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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
COUNTY TEACHERS WILL MEET
School Board Convention Planned,
Too, for August lis,

The August teachers association
and the annual school board cOnven-
tion of Boone County have been an
nounced for Tuesday and Wednesday.
August IL and Is. Inc meetings are
to be held at the Columbia High
School building. The program will
last from 10 o'clock in the morning
of the first day to 4:30 o'clock in the
afternoon. The program for the sec
ond day begins at s O'Clock in the
morning and ends at 4 O'Clock in the
afternoon.
School board members and clerks
are expected to be present the last
day only. but they may attend both
sessions.
George T. Porter, county superin-
tendent of schools, says: "The law
makes it the duty for every teacher
to be present at this meeting and |
shall expect them No excuse will be
accepted unless very reasonable in
deed. The fact that a teacher is
teaching will not be accepted as a le-
gal excuse.
"Grades on teaching ability and
management will depend somewhat on
attendance and interest taken in this
meeting"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
MINEOLA HILLS WRITTEN UP
Love and Chaplin See Hope For the Old
Trail, III Rocked.

That the Mineola Hills are not as
hopeless as they are generally paint
ed is the belief of Robertus Love and
A B. Chaplin of the st Louis Republic,
who attended the thirty-third annual
reunion of the old settlers at Mont
gomery City Saturday The National
Old Trails Association is planning to
make rock road from St Louis to
Kansas City by way of the old Boone's
Lick Trail, but the live commercial
club and citizens of Montgomery City
wish the road to run through their
town. which is about eight miles to
the north of the old trail.
Although this change would cut
out the two hills which are now him
drances to tourists and of which Co.
lumbia hears so much, Mr. Love and
Mr.. Chaplin think that lit would be a
pity if the Old Trails Association
should elect to abandon the Mineola
Hills route-a thing not at all prob
able, by the way. Cross-State tourists
as a rule are looking for natural
scenery that is not of the monotonous
type and for points associated with
early history. They will find these
hills rich in both scenery and asso-
citation. Pioneer traditions ooze out
of the soil down there.
''The Mineola Hills make a break of
four or five miles in the level prairies.
and when the road through them is
properly rocked, they will supply to
the automobile tourist welcome and
refreshing change from the horizontal
route comprising much of the rest of
the old trail.
'Mineola, which is village of per-
haps 299 people, is hoping heartily
for the improvement of the Boone's
Lick Trail William Crane is one of
the most enthusiastic boosters for the
project. With other citizens. he pre-
diets a rosy future for the mineral
springs neighorhood in the event of
the trail being made over into a mod
ern automobile route. There is plenty
of rock in the immediate neighborhood
for the surfacing of the road, and it
is figured that the cost of making the
highway through those hills will be
considerably less than that of con-
structing rock roads where the raw
material must be hauled for miles.
There is no doubt that when the
rock road is built through there will
be an increased number of summer
visitors, for Mineola Springs is an
ideally rural place. 1t is somewhat
of a surprise to find an establishment
away out there in the hills where one
may rent a bathing suit and plungs
into the stream. either from a sand
bar or from a steep bank"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
CONCRETE WORK BEGINS TODAY
Hetxler Building Has Been Delayed
s. Days, Says Contractor.

IS Days, Says Contractor.
Concrete work began this morning
on the new Hetzler Building at 70S-
710 Broadway. B. d. Simon, of the
Simon Construction Company, is
overseeing the work. He says 700
cubic yards of concrete are going in
during the next week, weather permit
ting. Ten men are at work.
Since ground was broken May IL,
the work has been delayed thirty
five days on account of rain The
building will be completed about the
middle of October, if all supplies ar
rive on time and the rainmaker stays
on his vacation.
The front is to be 25 feet high. fin
ished in terra Gotta The basement
measures AZ feet inches by 126 feet,
and the main floor is the same width
and 112 feet long. The walls are to
be of brick, with concrete founda-
tiOn.
One feature of the construction Is
the floor without girders or beams.
ten large, re-enforced concrete col
umns support the building The floor
is to be 6ha inches thick. and the roof
Az inches thick, of concrete. All
fixtures are to be of glass and mar
BILE, with some quarter-sawed oak.
The structure complete will cost be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09

