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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
COL. HILARY A. HERBERT HERE TO INVITE THE OLD
 VETERANS TO WASHINGTON
Brings Many Official Invitations and Believes His Confederate Comrades Will Show Fine Spirit of National Patriotism
 By Holding Next Reunion At Nations Capital

trade bodies, extend a cordial and hearty invitation to you and your organiza ton to hold the 1917 reunion in Washing ton, D. C.
 NO city is better adapted to entertain fittngly your great organization than the Nations Capital, and no other city can present boulevard of such historic Pennsylvania avenue in it's unobstructed course from the capitol to the White House for a great parade and review. .'Should you honor us with an accept ance of this invitation, we can assure you that every attention will be given for the comfort of all who may be in attendance.
 city at it's best, we express the hope that that month may be selected for your re- union in 1917
 we have the honor to present this invitation through Col. Hilary A. Her bert. and we trust that favorable con s;deration will be given it. Very respect fully,
 "E. C. BRANDENBURG,
 President Board of Trade.
 "P. T. MORAN,
 President Chamber of Commerce.
 "R P. ANDREWS
 President Retail Merchants Assn" Executive Office Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Washington. May 13, 1916
 ITO the ommander-in-Chief and Dele gates to the Confederate Veterans Re- union:
 Gentlemen: The commissioners of the District of Columbia would be pleased if in their name and that of the people of the National Capital you would con vey to the Confederate Veterans their cor dial and hearty invitation to hold the 1917 reunion in this city.
 AS evidence of the interest which the people of the District of Columbia feel ir this despect, the commissioners have recently been called upon by represen- tatives of the Washington Board of Trade the Washington Chamber of Commerce. and the Washington Retail Merchants association, to express the earnest de- sire of these organizations that this n- vitation be extended, and have offered their jealous cooperation to make the visit an occasion of pleasureable recol- lection. Very respectfully, BOARD OF COMMISSIONER OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, By o. P. NEWMAN, President"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
Progress Made on Bill

Washington, May 16.-Progress was made on the river and harbor appropria- tion bill in the Senate today after a week of filibustering by Senators Kenyon and Sherman. Senator Harding made a speech attacking the measure as extrava- gant. Tomorrow Senator Shoot will launch fight against the action of tn. commerce committee in striking out a s60c,O0O project for deepening the approach to the New York navy yard This, the only new project in the bill as passed by the House, was inserted at the re- provision
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
PROGRESSIVES OF
 STATE HERE TODAY
State Convention of Party Will As semble at the Exhibit Building
 at Noon

Alabama progressives today have their eyes on Birmingham, where the state con vention of the party is to be held.
 The convention will assemble at the auditorium of the Permanent Exhibit building at noon today, at which they will transact such business as may come be- fore them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
Reunion Events

10 a, m.-Session a Bijou theatre. 12 noon--Memorial exercises at the Bijou under joint auspices of United Confederate veterans and the Confed F. erated Southern Memorial association. D. Unofficial parade of maids and sponsors
 p. m.-Afternoon session at the Bijou.
 D. m.-Night session.
 10 D. m.-Grand ball at Hippodrome
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
YOUNG WOMAN
 ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

Miss Helen Childs. aged 20 years, at- tempted suicide yesterday afternoon at o'clock nher apartment. 421b South Twentieth street by taking three bichlo- ride of mercury tablets. The young lady was removed to the Hillman hospital in the Johns Undertaking Company's ann bulance. where the stomach pump wal used successfully. Miss Childs is in critical condition. it is stated. but will survive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
At PhOtOplay Houses

Strand-"Maria Rosa" with Miss Geraldine Farrar.
 Colonial--"Bella Donna" with Miss Pauline Frederick
 odeon Two-"Stpnewall Jackson's Way" with Edgar Jones'
 Princess-"The Beggar King" with all star cast.
 Trianon-"Civilizatio Child," with William H. Thompson
 Rialto-"The Yellow Streak" with Lionel Barrymore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
At the Theatres

Jefferson-"The Birth of a Nation. . Matinee at 2:30 D. m. Evening at S:15 Lyric-Vaudeville Matinee at 2:3O p. m. Evening at 7:30 and g.
 Hippodrome-Roller skating. Mati- nee at 2:30 p. m. Evening at s.
 East Lake Park-Grand fireworks display.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
WOman's Board to Meet

The woman's board of the Cumber- land Presbyterian church begin series of meetings Thursday at g a. m in the Handley Memorial Presbyterian church at Norwood. This meeting is i'll con- Junction with the eighty sixth general assembly of the church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
ATTENTION. VETERANS.

