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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05

Quaker City Strike Threatened Today
Philadelphia, August 5.-The execu'
tive board of Division No. 557 OF the
Amalgamated Association of Street
railway Employees of America, after
a meeting here last night, announced
that unless the demands of the motor
men and conductors which were sub
united today to the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company were answered faV
Lorably by noon tomorrow, a strike
would be called within a few hours
In their demands the men asked 10
forty cents an hour for all motormei
and conductors and time and hal
for all overtime.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
BetUQre of Men Who
IOHer You Horses
Cheap These Days
STOLEN ANIMALS BELIEVED TO
BE ON THEIR WAY TO HAT
TlEsBURG MARKET.

II someone offers you, at bargain
rates, or otherwise:
A small, dark, bay horse, about
years old, in good condition.
name sheared, with letter "P"
branded on left shoulder; or,
Dark sorrel mare, years old,
weighing 900 pounds, shod all
around; or,
Bay mustang horse, old, no
shoes, with brand ON left hip,
don't buy them, but yell for an Off
Ger.
Three horses Of these descriptions
we're stolen from Laurel and Sumrall
couple of nights ago, and 1t is be
lieved that they are on their way to
Hattiesburg, by circuitous route, anc
will be offered for sale here.
The first horse was stolen iron
Sumrall, while the latter two are tn
property of Tate & Co., of Laurel.
| Deputy Sheriff Frank Williams ha
been on the lookout a couple of day
for the missing animals, and all tn
city and county officers have bee
asked to look for them.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
Take second trenches.

Londca, Aug, 5.-The British have
captured the main German second line
system on the front of 1000 yards
north of Pozieres, along the Somme.
The advance claimed by the British
north of Pozieres in the renewal OF
their powerful offensive, is on that
part of the line where the British
gains heretofore have been less pro-
nounced than elsewhere along this
front This gain. If maintained viii
materially straighten out the line in
the sector between Pozieres and THE
lpval.
Paris declares that the French Of
fensive is successfully withstanding
1.-THE German counter attacks at Yer
ldun. The French claim they lrmll
thold the Important Thiaumont work
n which changed hands several time
7, during the verdun battle, the. German
3. being repulsed with heavy losses.
n In the Fleury sector the iightsn
lg lrages. the French today reporting ths
(corsinued on Page Fcur.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
FORREST SCHOOLS
OPEN SEPTEMBER 4
AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL TO
TAKE UP ITS WORK ON
THE SAME DAY.

The public schools Of Forrest coun-
ty will begin their 1916-1917 sessions
on Monday. September 4, according to
the announcement made today by the
Rev. e. ]. Currie, superintendent OF
the county educational institutions.
The Forrest Agricultural High
School, at Brooklyn, will open at the
same time, Mr.. Currie stated.
A complete list of the teachers fol
the public schools 1or the coming
term, and where they will be located
has not been prepared yet 1t prob
ably will be the middle Of the cominl
week before all the assignments ar
made.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
WOULD RAISE LEVY
FOR CITY SCHOOLS
PETITION ASKING FOR AN ELEc'
rIoN ON PROPOSITION, FILED
WITH COMMISSIONERS.
WANT AN ADDITIONAL
HALF MILL FOR WORK

A petition requesting the Mayor and
PICARD of Commissioners of Hatties-
burg to call special election on tne
nroposition of increasing the school
levy of the city by half a mill, to-
day was filed by Superintendent F.
|B. Woodley, Of the City Schools, and
the Board of Trustees.
The petition states that it Will De
impossible to conduct the Hattiespurg
schools longer under their present nigh
Istandards. unless more money is al
lotted to the board for school pur'
lposes.
! whether a special election Will Dc
necessary, or whether the Mayor anc
i Commissioners have the authority t'
make the increase, is not known. May
hor Batson explained that the boar'
lhad not been given an opportunity t.
ltake up the petition, nor to consul
with City Attorney D. E. Sullivan. VI
hill this is done, no formal action WI
be taken on the trustees request.
The petition is as follows:
"The 2 s-4 mills, the part Of tn
, Epublic schools get Of the present
! irnill levy, is not sufficient to maintai
Iiour schools at the present standal
and run them nine months each yea
Ito say nothing Of needed improv
\ iments and progress,
"This is true, because while u
Z schools are growing and expenses ne
7 sessarily increasing taxable values
several years have been diminishil
Continued on Page Four,)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
Eyes Opened.

