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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

@3zA2A<azAazzaaD lILJle noise, Dull with a
great deal of parading, considerable
oratory, the reading of the Declaration
Of Independence, closing with numer-
GUS dinners and the drinking of as
many toasts as there were states in
the Union.
Fire crackers, cap pistols and other
ear-splitting devices which have caused
so many of the injuries following in
the wake of the national holiday, were
unknown a century ago. There was
sufficient incentive then to make the
biggest kind of racket. The country
was engaged in a second war with
England, and the younger generation
with the example of the Revolutionary
veterans before them, might have
been excused had they given vent to
noisy demonstrations.
According to the newspapers of the
time, however, the celebration of July
4, 1872, was conducted in a very or
DERBY way. The phrase safe and sane"
was not used in describing the events
Of the day. Their substitutes a cen
fury ago were "genteel" or respect
able" One of the early celebrations
at Princeton was thus described:
The flag belonging to the town was
displayed opposite the front of the
college. At II o'clock a genteel com
pany of ladies and gentlemen assem-
bled in the college hall, where they
were agreeably entertained by two ex-
cellent orations suitable to the occa-
sion.
How safe the Fourth was in New
York 100 years ago may be judged
from one of the newspaper accounts,
which says:
We are happy to state that no evil
accident happened, and that the great
est order and tranquility were main
tanned through the day and evening.
The Fourth of July, 1912, was
opened with the raising of the Stars
and Stripes over all the public build.
ings and on the shipping in the har-
Dor At ten o'clock the militia with
the members of the Tammany society.
the Tailors, Hibernian, Provident, Co
lumbar and Manhattan societies with
the cordwainers, shipwrights and 9TH
er trades, met in the park in front of
the city hall which had lately been
finished. There they drew up in order
Of parade, ana after a national salute
had been fired by the veterans of the
Revolution, they marched down Broad
way to Beaver street to Broad, up
Pearl to Beekman, where, at the cor
ner of Gold street, the assemblage en-
tered st. Georges church The serv-
ices consisted of a prayer, reading Of
the Declaration Of independence. new
er omitted in the old-time celebra.
tons, and an Grafton by Samuel B. Ro-
maine, one of the Tammany Sachems.
Earlier in the day the military or
sanizations of the city were reviewed
on the Battery park by Generals Ste
vens, Bloomfield and Morton, and they
marched up Broadway to Chambers
street, down Chambers to Greenwich
street, and back to the Battery, where,
it is stated, after going through sew
eral military maneuvers, they were
dismissed"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

Most of us are willing to concede
the superiority OF our friends in the
matter of making mistakes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Appropriate Gift.

What do you think would be p
nice present to give lawyer friend?"
why not new suit?"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Neither Did They.

Neither Did They.
Redd-I saw some striking gloves at
Cotton & Goodies store today.
Green-Indeed! ! didn't know they
kept boxing-gloves-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Rather Dull.

When we get down to it. life hasn't
half as many complications as a ten
cent melodrama.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

It's the easiest thing in the world to
be good-natured, II you have nothing
else to do.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

you are not my friend, Wooster"
at am your friend, Biffels. I never say
what I think of your neckties."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
over the Telephone Perbaps.

Yeast-What made you say my wife
has prominent mouth, if you never
saw her?
Crimsonbeak-Oh heard it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

If it wasn't for the hypocrite the
devil would have to work harder.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
In a Way.

do you think it is right to white
wash people?" We'll, it's treating
them white
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

Those who neglect to make hay
while the sun shines can be depended
upon to make trouble when it rains.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
IN GOOD OLD DAYS
NoiSemaking Devices Weren't
Used a Century Ago.
How the Fourth of July, 1912, Was
Celebrated, According to the News
papers of the Period.

NE of the most interesting
features in connection with
the safe and sane method
Of celebrating the Fourth
Of July now becoming so
popular is the fact that it
denotes a return to the
good old days of our an
cestors when the anniver-
sary of independence was
honored with apparently
little noise, but with a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
All That Hammered

'Lo, Jim! Fshin'?" Nav: drownin'
worms. "-Harper's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

society-snubDers and the snubbeS
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
MISS LUCILLE VERA.
METHODISTS RAP
STATE OFFICIALS
Temperance Records of Governor
and Senate President Critics.
ed at Griffin Conference.

