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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-18
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 ~Now. don't talk too much when you go to can on our neighbor. You may answer questions. of course" That Is all ever do." said the child. And they ask great many questions. Last time they asked how much sal. ary papa got and If he ever Quarreled with you"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-18

A porch swing for $275 this week only, and an awning at $2.75 and up at Reap & Crawfords. tt Gasoline stoves ard oil stoves at
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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08

DENNY'S PLURALITY
BETWEEN 400 AND 800
PASCAGOULA MAN WINS IN THE
CHANCELLORs RACE; GRlF-
FIFTH COMES OUT SECOND.

Returns, practically complete, from
the eight counties which voted in
Tuesdays election, show that Judge
William M. Denny, of Pascagoula, has
been elected chancellor for this dis
trict, by a plurality of between 400
and 500.
AS stated in The News on yester-
day, V. A. Griffith, of Gulfport, was
second in the race, while ]. A. COwart,
despite the fact that he carried five
of the eight counties, ran third.
Over the long distance telephone
from Gulfport this afternoon, Judge
Denny told The News that there was
no doubt that he had received a big
plurality. He was told that friends
of Cowart were responsible for the
report generally circulated today that
revised count had shown that candi-
date to have been the winner.
I'm no possible way" Judge Denny
said, "can the returns be so figured
as to give the election to Mr.. Cowart.
Roughly speaking, | have received 500
more votes than Mr.. Cowaft. and
about $50 more than Mr.. Griffith.
Il have just received letter from
Mr.. Griffith which states that | ran
$50 votes ahead of him, and that he
obtained something like $50 or 2OC
more votes than Mr.. Cowart.
There is no doubt in the world
but that | am elected"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
GATHER ROUND, GIRLS, HERE
IS ONE NOT AFRAID OF YOU

Young Lady's' mind of an awful re-
sponsibility.
''In the first place, Young Lady"
any young man who would not want
to kiss you or any other pretty girl,
at any time or at any place has dis
eased mind and is not worthy, and
how under the sun IS he going to
know if he don't try Now, honest
ly, what would you think of a young
man who would look you, blushingly,
in the face and say, May kiss your
Would you consent? | don't believe
that you would, not if he were the
last man on earth.
Now, Young Lady if you will just
stop and reason this thing out you
will see that you are solely to blame.
Why? Because Even started this
kissing business in the Garden of
Eden and it's been going on ever
since. The scientists are trying to
stop it saying that it is unsanitary
but who in the world wants to be a
| scientist when there are pretty
Continued on Page Ffve.j
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08

Introducing Mr.. Robert H. CaClloh'
of Brookhaven, Miss.
Mr.. Robert H. Gallon isn't afraid 10
tell the young women of Hattiespurs
inst what he thinks of the campaign
they have been conducting against
that mart of the masculine population
+bat often is Gesirous of impfintlng
a kiss on rosy cheeks or ruby nps'
Not at all.
Mr.. Robert Gallon, in letter TO Ihe
News. (Use my name if you like, ne
says) gives a few solar plexus blows
TO the arguments the fair young
things of the city have been making
in their fight for a kiss-less COM
munity.
This is what he says:
81 recently read in your columns
the plight of young lady who wants
to know why the Hattiesburg boys
want to kiss her. Although | am not
Hattiesburg boy, would like te
saw a few words in their behalf, and
at the same time try and relieve the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
1874 COTTON CROP.
WAS LARGEST EVER.
GR0WN,CENSUS SAYS
MISSISSIPPI PRODUCED TT PER
CENT. OF 1T, OR 1,245,535
BALES.

Washington, d. c., juiy s. - The
forthcoming report on cotton produc-
ed in the United States, soon to be
issued by Director Sam L. Rogers of
the Bureau of Census, Department of
Commerce, and prepared under the
supervision Of William NJ Steuart,
chief statistician in charge of the in
quiry, will show the American cotton
crop of 1914-16,134,930 equivalent
500-tb bales-tO have been the largest
ever produced, exceeding the 1913
crop by nearly 100000 bales or,
about IA per cent. The largest crop
raised prior to 1914 was that of 1911
-15, ,G92,701 bales. The tables con-
tanned in this report will be reprinted
in the annual cotton bulletin, to be
published in September, which will
also include further data as to prOduc-
ton. consumption, imports, exports,
and stocks Of cotton.
The increase in the production of
linters during the past Is years is
note worthy. Starting at 114,544 bales
in 1899, the output of this product in
creased to 791, AGA bales in 1914. or
by nearly 600 per cent, although the
amount of cotton ginned increased by
less than IS per cent during the same
period. This increase in the Inter
production is due principally to closer
delinung of the seed for the better
separation of the meat from the hulls.
Many mills now obtain considerably
more than 100 pounds of linters per
| ton of seed treated, whereas in earlier
years 80 pounds per ton was high
yield.
| Sea Island Cotton.
| Sea Island cotton, of which S1,645
Continued on Page Six.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08

