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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-12

mands have been made on the mayor
that he close up his joint. The mayor
always sidestepped.
According to Caravan nothing
wrong ever went on in Jones' place.
Only Summing parties. came there.
No suggestive songs were sung in it,
and no suggestive dances were
danced in it. No women ever solicit
ed men there.
Unfortunately for Carvan, Senator
Beall paid. a quiet little visit to the
Jones resort several nights ago. He
was solicited four times while in the
place. He heard negro woman en-
tertainer sing peculiarly rotten YER
sion of "All Night Long," the while
she danced with her skirts up to her
waist and a negro male entertainer
lay on the floor at her feet.
Abe Frank denied being interested
in Buxbaum's, the notorious South
Side levee resort. Frank said he
thought the tango a very refined
dance" He denied that he had stop
PCu tlc oiIlSllS VI DULL swings 40 NY
Harem" in Rector's and the North |
American only after the commission
got down to work. -s
The Summing party, whose names
are suppressed at the request of the |
commission, thought the arrest a
tragedy at first. A newspaper photog-
rapher took flashlight picture of
one Of the women on the stand.
The women broke down. Her
brother jumped up and asked if the
commission was going to permit such |
treatment of woman? Senator Beall |
asked the photographer for the plate,
and when he got it gave it to, the
woman '.as a momento."
The other woman, as she was leav-
ing the stand, remarked that she was
the member of a vice crusade COM
mittee in her home town, Peoria.
s'What'H say when / get homer"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-12

She said that low wages had much
to do with vice; that girl could not
possibly live in Chicago on less than
IS a week, and that this amount
would only provide very poor food,
very poor shelter and very poor cloth
ing. She said she personally knew
of several instances in which girls
had been driven to the bad by low
wages.
She also stamped as lie the ca
nard circulated by the State street
merchants that the department store
girls did not like the commissions
low wage inquiry because it reflected
on their morality. She said the girls
were glad that the commission had
started the inquiry.
Mrs. Bowen said she most emphat-
ically approved of minimum wage
law. z-..
What do you think of the million
dollar hotel proposition" Senator
Bean asked Mrs. Bowen.
81 don't think it should take the
place of the minimum wage" she
said.
at wouldn't" said Senator BeaII.
I'VE want to get both"
3. Robert G. Novak, manager of
Maxim's notorious cafe, angered SEN
ator BeaH much as Carvan did at the
midnight session. He was stopped
in flow of language describing
Maxim's as a nice, Sunday school
sort of place by the senator.
BeaH had been to Maxim's without
shouting who he was when he
blew in.
George Tollman, formerly ianitor
at the LaSalle House, III North La
Sale street, told how that place was
used by rich men for the running of
young girls. ~
His story was one of the most pitt,
full that the commission has heard
since it began delving into vice.
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07
WhaI,no at Natal

The whaler Egeland ihe other morn Ing brought in the first humpback whale captured iii Natal this season. It was a good whale and very fat. On a second visit to the ocean the same whaler captured blue whale 70 feet .ong which landed in the evening. Az yarently the baleen wla..ss are early .his year --fsatssl Irrcurs
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07
Primitive Shaving.

The Harput barber places around his customers neck a peculiar pan with a semicircular piece cut out of one side. so that it fits partially around the neck under the chin. Wa ter is put into the pan and the barber makes lether with his hands and rubs 1t on the customers face, usually using his hands for this purpose also
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07

grand shower" at the home, of MT. and Mrs. J. w. Renfro. It is not often that a community show such snbethsstikl interest as was shown when Mir. Walker Patterson, representing the busi- ness men, presented us with a fat purse. We want to assure our friends that we shall reinem- Der with great pleasure our stay in their midst which they made so pleasant.
 MIR. and MRS. E. M. ERICKSON
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07
THE SALOON SITUATION IN BRINKLEY

