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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Miss Harris Gives a slumher Party
Miss Mary Harris entertained the
girls of her kindergarten training
class of the Methodist University
Yesterday and today The girls who
are the Misses Flora Adler Blanche
Miller Ethel llardsaw Gladys
Houghton. jeanette Phillips Rose
Purdum, Madge and Meryl Shower
and Sarah Mcclure. busted them
selves during he evening with a
work that will later afford some
pleasant surprises. remained FOR a
slumber party and were Miss llar-
ris's guests at breakfast and lunch 3
con today
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02
csorai Circle Meets

WITH Miss Armstrong
The chorai circle of The Presbg
terIan church met Friday evening IN
the home Of Miss Alice Armstrong
The short business session was toi-
lowed by the reading Of a letter from
the missionary in China regarding the
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Memorial services will be held by
the local lodge of Elks at the Opera
house Sunday, All are invited.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Mr. and Mrs f Z Burton ana Alas
Beryl have returned home from p
short visit In Wellsion
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Mrs Ora Green ana Nm Wiil W
~ Oklahoma CHy wefc YHor Ut
hr M pi3Y
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Miss Elizabeth McNeal of fulaa
arrived this morning TO be the guest
81 Mrs Lyman J Gray until Tuesday
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Miss Margaret Rector Of FL Reno
is snending the week end with her
aunt. Mrs Earl Hopkins.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Mr. and Mrs / NJ Finetrock are
here from Arkansas CITY to spend
me week end with her parents, Mr
and Mrs J G Haas.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

FORMER mcmleo o' ho N.mono
cnh wep entertained Monday A.
fhe homo ot Mn y } GRAY
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Miss Virginia Hagan and Horace
fIagan were here from Oklahoma
civ TO spend Thanksgiving Dag VIII
Mics JAMIE Hager.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02
Ladies' Circle to Hold
Bazaar and Sale

The Ladies' Social Circle of INC
Prcsblterlan church VIII hold ba
zaar and candy sale at the Rhodes
store. Saturday, Dec 9th.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

Mrs a 0 Whtcomb and daugh {
Miss Jennie are spending the ~eak
end in Pond Greek with Mrs Blaine
Webster.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-12-02

N Katherine Cassidy Win enter
tain Monday
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
RAILROAD IS SUED
FOR INJURY TO GIRL
FATHER OF MISS HELEN DoHER
TY ASKS $4,000 FROM THE
NORTHEASTERN.

Suit for $4,000 damages against the
New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad
for damages alleged to have been sus.
tanned by Miss Helen Doherty, when
the vehicle in which she was riding
was struck by New Orleans, Mobile
& Chicago freight engine just west OF
the trestle across Gordon's Creek, on
August II, has been filed in the For
rest County Circuit Court by Mike
Doherty, father of the young woman.
Doherty is a patrolman on the Hat
tiesburg police force.
The suit was brought against the
Northeastern, it is explained, because
the TX. c." uses the tracks of that
company in this city. With her broth.
ers and sisters, Miss Doherty was
crossing the tracks at Rebecca ave.
nue., when a switch engine struck the
buggy in which she, was driving
throwing her to the ground and rem
iering her unconscious.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
Boarding House and.
Restaurants Join in|
'B0ostingFo PricesI
NEW YORK EATING PLACES HIT
BY HIGH COST OF EDlBLEs.
RAISE THEIR RATES.

New York, Oct. 6s-T'he high price
Of food continued to show its effect
today in the prices charged by restau
rants and boarding houses of nearly
every class. Few Of the larger and
more expensive eating places have
raised their charges thus far, but sew.
eral have adopted the European Gus.
tom of imposing convert fee, which
means that the prospective diner pays
10 cents or more for the seat he occu-
pies at a table.
Several of the popular price lunch
rooms have followed the example of
the corporation which operates the
largest chain Of dairy restaurants in
the city and added cents to the price
Of most Of their regular dishes. A
Of boarding houses. which
make a speciality of table board have
increased the price of their regular
dinner" from so tos6O cents.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
WOMAN SPEEDS AUTO
WHEN BANDITS ATTACK
FEMININE DRIVER GETS AWAY
FROM HoLD-uP PARTY AFTER
ONE MAN is KILLED.
(By Associated Press.)

