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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-08-14
Io1nce Of the superintendent

once OF the superintendent OF
schools.
Notice is given that building com.
mittees appointed by the said parish
school board will meet in the office
OF the school board ON Tuesday,
August II. and In open session pro-
coed to open the bids and award the
contracts to the lowest responsible
bidders. The baord reserves the
right TO reject any or al bids.
A bond for one-half Of the contract
price will be required through reg
ular bonding company.
ELMER e. LYON,
Superintendent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-08-14
TREsPAss NOTICE.

All persons are hereby warned AMI
prohibited from cutting, burning
deadening. carrying or floating ava!
or otherwise injuring or destroying
any trees, timber or wood growing or
lying upon the lands Of the under
signed. They are also prohibited
from fishing, hunting or trapping
with dog or torch or ,trespassing II
any way on lands belonging to thA
undersigned.
may13 A. w. CLEMENTS.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-08-14
HOW MRS. HARROD GOT RID OF
HER STOMACH TROUBLE.

suffered With stomach trouble
for years and tried everything ]
ever heard Of, but the only relief
got was temporary until last spring
saw Chamberlain Tablets adver-
tised and procured q bottle Of them
at our drug store. I got immediate
relief from that dreadful heaviness
after eating, and from pain In the
stomach writes Mrs. Linda Harrod
Fort Wayne. Ind. Obtainable every
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-08-14
TREsPAss NOTICE.

I, the undersigned, forbid all hunt
Ing. trapping and trespassing on any
Of my land. Anyone caught 20 do.
ing win be punished to the full e.
tent Of the law.
5e3s-4t W. B. CooTNR.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-08-14
FREsPAss NOf1CE.

The understand forbid ell hunt
Ing trapping or trespassing on their
'ands. Anyone caught doing so will
he punished to the full extent Of The
law.
oUuuN 3 CRueCHNr CLUn
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-08-14
mEaPAae NOTICE.

We, the undersigned. forbid I'll
iunting, trapping and trespaseing o.
ar lands. Anyone caught 20 doinl
viii b punished 70 the full extent
Il tho law.
JAMES BAnRUlGER,
GANDAD1D BARREN0un.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-08-14

For Madisonville and Covington
The SCHOONER ..ROsA A"
Will leave head of New Basin every
Thursday 1t 2 p. m. Returning will
leave CovingtoA every Monday at 2
|p. m.
st. Tammany Naval Stores Co. Owners
Covington phone 175-2.
New Orleans Warehouse phone
Main 459.
New Orleans once phone Main
1916.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
.FROMU.S.T TORRANCE
VOICE SENT IN AIR
Arlington, Va, Operator Talks
With Station at Paris.
WORDS HEARD AT HONOLULU
War Business Set Aside To Permit
Use OF Eiffel Tower For Com
munIcatlon Between
Continents.

New York. - Wireless telephone
communication between Arlington,
Va, and Paris was established by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company.
The words, uttered by B. B. Webb,
an engineer for the company, in the
naval wireless station in Arlington,
just outside of Washington, were
heard distinctly BY H E. Shreeve in
the Eiffel Tower, $500 miles away.
AS Shreeve listened Lloyd Espen.
schied, in Honolulu, 1900 miles from
Washington, heard Webb speak Thus
by few simple words Paris and Homo
lulu, $500 miles apart, were linked
for about Is minutes.
A score Of reporters with telephone
receivers clamped to their ears sat
around a long, green table in the Of
fee of Theodore N. Vail, president OF
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company. John ]. Carly, CHIEF
engineer for the great corporation, was
in Chicago. Over a special wire Mr.
Carly told the reporters about Webb's
message to Shreeve and Espenschied
Then he predicted communication
with Toxic as the next step, and the1
the inevitable-words that woulC
travel around the globe.
Voice May Circle World.
''WirelUss telephone communica
ton around the world-from Mr.. Wallis
Office in New York over the continent
over the Pacific, over Siberia and Eu
rope and over the Atlantic to the
President of the United States. How
soon? All, cannot predict. 1 can
not tell you how soon the wireless
telephone to Paris can be put into com
mercial service. Nor can tel
whether it will be cheaper or NOR,
costly than telegraph.
'All that is in the future. We know
now what we can do. We don't know
yet what we shall do. 1t has takel
us more than three years TO connec
Paris and Honolulu. wonder If yo,
understand what the supreme momen
of success meant to those engineer
who have perfected this?
But now we have completed loo
of more than 10000 miles of wireless
telephony. The loop taken in Sal
Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
Panama, Honolulu, Paris and Ne1
| York
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
STATE
MAY ENTER MARYLAND WEEK.
Clubs And Oranges OF State Plan TS
Send Exhibits.

