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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
0. ". ESTES HIS
OWN ATTORNEY
SQUIRE FARLEY MOVES OVER
TO COURT HOUSE TO ACCOM-
.MODATE THE CROWD.

Squire J. G. Farley moved his
court to the court house today because
he was afraid that the seating capacity
of his office would not be sufficient to
accommodate the crowd who would
want to attend the trial of the damage
suit of w. R. Melton against Oscar W..
Estes.
Mr.. Melton alleges that Estes, who
runs an automobile for hire ran into
him and damaged his outfit to the ex-
tent Of about $27. Mr.. Estes, who is
we'll known for his ristrionic talent
and ability as public speaker elected
to plead his own case, and did no
retain an attorney. The prosecution
was ably represented by counsel.
| The success of Mr.. Estes plea wa
not known ut the time The New
went to press. because the jury ha'
not retpRpe1 = verdict.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
TIGERS STILL
|NFEST BOTTOMS
CASES CONSTANTLY
APPEAR IN CITY COURT, BUT
HARD TO HANDLE,

In spite CT the vigilance of the Off
GERS, Tigers continue to invest that
dark section of the city known as
"The Bottoms There were two re-
failing cases in the City Court today
and todays court is only fair sam
pie of the regular routine. For some
reason or other the sale of liquor
among the negroes and by the negroes
of Hattiesburg to the whites has not
been stopped. The two charged with
retailing this morning have both been
convicted and fined several times be-
fore.
Susie Shackleford and Robert Lee
were the ones who were arrested. In
the possession of both quantities of
liquor were found, more than either
one could consume in the ordinary
course of events.
Here is the picture described by
Officers Beverly and Buchanan, who
made the raid on Susies place. When
they entered the room suddenly, they
found Susie in the act of opening a
bottle of beer. Seated around a dirty
table in the center Of the room was a
crowd of negro men and women play
ing cards and smoking. In the same
crowded room there was a stove or
which dinner was cooking. Over ir
the corner pretty we'll concealed un
der pile of rags and clothes was q
box which confined about two dozer
bottles of beer and there were two
bottles on ice. Susie stoutly main
tains however, that the beer was there
for her own Honal use and that sh'
was not keeping it for sale, and tn,
Mayor, thinking the evidence not con
elusive againg her, had to turn tn
notorious and<often convicted opera
tor of a blind tiger loose on the CON
munity again.
! The case of Robert Lee, who ha
) numerous charges against him for r.
| failing, has been set for the mornin
of August 81.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
Marries Boy in
Jail; Cannot
Bail Hin, Out
MRS. WILLIAMS SAYS HER FUNDS
WE'RE EXHAUSTED WHEN SHE
PAID FOR LICENSE AND FEES.

A lady came into the office of the
chancery clerk at the Court House yes
terday afternoon and asked what was
the amount of the charges against
Kilrain Owens, of Richburg, who is in
Jail for assault and battery on anoth-
er boy. One of the young clerks
thinking she was the boys mother
looked up the costs for her. When he
told her that the amount was $3.50 he
noticed that she looked disappointed
She went away and presently came
back and said that she wanted to
purchase a marriage license. The
same clerk showed her where she
could get it. The name she signed
to the document was Mrs Williams.
Judge A. T. Powe, justice of the peace,
was sent for and in the meantime,
young Owens, who is a boy of not
more than 20 years, was brought over
from his cell.
Judge Powe performed the cere-
mony in the office of the circuit clerk
with the Court House officers and
employees as the wedding guests At
the door of the grim and unromantic
Jail the bride and groom were parted
again. She said she did not have
enough money left to get him out.
She came back later however, and
the jailer permits her to talk with
him but until she or somebody else
raises the $3.50 she will not be al
lowed to take her young husband
away. unless the court so orders it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
BANK PRESIDENT DEPOSITS GER.
TITLED CHECKS FOR
$750,ooo.
Fortunate THAT SALE WAS
MADE BEFORE WAR DECLARED
Half Million Of $1,25o,oo Bond Issue
Was Advanced Several Weeks Ago
Governor Brewer and j.. w. Power
Signed 1900 times.
Signed 1900 times.

