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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
Buy At the
Right Time

The Times advertising
columns every day offer the
best bargains of Tacoma mer-
chants. Careful study of the
various advertisements will
during the course of a year
save every Times family a
considerable sum of money.
The constant following of the
merchants advertisements
will enable you to BUY AT
THE RIGHT TIME, and
that's about the most i'm
portant element in business.
The resumption of bust
ness by the big. Eilers Piano
company here is taken by Ia
coma merchants as another
encouraging indication of
better business conditions.
The Eilers company's adver-
Using announcements which
are to be found regularly in
the Times breathe the old
time optimistic spirit.
Fifteen minutes a day de-
voted to the want ad page
will MEAN PROFIT SOON
Err OR LATER FOR YOU.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
OFFICIALS DECLARE
WAR ON DOCK PLOT

place the Municipal dock or other
dock property under the control
OF supervision of the public serv-
ice commission.
Most emphatically does the city
object to that part of the bill de-
handing IS license fee for each
dock, wharf or warehouse which
the city owns or operates.
Senate bill No. rs is a sister
bill to the public utility bill.
which was recently killed by the
efforts OF Tacomans. This bill
was originated by senate conf
mittee of which Jesse Jones ff
Tacoma is chairman, and Howard
Taylor, father of the public util-
ity bill, and Link Davis, are men,
bers.
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Tacoma began Its second night
against the legislature today. A
resolution was adopted by the
city council strenuously objecting
to senate bill No. rs, now before
the olympia solons, which would
take away from Tacoma the Mu-
-nicipal dock. and City Attorney
Stiles was instructed to go to
Olympia tomorrow to fight
against the bill.
Copies of the council resolG-
tion will be sent to all legisla-
tors. The document recites that
Tacoma is more largely interested
in warehouse and dock property
than any other city In the state.
and that Tacoma "strenuously OBJ
jects'' to any bill that would
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asked Judge Evans.
Guilty. your honor" MUIR
INJURED the young woman. droop-
ing her head.
We'll. tell me about II. Why
did you commit this robbery"
asked the court, In a kindly voice.
~ didn't know Whist I was do
ing" said Mrs. Dssst, throwing
her head back and looking
squarcly into the eyes Of tho
judge. II was under the infu-
ence of an opiate--'dope'--and I
don't remember q thing that l
did. Sometimes I take drugs To
quiet my nerves. ] guess l teok
too much. That's all there h ~
tell"
3O-Day Sentence.
well, I'm sorry to have to
punish woman Of your intelli-
gence, but the law Ia plain de-
clared Judge Evans. II sentence
you to 80 days imprisonment In
the county JAIL
s. Ii Is reported that Mrs. Darst
has u 5-year-old child. in care Of
friends In Tacoma. She II said
to be separated from her hus-
band. Police officers have In
vestigated the woman carefully,
but have maintained deepest So
crecy regarding her. IL II ru-
mored that, although she has
given two names To the officers
DISQUALIFICATION" and "Darst''
--she is Withholding her real
identity. She Is known to be q
Tacoma housewife, however.
After being photographed and
subjected to the Bertillon meas
urements. Mrs. Darst was re-
moved to the court house at noon
today and placed In a county jail
cell. The raid OF her apartments
at the Myrick home will take
place this afternoon.
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Another Judge Trying
To Paddock the Press

Hsa th t.
H. Ell
Of is oil o
sfue NewsB
ed while theca S spending incout
yMgeh
eernwaco
1T
WM tina be
exatyths Mint l
10 franchise 1t sbuyngp Of n
i udg
II
get 70 I
How long Nch to
Canmyb nhow WILDE One las of
beoreth
a alto fn O ari
application presented to the
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Boy Prisoner
Keeps Pledge
With Sheriff

