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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-03
OUR STREETS

To the Editor of The Age- Herald:
 The incompetency of our street de- partment for years wouldn't be toler- ated by railroad even in a s4 a day section foreman, let alone a $21,0o0 commission.
 The water and railroad companies dig and redig up our streets and the city, from its supposed honesty and competency, does the repair work, and ing the biggest country village in the country.
 Here the dirt is thrown loose in The excavation, a mound made and left to settle" so that the faithful can have another chance at it. This was the method used last summer on Nne- teenth street. The mound was left and the wood blocks laid permanently after 10 days or so. In Calera, Blount Springs ard Chicago each shovel of dirt is rammed down hard, the street repaired and finished in one operation. Fifteenth avenue, south, the improv- ing of which cost me s7oo cash, was dug up by the water company within two months after it was improved, and | the city filled the ditch ndiscriminately with chert, dirt and trash and for three years, including last month, the weeds grew in the avenue six feet deep. ] The crowning piece of incompetency was the improvement on Fourteenth avenue, south, which cost me nearly ! $500. Some three years ago an ordi- Enance was passed to improve Four }teenth avenue, south, from Twentieth street to Beech street. Some person didn't want the block from Twentieth ! to Twenty-first street improved ant 1 it was the worst part of the avenue With the backbone of an eel the com- mission deserted their ordinance and Improved from Twenty-first street to Beech street. Last summer it was due to give out another paving job, md without any petition the rest of Four. teenth avenue was improved, or rather the ordinance was passed. In the face of the war, low rents, vacant houses this expense should not have been put on the property owners, but as some iproperty owners said to me it was all lcut and dried, and no use of protest' ling. I requested the commission to in lclude the block from Twenty-first to lTwentieth street in the improvement but they were afraid to do so the el
 was yet alive.
 I would like to pay the car fare o1 Hoo citizens to go out and see the ave !nue. looking east from Twenty-frst
 street, a beautiful avenue, then turr and see another beautiful avenue. Note also the chert and dirt washed inlt lTwentieth street by the rain, and while
 vou are on the job note the same al the intersection of Thirteenth avenue land Quinlan avenue and Twentieth
 street GEORGE H. ROGERS.
 birmingham, October g. 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-03
Special Bargains
 by Merchants in
 Today's Age-Herald

Saks celebrate their double anniversary with a store full of special values. Collins makes mention of mems Bosto- nian shoes.
 Antwine-McGure- eS'hazo tell of a sale of Columbia shirts at $1
 Blachs emphasize Society Brand clothes.
 M. Well Ss Bro. feature belted overcoats tailored by Hart Schaffner & Marx-s2o
 Loveman, Joseph & Loeb print a full page of store news.
 Office Outfitters company feature office stationery and furniture Porter's offer boys suits at s, se and Sh0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-03
YOUTH DIES FROM
 ACCIDENTAL SHOT
C. M. Hunt, IT,, Succumbs to Wound Sustained When Father Dropped
 Gun Thirteen Days Ago

c. M. Hunt Jr., who was shot in the abdomen when his father, c. M. Hunt, ST., accidentally dropped pis- tol on the engine of a moving train N days ago, died yesterday at a local in- firmary. Young Hunt. it will be remem- bered, was the fireman on the engine which his father was engineer. The accident occurred near Dora.
 Remains will be shipped to Spring field, Mo, today at noon for interment by Shaw Undertaking company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-03

that the city would cancel the fran chise of the Tidewater line.
 The suggestion of pr. Dickinson, which was only a reiteration of a for mer statement before the commission, caused practically no comment, MT. Ward advising that the city attorney was handling this matter and had been instructed to report on his findings, which he had not done so far.
 It was further pointed out that the city has until next February to protest and that the new board should handle the matter, in view of this fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-03
Donations Continue to Come
 in For Soldiers Tobacco Fund

Small donations continue to come in for The Age-Herald's tobacco fund for soldiers. Two Cullman men sent in subscriptions yesterday, and 1t is ex- pected there will be many more dona- tions from out-of-town.
 Every quarter subscribed will send
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-03
DIR. DICKINSON
 AGAIN APPEARS
Asks Commission to Serve Notice of the Cancellation of the Tide
 water Franchise

pr. A. J. Dickinson, representing the Municipal Ownership. league, appeared before the city commission yesterday morning and asked that the city serve notice upon the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company to the effect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-03
NOTICE TO ELKs

All members of Birmingham lodge No. 70, B. F. Q. F., are requestea to attend the funeral or hrother sam vVorc.ster from the family residence, oo1e Avenue G, Wednesday afternoon .t 3 o'clock. Interment will he in Oak Hiil cemetery.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-05-11
Sles "a at Your Tsl.eameaasn.

