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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
GREAT SIMILARITY IN BATTLE PLANS OF COMER AND ROBSON Each Opened Campaign by Charging His Opponent With Being Criminal CAUSES WHICH AID
 DEFEAT OF COMER Could Easily Have Won If Seed Vote Had Swung to Him--Executive
 Committee Action Is
 Resented
Ny HIGH ". ROBERTS

Political students who have reviewed recent political campaigns in Alabama have reached the agreement that there was great similarity in the plans of bat tie outlined and executed by B. B. Conner and R. P. Hobson. When the senatorial aspirant went down in overwhelming defeat before the onslaughts of the fol- lowers of Oscar w. Underwood, it be- came evident that if the gubernatorial candidate aped like fate, it would be due to the mysterious operation of a miracle.
 While neither MT Underwood nor MT. Henderson is perfect, there are very few people in Alabama who believe that either is criminal. There was a Sensa tional thrill forcing itself up and down the spine of the people, therefore, when last summer at Gaines Chapel, MT. Conner declared that his opponent had sold out to the rail- roads, and that the railroads, marking their property, had cut off both his ears. And likewise there was shock, state wide in it's effect. when Captain Hobson Ar.,wetumpka, declared that MT. Under wood was a tool of the liquor interests and a henchman of Wall street.
 And it happened that when the candi- dates full of their desire for the posses sion of office, assailed with such bitter ness their opponents Mir. Henderson was forcing the Louisville and Nashville rail- road to put a 2k cents passenger rate into effect. and Mr Underwood had just completed his great tariff bill.
 Seed Vote Decides
 MT. Hobson suffered an ignominious de feat, as terrible in it's significance was ever administered by outraged peo- pie. Of the same day MT Conner re- ceived a plurality votc-over his three op- ponents. MT. Henderson. MT. Seed and Mir. Kolb. But there was very little doubt in the minds of close students of politics that Mir Conner was beaten. MT Henderson's forces took the field for the second campaign with renewed sS5irit MT. Corners followers. reading tHe hand writing on the wall, attempted with des- pcrate courage 10 oye-fieaven and earth in their effort to Dfevent the inevitable.
 It was agreed (by both contending fac tions that to .&in, MT. Conner must re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
FREE CONCERTS AT X EAST LAKE TODAY
Park Season Now in Full Blast. Many Improvements Almost
 Completed

Free first run motion pictures and free concerts are two of the enjoyable feat ures at East Lake park today and the coming week, now that the park season Is in full blast and nearly all of the numerous Improvements at East Lake park have been completed.
 With Prof. c. NJ. Davis as Instructor or aquatic sports in both the lake and the pool used exclusively for ladies and chil- dren. the latter being at the west. or city end of the park, the public will undoupted-
 y enjoy these privileges more during the near future than in the past.
 Throughout the summer, the manage
 ment has recently announced, too,
 Browns orchestra will be in attendance
 every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
 evening for public dances in the pavilion, which will be under the management of |J. l.. Brown, ,Ir,
 The pool which will be set aside for the ladies and children exclusively to enjoy swimming and bathing Is the shallow VI | membership by offering to every mem Der of the committee lhe incentive that after faithful service they at least could aspire to become officers of this com mittee, With a few rare exceptions 1t | has been the practice of the committee to go outside of it's membership and elect as officers men who had never gone before the people This has to 9 certain extent caused lack pf interest and at- tention in the committed, and consequent- ly to the injury If the party, The whole fact in connection with the entire pro- ceeding is that the new committee acted entirely within its rights and dutiesi it could not have done ptherwise the terms of office of this new committee began at that time, The entire proceedings were harmonious and there was not a dissenting voice to any action that was taken at the meeting, The animation that there was any prearranged plan is without foundation, except the plan of
 the entire committee to elect its officers
 from it's membership Fortunately for
 the party, there are no ''dissatisfied and
 defeated politicians on the new commit
 tee, hence the charge Snat this plan was
 prearranged by them falls flat.
 We do not believe that ths retiring
 chairman and secretary of the committee,
 who afe not regularly elected members thereof, could be more interested at heart
 ih the committee and the welfare of the
 rarty than those active and elected mem hers, many of whom have served the party for years past faithfully and truly, R. DuPont Thompson, c. D. Comstock, Ernest F. MattheWn. Q, D. Riddle. John
 B. Bethea, Ihomas Es Hn@y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Major Fontaine to Speak