Special to The NelCS.
Jackson, Miss, Aug. 25.-The sum
of $750,000 was placed in the state
treasury today when Lynn H. Dickins,
president of the Interstate Trust and
Banking Company, of New Orleans,
came here as the representative of the
syndicate of New Orleans bankers who
recently bought the entire issue of
$1,250,OOO of Mississippi state bonds,
authorized at the last session of the
legislature with certified checks for
that sum, and exchanged them for the
bonds.
Delivery of the bonds was made in
the office of Gov. Brewer shortly be-
fore the noon hour The blank bonds
were received by the Governor from
the American Bank Note Company, of
New York, yesterday at noon, and the
chief executive put in an unusually
busy afternoon signing the valuable
documents. Secretary of State ]. w.
Power also signed the bonds. The
two state officials attached their sig
natures no less than ! 900 times, and
by night both complained of finger
cramps.
Gov. Brewer is highly elated today
over the success of the bond issue. He
considers it fortunate indeed that he
was able, after considerable negotia-
ing, to have one bank of the syndicate
advance $5O0,000 few weeks ago, be-
fore the bonds were ready for sigma
lures. That was before the European
war began. 1t is not considered i'm
probable that had the sale of bonds
been delayed until the war started the
state would not have disposed of them
so advantageously as it did.
The big sum of money comes to the
strong box of the state at an opportune
time. The treasury has been 'busted,"
so to speak, for some weeks, and now
that the bond issue is available the
Treasurer P. S. Stovall now has
smile and check for warrant holders
who appear at his office.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
GERMANS READY FOR MARCH TO PARIS
LOST MONEY AND
WTIISKEY SAME DAY
Do You Blame John Owens For Get
ting Mad Then and "Cussing"

John Owens when he woke up one
morning last week found that he had
been robbed of all the money he had
in his trousers pocket when he went
to bed. That made him feel bad, he
said, and he thought he would take a
little drink to kind of cheer him up
before going to work. He reached
under the bed where he keeps his jug
and found it dry. If that was not
enough to make man mad, he told
Judge Batson today in the police
court, he did not know what was.
He went out in the back yard and
got his axe and came back in the
kitchen where his wife Carrie was
cooking breakfast and announced that
he was going to have his whiskey.
There followed a general mix-up, in
volving the stove, the kitchen uten-
sils, the axe, John and Carrie. When
John woke up he says he had an awful
pain in his head and large hickey
was forming where some heavy blunt
instrument had formed a confusion.
Judge Batson had to listen this
morning while they outlined their
troubles. They have the reputation
of being industrious negroes. They
have been married, she said for SO
years and have lived happily until re-
Gently, when he became more fond of
the little brown jug, says she, than
he was of her. They were fined $5
each for fighting.
Will Green was fined $3.50 for hit
ting another negro boy in the back
"wid a ill piece of coal,' he said.
Fate Wilson, another Hamite, was
fined S. for gaming, which is the
polite way for saying shooting craps.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
ZONE MAN" ARMY
PROVES A HERO
Occupies a Village and Holds Back
German Regiment Singlehanded.

Paris, Aug. 25.-A story worthy of
Dumas or Balzac is told by the Matin.
In a recent Alsace skirmish French
dragoon was killed. He was stunned
by a fall and left for dead on the
field.
Some hours later a Fernch patorl
coming to reconnoiter, found him on
foot at the entrance to the village.
"What are you doing here?" the Of
ficer of the patrol demanded sternly.
ooh, I am occupying this village y
was the answer. 81 was waiting for
YOU to come. The Germans are in the
wood yonder, but they dare not enter
the village while am here, because
they won't believe that I am alone"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
SCIENTISTS MEET
AT EVANSTON

Evanston, ILL.,, Aug. 25.-The annual
meeting of the Astronomical and AS
trophysical Society of America was
opened at Northwestern University to-
day and will be continued until Satur-
day. The society was organized in
1899 and has a membership of several
hundred of the leading educators and
astronomers of America. The presi-
dent is Prof. Edward c. Pickering, the
we'll known astronomer of Harvard
University.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
PHOTOGRAPHS AND FIGURES
SHOW SECTIONS ADVANTAGES
'svery Feature of Life in This Section,
Including Churches, Schools, Indus
tries, and Especially Farming and
Stock Raising, Are Treated in Detail
and Without Exaggeration.