Philadelphia, Oct. 6.-Four persons
are under arrest and the police drag
net is closing about four others, in
connection with the murder by bandits
yesterday at Hammonton, N. J.. of
Henry Rider, and t5e shooting OF
three others, including A. J. Rider,
president of the New Jersey Gran
berry Growers Association, his daugh.
ter, Mrs. Elsie smathers, and James
sRigby. The banditn attempted to
hold up and rob Rider of $4,000
payroll.
The police are holding Millice De-
marco, a 19-year-old girl; Frank YES.
sala, driver of an automobile; Guis-
sepe Russo, and Frank Ladona. All
admitted they were in the automo-
bile Of yessala at the time of the
shooting.
Mrs. Smathers speeded the auto
mobile away from the scene after the
bandits had held up and shot the oc-
cupants. All of the wounded will re-
cover.
The four under arrest admitted hav-
ing heard several shots after their
car stopped near the scene Of the
shooting.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
SMITH LEAVES FOR
LAUNDERERS' MEET

|. 6. P. Smith, owner Of the Phoenix
Laundry in this city and also the Mod.
ern Laundry at Laurel, leaves today
for Cincinnati whore he will repre-
sent Mississippi at the National Laun-
ders Association.
The National laundrymen will be in
session four days, beginning Monday.
Mr.. Smith, who is past president
3of the tri-state laundry men and also
their acting treasurer. was selected
TO represent this state at their last
session. The last national convention
was held at Niagara Falls, last year.
and an endeavor will probably be
made to bring il to southern city
next year.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
CITY BREVITIES

The Lomo reopened its doors last
night, after having been closed ali
week while improvements were being
made to the interior, with one Of the
largest crowds ever attending that
theatre. AS the opening attraction,
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts" with Henry
B. Walthall and Joseph Jefferson as
the dual stars. and Charlie Chaplin in
"one A. NJ" constituted the program.
The screen at the Lomo has been
greatly enlarged. Today, Edward
Abels, in five-act production OF
"Brewster's Millions" and two come
dies will be given4 Charlie Chaplin
in a one-reel comedy, and four reels
of Western dramas will be on tomor.
rows program.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
NEGRO is SHOT
BY WHITE MAN

Jackson, MISS, Oct. 6.--Richard
Hill, negro, was brought to The State
Charity Hospital yesterday suffering
from wounds inflicted by pistol balls
from the gun of D. sherrell, white
man. The shooting took place at Fan
ming, Miss, and the negro was rushed
here on the next train. Sherrell was
arrested but released ON temporary
bond. He claims self-defense and says
the negro had his gun drawn when he
fired. A preliminary hearing will
take place at Tanning today.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06

rIMEPlEcEs STRUCK THE HOUR,
ALL Right, BuTY you COULD
NOT WAIT FOR THAT.

Special to The NetDs.
| Port Gibson Miss, Oct. 6.-At al
adjourned meeting of the town coun
ell last night it was decided to stoi
the salary of the official town clock
winder, as he had frequently allowed
the tilnepiece to stop.
i was pointed out that while the
clock struck the hours with regularity,
the hands pointed in directions other
than to the correct figures. This was
misleading, and it was thought that
the clock should point out the correct
time more than twice in "a hours.
A man did not have time to stand
and wait for it to strike in order to
learn the time Of day. So it was de.
cided to strike out his salary Of SASS
month for winding the timepiece
that does not keep time.
The figures denoting his salary
were more exact than the result Of
his labors Finally, the question came
up whether the town owned the afore-
said clock It had been placed in the
steeple Of the Presbyterian Church
very long time ago, the exact date no
me seemed to know. Itwas evidently
worn out, and had worked overtime,
md hence could not keep time. But
he town did not care who owned il,
md SO 1t was decided to strike cut the
'Iock.winder's salary, anyway. And
! was SO ordered.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
YOUNG BENNETT GIVEN
BALANCE OF HIS FUNDS
CHANCELLOR APPROVES APPLl.
CATION FOR REMOVAL OF
DISABILITY OF MINORITY.

Acting on the application of w. G.
Bennett in the suit brought by that
young mans next friend, j. S. Turner
against Mrs. Queen Bennett, Chan.
cellor Denny, in the Chancery Court,
has decreed that the disability of min.
ority OF w. Z. Bennett be removed,
and that he is Of legal age, so tar as
his real and personal property is con-
cerned.
Mrs. Bennett, the guardian, is dis
charged by the order and the balance
of $191.50 due the ward from the est
ate of his father, which was divided
some time ago, has been turned over
TO him, this balance being the amount
remaining from the funds entrusted to
Mrs. Bennett for the son.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
.STEMME PURCHASES
MEYERS NURSERY
TAKES OVER FLORAL ESTABLISH
MENT ON REDus STREET;
SELLER GOING NORTH.