Major Lamar, Stonewall Jacksons scout and a noted Confederate sharpshooter, and famous traveller will entertain the Sons of Confederate Veterans with talk on Stonewall Jackson's valley campaign Tuesday evening, May 19, at the resi- dence of Thomas Dozier, 903 South Eff teenth street. All Sons of Confederate Veterans in the city are invited to at tend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
-f0SLANI SOAP
 IMPROVES THE
 COMPLEXION
BRIGHTENS-BEAUTIFIES

The problems of a perfect complexion. beautiful hands and a clear, healthy Skin are solved by Poslam Soap.
 This is the soap. not only rich, pure and wholesome, but possessing the most beneficial hygienic properties because medicated with Poslam, the great skin remedy.
 Every ordinary cleansing operation becomes a double source of healthful- ness if PoBlam Soap is used daily for toilet and bath. Try it one month.
 Sold by all druggists everywhere.
 Large size, 25 cents: Toilet size IS cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
BeasIey Going to Indianapolis

J. W, Beasley, secretary and treasurer of the Spiro Hardware company, leaves tooay to attend the convention of the National Hardware Men $ association Tn inhanapolis MT. Beasley was recently elected for the second time to the presi- oency Of the state association, and will attend the national convention as a spe- cial Alabama delegate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

At the auction gale of lots at Santi- leon City yesterday 1s9 lots were sold. Santileon City is on r,e route of the Birmingham and Chattanooga railroad.
 Charging that the company cut off light service without formal notice, Mrs D. A. Cowan has brought suit for 5000, against the Alabama City, Gadsden and Attalla Railroad company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

An inspection of the local commandery, Knights Templar, was made last night by Charles P. Martin. right eminent grand commander. Three candidates from AL .toona We're given work in the Templar degree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Card of Thanks

I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to my relatives and friends and 10 the members of Carpenters union No. 296 for their utmost support and Kindness to me during my sore be- reavement over the illness and death of my dear wife
 JOHN T. PENTECOST.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

Protests against ths ordinance prosid- ing for the paving of Forest avenue will be made before the council Monday night. Col. R. B. Kyle and Capt J. NJ. Elliott. two of the largest property owners. probably will lead the fight on paving.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
BLAST FURNACE IN
 OPERATION JULY I
Understood the Gulf States Plant Will Be in Opera
 tionlThis Summer

Gadsden. MaA -(special)-Th blast furnace of the Gulf States Steel company will be put in operation July l. aecord- Ing to informatisn received here. It is understood that the Attalla mines of the Alabama eompanA will. be expected to furnish 4ooo tons of iron ore snnonth for the furnace, When the blast fur mace is fred the entire plant will be in operation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

R. l.. Winegarner of Chicago reached here today 10 prepare for the coming of the chautauqua, which opens next Sat urday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

The Chamber of Commerce will give | smoker at the Printup hotel Monday night. F
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Action Was Unpopular

It is generally believed that the people disapproved of the action of the com mittee. For in the primary of April G. members who had stood for reelection, were shot down with terrible regularity Among the number fell the chairman, Tyler Goodwin, and his victor was Mir Corners lieutenant Bibb Graves. And Mr. Hendersons associates on the rail- road commission. Frank N. Julian and Leon McCord, were shot down. And the appointees of the governor Perry Thomas and Ed deGraffenreid, were de- stroyed. Members of the governors s staff, Col. Gardner Greene, Col. Marcus Well and Col. w. l.. Pitts, were defeated in their respective races. A "Comer' legislature was elected.
 The people showed their displeasure but when they had punished. they were apparently satisfied. They did not con tjnue the work of destruction to the point of making MT. Conner governor. This has not been an "extreme" year in Alabama. politics. The people have been led ESQ far and no further" Never before have Ala bamians at the polls so plainly dis played the fact that they had been doing their own thinking. And forf that fact, Hobson failed to crawl into office over the corpse of his opponents c4ara cter And Mir Conner failed alth9dgh he had pro- fessed to have. ept off both the ears of Mir. Henderson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Conner and Anti-Comer


