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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-30
SMART MODELS
in FALL HATS

The showing of new fall millinery
at Miss Powers is quite remarkable
Pleasing variousness runs gaily
through the entire exhibition of per.
sonally selected nodels.-Adv.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
A RIDICULOUS COMPARISON.

In a recent issue Of the Vazoo City,
News comparative statements Of the Green
wood and Yazoo City light and water plants
are published, and that paper makes the
ridiculous claim that the Yazoo City plant
'makes a better showing of revenues on
less expenditures than does Greenwood"
The reason the statements, as published,
show a difference in favor Of Yazoo City
is, VIZ:
Greenwood has a bond sinking fund Of
about $65, 600, bearing interest, to pay off
her plants indebtedness-and Yazoo City's
statement doesn't show anything provided
for that purpose; Greenwood has made i'm
'~provements on her plants amounting to
about 500, 600, while the improvements or
the Yazoo City plants amount to about $685.
900; Greenwood pays easily one-third less
for operating expenses, and only about
one-half for fuel that is expended for
the same purpose in YaZoo City; Green.
wood makes no charges against the city for
lights and water, and Yazoo City charges
her municipality for everything furnished;
year 1915 were SIS, o60. &c, and Yazoo City's
operating expenses for that year were $685.
OF. 80. If Greenwood charged the city for
the service furnished, the revenues from
our plants would show probably rs per cent.
lead over the receipts Of Yazoo City-and
at the same time our light and water rates
are considerably less than Yazoo City's.
We are pleased to know that the plants
in our neighboring city are making such a
splendid showing, but the comparisons made
with Greenwood's plants by our clever
friend, Major Mcclure, editor of the News,
are absurd. GreenWood's water and light
plants, under the capable management of
Commissioners T. r. Henderson, E.. l..
Mounger and G.. E. Wright, are eminently
satisfactory, and there are few if any SINH
lar plants that make a more favorable finan-
cial showing than ours. Besides we have
in Mr.. Roy Stott one Of the most efficient
superintendent of these public utilities in
the whole country.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
COURTESIES OF THE ROAD.

At a meeting some time ago OF the
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
a movement was started to promote greater
consideration for the public safety and COM
emphasized and the effort made to create
better standards Of good manners on the
public highways.
The automobile manufacturers who
make up this organization evidently realize
the difficulty of this problem of adjusting
motor vehicles to conditions of traffic ere
ated long before the motor car came into
existence.
It has some times seemed as if the SEN
timent of the motOrist was one Of intOler-
ance toward a Slow dull public, who were
behind the times enough to walk or depend
on horses. This is of course unfair to the
great majority Of motorists, who are careful
and considerate. But ne matter how cour-
teous the great majority may be, the reck-
less and arrogant minority give a bad name
to the whole tribe. Hence it is refreshing
to read that this Chamber of Commerce is
planning a campaign Of education for such
drivers as need it, to promote a greater de-
gree Of responsibility and a sense Of the
value of the rules and courtesies of the
road. j. W.. Drake, of Detroit, as chair
man Of the committee, has before him this
task, to promote the growth of such a spirit
of good tanners that a breach Of the same
will bring contempt to the discourteous
driver.
When the speeder and the road hog will
be considered just as boorish as the man who
violates the laws Of table manners, some
thing will be accomplished. There are
many people for whom bad form has more
terrors than the law.
There are many men who would feel
chagrined and even disgraced, were they to
forget, on entering a room, to let the ladies
go honking down through a busy street, Is
miles an hour, abruptly ordering the public
to wait until they pass. This kind of thing
will some day be regarded in the same light
as eating green's with a knife.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
THE STAPLE COTTON BUYERS
EFFECT ORGANIZATION.

