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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-08-01
|REELFOOT lake IS
. GIVEN OVER TO STATE
IN FORMAL MANNER
w. D. HoWSER TAKES POSSES
SION OF 1T FOR THE COM.
MCNWEALTH.
WRIT IS READ IN THE sKIFf
Fishermen Are Gratified When Court
Order is Executed-the Official Act
Taking Place Near the Scene Of the
Rankin-Tayior Tragedy.

UNION CITY, Tenn, July 2S.-In
accordance with the opinion recently
handed down by the supreme court
Sheriff ]. E. Finch, of Obion county
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock for
mally gave about three-fourths OF
Reelfoot lake to the state through the
State game warden, w. d. Howser
i The reading of the writ of the court
took place in skiff on the main body
| of the lake about one mile from Wal
nut Log, the scene of the tragic Ran
kin-Taylor incident. The sheriff and
the warden were rowed out into the
lake in two boats, where the sheriff
read the writ.
The scene was very impressive, the
barren aspect of the lake and the alb.
solute quiet adding to the solemnity
After the wri. had been read, the
sheriff was rowed back to shore,
! leaving the warden on the lake. The
i law provides that after the writ has
been read, the officer shall GO to
shore, out Of sight of the intended
possessor, the possessor thus becom-
| ing the beneficiary OF the writ Of pos.
session.
The warden arrived. here early
from Nashville. He was met at the
depot by the sheriff. After breakfast
they were driven to Walnut Log in
the touring car of Brick" Stone.
After the formalities at the lake were
over the warden drove to Hamburg.
He was the guest there of w. A. Pratt
and Red Brannon. The fishing docks
at this place were inspected
Practically all of the lake fisher
men expressed themselves as being
very glad that the state had taken
possession OF the greater portion of
| the lake. The fishermen believe that
todays action at Walnut Log marks
the close of much dissatisfaction up
on the part of citizens of this section.
The warden was greeted cordially by
the men Of the lake section. No legal
action was instituted to prevent the
lake from being turned over to the
state. Gen. ID. j. Caldwell, of this
city was invited to witness the for
mality, but vas unable to leave the
city.
The lake will be governed by the
provisions Of chapter 463, acts Of
1909 The warden intends to name
deputy to be constantly on duty at
the lake. The writ was issued by
the supreme court sitting at Jackson.
1t names Charles T. Gates, Jr., attor-
ney general of the state, D. ]. Cald-
well, attorney general of this district,
as compliments. The defendants are
the West Tennessee Land Company,
William w. Wilson and N. A. Patter-
son. The writ DEGREES that the state
shall come into full and quiet and
peaceable possession of the lake. The
sheriff is ordered to return the writ
to the supreme court at jackson in
April, 1914. According to Warden
Howser condemnation proceedings
have been filed in this county and
also in Lake county seeking to turn
the remainder of the lake over to the
state.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
Rio Notes.

Mrs. G.. G. Jones is spending
this week in Columbia.
J. Leon Pounds was a visitor
to CovingtOn Monday.
Mr.. L. P. Pierce was on the
sick list last week.
Mr.. ]. G. Moore was a court
visitor Tuesday.
Rev. N. +. Clark, of Poplarville
was a visitor here Saturday.
Miss Little Long, of Bogalusa,
was the week. end guest of Miss
Nellie Jenkins.
MIR. G.. G. Jones was a court
visitor Tuesday.
Mr. L. E. Guidry, of Bogalusa
was a Sunday visitor.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16

Boston, Jan. 12.-Society ma
irons, mothers of eligible de-
butantes and the young ladies
themselves, are terribly per-
turbed to-day, and there is dis
comfort in the homes of the
wealthy of the Back Bay Dis
trict because of the remarks OF
Milton Reed, jurist, traveller and
lecturer, who charged that the
debutants put temptation in the
way of the Harvard boys in the
course of his lecture before the
Twentieth Century Mr.. Reed said.
AS long as young women will
persist in serving quantities OF
champagne at their coming out
parties. with suppers given at 4
o'clock in the morning, we can
not expect model behavior from
young meu. The boys who
come home after some such az
fair are bound to be in an un'
fortunate condition"
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
Notice.