 / The real issue of the campaign and that which decided the result was "Comer- ism" The people of Alabama had reached the conclusion that MT. Conner had undergone no change in tempera- ment since MT. Conner was Governor Conner. While this conclusion was er- roneous, it told the tale. nevertheless.
 MT. Conner declared that he was fight ing to put the government in the hands of the people. He studiously fought shy of the liquor question. If it had been left to MT. Conner, the liquor question would not have figured in the campaign, and had he been chosen and left free in theiexercise of his preference, there would have been no change in the present sit nation
 Mir. Conner was seriously handicapped in this regard through the activity of the Rev. MT. Brooks Lawrence, who insisted that he give the candidate his benign blessing. But for that activity. MT. Conner would have received in Jefferson county many votes of men who believe that prohibition is theory which cannot he realized, and a theory in experiment.
 ing on which one can do his state ire parable injury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Committees Scheme Wins

MT Conner, if he desires, may hold re sponsible for his defeat a very slim ma iority of the members of Che state dem- ocratic executive committee. There were five candidates in the field, two who stood for prohibition, three who stood for local option. There was no question but that MT. Conner, with the field divided in that manner, was strongest. To make it pos sible to defeat him local option leaders prepared to discard the plurality plan of electing candidates and substitute the majority plan. The move was made for the specific purpose of defeating MT. Conner. Had the change not been madg Mir Conner would now be the nominee of his party for the office of governor. For on April 6. he easily led the ticket.
 On the night following the meeting of the committee MT. Conner reached Mont gomery. He was given a boisterous re- ception in the lobby of the Exchange ho- tel. He afterwards issued a statement iii which he took the members of tho committee and the governor, who had engineered the deal to task. His parti- sans cried ring politics" throughout the state, and MT. Conner was made to be lieve that by attacking the committee and the governor and others who had been in- strumental in turning the trick he could stem the tide. Ant-Comer leaders startled by the clamor, mildly replied: There should be no complaint in that a majority of the people-not a minority has been given the right to elect"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17

eeive the vote which had been cast for MT. Seed. He expected that vote because Mir. Seed was prohibition candidate. But 1t had unfortunately happened-unfor- tunate for the Conner forces--that A1r. Conner had alenated that vote when at Dadeville he had threatened in aa out burst of anger 10 cut the throat of Mr Seed.
 MT. Seed, in addition, played his indi- vidual card. He declared that he would support MT Conner. but were the man the issue, he would support MT. Hender- son. He afterward declared that he would ask no friend of his to support the former governor. In the primary Of May II the Seed vote was cast for Henderson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-17
Harmony and Fairness

TIC sole purpose of the] committee in adopting this resolution wts in the in- terest of harmony and fa1rness and to Aencourage greater intereAt among the
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
ADMIRAL SCHLEY
 NOW IN FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-The steamer Admiral Schley, of the Ad- miral Line, arrived here today from New York, having passed through the Panama canal. The steamer brought John J. Aughan as a stowaway and it is believed he is the first stow away to have passed through the ca nal Aughan was paid one cent. for the work the captain forced him to do to earn his passage. He was made to polish brasswork for eight hours a day for twenty-three days, the time it required for the ship to reach here from New York
 The Admiral Schley will be placed on the run between this city and Seattle and will relieve the Admiral Watson, which is to replace the ill- fated Sampson, which was rammed and sunk in Puget Sound.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
MANY DROWNED
 IN PHILIPPINES
Rivers Swollen By Rainfall Are Sweeping Over the LowIands
 Causing Immense Damage.

