davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
HIGHWAY BoosTERsMEET
AT VERNON TO DISCUSS
MOoTED POINT.
TALKS SERVE TO
RESTORE HARMONY
Members of Board of Revenue
Agree to Abide by Commit
tees Decision.

A meeting of vital Importance to
the Jackson Highway was held at
Vernon, Ala, Monday, its purpose
having been to settle a dispute
among citizens of Lamar county, of
which Vernon is the county seat, re-
garding the route of the proposed
thoroughfare through that county.
The meeting was presided over by
Hon. j. T. Millner, of Vernon, and
was largely attended, it being esti-
mated that there were fully 750
people present. Hon. R. I. Simpson,
of Florence, Ala, president of the
jackson Military Highway Associa-
ton, was the principal speaker, and
addresses were also delivered by
Hon. T. j. Locke, Jr., local member
of the executive committee; J. G..
Weatherly, secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce; Hon. W. p. Stribling,
senator from Lowndes county
Judge Richard Bradley, prominent
Lamar county politician, Hon. Wal
ter Neesmith, a well known attorney
of Vernon, and others.
At the suggestion of Mr.. Wealth
ly it was agreed TO appoint a COM
mittee to go over the two proposed
routes and decide as to which one is
the most feasible. Members of this
committee are to be men who do not
reside on either one of the proposed
routes and whose decision therefore
will be unbiased and unpfejudiced.
Len of thf members .of the. hoas'a Ct
revenue of Lamar county we're pres
ent and each of them agreed
to abide by the decision of the COM
by Mr.. Miner, who presided over the
meeting.
The meeting was characterized by
perfect harmony, and the people of
Lamar county seemed to be entirely
willing to lay aside personal desires
and ambitions in order to bring
about results which will be for the
public good and which will result in
the speedy construction of the high
way. Columbians in attendance take
very optimistic view Of the situa-
tion, and believe that route accept
able to all will be speedily agreed
upon and that construction of the
highway through Lamar county will
be resumed at an early date.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
Chandler Carried to Penitentiary.

Lowery Chandler, a member of
member of a prominent family re-
siding near Crawford. who several
years ago was given a life sentence
in the penitentiary for the murder
OF negro woman and who was later
granted parol by Gov. Brewer,
was taken back to prison Tuesday
having left here in charge Of Trav-
cling Sergeatn Duval.
Chandler broke his parole by be-
coming involved in a difficulty at
Crawford about two weeks ago and
resisting local officer who attempt
ed to place him under arrest. He
was captured by officers sent out
from Columbus, and remained in
jail here until sent back to prison.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
STRIKE PROBLEM
STILL UNS0LVED
CONFERENCE AT WHITE
HOUSE FAILS TO RESULT
IN SETTLEMENT.
SOME PROGRESS
Is MADE HOWEVER
Magnates May Concede Eight
Hour Day, which will Great
ly Simplify Matters.

Washington, August 16--Presi-
dent Wilson's efforts to bring the
railroad managers and the brother
hood leaders together in some form
of settlement Of the differences
which threaten a nationwide stree
has, after two days conferences,
pr ogressed only to the point where
groundwork for further negotiations
has been laid.
Hope of arbitration Of all issues
waned yesterday but the situation
was frightened by the possibility of
a settlement being reached by the
railroads eonceding the principle of
the eight-hour day and both sides
settling collateral issues by some
form of negotiation as yet undeterm-
lned.
After communicating with Pres
ident Wilson the employees sub-com-
mittee sent word to New York for
the GAO members of the general as
sembly to come to Washington in
order to facilitate negotiations.
They are expected here Thursday
and will probably see the President
Friday. The managers committee will
also confer with him again.
Two official statements issued
from the White House during the
day merely stated that the discus
sions still were in progress and that
nc report could be made on results.
The first statement. issued by
Secrntary Tarsalsy, after the Pres
ident had met the railroad mana
gers during the forenoon, follows:
"The President spent an hour
and a half this morning with the
representatives of the railway man
aGement After the conference he
said II was impossible as yet to re-
port on the results, all that he could
say was that very candid and hon
est discussion was in progress about
a practical basis of settlement"
Later in the day, after the Pres
ldent's meeting with the represen.
tatlves of the men, he made this
statement:
There is no change. There is an
earnest effort being made TO work
out settlement"
When 1t became clear that arbi-
trahon of the entire problem preba-
bly, never would be agreed to, but
the railroads might eoncede the
principal of the eight-hour day and
dispose of other issues by some
form of negotiation, the President
directed his energies to obtaining
expressions from both sides on how
negotiations could be carried on.
Direct conferences and inquiry by
an investigating committee were
suggested and the President indicat-
ed his willingness to appoint such a
commission himself.
1t was understood that the en-
ployes representatives offered no
suggestions on this feature Of the
situation. The railroads were re-
ported to be ready to eoncede the
principle Of the eight-hour day on
condition thai all collateral issues be
thoroughly investigated by the in
terstate commerce commission or
some other body.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