searching gaze upon him, and
halted him, and said:
Now, then, when did you get
out? . And what are you do
ing for a living? e Well,
guess you'd better take walk
with me-"
The bull fattened his average,
which Is what he wanted to do.
And his superiors, no doubt, took
cognizance of the undOubted fact
that I'm him they had an alert, I'm
dustrious bull with u head on
his shoulders.
After that, the police knew all
about Driscoll. They wouldn't
leave him alone, because they
knew he was a thief and an ex-
con. AND, AS Is WELL KNOWN
IN POLICE CIRCLES, THIEVES
AND EX-CONS ARE WITHOUT
HONOR.
They fastened a robbery charge
on Driscoll. Maybe he did 1t. He
says he didn't. The police say
he did it. Also. they point out
that he is thief and an ex-con,
He rolled a drunk, didn't he?
And he served time for it, didn't
he? Well, then!
So Driscoll became a two
timer" A "two-timer" comes UNI
der the "habitual criminal act.
Driscoll was sentenced to from 10
Continued on Page Seven.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

Given YOUR choice between YOUR country and
YOUR wife which would you choose?
French wife, devoted, loving, refused to leave
her husband who had gone to the front.
Defying death, starvation, hunger, she chung to
him.
She in the way
So he led her. the mother of his children, like a
faithful dog, outside the lines and killed her.
Is he patriot or murdererg Was his fate or
hers hardest? Is war that eXacts such toll of
rfice iustifiable?
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BY FRED l.. BOALT.

SEATTLE, Feb. Aloe Dris-
coll is a thief and an ex-con, and
therefore without honor. This
must be true IL there is anything
I'm police wisdom.
DriscOll was a tough boy
around San Francisco. He .rolled
drunk" Therefore he is a
thief. He served seven years.
Therefore he is an ex-con.
Unfortunately for Driscoll, he
was not consulted beforehand in
such matters as parentage and
environment. In the circle which
he moved trolling DRINKS" was
popular and fashionable.
IL Driscoll hadn't rolled the
drunk, somebody else would. And
IL nobody at all had rolled the
drunk, the drunk would have got
drunken and lost his money that
way.
but that doesn't excuse Dris-
coll, the thief. Neither does 1t
excuse Driscoll to say that he was
hungry and up against it. Not at
all. DriscOll stole money from a
drunken man ana paid for 1t by
serving seven hellish years in one
of the worst prisons in Chritsen-
dom.
Driscoll, released from prison
came to Seattle. lie was "a years
old. A bull say him. IL bull
hasn't good memory for faces,
he isn't good bull. This man
was good bull. Ambitious, too.
He had seen DrIscoll's mug,
among lot of other mugs, II.
the gallery. And when he met
Driscoll in the street, he bent q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
Excited
Over Murders

MARSHALL, Tex, Feb. A.
The town of Marshall was deeply
stirred today when a coroner's
inquest was opened into the
deaths of William Black, an ex-
priest of Bellaire, o., and John
Rogers, a leading Catholic OF
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the inquiry.
Jailer Mckay approached the
cell with medicine prescribed by
DIR. Pratt. Pierro was standing
i'm the cell. He started for the
barred door anG fell lifeless as
tho jiiler reached him.
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Marshall.
Blacks revolver showed that
no shot had been fired by him,
while he was struck in five vital
spots by bullets following bat
tie last night. Papers are being
prepared charging c. F. Hall OF
st. Paul, Mimi, with murder.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

BERLIN, Feb. 4.-Berlin news
papers consider the warning is
sued yesterday by the admiralty
concerning operations on the
French coast to mean that a gem
eral blockade Is to be declared
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BANK CLEARINGs
THE WEATHER.

Il II @ OIHclal'
weather forecast
for the 36 hours
ending tomorrow
at Z p. m. is as
follows:
Tacoma and vi
cinity: Probably
rain tonight anG,
f r | d a y. Foil
w a 3 h | n gton:I
Probably r a | n
x.fn.k. 81. -
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cnns
~ -
fm hewn
a week nj eachm mont Niing
for ommsh
weree elected.
of myea foa
who isno needles andno twanted
OF til axesar econin increasing uty
nhmeow 10Oeachm to
ta wished lon the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

the physician discovered her mis-
takes she put her patient again
under the knife.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

n ENERAL VILLA called an
election in Mexico. Citizen
= Villa went to the polls and
voted. And the peculiar part
u of 1t was that President Villa
was unanimously elected.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04

west, fair, east porLIun, tonight
and Friday. Cooler tonight. east
portion.
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s al % n Fnceco
We have had bridge supervisor this We haven't needed nee county
rs
appomte ha he of county commit imer
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OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE

NEW ION, IN. D., reU. =.
} - Mrs. Wallace Douglas, (
> wife of an instructor at Co Z
, lumbia university, bought a I
, dozen eggs the other day.
, They were strictly fresh, the
, grocer said. The first one I
; she opened was sick; the sec ,
, ond was hardly convalescent.
, A third was stamped May :
, 6, 1892"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-04
Do You Work?

Do you work as hard to
save money as you do to
make It?
Saving money and max
ing go hand-in-hand. II you
think about the matter a lit
tie you must come to the
conclusion that saving money
is really the first step to-
ward making it.
Our Savings Department
offers YOU every convent
ence for saving; please make
use Of 1t.
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. 500 ~~se~~~,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-21

Aid Society to Meet.
There will be a meeting OF the
Parish Aid Society Of Christ Episco-
pal church at 4 o'clock Friday at
ternoon in the parish house and all
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z rue Values
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL
Married in Petersburg.
CONTINUED from Page Three.l
aan5nasxaaucsnscsx.taoag

The marriage OF Miss Sopnrona
Jones, Of Parkersburg, and Mr.. Cam
den Weekley. of Clarksburg, took place
at 8 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at
the parsonage of Parkersburg Cal
vary Baptist church. The Rev. Arthur
Hank ofiiciated. There were no at
tendants. The bride was attired in a
handsome tailored suit Of blue broad
cloth with black picture hat and wore
a corsage Of bride roses.
Following the ceremony the happy
couple repaired to The home Of Mrs.
\. Ludwig where beautifully APP
pointed wedding supper was served.
The bride, who is charming young
woman. had made her home for years
with Mrs. Ludwig. The bridegroom
Is a splendid gentleman and Is we'll
known. He holds position with the
Clarksburg Gas and Electric Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weekley left Wednes-
day night for points in the East where
they will spend their honeymoon and
UPON their return they will reside In
Clarksburg. Their many friends ex-
tend best wishes for happy future.
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THE PARSONS SOUDERS COMPANY

low sashes. .
AT the close of the ctre.hony a
reception was held and during the
evening a salad supper with ices
were served at small tables arrang-
ed through the rooms. The brides
table was beautified by an artistic
centerpiece of bride roses and far
leyense ferns. While fall roses and
the color scheme of yellow and white
carried out the decorations Of the
dining room.
Mr.. and Mrs. Downing left on the
midnight train for .Pittsburg and
after a honeymoon trip in the. East
will be at home to their many
friends in Charleston. where they
will reside. The only out-of-town
guests who attended were Mrs.
Grant Downing and daughter. Miss
Helen, Of Pittsburg, mother and
sister of the bridegroom.
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Niarr.iare Solen1nized.

The marriage OF Miss Pansy T.
Batten to Harvey T. Downing, was
solemnized at O'Clock Wednesday
evening in the home of the brides
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Batten.
on North street. Broad Oaks. The
Rev. P. 2. Musgrave. pastor Of Ash
Chapel Methodist Episcopal church,
of1ciated in the presence Of only the
immediate families OF the bride
and bridegroom.
Promptly at the appointed hour
white satin ribbons were gracefully
carried by little Miss Mildred Bat
ten and Lillian Rider from the stair
case to an artistic fmprovised altar
OF stately palms and ferns augment
ed by clusters of fall roses in yellow
and white, which was arranged in
the parlor and where the marriage
ceremony of the church was impress
sively read. To the sweet strains
Of Mendellsohn's wedding march,
played by Miss Eleanor Rider, the
bridal party descended the stairs
and entered the parlor. The bride
and her maid Of honor, Miss Bessie
Garrison. met the bridegroom ana
his best man, Mr.. William Batten,
at the altar. During the ceremony
Loves Old Sweet Song" was sweet
~ sung by Mrs. Orville Window.
The bride wore gown Of white
crepe de chine trimmed in lace with
Bolero effect and carried bouquet
Of bride roses and maiden hair
head ferns. The maid OF honor
wore an attractive gown Of yellow
crepe de chine. and carried a bou-
quet Of. yellow roses. The little
maids who carried the bridal rib
bcns were alfred in dainty lingerie
frocks Of muslin and lace with yell
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possible, shake and dry the window.
] have washed windows about every
way and think this the best ever.
Brown Bread.