A Hattiesburg woman today Joined
hands with the police of Jackson in
an effort to unravel the mystery con-
nected with the death in the Capitol
on Tuesday night of Mrs. Ella Coker,
formerly resident of this city.
Mrs. Chloe Hollis, wife of J. W. Hol-
lis, Hattiesburg furniture repair
man, is the woman, and Mrs. Hollis
is determined to remain in Jackson
until the real story of the horrible
death of her aged mother is brought
to light.
Two men are held while the police
and county officials are conducting
the most rigid of Investigations.
AS stated in The News yesterday,
Mrs. Coker, we'll known in this city,
was found in an unconscious condition
in the apartment of a man in Jackson
Tuesday night She was taken to the
Charity Hospital where she died a
few hours later. never regaining con
sciousness.
In the room where the semi-nude
form of the woman was found by the
chief of the Jackson police depart
ment, stood drunken man when the
police arrived. He was preparing tc
pour a drink of whiskey from a bot
tie when the blue coats stepped IL
and placed him under arrest. He
says he was drunk and that he know:
nothing of the affair.
Formerly Lived Here.
Mrs. Coker, until a short time ago
paid regular visits to Hattiesburg
which city formerly was her home
She is well known here. especially +.
the druggists and physicians of tn
city. She is an admitted drug fiend
CONTINUED on Page Six.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
Special to The Ne1CS.

Special to The NetCS.
Jackson, Miss, July 9.-Before
adjournment this afternoon, the
grand jury will return indictments
against Horace Perry and Jim
Harrison, charging them with the
Murder on Tuesday night of Mrs.
Ella Coker, found dead in Perry's
room. Evidence developed by the
police today showed that the
woman had about 500 in her
stocking when she went to Perry's
apartment Saturday.
A daughter of Mrs. Coker, Mrs.
Chloe Hollis, reached here from
Hattiesburg today, and has en-
ployed lawyers to assist in the
prosecution. She admits her moth
er was a drug fiend, but believes
she was robbed before she was
beaten to death.
Horace Perry is in state of
complete collapse in the county
Jail today, suffering an attack of
deiirium tremens.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
BEAUMONT FACTORY
LANDS A BIG ORDER
Veneering Company Contracts Entire
Output For Year.

Every foot of veneering work that
the Beaumont Veneering Company
can turn out during the next twelve
months, will find a market in st.
Louis.
J. II. Overstreet, president of the
company, was in Hattiesburg today,
having just returned from st. Louis,
where he closed the contract with the
Pioneer Box Company of that city.
The contract price, Mr.. Overstreet
says, is satisfactory, and means that
the plant will be operated continuously
for at least a year. The company
will have an inspector at the Beau
mont mills, and will pay cash for the
product accepted.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08

Returning to the United Sfates wit,
contract for $50, 1000, 900 of war sun.
pileS lor the Russian government
wilson W. Butler, vice president Of
the Canadian Car & Foundry Com.
pany' Limited, said he had told the
Drillsh authorities that their contract
with }. P. Morgan & Company OF New
I ork for the purchase of war sunnlies
was unjust.
we Canadian manufacturers are
indignant that Morgan & Co. have NOT
gwen us any of these orders. I per.
sonaiiy have eight factories that are
idle"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
Russians On Offensive.