British eyes, the premier said,
had been opened to the full mean
ing Of the German system Of ecc-
nomlc, commercial and financial
penetration and It was necessary
to prepare to combat this.
Asquith asserted that at the Par
is economic conference Of the al
lies the opinion was that the black
list should be continued during
the war.
The resolutions Of this confer
ence, he said, were not directed
against neutrals.
awe are aware of some uneasi-
ness in America" the premier
continued, "but this is not iusti-
fled. The allies measures are
their sole defense against eco
nomic aggression. Every effori
will be made to see that neutraIs
do not suffer"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05

If YOU think that your property
both personal and real estate, is over
assessed. and that the assessor when
he walked up to your front door,
nushed the electric button, and then
entered to take an inventory OF the
contents of the place, got you mixed
I'M with John D. Rockefeller, Charlie
Chaplin. or some other bloated' bond
holder now's your chance to kick.
The Board of Supervisors will meet
on Monday, and just as soon as they
finish their routine work, they're going
over the personal and land assessment
rolls. and if there is anything wrong
with the figures. so far as the taxpay'
ers are concerned, the latter Will nave
( 10 speak up, right away
A Task Is Finished.
w Assessor Clark has finished his task
and II was a big one at that ana MS
rocords are now in the office OF Cnan
cerv Clerk Herbert Gillis, where the9
NAV be inspected. It is advisable th'
officials say, for everyone to examine
tbo records now, before the big rusl
begins, so that if there has been an.
under assessments or over assess
ments. the person affected will nav
time to prepare his little speech to D
delivered to the board when the WOE
Of eoualizing the taxes is begun
After the personal assessments nav
been equaliaed, the necessary corre'
tiopg in the land rolls will be made,
# is likely that the board VIII
IN session 10 days. What imporeai
matters are to be taken up wnen
arst convenes on Monday, is not y
known.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
OKLAHOMA CROWDS
WOULD LYNCH NEGRO
(By Associated Press.)

Muskogee, OKLA, August 5,-Wlll
Towery, the negro, who with his brother
Cecil, is accused of murdering Charles
Vaughn, an oil producer yesterday
was sighted by a posse. this morning
Cecil is in custody at Tulsa, but arm
led mobs of oil workers are bent OF
Ilynching him. They are unaware Q
ibis location, however.
i A citizens posse is racing with tn
lsheriffs deputies trying to catch Wi
lTowery first
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
THINK ROBBERY WAS
AN INSIDE" SCHEME
NO TRACES FOUND OF THE AUTO
MOBILE BANDITS WHO
GOT $4,000.
fRu AssociateG .'ress.l

N nstroit Mich, Aug. 5-With no
100 found Of the five automobile
sand,ts who yesterday, in broad day
,,aht and unmasked, robbed the pay
.asster last Of the Burroughs Adding Ma
@ ,,no company OF sum estimated az
nort ss4 900, the search at noon 70
~ had been extended to all points
=, ,,nin 100 miles of Detroit
ghe poIice think the holdup was al
oinside job.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
lends LIFE IN BELIEF
HE KILLED OPPONENT

Nashville. Tenn. August Ser
igeant William Meade Of Company D
Third Tennessee Regiment, 10, mar
ried, died this morning at Morris
town as result of poison taken with
Nsuicidal intent.
It Is stated that Meabe had diff
lculty last night with Win Hammond
and fired four shots at him. Ham
mond fell. and Meade, thinking h
had killed the man, took poison. Han
imond was uninjured. Meade was a
/! home recruiting.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
Sox on the Girls
TOOtSieS Arouse The
Arbiters OF ToWn
HALF HOSE AND STILL HALTER
SKIRTS CREATE HOPE OF
SHOWERS ON SUNDAY.