The Age-HeraId offers to all old sol- diers. their relatives friends dur- ing reunion week the greatest propo- sition ever offered by a southern pub- lfcatiOn. The Weekly Agc-Herald will be sent to any address for 2J cents for the next year. Call and see us, day or night. 2109-11 Fifth avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
PERSONAL

The many friends of Mrs. Louis A. Beck will be pleased to learn she has been taken home from St. Vincent's hospital, where she was operated on.
 Miss vara Walker Williams, Mrs. l.. A. Iiarland and Miss Mamie Billings of Alex snder City are registered at the MNrris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
LIABILITIES.
TODAy'S EVENTS

Alabama progressive party convention meets at Manufacturers Exhibit building at noon.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
SPORT.

Cheyenne may succeed Wichita in
the Western base ball league.
William Stringham, star punter for
the School of Mines football eleven,
was elected football captain of the
1917 squad at meeting of the letter
men at Golden, Colo.
A team of five Denver bOwlers will
take a trip to the coast to participate
in the annual tournament of the Pa
cific Coast Bowling Association at San
Jose, Cal, in February, if plans made
by Harry Gossett are carried out.
Rastenberger, the premier among
German jockeys, who won almost fifty
"firsts' this year for the Royal
Graditz stable and who cleared near
ly 100000 marks for his employers,
has at last been drawn into the army.
Rufus Nefty) Gilbert, manager OF
the Terre Haute, Ind, Central League
Baseball Club, purchased the club and
all it's holdings for sum not an
nounced. Gilbert has given Terre
Haute until Jan. to rebuy the club.
Gilbert was a member of the Denver
Bears pitching staff during the sea.
son of 1913, when the team was under
the guidance of Jack Coffey.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
GEN ERAL.

William G. Nixon, president of the
st. Louis & San Francisco railroad.
died at st. Louis.
The derailment Of three sleeping cars
on mixed troop train carrying 'A''
battery, Iowa field artillery, from the
border to the home station, near
Grapeland, Tex, resulted in severe in
juries for two trainmen, while eight
troopers were bruised.
This years corn crop is worth $751;
100000 more than last years; the
wheat crop $83,462,O00 more; oats,
$96,673,000 more; potatoes, $95,071 900
more; hay, $95,250,000 more; tobacco,
2,727, 900 more, and cotton. $475.-
$4,000 more.
Although passenger revenue shows
a falling off from the summer and
autumn of 1915, owing to the abnorm-
al traffic of last year created by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe con.
tinues to show 16 per cent gain.
Three prisoners in the penitentiary
at Joliet, ILL.,, are dead, three more are
expected to die and three others are
ill as the result of drinking wood
alcohol which they extracted from
shellac.
Two more cases of measles and
pneumonia terminated fatally at the
base hospital at Deming, N. NJ, when
Private Coy Tedford, machine gun
company, Second Arkansas infantry
and Jesse w. Williams of Company e,
First Arkansas infantry succumbed.
Nelson Morris, chairman of the
board of directors of Morris & Co..
packers, announced in Chicago a
Christmas gift of $4,000 to the pen
sion fund of the company. He said
the fund, to which employees have
contributed for years, has reached
909,2O8.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Colorado.

