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The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09

into action If the right lever were
moved. s
The girl had been driving over the
lawn for several minutes when she in
adyertently grasped the lever that put
the flying mechanism into play. In
stantly the craft started heavenward.
Miss Muller was frightened. She
ierked furiously at one lever after an
other. but in twinkling the plane was
20 feet in the air.
Then the girl of twenty-five, realiz-
ing that she was powerless to stop up
ward fight, decided to take chances
on coming down and shut off the mo-
tor.
The machine. with the motor stop
ped, dropped 'earthward like spent
rocket. The girl made no attempt to
guide the downward plunge. but Just
when another instant would have seen
her crushed amid the wreckage of the
steel car. she seemed to gather her
wits The bystanders heard little
cry and then the girls body shot out
and landed a few feet from the mono
plane, just as it crumbled into a
twisted mass of steel. She had tried
to jump clear of the wreckage and her
success had saved her life.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09

Association, the Southern Textile AS
sociation, the Southern Woman and
Child Labor Conference, the Army OF
the Cumberland ana the Union Veter-
ans Legion. The Army of tie Cum
berland meets regularly in this city.
A most notable gathering here and
one that should be mentioned separate
~ was the Southern Presbyterian Lay.
mems conference last winter TO this
gathering came 1900 delegates from
all over the south ard during the SEES
sions the Southern Presbyterian lay.
men made great plans for the future,
missionaries volunteered to 20 to the
foreign fields and thousands or dollars
were pledged for foreign mission
work.
Besides the conventions and assem-
blies already mentioned, there have
met here in time past the American
Bar Association. the American League
Of Postmasters, the Association of
Railway Claim Agents, the Association
Of Deans OF Law Schools, the National
Association of Bank Clerks, the Amer
lean Association OF Dining Car Super.
intendents, the Southern Educational
Association, the Railway Fuel AGENTS
Association. the Speech Arts Associa,
ton, the American Society of Civil En-
sineers, conferences of both the North
ern and Southern Methodist Churches,
Presbyterian s!nods and Baptist state
conventions, also the Southern Bap-
fist convention.
One of the biggest hauls Chattanoo
ga ever made in the way OF securing
public gatherings was made in Ma
con, Ga, last spring, when the Chat,
tanooga delegation, several hundred
strong, captured the United Confeder-
ate Veterans Reunion for 1913. ..
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09

We will mail you samples Of
any kind of dress goods, Wool
en- Dress Goods, silks, White
Goods, Bingham, Percals, Tow
elinge, Linens, Poplins, Etc,
and you can make your selec-
tions at home.
The very closest attention
will be given all mail orders.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09
HAS MARRIED 1900 COUPLES
Tennessee Minister Builds Hotel Es-
peeialy for EIorinS
Couples.

Bristol, Tepn.-Rev. Alfred Harrison
Burroughs of Bristol, now in his
e!ghtieth year, has married 1000
couples in the last twenty.three years.
IL had no Wrought OF making this
business" said the aged minister. II
was licensed to marry people many
years ago, and when the first runaway
couple sought me in 1889, l consented
to marry them more as a matter Of
accommodation than anything else.
"Some of my friends were present
and Witnessed the marriage. They
comrlimented me and told me that
ought to make marrying a business.
After that l did not decline to offer
my services whenever a couple came
my way. Month by month the bust
ness grew until I sometimes married
from three to six couples a day"
So rapidly did the minister's mar
rying business increase that he built
hotel designed especially to accom-.
modate clipping couples.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09
RAILROAD RATES
Low FARES TO GREAT cONVEN.
TON OF BAPTIST LAYMEN
IN CHATTANOOGA.
Railroad Facilities Are Unusually
Good-Nine Lines Radate in Every
Direeticn-Two Elegant Passenger
Stations.

