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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

Henry Heron, aged 20 years, ano
an ex.Confederate veteran, was shot
and killed near Heber Springs by
John Casteel, aged IA The shooting
ia said to have been accidental.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13
Governor Issues Pardon.

shorty Jones of Lee county, con-
r,cted In April, 1915, Of grand larceny
And sentenced to three years.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

No municipal election was held at
Tinsman. 1t is said this was due to
failure of city officials to issue an
election proclamation.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

District No. IA. Benton county, A. r.
Low. teacher
Town or city school, a framed pic
ture, Ramble school, Hot Springs.
Second award to England High
| School.
The following received honorable
mention: One-room. Higden. Gle
burne county; two or four-room
schools, Forest Park, Little Rock and
Trammel school, Benton county; town
and city schools, Waldo. Rison, stun
CART Forrest City, Brinkley, Heber
Springs, Searcy High School, Eng,
land
Or. Broueh to Tour.
The most important action of the
convention was the decision to make
an active campaign for the 12-mill
school tax amendment to be voted
upon at the general election next No
vember under the initiative and ref.
erendum act. The amendment would
make it possible for school districts
to vote a 12-mill tax for educational
purposes, if they desire, instead of
the present seven-mill tax DIR.
Brough in his address said that
he would campaign the state q
behalf of the amendment If he were
asked. The committee appointed 90
have charge of the campaign, at
meeting Immediately following ad-
journment of the session, accepted his
offer. The association appropriated
81 900 of its Mnds for use In the
campaign and authorized the commit
tee to solicit other funds
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

Reputable citizens of Mariana
claim to have seen searchlight fash
several times over the city several
nights ago and feel assured ii was
from a passing aircraft of some sort.
II was coming from the northwest
and Travelled very swiftly and several
surveys were made with the nashlight,
which was very powerful.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

Famous Marion Lake. IN Crittenden
County, historical from the time of De-
Soto. is to disappear from the face OF
the earth. Thousands of people who
have seen the pretty body of water.
nine miles long, may heave passing
sigh as the remorseless hand of in
dustrial and agricultural progress OBJ
literates it. Two years from now cot
ton fields will rear themselves upon
the bed of the lake.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

The large sawmill located at Pleas
ant Valley, six miles west of Bates
Vile. was destroyed by fire. Nothing
was saved from the plant except the
engine and boiler, which were badly
impaired.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

st. Francis leyee adherents are IN
optimistic mood since the flood con-
troll committee of the House at Wash
ington recommended the s45,o00,00o
government expenditure for more gen.
eral protection. They are daily
watching the course of events on
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

Final confirmation Of the report that
Hot Springs would be successful in
it's effort to have built here $4,000
600 sanitarium was given in tele-
gram received by E. N. Roth, chair
man of the committee that has been
securing the options. The telegram
was sent from Chicago by Il. Onf
troy, who is promoting the project.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

William NJ. Greenwood, editor and
publisher OF the Paris Express, who
shot and wounded ]. w. Wagner. edi-
tor and publisher of the Paris Prog
ress, was arraigned before Justice
Walker and waived examination.
He was held to the Grand Jury
and was released on $1,000 bond. Wag-
ner is recovering.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

Judge c. W. Hendricks of the Third
Division, Circuit Court, Little Rock.
handed down his decision in the Per-
ry county county seat removal case.
1t was TO the effect that the PROPOSE
ton to remove the county seat from
Perryville failed in the recent special
election.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

The Prescott City Council voted
500 toward paying for oiling the bus
mess streets. The balance will be
subscribed by merchants. More than
$1,000 per year is expended by the
merchants and the city for sprinkling
the streets with water.
The Clear Creek Gas and Oil Com.
pany of Fort Smith, discoveries of the
big Kibler gas field in Crawford coun-
ty, was awarded a franchise for 81 IL
years by the Fort Smith City Commits
sion.
The McGehee schools will close
April %. with commencement exer-
eises An entertaining program is
being prepared and several athletic
contests will be held.
One of the largest Indian burial
grounds ever found in the White river
country was discovered recently on
the Chandler farm near Calico Rock.
While trying to stop a big motor
truck, James DeGrazier Jr. of Texar-
kama, was caught between a corner of
the truck and telephone pole ana
his right ear almost torn from his
head. The truck. which is very
heavy. belongs to a local bottle COM
pany and had been left standing at
the curb. 1t started to roll down
grade when the boy. 10 years old, at
tempted to hold it back He was taken
to the Pine Street sanitarium where
10 stitches were taken to fasten the
ear back In place.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

