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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-13
TO SELECT PLACE
FORNEX!! MEETING
Executive Committee of the
Good Roads Association
Meets Here Monday

President John Craft and Secretary
j. A. Rountree have sent out cali
for a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Alabama Good Roads as
ISOLATION, to meet in Birmingham next
Monday at 12 o'clock. This meeting g
is called for the purpose of selecting
the place and date of meeting and ar
ranging a tentative programme for the
next annual meeting.
Invitations have been received from
Montgomery, Mobile Birmingham
Gadsden, Huntsville and Admission as a
place of meeting. 1t Is expected that
representatives of these cities will APP
pear in person and present their claims
to the association as a place of meet
ing There is a sentiment that the
next annual meeting should be held
in some of the smaller cities and the
members of the executive committee
will make a fight for the same.
The next meeting of the associa-
tion will probably be the largest and
most interesting in the history of the
organization. The five candidates for
governor and the candidate for lieu-
tenant governor will be invited to ap-
pear in person and give their views
on the subject of good roads and their
future aid to good roads legislation in
the state. 1t is also Intended to dis
cuss the convict question amendment
in the present state highway commits
sion act, also the question of the state
issuing bonds to help build good roads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-13
Country Lad Wins

LAGRANGE, August 12.-(Special)-In a
frantic effort to stop a fierce batting on
slaught by the LaGrange team, Newman
used three of her best pitchers in today's
game, but all to no avail, as LaGrange
won by score of IL to 10. LAGRANGE used
new pitcher, John Barnes Troup
county boy. In the first two innings the
LAGRANGE team made seven or eight er-
rors and at the opening of the fourth In
ming the score stood to 3 in favor of
Newman.
BY steady batting the LAGRANGE team
won the game. Newman used Stark, Haw-
kins and Lovett, while Rice caught nice
game The LaGrange battery was Barnes
and Billingsey. The victory of the coun-
try bunch has set the fans wild and the
big tall country man is being given
great ovation in town.
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PLAY 20 INNINGS

Jersey City, N. j., August 12.-Jersev
City and Toronto International league
teams broke league records at West Side
park here today when the teams battled
20 innings to tie, neither team scoring.
Hearne, for Toronto, pitched the entire
game. Thompson for Jersey City was re-
lieved in the home teams half of the
thirteenth inning to permit a pinch hitter
to bat with the bases full. Brandon fin
ished the game. There was only one field
ing error. With one out in the thirteenth
Bues hit for three bases. Calhoun and
Blair walked filling the bases. but Hearne
retired the next two batsmen. Toronto
played errorless ball and made eight hits
off Thompson and Brandon and Jersey
City seven off Hearne.
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LOWNDES' TEACHERS
MEET AT FT. DEPOSIT
County Institute Convened Monday
and Will Remain in Ses-
sion Four Days

Fort Deposit. August 12.-(Special)- )-The
teachers institute of Lowndes county con-
vened here Monday and will be in session
for four days. The institute is presided
over by Hugh w. Williamson. superin-
terdent of education of Lowndes county.
At o'clock the meeting was called to or
der to Superintendent Williamson. Prof
R. L. Griffin made the address of well
come, which was appropriately responded
to by Prof. Allen Lee.
Ar interesting lecture by Miss Inez Nc
Call of Montgomery was made.
Prof Edgar Wright of Troy. for nearly
an hour held the audience spellbound with
his address, which was well received. Pro-
fessor Daniel delivered the address which
marked the closing of the first days ses-
sion.
c. NJ Davis, captain of Company ID,
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ABOUT READY FOR
BIC CONVENTION
: Six Thousand Invitations to
Be Sent Out to Merchants
This Week

