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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

To Hon. T. H. Barrett, Circuit Judge:
We, the Grand Jury, empaneled by
Your Honor at the beginning Of this,
the March, 1918. term OF the Circuit
Court of Hancock County, beg to make
this, our final, report. During the pc
Rod of our session we have conscien-
tiously Investigated all matters that
come within the scope OF our duties,
and. while we realize that we have not
been able to discover all violations OF
the law in the county, yet it has been
our earnest endeavor to ascertain and.
report to the court all violations that
we could discover. We believe that
serious crimes of violence are on the
decrease in our county, as compared
with previous years, and in proof of
this we have been able to ind only
three indictments for felonies. We have
heard the testimony of f29 witnesses
and have found Ia indictments. When
ever the Grand Jury had information
of any violation of the law, parties
having knowledge of such violation were
summoned before us, and we have heard
their testimony. In certain instances
we have had great difficulty in getting
at the truth on account of the reluct-
ance of witnesses to testify. In fact,
we have been handicapped by the diff
ficulty in getting witnesses to tell what
they knew about occurrences which We
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
FOR WAVE[AhD
Turned on Last Night for
First Time Contract With
Town Calls For Twenty
One Street Lights--Private
Circuit Service to be Com
pleted at Early Date---Sea
Wall an Early Probability.

The municipality of Waveland was
illuminated last night for the first time
by electricity and the change was indeed
an innovation that was welcome and
which in time will prove q boon to the
progressive twin sister Of Bay st.
Louis.
At present there are twenty-one
lights, distributed at proportionate
distances, reaching along the front
driveway to this side of the jackson
House. The town lights are on a sep
arate circuit, and the service system
will shortly be completed and current
for private purposes available to the
residents Of Waveland the same az
the daylight current is enjoyed here.
Mr.. A. L. Stokoe, proprietor OF the
Bay St. Louis plant, has the contract
with the municipality Of Waveland
Only a short while since he signed TO,
the service and it is astonishing how
quickly he installed the system.
The town of Waveland, its board oi
mayor and aldermen and the people
generally are to be congratulated upon
their enterprise and the Echo hopes
this is the forerunner of greater things
in the near future. The building OF
the great sea wall, like Bay st. Louis,
is anticipated for the near future.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15
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Holy Week Service. at Christ Church.


March 16. Palm Sunday.
IL a. m. Morning prayer and sermon.
Subject of sermon: ST. Patrick; His
Ancestry, Parentage, and Work.
7.3O o. m. How to Observe Holy
Week.
Monday, Tuesday and Saturday, 3.3O
D. M. The Penitential Office.
Wednesday, 1890 a. N. The Pro-
anaphora.
Thursday, 7.3O p. m. Holy Commu-
MON. This being the anniversary OF
the Institution of the Sacrament OF the
Lords Supper, it is especially fitting
to par.ake of that blessed sacrament
as near the hour of institution as con-
ditions will permit.
Good Friday (three services will be
heidi. TO- 80 a. m. The Proanaphora.
12-3 3. m. The Three Hours Serv-
ice. At this service worshippers can
come and leave at any hour during the
singing of hymn.
40 3. m. Evensong and Sermon.
Subject OF Sermon: A Broken Heart
the Physical Cause OF Christ's Death.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15
BIOGRAPHY OF PRES.
WOODROW WILSON.
A Brief Resume Of the Democratic Psesident's
Life For Your Own Knowledge or Fer Your
Scrap Book---Life Eventful.

