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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
EUFAULA

Eufaula, July Especial l.)-Work viii soon be started to give Eufaula additional school facilities for the coming year. The old schoolhouse on Sanford street, which became very crowded several years ago, will be remodeled, as well as the high school building on the same grounds. A building twin to the high school will be erected. on the other side to give fur ther accommodations to the grammar grades. An architect is now working on the improvements which will cost in the peighborhood of $10,0OO.
 The board of revenue of Barbour county now has estimates in hand showing that it will require about $25,00o to replace over 9 bridges which were washed away in the recent freshet. All the larger bridges are to be built of concrete, for the concrete bridges stood the flood with out injury. A distinct help to the county at this time will be about s5ooo, which lies to it's credit in the state-aid road and bridge fund. Work has already begun to replace the bridges with temporary structures.
 Eufaula Is taking every precautionary mea sure against any spread of infantile paralysis, of which one case has broken out in the city. Children are being kept isolated, while many families, have gone to the country until danger of an epi- demic is ended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
KODAKS
LEGAL NOTICES

Legal Notice Notice is hereby given by the city commission of the city of Birmingham, as provided in section 1410 of the code of Alabama, that it is their intention to redeem city public improvement bond numbers 12 to IT. inclusive, of series of August 1, 1911, at the August 1, 1916, interest period, by paying off the same at the Hanover National bank in New York, and by paying as a bonus to the holders thereof a sum equal to one- half of the annual interest thereon for one year.
 By order of the city commission of the city of Birmingham, at it's meeting of July Il, 1916.
 c. B. LLOYD.
 City Clerk Birmingham Age-Herald. July IS, 20, 27, 1Q16
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Notice to Contractors
 Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned a 3 o'clock p. m. Tuesday, July 25, 1916, for the construction of cer- tain sheet asphalt paving under improve ment ordinance No. 915-C; also for the construction of certain sidewalk and al- ley crossing paving under improvei>Snt ordinance 911-C. Specifications may \ obtained and plans examined at this of flee. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals. (Signed) JULIAN KENDRICK,
 City Engineer. Age-Herald, July 20, 21. 9.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
VNE CENT A WORD
FOR SALE

RATES-One cent a word day, nd. taken for less than 25c for first inser- ton. Cash must accOmpnny order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
ONE CENT A WORDONE CENT A WORD
WANTED-MALE nELr

RATES-One cent a word day; ad. taken for less than 25c for first inser- ttoa. Cash must 1crcmpany order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
Classified Business Directory
ROOKRINDER

HAVE your magazines, law books, med : ical works and periodicals bound by an expert bookbinder Paul F. Roth pletz. Room 10. Potter Bldg, 1917h
 1St ave. 6-27-12t-tu-fr-su su
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HAIR CUT. 1oc; shave, Sc; work In real
 room free. Birmingh ham Barper College. 2oo71a N. 3d ave. 2-u-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
FOR RENT-ROOMS

RATES-One cent n word dayj ad
 taken for less than 25c for first inser- ti0n. Casl must accomDnny order.
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SCHOOLS OF PHARMACY
AUTOMOBILES

AUIUMUBILEO
 FOR SALE-At a bargain, Ford road ster Phone Main 1S7. 7-21-3t FORD 5-passenger tor sale; perfect con- dition ref5 model and with Claxon horn, -' absorbers and other extras: fine -.uiton and offered at sS00 cash Ad- dress Sid l.. Beason. Whitney. Ala.
 7-21-7t
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WANTED-Young men wanted as news agents on trains; cash security required. Union News Co.,, Terminal Station.
 7-20-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
ONE CENT 4 WORD'
WANTED

RATES-One cent a word a day; ad.
 taken for less than 25c for first inser- ton. Cash must accomn1ny order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21

WANTED-Two single men, aged % to 95 years, for out-of-town collecting
 must be able to furnish $S50 bond; good money to right parties. Call room 3S Erckert hotel, a. m to D. m. 7-20-2t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21

FOR RENT-Newly furnished front rooms, all light, by day or week, at very reasonable prices. Nelson Hotel. 17276 2d ave. Phone Main S535-W.
 6-S-tf
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cACH Lo ana langes repaired p5 pIAe-
 tical workmen, gas stoves our spe-
 cialty. Phone Man 27S0. Call for Dan. 324tf
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WANTED-SITUATION

Ads under the head of situations
 I wanted are free to deserving ones, except on Sundays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21

