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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17

though foundry iron market Is very quiet sellers are confident that they will soon enjoy some of improvement which is coming to the finished mate rial market Merchant stacks report that specifications are going forward satisfactorily. Steel bar market is strong. Agricultural implement manu facturers who have been insisting upon heinz allowed to make contracts for their requirements for year beginning July 1 have now pretty generally GOV cred for six months. Pennsylvania railroad Baldwin Locomotive company and other large consumers are in mar ket for round tonnages. Some war business is still pending. Most import ant structural contract of week was fof Paducah and Illinois railway bridge at Metropolis calling for 1900 tons awarded 70 American Bridge company. Numerous contracts are developing in west but there is not much activity in eastern territory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
c\lIlMMIMc r0MT[cT OVIVIIvIIIvu UUIVILUi
 AT ATHLETIC CLUB
Exhibition Tonight Open To Public-Special Classes
 For Ladies

A special contest and exhibition to be held tonight at s:15 at the Athletic club will constitute the opening feature of the swimming season. Ladies are especially invited The event will be open to the public.
 The physical director, MT. Glow, will be in charge, and a number of skilled swim mers and athletes will participate. There will be demonstration of various strokes, one lap sprint, plain diving from spring board 1oO-yard dash plunge for distance 440-yard swim, boys relay race. candle race, under water walk, under water swim for distance, running high dive, one lap swim deg lap only), fancy springboard dive high diving (plain and fancy grand right and left from springboard and sev- eral comedy events.
 Swimming classes are being organized al the club, especial attention being shown the ladies who wish to learn the aquatic art. Instruction will continue through the warmer months. closing September SO
 At the first meeting of the 1915 admins tration at the club Tuesday evening the board of governors made especial pro- vision for the accommodation of the ladies swimming classes authorizing the closing of the pool, showers, dressing rooms and bowling alleys and gymnasium to all ex- cept the ladies between the hours of sS( a. m. and>1l:3 80 a. m. on Monday, Wednes- day and Friday of each week; and Vice President Harold McDermott was ap- pointed chairman of the committee fl charge of the ladies' swimming classes.
 Physical Director Glow will give specia instruction to the ladies and J. D. Beavin secretary of the club, will be at the com mand of all who desire information. Ex tra effort will be made in providing com forts and attractions for lady patrons O the institution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
SUGAR BEET CROP
 WILL BE LARGE ONE

Washington June 16.-This years sugar beet crop in the United States promises to be large one. The department of agriculture, today in it's forecast, based on June 1 condition figures, puts the yield at 6.290,o 900 tons.
 The area planted is 659300 acres. or 144,7o0 acres more than planted last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17

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 cates of the public utility commission bill are apparently imbued with a longing to take from the mu- nicipalities of Alabama Birmingham and all others--the right to govern themselves: are endeavoring further more to put the cities at the mercy of those corporations which might in the future be filled with a determination to do as they please, to laugh all law to scorn.
 It begins to appear, however, that the advocates of this bill will receive a humiliating lack of indorsement. The people of Birmingham and the people of all other cities are becom- ing aroused to the danger to the right of local self government lodged in the secret hooks and recesses of the vo- luminous document. g
 Yesterday, the citizens of the western
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
NEW DECATUR

New Decatur June 16.-(Special. Dr. P. c. Gaston, for a quarter. of a century a prominent druggist of this city, died here yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. B. shelton. He' had been i'll for some months and his recovery was despaired of Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow,
 with interment at Bethel, Tell. Dr. Gaston is survived by a sister, Miss Hat tie Gaston of Bethel, Tenn. brother,
 W. H. Gaston. and one daughter. Mrs.
 j. B. Shelton.
 Decatur lodge of Odd Fellows today
 purchased from Col c. c. Harris and T J Edwards trustees. the lot at 520
 Rank street the price paid being 3D.
 500. It is stated that handsome sti uc
 ture will be erected on the lot, the
 lower floor to be used as business
 houses and the upper floor as lodge room. The sale recalls the boom days
 of the Decaturs, at which time consider able property was bought for specula- tive purposes and held. The lot chang Ing hands today was purchased by coterie of local business men and had
 remained in their possession ever since. Col C. J. Hildreth. editor of the New Decatur Advertiser, and president of the state Press association, announced to- day that the editors of the state would
 meet at Montgomery on July 20 The meeting of the association Is to be coin- c;dent with the sessions of the legisla :, ture, the purpose being to press the en- 1 actment of certain laws which will havel its endorsement. The program of they meeting has not yet been made publici The Alabama Power company is spending several thousand dollars in | improvements here, according to an- rouncement today by T. l.. Beauchamp. local manager. Both the lighting and l gas plants will be enlarged and the big boilers at the engine house will be re- built
 l c. G. Thomson. a student of Howard college, at Birmingham, has accepted | a position here as circulation manager of the Decaturs Daily. Mir Thomson
 has had previous experience as news paper circulation builder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17

them during the night agains. strong counter attacks.
 Early this morning in the neishbor- hood of Ypres we successfully alta cked the enemys positlors north of Ho, ge (to the east of Ypres.) We occupied the whole of his first line of trenches on a front of 1000 yards and also parts oe his second line
 By noon today 157 prisoners had passed to our Tear. The German counter-attack has been repulsed with heavy losses '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
PROCLAMATION