Labor difficulties at the Evening
Star mine at Leadville, were settled
temporarily.
The Rifle-De Beque Oil and Gas
Company has discontinued further ex-
ploration work in the De Beque oil
fields.
F. E. Van Vert has purchased the
Ben Male Coal mine, on Trout creek,
five miles west of Oak creek, from
Charles Pitchford, the former lessee.
Mining activity recently in the La
Plata and San Juan districts has had
the effect of overwhelming the Du-
range smelter. The working force
there is operating to the full limit in
order to handle the shipments of ore
arriving daily.
An important deal has just been
consummated for block of shares
of the Albert-Beacon Gold Mining
Company to a syndicate of Minnesota
iron operators and capitalists. The
deal assures that recently incorporat-
ed Cripple Creek company cash
treasury fund for operating purposes
of from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Isabella Mines Company of Col
orado Springs will pay a special divi-
dend of one cent share on Dec. 80,
to stockholders of record Dec. 20. The
capital stock of the company is 3,000,-
900 shares, of which there are $780,.
900 outstanding. The dividend will to-
tai over $4,000. The campany has
$4,000 in cash in the treasury.
In the Royal Flush mine in the
Hahn's Peak district, in Routt county,
ore has been found in the 400, 460 and
476-foot level, and three classes of ore
are being mined -first-class smelter
ore, second-class smelter ore and mill
ore. The first-class ore will run $10O
to the ton or better, the second-class
$50 or better and the mill ore about
SIS per ton.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
New Mexico.

Work has been started on the Grand
Central Claim, one Of the promising
locations in the Mogollon camp.
At the Gold Dust Group, Mogollon, a
winze is being sunk on ore body about
900 feet from portal of lower tunnel.
On Dec. 1, the Oaks company at
Mogollon paid it's initial dividend of 1
per cent on preferred stock issued.
Bullion output of Mogollon Mines
Company for last half of November
was twelve bars, making a total of
twenty bars for November Ore reduc'
tion for the past 80 days was 1000
tons.
The Jim Grow Imperial Quartz
Mine group, located in the Steeplerock
mining district in the western part OF
Grant county, owned by George H.
Utter of Silver City, has been sold by
Mr.. Utter to Los Angeles and New
York capitalists for $200,000.
Socorro Mining & Milling Com
pany shipped thirteen bars of gold and
silver bullion from operations coyer-
ing last half of November, total of
81 bars for the month, from a treat
ment of approximately $500 tons of
ore.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Arizona.


There are 1900 men on the pay
rolls at the Ajo mines.
1t is probable that the United States
Smelling, Refining & Mining Company
will show earnings of better than $10,-
100000 in 1916.
Three feet of oxidized ore was un-
covered in the face of the tunnel on
the Venture Hill Mine Company's s
property at Jerome.
The Shea mine at Jerome is to be
equipped Immediately with machinery
to develop the big copper-gold discov-
cry recently made there.
For $4,000 Boston capitalists have
bought the properties of the Tucson
Copper Company, located 40 miles
west of Tucson in the Silverbell Min
ing District.
Advices from Bisbee are that the new
corporation which is to develop the
News, Larremore, Monster and Howe
groups will be called the Gadsden
Copper Company instead of Warren
Jerome Copper Company.
The Shannon Copper Company is
now earning better than So per share
per annum on it's 100000 shares. For
the first nine months of this year
profits were $625,00O, which is more
than sufficient to meet full years
dividend requirement.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
WESTERN

