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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-23
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Your Kind of a Town

 If you want to live in the kind of
 town Like the kind of town you like, You needn't slip your clothes in grip And start on long, long hike You'll only find what you left behind. For there's nothing that's really new. It's "a knock. at yourself when you knock your town, It isn't yourself-it's you! Real towns are not made by men afraid Lest som ebody else gets ahead. When everyone works and nobody
 shirks
 You can raise town from the. dead. And if why you make your persona; Your neighbor can make one, too. Your town will be what you want to
 see,
 It isn't your town--its you!
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significance. They speak of happy and d prosperous people, a people looking to the social and human side of life as well as to the commercial and business side. Beautiful church structures are to De found of all the leading denominations, modernly built and equipped school build ings are located in different parts of the city. theatres. club rooms, modern fire proof office buildings and business blocks rp-to-date hotels, artistic and imposing homes for it's financial institutions, a rev postoffice just built at q cost of $60,- GOO, a comparatively new city hall buIit at cost of $35.o00. an attractive court house and similar public buildings and business structures give an insight into what the city is.
 Two railroads pass through the city the Southern and the Mobile and Ohio. Columbus is but 25 hours ride from Chi cago 16 hours ride to St. Louis. 10 hours ride to New Orleans and five hours rice to Birmingham.
 Good Climate
 Situated at an altitude of 2S4 feet above the sea level, a truly remarkable climate prevails. None of the rigors of other climes, either by heat or cold, are expert enced. The average temperatures by months is as follows: January 46. Feb. ruary 5l, March 5e. April 65. May P, Jun; 79. August S1 September "A, October 65 November 53. December 47
 The average rainfall for the past severa years is as follows: 1906, 4s 70; 1907, 41.04 1908, 5i.90; 1909, 55.79; 1910, 5293; 1911, 5l.63 A Worthy Business l Columbus has many worthy industries but there can be no doubt but tha it's most worthy is the business of train | iEg women.
 | Out at the eastern end of the city sur
 rounded by great rolling, tree-dotte' campus, sets the great Mississippi Indus | trial Institute and College, with Its ] l buildings. 30 acres of ground, it's owi heating plant. model home, model gar l dens. model farms, irrigation systems an I so forth. To show the elaborate thor
 oughness with which the future mother
 of Mississippi here are being trained, men ton need only be made of the mode
 home located in the midst of the campus The 1000 students of the institution nc | only are taught the sciences. histor, music and language so that they WI receive culture and refinement but her lin this model home a full sized an 1 furnished house. they are formed int crews and in turns operate it, doing a the house work themselves.
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bama line and 250 miles from the mouth of the Tombighce
 In IS21 this whole territory ceded by the Indians was organized into Monroe county and the first mail to be received by the settlers was opened during the same year In January. 1880. Monroe county was split up, the southern section was made into Lowndes county and the village Of Go lumbus was made the county seat Thus is outlined the beginning. a 1890 An Epoch
 In 1921 the village of Columbus con tained about 150 people. but the year 1880 marked an epoch Not only in this year did the village become the county
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Dixersification of Crops

Because of the well known cotton bug
 aboo. this great section is just now com ing into it's own through diversiication of crops. Here where for years and years farmers have raised cotton, cot ton, cotton. 1t has been suddenly found out that almost all other crops can be raised and to a great deal better advan-
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Total going out for feed
 stuffs. etc ..,....... .SsI5 lfS.oo Estimating the number of bales of cotton raised in the county last yeai as 1s.000. and the average price at 1s.OOO bales at s35...... s63O, 900. o1 5000 Tons of Seed at $14 126.000.O0
 ton .................. s756. .9o
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Canalize Tombigbee River

