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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
WOMEN TO MEET
AT GAINESVILLE
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF METH
oolsT CHURCH TO CONVENE
ON FEB. 9.

Local Woman's Missionary Socie-
ties of the Methodist church are man.
ifesting much interest in the an.
preaching session of the conference
to be held at GAINESVILLE with the
Madison street church, beginning on
February and lasting until Februa.
ry Is.
There are about ESQ auxiliaries in
the conference and every one is ex-
pected to send a delegate making the
attendance large one. The confer.
ence is co-extensive with the limits
Of the Tennessee Methodist confer.
ence and practically embraces all Of
the territory in Middle Tennessee.
The people of GAINESVILLE are antici-
pating with much pleasure the COM
ing Of the conference and extensive
preparations are being made to en-
terrain the members.
The program arranged is an excep.
tionally fine one, featuring every
phase Of the woman's missionary
work. Several noted foreign mission
aries will be heard during the SEES
sion.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
TWO MILLION BALES
OF COTTON WAITING
FOR TRANSPORTATION
CONGESTION AFFECTING sALE0
AND DULLING MARKET ON
THE STAPLE.
SOUTHERN MARKETS Contested
Sales Of Cotton Have Fallen OF AM
Prices Have Declined on Accownk
Of Lack Of Transportation FaeIM-
ties Across the Waters.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-AmericaM
seaports held over 100000 bales C,
cotton last night. Five principal in
terror towns, namely Houston, Mem
phis, st. Louis, Augusta, Little Rock,
have approximately 100000 bales in
storage or held for shipment. An
other group of thirty-one interior
terminal markets have in excess &C
100000 bales nearly all out Of the
hands Of the producers, and much os
which has been purchased by spin
ners or their representatives for con-
sumption.
Actual clearances for the season
totaled 3,505,573 bales up( to lask
night, compared with 6,284,69O bales
to the same date last year. Conges-
ton of Southern markets for lack 0G
shipping facilities 10 Of record pro-
portions at this time. The Situation
has become very grave and seriously
menaces prices Of cotton unsold.
It is quite obvious that unless COT
ton can be transported, buyers wilE
hold of rather than accept the risk
and expense Of storage and holding.
Already, sales Of actual cotton have
fallen off with an irregular prise
movement and some declines.
It is true American mills are buy
ing more freely, and engagements for
contract deliveries will require tho
holding in New York, New Orleans
and Liverpool of liberal percentage
of current supplies to protect Anal
deliveries. Meantime the markets
have become dull and heavy, with
ack Of speculative support because
| OF the enormous visible supply and
the fact that behind it perhaps anoth-
er 100000 bales remain unsold.
Prices in Germany are now quoteA
for future delivery at about 15.16a
per pound for February. This rep
resents decline from earlier quota
tions, and with more freedom of Inn
ports into that country there IL less
disposition to hurry forward supplies.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
WEATHER DOESN'T
STOP EXCAVATION
TWELVE MEN WORKING DESPITE
ELEMENTS AT CENTRAL
HIGH SCHOOL.

In spite Of the adverse weather con-
iitions, the snow and rain, the free7-
ing and the thawing, work goes stead
lily ahead at the new Central High
School building.
A dozen men are at work with
picks and shovels, removing the dirt
and stone for the foundation. Friday
these workmen finished the house in
which the tools will be- stored while
the building is being eonstrasseA
Tt wOrA win 90 steadily On.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
.BAPTISTS PLEASED
WITH DR.. SKINNER
PROBABLE THAT NASHVILLE
PREACHER WILL BE CALLED
HERE.

Rev. J. E. Skinner, pastor Of the
Lockland Baptist church, of Nash
Vile, delighted two large audiences
at the First Bautist church here Sun
day morning and night. He preached
with great power and force and held
the earnest attention of the audience
from beginning to the close of his
sermons. The members of the
church were very much pleased with
DR.. SINNERS efforts and it is alto.
gether probable that he will be called
to the pastorate of the church which
has been vacant for several months,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
|APPATH|ANS AGAIN
Scene Of BIG FIGHT
BETWEEN THE FORCES
bus IS THE FOURTH TIME
SINCE WAR BEGAN FIGHTING
OCCURRED.
|IsTgIANs ON THE OFFENSIVE
r. Receiving the Aid Of the German
rorces-Austro- Germans Are Con-
eentrating Between Bokovina and
Pennsylvania to Prevent Being.

