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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
WOMEN WILL HELP
BUILD GOOD ROADS
Mrs. Robert Baker, President Of
Auxiliary, Talks Of Roads
and Schools.

Washington, July Mrs. Robert
Baker, chairman of the recently Great
ed woman's auxiliary department of
the American Highway association,
announced today that she had COM
pleted her preliminary plans. for or
ganizing the women of the United
States into strong organization
which will work continuously for the
improvement of the roads of the ma
ton, especially rural roads.
At recent meeting of the executive
committee, at which Leonard Tufts,
chairman; Logan Waller Page, direc-
tor of the United States office of pub
lie roads snd president of the Ameri-
can Highway association. Fairfax
Harrison, president of the Southern
railway; A. G. Batchelder, chairman
of the executive committee of the
American Automobile association;
Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the
Manufacturers Record, and others
were present, it was decided that a
woman's auxiliary department should
be established to aid the women who
have been working individually for
better roads in their various COM
munities.
The women of the country should
learn the value of good roads, not
only to the nation as whole, but to
individual women and children. 1t is
the opinion of the officials of the
American Highway association that if
the women had reorganization
through which they might obtain all
needful information concerning roads
and the most effective means OF or
ganization, inquiry and propaganda,
they would become powerful in
fluence for efficient handling OF road
funds and adequate road building and
maintenance.
millions of children in the United
States" said Mrs. Baker, ARE edu-
Gated in rural schools, and yet at GER
tain seasons because of the deplorable
condition of the roads, the children
are unable to get to school. Discip-
line is destroyed and the continuity
of study is made impossible. Good
roads will bring consolidation of the
one-room schools into graded schools
and the use of school wagons. The
country churches are not, as a whole,
showing healthy growth and develop
ment, and it is upon these churches
that the viriIt5 of the city churches
depends. Women all over the land
should rally to the support OF the good
roads movement when it's vital in
fluence upon the home, the school
and the church is so plainly shown.
Arrangements are being made to
hold conference of prominent wom-
en- under the auspices of the woman's
auxiliary department in conjunction
with the Fourth American Road con-
gress in Atlanta. Ca, during the week
beginning November 8.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
Her LITTLE LEGACY
Was NOT BLESSING
Floorwalker Marries Her,
Gets Possession of Money
and Then Deserts Her,

