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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16
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Garth Kiser, a Muncie printer, said
something the other day about killing
a black cat to change his luck ct po-
ker. His friends inserted want ad
in paper and gave Kiser's address.
Boys with black cats began lock
ing to the Kiser home and in short
time Kiser had rs black cats locked
up IN his smokehouse.
Neighbors are talking about . nui-
sance. the authorities are keeping their
ears open for reports about cruelty TO
animals and Kiser doesn't know what
to do with his cats.-Indianapolis
News.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16
Rare Color.

Rose, coral and many other kindred
shades are 50 soft and becoming that
they are worthily popular this spring.
The woman who has never tried them
should buy a crepe blouse or frock II
she would see just how attractive she
Is capable of looking.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16
Keep Chicks GROWING.

Keep the chicks growing. II there
is any dropping in the wings and they
are sitting around. look them over
carefully; they may be troubled with
lice.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16
The Common Choice.

A costume house the other day ad-
vertised that It had on exhibition sew
enty-five styles Of blue suits. Nearly
every well-dressed woman starts out
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16
Blazer StrlpeS,

Blazer Stripes.
Blazer stripes are a feature of the
new cottons and they are effectively
used for coat collars and for sports
coats and suits.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

Striped Ponsee Silks.
Pongee silks now have awning
stripes bright red, green or blue. set
beautifully on the natural pongee-col-
ored ground.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

in the spring to choose a modish color
for her standby suit. and nine out of
every ten women end by buying some
shade of blue.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-16

any style that win be In keeping with
the rest Of the furnishings that are
selected for this room.
Plenty of light IL necessary to bring
out the best results with bungalow
design, both for the interior and the
exterior appearances. The bright and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21
AVERAGE COST OF HEN FEED
Results of Poultry Experiments at
Washington Station-Leghorn
Costs $1.35 Yearly.

From records kept by the Washing
ton experiment station, it is estimated
that the average cost Of feed for a
laying hen is $3.50 per hen per year
for the general-purpose breeds, such
as Orpingtons, Plymouth Rocks and
Langshars. The cost for Leghorns
and Anconas has been $1.35 each. The
average cost of producing eggs has
been 16 cents per dozen.
In incubating and brooding trials,
out of 5000 eggs incubated. 1890
chicks were hatched. The loss OF
chicks during the brooding period was
s per cent. 1t was found that chicks
Matched from eggs weighing from "a
to 27 ounces per dozen were more Wig
orous and grew more rapidly than
those from abnormally large or very
small eggs. The small eggs were
about equal to the larger ones in fer
tility, but the chicks hatched from
these were lacking in vitality. The
abnormally large eggs, weighing more
than 27 ounces per dozen, were low
in fertility, and did not hatch we'll.
Three lots of 40 White Leghorn
pullets each were fed during a six.
months period similar rations, except
that cracked corn, rolled barley and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21
How to Keep a City Clean.

To make a city cleaner and neater
and to substitute beauty for ugliness
is to enhance the value Of both pub
lie and private property. AS to pub
lie property, this work can be easily
controlled. But the city authorities
can be expected to act only on the in
sistence Of the general public. Un-
fortunately, however, no matter how
careful a city may be about structures
erected on public property, the gen.
eral effect of street and open places
may be spoiled by ugliness in sur
rounding structures and private prop
erty. Rillboards, signs, ugly, garish
or unkempt buildings, buildings out OF
repair, untidy yards and vacant lots
all may counteract whatever the city
may do to make public property at
tractive. The only way to keep the
city neat and to make 1t look as
though It were really self-respectins
Is for all citizens to cooperate in in
sisting on private as well as public
neatneso and attention to good design.
From the Report of the City Plan
Commission, Newark, N. ].
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21
WINTHROP COLLEGE.
SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE
ENAMIN ALTON.

The examination for the award of
vacant scholarships in Winthrop
College and for the. admission of
new students will he held at the
County Court House on Friday,
July I, at a. m. Applicants must
not be less than sixteen years of
age. When Scholarships are va
can't after July they will be award
ed to those making the highest
average at this examination, provi-
ded they meet the conditions gov
erning the award. Applicants for
Scholarships should write to Presi-
dent Johnson before the examina-
ton for Scholarship examination
blanks.
Scholarships are worth 500 and
free tuition. The next session will
open September 20, 1916. For
further information and catalogue,
Address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock
Hill, S. T.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21
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FAULT IN CITY PLANNING
Standardization of Streets Can Be Car
ried to Excess, as California Jour
naliSt Points Out.