A movement is under way. also, to secure appropriations from congress for the canalization of the Tombigbee so that it will be navigable the entire year. The stream is now navigable eN- cept through the dry seasons Esti- mates by government engineers have placed the cost of this proposed-canal- ization by lock construction at $2,50O.- 900 and it has been figured that, as- suming this would save but 10 cents Der ton on the freight of the district the investment would pay dividends while it is claimed that very much more than 10 cents per ton would be saved by water transportation.
 Columbus Is under an aldermanic form of government. It operates municipal waterworks plant selling water for home consumption at 2o cents per 1000 gallons, this rate ranging on down to eight cents for industrial pur- poses. The minimum per quarter Tor home consumption is $1. The plant was constructed by the people, bond issue of s6O0O0 being voted Since that time it has been added to until 1t now represents an investment of $l22'ooo with capacity of 4,000.000 gallons per day The water is pumped from the Luxapalila river, a mountain stream and is filtered and purified before go- ing into the mains.
 Some Municipal Details | The city maintains about AZ miles or i street 75 miles of sidewalks and 15 miles | Of sanitary sewers. The streets are sprinxled two or three times daily through 1 collection of sprinkling tax assessed
 against the property holders mod
 (Continucd on Page NineD
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proposed to pipe this gas to Columbus where it will he supplied for .houscnold use at 30 cents per 1000 feet and For industrial use at 20 cents per 1000.
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OPPORTUNITY!

For the man who will diversity crops and produce what his home market demands, the wonderful opportunity with the rich lands of Lowndes county, Miss, is Illustrated by the following figures. which show what the people of that county are now spending in out side markets for the things they eat.
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 How Girls Are Chosen
 The number of girls who can be ac- commodated in the dormitories are dis tributed to the various counties of the state in proportion to the white pop ulation. The county superintendenis select the quota from their counties, such appontees having the advantage of free lodging and board at cost but no girl can be appointed who does not have certificate from a certified high school or who does not stand an eN- animation which entities her to enter the freshman class of the college. The Industrial Institute and college being the one institution established and maintained by the state for the higher education of young women be- lieves that it's mission is to help no, only the 700 or 500 enrolled annually to better positions and better lives, but | that it's chief function through these | girls is to help the entire state The | concrete problems of Mississippi are carefully studied. Not only the facul- ty but members of the senior class are sent out by the college to do exten- l sion work in health, home science, physical education and such other sub jects as the ordinary common schools 1 fail to give.
 The present president. Dr. H. L. Whitfield has been in charge for eight wears. Previous to this time he was | state superintendent of education foI
 nine years. He is graduate of Mis- | sissippi college, studied law at Mill | saps college, received his doctors de- gree from Mississippi college and ha: taken courses of study under various professors.
 Public Schools
 The public schools of the city con ltain 1O54 white pupils and about tn
 same number of negro scholars. Tn
 white teachers number 33. franSlil
 Academy. the High school, IS untqu
 institution. It was founded In lo@i U
 the government when every slXteent section of land in this territory wa I set aside for school purposes Ever property holder in Columbus pays a
 annual tax to the government for tn lupkeep of the institutions and unde this plan, the remarkable fact develop
 that no property holder in Columpu
 has a free hold title to his home. Tn , entire city is held under 1ease-hoi titles by the property holders. the at , establishing this lease system for til mainta inance of Franklin Academ l providing at the end of 99 years ths , the lease is renewable forever fh Barrow school is modern scho'
 building and well equipped, but FranF lin Academy which is used for the Hlg school and high grades does not con | in to the standard and the people !. Columbus are now planning move | ment for sbond issue to erect ne , High school building.
 a Industrial Columbus d Tn industrial matters. Coiumpus n the home of one of the largest Jumbo \ mills in the south, employing 800 me
 and there Is said to be 5oo.ooo.oo0 fe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-23
By RALPn R. SILVER

