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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-16
LITTLE NEW YORK STORIES
 BY A BIRMINGHAM MAN
By ALLAN GRIFFIN JOHNSON

New York, December 15.-(Special.) )-Be-
 fore me is a letter from fellow down il Birmingham named Ira Jordan, who Is with the Continental Gin company, and
 he is coming to New York on visit some time in January, and he wants to
 know about hotel accommodations and everything, and l thought if I could let
 him know about them by writing a story
 about it, it might save me an extra
 cent stamp, and at the same time let
 everybody know that Ira's coming so
 they could get him to make purchases
 and things for them while he Is here.
 And I thought it might please Ira, too,
 to see his name in the paper, but I'm not
 sure because I met fellow once who
 said he didn't want his name in print,
 and so I didn't write what he told me,
 and afterwards he got sore about it,
 which merely goes to show you never can
 tell.
 But about accommodations in New York-well, everything depends, If course You can get nice suite of rooms in a hotel here for $50,000 a year O. you can get a real modern hall bed room for $2.50 a week. And while don't oONiSS u O IO SpSliu GUS lilQCll oo iS Sclll for hotel suite, yet I would not sug- gest the $250 hall bedroom, or anything that seems to be so reasonable, because it's really only a case of seems and I ought to know, for I've tried it out. When I first arrived here the last time I
 came, some three or more years ago, I wasn't sure that I was going to get any
 more money after that I had exhausted, so looked in the Evening Telegram to see if I could find a room that l could rent for a reasonable sum of money. And found whole columns of such rooms and was very much pleased because I thought the problem would be easy to solve.
 Then I took the Telegram with me
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with 72S,225.OOO, the fve-year aver Oats, 1.251, ,9s2. 900 bushels, compared with 1,157,96I ,000, the 1910-14 average. (All comparison figures following are the 1910-14 averages.)
 Barley, 1sO,927O0O, against 1s6, 2OS,- 900.
 Rye, 47,3S8,OOO, against 87.56S,ooO. Buckwheat, 11,s40,o00, against IT, Flaxseed. 15.45s,ooO. against 1s,858,- Rice, 41,942,oOo, against 24.s7s,ooO. Potatoes, 2S5,4330OO, against S6O,772.- 900.
 sweet potatoes, 7O.s55,ooO. against |57,117.OO0,
 Hay (tame), Se,ea1,ooO tons, against Tobacco, 1,15O,s22, ,ooO pounds. against 991. .95S,000.
 Cotton, 11,511,OOO bales, against 14,- '259,000.
 Sugar beets, 6,s71,ooo tons, against 5,391 ,000.
 Apples, 67,s95,oOO barrels, against 65, ,000.
 Production of minor crops as an- nounced and compared with last years s figures, follow:
 Beans, S,S46,000 bushels, against 1o,- 321,0O0.
 Kahrs, 5O,S4oOOO bushels, against 4.460, ,O00.
 Onions (2 states), s,147,193 bushels, against 7663,712.
 Cabbage (nine states), 246,9SS tons, against 670,631.
 Hops, 5O,5S7, ,OOO pounds against 3D. 9S6,000.
 Cranberries, 415.ooO barrels. against 441,000.
 Peaches, ss,93s,OoO bushels, against 64,097,O00.
 Pears, 1o,377,OO bushels, against Ill., 216,000.
 Oranges, 2S.SS5,ooO boxes, against 21,- 100000
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ficials of the company, spent several hours in Birmingham, making an in. spection of this district.
 His death came shortly after he realized great ambition. On Novem- Der l he became president of the great St. Louis and San Francisco rail- road. after he had directed it through three years of hard times as it's re- ceiver and chief operating officer. He started in railroad work as bridge carpenter in 1878 and reached the top by dint of hard work and applica- . tion.
 His passing will be observed by the customary tributes along the lines of the company. He was considered a great and just man among railroad men," said J. H. Doughty, general agent for the Frisco in Birmingham, and a personal friend of the late pres ident.
 His career is a remarkable one. III. His father. William Nixon was a lawyer of that place and his mother was Sarah (Musselman) Nixon. His education was obtained at the public schools of Washington, Ill. A du carry dSe Ho began WOTk. HIS first railroad experience was as a bridge carpenter in 1878 for the B. and M. railroad in Nebraska. He then entered the service of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad at Elm poria, Kan, as night watchman for a year and then became clerk for a year at Albuquerque, N. M. His next promotion was agent at Las Cruces, N. M. afterward holding the position of agent at Albuquerque, subsequently, becoming chief clerk of the division superintendent at San Marcial, N. M
 In 1885 he was advanced to train master of the Southern Kansas Rail- way, remaining in that position till 1882 when he was transferred to Kan sas City as superintendent of terminals s there, remaining in that office one year. He next became superintendent of the Chicago division and was su- erintendent of terminals at Chicago until July 1, 1896. For the succeeding six months he was general agent. freight department. located in Chi cago
 The next three years he was su- perintendent of the lines between Chicago and Kansas City and in 1900 was transferred to Galveston as su- perintendent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroads, which position he held until 1902. and was vice presi- dent and general manager of the Frisco railroad
 On May 1. 1911. MT. Nixon was ap- pointed senior vice president of the Frisco and May 27. 1913, he was ap- pointed chief operating officer under the receivership of the roads. July IA 1913, he was appointed receiver and chief operating officer.
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and looked at a room in the West tIf- ties, where it said a fellow could get a lot of comforts and conveniences for | very little money, and the landlady talked very pleasantly to me and was very gra- cious about accepting my first payment in advance and accepted the room after I had walked in and looked it over and backed out for fear of breaking some thing if I tried to turn around in it.
 And I had my trunk sent there, and when I went back in the evening the trunk was in the room and the bed looked ready for me, and I retired with love for all men in my heart. And after had been In bed little while I noticed something was all wrong, or at least I believed it was and ] got up and lighted the gas and conducted hurried investi- gation and found that I had not been sleeping, or lying in bed alone. And I have been sleeping alone so long pr thought I was that I can't stand company of that sort and. besides, even though succeeded in killing about six of seven of my visitors I couldn't be sure that their friends would not come after them to cart them off and incidentally to take a little spite out on me for committing such wholesale murder.
 So turned the gas up higher and wrote a note to the landlady telling her I would send for my trunk in the morning, and saying that I regretted very much that I could not have the bed to myself and that if there was any change coming to me out the payment I had made her I would be glad to accept it if she would send it along with the trunk.
 And I walked out about ? a. m. and went to a hotel and paid three times as much for room for one night, or there about, and the next day my trunk came, and it seems there wasn't any change coming to me- and while I don't know how Ira feels about those little things I can't conscientipusly advise him to take a cheap room though he may not want one at all, because I don't know how much money he intends to leave in Man haitian anyhow.
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CoUGHED FIFTEEN YEARS