Born at Staunton, Va, Dec. 28s 1855,
the son of Rev. Joseph r. and Mrs.
Jessie Woodrow Wilson.
Passed his boyhood in the South, re-
siding at Augusta, Ga; Columbia, s..
c.; and Wilmington, N. c., where his
father occupied pulpits.
Entered Princeton College in 1879,
and was graduated with high honors
four years later.
Entered the law department of the
University of Virginia in the fall of
1879 and received his diploma in 1881.
Opened law Office in Atlanta in
May, 1882, and continued to practice
his profession there for 18 months.
Married June "a, 1885, to Miss Helen
Louise Arson, OF Savannah, and later
in the same year became professor of
history and political economy at Bryn
Mawr.
Remained at Bryn Mawr three years,
when he resigned to accept a similar
professorship at Wesleyan University.
Published his first book in 1885, on
Congressional Government, which
made for him a name as a scholar and
thinker on political questions.
His next book, "The State," pub
lished in 1889, was the first work in
English to present the subject of the
operations of all constitutional govern
ments.
Resigned his chair at Wesleyan in
1890 to become professor of jurispru-
dence and politics at Princeton Uni
versity.
In 1893 "Division and Reunion,
"An Old Master and Other Political
Essays" and "Mere Literature and
Other Essays" came from his pen.
In 1896 the publication of "George
Washington" added to his reputation
as writer and historian.
Elected president of Princeton Uni
versity in 1902, to succeed DR.. Francis
L. Patton.
In 1902 published "History Of the
People of the United States, said to
be the first important work of its kind
written by Soutnerner.
Named by the Democratic party for
Governor of New Jersey in 1910, elected
in November of that year, and inaugu-
rated January II, 1911.
In the Autumn of 1911 his name was
first prominently connected with the
presidential nomination.
After hard fight in the convention.
he was nominated by the Democratic
party for President at Baltimore, July
2, 1912.
Oficially notified of the nomination
at his summer home at Seagirt, N. J.,
August z, 1912.
Elected twenty-eighth President of
the United States Nov. 5, 1912, receiv-
ing 435 electoral votes out of a total of
53i.
Resigned the governorship of New
Jersey March /, 1918, in anticipation Of
his Inauguration as President.
Left Trenton for Washington March
3, 1918, escorted by practically the en-
tire student body Of Princeton Univer-
sity.
Inaugurated President of the United
States March 4, 1918, the frst Demo-
crat 70 hold the ONCE ;n sixteen years,
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15
Representative Mississippi Company Exhibit
Inveatisn Of Mississippi Boy.
tFrom the Gulfport Herald.)


Gulfport, March 8.-Guests and trav-
cling men in the lobby of the Great
Southern Hotel yesterday were greatly
interested in model of a railway mail
device owned by the Brown Railway
Mail Device Co., the invention OF w.
H. Brown, of Logtown, Miss. The COM
pany is capitalized at S250,0O0 and is
domiciled at Pearlington. Both the in
ventor and w. H. Wallace, general
agent for the company, are here.
The device is most interesting and is
designed for use on fast trains and to
take bag of mail from the crane along
side the track and by one and the same
operation leave on the crane the bag
destined for that particular town. In
other words, it is designed to exchange
mail bags, taking the outgoing mail and
leaving the incoming. The devices now
used by railways snatch the outgoing
mail bags from the crane by the use of
sort of iron grab, rather crude and not
wholly satisfactory. The mail left at
the station is kicked or thrown from the
car door, and it sometimes happens that
the bag thus tossed out is drawn under
the train by suction and cut to pieces,
particularly if the wind be from direc-
ton toward the train.
The new device seems to be simple
and effective as shown by the model.
The invention also provides for lever
operated by foot from any part of the
car by which the mail clerk may, after
the bag has been caught from the
crane, swing it inside, take of the bag
and replace it with another to be left
at the next station. The invention is
said to require less attention than the
device now in use and to do its work
better.
The device will be exhibited at the
convention of Railway Master Me-
chauics which meets in Atlanta in June
and demonstration made on larger
scale.
Mr.. Wallace tells an interesting story
of how he learned of the invention. He
was associated with company formed
in Birmingham two and one-half years
ago for the purpose of putting on the
market device of similar character to
this, when it was discovered that it
could not be gotten through the patent
Office. On going to Washington Mr..
Wallace discovered that the reason was
that there was patent there before it
which barred it. The patent in ques-
tion was the one exhibited here today.
Mr.. Wallace tried to locate the patentee,
Fl. w. Brown, but he had moved from
his former address. It was only an ac-
cident two years later when he was
travelling in another line of business
that he ran across Brown at Logtown.
where he was then in the mercantile
business, and by chance the conversa-
tion turned upon the subject of inven-
tions, and Mr.. Brown remarked that he
was the patentee Of an invention, rail-
way mail device, which he had never
put on the market for lack of funds.
Mr.. Wallace said to the merchant that
he was the man he had been trying to
locate for two years. The outcome was
the forming of the Brown Railway Mail
Device Company.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