ECAUSE falling fruit from an apple tree hit Isaac Newton N on the top of the head Isaac stopped to think and in
 thinking he discovered the laws of gravitation.
 Because in the wilds of the Missis- sippi territory in the midst of the Chickasaw Indians his hoy took sud- denly sick with measles, one Mhoon, pioneer settler following Jackson's troops north from New Orleans. stopped to camp and in camping discovered q land of milk and honey"
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is developing are given In the estimates that 2500 acres about Columbus this year have been sown to wheat with big increase in corn acreage over last year.
 Some idea of the cotton raising indus try is obtained from the report of the Columbus Cotton Exchange that total receipts in le13-1sl4 were 3s,000 bales Re ceipts up to May 14 1915. have been 33,0oo bales. 2900o bales of which have been shipped The total receipts for this year are estimated at about Si,oo0 bales.
 Trips out through sections of this agrl- cultural area shows many farms equipped with every modern convenience. Large, well kept farm houses, barns and out buildings are In evidence with up-to-date machinery for cultivation of crops and care of the different kinds of live stock.
 City of Homes
 Now. what of the city that, in the midst of this great agricultural section, on the high bluff overlooking the limpid Ion- bigbee river at the very place where 'traui- tion relates many years ago the famous GeSoto crossed the stream on his search for the land of youth and gold, nestlss in the shade of long rows of great eini' maple and water oak trees2
 First of all, it is a city of homes Probably no city in the south or any where else of equal size has as many great and handsome homes as Columbus Lined along it's wide streets and avenues, lhalf hidden in the cool shade of the great trees that everywhere abound, thes- homes of men strike the visitor with a
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COMPILED BY w. H. CARTER, Secretary Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
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How Girls Are Chosen

has appropriated over si00,000 for enlargement of the plant
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COLUMBUS COMMERCE

s the number of tons and the valuation of to and out of the city during the year 1913: IN SHIPPED OUT
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
HANGED BY A GHOST.
Curious Story Of a Murder and the
Discovery of the Crime.

An old volume of the Quarterly Re
view mentions a crime discovered in a
most extraordinary way in Australia
in the year 1880, of which public rec.
ord is preserved and which figures
with full details in the journals of that
period.
The confidential steward of a wealthy
settler hear Sydney stated that his
master had suddenly been called to
England on important business and
that during his absence the whole of
his immense property would be in his
exclusive care.
Some weeks after an acquaintance OF
the absentee settler riding through his
grounds was astonished to perceive
him sitting upon a stile. He strode
forward to speak when the figure turn.
cd from himS with look of intense
sorrow. and walked to the edge of a
pond. where 1t mysteriously disap.
peared
On the morrow he brought number
OF men to the water to drag it. and the
body of the man supposed to be on his
way TO England was brought up. The
steward was arrested. brought to trial
and frightened at the story of his mas
ter's ghost. confessed the crime. stat
ing that he did the murder at the very
stile on which his masters ghost had
appeared. He was duly executed
Case and Comment.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
SPORTS
Reading FIVE is FINED
Eastern League Expels Pretzels, Their
Manager and Henry, Of CAM
den Team

Philadelphia, April Manager A.
Berliner, of the Reading basketball
team, was expelled last night from the
Eastern League for admitting that he
endeavored> to frame-up the race for
the Eastern League pennant with the
Camden club, so that the season would
end in tie and make a post-season
series necessary.
This action was taken during a SEN
sational meeting of officials of the
league held at the Bingham last night.
Manager Henry, of the Camden club
was also expelled from the league on
the ground that he made charges
against the league. Berliner declared
that he had tried to frame up the race
and that the Camden club agreed to
do this.
He said that Andy Sears, of the
Reading club, at a conference with
Jackie Adams, captain of the Jersey
club, fixed the race.
The players denied this, but the en-
tire Reading team was expelled from
further competition in the league.
President Seheffer presided at the
storm session and the meeting lasted
far into the night.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
TENER Is OPTIMISTIC
National League President Predicts
Great Baseball Year

Chicago, April 2.-Internal strife
among the big baseball leagues has Civ
en- place to harmony for a time at least
according to John X. Tener, president
of the National League.
1.-The season of 1915 promises to be
one of the best professional baseball
has experienced, he said. "The wal
in Europe will keep people with money
to spend here at home and their atten
tion naturally will turn to outdoor
sport"
Mr. Tener, Mrs. Tener and party
of friends, all of Philadelphia, stopped
off in Chicago on their way home from
the Panama.Pa International Elk
position, where they assisted at the
dedication of the Pennsylvania build
ing.
Before his departure last night Ten
er conferred with B. B. Johnson, presi
dent of the American League.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
81 JITNEYS IN ATLANTIC
Business Men Put Private Cars On
Streets-Some Own Chauffeurs