Coughs that hang on and grow worse in the night and weaken the suf- ferer are relieved by Foley's Honey and Tar oftener than by any other remedy. R. F. Hall, Mabe, Va, writes: For 15 years I was afflicted with trouble some bronchial cough and irritation of the throat. Foley's Honey and Tar re- lieved me; after taking one bottle the cough ceased and has not returned" No medicine stands higher as a fam fly remedy for colds for children and grown-ups Sold everywhere.
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SHEFFIELD

Sheffield. December 15.-(Special)
 That business conditions are unusual ly good and becoming better all the
 time in this city is evidenced by the Improvements and new buildings that
 have been made here during this year. A number of handsome homes have
 been erected and more are being planned. Mrs. J. C. Nicely at the pres ent time is erecting three attractive bungalows on Fourth street. Besides
 the Standard Oil company's plant and the Texas company, the Gulf Refin- ing company is now building a large
 warehouse and coal yard near the Louisville and Nashville freight
 house. J. c. Harris is building house
 on Third street for the Western Union
 Telegraph company, The Southern rail-
 road recently enlarged it's already
 large freight house. It is believed here that next year there will be still
 greater demand for both business and residence houses, especially will this
 be true if Muscle Shoals should be designated as the site for the govern ment $20,000,000 nitrate plant, and at this time everything Is very favorable for the Muscle Shoals site.
 The Southern railroad is running
 extra freight trains daily in and out
 of Sheffield in order to handle the large amount of freight being shipped
 through this section. The Louisville and Nashville railroad and Northern Alabama are also handling heavy tom mage over their lines through here.
 Railroad men say that they have
 never known the freight traffic to be
 so heavy hereabout as at present To
 meet the demands more crews are be- ing put on and every facility is be- ing employed to handle the heavy vol
 ume of business. At the Southern shops
 between this city and Tuscumbia full time is employed and 8 number of new
 men have been added to the various
 forces The furnaces here and in Flor ence are operating full capacity and large forces are employed.
 Miss Fannie Shook of this city and J. E. Dadisman of Tuscumbia were married at noon yesterday at the home of the bride on Nashville avenue, Rev. T. H. Johnson of the First Meth odist church, officiating. After the ceremony the couple left on bridal trip, after which they will make their home in Tuscum5ia-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-16
STATE HOTEL MEN
 ID HOLD MEETING
Semi-Annual Convention for Discussion of Problems
 Starts Today