Charleroi, Pa, Aug. 81 Arbiters of
this towns morals we're very busy to-
day because of the half-hose fad that
has become popular with the young
women. Things reached crisis when
several singing in Il church choir sat
down after the first hymn and the
socks came well into view.
Their hose was half and their skirts
were halter aud-thc youth are hop
ing for showery day next Sunday.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05

London, Aug. 5.-7efore the
House of Commons today Pre-
mier Asquith gave the country and
the world the first outline Of the
conditions under which the allies
will consider peace negotiations.
Primarily, England regards as
essential the complete restoration
of Belgium and Serbia, both eco
nomicaIly and materially. Second
ly, the repairing Of the devastated
portions Of France and Russia, As
quith declared In his speech to-
dav
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05

Aberdeen, Miss, Aug. Sc. H.
Hutchinson, shoemaker, who moved
here about three weeks ago from Hous-
ton, was arrested this morning on the
charge OF poisoning his wife, He viii
be given preliminary hearing before
Justice Acker tomorrow or Monday.
Mrs. Hutchinson died suddenly at
the East End Hotel, in this city, on
July 23. She had been i'll for week
or so at the hotel with what Dr
ISims diagnosed as a case OF malaria
On Tuesday the patient was discharg'
Ied as convalescent. On Sunday morn
hing she died quite suddenly. The body
was taken to her old home in Ponto
htoc County for interment.
/ Relatives of Mrs. Hutchinson were
suspicious of the story told by th'
husband concerning the wife's illness
and they employed a detective to III
Investigate the case. The detective cam
here. made number of inquiries, and
with the authority of the dead VIC
Iman's relatives, had the body exhumee
| 1t is stated that the stomach wa
sent to the state chemist and an al
alysis showed the presence Of poiso
, in quantity to produce death. Tn
!. mature Of the poison has not been r
. vealed.
i Mrs. Hutchinson had a baby abol
!. 8 months of age, now in custody
; iher relatives in Pontotoc county. III
d mature of the evidence against Il
husband has not been fully reveale
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
ASQU|TH GIVES
OUT THE ALLIES
TERMS OF PEACE
Tells Commons Complete Rset-
toration Of Belgium and
Serbia Essential.
RUIN MUST BE REPAIRED;
KAISER TO PAY THE BILL

British Premier Asserts Blacklist
Adopted in Paris, and is Not Against
the Neutrals-says British Eyes
Have Been opened to the FuII Mean
ING. OF the German system Of Econ
omie, Commercial, and Financial
Penetration.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
THE COTTON MARKET.

New Orleans, Aug. 5.-The cotton
market closed today at; January,
l4.l1. opening at 1894; March, 1929
opening at l417; October, 1881, open
ing.at 1852 December. 14ol, opening
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
ABERDEEN MAN
HELD ON CHARGE
WIFE POISONING
Shoemaker's Spouse Dies Under
Mysterious Circumstances;
Body Exhumed.
RELATIVES OF WOMAN
SUSPICIOUS; INVESTIGATE

Wife suffers an Attack of Malaria,
\ Coils Physician, and is Cured;
When Discharged, She Drops Dead
suddenly, and Hutchinson Hurries to
Houstor With the sOdy-state
L chemistFinds Traces Of Poisonous
| Matter.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
STRIKE MAKES.
2 MILLION NEW
WORKERS WALK
All Surface Trolley Lines in
Manhattan, Queens and
the Bronx Affected
EMPLOYEES GO OUT IN
SYMPATHETIC MOVE

Taxicab it to Work, Fear
ing to Board Cars, Although Rail
way Companies Declare Their Ser
vice is Normal-street Cars Heayil,
! Guarded BY POlicemen-Minor Dis
orders occur and a Few Arrest
Made-eut Little Delay.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
SUPERVISORS TO
{EQUAL|ZE TAXES
AT NEXT SESSION
Board VIII Meet on Monday!
When Routine Work Of Month
VIII be Disposed Of.
TAX PAYERS ARE ASKED
TO SEE ASSESSMENTS

Last Opportunity to Inspect the Rolls
Before Final Action VIII Be During
Coming Week-Assessor Has Fin
ished His Big Tax, and His Records
Are Now Ready for Inspection
Supervisors to Be in Session Ten
Days.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-08-05
TO GAIN PEACE GERMANY MUST AGREE

10 Restore Begu Materially and Economically Estimated
10 Restore Serbia Materially and Economically Estimated
To Repair Devastated Portions Of France Estimated Cost
10 Repair Devastated Portions Of Russia Estimated Cost
Total Indemnity to be Demanded Of Germany
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05
Artist ExceIs In Making spIInts.

