the class OF cit'-
gens which are the back bone OF any
state.
Opening exercises were held at the
Majestic theater Mayor Holland vel
coined the delegates to the city on be-
half of the citizens and Judge Barry
Miller and Mrs. Carrie Garretson did
likewise for the Dallas Odd Fellows
and Rebekahs. Past Grand Master
Borgess. of Del Rio and Miss Bessie
Dolan of Taylor. president Of the
state Rebelah assembly, responed in
behalf Of their respective organiza-
tions Several others spoke, Grand
Master lllingworth Of Dallas presided
Business sessions we're held by the
Odd Fellows in the Coliseum AZ state
fair grounds and considerable inn
portant business was transacted
There were a number Of social feat
ures during the tour days tho orders
were In session.
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HARMON AT DALLAS.
Governor of Ohio Addresses a
Large Number.

Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio, for
mer attorney general Of the United
States and candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination, was Il
visitor to Dallas. He was accom-.
panied from Sherman by Judge Rice
Maxey OF that city and Hon. Sheb
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DENTON COUNTY DAMAGE.
Boy Killed and Another Lad and
Other Persons Hurt.

At Flower Mound. Denton county,
Tex, the little son of M. G. Hopkins
was instantly killed by cyclone that
ragged in that section and another lad
was seriously hurt. Mrs. Win Kerr
sustained broken thigh and o baby
she carried was badly injured. Five
houses were wrecked. Ground was
denuded OF vegetation for half mile
In width and timber strewn broadcast
over the country.
Eight houses we're demolished at
Elizabeth, twelve miles west of Flower
Mound and Dolph ottinger sustained
o broken leg.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-30
SHEPPARD OPENS.
Commences Campaign Saturday
at Greenville.

At Greenville, Tex, Congressman
Morris Sheppard opened his campaign
for the Democratic nomination for
United States senator. There were
many persons present from number
OF other places.
Lavish use Of money In elections he
opposes; believes people able to gov
ern themselves, and stated his oppo.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-30
aotl, Held.

At Midland. Tex. Mrs. Ed Sullivan
and e f. Mansfield, after examining
trial, were held without hail awaiting
action Of grand jury on the charge OF
killing the woman's husband.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-30

Arthur Lodge, tried
on charge of robbery
with firearms, W a S
adjudged guilty. He
piyen O. sentence of
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young wife died. when their daughter
the present Mrs. Longworth-was
two days old. and within few hours
tho future President also lost his
mother, the two being buried together.
~ few months later the young widower
was elected delegate-at-larse to the
convention which nominated Garfield.
After the convention he put out for his
ranch in North Dakota. there to remain
Two years. Ho now got out his Trips
of Ranchman," and woodrow wilson
at the same time brought forth his
study in American Politics." In that
same year. 1885. the lattcr--then
known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson
married at Savannah. Ga, his bride
oeinE' IKE himself farson's child.
Wilson Teaches Girls College.
II was now that Wilson gave up
the law and chose the course that
was later to earn his title, The
schoolmaster in politics." soon after
returning from his honeymoon he &C
cepted the chair OF history and DO
litical economy st Bryn Mawr, the big
~ornan's college near Philadelphia. The
same year Taft entered upon n two
year term as assistant county solicitor.
in Cincinnati: Clark became prosccut-
ing attorney OF his county ana La
Toilette made his congressional debut
Il ds member OIL the House Commit tee
on Ways and Means. now headed nv
Underwood. La Toilette at that time
wore small mustache, along with
his pomnadour
TWO or our candidates married the
foil wing year-lsS6. Taft led off in
June By wedding Helen. the sweet
heart of his youth. to whom he had
been true during the years that ne
had been earning his own home. They
went abroad on a honeymoon which
took them through the garden spots
of Europe. That was the summer
Roosevelt, who had tired OF ranch l!te
and returned to the metropolis, was
mating his unsuccessful campaign for
Mayor OF New York. After the cleo
ton he went abroad. and on December
NEARLY three years after the death
of his first wife-marricd the present
Mrs. Roosevelt In London. where she
was visiting. During the succeeding
year Roosevelt finished two books, and
TAFT by what now appears as coin
cidence. stepped into the shoes of his
Older rival, Harmon. The latter re-
signed his place on the Superior Court
bench and Governor Foraker-later 10
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apparatus. There are eight school
houses. hve FOR whites and three Tor
colorcd. There arc &C rooms and q
seating capacity OF 2.77c. In addition
thare is one rented school buildins
for whites with a seating capacity
OF 800"
There are 20 teachcrs employed in
our school system, 81 white and IS col.
