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The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-27
Report of the Condition of RANK OF PRESCOTT
Prescott, Nevada Co.,, at the close of business Nov. 17th, 1916.
 RESOURCES

Prescott, Nevada Co.,, at the close of
 business Nov. 17th, 1916.
 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts .... .S226, ,428.l2 Loans on Real Estate. .... 43,10S.o3 Loans on Cotton. ...... 483.T6 Overdrafts, Secured and
 Unsecured ............ 244.39 Other Bonds and Securities including State Warrants,
 County and City Scrip. 69,451 .60 Furniture and Fixtures. 8,153.5O Banking House ......... 10000 % Due from Banks not Re-
 serve Agents .......... llO,212.62 Cash Items ...... 123.05 Banks ............... 293 3,997.31 Other Resources as follows 516.36
 Total ..............$ .$762, ,719.34
 LIABILITIES :. Capital Stock, Paid Ups 75,000,00 Surplus Fund, Certified. 100000 Undivided Profits, Net.... 1C,590.28 Savings Accounts ...... 06,746.90 Individual Deposits, h.
 cluding Public Funds... 4G1 ,593.20 Due to Banks, not Reserve
 Agents ............. 6.60 Time Certificates of De-
 posit .............. 31,669.52 Cashiers Checks ........ 2,112.S4
 Total ............ $762, ,719.34 State of Arkansas, County of Ne vada, ss.-We Thos. C. McRae, Presi- dent, and Thos. C. McRae, Jr., Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemn ly swear that the above statement is true to the best of our knowledge and belief.
 THOS. C. McRAE, President.
 THOS. C. McRAE, Jr., Cashier. Attest:
 w TOMPKINs,
 D. L. McRAE,
 SAM T. WHITE, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before ma this 21st day of November, 1916. My Commission expires March 23d, 1917.
 ,SEAL) WREN SCOTT,
 Notary Public.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-27
SOME DARK MEAT, PLEASE.

With turkey thirty cents a pound, Thanksgiving drawing near, Our family will gather round A weiner-wurst this year.
 Houston Post
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-27
RESOU RC EFUL.

Kitty is such a resourceful girl "Is she?"
 "Why the other day when shed lel, her vanity case at home she pcwderea her nose with a marshmallow.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-27
Little Rock Conference, NJ. E. Church South, Malvern. Ark, November 29th to December 5th, 1916

For this occasion the St. LIMA $. Ky. will sell tickets Prescott to Malvern and return for $2.60. Tickets on sale November 25th to 3Oth and bear final return limit to reach orig. inal starting point prior to midnight of December 9th, 1916.
 G. A. HAYS, Agent.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-27
Report gtr1 of the Condit;o, ., FIRST STATE pSVsnd d

Prescott, Nevada Co., DANh .1
 'i ou'iness pGSoNoy. Noy. l7th, isis ''e Loans and Discounts Loans on Real Estate 's 'SS'SS1Sl2 overdrafts, Secured and Z"53G Unsecured Other Bonds and Secnr; 4S2.73 ties, Including State
 Warrants, County and
 City Scrip .. anu Furniture and Fixtures lOo'2e Banking House 96.N Items in Transit m S,,n;. 100000 Cash Items '''''''''''. 2,OO7.Ss Cash and Due from P, l2-S3
 "iNS '''''''..' 35,Os6.Os Total ..... oro,, ~ LIABILITIES. '0'Ala'5' Capital Stock, Paid U3. o5 5ooo 4, Undivided Profits, Net, -yI'OvO'Vg OvO Og Savings Accounts ... 99'VOV'sl Vn, sl Individual Deposits, Includ- -'0Oi'O' ing Public Funds. .. 55o,o-o Time Certificates of Dc. '0'-4V.'Z Ca pIilo Sb;er,s chcc,..:.'''....., 6,6l2.@ Other Liabilities as follows 4,OSS S'Gs 20 Total .........s Q5o11o- State of Arkansas, County of No NJ vada, ss.-We, W. B. Waller vi.a President, and E. M. Sharn Ca.h;o. of the above named Bank, do solemnl, swear that the above statement iS tru, to the best of our knowledge t,uS auS belief. anu W. B. WALLER, Vice President
 E. M. SHARP, Cashier Attest:
 J. C. WOODUL.
 J. M. STARTLING.
 A. II. SMITH,
 G. r. CRESS,
 Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before ma this 22nd day of Nov, 1916.
 My commission expires Jan. 2lst 1919. --''' (SEAL) w. P. MURRAH,
 Notary Public
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-08