London, July 8.-Strong Russian re-
Inducements between the Vistula and
the Bug Rivers have compelled the
driving on Warsaw
from the South to assume the defen-
sive. The Austrians, according to Of
fetal reports, seem to find themselves
in some difficulty.
The German offensive In the West
has not yet developed, but reports of
big troop movements to that front are
persistent.
The Italian armored cruiser Aiamar
was torpedoed and sunk by an Aus
trian submarine in the Adriatic today.
Continued on Page Stxl
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08

Washington, o. c., July 8.-The
United States Government today
took over from the German Off
Gals that have been operating II
since it was installed some months
ago, the mammoth SayVllIe wire
less station, the only remaining
privately operated means of com
munication between the United
States and Germany.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels
announced that Captain Buiisrd,
in charge of the Naval Radio sta
tions, would be placed at the head
of the SayViIIe plant, and will con-
tinue it's operations with naval
forces.
Today's action, which was given
under an executive order issued
by President Wilson, was deemed
necessary because of the alleged
violations Of neutrality by the
companys operations. II has been
charged repeatedly that messages
of an unneutral nature are being
sent from the station.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
ATLANTIC LINER IS
AF|RE IN M|D-OCEAN
(By Associated PreSS.)

New York, July 8.-The Allan
tic transport liner Minnehaha, on
its way from New York to Lon
don, is reported by wireless that
she is fighting fire in her hoid'
A message from her captain says
that the fire is not serious. There
are no passengers aboard.
An official of the company ao-
mitted that it was possible that
homh started the blaze. Whether
Frank Holt had anything to DO
with the fire is matter OF con-
lecture The vessel is 500 miles
from shore.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
WOODMEN GOING ON
A PICNIC TONIGHT

Walnut Grove Camp, No. Sc, Wood
men Circle, will go to Hamper Park
on a moonlight picnic tonight, and
more than $50 members of the organ
iZation and their friends are expected
to make the trip. That number of
club sandwiches has been prepared by
the Acme restaurant for the occasion.
Special cars will carry the excursion
lists to the Park, leaving the city at
1870 o'clock.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
WON'T ANSWER GERMANY.

Washington, July 8.-President
Wilson has decided that there
shall be no answer to Ambasss-
dor Gerard's inquiry for instruc-
tions concerning the tentative
draft submitted to him by Ger
many of its note on submarine war
fare. No comment will be made
by the United States until Ger
nnany's formal reply has been de-
livered.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
MRS. MILLER DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
VIII Be Buried In The City Cemetery
This Afternoon at q O'clock.

The funeral of Mrs. Emily J. Mil
Ter, who died at her home on West
fourth street. Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock, will be held in the City Gem
etery this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The
Rev. H. Mellard will conduct the ser
vices.
Mrs. Miller is survived by six chill
dren. She was 35 years old and had
lived here for years.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
LOVE IN CITY FOR
A VERY FEW HOURS

]. S. Love. state bank examiner, was
In Hattiesburg yesterday for a few
hours, on his way south, where he
will examine several banks in the low
er part of the state.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
(By Associated Press.)

New York, July 8.-The Dow
Jones News Bureau published late
today a statement that the White
Star liner Adriatic had docked
safely in Liverpool this afternoon.
Rumors were current yesterday
that an accident had happened to
the vessel.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
No Intimate Friends.

No one ever knew Frank Holt real
Nv intimately He would talk to you'
sometimes, as if he were nnbuuen-
ing his whole soul to you, and you
would feel that this man, distressed
IN spirit and sick at heart, had taken
vou into his inmost confidence. But
after he left your room, and you had
filled UP your pipe to think it over
the idea would invariably come upon
YOU that this strange man had told
you only part-that he had kept
from you the, great idea of his life
the idea that made him an object OF
hatred by all his students and by
nearly all of his fellows on the assist
ing faculty.
Holt stayed at Vanderbilt but one
wear. The first thing he did when he
got there was to antagoniZe his SUI
perior members on the faculty. He
went to DR.. B. e. Young, professor OF
French. and told him the entire
French course at Vanderbilt was
wrong and that he had decided to
change it. This was the very first
time he had laid eyes on DIR. Young,
and when the French professor an
swered that the course would remain
y
as it had been, Holt grew intensely
angry. / learned of this conversa
CONTINUED on Pafe Four.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
MRS. HOLLIS JOINS HUNT
FOR MURDERERS OF MRS.
COKER, WELL KNOWN HERE,
WIFE OF FURNITURE REPAIR
MAN GOES TO CAPITOL AND
GIVES INFORMATION.
SAYS DEAF WOMAN HAD
MUCH MONEY IN POCKETS

