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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-26
County Engineers Report
Shows Progress in High
way Improvement.

There are 27 steel bridges with con-
crete abutment, and sixteen reinforced
concrete bridges in jefferson county,
one of the steel structures 200 feet
long, and all constructed within the
last few years. This is shown by the
report of County Highway Engineer
II. H. Humphreys, submitted yesterday
to the quorum court. The county engl-
neer also shows there are three $50
foot, one 1O0-foot and one S0-foot steel
structures under construction, and that
six timber bridges are being built.
Mr.. Humphreys report, addressed to
County Judge Philpot, follows:
In compliance with your request for
q statement of work done by Jefferson
county on roads and bridges since you
adopted the policy of permanent struc-
lures about three years ago, | herewith
hand you the following report: -
In submitting this report | will IN
clude the report made you on October
LIS, 1915:
Steel Bridges With Concrete Adult
ments.
One 5O-foot bridge over main canal
of Waterloo drainage district on Pine
Bluff and Sheriff. road,
One 4O-foot bridge over main canal
of Waterloo drainage district at Pas
toria.
One 30-foot bridge over Bayou Pete
lateral of Waterloo drainage district
on Pine Bluff and Sheriff. road.
One 3O-foot bridge over Waterloo
drainage canal at Buck MitchelFs.
One 2OO-foot bridge over Plum Ba-
YOU near the Morrow place on Pine
Bluff and Sheriff. road.
Two 3O-foot bridges at Gibson place
on Sheriff. road.
Two 12-foot bridges in Fox lane,
Tamo pike.
One 4O-foot bridge over Bayou on
i Main street pike.
One 4O-foot bridge over Flat bayou
at Altheimer.
Three 30-foot steel bridges in the
vicinity of Altheimer.
One 3O-foot bridge over Black bayou
lateral, Waterloo drainage district.
One 16-foot bridge over Fish lake
canal near the free bridge.
One 1O-foot bridge over Plum bayou
at Plum bayou, Arkansas.
Two 3O-foot bridges over Waterloo
drainage canal in section 8, and section
10, township a south, range 8 west.
One 3O-foot bridge over Norton
creek, Star City road. :,
One 1O-foot bridge over Tamo pike
One 4O-foot bridge over lmbeau
bayou Tamo pike.
One 2O-foot bridge over drainage
canal, one mile north of Noble lake.
One 2O-foot bridge two and three
fourths miles north of Tamo.
One 2O-foot bridge over drainage
ditch near Linwood.
One 2O-foot bridge over Grady drain
age ditch, near Tamo.
Reinforced Concrete Bridges.
One 4O-foot bridge over Caney bayou
near Dexter, Dollarway pike.
One 2O-foot bridge on Dollarwa!
One 2O-foot bridge, Dollarway pike
Four 1O-foot bridges on Dollarwa!
One 1O-foot reinforced concrete cul
vert near Houston's on Dollarwa!
One 1O-foot reinforced concrete cul
vert near Langston place ON Dollar
One 2O-foot bridge at Station 800 OF
Dollarway pike.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-26
A TEXAS WONDER

The Texas Wonder cures kidney
and bladder troubles, dissolves gravel,
cures diabetes, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism, and Irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder in both men and
women. Regulates bladder trouble in
children. If not sold by your drug
gist, will be sent by mail on receipt
of $1.OO. One small bottle is two
months treatment, and seldom fails to
perfect cure. Send for sworn testi-
monials. DR.. E. w. Hall, 1926 Olive
Street, St. Louis, Mo. Sold by drug
gists. (Advt.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-26
WOMEN ARE FINED.

Fines of IS, $40 and $40 respective
ly were assessed in police court yes
terday morning against Johnny Cook,
Jeanette Smith and Letha Lilies,
white women, on charges of disturb
ing he peace. The women are oc-
cupants of a house known as the
Bucket of Blood" in East Barraque
street, and are said to have had a
three-cornered fight early yesterday
morning in the house.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-26
BEST liver and
Bowel LAXATIVE
FOR FAMILY Use
"Cascarets' regulate women, men
and children without
Injury.
Take when bilious, headachy,
for colds, bad breath,
sour stomach.

Instead of nasty. harsh pills, salts,
castor oil or dangerous calomel, why
don't you keep Cascarets handy in
your home? Cascarets act on the liv-
er and thirty feet Of bowels so gently
You don't realize you have taken a
cathartic, but they act thoroughly and
can be depended upon when a good
liver and bowel cleansing is neces
sary-they move the bile and poison
from the bowels without gripping and
sweeten the stomach. You eat one or
two at night like candy and You wake
up feeling fine, the headache, bill
iousness, bad breath, coated tongue,
sour stomach, d nstipation, or bad
cold disappears. Mothers should give
cross, sick, feverish OF bilious chill
dren whole Cascaret any time
they ale harmless and safe for the
little folks.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-26

Over 100000 bottles of Tanlac have
been sold and distributed through the
Atlanta office alone since last Deem
Der. (Advt)
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-26
Committees at Work.

