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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06

but none appeared before the commis-
 sion.
 The commission continued for an in- definite period the petition of the Ensley Southern Railway company for permis-
 sion to discontinue a portion of it's line which lies west of the eastern bank of
 Locust Fork of the Warrior river. The
 railroad entered the petition after the
 war department ordered it to construct another bridge across the river. contend
 ing that it has lost money and could not afford the investment necessary for
 the construction of the new bridge. Be- ilieving that an extension of time can be
 obtained from the war department the railroad requested the commission tc continue the petition until negotiations were concluded.
 The Montevallo Ice and Light company was granted permission to dispose of .ts entire holdings in Montevallo to the Ala bama Power company No one entered protest against the transfer A. B. Powell. owner of the telephone system at Georgiana and long distance lines connecting Georgiana with Chapman and Red Level, was granted permission to dispose of his interests.
 Citizens of Freemanville were denied an order requiring the Gulf. Florida and Alabama railroad to construct a depot al that point No one appeared to repre- sent the town and the railroad furnished information about conditions which con vinced the commission that the volume of business would not warrant the constrIc- tion of the station.
 The Central of Georgia railroad with drew it's petition for permission to suo- stitute an umbrella shed for the depot at Gamer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
NEWS OF ENSLEY

Employes of the Birmingham Southern and the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road company by-product plants will be paid off today. The present week will be ''pay day" for all employees of the cor porations in the Ensley district.
 On Thursday the employees of the Amer ican Steel and Wire company will receive their stipends for two weeks. On Friday the Docena mines, the Vivian mines, the Edgewater waterworlzs. the Bayview mines and the Pratt City mines will re- ceive their semi-monthly salaries.
 The largest pay day of the month will come next Thursday when the employees of the Ensley steel plant will receive their sefni-monthly pay. The pay roll amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars and Ensley merchants are pre- pairing for a busy week. It is the first pay day for employees in local plants since the middle of January.
 dime social and an aluminium demon- station will be given this afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. R. w. Rus sell, 1911 Avenue F. The proceeds of the social will be turned over to the High land Avenue Presbyterian church. The social is open to the public and all are invited.
 The Elks Ladies Social club will meet this afternoon at o'clockFin the Elks hall on Avenue D.
 The mothers meeting, arranged by the Fairfield School Improvement association for this afternoon, has been postponed on account of a general meeting of the school improvement associations Of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
FosTERED BY DENOMINATIONS

True, they are denominational insti- tutions But aside from those founded by the state there are few important colleges that have not been originated and fostered by the religious denomina tions. The history of education in the United States is largely the history of denominational effort in this field These two schools of ours do not question or cavil about the religious affiliations ot their students Their curicula do not in- clude the subjects of peculiar denomina- tional dogma. But they do positively stand for the great fundamentals in character building, God and our relation to Him. and they seek to train and fit men to meet the highest obligations of life in those things which the great ma jorty of us regard as Fundamental to in dividual manhood and to that which is noblest, best and most enduring in our civilization.
 AS previously noted, these are Bir- mingham institutions, and though of re- cent years in our midst, they have al- ready contributed to the city and the state some of their most substantial and useful citizens. But the results of these few years are infinitestimal compared with what they will be in the future If Birmingham will give them her sympa- thetic and substantial support, thus en- abling them to develop along general ed- ucational lines, but putting special em- phasis upon that vocational training that this district so much needs-which our own boys can be fitted to do our own work.
 'The appeal that these institutions make to our business interests and to the public spirited citizens of the com munity is strong and clear. Your edi- torial utterances. the frequent and kindly utterances of our other papers, the cor dially cooperative letters that have re- gently appeared in The Age-Herald, and the many personal assurances that have been given, are all evidences that this call will not go unanswered. Respect fully, J. B. CUMMING.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
DR. F. E. HARRINGTON
 FILES APPEAL BOND

supercedes bond in the sum of 500 was filed yesterday in the circuit court b. Dr. F. F. Harrington on appeal to the supreme court of Alabama against the decree of Judge H. A. sharpe busting him from the office of county health officer. The bill of ex- captions is being prepared by his at torney. Judge Samuel D. Weakley, and the case will be presented to the su- preme court at the earliest possible time. Pending the ruling of the su- preme court Dr. Harrington will con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
UGH! ADOSE 0F
 NASTY CALOMEL It salivates! It makes you sick and you may lose a
 days work