Az a railroad center of wide promi-
nence, Chattanooga. Tenn, holds an
undisputed position of high rank. IA.
dating from this city are nine lines.
running in every direction and over
them pass some Of the fastest and best.
equipped trains in the whole country.
The Dixie Flyer, running from Chi.
cage, ILL.,, to Jacksonville, Fla, daily,
is one of the most modern and unto
date through trains that can be found
anywhere and is widely known to the
travelling public throughout the cen
trail and eastern portion of the United
States. Besides this, there runs
through Chattanooga, over the South
ern Railway, the Memphis special and
other fast trains, while Chattanooga il
also entered by the Central of Geor-
gia; the Queen and Crescent route,
embracing the Cincinnati, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific and the Ala
bama Great Southern, the Tennessee.
Alabama and Georgia.
There are in Chattanooga two ele.
CANT passenger stations. The Termi-
nal Station, a new s1.000.00 structure.
is located on Market street, In one of
the leading business sections of the
city, while the Union Station is To-
Gated on West Ninth street. within
one block of where all the street cars
of the city pass at close intervals.
Both stations are on car lines that con-
meet with others for all parts of the
city on good schedules.
Chattanooga is favorably known to
all tourists. 1t is regarded as one of
the most convenient railroad points in
the south, because of both its through
and local service. Persons living with
in a radius of $50 miles of Chattanoo
ga can spend the day there and return
to their homes by bedtime
Ample information about the low
rates for the laymen's convention can
be had either from local railroad
agents or from DR.. j. T. Henderson. at
Bristol. or the Rev. E. E. George at
Chattanooga, -
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09
DOUBT DISAPPEARS
No One in Newport Who Has a
Bad Back Should Ignore This
Double PROOF.

Does your back ever acheo
Have you suspected idncss"
Backache is sometimes kidney ache
With 1t may come dizzy spells.
Sleeplcss nights, tired dull days.
Distressing urinary disorders. W..
Doan's Kidney Pills have been en-
dorsed by thousands.
Are recommended here at home.
You have read the Newport proof.
Read now the Newport sequel.
Renewed tcstimoney; tested by time.
Will Fine, Jones Hill, Newport,
Tenn, says: "Tne benefit Doan's Kid
ncy Pills brought me when ! took
them has been permanent and am
glad TO confirm the public statement |
gave in January 1909. For at least
three wears I had trout lie from r)v
kidneys. IL b'gan with a dull ache
across my back and AT times | was
hardly abe 10 straighten. The ki;'-
ney stcretions were too frequent IN
passage and The flow was scarly.
When ] read about poan's Kidney
Pills, | got suppl from The MINIS
ID 'ue Co am, horore long they remo>-
ed every sym ton Of The trouble"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the namc-Doan sand
take no other.
Advertisement
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09
Many Notable Gatherings Here.

Chattanooga has in the past enter
tanned some Of the most notable gath
erings that ever assembled. Right
recently this city has been host
to the National Undertakers As
ISOLATION, the Travellers Protective
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09

Don Giimms the Depot night-agent
of the Southern, spent Sunday in
Cleveland.
Carl McNahb spent Sunday with
homeioiks at Wilton.
ID. \. Drinnon. The East Tennessee
Telephone manager, al this place, has
been confined 10 his room the past
week with an attack OF fever.
Mrs. J. G. Ownby and children, who
have been visiting friends in Knox
vile, SweetwsIer and Chattanooga,
for the past several months, returned
to this place last week.
Miss Mildred Wilson, who has been
visiting friends in Knoxville, has re-
turned to her home at Edwina.
The Woman's Improvement Club
will have meeting in he Club rooms
on Saturday Jan. l ut :, O'Clock.
This is meeting TO elect new officers
and all the members are urged TO be
present.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09
GIRL LEAPS CLEAR
AS MACHINE FALLS
Carried AIoft Involuntary, Only
Her Nimbie lump Prevents
Death Amid WreCkagc.

New York.-Aiiss Bernetta Muller 0.
SO West Sixty-seventh street, whose
home Is in Canton. O., has been pu-
pill of an aviation school at Mineola,
l.. l., for the past week, but had only
heen permitted to drive monoplane
on playground. The elevator" Of the
machine had been kept tied down so
that no nischance might send the crsft
soaring into the air.
When Miss Muller started out tx
other morning she thought the usual
provision against sudden fight had
been made, but il her absence some
one had tempered with the bonds and
the elevator" was cute Tree to 60
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09
PIRATES SEIZE ITALIAN BARK
Crew Of Ship Then Forced Into Small
Boats Without Water or
Provisions.