An organization of great i'm
portance was effected III Green
vile, Saturday, April LIST, when
one hundred prominent cotton
buyers assembled in the hall of
the Elysian Club and organized
the Staple Cotton Shippers Asso-
citation.
The meeting was attended,
either in person, or by representa-
ton, by the largest handlers of
staple cotton in the South.
Former United States Senator
Leroy Percy was called to pre-
side as temporary chairman and
Mr.. R. L. Pritchard, secretary Of
the Greenville Chamber of Com
merce, was made secretary.
The question Of improving ship
ping facilities of tare on cotton
and of weights on all cotton
shipped to the Carolinas and to
New England, were among the
matters discussed before the
meeting and a later committee on
rules was named to formulate the
ideas Of the staple cotton buyers
represented at the meeting, and
those who may become members
of the association later on these
and other matters.
Among the buyers of staple cot
ton represented were the fol-
lowing:
GreenviIle-J. H. Fisher & Co.,
Stanley Henshaw, Edward Hol-
land G Co., Blum G Levy, J. P.
Gooch, William Crump &c Co.,
Hazlip-Hood Cotton Co., Missis-
sippi Valley Cotton Corporation,
McGee, Dean C Co.
Yazoo City-T. H Craig & Co.,
Emmett Craig & Co., Gaddis Cot
ton Co., Gardner and Luckett, w,
T. Priestlev & Co, Hutchins &
Stubblefield and w. F. Holmes
G Co.
Greenwood-BarnwelI Bros, H
E. Calm & Co., c. j. Jones, A. K
Sabin C Co., Foley Cotton Co.
w. L. Wells & Co., Malone &
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
GOOD THING FOR GREENWOOD AND
LEFLORE COUNTY.

The question of markets for any pro-
duct of human industry is always one en-
gaging the interest of all who have things
to buy or things to sell. The handling Of
what has been our peculiar product, cotton,
has been done by an interchange of news.
concerning markets and prices between men
buying and selling cotton in all parts of the
world. This is called an Exchange.
But there are products of industry
other than cotton. The great cities of the
country do not confine their to
one commodity. No town can be called a
great town, and no market can be called a
great market, so restricting it's activities.
To be a great town it is necessary that we
have a market for all products. If we do
not produce other things than one commod-
ity we should learn to produce them agri-
%culturally and to sell them commercially.
Then we may become a really great market.
The Postal Exchange Company of Jack
son, Mississippi, has two representatives,
Messrs. E. L. larry and C. B. Walker, in
Greenwood developing a system Of markets
through a general Exchange which has
many interesting features. The officers of
this company are ~well-known and greatly
esteemed Mississippians, and the plan they
offer is worthy of the interested considera-
ton of our people. The gentlemen present
ing this plan here very truly say that that
man is likely to be most successful in buy
ing or selling who is in touch with the
greatest number of men who want to sell or
to buy.
We would suggest a thoughtful consid-
Grafton of their system on the part of our
people, merchants as well as planters.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
Keesler, Humphrey & Co., j. j.

Keesler, Humphrey & Co., j. j..
Cowan and MCGEE, Dean & Jones'.
Clarksdale-T. H. Craig & Co.,
Coate Bros, Holland Grafton &
Co., Barnwell Bros, j. H. Fisher
& Co., MCGEE, Dean & Jones.
Observation-Disclosures & Co., J..
H. Fisher G Co., C. w. Butler
& Co.
Leland MCGEE Dean & Co. and
Winter-Mann Co.
Indianola-W. M. Garrard & Co.
Vicksburg-J. j. Cowan.
New Orleans-Stewart Bros.
Cotton Co. and Humphrey & Co.
On motion, a committee on
rules was named as follows: Stan
ley Henshaw of Greenville, chair
man; w. T. Priestley of Yazoo
City, w. R. Humphrey of Green
wood, E. W. Wood of Leland, F.
M. Crump Of Memphis, j. B.
Cowan of Vicksburg, w. M. Gar
rard of Indianola, Joe Barnwell
of Clarksdale. H. K. Fisher of
Rosedale, John Stewart of New
Orleans, Sidney West of Little
Rock and Pine Bluff, C. H. Crutch-
field of Hope, C. A. Wooten of
Helena.
On motion, Leroy Percy was
added to the committee on rules.
On motion, it was resolved that
when the meeting adjourns today
that it adjourns to meet in Mem
phis, at II o'clock am, May l, al
the Business Mems Club, and that
the committee on rules be re.
quested to have its report ready
for that meeting.
On motion, a committee oil
three on membership was formed
Stanley Henshaw, as chairman Of
the rules committee, was author.
lied to name the committee which
is as follows: B. O. MCGEE, Viii
Ray and w. NJ. Garrard.
On motion of B. O. McGee, the
temporary organization was made
permanent.
On motion, the association will
be called the Staple Cotton. Ship.
pers Association-Greenville Dem
ocrat.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
THE PROPOSED BARGE LINE