Atlantic City, April 2.-The pop
ularity of the jitney bus here gives
promise of eclipsing that of the IA
nous rolling chairs along the board
walk. Although the ninety-frst iitney
license was issued yesterday the de-
mand for the nickel service is in ex-
cess of the supply of ears and the
drivers are reaping harvest.
Contractors, undertakers, commits
sion merchants, electricians, policemen,
constables, druggists and hotel pro-
prietors are included among those who
have put their private cars into the
scent service and many have given
up their old businesses to drive their
own machines. Few are making under
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
RUNNING UPSTAIRS.
Physical Energy It Expends Quoted In
Horsepower.


To lift $50 pounds one foot in one
second requires what is known as one
horsepower Similarly horsepower
is able to raise twice that weight one
foot in twice the time, or one-half foot
in just that time. Moreover. it can
raise half $50 pounds one foot in half 3
second. or two feet in second. and
so on. Therefore when We lift one
fourth of that weight. 1871 pounds,
four feet in one second. we are ex.
erting horsepower.
Accordingly. when person who
weighs 1879 pounds runs upstairs at
the rate of four feet a second, he is
exerting the equivalent of a horsepow.
er. For man weighing twice that
much. 2T5 pounds. 1t would be neces-
sary to climb at the rate of only two
feet a second to exert horsepower
1t is possible to do much more.
As a matter of fact, a horse often
exerts many times horsepower. The
average horse can draw a wagon up a
hill where ten horsepower engine
with the same load would fail. A horse
power does not represent the greatest
momentary strength Of the average
horse. but is measure of the power
which he'can exert continuously.-New
York World.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
80. 1000 JUGS BEER FOR EITEL
Naval Board Members Gasp at Size Of
Captain Thierichens Requisition

Washington, April 2.-If the Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, the German sea raider
at Hamgton Roads, takes a chance with
the British cruisers lying off the Vir-
ginia capes instead of interning, she
will go out with $4,000 bottles of beer,
100 bottles for each of the 500 men
aboard.
A naval board appointed by Secre-
tary Daniels to determine the quantity
of coal and other supplies needed by the
Eitel in ease she went to sea, cut down
every item in the requisition made by
Captain Thierichens except one. The
naval BOARD members gasped when they
discovered that Thierichens wanted 50,-
600 bottles of beer, but they approved
the item.
Secretary Daniels also gasped when
he looked over the beer item. However,
the Secretary found that while the in
ternational regulations placed limit
on the amount of coal and food sup
plies, said rules were silent as to beer.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
STOCK EXCHANGE SEATS UP
Price Rises $500 in "a Hours-To
Cross $4,000 Soon, Predicted

New York, April 2.-lf the price of
Stock Exchange seats is barometer
of general business conditions, business
is on the mend. The price of seats has
risen $500 within twenty-four hours.
The seats of George A. Mcclellan and
Frederick E. Ballard were sold for
$4,000 each Wednesday. This is the
price commanded in the last previous
sale. Yesterday the seat of Howland H.
Pell was sold at s45,5O0 to Edwin NJ.
Carter.
This is the highest price in months.
In the great depression last spring a
seat sold as low as $4,000. 1t is pre-
dicted in Wall Street that within
month the price of seats will cross
$4,000.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
Big Business at Carlisle

Carlisle, April April first trans
actions have given great encouragement
to business men in this section. All
bankers generally agree that large
sums are available for loans, and that
there has been one of the largest liqui.
dations of all forms of Indebtedness seen
here for many years. At Cumberland s
Court House mortgages have decreased
nearly 40 per cent, while the falling
off in judgments has been more than 10
per cent.
People directly or indirectly connect
ed with agriculture have more money
than they have had for decade and
apparently have all needed capital, as
there are few borrowers.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
Nonogenarian Is Dead

