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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-08-11
JULIET FEATHERSTUN

Mrs. G. w. Hamper visited in Me-
ridian recently.
Mrs. G. w. Darwin and two chill
dren, of Laurel, are visiting relatives
here.
Miss Minneola Henderson, of Me-
ridian, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mon
roe Smith.
Miss Ray Phillips, of Meridian, is
the guest of Mrs. B. F. Hines, on
Second avenue.
Mrs. w. J. Mothershead, of Nc
Comb, is visiting Mrs. j. II. Altman,
on West Laurel avenue.
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Miss Mabel ROlen has returned to
Laurel, after a visit to her aunt, Mrs.
Mathews.
So.
Lackey Stapleton arrived last night
from Panama and will be at home
several weeks visiting his parents.
49,:
Miss Eva Combs is in charge of the
Philathea library this week, while Miss
Lula Powell is taking her vacation.
$50:
DR.. and Mrs. Wesley Young, for
merly of New York City, are located
with Mrs. r. l.. Breland, on Mcleod
street.
Mrs. J. K Rowan and Miss Sarah
Frances Rowan, of Bogalusa, La, are
guests in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
r. Haney.
$3.50.
Mrs. B. f. Hines and Misses Ivy
Dallas, of New Haven, Conn, and Ray
Phillips, of Meridian, have returned
from a stay in New Orleans.
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Mr.. J. A. Robinson, of San Jose,
California, and mother, Mrs. Robinson,
Of McComb City, are visiting Mr.. E.
S. Robinson, on Jackson street.
So.
Mrs. J. d. Donald returned yester-
day from Chicago, where she has been
for the past two weeks. Miss Kath-
erin Donald remained in Chicago,
where she will study violin, returning
home in October.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-08-11


Mrs. H. M. Hanna. of Hattiesburg,
Miss, arrived Saturday and is visiting
at the Halhorne home, Valley Vista.
St---~~s, taken yesterday by her host
ftess on a motoring trip to
= = Us Mrs. Hanna leaves here
Sunday-The Beaumont (CaD Leader.
Mrs. A. X. Mclnnis' Dinner Party.
Mrs. A. X. McInnis entertained a
few of her friends at dinner Tuesday
evening at her home on West Pine
street
A bowl of verbena centered the rich
ly appointed table, where covers were
laid for ten, and tine six courses
served.
Mrs. McInnis' guests were Rev. and
Mrs. Charles w. Crisler, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. S. f. Tatum, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Scanlan and little Miss Elizabeth Sell
by, of Brookhaven.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-08-11
Evening Study Club Entertained.

Evening Study Club Entertained.
Miss Cecilia Foley was hostess to
a meeting of the Evening Study Club
on last evening, entertaining at her
home on Adeline street. All study
was abandoned and an informal eve
ming of pleasure was enjoyed.
On arriving, punch was served the
guests, Misses Mona Connors and
Mary Redmond at the punch bowl.
Tables for playing Hearts were ar
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
GOOD TIMES COMING.

'.Thc fashion makers say that mems trousers are to be made with full pockets next season. It may be true, but we wish to point out that the question of full pockets rests largely upon the determination of what the administration proposes to do to busl- ness during the period in question. Up to the present time it has been the sole democratic achievement to make mems trousers with empty in stead of full pockets. s.''-Ansonia Sen tinel.
 Possibly when the republicans are drafting their national platform next year they will accept this gentle sug- gestion and urge tailorS when manu- featuring $3 trousers to place a $5 bill nicely folded in the right hand pocket so that the purchaser may locate it upon the first search and realize what beneficent thing a na- tional platform is when made by real financiers. Who is there in this glor ious country who would refuse to vote the ticket under such conditions; why continue to Keep III pOWSi IiS party that has had trousers manu- factured with empty pockets? It might be a good plan to have some willing soul employed as sort of a clerk in every tailoring establishment for the purpose of interviewing the men with the new trousers as to how they like the ticket and to direct them as to the contents of the pockets lest in a moment of forgetfulness they neglect to, give full praise to tne Dartv which had so revolutionized the trouser trade and so skilfully pointed the way to prosperity. Why should there be any doubt as to the busi- ness revival? It's coming, boys, as snre as there is d tail on q cat. It
 is not going to be period of plenty of work. but a period of no work Why should any one labor when s5
 trousers with $5 in the pockets can l be purchased Why, under the re l publican banner the country will DC l full of trousers and money. The mil lenium is coming earlier than Wal | expected. The advance agent ha: l already reached Ansonla.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
McMILLAN--- 199-2O1-2O3 MAIN STREET