Messrs. Geo. Land, w. B. Burke
and G. L. Smith, of the Lamb-Fish
Lumber Co., at Charleston, were in
the city the first of the week looking
after matters pertaining to the put
ting in of their proposed barge line
from Greenwood to New Orleans.
The business men of this city and
county are very much interested in
the proposition of the new barge
line to haul freight to points in this
section on the return trips, which
will materially reduce freight rates.
We were recently astounded to learn
that fully so per cent. of the
groceries handled in this section are
shipped here from New Orleans.
The barge line, these gentlmen in
form us, is a certainty and they will
soon complete arrangements for
beginning business.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
PAYING BILLS,

There's nothing more pleasant than paying your
bills at the time when they're due; it sends through
your heart most enjoyable thrills, to know that
there's nothing charged up against you. You're
making the wheels of your village go round, you're
giving the workers the best kind of aid, when you
dig from your wallet the shilling and pound, and
pay UP your bills in the palace of trade. You're
filling the soul of the merchant with glee, you're
bidding the banker to weep never more, you're
hanging new wreaths on your family tree, when
you pay your bills at the dofunny store. That man
is a hindrance and hurt to his town, a brake on the
wheels Of his own neighborhood, who views the
when the paying is good.-Walt Mason.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07

In England, on account of the war, the Short
age of paper is so acute that the banished slate is
being reintroduced in the schools. says the News
Scimitar. Time was when the slate was the only
tablet upon which the school child could make a
Our own Abraham Lincoln and his contemporaries
did their figuring and writing on a wooden paddle
with a piece of charcoal. and the record there made
was whitfield off when another lesson was to be
studied. In modern times the average school child
uses as much paper as their grandfathers did
in the conduct Of q considerable COM
mercial business. and If the war does nothing
else it will have q good effect in bringing us back to
the dayssof simplicity and economy.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
PROPOSED NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

Greenwood and Leaore county will
make remarkable strides in the way of pub.
lie Improvements this year.
The Board of Supervisors will issue
$500, 900 bonds to be expended in the build
ing Of a complete system of first-class pub
lie roads throughout the ~county-the cleo
ton on the bond issue to be held Tuesday,
April 25th;
The Kings Daughters Circle will build
a modern new $50, 900 Hospital in Green
wood for the county and city-the Circle,
the city and the county providing $40, 600
each for the construction and furnishing of
this splendid institution;
The city and the abutting poperty own
ers will pave that part of Washington street
from Howard to Mary street;
The Greenwood Bank & Trust Co. are
having their charter published and will open
for business within the next few weeks;
Joe Stein will within the next few
weeks let the contract for his new $50, 600
2O-room addition to the Kitchell Hotel is
now being erected.
The Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. are having
their extensive feed mill annex rebuilt.
The new building and home of the Le-
fore Grocer Co. is in course of construction;
A barge freight line will be established
between Greenwood and New Orleans;
Quite a number of new residences and
cottages are being built in the city and
county, and numerous other improvement
are in contemplation;
The crop preparations are further adj
vanced than were ever known at this season
of the year, and the outlook is indeed very
fattering for the people along all lines;
Consequently, the citizens of Green
wood and Lehore county are in a most opti-
mistic frame of mind concerning the future
of this God-favored section of the Delta.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
|. Drug
COMPANY.
1--WE Are in Business For Your
Health"
COTTON.

Along with our eulogies Of corn and the COW
may well be placed this tribute by Henry w. Grady
to the most beloved blossom of the South:
What a royal plant it is! The world waits in
attendance on its growth; the shower that falls whis-
pering on it's leaves is heard round the world; the
sun that shines on it is tempered by the prayers of
all the people; the frost that chills it and the dew
that descends from the stars are noted; and the
to FnoIand than dh' the advauce Of The Russian Armv v
on her Asian o~utposts. 1t is good from the instant
it puts forth its tiny shoot. Its fiber is current in
every bank, and when, loosing its fleece to the sun,
it floats a sunny banner that glorifies the fields of
the humblest farmer, that man is marshaled under
a flag that will compel the allegiance of the world
and bring a subsidy from every nation on earth"
Fine! And we'll deserved! But it needs
amendment. In the year of war, not Russia but
Germany ranks with the cotton worm as England's
enemy. VERITAS.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

