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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04

Federal inspectors, cooperating with
the Hattiesburg police, believe, with
the arrest last night of Will Arthur,
better known as Peg" Arthur, on
charge of violating the Harrison anti
narcotic laws, that they have unearth-
ed a systematic organization for the
sale and distribution of morphine, CO.
caine, and similar narcotics in South
Mississippi.
A number of suspects in Hatties-
burg and Laurel are being shadowed
by the Federal officials and by the
police of this city and. of the Jones
county town. 1t is known that Ar
thurs is but the first of several ar
rests scheduled to be made during the
next day or two.
The investigation Of violations OF
the Harrison law will extend to Me-
ridian, jackson, Mobile, and New or-
leans. 1t is believed that the greater
mart of the drugs sold here were pur'
chased illegally in New Orleans ano
smuggled into Hattiesburg
There are no white doctors or drug
gists under suspicion, it was author
itatiyely stated today. A negro ply
socian, however, is being shadowed
and his arrest is expected momentarily
Arthur was arrested by Chief OF 70
lice Bennett, on orders from the two
government inspectors, He was goini
along Pine, street at the time It wa
not until he was taken to Police Heao
quarters that he was told why he wa
wanted.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04

If the members of the -i-ssissippl
National Guard, now in the mobiliza'
,tion camp at Jackson, who are public
and high school students what time
they are not preparing and training
for war, are to be given honorable
discharges and sent to their respective
homes at the beginning of the 1916
,1917 school term, nothing definite to
that effect has been learned here.
Prof. F. B. Woodley, superintend-
lent of the Hattiesburg public schools,
said today that it was generally un-
Iderstood that all students are to be
released in time to allow them to en-
ter their school work the first day oi
the term.
but this is Just general talk
Prof. Woodley explained. Nothing
Ldefinite or positive ever has been re
lceived by me or by the Board of Educa
Ltion, from General Scales or Col. Hos
ms. or any of the other militia offl
GERS"
|, May Be Untrue.
|, Unless the War Department has civ
len General Scales confidential infoi
Lmation concerning this, the chance
are that the report is untrue. Their
lis nothing in the rules governing tn
militia in the field, which calls for tn
discharge of the members who may b
students especially if they are is year
lid or more.
There are more than dozen Ha
tisburg school boys, majority
which are students at the Main Stree
, High School, in Company G, the Ha
tiesburg organization at Camp Swe
/ Taylor. The parents of many of thei
!, lads have appealed to Prof. Woodlt
. for assistance in getting the release
! their sons. Thus far, he has be'
! unable to do anything about the pro
osition.
II is probable that Prof. Woodley W
get in communication with GeneI
Scales Immediately, and see what m
Ibe done toward releasing his 8
dents, provided there is any legal W
Ie of getting their discharges.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04

Paris, Aug. 4.--Attacking stimuli
taneously from the northwest and
the southeast, the French have
stormed FIeury, north Of verdun,
and captured several hundred Ger
mans.
Last night the Germans furious
Iy counter-attacked, and succeed
ed in gaining foothcld in the
southern part of FIeury. The
French hold the northern section
today. Heavy, bloody fighting con-
tinues.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04

Berlin. Aug. 4.-The Austro.Ger-
mans recaptured all territory which
the Russians took in the Rudka- Mi
rynskaia region. The Teutons have
advanced in the carpathians. In the
Fleury sector. the situation is the
same as before the attack
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04

London. Aug. 4-Minor operations
last night on the Somme front result
ed in gains for the British west Of
Pozieres.
The Japanese steamer Kohinamaru
and the British steamer G. C. Grad
well have been sunk, Two British
steamers are reported to have been
torpedoed in the English channel last
night. Their crews we're landed at
Havre.
Rome reports the loss of two Ital-
ian submarines.
The Italian steamship Citta di Mes
sina is reported to have been sunk.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
rAE COTTON MARKET.

New Orleans. Aug. 4.-The cotton
market at 2;So was january 1891
onenlng at 14.17; March, 1903, open
~ II 14.ss, October, 1852, opening
i 1888; December, 1889, opening at
1407
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
Is CHILDREN DIE OF
a iNFANTILE PARALYSIS
Ira Associated Pre8s.)