Hattiesburg, the Hub of South Mis-
sissippi, its past, its present and a
glimpse of its future, is told with strik-
ing force and effectiveness in a booklet
just issued by the Commercial Club
ana published by The Hattiesburg
News. Several thousand copies of the
booklet were received today by Sec
ertary Hauenstein and are being dis
tributed to those business houses and
individuals who subscribed for them.
The booklet is a work of art. It
contains tifty-two pages and is hand
somely bound in a five-color binding.
More than half of its pages are devoted
to pictures, made from actual photo
graphs taken in and near the city,
end each one of these cuts shows up
sSnsffectly.
But the artistic value of the booklet
Is overshadowed by the cold, hard facts
contained in the reading matter. 1t
simply tells the truth about Hatties-
burg and South Mississippi. 1t gives
photographs and figures, the two most
indisputable evidences that can be o.
fered about any section, and it gives
them in way that conyinces the most
pessimistic that this section is sure to
come into its own as one Of the leading
agricultural and industrial sections of
the country.
Every feature of life in Hattiesburg
is taken up in the booklet. 1t tells OF
Hattiesburg's twentythree churches
and of her schools, with special men
tion of the Mississippi Normal College
the Mississippi Woman's College and
the Forrest County Agricultural High
School.
>. Then it tells of many industries that
haze flourished in the past and are
stRl (fourinshing, pointing out that the
llmber in this section alone represents
a but siness of about $1OOO,OOO annually
and that the commercial trade of Hat
tiesburg amounts to about $11 100000
a year.
The financial strength of the section
shows the three banks of Hattiesburg
TO have on deposit about $9,OOO,OOo and
,;Continued on page twol
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
PERSONAL TOUCH
WILL WIN SOUTH
AMERICAN TRADE
NOTHING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED
BY CATALOGUES AND
CIRCULARS.
WAR OFFERS OPPORTUNITY
TO ENTER new TERRITORY
European War In Itself Not a Benefit
To Any Country, But Disturbed Con-
ditions May Be Adjusted to Advan-
tage of the United States.

Washington, Aug. 25.-Following up
its appeal that American producers
turn their attention to Latin-American
trade, the Pan-American Union has is
sued a statement showing what must
be done to obtain trade in South
America. This statement says per-
sonal contact is necessary, and that
nothing can be accomplished in Latin
America by circulars and catalogues.
The state continues:
MANY of the letters received by the
Pan-American Union from prospective
exporters, evidently unfamiliar with
general exporting business, ask for de-
tailed information as to tariff rates,
the idea apparently being in the mind
of the writer that, if he finds tariff
duties to be high, he is thereby cut out
of the Latin-American trade.
THE tariff has an important bearing
and the Pan-American Union is pre-
pared to give expert advice on mat
ters of tariff; but this advice, to be of
any value, must be based upon expert
questioning and generally personal in
terviews, and not by letter. To the
beginner in export business in Latin
America the best advice regarding the
tariff is forget it. The Latin-Ameri-
can buyer does not expect prices quot
ed duty paid, neither does he want
prices so quoted. He prefers to ar
range for customs house matters him.
self.
"In regard to selling terms, European
exporters have been accustomed to CIV
ing longer credits than we usually
give, but this matter is not so serious
as some have made it appear. The
credits in reality are sucured by the
banks through acceptances. The finan-
cial methods are the same in Latin
American as in Europe. The American
manufacturer selling to Latin America
has, therefore, been at disadvantage,
SluCe neIelOlOIe we nave udu no rep
resentation among Latin-American
banks. This condition, it is hoped,
will be changed soon.
''It will be remembered that the Eu-
ropean war, at the bottom, will not
benefit any country. Its result is to
disturb conditions everywhere. We in
the United States are hurt and so are
the people of Latin America, but some
here and some there are hurt more
than others. In way the war offers
an opportunity to secure entrance into
fields where we have heretofore but
little operated. But should our Amer
lean manufacturers look at the oppor-
tunity merely as one of securing a
derelict trade-in other words, as
something temporary-it is believed
they will be seriously disappointed"
G. R. M.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
ARMY WANTS A
RECRUIT STATION