One Of the greatest follies practiced
in modern city-building, particularly
where the topography is broken in
character, lies in standardization OF
streets, more especially regarding the
width, says the Los Angeles Times.
The writer lives on "cross street,
that is, one crossing at right angles a
main thoroughfare - Avenue Sixty
four-that carries at least several
hundred times as much traffic as the
one first noted, yet the widths Of the
two are the same. The one is three
blocks long, blind" at each end, hav-
ing no possibility of a direct outlet
at either extremity. The other is the
main highway from Los Angeles to
Pasadena by way of Colorado street,
and to Eagle Rock by the same feed
er."
There is no question but greater
width is needed on Avenue SiXty-four,
as is the case with scores of streets
similarly situated. 1t is equally GER
tain that the crossing streets are
twice as wide as need be. The miser-
able parkways are but ~ inches wide,
an areasso restricted that good street
tree growth is impossible. Every
property owner with whom the writer
has talked on the subject would be
pleased to have several feet on each
side added to the parkway, yet major
ity does not rule, even in Los Angeles.
No traffic is seen on such streets ex-
cept the daily routine Of the milk
man, baker and vegetable peddler.
Yet the width is the same as that OF
the one great highway running
through the district
The case cited is used merely be-
cause the writer has intimate personal
acquaintance with it, having resided
on this specific street for ten years
No personal grievance inspired this
article, for the residents on the street
have never sought to have 1t changed.
All concede widening Of parkings,
with correspondingly narrower
driveway, would make more beauti-
full street, give it more pleasant as
pect, allow of fine parkway gardening,
etc. But did they know that when the
street is to be paved the cost Of the
useless strips Of width in paving
would pay for the change and new
curbs, they might petition the prop
er officials to make such change. AS
all streets are of the same width, and
all at right angles as we'll, the plan
ming and plating of such districts may
safely be turned over to our children.
And some Of the latter would be bet
ter than their parents.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21
Economy in Fireproof Qualities.

While fireproof qualities and perma-
nence Of materials are items appar-
emily increasing the cost Of the new
house, the home-builder will find in
the end that economy lies in these
qualities; and applying the old eadage
of the chain, his house will be as last
ing as its weakest part.
Hence the ratio between the life Of
different materials should be consid-
cred and permanence in the walls of a
building should be duplicated in it's
foundations and roof. AS for instance:
q house Of brick to be consistently
permanent, requires concrete or stone
foundation, and slate roof.
The depreciation of a house Of this
type is said to be about per cent a
year, reckoning its life to be 100
years.
But the permanency Of materials is
not restricted to brick alone, and that
frame houses can be constructed to
last 100 years, though not immune OF
course from the accident Of fire, is typ
fled in the numerous frame houses OF
historical interest standing in state
of good preservation throughout the
country.
Among these are the old Cushing
house at Higham, Mass, built in the
early part OF the eighteenth century;
the Wadsworth house in Cambridge,
built in 1928, and the Fairbanks house
in Dedham, probably the oldest house
in America, built about 1886.
White pine was used extensively IN
these houses, which fact is testimony
to the lasting qualities Of that wood.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21
elorlfled by Gods sunIlahs.

How many things are there in life
that, looked at from our point of
view, are clouds only-things to be
shrunk from, with nothing in them
of brightness, of radiance and beauty.
They are out of the line Of the sun.
Put when Gods sunlight lights them
up how different they appear. They
are clouds still, but they are radiant
clouds, things of beauty and of love
liness.-Exchange.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21
CLEAR SKIN COMES FROM WITHIN.

1t is foolish to think you can gain
good clear complexion by the use
of face powder. Get at the root of
the trouble and thoroughly cleanse
the system with a treatment of DR..
Kings New Life Pills. Gentle and
mild in action, do not grippe, yet
they relieve the liver by their &C.
ton on the bowels. Good for
young, adults and aged. Go after
a clear complexion to-day. Csc. at
your druggist. !
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-21

whole oats were compared as supple
ments to whole wheat in the grain
mixture. The amount of grain con-
sumed by the respective lots was
1.04O, 1000 and 1000 pounds; the
amount OF mash consumed, 400, $50
and 43O; the total cost of feed, S26.40,
s23 and $3.50; the number of eggs
laid, 2,9F5, 1874 and 2,574; the gain
in weight, 27, 80 and II pounds, re-
spectively. Out of 200 eggs incubated
in lot 1, 1876 were fertile, from which
153 chicks were raised; lot 2, $50 fer.
tile and $50 chicks raised, and lot 3
168 fertile and 1873 chicks raised.
,jR. .hlNG'S NEW hbaSGU 3
Will Surely cfro Th7t Cr"nh.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
Y. ,. WILKINS IS MADE 4 DIRECTOR
 OF M. & P. BANK
Son of First President Ele-
 vated, and Quarterly Divi- > dend of 3% Is Declared.

