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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
Many Nearly Perfect.

Unofficial statements from Judges
last night were to the effect that sew
entyfive Of the babies entered were
so near perfection as to be eligible for
prizes. All nationalities were repre-
sented. There were no colored babies,
however, though they were not barred.
One child who weighed only one and
cue-half pounds at birth, was found TO
be among the best. The Judges also
noted pair of twins, boy and girl
both of whom were practically perfect
They were the seventh aud eighth chill,
remarkably unusual for twins
The Judges were DR.. Belle Gemmell,
DR.. h. +. Chamberlain, DR.. Samuel G.
Paul, Miss Roberts, Miss Carlson, Mrs.
Louise b. McCune, Mrs. Ira Travis,
Mrs. w, o. l., Stenhouse and Mrs, Sell
den /. ClaWsoD.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
Governor Enthusiastic.

Last night the exhibitors met in the
coliseum at tho bidding of the directors.
They were seated on the STAGE and
were addressed by Governor SpTy. The
governor declared that the exhibits this
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
Special Awards Made.

Several special awards were made
yesterday, among the most interesting
bcing that TO the Indians of the Uinta6
reservation, A silver cup and a ribbon
were given to the Indians for their e1.
hibit. Hereafter provision will be
made annually in the premium list for
an Indian exhibit
In consideration Of the splendid
showing made by Box Elder county, a
special cup was awarded the display of
that county. The Box Elder deIega-
ton, which lost the sweepstakes prize
by narrow margin, announced that
Box Elder county would come back
next. year with display that could
not be surpassed
A silver cup was awarded to Morgan
county for the best display of seed
peas. Another special. prize of fruit
grader was also awarded to Morgan
county, and similar award was made
to Uintah county.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
Weather Man Balks.

The weather man baked yesterday
for the first time during the whole
week. A steady downpour of rain dur
ing almost the entire day made walk
ing in the grounds disagreeable and
largely cut down the attendance, New
erthcless, there were many, especially
out oftown visitors, who were brave
enough to face the elements and a good
crowd, considering the weather, was
on hand. The rain necessitated the post
ponement Of the racing programme
Admission prices to the coliseum were
suspended and everyone was invited to
70 III out of the rain. The vaudeville
snow which has been given there daily
was put on to entertain the visitors,
making the afternoon pass copgenially.
A number of the exhibitors yesterday
wanted the fair to be continued on
Monday III order to give the conference
visitors who arrived in the city late
an opportunity to see the big exhibi-
ton. a formal request was presented
to the board, but it was decided that
it would not be advisable to carry out
such r. plan, so the gates were closed
for the last time at IL o'clock last
night
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
Basis Is Scientific.

The contest. held on scientific
basis, is considered important among
the medical profession and others in
terested in "better babies,'' because
all OF the records, including the Off
cial measurements made by DR.. E. F.
Chamberlain and DR.. Samuel G. Paul
will be kept by the state, Next year
babies entered this year can be en-
tered again, providing they are still
under the age limit of SO months.
curately ascertained. Each child was
given q thorough physical examination.
Only one person was permitted to bring
in child, any others who were with
the child being kept outside the club
house where the contest was held,
thereby avoiding confusion.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
Fair Big Success.


The 1918 state fair has been declared
success by all those who have exhib-
tied and by those who have attended.
The number Of entries was announced
yesterday as 1000, the largest in the
history of the fair. While the total at
tendance figures were not available last
night, it is believed that only one year
exceeded this, the year that President
Taft attended. On the day the presi-
dent was a visitor the attendance was
$4,000. The total attendance that year
was 10000.
As near as could be estimated last
night, the number of visitors this yea,
came close to the 10000 mark and
would have passed it had it not beer
for the inclement weather yesterday
Considering the lack of attendance the
first two days on account of the tria'
Of the 50-cent admission plan, this is ar
excellent showing,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
FAIR BABY CONTEST
KEEPS JUDGES BUSY
Magnificent Showing Is Made
by Representatives of
"Utah's Best Crop"
MANY NEARLY PERFECT
Announcement as to Win
ners to Be Made Tuesday;
Closing Scenes at Fair.
MANY NEARLY PERFECT