NEWS OF KlNesVtLLE

klNNsNtllE lunc TWO new
candidate or hems diHcasHci for dis
tfiei olerh wd Nr punhp thr puHrnt
iacunhput r sAudnr for &C. election
Tho Commercial Ch,h laat ptsht por
fectcd plans tor the mH pfrlaredncss
lArAMN
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-08

Tho ast day ~ ,ag iao3 arou tnc
Chleaeu Whtc SoN Won s same from
h, Wahmrtou tvtm Dog rhc ninth 'n
u,ur thlt meaut q loi to th,m
'ChUaw ucr3cd hut O. rm Cav win
seia mck londucls. Who was wayire
ueb, u,ll tor Washlustcn ln that
day
"a was oJ ir the rieht fiel6 and
iimms Ryan who was laying OF was
Nuins los thc cuhhouse leobius nf'N
at thc Same. dorlug ever ana auon aud
slchinG because hc cauldnt noohic
around and take "a hand
Suddenly trank i~beH hlt ~ hRrt
liner
eii camc rieht sc mo- eoinv a luilc
low. and I sct myself Cor thr catch
nguuns that ID was "a chmrhoNa,
~rhc rupnW thins tooh down,
shoot aa h approached mc and sl'oi
bang into my hlg soc
eOh Moscs hut % hart
"lt went on without much aeatc-
mont of lts speea and flow throaFn the
clubhouse dcor
rImmN Ryan WIS si6 siiiipe thrrc,
win his attention avertcd eor ESQ mo-
mont and tho haN caromea onto Jim
m,'s bead he went down and out and
the bail kept or moving
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
A BABY,s EYES

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A California judge has placed valua-
ton of $4,000 on the eyes. Of a baby made
sightless by the carelessness Of an at
tendant at the infants birth. The par
ents had brought suit against the lat
ter, and as the judge granted damages
he said: "A pair OF baby's eyes are
priceless. No amount Of money a court
could give, however large, would COM
pensate for the loss Of this babys sight"
1t is not to be supposed that the none
tary recompense atones to the mother
in her grief for the fact that when her
child is in her arms 1t Is night forever.
and the little one cannot behold an an
swering countenance. A baby may be
to all but the mother merely IAN infant
crying in the night, an infant crying for
the light, and with no language but
cry" To the mother the speeches..
helpless infancy extends the promise Of
great future days. when the world shall
pay homage not to her. but to the child
she reared. for whom she lived with q
selfless devotion to the end of her days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
SCRAP HEAP FOR LOCOMOTIVES


The Great Northern is the latest rail-
road to embark upon Identification on
grand scale. The steam locomotive IS
to give way to the electric current on
300 miles of that excellent Hill railroad.
Our country is witnessing a silent revo-
luton in motive power which will APP
pear more interesting to future genera
tons than it does to our own. Substitu-
ton of electricity for steam on railways
is going forward rapidly in all parts of
the land. Not only are passenger trains
in city suburban areas electrified, out
such roads as the Norfolk and Western
haul their heaviest freight trains over
the mountains with electric power. Some
years ago 1t was estimated that it would
cost the railroads half billion dollars
to put their locomotives on the scrap
heap and electrify their lines. The ex-
penditure is indeed very heavy, but when
the money outlay is measured against
the many advantages, including cleanll-
ness, speed and resiliency, it Is, after
all, but a small price to pay.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
THE ARMY OF THE BLIND

From the Atlanta Constitution.
A writer in Cartoons Magazine says
that as result of gases. or Sheets OF
flame" from the enemy side on the
western front. there are actually some
5000 blind in France"
The story OF the desperate, heroic ac-
ton of some of the troops under gas
attack is dramatic is the extreme:
II have been told that an entire
French company. their clothes aflame
ran to attack the incendiaries, and
grasping them in fiery embrace
burned to death with their foes
This happened at Verdun. where the
flame fights were fiercest. But the
blind, from this cause, are not con.
fined to France. for they have gone ou
in large numbers from the English
ranks.
The hopelessly crippled and blind ar.
everywhere, land what can these do,
asks correspondent. Sin the time O
rehabilitation"
The comment of a soldier of 18th,
Army of the Blind" struck home. "Oul
case is pitiful," he said. but we arr
not so blind as the men who made tn
war;
And these are the witnesses tina
make the war lords shift the TRACED.
of it all from conscience to conscience
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