The passage of Act. 59 by the Arkansas Legislature last spring was said at that time to be the heaviest blow ever struck the saloon and brewery interests an the state.
 Act. 59. as it will be remem- bered, was a straight out local option measure but instead of making it necessary for the people of a city or town to get up petition to keep the licensed saloons out, it simply turned the tables. It made it necessary for the saloon keepers to get a majority of the WHITE citizens to sign a petition praying the County Judge to issue saloon license before license can be issued, even if the Judge desires to do this.
 As will be lastingly remem- bered the temperance people of Brinkley got up petitions against saloons last fall and there was hot fight before s. T. Hollo- way, at that time County Judge. For weeks and months this fight waged and each side was doubt ful of the results. Both sides were put out'' with the Judges dilatory tactics and when at the close of one of the many hard days of the fight, it was proposed to leave the matter td the voters of Brinkley at special election, it was agreed to byl the men in charge of the fight for both sides. It was then and there agreed that which ever way the election went, whether wet or dry" should be the| order of the court on the petition| case then pending. for the years| 1913 and 1914. The ''wets'} { won by a small majority ana 5sIs it was agreed. the petition pend- ing, praying for an order refus- ing to issue saloon license. was denied and license was granted to the three Brinkley saloons now doing business.
 The agreement has been and will be lived up to- the letter, by the temperance people.
 And here comes the rub, the Brinkley temperance people who were beaten (by only a few votes) didn't agree by going into the special election to swear alle- glance to the saloons nor to help them in any way. By the terms of the agreement they simply forfeited their legal right to fight the saloon license evil for the years of 1913 and 1914, and therfore the theory some of the
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07

friends of the saloons are now
 advancing. namely that the tenn perance people ought now to sign their petitions, is indeed most unreasonable and it is to be hoped will not induce any real friend of temperance to do a thing now that may bring shame to the cause.
 When the temperance people agreed to forfeit their right |of petitioning out the saloon for 1913 and 1914 they didn't agree to forfeit their principles nor to help the saloons in any way. Had the saloons not have been able to secure building to operate in or failed to have found any one to sign their license bond, it would have been just as foolish, unreasonable and unfair to have expected temperance people to have helped them out of any of those dilemmas as to expect real temperance people to now sign a whiskey petition simply because the saloons have met another obstacle, which the Brinkley 8mperance people had gothing in the world to do with, 4smely Act 59.
 There are scores of good men ] in Brinkley, to say nothing of the ladies, who would feel that they had disgraced themselves for life if their names wert ever attached to petition for saloon Incense. These men and women would have rejoiced laet February if the saloons could not have raised the money to secure license or at any other obstacle, fair and honorable, that would have prevented them from ope ming in lBrinkley. Z/
 The new law now requires that before the saloons may even ask for license they MUST secure a majority of the white men and women living in Brinkley. to their petitions and that these names. perfectly and accurately signed MUST be published ten days (two issues) in a Brinkiey paper, ast.
 It has been predicted publicly over the state that Hot Springs would possibley be the ONLY town in the state where the saloon interests could probably meet these legal conditions.
 No one has thought that saloons will be in Brinkley again, for the honor and fair name of Brinkley women will surely safe guard this.
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07
Japan Missionaries Thank
 Holly Grove People
Takanatau, Japan.

Takamatau, Japan. Editor Argus:
 We wish to thank our friends for their kindness to us while at Holly Grove. As we returned to Japan we recall with great pleasure the farewell meeting with the ladies of the Missionary Society at the home of Mir. and Mrs. w. F. Branch, and the
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07
A BUSY SESSION
The City Council Holds . Busy Session Adopts Report of Sewerage
 Commissioners

The City Council met in regular session October 21, and transacted great deal of busi- ness. The members present were: Messrs. l.. K. Brown, N. P. Lawrence, Gus Rusher, |. Scholem and J. H. Stack. R. B. Nance being absent.
 The report of the Sewerage Commissioners was adopted. It shows that the commissioners still have $22, ,853.O1 of the original bond issue of $35. 900. %, which netted $34, 296. 66. on hand, which means that the expendi- lures so far have amounted to ,$11, 443. .65. The three payments / to the contractor. Dowell, aggregated $7, 452.6 Their re- port is as follows:
 
 First annual report of total receipts and disbursements to- date.
 Proceeds of bond issue of $35, 900. %. <. .$34. 4l6. 6t | Less $l20 represent ing the cost of blank bonds and trustees
 charges l2O.UO
 Total, 34, 296. 96
 Disbursements
 Frank Feder. site for disposal works. Il, ,0OO.0C Jas. Engle Clerk, cer- tlficate of valuation .... 25.W Wm. B. Folsom, print ng ... S4. Ol
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07