The following notes. owned by
Mrs. Courtney WEIGH, wife OF A. L.
WEIGH. have been paid by B. I. Magee
and delivered to the said B. l. Msgee,
have been lost. First note for $500,
payable December /, 1909, with in:
terest at the rate Of seven per cent
from maturity, and note No. 2, for
$500, payable Dec. 1, 1910, with seven
per cent interest from date. Each of
said notes being dated 2oth day o.
August, 1900, and paraphed me Vari-
etur ;" Of even date herewith, by NJ.
I. Varnado, notary public, to identity
same with the act Of sale with VEN
doris lien and privilege retained, said
act being passed before said notary
public, recorded In mortgage book s,
page 1888; Of tho official records Of
Washington parish, L., and the pub
lie is warned against negotiating for
the above notes, Same having been
paid in full, and this notice Is given
for tho purpose Of csncelling the
same on the records OF said parish
and state.
Mrs. Courtney WEIGH.
88-43 B. ]. Magee.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16

was decapitated, and otherwise
terribly mangled, and her death
instantaneous.
Miss Harris succeeded in jump
ing clear off the trestle, but in
falling is believed to have st ruck
some obsticle and was badly in.
iured about the head. She was
brought in on the train and re-
moved to the Baptist State Hos
pital, where at last reports she
was still unconscious and in a
critical condition.
Beyond a Earring and nervous
shakeup at the awful tragedy
which they witnessed, the other
members of the little party we're
not seriously injured.
Miss Mayo leaves her widowed
mother, two sisters and q brother
all residents here. Mrs. Mayo
had conducted the Mayo House
for several years.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
iona Notes.

Mfr. and Mrs. j. Penton were
New Orleans visitors Saturday
Rev. and Mrs. c. O. Mailman
of Alabama, are guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Allen.
Mrs. J. E. Wood and little
daughter Josie, of Franklinton,
were Sunday visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. }. E. Ritchey
have returned, after a visit to
Mrs. Ritchey's mother, Mrs.
Ball, of Angie.
Mr., and Mrs. Joe Penton and
children left Sunday for Texas,
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
Nurse Tells Story of Baby
Swapping.

San Francisco, Jan. 12.-That
Mrs. Dorothy Morgan Cutter
slingsby, wife of a time
lieutenant in the navy of Great
Britain, substituted a strange in
FAINT for that of her own dead
child and had the body OF the
latter cremated in order to obtain
an heir for tho million.dollar
Slingsby estate in England was
the charge made yesterday in
a confession of Mrs. 0. U. Blain,
a nurse.
Mrs. Blain told her story in the
office of the district attorney be.
fore Louis Ferrari, the chief dep.
uty, and other witnesses.
According to the nurses story,
Mrs. Slingsby.s own child died
at birth, which SO distracted the
mother who wanted to legalize
the transfer Of the estate by the
birth of a child, that she threaten
ed suicide.
Through a newspaper adver-
tisement Mrs. Blain declared she
obtained the infant child of Lillian
Anderson, an unfortunate girl,
and this baby was substituted
without the knowledge of Lieuten'
ant Slingsby.
The story will be used in the
prosecution Of DR.. W. W. Fraser
on a charge of Justification OF
state birth records, Mrs Blair
declared it was through DR. Fras.
or that tue Anderson infant was
found. The state records show
the birth Of q son to Mrs. Sings
IbY.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16

NOTICE is hereby given that
a certain mortgage note, date
Oct. 18th, 1918, for the sum of
$40, due and payable to the
Farmers & Merchants Bank on
Oct. 18th, 1909, and secured by
mortgage recorded in Mortgage
record No. 6, page 43, Washing.
ton Parish, has been lost or mis-.
laid and the public is warned
against the purchase of said note.
Wash. Par. Warehouse Co. Ltd,
J. r. SchiIling, Pres.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
PARCELS POST
is SUCCEEDING.

Notwithstanding the fact that
it is new and necessarily more
or less crude, the parcels posi-
service is vindicating the value
Of it's existence and the wisdom
of those whose insistent demands
created it. It's rates notably
on short distance packages--need
overhauling and reductions, and
it can be simplified in other dr.
rections, but with all it's defects.
it meets with a fair degree OF
efficiency, the purpose of its ere
alton. The parcels post is part
of a comprehensive scheme OF
rural betterment; it's chief pur
pose is to place the rural dwellel
as closely as POSSIBLE in touch
with the world about him, there
by attracting home builders tt
the country. A test made by
the New York Herald shows tina
in a large majority Of cases it il
cheaper, swifter and more rell
able than the express companies
Country Review.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
Miss Zula Mayo Is Decapi.
tated; Companion Hurt.