Twill this day try to live a simple,
sincere and serene life, repelling promptly
every thought Of discomfort, anxiety, dis
enlargement and self-seeking, c%ultivating
6aist1 Of hoiz z megoan enefeis inaf, esoa a . tine in
conversation, diligence in appointed service,
fidelity in every task and a child-like trust
in God."-Bishop John II. Vincent.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07

Upon motion of Senator Wilmington the Sen
ate adopted a resolution similar to the House Stone
for investigation and report to the next
session of the Legislature of a plan recasting the
State fiscal laws. Properly, and probably, the two
will be merged, or will merge them
selves. A joint report would command more favor
and chance of adoption, we would think, than two
separate MISUNDERSTANDING Herald.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07

GOOD ROADS NUMBER NEXT WEEK.
Next week a Good Roads Number of
The Commonwealth will be issued and
mailed to every voter in Leflore county. A
vast amount of information relative to build
ing and maintaining the different kinds Of
paper will be found exceptionally interesting
to all concerned in the matter of good roads.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
NEW FoRDS COMING

E. K. Myrick, the progressive Ford
agent, says more aFord Friends" are
developing every day. He unloaded
q shipment Of twelve new cars Tues
day adm = largs portion were sold rs
fast. = Ae1 .were mleadsA.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07
ICy=HOt


Will keep liquids hot twen-
ty-four hours; will keep Ii
guilds cold forty-eight hours.
You will find them conven-
lent for the automobile, hunt
ing or fishing trip.
We have just received a
shipment; would like to have
you see them.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07

The Commemorative Good Roads
Booster Number next week will be ahummer.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07

The State Legislature will adjourn to-
morrow. This should be some consolation
to the pessimistically inclined.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-04-07

DR.. j. S. Rosenthal spent last Sun
day in Lexington visiting home folks
and old friends.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Cashing Soldiers Needs
Is Profitable Business

Paris, Oct. l2.-The French "sut-
Ter" has shown his cunning by thus
far resisting all efforts of the COM
missary department of the army to
cut down the enormous profits he
makes out of the soldiers in the zone
of the armies. Camembert cheese, a
favorite supplement with the men
near the front, and which is dear
enough in Paris, brings from three
to four times what it really ought
to sell for at the rcpose stations.
Other luxuries bring proportionate
prices in spite of the itinerant bazars
organized by the commissary depart
ment. The motor peddling cars are
not swift enough to get the better
of the "sutler.'
The commissary department is now
trying another remedy. Two immense
general stores have been established
at important distributing points be-
hind the front with view of furn-
ishmg more promptly everything the
soldiers need in addition to their
regular rations. Each store is suffic-
lent TO supply 100000 men and the
provisions supplied from them may
be more readily carried to the men
than by the motor-bazar method
which required more cars than could
be spared.
Each of these general stores en-
ploye 5000 men and fifty officers.
Other stores will be established if it
is found necessary.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Alaskan Engineers
Making Big Effort
To Rebuild Railway