Clerk G.. M. NlcnOl and the SupmlS-
sion of reports yesterday forenoon,
committees were appointed and ad-
journment until today at 1890 a. M.
taken 70 give the committees time TO
prepare reports. Committees named
follow:
Committee on FINANCE and Appro-
priations--J. y. Talbot, j. E. Boyce,
H. H. Knox. J. r. Core, l.. e. Cheek.
Committee on County judge. w.
Clement, ]. A. Frazier, II. n. Dial,
B. G. Bailey, Lee Fox.
Committee on County Clerk-W. S.
Embree, Thurman Loutlan, G. NJ.
Acklin, Gabe Meyer, W. S. Young.
Committee on County Treasurer
Lawrence Dixon, W. n. Bridges, H. G
Hanna, f. b. Mitchell, A. D. Minis.
Committee on Sheriff's Rcport-T
j. Cunningham. Tom Smith. J. G.
Ford, j. T. kirklin, l.. c. Bobo, J. b.
koonce.
Committee on Pauper and Poor
House.. V. Bogy, r. J. Watkins. R
S, Gibbons. w. H. Hall, II. l.. Phil
lips, G. A. sadler.
Committee on Jail. w. Fergu-
son, J. S. Hamilton, W. W. Written
E. W. Barley, j. w. Gibson, J. w
Merriam, j. II. baldwin, D. f. Monk
c. B. Murphy.
Farm Demonstration Reports-C. c.
Brewster, c. B. Murphy, j. II. Core
J. e. koOnce, J. G. Ford.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-26

before in all the history of the county.
"In conclusion, allow me to thank
each individual member of this Hon
orable body for their interest in the
welfare of the county, and their CO.
operation. and l bespeak for my suN-
cessor the same interest and COOP
Grafton. 1t is my sincere wish that
our county may continue to progress
and always remain at the top of the
counties of our state | also thank
you for the many personal courtesies
extended to me-
Respectfully submitted,
&C, VI. PHI lLPOT,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
By RUTH E. GAUDIN

an orchestra played strains of exquisite music.
 Miss Vera Brent, maid of honor, wear ing a frock of blue silk and carrying an arm cluster of Killarney roses, entered first The bride entered with her father, MT. Thomas Calvin Smith, and was met at the altar by the groom and his best man, MT. Eugene CcCarty, where the Rev. H. M. Edmonds performed the cere- mony.
 The bride was lovely in a smart suit of blue taffeta and with a close fitting hat to match. Her flowers were shower bouqet of brides roses and valley lilies.
 Following the ceremony MT. and Mrs Smith were hosts at an informal recep- tion.
 Assisting Mrs. Smith, who was lovely in black lace and taffeta, in the dining room, where the table was centered with pink carnations and sweet peas, were Miss Carolyn Bowron, Miss Emma Self Mrs. A. C. Lloyd, Mrs. D. R. Rize, Miss Susie Brooks and Miss Lizzie Mae Brooks, who served the dainty refreshments in the rose cups and the cakes in heart shape, with hints ornamented with valley lilies and sweet peas.
 Miss Margaret Cameron presided over the brides book.
 Among the out-of-town guests were MT. and Mrs. c. D. Walker Mir. and Mrs. E. J. Walker Mir E. J. Walker, Jr., Miss Sallie Walker, all of Atlanta, and Mrs. E. NJ McCarty and MT. Eugene McCarty of Slocomb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
PROMINENT MOBILE WOMEN TO
 ATTEND D. A. R. CONVENTION

"The annual gathering of distinguished D. A. R. from all over the country IS responsible for the departure of some prominent Mobilians this week for Wash ington, D. C., as the continental congress has it's opening session in Memorial Con- tinental hall next Monday, April IT," says the Mobile Register.
 Mrs. Rhett Goode. one of the officers of the national society D. A. R., leaves on Monday for Birmingham to attend the board meeting of the Colonial Danes to be held in that city on Tuesday. Mrs. J. MoIgan Smith is the president of the Alabama society, and Mrs. Goode. who is the corresponding secretary, is leaving to attend the board meeting.
 "On Wednesday she will return south as far as Montgomery to meet her daugh7 ter, Miss Mabel Rhett Goode. who is to be Mrs. William Comings Story's per- sonal page. They will stop at the New Willard during the continental congress.
 Leaving this city on Wednesday for Washington are the following: Mrs. Gregory l.. Smith, regent of the Mobile chapter, D. A. R., and probably her daughter, Mrs. Sidney R. Prince, who was elected delegate from the same chapter and Mrs. B. A. Wood, the alter nate. Mrs. Charles s. Shawhan, who was elected alternate to the delegate, leaves on Thursday. She will give her annual report as national chairman on tho welfare committee of women and children. She is also first vice president
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
MILTEER-SMIT WEDDING
 PRETTILY SOLEMNIZED