contribute to it's prosperity, should be welcomed by every reasonable means The six tenement block en- courages migration and thereby sub stitutes d shifting population for one attached to a locality, thereby also incidentally checking civic pride and destroying sense of district citizen ship. The wooden six tenement block discourages any attempt of the final and .just solution of the housing problem, because it allows the spec ulative builder whose interests arc only in turning over his money quickly, to do as he pleases, unit by unit, without any copsideration for general plan that would give poor peo- pie what they want without calling for so great a sacrifice of the per- sonal relations.
 Human greed will always be strong er than any altruistic attempt to take proper care of the housing problem and if we should allow this most per niciuus construction to be extended through New Britain and the outly- ing districts. we will simply have an- other repetition of the worst phases of the present six tenement district and that district itself will imme- diately sink to a low leEel, for ten ants naturally move out, go to a new place, to be replaced by a less desirable class. Ia fact, they will be New Britains slum districts.
 w r.. Brooks Is President.
 The following list of officers, sub mitted by the nominating committed, composed of Mrs. Buell. B. Bassette, Carl Ebbesen and Mrs I p. Russell, was elected.
 President-W William F. Brooks.
 Sccrctary--W. L.. Hagen.
 Treasurer-George $. Talcctt
 Chairman of lecture committee Carl EDbesen.
 Intelligence committco-Mrs I. r. Russell .--r
 Civic committce-Mrs. Buell l.. BaSsettc.
 Social committee---Mrs. w. 5. Mon tague.
 Membership committec-Mrs. Stan ley H. Holmes.
 Membership of executive commit tee-E. H. Prior.
 The annual report of Treasurer George & Talcott showed total re- ceipts of $294.l3. consisting of a bal ance on hand at the beginning of tho year of $5.S7, received from member ship dues s129. suppers SSS.G5, lec- lures S70.61 The expenditures were $24S.07 leaving balance on hand of $46.06. The clubs assets are $55.73.
 Reports were given by Secretary w. L. Hagen by Carl Ebbcsen, chairman of the lecture committee and Mrs. w. B. Montague, chairman of the social committee.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
The Drug Habit.
(Boston Post. )

Under authority of recent lcgisla- ton, the authorities of Atlantic City, N J., have confiscated the stocks of narcotic drugs held by dealers in that m municipality. The immediate effect Is seen in the appeal for relief on the part of persons addicted to their use.
 The manner in which this strenuous condition has been met is instructive, or at least suggestive. The municipal hospital, used only in case of epidem- ics or for the treatment of infectious diseases, has been placed at the dis position of physicians and there the "m morphine fiends'' are placed, not un- willingly but With their free consent The figures of the chief of police in- dicate more than a hundred of them already taking this treatment.
 The ban upon the free sale of these drugs is of national application. and the experience of Atlantic City may be a wide value. The habit should be regarded at a disease, not as a. crime; detriment from which it's victims should be relieved by the most careful treatment when the supply of their accustomed poison is cut off. Prohibition of sales is the frs+ step, but the cure of the habit must he found in the restoration of tbo physical and moral boise of the snf 1 ferers.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
Southern California's Show.
ls., Diego Letter to New orN
 Tribune.)