The committee on the promotion of
wholesale trade of the Chamber of
Commerce have about perfected all the
arrangements for the convention of the
Retail Merchants of North Alabama,
to be held in Birmingham August 27
and 2S. The mailing list will be COM
pleted by the last of the week and in
vitations will be sent out to 5000 mer-
chants in North Alabama urging their
attendance on the above date when the
North Alabama Merchants association
Will be formally organized and the Off
GERS elected.
The committee has made elaborate
preparations for the entertainment of
the visitors and Chairman Murray
Brown states that everything will be
done to make the occasion one of
pleasure and profit. The invitations
are as follows:
~The Chamber of Commerce of Bir-
mingham, Ala, cordially invites you to
join with other merchants of Alabama
in forming the North Alabama Mer-
chants association, in Birmingham, on
August 27 and 2S.
"rhe purpose of this organization
will be to develop closer relationships
among the merchants of North Ala
bama and to study improved methods
of merchandising, buying, selling, cred
its. insurance, banking and other sub
jects of vital interest to all merchants.
Experts will be on hand and talks
win be made by some of the prominent
merchants of the state.
Entertainment features will be pro-
Vided, which will be announced later.
"A reply postal card is enclosed and
it will be appreciated If you will ad-
wise at once If you may be expected
as a delegate so that a badge may be
provided for YOU"
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Raw Boyd Wins

Talladega, August Especial. )-Ray
Boyd won his first game on the home
grounds here today by a score of to 3.
Although Admission outhit Talladega, the
latters' hits came when they were most
needed. Admission secured the lead in tne
first, when Hopper, Proctor and Lamar
singled, scoring two counters
Talladega tied in the fifth and scored the
deciding run in the sixth, when Roberts
singled, Boyd walked and Hoch singled
In the ninth, when Umpire Swami called
Donaldson out at first, after Hoch
dropped McCraney's throw, Killingsworth
was ordered from the grounds for wrang-
ling. Tomorrow's game makes the final
one on the local lot this season. Score:
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LADIES WILL Be
GIVEN EXTRA DATE
Management Will Replace
Postponed Game With
Extra Date Thursday

In the coming series with Nashville the
game scheduled on the ladies' ticket which
was prevented by rain, will be replaced
by the Birmingham management TN
Thursday ladies' tickets will admit the
holders without extra charge, While the
regular game will be played on Friday.
An agreement has been reached by
which the double header which was forced
as the result of a postponed game, will be
played Saturday With Pitcher Williams
in Detroit, Nashville should be defeated in
three of the four games.
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THE sc. A. L." RESULTS
STANDING
Ery Blanks Gadsden

Opelika, August 12.-(Special)
Ed Ery pitched four-hit game today
and blanked the mighty Steelmakers /
to 0. The game was featured by Ery's
pitching, Blackwelrs, Schwartz's and
Spitznagle's hitting, Chambers one
handed stab of an almost sure nit and
Schwartz's one handed pickup of Cham
bers' throw. Ery established a record
by today's win, with 20 victories ou+
of 25 games played. OF the last three
games pitched he allowed only II hits,
registering two shutouts in succession
The Opelika and Gadsden teams will be
entertained at the barbecue given by
the First Methodist Baracas tonight
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TEXAS LEAGUE

At Dallas: Dallas 2, San Antonio 3.
At AUSTIN: Austin o. Beaumont 5.
81 Fort Worth: Fort Worth 6. Hous-
ton 4.
AT Waco: Waco /. Galveston 2.
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Pitcher Breaks Arm

Lineville. August 12.-(Special.)
While pitching a game of ball here
yesterday for Roanoke Driver broke
was just in the act of releasing the
ball when his arm snapped in two.
Driver was on Auburn's varsity team
last year.
The game was rather slow and with
out interest and resulted in victory
for the Roanoke boys by a score of 8
to I. Lineville made many costly err
rors and lost the game. Score: r. H f.
Lnevllle .....,............ II
Roanoke 9 9
Batteries: Speer. G. Bonner and Grif-
nm; Driver, Lane, White and White.
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GOVERNMENT FUND
WILL Be DENIED TO
SPECULATIVE BANKS
The Banks Must Give De-
tailed Information as to
MoneyLOaned and
Borrowed