Here's an artist who attained fame
by deserving her. art. She is Miss
Grace Gassette of Chicago, and Cen
eral Joffre has just received her at his
headquarters, the first and only Amer
lean woman he has so distinguished.
Miss Gassette is known as the painter
OF portraits fine enough to be hung
In the Paris Scion, but 1t was not for
that that General Joffre received her.
1t was because. leaving her art, she
devoted herself to invehting devices
to make wounded soldiers more COM
Portable. So many ingenious splints
did she contrive to make war victims
easier that French surgeons asked her
to write textbook on the subject.
Not long ago she went to the front
to introduce new surgical bandage,
and General Joffre, hearing of it, ex-
pressed wish to see the clever young
American woman.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05
JEALOUSY ANDL Love
THEY ARE QUITE DISTINCT AND
SEPARATE ATTRIBUTES.
Idea That There Can Re No Love-
Without Large Admixture of Jeal-
ousy Is Not by Any Means
Well Founded.

The prevailing idea appears to be-
that there can be no love without q
pretty large admixture of jealousy, and
that, conversely, almost every case of
Jealousy springs from some misguided
love affair.
Whether this idea is the right one.
or not is decidedly open to question.
Ideal love affairs preclude jealousy al
together, and where absolute trust and
confidence exist there is no room at
all for the green-eyed monster.
1t Is only when the course of true,
love ceases to run smoothly, or where
the passion is an unlawful one, that
Jealousy creeps in lik, canker at the
root.
ore curious attribute of the jeal-
GUS woman who plans to sweep her
rivals out of the way is that she gen.
orally shows a marked lack of brains
In her methods. Jealousy is popular
ly supposed to arouse diabolically
clever ingenuity in the breast of the
jealous fair one-but, as a matter Of
fact, 1t seldom does anything of the
sort.
In my opinion, Jealousy makes wom-
en- do the most stupid things in the
world Not only does it blunt all
their finer feelings, but at the same
time 1t causes = curious confusion of
mind, which fails to take the proper
grasp of consequences and which is
utterly illogical and childishly reckless
in its workings.
One has only to glance at the daily
papers to see this fact practically Illus
trated. The schemes Of the jealous
woman are the most childishly imma-
ture in the world, and in almost every
case fall to pieces and bring speedy
retribution on her own head. For not
alone does the victim suffer. The
worst generally comes upon the plot
ter herself.
Love very often does bring a GER
tain amount of jealousy in its train.
But at the same time it is entirely up
to ourselves to curb those feelings and
to keep them from outward and visible
sign OF expression.
Moreover, it is perfectly true that,
although love generally does admit Of
jealousy, the latter can exist and -four
ish pretty successfully without love.
A woman may be desperately jealous
Of the attentions which a man pays
to another woman without in the least
loving that particular man.
Jealousy may spring from hurt
pride, or from baked hopes, or from
the fear of what people may say, quite
as frequently as it springs from love.
Therefore, in the last analysis, we
may most assuredly claim that jeal-
ousy and love are two distinct and
quite separable Observation-Disclosures
Inquirer.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05
caressed the wrona Hand.