ISan Diego Letter to New ioi N
 Tribune.)
 The San Diego fair is hlghproW shou in 2 way. The beauty of It IS
 ,h+1e rather than didactic. 1ou can take the beauty or leave it. 1t IS not eouinp to the visitor: "Get thls you ;gnoramus This is more beauty than ,-ou ora used to- It occurred to me that if might make a man from Chao- ron Neb.. or from New York go pack home and see that maybe the Wall naner in the parlor wasn't what u ought to be and that the peoroo'ii carpet was all wrong. l*Spoke ol 'h's to one of the officials. He told me ahout a rich farmer from lmperlal, who visited the fair in January. Last week he came back and went to the administration building building. want bunch of pictures to take ha ok ;" he said. Pm building $5o'- GOO 1Souse. I had the plans made Tn December and I thought they were great stuff. Then I came down here. When I got back and looked at those plans again I saw how rotten that house really was. And I'm haVlng another set of plans drawn. l didn't have any idea that I was learning l something down here.' Which justl- l fes any fair. 1 H. o. Davis is general manager Of 1 the San Diego fair. To him, thlnk' l and to MT. Allen, the architect who 1 designed the buildings and planned ] the layout" the main credit Of the l fairs success belongs. Davis is an l Ohio man. who has been a veterinary 1 surgeon a traveller for dental SUD- 1 plies, Chicago mail order man, and 1 until last year a hog-raiser near 4uba l City, in the Sacramento valley. A lot of San Diega business men don't like l him, because he goes ahead without
 playing to the petty vanity that is l part of the Southern Californian $
 makeup. But he has kept graft out
 of the fairgrounds and has put the ex-
 position on paying basis. For all o
 which he take no credit to himself
 doesn't talk about what he has done
 and instead of insisting upon pointing
 out Interesting" stuff about the fai1 to d newspaper man, he gets tht newspaper man a tennis opponent ane sets him on an asphalt court at Cor l Onado Then he akeS him for d for
 ty-mile automobile ride into the bacl , country setting him this time in al orange grove and allowing him to ca Z his way out.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
AID CLUB MEETING.
l.. F.. Pratt of New York to Speak
 Ebert Hubbard Coming

Lewellyn E. Pratt of New York. chairman of the educational commit tee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World viii address the Charter Oak Ad club Friday evening. in Hartford The associated clubs now number one hundred and forty, with membership Of 11,000.
 MT Pratts committee is made up of ninety-fice newspaper and advcrtis- ing men in as many cities of the United States, Canada Australia, and Hawaii A research was made last December under its direction. The members of the committee resolved themselves into voluntary invcstiga- tors of business conditions and made reports from their respective towns based upon Information furnished ~ three leading stores selccted from four lines Of business, viz: depart mcnt. drrg hardware and grocery stores The Information was collected by expert statiSts in Minneapolis and within less than three weeks an elaborate book of forty-six pages was written, published and placed in thc hands of publishers and advertisers all over the country for thei" guidance in planning advertising and sales cail- pu'gns
 Another sub committee nas devoted its attention to educating the public. Through it's efforts a single reel nloV- irg picture play entitled "Mr. Noads .Adlees Day" was shown in the theaters of nearly every American ely during tl.e fali an3 is now on it's way around the world TEe committee Is offering Q prize of st00 for another photo-play on some phase Of advcr- Using. 1t is planned to produce this play before the annual convention or the Associated clubs in Chicago in June.
 Mir. Pratt's address will show the service which the association is trying io render the local clubs and he will endeaypr tD point out how the Char ter Oak hd club can hclD materially il this service.
 Ebert Hubbard has agreed to ad dress the Charter Oak Al club at Sumc future date.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
Transporta ton Needed.