Washington, August 12-Banks which
purposes will be denied any portion of
the $50Oo0.0O0 of government funds about
to be deposited in the national banks
to assist in moving the crops and the
entire amount will go to institutions that
earnestly strive to meet the currency
demands of the agricultural sections.
This policy of the treasury department
was announced today by Comptroller of
the Currency Kane in connection with
a call for the condition of national banks
at the close of bGsiess August 9, asked
every national bank in the country to
report detailed information of all money
loaned or borrowed. Upon the basis of
this data, expected to be available in
time for the distribution of the $50,000,000
the treasury department Will aim to diff
ferentiate between the banks which bor-
row or loan in connection with specula-
tive operations or are chronic borrowers
and those who endea4og to relieve finan-
cial strain wherever it exists.
Material Changes
Information of this character, it was an
nounced, will now be regularly obtained
by the comptroller of the currency as
q feature of his calls for the condition
of national banks In order that the treas
ury department may know what sections
Of the country are in need of additional
circulation at various periods of the year.
This innovation is the forerunner of other
material changes in the character of in
formation banks will be required in fu-
ture to furnish the government. The
forms which have been in use for years
are being studied with a view to fur
ther steps to obtain detailed informa-
tion.
One primary purpose in seeking de-
tailed information is to discover which
banks are borrowing for speculative pur-
poses and which are borrowing to meet
the legitimate financial needs of the coun-
try. The treasury department. 1t was
said, wants to single out the institutions
that are not using their resources to help
the crop moving period, so that it would
be in a position to decline them special
deposits of the government to relieve
stringency and place the money with
banks that are sending currency to dis
tricts where it is needed.
The information collected probably will
be available to Congress for use in con-
nection with the question of amending
the pending currency bill.
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of his well drilled boys to a large and
enthusiastic crowd here yesterday morn
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Summary: Two base hit, Clarke.
Struck out, Ery 6, King 4. Stolen bases,
Werner, Spitznagle Blackwell. Sacri-
flee hit, Cantley. Double play, Black
we'll to Spitznagle. Time, 1920. Umpire
White.
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ing prior to his leaving for encampment at
Mobile.
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c. NJ. Davis, captain of Company D,
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Camp. Sacrifice hits, McCraney, Camp,
Henry Lunger. Stolen bases, Hopper 2
Bases on balls, Glazner 3. Struck out
Glazner g. Boyd s. Hit batsmen, Nc
Craney. Wild pitch, Boyd. Double play,
Lamar to Hopper. Time, 1880. empire,
Swami.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
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." GREAT deal of emphasis Is put
upon the bed and it's fittings,
in the handsomely furnished
- bedroom-though not half SO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01
Flowers in the Home