Now i the time 10 Rst rid OF Jour
rheumatism. You vii find Cham
bsriatn's Eminent = great help. the
relief Which it affords Is alone
worth many times IT, eoes.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-05-11
HOW 10 PLANT AND
CARE FOR POTATOES

n
| II every potato available for seed
In the United States Is planted this
! spring there will be only three
fourths Of . normal crop harvested
next fall. The foregoing In the pre-
diction Of the Spokane Spokesman
Review. one of the most dependable
papers in the northwest. This state
ment. which is probably based upon
accurate knowledge OF the amount OF
seed available, indicates that prices
will be high this fall, and that the
growing of potatoes opens 20 boys
and girls an unusual opportunity for
making money. Every farmers boy
or girl can have the necessary
ground and no doubt will be encour-
aged by their parents to grow a plot
| OF potatoes. Every boy or girl liv-
Ing in town can get one or more VA
cant lots without cost, and should
DO encouraged TO become self-reliant.
County Agent Rjosneaa of Power
county. makes the following eugges-
tons regarding potato culture which
will be OF benefit 10 the boys and
girls of this county who intend to
plant 9 patch OF potatoes this spring
Some OF the older heads might also
profit from the suggestions which are
40 follows:
Best varie4ies-Demonssrations At
the Aberdeen Experiment station
show that the Early Ohio Il the earl
lest and heaviest yfelder. aud the
best keeper. Early Rose and Bliss
Triumph. two other early varieties,
are close seconds OF the late w.
rietiss the Idaho Rural and Melted
Gem are recommended.
Preparing Seed Bed-Plow - deep
as possible. from nine TO twelve In
ches. Disc 20 the depth Of the pillow
ing In order to break mp elods and
destroy air spaces. Then use .
spring tooth harrow. run - deep -
possible. TO bring all missed e1ods to
the surface. This will make : unl-
form seed bed. with soil particles Of
d uniform size that will come n
equal contact with all the potatoes
In . hill and make them of uniform
size. and double the yield over poor
" prepared ground. These sngges-
lions are for boys and girls on the
farm who have spring tooth harrowa
and discs at command.
Scotland pick Al seed and dta-
card all that are diseased. Cut seed
into two-onnce sizes, two eyes 20 each
piece. 4 four ounce potato cut II
two. or 3 six ounce potato cut IN
three pieces. are the most desirabIs
4 two ounce piece will furnish food
for the plant 10 force IL through III
soil into the sunlight and air. Plant
one piece in hill. four or five IN.
ches deep.
Rate Of Seeding dry land 49,
eight or ten sacks % The acre. Plan
in rows three fest apart. and hill
two 20 two and . half feet apart. Or
irrigated land or lots where watei
il available use ten Or twelve sacks
10 the acre Plant IN rowe two anE
= half feet apart and hills two feef
apart. Il takes about twelve lot
z5x160 10 make m acre.
Potato Dtseaaes-Two fungus dim
eases are native TO sagebrnah SOL
They are scab and rhizaetonla. bot
surface diseases scab i familiar 1.
AL and need not be described. Rhaz
actonta looks like . little blael
speck Of dirt on ths potato. II j
will wash or IL Is dirt. II IL munsa
1t j. rhI1actonia. = disease which de
crsases the yield more than any can
er.
! Psea4aum wzat-Thers = ~ tFsal
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04
GIRLS! HAVE WAW,
THICK, GLOSSY HAIR
FREE FROM DANDRUFF
Save your hair! Double its
beauty in few moments
try this!