GRIFFIN, June Methodists of
the Griffin District North Georgia
Conference, have unanimously adopt
ed a resolution commencing the re-
port of the district committee on
temperance. containing criticism of
Governor John NJ Slaton and Presi-
dent Rudolph Anderson, of the State
Senate.
AS to Governor Slaton the report
says, in part:
I'VE feel genuine disappointment
that any man should be exalted to the
Governorship of the State who gives
his name and influence to a liquor
locker club as an officer and mem
Der as is the case with Hon. John
NJ, Slaton"
After quoting from President An
dersons speech in opposition to the
Tippins bill in the House last year.
the report says:
That statement was wholly sub
versive of his oath to uphold and en-
force the laws of the State, and, be
cause of his outspoken diSrespeCt for
laws that restrict and prohibit the
sale of whisky in Georgia we regret
his election TO the Presidency Of the
Senate We believe the placing of
him there Improperly upholds the dig
nifty Of that office, and puts into a
place Of supreme power, in the mat
ter of appointment of committees and
otherwise. man who is the out
spoken enemy of the cause Of pro-
hibition. and the unblushing friend
of the liquor traffic
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30

For years almost without number
the Georgia Legislature has enjoyed
the reputation of being an assemblage
of dignified and earnest men-bur-
dened with the cares of state and
caring nothing for the frivolities of
life. And Georgia politicians have
padded the same boat But now,
alas! They were exposed Saturday
morning. and now are held up to
the rude gaze of the proletariat as
very ordinary folks, and-here's the
Climax-they are FLIRTS!
Miss Lucille Viera says so, and she
knows more about legislators and
politiCians-not politics, mind you
than all the political experts in the
State of Georgia Miss Viera, be it
an who presides over the cigar coun-
ter in that hotbed Of political tur-
moil-the Kimbal House. where
measures and politicians are made
and unmade. During the summer
season, to quote Miss Viera. she is in
a position to make a close study of
legislation and legislators. And she
does it. and here is her verdict;
Politicians and legislators are
more flirtatious than travelling sales
men ever dared to be and as for the
callow and loose tongued college
youth-welI, there never was a min
ute when the college boy was in it
Official Confidant" She Is.
Miss Viera declares legislators and
politicians have elected her official
confidant" of the Kimball House. and
into her sympathetic ear is poured
tales of grave affairs of state; the
lodgings of a soul that Graves COM
partnership: the horrible fix Of a man
who has a PoCketful of money and
doesn't know how to spend il.
They come singly and by twos, in
squadrons and in regiments and they
buy large quantities of cigars and
postage stamps and post cards. and
they stand and talk by the hour on
such subjects as Miss Viera's unde-
niable beauty; their craving for some
one TO go to the theater or dinner
with them; of how their domestic
relations are strained; of how they
miss friend wife, and of how they
wish friend wife was at the bottom
of the bottomless sea, and a thousand
and one other things that Miss Niera
SAYS make her ear ache.
Miss Viera told a Georgian reporter
all about 1t Saturday morning,
These politicians and legislators
are the giddy guys, all right she
remarked. after a bewhiskered and
venerable gentleman had purchased
a postage stamp and had been told
that she could not go to the theater
with him
The things they tell me are the
limit Lots of them wander up here.
buy a cigar and say something about
the weather, and then start right in
telling me how much they miss their
wife and how much they love her.
They talk about their wives for half
an hour. maybe, and ii begins to
seem as though I had better wire her
to come and save her husband from
inSanity-and about that time I get
an invitation TO dinner or the thea
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
NEGRO SLASHED
FAT ALLY BY
GROCER
DeKaIb Officers Jail Decatur Mer-
chant, Brother of Suspended
Atlanta Policeman.