XHTE pTTV second hand clothes.
 w L bO - shoes, 2ll6 End Ave: Phone 15Sl 12-30-tf
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LIST your property for rent with Ma lone Inv. Co.,. 210 21st st. Main 232
 a-t f
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Notice to Contractors

Birmingham Herald. July IS, 20, 9
 1916
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10

The lapel button.
It provides the first machinery
where the prohibitionist and the anti
prohibitionist have been brought to-
gether In common cause The soft
drink man now has something n
common with the hard drink sim
ncr, despite the fact that the club was
organized principally to defeat the
Jag that comes from imbibing too
freely OF drinks with punch,
Alden Anderson, one OF, the spon-
sors Of the league predicts q mem
bership OF more than 10000 within
another month.
II am convinced that the matter Is
taken seriously throughout the state,''
he said. "The cultivation OF the mo-
treat habit is something that is thrifty
sound, logical and novel. We a.
America let our good Fellowship carry
US along to a point where II 6 asin-
ine."
Public health will be Improved
Is the verdict OF Arthur. II. Bardent.
attorney for the state board Of health.
1.-THE further wet get away from tax
ing o cocktail with this one. with thar
enc, with q third and a fourth, the bet
ter II will be for the community and
the nation M n whole" = . Il, 4II.I E.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10

gay San Francisco.
The present roster of the league
reads like the roll OF honor In Brad
streets. There Is, for instance, Ru-
dolph Ransome. OF the Ransome-
Grumpy firm Of contractors, which
has drawn more than $5.000,000 from
the state for highway building. There
is Fred L Manson, general agent Of
tho Canadian Pacific lines In San
Francisco; w. II. Topper, OF the
Frisco lines; William H. Crocker,
president Of the Crocker National
Bank OF San Francisco; Governor
Hiram Johnson. Progressive leader.
and score OF other men who domi-
nate the social and political life Of
California.
Even Frank c. Jordon. secretary of
state OF California, the man whom
the political records show has at least
1S4.174 friends-estimated ON his plu-
rality when all political organizations
were against him-has affiliated with
the No-Thank-You League. Jordan is
always willing to treat all his friends,
but he says no one man can stand
this custom forever.
1.-THE No-Thank- You League Is a
protection for the politician" Is the
sophIsticated comment Of the score
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10
Causing One of the Deepest
Personal Tragedies of the
Great European War.
.sr .ssoe.sr.o .srs"

ux ASSOCIATED rhKfn
LONDON, April 10-one Of the
deepest personal tragedies of the war
as brought home to the British peo-
pie Is the long list of young soldiers
and sailors who have lost their eye
singht in the conflict. At st. Dun
STAINS Hostel for Blinded Soldiers
and Sailors there at present about
100 students, officers and men, rep
resenting Canda, England, Australia,
New Zealand and Belgium. In addi-
ton there are a number of men in
annexes at Brighton and Torquay
whose wounds thus far have prevent
ed their taking up work at st. Dun
STAINS.
Never before in English history
have so many young men who are
otherwise able-bodied been brought
together in the helpless state OF
blindness, and the problem of hand
ling them is entirely different from
that presented in a home for people
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10

tary of state.
There is a great divergence OF opin.
ion on the merit OF the No Thank Yor
League. Theodore Roche, president Of
the San Francisco police commission
thinks that in It's application to the
community in general real man does
not have to subscribe to II.
Big Names ON Roster.
Archbishop Edward ]. Hanna, OF
the San Francisco Catholic diocese,
says: 1.-THE idea seems to be that
drinking is luxury and therefore II
looks selfish to indulge In It alone.
Hospitality Is a very hne thing, but
In regard to treating we In America
have let It grow up until Il has be-
come like n large weed that chokes
up the more delicate plant Of hospi-
tally"
Despite the sneers and jeers at the
organization, II has spread like FIRE
through hay field. From Los An
geles. the lair, Of the prohihitionist
and movie sect. applications for MEM
bership are pouring in TO Secretary
Ing.
There is no commercialism to the
organization. 1t requires only the
signing Of the league pledge and, II
the member desires. the purchase OF
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10
SCHOOL TEACHER
Anaemic, Run Down, Nervous
How She Recovered.