New York-When the steamer Al
lemania arrived in port the other day,
a thrilling story of shipwreck and at
tack by pirates was told by Is sailors
Of the Italian bark Genee, ON board
the Allemania, and rescued by the lat
ter boat when in desperate plight at
lnagua, the Bahamas.
After working the pumps for several
days, the crew were ON the point of de-
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09

Sometimes | wish / were a
horse"
"What makes you wish that:'
Because then / could go 10 grass
end find myself in clover"
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09

sorting the bark and taking to the
boats when a number of small boats
came alongside, and the occupants OF
these boats, numbering more than 100,
armed with guns and revolvers, board
ed the Genee, and ordered the crew to
surrender. An attempt was made by
the crew to scuttle the Genee, and a
fight ensued in which the defenders
were badly worstet They were then
ordered into the small boats, without
water or provisions.
After rowing aimlessly for two days,
the, crew of the Genee made land at
one of the smaller Bahamas and hoist.
edra, signal of distress, which was
seen by the Allemania's lookout.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-01-09
ITS FiTN EsS.

"Why have you decided to become
beauty doctor"
Because there are handsome
profits in the beauty business.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
TEST NEW ROAD LAW
Avoca Man Brings Suit To Collect
Bill Engineer Did Not Approve
MUCH INTEREST IN THE RESULT
Question In Issue Has Been Matter
Of Much Discussion Among All
Interested In Workings of
the Highway Measure.

Council Bluffs.-while there Is
scarcely any disposition to criticise
the new highway law in this section.
there is an occasional critic OF the
statute and one of the few has start
ed out to take test case through the
courts.
The constitutionality of that phase
of the law requiring the approval Of
the county engineer of all bills for
permanent work, has been brought in
to question by Joe Wasser of Avoca.
who has brought suit against County
Auditor ]. ID. Hannah to compel him to
pay bill OF this kind.
AS result of the action the high
way commission has sent l.. A. Wiki
inson, accountant for the commission.
and Division Engineer w. e. Williams,
here to check IN the auditors records
with reference to this transaction. The
state will appear with Auditor Han.
nan In the suit.
The point involved has been most
criticised Of any in the law. In this
instance the board of supervisors al
lowed the claim but the engineer re-
fused to indorse it. The Wasser case.
however it results in district court,
will be appealed.
The controversy arises over the pay
NEXT for culvert built under the SUI
peryision of member of the board OF
supervisors. 1t was needed immedi-
ately but the county engineer was not
consulted, and had nothing to do with
directing the style of culvert or ma
aterial to be used in its construction
The supervisor who ordered the work
refused to report the work in the ma
ture of temporary repairs, in which
case, the point of law would not be-
come involved.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
SHORT COURSE or GREATER SCOPE
Iowa State College VIII Endeavor to
Interest Farmers, Artisans and
All Home Makers.

Ames. - Iowa agriculture, Iowa
trades and industries. and Iowa homes
form the complete triangle of interests
represented this year in the annual
winter short courses at Iowa State
college, Dec. 20 to Jan. 10. at which
every man, woman and child engaged
in doing practical things will find
packed into two weeks the most vital
and up TO date instruction in the line
in which he or she may be interested.
The whole equipment OF the college is
placed at the disposal OF those who
come. This year with a greatly en-
larged list of subjects which appeal to
the men in Iowa trades and indus
tries as well as to the farm and home.
record breaking attendance is ex-
pected.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
SEEK JONES' RELEASE FROM PEN
Petition ls Filed With Parole Board
Asking Consideration Of Case of
Man Charged With Abduction.

Shenandoah.--Attorney Earl r. Fer
guson. representing the interests Of
Earl Jones of Corning, now serving
time at Anamosa following his plead
ing guilty to a charge of kidnapping
pretty Grace Runyon, daughter Of a.
Corning banker. has mailed his petit
ton to the state board Of parole, ask
ing that the Jones case be reviewed.
and that Jones be liberated. Accom-
panying the petition are affidayits
from many Of the important witnesses
in the case. The petition AYERS that
the sentencing Of Jones to Anamosa
was miscarriage of justice.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
Youth Heads Pan.HeIIenIc.