Gettysburg, April 2.-After spend
ing the last nine years of her life as
an invalid, Mrs. Maria Blair Barnitz
died at 8 O'Clock yesterday morning
in New Oxford She celebrated her
ninety-frst birthday on Monday of this
week.
She was the widow of John Barnitz.
who died some years ago, and for
long time she had been making her
home with her son, James w. Barnitz.
cashier of the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank, of New Oxford.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
N. j. LAUDS WILSON AT FAIR
Speakers Chair Made of Wood From
Every State

San Francisco, April 2.-President
Wilson was eulogized in verse and prose
at the dedication of the New Jersey
State building at the Panama Pacific
Exposition yesterday. A message Of
greeting from the President was read
and chair made of pieces of wood
from every State in the Union and sent
here by Governor James F. Fielder, Of
New Jersey, was used in turn by the
speakers, VINO comprised representative
of the Nation, State, city and expo
sition.
Thomas V. Cater, representing Gov
ernor Fielder, made the dedicatory ad-
dress, New jerseys resident commits
sioner, Col. M. R. Margerum, presiding.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
Punish College Hazers

Gettysburg, April 2.-That the au-
thorities at Gettysburg College will not
tolerate any further hazing at the local
institution was indicated Wednesday
evening when eight Sophomores, alleged
to be guilty of the offense, were notified
that they were suspended for the re-
mainder of the year. Recently twenty
two Freshmen received forty demerits
each at the hands of the student coun-
Gil for the same offense.
The present punishment is the out
come of fracas between members of
the two classes following the Freshman
banquet at Hotel Gettysburg recently.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
Bites Off Finger of Fellow-Patient

Ebensbung, April Joe Sabbath,
slayer of policeman Charles Holtter,
who has been in the Colver hospital
with bullet in his lung, proved too
much for the hospital authorities, as
did Tony Bereda, stabbed through the
lungs by Sabbath They werej brought
to Jail yesterday.
Wednesday night Sabbath crawled
from his bed to that of BeTeda, seized
the latter s hand and bit of the fore
finger. The two had been \quarreling
across the ward for several Mays.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
FISH NOT A LOBSTER
Son of Financier Punches Broker For
Alleged Insult

New York, April 2.-Sidney Fish,
son of Stuyvesant Fish, the fnancier,
was summoned before Magistrate Ten
Eyck in the Tombs court yesterday on
complaint of Theodore S. Todd, Gus
tom house broker, who charged him
with assault.
Last Friday Todd said he had an
argument with Fish in his office during
which he called Fish ga lobster not a
fish," Fish said Todd did not call him
either of the names, but used more
questionable epithet which he resented
promptly with his fists. The magistrate
dismissed the case saying such mat
ters could be patched up outside of
courts.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
Worked Underground so Years

PottsviIIe, April 2.-Henry W,
Unger, said to be the oldest miner in
Schuylkill county, died yesterday at
his home in Reinerton at the age of
IS years. He worked underground for
fifty years and was never injured and
was considered one of the most skill
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
JOHNSON WANTS TO BET
Champion Offers $4,000 to $4,000
That He Will Beat Willard

Havana, April 2.-Jack Johnson
yesterday offered to bet 100000
against $4,000 that he would win
his fight with Jess Willard next Mon.
day.
"This offer is open to any one,
said the champion, ''but | cannot find
any Willard money here except at odds
of to 1, which is aneunfair price"
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INNS IN FINANCIAL STRAITS
One Cambria County Hotel in Bank
ruptcy Court and Another Closes

Ebensburg, April 2.-One South
Fork hotel yesterday went into the
bankruptcy court and the Sheriff
closed another in the same town. The
hotels were the Grouse and the Globe.
Efforts were made by the proprietors
to sell the places, but even in Cambria
county where there is a saloon to
every 600 of the population, hotel
buyers are doing nothing until after
the adjournment of the Legislature.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-02
Woman Plunges Down Cellar Steps

Shamokin, April Mrs, John
Birdner was seriously injured when
she plunged headlong down a long
flight of stairs leading into the cellar
way of her home. A neighbor heard
her fall and found her senseless, her
hips having been dislocated. She re-
ceived internal injuries.