There are SO many cases like this
right here in Clarksburg that we are
publishing this interesting letter with
the hope that some OF our customers
viii try Vinol and get the same hap
Ply result that Miss Baez did.
Key West, Fiat am a teacher
and became anaemic, nervous, rum
down, NO energy or desire to do any
thing. could not sleep and had that
languid. nervous feeling that made
me a burden to myself. 1 had taken
various tonics without benefit.
heard Of Vinol and tried It. Soon I
had a good appetite, could sleep all
night and 1t built me up SO have
the ambition to do any kind OF work. /"
Mary L. Baez. Key West. Fla.
The reason vinol was SO success
full In this case is because It is con-
stitutional remedy that goes to the
seat OF trouble. The peptonate OF
iron contained in vinol enrices and
revitalizes the blood, while the
strengthening. tissue-building prop
critics of the extractives Of Gods liv-
ers and beef peptone aid in building
up the tired, overworked, rundown
system. Stone and Mercer, Drug
gists. clarksburg. w. va.-Adver-
tisement.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10
Many British Soldiers
Lose Eye-Sight on Field
who have lost their sight through
disease or like causes. and new meth
DDS must be applied to meet the sit
Place of Beauty.

AlaSo vi octiuJys
st. Dunstan's itself Is a place of
beauty and full of historic interest.
Once the villa Of the third Marques
OF Hartford, the "Steyne" of Vanity
Fair, 1t is now the London home of
Otto Kahn, the American finanicier,
who has, loaned it to the Blinded
Soldiers and Sailors Care committee,
under the Craftsmanship Of c. Arthur
Pearson, widely known as a publish
er, and president of the National In
stitute for the Blind. About the
spacious villa are fifteen acres OF
well kept lawns, trees and shrub
berry. An arm of Regents Park lake
runs into the grounds, thus affordlng
facilities for coating. ALI of this Is
at the disposal Of the blind men and
they have been surrounded by an at
mosphere that is distinctly home
like.
Mr.. Pearson, man of magnetic
personality and the moving spirit of
the hostel, lost mis- sight few years
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10

Dunstan,s, The men row on the
lake. play pushball. swim In nearby
baths and engage IN other amuse-
ments to their liking. Entertain
ments are provided regularly. In
Guiding dances twice week. Most
OF the Tommies and Jack Tars dance
well and enjoy. these occasions I'M
mensely.
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RslngCoStS
confront eVe1.ybO dy!

Thss ascending period Of price advance
ment without parallel No statistical chart is needed
prove thisthe effect Of higher prices by everyone.
and is of real concern all tbs time for thoroughly
weighing Values time for taking advantage Of every
opportunity that offers genuine savmg.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-10
SAVE RACS-THEY,RE
WORTH BIC MONEY NOWl

WOMtI ~ DIN kAlVAN0 y kN0W&
Prices paid for rage eight timss
~ high a. q year ago.
Ras,l Ragsl-got any sagsi You're
lucky u you have q lot Of old rags
around fireplace ,becauseth y'llbring
you big money now, eight times IS
much Is you used 70 get for them.
Last year rags sold around Nc a
pound-now they arc bringing 4c
pound, and manufacturers are glad to
get them at that price.
Rags form the basis Of many we'll
known products, such a. whiting
paper, foofngietc. The roofing mills
alone used \ quarter Of 4 million
tons Of rags last year. AT present
prices, this quantity Of rags cost
$12, 500, 900 more than \ year ago
an increase in price Of ~, 900 ! day
for roofing. "
Gather up al the ngs and s'ca,h IN.
on them At present prices.
Boysand gifisl-This 4 your chance
20 make some money. Get busy and
hunt up Ill the rags you can find.
Sell theml They'll bring you good
money. II you are not offered their
real value, write our nearest Office.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
SAN DIEGO ROAD IS
FREE FROM SLIDES

Supervisor Arthur Shepard an
nounced this afternoon that traffic on
the San Diego highway would be re-
sumed this afternoon. A slide of
earth and rocks occurred yesterday
about 300 feet east of the approach to
the Shepard bridge, stopping traffic
both ways.
Immediately after hearing of the oc-
currence Supervisor Shepard assem-
bled working crew in Ell Centro and
sent them to the scene of the slide.
Quick work, superintended by Mr..
Shepard and the engineer of the
bridge building concern, brought about
repairs. Dynamite was used freely
in removing the obstruction.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
FRED PLACE is
CANDIDATE
FOR JOB

Fred Place, formerly secretary of
the Imperial County Chamber of
Commerce, and later associated with
the Cotton Growers Labor Exchange,
announces today that he will be A
candidate for the office of assessor
and tax collector of the Imperial lr-
rigation District.
Mr.. Place is favorably known in the
Valley and is credited with pulling
the old Valley Chamber of Commerce
out of debt. He entered upon his du"
ties as secretary with great industry
and concluded with a finished organ
ization.
When the lack of cotton pickers
became acute Mr.. Place was selected
to scour the country for help. He
went to Los Angeles and in due
course of time sent sufficient mer
to the valley so that the valley die
not suffer.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
Approximately Sc Chopped
Off Rate Formerly Col
lected at Mexicali.
COTTON is MOVING
ACROSS THE BORDER
Governor Cantu States That
He Does Not Wish to
Hurt the Growers.