Kansas City, Mo-, July NADINE
Weaver was working in a 1o-cent
store in Kansas City, Kan, for $3.50
week when she received Legacy
of $1,000 year ago. She had spent
only $25 of her newly acquired
when Rudolph Blosser, the handsome
floorwalker, learned of her inherit
ance. In a 107cent store a girl with
$1,000 in the bank is an heiress Ma
dine and Blosser became engaged.
On October 6, the girl says, She
draw $1,175 from the bank and in
trusted it to her finance. He said he
would put it in safe place." They
went to Des Moines, Iowa, November
and were married. Two days later
he gave her $40 of her own money
and told her to return to Kansas City,
Mo-, while; he went to Scranton, Pa,
Ito look for location" He said he
would also visit his mother, AMI
would return in three weeks.
The girl went back to live with
her grandmother, but her place had
been filled at the store. a. A few
struggling letters came explaining
that good locations were scare. A
week before Christmas letter came
i'll which Bloeser inclosed $25 more
of her own money and requested tina;
Nadine get divorce.
Don't ask any questions, but if
you love me, do KS | ask" he said.
The girl swore to a warrant charg-
ing wife desertion and Sheriff. Lee
Hinch brought the husband home
from Fort Wadsworth, Texas, and
locked him in the Wyandotte County
Jail on Christmas night.
Two days, later, in answer 10 her
husbands pleadings, she visited him
in Jail. He CONVINCED her that he had
not meant to desert her at all, that
although he had spent -fourtns
OF the legacy, he would pay 1t back
and that if let out of Jail long enough
he would find that location" and
they would Give happily ever after"
When. Bloeser's case was called in
court, Nadine refused to prosecute
aid he was released. They lived TO-
gether just one week when the hus-
band left again, taking with him the
residue of the $1,175. The location"
has not been found yet.
Nadine asked for new warrant.
but Prosecutor Meek refused tn issue
IT Tor fear that Nadine would again
refuse to prosecute. She applied to
me free legal aid bureau in Kansas
CITY, Ho, but was told the offense
mad been committed in Kansas aid a
warrant could not be used in Missou-
RI. Then she went to saving up her
small wages to obtain a divorce. ard
now the decree has been granted.
don't want to hear that mans
name she said It's a case of never
again Tor me. I'm done with the
smooth talk and oil tongues"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
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Ial but the army engineer preferred
not to leave the military service u
embark in civil life. Commenting or
the Dayton plan of running city
with a manager and board OF i've
commissioners, the Review OF Re-
views says:
The advantages of uniting author
| ity and responsibility are manifest
ing themselves through prompt, de-
cisive and direct action-a quality
usually consciously absent in pubic
affairs. A go-and he goeth spirit has
superseded the checks and balances
and dulled initiative of more COM
plicated government. There no longer
exists a government in which the
several departments work as indie
pendent units in the prosecution OF
their duties. On each afternoon at 4
o'clock the departmental heads meet
with the maager to discuss problems
of common interest and minor acti-
vities which call for cooperation
activities which formerly would not
have been undertaken. BY rapidly
adopting the efficiency systef of great
private corporations, Dayton aims tt
make its government a model in the
administration of its finances, It is
putting into operation the latest
methods of fiscal control. The budget
q 1914 is based upon clearly de-
fined financial program supported by
facts, uniformly classified according
to the character of the expenditures
Something like 800 cities in the
United States have recently adopted
various notifications of the commits
sion form of government, substituting
for board of aid srmen elected under
the old political plan board of
commissioners charged with definite
responsibility. These commission
governments have met with varying
degrees of success, but the record
shows that where the central idea
has been to apply the same business
principles that govern the best con-
Quoted private concerns the "asult,
have been beneficial.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
cotton in
GOOD CONDITION
Despite Lack of Rain, Fed
eral Bureau Finds West of
River Crop Good.

Washington, July Local showers
over large areas in the cotton region
east of the Mississippi greatly i'm
proved the outlook, the nationa
weekly wealth bulletin for the week
which ended yesterday, announced
today, and the early planted crop is
nearly everywhere reported as in
good condition.
Westward of the Mississippi" says
the bulletin, mo rain occurred over
the greater part of the cotton grow
ing portions of Texas, and cotton
planted late in that state is suffering
for moisture. The early planted, how.
ever, is making satisfactory growtn
there, as well as in most portions pt
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Boil -weevils are reported vas increas-
ing in several sections.
"In the principal trucking regions
Of the South local rains improved the
late crops, but in other portions
early crops have suffered, and are re-
ported as short"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

Officials of the Pine Bluff Natural
Gas company yesterday told the coun-
Gil there is no way to increase the
gas pressure. The southwestern Gas
& Electric company, supplying the
city of Texarkana, found a way tc
increase the gas pressure there by
erecting pumping station at Rodes-
sa, La, about halfway between the
gas field and TeXarkana. Doubtless
w. L. Wood, Jr., manager of the Tex
arkana company, would gladly furn-
ish the Pine Bluff company's Of
ficials with information of bow to
increase the pressure, especially as
Mr.. Wood is somewhat interested in
Pine Bluff by reason of being a SON
in-law of Judge A. B. Grace of this
city
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
ABRIDGING THE LAWS DELAYS