Mobile. December 15.-(Special.)-Ala- bama hotel men will assemble here to- morrow in seni-annual session. High cost of hotel supplies and the advisability of advancing the prices for meals and rooms will be the most important topic for dis cussion. Twenty delegates from as many cities in the state are expected.
 Saturday afternoon the hotel men will be the guests of s. II. Peck, proprietor of the Battle House. at luncheon in the Trellis room at 1 o'clock At O clock they will be taken for trip over the city. That evening they will be guests at a dinner at the Cawtnon, followed by a dansant at the Grand Cafe, Battle House, later.
 Sunday the hotel men will be taken i1 automobiles to Coden. There an elaborate entertainment has been provided by John Rolston of Rolston's hotel. He has made arrangements for all who care to go fishing, while other entertainment will be provided for others to make the vis- itors' stay as pleasant as possible.
 Harry New of Birmingham will pre- side over the business session.
 The Mobile Rotary club has referred to a committee a request received from the Birmingham Rotarians. It asked in- dorsement of a federal nitrate plant for Alabama, to be located at Muscle Shoals
 The Gulf Coal Company, Inc, incor- porated at $10,0OO filed papers here to- day. The announcement says that the firm plans a barge line to be operated on the rivers near Mobile and that it will engage in general wood and coal business. James J. Johnson Is president; H. B. Crocker treasurer, and w. NJ. Johnston secretary.
 The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company will no longer ship coal out of the mineral district and accordingly has closed it's agency in Mobile Pensacola and other cities. It was stated here that the company needs all of it's coal for fuel purposes in connection with the indus tries.
 The Dickens tract on Chickasabogue, near Mobile, consisting of 5000 acres, has been sold by Col. D. R. Burgess to Everett & Boykin for s200 600. It is to be cut up in farms after timber and tur-
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Thomas McCoy Convicted

Jacksonville, Fla, December 15.-Thomas g c. Mccoy of Asheville, N. C., was con- victed by jury in federal district court here today of conspiracy to defraud the government of revenue tax on whisky distilled at the Long Branch distilIery here. The case was completed late today and the jury was out an hour and 10 minutes before returning verdict. Mo- Coy's attorneys informally gave notice of petition for a new trial.
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WILLIAM !. NIXON.
 PRESIDENT.
 DIES IN ST. LOUIS
Popular Railroad Man Achieved Life's Ambition November Was We'll
 Known in Birmingham

St. Louis, December 15.-William c. Nixon, president of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, died at } o'clock this afternoon.
 MT. Nixon has been in poor health for sometime and for the last two weeks had been in critical condi- tion. Death was due to heart failure. He was 5S years old.
 The news of Mr. Nixon's untime ly death in St. Louis yesterday reached Birmingham shortly after he expired at 5 o'clock, and was received with deep regret. It was less than a month
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Health Recommendations

The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce will go before the board of revenue Tuesday morning to ask that the board put into practice the recom- n,endations of Dr. Carol Fox.
 The board will not indorse any man for the place of health officer, but will urge that the board make the necessary appropriation to carry out the recommen- dations of Dr. Fox.
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We thosew consentns to surgical operation
 
  1 may be worth much t  tit cing doctors have
   able ofn rstA AvenueB Brmin am.
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pentine privileges have been used ard will also be partly planted in oceans and citrus groves.
 Capt J. W. Galloway of Stockton was brought here Thursday after a severe ac- cident His leg was caught in the coil of a hawser while a tugboat was towing a raft and the foot was dismembered.
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Drs. Dozier X Dozier Oldest Established Firm of Medical Specialists in Alabama. Twenty five Years in Birmingham.