The judges Of the baby contest at
the state fair yesterday discovered that
they were the busiest persons In Utah.
More than 800 of the cream of Utah 8
best CROP competed for the honor OF
being among the best babies. Shortly
before clock, when the judges fin
shed their task, they found that there
was so much data to go over in pick
ing out the winners that it would take
them at least two or three days to
pass Judgment They stated that they
would probably make known the re-
suits Tuesday.
Tine reason for the delay in announc-
ing the winners is that the contest
yesterday was decidedly a 'fbetter
baby contest, and the awards will
be made on scientific basis, not for
beauty. as is usual in such events. The
score cards called for all kinds of in
formation about the babies and their
parents. II was strictly engenic
contest, and those who entered their
little tots are waiting anxiously for
the results.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
PUBLIC SCHOOL
FACULTY CHOSEN
NEARLY ALL REELECTED
LIST OF THOSE WHO WILL
TEACH IN THE CONWAY
SCHOOLS NEXT SESSION.

After having considered the matter
at several different sessions, the board
of directors of the Conway district
have completed the selection of teach
ers to serve during the next session.
The election of Prof. j. P. Womack of
Magnolia as superintendent of the
schools was announced some weeks
ago, and Secretary w. B. Hubbell of
the board today gave out the follow
ing list of the teachers for the white
school,
First Grade-Miss Caroline Muth.
Second Grade-Miss Mary Hamil-
ton.
Third Grade-Miss Ida Bragg.
Fourth Grade-Miss Neil Noe.
Sixth Grade-Mrs. Ida Burns.
Seventh Grade-Miss Minnie Flip
pen.
Eighth Grade-Sam II. Scott.
Ninth Grade-Miss Maggie Den-
son.
Tenth Grades. C. Parrish.
To be Assigned - Miss Carrie
Vaughn and Miss Maddox.
All of the teachers chosen, except
the last two, were reelected,
Mr.. HubbelI also explained that
some of the teachers named may be
assigned to different grades from
those given, that matter being a duty
of the new superintendent.
The present session of the school
will end May 80, and the session next
year will also be one of nine months.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
SEEK TO LOCATE
WATER LEAKAGE
TESTS Being CONTINUED
THOUSAND GALLONS
DISAPPEARED FROM RESER-
VOIR THURSDAY NIGHT.

While no informal meeting of the
waterworks improvement board has
been held following the test of the sys-
tep made last Thursday night, the
amount of leakage shown by the test
is regarded by members of the board
as excessive, and Engineer Guy A.
Watkins is continuing the efforts to To-
cate the cause of the leakage.
Those in charge of the tests esti-
mate that 10000 gallons which could
not be accounted for disappeared from
the reservoir last Thursday night,
when the service to consumers was
shut off for period of 15 hours.
While this represents leakage of on
ly eight or 10 per cent of the capacity
of the reservoir in "a hours, Superin-
tendent f. V. Leverett, as we'll as the
members Of the board, regard the loss
as too great for an economic operation
of the system based upon the present
average daily consumption.
Aside from few places where, un-
der the heavy pressure of 80 pounds
to the inch slight amount OF water
was being forced through the pores of
the wooden mains, only three leaks
were discovered in the distribution
system on the morning following the.
tests, and it is now thought the waste
must occur either in the reservoir or
the supply line to the city. This will
probably be determined within the
next few days.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
FAULKNER COUNTY
GINS 2O,685 BALES

Washington, April 22.-According
to a bulletin issued by the Bureau of
Census today, the total number of
bales of cotton ginned in Arkansas,
counting round bales as half bales and
excluding linters, for the crop of 1912,
was 770,682. This compares with
90S,014 ginned for the crop of 1911
and 798, ,l56 for that of 1910.
Faulkner countys total ginning, ac-
cording to the report, was 20,685
bales, an increase of 2,656 over the
crop of 1911, when 1S,029 bales were
ginned. For the crop of 1910 the gin
ming was 1889.
Conway county also showed an in
creased ginning, the figures for the
past three years being as follows
1912, l6,434 bales; 1911, 1871 bales
1910, 1899 bales.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
MARRIAGE LICENSE.