Jackson, Miss, Aug. 16.-Herbert
Harris and Charles Sanders, Of Jack
son, and H. c. Thompson, Of Colum-
bia Miss, and Tom Evans, of Rome,
Ga, were killed, and P, b, har-
groves, of Birmingham, was seriously
injured at 1880 Tuesday night when
ti.eii auto went dead" at an Illinois
Central crossing in this city. All are
well known travelling men. Harris
and Sanders leave families here.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
Checks Mailei to Creditors.

The affairs d Moss Brothers,
bankrupts, have een finally adjudi-
Gated and it has ben found that the
firm will pay 17.B per cent of their
liabilities. Hon. /. E. White, trus-
tee in bankruptcy has mailed checks
to creditors for mounts due them
according to theii proration.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Felts and
four children, of Russelvile, KY,
are spending the week in Columbus
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ.
Tribble, at 2015 College street. Mr..
Felts and his family came to this
city in their car over the Jackson
Military Highway, and they report a
very delightful trip
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
Pres. Whitfield Returns.

Hon. H. L. Whitfield, president
of the Industrial Institute and Col
lege, and Mrs. Whitfield, who have
been spending the past few months
at Asheville, N. c., have retsrned to
Columbus. As already announced,
the institution over which Mr.. Whit
field presides, will open September
10, and he has returned in order to
make preparations for the new sea-
son.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
Name Committe to Solicit Funds.

A local committee consisting of
Mesdames J. w. Lawley, M. E. Pat
terson, H. j. Brewster, Annie
Brooks and John R. Laws has been
appointed to solicit donations to
the fund which the Anti-Saloon
League is raising to prevent a ref
erendum vote on the law limiting
shipments of liquor to persons re-
siding within the borders Of the
state.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

The largest crowd that has attend
ed an al fresco entertainment here
this season was present at a dance
given at Lake Park Tuesday night.
Music was furnished by an orches-
ira from Greenwood, and there were
more than 100 couples ON the floor.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
Negro NoraaI to Close.

The summer primal for negro
teachers, which h.l been in progress
at Union Academy since July II,
will close today. The normal was
originally p,anned,to last six weeks
but the prescribed work has been
finished and the ession will there
fore close.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

Rev. w. s. Slack, rector of St.
Panps Episcopal church, last Sunday
went to Waverly, ten miles above
Columbus on the Tombigbee river,
and delivered a sermon to members
Of the Columbus Troop Of Boy
Scouts, who are in camp there.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

III. J. C. Mcclure, of Yaxoo CITY,
representing E. c. Palmer & Com
pany, Ltd, of New Orleans, was in
the city on business yesterday.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

Mr., Westley Jernigan, Of Caledo-
MIA, was visitor to the city yester.
day.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

Mr. Edward Mullen. of Meridian.
spent Sunday in the city with friends
and relatives.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

Messrs. S. W. Harvey and J. Z
Hurt, Mrs. w. N. Hurt and Mrs. NJ
c. Harvey, OF Meridian, motored tc
Columbus yesterday, and are spend
Ing several days here the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Hurt.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17
Mr.. Hollis lines many friends con-

graduate him upon being named as
correspondent for the Commercial
Appeal at the University of Missis-
sippi the coming session.
The Columbus commercial., 1916-08-17

Misses Susie Win and Leon Gun
ter are spending ten days with
friends at the Revira In Biloxi.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
ELECTRICITY CLEANS
BLACKBOARD ERASERS