John s. Black, record ing deed ................' Lou
 Rose, Hemingway, Cantrell and Laugh brough, legal services.... N5.OO
 John s. Mitchell,
 notary fees. 5.W
 Neil St. Clair. blue prints. ........ o.zV Frank Wilcox, engineers
 Ben Emmons. stamps and telegrams ............ 5.OO
 c. F. Greenlee, legal services. ... .............. 4UO.U
 G. Otis Bogle. legal services. ...... ....... oOU. oU
 A. N. Bolinger, organ izing District. 3o.UO
 New Drug Store, led ger and journal ...........' 4.5o i US. Mitchell. for ex- change ............ 14' 'o
 Engineering, contracting and advertising for bids ... 0.4O H. E. Lefils. salary ....lO.W
 Frank L.DWilcoA, per bills 9.99 l A. B Dowell, estimate 1 No 2,642. AS
 Frank L. Wilcox, on engineers fees. .88. US
 H. E. Lefils, salary 1000 1 A. B. Dowell, estimate No. 1, 996. 70 Frank L. Wilcox, engi- neer's fees ..s....... l5O.U0
 w. E. Chadwick. freight bills. ...... ..''... oU. US Bob Alexander. drayage .1.5O
 H. E. Lefils, salary LOGO 1 A. B. Dowell, advance on contract work. ..... 50O.W
 A. B. Dowell, estimate No. B. ISIS. 4f Frank L. Wilcox, on ncineer's fees ........ A6O. .W
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81 in the treasure of which the general fund has $21l.6 .63; the street fund, $42.5 the cemetery fund, $318.7O; and the building fund, 1858. 93.
 City clerks report for August: general fund, $84.00, street, $36. 50: and for September. street fund, s22.OO, general fund. $28. 50.
 1 A five mill tax was voted on all real estate and sAqrsonPl property. IVY sbs
 Dr. E. D. Mcknight was allowed $25.O0 per month as health officer for the city
 The following bills were allowed; Brinkley Mer.. Co.,. wheel barrow, tools and nails 1S8. .25: A. K. Cameron, salary SiO. co: J. D. Rogers. work on street. $50. %: F. E. Sapp. salary S7.OO; Chas. Burton, work m cemetery, $500; w. F. Stew man. salary, $5OOO; Sam Derrick. sslary. $5O.OO; L. c. Owens, salary. $5l.OO; Brinkley Hook & ladder Co. salaries for Sept lember. $14.OO; l.. c. Owens, reward for prisoner, $io'Oo' Total S274. .25.
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07
H. D. Lefls, salary. 1900
 Total, Il. 443. 65

Amount Ol ScWCIdSC SoACS collected is as follows: 1912, S2547. 32; 1913. $4O55. 72; total, S66O3. O4, which less interest due May 1, 1913 leaves $5553. O3.
 Respectfully submitted,
 ELMO CHANEY, Chairman
 BEN EMMoNS, Sec'y
 J. l.. WOODEN
 The recorder and mayor were requested to write to MT. .Thompson about the Brinkley .Licht and Water Co.'S neglect to put in the improvements promised; and, also, about the well for a water supply.
 The mayors report for Sept ember shows that $66.0O in fines were assessed; that 1T cases had come before him, and that a prisoners had been sent to the county farm. { The treasure's repyt now that there is a balance e od !
The Brinkley argus., 1913-11-07
REWARD LOST HARE

DaR bay nsfs. 1Qfor l2 years old. aHput l6ls hands high and weighing betfeef 125o or 11oor has sp b st5lbe in forel Left Bldf fkt t6hl July 18th lE gladly pd liberaI reM6xd sni any in5Ormation leading n ehe recoykfy of mare. Address cfs |calbon
 L w. ]. PEIERs0N
 Blackton, Afk
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22
To Patriotic AlaskanS

