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The Washington times., 1916-07-19

The postal savings increase was 30
Some Of. the lines Of manufactures
that show growth with US are ,, the
arms, and similar products. Most Of
this is not war business. Labor Is
scarce and wages are high. Increases
have been granted without strikes or
for labor. Postal savings increases are
partiy accounted for by the rule. now
In force several months. permitting ac-
ceptance of amounts up 10 N,Vo five
hundred dollars formerly was the max
Edward A. Purdy. Of Minneapolis;
MINI. said that Minneapolis reflected
the big increase In business In the en-
the Northwest for the past ,we y post.
G Purdy said, rs that our office shows
an increase for two eonsecutiy1 yea years rs
In some cities the increases oss repoiis as'
S yea cent upon the heels of$a per
cent increase last year.
Big Grain. Year.
splendid crops throughout our sec
ton in the grain areas are largely
responsible for this Flour trade u
active, tobbing and wholesale as well
Dakota and South Dakota. Montana
"" Colin NJ. selph. postmaster at st
"Receipts have increased Is per cent
within the last quarter. owing to tht
tremendous. increase OF business u
ing overtime. st. Louis is the great
est shoe manufacturing market ir
the world. Other lines OF business arr
doing we'll. The banks of St. Louii
are oyernowing with ready money
The retail trade Is enjoying wonder
| full business
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
One Cent Letter Rate
Planned By Burleson
For Postal Service
10
Postmaster General Talks on Economy and Eficien-
cy Before Convention of Big Postmasters of the
Country in Museum Auditorium

Topped of. Every dollar intelligently
saved can be used for the develop
ment OF the service. and for the re-
ductio nof postage rates to the public
Must Care for Employees.
I'VE must not practice economy at
the expense OF the postal employees
I have endeavored to see to II that
the Post Onice Department be a model
employer. I favor q living wage for
employes-and more. generous
wage. Then 1t Ia my purpose and
duty to see that all employees return
adequate service for the money paid
them. That's honest!
I'VE should cut of special postal priv.
leges and favoritism. Tho party to which
! belong has preached equal rights t.. to
many years. I believe that all should
be absolutely equal in the postal depart
ment II requires backbone to live up
to this doctrine. but I'm Scotch.
II want efficiency and intelligent
IF next year we can take ever
moderate steps toward making second
class mail pay a part OF fair rate
Of what the service V worth. the de'
partment will recommend penny, post,
age for first class mall In the United
States.
Keep Down Extravaganza.
IT don't expect an adequate rate from
second class mail. but only a little
fairer one. II we can keep down use
less extrvagance. which 10 not fol
postal service but for political purposes
and ahving gotten the fair railroad pa,
basis, nd with some firer second clasi
rate, we would take the frst step ir
penny postage"
The meeting was opened at 10 O'Clock
in the auditorium Of the Nationa
Museum. Memorial services for tb'
late william r. Kasting. postmaster o.
Buffalo, n. Y. were held.
An address was made by NJ. Z NC
Even, postmaster OF Duluth. MINI.
on "The Ideal System of Poetonic'
Organization" Fred Leroy. OF streat
Don'ts." Addresses were also mad
by Postmasters Claude Weaver. o
Oklahoma City, Okla. d: E.; Daven
port, Americas. Ga; c. Fl. Fortman
' Helena. Mont: w. r. Merry. Perry
OKLA; Emmett H Howard. Porter
Okla; A. Ross Read, Akron. Ohio
Mcneil. Of Pittsburgh: s. A. Kinnear
OF Columbus. Ohio and several others
I At s o'clock tonight the postmas
/ ters will be the guests OF Postmaste
| M, o. Chance at the Washington Cit
| PostofYice. Later they Will visit tn
| CONGREGATIONAL Library.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
Australia Bars Gates
To All Enemy Aliens

Australia has Joined with other belli.
gerent countries in passing laws to pre-.
vent entrance OF enemy aliens.
The State Department was Informed
that after September /. no one ovei
fifteen years old will be admitted tc
Australia without passports that have
been approved by the British ambassa.
dor or consular officer OF the country
from which the traveller starts.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
Slayer of Camden
Jailer Is Captured

CAMDEN. July ls.-wiison Asnbridge.
who escaped from the county jail here
with George l.. thompson. after kiiins
on, Of the guards and mortaiiy wound
ing another. was returned yesterday
from Chester, Pa, where he and MS
wife were taken into custody.
Ashbridge was awaiting trial on a
charge OF numbering a chorus girl win
whom he was infatuated. Additional
charges of murder and Jail breaking
were placed against him. Mrs. Ash
bridge 10 held as an accompiice.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
SECRETARY SHANNON
KNOWS THEM ALL"
National Postmasters' Assoola.
ton Official Acquainted
With Nearly Every Mailman.