Two cups Of sour milk or butter
milk, one teaspoontul Of soda, two
cups of Indian meal, one cup Of -four
and one-half cup of molasses. II you
like raisins in 1t you can add one cup
of raisins, mix all together and steam
three hours. 1t can be made both
ways-with raisins and without.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-21

served by the hostess. Those who en-
joyed the affair with the hostess are
Mrs. A. W. Ashenfelder. Mrs. ]. C.
Grim. Mrs. Bert STAN. Mrs. Frank
Swisher, Mrs. Jesse Snyder. Mrs. A.
Malfregeot and Mrs. c. Petit Gerard.
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Personal

Mrs. NJ. A. Wood, OF fleetwood. is a
visitor here.
H. E. Williams, of Charleston, state
commissioner of agriculture, was here
on official business Thursday.
c. H. Bell is here from Parkerspurs.
R. N. Wilkinson. OF Huntington, is
transacting business here.
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Meetinr Postnoned

Owing to the unavoidable absence
of some of the officers of the brother
hood. the regular molthly social
meeting which was to have been
held tonight has been postponed I'M
til THURSDAY evening. October %.
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Fntertains Saving Clnb.

The Narcissus Sewing Club was
very pleasantly entertained Wednes-
day afternoon by Mrs. julius Caussin
a her home at Sorthview. The after
noon was spent with fancy work and
music and dainty luncheon was
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-21
Flannelette Gopns For
Nippy Nights

Because it has been so very warm and because the
change to cool weather will be felt all more sharply peo
pie who believe in doing things at the last minute but
before people who believe preparedness buying the
the sting in the wind. ~
Hundreds Of gowns in plain and striped, in several
styles, Soc and $1.OO.
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Monthly Meeting.

The regular monthly meeting OF
the Young Peoples Missionary So
ciety of st. ;PauI's Methodist Epis-
copal church, South, will be held in
the home of Mrs. Harry NJ. Wade.
this evening at Hartlan,l.
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Mrs. Cooner Hostess,

Mrs. farrell Cooper was hostess
o: the Wednesday Two Table Bridge
Club in her home on Mulberry
street from 8 to 5 o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon.
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members are urged to attend as
business of importance will be
transacted.
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clarksburg, Thu. Oct. ri
Parse Souders

D. Must be the aim Of the modern
store, and service in its broadcast
sense, the sense in which the Gus
toner regards it, is that which eff
fects genuine economies for the
customer and facilitates shop
ping.
True value only exists where
there is the proper relation of rea-
sonable price and sound worth.
Clarksburg's "New Kind of a
Store" will aim to give the great
est measure of satisfaction at low
est cost. J. ~ !, j.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-23

When you wish TO cut TIM q.
bread, heat a steel KNIFE o'1
to 90 it with.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-23
RATS IN FRENCH TRENCHES
1We Literally March on Top of Them"
SAYS Soldier In Letter.

There Is a plague of rats along the
British and French lines in Flanders
and France A soldier describes the
invasion as worse than the Germans"
in a letter. which adds:
Trenches, communications. fields,
woods, houses, cellars and barns are
choked with them We have them
holding congresses at night In the
busiest roads and giving concerts by
day in the most crowded villages We
literally march on top Of them
"They are beginning to be tortured
BY hunger. and the shortage of food
makes them capable of anything. The
other morning I saw cyclist whose
tires had been half devoured by a
platoon Of rats.
WOE TO the man who gets to sleep
with a morsel of chocolate in his
trousers, He will wake up to find
himself without his chocolate and al
most without his trousers"
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J . go . q . . q q q q 0 . 2
N 0I.HIN'I :


