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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
CHILD LOST IN DESERT.

Plotting himself through the I'M
marked mountain raVincs, sand
drifts and washes OF the Mojavc dcS-
ert, Frank Scott, 3 years, who was
lost, reached home alone and IN
hurt
Threading his way safely through
ten miles Of country infested with
mountain lions, catamounts and
coyotes, the child missed scores Of
men out searching for him and
reaching the house of his mother,
widow of a ranCher, and finding it
deserted, he undreSSed and went to
bed. The mother, returning home
before dawn, exhausted from a
search lasting more than thirty six
hours and covering miles of desert
country, found the child peacefully
asleep in his cradle bed
Very tired, he murmured
when she took him up in her arms,
and then went to sleep.
The child was out with his moth
er on wood hunting expedition
eight miles from home. He was
playing among some mountain
boulders when last seen. Within
twenty minutes Mrs. Scott missed
him. Then began frantic search
The country is much broken and
the hunt was in vain, and Mrs.
Scott summoned every desert resi-
dent she could find. Many men
went from here to join the search
and bloodhound was brought by
Sheriff MCLai1l, of San Bernardino.
The search was kept up a day
and night by nearly 200 men, Mrs
Scott leading one party herself
And all the while the child, seem
lngly guided by a kindly fate, was
making his own way home by paths
that only his own baby feet knew
! tor not one among the searChers
saw even footprint of his home
ward trail .-Nictorville (Cal.) Dis.
! patch.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
Plenty o. Room.

The young man who writes verses
was StAr'!iH@ Dat in the night gazing
ut the sky when Il friend ran across
him.
what are you doing-studying Gs-
tronomy:"
go away and don't disturb me.
am gazing into infinite distance"
Il don't see what satisfaction you
find in That
'Thats because you never had any
experience with editors You don't
know what Il comfort it il, to find some
place where nothing is crowded out
for lack Of space. "-LOndOn Tit Bits.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
LEAVES ARE TURNING

Autumn, officially speaking, is
two weeks away, but she has sent
her sign painters in advance to an
nounCe her coming. Take a run
out in the Park, and you II see here
and there a tree whose leaves are
touched with yellow and red. Go
further out of the city for a spin
along a mountain road, and high
up on the hillside you'll see vel
low spot Standing Out prominently
IN field of deep green. Yes, the
leaves are beginning to turn.
Many persons suppose that the
leaves depend on the frost for their
autumn hues, but this belief is false
on the face of it; else where there
are no frosts there would be no col
ored leaves. The leaves virtually
turn and die of old age.
That s why you II find some trees
turning earlier than others. The
sap leaves the foliage earlier and
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11

allowed to go to high schools and
from there to our State University
partly government school, and
opened to all by the, Constitution.
All Colorcd people are expected
to obey the laws; arc taxed equally
along with all other citizens, pun
ished if they do wrong, sentenced
and hung if the crimes are fcloni~
Gus. How can they measure up to
useful men and women, if cduCa-
ton fits the whites for it, and is
excluded to thcm' If Mr.. Marsh
really believes colorcd people, every
one OF whom has his peoples blood
in them, are God 5 outCasts, he will
sin not to ignore them, but if he
believes God is Just, and that Ne
gro children are His as well as the
whites, and that heaven is for all
who do right, and the better all are
prepared to live the better they arc
prepared to die then if he improves
the whites and neglectS the Colorcd
Woe be to Mr. Marsh
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
If Animals Could Speak.

1T is Il startling fact that if some ami.
mails could tell their life history they
would be able to recall events which
happened hundreds of years ago. A
RusSian ca"lI. for instance. would be
able to remember watching with
greedy eyes rs one by one the French
soldiers under Napoleon fell exhausted
out Of the ranks in their awful rctreat
from Moscow in 1872. There are crOc.
od:ics alive in India today which saw
the first English traveller set foot there,
while there are whales; in the sea which
may have Skirtcu Tie coast of France
When 1t Was invaded in l4i5. \ great
many elephants could recall historical
events OF hundred years ago. while
there are rlvcn& still living whose
memory could go back twice thai pc.
TiOd.--LOnuOn Answers.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11

The Wheeling Register congrat-
ulates itself in the assertion that
jewellers will never induce red
bloOded Americans to wear watches
on their wrists. Does the Register
think those of black blood will?
Can the Register, or any other per
son tell the color OF people by their
blood? True however, they may
not wear watches on their wrists,
but about five hundred years ago,
the fathers of these superior red
bloodcd Americans, wore brass col
lars around their ncCks with their
masters names carved on them
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
Tie Anethyst.