You're bilious, sluggish. constipated and believe you need vile. dangerous calomel to start your liver and clean your bowels.
 Here's my guarantee! Ask@your drug- gist for q 50 cent bottle of Dodson's s Liver Tone and take a spoonful tonight. If 1t doesn't start your liver and straighten5 you right up better than calomel and without griping or making you sick, want you to go back to the store and get your money.
 Take calomel today and tomorrow you will feel weak and sick. and nauseated. Don't lose a days work. Take spoon full of harmless, vegetable Dodsons Liver Tone tonight and wake up feel ing great. It's perfectly harmless, So giveSit to your children any time. It cant salivate. so let them eat anything afterwards.--Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06

pc insignificant states without Yale and Princeton; these institutions have helped to make them strong at home and mighty in the counsels of the nation What Co., lumbia university is to New York, the state and the nation cannot be esti- mated; yet the time was when it was poor and weak and struggling. The friendly cooperation and substantial sup port of New York has made it what it now is and what it will be.
 We all love and believe in Birming- ham; yet the Birmingham of today is but a piSmy compared with the Bir- mingham of 50 years hence. We expect and fondly believe our city will then be the metropolis of the central south. We cannot think of the future Birmingham, city with a million inhabitants and the center of large population of which she IS the source of influence and power. and these eXerted in behalf of the things most worth while, without strong educa- tional institutions where her own sons will be developed into great strong men, capable and efficient. To become what she should, Birmingham must foster her higher educational interests. Colleges cannot be less important than smoke stacks
 We already have the nucleus. In Bir- mingham and Howard colleges we have two splendid schools and capable of de- velopment, commensurate with the fu- ture growth of the city. They are well located, have ample grounds, and each now represents an investment of not less than $20O000. They are the only colleges that the city possesses. If we ever have any great institutions they must be built on these foundations, or else, de novo. The latter will be the harder task and is not probable in the near future. In the very necessity of the case. whatever Bir- mingham does in the realm of the higher education must be largely through these poIIaUac
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
COLLEGES C|TY'S
 GREATEST ASSET
 IN NEXT D YEARS
J. B. Cumming Tells Why Birmingham Should Eos ter Higher Education
 al Institutions

J, B. Cumming presents some excep- tionally strong reasons why Birmingham should give aid to Birmingham and How ard colleges. He writes as follows:
 Editor
 Dear Sir: Your kindly interest in Howard and Birmingham colleges as manifest in your editorial utterances, and also that of Messrs. Cosby, Bowie and others as evidenced by their ensprit- ing letters to The Age-Herald, are great ly appreciated by the active supporters of these institutions, and 80 far as I can learn, by the public generally.
 'The biggest thing in Chicago is not it's stockyards, but Chicago university. Bos- ton and Massachusetts have no other as set that, to the city, the state and the nation is comparable in value to liar ward. Connecticut and New Jersey would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
A WoMAN,s EXPERIENCE WITH
 CnIPpEa

When a cough or cold hangs on, and you have aches and pains in your joints and muscles. it is likely that grippe is taking hold of your system. Mrs. J. A. Hodges. Switzer. s. C.. says: "I am susceptible to colds; often ending in grippe. In this case have found Foley's Honey and Tar to pre- vent doctor bills" This sterling fam iIy remedy loosens the phlegm, stops irritation, allays soreness and inflam- nation and frees the air passages, Good for children. Sold everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Thanks Dr. EdmOnds