Iowa City.-Don Hunter Of Newton.
Ia, was elected president of the Pan
Hellenic association at the University
of Iowa. The complete list of officers
chosen follows: President Don Hunt,
er of Newton. Delta Tau Delta; vice
president, Garrison Antilles OF Fort.
Madison, Beta Theta Pi; secretary.
Max OBrien OF Oskaloosa, Phia De'ta
Theta; treasurer, Clement Garfield OF
Humboldt, Phi Kappa Psi.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
Eoroet. Auto Number

SHENANDOAH little act OF forget
fulness cost w. p Miller OF this city
$40 and costs. He was arrested for
having an oyerripe auto license on his
machine. He said he had the new
number at home. but had neglected for
months to put 1t on.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
Hon. AttackchIld.

Council Bluffs.-Thelma Hamm, f.
year-old daughter Of Shambaugh peo-
pie, was the victim Of an attack by
hogs that had escaped from the lot
into the dooryard. The child was
knocked down, trampled upon and
badly bitten before help came.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
ProhlbltIonists Are Active.

The Iowa Amendment association
will increase its activities in the state
to secure constitutional prohibitory
amendment for Iowa because Of the
encouraging effect of the closing Of
the saloons in Des Moines, according
to A. q. Coates, secretary of the as
ISOLATION.
The association believes that this
is the opportune time to agitate the
subject of constitutional prohibition
for Iowa. The people of the state are
watching the outcome of the saloon
issue in Des Moines, says Mr.. Coates,
and the enforcement of the prohibitory
statutory law.
S. NJ. Holiday OF Indianola is presi-
dent of the association, which has
been cooperating with the Des Moines
Citizens association to defeat the To-
cal saloon consent petition.
"The next thing is to clean up the
entire state" said Mr.. Coates. This
can be done by the adoption and rati-
fication OF the prohibitory amend.
ment. We are going into the field in
Iowa to make the people realize the
importance of constitutional amend
ment. The people of the state are
watching Des Moines now and this is
the time to acquaint them with the
workings Of the mulct law and the
reasonableness of constitutional pro-
hibitory law"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
s.na.or eal. oneratea al

Mason City-Former Senator Gale
is improving from an operation which
was performed at the Mayo hospital
at Rochester, MINI. The operation.
was for relief from gallstones.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
R.cord.r ~ a,,ck uawk

Waterloo. County Recorder Cha-'es
P. Plummer died at his home in Ce ar
Falls. He had been seriously Ill DIR
ing the last two weeks. He has SUI err
ed from partial paralysis OF the lover
limbs for ten years.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
Victim of AutomobIIe.

/, Glenwood. Funeral services of TT
late Alfred Davis. who was killed in
an auto accident were held here. Be-
sides his wife. Mr. Davis leaves a SON
W. w. Davis of Kearney. Neb.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
Perry Man Dies In Butte.

Perry Word was received here Of
the death at Butte. Mont. OF Vet Day.
ton. former well known citizen. He.
for years was resident of Perry. The.
body will be brought here for burial.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
CAPITAL STILL DRY
ANTLsALooN FORCES PUTTING
UP STRONG FIGHT AGAINST
CONSENT PETITIONS.
LIQUOR MEN MEETING OBSTACLES
Generally Believed That Many Who
Signed Former Petitions Are Refus-
Ing to Be Listed as Saloon Support.
ers In the Present Battle.

Des Moines.-opposing forces of Des
Moines citizens have begun in deadly
earnest mighty battle. The saloon
lists and anti-saloonists have started
what promises to be the longest drawn
out and most critical warfare between
the two rival forces in local history.
The liquor men enter upon the final
lap OF their race for a sufficient num-
Der OF names upon their new consent
petition In order that they may re-
open their establishments. The anti
saloonists, working as members of the
Des Moines Citizens association, have
established headquarters to fight the
consent petitions by contesting sigma.
lures and by securing the withdrawal
OF signatures made "thoughtlessly or
because of coercion
The "antis" promise that It will be
the most systematic fight the Des
Moines saloon men have ever had to
combat. They will extend every effort
within their power to make perman-
ent the closing Of the saloons.
az ehO oohiC biAuC Tic SdlOOH men
express determination to have their
places Of business reopened, either by
a stay of execution of the supreme
court decision or by the canvassing Of
new consent petition, based upon
the general election Of 1912.
There have been many hints among
the members of each contingent that
before the climax OF the clash has
been reached, sensations will have
been sprung. That high-up officials
are destined to be drawn into the con-
troversy is the substance OF more than
one rumor.
Contrary to the declarations made
by liquor men that they have received
a serious setback in securing sigma
lures upon the consent petitions, there
are reports current in Des Moines to
the effect that the petitions now lack
but few hundred names of having
the 9,05s signatures needed for a suf.
ficiency.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
May Affect Other Acts.