A good example of one Of the ways
In which magical properties became
attributed to natural objects is the
stone known as amethyst. The an
cicnt Indian name Of this stone had
the sound represented by its present
name. In Greek this sound happens to
mean "anti-winc;" hence, without more
ado. the ancicntS declared that the
amethyst was Il preventive of and q
cure for drunkcnncSS!-Lond Mail.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11

The Pioneer Press never thought
well Of the primary system. The
old patriotic method of nominating
candidates was and is the best way
in the world to select the best men
AS it is, persons unknown except
on paper, are voted for with no
known merits But when men come
together in conventions and merit
is Numbered to the four winds Of
this broad land, the public knows
who who. AS for fraud, there is
no better method. BY all means go
back to the stateslnanly way Of
nominating candidates. Because
men know men throughout the
States and know their worth so well
that their defense by honest men
with souls burning for right, dem
onstrate their latent powers as moth
ing else can.
AS to the old time simple ballot
short and to the point, gives the
poor honest tOiler, who may not be
SO we'll educated, a correct idea Of
what he is doing AS it is, it is
nothing less than a puzzle, that
many supposedly educated voters
get into hot-watcr.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11

DR.. Victor G. Naughn's assur-
ance that the average length of life
i'll the United States has been in
creased ten years since 1880 makes
cheerful reading. Coming from a
man who has been president of the
American Medical Association, the
information is doubtless exact, but
it may be easily misunderstood.
Doctor Vaughn does not mean that
ten years have been added to the
ordinary mans life. On the con
trary, there are plenty of figures to
prove that life has been cut short
rather than heightened from the
station fifty years and onward. The
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11

With its issue of July 81, 1915,
The Gazette entered upon it's thirty
third year of continuous publica
ton, every week on time Having
been in the editorial harness 50
long we feel like the dean Of the
Afro American press. - Cleveland,
Ohio Gazette
If the deanship goes to age, this
paper, established March 2, 1882
and entered on its Saith year last
March, it belongs to us, but, since
you have been so faithful and done
SO much at'your editorial desk and
in the Ohio legislature, we are will
ing to cast the first vote that you
have and hold the dcanship, not for
age, but better, for services rend-
cred, and that nobly
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
In Sympathy.

Inc two men had met ut Il dinner
party and were talking in corner by
Themselves
Y on see TINT tall woman with the
sharp nose and the critical eye" ask
ed one of them.
~ s, said the other quietly.
well, I've watched her for ouits
awhile. She's always got her nose
into somebody's business. She's the
last woman I'd marry"
Which shows how strangely In sym.
pathy we are said the other without
resentment. She's the last woman I
aid marry."-Exchange.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11

WANTED---A colored woman
for first class boarding house, to
cook and help generally. Good
wages and room furnished. Also
want two colored girls to do wait
ing or help i'll dining room and do
light chambermaid work. Write
or come right to work Walter
Hartsrove, Jefferson House, Shen-
andoah Junction, w. Va.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
HONEST PRESS CRITICISM.

II the Ogden contempt case is to
be made a precedent, it seems that
our newspapers must be most cir
CumSpeCt as to any and all COM
mcnts they may be moved to make
on cases that may be under consid-
Grafton by federal court, no mat
ter how nearly such a case may
concern the dignity and power Of
the state government, and no mat
ter what prOVOCatiOn of unWarran-
ted attack on that power and digui-
ty may have been made by a for
elgn corporation seeking to nullify
the decree of one of the states I'M
portant agencies of government. 1t
is to be hoped that the outcome in
the Ogden case will be as clear a
vlndlCatlon of the freedom of the
press to utter honest criticism as to
matters Of public interest as was the
outcome in the Barnes Roosevelt
case.
Mr.. Ogden deserves the support
and appreciation of the people of
the state generally and in particular
the support Of the inhabitants of the
northern counties who were given
| a reduction in their gas rates, which
prompted a malicious and scandal
lOus attack from the gas company
because of such reduction, which
attack has been continued unrelent-
ing in a despicable attempt to dis
credit and destroy the influence of
those public officials who were alert
to the interests of the people. No
one is more deserving of hearty sup
port of the public than Mr.. Ogden
who, through his Wheeling news
papers, has exposed to public gaze
the means and methods Of big bus
mess interests to get men who
happen to stand in their way. 1t
would be a matter Of astonishmcnt
IT the gas company agents would
be enabled to use our courts tC
prosecute fearless editors, who can
not be controlled or bought. The
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11