The competition in the CLUB exhibit
contest of Maryland Week promises
to be close. The management has set
aside two blocks Of space 16 feet wide
on each side of the central fioraA dis
play. Twelve clubs and oranges have
reserved space. The first prize is
$3.50; second, 500; third, SIS. and
fourth, $50.
OF last years winners only Fairlee
Grange is missing in this years com,
petition. Cordova, Cambridge and Cecil
are coming with the best they have
and will surely make the others hus-
tie to wrest the honors from them.
In addition Brownsville, Millersville,
Smallwood, fredericksburg, Union
Bridge, Price, Olney, Roslyn and Girls
field clubs and oranges will exhibit.
Milking COWS by machinery has
been successfully accomplished, and
the State Dairymen's Association will
stable a small herd of cows on the
floor of the Fifth Regiment Armory
to be milked at A. M, noon and 9
P. M. by machines. The cows will
be loaned by the Maryland Experiment
Station.
Throughout the West and the North,
milking machines are used much more
than here in Maryland, and the Mary
land State Dairymen's Association
hopes that both the people Of the
city and the producers of milk will
be able to see just what these ma
chimes can accomplish.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Oct. 2s, 1914.

Allies repuIsed night attack near
Dixmude and made gains in Ypres
region and between La Bassee and
Lens.
Germans retreated before Rus
SLAMS advancing from Warsaw and
lVangorod.
Battle along River San.
Hungarian cavalry division al
most annihiIated In Galicia.
5elgians defeated Germans on
Lake Tanganyika, Africa.
Emden sank Japanese steamer.
Japanese cruiser chitose re-
PEELED attack Of two German war.
ships.
Holland army massed on border
to prevent invasion.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Oct. 80, 1914.

Belsians flooded lower User val
ley, compelling Germans to with
draw.
Germans made gains in the Ar
sonne.
Russians, pursuing retreating
Germans, captured guns and aero
planes and retook czernowitz.
Austrians defeated near Tarnow.
Japanese, aided by Indian
troops, attacked Germans at Using
tau.
German cruiser koenigsberq
bottled up in Ruff river on A.
rican coast.
Turkish torpedo boats bonn.
barded Odessa, sinking one Rus
sian gunboat, three liners and
French steamer.
Russian and Turkish fleets
fought in Black sea.
German reserves Of 1914 called
out.
American commission sent food
stuffs to Belgium.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

Frank Movotney, Is years old, an
automobile dealer of Brownsville, Pa,
was killed; Lee Kennedy, aged 20, and
two unidentified foreigners were slight.
ly injured when the automobile in
which they were riding upset on the
pike west of Grantsville. They were
driving the car up slight grade when
the front tire blew out. The car was
heading for telegraph pole and when
Movotney made quick turn the auto
mobile upset, throwing Kennedy and
the foreigners from the car Movotney
was held by the steering wheel and the
back of the seat crushed his head when
the machine toppled over.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Oct. 27, 1914.

Allies captured Thourout and
claimed Germans were driven
across border near Nancy.
Fierce battles between La Bas-
see and the Somme.
New Russian army crossed the
VistuIa north Of IVansorod.
Russians drove Germans from
RaWa.
British dreadnaught Audaeious
sunk off ireland by mine or tor
pedo.
Germans laid mines of Irish
coast.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Oct. 90, 1914.
Allies gained near ostend.

Allies gained near Ostend.
Germans made gains west of
Lille and southwest Of Verdun.
Germans intrenched themselves
near Thielt.
Russians split opposing armies
north and south Of Piliza river.
Northern German army in re.
treat.
Allies took Edoa, Africa.
Turkey began war on Russia by
bombarding Odessa and Theodo-
sia from sea.
Emden sank Russian cruiser
and French destroyer in Penang
harbor.
German airmen dropped bombs
on Bethune, killing 1e women.
Prince Louis Of Battenbere re-
signed as first sea lord OF British
admiralty, being succeeded by Sir
John Fisher.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
APPARENT PLOT
IS UNEARTHED
To Blow Up Steamers and
MunitiOn Plants.
HAD BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES
Enough Explosives To Blow UP Man.
haitian Island, Ingenious Mines
With Time Clocks Worth
$1,000 Each.