Cleaning chalk dust from black
board erasers was formerly a task
saved for the misbehaved schoolboy
to do after school hours. The pun
ishment was often as great to those
who were not guilty but still within
range of the flying dust. To-day a
new device, operated by electricity
on the principle of vacuum cleaner.
removes the chalk by strong suction.
cleans the erasers with a bristle
brush and still allows no dust to es-
cape in the room where it is used
The work is done by compact mo-
tor of 1-25 horsepower, which is at
tached to a plug and cord, making
the device serviceable wherever cen
trail station lighting is used. The
chalk is filtered out of the exhaust
from the tiny suction blower with
fine muslin and retained in the box
on which the motor is mounted.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
find rich DEPOSITS
IN WYOMING LAKE
ORGANIZE COMPANY TO DEvEL-
OP SULPHATE OF MAGNE-
STA BED.

Denver, Col, Aug. IA compa-
ny headed by Henry j. Arnold, for
mer Mayor of Denver, and DR.. w. A..
Bell, of Colorado Springs, pioneer
builder and capitalist, is being form
ed TO develop what is said by them to
be the most remarkable and the only
known natural deposit of sulphate of
magnesia. the principal ingredient of
epson salts, in the world. II is To-
Gated fifteen miles southwest of
Douglas, Converse County, Wyo.
The former Mayor and DR.. Bell
kept the fact that they had filed on
the tract, which consists of twenty
five acres and is known turnout wy
oming as Poison Lake, a secret until
their plans had been worked out.
They already have built a motor
truck road to the nearest railroad
point and have two trucks in opera
ton. Two evaporating watts have
been built and a pumping plant is
being installed. Pumps sent out
from Denver had to be removed, the
low gravity of the water making OPP
Grafton by the style of pump first
used impossible.
Poison Lake got its name from
the stockmen of the country, who
fenced II in to keep their cattle away
from it, Every time one drank of
lowed in short time. The name
of the lake attracted the attention
of Arnold and he got an option on
the land. He took samples from
the lake and had them analysed by
chemists of national reputation. He
has in his office on fifteenth Street a
number of samples and they show re-
markable qualities.
The various tests of the chemists,
according to the statements of Ar
mold, show the water to be a super
saturated solution of sulphate of
magnesia, or, in layman's language,
epson salts, running practically six
ty-fve per cent of salts. 1t is said
that 600 gallons of water from the
lake make a ton of chemically pure
salts. After evaporation the asser-
ton is made that there are chemi-
cally pure epson salts running as
high as ninety-nine per cent with no
other saline ingredients.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
BIG LOGGING CONTRACT
FOR PIKE COUNTY

Whitesburg, KY. Aug. 12.-Per-
haps one of the largest logging con-
tracts ever undertaken in Eastern
Kentucky is starting off on Joan's
creek, east of here in Pike county,
where the Yellow Poplar Lumber
Company, of Coal Grove. o., is to
market over 100000 trees, some of
which are of mammoth size-the
largest ever cut and marketed in the
mountains. While the cutting OF
the timber is in progress, work is TO
be pushed on the construction of
fifteen-mile narrow gauge lumber
road out from McVey on Pond creek,
the Pond Creek branch of the Nor
folk & Western. Even before the
first log can be put on the market
the company will have to spend from
$125,OOO to $4,000 in construct
ing the grade work for their lumber
road, cutting the forests and build
ing homes for their employees.
Five years, it is expected, will be
required to cut the timber. The
logs in the rough will be shipped
over the Norfolk & Western to the
companys big mills at Coal Grove
for manufacture. Other adjacent
timber tracts, it is said, will be pur-
chased adding to one of the largest
individual boundaries of timber in
Eastern Kentucky.-Times
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18

legations, it will amount to nothing.
There is no relief in sight until six
months after the war closes, when
foreign pulp and paper will supply
the foreign market and the United
States and Canada will again have
shortage in tonnage. In the mean
time deaths" in the publishers bus
mess will add to that shortage and IL
will be a mighty strong combina-
ton or "gentlemen's agreement" that
will hold when il will be necessary
for one-third of the mills in the Unit
ed States and Canada to shut down
and for the others to make market
price for paper lower than the price
when the war began.
The present profit on the manu-
facture of paper will pay the full
cost of building and equipping any
mill In the United States during the
next twelve months. In fact, l
know OF two paper manufacturers
who have cleaned up in the last six
months a profit greater than the
amounts for which they were willing
to sell their whole property at the
start of the year.
The general tendency among daily
newspapers is to raise the price per
copy or subscription rates.-Chicago
Saturday Blade.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18

Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and told my husband about it. !
said Il know nothing will help me but l
will try this l found myself improv-
ing from the very first bottle, and in two
weeks time | was able to sit down and
eat hearty breakfast with my hus-
band, which | had not done for two years.
/ am now in the best of health and
did not have the operation. " = Mrs.
JOHN A. KoENG, 502 Flushing Avenue,
Astoria, N. Y.
Every one breads the surgeons knife
and the operating table. Sometimes
nothing else will do; but many times
doctors say they are necessary when
they are not. Letter after letter comes
10 the Pinkham Laboratory, telling how
operations were advised and were not
performed; or, if performed, did no good,
but Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
poundwas used and good health followed.
If you want advice write to
LYDIA IL. PiDkham Medicine Co.
lc0nfidentiah Lynn, Mass.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
Must Wedding Rings Go?

In England there has been a move
started to- abolish wedding rings.
While this suggestion is due to a de-
sire to save all the gold possible for
practical uses, yet many hold it is
high time to do away with symbol
of woman's servitude to man.
This move is under way because
it was not long ago that an agitation
was started to compel married men
to wear wedding rings, so that they
could not deceive young girls into
thinking they were free.
This is not the first time that an
attempt has been made to do away
with wedding rings, for in the time
of the commonwealth the Puritans
seriously contemplated their aboh-
ton, because the custom was Of
heather origin.
The plain gold wedding ring is
comparatively modern. In the ear
ly sixteenth century rings of all sorts
and designs were used, invariably in
scribed with notices. II is record
ed as something unusual that Queen
Victoria's wedding ring was a plain
band of gold.
Somp assert that we owe the origin
of the ring as a wedding pledge to
the Romans. but many believe that
it goes back as far as the Egyptians,
Pabylonians and Hebrews. One OF
the wedding rings picked up in the
ruins of Pompeii represents a man
and woman joining hands.
Long ago in the English marriage
ritual the ring was first placed by
the husband on the top of the thumb
of the left hand, as he said, "ln the
name of the Father" then placing II
On to the first finger, I'm the name
OF the Son." Eext on the middle fin
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18

ger. adding And of the Holy Ghost"
finally placing ii upon the fourth fin
ger with the word amen"
In Persia the ring is amongst the
wedding presents given by the bride
groom to his bride; while in Spain,
If a man gives a girl over IL years
of age a ring that constitutes a be-
trothal to which he can be held.
Most people will be surprised to
learn that the Bible contains no re-
lieious command to wear a wedding
rirg-does not mention rings in con-
eot:on with marriage. With the
Jews the using of wedding rings has
not 80 very long been customary.
The Talmund, their sacred guide
book, has no mention of wedding
rings, and anything could be used,
provided il was the property of the
bridegroom and was of the value Of
the small coin, the perutah.
The more recent theory concern
ing the plain gold wedding ring is
that the ring is of pure gold, just as
the love of the united pair should be
pure, and that a circle is endless, as
should be the marital affection. 1t
would certainly be wrong, say many,
to abolish a custom which has ex'
listed so long and holds such beauti-
ful sentiments.-M Memphis CONNER
/ cial Appeal.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
Didn't Fulfill Requirement.

Once a high school principal was
having a dispute with one of his
teachers, a vivacious young lady, re-
lates the Ladies' Home Journal. She
claimed that the word man" meant
mankind as a while, while men" al
ways signified the masculine gen.
der.
The principal maintained that
there we're exceptions and triumph
antly quoted: Though l speak
with the tongues Of men and of an
gels"
But the young lady answered de-
murely: THAT won't do, for, you
see, both genders are mentioned
there"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
Publishers Up Against IL.

The item of the greatest expense
in the publishing business is the
paper, which is made mostly from
spruce pine. Now, as a result OF COM
binations and the condition of the
export trade, the publishers of the
country are called upon to pay an
advance of so per cent i'm the price
of their paper over the past year.
No other commodity in the United
States or Canada has had rise OF
more than 10 or Is per cent, with
the exception of war materials. The
cost of producing paper has not ad-
vanced over per cent during the
past two years.
How are the publishers going to
absorb this increase of so per cent
in the cost of their print paper? The
cost of paper is usually 40 per cent
of the total cost of operating a news
paper plant. Fifty per cent of 40
per cent is equal to a gross increase,
i'm the cost of the whole business, OF
20 per cent. Heretofore few sue
cessful publishers have made more
than s, 6 or per cent ON the CAPT
tai used. A 20 per cent increase in
cost simply puts them out of bust
ness. Only the old. strong papers
will be able to live through the next
year.
A congressional investigation is
now on foot, but, like all these inves-
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
He Was Doubly Welcome.