| Warren Woodson was the first mem
Der of the family to settle in Boone
County, coming here in 1915 He
J played an important part in the his
tory of Missouri and Boone County.
County Officer FOrty.One Years.
Judge Woodson was born in GoOch-
land County, Va, 1896. He had The
distinction of holding the office of
clerk of the court of Boone County Tor
Al years, longer time 1t is thought
than any In the state ever held one
Office. He was one of the original
subscribers to the fund that secured
the location of the University in
Boone County and he assisted in
raising the fund.
Judge WOodson was one of the
first curators of the University Of
Missouri and was a member of tine
building committee tha. had Ill charge
the erection of the main building ia
1S4O-lS41. He was president of he
board for a number OF years and
served the University without any
compensation at tina when the in
stitution was struggling for exist
ence. In 1910 n. T. Gentry of Colum-
bia made an address at which Mr..
WoOdson's portrait was presented to
the county court of Boone County
Mrs. Warren Woodson died two
years ago at the age of 1Ol. She was
the mother of Mrs. Susan Moss of Co
lumbia, who now is living with her
daughter, Mrs. E. w. Stephens. James
Moss and DR.. Woodson Moss are also
children of Mrs. Moss.
The Woodson family is we'll repre-
sented in Columbia. James s. Roll
Inns, Father of the University" be-
longed to it, as do all of his relatives.
Some other families of Columbia who
belong to it are the Hickmans, Ste
phens, the Stones, the family of Ira
c. Frost. the Grays, the Hockadays,
the family of r. H. Hall and the fam
lily of r. H. Dorsey.
One Now on State Supreme Court.
Many of the Woodsons have held
high positions, both civil and mill
tary. Silas Woodson was governor of
Missouri. Daniel Woodson was ter
fitorial governor of Kansas. Judge A
M. Woodson now is on the supreme
bench of Missouri. Major Blake
Lynch Woodson is a prominent at
torney in Kansas City.
"The Historical Genealog- of the
Woodsons and their Connections" is
a book of 900 pages, each page of
which is 91z by II inches There are
seventy-two illustrations Three edi-
tions are being prepared One bound
in common buckram will SCI! for SO |
The one bound in silk cloth will cost |
SIS and the one bound in morocco |
will cost $40.
Mr.. Woodson says that a number
Of libraries over the United States
have ordered copies. The State His
torical Society of Missouri also will |
have a copy. He says that he does |
not expect to make anything out of
the book, although members of the |
family from all parts of the country |
have written for 1t.
"If l had known what work was 1
before me | would never have at
tempted to write the book" says Mr..
Woodson. 81 wouldn't do a similar
hing for anything man could offer to
ne. Now. however, that all of the
work is over, | feel that l shall be at
1 loss as how to spend my time"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAN
(Monday, August 9, 19l5)
COLUMBIA'S NOT DEAD-YET.

is Columbia dead now that the stu
dents are all gone?
Well, hardly.
This week comes the Boone County
Fair and a circus. The Old Trails
Convention brought men and women
from across the state here with their
glad tidings of a cross-state stone
highway.
The bankers. retail clerks, printers
and other amateur baseball teams
still are in the running for summer
fun.
The Seventh Day Adventists Con-
vention had over 1000 people pres
ent last night.
A stock company is playing at one
of our play houses. Three picture
shows are open every night.
linen next week is Chautauqua
time, and everyone and his friend will
attend the daily sessions. The little
folks will go to the playground, while
parents listen to the concerts and lee
lures.
For the first time in many years,
there are three daily papers running
at full blast.
No, Columbia is not dead when the
students are gone.
Columbia is firmly rooted in the
booster spirit.
We're very much alive, thank you.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
DIDN'T MEAN TO BE AN AUTHOR
Circumstances, However, Led H. M.
Woodson Into Genealogy, and Now
He Has Book of His Own.