"HIS Is the season when flowers
are cheap and from now until
frost the house may be kept
bright and CHEEKY with gay colored
blooms at minimum expense Eng
lish folk realize the value Of fresh
flowers In the home and rare indeed
is the English drawing-room of any
pretentiousRess that Is not supplied
the year round with seasonable posies,
no matter what the expense. Humber
drawing-rooms usually have fresh
flowers over the weekend at least,
and in the country. garden and wild
flowers are kept in guest and living
rooms. 1t Is the charming duty of the
mistress of the house, each morning,
to fill her vases and designate their
location in the various rooms. The
flowers are brought in by a gardener
and heaped on a paper-spread table
in the morning-room. The housewife
-or some youthful member Of the
family appointed to the pleasant task
sorts out the blossoms, ships off the
stems and fills the row of empty vases
and jugs, also placed on the table
after their bath in the hot suds. Lilacs,
daisies, June roses. poppies, golden
rod. asters and flaming red saliva all
come in their turn here in America,
and In between are the friendly pan
sizes. nasturtiums, the sweetpeas and
other garden flowers, easily raised and
wonderfully decorative for indoor use.
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other two models having the usual
er part with lace and tulle. This
f1owered crepe gowI- Is a typical sum-
mer evening model of the current
season, and man, of these dainty
gowns are sure to bo seen at week. end
country house parties where dancing
forms part of the programme-as it
does everywhere this year. Dancing
gowns must be sturdy affairs, these
days, for the fashionable Tango and
one-step are strenuous dances and
soon wreak havoc with fiimsy skirts of
chiffon and lace. Note the reinforce
ment of the skirt-edge in this fiowered
gown, with ribbon stitched under the
edge much as a skirt braid Is stitched
in a tailored skirt Otherwise the
gown is very soft and clinging-and
very girlish as well, with it's tiny
train, looped up pannier drapery and
simple little bodice finished with a
crushed girdle. One single. long strip
of wide lace louncing forms the
sleeve drapery and passes across the
front of the bodice, the ends of the
lace, weighted with tassel1 appearing
to hang carelessly down the back, one
as far as the knee and the other all
the way to the floor. OF course, how
ever, the lace Is very carefully tackled
in place so that it maintains it's posi-
tion even in the whirl of the dance.
Shocking Decolletage Effects Worn
Even BY Debutantes.
There must soon come a reaction
against the pronounced decolletage
and the clinging lines of evening
gowns. Some of the frank exposures
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fon. According to her mood the owner
of this luxurious boudoir may wrap
herself in dark or light colored fur,
and of course there are Oriental neg
ligees which are worn when the mink
robe is used and lovely affairs of pastel
coloring and lace when ermine rules
the day.
Two very handsome pillows, match
ing the spreads of similar material,
are illustrated. One pillow Is covered
with cluny lace and st. Gall embroid-
cry. the motifs of lace and embroidery
being combined to form an odd
geometrical design. The lace and en-
broidery covers OF both pillow and
spread are mounted over yellow silk
for this set belongs to the yellow bed
room of dark eyed woman of Span
ish type-and the bedstead on which
the lace covers are used Is of inlaid
ebony, with an overhanging canopy of
gold colored brocade. The other pill
low has cover of cream macrime lace
over pale blue satin; a frill of real
cluny over one of val lace finishing the
edge. This pillow-and the pale blue
and lace spread used with it belong
to bed of light gray enameled wood
with cane panels. md the bedroom is
furnished throughout In pale gray and
pale blue.
All Of the pillows pictured are de-
signed for the single beds which are
used in twin bed" se.s, and the pill
lows measure about yard and quar-
ter in length. They are of course a
reincarnation of the old fashioned
bolster which used to be deemed an in
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tissue and there is weird head-dress
of gold tissue, gold fringe and rhine
stone banding which matches the
gown.
French Gowns For English Court
Wear.
The English season this year has
been especially brilliant and never. it
is said. have more beautiful gowns
been worn by the women presented at
Court. Much silver and gold tissue
was used for draperies and court
trains and the real laces and jewels
were superb.
One gown designed for an English
beauty of this season is pictured
showing the extreme attention paid
now to lines at the back. 1t Is OF
turquoise blue brocaded satin with a
court train of shadow lace on which
are sewed festoons OF tiny pink chif-
fon roses. Over this lace train hangs
appointed tablier of silver net weight
ed by It's border embroidery and tassel
of pearl beads. Buttoned boots OF
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of anatomy this season have been out
rageous and entirely against the can
ons of good taste; but SO far the
moralists and the conservatively In
clined have rallied in vain. Even the
debutante wears a decolletage that her
grandmamma would have blushed to-
look at and some of the effects adopt
ed by young married women in society
have been shocking. These extremely
decollete bodices combined with the
slashed and clinging skirts have made
the evening costumes of the past win
ter, in spite of their grace, and the
beauty of the rich materials used,
Lore outre than anything worn in
the most extravagant days OF the
French Directory, and while the