New York, Aug. 4.--Forty-five chill
d,ep died of infantile paralysis and
,zs new cases we're reported during
the last "a hours.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
FRENCH GERMAN
ARMIES FIGHT
|NFLEURYSECTOR
French Attack Simultaneously
From Two Sides. Taking
Many Teutons-
GERMANS IN A COUNTER
ATTACK REGAIN GROUND

Southern Part Of the Section Is Held
by the Invaders, as Regiment After
Regiment is Thrown at Each other
for its Possession--Italy Loses Two
Submarines in a Fight With the
Austro-eermans--ItalIan Steamship
is Sunk.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
SLIGHT HOPES
FOR STUDENTS.
in THE MILITIA
Woodley Says He Hasn't Heard
That They'll be Released
Next Month.
REPORT IS GENERALLY"
DISCUSSED, HOWEVER

Of tlattiesburs Schools
Declares That He Has Heard Moth
ing official.to the Effect That Pupils
of Local Schools Win Be Given Hon.
orable Discharges at the Beginning
Of Next Term--WliI Confer With
|, Scales. 4sA &i'lKya#.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
CONV|CTS HERE
TO CLEAR UP.
NORMAL TRACT
Fourteen Men From the Peni-
tentiary TO Dig Stumps on
College Farm.
CHARTERED IN BUILDING
ON INSTITUTIONS CAMPUS

When First stump Is Dug, Deed Is
Transferred to Normal by Land
company-Prisoners viii Remain
Here Until cotton-Pickins Time, at
Least--Idea is an Experimental
One, and If It Makes Good, VIII be
Tried at Other Places.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
,NET IS THROWN
: 'AROUNDVENDERS
. Of DRUGS HERE
Federal Inspectors, Cooperating
With Police, Prepare
For Raids
ONE ARREST MADE AND
OTHERS WILL FOLLOW

Man Held for Violating Harrison Anti
Narcotic Law is Searched and Three
Morphine Tablets are Found Hidden
In His peg Les-Nesro Doctor to be
Arrested-lnvestIsation to Extend
10 Laurel, Meridian, and New Or
leans.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
fBn Asaocinfed Preaa.l

NDy H9SucFuttu 1FtsSsI
Berlin, Aug. Army headquar-
ters announces that the Germans
recaptured FIeury from the French
this morning.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04
Attract Attention.

The convicts reached Hattiesburg
Yesterday in charge of two white
and Superintendent Davis.
They were marched to the Normal Col
lege, and attracted much attention en-
route. A shed has been constructed
for the men, near the barns on the
campus, and they will be quartered
there. This place will be comfortable
in every way, and President Cook has
promised that the men will live in
the most sanitary quarters possible.
and will not have to contend with mos
quitoes.
If the convict method of clearing
land and assisting the educational in
stitutions of the state makes good
here, it is likely that the same idef
will be carried out at other Mississip
pi colleges.
The convicts were sent here as
result of a special act at the recen
session of the legislature. The apprc
priations for improvements at the co
llege were slashed numerically by tn
Legislature during its closing sessions
and but for the measure detailing col
yicts here, the college would be in
bad fix this year and next.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-04

The first Mississippi convicts from
the state prison farms and the peni-
tentiary to be detailed for special
work in the interest of educational in
stitutions, have reached Hattiesburg,
and today were dispatched to the $40
acre tract donated to the Mississippi
Normal College by one of the big lum-
ber companies of South Mississippi
There are IA of these convicts, all
negroes. This number will be in
creased, in all probability, within a
short time. They will be used in
clearing the large acreage of the
stumps left when the yellow pine was
cut from the tract. How long the con
victs will remain Ihere is not known.
The tract is located short distance
from the Normal College. 1t was do
mated to that institution by the J. ]
Newman Lumber Company, with th'
stipulation that it be cleared and PLACED
in cultivation. The moment the frs
stump was dug up by the striped uni
formed men, the deed was transferred
to the college.
Whether all the stumps will be re
moved this year, or whether the cor
victs will be returned to the stat
farms at the opening of the cottor
! picking season, has not yet been de
J cided. It is probable that they wi
! go back to jackson some time in octt
ber, when the cotton is ready to b
: lnicked.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
The Old Song.