Ten years ago, when Henry Morton
Woodson of Memphis, Tenn, was Wis
iting at the home of relatives in
I Memphis, a discussion came up con-
corning the requirements for men,
bership in the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Someone sug-
gested that one of the children, a
niece of Mr.. Woodson probably would
be entitled to membership in the or
ganization if the facts of her gen
ealogy were gathered.
Mr.. Woodson became interested in
the thought and determined to inves
tigate the matter. He wrote to a few
relatives asking about the child's an
the information he desired and sug-
gested persons from whom he could
get more. Mr.. Woodson wrote to
these and they in turn told him of
others to write to. Again he wrote
to the persons suggested. And thus
began a seemingly never-ending cor
respondence with members of the
Woodson family and their connec-
tions.
Il decided" said Mr.. Woodson.
that while l was seeking information
about the Woodson family might as
well do the thing up right, if | did it
at all. So | determined to get in
touch with all of the members of the
family and their connections and
write their history"
Thus it was that the Historical
Genealogy of the Woodsons and their
Connections, now being, printed by
the E. w. Stephens Publishing Com
pany. originated. The book was print
ed here for one reason because the
family is more numerously represent
ed in Missouri than in any other
state and also because Mr.. Woodson
desired personally to investigate
book to the printers. 1t will be out
in a few days. Mr.. Woodson, who is
here supervising the work, says that
he won't know what to do with him
self when it is completed.
Ten Long Years of Work.
For ten years he has worked on it,
doing all of the work by personal cor
respondence. He has compiled data
from nearly all of the United States,
taking it up line by line, branch by
branch, family by family, coming
around to each household in regular
rotation. He says that he feels like
he is personally acquainted with al
most all of the Woodsons in the Unit
ed States. 1t was very easy to get the |
material, he says, for rarely did he |
write to one person that this one did !
not in turn suggest another whom ne |
should question. "They were all
eager to see their names in print and |
would go to no end of trouble to aid |
me-" he says.
Twelve generations of the Wood |
son family are described in the HIS
torical Genealogy of the Woodsons |
and Their Connections" Thrae hun
dred years are covered. The nanes
on the index, which include all names
lineally connected, number $500
The first Woodson mentioned, the
one who is considered the original
WoOdson, came here from England
some time shortly before 162C and
settled in Fleur de Hundred on the
James River. In 1918 many OF the
Woodsons went from Virginia to Ken
lucky and then farther west Judge
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
COLUMBIA SOLES NOT SQUARE
Local Shoe Members Find Business
Comes From Both Sides.

Columbians are not square in the
sole, as rule, according to local shoe
repairers. They find that most of us
run our shoes crooked, to one side
or the other Few wear out the soles
first under the great toe: and of that
number. more women than men need
shoes repaired for that failing. Men
tilt the other way.
If there are any dull months, they
the August, September and January.
The best months are March and April,
when the students have been away
from home long enough to exhaust the
parental supplies of sole leather.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
GERMANY AFFECTS OUR STYLES
Ships Ornaments Despite War, Finds
Mrs. Z. +. Smith.

Germany is sending us highly
colored flowers and bead ornaments
for hats" said Mrs. E. F. Smith this
morning, after a trip to the CONNER
cial hat display in Chicago. MANY
other designs come from Paris. The
war does not seem to affect the style
supply, although the military fashions
are not so popular as formerly The
colors run mostly to blacks and
blues"
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, who have been
in Chicago since Wednesday, re-
turned yesterday afternoon.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09

Of Toledo, preached the sermon of the
day to the delegates. Other high
churchmen are present, including the
Rt. Rev. ]. H. Then, Bishop of Lin
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09
Probate Court Session Repirs-

The August session of the Boone
County Probate Court began this
morning, Judge John T.. Murry pre-
siding.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-08-09

You can have the Missourian fol-
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coin, Neb. The Rev. Then will de-
liver one of the principal addresse,
to the Germans at mass meeting IN
Exposition Hall this afternoon.
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Newark post., 1915-08-11

Just as the drop fell Montvid cried
out "Not guilty." He made several
statements after his arrest but de-
MED them before his death but in
sisted that he did not aid in the
priests murder.
Newark post., 1915-08-11

Westfeld, Conn, on Friday as an
accomplice with Krakus in the
murder of Rev. Joseph Zebris, a
Lithuanian priest, and his house
keeper, Iva Gilmanitis in New
Britain, Conn, on February last.
Newark post., 1915-08-11
Du Points Shorten Work Day

Following the announcement
that the Brandywine plants of the
du Pont Powder Company were to
have an eight-hour day with a ten
hour pay scale notice was given on
Friday that $4,000 employees of
the company in all it's plants will
shortly go on like basis. The
change went into effect in the Will
mington plants on Friday. 1t
does not apply to the company's Of
fee forces.
Newark post., 1915-08-11
Bernard MOntvid Hanged

Bernard Montvid, the companion
of Peter Krakus, the slayer of Of
fcer F. x. Tierney of Wilmington,
hanged at Greenbank on May ID,
also paid the death penalty at
Newark post., 1915-08-11
ester, N. Y, recently, has arrived
home, where he is recovering.