We treat scientifically and
 with wonderful success. all man. ner of chronic diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Lungs. Heart, Liver. Stomach. Bowels. Kidneys and all diseases of the Skin and of the Pelvic Organs of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-16
Farmers Will Receive Billion and Three-Quarters More
 Than in 1915
YIELD OF CORN AND
 WHEAT IS MUCH LESS
Notwithstanding This These Staples Were Worth Much Money to Pro- ducers-Cotton and Hay Are
 Next in Increase

Washington, December 15.-All records for the value of the country's important farm crops were exceeded this year despite the smaller size of the crops Their value was placed at s7,64l6os'0Oo to- 6ay by the department of agriculture in its final estimates of the year
 That is $1,750, 100000 more than the same crops were worth last year.
 Higher prices, due partly to reduced production and partly to the demands for American food from the warning nations of Europe, were responsible for the vast increase in value.
 Four crops were valued at more than a billion dollars over the same in 1915.
 Corn, with total value of $2,295, 7S3,OO0, show ed the greatest increase, being worth S573.1O3,OoO more than last years output, Cotton, the second most valuable with a total of $1,079, ,59S 900, increased $475, ,37s GOO over last year.
 Wheat, the third, was worth $1,O25, ,765- GOO, or $S3, ,462,000 over the year before, when the production was almost 40O,0 = GOO bushels more.
 OTHER CROPS
 Hay was fourth with value of $1, 1,0OS- 694, 600, an increase of S95, ,250, 900. Compared with last years value, other crops showed the following increases: Oats $96, ,673, 900; potatoes, $50 600; tobacco, SIP, ,727, 900; harley, s41,362,0o0; rye, $12,774.O00; buck wheat, s1,521, 600; flaxseed, S3940,000; rice, N0,974,000; sweet potatoes $13 161, 900; sugar beets, $4,2430OO; beans, $17, ,9920O0; kafrs. $2,112,0000; opinions, s1,601.O0O; apples, $27,- 66o,000; oranges, $9,545,O00, and wild hay, A1.053,000.
 Final estimates of production showed B decrease of 6O,00O,00O bushels in corn from the November estimate and 32,000- 900 bushels increase in wheat.
 A revision of the 1915 estimates of crop production was announced by the depart ment showing the corn crop to have been 2,994,793000 bushels last year, a reduction of 59,742,000 bushels from previous esti- mates and wheat for 1915 was placed at I025, GOO bushels, an increase of 13,- 2s6,000 bushels overestimates made last year. The revised figures showed changes in other crops.
 ESTIMATES 1916 CROP
 Final estimates of this years produc- tion of the country's principal farm crops announced by the department of agriculture today, are:
 Corn, 2,583, ,000 bushels, compared with 2,732,457, ,000, the 1910-14 average. Wheat, 639,SS6,O0O bushels, compared
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Bronchial coughs are not trifling. They are even menac- ing if allowed to hang on all winter. Foley's Honey and Tar will check them. Sold every where.
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The Mobile Rotary club has referred to a committee a request received from the Birmingham Rotarians It asked in- dorsement of a federal nitrate plant for Alabama, to be located at Muscle Shoals
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The Dickens tract on Chickasabogue,
 near Mobile, consisting of 5000 acres, has been sold by Col. D. R. Burgess to Everett & Boykin for $200, It is to be cut up in farms after timber and tur-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-08
FIGHTING THE LlFE.SAvER.