1t is alleged that Secretary Marsh
is determined to make war on illit-
eracy in this state. Good thing if
done right. Bad thing if done
wrong. 10 do it right, that is to
please God, is to show 10 partiality,
except to do more for colored chill
dren than for white. Why? Be
cause by bad laws they have been
ignored many never, owing to
only a few living here and there,
not allowed to go to school. And
for no other reason: those who have
to go to one horse schools, are not
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
Idle Dream.

poor dad! Sister told him that the
girls Of her class are going to grad
uatc IN dollar gowns"
"Wcll. what about poor dad?'
"IIc thinks Il dollar is all he will be
called upon TO give up."--Kansas City
Journal
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-09-11
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1915

Once again, thank God for Will
son Wheeling Register Ne
groes are hungry, but they can t
Join YOU in swallowing such soup.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

Ed Hood, of Emmet, was here to- day seeing friends and attending to business matters. MT. Hoods Prescott friends were glad to note his improv- ed condition.
 The Missionary Study Class will meet with Mrs. Few Monday after moon at 300 o'clock. All members are requested to bring an item of Indian work.
 w. O. Hays and family drove over to Prescott in their new machine Sat urday evening to spend the night and Sunday with Mrs. Hays parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Ingram.-Oklona Mes senger.
 Miss Annie Hatley will teach a class in drawing water color and oil painting. If interested please tele- phone her as to place, terms and hours. She will also take orders for pictures. Advt.
 Mrs. Chas. w. Gordan and daughter. Miss Glayds Gordon, after several days visit in the city returned to their home this morning in Morrilton, Ark ansas. While here they were the guests of Mrs. H. B. Mckenzie.
 About twelve automobiles bearing Hope fans came up yesterday and wit messed the game of ball between the Hope All Stars and the local team. Hope has a large number of good ball players and a large number of real base ball fans.
 It is now stated that repairs on the break in the gas main may not ho~ir. before Tuesday. Red river has reced- ed seven-tenths of foot ana there IS yet about six feet of water over the break. More rain is also reported as having fallen in Oklahoma and the river is expected to be slow in falling.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

A. A. Woodul, of Sutton, was ming ling with our peaple today.
 FOR SALE-One second hand John Deere Mower and rake.
 H A. Hamilton & Go.
 The Prescott Band will give a few concert on Tuesday evening, June 22nd at 8:3O, on the Court House Lawn. Everybody cordially invited.
 Our Stock is complete, our delivery quick. try our service Douglas Brooks & Co.-Phone 157.
 Ali Jones, one of Prescott's young men who is now making his home at Stamps, Arkansas, came up yesterday afternoon to spend few days visit with relatives and friends. LOST-Lavallier set with sapphires and pearls at Salem or on the road leading from Salem to Prescott Finder will return to me and receive reward.-Mark M Smyth. Advt.
 We will pay cash for empty Chop, Corn, and Oat sacks..-Douglas Brooks & Company. Advt.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.

Sunday School at 9:45 a. m. Preaching by the pastor 11;00 a. m.
 Epworth League service at ' pm. Preaching by the postor at 8 pm. Mid-week service Wednesday p. m. Good music, a cordial welcome and an effort on the part of pastor and chur- oh to do you good
 B. A. Few, Pastor.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
Local News,
Go to church tomorrow.