Declaring a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent, effective January 1, stock holders of the Merchants & Planters bank yesterday, in annual session, fittingly celebrated the forty-six anniversary of the oldest state bank in Arkansas, the bank whose charter from the state bears No. 1.
 The quarterly dividend of per cent. will be payable January 1, April 1, July and October l, and President s. c. Alexander stated last evening that the money for these dividends during the present year has already been set aside.
 " D. Wilkins, of the Gould Gal braith Supply company. and son of the first president of the Merchants & Planters bank, was elected di- rector of the institution, being an addition to the board, all the other members being reelected. and the di- rectors now being as follows:
 J. W. Wilkins, J. w. Jones, S. c. Alexander, w. E.. Collier, w. L. De- woody, A. D. Foster, J. s Ingram and V. D. Wilkins.
 All the old officers of the bank were reelected, these being as fol- lows: j: z s. c. Alexander, president: W.@L Dewoody, vice president; and A. D.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
PEOPLES SAVINGS. {, :, BANK & TRUST O.
 GROWS STEADILY
sss sf N ry ;. s.sts - e4,.l
 Usual Semi Annual Divi- ]. dend ,of4 PeE Cent Declar- <. d&Officers Re elected.

e@ Comp plimenting the management of the institution for the successful manner in which il. has, been conduct ed, the stockholders of the Peoples Savings Bank X Trust company, in annual nyedting yesterday followed the words if approval by action in- dicating the sincerity of the praise. All directors were reelected, and the directors promptly re-eiected the same corps of, officials, as follows:
 J. H.. Mann, president; J. A. Glenn ent, vice president H. B. Strange sec retary treasurer: V. B. Alexander. assistant secretary. serving with Messrs. Mann, Clement and Strange on the directorate are w. c. iCritten- den, B. A. Howell, J. E. Isbell and Leo M. Andrews.
 The usual semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent was declared and after this was paid there stih remained about 5000 in the "undfvfded profits" account.
 The past year has been an unusu- ally prosperous one for the Peoples Savings Bank & Trust company. the youngest state bank in the city. the "highwater mark" in deposits having been reached. The statement pub lished in The Graphic yesterday shows deposits 1cn December 31, 1915 of $470,S99.S3, and no bills payable. The bank is working on a ciptal of siOO 900 and certified surplus of $2C 900.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
BAlN BECOMES 4
 VICE PRESIDENT '.
 CITIZENS BANK
Portland Man Has Big In terests Here-Other Bank
 Officials Reelected.

J. c. Bain of Portland, one of Asil- ley county's wealthiest and most prominent citizens, was yesterday elected vice president of tho Citi- zens' bank of Pine Bluff, at the s,nnu:- al meeting of the stockholders of the bank.
 MT. Bain has heretofore served as a member of the ,directo"ate of the bank, and his election as vice 4presi dent yesterday puts him in even clos CT touch with the patrons ard clls- toners of the bank, who may profit by his experience and keen insight into conditions. He is perhaps the largest planter in Ashley county, president of 8 bank there, is prolsi- nently connected with mercantile lines and is the controlling owner in a big oil mill. He makes his home at Portland, but spends much of Ills time in Pine Bluff, where he has coil- siderable business and financial in terests. Only a few weeks ago MT. Bain purchased at legal sale, the plant of the Arkansas Packing com pany, in this city. <.
 At the meeting yesterday afternoon,
 
 the stockholders heard reports from the officers, showing that business for the past year was entirely sa+.sfac- tory in every respect. The usual dividend was declared and ordered paid January 15.
 The directors, all of whom were re- elected, are as follows:
 M. w. Ware, George l.. Madding, T.. H. Gregory, Harold E. Bluthenthal, P. P. Byrd, Fred Fox, John B. Speers, J. c. Bain, George w. Lambert, Frank M. Roane and M. E. Bloom. ,
 The directors elected the following officers, all reelected except MT. 1Bain, who is a new officer holding a newly-created position: 1 { John B. Speers, president; M. w. Ware, vice president; George l.. Mad ding, vice president; J. c. Bain, vice president; M. E. Bloom, cashier; R. l.. Byrd, assistant cashier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
COTTON BELT BANK
 HAS PROSPEROUS BUSINESS YEAR.
Ueuai Dividend Declared and All Directors and
 Officers Re-elec cted.