One of the greatest problems con- fronting the city is the health of it's inha bitants. Here We have a majority of the problems in one, the play grounds, sewage disposal plants, pure water, housing, morals, street clean ing. and street railway extensions and a dozen other problems under the problem of health conservation.
 Without proper sewage disposal you cannot have a healthy community, neither can you have a healthy com mt,nity if you have not supply of
 u,o water, Unsanitary housing L.aods disease Immoral people not
 ,,1, hava diseased minds but diseased hodies and again you cannot cope with the present houslns problem without being confronted Wllh the lack ,se se+ranenortation facilities and thus I c,,,,,a go on indefinitely showing the ,e1, tion of many aity problems to the
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24

one problem of health.
 People do not wilfully sacrlhce themselves to disease, but through ignorance conditions are allowed to exist that furnish breeding grounds for disease, and the most dreaded disease, tuberculosis, finds many Vlc-. tinls among overcrowded tenement blocks s
 Recently 1 visited several tenement houses, I found conditions existing that were almost unbelievable. In one tenement l found ten people living in two rooms. Of the ten resi- dents of this tenement, seven were found sleeping in one room. In an other tenement of two rooms lounu two married couples and four boarders living. In another tenement of three rooms, I found ten people living.
 Fire Hazard Problem.
 The fire hazard problem in our city reached an acute stage some time since and your city government is endeavoring to cope With the Slt- uation by passing ordinances prohl- biting the erection of certain classes of frame blocks in any part Of the city. The six tenement block is not an economic necessity It has grown up almost wholly through the efforts of the speculative builder who IS 1 more interested in building and dls- 1 posing of a poorly constructed house and getting his money back on the l land than he is any real study or 1 the housing problem, and Wherever l this problem has been worked out III 1 :. scientific manner, the wooden block ! has never received any serious con l sideration.
 Nor is the cost of the wooden six 1 tenement block q determining factor l in the discussion Flgures or cost l which show that the excess of proper l construction over the wood which IS 1 now used so indiscriminately, less 1 than per cent. on building cost ing s7.5OO. This slight excess is more than counterbalanced by the annual saving in upkeep and by the
 increased life of the structure, so that again by insisting upon better con- 1 struction you are not increasing the i burdens of cost but in the course of
 a few years you are distinctly lessen l ing it.
 l Another consideration which |
 would ask you to most urgently con- sider is the effect of the wooden six l tenement block on neighborhood.
 Such a building begins to depreciate
 the moment it is finished. This means
 that the very poor who ought to nave
 our intelligent help, who are least cap able of helping themselves, have to | take the neglected leavlngS Of the | class above them, instead Of belnS 1 intellgently housed as they should
 be within their means. It means
 also that a neighborhood is ruined 1 for any permanent improvement.
 The third other important objec-
 tion to the six tenement wooden block | is a. social one I am sure that you
 will admit that anything which tends to raise the self-respect of the work
 ing people, to increase their love of
 their home, to make them feel part
 of the soil, to give them sense of ownership in the city and desire 10
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
LADIES' A. Q H WHIST.

The Ladies' Auxiliary to the A. O. H. held a pleasant whist and social last evening in Eagles hall The whist prizes were won as follows: Ladies': first, Miss Jeanette Edginton: second, Miss Anna Reeves; third, Mrs. Charles Mccarthy; gentlemen: first, James Ralph; second, James O'Leary; third, James A. Duffy. An appetizinS lunch cor, was served after the whist.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24

A man of 39 died of heart disease on the golf links of Eliza beth, IN. J., just before completing the course. He was too young for golf. It is a game for old men-Waterbury American.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
A l. lls lot better than cure.-Ansonia Sentinel