Whether tho Des Moines saloon de-
cision will have effect on hundreds Of
other legalizing acts passed by the
legislatures OF Iowa for years Is both
ering attorneys and state officials.
The contention of the court In the
Des Moines saloon case is that there
was no specific illegality to be cured
by the legalizing act.
This has occurred so often in legal
izing acts of the legislature that law
yers are scared. There is never a
session but that the action of certain
deputy sheriffs in signing deeds to
property is made legal by special act
of the legislature. These acts are not
specific, but are intended to cover any
acts OF the character named by any
deputy sheriff in the state. These are
in cases where a deputy sheriff has
given sheriff's deed. There are many
similar cases. Often there are acts
Of the legislature which simply legal
lie certain papers or deeds during a
certain period of years. II the court
decision in the Des Moines case, law
yers aver, is to be made applicable
to these other cases the legislature
will have to take several months at
its next session making specific in
stances of legalizing which has been
done by generalization for almost half
a century.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
Iowa Highway Improvement.

The new state highway law is work
ing out successfully along the Great
White Way, according to a party of
officials Of the association who made
an inspection trip over the cross-state
road.
The men reported that great
amount of work is being done under
the direction of state highway engin-
GERS and that the grades are being
made permanent. The enforcement
Of the new law is Improving the gen.
eral contour and condition of the road
to great extent.
According to the completed log. the
length Of the road from Davenport to
Council Bluffs is 1885 miles. In that
distance, there are 226 turns, a large
per cent of which are banked and
rounded. There are fifty.eight rail-
road crossings and ESQ concrete and
steel bridges have been constructed
along the road. There are only about
seventy-five wooden bridges and cul-
verts on the entire stretch and these
are being replaced rapidly by perma.
nent structures.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04

One trainman was killed and two
fatally injured in locomotive explo-
sion on the Big Four railroad near
Shiloh. o.
Four Omitted States soldiers were In.
stantly killed and two mortally IN
jured when fast passenger train over
the Galveston-Houston & Henderson
railroad crashed into the automobile
In which they were riding. The sol
diers were driving at a very high
speed in order to beat the train to
Galveston. Tex.
Exactly s129,51e.41 was spent for
the John Purroy Mitchell mayoralty
campaign in New York. as against
$4,000 for Edwin z. Mccall. the
Tammany candidate.
Fourteen dead, host hurt-that Is
the gridiron's toll In the U. S. for 1913.
OF the many injured. Sc have been In
capacitated. temporarily. at least.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04
Mexican Revolt

President Huerta of Mexico gave or
ders that the deputies of the previous
congress who were arrested be placed
in separate cells. 1t is thought prob
able that the execution Of several Of
the imprisoned deputies as traitors to
the federal government will be or
dered without delay. Huerta fears a
plot against him.
All the federal forces Of Mexicans
that have engaged "Pancho" Villas
rebel troops near TERRA Blanca, Mex,
have been defeated and routed. accord
ing to an official message sent from
the firing line by General Villa to the
rebel chiefs in Juarez.
simultaneously repulsing front
and right and left flank attack,
turning the separate attacks into a
general engagement along his line OF
defense. IL miles long. General Villa.
after dark, drove the attacking fed
eral forces. commanded by Gen. Jose
Inez Salazar, out of their camp be-
fore TERRA Blanca. Mex, and hurled
his cavalry after them as they fed in
a panic to their trains. More than
10000 men were engaged in the fight
the rebels numbering 5000 and the
federals 1000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-04

Harvard in the person of Charles
Brickley. crushed Yale in the annual
football game on the Stadium grid
iron at Cambridge. Mass, by score
OF is TO 5. All OF Harvard's points
we're due to the superb kicking Of
Brickley