LONDON, Feb. For the fourth
ima since the war began the Carpa'
Ibian mountains, between Dukla and
Wyszkow passes, is the scene OF a
pitched battle.
The previous clashes were between
Russians and o-Hungarians, but
now the Austrians and Hungarians
have the assistance of the German
armies and are taking a vigorous ar.
mics and are taking a vigorous often
sive. Despite this, Russian reports
assert that the preliminary fighting
has turned to the advantage OF Rus.
STA and that prisoners and guns have
been captured.
simultaneously the Austro-Ger-
mans are concentrating armies be-
tween Bukowina and Pennsylvania to
prevent a Russian attempt to out
flank them and on the Rumaniar and
Serbian frontiers the check any ef-
fort of the armies of those countries
to take a hand in the fighting, on the
result of which Austria stakes much.
The Russians are pushing their Of
fensive in East Prussia, while the
Grmans continue their attack in cen
trail Poland. These operations, how
ever are secondary to the battle in
the Carpathians, the outcome of
which is likely to have marked eff
feet on future operations Of the war.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
MAT BALLANFANT
WILL PROBATED
LEAVES ESTATE THAT Is VAL
UED AT BETWEEN $4,000
AND $4,000.

The will of the late Mat F. Ballan-
FAINT was filed for probate this morn
ing with the county court clerk Arch
W. Lipscomb. Thomas H. PEBBLES
was named as the executor and has
so qualified.
Mr.. Ballanfant left to his nephew
and niece, little 10 Ballanfant and his
wife, Lula, his entire estate. They
are made practically the sole benef-
Charles. In case of the death Of both
Of them, then 10 Ballanfant, son Of
Eryl Ballanfant. shall have all Of the
real estate In case Of the death OF
the latter without issue before the
deaths Of 10 Ballanfant and wife,
Lula, then all of the property shall
be divided equally between the chill
dren of little Joe Ballanfant and Lula
and the children of Eryl Ballanfant,
which are still living.
The value of the estate is estimat-
ed at between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
ROCKEFELLER GIFTS
QUARTER Of BILLION
SAYS JOHN D., JR.
dAkES DRAMATIC PLEA FOR
HIS FATHER BEFORE IN.
DUsTRlAL COMMISSION.
STAGGERING TGTAL OF GIFTS
Defends Foundation As a Benefit to
Civilization. - Parties Questions
About industries That He and His
Father Control Jointly.

NEW YORK, Feb. John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., yesterday made 9
dramatic plea for his fathers right
to place in the sun.
There was percentage of sew.
nty-five deaths in hundred from
cerebro spinal meningitis" he said
when the Institute for Medical Re
search took up the study of the dis
ease. The discovery of a cure re
duced this to an average of twenty
five per cent in the 600 cases that
were treated.
Isn't it fair to say that here were
800 lives saved that otherwise would
have been lost? Later, the cure was
turned over for the general use Of
the public. My father thought he
was making a worthy contribution tC
the welfare of the world at large"
The young millionaire's voice
trambled as he made this statement
In reply to a question put by Chair
man Walsh, of the Federal Indus
trial Commission, before which
Rockefeller was again witness
throughout the day. So quiet was II
in the Board of Estimate chamber
in City Hall that one could hear the
ticking of a watch. The big crowd
bent forward as the witness in earn
est tones continued to outline the mo
tives which inspired his father to
establish the great foundations OF
wealth which was under attack.
"What is the total amount to date
of your fathers benefactions ask.
ed Chairman Walsh.
Fathers philanthropies have ex-
tended over a period since his early
boyhood," said young Mr. Rockefell
er. mo record has been kept OF
them. But If / might hazard a guess
they would approximate quarter OF
billion Of dollars"
He enumerated several of the
largest items in this staggering total
To the Rockefeller Foundation, $780,.
900, 900 has been given. To the Gen.
eral Education Board, $4,000, 900, to
the Institute for Medical Research,
100000, to the University Of
Chicago, $34,OOO,OO0.
do you think" asked Walsh,
that there has been more public
ervice through these foundations
than there would have been If Mr..
Rockefeller had given these sums to
the development Of the industries in
which he has interests"
my father" was the reply, "be-
Iieves that one of the best forms OF
investment is in the building up Of
he productive industries, but that
at the same time there are other re.
suits which can best be accomplished
by giving sums to educational and
similar institutions.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
$635.OOO BEET SUGAR
SEED FROM GERMANY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Beet su-
gar seed worth 635,OOO-115,0OO
bags have been bought in Germany
for American growers that the Amer.
lean crop may not suffer by the war.
W. L. Petriken, of Denver, repre-
senting the largest beet sugar com
panies, who bought the seed in Rot.
terdam from representatives Of the
German growers, called at the White
House today to thank President VIII
son for the cooperation Of the gov
eminent
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
CHICAGO HIT BY FOOT
AND MOUTH DISEASE