The old songs thai used to touch
the soulchord ofour grandparents
are being forgotten in our rag
time age. When some old moth
er as she sits knitting the warm
woolen stockings, tries to sing
snatches of the songs favorlte in
her younger days, we seem to
catch some what Of their deeper
and more helpful spirit, Those
songs had a wealth of sentiment
and human note which we do not
find in our modern rag time and
doggerel songs. We hope that
some day the st 'ndard Of public
taste will rise to It's former level
Of common sense, and even to a
higher level OF art as to draw out
aud to encourage song writer's
worthy of the smiles Of the music
The "Tra.la boom.de as" are
rather too rudlmentary for en-
lightened people to applaud.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
BRUSH CREEK.
Happy New Year to al!

Happy New Year to al!
Mr.. and Mrs A. E Deshone
aud son Richard, of Andover
spent Sunday in the home of M,
E Barton and family.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Jesse Grove who
had been spending a few days
with relatives in the Valley, re
turned last week to Amaranth,
and after a short stay there they
will leave for Kansas where they
expect to reside.
George Barton left last week
for Am bridge, where he has
obtained employ ment.
A teacher has been secured for
Em maville school left vacant by
.he resignation of S. E. Walters.
Mrs. Emma Garland an d
daughter, OF Whips Cove visited
In the home of her sister, Mrs.
Maggie Barton last Sunday.
A number of patrons attended
the Christmas exercises held at
Buffalo School last Friday after.
noon. The pi iogram was inter
estlng and well rendered, which
speaks well for teacher and pu.
pills.
Mr.. James Akers is spending
sometime with his grandmother
Mrs. j. X Jackson. while his
grandfather is away at the hos
pital.
Miss Blanche Sharpe returned
to Ambridge a few days ago
where she has employment in
the home of Mr.. Pfeifer instead
of DR., A N, Mellott as was stat
ed In the Democrat last week.
A nice spike buck was killed
by W l. Duvall of Akersville one
day during the hunting season.
Several other hunters were in
the crowd.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
{. |. 5. 6. Program.

January 8.-Roll Call. Quota
tions. l. How does France re-
gard religion? Rev. Jackson.
2. Has the loss of the clergy's
influence been for the good of
France?-Mrs. Grove. 3. Each
member be prepared to give an
opinion on questions above. A.
Material advance in France. -
Mrs. Seylar. 5. Labor movement
three minute talks-Mrs. Ste
vens. 6. Review of omitted SUBJ
jects in Chap. X,-Mrs. McKib-
bin.
January 15.-1. Roll Call: Quo
tations. 2. Moral, Intellectual,
and Religious Thoughts upon
Christianit y.-Miss Meow
ern. 3. The French school-teach-
er. Miss Harriet Sloan. a. Quiz
on parts omitted in Chap. XII
Miss Trout. 5. Talks on Chap.
XII-Mr. Smith.
January %. Roll Call: Quo
tations. l. The Anti Clericals. -
Mrs. Hull. Talk: Influence of
Catholicism on schools. Anna
Reisner. 8. Talk: What provis-
ion for Catholic institutions at
separation?-Mrs. Sloan. a.
What can be said of Monsieur
Combes Bill?-Mary Pittman. 5.
Talk: Concordat. Mrs. Mosser.
s. General Discussion of Chap.
XIII.
January 20. Roll call and quo
tations. 2. Talk: Tell of the
French Huguenots. Mrs. Henry.
8. Discussion of Chap. XIV by
the class. 3. Symposium. Re-
sponse by the class. 4. Talk:
Conditions in France to-day
Mrs. Reisner. 5. The most i'm
portant thing have learned from
this ok.-Class.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
REPUDlATlNe TRADITION.