Many people know one postmaster.
Some can even claim to know two
or three.
But here 10 q man who knows more
postmasters than anyone else In the
world. He IL a postmaster himself.
down at Nashville. Tenn. and his name
IL e. 8. Shannon.
Mr.. Shannon 10 secretary Of the Ma
tionai Postmasters' Association. and
has held that office for several years.
He knows nearly a thousand OF the
postmasters spread over the country.
A stay Of few moments In his room
at the Raleigh revealed a situation
something like this:
Tap on the door. Come in!" boons
shannon's CHEEKY voice. Enter q
typical westerner.
why. Bill Nye. Of Ansons. whsn
did you get In? Sure am glad to zee
you; how II little Tom getting on, and
the wife-just q minute. here's X. Y.
Pachrack. Of Holyoke / haven't seen
you In ages. Hear you sot married
since last meeting7 You lucky devil
=" and so II goes.
No wonder he knows more postmas-
tiers than anybody else In the world-or
In the District Of Columbia.
Started Sticking Stamps.
From sticking stamps to selling 'sm
was Mr.. shannon's career. He started
In business with Bradstreets Com
mercial Agency at Nashville. sticking
stamps on letters. After some years
OF work with Bradstreet's he became
manager of the Nashville branch ci
the organisation.
He left this position some time later
OF Trade. which position he held fol
seven years. In his incumbency hi
had to travel all over the United
states. attending commercial conven.
on. It was lis Work that got up ths
Nashville Booster Trips" so vel
known In the South today.
Appointed by Wilson.
He was appointed postmaster OF
Nashville by President Wilson. Janu.
airy -. 1914. He was electer secre.
tary of the National Association Of
Postmasters in August Of the same
year. Since then he has been In con.
slant touch with thousands Of Presi
Dental postmasters. He asserts tina,
children at least three or four thou
| sand postmasters.
Frank c. Sites, treasurer of the or,
ganization. Is postmaster at Harris
burg. Pa, and a close personal frient
OF Vance Mccormick. chairman Of tn,
Democratic national committee. Mr.
sites has been In touch In the las
ten years with about 10000 postmas
ters. and his acquaintance and friend
Of Mr.. shannon q close second Blu
II may not be so close-Mr Sites hai
to collect the dues!
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
Bip Grain Year.

$1,000 To Niagara Falls and Return,
Baltimore 4 Ohio. 7:3 A.. NJ. July 81.
tickets valid for return within 10 days.
Through trains of Parlor Cars and
Coaches with Luncheon Car from Phila-
overs returning. Similar excursions Au-
gust II and Is. Sept. and 20. Oct. g.
Advt.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

twelve suffrage States have ninety-one
electoral votes and the women hold q
balance of power and thus can control
the eection results in those States, the
the election Of the next President de-
ponds on what decision they reach at
Colorado Springs next month.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

Visit Atlantic City Next Sunday
, 81. 90 round trip. Pennsylvania railroad. ALL
rail route. Special through train leaves
Washington Saturday midnight n:is .. M
| Advt.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

GUIDES Flowers Last Longest
because they are fresh cut from
sturdy. homegrown plants. l2i% r at,
-Advt.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
Car Runs Wild, Is Hurt.

NH wAUKEE. Wis. July Eff
teen persons were injured today when
q street car ran wild on q hill on the
Chestnut street line. All OF the injured
are In the hospital.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

entered a request with the STATE agri-
cultural limo board for the establish
ment OF lime plants In the southern
Maryland. provided for by an act of tho
last Legislature.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
EVANSVILLE.

Plans arc being formulated by the
fayetteville fire department for It's am
nuaI Labor Day celebration IN Zantr
ainger's Park.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

The ladies Of the First Baptist Churcf
last night held q successful fete OF
the lawn Of the church.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

$3.50 Seashore Excursions.
Baltimore & Ohio every Friday and
Saturday until September s-Advt
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

Every renter should be with us Consult
our Rent dept Gardiner a Dent. Inc. III
18th st. ". W.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

Reliable Dentistry. Years of E1per-
Dr.. Vaughan's. 307 7th st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1916-07-19
LOCAL MENTION.