We should appreciate our friends il
only for the fact that every time we
lose a friend we make an enemy.
1t is none of our business. But it
seems to us that a man is OVERRIDING
things when he wears four different
lodge emblems at the same time.
If q man happens tosforecast rain an
hour in advance he wonders why the
government goes to the expense OF
maintaining a weather bureau.
AS long as you can keep the man in
Maine and the woman in Oregon. pla-
tonic love isn't going to get either of
them into trouble.
It is easy to forget the mean things
we know about ourselves. But II Is
different with the mean things we
know about other folks.
Every time married man looks at
the little knot on the back OF his wife's
head he wonders who started that stuff
about woman's browning beauty.
A bad neighbor always wonders why
it is that he always manages to locate
in neighborhood where there are nc
good ones.
After man roams around for d
while he discovers that there are more
babies over 20 years old than there
are under that age.
A bald-headed man can't understand
why his wife has to put on q switch. 8
transformation and q flock of PR
curls before she goes out.
| They claim that suffrage will "un'
sex" our women folks. But as long al
we know that they stop to rub tn,
shine off their noses before they ge
| up to make speech. we are not 50
ling to lose any sleep worrying owe
| the "unsexing" stuff.
| Any time you want to find out jus
| how many friends you haven't got. jus
run for office.
1 A girl can purchase a waite psoo
complexion. but she can't purcha; on
| that is wrinkleproof.
A married woman takes jul, r
much pride in her personal appe; vanc
| on the street as she did when sh wa
single. But it 10 different with . mar
ried man.
! 1t Is hard to make woman ] lev
that shoes should be larger TIL III
feet that wear them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
High Prices to Continue

Speculation and prices have touched
levels undreamed of, and the impression
grows that still higher attitudes are in
prospect" says Henry Clews, in his week.
ly financial letter Wheat, cotton, pig
iron, sugar. wool, chemicals, and nearly
all commodities are on the upward path,
war being almost the sole impetus. war
demands are absolutely Unsuitable.
Men, munitions and money must be
had regardless of cost; waste is going
on upon a vaster scale than ever, and
supplies of all necessities are becoming
more and more depleted. While such
forces are at work, high prices are in
evitable, and no one can predict where
they will end.
Possibly, if not probably, they will
continue advancing until consumption Is
checked or production is increased. The
only certainty is that as long as war lasts
no permanent decline can be anticipated.
There are some who believe that the war
will end as suddenly as it began; but
more reasonable view is that peace will
come only as result of exhaustion, some
thing not yet in sight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
CELLULoID IN SURGERY

From the Savannah Press.
The physicians who are treating the
victims of the present European war are
making some interesting and helpful ex-
periments with celluloid in building up
portions of the anatomy of soldiers that
have been shot away or otherwise de-
stroyed. Celluloid noses are getting to
be very common, we are told, and even
larger operations are performed with the
aid of the new agency.
Celluloid. It is true. had been used be-
fore in the making Of splints and to pro-
vide covering for certain wounds; but
the exigencies of war have stimulated
the surgeons genius to find a more unique
and practical use for it.
DR.. Charles Higgens, F. r. c. S.,
ophthalmic surgeon to Guys hospital in
London and to the County Of London War
hospital, has been employing celluloid in
plastic surgery in the building up of war
wrecked faces with brilliant results. A
colleague also has used it successfully for
fracture-plates. He tells of his experi-
ences with it, briefly, in a note contrib
uted to the Landet.
During the last six months" he writes.
II have had the opportunity of doing
some eighty to one hundred plastic OPP
erations on the face. The greater part
Of them were for SCARED and lacerated
eyelids and shrunken sockets, put had
quite number of deeply SCARED faces,
and noses smashed as flat as can
imagine trenches are after lombard
ment."
| The doctor first endeavored to mako
paraffin do for these operations. but it
wouldn't work Then he says:
ut occurred to me to try cel1uloid. 1t
seemed to me that it was harmless sub
stance and not likely to set up irritation;
in this, subsequent experience has not
disappointed me. I have used plates OF
celluloid for replacing bone, and soiu-
tons for filling cavities and raising deep
cicatrices. 1 have two solutions-one cell
luloid dissolved in acetone, the other a
secret preparation made originally for
trade purposes, its use being to make
bad corks water tight and air tight. 1t
appeared to have great future from a
commercial point of view. but the war
came and spoiled it's chance. This l
think the better of the two. At first
placed quite number of plates of eel
luloid beneath deep cicatrices with most
excellent results; the scars have become
flat, are wearing out as time goes on,
and not the smallest amount of irritation
from the foreign body has occurred. l
have also used it for replacing bone, and
have built up three quite respectable
noses with celluloid bridges
1t is probable, after SO many successful
experiments on the soldiers, the use of
celluloid among civilians who have met
with accidents will become moro gener-
ally universal We should think, how
ever, that celluloid would be useful only
in the general repairing of those OF a
placid nature. What would happen to
material OF such an inflammable charac-
ter. If used on one Of a fiery disposition,
We wonder.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
RICHARD BRINsLEY SHERIDAN