orcd. In the white schools there arc
Ave principals, four supervisors in ell
ementary work The special depart.
ments arc manual training. drawing
and music. or the colorcd teachers,
three are principals and two arc spec
ial teachers, one OF manual training
and tbs other OF domestic, science
The growth Of our high school.
however. is the particular pride OF thu
school authorities and the people gen
orally In 1897 there were 10 pupils IN
the high scnool. In 9Oo there were o..
in the High school and in 1907 there
We're 19i. This year there arc 325
pupils enrolled. There are elnv>n In.
strlIctors In the high school. with spec
ial departments In commercial brancn-
cs. domestic science and manual train
inG."
The Unit system viii lie worked
out in The high schout next year ana
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LEXINGTON

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
Lexington. Va. April l3-Mr. and
Miss DemoresQue. of New Orleans, are
spending the winter ut Mrs Morgan
Pendleton,s. '71I
Miss kennedy. OF Kansas City, Mo.
mas heen the guest OF Captain and
Mrs. Alpha BrumaRe for the past week.
Miss Laura Pcndieton, who has been
spending SHE Easter holidays with
has returned to Baltimore, where She
Is a pupil at the Peabody Institute
Dr. W. c. Bell, the former rector OF
the Robert T.. Lee Memorial Church.
and his wife have been the guests
or Colonel and Mrs. Beverly Tucker
during the Easter holidays DR.. Bell
now occupies the chair OF divinity
ut the Theological Seminary in Alex
andria.
Sergeant Rene Wilson. retired
| commissary sergeant OF the United
States Army, has reported to the SUI
perintendent and has been assigned 10
the duartcrmastrr aud comnnissary de-
partments for duty.
Miss Watkins, of FIarmville. was
tho guest of Colonel and Mrs. Kcrlin
during the Easter holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. E.asley of Richmond.
were in Lexington last week visit
ing their son. Cadet Easley, of the
third class.
W, \ purress. H. was in Richmond
last week.
S. Marshall, ~. has been in Char
lottesviie attending to important bust
ness.
Mrs. Vaughan and daughter Of
Franklin. paid a short visit to their
SON Cadet Vaughan. OF the fourth
class.
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ton" and La Toilette goes as delegate
10 the convention which nominates
Mckinley for his first campaign
against Bryan.
Eyents Now Fall Fast.
with the coming OF Mckinley events
for ali concerned commence to fall
quick and fast. After his hiatus Of
one torn Clark returns to Congress,
where Underwood is beginning his sec
ond torn. Roosevelt also returns to
WashinSton--now as Assistant Score
tary of the Navy. Then fall in rapid
succession the explosion OF the Maine.
the organization OF tho Rough Riders
by Roosevelt and Wood, the charge OF
San Juan hill and Roosevelts election
as Governor of New York, all In the
year 1928.
together Is pretty clear In your mem
DRY. The Same year In which Rooae-
Welt was elected Vice President, TAFT
took charge OF the Philippines, and
La Follstte was elected Governor OF
his state. Then followed Roosevelt's
succession of Mckinley. and the next
year Woodrow Wilson's selection as
President of Princeton. and La Fol-
lette's reelection as Governor.