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 In justice to my people I wish to thank Dr. Edmonds on his manly stand regard ing the religious bigotry so pronounced and maliciousy engendered in this dis trict It is refreshing and encouraging to see a man of such recondite mind and religious influence putting his stamp Of disapproval on intolerance and discord among brethren. Withal, the good doc tor has displayed the charity of Christ.
 JOHN A. BRATTON,
 Rector of St. Clements. Woodlawn, February 4, 1917.
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city. The meeting will be held on next Monday.
 The regular meetings of the Steel City lodge. No. 100, Knights of Pythias, will hereafter be held in the Woodmen's hall, lS)l12 Avenue F.. The rank of page will be conferred at the meeting tonight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
The Hirsch Millinery Company
 Featuring Queen Quality Shoes

tion for the day and each guest was presented with a beautiful carnation as souvenir.
 Certainly nothing more suspicious has ever been inaugurated in Birming- ham than the opening the shoe de- rartment by the Messrs. Hirseh, who are among the genuine, loyal, fine citizens of Birmingham. and always abreast of the times, adding to their already large business in every way that they think it will please their customers
 The IIirsch Millinery company is en- t;rely rearranged and the handsome appearance it presents is worthy of the exclusive shops on Fifth avenue, New York
 Above the shoe department, where everything new is shown in pumps,
 dancing slippers, high shoes and boots golf shoes In every possible style, IS a balcony also beautifully furnished
 enc side of which is devoted to chil- drens shoes and the other side to
 popular priced millinery. One of the things that will be featured in the Queen Quality shoe department is
 will be paid to everything that skill
 and workmanship can accomplish in childrenS footwear.
 On the second floor an informal
 opening was held of the early spring
 millinery styles and the handsome par
 lors rearranged and furnished in ma
 hogany with splendid mirrors and
 small compartments for trying on" hats made an unusually handsome ap
 pearance. while the flowers. trimmings and other accessories were displayed
 in handsome plate glass show cases
 in the rear of the millinery parlors.
 The Hirsch Millinery company has added another milestone to Birming
 hams splendid line of up-to- date shops
 by the inauguration of the "Queen Quality shoe department, and if the success which this splendid firm has achieved in millinery is duplicated by
 the success that everybody predicted for them yesterday, they will have every reason to be very proud of their foresight and keen business acumen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06

The will of the late D. J. Mcconnell was probated yesterday by Judge J. r Stiles of the probate court. Benefi- cisries of the will are the mother and brother of the deceased, and other rel atives.
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win Probated

tinue to exercise the duties of county health officer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06

ditions. but not through the use of any kind of repellant whatever.
 N. F. THOMPSON. Birmingham, February 5. 1917.
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Two Birminghan1, Ala. Stores )JocksonDille, Fla.
The Crowd Always Gathers Round the Strongest Attraction

And at the present time that happens to be Porter Feb ruary Sale of mems and boys dependable smartly styled thoroughly trustworthy Suits and Overcoats. You'll find unknown makes in THIS sale; every gar ment is ndeibly branded with the mark of the most reputable tailor America This weather should drive home the fact that winter not yet and that there's lots and lots of time ahead these beautiful garments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06
What makes Fatimas comfortable?

NOU'VE probably noticed that
 rather ~oily heaviness'' so com mon to many of even the most ex- pensive cigarettes. That's bound to exist, no matter how good the tobac- cos, if the .tobaccos are not blended just right to correct it.
 Of course, such cigarettes can never be con.fortable.
 Fatimas, on the other hand, are comfortable. The milder tobaccos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-06

The Elks Ladies Social club will meet this afternoon at ? o'clockFin the Elks hall on Avenue D.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
SOME ONLY SUSPECTS
PROMINENT I. w. w.
LEADERS ARRESTED