Texarkanas chatauqua this year
Will occupy week. beginning June
{. and will be supplied from the Red
path-Horner Company. DR. Benjamin
S. Haygood. former Governor Glynn
of North Carolina, former United
States Senator ]. Adam Bede of Min
nesota and William Jennings Bryan
will be among the attractions.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

Quarterly statement made by the
banks of Bradley county show that
they are in a prosperous condition.
The depositors have an excess of
nearly S150000 over the deposits of
the same date last year
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

While drilling rice we'll near
Hazen drillers struck a mineral which
they believe to be coal. They are
having specimens tested.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

The Bald Knob Fruit Growers AS
ISOLATION announces the prospect OF
an unusually large crop of berries.
The members expect to ship from 100
to $50 carloads.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

The General Education Board OF
New York, founded and supported by
John D. Rockefeller. plans to expend
$500 in negro educational work I'm
Arkansas this year, according 10 Leo
NJ. Favrot, associate supervisor of ru-
raj education, who returned from New
York, where he conferred with mem,
bers of the board.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

President Larabee of Arkansas
Conference College at Sloan Springs
is endeavoring to raise an endowment
of $4,000 for that institution.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-04-13

The Speer mine in Newton county.
E. C. Abinn. manager. is turning out
a car of ore a day
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
DRUG TRUST TO PAY
$25O,OOO IN SUIT
John ID. Park & Sons Co. Wins
Action Begun in 1896
for Discrimination.
TO SETTLE II CASES

The $500, 900 suit brought twenty years
ago by he John u. Park & Sons Com
pany OF Cincinnati. a retail drug con-
Germ. against the leading wholesale drug
firms OF New York as local members Of
the alleged drug trust was settled
yesterday Just as the case was to be
called for trial before Supreme Court
Justice Gavegan and a jury. The amount
to be paid is said TO he s25o,o0O.
II was learned that two other cases.
brought more recently, one pending In
the equity branch Of the United States
District Court for saoo. 900 and one on
the law side for 5000. 900 under the
Sherman act are also to be compromised.
The Park company fought the drug
trust almost single handed from 1890 to
1907, when the trust was dissolved By n
Government decree, resulting from the
Park action started in 1896 and settled
yesterday. The Government decree broke
the combination between the manufac-
turers of patent medicines and the
wholesale dealers.
Alton T.. Parker. ex-Chief Judge Of
the Court OF Appeals, has been counsel
for the plaintiff almost from the time
he resigned from the bench. lie spent
years taking dispositions In behalf Of the
plaintiff, and about n year ago began
forcing the actions to trial lie was in
court ready to proceed yesterday when
notified Of the settlement.
The Park company fought the trust
from 1890 10 1896 in selling goods in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
TITLED DOG WORTHLESS DEAD
Miss Denne Loses suit for DAM
ages before Jury.

Six Jurymen convened before Justice
snitkin in the Fifth Municipal Court yes
terday cast a stigma on mans best
friend when they decided that all dog
dom should be labelled n. G. VINO
commercial value. As a result Of this
verdict Miss Katharine T.. Deane of Ave-
nue. u. ~Sheepshead Bay. who formerly
lived at 81 Manhattan avenue, left the
court room In high dudgeon and without
the $3.50 she sought to recover from
Charles SteEherr. n butcher, Of sc West
l0ist street. His dog last September
caused the death of her darling Pluto, a
p~edigreed English mastiff.
According TO the testimony Pluto was
out for an airing on Columbus avenue
escorted by Miss Deane's little nephew.
when a gutter bred bulldog named JacS,
expressed his disapproval by sinking his
teeth In tho mastiff's flank. Pluto died
from his wounds ten days later. Jacks
owner testified that his dog had n strap
over his Jaws. and produced his pet In
court yesterday with the same muzzle.
When II was shown that the star wit
ness for the defence could open his Jaws
despite the leather band Jack shame
facedly hung his head and looked apollo
eetlcally AZ his master.
Henry a. tlrich. - dog expert ~ o23
East Twenty-fourth street. was in court
TO testify 20 P1u'o's value placed by
Miss Deane at $1,000. But after all m,
evidence had been heard the jury handed
down "A verdict In favor of the defend
ant. Az cnor. for a new trial will be
made.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
N. Y. MAN ARRESTED IN TOUSE.
WcstrOtt Starts 10 Read Petition
20 C%Ongress From Gallery.