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 12.-Miss
Zula Mayo. aged Is, daughter OF
Mrs. f. NJ. Mayo, was instantly
killed some three miles east OF
here, in Rankin County, about .
O'Clock this afternoon, and Miss
Lucille Harris, niece and adopted
daughter of John Harris, retail
grocery man, probably fatally in
ljured at the same time.
The two young girls we're mem.
hers of q party of young men and
women who had gone out for a
walk Oh a kodak expedition dur
ing the afternoon. They had
crossed the public bridge over
Pearl River, and according to
members Of the party were walk
ing along near the tracks of The
Alabama and Vicksburg Railway.
Some Of the strollers had started
to cross q trestle bridge near
what Is called the Parish Traffic
Bridge, just as the westbound
express train No. II, running
about two hours late, approached.
A curve a short distance ahead
had obstructed their view of the
approaching train, which was
running at about forty miles an
hour, and was nearing the point
at which it is customary to slow
down for the river bridge. Misses
Mayo and Harris, with the two
young men, are reported to have
made haste to clear the trestle
The former, in her excitement, is
believed to have gotten foot en-.
tangled in the timbers and fell
the train striking her. The body
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
Come Now and Let
Us Reason Together

weqhtier matter than merchandise at stake when
those words uttered by the prophet DID, but the words apply
to all conditions in all ages.
Men who have something to tell something to sell, use
them. We have both.
We believe telling the people through the medium Of the
press, what we have and how we deal.
We sell everything for the home and farm.
We have built large business our platforms "Every
Deal Square deal.''
We believe majority Of the people honest ard that all
people like deal where they feel they will be dealt with honestly
We believe people will deal where they got the most and best
goods for their money.
We do not claim to be the only folks who honest who
give good vaes but claim be Of that Glass; and be-
eve have good for claims of which follow:
Ideal location raroads-Near depos thus reducing
drayage mnmumCary large and varied sockBuy
in large quantities direct mills and aores-Lage volume Of
business, permitting small profits,
Make immediate shipments and everything sold 'Your
money back if not satisfied"
You can't lose by giving your business but you profit
Write for prices and let US furnish the proof,
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
New Blacksmith Shop.

The Lossett Blacksmith Shop
has been purchased by W. P.
Dunlap and all kinds of work will
be done at moderate prices.
Horseshoeing and gunwork 9
speciality. All work guaranteed.
Price spot cash on delivery.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
Notice.

The next regular examination
for white and c0lored teachers
will be held at the court house
on January 30 and 81 and Feb. l,
1918. D. H. Struggled,
Parish Supt.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1913-01-16
McManus Returns.

Alexandria, La, Jan, 12-Nel'
son McManus, who mysterious)y
disappeared from his home near
Jena, LaSalle Parish, Oct. l, and
whose disappearance stirred the
citizens of central Louisiana and
a seurch being instituted for his
body because of the belief that
he had been murdered, turned
up here last night. He is now az
the home of his mother, Mrs. M,
E. McManus, in Monroe street,
this city.
Shortly after his disappear.
ance, Leland Walker, a young
man who was working for Me-
Manus in his logging camp. con-
fessed that he had murdered Nc.
Manus by striking him on the
head with an ak, and implicated
Dock Harp, another young man.
The confession by Leland Walker
had been obtained during a grill.
ing process bv an officer who
was employed as a detective.
Walker stated to the officer that
he and Harp had weighted the
dead body of McManus with a
piece of railroad iron and put it
into a pond of water. Walker
took a posse of men to the pond
and showed them where the body
had been placed, but thorough
search failed to reveal it.
| McManus was interviewed to-
day and stated that he had left
home because OF business trou-
bles, saying he was deeply in
debt and that the trouble seemed
more than he could bear and that
he guessed it deranged his mind
for the time, He was in the
woods hiding for five days after
This disappearance, finally beat
ms his way on trains to Monroe,
Little Rock and st. Louis, then
back to Memyhis, Vicksburg
and Baton Rouge. He worked
flor several levee contractors, but
lately worked for Captain J. G.
Brown in a logging camp 2:
} miles below Plaquemine, going
under the name of Charles Joy
He came to this city riding thu
blind baggage over the Texas {
Pacific Ry. His aged mother
was greatly overcome when h
appeared at her home befor,
daylight, She and her daughter
were wearing mourning for him
His wife is with her parents a
LaCompte. He had been mar
Tried only two months when h
so mysteriously disappeared.
McManus' return releases LIE
Hand Walker from suspicion. Hi!
lease was to have been submitted
Ito the grand jury again mex
: week. McManus says that b
cannot understand why Wake
should have confessed that h
had murdered him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
REPAIRS TO sCHO0NERs.
River Craft Being Fitted Up for
Summer Service.