| Correspondence OF Tho Associated Prese,l
, Seward, Alaska, Oct 1.-The
Alaskan Engineering commission is
now employing force OF S25 men
and sixiy-iour station men in the re
iuvenaton OF the Alaska Northern
railway, which was purchased by tive
government when the selection OF the
route was announced by the presi-
dent.
The work consists OF rebuilding
bridges, elimination of high trestles
with fills, improvement in the align
mcnt and some slight reduction in
the grades. There will be small re-
duc,ion in the maximum grades on
the twelve mile and forty-iive-mile
SUBMITS. Many Of the fills have been
widened, and much halasting has
been done. Across Placer river, in
front of Spencer Glacier, temporary
trcstes and fills have been made, for
distance of over 5000 feet, which
will be replaced next year by per-
manent trcstlc raised ten feet above
the present level OF the track. New
shear and diversion dams are being
constructed so as to control the
waters of the river and to prevent
washouts, which have been an annual
occurrence since the road was con-
structcd,
Seventy-five thousand new ties
have been laid, and it is contemplated
that before the work OF rejuvenation
is finally completed to Mile n, over
1000 ties will have been laid
A machine shop has been built at
Seward to replace the one which
was burned early last year. and all
repairs are now being made in that
shop.
The road is now in operation to
Mile % from Seward, and freight
train is operated over the line every
Sunday and passenger train on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur-
days. 1t is expected that the line
will be opened and in operation to
Kern Creek mile ~, the end of the
tack, this month. Kern Creek will
| DC distributing polnt loT tlldt pal
of the work on Turnagain Arm
which will be done from the Seward
end, as well as for points along the
Arm, and considerable increase ii
traffic is expected as soon as the
line is completed to that point,
The work is being prosecuted un'
der the immediate supervision OF R. J
Weir, engineer in charge. Mr.. Wei
has also charge OF the new construc
ton work along Turnagain Arm be
tween Kern Creek and Glacier Creek
a distance of four miles. This is al
expensive rock work, and it is est
mated that it will cost approximately
S2s0,000. There are now several sta
ton gangs at work on this portion
of the line. 1t is expected that it will
be completed by spring, when thu
work along Turnagain Arm will b.
prosecuted as fast as funds and ma
terial will permit. SID
| Altogether contracts have beer
let at Seward to station men aggre
eating $lS0000 on work betweei
Seward and Glacier Creek, and in ad
dition to that the monthly pay rol
of the Alaskan engineering commits
sion at Seward now amounts to be
tween $4,000 and $4,000 .s-s-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Australia Stays
In Art Competition

Correspondence of The Associated Press)
Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 81,
When it was decided recently by the
federal ministry to revive the archi-
tectural competition for a design for
the Federal Parliament house at Can
berra (the Commonwealth capital
site), which was suspended in Sep
TENDER, 1914, on account OF the out
break OF the war, Australian archi-
tects declared this was practically
giving the thing to the United States"
By this was meant the advantage held
by Americans in that their nation is
not at war
The Victorian Institute of Archi-
tects protested against proceeding
with the competition at present, but
the minister for home affairs, King
O'Malley, a Canadian, who was once
a New York bank clerk, replied that
the decision was that OF the cabinet
and was unanimous; that while some
architects might not be able to COM
pete on account of the war sufficient
talent should be available to insure
a satisfactory range of designs being
submitted.
As announced by Mr.. O'Malley the
terms OF the competition are; Designs
must be in by January 81, 1917. A
total sum of $4,000 will be paid in
premiums for the first eight designs
the first design emitting its author to
$4,000. The Judges will be G. T.
Poole, Australia; Sir John J. Burnett,
Great Britain; Victor Laloux, France;
Eliel Saarinen, Russia, and Louis Fl
Wagner, Chicago. The ministry will
employ the architect placed first by
the judges for the initial portion OF
the building, but only Professionally
for subsequent stages, inasmuch as
the construction of the edifice will be
spread out over number of years.
Persistence Is the Cardinal Virtue
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
Panama Opens Harbor
That Will Help Americans

Correspondence OF The Associated Press)
Washington, Oct. 19.-The -cpublic
OF Panama has opened new port on
the Atlantic coast, about eighty
miles from Colon, and begun con-
struction Of a government building
there. The port is named Mandnga
and is located on Mandinga Bay IN
the Gulf OF San Bias 1t has all ex-
cellcnt harbor with deep water and
is only short distance from i'm
portant manganese ore mines owned
by an American syndicate. Nearby
is the site Of town to be named
Nicucsa, to be developed under a
government concession granted to all
American who has long resided in
Colon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-12
End of War Will Close
Service of Many Americans

Correspondence of The Associated Press)
Manila, Oct. Hilary Hershey,
secretary to Governor General Har-
rison, states that the end of the year
will see the retirement from the gov
eminent service of u per cent of the
American personnel. These Ameri-
cans are taking advantage of the re-
tirement law, which permits them to
leave the service with a three-year
pension.
1t was stated that of 1900 Ameri.
cans in government employ at the
time the law went into effect only
half were eligible for retirement and
about a third of these will have Sc
cured it by January /. Practically
every employee eligible for retire
mcnt has applied for it, but men
whose services cannot be spared viii
not be allowed at present, 70 take
advantage Of the law.