Senator Nardaman, MlSSlSSlppi1 d.
ready has begun to get in the Washing
ton hmelight, already Mr.. Vardaman
is beginning to overtop John Sharp
Williams, one of the Senate intellect
uals," who has been for long time a
leader of the Southern contingent in
the upper house.
Mr.. Vardaman had been sworn in as
senator only twenty four hours when he
dema nded in the caucus of the Senate
Democrats that every Republican office
holder in the Senate be discharged
Immediately and the places filled by
Democrats. This demand was put in
the form OF motion, which was defeat
ed. AS the caucus was secret, nobody
except the senators themselves know
what the vote was on the Varda man
proposition to oust the Republicans that
have been on the Senate pay rolls for
sixteen years, but it was reported that
the motion, while considered inoppor-
tune, struck a popular vote with many
of the senators.
Mr.. Vardaman is one of the most
striking figures in the Senate, and
everybody believes that he will, in
measure, occupy the place made va
cant by Joe Bailey's retirement. No
body doubts that Mr.. Vardaman intends
to ssspeak right out in meeting" when
ever he feels like it in the Senate.
He and John Sharp Williams are
already practically at dagger's points
The proof of this is the fact that neither
is having anything to do with Missis
sippi congressional delegation to get
together to caucus on the patronage
question. Every other congressional
delegation, including the Louisiana
members, is holding frequent caucuses
and slicing up the Federal pie that will
soon be dished out in their states. So
far the Mississippians have been unable
to holdfa caucas because, it is reported
of the widening chasm between Will
liams and Vardaman.
The division was shown today in the
vote for secretary of the Senate in
the caucus of the Senate Democrats.
Mr.. Williams brought out and backed
Robert Gates, Tennessee newspaper
man, for secretary of the Senate, was
badly beaten by James R. Baker, assis.
tant librarian of the Senate. Mr.. Varda-
man refused to stand with Mr.. Williams
and voted for Mr.. Baker, twas reported.
The fact Mr.. Williams could not land
Mr.. Gates shows that the senior Missis-
sippi senator is not going to be the
dominant figure from Mississippi at
the capital that he has been before.
Another evidence that all is not
harmonious in the Mississippi delega-
ton is shown by the persistent report
that Representative Sisson will be a
candidate for the Senate against Mr..
Williams in 1916. Mr.. Williams term
expiring the following year. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. Vardaman will back
Mr.. Sisson to the limit against Mr.
Williams, and will throw all his political
strength to the congressman from
Winona.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15
VARDAMAN TALKS
IN OPEN MEETING

A Few Days After Taking
His Seat in the Senate and
Wants all Republican Of
fee Holders Ousted-Var-
daman and Williams Clash
Over Official Pie Rumor-
ed that the Junior Senator
Will Back Sisson Against
John Sharp Williams.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

The Levernet Stock Farm herd OF
beef cattle, the first to be taken from
Mississippi for exhibit, attracted much
attention at the Fort Worth {Texas)
stock show.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

AS result OF the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen not having held meeting
the last six months. proclamation
abolishing the village of Bentley, CAL
houn county, has been issued by Cover
nor Brewer.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

Verdict for $4,000 was awarded Mrs.
Halle Murphy, of Meridian, Miss, who
was suing the Alabama Great South
ern Railroad for S25, 900 damages.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