When the supreme court OF the
United States adjourned for July and
August, it left but fourteen cases un-
decided. 1t gave out 591 judy
ments since last fall. There has been
a. popular impression that the court
was slow. but this record indicates
that the movement for abridging the
laws delays is bearing fruit.
To the lawyer, legal delays are
part of the days work. The fact
that clients case has gone over to
another court term does not bother
him. He may rather rejoice at the
postponement. as giving him more
chance to-collect winning evidence.
Also it gives the other side chance
to perfect their game.
To the business man, however, lit
cation is a most harassing Interrupt
ton. The losses are not measured
simply in adverse judgment and fees
of lawyers and sheriffs. Equally seri-
Gus are the worry and uncertainty OF
the thing.
Once the business man crosses the
threshold of the court, he feels
ground through a machine whose
forces he can not calculate, nor can
he accelerate it's progress. The only
way to affect it is to throw sand in
to the cogs and cause a soppage. A
day int court worries the average
merchant or manufacturer more than
weeks of ordinary business griend.
The business man simply cant
understand why court work needs tc
drag along so interminably. If the
spirit of the business world were tC
prevail, no case would remain final.
ly unjudged a year.
One of the causes of depressed
business is no doubt the long time il
is taking to clean up the Sherman
antitrust law cases now pending i;
the various courts. 1t is good news
that the Supreme court, perhaps feel
Ing the criticism of the laws delays
proceeding from the best legal au
thorities as we'll as from the business
world, it making serious effort t.
expediate business.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
GET ORIENT RAILWAY
FOR $6,OOl, 900
BID OF Successful Syndicate Is Just
$1,000 Above Price Fixed by
Federal Court.

Wichita, Kan, July 6.-The Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient Railway was
sold here today at receivership sale
for $6,0O1, 900 to the reorganization
committee representing the bond!io!d-
ers OF the company. The bid was
made by A. NJ. Wickwire of New YORK
City. There were no other bidders.
April ~ last Judge Pollock having
been informed the reorganization
committee had completed its plans
for the reorganization ordered it's
sale for an amount not under $6,00o,-
000.
It is understood that the new co.n
pany, headed by Edwin Dickinso as
president, will assume full manage
ment, and will begin the work of ex-
tending the read from Wichita 10
Kansas City.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
MANAGEMENT OF CITIES.

The comparatively new idea CT
managing cities on business lines, as
business corporations are managed,
eliminating politics as far as posi-
bic, has taken strong hold. The most
conspicuous example of the aew idea
in city government, where the cit is
run as big business concern, Is
Dayton. Ohio, which has employed a
city manager to run the city on ap
proved business lines 1t will be re-
membcred that Dayton tried to secure
the services as manager OF Colonel
Goethals, builder of the Panama can
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
- me BL;uFllF
ROGRESS
ROSPER1TY
SAFETY FIRST

rho enactment by the Pine Biuil
civ council Monday evening " ga
ord;nance requiring that street CATS
sh,l, stop on the near instead OF Inc
far side Of the street. and discharse
nsssengers from the front instead "
tho rear door, also used for entrance
was another step toward minimizing
The danger of accident in Pine Pials
The pine Bluff company indicated
~; Nngness to cooperate VITA the
ccuncil. announcing that the cars
would at once be equipped with the
ox;ts in the front. This means ex-
nc.se, but 1t is likely the Company
will find that the rear entrance ana
front exit viii facilitate in the hand
ing Of traffic. for passengers may pe
embarking while. others are disem-
barking, something that is not now
permissible. There are otaer advant-
ages 10 the plan, both to street cal
travellers and the company.
The stopping of cars on the near
side of the street will reduce the
danger of collisions between street
cars and other vehicles and will mini
mize the danger OF a street car pat
rcn stepping from car before
speeding auto. OF course, the autoists
can still run down disembarkin&
street car users. but there will be less
likelihood OF them doing SO if ordi'
nary care is exercised.
The Graphic is also inclined te
approve the passage of the ordinance
required ice vendors to sell in 5~cen
quantity. 1t Is doubles fact thai
many persons find it a hardship e
purchase 1O-cents worth of ice; this
may be more than they need ano
more than they can afford. In man.
cases 5-cents' worth of ice can be
made to serve the same purpose a.
twice that amount. In such inst
ances it is distinctly unjust that PEG
pie are compelled to spend more thar
their needs require. 1t may be tina
the ordinance will not work exactl,
as expected, but causal consideration
seems to indicate that it will benefi
some Pine Bluffians.
The move to have the companies
supplying water, gas and electricit!
furnish patrons with previous
months reading of meters hardl!
seems one deserving of an ordinance
Those patrons who desire to keep tai
Oh the companies can easily retail
their bills. The companies ought no
to be compelled to do clerical worl
that should fall upon the patrons.
would seem that to compel the gas
water and electric companies y
furnish meter readings OF the pervi
GUS month would meet the same OBJ
lection voiced against efforts to hav
the ice vendors weight ice as it /
sold off the wagons. Both would en-
tail additional expense upon tn
companies, and eventually this woul'
be borne by the consumers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
SOME SENSE AND
SOME NONSENSE
Mary's Skirt.