The new minister was invited out
to supper. He was a bachelor, and
when he helped himself TO the bis
cults for the third time he looked
across the table at the hostess little
girl. II don't often have such a
good supper as this, my dear" he
said in his most propitiatory tone
1--WE don't either" said the little girl,
smiling. I'm awful glad you came
Christian Herald.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
For Sale.

A 100 acre farm 4 miles east Of
Hartford, on the border of the oil
fields. Good dwelling. barn and 9TH
er necessary outbuildings. Young
orchard. strawberry bed and other
pleasing features. If bonds carry
inter-county seat pike will be near.
See, or write Tinsley & Barnett,
Hartford. KY, for further particu-
lars.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
Your Bowels Should Move Once "A
Day.

A free easy movement of the bow
els every day is sign of good health.
DR.. Kings New Life Pills will give
Won a gentle laxative effect without
gripping and free your system OF
blood poisons, purify your blood over
come constipation and have an ex-
cellent tonic effect on the entire sys-
tenn. Makes you feel like living.
Only csc at your druggists. 3
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18
PLAN REGULAR SERVICE he
TWEEN GERMANY AND
AMERICA.
FUTURE FOR AIR CRAFT
VIII Carry Worlds Mails And PeO-
pie Who Must Move Very
Quickly.
(By orion Tewson.)

London, Aug. 12.-That the new
est and largest Zeppelins which the
Germans are reported to be building
in such large numbers are not intend
cd to be used primarily for war pur-
poses, but rather as aerial merchant
men for trading with the Americas,
is the definite statement of Alexan-
DIRE Liwentaal. for some years con-
sulting engineer to Count Zeppelin.
MIR. Liwentaal. who is a Swiss by
birth. but Britisher by naturaliza-
ton, has worked at his profession as
an aeronautical engineer all over
Europe. He was with Count Yep
pelin during the most critical period
of the development of the Zeppelin
at the famous Friedrichshaven works.
asked him about zeppelins and
their future. This is what he said
"Zeppelins are not primarily built
for war. The Zeppelins that have
been sent to England were only in
tended to deceive the British as TO
the capabilities of the more recently
constructed Zeppelins.
"The real Zeppelins are those of
the type that have lately flown over
Lake Constance. They are nearly as
long as the Lusitania.
To Fly To United States.
"These Zeppelins are built for the
following purpose: Directly peace rs
signed. or probably before. II the
war is greatly prolonged, they will
depart for the United States with dis
patches. mails and ENJOYS who will
be in reality commercial representa-
tives. AS they are constructed 10
alight on water and are Independent
of sheds, they will alight in New
York Harbor, or similarly sheltered
places.
After they have landed their pas
sengers and mails, they will take on
petrol and fly at a low altitude over
the United States TO Mexico and
South America and thus advertise
the commercial prestige of Germany,
even IL she be defeated.
1.-THE latest type of Zeppelin can
fly from Hamburg to New York in
three days, and a regular service will
be at once established. They will
probably petrol as a steamer buys
coal at the places where they alight
In America. and whatever the condi-
tions Of the atmosphere may be.these
giant zeppelins can fly ESQ days a
year i'm safety. II is not generally
known that, even today, Zeppelin
is a safer medium of travel than
steamship.
To Garry Mails.
1.-The real aim of the Zeppelin is
10 secure the aerial carriage of the
worlds mails. For years TO come
they will only carry few passen-
gers. who will pay large sums to
reach some place ahead of all other
means of communication and, OF
course, ENJOYS and officials.
Since my talk with Mr.. Liwentaal,
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-08-18

tOiiiSS. 4 was SSb
ing worse everyday.
i had chiG,my head
would aS.e, i was
always tired. ! could
not walk ctraight
because of the pain
in myback andI had
pains in my stom-
ach. / went TO a
doctor and he said /
must go under an
operation, but j did
not go. ! read in
the paper al out