TwoMen Are Held While the Grand
Jury and the jackson Police Subject
Scores of Persons to a Rigid Exam
ination - Mystery Still Surrounds
the Motive of Such Brutal Murder
Woman Never ~,&d consei,
BUSINESS.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
POWERFUL PLANT At
.SAY.V|LLE, L., NOW
HELD BY AMERICANS
ONLY PRIVATELY OWNED CON-
MEETING LINK WITH GER
MAN EMPIRE.
GER MANS VIOLATED
NEUTRALITY LAWS

Charged With Giving information OF
An Unneutral Nature to German
Ships Regarding the Saiiings of Yes
sells From New York Harbor-capt.
BuIIard, of the Naval Radio stations,
With Naval Aides, Operating it Now.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
SCOUTS co AWAY ON.
ANNUAL CAMP TRIP.
At ARNOLD SPRINGS.
BETWEEN 60 AND 20 HATTIES.
BURG YOUNGSTERS HIKE 1T
TO THE RESORT.

Between 60 and 70 Hattiesburg boys
clad in the regulation Boy Scouts uni
forms, and carrying their packs and
their staffs, this afternoon went into
camp at Arnold Springs, about four
or five miles from Hattiesburg on the
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad, where
they will remain for a week. 1t will
be the first encampment Of any size
or duration that a majority of the
boys ever have engaged in.
Carrying a big American flag, a
khaki-clad youth at the first note of a
bugle call sounded from the side line,
stepped out from the Commercial Club
AT 9 o'clock this morning, and in an
instant three score or more other
boys. similarly garbed, fell into line,
and the march to the encampment
site was begun.
Wagons Garry Supplies.
Nothing has been heard from the
Scouts this afternoon, but they should
have reached Arnold Springs before
noon.
Wagons carried the camp equip
ment, the tents, cooking utensils, and
the like. They were scheduled to pre-
pare their first meal of the day at
noon.
Sunday will be visitors day in
camp, and it is expected that large
number of Hattiesburg friends and
relatives of the boys will journey to
Arnold Springs to see for themselves
just how the youngsters are spending
their vacation.
Next week, the Camp Fire Girls
of Hattiesburg will spend the day in
camp with the boys.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
Bv Frank D. Lander, Jr.

Now that Frank Holt has blown up
a part of the United States CAPITOL
shot the United States leading imam
cier. and then committed suicide II
will he very generally accepted that
Frank Holt was crazy. The news
papers already are printing TINS the
ory and in another day or two many
of our 'leading scientists" Will come
forward with various names for the
peculiar mental disease with when
Frank Holt was affected.
When is a man crazy? If you say
he is crazy when he is mentally un-
balanced. then all of us are crazy.
If YOU go to the other extreme ana
saw he is crazy only when he knows
not what he is going, then Frank
Holt was no more crazy than are
thousands of persons who walk the
earth today and to whom acquainI-
ances refer as peculiar"
dare say Frank Holt was no more
crazy the day he set off his bomb III
the Nations Capitol and unloaded ms
pistol on ]. p Morgan that he was
when | knew him in Vanderbilt Uni
versity. He was an instructor at that
ir stitution in the term of 19ll-l9lZ
and | was a student there, in my
iunior year. Holt taught French. /
was not in any of his classes. but
our rooms in Kissam Hall were not
very far apart and in the course OF
time got to know him almost IN
timately.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
HOLT ALWAYS CRAZY,
SAYSMANFORMERLY
IN HIS UNIVERSITY
MAN WHO TRIED TO BLOW Or
U. 6. CAPITOL, AND WHO COM
MiTTED SUICIDE, A FREAK.
WAS NOT AN INSANE
SUBJECT, THO PECULIAR

Character Sketch and Pen Picture OF
the Assailant of j. p. Morgan, is
Given by a Hattiesburg Man VINO
Was Associated With Him at the
Nashville Institution for One Year
Was Conceited to the Nth Power.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08
THE COTTON MARKET.
fRu Associated Press.l

New Orleans, July S.-The cotton
market closed 25 to 26 points down.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-08

sssE.ssslm~ - ssn aaa< ~
issssiupi-GeneraIIy fair tonight
and Friday.
The Monte Vista journal., 1915-09-04