ORMOND, Dec. 22.-Mrs. c. A. Rob
erts, of Daytona, is spending the win
ter with her friend, Mrs. W. A. Core
on the peninsula. Mrs. Roberts has
rented her home in Daytona to Mrs.
Burnett, of Louisville, who occupied
the house last season.
Leonard B. Knox, who has been
spending some months in the North
and East, later visiting his son, Don
aid, in Kansas City, Mo, returned to
Ormond on Friday of last week, i'm
proved in health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts and Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley, all of Geneva, H., are
guests at Rose Villa, having been here
several weeks. Mr.. ]. Boweraucher
of Hartford, Conn, is also a guest al
Rose Villa
Miss Nj. Stout is again in Ormond
for the winter season, having arrived
on Saturday last
Harry Wardwell, Of Swampscott
Mass, arrived in town Thursday o.
last week, and will spend the winter
at Mildred lodge as usual. Mr.. Ward
well is one of the older frequenter'
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Messrs. Carleton and MeNary, the
stage settings were made most attrac-
tive. A great deal of credit is due
Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Blair for their
able dictatorship and management of
the entertainment The play Melted
nearly $4,000, which amount is to be
applied on permanent stage furnish
ings. The play was followed by a
dance in the auditorium, both Young
and old participating.
The Sunday school of the Union
church will give Christmas enter.
tainment at the church on FRIDAY
evening. The Christmas tree. which
is to be community affair. will be
set up on the church grounds, and
the gifts distributed from there il
the weather permits.
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It's You

II YOU want to live In the kind Of town
Like the kind Of q town you like.
You needn't slip your clothes In . grip
And start on a long. long hike
FOUL only find what you left behind.
For there's nothing that's really new.
Irs /, knock at yourself when you knock
YOUR town.
II isn't your tovn-irs you!
Real towns are not made by men afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead
When every one works and nobody shirks
Yeu can raise a town from the dead
And II while you make your personai
stake
Your neighhor can make one. too.
Your town will be what you want to see.
II isn't your town-it's you.
Los Angeles Times
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of Ormond, and has not missed sea-
son here for many years.
Miss Amy Shaw. who is now teach
ing in one OF the high schools of
Jacksonville, is home spending the
holiday season with her mother, Mrs.
H. B. Shaw, on the peninsula. Allan
Shaw is also expected for the Christ
mas time, and Benjamin Shaw will
be home from Stetson university some
time this week,
The play, The Elopement Of FL
len" presented under the auspices of
the Ormond Village Improvement as
sociation in the auditorium of the new
Memorial building on Wednesday
night, met with well-merited success
and was one of the most laughable
here for long time. The cast, com
posed entirely of local talent, consist
ed OF the following: E. F. Rus
sell, Miss Ethel E. Francis. Bur
well Thornton, Francis Waldron
Miss Margaret Shaw. Miss Gertrude
! Hanson and Mr.. Everett Poston; al
of whom took their parts very credit
ably; Francis Waldron, in his repre-
sentation of John Hume, rector Of
ST. Agnes" keeping the audience con
vulsed at his every appearance
Through the efforts of Mesdame:
Thornton and Blair, assisted b!
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Optimistic Thought
q Is born to do gond
DIVING Record.

The longest time on
which a swimmer remalneo
ter is 6 minutes % As seconaA
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Easy Way Of Finding OF

Two British sailors nss
tickets TO the dog show
gazing upon a Skye terrier w. 4
SO much hair that it looked ~ ~
a wooden rug than a dog. ..o,,r,
is is cad, Bin?" asked one.
if ! know" was the reply. i
I'll stick pin in i'm ana y
witch end barks.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-23

Burned Down Six tin's -
London bridge has oeen
down six times.
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Cleveland Has Armiess Judge.

An armless judge will sit on the
bench In Cleveland. o. David Moylan,
Just elevated to a municipal judge
ship, lost both arms eleven years ago.
He has learned to write with his teeth
and studied law by turning the leaves
with his tongue. Seven years ago he
passed the state bar examination, rank
ing In the first ten in a class Of 2o5