| Yesterday afternoon at o'clock at the home of MT. and Mrs. J. e. Smith on | Twentieth street, south the marriage of Miss Lily Fair Smith, daughter of Mrs. Marie Falr Smith of Montgomery, to MT. Francis E. Milteer of Tt. Meyers, Fla, was beautifully solemnized, the Rev. M. S. Banwell officiating. A floral altar of palms and ferns and Easter lilies was erected at one end or the living room where the young couple spoke their vows.
 Robert Johnson and Foster Hargrave Hamilton formed an ailsle with white ribbons for the bridal party, and Little Marie Fair Smith and Jessca Fair, in dainty frocks of white, carrying gold bas- kets of pin kroses, entered just before the bride
 Miss Smith entered with her mother, Mrs. Marie Fair Smith, who gave her in marriage, and they were met at the altar by the groom and his best man, MT. Knox Fitzpatrick. The bride was lovely in a travelling suit of blue taffeta, with 8 smart hat of blue to match. Her flow CTS were brides roses. Mrs Smith wore a grey taffeta gown and pink roses.
 Following the ceremony an informal reception was held. Mrs. G. c. Walters poured tea from table centered with pink roses and Mrs. Sims Fair served coffee. Others assisting in receiving were Miss Ruby Hanlin, Miss Louise F1tzpat- rick, Miss Sarah c. Bell, Miss Florence Bowman of Newberry, s. C., and Mrs. Foster Hamilton.
 After a wedding trip to Atlantic Beach, Fla, MT. and Mrs. Melteer will be at home in Ft Meyers, Fla.
 Among the out-of-town guests present were Mrs. Marie Fair Smith of Mont gomery, MT. and Mrs. Sims Fair of Prattville, and Miss Florence Bowman of Newberry, S. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
BENSON-RIDDLE WEDDING PLANS ANNOUNCED

Miss Florence Carr Riddle of Nashville will be remembered as the guest of Miss Eula Weakley and many of her wide cir cle of friends will be interested in the plans for her approaching marriage. Miss Pauline Darnell of Memphis will also be remembered as Miss Weakley s guest.
 Miss Riddles wedding to MT. w. A. Benson Will be quietly solemnized Satur- day morning, April 15 at 11:3O o'clock at the West End Methodist church. Miss Nellie King Riddle will serve as her sis ter's maid of honor, and the bridesmaids are: Miss Jean Riddle Miss Margaret Hood of Gadsden, and Miss Pauline Darnell of Memphis. MT. Benson will have as his best man the brides brother, MT. Sidney Riddle, Mir. James Webster, MT. Clarence Connell and MT. Edward Palmer will be the groomsmen, and the ushers are MT. Lewis Tillman, Mr. w. K. Craig. Jr., MT. Richard Norvell and MT. Richard Chestnut. The bride will be given in marriage by her father, MT. Rob- err J. Riddle, and her cousin, Dr. Henry Beech Carre, will be the officiating minister. A number of social affairs are being planned for the couple
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
MISS ALLISON SMITH
 WEEDS MIR. M'CARTY

The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Allison Smith and MT. Thad Barrow McCarty was beautiful event of yesterday after noon.
 The home of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. Thomas Calvin Smith, on South Thirteenth avenue, was the scene of the ceremony which took place at 2:3O o'clock and was followed by an informal recep- ton.
 The decorative setting in palms, smiax and apple blossoms was fittingly artistic and the stairway down which the bridal party passed was hung with smilax, and cn each post were clusters of apple blos- soms and pink carnations An aisle of tulle ribbon festooned between standards of pink carnations led to the floral altar. a massing of palms, glossy leafed and luxuriant, and lighted by many tall can delabra. Palms in effective masses gar lands of smilax and vases of pink carna- tions and apple blossoms converted the whole spacious apartment into a bower of beauty, and during the entire afternoon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
BIRMINGHAM'S ART
 CLUES NEXT EXHIBIT