The city cOmmi0siOn hereby gives notice that all owners and tenants of property will he required to imn,c ili- ateiy cut and keep free from weeds and tall grass the sidewalks abuttlng their premises. Where property is rent ed. the law requires weed cutting to he done by the tenants.
 Arrests will be made for violation of sections 4o6 and GOA of the city code, which cover the matter of cute t1ng weeds, on and after the 11st day of June, 1o1H
 GEORGE D. WARD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
THE WEATHER ehEl- " E-ss7 s7~Ha
Weather Forecast

Washington, June 16.-Forecast for Ala hama Florida Showers Thursday and probably Friday.
 Georgia Fair and warmer Thursday; Friday showers.
 Mississppi Fair Thursday; Friday showers.
 Tennessee: Showers and thunderstorms Thursday; Friday fair west, showers east
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
DECIDED IMPROVEMENT
 IN STEEL CONDITIONS
Heavy Buying of Railway Equipment Heavy Demand for Mu nitions and Improved Domestic Demand All Contrib
 uted to General Improvement of Conditions

Cleveland, O.. June 16.-(Special. )-The Iron Trade Review tomorrow will say:
 The heavy buying of railway equip ment by Russia and France, the continued heavy demand for munitions the mod crate improvement in strictly domestic demand for nearly all iron and steel products and prospect for development of large amount of business of various kinds in the near future have added very materially to decided improvement in con- ditions recently noted
 In the case of three leading rolled prod ucts--steel bars. plates and structural shapes-Carnegie Steel company and sev- eral of the largest independent concerns have advanced the quotations sl10 and are so well supplied with orders for the next three or four months that they are not seeking business for that period. It is also true that for delivery during the last quarter of the year mills are ex- tremely conservative in adding to their bookings.
 As the natural result of continued heavy demand for certain machine tools, espe- cially lathes and screw machines, prices on these machines have again been ad- vanced about 10 per cent and prices are now approximately % per cent higher than they were when war was declared. It is expected that at an early date prices on nearly all other machine tools will he advanced about per cent. Wages are being advanced by many machine tool manufacturers
 Operating Overtime
 Many plants are being operated over time and are finding it impossible to de- liver machines as rapidly as demanded by customers. Numerous concerns are figuring on going into manufacture of shrapnel but are finding it difficult to place orders for machinery. Domestic business not connected with the war con tinues to show moderate improvement Ir Cincinnati inquiries from Europe are not so numerous. This is probably due largely to the fact that all shops in the city are filled to capacity for several months largely from plants in this country which have contracts for making munitions.
 Equipment orders for Russia aggre- gating from S25,000,000 to $30, 900, 900 are now under formal contract and additional equipment for that country is pending. American Locomotive com pany has also taken 20 locomotives for Belgium and inquiries from other for eign countries are pending. There is very little contracting in cars and loco motives for railroads of United States. On foreign orders delivery at earliest possible dates is being urged. om- panies among which recent orders were distributed are preparing to turn out equipment rapidly as possible.
 Pig Iron Market
 In pig iron market activity has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17

clerk under Capt Reuben F. Kolb, com missioner of agriculture. When MT. Wade succeeded to the office MT. Bill kingsley retained the key to the postoffice box. The checks show that they were oashed by MT. Billingsley at least one month after MT Wade assumed office. The checks bore the indorsement of Capt. Reuben F. Kolb followed by the indorse- ment of Billingsley.
 Bllingsey disappeared about three months ago, and has not been heard from since reward has been offered for his arrest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
BRITISH CAPTURE BUT LOSE TEUTON TRENCH

London June 6s3o m)Sr
 
  positions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
Alaban1n's NelU LalOs

The Age Herald will publish the official certified copies of four newspaper pages of new Alabama statutes
 Monday June 21 1915 This newspaper the only the which publishes complete the of the legislature for the benefit of it's read Next Monday laws will include all which were passed by the early session of the present legislature heretofore approved and published All certified by secretary of state
 you wish extra copies of the issue containing these laws please notify your newsdeaer the circulation department of The Age Herald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
The report says;

The report says,
 Last week there was no change In the situation. The enemy exploded fl e mines on different parts of our front, but none of these caused any damage to our trenches and only one caused any casual ties.
 Yesterday evening we captured the German front line trenches east of Festu- bert on a mile front but failed to hold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
Pig Iron Market