CHAPLIN in 1.-THE Face on the Barroom
Floor" Va. today. Hearts and Highway"
The Washington times., 1916-07-19

Phone Your Want Ad tn Tho Tinsa
Main 61eoI
The day book., 1916-11-22
AMI NATURE WONDERFUL!
RoYaEtY.

hOydILys
We haven't any more love for roy
atty than a bum has for a bar of soap
and a pan of water Kings kaisers,
czars, counts, dukes, lords and all the
rest Of 'em are just as much of hitch
with US as a panhandler, six-day bike
race, wrestling match or any other
like evil. When the world was young
and foolish but wiser, the king used
to lead the grand march into battle,
and if he had less training than his
opponent you'd find him a little hence
in his royal bed with his brogans on
minus his know. That was some time
ago, Oswald, but they don't act like
that now anymore. The kings,
kaisers, czars these days are at the
front with the reserve gear on. They
get 1hto a little family squabble and
sic their subjects on to one another,
then royalty hides in the corner Of
the parlor and peek out Of the shut
ters to see how the scrap is getting
along, and while the scrappers are
catching their second wind and there
is no danger Of royalty getting their
royal eyebrows mussed.
And when the goat fall guy sub
jects have sent one another to the
happX hunting ground and there isn't
anybody left to pull triggers or shove
aswords at one another, royalty, in
stead Of rolling up sleeves to pull off
"a finish fight between themselves,
frame up marriages between their
sons and other royalty's daughters so
as to insure a twenty-year endoW-
6ment policy peace plan in the royal
family. Amt you glad, Norman, you
don't have to bow every time you
hear royalty's monicker mentioned
or get baggy knees in the trousers
from kneeling because they happen
Ito be nigh? Are we? Well, we should
giggIe up our sleeve! U. S. A. and
80. o. D. means everything to me.
-O-NO-
The day book., 1916-11-22
UNNECESSARY

eff were you, Peck, I'd let my wife
know who is boss in my house"
- "Let her know? Great Scott!
9She knows already"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08
NOTICE.

Mrs. Sam w. Scales has closed
out her dairy and has for sale
the following implements an6
! machinery.
One gray mare, bred to jack,
! and her month old colt. $4,000
Four model hog houses, cost
5000 each, will sell for S2. OC
each.
One hay frame 90.
One SIX horse power gas en-.
gine and one OHIO No. II con.
veyor ensilage cutter, cost 1865,
will sell for 1866. 90.
One VIM. Galloway manure
spreader, good condition. $25. 90,
One John Deere four shovel
riding cultlvator, $25.O0j
One cotton and corn planter 81.
Three Georgia stocks 50, 90.
One two horse steel beam pillow
$3.50.
One two horse buster sc 90
One four horse Is inch riding
pillow $500,
Two one horse three point
side harrows each 81. 90.
Que road drag 500.
One two horse wagon $50 so.
One buckeye incubator and
brooder, cost $l2 so, will sell
for $500.
Ohe heather outfit cost SIC. 90,
will sell for $500.
One pair milk scales, cost S3,
will sell for 81 90.
One moving machine $27 so.
One hay rake $500.
All articles in good condition.
Also have for sale one regis
tered Duroc Jersey sow, four
!, ears old. bred to Misslssippl's 5
Defender. Price 5000.
All the above property is now
ON the Flatwoods iarm site
about two miles west Of Stark.
vile and will be shown upon re-
quest.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08
Live Exposition Notes

The State superintendent of
education, President of the State
Teachers Association and Presi-
dents of three of the colleges
spent Friday and Saturday. of
last week at Gulfport IN confer
ence on the subject of psrtlclpa-
ton by the educational interests
in the Centennial Exposition.
Mississippi has made most re-
markable progress along educa
tional lines and magnificent ex-
hiblt will be shown the hundreds
OF thousands of visitors that Will
come to the Gulf Coast during
the Exposition.
The Kansas Centennial opened
a period Of great property in that
Western state that has continued
until the present day. The MIS-.
slsslppi Exposition offers the
same opportunity to the people
of our state. f they only WILL
it can be easily madenwerth mil
hons OF dollars in the way OF
bringing capital tor investment,
developing our resources and
creating a market for our splen-
did products.
If every county in Mississippi
was represented at the Centen
NAL Exposition by a reasonably
complete exhibit the cumulative
effect on visitors would be un-
answerable. Every County with
a moderately good showing would
be better than an unusually large
exhibit from one.half Of the
counties.
Missouri Will celebrate ner
Centenlal period during the year
1920. A committee Of 900 rep
resentative citizens from over
the state have in charge active
preparations for the event. st.
Louis IS endeavoring to secure
the location in that city,
When you hear a man knock
ing the Exposition. or any other
progressive movement, dom for
get that he Is knocking himself
the community IN which he lives
and the state that he CLAIMS as
his home.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08
Special Train of Farmers to
A. & NJ.

