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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
LICENSE NOTICE

All business and professional state
licenses are required to be adjusted
with Mr.. Charles H. Callahan, com
missioner of the Revenue, by Sat
urday May 81, 1916, The local board
of review will take up the cases of
delinquents on Monday, May 20, 1916
Robinson Moncure, E. e. Law
Ter, Clinton: S. Ballenger, Local
Board of Review.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company.

Every day in the year for Fort
Monroe, Norfolk, Newport News and
points south, via subsrb powerful
steel palace steamers.
Through connections made at Nor.
folk with, steamers of the Old Domin-
ion Steamship Company for New
York, and Merchants and Miner"
Steamships for Boston.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
"Chamberlain's Tablets Have Done
Wonders for Me

81 have been sufferer from stom-
ach trouble for a number of years,
and although l have used a great num-
Der of remedies recommended for this
complaint, Chamberlain's Tablets is
the first medicine that has given me
positive and lasting relief writes
Mrs. Anna Kadin, tSpencerport, N.
Y, "Chamberlain's Tablets have done
wonders for me and I value them
very highly" Obtainable everywhere.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
OFFICIAL
Board of Aldermen

At an adjourned meeting of the
Board of Aldermen of the city oil
Alexandria, Va, was held May n
1916, there were present:
Henry K. Field. esq.,, President
and Messrs. Bril-, Robinson, Ballen-
ger, Wilkins ard Summers.
The following received from
the Common Council May %, 1916, ant
laid over was passed by the following
vote: Ayes, Messrs. Brill, Robinson
Ballenger, Wilkins, Summers and
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
RHEUMATISM

If you are troubled with chronic or
muscular rheumatism give Chamber
lain's Liniment a trial The relief
from pain which it affor ds is alone
worth many times its cPst. Obtain
able everywhere.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

Not having had any settlement
t the retirement from Office Of
Nicholas E.. Miller, former treasur-
er Of Matthews county, State Audi
tor Lee Moore has instituted suit in
the sum Of $4,000 against Mr.. Miller
and his bondsmen, the Illinois Surety
Company in the Richmond circuit
Court. Last January G. E. T. Lane
succeeded Mr.. Miller in office. The
Auditor claims that no settlement has
beer had with the former treasurer.
Leong Tong, aged SO years, Chin
ese of New York, visiting Peters
burg, died in the Petersburg Hopsi-
tai yesterday morning from the Ell,
fects of fractured skull. On Tues
day night while he was restaur.
ant, two negroes came in and became
so disorderly that the Chinese pro,
prietor ordered them out. They went
out, but said they would return and
get even. They did return, armed
with bricks, and threw them at the
two Chinese. One of the bricks
struck Leong Tong on the head, frac-
turing the skull. The negro assail'
ants escaped, and are unknown.
The cash balance in the State treas
ury, is approximately $1,2OO,00O,
That is the actual cash in hand. SC
that the State is ready to meet all
i bills outstanding and to have bal
ance to meet interest payments as
i of July 1st, when some $425,0OO OF
| money will be needed for that pur,
pose. All banks-State and national
are required to pay their State
taxes before the LIST day of June, and
many of these are coming up with the
cash. This will add another $780,,
900 to the States strong box for any
emergency that may arise, and IL
cense and other money should be
| coming in from the cities and coun-
ties right now.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
VIRGINIA. = NEWS