Homer Hutchinson, rs, Conway, and
Scottie E. Compton, %, Plumerville.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
ANNUAL SCHOOL
ELECTION MAY II

The annual school elections in Ar
kansas for the purpose of choosing di-
rectors, levying district school tax
and voting on the question of county
of textbooks and county
will be held this year
on May II, the third Saturday in the
month. In the Conway special school
district the terms of two of the direc-
tors, J. w. James and J, f, Little,
will expire and their successors are to
be chosen at this time.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
STANLEY-OLMSTEAD.

Little Rock, April % Edward
Stanley, secretary of the Arkansas
Tax Commission, will today be mar
led to Miss Alciadeen Olmstead in
,rkadelphia. Bush Binley of the Sec
retary of States office accompanied
the bridegroom to see the ceremony
we'll performed. The bridal couple
will spend the honeymoon in Texas.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
ROAD COMMISSION
IN FIRST MEETING
fALCONER NOT SWORN IN
SEBASTIAN COUNTY MEMBER
WILL NOT QUALIFY UNTIL
LAST OF JUNE.

Little Rock, April 22.-The newly
appointed state highway commission,
of which R. G. Dye, state land com
missioner is chairman, and Fillmore
Raines of Jonesboro and w. A. Fal-
coner of Fort Smith are members,
met in Little Rock Monday afternoon
and discussed informally the matters
which must first be attended to by
the commission. Adjournment was
taken until next Monday, which is the
regular monthly meeting day for the
commission, at which time definite
plans will be made for the commence
ment of the work.
Judge Rains qualified as member
of the commission, but Judge Falconer
did not, and will not until the last of
June, He is a member of the civil
service board of the city of Ft. Smith
and as long as he holds that he can
not become a member of the highway
commission. The Fort Smith appoint
nenC is one of honor alone, but the
dnties are very important and Judge
Falconer has been requested to re.
main until the examinations are held
and the commission form If govern
ment gets well under way, to which he
has consented.
The secretary and engineer will not
be appointed until after the commits
sion is fully organized
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
ROYAL ARCANUM
INITIATE SEVEN

class of seven new members were
initiated in the local council of Royal
Arcanum last night. Following the
initlatory ceremonies, refreshments
were served and the occasion was en-
joyed by large number of members
The class was composed of the follow
ing; John l.. Phillips, VIM. A. Will
son, VIM. L. Wilson, H. C. Hartje,
Adolph Anthamatten, Ira L. Gibbon
and John f. Lyon.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
MISS BARNES ENTERTAINS

Miss Myrtle r. Barnes entertained
about fortyfive young people last
night at her home on Locust avenue
IN honor of her guest, Miss Lessie
Bowles Joslyn of Little Rock. Games.
music and contests were features of
the evening. The first prize in the
geographical contest was awarded to
Carl Goodgame. The BOBBY prize was
awarded to Miss Helen Camp. Re-
freshments of small white cakes with
the honoree's monogram in pink and
ice cream was served.
Miss Joslyn will return home Fri
day.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
HENDRIX IS EASY
FOR HENDERSON

Scoring almost at will and outplay-
ing Hendrix in every department of
the game, Henderson easily defeated
the Bulldogs" in the second of the Sc
ries at Hendrix park yesterday after
noon. The score:
R H E
Hendrix ....00010 00100- 6
Henderson 5O21-16 II A
Jackson, Anderson and Cook; Kent
and Norris.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
J. D. REED ARRESTED
ON SERIOUS CHARGE

Sheriff Johnson today arrested ]. d.
Reed on warrant issued by Justice of
the Peace l.. B. Atkeison, charging
improper treatment of Ruth Welch, a
girl under the age of 16. The exam
ming trial was set for Friday and the
defendants bond pending the hearing
was fixed at $500.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
CFANCERY COURT
TO MEET MAY 5TH

For the purpose of transacting
business unfinished at the March term,
Chancellor Jordan Sellers will hold an
adjourned term of the Faulkner chan
Gerry court at the courthouse in this
city, beginning Monday, May 5. 1t is
expected that the session will last on
ly two or three days.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
INFANT KING DEAD.