\ MANILA, P. l., Sept. 5.-Sixteen inches of rain has fallen during the past forty-eight hours and all streams have been turned into raging tor rents. Reports received here tell of a heavy loss of life from drowning and a widespread destruction of prop erty.
 Messages from interior points state that whole sections are under wa ter and that crops will be a total loss. The government has taken steps to send relief parties to the districts most affected and have res cued hundreds of persons who were marooned in their homes which were fast crumbling under the rushing Wa ters.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
HAVE ORGANIZED
 REPUBLICAN CLUB
May Put Legislative Ticket In Field If Democrats Nominate Ticket
 At Cordova.

The Republicans effected a perma- nent organization which will be known as the Valdez Republican Club at we'll attended m eting held last evening in the city hall. The ques- tion of nominating divisional leg islative ticket was discussed and it was decided that no action will be taken until after the Democratic con- vention is held in Cordova. Should that convention nominate a straight Democratic ticket the Republicans may name ticket.
 The following officers were elected: President, John Lyons; vice-presi- dent, H. P. Sullivan; secretary, Jas. Fish; treasurer, Dr. E. c. Dalton.
 The meeting adjourned to Septem- Der 10th.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
MEX|CANS WANT
 HUERTA BACK Looking for Evidence Upon Which to Secure His Extradition- Would Hand Him Bunch.

MEXICO CITY, Sept 5-Provision- al President Carranza today called council of war in order to secure the cooperation of all the members of the cabinet and any others who might be opposed to former President Hu- erta that they might secure enough evidence to demand of Spain the ex- tradition of the former chief.
 The Carranza element in Mexico would go to any length to secure the arrest and return of the dictator in order that they might execute him for the many crimes which they al- lege he has been guilty of.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
Notice,

Age for children in first grade. If six years before January. they enter in September. If not six until af- ter January, they do not enter until then. SCHOOL BOARD.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
Weather Report.
Notice.
Valdez, Sept. 4, 1914.

Notlce.
 Connections with the sewer in al ley on north side of Mckinley street between Alaska and Reservation ave- nues, must be made within thirty days from date of this notice. Residents are notified that no re- fuse, ashes, tin cans, manure, etc., will be allowed to be thrown in the alleys or streets this winter.
 E. c. DALTON, M. D., ky Health Officer.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05

Animated weekly at the Orpheum tonight.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05

Moose shirtwaist Dance Saturday.
 The regular Saturday night dance given by the Moose will be shirt waist affair and will be given at the Moose hall Fine music and excel lent lunch served at midnight.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05

Freiohter Latouche Reaches Valdez.
 The freigh CT Latouche, of the Alas ka Steamship Company, arrived at Valdez thts morning at 8 o'clock and discharged explosives, after which she left for Latouche to load ore for the Tacoma shelter.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
CLOSED
 NEXT MONDAY

The Valdez public schools will be closed next Monday, which is leg al holiday, it being Labor day.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05

Noted Bandit Passes Away.
 TETUAN, Morocco. Sept. 5.-Rai- sula, the noted bandit who for.many years held captives many Europeans and forced them to pay big ransoms, died here today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
Catholic Church.

Sunday services: Confession and holy communion, 8:3O a. m.
 Mass and sermon, 10:30 a. m. Sunday school, 2 p. m. Rosary, instruction and benediction. 7:30 p. m.
 FATHER VAN der POL, S. J.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
Stockholders Mestino.


 The annual stockholders meeting of the Granite Gold Mining Company will be held at the office of the com pany at Valdez, Alaska, on the 18th day of October, 1914, at the hour of 200 p. m., at which meeting board of i've directors will be elected for the ensuing year and such other bus mess will be transacted as may properly come before said meeting.
 B. F. WILLARD, President.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
Evan. To Reach Seattle Tonight

SEATTLE, Sept. 5.-The steamer Admiral Evans will reach this port tonight from Alaska according to wireless reports received from Cap tain Jensen. The Evans will sail north on the evening of the 8th.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
ALAMEDA HERE
 TOMORROW NIGHT

The steamer Mariposa, of the Alas ka Steamship Company, passed Skag- way at 10:30 last night and is due in Cordova tomorrow and in Valdez some time in the evening"
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-09-05
New Partnership Formed.