Cotton growers across the line, who
have felt the burden of the increase
in duty on seed cotton coming across
to Calexico that resulted from an
order announced by the Mexican au-
thorities early in the cotton picking
season, felt relieved somewhat yes
terday over the announcement made
by F. Villasenor, customs broker, of
a reduction in the export deity.
Beginning today, the duty on seed
cotton will be S20.83 in gold. This is
a reduction from $26.33 per 1000 XII
los, and includes the municipal tax of
S1,33 per 1000 kilos.
The reason for the reduction as
given by the Mexican authorities is
the drop in the cotton quotations,
which left the profit so small for the
growers after the duty was added that
they were very much discouraged.
The result of the reduction will
doubtless be livelier moving of cot
ton across the line to the gins and
compressor in CaleXico.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29

The biggest celebration in the his
tory Of Holtville will be the New Year
Fiesta which is to be given under the
management of Vaughn Azhderian
which in itself is an assurances OF
success. Nothing is to be left un-
done to make this occasion a record
breaking and history-making event for
the athletics Of the Imperial Valley
and the fun will wax fast and furious
all day long.
1t is anticipated that the celebra-
tion will be attended by large crowds
from the other towns of the Valley
and plans for taking care Of a heavy
influx of guests on that day are un-
der way.
All day long there will be plenty
of fun to amuse the throngs and at
1880 the program proper will start
and events will follow each other from
then on in brilliant succession. Great
interest lies in the ball game to be
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
STEER
FROM OLD
MEXICO

Senior Guillermo Plata, better known
as Billy" Silver, manager of Senior
Daniel Hernandez, famous Mexican
bull fighter and imitator of Charlie
Chaplin, left last night for Mexicah,
where he is to secure two real bulls.
The two bulls introduced yesterday
were bulls in name only. They were
tractable and not according to the lik-
ing of Senor Hernandez. He is said
to like vicious animals, and the two
yesterday were not of that nature.
1t was explained by a well known
stockman that Imperial county stock
was as a rule too well fed to be ter
rorizing and that to secure angry
animals it was necessary to get them
from a district where they were per-
tmitted to run wild.
Down in Lower California there are
many so-called wild steers left to roam
the desert They do not get sufficient
forage and become lean and vicious.
Two of these are to be brought to FL
Centre today.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
BOMB F|END HAS
MOST Of LOADED
CIGARS SENT To
VALLEY PEOPLE
CaIexico Jeweier Receives
One of Loaded StOgies;
Is Suspicious.
REFERS MATTER TO
POSTAL INSPECTOR
lack Bennett First Victim of
an Insane Attempt to
Hurt by a Joke.
REFERS MATTER TO
POSTAL INSPECTOR

Had it not been for C. L. Campbell's s
suspicion that a practical joker had
framed up a job on him, he might
have been one of the victims of the
now famous "cigar bombs," news OF
which has Travelled over the United
States in the past "a hours. SO far
as known. Jack Bennett of Brawley
is the only person in the Imperial Val
ley who received and attempted to
smoke one of the loaded cigars.
On the morning of December "a
Mr.. Campbell received a tublar pack
age postmarked with the railway mail
clerks stamp, shoHmg that it had
been mailed on train. The shipping
tag bore the instruction, "Mr. Camp
bell Jeweer, Calexico, Calf" with
out initials.
Opening the package, Mr.. Campbell
found it to contain cigar, evidently
la cheap one. Suspecting a joke, he
dissected it, and was not surprised
to find that his suspicious were well
founded.
In the closed end of the cigar was
IA dynamite cap, to which was at
tached home made or improviseC
fuse, consisting of tissue paper anc
black powder rolled together. Placing
the cap and fuse on his safe, Mr.
Campbell applied match to the fuse
which blew out with puff. but the
cap did not explode. The remnants
of the cigar and the tin tube were
thrown into the vase basket, anC
forgotten until Mr.. Campbell read the
account of the mailing of the bombs at
Goff.
Gathering all that he could find OF
the original package and it's contents
Mr.. Campbell turned them over tc
Postmaster Cocklcy, who forwarded
them last night to the postal inspec'
tors at Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
GEORGE NIXON IS
CALLED BY DEATH;
ONE Of VALLEYS
BEST KNOWN MEN
Pioneer Pool Room Manager
CaIied-Former Rail-
road Contractor.
SUFFERED LOSS OF
ONE OF HIS LEGS
Deceased Leaves Four Sis
ters and Host of Friends
to Mourn His Loss.
SUFFERED LOSS OF
ONE OF HIS LEGS