The schooner Martin Wagner belong
ing to Capt. George Stanford. which has
been lying at anchor liz the harbor being
overhauled for the summer traffic, left
port yesterday for White Haven, on
the eastern shore of Chesapeake bay
where the vessel will haul out The
hull Of the Wagner is to receive ex-
tensive repairs, and when she is put
overheard she will be practically a new
craft.
Having completed painting and hull re-
pairs. the fishing schooner Mary and
Rebecca. Capt Jake Faunce, master. has
been put overheard from Regan's rail-
way, and Is lying in the dock completing
work about deck. The overhauling of
the sails and other attention yet to be
given the Mary and Rebecca will keep
her from starting down the river for
summer fishing for about two weeks.
The big houseboat. part of the dredg-
ing plant equipment of the new Dorsey
& Miller Company of this city, is out
on the marine railway at Deans boat
yard at Alexandria for general repairs,
after having lain idle for about a year.
The craft will be used as floating
boarding house for the men employed by
the new firm in dredging operations
along the river and in Chesapeake bay.
The houseboat will probably be ready
to go into service In the latter part of
this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
PREDICTS DEFEAT OF
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
Representative Bowdle Is Sarcastic
in Discussion of the Votes-for-
Women Movement.

Let the suffragists expend their
energies in keeping women from wear
Ing the plumage of beautiful birds, and
thus stop the ruthless and cruel
slaughter of these winged creatures, and
they will be very well employed" is
one of the suggestions made by Repre-
sentative Bowdle of Ohio in an inter-
view predicting the defeat of the suf-
frage amendment in the House. Repre-
sentative. Bowdle. successor to Repre-
sentative Longworth. forecasts that the
equal suffrage amendment will be de-
feated overwhelmingly in the House.
and that many members will hide be-
hind the proposition to make suffrage
a local issue.
He was sarcastic in his discussion Of
the suffragist movement:
Il have heard so much from suffra-
giSts about women doing mems work
with equal facility and results that
am surprised to find out that there is
any branch of activity in which they
are not represented. i witnessed NOV
ing pictures of SCOTS expedition to the
south pole. and as / gazed upon the
pictorial story of those fearless adj
venturers who fought a losing fight
momentarily expected to see the face
of a suffragist depicted on the screen.
But i suddenly remembered that the
suffragists couldn't possibly be busy
with Scott in the antarctic. They are
too busily engaged in trying to burn
down the capital Of the country which
sent Scott on the expedition"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
MEANING OF NURSE"
EXPLAINED TO CLASS
Garfield Hospital Training School
Graduates Are Given
Diplomas.

The meaning of the word nurse was
defined by Miss Clara D. Moves, super
fntendent of Training Schools for Nurses
at the Bellevue and Allied Hospitals,
New York. in an address to the grad
uating nurses of the Garfield Memorial
Hospital Training School yesterday aft
ernoon.
Miss Noyes told the graduates and her
audience that there are a great many
definitions of the word used in this coun-
try. She declared. however, that the
only true definition was that applied to
those who had studied and completed a
course of training in hospital. She also
told of efforts In several of the states to
restrict any one not graduate of a hos
pita, training school, from using the title.
The exercises We're held at O'Clock in
the assembly room OF the hospital.
Rev DIR. Abram Simon offered prayer.
after which Miss Noyes delivered her adj
dress. The graduates We're presented by
Dr. H. c. Yarrow. president OF the medi-
George NJ. Sternberg, Z. S. A., retired.
president of the board Of directors, pre-
scented the diplomas.
The graduates were: Susan A. Paxton,
Statesville. n. c.: Fife d. Keller, Stras-
burg. Va: Lula T. Lloyd. South Boston.
Va: Margaret H. Emes, Lewiston, \. Y;
Ethel c. Dooly, Salt Lake City Utah;
Mabel Rice. Baltimore Md. Mamie B.
Hardy. Russellville. Ky: Helen W.
Massey. Colonial Beach, Va; Louise T.
Mathew, Alexandria, Va: Leola L.
Nichols Bluemont, Va, and Ehie NJ.
Dunbar, Canton, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
SURVIVORS TO ORGANIZE.
Members of the LIST D. c. Vol. Inf
Plan Regimental Association.