The floral establishment Of Henry
Meyer, at 100 Redus street, has been
purchased by stemme & Sons, Nor.
lists, today, and the greenhouse and
nursery stock are to be removed to
the property of the latter on Fourth
avenue, Immediately.
Mr.. Meyer. who came here about
three years ago, is going back to his
old home in the north. A large part
OF the nursedy stock will be transfer
red to the downtown shop of stemme
& Sons. The amount involved in the
transaction is not known.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
.HATT|ESBURG RECTOR
ACCORDED HIGH HONOR
DR.. ATMoRE DESIGNATED BY PRE-
SIDING BISHOP TO GREET H.
BISHOP MoNTeotsat ~
seirnceedi-

The Rev. w. simpson-Atmore rector
q Trinity Episcopal Church of this
city, was notified today that he had
been designated as one of the three
church officials to greet Bishop Mont.
gomery, the English divine, who win
attend the General convention of the
episcopal Church, to be held in ST.
Louis next week.
Bishop Montgomery will be the guest
OF the convention. DR.. Atmore was or
ganizing secretary of the S. p. q. from
l9o6-l9lO, Bishop Montgomery is the
head of{this organization.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06

The Paramount Famous Players
present Marie Doro in Common
Ground" at the Gem Theatre tonight.
If husbands would train their wives
to be as economical and as ingenious
with their millinery as Marie Doro,
comic artists and writer's on that sub
ject would die of starvation, it is said
Another popular actor, True Board
man( Stingaree), will make his reap
pearance in "The Girl from Frisco"
Kalem's latest triHmph of the West,
in which stingare&is said to be at his
best. Tomorrow the Gem presents a
special Saturday show as follows: "In
Hour of Disaster" Lubin drama in
four acts; "The Secret of the Subma-
rine," in two acts; 1.-THE Mystery of
the Rails" railroad drama; Charlie
Chaplin, animated cartoons, comedies
and Pathe News weekly.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
PLOT TO ASSASSTNATE
OFFICIALS UNEARTHED
More Arrests Promised in Connection
With Threats Against Shonts.
lB4 A.ssociated Press.l

New York, Oct. G.-The police prom
ised more arrests today in connection
with the alleged plot to assassinate
Theodore Shonts and Frank Hedley,
president and general manager re-
Ispectively, of the Inrerborough Rapid
Transit Company,
Two alleged strikers were arrested
this morning charged with stoning a
train. The police believe they are in
the alleged conspiracy.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
B. Y. r. u. TRAINING
SCHOOL TO Be STARTED
FIRST ANNUAL AFFAIR or ITS
KIND IN HATTIEsBuRe WILL
BEGIN NEXT SUNDAY.

Beginning on next Sunday and con
tinuing through Friday night there viii
be conducted at the Main Street Bap
tist Church the First Annual Train
ing School of Senior and Junior B. Y
4 p. U. workers of Hattiesburg and vi
cinity. Such a success has been made
of these schools in other cities, that
the Baptist young people have determ;
ined that Hattiesburg shall have one,
and that 1t shall be made an annual
affair if it is the success here that
they expect it to be.
The purpose of the school is
to increase the efficiency of
all the Unions in TIattlesburg; to or
ganize other senior and junior unions;
to effectf the organization of a city
Union of all Hattiesburg B. Y. p. us;
and to make the B. Y. p. U. aim and
motives live in the work hc~e.
The faculty of the school viii consist
Of Harry L. Strickland Of Birming-
ham, Ala, field secretary OF the Sun
day School Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention, and w. E. Hol-
comb, the B. Y. p. u. secretary of the
state of Mississippi. In the Baptist
denomination these are well known
men and constitute very strong fac
ulty.
Programs of the daily schedule of
work and enrolment cards were dis
tributed at the various Baptist
churches Sunday, and enrolment has
already begun.
The school sessions will begin each |
evening at O'Clock and continue
through until S:45 o'clock, when Mr.. |
Strickland will deliver evening ad-
dresses. Mr.. Holcomb will superin-
tend the school and teach some of the
most important courses.
A feature of the school of interest |,
to the whole public will be great /
mass meeting at the Main Street Bap-
tist Church next Sunday afternoon,
when bothsMr. Holcomb and Mr.. Strick-
land win make addresses.
The period from Z o'clock to 7:4o
o'clock each evening will be given to
when the young people win
take recess for refreshment and so
cial enjoyment in the church dining
room. Fl
Several committees are whipping 1ev
into shape this week and by
Sunday the young people hope to be-
gin work with large school.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
NORMAL FOOTBALL
SEASON TO OPEN
FIRST GAME TO BE PLAYED AT
HAMPER PARK AT $3.50 TO.
MORROW AFTERNOON.