Go to church tomorrow.
 Fair Saturday and Sunday.
 Miss Dorothy Shaver, of TeXark- ana, is here for visit for friends.
 For Sale-Pony, buggy and har- ness.--O. H. Helbig. Advt.
 Let Harrell & Hamby do that elect rical work for you. Advt. w. R. Thornton, of Rosston was a business visitor to Prescott today.
 Get the salty habit, learn to swim at the Natatorium. advt. , H. J. Wilson, Ritchie Company's salesman, was at Boughton this morn ing.
 If you have a job of electrical work that you want done see Hamby & Har- rell. Advt.
 | 0OIlle out anu IlSetI IIlc Dlllu SOllSSl | Tuesday evening, June 22, at S:30. Court House Square. FOR SALE-Underwoo No. Type writer practically new at bargain,
 SAM o. LOGAA. Encourage our band boys by attend ing their concert on the Court House Lawn Tuesday evening at S:30.
 We will make you the right kind of estimate on any kind of electrical work.-Harrell & Hamby. Advt.
 Squire B. r. Shell and two sons, Ot- ta and Vernon, of Emmet route num- two, were visitors to Prescott today. Try an order of our fresh bulk Cook ies. they are Extra High Quality Phone 157.-Douglas Brooks & Go. s4a .ss--~- r-s.s =saSsSsasrss7sv rS2f~ss It would hardly be fair to say that a man who owed for his hat was lover head and ears in debt.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
Cheer Up!
That Tired GrOuchy 4 ceiling Means a
 Lazy Liver

Liv-N Ner-LaX will clear you out, and make you feel fine and dan dy again. It is just as effective as calomel but has none of it's well known disagreeable after effects.
 Liv-Ver-Lax eliminates poi sons, cleanses the system, and relieves constipation in thor Ough but pleasant manner. A little taken regularly, means con- sistent health and no doctor bills.
 Guarantee. Every bottle bear ing the likeness of L. K. Grigsby is guaranteed to give satisfac- tlOn or your money will be re- turned. For sale here in soc and $1 size bottles at IIesterly Drug Store.
 For Auto service phone 65.-S. Gautsche. Advt. 5-25
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

Mrs. Jno. C. Mum and son Master Jno. C. Mum, of this city went over 1 Okolona today. Mrs. Mum will teach a two months school at Rome, Clark county. She will return to Prescott and take her class in the school here in September.
 Judge George R. Haynie who has been in TeXarkana this week holding Miller county circuit court came home this morning and will spend Sunday with home folks. He will return to TeXarkana Monday when court will Ire-convene.
 The w. l. T. Y. Club is entertain ing with matinee party at the Gem this afternoon in honor of one of its former members, Miss Dorothy Shaw er,of TeXarkana. Out of town guests of the club are Misses Warrick, Van Buren; Manard, Warren, Arnold, Tex arkana.
 Prescott was defeated in a game of ball here yesterday afternoon by the Hope All Stars. The game was d good one and up to the fifth there was only one run made and the visitors got that one. The game was a good one throughout and notwithstanding the fact that it was the first game this season by the locals they played ex- Iceptionally good ball. The result at the finish was to l in favor of the visitors. Mitchell of Hope made the only home run.
 The only case in which it is impos- sible to be slow but sure is a watch.
 The time to possess your soul in pa tlence IS when your hat blows off and your eyes are too full of dust to see which way the wind carried it.
 Sky blue is pretty color for cell | ings, but not pleasing in country milk it ten cents quart.
 And what would you do, dear,if we were attacked by great big wolf ?"
 While the wolf was eating you Grandma, l would run away" Little Riding Hood.
 Well, my little man. what good deed did you do today?"
 T gave ragged little boy a thent, Pop. Wathn't that all right?"
 What did you give him a cent for ?' ! "F'r lickin' another boy"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
MISS DUNAWAY ILL

Monroe, La, June 18.-Miss Hettie Jane Dunaway of Conway, Ark, who gave a reading at the Monroe chautau- qua last night, was taken suddenly i'll during the night and was removed to a sanitarium, where she underwent an operation today. Her future chautau- qua engagements have been cancelled.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

Oh, tell us, MT. Lansing,
 And make no trite excuse, If you, too, are addicted,
 To useing merely juice"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Sunday school at 10:00 a. m. The contest between the Reds" and "Blues" is arousing great interest, and the competing sides are meek and neck" in points.
 R. L. Blakely, Supt.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

Columbus (Ohio Journal.)

Columbus (Ohio Journal.)
 One of the saddest phases of all hu- man experience is the way a man, just about the time he succeeds in get ting his brain developed to the point where he might accomplish something with it, finds that he has to devote all his attention to his teeth, stomach and legs to keep going at all.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
Dr. Samuel B. Gee
 SpECilIST
PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS.