New Yor.1.-Secret service men and
detectives unearthed what they de-
clare to be a gigantic plot to blow up
munitions plants and steamships.
Two men, alleged leaders of the
plot, were arrested in a wood at Grant
wood, N. ]. One of the men is SER
geant in the German Army, who fought
in the battle of the Marine, and the
other is said to be a servant IN the
Kaiser's household. At the time Of
the arrest they were testing small
bomb filled with tri-nitrate Of toluol,
the highest and most deadly explosive
known.
In a series of raids Immediately
after the arrest of the two men the
police captured and confscated the
following:
Important Evidence.
Twenty-Five pounds of tri-nitrate of
toluol, more than enough to blow up
the entire Island of Manhattan.
Twenty-Five large sticks of dyna-
mite.
Five ingenious mines, built to be at
tached to the screw of a steamship.
Letters In German.
The men under arrest are Robert
Fay, "a years old, and Walter Schalz
80, who for the past week have been
living in the boarding house Of Mrs
Walter Harbinson, at 27 Fifth street
Weehawken.
From April last up until week ago
the two men lived in the boarding
house of Mrs. Robert Stuart, on Fourth
street, Union Hill, N. ].
In addition to the articles mention
ed, the officials captured a score Of let
ters written in German. The en-
velopes of each had been destroyed, as
had the signatures. They also con
fiscated the passports of Fay ant
Schalz. They showed that the two
men had been in this country for two
years.
Other letters and papers taken b!
the officials indicate that both men arr
members of the German Wilhelm
strasse Guard.
Although they have been in thi
country but two years, both speak per
feet English. Despite sensational
and dramatic arrest, they were coo
and calm when taken to the Wes
Hoboken Police Station. They dc
clined to give any information abou
themselves or to discuss in any wa
the discriminating articles confscateG
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
eRANo TO HANG NOVEMBER 2s.
Governor Signs Death Warrant For
Slayer Of Three.

Governor Goldsborough signed the
death warrant for Frank Grano and
fixed Friday, November 26, as the date
of execution. Grano is the italian la
borer who shot and killed John L. P.
Robinson, his wife and Alonzo Redden
at Robinson's farm in Worcester coun-
ty, on September 6. Grano was taken
back to Worcester county and tried in
Snow Hill, before Judges Jones and
Stanford. He was convicted of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced
on October 18 to be hanged.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Oct. 2s, 1914.

German advance checked on the
User.
Battle between Rawa and the
IIjanka river.
French steamer Amiral Gan
teaume, loaded with refugees, sunk
by torpedo or mine off 6oulogne.
Slayers Of Archduke Ferdinand
found guilty Of treason.
German property In France ta-
ken into trusteeshIp.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
DROWNING ENDS cHILD's PLAY.
six-Vear-oId Boy Falls Into Water At
Wheel, Md.

Belair.-Albert, six-year-old son of
Albert Hooper, of Wheel, was drowned
Sunday afternoon while playing along
the race of the Belair Electric Com
pany's power plant. Mr.. Hooper, who
has charge of the power plant, noticed
the little fellows cap floating on the
water and upon inquiry learned that
he was not at home. He Immediately
set to work graphing for the body and
in a short time recovered It. DR..
Charles Bagley stated that life had
been extinct for at least an hour.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
osrEND RAvAeED BY SHELLS.
Hotel Des Thermes Among Buildings
DESTROYED BY Rombardment.

Amsterdam. - Much damage was
done in Ostend on the Belgian coast in
the recent bombardment by British
warships. according to the Echo De
Beige. The Maritime Railway station,
the lighthouse and the Hotel des
Thermes, a favorite haunt of German
officers, were destroyed, the newspa-
per states, and the Kursaal and ware
houses in the city were damaged.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
JUPITER LEAVES ANNAPOLIS.
Electrically Driven Collier Is Inspected
BY Mldshipmen.

Annapolis.-The mammoth United
States naval collier Jupiter, the first
vessel of the service to be driven and
operated entirely by electrical ma
chinery, has sailed from Annapolis for
Hampton Roads, Va. The Jupiter,
which is under the command of Lieut.
Com. Clarence L. Kempff, spent sew
eral days at anchor off Annapolis, dur
ing which she was inspected by many
naval officers and midshipmen. She
was brought to Annapolis primarily for
the purpose of affording opportunity to
the young officers now here, and the
900 midshipmen, to gain practical
knowledge of the operation of this
modern craft. A board Of officers from
Washington, headed by Rear-Admiral
Griffin, of the Department of Engineer
ing, was here and made thorough in
spection.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
PORTER CHARLTON GUILTY.
American Given Six Years and Five
Months For Murder.