The football season Of the Normal
College will be formally opened here
tomorrow, when the local aggregation
will meet the team from the Poplar
vile Agricultural High School The
game will be played at Hamper Park,
and will be begun at $3.50 o'clock.
The field at the park has been re.
modelled and automobilists will be
able to park their cars alongside the
field
The admission will be 35 cents.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
FEWox PARDoNED.

Jackson, Miss, Oct. 6.-Acting on
the recommendation of the state par.
doning board, Governor Bilbo today
pardoned g. R. Fewox, white man
serving a five-year term in the peni
tentiary for manslaughter.
Fewox was convicted in Lauderdale
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
BOW-WOW TIMBER is
SOLD BY THE COUNTY
Dog-Wood Located on Part of sixteenth
I, Section to be Removed.

{ A contract has been made by the
board of Supervisors with G.. P. Smith,
for the purchase of all the dog-wood
Of certain size and above, located
on part of Sixteenth Section land.
Irhe timber on that part occupied by
Mrs. Letitia Brown, and Az inches in
dimension at the bottom, and over,
has been bought by Smith for $25.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
2 WHITES KILLED in
MONTANA RACE RIOT
A Third White Man Is Seriously Shot;
Seven Persons Are Under Arrest.
(BV Assoeiated Pre8g. J

Billings, Mont, Oct 6.-Two white
men were shot and killed by seven
negroes last night in race riot near
Nibill, according to reports today. A
third white was severely wounded
Five negroes and, two whites are
under arrest at Cushman, charged with
rioting
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
CONTRACTOR is PAID
FOR SCHOOL BUILDING
Supervisors Give Howell Last Of
Amount Due on. Forrest structure.

The balance due L. NJ. Howell, La
mar county contractor, for his work
bn constructing the Forrest Console
dated School, has been paid by the
Board Of Supervisors. This amounted
to $21S.6O.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
$500 is LOANED FROM
FUNDS OF 18th SECTION
But Two Applicants for Money From
Supervisors EiIed Thus Far.

Only two loans, aggregating $500,
have been made by the Forrest Coun-
ty Supervisors at their October meet.
ing, thus far.
Fred w. Broadus and Bulah Broad
us have been allowed 5000 by the
board, and Ray Morse and Winnie B.
Morse, $500 from the Sixteenth Sec
tion school funds.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
COST BOND ORDERED I'M
sELLERs-cARTER CASE

a cost bond of sloO, or deposit
Of $25, has been ordered Of M, O..
Sellers, in the Chancery Court case
Of M. Q. Sellers against Wesley Car
ter.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
.o,,rtr 4 FeTruary, 1915. ne pre-

county in February 1919. He presoT ',.aa;:G
j, ] netition 10 the pardoning ooara
early in the week
The pardoning board is SUI 7 ~, 80.
sion arl probatiy will nave q mum
mr. or recommendations to make y
the governor before i adiourns say
urday. -.
The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-06
POLICE COURT

Ethel Barber, profanity, $3.50.
Lewis Nelson, assault and battery
IS.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-09-07
WASTE LANDS COST MONEY.
Non-productive Acres Mean Dead
Capital and Loss to the Farmer.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Every acre
of non producing tillable land should
be put to work or sold, says the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. Many
farmers would make more money if
their business We're larger, but the size
of farm, from a financial standpoint,
is measured not by the number of
acres embraced in it but by the num-
ing animals economically, or support
ing growth of marketable forest
products. Non productive acres are
loafer acres, and the money tied up in
them is dead capital.
On every farm, however, there are
certain acreas necessarily devoted to
nonproductive purposes. Fences,
bitches, lanes. and building lots pro-
duce nothing themselves, but they are
frequently essential to production on
the rest of the farm. Nevertheless,
they may occupy in the aggregate a
considerable percentage of the avail
able land. 1t is part of efficient
farm management to see to it that
this percentage is no higher than nee
essary.
In this connection, some interesting
figures are given in regard to the
amount of land occupied by fences
of different kinds. 1t takes, for in
stance, only 200 rods of untrimmed
hedge and only 214 rods of zigzag rail
or worm fence to waste an acre of
what might be productive land. For
the same expenditure of land one can
run 459 rods of woven wire and 473
rods of barbed wire. Other considera-
tions, of course, may make it desira-
BILE to use the hedge or the worm
fence, but the waste involved is a
factor that should not be overlooked.
Similarly, farm lanes often may be
eliminated by simple re-arrange-
ment of fields: headlands, or turning
spaces mt the edges of fields, avoided ;
and the farmstead itself. the group
or farm buildings with their lots and
yards, the garden and the orchard,
made compact. In the case of the
farmstead, however considerations of
health and attractiveness may well
justify slight sacrifice of economy.
While little planning often will
result in the saving of much land
now devoted to these unproductive
uses, more difficult problem is pre-
scented by waste land-land that is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-09-07