moralists hold up their hands in horror
and cry. what are we coming tor"
the wiseacres prophesy among them
selves; there will inevitably be a re-
action toward Puritan SIN in dress"
The flowered brocade, however. is
not so decollete as it appears In the
picture, for the brocade part of the
bodice Is mounted upon a very sheer
flesh tinted yoke of tulle, which is all
but Invisible to the eye, and does not
appear in the photograph at all. This
bodice Is moreover much lower at the
back than at the front where the cut
is rather Highland in almost all cases
now the evening bodice is much lower
at the back than at the front.
Yellow Intensely Fashionable.
All shades of yellow from pale corn
color to deep orange are in the van Of
the mode and every woman-every
dark haired woman at least-num-
bers one yellow evening gown in her
summers supply. The black and yell
low costume, referred to earlier in
this chat, shows some striking style
features. One of these is the fiounce
of machine embroidery in a heavy
lace pattern, which is mounted on the
white chiffon foundation slip beneath
the black net. The bodice is also of
this very heavy e-patterned en-
broidery yelled with black net. and
crossed diagonally by draped sash
of the net, caught on one shoulder
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under three Rhinestone and amber
buttons and again at the waistline un-
der an artificial flower of yellow velvet
and amber. Thence the SASH end falls
over the skirt. it's deep border trim
ming of jet and amber beads weighing
it heavily. The train Is of black
Chantilly lace and is set between
panels of silk embroidery in yellow
and black. A band of this yellow and
black embroidery also encircles the
net skirt Just below the hip and from
embroidered band to waistline run
panels of yellow velvet studded with
iamber and rhinestone buttons. OF
.course, the black and white print can
lgive no adequate idea Of the brilliance
,of this gown.
Another gorgeous model Is the
Oriental evening gown in green and
yellow, which has enormous sleeves
of mirror embroidered yellow chiffon
lover a gold-fringed tunic of green
chiffon. This tunic in turn falls over
a very narrow, trained skirt of gold
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bed, placed on a straw tick. and the
tick on interlaced cords.
For the bedrooms in a country house,
fresh dainty bedfurnishings of not too
luxurious and costly a character are
preferred, though the town house may
be graced with lace-veiled spreads
and pillow slips and canopies Of satin
and brocade. Some of the boudoirs
of fashionable beauties have beds so
magnificent that it would be desecra-
tion to dream of dropping down on
them for catnap during the day. and
there is always cushioned couch for
the afternoon siesta. One temper
mental woman In four hundred circles
has two couches In her boudoir, each
provided with an almost priceless fur
robe. One of these robes Is of mink,
lined with crimson chiffon and the
other ermine lined with pale blue chif-
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a boys room in the country house; or
the bachelor guest-room may have
spreads of this sort: and dresser and
chiffonier spreads should match the
bedspread.
Cretonne bed and dresser spreads
are charming in summer time and
we'll covered cretonne gives the smart
est effect. Such spreads are edged
with the narrow cotton braid trim
Ling which comes for the purpose and
are usually lined with sateen which
gives "body" to the thin cretonne
cover. Lilac and steen is delightfully."-
eool and agreeable color ombination
for warm weather and lovely French
cretonnes may be had in patterns COM
com bining these shades. Rose fiowered
cretonne yelled with white washable
net gives an effect very soft and pleas
ing, but such a bedspread may not be
laundered as easily as the simple one
of cretonne alone. White lawn spreads
bordered with cretonnue are also at
tractive, but the cretonne and the
lawn must each be shrunk separately
before the sprea is made up, else the
border may nave to be entirely re-
moved after the first laundering and
stitched on all over again.
Prettiest of all in the summer bed
room is the bed dressed in machine
embroidery. Pillow covers and spreads
of embroidery are just now very fash
ionable; and one may choose between
a. allover embroidery pattern edged
with banding to match. or sheer white
lawn or dotted swiss striped with
bands of the embroidery.
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FOOTWEAR FOR TIE ATHLETIC
MAID.


with very high insteps are
wv frequently unable to wear ready
made laced boots because the
eyelets spread SO far apart over the
instep arch that the leather tongue
beneath is not wide enough to hide the
stocking. Laced boots--or in fact any
boots made to order are expensive and
few women care to pay the extra price
for outing footwear. This year there
Is low-topped buttoned walking boot
with broad swing to the welted sole
and heels as low as those on a boys
boot; yet the lines throughout are trim
and dainty and make the foot look
slender and aristocratic. These boots
come in the new tan leather which
may be sponged perfectly clean with
ordinary soap and water; and the
aeather does not become stained from
mud or wet turf-a feature the golfer
appreciates.
VASES A LA MODE.
just as there are sartorial fash
I ions and nothing brings a room
up to date like modish ornaments, or
sets it behind the times like antedilu-
Wan ones. Tides, worsted mats and
wax flowers went out of fashion some
time ago; cat-tails and ribbon thread
ed wire broilers had their day in the
early eighties. The squat vases and
convoluted brass candlesticks Of the