Birmingham Art clubs ninth annuai
 exhibition begins Wednesday, April l2, at the public library, continuing through Saturday, April 16. and shows much the best work yet displayed by local artists, who to the number of about 60, compose the club.
 Miss Grace Lainhart of Green Lodge at Edgewood craft worker, shows an
 old English chair, like those used in the
 sixteenth century, also several sets or doll furniture, but Miss Lainhart's ver-
 satility enables her not only to do this,
 but also to make the original drawings
 for it, also bungalow designs actually
 worked from, and these she will also ex-
 hibit. Several architectural drawings are
 also shown by Miss Evans Harrell, who
 has had some experience along building lines, further disprOv1ng that southMn women are useless.
 Miss Eloise Montgomery, formerly of Birmingham, but now of Monteagle, Tenn, has sent an overmantel decoration in the delightful, misty style which ev- eryone has come to recognize as her work.
 MT. Walter Ufer of Chicago, has sent five canvases, one a sketch of the Medi- terranean, taken from the ships deck, and the others western scenes, all five a delight to the beholder
 That china painting has not been for gotten is demonstrated by the delight some group of bowls of Miss Lucille Douglass, in very bright coloring, her
 speciality, also some Chinese designs and
 an interesting breakfast set in modern | Greek. Miss Douglass also has some
 flower jars and others of the common things of life beautifled.
 Miss Sara Neill, president of the Art club, shows vases and rose jars in enam- els. dainty, as all Miss Neilrs work is. Mrs. Fades, Miss Della Wood and Mrs. Cole each show original china and Miss Louise Lewis has colorful peacock vase in luster and gold, and collection of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11

of great beauty, decorated in the vivid
 coloring of the present Also included in
 her collection are some garden sticks
 and decorated baskets and jars. Miss
 Carrie Hill shows some artistic jars and
 flower pots likewise.
 In pictorial art Miss August Jones of
 Louie Compton seminary and also a
 teacher in the Art institute in Chicago, shows several canvases done in and
 about Chicago, a street scene near Gen.
 tral station, Fox River Landing, and some windmills at York Center Village.
 She also has water color sketches done
 in Paris.
 Mrs. Joseph Montgomery exhibits for
 the first time her composition, Mother and Child,'' the mothers head silhouetted in the window as she holds her babe, also
 the oil painting, f"The Parrot" in which a naughty model with a cigarette is tea ing the parrot hence the name. Mrs. Montgomery also has a night scene, jon quils and landscape at Edgewood. Miss Alice Rumph exhibits two sketches done in Brookwood Eark, New York, and one of pines and another done at the Rock House here
 Miss Glennie Moseley shows two water color sketches of Lake Michigan and cjaltv, an old-fashioned garden with a white cottage. some fruit trees in sum- mer, poetic autumn scene that reminds l one of of Corot. and peach blossoms
 done at Rosedale. Mrs. J. A. Montgom- cry has some very dainty water color 1 landscapes around Birmingham and Miss Hannah Elliott also has water color (Continued on Page EIeven)
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small articles which is especially pleas ing. Miss Glennie Moseley makes fine showing in her characteristic, refined and artistic coloring and Miss Annie South ern Tardy shows her tea set which has caused favorable comment at the spring exhibition of the Ceramic society of Greater New York. of which she is the youngest member. Also Mrs. Motion and her daughter, Miss Haywood Motion, exhibits an interesting collection of bowls and vases, all enamel on Satsuma-
 Miss Alice Rumph, just returned from New York, where she has been decorator for q large furniture house. has on exhi- bition some cottage and porch furniture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
Fashions of the Spring
 Weddings

"TITH the end of Lent not quite
 M5 two weeks off. the Easter bride
 begins to take her place in the middle of the screen, and during Easter week there will be a number of notable weddings, some very simple but lovely home weddings and few big church af- fairs. While this particular side of the social life is demanding the attention of the fashionable at present possibly Polly Peachtrees gossip on the spring bride will be of great interest;
 "Although Lent fingers in the lap of spring, April has brought the brides in her train and tell you right now, if you don't want to hear about the brides, you might as well stop reading at once, and get your golf bag and go out for a quiet Sunday.
 .'What else can one talk about when there are brides in front of us and brides behind us-all interesting and with host of interesting and interested friends and enemies?
 ''The enemies, my dear, are the jealous ones-the men who didn't get the bride, and the girls who didn't get the bride groom, the women who have tried to get just anybody in vain, and the women who have had their time and regret it so much they envy anyone more fortu- nate.
 The friends are all the rest of the world that loves a lover.
 T think we have done we'll with April only a week old and already produced Cor solemnized, if you wilD trio of pretty ceremonies, each differing from the other in glory, though they did bear some resemblances-one of the most striking of which was the absence of groomsmen.
 Did you know that groomsmen had gone out of fashion?
 They certainly have in Atlanta this spring season, while bridesmaids have been more numerous than ever. At Vir- ginia Lipscomb's wedding to Joel Hurt, Jr.. there were fl bridesmaids-and no groomsmen.
 At Lawson Hines wedding to Edgar Carter the other night eight bridesmaids formed the wedding party-no grooms- men. At Jennie D.'s wedding to Jerry, eight bridesmaids and no groomsmen. Looking ahead, 'tis still the same Frances Connaly is to have eight brides maids and no groomsmen, and-that's enough to prove my point, isn't it?
 Why this is so I can't say. Men have always been used pretty much as palms for background-in weddings of for mer days. They filled this role very &C., ceptably, I have always thought Per haps the modern bride is getting so in- dependent that sine doesn't feel the need of a background. Will the palms go next2'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
MRS. HECKLE CONTAMINATED IN ATLANTA