A Jolly crowd of young ladies en-
joyed the children's party given by
Miss Fern Bowers Thursday evening.
The young ladies dressed as children
were: Misses Efiie and Vista Mer-
chant. Lucille Loudcn, Florence
Cramer. Sara Chapman, Mary Belle
Hawkins, Emma Glenn Macarthur,
Mildred Baird, Louise Fogle, Edith
Van Nostrand, Irene Sims. Elizabeth
Stein. Ethel Graves, Gladys Davis,
Marian Hecker. Hazel Trap, Fay
Mingus, Agnes Cole, Mrs. June
Powell.
In honor of her daughter Martha's
seventh birthday, Mrs. Morgan en-
tertained a few little friends Wednes
day afternoon, with a party on the
lawn. The little guests were Valda
Gibson, Lois Burgett. Ruth Heilman,
Joan Linderholm, Francella JOY,
Lena Mary and Anna Lee Munsell,
Virginia Henderson, lola and Vera
Koch, Irene Newton and Ewing Goff.
The Priscilla society will meet with
Mrs. Chas. Holt next Thursday after
noon.
In honor of Miss Mary Sylvester of
Center Marian Edmar entertained
Tuesday afternoon at very pretty
porch "Rook" party. The decora-
tons were in pink, yellow and blue
flowers. The young ladies invited
were Joyce and Pauline Sweitzer,
Edna Price, Alice Parmenter, Louise
Atterberry, Mary and Dorothy Kin
ney. Clara Christine Linderholm,
Ruth Van Nostrand.
Mrs. E. G. Matthias entertained the
young boys Messenger" class of the
M. f. Sunday school Tuesday at a
hay wagon" ride and all-day picnic
at her home three miles north of
town. They all report very en-
ioyable time
Mr.. ad Mrs. Ferguson entertained
few friends at cards" Thursday
evening. Their guests were Mrs.
Wood and Mr.. Prim of Wichita, Kan
sas; Mr.. Young and Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. l.. Carter.
A very pleasant Rock" party was
given by Miss Irene Sims Saturday
The Monte Vista journal., 1915-09-04
SPECIAL NOTICE TO
MONTE VISTA FOLKS

We wish to announce we are ex-
elusive Monte Vista agents for the
simple mixture of buckthorn bark,
glycerine. etc, known as Adler-i-ka.
This remedy, used successfully for
appendicitis, is the most THOR
OUCH bowel cleanser we ever sold.
1t is so powerful that ONE SPOON
Full relieves almost ANY CASE of
constipation, sour or gassy stomach
Adler-i-ka never gripes, is safe to
use and the INSTANT action is sur
prising. The Abbott-Goodding Drug
Co.
d.
The Monte Vista journal., 1915-09-04

evening, her guests were Misses Flor
ence Cramer, Effie Merchant, Ruth
Johnston, Vista Merchant, Robert
Bone, Turner Carr, Lowell Gibbs,
Harris Bone.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
society of the M. E. church held a
very enjoyable meeting at the conn
try home of Mrs. w. w. Wright,
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. A. c..
Kline and Mrs Henry Settlers assist
ed in entertaining.
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid held
their regular meeting in the church
parlor Thursday afternoon.
The Rock Creek Social club were
entertained by Mrs. w. B. Hook We'd
nesday. A very pleasant afternoon
was spent with needle work and a
general social time. The members
and guests were: Mesdames Perry
Kolander, G. Nelson, Kloepfel, L Hill
er, j. K. Perkins, Lempke, Wagner,
Harrison, Burd, l.. E. Mccullough, B.
limerick, F. Miller, Frank Cole, W.
B. Hook, Sr., Reigner of Del Norte,
Misses Mable and Vera Larick, Hold
erman, Lempke, limerick, Henderson.
Miss Mildred Field of La Junta,
who has been visiting her sister Mrs.
B. F. Ayers, left Tuesday evening for
her home.
Miss Celia Hawkins gave a musical
recital at her home Wednesday after
noon. An interesting program was
rendered by her pupils which con-
sisted of piano solos, duets and trios
At the close light refreshments were
served.
Mrs. Perry Kolander entertained
twenty-four of the Rock Creek neigh.
borhood children at "Taffy Pull
ana lawn party Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. Chas. Foster is hostess at an
elaborate 800" party this afternoon
DR.. and Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Gibson
Sr. OF Iowa, and Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
Holt spent Sunday at South Fork.
Mrs. F. L. Bishop entertained the
800" club Wednesday afternoon
Flowers from Charles Bishops gard.
en- at Center, used in great profusion
to decorate the home, were greatly
admired by all the guests.