Work on the Laurel Ellisyille Inter-
urban Electric Railway at Laurel, Miss,
has begun.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15

Ordered by the Board that the follow
ing amounts be allowed and paid out of
township fund, township 8, south OF
range II west, as per bills on file, ex-
arnined and approved: Sam Mayfield,
school supplies. Sl0.35; Fenton Mer-
camille Co., school supplies, $7S.60.
Ordered by the Board that the follow
ING amounts be allowed and paid out of
the road and bridge fund, as per bills
on file, examined and approved:
H. Weston Lumber Co.. sundries. 30
Claud Monti, supplies. es...................... q 65
wm. Carter, labor Is II days -.--......-. q IS
Wn Crosby, labor 3-4 days .-......--.<. 10 IL
Elige Moses. labor ? days. 5 90
Willie WEIGH, labor3 days. 10 80
Geo. A. Mitchell, months salary -, -. so 90
saucer Reed, labor 20 / z days at s150.... 90 IS
Frank Acker, labor IA days at sl.50......-. II 90
Ordered that the Board adjourn until
the Board in course.
WILEY SMITH,
President Board OF Supervisors.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15
Prspesed ciaass = cssssss ssrvies Day
AbsEsa Day s.. lssis 0ffies.

Washington, March S.-Unlsss Con.
gress intervenes the organization Of the
customs service viii be rcvogutionised,
beginning July 1.
AS one of his last acts President TAFT
today senta message TO Congress an
nouncing the redistricting of the .servise.
The existing i65 districts win be re-
duced to forty.nine, formed largely
along state lines, and ii6 collectors Of
customs viii be abolished. Several
ports ofentry and . number Of substitute
parts will be abandoned. Congress has
stipulated that the new plan must reduce
the cost Of the customs service 10 $i0,-
i50, 900, or saving Of 500. 90. as CON-
pared with the current fiscal year.
Under the reorganization each Gus
toms district will have collector OF GUS
toms. AL ports, even the headquarters
Of collectors. viii be directly in charge
OF q deputy collector. The terms sports
OF delivery" and "subports Of entry"
will be abolished, and all supports that
viii be retained will DO made ports OF
entry.
The new plan terminates the historic
privilege given collectors at certain
points, especially along Che Canadian
border, to sell mauifests and receive
other emoluments, the proceeds from
which, in many instances. far exceed
their salaries, Coiiectors will receive
only salaries.
Among the names OF the new South
ern districts and ports OF entry con-
tinued or created are the following, the
first port mentioned in each instsnce
being the headquarters of the collector:
Florida (including st. Mary's River,
north bank )--Jacksonville. Tampa, Key
West, Punta Gorda, Boca Grande,
Miami, Pensacola, st, Augustine
Fernandina, Cedar Keys, Port Inglish,
lApalachicoia, Carnibelle.
Mobile (including Alabama and part
OF Mississippi) - Mobile, Birmingham.
Gulfport, Scranton.
New Orleans (including Louisiana
and part of Mississippi)-New Orleans
and Morgan City.
Il uA0ASo os~A%oR0b{ SVAAOSsSh
of Customs J. H. Espey was asked this
morning about the influence OF the above
measure. should it become effective, on
lGulfpors and the Coast towns. Il ID
seen from the above that Gulfport is
made subordinate to Mobile instead Of
being an independent office as at present
with Mr.. Mosley as collector and Mr..
Espey as deputy collector. Mr.. Espey
said that Mr.. Mosley was now collector
for Scranton, Gulfport, the port OF Ship
Island and the Port OF Horn Island, both
ports of delivery, and Biloxi and Bay
ST. Louis, neither OF which are
ports, but at which ofdces are main
tained for the purpose OF mslking- cut
ipapers and enforcing the regulations
oyer the small boats that ply In those
harbors. Mr.. Espey was OF the opinion
that under the new regime Gulfport
would be under Mobile, as would
also Scranton, and that the OF.
Ices at Bay st. Louis and Biloxi
would be abolished and that persons
at those towns having business with
the customs department would come
to Gulfport to transact it.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-03-15
ALLOWANCES BY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
From Road and Bridge Fund Concluded From
Last Weeks Echo.

