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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15

In the coming installation in Birming- ham of Herman M. Beck as supreme mas ter of arms of the supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias, decided departure from the customs of the order will be made, as it will be the first instance in the history of Pythianism that an officer has been installed outside of the supreme lodge. This event will take place on Tuesday. October 24, at the Fraternal hall, and will be attended by Supreme Chancellor John J. Brown of Illinois, Past Supreme Chancellor Thomas J. Carling of Macon. Ga, all the officers of the grand lodge Knights of Pythias of Alabama, many of the past grand officers and other promi- nent members of the order.
 The general committee, consisting of D. W. c. Yarbrough, Allan M. Holt, c. D. Comstock Edward P. Johnson and James Jones, Jr., have announced the following committee for the reception of visiting officials and knights; Past Grand Chan cellors Graham Perdue, Alex M. Garber, J. Rivers Carter, Judge B. Clay Jones, Dr. w. H. Wilder and William Vaughn.
 The visiting officers will arrive in the city on the morning of the 24th instant, and will be given an informal reception at the Tutwiler At 6 o'clock a banquet will be given in their honor with Herman Beck as toastmaster. At o'clock the party will be escorted to the Fraternal hall by the patrol of Aladdin temple D. o. K. K. in their resplendent costumes, where the installation ceremonies will be conducted Past Supreme Chancellor, Thomas J. Corling will be the installing officer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15
Spot Cotton Reaches
 Old Wartime Level
Pv Associated Press

Montgomery, october 4.-Cotton sold here today at 1750c the highest price since the civil war. Eight hundred bales were sold, bringing over $71,0O0
 Charlotte, N. C., October 14.-Spot cot ton sold here today at 17ssc, while in the nearby small town markets supply merchants boosted the price to 175Oc- This is the highest price paid for the staple in this section within the past 50 years. Seventy-five bales were sold here today. On the same date last year S76 bales were sold at 12Ac. Cotton seed was being sold at SAC.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15

been admitted to their privacies, but have seen their performance, and most reactionary men in America have absolutely controlled the action of the minority in the United States Senate. except for few examples of independ ence by distinguished individuals who did not care to be mastered and owned by a body. But their number was so small as to be negligible.
 Ut made the whole thing very much simplier, admit because you never had to speculate how the republicans were going to vote in the United States Senate. You knew that beforehand by calculations established in the growth of a whole generation, men who could not see the light of new age, who did not desire to see it, who wished the old methods to be resumed; not the methods of Abraham Lincoln, who lis tened to the voice of the people, but the methods of Mark Hanna, who lis- tened to the voice of the interests. They have been uneasy and little unshep- herded ever since Mark Hanna and Sen- ator Aldrich passed from the stage. It was so much easier to be told what to do It was so much simpler to get orders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15
THEsE MEN CONTROL

II
 ''Now these gentlemen are in obvious and undisputed control of the republic an party. It is they who are counsel
 ing their leaders to say as little as pos
 sible, and say it in as confused way as possible, so that nobody may know
 how to calculate their orbit from day to
 day. The only thing they are reveal
 ing is that they do not want anything
 said, and after election is over, if they
 should win possession of the govern
 ment, they do not mean to say any,
 thing For obvious reasons, it is con-
 trary to the constitution of the United
 States to make a man testify against
 himself.
 50 that it all comes down, my fel- low citizens, to very simple pro vision. Are you going to leave your government under the control of people who will tell you what they are going to do, or are you going to put it in
 hands of men who will not tell you what they are going to do and will serve their private interests? The choice is bigger than that.
 q understand from the leaders of the republican party that nothing that has | been done has been done right. They do not say that the thing that was done was always wrong, but the way in which it was done was always wrong | They do not venture to say, that is to say the private counsel does not ven- | ture to say, that we wanted any, thing but peace, but they would have preferred some other way, not dis closed, of obtaining peace. The vocal part says, we wanted war The silent | part intimates that we wanted peace, ! but wanted another kind of peace They never can get over that funda- | mental uneasiness, gentlemen, that 1 America is in charge of somebody else i than themselves.
 DID OBTAIN PEACE
 1 But America knows that the things | that were done did obtain peace, and it | does not know that the things that might | have been done would have obtained | peace so that America knows that it is | faced with this choice; peace. the con- l tinuance of the development of business along the lines which it has now estab. | lished and developed and the maintenance | of well known progressive lines of action, l on the one hand or on the other, dis 1 turbance of policy all along the line new conditions new adjustments unde- fined alterations of policy, and back of it
 all invisible government.
 Several gentlemen who are supposed ! to be spokesmen of the republican party l have in public professed to condemn in visible government but in private they have counseled and aided and abetted it | The best way to divert suspicion is te
 condemn the thing that you are doine yourself And just because the people oI 1 the great state of New York saw through | that thin mask, they defeated tolerably | good new constitution by majority that | had never been before heard of in that state Qf you want to know how New 1 York is going this time, look up tho
 records of what it did to the constitu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15
M'LEMORE RESOLUTION