Corporal John H. Black, of the Re-
cutting Service United States Army, is
in the city canvassing. Corporal Black
is looking for location for a recruit
ing station in this vicinity and is very
favorably impressed with Hattiesburg.
He will remain until Sunday after
noon.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
COMMERCIAL CLUB
DIRECTORS MEET

The directors of the Hattiesburg
Commercial Club will meet tonight at
s o'clock at the club rooms.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
ON FRENCH Sun
FOLLOWS FALL Of NAMUR
INTO HANDS OF GERMANS
FRENCH FORCES, HAVING POSITIONS ALsAcE
LORRAINE, GERMANS AND
coUNTRY-sRITisH
OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS
NAMUR STROKE FOR eERMANs-ALLIEs
FINISH sAY-HEATED
ENGAGEMENTS REPORTED PROG
PLACES.
GERMANS NOW ONLY IS MILES FROM ANTWERP
(Bu Associated PreSS.l

Paris, Aug 25-The Belgian south Antwerp
and fighting with the British French great
Luxembourg according
here today:
1.-The oHencve the stopped
yesterday to have
"The enemy, however, being by
French acting in conjunction with the English
gans The armies of the allies have the
gone
yond Manes."
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25

Berlin, (by wireless to Associated Press
1t officially here today that
its fell
forts under bombardment their fall imminent
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25

Washington, Aug 25A wireless Berlin
office the embassy
gained notable victory the French
captured
army broken up making
probable the toward Paris.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25

Man Aug. 2A dispatch cattaro
there have been destroyed the allied
have time mine
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25


distinct tide of
the Luxembourg
the a
caused distinct throughout Europe
assisted With covering posi-
Alsace the
French foreign office admits fighting French
Both British foreign decidedly
While
near the
frontier has good ORDER
allies line extending
strongly fortified towns
to the entrenched Chaons
finish may be- They
stroke for the Germans have rushed the place
armies"
GERMANS PRESS FORTIFIED CITY OF ANTWERP
other fighting progress An ostend re.
Manes thirteen miles from Ant
Another hot believed at Chaeo
hem, according
the main bodto the Germans who
fighting outskirts
gbrough in
sa and surprisingly rapid
that the orifcaion
line
} TWoTHIRDs GERMAN KILLED IN BATTLE.
sassburg went into the
battle of schmick only Soo returned
business ,Sz*{
dopped borbs into Antwen en
several deaths. 1t brought hy the F1
\ tee~sRS 7~-< nole- -pz3eQa25lk
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
M'ADOO DISAPFROVES
CROP VALORLZATION

Washington, Aug. 25.-At confer
ence of cotton and tobacco growers
today, Secretary McAdoo emphatically
disapproved of proposals for the valor-
ization Of crops.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-08-25
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THE WEATHER.

. Mississippi = Unsettled tonight .
= and Wednesday, probably local =
= showers. =
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-05-07
BOAT FISH" FROM NEwfoUNiDLAND

The schooner William Matheson, Capt John
d. Devereaux arrived at Bucksport April
22nd from Newfoundland with $50. 900 pounds
Of boat fish for Capt. T. N. Nicholson. She
had been three weeks on the voyage and there
was anxiety as to her safety. The delay was
largely caused by having been nipped in the
ice in the Gulf Of st. Lawrence where, for ten
days, the schooner was held fast by the big
foes which, at. times. threatened destruction
by crushing in her sides. The "boat fish"
brought by the schooner are something new to
Maine. Capt. Nicholson, the owner. figures it
out that, under the new tariff law. he can buy
them from Newfoundland boats and land the N
in Bucksport free of duty. cheaper than he can
catch an equal number on the Banks. The
schooner T. M. Nicholson, Capt. L. A. Gilley,is
now loading cargo of boat fish at Talent.
MID The Bangor Commercial says that over
three hundred fishermen with small boats are
fishing at Newfoundland for Captain Nicholson
an II it is likely that vessels will be running
back and forth between Newfoundland and
Buc sport with cod fish during the entire
season.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-05-07