The Broad Ripple car was crowded
and she and her young man were stand
ing just inside the rear door.
She leaned against the young man
and he held to the door which served
as support for the conductor also.
She reached over and patted hand
the conductors hand. Passengers
on the rear platform smiled. The con-
ductor winked and squeezed her hand.
Block after block the caresses con-
tinued. She looked contentedly up at
her young man-and he didn't know
what he was missing nor what the rear
platform passengers were laughing
about. Neither did she.-Indianapolis
News.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05
ODD FACTS

Peat is largely used in stocking the
railway engines of Sweden.
Some of the ice fields of Green
land ure half mile in thickness.
OF all animals, dogs appear to
evince the keenest musical susceptible
lty.
The earth's atmosphere is supposed
to vary In depth from 100 to 200
miles.
A whale struck by a harpoon has
been known to dive at the rate of
200 yards minute.
1t may not be generally known that
The hair of the head grows faster in
summer than in winter.
Auto owners do not complain hit
rerlyi of being run over by reckless
pedestrians.
Sheets of paper pass for money in
Corfu one sheet buys one quart of
rice, and 20 sheets a piece of hemp
cloth.
The gems, ornaments and precious
stones belonging to the shah of Persiu
are estimated to be worth about $685.
OO0OO0.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05
UNABLE TO FIND LYNCHERS
Committee Of oIathe Citizens Visited
Many Farm Homes Without
Securing Any CIews.

At the request of Sheriff E. G.. Car
roll, four Olathe citizens were ap-
pointed by County Attorney C. L. Ran
dali as a committee to seek for mem
bers of the mob which hanged Bert
Dudley from a telephone pole there
the other morning. r. C. Ray, former
county attorney; Judge j. r. Brown,
justice of the peace; l.. r. Sykes, city
water commissioner, and l.. B. Chal-
len, real estate man, compose the
committee. They left at / o'clock and
visited twenty-five houses between
Olathe and Stilwell and each store in
Stilwell.
Their quest was fruitless. Only at
one home, that of County Treasurer
M. T. Meredith, four miles southeast
of Olathe, was there an intimation
that the mob had even been seen.
Members of the family were awaken
ed, they said, and saw the cars pass
by about $3.50 in the morning. The
committee took along a piece of the
rope Dudley was hanged with. 1t was
compared with rope at three stores
and no resemblance whatever was
found.
Stilwell citizens told the committee
they would assist in any manner to-
ward trying to locate the guilty
parties
County Attorney Randall called At
torney General Brewster by telephone
and asked that some one be sent
from his office to make an investiga-
ton Of the lynching. Mr.. Brewster
replied that the authorities there
were doing all right and that If he
should come it might lie taken as
reflection on the county attorney and
Sheriff Carroll.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05
Asks for "Movler Censor.

The Madrid Society for the Study of
Penitentiaries and Upbuilding Of De-
linquents has petitioned the Spanish
government to create censorship Of
moving picture films. as it declares
that a number of the criminal often
ses committed nowadays by the youth
Of the Spanish capital are directly
traceable to the portrayal of crime in
moving picture dramas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05

The most valuable pearls are per-
fectly. round in shape; next come the
button-shaped, then the drop or pear
shaped pearls.
Ireland has S4,S69 land holders hav-
ing plots not exceeding an acre, 81, 730
who hold more than one acre and not
more than five acres 153,299 under Is
and 136,05S not exceeding 30.
The Chinese government is planning
to extend its system of wireless tele-
graphy into Tibet.
There are nearly 1000 books on cleo
trical subjects in the library of con-
gress at Washington.
BY constructing Il spoon with a false
bottom an inventor can make it DOS
sible TO get two gurgles out of every
spoonful of coffee instead of one.
What is said to be the largest drill
ever made has been recently made for
some special work being done by a
Pennsylvania contracting supply house
which had occasion to drill holes IL
inches in diameter through large tim
bers. 1t is more than feet in
length and in operation 1t cut a II
inch hole through u pile of timber q
feet high.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-05

Mrs. Kathryn NJ. Stanton, agloN
with the triumph of selling the centrl.
fugal gun, for which she stood sponsor,
to the British government, has re-
turned on board the Tuscania. The
new weapon is operated without pow
der and is noiseless as well as smoke
less. 1t hurls missiles with deadly
aim, and they may be anything from
an egg to a lump of dynamite. Mrs.
Stanton financed the building Of the
model and personally superintendent
the making Of the gun. The United
States did not care to purchase the in
vention, SO Mrs. Stanton sold to Great
Britain.