"Only upon one conspicuous occasion did the contrary happen, when the re- publican machine was able to compel majority of it's members in the House os representatives to vote that Ameri- can citizens had no right to travel on the high seas. If their leaders believe in the rights of American citizens why don't their followers? If their leaders are so stiff to see that Americans get their rights everywhere, why do these men vote that Americans shall get their rights nowhere? One of the most regrettable incidents of American his tory is that there should have been found men in the Congress of the Unit ed States willing to vote in that sense.
 SENATE IS SERENE
 But it is another story in the Sem ate of the United States. There a se- rene confidence obtains in the private conferences of the Senate. have never
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-15
CONGRESS IS IMPORTANT


 Do you suppose that anything could have been accomplished in the last three and half years if there had not been determined and willing majority in Congress? I have not led the gentle men, have gone forward with them. call your attention to the fact that there is nowhere recorded a single Wilson pol icy. Everything that have asked that Congress to do was written in the pledges of the party itself. And the only power have exercised is the power of CO., operation, the power that all men exercise when, insisting upon the obvious duties of a great hour, men take heart to do great thing.
 Tt is a very interesting circumstance, my fellow citizens, that the House of Representatives is less docile than the Senate of the United States. In the House of Representatives it has again and again appeared that the republican minority has broken away from the con- trol of it's leaders and voted, sometimes by majority of it's members, sometimes almost unanimously, for the measures which have distinguished the action of the present democratic Congress. They came from the people. They knew when these things were suggested in Con- gress that they would be held inexcu- sable if they did not sustain them.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-07-22
W. NJ. KNIGHT
For Associate Justice OF
the Court Of Civil Appeals

Judge Kngh, Hereford has easy lead this He will make
an IDEAL the there public that calls tor
man of learning Judge bench ought highly educated
Judge knight holds Brown University. OF the
learning 81 tins country
rs lawyer record speaks Tor itself tie OF the assistants
Guca office under General Cranes brilliant admnstra
o that office There lawyer IN " eern Texas
Tcmperamenta be pc5B EQUIPPED for the judges duties Tie
naturally and The oitend hun tie knows
faction Tie whoonry poised Abe Kind both
word and deed broad m es and 10 the demands
h. the Tor the place he seeks rs the public learns Of
him h, lead IN the
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1916-07-22
LEST YOU FORGET
S. \. TAYLOR
Oousion Ia loO
Candidate for
Tax Collector
Potter County

Potter County
n my record "a n man
and citizen for the ten
years IN Amarillo juit-
fies your confederation
and you ilnnk that ! am
worthy 81 the position
for which I arm asking,
will apprccisir your
Volta nnd support on
July p.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08