v
George w. Epps, captain OF the
Richmond Police Department for the
past As years, died yesterday morn
ing from throat disease. Mr.. Epps
was Confederate veteran.
Eighteen persons were killed and
a score of others injured in an air
raid on Baria, on the Italian Adrlatic
coast. The victimsn were largely
women and children. al 4
The Norfolk Police were notified
yesterday that Friedrich II. We.
Schulz, steward on the informed
German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich
is supposed to have deserted and a
reward of $50 has been offered for
his capture.
John Henry Williams, the negro
who criminally attacked a young
schoolgirl near Blackstone, Motto
way county, on March 20, paid in the
electric chair in the Penitentiary in
Richmond yesterday morning the
penalty for his crime. The negro at
tackled his schoolgirl victim on a
lonely country road.
Thomas Dinges, employed on the
P. P. Long farm in Page county,
was killed yesterday by lightning
He was blowing corn at the time and
the two horses he was using also
were killed. The storm was accom-
panied in some sections by hail and
high winds. Dinges leaves his widow
and eight children.
Mayo Cabell, about IS years old,
a lawyer of Big Stone Gap, was
found dead from a wound in his
throat, in q room in the Virginia
Hotel. at Lynchburg, yesterday even
ing, which apparently was self-in-
tlicted.. The juglar vein had been
severed with razor.
William Barton, a 5 year old boy
of Richmond, was thrown into the
reservoir by a larger boy few days
ago. The latter told the Barton boy
to "catch fish" as he threw him into
the water. Fortunately some work
men were nearby and the child. who
was about to drown, was rescued.
Distinguished members of the jew
. ish race from widely separated Sec
tions of the country and prominent
officials of the city and State assem-
bled last night with Congregation
Beth Ahabah in Richmond for the
first service concentrating the sew
enty-ffth anniversary rof the organi-
cation Of the congregation and the
twcnty-fifth anniversary of the rabbi,
nate of DR.. Edward N. Calison.
State Auditor Moore has received
from Congressman Walter A. Wat
son his check for $3.50, the entrance
fee for the Congressional primary
in which, is held in August. In
didations are that Congressman
Watson will not have any opposition
in the Fourth district. Congressman
Andrew J. Montague, of the Third
district, has also qualified by sending
his check to the Auditor. a..
.IIAlAli rrnrIRlnAIN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
WAS moot&Co.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

The regular meeting OF the STOCK
holders of the Havemeyer Land and
Improvement Corporation, incorPor-
ated. under the laws of the state OF
Virginia, for the election Of Officers
and directors, and such other Eusi-
ness as may come before the meeting
will be held at 800 p. m. on June
1st.. 1916, at its offices, No. l0T =.
Fairfax street, Alexandria, Va, May
22nd. 1916.
JOHN O. HARMON, Jr.
Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
Observation-Disclosures
RAILWAY co.
In effect June II, 1910.

In effect June II, 1910.
Subject to Change Without Notice.
Leave Alexandria For WashinEteu-
Daily Except Sundays and Holidays
A. Ms 90. S 40, s 90, s 20, 6 ~
%. 10. z 90. Z 80, 20 z SO, 8 90;
= 10 20, 40. 9 90, 9 20. 9 40: 10 90;
70 70. 10 40. IL 90. IL 20. IL 20. Noon
12 90.
P. M-l2 20, IL 40, 1 90, / 20, 1 90
90. 2 20. 2 40. on. 8 20, ) 40; 1 90;
I 20. 4 20. S OF. 5 20. 5 80. 8 90; s 40;
10 90. 10 80. II 10. IL IS.
Sundays and Holiday. same az abovs
except trains at S 90. S 40, g 0e. 6 20
40. 10: Z 30; so and 10 A. II
and II 65 P. n.
Leave Alexandria Fer Mt. Vernon.
A. M.-Week Days. IS. 6 SIS, z So.
2 SIS. 10 80, II Sop. A-12 80. ] 10,
80: 5 80: 30: s IS; 6 20 Is. : 81
10 20: IL so.
Sundays as above except Is anS
: A. Il and IL SO p. u.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

l am announcing that have pur-
chased the stock and good will of
Henry l.. Simpson and Sons, lO4 N.
Royal Street, and will hereafter con-
tinue the shoe and leather business
at the same address under the name
of George w. Bontz, Jr., successor
to Henry l.. Simpson and Sons. /
solicit share Of the public's pat
ronage and the continued patronage
Of the firms old customers.
GEORGE ". BONTZ, Jr.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
NOTICE TO THE pIrRIIc

Henry L. Simpson and Sons, am
nounce the sale to George w. Bontz,
Jr., of the shoe and leather business
heretofore conducted at lO4 N. Royal
Street.
HENRY L. SIMPSON & SONS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
CLASSIFIED ADS
LOST
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Office Rooms; GIG King
street, End floor. Apply w. p
Taylor, 24-St
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