II you care for heavy hair, that
ghstcns with beauty and is radiant
with life; has an incompatible soft
ness and Is fluffy and lustrous, try
Danderlne.
Just one application doubles the
beauty Of your hair, besides it imme-
diately dissolves every particle Of
dandruff; you cannot have nice
heavy, healthy hair if you have dan
druff. This destructive scurf rcbs the
hair Of Its lustre, its strength and its
very life, and if not overcome it pro.
duces n feverishness and itching Of
the scalp; the hair roots famish,
loosen and die; then the hair falls out
fast
If your hair has been neglected and
is thin, faded, dry, scraggy or too oily,
get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine at any drug store or toilet
counter; apply little as directed and
ten minutes after you will say this was
the best investment you ever made.
We sincerely believe, regardless of
everything else advertised that If you
desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair
and lots of it-no dandruff-no Itch
ing scalp and no more falling hair
YOU must use Knowlton's Danderine.
If eventually-whyn not now?-Adv.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04
Look Out for the West If
War Really Strikes u. S.

clare war or a state of war. but it
was rather pointed-cold- -blooded, |
will say. II read:
'Will you please wire me the state
of public opinion in oklahoma as to
congress declaring war on Germany
or that a sattc of war exists. VIII Ok
lahoma approve the president if he
advises Il declaration ii war;" &C.
But on the second Day
on the second day every telegram
received was unanimously behind the
president
or course the people of oklahoma
do not want war, If war can be
avoided no rdo thcy want the stars
and Stripes stamped in the dust with
out protest. Regardless of politics,
the people of Oklahoma can be de-
pended upon to stand solidly behind
the president. The people of the
United States will find Oklahoma CON
siderably more loyal than those of
many other states when the time
comes to put them to the test of fire.
This is stated advisedly. The writer
happened to be a small unit at one
time when the patriotism of oklahoma
was put to the test during the Span
ish-American war.
mat Icrritor1al regiment.
In the pro ratio Of volunteers called
out by President Mckinley, the little
territories of both Oklahoma and
Indian Territory were given the enor-
nous number of one troop, less than
one hundred men There were five
thousand men applied for that troop.
So strong and urgent was the demand
that the territories be given a larger
quota that congress passed special
act giving one volunteer regiment to
the four territories Of oklahoma, In
dian Territory, Arizona and New Mex
ico-a total of 1880 men in the rank
and file, four companies of 100 each
from Oklahoma, one from Indian Ter
ritory, four from New Mexico and
three from Arizona. The regiment
was known as the First Territorial
Volunteer infantry.
You Had TO Have n Pull.
The company in which the writer
was private was mustered in at
Kingfisher and drew its quota from
all of Oklahoma Territory and west of
the Rock Island. Only 100 men could
GO but there were more than two
thousand applicants for the places in
the ranks. and it required more po-
litical pull and connivery and, it
might be said. cEicanerv, to get a
berth as n private IN that company
than 1t would to have gotten the big
gest political plum coming to the ter
ritories at that time. Wealthy bust
ness men, lawyers, doctors, promi-
nent farmers-the best in the land
were chosen for that company. Men
who became famous in Oklahoma life
were in the ranks OF the Oklahoma
troops, such as Charles j. West for
eight years attorney general; Charles
+. Barret, Judge Sharp, John Palmer
Of Pawhuska, Elmer Houghton, who
died a millionaire, Prof. John Alley,
Harry Gilstrap of Chandler and
numerous others
Men fought to get in the ranks
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04
Many Oklahomans Officers in Uncle
Sans Land and Sea Fighting Forces

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Former
Gov. Cassius NJ Barnes Of Oklahoma,
long a resident of Guthrie, now of
Emporia Kan, has two sons wearing
United States uniforms. Harry c.
Barnes is a captain in the coast a, =
tillery service stationed at Washing
ton. Cassius Bartlett Barnes. known
to his Oklahoma friends as Bart, y
is a retired naval commander and
resides at present in New Haven,
Conn.
Among the present officers of the
United States army, Oklahoma fur
nished the following:
Officers i'm Army.
Mai Frederick L. Munson, infantry,
now stationed at Nagasah, Japan;
Capt Theodore A. Baldwin, jr., in
fantry, stationed at Fort Shafter,
Hawaii: Capt Calvin ID. Cowles, jr.,
medical corps, stationed at Fort Sam
Houston, Texas; Captain Richard *.
Cravens, coast artillery, stationed at
Fort Winfield Scott, Cal; Capt. Phil
lip Remington, infantry, indianapolis,
Ind. Capt. Charles A. Romeyn, Second
cavalry, stationed at Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga. Capt. Harry c. Smither. Nine
teenth cavalry, stationed at Manila,
p. l.; Richard d. LaGarde (retired)
resides in Washington. The following
are first leutenants: Joseph An
drews, field artillery signal corps sta
toned at Brownsville, Texas; Burton
Y. Read, cavalry. Jefferson Barracks,
Mo; Clyde r. Eisenschnidt, Twenty
first infantry, San Diego. Cal; Herbert
z. Ellis, coast artillery, Fort Monroe.
Va; Charles NJ. Foster, Second cav
airy, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga; Blackburn
Hall, Fourteenth cavalry, Fort Clark.
Texas; Otto A. d. Hooper, Nineteenth
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04
TREK! IF RHEUMATIC
OR C0NSTIPATED
Twenty-Five Cents Worth Is Plenty;
Try II! Take Harmless, SoOth-
Ing Trek for just Few Days.