Walter P. Buck.
 Address of welcome. Rev. Charles Harley Smith.
 Greetings, Mrs. Stephen A. Prentis Response, Mrs. J. T. Timperly, Jr. Organization of convention "@ Appointment of committees.
 Reports, corresponding secretary, Mrs. Albert W. Rogers; treasurer, Mrs. J. Francis Cooper Reports, districts, Providence, Mrs. J. w. Kirk, corresponding secretary; New Bedford. Mrs. J. T. Timperly, Jr., corresponding secretary; Norwich, ing secretary.
 Hymn 461.
 Noontide prayer.
 Wednesday, 9. m.
 A visit to Connecticut College for Women and Oceon Beach.
 "Wednesday, 2.3o p. m.
 Communion service, Tin charge of Rev. Charles Harley Smith,
 Reading of minutes. Mrs. Sidney S. BlaisdelI.
 Presentation of representatives of local missionary societies.
 Address, A Close Up View of Near by Folks, Mrs. D. B. Street, general secretary of the Deaconess depart ment, W. H. M. S. Hymn AIS.
 Address, Our Work for New Ameri- cans, Mrs. Helen I. Benson.
 Reports, departments, supplies, Mrs. William R. Sherman, secretary; mite boxes. Mrs. Laura B. Fuller, secretary; Young Peoples work. Mrs. Jerome Greer, secretary: Home Guards and Mothers Jewels, Miss c. Ella Day, secretary; literature. Miss A. Ethel Marble. secretary; Systematic, Benefi- cence, Mrs. Harriet M. Allen, sedre- tary; press. Mrs A. B. Paulson, super intendent; evan&elism, Mrs. Richard W. Ellis, secretary: temperance, Mrs A c. Adams secretary; report of con- ference manager National Training School. Washington, D. C., Mrs, Je- Hxmn 4o7: accompanist. Mrs. Rich
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
Wednesday,, 7.30 p. m.

Young Peoples Service
 Organ voluntary
 Processional, Hymn 654, Young Peo- ple's societies.
 Exercise, Queen Esther Circle.
 Devotional service, Miss Ethel Kel- logg.
 Address, Echoes from Northf1e1d, Mrs. Jerome Greer.
 Northfield Songs, Young Peoples societies.
 Address, Americas Need, Our Re- sponsibility, Mrs. D. B. Street.
 Presentation of flags.
 Solo. Hold Thou My Hand, c. F. Briggs Miss Edith Tisdale.
 Offering.
 Hymn 7O2.-
 Benediction.
 Accompanist, Mrs. William H. Cad man.
 Thursday, a. m. Devotional service, Mrs. Fred o. Jerman. Reading of minutes, Mrs. Sidney s. BlaiSdell. Address, Our Hospital Work, Mrs. D. B. Street. Hymn 639. Address, Life at Jesse Lee Home, Unalaska, A. w. Newhall, M. D., su- perintendent. Consideration of pledges. Election of officers. Accompanist, Mrs Herbert Richard = son. Noontime prayer and memorial ser vice, Mrs. Emily B. Types. Thursday, 1.3o p. m. Devotional service. Mrs. Richard Starr. Reading of minutes, Mrs. Sidney S. BIaisdell. Report of general executive meet | ing, Mrs. Jerome Greer. Violin solo, Roberta Bitgood l Reports of standing committees. Unfinished business. Doxology. Benediction. l Accompanist, Mrs. Elmer c. Bar ! ker. The officers of the society are: f President, Mrs. Walter P. Buck | Newport, R. T Vice president, Mrs. Frank B. Law ton, Providence, R. I. Corresponding secretary, Mrs. Albert w. Rogers, New London
 Recording secretary, Mrs Sidney S. Blaisdell. Providence, R. l. Treasufer, Mrs. J. Frances Cooper Providence, R. l. Secretary of supplies, Mrs. William R. Sherman, Providence, R. I. Secretary of mite boxes, Mrs. Laura B. Fuller, New Bedford, Mass Secretary of young peoples work Mrs. Jerome Greer, CenterviHe, R. I. Secretary of Home Guards and Mothers Jewels. Miss c. Ella Day secresssssse ,assrature. Miss IA Bthe,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08

than is now experienced.
 The commission has granted the pe- tition of the New Haven road for a change in the location of the station at Midway in Groton.
 The appeal of the Connecticut com pany from the decision of the state highway commissioner in the matter of changing location of trees in Man chester Is sustained. The original or der, to which the company objected, was issued by the tree warden of the town. The effect of the action of the commission is that the location of the trees as decided by the company is approved.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
Marble, New Bedford. Mass.