MT. Charles Bellows gave luncheon Friday for Mrs. Walter W. Heckle of Birmingham, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. John Faith. The color scheme was carried out in the pastel shades of blue and white and the centerpiece was a mound of dogwood and violets. Mrs. Bellows was gowned in white chiffon, and Mrs. Heckle wore blue taffeta, with a corsage of pink sweet peas, says the Atlanta Constitution.
 Mrs. John Faith will entertain at a spend-the-day party for her daughter, Mrs. Heckle, on Wednesday, April 12. at her home, the Oaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11

community of interest between them that is rarely seen between father and daugh- ter.
 Elizabeth Shelley has had marvellous advantages as girl Through her fathers wide acquaintance she had an entree into the most exclusive and charm ing homes in the United States; in Wash- ington, Elizabeth Shelley was belle. She went abroad with the Hannis Tay- lors of Mobile, and was presented at court; she met potentate. king and prince, and always she was admired and had the most exquisite homage paid her.
 In Birmingham her girlhood friends Bertha Woodward (Mrs Oscar Under wood), Polly Woodward (Mrs. Thomas Hopkins), Lucille Smith (Mrs. Samuel Earle), Madge Parsons, Margaret O'Brien, the Haralson girls of Montgomery-in- deed, everywhere she went she had friends by the score and many of these today are watching her career with in terest.
 Following up Elizabeth She1leys activi- ties, we find her studying to be trained nurse' later she became an employe of the United States government with an ex- cellent position in Washington, filling 1t with credit to herself and her fine ability. When the great war made its insistent call to arms. the call resounded in her ears and last summer she made up her mind to go to the battlefields where she felt that her early training as nurse would stand her in good stead.
 Accordingly, she was granted a leave of absence by the government for year; she went to Albany and took short course in hospital work. and then sailed for faraway Servia.
 Her work has been the theme of many pens; Madame Gruoitch, the wife of the Servian under secretary of war, brings the latest news of this remarkable woman's g work among the wounded in Nish; she has declared that Elizabeth Shelley s name will go down in history as one of the American women who have won re- nown through her humanitarian efforts in the great fight.
 And Elizabeth Shelley belongs to Ala bama; this great commonwealth is proud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-11
. LIzABETH sHELLEY's career N has been almost meteoric. - It is hard for those of us who

A It is hard for those of us who have known her since girlhood to speak of her as Miss Shelley"-we always like to call her Elizabeth-the name fraught with so many pleasant recollections Of her youth and bellehood, her younger days in Alabama and now that she is one of the worlds picturesque figures in the great war, the name still clings fondly to our lips instead of the more formal Miss Shelley"
 When it is remarked that Elizabeth Shelley's career has been meteoric it Is a truthful statement. for from a society butterfly she has emerged from the chrysalis into a woman whose humanita- rian deeds for those who are crippled and maimed, blind and sore from wars terrible ravages-a heroine in the world fight of today.
 Elizabeth Shelley was one of Alabama,s most noted belles; she was equally as successful as society woman as she Is today in faraway Nish, where by her nobility of nature her self-sacrifice and her beautiful spirit of humanity, she is making history, carving her name in let ters of gold and crimson by her good deeds.
 Her father, General Charles M Shelley, was known and beloved by all Alabama as a politician; he became famous be- cause of his success; as a man of public interests he was widely known, because of his kindness and justness and his integrity of charater, but to his intimate friends he was best known as a parent his heart of hearts being centered upon his only daughter, Elizabeth
 odn dom ar and in return, no more beautiful exam pie of filial devotion was ever known than Elizabeth Shelley's love for her father; it was an obsession with her; her heart responded to every touch of his. and there was a sweetness and a