Peary admits that Croker land may be an illusion of the atmosphere Wonder if his discovery of the north pole was the same ?-knoXville Jour nal and Tribune.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
BUSINESS MEMS BIBLE CLASS

Every man not attending some other Sunday School is invited to be in the Business Mems Bible Class at the morning at o'clock No questions asked.
 Mark M. Smyth, Pres.
 Harry Morton, Secretary.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

News of Mexican "'ictory" should read: "taptu te1 town and small amount of the starving rcople's prov isions &-Atianta Constitt tion
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
Tut! Tut !!
Kansas City Journal.

The Presidents warning that blood shed in Mexico must cease carries out it an intimation that if it doesent it will be followed by more.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

Up in an airship Billy wore His wacth-the artful guy And to his satisfaction proved That time could surely fly.
 Memphis Commercial Appeal. Bill does not care for company When he is in miseree; When he is dry he does not want The town he's in to be.
 Houston Post. Oh, tell us, MT. Lansing, And make no trite excuse If you,too, are addicted,
 To useing merely juice" With nine hundred and fifty million bushels of wheat to be harvested, trere isn't any danger of short biscuit crop next winter.
 There's one thing that was never seen 'comin' through the rye" re- marked old Gayboy, land that is the wry look a Frenchman gives Ger man nowadays"
 After man and woman are made one comes the question, (Which one ?" which it sometimes takes years to set tle"
 It Is on the record that Adam, the first man to receive a land grant, died poor man.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

The effort to maintain " strict ner- trality js imposing great stram oh the Ntll-knoWa residence of Sp9a"F ark. -Kno>vlIn Sentinei.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19
Money to loan or i71- proved farms. - R. 4. Biskely. AdVf. #

Coal is one of the most condrictory articles known to commerce; when purchased, instead of going to the buyer it goes to the cellar.
 Still cutting hair and shaving at the West Side Barber Shop.-you are next.-Cragan & Cummins Advt.
 Advertising for wife is about as futile as being measured for an um- brella.
 Jack Johnson, Jr., has the July Ladies Home Journal for sale. Call 242 and he will bring you one. Advt.
 Fresh shipement Swift Premium Boiled Hams, Breakfast Bacon and Dried Beef, we slice it for you. phone 157 Douglas Brooks & Co. Advt.
 R. L. Blakely will leave tomorrow afternoon on a trip to New York City, where he goes to attend the annual meeting of the Southern Field Club of the Mutal Life Insurance Company of New York. MT. Blakely will re- present the Arkansas agency force at this convention, being the only de- legate from the state.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-06-19

Mr. Brayns statement about thenote reing modified aftcr his resiGG&t III ray lead 5o1, to suppose that the uiu, a. atm was int rde4 for Jim inst!ao %! the aiser.-. snvll4 Banner.
 Population of the United States pas sed the 1O0,00O,000 mark on April l. according to the estimate of the cen sus bureau.
 Its a lovely doll, ,"said little gil as she looked dsappointedly at ne, Christmas present, but l had hope' that it would be twins"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-02-17
Empresa laudable

Ell Ayuntamiento de Trujillo Alto
ha resuelto en- union de varios pro-
pietarios y personas infuyentes de la
localldad, proceder a la construction
del puente que desde la fundaci6n del
pueblo ha sido la constante aspiration
de slls vecinos.
Ell rio de Lola, ell mas caudaloso de
la lsla, rodea ell pintoresco pueblo en-
casi un semic1rculo complete, y situado
como esta en- la margen derecha de
aquella. corriente, queda completamen-
te aislado al menor chubasco cue au-
menta su caudal.
Muchas veces en- amos anteriores Sc
han iniciado gestiones para la cons
trucci6n del puente; pero esta vez Sc
trata de elementos valiosos que han
dado una organization practica a los
trabaJOS y sc han nOmbradO tres CO.
misiones; una de hacienda compues-
ia de los senores Larr1naga, Rossy y
Espinosa en- San Juan, con otras dos
mas en- Rio Piedras y Carolina. Otra
de obras que forman los seiiores don
Andres Balcarcel, don T. Betancourt y
don Aniceto D1az; una tercera de
cooperation local y propaganda for
mada por otros senores de la locali-
dad y cuyos nombres aun no conoce-
mos.
Los sondeos para fjar la importan-
cia de las fundaciones, Sc estan ne-
vando a cabo con actividad y todas las
comisiones trabajan activamente. Es-
te es el camino que hay que seguir en-
estOs asuntos