One was killed in the fire which de-
stroyed the Inter-Ocean hotel at Chey-
enne.
The "ax" squad of the police depart
ment was set to work in an uptown
cafe at Seattle, Wash, and everything
in the place was destroyed.
Employees of the Southern Pacific
lines in Texas and Louisiana whose
compensation is not determined by
agreements, will be given 10 per cent
bonus in 1917.
Four hundred elk driven from Yel-
lowstone park by the heavy snow
storms which swept the mountains re-
Gently were killed during the last two
days of the Montana hunting season.
Evidence of incendiarism was al
legged to have been discovered by pri-
vate detectives in the ruins of the
iLlewellyn Iron Works, partly de-
stroyed by fire and explosion at Los
Angeles, Cal, with loss fixed by the
company at about $35O,00O.
William Spain, 80, was killed thir,
teen miles west of Phoenix, Ariz..
when his automobile was driven over
the side of bridge across the Grand
canal and turned turtle His wife,
who was learning to drive, lost control
OF the machine. Spain's neck was
broken. Mrs. Spain was badly but
not fatally injured.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
FROM TELEGRAPHlC REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPORTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Sofia says 5000 Albanians have de-
feated Italian force near Pasnesina,
Epiru.
French forces continue their drive
on the Verdun front and Berlin ad-
mits gains.
Lloyd's announces the sinking of the
Danish steamer Michail Ontchoukoff
and the British schooner Constance
Mary
The new French lines at Vacher-
awhile and Bezonvaux, and in the
Chambrette farm region were heavily
bombarded by the Germans.
In Volhynia, the forces of Prince
Leopold are said to have stormed
Russian positions, capturing five Of
ficers. 800 men and several machine
guns and mine throwers.
Buzeu, an important railroad CEN
ter northeast of Bucharest, has been
captured by the AustroG Germans. The
retreating Russians and Rumanians
are reported to be burning villages be-
hind them.
The armies under Won Mackensen
in Eastern Wallachia have crossed the
Bezeu and lower Calmatuiul rivers,
taking 1850 prisoners and capturing
great quantities of railroad rolling
stock and vehicles of other kinds.
The embassies of the entente allies
at Washington reflected the view that
rNav,,oau1,,c Doooo Yor0poCo1c will not ho
rejected without examination but that
he allies in reply probably will call
for a statement of proposed terms, SO
they may not be presented in position
of unQualifiedly rejecting peace.
A Mexican reached the border from
Villas camp at Creel, fifty miles west
of Minaca, in the Guerrero district of
Chihuahua, with proposals for the
United States government that Villa
would refrain from further destruction
OF foreign life and property in Mexico
on condition that the United States
would not interfere in any way with
his campaign against the Carranza
government.
Telegraphing from Copenhagen, the
correspondent of the Exchange Tele-
graph Company quotes the Frank
furter Zeitung as saying: Germany
does not want a cessation of fighting,
but merely conference at which all
the belligerents shall openly state
their peace proposals. A conference
will be held at The Hague about Jan.
i15. While the conference is in ses-
sion all the belligerents will be al
lowed to continue military opera
tions.''
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
FOREIGN.

A fog which settled over London
Saturday is described as being the
most dense in fifty years.
Archduke Charles Stephen of Aus
tria has been selected to be regent Of
Poland with the prospect of election
as king.
Dispatches from Petrograd state
that the Russian duma has flatly
turned down the proposition to con-
slider peace.
A Zurich dispatch to the Tageblatt
of Berlin, says that in response to the
peace note of the central powers to
the vatican the pope will issue a
Christmas proclamation to all the bel
ligerents.
The decision of the French govern
ment to prohibit the consumption dur
ing the remainder of the war of alco-
holic beverages, with the exception of
wines and beers, caused CONSERVATION
in the liquor trade.
After numerous conferences at
Peking between Dr. WI Ting Fang,
the minister of foreign affairs, and
Count De Martel, the French charge
d'affaires, a tentative compromise set
tlement has been reached of the Tien
Tsin concession dispute.
The British government has decided
to take over the Irish railways, ac-
cording to an announcement by James
Henry Thomas, labor member OF
Parliament for Derby and assistant
general secretary of the Amalgamated
Society of Railway Servants.
A decree has been issued at Rome
forbidding for two weeks the manu-
facture of candies or cake or their
transmission by the post or railroads.
The decree further forbids hotels to
serve meals containing more than one
meat course. The decree will prevent
the sending of an enormous number
of Christmas dainties intended for the
soldiers at the front
During the strict secrecy kept by
Gen. Murguia in his campaign against
Villa, rumors have reached Chihuahua
City of the separation of Salazar from
Villa and of his unconditional sur
render to government forces. Another
rumor has it that Villas followers had
battle among themselves at Santa
Ysabel over the division of spoils TAX
en- from Chihuahua city
The allies require that there shall
be adequate reparation for the past
and adequate security for the future.
That is the policy and the determina-
tion of his majesty's government.
This was the declaration of Andrew
Bonar Law, repeating the words of
Mr.. Asquith three months ago, as he
made his debut as the leader of the
new government in the House of Com
mons
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
WASHINGTON.

President Wilson plans to spend
Christmas in Washington this year
with members of his family.
Chairman Adamson of the Inter.
state Commerce committee introduced
a joint resolution in the House extend
ing time of railroad investigation un.
til Jan. IA, 1918.
Winthrop NJ Daniels of New Jer.
sey, whose term as member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission ex,
pires Dec. 81, will be reappointed by
President Wilson.
A bill prohibiting the transmission
os liquor advertisements by mail to
any one except licensed liquor dealers
or agents was favorably reported by
the House Postoffice committee.
The executive budget system OF
Maryland, the only state with such a
scheme of financial control, was given
general approval in discussion at the
ninth annual governors conference.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Wyoming.