CHICAGO, Feb. shipments OF
cattle, sheep and hogs from the stock
yards were halted by agreement Of
federal inspectors and shippers to-
day, as a result of discovery of foot
and mouth disease.
DR.. A. w. Miller, in charge Of feder-
al inspection, said:
The cessation of business was
simply common sense agreement
not to buy cattle until 1t was safe"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
SENATOR FLEMING
GIVES. UP SEAT
EMOCRATIC LEADER SENDS
RESIGNATION TO GOVERNOR
sRALsToN.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 20
State Senator Stephen B, Fleming, Of
Fort Wayne, a democratic leader, to-
day sent his resignation to Gov. Rails
ton. He would give no reason for his
action, but it is known that he was
displeased with the action of the SEN
ate democrats, who, in caucus late
yesterday, decided to support the an
ti-lobby bill passed by the house on
Monday. The governor has taken no
action ON the bill.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
NEWS FROM HOME.

When the evening fain at the close Of the day.
An fellow labor, smoking his pipe Of clay,
There's nothing good be fortune down,
little country paper from his Old Home Town.
amt thing and its prints not always clean,
But straighens when fellos feen mean;
takes off an brushes off the frown
That little country from his Old Home Town
tells Of all parties and the balls of Pumpkin Row,
Bout spent with who's girl how the crops grow
An how fellow posted who's and who is down.
That little country from his Old Home Town
If~" ri .f~
Now, like the dalies and the story too,
And yaler and other trashdon you?
But when readn thatn brush frown,
want that little from my Old Home Town
Denver Post
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
ARM|tS|N THE WEST
ARE RESTING AFTER
DEMONSTRATES
INTEREST TRANSFERRED TO
THE EAST WHERE RUSSIANS
ARE ON OFFENSIVE.
TURKS REACH SINAI PENINSULA
Austro-G German Forces Are Trying 70
Dislodge the Troops Of the Gar
From Their Positions In the Car
pathian Mountains.

CAIRO, Jan. 30.-via London-The
Turkish outposts have reached the
vicinity of Tor and Kubri, on the Sii
mai Peninsula. Up to the present the
fighting has consisted only Of small
outpost clashes.
Tor is on the Gulf of Sues, about
140 miles south of Suez.
LONDON, Jan. 30.-With the ar.
mics in France and Flanders recu-
perating after the strenuous fighting
of earlier days Of the week and only
local actions being recorded, interest
in the war situation has been trans.
ferred to the Russian offensive in
East Prussia and the attempt of a
strong AustroGerman army to dis
lodge the troops of Emperor Nicho-
las from their positions in the Car
pathians.
In East Prussia Russian offensive
has developed in the extreme north,
where renewed fighting seems to con-
firm belief that definite effort to
advance north of the Mazurian lakes
district, where previously the Rus
SLAMS were defeated, has been decid-
ed on by the Dussian general staff
More vitol to both sides, however,
Is the campaign In the Carpathians,
where southwest of Dukla Pass the
Russians have delivered an energetic
attack. According to their account
of the combat they compelled the
Austro-G Germans to retreat, leaving
behind ammunition and stores. This
attack, according to military observ-
ers, indicates a Russian attempt to
turn the flank OF the Tenton allies.
It 1t should prove successful, observ-
ers say 1t would have serious conse-
quences for the large Austro-Germa
army in and about the Carpathian
passes.
Russian military experts anticipate
that the Austrians will deliver their
main attack with their extreme right
In Western Dukowina, aiming to
achieve a signal victory and thus give
Rumania cause to pause. The only
thing holding Rumania in check at
present, 1t is said, is uncertainty as
to what Bulgaria will do. Bulgaria,
it is asserted, still demands that part
of Macedonia, now under Serbian rule
as the price of her neutrality and
Serbia is reported unwilling to make
this concession.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
LiV.vER-LAx relieves all Ills OF
the Liver and Stomach. Get 1t from
STEPHENSON BROS. eAdvt)
HOBOES VOTE TO LET
DAVIS GO ON STAGE