home, where he is recovering.
John Towers, James Littleton,
Frank Jones and Clarence Sulli-
van were all injured at Seaford on
Thursday when train was backed
against car in which they were
loading cantaloupes.
Farmers of New Castle county
are reported as purposing holding
their wheat in the belief that it
may bring $3.50 per bushel.
Lightning fired and destroyed
Henry Barker's large charcoal
house at Millsboro, one night last
week.
William Henderson, a Whining
ton dealer, was fined $25 and
costs last week for selling milk
containing formaldehyde.
Miss Amy E. dupont has con-
tributed 500 to the pension fund
of the Wilmington police force.
Dover has a bank balance of
$3.50 with all obligations paid up
to last week.
Thrown from a motorcycle while
riding from Middletown, one day
last week, Charles Ferguson Of
Townsend were severely shaken
up and bruised.
New Castle paid $50 during the
year for enforcing compulsory ed
ucation, the truant officer receiv-
ing $40 for each six visits to par
ents of children failing to attend
school.
H. K. Fooks of Laurel, has pur-
chased the Anna L. Hazard prop
erty of 70 acres for $6230.
Charles Conoway of Seaford was
caught in the gearing of motor
boat engine on Sunday. One of
his wrists was broken, he was cut
and bruised and, it is feared, re-
ceived internal injuries.
Carlisle Spicer Of Delaware
City and Norman Bendlar of Mt.
Pleasant, were thrown from run
away team and injured, early last
week, while driving from Angus
tine Beach to Port Penn.
While a ten-year-old son of
Martin Marsh of the Yorklyn Sec
ton, was driving cows from pas
ture, early last week, he was at
tackled and severely injured by a
vicious bull.
A burglar who was cutting
pane of glass in a window of Stein
& Co.'S clothing store in Seaford
early on Sunday morning, fled on
the approach of night watchmen
Viven and Jones. They pursued,
firing several shots after the fugi-
tive who escaped through dark
alley.
Severe treatment of bibulous
powder plant hands by Whining
ton authorities it is reported, is
making New Castle a popular re-
sort on pay days and Saturday
nights.
Newark post., 1915-08-11
Here and There

xOxO OxxN AA~A -
Fire resulting from an explosion
of a gasoline stove damaged the
home of Woodward White in
Townsend.
Mayor w. M. Householder of
Delaware City will seek nomina-
tion for the Levy Court on the Re-
publican ticket.
Frances Kitchens of the George
town section, reports yield OF
3O3 bushels of white potatoes
from three-fourths of an acre OF
ground.
Delinquent taxpayers of Bran
dywine Hundred are protesting
against the payment of $5 each
for attorneys fees.
Wilmington bank clearings last
week totalled $2,182,810.31 against
S2,O15,621.14 for the like week
last year.
The hull of the Philadelphia
tug boat Alert sunk in Delaware
Bav in the great storm of October
1878 was washed ashore at Angus
tine Beach during the flood last
Wednesday.
Chester county's oats yield is re-
ported one of the best in recent
years.
The bridge over the Big Elk
near Rudolphs Mill, between
Franklin and New London Town
ship, was washed away last we'd
nesday.
West Grove fremen cleared
about $1,000 from their recent
weeks carnival.
The national Bank of Avondale
offers prize of $40 to the BOY
growing the best crop OF corn IN
I,ondongrove township.
Former Postmaster George M.
Evans of Elkton, purchased the
Goldsborough property on Bridge
street, at public sale on Wednes-
day, for $3.50.
Elkton residents are hopeful OF
an improved water supply now
that the State Public Service Com
mission has granted permission to
the MARYLAND Water Company
which controls the service to issue
$4,000 of 6 per 3O-year bonds to
provide for improvements.
Chief Judge Albert Constable
last week drew the jurors for the
September term of the Cecil Cir
cult Court of whom the following
are from the Fourth or Fair Hill
district-Elwood Janney, George
T. Peterson, George M. Campbell,
John T. Brown and Warren j.
Haines.
The National Bank of Elkton Of
fers $40 in gold to the member OF
the Boys Corn Club having the
best yield of corn and $5 each to
the boys making the best showing
in each of the three Commission
ers districts of the county.
Mr.. Walter Kitchens of Barks-
dale and Miss Gertrude Whitehead
were married on Wednesday at
the home of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Whitehead
in Wilmington by Rev. J. W. Eas-
lev. pastor of McCabe Memorial
Newark post., 1915-08-11
M. E. Church. The young couple
will reside at Barksdale.