Then no more intense rheumatic
pains; goodbye chronic, miserable
constipation; no more sore, aching
back. Trek is wonderful, Acts right
off. Trek induces natural drainage OF
the entire system; promptly opens
your clogged up liver and bowels;
cleans the stomach OF fermentlng,
gassy foods and waste; eliminates ir-
rltatlng rheumatic poisons; relieves
feverishness, headaches, dizziness and
bilious misery. Don't stay knocked
lief today. 25c at Younkman's Phar-
macy. or direct from II. b. Denton 4
Co.. (Not Inc.), Beardstown. Illinois
ADV.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04
AMERICAN FARMER is
NATIONS DEPENDENCE
Meeting to Discuss the Mobili-
zation Of the Agricultural
Resources of Country.

NEW YORK, April S.-An impor-
taht meeting has been called by the
National Agricultural society for
April 10 at the New Willard hotel,
Washington, on the subject of "Agri-
cultural Preparedness"
The convention will be addressed
by men of national prominence in ag-
ricultural and business circles among
who are James Wilson, ex-secretary
OF agriculture; Theodore n. Vail of
Vermont, Governor Henry c. Stuart
of Virginia, f.. Il. Meredith of Iowa.
Herbert Quick of the federal farm
loan board, DR.. III. j. Wheeler of
Massachusetts.
Must Safeguard Food.
The dependence of the entire coun-
try upon the American farmer in view
OF the international crisis, and the
necessity of safeguarding the coun-
trys food supply by mobilizing the
agricultural resources of the country
will be discussed.
Seldom in the history of the nation
has the farmer played as important a
part In national welfare as he does
today. The officials of the National
American farmer is as ready to an
swer the call of patriotism now as he
was In 70 and later in the civil war
The purpose of the meeting will be
to take up In a national way the ques-
ton of bringing together all of the
agricultural Interests of the country
for concerted work, which would be
of primary importance in time of war
Wilson Heads Organization.
James Wilson, secretary Of agricul.
ture in the cabinets of Presidents Nc
Kinley. Roosevelt and Taft, is presi-
dent of the National Agricultural So
ciety and Theodore N. Vail is vice
president. Among the directors are
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler, T. Coleman
DUPONT, A. w. Foster, n. II. Gentry
Fairfax Harrison, Samuel insult
Peter Jansen, +. C. Long, Charles A.
Otis, John A. Spoor, Henry c. Stuart
and James w. Wadsworth.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04

infantry Douglas, Ariz., and Thomas
II. Scott, medical reserve corps, Fort
Kamehameha, Hawaii.
OlSlahoman- In the Navy.
archa MKT -fleCRegimenTM mtht
The following ensigns are from Ok
lahoma:
Joseph Lloyd McGuigan, Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, Boston,
Mass; Finney Bascom Smith, U. S. S.
New York; Stuart Day Truesdell. L.
s. s. Michigan. The following are
lieutenants: John Findley Donelson,
L. S. s. Connecticut; Carl Erling
Hoard. L. S. S. San Diego; John
Moore Hates, L. S. S. Elcano; Mare
Andrew Mitschcr. naval aero station,
Pensacola, Fla; Roy Pfaff, u. S. S.
Barry, and Elmer Eaton Curtis past
assistant surgeon, naval hospital,
Mare Island, Cal.
Victor NJ. Locke. chief Of the Choc-
taw Indians OF Oklahoma. who sue
cessfully passed the examination at
Fort Myer recently, will be commis-
stoned major, and may be assigned
to either the regular army or the
volunteers.
There are at present nine Okla
homans attending the United States
Naval academy at Annapolis, and four
more appointed. and twelve are at
tending the military academy at West
Point. and six more have been APP
pointed.
For the information OF those IN
Oklahoma who desire to become Off
GERS, 1t might be well to state that
examinations for appointment as sec
ond lieutenants are now being held
by the government. Information can
be secured by writing the war de-
partment
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04

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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04
FOUND IT THE FIRST TIME
New Chief OF Police Begins Business
by Raiding IA Liquor Joint.