In pig iron market activity has been confined largely to basic, for whicn some orders have been placed in Phil adelphia and Pittsburg districts. AL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17
Local Data
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made at Uni ted States weather bureau stations dur ing the 24 hours ending D. m., 75th me- ridian time, June IS, 1915:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-17

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The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15
FORUM OF THE
PEOPLE
Editor of The Hattiesbura News:

Editor of The Hattiesburg News:
I noticed in The News an article
which reads something like this:
Town 75. years old now has first
| church.
For the first time in its history,
extending over a period of rs years,
the town of Meadville has church. .
And the article goes on to say, "Dr.
A. F. Watkins, president of Millsaps
College, is back from trip to Mead
vile, where he went to dedicate a
new church just erected there.
"Meadville BECAME town three
quarters of a century ago, and this is
the first church of any denomination
to be established within her borders" :"
l wish to state just a few facts
for the old town of Meadville.
In the first place, the Ben Franklin
lodge, one among the oldest Masonic
lodges in Mississippi, two-story
brick building and the first story of
this big building is church,
with beautifully plastered walls as
white as snow and all denominations.
especially Baptist, Presbyterian and
Methodist, preached in that church.
! went to Sunday school in that old
brick church, chad to go in those
days), when I was a child nearly so
years ago. My father was a Metho
dist preacher, and he preached his
last sermon in that same old brick
church.
My father died in the old town of
Meadville, and the Rev. Ben Jones. a
Methodist presiding elder, conducted
the funeral service in that same old
brick church. After the funeral SER
vice by the presiding elder then the
good "Masons," God bless them, took
charge of my fathers body and laid
1t to rest near the old brick church.
instead of only one church in Mead
Vile and that Methodist, the Baptist
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

and Presbyterians both have nice new
churches there. In fact, Meadville has
four churches, and of this number one
OF them is the old brick church, which
was built 20 or rs years ago.
And such men as Ben Jones and
Godfrey and Fin and Sample and An.
drews and HUFF and Little, all preached
In the old brick church, and great
lawyers, such as Stocdale and Judge
Cassidy and his sons, Hiram and viii.
lie and Bert, all lawyers, and Judge
crismon and Mellen and Guice and
Judge PROXY and other great lawyers
worshiped God in the old brick church
in the old town of Meadville.
<g2 r1 G. W. Huff.
Hattiesburg. Oct. 10, 1915.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

through space arises from the fact
that wireless telegraphy is accomplish
ed through the production Of min.
uscle spark at the receiving station.
That spark being sufficient to produce
an effect upon extremely sensitive in.
struments at great distance, they con.
clude that at limited distance, of a
mile for instance, much stronger
spark could be produced; as that
spark is supposed to go through all
sorts Of obstacles they inferred that
1t could also pierce the steel shell of
engines of war.
TIN the first place no available DOW
er could produce spark Of sufficient
intensity; there isn't the slightest cal
oric power in the wireless spark at
the receiving end. In the second place
it would be necessary for it to strike
with absolute precision a Joint or fis-
sure in the plates in order to get into
contact with the explosive.
Different accidents enormously at
tributed to the wireless current may
have put some of these visionaries on
this false track. 1t was discussed
the Voluturno was not fred
1T sea ard if the explosion of the
French battleship lena at TouIon was
not provoked by wireless sparks The
Giffel Tower Wirelpss transmittinr q
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15
Edisons Claims Impossible
Declares French Scientist

Paris, Oct. 15.-Provoking explo
sion at distance by the transmission
of electric sparks is an impossibility
according to DR.. Edouard Branly who
In 1890, discovered means Of closing
and reopening an electric current at
a distance without the use of trans
hitting wire, which is the principle of
wireless telegraphy.
"The human Species" DR.. Branly
says, in talking 20 representative of
The Associated Press, ais paying a
sufficiently large tribute to science in
this war; it is scarcely worth while
to discuss the visionary powers that
are attributed TO it. 1t has increased
the flow of blood and the enormity of
ruins making international conflicts
more horrifying but there are things
it cannot accomplish, unfortunately.
Science sends the Lusitania to
the bottom of the Atlantic with more
than thousand human souls but it is
powerless, contrary to some preten-
tions, to cause the destruction at a
distance by electric current of the
engine which by the will OF man
caused disaster hitherto reserved to
the wrath of the elements. Neither
can it reach by radiating waves the
destructive engines of the air.
"The false notion of those who pre-
tend to transmit destructive power
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