possessed everything that genius or art
could furnish, to agitate and control the
human mind" Such expressions sound
like extravagant praise. but they did not
come from men who dealt in extrava-
gances. Yet, so careless was Sheridan
of his fame, that only meager and gar
bled reports of this famous speech have
been preserved for the judgment of pos
terity.
1t is interesting to note that some eff
fort is being made in the country where
his great intellectual achievements were
wrought to do honor to his memory by
revival of some of his plays. A recent
article in the London Telegraph COM
ments, with approval, on this movement,
and says:
Even In time of war we ought not to
forget Sheridan's centenary, and we
owe a debt of gratitude to that ancient
playhouse which is called the "Old
Vic for reviving plays which, like
Peter Pan, never seem to grow old
Most comedies, as Moliere remarked,
are made to be acted and not to be
read. But in the case of Sheridan's
'The Rivals 1.-THE Critic" and
above all, THE School for Scandal"
we have specimens of dramatic work
untouched by the passing of the years
which are as good to read as they are
to be enacted on the stage. No one
can impugn Sheridan's well earned
laurels or deny his claim to immor-
tally in our literary and dramatic
Pantheon. q
81 ~
died in London in 1916. He was twice
married, the first time to Elizabeth Lin
ley, the daughter of a well-known COM
poser, and a woman of remarkable charm.
His second wife was Esther Jane Ogle,
daughter of the dean of Winchester. He
was elected to Parliament in 1880 and
served until 1912, filing during that time
many Of the highest cabinet offices.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
STRANGE cAvERNs IN AZORES

ChdrleS Wellington f'urlonS, IN Harper
Magazine for November.
Late forenoon found US heading down
coast in ou4 large dory toward a cav
ern called Furna de Fernao Jorge, III
an unsubmerged portion of a crater ring
whose seward side had been broken
away by storms. We rowed into this
great amphitheatre, which had once vom-
tied forth a hell of fire and then sucked
in the waters of the Atlantic.
An ever failing curtain of water from
the caves of the great semi-domed cav
err ahead screened the mysterious dark
ness beyond. Through this shower shot
the dory bringing up on a steep shelv-
ing cave floor of large water rounded
stones From the arching wall hung fes-
toons of ferns, MOSES and small plants
grew, reeking in wetness. Tiny olive
green canaries flicked by and were lost
in the verdure Of darkness. The sputter
of Erving's bird gun, as he brought down
two specimens--the first of our collection
had an uncanny smothered sound; one
almost expected its report to bring the
tremendous suspended mass crushing
down upon US.
1.-THE dory's adrift"'
The subtle surge had worked it from
the steep beach into the fast sweeping
current. With flying leap and plunge
John fortunately recovered it, for the
lonely cavern was no place to be ma
rooned at high tide.
Farther southwark, we again left the
Furna dos Enchareos-a colossal cash In
the side of Flores. At first we rowed
in the darkness of night. Then the bases
of the arching walls, like the transparent
water, took on a peculiar ultra marine
daylight turned to shadow and oxidized
by nature. Cautiously for 200 feet we
felt our way into the bowels of the great
cliff. Here the cave, narrowing, termi-
mated in an inner chamber. The dory
softly heaved to an uncanny, subtle, unr
der sea motion.
Back water, Look there"' came from
the bow. From the inner chamber is
suer a. peculiar rumbling; before the
dory could be backed out of the narrow
corridor it became a seething caldron.
From it's center a geyser shot kissing into
the darkness, telescoped, then all was
still. We warily reapproached this in
teresting phenomenon, which, after few
moments quiescence, required again and
again. That inner chamber was weird,
uncanny sight, an impression of direct
connection with another world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
LEGAL BRETHREN