Ordered by the board that the fol-
lowing amounts be allowed and paid
out of the road and bridge fund, as per
bills on file, examined and approved,
to wit:
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FAY Sl. LOUIS. MISS.
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EMILE J. GEX,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.

FFIcE -aEx BLDG, Main Sire es
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PROFESSIONAL. CARDs.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-30
THE FIG QUESTION

The San Francisco Chronicle has
come TO the defense of the cold
to those fussy individuals who in
sist on having a fresh egg for break
fast every morning, and thereby be-
cokne a contributing factor to keep
ing up the price of hen fruit, while
Mrs. Biddy is taking her winter rest.
The price comparisons as quoted in
the Chronicle are applicable to Ely,
and the view taken of the & situa-
ton by the writer on the coast will
no doubt be read with interest by
local householders and retailers.
1t appears, says the Chronicle, that
for strictly fresh eggs the happy
producers are now receiving around
81 cents, while the miserable con-
sumers are forced to pay rs cents to
the extortionate middleman who de-
livers the same eggs to the kitchen.
In other words, the eggs are taken
from the producer, transported to
the city, sold to the retailer and by
him sold and delivered to the door
of the for a trifie less than
IL per cent on the original cost of
the eggs.
The average expense of a retail
grocer doing a fair volume of BUSH
ness uesed to be estimated at Is per
cent on his annual turn over. With
the increased cost of labor, horse
feed and rent 1t must be considerably
more now. How they divide this Il
per cent we do not know. The carrier
gets some of 1.-THE draymen get more,
the wholesaler gets a bite and the
retailer gets what is left. 1t is not
very rich picking for any of them
and probably shortest of all for the
retailer.
AS a matter of fact We are not
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-30

is SO selling thqm? Name him and
the officers of the law will send him
to jail. for II is a crime. We doubt
whether any one is doing II. for II Is
folly to commit a crime certain to be
exposed to the first customer who
boils one of the eggs.
The trouble is the hens are not
laying, and the finicky soul who in
sists on fresh eggs or none are pay
ing soundIy for their folly. Eat
cold storage eggs till the hens turn
loose again.
1t has become quite fashionable to
abuse cold storage" Well, II II
were not for cold storage our poultry
men last April would have been get
ting 10 cents a dozen instead of
about % cents. and millionaire con
sumers would now be paying two or
three dollars a dozen and the rest OF
Us would be going without.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-30
ELY Pupils IN OPERATE HoLis

The pupils of the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades in the Ely schools,
made their appearance In the
amateur operetta line. Thanksgiving.
presenting THE Captain of Ply
enouth." at the school hall. at matt
nee and evening performances. There
vas an encouraging attendance Of
parents and friends. who derived
genuine enjoyment from the very
creditable work of the youthful cast,
who showed considerable ability in
diyidually and collectively as actors
and singers. 1t was a satisfactory
elimination to careful training under
direction of Miss Matte Ingoldsby,
Miss Mary Black and Mrs. ]. w.
Gum, the latter as musical director.
The operetta, as its name implies. is
Of historical import, founded on the
famous courtship of Captain Stand
ish, and the school cast included
Kent Baird as Miles Standish.
Agatha Acock as Priscilla; Clauc
Strange. as John Alden, the proxy
wooer; Harry Potter as Elder Brews-
ter: Carl Wagner as Erasmus Jack
Murphy as Watta Wamet; Fred
Farnsworth as P%echsout; Jean jack
son as Mercy; Helen Sehmitroth as
Katonka; Hercules Macart, Warren
Watson and Lawrence Tietz, as lads
of the colony.