II. II. Picked Taft In 100.
In the campaign ycar 1904 there
was something stirring for all the
contestants, except Harmon. Taft was
made Secretary OF War, Roosevelt
was elected PRECEDENT La Toilette
was made Governor for the third
term. Underwood and Clark wore re-
elected to Congress. the latter having
been chosen permanent chairman OF
tho convention that nominated Park
CT, and chairman of the commit &c
that notified that candidate OF his
nomination. Then LA Follctte. In '05
comes to the Senate: Taft, in '0G. adj
iusts the lnsurrection In Cuba and
declines an appointment 10 tho United
States Supreme Court offered him by
/ Roosevelt, who replies to his dcclina-
tion In a letter stating: There are
strong arguments against your TAX
Ing this iusticeship In tho Rrst
place, my belief is that OF all men
who have appeared SO Far You are the
man who is most likely TO receive the
Republican nomination. and who is. |
| think the best man to receive IT."
! Next followed Taft's trip around
the world. in OF, and his election to
the presidency, in oS in which year
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news item goes on to say, lis only a
year or SO out of Yale, where ne de
veloped his muscle at the manly excr-
cisc OF the college, and he seems L,
have retained it, Then follows an
account OF the challenge and chastiSe-
ment OF the mudslinger. who went
OF bleeding and pale, with his head well
punched Soon atterward this ath.
lctic defender of his family's honor
began to earn mis- first moncy-s6 a
Weekly doing law reporting foi
tho Cincinnati papers.
The Year 1850 may be marked az
that in which all OF our candida ties
except Harmon. the eldest and Under
WOOD, the youngest. We're TO start to-
gether in neck and neck race. Roose-
welt In that year graduated from Har-
ward and began his career without
further scholastic training, Taft. IL.
Toilette and Wilson. after finishing nj
law school tho same summer, were
admitted to the bar, while Champ
Clark moved to Bowling Green. his
present home, where he AZ once began
to practice law and make fresh
start in life. In this same year Of
his finishing at law school La Toilette
made quick stride by becoming
county prosecutor.
Teddy Quick to Marry.
But before this race could fairly he
gin. Dan Cupid was 10 have a reckon
ing with three OF the contestants In
short order In the autumn following
his graduation Roosevelt married his
first wife. Alice Lee. He had lately IN
heritcd a snug Observation-Disclosures cs-
timatcd at a quarter OF o million dol
lars--from his father. Theodore Rocse-
vcit. Sr.. glass importer, banker and
ph!ianthropist.
During the next year Clark and La
Toilette married in the same month
But Taft. who now became aEslstan,
county prosecutor OF CINCINNATI was
not TO take a souEe until I'VE years
later. In 1882, when Roosevelt en-
cred upon his active political career
as member OF the New York Assembly.
President; Arthur appointed Taft coll
.cctor OF internal revenue for the FRS;
district of Ohio, and Woodrow Wilson
moved TO Atlanta, Ga, 10 practice la W
:or a year. About this time Under
"ood was earning his sheepskin at the
University OF Virginia, where Joseph
". Bailey. now Senator from Texas
Mas also n student.
The year OF 1884 was sad one for
Roosevelt. On Valentines day his
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quarrel with TAFT and RooseveIt-ap-
pointed Taft to the vacancy.
This was tho beginning OF Tafrs
judicial career A year later he was
elected to succeed himself for i've
years. Wilson now left the girls col.
lese at Bryn Mawr and became pro.
lessor of history and political economy
at Wesleyan University.
Meeting of Taft aud Teddy.
The couple of years that followed
were to see tho coming together Of
TAFT and Roosevelt in washington and
the forging of their close bond Of
friendship, which was to last during
the next twenty years. After HART
sons inauguration Roosevelt came
frst as civil service commissioner and
Tart followed as solicitor gcneral
Thoy met frequently at the mansion Of
their mutual friend. Bellamy Storcr,
who then represented in Congress the
present Cincinnati district OF his kins-
man, Nicholas Longworth. Rooeevelt's
son -in-law. La Toilette was now busy
helping to frame the Mckinley tariff
hill, and Wilson the same year shifted
chairs at Wesleyan, taking that OF
jurisprudence and politics" Clark
was serving his second year in tho
Missouri Legislature But Taft's
career In Washington was 10 last only
elevated him TO the Federal bench,
where, as circuit Judge, he was to re-
main until Mckinley should put him
In charge OF affairs in the Philippines.