Secretary of systematic benefcence,
 Mrs. Harriet M. Allen, Lincoln street,
 Newport, R. I.
 Conference manager national train
 ing school, Washington. D. C., Mrs.
 Jerome Greer, Centerville, R. I. Press superintendent, Mrs. A. B. Paulson, 38 Beach street, Campello Mass.
 Secretary of evangelism, Mrs. Rich
 ard w. Ellis, Stafford Springs. Secretary of temperance, Mrs. A. C. | Adams, Providence. R. I.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
Voted One Minu.. Before Fiv. o'clock

Delayed by tire trouble c. V. Pendle- ton, Jr., came near losing his vote on Tuesday afternoon. He appeared be- fore the checkers in the first district just one minute before five o'clock. A minute later and he would not have been able to cast his vote in the 1916 presidential election.
 MT. Perd1eton has been in Spring field over Sunday to have moto- cycle repaired. He left Springfield at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon and made haste in covering the road until ke arrived the other side of Williman- tic and there he ,:lad tire trouble and was forced to take off the rear wheel and put on new tire.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
CARS MUST HAVE
 DOUBLE RUNNING BOARD.
Public Utilities Commission Gives Shore Line Electric Notice to Equip Before June.

supplemental order issued by the
 public utilities commission makes it compulsory on the Shore Line Electric Railroad company to equip on or before
 June 1, 1917, all its double truck open
 trolley cars with double running boards, says the Hartford Times. The order permits the company to recon struct cars that are not now so equip ped, but on the understanding that the plans of reconstruction are first ap- proved by the commission and that the plans when approved must provide for running boards that will make it con- venient for patrons to get aboard the cars and leave them with less difficulty
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
Nice for DefenseIess Voter.

The Austro- Hungarian tobacco mon- opoly allows only ore cigar daily to the. same customer, which is pretty rough on the old time politician. I'm dianapo1is News.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
HOME MISSIONS ANNUAL
 MEETING OPENS TODAY. Programme For Two Days Session to Be Held in New London.

The thirty-thir annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary society of the New England Southern Con- ference will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Federal Street Meth odist Episcopal church in New Lon don. The program follows:
 Wednesday, 1o.30 a. m.
 Devotional service, Hymn All. Mrs.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
Counting Their Profits.

The farmers are now counting their profits instead of counting their chickens before they are matched. < Louisville Post
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
 HEARD ELECTION RETURNS
Four Piece Orchestra Furnished Music
 and Refreshments Were Served.

Knights of Columbus from all over he county 1ocked to the K. of C. 'ooms in the Sunlight building Tues lay night and heard the election re- turns. The Lyric orchestra of four pieces furnished a delightful concert turing the evening. Refreshments were served by the committee of ar angements which comprised the fol- owing: Michael J. Currau, chairman; Francis T. Diggins, Thomas H. Beck ey, Michael J. Coscoran and James P. Sheridan.
 Greenwich-Commod E. c. Ben lett of Greenwich and a party of friends have left on his yacht Oneida or the south.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-08

China yearly imports s4,000, 900 worth of various kinds of leather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-31
GIVEN PAVING CONTRACT
 0N THE HIGHLANDS
Barber Recommends Abol- ishment of the Fire Alarm System and That It Be
 Sold for dunk"

B. A. Perryman was awarded the con- tract yesterday afternoon by the city commission to construct an asphalt boule- yard on Claremont avenue, from High land avenue eastward to Forty-second street and on Forty-second street from Claremont avenue to Eleventh avenue. south, at a cost of $22,921 The bid of MT. Pepperman was recommended by City Engineer Julian Kendrick to be ac- cepted as that of the lowest bidder
 This project had been before the city commission for several years but it was only recently that the last of the abut- ting property owners withdrew their ob- Jections which allowed the engineering department of the city to go ahead with the plans of this improvement, which will beautify this section of the city, The cost sto be assessed against the 'abut- ting property owners. r
 Other matters before the commissioners yesterday was the recommendation of Commissioner Arlie Barber that the fire alarm system in which Birmingham has invested about $35.OO0 be abolished. Mir. Barber stated that only from three to IL calls came on fire alarm system a month on an average of 300 alarms a month He said the system cost the city about S16OO year to maintain and recommend that it was best to junk the system at the present time and sell the cooper wire
 The commission took the recommenda- tion under advisement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-31
EDUCATIONAL FILMS
 WILL BE SHOWN AT
 EAST LAKE PARK
Management Lends Its Serv- ices to the Public in the Interest of the School
 Bond Issue