Como, Italy.-Porter Charlton, who
was found guilty of killing Mary Scott
Charlton, his wife, will be set at lib
erty on November 21 next. Imme-
diately after the verdict President
Sciacca sentenced Charlton to a term
of six years and eight months. AS the
young American had been in Jail five
years and seven months. he will have
to serve only another month because
of an allowance of one year granted
to all prisoners by royal decree at the
beginning of the war.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
oet. 25, ls14.

Germans crossed User canal
near pixmude.
Battle at NIeuport.
Russians drove Germans from
Vistula river and retook Lodz and
Radon.
Austro-cermans defeated near
Przemysl.
Heavy fighting In Bosnia.
Japanese sank German cruiser
Aeollus off Honolulu.
Rebellion by De Wet and 6eyers
In South Africa.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
MERCHANT RUNS AMUcK.

Burke Mcclure Accused OF Killing
Wife and Cousin.
Huntingdon, w. Va. - Sheriff's
deputies are pursuing Burke Mcclure,
aged A, formerly a prominent mer-
chant of Man, Logan county, w. Va,
who is alleged to have shot and killed
his wife, aged 26 and her cousin Mrs
Gertrude Johnson, aged 80 and wound
ed Miss Grace Justice and Charles
Perry near Barbersville. Mcclure
himself was slightly wounded by
Perry, who ran to the assistance of
Miss Justice.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Truly Accomplished.

is your daughter a musician"
Yes" replied Mr.. Cumrox; she
has studied music thoroughly"
But she never sings or plays the
current melodies"
No She has studied music enough
to have some respect for It,"
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
HIS LAST DOLLAR TO CHARITY.
Man Who Got Millions From swindles
Goes Pennlless To Prison.

Philadelphia. - Frank G. Marin,
alias Judge J. Franklin Stone, whose
alleged swindling operations are said
to have netted him millions of dollars,
contributed the last dollar in his pos
session to a children's charity before
entering the Eastern Penitentiary to
serve a sentence OF four years imposed
several years ago for his connection
With the $2O,OOO,OOO Storey cotton
fraud.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
BOYS SHOT OFF MOTORCYCLE.
One Killed, Another Badly Injured BY
Police At Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Two policemen
shot two boys off motorcycle in the
residence district here, killing one
named Lehr, and probably fatally in
juried the other, Arthur Wand, who
said he owned the machine. The po-
licemen said they believed the motor
cycle had been stolen.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Heavier Crop.

Now scientists say that vegetables
are susceptible to praise"
Il think I'll try that on my CAP
bages. 1t would help a heap If they
all got swelled heads. ."-Louisvill
Courier-Journal
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL

The Mosvka, one of Peter the
Greats squadron in 1858, has been
found near Libau.
The frigate bird holds the record
among the aviators. 1t reaches a
speed of 200 miles an hour.
New York city's factory workers
are as many as all the inhabitants
If st. Louis, fourth largest city OF
the country.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

Mrs. Emory Martindale, Washington,
was severely injured when the auto
mobile, driven by her husband, skidded
on the State Highway, near Funks-
town, and ran into a ditch. Mrs.
Martindale was hurled out of the car
upon the road, sustaining a badly
bruised shoulder and contusions about
the body and limbs.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
WAR CAUSES MURDERIN U. s.
Austrian Avenges Brothers Death BY
Killing Engllshman.


Denver.-Race hatred stirred up by
the European war and resulting in
murder led to the arrest here of Geo.
Flaragrady. an Austrian, on a charge
of killing George Gray, an Englishman.
Both men were employed in rail-
road machine shop. The police say
they have information that Flara,
grady, upon learning that his brother
had been killed by the Allies in Eu.
rope, became so enraged that he push
ed Gray into a powerful drill press
where the Englishman was crushed to
death.
Robert Black, another shopman
who told the police he had been a wit
ness to the murder, was taken into
custody with Flaragrady.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
Hone of lmnrovement

DO you think the world is getting
better?"
1T ought to be" replied the man
who worries about his health. There
are more new medicines being in
vented every year"
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
To Be Expected.

Just as we got to the mouth OF
the river"
What happened?"
We found ourselves in the teeth
of the wind"
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

Arthur Crippen, an employe Of G..
A. Thompson & Sons mill at Hurlock,
had one of his fingers badly mangled
when it came in contact with a saw
he was operating.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
AUTO ACCIDENT PROMPTS GIFT.
Hosts Of Man Killed Will Erec,
Memorial Hospital.