On December IA, the A. q M.
College will be host to a special
tram load of farmers and busl-
ness men who will come from
Columbus, and Lowndes county.
70 make use of their Agricultural!
College in studying improved
farming.
DR.. L. L. CASTOR, Secretary OF
the Columbus Business Mems
Club. has just completed arrar-
eements with Prof. e. r. Lloyd.
Director of the Experiment Sta.
ton and Extension DIVISION for
the entertainment and instruc-
tiop of The visitors. According
to Mr.. Gas,on.hls county IS ad-
lvanclng to a broader and safer
agricultural system which Will
not only bring money to the
Farmers pockets. but Will keep
| it there. as there will be no need
to spend 1t for feed, since the
new system has for its motto,
Feed Yourself First"
Farmers in many sections are
finding these Wis is to The college
|during seasons of slack wors
|lboth pleasant and profitable.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08
Commerce Club Forms.
A.. q M. College Co-operates
With Starkville Citizens.

An enthusiastic meeting OF
citizens Of the county was held
at the court house Monday after
noon tor the purpose Of organic
ing a commercial club for Oktib-
beha county.
The purpose Of the organiza.
ton is to get the country and the
town people closer together, to
work out problems which have
been presented to the people of
this community by the boil wee
vii conditions, crop failures for
the past few years, and to find
good and ready markets for all
products raised on the farm.
The representatives Of the A.
& M. College expressed their
willingness and desire to COOP
crate and assist the organization
IN every way possible, and it is
expected that much good 10 the
county Will be derived.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08
Negro Found Murdered in
Woods.

Another tragedy was enacted
in the neighborhood south OF
Oktoc about twelve miles from
town. From what could be CLEAN.
ed of Judge 4. P. Hartness. ii
seems that two negroes named
Augustus Gillespie and one Turn.
er were working in the woods
getting out timber. At noon yes
terday Gillespie who lived some
three hundred yards from the
scene Of the crime went home
for dinner brnglng~back two
buckets. He had not been there
long before a gun fired. but has
wife at home who heard the dis.
charge thought Gillespie had
shot at q RABBIT.
About three o'clock In the af.
ternoon Gillespie's father living
about q hundred Yards from the
scene, went down to the working
ground, not having heard the
saws running thought 1t strange.
On arriving at the place he Was
Mortified to find his SON welter-
ing in his iife's blood dead, hav.
ing been shot with his own gun.
Turner was gone with one Of the
buckets of dinner aud Judge
Hartness was notified. aud i'm
mediately empanned q jury Of
request who after getting what
facts at hand. returned q verdict
that the deceased came 10 his
death at the hands Of Turner
from the effects Of q gunshot
would.
The suppostion IS that Turner
killed him. he is still hiding IN
the community snd viii IN ar-
rested soon.
Gillespie was a good negro,
we'll liked by the white people.
and attended strictly to his own
business.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08

Prof. A. M. 1'raw,ck. OF Nash.
vile Will be at the Y. NJ. G. A.
Sunday as the speaker OF the
evening. he, Is Southern student
secretary 1or social service. hav-
ing made . SPECIAL study OF the
negro problem. conditions among
worklngmsn. and or the various
forms of activity that are work
lng for better social conditions.
He has recently made q study of
the European war prison situa.
ton. His book. 1.-The City
Church and it's Mission" is re.
cognized as one OF the very best
on slum conditions. Everyone
interested In these questions is
invited to hear h,m.
An informal social gathering
will be held in the Y. M. G. A.
building Thursday evening. Dec.
14th. from six till seven. There
will be no formality about it. just
q general get.together for the
members. No refreshments serv.
ed, but something going ell the
time. Call TO quarters the sign.
al for good night. No young
ladies clicked. but every one of
them ,nvlted~-their iast oppor-
tunity to meet so many OF the
boys before leap year closes.
The doors are open. Every fr,end
Of the association invited.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08
Light Plant Burns Sawdu.t.