The year-old infant of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. A. King of Argenta died yes
terday afternoon at o'clock. The
funeral was held at MayAower today,
services being conducted by DR.. G. H.
Steen of Conway.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

F. J. Mcclure to Bruce Pitts and
Obe Kelsey, east half southwest
southwest, 32-6-14, 20 acres; $3.50.
F. j. Mcclure to Callie Duckett,
west half southwest southwest, 1926
Ia. 90 acres; $3.50
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

All persons who have had their tax
receipts made out and have left them
in my office are requested to call and
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1913-04-22

take up same at once. am required
to certify the delinquent list to the
county clerk within the next few days.
j. S. JOHNSON, Sheriff.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-21
TARIFF DEBATE UNDER WAY.
Senator Cummins Says Proposed Bill
Favors the East.

Washington, July Senator Cum
Minis of Iowa, opening the tariff de-
bate Saturday for the Progressive Re.
publicans, declared that the Republican
party lost the confidence Of the people
and was driven from power largely be-
cause it insisted upon the maintenance
of import duties, many OF which were
unnecessarily and oppressively high. .
The Democratic party he asserted,
will soon be overtaken by like disaster,
because it is about TO inhiet upon the
country tariff law which, with respect
TO many things, invites the perils of free
trade and which, with respect to many
others, imposes duties that are danger
ously and destructively low and which
from end to end grievously discriminates
against the west in favor of the east
that is to say, in favor of the manuiae-
turer against the farmer.
There is a passageway to safety and
he said. The Progressive
Republicans charted it in 1909 and they
viii chart it again in 1913. Some time
the American people viii make the trip
under these pilots, but in the meantime
we must suffer another shipwreek, bear
ing its hardships, as hope we will, with
patriotism and fortitude." Senator
Cummins criticized the president for his
exerted upon members of Con-
gress concerning the tariff bill, an in
huence. he said $50 persistent and de-
termined that it became coercive." He
also attacked the Democratic caucus
idea.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-21
Peaks of the polomites.

The Tyrol, that rugged land Of noun
tain warfare, has lost much Of its lust
for battle. But far above IFS vIneciad
valleys and crag uplifted castles, hoary
with grim memories OF hurting
slaughter. there rises a region OF ern-
battled spires where The joy OF victory
may We. be tasted. The battle * not with
dukes and their leglons. but with thoss
solemn sentinels OF the silences, the
towering peaks of the Dolomites.
These rocky giants. with their defenses
Of gloomy precipice. icy slope and
storm SWEET ridge. still challenge man
to the fray. Health and strength are
some of the rewards they offer If APP
preached with due prudence and skill
FIJI assault; otherwise they may take a
relentless revenge. - New York Tele-
gram.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-21
MCKINLEY LIKENESS MUST GO.
Burleson Tells Why Martyred Prcsi-
dents Vignette Will Disappear.

Washington, July 2l.-Postmaster-
General Burleson has declined to rescind
his order substituting vignette of
Thomas jefferson for that of William
Mckinley on postal cards. The Post
master-General made known his atti-
tude in letter to Senator Burton of
Ohio. The matter was brought to Mr..
Burleson's attention by Senator Burton,
who received protest from the MeKin-
lev club of Canton, Ohio. against this
substitute of Jefferson's portrait for Nc
Kinley's. In his reply Mr.. Burleson
says:
I'm answer to your letter of the 18th
inst. have to say that the change in
the viginette forming the stamp on one
of the postal cards was authorized in
pursuance of a long established Gus
tom of altering the designs of stamps
from time to time for the purpose of af-
fordinp a variety which it has been
found the public desires. 1t became nee
essary to prepare new supply of print
ing plates for postal cards, which Great
ed a favorable opportunity TO make
changes in the designs.
"Inasmuch as the principles advocated
by Jefferson have been recently Endorsed
by the American people it semed appro-
pirate to place the vignette of the
author of the Declaration of Independ-
ence on the new card. II goes without
saving that this action was taken with
out any purpose of rejecting upon the
honored memory Of the lamented Nc
Knley."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-21
He Couldn't PIow,