Ipswich, Mass. = Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard T. Crane, Jr., of Chicago. sum-
mer residents here, notified Ipswich Of
ficials that they would present to the
town a hospital building in memory of
Benjamin Sticlkney Gable, of Washing
ton, former Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Labor.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
52,ss7 LOST SINCE OCTOBER 1
British Casualties Have Averaged
Nearly $500 a Day.

London.-British casualties publish
ed since October 1 total 2,285 officers
and 6OO72 non-commissioned officers
and men. These figures show an aver
age loss to the British Army of nearly
$500 men day. This is considerably
in excess of the casualties earlier in
the war and reflects the heavy losses
of the British in the recent severe
fighting in Belgium.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
LAYS AIR RAIDS TO sELelANs.
Notify Enemy OF Buildings Housing
Troops, Says Governor.

Amsterdam, via London.-General
Won Bissing, the German governor-gen.
eral of Belgium, has issued a proclama-
ton. according to a Brussels dispatch
to the TELEGRAPH, accusing the in
habitants of that city of notifying the
enemy forces of the location Of build
ings in which German troops are
housed, thus causing many air raids.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

A meeting of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Pomona Grange was held with
Eureka Grange Thursday evening at
Chillun, on Riggs road.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

William H. Withgott, formerly presi
dent of the board of town commission
ers of Easton, is dead.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
DIR. DAMN SENTENCED.
Cumberland Physician Given Four
Years In Penitentiary.

Years In PenltentIary.
Cumberland.-Dr William G. Damn,
81 years old, who was convicted Of
manslaughter in having caused the
death of Mrs. c. Lee Sutton, of
Thomas, w. Va, was denied a new
trial by Judges Henderson and Keedy,
and was sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary. A plea for leniency was
made by Attorneys D. Lindley Sloan
and David A. Robb Following the
sentence, an appeal was entered and
DR.. Damm's bail was increased to
$1,000, which was furnished.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
FRENCH TROOPS
CHECK BULGARS
Force From SaIoniki Join the
Serbians.
TEUTONs CONTINUE ON

Road To cOnstantinople Almost
Opened - Italians Take Austrian
Positions In Mountains - Russians
Fighting Pitched Battles In Riga
and Dvinsk Regions.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
GERMANY SHUTS ALL DOORS.
Travellers Banned, So Troop Move
ments Must Be Under Way.

Geneva, Switzerland. - Germany
again is closed from Basel to Con-
stance to travellers of every condition
No steamers are allowed to approach
the landings on the German shore of
Lake Constance. 1t is assumed, as
heretofore, that the closing of the
frontier is to keep intelligence from
escaping of the movements of German
troops.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30
sANDow REPORTED EXECUTED.
Athlete Condemned As Spy, Says
Rumor At Liverpool.

Liverpool.-Rumors are circulating
throughout Liverpool commercial cir
cles that Eugene Sandow, the famous
athlete and instructor, whose estab-
lishment in the West End of London
used always to be crowded with fash
ionable young men, was shot as a spy
about fortnight ago at the Tower of
London.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

Mr. and Mrs. w. E. Beall left Laurel
to attend the California exposition.
Mrs. Beall is the delegate from the
Baltimore district to the Convention
of the Women's Foreign Missionary
Societies of the United States.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

There are 100 varieties of mosqui.
toes in the United States.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

Ths tftieth anniversary of Grove
Methodist Protestant Church, near
fredericksburg, was observed on Gun
day. The Rev. A. S. Beane, of Keen
Memorial Church. Baltimore, at the
morning and evening services, he be
ing pastor % years ago.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

The United States in 1914 mined
2,476,465 tons Of crude gypsum.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

Following his wife's suggestion to
rest for a short time Abner D. Doty,
of Jefferson, ascended the stairs of
his home to do so, but fell dead across
his bed. With the exception of Mrs.
Doty all the members of the family
were attending the Frederick Fair
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

Hog cholera is prevalent around
Williamsburg and a number of farm
ers have lost several valuable pork
ers within the past few days. A state
bacteriologist has been in the vicinity
trying to stamp out the disease.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

The three-day cooperative fair held
by the farmers of Fallstown closed
Saturday. The exhibits were of an
unusually good order and were viewed
by hundreds of both Baltimore and
Hartford county people. 1t has been
decided to hold the fair again next
year.
Middletown transcript., 1915-10-30

The large quarries at Guilford are
again in operation under the manage
ment of James M. Miller and Andrew
Kirkpatrick. These quarries were
shut down for about three years, dur.
ing which time Messrs. Miller and
Kirkpatrick were engaged in the stone
business at Woodstock.