New York, Sept. 2S-Three of the
most prominent |. W w. leaders In
the United States were arrested here
tonight by agents of the department
Of justice.
They are Elizabeth Guriey Flynn,
militant !. w. w. agitator. Carl Tresca,
her assistant and Arturo Giovanetti
John q. Baldazzi, member of the or
ga anization committee. was also taken
when government officers, armed with
warrants based on the wholesale I. w.
w. indictments in Chicago, made their
raid tonight.
The government agents ransacked
the homes of these leaders. seizing
truckloads of literature. This was
stacked upon ready for removal and
armed guards placed over it. The
prisoners were taken to department of
justice headquarters in Uew York
They viii be Jailed and held for the
Chicago federal authorities.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
UNCLE SAM WILL NOT
STRIKE UNTIL READY

had about two months of intensive
training. They have learned almost
the sum of human knowledge about
killing the other fellow and prevent
ing him from killing you.
Physically and mentally he mus, be
Just as far as can be. but il is planned
TO use the fully trained Sammies as in
structors for thousands of partly
trained troops yet to come
ARMY BACK OF ARMY.
The army behind the army trails
back from the front TO headqua rters
and beyond, to the great bases where
smells and airplanes, wagons and mo-
tor trucks. medical supplies. food and
clothing for many thousands will be
stored. II holds line just as vital,
though not as dangerous as the Jagged
mud -colored line over there TO the east
where the French and British are kill
ing Germans. From the big bases. usu-
ally at railway centrs. the rear organ
izations run down to the sea.
Today that line is just the beginning
OF the war organization. 1t is grow
ing as every ship arrives When it
reaches its full size and the big expe-
ditionary army is trained and equipped
tnen. and not before, will the Sammies
move forward to the trenches.
Then Uncle Sam will be set for the
Dig swing at the kaisers jaw.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
TURNED TABLES ON
THE BOLSHEVIKI

London. Sept 29.-Premier Kerensky
t'Ined the tables on the Bolsheviki
while addressing the De mocratic con
sress Thursday, according to. dis
patches from Petrograd to the EveDin a
News today. The premier scored his
foes at moment when they launched
an anti government demonstration.
The government has just been in
formed, Kerensky declared that the
army and navy units at Helsingsfors
refused to OBEY the governments ord
ers to prevent L meeting of the Fin
nish diet
They acted correctly" was the
prazen cry from the Bolsheviki
benches.
Shame. Shame" came from other
parts Of the hail. Whereupon Kerensky
Numbered back
Yes, they refused to obey orders at
moment when the German fleet was
moving up the gulf OF Finland"
The effect of this thrust AT the
Bolsheviki and their implied approval
of the enemy's advance was instan
taneous. They sat silent amid loud
ovation accorded Kerensky by the CON
RreSS
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
FEDERAL AGENT
MAY HAVE been
THE VICTIM OF
AN ENEMY PLOT

Portland, Ore, Sept 29.-Frank B.
Ratisseau, whose body was found in
the woods near Portland yesterday.
was a secret service man. murdered by
enemies of the government, according
TO the statements tonight of Miss Res
sic Barton of Seattle, his sweetheart
Miss Barton and her brother, r.
Barton, came to Portland from Seat,
tie this afternoon. She told Acting
coroner Smith that Ratisseau was a
secret service man and that the last
time they had been together he had
said, I'm afraid they're going to get
me, Bessie"
Ratisseau's body was identified by
tne police by maans of a registration
card which was found in his pocket.
Ratisseau registered In Galveston, Tex
lie mad been in Portland since Aug A.
1t was impossible to confirm Miss
Barton's statement that Ratisseau was
q secret service man tonight. because
William A. Glover. district chief of the
secret service was out of town.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
THREE BIG FOREST
FIRES RAGING IN
SOUTH CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 2s.-Three
great forest fires, started by lightning
during Fridays freak electrical storm
which swept southern California. are
raging in widely separated areas to-
night, threatening stock and property
with damage already done to grazing
land and watersheds mounting into the
thousands. Seven hundred and fifty
men are fighting the fires. Draft
was restorted to to obtain fire fight
ers.
acres have been left in ashes. The
James Stewart and Santa Rosa Cattle
ranches are imperiled, with
their $4,000 head OF cattle Only time
and the caprice OF the wind can tel,
what their fate will be.
In the Santa Rosa district $4,000
The Temescal canyon, north of Co
roma, the Holcomb ranch appears
doomed. Furniture has been removed
and the residents have fled. The fire
in this section has spread over an 1s-
mile area.
Northeast OF Pomona, 800 men are
battling stubborn fire which has
swept over thousands of acres of wa
tershed and which tonight threatens
totally to destroy the water supplies
Of Pomona and Claremont, q college
town nearby
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
BY J. w. PEGLER.
,ited Press Staff Correspondent.