HARD SHELL CRABS NOW ON
SALE AT RAMMELS CAFE
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

FOR RENT-Apartment, four rooms
and bath, all modern conveniences.
Apply Dienelts' Pharmacy, lib
King Street. 23-3-t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
HENRYk FIELD ant cR

Lumber of Ill kinds, shingIing,
Laths, Sash, Doors, Blinds. Stair
Work, and Building Material OF
every description, Lime, Cement
and Plaster.
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
Office. lis N. Union Street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

FOR RENT-Two room, with board,
cool, comfortable rooms, good
table. Anxious to please, Mrs. G..
w. Ramsey, SIT Cameron St. %
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

George w. Epps, captain OF the
Richmond Police Department for the
past As years, died yesterday morn
ing from throat disease. Mr.. Epps
was Confederate veteran.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27
MONDAY

pathe presents Pearl White, Creigh-
TON Hale and Sheldon Lewis in,
THE IRON CLAW
Chapter Nine ARROWS of Hate" two
parts
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

Eighteen persons were killed and
a score of others injured in an air
raid on Baria, on the Italian Adriatic
coast. The victimsN were largely
women and children. ID u
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-27

The Norfolk Police were notified
yesterday that Friedrich II. w.
Schulz, a steward on the informed
German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich
is supposed to have deserted and a
reward of $50 has been offered for
his capture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
To the Veterans. Greeting

All Birmingham extends greeting to the United Confederate Veterans who assemble here today for their twenty sixth annual reunion.
 If there is a tinge of sadness Tn these gatherings of the gallant rem nant of the men who wore the gray, as the shadows of life deepen, there is much reason for gladness in the renewal of old friendships and in the patriotic sentiment which memories of the war rekindle and make vital.
 On the part of Birmingham now, as in the past, it is matter of re- ioicing to find so many of the veterans looking scarcely a day older than when they attended the last reunion here eight years ago. It is safe to say that no one ever saw such young lot of old men, to use bull, gathered together for a great occasion as IS witnessed here now. There had been talk about this being the last reunion because of the rapid thinning of the ranks and the infirmities of age which have overtaken some of the veterans, but so long as great body of them seem active and hale as is the case here there will be little support for an early ending movement, at any rate not until Washington, the na- tional capital, has been agreed upon for reasons of sentiment as the place for the last general rendezvous.
 As successful and pleasant in every was as the 1908 reunion was this promises to surpass it. One thing is sure, the people of Birmingham are determined to spare no effort to make it epochal in the annals of the United Confederate Veterans.
 And the welcome that goes out to the old soldiers is extended to the Sons and the Daughters of the Confederacy and to the sponsors. In fact, the vel come is for everybody.
 Visitors sometimes refer to Bir- mingham as a northern-like city. From business point of view it may seem more northern than cities gen. orally south of the Mason and Dixon line. It has the stir and hustle. But socially and sentimentally Birming- ham is distinctly southern and that is why the old vets feel as much at home here as they do in Richmond or Nash vile or New Orleans.
 Certain it is that no greeting could be more heartfelt than is Birming- hams today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
SHAME FOR ILLINOIS

From the New York Telegram.
 Illinois, home of Grant and Lincoln, hasn't much reason to feel proud of her present output of statesmen.
 To say nothing of Billy Lorimer an- nouncing his candidacy again for the United States Senate, there Is Represen- tative Frank Buchanan under indict- ment for melting pro-German labor riots, while his fellows are making superhuman efforts to save him by groundless inn peachment proceedings against the fed eral district attorney who prosecuted him. leader of the House, whose vile abuse of President Wilson in the German interest nauseated even the decent in his own party.
 And now comes Representative Taven- ner, who is on the grill for misuse of the congressional franking privileges.
 It is said MT. Tavenner admits having used his frank to send through the mails more than 100000 speeches, the printing of which was paid for by MT. Ford.
 MT. Tavenner has used the rooms of the House committee on investigation of the expenditures in the postoffice depart ment for the Ford propaganda and has obtained additional quarters in the House office building.
 No wonder when laws are framed the penalties are made infinitesimal It's safety first!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
Birmingham's Progress