Please cut the following from the paper and mail it to some Eastern friend. It may greatly help dispel the idea throughout the country that the whole of Alaska is a land of ice and snow. It will also serve to attract mach attention to this territory:
 During the severe cold snap that swept over the greater portion of the country Jan. 6, ' and 8 it is worthy of comment that the temperature of Alas ka towns along the whole Southern coast was higher than at most of the points in those sections regarded as being wintsg resorts. Alaska has SO often been pictured as an ice-bo0nG region that the comparison is marked. This is often the case, bat more Fe gently the climate of Alaska coast has witnessed some remarkable changes. The following are the J. s. figures for Jan. 9th and copied from the Seattle Post Intelligencer of Jan. Eth.
 Sitka, Alaska lowest, night, 34; com pared with Phoenix, Ariz., 16: Sacra mento, 2S; Seattle, 25; San Diego, Cal, 28; Los Angeles, 34 (the same as SitkaE Chicago, 22
 Dutch liar Dor, Alaska lowest, night, 22; compared with Denver, Cole, 9 below, or difference between the two of A degrees; Portland, Ore, 22;. Ia. coma. Wash, 22.
 Eagle, Alaska, Is below and Tanana, Alaska, l4 belowS compared with Den yer, 22 below Winnipeg go below; St. Paul, 6 below. ERemem Der Tanaua and Eagle are in the interior, the Yukon country, the so-ealled Arctic regions of the territory, and yet they were not SO sold as. Denver, Colo.l
 Nome, Alaska, tea the far Boring sea coast-pictured as the very acme of cold and icy regionsl < above as against zero in the far famed Salt Lake City. 2 at Boise; 2 at Des MoinesT 6 at Bansas City, 12 below at HelenaS 14 below at Duluth.
 Concentrate your study on' Alaska for moment Give it some attention.
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22
The Ma1ennnnrnn

Some of the newspapers of @laskaa are determined that woman' saeBrage shall be an issue and even, insist that the territorial legislature shah attend to- that before it does snytHiug else. Walt Mason wSe lives down ia Ban- sas- where the women have acgriredj the rights of citizenship gives forth the following on the subject:
 "When women vote there1E Be aa eIc5 of trouble vice, grief and tears wi1l atlI be done away success and JOY win then be tEotting double. ws;lI drop ouU' work and. sA run out and play Ah, then, my friends, thereA be sn end o6 signing, in all the world theEsN Se nc' hint of woe, while overhead the pigs are dsftly flying, and reosts1s G1IcM and hens rear up and orow- When women vote the toilers and bhe- tillers no more will be the slaves oS plndoeratsT the social scheme will fnd thenb it's chief pillars-aRd eats will GEe ID peace with mice and paos- NC winter storms or cold will be permitted, oGT lives will then be cast in pleasant Janes; and they'll campaign who lately sat and knitted, and wives wilb wear their husbands' psntaloons. Whsp women vote the crooks will leave their perchesy thereH be no drink more fierce than lemonade; we'll all set forth a.building schools and ehurehes where late the kum Holes cast their baleful shade. Whea women vote thsrell be no cloud or shadow, the whole wide world of sunlight waB be falls and every COW that bFowses in the meadow, will paw around and think she is bpll"
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22

There is one thing ne one can head off-change. No matter how staid or stoical town may be, gradually things become different than they were. There was time when pay day was a great event in Douglas. Then the music of the dance hall mingled with the click of chips, and many man never went back to work until he was broke and his months salary rested secure in a gamester's sack. Front street was q Rourishing mart where the display in- cluded everything to tempt the dollars from the miners pockets. They paid we'll for their fps. But the inevitable change has come. The dance hall and the gaming table are no more. When pay day comes it is seldom that anyone accumulates even 8 bright, laYid jag, and the revelry dies with the night. Those who look at the moral side of the question are positive that vast improvement hes come about How sTep that may be, nc power could stop it. and all that remeins is for the town te, adjust itself to the new conditions aud be prepared for even more-
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22

Mu1DBeg !. Volume !, o9 the Peters burg Progressive has reached us. It is pwblisheG weekly at Peters burg, Alaska, Sy D. F. &EarS and J.. Frederick John sou,. and it's missiee. is let Petersburg. be- known. tGo the world. It is inde- senden6 iuy pcldoicss sgtAoRgh 5ts name might indicate the contrary. Here's eooG ErcS to the new enterprise.
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22
Peace by Education