Ernest T. Bailey Of Decatur n
brother of Policeman G. H. Bailey
one Of the officers suspended by Chief
Beavers last week on a charge Of
visiting a negro blind tiger is i'm the
Dekalb County Jail charged with a
murderous assault upon negro, Cert
ERICKSON Bailcys wife and brother
were witnesses of the attack.
ERICKSON. his ribs severed as clean
by as by a sweep of the butchers
cleaver. Is at the point of death The
negro went into the grocery store Of
Bailey ~ Son. in Atlanta Avenue. De
Catur and started a dispute over his
account with Luther Bailey. the IA
yeaT-old brother of Ernest Bailey The
boy and Ernest Bailey as well as the
latter's wife, say he struck the boy
with his INST knocking him down
Bailey went 20 the boys rescue.
taking "a shoe repairing knife with
one stroke. he cut the negro from
head 10 abdomen. ERICKSON was taken
to the Ausley- drug store Or
Ausley who attended him, said the
negro could not live
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
ROOrayI Baby TO
Rule the House
No Longer Do Women Fear
the Greatest of All Human
Blessings.

II Is SOY and comfort 10 know
that those uucn-tGIkeG- of pains
ana other distresses that are said 10
precede child bearing may eas.i. be
avoided No woman need fear The
slightest discomfort If she Will fortlfy
herself with tie wsll-knCwu and
time honored remedy, Mothers
Friend
This is a most gratefli. pen etrat-
ing. external application that at once
softens ana makes plant the dbuoW-
inal muscles and l.gauents They
naturally expand without the slight
est strain, and thus not only Danish
all tendency to nervous. tWttrHLug
spells but there Is an entire freedom
from nausea discomfort. S'eeplCss-
ness and dread that SO often leave
Their Impress upon the babe
The occasion is therefore one Of IN
bounded, joyful anticipation. and too
much stress can not be laid upon the
remarkable influence which a moth
er's happy, prenatal disposition fas
upon the health and fortunes of the
generation 20 come
Mothers Friend is recommended
only for Tho relief and comfort OK ex-
pectant mothers, thousands ~ whom
have used and recommend 3d. You
viii find q on sale az all drug stores
al s. 90 a bottle Write TODAY 20 the
Bradhelc Regulator Co. $50 Lamar
Slog.. Atlanta. Ca for r. most In
etructtve book on fr.s Creates ~ all
subjects motherhood
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
OVER $4,000
IN DIVIDENDS
FOR JULY
Atlanta Bankers and Industries TO
Distribute Profts-Secret Mel
ons Would Swell Total,

Six Of the seven clearing house
banks in Atlanta and the Trust Com
pany of Georgia will disburse 3265.ooo
in dividends within the week. Most
of these dividends will be payable
July The others pay later in the
week TO avoid increasing unecessari-
~ the rush always attendant upon
the first day Of any month.
Besides this. industrial and railroad
corporations in Atlanta viii pay more
than 100000 in dividends
Another 100000 viii be paid by the
State. the city and various corpora
lions in meeting July coupons on
bonds.
Disbursements Of corporations in
which the stock is held closely and no
information is available as to profits
undoubtedly make even more impos-
ing totals
Big Dividends by Banks.
The Third National directors at \
meeting Monday afternoon declared
a dividend Of per cent on 100000.
the American National directors Mon
day afternoon declared dividend II
per cent on $780, 900 The Fourth
National directors hold their meeting
Tuesday afternoon and viii declare .
per cent on 100000
The Lowry National and the Allan
"a National have declared each per
cent on $1,000. 000 The Central Bank
and Trust Corporation has declared 3
per cent on Sl,000,o00 and the Trust
Company Of Georgia pays . IL per
cent on 100000 a quarterly divl-
dend paya BILE July 3.
Directors Of the Atlanta Trust Com
pany meet July s. What action they
viii take has not been announced.
The Germ8uian Savings pays Il
per cent. "a quarterly dividend, July IS.
Melon Months Abandoned.
January and July are the great
melon cutting dates in Atlanta. The
Trust Company Of Georgia and the
Lowry National Bank are leading the
break from this tradition Both now
pay quarterly Others are expected
10 follow their example.
Other dividends. either expected or
declared. include 31-2 per cent on
Sl25b. 600 preferred stock or the En-
pire Cotton OH Company. g per cent
on the &l-5O0O0 preferred and the
$4,000, GOO common or the Auanilr Ice
and Coal Corporation. 3 per cent ou
500. 600 stock Of the Exposition Cotton
Mills. per cent on the S4,2O0,0ul
stock Of the Georgia Railroads, per
cent on s. 500 600 stock OF the At
Ianta and West Point Railroad, 2 per
cent on Sl.SS5.O00 Of the Southern Ice
Company tproferredl. ] IA per cent
on s.. 100000 preferred Of the Georgia
Railway and Electric and 5 per cent
on s20oo,Oo0 first preferred OF the
GsorCia Railway and Power Compa-
ny.
State and City to Pay.
Georgia viii pay Sl39472 semi
annual interest on its bonds and the
city OF Atlanta win pay $ll9,5S0 on
july coupons.
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
the Atlantic Ice and Coal, the Geor-
gia Railway and Power Company and
some minor issues VIII pay &3S9,I0 IN
bond interest for the half year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
They Pour Into Her Ears Affairs of State and
Domestic Troubles Back Home.