The Patterson well, on the south
side of the Greybull river, encountered
a strong flow of water at 55 feet.
It looks as if the next oil excitement
would come from the vicinity of Pow
der river, where drilling operations
are commencing in good earnest.
Denver and Chicago capitalists re-
Gently brought in a we'll exceeding
three hundred barrels per day, in the
Powder River extension of the Salt
Creek field.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Good Advice.

A minister was questioning his Sun.
day school concerning the story of Eu-
tychus, the young man who, listening
to the preaching Of the Apostle Paul,
fell asleep and, falling out Of win
dow, was taken up dead.
"What," he asked, "do we learn from
this solemn event?"
The reply from little girl came:
"Please, sir, ministers should learn
not to preach too long sermons"
Bits.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Horse Ship Sunk; Americans Killed.

Horse Ship Sunk; Americans Killed.
London-Seventeen Americans were
killed in the sinking of the British
horse transport Russian, Dec. IA. Ber-
lin estimates losses on the western
front at 100000 for the British and
3,8OO,000 for the French, and states
that the Somme drive alone cost the
allies 100000 men. Germany claims
successes for the Teutonic forces in
northern Dobrudja. Petrograd de-
clares the offensive of the central
powers in Rumania has been checked.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
HOW TO TREAT DANDRUFF
itching Scalp and Falling Hair With
Cuticura. Trial Free.

On retiring touch spots of dandrufl
and itching with Cuticura Ointment
Next morning shampoo with Cuticura
Soap and hot water. A clean, healthy
scalp means good hair and freedom, in
most cases, from dandruff, itching,
burning, crustings and scalings.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Auto Bandits Rob Colorado Bank.

Brush.-While a score of armed
"cow punchers" stood in the street be-
fore the Stockmen's National Bank
Monday morning, two men walked into
the establishment, covered" the
cashier, assistant cashier, paying tel
Ter, bookkeeper and one patron with
guns, compelled them to lie down
upon the floor, rifled the bank vault
of $1,000 and escaped to a waiting au,
tomobile which carried them out of
town. A posse of fifty citizens, all
armed and all determined, set out
after the bandits in automobiles.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Only One "BROMO OUININE"
To get the genuine, call for full name LAXATIVE
BROMO QUININB Look for signature of n. W.
GROVE. Cures Cold in One Day. 25c.
True to Life.

'Tell me honestly" said the novel
reader to the novel-writer, did you
ever see a woman who stood and
tapped the floor impatiently with her
toe for several moments, as you de-
scribe"
EYES," was the thoughtful reply, II
did once"
"Who was she?"
"She was a dancer. r."-Tit-Bits.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Started Something.

Don had finished his first day at
school and was on his fathers knee
for their usual evening talk before
being sent to bed.
'Well, how do you think you will
like school?" his father inquired.
The little fellow became serious.
'I'm afraid, daddy, I've started
something I can't finish," he replied.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
VILLA RECAPTURES PARRAL.
Bandits Regain Control of Southern
Chihuahua and Burn Bridges
Along Railway.

Ell Paso, Tex-Advices to mining
men here Monday state that force
of Villistas has reoccupied Parral fol-
lowing the recapture of Jiminez and
Santa Rosalia, putting the entire
southern part of Chihuahua state
again under control of Villa. All the
bridges between Ortiz and Santa Ro-
salia on the Mexican Central railway
line have been burned.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
PRICES FOR METALS.

Bar silver .............$ .76
Spelter, per 100 lbs, st. Louis 1888
Lead, per 100 lbs, New York. 7.5O
Copper, casting .............. 32.87A
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Six Die in Wyoming Hotel Fire.

Cheyenne.-Roy A. White of Baylis,
Calf, his wife and his entire family of
four children lost their lives early
Monday morning when fire completely
destroyed the Interocean hotel.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23

Boulder-Tungsten concentrates, 60
per cent, SIS to $17 per unit. Crude
ores, 60 per cent, SIS; 25 per cent,
$9.4O to $12; 10 per cent, $50 to $40
per unit
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23

At least two-thirds Of the married
men are henpecked and haven't found
it out.
The Benson signal., 1916-12-23

Ten smiles for nickel. Always buy Red
Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful, clear
white clothes. Adv.