WAsHrSGroN, June "a young mar
giving his hane as Bayes y. Westcott
and address Hudson Terminal Building.
New York. was arrested to-day In the
House ~ Representative gallery for at
tempting to read a petition to that body.
He was taken to ST. Elizabeth's Asylum.
where he will be examined as 10 his
sanity.
Wsstcott declared he Is under esplon-
age by the secret service and demanded
an investigation, He came TO Washing
ton to lay h!s case before Representa-
tive NJ. +. Conry OF the Fifteenth dis
trict. Finding that member absent on
account Of Illness Wes,cott decided 70
appeal to the House direct.
He had read a few words from n pre-
pared resolution before the Speaker and
members were aware OF the source OF
the interruption. The Speaker pounded
his gavol for order in the gallery and
the young man was seized by doorkeep-
ers and hustled to the office of the chief
of the Capitol police. Westcott s,outly
maintained that he is not insane.
The city directory gives Wos,cott as
an advertising agent with IN office In
the Hudson Terminal Building.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
LIQUOR LAW VIOLATORS
WARNED TO BEWARE
State Commission to Begin
Campaign to Drive
Them Out.

tLnANy, June 6.-Every violation Of
~" liquor tax law is n liability to the
liquor business, and II sunday selling
H'i immoral practices in hotels con-
TIME such violations will prove "a La
''''y to the liquor business which will
drive II into legal bankruptcy" This
declaration was sent by Excise Commits
S'aor George +. Green in printed in
.'fN't.ons 70 Deputy Commissioners,
Mayors and police officials.
commissioner Green makes II plain
'"' she liquor dealers are in for an
h'" = movement. He announces, how
'..r that he will pay no attention 70
'''nHmous complaints or brook any
. ng that looks like persecution"
IN" assures the law abiding dealers
mat They are entitled 10 the same
'.tt"Gus consideration and lawful pro-
'.''Yn as is accorded to all other legIti-
nI'" business without undue espionage
az me slightest tribute giving for po-
N H. purposes or otherwise
clubs and drug stores are included
~ Commissioner Green's words Of warn
.F WgO points out that there has beer
q -.Hr'h Of applications for certificates
>" .'l from druggists and pharmacists
''d adds: THE SNUG satisfaction which
som" seem TO enjoy while evading the
la" may nave a melancholy ending"
tn" Commissioner also warns Raines
Ia" hotels, which have been INDUCING
:. sunday selling and keeping open dur
lhg prohibited hours, ITO the d~!sadvant'
"r" and humiliation of the community
~ those engaged in conducting respect
"'le hotels" that they must stop suci
practices.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
SAYS ]. E. ROOSEVELT
TRIED TO CHOKE HER
Wife Tells of Three Occasions
on Which She Ayers She
Was Treated Cruelty.
SEPARATION IS SOUGHT