Symbolism figured above every.
thing else in ceremony presided
over by the secretary of the interior,
in South Dakota, where some Sioux
Indians we're admitted to full Unit
ed States citizenship. Each Indian
shot an arrow to typify his quitting
the life of a nomad, and each put
his hand to a plow handle to typify
his taking up the life of a farmer.
And so the antagonists of Custer re.
pudiated every point of aboriginal
tradition perhaps save one, namely,
the right to be regarded as poets.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
RamSey...BrOwn.

A quiet little wedding took
place at the home of E. L. While
on the evening of the Oath inst,
when Henry L. Ramsey and Miss
Currence Brown, both of Mad
densville were united in marriage
by Justice ]. S. Mort. The groom
is a son of R. E. and Jane RAM
sey and the bride, a daughter of
Geo. w. and Sara Brown-all of
Maddensville. The young couple
have the best wishes of their nu-
merous friends.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
She Likes Old Way.

1t is difficult for a woman who
has led an active life as house.
keeper to become a passive men,
ber of her sons or daughters
home. She likes her old way
best, she longs to show the young
er generation how they are vast
ing their resources. Youth will
learn only by experience. 1t re-
sents interference. And so there
are misunderstanding, and un-
happiness results. A woman is
always happier in her own home
with her own income, however
small it may be, than in the home
of another, even Of her own son
and daughter, though it be a
home of wealth and lavish gen.
erosity, where there is an earn
estdesire to make her comfortable
and happy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
SUMMARY DISCIPLINE.

$50 Crimson Gulch has expert.
enced reformp
'"I should say So" replied Bronco
Bob. "An' you bet it's the real, sin.
cere thing. Piute Pete an Three
Finger Sam are now in the hospital
bein' probed fur bullets"
"How did it happenr"
''They would insist on playing
cards on Sunday"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
OUR DISTANT FRIENDS.
Interesting Extracts from Letters Re.
Gently Received from Former Fol.
ton County People.

ALBERT HEIKEs, Great Falls,
Mont. We had a very nice fall
until a few days ago; we have
real winter weather now. We
are all reasonably we'll. Crops
good last summer. am sorry
to hear that your railroad has
had another relapse. Ihad hoped
it would be finished by the time
l went back on a visit. Next
August will complete twenty
years since left McConnellsburg.
| would like to see you all again.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
SHOWED AMERICAN GOODS.

At recent cattle and pig fair in
a remote part of Ireland the mer-
chants displayed carpet sweepers,
kerosene ranges, fountain pens, tools,
pencils, rolled oats and automobiles,
all made in the United States.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28

For Sale.--3 light Bobsleds-
two of which have tops, and 2
Portland Cutters. Will be sold
at a big bare ain to quick buyers
John Sheets & Son, McCon-
nellsburg, Pa II 81 2t
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
EVIDENCE LACKING.

"My first husband had much bet
.er sense than you have"
81 can't see it. We were both fool
ish enough to marry you"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
SURE DEATH.

'Doctor Blank frequently accepts
no fees from his patients"
"You don't say So"
"He settles with the heirs"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
NOT THE RIGHT ONE.

"That fellows name is Lance"
at ought to be Gum, then, for he
is either getting loaded or getting
fired"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28

Miss Mary Crom sell arrived
home last Saturday after having
spent q year in Homestead,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
NO REFLECTION.

"You said I drank like fish, and
/ never drink anything but in mod
Grafton"
"Well, neither does fish,"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28

Miss Mary H. Baumgardner,
teaching in Chester County, is
spending her holiday vacation at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Baumgardner, East
Market Street.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
BAD ENOUGH.

"My poems are the children Of my
BRAIN"
"They should be sent to reform
school,"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
HIS EMBLEM.

"What is Harold's birth-stoneY
"Well, judging from the way he
falls for any scheme, think it must
be a gold brick"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28

Baker & Bros, Real Estate,
Insurance, Automobiles, Live,
Stock &c. Write us your desires
First National Bank Building,
Everett, Pa. Loans arranged
for.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
ITS LANGUAGE.

"a little bird has been telling me
things"
'Did it tell you in pigeon Eng
lish?"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
POLICE FORCE EXAM.