From Everybody's Magazine.
"Gabe," said the lawyer to the amazed
negro witness, who had been listening to
a heated discussion as to the admissible
ity of certain testimony, you have fol-
lowed carefully this intricate discussion
touching on the various aspects of med-
cal jurisprudence involved in the issues
we have before us for adjudication; and
in view of that I now desire to know
the theory advanced by my learned
brother"
The witness cast a triumphant side
glance at his own attorney. Then he
puffed out his lips and his chest. Most
doubtless" he answered.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
I'm the Last Week of

Amendment Campaign
I'm the week that remains before the
y election a great deal of effective
work can be done for the cause Of
education in Alabama. Few state cam
paigns have been more earnestly con-
Quoted than this in favor of the school
tax amendment. 1t was well planned
and has been intelligently directed
from the start.
Those public spirited citizens who
have led in the canvass sought first
of all to arouse the people to the i'm
portance of the amendment. Many
good measures have gone by default
by reason of apathy on the part of the
electorate, but there has been little in
difference in this case.
The amendment has been thorough
ly explained and there is scarcely a
voter who does not understand it in
every detail, but as strange as it may
seem a concerted movement against
the proposition is in evidence, and
while it may not gain much Of fol-
lowing it must be reckoned with.
Nothing could be more reasonable
than the provisions of this proposed
amendment. The main point about it
is that it authorizes the people of
each county to levy small special tax
for school purposes. It is in no wise
compulsory-simply permissive. Some
counties may not feel the need of
additional revenue for public schools,
but in the majority of them there
is urgent need, and in such counties
the people would not be slow in avail
hing themselves of the right to provide
lequately for the education of their
chl dren.
Rbama has suffered no little from
the tight of illiteracy. In only three
or fod states are there as many IL
literateA as in this state and this dis
tressing fact is due entirely to the
limitationA in the constitution on the
right Of the people to tax themselves
for raising money to provide ample
school facilities in every rural neigh
borhood, as well as in the towns and
cities. With the amendment ratified
and in effect illiteracy would soon be-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
Episcopal Convention
Consumes Less I lime


THE triennial general convention
y of the Protestant Episcopal
church. which assembled in st. Louis
on the 18th of October, completed its
labors Saturday, after a meeting
characterized by harmony and zeal.
Notwithstanding the steady growth
of the communicate membership and
the church's increasing interest IN
social service, to say nothing of re-
newed missionary activities, the con-
vention gets through and adJourns IN
fewer days than formerly. 1t used to
he that the triennial lasted full
month. 1t seldom finished much inside
of four weeks. But some OF the more
recent conventions have finished with
in three weeks. The one just adj
journed lacked three days of being in
session three weeks.
Those who compose the lower house,
styled the house Of deputies, have &C
CURED strictly business-like habits.
while many questions of moment to
the Protestant Episcopal body came
before the st. Louis convention the de-
bates were never long drawn out. A
few changes were made in the liturgy
but the greater number recommended
by the revision commission went over
to the next convention. In three years
the clergy and influential laymen will
have time to ponder. Two or three of
the proposed changes were regarded
as radical and the conservative element
prevailed. Most of the work of the
commission "for the revision and en-
richment" of the prayer book may be
adopted ultimately, but the leaders
concluded that the safest course was
to go slow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30
Notes Improvement

Birmingham improves each time 1
come here" said William G. Pickens OF
st. Louis, who is general western agent
Of the American Art works. FIRED Shire
man, manager of the Tutwiler, is one of
my most intimate friends. In fact, we
were in college together number OF
years ago. / expected to find things quite
depressed in the south upon my visit here
this time, but instead 1 see all kind Of
improvements and the general trend
seems to be towards progress and pros
perity.
Birmingham, on account of being es-
sentially a manufacturing city, has the
advantage of many southern cities which
rely solely on agriculture. AS for st.
Louis, it is booming. Every large shoe
factory in the city has so many orders
booked for future delivery that they are
refusing to take any more. Every line
OF business is prospecting and the year
1916 will be the best the middle west
has ever had"