The separation suit Of Mrs. Edith F.
Roosevelt against John Ellis Roosevelt,
which was pressed after Roosevelt
annulment action In Kings county had
bcen dismissed. went to trial yesterday
before supreme Court Justice Clark. with
Mrs. Roosevelt on the stand a great
part of the day.
Roosevelt, who is a retired lawyer
and cousln Of Col. Roosevelt. is accused
81 treating his wife so cruelty OF three
occasions that II Is unsafe for her to live
with him. TIL first occurred In Naples
after "A honeymoon trip to Egypt. the
second was In the Hotel savoy. London.
on the san trip. and the third was at
the Roosevelt country place at Say
Vile. l.. |.
Mrs. Roosevelt testified concerning her
marriage 10 the defendant at the rome
Of her sister. who is the wife OF the
attendants brother. Robert II. Roose-
yclt, in Washington. or January 6. 1914.
She had been married before to a naval
officer who died. She knew the defendant
mrs; as a visitor at her sisters country
pace at Sayville.
After our marriage we came to the
Hotel Plaza in this city," said Mrs.
roosevelt. Five weeks later we left
for Alexandria. Egypt. on the steamship
Adriatic. our relations or the Adriatic
we're not at all pleasant said Mrs.
Roosevelt. She told of meeting Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Meredith OF Detroit or
the trip, and the two couples were to-
ge,her a great deal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
We Have Saved 5O%

Years ago, John W. Bate, the eff
cheney engineer, was brought to this
organization.
AS an efficiency genius he stands at
the top in the Woodworking lines.
He has built here a model efficiency
plant. He has equipped it with thou
sands of tine-saving machines. Now it
represents an investment of $4,000, 900.
He has. in this way, cut II factory
costs in two. We are building the
Mitchell for less than a like car would
cost anywhere else in the world.
And all Of our extras - beauties,
luxuries and conveniences-are paid for
through factory savings.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
26 Extras Free

This Mid-Year Mitchell has 26 unique
features. Each is an extra which all
motorists want. But in other cars they
cost an extra price.
These include a power tire pump. re-
versible headlights, light in the tonncau,
alocked compartment, cantileversprings,
an extra-cost carburetor. You will find
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
MRS. HODGES MAY BE BLIND
Optic Nerve Shattered by shot
Fired by Husbn nd.

RED BANK, y. j., June 6.-Whilc Mrs.
Emma Reeves Hodges, who was shot on
Sunday by her husband. Frank IL,
Hodges, a New York insurance adjuster,
at their home in Branch avenue, is lying
IN a -seni-conscious condition at the
Monmouth Memorial Hospital. Long
Branch. Hodges is reported acting in
an insane manner in his cell in the
county Jail at Freehold. He PAGES the
small space In the cell continuously,
waving his hands and muttering,
The surgeons in charge of Mrs. Hodges
row fear blood poisoning wlll de, 'lop,
It was said that tho bullet severed the
optic nerves and that in case OF rccov-
cry from the wound the woman would
be totally blind and perhaps OF unbal-
anced mind. as 1t Is thought some OF the
brain tissues were pierced,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
MIR. Bate is Done

John ". Bates work now seems
done. He says he has reached his limit,
in the factory and the car. He would
never permit us to mention his efforts
until they reached this completion.
With all these things together, the
Mid-Year Mitchell is an interesting
sight. No motor car lover should miss
it. 1t has all that men know to make
a car handsome. enduring and complete.
Your Mitchell dealer will show you a
hundred projections you never have
thought of, perhaps.
Go see this model. Then ride in il,
put it through hard tests, and watch the
car perform.
MITCHELL-LEWIS MOTOR co.
Racine, Wis, u. S. A.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
spite Of being blackiisted by manufac-

SpIto OF UeInB ~DIHckIIbteu ny mdIIuIHO-
turers n wholesalers, and after being
almost driven out Of business by the
cutting off of It's supply of proprietary
medicines the company began the legal
action I'm 1896.
In the course OF the litigation the ma
jority of the men who were in when II
began have died. John ID. Park. his
widow and one Of his sons have passed
away. NJ. N. Klein Of Philadelphia,
father of the trust, and many of his
chief lieutenants, also have died.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
100000 Building for Church.