ter. And if I ask them if they think
that is being true to their wives, they
come back with something like this:
oh, we'll I'd get a divorce for you,
any day But they won't. Not for
me, they won't. One old man with
whiskers handed me this one: It's
the good looking girls like you that
send all these men down to our in
sane asylum at Milledgeville.' / think
he said he came from down some
where near Milledgeville."
Keeps Tab on EN-.
Miss Viera says the efforts of com
partnership craving legislators and
politicians to start a conversation are
very amusing She kept tabs on
twenty Of them the other night She
was astOunded at what her figuring
showed, not knowing that there were
so many different ways to edge grace
fully to the dinner eating and thea
ter-attending offers Here is what
the twenty did.
Eight made snappv remarks about
the weather, and followed it up with
statements that it must be awful for
a girl to work inside during July and
August. Did she want to go to the
theater7
Three bought cigarettes and asked
if she was saving the coupons
Three bought magazines and said
she looked like the girl on the cover.
One asked her if she had his home
paper.
one asked if he didn't meet her at
Palm Beach once
One said she looked like his wife
Two bought post cards and re-
marked about the excellent line the
cigar stand carries.
one bought a postage stamp and
asked her to lick it so it would make
the letter sweet
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Cat and Mouse Act
AWes Sufragettes

Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June 30.-It is said that
the Government is completely salts
fed with the results Of the working
Of the so-called cat and mouse act"
by which convicted militant suffra-
Eettes are released when they are
very i'll from hunger strikes and are
returned To Jail to finish their sen
fences when they are convalesCent.
The offences of the militants and the
hunger strikes have both decreased
since the law was enacted. 1t viii
continue To be applied without any
letup.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Factory Head Held
On Charge of Girl

L. Weinberg. head Of the Manhat-
tan Cap Manufacturing Company,
295 IL Marietta Street. was arrested
by Detectives McGiu and Gillespie on
Monday morning and held at the sta
ton house as the result of a story told
by Della Cooper, who worked fof
Weinberg last week She claims
Weinberg insulted her.
Weinberg heatedly denied the girls
charges, claiming her story was told
in revenge he having discharged her.
Weinberg resides at 216-A Alexander
Street.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Servians and Bulgars
Again in Battle.

BELGRADE. June 30.-Severe
fighting has broken out between the
main armies Of the Servian and Bull
garian troops near Uskub. A dispatch
from Uskub to-day states that the
Bulgarians attacked the Servians at
Wallandona. The fighting then be
came general all along the line. The
casualties were heavy on both sides.
King Peter presided at a special
meeting of the cabinet He probably
will take the field again at once at
the head Of the Servian army.
Newspapers here issued special
war extras" which called r0on the
Government to make formal deClara-
ton Of war against Bulgaria.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Pastor Asks Negroes
Not to Sing Ragtime