The city authorities have made ar- engagements with MT. Breinig, manager of East Lake park, to produce the edu- Tonight and tomorrow night. On these two special nights the pictures will be shown promptly at 8 o'clock.
 Manager Breinig is strongly in favor of the school bond issue and will do everything in his power to further the interests of the issues and, therefore, on these two nights the admission to the rark will be removed, making it possi- ble for everybody to witness the pie lures free of charge, besides furnishing extremely pleasant surroundings and other amusements for those who attend.
 The pictures are excellent and deal with the advantages of the school bond issue which is before the voters at the present time, and show the advantages of voting favorably for the bond issue.
 Besides these educational and instruc- tive films the LaMont Brothers will per- form on both evenings. The LaMont Brothers turn is a neat interpretation of equlibrism and, all in all, they offer one of the best and most interesting acts of it's kind.
 As the films are being shown under the auspices of the Birmingham city commission, the commissioners are well pleased with the fact that MT. Breinig has entered into the spirit of the occa- sion and declared that on these two nights there will be no admission to the park, besides furnishing vaudeville in conjunction with the pictures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-31
CLASS LUNCHEON OPENS THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
 AT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Bryson Ard Proved An Admirable Postmaster and Fttngy Introduced the Speakers Rising Toast to Dr. Brown All the Teachers and ''Old c. H. S.''-Dr. J. H.
 Phillips Makes Fine Address
By G. LEWIS BALES

sponses by MT. James Childers, Miss Gladys Pickens, MT. Haffor Todd, Miss Mary Duggar and MT. Eclectic Griffin
 The class history was read by Miss Bertha Engel and the class statistics by MT. John Griffin.
 Miss Beulah Baines read the class prophecy. Her remarkable composition brought forth the , comment that she dipped into the future far as human eye can see"-and then some, and went Tennyson one better.
 HONOR GUESTS
 The honor guests round the board were: Miss Merrill, Dr. Charles A. Brown and pr. Phillips, each of wsom made talks. In their contribution to the occasion there were mingled moments of misty eyes and hilarious good hunor. pr. Phillips, after talking along in his inimitable way in lighter vein con- cluded with an interpretation of the higher meaning of Commencement .
 The big class of '1916 concluded the opening event of the weeks programme by rising and drinking in unison "A toast @ pr. Brown, all the teachers. ana to cid c. H. S."
 The lower classmen who served were. Ruth Cockrell, Emily F,ies. Annie Mae Brown. Sylvia Aird Emily Gordy, Vero- nella Batson, Mary Coe, Annette Brown, Mamie Myrtle Price, Gertie Goldstein and Anna Dougherty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-31
DEMONSTRATION OF FIRELESS COOKER AT
 HOOD & WHEELER'S
Mrs. Decker Will Bake Break, Cakes and ROasts on Domestic Science Priceless CO0kstOve-DemOn-
 strations Daily

Mrs. c. s. Decker. who is recognized as one of the worlds greatest author ities on fireless cooking, will bake chicken and freeze ice cream in the same fireless cooker today at the dem onstration of the Domestic Science fire less cookstove which she is conduct ing daily from 10 to 1 and from to , at Hood & Wheeler Furniture com pany's store on Fourth avenue
 Mrs. Decker bakes biscuits, cake, roasts and innumerable other good things just as well in the Domestic Science fireless cookstove as on a range.
 "A freless cooker does away with all the ashes, gas, soot and heat in- cident to the range equipped kitchen" said Mrs. Decker. T believe every in Birmingham will insist on having one in her kitchen as soon as she sees it's wonderful possibilities. It certainly solves the cook question" /"
 Hood & Wheeler's second floor is specially arranged for the comfort of ladies attending the demonstrations Plenty of chairs and rockers, electric fans provided and iced lithia water, ice cream and waters in addition to Mrs Decker's menu are served at each dem Onstration.