Stockholders in the Cotton Belt savings & Trust company, in annual mGAting yesterday, reelected all the oldsdirectOrs and officers, and declar- ed the usual semi annual dividend of 3 per cent.
 Reports of the officers showed that the bank Is in excellent condition of pr0spefity and that business the past yaar has been all that could have been desired, especially in view or the conditions existing throughout the oolaAtry the early half of the period.
 The directors of the institution are ae follows:
 c: H. Bolinger, !. E. Royce. E. F. Brilge. J. w. Crawford, R. M Gal brSith, Fred Fox, Harvey Hogg, A. w. Troupe, Ben B. We'll.
 The officers who will continue to eerve the institution are as follows:
 E. Boyce, president; R. M. Gal braith, vice president; c. H. Bolinger, secretary and treasurer; Harvey Hoyg, assistant secretary and treas- urer. n
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12

Faster, cashier. osnecially the.
 st tna six pnn, months, was the best in ant ent history of the bank, sa.u "rt was also Alexander last evening" sl' wa1 7. ter of the best six months in the ntses 4he net net rn @ nrofits for the bank, or.tins tae ,s 2 nro nrot5ts for that period aggre' $26,955.' ;n ;+s old home,
 The bank is again in l's '.s,,i,t U,i and which was thoroughly reDull. ,. ane of of enlarged, and which is now Uns n1etelv tha handsomest and most comple'er. La en, on,,;nnad e,,T na banking houses in the en tire state. 'S
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
1915 BEST YEAR IN HISTORY OF SIMMONS BANK
 V 7 -s4.i--., t--.--t ,s ! sss ~ s
 a44s%t4 sse a Jubilant Stock kholders. De- clare Dividend and Re elect All Q Officials.

That the year 1915 was the most prosperous in the history of the in stitution. was the sffeport of the oifa- cers to the stoekholders of the Sim mons National bank, at the annual meeting yesterday sat the banking house at Main. and Second ayenue..
 Despite the pessimistic conditions which existed everywhere when the year 1915, opened, business through out the year., and especially in the last six months, was greater than ever before, and the, Simmons Nation hl bank added greatly to its previous high record in this respect.
 All the old directors of. the institu- stion were re-elected, at the meeting of the stock kholders.: yesterday, these being as faI1owss :. 2. Orto, w N Irnlock, J. T. Lloyd, J. F. QuaN1eb ebaIm, T. Roberts, Nichol. ss.SSsss,,sss: ssS::si s Nt4
 The old officefs likewise were re- re- elected, as follows:
 ; z. Orto, president; WaN.. Trulock, first vice president; J.1 1T: Lloyd, sec ,ond vice president; J Nlchol; cash fer; L. F. Hut, assistaht cashiar.
 The stockholders Ordered the. usual dividend of per cent, on the stock of the bank. s,ss'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
REAL ESTATE TRANsFER&

Transfers o1 real estate reCorded yesterday are reported by the G ". Ryington Abstract company. as fol- lows: V "
 Russell Hollis, ct al.. commission- CTS. to W. c. Hadson, Ell ST 7-6-s; $6,000.
 F. G. Smart to will Williams. lot l, block 55, College Heights addition; $65.
 F. G. Smart, ct al., tp Mefisa Hart. lots and 4, block 595, College Heights addition: $100.
 s. R. Matthews to Sarah and Diane Marion, lots and ?, block II. Austin & Taylor's addition; $l. and other valuable considerations.
 E.. A. Dryer to R. sM. Knox. NWN of lot 16 in 16-6-9;; $1 and other valu- able considerations.
 jesse Gill to pr, M. M. McBath, SW NE 1S-3-9:x $1,391. .41.s. ,tis 8Walter c. Hudson to EtAAl S:SmaIt n undivided ihtsrsst n E h SE 7-6-s; $s05. ].
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
sHERRIlL BANK, AGED " 2, PAYING DIVIDEND
J. F. Quaitlebaum, J. N: balle.a .' '''" A. 4. williams Continued III
 Charge. M