An appeal to the negroes Of Atlanta
to refrain from singing rag songs was
made by the Rev. H. H. Proctor, pass
tor of the First congregational, Col
ored. Sunday.
There is power for good and fol-
bad in music" he said. when we
indulge in ragtime music we clothe
our souls in rags"
The sermon was addressed to
great chorus of $50 voices which is
to participate in the mus, al jubilee
at the Auditorium this week.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Miss Cannon Wins
Atlanta at Concert

Before an audience Of nearly 5000
persons Miss Eulalie Bright Cannon
made her debut before Atlanta's mu-
steal world Sunday afternoon ar the
Auditorium Miss Cannon was to
render two songs, but the applause
accorded her was So generous that
the young singer was forced TO re
spoud with others.
Among the numbers which Miss
cannon sang were 20 Don Fatalc."
am aria from NcrdrS opera. Don Car
'oz. "The Little Gray Dove" an Eng
Ish SONG, "LieU SiEuor," from Mcy-
rru,eUs les HusueuotS and From
tn, Land of the SKY blue Water"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Roumania Refuses to
Correct Boundary.

BUCHAREST. ROUMANIA, June
3O.-The Roumanian Government to-
day rendered a note to the Bulgarian
Government refusing Bulgaria's Of
fer to rectify the Bulgarian Rouma-
nian frontier in consideration of Rou-
mania's consent to remain neutral in
any further hostilities which might
break out in the Balkans.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Powers Expected to Act
At Once in Balkans.

PARIS, June 30-Reports were
current in diplomatic circles to-day
that Emperor William of Germany
will join with Car Nicholas of Rus
STA in arbitrating the territorial dis
pute between Bulgaria and Servia if
those two nations consent
It was expected that decisive aC-
ton would be taken to-day by the
powers to end the strained relations
in the Balkans.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
Credit Men to Push
War on Bad Checks

The legislative committee of the To-
cal Credit Mems Association, headed
by e. L. Adams. president will meet
the early part of this week to COM
piete plans for the proposed bill pro-
hihiting the presentation OF checks
and drafts when there are not sufii-
cient funds in the bank TO cover the
amount.
A number Of bills. including that of
Representative Doris. of Douglas
County which have been prepared.
Will be considered by the credit men
and an active campaign for the pass
age of the bill undertaken Local
credit men claim the bin viii elimi-
nate practice which has become
general in Atlanta.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
GREEKS, ROUTED.
BY BULGARS,
FIRE CITY
Former Allies Fight at Leftera.
Bayonet Charge Defeats Con-
Stantine's Forces.
Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SOFIA. BULGARIA, June 30
Fighting between Bulgarian and Greek
troops again has broken out in Mace
donia. A war Office telegram received
to-day stated that Bulgars and
Greeks had fought an engagement
near Leftera. The Bulgarians made
ly driving off the Greeks.
The Greek troops burned Leftera
on their retreat.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-30
DEFENSE PLANS
To TEAR DOWN
-CONLEY TALE
Expect to Prove Frank Innocent
by Discrediting Negroes Story
of Phagan Crime.

Warned that the State is basine
practically all Of its expectations Of
sending Leo NJ Frank to the gaIlows
on the dramatic story told by Jim
Conley. the defense this week is com
pleting the collection Of a strong line
Of evidence with which IT is planned
utterly to discredit the negroes state
ments and his testimony in court.
Conley again has insisted on con-
fronting Frank. He SAYS he is Ger
tain If he can meet the factory super
intendent face to face he can make
him tell the whole story" The ne
gro has told the detectives he not only
is willing, but is eager TO repeat in
the presence Of Frank the story of the
disposal Of Mary Phagans body just
as he has related it a dozen times
since he first made the sensational ac-
Acknowledgement that ne had a part in
the crime
1t is regarded as most unlikely that
the two viii be brought together
Luther Z. Rosser. attorney for Frank
has refused to make any definite
statement of his attitude in the mat
ter but il is known he looks with
suspicion on every word and every
act Of the negro. He has given the
Impression that he Is not unwilling
for his client to face the negro, but
that he regards the court room as the
proper place for the meeting and the
actual trial of Frank as the proper
time. For this reason. the dramatic
moment when aCcuser and accused
confront each other in all probability
viii be saved for the time when the
legal battle is IN progress for Franks
life.