A man of 39 died of heart disease on the golf links of Eliza beth, N. J., just before completing the course. He was too young for golf. It is a game for old men.-Waterbury American.
 That the raising of cattle in tbls state has been neglected because It Is being done on a larger scale anu under different conditions elseWhere does not serve to prevent a person from entering that business. Because sheep raising is not carried on as ex- tcnsively as it was at one time, 1t does not follow that it cannot be done at a lrofit and therefore ought not to be engaged in. Connecticut has not got tu the point where it attempts to regu- late an industry on the basis of the profit or loss that may or may not follow.-Norwich Bulletin. -
 It is natural that one should think that the product of his own state or section should be the finest of it's kind in the world but not only do the epicurean experts of this state assert that the Connecticut river shad is the finest fish that swims but those gour- n1cts of other. lands who have sampled the sole of Europe, the pompano of New Orleans, the kingfish of Florida and the Whitefsh of Superior and the other water delicacies, declare the Connecticut river shad to De supreme. The people of this commonWeal lth eagerly await the coming of May cay that they can have the first of the shad-Meriden Journal.
 Those who are familiar Nl'h 'ii. @ work of Coroner John J. Phelal WiAi have no sympathy and little put TIT patience for the fling at the cololi0i taken by the eminent counsei lor 'iio accused Mrs. Angle. following her ac- uuittal. The assumption when MiS' Angles counsel sought to make was that because she refused to answer questions put to her by the coroner Ill his hearings on the death or w. '' Rallou. a charge of murder was ol necessarily. lodged against her. U. dces not seem that this was so put admitting it for the sake of argument was not Mrs. Angle then very poorly advised? If the answering or 'he coroner's questions would nave saVeo her all the anxiety, publicity ana sA- nense of being tried for murder then ;t was the height of bad judgment on tho nart of herself Or her advisers to adont a policy of refusing to answer tl,e. coroner.-Bridgepo Telegrahi'
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24

The great chiefs of Connecticut were entertained at the meeting of Indian o.a council, D. of F., last evening at their meeting in Judd's hall.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24


 hst the bill is that
 mean two elections
 le. as the .bill called
 Fall election machinery
 kries Those,.. however,
 d view seem to overlook
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 4ndidates, but it would
 pncst elections by req
 Ethe candidates would
 Eli the people want. Of
 H always room for those
 D sell their votes just the ere is for those who want bf1a Where the right kind n law exists corruption has aced to minimum and here iecticut whatever complaints Rrc have been generally directed Ees .caucuses, some of which nave said to be bit off color, inas- Ehch as questions have been raised
 
 open accusations have been made as to who was responsible and how the thing was done.
 Every possible precaution should be taken to prevent corruption at eau cuses and at elections and the pr1- mary is the thing to do it. Every per son should have the privilege of say ing who he wants for public office and it is more important that he should have this privilege than that he should be guaranteed protection in the cast ing of his vote at the polls. Some peo-> pie look at this matter in a different light and some of those who have that notion are in the Connecticut senate.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
FACTS AND RANCHES.

The Prince of Wales, wno, accord ing to popular opinion, has been something of q prig, is llkely to achieve popularity by having said the other day, Or at least being quoted as having said when an apology was made to him for some slight violation of court etiquette: "Oh, hell, what Zoos it matter?' If his mother hears of it she will certainly want to shut him up as a naughty Waterbury American.
 This spring is no different from others as far as the automOblllsts oi inc state are concerned. The h1gh- ways are not as soft as usual owing 1o the dry period during this month, but the surface of the roads re1naln as heretofore and rubber tires will have to iron dowr the trap rock coating put on every spring It is harG on rub Ter shoes to be sure but after a few ,oonths the surface becomes smooth.
 -Middeltown Penny Press.
 If there were time and disposition to think of usual things, the observer would note that nature is herself, in the same old way this spring, as ever. Day by day. the sun rises higher, the same as usual, in due time the spring phenomena will follow and develop l into summer, just the same as usual. 1 There are some eternal verities upon " hich we can count, in spite of the l terrible strain in human affairs, and 1 he, thankful.-NorWich Record.
 ] If seems to be the general opinion l among residents of the associated l communities that the recent order f providing that dogs be kept tied up l was a greater example or zeal on the ] part of the officials than of discretion I The feeling is natural under the cir
 cumstances but it must be remem-
 bered that the officials proceed on the ! theory that timely prevention is 2
New Britain herald., 1915-03-24

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New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
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