Those of our Confederate visitors who were at the first reunion held here in 1894 saw Birmingham in the new-town stage. While its population was nearly 30,000, the business dis trict presented crude appearance. proof buildings were conspicuous by their absence and the city hall was of flimsy construction and unsightly. There was no steel making here and no assurance that steel plant would ever be built in Alabama. Also there was no navigable Warrior in sight.
 The optimists, of which there were many, based their boosting chiefly on coal and iron.
 The veterans who came to Birming hams second reunion in 1908 noted the strides that had been made. This community had grown to be real city, with an important steel indus try and a great variety of other in- dustries to swell the pay rolls. But as attractive as Birmingham was thought to be in 1908 the city's greatest development has taken place since then. We had started into the skyscraper period, but within the past seven or eight years many of the splendid office buildings have been erected. Many handsome, fire proof hotels have been built, one of them the most costly and elegant in this part of the south.
 The only thing we lack in the way of metropolitan convenience is vast, modern auditorium. And building we will have before another year rolls round. On the 5th of June the people are to vote on S500,000 auditorium bond proposition, and there seems tc be no ground for doubt but that it will carry.
 In the meantime our friends, the visitors, will not fail to be impressed with the large Improvements that have been made here since the last itime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
OFFENSIVE POSTAL CARDS

From LeSlie's.
 Bad Sgn Every good thing nowadays seems to have bad imitator. Decency
 is mocked, imposition is practiced and sensationalsm encouraged. The drift of the times seems to be toward doing things in startling way. Take, for in stance. the matter of postal cards: They have afforded much innocent enjoyment to many as souvenirs of journeys and as a means of pleasant interchange of cour- tesies. As soon as postal cards became popular with their appeal to the beauti- ful and their educational quality de- mand arose for something of a vulgar na- ture. This stimulated trade in postals bordering on the indecent, until finally the display of cards of this character has ed to the interference of the public au- thorities with their sale. The New Jer- sey Association for the Suppression of Vice and Imposture has destroyed thou sands of improper postal cards, and is in- | stituting a crusade against the display of
 indecent cards along the boardwalks of
 Atlantic City, where they were open for
 the inspection of men. women and chl- i dren. A similar crusade might well be started at popular resorts all over the l country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
Altitude on Bond 1Isue

T am cordially in favor of the pro. posed s2,o0o,o00 bond issue for school purposes" said Wade Wood of the Wood-Crabbe company yesterday. We need the schools. I am in favor of the auditorium bond issue, too, for this will help Birmingham to get big conventions and will give the city a standing in the south.
 A t the same time I am opposed to the municipal light plant bond issue, be- cause we do not need two electric light plants in this city any more than one needs five wheels to an automobile We are already we'll served by the present electric lighting company and as for the price, that was fixed by the city. and we have no kick on that score.
 Tt would be a waste of the peoples money to spend half a million dollars just to have two plants where only one is needed. Besides, how do we know that the present commissioners could make such a plant pay? They would be forced to compete with the existing company. The safe and sane thing to do on June Is to cast big no vote."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
Cotton and Diversification

The cotton acreage in Alabama has not been as much reduced this year as was expected. The ravages of the boil weevil in 1915 caused heavy losses to farmers in the black belt, and in fact in all parts of Alabama, except the northern tier of counties. And in view of the weevil scourge the plant ing this spring should have been con- siderably less than usual; but many a successful farmer is taking the chances on favorable weather and an early crop, and in that way getting ahead of the pest.
 But diversification, which got a good start last year, is not falling be- hind. Especially is this true in the more progressive sections of the state.
 The corn acreage will show an in- crease over 1915, but not as much as should be the case. If the corn yield last year was between sixty million and seventy million bushels, there was reason to hope that it would round out one hundred million bushels this year But if Alabama has ninety million bushel crop it will be great gain ir two years, for the production in 1914 was only fifty-two million bushels.
 The most encouraging factor 1T Alabama's diversification is the in creased attention given to stock rais, ing. Hogs are being raised now or a larger scale than ever before, anC in the good grazing counties of the state Alabama bred cattle arc cn hancing in value rapidly. Improving the breed within very recent ycars has been worth already millions ol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
KILLING MOSQUITOES IN VERSE