In the year of the worlds Fair
Mt Chicago, Champ Clark, giant Of
forty-three. wearing the pair of mus :
tachios which make his accompanying
photograph look far from Champleh
made his debut IN the House OF Repre-
sentatives, which La Toilette had left
two years before. and which Under
wood was to entcr two years later
Roosevelt now remained with the new
Cleveland regime AZ Republican mem
Der OF the civil service commission. hut
left in two years to become president
OF the New York police board, unde
Strong. the fusion Mayor. The aane
year Clark also left Washington life
temporarily. while Harmon made his
debut thcrein-as Attorney G-fieral OF
the Cleveland Cabinet. \ year later
TAFT and Harmon are brother profess
sors in tho Cincinnati Law School,
where TAFT is dean; Roosevelt finishes
his Winning of the West" Wilson
gets out his Life OF George Washing
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ton is in the public schools. but be
cause the City Council and the publ c
generally are enthusiastic in their
support"
1T is great mistake and a common
error of the people of this city to Say
that we have more childr.n than the
other cities in Virginia. though be-
iievc we have quite large proportion
in the public schools"
Newport News was Incorporated
into city in 1896. with a population
uf about 5000 people. Our school sJs-
TEN In 1S96-97 had school enrol
mant of Lib. In 1900, our popula ton
was 1865. and The school enrolment
I e..V9 In 1910. our population was TO-
2o5, and our school enrolment was
Ella Like every othc" new city. New
mort News had a small school popula-
ton until within the last few ycars.
In 1900 our population was largely
made up of men whose families lived
! elsewhere.
TO day VIC have the families OF thc
men with us. and now our school pop
ulation Is about % per cent. or our
gross population"
I'VE began In 1886 with nothing IN
the way of school property. To- da y
We have school buildings valued III
Slio,0nO, MI equipped with modern
SEALS. maplA globes Libraries, aud etheJ
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ARVONIA
Especial TO The Tfmes-Dispa ,ch.

Especial to The Times Dispa tchl
Arvnnla Va, April i3.-Mrs. Ralrt
chandier Root was called TO her homo
IN Indianapolis, Ind. this week on ac-
count OF the illness of her father.
Miss Hattie Poland. who has been
visiting nj the home of Mrs. a. L.
Puts. has returned To her home in
ScottsNille.
, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Williams; Of.
with Mr., Wiliiams's parents Mr. and
Mrs. J. c. Williams.
Mrs Joel Mable of Decatur. Ga. IS
here TO spend several weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Charles fontnine Lee
Sucur
Miss Macie Williams who has been
visiting friends in Richmond. has re-
turned to her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Pierce, OF
Philadelphia. are spending some timo
with friends and relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. f. Crooke and
! daughter. Margaret. OF Washington, d.
! =, arrived at the Arvonia Inn on
Monday. They Will remain here FOR
several weeks.
L. b. Hughes visited friends and
relatives In Scottsvillc on Sunday.
Mira Plnmmcr F. Jones and Miss
Winnie Almeda Pitts wero visitors in
Richmond on Friday.
| Miss Florence Petit. who is attend
ing the Arvonia High School this win
Ter, visited her home in Fluvanna coun-
ty this week.
~ L. A. M,seley OF Tucker, was a
visitor here last week
Ralph Chandler Root, Of Penlan, Will
spend the month OF April at Arvonil
Inn. ' 'f'I5E
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fuaua. OF Roa-
noke. are the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
| samuel FuQua.
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Ing already for political honors he
decided mat the law offered a straight
er path. a few years later woodrow
Wilson was TO reverse the order exact
~ and leave the law TO become a col
lcge professor.