"Whats a fraction ?"
ga part of anything, sorr."
"Give an example"
"The sivinteenth of June"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
Wanted, For Sale, For Rent,
Lost, Found, Etc.

RATES-One cent per word for each
insertion. No advertisement accepted
for less than l6 cents. Cash must ac-
company order.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
MI scsI and General Interest. Gathered
at Home or Clipped from our
Exchanges.
CONDENSED POR HURRIED READERS

Dl OdhtOu, opChb q iOW uoyo Neh
ing the past week in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Booth, OF
Altoona, are spending few days
this week with relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland A. Sharpe
and daughter Mabel, of Pleasant
Ridge, spent a few hoursin town
Tuesday.
Rev. Croft will preach at Mt.
Zion next Sunday at 10:30; at
Needmore, at 800, and at Bed
ford Chapel, at 7:15.
Mr.. Ben Sinner and family
spent Christmas in the home of
Mrs. Sinners sister, Mrs. j. M.
Myers at Mercersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Reisner.
of Hagerstown, spent Christmas
in the home of Mrs. Reisner's
mother, Mrs. Josephine Sloan in
this place.
Mrs. Chas. F. Ehalt returned
to her home at the Fulton House
last week after having spent
some time visiting her daughter
in Texas.
City Superintendent, Harry E.
Gress, of Monessen, Pa, stayed
day or two in McConnellburg
enroute to the State Teachers
Meeting at Harrisburg.
Miss Mildred Reisner, of Hag-
erstown, was a guesti in the home
of her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. W. Reisner from Sat-
urday until Tuesday morning.
H. C. Miller and John A. Brown
of Burnt Cabins, called at the
NEWS Office while in town last
Saturday and gave the editor a
little substantial encouragement.
DR.. Clarence N. Trout and
family, of Red Lion, Pa, came
to town last Saturday to spend a
few days in the home of the Doc
tors mother, Mrs. Matilda B.
Trout.
William M. Patterson, with the
Frick Lindsay Company Pitts
burgh, came home last Saturday
evening to spend Christmas with
his parents, Hon. and Mrs. D. II.
Patterson.
Wilbert D. Peck, who is COM
,leting his junior year at the
lebanon Valley College, is spend
ing a few days of his winter
yacation amonghis Fulton County
'elatives and friends.
Russell Runyan, Civil Engin-
aer in the employ of the Lake
Shore R, R. Company, with
headquarters at Pittsburgh,
spent a few days during the past
week in the home of his parents,
MIR. and Mrs. ]. B. Runyan.
We had q very pleasant call
Tuesday from our old friend AL
lison S. Greenland, of Wells Val
ley. While Mr.. Greenland has
passed his three-score-years and
ten, he is in fine physical condi-
ton and looks like a man much
younger in years.
j. D. Finley, of Burnt Cabins,
was a pleasant visitor in town
last week. He informed US that
Mrs. Geo. W. Doran, who had
the misfortune to fall while as
cending the stairs, at her home,
IS recovering from what might
have been a very serious acci-
dent.
Elmer Suders spent a few days
visiting his mother and sisters in
this place. Elmer is a progress
i've farmer and coal operator in
the western part of the State.
He says Fulton County farmers
could dispose of their potatoes at
$3.50 a bushel if they would take
then out to his town.
Among the teachers home for
the holidays are Miss Emma
Sloan and Miss Carrie Greathead
Johnstown, Pa. Miss Ethel Hays,
Pleasantville, N. j.; Miss Elsza-
beth Taylor, Sunbury, Pa. /;
Russell Nelson, Princeton, N. j.;
Miss Ada Rexroth, Newtown,
Pa: Miss Zoe Mason, Akron, O.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-12-28

Frank S. Greathead, of Kelso,
Washington, is spending the hol-
iday season at the old home in
this place. Mr.. Greathead is a
son of the late Jno. W. Greathead
deceased, and is a travelling sales
man now holding down a lucra-
tive position with the Willies
Overland Automobile Company.
Frank learned the mysteries of
the Art Preservative in the Demo-
crat Office away back toward the
close of the last century and won
local fame by feeding two forms
on the press at the same time.