Special TO The World.
CuLLlNSVILLE. Okla, April g..
II has been alleged for a long time
that liquors were being sold at the
Noah Evans joirt. but tor some rea-
son It was always Invisible when Il
policeman tried 10 locate it. The
new chief, Ell Buchanan. with John
Thurman, night policeman, paid
Evans IA visit Yesterday and dlscov-
cred several quarts OF khisky and G
barrel of becr. Evans, who has ac-
cording to general belief been main
tanning a joint for several months
was arraignod before Judge Holloway
and put up 800 bond for appear
ance today. With such brilliant sue
cess to their credit at the first at
tempt. the new police forcc has the
liauor peddlers badly scared
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04
They're Fighters Out Here,
Pioneers Who Developed and
Settled Desert.
Remember How 1t Was in '98
When President Mckinley
Called Volunteers.
BY OMER X. BENEDICT.
NtF.,.tI G,.g. r..,.s ,... ., J.,, 4


WASHINGTON, April 3.-Okla-
homa came into the limelight the
latter part of last week when an
swers from civic commercial bodies
to senator owens kilograms asking
an expression of sentiment with ref
erence to the president and congress
declaring war with Germany or that
a state of war exists,
Bryan and other pacifists long have
pointed to the central west as being
absolutely opposed to war. They have
contended that the west wanted peace
at any cost. They have cited as Il
basis for their argument, the large
majority Wilson received in Repub-
lican Kansas and his increased, Una
iority ir other states of the mi,idl
west. So strong had been the utter
ances of the pacifists and so weak
the denial in the absence of any ac-
tual expression of opinion that Off
cial Washington and the east aid be-
gun to believe the pacifists had
grounds for the expressions.
Looked Like We Had Slumpcd.
And when the answers to Mr..
Owens telegram first began to come
in, 1t looked like the pacifists had
stated a truth. II appeared from the
first few that oklahoma sentiment
not only was against war, but that
sentiment had changed since the cleo
ton and that people were not be-
hind the president. But later tele-
grams during the day offset this, and
some of the first kilograms were re-
pudiated by later wires.
The telegram of Senator owen was,
1t might be said, slightly ambiguous,
in that it did not ask if sentiment in
Oklahoma would favor the president
In case he found it necessary to de-
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04

eighteen years ago, when their country
needed them. and big, stalwart, open
hearted, patriotic men stood in the
streets and cried like babies because
they could not go to defend their
country against a common enemy.
And while this was going on in Okla
homa, down in Mississippi and other
southern states their governors were
sending to the slums of Chicago to
get recruits to fill up the gap in the
ranks of their states pro rata. The
Third Mississippi required four COM
panies-424 men-to fill out "A regi-
ment. because of lack of volunteers Of
the native sons. Oklahoma in 1898
could have raised 10000 men, with
less than 100000 population. And
they are fighters-natural- born fight
ers The western population all are
fighters. They have been fighting all
their lives against wilderness and
desert-weak and cowardly men
didn't pioneer the west. Its civiliZa-
tion and progress are eternal monu-
ments to the work of the brave and
patriotic. The west is made up of a
population that Is the survival of the
fittest. where every man had to stand
on his own feet and overcome OBJ
stacles instead of inherit luxury.
They're Fighters Out Here.
The west doesn't want war-nobody
wants war If 1t can be avoided-but
when it comes to treading on the
rights Of American citizenship and
honor of the flag, the west will re-
spond TO man, like it did in 1898.
The west has proved its metal, re-
gardless Of the prattlings of long
haired pacifists.
In case of a call for volunteers Just
keep your eyes on Oklahoma.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-04

Vet Commander of
CiUil War Marches
by Side of Youth

Special to The World
MALESFER. April Sd. NJ.
Hailey general commander of
! the oklahoma division Of t. {.
V, 76 wears old, but still stepping
with the military bearing which
: carried him thru in 81. march
ine at the side Of young Jimmy
Davis, not yet able to vote ard
! having ambitions fer the aviation
corps, is typical of the appear.
anco of the line which assem-
bles for daily drill here. About
one hundred men gather at noon
' each day for twepty-minute
! drill. The business men get out
' with their yourg employees who
' are enllsting in the cavalry COM
' pany being formed here and go
' thru line formations and the elC-
n,cntary principles of sqIad drill.
The drill is conducted by Rob
ert Whitehead OF the United
States cavalry who is stationed
! at the local armory recruiting
station.