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
 According to statistics compiled by the Baltimore health department, "a tin can half filled with staganant wa ter will easily breed over 200 mos .auitoes." Old bottles and broken crock cry, we are told serve almost as well to incubate the winged pests of the good old summertime. Whereupon the departmental bard, dropping into poe try, exhorts his constituency as fol- lows:
 Mother give me the pick;
 Mother give me tn peick; For Pm a mosquito slammer-
 These two will do the trick. Knock all the bottles on the head.
 Pierce through the cans tin bottom, And soon all the skeeters will be dead
 And you'll not have to swat 'em.
 We like that. It is not only good poetry - barring few halting rhythms-but good sense. From time to time we shall expect other lyrics on the same general subject, devoted, per- haps, to the value Of kerosene oil as mosquito exterminator, or to the good effects produced by covering, or to the good effects produced by covering the garbage can chopping down the weeds in the back yard and draining the pud- dies. The lesson is as applicable to Richmond as it is to Baltimore. Let the poetry and the exterminating go on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
ProhIbltionists Rebukcd

According to Charlie Klotzman, the prohibitionists were dealt with rather roughly by the people in the primary last week. In point of fact, MT. Klotzman thinks they were rebuked all along the line.
 From Borden Burr to Bull Bonner" said MT. klotzman, the prohibitionists were given a sound thrashing at the polls last week, and one from which they will never recover. At the next primary the route will be completed.
 The reign of fanatic prohibition has always been ruinous and the people knowing of the coalition of the prohibit ttonsts and the great corporations de- feated all of their principal candidates last week by substantial majorities."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
THE DEADLY BROMIDE

From the Knickerbocker Press.
 express itself except in stale and thread bare words and phrases. The more an- cient and outworn the language, the bet ter it pleascs such folk. To them all brides are blushng, all banknotes crisp, all citizens prominent To them the by and-by is ever sweet; their tonnes are musty, their decorations tasty, and every fire is confla grafton if not holocaust. J. Pluvius makes rain for them, their sun is Old Sol, their future dim and dis tant, and their tomb silent. Bids fair" makes them chortle in glee. They are best pleased, too, when they can clap quotation marks around a word pr phrase, to set it off with the unction that makes born gossip's infections tor ture to manly ears.
 Bromdes was the name Gelett Burgess gave to these unhappy fragments of lan- guage, overworked until their savor has gone from them. But Burgess clever notion has become itself bromide, since the bromidiots have taken it up and made a bromidiom of it.
 Barrie, in the days when his style was forming, dreaded this failing Artistic sensibilities as keen as his shrank from the trite. In his room he kept only a few books. One of them was Bartletts "Quotations' When, in his writing, a phrase or line came tripping off his pen that seemed to him to have been said or heard before, he turned to Bartlett. If he found 1t listed there among the familiar out it went. He was writer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16
FREEDOM

By James Russell Lowell
 We are not free: Freedom doth not consist In nlusing with faces toward the Past While petty and crawling interests twist Their spider threads about us which at last Grow strong iron chains to cramp and bind In formal narrowness heart soul and mind. Freedom is recreated year by year, In hearts wide open on the God-ward side, In souls calm cadenced the whirling sphere, n minds that sway the future like tide No broadest creeds can hold her. and codes; She chooses for her august apodes, Building them fair and fronting to the dawn. Yet when seek her. we but find few Light footprints leading morn-ward through the dew Before the day had rsen, she gone. must follow; swiftly she And if steps should slacken in despair Half her face, half smiles, through golden har Forever yielding, never wholly That not love which pauses in the
 Two close-linked names on feetng sand to trace; Freedom gained yesterday is no ours;
 Men gather but dry seeds of last years flowers; Still there's charm ungranted, still grace, Still rosy Hope, the free, the unattaned,
 Makes Possessions languid hand let fall;
 ''Tis but fragment of ourselves is gained The future brings us more but all