Anti vaccination!sts for smallpox.
anti serum opponents to the admins
tration of the anti meningeal and anti
diphtheria serums and gainst the ad-
ministration of salvarsan in a specific
for dread disease, are busily engaged
in seeking and publishing accounts
true or distorted Of fatalities occurring
thru these treatments.
Perhaps those attacks on the later
discoveries influence persons; other
wise they would not continue. But
who would legislate against the use
Of the vaccine virus as defensive
against smallpox or the administration
of the anti diphtheria serum? Noone
has any doubt of their efficacy. Then
why this absurd and virulent assault
upon specifics and preventive measures
that have proved themselves among
the greatest boons science has given
10 mankind? 1t is probably true that
patients sometimes die from the eff
fects of salvarsan. But the average
man and woman is anxious to run the
risk rather than live a pariah and an
outcast
Medical science makes its failures
Surgery oversteps its bounds perha Us
with greed as an impulse; but imagine
the world deprived of the skilled dag
nostician, the surgeon, the remedies
and serums that have robbed the dead.
Hest disease among children Of practi.
caliy ali its former terrurs.
We shall go on vaccinating. W.
should continue to make vaccination
compulsory in the schools; we shall
defy the king of terrors at the bed.
side Of diphtheria-because that is the
way of common sense and toward the
general good.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-08
DID DEMOCRATS NOMINATE HARDING7

Mr.. Harding's large proportionate
vote receives some explation thru
the following editorial statement in the
Davenport Democrat:
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE HARDING
With the limited opportunity offered
SO far to closely analyze yesterdays
primary vote, indications point strong
ly to the conclusion that the demo-
Gratis nominated Harding for governor
on the republican ticket.
This statement is made because It
is fair to presume that the same con-
ditions existed all over Iowa that pre-
vailed in Scott county.
Taking into consideration the num-
Der Of democrats who were not regis
tered as to their party affihation be-
cause they had never voted at q pri-
mary and those who changed their
party utilization yesterday no less than
1900 democrats voted IN the republi-
can primary and this could be for no
other reason than their desire to vote
for Harding, inasmuch as no other is
sue was apparent.
When the party declaration books
are available so that a tabulation Of
the total number Of republican bal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-08
Galles'Repub6t1lu
Published Daily BY The
MES.REPUBLlcANP PRINTING CO.
The Woman Beside You.

The woman that sits down beside you
On the railroad train, or the car
Oh, often she's old and squalid,
And she gives you a sort of a jar;
And you edge away from her gently,
And you're sorry she sat by YOU
Until you recall she's woman,
And somebody's mother, tool
And then with creeping Of color
A shame comes over yCu---oh?
And you wish you had helped with her
bundles
And hadn't just acted that way:
And you make up your mind you will
tender
a courtesy at least when she goes
For she is somebody's mother,
And might have been yours, who
knows!
I've WINGED when I've seen men do it
Looked grouchy when women sat down
beside them, all fumbled with bundles
On train or on trolley in town;
And I've looked in the gentle Old
visage,
And thought what she knows of life's
And that fellow forgets there's some
fellow
Who names her each night in his
prayer.
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-08
THE PACKARD WRECK.
CWaterloo Courier

AS search for bodies in the wreck at
| Packard goes on, 1t becomes increas-
iingly apparent that one Of the most dis
astrous railway accidents in years has
occurred there. Barring the Amherst
disaster in which thirty persons were
killed, it has been four years since a
wreck in this country has claimed so
great a toll of life.
The catastrophe is partly due to a
visitation of the elements. a cloudburst
having swollen the waters Of Flood
creek and weakened the abutments of
the bridge. It will not do, however, to
blame this misfortune entirely upon
providence. A rigid investigation by
state and perhaps national authorities
ought to be instituted at once in an eff
fort to place the blame where it be-
longs. If the interstate commerce COM
| mission could take a hand in the Am
herst investigation. it has Jurisdiction
in this case, as the train was an inter-
state one.
If the matter is properly threshed out
it will probably develop that there is a
relation between the wreck and the
run down financial condition of the
Rock Island, just as there was on the
New Haven when it had a disaster OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-08

taking his forty extra winks before
rising loses the best part Of the day.
The o'clock riser misses great deal
He flags himself by having to rush to
his bath. He irritates himself by the
speed with which he has to apply his
safety razor. He descends to breakfast
unwilling to talk, and restless under
the exuberant noise Of his thoroughly
wideawake youngsters. The necessity
for getting to the office in an hour or
SO rests over him lige pail. The q
o'clock riser. or. still better, the
o'clock man, has great advantage
over his lazier brother. He is able to
food his soul with something Of the
tranquil calm Of the morning. His tenn
per is better and he is in better shape
for the days strain. The evenings are
coming when it will be too hot to sit
inside and read. To chatter nonsense
until II o'clock on the front porch is d
sheer waste of time. It Is much bet