A certain incident connected with
the great Napoleon while he was in ex-
lie in Elba is commemorated In the is
land to this hour by an inscription af-
fixed TO tile wall of peasants house.
A man named Giaconi was blowing
when the famous exile came along one
day and expressed an interest In his
work Napoleon even took the plow-
share out OF the mans hand and at
tempted to guide It himself. But the
oxen refused to obey him, overturned
the pillow and spoiled the furrow.
The inscription runs thus: Napoleon
the Great. passing by this place in
MDCCCXIv. took in the neighboring
field a plowshare from the hands OF
peasant and himself tried to pillow. but
the oxen. rebellious to those hands
which yet had guided Europe, head
long fled from the furrow."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-21
BLIND FOR so YEARS,
SHE REGAINS SIGHT
Woman Had Never Seen Her Eight Chill.
dren--Stricken When
Sixteen.

Chicago, July 2l.-One of the humblest
homes in Hillsdale, Mich, was made
the happiest in the whole country Sat
urday, when Mrs Mary j. Walsh. who
had been blind for fifty years, recovered
her sight. When she was girl of six
teen years, her eyes failed until she
became entirely blind In that condi-
tion she married and is the mother of
eight children, whom she never saw
until Saturday.
To make her burden doubly hard, her
husband became ILL., and she was forced
to take in washings to support the fam
lily. She struggled on until her children
were able to earn some money for
themselves. Then things became bit
easier for her, but her sightless eyes
still ached for sight OF the children.
Several operations were tried and
proved unsuccessful. The sons, now
grown up, brought the mother to Chi
cage, where she was taken TO hospital
for treatment. Surgeons examined her
and found she was suffering from
double cataract.
She was discharged from the hos
pital Saturday, and two sons and
daughter greeted her. She was taken
home to Hillsdale, where the entire
family welcomed her.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-21

Calcutta. No one expected that she
would long remain single. for she was
only twenty-one at the time of Older
shaw's death, and besides being beau
tiful she was rich.
month after his marriage Baxter
went to America on important BUSH
ness, II was said. leaving his wife in
Calcutta He never returned OF
course after awhile tongues began to
wag. people wondering if he might not
have discovered the secret of his pred
ecessor's death. BE this as II may,
he remained In America. while his
wife lived In India. No one ever
heard of any divorce between the two.
but Mrs. Baxter did not take another
husband till news came from America.
nine years after her second marriage,
that her husband had died of an or
binary disease.
The widow was still a handsome
woman. not much over thirty and rich.
Time bad somewhat erased the early
reports of some malign influence upon
the men she married She took third
husband. this time an Indian. He
lived six years, when he died a per-
fectly natural death--at least. so read
the certificate
1t seems that young assistant sur
geon of British regiment. hearing OF
the case of Colonel Oldershaw. resolv-
ed to hunt up an explanation of the
mystery How he learned what he did
would take too long to tell When a
little girl. her mother having died. the
subject of this story fell TO the care OF
n woman who made a poison girl of
her-that is. she gave the child small
doses of poison, increasing them till
she could bear to take a large guam
tity and her breath was poisonous to
another. The outrage had been dis
covered and stopped. but not before
the child had partially become infected.
Each of the cases pertaining to her
husbands was then accounted for
When she became the wife of Colonel
0ldershaw the poison she had taken
was effective. When she married a
second time ii had largely passed
away. Quite likely. by the time she
married the Indian it had died out al |
together.
That there are persons in India who |
have become poison proof by taking |
small and increasing doses is fact. |
but whether they can infect others |
DO not know.