On account OF the shortage OF
coat the Light Plant IS burning
sawdust which 10 obtained from
the hickory mill. operated by
Winters q Ford. AS the plant
uses several tons q day the DIFF
ference N the cost will amount
to quite q sum IN the course of q
year. If sawdust can be used
cheaper 1t will be the wise thing
to do as it will keep few dol.
lars at home.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08
PRINCE ALBERT
the national joy smoke

has flavor as different as it is delightful. You n
And that isn't strange, either.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1916-12-08

o. khs rsvsess do
sf tkis 6Ay red tia
ysu win read: 'ers-
ss0 Patented July
3otA, 1907" which
he's nado thrss men
ssneks pipes where
s~s 2sksa tsssssl
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22
CUPID WITH
GLOVES ON
BY CLARA INEZ DEACON

When the sign of Charles Blais
dell, M. D." appeared over the dool
of modest little Office in the village
OF Stoneham, there we're those who
said that unless Providence interfered
! the newcomer would fetch up In the
| poor-house within year. Stoneham
was not only one Of the healthiest
places in the state, but it had more
physicians per capita than any other
1t wasn't the doctors who kept the
town SO healthy. but 1t was the
healthy people who kept the doctors
without practice.
Doctor Blaisdell was young. The
people who might possibly fall sick
and need his services said his age
was against him. It wouldn't inspire
confidence. He was also q cookbook
Ing young man. They also said that
was against him. He must be vain
and Eighty. 1t was rumored that he
was athletic. but he made no friends
through that. The idea in Stoneham
was that doctor should be at least
forty years old, gruff Of speech and
manner, and that when not sitting in
his ONCE and waiting for patients he
should be walking about with his
hands behind him and his head down.
The big man in Stoneham was
known as Old Harper. He was not
yet fifty years old, but they gave him
the title because he employed many
men, and was very brusque and blunt
Mr.. Harper was rich. He also had a
daughter Minnie. He was also a bit
eccentric.
Had Doctor Blaisdell been told
these things when he hung out his
sign he might have asked what diff
ference 1t could have made to him,
but he wasn't told. He was left to
find 1t out for himself, which was the
better way. He was sitting in his Of
nee one morning when Old Harper
walked in on him and roughly began:
Young man, what fool advised you
to hang out your single in this
town."
Il am not chummy with fools, sir!"
was the reply.
You know me, don't your"
II don't"
"They call me Old Harper"
'Yes?"
Most people come to me for advice
before settling down in this town."
Then they must be weak In the
spine!"
I'm! I'm! Pretty cocky for a
young doctor, amt you?"
Just enough to keep my self-re-
spect. I've noticed you on the streets
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-22

three or four times with your hand
tied up. What's the matter with 1t p
These fools of doctors around here
call 1t blood-poisoning, and l have 20,
to go to the city to find out"
Doctor Blaisdell pushed his visitor
into chair and proceeded to remove
the bandage from his hand. When he
had examined 1t he got out his case
Of instruments and prepared ban
dages
Young man, what do you think you
are going to dol" asked the caller
with grim look.
You've stuck silver or bone into
your palm and it's raised a row. Just
hold still a moment"
Old Harper grinned. If 1t had been
the amputation of a finger he would
have grinned. He watched the young
doctor and continued to grin.
He liked nervy man, and he de-
tected no sign of trepidation. A tough
ash silver an inch long was removed.
some soothing ointment applied. and
the hand bandaged With grunt the
patient rose up and laid a five-dollar
bill on the table
Fifteen more, please" said the
doctor.
Old Harper looked at him with a
scowl, but handed out three more fiyes
and backed out without a word. II
was when he had turned the corner
that he smiled and said to himself,
He'll get on. Always ask a good
price for good work, and when Won
meet the big man of the town don't
let him blum you"
Doctor Blaisdei had punching
bag and Indian clubs in the back
room of his Office. He also took a
two-mile walk or run before break
fast.
It was on one of these excursions
that he met Miss Minnie Harper who
was taking a gallop on her pony. He
met boy who could tell him who she
was, ard she net a boy who conld
give her information. His curiosity
Was because she was gcoa-,ook!Dg