Judge Lyons and Mayor E. D.. Ritchie have formed co-partnership under the firm name of Lyons & Ritchie and have suite of rooms in the Brown building. Both attor- neys are we'll known in Valdez, where they have practiced for the past ten years.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07

Ninety per cent of the respondents
In divorce cases are blondes,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
NEW IDEA
Helped Wisconsin Couple.

It doesn't pay to stick too closely
to old notions of things New ideas
often lead to better health, success
and happiness.
A Wis. couple examined an idea
new to them and stepped up several
rounds on the health ladder. The
husband writes:
Several years ago we suffered from
coffee drinking, were sleepless, nerv-
ous, sallow, weak and irritable. My
wife and / both loved coffee and
thought it was a bracer." (Delusion.)
Finally, after years of suffering, we
read of Postum and the harmfulness
Of coffee, and believing that to g-ow
we should give some attention to new
iGsas, we decided to test Postum.
when we made it right. we liked
it and were free Of ills caused by
coffee Our friends noticed the
change-fresher skin, sturdier nerves,
better temper, etc.
"These changes were not sudden,
but increased as we continued to
drink and enjoy Postum, and we lost
the desire for coffee.
MANY of our friends did not like
Postum at first, because they did not
make it right. But when they made
Postum according to directions. on
pkg, they liked it better than coffee
and were benefited by the change
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read s'The Road to
Wellville," In pkgs.
Postum now comes in two forms:
REGULAR Postum-must be well
boiled. 15c and 25c packages.
Instant PostumAis a soluble pow
der. Made in the cup with hot water
no boiling. 30c and SOC tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
about the same.
There's Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
UNSIGHTLY PIMPLES ON FACE

New Sharon, IoWa.-"Two or three
years ago pimples began to come on
my face and had dandruff. The PIN
pies made a very unsightly appear
ance. They were red and numerous,
some came to head and festered and
the itching caused me to scratch them.
The dandruff ON my head could be
plainly seen.
81 tried several remedies but they
only temporarily relieved me. / had
been bothered with the trouble two or
three years when l decided to try Gu
ticura Soap and Ointment So sent
for free sample and l noticed relief
from them, and I bought more. used
two cakes of Cuticura Soap and two
boxes of Cuticura Ointment and am
now free from pimples and dandruff."
(Signed) Clyde Firebaugh, May II, IA.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston" ADV.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
NEW EXPERIENCE FOR BARBER
First Time He Had Shaved Man
Whose Face Had an Unequal
Growth of Hair.

Capt. W. V. Lucas, who was an Off
Ger in the Fourteenth Iowa regiment,
tells an amusing story of an incident
that occurred during General Prices
raid into Missouri in the last year of
the Civil war. The story appears in
Pilot Knob" by Messrs. G. A. Peter
son and J. M. Hanson.
Con arriving at Pilot Knob the aft
ernoon before the engagement of the
Twenty-seventh, l went into a barber
shop to be shaved. Suddenly, when
the barber had shaved only one-half
of my face, the long roll was beaten.
| left my chair instantly, and reached
my company, half block away, with
one side of my face shaved smooth,
whereas the other displayed a two
weeks growth of beard. / did not
complete the shave until six days
afterward, when a colored barber did
the job at Rolla, Is miles away.
While working the dirt and sand out
of the long side the fellows curiosity
was excited, until he could no longer
refrain from comments.
{" L nevah see face Defo', sah,' said
he, dat one side was richer dan de
odder; but yo's is, suah!
My explanation seemed to afford
him great relief" -Youth's Compan-
ion.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
Aladdin Looks for Beauty.

Aladdin rubbed his lamp. Almost
Immediately there was sound at the
door and the slave entered.
Bring me the prettiest girl in New
York" said Aladdin, "and get a move
on you, too"
The slave vanished, and almost in an
instant the door opened, and the slave,
bearing in his arms the prettiest girl
in New York, entered and put her
down in a chair. Aladdin looked at
her in establishment. She had OK 2
shabby dress. Her hair was tousled
Evidently she was from the East side.
What are you trying to do?" he
said to the slave. why don't you fill
your order correctly? l asked for the
prettiest girl in New York"
Here she is, your honor"
Impossible"
II never make a mistake. Life.