Mary had little skirt
And it was built so tight
She had to hire a chambermaid
To pei it off at night.
They had to carry her around
And lean her against the wall,
Because the skirt was closely fit
She could not walk at ALL
She ate her meals from off a shelf,
Because she dared not sit
Down in a chair like other folks
For fear her skirt would split.
But Mary didn't kick at all,
1t was just as she'd wish;
She couldn't help around the house
Or wash or wipe dish.
Seattle Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
wabash Shows Deficit.

st. Louis, July THE operation OF
the wabash railroad for the ten
months ending April 80, 1914, resulted
in a deficit of $1,500,00Q, according to
a report of E. B. Pryor. receiver, filed
with United States Circuit Judge
Adams.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
Loves Young Dream.

"Just at the close of a hot, su1try
day, which had made everyone long
for the cool of the evening, a lively,
invigorating breeze fresh from the
rain clouds of the north stole away
the lines of care and strain from
many face. And just at this same
hour, at $50 Sunday evening, two
hearts that had long painted for each
other and fretted at the necessity OF
the separation of distance, enjoyed the
satisfying experience of being made
one and feeling that life would be
doubly worth living kansas City
Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
FORD TO VISIT WILSON.
He Agrees With President That Bust.
ness Outlook Is Good.

Washington, July 7.-Tenry Ford.
the Detroit manufacturer. : invited
last week by President Wilson to
call at the white house to discuss
business conditions, will lunch with
Nj. Wilson Thursday. He is under
stood to agree with the president 5
opinion that the outlook for business
is good.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

service gratis. Also / earnestly ap-
prove of all az ai!able spaces N the
church yards being used for recrea-
ton purposes. The mothef and chill
dren who come into our yard Certain
Jy enjoy it, and think the recrea-
ton idea extended through the city
will give wholesome amusement 10
hundreds who might otherwise roam
the streets wrongful Influences
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

Col. Geothals has had a new species
of "bean" named after him by a
Panama professor of agriculture. 1t
may be necessary to tell the sporting
editor that this is not slang refer
ence to any particular variety of
head.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

An Alabama negro who has served
twenty years of fifty-year sentence
for stealing 50-cents has been parol-
ed. If the Memphis banker who stole
$1,000,000 gets proportionate sent
ence this might be taken as prece-
dent for paroling him when he has
served two-fifths of his sentence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

A different story will be told the
president Wednesday by delegation
o. leading Chicago business men, who
plan to protest against certain tea-
tires of the pediag antitrust meas
sures.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
Eases Torment Of Asthma and Hay
EAyArs -

For the discomfort and misery Of
asthma and hay fever use Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound. It puts
a healing, soothing coating over the
Swollen. telling membranes. and
eases the thick and choking sensation.
Helps you to breath easily and natur-
ally. In the yellow package. Mann
Pharmacy. sN
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
struck by lightning and knocked from
horse she was riding The horse
was killed instantly, falling near
where Mrs. Blessings lay.
Two Rows ,Cremafed.

Princeton, Wis, July 7.-Arnold
Brustman and Walter Morrison, each
seven years old, were cremated in
burning barn while their mothers
watched the fire. ignorant that the
boys We're in it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
Work Here for Sleuth.

Who was the girl that slept all day
Sunday
Who was the young man that go so
frightened Saturday night and ran?-
wow! wow!- Crystal Springs Corre-
spondence, Wesson (Miss.) Enterprise.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

Too bad the colonel had to go down
to those mias matte Amozonian jung
les and injure his health, when there
Is plenty of sewer gas right in New
York
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
LIGHTNING KILLS
CLEBURNE GIRL
Annie Clayton, Aged Is, Electr0cuted
While Driving GOslings to
Shelter

Heber Springs, July 7.-While en-
gagged in driving flock of young
goslihgs under shelter from heavy
downpour of rain yesterday, AARie
Clayton. the 1S-year-old daughter q
Mr.. and iMps. c. w. Clayton Of Quit
man, Cleburne county, was struck and
instantly killed by a bolt of lightning.
Almost simultaneously Mrs. w. w.
Blessings OF the same town was
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
Tom or the Mule?