FREE-Western Union time. sis
Main Street. 13-25t.p
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

station produces most formidabl,
sparks yet not the slightest acciden,
has ever been caused in the vicinity
ITO proouce explosions at dis.
tance something different from wire.
less electric currents must be found.
Most of the Inventions for this purpose
that have come to my notice when
thoroughly investigated were found TO
be connected with concealed clock
work and in no case when powder was
brought in by disinterested parties
were they able to provoke an explo.
sion.
fhere are great many 'chevaliers
d'industrie', or what you might call
confidence men, in English, who have
not hesitated to make profit out Of
the tension of the public mind by ex.
plotting pretended inventions of this
kind but no scientist worthy of the
name makes such pretensions. If
there were means of blowing up the
Ethel Tower from Berlin everyone
would know it. yet people are frequent
" swindled by supposed appliances
tor transmitting nergy-even available
Tor industrial enterprises, without a
They all want great deal
VI money; one asked for the modest
sum sum of twenty-eight million francs
one man who made the mistake of
me afterward instead of
'eIore, paid two hundred thousand
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

n recent eion where vote they are ac
FUSED e padding the ballot box Up long
ben I'd among women, to pad
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

farncs for an interest in an invention
of this kind. On my advise he had
the ground thoroughly examined after
demonstration and hidden wires
were discovered. The earth does not
transmit energy; there is nothing to
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15
WHAT THE BIG CREDIT LOAN WILL BUY

following
being solely
for o nj products
and
banks estimated
$23OO0OO0
North Dakota Nebraska Oklahoma
$OOo0OO
articles they will go to Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois,
$OO0OOo worth
Wisconsin Indiana
Missouri Illinois,
meat and dairy products they will
tobacco $5OOOO
will Wyoming Idaho
The above
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

be done in this line excepting by wire.i
"Tbe chaining of lighting to be
hurled by some ingenious device in'o
,bo face of the enemy is another dream
that must be forgotten. There Is nv
CONTINUED on Page SKI
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

Suppose milk teeth all Evening Suppose
bo wisdom teeth lost suppose
teeth Suppose our eye teeth went
blind
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15
WANTS

Rates in this column. one cent q
word each insertion, cash with order.
Count each aDDreviation. initial, street
number, etc. complete word. No
classified ads charged. No classified
ads taken over the telephone. No ad-
vertisement taken for less than 2s
cents. Further information cheerfuily
given at office. Both phones 1873.
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15

The moving picture show
York
recently the performances
c At FIRST reading that
long time The movies course
there over
to the world and the devil? Why
educate the people along right lines
Cottage
the getting the
erected the telephone connects up
all of the homes that similarly promptly dis
seminates the important doings Item
Nothing
dozens of girls in this every day.
III Albany Tmesnion th would
be church Do think
circumstances? Would
which this element entirely
News item that young patched getting
ed at Atlantic CITY, And pretty probably
patching the be taking
cut the stitches
milk all Evening SUM- Suppose
Well then suppose our
Nv teeth didn't Suppose our eye teeth went
blind,
recent election where vote they are ac
FUSED q padding the ballot box Up their long
ben q I'D among women to pad 81
The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-15
THE PRICE rs TOO HIGH


Decatur last week. .s+t
football midst
Interference" field
the
soa.
the
the piled
each other is the football game
The Young still Law
in
automobile sus-
tanned y. .
less han thirty he dead.
mpounate
his death too
the by the youth
the bufghng prizefghng
School has abolished football They should
Cousins Ford in the man.
ufactue automobiles thirteen
makes
this public public utter
with world
Importance Mr. Cousins he doubtless
the manufacture automobiles
thing
Of City upon time
when he ounterumper retail
nation He and ambitions
business put youth and it,
and his be-
hind the rarely get the
they Cousins
Of those
Cousins would Cousins
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-28

the Girth Of a waller ana at first the
docllity of an Arab. There was some
hin wrong with his feet-perma-
nently-but he was q considerable
beast and never had more than one
leg in hospital at a time. The other
three Were still movable and Tiglath
never grudCed them in my service.
write this IN justice to his memory:
the creaking of the wheels of the
municipal cart being still in my ears.
Fol a soason-some twelve days
Ttglath was beyond reproach. He
had not a cheerful disposition. nor
did his ptndulous under liz add to his
personal beauty; but he made no
complaints and moved swiftly to and
from Office. The hot weather gave
place to the cool hreezes OF
October and with the turn of the
year the slumhering devil in the soul
of Tiglath spread its wings and
crowed aloud, | fed him well, I had
aided his barsati, | had Tapped his
lame legs in thanda putties and
adorned his sinful body with new har-
ness. lie rewarded me ,upon a day
with an exhibition so new and strange
that | feared for the moment his rea-
son had hccn unhinGed. Slowly. with
a m~alevoicnt grin, Tlglath, the pam
pered, turned At right angles to the
carrlasc-a newly vanished one
ana backed h front wheels up the
Ncranda steps, letting them down
WIN a bump. lie then wheeled round
ana round in the portico and all but
brought the carriage over. The show
lasted for ten minutes, at the end of
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