One of Ell Centro's we'll loved citi-
zens, George w. Nixon, passed to his
rest at 1925 yesterday morning, De-
cember %, at Los Angeles, where he
had been residing for months in an
attempt to regain his health.
Mr.. Nixon was born at North Prai-
rie, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, May
28, 1870. At the age of IA he started
out alone to make his own way in the
big world. Through loneliness and
discouraging circumstances at that
early age he perscvered with that
same indomitabe courage that has
marked his whole life. He passed on
down the Mississippi river from city
to city earning his way as he went
and at Is he went to the Black Hills
to commence his railroad career. A
small, refined lad among rough men,
his eager face and manly bearing at
tracted tie attention of the foreman
so favorably that he took him into
his own tent. Mr.. Nixon built roads
throughout Idaho, Nevada, Utah and
Wyoming until the failing health of
his mother impelled him to settle down
locally, where he might the better
care for her infirmity.
He came to Ell Centro in 1911, en-
Caging in business and establishing a
home for his mother and sister, the
former of whom passed away four
years ago.
Mr.. Nixon has formed the acquain-
tance of many close trends in this
city and Los Angeles, who will
miss his hearty handclasp and genial
good will and unobtrusive benevolence.
Loving life and humanity, and put
ting up a valiant fight for his return
to health, he, nevertheless, when he
found health unattainable, yielded
sweetly and contentedly to the will
of the Master. He leaves four Sis
ters to mourn the loss of kind, ,devot-
ed brother-Mrs.P Philip Best of Austin,
Mimi; Mrs. Frank Forbes of North
wood, Ia; Mrs. A. L. Loewenstein OF
Los Angeles and Miss Ella Nixon of
this city.
Announcements of funeral will fol-
low tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
HoltuiLZe's Fiesta Promising
q = = = 4: = p
Many Events Are on Program
1. p Il 4: (: +: q
Some Snappy Boxing Matches

held between FL Centro and the Holt
vile team. There is q strong rival
.ry existing between the two teams
and rattling good game is looked
for.
Lovers Of boxing and wrestling will
see some snappy matches, and there
will be srrinting and other field day
sports that will delight the hearts Of
lovers of good clean athletics. Bron-
cho busting and boxing are also fea-
lures of the days sports, and there
is sure to be a record-breaking at
tendance.
Manager Azhderian is sparing no
efforts to prepare a field day program
that will lie the best Of anything ever
given in this county, and that will re-
vive the old time Fiesta spirit that
has until the last few years made
Holtville the Mecca for those longing
for the carnival spirit of the South
on New Years.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
War on Johnson Grass.
(By United Press.

Sacramento, Dec. 29.-The 1917 leg
islature will be asked to declare war
on the yellow star thistle, Johnson
grass and mustard. Thousands of
acres in California are overrun with
these weed pests, making cultivation
next to impossible.
Superintendent d. j. Murphy of the
Phelan ranch of 5000 acres advises the
state horticultural commissioner that
it would require an expenditure Of
$50, 200 year to clear the ranch. The
Legislature will be asked to give the
horticultural commissioner power TO
establish such control measures as
he may deem necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
Local Chamber of Commerce
Is Host to Many Fair Visitors

perial Valley, look over the Livestock
Fair and let the people in Los Ange-
les learn today what they thought of
it.
Seymour Schwartz, manager of the
Guggenheim interests at Los Angeles
and chairman of the entertainment
committee of the Los Angeles Cham
Der, headed the party. Besides sew
eral directors of the local Chamber
of Commerce, those at the banquet in
cluded w. S. Dexter, George r. Meyer
%. H. Stephenson, r. w. Glendenning
&c. d. Hudson, E. F. Durbin, A. d
Kinne and w. F. Wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-29
FAIR IS FREE TONIGHT
EVERYBODY IS INVITED

As complimentary offering
comes the announcement from
General Manager A. M. Nelson of
the Imperial Valley Livestock Fair
that the big exposition will be free
this evening. After darkness falls
those who wish to enter the big
grounds may do so without being
charged. There will be all of the
exhibits and the same attention will
be given to patrons. 1t is simply
as Mr.. Nelson states in his an
nouncement, an appreciation of
the cordial feeling extended by
the Livestock Show.