rendered untillable by swamps, raw
ines, rocks, slopes, etc, woodland
that produces nothing salable, and
pastures that are too poor to be pro-
fitable. Some areas are, of course,
hopeless, and in that case they should
be left out of the reckoning altogeth-
er. Before this is done, however, it
will pay to look into the possibilities
Of profitable reclamation. Many un-
tillable fields, for example. may be
turned into productive pastures, or if
they will not grow enough grass to
make this economica! they can be
used for the production OF timber. On
the other hand, it frequently happens
that woodlots which yield nothing but
little firewood for home conSump-
tion are permitted to occupy valuable
land. In deciding whether such lots
should be cleared and TILED. the cost
of clearing. the increased value of the
cleared land, the interest on the in
vestment. the salable value of the
timber products, and the added ex-
pcnse for firewood which will follow
the disappearance of the timber must
all be taken into account. With un-
bringing them under the plow may be
determined by comparing the probable
cost with the market price Of good
arabic land in the neighborhood.
Obviously, the higher the price Of
land rises the more incentive there is
for the farmer to avoid waste in the
utilization of it. 1t is significant,
however, that the investigations of the
Department of Agriculture have
shown that, irrespective of the price,
tenants put a greater part of their
land to productive use than owners.
The tenant pays rent for each acre
and he can not afford to have any of
them idle. On the other hand, the
man who has no rent to pay may be
| uDiS W SCI diohS oi tic piouuSC VI
part only of his farm, and he is,
therefore, more likely to overlook the
potential value of the part he wastes.
BY so doing he is, of course, throwing
away opportunities to make money,
but this is not always appreciated 10y
those who have not grasped the i'm
portant fact that the average farm
is too small for maximum efficiency
and that in the majority of cases to
increase the size of the farm business
is to increase the profits from 1t.
Those owners, however, who, realiz-
ing this, are operating leased land in
addition to their own, are, like ten
ants, careful to see that they pay for
lno loafer acres.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-09-07

To anyone who is buying or leasing
land, then, the important question is
not How much am paying an acre
for this tract?" but "How much am
l paying for the acres that are go
ing to work for me-" In the new
bulletin it is calculated that a farm
of 100 acres selling ut 500 an acre
will cost the purchaser actually
$111.11 an aire If 90 per cent of it
is productive and 5000 an acre If only
80 per cent of it is. AS matter of
fact, the percentage of improved land
in farms east of the Mississippi is
only 59.5 and west of that river only
5O.S. Improved land. however. it
snould be noted, is not always the
same as productive land A good tim
Der lot, for example. is not improved,
but it may be highly productive. and
farm buildings and fences stand on
land that is improved but produces
nothing. In the final analysis. it is
the amount of productive land that
determines the earning capacity of a
farm and that should, therefore, de-
termine its price.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-09-07
REMOVES DENTS IN FURNITURE
Very Simple Task as It Is Here
EXPLAINED


When wood is badly dented or
scratched it is often problem to
know how to get rid of the marks.
This Is quite easy if the following
plan is adopted, says the Scientific
American:
First of all fold piece of blotting
paper at least four times; then satu-
rate with water, finally allowing the
superfluous moisture to drip away.
Now heat flatiron until it is about
the warmth required for laundry
work. Place the damp blotting paper
over the dent and press firmly with
the iron. .As soon as the paper dries
examine the mark. 1t will then be
found that the cavity has filled up to
a surprising extent.
Where the dent is very deep a sec.
ond or even third application on the
lines indicated might be tried. Sooner
or later every serious depression can
be drawn up-and most people who
have not tried this plan will be sur
prised at the result of the treatment.
Polishing will clear away even tho
slight marks that might finally re-
main.