The year 49,, saw three OF our can
didates in Cincinnati
Ihamp Clark had come here 20 study
in the law school Harmon. having nm
ished NJ the same institution ave years
before. was now Dracticing law and
TAFT. Just graduated from the Wood
ward high school was packing up 10
go to Yale. And while the future
President. at New Haven. was starring.
first as the archterror of the Yale
'rnshes' and later as e Gend for books
as well as athletic prowess. Clark was
starting HE Career In Missouri. mrs, as
schoolmaster. country editor and law
ger at vilisgc called Iou!siRna- Dur
Ing the same period Harmon was max
ing his first splash into polite. by
becoming Mayor of Wyoming. a suburb
OF Cincinnati but tho next year, that
OF the great ccntennidl at Philadelphia
he waR TO become Judge OF the Court
OF Common Pleas, In the nclghhoring
city. The tnderwoods how returned
10 their native Kentucky. settling at
Louisville when Oscar was cherubic
lad OF hfteen And this period OF the
seventies was wound up by ffarmon's
stepping UP to the Superior Court In
the same year when TAFT Eradua ted
second among i2l in Yale. class Of rs.
OF which he WAS Ealut6torian and class
orator The same autumn he entered
the Cincinnati Law school, whence
Harmon and Clark had departed with
their henThEins eleven and three
years before. respectively. The next
spring Woodrow Wilson and La Fol
lette graduated at Princeton aud the
University Of Wisconsin. both, like
Taft, entering Immediately into the
law.
Tnft Licked the Editor.
II was while he was finishing his frat
year IN Lass school that Taft figured for
the first time in the printed news OF
The day In April. 1879, sensational
weekly. edited in Cincinnati. published
some calumnies which the young Ygle
rusher construed as rejecting upon II
member OF his family. A published ac-
count OF the calumnIator's punishment
states that mfr. VIII Taft a tall, pow
erful. athletic young man. about
twcnty-one years OF age" visited the
editor forthwith. "Will Taft" this
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then the school will be as modern as
any high school In the state"
With 1000 children enrolled in the
white schools, a25 in the high school
is very satisfactory percentage.
Our schools are open to inspection
and we invite visitors. beIi>ve we
may pride ourselves upon the work
done in the class room. This il due
first Ia the fact that our school rooms
arc built for 10 pupils. and We nave
no more than 10 pupils under any one
teacher, except in the first grad
which is double grade one set OF
rupi!s coming for the morning ses-
sion and another set coming in the
Afternoon
we employ only professionally
trained teach Hrs. except In cmerEen-
crs after the schools opcn and when
trained teachers cannot he had"
Our supervision, we believe. Is COM
patent and adequate. our teachers
meetings are thoroughly organized
and the teaching corps Is being In
siructed In the most approved methods
of teaching.
The parents Of the children show
n great Interest In the schools We
havo five white patrons Leagues. each
or whIch holds II meeting each month
The total attendance at. thcsc meet.
lns- last session VAS mqre than g
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Harmon wa ohoen Governor. Clark be-5
came minority leader OF the House,
thus puvtng his way for the speaker
SHIP TO which he succeeded three
years later, when Underwood became
chairman OF the Ways and Means
Committee. with It's vastly augment
ed powers. and Wilson became Cow.
ernor OF New Jersey.
Thus have these seven ambitious
men run side by side In the great
race for power and glory In n
couple OF months all will have drop
ped out save two-or Will II he
three?
Copyright 1912. By John Elfrath
Watklns.) ~
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school. tI
General Manager Homer l.. Ferguson
has been very instrumental in gettinz
them launched.
Practical courses. which will he OF
use to the boys in thsir work ut tho
shlpyard, are taught by Instructors
from the yard. all college men, wha.
have had practical training hare and
elsewhere,
II, is q test OF merit for boys who
work all day to study at night but
thus far the boys have taken advan:
TAGS Of their opportunities and ares
working hard, They realize tina. they
can make themselves more us+ful in
their daily work. and vii, bt better
mechanics and better citizens rs rea-
son of having attended these schoeis
''Ncnorts arc made on each hoy each
week, and those reports go TO the head
OF the department. in the yard II which
the boys are employed. II the lausi
make good in the schools they hfya
ihoir terms of apprenticeship reduced
from four 10 three years. the saving%0Et
a year for tie boys. {33
Roth our day schools and our night
schools are fouriahine, and the only
thing we need To make the system en-
tirely up-to-date and as good as my
Ia be found anywhere IL a u modern
htsh school building THAT wliI come
III the cours OF the next TWO yesss.,.fs