Having passed in most successaui a style through it's second year of ex- lstence, the Bank of Sherrln Is pay ing a dividend of per cent, ana ,,le, re, norts of officers read at the annual meeting of the stockholders yestef, day show that the institution IS III !" most mo- prosperous and healthy condi- tion, in every respect. a.ou
 The dividend was ordered yesler- day by the stockholders, wno le- elected the following board of dlrec- tors. to serve during the ensuing year: ..
 J. F. Quattlebaum, J.. M. Barret1' W. I. Payne, Lee M. QuattleDaun' Jchn w. Gibson, Jo Nichol and Il. h' Furr.
 The directors in turn reelected the following officers:
 J. F. Quattlebaum, president J: M' Barrett. vice president; A. A. VII Hams. cashier. =.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
FORMER MAYOR HELD .
 FOR ACCEPTING BRIBE
0. w. BOurke of Blue Island, ILL, Is ACcused of Selling Out
 as Juror.

Chicago, Jan. 11.-O. w. Bourke, former mayor of Blue Island, Ill.,, a suburb, is being held here in jail to- day following his arrest by federal officials on charge of accepting a $5.O0O bribe. Bourke was one of the jurors in the so-called Alaska land fraud cases in 1913. when A. C. Frost, c. M. Seward, P. G. Beach, G. A. Ball and Frank Watson were acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States government out of Alaska coal lands, the value of which was several millions of dollars.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
BANK Of AlTHEIMER
 PAYS. 10 PER CEATUM
 A
" Usual Dividend Declared Yesterday, When DirectOrs and Officers
 Are Reelected.

The stockholders in the Bank of Altheimcr, in annual session yester- day at the banking house. of the in- stitution at Altheimer, declared the usual dividend of 10 per cent, and learned from the reports of the off cers of the bank. that the past year has been the most successful and prosperous in the history of the bank.
 Officers and stockholders of the bank boast that the institution has no overdrafts and no bills payable, while it had on hand on December 31, the date of the last official state ment. $102 900 in Scash and exchange. '"We let the other fellow owe us," is the slogan of the bank.
 The following directors were re- elected by the stockholders yesterday:
 J. s. Mcdonald, w. c. Hudson, Thomas R. Ashcraft and R. B. Ash craft.
 The officers, also reelected, are as follows:
 J.. S. Mcdonald, president; w. C.. Hudson, vice president; Thomas R. Ashcraft, cashiers, and R. B. Ashcraft, assistant cashier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12

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 Before submitting to surgical opera tion 1t is wise to try to build up the female system and cure its derangc- ments with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound: it has saved many women from surgical operations.
 Y Write to the Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co.,, Lynn, Mass, for advice 1t will be confidential.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-12
CASHIER NATIONAL BANK
 Of ARKANSAS
Exports at First Annual Meeting Show Remarkable
 Growth in Business.

c. Hudson was yesterday elect ed cashier of the National Bank of Arkansas, the youngest local banking instftntion. and the growth of which, in the less than four months of it's existence, is considered reanarlea ole
 Mr. Hudson Is one of the best known men in this city and county, was instrumental in organizing and has been with the bank since 1t open od ife doors for businees on August p, 1915. The, bank started with dc posits aggregating $3S,695.54. On December 21, 1915, the date of the latest official bank statement, when the bank was just little more than three months old, the aggregate de- posits were $14S,709.86, nearly four times m much. Ky
 Tho stockholders of tho hank, at their first annual meeting yesterday, heard reports from the, officers show ing athe growth md jexckllent condi- ti0nsof the iHstithifiOn, and reelected the foilowing directors:
 R. Carnahan, |. H.. Hudson, Charles Hayeock. L. w. Cletpe1 O., H. Trip lett, !. A. Perduei sf Triplett, Jr., II. Bringman aad R. H. Sfearns.
 I4e directors sei essdl the following officers: X,
 H. Triplett. president; l.. w. Clement, vice president; H. Bringman, vice president;; c. Hudson, cash fer; ". D: Wsbb assiytant cashier.
 The stockholders adop*ed resolu- tions of respect and regret, on the death of Mrs. M. D. Speers, widow sof ~ pioneer banker of Pine Bluff.