VIM H Morrison VS. VIM Bryant 1T ais,
| neither party.
Emily Loder VS. F M Fairbanks ct ais,
con tinued.
International Stock Food Co VS. A M
Wheeler, continued.
| Maud L Thomas. Libt, VS. Clinton F
, Thomas, continued.
| Frank ] Wood, Libt, vs. Anna B Wood,
continued.
Chas C Dunn, Libt, VS. Martha C Dunn,
heard by the Court.
May f Brown Payne VS. Orison Chand-
Ter ct al, continued 1.-TWO cases..
Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, vs. j +
i Mahoney, continued.
! Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, VS. l. n
Flemelling, continued.
Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, VS. Lester
Cheney, bankruptcy suggested.
Il. Geo A Goodwin ct al. Admrs, vs. Jonn l.
| Williams, continued.
Geo A Goodwin ct al. Admrs, VS. Har-
vey C Tozier. defaulted and continued
for judgment.
Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, VS. Perley
Y Clark, continued. r.,
| Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs,vs WIN II
! Manley, continued.
{ Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, VS. Her
bert E Wallace, continued:
Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, vs Lester
E Cheney, bankruptcy suggested.
Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, VS. w b
London, continued.
| Geo A Goodwin ct al, Admrs, vs. Her.
Der L Jewell, defaulted and continued
for judgment.
Geo A Goodwin, ct ais, Admrs vs John
P Mahoney, ct al, continued:
Geo A Goodwin, ct ais, Admrs VS. Har-
old Sprague, continued.
Geo A Goodwin, ct ais, Admrs vs. w Z
Curtis, continued.
u S Mitchell VS. W c Williams, plead
ings filed.
faulted.
ed. ., ,.,
Mary R. Coggins VS. Milton B Hills
Williams Bros VS. Ned Victor, de
Wallace Ellis VS. A Mudgett and two
cottages, continued.
B H Stevens VS. Melvin Staples, de
faulted.
defaulted.
1 EW Wallace VS. John w Small, End
| continued.
JOS Il Derby VS. N F Houston. motio'
to continue filed.
"A Howes & Co vs. G F Gordon, con
tinued. :,
Lola A Powell, Libt VS. Stanley v
Powell, continued.
Mildred X Bradman, LiDt, VS. Her
bert E Bradman, motion for order o
service filed and granted.
Clement & Cushman VS. Allen Dyer
; continued.
Albert Mcbride vs. Carl H Scribner
referred to George E Johnson, one mont
allowed to file acct in set off.
Frank Case VS. Chas F harrington, con
tinued.
A K Curtis, M D VS. VIM George, de
faulted.
bond filed.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-05-07
John Leroy Crabtree.

The death of John Leroy Crablree
marks the passing of North Ravens last
Civil War veteran. Mr.. Crabtree en-:
listed in the navy at the age of 18, serv-
ing first on the receiving ship Constitu-
ton, later being transferred to the Com
modore Barney. He saw much service,
taking an active and honorable part in
many engagements, including the desper-
ate fight at Fort Fisher. Mr.. Crabtree
had always made his home at North Ha-
ven. In early life he followed the sea
extensively, finally giving it up to work
at the blacksmith trade, in which he was
especially skilled. About two years ago
his health began to fail, and on March
18th, he succumbed to severe attack OF
the grip, at the age of 81. He leaves
many relatives to mourn their loss, the
nearest being two sons, Russell and
Parker; a daughter, Mrs. s.. A. Mutt,
and an uncle, Mr.. B. c. Crabtree, for
merly of North Haven, now OF Lynn,
Mass, one of the few surviving veter-
ans of Antietam, and at one time a
prominent detective.