 "While fortunes are set aside for the propagation of peace, and editorials are pleading for arbitration, scarelines blaze forth the facts-'City Given Over to Pillage;' 'Nearness to Peace Offset by Graver News and in thousands of other letters, big and black, is the ac- tual truth xpressed-caruage murder, war, go on increasingly within and without our gates.
 "This is but natural.
 "One might as we'll rear giant on raw, red meat, and, when he is ravenous talk gently to him of matted milk, as to talk arbitration to man reared in the belief thatIpatriotism is best shown by killing his neighbor, widowing wo- men, making little children fatherless, and leaving wreck and ruin in his wake unto the third and fourth generation.
 eve talk peace and go on mobiliZing our armies, adding to our navies, work ing up great defenses that give the lie to the beliefs that i'll our editorial pages. There is not one among us, as an in6ividul, who does not look upon war with just horror, and most of us regard it as an insurmountable evil.
 "We shudder at the atrocities of the battlefield, the while we enter our chil- dren in military schools and boast of our dreadnougbts and torpedo-boat de- stroyegs, those vicious little black specks lying in the peaceful harbors, evil signs of an evil time that must pass as other black habits of dark ages have dwindled and faded before the light of big truths.
 "War and crime must pass in the light of the truths which all great hu mauitarians are now setting before us.
 Says one: Persia, Carthage, Greece, Rome, the history of each, is an elo quent commentary on the futility of force as a means of gaining power or peace-except that peace which is of ruin and oblivion and the grave. The wrecked forts, the razed edifices, the brokeu columns, the still of death these are the symbols of that peace which arms and armament bring.
 "We are being freed from the tyrant Mars. We are coming to realize that, by seeking the calm which lies at the center of the madly whirling storm we shall be shattered before we reach it. We are learning that what we prepare for we inevitably obtain; that we can not secure peace by preparing for war. We are beginning to realize that the millions of dollars spent annually ir military appropriations would dot the world with school houses, hospitals and useful institutions; would disseminate enlightenment, reason and material inn provement to such degree that war would be unthinkable. Freedom from war means peace-peace by education, peace by enlightenment, peace by higher ideals, pUrer standards, broader points of View-the only peace that can be substantial and secure. Our Dam Animals.
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22

At the regular meeting of Camp Treadwell No. IA, Arctic Brotherhood last night, the action of the Grand Camp which met at Vancouver last No vember was up for discussion and it was unanimously decided to join in with Camp Sitka and tho other camps in holding Grand Camp at some place within the jurisdiction on or about March 18th next. Camp Treadwell, however, is not in favor of the selec tion of Juneau for the meeting place, if for no other reason, because Juneau is about the only town of importance in all Alaska where there is no A. B. camp. In fact, the local Brother Arc- tics are decidedly of the opinion that Douglas would be more suitable place for sach meeting, and will make the attempt to have it here. Tbere seems to be a,determined move all along the line to repudiate the Vancouver Grand Camp. which authorized the establish, ment of camps for the reception of mem bsrs at both Vancouver and Seat tle contrary to the express stipulation of the constitution of the order, which provides that no camps shall be insti- tuted south of $40, and which also provides that no alterations to the said constitution shall be effective until they shall have the approval of a ma iority of the membership through a referendum vote.
 For nnm6er of years past the Grand Camp meetings have been held outside of the Jurisdiction, against the wish of large part of the Northern mem bership, who have repeatedly been assured that soon it would be brought back home. The Brotherhood has en- dured this sort of thjng for years, but at last the worm has turned and from present appearances there will be general housecleaning in the spring, and the Seattle-Alaskans and Van couver. Alaskans, etc., will find that only real residents of the North are to control the destinies of the Brother hood from now on, and weak kneed of. fcials of the order will be relegated to the ranks. The general opinion of the mem bership is the Arctic Brotherhood as an order of the North exclusively will be power for good, but aside from that only poor excuse for noth- ing.
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22

Somehow it seems queer to be told os our poverty by man whose honesty is not bis strong point.
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22

GhaeNe SmiaecS makes frames and frames pictures.
Douglas Island news., 1913-01-22

Storm sash of all sizes can be had at Julius Jsnssn's-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-10

more than usual interest for people Of
this city. but particularly because II
is one of tho rare cases Of the day.
Credit has been ID good and business
so flne OF late years that young mon
could borrow almost anything they
wanted and as rule paid 1t back. but
this young man borrowed too much
and 1t is a warning to young men en-
gagged in business not to lot their
optimism run away with them. As
rule the banks are liberal with grow
ing concerns, sometimes We think too
liberal for the good Of the parties in
terested Borrowing money 10 . good
thing in business, for the old WY OF
waiting until you had the money IL the
bany before improving your opportun-
ity, is antedated, and no one could gec
along that way now. Il requires al
much brain work on the part of Dor.
rover to know how much he ought to
borrow as it does on the part Of the
lender to know how much he ought to
lend. A business career was wrecked
in this case by the easy way money
could be borrowed. Beware of taking
all the money that your signature will
command.