Plans for the new convent and school
10 be erected at Nostrand and Newkirk
avenues. Brooklyn. by st. Jerome r. c.
Church at a cost OF $1,000 were issued
yesterday. The structure will he OF
steel and concrete. three stories high,
and in the basement there will be bowl
iry, alleys. a billiard parlor and a gym
nasium.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
Lifetime Service

Mr.. Bates idea is that ears should
last like watches. That is another side
to his efficiency.
He has studied the Mitchell part by
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
ALIENS F00T.EAsE DOES IT,

When your shoes pinch or your corns and
g"t Aliens Foot - Ease, tho antiseptic now,
der TO be shaken into the shoes and used In
the foot-bath. II will take the sting out OF
corns and bunions and give instant relief to
Tired, Aching. swollen, Tender feet. over
100. 600 packages, are being, used by the
German and Allied troops al the front. Sold
everywhere, ?5c. Don't accept any substitute
Adv,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
MIDI Model
PSI Cars in One

II you saw this Mid-Year
Mitchell without knowing the
facts, you would say that such a
car at our price is impossible. For
it undersells any other car of its
size and power and grade.
Then you might say-when
you saw all the extras-that ONE
where we had skimpcd. So we
to tell you OF John w. Bate to give
a right conception.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
THRILLS IN
FALL OF A NATION"
Wonderful Scenes Of Horrors
Of War Depicted in Thomas
DixOn's New Film.
ARMY OF WOMEN, SHOWN

II seems within the power Of any Of
the magicians Of h 10 camera to shake
battle scenes out Of their sleeves with
out the least trouble. Last night at
the Liberty Theatre Thomas Dixon. who
with The Birth Of a Nation" intro
duced these mammoth In the
world Of the motion pictures. wrote THE
Fall Of a Nation" TO prove a successor
to the profitable cinema which was such
a credit to him and n. F. Grifith. OF
course every temperance Of these SEN
sational MIN has its effect In diminish
ing the wonder which they arouse. II
the thing can be lone more than once
with such ease there does not after all
seem to be so much that Is wonderful
about 1t.
Nowadays. with preparedness as what
the managers In another art would call
the punch" of these elaborate Aim
plays. there are many views OF mimic
warfare admirably devised for the
amer None seen this spring is quite
so Elusive as the series In THE Fall
Of a Nation Large cannon belch their
deadly contents into the air. small means
OF deadly warfare destroy hundreds be-
fore the eye and there are visible in
every horrid aspect all the alarms and
excursions of war. Technical facility
has reached such a high point that It Is
rare to be disappointed in these pic
lures.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
BROOKLYN
l4lS Bedford Ave.
LONG ISLAND

LONG ISLAND
BAYSIDE- side Automobile %.
FREtPORT-FrecpOrt Garage 4 sup
ply GO.
LAW E>CE-Frank =. Bassett.
PAICuOGUE-JOhn a.. Swekey Auto
Co.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
SEASON PLAYS
/. BEING TRIED NOW
None Selected Yet as Sure of
Success Throughout
Coming Year.
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP

What is to be the play OF the coming
season? Last yea 1t was agreed by
the majority Of managers that Common
Clay would probably be one Of the
notable plsys Of the last season. It did
not disappoint expectations. any more
than did Potash and Perlmutter' the
year before. But there has been 10 far
no n play selected by the wise men
as the probable success of the coming
season.
The managers a been trying out
the new pieces industriously. A. II.
Woods this month will give In Boston
Max MARGINS "Cheatlng Cheaters,' with
Marjorie Rambeau, William Morris. Cyril
Keightly, Robert McQuade. Katherine
Osterman. Gypsy O'Brien and winfred
Harris. Mr.. Woods recently offered in
Northampton n farce called Thirty
Days" written for him by a. T.. Thomas
and Clayton Hamilton. A citizen who
is customarily most law abiding is put
into prison for thirty days in order to
keep out OF the way Of n Jealous Italian
who has mistaken for ~gallantry his phi
lanthropic attentions to the Italians
wife. The reservist is due to return to
Italy at the end Of thirty days. The
prisoners friends, ignorart Of his desire
to stay where he is as long as possible.
try to get him out, and in various ways
ample fun is extracted from his pre-
dicament.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-07
$1325 f. o. b. Racine
With 26 Extra Features

part, to attain simplicity, light.
ness and strength. He has made
in the car over 700 improvements.
In each part he insists on q
big margin of safety. But he
gets 1t by using Chrome-Vana.
dunn steel. BY using drop forg.
ings and tough stamped steel.