At a recent meeting held at Eag1es'
Hall by a number of former officers and
enlisted men of the 1st District OF Colum-
bia Infantry, United States Volunteers. 1t
was determined to form a regimental as
ISOLATION Of the survivors of that reg1-
ment.
At that meeting an organization of an
executive committee was perfected and
the following officers elected:
President. Col Richard d. Simms: vice
president, Representative l.. c. Dyer;
secretary. Capt. Richard ]. Donnelly;
treasurer. Sergt W. Calvin Whip.
These. together with one enlisted man
from each company OF the regiment and
six commissioned officers from the regi-
ment at large, were designated to COM
prise the executive committee. A meet
ing of the executive committee has been
called for tomorrow evening at the ONCE
of Representative l.. c. Dyer, room 49s
House Office building.
In addition to the completion of the or
ganization of the executive committee. as
outlined above one of the matters to be
discussed at that meeting will be re-
union Of the regiment to be held Santiago
day, July II, 1913. which date will mark
the fifteenth anniversary of the surrender
to Mai Gen Shafter of the Spanish
troops which garrisoned the city OF San
tiago, Cuba .-4---.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY
OF THE RUPERT HOME
Simon Wolf Praises Work of Insti.
tuition and Pictures
Bright Future.

The eleventh anniversary of the found
ing of the Christian and Elenora Rupert
Home for the Aged. on Good Hope road,
ernoOn. The exercises continued through
out the afternoon and part of the even
ing
Simon Wolf, president of the board of
directors. delivered the principal address
of the day, and dealt with the work
that had been accomplished by the insti-
tuition. and also paid a beautiful tribute
to it's founders. He also pictured a bright
future for the home. William F. GUIDE,
another member of the board also spoke.
In addition to the addresses a program
was contributed. which included violin and
piano selections by Miss Hattie Patzscke
and Miss Lille Patzscke; soprano solo,
Miss Catherine Cannon reading, Miss
Edith Maddux: contralto solo. Miss Au-
erts; soprano solo. Miss Viola Schippert:
reading. Miss Maddux; miscellaneous
songs. Mrs. Blanche Muir Dalgleish, ac-
companied by Mrs. ]. Harry Davis as
pianist: selections by quartet. consisting
OF Miss Schippert, soprano; Miss Hill, con-
tralto: Austin Howard. tenor, and Theo-
dore Howard, bass: George Hubert Wells,
accompanist. At the close of the enter
tainment the inmates of the home were
served special supper in the large din
ing room. and in the center of the table
an exceptionally large cake had been
placed, the gift of friend of the insti-
tuition in the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
HOTEL MAN Is FREED.
Not Gaiity Of Selling Liquor in Vic
lation Of the Law.

Z. took a jury in the Police Court
less than FIVE minutes 10 decide upon
verdict of acquittal in the case of
George +. Schutt, proprietor of the
Ebbi:t Hotel. charged with violating the
excise law oy selling liquor after mid
night Saturday. November 49, last. to
other thar bona fde registered guests OF
the hotel.
The case had occupied the attention
OF the court two days. and 1t was not
until late yesterday afternoon that the
arguments By counsel We're finished.
TIE principal witness for the prosecu-
ton was A. E. Shoemaker. attorney fol
the Anti-Saloon League.
The night in question. which was the
day OF the Georgetown-Virgin1a foot
ball game. the hotel dining room was
crowded. according to government wit
nesses, including Lieut.. Harrison of the
first precinct. who made the arrest.
Attorneys L. S. Brady and John A.
Hamilton represented Mr.. Schultz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22
BARGEs ARE ACTIVE.
lows Busy With Coal-Laden Craft
for North Coast Points.

Laden with abou. 900 tons of Cumber-
land coal, brought to Georgetown via
the Chesap cake and Ohio canal, schooner
barge No. 16, ore of the big coal car
riers of the Consolidation Coal Company
of Baltimore. left Georgetown today in
tow Of the tug Carter. She will be taken
to the mouth OF the Potomac and will
there join tow going from Baltimore
TO New England ports. She. 1t is stated,
will discharge her cargo at Boston.
Barge No. 8. in tow of the tug Pied
mont is on her way down the coast from
Boston. bound to this city after cargo
of coal. BY the time the Carter arrives
at Point Lookout 1t is expected that the
Piedmont will be there with her tow and
the Carter will take No. 8 in tow and
will bring her up the river and dock her
under the coal chuteS at Georgetown.
No will complete her cargo and be
ready to sail in the end of the week.