Tom Wilkinson happened to a very
serious accident this week. In trying
to put grease on his mule to keep off
the lilies, the mule became frightened
and jumped, caused him fractured
arm and dislocated shoulder.-Scot-
land Correspondence Junction City
Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

Statistics compiled on the night OF
July 4, this year, was thirteen killed
and 243 injured.
From 2l5 killed and 1902 injured in
1909 10 thirteen killed and 243 injured
in 1914!
Keep up the good work! Why should
thirteen persons be killed in celebra-
ton of the nations Independence day!
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

So far none of the congressman has
moved to pension those who are
injured in the observance of July 4,
but that is bound to come.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
An.AWful Kick.

Sorry to learn that Thos. w. Hop
kins, of Cranberry, had the misfor-
tune to get his leg fractured by a
horse kicking him between Ely Park
and Cranberry one day last week.
johnson City (Tenn.) Comet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

Give our economical laundry serv-
ice one thorough trial, and you'll
decide to let us do your washing
regularly. American Excelsior Laup.
dry Co. u
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

A mans income is much less ,'hen
the internal revenue man come.
around that it is when he is trying 10
but into some swell club.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08
THE INCREASING SAFETY AND
SANITY OF THE FOURTH.
little Rock Gazette.)

The safe and sane Fourth of July is
becoming more and more blessed
reality, IS the figures show.
For the ten years from 1904 to 1913,
both inclusive, the record was as fol-
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-08

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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-24
LOCAL POSTMASTER
GETS BOUQUETS

The following letter was written by
H. E. Blakeslee, Commissioner. of Ag-
riculture, to T. M. Fuller. postmaster,
complimenting him on the exhibit at
the county fair:
My Dear Sir:
While in Hattiesburg last Friday,
attending the County Fair, was very
much impressed with the comprehen-
sive parcel post exhibit made by your
postoffice. Such an exhibit as this
cannot fail to do great good
Your plan1of taking great number
of articles, giving instructions for
wrapping and preparing for transporta-
ton by parcel post and the rates for
the various zones, was certainly very
effective. Very truly yours,
II. e. eiakesiee.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-24
PREPARATIONS MADE
~. FOR STATE FAIR
FIRST DAY cENTERs
IN FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN
OLE MISS AND MISS. COLLEGE

Jackson Miss, Oct. 24.-Prepara-
tons for the opening of the 1914 Mis-
sissippi State Fair. which begins on
Monday next at noon are much furth-
er advanced than in former years, es-
peciafiy- the exhibits of the various
railroads whose agricultural displays
are ON a much larger scale this year.
Mayor Behrman, of New Orleans,
and committee representing the COM
mercial organizations of the Crescent
CITY,, will arrive in Jackson at S:45
O'Clock Monday morning, as will dele
cations from other cities who have
been invited to take part in the Cotton
Clothes Day pageant which will be
held in the afternoon.
The interest of lovers of good sport
is centered on the big football game
to be played in the afternoon between
the University Of Mississippi and Mis-
sissippi College. Train loads of stu
dents will come into Jackson on spe
cial trains from every university and
college in the state.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-24
CASE AFTER CASE

Plenty More Like This in Hattiesbura.
Scores of Hattiesburg people can
tell you about Doan's Kidney Pills.
Many happy citizen makes a public
statement of his experience. Here is
a case of it. What better proof Of
merit can be had than such endorse
ment?
c. M. (Burieson, 31i Forrest St., Hat
tiesburg. says: Il am constantly on my
feet while at work and this brought
on weakness Of the kidneys. had
heard Of Doan's Kidney Pills from q
fellow workman and the results re-
ceived in his case induced me to give
the remedy a trial. I got a supply at
the Corner Drug Store and I found
Doan's Kidney Pills to be just as ad.
vertised."
Price soc at all dealers. Don't sim.
ply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Burleson had. Foster Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.