will reside at Barksdale.
Mildred, the young daughter of
former State Auditor w. Poole
Prettyman of Millsboro, fell off
the pier at Oak Orchard, one day
last week, and would have drown
ed had not K. M. Wiley Of Wash
ington, D. c., hanging from the
pier grasped her as she was pass
ing him and held her till other help
came.
Lewes Town Council is erecting
a large bulkhead along the canal
front, facing the new Federal
building. When the intervening
space is filled in the monument
erected by the Daughters of 1912
commemorating the bombardment
of the town by the British will be
removed there along with the can
non used by the towns defenders.
The Golding & Sons Company's
sand refining plant is to be remov-
ed from Cain, Pa, to Hockessin.
For selling liquor without IL
cense Della Jones, colored, Of New
Castle, was fined $100 and given
three months in prison.
Wilmington has authorized the
sale of the remaining 100000 of
the city's bond issue of $50O,000
for street improvement.
A valuable cow owned by Chan
dler Eastburn of Yorklyn, died,
one day last week, after breaking
through a fence and licking potato
vines freshly sprayed with paris
green.
A. C. L. Rouche and A. Austy,
Wilmington bakers, charged with
having on sale loaves of bread un-
der 16 ounces in weight, pleaded
guilty and were fined SIS each.
John H. Horsey of Elsmere, a
Reading Railroad freight conduc-
tor plead guilty before Judge Rice
in Wilmington to the charge of
selling tickets in a baseball pool
and was fined 5000 and costs. The
Court served notice that future
like offenders would not fare so
easy.
James Outen found that on his
farm near Harrington where the
subsoil had been upturned by dy-
Mantle 81 bushels of wheat to the
acre had been obtained where
previous yields had never exceeded
Is bushels.
Manager William A. Brady has
rendered the use of the Playhouse,
Wilmington's new theatre, for a
benefit for the widow and chill
dren of l.. F. Wagner, of the Della
ware Militia who was killed by
lightning at the close Of the recent
encampment.
Milton is moving to secure a
supply Of gas from the plant at
Georgetown.
James w. Johns has secured the
contract for erecting the new
S534O home of the New Century
Cub in Middletown.
Fifteen launches were damaged
during last Wednesdays storm at
New Castle and the owners losses
are put at $4,000.
Harry L. Cannon, a leading can
ner of Bridgeville, who sustained
a broken leg and a crushed shoul-
Newark post., 1915-08-11
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
LODGE MEETINGS

LODGE MEETINGS
OPERA HOUSE
Nonday-Knigkts Of Pythias, or X. Of
P, 7.3C p. m.
Tuesddy-Improved Order Of Red Men,
7.3O p. m.
Wednesday- -Heptasophs, or 8. W. n,
7.30 m.
Thursday-Ladies' Circle, 8. W. n,
7.30 p. m.
Friday-Modern woodmer Of America,
No. 1017O, TIC p. m.
ODD FELLows' HALL
Aonday-Jr. Order American Hsehanics,
7.30 p. m.
Wednesddy-1st and srd Of every month,
White Clay Camp, No s, Wood1sa
OF the World.
Thursddy-I. o. o. F., 7.3O p. m.
Saturday-knights Of Golden Eagle,
7.3O p. m.
FIRE ALARMS
In case Of hrs call the following aua-
bers in succession:
n D
90 A
33 D
l72
81 D
FIVE CAssf WILSON.
Newark post., 1915-08-11
D R ECT O RY
MEMBERS OF COUNCIL

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL
NdyOr-J. II Hcssinger.
Eastern District-JotepL Luton Jona-
than johnson.
Middle Dstrict-G. Fadsr, w. II. Barton
Western District-E. G. Wilson, E. B.
Frazer.
Secretary and Tre0surer-S. B. Hsrdman.
keetin0 of CounciEIst Monday night Of
every month.
Newark post., 1915-08-11

Frances Kitchens of the George
town section, reports a yield OF
3O3 bushels of white potatoes
from three-fourths of an acre of
ground.
Newark post., 1915-08-11

Mayor w. M. Householder of
Delaware City will seek nomina-
tion for the Levy Court on the Re-
publican ticket.
Newark post., 1915-08-11

Fire resulting from an explosion
of a gasoline stove damaged the
home of Woodward White in
Townsend.
Newark post., 1915-08-11
NEWARK TOWN LIBRARY

BANKS
FARMERS, TRUST Co. Meeting Of Dirse-
tors every Tuesday morning.
NEWARK TRUST Co. Meeting Of Diree-
tors every Wednesaay evening 1t
O'Clock.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
Secrctdry-W. II. Taylor.
Meeting first Tuesday night Of each
month.
Newark post., 1915-08-11

Delinquent taxpayers of Bran
dywine Hundred are protesting
against the payment of SIS each
for attorneys fees.
Newark post., 1915-08-11

BOARD OF EDUCATION
President-Joel S. Giltillan.
Secretary and Treasurer
Robert Gallaher, c. A. McCus, Harvey
Hoffecker, Edward L. Richards.
Newark post., 1915-08-11

Wilmington bank clearings last
week totalled $2,182,810.31 against
S2,O15,621.14 for the like week
last year.