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Despite
conflicting statements as to discon-
tinuance of the Hotel De Gink and
reinforcement of its founder, JEFF
Davis, If he filled vaudeville en-
gagement, it was settled yesterday
that the liking Of Hoboes" would go
on the stage and the hotel remain
under his management.
Davis is to give part Of his vaude-
vile salary to the fund for the hotel
A vote of the hotel inmates decid-
e teh matter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
rHE SILENT DRAMA.

Father, I want to go on the stage
do not be too anxious to push
yourself forward, my dear. Little
girls should be seen not heard"
"That fits it all ringht, dad. Il is
in the movies that want to act"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05

LIV.VER.LAx tones up the sys
tenn. stimulates the Liver to work In
harmony with the other organs
Guaranteed to give satisfaction.
STEPHENSON BROS (Aavl,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05

No need Tor calomel with its
nauseating effects. Llv.vER.LAx
Q happy In results.-STEPHENSON
BROS (Advt)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-05
BUILD THE FOUNDATION

BUILD The FOUNDATION
OF your house so 1t will last practi-
cally forever Upon its stability de-
ponds the character of the house.
Use our cement, sand, lime etc., IL
you would build for generation and
generation. You'll find it pays in
both a better building and in the
freedom from repair bills that al
ways follow the use Of poorer
materials.
Richardson Lumber Co.
Bel Phone lis Citizen Phone ISes
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
Used to Horrors.
Detroit Free Press. }

How completely the European war
has revolutionized humanity's ideas
continues to be revealed, even now
when the earlier appetite for news
from the battles has lost it's edge.
A year ago the country would have
followed with keen anxiety the re-
ports which told of mine explosion
burying alive or dead nearly 200
workers. The efforts at rescue and
the slow disclosure of the fate of the
entombed men would have absorbed
the attention of everybody. 1t is
probable that not more than a very
few newspaper readers now could tell
offhand where the mine is in which
the explosion occurred, and only an
occasional observer has followed the
subject closely enough to say wheth-
er the victims survived or were taken
out as corpses.
The dramatic sea story of the
French liner, La Touraine, adds its
testimony to the indifferences OF peo-
pie to thrilling events of the day. 1t
is the kind of news that used to set
nerves on edge, that produced an in
satiable demand for newspaper ex-
tras and made people stop on the
streets and exchange opinions about
the marvels of the wireless and the
perils of the ocean. Today hardly
anyone more than glances at it.
The world has been fed up" with
horror until horror has lost its APP
peal. With millions of men in war,
with daily figures of deaths by the
thousand before our eyes, with the
fate of nations in the balance and
stupendous events being acted that
will stand out wildly in all history,
what was sensational has sunk below
the level of the commonplace. 1t is
one of wars most evil effects that it /
blunts human sympathies with suffer- !
ing and makes mankind careless about I
Years will pass before the |
worlds people recover their former !
concern for one another. Compared |
to such a degradation of humanity's 4
best qualities, of what consequence is |
it that some colors will be changed |
on the maps or even that some local
lied shifting of allegiance to sover-
eign governments will be forced upon
individuals or communities?
The inhabitants of territory
brought by the war under new con-
troll will quickly adjust themselves to
the altered status, but how long will
t take to readjust the perspective of
is all and to regain the fellow feel
hs mat makes us kind?
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
ADMITS HE KEPT OPIUM.
Wong Lin, However, Denies He Had
1t for Sale.