United Press Staff Correspondent
American Field Headquarters In
France, Sept. 2s.-Uncie Sam is holding
up his punch until the day when he
can hit with all his might. He will not
be ready to swing on the Boche until
every department and every single in
dNidual Sammy is prepared to strike,
That means, as officers saw il to-
day, that America must have a com
plete aviation service, as good as that
of the British and French: an endless
supply of guns and shells: a telephone
and telegraph system comparable with
the wire service at home; a smoothly
operating intelligence department-all
in addition to the army in the trenches
and the fellows who feed them.
HUGE ORGANIZATION.
Altogether these departments Of the
war organization will be 80 huge as to
dwarf the biggest single business en-
terprise in the world.
The general or colonel who directs a
branch of Uncle Sans war company
will have Job equal to that Of the
$20, 0,000-a- year man back home.
Thousands of athletic young Sam
mics here believe themselves ready to
go into the trenches today. AS mem
oers OF the first contingent, they have
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
lAIE lTI IN
l%xAMERl l% EA!R sIa RAN 1eoQ[W
V1HuUuGN

SUNDAY, PARTLY CLOUDY ANE
OCCASIONALLY THREATENING.
Forecast for southwestern Idaho:
Sunday. partly cloudy and occasional
ly threatening.
Yesterdays weather here: Highest
temperature, 81: lowest temperature
4s; mean temperature, Sc: excess for
the day. 8; excess for the month. i21:
deficiency for the year, So: excess for
the month .09S inch; excess for the
year .192 inches. Relative humidity
p. m. so per cent; s p. m, 80 per
cent; character of day. clear.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
SLACKERS
FLEEING TO MEXICO
CAUGHT AT BORDER

Laredo, Tex. Sept 29.-Solomon
Goldsmith, st. Paul. Mimi. Joe Dimian
of Wyoming and three other alleged
'slackers' said to be fleeing to Mexico
to escape conscription, were arrested
here late today by federal officers.
-Four of the men We're remanded to Jail
here upon default of bond of $1,000 to
await action of the federal grand Jury,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
BRITISH AIR RAID.

London. Sept. 2s.-Ten tons of ex-
plosives were dropped on German aero
dromes and ammunition dumps around
Gontrode and Carnieres by British mir
men, Field Marshal Haig reported to-
night
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
TRIAL OF I. w. w.
LEADERS WILL BE
HELD AT CHICAGO
All of the Men Wanted By the Gov
ernment on Conspiracy Indictments
Have Not Been Found -Oreaaiz-
alton Will Go to the Defense of
Accused Men.

indictments in
The raid various headquarters
Federal officials refuse
40 n custo 80 N NV anu
of the
OF
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
CONFERENCE TO BE
HELD AT PORTLAND

Portland, Ore. Sept. 29.--Eugene F.
Smith. appointed shipyard strike me-
diator this afternoon by the city com
missioners, will arrange for q confer
ence between strikers and employers
Immediately, he announced tonight
Smith was appointed mediator after
Mayor George Baker issued a state
ment acknowledging his failure to bring
f(sonfinuad IN para EourN
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-30
President of Boise Artesian
Hot & Cold Water Com
pany Challenges P u b :
lished Statement.
Secretary of State Board of
Health Asserts There Is
no Danger in Using Water
and Boiling Is Not Neces.
sary.
TO THE PUBLIC,

Boise. Ida. Sept. 20. 1917.-The
Idaho Statesman of the twenty
ninth publishes statement that
the water furnished by the Boise
Artesian Hot & Cold Water com
pany Is hazardous to health.
Numerous and all archaeological
tests have proven the water to be
far above the standard required
by the United States government.
Any statement to the contrary is
slander upon the water company,
the city and the community at
large
TIMOTHY REGAIN,
President of the Boise Artestan
Hot & Cold Water Company.