New Haven, March 13.-With all of
the evidence which the United States
officials have accumulated to show that
Wong Lin, alias Lin Kee, proprietor
OF the Shanghai Chinese Cafe on State
street. Hartford, was engaged in the
manufacture and sale of opium at the
time the restaurant was raided by the
federal authorities last fall before the
jury, yesterdays session of the United
States district court, was adjourned
until Monday morning at 11:3O O'Clock
by Judge Edwin S. Thomas United
States District Attorney Frederick A.
Scott also summed up the case for
the prosecution and all that remains
is for Percy S. Bryant, the lawyer
Tor the defense, to present his sum
mary, followed by the rebuttaI of the
prosecution and Judge Thomas charge
to the jury.
Wong Lin, the accused Chinaman.
yesterday admitted that he had kepr
opium in the store, but merely for his
own use and not to sell. He declared
that he had nothing to do with Room
3. where it is alleged the opium was
made. He rented it, he said, to
Charlie Sing, who has since disap-
peared.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
Enptying the Jails.
(NeW York Press. J

1t would be a pity if, in the hurry
to shut down. the legislative mill on
schedule time, the MillS-Hoff bill for
simplifying the operation of minor
criminal courts in this city should
be sent to the junk pile.
The aim of this bill can best be
described by saying that it proposes
to empty the city prisons, as nearly
as that can be done. 1t is intended
to reorganze the magistrates and
special sessions court SO that those
accused of minor offesses may obtain
conviction or acquittal at a single
hearing and thus escape the neces-
sity of giving ball for remaining in
jail for days or even weeks.
1t is estimated that fully 1850
days of Imprisonment are needlessly
served here each year through the
present complicated system of an
examining trial before magistrate
and a final trial in special sessions.
Obviously those who serve them are
of the poorer classes, since If they
mad means they would give bail ana
SO nave their liberty until the de-
termination of their cases.
But the worst feature of it is that
many of them are guiltless OF the
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
A Woman'S RefOr1natOry.
(HartfOrd Post

If it is admitted that Connecticut
acted wisely in establishing q re-
formatory for first offenders of the
male SEX then there can be no valid
objection to the proposal for a similar
institution for women who come into
conflict with the laws of the state.
Jails are poor places TO attempt
reform We .lave never heard of a
single case wi1erean offender emerged
from Jail better man than he went
in. Jail influences are vicious Many
a young man has learned there habits
of evil of which he might have re-
manned ignorant had not he come into
contact in Jail with others more
hardened in crime and with all their
moral faculties stunted.
And this is even more true OF girls
who are making their debut into the
offender class The community
might as we'll condemn its hayward
girls to the lower regions at the
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
MAYNARD HOUSE BURNED.
Wife of Proprietor Injured-Property
Loss $4,000.

Old Lyme, March 13.-The May
nard house. with accommodations for
twenty guests and the Center Market,
were burned early today. Although
there were twelve persons in the hotel
and many of them were rescued in
their night clothes by means Of lad
ders only Mrs. D. O. Maynard was in
jured, she having slight burns.
The fire burned with intensity and
for time threatened the Maynard
House stables, the Old Lyme Town
hall and three dwellings,, the latter
being across the street. The total
property loss is $4,000, falling upuon
David O. Maynard, who has only
small amount of insurance. The fire
apparently started from furnace in
the hotel the door having been left
open as customary. 1t was first seen
by Mr. Touley, a bridge builder. Two
automobile fire engines ran here from
New London, sixteen miles distant,
and did effective work in saving the
stables. The meat market was man
aged by William H. Maynard
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
TO TOUR AUSTRALIA,

Washington, March 13.-Represen-
tative Gillett of Massachusetts, is
Planning to accompany Former Sena-
tor Burton of Ohio to Australia and
New Zealand during the coming sum-
mer. Senator Burton will sail for
South America March 20 and return
tc San Francisco in July. Immediate
1y afterward, if his present plans are
carried out. he and Mr.. Gillett will
sail for Australia and New Zealand. 1t
is pleasure tour, but Mr. Gillett said
he proposed to study governme
ownership problems particularly.